SUMMARY

• Confidential is a Certified Information Systems Auditor with extensive Accounting, SAP implementation and internal audit experience in manufacturing, distribution, retail, media, oil and gas, automobile and utility.
• He has successfully enhanced his client's business performance through delivering projects on time and on budget, improving risk management, enhancing operational effectiveness, executing special purpose financial analysis projects, and ensuring regulatory compliance including SOX.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database: MS Access, SAP BW / BOBJ, SAP Lumira, Crystal Reports.

ERP: SAP ERP 4.6C, 4.7 SAP ECC 5.0, 6.0, SAP GRC 10, Peoplesoft, Oracle 9.

Security Systems: SAP GRC 10, Approva Collaboration Systems - MS Sharepoint, Teammate Testing - HP QC, SAP eCATT, ARIS All MS Office tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led consulting team in developing ERP software selection requirements for logistics entity.
• Executed entity and operations assessment for a construction company and developed centralized operating structure with holding company reporting and governance.
• Streamlined material procurement, labor and tenant management of family commercial property development business.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Advisory Associate - Advisory Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed all SAP security design and development activities for new Legacy to SAP implementation. Implementation covered diverse system landscape including ECC, EHS, MII, GTS, SCM, Solution Manager, BW, NWDI, PI and BPC.
• Responsible for budget and staffing of a 5 member SAP security team.
• Delivered unique security design solution to comply with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) regulatory requirements.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Risk management consultant responsible for designing and implementing SAP security and configuration controls during international logistics execution and inventory management implementation for their primary food business unit.
• Led team responsible for implementing ApprovaBizRights to automate process and access controls monitoring for business units in USA, Brazil, Russia, Egypt, Holland and China.
• Member of team responsible for designing and implementing FICO controls for their breakfast foods business unit.
• Designed new SQL database solution for auditing SAP GRC access management rulesets across disparate GRC versions deployed by standalone country business units.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led team to curve out complex IT security systems for a global information technology company split including system design, infrastructure and human capital planning.
• Facilitated security design and user mapping workshops with the client's global business managers across multiple countries.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of full scale SAP security re-design team responsible for building databases to perform role build validation and automate role design approval process.
• Facilitated security design and user mapping workshops with the client's business managers.
• Led workstream for user security mapping and user assignment during deployment for over 10,000 users.
• Led cutover and hypercare support activities to ensure smooth transition to new security design.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led consulting team responsible for redesigning SAP security to remediate the client's external audit findings.
• Responsible for SAP redesign technical documents quality assurance and responsible for following up with the client's offshore team to ensure timely execution of role and user changes.
• Facilitated discussions and negotiations with the client's business process Directors to get their approval for business process changes and customization required to remediate SOD conflicts.
• Worked with the client's compliance audit team to determine best mitigation plans for unresolved access control conflicts.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led SAP user mapping cut over planning and phased user deployments.
• Responsible for setting up and maintaining HP QC test management environment and maintaining role changes.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led team responsible for analyzing SAP user patterns and customizing SAP GRC 5.3 rule set.
• Trained compliance management team on how to analyze GRC Segregation of Duties (SoD) reports and created custom database to help client prioritize remediation efforts.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary technical advisor responsible for input into the client's global Internal Audit's review of the design and operating effectiveness of the client's SAP security.
• Led audit of SAP GRC 5.3 and 10 for North America business units to ensure compliance.
• Drafted audit gaps and provided quality assurance review of selected key audit documents.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed legacy applications risk assessment and delivered comprehensive segregation of duties (SoD) methodology document to help client manage SoD risk across fifteen key systems.
• Worked with IT security department to prioritize remediation efforts based on risk assessment recommendations.

Multinational Seeds Producer

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned SAP logistics invoice verification process to streamline general ledger (G/L) posting and reconciliation. This involved writing configuration specifications, developing GR/IR clearing procedures and delivering training to the client's accounting personnel.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Audited SAP FICO, SD, MM and PP configuration to ensure client and best practices were implemented.
• Developed custom test plans and guided team on testing application controls for SOX compliance.
• Trained Internal Audit team on performing application controls review.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and tested SOX key controls for various financial applications including SAP and mainframe applications.
• Developed baseline control designs and testing for key reports, legacy system calculations, interfaces and G/L mappings.
• Responsible for guiding both the IT and Business SOX Team on documenting control activity design and testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Executed external audit covering SAP modules including SAP FICO, MM, JVA, PRA and Basis.
• Evaluated management's design documentation and testing of key controls.
• Wrote and presented audit report to internal and client's executive team.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Executed external audit covering SAP modules including SAP FICO, SD and MM.
• Evaluated management's design documentation and testing of key controls.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed process variance analysis for newly acquired bottling business units and developed action plan for standardizing processes in SAP ECC 6.0.

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Financial Analyst - Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between Accounting team and third party SAP implementation team responsible for communicating requirements and confirming design.
• Responsible for developing and presenting performance measurement reports. Audience included Controller, AP and AR executives leading centralized shared services center for all business units.
• Developed custom MS Access and SQL database to automate posting of general ledger entries to SAP.
• Designed and implemented new reverse logistics process to manage product returns worth over 120 Million dollars annually.
• Initiated new methods of analyzing SAP data using combination of MS Access and SAP BW. This resulted in recovery of 2.5 Million in credits that had been deemed as bad debts for over 2 years.
• Managed accounts payable business process special project to evaluate opportunities for process improvement utilizing Six Sigma methodology.