SUMMARY

• In - depth configuration of Banks, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank determination, Payment Methods, Payment program, Electronic Bank Statements and In-House Cash
• Has completed 3 implementations where the functionality of Loans Management as well as several other advanced features of treasury (such as In-House Cash) were fully leveraged
• Solid and comprehensive knowledge of the Business transactions that are handled through the Payment program
• Solid Knowledge of payment program, Lock Box processing, Checks and Forms, EBS and IHC.
• Activated and configured ECC6 Banking Add-in
• Designed, configured, tested and implemented a solution with CML (contracts and loans), business partners (SD Customers) and payment program
• Solid experience with most banking (North-American and European) payment methods (Scotia, HSBC, Scotia, RBC, Wachovia, Desjardins and BMO)
• Integration experience with third party tools for secure file transmissions to Bank
• Experienced with the highest standards of encryption and EDI for Banking and Automation with AS2 technology
• Well aware of and possess working knowledge of Canadian Payments Associations rules and Guidelines
• Completed 8 successful rollouts and 4 full project cycles using ASAP methodology in Canada, the United States and Europe
• Over 4 years of team lead experience (teams of up to 10 consultants and budgets above 5 million)
• SAP Academy certified in PS, FI, CO and SD since 2002
• Proficient in requirements gathering, business process design, configuration, functional design, data conversion, testing, training material development, training delivery and post go-live support.
• Very knowledgeable of the JVA (Joint Venture Accounting) and PSA (Production Sharing Accounting) modules, and the integration with other modules, such as FI, CO, AA, PS,IM and MM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Modules: FICO, FA,FS-TRM Order to Cash / Procure to pay

SAP Practice Director/ Senior SAP consultant

Responsibilities:

• Practice manager for over 70 Consultants in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
• FICO PS consultant at Altalink
• FICO SD consultant at UFA

Confidential

Modules: On-going support and interfaces for banking within FICO, and product costing (PC)

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured electronic fund transfers (EFT) - pre-authorized debits, pre-authorized payments, batch wires, electronic bank statements and lockbox for cash applications
• Automated electronic file transfers through EDI files with AS2 servers for cash flow transactions representing several tens of millions daily with Europe, Mexico, US and within Canada
• Wrote technical specifications for ABAP programs, security and authorizations
• Provided training and knowledge transfer
• Configured and customized chart of accounts, company code global parameters, fiscal year variants, posting period variants, account groups, field status groups and tolerance groups
• Configured period end closing, make to stock product costing, valuation variant for manufacturing orders and costing variant for manufacturing orders
• Configured, customized and tested PS for marketing projects
• Built queries and modeling/cubes for BW, and assisted in the monthly scheduling of BW processes chains and schedules
• Provided support on SAP FI, CO, AP, AR and GL
• Consistently exposed to heterogeneous technology, legacy systems interfacing in SAP through Idocs, BAPI and batch programs

Confidential

Modules: FICO, PC, SD, PS integration to MM, HR CATS, on ECC6

Senior SAP FICO/PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the implementation of the SAP GL, activated new ledger, and configured document splitting, parallel accounting and periodic processing
• Solved technical issues related to the integration of the asset accounting (AA) module with the PS Module
• Participated in the design of the tax solution for the client which involved 8 European countries and 5 North American countries
• Configured and customized validations and substitution rules for WBS, networks, documents, recurring entries, correspondence, taxes and currencies
• Lead the team during the data conversion and cutover phase and prepared the cutover plan
• Used LSMW for master data transfers of networks, activities, WBS, infotypes, customers and vendors
• Optimized integration of business process within FI, TR, CO, MM, SD and PS modules
• Wrote functional as well as technical specifications for ABAP programs and other developments
• Provided knowledge transfer, delivered training to trainers and facilitated workshops

Confidential

Modules: Rollout of FICO, PS, integration with MM, HR CATS, SD, CS on ECC6

Senior SAP FICO/PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized chart of accounts, company code global parameters, fiscal year variants, posting period variants, account groups, field status groups and tolerance groups.
• Configured period end closing, make to stock product costing, valuation variant for manufacturing orders and costing variant for manufacturing orders
• Implemented the SAP GL and activated new ledger
• Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI with MM and SD
• Configured asset accounting (AA) module integrating with PS Module
• Created the project profiles, status profiles, parameters for network scheduling and project validations/substitutions within project systems (PS)
• Configured planning profile, budget profile, tolerance limit for the availability control and easy cost planning for CO and projects
• Defined settlement rules and created selection variants
• Configured controlling area settings, number ranges and maintained versions
• Configured and customized (CO-OM-CCA), cost and revenue element accounting, overhead cost controlling, cost center accounting, internal orders, primary and secondary cost elements, cost center hierarchies, cost element groups and cost centers
• Wrote functional as well as technical specifications for ABAP programs and other developments
• Provided knowledge transfer, delivered training to trainers and facilitated workshops

Confidential

Modules: ECC6 Activation of Business add-ins for banking, loans and deposits and

Senior SAP FICO/PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, configured, tested and implemented a solution with CML (contracts and loans), business partners (SD Customers) and payment program
• Optimized integration of business process within FI, CO, MM, SD, and PC modules
• Wrote functional as well as technical specifications for ABAP programs and other developments

Confidential

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support on SAP fixed assets and finance (AP, AR, New GL, Bank Accounting), FICO, allocation cycles, profit center and cost center accounting
• Maintained SAP security roles and profiles
• Consistently exposed to heterogeneous technology, legacy systems interfacing in SAP through Idocs, BAPI and batch program
• Developed technical specifications for ABAP programs

Confidential

Modules: FICO-JVA and PS, IM with integration to MM,PM on ECC6 Oil & Gas

Senior SAP FICO/PS/JVA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Acting as member of the FICO-PS onsite core team rolling out the global template to various Operating Units. End-to-end implementations focusing on IS-OIL JVA, PSA modules.
• Onsite core team member functional developer responsible for building the solution.
• Configuration, FICO, PS integration with fixed assets MM and PM. Asset Under construction, result Analysis configuration, Asset depreciation per units produced configuration, configured Allocation cycles, Profit center and Cost Center Accounting, Schedule Manager, Travel Management, Fixed Assets, Bank Accounting.
• Initiate project deliverable templates e.g. test scenarios, deliverable tracking sheet
• Actively participated to cutover activities, training delivery
• Wrote functional and technical specifications to Implement enhancements based on ASAP methodology

Confidential

Modules: FICO, PC, PS integration to MM, HR CATS, PP, CS on SAP 4.7

Senior SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support on SAP FICO, product costing make to order (CO-PC), AP, AR, GL, FICO, allocation cycles, profit center and cost center accounting (PCA,CCA), schedule manager (SCMA), fixed assets (AA), and bank accounting
• Defined requirements for evolutions and change requests, design configuration and testing scripts and packages in solution manager
• Consistently exposed to heterogeneous technology, legacy systems interfacing in SAP through idocs, BAPI and batch programs
• Wrote functional and technical specifications for ABAP programs