Manager | Finance Applications Resume - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Natural collaborator and decisive leader, skilled at building consensus and executing full - cycle, cross-functional projects, ensuring all the moving parts come together to deliver on stakeholder expectations.
Accomplished IT professional with 12+ years of SAP ERP experience and a track record of driving process improvements to save time and money, earning several spot bonus s for outstanding project delivery and positive operational impacts.
Successful in managing on site and offshore teams to shape SAP processes and solutions.
Positive impacts include cost reductions of up to 50% and hundreds of saved labor hours.
Excellent leadership qualities, great team player with strong cross-team collaboration capabilities.
Self starter and motivated learner with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Project Management
Design & Testing
Business Analysis
Business - IT Liaison
SAP ERP Applications
Problem Solving
Automated Solutions
Cross team leadership

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical Proficiency: SAP (ECC, FICO, new General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Banking, Tax, Data Migration, Integration); MS Project; MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager | Finance Applications

Responsibilities:

Managed SAP Order to Cash (OTC) stream under the Finance vertical in Office of CIO; Led SAP Finance integrations, guiding internal and external teams on the business requirements, while standardizing designs according to best practices and aligning with the stakeholder needs. Accountable for the software development lifecycle including discovery, design, configuration and coding, testing, issue resolution, UAT approval, go-live, cutover and hypercare. Responsible for change control and release planning, identifying risks, downtimes & dependencies for the deployment and ensure business and IT buy-in for the plans.
Took over leadership of driving the annual Disaster Recovery exercise for SAP systems (ECC, SRM, BI, BPC, etc.), ensuring risk compliance while meeting time requirements.
Subject matter expert, with keen analytical and problem resolution skills, guiding support team on the support ticket handling including prioritization of bug fixes and enhancements.
Managed SOWs and work orders for third-party vendor resources in the team.
Envisioned and delivered a new, centralized, one-stop customer master data cockpit solution, replacing cumbersome, manually-intensive legacy solutions to improve business efficiency and error handling.
Implemented IDoc interfaces between SAP ECC system and other SAP/non SAP systems for billing and payment data; automated feeds from SAP BI for reconciliation.
Enabled daily revenue recording by delivering automated bidirectional feeds between data warehouse and SAP for sales order generation, billing, vendor payments, master data flow between the systems; automated exchange rate feeds from SAP to other internal systems to perform currency conversions.
Pioneered scalable, automated solutions in SAP FI, AR,AP, SD to ensure accurate and timely financial recordings, including enhancements and localizations to ensure regulatory/statutory compliance, positively impacting multiple subsidiaries/entities.

Confidential

SAP FICO/OTC Lead Analyst Consultant

Responsibilities:

Key partner on SAP R/3 to ECC upgrade, including new GL, reporting, alternate currency enablement, and custom solutions to restrict forced exchange rates posting; utilized design expertise to significantly reduce foreign currency revaluation errors and eliminate delays to month-end close.
Setup organizational structure including company codes, GL setup, AP, AR, banking, fixed assets, master data;
Developed automated test scripts to save time on new legal entity on-boardings.
Headed system setups for international business interests with strict adherence to regulations and statutory requirements, including invoicing, tax, legal language for Turkey, Italy etc. and feeds for central bank exchange rates in Turkey, Croatia, Russia, Czech Republic etc.
Spearheaded projects to analyze, design and build custom interfaces/programs to ensure inbound and outbound data flow between systems.
Designed and delivered complex setups in SAP, creating custom reports and feeds to align with legacy system reporting capabilities and setting up lockbox, bank accounts, and BAI2 feeds; overhauled lockbox solution and payment posting process, drastically reducing manual labor requirements to reconcile accounts.
Translated business requirements into product requirement documents and created functional specification documents, use cases, test cases as per business needs.
Crafted materials to coach and educate end users on the IT solutions and handover documentation for production support teams.
Led hypercare of post-go-live environment including handling of project issues, jobs and system monitoring, and bug fix deployments.

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