SUMMARY:

• Business Systems Analyst / SAP FICO Consultant with 13 years experience in Oil & Gas and Automotive Industry including one SAP S/4 HANA full life cycle implementation.
• Gathering Business Requirements, Functional Specification, Analysis, Process Design, Data Modeling, Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Integration, Testing, Go - Live and Stabilization phases.
• General Ledger FI-GL, Special Ledger FI-SL, Payables FI-AP, Receivables FI-AR, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Joint Venture Accounting JVA, Cash Management. Organizational Structure, Chart of Accounts, Journal Entry elements, Validations and Substitutions, Forex Revaluation, Financial Reporting.
• Controlling FI-CO, Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profit Center Accounting PCA, Internal Orders IO, Project Systems FI-PS. Allocations, Settlement, Timesheet, Planning.
• FI integration with IS-OIL, SAP-MM, SAP-SD, SAP-PS, SAP-PM.
• Technical skills using tools such as ABAP debug, User-Exits, Interfaces, iDocs, LSMW, CDS views (Core Data Services), Report Writer/Report Painter, Solution Manager, Change Management / ChaRM, SAP Security / Authorization roles.
• Financial closing support and incidents resolution coordination per Service Level Agreements SLAs. Root cause analysis and follow-up action plans. Process improvements analysis based on recurring issues and users inquiries.
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Scrum Master during SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) transformation phase for SAP Financial team using Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Testing and IT services tools such as HP Quality Center, HP ALM, Remedy / ITSM (IT Services Management).
• Multiple small/medium projects coordination and stewardship.
• Advanced MS Office / MS Excel / MS Access knowledge for data analysis and presentation.
• Budget Process coordination and Balanced Scorecard / Key Performance Indicators KPIs deployment in Automotive Industry, communicating status and follow up actions to Senior Management / CEO committee. Process improvements and facilitation across Commercial, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering and Financial functions.
• 5 years experience as Software Developer / Systems Analyst in IT consulting company. Projects management, planning, design, development, testing and . ISO 9001 internal quality audits and interfacing with certifier organization.
• Excellent communication, project management, business partnering, team building and mentoring skills working with globally distributed teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP S/4 HANA On-Premise Greenfield Implementation for ExxonMobil / XTO Energy US affiliates.
• Financial Reporting team member using Agile framework - Scrum.
• Consolidated Reporting implementation. Re-design and remediation of ExxonMobil existing ECC6 solution based on Special Ledger. Used S/4 HANA Universal Journal extension fields to achieve expected level of information quality and granularity. New Mapping Analysis Tool using CDS views / SAP Business Objects - Analysis for MS Excel.
• Outstanding results delivered to address performance concerns on mapping tool. Runtime improved from 72 hours to 3 minutes by re-assessing the granularity level required for reporting as well as adopting parallel processing writing to custom table.
• Functional Reporting implementation. Re-design and remediation of ExxonMobil existing ECC6 solution based on Special Ledger providing detailed financial information for Analytics extractors. Used custom tables to achieve expected level of information quality and granularity.
• Tax Basis Balance Sheet Reporting implementation. Specified and tested custom programs and CDS views to support Tax Reporting using extension ledger postings and CDS views / SAP Business Objects - Analysis for MS Excel.
• Stabilization support, maintenance and enhancements for one year after go-live.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP FI-CO maintenance and support for 180+ affiliates in 15+ countries across Europe, Africa and Asia/Pacific.
• Enhancements, break-fixes and users advice according to prioritization agreed with in-country stakeholders and Global Business Process Owner.
• Primarily responsible for General Ledger, Controlling and Financial Reporting / Special ledger.
• Coordination of financial closing support on critical dates to ensure process is completed timely for local and Confidential reporting. Incidents analysis, resolution coordination and follow ups.
• Built a strong partnership with business users and Global Process Owners by providing timely and high quality support as well as becoming a key contact for process improvements and issues resolution.
• Scrum master role during Agile transformation phase - Scrum - with Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Process improvements:
• Month-end close automation design and pilot implementation for Norway. Process reliability improved by using pre-scheduled jobs and planned check points, eliminating errors such as incorrect processing sequence or selection variants.
• Financial Statement Version maintenance handover to business users. Lead time for configuration during critical financial close period reduced from ~3 hours to zero.
• Company code simplified configuration automated MS Excel, RFC and SAP script. Configuration effort reduced from ~2 hours to ~10 minutes impacting 5-10 requests each month.
• Projects:
• Guyana new country rollout project focused on Controlling configuration and master data setup.
• ECC6 Upgrade project testing and go-live support focused on Special Ledger reporting solutions.
• SPU (Support Pack Upgrade) projects testing and go-live support focused on GL and Special Ledger.
• Short term projects coordination:
• Journal Voucher Review Controls Gap - New control reports implementation and coordinated efforts with security roles and access administration teams to ensure user IDs tables’ data quality as needed to prevent controls gaps on the journal voucher review process.
• New Functional Areas implementation - Controlling setup (allocation structures, primary and secondary cost elements), testing and coordination with other modules configuration for 9+ controlling areas and 15+ countries.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Studies, effect analysis and Confidential planning and follow up.
• Budget process coordination - Brazil.
• Balanced Scorecard (KPIs) coordination and follow up - Brazil.

SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SAP maintenance and support to Accounting, Payables, Receivables, Tax, and Treasury and Controllers teams.
• Enhancements, break-fixes and users advice according to prioritization agreed with the financial management.
• Projects coordination:
• FI-CO Planning tool for Travels budgeting - Configuration, master data and delivered to ~40 users.
• SoD (Segregation of Duties) project - Automated SoD check implementation, review and re-design of ~200 security roles for risks mitigation according to Sarbanes-Oxley principles. Coordinated interviews, managers’ approvals and external consultants’ effort for SAP Mercosul.

Financial and Administrative Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Contracts, Payables, Receivables and Taxes functions coordination.
• Financial reporting.
• Commercial and technical proposals.

Trainee / Developer / Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Software Development Projects (Borland Delphi, Microsoft Visual Basic, ASP, Microsoft SQL Server, Lotus Notes).
• Project management and SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle).
• Administration representative for ISO 9001.