SUMMARY

• Industry experience both in SAP and Finance includes engineering and construction management; manufacturing of home building products, medical equipment, retail and consumer products; industrial manufacturing of components and services; healthcare and rental of medical equipment, commercial airline, non - life insurance, and other service industries
• Expert, results driven, proactive IS professional with over 16 years of ERP experience inclusive of 7 SAP fresh implementations and project management in the FI (Finance) and CO (Controlling) modules. FI/CO modules include FI-GL (classic and new General Ledger), FI-AP (Accounts Payable), FI-AR (Accounts Receivable), FI-AM (Asset Management), FI-Bank Accounting, CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting), CO-IO (Internal Order Accounting), and CO-PA (Profitability Analysis).
• Experienced in full-life cycle implementations for medium to large sized companies involving all phases in implementation (assessment and blueprint, design, realization, final preparation, go-live and post-production support)
• Excellent cross functional knowledge of FI - CO, AP, AR, GL and new GL, AM, SD, MM, Logistics PS, HR/Payroll and PM modules
• Project manager/Country manager for global roll-out implementations
• Experienced at translating business requirements into SAP solutions. Expert in writing clear and complete functional specifications for all elements of RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow)
• Expert in legacy conversions and specifying functional specifications and migration tools for conversion to SAP
• Adept in day to day Production Support activities - troubleshooting data load issues, production break-fixes, evaluation and implementation of system enhancement requests which may involve configuration or report development, refresher trainings, issuance of desk-top guidelines and instructions
• Very fluent with business processes documentation and establishing internal controls for SOX compliance
• Key resource and advisor for subject matter experts and end-users training/knowledge transfer
• Strong knowledge of finance principles, best practices and SAP capabilities and experienced in recommending appropriate solutions to business issues
• Lead and managerial role, in collaboration with the Finance Department, to design, develop, test and implement appropriate system configuration within FI/CO modules to effectively meet business requirements
• Consistently demonstrate ability to complete multiple assignments simultaneously and maintain high standards
• Sincere, enthusiastic, hardworking with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Functional SAP FICO Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Stop-gap contractor to fill in FTE vacancies
• P rovid e functional production support activities to existing process areas in Finance including VIM Open Text workflow issues, configuring added fields in a non PO invoice processed in VIM, VIM table maintenance for authorization limits, optimization of VIM cycle time background jobs, invoice receipt issues, conversion of line item GL accounts to open-item managed to enable clearing
• Performed bank configuration and output forms for 2 companies in US and Canada being converted as operational SAP companies, analyzed to determine if the companies’ tax procedures, tax codes and rates were in place
• Optimized match codes for vendor and customer masters, enhanced custom FIAP GL interface by a substitution rule and user exit which including partner bank type logic

Confidential

Functional SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided techno-functional production support activities to existing process areas in Finance including cross-integration mega processes, “Order to Cash”, “Procure to Pay”, Book to Report” and provide documentation and guidelines to Business users for any system changes made and for IS repository e.g. Created queries and guidelines on how to identify inactive vendors, customers, GL accounts and block these; Identified issue on non-creation of positive pay file for check payments and provided guidelines in generating file extract as well as recommend the simultaneous creation of a check extract with a scheduled payment run; Created screen and or transaction variants for vendor master, custom screen layout for t-code MIRO, etc.
• Worked on the billing of intercompany shipments correctly between a “hub” selling EU company to an ordering EU company by including VAT on both sides via IDOC. Trained EU business relevance of master data with VAT calculation
• Enabled the automatic file transfers to support US Bank “Payment Plus Card” program by utilizing SAP standard banking functionality
• Delivered custom solution to address 999 journal line item limitation for mass upload of journal entries
• Continuous support with Business re: GR-IR reporting and analysis
• Currently delivering Park and Post functionality to FIGL users

Confidential

Functional FICO SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Currently in a business systems analyst role. As a team member of the Global Shared Services Department, provided support activities mainly in AP and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) processes
• Created EBS posting rules, create or modify EBS search strings for Croc’s various bank accounts so that processing and clearing of bank statement are automatic and facilitates reconciliation
• Assisted in creating and testing bank file formats since Confidential shifted from one banking institution to the other
• Assisted in configuration of Bank Statement Monitor, Cash Management Reports so these can be utilized and be more meaningful to the users
• Configured and set up 1099 miscellaneous functionality for 2016 reporting submission which included vendor master updates for withholding tax information and recreation of withholding tax info “stamped” on invoices and payment documents. streamlining the processing of invoices for 1099-reportable vendors with the objective of issuing guidelines to users
• Create ad hoc simple queries and issue guidelines to users e.g. statistics of cleared documents by users and by GL account group; GR-IR with added data; vendors with bank information and creation date, etc.