SUMMARY

• Information Technology and Accounting Professional with expertise in SAP software solutions, general accounting, and project management.
• Leader in translating the requirements of stakeholders into functional specifications and ensuring that designated developers thoroughly understand the customers’ needs.
• Disciplined in following a project or program change through to success, developing test plans and test scenarios, executing test scenarios as needed.
• Experienced in the effects on financial reports of international transactions using multiple currencies, collaborating successfully with colleagues in other geographical regions.
• Problem solver for issues arising in SAP Finance applications applying analytical skill and expertise.
• Manager providing leadership and coaching to direct reports and indirect reports.
• Motivated by the motto that success is measured in terms of results, driven to excel at surpassing the expectations of internal and external customers.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• SAP Finance Module in ECC
• SAP Spec Purpose Ledger
• SAP Controlling Module in ECC
• Business Requirements
• Global Integration
• Training
• Coordinating Testing
• SAP Modular Integration
• Multiple Currency Reporting
• IFRS Inventory Valuation
• Statutory Reporting
• XML Files
• Team Development
• SAP Accounts Payable
• Change Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Application Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed project adding enhancements to a custom sales - and-use tax accrual program, completion was on time and under budget by 35%. Reduced the time expended in the accrual process significantly, allowing more efficient use of Tax department resources.
• Played vital functional role in adopting SAP’s solution for tax reporting to the Norwegian government, including coordinating creation of jobs in a job scheduling application satisfying tax compliance requirements. Authored documentation for training those supporting the applications.
• Reduced use tax costs in the US, directing modifications to the custom Sales and Use tax accrual program related to changes of Use Tax susceptibility on materials issued from manufacturing plants’ warehouses.
• Executed enhancements to SAP’s electronic accounting functionality, including generation of xml files, for operations in Mexico to comply with statutory reporting requirements. Agile methodology utilized.
• Used testing functionality to test processes and implementations with unit, integration, system and regression testing, and assisted customers with user acceptance testing. Created test plans and scripts.
• Gained a thorough understanding of the integration between finance modules and the Sales and Distribution, Inventory Management, Asset Accounting, and AP modules.
• Led an initiative to adapt a custom program, used to revalue inventory in Ecuador, for tracking and reporting inventory shipping costs in Argentina.

Lead Application Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided primary support from Finance team in connection with SAP’s Material Ledger module. Ensured that changes or corrections related to Material Ledger produced the appropriate accounting documents in SAP.
• Served as the finance team lead in the project to upgrade Halliburton’s SAP system to ECC 6.0
• Resolved issues on Purchase-to-Pay-related bolt-on applications Dolphin, Taulia and MyRequest, improving efficiency and accuracy of recording vendor liabilities.
• Contributed expertise in integration of SAP’s finance and procurement modules related to purchasing, ensuring that purchased inventory was properly valued.
• Interacted with Supply Chain team completing enhancements affecting Material Ledger transactions, validating the accounting effects of the enhancements.
• Supported functionality of SAP’s Flexible Real Estate module including monitoring of the module’s month end jobs, ensuring that all jobs were completed on schedule.
• Collaborated closely with Supply Chain team and third-party developers, as finance functional lead, formulating custom programs for recalculating GAAP-basis inventory values to IFRS values, enabling financial reporting based on international standards.
• Provided SAP support for users for bug fixes and enhancements especially for some of the Latin American affiliates. Some issues were reported directly to me others through a support ticket application, Halliburton Support Management
• Managed project for creating an automated request form in Outlook for global use, delivering time savings in the creation and approval of requests for non-PO related purchases.
• Trained large audience of financial managers and product-service line managers, from various global regions, in using SAP as part of Halliburton’s global adoption of the product.
• Policed the requests for ad hoc changes to the value of materials in SAP, ensuring that policies related to approvals and execution of SAP transaction code MR21 were adhered to.
• Delivered all assigned requirements as scheduled when performing on teams related to projects.
• Represented finance function in analyzing issues and testing corrections in connection with Halliburton’s customer program for calculating the monthly accrual for excess and obsolete stock.