SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of IT consulting leading teams and workshops, gathering business requirements and creating project plans to include costs & resource management for new implementations and enhancements for Ariba, SAP AP, AR, GL, FA, eTravel with AP and HR integration, Treasury, FICA, FSCM deductions management, Procurement, Tax, book close with/without Runbook, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, and other facets of FI and CO, more recently in S/4HANA Cloud 1908.
• Draft functional specifications for developers & maintain ongoing communication with the upper management and business during the project within defined roadmap.
• Design security roles ensuring new and enhanced security access in line with GRC and free of SOD issues.
• Review and classification (as break - fix or enhancement) support tickets and defines and performs testing and regression testing across SAP modules and systems. Reviews OSS notes for product releases to avoid interruption of existing processes by testing changes in sandbox and integration (QA) systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skillset: newGL, AR, AP, AM, PC, CO, PA, IM, PS, MM, HR, Vertex, VAT, Withholding Tax, LSMW, CATT, Report

Painter, Report Writer, EBS, Lockbox, SQVI, SQ01 ABAP Queries, SE16N, FSCM, DME, GLSU, IDOCsDevelop Workflow processes, iDOCs design and error handing, establish Jobs & monitor Batch processingData conversion

Software: SAP S/4 HANA Cloud & On-Prem, SAP ECC6, OpenText, Vertex, BW (BI), HPQC, Ariba, Lotus Notes & Magic issues ticketing systems, MEDOQ, Z-Option, MS Office, Citrix, RWD, TTKF, Project Web Application, Winshuttle

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identify points of IT and business integration for system upgrade of taxware
• Weekly, daily meetings to report to upper management and liaise, project team leads, & with business for timely delivery of system upgrade.
• Prepare cutover plan for go-live.

Confidential, Folsom, CA

Principle Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Bank connectivity
• AP Payment processing, PAIN.001
• Check and remittance Forms development with Adobe LiveCycle
• Process BAI2, CAMT.053 formatted bank statements
• Develop DME files for positive pay and PAIN.001
• Configure WBS elements and fixed assets
• Develop testing and Migration strategy
• Migration supplier master to include tax data: 1099, & VAT
• Establish meetings with business for meeting project deadlines, and manage project scope and deliverables
• Lead implementation of tax across multiple countries for Ariba Cloud to ECC, configuring SAP & Ariba for tax and testing of Ariba integration for SAP master data, guided buying for catalogue and non-catalogue items, purchase requisition, purchase order integration, invoice reconciliation, remittance files.
• Maintain current with road map of S/4HANA enhancements

Confidential, Newtown Square, PA

SAP Tax Consultant S/4 HANA (FICA/AP/AR)

Responsibilities:

• Lead workshops and guide integration of tax processes for Convergent Invoicing & Ariba P2P on S4 HANA using of Vertex O series and US and Canada, and SAP VAT, Service Tax and Withholding Tax for non-US companies.
• Advise & define reporting requirements in Simple Finance to meet post-go live requirements using. Integration of tax for Hybris Billing FICA invoices. Reconciling FICA Subledger for US and VAT tax postings for managers.
• Review/explain/correct data mapping for Ariba commodity codes to GL accounts for local tax processes with local tax managers across more than 60 countries.
• Capture business requirements & develop test cases for invoice postings in Ariba P2P across 60 countries
• Collaborate with Ariba functional and technical resources for implementing best practices for PReq, PO, and invoice processing in Ariba
• Review and maintain master data .csv files in Ariba
• Create and update tolerance rules in Ariba based on user requirements
• Testing & trouble-shoot end-to-end processes in Ariba, to include providing improvements in xml files for invoice postings replicated to the S/4HANA system.
• Knowledge transfer Ariba processes to off-shore support teams
• Configure tax procedures & tax codes for Ariba and S/4HANA with some Brazil and China localization
• Advise Ariba cloud support team on procurement and invoicing processes
• Regression testing S/4HANA 1610 and 1709 upgrades
• Develop process flows and functional specifications for tax processes. Use of Agile methodology

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

IT Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to senior consultants to include test leads, security leads, developers of legacy and SAP systems, to assign and monitor tasks for migration of legacy data to/from SAP and other systems
• Define cutover tasks going live
• Develop project plan for global implementation using Project Web Application (PWA)
• Design processes for new development initiatives for Accounts Payable (AP)
• Describe processes for business clarification and to ensure that business requirements are met
• Communicate status of projects with the business and upper management
• Monitor ongoing support of countries already migrated to SAP
• Perform FICO configuration, create LSMW recordings, create ABAP Queries in SQVI and SQ01
• Manage iDOC error handling for interfaces from multiple systems to include Workday & Concur.
• Review and update SAP AP & MM configuration/plants/purchasing groups and release strategies

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of WRICEF documents for changes
• Development & delivery materials
• Development of testing materials and support of testers in HP Application Life Cycle Management QC system
• Review, document and explain the MM configuration for GL Management team to include account determination for transaction types by account modifiers assigned to movement types
• Explain release procedures for POs, info-records, consignment POs, account assignment categories, item categories, Vertex tax calculation on PO, goods receipts, goods issue, service entries, delivery notes, sales orders, WBS elements and settlements to AUC and fixed asset, COPA entries, GL account settings, evaluated receipt settlement, release blocked invoices for three-way match MRBR, maintain GRIR account MR11, clear GRIR and GII accounts, moving average price of materials
• Support business in creation of queries in SQVI and SQ01 for extracting data logically matching tables fields
• Support GL team to ensure WBS elements created completely by PS team

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support product costing
• FSCM dispute credits management and write-offs
• Improving processes for internal orders to COPA
• Managing withholding tax and sales
• Enhancing substitutions and validations for FI and CO
• Updating in-house check forms and IDOC payment processing
• Identifying and implementing OSS notes for break/fixes
• Correcting account determination for inventory and sales processes
• Managing pricing errors for Sales orders
• Supporting all FICO and bolt-on support system issues to fill post go-live gaps to include re, writing SOPs, fixing/redesigning any other FICO errors
• Collaborating with team members, SAP users, auditors and vendors located in various time-zones before, during and after design of fixes and data extracts to include SRM, VIM, eTravel, HR, payroll, banks, ADP, etc. to ensure successful go-live
• Assisting users in identifying and managing security related issues
• Supporting soft configuration with firefighter roles in production
• Design with business steps to upgrade 4.6c to ECC6 with new G/L for Canada, US and European implementation
• Spend Transparency design and implementation
• Design with AP team the AP for SAP workflow deploy and outsource
• Cash application and deductions deploy and outsource
• Electronic banking system (EBS) US Banks and Royal Bank of Canada
• Align with Treasury, AP and AR departments to design new implementation for AR and AP banks utilizing secure files, IDOCs & 3rd party file transfer providers
• Product costing and production order support with split valuation
• Spend transparency implementation utilizing LSMW, BW, SAP user exits, substitutions & validations
• Development of ad hoc ABAP query reports to include meeting requirements for auditors
• Design new processes, develop functional/technical specifications and configure SAP systems for North America and Europe
• COPA reporting, troubleshooting & planning designing
• Administration of Z-Option and troubleshoot bolt-on to SAP
• Tax: Vertex Q series upgrade, design and for SAP bolt-on; withholding tax; tax codes
• SD: Design process for management of GII account; MM: design process for management of GRIR account
• Developing documentation and communication for go-live, and provide delivery of for all initiatives
• Collaboration with international SAP team and other divisions to include occasional overseas travel
• Implement Accounts Payable (AP) processes to/from Deutsche Bank for IDOC Wires, ACH, Automatic and manual checks, positive payee, check reconciliation and related processes, and support other divisions as SME for subsequent implementations
• Implement OpenText solution for AP workflow for PO and non-PO invoice entry & offshore to 3rd party using Citrix
• Implement Accounts Receivable (AR) process for lockbox, EDI payments and deduction management from PNC and support other divisions as SME for subsequent implementations & offshore to 3rd party using Citrix
• Support product costing
• Develop specifications, user documentation and support interfaces for IDOC invoice postings
• Develop specifications for Purchase order interfaces
• Develop specifications for invoice and payment extracts
• Support upgrade of Ariba process with Ariba functional lead
• Support processes for RFC calls from ECC6 to Ariba for master data
• Support and enhance processes for batch file processing for goods receipts from Ariba to ECC6
• Support processes for PO creation from Ariba to ECC6
• Manage all aspects of the 1099 and 1042 reporting requirements from SAP to the IRS
• Manage all aspects of the AP and AR workflow process from scanning, table of authorization and invoice processing
• Support and advise on FI/CO issues for Canadian and European stand-alone SAP systems to include foreign exchange revaluation
• Manage migrations from legacy systems to SAP to include meeting business owners, planning and configuration of the SAP client, upload of legacy data in SAP using LSMW, CATT’s, Quadrate or development of specifications for programs for migration of data
• Configuration and management of the fixed asset module to include asset transfers, retirements and deactivation
• Year-end closing procedures for AP, AR and fixed assets
• Ongoing meetings with AP, AR and Fixed asset managers and external guests for overall support and enhancements
• Developed project plans and implemented these plans with the SAP team
• Supporting development of WBS elements, internal orders, COPA characteristics and related reporting
• Recommendations for and development of classifications and characteristics for master data
• Guidance of support persons for creation of new company codes and maintenance and addition of master data to include G/L accounts (and related configuration), cost centers, and WBS elements
• Development or identification of substitutions, validations and user exits that impact the use of master data and document types
• Support implementation of AP, AR and Fixed asset upgrade from 4.6C to ECC5.0

Confidential, Lyndhurst, NJ

SAP Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• AP, GL, AR, AA, SPL, IO and 1099 and 1042 tax support and configuration; develop functional specifications for ABAP development enhancements and inbound and outbound interfaces; develop user documentation, and deliver for new processes
• Lockbox development and IDOCs for high volume payment advices, purchase orders and FI journal entries
• Create corresponding types for default forms for printer per customized program.
• Support fixed asset module of SAP.
• Treasury: Configure banks, AR lockbox, AP ACH, Wire and Check payments, positive payee and check reconciliation, IDOC transmission of bank data with internal and external customers.
• Configure document types, number ranges for documents, payment block methods, payment method supplements for vendor payments, terms of payment, default document types for transactions, account determination for discounts and short or over payments.
• Creates GL Account groups. Creates Posting Keys
• Creates Alternate charts of Account’s.
• Creates validation and substitutions.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

SAP Finance/ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP Senior consultant on new implementation (full implementation life cycle 4)
• SAP 4.6c FI - AP, AR, CO, PCA, CCA, PA, SD, MM, and QM documentation and classroom delivery, using Info Pak. Included internal orders, distributions and allocations, and profitability analysis reporting; and materials requirements planning

Confidential, Smyrna, TN

SAP FI-AP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP 4.6c FI-AP, MM Consultant
• SAP AP, MM, ERS and tax support
• Included review of an extensive number of programs and interfaces, and communication of functionality to internal users and US tax authorities.
• Performed period end closings for GL, AP and AR to foreign exchange revaluation and balance carry forward.

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

SAP R/3 Requisition to Payment (AP) Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Configure Requisition to Payment (MM and AP) module in SAP 4.6B to include workflow, checks, wires, ACH payments and development ongoing support of bolt-on software: Vertex and IXOS
• Planning and support of SAP interfaces for the RTP processes to include interfaces with Chase Bank for checks, ACH and wire payments, Deutsche Bank for IDOC payments (Europe) and Citibank for DME file transmissions (Latin America)
• Development of specifications for RTP programs to assist with company’s Chapter 11 status (entry and emergence processes)
• Created GL Account groups
• Created Posting Keys
• Created Alternate charts of Account’s.
• Created validation and substitutions.
• Development of functional specifications for ABAP programmers
• Development of SAP ABAP query reports
• Development and delivery of materials and SAP business processes (scripts or BPP’s)
• Assist ABAP programmers with development and improvement ABAP programs
• Configuration and interpretation of all international tax requirements to include withholding taxes
• Ongoing support and improvement of RTP workflow processes
• Control SAP requests through the Clarify change control system
• Management of SAP integration with other modules
• Utilization of OSS notes and knowledge of user exits
• SAP testing for application of hotpacks and coordination of integration points
• Remain accessible to all SAP super-users worldwide for SAP support analyzing production issues
• Weekly updates of SAP development, unit testing, user-acceptance testing, and production issues
• Liaise with the business to provide ongoing support FI and CO to include, but not limited to the following:
• Defining CO validations for internal orders, cost centers and functional areas
• Direct creation of cost centers and internal orders
• Configuration and maintenance of M, S, P, EURO and EURX currencies for cross-currencies calculations for document postings.
• Configuration of VAT tax codes for Europe and withholding tax codes for Latin America, and configuration of tax jurisdiction for US and Canada to align with Vertex for sales and taxes for US, Quebec and Non-Quebec.
• Configuration of MM modules for PO tolerances and workflow. Configure assigning different forms per countries for purchase order forms. Create new material master types.
• Explain the budgeting process and reporting for internal orders
• Directing and troubleshooting issues regarding legacy to SAP controlling cross- tables
• Developing, maintaining and troubleshooting customized P&L, balance sheets and ECCS reports
• Configuration of new company codes for group, local and document currencies (parallel currencies).

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

SAP R/3 Requisition to Payment (AP) Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of SAP 4.6B Requisition to Payment (full implementation life cycle 3)
• Development of world-wide plan for Requisition to Payment
• Develop materials for FI, CO, MM, HR and BW development for global, while using iTutor tutorial software
• Introduction of basic SAP on-line tutorial
• Coordination of SAP system security for Requisition to Payment
• Consistent demonstration of a solid work ethic, which included sound judgment, resourcefulness, and flexibility, routinely liaising with Accenture, and Plaut Consulting Inc.
• Configuration of new company codes for group, local and document currencies (parallel currencies).
• Configuration of MM modules for PO tolerances and workflow. Configure assigning different forms per countries for purchase order forms. Create new material master types

Confidential, Morris Plains, NJ

SAP R/3 SAP Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of SAP 4.6B (upgrade from SAP 4.0B (full implementation life cycle 2)
• Team lead for team
• Development of world-wide for BW, SD, AP, Billing, ECCS, FI, CO, PA and HR
• Development of OnDemand tutorials and written materials
• and support of worldwide trainers
• FI, CO, AP configuration of SAP 4.0B
• Identification and development of SAP FI, CO, AP and SPL specifications for the Netherlands, London, Dublin, Japan and Hong Kong
• Development and on-site/remote (WebEx) delivery of worldwide to include Japan, the Netherlands, Ireland, various USA sites, Mexico and Latin America
• Loading budgets and development of forecasts - CO
• Report writing, painting and ABAP query report development
• Ongoing support worldwide financial SAP applications
• Development SAP security
• SAP Helpdesk support
• Configuration of new company codes for group, local and document currencies (parallel currencies).

Confidential

SAP R/3 Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of SAP 4.0B (full life cycle implementation 1)
• SAP Report development, developed Report Writer and Report Painter reports.
• Assist business managers in interpreting SAP application for business needs for FI and CO to include but not limited to the following:
• Create cost centers, cost elements, cost center and cost element groups and special purpose ledger.
• Create default settings for cost centers per cost element per company
• Upload CO planned data and develop forecasts per department
• Create CO hierarchies
• Create P&L and Balance sheet reports using report writer, painter and ABAP query
• Configure FI GL settings (field status groups), and create master data
• Configure document settings, and create master data
• Create company codes and all related data including tax data
• Configure special ledger for and development of report writer and report painter reports.
• Develop Legal Consolidation
• Roll-out and support SAP FI and CO to employees
• Development SAP business scripts
• Develop and deliver materials
• Data conversion from legacy to SAP system
• Develop documentation for Unit testing and assist user acceptance
• SAP helpdesk support