SUMMARY

• Business and Information Technology Professional with 19 years of SAP domestic and global implementation experience. Implementation includes eight full life cycles and four successful upgrade projects.
• A Senior SAP FICO Consultant whose main focus has been successfully implementing Integrated SAP Financial Platforms from the planning phase through post go - live business supports.
• Senior level finance and controlling consultant with experience in the following industries: manufacturing, pharmaceutical, consumer products, retail, and telecommunication.
• Excellent business communication skills, analytical skills, and detail oriented.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Local FICO consultant for the US who collaborates with the core FICO consultant in Germany for project directions
• Knowledge transfer documentation: business process documents, functional specifications, development objects, configuration documentation, and World Template (WT) scenarios resides in SAP JAM
• Prepared and conducted the local fit/gap workshop sessions
• Presented the global template to the finance team which allows functional processes in one client for all countries. The FICO functions implemented are: CO, New GL, AR, AP, AA, Cash Management, and Electronic Bank Statement
• Documented the results of local requirements and reviewed the detailed gaps list with the FICO key user. All gaps were listed on one comprehensive gap list (150+ for USA)
• Captured notes from each workshop session and logged the information in SAP JAM
• Wrote functional specifications based on approved gaps-bank interfaces
• Configured the FICO modules based on local requirements identified during the fit/gap sessions, which includes bank files-ACH, withholding tax, and standard SAP sales and use tax functionality for 168 jurisdictions
• Unit tested all configuration tasks to ensure functionality was correct
• Released FICO transports from the source system to the target systems
• Updated the configuration documentation with local requirements, as well as updated global test scripts in preparation for integration testing
• Created incident reports during integration testing, performed fixes, retested fixes and documented results in Solution Manager
• All project documentation; WRIFEC list, incidents reports, and fixes resides in Solution Manager
• Supported the local key users during UAT testing and analysed the fixes which were reported for handling incidents
• Tested FICO development objects and updated the functional specifications
• Assisted the data migration team with mapping requirements for GL balances, vendor/customer master, and transactional data
• Assisted key user with validation of mock data migration loads for 400+ Customer master and 160+ Vendor master records
• Updated master spreadsheet with FICO manual configuration tasks and entries, and validated transported data
• Worked with offshore and onshore team members

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote functional/technical specifications (specs) for FI/CO objects and gaps (AP, AR, GL)
• Worked closely with the client subject matter expert to gain functional/technical requirements and conducting review sessions
• Scheduled meetings to gain knowledge for business requirements from the business team leads
• Scheduled meetings with technical team leads to get technical information to write the technical portion of the specifications
• Wrote specifications for accruals and lease charges which used XML bank data format process
• Used translation tables to translate legacy data to SAP data format and performed data field mappings (legacy to SAP fields)
• Wrote unit test scripts for AP, AR, and GL technical development per specification requirements and scenarios for unit testing purposes
• Resolved unit testing defects
• Wrote/updated the configuration documentation for configuration updates
• Conducted 50% and 100% review sessions with the business team members to gain approval

Confidential - Santa Ana, CA

Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attended sessions and worked with/assisted solution expert on global implementation issues to find an SAP Best Practice resolution for FICO implementation gaps
• Conducted business requirements sessions for site localization requirements
• Prepared blueprint workshop presentations for all FICO modules and conducted several blueprint sessions during a two week BLITZ forum
• Wrote daily workshop minutes and posted to SharePoint for team members to review with comments/corrections if required
• Wrote functional design documents for FICO based on blueprint workshop minutes and scheduled meetings with FI/CO team members
• Prepared workshop presentation for taxes (Sales & Use and Golden Tax) and maintained a tax matrix for the site localizations requirements
• Prepared/updated process flows for all FICO modules that were in scope for the global implementation
• Worked with data team on FICO master data objects mapping requirements. Scheduled several meetings with client team members to ensure all required fields were accounted for in SAP
• Prepared/attended mini BLITZ sessions that were not covered during the two weeks BLITZ forum

Confidential - Fairlawn, NJ

Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior FICO Consultant working on the F2M team assisting all team leads and the finance manager with various tasks
• Attended training for the global implementation in Sandviken, Sweden for FICO modules
• Worked with and assisted Solution Expert on FI issues to find resolutions for gaps
• Worked on the EBP (Enterprise Business Platform) global template for the United States and other countries
• Attended BFA (Business FIT Analysis) requirements gathering sessions for: FTM, OTC, P2P, E2Q which were lead by Solution Experts
• Maintained FICO requirements listing and worked with Solution Expert to find resolutions
• Reviewed global ARIS process flows for all FICO processes
• Worked very closely with the US project manager
• Benchmarked third party tax packages which included the following countries: Canada, Brazil, and Mexico
• Configured the organization structure (baseline) for FI, SD, and MM in order to configure sales and use tax functionality
• Demonstrated SAP’s sales and use tax functionality to the FI, SD, and MM team members
• Created process and configuration documentation for the tax functionality through SharePoint system
• Created business requirements and change request documentation on SharePoint. Found new solutions if business requirement processes was rejected
• Wrote business requirements for reports and tested when coding was completed
• Tested all standard SAP reporting requirements for FICO
• Worked with the SD/MM consultant to find resolution’s for the client’s test tool, ship/ debit, rebates, and commissions processes which had financial implications
• Configured SAP to utilize the test tool process for US
• Worked with Solution Expert to correct 1099 withholding tax configuration issues
• Worked with finance team to correct FICO issues which required some configuration changes to the global template
• Used Win shuttle to load small master and transactional data loads

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed two offshore resources who performed configuration tasks, writing test scripts, writing BPPs, and various FI tasks
• Configured accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and new general ledger modules through Solution Manager per the functional design documentation
• Worked with Solution Manager to perform the configuration tasks which would then sync with SAP ECC and upload the configuration work
• Exposed to the Financial Supply Change Management (FSCM) module
• Setup FI configuration nodes in SOLMAN (Solution Manager)
• Configured accounts payable which included basic configuration, automatic payment program, ACH bank files, 1099 processes, withholding tax, sales and use tax, and tax jurisdictions
• Configured fixed assets which included basic configuration, depreciation areas, depreciation classes, and asset master data
• Configured new general ledger which included basic configuration, document splitting, document splitting characteristics, leading ledger currencies, exchange rates, closing cockpit, and global settings
• Setup and scheduled batch job information for the finance team
• Created transport requests for all configuration tasks and moved transports into different clients and released assigned transport requests in SAP once all configuration was completed
• Wrote test scripts for AP, FA, and GL as per business requirements and scenarios for Testing purposes. Used step by step guide to create the test scripts in ALM (Application Lifecycle Management testing tool)
• Resolved all testing defects through ALM
• Wrote/updated the configuration documentation for all configuration performed in FI through Solution Manager
• Created BPPs (Business Process Procedures) using uPerform tool
• Converted small data loads of master and transaction data to SAP using Win shuttle tool
• Executed PRICEFW functional unit testing for accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, and reports
• Performed security role testing for general ledger and accounts payable