PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP Professional with solid configuration and business process definition experience.
• I have strong experience working with the integration of the FI module with other ECC functional modules such as MM and SD.
• I also have strong working knowledge of ABAP concepts, which enables an effective communication with the development team to ensure that RICEFW objects are properly understood.
• 7 Years of SAP SD / FICO Experience, including strong Order to Cash and Procure to Pay experience.
• 4+ Full life cycle end to end implementations, from requirements definition, system configuration, integration (SIT) and end user acceptance testing (UAT) including end user .
• 7+ Years of Financial Accounting and Reporting experience, including procurement and accounts payable, internal control and business process documentation.

SAP DOMAIN EXPERIENCE:

SAP ECC 6.0, SD, FI, CO, GL, AP, AR, MM; SPM;EWM

SAP NetWeaver Solution Manger

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Excel

MS Power Point

MS Visio

Solution Manager

HPQC

BMC Remedy

User Productivity Kit (Formally OnDemand Developer)

EDI Notepad

WORK EXPERIENCE DETAIL:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP SD EDI Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support EDI X12 transactions including 856, 870 and 810 for a logistics / supply chain business process, including SD material availability check, inbound and outbound deliveries, shipment processing and billing, involving 3rd party aluminum processors and customer direct ship.
• Accountable for seeing the resolution of EDI transaction failures between a network of warehouses, vendors and major auto manufacturing customers, including the correction and reprocessing of idocs in SAP
• Ensured EDI 856 transaction created the relevant SAP FI financial documents including material movement, vendor invoice and customer billing, thereby ensure inventory accuracy
• In some cases, where there were problems in the EDI system, processed outbound shipments and billing manually in SAP, as a work around while the system issues were being resolved
• Worked with 3rd party processors to resolve inventory variances and customer billing issues
• Resolved failed EDI transaction resulting in over $1m of inventory correction and customer billing
• Identified the root cause of EDI transaction failure in order to drive the elimination of the root cause, to prevent repeat failures and initiated change requests for the required system changes.
• Reviewed idoc failures due to missing X - table information and submitted requests to update tables including EDPAR, EDSDC, PUMA and KNMT

Confidential, Morton, IL

Sr. IT Solution Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SAP FI Specialist for a SAP Service Parts Management (SPM) integrated Supply Chain Solution supporting a global parts distribution business for a leading heavy equipment manufacturer
• Ensured integration of financially significant processes across different instances of SAP, including ECC and CRM
• Led end to end implementation projects focusing on both the inbound and outbound processes in the distribution network, including inter-company transactions
• Created & maintained Customer Master data along with Customer Groups and Payment Terms
• Worked in a cross functional team to design a customer rebate incentive program for dealers to provide them with discounts for target sales volume.
• Tested system to ensure effective integration between billing and the rebate accrual engine to track rebate liability.
• Configured account determination and GL account assignment for revenue and rebate accruals.
• Conducted End to End testing (including UAT) of the order to cash process
• SD, CRM and FI integration
• Worked with the EWM team to ensure that financial transactions for deliveries from external vendors - logistics invoice verification, PGR (Inbound process) and deliveries to external customers and dealers, PGI (Outbound process) are configured properly to ensure accurate financial reporting
• Led design workshops and developed functional specifications for the SAP solution design for a buyback process (Returns management)
• SPRO configuration, for FI and MM logistic invoice verification
• LIV tolerance limits, quantity and price discrepancy workflow monitoring
• Participated in Production cutover activities, and provide extended support post go live
• Tested EDI transactions to ensure successful transmission to our trading partners, including 810 (Inbound and outbound invoice)
• Worked with the Project Management Office to ensure deliverables for the different phases of the project were completed on target, per the SDLC using the ASAP methodology
• Used the 6 Sigma methodology to evaluate and identify opportunities for improvement in business processes
• Proficient in working with the SAP data dictionary, including both standard and custom SAP tables
• Employed the LSMW tool to upload legacy vendor and customer data into SAP
• Worked with the ABAP team to identify suitable user exits and BADIs for implementation to satisfy various business requirements including validation checks and screen enhancements

Confidential, Peoria, IL

SAP Business Process Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a number of end to end OTC (SD) and P2P (MM) projects, including business requirements gathering, functional specifications, configuration of the SAP FI Modules, Testing, Go-live and End User and support
• Customization experience in various areas of FICO modules including organization structure, Basic settings & global settings, maintaining Fiscal year variant & posting period variants
• Created and configured document types, posting keys & defining document number ranges
• Created and configured Chart of Accounts, Account groups, General Ledger accounts master data, field status groups and tolerance groups for GL accounts
• Defined multiple currencies/parallel currencies
• Supported the finance and accounting departments in the preparation of various data needed for quarterly and yearly audits and work with external auditors to resolve audit questions.
• Performed general configuration within the SD module, including sales related organization entities
• Created & maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups and Partner functions
• Key member of a multi-functional team responsible for designing a global direct ship solution for bulk steel procurement. Steel was sold to 3rd party processors to make parts exclusively for the company
• Led the conversion of Steel processors and made sure they were set up as both vendors and customers in SAP to enable netting of AP and AR
• Team member of an initiative to develop and test extended service warranty functionality to ensure proper entries are made to deferred revenue accounts and revenue recognized over the duration of the contract.
• Tested the rollout of an end to end order to cash process solution to new company codes, including Unit, System and User Acceptance (UAT) testing
• Led design workshops and developed functional specifications for the SAP solution design to enhance the Accounts Payable process to comply with different country legal requirements regarding payment methods and invoice forms.
• Work with the ABAP development team and provide data for development testing
• Configured End to End AP module including Enterprise Structure, Vendor Groups/Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program and bank configuration
• Configured AP integration to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments) and FI module through the reconciliation account assignment
• LIV tolerance limits, quantity and price discrepancy workflow monitoring
• Proficient in the EDI X12 standard and main the transaction sets commonly used in the Procure to Pay (SAP MM) and Order to Cash (SAP SD) processes, such as 850 (Purchase Order) 856 (Advance Ship Notice), 810 (Invoice), 820 (Bank Payment file)
• Configured EDI parameters for both inbound and outbound invoices including setting up of partner profiles
• Conducted idoc monitoring and troubleshooting
• Updated EDI X- tables, including KNMT (Customer material ), EDSDC (Sales area and sales document type determination), EDPAR (Trading partner / Ship to party for sales order creation and invoice output) and PUMA (Trading partner / Ship to party for delivery output)
• Worked with local site resources to understand business requirements in order to identify the existence of gaps between the site requirements and the global template
• Monitored the deployment calendar to ensure site readiness for the go live timeline for multiple countries in the EU
• Coordinated rollout specific configuration with a team of 5 offshore resources

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Functional Consultant - Procure to pay (SAP MM)

Responsibilities:

• Key team member of a rollout project to convert new company codes to global template solution for a fixed asset acquisition, material purchasing and accounts payable, for a major food processing company
• Set up the organization structure to support procurement, including purchasing organizations, purchasing groups and working with PO based and non-PO purchasing scenarios
• Configured End to End AP module including creating Vendor Groups and extending the vendor master to different company codes
• Configuration of cost centers, cost elements, and processing of cost allocations and settlements to appropriate cost centers

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for system requirements gathering for a new SAP implementation as part of the internal implementation team, and responsible for documentation and subsequent writing of functional specifications for the capital spending and fixed asset acquisition process and related vendor payment. (end to end procure to pay process)
• Assisted the finance and accounting departments in the preparation of various data needed for quarterly and yearly audits and work with external auditors to resolve audit questions
• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA and internal orders for the control of capital spending and overhead costs

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed financial planning and capital budgeting, and managed the procurement of capital goods, accounts payable accruals and invoice approval for payment
• Proficient in month end processes including processing of journal entries
• Prepared SEC financial statement disclosures and exhibits related to purchase, depreciation and disposal of capital assets for 10Q and 10K filing
• Ensured SOX Compliance in the capital acquisition process including authorization levels and documentation