SUMMARY

• A versatile and forward looking professional wif 18 years of progressive experience in the field and office operations, project management and quality assurance coupled wif 8 years of hands - on SAP project implementation experience in Financial Accounting wif extensive noledge in the implementation and configuration of SAP FICO modules wif emphasis on business process analysis including blueprinting, gap analysis and creating AS-IS and TO-BE documentation.
• Functional expertise in SAP FICO ECC and S4HANA including Organizational Structures, General Ledger Accounting (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA) FICO integration wif Sales and Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM), Controlling (CO) modules, Production Planning (PP), Ariba, Concur, VIM and Migration.
• A driven producer, who maintains sight of long-term goals while focusing on immediate priorities. Learns quickly and adapts easily to challenging situations.Demonstrated critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems. A dedicated team player, who TEMPeffectively utilizes time and resources to achieve key objectives and facilitate the competitiveness and sustainability of an organization. Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments wif well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting wif others.
• 8 years hands on working experience in design, configuration and implementation FI (GL/AP/AR/AA), CO (CCA/IO/PA) and S4HANA wif heavy integration wif SD, MM, PP.
• In-depth noledge and experience in SAP FI/CO and S4HANA encompassing five projects which are full implementation cycles from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live, upgrade and support projects, wif the use of the SAP recommended Methodology - ASAP and ACTIVATE all in an AGILE environment.
• Three End to End implementations in SAP FICO AP, AR and GL. Two Implementations in SAP S4HANA, New G/L: Document Splitting, Ledger Solution and Multiple Scenarios.
• 2+ Implementations in Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Elements accounting.
• Three End to End OTC - Order to Cash (SAP FICO - SD Integration) implementations wif complex billing and invoicing and resource related billing solutions, Revenue Recognition, Pricing procedure, Intercompany sales and STO, Credit Management.
• Two End to End P2P - Procure to Pay (SAP FICO - MM Integration) implementations wif ERS and consignment business processes.
• Performed FI testing (FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, FI-GL, New GL, CO-CCA., CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-OCA). Experienced System configuration in SAP Controlling modules costing & allocations, internal orders, management reporting, product cost controlling (CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-CCA, CO-IO).
• Integration wif various modules and third-party systems like VIM, ARIBA, Concur.
• Assets, Asset Classes, Depreciation, and PS Integration
• Excellent understanding of business analysis, financial management and business operations.
• Professional Client and Consulting experience wif managing onsite and offshore teams
• Experience wif order to cash and source to pay design and processes and the entire P2P cycle.
• Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications wif Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects
• Strong Post Implementation support 24/7 wif experience in various industries in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy.
• Worked on automatic clearing and all payment methods like APP, EDI and Lockbox
• Leveraging SAP FICO noledge to assist clients in the implementation and support of SAP packaged solutions, wif emphasis on designing, implementing, and supporting SAP FICO solutions including MM, PP, SD, and improving business processes;
• Understanding the common issues facing clients who provide products and services wifin agriculture, manufacture, consumer and retail, energy, industrial products, technology or utilities; and Participating on proposal development efforts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, Houston - Texas

Responsibilities:

• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting and Parallel Accounting
• Migrated various master data and transaction using migration cockpit functionality in S4HANA
• Designed enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits, Functional Modules, Enhancement Spots
• Designed Make-to-Order Costing and Consignment Process
• Re-engineered Drop-ship process and Intercompany Billing Process
• Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory in to ECC from Sybel
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Configured and Customized CO - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders.
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning, Lockbox.
• Accounts Payable: Building AP Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Configured Automatic Payment Program, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice wif purchase.
• Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration wif the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.
• Sales and Distribution: Configuring sales organization, assigning sales organization to company code, assigning distribution channels and divisions to sales organizations, determining pricing procedure, configuring condition table and access sequence, defining sales order types, assigning number ranges to sales documents, defining billing types, assigning number ranges to billing documents.
• Worked on period-end-closing, fiscal-year end-closing, material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, and reconciliation issues.
• Mapped current data, tables and other reports to SAP.
• Reviewed and delivered functional specifications to developers in order to meet business requirements.

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting and Parallel Accounting.
• Migrated various master data and transaction using LSMW
• Designed enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits, Functional Modules, Enhancement Spots
• Designed Make-to-Order Costing and Consignment Process
• Re-engineered Drop-ship process and Intercompany Billing Process
• Implemented COPA Cost base and created custom reports
• Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory in to ECC from Sage
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Configured and Customized CO - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders.
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning, Lockbox.
• Accounts Payable: Building AP Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Configured Automatic Payment Program, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice wif purchase.
• Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration wif the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.
• Sales and Distribution: Configuring sales organization, assigning sales organization to company code, assigning distribution channels and divisions to sales organizations, determining pricing procedure, configuring condition table
• and access sequence, defining sales order types, assigning number ranges to sales documents, defining billing types, assigning number ranges to billing documents.
• Worked on period-end-closing, fiscal-year end-closing, material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, and reconciliation issues.

SAP SUPPORT ANALYST

Confidential, Cameroon

Responsibilities:

• Fully responsible for the fixing of tickets on a daily basis 24/7 to ensure the production is uninterrupted.
• Facilitates the implementation, operation and support of the SAP ECC and other key business applications, mostly focused on Production and Material Management modules, to enhance the users' noledge and to maintain a high degree of TEMPeffectiveness in the use of the processes and applications
• Assist on the design, configuration and testing of core SAP modules, especially focused on SAP FI and CO modules
• Assist on the requirements definition of key business processes for further enhancement of SAP and other key business applications
• Assist on the development of functional specification for ABAP development requests as necessary in SAP modules listed above
• Experience wif SAP reporting transactions and Business Intelligence (BI) environment
• Experience and noledge of key integration points of SAP SD and MM wif FI/CO and other key SAP modules
• Responsible for support of SAP and other key business applications, including providing functional expertise, guidance, presentation, and training to business users
• Acts as liaison wif business users and Global IT for troubleshooting, including investigating, analyzing, and solving software problems and mapping user business requirements, processes and objectives
• Ability to analyze problems, including root-cause analysis, and provide clear recommendations
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. Knowledge of the Italian language is highly desirable
• Ability to collaborate wif business users and have a strong desire to excel
• Able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload

Sybel Software Production Support/Business Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain understanding of customer workflows and business needs to support.
• Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.
• Be responsible for direct interaction wif clients including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements and use cases and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Gather requirements and halp build and document specifications for development.
• Work wif Technical team to develop high level labor estimates to develop and deploy functionality
• Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements and collaborate wif Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
• Work wif Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate, verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
• Work wif the clients to demonstrate the changes to the system to ensure all relevant business needs are addressed.
• Develop training materials and provide training in one-on-one or classroom environment.
• Manage multiple competing priorities through TEMPeffective organization and communication.
• Assist on a 24/7 basis on resolving tickets raised by end users to eliminate production interruption
• Work wif Release Management and Transition Management on application configurations changes
• Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
• Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends wif business strategy implications.
• Communicate wif customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.
• Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.
• Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure dat intelligence is consistent wif defined needs.
• Prepare reports of findings, illustrating data graphically and translating complex findings into written text.

Management Controller

Confidential

Key Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for the preparation and follow up of the execution of the operating and capital budget for the Banana, Rubber and Confidential Sectors of the Confidential . Revenue budget is usually wifin the range of 100 billion FCFA: -
• In collaboration wif the Group Managers and Field operation managers prepare the material budget for the entire Group.
• Produce a detail material work plan to ease the execution
• Use the cost trial balances to prepare cost schedules for the different units.
• Wif the use of the budget application software Control the execution of the Confidential budgets.
• Prepare the cost activity reports for each estate and consolidate for the Group.
• Most Importantly, assess the performance of the estates; dat is actual against budget to identify the deviation and propose corrective measures in term of cost efficiency and TEMPeffectiveness
• Assist the Estates and Group manager in the PLANNING, ORGANISING, DIRECTING and CONTROLLING of the approved budgets to ensure dat corporate objectives are attained.
• Assist the Group Manager in controlling the usage of materials by the field managers
• Exceeded the objective of saving minimum of 1% of the location average annual revenue of $85m USD.
• Exceeded service delivery and asset utilization objectives by 12% in 2006
• Utilized Lean methodology for cost savings and improvement in overall productivity and quality
• Led process improvement initiatives to reduce variances and eliminate wastes in the maintenance systems to improve quality and productivity
• Developed and implemented productivity improvement measures thus resulting in improved Turn Around Time (TAT) for equipment by 20%
• Reduced inventory value by 10% by implementing inventory management system and lean techniques

Budget Control Officer/Budget Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the development, analysis, and reporting of the financial justification for individual investment projects. Headed the development, analysis, and reporting of key performance indicators dat supported the achievement of financial goals and objectives.
• Directed accounting activities and processes. Analyzed and reported on deviations between actual and standard and forecasted values for departmental spending, product costs, and investment expenditures.
• Analyzed and reported assets, liabilities, profitability, and cash flow. Facilitated business risk assessments dat identified and addressed key financial risks.
• Assigned work to personnel, including six direct reports and two indirect. Developed performance plans and conducted appraisal reviews for employees.
• Participated in the operational management of the business, as well as divestiture and acquisition of business entities, including financial analysis, due diligence, asset impairment, and working capital arbitration.
• Delivered high quality measurement services and logs while working under pressure
• Prepared for the services and communicated TEMPeffectively wif Clients and other service company representatives
• Oversee creation, control and implementation of corporate budget and funding requirements.
• Research financial documents and prepare analysis reports, models and forecasts.
• Review budget requests wif senior management to determine areas to reduce and expand.
• Prepare budget estimates and financial plans, managing deployment in future periods.
• Track and review all expenditures, reimbursements and expenses for comparison against budgets and develop reports to determine if budgetary goals are met.
• Work wif financial and executive teams to develop financial strategies and cost containment programs.
• Maintain database of monthly financial analysis reports and budget modifications.
• Evaluate accounts receivables periodically to determine cause of billing issues and facilitate clearance of claims.