SUMMARY

• 20 + years of Financial Accounting & 18+ years of SAP implementation experience
• 5 Full SAP Life Cycles completed
• Teamed with SAP America, SAP SE, IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, PWC, Cap Gemini and Bearing Point
• Oil & Gas, DOD, Army, Navy, Auto, Manufacturing, Retail, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Transportation
• Led teams through complex program and tasks using AGILE and ASAP mythologies
• Multiple engagement experience with global delivery model including offshore functional and development support
• Trouble shoot and Trained SAP Business suites SRM,CRM,PLM
• Supported and Trained PTP, RTR, OTC, VIM & MTO processes
• Experienced with TEMPeffectively teaming with a diverse group of stakeholders
• Extensive knowledge of ERP systems
• Proficient with various SAP modules
• Proficient with HP Quality Center and training development tools UPK, On Demand, Captivate and Microsoft Office Suites

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Lead SAP Business Analyst/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Project Team and stakeholders on SAP implementations and upgrades of ECC 6.0 - 7.0.
• Identify trends in financial and cost posting results to expand FICO and COPA reporting criteria and capabilities.
• Lead legacy data extraction and testing activities
• Responsible for go live and post support supporting change management and training requirements
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to develop business processes and functional specifications for testing, process approvals and training documentation
• Create templates, test scenarios for financial reporting, cost management, profitability analysis, revenue recognition, project planning and budget administration for COPA processes
• Utilized test results to support teh development of OTC, PTP, RTR, and Period End business processes
• Monitor day to day and period end activities to eliminate redundant processes, and to streamline business operation tasks
• Responsible for Master data governance and Year End process maintenance realignment
• Support General Accounting (AP, AR, GL, and Cash), Cost and Material Ledger business functions
• Develop functional specifications, manage legacy data conversion uploads, maintain go live and ongoing user support
• Support SAP interfaces from other core business and external systems
• Troubleshoot FICO, PS, MM, SD, PM specified processes to resolve configuration, change request and help desk issues
• Manage Change request, Software modifications and User Acceptance tasks
• Prioritize multiple tasks to meet scheduled deadlines & ad hoc requests
• Coordinate training delivery and needs analysis to report Change Management statistics
• Collaborated with Technical Teams to align training environment and data targets
• Track Training Needs/Impact Analysis and Curriculum Development
• Lead training contentreviews with Business Leads and Project Team members
• Define and develop story boards, process flows, test data and course outlines
• Manage Blended Learning, e-learning and Instructor Led Training activities
• Administered development guidelines to produce training tools which includes: Business Process Procedures, Job Aids, Quick Reference Guides, Assessments, Quizzes, Exercises Help Menus, Instructor Guides, and Performance

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP Business Process Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage end to end test scenarios for SAP process changes related to teh SIEP accelerated implementation
• Capture/analyze enhancements for business process improvements
• Implement and Manage Pro-Master interface into SAP Time & Expense modules
• Liaison to teh Technical, Financial, and Business, teams translating business requirements into best practices for SAP transaction execution and SOX compliance
• Develop extracts and templates for data cleansing requirements for upgrades, implementations and interfaces for CO, QM SRM, MM, SCM, MDM, PRA, WM, SD & PS
• Table extractions for data modeling and validations - SE11 & SE16
• Analyzed statutory VAT tax requirements for international currency exchange rate and country mandates
• Trouble shoot month end and year end process issues related to budgets, planning and forecasting
• Perform GAP Analysis for proposed process enhancements and RICEFW requirements
• Perform Cost Center Alignment/Master Data Governance task
• Created/monitor/troubleshoot batch jobs/SQ01/SQVI Queries/Table maintenance for Transfer pricing, Product costing, Sales & Distribution and Material Masters
• Execute data loads and data validations for conversion areas (RTR, OTC, VIM, SRM, PTP & FICO new G/L)
• Created functional specification to update CO table configuration adjustments and patches
• Support and participate in Year End close activities and processes
• Manage team of 18; 11 US based and 7 International consultants (India, Malaysia, Netherlands)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

SAP Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Full Cycle Implementation from Lawson to SAP ERP Systems for Sara Lee Bakery
• Lead teh team of 5 Functional Analyst and 2 Training Developers
• Implementation integrated FI, CO,, MDM, SCM, SRM, AP, AR, SD, PM, EAM, QM, E-Procurement
• Review Costing Model and Profitability Analysis integration points
• Participated in legacy system process testing and in cut over process
• Created/edited LMS training material using On Demand
• Reviewed BPP/SOP/BPD’s process continuity and quality assurance
• Provided post-go live support to end-users, delivered training material to end users
• Repetitive make-to-order production environment MTS Make to stock /MTO - Make to Order

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Functional Analyst/Training Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 2 Functional Analyst and 6 Training Developers for various global contracts
• Configured InfoPak, developed and updated Project Plan tasks
• Review Costing Model, Revenue recognition and Production Processes for integration improvements
• Created BPPs and process development standards
• Developed and Tested BPP’s for FI, CO, EAM, AR, AP, AP, and PS
• Resolved business scenario end to end testing issues for FI, CO and PS
• Validated end-user landscape
• Confirmed data transports and monitored refresh schedule
• MTS Make to stock /MTO - Make to Order
• Updated Core Management team with project communication to teh integration teams

Confidential, Houston, TX.

Financial Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate development and delivery of ongoing SAP Training classes for teh Global supply chain man
• Provided instruction on financial reporting, report building and account reconciliation
• Participated in teh design, realization, end to end testing and go-live phases of teh implementation
• Created, tested and edited BPP’s and Training material for General Ledger
• Support and participate in Year End close activities and quality assurance
• MTS Make to stock /MTO - Make to Order and SCM processes
• Participated in monthly close to analyze financial reports for sales, supply and pipeline transactions.
• Identified problem areas in sales, supply and pipeline transactions, which reduced teh accrual adjustments from a net $43 million at January 1997 to a net $26,000 at current period.
• Reconcile gas sales, purchases, and pipeline activity to teh general ledger that ensured an accurate balance to teh general ledger and financial statements
• Performed account analysis and reconciliation’s, which resulted in improved financial reporting accountability.
• Analyze oil well production operations to determine profitability for individual investors, which resulted in accurate royalty payments.
• Reviewed accounts payable and receivables transactions, which ensured accuracy and reduced operational costs.
• Review classification, balancing and editing of accounting entries to teh general ledger system, resulting in accurate financial reporting