SUMMARY

• Senior IT and Finance Professional, Big 4 experience ( Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential ) with functional expertise in financials, finance transformation, purchasing, supply chain, master data management, shared services as well as reporting by leveraging SAP HANA’s robust functionality for real time analytics
• Over 17 years of delivering value added Finance and Enterprise Performance Management transformations, Finance and Accounting Process transformations, Finance & Accounting Shared Services Consulting & Operations, and Project Management utilizing various ERP technology enabled solutions, e.g., SAP, Oracle
• Deep expertise in architecting Integration between SAP and non - SAP application
• Skilled in leading and preparing project sales efforts, compiling proposals and responses to RFI’s/RFP’s, presentations, and selling to senior executives
• Excellent communication, problem solving customer service skills and ability to work well with people from many different disciplines and with varying degrees of IT experience
• Ability to develop others through providing timely coaching, guidance, and feedback to help others excel on the job and meet key accountabilities
• Diversified industry experience includes: Financial Institutions, Insurance, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Consumer and Industrial Products, Automotive, Communications and High Tech, Locomotives, Services, Real Estate, Aerospace and Defense, Retail, Public Utilities, Public Sector, Chemical, Agricultural, Protective Garments, Food and Beverage, Semi-Conductor, Education, Health & Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, and Consumer Packaged Goods

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Director - Finance Transformation - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Finance transformations utilizing SAP technology enabled solutions based on SAP’s leading industries’ best practices to meet business process requirements, as well as requirements for GAAP, IFRS, SEC, SOX, and other statutory and regulatory reporting utilizing SAP reporting and consolidations tools (BI and BOPC), and harnessing SAP HANA for optimized near real time data for Trend Analysis, Budgets, Planning and Forecasting
• Delivering Technology Advisory and Implementation solutions that extract and maximize business value from IT investments, encompassing architecture, engineering, and operations services for the IT strategy, innovation, operations, and infrastructure required to deliver efficient and effective platforms fundamental to business success
• Active participation in pre-sales pursuits, providing significant inputs to RFP’s and orals presentations
• Leading, managing and supervising FICO teams (on-shore and off-shore in excess of 60) across multiple clients (in parallel) in the delivery of the in-scope FICO modules in various SAP ECC project implementations utilizing developed methodology based on leading industries’ best practices
• Assisting in managing multi-million dollar projects, or subsections of multi-year large/complex projects including Project Management Office (PMO) design/operations and governance
• Leading the efforts for requirements gathering, blueprinting, realization, training, testing plans (reviewing of test results and ensuring resolution of defects), contingency and cutover plans, and post-implementation support
• Evaluation of resource needs, and creation of team and project work estimates, staffing requirements (internal and external resources)
• Monitoring, coordinating and managing of data migration and conversion utilizing recommended tools, etc. as part of the implementation strategy
• Providing continuous quality assurance review of designed solutions in various projects to ensure consistency in the delivery of valuable services to our clients
• Mentoring, coaching, and evaluating team members by providing constructive suggestions for competency, skills, and development

Confidential

Senior Manager, SAP Finance and Performance Management

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in managing multi-million dollar projects or subsections of multi-year large/complex projects including Project Management Office (PMO) design/operations and governance
• Participated in pre-sales pursuits, provided significant inputs to RFP’s and orals presentations
• Led the development of conceptual and architectural solution blueprint for assigned projects to meet business requirements while ensuring compliance with established architectural principles, standards, and processes
• Developed moderate to complex program strategies and conducted comprehensive process evaluations using guidelines and state of the art electronic testing techniques that provided management with an independent appraisal of internal controls
• Managed and supervised SAP FICO teams (over 40; on-shore and off-shore ) in implementing SAP technology enabled solutions based on industry’s best practices for global entities with operations in over North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific (over 100 countries)
• Led the efforts for requirements gathering, blueprinting, project plans, testing plans, contingency and cutover plans, and post-implementation support
• Designed technology enabled solution utilizing standard SAP functional solutions as an alternative to SAP industry solutions for Insurance companies’ Collections and Disbursements
• Conducted all requirements gathering workshops, documented requirements; identified analyzed and categorized gaps. Countries involved included: Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, and Singapore
• Provided quality assurance to ensure configured SAP systems met business process requirement and, provided evidence of compliance with Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Conducted weekly project status meeting to determine overall assessment of the FICO deliverables timelines, progress, issues, risks, and provides consolidated reports to each governing PMO on a timely basis
• Mentored and coached team members while providing guidance on skills developments and professional growth
• Managed teams in excess of 30 (on-shore and off-shore)

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Manager, SAP Finance Transformation

Responsibilities:

• Senior Manager responsible for finance transformations and integration functionalities in various SAP project implementations, and the design of systems to meet business process requirements, as well as requirements for GAAP, IFRS, SEC, SOX, and other statutory and regulatory reporting. Industries included: retail, education, and consumer packaged goods
• Led the efforts for requirements gathering, blueprinting, project plans, testing plans, contingency and cutover plans, and post-implementation support
• Conducted integration workshops with various project streams to define integration points and process commonalities within the SAP ECC 6.0 system
• Supported and guided the Finance and Controlling team to ensure that the system configuration settings fully met defined business processes to ensure that transactions complied with GAAP, IFRS, SEC, SOX, and other statutory and regulatory authorities
• Developed project and task plan for the respective modules utilizing industry solutions prints and best practices BPML
• Mentored and coached team members while providing guidance on skills developments and professional growth
• Scheduled and led the weekly integration meetings with the various process and team leads to discuss and resolve integration issues
• Provided guidance to the MDM team on data conversion and migration strategy
• Assisted the teams in completing all the required deliverables and documentations
• Participated in pre-sales pursuits, provided significant inputs to RFP’s and orals presentations

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Manager, Consulting - SAP

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led various SAP FICO teams in delivering SAP implementation projects based on the respective industries’ best practices for the FI and CO modules within scope. Industries included aerospace and defense, food and beverage, and retail
• Implemented the FLC deliverables for the Financials (FI) and Controlling CO Modules within scope; (GL, AR, AP, AA, CP, CCA, PCA, PC, COPA and PS) in the implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 based on industries’ best practices utilizing Confidential ’s methodology (EVD 2.1) and industry prints for the food and beverage and the aerospace and defense industries
• Developed SOX plans and assisted in remediation efforts, designed and executed testing strategies and prepared supporting documentation
• Provided expertise configuration to ensure configured SAP systems provided evidence of compliance with Section 302 and Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Developed project and task plan for the respective modules utilizing industry solutions prints and best practices BPML
• Assigned project tasks and deliverables to team members based upon areas of expertise and interest, assisted with issues resolutions and provided mentoring and coaching
• Led and coordinated all the in-scope FI and CO blueprint workshop sessions, and provided inputs in session discussions in obtaining and gathering requirements from the client, including blueprint documentations, gaps, etc
• Reviewed blueprint documents to ensure that requirements gathered from blueprint workshop sessions have been captured, including gaps and recommendations for addressing identified gaps
• Responsible for all associated deliverables and staff management within the FICO areas as well as knowledge transfer to the client
• Led and coordinated weekly status report to monitor project activities and tasks to ensure consistency in delivery methodology and on track with project timelines
• Provided weekly status report to PMO
• Provided leadership for the development of functional and technical specification, development, testing, and implementation of Financials
• Maintained ongoing relationship with key business contacts

Confidential, Atlanta, GA.

Senior Architect/Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led the FI and CO teams for all in-scope Financial and CO Modules’ implementation based on SAP’s chemical industry’s best practices, all associated deliverables and staff management within the FICO areas as well as knowledge transfer to the client
• Provided leadership for the development of functional and technical specification, development, testing, and implementation of Financials
• Utilized the ASAP methodology to define project outline, schedule, deliverables, and milestones
• Led the FI and CO team in obtaining requirements for the respective business units for the design and implementation of SAP R/3 ECC 6.0
• Responsible for preparing and scheduling workshop sessions with the business units utilizing SAP templates for gathering business process requirements (BPR)
• Documented business process requirements, performed analysis of business requirements and identified gaps with SAP standard solutions and submitted same to the business sponsors for approvals
• Responsible for conducting weekly status report meetings
• Provided weekly project status progress report to the PMO and Steering committee
• Taught FICO classes to newly hired Business Analysts in the Atlanta office

Confidential, El Segundo, CA.

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and delivered SAP FI/CO (financial modules) implementations and upgrades for major Fortune 500 clients nationally and globally based on SAP’s industries’ best practices, and ensured system design met requirements for GAAP, SEC, IFRS, and statutory reporting. Industries included financial institutions, manufacturing, aerospace and defense, public sector (NASA, US Army and IRS - Funds-Grants, Appropriations, Commitments), pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, services, consumer and industrial products, and chemical
• Developed project plans for various SAP FI/CO implementations utilizing SAP’s ASAP methodology
• Directed, coordinated, and participated in the configuration of SAP (FI and CO modules) to support various business processes and organizational structures within SAP modules
• Provided expertise configuration to ensure configured SAP systems provided evidence of compliance with Section 302 and Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Managed internal project team members and external consultants to deliver agreed-upon goals
• Reviewed SAP FI/CO configuration settings to ensure that functionalities met defined business processes based on comprehensive knowledge and understanding of SAP FI/CO modules
• Provided recommendations for solutions, preparation of detailed functional specifications for development objects including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms projects plans, and address specific issues that may arise during an SAP implementation
• Assisted in project scope definition, estimation of required resources, and gap analysis (identifications and resolutions)
• Responsible for leading assigned teams in identifying and designing system requirements, system development, system testing, training and support
• Mapped business requirements to functionalities available in SAP FI/CO including integration with other SAP modules
• Developed and designed various financial reports for use by senior management in assessing company performance and profitability
• Provided guidance to various clients regarding proper accounting treatment of various types of transactions and processes, in compliance with GAAP, SEC, IFRS and statutory reporting requirements
• Assisted corporate and local accounting management in complying with established accounting policies and adherence to internal control policies by designing and customizing the SAP financial modules accordingly
• Prepared and participated in the development of project plans for various SAP FI/CO and other in-scope modules’ implementations utilizing SAP’s ASAP methodology
• Continuous liaison with clients to document requirements, develop detailed screen layouts, define complex metrics and data transformations, and implementation of business logic by configuring the application and specifying needed customizations
• Conducted feasibility studies and business cases, and helped to coordinate system and application installation, testing, maintenance, and related operations
• Worked with customers to generally promote the efficiency and productivity of the SAP system and environments

Confidential, Durham, NC.

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized the organizational structure, FI-GL, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and Fixed Assets, based on business processes, requirements and integration with other modules’ functionality
• Developed scripts for integration and stress test and coordinated the configuration of both the FI and CO modules
• Developed various financial and performance measurement reports for internal use by management
• Developed training programs for the client’s front end users and trained the client’s personnel in the areas of FI sub modules; i.e., general ledger, chart of accounts, accounts receivables, accounts payables, and fixed assets

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided accounting, auditing and business systems analyses services to various clients, and led the FI and CO team on SAP full life cycle implementations for a major oil and gas company
• Led the FICO team and participated in the SAP R/3 implementation project for a subsidiary of a major global oil company and was primarily responsible for configuring and customizing the general ledger chart of accounts, accounts receivables, accounts payables, fixed assets and banking
• Configured and customized the general ledger master records, house bank master data, automatic payment programs, and periodic closings
• Performed validation tests and assisted the client with transition upon going live
• Assisted in creating cost centers and configured customer specific internal structures, and the establishment of integration between FI and CO modules in conjunction with the CO consultant
• Configured and customized master data in cost elements and cost center accounting; planning in cost center accounting; transaction based postings; master data and structures in internal orders, transactions, commitments, planning and budgeting; order summarization; period closings and overhead cost controlling
• Developed various financial and variance analysis reports

Confidential, Atlanta, GA.

Corporate Controller

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall general accounting functions, including billings, accounts receivables, collections, accounts payables, payroll, fixed assets, general ledger, consolidations, foreign exchanges and currencies, financial reporting, management reports, variance analyses, financial systems maintenance and internal controls
• Developed accounting policies and procedures in accordance with GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
• Developed and established appropriate accounting controls to ensure accounting and administrative policies were implemented
• Assisted with the corporate strategic planning for the Company, coordinated and approved the budget to support the planning process that met the Company’s mission and goals while making full use of the Company’s assets in achieving budgeted earnings and sales
• Prepared corporate periodic financial statements from the various systems applications and utilized Hyperion application for the preparation of the corporate consolidated financial statements
• Directed, managed, and supervised the entire finance staff
• Responsible for developing accounting policies and procedures in accordance with GAAP and SEC reporting requirements and, developed and established appropriate accounting controls to ensure accounting and administrative policies were implemented and complied with
• Ensured that all relevant financial information is routinely monitored for accuracy, including bank balances, receipts and disbursements, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and month-to-date invoicing
• Participated in company’s strategic and operational planning sessions.
• Responsible for tax planning and any special projects as assigned
• Assisted with all functions of risk management, including, but not limited to workers compensation, general liability, 1099 reporting
• Worked independently and has the confidence to make and implement decisions.
• Reviewed weekly payroll
• Assisted the CEO to establish Company goals and ensured those goals are achieved by properly directing subordinate employees
• Directed the preparation of all financial reports including income statements, balance sheets, tax returns, and SEC reports
• Responsible for the successful migration of the company’s Millennium 2.0 general ledger system Millennium 3.0 general ledger system in a client server environment
• Developed and managed a reliable cash flow projection process and reporting mechanism, which included minimum cash threshold to meet operating needs
• Managed and supervised all accounting functions and responsibilities, including the supervision of the Accounting Manager, A/R and A/P supervisors
• Responsible for the installation and implementation of Business Works accounts receivables sub ledger package, and utilized the Hyperion system for financial reporting and consolidations
• Developed various corporate and departmental financial reports for use by senior executives and departmental managers
• Prepared corporate annual budgets and developed financial forecasting tools
• Managed and coordinated the implementation of financial accounting and reporting systems.
• Assigned responsibilities to accounting staff based upon experience
• Discussed financial and operational results with company’s President, CEO, COO and other departmental heads

Confidential, New York, NY.

Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed companywide real estate and investment accounting policies and procedures, as part of Confidential ’s significant accounting policies for inclusion in the annual report
• Provided on-going technical accounting assistance to real estate property and asset managers to ensure accurate and proper accounting recording of transactions and reporting in compliance with statutory and GAAP requirements
• Assisted the external auditors in executing certain specific audit procedures and documented my findings
• Developed and successfully implemented a uniform cash distribution system from all company wholly owned properties to the company’s main depository account at Confidential

Confidential, Miami, FL.

Audit/Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned, supervised and coordinated various audit engagements; reviewed audit examination working papers of financial statements of various publicly traded and privately held entities in different industries and assisted in the filings of the 10-K's and 10-Q’s (which included full financial disclosures)
• Prepared various types of financial statements for inclusion in SEC filings, the periodic 10-K's and 10-Q's and the required financial disclosures in full compliance with GAAP
• Assisted in the development of best practices (i.e., white papers, presentations and methodologies)
• Managed and mentored staff and senior auditors on various types of financial, operational and risk audits with small, mid-tier and not-for-profit clients within all industries
• Performed accurate analysis and effective diagnosis of client issues and managed day-to-day client relationships
• Reviewed audit working papers and evaluated the performance of assigned staff

Confidential, Miami, FL.

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed audit examinations of financial statements of various publicly traded and privately held entities in different industries and assisted in the filings of the 10-K's and 10-Q’s (which included full financial disclosures)
• Reviewed audit working papers and evaluated the performance of assigned staff
• Supervised the work of other solutions professionals and effectively delegated responsibilities to staff to enhance their professional growth and developed mentoring relationships with multiple staff personnel
• Prepared audit working papers for review by seniors, managers, and partners
• Prepared work papers, and summarized evidential data obtained and conclusions reached
• Participated in client engagements, conducted business process analysis, including operations, costs, process improvement analysis in connection with design and implementation of system software

Confidential, Miami, FL.

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed audit examinations of financial statements of various publicly traded and privately held entities in different industries and assisted in the filings of the 10-K's and 10-Q’s (which included full financial disclosures)
• Prepared audit working papers for review by seniors, managers, and partners
• Prepared work papers, and summarized evidential data obtained and conclusions reached
• Participated in client engagements, conducted business process analysis, including operations, costs, process improvement analysis in connection with design and implementation of system software

Confidential, Miami, FL.

Inventory Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Inventory control of finished goods including monitoring of inventory levels in all the bonded warehouses and developed inventory shipment metrics based on regional sales
• Prepared monthly inventory reports and profit and loss reports for the outlet stores
• Reconciled and maintained inventory records
• Supervised semi-annual and annual physical inventory