SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished and creative SAP FICO (Financials) Senior Consultant with more than 12 years of SAP experience with very strong experience in full - life cycle project implementations including, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and support. Acknowledged as a self-motivator who has successfully managed projects on national and global platforms.
• Worked on all the major components of FI and CO, including classic G/L, New GL, Record to Report (RTR), Vendor Invoice Management with Open Text (VIM), Mass volume transactions, APP, A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, ERS, Blanket purchase orders, Tax on Sales and Purchases (VERTEX), Banking, EBS, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Cost Center
• Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting including partner profit center accounting, procure to pay (PTP), and order to cash (OTC). Strong understanding of business processes that integrate SAP FICO with FICA, RMCA, CI, MM, SD, TR, PP, PS, RE and WM.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Durham, NC

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handled Incident Management, Request Fulfillment, Technical Escalations, and Interfaces.
• Trouble shooting and problem resolution,Changes to Business Process, System Change Support, Functional Consultation Service. Using LSMW to move sales deals, customer and vendor master data into SAP.
• Worked on PTP, OTC, Intercompany billing, Foreign Currency valuations and translations, Asset accounting, Implemented park and post in general ledger, payment terms, and Limit certain users to post to payroll accounts
• Implemented Intercompany accounting
• Implemented JP Morgan Banking
• Implemented VERTEX Tax system
• Participated in PwC IT Audit for SAP systems.
• During the process applied subject matter knowledge to solve common and complex business issues within established guidelines and recommending appropriate alternate solutions.
• Diagnose and resolve application and process issues as they arise.
• Develop functionalspecifications for ABAP developers. Train the users with new business process change.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

AMS Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handled Incident Management, Request Fulfillment, Technical Escalations, and Interfaces.
• Trouble shooting and problem resolution,Changes to Business Process, System Change Support, Functional Consultation Service.
• Change Control Management Process, Application Enhancements (Continuous Improvement), On-Line Problem ticket input and tracking.
• Reworked of existing applications and processes and/or designing of new applications and processes for optimized Operations.
• Delivered excellent service and support to external customers and partners.
• Worked on PTP and OTC.
• Configured Sales and Purchase Tax for MEI Group, and Triple-S
• Configured Vendor withholding tax for form 480.6A and 480.6B for Triple-S
• Maintained Currency translation Exchange Rate Types, Currency exchange rates, Created cost centers, profit centers, Created new company code, and Tested Concur Interfaces.
• Handled mass volume of records, Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), Record to Report (RTR) for end clients
• Validated metadata for released invoices, exception handling for duplicate invoices before posting
• Workflow authorizations for park and post documents. Worked with developers and open text consultants for /OPT/VIM IIC, /OPT/VIM DIAG, /OPT/VIM 7Ax8 and /OPT/VIM ANALYTICS to post Non-P.O based invoices in the system
• Setup a new lockbox, release and move the transports, monitored IDOCS, and batch jobs.
• Complete Change Documentation, Created functional specifications,

Confidential, Redmond, WA

ASM FIMM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on FICO, RMCA, Treasury and Convergent Invoices. Credit services, Dunning, Customers, BP, IHC, EBS, IDOCS, Lockbox, RTR, AP, AR, APP, VIM, Vendors, Assets, Inbound and Outbound Wire transfers. EDI Errors, Created new company, bank accounts, GL Maintenance, UDM Work lists, Settlements and Payment program, Mass Volume of Data, Dunning program, Dunning program configuration, LSMW approach for OASV entries for Asset transfers, Asset Depreciation, Asset Retirement, Lockbox program, Setup new lockboxes, Batch Jobs, RFC Programs, FM,
• Handled Incident Management, Request Fulfillment, Technical Escalations, Interfaces, Security roles.
• Reworked of existing applicationsand processes and/or designing of new applications and processes for optimized Operations.
• Business Requirements Planning: Contributes to requirements reviews for solutions which results in alignment between multiple programs or services and the business strategy and ensures plan or strategy buy-in.
• Worked with open text consultant to work on OCR to post invoices.
• Delivered excellent service and support to internal customers and partners. Responsible for monitoring progress against service level agreements.
• Worked on US Tax codes.
• Ensured each reported problems are resolved in a timely manner, tracked according to standards, and escalated problems are resolved as appropriate.
• Solved high complexity issues, and communicating problem resolution and additional information to management, executive leadership, customer groups, project teams and other IT groups.
• Facilitated post mortem discussions, investigating root cause analysis and driving the resolution.
• Developed strong collaborative relationships with local and regional Business Unit IT teams to deliver reporting solutions to the business.
• Developed strong collaborative relationships with local and regional SAP ABAP development, test, analyst and engineering teams to evaluate, implement and support new functionality on a quarterly basis.

Confidential

Lead Consultant/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared RFP and SAP Demo for potential client in SAP FICO
• Assisted marketing department in developing sample design documents of Business warehouse (Sales technical architecture)
• Involved in pilot project for SAP TPM with financials for potential client
• Designed best practices implementation with SAP for potential client
• For a large pharmaceutical distribution company, responsible for assisting post go live support in Procure to pay process (PTP).
• Integrated SAP FICO with MM
• Defined special bonus depreciation keys, depreciation areas, assigned input tax indicator, for special assets acquired from 10th June 2010 thru 8th September 2010 with depreciation of 50%
• Defined special depreciation keys, depreciation areas, assigned input tax indicator, for special assets acquired from 9th September 2010 thru 31st May 2011 with depreciation of 100%
• Defined new multilevel methods for special depreciation
• Created new depreciation calculation methods, base methods, valuation methods and maintained period control methods for depreciation.
• Configured for Blanket purchase orders with ERS settings and EBS configuration
• Worked on vendor invoice management (VIM) and invoice capture center with open text (OCR)
• Validate scanned invoices thru open text, worked with open text consultant.
• Trouble shoot VIM Integrated Invoice Cockpit, validate DP for duplicate invoices, exception handling.
• Created corporate earnings and profits customized reports, RTR
• Open and closing posting periods for assets, and materials.
• Created payment run, and payment proposal for Automatic payment program
• Analyzed positive pay file, encashment file, IDOCs, and EDI files for errors.
• Modified chart of accounts for blocked against revenue postings
• Fixed moving average price for the materials with wrong PO price
• Generated, modified checks and reversal accrual documents,
• Developed a few ad-hoc inventory reports and changed a few report layouts.
• Configured payment terms, new fields to offset GL accounts, and payment proposal variant

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

SAP Finance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the configuration and implementation of the SAP CO-PC module in a repetitive manufacturing environment. Configuration responsibilities included product costing, cost center accounting and profit center accounting for a new manufacturing plant in Victorville, CA
• Integrated SAP FICO with MM, PP and PLM
• Mapped standard cost to the new plant materials.Data conversion of mass volume of data
• Conducted blue print workshops and documented AS-IS and TO-BE process in FICO
• Created special procurement keys, costing templates, costing variant, activity rates, plan and actual production templates, overhead groups, overhead keys for cat litter and laundry.
• Configured SAP ECC 6.0 Product Costing: WIP calculation, variance calculation, and settlement for period-end closing.
• Created cost estimate, mark and release cost estimate, cost centers, profit centers
• Mapped cost centers to cost elements, overhead group and overhead keys.
• Applied filters to exclude materials for migration, and cleansed the master data
• Provided subject matter expertise in the area of product costing (CO-PC)
• Provided guidance to the business users on data set-up needed for Victorville as it relates to costing of product (i.e. materials, info-records, BOM’s, recipes, etc.)
• Developed deliverables as required to support the project rollout (process design documents, configuration documents, etc.)
• Utilized standard and moving average costing
• Developed documentation, provided and worked extensively with accounting staff and plant controller on costing runs, overhead costing sheets, bills of materials and routings
• Configured and trained users regarding the functionality of utilizing cost object hierarchies
• Provided configuration documentation and on end of month processing including distribution, overhead, work in process, variances and settlement
• Provided Record to Report (RTR) in Controlling module
• Provided ad hoc assistance as needed to support the SAP MM MRP views, and deliverables
• Responsible for the design, implementation, and integration of FICO with MM modules
• Facilitated meetings with the client regarding product costing: process design confirmations, integration test confirmations, and sessions to clarify questions or gather data required for configuration and testing
• Most of the configuration was completed on time and accurately and also been quick to offer assistance in other areas, demonstrating a willingness to work outside his area of proficiency to make the project a success.
• Worked diligently to help drive the project and cutover plan, and has been quick to volunteer services to project manager with any other activities required.
• Helped drive cutover when the project manager had to be off-site due to a family emergency

Confidential, San Diego, CA

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• For the SAP deployment at a $4B international medical company, responsible for assisting with SAP FI transaction codes material creation using uPerform.
• Provided ad hoc assistance as needed to support the change management and deliverables.
• Completed the outstanding SAP FI job aides for AP, AR, Intercompany as well as the outstanding 28 t-codes.
• Created a master data job aid that consisted of quick Excel pivot table to assist users with changes to cost centers, profit centers and company codes.
• Assisted with the printed materials strategy by developing a detailed schedule spreadsheet, assisting with publication and distribution via binders into the room
• Acted as Change management lead during her absence and stepped up to plate to ensure the schedule and printed materials were distributed in the room for users and room was available to the trainer and all the computers were working

Confidential

SAP Finance Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• For an international leading Gas and Electricity Supplier, responsible for migrating the Commercial and Industrial customers from their legacy systems to SAP.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, gap analysis, and project scoping and budget definition.
• Involved in the payments, security deposit, dunning, write offs, credit general, customer refunds and unclaimed monies, and general ledger.
• Presented the overall status of projects and dependencies at the weekly program management meeting.
• Identified and understood the dependencies and critical path and managed and tracked the dependencies and critical path, by making them visible and measurable.
• Most of the configuration was completed on time and accurately and also been quick to offer assistance in other areas, demonstrated a willingness to work outside his area of proficiency to make the project a success

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Integrated SAP FICO with MM, SD, PP, and WM
• For a global leader in the beverage industry, involved in the cutover activities to support procure to pay (PTP), order to cash (OTC), record to report (RTR), vendor invoice management (VIM), product costing, Profitability Analysis, shipment costing, production execution, physical stock, warehouse management, inventory management, and quality management.
• Configured Down Payment Received and Down Payment Made for Vendor and Customers this includes accounting configuration and Special GL accounts with reconciliation accounts
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, keys, and created asset classes
• Worked on complex asset master, assign asset classes to account determination, and assign chart of depreciation to asset classes.
• Define depreciation areas to post GL accounts, specify FSV for asset reporting, specify document types for posting depreciation and maintain period control.
• Configured for Blanket purchase orders with ERS settings
• Configuration responsibilities included product costing, cost center accounting and profit center accounting
• Utilized standard and moving average costing
• Developed documentation, provided and worked extensively with accounting staff and plant controller on costing runs, overhead costing sheets, bills of materials and routings
• Configured and trained users regarding the functionality of utilizing cost object hierarchies
• Provided configuration documentation and on end of month processing including distribution, overhead, work in process, variances and settlement
• Responsible for end users and troubleshooting issues for profitability analysis, procure to pay, order to cash, invoice verification, production execution, manage inbound documents, record goods receipt and approve payment, process payments, collect cash and manage bad debts, manage return to vendor, consignment / pipeline stock settlement, physical stock, general ledger, management reporting and cost accounting, and asset master.
• Created customized profitability analysis reports (Area, region, customer, product, sales offices, revenue, and profit and loss).

Confidential

SAP Finance Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• For a large mining company, involved with an upgrade from existing GSAP and was responsible for mapping business processes to a 1SAP global template within finance.
• Integrated SAP FICO with MM, SD, PS, PM, HR and Real Estate.
• Activate Real Estate Management in Controlling area, Asset classes for Real Estate indicator, Business Partner data, Basic settings for Real Estate Management.
• Created master data for Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX), Contract accounts and Dunning procedures.
• Configured GST and Tax Codes
• Handled mass volume of data and vendor invoice management (VIM)
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, keys, and created asset classes.
• Configured for Blanket purchase orders with ERS settings and EBS payments
• Worked on complex asset master, assign asset classes to account determination, and assign chart of depreciation to asset classes.
• Defined depreciation areas to post GL accounts, specify FSV for asset reporting, specify document types for posting depreciation and maintain period control.
• Specify maximum amount for low value assets, edit screen layout rules
• Configured Down Payment Received and Down Payment Made for Vendor and Customers this includes accounting configuration and Special GL accounts with reconciliation accounts
• Analyzed and designed new business processes for GL accounts, bank master, fixed asset management, accounts receivables, accounts payables, cost center, profit center, partner profit center accounting, profitability analysis, projects, and WBS elements.
• Participated in full project life cycle implementation including business process blueprint, configuration, conversion, testing, and support.
• Performed data verification, validation, reconciliation and data cleansing.
• Merged 297 asset classes into 185 asset classes.
• Created more than 80 characteristics and 10 key value groups for Profitability Analysis.

Confidential

SAP Finance Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• For an international leading Gas and Electricity Supplier, involved with moving all domestic and business customers from their legacy system to SAP; which was a new implementation of IS-U FICA.
• Configured SAP FICO Bank Master, SAP FICA Installment Plan, SAP FICA Security Deposit Requests and Payments, SAP FICA Dunning, SAP FICA Bill Smoothing, SAP FICA Cash Deposit Interest, SAP FICA Payment, SAP FICA Documents, SAP FICA Donations, and SAP FICA CAC.
• Prepared BPD (Business Process Definition), and CDD (Configuration Design Documents) in the Finance and Billing.

Confidential

SAP Finance consultant

Responsibilities:

• For one of the largest Meat processing companies, provided strategic advice to identify and communicate business improvements and opportunities via the smart and cost effective use of technology.
• Helped the client in setting up SAP Finance for Meat processing and Abattoir industries.Participated in full project life cycle implementations from blue print through integration testing to go-live and post go-live support activities.
• Conducted blue print workshops and documented AS-IS and TO-BE process in Finance
• Created CoA, customized account groups, fiscal year variants, posting keys, document number ranges, document types, open and closing periods, G/L account master records.
• For one of the best universities in the Australia, participated in FinanceOne project, which involved integrating financeone accounting system with SAP R/3 of the university.
• Participated in the requirement analysis, implementation, testing and user of the project.

Confidential

Finance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the business case, assessment, design, and development of business objects, implementation, testing and user
• Integrated SAP FICO with MM, and SD
• Configured accounts payable / accounts receivables: created vendors, and customers master records, account groups, defined client specific payment terms, cash discounts, vendorinvoices, and manual incoming / outgoing payments. Designed and implemented automatic payment program
• For a large Finance organization, participated in installing new software and packages managed hardware, monitored the servers, administration of production and development databases, tuning and backup activities to support the smooth functioning of the databases.
• Involved in the design and development database applications, modifications to the database structure of the application and implementing the change and security policies.