SUMMARY:

• A highly dedicated IT and Finance Leader with experience implementing SAP and business process improvement initiatives for both domestic and international business.
• Proven track record of effectively leading cross - functional projects in both IT and Finance to produce quality results, with a focus on reducing costs while increasing efficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Configuration Knowledge: FI, CO-PA & Material Ledger

Programming Languages: Visual Basic, VBScript, .NET, Oracle, SQL & HTML

Microsoft Enterprise Systems: SharePoint, Project, Visio & Office

SAP Functional Knowledge: Product Costing, Material Ledger, FI, CO-PA, SAP BI & Solution Manager

Reconciliation Applications: Blackline, T-Recs Enterprise & Tracker Unclaimed Property Compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Systems Lead

Responsibilities:

• Financial business systems subject matter expert responsible for successfully working to define, analyze and align the technical and configuration solutions on projects integrating new businesses into SAP
• Designed, documented and managed application enhancement requests by acting as a liaison between technical personnel and end-users in support of new business processes and procedures
• Conducted business process analysis and assessed preliminary cost-benefit analysis in an effort to align IT solutions with business initiatives
• Developed detailed implementation and system project plans by collaborating with team members to ensure system integrity during upgrades
• Prepared, coordinated and supported the execution of user acceptance test plans and scripts to ensure projects and enhancements are properly tested and business approved ahead of implementation into SAP

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Information systems team lead responsible for successfully planning and budgeting the $2MM finance project to extend SAP Material Ledger to the Kraft North American distribution locations
• Delivered transactional efficiency and improved inventory transparency for the business units by leading the SAP finished good materials Profit Center Realignment project during the Kraft Heinz Company merger
• Reduced the complexity of cost flows and track actual material costs more accurately throughout the entire supply chain by assessing business impacts and delivering customization/configuration changes in SAP
• Corrected a limitation of SAP impacting the visibility of actual costs at headquarters reporting by designing and implementing a custom Material Ledger/CO-PA enhancement
• Reduced the finance close process and improved efficiencies by a half day through streamlining the product cost month-end procedures
• Proactively identified and implemented business process improvements for product costing utilizing standard SAP functionality and leveraging industry best practices by collaborating with cross-functional leaders in the Business Process Excellence (BPE) organization
• Improved user understanding of new SAP functionality by leading the development and delivery of training in support of business process and system improvement initiatives related to product costing

IT Analyst Product Costing

Responsibilities:

• Determined that the ERP Systems were viable to support Kraft Foods after the Kraft Foods/Mondel z Company split by assisting the product costing Business Process Excellence team, managing SAP configuration changes and testing the month-end close of SAP Material Ledger
• Ensured a successful company split by conducting product costing knowledge transfer sessions for Mondel z information systems counterparts
• Provided systematic solutions to issues and performed cycle tests to successfully deliver the product costing information systems design during the Kraft/Cadbury integration
• Reduced monthly workload for headquarters accounting services and provided a more realistic detailed cost breakout by leading the project team to design, deliver, implement a standard yearly finished good NIC Rate
• Ensured system go-lives with zero defects by managing multiple minor Record-to-Report SAP releases
• Gathered, clarified, prioritized and delivered improvement projects at a high rate of success by building relationships with the product costing Business Process Excellence team

Financial Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Ensured Kraft Foods bank accounts and general ledger activity remained balanced by designing, implementing, testing and documenting new interfaces during the SAP ERP implementation project to support the link between the legacy bank reconciliation application and SAP
• Guaranteed accurate results for management internal reporting to assess profitability performance and decision making by leading the SAP FI/CO-PA reconciliation project
• Provided ability to headquarters and plant locations the ability to post entries manually via a standard template by redesigning the SAP journal entry process
• Defined and documented the SAP IDOC correction process for headquarters accounting services team to correct failed interfaces quickly and without risk to the business
• Saved hours of manual work in clearing bank checks by defining and assisting information systems in the creation of SAP automatic clearing rules

Senior Financial Systems Associate

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently handled technical and financial questions on the cost center budgeting application by managing support on a daily basis and acting as a liaison between users and information systems
• Coordinated quality resolutions in a timely manner by leading bi-weekly meetings between financial systems and information systems to review open issues
• Gathered system information on cost center budgeting application and created new system documentation for information systems to use when future enhancements are required
• Enabled corporate accounting services to reconcile all major bank accounts by leading an initiative to add bank account code data from the general ledger and accounts payable systems into the bank reconciliation application

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a four-dimensional health foods marketing database incorporating multiple products, markets, facts and period data as well as defined specifications for report development
• Assisted in design and development of a database and file management .NET Intranet application for tracking sales performance and analyzing how promotions impact consumer behavior

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a .NET intranet application with a SQL server database designed to run reports based on five user selections for planning in-store promotions
• Managed the automated Nielsen database dictionary application by performing database, folder and dictionary updates necessary for generating daily product sales performance reports for Kraft division systems