SUMMARY:

• Extensive Functional, Business and Configuration experience in leadership roles in SAP FICO.
• Procure to Pay/AP, Bank/Cash Reconciliation, Tax, and Accounts Receivable.
• Global implementations in Confidential 6.0/ Implementations of International localization projects.
• Integration of FI with CO, SRM, HR, & Purchasing.
• Designing interfaces between Confidential and non Confidential systems. In Diverse industries.
• RICEF/GAPs.

STRENGTHS:

• Client /Stakeholder Management
• Techno - Functional
• Global Team Management
• Over fifteen Full End to End Life Cycles

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Product Manager/Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collected and documented the business requirements and blueprint. Identified the GAPs.
• Obtained the business signoffs.
• Configured the House banks, outgoing payments (PAIN file format) using payment medium workbench (PMW), electronic bank statements (BAI and MT940) and VAT.
• Configured Search strings and used exits to address certain unique cash related business scenarios.
• Integrated FI with VIM and SRM using work flows.
• Utilized Local subject matter expertise/Consultants for European localization.
• Communicated with Stakeholders thru key milestones to keep them informed and involved via prototyping workshops, etc.
• Tested-Multi-Level and Life Cycle testing including unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Prepared Cutover list, performed key pre go live activities etc.
• Supported clients post go live.
• Collected and documented the business requirements. Obtained the signoff from key business stakeholders and developed the specs for the interface and mapping between Confidential and SAP.
• Developed two distinct local solutions. Integrated Expense reimbursement via HR/Payroll for the US entity and via Procure to Pay, utilizing Employee vendors for the European entities.
• Identified and developed the test scripts library incorporating all of the pertinent business scenarios.
• Executed the scripts triggering from Confidential to post to SAP. Complied test results, made adjustments to interphase specs/design as needed. Executed user acceptance testing and supported post Go Live thru the first six weeks.

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• RICEF end to end development.
• Outbound One Time Vendor Master data extract/conversion, Outbound/Ongoing Delta Vendor Extracts, Inbound Bridge program to SAP for posting Invoices and Confidential &E and Outbound Payment Confirmation to Confidential for paid Invoices and Expenses.
• Quality Review of the FDs: to identify and address gaps, if any.
• Worked with an off shore development team thru unit test to validate the delivered RICEF.

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performing feasibility analysis re solutions involving Confidential PEXR 2012/EDI 820 etc.
• SME Level Production Support: for FI involving RFFOUS C, RFFOUS Confidential, RFFOUS EDI. Other issues worked on involved integration points of FI with CO, Purchasing, SD, and MM/PP. Involving sales order, POs, movement types, Assets, etc.

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Outgoing Payments.
• Wrote FDs for interface in the areas of tax, payments, workflows, in-house cash ( Confidential ) & banks.
• Worked on Enhancements of the Global Remittance Advices (RA) to capture withholding tax information from Confidential or Confidential . To capture retention specific information from Confidential . To generate Boleto specific information (used in Brazil). Enhanced the distribution method to email, fax or printing. Enhanced error handling methodology for the RA. Using Outlook and OMS servers.
• Developed enhancement to address legal requirements within and outside of EU for Vendor correspondence for Turkey and VAT specific correspondence for Italy namely Autofattura and Intregrazione Payments.
• Designed the Workflow to handle global returned payments from the partner banks. Worked with Confidential (In house cash) to identify the returned payments, utilizing Autobank-Hanz Orga (third party banking software integrated in Confidential ) to identify and post returned payments into Confidential . This posting triggered the workflow within Confidential to create work items, route them to appropriate roles per configuration, remind and escalate per configuration, auto or manual complete. And perform table updates per customizations designed within related PTP reports.

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created FDs for interfaces, reports and correspondences.
• Handled end to end implementation of the requirement.
• Designed in/out bound interfaces: with PA State Treasury for processing refunds. This involved designing multiple custom tables and utilizing extensions.
• Other interfaces designed were Outbound Tax Clearance information to an external state agency

Confidential

Independent Consultant/SME

Responsibilities:

• Collected, analyzed and documented the user requirements/specifications. Configured the below areas:
• FI: AR, AP, Bank/Cash Management, and Electronic Bank Statements.
• Identified exits to maximize automatic clearing of incoming and outgoing payment within EBS.
• Configured Electronic bank statement processing within Confidential using Confidential, XML.
• Developed Proof of concept and prototype sessions, conducted client workshops.
• Participated in Functional Spec development (FD) of the interface for the bank interfaces, by customizing the standard Confidential (PEXR 2002). Developed understanding of the data elements, tables, and structures. Translated the Confidential to a global file format (GFF), flat file per JPMorgan Chase requirements for global payments.
• RICEF-coordination for RTR: Business process re-engineering. Worked with the offshore development team for design walkthrough, development, issue resolution, testing, implementation and client hand-off of the RICEFs.
• Transport Management, Responsible for testing, integration, Go Live and Post Go Live stabilization activities.

Confidential

Manager: Development and Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements Collection, Interface design and development per the specs
• Testing, Implementation, and deployment of the interface.
• Stakeholders Management by communication of key milestones and regular status updates.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• AP: Account Groups, Payment Terms, Outgoing Payment, Remittance Advice, 1099 and 1042.
• AR: customer master data, incoming payments, customer correspondence, dunning, lock boxes, receivable management, collections, etc.
• Cash/Bank Rec.: House Banks, Electronic bank Statements, using search strings and activating exits to customize per client requirement and enhance the automatic posting ratio.
• EBS file formats: SWIFT: MT940, MT100, BACS, BAI etc.
• Lockbox BAI2 format.
• Tax: Input/output/Sales/ Use/VAT taxes. 1099 and 1042.
• Shared Service environment involving cross company payments between the legal entities.
• CATTs and LSMW to extend customers, transfer open items and facilitate data conversion.
• Transport management, across the landscape involving log analysis and object analysis within the transport.
• Multi-currency, multi-country, multi- language, and VAT/input/output taxes.
• Collected Business Requirements to write FD for the below. Worked on its delivery end to end/full life cycle.
• Interface between External Advertising Sales System (IBMS) & SAP: Europe, Asia and Latin American. IBMS was used by the client to schedule & broadcast its programming and advertising. Designed and developed a two way interface which was to be used by the Ad-Sales system to send master and transactional data to SAP and receive credit information from SAP.
• Implemented the generation of all client correspondence (invoices, statements, dunning letters) in SAP using the information received via the interface. Configured SAP to perform all subsequent accounting operations (payment posting, account analysis, ageing, dunning, reporting etc.)
• Inter-net based Confidential &E system for the US.
• Positive pay notification to bank for payee name verification,
• Enhancement to the Lockbox file for enhanced security and error handling.
• Outbound customer/vendor correspondence file for outsourcing printing and mailing of customer & vendor correspondence