Results oriented accounting and finance professional with excellent communication, interpretive and analytical skills. Domain functional experience in Banking and financial accounting and strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training and support in SAP R/3 4.7 and 6.0. Expertise in SAP FI/CO with over 5 years experience in SAP FI/CO modules (GL, AR, AP), including two full life cycle implementation projects, rollouts, support and upgrade projects. Thorough understanding of Applications such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Controlling, Automatic Payments, Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Internal Orders. Integration experience of FI/CO with MM and SD. Performed unit testing, Integration testing, stress or volume testing and user acceptance testing (UAT) for SAP FI/CO.

Experience in configuring end-to-end processes of FI Modules: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, and Bank Accounting. 
Working Knowledge on Controlling: Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal Orders. 
Proficient in project evaluation, Business Blue Print documentation, configuring and in-depth understanding of business processes relating to SAP FI/CO and integration with other modules. Background also includes business analysis and payroll. Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Extensive use of accounting systems. Able to utilize strong multitasking abilities to consistently meet deadlines in fast-paced environments.

Confidential
SAP Consultant, Sept 2010 - Present

• Implemented Bank statement processing and Foreign Exchange 
  Configured Dunning Program and implemented enhancements to customer master and vendor master 
  Implemented Credit Management & Interest calculation 
  Configured the parameters for payment program and implemented clearing of open items
• Involved in Gap analysis and business process re-design, blueprinting, configuration, and testing of Accounts Payable. 
  Created master data related to General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable. 
  Dunning: Configured Basic Settings & Dunning Procedure 
  Implemented payment check processing and management. 
  Worked on month-end closing processes 
  Issued and maintained letters of credit. 
  Monitored daily cash position and verified prior day bank account activity
• Maintain Financial Master Data; included Company code maintenance, GL account maintenance, Cost Element maintenance - primary & secondary cost elements, and statistical key figures.
• Managing GL Accounting which involves recording Journal Entries and Prior Period Adjustments.
• Managing Treasury; included Cash Management - Business unit cash, check at branch, check to shared services, EFT, Credit Card payments, Accounts payable, and sweeps.
• Managing Accounting close which included cost management,
• AR period end close, AP period end close, and financial reporting.

Confidential
SAP Consultant, Mar 2010 – July 2010

• Configured FI-GL which included, coping COA and defined account groups, copying and transporting G/L accounts, G/L account Display, Posting Key, number ranges and document types.
• Configured G/L automatic account determination/assignment for sales/user tax, cross-company code posting, material management and sales and distribution.
• A/P & A/R configuration of the customer and vendor master data, number ranges, and vendor/customer groups and defined screen layout.
• Configured FI-A/P Payment program, House banks and accounts.
• A/R configuration, which included Credit Management, terms of payment, interest calculation and default account assignments for overpayment, underpayment and cash discounts.
• Participated in CO configuration, which included the Controlling Enterprise Structure, CEA (manual cost element creation, imputed costs and reconciliation ledger), and CCA (Standard Hierarchy for CEA & CCA, Dummy Profit Center creation and Master Records. Coordinated with other team members to resolve issues, process change requests, and implemented enhancements for SAP R/3 6.0 FICO and integration of MM and SD modules to FI.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

SAP Account Service Specialist, Mar 2008 – Nov 2009

Formulated and implemented cross training schedules to ensure full function coverage, and all management requirements are met  Involved in Gap analysis and business process re-design, blueprinting, configuration, testing, of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.  Created master data related to General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable.  Configured Cross-company code transactions  Implemented Terms of Payment, Interest Calculation, Automatic Account Determination for Dunning: Configured Basic Settings & Dunning Procedure  Performed user acceptance testing and conducted training for users  Implemented Cost Center /Profit Center Accounting - Defined standard hierarchy for cost center accounting Designed automatic account assignments, Assigned profit centers to cost center created primary & secondary cost elements.  Configured Company Codes, Chart of Accounts and Business Areas  Worked on Configuration and Validation rules for the Company Code UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing Configured the posting key, Tolerance groups, Number ranges and Document types  Extensive experience with creation of master data relating Accounts Payable including vendor masters.  Configured the House banks and check lots  Assigned tax codes, Configured fiscal year variants and tolerance groups and assigned tax codes  Configuration of Field status and also settings related to Document and Posting Control  Development and enhancement of Automatic payments program  Integration FI with Materials Management (MM) and Sales and Distribution (SD) modules  Configuration of Dunning program  Defining Terms of payment for different customers  Master data creation for cost elements, cost centers, Internal orders and profit centers  Developing BPP relating to clearing, dunning, automatic payments, check management etc  Teamed with Treasury Department to Configure TR-CM Cash Management. Cash Management configuration included account management, electronic bank statement, account groupings, Lockbox processing and manual check deposit.

Confidential, Columbus, GA (full)

SAP Consultant, March 2008 – Dec 2008 

Creation of GL, AP, AR, AA and Integration between different modules - GL, AP, AR, Bank Ledger, Internal Orders.  Configuration involved number ranges, document types, fiscal year variants, credit memos, field status group, and tolerance groups.  Accounts Receivable: Customer Master Data, Customer groups, Billing, Terms of Payments, Interest Calculation, Reason Codes, Default Account Assignments, AR and employee tolerances, Credit Management, receiving down payment, incoming payments, Period end operations.  Provided training to the key users and end users.
Detailed analysis of Legacy system, requirement gathering for business process, GAP analysis.  Involved in preparation of Business Process Master List to manage configuration, testing and the creation of end user documentation.  AP- Configured House Banks, Ranking Order and Alternate Bank selections for Automatic Payment Program runs.  Configured and tested Electronic Bank Statement processing and positive pay file generation, worked with Lockbox Configuration and Bank reconciliation.  Configured Accounts Payable - Creation of Vendor Master Data, Invoices, Outgoing Payments and Partial Payments.  Configured Automatic payment program including payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and GL account for bank accounts.  Maintenance of AR - Creation of Customer Master Data, Dunning procedure, Incoming payments. 

Confidential, Roseau, Dominica (full)
SAP Business Analyst, Jan 2006 – Feb 2008 

Attending meetings with the Senior Business Analyst and business owners to develop a better understanding of the business process, functionality and pain points. Documented business process by identifying functional and non-functional requirements. Prepared requirements documents. Translated business requirements into use cases and functional specifications which were passed on to architect. Identified and established scope and parameters of requirements analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria and measure-taking actions. Collaborated with project managers to determine project scope and vision. Worked directly with stakeholders and project team members to prioritize collected requirements. Experience with modeling and requirements management tools including Visio, Architect Enterprise Cash Management/ Treasury configuration included Lockbox Assisted with presentations methodology to Business Users.  Developed user-training material on all Application Components of F/ICO module and trained Business users. Responsible for holding meetings within the team or with the business users to gather users requirements.  Researched and implemented new documentation and testing methods and tools in order to maximize operations efficiency.  Configured all GL aspects including Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Retained Earnings, Field Status Groups, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Taxes on Purchases and Sales, Cross Company Accounting etc.,  Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Withholding Taxes, Check Settings 

Confidential, Roseau, Dominica
Accounting Manager, Aug 2003 – Dec 2005

Reviewed monthly bank account analysis statements and provided recommendations where appropriate.  Monitored daily cash position and verified prior day bank account activity.  Prepared monthly interest accruals for outstanding debt and investments and confirm activity on investment account statements.  Reviewed monthly bank account analysis statements and provided recommendations where appropriate.  Prepared monthly subsidiary cash and investment reported and verified that all investments are in compliance with investment policy.  Monitored debt covenants for credit agreement and prepared quarterly compliance certificate.  Issued and maintained letters of credit.  Monitored daily cash position and verified prior day bank account activity.  Implemented the lock box processing including file formats, configuration, lockbox processing  Implemented payment check processing and management.  Worked on month-end and year-end closing processes 

Education: 
Master of Accounting and Financial Management, (MAFM) 
Bachelor of Science in Technical Management, 
Associate of Applied Science in Accounting,