SAP System Consultant – FI/CO and Procurement

Last Employer:

Confidential - Evansville, Indiana July 2011 - November 2011
Worked as an Accounts Payable - SAP Project Consultant while Mead Johnson implemented a Procure to Pay Business Process utilizing SAP’s R/3 Enterprise Edition and the FI, CO, WF and MM Client/Server modules. The implementation, designated “Project Sunrise”, consisted of a 4 wave roll-out designed to integrate and connect Mead’s global Children’s Nutrition markets in North and South America, Europe, South Asia and China. I was hired to help stabilize the final two waves of the Procure to Pay portion of that implementation. I was asked to focus my efforts on the Invoice Processing and Accounting functions handled, in The Philippines, by IBM Business Management Services. To accomplish this, I worked directly with IBM’s Process Leads and Operations Personnel in Manila and the U.S. I initiated direct contact with IBM Process Leads, the corresponding Process Managers from Mead’s Global Markets and Headquarters and myself. As a result, weekly metric and issue based worldwide meetings were established. At these meetings a recurring forum was established to allow all process stakeholders an opportunity to explore, solve and report upon issues important to the success of the implementation and vital to future of Mead’s ongoing Procure to Pay process. In addition, I helped to write functional and technical process procedures that ensure ongoing maintenance, reporting and monitoring activities were carried out as expected. I helped with the testing and scripting of process enhancements. I and the rest of Project Sunrise’s Procure to Pay Team were instrumental in ensuring Mead Johnson’s Material Management (MM), Finance & Accounting (FI), Workflow (WF) and Controlling (CO) SAP system modules and Mead Johnson’s associated policies and procedure were operating as expected by systems operations personnel. Thanks, in no small part to our efforts, the implementation project completed 6 months earlier than expected (in November 2011).

Previous Employment:

Confidential, Germantown, Maryland 2008-2011
Manager (January, 2010 to February, 2011) – Served as Deputy to EES’ Procurement Director and was responsible for the day to day operations of a $250 million dollar Government Contractor’s Purchasing Department. This included the value based procurement of the goods and contractual services necessary to serve EES’ primary customer, the US Department of Energy (DOE). In addition, the position required the development and maintenance of forensic style reporting analytics, utilizing Deltek/CostPoint and Impromptu (SME) General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Procurement database extraction software, in order to keep Executive Management and Project Managers Procurement abreast of the funding, spending and committed dollar amounts for every project, every day. Performed varied Asset Management responsibilities including service parts planning, procurement and warehousing. Ensured product fulfillment and logistics were carried out. Performed necessary inventory accounting. Worked with EES’ Controller and the A/P, A/R and Payroll Managers to ensure procurement related balance sheet and financial issues were addressed and solved. Developed and constantly maintained departmental procedure, policy and the files necessary to pass the muster of annual DOE audits. Supervised five DOE based Buyers and one Procurement Specialist. Replaced and performed the duties and responsibilities of the Procurement Director during his absence. Accounts Payable Manager (2008 to 2009) - Managed Accounts Payable material, services and sub-contractor invoice processing and General Ledger account update for EES. Worked directly with EES’ Controller with to ensure compliance with all aspects of the Controller Group’s responsibilities.

Previous Employment:

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland 2006 - 2008
Procurement Card National Manager – Implemented and Managed the Administration, System Development and Cardholder Compliance requirements of a large Corporate Purchasing Travel and Entertainment Card Program. Developed from scratch, a program that annually spent $75 million dollars, accounted for 188,000 goods/services transactions in the Company’s General Ledger and monitored the credit card usage of 900 company employees. Worked directly with regional and corporate Accounting and Asset Management personnel to ensure purchasing card data r was incorporated into Aggregate’s budget expectations and reporting. Negotiated contract with card supplier, HSBC Bank, that resulted in: 1) a $600-$800K yearly rebates, 2) a $25Million line of credit, 3) Free Software Development. Oversaw the creation of an Expense reporting system that saved Aggregate almost $1 million dollars of the $3.5 million dollars it had dedicated to employee expenses.Coordinated various Purchasing and Accounting subsidiary system interfaces, including MasterCard’s Smart Data Online and The eXspend Expense Management System, integrating them with Aggregate’s JD Edwards E1 Business system. Helped to reduce AP Department personnel complement from 31 to 14 during my time as Procurement Card Manager.

Previous Employment:

Confidential – Washington, D.C. 1986-2006
Accounts Payable General Supervisor – Supervised a public utility A/P operation accountable, annually, for more than 70,000 payment requests for $4 billion dollars to more than 15,000 vendors. Created daily financial reports were used financial reporting that translated directly to the Pepco’s Balance Sheet. Supervised, on average, a staff of 12 Bargaining Unit (union) and 7 Exempt (professional) employees. Served on the development and implementation team for PHI’s SAP R/3 Enterprise release 4.7 system with specific FI, CO and MM Client/Server modules experience. I was the Project Manager during the research, development and implementation of Pepco’s Purchasing Card program. The program had over 750 cardholders and spent $25 million, annually and was one of the first Purchasing Card programs implemented in the Washington area; going into effect in the early 1990’s. Spent two years as the A/P Departmental auditor in 1987 and 1988. Responsible for writing much of PHI’s Corporate Accounts Payable Procedure Payable during that period. Supervised, utilizing SAP Business analytics and Crystal solutions, the specific Asset Management required to plan, procure, warehouse and control of PHI’s materials inventory of 68,000 government mandated Material and Supply items. Served a period as the Controller Group’s Sarbanes Oxley compliance officer. Responsible for the recordation and monitoring of A/P’s Payable’s performance with regards to Sarbanes Oxley compliance rules.
Retired in order to pursue better job opportunity in 2006.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science (BMGT)
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, CostPoint and most other office software.
• Implemented SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards and Deltek/Costpoint Business Systems.
• Trained with Deltek Impromptu – Level 1 & 2