SUMMARY:

To deliver skills, knowledge, and encouragement to colleagues or clients on SAP. Current level of experience - Over 15 years of accounting/ business operations experience which includes 9 years of SAP FI-CO, SD, MM design, configuration, and testing, and 9 months of ABAP coding. Consulting experience in SAP retail - 6 months (S4 implementation). Highest education level is MBA in Accounting and SAP FI-CO associate certification.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Akron, Ohio

SAP RTR/CAR CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Provide FI/CO support for S/4 Hana implementation for North American roll-out
• Provide additional support for PTP (OpenText), CAR (Customer Activity Repository), and TAX modules
• Coordinate pre user acceptance and user acceptance testing for all modules
• Assist with all UAT scenario and script preparation in JIRA/Zephyr
• Lead testing effort for CAR with 400+ scripts:
• Point of sale sales, returns, exchanges, payments on account, layaways, promotions
• Hybris (e-commerce) sales, returns, shipping and other interfaces
• Interfaces with legacy systems
• GL account mapping and interface to SAP S4
• Interface to ReconNet for 3rd party processor settlement and reconciliation
• Assist with testing in ReconNet
• Cutover and post go-live support, use of ServiceNow for production tickets

Confidential, Elyria, Ohio

FI PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Act as FI-CO module lead prioritizing SAP IT tickets for 2+ FI-CO analysts
• Areas - GL, AP, AR, Assets, CO, Cost, Treasury
• Gather business requirements, submit SAP IT tickets, and test all FI-CO related work
• Liaise with parent company Knorr-Bremse in Munich to adhere to global SAP template and assist with global projects
• Act as Regional Business Person Responsible (BPR) for Americas - June 2017 - Present
• Support 100+ finance & accounting end users at 8+ company locations
• Perform SOD checks and approve all SAP roles relating to accounting & finance
• Track and present open issue statistics to upper management on a frequent basis
• Train new hires on SAP basics and add-ons such as SE16XXL
• Implement key user program within 8 finance & accounting departments
• Implement projects
• BPI Workbench for electronic bank statement (EBS) automation
• Custom receiving system and touchscreen for remanufactured parts returns
• Electronic MXN wire payments via Banorte Bank interface
• Electronic USD wire payments via Deutsche Bank interface
• Electronic AP invoicing via OCR with Hyland Software and direct EDI 810
• SAP standard tax processing for Purchasing
• Concur travel authorization form workflow
• Greenbelt project to streamline assignment of credit analysts
• Mexico CFDI 3.3 e-payments and e-invoices via SAP Hana Cloud Integration (HCI) platform
• German GAAP to IFRS regional tasks relating to IAS 38 for R&D capitalization, IFRS15 for lease accounting, changes in provisions, etc.
• ADP e-Time version 8 upgrade
• Assist as team member in projects
• BPC 10.1 migration from BPC 7.5 to BPC 10.1
• ADP EV5 upgrade
• German GAAP to IFRS conversion - harmonization of chart of accounts, asset classes, CO objects, etc
• Migration from Classic GL to New GL as part of IFRS project
• Concur in Mexico
• SAP conversion for acquisition Hasse & Wrede
• SAP conversion for acquisition ProSteering
• AP e-invoicing on Opentext & VIM (Vendor Invoice Management)
• Mexico CFDI 3.3 e-invoicing 2018 changes
• Top Flow SE16XXL
• New R&D company in Monterrey, Mexico
• RPA with UiPath Studio
• SAP Identity Management (IdM)

Confidential, Beachwood, Ohio

SENIOR BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST- FI-CO

Responsibilities:

• Perform ABAP programming changes to print programs, SAPScript forms, custom reports
• Perform FI-CO configuration changes for house banks, payment methods, and bank determination
• Perform SD configuration for pricing conditions, account determination, partner functions
• Perform mass updates to master data
• Perform backup support for EDI functions
• Support transition of SAP GRC (Virsa) to ControlPanel GRC
• Assist in SAP BPC implementation preparation
• Support corporate office of 150 and global field offices of over 2,000
• Support SAP upgrade from ECC 6.0 to ECC 6.6
• Kaizen certified with implementation of ControlPanel Transport Manager for IT Applications department
• Report to IT Applications Management

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

FI-CO BUSINESS ANALYST - SAP IT

Responsibilities:

• Support 2 acquisitions on SAP R3 version 4.7 in the FI and CO areas
• Perform FI conversions for acquisition migration from PeopleSoft to SAP R3 version 4.7
• Coordinate onboarding, certification testing, and maintenance on Paymetric credit card processing SAP module
• Act as Level 2 support with questions, training, defect resolution, and enhancement development (Oct 2012 - June 2013)
• Act as configurator for FI and CO modules in the IT Applications Development department (July 2013 forward)
• Perform training, knowledge transfer, and support for Corporate Finance department in the areas of General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Internal Audit, Fixed Assets, and Inventory (100+ associates)
• Support periodic IT Sox audits
• Configure FI cloud and assist implementation of HCM
• Report to IT Applications Development Management
• Design and configure SAP system for FSCM Credit Management, Collections Management, and Dispute Management
• Design and configure ECC SAP system for Accounts Receivable - High volume BAI & EDI lockbox automation
• Hold workshops and testing sessions for end users for A/R, Credit, and Collections in SAP
• Test standard ECC functionality and assist developers with customizations
• Assist with SD testing in the areas of account determination, invoicing, and credit card processing
• Work with integration partner Accenture to complete deliverables
• Report to Project Genesis Team Lead - Finance
• Prepare and analyze monthly financial reporting for Accounts Receivable
• Coordinate customer EFT program
• Design automated system for automatic cash application in JD Edwards/ Oracle
• Plan extensively for reduction of exceptions and manual payment processing
• Process delinquent customer accounts
• Plan and coordinate projects between Accounts Receivable, IT, and EDI
• Report to Trade Credit Manager

Confidential, Valley View, OH

CLIENT ACCOUNT COORDINATOR

Responsibilities:

• Send Accounts Receivable reports to clients (banks) and perform collections/ handle disputes
• Perform invoicing using multiple, client-specific, methods
• Analyze dispute data to identify trends and propose solutions
• Report to Accounts Receivable Manager

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

ACCOUNTING ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• AR - Process all Accounts Receivable including customer payments and cash receipts, process customer returns to stock and scrapping; create credit memos
• Prepare bank reconciliations, perform daily cash management, and handle all commercial collections
• Involvement in month-end closing process including: external Accounts Receivable reconciliation, inter-company pricing adjustments (markup, cost accounting) and inter-company Accounts Receivable reconciliation for 27 companies, trade and non-trade balances, journal entries for sales by country, personal and property tax accruals, perform payroll expense accruals, 401k entries, headcount adjustments, and various other reconciliations and month-end duties
• Update Hyperion reports on a regular basis
• Transferred and applied accounting for 2 new acquisitions
• Release order holds due to extending credit terms, running credit cards, and releasing customers from credit holds
• Use of 4 accounting systems simultaneously - Syteline, QAD, Quickbooks, and Growthpower
• Backup for Accounts Payable including: daily receiving, assisting vendors with payment issues, processing checks, and entering ACH/ wires into bank website
• Enter new vendors into system for purchasing department
• Report to Site Accounting Manager