SUMMARY:

• Talented business consultant with extensive background implementing ERP systems. Proven ability to direct technical and business teams, and coordinate consultants. Experience performing business development analysis, application design, and business integration. Expertise completing full life - cycle projects, from conceptualization and requirements determination to final testing and implementation. Participated in extensive reengineering efforts and translated management needs into productive SAP applications. Broad understanding of all financial accounting and controlling processes as well as procure to pay and invoice to cash processes. Outstanding presentation, leadership, and communication skills.
• SAP S/4HANA Finance, Finance and Controlling, New GL Accounting, A/R, A/P, EDI 820 Payment advice, Fixed Assets, CCA, PCA, Profitability Analysis, Product Cost Buildup and Variance reporting, broad understanding of Confidential and IFRS/IAS, US Sales, Use, GST, and VAT taxes, External Tax integration (Vertex)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Domain: Financial Management solutions, Customer Relationship Management solutions, Financial and Cost Management, Finance Supply Chain ManagementEDI 820 (XML/flat files) conversion to IDocs in SAP

Development tools: BAdI (user exit), SQL workbench, Visual Studio

Applications: Microsoft Office, Visio, MS Project, Test Director, IBM Ascendant, Documentum, eRoom

Hardware: HP 9000, SUN, IBM RS/6000, IBM Mainframes, PC s

Computer languages: Visual Basic, Progress, RPG 400, COBOL, C

RDBMS: MS SQL Server 7.0, ORACLE 8.0, 7.X

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP S4HANA/VERTEX/SME Process - Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide support with ASAP Methodology in all following lifecycles phases: Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run.
• Assisted in functional architecture design for S/4 HANA migration scope.
• Worked with team on completing the fit/gap analysis of move to S/4 HANA Finance.
• Worked with subject matter experts, Business Systems Analyst, Data Architects, System Integrators, and others across functional boundaries to provide data migration and master data management solutions
• Participated in design blueprint/ requirement gathering of business requirements for S/4 HANA
• Developed strategy for all the data migration (extract, cleaning, transformation, verification, and load) for SAP data objects
• Customizing New General Ledger (G/L in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA)
• Preparation and Migration of Customizing for the General Ledger
• Preparation and Migration of Customizing for Controlling (Account-Based CO-PA)
• Preparation and Migration of Customizing of House Bank Accounts
• Preparation and Migration of Customizing of Asset Accounting (Migrate Charts of Depreciation)
• Indirect Tax/Vertex
• Conduct business workshops to review Taxation in Indirect & Direct Procurement process for North America including interface with Vertex.
• Conduct business workshops to review Taxation in Indirect & Direct Procurement process for countries in Europe & Asia.
• Conduct business workshops to review mapping between SAP and Vertex for tax calculation in US, Canada, and Puerto Rico for processes such as Indirect/Direct Procurement, Wholesale, and Intercompany STOs and Non-product chargebacks.
• Conduct business workshops to review tax mapping in Journal entries from legacy systems (Ecova, Concur, Trade Card, XIGO, Service Channel, Lease Invoice) to SAP
• Conduct business workshops to review and gather Country Regulation requirements for Tax Return filing and reporting for countries in NA, Europe, and Asia.
• Conduct business workshops to review Withholding Tax process and local requirements for countries in North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Conducted Vertex integration connectivity test for development and quality systems in NA
• Prepare and provide mapping of commodity codes, ship to/from by country (Europe & Asia) to determine tax code to be sent from Ariba to SAP as part of tax calculation process.
• Prepared project documentation such as BPDs, KDDs, KDEs, Gap Analysis, and Functional Specifications.
• Develop Tax test suites/cases to test tax scenarios such as Sales & Use tax, VAT, and GST.
• Prototype End to End Tax calculation for Indirect Procurement process including interface with Ariba to SAP and Real-time call to Vertex for tax determination.
• Perform configuration to add tax determination functionality for North America including integration with Vertex.
• Perform configuration to add tax determination functionality for Europe and Asia including integration with Ariba for Indirect Procurement.
• Perform functional tax configuration and integration with OTC and PTP processes
• Perform configuration to add Extended Withholding Tax functionality for countries in North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Perform SIC Tax Mapping configuration, Vertex data mapping, tax code maintenance, and Vertex Tax Reports.
• Resolve (unit test) tax defects of critical to medium categories in SAP and interfaces with Ariba & Vertex
• Determine master data rules for tax calculation purposes such as tax jurisdiction code (9 digits) for North America and VAT registration number for Europe as well as tax category and tax indicator within G/L accounts.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate business workshops to review financial and controlling processes such as G/L, A/R, A/P, Fixed assets, Product costing, Cost center accounting, and profit center accounting.
• Coordinate clarification of business requirements and necessary feedback, facilitate approval of solution design
• Coordinate requirements gathering and work flow design
• Review of organizational structure such as chart of accounts, controlling area, company code, credit control area, and profit/cost centers hierarchies.
• Deliver business blueprint and business process workflows for the TUG/Premier GSE project.
• Review and perform changes to FI/CO configuration including: G/L, A/R, A/P. fixed assets, cost /profit center assignment, and product costing.
• Assign account keys/G/L accounts to pricing procedures for revenue account determination (cash discounts/claims allowance, etc.)
• Cost center account assignment by valuation area as well as by profit center.
• Configured SAP TAX interface for Vertex: configuring communication, testing the Tax retrieval data, activating Tax interface system, configured external tax document, tax jurisdiction code structure, customizing SD&MM master data Tax indicators, setting MM&SD master data, tax codes, setting condition records SD, configuring Tax per document.
• Define activity types and assign rates (fixed/variable) for direct labor and overhead.
• Conversion of master data such as: customers, vendors, materials (valuation, costing, etc.), fixed assets, and cost centers.
• Create Sales order substitution rules to determine profit center for Airport Shops based on sales organization, distribution channel and sales group.
• Maintain cost center and profit center hierarchies.
• Setup costing variants to support MTO & MTS production orders (including valuation variants, costing types, date, control, costing sheets, etc.)
• Setup of payment methods, bank determination for payment transactions, paying companies, bank houses and bank accounts, accounts for bank charges, over/under payments, and cash discounts.
• Developed Balance Sheet and Income Statement Reporting

Confidential

SAP FICO SME

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate Hyperion/SAP interface for consolidation purpose (including GL account/cost center mapping, unit/integration testing, and data conversion).
• Coordinate material master data valuation (including material price change and costing roll-up)
• Coordinate and facilitate testing and preparation of finance and controlling data conversion.
• Coordinate FI/CO cutover activities
• Coordinate the review and testing of all topics related to China localization in SAP.
• Provide production support (Hypercare)

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team on completing the fit/gap analysis of move to S/4 HANA Finance.
• Participated in design blueprint/ requirement gathering of business requirements for S/4 HANA
• Developed strategy for all the data migration (extract, cleaning, transformation, verification, and load) for SAP data objects
• Provide work leadership to others and interface with senior management to provide and obtain information to build consensus regarding project direction.
• Work directly with key users to discover and solidify requirements, and to exchange feedback on implemented and potential functionality.
• Provide oversight to the business technology team, providing guidance and suggestions on how to design solutions that perform efficiently and effectively in the business’s environment
• Contribute to the definition of industry best practice through subject matter expertise
• Conduct business workshops to review SAP chart of accounts mapping to EssBase (Data Warehouse), cost centers build, freight reporting metrics (interface SAP & D2L) and production variances requirements
• Conduct business workshops to review Journal Entry mapping from legacy system (MFG/Pro) to SAP
• Participate in business workshops to review finance & controlling requirements for Maquiladora scenarios for plants located in the Mexican border
• Perform reporting mapping from MFG/Pro to SAP
• Prototype Product costing End to End demo
• Prototype cost center allocations in SAP for transferred cost between plants and distribution centers
• Deliver business blueprints, business process procedures and test scripts (HPQC) for manufacturing accounting in plants and distribution centers, freight and transportation accounting, duty and central operations.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conduct business workshops to review Global Chart of Accounts and Profit/Cost center hierarchy on building PVH BRD (Business Requirement Document).
• Prototype functionality in SAP to support PVH OID (Other Income Distribution) corporate allocations
• Interpret business requirements - impact for Retail system interfaces into G/L, A/P, and A/R in SAP
• Hands-on configuration company codes & trading partners
• Define profit/cost center hierarchy

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conduct workshops to define, document, and validate business requirements.
• Interpretation of business requirements and provide feedback to development team through functional specifications.
• Review of organizational structure such as chart of accounts, operating concern, controlling area, company code, credit control area, business areas, segment, etc.
• Review and perform changes to FI/CO configuration including interfaces with others applications such as material management, purchasing, production planning, sales and distribution.
• Review and perform changes to FI/CO configuration including: G/L, A/R, A/P. fixed assets, cost center assignment, product costing, and profitability analysis.
• Assign account keys/G/L accounts to pricing procedures for revenue account determination (cash discounts/claims allowance, etc.)
• Performed tax interface configuration for Vertex US sales and use tax.
• Cost center account assignment by valuation & business area as well as by profit center.
• Allocation of wages, maintenance, energy, etc. via assessments.
• Define activity types and assign rates (fixed/variable) for direct labor, maintenance, energy, depreciation, tooling-cut, mill, pack, etc.
• Conversion of master data such as: customers, vendors, materials (valuation, costing, etc.), fixed assets, and cost centers based on transformation rules.
• Create FI substitution rules to derive functional areas based on G/L accounts and cost centers (samples, production stock difference, supply variances, physical inventory adj. freight costs, etc.)
• Assign SD conditions and FI/MM direct postings to COPA value fields.

Confidential

Senior SAP FICO - Record to Report

Responsibilities:

• Overview and maintenance of Process Definition Documents (PDD’s)
• Development of initial Process Definition Statements (including a summarized description of processes)
• Identify which processes are in scope and for which business units & locations
• Identify Business Requirements (Level 1 & Level 2) based on processes (PDD’s)
• Determine complexity based on factors such as Expected Reuse, Business Alignment, Process Complexity, and Solution Complexity.
• Identify and categorize assumptions to processes
• Perform mapping of Finance & Controlling processes with all master data relevant
• Identify, validate, and create a list of processes where RICEFW’s are needed

Confidential

SAP IT Record to Report Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate requirements gathering and work flow design
• Interpret business requirements for development team
• Coordinate clarification of business requirements and necessary feedback
• Facilitate approval of solution design
• Lead creation of transition and deployment plans
• Coordinate project activities to ensure timeline is met
• Management of the project plan
• Coordinate and facilitate business process mapping.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identify reconciling items (differences between IFRS & Confidential
• Ensure that Confidential R&D’s IFRS requirements are aligned with Corporate IFRS requirements
• Analyze documentation delivered by Auditors regarding IFRS impacts in Confidential R&D
• Conduct business blueprint workshops in three different rounds to define project objectives, scope, and schedule. Define the relevant business process scenarios in order to document the results gathered into business blueprint document by using Global ASAP methodology with the Solution Manager. Develop and coordinate the delivery of extensive business blueprint documentation such Process Design Documents (PDD’s), Process Flow Documents (PFD’s), Key Decision Documents (KDD’s), Business Process Hierarchy (BPH), and Data Mapping.

SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conduct workshops to define, document, and validate business requirements. Apply the country template for Singapore along with the Global Confidential template. Define organizational structure as chart of accounts, credit control area, company codes, chart of depreciation and depreciation areas, profit center hierarchy, and cost center hierarchy. Define period variants, Confidential ledger and local ledger, and profit center substitution rules for intercompany Drop Ship and Replenishment processes. Maintain number ranges and versions, cost center and profit center hierarchy. Define cost center and profit center groups for reporting purposes. Define automatic account assignment in CO and tax code rates for Singapore. Define cost center planning layout and planner profiles and characteristics and value fields, mappings for posting from SD. Performing hands on configuration for global parameters of company codes, activate components and assign company codes to controlling area, company and GST registration numbers, FI and CO number ranges, field status variant, posting period variant, chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, G/L account groups, automatic tax-posting account determination, MM automatic postings, VAT tax codes, parameters for EDI incoming invoice, Euro customizing, FI Invoice for Singapore, profit center substitution rules for intercompany processes, and dunning program. Setting up of payment methods, bank determination for payment transactions, paying companies, bank houses and bank accounts, accounts for bank charges, over/under payments, and cash discounts.
• Develop balance sheet and income statement reporting, COPA reports, advance return for VAT/GST taxes, and cash allowance reporting for fixed assets. Setup and complete the cleansing dashboard for AP and AR open items, G/L account balances, and customer, vendor, and fixed assets master data including takeover values. Performing extensive unit test and integration test scenarios. Create functional specifications, configuration documents, document analysis, and unit/integration test scripts. Performing cutover tasks and provides extensive post go-live support such finance and controlling month end close.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops to show business team a preliminary vision of SAP also to gather information about business processes, prepared gap analysis as part of business blueprint, defined organizational structure as Chart of accounts, Operating Concern, Controlling area, Company codes, Credit Control Area, and Business Areas. Defined costing variants for Make to Stock, Make to Order, Repair Order and Refurbished process. Defined characteristics and value fields for COPA reporting. Defined and assigned controlling area, operating concern, activated components in controlling area, maintained number ranges and versions.
• Cost element generation, cost center and profit center hierarchy. Maintained functional areas and assigned to cost center categories. Defined cost center and profit center groups for reporting purpose. Defined automatic account assignment in CO. Performed hands on configuration for global parameters of company codes, activate components and assign company codes to controlling area, Maintained cost center and profit center hierarchies, FI and CO number ranges, field status variant, posting period variant, G/L account groups, substitution of cost of sales accounting, tax defaults in invoice verification, automatic tax-posting account determination, MM automatic postings, tax jurisdiction codes, and tax codes for sales and purchases. Setup of payment methods, bank determination for payment transactions, paying companies, bank houses and bank accounts, accounts for bank charges, over/under payments, and cash discounts. Defined allocation structures and settlement profiles and maintained number ranges for production orders, sales orders, and internal orders. Configured customer/vendor down payments, dunning process, and credit limit check. Developed Balance Sheet and Income Statement Reporting.New GL Configuration

SAP Final preparation and Post Go-Live FICO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed plan for production support and cutover, planned and provided end user . Leaded cutover execution, close open issues, and re-defined processes and configuration based on country requirements. Setup and completed the cleansing dashboard for AP and AR open items, G/L account balances, internal orders, and customer, vendor, and fixed assets master data. Defined settings and for controlling area, chart of accounts, credit control area, company code, Asset classes, book depreciation areas, purchasing organization, plant, and sales organizational data. Customization of VAT Taxes for Sales and Purchases and withholding tax setup based on local tax requirements. Configuration of A/R processing, credit management, purchasing non-inventory, A/P processing, Bank interface (paid checks & wire transfers), fixed assets and G/L processing. Customization of financial statements (Balance Sheet & Income
• Statement MEXGAAP), foreign currency revaluation for gain/loss realized and unrealized, customized debit/credit memos, A/P park payments and down payments, automatic reclassification of G/L VAT tax accounts, automatic creation of A/P intercompany Parts invoices. Provide extensive support during month end close periods and Budgeting uploading (Plan data in CCA & PCA). Created and managed work plan; weekly report of milestones and s.

SAP CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops to define, document, and validate costing variants for daily, current, and future cost; characteristics and value fields for COPA reporting. Defined and assigned controlling area, operating concern, activated components in controlling area, maintained number ranges and versions. Controlling substitutions. Cost element generation, cost center and profit center hierarchy. Maintained functional areas and assigned to cost center categories. Defined cost center planning layout and planner profiles. Automatic account assignment. Configured status management profiles, order types, number ranges for orders, allocation structures, settlement profiles, and settlement document number ranges for internal orders. Customized costing variants, valuation variants, date control, quantity structure control, and transfer control. Origin groups, costing sheet components, overhead keys and overhead groups. Configured cost component structure.
• Maintained EC-PCA control parameters for actual postings. Defined characteristics and value fields, mappings for posting from SD. Implementation of Vertex tax tool, complete tax configuration, testing of the RFCs. Defined and assigned valuation strategy, access to standard cost estimates, costing keys to material types, and assigned costing elements to value fields for Profitability analysis. Developed income statement fixed and variable reports, COPA reports (Standard gross margin, cost of sales), standard cost (cost components) by material. Finance and controlling month-end-close and year-end-closed processes. GL automatic clearing for GR-IR.

SAP software implementation - SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business blueprint workshops to define, document, and validate all the unit requirements and passed to the central team for approval. Redesigned procure to pay and order to cash interfaces from logistic/production legacy system to SAP; created and submitted the corresponding change requests. Defined and validated organizational structures, foreign currencies, outlined credit management functionality, AP/AR down payment settings, and defined financial statements. Defined and validated controlling organizational structures, controlling area, number ranges, versions, profit centers structure for business activities and product lines, cost center categories, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, and activity types. Performed the mapping of chart of accounts, defined account assignment with MM and SD, reconciliation account with AP, AR, and fixed assets. Setup and completed the cleansing dashboard for AP and AR open items, G/L account balances, CO labor costs, and customer, vendor, and fixed assets master data. Customized the payment program; defined house banks, payment methods, forms, payment program settings, and data medium exchange. Defined allocation structures and splitting structures for CO-OM and PCA allocation cycles. Defined budget (overhead expenses, cost centers and I/O, and R&D/Tenders), finance and controlling month-end-close processes (accruals & adjustments) and labor timesheets load (CATS). Customized Lockbox, withholding tax and bank reconciliation statement. Conducted unit and integration testing based on test scripts previously created.New GL Configuration

SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business blueprint workshops to define project objectives, scope, and schedule. In addition defined the relevant business process scenarios in order to document the results gathered into business blueprint document by using Global ASAP methodology with the Solution Manager. Defined and validated organizational structures based on the ledger solution in the New GL Accounting. Activated New General Ledger accounting, defined profit center structure including segments (Default setting to derive the segment from the profit center), activated leading ledger 0L (Local) and non-leading ledger 06 (IAS), defined scenarios to update the ledger in the G/L, and segments, maintained the field status variant/field status group and field status for posting key. Defined document splitting characteristics, activated document splitting and inheritance. Activated account assignment, assigned the segmentation scenario to the leading ledger for fixed assets integration to perform post-capitalization of cash discount and transfer assets to PCA in real-time. Customized variant for real-time CO-FI integration and online distribution on follow-up costs. Defined allocation cycles (distribution/assessments) in FI. Customized totals table (FAGLFLEXT), set planner profile, created planning document, number ranges, defined plan version and planning layouts, assigned plan version to the fiscal year, activated the integrated planning indicator in the plan version in FI and CO to in corporate planning in FI. Customized foreign currency valuation; defined valuation areas, assigned valuation methods and accounting principles (IAS/IFRS and Confidential ), to the valuation areas and to the ledgers, maintained account determination for expense, revenue and BS correction (transaction KDF). Defined company code global settings, controlling area settings, chart of accounts, cost center hierarchy, cost center categories, activity types, and cost elements. Defined and customized business rules for VAT and sales taxes including jurisdiction codes, tax procedures for US and Canada, tax condition types, and account assignment. Customized the payment program; defined house banks, payment methods, forms, payment program settings, data medium exchange, Lockbox, and withholding tax. Defined account assignment with MM and SD, reconciliation account with AP, AR, and fixed assets. Defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas/classes, depreciation area rules, account assignment objects, and real-time integration with New General Ledger accounting. Cleanup/mapping and conversion of customer, vendor, fixed assets, and material master data, defined rules to data conversion of customer open items, vendor open items, and G/L account balances.

SAP software implementation - SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business blueprint workshops to define, document and validate fixed assets, accounts payable, and General Ledger requirements through Solution Management. Defined and validated organizational structures, company code and controlling area global settings. Defined chart of accounts, account assignment with SD and MM, and reconciliation account with AP and fixed assets. Customized financial statements (BS, P&L, and Cash Flow). Customized month-end and year-end processes, accruals, reversals, and GR/IR automatic clearing. Customized the payment program; defined house banks, payment methods, forms, payment program settings, data medium exchange. Customized withholding tax (1099 Tax report), sales and use taxes, alternative vendors, and AP down payment process. Defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, and asset classes. Customized asset accounting structure/valuation fixed assets, designed asset management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs, post capitalization, and asset under construction process. Cleanup/mapping and conversion of fixed asset master data with recalculation of APC. Conducted integration testing of posting automatic and manual FI documents, payment run/proposal, asset under construction settlement, fixed asset transaction postings and depreciation run, and financial statement reporting. Provided end user for general ledger, accounts payable, and fixed assets.

SAP software implementation - Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Adapted asset management processes to the Confidential corporate template. Conducted business blueprint workshops for organizational structures and fixed assets reporting. Performed mapping of chart of accounts and asset classes. Designed fixed assets reporting in compliance with the Mexican legal requirements. Defined finance and controlling global settings, chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, and asset classes. Customized integration of fixed assets with the general ledger; reconciliation accounts, field status variant and financial statement version for reporting. Customized valuation in depreciation areas by asset classes and maintained depreciation keys. Customized evaluation groups. Setup and completed the cleansing dashboard for fixed assets master data. Conducted unit and integration testing of fixed assets transaction postings, depreciation run, and fixed assets reporting.

SAP software implementation - SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops to define rules for customer and vendor master data. Conducted weekly report (tracking and resolving issues/tickets). Defined financial statement by accounting principles (IAS/IFRS and Confidential ). Created functional specifications for customized processes and business process procedure documents. Defined rules for data conversion of customer/vendor open items and GL account balances from 3 legal entities across 2 company codes. Customized incoming payments; lockbox and clearing outgoing checks on bank account/electronic bank statement. Customized AR credit management, dunning process, card interface, and other revenue invoice process. Customized outgoing payments (bank master data, payment methods, payment media, payment terms, VAT codes, check forms and signature roles). Customized automatic account assignment and reconciliation accounts. Customized withholding tax for 1099 tax report (re-designed 1099 IRS tax form). Customized VAT and Sales tax with external tax software (VERTEX). Conducted unit and integration testing of posting automatic/manual FI documents, sales and use tax calculation, payment proposal/run, lockbox and electronic bank statement, A/R credit card process, month-end and year-end close processes.

SAP software implementation - SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Define organizational structure (legal entities, business areas, functional areas). Mapping the current FI functionality in Millennium as GL, AP, AR, fixed assets, balance sheet, human resources/payroll, and corporate reporting data source (Hyperion) into FI and CO modules in SAP. Define financial statement requirements ( Confidential and IFRS. Define corporate template and organization design, business modeling, and gap analysis. Define financial reporting structure (Millennium, Hyperion, and Magnitude). Data migration strategy analysis. Sales and use tax determination. Currency analysis (consolidated financials for US and Canada). Business blueprint document (finance and controlling) for approval. Lead workshop (finance and controlling), fit gap, and data migration sessions.

SAP software implementation full life cycle rollout - SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Define Quickwear applications and functions to be implemented in Vera Bradley. Define organizational structure and financial accounting processes. Create unit test scripts according to business process master list (BPML) and Business blueprint document for approval. Lead workshop sessions for finance and controlling processes, validation of organizational structure and validation of processes. Coordinate with business people and others team members; the master data cleanup/mapping strategy. Configure global settings (company code, chart of account, controlling area, and operating concern). Configure CCA settings, cost center hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements, activity types, and assessments/distribution. Configure PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects. Configure characteristics, value fields, costing variant, valuation variant, cost estimate, costing sheet. MM and SD account assignment, AP, AR and fixed assets reconciliation account. Configure A/R lockbox and credit management. Configure AP payment program: house bank, payment methods, tolerances, payment media (Checks, ACH, and Bank transfer), payment media, and payment terms. Configure sales and use tax and withholding tax (1099 tax report). Conversion master data (customer, vendor, and fixed assets) and AR/AP open items and GL account balances. Prototype Interfaces with external systems (sales tax, credit card authorization, ADP/GL, FAS/Fixed assets, and lockbox and Paycheck (payroll journal entry to GL). Design P&L report by Division. Integration testing for finance and controlling scenarios and key and end user .

SAP software implementation - SAP FI-AA Senior Consultant for NA rollout

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Organization design, business modeling, and gap analysis. Create business process procedure according to BPML and unit test scripts for acceptance test. Conduct workshop sessions for organization structure and fixed asset reporting. Coordinate with business people and other team members master data cleanup/mapping strategy. Lead unit, integration and acceptance test. Configure global settings (chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, and asset classes). Configure asset accounting structure/valuating. Design and configure fixed assets to carry out business transactions as acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs and post capitalization. Configure integration and posting depreciation to GL and valuation of depreciation areas. Integration testing of acquisitions from Purchasing and fixed assets sub-ledger, fixed asset maintenance, asset under construction posting, depreciation run, and reporting. End user .

SAP software implementation - Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Profit center mapping and determination. Create functional and technical specifications for enhancements, interfaces and custom reports. Create change requests and TPR’s for new developments (interfaces). Configure controlling area, CO versions, CO and PCA number ranges, master data reconciliation, cost centers, profit centers, cost center categories, and functional areas. CO automatic account determination, additional BS and P&L account assignment. Configure automatic posting clearing accounts for cross-company transactions. Configure FI, CO, functional area, and profit center substitutions. Configure cost center account assignment and cost center and profit center allocations. Configure I/O settlement profile, order type definition, layout. Configure PS settlement profile, settlement rules, project types, project structure. Configure VAT taxes. Create substitution of Functional Area during MIRO transaction for Text PO with PPV (User exit) and substitution of three first characters of the profit center. Integration test of Conversions: chart of accounts, cost centers, profit centers, cost elements, I/O master data, CO expense projects, activity types, Interfaces: Activity price/volume plan, ET labor hours (monthly), natural expenses, inter-company activity, Statutory and Confidential report by account number, Cost center master data changes report, CCA and PCA allocations, FI closing VAT tax transactions and VAT reporting, FI month end and year end closing processing, Activity allocations for cost centers (rates & activity volumes), Project: (Create, change, release, plan, budget, post, settle, report) Capital and statistical projects, and Cost center and cost element transactions and rep. (Financial accounting overview, inter-company postings, General Ledger, project system, and internal orders.

SAP software implementation - Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create functional specifications for new reports and unit test scripts. Conduct workshop sessions for finance and controlling processes. Lead unit, integration and user acceptance test. Configure global settings (company codes, controlling area, cost center and profit center hierarchy. Configure material master accounting and costing views, costing variant, valuation variant, cost estimate, etc. Month end and year end processes, reversals and automatic clearing. Credit management and dunning process. AR lockbox and AP payment program. Cost center and profit center allocations. FI month end and year end closing processing. Configure fixed assets to carry out business transactions as acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs and depreciation. Develop PCA P&L reports by division and business units. Integration testing of FI documents automatic and manual, Payment proposal/run, AR credit management, dunning process and AR lockbox, Fixed assets transaction postings and depreciation run, Reporting: financial statements, fixed assets, AP/AR aging, Cost center, profit center, and activity types master data, Cost center & profit center allocations, and costing roll up. Key and end user .

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configure global settings, controlling area, enterprise organization, and standard hierarchy. Create primary, secondary cost elements, and cost element groups, create cost center, cost center groups, and activity types. CCA-assessments/distribution. PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects. PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting, design and configuration of profitability analysis (CO-PA). Definition of consolidation environments, consolidation units, positions & sets views, versions, position plan & ledgers. ECCS Flow chart of the different companies with the consolidation forms and combination possible. Lead workshop for validation of organizational structure and FI/CO processes. Elaborate inventory of formats, reports and conversion data. Create unit test scripts according to business process master list (BPML). Integration testing of posting accounting documents, CCA and PCA allocation, consolidated financial statements, and automatic close periods enhancement. End user .

SAP FI Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configure global settings, COA, and field status per company code. General ledger posting, display GL reports, open and close posting periods, and year end closing GL. Month-end and year-end processes (balance sheet and profit & loss statements). Define and configure payment methods, payments terms, house bank, and bank accounts for AP. AR - Dunning process, interest calculation, and credit management. Clearing inter-company vendor/customer open Items. Process payment runs, manually processing incoming payments, running/editing dunning proposals, reconciliation accounts in the GL. CO - Master data processing-overhead cost controlling, profit center accounting, and period end closing, profitability analysis, profit and cost planning, revenue and cost planning. Mapping of GM’s legacy system accounts to SAP COA. Purchasing process for direct & indirect materials. Create functional specifications for custom interfaces (SAP-GMGL, travel expense, DACOR, and DLP). Create unit test scripts according to business process master list (BPML). Create change requests and TPR’s for new developments (interfaces). Automatic close period’s enhancement. Conversion of document types to journal voucher from SAP to corporate legacy system. Intercompany movements from corporate legacy system to SAP. Allied and non-allied vendor interface for payment management (DACOR & DLP). Integration testing of posting automatic and manual documents in SAP, Travel expense interface, Interface from GM’s legacy system to SAP, and Payment program: DACOR & DLP interfaces.

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop scripts and presentations to be used in confirmation and configuration workshops. Design functional and technical specifications to meet the business requirements including conversions and interfaces. Lead client through period-end closing processes for GL, CO, AP, AR, SD, and MM. Configure company code global settings, posting keys. Create chart of account and assign company code and maintenance of GL accounts in both levels. General ledger posting (View, update, reverse documents, posting with fixed accounts and amounts). Period end closing GL (GR/IR clearing, cost center analysis, cost element analysis, FICO accounting reconciliation, actual profit center distribution, and profit center analysis. Design financial statements; carry forward reports, payment program, and dunning and credit management. General ledger posting, display GL reports, open and close posting periods, and year end closing GL. Define and configure payment methods, payments terms, house bank, bank accounts for AP. Write ABAP/4 enhancement exits to support SAP document flow to simulate existing business procedures. Integration testing of Open and close posting periods, General ledger posting, Purchasing, GR, invoice verification, payment proposal, and run date for payments, Dunning and credit management, Cost centers, profit centers, and cost elements master data maintenance. Key and end user .

SAP FI Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop functional design specification and configuration for GL, AP and AR modules. Lead workshop for validation of organizational structure. Provide support to business areas, investigating operational related problems, inquiries, and recommending and implementing solutions. Configure global settings, master data and structures for general ledger, account payables, account receivables, and asset accounting. Clearing Inter-company vendor/customer open items. Credit management. Manually processing incoming payments. Configure clearing rule and clearing of GR/IR accounts. Invoice verification, payment program. Reconciliation accounts in the GL. Financial statements (Balance sheet and Profit & Loss). Analyze existing business processes, defined business requirements and documented ‘gap analysis’ against SAP R/3 functionality. Define user exit to use in FI substitution for substitute G/L account and functional area. Write and execute test scripts for system and user-acceptance testing.. End user .

SAP software implementation - SAP FI/Co Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configure of global settings, controlling area, company codes, enterprise organization, and standard hierarchy. Configure chart of accounts, posting G/L documents, cost elements and cost centers, profit centers, activity types, internal orders, and reporting. Month-end and year-end processes (Balance sheet and profit & loss statements). Processing overhead cost controlling, profit center accounting, period end, closing. Profit and cost planning, revenue and cost planning, CCA-assessments/distribution. PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects. Create unit test scripts according to business process master list (BPML). Create organizational design, business modeling, and gap analysis. Define user exit to use in FI substitution for “Substitution to blank cost object” (cost center, WBS, and I/O). Integration testing of FI posting documents, CCA and PCA allocation, and reporting. Key and end user (SAP overview, end user navigation, and end user modules: GL. AP, AR, CCA, and PCA).

SAP software implementation - SAP FI/MM Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Master data configuration materials, equipment, vendors. Material ledger configuration, setup of material master and costing view in material ledger. Configuration of purchasing. Logistics invoice verification (3-way matching). Warehouse management, inventory mgt., and stock transport. Standardization of material master data through introduction of UN/SPCS codification via characteristics for unified purchasing codes per material. Configuration of purchase release strategy, info records maintenance on vendors. Classification of materials and vendors. Implementation of vendor evaluation, source lists, vendor purchase information records. Purchasing special vendors interface. Create functional specifications for custom interfaces (Purchasing special vendors interface). Create unit test scripts for MM. Integration testing of Procurement cycle 3 way match (Purchase order, goods receive, invoice verification) and inventory management. on material and vendor master data maintenance, 3 way match, and warehouse management.

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintain master data and structures for cost center accounting, profit center accounting, general ledger, internal orders, and asset accounting. Creation of profit center/cost center and standard hierarchy. Configuration of clearing rule and clearing of GR/IR accounts. G/L account configuration for miscellaneous charges. Configuration of dunning letters. Configuration of profit center accounting (PCA). Configuration of valuation class. Invoice verification, payment program. Configuration of material and the configuration of G/L account both at the code and chart of account level. Summarization of asset values in the general ledger, charts of depreciation, maintaining asset main numbers, generating external invoice numbering, asset sub-numbers and group assets were implemented. Load account balances from financial accounting to cash management, AR open items, and bank master data from legacy to SAP system. Designing summary balance movement reports transaction and balance feed report to John Crane US. Develop reports on invoices/ credit memos and adjustment postings. Participate with acceptance testing, meeting the time and quality targets. Provide support to business areas, investigating operational related problems, inquiries, and recommending and implementing solutions. Develop documentation to conduct meetings and prepare material to train new users on SAP. Develop functional design specification and configuration for FI/CO module, testing,, and documentation current design. Format business requirements to data model. Write and execute test scripts for system and end user acceptance testing. on GL Posting documents, reports, AR dunning, credit management, and AP payment program, payment terms, proposal, run date of payments.

SAP software implementation full life cycle rollout - SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Business requirement workshops to understand the existing system and requirements. Develop business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO. Configure company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios. Integration between different modules: GL, AP, AR, bank, treasury, CO (CCA, PCA), SD and MM. FI document postings, GL recurring entries, accrual deferral documents. Month-end and year-end processes (balance sheet and profit & loss statements). AP-customer transactions, house banks, payment program, clearing Inter-company vendor/customer open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit management, and payment terms. Process payment runs, manually processing incoming payments, running/editing dunning proposals, reconciliation accounts in the GL. Customize credit control area for credit management in the application components AR and SD. Payment processing in AR and automatic account determination. Develop AR aging report, created invoice layout and processed invoices. CO-CCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, product costing - PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting. Calculate overheads; work in process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost component layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost and special procurements. Optimize Purchasing and invoicing processes. Integration testing of Finance and controlling processes and 3 way match. Conduct sessions on SAP functionalities in general ledger, account payables, account receivables, overhead management, cost center accounting and profit center accounting.

SAP software implementation - FI/CO Lead - Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create conceptual and organization design, business modeling, and gap analysis. Develop and coordinate project plan. Coordinate FI-CO team weekly window. Lead FI-CO full implementation Scope: general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, treasury, CCA, product cost, and PCA. Inter-company journal entries and EDI automation from SD/MM. Multi-currency accounting. Analyzed and defined specific requirements for dunning procedures, invoicing, master data (AR/AP). Mapping operational (country) chart of account to the group (corporate) chart of accounts. Configured user exits and substitution rules for functional areas based on cost center category. TR- cash management and banks. Master data configuration, open item processing, and payment program. Configured asset module, including asset classes, depreciation keys/area, and integration with purchasing, assets under construction. Incoming payments dunning procedures. Configured automatic cash application based on invoice, amount, numbers, including setup of tolerance levels and payment differences. Factoring and receivable resale, letters of credit. Configuration of master data controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, valuation profiles, field status groups, internal orders. Profit center accounting configuration, setup, profit center hierarchies, profitability analysis, and profit center based balance sheets and P&L statements. Create prototype for prospect clients for handling unit management and sales promotions with special price lists. Performed requirements analysis and functional matching for asset accounting, purchasecycle and plant maintenance. Excel planning integration tool, configuration of planning layouts and planning profiles to allow end-users to load initial budgets into SAP via MS-Excel (including Excel macro design). Defined program specifications for the development(ABAP, user-exits) of extra enhancements in the area of WIP valuation. Lead unit and integration tests (GL creating, checking and posting documents, AP payment program, AR dunning letters), CO master data processing-overhead cost controlling, profit center accounting, profit and cost planning, revenue and cost planning. Created material and trained end-users modules FI (GL, AP, AR, and AM), CO (CCA, and PCA).