SUMMARY:

• Senior SAP ERP Finance Consultant (Certified ECC 6.0 FI, Certified HANA Data Provisioning & Analytical Modeling) specialising in FI/CO, PSCD, FI - CA & recently HANA, with 17 years consulting in SAP projects for large public and private organisations. Expertise includes requirements analysis, blueprinting, design, configure, build, data migration, testing, cutover, and trouble-shooting.
• Experience includes integration between Finance Modules FI/CO & PSCD/FI-CA to HR & Payroll, Project Systems, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Travel Management, Production Planning and Plant Maintenance, and other systems such as SAP BI & CRM. SAP Projects include Greenfield implementations, upgrades, and continuous improvement initiatives. Project methodologies include ASAP and PRINCE2 (APMG Certified). Other experience includes landscape assessments and SAP CRM/ERP (PSCD) solution ‘scoping’ exercises.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior SAP FI/CO/PSCD/FI-CA Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuring bank accounts in SAP FI, adapting EBS (electronic bank statement) functionality, search strings, transaction mapping for take-on of ACBPS business, and configuring changes to the FI Automatic Payment run where required
• Mapping/trialing proposed ACBPS business processes and transactions to DIBP Banking and Treasury SAP solution, combining where possible into existing, including some new bank accounts
• Assessment and retrofitting existing interfaces and customized reports to cater for ACBPS transactions
• Migration principles for FI related to affected Bank Accounts (Cash at Bank GL balances, Bank Statement reconciliation, Bank Clearing Account Open Items) to be ‘taken-on’ in SAP from 01 July
• Assessing impact or changes require to related functionality.
• Completing the blueprint design and functional specifications
• Prototyping, configuring and unit testing
• Working alongside Business Analysts, ABAP developers, SAP BI consultants and Authorisations team
• Consulting with Project Managers, Finance Department and senior executives
• Working with Change Management team to determine impacted areas, and review material
• Knowledge transfer to System Testing and SAP BAU teams
• Managing defects raised by testers

Confidential

PSCD Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architectural consulting & advisory role to DHS for PSCD in a Social Services Management context.
• Pre-blueprint scoping exercise for Paid Parental Leave scheme solution using CRM/ERP FI/PSCD/Social Services Management.

Confidential

SAP PSCD/FI-CA/FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prototyping, configuring and unit testing
• Working alongside developers to determine best approach to retrofit existing custom developments
• Work with Finance Department and senior executives to finalise mapping, recovery rates, and determine other business rules
• Working with Change Management team to determine impacted areas, and review material
• Knowledge transfer to System Testing and SAP BAU teams
• Managing defects raised by System Testing team.

Confidential

SAP FI-CAX Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Flexible GL/CO Cost Object Assignments from FI-CA Billing/Invoicing
• New Layouts for Account Balance
• Partial Refunds
• Partial Write-offs
• Some of the above required preparing functional specification, configuration, working with developers, unit, system and UAT, documenting, and working with Change Management staff and the business.
• These improvements were all completed successfully, with the final components going live in early August 2013.

Confidential

SAP PSCD/FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Dimensional pricing structures for Visa Application Charges utilising SAP Sales & Distribution
• Refitting the ‘Onshore Post’ SAP Finance (Revenue Receipting) solution for deployment offshore
• Pricing and Payments in foreign currency, and new payment methods & medium for Credit Card and International Money Transfers
• An ‘Online Account’ solution for E-Visa to be integration back into the FI/CO/PSCD/FI-CA/ Confidential solution
• Online Account self-service payments via Credit Card and BPay (invoice-now, pay later)
• Online Account reminders and automatic expiry via Dunning for ‘pay later’ scenarios
• Additional configuration of Business Partner, Contract Accounts, Posting settings (mains/subs/clearing rules etc)
• Configuring Automatic Payment Run with new payment methods, for foreign currency
• Developing a new payment medium format for International Money Transfers (CommBiz)
• FI auto-clearing to cater for foreign currency and gain/loss postings
• Dunning activities e-mailing reminder notices for overdue invoices and subsequent invoice cancellation
• Exits - identifying suitable events and exits for enhancements
• FI substitutions to enrich line items with information for automatic clearing
• Adapting some specific PI interfaces (ESB Services) to cater for changes
• Prepare technical specifications for new custom WebDynpro user interfaces, new reports, and specific PSCD ‘events’ (supplementing or alter automatic postings)
• Prepare cost estimates for proposed custom interfaces to be implemented in future releases
• Functional specifications for custom Webdynpro programs (custom ‘front-end’ to SAP FI-CA/PSCD cash desk functionality)
• Delivering an ‘Offshore’ reporting solution in SAP BI for Visa Evidence Charge Sales & Refunds Reporting, with data fed via interfaces from 70 offshore non-SAP systems (reports were successfully deployed in Production in November 2012, and used by DIAC’s Client Strategy Branch for policy development).

Confidential

Senior SAP FI-CA/PSCD Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Business partner master data, roles, relationships, Tax and ID types, contract accounts, PSCD Billing, Invoicing, Payment Lots, Return Lots, Clearing Rules, Document types, Main/Sub transaction types, account determinations, reclassifications, write-offs, installment plans.
• Liaised with FI/CO team to work through integration issues such as chart of accounts, CO account assignment objects, and integration to New General Ledger.
• Worked with subject matter experts, business analysts, BASIS and Development Teams to resolve business process and technical design issues.
• Unit tested configuration and WRICEF items listed above, assisted test team during integration/system, and resolved defects with development and PI teams
• Coordinated design for new developments for PSCD such as enhancements ‘Events’, Incoming Payment and Invoices interfaces
• Liaised with ABAP developers and SAP (OSS / SAP Service Marketplace) to resolve defects, apply notes, and resolve issues with standard SAP, custom developments and enhancements
• Assisted Security Team by unit testing authorization roles
• Provided advice to data migration team for Industry Specific tools ISMW-U (EMIGALL), and LSMW migration objects to load PSCD master/transactional data, and custom tables
• Provided assistance, advice and recommendations for reconciling migrated PSCD data
• Developed some SAP QUERY reports to help the business reconcile migrated data.
• Produced batch schedule (interfaces, dunning, auto-clearing, forward postings to GL, reclassifications)
• Produced Business As Usual Support documentation for the PSCD Billing/Invoicing and Payments solution
• Provided cutover support - cutover task and check lists
• Provided post go-live support.

Tools: used at various stages during the project: HP Quality Centre, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Business Objects Data Services

Confidential

SAP FI-CA, FI/CO, PSCD & TRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI/CO - Chart of accounts, document types, controlling areas, company code
• PSCD - Business Partners, Contract Accounts and Contract Objects, Document Types, Open Item management, Automatic Clearing rules, Main/Sub transaction account determinations, Cash Desk, Incoming Payment, Cheque and Returns Lots
• Designed bank interfaces for incoming payments from Westpac for EFT, BPay and Locked Bag incoming PSCD, Westpac direct entry rejections & dishonoured cheque (returns) interfaces using SAP PI and ABAP proxy technology - all interfaces integrated with TRM triggering ‘form-based’ assessments, re-assessments, and billing adjustments with BRF+ as the rules engine.
• Coordinated design for new developments - PSCD enhancements ‘Events’, Incoming Payment and Return interfaces (utilising PI, BAPIs), and various ABAP reports
• Liaised with ABAP developers and SAP (OSS / SAP Service Marketplace) to resolve defects, apply notes, and resolve issues with standard SAP, custom developments and enhancements
• Designed and executed unit testing of TRM form based processes utilising BRF+ rules engine, workflows, ABAP developments, and PI interfaces.
• Prepared functional specifications for conversion developments
• Designed and coordinated data migration effort, developed ABAP & ISMW-U (EMIGALL) migration objects for FI, PSCD & TRM master and transactional data
• Coordinated testing of data loads with Data Migration Team
• Developed ABAP reconciliation reports, mapping, downloads and validation programs specifically for cutover.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing SAP FI/CO technical and business process advice to specific clients
• Identify new SAP standard functionality to aid continuous improvement for these clients
• Assist business raise change requests to SAP Support department (internal) where appropriate
• Resolve technical and business process problems
• Identify genuine system issues and liaise with (or raise them with) their SAP Support departments

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Controlling area, Plan versions, cost centre categories, hierarchies, Internal Order Types (operational & capital), settlement allocation and source structures, master data.
• FI Accounts Payable configuration - Configuration of Automatic Payment Program for cheque and EFT (direct credit) payments
• Prepared functional requirements for new developments
• Liaised with ABAP developers and SAP (OSS / SAP Service Marketplace) to resolve defects in custom developments and enhancements
• Accounting principles and related load/validation programs for conversion of Assets under Construction (FI-AA and Investment Measure Internal Orders).
• Other principles, procedures and tools to load outstanding cheques, payments, general ledger balances and open items.

Confidential

SAP PSCD/FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assessed legacy systems for migration - SAP 4.7 Enterprise and non-SAP Applications running on Ingres databases
• Preparing Functional and Specifications for migrating FI/CO/PSCD/FI-CA master and billing/invoicing transactional data
• Designed reconciliation procedures
• Advised test strategies for unit & system testing, including go-live trials

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI/CO and enterprise structure design for ‘disconnected’ SAP HR systems
• FI/CO configuration design to support ‘disconnected’ HR-Payroll system i.e. Company codes, controlling areas, chart of accounts, account groups, Profit Centres, Cost Centre Categories, Internal Order Types, Hierarchies, groups, Vendor Groups, Customer Groups, number ranges
• Prepared detailed designs and managed development of ALE solution for cost centre, internal order, GL account, customer and vendor master data replication interfaces
• Prepared detailed design and managed development of ALE solution for HR-FI posting interface which posted payroll summary results to general ledger
• Contributed to Payroll Blueprint Design regarding accounting treatment for Payroll Tax, Superannuation & Automatic Payroll Accruals
• Reviewed interface functional specifications prepared by other team members - from a functional, technical and document quality perspective.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Small Works documentation (costs/benefits, review, design considerations and planning of small works)
• Functional and technical specifications for approved works - Banking improvements, credit limit review reporting.

Confidential

SAP FI CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Configuration updates resulting from Change Requests
• Preparing test data and scenarios for integration testing, managing defects which were raised by testers in rollout team
• Data conversion and cutover tasks
• Other Configuration
• Release management and post implementation 3rd level support
• Business process documentation - Work Cycles and Work Practices
• Change requests and related configuration (Asset Revaluation functionality for Unplanned Depreciation)
• Preparation of concept documentation and instruction material
• Unit testing and defect resolution during integration testing.

Confidential

SAP FI CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Preparing functional specifications for new interfaces and custom programs, and subsequent unit testing
• Configuring FI account determinations - Confidential /MM integration, and other FI configuration
• Developed Financial Statement Versions, Profit Centre Hierarchies for new releases
• Other unit testing - Business Warehouse reports, data extracts for Crystal reporting from CO (cost centre and internal orders - master data, actual & planned costs), FI financials and FI-AA master data & balances.
• Confidence checking of final data loads by data migration team - go-live simulations and go-live
• Liaison with Treasury (central custodial of Chart of Accounts) to determine agency Chart of Accounts requirements for each release.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Working through system problems and bugs with BASIS, Portal and development (ABAP) teams
• Researching OSS and raising messages to SAP for system problems (via SAP service marketplace)
• Debugging custom ABAP programs to resolve problems from upgrade
• Raising change requests to resolve config problems and bugs with ABAP programs
• Performing integration testing of changes e.g. ABAP/config changes before releasing transports into production environment

Confidential

SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed analysis of SAP source data and configuration to ensure migration principles satisfy requirements to move data to the new design (Shared Services Standard Offering)
• Prepared technical specifications and procedures to support migration to the Standard Offering design. This included data migration specifications incorporating extraction, manipulation and load (LSMW & ABAP) programs and procedures
• Provided comprehensive solution for migration of GL balances, Cost centre (cost element “actual”) totals, Internal Order costs, Purchase Order History and GR/IR open items
• Developed LSMW loads, ABAP Query extracts, ABAP for extracts and manipulation and loading - some using BAPI and IDOC. Objects: FI/CO (GL, cost centre and internal order) balances and MM Purchase Order history (included GR/IR open items).
• Tested and reconciled data loads through trial conversions, go-live simulations and production loads
• Debugged migration ABAP programs to resolve logic errors, and researched OSS to get updates on SAP standard migration programs and other relevant functionality
• Involved in impact assessment workshops with some upcoming agencies
• Adviser to design team regarding data migration principles and techniques (where none were yet defined).
• Provided comprehensive solution to migrate data where re-engineering of data between legacy and target system was required: e.g. Conversion of AP open items in source (for particular vendor group) to GL balances in target, conversion of Sales Orders to Internal Orders (using Master Data-only and where no Costs Tracking was required), conversion from non-SAP project ledgers (Operational and Capital) to Internal Orders in SAP, Conversion from non-statistical Internal Orders in legacy to statistical Internal Orders in ECC - while maintaining Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet accuracy
• Determined legacy SAP system security requirements for the data migration team (special access to analyse legacy configuration and design, perform data extracts, and run reconciliation/verification for extracted data)
• Cost estimation and planning for upcoming migrations, especially in relation to new migration objects - e.g. Project System (PS) and Investment Management (IM)
• Consulted with PS design team where I provided methods for migrating SAP PS WBS expenditure (current year, and previous years’ costs - primary and secondary).
• Advised management of skills profile required for prospective (new) FI/CO/PS team members. I reviewed and scored candidate CVs, prepared interview questions and took active role in the actual interviews.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Raising FI/CO change requests, managed transports/proposals, managing OSS for site from an FI/CO perspective (e.g. raising/resolving problems with SAP via SAP service marketplace).
• Resolving issues raised by the Finance department or help-desk in relation to configuration, processes, interfaces, customizations, standard SAP etc.
• Performed configuration for enhancements, minor projects, and support issues. Included debugging ABAP programs, resolve system problems, managing changes to existing programs and procedures, and assigning issues to appropriate teams.
• Assisting team resolve problems with SAP client, together with creating data loads using LSMW for transaction and master data.
• Analysing security problems, recommending changes to roles, and investigating enhancements to SAP security with additional authorization objects.
• Financial year-end testing.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT/TEST MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Integration testing - preparing test plans, scripts, coordination of testing with SIEBEL team, escalating issues, resolving problems in SAP FI/CO configuration, debugging ABAP, managing changes to existing programs and procedures, and assignment of issues to appropriate teams.
• User Acceptance testing - preparing test plans, scripts, coordination of testing with SIEBEL team, escalating issues, debugging problems with configuration and ABAP, and assignment of issues to ABAP and technical team.
• Development of security roles for system user-id - assignment of authorization objects and relevant values.
• Cutover planning - preparation of cutover plan, ensuring latest versions of ABAP programs in production environment, and that variants and configuration settings are transported to the production environment ready for go-live. Developed new business and support procedures, met with senior business representatives to establish new procedures, and obtained necessary sign-off for new processes.

Confidential

SAP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Comparative reporting - Comparing new report developments (BW BeX queries/workbooks, R/3 Report Painter or custom ABAP) with reports in legacy systems. Reporting was based on full-volume converted data, where my specialization was CO-PCA, CO-CCA, CO-PA and PS data. Responsible for detecting differences in BeX queries & workbooks, Report Painter and custom ABAP reports using full-volume converted data. Worked with the BW and data conversion teams to ensure quick resolution of reconciliation differences.
• Integration testing - FI/CO/IM/PS/MM - scripting and execution – specialised in SAP PS Project System and IM program management.
• SAP technical guide to business representatives during User Acceptance Testing. Raised issues and defects to the Build team, while also providing advice for quick resolution.
• Team Leader on-site Support - With a team of four supporting BigW (subsidiary of Woolworths), I led onsite post-implementation support after go-live for SAP R/3 PS/FI/CO/MM. Managed issues and project relationships with VIP users and management, escalated urgent issues, and provided daily status reports to SAP Project head-office (re: support,, documentation and urgent issues).

Confidential

SAP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Business Process Definitions
• Workshopped with key stakeholders to review business process definitions, functional specifications, and to obtain agreement and necessary sign-off
• Designed enhancements – Asset Journal Upload, AUC Transfers Upload, and five FI-AP inbound interfaces, with considerable input for Project/Asset balances report – which tracked costs flowing from PM and CO orders, through Projects to final capitalization.
• Complete SAP FI-AA configuration
• Managed relevant transports
• Designed Integration Testing for complex interface systems - test cases, plans and scripts (Rational Test Manager). Prepared test data and managed related defects
• Overall defect management - Rational ClearQuest
• ABAP – debugged to resolve logic errors
• Integration tested complex FI-AP inbound interfaces, liaised with external system programmers, organized timing of interface testing – extracts and imports, resolved problems and issues.
• As key migration team consultant, I developed and customized the SAP migration tools (SAP DMIG/LSMW) for SAP fixed assets (FI-AA) including various custom data tables. Developed conversion rules (ABAP), domain rules, translation tables, performed unit testing and six full volume loads for 140,000 assets and all related financial documents. Prepared timing estimates, reconciliation reports, ensured integrity of data and performed testing of data to confirm business continuation. Successfully migrated QR’s asset portfolio – master data and financials ‘to-the-cent’.
• Assisted problem and issue resolution during User Acceptance Testing
• Reviewed material and courses for Change Management team.
• Researched SAP OSS – solution notes and patches for issues and problems

Confidential

SAP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Resolving configuration problems – PS, CO, FI
• Preparing test cases, plan and scripts in Mercury Test Director
• Preparing and executing automated test scripts – Mercury QuickTest for R/3
• Managing defects
• Researching SAP OSS – solution notes and patches for known problems
• ABAP – debugging, reading and checking for logic errors, recommending changes.
• Working through system problems and bugs with technical (BASIS) and development (ABAP) teams
• MS Applications – MS Access/MS Excel – development of VBA tools and utilities for data manipulation and preparation of interfaces files.

Confidential

SAP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Designing enhancements and functional specifications for customizations (transactions, interfaces, and reports) – specialising in SAP Projects (PS) and Assets management module (FI-AA) (initially SAP R/2, later SAP R/3).
• SAP system configuration and documenting settings – PS and FI-AA (Assets) modules, together with integration of FI/CO/PM/MM
• Workshops with key stakeholders for requirements analysis, and to review functional specifications, to obtain agreement and necessary sign-off
• System version upgrades – unit functional testing, system testing, integration and user acceptance testing – test plans, scripts and cases.
• 3rd level support for complex problems
• Remote consulting with SAP Waldorf regarding functional problems
• Business analysis – costing of development work, preparing business requirement definitions, SAP reporting (financials) from Corporate Data Warehouse (Star schemas)
• Researching SAP OSS – solution notes and patches for known problems
• ABAP – debugging, reading and checking for logic errors, recommending changes
• Working through system problems and bugs with technical (BASIS) and development (ABAP) teams
• MS Applications – MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access.
• Other Applications used – BRIO Explorer (Business Intelligence tool) – for development of queries to analyse Corporate Data Warehouse (Star/Starflake schemas) and SQL Server tables.