PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Confidential is a Confidential Dynamics AX/D365 Financial Consultant with extensive knowledge of implementing, Configuring and managing ERP environments.
• He has an Extensive knowledge of business process mapping, fit/GAP analysis and requirements gathering.
• Prior to joining Confidential, He has worked for Confidential & Confidential and other companies as a Dynamics AX Financials and SAP FICO Consultant.
• He has also worked as a Cost/Financial Accountant in both manufacturing and service organizations for several years with demonstrated competencies in Financial/Business Analysis.
• Confidential has been involved in different phases of implementations right from requirement gathering to end user and support.
• Confidential has a real - time hands-on experience in Confidential Lifecycle Services (LCS) and Sure Step Evolved methodology for Dynamics AX.
• He has excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with people from all cultures, backgrounds and levels.
• He is a team player with very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Confidential is a Confidential Certified Professional ( Confidential Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Financials, Confidential Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Retail, Confidential Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Trade & logistics)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Dynamics 365 Financials Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the Finance workstream to configure and implement Dynamics 365 (D365) with a primary focus on General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Budgeting and Fixed Assets
• Conducted data gathering sessions to obtain, formalize and document business requirements in TFS during the analysis phase of the project
• Performed gap analysis and developed solution design
• Prepared detailed model specific Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and Functional Requirement Documents (FDDs) for the client requested system enhancements
• Updated Visio diagrams to reflect the current customer business processes.
• Configured and tested client system in order to confirm compliance with business requirements, design and scope
• Managed data migration from legacy ERP system for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank and Cash Management, Fixed Assets and General Ledger.
• Involved in writing test plans and coordinated Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance testing and led the testing team
• Conducted sessions for all implemented modules

Confidential

Dynamics AX 2012 Financials Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and implemented Dynamics AX with a primary focus on General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Budgeting and Fixed Assets
• Used knowledge of business processes and Dynamics AX to identify software gaps and suggest alternatives
• Wrote development specifications and interface with customers to test modifications and resolve any issues that arise
• Demonstrated the ability to work systematically and logically to analyze situations, resolve problems, identify causes and anticipate implications
• Contributed to the set-up and execution of Dynamics AX project work streams
• Managed and developed customer relationships and perceptions to achieve mutual goals
• Captured, assess, and define client’s business requirements and create strategies to meet those objectives using practical Dynamics AX business solutions and industry best practices
• Documented and reviewed all business processes, Gap/Fit Analysis findings, functional design documents, testing scripts, documents and progress updates throughout implementation lifecycle
• Design and re-engineer business processes using best practices and standard Dynamics AX business procedures
• Actively organized and facilitated workshops, in-house seminars, webinars, and knowledge transfers with clients and Business Consulting Team members
• Provided functionality demonstrations and to client’s end-users, and senior-level executives, as needed
• Worked closely with the Technical Architects to assist in the design and conduct unit testing as well as integrated testing

Confidential

Dynamics AX 2012 Financials Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Budget Planning including setting up workflow stages, scenarios, Parameters allocation schedules and scenario constraints
• Configured basic budgeting including dimensions for budgeting, budget codes, budget models and budget allocation terms
• Configured Budget controls including over-budget permissions, budget cycles, and budget groups
• Created budget register entries templates and budget plan template in excel
• Configured position budgeting including budget cost element, cost element groups and forecasting
• Developed financial dimension framework.
• Created account structures and advanced rules to facilitate data entry and minimize transaction re-classes.
• Setup methodology for number sequences and journal names.
• Created multiple consolidations companies to report by geographic theatre (Asia Pacific, Europe and North America) as well as worldwide operations.
• Configured Accounts Payable module according to client business requirements and solution design.
• Set up terms codes, payment methods and vendor charges.
• Used posting profiles to direct the vendor summary to various main accounts.
• Developed solution to automatically email vendor remittance.
• Configured vendor electronic payments for Wells Fargo and JP Morgan including domestic ACH, domestic wires, international wires, SEPA and GACH payments.
• Setup positive pay reporting for Wells Fargo banks.
• Configured Accounts Receivable module to accommodate client's business process of collecting all customer payments upfront, re-classing customer deposits from refundable to non-refundable after a specific period and accounting for VAT events upon collection of customer deposits.
• Structured Dynamics AX to function along with the client's proprietary OTC system using custom interfaces.
• Used the auto settlement functionality to settle open transactions based on a priority of custom transaction attributes.
• Setup customer codes, payment codes, payment fees and payment terms.
• Created a virtual company and table collection to share customer master data across all entities.
• Setup Fixed Assets in a highly complex manufacturing environment with over 30,000 fixed assets and 40 fixed asset groups.
• Configured system to accommodate multiple depreciation methods including straight line and units of production (consumption) as well as multiple depreciation conventions.
• Developed fixed asset functionality to properly account for a synthetic leasing program which allowed the client to automatically book deferred short term and long term revenues, matching COGS and a guaranteed residual liability for vehicles sold.
• Automated the functionality to place AUC (Assets under Construction) assets in service.

Confidential

Dynamics AX 2012 Financials Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in gathering and documenting requirements during the Analysis phase of the project
• Created process flows on Visio and presented them to the client
• Co-author of the Business Requirements Document for Finance
• Co-author on several Functional Design Documents for Finance
• Assisted and co-led Finance fit testing sessions with the client subject matter experts (SMEs) (first round of AX testing)
• Created account structures and advanced rules to facilitate data entry and minimize transaction re-classes.
• Setup methodology for number sequences and journal names.
• Configured sales tax and VAT functionality, automatic transactions, allocation rules, elimination rules and periodic journal functionality.
• Configured Accounts Payable module according to client business requirements and solution design.
• Set up terms codes, payment methods and vendor charges.
• Setup the ability to accommodate self-assessment of sales tax.
• Created initial Finance process testing documents
• Led the Finance process testing sessions with the client SMEs (second round of AX testing) and documented detailed steps in process scripts
• Assisting in configuration of the Master AX Environment

Confidential, McLean, VA

Dynamics AX 2012 Financials Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted on the Financials Team with concentration on Sales and Use Tax, Budgeting, Allocations, Consolidations. Use the AvaTax product from Avalara
• Reconciliations of sub ledgers to Trial Balances and Post Go-Live .
• Assisted Lead Consultants with Fixed Assets and Foreign Currency Revaluations; testing and troubleshooting of modifications to program and reports
• Lead Consultant who lead business Key Users in smooth direction for full capabilities in the Financial Set-ups
• Conducted data gathering sessions to obtain and formalize business requirements.
• Performed gap analysis and developed solution design
• Created functional design documentation for client requested system enhancements.
• Configured and tested client system in order to confirm compliance with business requirements, design and scope.
• Conducted sessions for all implemented modules.
• Managed data migration from legacy ERP system for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank and Cash Management, Fixed Assets and General Ledger.
• Led the Dynamics AX 2012 financial and project module implementation in a large manufacturing company
• Worked with two additional Senior Financial Consultants to lead the Dynamics AX 2012 Finance.

Confidential

SAP Order Management, Finance consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led business requirement and process re-engineering workshops for enhancement of SAP, Completed gap analysis and created AS IS & TO BE Business Processes.
• Managed day-to-day client relationship including but not limited to business requirements, issue resolution, resource allocation, and project timelines.
• Developed deliverables including: Application Design, Business Process Procedures (BPP), and Process Design Document (PDD) with Visio Process Flows.
• Worked on E2E flow of Sales Order to Invoice generation and tracked in/out EDI messages via HPSB, SEEBURGER routers.
• Provided configuration support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement’s setup. Defined Valuation classes assigned GL accounts to Trans. Keys in OBYC Account determination.
• Lead the Migration of GL, PS, IO, CC, Bank and FA areas. Defined mapping rules, Structures, Cleansed data and migrated data into R/3 system.
• Developed functional specifications for various custom development objects (e.g. forms, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and workflows). Coordinated and managed Off-Shore Development Resources for successful delivery of custom objects.
• Involved in writing test plans and coordinated Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance testing and led the testing team. Worked on Rational Clear Quest and Quality center.
• Provided Post Go Live support to users, helped users in solving their problems in Go Live environment and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users.

Confidential

SAP Cash Management & FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP Financial Accounting & Controlling, SAP - Order Management and SAP MM-Purchasing module to support PR to PO conversion. Supported E2E process of Sales Orders, Delivery, PGI, and Billing.
• Migrated data from legacy to SAP R/3 using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW), ECATT. Worked on creating and tracking EDI, IDOC and See Burger messages.
• Designed and configured Transaction Mgr. (FX, Money Mkt, Securities and Derivatives), Cash Position/ Liquidity Forecast, AP and Treasury payments, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, and Exchange Rates, Credit Risk Analyser, Market Risk Analyser.
• Configured Integration rules in FI with SD, MM for account determination, and material movement’s setup by defining Valuation classes and Trans. keys.
• Configured Partner profiles and Message types for Bank, Vendors, Logical system for Inbound, outbound message flows.
• Reorganized treasury department by setting up new procedures for cash forecasts and also designing a single global banking platform with JP Morgan for centralized EBS reporting and treasury payments.
• Developed detailed functional specifications, enhancements and modifications documentation.
• Analysed key global business processes and complex business requirements in areas of Transaction Management, Cash Management, In-house Cash, Bank Accounting, Cash Management and mapping them to standard SAP processes.
• Provided required expertise in design validation, and making sure delivered implementation is based on best practice, standards, methodology and guidelines.
• Worked on Month end Costing run, Cost estimate, Material Master record update. Set-up Purchase Info Records.

Confidential

SAP Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported system analysis, design, configuration, system testing, data conversion, and production support in FI- General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Asset Management, developed custom objects in AA. CO- Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, Project Systems(PS), Material Management and Order Management
• Configured Chart of Accounts defined fiscal year variants and assigned fiscal year variants to various company codes. Performed General Ledger account creation and processing, creation of sample accounts and settings for processing open items.
• Defined Master Records such as Cost Elements (Primary and Secondary), Cost Element Groups, Cost Centers and Cost Center Group

Confidential

SAP Finance consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business and IT team members in full life cycle implementation including business blueprint, configuration, testing,, and post-implement support across all sub-modules in FI-GL, AR, AP, AA, CO - CC, PC, IO
• Interacted with the super users, documented their requirements and finalized the functional and technical specifications. Designed and wrote the functional specifications for a set of custom reports.
• Provided Go-Live/Post-implementation support by resolving problems related to reporting,, system.

Confidential

SAP Finance consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained Field status groups, Posting Keys, and Document Types.
• Opened and closed posting periods and created general ledger account master records.
• Performed configuration of House Banks for bank accounts, general ledger structure, posting rules for automatic assignment.
• Created manual payment program with clearing of open items. Configured incoming payments, including full payment, partial payment and residual payment.
• Configuration of payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations for down payments and clearing of line items

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Auditor

Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive financial audits, federal and state compliance audits, and agreed-upon procedures.
• Assessed compliance with financial regulations and controls
• Perform analytical procedures/analyses to detect unusual financial statement relationships.
• Perform internal control and substantive testing.
• Tested various financial documents and reports for accuracy and compliance
• Identify and communicate accounting and auditing matters to seniors and managers.
• Propose adjusting journal entries and discuss audit findings with clients.
• Identified ongoing compliance issues, processes weaknesses and inefficiencies
• Identify and communicate accounting and auditing matters to seniors and managers.
• Prepare PBC (Provided by Client) lists and confirmation requests.
• Document audit procedures and cross work papers.
• Create management representation letter comments and recommendations and draft audit reports for management review.
• Collected Financial Data and analyzed trends

Confidential, West Chester, PA

Manufacturing Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Produced, analyze, and report periodic accounts in the areas of manufacturing and logistics conversion costs
• Planned and review factory and logistics unit costs of the P&L on a brand and SKU level
• Check the SAP reports on daily basis to be sure all goods and A/P invoices are being booked correctly
• Substantiated labor and utility costs, calculate and book accruals periodically
• Challenge the Supply team to drive operational excellence in the production floor, warehouses, and distribution networks
• Custodian of all stocks held by Confidential by ensuring proper control, and co-pilot the Supply Chain team in continuously reducing stock covers
• Custodian of all fixed assets ensuring adequate control over budget approval & spend, depreciation run and period end asset settlement
• Prepared monthly balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Maintained position as the primary point of contact in communications with external partners such as auditors and government agencies in reporting and clarifying the integrity of our conversion cost accounts
• Participated actively in the period close process with timely and accurate journal entries
• Determined period end prime cost per unit, Logistics cost per unit, Manufacturing cost per unit, overall cost per unit and prepare efficiency report
• Analyzed and report Period End Purchase Price Variance, observe period end stock counts and adjust the book values to agree with physical counts.
• Holds period end questions and answers session with all budget holders in my area after explaining all numbers in the cost centers to them
• Export period end SAP KSB1 report into pivot table, analyze and substantiate each G/L and Costs Center to understand and agree all numbers in them
• Calculate and analyze period close accruals and keep records of all journal entries

Confidential, New Castle, DE

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Supervises and directs A/R, A/P, Inventory Accounting, and Sales Audit transactions
• Oversees accounting procedures, internal controls (implementing, monitoring, enhancing)
• Audits work flow to ensure that all accounting transactions are appropriately authorized
• Managing employee health insurance and retirement plans (401K)
• Substantiates and justified expenditures and expense reports
• Supervises and prepares monthly journal entries and general ledger reconciliations
• Prepares financial statements and assures internal control compliance
• Train staff on internal control procedures and assists Controller as needed
• Perform monthly closing processes and assist with yearly audit preparations and other ad hoc reports
• Works on special projects, help the CFO, CEO and Controller in routine operations and make sure that the financial reports are accurate.
• Prepares financial reports, cash flows, forecasting, credit and collection, inventory controls, banking activities and purchasing