MARY A. GORDON, MBA, CSM, SA,

ATLANTA, GA Cell: 404-***-**** Email: ad5bg9@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

PG Program in Cloud Computing – Univ. TX-Austin (Azure, AWS, Big Data)

Certified Scrum Master Certified SAFe Agilist SAP TERP10 Certified

S/4 HANA Finance (1709 - 2022) Implementations (5 Greenfields 3 Brownfields)

Fifteen years of experience with implementation/management of ERP systems for Cloud and On-premises SaaS, PaaS, IaaS in techno-functional roles specializing in SAP FICO with integration to SD-Sales & Distribution, MM-Materials Mgmt., PP-Production Planning, PS-Project systems.

Deep functional experience in Finance modules of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Cash-Bank, IHC-In House Cash, and Fixed Assets with integration to Controlling functionality (CCA, IO, PA, PCA, PC).

Substantial experience in SAP FICO Functional Lead/Project Management roles leading and managing SDLC projects using Agile/Scrum and Waterfall in Architecture and system design, development, and delivery of large and medium-sized projects. Participated as team member or lead on implementations, upgrades, Gap analysis, application configuration, production support with specialties in end-to-end business process improvements and best practices around ERP/BI tools, and six sigma continuous improvements.

Additional experience in mergers & acquisitions, accounting, governance, financial planning & analysis with an MBA in Finance and a B.A. in Accounting. Industries served include oil & gas, transportation, high tech, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, airlines, and CPG/Retail.

EXPERTISE

Project Management SDLC- (AGILE & Waterfall)

Business Analysis

S/4 HANA Finance

SAP FICO (ECC 6.0) New GL

SAP S&D (ECC 6.0)-FI-Integration

SAP BPC (Planning, Forecast)

Finance Integration:

Order-to-Cash

Procure-to-Pay

Record-to-Report

Make-to-Order/Buy

Hyperion (ORC)

BPI/Best Practices

Six Sigma – certified Greenbelt

Excel, Project, VISIO, PowerPoint

Jira (Scrum, Kanban)

Testing - ALM, Tricentis

professional experience

Impel Professional Consulting, LLC, Atlanta, GA March 2017 – Present

Client: Archer Daniel Midland (ADM) – (Greenfield - S/4 HANA On-Prem) January 2024 – Present

Project Manager in the implementation of SAP S/4 HANA 2023 Plant Maintenance (EAM) and Project Systems with integrations to Record to Report and Analytics, Coupa, Maximo, and other legacy systems.

Responsible for preparation of the Project Plan using Planisware project management application.

Stakeholder Management: manage the team of (Functional & Technical ) resources; budget, RAID log identifying risks, action items, issues, dependencies, with escalation to senior executives on impediments to progress and governance.

Align with Systems Integrator to manage deliverables, project phases the workshop design, configuration and WRICEF identifying Fit/GAP objects.

Client: Coca-Cola UNITED – (Brownfield - S/4 HANA Cloud, PE) May 2023 – December 2023

Project Manager/Business Analyst in the techno-functional system conversion from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4 HANA 2022 coordinating with 10 other Bottlers that share a multi-tenant SAP system utilizing SAP Activate Agile project delivery framework

Responsible for preparation of the Project Plan, identification of all Test Scripts for OTC, RTR, FICO, MM, SalesForce Orders, Production Planning to prepare for UAT-User Acceptance Testing for end-to-end and Integration testing.

Liaison with Functional, Technical and Data Migration team to identify master data to be mapped for General Ledger-Chart of Accounts, Business Partners (Vendors & Customers), Controlling, Materials Management, and Project Systems.

Functional Impacted Business Processes: Record to Report (FICO), Procure-To-Pay, Manufacturing Execution

Testing – UAT and Regression Testing of Interfaces, self-services, Custom Abap Code, business processes

Prepared Change Impact Analysis for S/4 HANA Brown Field Implementation.

SAP Certified Training Instructor November 2022 – March 2023

Instructor Lead eLearning via on-line delivery in SAP Activate, Scrum, and SAFe for Project Management using Jira application for Sprint Iterations for college students and professionals pursuing roles in Project Management.

Client: Toyota Motor NA August 2022 – October 2022

Agile Scrum Master utilizing SAFe Framework for several SAP teams (Material Mgt., Master Data, Interfaces, Reporting). Conducted Scrum ceremonies, calculated Velocity, presented burndown reports to team and stakeholders for continuous process improvements.

Client: Capgemini NA (Greenfield – S/4 HANA Public Cloud) January 2022 – May 2022

Director in SAP ERP consulting practice specializing in SAP S/4 HANA 2021 - Finance for insurance and banking industries.

Project Jump-Start Expert for large enterprise projects with multiple workstreams, guiding and coaching delivery team in all phases (design, configuration, fit/gap analysis, testing, training, conversion and go-live) while utilizing SAP Activate to maintain the project schedule (MS Project, SmartSheet) and Agile Framework for all work items identified in the initial Product backlog for subsequent Sprint Iterations (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Sprint Review, Retrospective).

Expert at organizing, planning, and preparation of all components required to jump-start the project: (project schedule, team members & collaboration, governance model, meeting cadence, applications & tools, SOW deliverables & milestones)

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Utilized SAP Migration Cockpit with Data Migration team to map data from legacy system to source system in excel then utilizing template for file uploads, staging of migration objects and API based data loads to S/4 HANA.

Client: NIMBL (Kwik Trip) – (Brownfield - S/4 HANA Cloud, PE) July 2021 – November 2021

Sr. Program Manager leading the SAP ECC 6.0 techno-functional System Conversion SAP S/4 HANA 2020 migrating the old (Oracle/DB2/MSSQL) database to SAP HANA database utilizing SAP Activate Agile project delivery framework.

Managed a direct team of IT resources (Functional, Technical, End Users) with a Budget of $10 MM Cloud deployment of S/4 HANA to Azure in collaboration with Microsoft for IaaS and preparation of SAP Activate for project schedule.

Functional Impacted Business Processes: Record to Report (FICO), Procure To Pay (CVI-BP), Manufacturing Execution

Managed a direct team of IT resources (Functional, Technical, End Users) with a Budget of $10 MM Cloud deployment of S/4 HANA to Azure in collaboration with Microsoft for IaaS and preparation of SAP Activate for project schedule.

Testing – UAT and Regression Testing of Interfaces, self-services, Custom Abap Code, business processes

Training – Prepared Change Impact Analysis and Train the Trainer (Super User) documentation.

Stakeholder Management: manage the team budget, RAID log identifying risks, action items, issues, dependencies, with escalation to senior executives on impediments to progress and governance.

Facilitate budgeting process: prepare Reports on hours/dollars for Actuals, Plan and Forecast monthly, Year to date and Full Year

Client: Jeld-Wen - SAP S/4 HANA 2020 FICO Lead - (Greenfield) March 2021 – May 2021

Direct responsibility for the General Ledger (G/L), Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Allocations for S/4 HANA 1909.

Write test scripts for the General Ledger

Collaborate with User Acceptance Testers to assist with comprehension of Test Scripts or to rewrite test scripts.

Configuration and Training:

Rewrite the training module for the GL, Asset Accounting for simulations and walk-through.

Provide training to the end users with the training team.

Cost Allocations – Create Allocations for 3 different scenarios for Allocating Costs

Client: Bio-Rad - SAP SAFe/Scrum Master/Coach – (Brownfield) November 2020 – March 2021

Served in the role of Scrum Master/Coach facilitating the start-up of the first Agile Scrum team for SAP S/4 HANA 1909 OTC/AR business processes (A/R, Cash Appl., Credit Coll., Billing, Rev. Rec.) and RPA- Robotics Process Automation.

Company performed a technical upgrade (Netweaver 7.1, Solution Manager 7.2, HANA database) to implement S/4 HANA 1909.

Utilize Agile Scrum and SAFe Agile framework delivering continuous products to meet business and stakeholder goals.

Jira application used as the BVIR- Big Visual Information Radiator for work items in the product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint planning, iterations, and retrospective.

Provided burn down/up charts and Velocity of team’s product backlog.

SAP Certified Training Instructor:

Client: Nutrien May 2020 – July 2020

TS410 Integrated Business Processes in SAP S/4 HANA

Instructor Lead eLearning via on-line delivery in the design, configuration, testing for SAP Functional & Project Management.

Integrated Business Processes: (SAP HANA, Organiz. Structure, Financial & Management Accounting, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Inventory Mgt./ Extended Warehouse Mgt./ Warehouse Mgt., Plan to Produce/ Manuf. Execution, EAM-Plant Maint.

Hands on exercises of SAP S/4 HANA Integrated Business Processes in SAP S/4 HANA 1909.

SAP S/4 HANA Finance 1909 training program is an Instructor Led on-line program. September 2019 – April 2020

Curriculum topical areas: (SAP HANA, Fiori, S/4 HANA, General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Financial Close, Financial Cross Topics) with integrations to OTC, PTP, HCM, Reporting.

Project Readiness skills for SAP roles as Functional Business Analysts and Project Managers (Agile & Waterfall).

Enhances the student’s ability to pass the certification for SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting (C_TS4FI_1809) providing practice exams and test taking strategies.

Client: Georgia Pacific – SAP FICO Consultant – (Greenfield) June 2019 – August 2019

SAP Consultant in deployment 2 of SAP S/4 HANA 1909 – FSCM – Credit Management (A/R, Credit, Collections, FX, and Disputes).

Detailed Fit/Gap analysis from Explore workshops, developed Test Cases and Test Scripts for FSCM – Credit Management and performed testing in S/4 HANA Dev, QA environments.

Set-up Fiori apps from library for S/4 HANA FSCM (Accounts Receivables, Credit Mgmt, Collections and Disputes).

Validate data conversion objects from ECC to CFIN-Central Finance, Central Payments-Accounts Receivables

Led User Acceptance Testing and identified defects with FSCM team members working with configuration team for mitigation.

Developed Training and Change Management materials from test cases for team, such as (S/4 HANA screen shots and end to end documentation for FSCM processes).

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Client: The Coca Cola Company - (Greenfield) May 2018 – May 2019

Program Manager leading the Reval (TMS-Treasury Management Sy)stem) and SAP S/4 HANA Finance 1909 techno-functional implementation using Agile-Scrum project delivery methodology.

Responsible for delivery and management of design, configuration and WRICEF for 75 banks, bank GL accounts and Accounts Payable Forecasts in SAP S/4 HANA and Central Finance along with master data for GL, AP, and Bank master.

Advisory role for S/4 HANA Finance Bank Connectivity for FSCM-Financial Supply Chain Management specializing in Cash Management and IHC - In House Cash and Central Payments.

Managed a direct team of IT resources with a Program cost of $34 MM for Treasury, Risk and Cash Management (Payments & Receivables, FX valuation).

Direct responsibility for SAP Functional team; all interfaces (Reval to ECC, ECC to S/4 HANA), and direct collaboration (Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning) with S/4 HANA Finance for Cash & Bank Accounts and Procure to Pay teams for AP forecast.

Liaison with Master Data Lead for the Supply Chain Finance, Supply Chain Finance Master Data management to include:

oCreation / Change / Extension / Migration of supply chain finance Master Data Objects from legacy to Central Finance (CFIN) and S/4 HANA to various platforms via MGD workflow process.

Preparation and management of budgeted costs, forecasts and variances, timeline, scope and deliverables.

Developed Requirements matrix, Current State/Future State Process Flow diagrams, Test Plans, test cases and Scripts, IT Governance assessments and final documentation for Change Management & Training prior to Go-Live.

Managed Testing activities: test scenarios, test scripts for Regression, Integration, Performance and User Acceptance testing.

Developed Change management documents: Organizational Change Mgmt., Stakeholder Analysis and Change Impact analysis.

Client: Bramasol Inc. (Moog IG- Stuttgart, Germany) September 2017 – February 2018

Program Manager leading the Revenue Recognition for IFRS-15/ ASC-606 managing the implementation of SAP RAR-Revenue Recognition and Reporting (RAR) solution.

Project Manager (PM) for Bramasol’s SAP US Practice utilizing Waterfall and Agile implementing RAR for ASC 606.

As PM, responsible for the Delivery of the Proof of Concept for current and future state for RAR team to include Functional resources in SD-Sales & Distribution, PS-Project Systems, FICO-Finance & Controlling, BASIS, Developer, and SOA-Architect.

Managed scope, costs, timeline, and deliverables for the implementation of IFRS-15/ASC-606 for Moog IG.

In role of PM, direct interaction with clients, using past-experience in system configuration of SAP FICO and providing team management for both onsite and offsite resources while guiding client through best-practice project scoping.

Norfolk Southern, Atlanta, GA - (Brownfield) October 2015 – April 2017

SAP FICO Lead – Design, develop and deliver SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4 HANA 1709 solution at $12 billion rail transportation company.

Project Management & Business Analysis using ASAP/Waterfall methodology creating blueprints, functional design specifications with WRICEF and configuration documentation for delivery of medium-sized projects.

Utilized Agile/Scrum methodology during critical path operating in Sprints to meet project deliverables.

Develop test scenarios and prepare test scripts for integration and UAT testing using HP ALM.

Participated on the Functional team in the “System Conversion/Brownfield” from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4 HANA 1709

As FI - Functional Team Lead, participated in the upgrade from Netweaver 7.1 to 7.2 (upgrade to EHP7 & EHP8)

In role of SAP Functional FICO lead, direct responsibility for performing PI/PO (Process Integration/ Process Orchestration) testing of Interfaces for FI-GL, FI-AP while leading the other team members in FI-AR, FI-Banking and confirm interfaces with middleware (Sterling).

Prepared test scripts and performed Integration testing in following landscapes (DEV, QA, Production) throughout each enhance pack upgrade (EHP7 & EHP8).

After HANA Appliance was installed, participated in data migration of SAP and non-SAP data to HANA database and performed integration testing.

Put the SAP BW-Business Warehouse on HANA and decided to wait before activating Fiori and S/4 HANA Finance.

Served as Project Manager/Functional Business Analyst in the implementation of PS-Project Systems utilizing WBS elements to capture costs and revenue with settlement to primary cost (GL accounts) in their business process to capture projects that required governmental remediation of hazardous wastes.

Served as Project Manager and SAP FICO Business Analyst on the Concur implementation working with Human Resources, Developers on business on interfaces, idocs and corresponding banks for travel and entertainment solution.

Support FICO - Record-To-Report processes include GL, AP, AR, FA, SD, Treasury, BPC, CO-CCA, IO, Travel and PS.

Accenture, Houston, TX August 2013 – April 2015

Manager in Accenture’s Consulting-solutions practice specializing in SAP Finance & Performance Management solutions.

(Client: Schlumberger)

Manager (FI - Chart of Accounts Lead) - Led the Global design and BluePrint of the Chart of Accounts & BPC-Business Planning & Consolidations in SAP ECC 6.0 for an oil field services company with Revenues of $42 billion and direct responsibility for 5 resources.

Direct responsibility for the integration of legacy SAP systems and non-SAP systems transforming and mapping legacy Chart of Accounts into one global Chart of Account and to replace Hyperion with SAP BPC.

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Architectural role for FSCM-Financial Supply Chain Management specializing in Cash Management and IHC - In House Cash.

Integration of end-to-end processes from Order-to-Cash (AR, Revenue Recognition), Procure-to-Pay (AP, 3-Way match), Product Costs, Inventory Warehouse Management, Asset Management (book vs. Tax depreciation), and Bank-Treasury (Reconciled Cash-Bank Accounts).

Prepared the current-state analysis of CoA, conducted workshops with 35+ business process owners to gather business requirements for future state design of COA.

Mapped legacy Chart of Account fields to new Chart of Account fields in SAP-FI-General Ledger.

Prepared impact analysis and Fit/GAP analysis to ensure the GL sub-ledger processes and accounts were designed and mapped correctly for AP, AR, FA, Cash, Revenue & Expenses.

Data conversion strategy meetings with functional and technical team members to determine level of detail for AR, AP, GL, FA to transfer into the new Chart of Accounts.

Liaised with technical team for GAP/Fit analysis for workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms.

Business Blueprint design of SAP Best Practices for the new CoA to include: The NewGL-General Ledger, Document Splitting of Profit Centers, Segments, Centralized cash management using In-House Cash and Pay on Behalf functionality, Intercompany Transactions, GL Functional Area grouping, Account Assignments and Cost Element Accounting.

Deliverables: Global template and Business Blueprint of COA, Company Code-Parallel Ledgers, Cost of Sales Reporting, Statutory and Management Reporting, Enterprise Structure, In-House Cash, GL Accounts Master Data.

In-House Cash, GL Accounts Master Data.

RAR- Revenue Accounting & Reporting – IFRS-15/ASC-606

Developed assessment of current state Revenue Accounting Contracts to meet compliance to IFRS-15/ASC-606

(Client: Huntsman)

Manager (SAP Business Objects/HANA for COPA Reports) – As Finance Reporting Lead on the SAP Business Objects BI/HANA implementation, directly responsible for the functional design specifications for CO-PA/BI reports at a global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated chemicals with revenues of over $11 billion.

Direct responsibility for designing functional business processes, including characteristics and dimensions for key performance indicators (KPIs) to meet management reporting requirements.

End to end ownership of the final design and functional requirements specifications for CO-PA reports in subject areas:

Sales, Profitability and Fixed Costs.

Conducted workshops with business process owners to gather business requirements for future state design of CO-PA reports and to develop the business blueprint.

Educated stake holders on the business processes to ensure a complete understanding of the report designs.

Identify business scenarios for User Acceptance Testing

Deliverables: Functional requirements specifications document for CO-PA reports for Sales, Profitability and Fixed Costs.

(Client: Home Depot)

SAP SD & FICO Assessment Lead – Responsibility for leading the SD Order –to-Cash Assessment and designing the new Enterprise Structure to convert Home Depot’s “At Home Service” legacy system to SAP IS-Retail ECC 6.0 for FICO, SD, MM and PP.

Designed and configured the system for a Proof-of-Concept demo of SAP’s Sales & Distribution Order-to-Cash process for Make-To-Order and Sub-Contracting processes.

Designed and configured the Enterprise Structure for “At Home Services to include (Controlling Area, Operating Concern, Company Codes, Business Areas, Profit Centers, Cost Centers, and Functional Areas, Sales and Purchasing organizations.

Designed Account Determination strategy for integration points into the GL for the Order-To-Cash process to include (Revenue/AR, Costs/AP, Inventory, Pricing, Tax related accounts, discounts, payment terms, and Mfg. Variance accounts).

Developed plan and analysis to convert and consolidate current Chart of Account/GL from classic GL to NewGL.

Analyzed current Cash Management process to optimize GL accounts with Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), FSCM

KPMG, Woodcliff Lake, NJ May 2013 – July 2013

FI/CO Lead Consultant– Led the implementation and configuration of the US Accounts Payable (A/P) “Procure-To-Pay” process in SAP ECC6.0 with integration to Banking-Treasury, Accounts Receivable (A/R)/Sales & Distribution, and Materials Management (MM).

Direct responsibility for 6 resources while coordinating with 35+ members of the global implementation team.

Configured House Banks, account assignment to G/L Cash account, bank-clearing accounts for Cash, Wires, ACH & deposits.

Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for vendor and customers.

Gathered technical & functional requirements and custom designed ACH bank file to meet NACHA requirements in SAP.

Performed UAT and trouble-shooting defect errors in QA.

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Ventyx (an ABB company), Atlanta, GA May 2012 – Dec 2012

Sr. Business Analyst Consultant – Full Life cycle global implementation (US, AUS, UK, CAN) in SAP ECC 6.0 using Software Provider industry solution for a $2 bn. software division of ABB, a $42 bn. Zurich, Switzerland headquartered company.

Role on new implementation of SAP ECC 6.0: As Business Analyst Lead on a team of 14, participated on the end-to-end business processes for FICO-Finance & Controlling, New GL, PS-Project Systems, SD-Sales & Distribution, Service Orders, MM-Mat’ls Mgt.

Revenue Recognition & Deferred Revenue (SAB 101)

Developed, designed, and implemented Revenue Recognition, Deferred Revenue, Billed Revenue, Unbilled Receivables, Billed Receivables for the SAP business processes Sales & Distribution, Project System and NewGL. for POC- Percentage of Completion projects to meet SAB 101compliance.

Evaluated the system changes requirements and prepared the road map for implementation of SAP RAR.

Blueprint: Gathered business requirements participating in workshops with BPOs for future state, process mapped current state.

Designed Enterprise Structure globally for FI - New GL, CO, Profit Centers, Segments, Product hierarchies, Cost Centers, Internal Orders.

Configured process improvements from the Business Blueprint requirements.

Assisted QA in development of test scripts and participated in UAT.

Role on existing SAP ECC 6.0 system: Supported the current system utilizing the SAP industry solution for Industrial co.

Provided training and end-user support of end-to-end business processes for Order-To-Cash, Procure-To-Pay, and Revenue Recognition with heavy integration points with other SAP modules to include (FICO, PS, SD, MM, EAM).

Responsible for resolving production and system support and administering role authorizations within SAP global team.

Gathered business requirements and developed functional requirements for enhancements to existing modules working with offshore development team and coordinated UAT with end-users.

AKER Philadelphia Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA August 2011 – December 2011

Business Lead Consultant – Full Life cycle implementation in SAP All-In-One ECC 6.0 using Engineering Construction & Operations (ECO) industry solution for a Norwegian Ship Builder with revenues of $1.5bn.

As Team Lead, managed and directed the configuration and implementation of SAP Finance module to include the NewGL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash-Bank, and Fixed Assets incorporating SAP Best Practices.

Blueprint: Requirements gathering of the Finance module for the General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Cash-Bank to manage all end-to-end business processes (OTC, PTP, RTR, CM).

Designed the Enterprise Structure for FI - New GL, CO, Profit Centers, Segments, and Cost Centers hierarchies.

Configured the new GL and mapped GL-Chart of Accounts, prepared GL Master, Vendor & Customer Master, and performed LSMW from legacy system with integration points to Controlling, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, and Project System working team members in systems integration testing to ensure that the solution met business requirements.

Performed Unit and stress testing prior to Go-Live.

The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA May 2011 – August 2011

Business Analyst Consultant – Team Lead in development of Business Blueprint and Business Process Master List for the front-end CRM implementation of Planned Install services for North America.

Gather business requirements, conduct workshop, translate business requirements into functional specifications.

Liaise with technical team to build workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms for new system.

Develop test scripts and perform User Acceptance Testing of new CRM system with backend build to SAP CRM.

georgia pacific, Atlanta, GA August 2010 – February 2011

Business Analyst Consultant - Manage multiple projects, gathered and documented end-user and technology business requirements for new or modified systems from initial phase to development for proprietary, customized business applications.

Worked in Waterfall and AGILE for SDLC projects and received training in AGILE methodology for large and small projects.

In Waterfall, developed project scope, definitions, cost/benefit & risk analysis, work plans, progress reports, and presentations.

In Scrum, worked on DEV team as functional tester and Lead in re-engineering “Quote-To-Cash” process.

Document and process map As Is and To Be state, GAP Analysis converting into business requirements and assist in business process redesign to include change management & root cause analysis.

Functional requirements for CRM interface to SAP SRM for invoices; Interact with users, other portfolios, vendors, and Sr. Mgt.

Home Depot, Atlanta, GA May 2010 – July 2010

SAP SEM-BPC (legal consolidations) conversion to SAP – BOFC (legal consolidations)

Business Lead Consultant documenting “Current State - As Is” process for Consolidations module of SAP SEM-BCS.

User group requirements gathering of “Future State” with GAP analysis for SAP-BOFC financial consolidations module.

Gathered functional and technical requirements for system interfaces, new programming coding and reports as identified by business users from the GAP/Fits analysis.

ricoh corp., Atlanta, GA September 2008 – January 2009

SOX Consultant for compliance to SOX 404 requirements for Information Tech (IT) processes & controls.

Performed initial walk through to document processes and controls, developed test plan and scope, prepared narratives, tested controls, remediation of deficiencies for IT cycles: COSO & Entity Level, Physical Security, Computer Access, Application level, Operating Systems, Database, Network, System Software & Hardware support.

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Web.com, Atlanta, GA July 2006 – March 2008

Business Process/ SOX Consultant for compliance to SOX 404 requirements for Financial & IT processes & controls.

Performed initial walk through to document processes and controls, developed test plan and scope, prepared narratives, tested controls, remediation of deficiencies for Finance cycles: Revenue & A/R, Purchasing & Payables, Payroll & HR, Treasury & Equity, GL - Period End, Financial Reporting, GW & Intangibles, Fixed Assets

Six Sigma business process improvements methodology of SOX deficiencies and other improvement projects.

Thomson-Reuters - SAP ECC/6.0 (FICO) conversion from Oracle Financials R/11i May 2007 - July 2007

Team Lead for implementation of FI: New GL & A/P and CO: CC, PCA & PA

Blue Print – Started project during last half of BPP and assisted in completion of Business Process Master List (BPML)

Gathered functional and technical requirements from SMEs/ BPOs.

Realization Phase – Performed configuration in the IMG.

Configured G/L Master record, Account Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Reconciliation Accounts, and Retained Earnings.

Configured Customer Master, Accounts Receivable, Customer groups, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, account systems, credit management, closing operations, sales order and integration to SD.

Created Security Roles for SOX compliance.

Final Preparation Phase – Performed UAT of G/L & A/P, CC, PCA & PA and trained end users.

Mapped Chart of Accounts and participated in conversion using LSMW (Legacy system Migration Workbench)

Go-Live Phase – Provided initial support of ABAP errors/bugs in reports and transactions.

Other Finance & Accounting Roles

S~WAVE RESOURCES

FinTech Sustainability Advisor – Key analysis for syndicate of $50 MM funding to generate hydro-power in Accra, Ghana

NSF- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Project Manager/Business Analyst – Pre-feasibility study to support commercialization of patent for transformational digital technologies in medicinal cannabis market of $30 BN.

GENERAL ELECTRIC

Mergers & Acquisitions/Business Development

SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA

Senior Financial Analyst/ Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

MEAD-WESTVACO

Senior Financial Analyst/ Division Financial Planning & Analysis

Educational Achievement

UNIVERSITY TEXAS - AUSTIN

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (AWS cloud, Azure cloud, Google cloud, Big Data)

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, GA

Graduate Program in Information Systems, SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)

XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF OHIO, Cincinnati, OH

Masters

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