Project Power Plant

SAP FICO FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT.

Charles Baadi Status: Green Card Holder

**** * ***** ******, *********, CA 90303

Cell: 1-323-***-****:

ab8w26@r.postjobfree.com

Career Focus

A dedicated employee with high integrity, strong work ethic and great

leadership skills. Having 5 years work experience plus 6 years' experience

as an ERP consultant with emphases on SAP FICO modules. Possess strong

background knowledge in financial services industry plus the ability to

work within teams and multi-task projects under strict deadlines.

Summary of Skills

. Hands-on configuration experience in SAP R/3 Financial Accounting &

Controlling (FI-CO), with emphasis on General Ledger, Accounts

Payable, Accounts Receivable.

* Strengths include configuration experience in understanding of the

business processes and conversion of business requirements into SAP

solutions in the most effective manner.

. Involved in one Full Life Cycle implementation & two support project.

. Good exposure on Configuration.

. Proficiency in FI areas of GL, AP, AR.

. Exposure in Controlling in the areas of Cost Element Accounting, Cost

Centre Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit center accounting.

* Strong understanding and experience in integration of FI with SD, MM

modules

* Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as in team.

* Ability to identify the potential problems and resolving them.

* Excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal

skills.

* Excellent relationship management, analytical and inter-personal

skills.

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Project Implementation/Support experience (1 year 4 months) in Propak

Systems Ltd. April 2011 till Date.

Propak Systems, Ltd. engages in the design, engineering, procurement, and

fabrication of modular processing plants and equipment packages for the oil

and gas processing industry. It specializes in oil and gas production

packages and modularized processing plants. The company manufactures,

services, and leases compression systems for the production and processing

of natural gas; offers engineering services for FEED studies, feasibility

studies, and project cost estimating worldwide.

Responsibilties:

. Extensively working in SAP FI ongoing accounts process including AR,

AP & GL.

. Provide support in the areas of AP like Vendor Master, Vendor Invoice,

Vendor

Payments, Automatic Payment Run

. Block report management & Credit analysis of customers.

. Provide support in the areas of AR like Creating customer Master,

booking of customer Payments, Dunning.

. Provide support in the areas of GL like creation of GL, clearing GL

a/c.

. Clearing activities includes vendor A/c, customer A/c & GL A/c.

. Provide support and resolve issues in month end closing activities.

. Interacting with client more frequently for more clarifications

regarding different issues.

. Process Bank file upload in SAP and resolves issues during uploading.

. Provide end to end processing and support for In House Bank processing

and clearing.

. Ensure integration and harmonization of processes within the team and

with other teams.

. Provides Business Continuity Plan and entity wise backup training.

. Provide process development ideas.

Project Implementation/Support experience (1 year 3 months) in Tecan Group

Ltd, San Jose CA. December 2009 - March 2011

Organization: Benok Information Systems

Client: Tecan Group Ltd, San Jose CA

Role: Team Member (FI Consultant)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Description

Tecan Group Ltd, San Jose CA

Tecan is a leading global provider of laboratory instruments and solutions

in biopharmaceuticals, forensics and clinical diagnostics. The company

specializes in the development, production and distribution of automated

workflow solutions for laboratories in the life sciences sector. Its

clients include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, university

research departments, forensic and diagnostic laboratories. As an original

equipment manufacturer (OEM), Tecan is also a leader in developing and

manufacturing OEM instruments and components that are then distributed by

partner companies.

Responsibilties:

. As a team member involved in all phases of implementation from

development of business blue print to end-user training and go-live.

Involved in defining requirements, configuration, integration, testing

and training.

. Involved in development of functional process design and configured

client organizational structure as specified.

. Understanding the existing business processes, identifying the non

value-adding events, Understanding differences in process in various

locations.

. Defining Chart of Accounts, Account groups, GL master records, field

status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, account

display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups. Updating/

amending master data.

. Vendor groups, vendor master data, payment terms, house banks, bank

accounts, check lots, reason codes, automatic payments, advance

payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing

procedures and integration with MM.

. Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and

interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, and integration with

SD.

. Configuration of financial global settings.

. Configured General Ledger accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts

Payable,

. Defined Document number Ranges.

. Creation and configuration of Automatic payment programme.

. Configured Special G/L Transactions.

. Configured the reasons for reversal of documents.

. Configured financial statement version as per client requirement.

. Configured the Tax Calculation procedure, Tax Type, Tax Code Tax

Rates, Tax Categories, and Tax Accounts.

. Configured controlling area settings, Created Primary and Secondary

Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost center accounting, Internal

order, order category, maintains settlements, planning, Budgeting

orders, display of Internal order Information - plan / actual -

comparison. Knowledge in COPA and Product Cost Controlling

Project Support experience (1 year 8 months) in Obajana Cement plc. March

2008 - November 2009.

Obajana Cement Plc (OCP), a subsidiary of Dangote Industries Limited is

into the development of a Cement factory and associated facilities, which

include: a 135MW power plant, a 90 Kilometer gas pipeline from Ajaokuta to

Obajana, a limestone quarry & 8 Kilometer conveyer belt, a water reservoir

and a housing estate at Obajana village in Kogi State of Nigeria.

The main modules used in the implementation are FI, CO, SD, and MM.

Responsibilities:

. Solving of maintenance Issues and tickets in the area of FI-GL, FI-AR,

and FI-AP.

. Keep all documentation up to date by team on share point of time.

. Providing day-to- day operational and process support to users.

. Resolved User issues on timely basis.

. Attended KT sessions & updated knowledge with new issues.

. Modifications to the Field Status Variants according to the client

specifications.

. Analysis of day-to-day issues and solutions after communicating with

users.

. Documentation of solutions and walk through to the users.

. Uploading the balances of GL's, Customers, and vendors.

. Interacting with Client to resolve SAP issues.

. Handling ticket

. Terms of payment

. Output & Input tax on sales & purchases

* Configured Special G/L Transactions.

* Configured the reasons for reversal of documents.

* Configured Dunning procedures with three levels and four levels for

and domestic customers

* Process flow of Sales & distribution module, & integration with FI

Module

Project Implementation experience ( 1 year & 8 months) in Obajana Cement

Plc (Member of Dangote Group) Nigeria Ltd. July 2006 - February 2008

Responsibilities:

. SAP implementation experience covering various facet of ERP

implementation like Process mapping, Configuration, Documentation,

Training, data migration, for the project and post-implementation

support.

. Participated in Minutes of meeting (MOM) from customer and prepared

the business blue print documentation as per requirement

. As-is Business processes in the Financial and Controlling areas

documented, To-Be processes documented and mapped in SAP for FI

. Configuration of basic setting, master data level like G/L, A/P, A/R,

AA & controlling.

. Configured Enterprise structure elements like Company code and

Business areas and assignment of Enterprise elements.

. Bank Accounting: Definition of House Banks, Creating Cheque Lots &

Configuring Automatic Payment Program (APP) and Dunning.

. Maintained account determination for MM integration.

. Creation of cost elements and cost elements groups as per client

requirements.

. Uploading the balances of GL's, Customers, vendors and Assets.

. Solving of maintenance Issues and tickets in the area of FI-GL, FI-AR

& FI-AP

. Interacting with Client to resolve SAP issues.

Previous/Other Professional Experience.

Express Discount Limited Lagos, Nigeria

Express Discount Limited is a financial institution licensed by the Central

Bank of Nigeria to provide Discount House services to the financial

community.

The primary function of the Discount Market is to provide safe and secured

short-term investment opportunities within the banking system. It seeks

also to promote the development of an active secondary market in government

securities and other prime debt instruments originating from the private

sector

Asst. Manager.

Account/Financial Control Department: Computed, recorded and proofread data

records and reports. Assigned tasks to associates, staffed projects,

tracked progress and updated managers, partners and clients as necessary.

Compliance/Internal Audi Department: Assisted the Head, Compliance and

Internal Audit in the planning and reviewing of the direction of the

company's Audit Process in relation to the overall strategic focus.

Investment Portfolio Management Department: .

Accessed computerized financial information to answer questions related to

specific client's accounts.

Worked closely with all product development departments to create and

maintain marketing materials for marketing presentations and client

meetings.

Worked closely with the company executives to identify new business

opportunities and routinely participated in the marketing process.

EDUCATION

* Bsc - Bachelor of Science in Management, Abia State University, Abia

State Nigeria.

* St Anthony's College, Ubulu -uku, Delta State Nigeria

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