Sap Project

SAINABOU SOSSEH

**** ******* **** ***** *** *

Cincinnati, OH 45230

(601) 212 - 9838 (C)

*********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a position in the field of business and software

engineering.

EDUCATION: Jackson State University

Jackson, MS

College of Science and Technology (BS)

College of Business (AACSB Accredited) (BBA)

Computer Science and Accounting (double degree) December 2004

GPA: 3.8/4.0

Masters of Science in Accounting University of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, OH

(December 2011)

Certifications: SAP FI Certification, Six Sigma Green Belt training

EXPERIENCE:

May '10 - Present Kao Brands Company

Cincinnati, OH

ITSS and Business Application Analyst

Provide SAP FICO application production support to Finance business users

both locally and globally

Act as a liaison between the Finance group and the ITSS team

Provide business analyst expertise in Finance and ITSS endeavors such as

IFRS implementation

Create functional design specs for ABAP programs for SAP Finance space

Act as a liaison between SAP FICO and other SAP modules such as logistics

and BI

Perform system testing for SAP enhancement packs, kernel testing and system

upgrades

Research and implement SAP OSS notes to solve and maintain system

functionality

Provide proofs of concept to SAP users of new functionality with the FICO

space

Research, recommend and plan to implement new SAP functionality such as new

G/L

Provide business analyst skills and expertise as the Finance team lead for

company global harmonization project

Develop and provide SAP application and business processes training to

users

Manage local and global IT projects in the Finance business applications

Perform workshops for functional and technical project analysis and design

as team site lead

Create excellent SDLC planning, design, testing and training documents for

project processes

August '09 - April '10 Lonza Inc

Conshohocken, PA

IT and Business Application Analyst

Provide SAP Application support to Lonza plant users

Analyze and develop plant business processes into SAP application processes

Troubleshoot and solve SAP logistics (MM, PP, QM, PM, WM) and FICO module

system and manufacturing process issues

Assisted in financial period, quarter and year end close by preparing

assigned reports, journal entries and reconciliations

Provide business and process analysis for various plant SAP optimization

projects

Develop AS-IS and To-BE business cases for SAP system and process changes

Develop and provide SAP application and business processes training to

users

Act as a liaison between Lonza global SAP group and the plant SAP business

users

Manage local IT projects in business applications such as Logistics,

Finance, etc.

As the first contact person with end-users: guarantee support for change

requests, process optimization and new solutions

Create SDLC planning, design, testing and training documents for project

processes

November '07 - March '09 SAP America

Chicago, IL

BUSINESS & SYSTEMS Analyst

Provided functional and technical support for business financial reporting

across business segments

Worked with functional and technical business users to develop business

cases and cost/benefit analysis for proposed systems

Became a business or technical liaison between system (IT groups) and

business groups (Finance, Accounting) and vice versa

Analyzed and created AS-IS and TO-BE analysis and documentations for system

upgrades and implementations

Provided SDLC project management and coordination expertise to clients

including project plans, coordinated and drove status meetings and project

resource budget and allocations

Provided best practice research solutions and deliver clear and insightful

recommendations

Created and maintained documentation and training to client business users

Created and provided testing guidelines, plans, scripts, cases and results

for clients test scenarios

Developed and performed SAP FICO, BI and Logistics (MM, PP, LE, QM, PM)

functional and technical tasks

Utilized client EP for Financial and Management reporting of both standard

and custom reports

Projects:

Client: PepsiCo Duration: September 2008 -

March 2009

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

. Reproduced comparative reporting reports from Oracle to SAP ECC and

BI.

. Provided Project management and coordination through project

blueprint, realization and Go-live such as requirements gathering

workshops, project plans, project budgets, etc.

. Analyzed G/L, cost element, profit center, cost center accounts to

formulate new composition of reporting analysis by Business users

. Configured and analyzed the COA and g/l and cost element accounts to

generate useful financial data and efficient processes

. Performed CO-PC tasks with profit center accounting and cost center

accounting analysis and configurations

. Provided analysis and technical tasks on how to generate comparative

contribution margin reports via use of both standard and actual costs

at Month-end in Profitability Analysis

. Updated Excel macro to pull comparative data from Oracle and SAP into

a unified report

Client: Kraft Foods Duration: January

2008 - June 2008

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

. Developed training course scenarios, exercises, uPerform scripts and

support materials for Production Master data and Product Cost Planning

and Management

. Process and Production order configuration, analysis and

implementation. Also created and deployed training materials for

Process and production orders to client business users.

. Provided analysis and proofs of concepts of material costing business

process

. Analyzed variance segregation resulting from price differences and or

exchange rate changes

. Created and provided FI to CO reconciliation documentation analysis

and tasks

. Material ledger and actual costing analysis, documentation and

configuration tasks

. Thorough understanding and ability to configure all material master

tasks and module elements

. Created and performed BOM, costing runs, cost estimates, variance

analysis and price splits

. Performed configuration and analysis tasks on Product costing cost

object controlling setup of key result analysis to calculate WIP in

valuations

. Updated, developed and configured controlling product costing and

material management modules as it relates to distribution and

manufacturing processes.

. Utilized Solution manager to perform various project management tasks

and process research

Duration: November 2007 - January 2008

Attended intensive SAP boot-camp training offered by SAP as a consultant

prep. This boot-camp included SAP FICO, BI, Solution Manager, ASAP and

Logistics classes and also provided the background to be SAP certified.

July '05 - November '07 Accenture LLP.

Chicago, IL

BUSINESS & SYSTEMS ANALYST

Developed and perform SAP BI, FICO and SEM BCS functional and technical

tasks

Assisted in SDLC and Business project planning, requirements gathering and

design sessions

As a PMO analyst, monitored project status and worked with others to

document and address issues raised

Documented project processes, meetings and agreements such as project

proposals, planning, blueprinting documents and functional and technical

design documents

Created and analyzed both external and internal financial reports such as

Balance sheets, Income Statements, Cash flows documentation

Applied principles of cost accounting to provide detailed cost information

for various business segments and recommend cost efficiencies as

appropriate

Analyzed and created logical data models for business processes based on

functional business users requirements

Created, populated and troubleshoot complex business processes using

business software such as complex Excel spreadsheets and power-point

presentations

Maintained current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned

Assisted clients in organizational restructuring

Provided end-user training and testing tasks

Projects:

Client: Chevron Duration: May 2007 - November

2007

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

. Developed training course scenarios, exercises and support materials

through LMS and OnDemand

. Reviewed and customized the learning design with process SMEs

. Point of contact for SAP technical issues during training

. Delivered training course to client management and administered

testing to conclude training

Client: Avnet Telecommunications Duration: January

2007 - May 2007

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

. Developed and built functional and technical design specifications for

SAP FICO G/L, AA, AR and AP upgrade from ECCS

. Created infocubes, virtual cubes, multicubes, DSO, hierarchies, and

various BI structures to facilitate successful BI implementation

. COA creation, configuration and analysis

. Analyzed, designed and built master and transactional data elements

for FI and BI data loads

. Maintained and updated project PMO dashboard for project status and

upkeep

. Created and implemented build and unit test scripts for the FI and BI

Configurations within Mercury Quality center.

Client: American Express Duration: November 2006

- January 2007

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

. Assisted business in validation and reconciliation of Accounts

Receivable Financial reports developed through BI

. Assisted in a complicated reconciliation to the Amex General Ledger

and comparison to existing report validation through a dashboard

configuration;

. Created, updated and performed various testing tasks with Mercury

Quality center

Client: Dade Behring Duration: August 2006 -

November 2006

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

. Assisted BCS team lead in the day-to-day SAP BCS tasks and issues

during the testing phase of the project

. Further developed SAP BI/BCS functional understanding and technical

skills;

Client: Hunt Oil Duration: November 2005 - July

2006

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

. Worked closely as a member of the BCS project team for Planning and

Blueprint phase.

. Organized, participated and documented requirements gathering

workshops

. Assisted in the functional and technical design of the BCS data model,

master data and data collection methods

. Assisted BI Architect with the BW interface redesign and build

. Built and tested data collection methods

. Prepared test data and user scripts for integration testing.

. Created training materials for new BI and BCS functionality

Jan '05 - July '05 Caterpillar Inc.

Peoria, IL

IT ANALYST I: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Analyzed and improve current BW analysis and reporting tools

Developed an updated user-friendly web front-end for DBSi release through

BEX Web Application Designer

Researched SAP Enterprise Portal for CAT dealer systems and upgrade of DBSi

Portal

Prepared project charters for various SAP projects

Prepared test scripts for SAP BW Process Chains implementation

Visited Plants to perform cost analysis for plant cost effectiveness

Jul.'03 - Dec. '03 FedEx Internal Audit

Memphis, TN

INTERNAL AUDIT INTERN II

Prepared flowcharts to document operational processes

Prepared work papers for review by in-charge auditor

Conducted field work procedures to tests controls

Developed audit issues

Provided detailed input into audit report opinions

Assisted in the revision and total distribution of audit reports

May '02 - Aug '02 Union Pacific Railroad

Omaha, NE

FINANCE INTERN

Instrumental in implementing of the voluntary early retirement program

Analyzed, researched, and documented potential business growth areas

Designed and developed Lotus Notes databases for research and Development

purposes

SKILLS: SAP BW, FICO, BCS, MM, SAP Enterprise Portal, Solution Manager,

Sharepoint, C++, Java and Unix, 6 Sigma training, FICO Certified, Mercury

Quality Center, LMS, OnDemand, UPerform, SDLC Process, Microsoft Office,

Windows, Lotus Notes, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable and the

Internet.

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SAP Profile

. SAP professional with six years experience in SAP FICO, Business

Intelligence (BI), Logistics, BPC and SEM Business Consolidation

System (BCS).

. Knowledge of business and accounting principles and a BBA in

Accounting.

. Computer Programming logic and syntax skills and expertise

. Project Management ability from program planning, design, build, test

and train

. Ability to work with both local and global resources and consultants

. 2 full SAP implementation experiences

. Thorough knowledge of business process integration with SAP modules

. Understanding and ability to configure FI AA, AR, AP, and New G/L

master data setup

. Ability to analyze and perform financial analysis on corporate

documents from business users into SAP.

. PCA, COPA, CCA, Cost element, Product Costing and Material Management

design and analysis experience

. Deep understanding of master and dynamic data from ECC to FI.

. Ability to perform BI data loads and create reporting hierarchies.

. Proven ability to create SAP SEM BCS, BI, Logistics and FICO project

functional and technical design documentations as outlined in the

SDLC, RUP and or UML

. Ability to perform tasks according to 6Sigma DMAIC and create SIPOCs

. Training and ability to perform tasks within the Solution manager and

FSCM functionality

. Ability to transform business and financial process and reports into

SAP processes and or reports

. Developed and provided testing and training designs for various SAP

projects

. SAP industry experience in: Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Oil and

Gas, Financial corporations, Communications and High-tech companies.

Technical

. Created and configured Enterprise Definitions for company codes,

controlling areas and operating concern tasks within SAP Customization

. Ability to create, configure and analyze CO Customization tasks and

module components for plant, distribution centers and storage

locations

. Ability to configure European VAT taxes

. Ability to configure FICO tasks at an expert level - SAP FI certified

. Ability to configure material master, purchase orders, goods movements

. Analyzed, developed and configured process and production and process

order life cycles

. Proven ability to understand and explain the integration between SAP

FICO, logistics, and BI.

. Transferred data records from ECC 6.0 and BI 7.0 to FI for enhanced

units.

. Created Master data upload processes (Infopackages, load type,

datasources, DTP, Build and Unit test) within SAP BI 7.0.

. Created and ran product and material costing cost estimates and

costing runs

. Create Ad-hoc queries for business reporting through the SAP Query

Designer (SQ01)

. Create functional and technical design specs for SAP ABAP programmers

. Researched and analyzed SAP ECC and BI reports to provided financial

reporting analysis by Cost center, profit center and G/L and cost

element accounts.

. Created BCS consolidation group hierarchies, Financial Statement Items

(FSI) upload processes and breakdown categories.

. Created and maintained Sharepoint intranet sites for project SDLC.

. Created and maintained uPerform and OnDemand training scenarios,

scripts and documentation repository for SAP modules training and

education plans.

. Worked on SAP high-end system reorganization tools such as the SAP SLO

toolsets

. Perform conflict analysis resolutions through the utilization of OSS

and configuration notes

. Designed strategic solutions around PCA, COPA and cost center

accounting structures

. Analyzed and designed Controlling area strategy

. Created validation and substitution rules with the Special purpose

ledger

. Excellent table and field analysis and utilization

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