Sap FICO Consultant

SHOTUNDE, Rashidi A

Certified Accountant (CA), Certified SAP-FI & MM- Functional Consultant

Home Address: **** ******** ******, *******, ** 77036

Telephone: 832-***-****

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Career Objective

To work in an innovative and challenging environment as an SAP-FI/CO Functional Consultant that utilizes solid experience and knowledge of core financial and controlling concepts and a sound skill set in treasury management, financial reporting and analysis, project management, project system, sales and distribution, as well as procurement specialist (P2P) by leveraging my experience and continuing to be challenged.

Experience Summary

Rashidi is creative, analytical and solution-oriented with good interpersonal and communication skills, a Certified Accountant and Certified SAP FI & MM Functional consultant with 8+years of experience in rendering SAP Supports, Implementations and Upgrade projects. Experience includes system configurations, functional specifications development, testing, conversions, data analysis, data validation, user training documentations and post-go live support. SAP expertise also includes extensive knowledge in other modules like SD (OTC), MM (P2P), Project Systems, Treasury management, Controlling, FSCM and Fixed Assets management areas. This is backed by 5 years of rich functional experience in Finance, Accounting, Costing, Budgeting and Management Accounting.

Strong knowledge of ASAP Project methodology and deliverables including requirement gathering, scenario testing, writing functional specifications, creating training material and knowledge transfer to clients. Consulting responsibilities included Business process mapping, system Configuration, Integration testing, User training and Documentation.

Certified Accountant (CA), and SAP Certified - Financial and Material Management Consultant.

BIG” 4” consulting experience (DELOITTE and ACCENTURE).

Experience with enhancements including preparation of functional specifications and coordinating with technical consultants for RICEF developments.

In-depth knowledge and experience in SAP FICO implementation encompassing seven (7) projects, three (3) of which are full implementation cycles from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live stages.

Extensive experience in configuring and testing of FICO modules -GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Treasury,Project System, Joint Venture Accounting, FSCM, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product costing (CO-PC) and New General Ledger.

Excellent communication, problem solving and analytical skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.

Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques and high proficiency in project management techniques.

Experience in New GL Implementation and devised a solution approach for IFRS Reporting requirements.

Integration expert for integrating the entire OTC and P2P business processes: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.

Skill Sets

SAP ECC 6.0, SAP ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.5b/4.6C / 4.7, SAP Solution manager 4.0, SAP Web Application Server 6.40, SAP Script, ABAP and HANA.

Experience in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.

Skills in developing reports using SAP ECC report writing tools (i.e. Report Painter, Drill-down Reports and Queries)

Cross Applications: EDI, ALE, IDOC, CRM, HANA, SOLMAN (Solution Manager).

Experience

ACCENTURE Houston, TX (Feb., 2015- Present)

Accenture is a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company helping clients become high-performance businesses and governments.

Project: DSS Project Saginaw, MI

Role : FICO consultant (Feb., 2015- Present)

Company Profile:

The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is as an integrated science and technology company. The Company is a diversified, manufacturer and supplier of products used primarily as raw materials in the manufacture of customer products and services across the world. The Company operates in five segments: Agricultural Sciences, Consumer Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions, Performance Materials & Chemicals and Performance Plastics. The Company serves various industries, such as appliance, automotive, agricultural, building and construction, chemical processing, electronics, furniture, housewares, oil and gas, packaging, paints, coatings and adhesives, personal care, pharmaceutical, processed foods, pulp and paper, textile and carpet, utilities and water treatment.

Responsibilities include:

Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuration and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system;

Participated in End-to-End testing which include the testing of the full end-to-end processes of the Dow segments, with a focus on SAP Financials and its related interfaces to external systems. Documented the test results and tracked defects to closure;

Responsible for driving the design, configuration, testing and support activities within the FSCM areas of Credit Management, Dispute Management, Biller Direct in SAP;

Responsible for analyzing client business processes and identifying the root cause of any problems;

Responsible for designing and delivering quality SAP solutions with best practice, and interacted with various business heads to help defined business needs based on the requirements gathered, and then translating those needs into solutions design that meet the business requirements;

Prepared test plans and scripts and performed unit, integration and regression testing for new SAP releases. Coordinate and drive end-user testing;

Implemented Lockbox processing using BAI2 format for the Auto cash, importing the bank file into SAP ECC via FLB2 transaction and carried out FLB1 for post-processing of the lock box data, statements, aging reports, reason codes, bad debt and cash application;

Configured Direct debit processes and SEPA mandate for European countries, NAA and Canada in line with the business requirements. Set-up the Direct debit customization and performed treasury functions via In House Cash process to generate collection advice for customer;

Customized bill of exchange processes for European, Turkish and Latin America regions with the desired payment methods to be used for RIBA, Recibo, French draft and Boletos and streamlined the bill of exchange processes as requested by the business;

Configured Boletos process for Brazil company codes and performed F110 transaction to generate Remessa file to be sent to the bank using DME after maintaining the currency codes and create variant for the program RFFOBR_A;

Created a functional specification for Argentina bank Frances file based on the discussion held with the business, assessing the gap analysis to determine the “AS-IS” and “TO-BE” . Mapped the file sent from the bank with fields in MT940 format and worked with the RICEFW teams/ developers to write a technical specification and re-used Hanse Orga function module to facilitate the loading of the file into SAP.

MHP AMERICAS- A Porsche Company Atlanta, GA (Mar., 2014- Dec., 2014)

Mieschke Hofmann und Partner (MHP) – A Porsche Company- Excellence in process and IT consulting for automotive

MHP is one of the leading processes and IT consulting firms founded in May 1996. MHP consulting approach, comprising a symbiosis of process and IT consulting, and as a sector-oriented process and IT consulting specialist, offer more than 250 renowned customers both comprehensive IT competence and in-depth process know-how and are thus a process supplier. The Company focus is on the automotive industry (manufacturers, suppliers, dealers and importers) and we also transfer the strategic innovations from this sector to other industries.

Project: F-M Corporation Southfield, MI

Role : Team Lead and FICO consultant (March 2014- Dec., 2014)

Company Profile:

Federal-Mogul Corporation is an innovative and diversified $6.8 billion global supplier of quality products, trusted brands and creative solutions to manufacturers of automotive, light commercial, heavy-duty and off-highway vehicles, as well as in power generation, aerospace, marine, rail and industrial.

Responsibilities include:

Worked as an SAP FICO SME expert of the SAP Competency Center and ensure all FICO related processes managed through the SAP ERP applications are running smoothly all around the globe (over 40 countries) and across all systems (about 10 different SAP instances);

Led a key role in Business Area implementation, identified all interfaces connection with SAP system and resolved issues, queries, in interfaces and Business Area derivation in Intra Company and Inter Company transactions. Also interacted with Business users to know As Is processes and mapping it with To Be, Developed Test Plan and Cases to test various Business Processes and Z-Programs, Documentation that included documenting Business Blueprint, creation of functional specifications, configuration document, Cutover List, User Manual and End user Training material;

Accounts Receivable (FI-AR): Configured Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), Customers billing, delivery, credit control,foreign exchange transactions, valuations, and dunning procedures for collection of defaulted payments. Completed bank configuration for incoming payments with bank transactions for multi house bank scenario and down payment request, manual payment, automatic clearing of open items and setting credits;

Provided SAP FICO/TRM and IHC functions, carried out implementation and support for both financial and treasury related functions, as well as configuring Foreign currency valuation processes;

Designed and implemented the complete Fixed Asset / Asset Accounting Management for north American region including identification of business needs, configuration, Prototyping, Country specific treatment of Depreciation, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, New Depreciation functionality in ECC 6.0;

Responsible for the delivery, support, improvement of processes and functionalities within an automotive manufacturing & distribution organization, utilizing latest technology and SAP system solutions;

Worked as part of the SAP/FICO Maintenance team, accountable for resolving AR, AP, GL, CO-PC, CO-CCA, Joint Venture Accounting, Project system, Asset Management related issues raised via the helpdesk;

Engaged in implementation of process analysis, configuration, specification for developments, testing, documentation, training organization and delivery, and provide end-user support.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 and ERP R/3 Enterprise 4.7

SYSCO Cypress, Texas Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. The company operates 193 distribution facilities serving approximately 425,000 customers.

Project: PROJECT Twenty16

Role : SAP-FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING CONSULTANT (Nov., 2012- Feb., 2014)

The scope of this project includes new implementation of ECC 6.0 and SAP Treasury (In House Cash module) for all US Operating companies.

Responsibilities include:

Responsible for configuring, analysing, designing, and testing of components of the SAP (ECC 6.0). Also involved in maintenance, enhancement and/or development work of SAP modules and those that interface with other applications;

Interacted with the Business users to know “AS-IS” processes and mapping it with “TO-BE”, created LSMWs to load master data from legacy systems to SAP and conducted various End user Training sessions in Finance;

Analysing the errors, root cause analysis, providing corrective solutions and suggesting actions for preventive actions to avoid recurrence;

New General Ledger: Defined ledgers for various company codes as per legal reporting requirements. Assigned scenarios to leading and non-leading ledgers and spearheaded the deployment of Document Splitting. Designed logic for zero balanced - active splitting rules. Defined splitting rules for Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, FI-AR and FI-AP business transactions;

Fixed Asset Module: Configured Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Screen Layout and Account Determination, Defining Multi Depreciation Areas as per business requirements, depreciation keys, Assignment of G/L Accounts, Valuation area, depreciation methods, depreciation Keys, Asset Master Data, load file preparations, and business acceptance;

Sales & Use Tax Accounting: Configured Tax Accounting Design, Tax processes and assignment, tax codes, tax jurisdictions, G/L assignment to keys and implemented external Tax Interface and configured the integration points between FI and TAXWARE;

Configured and reviewed EDI, ALE and IDOC for the missing docs, fixing defects, Lockbox and Business process Electronic Bank Statement;

Accounts Payable (FI-AP): Configured logistic invoice verification (LIV) and automatic payment medium, created functional specification for the check printing payments and responsible for designing and creating payment proposals and payment program/FBZP and configuring settings for payment releases;

Accounts Receivable (FI-AR): Configured Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), Customers billing, delivery, credit control,foreign exchange transactions, valuations, and dunning procedures for collection of defaulted payments. Completed bank configuration for incoming payments with bank transactions for multi house bank scenario and down payment request, manual payment, automatic clearing of open items and setting credits;

Provided review, approval, and execution as required, of proposed configuration changes in the areas of SAP General Accounting, Statutory and Month End Close activities;

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

VOICYNX TECHNOLOGY Inc. Centre Pkwy, Houston Texas The Company primarily operates in the Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing Companies industry founded in 2010 and is privately held with an annual income over $500,000.

Role: SAP FICO CONSULTANT (Jan., 2012- Oct., 2012)

Responsibilities include:

Customized and Configured Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings, Document Types, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Reversals, Invoices and Payments, Defining Account assignment models;

New General Ledger: Defined ledgers for various company codes as per legal reporting requirements. Assigned scenarios to leading and non-leading ledgers and spearheaded the deployment of Document Splitting. Designed logic for zero balanced - active splitting rules. Defined splitting rules for Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, FI-AR and FI-AP business transactions;

Analysed existing system, gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis and documenting it;

Resolved Go Live issues and made value additions by improvements in system and processes;

Configured business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration to generate the Payment Advice notes and to print the checks to make the payment for all Account Payable that are due, clearing of vendor and customer accounts that are due Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for payment Program, and Credit Management;

Involved in Final Preparation (Final integration test and validation, End User Training, Quality checks).

Developed and tested detailed functional designs for business solution components, prototypes, Planning and executing data conversion activities.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 and ERP R/3 Enterprise 4.7

DELOITTE (CPA Firm) Lagos, Nigeria

Deloitte is the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and by the number of professionals. Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services with more than 200,000 professionals in over 150 countries. It is commonly referred to as one of the "Big Four" professional services firms along with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young, and KPMG.

SENIOR CONSULTANT-SAP FICO (Aug., 2008 – Nov., 2011)

Responsibilities include:

Engaged in strategy, implementation support, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) optimization related to Information Technology operations, business processes mapping and documentation, security, and data integrity for the SAP applications;

Integration of the Account receivable with financial supply chain management: Responsible for configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, credit scoring and comparison of functionality;

Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with account receivable;

Profitability Analysis (COPA): Configured Operating Concern, maintained characteristics, maintained User-Defined Characteristics, value fields, defined characteristic derivation, assign value fields, valuation strategies,Set Up valuation using Material Cost Estimate, and assign Costing Keys to Material Types;

Created allocation structures and settlement profiles, creation of different Internal Order types, maintained planning and budgeting of Internal Orders (CO-IO);

Conducted and coordinated Business Blue print workshops for understanding client requirements;

Responsible for heading up the definition of the client’s business processes, re-engineering said processes and implementing FI-AP, AR, AA & MM-LIV, and P2P etc;

Performed all tasks in the development cycle, starting from business process definition, to configuration and unit testing, assistance and follow-up with user testing, to co-ordination of transports to Production, to training and post-live support and fixes, etc;

Configured customer master records, built an AR business model by implementing good business process of OTC with creation of sales order, delivery note, billing documents and AR invoices;

Configured the system to ensure faster customer invoice processing with good configuration of down payment posting, customer payments, and reason codes;

FALAS SUPER OIL COMPANY Lagos, Nigeria

ACCOUNTING MANAGER- G/L (SAP End-user) (Jan., 2004 – July 2008)

Responsibilities include:

Planned, organized, and led accounting staff in the preparation of financial statements and performance of accounting systems and processes.

Maintained books of accounts such as Debtors and creditors and over 200 account receivable and payable.

Generated financial reports using SAP FSV reporting tools.

Responsible for interpreting and applying company policy and accounting principles to financial transactions.

Prepared account reconciliations, identified and resolved issues.

Responsible for coordinating, supervising and developing of accounting policies/procedures and the maintenance of the general ledger and the resultant financial statements.

Prepared and administered department budget and assist in preparing and/or administering budgets and business plans for operating departments.

Certifications

SAP Financial Accounting ECC 6.0- EHP5 Certified.

SAP Procurement (MM) ECC 6.0- EHP6 Certified.

Certified Accountant (CA)

Education

B.A (Hons)-History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos – 2007.

Diploma in Computer Technology, University of Lagos – 2008.

Trainings

Clerical Arts School, Richmond Avenue, Texas - Hand on training and configuration in SAP FI/CO ECC6.0- 2013.

SAP Training Centre- Hand on training, CO-PA, CO-PC, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, configuration and implementing New General Ledger-2013.

Interests

Troubleshooting, Designing, Problem solving, requirement gathering, documentation and learning new things.

Referees

This will be available upon request.

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