Sales Support

WILLIAM L. SCHILLING

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FUNCTIONAL FICO

BUSINESS ANALYST

Highly dedicated former Financial Management Executive with years of experience implementing and resolving accounting, administrative and system matters in a multi-national corporate atmosphere. Monetary-minded professional positioned to assist management in SAP implementation, planning, configuration and the evaluation and understanding of the reported results.

CPA & SAP Expertise

Over 18 years SAP Experience

Over 20 years Financial Experience

FI Enterprise Structure

A/R & A/P

Issue Resolution & Support

EBS & Sales Tax Interfaces

CO Enterprise Structure

Documentation

Test Script Development

Employee Dev. & Training

Product Costing

PCA, CCA, CE, & Int. Orders

Fixed Asset Implementations

CE & CCA Planning

Business Process Improvement

International Finance

CAREER HISTORY

FirstCall Consulting Partners, LLC Atlanta, GA

10/2010 to Present (ad hoc contract engagements)

Contract FICO support lead to various small businesses allowing them to minimize the costs for end-user support, troubleshoot issues and engage in enhancement initiatives. Enhancements implemented include the following:

Implemented SAP Sales and Use Tax

Implemented SAP Automated Lockbox, Manual and Electronic Bank Statements

Performed analytical review of current accounting functionality within SAP and recommended business process and functionality changes to enhance the accounting process.

Supported Fiscal Year-end Change including Fixed Asset year-end

Created new financial statement versions and modified existing version to meet client requirement

Assisted client in creation of New Company Code and FICO functionality as a result of recent acquisition

Investigate and modify costing and reporting issues

Worked with the SAP BW team to investigate and resolve data integrity issues with the BW reporting.

ReachIT/NTT Data, Inc. Boston, MA

10/14 to 06/2016

Lead FICO Enhancement Support Contract for Fortune 100 Company

FICO team lead in merging of multiple European Company Codes into a single company code. Worked closely with European controller to define the business requirements, including developing program with off shore ABAP resource to archive sales invoices with pre-merger statutory data in .pdf format for subsequent retrieval as required.

FICO team lead in implementing full FICO and SD functionality from 3rd party system into pre-existing SAP company code. Created specs for conversion of master data and the current open AR balances. Worked with SD and Basis team to implement Taxware for all of the Canadian provinces and cities for this company code.

NTT Data, Inc. Boston, MA

06/12 to 02/14

FICO Support Lead for Fortune 100 Company

The integrated knowledge of accounting requirements and SAP functionality allowed me to assist the controllership team with seamless month end and year end closings and required reporting to corporate. This support required availability on weekends and holidays.

Provide end-user support for all FICO modules (FI, CO, Product Costing, Planning, Asset Management, Internal Reporting)

Supported Taxware installation and monthly updates.

Configured and implemented new company codes, currency settings, consolidation updates, product costing and reporting for new entities as acquired.

Worked with offshore team to implement webcash processing for outgoing payments

Worked with end-users to support Year End Closing, Balance Carry-forwards, Update OH Rates for Product Costing

Update and modify configuration as required for new enhancements

IDS Scheer, Inc. Atlanta, GA

11/03 to 5/10

Senior FICO Lead Consultant

Assignments Included Full Implementations, Partial or Modular Specific Implementations and Managed Services Support and Enhancements.

Full Implementations ( 4 complete implementations)

Conducted requirements gathering and blue printing workshops. Insisted on full client participation to avoid any potential issues with the scope of work and deliverables.

Implementations included single company code and multiple company code environments with multiple locations. These implementations included GL, AR, AP, FA, CO, Product Costing, and COPA. Adopted multiple currency functionality where required.

Implemented Taxware and Vertex for client rollouts.

Worked closely with and demonstrated to clients the cost savings by utilizing as much of SAP’s standard functionality as possible. Minimized the need to customize transactions.

Defined the logic, specifications and validation testing for customizations where required and then presented to client for user test and signoff.

Conducted training and documentation for the SME’s in order to follow the train the trainer methodology.

Partial or Enhancement Implementations

Five fixed asset implementations including a fiscal year change.

Four automated lockbox and two electronic bank statement implementations. And several enhancements to client vendor payment processing including vendor down payments and 1099 reporting functionality.

Implemented sales and use tax processing within SAP and provided support for previously implemented Vertex functionality.

Managed Services

Provided end-user support and configuration adjustments for existing SAP instances. Cash application, AP functionality and enhancements, Fixed Asset issues.

Modifications and enhancements to product costing

Created user documentation where the issuer was not properly understanding the business process.

Various (Independent Contracts)

2002 – 2003

Clients included Small Manufacturing,

Condor Technology Solutions (Answer Think)

12/2000 – 12/2001

Clients included Manufacturing, Utilities and Pharmaceutical

Tuthill Corporation R3 3.1 upgraded to R3 4.6

1980-2000

Corporate Controller

FICO – SME & Team Lead

Reduced requirements gathering to minimal time based upon familiarity of the business and reporting needs and developing a template expedited the rollout of SAP to 22 locations globally in a minimal amount of time.

Coordinated the documentation and training for end-users

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

BS in Accounting

St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, IN

Certified Public Accountant State of Illinois

PAST PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Association of Management Accountants

Financial Executive Institute

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