SAP FICO

JONATHAN OKOJIABULU

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SUMMARY

In-depth knowledge and experience in SAP FI/CO implementation encompassing implementation cycles from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live.

Diversified experience in SAP FICO configuration and customization as well as End User Environment.

Experienced in SAP FICO system development lifecycle, including business processes requirements gathering, designing, developing and implementing, test plans, test cases and unit testing execution

Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts Payable (FI-A/P), Accounts Receivable (FI-A/R), Bank Accounting (FI-BA), Asset Accounting (FI-AA) & Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SPL) especially in highly Complex Business Environment.

Adept in various financial processes including Auditing, Assurance, Accounting processes, Financial statements, Fund Flow Management, Reporting, Consolidation and analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting.

Performed FI Configuration including FI Master Data, GL, A/R, A/P and New General Ledger.

Proficient in SAP's ASAP Methodology and well versed with business process, its mapping & configuration.

Good working Knowledge in controlling module including Cost Center Accounting (CCA) with good conceptual understanding of Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA) and Internal Order (IO).

Designed and customized standard hierarchy for cost centers and cost center groups structure.

Excellent experience in Unit Test and Integration Test business scenario test cases in GL, AP, AR, CO-CCA and CO-PCA.

Experienced in versions maintenance, planning profiles and planning layout for cost centers actual and planned data and variance analysis under the controlling area.

In-depth experience in input and output tax configuration with respect to various tax jurisdictions.

Provided financial reporting and accounting related support including cost analysis, monthly closing process, financial reporting and preparing monthly account reconciliations.

Maintained House banks with multiple bank accounts, and created Automatic Payment Program.

Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process:

Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor's management, including credit control.

In-depth knowledge and experience in the use of SAP FICO project implementation tools such as ASAP BPMLs, ASAP BPP and ASAP Business Blueprint.

Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation which includes the list of depreciation areas. Created Different Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes.

Strong knowledge in Material Management, Production Planning and Manufacturing modules.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Cout & Investments, Houston, Texas April 2014 – Present

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

Configured Company Codes, General Ledgers, Fiscal Year Variant, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Posting Periods, Parallel Currencies, GL account Master records and assigned field status groups to the account groups.

Created and Configured Customers and Vendors Account Groups and defined payment terms and tolerance groups. Defined Tolerance Limit and Payment Terms for Customers and Vendors. Configured processing of incoming payments, Check lots and credit control area.

Defined Foreign Currency Valuations, currency factors for currency conversion and entered exchange rates in global settings to enable foreign currency transactions.

Performed FI Configuration including FI Master Data, GL, A/R, A/P and New General Ledger

Configuration expert of New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS

Performed FI testing (FI-AR, FI-AP, and FI-AA & FI-GL).

Worked on Dunning area and procedures and keep updating Dunning clerk and Accounting clerk in customer master.

Customized standard hierarchy for controlling areas and mapped out all the relevant cost centers and cost center groups using the standard hierarchy structure.

Served as the primary liaison between IT and Finance to develop SAP FI/CO functionality.

Configured Asset Accounting. Set up the various depreciation areas like Book Depreciation and Taxation. Configured the Period Controls key's, Depreciation key's, Calculation key's etc. Created Asset classes configured screen layouts for Asset master records

Manages daily issues and problem solving related to FICO modules.

Created House Banks, Check Lots and configuring FBZP screen for Automatic Payment Program for clearing open items.

Configured Tax procedure, Jurisdiction structure, Jurisdiction Code, Tax codes for Input and Output Tax, as well as defined and assigned General Ledger Accounts to Tax Asset and Liability.

Analyzed business processes and recommended SAP FI/CO best practices.

Implemented and influenced Finance department's strategic objectives and created a long-term SAP roadmap based on those objectives.

Assisted in the execution of system processes to support interfaces, reporting requirements and year-end reporting.

Worked on Master Data Management using LSMW, Data integration and Data conversion processes. Worked with Data conversion process of different accounting systems

Ensured internal controls and standards are maintained regarding business processes.

Worked on master data of Material Management and Production Planning Modules for integration with General Ledger Accounts, Cost Centers, Business Areas and Profit Centers.

First Leadersoft, Richmond, TX. March 2013 – March 2014

SAP FICO QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST

Responsibilities:

Created Test Plans for the Transaction codes and the functions to be tested.

Tested the postings in FI module for Account Receivables and Account Payables in Finance module

Tested primary and secondary cost elements created using batch processing as well as the associated cost centers and cost centers groups.

Developed and documented test plans, test scenarios and test cases.

Developed test scripts, test cases to verify that Transaction codes conform to specifications of business requirements.

Analyzed and helped in modifying the BPP Document and created the Test cases based on them.

Extensively performed manual testing, requirements verification testing, functional and Unit testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), Stress and Volume testing, Regression Testing.

Executed test cases manually from creating sales order (VA01) through billing (VF01). (Order, Delivery, Batch Split, Batch Determination, Shipping, Pick & Pack, GI (Goods Issue).

Manually performed functional testing of AP and AR Sub ledger Reports in order to Review Biller/Vendor and Payer/Customer relationship Open, Cleared and All AP/AR Sub ledger entries.

Created reusable Test Scripts/Test Cases from Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Scenarios and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).

Executed SQL Data Manipulations language DML statements against a database for the validation of back-end and front-end flows of data.

Facilitated defect tracking and test result summary processes through regular meetings and reporting.

Designed and documented all the issues and defects to ensure SAP FICO Configuration and customization functionality is working according to the requirements.

Webster University February 2012-2013

Assistant (Faculty)

Responsibilities:

Taught Graduates and Undergraduates on campus and online Financial Strategy, Advanced Corporate Finance, Investments Analysis, Capital Budgeting & Corporate Investments, Current Economic Analysis, Managerial Economics, Applied Business Statistics, Accounting Theory and Practice, Management Accounting, Financial Institution and Markets, Finance for Managers and Corporate Finance.

Taught Students financial statements analysis, budgetary procedures, corporate restructuring such as merger, acquisition and leverage buyout.

Taught students Techniques in Statistical Modelling in planning and budgeting (trend analysis, common size analysis and percentage change analysis) for forecasting sales, operating cost and working capital such.

Mikano International Limited 2009 – 2010

SAP FICO Functional Accounts Officer

Responsibilities:

Processed/Managed/monitored and posted accounts receivables/payables; Performed general ledger entries, trial balances, bank reconciliation; prepared financial reporting, monitoring cash, assisted with fiscal administration using through SAP User interface platform.

Processed and analyzed financial reports using report painter.

Supported internal managerial and financial accounting reporting including cost analysis, cost planning, budgeting, monthly closing process, external financial reporting and preparing monthly account reconciliations in the Financial and controlling modules of SAP

Create, update and run batch input sessions in months, quarters and b-weeks on recurring entries for General Ledger postings.

Participated in developing internal controls, monitoring of production costing system, and corporate budget preparation, financial analysis and modeling.

Assisted with monthly closings and financial reporting such as income statement, cash flow statement and balance sheet; processed purchasing and payment vouchers into system using profile Integrated Management System (PIM)

Union Bank 2007 - 2008

Assistant Banking Officer

Responsibilities:

Assisted credit manager in account collection by phone and mail, increased cash flow by 20% annually.

Effectively assessed credit risk and client (current and potential) viability for loan using structured statistical models.

Provided professional financial guidance in the field of order management support services.

Performed analysis of cash flow statements presented by customers before lending which drastically reduced the creation of non-performing loan assets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP System: ECC 6.0; Database: SQL, Access, Excel,

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows […] XP/ Vista/7. UNIX, LINUX

Applications: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, MS Visio

Others: Quality Center, Test Directory

EDUCATION

Webster University, Missouri.

(Masters of Science, Finance (M.SC))

Bachelor of Science, Accounting (B.SC)

National Diploma (N.D), Accounting.

CERTIFICATIONS

SAP Certified Professional (Certificate ID: 83922)

SAP FI-GL Configuration (ECC 6.0) (Certificate ID: 498567)

SAP Global FI Configuration (ECC 6.0) (Certificate ID: 498550

SAP Asset Accounting Configuration I (ECC 6.0) (Certificate ID: 504600)

Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)

Oracle Database Certified Associate (ODA)

Certified Chartered Accountant (ACA)

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