Accounts Payable Management

Rowan P. McKenzie, CPA, CGMA

SAP FICO/FICA Solution Architect Cell: 1-289-***-****

Profile

Rowan McKenzie’s 15 years of experience as a SAP consultant in developing solutions and leading all stages of a SAP implementations. Rowan has a solid financial accounting and management background; having earned the designation as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Rowan has the ability to work influentially with a variety of stakeholders and convey complex information in a clear and compelling presentation.

Rowan has successfully applied consulting skills and business knowledge to effectively integrate SAP technology initiatives into the client’s business. Rowan’s acquires a commanding grasp of his client’s business environment and challenges. He has a record of proven hands on technical leadership, these attributes are the basis for his confidence in his ability in directing his team to translate system requirements and technical challenges into process/technical solutions for the SAP application.

Rowans communication skills will ensure that coordination with Business Stakeholders, IT Infrastructure teams, and Development Teams achieve results. His experience implementing SAP in various industries will make available design and business process alternatives that are based on best practices and SAP functionality. Rowan’s work ethic and attention to detail will make certain that business requirements are properly configured and 3rd Party applications are efficiently integrated.

Highlights:

15 years SAP consulting experience designing and implementing solutions. Deep Knowledge of IS-U & integration with FICO, CRM,PM, MM, SD.

Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Knowledge of IFRS & GAAP.

Managed a team of IT and business specialists; planning, scheduling and coordinating their work; providing guidance and motivation to ensure quality.

Ability to communicate with all stakeholders in projects to ensure commitments are maintained and to provide timely, relevant and reliable updates to senior executives and other stakeholders.

Experience overseeing multi-function project teams, including Developers, Test & Business Analysts.

Ability to provide leadership to Business Analysts and collaborate with customers and develop strategies and solutions of high business value.

Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building

Experience/Project Work

Company: Pepco Holdings (An Exelon Company), 1.3 million customers

Role: FICA solutions Architect Duration: 8 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Conducting workshops and review meeting with key user groups in the business

Provide post implementation support with the objective to stabilize the solution.

Provide guidance to interface FICO, FICA & Oracle Financials

Company: Upper Peninsula Power Company, 70,000 customers

Role: FICA solutions Architect Duration: 7 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Conducting workshops and review meeting with key user groups in the business

Documenting and defining existing processes and functions and areas for improvement

Developing revised processes and approaches using sources of best practice, business experience.

Reviewing new processes with key user groups and gaining their acceptance / sign off including:

- BRF+ (Credit & Collections by Collection Strategy)

- FICA/FICO integration with FERC reporting

- CRM, Billing & Work Management Integration of service products and compatible units.

Create cost variant/valuation variant for actual cost settlement of PM work orders.

Preparing functional specifications for enhancement of development needs

Leading the development of design specifications

Developing test scenarios and supporting user acceptance testing

Company: Lansing Board of Water and Light, 150,000 customers

Role: FICA solutions Architect Duration: 9 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Responsible for template design of SAP ECC 6.0 CR&B Solution

Oversee the design and delivery of the SAP solution – Finance Integration with Procurement, Billing, CRM, Device Management.

Advise stakeholders and management on the solution and business process

Lead a team of functional SAP Consultants - FICO,FICA, CRM,

Designed work order costing work management solution to integrate with Syclo Work Manager.

Company: National Insurance Board of Barbados, 300,000 customers

Role: PSCD Team Lead Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Ensuring that all legal and regulatory requirements are adhered to and that the PSCD solution is completed and implemented on time and within budget.

Leading a team of IT and business specialists who were assigned to address client's business requirements and resolve system problems. Planning, scheduling and coordinating their work. Providing advice, guidance and motivation to ensure quality.

Communicating with all stakeholders in the project to ensure commitments are maintained and to provide updates to clients senior staff and other stakeholders.

Provide both technical and operational advice as well as guidance to supports the client's IT infrastructure and integration with third party vendors.

Company: Saudi Electric Company – Regulated Electric Retail, 2.0 million customers

Role: FICA Lead Duration: 3 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Responsible for driving business workshops and requirements gathering.

Delivered initial high level cross functional design that is specific to the middle east environment and incorporates FICA/Billing/Device Management.

Company: Hydro One – Regulated Electric Retail, 1.3 million customers

Role: Senior Consultant Duration: 30 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Managed the development & implementation of Credit & Collections solution.

Delivered new Credit & Collections functionality including:

Dunning by collections strategy

Business Rules Framework (BRF+)

Submission to Collection Agency

Designed and implemented a work management solution for dunning related disconnection & reconnection Including direct costing for field service costs.

Develop functional specification for forms, reports, interfaces, workflow and enhancements.

Defined test scenarios to cover the full scope of the client’s FICA solution.

Completed unit, system and integration tests.

Company: TXU Energy – Deregulated Electric Retail, 2.0 million customers

Role: Senior Consultant Duration: 7 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Reviewed dunning solution and proposed recommendations to achieve optimum performance and reduce bad debts.

Delivered new Collections functionality including

Statistical write off

Security Deposit

Company: London Hydro – Electricity, 300,000 customers

Role: Solution Architect, SAP FICA Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

FICA re-design and improvements

Delivered new Collections functionality including

Developed costing PM work order costing to capture field service costs.

New Dunning with BRF

Partially credit management

Promise to Pay.

Developed solution to manage and prioritize disconnections.

Company: Enbridge – Gas Distribution, 1.8 million customers

Role: Senior Consultant – Credit & Collections Duration: 20 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Delivered new Collections functionality including

CRM collections Work list

Dispute Management

Partially dunning by collection strategy

-Lead credit and collections FI team through SAP implementation phases beginning with a review and refinement of blueprint; Performed configuration and assisted client in cycle and integration testing during realization; and assisted in the preparation of BPP’s, test scenario’s and end user acceptance testing and training.

Company: CMS Energy – Electricity & Gas, 6.5 million customers

Role: FICA consultant Duration: 10 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Delivered SAP credit & collections functionality

Budget Billing

Installment Plan

Cash Desk

Dunning by dunning procedure

Company: Burton Snowboards – Apparel and footwear (AFS),

Role: Solution Architect, SAP FICO implementation Duration: 13 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Lead in the upgrade from SAP 4.6C to ECC 4.0 during a rapid AFS Implementation.

Analyzed As-is business process and created FICO blueprint that outlines process improvements and best business practice.

Configured FICO functionality ( New GL, AP-MM integration, AR-SD integration, product costing (CO-PC), Profitability analysis (CO-PA), Asset management (AA)

Product costing for manufacturing operation including standard cost for inventory items and actual resource related billing for PM work orders.

Company: Reliant Energy, Houston

Role: FICA Consultant Duration: 5 months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Post-go Live support. Investigated billing and invoicing issues and recommended optimal solutions.

Configured approved change requests for billing and invoicing.

Company: Sacramento Municipal Utility District - Electric, Sacramento

Role: FICA Consultant Duration: 1 Month

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Configured approved change requests for tax reporting and dunning

Company: Suffolk County Water Authority - Water, New York

Role: SAP FICA Solution Architect Duration: 9 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Assumed leadership of FICO team during Realization.

Integrated inventory management (MM), Project System (CO-PS), Profit Center (CO-PC) with FICA and GL

Provide post go-live support for FICA./FICO application FICA design and development

Company: Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant - Electric, Taunton Massachusetts

Role: SAP FICO/FICA Solution Architect. Duration: 20 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Implemented core SAP R/3 and CCS in two phases.

Configured a FICO solution that to satisfy FERC reporting requirements.

Configured General ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Project Systems (PS), Costing for work order management, Asset Management (AA).

Defined implementation action plan, coached FICO/FICA team, managed delivery and mentored client staff.

Company: Ocean County Utility Authority – Waste water

Role: FICO Solution Architect Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

-Configured General ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR).

-Designed resource related billing for project systems and work order management.

-Designed and configured budget process with funds management (FM).

Designed a financial accounting and reporting system to adhere to GASB statement 34 with regards to fixed assets, depreciation and contributed capital.

Company: Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District.

Role: FICO Consultant Duration: 22 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

-Full cycle rapid ASAP implementation with preconfigured client.

-Configured General ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR).

-Designed a standard labor costing solution for plant maintenance (PM) to capture labor cost for critical work management areas.

-Configured Accounts Payable (AP) invoice verification and account assignments for Materials Management (MM).

Company: Georgia Department of Education

Role: FICO Trainer Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

-Develop training material

-Deliver end user training to train end users to use FICO application in the public sector.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICAITON:

Certified Public Accountant

Member in good standing: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Member in good standing: Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants

BA (with Honors) in Business Administration

Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada

Certified consultant in ASAP Methodology

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