Debbie James

LAS VEGAS, NV *****

678-***-****

aczjpc@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE SUMMARY:

Debbie is a Senior SAP FICO consultant with over 18 years of SAP domestic and global implementation experience. Her implementation includes eight full life cycles and four successful upgrade projects. Her main focus has been successfully implementing integrated SAP financial platforms from the planning phase through post go-live business supports.

Debbie’s experience includes the following industries; manufacturing, pharmaceutical, consumer products, retail, and telecommunication. Debbie has excellent business communication skills, analytical skills, and is detail oriented. WORK EXPERIENCE:

SENIOR SAP FICO CONTRACTOR

06/2015 – Present

SAP FICO Contractor, Short Term Projects and Training October 2016 – December 2016

SAP HANA AND SAP Simple Finance online overview training

Freelance assignment – executed FICO integrated test scripts and wrote FI functional specifications

SAP Deutschland AG & CO/Kontron America June 2015 – May 2016

Senior FICO consultant working on a global rollout implementation which includes: USA, Canada, Malaysia, France, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Denmark, Czech Republic, Japan, United Kingdom, Poland and Germany. This implementation is wave two of three rollouts. The purpose of this implementation is to transition from the current ERP systems to a new SAP process and system landscape using the SAP World Template Approach. The World Template Approach provides countries with specific harmonization to allow functional processes in ONE client for all countries. (ECC 6.0)

Local FICO consultant for the US who collaborates with the core FICO consultant in Germany for project directions

Knowledge transfer documentation: business process documents, functional specifications, development objects, configuration documentation, and World Template (WT) scenarios resides in SAP JAM

Prepared and conducted the local fit/gap workshop sessions

Presented the global template to the finance team which allows functional processes in one client for all countries. The FICO functions implemented are: CO, New GL, AR, AP, AA, Cash Management, and Electronic Bank Statement

Documented the results of local requirements and reviewed the detailed gaps list with the FICO key user. All gaps were listed on one comprehensive gap list (150+ for USA)

Captured notes from each workshop session and logged the information in SAP JAM EDUCATION:

Bachelors Degree –

Business Administration,

Albany State University, 1983

SKILLS SUMMARY:

SAP FICO

Business Blueprint

Data Migration

Business Processes

SAP Templates

Team Leader

EFT/EDI

GAP Analysis

Data Medium Exchange

XML Format

Strategic Planning

Reengineering Strategy

Data Analysis

IDOC Translators

TECHNOLOGIES and

METHODOLOGIES:

Aris

ECC 6.0/7.0

Gold Client

Mercury Tool

MySAP

ASAP

SAP Solution Manager

LSMW

ALM

Win-Shuttle

uPerform

Share Point

SAP JAM

DEBBIE JAMES

Wrote functional specifications based on approved gaps-bank interfaces

Configured the FICO modules based on local requirements identified during the fit/gap sessions, which includes bank files- ACH, withholding tax, and standard SAP sales and use tax functionality for 168 jurisdictions

Unit tested all configuration tasks to ensure functionality was correct

Released FICO transports from the source system to the target systems

Updated the configuration documentation with local requirements, as well as updated global test scripts in preparation for integration testing

Created incident reports during integration testing, performed fixes, retested fixes and documented results in Solution Manager

All project documentation; WRIFEC list, incidents reports, and fixes resides in Solution Manager

Supported the local key users during UAT testing and analysed the fixes which were reported for handling incidents

Tested FICO development objects and updated the functional specifications

Assisted the data migration team with mapping requirements for GL balances, vendor/customer master, and transactional data

Assisted key user with validation of mock data migration loads for 400+ Customer master and 160+ Vendor master records

Updated master spreadsheet with FICO manual configuration tasks and entries, and validated transported data

Worked with offshore and onshore team members

CAPGEMINI

March 2012 – May 2015

Senior FICO Consultant, The Limited Corporation June 2014 – January 2015

Senior FICO Consultant working on the F2M team assisting client with writing functional- technical specifications for Interfaces. (ECC 6.0)

Wrote functional/technical specifications (specs) for FI/CO objects and gaps (AP, AR, GL)

Worked closely with the client subject matter expert to gain functional/technical requirements and conducting review sessions

Scheduled meetings to gain knowledge for business requirements from the business team leads

Scheduled meetings with technical team leads to get technical information to write the technical portion of the specifications

Wrote specifications for accruals and lease charges which used XML bank data format process

Used translation tables to translate legacy data to SAP data format and performed data field mappings (legacy to SAP fields)

Wrote unit test scripts for AP, AR, and GL technical development per specification requirements and scenarios for unit testing purposes

Resolved unit testing defects

Wrote/updated the configuration documentation for configuration updates

Conducted 50% and 100% review sessions with the business team members to gain approval Senior FICO Consultant, ITT Corporation January 2014 – June 2014

Senior FICO consultant working on a global implementation project, i.e. (USA, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Germany) assisting the F2M team with global requirements

Implemented the Manufacturer Path solution (MFG Path)

Attended sessions and worked with/assisted solution expert on global implementation issues to find an SAP Best Practice resolution for FICO implementation gaps

Conducted business requirements sessions for site localization requirements

Prepared blueprint workshop presentations for all FICO modules and conducted several blueprint sessions during a two week BLITZ forum

DEBBIE JAMES

Wrote daily workshop minutes and posted to SharePoint for team members to review with comments/corrections if required

Wrote functional design documents for FICO based on blueprint workshop minutes and scheduled meetings with FI/CO team members

Prepared workshop presentation for taxes (Sales & Use and Golden Tax) and maintained a tax matrix for the site localizations requirements

Prepared/updated process flows for all FICO modules that were in scope for the global implementation

Worked with data team on FICO master data objects mapping requirements. Scheduled several meetings with client team members to ensure all required fields were accounted for in SAP

Prepared/attended mini BLITZ sessions that were not covered during the two weeks BLITZ forum Senior FICO Consultant, Sandvik Corporation April 2013 – December 2013

Senior FICO Consultant worked as the US Solution Advisor on a global implementation, i.e. (Sweden, Canada, Germany, China, Brazil, US) for the finance team. Assisted the US finance team and the stakeholders with various tasks. (ECC 7.0)

Senior FICO Consultant working on the F2M team assisting all team leads and the finance manager with various tasks

Attended training for the global implementation in Sandviken, Sweden for FICO modules

Worked with and assisted Solution Expert on FI issues to find resolutions for gaps

Worked on the EBP (Enterprise Business Platform) global template for the United States and other countries

Attended BFA (Business FIT Analysis) requirements gathering sessions for: FTM, OTC, P2P, E2Q which were led by Solution Experts

Maintained FICO requirements listing and worked with Solution Expert to find resolutions

Reviewed global ARIS process flows for all FICO processes

Worked very closely with the US project manager

Benchmarked third party tax packages which included the following countries: Canada, Brazil, and Mexico

Configured the organization structure (baseline) for FI, SD, and MM in order to configure sales and use tax functionality

Demonstrated SAP’s sales and use tax functionality to the FI, SD, and MM team members

Created process and configuration documentation for the tax functionality through SharePoint system

Created business requirements and change request documentation on SharePoint. Found new solutions if business requirement processes was rejected

Wrote business requirements for reports and tested when coding was completed

Tested all standard SAP reporting requirements for FICO

Worked with the SD/MM consultant to find resolution’s for the client’s test tool, ship/ debit, rebates, and commissions processes which had financial implications

Configured SAP to utilize the test tool process for US

Worked with Solution Expert to correct 1099 withholding tax configuration issues

Worked with finance team to correct FICO issues which required some configuration changes to the global template

Used Win shuttle to load small master and transactional data loads Senior FICO Consultant, American Greetings April 2012 – January 2013

Senior FICO Consultant working on the F2M (Finance to Management) team assisting all team leads and the finance manager with various roles. (ECC 7.0)

Managed two offshore resources who performed configuration tasks, writing test scripts, writing BPPs, and various FI tasks

Configured accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and new general ledger modules through Solution Manager per the functional design documentation

Worked with Solution Manager to perform the configuration tasks which would then sync with SAP ECC and upload the configuration work

Exposed to the Financial Supply Change Management (FSCM) module

Setup FI configuration nodes in SOLMAN (Solution Manager) DEBBIE JAMES

Configured accounts payable which included basic configuration, automatic payment program, ACH bank files, 1099 processes, withholding tax, sales and use tax, and tax jurisdictions

Configured fixed assets which included basic configuration, depreciation areas, depreciation classes, and asset master data

Configured new general ledger which included basic configuration, document splitting, document splitting characteristics, leading ledger currencies, exchange rates, closing cockpit, and global settings

Setup and scheduled batch job information for the finance team

Created transport requests for all configuration tasks and moved transports into different clients and released assigned transport requests in SAP once all configuration was completed

Wrote test scripts for AP, FA, and GL as per business requirements and scenarios for Testing purposes. Used step by step guide to create the test scripts in ALM (Application Lifecycle Management testing tool)

Resolved all testing defects through ALM

Wrote/updated the configuration documentation for all configuration performed in FI through Solution Manager

Created BPPs (Business Process Procedures) using uPerform tool

Converted small data loads of master and transaction data to SAP using Win shuttle tool

Executed PRICEFW functional unit testing for accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, and reports

Performed security role testing for general ledger and accounts payable SENIOR SAP FICO CONTRACTOR

February 2010 – January 2012

Short Term Projects and Training October 2011 – January 2012

Assist project managers from previous projects with short term tasks: data mapping,

Created master data and transactional data for test purposes

Analyzed FICO legacy reports (GL/AR/AP/CO) and compared to ECC 6.0 standard reports

Wrote business process procedures, process definition documents, and test integration

and unit test scripts for clients

Additional training on new general ledger

Senior Consultant, Burger King Corporation June 2011 – September 2011

Senior consultant engaged on an asset management revaluation project. Due to company acquisitions, asset records were revaluated for the US and international stores. The assets to be revalued were from legacy systems and migrated to a global common template which included 16 countries. The project was initiated due to the acquisitions, technical landscape, and geography. (ECC 6.0)

Configured company codes, general ledger, fixed assets, and controlling functions

Created three spreadsheets (AS02, AR29N and ABAA) to upload assets using LSMW functionality

Customized programs to reverse depreciation runs, program to reverse posted periods, and utility program to advance to the next fiscal year

Converted all legacy asset data into SAP asset master records

Configured SAP for revaluation enhancements and executed revaluation tasks

Verified the configuration, program(s), and data support loaded successfully

Revalued SAP assets in accordance with KPMG determinations Senior Consultant, Sun Products February 2011 – May 2011

Senior FICO consultant working on the One Sun Implementation Project team

Worked on the Record to Report (RTR) team writing BPP’s, Day in the Life scripts, security testing, and product cost analysis. Company is implementing ECC 6.0 version moving from SAP 4.5. DEBBIE JAMES

Designed and configured SAP accounts payable, accounts receivable, and controlling implementation and gathered user requirements

Compared business operating procedures to the training documentation for inconsistencies for FICO and analyzed products for comparison for product costing

Prepared detailed methods and procedures related to AP, AR, and product costing

Analyzed products for comparison for product costing

Prepared analysis for mismatched standard cost difference from the legacy system to SAP and researched/resolved issue between the two systems

Identified and prepared analysis for the Material Master that determined errors for profit centers, valuation class, base unit of measure, and sales unit of measures creation for each plant

Executed security testing for finance, controlling, and product costing and created Day In The Life scripts for finance, controlling, and product costing

Executed Business Process Procedures (BPP) for the FICO team

Created master data and transactional data for integration testing and training SAP FICO Contractor, Short Term Projects and Training September 2010 – February 2011

New General Ledger delta training

Analyzed FI legacy reports (GL/AR/AP/AM) and compared to ECC 6.0 standard reports

Wrote (BPP’s) Business Process Procedures and (PDD) Process Definition Documents, and wrote functional specifications for AR

Senior SAP FICO Consultant, Florida, Power, and Light February 2010 – June 2010

Senior FI consultant working on phase 2 of the SAP One Project team

Worked on the Accounts Payable team writing RICEF functional specifications for processes and reports. Company is implementing ECC 6.0 version moving from SAP 4.5.

Configured areas of accounts payable that was not configured in phase 1 project

Conducted requirement workshops to gather business requirements to aid in writing function specifications

Wrote functional specifications for AP open item conversions, AP master conversion, enhancements, interfaces, forms, and workflows

Performed data mapping process and data cleansing for AP open items and AP master data conversion

Worked on a Web DynPro application for an AP business process

Participated in technical reviews with the technical team to explain the functional specification for coding purposes

Wrote functional unit test scenarios of the business requirement objects that was coded and tested by the development team before turning the completed object to the business team for testing IDS-SCHEER CORPORATION

March 2008 – August 2009

Senior SAP Consultant, SAP America January 2009 – June 2009

Senior FICO consultant on SAP project preparation required for the future launch of Reseller Technology Solution (RTS), a pre-configured SAP template. The dealers implemented financial and controlling functionality to handle all transactional activity related to general ledger, fixed assets, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and controlling processes. (RTS 5.0 installations and RTS ECC 6.0 development)

Configured FICO organizational structure and functions not included in the pre-configured RTS template (local tax, new g/l accounts, credit card setup, automatic payment process, ACH payments, controlling hierarchy) using SAP best practice requirements

Configured CO hierarchy, cost element groups, cost elements, cost center groups, cost centers and profit center accounting DEBBIE JAMES

Trained client on cost element planning and cost center budgeting

Created fixed assets master records and trained client on how to execute the monthly depreciation posting run and month- end close processes

Defined/executed standard AP, cost center analysis, and financial statement reports

Wrote functional specifications for FI and CO reporting and bank specification

Created a dealer tax load template with new rate changes for 22 states that were impacted in the RTS implementation. The tax information was automatically exported into SAP and the updated tax rates were automatically imported into SAP

Created a manual credit card process for RTS implementation and wrote functional specifications for the manual process and the credit card settlement report

Senior Consultant, Encompass Corporation October 2008 – December 2008

Senior FICO consultant engaged on a textile project for an AFS Best Practice Solution based on a Germany solution reengineering strategy to a US solution. Team lead over four client SME’s. FI implementation included AP, AR, GL, and organizational structure. Curtailed challenges by executing very thorough testing and retesting of the customized objects.

(R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0)

Configured FI functions including AP, AR, GL and organizational structure based on the business process reengineering strategy

Configured cost center elements, cost centers, profit centers, and planning tasks for cost center and profit center accounting, and Maintained plan distribution keys

Identified/executed standard SAP CCA, PCA, and profitability analysis reports

Created reports using queries to gather information for Taxware reporting requirements and controlling requirements

Responsible for FI/CO integration and customized object testing

Assisted with development of ARIS process flows and trained super users

Developed custom Data Medium Exchange (DME) structures for bank wire transfers using ACH Senior Consultant, Nikon International April 2008 – September 2008

Senior FICO consultant lead engaged on the technical upgrade and new functionality deployment for an international telecommunication company

Team lead with two clients SME’s with hands-on assistance

Responsible for FICO design, gap analysis, testing, deliverables, and deployment of SAP ECC 6.0 functionality. Project was implemented on a very aggressive time schedule. Documented new business opportunities and implemented best practice solutions which enhanced the installation. (R/3 4.7 to ECC6.0)

Updated and executed FI/CO test scripts with ECC 6.00 upgrade functions

Assisted in trouble shooting problems that occurred relating to the upgrade

Identified functionality that could be implemented post go live to streamline processes

Tested GL, AR, AP, FA, CO, and Vertex tax business transactions in 6.0

Updated BPP’s for new ECC 6.0 functionality, created FICO reports using queries

Loaded FI/CO master and transactional data using the Gold Client tool COMPUTER SCIENCE CORPORATION

October 2005 – February 2008

Senior Consultant, Monsanto Corporation November 2007 – February 2008

Senior consultant engaged on a global manufacturing project. The objective of the project was to fully integrate global SAP to all commercial, manufacturing, and financial operations on the information technology platform. This challenge was accomplished by conducting several accounts payable, fixed assets, and general ledger workshop sessions with each country. (SAP ECC 6.0)

DEBBIE JAMES

Delivered Finance Planning, Business Process Development System Design, through Single and Multi-phase implementations in North American, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Conducted FI and CO business process workshops to gather the financial, statutory, and controlling requirements which determined the detailed design

Analyzed client’s current reporting requirements and compared to SAP standard reports for fit analysis. Assisted client in executing and reformatting reports to clients specifications Senior Asset Management Consultant, Delphi Corporation July 2007 – October 2007

Senior consultant lead engaged on an asset management data migration project plan. Company asset records were migrated from non-SAP legacy systems to a global common template which included 34 countries. The project was initiated due to the complexity of asset management processes, technical landscape, geography, and asset base. (SAP R/3 4.7)

Configured general ledger, fixed assets, and controlling functions including hierarchy functionality. Configured tasks for creating plants, defined additional local currencies

Developed programs to convert legacy data provided by business units into SAP asset master records and associated data according to the project schedule

Converted all legacy asset data into SAP asset master records

Created spreadsheet to track the difference of US GAAP and local GAAP for each legacy system that was loaded into SAP

Developed programs that provided flat files containing required legacy system’s general ledger information for asset fiscal reporting purposes

Configured SAP for revaluation enhancements

Verified the configuration, program(s), and data support loaded successfully

Revalued SAP assets in accordance with KPMG determinations Senior Consultant, Verizon May 2006 – June 2007

Senior Lead Functional Consultant responsible for design, data conversion, custom development, deliverables, and testing for regulated telecommunications for accounts payable of 15 million. FI team lead with eight clients SME’s with hand-on assistance to the team members. The objective of the SAP financial initiative was to consolidate and standardize the financial business processes and data across several organizations using New GL functions. Responsible for reengineering all AP processes and worked with Travel Management team. (R/3 4.6 to SAP ECC 6.0)

Facilitated business process reengineering SDL sessions (Solution Demonstration Labs) for Accounts Payable and Travel Expense Management

Configured/prototyped AP tasks which included the automatic payment process, bank files, ACH payments and process/export data (i.e. EFT payments) via EDI translator and exchange servers, extended withholding taxes, Vertex, and new GL functionality

Configured travel management tasks: defined trip variant, assigned organizational areas, made global settings, defined travel expense types

Prototyped steps for entering a TE report, settle the report, create posting run to FI

Configured AP workflow process for approval of invoices and expense reports with level of approval linked to an approval amount

Analyzed client’s reporting requirements and compared to SAP standard reports and wrote functional specifications for reports that required customization for AP and Travel Management Senior Consultant, Forest Laboratory December 2005 – April 2006

Senior FICO SME engaged on a pharmaceutical upgrade project. The SAP upgrade project was a technical upgrade from 4.6C system to ECC 6.0 minimizing functional and technical changes.

Updated test scripts with ECC 6.00 business processes and developed training deliverables using Mercury tool, and assisted with unit and integration testing

Configured/prototyped Evaluated Receipt Settlement process DEBBIE JAMES

Executed new 6.0 transaction code for the monthly depreciation run process

Added new function module for customer EFT process requiring branch number in text field and customer document number in assignment field that was not working properly

Updated new fixed assets requirements for ECC 6.0: Auxiliary Account Assignment to Asset, Change Message Control, Depreciation Posting AJAB

SAP Consultant, Shire Pharmaceutical December 2004 – October 2005

Engaged on a pharmaceutical project as the Accounts Receivable lead for a $13B company. The implementation initiative required standardization of data, processes and systems to support the implementation of a global business model. The implementation provided functionality to support Sales Order Processing, Distribution, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Production Planning and Control, Quality Management, Plant Maintenance, Financial Accounting and Management Reporting. The company selected SAP R/3 4.7 as the common system for its businesses in the US and UK.

Prepared presentations for Business Blueprint design workshops in the following areas: Customer/Credit Master; Accounts Receivable/Credit Management Functionality Overview; Accounts Receivable Invoicing; Manual Incoming Payments Payments; Cash Management/Lockbox; AR/Credit Management AS-IS; Returns and Recalls Processing; Sales and Use Tax; FI Hierarchy

Analyzed the as-is reporting requirements to determine which documents can be executed with standard SAP functionality, require customization, or executed in BW

Published meeting minutes from all meetings and followed-up with any action items

Reviewed existing accounts receivable/credit management functionality to determine the to-be business processes

Reviewed documentation of existing business processes and RICEF objects (reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms)

Developed process flow diagrams of the to-be requirements

Assisted AR/Credit Management team in writing Process Design Documents and prepared scenario list

Created BPP listing/role mapping requirements for AR/Credit Management

Identified EDI requirements for AR

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