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Business Analyst Sap Fico

Location:
Cleveland, OH, 44119
Posted:
March 04, 2024

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Antoinette Sanders

Email id: ad33jx@r.postjobfree.com

Contact no: 216-***-****

Summary:

Over 20 years working with SAP FICO Module. (Started in the Accounting Environment).

Good understanding of all types of SAP environments and has good transferable skill set.

8 years working as SAP FICO Functional Consultant. Configuration and Master Data Maintenance.

6 years working as SAP FICO Business Analyst and Project Lead.

Involved in 3 full lifecycle project and 2 support projects and training phases.

Experience in working with Agile Methodology utilizing SAP Best Practices; as well as ASAP, Agile Methodology for iterative scrum development.

Maintained and developed standard operating procedures.

Experienced working in a global environment.

Extensive hands-on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) include General Ledger (GL), New GL, Assets Accounting (AA), Account Payable (AP), Account Receivable (AR), Transport Request (TR).

Experience covers all stages of SAP FI activities Creation of As-Is, To-Be, Business Blueprints, Configuration, Testing, User training, Documentation, Go Live support, and Production support.

Generate reports on performance such as number of requests processed, and request returned for re-implementation and streamline the process to get effective results for the team.

Good Accounting and Finance knowledge with demonstrated Competencies in Financial and Business Analysis while working in different industries.

Adaptable to any type of SAP environments.

Skilled in working under pressure meeting TAT (turnaround time) with accuracy.

Experiences:

Oatey Manufacturing Hybrid October 2022-Present

SAP RTR Lead Business Analyst

Lead the Record to Report (RTR).

Part of the Configuration, and IT team.

Conduct Testing in QA system.

Train Business Users on new process.

Work with RISE SAP S/4 Hana with Fiori a package of SAP.

Responsible for Chart of Account Master Data, General Ledger Accounting, Fixed Asset Accounting, Month-end Preparation and Month-end Close.

Work closely with PwC, business owners, project manager, STP, P2P, and OTC teams.

Plan is to work in various areas will need to configure, test and train end-users.

RSC Solutions: Client Crestron Electronics Remote May 2022 – August 2022

SAP P2P Business Analyst (Contractor)

Write Test Scenarios using Excel Spreadsheet

Write from Purchasing to Invoice

Testing both the Material Ledger and Finance Accounting SAP Modules.

Work with teams to discuss plan.

Train End Users on xSuite interface.

United Business Solutions: Client Deloitte, Remote October 2021-May 2022

SAP S/4 Hana Finance Lead Project Manager (Contractor)

Lead Project Manager for North America Accounts Payable, India Account Payable/Invoicing, and North America Payroll. Liaison between Deloitte and client side.

Schedule meetings to go over Financial Specification Documents, deliverables, and updates.

Send new requirements to Control Change Board to be approved.

Work with other team leads and the confidential client to make sure all deliverables and blocks are addressed. Manage Timelines and expectations.

Make sure the Test Catalog is addressed and test scripts steps are in order. Make sure steps are not skipped, make sure test cases are correct.

The Sprints (Phase) need to be complete. Make sure the deadlines are met.

Attend daily meetings with all the financial operations Project Management team leads.

Work with Outsourcing to get additional support for Ariba and Tax.

Review (LGTM) Looks good to me items that are completed.

Storm Search Client: Ranpak Manufacturing, Cleveland, Ohio

SAP S/4 HANA Cost Accountant then moved to Business Analyst (Contractor)

December 2020- February 2022

Play a key role in the Company’s implementation and operation of its SAP S/4 Hana environment.

Working with FICO, MM, PP, HR, and SD departments to Migrate from SAP FICO to SAP S/4 Hana Finance 2020. Brownfield Project.

Meet with department head decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business requirements into functional solutions through analysis and design; identify and resolve systems issues.

Manage SAP user training and facilitate the resolution of user questions/issues working with SAP and other relevant service providers as needed.

Walk the shop floor to review the products and new products.

Work on legacy system for month-end close.

Prepare Product Cost Total Cost Calculation of Raw Material, Freight and Overhead Cost.

Work with Fixed Asset Team and get permission to close projects.

Receive emails from purchasing to cost new products.

Work with Fiori Application for SAP S/4 Hana Finance 2021.

Pro-Career Consulting Cleveland, Ohio 07/2017-11/2020

SAP FICO Business Analyst

•Communicate with Stakeholders acting as liaison between stakeholders and ABAP team.

•Lead the requirements gathering through interviews, document analysis, systems analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis task, and workflow analysis.

•Provides project management support.

•Write business and functional specification documents.

•Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details.

Becton and Dickinson Medical Manufacturer San Antonio Texas 06/2016-06/2017

Manufacturing Cost Accountant-Corporate Level

•Monthly call-in meeting to report up to Operations to discuss high-level plant performance reports.

•Received the email request for cost roll needed in Oracle for new products. Maintain and update, global standard cost item cost roll-ups for all products. Prepare Annual Standards Cost Roll in SAP up to the Mark step, then inform team when it was time to release.

•Run reports from the Business Intelligence system such as PPV, Component Waste, and Absorption.

•Download Inventory, Inventory in Transit, Purchasing Price Variance, E&O, Inventory in Reserve, and Work in Process reports from Oracle. Export to Excel analyze data and then Download from SAP and export to Excel to analyze. Include support backup of journal entries and reconciliations.

•Work with both internal and external auditors to ensure journal entries are in SOX compliance.

•Completed quarterly budget and forecast process.

•Review Profit and Loss Statement and Balance Sheet for analytical purposes of Actual vs Budget Plan.

•Prepare monthly Performance report to measure Direct, In-Direct and Manufacturing Overhead.

•Analyze Machine Hours, Downtimes, Labor Hours, and Production and Raw Material reports.

•Analyze activities to convert raw materials into the finished goods.

•Analyze the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

•Report operating variances from target vs. actuals.

•Effectively partner with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives, drive process improvements, and implement best practices.

•Analyze monthly variances while identifying and explaining causes for price and usage variances in material, labor and overhead.

Business Data Solutions Cleveland, Ohio 11/2007-6/2016 Financial and Controlling Consultant (2007-2013 -Promoted to SAP Functional Consultant (2013-2016)

•SAP Functional Consulting- Work with ABAP team and Business Owners and End Users, to gather business requirements, make corrections and suggestion notes and then breakdown requirements for further review.

•Work with both Financial and Controlling modules. With SAP FICO project teams to configurate FICO.

•Work through Configuration customizing steps.

•Assist Material Management and Sales and Distribution Team.

•End- User support and train on release to production. Assist with testing fail and pass steps.

•Travel throughout the United States to consult for Manufacturing (Corporate and Plant level).

•Collect, compile, and present financial data.

•Report and comment cost driver to Operations.

•Send Contribution Margin reports to Upper Manager.

•Maintain capital budget-update spending. Build Capital Project WBS Elements and utilize Project Systems.

•Responsible for physical inventory coordination and execution including a review of inventory results.

•Month-end and year-end close general ledger account reconciliation of WIP, Inventory, Account Payable and Fixed Asset accounts. Monitor and review expenditures to plan throughout the year. Prepare daily and weekly production, inventory, and scrap reports for upper management.

Tremco Cleveland, Ohio 8/2005-10/2007

General Accountant Construction

•Processed a large volume of travel expense reports, cost accounting/job order expense reports that generated revenue for the company and processed via SAP FI/CO module. Involved in all areas of accounting SAP FI/CO Account Payable, Account Receivables, Travel Management, Tax projects, General Ledger, and special projects.

•Involved in the SAP FI/CO training upgrade and testing of Travel Management, trained for the upgrade of SAP FI/CO from 4.6C to ECC 6.0, part of the SAP training sessions to implement Scan Imaging onto SAP FI/CO, involved in the decision-making process with the Project Management team to implement Datria (voice activation) onto SAP FI/CO (team included IT, Accounting, Construction Management.

Computer Skills:

SAP S/4 Hana FICO, Business Intelligence, SAP BPC, Oracle, Oracle Discover, Hyperion, Data Warehouse Tool.

Education:

Indiana Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Science in Business Management

Indiana Wesleyan University, MBA in Accounting

SAP Financial and Controlling Certificate 2010

SAP S/4 Hana Finance 2020

Scrum Master CSM Certificate



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