SOPHIA PERNI

Burbank, CA 832-***-**** adbk88@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Certified SAP Finance Consultant with over 6 years of experience in IT, as a consultant that facilitates the implementation and support of SAP Financials and Controlling to enhance the clients’ business functionality and overall performance, while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction.

Sharp and highly trained with a desire to work for a well-established company.

Worked in Industry Solutions-Manufacturing, Retail, Banking and Consumer Healthcare.

SKILLS

SAP Expertise: FICO Configuration

Financial Accounting (FI) – Configuration of Organizational structure, Chart of Accounts, Foreign currency valuation, Tax/Purchase Taxes GL AR, AP, Automatic Payment (APP), Asset Accounting, Cash Journal, Dunning process. Travel and Expense knowledge

New GL – Activation of New GL accounting, Define Parallel Ledgers, Integration with Asset Accounting.

Accounts Receivable – Building AR business module, Configuration Customer Master Data, Customer invoice processing, order to cash process, Dunning and Reporting.

Accounts Payable – Building AP business module, Configuring Vendor Master Data, Vendor invoice processing, House banks, Document parking, outgoing payment and Reporting.

Treasury – Lockbox configuration, EDI Configuration, Treasury grouping, Bank statement processing, Cash management posting rules, Exchange rates.

Asset Accounting – Configuration of Asset Accounting, Defining asset classes and depreciation areas, configuration of (Base, Balance, Multi-level) depreciation methods.

Cost Element/ Center Accounting – Creation of Primary and Secondary cost element, Standard Hierarchy, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Assessment, Distribution, Plan price calculation.

Internal Orders – Configuration of the settlement structure, settlement profile, Real and Statistical posting, Configuration of order planning, Budgeting.

Closing and Reporting – Run and reconcile cross functional data, approval of all parked documents, run final sales figure and dunning report, run all settlements in CO, creating management accounting reports with Report Painter.

Integration between FI-MM-SD – Vendor Invoice Management (VIM). Cross functional integration between FI-MM-SD, Billing and revenue account determination, interface design and testing, Revenue Recognition. Procure to Pay (P2P) cycle, Order to Cash (OTC) Cycle

Migration to New GL – Activating New GL, Migration Cockpit

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

ASHFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH HOUSTON.TX FEB 2015-JAN 2018

THE CHURCH ON THE WAY LOS ANGELES, CA MAY 2018-PRESENT

THEODORE ROOSEVELT ES - BURBANK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BURBANK AUG 2019- PRESENT

WORK EXPERIENCE

PACKAGE SOLUTION CONSULTANT IBM JUL 2012-MAY 2014

CLIENT: DEUTSCHE BANK

Participated in the preparation of Business Blue Print (As-Is, To-Be, and Fit-Gap Analysis).

Configured Enterprise Structure and Company codes including Chart of Accounts.

Used LSMW for uploading of G/L, customer and vendor master data.

CATTS for creation and modification of GL, customer, and vendor master data.

In New GL, Defined Segment, Document Splitting, Defined and assigned Accounting Principles to Ledger Groups, Create/change GL accounts, Field status group, Maintained Financial Statement Version, Manual and Automatic Clearing, Recurring Postings, Intercompany Account Posting, Intercompany Reconciliation, Maintained Posting Period Variant.

Configured settings in the A/P & A/R, such as house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, PO related vendor invoicing, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, terms of payment, check lots, void reasons and running/editing dunning procedures. Worked on vendor/customer master records, automatic account determination and account groups.

Interacting with MM/SD Consultants to generate master records of customers and vendors as well as monitoring of AP & AR.

Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing, MICR Code and ageing analysis. Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys. Worked on integration between MM and FI.

Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts. Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification.

Cash Management System, House Banks, and Bank Statement processing and exchange rates in Treasury module.

Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions.

Lock box program with EDI and IDOC setup.

Configured Asset Accounting module, including mainly Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements. Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.

Performed the Inter-Company transactions of the Assets and customized interfaces.

Inter-company transactions involving the deprecation area, retirement of assets, scrapping of assets using ALE.

Developed reports using report painter.

Played a vital role in End User Training and Post Production Support, Changes to Production and associated methodology, Test Plans, Unit Testing.

IT SPECIALIST INFOSYS MAR 2011-JUL 2012

CLIENTS: DIAMLER CHRYSLER (MERCEDES BENZ) & APPLE PROJECT

Configured House Banks, Bank account and assign to check lot. Configured automatic payment program(APP) for out-going payments in AP

Configured payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discount and automatic clearing of line items.

Implemented and Resolved issues relating to Automatic Payment Program (APP)

Setup Lockbox in BAI2 format and configured Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)

Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations Automatic account determination, GR/IR clearing.

Part of Production Support Team (L2) carried out all enhancements changes as per client requirement. Transport the Changes from Development to Production.

Setup House Bank for Automatic payments and EDI setup for inbound and outbound IDOC’s and ACH processing.

Integrated automatic posting for FI-MM through OBYC. Procure To Pay(P2P)

Configured FI-SD integration and revenue accounts determination through VKOA Order to Cash (OTC).

Configured the FI and CO settings on the development server and transported onto the testing and ultimately to the production server after successful testing by users.

Configured Financial Accounting Global settings: Key settings being Company Code, Business Areas, Fiscal Year Variant, Document Types, and Document No. Ranges, Validations, Tax on Sales and Purchases.

G/L: Masters, and in business transactions-open item clearing, integration, Validations, etc.

FI-AR, FI-AP: Masters, Open Item processing settings.

Transactions – Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos (terms of payment), Outgoing Payment, Incoming Payment, Dunning, Open item Clearing.

Lead a team of specialists in SAP FICO to support the business processes for the RTR solution

Bank accounting: House Banks. Transactions- Check Deposit, Payment Transactions (manual bank statement).

Tested the settings on the development server and transported the settings onto the testing server for user testing and confirmation, and transported into the production server after user confirmation.

Readsoft Project: Automating Financial Processes in SAP, including purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash and record-to-report.(Apple)

Creating custom Reports on AR and AP by giving functional specifications to the ABAP team for development.

Data-up load, by using ABAP designed BDC programs, Account assignment modules & LSMW. Documented the processes using standard templates.

Imparted User-training on AR and AP processes.

SAP Portal Upgrade for Apple Project-SAP Webcycle.

PROCESS ASSOCIATE GENPACT JUL 2008-DEC 2010

CLIENT: CONSUMER HEALTH CARE AND R&D (GSK) US

Responsible for gathering the Requirements, preparing the Business process procedures, Configuration and creating Test scripts.

Fixed Assets: Configured chart of depreciation by country, depreciation areas, Asset classes, assigning company codes to dep. Areas, creation of screen layouts and no. ranges, Asset document types, posting keys, Asset fiscal year, creation of dep. Keys like ordinary depreciation. Creation of G/L accounts and determined automatic account assignment, posting depreciation and interests to G/L account.

Configuration of transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, intra-company transfers, write-offs, Subsequent revenue, Subsequent Cost and capitalization of assets under constructions.

Successfully prepared VSM (Value Stream Mapping) for Fixed Assets Accounting Process.

Automated the intercompany Asset Transfer process with cross system depreciation areas.

Maintained the Parallel currencies in Assets.

Accounts Payable: Configured vendor groups, vendor master data, down payments, open item clearing, invoice verification through MIRO, recurring entries, Accrual Postings,invoices and credit memos

Configured Internal order master data, defined Order types and created number ranges for different order types, Maintained default account assignment for cost center and internal orders.

Configured House Banks, Automatic Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods and alternate bank selections for payments. Check Management through assigning number ranges for check lots, checks printing and defining void reason codes check encashment process, Payment program variants for printing checks in multiple currencies.

Create training materials for local business and designed test scenarios for processes and provided global support in Integration tests. Performed in Unit Testing in the project implementation

Accounts Receivable: involved in Customization and Configuration of Customer master Records and Customer groups. Terms of Payment, Interest calculation, Billing and Incoming Payments, Cash discounts and Credit management, Tolerance groups, Over/Under payments and determined the automatic account assignment.

Provided ongoing Functional and development support for the Record To Report (R2R) business solutions to ensure that current and future business requirements are met.

Participated in configuring electronic bank statement (transaction types, posting key rules).

Maintenance of Fixed Asset related documents for SOX (Sarbanes -Oxley) audit.

Provide consulting services on both new implementations and existing support projects and provide ad-hoc training and user support as required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP - SAP R/3, (4.6, 4.7) & ECC 6.0.EPH 6, 7.

Operating Systems – Windows 7/10,macOS

QuickBooks

Oracle Enterprise One(JdEdwards)

Read soft (Apple Project)

Microsoft Office

CERTIFICATES & ACCOMPLISHEMNTS

LEAN/SIX SIGMA ACE Certified at Genpact

SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP7 (Issued by SAP SE).

Won Spot awards from my previous organizations, volunteer appreciation.

EDUCATION

MASTERS IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT JUNE 2006

Completed Masters in Financial Management from Pondicherry University

BACHELOR’S DEGREE MAY 2003

Completed Bachelor’s degree in Computers and Commerce(B.Com-Computer) from

Acharya Nagarjuna University.

BURBANK ADULT SCHOOL NOV 2019

Completed QuickBooks and Accounting course as part of Career and Technical Education (CTE).

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