CHRISTOPHER KAZEMBE

SAP CONSULTANT

adq12o@r.postjobfree.com 469-***-**** TX

SUMMARY

Around 6 years of strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, document preparation, user training and production support in SAP FI/CO.

Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring New General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-AP, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, and Asset Accounting FI-AA.

Controlling module knowledge includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA and Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA.

Involved in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, developing Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration. Worked on 2 full life cycle implementations. Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling.

Comprehensive object analysis of the system using SPAD and SPAU transactions in SAP System upgrades. Solid knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), International Financial Reporting concepts (IFRS)

Performed Documentation for end users and provided end user training

Excellent Finance and Accounting knowledge with demonstrated competence in Financial and Business Analysis knowledge developed while working with different Clients.

Worked extensively on unit testing, integration testing, functional testing and user acceptance testing. Writing Test scenarios, Test cases for all FI related transactions.

Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills.

SAP Expertise:

Financial Accounting: General Ledger FI-GL, Accounts Payable FI-AP, Bank Accounting FI-BA, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Credit Management, Asset Accounting FI-AA, FI Treasury.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Profitability Analysis CO-PA.

Legacy System Migration Workbench LSMW and conversion/load methods like IDOCs, BAPIs, RFCs, Direct and Batch Programs.

ASAP implementation methodology.

Defined RICEFW (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms & Workbench)

In AR, worked on the Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), payments from multiple customers and A/R

Technical Skills

ERP Package:

ECC 6.0 and S/4 1610

Languages:

SQL

Databases:

Oracle, Excel, Access & Hana

Others:

Trackit, Zandesk, MS Office Suite, TeamViewer &

Remedy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Northern Trust, TX Sep 2019 - Present

SAP FICO Functional Consultant Environment: ECC 6.0 and S/4 1610 Responsibilities:

Used the migration tool set LSMW and back-office conversion/load methods, Direct and Batch Programs.

In General Ledger (GL), configured/setup operative and country specific chart of accounts and mapped to the Special ledgers.

In New GL worked on the activation of New GL accounting, definition of ledger for GL Accounting, integrating the GL with subcomponents, document splitting, segmentation and parallel Accounting,

In AR, worked on the Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), payments from multiple customers and A/R aging

Worked on Order to Cash business process - creating Sales Order, Post Goods Issue (PGI), Billing and incoming payment. Worked closely with SD team to integrate SD and FI modules.

In Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Made configurations for entire Procure to Pay business process including – creating Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification and Outgoing Payment.

Worked closely with the MM team to configure Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) process in Accounts Payable (AP) to facilitate 3-way invoice matching.

Configured automatic account determination for inventory postings and goods movement in Accounts Payable (FI-AP).

Created Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments and invoice processing in FI-AP using checks. Configured House banks, Payment Methods and tested the Payment Run.

For month-end closing, assisted users in running the Depreciation runs and in rectifying the errors during the depreciation run.

During month-end closing, executed asset balances report, asset history report and the cost center report. Reconciled the sub-ledger with general ledger.

Helped the costing users with the month-end activities like – assessments, WIP calculation, and result analysis.

In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Internal Order Accounting, worked on the master data, automatic account assignments, validation and substitutions.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, TX Jun 2017 – Aug2019

SAP FICO Functional Consultant Environment: ECC 6.0 Responsibilities:

Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, testing, end-user training and go-live phases.

Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project

In General Ledger (GL), created validation and substitution rule in General Ledger to have better control over the postings.

Accounts Receivable (AR) which includes Dunning, Incoming payments settings, down payments procedure, credit management, etc.

In Accounts Payable (AP), worked on the down payments, invoices and credit memos for regular, one-time, out of state and 1099 Vendors, Automatic Payment Program (APP), checks clearing and withholding tax.

In asset accounting, setup fixed asset structure - Asset class, Depreciation areas, Chart of Depreciation & Asset master data.

Maintained depreciation key, defined declining balance method, multi-level methods of depreciation calculation. Configured the basic settings for distribution, assessment of actual and plan costs.

Worked on expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains and exchange rate losses and then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations.

Uploaded legacy assets into SAP in the middle of the fiscal year using LSMW and for the uploaded assets and reconciled the GL and Sub Ledger.

In Project Systems (PS) defined the Project coding mask, created the project file and status profile. Maintained the budget profiles and tolerance limit for the availability control.

Citigroup

March2016 – May 2017 SAP FI CO Consultant Environment: ECC 6.0 Responsibilities:

Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.

Worked on foreign currency exchange rate and valuation, GR/IR clearing account and automatic clearing.

Configured terms of payment, incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment.

Worked on Customer Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display

Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.

Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them. Created account assignment models for recurring entries.

Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management.

Used Dunning to send letters, ranging from gentle remainders to legal notices, to customers from whom the receivables are due in Accounts Receivables (FI-AR).

Set up the Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.

Responsibilities in CO module:

Extensively worked in controlling modules including, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting.

Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.

Created Training Scripts for FI and CO modules. FI-GL Account Maintenance, Journal Processing, General Ledger processing and Financial Statements; and CO-CE creation, assignments and reporting; CO CCA object creation, assignments and Reporting; CO-IO and reporting.

Detected and resolve configuration errors in FI-AM for asset transfers.

Provided project organization and work planning inputs to local level project managers for flow of Training Script development and progress reporting to Management.

Responsible for identifying and documenting all CCA and PCA test cases.

Tracked and resolved business process and configuration issues resulting from unit and integration testing.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Bachelors In Business Administration

West Coast University, Africa

Diploma in Information System

University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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