Accounts Payable Master Data

BERNARD OMWOYO

Cell number: 214-***-**** Email: *******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

•Business professional with great people skills and experience in corporate finance

•Ability to quickly identify trends and statistics including reconciling large data sets, identifying underlying issues and communicating those trends to management and business partners.

•Always eager to learn new technologies, concepts, and business processes quickly, evaluate their applications, and apply them to business need when appropriate.

•Excellent ability to analyze and meet the challenges of evolving business situations.

•Great Leadership skills with the ability to lead teams through large and small projects and initiatives mostly by finding ways to remove obstacles that may slow progress and success.

•Team Player with Outstanding written and oral communication skills, extensive experience w/direct customer contact & presentations.

•I always strive to provide effective services to business partners and internal customers by opening communications channels.

SKILLS (Gained through past & present experiences including self-learning)

•Good understanding of public/private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure

•Working knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, VS Code, Linux, Vagrant, and Collaboration platforms such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Docker hub etc.

•Sound and practical skills with PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, Ansible Playbook, Terraform, YAML, Commands.

•Experience with AWS services such as AWS Organizations, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services, AWS Artifacts, S3, Certificate Manager, VPC etc.

•Experience setting up CI/CD pipeline from Build Configuration to Deploy while automating CI/CD using tools such as Git, Jenkins, with the help of Maven, Ansible, and cloud providers such as AWS services, SonarQube and other tools to deliver and deploy application to target environment.

•Good understanding of Azure Organizations, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, and integration with other services such as git, GitHub, vs code and others.

•Experience utilizing ansible modules, playbooks and using ansible for Configuration Management.

•Experience working in DevOps CI/CD deployment with the help of docker in containerized environments such as Kubernetes/OpenShift.

•Provision services using infrastructure As Code tool terraform not just for current deployment but to be used as template for future deployments.

•Financial Accounting (Company code, Fiscal year maintenance; Field status Group, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance groups, GL Master, Posting Period Variants)

•Accounts Payable (Vendor master data configuration, Bank Account Master Data, Bank Key, Tolerance group, Automatic Payment Program, Invoice, Credit memo, Integration with MM module.)

•Document Control (Include Document Type with Number Ranges, Account Types, Line Item, with Posting Keys etc.)

•In-depth understanding and Administration of Computer Assisted Collections System (CACS)

•Experience utilizing Data Mining & Modelling and Analytics tools such as Datawatch Monarch Pro as well as testing tools such as HP QC/ALM.

Education: Kenya Polytechnic: Bachelor of Technology in Business Information Technology, Awarded 2003

Certification/Training:

-Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certified by Canopus Business Management Group

-Agile Leadership Training

-ICAgile Certified Professional - Foundation of DevOps (ICP-FDO) – ICAgile

-Professional Scrum Master Certified

-SAP FICO Training

-ITIL 4 Foundation Training

-Neighborhood Lending Certification- Bank of America

CITI Group Irving, TX July 2018 -Present

Applications solutions and Architecture

•Support development and production support teams across our growing development, UAT, and production environments on OpenShift.

•Define best practices for virtualization, configuration management, version control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and release management.

•Collaborate with the development team to create and maintain automated build, test, and release pipelines using GitHub Actions.

•Build and Maintain Pipelines in Jenkins with the help of Ansible, and Tomcat and deploy to Kubernetes and other target environments.

•Create and maintain technical documentation related to the CI/CD architecture and process.

•Consult with business clients to determine system Technical & Functional specifications and partner with multiple management teams and other units to meet organizational objectives.

•Coordinate infrastructure changes across platforms ensuring all the vulnerabilities are in check, creation of Deployment Plan and coordinating execution of Deployment activities.

•Manually and Automatically provision servers locally and in the cloud to build a fully automated pipeline to build, Test & Deploy without manual intervention while utilizing other services such as AWS.

•Collaborate with and provide architectural, design, and engineering direction to other teams such as Application Development, Network Engineering, Business Continuity, and Operations

CITI Group Irving, TX January 2016-July 2018

Apps Dev. Sr Programmer Analyst (Global Collections Strategy & CACS Admin)

•Provide Systems support & solutions for all EMEA Consumer & Commercial products such as Mortgage, Credit Cards, Personal/Business Loans, Student Loans, Auto Loans and other products.

•Help in identifying, coordinating, and implementing initiatives/projects and activities that create efficiencies and optimize technical processing.

•Support business critical projects such as understanding sudden changes in core business metrics and delivering clear recommendations to reverse negative trends/accelerate positive trends.

•Provide Risk based Collections Strategies using segmentation and data to score customers-based credit agencies data about customers as well as internal data while ensuring these Strategies align well with System Functionality.

•Identify focal points and lead causal analysis investigations to successfully identify the true root causes of problems that impact the Citi Technology and Recovery Solutions Provide direct day to day system support for EMEA collections. This includes CACS system as a Mainframe Application and even within the UI.

•Administration and maintenance, resolving tickets that are derived from queries and collections strategy changes.

•Run Reconciliation and other error reports from utilizing Data mining and modeling tools such as Datawatch Modeler, Tableau and other Microsoft tools.

•Provide Functional Design by translating business requirements into the expected system functionality.

•Work with colleagues and other business partners to build and maintain an effective application support organization committed to customer and employee satisfaction.

•Recommend, design, and maintain quality of service and process improvements by establishing and enforcing repeatable technology standards and strategies.

•Write test scripts for all projects involving all CACS Tables and provide support during the Go Live and Cut-over activities phases.

American Mortgage Consultants Coppell TX March 2015-June 2015

Sr Consultant/QC

•Designed and Developed test strategy, test data and test plans for the ETL process

•Testing of Mortgage servicing domains which include Customer, Vendor, Investors and other clients master Data.

•Support all departmental functions associated with the analysis, maintenance and formulation of recommendations for new applications and system enhancements.

•Provide sound analytical and diagnostic solutions to issues that are not readily defined and conflict with available information.

•Involved in leading back-end testing projects while also getting hands-on in writing test scripts.

•Maintenance and Validation of Customer and Vendor Master Records

Treliant Plano, TX October 2014- March 2015

Business Consultant (SAP ERP)

•Responsible for FI General Ledger configuration, Accounts Payable configuration including financial reporting and users training.

•Support Existing SAP system and implement new required functionality for FICO in the SAP environment.

•Liaison between the different business units and IT in identifying business needs as they relate to the SAP system by providing functional solutions and reporting to the business upper management and the executive level.

•Provide SAP Support to local users within Functional areas including maintaining a good working relationship with all business areas.

•Created vendor master data, configured Vendor account groups and edited the field status as per the client requirement.

•Configuration/Customization in the area of AP, AR and GL Master Data, configured Chart of Accounts and Account Groups in General Ledger

Bank of America Dallas, TX/Remote January 2012- September 2014

Operations Analyst/ SAP (New GL ECC6) Banking Consultant

•Responsible for FI General Ledger configuration, Accounts Payable configuration including financial reporting and users training.

•Support Existing SAP system and implement new required functionality for FICO in the SAP environment.

•Liaison between the different business units and IT in identifying business needs as they relate to the SAP system by providing functional solutions and reporting to the business upper management and the executive.

•Co-ordinate and assist in training and coaching of users and new hire associates. This also involved conducting training during fresh projects and associates that need additional training through one-on-one sessions.

•Imported different Master data items from legacy systems to SAP R/3 system by functioning in collaboration with the ABAP Consultant

•Create End user documentation and train on how to perform daily and periodic routine functions and required maintenance items.

Carlisle & Gallagher Charlotte, NC July 2011- January 2012

SAP (New GL ECC6) Financial Consultant

•Identify GAPS between the SAP system and business requirements and provide solutions by either changing the business process or customizing to accommodate the client’s business process.

•Provide SAP Support to local users within Functional areas including maintaining a good working relationship with all business areas while understanding requirements, evaluating alternative solutions and resolving system issues.

•Coordinate the implementation of new products and services, procedures, and systems and or hardware solutions for problems in the operations environment.

•Develop business partner relationships with all levels of Senior Management and all associates with account reconciliation responsibilities.

•Provide guidance to associates within own unit regarding procedural, technical and/or operational changes.

•Created customized reports in the SAP for segment reporting and comparison of internal order plan and actual data using SAP Query Tool

Bank of America Plano, TX June 2009- July 2011

Loss Mitigation Specialist-Mortgage Servicing

•Responsible for collections as well as providing consumer counselling to customers who are in Default or Imminent Default.

•Assist in providing solutions to different calling strategies. These may also include Skip Tracing and Texting Strategies.

•Coordinate the implementation of new products and services, procedures, and systems and or hardware solutions for problems in the operations environment.

•Using Multiple Systems and Data Points to Validate Research Requests Received by team – This varies depending on the type of research request that comes our way. These are often new and require one to quickly adapt to new information and use critical thinking to help resolve issues.

•Review, research and resolve problematic issues during the foreclosure process.

•Communicate with attorneys on a daily basis to discuss needed documents and possible mitigation or litigation strategies.

•Adhere to company and departmental policies and procedures as well as direction from supervisor.

•Ensure monthly follow-ups are completed on all active problem resolution files and provide resolution of at least 15% of active portfolio on a monthly basis and complete all other duties as assigned by management.

C I T I Group Irving, TX March 2008 to June 2009

Sr. Collections Representative/Card Services

•Process Credit Card Payments for Customers with Current and Delinquent Accounts.

•Update and Advice customers on new Credit and Other banking products

•Help customer Resolve complex financial hardships mostly at more than 90 days past due by providing programs and other solutions including counseling.

•Training and coaching new hire associates in learning new job functions and processes.

•Provide excellent customer service by answering or referring financial questions to correct supervisory staff.

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