Yunlong Jia (Jason)
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SUMMARY
More than 10 years of experience working in US as SAP FICO Functional analyst/consultant
with end-to-end project implementations including hands on experience in workshops,
requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, and production support.
Master’s degree in information systems (MSIS)
Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle Implementation (both ECC and S4/HANA) experience in SAP FI
and CO modules by using Accelerated SAP (ASAP) methodology with experience in all
Implementation Phases- Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Cut- over, Go-
Live and post Go-Live Production Support
Certified in Blackline Certification for Partners on 2019
Hands-on S4/HANA Configuration, Testing, and Supporting experience
Hands-on S4/HANA Public Cloud Configuration and Testing experience
Hands-on experience in Central Finance- System set up, Configuration, Testing,
Demonstration sessions
Familiar with Service Now and SAP Charm process
Solid experience in Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and banking related troubleshooting and configuration
Good experience of FI- GL transactions and configurations for General Ledger (G/L), New
G/L, Accounts payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Taxes, Financial Supply Chain
Management (FSCM)
Fixed Asset and Project System lead experience on latest S4/HANA implementation project.
Involved in hands-on configuration, testing, work with data team closely to get fixed assets
loaded into new S4 system. (More than 2 billion worthy assets for most recent employer).
Involved in all decision making on Fixed Asset side
Familiar with LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) program
Involved in data conversion cycle for Fixed Asset, G/L, Accounts Payable, Project System
Resolved issues during data conversion, research, and test different options to migrate the
data. Test all possible scenarios in Fixed Asset and Project System area
Strong hands-on experience in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal
Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), and Product Costing (CO-PC)
Proficient in configuration and process integration with SD (Sales Distribution) and MM
(Material Management) with FI and CO
Extensive expertise in Configuration, Testing, Troubleshooting, Documentation, and
Reporting in FI/CO
Trained on Group Reporting (Consolidation) process
Great experience with different types of documentation (for example, functional
specifications, test cases, SAP incident documents, etc.)
Familiar with Change management processes and Service tickets management processes
Experienced in Prepare and document user training manuals and guidelines document
Great hands-on skills with Microsoft Excel
Great problem-prioritizing skill and multi-tasking skills
Strong problem-solving skills
Experience of Third-party software integrate with SAP
Experience using ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tracking test cases and defects
SLAN (SAP Lease Management by Nakisa) implementation experience
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Sr. SAP FICO Analyst
-Quality Bicycle Products, June 2023-Till date
• Support lead on SAP FICO
• Hands on work and decision making on SAP Financial related topics.
• Work as a liaison among users, stakeholders, project team, interface teams, support team,
and technical teams.
• Supported Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable process integrate through Esker application.
• Resolved Esker integration related issues, such as missing data, open items don’t get cleared on Esker.
•Delivered enhancement on Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivables (AR) with Esker integration.
•Troubleshooting, testing, and enhancements documentation and delivery for AP and AR Esker integration
• Provided daily support for issues troubleshooting and enhancement for all related SAP
modules (Fixed Asset, Product costing, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Banking, General Ledger, etc.)
• Proposed, documented, tested, and delivered process enhancement.
• Troubleshooted and solved issues on Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) related issues.
• Extensive testing on EBS and configured new solutions to automatically clear the line items received from the bank.
• Configured new GL mapping and condition table integrated with Sales and Distribution (SD).
• Mass updated master data with LSMW and MASS transactions.
• Automated month- end close process transactions.
•Created and modified batch jobs.
• Worked on vendor/customer payment terms creation and update with integration to different platform.
• Delivered new lockbox process integrate with WF Integrated Receivables for Accounts Receivable (AR) team
• Worked on multiple Validation and Substitution rules configurations
• Restructured Financial Statement Version
• Resolved issues related to Internal Order (IO) associated with Purchase Order (PO)
• Extracted manual report with massive data
• Guided and pulled reports for business out from table and/or required format from report transactions.
• Troubleshooted and Provided workaround and solutions to errored IDOC.
Sr. Software Engineer (SAP Finance)
-QVC, Inc, Feb 2020-June 2023
• Involved in phases of S4/HANA 1809 full life cycle implementation- Business blueprint,
Realization, Final preparation, Go-live, Hypercare
• Documented RICEFW functional specification. Involved in unit testing and integration testing.
• Worked as a Fixed asset and Project system lead of the implementation project.
• Hands on experience and decision making on all fixed asset and project system related
topics.
• Configured and tested new bank integrations, XML file, and house banks, etc.
• Configured new company code and SD related set up
• Worked closely with business on Fixed asset and Project system modules to complete
testing, address issues, clear the doubts.
• Worked closely with data team to load global asset data (more than worth of 2 billion assets)
using different strategies (LSMW and LTMC). Troubleshoot and resolve all issues and errors
along the entire project especially during data load.
• Provided training on specific topics other than regular business activities (for example, how
to use custom asset report, how to create variant, how to compare and validate migrated
data, etc.)
• Delivered integration process for Anaplan (Budget reporting tool), document functional
specification, interact multiple teams, test, and validate across multiple system with different
teams
• Lead and delivered integration migration process for third party vendor invoice system (AIS)
with SAP S4/HANA system
• Managed and prioritize issues reported by users, manage offshore support team
• Provided daily support for issues troubleshooting and enhancement for all related SAP
modules (Fixed Asset, Project System, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, etc.)
• Involved in System upgrade from version 1809 to 2020
• Delivered AP interfaces (Inbound to SAP), merge and migrate system from third-party
software to SAP. Document functional specification, interact with different teams. Involved in
decision making in changes and new designs. Hands-on testing from Unit testing to
Integration testing
• Configured Cost Center structure, Created Cost centers
• Created Financial Statement Version for multiple international markets
• Created and Maintained Report Painter reports
• Created Mass change substitutions on Fixed Asset master data
• Involved in all cutover steps for Fixed Asset and Project Systems. Partially involved in GL
and AP
• Work as a liaison among users, stakeholders, project team, interface teams, support team,
and technical teams
• Worked with internal and external auditors to provide change evidence from the system
• Extensively worked on preload and post load reconciliation analysis and validation using
SAP tables, excels, and reports
• Worked with user to update budget in the new S/4 system
• Worked on manual fix on project and WBS element load file
• Participated and completed SAP class on Group Reporting (Consolidation)
• Manage AUC (Assets under construction) migration process
• Worked closely with developers to design and deliver new requirements and testing on
different existing (lift& shift) design and new design
• Used LSMW to update asset master data, project budget, and other types master data
• Responsible to resolve SAP FICO module day to day and period-end issues
• Provided workaround solutions and permanent fixes for identified SAP financial related
issues
• Worked closely with user and reporting team to deliver SAP Analysis for Office reports
• Prioritize, manage, and resolve financial related Change Requests
SAP FICO Functional Consultant
-Sierra Digital, Inc, May 2018- Jan 2020
• Involved in internal S/4 Central Finance internal project and provided Central Finance
functionality process demo to SAP
• Involved in Set up system connections, SLT (System Landscape Transformation), AIF
(Application Interface Framework), Configuration, Master Data creations for Central Finance
Demo
• Involved in OpenText Invoice Management Project.
• Performed configurations in S4/HANA 1610 system for Company Code, General Ledger,
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center, Profit Center,
Internal Orders, etc., and master data creations
• Setup and test intercompany transaction configurations
• Configuration Central Finance configuration mapping and Master data mapping between
source and target SAP systems
• Test Scenarios for FI and CO business transaction replications
• Designed, configured, and tested integration between SAP and Blackline application
• Developed Blackline demo to SAP America and potential clients
• Full life cycle implementation of SAP CLM (Contract Lease Management)
• Involved in Design, configuration, documentation, and testing for SAP CLM module
• Gathered Business requirements, performed GAP analysis
• Involved and demoed in Workshop
• Prepared SAP integrated Nakisa Lease Administration software functional process
document
• Involved in SAP Integrated Nakisa Lease Administration business requirement gathering
sessions
• Configuration change for new asset classes, depreciation areas, parallel currencies, etc.
• Configured SAP Fixed Assets and extended the integration with Nakisa
• Configured Accounting standards (ASC842, IFRS16, ASC840 and IAS17), transaction
types and classification types.
• Involved in Fixed Assets Configuration which included configure Asset Classes, GL
integration, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Key, Calculation Key,
Valuation, Acquisitions and Retirements.
• Designed asset classes for lease assets, account determination, process for manual
depreciation statistical posting from Nakisa to SAP by using ABMA transaction.
• Defined asset classes for synchronization with equipment master.
• Integrated FI, Plant Maintenance, Procurement, Material management (MM) and Asset
Management modules of SAP
• Mapping SAP Asset accounting configuration to Nakisa Admin Console.
• Raise OSS Incident and work closely with SAP to resolve high priority issues.
SAP Financial Consultant
-Hand USA, Houston, TX, Aug 2017-Apr 2018
• Responsible to resolve SAP FICO module day to day and period-end issues.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and provide workaround & solution in complex SAP environment.
• Troubleshooting monthly financial statement unbalanced issue
• Resolve COPC production order issue
• Resolve Production Order related issues: Work in Progress (WIP), Variance difference,
Allocations, etc.
• Guide users to complete month-end closing procedures and troubleshooting errors
• Troubleshoot customized program issue and conduct with ABAP team to deliver the
solutions
• House banks, payment program configuration and testing
• Assist user test and update material price (standard price update and cost run)
• Work on Financial related tickets, modules including FI, CO, MM(Vendors), SD(Customers),
Product Costing, Material Ledger
• Hands-on testing for S4/Hana FI, CO
SAP FICO Business System Analyst
-Nike (Converse), Boston, MA, Jan 2016-Mar 2017.
• Responsible to resolve SAP FICO module day to day and period-end issues.
• Manage Change request and service tickets.
• Responsible for solving tickets in GL AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Banking, Idocs, Cost Center
accounting, Profit Center accounting, Internal Order, Product Costing-Material ledger, and
integration with OTC and PTP issues.
• Performed unit testing and regression testing for different AP and AR functionalities.
• Analyze, communicate, and resolve bank payment issues relate to lockbox, Idoc, EBS, and
FEBAN.
• Work as a liaison among users to users, project team, support team, and enhancement
team.
• Manage all Financial related Change Requests and prioritize Change Requests.
• Identified and defined “House banks” and Bank Accounts, setting up bank Groups to meet
the project needs and to help optimize bank selection in automatic and manual payment
program.
• Participated Audit meetings, provide audit required configurations and transaction examples
in order to meet auditors’ requirements.
• Work with project team to fulfill business requirements, clarify business needs to project
team.
• Propose enhancement changes to business and complete changes with enhancement team.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and provide workaround & solution in complex SAP environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge and work experience in cross functions(modules) in SAP.
Resolve issues, testing, and make configuration changes in modules including General
Ledger, Tax, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Product Costing, Material Ledger,
Asset, Banking, Idocs, EBS, Cost Center, Profit Center, Internal Order, and integration with
OTC and PTP issues.
• Created Fixed Assets master records and trained client on how to execute the monthly
depreciation posting run and month-end close processes.
• Provide leadership to junior production support team.
• Raise OSS Incident and interact with ABAP team to maintain OSS Notes.
• Performed unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and regression testing for
different integration functions with MM and SD.
• Set up batch jobs as business needed through interact with business users and batch team.
• Interact with Product Costing business users to set up critical month-end purposes batch
jobs for multiple regions.
• Assist end users in reporting processes.
SAP FICO Functional Consultant (Full Life Cycle Implementation)
- ENEL, Andover, MA, Dec.2014 – Jan. 2016
• Gathered business requirements, defined GAPs and map it to business requirements.
• Analyze, understand, and document company AS-IS, and TO-BE business processes.
• Part of a team involved in the Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis,
User Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications for
Documentation.
• Involved in Data Migration for FI/CO and PS modules through LSMW.
• Analyzed the existing credit control process of the business process and defined the credit
control structure in SAP on Credit Management using Financial Supply Chain Management
(FSCM).
• Configured credit strategies, collection rules, segments and priorities for Collection
Management.
• Develop Test Scenarios to simulate the client’s business scenario to conduct Unit Testing
and Integration Testing for the developments made.
• Created cross account clearing between Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable
(AR). Analyzed the Bank Master data for APP.
• In Accounts Payable, participated in setting up the configuration for Automatic Payment
Program, especially relating to payment methods, bank determination, and house banks.
• Involved in Fixed Assets Configuration which included configure Asset Classes, GL
integration, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Key, Calculation Key,
Valuation, Acquisitions and Retirements.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets,
customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation
• Configurations of Product Costing (COPC) included configure Material Cost Estimate with
and without Quantity Structure, Maintained Settlement Structures, Configure Variance
Calculations and WIP Calculations, Setting of Activity and Maintaining Planning for
Overhead Cost and integration of COPC.
• Created functional specification during the entire project experience and post go-live support.
• Acted as a liaison between Business Users and Technical Developers and worked closely
with Technical Developers to meet the business needs.
• Configured, and resolved issues in modules: Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable
(AR), Banking, Taxation, Automatic Payment Program, Internal Orders (IO), Cost Center
Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Idocs, Electronic Bank Statement(EBS),
and Job Variant.
• Track, prioritize, and address SAP issues, requests, changes, and enhancements.
• Created test plans & test cases.
SAP FICO Functional Consultant (Production Support)
-Steelcase, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Apr. 2013- Nov. 2014
• As part of the Production Support Team worked closely with Technical and users to resolve
the issues as per priorities.
• Resolve FI issues integrate with MM and SD modules.
• Configuration of Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA) in
controlling area, which included defining profit center /cost center standard hierarchy, create
profit center groups and profit/cost centers, activations of cost centers/profit centers,
assignment of cost centers to profit centers, assignment of work centers and activity types to
cost centers.
• Created CCA and PCA Hierarchies and master data records.
• Worked on Special Purpose Ledger (SPL) for special reporting needs at cost center, profit
center and business area level. Created and maintained special ledger table groups.
• Configured FI documents parking workflow configurations which included workflow creations,
workflow configurations, and workflow testing.
• Involved in integration between HR (Human Resources) and FI.
• In HR, Configured user parameters, personal data, payroll, and basic settings for Personal
Administration.
• Worked on TO-BE process, gathered business requirements and map it into SAP systems.
• Prioritize tasks and help to resolve urgent tickets.
• Supported Month-end, Quarter-end, and Year-end activities.
• Acted as a liaison between Business Users and Technical Developers and worked closely
with Technical Developers to meet the business needs.
• Participated Project System (PS) and FICO workshop.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Information Systems (SAP Concentration)
• Central Michigan University (CMU), Mt Pleasant, MI, Dec. 2010- Dec. 2012
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Northwood University, Midland, MI, Sep. 2009- Dec.2010
• Jilin University, Changchun, China, Sep.2006- May.2009
Skill Sets
SAP Skill Set: New General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP),
Asset Accounting (AA), Special Ledger (SPL), Bank Accounting, Automatic Payment Program
(APP), Internal Orders (IO), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA),
Profitability Analysis, Standard Costing, Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (PTP), Project
System(PS), Lease Management, Taxation, Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM)