Sap Fico Business Analyst

Antoinette Sanders

Email id: **********.*********@*****.***

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

Executive 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.

6 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 project full lifecycle 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) includes General Ledger (GL), New GL, Assets Accounting (AA), Account Payable (AP), Account Receivable (AR), Transport Request (TR). Controlling (COPA) Month-end Settlements, (Budget/ Standards vs. Actuals) (Allocations of Cost Centers or Profit Centers), (Annual Standard Cost Rolls), Month-End Close: Journal Entries, General Ledger Reconciliations, and Reporting. Analysis the Income Statement for expenditures. Analysis Balance Sheet for operation cost and WIP absorption. Accruals and deferrals.

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.

Education:

Indiana Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Science in Business Management.

Indiana Wesleyan University, M.B.A in Accounting.

SAP Financial and Controlling Certificate 2010.

SAP S/4 Hana Finance and Controlling Certificate 2023.

Scrum Master CSM Certificate 2022 Expire 3/1/2024. Will take more courses to re-certify.

Experiences:

Amotec Temporary Agency – Client Brennon Manufacturing Onsite August 2024 - Present

Interim Site Controller- Finance and Cost Accounting

Process Account Payable invoices.

Receive deposit request from Corporate

Setup new vendor and customer accounts

Process both Account Payable invoices and Account Receivables.

Help the Production Manager when he is away to correct Time Clock Error issues. Correcting time and reviewing the Work Order report to make sure there are no errors regarding labor.

Process weekly check run and ACH.

Work with the General Ledger, Income Statement and Balance Sheet.

Process Month-end Journal Entries.

LHH Temporary Agency- Client Brookfield Properties Hybrid May 2024- August 2024

Senior Financial Accountant

Responsible for 8 properties to process accrual journal entries.

Spoke to Property Managers to discuss monthly contracts, accruals and any reclasses.

Received operation and general ledger from Controller to prepare the month-end reports.

Compare transactions against the Aging Report.

Prepare a large amount of month-end and throughout the month journal entries.

Run the month-end reports and especially utilize the Trial Balance. To prepare the Prepaid, Insurance and Real Estate Tax journal entries.

Received training in Yardi.

Worked on MRI throughout the process, and Yardi last few weeks.

Jack Casino Onsite April 2024 – May 2024

Revenue Accountant (Permanent Role)

Received Lottery Commission Security Level Clearance

Audit Jackpot slots on the casino floor.

Compared the transactions against the actual Jackpot winnings.

Reconcile daily general ledger account Such as lottery, horse race winnings, taxes, cash, promotions and other accounts.

Processed Lottery tickets, E-tickets, and vouchers.

Had to quit the job due to my allergic reaction to smoke. But had no choice, that was one of the areas that needed to be audited on a weekly basis.

WLS Stamping/Fabrication Onsite September 2023-February 2024

Senior Cost Accountant

Maintain Bills of Material, Item Master, related costing for part database including calculation of Raw Material, Labor, and Overhead.

Update Standard Cost annually and as needed when cost factors change.

Work closely with Controller, Plant Manager, Production Manager, Purchasing, Shipping and Receiving, Warehouse staff.

Analyze and correct, and value physical inventory.

Analyze WIP, Inventory Management and Labor Transfers.

Analyze purchase price variances both weekly and monthly.

Analyze inventory obsolescence for reserve calculation.

Analyze WIP and job order variance on daily basis. Send report to Controller.

Analyze daily inventory transactions for accuracy and incorrect costs and evaluate Job Order variances and provide feedback loop to production.

Process daily job close order routers. Go out to the plant floor to resolve any issues regarding material, packaging, issue of materials, inspections and shortage of qty.

Monthly Finish Goods and Raw Material. Analyzing negative bins and sending a report to cycle count representative to have parts put in the correct location or sent to the correct warehouse.

Tech Mahindra Remote- Hybrid July 2023-September 2023

SAP Business Analysis S/4 Hana Finance-Controlling/Consultant – Client (Paccar Engine Plant)

Work with Finance and Controlling Team – Finance and Controlling team to review and work on assigned User Stories utilizing Azure DevOps.

Work with the Developers to configure and conduct test in SAP (Development)

Liaison between IT (ABAP) and Business Owners.

Attend daily meetings with all business divisions team. Meetings with Scrum Master, Project Manager, and other Business Analyst. 2nd meeting with the entire team including the business owners to discuss User Stories, refinements, and back logs.

Create documentation for Test Scenarios and Business Processes. Gathering information from the accounting team.

Attended training with the development team to go over Configuration testing of user story. Once the training has been conducted, my job is to schedule a meeting with accounting to train them on the requirement.

Create End to End mapping financial document of the new procedure and present it to the accounting business owner.

Planning – Design Create requirement documents in Agile User Story.

Execute Quality Assurance – Traceable Matrix.

Planning – Design -Process flow with RICEFW (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms and Workflow).

Write test scenarios in Excel and load test to ALM Test storage system.

Trained the team on ALM Test Storage system.

Work with SAP AI (Artificial Intelligence) End to End Accounting and Procure to Pay Business Process Workflow Project Approach.

Work with the Team Center to send material master that will be created for Engine.

MES = Manufacturing Execution System. Had to track production processes, using MES to connect, monitor and control the complex manufacturing systems and data flows on the factory floor.

Integration Tools – MES for Paccar- EP Engine material master created in Flexnet. For Automotive companies will need ASN (Autonomous System number). This information is sent from the Team Center to SAP.

Look for the Engine number that contains all the Material Master and BOM.

Collabera Consulting Remote January 2023-June 2023

SAP ECC 6.0 Finance-Controlling Reporting Business Analyst/Consultant

Monitor the business processes and ensure there are no errors in reporting in accordance with Sox Compliance of internal controls.

Must utilize SAP ECC and ROBOFINANCE (AI Robot) to verify that financial month-end close reports do not have any errors.

Oversee the close process for JE Upload, Payroll, Foreign Currency Validation, Capital Settlement, Open New Period for using T-Code OB52 (“K” and “D”) and (S & +), Wait for Milestone emails from business owners that business sections are closed. Used T-Code OKKP for Controlling requests. Also, SAP T-CODE KEST (Cost of Goods Sold and Revenue Postings without profit center) Posting with Real WBS, Local and Group currency and Foreign Currency Valuation Test Run and Real Runs.

Authorized to Open/ Close Change Period General Ledger Account Recons in Blackline.

Authorized to update Approver and Preparer changes Blackline.

Wrote all the documentation from beginning to end process.

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

SAP S/4 Hana Finance Lead Project Manager (Contractor) Worked for Confidential Client of Deloitte

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, assigned user stories and updates.

Send new requirements to the 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 December 2020 – February 2022

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

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.

Run CO-PA analysis report needed to evaluate profits, send report to the sales, marketing, product management and corporate planning departments with information needed to support internal accounting and decision making.

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 ECC 6.0 Functional Consultant

Client Experience Highlight: Ford Motors 2017-2020

•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.

•Provide support to Project Manager, and business owners of Ford Motors.

•Work in the Development and Configuration of Finance and Controlling module. Work with Business Analyst to show the testing so that they can present to Ford Client.

•Write business and functional specification documents.

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

•Configuration of Finance and Controlling Module for various confidential clients.

•Configuration of Cost Base Controlling Profitability Analysis Steps Maintain operating concern KEA0>IMG>Enterprise Structure>Controlling>Assign Controlling Area to Operating Concern>Define Profitability segment characteristics (KE03)>Define Number Ranges for Automatic Postings (KEN1)>Maintain assignment of Sales and Distribution conditions to CO-PA Value Fields (KE4I)>Direct Postings from FI-MM (KEI2) and Active Profitability Analysis (KEKE).

•Resolve any bugs before the sprint deadline date.

•Correct functional specifications that business owner requested changes, work with ABAP to create an IT specification to correct bugs or fail test.

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 analyzes 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)

Experienced with the following Clients: IAC, Cargill, On-Core Foods, and Lincoln Electric.

Highlight of my Automotive Experience: International Automotive Components Group:2007-2009. Controlling Consultant.

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

•Work due role – Work with engineers to create part numbers>routings>Bill of Material>product structures. Receiving notice of the ECN was complete for me to start building B.O.M.

•Work with Sales and Purchasing departments to calculate cost estimates. Complete ECN to generate purchase orders. Review and analyze new bill of materials and any bill of material revisions.

•Run inventory valuation and cycle count reports. Weekly plant audit assigned work centers to help the Quality Team with checklist of requirements each work center should follow and make sure the requirements were followed.

•Manage Capital Project Budgets.

•Conduct Bill of Material audits, P-Save roadmap, Cost Card Maintenance and Continuous Improvement Roadmaps.

•Work on Cost>freeze standard cost>cost roll.

•Work with the largest automobile companies such as; Ford, Honda, and General Motors.

•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 ECC 6.0, SAP S/4 Finance, Business Intelligence, SAP BPC, Oracle, Oracle Discover, Hyperion, Data Warehouse Tool, PeopleSoft, AS400, JD Edwards, Project Tracking, Microsoft Word, Heavy Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Blackline.

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