Sr. SAP FI/CO Professional

ANETT DERMANOVIC, M.S.E, M.B.A

**** ***** ***** ** • Houston, TX 77069

(832) 858 - 5555 • ********@*****.***

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Professional Summary:

I am a Sr. SAP FI/CO professional with several years of functional and technical experience and have helped international and domestic companies attain savings of up to 43% translating into $100,000.00s per year through business process improving and enabling SAP automation resulting in efficiency. My positive attitude, people skills, and communications skills have supported the delivery of projects on time and within budget.

SAP Skills:

• 15 Years total SAP experience, where of 11 years are as a consultant (Independent for 5 years)

• 13 Years experience in functional areas of SAP R/3 FI/CO configuration, implementation and support.

• 2 Years programming ABAP, writing ABAP code for diverse programs, reports and files.

• Multiple life cycle implementations experience (global and domestic) including new implementations, migrations and upgrades.

• 10 + Years strong implementation knowledge of SAP and the finance and controlling modules FI/CO.

FI: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets (FA), Special Ledger (SPL) and Treasury (TR). CO: Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA)

• 6 + Years support of primarily GL, AP, AR, FA, SPL, CCA, PCA which also includes some Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Sales and Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM), TR and Security.

• 8 + Years working with the ABAP developers, by writing detailed technical program specifications, testing and debugging programs and user exits. Includes researching and applying OSS notes.

• 4 + Years as a team lead of SAP implementations, including multicultural environments.

• 5 + Years knowledge of SAP Solution Manager and other managing systems.

Technical Skills:

• ERP: SAP R/2 and R/3: 3.1, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0

• Software: Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio and Word

• Methodologies: SAP ASAP and Enterprise Effectiveness (EE)

• Programming Languages: ABAP, Assembler, C, C++, Fortran, Pascal and UNIX

Work Experience:

Baker Hughes, Houston TX Mar 2009 – Jul 2009

Role: Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Oil and Gas service

Client: Baker Hughes, Baku Azerbaijan

• Assigned as a SAP FI functional consultant to go to Azerbaijan and implement the legacy systems used in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkmenistan onto already existing SAP environment ECC 6.0 located in US.

• Scoped the Finance management part (including Customer relationship management) in Azerbaijan (AZ). Held presentation s about the findings for team members, management and stakeholders.

• Trained the finance process specialists in Aberdeen UK. Participated in material management training.

• Advised the finance management in AZ to choose a local bank that automatically could upload a bank file from SAP, to save money by assuring that the payments to vendors would be locally done instead of being wired from another country.

• Served the business with suggestions on how to work their day-to-day duties, how to prioritize their work and at the same time assist the SAP team to meet deliverables.

• Worked with the business to map their legacy system’s Chart of Accounts into SAP and created “As-Is” finance flow charts for all six divisions in each country.

• Performed quality check of SAP FI configuration to ensure proper functionality, where I identified changes that were necessary and communicated them to the configuration team.

US Zinc, Houston TX Sep 2008 – Mar 2009

Role: Team Lead and Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Zinc manufacture

Client: US Zinc, Houston TX

• Assigned as a finance team lead to complete the design and configuration for this new US implementation on an already existing SAP R/3 4.7 environment, based in Brazil.

• Supported Month-End-Close and successfully led the company through their first Year-End-Close.

• Uploaded the assets from the legacy system into SAP, via already created LSMWs (Legacy System Work Bench). Configured asset number ranges, added missing asset classes with account determination. Mapped the legacy assets to enable upload into SAP. Verified uploaded assets and account balances in SAP. The company was in process to change over to the International Finance Reporting Standards (IFRS) from the US GAAP. Changed already uploaded and depreciated assets in SAP to fit the IFRS, due to that the asset values changed accordingly.

• Provided Day-to-Day issues support for primary GL, AP, AR & FA but it also included Cost center, Profit center and Product Costing. Assisted with trouble shooting in other modules. Trained the users.

• Automated the company’s payment process successfully on time and tight dead line. Configured the payment program with multiple payment methods (check, ACH & wire), banks, house banks, bank accounts and intermediary banks. Wrote detailed specifications (also included Positive Pay) to the ABAP developers in Brazil. Debugged the payment program, found the cause of a problem and advised resolution. Worked with JP Morgan Bank and the company’s technical people to install the “Connectivity” system that was used to transfer/ receive the payments and the acknowledgments to/from the bank.

• Identified incorrect currency within company code and communicated risk to management so that the issue could be mitigated before posting to the system. This benefited the company by eliminating days of troubleshooting and rework.

• Implemented and configured Lockbox. Trained the user and created documentation.

• Assisted with uploading the budget into SAP.

• Worked and assisted other team members and consultants that had responsibilities in other modules, primary SD, MM and Business Warehouse (BW). Example: Recreated a production problem in the test environment for MM and assisted with the resolution, assisted with Profit Center determination and what Report Painter calculation to be included in a BW report.

Hoerbiger, Houston TX Apr 2008 – Jul 2008

Role: Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Valves, Control systems and Sealing systems for compressors manufacture

Client: Hoerbiger, Houston TX

• Provided senior FI/CO (some SD/MM) after go live support and added project work in SAP R/3 4.7 for this international company based in Austria.

• Supported Day-to-Day issues for US and Canada. Example: How to reverse a billing document in FI (originated in SD) when it was created in previous period.

• Held FI (GL, AP & AR) training sessions for business management and users. Created documentation.

• Supported Month-End-Close and set it up to run on schedules, to enable faster closing of the month. Created variants and worked with ABAP developer to use variables from a custom date and time table.

• Analyzed AR aging report and made required customer data configuration changes, which also included writing detailed specifications for the ABAP developer to make the customized report work more efficient.

• Changed Logistic Invoice Verification to have an error message when duplicate invoice was entered.

• Analyzed if possible to make the FI document numbers the same as SD document numbers only for this US company code (not the rest of the world), that would save time in troubleshooting.

• Made configuration for Credit Management and helped the users to understand the customers’ credit limits.

• Analyzed and made configuration and suggestions for the Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Valuation.

• Enhanced the payment program by writing detailed specifications for the ABAP developer to eliminate printing more than one check when having an overflow to next page in a check run.

• Set up validation rules for cost centers and substitutions rules for profit center.

Rexam, Toledo OH Jan 2008 – Apr 2008

Role: Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Beverage cans and consumer packaging manufacture

Client: Rexam, Toledo OH

• Assigned as a functional FI consultant. The project was to add a newly bought US company on to already existing international SAP R/3 4.7 environment, originated in France.

• Hold meetings with the customer and project members from Bank of America for the implementation of Checks and Lockbox for US and ACH for both US and Canada. Configured the payment program for checks and ACH, which included new payment methods, banks and bank accounts. Lockbox configuration included clearing with multiple company codes.

• Hold workshops for how to transfer legacy systems data Customer data, Vendor data, General ledger balances into templates to later on be uploaded via LSMWs into SAP.

• Reviewed already existing LSMWs to assist other team members how to use them.

• Held meetings and workshops with the customer and Bank of America on how to implement the Procurement Cards.

• Responsible for 1st phase unit test and 2nd phase integration test. Reviewed and tested already existing test cases. Created new test script and test cases where there were missing.

• Used Solution Manager to store blue print, configuration and meeting notes.

CenterPoint Energy, Houston TX Nov 2006 – Oct 2007

Role: Project Lead and Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Energy utility

Client: CenterPoint Energy, Houston TX

• Project lead for this migration project, where the Entegrate (3rd party custom developed Energy Trading System) needed to feed/receive information to/from SAP R/3 4.6. (ECC 6.0 after upgrade).

• Communicated effectively with executive stakeholders, managers and project members from both Business and IT departments. Hold weekly status meetings and reported weekly status, to keep all involved updated on the project’s progress. Duties included create milestones, track and drive new issues to be resolved, create cut over plan, hands on configuration of SAP, write detailed specifications to the developer, troubleshoot problems and document the solutions.

• Gathered data from the business and reviewed current configuration in the SAP system to create the gap analysis. Configured (GL, AP & AR) document types, automatic clearing for applied cash, customer and vendors field status groups and tolerances, new number ranges. Created templates to use when uploading the new Entegrate’s customers and vendors into SAP. Trained the user the difference between Partial Payment and Residual Item when applying cash. Communicated effectively with the developer and created test data and test cases to shorten the developing time.

• Involved in the valuation of interface D&B (Dun and Bradstreet) with SAP. This enables accessing D&B’s business and financial information directly in SAP and therefore limits the company’s risk exposure.

• Worked close with the treasury department, to implement FED wires from SAP to the JP Morgan Chase Bank. Configured payment program, banks, intermediary bank. Worked with the technical people responsible for See Beyond, mapped the SAP IDOC segments fields into the file created from SeeBeyond.

Champions Technologies, Houston TX Sep 2005 – Oct 2006

Role: Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Chemical products manufacture

Client: Champions Technologies, Houston TX

• Assigned as a functional FI consultant for this new international implementation of Canada and additional implementation for US, in already existing SAP R/3 4.7 system located in US. Assignment also included after go live support for both US and CA.

• Developed LSMWs to upload the financial legacy system data GL, AP and AR. This includes a LSMW that was used for the company’s subsidiaries to upload their monthly trail balances for the consolidation that took place in SAP business consolidation module SEM-BCS.

• Researched and gathered the requirements for Canada’s new check standards. Wrote detailed specifications to the developer reg. the exact design (what font and security algorithm to use and where to place it) of the check, to be printed out of SAP and later on be cashed at the bank. Configured check lots, payment program, house bank and bank accounts. Worked close and tested with Bank of Montreal.

• Implemented EDI 820 (bank file with customer payments) for US, using SAP IDOC. Made required configuration for the trading partners, payment advice and changes in the customer master data to enable for automatic upload into SAP. Mapped the data in the EDI820 file into the IDOC segments fields. Worked close with the technical people on the SeeBurger (EDI adapter) side. Tested and trained the users.

• Troubleshot the already implemented US Lockbox, made some configuration changes and added more data to the lockbox file from the bank. Helped the user to understand lockbox and apply the cash more efficient.

• Involved with the Taxware (3rd party system that calculates taxes and populates jurisdiction codes into SAP) implementation for both US and CA. Reviewed AR configuration and tax jurisdictions in SAP.

Marathon Oil, Houston TX May 2005 – Sep 2005

Role: Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Oil and Gas

Client: Marathon Oil, Houston TX

• Provided domestic Day-to-Day support and some project work for this large international oil company.

• Daily interaction with business analysts and other consultants.

• Created/changed cost centers and profit centers, including their hierarchies.

• Changed finance reports created with Report painter and Report writer, incl. some SAP script changes.

• Researched and applied OSS note corrections.

• Analyzed current foreign currency valuation and made recommendations.

• Ireland needed to be added to Marathon’s SAP payment program. Configured new payment method (incl. the payment program). Analyzed what custom changes that earlier had been done to the standard SAP payment programs. Wrote detailed specifications for the ABAP developer, to what needed to be added and changed in the already customized ABAP programs so the new payment method would work in current environment and runs. Test required involvement of different departments from both US and IR. Created test data, multiple payment runs and validated that an email, fax or mail was sent to correct paid vendor.

SAP America, Portland OR Jan 2005 – Apr 2005

Role: Senior FI/CO consultant (independent)

Industry: Steel pipe and tube manufacture

Client: Northwest Pipe, Portland OR

• Responsible for the FI module (incl. GL, AR & AP) on this SAP upgrade project from R/3 3.1 to ECC 5.0.

• Tested the FI module after the upgrade and made needed configuration changes to problems that occurred when running through the transactions. Added configuration to improve some of the business processes.

• Created Business Process Procedures (BPPs) for all the FI transactions.

• Searched on OSS for solution to our problems, in case they had already been identified by others. Logged and tracked our irresolvable problems into OSS.

Hewlett Packard, Houston TX Jan 2001 – Nov 2004

Role: Senior Business Analyst (employee)

Industry: Computer

Client: HP business departments around the world

• Domestic and International day-to-day issues support of FI module, primarily GL and SPL (R/3 3.1, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7), which included working with the remotely located ABAP developers in India. Examples of support issues: Analyzed unmatched balances within GL and SPL or to fix a break in production with an “emergency” transport that required executive level of approval before it could be applied.

• Team lead for new company codes implementation for China, in already existing SAP environment. Templates were used and detailed attention needed for country specific configuration as local-, group-, and hard currency, VAT and the Chart of Account (COA) description required translation into native language.

• Team member for a new SAP 4.6 implementation for EMEA, project based in Germany. Configuration incl. new company code and set up of a new COA. Kept all project members updated about the project’s progress and issues for all modules FI/CO/SD/MM, by creating and distributing the weekly meeting notes.

• The major merge between the two huge companies HP and Compaq gave the opportunity to work with challenging things on a tight deadline. Worked close with both the accounting and the treasury departments to gathering the needed data to be taken out of Compaq’s SAP system to feed HP treasury system, to enable treasury’s hedging of currency. Wrote detailed specifications for the ABAP programmer, regarding what data and from what tables within SAP to extract from, and where to map it into the file.

• Assigned to project to upgrade SAP R/3 4.6 (US legacy system) to 4.7. Worked close with the business to assure the currency revaluation was configured correct and that the variants for each of the 800 company codes were changed accordingly so the schedules would run as normal without problems after the go live.

• Team Lead for the roll out of the “Issue Tracking” system Quest within the organization, which included developing and holding training session and creating manuals for the users. Later on responsible to do the same for the real time system Kintana, where the SAP transports were entered and automatically routed to appropriate management for approval before going into production.

• Assigned to the FA integration project, where the fixed assets from Compaq’s legacy SAP R/3 3.1 needed to be converted into HP SAP 4.5 system. New company codes needed to be created in SAP 4.5 and other assets fields needed to be mapped before the conversion could take place.

• Hold knowledge transferring sessions to pears and management. Quality checked some more junior co-workers’ configuration before the transports moved into production.

• Wrote detailed technical specifications for the ABAP developers to retrieve daily currency rates from Reuters to automatically be uploaded into SAP.

• Worked with the Business Warehouse (BW) team to extract data from SAP for BW interface testing.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers (SAP implementation partner), Tulsa OK Sep 2000 – Jan 2001

Role: Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant (independent)

Industry: Oil and Gas

Client: British Petroleum, Tulsa OK

• A new company was merged and implemented into existing SAP implementation.

• Assigned to configure AP, including the payment program, new bank accounts and payment terms.

• Tested with different already predefined user keys, that had different security authorization assigned to them for segregation of duties in accordance with SOX.

Cap Gemini (SAP implementation partner), Houston TX Mar 1999 – Oct 1999

Role: Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Industry: Manufacture: Respiratory equipment and Aircraft parts

Client: Respironics, Pittsburgh PA

• The consultant team was assigned to the project to make an old implementation more efficient.

• Enterprise Effectiveness (EE) methodology was used, in house developed by Cap Gemini.

• Analyzed and evaluated existing system before configured and implemented new business solutions.

• Configured and customized FI module, screens were extended to allow input to 1099 vendors and reporting. Created end documented the user procedures.

• Resolved payroll interface issue between the outsource provider ADP and SAP, where some programming changes needed to be done to resolve the problem.

• Communicated with the customer’s sales executives and made recommendations to our project management team how to further assist the client.

• Responsible for ensuring FI/CO documentation was completed in accordance with the deadlines and the client’s established quality assurance guidelines. The team was rated “Excellent” throughout the project.

Client: Sextant Avionique, Miami FL

• The project was to make the already rolled out SAP implementation from France, working in the USA.

• Evaluation of current SAP system was done, by viewing the configuration and using EE methodology.

• Enhancements to FI module were done by making changes and add on to current configuration, report changes and new developments to specifically fit US and to make the system more efficient.

• Business processes were changed and the customer was trained.

• Examples: Configured new payment method for intercompany clearing. Set up new house bank and bank accounts for the automatic payment program. Program changes were done to the check printing program. Evaluated the AR aging report and made detailed specifications to the programmer how to improve it. Set up recurring entries for vendors. Trained user how to record cashed checks into the improved SAP system.

The Bouvet (SAP consulting firm), Cary NC May 1998 – Mar 1999

Role: Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Industry: Telecommunication, Manufacture: CAD Software and Contacts for glasses

Client: Telinor, Monterey Mexico

• New SAP R/3 3.1 implementation for this new started Telecommunication Company in Monterey Mexico.

• Assigned for the project to configure AP and oversee GL. The project used SAP ASAP methodology.

• Experience includes learning about a new culture of doing business, holding training sessions for the end users, knowledge transfer to team members, testing AP application along with MM account determination and integration issues. Gave the programmers instructions and efficiency tips.

Client: Bentley Systems, Exton PA

• Migration of a US company into already existing SAP R/3 3.1 system.

• Responsibilities included design and configuration of CO module.

• Researched the impact of not using cost centers (only profit centers) at the go live, for at a later time implement the cost centers when implementing MM module.

• Experience incl. some consulting for the Basis module. To assign first step authorization profiles to the end users and create an audit dump file of the authorization used in the subsidiary company located in Holland.

Client: Sola Optical, Petaluma CA

• Served as a team member on this new SAP R/3 3.1 implementation, the project used ASAP methodology.

• Assigned to the project to implement and configure FI (AP, AR and GL) and CO (CCA and PCA).

EDS (SAP implementation partner), Stockholm Sweden May 1996 – Apr 1998

Role: Systems Engineer, FI/CO Consultant, FI/CO Team Lead

Industry: Grocery retail and Distribution of metal for construction and manufacturing purposes

Client: ThyssenKrupp Materials Sweden

• FI/CO Team Lead for a new R/3 3.1 implementation at this international company ThyssenKrupp Sweden.

• Responsibilities included FI module (AP, AR, GL and FA) and CO (CCA and PCA).

• Interviewed executives and key users to create the gap analysis between the legacy system’s “As-Is” processes and the “To-Be” processes when using SAP.

• Provided SAP project manager and stakeholders with the project’s progress and the risk management.

• Hold workshops and end-user training.

• Prepared the comprehensive documentation required for all FI/CO configuration and processes.

• Performed extensive testing before any changes were released to the production environment.

• Researched and applied OSS notes where needed.

Client: KF Grocery Retail

• Performed system support to this large Grocery Retail Company, already live on SAP R/2.

• Developed and changed finance ABAP programs, which incl. development of a bank clearing program.

• Processed and supervised data processing.

RESCO (SAP implementation partner), Stockholm Sweden Aug 1994 – Apr 1996

Role: SAP Consultant (Programmer)

Industry: Consumer Products, Components for Automotive & Household Appl. and Medical Devices.

Client: Procter& Gamble, Robert Bosch and Siemens

• Provided system support to companies that were already live on SAP.

• Developed and changed ABAP programs within SAP finance FI/CO and the logistics SD/MM modules.

• Experience includes conversion of R/3 written ABAP program into R/2.

• Developed bank files from SAP to be transferred to the bank.

Early Career (details on request):

Inside sales of Computer systems, PMC, Houston TX, 1 year

Logistic Purchaser and Planner, Timberjack Parts, Sweden, 1 year

Outside sales B2B of Phone systems, DOTCOM Data and Telecommunication, Sweden, 1 year

Referee, Swedish Team Handball Association, 15 years (2 years on Elite level)

Education:

University of Phoenix, Houston TX Campus

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A), 2004, Major: E – Business

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E), 1993, Major: Chemical & Mechanical Engineering

Languages:

Fluent: English, Swedish and Norwegian

Intermediate: German

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