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Abraham Nkrumah

Fort Mill,SC

Summary

Rational SAP FICO Consultant well-educated in profit and loss analysis and account balancing. Adept at managing team in order to deliver final solutions to customers. Successful translating between business and technical language. Skilled in SAP-related user support, troubleshooting and resolutions.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP FICO Consultant

Victorinox
03.2022 - Current

Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting and Parallel Accounting

• Migrated various master data and transaction using migration cockpit functionality in S4HANA

• Designed enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits, Functional Modules, Enhancement Spots

• Designed Make-to-Order Costing and Consignment Process, Drop-ship process, and Intercompany Billing Process

• Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, and Material Inventory

• Configured and Customized CO – General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders and Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions

Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning, Lockbox.

Accounts Payable: Building AP Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Configured Automatic Payment Program, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice with purchase.

Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, integration with the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.

• Worked on period-end-closing, fiscal-year end-closing, material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, and reconciliation issues.

• Reviewed and delivered functional specifications to developers to meet business requirements.

Resolves all FI & CO related issues

• Build strong relationships with business partners

• Monitor and maintain business system to ensure proper system functions.

• Troubleshoot incidents and provide guidance to end-users.

• Identify and discuss improvement opportunities in business operations and processes.

• Translate business requirements to technical specifications.

• Design and build the solution by configuring the system and coordinating with cross-functional and technical teams.

• Put together test script and Perform unit and integration testing.

• Prepare production cutover plan and execute some of the cutover tasks.

• Deploy the solution into Production.

• Provide training documentation to key users.

• Ensure successful adoption of new software applications and perform other related duties as assigned.

SAP FICO Consultant

Kodak
07.2019 - 02.2022

Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.

• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting and Parallel Accounting.

Migrated various master data and transaction using LSMW

• Designed enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits, Functional Modules, Enhancement Spots

• Designed Make-to-Order Costing and Consignment Process

• Re-engineered Drop-ship process and Intercompany Billing Process

• Implemented COPA Cost base and created custom reports

• Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory in to ECC from Sage

• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.

• Configured and Customized CO – General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders.

Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning, Lockbox.

• Accounts Payable: Building AP Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Configured Automatic Payment Program, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice with purchase.

Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.

Sales and Distribution: Configuring sales organization, assigning sales organization to company code, assigning distribution channels and divisions to sales organizations, determining pricing procedure, configuring condition

• Worked on period-end-closing, fiscal-year end-closing, material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, and reconciliation issues.

SAP FICO Support Consultant

Unilever
07.2018 - 06.2019

Fully responsible for the fixing of tickets daily 24/7 to ensure the production is uninterrupted.

• Facilitates the implementation, operation and support of the SAP ECC and other key business applications, mostly focused on Production and Material Management modules, to enhance the users' knowledge and to maintain a high degree of effectiveness in the use of the processes and applications

• Assist on the design, configuration and testing of core SAP modules, especially focused on SAP FI and CO modules

• Assist on the requirements definition of key business processes for further enhancement of SAP and other key business applications

• Assist on the development of functional specification for ABAP development requests as necessary in SAP modules listed above

• Experience and knowledge of key integration points of SAP SD and MM with FI/CO and other key SAP modules

• Responsible for support of SAP and other key business applications, including providing functional expertise, guidance, presentation, and training to business users

• Acts as alliance with business users and Global IT for troubleshooting, including investigating, analyzing, and solving software problems and mapping user business requirements, processes, and objectives

• Ability to analyze problems, including root-cause analysis, and provide clear recommendations

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. Knowledge of the Italian language is highly desirable.

• Ability to collaborate with business users and have a strong desire to excel

• Able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload

Education

MBA - Finance

University of Cape Coast
Ghana
08.2014

BBA - Accounting

Institute of Chartered Accountants
Ghana
03.2008

Skills

  • Error Resolution
  • Test Scenario Development
  • SAP Implementation Techniques
  • Data Warehousing
  • System Configuration
  • Accounts Payable Management
  • Accounts Receivable Management
  • Internal Orders Management
  • Asset Accounting Expertise
  • End-User Training Abilities
  • Financial Accounting Expertise
  • Financial Closing Coordination
  • General Ledger Management

Timeline

SAP FICO Consultant

Victorinox
03.2022 - Current

SAP FICO Consultant

Kodak
07.2019 - 02.2022

SAP FICO Support Consultant

Unilever
07.2018 - 06.2019

MBA - Finance

University of Cape Coast

BBA - Accounting

Institute of Chartered Accountants
Abraham Nkrumah