SAP FI/CO Consultant with 22+ Years Experience

Michael Yang
32404 Westport Ct, Union City, CA 94587
Telephone: 510-489-7516
E-mail address: michael_x_yang@hotmail.com
Summary:
Mr. Yang is a SAP FI/CO Consultant and is certified as a Solution Consultant in mySAP
Financials – Managerial & Financial Accounting (ID: 000289180). Prior to joining EPI-
USE, Mr. Yang was working as an senior independent consultant for a variety of
multinational companies in the U.S. and China. He has over 22 years business experience
in the Finance and Controlling area including 15+ years as a senior SAP FI/CO
functional consultant in US. His industry experience includes financial services,
hospitality and medical systems, entertainment, semi-conductor, AFS wholesale, specialty
material production, and global localization especially for Latin Americas. Extensive
hands-on experience and proficiency in multiple SAP Finance (FI) application areas
including General Ledger (New) with New General Ledger Migration (certified), Accounts
Payable, Accounts Receivable, Financial Supply Chain Management including Credit
Management, Biller Direct (Credit Cards), Collection Management, Dispute Management
and Cash & Liquidity Management, Asset Management, Tax Management (direct/indirect)
including external tax system integration (Vertex and Sabrix) and Latin Americas’ hand-
on (country Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela), Electronic
Disbursement, Automatic Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement, Special Purpose Ledger
(for classic G/L) and Travel Management. Extensive hands-on experience and proficiency
in multiple SAP Controlling (CO) modules including Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA),
Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Internal Orders
(CO-OPA), and light exposure to Product Costing (CO-PC), Material Ledger, and Project
System. Utilized ASAP methodology on multiple implementation projects including 3
full-cycle for ECC5/ECC6 and 3 full-cycle for R/3. Mr. Yang has very good interpersonal,
verbal and written communication skills. Extensive SDLC (software development life
cycle) experience not only interacting with business users to identify user requirements but
also understand the integration points between finance and other operational areas,
preparing functional specifications for ABAP programmers for executing the functional
design, FI/CO related interfaces including IDocs/EDI and flat files, integration testing,
training end users, etc. Extremely good team player, self-directed, with strong analytical
and problem-solving skills, Mr. Yang also has served as SAP FI/CO functional team lead
for several projects, and has had sole responsibility for multiple FI/CO modules on various
projects. Mr. Yang has a Bachelor degree in Accounting.
Lives within a reasonable commuting distance of Bay Area, California, Mr. Yang is
particularly interested in a long-term permanent position that starts at a salary range of
competitive with a good company. Alternatively, Mr. Yang is also interested in traveling
for short term assignment that starts at an hourly rate of market rate + expense out of town.
Mr. Yang is available with two-week notice to current employer, and US citizen,
authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Candidate Profile:
The majority of Mr. Yang’s experience has been centered on formatting and
configuration of financial reporting including external and internal reports. He has
worked in a variety of industries as a lead consultant and as an acting manager. With
over 3 full cycle implementations on SAP R/3 and 3 cycle implementations on SAP
ECC5/ECC6, Mr. Yang is knowledgeable in business re-engineering principles of
financial management processes. His both SAP R/3, SAP Enterprise (4.7) and mySAP
ERP Financials (ECC6) implementation experience includes the following:
 Configure and implement the organizational units, master data and documents for
Financial Accounting in mySAP Financials and System configuration (activating
the new general ledger, defining and deriving segments, assigning scenarios,
defining customer-specific fields).
 Configure and implement the SAP business processes (such as payment, dunning
and individual closing).
 Configure and implement the SAP finance related business processes (e.g. classic
credit management integrated with sales and distribution, financial supply chain
management manors including credit management, collection management, and
dispute management.
 Make effective use of overhead cost orders with SAP R/3, SAP Enterprise, or
mySAP ERP ECC to plan, clear and analyze overhead costs.
 Use the Schedule Manager for periodic closing.
 Depict a organizational structure, master data and business processes for an
organization in the SAP system - and make the required system configurations.
Project Experience:
Konami USA SAP ERP upgrading from 4.0 to 4.7
2Wire SAP ERP Enterprise (4.7) migration implementation
The Mosaic Company SAP ERP Enterprise (4.7) migration implementation
Solectron Corp (Flextronics) mySAP ERP ECC5 implementation
Levi Strauss & Co mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation
Lenovo mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation (LAS Rollout)
Apple Inc. mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation (BR Rollout)
Ferro mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation (EMEA Rollout)
Capsugel mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation
MSC mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation (EH&S)
PMC-Sierra mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation
Excelitas Technologies mySAP ERP ECC6 and R/3 4.6c/Multiple Instances
Super Micro Computer Inc. mySAP ERP ECC6 Implementation
Qorvo, Inc. mySAP ERP ECC6 TriQuint Qorvo System Merge
Clark County, NV mySAP ERP ECC6 Banking Structure Changes/EBS

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
***** SAP SKILLS INVENTORY *****
SAP FI/CO Modules / Skills Definition Proficiency
 External Financial Accounting
General Ledger
- Enterprise Structure (FI-GL)
- Manage General Ledger (FI-GL)
- Period End Closing Financial Accounting (FI-GL)
- Inventory Valuation (MM-IV-MP)
- Manage Tax (FI-AP/AR including direct/indirect taxes)
- Extended Withholding Taxes
- External Taxes (Sabrix & Vertex Connections for SAP)
- Manage Intercompany Accounting (FI-GL)
- Activate Document Splitting (FI-GL-New)
- Segment Reporting/IFRS (FI-GL-New)
- New General Ledger Migration (FI-GL-New)
- Perform Cost of Sales Accounting (FI-GL-New)
- External Accounting Localization (Latin Americas)
High
Accounts Payable
- Inventory Management (MM-IM)
- Logistic Invoice Verification (MM-IV-LIV)
- GR/IR Account Maintenance (MM-IV-CA)
- Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS)
- Freight Payable (MM-SRV)
- Return to Vendor (RTV)
- Vendor Consignment (MM-PUR-VM)
- Subcontracting (PP-MRP)
- Down Payment (FI-AP)
- Automatic Payment (FI-AP)
- Payment Medium Workbench (FI-AP)
- Bank Operations (FI-BL)
High
Accounts Receivable
- Bill Customer (SD-BIL)
- Condition-base-taxes
- Process Receipts (EDI 820/Lockbox)
- Manage Collections (FI-AR/Dunning)
- Process Rebate Agreement (SD-BIL)
- Resource-Related Billing (CS)
- Manage Non-product Billing (FI-AR)
- Classic Credit Management (SD-BF-CM)
- Receivable Management
Biller Direct (FI-AR)
Collection Management (FIN-FSCM-COL)
High

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR)
Manage Deductions (FIN-FSCM-DM)
Asset Management
- Fixed Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
High
Travel Management (FI-TV) Medium
 Overhead Controlling
Perform Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA)
- General Cost Center Planning
- Allocation
- Report Painter Report
High
Internal Orders (CO-OPA)
- Planning
- Capital Investment Project Accounting
- Non-capital Investment Project Accounting
High
 Responsibility/Profitability Management
Perform Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) High
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
- Account-base
- Costing-base
High
 Product Cost Controlling
Product Costing
- Product Costing Planning (CO-PC-PCP)
- Cost Object Controlling by Period (CO-PC-OBJ)
- Actual Costing/Material Ledger (CO-PC-ACT)
High
 Project System (PS)
Project Cost Accounting
- Project Definition/WBS Structures/Networks
- Planning
- Revenue and Earnings
- Automatic and Periodic Allocation
High
 Treasury
Treasury and Risk Management (TRM)
- Payment Program for Payment Request (FI-BL)
High
Cash and Liquidity Management High

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
- Cash Management
 Country Version
Argentina
- Master Data
- Sales Taxes
- Withholding Taxes
- Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable
- Asset Accounting
- Document Numbering
- Document Entry
- Reporting
High
Brazil
- Nota Fiscal
- Reporting (SPED)
- CFOP Code (Entity Set Up)
- Taxes (VAT/WHT/MP135)
- Accounts Payable (LIV/NF Interface)
- Accounts Receivable (Boleto Compliance)
- Bank Accounting (DME)
- Asset Accounting (CIAP Compliance)
High
Chile
- Taxes
- General Ledger Accounting
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Bank Accounting
- Asset Accounting
High
Columbia
- Taxes
- Asset Accounting
High
Israel
- Taxes (FI-AP/AR)
- Payment Proposal
- Asset Accounting
High
Peru
- Currency
- Taxes
- Accounts Payable
High

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
- Asset Accounting
Venezuela
- Taxes
- Accounts Payable
- Asset Accounting
High
United States
- Sales and Use Tax
- Withholding Tax
- Accounts Payable
- Asset Accounting
- Bank Accounting
High
PR China
- Spelling Out Numbers
- Calendar
- Currency
- Taxes
High
 Technical
Extended Computer Aided Test Tool (BC-TWB-TST-ECA) High
Report Painter High
IDoc Interface/EDI High
SAP Query High
Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) High
Job Scheduling High
Data Conversion (ETLV Methodology) High
 Foreign Languages
Chinese (Both Mandarin and Cantonese) High

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Professional Experience:
EPI-USE, Atlanta, GA (09/15 - present)
Responsible for analyzing and defining SAP financial systems, business processes and
user needs of SAP financial (FICO) solutions like General Ledger (GL), Accounts
Payable (AP), Inventory Management (MM), Material Management interface to FI
(MM/FI), Fixed Assets (FA), Project Systems and Investment Management (IM) as well
as material management (Inventory). Additional responsibilities include technical
leadership, mentoring other team members, and leading projects.
Project Role Relevant Module
Qorvo, Inc. Core Team Member System Merge
Clark County, NV FI Banking Lead New Banking Structure Changes/EBS
ABeam Consulting, Dallas, TX (05/14 – 09/15)
Perform high-level analysis of client business processes and requirements to support
project evaluations with proposed solutions and detailed analysis of client business
processes and requirements to produce custom solution specifications for complex and
large projects; Define & architect the design for custom solutions; Provide direction to
development teams for custom solution realization and participate, as necessary, in
testing, documentation and maintenance support activities; Participate in project quality
management tasks such as peer and quality reviews of specifications and design
documents reviews; Work closely with internal SAP, external partners and client teams to
ensure successful project completion.
Super Micro Computer Inc. FI Lead SAP ECC Implementation
Excelitas Technologies, Fremont, CA (02/13 – 05/14)
As an SAP FICO leader to contribute in the areas (FI-GL/AR/AP/AA, CO-
CCA/OPA/PCA/PC, and PS) of roadmap development, design, validation, best practice
modeling, guiding team members and overall quality project management including
responsibility of the full systems lifecycle from requirements gathering through
implementation of ERP functional solutions; applying subject matter expertise to
identify, develop, and implement techniques to improve engagement productivity,
increase efficiencies, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and optimize cost savings and
efficiencies for each finance team within the organization.
System Integration FICO Lead SAP R/3 Rollout/Data Migration

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Yang Global Solutions Inc., Union City, CA (06/12 – 02/13)
1. Providing configuration services as per client’s requirement
o Sales/Use Taxes for country USA and Canada by integrating with Vertex
o Country-specific VAT tax calculation procedure for country Great Britain,
Germany, Finland, Malaysia, India, China, and Israel
o Withholding tax for country USA, Canada, India, and Israel
o EBS for entire house banks
o Cash Position and Liquidity Forecast Reporting
o Enabling Payment (FI-AP) and Cash Applications (FI-AR)
o SAP Israel country version
2. Support the implementation and configuration of SAP FICO including
o Product Costing
o General Ledger
o Project System
Project Experience:
PMC-S FICO Consultant Country Version/Taxes/Cash Management
Excelitas FICO Consultant Product Costing/General Ledger/FI-AA/PS
PricewaterhouseCoopers, San Jose, CA (04/11 – 06/12)
Senior Associate, as a member of Advisory line of service, across industries, focused on
improving business performance for clients, responding quickly and effectively to crisis
situations, and extracting value from transactions. Help a diverse set of clients around the
world anticipate and address their most complex business challenges includes multiple
sectors: Industrial Products, Private Equity, and Technology.
Project Experience:
Apple Inc. – SAP BR Rollout FICO Consultant Country Version/Taxes
Ferro - SAP EMEA Rollout FICO Consultant FSCM/ICA/EBS
Capsugel - SAP Data Conversion Lead FI
MSC FICO Consultant FI/MM
Yang Global Solutions Inc., Union City, CA (11/09 - 04/11)
Independent Certified SAP FICO Solution Consultant, as the Solution Architect –
Finance, Mr. Yang provides day-to-day leadership of the Global SAP Finance and
Controlling (FICO) team for the provision of SAP solutions and associated services to
client’s business units. Mr. Yang executes SAP strategies for the implementation,
expansion, development, maintenance and support of the SAP functional environment in
the FICO area. Mr. Yang also manages and mitigates the risk within the FICO functional
area and ensures implementation of corrective action. Served as any role such as Team

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Lead or Team Member for the finance modules, Mr. Yang is providing series services of
conducted data conversions, process development, training, and configuration for the
system migration projects including fixed assets (global and country-specific), accrual,
bank (including BofA, Citi, and other banks connectivity), cash journal, inventory,
tax accounting (including direct/indirect and external taxes including Sabrix and
Vertex), general ledger, accounts receivable and accounts payable, fast close
functions, financial statements, parallel valuation, contract, profit center,
profitability and cost-center accounting, investment management, revenue and cost
planning, and cash and liquidity management.
Project Experience:
Lenovo – SAP LAS Rollout Solution Architect Country Version/Taxes
Levi Strauss and Company, San Francisco, CA (10/07 – 11/09)
Functional Consultant of Competency Center Global IT Team, responsible for
providing project leadership, expertise, and execution toward the implementation of SAP
package and custom applications within the Finance and Controlling module of a
complex, global, SAP environment for both internal IT teams and external IT vendors
using SAP's ASAP methodology. Partner with cross-functional IT and business
organizations in support of approved business and infrastructure projects, and production
support services. Ensure that solutions are consistent with the IT strategy and key
apparel industry trends. Perform project or team management roles on assigned projects
within the FI/CO Module. Ensure that SAP Functional activities (e.g. configuration)
maximize the use and adoption of standard SAP solutions and minimize the ongoing
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for maintenance and upgrade of the SAP solution.
Contribute to the provision of a robust, reliable and effective SAP system for LS&CO.
users as measured by established service levels. Risk to the SAP functional area has been
mitigated. Support the FICO team in the US as well as working with 3rd party resources
anticipated to be offshore (e.g. India). Work collaboratively with IT staff, especially via
the Regional SAP Support Hubs, across the 3 Regions. Configure and enhance the use of
the SAP application in the FICO functional area through projects and minor
enhancements in response to business needs. Execute SAP projects that extend the
functional or geographic use of the system in support of the business processes.
Provide SAP best practice guidance and solutions to LS&CO..
Project Experience:
LSUS SAP
Implementation
FICO Team Member GL/AP/AR/AA/ CCA
TradeCard/SAP Interface Functional Lead Down payment/FI/MM-EDI
Global SAP Treasury Functional Lead Cash Management/EBS

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Flextronics International, Milpitas, CA (10/07 – 10/07)
Senior Business System Analyst of Global Business System Analyst Team, responsible
for a variety of Business Process Areas, working with Global Business Process Owners in
defining and deploying common processes. Accountable for all activities within support
Business Functional area to ensure successful implementation of SAP ECC financials.
Project Experience:
SAP
Implementation
FICO Team Lead Functional Fit/Gap Analysis
Solectron Corp., Milpitas, CA (06/06 – 09/07)
Senior Business System Analyst of Global Business System Analyst Team, responsible
for a variety of Business Process Areas, working with Global Business Process Owners in
defining and deploying common processes. Accountable for all activities within support
Business Functional area to ensure successful implementation of SAP R/3 financials.
Major areas include working with business personnel at all levels to identify issues and
opportunities to improve processes using technology; serving as architect for functional
area, providing leadership to business on appropriate solutions; managing to
intermediate level projects, including cross functional teams; serving as advisor to
training efforts, including providing training to small groups and individuals; working
with staff and management to identify and solution issues; structuring evaluations for
effectiveness in evaluating both functional and technical components; working with IT
infrastructure groups for security, system availability and performance issues; leading
business in communicating best practices in functional areas; and working with business
to execute required changes.
Project Experience:
SAP Implementation FICO Team Lead GL, AP, AR, COPA
Automated Vendor Payment Functional Lead FI/SD Integration/Cash Application
Subcontracting Functional Lead FI/MM/PP Integration
Vendor Consignment Functional Lead FI/MM Integration
SAP WM Implementation Functional Lead FI/MM Integration
BearingPoint, Mountain View, CA (07/04 – 05/06)
Senior Consultant in the SAP practice of Bearing Point’s Cross Industry Solutions
Group, specializing in the configuration and implementation of SAP Financial modules.
Provides SAP FI/CO implementation, configuration and project management
support to external clients, as well as providing internal BearingPoint solution

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
support for the SAP R/3 Financials. FI/CO modules include, but are not limited to, FI-
GL/AP/AR/FA and CO-CCA/PCA/OPA/PC/PA.
Project Experience:
Konami USA Team Member GL/AP/AR/AA/CO-PA (Account-base)
2Wire Functional Lead GL/AP/AR/AA/CCA/OPA/PCA/COPA
Lennox Team Member EC-PCA Deployment
The Mosaic Company Functional Lead AP, AR/Cash Management
TiVo Inc. Team Member FICO Production Support
Varian Medical Systems (12/03 - 04/04)
As a SAP GSM project team member, provided on-boarding support to Client; support
in the area of testing, language related conversions. SAP FI/CO modules included CO-
CCA/PCA/OPA, etc.
Project Experience:
SAP GSM Project Team Member Resource-Related Billing (CS)/CO Reporting
Yang Global Solutions Inc., Union City, CA (05/02 - 12/03)
As an Independent SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant, Mr. Yang has experience in
SAP Implementation, Configuration, Upgrade and Support of SAP R/3 4.6C FI/CO
functional in IS-PS industry. Wrote functional specifications for ABAP programmers.
Configured, customized, tested and provided training in FI-GL, AR, AP, CO-CCA, CO-
PCA, CO-OPA, CO-PA, CO-PC and TR-CM. Integrated FI with SD, MM, CO and
HR modules. Expertise in implementation of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable,
Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting, Consolidation, Asset Accounting, Cost Center
Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Order and Product Costing.

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Prior SAP Professional
Interim Chief Financial Officer/Treasury at Redstone Industie (SOHO China)
September 2000 – April 2002
Provides interim financial leadership and management to SOHO China affiliated facilities
on a short-term, as-needed basis.
Interim Chief Financial Officer at 158china.com
July 1999 – September 2000
Partner with the CEO on all operational and strategic issues as they arise; provide
strategic recommendations to the president based on financial analysis and projections,
cost identification and allocation, and revenue/expense analysis.
Corporate Controller at Capital Resources
October 1995 – January 1999
Preparation of monthly consolidated financial statements and other financial reporting
within tight time frames; Supervision of accounting staff including performance
appraisals, training and development.
Deputy Finance Director at ASIMCO
April 1994 – October 1995
Responsible for enterprise budgeting, financial statement compiling, EDP
implementation, and cost controlling of JVs
Assistant Controller at Swissotel Beijing
February 1991 – March 1994
Responsible for month end close, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and managing
a team.
Chief Accountant at China World Hotel managed by Shangri-la
January 1989 – February 1991

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Responsible for supervision and control of the general accounting area, and for financial
statement and report preparation.
Chief Accountant at Yanshan Hotel Beijing
January 1988 – January 1989
Responsibilities include immediate supervision and/or the performance of highly
responsible tasks in keeping financial accounts of the hotel related to budgeting,
accounting, purchasing, tax collection, and record keeping.
Sr. Accountant at Sheraton Hotel Guilin
January 1986 – January 1988
Primary responsibility was to prepare financial statements and supporting schedules
according to monthly close schedule
Accounts Payable Supervisor at The Garden Hotel, Guangzhou
July 1984 – January 1986
To supervise invoice processing and payment in a timely fashion.

Michael Yang
Telephone: 510-489-7516
Education:
Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China.
Certifications:
Certified Solution Consultant in mySAP Financials – Managerial & Financial
Accounting (2002).
SAP Courses Completion:
 AC010 Financial Accounting and Reporting
 AC020 Investment Management
 AC030 Treasury
 AC040 Cost management and Controlling
 AC200 Basic Customizing for Financials (GL/AR/AP)
 AC201 Periodic Processing in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
 AC202 Accounting Customizing
 AC205 Financial Closing
 AC210 New General Ledger (mySAP ERP)
 AC212 New General Ledger Migration (mySAP ERP)
 AC215 Cash Budget Management
 AC220 Special Purpose Ledger
 AC240 Consolidation Functions
 AC260 Additional Features in Financial Accounting
 AC270 Travel Management
 AC275 Travel Management – Travel Planning
 AC305 Asset Accounting
 AC350 System Configuration for Investment Management
 AC505 Product Cost Planning
 AC510 Cost Object Controlling for Products
 AC530 Actual Costing – Material Ledger
 AC650 Transfer Prices and Multiple Valuation Approaches
 AC660 EC-CS Consolidation Functions
 AC665 Integration
 AC700 Financial Management
 AC805 TR-Cash Management
 AC810 Basic Functions in Treasury Management
 AC605 Profitability Analysis
 BC400 ABAP Workbench
 BC620 IDOC
 CA705 Report Painter and Report Writer

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