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- 1. Shannon Bragg Page 1 SHANNON BRAGG 6527 Manorwood Dr. Katy, TX 77493 (713) 301-2033 cell Email: shannonebragg@hotmail.com OBJECTIVE Seeking a senior position in an organization offering an opportunity to fully utilize my experience in Information Technology, Accounting and Finance, and Internal Audit as well as leveraging my analytical, problem solving capabilities, and management skills. Experienced in full life cycle ERP implementations, systems convergence and co-existence, FICO analysis, variance analysis, forecasting, budgeting, internal audit, operational audit, reconciliations, fiscal management, and financial reporting. BUSINESS EXPERIENCE SAP FICO & SR Business Analyst 2014-present KBR, Inc., Houston, TX  Facilitated the Intercompany Foreign Currency Exposure project by extracting SAP GL line item detail to analyze exposure by Company Code and Trading Partner in order to assist Treasury with their hedging responsibilities. Responsible for the analysis to determine which relationships were creating FX on both sides in order to redenominate one side of the relationship. Uploaded 2,600 redenomination journal entries to SAP resulting in a $ 100M reduction in FX exposure. Responsible for the cross-company code clearing of all Intercompany redenomination entries uploaded. Responsible for documenting all long term designated relationships and preparing the policy change documentation with regard to deferring Intercompany remeasurement FX to CTA for GAAP compliance. Vaco, Houston, TX 2013-2014 SAP FICO & SR Business Analyst Cameron International:  Finance/HR Master Data Management: Responsible for the governance of all FI/HR Master Data requests. Required to assess risks and provide guidance in preventative measures and/or issue resolution. Responsible for creating and maintaining the following business requirements: G/L accounts, cost centers, profit centers, cost elements, cost element groups, employee vendor accounts, cost center group hierarchies, sets, and validations / substitutions. Responsible for mapping all Legacy cost centers to Optimus for co-existence which required maintaining the following co-existence mapping tables: Company code, Profit Center, Functional Area and cost center tables. Responsible for creating training documents for IT0315 procedures, cost center creation, hierarchy maintenance, profit center maintenance, cost center extraction and load files from Legacy to Optimus, Optimus mapping procedures, and profit center maintenance. Trained the end-users on the aforementioned procedures.  Vendor Master Data Management: Responsible for the industry classification of vendor master data based on Business Partner Compliance (BPC) requirements. Responsible for researching and analyzing vendor purchasing history in order to execute changes to or modification of vendor master data. Execute mass maintenance requests as directed and support business review processes. Perform logic review in order to catch errors in defined global data fields and escalate or remediate the errors. Responsible for the decision to reject or syndicate the creation, or revision, or to otherwise modify vendor master data. Resources Global Professionals, Houston,TX 2002-2010 IT/SAP FICO Consultant  Pride International: 2008-2010  Initial Payroll Conversion Project: Responsible for the conversion of Pride’s internal payroll system from JD Edwards to ADP. This included analysis of payroll codes, pay code conversion/mapping to the GL and process definition for the ADP GL interface file.
- 2. Shannon Bragg Page 2  E1 Upgrade Conversion Project: Responsible for the analysis and integration of payroll changes required for the upgrade from JD Edwards World to JD Edwards Enterprise including impact analysis, change control, and unit testing.  Payroll Maintenance Project: Responsible for booking all payroll results to the GL. This included the following: liaison between HR, Payroll, and Accounting to ensure payroll results were booked in accordance with current business requirements; maintaining ADP GL infrastructure for accurate posting to the GL; provided ad hoc reporting using Payforce, iReports, ADP GL, and Excel; provided internal and external audit support for all payroll results; provided training and support for Accounting, HR, and Payroll personnel in the use of Excel, Word, and Power Point in addition to ADP GL, Payforce and iReports; provided all training to transition ADP GL processing & maintenance functions to Pride personnel.  Halliburton/KBR: 2004-2008  FSP FICO Reconciliation Team: Responsible for process design and configuration of Financial and Control modules as follows: Chart of Accounts maintenance, Company Code creation, cost center creation, profit center creation, table maintenance for validations and substitutions, Month-End close processing, GL accounts, comparison of GL accounts between testing systems and Production, testing and revision of FICO Business Process Procedures (BPP’s), analysis of data to prepare and post global correcting entries to reclass Consolidated GL’s with Unconsolidated Trading Partners, PC’s, and GL’s, prior period posting of all HFM pencil entries pushed back to SAP, and correction of transaction types in SAP for HFM walkforwards.  FICO Profit Center Reconciliation Team for all SAP companies: Researched and analyzed historical entries in NBS and SAP and prepared the correcting entries to reconcile the two systems by PC prior to rollout of HFM. Determined the mapping errors between NBS and SAP by GL, WBS, and Trading Partners and proposed their correction.  SAP deployment of MWKL (JV): Worked closely with the programmer to develop mapping tables to include SAP data for all Income Statement and Balance Sheet accounts. Prepared test scripts and performed testing of the JV uploads in QAS to verify the mappings were correct for each GL, WBS, and PC. Trained end users on populating the JV Uploads with GL requirements through FS03 and processing errors in BDC through SM35.  LOGCAP III, Dubai, UAE: Performed a process review audit while conducting process walkthroughs of the procedures in place for cash advances and new hire mobilization tickets. Evaluated the written procedures to identify control gaps and areas for process improvement. Identified key controls, developed control questions and control objectives and prepared steps to test them through a sampling template to determine if processes were being followed as intended.  KBR, Houston, TX: Team Lead on the Employee Receivable Reconciliation Project supervising 10 consultants. Responsible for reconciling over 1,000 employee accounts in SAP, management reporting, ICC reporting, quarterly presentations, and KART (KBR Account Reconciliation Tool) presentations.  Barracuda Caratinga, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: Successfully reconciled the Federal and State/Local Third Party Tax Withheld GL accounts from inception to date for the ART (Account Reconciliation Tool) project. Identified procedural errors and defined the resolution to maintain the ART status rating going forward.  Dresser Industries: 2002-2003  2002 YE Internal Audit: Responsible for the successful reconciliation of client’s intercompany accounts. Identified and corrected procedural deficiencies and MAS90 system errors. Created and implemented an on-going spreadsheet system to reconcile, as well as reduce, clients’ interdivision advance account on a monthly basis.  Dresser Masoneilan – Condé sur Noireau, France: Performed an operational audit to identify key performance indicators to better measure certain key operational processes. Interviewed plant personnel, obtained the data, and calculated the measurement of two KPI’s: the cycle time of specific valves and the percentage of orders launched with missing materials.  Cash Applications: Identified companies with credit balances or unapplied credit memos and researched their payment histories in order to correct their statements. Learned the system to post over $1 million dollars of unapplied cash due to extensive research.
- 3. Shannon Bragg Page 3  Tokheim Receivables: Worked with the credit analyst and individual companies to collect over $5 million in outstanding receivables and to correct the transition problems occurring as a result of the acquisition of Tokheim.  State of TexasDepartment on Aging: 2002  Responsible for the successful reconciliation of USAS, PMS, and MIP systems, from 1999 to 2001 with a monthly budget of approximately $18 million. Performed extensive research of deposits to verify they were posted to the proper appropriated grants. Accountable for documenting the reconciliation process with extensive spreadsheets and work papers and the creation of a procedure manual for future reconciliations. Successfully trained the Accounting Manager in the reconciliation procedures.  Analyzed all prior year grants and prepared journal entries to correct over and under expensed grants in the system by reducing or increasing current year appropriations. JMJ Associates, LLC, Austin, TX 2001-2002 Financial Analyst  Managed financial statements for Americas, Corporate, U.K., and Australia.  Responsible for global variance analysis, complex budget analysis, and budget forecasting.  Delivered on time monthly publication of all financial books for the global corporation.  Responsible for reconciling monthly GL accounts with budgets for Corporate and Americas.  Secured certification as an FSS (Federal Service Supplier). Houston Chapter-National Tooling & Machining Association 1998-2001 Director  Prepared and reported all required IRS monthly, quarterly, and annual 501c(3), tax forms, W-2’s and 1099’s.  Produced monthly and annual financial statements for the Board of Directors.  Responsible for completing grant proposals for funding of the association’s training program.  Coordinated and implemented planning for company trade show that included client, vendor and supplier contracts and payments and creation of production budget and cost management.  Managed training program’s compliance with the Department of Labor, performed monthly audits, researched and reviewed all files for required documentation and reporting requirements. King Chapman & Broussard Consulting Group, Inc., Houston, TX 1993-1998 Cash, Payroll & Benefits Manager  Managed Cash, Payroll, Benefits, 401K, employee contracts, and bank records.  Maintained current knowledge of multi-state tax laws with respect to foreign taxes paid.  Selected and transferred assets from Fidelity to Putnam Investments.  Calculated the gross up of salary and all statutory deductions for all employees on foreign payroll.  Accountable for monthly account and bank reconciliations and monthly and year-end closings of A/R & A/P.  Reported and amended all required IRS form 940/941 C’s, W-2 and W-3 C’s, and all 1099’s.  Prepared all incorporated sub-contractor, non-incorporated sub-contractor, temporary, and full-time employee contracts and benefit packages. EDUCATION University of Houston B.B.A., Finance, Magna Cum Laude Culinary Institute LeNotre, Elite Diploma in Culinary Arts, Suma Cum Laude APPLICATIONS / TECHNICAL SKILLS SAP ECC 6.0 - G/L, AA, AR, AP, and HR modules, SAP SQVI, JD Edwards World, JD Edwards Enterprise One, ADP GL, ADP Payforce, ADP iReports, HFM, HFM SmartView, MAS90, MAS200, Crystal Reports, Peachtree, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word