Luis Mora

challenging position as a Vertex / SAP Consultant or any other position in IT department. Ideally, a full-time employment opportunity is desired. I am also open to contract work based on customer needs. I have experience in Indirect tax Brazilian Indirect Taxes, VAT, Calculation Engine, O-Series, Tax Solution, Tax Technology, Brazil Tax Research, Leadership. I also have exposure to OSS note implementation for SAP localization, as well as e-Accounting solutions, maintenance for tax solution out of box including FTXP, OBCO, OBBG, OBQ1, expertise includes Vertex Application Management, Sales and Use tax in US, Withholding taxes for Latin America and VAT for Europe

WORK EXPERIENCE Vertex OSeries Vertex Consultant – Tax Advisor PepsiCo. May 2023 – Feb 2025 Remote Maintain PBNA Pepsi Beverage North America tax system Vertex, supporting configuration that has an impact on SAP S/4 Hana. SIC log troubleshooting, failed transactions, tax assist rules, taxability drivers. Vertex Retail Tax Export used for handheld transactions in remote locations and big clients. I also perform system configuration that adjusts the price, tax, and promotions. Use service desk tool to communicate with business users and take requirements, SLA, System improvements and approvals. Technology Server NOW. Work in US EST time zone with native speakers’ users. Use tools like excel to manage dump of database from different system. It requires us to sit down with other business users to understand data requirements and modeling of data to be absorbed by Vertex system. Knowledge of SAP concepts for FICO and impact in other modules like MM, SD. Creation of PO, Mater Data for customers and vendors. Vertex / SAP FICO Consultant, Change Management, ongoing support and projects management, Account project AbbVie Pharmaceutical October 2014 – 2023 IBM, San José Costa Rica Vertex Consultant tasks managed: Supporting Tax Solution using SAP ECC and Vertex OSeries for Puerto Rico. Duties: Vertex tax determination configuration including creation of Taxpayers, taxpayers registrations and localization, creation of taxability drivers and mapping those taxability drivers to tax rules. Understand the maps for taxability mapping. Creation of tax rules, enhance existing tax assist rules (pre-calculation, post-calculation, and lookup tables). Exposure to LCR Dixon VENDORecon configuration: My experience includes applying the configuration settings, validation check to include new company codes into vendor recon logic. Creation of regions and map those regions to provinces and vendor groups, maintain the VENDORecon tolerance table and work with the outcome report. Experience in SAP Accelerator to troubleshoot and maintain system configuration. My experience includes running extracts for the AP detail report and VAT report as well as engaging Vertex support to fix issues related to reporting. I am familiar with the logging functionality to troubleshoot tax calls to the tax engine using Function Module RFC_CALCULATE_TAXES. Full understanding of imposition and xml-mapping in the SIC log and integration with the SAP Accelerator. Help AbbVie to create a plan to enhance their old OSeries Patch from initial SR3 in the OSeries V9.0 to a higher version. Coordinate the plan to test the impact of the upgrade in nonproductive systems. This patch came to fix multiple issues in performance and stability. Also, I worked as SAP FICO consultant in IT ongoing support and project implementations for new solutions, taxes, account payables, account receivables, IDocs management, material costing, company codes configurations, implementation of new custom reports to cover legal requirements by for each country, client scope: Europe, North America, LATAM, and Asia. Some of the projects worked up: -Argentina Electronic Books High Level Solution Description: Create a custom ECC report that pulls up all values required by the business and create logic to maintain a number range according to the existing affiliate internal range. As a legal requirement these consecutives numbers need to Skills SAP ABAP debugging (development custom programs) Smartforms Technical Configurations Function Modules Management Transports management(repackage) SAP HR payroll knowledge SAP FICO Knowledge Projects life cycle Change management process IDocs management RFCs (systems connections) Accounts Payables Automatic postings (Auto AP) be kept. (Number range already started since operations went live). So, in case this can be automated the new solution needs to be adjusted to the current number that is already stored in affiliate books. The report needs to have the capability to download to Excel or PDF and then they will be able to record a hard copy on a CD with the PDF format to guarantee data integrity. Also avoid the storage maintenance fee. - Colombia Material Ledger replication in IFRS (ZS ledger) High Level Solution Description: • Customize the ML document type in ZS FI ledger, under the actual number range., for consistency sakes. • Customize Colombia ML under account principle ‘ZLS - Local GAAP+ IFRS’ for getting ML automatic postings in parallel ZS & ZL ledgers; this will occur at the LEDGER GROUP customizing. -Colombia Magnetic Media Report High Level Solution Description: The Colombian tax authority (Direccion de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales de Colombia [DIAN]) issues each year resolutions that require the companies to report tax transactions in General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, and Purchasing per G/L account and taxpayer identification number. Large companies as AbbVie must submit this information in electronic format (magnetic media) at the end of each year. This custom ABAP program is created to provide the basis data for the generation of the magnetic media once a year and the monthly filing of the tax return. -Venezuela Withholding Taxes Certificates automation High Level Solution Description: Create new WRICEFP (program) to be set up in Venezuela output groups which will create a .PDF document with respective WHT certificate by vendor, it will send documents automatically via email according to electronic address configured in vendor master data. WORK EXPERIENCE SAP FICO – HCM SAP HCM consultant, Change Management ongoing support level III, Account project P&G June 2013 – 2014 IBM San José Costa Rica Position performed SAP HCM consultant as ongoing support level III providing solutions to daily business requirements for keeping the right functioning of payroll cycle operation running without problems, implementation of new customizing solutions according to customer needs, ABAP code developments, fixes, custom configurations such as standard configuration as well. SAP HCM Consultant, Change Management ongoing support level III, Account project Unilever June 2011 - 2013 IBM, San José Costa Rica Worked for Unilever account providing technical support and solutions for HR SAP module as a consultant level III where new programs, developments, fixes, and configurations must be done in order to keep the payroll cycle operation running for Unilever Brazil, Chile and Mexico, the operation management is completely centralized in Brazil therefore the cases were handled directly in Portuguese language. SAP FICO Consultant, P&G Projects March 2007 – 2011 Hewlett Packard, San Jose, Costa Rica Best Shore Application Services department. I worked in HP with Procter & Gamble Financial Services and Solutions team as a SAP consultant for Projects Implementations. Projects successfully implemented so far: • my SAP GCF Argentina Chile Project, • my SAP GCF Puerto Rico Project, • Bank Consolidation project, • Salvador Bahia Project, • Janeiro Project, • AFF Auto AP Americas wave II project, • WELLA Brazil Integration project, • Panama COLUMBUS project • EMEA Auto AP project Wave II Some other skills are: ABAP Debugging Skills, Account Payable Automatic posting (Auto AP, IDOCs manage, Developments Design, Tables Management, Technical Configurations, Change Management Process, Function Modules Management. Also, I have knowledge of SAP R/3 configuration and Transports management. I worked also in Projects management as a PTL (project technical leader), the PTL role is about the technical resources management from all areas involved in the implementation like, cost accounting, purchases, affiliates companies, etc. I was in charge of several projects like COLUMBUS, where all importations and exportations from different countries from the world had to be centralized in Panama, for reduce operation border cost... The integration was successfully made with great results for the company.

EDUCATION Bachelor in computer science Engineering January2000 – May 2007 Universidad Hispano-American, Heredia, Costa Rica Specialized in Computer Networking areas. Telecommunications Technician, Bachelor Degree January 1989 – December 1995 San Sebastián Technical High-School, San Jose, Costa Rica English Language • Advance 95% Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica, Advanced curses INLINGUA Center, San Jose, Costa Rica Portuguese Language INLINGUA Center, San José, Costa Rica • Intermediate 70% Curses and Certifications • HP / Procter & Gamble IGDE • SAP Financial Accounting and Cost Management and Controlling Workshop • INLINGUA English Accelerated Professional Program • Advanced business-Effective communication • Project leadership and project teamwork • INLINGUA Portuguese Accelerated Professional Program • LAN Networks