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Sr. Sap Fico Consultant - Support / Migration Of Sfin Resume

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SUMMARY:

  • Confidential an industrious, dedicated, committed, success - oriented SAP Professional with 17+ years of overall hands on experience including 10+ years of SAP experience working with all project stages including Business Blue Printing, detailed business requirements gathering& determination, gap analysis, issue resolution, functional designing & process re-engineering, technical designing, configuration, custom code specifications, realization, multiple layers of testing, cut-over, roll-out to real-time production system and post-implementation support.
  • Confidential has 4 SAP Full Life cycle implementation experience,1 Rollout and 3 support projects. As Senior SAP FICO Consultant whose main focus has been successfully implementing Integrated SAP Financial Platforms from the planning phase through post go-live business supports. Senior level finance and controlling consultant with experience in the following industries: manufacturing, pharmaceutical, Oil & Gas, Textiles, Medical Devices. Excellent business communication skills, analytical skills, and detail oriented.
  • Confidential led successful medium/small global teams through complex program and project goals and tough project schedules. Excellent knowledge on custom development RICEFs i.e. Reports (Sales Register, Purchase Register, Consumption Register, FA Register), Interfaces (Concor, GECARS, IBS, WebCash, Zalaries and Markview), Conversions (Data Migration: LSMW, Winshuttle, BDCs), Enhancements (RFC’s, BAPI’s, BADI’s, User Exits), and Forms (Vouchers, Forms, Notices).
  • Confidential has excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing New GL-New General Ledger, AP-Accounts Payable, AR-Accounts Receivables, BA-Bank Accounting, AA-Asset Accounting, Cost center accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Internal Order and SPL-Special Purpose Ledger including Automatic Payment program and lock box configuration.
  • Confidential having expertise in Lease Accounting Engine where the values of lease amounts are transferred from SAP CRM to Accounting in SAP FICO.
  • Confidential having expertise in Solution Manager for maintaining the Documentation, Configuration and for Ticketing Tool.
  • Confidential having strong experience in implementation of OSS Notes / SAP Support for SAP system bugs and defects.
  • Confidential possess excellent knowledge of SAP FI, CO, Cash Management, Liquidity Forecasting & Treasury and Performed SAP End user trainings at various locations. Excellent Knowledge on Simple Finance and good exposure to SAP Security. Confidential has good experience of US Federal tax procedures and other US specific requirements.
  • Confidential very good Collaborated experience Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling.
  • Confidential has excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing New GL-New General Ledger, AP-Accounts Payable, AR-Accounts Receivables, BA-Bank Accounting, AA-Asset Accounting, Cost center accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Internal Order and SPL-Special Purpose Ledger including Automatic Payment program and lock box configuration. Very well versed and experienced in Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to cash (OTC), Make to Stock (MTS), Make to Order (MTS), Engineer to Order (ETO) cycles.
  • Confidential has very good exposure on Sabrix (third party tax tool).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  • SAP ECC 6.0 and 4.7
  • Sabrix/Thompson Reuters ONESOURCE Indirect Tax 4.3/5.3
  • SAP NetWeaver BW
  • HP/Mercury Quality Center 10.0
  • HP Quick Test Professional 10.0
  • Winshuttle TRANSACTION and Winshuttle RUNNER
  • MarkView 8.0
  • Solution Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant - Support / Migration of SFIN

Responsibilities:

  • Monitoring regularly SAP FICO tickets from the business team through ticketing tool Service Now.
  • Performing Month end activities: Depreciation postings, Recurring entries postings, Accrual and Deferral postings, Opening and Closing Periods, uploading exchange rates, Corrections in the logic pertaining to the existing Interfaces: IBS, GECARS, 1 Over 1 Rollover, Mark View and Concur.
  • Corrections if any pertaining to existing WRICEFs.
  • Attending and completing new FICO WRICEFs.
  • Maintaining the project documentation in Solution Manager prior to TR to production environment i.e. Business Requirement, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Configuration Document, Demo to Business team PPT, Unit Testing and User Acceptance Test documents, Cutover Activities document (Table Maintenance or any).
  • New reports developed pertaining to Cash Management and Liquidity Forecasting.
  • Interfaces developed pertaining to Cash Management to IBS.
  • Fixing the data issues pertaining to the existing interfaces.
  • Training for new business team pertaining to Z developments.
  • Managing on-site & off-shore teams, Project deliverable and Project Management Activities
  • Performing Year end activities: Opening and Closing periods, Maintaining Number Ranges, Reconciliation of all ledgers and sub-ledgers, Balances carry forwarding, Closing Assets fiscal year.
  • Build a Best practice document on Migration from ECC to HANA/SFIN 15.03 as a prototype project which includes Project Planning, Downtime Planning, Pre-project clean-up & Release Transports, Infrastructure Ready, Blueprint HANA Finance), Suite on HANA Migration, S/4 HANA Finance Migration, Remediation with Optimization, and Enhancement, Unit Testing, Testing Script, Integration Cycle, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Mock Cut-over, Training, Cutover Planning, Cut-over Execution, Consistency Check, Go/No Go decision, Actual Go-live.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Collection of User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
  • Preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
  • Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical area throughout the project cycle.
  • Demos to CTMs, Power Users and BPOs regularly while explaining the FRS
  • Preparation of Business Blue Print.
  • Developed and implemented RICEFs.
  • We implemented Cash Management and Liquidity forecasting functionality along with IBS interface.
  • We have created business scenarios keeping in mind a larger organization spanned across multiple manufacturing units, with multiple distribution units and also having lot of subsidiaries across the globe.
  • This involves multiple currencies, numerous parallel ledgers and appendix ledgers and multiple depreciation areas spanning across different countries.
  • We managed to use Global chart of accounts on the assumption that uniform business processes are implemented.
  • We have adopted Account based COPA as recommended by SAP.
  • Multiple Company Codes/ Single Controlling Area / Single Operating Concern (Leading Ledger - Non-Leading Ledger - Appendix Ledger Functionality)
  • General Ledger: Ledger Specific Postings / New GL Functionality / Document Splitting
  • Accounts Payable: Invoices - Down Payments - Clearing
  • Accounts Receivable: Invoices - Down Payments - Clearing
  • New Asset Accounting: Asset Acquisition - Retirement - Scrapping - Depreciation Run (Technical Clearing Concept) - Asset Under Construction Settlement (Ledger specific settlement)
  • House Bank set up - Bank Accounts - Payment Run Process - Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) process and Dunning Set up
  • COGS splitting based on Cost component split for account based CO-PA
  • Migration & Post migration Activities
  • Level 1 training to CTMs.
  • Maintaining the project documentation in Solution Manager prior to TR to production environment i.e. Business Requirement, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Configuration Document, Demo to Business team PPT, Unit Testing and User Acceptance Test documents, Cutover Activities document (Table Maintenance or any).

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Performing regular Period end activities
  • Attending and completing all upcoming developments pertaining to FICO RICEFs.
  • Fixing the issues raised by business team.
  • European Union VAT & TAX Implementation and Tax Reports developments.
  • Developments of Lease Accounting Engine with CRM module.
  • Training for new business team pertaining existing to Z developments / RICEF objects.
  • Gathering new requirements, Preparing FDD, doing Configuration, Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, giving demonstration to the business team, attending UAT, Golive and Post Implementation Support and uploading all these documents into Solution Manager.
  • Managing on-site & off-shore teams
  • Implementation of Interface WebCash and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
  • Managing project deliverable
  • Performing Project Management Activities
  • Liaise with client in all aspects.
  • Create opportunities to ramp up the FICO team.
  • Attending the tickets raised by business team in Solution Manager.

Confidential, Lewistone, Plainville

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Collection of User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
  • Preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
  • Implementing of Electronic Bank Statement process (EBS).
  • General Ledger: Ledger Specific Postings / New GL Functionality / Document Splitting
  • Performing Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Vacume Testing pertaining to Interfaces.
  • Asset Accounting with Lease Accounting Engine with CRM Module.
  • Training to Core Team Members, Power Users and Business Process Leaders.
  • Preparation of all project documentation and obtaining business team Sign-Off.
  • Attending the HPQC - Ticketing portal, pertaining to the business interfaces queries.
  • Having exposure on Sabrix (third party tax tool).
  • Configured external tax system Sabrix - Company configuration, established authorities, Customer exemption certificates, Product mapping, New trans-editors, custom rates, custom rules, custom error messages.
  • Performed SAP tax configuration, condition records for default tax codes, new tax codes, new tax procedures.
  • Developed functional specs for custom sales/use tax report to calculate new tax values based on statutory country currencies and for transmitting additional fields via tax interface.
  • Created custom tax codes and rates, VAT registration configuration for GST in Singapore, VAT in UK (Scotland) and Poland, TVA in France.

Confidential

SAP FICO -Functiaonl Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Collection of User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
  • Preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
  • Implementation of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
  • General Ledger: Ledger Specific Postings / New GL Functionality / Document Splitting
  • Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical area throughout the project cycle.
  • Demos to CTMs, Power Users and BPOs regularly while performing POC.
  • Handled major Configuration tasks of the Organizational structure of GL, AP, AR, AA, CO-CEL, CO-CCA and CO-PCA.
  • Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
  • Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical area throughout the project cycle.
  • Handled major Configuration tasks of the Organizational structure of GL, AP, AR, AA, CO-CCA.
  • System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
  • Implemented Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
  • Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
  • Maintained required settings in Accounts Payable viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.
  • Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification) linking of Vendor documents with EDI.
  • Required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).
  • Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
  • Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
  • Analysis of the cost center structure, profit center structure and use of internal orders.
  • Used Modules CO-CCA Cost Center Accounting and CO-OM Overhead Cost Control daily in analytical responsibilities.
  • Setting Controlling Area and maintained company structure with the help of Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy.
  • Configured and settled Internal Orders (IO) and Activity type.
  • Documenting and support for the finance work stream that Confidential FI, CO, AP & AM modules and the project progress in SAP ECC 6.0 tool kit.
  • Participate in Super User meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required.
  • Specified 17 Reports required due to Business requirements. Worked with ABAP programmers and completed testing.

Confidential

FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Performed gap analysis and prototyping, analyzed gaps between current business practices and standard SAP functionality.
  • Configured organizational structure like setting up of client, creation of company, assigning company to company code, chart of accounts, Company code, Business Area / Functional Areas.
  • Define G/L master data, country-specific checks, factory calendar as used by the company, Field status groups, Fiscal year Variants, posting periods, document number Ranges, Setting up of document types and posting keys for business transactions and Maintained COA.
  • Defining of FI-AR Customer Account Groups, Number Range, Master Data and Customer Tolerance Group.
  • Configured Recurring Entry Process for various Accounts like Vendors and G/L accounts.
  • Configuration of TAX: CIN, Input Tax, Output Tax and Withholding Taxes.
  • Defining FI-AP Vendor Account Groups, Number Range, Master Data, Tolerance Group, and Configuring & Customizing. Vendor / Customer down Payment, Payment Request, Clearing of Request, Implemented Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
  • Define House Bank, Bank Account / Key, Automatic Payment Program Configuration. & Clearing Open Items and Closing Value.
  • Did integration testing and end-user training. Prepared detailed test plan for integration testing in FICO module with a focus on improving accuracy of inventory and to be able to match cost and revenue within a period.

Manager Accounts and Finance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Transaction postings of day to day and Preparation Statements of Accounts.
  • Registration of New Companies: Verification of availability of names, Preparation and registration of Memorandum & Articles of Association, issuing Shares and related works thereof.
  • Bank works: Negotiation with banks for financial assistance for Cash Credit, Packing Credit, Over Drafts, Performance Bank Guarantees, Payments to Foreign Vendors and obtaining FIRC Certificates and arranging Negotiable Instruments.
  • Obtaining PAN, Calculation of Advance / Self Assessment Tax / FBT etc and on line transaction of Statutory payments. Computation of income, preparation of income Tax & Wealth Tax returns, on line filing of Income Tax returns, completion of assessment works by providing necessary details and attending the concerned ITO.
  • Interaction with Internal / Statutory Auditors regarding audit and other matters; preparation of Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Accounts; preparation of 3CA / 3CD forms for Tax Audit purpose.
  • TAN application, Calculation, deduction, preparation and payment of monthly TDS as well as Quarterly/Annual returns of various types of TDS on line; Issue of Quarterly Certificates ( Form No. 16A ); completion of assessment procedures.
  • Application for enrolment and Entitlement Certificates; Calculation, deduction and preparation of monthly challans; Completion of assessment procedures.
  • Company Registration, obtaining DIN & its Registration, Digital Signature, and various other returns in respect of increase of share capital, addition of directors etc. etc. Preparation and submission of Annual Return (20B); Balance Sheet (23AC) & Profit and Loss A\c (23ACA) on line.
  • Application of VAT Number, Calculation, preparation and remittance of payments as well as returns(Quarterly/Half yearly) with set off thereof and return for Refund; Completion of assessment by providing necessary documents; preparation of VAT Audit report and its submission on line.
  • All Works pertaining to Exports and Imports and connected documentation.
  • Cash handling, Banking, General Administrative and office works, self correspondence with customers as well as Government Departments etc., Import LC opening procedures, foreign Exchange as well as forward booking procedures, foreign exchange remittances towards commission and other types of payments; IEC, DGFT and all related works therein; timely submission of statements to Bank against utilization of bank facilities.
  • Small to medium sized programs required in an office as well as rectification and modification of existing software (including Accounting).
  • Portfolio Management: Buying & Selling of shares and other investments like MFs etc. with capital gain calculation and other related matters regarding adjustment of Gains and carry forwarded loss etc.

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