SUMMARY:

• 18 years of SAP FI/CO Implementation and Production Support for 5 full cycle Go - live with project lead experience (fit gap analysis, realization, integration test, unit test, training, go-live support) in pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive paper and valve manufacturing for Oil and Gas industries, Oil and Gas.
• SAP R/3 FI/CO functional analyst with 18 years of experience in GAP analysis, Business Process Reengineering, General Ledger (including New GL), AR, AP, Fixed Asset, Bank (EBS, Lock Box), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product costing, data archiving, and Month End Closing, Intercompany reconciliation, S/4 HANA Simple Finance certified.
• Worked on 3.1H, 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5 and ECC 6 versions of SAP.
• Independent thinker and excellent skills working with people with different backgrounds. Ability to translating between business process requirements and technical procedures, think outside of the box while following the industry best practices.
• Provided expert advice on SAP R/3 Functionality (FI/CO Module), gathering client’s requirements, suggesting solutions to client based on best business practice
• Assisted in the development of business process descriptions and configuring the system based on client’s requirements.
• Lead three projects with up to 12 persons reporting to me.
• Provided guidance on end user training documentation and test plan.
• Over 10 years of professional experience in cost/finance/ project management, business/system analysis and design.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, teamwork and consulting skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

FI/CO lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

• Leading the FI/CO design for “Divestment Project”, 8 person is directly reporting to me
• Configured Intercompany reconciliation
• Configure Electronic Bank Statement and lock box
• Configure Asset Module
• Developed and executed test plan and test scripts
• Developed KT plan
• Planned, Designed, Implemented the Month End Schedule for the carved out system

SAP Managing Consultant

Confidential, Texas City, TX

• It was a backfill position. Lead a team of two persons
• Validated all the business requirements and made sure it is meeting the best business practice
• Helped and advised security matrix for the end users

Managing Consultant

Confidential, Burlington, VT

• Managed a team of 4 people for the Records to Report team.
• Resolved the gaps that evolved due to change in design in COPA planning
• Evaluated the risks of different new pricing conditions that were posting to FI and COPA with different signs.
• Offered pragmatic solutions to all reporting needs for FI, CO and BI

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP Analyst

• CO Lead for all three implementations. A team of 4 people was reporting to me.
• Understanding and gathering the business requirement of Valve (Houston), Pump (Delevan) and Dehydration machines (Ocala)
• Performed “Fit-Gap analysis”
• Translated business requirements into SAP solutions
• Onsite go-live support for international locations like UK, Germany and Canada
• Created training documents (EUPs), and trained end and power users on the SAP CO functionality
• Implemented and supported the Month End Closing Cockpit.
• Created costing variant to cater the needs of the company
• Configured Automatic Payment Program, cash discount, payment diffrence for AP
• Realized payment terms, dunning for AR
• Standardized documentation process and batch job names
• Resolved all issues relating to Result Analysis keys. Made sure that the Warranty orders are correctly posted to warranty account in FI and COPA.
• Realigned already posted COPA characteristics in co-ordination with BW
• Configured settlement profile with source structure so that the material consumption posts to a GL and the activities to a cost center at the time of settlement.
• Worked with cross-functional SAP team members on project and reported application issues
• Implemented and supported New GL.
• Configured and support Fixed Assets
• Derived different characteristics to COPA
• Configured SD, FI, and CO application components to Profitability Analysis.
• Realized new allocation and distribution rules for cost centers
• Owned and managed costing and settlement batch jobs
• Communicated with SAP AG through OSS
• Created LSMW Script to upload data
• Realized new substitution and validation rules
• Realized report painter and report writer reports
• Created functional spec of various custom reports
• Resolved the issue double posting to COGS in FI for PO’s with account assignment category “E” and double posting to COPA for drop shipment by changing the CE category.
• Configured new Financial Statement version for European BU’s
• Resolved various issues on sales order costing and settlement of service orders
• Trained Cost managers as to different aspects of production order and costing of materials.
• Organized KT session for new team members

Confidential, Tennessee

Sr. IT Business Analyst SAP

• Involved in Blue printing, fit gap analysis, Proto typing, Realization and Go-Live support
• Collaborate with different business units to identify requirements
• Lead the Archiving project for CO Team (two people were reporting to me). Checked the table growth, identified the objects that need to be archived along with the tables that will be affected, laid down the archiving rules, created the test scenario and laid down user procedure to validated data. Report and t-codes that needs to be archived enabled.
• Proto-typed different configurations in COPA, Product costing, CCA, PCA and Material Ledger
• Configured various aspects of Product costing like valuation variant, costing variant, costing sheet, cost component structure, WIP & settlement structure
• Realized and supported the Month End closing process.
• End to end configuration of Material Ledger Activities with support after go-live.
• Created allocation cycles to flow data from Cost centers to Business process and then from Business process to COPA.
• In COPA created characteristics, value fields, defined valuation strategies, assigned it to material type, created planning lay outs, maintained different planning versions and created lots of COPA reports using report painter.
• Communicated with SAP AG through OSS, got New OSS Notes created by the Developers of SAP AG, and applied it to solve the issue.
• Served as a financial and controlling coordinator for BW, outlining requirements, helping data modeling, testing queries including security.
• Realized info set and created quick viewer query.
• Created CATT Script and LSMW Script to upload data
• Configured various aspects of Cost center (Cost center, Stat. key Figure, Activity types), Splitting structure and splitting rules and Profit center master data, created groups
• Configured the Schedule Manager for systematic month end closing
• Created Workflow that reduced the month-end closing time substantially
• Carried out the conversion for building standard cost
• Tested new support packs, resolved integration issues before applying to production environment.
• Created functional spec for BW reports
• Defined steps in hot pack testing
• Develop and unit-test the solution components
• Created functional specs for very complex ABAP reports and conducted unit test to verify they are working correctly
• Design and develop test plans unit, integration, system or acceptance testing
• Perform system and integration testing for the data flow from MM, SD & PP

Confidential, Michigan

Sr. Analyst SAP

• Project lead for implementation in China (a team of 4 people was reporting to me), gathering country specific information, involved in the Blue printing, fit gap analysis, Proto typing, Realization and Go-Live support
• Analyze business processes and recommend SAP FI/CO’s best practices
• Configured multiple company code with multiple currency
• Configured Cost centers with multiple currency (USD, CAD, EURO & Mexican PESO)
• Solved problems of Cash application
• Configured new substitution and validation rules
• Created new field status variants
• Responsible for archiving data (CO tables)
• Secured the PCA Report painter reports by company code
• Modified COPA & PCA reports to reduce the execution time and minimize resource usage
• Configured new COPA, CCA, PCA and special purpose ledger reports through Report Painter and Report Writer for new business and company codes going live.
• Configured new variable, created new Library, report for new Special Purpose Ledger
• Communicated with SAP AG through OSS, got New OSS Notes created by the Developers of SAP AG, and applied it to solve the issue.
• Assisted the Security People in changing the “Authorization Profile” as per the needs of the users
• Develop functional specifications for development and training activities
• Trained Super users
• Created BW queries on 3.0 Versions and did production support for 4 months
• Modified Info Cube in BW 3.0 to add new value field and Characteristics
• Carried out integration testing for BW with R/3
• Perform system and integrated unit test for new functionality
• Created new value field and Characteristics in COPA
• Maintained Costing sheet, cost component structure
• Configured costing and valuation variant for product costing
• Realized Settlement Structure, Allocation structure and PA transfer structure
• Supported war room
• Created costing run for year-end new standards for different business and plants
• Realized new characteristics group and used it in reporting
• Configured new allocation cycles for new divisions went live
• Created ABAP Queries for the Super users
• Wrote development specs for the ABAP programmers, and conducted unit test
• Ongoing production support for COPA, PCA, CCA & Product Costing issues to over 500 global users

Confidential

FI Analyst

• Made various Planning versions
• Uploaded Budget of the different divisions of the company
• Created user useful Variants
• Created ABAP Queries for the Divisional Managers
• Wrote functional specs for the ABAP programmers
• Realized new characteristics
• Configured new derivation structure and rule
• Adjusted the cost center assessment cycle as per the current needs based on the changed product hierarchy
• Realized month over month income statement report through report painter
• Configured new summarization level for efficient use of the system
• Designed test plan and created documentation for the end user
• Create Costing run for over 30000 products and updated the material master
• Provided user support for all product costing, profitability analysis, Cost center accounting
• Configured new validation & substitution rules
• Trained users to make maximum use of the reports
• Trained the Executives with down loading techniques as well as formatting Sap reports into Excel for the Top Executives of the company
• Assisted in mapping the new Product hierarchy with the with the old one for about 3000 products of three divisions
• Assisted the Basis People in changing the Authorization profile as per the needs of the users
• Solved the end user day to day problems

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

• Participated in the feasibility study, as-is study and business process engineering
• The analysis of company's nature of business and studying the business process existing systems and external relationships
• Implemented the settings of enterprise structure, global settings of the organization including setting up fiscal year, business calendar (holidays)
• Maintained Master Data and other basic structures for Profitability Analysis requirements and Profit Center Accounting
• Configured Operating concern, derivation structures and rules in COPA
• Defined Valuation strategies for Profitability Analysis.
• Coordinated with other team members to integrate the settings of FI (GL) with CO, MM and SD modules for account determination for automatic postings
• Eliminating post-configuration obstacles in other modules-for release of documents
• Responsible for configuring automatic postings (GL)- foreign currency valuation settings, GR/IR clearing adjustment accounts, readjustment of tax and accounts for exchange rate difference, accounts for bad debts and reversals
• Configure payment terms for accounts receivable
• Programmed the system for Automatic Payments (AP)
• Defined planning versions for specific purposes
• Configured screen layouts for account group, assigning document types, number ranges to documents after analyzing the requirements, assigning of GL accounts, preparation of periodical entries for expenses (Recurring entries)
• Configured company codes, controlling area, business areas, chart of accounts, operating & income statements
• Involved in creation of standard hierarchy for cost centers, cost groups, cost element groups, primary and secondary cost elements, statistical keys, activity types
• Created Internal Orders and used for statistical purpose
• Involved in generation of various reports using Report Painter and Report Writer in COPA, EC-PCA and CCA
• Defined costing sheet (the calculation base), cost components, overhead keys in Product Costing
• Configured the costing and valuation variants
• Created settlement structure & profile, defined settlement cost elements for settlement of actual cost collected on and order to another object in the R/3 system
• End user training
• Tested the accuracy of data flow from MM, SD to FI/CO Module