SUMMARY:

• Strategic SAP FICO professional with expertise in a diverse range of industries, including fund management, automobile and manufacturing, retail and telecommunications. Hands - on global delivery model involvement, including offshore functional and development support.
• Design and implement multiple interfaces (inbound and outbound).
• Strong knowledge with technical and functional upgrades: SAP system assessment, issue determination, prioritization of short and long-term fixes and recommendations.
• Skilled implementer of RICEFW objects, including design, documentation and implementation.
• G/L Accounts restructuring expert, successfully implemented chart of account hierarchies to feed various financial statements in business warehouse.
• Deliver system enhancements, system upgrade, end-user training and production support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3, 4.6, 4.7; ECC 6.0 (EHP 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, ehp7)

FICO: FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, S/4 HANA, CO-CCA, CO-PA, CO-PC (

TOOLS: / UTILITIES: SAP FICO, SAP S4 Simple Finance HANA, SAP BW, SAP ABAP, LSMW, SAP Solutions Manager 7.1, Report Painter, Report Writer, Live Link, Work Soft.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003/2008, 7.0 - 8.1

MICROSOFT OFFICE: SQL Server, Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis with business on creating organizational structures, company code currency, global settings, chart of accounts, G/L master data, determining appropriate fiscal year variant setting, aligning posting period variant with company sales month, number range assignment, choosing appropriate fields for field status variant and chart of account.
• Participated in and facilitate client meetings, interviews and workshops focused on collecting business requirements for SAP FICO functionality.
• Active role in analysis of all business processes for configuration of S/4 HANA / simple finance architecture.
• Customized various automated payment files submissions through 3rd-party server to the custodians.
• Coordinated with business users and involved in doing the gap analysis, implementing SAP FI/CO for all business process.
• Performed intercompany processing. Configuration (cross company and trading partners), master data setup for SAP and non-SAP affiliates and EDI in-client configuration.
• Customized automated investment manager, expense accrual and revenue recognition program.
• Procured to pay implementation and customization.
• Vendor invoice, GL posting through customized workflow.
• Worked on configuring necessary settings to transfer plan data from controlling components to special purpose ledger and resolved issues.
• Configured customer and vendor masters and configuration of setting for dunning procedure.
• Prepared automatic payment program, configured payment terms, created house banks.
• Implemented new GL accounting in addition with document splitting, parallel accounting and segment reporting, house bank configuration.
• Worked on general controlling, cost center accounting and plan/internal order accounting.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements in cost element accounting, prepared cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes and costing sheet.
• Defined internal orders types, order masters and different settlement profiles.
• Developed corporate accounting, account receivable, accounts payable, asset accounting and management accounting reports in business warehouse.
• Created profit center groups, standard hierarchies, document number ranges for Profit Center Accounting.
• Designed and tested business user roles. Performed extensive integration, validation and regression testing for GL, accounts payable and accounts receivable and ABC functionalities. Conducted different training sessions for business users and worked with them for assisting issues in post-production.

SAP FICO Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented document splitting and parallel accounting, supporting global reporting standards.
• Created Tolerance Limits as per business requirement for over payments and under payments, reason codes in customer accounts.
• Involved in cost center, cost center group creation, maintenance of the cost center standard hierarchy structure and the analysis of assessment and distribution cycles.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements in cost element accounting, prepared cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, and costing sheet.
• Defined internal orders types, order masters and different settlement profiles.
• Reported bugs/issues with SAP as part of support process. Handled enhancements, coordinated with developers and handled interface issues, resolving issues with IDOCS.
• Created validations and substitution rules, meeting internal and external reporting requirements.
• Dealt with intercompany transactions, billing and flow of these documents SD, FI, MM in to CO-PA, worked in product costing with pricing and material ledgers.
• Supported payment run issues with various EDI interfaces globally around 15 banks and payment media forms, lockbox and tested daily and monthly data communication processes.
• Coordinated data conversion activities and liaised with other teams to take care of integration areas for rollout projects including regression testing.
• Go-Live and post go-live support included extensive integration and validation testing, provision of end-user training and documentation, quality system checks, and 24/7 operational and implementation support to end-user communities

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw configuration activities, analysis, and design of business processes for R/3 Financial area including credit management, accounts receivable, account payables and general ledger functions including GL Planning.
• Gathered business requirements and document deliverables based on business expectations for the To-Be process and identifying the non-value adding events, to follow ASAP Methodology.
• Participated in and facilitate client meetings, interviews and workshops focused on collecting business requirements for SAP FICO functionality.
• Involved in integration of new general ledger with controlling for reconciliation activity through real time integration variant.
• Configured manual incoming and outgoing payments, house banks, ranking order, bank accounts, check management, automatic payment program to meet the client specific requirements, worked on random partial payment through AP automatic payment program issue, recurring payments issues, defined terms of payment, tolerances for customers.
• Worked on different controlling principles including cost center accounting (CO-CCA) cost centers, cost center groups, hierarchy, cost center categories, cost elements, activity types, statistical key figures, planning, assessment and distribution, allocations and splitting structure and rule.
• Appointed as senior member of the implementation team for CO-PA and CO-PC sub-modules.
• Defined profit calculation methods, configured profit center master data and created the profit center standard hierarchy structure.
• Implemented internal order processing by activity types and statistical key figures.
• Accountable for development and execution of testing scenarios for integration testing, regression testing and then tested each for conformity and functionality of system. Integration testing of developed system. Worked with client to establish testing scenarios.
• Participated in functional specs and technical specs design for custom developed reports, tested standard reports and helped ABAP/4 programmers, developing new reports in FI/CO module.

SAP FI Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Aided in the complete restructuring of G/L accounts; customized and configured a new chart of accounts. Stipulated the set of accounts with multiple currencies and managed open item clearing.
• Configured and customized the FI-AR and FI-AP sub-modules.
• Identified and prepared integration test scenarios, test datasets and advanced integration testing cycles for current and upcoming configurations.
• Assigned planning types, especially for cash-flow purposes, in the General Ledger. Analyzed cash position, liquidity forecasting.
• Streamlined cash pooling in local accounts functioning under in-house cash centers.
• Designed and implemented the lockbox process (origin-destination, lockbox number, house bank, partner profile, message types and logical message types for lockbox based with EDI).
• Configured and utilized the Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) for cash management (cash position and liquidity forecasting).
• Defined the LSMW object for uploading AR/AP master data. Restructured vendor and customer master records. Defined customer and vendor payment terms, payment blocks, and reason codes for payment differences. Configured account determinations for write-offs and partial payments. Created AP custom reports for month-end closings
• Prepared functional specs for new customized reports sales, accounting and controlling.
• Supported the finance team in closing entries for financial statement consolidation.