SUMMARY:

• Over 16+ years of Professional experience with Business Users Interaction, Requirement Gatherings, Configurations, Development, Testing and End User Training with SAP ERP, Accounting, and Technical Support.
• About 14 years of experience in SAP FI implementation, Support, Enhancement, Upgrade and testing projects, sound functional background in the field of Financial Accounting and Controlling and Business Objects Planning and Consolidation
• Significant hands on experience in designing, implementing, supporting, Testing and configuration - FI Business Areas, Company Codes/GL/AP (Payment Process/Dunning)/AR/AA/Treasury Cash Management and CO CCA (Cost Center groups, Cost Centers & Cost Elements)/Internal Orders (IO)/PCA/COPA and Bank Accounts, Month end and period end process. Worked on the functionality of New GL. Revenue accounts and Revenue Recognition.
• Hands on experience in SAP Confidential Planning, consolidation and Reports
• Full life cycle implementation experience: Understanding “As Is “ Business processes, Blue Print, Realization - Configuration, Final Preparation-Unit & Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Preparation of Test Scripts, Authorization design for Roles with Security team & developing BPP’s, End Users User Training Pre & Post Go Live Support.
• Strong hands on experience in QA Testing using Confidential ALM/Mercury Quality Center 9.2, Test Director, Quick Test Pro - Creation of Test Plans, Test scripts, Test design, Manual & Automated Testing and analyze defects.
• Significant hands on experience as a Team lead for the functional Support, Testing and Interface team.
• Hands on experience with the latest release of SAP - S4HANA - EHP8, ECC 6.0 in FICO & Project Management Tool - Solutions Manager 4.0.

ERP SKILLS:

SAP Release: 4.6c/4.7EE/ECC 5.0/ECC 6.0/ S4 HANA/ Confidential

Primary Skill (SAP R/3):

FI: G/L, A/P, A/R, AA, New G/L, MM - SD Integration, Asset Management, Treasury, Cash Management, Foreign Currency, Financial Supply Chain.

CO: Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Order, Product Costing, CO-PA, Project Systems. SAP Confidential Planning, Consolidations and Reports.

Abap/4: Abap Objects, Data Dictionary Obects, Dialog Programming, User Exits, Alv Reports, Function Modules, SAP Scripts and Smartforms, LSMW, Report Painter, Report Writer

Testing Tools: Confidential ALM/ Confidential Quality Center 9.2, Test Director, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business requirements and Solution design thoroughly and mapping these requirements in SAP S/4 HANA
• Worked on upgrading the SAP project to EHP8 and S4HANA 1605
• Involved in preparing and signing off the functional specification (FS) documents, FUT and UAT testing cycles (functional unit testing, and User Acceptance Testing) before Go Live.
• Analyzed the existing system for, AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams in New GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable.
• Examined the company's document flow vis-a-vis SAP process flow and recommended suitable validation procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.
• Suggested changes in the master data, settings in transactional data in financial areas and improvements in reporting areas.
• Worked on New General Ledger with document splitting, parallel ledgers, multi-currency, currency revaluation, etc
• Worked on the whole flow of P2P (Procure to Pay) including the creation of the purchases order, Goods receipts, invoice receipt and outgoing payments.
• Worked on Accounts payable - Automatic payment program
• Worked on inbound and outbound from SAP to third party system.
• Define multiple payment method for ACH, Wire Transfer, checks and for foreign currency.
• Worked on Electronic bank statement (EBS), pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer.
• Bank Interfaces for positive pay summery, wires and EFTs sending from ECC to Banks.
• Coordinated the integration efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations & revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD.
• Prepared documentation of business process procedures, test plans, as well as user manuals and reviews.
• Coordinate with onsite and offshore team.
• Work with the business users to identify and maintenance of test data in HPALM for testing and maintain the test cases in share point for business review and approval.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business process Gap Analysis between To-Be design and SAP standard Business Processes, and made recommendations for Process Improvement
• Translated business requirements into SAP functional requirements and created Functional Design Specifications
• Solved application and configuration issues and collaborated with other BSA's to ensure end-to-end business process integration in Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Treasury, etc.
• Lead technical discussions in internal team meetings and project meetings at customer site.
• Created Test Scripts, developed SAP User Procedures, Training Curriculum and conducted Training Sessions for all levels of end users
• Prepare the Functional Test Plan.
• Manage overall testing effort in FINANCE work stream & ensure on-time deliverables.
• Assist the supervisor in estimation and developing project schedule.
• Responsible in driving the Test Strategy development.
• Creating Test scripts and establishing test process.
• Review test scripts with work stream and get approvals.
• Work with Confidential Quality Center for all testing related activities like test plan, test lab and defect module.
• Responsible for solving the defects during the System, Integration and User acceptance testing.
• Coordinate with offshore team to upload and execute Finance test scripts in HPQC.
• Map the Confidential and scripts with the business requirements in HPQC.
• Conduct daily meeting with offshore team to validate the execution of test scripts and defect fixing.
• Develop good understanding of the business functionality of SAP FINANCE Implementation at Confidential and educate the offshore team members on the same.
• Ensure Work allocation is done to the team as applicable.
• Work as the interface between Customer and offshore team.
• Work with Offshore Test Lead to make sure the requirements are covered.
• Identify the risks in Process/resources and posted the Program Manager on the same.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business process of “Record-to-report” and update the requirements in functional solutions (Blueprint) for to-be business.
• Update the blueprint documents of Finance and controlling which includes General ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Month end closing, Cost center accounting, Profitability Analysis, Budgeting and planning, etc.
• Translated business requirements into SAP functional requirements and created Functional Design Specifications for report, interfaces, enhancements, workflow and forms.
• Worked on integration of SAP BI system and Non - SAP systems with SAP Confidential
• Customizing SAP Confidential reports.
• Worked with the technical team on developments, testing and prepared FUT documents.
• Prepared BPP documents for some finance related transactions.
• Worked with the Data Warehousing team for DWH report mappings.
• Direct interaction with the client on mapping the data from the legacy (Infinium) system to SAP for DWH.
• Review with the customer on daily/weekly basis.

Confidential, East Cleveland, Ohio

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involve in business process design, analyze requirements and arrive at functional solutions (Blueprint) for to-be business process.
• Gathering business requirements from business users.
• Worked closely with process teams in understanding the as-Is system and finalizing design of the To-Be SAP system (GAP analysis).
• Translated business requirements into SAP functional requirements and created Functional Design Specifications.
• Design, configure, develop and implement SAP Finance and Controlling functional modules - GL (New GL), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Account, CO-Product Costing, CO-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Material Ledger.
• Understand and utilize SAP solutions, services, methodologies and tools.
• Responsible for SAP solution design, configuration and quality assurance; ensure standard, reusable, sustainable solution delivery.
• Baseline/Final configuration of New GL, Accounts Payable, Automatic Payment programs, project systems, product costing, profitability analysis.
• Configuration of New GL accounting with Parallel ledgers, Document splitting, foreign currency valuation for global company codes.
• Creation of various Master Data’s - GL, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and Cost Center group, Profit Center Group, Fixed Assets, Projects, etc.
• Developed Business Process Requirement Document ( Confidential ) & Functional Specifications Document (FSD) for new Interfaces between SAP & third party Legacy System.
• Developed field mappings between SAP and Legacy systems for both inbound and outbound interfaces. Inbound interfaces include bringing both Customer (AR) & Vendor (AP) invoices from legacy systems to SAP. Outbound interface updates the master data from SAP to Legacy Systems.
• Acted as a liaison between business users and technical developers and worked closely with technical developers to meet the business needs.
• Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules & Revenue Recognition
• In Banking: Creation of House Banks, configured the Automatic Payment program (FBZP), company code date & assign payment method to DMEE format, house bank configuration, create and assign the clearing and main GL account through bank determination.
• Upload file to EBS.
• Payment files are downloaded to user’s local drive and upload to the banking systems.
• Sending the encrypted DMEE file to user’s local drive and convert the file to bank format.
• Worked on Outbound interfaces from SAP to Banks for payment info.
• Designing and working on inbound and outbound from SAP to third party system.
• Define multiple payment method for ACH, Wire Transfer, checks and for foreign currency.
• Worked on Electronic bank statement (EBS), pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer.
• Bank Interfaces for positive pay summery, wires and EFTs sending from ECC to Banks.
• In Asset Accounting (FA), assisted in creating Fixed Assets, Group Assets, Assets Class, Post Periodic Assets, and Asset Acquisitions. Maintained Depreciations, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Area, Fiscal Year Variant, Number range, and Substitution Rules in the Fixed Asset Master records and reviewed various Fixed Assets Accounts.
• Integration configuration between FI-MM and FI-SD.
• Master Data mapping using LSMW.
• Collaboration with functional partners, provide solutions enables growth and operational excellence targets.
• Collaboration with other experts and solution architects to ensure that the design has been fully considered for both application and infrastructure implications.
• Design functional specifications for report, interfaces, enhancements, workflow and forms.
• Worked with the technical team on functional and technical specifications involving interfaces, conversions and custom reports.
• Requirements Analysis for new enhancements.
• Worked on Interfaces - Hyperion, Concur, Payroll, Bank and Electronic Bank by using DMEE file
• Utilizes SAP knowledge and expertise to identify issues and implementation opportunities.
• Data upload and define cut over strategies.
• Month end closing activities.
• Worked on SAP Confidential planning: Created Basic and Multi Planning Areas, Planning Levels, Planning Functions, Global Planning Sequences, Planning Profiles.
• Worked on SAP Confidential Consolidation: BPF (Business Process Flow) Defining Data Model, Data Management to Finance & Accounting related reports.
• Customizing the SAP Confidential reports, Input Schedules, Logic to meet the specific needs of the client using supported functions with Confidential
• Integration of SAP BI System and Non SAP System with SAP Confidential Using SAP BODS.
• Worked on conversion reports from SAP BI to SAP Confidential Reports.
• Worked on JIRA tool for incidents to track the new enhancements, configuration, issues.
• Perform unit, system integration and regression testing through the project life cycle.
• Worked on HPQC/ALM tool for testing through project life cycle.
• Analyze critical issues and defects and provide SAP solutions accordingly.
• Provide support and technical assistance to project team members.

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business process of ‘Procure to Pay‘, Support and Monitor Interfaces.
• Support various issues like re-pushing of invoices, payments, re-pushing of invoices to oracle table, mismatch of invoices, Automatic payment run, etc.
• Worked on the various changes and enhancements.
• Identify the invoices not posted into SAP. Analyze the issues in the XML files (FTP) and notify the vendor’s to resubmit the invoice.
• Worked on queries related to EDI Invoices, Inbound invoice and payment IDOC’s, Outbound Invoice IDOC’s and Outbound Payment IDOC’s. Identify the IDOCs in errors, analyze and process.
• Reconciliation of Invoice recon reports and Payment recon reports. Analyze issues using SQL Navigator and notify it to the AP team.
• Monitoring of daily payment run jobs.
• Coordinate with the technical team on functional specifications involving custom reports.
• Utilize Confidential Quality Center for all testing related activities like test plan, test lab and defect module
• Create test scripts and test scenarios for system testing based on the functional specifications.
• Played an active role during System testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance test process, Use case scenarios etc.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business process and system design.
• Responsible for creating the Functional documents for configuration as part of making the system validated.
• Responsible for creating Functional Design Specifications for RICEF Objects.
• Determined the scenarios for testing by understanding the business requirements and developed the test scripts.
• Created test scenarios and test scripts for GL, AP, AR, AA, CCA, CEA, CO-PA, I/O, CO-PC, PCA and RICEF Objects.
• Responsible for handling all 3rd party Interface documentation and testing.
• As part of Integration testing created test scripts and executed them in Confidential Quality Center.
• Was involved in developing traceability matrix which maps user requirements to business process maps to configuration and customization documents.
• Played an active role during System testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing, Integration Testing and Security Testing.
• Worked with Confidential Quality Center for all testing related activities like test plan, test lab and defect module.
• Responsible for solving the defects during the System, Integration and User acceptance testing.
• Prepared job aids for major screen changes for easy understanding of end user.
• Handled all the post Go-live issues.
• Responsible for analyzing current business process being followed at Vision Care Japan and provide business analysis in the form of Business Process Documents.
• Created Function Design Documents for the RICEF Objects after analyzing what needs to be carried over to the existing system and what new objects need to be created.
• Responsible for configuration of various modules GL, AP, AR, AA, CCA, CEA, I/O, PCA and CO-PA.
• Creating Templates for Data Migration which can be used by the Data migration Team.
• SPL will have to be carried over to the current system, so assisted in performing the relevant configuration in the system.

Confidential, Reedsburg, WI

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst/Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business process of new company (MAPA Spontex) merged with Confidential and mapping into SAP R/3, Implemented the Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, G/L and Fixed Asset Management in SAP FICO module.
• Role includes interface design, data mapping and conversion.
• Created flowcharts and Business blue print.
• Conducted business process Gap Analysis between To-Be design and SAP standard Business Processes, and made recommendations for Process Improvement.
• Designed organizational structure: Created and Maintained Chart of Accounts, Company code, controlling area and assigned company code to the company and controlling area.
• Created functional areas, business areas, account groups, Number ranges, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, field status groups, document types, Open and close posting periods, document number ranges, payment terms.
• Created Master records of GL account, Vendors, Customers, House Bank
• Configuration of Master data, business transactions, dunning /payment processes in AR/AP and WBS Elements.
• Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required Fixed Asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc.
• Cost Center/Profit Center Accounting - Defined standard hierarchy for cost center accounting, Designed automatic account assignments, Assigned profit centers to cost center, Created primary & secondary cost elements
• Configuration of CO-PA
• Providing production support
• Worked on configuration setting changes of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts payable, Bank accounts, Asset Accounting, CCA, PCA, Internal Order, WBS elements.
• Perform Integration configuration between FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-PP
• Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules & Revenue Recognition
• Extensively worked on PCA restructuring & enhancements to enable management reporting - Worked with the business users to collect requirements to maintain Profit centers, profit center Hierarchies, reconciliation with GL accounts and created custom reports for producing financial statements profit center wise.
• Resolved several issues pertaining to Payment run, settlement runs pertaining Project systems, Internal orders, depreciation run
• Resolved issues pertaining to Capitalization of Assets done thru collection of cost thru WBS elements / Network activities, periodic settlements to AUC & subsequent capitalization to Fixed Assets
• Involved in trouble shooting involving Product cost planning - errors during running cost estimate, marking & releasing, Product cost controlling - Errors pertaining to Overhead calculations, WIP Calculation & settlements, reversal of WIP & Production variance settlements
• Worked on the month end closing of FI CO, Asset Accounting and product costing like closing the posting periods using OB52 & OKP1, depreciation run, settlements, WIP, Variances, Costing, material ledger etc.
• Worked with the technical team on functional and technical specifications involving interfaces, conversions and custom reports.
• Identifying/modifying the standard reports and getting the new reports generated from the programming team to the user satisfaction. Responsibilities also involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user requirement.
• Developed functional design, configuration and training documentations.
• Knowledge to execute reports in BI/BW.