SUMMARY:

• Motivated professional with 11 years of financial management and business analysis experience of which 4 years is in SAP Confidential implementation, support, design, testing, configuration and Integration with SD, MM and HR (2yrs full time+ 2yrs as independent consultant in support).
• In addition, I have extensive experience in Financial Services, Accounting, Business Process & Analysis, comprehensively performed two full life cycle Confidential configuration in ECC - 6.0. in GL, AR, AP, BL, AA, Confidential, PCA, IO, COPA, PC and Integration of MM, SD, HR, PS having added values to companies.
• Performed Confidential configuration in Sap S/4 Hana 1610.

KEY AREAS OF STRENGTH:

• Delivery Management
• Financial Reporting
• Financial Accounting
• Organizational Change Management
• Cash Management
• Best Practices Development
• Business Process Management
• Forex and Hedging
• Controlling
• Stakeholder Review

SOFT SKILLS:

• Enterprise Risk Management
• Business Analysis
• Business Blueprinting Documentation
• Testing & Test Strategy
• Gap analysis
• End User Training and Organization Change
• Integration of Financial with Various areas
• Cross Functional Integration
• Costing, Variance and KPI’s
• Financial Forecasting and Budgeting
• Financial Statement & Reporting
• Project cutover and deployment strategy

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

APPLICATION MODULES: FI/CO, SD, MM, HR.

New Technology Expertise: S/4 Simple Finance, Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Analytics, IOT, Block Chain, AI

TOOLS: Visio, ASAP, Solution Manager, MS PM, Access, Excel.

OPERATING SYSTEM: Win NT/2K, Win XP/98/95, DOSOFFICE TOOLS - Microsoft Office, Lotus 123, WS7, Acrobat, Notepad and more

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Confidential Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Enterprise Structure and Global settings.
• Maintained account groups, tax on sales and purchases, maintained business area
• Created finance customers and finance vendors (Business Partners).
• Good knowledge in Simple Finance applications process design and configuration.
• Good knowledge and configuration experience of SAP Simple Finance (S/4 Hana) process steps in SAP New General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, New Asset Accounting, Controlling Confidential (Cost center accounting), PCA (Profit center Accounting), IO (Internal Order), COPA (Profitability Analysis), PC (Product Costing).
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of business process of GL, AR, AP, BL, AA, Confidential, PCA, IO.
• Have good skills to identify, assess, and solve complex business problems for areas of responsibility within Simple Finance, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Good knowledge and experience in integration with MM, SD, HR and PS.
• Strong understanding of SAP Finance Data and Table Structures (S/4 Hana).
• Have done unit testing successfully in FI-GL, AR, AP, BL, AA & CO- Confidential, PCA, IO, COPA, PC
• Have the ability to solve issues with tickets according to High, medium and low priority.
• Ability to support troubleshooting in S/4 Hana
• Confident in giving end user training and production support in S/4 Hana 1610.

Confidential

SAP Confidential Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops on the New GL features along with Document splitting (Profit Center). Demonstrated the Document splitting concepts with relevant examples and an online demo.
• Hosted workshops with all business parties involved to gather business requirements, Docs and support model.
• Performed AS-IS analysis and developed TO-BE analysis. Focus centered on SAP Best Practices Industry specifics. Documented Process improvement charts, BPML and RICEF
• Configuration of Enterprise structure, FI-GL (General Ledger), AR (Accounts Receivable), AP (Accounts Payable), BL (Bank Accounting), CO- Confidential (Cost Center Accounting), PCA (Profit center Accounting), IO (Internal Order), COPA (Profitability Analysis), PC (Product Costing).
• Configured Chart of Accounts, House banks, Tax on sales and purchases, Asset Accounting (AA) maintained field status variants, field status groups, customized screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Defined detailed configuration of Account Groups, Number ranges, Employee Tolerance, Banks, Variants, Dunning and Tax.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation. Created Different Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes.
• Evaluated functional specifications and have done integration of FI (Financial Module) with other modules CO(Controlling), SD (Sales & Distribution), MM (Materials Management) and HR (Human Resources).
• Worked in integration T-codes such as OBYC&F-53, VKOA&F-28
• Worked with the BW team to create multidimensional cubes (Info objects, Info catalog, Info source Info cube, ODS, PSA, Source system, ETL and BeX Query development and Web Reporting)
• Error checking, Unit Test scripting, Integration Testing and getting configuration sign offs
• Checking and Application of OSS Notes to problem areas.
• Have good practical knowledge about important table names.
• Maintain custom tables, troubleshoot errors in posting, provide error correction instructions, create screen shot instructions
• Configuration expert of New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS.
• Cost centers CO- Confidential, CO-IO (Real and Statistical), SKFs, Allocation, Settlements and Distributions
• Configured COPA in Realize Phase with UNIT Testing and Integration Testing
• Testing - Test plan, SIT, FIT and UAT - Test Scripts
• Cutover testing, moving Transports from Dev to QA
• Used Jira / Zen desk for uploading issue logs.
• Document test cases and test scenario’s using use/test cases for UT, Integration Testing and UAT’s.
• Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields, table names such as BKPF, BSEG, KNB4, SKA1 etc.
• Trained End users.

Confidential

SAP Confidential Consultant

Responsibilities:

• AGILE and SCRUM fo r changes passed to support team in operations.
• Workshops and documentation.
• Involved in project preparation and project kick off meetings.
• Documented Confidential part of project charter and performed a fit/gap analysis
• Identified Gaps and configuration values are added to the backlog for use in the next phase.
• Involved in discussions with Business in understanding the existing process in FI & CO
• Supported all phases of the Activate methodology, including BPML, RICEF, TEST SCRIPTS, BPP, IMG
• Helped the business in preparing AS-IS, TO- BE document with GAP and effort analysis.
• Assist the business users defining the business requirements and prepare Functional Design Documents (FDD’s) and PDD (Process Design Document).
• Prepared the business blueprint document which explains the procedural detail of process mapping in SAP.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups, Tax on sales & Purchases.
• Configured General Ledger - Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files
• Involved in the full life-cycle implementation beginning from Business process review, design, configuration, testing, documentation and end-user training in the areas of New General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts payable (AP)
• Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)
• Implemented New GL, activated new General Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing
• Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments
• Exposed to integration issues of FI with CO(Controlling), MM (Material Management), SD (Sales & Distribution) & HR (Human Resources).
• Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts
• Maintained the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability control
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions
• Configured and Customized CO-Controlling module.
• Configured and customized Asset Accounting (AA)Module
• Helped in month end and year closing activities
• Involved in Unit & Integration testing, Data Migration
• Tested various scenarios in GL, AR, AP, AA, Confidential, PCA, IO, COPA and PC areas. Also trained the QA team in understanding business requirements, reviewed test scripts and coordinated testing. Also, trained the Super Users and assisted in End-User training.
• Worked with BI consultants for generating customized reports
• Support post go live and issue management
• Supported End users.

Confidential

Independent consultant (support)

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Support Team, worked closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities
• Analyzed Confidential related trouble tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.
• Key user training and providing end user documentation
• Managed end user calls/tickets for issue resolution and new development (enhancements) for the global business community.
• Managed help-desk for Confidential .
• Ensured incidents related to Confidential were addressed which was raised by the end-users.

Confidential

Financial data analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed the accounts relating to 15 properties.
• Auditing financial reports thereby helping clients with financial accuracy
• Compiled data to generate financial statements including cash flow, P&L, and balance sheet for review by management.
• Perform bookkeeping for all financial transactions
• Gathered, reviewed, and consolidated financial data
• Reconcile and balance all property accounts and Bank Accounts.
• Execute monthly billing operations, cash management, reconciliations, payroll
• Complete month end closings.
• Present financial statements.
• Analyze financial data and produce financial reports.
• Administer accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Audit ing work done by colleagues.
• Developed new reports as necessary and efficiently.
• Responsible for rent collections.
• Responsible for submitting 1099’s.
• Extracting relevant information for reports and presentations.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Data collection regarding inspection of homes for employees of client companies in Confidential (Accounting Software).
• Handled invoices of broker companies that take care of the houses of employees of clients.
• Communication with Confidential (Associated foreign exchange, California) to handle foreign currency payments to clients
• Analyzed financial activities using Excel modeling V lookup, Pivot Tables, Formulas, etc) including the monthly close process, balance sheet account valuations and reconciliations, expense budgeting and forecasting, long range planning, and expense allocations
• Handled Client Company’s accounting information.
• Handled DNRP (Government services) - Department of Defense National Relocation Program offered by Client Companies to their employees for relocation process
• Instituted formal cross-checking of invoices, turning around problem of supplier overpayments and saving dollars.
• Furnished company executives with A/P liability summaries and cash flow reports that were consistently praised for their accuracy, user-friendliness and timeliness
• Audited accounting files submitted to the head office by the branches of Confidential .
• Audited work done by colleagues of Confidential .
• Communicating and Dealing with CPA.
• Handled Government Administrative Fee ( Confidential ) for purchasing houses on behalf of employees of client companies.
• Handled Rent payments, utilities etc. on behalf of the employees of the client companies during relocation process
• Was responsible for remitting and submitting information in Confidential accounting software before check processing time.
• Performed due diligence on new development project