PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over fifteen years of functional experience in the areas of financial accounting, cost management, internal audit and budgeting.
• Over eight plus years of experience in implementing and customizing of SAP R/3 including full cycle implementations.
• Comprehensive understanding of the SAP R/3 Business integration model with strong process - to technology mapping capabilities and full grasp of integration issues.
• Expertise in configuration of FI, CO, Treasury, FI (GL/AR/AP/AA/IM) and CO (CEL/CO-CCA/CO-OM) modules.
• Involved in creation of functional specifications and cutover activities, training and production support.
• Experience in the integration of FI/CO with MM, SD and PP and PM Modules.
• Conducted unit and integration testing and prepared user documentation for training.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work, both in independent and team-oriented environments.
• Well-developed organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with analytical problem solving ability.
• Automatic payment program for invoice payments.
• Responsible for defining House banks and creating bank accounts for check transactions and electronic.
• Automated invoice processing and interface to third party software for 3 way match.
• Sales and use tax.
• Electronic banking and reconciliation including Bank communication management (BCM)
• Electronic payments
• Cash positioning and forecast including cash concentration.
• Day to day production Support in the Treasury (TR) functions involving transaction management including FOREX, bank to bank transfers, external wire transfers, Cash management functions and liquidity forecasts, cash concentration and bank communication management.
• Transaction management including Investments, borrowings and FOREX.
• Customized the Chart of Accounts, created Account groups and G/L accounts.
• Set up all of the FI enterprise structure components, such as company codes, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document number ranges, tolerance levels, etc., required for detailed implementation of the FI module
• Parallel ledgers and Currencies, foreign currency transactions and exchange rate differences, Analysis, design, testing and implementation within company code for GL recurring entries, AP/AR transactions and Security roles for users
• Developed integrated tests for month end and year-end closing to include settlement of orders, assigned depreciation expense, changed and closed fiscal year. Assisted users in Monthly and Year-End Closing Activities - rectifying errors, wherever necessary by analyzing and determining condition causing erroneous data.
• Configuration in Accounts Receivable for Customer invoices, Credit/Debit memo, Incoming payments, Payment advice, Credit limits, and Credit management and integration with external systems.
• Configured Accounts receivable which included terms of payment and interest calculation.
• Lockbox setup and support in day to day processing issues.
• Requirement gathering, analysis of data and configuration of the tax depreciation area as per the requirements of the tax team to support the tax process
• Supported in the extension of the technology to the India fixed asset business processes including initial upload of legacy data and integration testing of the asset functionality with FI and CO
• Supported clients in the management of the leased assets of the firm with a proprietary ABAP based custom program in SAP including integration with MM and PM
• Support the entire fixed asset process from acquisition in Ariba and interface to SAP. Fix system issues from creation of Purchase order on asset acquisition to retirement of asset
• Included complete process from creation of internal order, settlement of periodic charges to Asset under Construction (AuC), to final fixed asset and ensuring complete integration with Investment management (IM) for plan and budget
• Supported clients in the period end activities and periodic processing activities (depreciation) on a routine basis. Support clients with mass changes/updates using LSMW and custom ABAP programs and reports
• Supported the whole lifecycle of the leasing process (Lease management) for routine day to day activities such as receipt of asset, assignment of asset to personnel/departments, periodic billing of lease payments using recurring entries including prepaid invoices, payment to vendors through the automatic payment program in AP, tracking of the physical asset in Plant maintenance (PM) using the synchronization functionality of master records and the reporting functionality using ABAP reports
• Worked with MM and other FICO team members to ensure that Asset Accounting module would be tightly integrated with IM, MM, GL and CO
• Participated in the design and realization phase of the Partner accounting project using In House cash (IHC), loan management (LM) and business partners (SAP BP)
• Cost element accounting
• Cost center accounting
• Analyzed cost origination, accumulation and allocation, and methods of absorption
• Implemented Cost center accounting (CCA) and Order management (CO-OM). This included laying the architecture for the Controlling area, master data creation and customization of Assessment and Distribution cycles for period-end closing
• CO-PA configuration included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics to fulfill market profitability analysis of clients business, derivation structures and rules, value assignments, PA settlement structures, cost center assessments to profitability segments, COPA planning, CO-PA reporting - forms, summarization levels to minimize report execution time and reporting line structures
• Profit center accounting
• Identified business requirements that necessitated use of Profit centers (PCA) in order to fulfill internal financial reporting. Configured the standard and alternate hierarchies, dummy profit center and PCA assignments in material master
• Defined substitution rules at sales order level to derive right profit center based on agency, location and division
• Supported clients in the product costing process including resolving tickets for issues during periodic processing activities, month end process, calculation of variances and the annual costing run and updating
• Developed SAP unit and integration test strategies to test integration of functionality across SAP modules and between SAP and other systems. Included test case development, test plan execution (Manual), issue reporting and issue resolution
• Worked on troubleshooting issues related to integration between FI/CO and SD, MM; and conducted integration tests to ensure integrity of configuration and converted data
• Involved in the FI-MM and FI-SD test efforts with particular focus on Purchase to Pay and Order to Cash processes. Carried out refinements to configuration based on test results, and trained users on use of new module functionality
• Prepared documentation and end-user training manual
• Training end-users and provided support and resolved issues during Integration and Acceptance testing
• Supported the upgrade process to ECC6. Responsible for the unit and integration testing and client support for the asset and treasury management functionality and resolving the maintenance differences between the systems including identification of applicable OSS notes
• Around 4 years of production support experience involving ticket resolution and end use support of business requirement.
• Supported user communities to successfully execute day to day business transactions and issue resolution.
• Process design and implementation for new business processes to meet client requirements.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Accounting (book keeping and closing)
• Management and cost accounting
• Equipment Accounting and Auctions
• Internal Audit
• Payroll and taxation 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting with the Integration of the two SAP systems and assist in the General ledger balances load and open purchase order loads to the Intel system.
• Currently, assisting in the integration of the Channel management for High Tech process from the Altera to the Intel system.
• Complete responsibility for the production support of the SAP ECC, BW and CRM(Channel management) system for the Organization.
• Resolution of the help desk incidents to meet SLA’s in the Order to cash, procure to pay, Automatic payment processing processes.
• Troubleshoot issues with the BW reporting process and the Channel management issues.
• Support the Electronic bank statement processing and lockbox processing on a daily basis.
• Assist with the month end and quarter close and standard cost update process.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility includes providing remote FICO support for clients.
• This includes analyzing customer business goals, objectives, needs, and existing infrastructure and troubleshooting and resolving issues, performing needed configuration adjustments, developing functional specifications, implementing and testing proposed solutions working with the ABAP team and documenting the resolution.
• Work as a consulting member to provide minor enhancement work in the existing environment and future developments.
• Resolve service desk tickets and meet SLA’s as required.
• Provide documentation including training documentation and user training.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Application development

Responsibilities:

• Project member for the implementation of the Treasury module from the requirement gathering phase to go-live.
• Responsible for the Implementation of the treasury management module including Money market, FOREX and OTC derivatives including Cash positioning and liquidity forecasting.
• Setting up of house banks, payment methods for Electronic payments and bank to bank transfers including bank communication management (BCM).
• Functional mapping of payment medium and co-ordination with the banks for transmission of payment files for Electronic payments.
• Configuration of the Electronic bank statement and reconciliation process and testing with the various banks.
• Responsible for the functional specifications for the various RICEFW objects.
• Co-ordinated with the GL and AP group to ensure proper integration and issue resolution.
• Training end-users and provided support and resolved issues during Integration and Acceptance testing
• Responsible for data load of Business partners, open treasury transactions, Accuity bank data and other master data such as repetitive code etc.
• Responsible for an aggressive 3 day cut-over activity since it is a live production system.
• Responsible for the post go-live support and ticket resolution for Treasury, GL, AR, AP and CO issues.

Confidential, Nashville, Tennessee

Application support analyst

Responsibilities:

• supported the in-house SAP implementation for the Confidential firms.
• Primary focus was design and support of the fixed assets and Leased assets module and Treasury module of the firm.
• Leased asset module was a unique in-house built design where the leased assets were tracked physically and financially from the stage of lease agreement to the end of lease in SAP.

Confidential, San Francisco, California

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Consulting member participated in various implementations at various clients focusing in different SAP modules including General Ledger, Accounts receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Controlling.
• Projects included both short term and long term assignments implementations and production support.

Confidential

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included accounts receivable, accounts payable, commissions, payroll, accounts reconciliation and customer statements analysis. Internal audit and summarization of management reports for tax accountants.