SUMMARY:

• SAP Certified Functional consultant with over 10 years of SAP experience encompassing seven projects with two full life - cycle implementations Involved in all phases of Implementation and two Global Roll Out Project successfully.
• Strong Implementation experience in FI on General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Asset Accounting (AA).
• Good Experience in Implementing and Configuring CO in Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting.
• Good Knowledge on Integration of MM-FI Procure to Pay(P2P) and SD-FI Order to Cash, Account determination.
• Involved in performing Month End and Year End closing activities. Performed Training sessions to the functional team on various modules of FI.
• Good Understanding of the new GL functionality and its implementations, Activating new Ledger, parallel accounting and periodic processing and migration from classic GL to new GL.
• Involved in Account Receivables, Master Data creation, Credit Management, Invoice Processing, Account Analysis, Periodic Processing and Reporting.
• Experience in Asset Accounting involving configuring and implementation of Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Asset authorization, Asset Master.
• Good Exposure to record to report (RTR) process from Record, close, consolidate and Report.
• Exposure to Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, LSMW.
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning.
• Good Experience in configuration related to Plants and Business area.
• Good Knowledge on Vendor Invoice processing, Purchase order process and integrating with external systems like BizTalk, Oasis.
• Accounts Payable: Involved in all the major activities of AP module in creation of Vendor Master, Invoice and credit note processing, Payments and reporting.
• Knowledge and experience in processing vendor invoices and credit notes, Processing Vendor Payments, Handling Vendor inquiries, and enhancing the capabilities of Reporting and processing.
• Hands on experience on the Bank Accounting configuration. Creation of House Banks and assigning out sourcing payments to Banks. Involved in making payments to vendors, File processing from Banks, clearing the open Items once the vendor payments are done.
• Good Understanding and Exposure to Simple Finance S/4 HANA. Knowledge on all the new functionalities of S/4 HANA Finance, Migration and Configuration.
• Very good exposure on ACDOCA Table views, CDS views and hands on with ACDOCA Table. Able to learn and implement quickly and willingness to Learn New Functionalities.
• Specifying Test scenarios for fulfilling business requirements and making necessary enhancements in Test Functionality. Involved in all phases of Testing Unit Testing, Integration Testing and UAT Testing as well. Good knowledge on validating the Test Reports and performing Test Analysis.
• Product costing, cost component structures, Costing sheet, Costing variant, valuation variant, costing types
• Hands on experience in Product Costing (make to order and make to stock), cost object controlling, material ledger configuration
• Strong implementation experience of cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting, product costing and profitability analysis
• Extended support for maintaining the post Live activities in setting up the master data and validating all the requirements to fulfill the business requirements.
• Good Knowledge and hands on HPQC and defect management.
• Strong technical, analytical skills combined with outstanding leadership ability, creative problem-solving skills in both strategic, tactical areas.
• Ability to work in teams and hand over the deliverable on time to achieve the Go Live.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP FI: General Ledger(GL), New GL, Accounts Payable(AP), Accounts Receivable(AR)Asset Accounting(AA), Bank Accounting, S/4 Hana finance

SAP CO: Cost Element/ Cost Center Accounting(CCA), Profit-Center Accounting(PCA)Internal Orders(IO), Profitable Analysis(CO-PA) and Product Costing

Reporting: Report Writer, Report Painter, BI/BW

ABAP: RICEF, LSMW, Tables, Debugging

Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word

EDUCATION DETAILS: Apr 2007 BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY JNTU COMPUTER SCIENCE HYDERABAD

2009 MASTER OF SCIENCE UCM COMPUTER SCIENCE MISSOURI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. SAP FTM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of Consignment project good exposure of complete process from Design to deployment.
• Worked closely with SCM team to analyze and test all the scenario, movement types and STO related to the implementation of project.
• Working with end users and business for successful transition of the project. Developed Document specifications, Test scripts, Test manuals involving end to end documentation of the project.
• Worked on IDOC failures, resolving High priority defects and closing the tickets by EOD.
• Replicating the IDOC with issues in Quality system and resolving the issues impacting production.
• Good Knowledge on Third party integration with SAP like Tungsten (OB10).
• Directly involved in Ticket resolution and answering, “How to” Questions. Supported the offshore team on all the issues related to Fi and CO.
• As a Business Analyst worked with business to fix day to day production issues and assisting business in Month End activities
• Worked on Tax Configuration for US and CA as part of mining project and assisted business to fix Tax issues related to Vertex
• Good Experience in configuration related to Plants and Business area and involved in all the stages of testing as part of Plant go live
• Supported the Plant maintenance team for the Post Go live hyper care and cut over activities.
• Good understanding of Plant and Storage location config and test analysis to resolve the issues related to plant - plant transfer
• Supported High level tickets, root cause analysis for high level tickets and prepared RCA document
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format.
• Involved in integration with external systems like Biz Talk and Oasis. Good understanding on Vendor invoice management, LIV and invoice processing.
• Involved in Mapping with external systems receiving flat files and xml files and updating in SAP.
• Configuration for the creation of Account Receivables invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation.
• Configured FI-AR and FI-AP Vendor/Customer master records, House Banks, Dunning Procedure, Credit/Debit memos, Foreign Currency Valuation, Automatic Payment Program, electronic/manual check deposit, bill of exchange presentation, Payment Terms, Interest Calculations, Lockbox Processing, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) using BAI2
• Preparation of Configuration Document business scenarios/sub modules for new Company Codes and Run Book to handover to the Run Team
• Hands on experience related to MM-FI integration from Config to Vendor payment. Involved in all the stages of P2P processes.
• Product costing, cost component structures, Costing sheet, Costing variant, valuation variant, costing types
• Good Knowledge in creating the master data maintenance, acquisitions and depreciation calculations and activating fixed Asset functionality.
• Hands on experience in Product Costing (make to order and make to stock), cost object controlling, material ledger configuration
• Hands on experience on creating and maintaining chart of depreciation and depreciation areas, Good Knowledge in maintaining Asset classes and Asset master data.
• Good experience in creating documentation for fixed Assets for the client. Hands on performing testing the impact of fixed Assets. Supported the post production issues related to fixed Assets.
• Perform month end and year end closing and validating the closing operations.
• Performed Cross company/ Inter Company transactions, Intercompany payments.
• Performed Unit Testing and Integration Testing with Test Cases for all new Company Codes. Prepare all the Test scenarios based on Client Requirement.
• Presented UAT Test case to respective key user to get UAT approvals. Involved in processing and Validation of Test reports
• Prepared Dash Board Reports for Project status meetings regularly and circulate them to the team.
• Involved in setting up ‘House Bank’ and Bank Accounts set up as per the client needs in the project and involved in manual and automatic payment program. Performing Automated Payment Program testing and validating the Test reports
• Good exposure on Initial change request analysis, work estimation analysis, Impact analysis

Confidential, Pontiac, MI

Sr. SAP Functional Consultant/ Sr. SAP FI Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of Rollout Team for configuring Company Codes based on the requirements from the business and involved in setting up Customer and Vendor Master and GL Master Data
• Involved in joint design sessions during Blueprint Phase of project for specific area of responsibility.
• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas.
• In Account Receivable, worked on various support issues like investigating blocked billing document from SD and identifying the root cause of it.
• Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement and rebate document which enabled business to communicate efficiently with Customers.
• Drafted functional requirement specifications (FRSs) for customer master, quotation processing, sales order processing, consignment processing, billing, returns processing, contract processing, rebates processing, and backorder processing
• Customized general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivables modules in FI module.
• Configured General Ledger Accounts both at Chart of Accounts and at Company Codes level
• Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO module.
• Design, configuration, testing of FI modules AR, in areas such as Dunning, Correspondence, Auto-Payment, Deduction Management Component, Invoice Processing and Credit Card processing) as the implementation methodology
• Very good hands on experience in S4 Hana tables, views and system check before loading data.
• Successfully implemented S4 HANA in US company code as the pilot batch. Worked with SAP team with configuration validation, change management, Test management and other administrative work.
• On boarded current environment to SAP S/4 Hana environment as part of prove of concept
• Worked with BI team to explore user requirements and to develop design in HANA core as to mimic Hana Tool.
• Aware of the S/4HANA roadmap differences between releases and new innovations. Familiarity with new cloud offerings from SAP
• Good understanding of S/4 Hana cloud scenarios which offers streamlined Procure to Pay process, Optimized Order to cash
• Provide revenue solutions to the accountants as and when required as part of revenue recognition
• Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults.
• Involved in individual and mass processing of Bill of Exchange and posting the foreign currency without exchange rate differences.
• Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings.
• Configured cost element, cost center and profit center, internal orders, profitability analysis in CO.
• Extensively worked in CO area with CCA, PCA, COPA, Product Costing, configured Product cost by order with production order scenario.
• Hands on experience in VAT related Tax codes and its implementations as per requirement from the business and knowledge on VERTEX.
• Strong Knowledge and Experience in Business Objects tools & SAP Business Objects from 2003. Strong knowledge and Skill in Data Integrator & Data Quality Tools
• Configured material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure using BOM and routing for costing the product
• Involved in the customization, production support in Product Costing (PC), CO-PA, CCA, and PCA.
• Created new costing sheet, Customized existing costing sheet, created overhead cost elements, calculation base, percentage overhead, credits, Cost component structure for different cost components, material cost estimate with quantity structure.
• Customized the SD-FI interface by preparing the Revenue account determination process.
• Creation of Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, sales order and Integration with SD and thereby improving the business process flow
• Involved in all phases of end-to-end testing which includes User Acceptance testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, negative testing, system testing and unit testing of interfaces and Client-Server Utilities.

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Sr. SAP Application Consultant / FULL LIFE CYCLE IMPLEMENTATION

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAAP Analysis and provided work around solutions.
• Maintained Configuration for Cost Element / Cost Center Accounting, maintained cost element attributes, cost centers, standard hierarchy, Cost Center Categories, Assessment and Distribution Settings in CCA.
• Defined profitability analysis transfer structure for settlement of production variances, material price variances to COPA and created assessment cycles to allocate the overhead costs among various characteristics.
• Defined tolerance groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, fiscal year variants, field status groups. Configured tolerance groups for employees.
• Worked in customer master conversion. Analyzed legacy customer records to map properly to the SAP systems and successfully migrated the customer master records using LSMW.
• Credit management: Created credit control area, assigned it to sales area, created credit control and risk category, credit group for customers, automatic and dynamic checking.
• Handled and configured reverse logistics (handling customer returns) including Debit/Credit notes.
• Implementation of the customer order management processes, pricing procedures, and billing with integration to the FICO, WM, SM IM, PM and MM modules.
• Migration of Master data - customer masters, material masters, pricing masters from the legacy system into SAP
• Responsible for all AR and AP implementation
• Conduct requirement gathering workshops related to AP and AR
• Worked with offshore team to resolve IDOC issues and analyzing the issue. Make sure that there are no failed IDOC’s and production issues are attended at high priority.

Confidential, Crockett CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: - SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6, ERP 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Defined the company code global parameters and assigned tolerance to employees, defined Account Groups and Created G/L Account Master Data.
• Configured the vendor groups / number ranges, automatic payment program and link lock box from bank to company
• Created Vendors, customers and Cost Centers using CATTs by uploading data from Excel sheet, created user defined reports by using Report painter
• Configured material Cost Estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by Production Planning. Setting info-records for product costing.
• Configured for Payment terms, Vendor Groups, Number Ranges, and Automatic Payment Program.
• Configured Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) for both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• Created P&L statements using CO-PA reporting tools.
• Worked on FI-Accounts Receivable (AR), FI-Accounts payable (AP): Masters, Open Item processing settings. Transactions of Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos (terms of payment), Outgoing Payment, Incoming Payment, Dunning, Open item Clearing, and configuration of Interest Calculation.
• Created Assets and performed intra & inter-company Asset transfers, new acquisitions, alteration, retirement of Assets, depreciation postings, year-end closing, carry forward Asset balances and fiscal year change,
• Carried out FI-MM integration: configured automatic account determination; ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (procure-to-pay P2P).

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of all open items, foreign currency revaluation, reclassification of payable and receivable, clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt GI/IR accounts, performing reconciliation s, profitability allocations by business area.
• Configured vendor account groups, Vendor Master Records, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check lots, Reason codes, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices and credit memos.
• Involved in modeling of invoice processing, Disbursement run, check printing and bank reconciliation processes for A/P.
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account Determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings.
• Worked on customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes on Accounts Receivable (A/R).
• Responsible for A/R customer transactions, credit management, check printing, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts, clearing and month end and Year-end activities.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Check, Wire and ACH payments.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV or GR-IR verification) in FI-MM (Procure to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD (Order to Cash) cycles.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and Assets.
• Configured Cost component structure and roll ups, BOM. Set up material cost estimate with quantity structure.
• Worked in PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process.

Confidential, St. Louis Mo

SAP FICO Consultant

EHP 5, ERP 6.0

Responsibilities:

• General Ledger: Defined Chart of Accounts, GL Master Records, Field status groups, Automatic account determination and Sales tax automatic account assignments.
• Defined Adjustment Account for GR/IR clearing by configured regrouping postings.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP through LSMW. Extracting Master data & transactions data to Non - R3 format, clean up data, mapping interfaces, loading data into SAP format (IDOC) and testing loaded data.
• As part of Record to Report(RTR) involved in complete financial cycle end to end process
• Involved in General Ledger for Manual/Automated JE, Accruals/Deferals, Bank Statement processing and reconciliations
• Good experience in Intercompany postings and transfers and also intercompany clearing
• As part of RTR involved in Asset Accounting for Capital Project set up, Invoice recording and expense Adjustments and Depreciation
• Record to Report involved in Closing for Daily interface monitoroing, Month end Sub ledger Close, Foreign Currency Revaluation and Month End General ledger Close
• Good Experience in Record to report in the divisions of Invoice to Payment, Collect to Casha nd fixed assets and Internal Financial controls as well.
• Accounts Payable: Creation of vendor master records, groups, vendor documents, number ranges, payment terms, discounts, Configured Automatic Payment Program.
• Defined customer master records, customer groups, House bank.
• Defined and assigned Reconciliation ledgers and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• Worked with SAP (SD) functional team to ensure that account determination met all requirements.
• Asset Management (AM) implementation configuring Asset classes, Master Depreciation and other business transactions. Fixed Asset accounting, reconcile Asset management to GL.
• Configured the Chart of Depreciation, Created procedural documentation for End users in Asset management (AM) module.
• Treasury: worked on Lockbox process configuration, bank statement processing, Cash management (CM) to monitor payment flows and liquidity and also worked on client’s lockbox banks to validate the inbound files.

Confidential, Mesquite, TX

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Configured AP/AR, document postings, GL recurring entries, accrual deferral documents, month-end closings.
• General Ledger (FI-GL) taking care for uploading master data and configuring the pre-requisites which includes Creation of Chart of Accounts, Account groups, and Retained earnings accounts.
• Understand and apply appropriate project and system development methodologies to ensure a timely and cost-effective solution.
• Proficient with the AS-Is business processes and designed the To-Be SAP Financial processes, by designing the FICO processes. Experience using SAP Solution manager and ARIS.
• Contribute in a diverse team environment to ensure solutions are implemented in a consistent manner and proper collaboration is in place across IT and the business.
• Responsible for Design, Configuration, User acceptance Testing, QA and Regression Testing.
• Coordinates new system enhancements with appropriate testing, change management and communication with minimal rework.
• Developed test plans, support documentation and training material for supported systems.
• Identified researches and resolves system issues proactively and provides recommendations to management, customers and peers.