SUMMARY:

• A SAP finance professional with 12+ years of experience and expertise in planning and analysis and systems implementations
• Experience in Support leading a team of both development and functional requirements.
• Excellent domain expertise and functional knowledge on Finance and Controlling with understanding of accounting concepts.
• Worked for the projects 5 End to End Implementation /Production Support/Rollouts/Testing
• Strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, documentation, user training and support in SAP R/3 ECC 6.0.
• Expertise to define system strategy, develop system requirements, design and prototype, test, train, define support procedures and implement practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New GL, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Special Purpose Ledger (SPL), Treasury (TR) and Consolidation.
• Treasury and Risk Management: Transaction Manager, Market Risk Analyzer, and Credit Risk Analyzer.
• Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (COPC) and Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Reports: SAP/BW/BOBJ/BI: Vendor earnings report, Revenue reports, Invoice listing reports, Sales by state tax reports, MOSS VAT reports, Audit reports, Sales by Store reports, Content specific reports, AB COPA Grid Reports
• Accounts Receivable (AR): Customer billing, Cash application, dispute management, Lockbox, Credit management, Dunning procedures, clearing customer open items, Interest calculations, Correspondence, TRM, Special GL Transactions, AR Reporting.
• Experienced in configuring Lockbox, Dunning, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Automatic payment run and A/R Miscellaneous Invoices
• Having extensive hands on experience in working with AP - Interfaces and AR - Interfaces, such as EDI, IDOC, XML files.
• Strong knowledge of Integration of FI/CO, SD and MM including Procure to pay (P2P).
• Expertise with definition of functional requirements, process improvement, and project scope definition, blue printing, gap analysis, configuration, testing, documentation, full life cycle implementation and support.
• Experience in business blueprints for the processes and specified the requirements. Preparation of documentation and flow charts, describing interfaces, collecting of master data, testing and reviewing training documentation.
• Multiple global implementation/ rollout experience including ECC 6.0 version
• Exceptionally proficient in identifying and solving problems outside the box; hands-on capable of interacting with multiple levels of management and employees.
• Experience in improving business process to reduce rework on various office functions, multi-tasking among different projects.
• Possesses a good understanding of IT project management principles, tools and methodologies.
• Experienced in providing direction and leading cross-functional work teams without a direct reporting relationship.
• Assist in User Acceptance testing (UAT) with experience with debugging issues and Assist in HP Quality Center.
• Worked on (LSMW) Legacy System Migration Work Batch projects and created projects to migrate master data into SAP system from flat files.
• Able to read ABAP code to identify the processes being executed in custom developed programs.
• Experience in preparation of Report design and report creation using Report Writer, Report Painter, and SAP Query, writing functional specs.
• Knowledge of Product Costing, which include Maintain material master, activity type, BOM.
• Ability to write some ABAP code and modify SAP Scripts, Smart Forms and Text objects in SAP.
• Worked on Dynamic Credit Management implementation with required Risk Codes and Credit Rep functions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP (ECC 4.6/4.7/5.0/6.0- FI/CO); Integration SD, MM & FI/CO, HP Quality Center, Quick Books.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP, Windows NT, Familiar with UNIX, MS-DOS

Databases: Microsoft Access, MySQL, BW, Oracle, Hadoop

Office Tools: MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio, Crystal Reports, CCSN, Rev Track, Lotus Notes, Business Blue print application in Coke.

Quality Assurance: Software Application Testing Life Cycle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

FICO Senior Consultant.

• Configured SAP financials (FI/CO) and SAP Asset management.
• Process re-engineering and change management. Worked on gathering business requirements worldwide, also responsible for heading up the definition of the client’s business processes, re-engineering said processes and implementing AP (FI-AP, FI-BL & MM-LIV) worldwide. This included the following:
• Responsible for facilitating the gathering of requirements specific to Accounts Payable from 34 sites in 20 countries (which included 13 different stand-alone legacy systems).
• Responsible for training team members on, and for facilitating the creation of global business process flows related to Accounts payable; which includes FI-AP and MM-LIV invoice entry, exception handling and the payment program.
• Established Vendor automation process and PCS process for the Creation of vendor masters and Payment Consolidations (3 way recon)
• Configuration of Bank accounting. Responsible for creation of house banks and configuring the Payment Program with the related Bank Accounting Sub module Transactions in order to outsource payment execution to Bank of America for said countries. This included:
• Configuration and training of team members to facilitate configuration for 34 sites worldwide. This included an analysis of the current banking structure and interfacing with the Bank responsible for the ‘single source’ data transfer approach. Configured the payment program itself, including up to 6 different payment methods for each country.
• Acted as a liaison with BOA to clarify the requirements from both the client and banking sides.
• House bank creation including the usage of EDI related fields required for the creation of IDOC (which were the means of transmitting the data to the bank via FTP). Creation and usage of bank chains for both Vendors and House Banks. Documented and trained team members on the usage of bank details for 43 different countries to enable the client to pay said vendors via wire.
• Maintenance and creation of vendor master data including the setting up of tolerance limits for employees. Defining and setting payment blocks
• Assisted the Vendor Master Team with cleanup and validation of bank details for over 7,000 vendors paid via wire worldwide.
• Worked with the Treasury consultant on interfacing the needs of the Treasury department with those of the Accounts Payable Departments worldwide.
• Data Conversion for devising and implementing the approach used in loading both AP open items and GL balances into SAP.
• Analyzed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• In addition, I was responsible for co-managing the AP portion of the project, which included creating the scope document, the project plan (which included a projecting a go-live date) and the scope document.
• Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support of the US region. This includes interfacing with the Accounts Payable and purchasing departments to implement temporary business processes to manage the transfer of unconverted legacy data into SAP.
• Conducted Post-Go Live support integrated workshops for the Accounts Payable department to educate on the integrated aspects of the two modules, which included GR/IR maintenance, Blocking Codes and Framework Order Management.

Confidential

FICO/RMCA Senior Consultant.

• Web Order Inbound Changes to the Revenue/Royalty /SUBS/OBLG/AFFL
• BIT Class Configuration & Generation
• Configuration of New Content type
• Maintain Business case & Sub Case derivation
• Maintain Sub Transactions
• Posting area configuration
• Assign Main and Sub-transactions to the company codes
• Defining new billing process
• Defining sub process
• Grouping Logic Maintained
• Defining new Invoicing process
• Worked on FQEVENTS related to Billing and Invoicing
• BODS Extraction to the Down stream Systems
• Worked on all the phases of the project since from the Kick off to Warranty Support

Confidential

FI/CO Senior Consultant

• Vertex - Maintained logical Destination for External tax Calc.
• Vertex - Modified Jurisdiction code for input/output tax.
• Vertex - Modified Tax Jurisdiction Code Structure from 9 to 10.
• Vertex - External System activation.
• Vertex - Maintained Company code Address and Jurisdiction Code.
• Vertex - Maintained Company Code Jurisdiction Code.
• Vertex-Assigned Jurisdiction Codes to Applicable Plants.

Confidential, Minneapolis

FI/CO Solution Architect.

Environment: ECC 6.0

• Implement ISO 20022 XML format for Banking Interface -Europe- to generate XML file for automatic payment through DMEE process and establishing a host-to-host file transfer with encryption keys. Configured payment methods & XML file mapping to be in line with existing EDI process .
• Configured payment methods in Country, Company code, Bank determination and maintained PMW entries in table.
• Configured Payment methods in SEPA, CBFT, and DFT for Europe.
• Maintained PIUID’s and Clearing channels in PMW table as per the Country rules.
• Created the Company and Company Codes
• Configured the Chart of Accounts, Account Groups in General Ledger and Reason Codes
• Defined and Assigned Document Number Ranges, Defined Account Groups and Tolerance Groups for Vendors and Customers.
• Defined Retained Earnings account to each Profit and loss Account.
• Interacted with Client to Create and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data, Define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas

Confidential - TCCC Atlanta

SAP FICO - AP Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

Roles & Responsibilities:

• To Configure SAP VIM Analytics - Vendor Invoice Management Open Text scenarios for migration to VIM 5.2 version of the Open Text for NA & Africa. Developing Data migration programs for workflow related and also cleaning the obsolete tables & data from IIL version. Creating user roles and assigning to the relevant Workflow work centers. Upgrade Open Text VIM to SP6.
• Configured business rules and derivations to process the invoices.
• Tested Paper/PDF/FAX/E mail Invoices posted in SAP.
• Configured OAWD settings to capture invoices from ICC.
• Integrated Invoice Cockpit- Transaction code: /OPT/VIM IIC.
• To configure entire EDI process for AP Invoicing integration with Open Text exception handling steps.

Confidential -Atlanta Georgia.

Accounts Payable/Accounts receivable

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Implement ISO 20022 XML format for Banking Interface - CITIBANK CFX Integrator for all Europe-Asia, Latin America & Africa - to generate XML file for automatic payment through DMEE process and establishing a host-to-host file transfer with encryption keys. Configured payment methods & XML file mapping to be in line with existing EDI process.
• Requirement gathering and understanding the client existing AP payment process for the LATAM & Africa, Europe Countries.
• Configured the new payment methods as per the CITI CFX PMW Solution.
• Configured payment methods in Country, Company code, Bank determination and maintained PMW entries in table.
• Configured Payment methods in SEPA, CBFT, and DFT for Europe.
• Maintained PIUID’s and Clearing channels in PMW table as per the Country rules.
• Did the customization changes in DMEE Integrator as per the Country rules requirement.
• Maintained variants in OBPM4 for the LATAM & AFRICA, EMEA Company codes.
• The scope of the project is 300 Payment methods configured and tested for 38 countries.
• Created Test cases using HPQC at the time of UT testing and Integration testing.
• Pushing the xml payment files to CITI Browser through the UNIX middle ware and verifying the data files in Citi Connect.
• Coordinating with Business, CITI, UNIX teams, to get it work done as per the process.
• Accounts Receivable (AR): Customer billing, Cash application
• Hands on experience in building the reports with BI, BW, and BOBJ.
• Providing daily updates to the deliver team on project status.
• Resolved business issues at the time of UAT.

Confidential . CA

FI/CO Functional Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Fully responsible for Finance module including understanding of business process, preparation of AS IS & TO BE Documentation, identification of GAP, conducted Core user Training, Configuration, Testing & Cutover activities.
• Configuration & support in the areas of General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting.
• Automatic payment program configuration and testing.
• Configured banking reconciliation. (EBS-Electronic Bank Statement and Manual bank statements.)
• Having proficient experience in configuring payment methods SEPA (Single euro payment area-Europe), CBFT (Cross boarder fund transfer) DFT (Domestic Funds Transfer).
• Responsible for setting of the Organizational Units like Company code, Chart of account, Fiscal year variant and Credit control area
• Defined Chart of account, account groups and uploaded GL Master A/c’s using LSMW
• Created and maintained Fiscal year Variant, Posting Period Variant and Field Status variant
• Maintained the Document Number ranges
• Migrated vendor and GL master data through LSMW tool.
• Designed and configured Extended withholding taxes functionality (Business place, Section code, and tax type, tax code.
• Configured Vendor and Customer accounts groups and assigned number ranges to respective groups and Configured of House Bank
• Automatic payment program with Check printing method and assigned payment advice to company code.
• Developed the Functional specs and logic implementation for the banking interfaces.
• Worked with ABAP consultant to develop the Smart forms and customized reports.
• Having proficiency in maintaining reports logics and functional specs for BI, BW, BOBJ reporting.
• Configured the Dunning process and assigned the different forms to different dunning levels.
• Manual bank statement configuration
• Involved in Unit Testing & Integration Testing, prepared the test documents at each and every stage like Unit test, Integration test and User Acceptance test.
• Responsible for setting of Asset Accounting: Definition of organizational structure, Chart of Depreciation, Dep. Areas, Account determination, Asset classes, Depreciation keys, etc
• Configured cost center accounting and profit center accounting, product costing related setting Basic Prepared the end user manuals and configuration documents.
• Accounts Receivable (AR): Customer billing, Cash application, dispute management, Lockbox, Credit management, Dunning procedures, clearing customer open items, Interest calculations, Correspondence, TRM, Special GL Transactions, AR Reporting.

Confidential - CA

SAP FICO Consultant in Record to Report Team

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Expert in gathering and analyzing business requirements, worked with SME’s, identifying gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE, re-engineering business processes, creating business blueprints, mapping processes to SAP R/3 functionality, and collecting master data
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New GL, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Special Purpose Ledger (SPL), Treasury (TR) and Consolidation
• Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (COPC) and Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Expert in configuring Lockbox, Dunning, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Automatic payment run and A/R Miscellaneous Invoices
• Experienced in configuring Special Ledger, Document Splitting and Zero Balancing of Documents in New GL, migration from Old GL to New GL and Parallel accounting
• Integrated Asset Accounting (FI-AA & AM) structured and valuated Fixed Assets, new Acquisitions, Alteration, Depreciation postings, Year-End closing and Fiscal Year Change.
• Extensive work experience in Integration of FI with SD (Sales & Distribution) and MM (Materials Management) in Procure to Pay (PTP) and Order To Cash (OTC)cycle
• Interacting with ABAP developers for technical specifications for IDOCS, BAPI, Enhancements, Reports and other customized developments
• Involved in giving directions for data migration system from legacy to SAP R/3 using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) tool
• Experienced in developing reports using ABAP Query, Report writer & Report Painter
• Accounts Receivable (AR): Customer billing, Cash application, dispute management, Lockbox, Credit management, dunning procedures.
• Maintained day-to-day transactional reports in BI, BW, BOBJ reporting.
• Worked extensively on unit testing, integration testing, functional testing and user acceptance testing. Writing Test scenarios, Test cases for all FI related transactions
• Motivated achiever who guides organizations in applying technology to business settings, provides added value, and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.

Confidential

SAP FICO Jr. Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Setting up company codes, chart of accounts, positing period variants, fiscal year variants and field status groups.
• Working with multiple currencies, Posting cross-company code transactions and clearing
• Defining line layouts for document posting and document changing
• Worked on exchange rates, currency translation, realized gain loss postings, exchange rate difference key, validation group, open time/line item indicators, gain/loss GL account setup
• Balance sheet configuration, external entries, and integration to SD & MM modules. Integration to AA for assets posting and depreciation, transfer to retained earnings, year-end procedures etc.
• Configured and customized Asset Accounting by creating Chart of Depreciation to Company Code and Specified Account Determination.
• Defined asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, configured account determination and specific chart of depreciation exception handling for FI-AA.
• Define Depreciation Key and Calculation Method.
• Defined customer/vendor account groups and created customer /vendor master data.
• Defined payment terms such as partial and residual payments, cash discounts, vendor invoices, credit management and reason codes.
• Configured Automatic and manual outgoing payment and house bank and bank determination.
• Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with FI
• Provided support in unit testing and system testing of GL, AP, AR, CCA, IO and PCA Modules.