PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Decisive, action oriented and result - focused Management Professional with 14 years of experience in Finance, Banking and IT, including 8 years in SAP FICO Functional end-to-end Implementation, rollout & Global Production Support experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals
• Proficient in multiple industry sector projects related to Oil and Gas, Chemical and Energy industry, Legal services, Consumer Products, Edible Oil, Cement, IT Services
• Proficient in conducting the blueprint workshops for the requirement gathering and gap analysis to design the blueprint scope document.
• Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of SAP FI/CO application
• Integrated with SAP modules SD, MM, PP, Real Estate, CO, PI and IS OIL
• Experienced in test planning and execution of test cycles including integration testing and UAT.
• Experienced in leading the cutover team and hyper care team for the successful go-live.
• Streamlined the existing processes as part of the continuous improvement plan to maximize the process efficiency.
• Experienced in working onsite - offshore model for the project deliverables.
• Posse’s strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experienced in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support
• Experienced in designing data loads for GL, Asset, Customers, Vendors, Cost Center, Profit Center, Cost Elements, and Activities.
• Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross applications
• Excellent in working with validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, IDoc s, DMEE and reporting tools like report painter
• Proficient in BMC Remedy, Clarify, Consultant Assistant, Solution Manager & ASAP Methodology
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).

SKILL:

General Ledger Accounting: Configured Chart of Accounts, Parallel Ledgers/special purpose ledgers (Allocations/Rollup), New GL, Document Splitting, Exchange rates, Foreign Currency valuation, Reclassification, Financial statement versions.

Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable/Bank: Configured automated payment procedure, lockbox, electronic bank statement, payment remittance advices via emails, payment data delivery via EDI to bank, DMEE, parked invoices workflow and approval procedure, down payments/special GL setup, SD/MM Integration via VKOA and OBYC - Revenues and Accrual setup, inventory postings, tax setup.

Asset Accounting: Setting up organization structure, chart of depreciation, integrating with GL, asset class, depreciation, AUC capitalization via Internal orders/WBS, various process setup for asset acquisition, retirement, inter-company transfers.

Cost Center & Profit Center Accounting: Configured Hierarchy, master data setup, cost center planning/profit center planning, Statistical key figures, assessment, distribution, plan/Actual data transfer, transfer pricing drill down reports.

Internal Orders: IO Master Data Setup, Internal Order Planning and budgeting, availability control, actual postings, Commitment management, configuring settlement rules/profiles, settlements, capital investment orders for AUC settlements, Investment profile, status management, period end closing.

Product Costing & Activity Based Costing: Setting up ABC approach (pull, Push, Parallel/Integrated), Master Data Setup, Splitting Structure, Planning Activities & capacities, Distribution, Assessment, Activity Price Calculations. Costing Variant setup for Product Costing including Cost component structure, valuation variant & Costing sheet, Cost Estimates with Quantity structure utilizing BOM & Routing, actual cost collection using product cost collectors, WIP & Variance calculations and settlement, Actual Costing, Material Ledger, Material Price Update, Inventory Valuation.

Profitability Analysis: Setting up characteristics, values, derivation rules, valuation strategies, setup for flow of actual values to COPA from FI/SD/MM, settling production variances, planning, drill down reporting, COPA Reconciliation reports.

Real Estate Management: Lease in contact management, Rental accounting - Fixed & sales based accounting, periodic processing, Integration to Controlling and Finance, contact master data/BE Setup, condition setup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Fulcrum’s Pro Series SAP RDS for legal industry across globe.
• Led the phases from business blueprint, realization, and testing, cutover, go-live and hyper care.
• Undergone meetings with subject matter experts in different divisions to obtain a current scenario of the company’s existing business processes and provide an easy alternative to their legacy system using SAP best practices and Fulcrum’s RDS.
• Worked extensively in the areas of GL, AR, AP, Lockbox (BAI2), Assets, Banking and foreign currency valuation, Management allocation process, Financial reporting (Cashflow & Liquidity Forecasting) setup.
• Worked with SD consultants for integration with FI/CO and tested its integration.
• Worked on Global Tax setup for EMEA & Canada.
• Worked on setting up intercompany process.
• Worked on DMEE structure and IDOC’s
• Worked on validations and substitutions to meet business requirement.
• Data migration for Global COA, Country COA, GL Balances.
• Worked on FI/CO RICEF’s, conversions and upload templates and assisted the technical team in preparing LSMW programs for migrating vendors/customers master data and transaction data from various divisions of the legacy system to SAP
• Defined and established month end and year end processes.
• Conducted quick team meetings on the daily basis and updated the deliverables status to the higher management.
• Conducted cutover planning meetings, executed mock cutover cycles to record the actual timings for the production cutover plan.
• Always maintained positive attitude and frequent communication with the client.
• Executed successful go-live and supported hyper care period.

Confidential, Warrenville, IL

SAP FI/CO, Real Estate Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared design documents and providing solutions for business requirements in FICO area. Also helped the technical team to develop robust solutions and get it approved from business process owners
• Responsible for tracking team deliverables and make sure they are within the approved timelines and budget
• Performed requirement gathering, solution design, process integration and testing activities to deliver the objects
• Worked with business process owners to optimize the existing business processes as part of continuous improvement plan.
• Involved in the Designing, testing and issue resolution for BP Divestment project for Okley Refinery.
• Setup new platform for FI/CO and interfaces as part of divestment project
• Resolving business critical and high priority issues within agreed SLA’s.
• Configured multiple inbound and outbound interfaces as per architecture guide and implemented new business processes.
• Involved in system planned and unplanned outages and performed recovery activities.
• Implemented new credit card settlement/loyalty tax reporting along with control for US downstream.
• Simplified the complex EFT process for downstream Jobbers/Dealers and made it cost efficient
• Implemented the new process to capture store sales for non-fuel products in SAP Real estate along with sales settlement and payment recording in SAP FI and CO.
• Implemented bank reconciliation and customer open item clearing process for Wire payments done by US customers by ensuring no duplicate recording in SAP
• Implemented process for Gift/prepaid card redemption for cards issued/activated by third party in SAP FI and proving settlements.
• Implemented Date input to open period logic check for rollup process so that rollup should not post to closed periods as reversal rollup was not possible due database not updated at line item level.
• Implemented Intercompany Asset transfer process wherein receiving company code had additional depreciation area
• Prepared test plans and test scripts to help the ART teams for the automation of test scripts.
• Configured batch jobs and responsible for the recovery of failed batch jobs.
• Performing year end activities as required
• Performed Root Cause Analysis for recurring issues and prepared and presented RCA documents to the client application.
• Proficient in handover the solution to user community with proper training and KT documents.
• As part of continuous improvement plan, optimized existing process which resulted cost savings to BP and cost savings on manual support effort to IBM.

Confidential, Allentown, PA

SAP FI/CO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the finance and controlling area
• Analyzing nature of enhancements and preparing the Functional Specifications and providing the estimates with timelines
• Working with Technical team in conjunction for change or development of customized programs.
• Performing Unit testing and integrated testing activities
• Worked extensively on the issues related to costing run, material ledges and actual costing
• Worked on modification or creation of new COPA reports
• Worked on the automation of OB52 to open and close FI periods automatically
• Worked on the various payment advise forms creation
• Worked on setting up the rebate process and worked with SD team on the configurations and enhancement
• Worked on the enhancement related to Purchase price variance report
• Worked on the enhancement related to production order status report to facilitate CO month end activities
• Worked on various year end activities related to Assets, GL, AR, AP, WIP, Variance calculation, costing run
• Providing solutions to user for their problems regarding standard reports and new customized reports
• Maintain Industry and Domain expertise applied to client’s business.
• Timely reporting and escalation of technical Issues/Risks
• Effective execution of Knowledge Transfer - new members (induction) and Rotation
• Delivering High Quality of documents as required in the project

Confidential, Allentown, PA

SAP FI/CO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the phases from project preparation, business blueprint, realization, and testing, cutover, go-live and hyper care.
• Undergone meetings with subject matter experts in different divisions to obtain a current scenario of the company’s existing business processes and provide an easy alternative to their legacy system using SAP best practices
• Conducted workshops for requirement gathering, gap analysis and designed the to-be business processes.
• Worked on New GL, Document Splitting, Parallel accounting and Segment reporting.
• Worked extensively in the areas of AR, AP, Lockbox (BAI2), Assets, Banking and foreign currency valuation process setup.
• Worked with SD, PP and MM consultants for integration with FI/CO and tested its integration. Also configured revenue account determination for SD billing process
• Worked on logistics invoice verification (LIV), by conducting a three-way match
• Worked on DMEE structure and IDOC’s
• Worked on validations and substitutions to meet business requirement
• Worded on product costing & COPA implementation and implemented required reports
• Material Ledger and Actual Costing implementation.
• Worked on FI/CO RICEF’s, conversions and upload templates and assisted the technical team in preparing LSMW programs for migrating vendors/customers master data and transaction data from various divisions of the legacy system to SAP
• Worked closely with Sabrix team for SAP-Sabrix integration for tax calculation
• Defined and established month end and year end processes related to FI and CO
• Conducted quick team meetings on the daily basis and updated the deliverables status to the higher management.
• Conducted cutover planning meetings, executed mock cutover cycles to record the actual timings for the production cutover plan.
• Always maintained positive attitude and frequent communication with the client.
• Executed successful go-live and supported hyper care period.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the business blueprint workshops for requirement gathering and defined the project scope for the FI/CO area.
• Identified gaps and addressed through custom development objects and configured the system as per the design.
• Participated in design discussions to understand new business process requirements for the rollout entity.
• Project scope involved in blue printing, design, configuration, testing, go-live and bubble support.
• Conducted multiple master data and transactional data mapping sessions to capture all the requirements with the business for the successful data loads.
• Modified existing IDOC to add new segments to accommodate business requirements.
• Interacted with teams in ECC, satellite systems and third-party systems in designing and delivering the complete end-to-end solution.
• Integrated FI with SD and MM for the work flow of order to cash and procure to pay scenarios.
• Configuration of Flows of actual values and Planning in COPA, maintain PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM, created new Value fields and Characteristics for reporting requirements.
• Developed reports in COPA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Forms
• Updated Costing Variant with new valuation variant definition (material Valuation and activity type strategy sequence) according to Business Requirement. Standard cost estimate and Actual - Costing Variants for valuation of internal activities.
• Defined both basic reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at customer and product levels.
• Conducted cutover planning meetings, executed mock cutover cycles to record the actual timings for the production cutover plan.
• Executed successful go-live and supported hyper care period.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Undergone meetings with subject matter experts, Business Analysts in Polylex to gather current scenario of the company’s existing Intercompany Service business processes and provide an easy alternative to BPM (Business Process Management) using SAP best practices.
• Created BPM Workflow forms for Intercompany service Transactions for A/R (Account Receivables),A/P (Account Payables),JE ( Journal Entries)
• Developed Functional Design, Process Design, Workflow Design documents for A/R, A/P and JE Intercompany Service Transaction.
• Prepared FDD (Functional Design Document), PDD(Process Design Document), WDD (Workflow Design Document)
• Instrumental in driving the FI/CO module emphasis on A/R, A/P, and JE Intercompany service transaction through study of field analysis like Document type, Exchange Rate, Trading Partner, Currency Type, Withholding Tax, G/L accounts, Profit center, Cost Center, Internal orders, WBS Elements.
• Analyzed “AS-IS” Intercompany service transaction business processes and how transactions were posted into ECC and develop TO-BE process according to the requirements for ECC.
• Helped in Developing Technical Document for A/R, A/P, Assets, bank.
• Created Functional specification for DAT tool to find out duplicate invoices.
• Extracted required data from ECC to map with BPM workflow.
• Currently involved in outsourcing check printing to 3rd party, created Functional specification for check printing.
• Transmission of payment file for check payments between legal entity and its house bank.
• Configured Automatic payment program.
• Integrated FI with SD and MM for the work flow of order to cash and procure to pay scenarios.
• Configuration of Flows of actual values and Planning in COPA, maintain PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM, created new Value fields and Characteristics for reporting requirements.
• Updated Costing Variant with new valuation variant definition (material Valuation and activity type strategy sequence) according to Business Requirement. Standard cost estimate and Actual - Costing Variants for valuation of internal activities.
• Defined both basic reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at customer and product levels.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing solutions to client in the area of, Basic FI/CO settings, GL Accounts, AP, Bank, Controlling Module, and Asset Management.
• Analyzing nature of enhancements and preparing the functional specifications and providing the estimations with timelines.
• Unit testing and integration testing activities
• Interaction with ABAP Programmers: Extensively interacted with ABAP Programmers for preparing reports to meet Management Requirements.
• Working with ABAP resources for change / development of Customized programs
• Providing support to client and arriving at consensus of how the company is to be best benefited using SAP R/3 system
• Helping User to get required reports or information.
• Providing solution to User for their problems regarding Reports and created new reports
• Training to end users