SUMMARY

• An experienced SAP FICO consultant with SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling experience of 9 years and Financial industry experience of over 10 years
• Certified by SAP AG - Finance Module in 2009 and Controlling Module in 2013
• Proficient in design and configuration of FI sub-modules General Ledger ( Confidential ), Accounts Payable(FI-AP),
• Accounts Receivables( Confidential ), Bank accounting (FI-BL) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
• Worked in Implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects
• Knowledge of the CO sub-modules Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA),
• Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Exposure to New GL - assigning scenarios, characteristics, and configuration of document splitting and assigning the zero-balance account
• Exposure to S4/HANA Finance (Simple Finance)
• Thorough understanding of integration points with SD, MM and CO and business processes like Procurement to Pay and Order to Cash
• Extensive knowledge on Automatic Payment Configuration and Payment Run
• Extensive knowledge on Fixed Assets
• Experience in preparation of report design and report creation using Report Painter, Report Writer, SAP Query, Quick Viewer and WRICEF - functional specifications
• Adept in Microsoft Office products - Word, Excel, Power point and Outlook
• Experienced in working in a team oriented environment and a good problem solver
• Attention to detail and prioritize multiple activities
• Excellent communication skills with clients, partners, and developers
• Thirst to excel always and look for deeper analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Greenfield project of SAP S/4HANA 1709 using SAP Activate Methodology
• Involved in finalizing the Chart of Accounts with business along the SAP Best Practices
• Uploading of the CoA, Vendor and Customer master data
• Configuration of Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variants
• Maintaining the Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy
• Maintaining Bank Accounts using FIORI Apps
• Maintenance of House Banks
• Workflow config and design for FI invoice and GL journal entries
• Payment Medium Workbench configuration for Payment methods
• Configuration of Confidential Statements
• Upload of Asset Balances finalization
• Payment Proposal Workflow
• Bank Communications Management configuration (BCM) and its workflow
• Interfaces for vendor commission payments using IDOCs Confidential
• User exit for Profit center derivation on the Sales Order line items
• Designing the Bank check form in PDF format
• Configuration of Payment Medium Workbench for Payment methods
• Controlling Area settings configuration
• Invoice Form design (PDF format for S/4HANA)
• Commission Payment postings - mapping source file record to SAP IDOCs
• Correspondence configuration and Invoice form design
• Positive Pay file creation

Confidential

SAP FICO Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Integration with Orbian as part of Confidential Management (SCM)
• Capital Lease Accounting for Fixed Assets
• Validation User Exits for line item postings
• Standard and New Revenue Recognition Principles (IFRS 15)
• Custom Report for ERS invoices and email functionality
• Configuration change in Tax Determination
• Automatic clearing configuration for Open Item Management
• Thorough knowledge on Automatic Payment Program configuration and APP Run
• Interface for secure transmission of Confidential file to Bank
• Payment Method configuration using IDOCs
• SAP-Vertex Tax Upgrade for FI module

Confidential, Houston

SAP FICO Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering through workshops, Confidential and gap analysis
• Configuration of new Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant and Company codes
• Configuration of Lockbox functionality
• Configuration of Confidential Statements for automatic clearing of open items
• Configuration of new Payment methods for Confidential and bank transfer
• Creation of new payment methods using Payment Medium Workbench for Confidential CTX, PPD and CCD
• Workflow for Financial Document park and post
• Customization of check form and assignment in configuration
• Built (functional) Interface for forex rates from OANDA to SAP
• Inbound interface for SWIFT MT940 and BAI files for Confidential Statements
• Inbound interface for BAI2 file for Lockboxes
• Inbound Interface for Payroll GL posting from ADP to SAP ECC
• Mass upload of customer master, vendor master, GL master data
• Upload of open line items for customer and vendor using LSMW
• Knowledge on Document Splitting in SAP New GL functionality
• Configuration of Automatic clearing of GL Accounts (esp GR/IR)
• Extension of GL coding block for custom fields
• Exposure to S4/HANA Finance (also called Simple Finance 1503)
• Written Functional Specifications for FIORI apps in S4/HANA Finance

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

• Configuration and testing of Confidential Statements in SAP
• Configuration and testing of Lockbox in SAP
• Written Query for Spend Analysis data for SAP ARIBA
• Created Payment Methods for checks, bank transfers, employee transfers and
• Payment Method Supplements for different pay locations
• Configuration of Confidential Reconciliation and search strings
• Development of Positive Pay File program for Bank for Checks issued through Automatic Payment Run
• Worked on the New GL assessments
• Created bank payment file for Confidential in Payment Medium Workbench
• Testing and validation of Standard and Custom Programs

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering through workshops, Confidential and gap analysis
• Creation and modification of Payment Terms as per business requirement
• Thorough knowledge on Automatic Payment Program and Run
• Created Payment Methods for checks, bank transfers, employee transfers and Payment Method Supplements for different pay locations
• Configuration of Confidential Reconciliation and search strings
• Development of Positive Pay File program for Bank for Checks issued through Automatic Payment Run using various SAP tables
• Supported the incoming file processing from PNC for credit card file and reimbursement file processing
• Asset Accounting - Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys etc.,
• Developed Reports for Trial Balance figures using Report Writer functionality
• Foreign Exchange Revaluation of open items and Accounts
• Created scenarios for Partial Payments and Down payments through the Automatic Payment Run
• Automatic Clearing of open items - GL, Customer, and Vendor items
• Configured the Cash Journal for petty cash use including Business Transactions for receipts and payments
• Configured the special GL transactions - Down Payment Requests, Down Payments, and Noted items
• Configuration of settings for Automatic Payment Process - check, bank transfer with different payment methods
• Customized the forms for Checks, Payment advice and creating appropriate variants
• Dunning procedure configuration for customer overdue and defaulted items
• Configuration of bank records, House Banks, Check Register and Check Lots and manual bank reconciliation
• Knowledge on Asset Accounting Module - the Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Account determination
• Uploading/Modifying the asset masters through bulk transactions through worklists
• Configured controlling area settings, Number ranges and maintained versions
• Configured and Customized General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting
• Development of Z Reports as per client’s requirement ( Confidential )
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups, cost center hierarchy
• Involved in the Period End and Year End activities
• Knowledge on External Tax Engine - SABRIX and SAP Integration
• Supported Business Process Experts and Users in different phases of testing and problem handling for go live
• Created substitutions and validations using Sets
• Asset master mass changes through Work Lists

Confidential, Orlando, FL

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements gathering through workshops, Confidential and gap analysis
• Configured Company Code and Fiscal Year Variants with year calendar year and Posting Period Variants
• Knowledge on Group Chart of Accounts for multi-company code scenario with company chart of accounts apart from Operating Chart of accounts.
• Master data upload using LSMW and BDC functionality
• Supported the entire Automatic Payment Process right from Configuration to updating Z tables
• Daily monitoring of the EFT Payment (820 and 823) processes and trouble shooting in case of issue
• Maintained the Foreign Exchange rates in the system
• Processing of Concur payment files into SAP
• Customizing the Positive Pay and Cleared Checks programs
• Configuring and assigning Retained Earnings Account
• Configured the correspondence types - assigning custom developed forms and programs
• Supported the 1099-MISC Process for the year ended 2011, right from applying the SAP Note to developing K records to sending actual file to IRS
• Cost Element Accounting - Master data, primary and secondary cost elements
• Cost Center Accounting - Master data, Transaction data and transferring costs across cost objects (Settlement, Assessment and Distribution)
• Knowledge of Procurement to Pay process
• ERS based Invoices (From PO to MIGO, MRRL, MIRO)
• Configuration of Manual Bank Reconciliation
• Configuration of Check Deposit process
• Configured Vendor Down Payments as Special GL transaction and made automatic setting for payment in Automatic Payment Run
• Created Recurring entries and assisted in posting the entries
• Foreign Currency Valuation of open items and accounts
• Enabled the Payment Method Supplement functionality, created of Payment Method Supplements and assigned the PMS to the vendor master data
• Functional knowledge in Application and validation of Taxware - monthly update of the Taxware patches to the system
• Created Tax Codes in FTXP, Tax Condition Types and assigned the Account Key
• Application of User Exits, Enhancements (Open FI), and Business Transaction Events (BTE)
• Writing Functional specifications for client requirements
• Experience in Confidential (Solution Manager) - uploading and maintaining the configuration documents
• Creation of Standard Variant and Transaction Variant to suppress fields
• Configuration for automatic clearing of the GR/IR Account
• Knowledge on BMC Remedy Ticketing tool (OPAS) - Creation of Incidents, Change Requests, Requests Tasks and updating them
• Fiscal Year End closing activities in SAP - carry forward of GL and vendor and customer balances and open and close periods and special periods
• Tested EDI 820 and 824 processes by creating test scenarios involving the F110 runs
• Participated in the Upgrade of the system from 4.7 to ECC 6.0
• Testing and validation of Standard and Custom Programs
• Validation of Interfaces during Upgrade - Flat file /EDI Testing
• Data validation at every stage of upgrade like Base line Testing, Integration Testing & User Acceptance Testing
• Working with the team on the Cutover Activities.

Environment: ECC 4.7 and 6.0

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Regression and UAT Testing team in Preparing Test Cases and provided support to the key users on an As-Needed Basis.
• Preparation of User Training Material for end users
• Creation of GL/Vendor/Customer Account groups
• Creation of Master records for GL, Vendors, and Customers and Assets and upload of mass data through LSMW
• Configuration of Company code, Customizing Chart of Accounts, defined Fiscal Year Variant
• Customized the Posting Period Variant and Field Status Variant
• Customized screens for Document entry, document reversals, Invoices and Payments
• GL Master data - Creation of Account Groups, GL accounts, Automatic Account Assignments, Financial Statement Version
• Defined Document Types, Document Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups and Posting Keys
• Customer ( Confidential ) and Vendor Master (FI-AP) data - Creation of Account groups, vendor master records and customer master records
• Uploaded of GL Master, Customer and Vendor Master records by LSMW functionality and BDC
• Created of Bank Record and House Banks and assigned to the Bank Accounts and GL account
• Configuring of Cash Journals and Business Transactions as per business needs
• Creation of substitution rules for arriving Profit center for unassigned transactions
• Configuration of Automatic Payment program, open item clearing, and generation of Account Statements
• Configuration of indicators for Special GL transactions
• Creation of payment terms
• Creation of Tax Codes and Tax Condition Types and assigning Account Keys
• Configuration of Asset accounting settings like Asset Class, Account Determination and Screen layouts of asset master data / asset depreciation areas.
• Configuration of Depreciation Keys with single and multiple shifts including the depreciation change over methods and the asset shut downs.
• Creation of Distribution rule for settlement of AUCs to Assets.
• Uploading of Cut over data from legacy system to SAP system, at the time of Go-live.
• Configuration of the Financial Statement Versions (FSV).
• Creation of Correspondence Types for Customers and Vendors
• Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support
• Business Signoff for the development changes