SUMMARY:

• Project Lead of SAP and SME in SAP ECC & S4HANA Finance GL AR AP &AA, Controlling, COPA, ML for 10+ years and 7+ years of Bank IT experience totaling to 17+ years of IT Experience.
• ERP Architect - Experienced to offer Service Oriented Architecture/Solution in mapping the data into Central ERP System from heterogeneous Systems.
• Experienced in functional configuration with the SAP Financial Accounting & Controlling (FI-CO), emphasis on General ledger, Accounts Payable Management, Accounts Receivable Management, FI-MM /SD/PP integration & Asset Accounting Configuration
• In GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTING - Group Country & Operative Chart of Accounts, Local Currency config, Foreign Currency Valuation, Spl. Gl config, New GL concept with Leading and Non Leading Ledgers. Document splitting at profit Center and Segment Level, FSV development, Substitution and Validation and developing various reports.
• Knowledge in Project Systems (PS) and Investment Measure of SAP
• Legacy Data Migration (GL master, vendor master, customer master, Asset master, open items, account balances, asset transactions), LSMW tool & BDC.
• Gap analysis and solution definition. Worked on interfaces using RFC, ALE/EDI using IDOC.
• Methodology - ASAP & Custom Based. Kept the AS IS, Blue Print, Config Doc, Cut Over Activity Plan and Go live with Hyper care support Documents in place. Effective in off shore and on shore model.
• Expertise in handling and configuring Cross company code transactions in Finance and Asset Accounting.
• Pioneered in configuring Automatic Payment Program and effectively configure IDOC file transfer toe Bank using EDI Sub system. Spl. Gl Transactions and Partial Payments are also mapped. Done the Integration between APP and BCM for to make more meaningful payment groups.
• Good at EBS and Lock Box for Bank Recon and Customer sub ledger clearings.
• Cost center Accounting ( Confidential ), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Cost Elements, and Internal Orders, Assessment and distribution cycles and other CO objects. Profitability analysis (COPA), Direct & Indirect activity allocation. Cost sheet for over heads. Internal orders budgeting and settlements.
• Expert in Cost by Order & Cost by Period Product Costing Implementations. Costing sheet expense based and quantity based be designed.
• WIP and Variance are calculated and posted as per the requirement and can go for manual posting too. Integration and reporting structure and cost assignment will be planned and configured among CO-OM, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-CEL & EC-PCA.
• CO-PA top down distribution, Data Source for BI, Cost Component Structure split taken into COPA for valuation. Report Writer using Libraries, Report Groups. SAP queries for developing reports.
• Specialized in configuring Real Time Integration of FI - CO. Object specific Co code wise variant and the account determination.
• Very good knowledge in Debugging, searching for Bapis, BAdIs, Customer exists, Enhancement Points and Business Transaction Events.
• Good at using SAP CODE BLOCKS like COBL for adding extra fields in the tables.
• Configured Collection and Dispute Management.
• S4HANA Green Field project has been designed duly including New Ledger approach, New AA approach and Account Based Copa.
• Good Knowledge in handling Lease Accounting on the lines of ASC842 and IFRS16 & ASC606 & IFRS 15 for Revenue Recognition.

SKILLS:

Working knowledge on Tools: Writing Scripts & User manual, Project dashboard & Ticketing

HPQC, MS: Office, SharePoint, GRS, Remedy & One Note, SQL, PL SQL, Visual Basic, Crystal Report, Fox Base, FoxPro, Oracle & MS-Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Environment: SAP S4HANA 1709

Sr. SAP S4HANA FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Product Costing Make to Order with Std. Costing enabled at Raw Material Level with cross plant standard cost extension with SPK.
• All the 7 product line parent materials FGs Costed across all the Plants.
• WIP & Variance configuration and Training. BOM Routing and Work Center Integration with Costing. Activity Types and Costing sheet at Origin Group level and at Material Group Level.
• Configured Material Ledger for Actual Cositing.
• Sub-Contracting, STO & Drop Ship configured and UOM conversion for the purposed of Billing.
• Interface with the Home Depot. Customer using IDOCs . BtoB Interface with 3rd Party Distribution Plant.
• Cull and Excess lumber sales Process mapping to different GL Accounts in PGI and for Billing. FI-MM & FI-SD Integration has been customized with the enhancement to Flip the GL Accounts. MOH and AUM Transaction Keys are used and STO movements.
• Company Code Currency and Group Currency issues are fixed with reg. to Material Movements.
• Configured Lock Box and APP For payments along with Partial Payments.
• New GL & Real Time Integration at Profit Center Level.

Confidential

Environment: ERP Automation

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Business Intelligence Architecture and report Modelling.
• Profit center populated specially for the offsetting tax line items using BAdI and BAPI.
• Code Block enhancement for to enable Utility line field in the concern tables.
• NEW ASSET ACCOUNTING implemented. Leased Assets and Inflation Based Valuation of Assets.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Environment: SAP ERP 6.00

SAP FICO Lead RTR

Responsibilities:

• Configured and developed a template for the GL AP AR AA Processes for Angola.
• Foreign Currency valuation and translation is configured.
• Parallel Ledgers for IFRS and native GAAP for Local currencies and different fiscal years done.
• New GL with new Document types and document splitting with Profit center Mandatory configured.
• Real Time Integration at Pctr and Segment level in specific co codes configured.
• Inflation based Depreciation Areas and account determination has been configured.
• Enhancement based availability control in place for the R&D projects using Internal Orders and multiple emailing enabled.
• Lease Accounting for the spl. Machinety has been done in FI-AA.
• EDI subsystem kept in place for to handle IDOC process of Bank data communication for Vendor payments and International Wire transfers.
• Product costing with Make to stock and Repetitive Manufacturing.
• Costing Based COPA with Data Source creation and Top Down approach and reporting.
• Company codes in SAP 4.6C version are merged with system with ECC 6.0 by transforming the data using Informatica tool and designing Mapping files.

Confidential

Environment: SAP ERP 6.00

SAP RTR FICO Lead & FSCM, FICA consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Dispute Management and Collection Management extended reporting in FBL5N and creating Dispute from there only.
• Mappings BCM to APP regrouping and configuring FBZP accordingly.
• Cost Sheet Quantity based has been configured for the Confidential .
• New cost components have been configured to be shown under Cost of Sales scenario.
• Configured account groups for Customers and Vendors, defined screen layout per activity for customers and vendors, configured payment terms, created number ranges for Vendors/Customers-assign no. ranges to Vendor/Customer account group, tolerance for Vendors/Customers, month end closing
• Configured Automatic Payment Program, House banks and Bank accounts, special GL transactions like Down Payment Made or Down Payment Received. The payment Method is check.
• Asset Accounting Asset acquisitions, retirements, transfers, inter-company transfers, write-offs and capitalization of assets under constructions.
• Configured Asset Impairment in the Place of Unplanned depreciation.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Environment: SAP ERP 6.04

SAP RTR FICO and FSCM Cluster Lead Europe

Responsibilities:

• GL AR AP AA are implemented and rolled out. New GL Document splitting is in place.
• Aging Analysis has been done for both Customers and Vendors.
• Plant Abroad concept has been specially configured for Euro region.
• Drop ship functionality configured for to avoid transport lag time.
• BCM configured enabling the payment grouping in APP.
• Russian Legal Merger Project is handled where in one the existing co code has been closed as the tax exemption period is over and the 2 plants are taken to the old co code.
• System Land Scape Optimization Team from SAP has guided the team initially in the Russian Project.
• Configuration required at plant level has been done and then the data is uploaded. Quality system tested for 2 cycles and finally the changes and data put to Production system.
• Make to Order costing handled with valuated sale order with requirement planning.
• Regular settlement of WIP and Variance periodically to ensure actual cost being assed perfectly to see the Standard cost falls very near to the Actual cost so that the variance is kept at minimal.
• Asset Life Cycle has been completely hadled by configuring acquisitions, retirements, transfers, inter-company transfers, write-offs and capitalization of assets under constructions.
• Provide support to clients as per Confidential Contract. Leading the Offshore help desk team which provides remote support on mySAP ERP 6.0 and 4.7 to Pharmaceutical and engineering industries.
• Configuration of the new changes required to address additional business process requirements of the client.
• Resolution of issues related to business processes within SLA Timelines.
• Preparation of the Functional Specifications for the development of new objects.
• Preparation of Software Change Request (SCR) and Customizing Change Request (CCR) documents for program and customizing modifications.
• Defined leading and non leading ledgers, defined different segments for segment reporting
• Classified G/L accounts and document types for document splitting
• Created customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment and assigned credit control area to the company code.
• Creation of Bank Keys and payment methods, for new vendor master data.
• Set up the Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Worked on Fixed Asset Depreciation and Intercompany Revenues, Payables and Receivables, Balance Sheets and income statements and Retained Earnings accounts.
• Worked with SD and MM teams for all Intercompany related Billing and Invoicing
• Configured Extended With Holding Tax for the Clients in the Group.
• Configured costing sheet in consultation with the cost center manager to enable them to plan indirect costs
• Assigned cost center to the standard hierarchy, configured cost center categories with appropriate block indicators for plan and actual data
• Interacted with the accounting department to identify the scenarios for assessments and distributions. Configured the assessment and distribution cycle as per requirements
• Designed CO-PA based on costing based approach
• Analyzed the client requirement for profitability reporting and configured the characteristics and value fields accordingly
• Created derivation rules for characteristics and configured CO-PA planning
• Configured Controlling modules including Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.

Confidential, Johannesburg, SA

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

FI Lead

Responsibilities:

• We have designed overall strategy of data upload using Data Extraction in BI and Interfaces and file upload programs in SAP to meet the reporting requirements and also Finance for external reporting as well as the MIS.
• Worked on EBS upload and auto clearing of the customer items.
• Implemented System Oriented Architecture to ensure data flow from Heterogeneous systems to central system SAP Finance.

Confidential

Environment: SAP version ECC 6.0

SAP RTR FICO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in business requirement gathering & analysis designs application integration development and testing. Successfully customized modules based on business needs and requirements.
• Conducted Workshops on FI/CO for Users - G/L Masters, Asset Master, and Cost Centers Codification, business processes cycles, Product Costing scenarios and Data Management etc.
• CAPEX Based Project Systems with Availability control and Investment Measure Asset Accounting.
• Projects related to R&D are configured in PS with wbs structure and networks and activities.
• STO process intracompany and Intercompany configured. Subcontracting process kept available.
• Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting configured.
• Make to Stock Product Costing has been configured with Cost Component Structure, Costing Sheet and Activity types. Standard cost estimate with BOM and Routing in place.
• Configured Extended With Holding Tax formula based and Service Tax has been mapped into EWHT process.

Confidential, New Jersey

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP RTR FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing the Finance and Controlling Organizational Structures and accordingly implementing Enterprise structure.
• Configuring Chart of Accounts with Account Groups and various Accounts suitable to customers, Vendors and Assets.
• Configured AR and AP with all Special GL Accounts, master data, credit management, payment terms, cash application.
• Configured the automatic payment program for outgoing payments handling different payment methods including ACH and check.
• Setup financial statement versions and other closing procedures.
• Customer and vendor master data upload.
• Creation of cost elements and cost centers.
• Created cost center ( Confidential ) and profit center (PCA) hierarchies and related master records.
• In cost center accounting ( Confidential ) created cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, statistical key figures, master data groups, validations and substitutions, reconciliation ledgers, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, activity types and planning them on different cost centers, planned and actual activity price calculations.
• In cost element accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, assigned the cost elements to various cost centers, activating the reconciliation ledger and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• In profit center accounting (PCA) configured the basic settings, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, exchange rate types, statistical key figures, distribution and assessment of costs.
• Distribution and assessment in relevant cost centers and profit centers. Integration of sales and distribution (SD) and materials management (MM) modules with FI.