SUMMARY:

• Over all 17 years of professional experience in IT including 16 + years of functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training and support in SAP R/3 Ver 4.6 ~ S/4 HANA FINANCE.
• 5 full cycles of SAP R/3 implementation with ASAP methodology and project experiences. FI/CO configuration expertise in industries like Pharmaceutical/Petrochemicals/Telecommunications/ Manufacturing Industries, and SAP Consulting Companies.
• 1 Brownfield implementation of S/4 HANA FINANCE.
• Involved in presale project proposal works like responding to Queries and active participation in firm related activities.
• Offers over 14 years of experience in strategy development, business process improvement, systems implementations, developing integrated solutions with multiple platforms and the design and management of technical infrastructure.
• Uses extensive and diverse experience to define clear courses of action, identify problems, prioritizes, recommends creative alternatives and implements solutions, to improve company performance and financial position.
• Excellent Configuration skills in General Ledger, New G/L, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, New Asset Management, Financial Supply Chain Management (Collections, Credit, Dispute Management & Treasury), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Project Systems, Product Costing and Open Text
• Active participation in all phases of a project: This includes requirement gathering, modeling, design and development, extraction of data, reporting, performance tuning and transportation of objects.
• Lead the upgrade of BPC from 7.5 to 10.1 version. Migrated reports from EVDRE to EPM.
• Implementation of BOBJ at Confidential .
• Developed Confidential Reports by creating connections in IDT. Developed Dashboards using Live office connection for Confidential reports.
• Successfully supervised, managed and lead teams and implemented Global, complex, medium to large scale SAP projects and delivered on time with in the budget.
• Proficient in GAAP analysis, sound knowledge of US accounting principles and in depth understanding of business such as Order - to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Financial supply chain management for most cost effective and efficient business solutions.
• Successfully executed global implementation for clients from Scope study to Go-Live and Post-Go-Live support in various projects.
• Conducted training sessions for end-users and involved in complete documentation for end user manuals. Involved in writing of integration and User acceptance test scripts.
• Lead the financial consulting and client teams through a series of business process redesign related activities that resulted in the overall improvement in the Finance processes, efficiency and effectiveness of the various functionalities within Finance as well as resulting in cost savings. This was done with the help of best practices in various finance areas.
• Extensive experience on VIM process and OCR technology using Open Text for the purpose of Accounts Payable Invoice processing automation.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• General Ledger Accounting and New G/L
• Accounts Payables
• Accounts Receivables
• Asset Accounting and New Asset Accounting (S/4 HANA Finance)
• Cash Management
• Bank Processing including BAM Lite for S/4 HANA Finance
• MM & SD Integration
• Investment Management
• Cost Element Accounting
• Cost Center Accounting
• Internal Orders
• Profit Center Accounting
• Profitability Analysis
• Product Costing
• Dispute Management
• Collection management
• Credit Management
• Material Master
• Logistics Invoice Verification
• Purchasing
• Sales Order Management
• Delivery management
• Pricing
• Credit Control
• Output control
• Billing
• Information Design tool
• Confidential
• Dashboards
• Data Loading and Reporting Tools like LSMW, Report Painter/Writer, ABAP/4 Query
• SAP Solution Manager, HP Quality Center, SOX Compliance, HFMS, MS Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FI/CO and S/4 HANA FINANCE Management Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented IM SPEND to track the budgets, actuals, planned and commitments across Confidential procurement activity.
• Implemented Dunning for sending the timely correspondence to customers on overdue payments.
• Implemented Plant Maintenance to FICO reconciliation activity to reconcile the PM budgets with Finance.
• Lead the archiving of the dispute management functionality.
• Lead the setup of RBC and BOFA banks for transactions related to banking for Confidential Company in Canada and USA for both Lockbox and EBS.
• Implemented the Interest engine functionality.
• Providing Quick Fix Solutions for Decision Critical Work.
• Built LSMW structures for loading the customer, vendor master data and various other transactional data.
• Implemented the tax structure for various plants in Oregon.
• Working on the prototype for Real Estate Flexible Management in SAP to show how leases, contracts, master data, sales based index, accrual engine, service based settlements works for Confidential .
• Lead the roll out ANZ implementation for getting affiliates in Australia, New Zealand and Argentina into SAP.
• Lead the upgrade of BPC from 7.5 to 10.1 version. Migrated reports from EVDRE to EPM.
• Lead the implementation of BOBJ at Confidential . Developed Confidential Reports by creating connections in IDT. Developed Dashboards using Live office connection for Confidential reports.
• Built numerous reports in BPC for the purpose of Customer Profitability Analysis, Customer Scorecard (Key Metrics) and Trial Balance reports.
• Lead the migration of the database from Oracle to HANA.
• Involved in functional architecture design for S/4 HANA migration scope.
• Worked with team on completing the fit/gap analysis of move to S/4 HANA Finance.
• Participated in design blueprint/ requirement gathering of business requirements for S/4 HANA.
• Crafted the correct solution to meet customer needs. Contributed to data management improvements as well as recommending more efficient data migration, conversion and management techniques.
• Designed, and implemented a data integration solution for a specific business and technical needs.
• Identified the migration approach to S/4 HANA through the complete analysis of the current SAP system. Established roadmap for implementing SAP new dimensional products, including S/4 HANA.
• Lead all pre-migration, migration and post migration activities throughout the project. Directed the project team’s focus to struggling or critical areas. Re-distributed workload as required by the project’s direction and technical scope.
• Built Fiori apps based on GUI for all the apps that are not provided by SAP for the release
• Determined and documented cutover plan activities for both functional and technical cutovers.
• Lead all the testing efforts through all testing phases (product test, UAT, regression testing).
• Lead the development, execution and maintenance of Test Scripts for all financial objects in scope.
• Managed change process including test plans and end-user documentation.
• Created and monitored weekly performance data checks to ensure data integrity/consistency.
• Trained the end user community on S/4 HANA Finance changes along with Fiori.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FI/CO, PS and Open Text Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Played a lead role in the roll out of EBS functionality for various company codes in APAC of Coke.
• Leading the FICO support teams at onsite and off shore in NALA, APAC, EMEA.
• Prepared detailed Business requirement documents for various sub modules
• Was responsible in writing various functional documents for Confidential objects.
• Implemented End- End Open Text VIM which includes suggesting the components to the client, ICC/OCR setup, Archive link configuration, document type configuration, process type Configuration, Process option configuration and provided guidance in the planning and design.
• Worked on Open Text VIM solution for PO and Non-PO based invoices. And PO based invoices includes 3-way match and 2-way match scenarios.
• Implemented Email invoice processing and invoice processing via EDI.
• Worked on enhancements like customizing business rules, adding custom fields in the index screen based on business requirement
• Worked on VIM 7.0 upgrade and involved in preparing test scenarios and UAT testing cycles before Go Live.
• Worked on handling of confidential vendor’s invoices.
• Worked on cockpit/workplace for better performance.
• Expertise in VIM (DP and LIV) workflow and resolved issue related to workflow.
• Analyzed Open Text - VIM / ICC related trouble tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.
• Trained business users on various business processes like OCR Scenario, NON OCR scenarios in VIM.
• Worked on Accounts Payable module, Travel Managements (BTM, Travel Smart application).
• Supported the user group with post cut over activities and month end closure activities; and
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Customized accounting transactions for GL posting, AR/AP posting and recurring entries.

Confidential

SR - SAP FI/CO, PS Lead Management consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed numerous validations, substitutions, LSMW’s of various master data (GL, Vendor, Customer, Asset, Cost center, Profit center) and in the development of various reports based on the requirement.
• Implemented Mass reversal and Recurring entries harmonization and their automation along with the security support.
• Developed various RICEF to construct extracts related to Trintech GL reconciliation tool and for the purpose of PWC audit
• Implemented the Asset accounting task for Magnitude reporting in PR4.
• Played a lead role in Fixed Asset Harmonization with Project Systems task of PR4 and PR5 in collection of requirements, impact analysis, functional specifications, development, Go-Live, End user training and Post Go-Live support.
• Lead the phase-1 and phase-2 GR/IR project in both PR4 and PR5.
• Closely worked with cross functional and technical teams on various Confidential objects
• Prepared detailed Business requirement documents for various sub modules
• Responsible for gathering requirements, design, build, test and deliver Project Systems and Internal Orders primarily for Capital Projects.
• Involved in Material Mater Uploads and responsible for reconciling Inventory and valuation data.
• Prepared Training documents, test scripts for GO-Live. Completed Unit testing and integration testing and provided go-live/post-implementation support for various projects and Involved in analyzing the test results and identifying identifying and solving the bottlenecks, and documenting the test results
• Preparing BPP’s for G/L, A/P, A/R cash Applications, Treasury, Cost Center & Profit Center Accounting, Budgeting, Overhead Cost controlling, COPA, Purchasing & MM for training the users.
• Lead the integration of TOPAZ from their Legacy systems to SAP.
• Responsible for all activities related to the transition from non ERP system for a new company, VaxDesign acquired by Confidential group. In this role responsible for all elements of the migration from a legacy non SAP system, services vendor selection, complying with internal controls and SOX compliance requirements, system implementation and transition to support organization.

Confidential

SR - SAP FI/CO Management consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing Quick Fix Solutions for Decision Critical Work.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing of Accounts Payable and Profitability Analysis with Tight Integration to Sales& Distribution.
• Writing Reports in Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Integration Testing of FI-MM for Inventory Related Transactions, FI-SD for all Billing Transactions.
• Prepared detailed Business requirement documents for various sub modules
• Was responsible in writing various functional documents for Confidential objects
• Played a lead role in A/P (Invoice & Payment) North America centralization project and HST implementation.
• As lead, closely worked with the Project Manager to assigned and monitored work for both local functional lead consultants as well as Client’s in-house SAP consultants based in US and Canada.
• Extensively involved in configuring Accounts Payable during Adapt project.
• Defined customer/vendor account groups and created customer /vendor master data and Responsible for building LSMW’s for Asset Master Data, Vendor Master Data, Chart of Accounts and General Ledger data migration.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes and Terms of payment for AP.
• Configured Interest Indicator, Make interest indicator available to interest calculation program, Reference interest rates, Assign reference interest rates to interest indicators, Interest calculation automatic account assignment, Reason codes, Reason codes conversion version, Map external reason codes to Internal reason codes. Assign GL accounts to reason codes, Cash Discount amount, Customer Tolerance groups
• Responsible for centralizing invoices and payments of all affiliates across North America onto a single platform using of ALE/IDOC technology with real time updating of responses.
• Implemented Material Ledger functionality of Product costing for one of the affiliate of J&J.

Confidential, Allegan, MI

SR - SAP FI/CO & FSCM Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a team member involved in project management, configuration, testing, support of various functionalities in FI/CO and FSCM
• Developed JE and Purchase order approval functionality workflows.
• Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups FI-GL master data preparations, G/L accounts creation and processing, creation of sample accounts and data transfer rules, setting for processing of open items;
• Played a lead role in COA Harmonization.
• Created LSMW for G/L Master data, Vendor Master Data, and Material Master Data migration.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) and sample ledger accounts.
• Configured MM integration with Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV), Revenue Account Determination with SD;
• Changed batch jobs to be executed with new printer configurations;
• Change the bank configurations for lockbox setup;
• Change month end and year end program variants;
• Defined desk procedures for FI and CO for Month and Year end closures;
• Supported the user group with post cut over activities and month end closure activities; and
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Configured the Enterprise structure for SD and Finance and global settings including VAT (Taxes on sales and purchases) configuration, plants abroad, Confidential and parallel currency evaluation setup;
• In SD Designed and configured the automatic credit management for the business including setting up credit controls areas and linking company codes to credit control areas, maintaining risk categories, maintaining credit groups and static credit control for the risk category and credit group combination;
• Identified and assigned credit control to the sales document types that are relevant to credit control, verified the item categories that are relevant for credit control;
• Designed custom reports to capture the parent-child relation between customers and to view the credit limits at parent level;
• Responsible for design mapping for dunning procedures in SAP with Reminder letters, mapped for down payments with Advances.
• Instrumental in designing and implementing FSCM Credit Management providing enterprise credit view of a Business Partner;
• Provided ability to roll up credit utilization of a customer’s credit limit across different business segments;
• Created Rules to automate Credit Scoring and Credit Limit calculations based on Customer Risk and Credit Ratings;
• Designed Interfaces to send Credit information to legacy systems for setting Credit Blocks;
• Extend Credit Management, Collection Management and Dispute Management to customers managed outside SAP system (AR2000, Distrack);
• Designed collection work lists to contain data from both SAP data and non-SAP data (Ar2000).Customize Credit management to have credit attachments tab within the UKM BP screen;
• Created alternate solutions for promise to pay for non SAP data using dispute management;
• Work with external credit providers such as Equifax and Moody’s to automatically download credit ratings into Business Partner;
• Configured Asset classes along with its account determinations, Chart of Depreciations & AUC.
• Developed custom Roll Forward report (Asset History sheet report).
• Implement the Project System (PS) and Assets Management (FI-AM) to manage the Capital projects.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of reports, transfer of payables and receivables, balance carry forward.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured 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. Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA Planning including creating planning levels, plan package and planning methods.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

SAP SME

Responsibilities:

• Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for each company code.
• Created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers and assets.
• Made settings for automatic procedures in payment programs and for interest calculation on account balances and line items.
• Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
• Created vendor master, customer master and specified number range and screens layout.
• Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Configured for vendor/customer who is also customer/vendor who is trading partner.
• Configured invoice verification.
• Ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and Customer.
• Configured payment terms for Accounts receivable and Account payables.
• Configured Interest Indicator, Make interest indicator available to interest calculation program, Reference interest rates, Assign reference interest rates to interest indicators, Interest calculation automatic account assignment, Reason codes, Reason codes conversion version, Map external reason codes to Internal reason codes. Assign GL accounts to reason codes, Cash Discount amount, Customer Tolerance groups
• Credit Management—Configured credit control areas, credit risk categories, credit representative groups, assigned employees to credit representative groups with calculation of days in arrears, predetermining credit limit to customers.
• Determined how company code must be assigned to credit control areas.
• Configured the settings for outgoing payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• In Cost Element Accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element Groups, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of reports, transfer of payables and receivables, balance carry forward.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Configure North America Operating Concern and Operating Concern Attributes for Costing Based Profitability Analysis, and define the characteristics and value fields. Defined Profitability Segments, Characteristics and value fields for Costing-based Profitability Analysis.
• Product Costing (CO-PC) configured material costing with quantity structure, product cost collectors etc.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

FI/CO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured global settings and organization structure.
• Defined different parameters for company, company code, business area, functional area, and credit control area.
• Configured chart of accounts.
• Defined fiscal year variants and assigned fiscal year variants to various company codes.
• Made initial settings for: customer/vendor master records, display and processing of line items of documents, correspondence, displaying account balances.
• Configured Terms of payment AR and AP.
• Configured Interest Indicator, Make interest indicator available to interest calculation program, Reference interest rates, Assign reference interest rates to interest indicators, Interest calculation automatic account assignment, Reason codes, Reason codes conversion version, Map external reason codes to Internal reason codes. Assign GL accounts to reason codes, Cash Discount amount, Customer Tolerance groups
• Credit Management, Credit control areas, Credit risk categories, Credit representative groups, Assign employees to credit representative groups, Days in arrears calculation, predetermined credit limit to customers.
• Configured incoming payments, billing.
• Determined how company code must be assigned to credit control areas.
• Configured the settings for outgoing payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• Defined automatic procedures such as payment program and dunning program.
• Customized accounting transactions for GL posting, AR/AP posting and recurring entries.
• Provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination, material movement setup.
• In Asset Accounting configured asset classes, asset explorer, chart of depreciation, unplanned depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation posting, acquisition and retirement of assets, assets under construction and capitalization of assets, Intracompany transfer single and multiple assets, yearend close, yearend change, Reverse yearend close, Asset balance reports.
• In controlling defined the master records like cost elements (primary and secondary), cost element groups, reconciliation ledger, cost centers, time-based fields, cost center groups and standard hierarchy.
• Creating profit centers including dummy profit center.
• Defined activity types and statistical key figures for calculation of overheads.
• Defined distribution and assessment cycles for departmental allocations and defined planning profiles.
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of reports, transfer of payables and receivables, balance carry forward.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the operating concern, configured costing based and account based profitability analysis. Created the characteristics and value fields, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Maintained the derivative structures and rule and assigned values to value fields. Defined basic reports and form reports. Configured planning profile and layouts.
• Provided functional and technical specifications for ABAP developments.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

SAP FI/CO (GL, AP, AR AA, CCA, PCA) consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured settings in the GL, house bank, interest calculation, foreign currency exchange rate and valuation, GR/IR clearing account and automatic clearing to suit client organization parameters.
• Configured the integration of logistics modules such as material management, sales and distribution.
• Prepared configuration setting for cross company code transactions, line item display, and open item processing for G/L, AR and AP.
• Created terms of payment and tax code on purchase and sales.
• Configured Interest Indicator, Make interest indicator available to interest calculation program, Reference interest rates, Assign reference interest rates to interest indicators, Interest calculation automatic account assignment, Reason codes, Reason codes conversion version, Map external reason codes to Internal reason codes. Assign GL accounts to reason codes, Cash Discount amount, Customer Tolerance groups
• Credit Management, Credit control areas, Credit risk categories, Credit representative groups, Assign employees to credit representative groups, Days in arrears calculation, predetermined credit limit to customers.
• Configured incoming payments, billing.
• Determined how company code must be assigned to credit control areas.
• Configured the settings for outgoing payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• Defined automatic procedures such as payment program and dunning program.
• Customized accounting transactions for GL posting, AR/AP posting and recurring entries.
• Provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination, material movement setup.
• Configured master data of vendors and customers.
• Configured incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment to meet the need of the organization.
• Created cost elements, cost elements group, cost center, cost center group, cycle, profit center, and profit center hierarchy.
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry programs.
• Tested the generation of reports in respect of account statements, special reports to reflect due-date-forecast analysis, purchasing/sales lists, open item analysis, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss account statements.