SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an industrious, dedicated, committed, success - oriented SAP Professional with 17+ years of overall hands on experience including 10+ years of SAP experience working with all project stages including Business Blue Printing, detailed business requirements gathering& determination, gap analysis, issue resolution, functional designing & process re-engineering, technical designing, configuration, custom code specifications, realization, multiple layers of testing, cut-over, roll-out to real-time production system and post-implementation support.
• Confidential has 4 SAP Full Life cycle implementation experience, 1 Rollout and 3 support projects.
• As Senior SAP FICO Consultant whose main focus has been successfully implementing Integrated SAP Financial Platforms from the planning phase through post go-live business supports. Senior level finance and controlling consultant with experience in the following industries: manufacturing, pharmaceutical, Oil & Gas, Textiles, Medical Devices. Excellent business communication skills, analytical skills, and detail oriented.
• Confidential led successful medium/small global teams through complex program and project goals and tough project schedules.
• Excellent knowledge on custom development RICEFs i.e. Reports (Sales Register, Purchase Register, Consumption Register, FA Register), Interfaces (Concor, GECARS, IBS, WebCash, Zalaries and Markview), Conversions (Data Migration: LSMW, Winshuttle, BDCs), Enhancements (RFC’s, BAPI’s, BADI’s, User Exits), and Forms (Vouchers, Forms, Notices).
• Confidential has excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing New GL-New General Ledger, AP-Accounts Payable, AR-Accounts Receivables, BA-Bank Accounting, AA-Asset Accounting, Cost center accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Internal Order and SPL-Special Purpose Ledger including Automatic Payment program and lock box configuration.
• Confidential is having expertise in Lease Accounting Engine where the values of lease amounts are transferred from SAP CRM to Accounting in SAP FICO.
• Confidential is having expertise in Solution Manager for maintaining the Documentation, Configuration and for Ticketing Tool.
• Confidential is having strong experience in implementation of OSS Notes / SAP Support for SAP system bugs and defects.
• Confidential possess excellent knowledge of SAP FI, CO, Cash Management, Liquidity Forecasting & Treasury and Performed SAP End user trainings at various locations. Prototype project Knowledge on Simple Finance and good exposure to SAP Security. Confidential has good experience of US Federal tax procedures and other US specific requirements.
• Confidential is very good Collaborated experience Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling.
• Confidential has excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing New GL-New General Ledger, AP-Accounts Payable, AR-Accounts Receivables, BA-Bank Accounting, AA-Asset Accounting, Cost center accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Internal Order and SPL-Special Purpose Ledger including Automatic Payment program and lock box configuration. Very well versed and experienced in Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to cash (OTC), Make to Stock (MTS), Make to Order (MTS), Engineer to Order (ETO) cycles.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior SAP SLAN FICO Advisory

Responsibilities:

• Architecting, designing, developing and supporting business solutions leveraging the latest version of SAP Lease Accounting by Nakisa (SLAN)
• Translating business goals into appropriate solutions while assessing feasibility and optimization of the solution. Participating in the development of cost / benefit analysis.
• Mapping industry-specific business process with best practices to the systems.
• Performing regular Period end activities

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architecting, designing, developing and supporting business solutions leveraging the latest version of SAP Payroll, and / or Time & Attendance.
• Translating business goals into appropriate solutions while assessing feasibility and optimization of the solution. Participating in the development of cost / benefit analysis.
• Mapping industry-specific business process with best practices to the systems.
• Performing regular Period end activities
• Attending and completing all upcoming developments pertaining to FICO RICEFs.
• Fixing the issues raised by business team.
• End to end testing of Sales and Distribution along with Credit management and Collection Management
• IDOC Processing and fixing the errors.
• Gathering new requirements, Preparing FDD, doing Configuration, Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, giving demonstration to the business team, attending UAT, Golive and Post Implementation Support and uploading all these documents into Solution Manager.
• Managing on-site & off-shore teams.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Validate business requirements as per the BRD.
• Validate Informatica workflows and mappings.
• Create test plan, test cases and test scenarios.
• Automate ETL testing using DVO tool.
• Validate web services by calling different methods.
• Work with end users for validating UAT test cases and scenarios.
• Validate data quality, transformation logic and requirements as part the BRD.
• Create defects and run defect triage meeting on daily meetings.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring regularly SAP FICO tickets from the business team through ticketing tool Service Now.
• Performing Month end activities: Depreciation postings, Recurring entries postings, Accrual and Deferral postings, Opening and Closing Periods, uploading exchange rates, Corrections in the logic pertaining to the existing Interfaces: IBS, GECARS, 1 Over 1 Rollover, Mark View and Concur.
• Corrections if any pertaining to existing WRICEFs. Attending and completing new FICO WRICEFs.
• IDOC Processing and fixing the errors.
• Maintaining the project documentation in Solution Manager prior to TR to production environment i.e. Business Requirement, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Configuration Document, Demo to Business team PPT, Unit Testing and User Acceptance Test documents, Cutover Activities document (Table Maintenance or any).
• New reports developed pertaining to Cash Management and Liquidity Forecasting.
• Interfaces developed pertaining to Cash Management to IBS.
• Fixing the data issues pertaining to the existing interfaces.
• Training for new business team pertaining to Z developments.
• Managing on-site & off-shore teams, Project deliverable and Project Management Activities
• Opening and Closing periods, Maintaining Number Ranges, Reconciliation of all ledgers and sub-ledgers, Balances carry forwarding, Closing Assets fiscal year.
• HANA Migration Cockpit.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collection of User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
• Preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical area throughout the project cycle.
• Demos to CTMs, Power Users and BPOs regularly while explaining the FRS
• Preparation of Business Blue Print.
• Developed and implemented RICEFs.
• SAP Receivables management using collection strategies (Collection Management)
• SAP Credit Management.
• We implemented Cash Management and Liquidity forecasting functionality along with IBS interface.
• We have created business scenarios keeping in mind a larger organization spanned across multiple manufacturing units, with multiple distribution units and also having lot of subsidiaries across the globe.
• This involves multiple currencies, numerous parallel ledgers and appendix ledgers and multiple depreciation areas spanning across different countries.
• We managed to use Global chart of accounts on the assumption that uniform business processes are implemented.
• Multiple Company Codes/ Single Controlling Area / Single Operating Concern (Leading Ledger - Non-Leading Ledger - Appendix Ledger Functionality)
• General Ledger: Ledger Specific Postings / New GL Functionality / Document Splitting
• Accounts Payable: Invoices - Down Payments - Clearing
• Accounts Receivable: Invoices - Down Payments - Clearing
• New Asset Accounting: Asset Acquisition - Retirement - Scrapping - Depreciation Run (Technical Clearing Concept) - Asset Under Construction Settlement (Ledger specific settlement)
• House Bank set up - Bank Accounts - Payment Run Process – Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) process and Dunning Set up
• Migration & Post migration Activities
• Level 1 training to CTMs.
• Maintaining the project documentation in Solution Manager prior to TR to production environment i.e. Business Requirement, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Configuration Document, Demo to Business team PPT, Unit Testing and User Acceptance Test documents, Cutover Activities document (Table Maintenance or any).

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project management, preparation of dash boards, and attending top management meetings to mitigate the situations towards business deliverables.
• Performing regular Period end activities
• Attending and completing all upcoming developments pertaining to FICO RICEFs.
• Fixing the issues raised by business team.
• End to end testing of Sales and Distribution along with Credit management and Collection Management
• IDOC Processing and fixing the errors.
• Developments of Lease Accounting Engine with CRM module.
• Training for new business team pertaining existing to Z developments / RICEF objects.
• Gathering new requirements, Preparing FDD, doing Configuration, Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, giving demonstration to the business team, attending UAT, Golive and Post Implementation Support and uploading all these documents into Solution Manager.
• Managing on-site & off-shore teams
• Implementation of Interface WebCash and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Managing project deliverable
• Performing Project Management Activities
• Liaise with client in all aspects.
• Create opportunities to ramp up the FICO team.
• Attending the tickets raised by business team in Solution Manager.

Confidential

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collection of User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
• Preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
• Implementing of Electronic Bank Statement process (EBS).
• General Ledger: Ledger Specific Postings / New GL Functionality / Document Splitting
• Performing Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Vacume Testing pertaining to Interfaces.
• Asset Accounting with Lease Accounting Engine with CRM Module.
• Training to Core Team Members, Power Users and Business Process Leaders.
• Preparation of all project documentation and obtaining business team Sign-Off.
• Attending the HPQC – Ticketing portal, pertaining to the business interfaces queries.
• Performed Credit Management and Collection Management.

Confidential

SAP FICO -Functiaonl Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collection of User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
• Preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
• Implementation of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and payment through DME MT940 format.
• General Ledger: Ledger Specific Postings / New GL Functionality / Document Splitting
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical area throughout the project cycle.
• Taxation and CIN Configuration along with Excise Registers preparation.
• TDS / Extended With Holding Tax implementation and reports and forms development pertaining to TDS.
• Demos to CTMs, Power Users and BPOs regularly while performing POC.
• Handled major Configuration tasks of the Organizational structure of GL, AP, AR, AA, CO-CEL, CO-CCA and CO-PCA.
• Recording requirements, functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical area throughout the project cycle.
• Handled major Configuration tasks of the Organizational structure of GL, AP, AR, AA, CO-CCA.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
• Implemented Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
• Maintained required settings in Accounts Payable viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification) linking of Vendor documents with EDI.
• Required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).
• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
• Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Analysis of the cost center structure, profit center structure and use of internal orders.
• Used Modules CO-CCA Cost Center Accounting and CO-OM Overhead Cost Control daily in analytical responsibilities.
• Setting Controlling Area and maintained company structure with the help of Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy.
• Configured and settled Internal Orders (IO) and Activity type.
• Documenting and support for the finance work stream that is FI, CO, AP & AM modules and the project progress in SAP ECC 6.0 tool kit.
• Participate in Super User meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required.
• Specified 17 Reports required due to Business requirements. Worked with ABAP programmers and completed testing.