SUMMARY:

• More than 11 years of experience in SAP FICO and integration with other modules.
• Broad based skills set entails expertise in SAP Finance, Controlling, Accounts receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP) Payment files in multiple formats using DMEE for PMW, XML and classic payment medium workbench, Asset Accounting, Product costing, Treasury, Cash Management, New G/L Migration, IDOCS, Credit Management, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, ABAP, debugging, ABAP Query, S/4 Hana and Project Management .
• Expert knowledge and experience in XML payments through Confidential communication module (BCM) and Swift connector.
• Sound knowledge and experience in FI - SD, MM (SCM) and PP integration.
• Rich experience in managing deliverables and coordinating with offshore team and mentoring junior resources.
• Recognized for having efficaciously completed Cutover activities (mock run & go-live) of Confidential by coordinating with onshore and offshore resources . Proven international exposure of dealing with USA based clients.
• Demonstrated excellence in CIN, ECATT, LSMW, Closing Cockpit, Asset accounting & Product Cost Controlling including Costing sheet, Result Analysis and Variance configuration.
• Experience in Solution Manager Setup for Global roll-out Template for SAP configuration, for Change management, Training Documents and Test cases.
• Experience in New G.L Migration, Internal Order, Cost Center accounting, Profit center accounting & COPA.
• Rich experience in BTEs, Validation and Substitutions
• Possess ABAP technical knowledge and debugging skills.
• Working knowledge of Simple finance migration and implementation of BAM lite in Sfin Cash management, Treasury and Risk Management, FSCM Dispute Management.
• Expert in Projects & Transition Management, Operations, Process Enhancement, Client Servicing, Team Management and User Training.
• Unique blend of expertise in managing process verticals, implementing process improvements and quality initiatives.
• Experience in Accounts Payable (AP) interface between Readsoft & Dolphin scanning solution.
• Worked as solution architect in designing various interfaces.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CORE COMPETENCIES: SAP FI - CO |AR |AP |Project Management |SAP Treasury and Risk Management |Credit Management| FSCM-Dispute Management | New G.L Migration |ABAP & debugging | FI Integration with MM, SD, PP| ABAP Query | Projects & Transition Management | Process Enhancement | Team Management | End User Training | Analytical Skills | Effective Communication Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Calhoun, GA

Solution Architect - FI-CO

Environnent: ECC 6.0 (HANA on suite)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as solution architect to build interface between various 3rd party softwares (i.e. COSTAR, Clearpay etc.) and SAP.
• Designed and implemented interface between Kyriba and SAP for bank transactions.
• Responsible to provide the mapping rules in BizTalk (middleware) to process and post the Kyriba files in SAP through IDOCs
• Responsible to setup IDOCs to support Kyriba, Costar and Clearpay postings in SAP.
• Worked on custom reports.
• Worked on interface between Wells Fargo’s ‘Payment Manager tool’ and SAP. Responsible to configure APP, setup IDOC and implementation of an enhancement.
• Responsible to design CO-PA solution.
• Responsible to gather requirements, conduct workshops and create blueprint documents for Asset Accounting, Automatic Payment Program, Investment Orders and Lockbox.
• Responsible to design solution for various miscellaneous requirements, for e.g. clearing of payments made in foreign currency, Cross-SAP Instance Inter-company solution etc.

Confidential, Seneca Falls, NY

Lead Architect: FI-CO

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing offshore team and coordinating with onshore team and client.
• Conducted workshops with client stake holders on their current business processes and requirements while doing business blueprinting.
• Prepared blueprint document after analysing AS-IS and Identification of gaps.
• Involved in configuration of solution in core SAP modules such as FI- GL, AP, AR, AA, Intercompany Reconciliation Process, New G.L including Document Splitting, CO- Internal Order, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting, Product Cost Controlling, CO-PA.
• CO-PA Master Data related activities for characteristics and value fields along with Characteristic Derivations. Maintenance of SD Conditions and other settings.
• Developed functional specifications and worked on different RICEFW objects with custom solutions such as Material Overhead absorption at the time of Purchase Order, Third party interfaces such as. GetPaid, Hyperion and Bank Interfaces.
• Responsible for tax solution configuration of external Tax system - TAXWARE
• Configuration of Integration points with MM, SD and PP.
• Developed test cases and involved in unit and Integration testing.
• Working directly with various clients at all different levels to guide complex projects and driving business process discussions during team meetings.
• Developing technical specifications for SAP custom modules and interface programs.
• Analyzing user requirements, writing detailed functional specifications, preparing test scenarios, writing test scripts and performing end-to-end testing.
• Responsible for configuration of costing sheet to calculate Overheads, costing variants including components of costing variants i.e. Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Date Control, Quantity Structure Control.
• Responsible for making system changes for Overhead Percentages to allow business to maintain Overhead Rates in Production Environment.
• Responsible for configuration of cost object controlling for Cost by Order, it includes; WIP (Work In Progress) Configuration, Variance Calculation Configuration and creation of Allocation Structure for settlement.
• Configured Operating Concern, Characteristics, Key Figures, Valuation Strategy for Valuation using Material Cost Estimate and Flow of actual values to CO-PA.

Confidential, St. Paul, Minneapolis

Cutover Manager

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and management of the Deployment Strategy
• Responsible for Preparation of Project Plan and changes in the Project Plan.
• Responsible for coordination with cutover team members and onsite project manager
• Successfully executed Cutover Mock run 3 and 4.
• Also, handheld with testing team as SAP FI subject matter expert.

Confidential, New Haven, CT

Senior FI-CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, Project planning and execution, configuration, coordination with business, managing change request, preparing test cases, end to end unit & integration testing, IDOC set-up for Inter-company transactions.
• Implementation of Subsequent Ledger (New G.L Functionality).
• Implementation of BCM (Bank Communication Management), Electronic Bank Statement and Treasury Management System (IT2).
• Roll-Out of Confidential SAP solution to Czech Republic, Ireland, India and Abu Dhabi with country specific statutory requirements and reporting.
• Configured and tested working of VERTEX software for calculation of tax on sales and purchases.
• Production Support of GL, AR, AP & AA, cost centre accounting, and internal orders & product costing.
• Implemented Costing sheet.
• Led direction, planning, execution, quality, control, project KPI’s and timely delivery of all project activities.
• Imparted technical inputs to consultant and developed interfaces between 3rd party tool (Concur, IT2, Blackline) and SAP.
• Formulated Transition/Project plans & ensured knowledge transfer and the set-up of processes and tools necessary to enable service delivery.
• Liaised with external consultants/stakeholder groups/Senior Management & cross functional teams for smooth implementation and operational readiness.
• Recognized improvements from a process, product & system perspective, conducted effective impact assessment to analyse benefits (in terms of efficiencies/cost & customer experience) and prioritizing implementation.
• Oversaw effective management of customer relation operations and warranted maximum customer satisfaction by providing quality service and adhering to service quality norms.
• Identified Operational Risk and mitigation to ensure highest levels of data integrity/security.
• Communicated with support teams to increase operational efficiency and automate existing tasks by creating data capture tools, macros & workforce optimization
• Involved in Blueprinting and implementation of Bank communication management to streamline automatic payments through Swift.
• Responsible to work with Dolphin (AP tool) to implement scanning solution.
• Managed multiple SAP FICO rollouts adhering to global process template.
• Implemented Costing Sheet functionality to calculate Cultivation Overhead.

Confidential

Senior FI-CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Essayed an integral role in defining overall project structure, gathering project requirements, establishing project plans, identifying and managing issues and risks across projects and project communication.
• Boosted overall metrics for process until handover to operations and handled implementations through configuration, unit testing, defect solutions, debugging, reporting and documentation.
• Safeguarded compliance to service, cost, and delivery and quality parameters set by the customers.
• Monitoring tickets in Remedy and resolving them based on the priority.
• Involved in Production Support of GL, AR, AP and AA, Cost Center Accounting, Investment Management and Internal Orders.
• Involved in Detailed Regression, Integration and Production Readiness Testing including definition, documentation of Test Plans and Test Results at various phases of the project.
• Developed functional specifications and development of Customized Report and enhancement as per the requirement.
• Responsible to develop interface between Readsoft scanning solution for automatic processing of AP invoices in SAP.
• Responsible for new acquisition setup for new company Confidential
• Responsible for new company setup - company VEIL & VISPL.
• Worked as ‘Project Lead’ for this project & responsible for successful delivery of the project
• Responsible for gathering KDS Values from Shared Service Centre created by business.
• Configuration of KDS values in System and Unit Testing.
• Resolving ‘Defects’ raised by ‘Testing Team’.
• Responsible for upload of ‘Asset Legacy data’ and validation of data with business.

Confidential

FI-CO Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing the assigned tickets of SAP FI-CO and provide satisfactory resolution to the users within time frame.
• Documentation of the issues with analysis after providing solution to the client.
• Involved in weekly and monthly review meetings.
• Performing unit, integration and regression testing, day to day interaction with business users for co-ordination of UAT sign off and resolving issues.
• Data Migration through LSMW.
• Configured new Payment Methods
• Created reports in ABAP Query.
• Configured new house banks and Automatic Payment settings for those new house banks.

Confidential

FI-CO Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing the assigned tickets of SAP FI-CO and provide satisfactory resolution to the users within time frame.
• Documentation of the issues with analysis after providing solution to the client.
• Involved in weekly and monthly review meetings.
• Performed unit, integration and regression testing, Day to day interaction with business users for co-ordination of UAT sign off and resolving issues.
• Configured OBYC settings for a new requirement
• Worked on issues related to JE workflow, Internal Order and Product Costing.
• Implemented Costing Sheet functionality.
• Configured system to allow business to maintain costing sheet overhead rates directly in Production Environment.

Confidential

FI-CO Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling issues in the areas of FI & CO.
• Performed unit, integration and regression testing, Day to day interaction with business users for co-ordination of UAT sign off and resolving issues.
• Worked closely with technical and functional consultants of other modules to resolve the cross-functional issues.
• Responsible for creating ‘Functional Specification’ for developing customized report.

Confidential

FI-CO Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing ‘AS IS’ & ‘To-BE’.
• Responsible for analyzing ‘Gap’ between ‘ Confidential Italy Model (Head Quarter) & Confidential India.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements.
• Configured settings for Organization structure; Company code, Char of Accounts, tolerance group, controlling area settings, 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 AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Check Settings Configured FI integrations settings with SD, MM & PP for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments).
• Created & Maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms.
• Configured Asset Accounting.

Confidential

FI-CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in ‘Template Project’ named ‘Security Template’ for ‘Basis’.
• Involved in conducting Knowledge Sharing Sessions.

Confidential

FI Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Configured vendor/customer who is also customer/vendor who is a trading partner.
• Developed FI/CO reporting solutions utilizing account line displays, report painter and developed specs for ABAP programs as and when needed.
• Performed House Bank design and created Account Assignment model for Recurring entries for periodic processing.
• Uploaded master records of Vendor SAP R/3 through LSMW and ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for all Vendors in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Configured and customized AP modules-for vendors subject to interest calculations on item balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items, foreign exchange calculations, Automatic Payment Program.
• Worked on configuration and customization of Asset Accounting, configures chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset class, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions and retirement.
• Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, creation of assets, asset transfer and posting of asset acquisition.
• Configured Internal Orders, Status management, Orders settlement and settlement structure.
• Worked on reposting in settlements for internal orders and internal order planning.