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SUMMARY:

  • A Certified SAP (FICO) Functional Professional holding degree in Chartered Accountancy (equivalent to CPA) and Diploma in Information Systems Audit from India.
  • 13 years of SAP experience with 11 years of functional experience in finance and accounting.
  • Responsible for pre - sales marketing, analyze and recommend business process development, security and audit tools and post-implementation client-support,
  • Experience in the areas of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Credit Management, Lockbox Accounting, Dispute Management, Vendor Invoice Management, Controlling, Product Costing, COPA etc.
  • Well versed with High Radius application (bolt-on for SAP) for Cash application and dispute management.
  • Working experience with Vendor Invoice Management (VIM)
  • Individual with good analytical and organizational skills.
  • Liaison with client for requirement gathering, mapping client business processes to FICO module in SAP, and recommend process change, security and audit functionalities based on processes and requirements,
  • Provide real-time solutions for end-user issues and enhance systems and processes.
  • Provide recommendations for security and audit tools for oversight and monitoring in FICO,
  • Provide guidance and support for change management controls and assist in testing from time-to-time,
  • Provide real time solution to process controls, increase efficiency and mitigate risks,
  • Pre-sale marketing and demonstrations of Financial and Controlling (FICO) module based on client requirements.

EXPERIENCE PROFILE:

Confidential

Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Rolling out FICO module, Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) to the acquisitions by Confidential, working with business for requirement gathering, user training etc.
  • Supporting VIM module business users
  • Handling Vertex interface issues, vertex monthly upgrade
  • Concur expense module setup and support - Cost Center, Cost center Approval workflow setup,
  • Supporting business on other financial functions

Confidential

Manager - Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee a team on a day-to-day basis for SAP systems specifically related to Financial and controlling module (FICO) throughout the organization.
  • Analyze system logic/process SAP errors related to various sub-modules of SAP FICO application: Dispute management, Lockbox Accounting, General Ledger Account, Revenue Recognition, Credit Management, Controlling, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis, etc.
  • Working with team members for other SAP modules such as GDW, BPC etc. to resolve the interface issues with FICO module.
  • Design/blue print SAP system processes and functional business operations for company-wide application upgrades and application software configurations.
  • Resolving SAP application interface issues with High Radius with respect to Cash application and Dispute management.
  • Identify and analyze root cause of system errors by reviewing coding and configuration.
  • Oversee timeliness of resolutions of user requests and user issues and provide practical and logical recommendations.
  • Provide periodical updates to client’s senior management.
  • Maintaining and Updating documentation - Technical and functional specifications, test cases for minor enhancements/ break-fix incidents as per existing C&D SOPs (.i.e., Standard Operating procedures).

Confidential

Team Lead FICO

Responsibilities:

  • Manage/lead team for implementing FICO module in company-wide implementation of SAP. Will oversee onsite as well as offshore personnel.
  • Liaison with senior client management personnel to understand and create financial processes blueprints for SAP configuration.
  • Provide leadership during design system testing scripts and testing phase for end-to-end completion.
  • Facilitate system cutover for testing of information prior to migration to production environment.
  • Overall responsible for providing Confidential senior management as well client management team with progress reports, key issues and recommendation of process changes to ensure efficiency and mitigate risks.
  • Responsible for the timely delivery of key deliverables to client.
  • Responsible to ensure overall integration of FICO module with other SAP products and interface with other client systems.
  • Manage resource plan for the deliverables and re-prioritization based on the criticality of the deliverables.

Confidential, New York

Team Lead - FICO

Responsibilities:

  • Manage/Lead SAP FICO team for SAP system enhancement and data migration to Oracle application.
  • Reviewed and analyzed client’s existing business processes and managed team to configure as per client’s requirements;
  • Manage change management and coordinate business prioritization for enhancements
  • Mapped the SAP master data to Oracle master data through custom SAP mapping tables.
  • Provide real time solutions to end users and assisted client’s key personnel in overseeing data migration.
  • Liaison with executive management and provide periodical status reports.
  • Managed SAP programmers to customize existing applications as per client requirements.

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

SAP FICO Testing team lead and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee and understand client’s financial processes and controls,
  • Assist and recommend mapping of client’s business with FICO module,
  • Understanding implementation life cycle of new system releases for client and recommend client for system enhancements and efficiency,
  • Understanding scope of new /enhanced business process or sites integration,
  • Liaison with client and implementation team regarding client needs, security requirements, systems tools and testing methodologies,
  • Working through the Change control process and verification of Change request for new and enhanced functionalities,
  • Liaison with offshore team for pre-implementation testing,
  • Resolve client issues on a real-time basis,
  • Report to client’s executive management periodically regarding project status, issues and process recommendations

Confidential, Federal Way, WA

FICO Team lead and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for supporting users on SAP applications in Accounts Receivables, FI-GLCO and Accounts Payable areas
  • Part of transition and support team managing a business unit divestiture; activities involved - planning of cutover tasks, Production readiness testing, go live support, supporting new customer vitiated landscape and handover of support to the buying entity
  • Troubleshooting and enhancements for SAP FI Interfaces such as inbound invoices in SAP, Lockbox payment uploads, customer master download, open item downloads, and Archiving of AR forms to File Net, Credit Agency Download etc.
  • Dealt with issues relating to SAP Custom tool (File Manager) for automated invoice postings, JVs along with coordinating with the external sales systems & integration support services.
  • Handled issues relating to SAP Custom tool ( Confidential ) for collective data upload and processing.
  • Worked on the configuration changes for closure of company code from AR perspective
  • Monitoring of the lockbox process, resolving the issues involved including analyzing and correcting the relevant IDOCs to get them reprocessed. (LOCKBX, ZDEBMAS, CREMAS)
  • Monitoring Batch Jobs (Dunning, customer correspondences, Archival of customer forms, customer master download, customer balance download, Auto clearing etc.)
  • Month end activities supported: customer balance reconciliation, period opening and closing, internal order settlements, cost center assessment & distribution, uploads through Confidential tool
  • Enhancements and changes to several standard SAP functionalities, such as addition of new fields to the BSE CLR table, Adding Fax and Email on the customer statements, addition of document type logic for customer late payments, Auto clearing of customer open items.
  • Change Request Management - Requirements gathering, Analysis, Submission for approval, Configuration, Functional specs preparation, SolMan updates, design of new programs, Smart forms/Sap scripts and Testing for production migration
  • Incident Management - Worked on resolution of high and medium impact tickets and incidents ensuring to meet the SLAs (service level agreements)
  • Testing - Developed Test Plans & subsequent testing in Mercury Quality Center for new functionality and changes moving to production
  • Coordination - Onsite coordination with offshore team to clarify requirements, specifications and testing, working with Customer focals / key contacts in AR, AP and FI areas along with BI reporting teams
  • Suggested possible improvements in the existed business process - example: Credit representative group creation/change requests, suggested process improvement to reduce on the time involved in getting the changes moved to Production
  • Exposed to certain support requirements in SAP-AA module (Asset management) support, around Asset Master, Depreciation areas, Asset explorer, Depreciation Run

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAP FICO support

Responsibilities:

  • Providing extensive support to the users in AP, AR, GL, CCA, PCA, IO areas & suggesting changes for adapting to their changing functional requirements
  • Dealt with issues relating to General Ledger, cost element, cost center, profit center, activity type, cost center groups, profit center groups, standard hierarchy, alternate hierarchy creation and change requests
  • Handled issues relating to customer & vendor payments through Automatic Payment Processing & Manual processing, Dunning notices to customers,
  • Worked on change requests for configuration changes relating to Bank Accounting, House Banks, Terms of Payments
  • Resolved issues relating to settlement of internal orders, accounts payable closing
  • Participated in the implementation of new company code
  • Implementing Extended Withholding Taxes - Confidential certificate & Quarterly Returns with the help of OSS notes and required configurations. This was done to adapt to the changing tax requirements for Confidential percentage and return filing process for the Indian branch.

Confidential

SAP FICO Support

Responsibilities:

  • Uploading legacy data into the Asset Accounting Module through transfer postings.
  • Reconciling the financial accounting data with asset accounting data.
  • Resolving the issues faced by the end-users.
  • Reimplementation of Extended Withholding Taxes in CIN (Country India Version) - Configurations for Tax deducted at Source ( Confidential ) Certificates, Confidential forms and Quarterly returns

Confidential

SAP FICO Support

Responsibilities:

  • Uploading legacy data into the Asset Accounting Module through transfer postings, and subsequent resolution of issues faced by end users.
  • Reimplementation of Extended Withholding Taxes in CIN (Country India Version) - Configurations for Confidential Certificates, Confidential forms and Quarterly return
  • Post-Implementation Support involved helping the end users in the day-to-day transactions and closely monitoring the system performance.
  • Reimplementation of Profit Center Accounting- Creating Profit Center Masters, assignment of Cost Centers to the respective Profit Centers, Automatic assignment of Profit Centers, including period end activities carried out for splitting the documents.
  • Preparation of User documentation and Imparting Extensive Training to the end-users.
  • Uploading Bank Statement and subsequent processes to generate the Bank Reconciliation Statements.

Confidential

SAP FICO Support

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the FI business processes - AR, Credit Management.
  • Map the Customer’s business processes on SAP.
  • Analyzing the data requirements for each transaction code.
  • Documenting and simulating the processes using RWD Infopak documentation tool.
  • Communication with the Business Experts located in Austria.

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