SUMMARY:

• Senior SAP professional with more than 8 years of world wide experience and 10 years of experience primarily in SAP FI/CO as Solution Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, Sr. Analyst, S/4 HANA, Simple Finance
• Hands on experience in Simple Finance S4HANA 1610, ECC 6.0 and New G/L, Procure to Pay (Accounts Payable), Order to Cash (Accounts Receivable), VMS and asset acquisition to retirement with internal order integration.
• Involved in 5 full Life - cycle implementations of SAP R/3 using ASAP methodology involving Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Prod Support.
• CO Configuration for CCA, CE, Profit Center Accounting, CO- Product Costing, COPA, Overhead Cost Accounting, Internal Orders and other related areas.
• Configured and Customized SAP Screen Personas.
• Extensive working experience in Cutover and Rollout activities.
• Extensive working experience in Payment Methods like Check, ACH, Wire Transfer
• Extensive working experience across various industries of Automobile, Banking, service, Pharmaceuticals, telecom, Finance Retail, Utilities, and manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of Credit and Asset Management, Special Ledger FI-SL, New GL- Document splitting, Project Systems, Bank Accounting, Foreign Currency, Treasury.
• Development of Business Processes and Business Process Reengineering.
• Master Data Management (MDM) related to FICO Module.
• Cross functional expertise including integration with SD, MM, PP & PS including integration of these modules with FI & CO module.
• Experience in reports, conversions, interfaces, enhancements & forms (RICEF). Identifying GAPS & Writing functional and technical specs for WRICEF per unique client specific requirements
• Production support and after go live support for FI CO as Sr SAP Business Analyst with users all over the World.
• User profile & authorization settings, Role Definition, transport requests management etc.
• End User training provided of user manual and preparation of user manual and training material including test scripts.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, provided inputs during the analysis of the "As-Is" and "To-Be" processes, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions.
• Strong Solution Manager experience (CHARM, SOLAR01, SOLAR03)
• Good working understanding of onshore/offshore working model.
• Good knowledge in ABAP/4 Programming and conceptual understanding of ALE, LSMW, EDI and IDOC.
• Good understanding of ABAP Code, guiding technical consultants in developing the reports/programs and using OSS notes in fixing the issues

SKILL:

Financial: New General ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, and Special Purpose Ledger.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting & Profitability Analysis

Integration: FI/CO integration with SD, MM, HR, PS and PP

Development: LSMW, Report Painter, Report Writer, EDI, IDoc, ALE, ABAP

Migration: S/4 HANA migration and Simple Finance .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Package: SAP R/3 Version 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0 Ehp7, BPC, Simple Finance.

Office Tools: MS WORD, MS Excel, MS VISIO, MS Power Point, MS Access, Report Write Report Painter

Tools: LSMW, Report Painter & BDC.

Testing: Manual testing, Functional, System Integration, User acceptance testing, Regression, Testing, Performance testing, HP Quality Center 9.2

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

SAP Sr FICO Consultant

Confidential, Redlands, CA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Conducted GAP analysis , document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups , automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Configured areas of AP , House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Worked with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), credit debit memos , maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc.
• Developed and configured the Electronic bank statement procedure in TR-CM module.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client.
• Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL .
• Worked on EBS, Positive pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer, and configuring and customizing multiple payment methods and automatic clearing.
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset.
• Configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Handed SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of problems.
• Prepared Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.
• Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.
• Managed the AP, AR, GL and QA teams offshore

SAP Sr FI/CO Consultant

Confidential, Costa Mesa, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and analyzed business and functional requirements. Analyzed the “AS IS”, ‘TO BE” systems and carried out Gap-Analysis. Clearly defined and documented required business functionality.
• Implemented Product Cost Controlling for Make-to-Order. Configured Master Data for Product Costing (COPC), creating additional primary cost elements, creating valuation variant, costing variant, Costing Run, Costing Sheet, cost component structure.
• Designed and implemented an interface from legacy system to create Invoice Postings in SAP.
• Proposed new or improved business processes. Validated new processes with the business process owners. Analyzed change and update requests.
• Worked with ABAP on IDOC/ EDI and User Exits.
• Mapped invoices, bank statements, payments to appropriate IDOC’s for automatic upload and clearing into SAP.
• Configured SAP FICO and completed successful integration with another modules SD/ MM.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Designed enhancements for reclassification of GRIR postings to in-transit account.
• Verified the Test Scripts executed including the Month End Closing Scripts
• Worked with data conversion team to design and successfully convert legacy data to SAP.
• Designed and implemented an interface from legacy systems to update Standard cost in material master from legacy system with 7 regional costs worldwide.
• Run Assessment Cycle for Quality Costs, Record Purchase-Order Related AP Transactions, Release Blocked Invoices
• Master data preparation in Test cycles: material master, activity types, cost centers, activity type planning, template loads, over heads loading, PIRs, BOM, Routings
• Create costing run, execute costing run, Review errors, analyze proposed standard prices, repeat annual operating plan scenarios, edit cost run - revenue cost of sales transfer, execute costing run, release standard cost estimate and revalue stock at start of new fiscal year
• Developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment to allocate manufacturing overhead cost to cost objects. Configured settlements, cost splits for Activity Price calculations. Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration
• Configuration and Functional design documentation, peer review and approval
• Test Scripts, Unit testing the Business requirements and SIT testing and its approval

SAP Lead FI/AP Consultant

Confidential, Gurnee, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for facilitating the gathering of requirements specific to Vendor Master and Open Accounts Payable Invoices from 24 sites in 10 countries (which included 3 different stand-alone legacy systems).
• Configure the New GL module. New GL functionality implemented include parallel ledger/ parallel accounting (US GAAP, IFRS); use of segment account object and document splitting functionality. Configuration include the design of the corporate chart of account, configuring the automatic account determination for MM and SD integration, field status group, financial statement version, number ranges and document types.
• Conduct workshop to gather requirement and prepared user requirement specific document, Data Migration, Data Conversion Document, Data Quality Document and Field mapping documents.
• Configured Bank Reconciliation Electronic and Manual Inbound Bank Communication BCM
• Closely work with Development team to develop conversion program and technical design documents. Provide testing data for unit testing and UAT.
• Prepare Test scripts for vendor conversion process and help business users to execute test scripts in ALM (HPQC).
• Understanding duplication issues and defining a strategy for data consolidation and reconciliation on data load.
• Implemented Payment Network functionality of Bank of America to integrate SAP using IDOCs.
• Involved in configuration of Closing Cockpit for financial closing. Involved in setting up the Organizational hierarchies, creation of Template, creating tasks, defining dependencies, creating Task lists and releasing task lists.
• In charge of month end and year end closing. Duties included: Performed account analyses and account reconciliations, reviewed and investigated accounts and made necessary adjusting entries.
• Ensured financial statements are in accordance with GAAP reporting requirements and company policies
• Worked closely with MDM team to standardize vendor address to identify duplicate vendors across all the sites.
• Design, develop and maintain data migration programs and manage migration tools like LSMW
• Cost Elements Accounting involving both primary and secondary cost elements.
• In Cost Center Accounting defined and assigned standard hierarchy, validations and substitutions, Assessments and Distributions, integration with MM, SD, PP.
• In PCA, created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Center groups, Dummy profit centers, Profit center Master Data, assigned different Objects to Profit Center, and Reports.
• Configure various house bank (Key bank, Chase, Wells Fargo etc.), Payment method (Check, ACH, wire transfer), Account groups for vendors based on user specification and also configure new void reason code for both check encashment and escheatment check.
• Responsible for mapping and updating configuration (payment methods, payment terms, taxes, e-mail to purchasing, withholding tax etc) to accommodate the changes in processing requirements.
• Prepared mapping of Open Accounts Payable Invoices from different legacy systems to SAP, including intercompany and down payment invoices.
• Responsible for conversion for employee vendors from legacy systems which included mapping employees to cost center and updating banking information for expense reimbursement.

SAP FI Lead Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and Blueprinting for New G/L functionality.
• Defined financial statements version for internal and external user groups.
• Configured the company code global settings.
• Configured the automatic posting for Inter-company code posting.
• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
• Designed the month end & Year end closing procedures.
• Supported the integration between FICO and BPC.
• Defined Account Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.
• Creation of GL Master Data, posting, Displaying balances, Parking and Reversal of document
• Worked on interface of 3rd party systems to connect to SAP system using ALE - IDOCs.
• Defined Document Splitting Characteristics and activated Document Splitting.
• Helped in month end and year closing activities
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Product Costing (COPC).
• Designed various interfaces to connect various non-SAP systems to SAP systems
• Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing by preparing the test scripts for all FI business processes.
• Worked with data conversion team to design and successfully convert legacy data to SAP.
• Prepared unit test scripts, integration and interface test scripts and documented acceptance sign from the business owners.
• Provided trainings to End users as a part of Internal training activities.
• Worked on Production issues after Go-Live.

SAP FICO Sr. Lead Consultant

Confidential, Anaheim, CA

Responsibilities:

• Configured end to end Order to Cash Cycle O2C (Accounts Receivable), Procure to Pay Cycle P2P (Accounts Payable) international and domestic process Open Text for SAP Solution: Invoice Management (VIM).
• Designed the workflow for all treasury payments for create, approve and release treasury payments.
• Configured Cash Position and Liquidity Forecast with different cash management groups by Bank, Currency and Region and entity structure.
• In-house Cash Treasury solution
• Configuring VIM document types, VIM workflow trigger implementation, VIM Parking and block reason enhancement. Invoice approval process design and implementation.
• Implemented electronic bank statement (EBS) and lockbox processing for JP Morgan Bank.
• Configured fixed assets (FI-AA) Chart of depreciation, Asset master records, asset classes, account determination, configuration for Asset under construction for work in progress assets and creation of depreciation keys.
• Supported various Migration and Upgrade projects, from Physical servers to Virtual Servers and Enhancement Packages.
• Analyzed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• Educating the client on FI and CO Master and transaction data information with Intercompany processing details.
• Involved in Production Support, Migration to NEW GL, Intercompany processes and Transactions, Payment Medium Workbench (PMW), Release management and Change Management
• In Accounts Payable, set up Automatic Payment Program for the new Company Code by configuring the required Payment Methods (Checks, ACH, Wire Transfer), House Banks and Correspondence Forms for Checks and ACH Payment Advices.
• Supported daily production Issues related Order to Cash Cycle O2C (Accounts Receivable), Procure to Pay Cycle P2P - Goods receipt against inbound delivery and Revenue Recognition.
• Created validation rule in FI (Text on line item with VIN number format) and Asset accounting (Internal Order assignment) to streamline the entries.
• Configured and Customized CO - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
• In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type (manufacturing), maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and set up tolerances for budget cost. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Provided support for month end close and year end close activities.
• Designed, wrote functional specs and tested the complex Customized programs and interfaces. Like Remittance program to apply Cash, Report to match part numbers on Invoice and Payments.
• Customized and implemented the revenue recognition, including the customization for FI accounts for unbilled and deferred revenue.

SAP FI Sr. Consultant

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Designed and used of additional Dimensions to FAGFLEXT.
• Configure the New GL module. New GL functionality implemented include parallel ledger/ parallel accounting (US GAAP, IFRS); use of segment account object and document splitting functionality. Configuration include the design of the corporate chart of account, configuring the automatic account determination for MM and SD integration, field status group, financial statement version, number ranges and document types.
• Documented splitting with Zero Balancing on Profit Center. Developed customer program to use the splitter logic to split the revenue generated for various MPM products.
• Implemented Order to Cash Cycle (Accounts Receivable), Procure to Pay Cycle (Accounts Payable), Asset Management (Fixed Asset, CIP) etc.
• Responsible for Configuration, system and Integration test planning and execution.
• Designed, wrote functional specs and tested the complex Customized programs and interfaces. Like Splitter Program to split cost and Revenue. Commission calculation for various organizations from the profit margins. Accrual and deferral calculation custom program by various dimensions.
• Worked on SAP IS media solution with special fields like SKU, MPM Product, etc.
• Worked extensively on on-shore and offshore model where I was gathering the requirements from business users and write functional specs coordinating the development team in India.
• Worked with SAP Finance Invoices and Credit/Debit Memos into SAP via IDOCs.

SAP FI/CO Sr. Consultant

Confidential, Fort Smith, AR

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Financial accounting global settings: fiscal year variant, document number ranges, document types, posting periods, posting keys, field status groups and tolerance groups for employees.
• Configure the GL module. Configuration include the design of the corporate chart of account, configuring the TAX system, configuring the automatic account determination for MM and SD integration, field status group, financial statement version, number range and document types.
• Configuration of additional Country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, and dunning.
• Re-configuration of discounts, house bank configuration, bank determination, bank reconciliation statements, and bank settings.
• Implemented various SAP functionalities and enhancements that were not included in initial implementation e.g. Park and Post Process, Tolerance Groups to handle discounts, Availability Control on Internal Order Budget, Financial Statement Version etc.
• Created a new Operating Concern with custom characteristics and value fields and tested the flows from SD and FI documents into 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 costing sheet.
• Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA planning including creating planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• Worked on maintaining Versions in Profitability analysis.
• Cost Center allocations and Internal Order settlements.
• Internal order accounting: settlement configuration, planning/budgeting profiles, order types.