Sap Fico Lead Consultant Resume
St Louis, MO
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Having 10 years of experience in SAP as a SAP FICO & FSCM functional consultant. SAP R/3 Versions 4.7, ECC 6.0 Ehp7 and S/4 HANA (1511 & 1610) Simple Finance. Worked on 4 Full Life Cycle Implementations, 5 Roll - outs 3 Support Projects and Team Lead experience
- Expertise on Migration from SAP ECC to S/4 Hana Central/Simple Finance
- Demonstrable Experience in Requirement Gathering, GAP Analysis using ASAP and Agile Methodologies
- Expertise in SAP FICO Components Like General Ledger (GL), New GL Concepts, Account Payable (AP), Single Euro Payment Process (SEPA), Accounts Receivable (AR), Banking(EBS), Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders (IO),Product Costing (COPC) & Profitability Analysis (COPA)
- Strong Cross Functional Experience in integration of FICO with Material Management (MM), Customer Relation Ship Management (CRM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Project Systems(PS), Human Resource(HR), SRM and Treasury & Risk Management (TRM)
- Expertise in SAP FSCM Components like Dispute, Credit, Collection and In-House Cash Management. Treasury: Money Markets, Foreign Exchange (FX), Cash Management and Banking
- Good Knowledge in FSCM - Biller Directory. Treasury & Risk Management: Hedging, Derivatives, Market Risk Analyzer and Credit Risk Analyzer.
- Extensive experience in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing(UAT), Scenario Testing and other aspects of lifecycle
- Proficient in Conversation of Business Requirements into Functional Specification and Technical Specification for Solution Design and Development
- Good Team Player, Ability to Learn Quickly & Work Independently, Working on Proactively and Deliver the Tasks In-time
- Extensive Experience and Exposure to Full Life Cycle Implementations Including Blueprinting, Conceptual Design, Configuration, and in Depth Realization of the Project
- Expertise on using HP Quality Center (QC) for creating Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test execution
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
ERP Packages: SAP R/3 FI/CO, FSCM, PS 3.0, 4.6,4.7,ECC 6.0, Ehp7 with S/4 HANA (1511 & 1610) Central Finance & Simple Finance
SAP FI/CO Sub Components: GL, AP, AR, AA, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis(COPA),RAR & RTR
Data Migration Tools: LSMW,BDC with the help of BODS
SAP FSCM Components: Dispute, Collection, Credit and In-House Cash Management
SAP FI Integration with: MM, PS, SD, SRM, HR, PP,BW, Treasury and CRM
Methodology: ASAP and Agile. Experience in SolMan and SAP ChaRM process
Defect Tracking Tools: Web Test Tracker, Test Director 7.2/7.6,Mercury quickest (QTP), HP Quality Centre Testing tool
Issues Tracking Tools: JIRA, ISD, Asent, Solution Manager 7.0 and 10 versions
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential - St.Louis, MO
Environment: SAP S/4 HANA (1511 & 1610) Simple Finance
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Project activities included understanding the existing business process by studying the SOP / interacting with functional heads globally for processes stabilization
- Worked on S/4 Hana Landscape design with IT leads and explain to business top management to finalize the landscape and capture the GAP’s from business and finalized the Landscape and Implementing S/4 HANA in On Premises
- Gathering the requirements for S/4 Hana Simple Finance such as General Ledger (GL), New GL, Accounts Payable(AP), Accounts Receivable(AR), Banking, New Asset Accounting(AA), Cost Center Accounting(CC) and Profit Center Accounting
- Designed the process in S/4 Hana Simple Finance and explain to business leads and captured the GAP’s and finalized the process and implementing S/4 Hana Sfin FI sub components such as New GL ledgers concepts, GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting COPC, COPA, Cash Management and Banking
- Working on GL configuration, Creation chart of accounts, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, Accounts Groups, Field status variant, Group, Tolerance groups for GL, vendor, customer, Document Types, Number Ranges, Creation of fiscal year variant and assign to company codes
- Working on New GL Concepts such as Designed Ledgers and configuring Leading, Standard and Extension Ledgers and Configured Foreign Currency Valuation
- Working New Asset Accounting such as asset classless creations, depreciation area, depreciation keys, account determination configuration. For Migration to New Asset Accounting Configured Define Document Type, Transaction Type and Assign Migration GL Account and Activate New Asset Account
- Working on Asset under Construction (AUC) with Project Systems and settlement configuration. Working on FM integration with FICO
- Implementing S/4 Hana Simple Finance Fiori UI/UX process. In UI business user can park/reject or post the invoices and all kind of reports can view without logon SAP. Designed and implementing Credit, Collection & Dispute Management Process
- Newly implementing S/4 Hana Simple Finance House Bank and house bank account ID’s setup and electronic bank reconciliation statement (EBS) and working on FI - Integration with project systems(PS), Materiel Management(MM), Sales and Distribution(SD), SRM,BW,PP and Human Resource (HR) Scenarios
- Working on AP and AR configuration such as Automatic payment program, Vendor and Customer Down payments, Dunning, Ageing Reports, ACH, Wire, Lox Box, Credit Card, EBS, DME and IDOC Setup for outing payments
- Working on AP integration with Procure to Pay and With Holding Tax configuration US, Mexico and India
- Working on AR Integration with Order to Cash, Credit, Collection and Dispute Management Configuration
- Designed and implementing Tax concepts such as VAT Configuration, Define Tax procedure, Assign country to calculation procedure, Define Tax codes for sales & Purchases and Assignment of Accounts for postings
- Newly implementing workflow concepts for invoice approval and Implanting BCM Module for payment file approval.
- Analyzing the business GAP requirements and advising the new process/modifying the process to fulfill the GAP’s. Designed and build the Credit Card Process and positive pay process
- Hands on experience writing functional specifications and designing the interfaces with the help of PI and ABAP team
- Working Unit, End to End Scenarios testing and Integration testing. Working with business user UAT signoff
- Working on SolMan and SAP ChaRM process to crate the Transport Request process and Designed and implementing US legal Tax processes based on business requirement and Working on Global Tax concepts with integration of Tax Tools such as One Source, Vertex
- Working in Unit/Integration testing, prepared UAT Documents, User manuals and giving training to business user and working on as per SOX Compliance
- Designed Security Roles and working with Security team to build the roles for business users based on their day to day actives
- Working on cut-over activities(Data Migration, Master/Transaction Data Reconciliation) for Go Live and after Go Live worked in hyper care support and handover the project to supporting team
- Working in JIRA tool for Defect, Project Dash Board, Tickets Tracking On Priority
Confidential - East Hartford, CT
SAP FICO Team Lead
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Project activities included understanding the existing business process by studying the SOP / interacting with functional heads for stabilize the process
- Preparation for process document for SAP Implementation of container division, Preparation of AS-IS and TO-BE documentation
- The process of implemented were New GL, General Ledger(GL), Account Payables(AP), Account Receivable(AR), Banking, Asset Accounting(AA), Cost Center Accounting(CC), Internal Order Accounting(IO), Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis
- Worked on GL configuration, Creation chart of accounts, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, Accounts Groups, Field status variant, Group, Tolerance groups for GL, vendor, customer, Document Types, Number Ranges, Creation of fiscal year variant and assign to company codes
- Worked on New GL Concepts such as Designed Ledgers and configuring Leading, Standard and Extension Ledgers and Configured Foreign Currency Valuation
- Worked New Asset Accounting such as asset classless creations, depreciation area, depreciation keys, account determination configuration. For Migration to New Asset Accounting Configured Define Document Type, Transaction Type and Assign Migration GL Account and Activate New Asset Account
- Worked on Asset under Construction (AUC) with Project Systems and settlement configuration. Worked on FM integration with FICO
- Worked on AP and AR configuration such as Automatic payment program, Vendor and Customer Down payments, Dunning, Ageing Reports, ACH, Wire, Lox Box, Credit Card, EBS, DME and IDOC Setup for outing payments
- Worked on AP Integration with Procure to Pay,With Holding Tax Configuration and Documentation
- Worked on AR Integration with Order to Cash, Credit, Collection and Dispute Management Configuration
- Implemented workflow concepts for invoice/payment file approval process
- Implemented electronic bank reconciliation statement(EBS) and card payment process for non-product parts and worked on Credit Card Process such as down payments receiving from customers
- Designed and implementing Tax concepts such as VAT Configuration, Define Tax procedure, Assign country to calculation procedure, Define Tax codes for sales & Purchases and Assignment of Accounts for postings
- SIT, E2E & UAT defect solved based on priority and Designed the Tax process and implemented Vertex Tax process based on business requirement
- Designed functional specification and understand the existing reports by reading the ABAP coding and developed new reports and existing reports modified based on business requirement with the help of ABAP team
- Worked with Security team to build the roles for business users based on their day to day actives
- Data migrated to SAP system used LSMW and BDC tools. Worked on R2R(record to report) process such as GL, AP, AR, AA and order to cash(O2C) and procure to pay(P2P) reports and prepared to user manuals and provided the KT to business users
- Worked on cut-over activates such as data migration, master/transaction data reconciliation, batch job variants creation, Bank keys creation etc. and worked on hyper care and handover the project to supporting team
Confidential - St.Louis, MO
SAP FI Team Lead
Environment: SAP 4.7
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Project activities included understanding the existing business process by studying the SOP and interacting with functional heads
- Preparation for process document for SAP Implementation of chemical division, Preparation of AS-IS and TO-BE documentation and GAP document
- Developed process / configuration of SEPA (France, Switzerland & Germany Banks etc..) XML format, defined Electronic Bank Reconciliation Settings (EBS) and House Bank Settings for SEPA requirement. Part of this implementation involved analysis & implementation of OSS notes related to SEPA process to stabilize SEPA XML format uploading to Europe Banks
- Based on business requirement I have created LSMW for GL Master, created bank keys and working on as per SOX Compliance
- Designed EBS Setup based on MT940 format and auto clearing bank reconciliation setup for Global
- As per client requirement configured automatic payment program, house bank setup and house bank account ID’s setup
- Designed interface and prepared function specification and build the interface with the help of PI and ABAP team
- Prepared automatic payment process (APP) user manual documents and share to business users for better understanding and the same document updated client depository
- Worked on Lockbox configuration such as Maintain Control Parameters, Maintain Posting Data and Create Lockbox Addresses for House Banks
- Prepared user manuals for SEPA XML, Lockbox processes and share to business users
- Worked on Solman system for Change Request(CR) creation, Change Document creation(CD), Transport Creation, TR release and approval process
- During UAT business users find the GAPs and the same build the configuration, tested the GAPs and re-submitted to business users for testing
- Worked on cut-over actives and hyper care support and handover the project to supporting team
- Worked on ISD Tool for issue/tickets tracking
Confidential
SAP FICO Team Lead
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Understanding the existing business process by studying the SOP / interacting with functional Leads to finalize the business process
- Preparation for process document for SAP Implementation of container division, Preparation of AS-IS and TO-BE documentation and GAP document
- The process implemented were General Ledger, New GL Concepts, Account Payables, Account Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis
- Developed process / configuration of SEPA (EUROP Banks) XML format, Configured Electronic Bank Reconciliation Settings (EBS) and House Bank Settings for SEPA requirement. Part of this implementation involved analysis & implementation of OSS notes related to SEPA process to stabilize SEPA XML format uploading to Europe Banks
- Designed and configured new chart of depreciation for Germany and defined new asset classes such as low values asst class, screen layout changes, depreciation keys, depreciation areas, account determination etc
- Designed and developed non leading ledger for Germany legal reporting in Asset accounting
- As per business Process Designed and Defined Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Profit Centers and Hierarchies and working on as per SOX Compliance
- Designed Functional Specification and developed customized reports with the help of ABAP team such as post billing clearing process, billing reconciliation process and designed vendor & customer remittance advices and reading the ABAP program code and finding the issues and advise to ABAP team to fix the issues
- Defined new billing condition types and mapped with value fields in profitability analysis(COPA)
- Configured tax setup and new tax codes for UK and Germany as per business requirement
- Worked on product costing configuration such as WIP calculation, Variance calculation, over heads calculation, Settlements and cost sheet configuration
- Preparation of Data Migration Templates such as Master Data & Transaction Data templates and advise business users hot to do the Master and Transaction Data Reconciliation
- Data migrated to SAP system using DBC and LSMW tools and worked on Global Tax Process concepts with integration with tax tools vertex
- Conducted Unit testing, Scenario testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing & Preparation of Training Manuals
- Designed Security Roles and with the help of Security team based on business users day to day actives
- I have managed a team of 6 consultants and conducted weekly meetings and monthly meetings to reviews the project status and achieve the milestones and the same Communication with the Onsite Coordinators
- Handled Cut-Over activates and Post Go-live Hyper Care Issues as per SLA
Confidential
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Business Requirement Study (AS-IS) and TO-Be Business Process Mapping for Requirement and Finalization of Business Blue Print Document
- Performed the Standard and Custom Configuration in SAP FICO ECC 6.0 such as Asset Accounting, Cost Center & Profit Center Hierarchies
- Designed and Configuration of Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile for Internal Order
- Worked on FI integration with MM and Procure to Pay Process
- Worked on Unit Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Impaired End User Testing
- Data Migration activities including final check of data, trouble-shooting issues during data upload and after Data Migration advised business to do the reconciliation
- Designed Security Roles and worked with Security team to build the role and Worked with business user to test the roles.
- Worked on Cut-Over activates, Preparation of training Manuals and final Preparation Go Live and Worked on Hyper Care Support Based on the priority
Confidential
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP 4.7 & ECC 6.0
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Worked on Downstream production support and Resolved end users issues/tickets based on SLAs
- Downstream Requirement collection & analysis of additional/changed business process in Finance and Controlling modules
- Designed, written functional specification, worked with ABAP team to develop custom reports based on business requirements
- Debug the ABAP program to find the custom program issue and advise the ABAP team to fix the issues and worked on Global Tax Issue such as Vertex, VAT,GST
- Worked on Funds Management (FM) Issues based on priority and worked on Investment management(IM) such as budget planning and distribution to projects in Projects Systems(PS) and distribute to WBS Elements
- Resolved Money Markets, Foreign Exchange (FX) issues / change requirements
- Resolved FSCM-Collection, Dispute, Credit and In-House Cash Management issues and worked on change requests
- Designed and configured Automatic Payment Program, payment terms, house banks and house bank account ID’s and Electronic Bank Reconciliation (EBS) Setup
- Worked on GL,AP, AR, Banking, Lockbox Asset Accounting, CO, month end, yearend issues and change requests
- Designed Interface, prepared the functional specification and build the interface with the help of PI and ABAP team
- Involved in regression testing and integration testing FI with PS, MM & SD
- Worked on FI integration with MM, SD OTC Process, PS and Treasury issues
- Worked on credit & dispute management regression testing based on priority
- Co-ordinate with users for UAT / Integration testing & issue/defects resolution. Provided training to the functional heads and core business users from procurement to pay and order to Cash process
- Worked on HP QC Tool for Defect Tracing and HP Service Manger for Issue Tracking
Confidential
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Interacting with end users to make them understand the conceptual solution and arresting repetitive incidents by providing end user manuals and training.
- Understanding the existing business process by studying the SOP and interacting with functional heads
- Maintained exchange rate translation ratios and foreign currency valuation
- Attended Meetings based on the needs with business and IT team. Worked on month end activities and yearend activates
- Resolved issues such as GL, AP, AR, Cost Center, Profit Center, Internal Order and Asset Accounting based on the priority
- Created Bank Master Data, House banks, Bank Accounts and GL Accounts for Bank Accounts and Re-Solved end users issues/tickets
- Updated all necessary documentation for any changes made in the application