SUMMARY:

• SAP FI/CO functional consultant with Multiple project lifecycle implementations and 8 years of experience working on projects and Support projects.
• Experience working with Public Sector & Commercial projects. 20+ years of total experience of varied work experience with the manufacturing, instrumentation & automation and software industries.
• Offer strong technical skills in addition to SAP functional skills.
• Highly motivated, goal oriented team player with excellent presentation, analytical & interpersonal communication skills.
• Have good understanding of business processes.

OBJECTIVE:

To secure a promising position that offers a challenge as well as a good opportunity for growth. Provide integrated solutions; translate business requirements and process changes into customized solutions utilizing SAP best practices.

SUMMARY OF SAP SKILLS:

• SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 and 6.0
• FI (GL, AP, AR)
• FI - MM - SD Integration
• SRM/FI Integration, Ariba, OpenText, Readsoft
• FI-Asset Management
• FI- Grant & Fund Management
• SAP Solution Manager
• IDOCs
• CO - Cost Center Accounting, Internal orders
• Product Costing
• Costing based Profitability Analysis
• Profit Center Accounting
• ABAP - Understanding ability
• SAP expertise includes documentation, training & end-user support

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Computer Tools/Applications: Clear case, Frame Maker, PDF, MS Office; software test tools

Computer Language Skills: C, C++, PERL, Tcl / Tk, SQL

Operating Systems: MS DOS, UNIX, NT, XP, Cisco IOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Auburn, MI

Sr. IT Business Applications Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinator and onshore representative for the team interacting with client management
• Working with development teams, providing functional specifications, design and configuration within SAP FI
• Working on requirement gathering, coordination with external vendors for interfaces and development teams
• Working with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable business processes in SAP ECC Finance, file based interfaces from external systems such as Kyriba, Concur to SAP and vice versa
• Testing of developed solution and coordination with business users for UAT

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP Application Consultant FICO

Responsibilities:

• Worked on individual projects and ticket triage on a regular basis. Areas covered -
• Plant Maintenance/FI integration
• S4 HANA 1503
• Addition of product lines
• Addition of company codes
• PM/AA integration

Confidential

SAP Analyst/Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Core team duties involved working with Confidential functional document modifications as required and working with the client SMEs and the technical (SAP PI/PO & ABAP) Confidential team in ensuring necessary technical modifications.
• Upon completion of this process, the documents were checked into SAP Solution Manager.
• Creating and working with mock data for testing the Confidential objects was a daily requirement based on the need.
• Working with the Confidential SRM team toward the validation of SAP AP vendors. This involved the use of Ariba, Open Text and other client-specific tools.
• Working with the client SAP authorization team on testing authorization profiles.
• The client team wanted to ensure that the support team was fully equipped to handle their systems post go-live.
• Daily question/answer sessions are the way they went about it.
• Daily team meetings to come up to speed on various topics as well as cross-training efforts at Confidential end coupled with 1hour question/answer sessions by the client end SMEs was the norm.
• Prior to go-live, I was involved in creating documents for the client end user and super user information regarding the details of the system.
• Areas involved SAP GL, AR, AP, AA and some interface with SAP PS.

Confidential, Novi, MI

SAP Analyst/Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participate in support including: triage and root cause analysis, requirements gathering, solution design and documentation, problem resolution and closure
• Create or review functional spec, test specs and scripts and documentation of test results; provide knowledge transfer to development team
• Build and maintain strong partnership with the team at the client site, determine ownership of activities and communicate timelines in order to meet release dates
• Partner with future release teams to share knowledge on current functionality and potential changes being introduced on an on-going basis

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with Business, ABAP Technical team and other teams to translate the business requirement into a firm deliverable.
• Use of business area as an organizational unit in SAP to address various product line requirements.
• Fiscal Year & Posting Periods, Taxes on Sales/Purchases, Parallel Accounting, Recurring Entries.
• Define Tolerance Groups for Employees, Assign User/Tolerance Groups.
• Real-Time Integration of Controlling with Financial Accounting
• Define Account Group, Retained Earnings, Document splitting, open item clearing, Bank Account Interest
• Calculation, materials management, Sales & Distribution.
• Define Account Groups (Customers & Vendors), maintain Terms of Payment, Outgoing Payments, manual
• Outgoing Payments, Dunning, Down Payment Received.
• Organizational Structures, Integration with the General Ledger, Valuation, Depreciation, Master Data, Transactions.
• Use of special GL indicators to address the WHT on provisions.
• Handled all knowledge transfer and reverse knowledge transfer sessions from and to the client

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Use of business area as an organizational unit in SAP to address local legal requirements.
• Recognition of realized gain / loss on forex transactions during partial payments.
• Local maintenance of exchange rate table by using a separate exchange rate type, maintaining direct quote and, valuation method to calculate unrealized gain / loss for local legal requirements.
• Configured Automatic Payment program with separate payment methods.
• Use of special GL indicators to address the WHT on provisions.
• Setting up the Cost Center and Profit Center Standard Hierarchy as per the business and reporting requirements.
• Setting up allocation cycles in cost center accounting and profit center accounting for flow of values as per business and reporting requirements.
• Setting up of CO Production Order to meet the requirements of small scale production
• Use of Internal Order addressing manufacturing functionality with the use of Results Analysis key for calculation of Work in Progress at period end.
• Use of Standard Cost for manufactured products, and suggested calculation of standard cost without quantity structure.
• Preparation of user manuals for end user guidance.