OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging opportunity as Manager / SAP FICO Team Lead where I can utilize my functional expertise for optimal use and benefit for company. 7+ years SAP FICO experience at various levels for various industries.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP 4.7, SAP R/3 4.6xxx, Financial Accounting functional consultant with SAP configuration experience that includes FI-General Ledger, FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Accounts Receivable, Functional Areas Cost of Sales Accounting, CO-Cost Center Accounting, CO-Profit Center Accounting, CO-Profitability Analysis, CO-Internal Orders, Implementing the Financial and Accounting systems and procedures. Implementing the budgetary control systems and procedures. Operating System: conversant with Windows 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, SAP R/3, SAP FI 4.7.

Worked with various industries: Defense and Aerospace, Utility, Automation, Manufacturing etc.

Creation of Chart of Accounts, Company Code, Business Area, Functional Area, Credit Control Area, Account Groups, Fiscal Year, Posting Period variants etc.

• FICA: Contract Account Receivables and Payable: Account Balance Display, Cash Desk, Partial Payments, Clearing rules, Configuration of Main and Sub transactions, Refund checks, Reconciliation key creation and transferring to GL accounts.
• General Ledger: Creation and maintenance of General Ledger Accounts, Reconciliation Accounts etc.
• Account Receivables: Creation and maintenance of Customer Accounts for carrying out the tasks in general and special G / L transactions like Bills of Exchange, Down Payments etc.
• Account Payables: Creation and maintenance of Vendor Accounts for carrying out the tasks in general, Down Payments, and Automatic Payment Programs etc.
• FI/CO Reconciliation: Creation of Cost Elements, Cost Centers, and Profit Centers etc for carrying out the reconciliation between FI and CO.
• Languages: Conversant with ABAP/4, SQL and HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,01/2011 – Present)
Global Support Team Lead (SAP FICO & PS)

• Managing and leading SAP FI/CO & PS team of 5 associates physically located around the globe.
• Provide guidance and Mentoring team members for supporting day to day activities.
• Co-coordinating with different module leads, QA, ABAP, Business user community, Management and executive committee for SAP implementations and roll out.
• Hired additional resources globally and expanded the team to meet expectation and SLA\'s as per company\'s requirement.
• Evaluating the skill performance for each team members and prepared training plan.
• Responsible for performance review for team members.
• Preparing the budget and managing allocation.
• Responsible for development, execution and measurement of effective internal service level agreement (SLA).
• Maintaining SARBANES-Oxley (SOX) Compliance for all Service Desk issues and changes.
  Responsible for the functional support and proactive maintenance of SAP solution implemented within the company\'s business operations
• Provide SAP functional support for end users and stakeholders locating Globally (EMEA) Germany, France, Italy, and other Europe, South East Asia, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong , India, China etc.
• Involved in Western Hemisphere (USA, Canada) activities going live in 2012.
• Ensure client functional issues and queries are being managed efficiently.
• Proactive management of the SAP environment and optimize the performance.
• Identify and analyze SAP issues and recommend service or system changes to support business process improvements.
• Manage and validate service requests, both pre-approved demand and new requests for change that are raised by the business and user community.
• Managing changes and releases.
• Configuration and troubleshooting issues related to Multi-Currencies.
• Configuration and troubleshooting and changes to house banks, Maintaining Exchange rates, Account assignments, Dunning procedures, Costing Variants etc.
• Investigate incidents received from the service desk; response and resolve them within the agreed SLA\'s or manage the transfer of the incidents to the appropriate levels.
• Act as an escalation route for resolution of service request failure/tracking.
• Identify and route issues where the current functionality is not operating as intended.
• Produce the regular statistical report to reflect the performance of the support team in handing the service request.
• Review the performance of the support team with the senior executive on a regular basis.

Confidential,
Client: Confidential, Burbank, CA & New York, NY (11/2010-01/2011)
Lead SAP FICO Support Consultant

• Provided post GO-Live support.
• Trouble shooting issues from end users and super users for FI, GL, AR, AP and Co modules.
• Support provided for Month end process issues.

Confidential,
Client: Confidential,Amherst, NY (06/2010-10/2010)
SAP FICO consultant

• Provided instructor led training delivery to end-users in SAP Finance business process area – Basic, Reporting, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Credit Management.
• Met with end-users, SME and gathered understanding for present business processes.
• Trained 50+ users, super users, end user.

Confidential, WI (04/2008 – 04/2010)
SAP FICO Lead Consultant (SAP Risk & Controls)

• Worked as finance GPT Team Member for finance and controlling modules to manage and support SAP go live implementation of new modules and functionality with different locations.
• Made changes accordingly to existing business process.
• Tested Business processes with new functionality in different SAP’s different clients (development/ quality) prior to delivery.
• Provided guidance and training junior finance team members.
• Liaison with different departments for integration of FICO (MM, HR, SD, SCM etc).
• Created process maps according to company’s business processes.
• Assisted VP and Director (Compliance & Program Mgmt) with various financial risks and controls.
• Reviewed current business process functionality,
• Involved in testing - string testing, unit testing, and Integration testing.
• Involved in preparing of functional specification for technical team and co-ordination with ABAP developers for customizing business processes.
• Involved in fit gap analysis.
• Configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable Account, Accounts Payable.
• Prepared the training documents using Business Process Procedures (BPP’s).
• Identified and ensured right controls are in place for SAP Global process.
• Responsible for review of new and existing Finance Process Definition Documents (PDD) to determine the controls using the controls library.
• Identified control solutions for business process which may include configuration controls, access control, manual and/or management reporting controls.
• Identified the various key and complementary controls.
• Met with end users, Global Financial shared services personnel (GFSS), SAP Global Process Transformation (GPT Team), SAP Security, SAP Basis team to identify the risks for all locations EMEA, USA, Canada etc and to ensure proper controls are in place.
• Transferred data from Legacy System to SAP R/3 system by using LSMW.
• Approved and documented the controls [using different tools/ applications – Ascendant, Visio, Policy IQ, Change log, Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS), Mercury etc]
• Reviewed the Segregation of Duties (SOD) conflicts that exists
• Identified SAP Controls.
• Analyzed the Risks, functions, T-Codes, Auth Objects.
• Gathered business process knowledge by meeting with different user groups, GFSS, SAP GPT team, SAP Security, SAP Basis team Risks and Controls team etc to understand the business process.
• Analyzed SOD (Segregation of Duties) and other risk indicators using SAP Virsa tool.
• Reviewed and prepared the PDD’s (Process Definition Documents) for business processes.
• Reviewed and trained end user to ensure the controls are rightly captured in training materials.
• Configuration for Dunning letters
• Creation of House banks.

Client: Confidential,Endicott, NY (02/2006 – 01/2007)
SAP FICO Consultant
Finance, Controlling, Project System & Funds Management modules

• Involved in preparing of Business Process Procedures for Controlling, Funds management and Project Systems modules.
• Interaction with the users to assess training needs, and the functional project team to develop the catalog and course materials.
• Trained around 1200 Super User and End Users.
• Prepared customized training catalogues based on end users T-Codes.
• Validated JPA with Roles and co-coordinating gaps with Team Leads.
• Validated JPA and FICO courses and roles according to each T-Code.
• Prepared Course Catalog and Course Outline.
• Prepared Course materials – Job Aide, PPT, Cue Cards, Exercises, Simulations, and Work Instructions etc.
• Involved in Configuring and Testing SAP 4.7.
• Transferred data from Legacy System to SAP R/3 system by using LSMW.
• Transferred and created master data.
• Involved in testing - string testing, unit testing, and Integration testing.
• Involved in preparing of functional specification for technical team and co-ordination with ABAP developers for customizing business processes.
• Configured and prepared training BPP\'s for SAP Funds Management module that includes budget planning, availability control, and commitments.
• Involved in fit gap analysis.
• General Ledger configuration and financial reporting and users training including preparation of training documents.
• Cost Center configurationand cost allocations and reporting.

Confidential, (01/2004 – 07/2005)
SAP FICO Consultant

• Involved in study of customer’s business process and preparing “as-is & to-be” process for Financial Accounting processes for AR, AP, GL etc.
• As a team member involved in Configuring and Testing SAP 4.6C Enterprise.
• Actively involving in development of final prototyping after filling the gaps and incorporating the modifications after the testing of draft prototyping.
• Configured Global settings for the project.
• General Ledger configuration and financial reporting and users training, Accounts Receivable configuration, reporting and users training, Accounts Payable configuration, reporting and users training. Cost Center configuration and cost allocations and reporting, Profit Center Configuration and Profit Center Reporting.
• Configured posting data transfer from legacy systems.
• Configured Payments initiated by the customer (e.g. checks) are processed within the payment lot.
• Configured Dunning activities based on a customer’s dunning history, dunning level and dunning procedure.
• Configuration and testing of core FI/CO, A/P, A/R, GL.
• Configured payment program for vendors and customers.
• Configured settings for correspondence.
• Configured payment terms.
• Created House banks and related bank accounts and configured settings for bank
• Trained users on FI module.
• Created Cost Elements.
• Configured Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centers and Internal orders.
• Unit testing and Integration testing of the configured processes.

Confidential, (06/1999 – 01/2004)
Business Analyst

• Gathered and analyzed on-going Accounting business requirements, developed project plans, wrote functional specification documents and created user acceptance plans
• Translated business requirements to detailed functional specifications.
• Identified functional requirements for prototypes.
• Facilitated the definition of technical specifications by working with programmer analysts.
• Participated in data analysis by researching the business rules that govern data relationships.
• Determined project purpose, scope and cost / benefits.
• Worked with project leaders to develop project plans that reflect business analysis.
• Worked with the Quality Assurance Team to ensure that systems functionality meets user requirements.
• Executed comprehensive testing plans covering all financial accounting business processes, collected test results and managed issue resolution.

EDUCATION
B.S. Commerce (Accounting and Auditing)
P.G Diploma in Export/Import Management

TRAINING
Trained by SAP America (SAP Academy) on AC210 New General Ledger (in SAP ERP)
Trained by SAP America (SAP Academy) on SAP 4.7 FI
Trained by SAP America (SAP Academy) on ADM 940 Authorization Concepts AS ABAP
Diploma in Dress Making and Fashion Co-ordination 
Master of Certified Internet Web master