SUMMARY:

• 14+ years of overall IT experience in managing, deploying and designing complex enterprise applications. 9 full lifecycles SAP implementation expertise on SAP ERP/CRM/SCM projects (9 global transformations). Implementations included diversified industries such as retail, manufacturing, insurance, food processing, and consumer goods.
• Highly experienced in various project management methodologies such as ASAP, Agile, Waterfall, ITLC, PRINCE and PMBOK. SAP ASAP Methodology expert with having managed delivery of SAP project right from project planning phase through blueprint, realization, and deployment and go - live. Agile Methodology expert with having managed work plans and teams using Agile SCRUM/SPRINT approach to deliver parts of the SAP product in an aggressive timeline to support a release.
• Leadership experience on small to large-scale projects with a multiple implementations across multiple countries spanning LATIN America, APO, EMEA, US-CANADA, EU & Australia.
• Hands on experience in configuration of FICO - GL, AP, AR, Bank Management, Asset Management, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders, Inventory Management, Simple Finance HANA S/4 1503, 1511.
• Hands on experience in configuration of FSCM: Credit, Collections, Disputes Management, Collections and Disbursements, Claims Management, RMCA-FICA, Treasury and Risk Management, Bank Communication Manager, Transaction Manager, In-House Cash Management, Electronic Bank Statements, Hedging and Risk Management.
• Hands on experience in configuration of SD: Pricing, Billing, Shipping, Transportation, Availability check (ATP), Credit Management, Partner Determination, Output Determination, Bill of Materials and Variant Configuration.
• Hands on experience in configuration of MM: MRP, Purchasing, GR/LIV, Inventory Management (IM), Warehouse Management (WM)
• Hands on experience in configuration of TAX: SABRIX and VERTEX implementations including interfaces.
• Expert knowledge over Procure to pay cycle (PTP), Order to Cash (OTC) and Record to Report (RTR) Cycles
• Hands on experience in configuration of BI/BW/Business Objects
• Hands on experience in using Other applications: Load Runner, CATT, LSMW, RWD Uperform, Win shuttle, HP Quality Center, Z-Options, Remedy, Vertex Tax, Sabrix Tax, Bloomberg Forex, Taxware, SWIFT, DNBi, ARIBA, Vistex, ADP, EDI, Manufacturing Execution Systems Honeywell Business FLEX MES, POMSnet MES, EPIC EMR, Blackline, PROS, Vendavo.
• Hands on experience in using other ERP’s: JD Edwards, PeopleSoft HR, Seibel CRM, SalesForce.com CRM
• Hands on experience in configuration of Project management tools: Solution Manager, ChaRM, ARIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: Full Life Cycle Implementation Involved with all phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, conducting Workshops, GAP Analysis, Detail Design, System Configuration and Build and post go-live support.

Modules: SAP ECC 6.0 FI(AP, AR, BA), CO (CCA, PCA)

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently worked with the clients to understand AS-IS business process, conducted GAP analysis, designed the TO-BE business process and prepared the Business blueprint documents. Defined global scenarios for OTC & PTP business cycles.
• In FI general Ledger (FI/GL): Customization of FI general Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Lockbox Processing and Internal Orders.
• Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO relating to Company Code, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting period variants, Created the Chart of Accounts and Financial Statement versions and configured the Account groups, G/L Master data, field status groups, Posting keys, number ranges and document types.
• Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults. Defined accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models (for recurring entries).
• Worked on substitution and validation rules.
• Reviewed and assisted in Implementation of Sarbanes Oxley regulations.
• Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings. Customized FI-SD integration to allow recognition of revenue irrespective of billing and collection.
• In FI Accounts Receivable and Payables (FI/AP/AR):
• Configured the vendor master data by defining the vendor groups, assigning number ranges to vendor account groups and maintaining vendor field status group.
• Did extensive configuration in Procure to Pay process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications and MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of payment program was done including all the necessary detailed configuration of company code data, paying company code data, country payment methods, company code payment methods and bank selection.
• Configured the A/R module by defining the terms of payment, interest calculation procedures, and reason codes (for underpayment and overpayment), default account assignments, employee tolerances.
• Configured the Customer master data by defining customer groups, customer field status groups and integration with SD.
• Provided assistance in resolving design and configuration issues regarding A/R and A/P after implementation.
• In Solution Manager (SOLMAN): Developed design, configuration, and user documents in Solution Manager.
• Prepared test scripts and executed tests including Integration, smoke, regression, load and user acceptance testing cycles. Obtained Sign-offs.
• Executed data migration from legacy system to SAP system using LSMW/ Win Shuttle. Ensured cleanup and structuring of Conversion files
• Prepared material and Executed for business owners and super users and end user. Provided Quality Assurance services and Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis. Worked on Month-End and Year-End closing processes and trained the users on the activities to perform.

Confidential, Jupiter, FL

Lead SAP FICO/FSCM Consultant

Environment: Full Life Cycle Implementation: Involved with all phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, conducting Workshops, GAP Analysis, Detail Design, System Configuration and Build and post go-live support.

Modules: SAP ECC 6.0 FI (New-GL, AR, AP, BA, AA), CO (CCA, IO, PCA, PA, PC) FSCM (CM, COL, DM, TRM)

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently worked with the clients to understand AS-IS business process, conducted GAP analysis, designed the TO-BE business process and prepared the Business blueprint documents. Defined global scenarios for OTC/PTP/ATR/MTS/MTO/RTR business cycles and Finance and Treasury processes.
• In FI general Ledger (FI/GL): Customization of FI general Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Lockbox Processing and Internal Orders.
• Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO relating to Company Code, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting period variants, Created the Chart of Accounts and Financial Statement versions and configured the Account groups, G/L Master data, field status groups, Posting keys, number ranges and document types.
• Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults. Defined accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models (for recurring entries).
• Worked on substitution and validation rules.
• Reviewed and assisted in Implementation of Sarbanes Oxley regulations.
• Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings. Customized FI-SD integration to allow recognition of revenue irrespective of billing and collection.
• In FI Accounts Receivable and Payables (FI/AP/AR):
• Configured the vendor master data by defining the vendor groups, assigning number ranges to vendor account groups and maintaining vendor field status group.
• Did extensive configuration in Procure to Pay process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications and MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of payment program was done including all the necessary detailed configuration of company code data, paying company code data, country payment methods, company code payment methods and bank selection.
• Configured the A/R module by defining the terms of payment, interest calculation procedures, and reason codes (for underpayment and overpayment), default account assignments, employee tolerances.
• Configured the Customer master data by defining customer groups, customer field status groups and integration with SD.
• Provided assistance in resolving design and configuration issues regarding A/R and A/P after implementation.
• In FI Banking (FI/BA): Defined the Bank account G/L structure with one cash G/L account and several categorized bank-clearing accounts. Also designed the check lots and void reason codes for A/P accounts.
• Configuration of the Treasury Lockbox functionality with setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, treasury groupings for the lockbox file,
• IN FI Foreign Currency (FI/FX): Valuation to valuate the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable open line items and balances of General Ledger accounts in foreign currency to calculate the Foreign exchange Gain/Loss.
• In FI Fixed Asset (FI/AA): Chart of accounts, asset classes Depreciation areas, maintain parallel currencies in AA module, configuring specific depreciation keys for depreciation to the day and fiscal year, assigning tax indicator for non-taxable acquisitions, define number range intervals and specifying account determination, Creating screen layout for the asset master records, Maintaining multi-level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes. Integration with G/L ledger, defining document type, transaction type and posting rules for Asset documents and depreciation
• In FI TAX (FI/TAX): Defined a Tax Procedure for Countries, Activate the External tax calculation (VerTAX), Define the Number ranges for External Tax Documents, Activate External Tax Document, Defined jurisdiction Code Structure, Set up the Tax Codes.
• In FSCM Collections and Disputes (FSCM/COL/DM): Created Collection Segments, collection profiles for customers and collection rules and strategies. Configured Promises to Pay in Collections Management.
• Created Deductions cases and profiles for attributes for Dispute cases record management. Created search profiles and business partners for Dispute Management. Configured Automatic Write-off program in Dispute Management.
• In FSCM Credit Management by defining the credit segments and risk categories. Created Credit segments, Credit Master Data for Customers, Credit profiles, Risk Categories and Risk Classes. Created customized credit check for International and domestic sales orders and deliveries in Credit Management. Created Credit limit workflows.
• Designed SAP - Pay matrix interface for credit card processing in SAP.
• In CO Cost Center Accounting (CO/CCA): Customized and configured the Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers, maintained the activities, Statistical key figures, developed the cost sheets, Cycles, segments for Cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Customized and configured the allocation structures and settlement profile for internal orders.
• In CO Profit center accounting (CO/PCA): maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, assessments, distributions etc. Assigned Profit center to the respective cost centers, material master records, sales orders, and fixed assets and so on. Transfer the revenue elements, balance sheet items to Profit center accounting in profit center hierarchy. Created and displayed profit center reports from the management perspective.
• Developed customized reports for Customer/Profit center using Report writer.
• In Solution Manager (SOLMAN): Developed design, configuration, and user documents in Solution Manager.
• Prepared test scripts and executed tests including Integration, smoke, regression, load and user acceptance testing cycles. Obtained Sign-offs.
• Executed data migration from legacy system to SAP system using LSMW/ Win Shuttle. Ensured cleanup and structuring of Conversion files
• Prepared material and Executed for business owners and super users and end user. Provided Quality Assurance services and Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis. Worked on Month-End and Year-End closing processes and trained the users on the activities to perform.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

SAP S/4 Simple Finance Consultant

Environment: S/4 HANA On Premise Migration and Design: Involved with all phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, conducting Workshops, GAP Analysis, Detail Design, System Configuration and Build and post go-live support

Modules: SAP ECC 6.0 FI (New-GL, AR, AP, BA, AA), CO (CCA, IO, PCA, PA, PC)

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently worked with the clients to understand AS-IS business process, conducted GAP analysis, designed the TO- BE business process and prepared the Business blueprint documents. Defined global scenarios for OTC/PTP/ATR/MTS/MTO/RTR business cycles and Finance and Treasury processes.
• In FI general Ledger (FI/GL): Customization of FI general Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Lockbox Processing and Internal Orders.
• Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO relating to Company Code, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting period variants, Created the Chart of Accounts and Financial Statement versions and configured the Account groups, G/L Master data, field status groups, Posting keys, number ranges and document types.
• Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults. Defined accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models (for recurring entries).
• Worked on substitution and validation rules.
• Reviewed and assisted in Implementation of Sarbanes Oxley regulations.
• Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings. Customized FI-SD integration to allow recognition of revenue irrespective of billing and collection.
• In FI Accounts Receivable and Payables (FI/AP/AR): Configured the vendor master data by defining the vendor groups, assigning number ranges to vendor account groups and maintaining vendor field status group.
• Did extensive configuration in Procure to Pay process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications and MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of payment program was done including all the necessary detailed configuration of company code data, paying company code data, country payment methods, company code payment methods and bank selection.
• Configured the A/R module by defining the terms of payment, interest calculation procedures, and reason codes (for underpayment and overpayment), default account assignments, employee tolerances. Configured the Customer master data by defining customer groups, customer field status groups and integration with SD.Provided assistance in resolving design and configuration issues regarding A/R and A/P after implementation.
• In FI Banking (FI/BA): Defined the Bank account G/L structure with one cash G/L account and several categorized bank-clearing accounts. Also designed the check lots and void reason codes for A/P accounts.
• Configuration of the Treasury Lockbox functionality with setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, treasury groupings for the lockbox file,
• In FI Foreign Currency (FI/FX): Valuation to valuate the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable open line items and balances of General Ledger accounts in foreign currency to calculate the Foreign exchange Gain/Loss.
• In FI Fixed Asset (FI/AA): Chart of accounts, asset classes Depreciation areas, maintain parallel currencies in AA module, configuring specific depreciation keys for depreciation to the day and fiscal year, assigning tax indicator for non-taxable acquisitions, define number range intervals and specifying account determination, Creating screen layout for the asset master records, Maintaining multi-level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes. Integration with G/L ledger, defining document type, transaction type and posting rules for Asset documents and depreciation.
• Defined Investment Profiles to link IO and AuC for Project System and Investment Management.
• Activated Order Management in Controlling Area for configured Internal Order for Assets Under Construction/WIP. Defined Order Type by maintained order master data. Configured IO to AUC settlement profile and allocation structures
• In FSCM Credit Collections and Disputes (FSCM/COL/DM): Created Collection Segments, collection profiles for customers and collection rules and strategies. Configured Promises to Pay in Collections Management.
• Created Deductions cases and profiles for attributes for Dispute cases record management. Created search profiles and business partners for Dispute Management. Configured Automatic Write-off program in Dispute Management.
• Performed Credit Management by defining the credit segments and risk categories. Created Credit segments, Credit Master Data for Customers, Credit profiles, Risk Categories and Risk Classes. Created customized credit check for International and domestic sales orders and deliveries in Credit Management. Created Credit limit workflows.
• Designed SAP - Pay matrix interface for credit card processing in SAP.
• In CO Cost Center Accounting (CO/CCA): Customized and configured the Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers, maintained the activities, Statistical key figures, developed the cost sheets, Cycles, segments for Cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Customized and configured the allocation structures and settlement profile for internal orders.
• In CO Profit center accounting (CO/PCA): maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, assessments, distributions etc. Assigned Profit center to the respective cost centers, material master records, sales orders, and fixed assets and so on. Transfer the revenue elements, balance sheet items to Profit center accounting in profit center hierarchy. Created and displayed profit center reports from the management perspective.
• In CO Internal Orders (CO/IO): Configured for Internal Orders, defined the order types, allocation structure, and settlement profile, created the orders and scheduled the order settlement for execution (month end processing).
• Developed customized reports for Customer/Profit center using Report writer.
• In CO Profitability Analysis (CO-COPA): operating concern, Characteristics and Value fields, Derivation rules/strategies, Valuation strategy, Costing key for accessing material cost estimate, Maintain Versions for planning, Planning Layout and Profile, Structure of Cost Center Assessment, PA Transfer Structure for Variance Settlement, Transfer of Incoming Sales Orders, Transfer of Billing Documents, Define Variables for Profitability Reports, Define Forms for Profitability Reports, Create Profitability Report, Reconciliation of CO-PA with FI.
• In CO Product Costing (CO-PC): Product cost planning with and with out quantity structures, costing run, Cost object controlling product cost by period, product cost by order, product cost collector, Actual costing/Material ledger.
• In SAP Master Data Governance (MDG): Involved in designing of MDG architecture for Customer and vendor, Chart of Accounts, Financial statement Version, Cost Elements, Profit Centre & Cost Centre Group, Consolidation Unit and Consolidation Group.
• User Interface Modeling in Finance MDG: Design and Create the User Interface, Value Restriction in the UI, Define the Navigation UI elements of the type of Hyperlink or Pushbutton
• Data Quality and Search: Validation, Derivation Rules, Worked on HANA Search
• Supported the build of SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) module, reporting tools, and alerts to notify business units of potential data integrity issues. Assisted Master Data Creators/Editors in defining Master Data requirements and support MDG Workflow Rules development.
• End of Month Procedures including Cost Analysis of Process Orders, Variance Settlement, WIP analysis and Process Order Settlement.
• Defined all month end close process, which are WIP, variance, settlement and close Jobs.
• Wrote functional specifications to provide in-depth analysis of WIP. Report gives visibility as to what components are in WIP even in the case of partially delivered orders. WIP is broken down by cost components. Report was used as a basis for manual adjustments at month end.
• In Solution Manager (SOLMAN): Developed design, configuration, and user documents in Solution Manager.
• Executed data migration from legacy system to SAP system using LSMW/ Win Shuttle. Ensured cleanup and structuring of Conversion files
• Prepared test scripts and executed tests including Integration, smoke, and regression, load and user acceptance testing cycles. Obtained Sign-offs. Monitor and support the resolution of defects found in the MDG build by the work streams.
• Prepared material and Executed for business owners and super users and end user. Provided Quality Assurance services and Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis. Worked on Month-End and Year-End closing processes and trained the users on the activities to perform.

Confidential, Medford, Oregon

SAP S/4 Simple Finance Consultant

Environment: S/4 HANA On Premise Migration and Design: Involved with all phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, conducting Workshops, GAP Analysis, Detail Design, System Configuration and Build and post go-live support.

Modules: SAP ECC 6.0 FI (New-GL, AR, AP, BA, AA), CO (CCA, IO, PCA, PA, PC) FSCM (CM, COL, DM, TRM)

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently worked with the clients to understand AS-IS business process, conducted GAP analysis, designed the TO- BE business process and prepared the Business blueprint documents. Defined global scenarios for OTC/PTP/ATR/MTS/MTO/RTR business cycles and Finance and Treasury processes.
• In FI general Ledger (FI/GL): Customization of FI general Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Lockbox Processing and Internal Orders.
• Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO relating to Company Code, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting period variants, Created the Chart of Accounts and Financial Statement versions and configured the Account groups, G/L Master data, field status groups, Posting keys, number ranges and document types.
• Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults. Defined accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models (for recurring entries).
• Worked on substitution and validation rules.
• Reviewed and assisted in Implementation of Sarbanes Oxley regulations.
• Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings. Customized FI-SD integration to allow recognition of revenue irrespective of billing and collection.
• In FI Accounts Receivable and Payables (FI/AP/AR): Configured the vendor master data by defining the vendor groups, assigning number ranges to vendor account groups and maintaining vendor field status group.
• Did extensive configuration in Procure to Pay process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications and MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of payment program was done including all the necessary detailed configuration of company code data, paying company code data, country payment methods, company code payment methods and bank selection.
• Configured the A/R module by defining the terms of payment, interest calculation procedures, and reason codes (for underpayment and overpayment), default account assignments, employee tolerances. Configured the Customer master data by defining customer groups, customer field status groups and integration with SD. Provided assistance in resolving design and configuration issues regarding A/R and A/P after implementation.
• In FI Banking (FI/BA): Defined the Bank account G/L structure with one cash G/L account and several categorized bank-clearing accounts. Also designed the check lots and void reason codes for A/P accounts.
• Configuration of the Treasury Lockbox functionality with setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, treasury groupings for the lockbox file,
• In FI Foreign Currency (FI/FX): Valuation to valuate the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable open line items and balances of General Ledger accounts in foreign currency to calculate the Foreign exchange Gain/Loss.
• In FI Fixed Asset (FI/AA): Chart of accounts, asset classes Depreciation areas, maintain parallel currencies in AA module, configuring specific depreciation keys for depreciation to the day and fiscal year, assigning tax indicator for non-taxable acquisitions, define number range intervals and specifying account determination, Creating screen layout for the asset master records, Maintaining multi-level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes. Integration with G/L ledger, defining document type, transaction type and posting rules for Asset documents and depreciation.
• Defined Investment Profiles to link IO and AuC for Project System and Investment Management.
• Activated Order Management in Controlling Area for configured Internal Order for Assets Under Construction/WIP. Defined Order Type by maintained order master data. Configured IO to AUC settlement profile and allocation structures
• In FSCM Credit Collections and Disputes (FSCM/COL/DM): Created Collection Segments, collection profiles for customers and collection rules and strategies. Configured Promises to Pay in Collections Management.
• Created Deductions cases and profiles for attributes for Dispute cases record management. Created search profiles and business partners for Dispute Management. Configured Automatic Write-off program in Dispute Management.
• Performed Credit Management by defining the credit segments and risk categories. Created Credit segments, Credit Master Data for Customers, Credit profiles, Risk Categories and Risk Classes. Created customized credit check for International and domestic sales orders and deliveries in Credit Management. Created Credit limit workflows.
• Designed SAP - Pay matrix interface for credit card processing in SAP.
• In CO Cost Center Accounting (CO/CCA): Customized and configured the Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers, maintained the activities, Statistical key figures, developed the cost sheets, Cycles, segments for Cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Customized and configured the allocation structures and settlement profile for internal orders.
• In CO Profit center accounting (CO/PCA): maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, assessments, distributions etc. Assigned Profit center to the respective cost centers, material master records, sales orders, and fixed assets and so on. Transfer the revenue elements, balance sheet items to Profit center accounting in profit center hierarchy. Created and displayed profit center reports from the management perspective.
• In CO Internal Orders (CO/IO): Configured for Internal Orders, defined the order types, allocation structure, and settlement profile, created the orders and scheduled the order settlement for execution (month end processing).
• Developed customized reports for Customer/Profit center using Report writer.
• In CO Profitability Analysis (CO-COPA): operating concern, Characteristics and Value fields, Derivation rules/strategies, Valuation strategy, Costing key for accessing material cost estimate, Maintain Versions for planning, Planning Layout and Profile, Structure of Cost Center Assessment, PA Transfer Structure for Variance Settlement, Transfer of Incoming Sales Orders, Transfer of Billing Documents, Define Variables for Profitability Reports, Define Forms for Profitability Reports, Create Profitability Report, Reconciliation of CO-PA with FI.
• In CO Product Costing (CO-PC): Product cost planning with and with out quantity structures, costing run, Cost object controlling product cost by period, product cost by order, product cost collector, Actual costing/Material ledger.
• End of Month Procedures including Cost Analysis of Process Orders, Variance Settlement, WIP analysis and Process Order Settlement.
• Defined all month end close process, which are WIP, variance, settlement and close Jobs.
• Wrote functional specifications to provide in-depth analysis of WIP. Report gives visibility as to what components are in WIP even in the case of partially delivered orders. WIP is broken down by cost components. Report was used as a basis for manual adjustments at month end.
• In Solution Manager (SOLMAN): Developed design, configuration, and user documents in Solution Manager.
• Executed data migration from legacy system to SAP system using LSMW/ Win Shuttle. Ensured cleanup and structuring of Conversion files
• Prepared test scripts and executed tests including Integration, smoke, and regression, load and user acceptance testing cycles. Obtained Sign-offs.
• Prepared material and Executed for business owners and super users and end user. Provided Quality Assurance services and Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis. Worked on Month-End and Year-End closing processes and trained the users on the activities to perform.

Confidential, Columbus OH

SAP S/4 Simple Finance Consultant

Environment: Full Life Cycle Implementation: Involved with all phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, conducting Workshops, GAP Analysis, Detail Design, System Configuration and Build and post go-live support.

Module: SAP ECC 6.0 FI (New-GL, AR, AP, BA, AA), CO (CCA, IO, PCA, PA, PC), FSCM (CM, COL, DM, TRM)

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently worked with the clients to understand AS-IS business process, conducted GAP analysis, designed the TO- BE business process and prepared the Business blueprint documents. Defined global scenarios for OTC/PTP/ATR/MTS/MTO/RTR business cycles and Finance and Treasury processes.
• In FI general Ledger (FI/GL): Customization of FI general Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Lockbox Processing and Internal Orders.
• Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO relating to Company Code, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting period variants, Created the Chart of Accounts and Financial Statement versions and configured the Account groups, G/L Master data, field status groups, Posting keys, number ranges and document types.
• Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults. Defined accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models (for recurring entries).
• Worked on substitution and validation rules.
• Reviewed and assisted in Implementation of Sarbanes Oxley regulations.
• Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings. Customized FI-SD integration to allow recognition of revenue irrespective of billing and collection.
• In FI Accounts Receivable and Payables (FI/AP/AR): Configured the vendor master data by defining the vendor groups, assigning number ranges to vendor account groups and maintaining vendor field status group.
• Did extensive configuration in Procure to Pay process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications and MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of payment program was done including all the necessary detailed configuration of company code data, paying company code data, country payment methods, company code payment methods and bank selection.
• Configured the A/R module by defining the terms of payment, interest calculation procedures, and reason codes (for underpayment and overpayment), default account assignments, employee tolerances. Configured the Customer master data by defining customer groups, customer field status groups and integration with SD. Provided assistance in resolving design and configuration issues regarding A/R and A/P after implementation.
• In FI Banking (FI/BA): Defined the Bank account G/L structure with one cash G/L account and several categorized bank-clearing accounts. Also designed the check lots and void reason codes for A/P accounts.
• Configuration of the Treasury Lockbox functionality with setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, treasury groupings for the lockbox file,
• In FI Foreign Currency (FI/FX): Valuation to valuate the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable open line items and balances of General Ledger accounts in foreign currency to calculate the Foreign exchange Gain/Loss.
• In FI Fixed Asset (FI/AA): Chart of accounts, asset classes Depreciation areas, maintain parallel currencies in AA module, configuring specific depreciation keys for depreciation to the day and fiscal year, assigning tax indicator for non-taxable acquisitions, define number range intervals and specifying account determination, Creating screen layout for the asset master records, Maintaining multi-level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes. Integration with G/L ledger, defining document type, transaction type and posting rules for Asset documents and depreciation.
• Defined Investment Profiles to link IO and AuC for Project System and Investment Management.
• Activated Order Management in Controlling Area for configured Internal Order for Assets Under Construction/WIP. Defined Order Type by maintained order master data. Configured IO to AUC settlement profile and allocation structures
• In FSCM Credit Collections and Disputes (FSCM/COL/DM): Created Collection Segments, collection profiles for customers and collection rules and strategies. Configured Promises to Pay in Collections Management.
• Created Deductions cases and profiles for attributes for Dispute cases record management. Created search profiles and business partners for Dispute Management. Configured Automatic Write-off program in Dispute Management.
• Performed Credit Management by defining the credit segments and risk categories. Created Credit segments, Credit Master Data for Customers, Credit profiles, Risk Categories and Risk Classes. Created customized credit check for International and domestic sales orders and deliveries in Credit Management. Created Credit limit workflows.
• Designed SAP - Pay matrix interface for credit card processing in SAP.
• In CO Cost Center Accounting (CO/CCA): Customized and configured the Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers, maintained the activities, Statistical key figures, developed the cost sheets, Cycles, segments for Cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Customized and configured the allocation structures and settlement profile for internal orders.
• In CO Profit center accounting (CO/PCA): maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, assessments, distributions etc. Assigned Profit center to the respective cost centers, material master records, sales orders, and fixed assets and so on. Transfer the revenue elements, balance sheet items to Profit center accounting in profit center hierarchy. Created and displayed profit center reports from the management perspective.
• In CO Internal Orders (CO/IO): Configured for Internal Orders, defined the order types, allocation structure, and settlement profile, created the orders and scheduled the order settlement for execution (month end processing).
• Developed customized reports for Customer/Profit center using Report writer.
• In Solution Manager (SOLMAN): Developed design, configuration, and user documents in Solution Manager.
• Executed data migration from legacy system to SAP system using LSMW/ Win Shuttle. Ensured cleanup and structuring of Conversion files
• Prepared test scripts and executed tests including Integration, smoke, and regression, load and user acceptance testing cycles. Obtained Sign-offs.
• Prepared material and Executed for business owners and super users and end user. Provided Quality Assurance services and Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis. Worked on Month-End and Year-End closing processes and trained the users on the activities to perform.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lakes, NJ

Lead SAP FICO/FSCM Consultant

Environment: Full Life Cycle Implementation: Involved with all phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, conducting Workshops, GAP Analysis, Detail Design, System Configuration and Build and post go-live support.

Modules: SAP ECC 6.0 FI CO (New GL, AP, AR, AA) CO (CCA, IO, PCA, PA, PC) FSCM (CM, COL, DM, TRM)

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently worked with the clients to understand AS-IS business process, conducted GAP analysis, designed the TO- BE business process and prepared the Business blueprint documents. Defined global scenarios for OTC/PTP/ATR/MTS/MTO/RTR business cycles and Finance and Treasury processes.
• In FI general Ledger (FI/GL): Customization of FI general Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Lockbox Processing and Internal Orders.
• Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO relating to Company Code, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting period variants, Created the Chart of Accounts and Financial Statement versions and configured the Account groups, G/L Master data, field status groups, Posting keys, number ranges and document types.
• Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults. Defined accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models (for recurring entries).
• Worked on substitution and validation rules.
• Reviewed and assisted in Implementation of Sarbanes Oxley regulations.
• Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings. Customized FI-SD integration to allow recognition of revenue irrespective of billing and collection.
• In FI Accounts Receivable and Payables (FI/AP/AR): Configured the vendor master data by defining the vendor groups, assigning number ranges to vendor account groups and maintaining vendor field status group.
• Did extensive configuration in Procure to Pay process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications and MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of payment program was done including all the necessary detailed configuration of company code data, paying company code data, country payment methods, company code payment methods and bank selection.
• Configured the A/R module by defining the terms of payment, interest calculation procedures, and reason codes (for underpayment and overpayment), default account assignments, employee tolerances. Configured the Customer master data by defining customer groups, customer field status groups and integration with SD. Provided assistance in resolving design and configuration issues regarding A/R and A/P after implementation.
• In FI Banking (FI/BA): Defined the Bank account G/L structure with one cash G/L account and several categorized bank-clearing accounts. Also designed the check lots and void reason codes for A/P accounts.
• Configuration of the Treasury Lockbox functionality with setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, treasury groupings for the lockbox file,
• In FI Foreign Currency (FI/FX): Valuation to valuate the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable open line items and balances of General Ledger accounts in foreign currency to calculate the Foreign exchange Gain/Loss.
• In FI Fixed Asset (FI/AA): Chart of accounts, asset classes Depreciation areas, maintain parallel currencies in AA module, configuring specific depreciation keys for depreciation to the day and fiscal year, assigning tax indicator for non-taxable acquisitions, define number range intervals and specifying account determination, Creating screen layout for the asset master records, Maintaining multi-level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes. Integration with G/L ledger, defining document type, transaction type and posting rules for Asset documents and depreciation.
• Defined Investment Profiles to link IO and AuC for Project System and Investment Management.
• Activated Order Management in Controlling Area for configured Internal Order for Assets Under Construction/WIP. Defined Order Type by maintained order master data. Configured IO to AUC settlement profile and allocation structures
• In FSCM Credit Collections and Disputes (FSCM/COL/DM): Created Collection Segments, collection profiles for customers and collection rules and strategies. Configured Promises to Pay in Collections Management.
• Created Deductions cases and profiles for attributes for Dispute cases record management. Created search profiles and business partners for Dispute Management. Configured Automatic Write-off program in Dispute Management.
• Performed Credit Management by defining the credit segments and risk categories. Created Credit segments, Credit Master Data for Customers, Credit profiles, Risk Categories and Risk Classes. Created customized credit check for International and domestic sales orders and deliveries in Credit Management. Created Credit limit workflows.
• Designed SAP - Pay matrix interface for credit card processing in SAP.
• In CO Cost Center Accounting (CO/CCA): Customized and configured the Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers, maintained the activities, Statistical key figures, developed the cost sheets, Cycles, segments for Cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Customized and configured the allocation structures and settlement profile for internal orders.
• In CO Profit center accounting (CO/PCA): maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, assessments, distributions etc. Assigned Profit center to the respective cost centers, material master records, sales orders, and fixed assets and so on. Transfer the revenue elements, balance sheet items to Profit center accounting in profit center hierarchy. Created and displayed profit center reports from the management perspective.
• In CO Internal Orders (CO/IO): Configured for Internal Orders, defined the order types, allocation structure, and settlement profile, created the orders and scheduled the order settlement for execution (month end processing).
• Developed customized reports for Customer/Profit center using Report writer.
• In Solution Manager (SOLMAN): Developed design, configuration, and user documents in Solution Manager.
• Executed data migration from legacy system to SAP system using LSMW/ Win Shuttle. Ensured cleanup and structuring of Conversion files
• Prepared test scripts and executed tests including Integration, smoke, and regression, load and user acceptance testing cycles. Obtained Sign-offs.
• Prepared material and Executed for business owners and super users and end user. Provided Quality Assurance services and Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis. Worked on Month-End and Year-End closing processes and trained the users on the activities to perform.