PROFILE:

• A Master of Business Administration (MBA) with Certified SAP FICO, PS consultant with 15 years and 11 months of industry experience to include 11 years and 11 months of SAP consulting experience to include end to end implementations, global roll outs, technical and functional upgrades, and production support activities.
• Strong domain experience worked various implementation, rollout, development and support activities for the Confidential such as Abrasives, Semiconductor, Oil & Gas, Mobile device, service industries, Healthcare industries and retail products. with 4 years in the field of Finance and Management Accountancy involving basic accounting in the finalization of books, MIS, audit and compliance.
• Working on S/4 HANA 1610 implementation projects.
• Strong background in implementation of SAP FI, FA, CO, SPL and PS demonstrated knowledge experience in understanding and providing solutions with respect to Financial and management requirements.
• As FICO consultant with 15 years and 11 months of industry experience to include 11 years and 11 months of SAP Consulting experience to include end to end implementations, global roll outs, technical and functional upgrades, and production support
• Strong background in the implementation of SAP FI - CO projects, including 11 years and 11 months of extensive experience conducting business blueprint workshops, gap analysis, hands on configuration, leading testing cycles, development of WRICEF (ABAP) objects and mentoring financial people into SAP concepts and methodology.
• Experience includes total Thirteen (13) SAP Projects with four (4) SAP Financial and controlling implementations, three (4) global roll outs, three (3) developments projects and (2) support projects in FICO.
• Provided business process analysis and re-engineering, recommendations based on best practices and critical support to a number of projects with multiple roll-outs.
• Worked on multiple projects in Project systems (PS)
• Good experience in project implementation methodologies to include ASAP
• Successfully implemented SAP NEW GL with document splitting, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, CCA, PCA, COPA, Product costing, Project systems, Material Ledger, Internal Order Management, Bank Communication management, and Special Purpose Leader. Worked in versions 4.6B to ERP 6.07 with P2P process and Solution Manager
• Successfully implemented Asset Accounting, with Parallel Ledgers NEW GL and Integration with plant maintenance, and material management.
• Good working knowledge of SAP Simple Finance On premise Business edition SFIN 1610 (S/4 HANA )
• Expertise in the SAP Project Systems module along with a working knowledge of the Financials and controlling
• Expert in integration of core FI/CO sub-modules with MM, SD,PP, and HR

EXPERIENCE/PROJECT WORK:

Confidential, San Antonio

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in S/4 HANA 1610 Global implementation for two countries including USA and Canada.
• Done the FICO configuration settings in S/4 HANA 1610.
• Done the configuration Distribution and Assessment configuration settings.
• Done the COPA configuration for S/4 HANA and Material Ledger configurations.
• Done the configuration for cost center and profit center accounting configuration settings.
• Done the SKF uploads
• Involved in preparation of configuration documents in CO.
• Done configuration settings for New Asset Accounting.
• Done the New Asset Accounting configuration with different Accounting principles like Book Depreciation, IFRS Gap and Tax Depreciation Area’s
• Maintained with multiple currency (USA, and Canada) as per the client requirement in Simple Finance implementation
• Done the Integration testing one and resolved the defects.
• Involved in to execute the test scripts through HP ALM for integration testing one.
• Done the month end closing activities for CO in ITC one testing.
• Involved in internal order configuration settings.
• Involved in preparing the test scripts for ITC one and ITC two for CO objects.
• Executed the test scripts in HP ALM.
• Involved in WPB recordings for end users.
• Involved in preparing the end user documents.

Confidential, New Jersey

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global rollout for two countries including USA and Canada.
• Involved in COPA configuration settings (Creating an operation concern, user defined characteristics, value field, derivation rules and PA transfer structure )
• Configured the new GL settings as per the client requirement.
• Practical knowledge of configuring the requirements to SAP PS module & setting up the organizational structure and global settings using IMG.
• Configured the Product costing configuration settings according to the business requirement such as costing sheet, costing variants, work in process calculation, variance analysis, and PA transfer structure.
• Involved in-house cash management configurations and Bank communication management.
• Configured the FI-SD integration settings.
• Configured the FI-MM integration settings.
• Worked in Plant maintenance area in work order creation for service order and prepared the test scripts.

Confidential, Redmond

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global rollout of four countries including India .China, Japan, Singapore and USA for shared services, procurement, and billing operations.
• Configured the settings in Finance and controlling for different company codes
• Configured the intercompany configuration settings.
• Configured the EDI configuration settings.
• Configured the collection management and dispute management settings.
• Configured the Product costing configuration settings according to the business requirement such as costing sheet, costing variants, work in process calculation, variance analysis, and PA transfer structure.
• Configured the FI-SD integration settings.
• Configured the FI-MM integration settings.
• Configured the Profit center accounting settings according to the business requirement.
• Design and developed functional specifications of RICEF objects and worked with the development team to progress of tasks.
• Good working knowledge of the Central Finance scenario in Simple Finance in a distributed system landscape
• Involved in COPA configuration settings (Creating an operation concern, user defined characteristics, value field, derivation rules and PA transfer structure )
• Involved in COPA enhancements (COPA0001 and COPA0005) and user exit.
• Prepared the functional spec for BW reports.

Confidential, Redmond

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in business requirement gathering for Trail balance close & consolidation
• Prepared a functional specification for daily and monthly reconciliation report
• Involved in Trail balance close & consolidation configurations and development activities.
• Worked in IDOC configuration related to FI
• Involved in configuration documentation and closing activities.
• Discussion with business and understand the UNCCP requirements and then finally prepared the purification / use case documents.
• Prepared the UNCCP test cases and involved in testing activities.
• Coordinating with UNCCP team make sure the deliverable are in place.
• Design and developed functional specifications of RICEF objects and worked with the development team to progress of tasks
• Defined PS Security requirements & maintained PS Authorization profiles, PS Activity Groups/Roles, User Maintenance related to PS & assist in creating transaction variants.
• Involved in-house cash management configuration and Bank communication management.
• Proficient in all aspects of Project Systems including Planning, Budgeting and Cost allocation.
• Workflow related to PS, Milestone/Network Configuration Change Management
• Documentation of User Manual & User & Help Desk for SAP PS.

Confidential

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Functional specification in area of Cost Element creation, cost element group, cost Center creation, cost element group and profitability Analysis.
• Prepared Business Blue prints and get signed off from the business.
• Designed Revenue and cost planning integration with BOFC
• Designed Asset accounting with New GL functionality.
• Designed integration of Asset master with equipment master.
• Designed process for direct asset procurement and capitalization of assets from the project.
• Designed Overhead Cost Accounting process for primary cost postings and allocations.
• Designed Blueprint and configuration settings in Project systems according the business requirement.
• Designed Controlling (CO) period end closing process for reposting of incorrect primary posting, Order Settlement, budget carry forward and commitment carry forward.
• Prepared WRICEF objects for Cost elements, cost centers and profitability analysis.
• Reviewed end-user content built for the process in cost center accounting, profit center accounting and internal order management.
• Created the Baseline configuration in CO, preparing test case, executing HPQC test cases.
• Involved in Vertex configuration settings from FICO perspective
• Worked on interfaces and conversion
• Involved in COPA configuration settings (Creating a operation concern, user defined characteristics, value field, derivation rules and PA transfer structure )
• Involved in COPA enhancements (COPA0001 and COPA0005 ) and user exit
• Configured the Product costing configuration settings according to the business requirement such as costing sheet, costing variants, work in process calculation, variance analysis, and PA transfer structure.
• Worked with BW team for COPA reports and other financial reports
• Designed the Material ledger configuration for the Actual costing
• Prepared the Functional specification for BW reports
• Advance inbound and outbound electronic banking configuration like wire, ACH process, lockbox file, Electronic Bank statements and Integration with PI for generating payment outdoor in FSCM area
• Implemented Collection management and Dispute management along with Bank statement (with BAI2) lockbox and ACH Wire modes of payment collection in FSCM Supported end users for the Integration and User Acceptance testing.
• Created LSMW for Master Data and Transaction data upload.
• Supported users for operational issues after go live.
• Managing the offshore FICO team.
• Worked on intercompany stock transfer process
• Done the configuration for calculation procedure for tax accounting
• Performed Cutover Activity for Go live.
• Design and developed functional specifications of RICEF objects and worked with the development team to progress of tasks.
• Fixed Assets - Fixed Asset Business Process Design, FI-AA Configuration, Project system for Investment Measures configuration, Process Design for AUC/CIP and Fixed assets business process for the assets acquisition/Retirement/Transfer/period end closing and Legacy Assets data conversion.
• Worked on special purpose Leader configuration
• Worked with different currencies
• Defined PS Security requirements & maintained PS Authorization profiles, PS Activity Groups/Roles, User Maintenance related to PS & assist in creating transaction variants.
• Defined PS Security requirements & maintained PS Authorization profiles, PS Activity Groups/Roles, User Maintenance related to PS & assist in creating transaction variants.
• Proficient in all aspects of Project Systems including Planning, Budgeting and Cost allocation.
• Workflow related to PS, Milestone/Network Configuration Change Management
• Documentation of User Manual & User & Help Desk for SAP PS.
• Practical knowledge of configuring the requirements to SAP Project systems (PS) module & setting up the organizational structure and global settings using IMG.
• Configured the project system settings as per the user requirement (Creation of profiles such as, WBS elements, Network and their Activities, cost planning and budgeting)
• Configured the RA settlement in PS systems

Confidential, NJ

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global rollout of three countries including USA, UK and London for shared services, procurement, and billing operations.
• Prepared Business Blue prints and get signed off from the business in the following modules GL New GL, AP, AR,, AA, and Bank communication management
• Segregation of organization units (company code, purchase organization and plants).
• Segregation of master data (Materials, vendors and costumers)
• Supported end users for the Integration and User Acceptance testing.
• FSCM- Biller direct, Dispute management, Collection management, Credit management and Business partner updates in vendor and customer master.

Confidential, NJ

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided SAP production support to the business end user, including the incident management, problem management and query management.
• Solved the problems in the area of profitability Analysis, cost center and internal orders.
• Handled the business consolidation (BCS) issues in support activities.
• Provided the customer support on functional issues encountered in production system.
• Support Month End and Year End financial/controlling closing activities.
• Design and developed functional specifications of RICEF objects and worked with the development team to progress of tasks.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the existing business processes, identifying the non-value-adding events, understanding differences in processes in various locations.
• Mapping the existing processes to Global Best Practices (GBPs), Standardizing the processes amongst various locations, analyzing the processes available in SAP software, Identifying the gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes.
• New Ledger Functionality for Multi GAAP reporting for IFRS, USGAAP & IAS
• Configured General controlling area settings, creation of cost elements, cost center cost center hierarchy, Activity types, Product costing and Material Ledger.
• Created the profit centers and assignee to various plants, cost center’s etc.
• Created the profit center hierarchies.
• Created operating concern, characteristics, values fields and done mapping to condition types
• Done the configuration for calculation procedure for tax accounting profitability analysis settings, product costing settings and material Ledger
• Involved in Unit testing and integration. Involved in Warranty support.
• Designed Rules-based approval workflow and documentation for compliance.
• Prepared Business Process Design documents.
• Finalized build deliverables in the finance area.
• Fixed Assets - Fixed Asset Business Process Design, FI-AA Configuration, Project system for Investment Measures configuration, Process Design for AUC/CIP and Fixed assets business process for the assets acquisition/Retirement/Transfer/period end closing and Legacy Assets data conversion.
• Involved in Vertex configuration settings from FICO perspective
• Practical knowledge of configuring the requirements to SAP Project systems (PS) module & setting up the organizational structure and global settings using IMG.
• Configured the project system settings as per the user requirement (Creation of profiles such as, WBS elements, Network and their Activities, cost planning and budgeting).
• Worked on product costing configurations and material ledger configurations.
• Worked on intercompany inventory process and intercompany scenarios.
• Involved in COPA configuration settings (Creating a operation concern, user defined characteristics, value field, derivation rules and PA transfer structure )
• Involved in COPA enhancements (COPA0001 and COPA0005 ) and user exit
• Configured the RA settlement in PS systems
• Advance inbound and outbound electronic banking configuration like wire, ACH process, lockbox file, Electronic Bank statements and Integration with PI for generating payment outdoor in FSCM area