SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of experience in FI Configurations and reporting along with extensive work on the areas of controlling (CO), Asset Accounting(AA), Account Recevables (AR), Account Payable(AP) and have in - depth business process knowledge
• In-depth knowledge and experience in SAP FI/CO implementation and has experience in full implementation cycles of Multiple Projects from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live.
• Performed FI Configuration including FI Master Data, GL, A/R, A/P and New General Ledger
• Configuration expert of New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS.
• Expert in customization of SAP ERP ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.7 & 4.6 c versions in FI-CO modules.
• Responsible, detail oriented with strong technical, analytical, problem solving skills
• Performed FI testing (FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA & FI-GL).
• Excellent analytical, quick learning and problem solving skills with a desire to work in a team oriented environment
• A team player with excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in External Reporting and preparation of Financial Statements with good understanding of GAAP.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents.
• Adept in various financial processes including Auditing, Assurance, Accounting processes, Financial statements, Fund Flow Management, Reporting, Consolidation and analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to take on challenges and strong determination and can run extra mile to meet deadlines.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor's management, including credit control

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Financial Accounting: GL, AR, AP, Bank Accounting, FA Integration between FI/CO and logistics modules SD and MM.

Report Development Report Painter and Drill: down Reporting Project management for SAP R/3 implementation in medium-sized companies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.Fico Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Building SAP S/4 HANA Strategy & Managing a team of consultants and developing a go-to market strategy for SAP S/4 HANA including demand generation, marketing propositions.
• Responsible for the New General Ledger and Controlling related business processes.
• Configured Controlling Area, assigned number ranges to controlling area, and maintained Versions.
• Created Cost centers and profit centers hierarchies, and CO object assignments, Substitution and Validations.
• Architected and Developed FIORI Apps for the S/4 HANA Simple Finance Applications Such as Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables, Cash Management, Asset Accounting.
• Implemented SAP Fiori UX for S/4 HANA
• Involved in Profit Center Accounting configuration like Basic Settings, Assignments and Actual Posting Maintenance.
• Configured Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) created Operating Concern Attributes, Characteristics and Value Fields, Maintained Derivation Tables, Structure and Rules.
• Worked on Implementing Accounts Payable Accountant, Accounts Receivable Accountant, Cash Manager, Collection Specialist, Cost Manager, G/L Accountant, Accounting Information for Managers, Sales Manager in SAP Simple Finance 1.0 and 2.0.

Confidential

Sr.Fico Lead

Responsibilities:

• Proposed unique strategy on adopting BW on HANA, Enterprise Hana along with Hana Live for more specific to customer Business case
• Re - architected the current BI solution with SAP HANA as Database, BW as EDW layer & BO BI as Analytics solution.
• It was a team of total 27 resources and I worked as the Architect and Project manager and onsite lead.
• Working very closely with internal client team as well as with the implementation team.
• Will be walking into the very early stages of the project and will be responsible for blueprinting, requirement gathering, design, strategy and eventually the build of SAP HANA.
• Experience in Hadoop when there is a large volume and format of data that is unpredictable/undefined.
• Experience in using Data Services to interact with SAP HANA and Hadoop Experience In Hadoop, Using Map Reduce, HIV, and HDFS.
• Performed Perform predictive analytics on top of SAP HANA using SAP Predictive analysis tools, and also using open source technologies on top of SAP HANA.
• Will be leveraging SAP BW with BPC alongside HANA and also installing SAP HANA studio and HANA Live
• Experience in Understanding the Business requirements & convert them into Blueprint
• Experience in Defining the Design Documents for the HANA Models
• Experience in Essential Configurations for SAP ECC Accelerations using SAP HANA
• Experience in Translating Functional Specifications into Technical Specifications
• Experience in Translating the Business KPIs into HANA & Define the Reporting Layouts
• Translate the Business KPIs for Dashboards & Define the dashboard Layouts.

Confidential, IL

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in New general ledger activation, Fiscal year, special periods, Parallel Accounting, Currencies, Parallel Currencies, Configuring ledgers, Ledger groups, Day ledgers, Integration between G/L and CO, Migration to new G/L, Master data, Profit center master data, segment, Accruals, and reporting. Chart of accounts, account groups, GL master records, and field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, reference documents, open item management, tolerance groups and Financial Statement Versions.
• Master data, Profit center master data, segment, Accruals, and reporting. Chart of accounts, account groups, GL master records, and field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, reference documents, open item management, tolerance groups and Financial Statement Versions.
• Responsible for the New General Ledger and Controlling related business processes.
• Configured Controlling Area, assigned number ranges to controlling area, and maintained Versions.
• Created Cost centers and profit centers hierarchies, and CO object assignments, Substitution and Validations.
• Finalization of chart of Accounts, Accounts Group and Field status Group.
• Configured various components in the SAP FI/CO like Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger Accounts
• Defined and Configured GL, Vendor /Customer master data and account groups.
• Configured the automatic payment program, running program, check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• Configured Cash journals and special GL transactions.
• Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants.
• Defined and Maintained tolerance groups for GL, AP and AR
• Banks & Bank Reconciliation
• House Bank creation and Bank Reconciliation Configuration. Testing With the Bank Format.
• Bank Master Data creation.
• Master Data compilation and upload on Quality and production
• Transaction data compilation from legacy and upload on Quality and Production
• Conducted detailed training for core FICO users.
• Training Documentation and Customization documentation
• Expert in creating Functional specifications for the customized program, preparing documentation in regards to BPML (Business process master list), BPP.
• Done unit testing and integration testing and documentation of test cases and test scripts.

Confidential

Fico Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documented the business processes in FI/CO - Had meetings with concerned users and Business Process Owners to understand the processes and then documented the processes.
• Copying existing chart of Accounts and Modifying the Chart of accounts as per clients requirements and creating the chart of accounts, Accounts Group, Field status Group.
• Configured various components in the SAP FI/CO like Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger Accounts
• Created Credit Controlling area and assigned credit controlling area and configured overall credit limits and individual credit limits, risk categories and credit representatives.
• Working knowledge of monitoring and controlling of credit controlling area regarding Business transactions.
• Creating sensitive fields to tract the Bank master data changes, payment terms and payment method changes in the Vendor/Customer master records.
• Defined and Configured GL, Vendor/Customer master data and account groups.
• Cross Company Code postings.
• Configured (FBZP) the automatic payment program, running program (F110), check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• Created customer/vendor account groups to assign external number ranges to the master records as per the client requirements.
• Configured the automatic interest calculations on the account balances/line items, payment terms, Dunning procedure.
• Configured Cash journals and special GL transactions.
• Configured Customized payment methods, payment terms as per the Client requirements.
• Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants.
• Defined and Maintained tolerance groups for GL, AP and AR.
• GR/IR clearing, Duplicate Invoice verification for PO and Non-PO, Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV).

Confidential

Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the business process redesign and requirements gathering and also translating those requirements to configuration GL/ AR AP
• Involved in creating a new Company Code (Asia), Finalized the chart of Accounts, Accounts Group and Field status Group.
• Defined and Configured GL, Vendor/Customer master data and account groups.
• Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants.
• Configured Recurring entries and account assignment templates.
• Created Inter-company G/L Accounts and defined account determination for inter-company transaction rules. Asset Accounting
• Re-Configured Fixed Asset Management including Asset classes, Screen Layout, Depreciation Key, Depreciation methods, Depreciation posting rules & Accounts Determination
• Setting for Scraping Asset, selling asset.
• Wrote Functional specification for enhancement of Asset Master Training and Documentation /Support
• Responsible for providing first line functional support for FI/CO modules including review and resolution of system errors and the development of new processes or design to improve stability of the modules.
• Responsible for creation of Z reports.
• Provided training and production support for business users
• Involved extensively with Month-end closing.

Confidential

Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in almost all the phases of Project life cycle right from Requirements Gathering to Testing and Implementation etc.
• Worked with Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Transformation designer, Mapping designer and Workflow Manager.
• Involved in data design and modeling by specifying the physical infrastructure, system study, design, and development by applying Ralph Kimball methodology of dimensional modeling and using Erwin.
• Imported various Application Sources, created Targets and Transformations using Informatica Power Center Designer (Source analyzer, Warehouse developer, Transformation developer, Mapplet designer, and Mapping designer).
• Actively involved in gathering requirements from the end users
• Designed and developed Informatica Mappings and Sessions based on business user requirements and business rules to load data from source flat files, xml and sqlserver tables to target tables..
• Worked with various transformations to solve the Slowly Changing Dimensional Problems using Informatica Power Center
• Developed and scheduled Workflows using task developer, worklet designer, and workflow designer in Workflow manager and monitored the results in Workflow monitor.
• Did performance tuning at source, transformation, target, and workflow levels.
• Parameterized the mappings and increased the re-usability
• Used transformations such as the source qualifier, normalizer, aggregators, connected & unconnected lookups, filters, sorter, stored procedures, router & sequence generator.
• Experience in using Debugger in Informatica Designer tool to test and fix errors in the mappings
• Responsible for creating shared and reusable objects in Informatica shared folder and update the objects with the new requirements and changes.
• Documented user requirements, translated requirements into system solutions and develop implementation plan and schedule.
• Migration between Development, Test and Production Repositories.
• Supported the Quality Assurance team in testing and validating the Informatica workflows.
• Did unit testing and development testing at ETL level in my mappings.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 9.5.1, Control-M,UNIX, OBIEE 11.1.1.7,Oracle 11g, flat files, single view,legacy systems