PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 21 years of strong experience in Management Consulting with SAP design, configuration, setup, development, integration and testing of SAP solutions with various software environments
• 15 years of experience in functional and technical areas of SAP FICO, SAP IS - Utilities (IS-U), Solution Manager, SAP FSCM, SAP PSCD, SAP S/4 HANA Finance, Simple Finance, SAP Central Finance, SAP FSCD, SAP IS-Telecommunication (IS-T), SAP PS, SAP Ariba, SAP SLAN (SAP Lease Administration by Nakisa)
• Strong experience in team leading and great working experience with consulting firms
• SAP Certified Consultant and PMP Certified Project Manager
• Strong configuration experience in SAP FICO, SAP S/4 HANA Finance, SAP Treasury & Risk Management, SAP PSCD, SAP FSCD, SAP FSCM, SAP IS-T RMCA, SAP Real Estate, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Vendor Invoice Management (VIM)
• Experience in preparing SAP ABAP and BI functional specifications to develop FICO reports
• Excellent experience with SAP FICO integration, interfaces and in testing
• Worked as an SAP FICO team lead, managing multiple teams, onsite and offshore
• Strong working experience with both SAP FICO functional and technical areas
• Worked both in SAP FICO implementation & sustainment assignments
• Prepared SAP FICO blueprints, conducted requirement gathering workshops, done process designs, configure, proposals, impact analysis, test scripts, user training, technical testing workshops, roles, testing, prepared functional, RICEF, workflow and design specifications
• Worked in SAP IS-Utility (IS-U) Contract Accounting (FICA), Billing and interface areas
• Involved in setting up IS-Utility Billing, Energy Data Management, Device Management and Invoice processing areas; Managed the IS-U tables, Interface setup and IS-U reports
• Configured SAP Interfaces between IS-Utility - PeopleSoft and integrated SAP with PeopleSoft using WebMethods
• Designed ABAP programs, prepared functional, RICEF, workflow and design specifications
• Configured Contracts, Contract Accounts, Business Partners, Premises, Dunning, Disbursement, Installment plan, Security Deposit, Device Management, Device installationMeter Reading, Load Balance, Consumption, EFT, FSCD & PSCD Collection areas
• Strong experience in SAP Project Management, SAP Delivery Management, SAP Release, Change and Test Management, SAP Solution Manager and SAP ChaRM

SKILLS:

• SAP FICO
• SAP IS - Utilities-FICA
• SAP IS-Telecomm- RMCA
• SAP Insurance
• SAP Real Estate
• SAP S/4 HANA
• SAP FSCD
• SAP FCSM
• SAP PS
• SAP SLAN
• SAP Simple Finance
• SAP Project Management
• SAP Solution Manager
• SAP ChaRM
• SAP Test Management
• SAP Release Management

PROJECT DETAILS:

Confidential

Senior SAP FICO FSCD Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 EHP 7.0, SAP FICO, AR, AP, Confidential, LA, Treasury, GL, SPL GL, FM, PS, SAP FSCD (PSCD), SAP FSCM, SAP REFX(Real Estate), SAP Ariba, SAP S/4 HANA, Interfaces and SAP for Insurance

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for the SAP FICO, SAP FSCD configuration in the areas of SAP AR AP GL FSCD, Treasury and Assets areas
• I did day-to-day business support which includes break-fix, troubleshooting, bug fixing, business requirements gathering, scoping, prepare functional design specifications, configure SAP FICO, FSCD, FSCM, TRM, Treasury
• I tested the SAP FICO, FSCD business process configuration, did documentation, user training, conducted presentation and workshops, recommended user roles and test them once they are ready, and worked on the SAP FICO business process deliverables
• I did configure minor and major enhancement requirements in SAP FICO, SAP FSCD, SAP FSCM, SAP TRM, SAP Treasury, SAP REFX (Real Estate), SAP Ariba, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Insurance, PS, New GL, GL, SPL GL, Lease Accounting, Cash and Liquidity Management, Loan Management, Collections, Dispute, Credit Management along with Support Pack and enhancements implementations
• I configured SAP AR, AP, GL, SPL GL, CA, FSCD, FSCM, Master Data, Business Partners, Treasury, Funds Management, Consolidation, Asset Accounting, PCA, CCA, Assets, Product Costing, Bank Analyzer, Collections, Clearing, Contract Accounts, Automatic Postings, Workflow, Payments, Lending, Write-offs, Tax and Interest Calculations, Securities, Limits, Valuation, Projects, Deferrals, Installments, Revenue and Earnings, Revenue Management, Recognition, Internal Controls, Accruals and Deferrals, IFRS reports requirements, Credit Management, Dunning, Collection, Disbursement, Spend Controls, Internal Orders, Budget Carry Forward, Disputes, Commitments, Cash and Liquidity Management, Collections, Dispute, Credit Management, Funds Management Reports, Electronic Bank Statements, Bank Sub ledger and Reconciliation, Payments, FX Valuations, Inventory, Customer and Vendor Invoice Processing, Payments, Events, Communications and Dispute Management areas
• I scheduled and conducted workshops for UAT, Support Pack testing and Parallel testing during the Support Implementation
• I regularly interacted with the Business team and Support team on project, support and in coordinating the SAP releases
• I followed the transport processes to meet SLAs, quality levels and also shared past project experiences and recommended SAP best practices
• Used SAP Solution Manager, SAP ChaRM, Work Management and HP Service Manager (HPSM / HPQC) for support ticket management and testing activities

Senior SAP Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 EHP 7.0, SAP ERP, SAP FI, CO, AR, AP, Confidential, LA, Treasury, GL, SPL GL, FM, SAP Ariba, SAP S/4 HANA - Finance, SAP FSCM, SAP PS, SAP Solution Manager, interfaces, S/4 HANA reports, SAP for Insurance

Responsibilities:

• I led the team involved in the Ireland country roll-out SAP implementation project and was responsible for the SAP FICO configuration in the areas of SAP AR AP GL FSCM and Asset Accounting
• I did business requirements gathering, blueprinting, scoping, created functional design specifications, configure SAP FICO, test, train user, conducted workshops, created user documentation, defined roles and test, and worked on the SAP FICO deliverables
• Setup Cost Center, Profit Center, Pcard purchasing, Procurement processes, Inventory quantity, Customer and Vendor invoice processing, Internal Orders, Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, Material Costing, Cost components
• Did configure business process which include SAP FICO, SAP Treasury, New GL, SAP Insurance, Lending, GL, SPL GL, Lease Accounting, SAP FSCM, Bank Analyzer, Product Costing, Cash and Liquidity Management, Loan Management, SAP TRM, Collections, Dispute, Credit Management, SAP Ariba, SAP Personas business processes, integration of OpenText VIM for SAP for vendor invoice processing, SAP BI, SAP Ariba for SAP Support, Support Pack and enhancements implementations
• Did configure SAP FICO and Insurance, tested, documented, for the SAP Projects and SAP BAU enhancement activities
• Scheduled and conducted workshops for UAT, Support Pack testing and Parallel testing
• Helped in preparing specifications for SAP S/4 HANA Finance reports that includes Financial Statement, Vendor & Customer Balances, Forecasting, Sales Analysis, Cash Flow report, Bank Sub ledger and Reconciliation, Trend Analysis, Variance Analysis, and test scripts and functional specifications for SAP S/4 HANA Finance and SAP FICO areas
• Coordinated testing and migration, prepared testing and release strategy and did co-ordinate testing with all the business, management, support teams and users; Coordinated SAP Release activities through SAP Solution Manager and SAP ChaRM
• Interacted with the Business team, Support team and with IS Management on various operational activates and on release activities
• Understand Business and financial impacts of SAP changes and released them to Production with testing and approvals making sure that the quality standards are met; Used SAP CRM to manage and handle defects and support tickets
• Recommended SAP technical landscape updating, user groups & roles and test, and reviewed the transport processes to meet the expected quality levels and shared past project experiences and recommended best practices with the team and management
• Used SAP Solution Manager, SAP ChaRM, Work Management, HPQC, Rational, and other spreadsheet based tools as per ASAP methodology; Redefined SAP Release Management and SAP Test Management Policies and Guideline framework
• Coordinate various SAP Release activities; managed them through SAP Solution Manager and SAP ChaRM

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 EHP 7.0, SAP ERP, SAP FI, CO, GL, AR, AP, LA, PS, Simple Finance, Treasury & Risk Management, Budget, Fixed Assets, FSCM, FSCD, PSCD, SAP Solution Manager, REFX, IS-U, SAP HANA, Travel Management and Integration

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the SAP FICO, SAP REFX Real Estate, FSCD and IS-Utility areas, doing configuring, testing, documentation, training, knowledge transfer, functional design documents for the Support Pack implementation and SAP enhancement projects
• Lead the sustainment team which included SAP FICO, SAP FSCM, IS-U AM, SAP Ariba, ABAP, HANA and PI streams which were involved in the Support Pack implementation project and did enhancements that were required for the sustainment operations
• Responsible to gather requirements, design, blue prints and configure SAP AR, AP, GL, SPL GL, Business Partners, Travel Management, Fixed Asset, AUC, FI-LA Lease Accounting, Treasury, Budgeting, Master data, Invoice processing, interfaces, define Finance related daily batch jobs, Disputes, Loans, Securities, Limits, Lease, Contracts, Assets, Asset Postings, Lease Termination, Accruals and Deferrals, Lease Renewal, Lease Validation Rules, Cash and Liquidity Management, Cash flow, Loan Management, Dispute, Credit Management, Collections, Payments, FX, Valuation, Account Assignments, Interest Calculations, Market and Credit Risk Analyzer, Bank Analyzer, Trading, Product Costing, PCA, CCA, AUC Assets, SAP HANA Simple Finance IFRS-GAAP reports, SAP HANA Simple Finance reports, BCS, migrate from FBS to BCS, Dunning, Collection, Disbursement, Internal Controls, Bank Sub ledger, Bank Reconciliation, Budget Carry Forward, Commitments, electronic payments, electronic bank statements, electronic fund transfer (EFT), payment lots, banking interfaces and integrate FICO with MM, PS, SD and HR modules
• Configured Funds Centers, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Profitability Analysis, Invoice Processing, Billing-IS-U Billing, Devices, Meter Reading-Device Management, Contract Accounts-FICA, Energy Data Management and created specification for IFRS reports
• Setup SAP REFX (SAP Real Estate) Architectural Objects, Contracts, Building, Land, Reservations, Business Entity
• Used SAP Solution Manager and SAP ChaRM for the release and testing activities following ASAP methodology guidelines
• Setup roles, design, functional specifications & documents for ABAP work in SAP FICO, SAP Simple Finance and SAP REFX areas
• Prepared SAP Simple Finance report designs, technical and functional specifications and IFRS report requirements. Helped the HANA technical team to build the databases and cubes for the ETL and refine the same
• Setup SAP FSCD areas that includes Master data, business partners, contract accounts, automatic postings, workflow, payments, collections, clearing, locks, tax and interest calculations, deferrals, installments, write-offs, FX valuation, events and communications
• Setup SAP FSCM, Cash and Liquidity Management, In-House Cash, Collections Management, Loans, Credit Management, Current Account Master Data, Interfaces of Bank Customer Accounts, EFT bank transfers, Electronic Bank Statements, Treasury & Risk Management and Dispute Management areas
• Coordinated test plan using SAP Test Management and HPQC, and was involved in dry run, Unit testing, Parallel testing (pre and post), User Accept Testing, functional acceptance testing, integration testing and regression testing to make sure the quality standards are well within acceptable levels and per the best practice; coordinated knowledge transfer and transition
• Managed and resolved tickets and defects in the SAP CRM; Designed and recommended SAP Personas requirements
• Trained users on the new business processes and also trained them to do the testing and to conduct day-today operations

Senior SAP FICO Consultant and Data Team Lead

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 EHP6.0, SAP ERP, SAP FI, CO, GL, AR, AP, Treasury, Budget, PS, Fixed Assets, HANA and Integration of SAP FICO with external applications

Responsibilities:

• I acted as the data lead and was also acted as a Senior SAP FICO consultant
• I designed and setup SAP GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, BCS and Project Systems areas; Helped design SAP BI reports
• Responsible for the setup of SAP FICO, SAP Treasury, Budgeting and Expenses areas which includes Disputes, Loans, Account Assignments, Interest Calculations, Market and Credit Risk Analyzer, Bank Analyzer, Securities, Limits, Accruals and Deferrals, Cash flow, Product Costing, Vendor Invoice processing using OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP, Billing, Refunds, Revenue Management, Vendor and Customer Payments, FX, Valuation, Trading; Tested and applied OSS notes that were required to fix issues
• I also coordinated the SAP Finance Year-End Close and Month end activities and prepared scripts for them, did testing and migration, prepared testing scenarios and strategies for Dry Run and Final Acceptance Test
• Worked very closely with the management and finance directors and executives to gather requirements and determine timelines
• I did co-ordinate testing with all the teams and their respective users to complete the Finance year end activities
• Maintained the SAP enhancement requirements in the implementation of Solution Manager

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP FI, CO, GL, new GL, AR, AP, Funds Management, Public Sector Collections and Disbursements (FSCD & PSCD), Grants Management, SAP FSCM, SAP Solution Manager, SAP HANA and Integration of SAP FICO with MM, HR, CATS, HCM, SD, PP and PS

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible to lead and deliver and support of the SAP FICO, SAP HANA, SAP FSCD modules and SAP Solution Manager
• I configured and supported SAP AR, AP, Assets, GL, Internal Orders, Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Fixed Assets, BCS, integration of OpenText VIM for SAP, Product Costing, Funds Management, Project Systems areas
• I also did the configuration that were required for the integration between SAP FI and MM, SD PP and PS and also integrated SAP Funds Management with SAP FI, CO, Asset Accounting, SAP PS, SAP SD and SAP MM
• I configured Vendor Master, Bank Master, Business Partners, Asset Accounting, GL Accounts, Dunning, Payment, Invoice processing - both Vendor Invoice and Customer Invoice processing, Payment Block, Lockbox, Interest Calculation, Tax Codes, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Automatic Payment, Lockbox, Grants, Grant budget controls, hierarchies, Currency Exchange, Dunning, Collection, Disputes, Disbursement
• I configured Organization Structure, Budget, Formulations, Budget types, Commitments, Forecasting, Funds Centers, Funds derivations, Allocation, Amendments, Carry Forward, Reporting, Profitability Analysis, Budget Controlling and Monitoring
• Setup SAP FSCD, business partners, contract accounts, FX valuation, automatic postings, workflow, collections, clearing, tax and interest calculations, deferrals, installments, disbursements, write-offs, events and correspondence
• Prepared functional design specifications, blueprints for the SAP FICO, SAP FSCD, SAP Revenue Management, configuration of the SAP FICO related interfaces, Bank interfaces, Bank Analyzer, OpenText VIM setup, defined SAP roles, tested new FICO roles, requirement gathering and help setup SAP Personas and the FICO related ABAP and SQL developments. Tested OSS notes that were applied
• Used SAP Solution Manager & SAP ChaRM for the release and testing activities and involved in cutover plan & transition strategy

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP FI, CO, PS, FSCM, GL, new GL, AR, AP

Responsibilities:

• I led the team involved in this country roll-out SAP implementation project and was responsible for the SAP FICO configuration in the areas of SAP AR AP GL SPL GL, Assets, Cash and Liquidity Management, Collections, Dispute and Credit Management and Fixed assets
• Integrated SAP with WebMethods, Passport, Maximo, SAP HR, SAP HCM, SAP PS, interface with legacy system
• I did collect business requirements, did blueprinting, scoping, prepared functional design specifications, did gap analysis, configure SAP FICO, test the setup, train user, conducted workshops, create user documentation; Worked with the SAP offshore team
• In the CO area, I did the settings in Cost Center, Profit Center, Material Ledger, Material Ledger - Valuation price, inventory value in 2 currencies, Indicator for price determination, Material Price Determination, Exchange Rate for the Material Price, Pcard purchasing and procurement processes, inventory quantity, material costing, cost components
• Configured SAP PS areas - Org Structure, Currencies, Claims, Costing, Project costing, Projects, Project Progress, Forecast, Budget, Funds, Categories; Integrated SAP FICO with OpenText VIM for the customer and vendor invoice management processes
• I also assigned cost elements to those cost components, defined Costing Types, activated Cost Component Split in Controlling Area Currency, defined Costing Variants, defined Assignment, defined Variance Keys, created Settlement Profile, configured and used settlement, defined Posting Rules for Settlement to Financial Accounting, maintained Number Ranges for Results Analysis Documents, Consolidation, Profitability Analysis and checked Costing Variants for Product Costing
• Used SAP Solution Manager and SAP ChaRM for the SAP Release Management activities and other SAP Testing initiatives

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 EHP6.0, SAP FI, CO, GL, new GL, SPL GL, AR, AP, IS-U, FICA, Funds Management, Public Sector Collections and Disbursements (FSCD & PSCD), Grants Management, Real Estate (RE-FX) and Integration of SAP FICO with MM, SD, HR, HCM, CATS, PP and PS

Responsibilities:

• I led the sustainment team which included SAP FICO, BI, PS, ABAP, SQL and PI streams that involved in SAP sustainment
• Responsible for the SAP FICO, SAP FSCM, FSCD, CRM, PS and IS-Utility FICA areas, configuring, testing, document, train, knowledge transfer, prepare functional design documents that are related to sustainment activities and SAP enhancement projects
• Configure SAP AR, AP, GL, SPL GL, FICA, FSCM, Business Partners, Funds Management, Project Systems, Consolidation (BCS), BCS function modules, Asset Accounting, Product Costing, PCA, CCA, Assets, IFRS reports, Grants, Credit Management, Dunning, Collection, Disbursement, Budget Carry Forward, Disputes, Commitments, Revenue Management, Lock box, Funds Management Reports, Electronic Bank Statements, EDM, SAP FSCM Cash and Liquidity Management, In-House Cash, Collections Management, Credit Management, Treasury and Risk Management, Cash flow, Payments, FX Valuations, Securities, Limits, Valuation, Projects, Customer and Vendor Invoice Processing, Payments, Contract Accounts, Automatic Postings, Workflow, Payments, Collections, Clearing, Tax and Interest Calculations, Deferrals, Installments, Write-offs, Events, Lease, Communications, Revenue and Earnings, Accruals and Deferrals and Dispute Management areas
• Configured and integrated SAP FICO with MM, PS, HCM, SD, FSCM, FSCD, RE-FX, FI and CO modules
• Worked in the SAP archiving, Invoice Management and Pcard processing, data extraction and integration of Passport application, Payment processing, Vendor Invoice Processing, Asset Master, GL, OpenText areas and in merging a new company by creating new company code to accommodate the merger

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP FI, CO, GL, new GL, AR, AP, LA, Funds Management and Integrate SAP FICO with RE-FX (Real Estate), MM, SD, HR and PS

Responsibilities:

• My role was to lead the team and configure SAP FICO, Asset Accounting, Lease Accounting, SAP GL, Balance Assets with SAP, data conversion, analyze data, migrate data from the legacy system, design, prepare SAP FI IFRS reports which involved data from a few other non-SAP Assets Accounting and Asset Lease Accounting systems and to integrate FICO with PS, HR, SD, MM
• I did blueprinting, scoping, gap analysis, conducted workshops to gather requirements, configured SAP FI, CO, Real Estate, Asset Master, Fixed Assets, Financial Assets, GL, Funds Management, Fiscal Year and created new company codes to accommodate the new acquisition, new business partners, lease, determined and defined month-end and year end processes, also defined other periodic processes and scheduled tasks that the user need to maintain, conduct CCB meetings and knowledge transfer sessions to train the users in SAP FICO; Worked in SAP Archiving areas
• I also created and migrated the newly acquired assets into SAP and involved in designing process flow, data migration, testing, documentation, training, conducted sessions with users to determine testing strategy, timing, resources and communication
• I created cost objects to collect all the joint venture expenditures mainly in SAP FICO, PS and MM related project expenses, master data and cost objects. I used HP Quality Center for issue tracking and ticket tracking

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP FI, CO, GL, new GL, AR, AP and integrate SAP FICO with MM, SD, HR, PP and PS

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP AR, AP, GL, new GL, Master Data areas and invoice processing settings
• Setup SAP CO, BCS, PCA, CCA, Profitability Analysis, costing-based and account-based report analysis, Assets, Payment, Invoice processing, Month-end processes, Dunning, Collection, Disbursement, Automatic Payment run, Clearing, Number Ranges, Field Status Groups, integration of SAP FICO, PS, HR.
• I also redesigned the Billing interfaces to improve performance

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Environment: SAP FI, CO, GL, new GL, AR, AP, FS-CD, IS-Oil and integrate SAP FICO with MM, SD, HR, HCM, PP and PS

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP FICO, IS-Oil with the following sub modules AR, AP, GL, Confidential, BCS, IM, new GL, CCA, PCA, JVA, PS and integrated FI- Confidential Fixed Asset, FI-LA Lease Accounting, MM, SD, PP, HCM and PM
• Lead the team, conducted scoping and prepared schedule for IFRS implementation
• Supported SAP FICO - PCA, CCA, Internal Orders, Business Partners and functions, General Controlling, JVA upstream functional areas and configured the various integration points and managed the data flow from Maximo to SAP
• Using SAP Solution Manager and ChaRM coordinated the release activities; Setup SAP Archiving and OpenText Live link
• Coordinated testing, migration, prepared testing strategy, coordinated testing, cutover and transition plans with the teams and users

Confidential

Environment: SAP FI, CO, GL, new GL, AR, AP, Solution Manager and integrate SAP FICO with MM, SD PP and PS

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the team and configured SAP FICO - AR, AP, GL, SAP FM, PS, Revenue Management and Confidential sub modules
• Configured and tested FI-GL (New GL), Consolidation, PCA and CO-CCA for 3 company codes
• Design and setup archiving with SAP and OpenText Live link; Helped in data conversion and in Go-Live preparation
• Wrote Report Painter reports in CCA, PCA and new GL areas, and managed month end processes
• Configured Solution Manager for the Solution Manager implementation project and integrated FICO PP SD and MM modules with it
• Coordinated various testing activities that includes Unit, Regression, UAT and Integration testing