SUMMARY:

• SAP S4 HANA FICO Functional consultant with more than 8 years of implementation and configuration experience including 3 Full - Life Cycle Implementations
• Extensive functional background in finance and accounting (MBA) with a strong acquaintance with GAAP, IFRS, Taxation, and the SOX Act.
• Skilled in functional design, configuration, integration, testing, training and documentation for Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and its integration with MM, SD modules.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in consumer products, process manufacturing & utilities Industries.
• Built and mentored team that carried out multiple implementations across different SAP modules giving cost-effective technical solutions to improve business processes
• Certified in SAP Financial Accounting and Business Foundation &Integration with SAP

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

S4 HANA Finance: Configured Chart of Accounts, Company Codes, Currencies, Appendix Ledgers, Document Splitting, Cost Center, Profit Center and Segment reporting in SAP S4 HANA systems. Used Fiori Apps for multi-level easy GL reporting based of the Universal Journal (ACDOCA/ACDOCT tables)

Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable: Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master records, account groups, account determinations, tolerance groups, country/company code specific payment methods, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, dunning, bank settings, Spooling, reason codes, interest calculations, Special GL Transactions and Credit Control Areas. Integration with MM & SD.

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Configuring and Customizing Costing based CO-PA and S4 HANA based - Account based CO-PA including setting up of the operating concern, characteristics, value fields (costing based), maintaining the derivation rules using different derivation techniques, using valuations for storing estimated values and for retrieving product cost information, creating various types of Drilldown Reports

Product Costing: Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC. Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.

Fixed Assest Accounting: Configuration of depreciation keys, special valuation of assets, asset data transfer, master data and preparing for production startup. Handled investment support on liability side. Leased assets involving operating lease procedure and capital lease procedure. Interest rate calculation, legal consolidation of corporate group relating to fixed asset using data in asset accounting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Louis, Missouri

SAP FICO Business Systems Analyst

• Configured New GL - defined the Leading ledger and assigned various scenarios, configured Document Splitting to get complete Financial Statements by Profit Centers & Segment; used Parallel Ledger for IFRS reporting for European entities.
• Configured Accounts Payable - Vendor Master setup and management; deployed Invoice/Credit Memo Processing both manual and through use of an in-house Image Reading Tool; Configured the Logistic Invoice Verification with its tolerances, release blocked invoices, invoice workflow
• Facilitated Procure to Pay process through MM-FI Integration
• Defined MM Organization Structure - Plants, Storage Location, Purchase Organization for one of the new company codes
• Created Material Masters for Raw Materials, Packaging, Semi-Finished and Finished Goods
• Created Purchase Info Records and Vendor Master with Partner Functions (to distinguish between invoicing and the manufacturing Vendors)
• Configured settings for Purchase Requisition, Purchase Orders and Quotations.
• Defined business Processes for Inventory Management using different Movement Types for Stock Transfer between plant, Returns, Scrap, Physical Inventory counting, and re-packaging scenarios
• Trained users on Standard Three-way match, Evaluated Receipt Settlements, Blocking/Unblocking Invoices, Releasing Invoices
• Configured Plant maintenance system using Technical Objects like Functional Locations & Reference Locations, Equipment master and Serial Numbers, Linear Asset management, Material and PM Assemblies and BOMs
• Configured Outgoing Payment Processing in AP for Check and Wire Transfers across different countries, manual payment processing with and without printing forms, automatic payment processing, check processing and check management transactions
• Configured Special GL Transactions in Accounts Payable - Down Payments, Entering Noted items
• Deployed and gave business training on AP - Open Item Management transactions like manual Vendor Clearing, Transfer with clearing, automatic clearing and reports like due to date analysis.
• Configured Accounts Receivable - Customer Account Groups and Customer Master setup, configured payment terms and deployed and trained users on FI based Customer Invoices and Credit Memos
• Facilitated Order to Cash Cycle through SD-FI Integration

Confidential, St Louis, Missouri

SAP FICO Business Systems Analyst

Environment: S/4 Finance 1610 on HANA

• Gathered requirements for the Finance & Controlling to understand the scope of the project for the newly acquired company that had to be carved
• Implemented S4 HANAs Universal Journal for better and easier reporting requiring no reconciliation (by merging the sub-ledgers at the General Ledger level
• Used Fiori apps to setup accounts Payable, set up Automatic Payment Program for the new Company Code by configuring the required Payment Methods (Checks, ACH, and Wire Transfer), House Banks and Correspondence Forms for Checks and ACH Payment Advices.
• Configured House bank and check management, configured automatic payment program, Dunning process, Terms of payment, and Interest calculation
• Configured SAPs Lock Box processing and Electronic Bank Statements functionality
• In Accounts Receivable, copied over Reason Codes for Underpayment/Overpayment differences to the new Company Code, created and set up new Payment Terms, Customer Tolerance Groups, Accounting Clerks, Dunning Procedure, Dunning Areas and Dunning Texts.
• Configured dunning by setting up dunning procedures and facilitated the Dunning Run
• Configured Credit Management by setting up Credit Control Areas, maintaining Risk Categories, maintaining credit checks, credit tolerances, manual and auto release of credit blocks
• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specified Number Assignments across Company Codes & Account Determination, Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Specified Document Type for Posting of Depreciation, Specified Account Assignment types for Account Assignment Object, Specified Transfer of APC Values, and Determined Depreciation Areas in the Fixed Asset Class.
• Implemented Product Cost Planning by maintaining Overhead Cost Elements, defining the calculation bases, defining percentage Overheads, defining quantity-based overhead, defining costing sheets, overhead keys and overhead groups
• Worked with MM/PP team to setup the Bill of Materials, Work Centers, Routing, and Purchase Info Records
• Maintained Costing Types, Valuation Variants, Quantity Structure controls and transfer strategy and defining costing variant.
• Implement Cost Object Controlling for Manufacturing Orders by checking the Valuation variants& costing variants, defining results key analysis, cost elements for WIP calculation, defining posting rules for settling WIP, define Variance Keys, defining valuation variant for WIP and scrap, and created the settlement profile and PA transfer structure
• Implemented CO-PA by developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Set up Custom Reports and Queries for internal and external reporting using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Set up FI-SD integration by configuring Automatic Account Assignment for the newly created Sales Organization with its Divisions and Distribution Channels.

Confidential, San Ramon, California

SAP Lead

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

• Analyzed the functional requirements SAP Portfolio and Project Management.
• Configured SAP Financials Integration with SAP Portfolio and Project Management module.
• Developed functional specifications for scoring, constraints, locking, and tier categorizations.
• Used Quick Test Professional to create interactive customizable tests and components
• Build Final Test Plans comprising of Test Cases and Test Data for Functional, System, Regression, Integration, Back End and Users Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Worked on HPQC to develop and document test scripts.
• Imported test cases from excel to HP ALM.
• Worked as SAP team lead, integrated with SAP sub modules.

Confidential

SAP FICO Business Systems Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0

• Conducted business meetings, workshops to understand the AS-IS system and design the To-Be System.
• Worked as a team lead for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Prepared Account Based Profitability Analysis
• Migration of secondary Cost Elements into chart of accounts
• Analyzed and Reconciled transaction data prior to migration
• Transfer and Merges of items of applications - GL, AA and CO into Universal Journal
• Reporting of financial data for comparison reasons
• Configured New GL - defined the Leading ledger and assigned various scenarios, configured Document Splitting to get complete Financial Statements by Profit Centers & Segment; used
• Configured Lockbox functionality for customer payments.
• Parallel Ledger for IFRS reporting for European entities.
• Refined business requirements, developed RICEFW documents
• Created Company codes, assigned chart of Accounts, defined Account Groups, defined Retained Earnings Accounts, defined Field Status Variants, defined Tolerance groups, maintained Exchange Rate settings between different currencies, configured - GL Automatic Clearing, Foreign Currency Valuation in the New GL, Created & maintained Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss accounts and defined the Financial Statement Versions for reporting
• Implemented Open text Vendor Invoice management to accelerate invoice processing, exceptions and approvals.
• Configured Accounts Payable - Vendor Master setup and management; deployed Invoice/Credit Memo Processing both manual and through use of an in-house Image Reading Tool; Configured the Logistic Invoice Verification with its tolerances, release blocked invoices, invoice workflow
• Facilitated Procure to Pay process through MM-FI Integration
• Configured Outgoing Payment Processing in AP for Check and Wire Transfers across different countries, manual payment processing with and without printing forms, automatic payment processing, check processing and check management transactions
• Configured Special GL Transactions in Accounts Payable - Down Payments, Entering Noted items.
• Configured settings for foreign currency evaluations
• Deployed and gave business training on AP - Open Item Management transactions like manual Vendor Clearing, Transfer with clearing, automatic clearing and reports like due to date analysis.
• Configured Accounts Receivable - Customer Account Groups and Customer Master setup, configured payment terms and deployed and trained users on FI based Customer Invoices and Credit Memos
• Facilitated Order to Cash Cycle through SD-FI Integration
• Configured, trained and supported users on Incoming Payments - processing open items, partial payments, residual payments, clearing payment differences to a Customer Account, GL accounts(write-offs), underpayments and overpayments
• Defined Lockbox accounts at House Banks, and deployed program RFEBLB00 for Lockbox processing
• Defined House Banks and configured Electronic Bank Statements - create Account Symbols, assigned accounts to account symbols, created keys for Posting Rules, defined posting rules and created & assigned External Transactions to posting rules.
• Configured Costing Variants, Valuation Variants, and Cost Component Structure. Also configured Costing Sheets for Product Cost Controlling including definition of Overhead Groups and Overhead Keys..
• Configured Basic Settings for product cost period- Customized Costing Sheet, created overhead rate
• Configured automatic account determination for inventory valuations, Automatic Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions, Integration of MM with FI and CO.
• Defined costing variants, valuation variants and order types for Product cost collectors.
• Maintained Activity Prices against all Production and Quality Cost Centers (KP26).
• Configured costing relevant fields in the following Material Master Views: MRP2, MRP4, Accounting1, Accounting2, Costing1, and Costing2.
• Assisted in maintaining Material Master Uploads and in reconciling Inventory and Valuation Data.
• Configured Overhead period-end processing in order to carry out overhead calculation for production and process orders.
• Configured WIP for Product Cost by Period by creating result analysis keys and versions, creating line ID and mapping to source cost elements, mapping line ID to WIP and creating posting rules for settling WIP to financial accounting.
• For Variance Analysis, configured Variance Keys, Variance Variants, and Valuation Variants for Scrap and WIP. Performed mock month end activities including Overhead Calculation, WIP Calculation, Variance Calculation and Settlement
• For Settling work in process and variances to Financial Accounting and Profitability Analysis created Settlement Profile and created Allocation Structure.
• Performed GAP analysis, helped in preparation of Impact Analysis Document, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications, UAT Test Plan Document, Sign-off.
• In BPC Consolidation did the configuration for Currency translation, logic scripts, Carry forward and Accounts Reclassification.
• Reconciling data of BPC consolidation with ECC data.
• Configure the currency translation logic, maintain rate application, rate dimension, business rules, Account Dimension, Rounding functions for BPC
• Participated in testing phases, created test scripts, executed test scripts and business approvals - Unit Testing, Integration testing, and User acceptance testing.
• Assisted in resolving issues during Go-Live and post Go-Live Production Support in Product Cost Controlling and Cost Object Controlling.
• Implemented FSCM based Credit management to formulate an effective credit management policy to determine the areas of responsibility, the criteria of determining credit limits and tested it against scenarios in which any further business with customers is considered risk.
• Created Credit Segments, credit groups, trained users to manage credit profiles for business partners, implemented the use of credit rule engine to take information and automate credit scoring, credit decisions and calculations of credit limits
• Implemented FSCM based dispute management to reduce the time spent handling disputes with customers.
• Provided training to users to create a new dispute case from the list of open items, or within a specific transaction.
• Trained user to use case notes that can hold questions, or comments about the dispute, and add up to the complete case history.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

• Held Info-sessions with the users to understand the “As-Is” system to design the “To-Be” solutions
• Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed the To-be solution.
• Conducted workshops and performed GAP analysis to assess the scope of business processes involved.
• Involved in the Blueprinting for Customizing the New Ledger Accounting, as per the requirement for Parallel Accounting and Document Splitting
• Participated actively in workshops related to Cost Modeling as used for the Business Processes at Rio Tinto
• Involved in the Blueprinting for Product Costing activities like Inventory Stock Valuation, Determining the configuration for Standard Cost Estimates, Production Orders, WIP Calculation, Variance Calculation and Settlement of Production of Orders
• Used Microsoft Visio to document Process Flows and Flowcharts for the used Business Processes
• Developed Blueprints and Functional Specs for Procure to Pay ( P2P) cycle involving creation of Purchase Orders for Articles, creating Invoices, blocking of invoices, running the automatic payment run, deduction management, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Logistics invoice verification
• Developed Test Scripts for the application component Overhead Cost Orders like allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Developed Test Scripts for creating, planning and Settling Internal orders Capital, Overheads and Statistical Projects
• Created and reviewed the Test Metrics reports for Test coverage, Test cost, Cost to locate defects, Defects detected in performance testing and Acceptance criteria tested on regular basis
• Used Quality center for executing the Test Scripts, Defect reporting and Tracking

Confidential, Woodbury, NY

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

• Gathered requirements for the Finance & Controlling to understand the scope of the project for the newly acquired company that had to be carved
• Implemented New GL functionality, assigned scenarios to the Leading ledger and activated document splitting and maintained splitting characteristics.
• In Accounts Payable, set up Automatic Payment Program for the new Company Code by configuring the required Payment Methods (Checks, ACH, and Wire Transfer), House Banks and Correspondence Forms for Checks and ACH Payment Advices.
• Configured House bank and check management, configured automatic payment program, Dunning process, Terms of payment, and Interest calculation
• Configured SAPs Lock Box processing and Electronic Bank Statements functionality
• In Accounts Receivable, copied over Reason Codes for Underpayment/Overpayment differences to the new Company Code, created and set up new Payment Terms, Customer Tolerance Groups, Accounting Clerks, Dunning Procedure, Dunning Areas and Dunning Texts.
• Configured dunning by setting up dunning procedures and facilitated the Dunning Run
• Configured Credit Management by setting up Credit Control Areas, maintaining Risk Categories, maintaining credit checks, credit tolerances, manual and auto release of credit blocks
• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specified Number Assignments across Company Codes & Account Determination, Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Specified Document Type for Posting of Depreciation, Specified Account Assignment types for Account Assignment Object, Specified Transfer of APC Values, and Determined Depreciation Areas in the Fixed Asset Class.
• Implemented Product Cost Planning by maintaining Overhead Cost Elements, defining the calculation bases, defining percentage Overheads, defining quantity based overhead, defining costing sheets, overhead keys and overhead groups
• Worked with MM/PP team to setup the Bill of Materials, Work Centers, Routing, and Purchase Info Records
• Maintained Costing Types, Valuation Variants, Quantity Structure controls and transfer strategy and defining costing variant.
• Implement Cost Object Controlling for Manufacturing Orders by checking the Valuation variants& costing variants, defining results key analysis, cost elements for WIP calculation, defining posting rules for settling WIP, define Variance Keys, defining valuation variant for WIP and scrap, and created the settlement profile and PA transfer structure
• Implemented CO-PA by developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Set up Custom Reports and Queries for internal and external reporting using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Set up FI-SD integration by configuring Automatic Account Assignment for the newly created Sales Organization with its Divisions and Distribution Channels.