SUMMARY:

• 8+ Years of IT experience and 8+ years of SAP experience including Three Full life cycle implementations and Three Support projects
• Ability to work in high - powered, fast-moving, multi-disciplinary working teams and a committed team player with willingness to travel and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and technologies
• Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of SAP ERP applications
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture
• Proficient in GAP analysis, designing, performance tuning and user in SAP FICO
• Experience in managing the resources both onsite and offshore handled multiple roles as a consultant, senior consultant and senior analyst
• Executed implementation and support projects for IT, Retail and manufacturing and process industry
• Expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting and Credit Management from Financial Supply Chain Management in a highly complex business environment
• Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders, Controlling Profitability Analysis(COPA) and Actual Costing Using Material Ledger
• Good working knowledge in designing and implementation of CCA, PCA, IO D Confidential conversions and cutover functions
• Experience with credit management in financial supply chain management includes cutover functions converting the legacy d Confidential into SAP d Confidential and performing the d Confidential loads using the LSMW
• Good communication skills, Interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP SAP (Versions 4.7, ECC 5.0. ECC 6.0), S/4 Hana Simple finance:

Operating Systems MS Windows … WinNT 4.0, and UNIX:

Microsoft Office MS Word, MS excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio:

General Tools Tracking Tools HPQC, MS Outlook, ServiceNow, Vertex, SharePoint, SOLMON, Rev-Trac for transport management system:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Analyst II

Confidential, Maumee, Ohio

Production Support:

• Served as liaison between business users and technical resources
• Lead enhancement projects, evaluate requests for additional functionality/enhancements and provide proactive solutions to business issues.
• Evaluate current system build, proactively recommend SAP best practices and use of existing functionality while optimizing possible areas
• Lead resolution of the day to day issues in FICO process and configurations, WRICEFs, Interface
• Conduct blue printing sessions, identify business and technology gaps, and effectively communicate complex concepts and solutions to all levels of the organization.
• Evaluate and review current system build with finance/accounting users and optimized possible areas
• Prioritize requests for changes and support monthly, quarterly and year end financial close

Implementation/Project Phase:

• New implementation of SAP ECC 6 for global organization with foreign subsidiaries
• Led blueprinting workshops, gathered business requirements and carried out review of AS-IS and designed To-Be processes
• Identified and redesigned existing end to end business processes in Record to Report (RTR), Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (PTP) and deployed solutions to business users at multiple locations
• Translated business requirements into feasible technical specifications ad set up config in GL, AR, AP and Controlling
• Participated in testing, dress rehearsals and Go live activities
• Developed and documented both functional and technical procedures while working closely with business process leads to develop user and documentation
• Proto typed and validated solution designs with business process owners while utilizing consensus-building skills to work through differences and develop feasible solutions

Areas/ Modules Worked

• Financial Accounting: Set up enterprise structure, Profit Center Accounting. Support internal and external financial reporting, accounting functions including revenue and cost of sales accounting, financial statements, intercompany transactions, Month-end and year-end close activities such as GR-IR clearing, Balance Carryforwards, Accruals and deferrals. Automated several closing activities such as fiscal year balance carry forward, monthly depreciation run, opening and closing posting periods, automatic account clearing, accruals and deferrals
• New FI-GL: Defined company codes with multiple currencies and made required assignments, defined leading, non-leading ledgers, ledger groups and assigned accounting principles, set up document splitting characteristics and classification of items, configured intercompany clearing and eliminations, created financial statements versions (FSV), created cost elements, configured real time integration of CO with FI, Retained earnings account, Default profit center assignment, Created GL account sets for validation, defined and assigned document number ranges, set up open item clearing and automatic clearing.MigratedGL d Confidential from legacy system into SAP
• Accounts Payable (AP): Delivered FI-AP module, delivered SAP integration with COUPA interface, built bank interfaces and automated several AP functions including processing of cashed checks, Positive Pay, outgoing ACH Payments, incoming invoice posting, scanning of paper invoices. Designed and implemented AP and PTP processes including vendor down payments, Multiple Payee, Split amount and lienholder payments, set up vendor invoice management and automatic payment program including house banks, Payment methods, set up 1099 reporting, define AP reconciliation account, configured cash discounts taken/granted accounts, set up open item clearing and tolerance for payment clearing differences.
• Accounts Receivables (AR): set up cash application process, defined and assigned employee tolerance groups for incoming payment processing, set up open item clearing and tolerance for payment clearing differences, configured FI-AR interest calculations, developed new forms for customer AR statements, forms for credit/debit memos, created dunning program, configured and tested Vertex interface for sales side, designed migration of AR d Confidential from legacy system to SAP
• Asset Accounting: Created chart of depreciation, different depreciation areas. Defined different asset classes and account determination, defined screen layout rules and number ranges for asset classes. Configured depreciation postings to GL accounts. Specify document types for account assignment objects, specified APC values and determine depreciation areas in asset classes
• Controlling: Maintained controlling area, created CO document number ranges, configured and set up Profit center accounting, designed profitability analysis created characteristic values and defined derivation rules, defined value fields, created PA transfer structure, involved in defining cost component split structure for actual cost calculations using material ledger
• Financial Supply Chain Management: Worked on the design of credit management, created credit control areas, created risk classes, designed credit check process using PI application, designed the credit score calculation rules using external credit score of business partner. Implemented custom solution for DSO calculation with help of BADI. Worked on credit d Confidential migration from legacy application into SAP.
• WRICEF Development: Designed built and deployed 10 finance WRICEF’s and contributed to design created in OTC team. Maintained SAP IMG configuration. Debugging ABAP code if ant issue identified while testing WRICEF.
• Testing/: Performed unit tests as well as participated in FIT cycles, regression and end to end testing, tested final build, prepared test scripts to support end user testing. Maintained defect tracker in SharePoint site for defect tracking. Prepared user materials for standard Tcodes also for custom Tcodes build using WRICEF’s. troubleshooting common error messages and make users understand the process. Delivered to power users, SME’s and other business users

Go-Live prep/cutover activities: prepared and executed cut-over plan including list of required cutover tasks in FICO area and d Confidential migration. Successfully migrated AP, AR, credit and GL d Confidential from legacy systems, pre-validated migrated d Confidential and aided d Confidential owners in final validation and provided post Go-live support during hyper care.

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Confidential is a Swiss-based Food and beverage company. Their North America IT operations are based out of Cleveland. Supported one of the Confidential acquired companies in supporting role. This is contracting role offered through TEK systems one of the leading Vendors

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the roll out of SAP FICO Confidential acquired companies with focus on complex manufacturing and product costing
• Carryout business process study and enhance SAP Finance system
• Preparation of Go-live strategy for remaining plants for FI & CO module and ensuring a successful go-live
• Post go-live support and other global support issues in the areas of overhead calculation, settlement, costing run etc.,
• Writing WRICEF documents for the custom developments and work with ABAP resources for the development of testing
• Develop documents and providing to business users
• Work with business during UAT by creating testing d Confidential and helping the execution
• Involved in master d Confidential conversions and helped to create Win Shuttle scripts for d Confidential loads
• Engaged in design of different security roles and their testing