PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of experience inclusive 11+ years of SAP implementation, Rollout, Enhancement and Support in SAP FICO.
• SAP Solution Consultant in Financials apart from holding Masters of Computer Applications as major.
• Proven Project Lead experience gained by managing full - fledged development activities involving project planning and design, blue print, configuration, data migration, functional testing, integration testing, end user training, cut-over, go-live and post go-live support.
• Extensive FI expertise in implementation and Customization of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting
• Good working knowledge of integration and Interfaces for FI with AR/SD (O2C), AP/MM (P2P) and coordinating between different module teams to meet the project schedules/goals
• Coordination with 3rd Parties like Vertex, Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement import and posting (multiple countries/formats), global AP, AR files
• Extensive experience preparing functional and technical specifications for new enhancements and to ensure effective unit test plans, end user training, integration, functional, regression, UAT, performance and end-to-end testing.
• CO experience includes Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting
• Hands on experience in the intercompany setup, foreign currency revaluations, and balance sheet accounts.
• Expertise in handling Month End, Year End Closing with regard to GL, AR, AP and Asset Accounting, Material Ledger etc.
• Worked on Various Enhancements in the area of AP & AR Correspondence Statements like Ageing analysis Report, Account Balances report, External Printing Agency to print forms
• Good Experience in understanding ABAP and DB tables, Electronic Data Interchange EDI, User Exits, BAPIs, BADIs and write queries.
• High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with demonstrated leadership, ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with high analytical & problem solving ability.
• Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from Bangalore University in 2003

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Package: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP FICO Sub Components:: G/L, AP, AR, AA, BA; CO - CCA, CEA, PCA; FICA

Methodology: ASAP, Agile, SAP Solution Manager

Applications/Tools: VIM OpenText, HP Quality Center 9.2, 11.0, IBM JAZZ, Remedy, Spira, Jira, Radar, Espresso, Solution Manager, MS Office, Service Now (Snow)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

SAP FICO Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Vertex

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business process analysis to facilitate to understand requirements, define analyze business process and mapping.
• Configuration of house banks for reconciliation as per business process for customers and vendors.
• Configuration of automatic payment program for vendors and customers and enable customization as per business process.
• Successfully developed and implemented APP process for vendors and customers periodically
• Configuration and rollout of Lockbox process for customer receivables for US and Canada the following banks Suntrust, Scotia and CITI Bank
• Developed a new process as per Italian statutory for goods and services rendered both customers/vendors through E-Invoicing (Sovos tool)
• Configured the chart of depreciation and input vat, output tax as per client requirements
• New Company code configuration relevant to acquisition and transfer of balances
• Designing, developing and testing VIM extensions and improved the OpenText baseline (custom classes, function
• Hands on experience in Enhancing the Concur Travel Management process.
• Proven experience to translate 3rd Party logistics legacy data to SAP
• Hands on experience in 3 PL Interface like Vendor Invoice Management OpenText, Concur travel and expense & CASS
• Closely working with technical team for enhancements.
• Monitoring the key business processes in SAP pertaining to posting periods, GL, Invoice postings and Bank Statements etc., via Jobs
• Resolving issues in the areas of Finance as well as Controlling Module
• Preparing Functional specs and user acceptance test cases (UAT)
• Prepare the UT scripts and explain the process to business owners as well as core users
• Attend the status meetings with business owners as well as core users.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0, SAP PI and Vertex

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in the design phase by understanding the requirement, discussing the possibilities with client and the business team for various regions
• Participated in the phases from Design, Configuration settings, IT testing, UAT incidents, Production Validation Testing incidents, Warranty incidents
• Working on AR Business Partner, Dunning Configuration, Customer Aging Reports and customer statements
• Working on AR Cash Application, ACH, Wire Configuration and Customer Bank Statements Clearing process
• Working on AP such as BP setup, payment terms, payment methods, automatic program configuration, Payment advice process, Down payment setup, Payment order concept
• Implementation of Electronic Bank Reconciliation and Interface with bank.
• Business Partner - assigning the Credit Segment and Creating test data for developing various scenarios of Credit Management
• Designed and implementing US legal Tax processes based on business requirement and working on Global Tax concepts with integration of Tax Tool Vertex
• Worked on EDI mapping for outgoing payments and working on DMEE configuration for generating the XML/TXT payment file. Working with a cross-functional/technical teams
• Designed and implanting IDoc process for payment file creation, Vendor Invoice posting and intercompany PO SO process
• Responsible for supporting the existing SAP design and implementing new business required functionality for FICO module (FI-GL/New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Bank accounts and CCA, Profit Center, and Internal order in CO area
• Hands on experience writing functional specifications and Working with ABAP team to build the custom program and various reports based on the business requirements
• Performed cross application Interface testing and integration testing for FI-SD flow and baseline & performance testing for custom objects for FI and Logistics module.
• Worked on cut-over activities such as data migration, master/transaction data reconciliation, batch job variants creation, Bank keys creation etc. handover the project to supporting team
• Trained business users on various business processes of treasury like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Involved in the RTR process by moving the transport requests to the destination system by taking the sign off from responsible team. Hands on experience in the CHARM process.
• Responsible to act as Onsite Co-coordinator for the projects and ensure timely deliveries from offshore pool of resources.
• Executing cutover and pre go live activities.

Confidential, Franklin, TN

SAP FICO Consultant / Business System Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Vertex, HP QC, Remedy, Snow

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the client's business requirements, gathered requirements through user meetings, identified the gap and produced the functional documents as per the client's requirement.
• Problem resolution as part of support- analyzing the tickets which included identification of issue, determining the root cause of issue and suggesting the solution to users based on root cause analysis done.
• Responsible for supporting the existing SAP design and implementing new business required functionality for FICO module - FI-GL/New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Bank accounts and CCA, Profit Center, and Internal order in CO area
• Responsible for preparing test scripts and performing and monitoring testing for support pack implementation.
• Responsible for implementing of various enhancements, Projects
• Involved in the configuration of payment terms for vendors, maintained the vendor master records and create payment orders for vendors as per the client's requirements.
• Checking Validation and Substitution rules in analyzing an issue related to automatic account determination.
• Working with SD and MM team when needed to solve the issues related to condition type and movement types.
• Involved in the Cost center Planning. Configured new Activity types, Cost centers, Cost center group and assigned default cost centers to cost elements. Involved in loading of the planned activity rates for the cost centers.
• Working with Technical team to analyze the root cause of the issues on job failures, analyze the functionality of the programs and propose customization as per the business process.

Confidential, Randburg, SA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, 6.0 SAP BI, SAP SRM, HP QC, Remedy

Responsibilities:

• Handling day to day queries/ issues related to FICO and other logistic modules integrated with FI-GL, AR, AP, FIXED ASSETS, COPA, PCA and Internal orders
• Interacting with client for new business requirements and mapping the process in SAP
• Responsible for Handling FI integration with SD and MM modules.
• Acknowledge receipt of incident and enhancement requests in a timely manner.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and identify appropriate solution for assigned Incident and Enhancement requests as per agreed SLA.
• Proactively identify process improvements and communicate those to the client to demonstrate value addition
• Resolving requests in order of priority and update all associated documentation on the per project instructions.
• Maintain current transport status visibility in the Transport DB in the project e-Room or other approved mechanism.
• Build and maintain close working relationships with business owners.
• Proactively communicate potential issues in a timely manner.
• Preparing the user documents for new enhancements and new process implementations.

Confidential, Pretoria, SA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6C, 4.7E

Responsibilities:

• Involved multiple deployments model enhancements in the areas of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cost Centre Accounting, Internal orders and Profit Centre accounting.
• Supporting the issues within the SLA in all the areas in FICO.
• Resolution of routine support queries in FICO involving issuance of clarifications, analysis of ABAP dumps and Job cancellations in Production environment and user training.
• Providing assistance to team members in resolving configurations issues.
• Identify the functional errors and recommend design change/maintenance for functional improvements.
• Worked on day to day support issues which comprise General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Account Receivable, Asset Accounting and Cost center accounting.
• Hands on experience to setup new company codes as per the client’s requirements.
• Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement.
• Extensively involved in modification of customer statements, dunning statements and payment advices.
• Configured house banks and maintained accounts in house banks. Defining Check Lots, Payment Terms, Set Up bank determination for all payment transactions, defined posting keys and posting rules for check deposit.
• Supported in solving the issues related to the automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• Configured Asset classes, depreciation keys and areas, ordinary and unplanned depreciation runs, depreciation accounting, Low value asset, cutoff Value Key for Asset Accounting.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) created Cost elements, cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, statistical key figures, master data groups, validations and substitutions, reconciliation ledgers, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, activity types and planning them on different cost centers, planned and actual activity price calculations.
• Work with other functional support team to ensure that all integration issues of changes are covered.
• Knowledge in EDI/IDOC configuration, processing and handling the issues.
• Responsible for Unit testing and assisted in User Acceptance testing of reports and documents.
• Provided Post Go-Live support to users and helped them resolving their problems.
• As part of team member actively worked with internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues, requests, tickets, enhancements.
• Worked on interfaces flowing from NON-SAP system to SAP.

Confidential, Randburg, SA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP Version 4.7C, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Providing production support and solved end users issues/tickets in line with SLAs
• Requirement collection & analysis of additional/changed business process in Finance and Controlling modules
• Designed and developed custom reports such as duplicated invoice identification while posting the invoices
• Resolving configuration issues and customization request.
• Designed and configured Automatic Payment Program, payment terms and Electronic Bank Reconciliation
• Involved in regression testing and integration testing FI with PS, MM & SD
• Involved in integration with FI-MM, FI-SD, FI - HR and F I - PS
• Supervised month end activities and supported issues as per SLA
• Designed and configured House banks, Bank Accounts and GL Accounts for Bank Accounts as per business requirement
• Co-ordinated with users for UAT / Integration testing & issue resolution. Provided training to the functional heads and core users from procurement to pay and order to Cash