SUMMARY:

• Certified Application Associate in SAP Financial Accounting.
• Around 11 years of experience in implementing SAP with an emphasis on FI/CO modules. This includes Full Life Cycle implementations, Production Support and Roll out/Enhancement projects with hands on experience in up gradation and support.
• Two full lifecycle ERP implementations including Accelerated SAP ( ASAP ), Business Process Re - engineering, Feasibility Analysis, System Design, Configuration, Reports, and Testing ( RICEFW ).
• Extensively involved in studying, analyzing Business Processes, understanding the “ As-Is ” process and modelling the “ To-Be ” process.
• Hands on ECC 6.0 configuration experience and experience in FICO baseline Configuration, documentation, manual testing, and User Training.
• Hands-on application and configuration experience in General Ledger, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), OPENTEXT, FSCM (Bank communication Management-BCM), Project systems (PS), Bank Accounting, Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), Lockbox, Interest Calculation, Dunning & Automatic Payment Program, Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Withholding Tax, Taxes on Sales/Purchases, iDOC process.
• Knowledge on JVA (Joint Venture Accounting),PRA.
• Experience with External Tax System (SABRIX, VERTEX) configuration, month end tax rates upload, production issues.
• Working knowledge with BI team for customized objects.
• Working knowledge in Data Medium Exchange and Bank Interface on Production issues.
• Hands-on Test scripts creation and Execution in HPQC.
• Configuration and Working knowledge in Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC Planning and By Order).
• Accounting based Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and knowledge on costing-based CO-PA with SD integration.
• Experienced with GAAP in SAP Financial Accounting by define Accounting Principles, and assigning Accounting Principles to Ledger groups.
• Experience working with Ceridian Payroll process (Interface to SAP) and experience with other third-party systems CONCUR, COUPA, Interface from Vendor SFTP locations to SAP.
• Hands-On RICEFW objects process. Experience writing FSD (Functional specifications), Technical details to Developer, testing to propose customized solutions.
• Experience with Solution Manager (CHARM) process to deploy the changes from Development to Production.
• Hands on Experience with Month End and year-end closing.
• Working Knowledge on Open Text invoice postings & handled production issues at invoice posting level.
• Hands on configuration and working Knowledge on SD, MM, PP integration with FI and CO.
• Experienced Migrate legacy data to SAP system using LSMW & BDC recording.
• Knowledge on Funds Management (Former Budgeting) and experienced Fund center and commitment item config and postings, reporting.
• Good knowledge in General Business Processes Procure to Pay and Order to cash flow, Plan/ Forecast to produce, cycle.
• Good knowledge on SAP Fiori functionality and design for Finance User applications
• Knowledge on S/4 HANA Finance design, functionality and also involved in Unit and Regression testing for SAP HANA Technical upgradation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 4.6 C, 4.7, ECC 6.0,7.0, S4 HANA, CFIN

SAP R/3 Tools: GL, AP,AR, Bank Accounting, FICA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, SUNNYVALE

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Skills: AP, G/L, Bank Accounting, FICA

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, 7.0,S4 HANA

Roles & Responsibilities

• Understood the Business requirement document and interacted with the business on scheduled Workshops and meetings.
• Performing Unit testing using HP ALM tool for ROC project (HANA Database technical upgrade project) where need to test 500 + functional test cases.
• Providing Design and Estimation for new Requirements related to modification of Treasury integration with Bank Communication Management (BCM).
• Working on BCM configuration along with Universal Treasury requirements.
• Delivering urgent Enhancements that are Business critical for Financial Accounting.
• Working extensively through development of Business Blueprinting and system build.
• Performed the Fit-Gap analysis to build the design.
• Prepared the conceptual detailed design decks and presented to the Global design team.
• Prepared the Business Play Back decks and explained the As- IS and the To- Be process.
• Handled multiple projects with multiple regions and supported the high priority incidents within the SLA period.
• Hands on experience on IS- Retail service module to identify the point of sale transactions where the Contracts are generated from the interface and the financial accountings are taken place.
• Extensively worked on EBS set up for Mexico, AMR regions.
• Worked with Bank of America, CITI banks to include the new fields in the Bai file which is sent by the interface to SAP.
• Extensively worked on the End to End flow of the Contractual accounting and analysed the customised Web orders in SAP with different scenarios.
• During the project, supported Quarter End Activities, Month End activities and year end activities.
• Worked on customisation of the interfaces related to AP, AR, GL .

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Skills: EBS, CATS, SOLUTION MANAGER

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Have involved and led the team to solve the issues related to the Idoc, issues related to automatic payment program, according to the client requirement.
• Involved in the Project Management and participated in the initial discussion of the Project preparation.
• Led the team and solved the complex issues by communicating with the client directly.
• Managed the team and participated in the Onshore and client calls in updating the daily status by preparing decks.
• Hands on experience in the concept of Search Strings in EBS, configuration of search string, Idocs testing, and helping the user to upload the file for UAT.
• Analyzed the EBS structure and configured the search strings for APAC region.
• Strong experience in Data Migration methods which includes use of LSMW and BDC programs.
• Configured the House banks according to the Business requirement and prepared the test scripts in the Solution Manager tool.
• Actively participated in user calls to solve the issues and also coordinated with the client as well in complex issues and updated the same.
• Coordinating with offshore, onshore and interface teams to successfully deliver project within timelines.
• Providing Production Support for all FICO Production issues for 3 platforms.
• Monitoring IRIS for the tickets assignment to self and team to provide the solution within the time lines as per the incidents severity.
• Handling External Tax System VERTEX experienced along with configuration and Support process monthly tax rates updates including Tax Rates from vertex site.
• Update Geo Code and Rates to vertex database, Cross Verify vertex database updated successfully (Date stamp, Folder path, and rate verification), Download reports from Vertex server and RFC connection checking after system downtime time and quarterly patches updated.
• Handling CR process through Solman for transport movements by attending weekly CAB meeting.
• CR process which includes configuration/break fix, testing in Dev & QA before UAT.
• Handling all day to day SAP FICO production issues along with Critical Bank interfaces (Vendor payment & 824 acknowledge reports, Lockbox, EBS)
• Enhancing custom programs for processing invoices, payments from corporate system, using IDOC data to post/change invoices in local system, defining tables for error management, reprocessing and reporting and reconciling data between corporate and local systems.
• Extensively worked on the SAP Solution Manager to create the Transport requests and move the change to the Production system. Hands on experience in the CHARM process.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Skills: AP, G/L, FSCM

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Integrated the various business processes for tax (jurisdiction code, tax code, GL Accounts), customs and various other localization forms for Canada & EMEA
• Developed Custom Programs to upload various master data such as Vendors, Assets and Customers
• Have involved and solved the issues related to the withholding tax configuration changes, issues related to automatic payment program, according to the client requirement.
• Have involved in the year end activities such as factory calendar change as per the client holiday list.
• Actively participated in user calls to solve the issues.
• Handled IDOCS by triggering them into error status to success status.
• Worked on EBS interfaces for APAC, AMR region and configured the bank master data for different company codes.
• Identified the issues in the bank related bai file interface and closed the High priority issues within the SLA.
• Handling issues between SAP and third-party systems (Concur and Vendor invoice uploads from Vendor location).
• Testing - Unit, integration, UAT - Manual and E cat and work with Data Migration to SAP
• Analyse and map as per requirements for FI - GL, AP, AR Bank and Assets modules
• New changes to the customized objects.
• Experienced with Change Management process (CR process) and Service now tool.
• Good communication with Business users to understand the issue and get the details to analyze and fix the issue with in the SLA.
• Configuration, Testing and Documentation on Credit Management, Biller Direct, Collections
• Management and Dispute Management.
• Preparation of Test Scripts, Unit testing and Involved in Data Migration to SAP.
• On call support over weekends and Quarter end.
• Monitoring Service now tool to assign & update the incidents with in SLA.
• Having good Coordination with Offshore team and Hand over Take over with in team to fix the issues with in SLA in a different time zones.
• Have performed the customization of template related to the multiple currency by giving the inputs to the ABAP team and worked with them.
• Involved in Job Monitoring for the reconciliation accounts which were transferred to Oracle interface from the SAP system.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Skills: Proof Of Concept

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for development, monitoring and resolution of FICO interfaces and reporting solutions
• Responsible for configuration and daily support of the SAP FI and CO modules to support Finance processes.
• Involved in FI configuration settings/bug fixes on GL, Asset Accounting, AR/AP, Bank Accounting, and Internal Order.
• Also, Prepared the Proof of Concept for the Tender to Cash which involved the configuration of Financial global settings from the scratch.
• Configured the settings from the scratch by maintaining the controlling area and the operating concern.
• Corrected the Idocs that ended in error status and retriggered them again to successfully process.
• Have been a team lead and participated in the client calls regularly to gather the business requirements.
• Conducted the Knowledge transfer sessions to the team members to make them understand the Business Process and involved in managing the team of 7-8 members.
• Approved the time sheets of the team and pro-actively assisted them with in stipulated timelines.
• Conducted meetings regularly and managed the team without escalations.
• Closely interacted with users to gather requirements to understand the workflow of the as-is system. Conducted GAP analysis, document the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Have done the FI configuration from the scratch in order to run the cycle in the sandbox.
• Have done the CO configuration in order to set up the profitability segment.
• Created the G/L accounts, reconciliation accounts in order to run the sales order cycle.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Skills: AP, G/L, AR, Interfaces, Idocs, Internal Orders, COPA

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for development, monitoring and resolution of FICO interfaces and reporting solutions
• Worked on Idoc technology by identifying the Idoc failure and restarting the work items which are in error and finding the cause of the work items which are in red. Co-ordinating with the ABAP team as well on the work item for further analysis by giving them inputs from functional perspective.
• Handling with the European Finance Application which comprises of 7 regions including Greece, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, CO applications which included the Idoc technology, solving of the work flow tickets, dealing with the interfaces, forwarding of the work items etc.
• Telephonic conversations with the users by explaining them the process of certain business flows, understanding the problem
• Actively prepared L1 decks and attended the weekly client calls.
• Actively involved in thorough execution of Test Scripts for functional testing, unit testing and system testing.
• Worked with the ABAP team to map the functional requirements and made them understand the problem as well as the interfaces which we are working on.
• Worked with the Basis team as well, by providing the authorizations to the user in the SAP system.
• Taken up the year-end activities like G/L account balance carry forward, create Factory Calendar for the new year, copy the number ranges for specific company codes and the on-call support by stretching with the extended hours.
• Handling of tickets with the prioritization and solved them within the SLA period.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Skills: AP,AR,G/L

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Involved in updating Business Blueprint based on changes updated by client.
• Preparing new functional documents and updating old functional document with newly incorporated changes.
• Involved in Test Scripts preparation.
• Actively involved in thorough execution of Test Scripts for functional testing, unit testing and system testing.
• Worked with ABAP team to map the functional requirements and helped them to understand FI functionality so that they can complete required enhancements with in delivery dates.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Skills: AP, G/L

Environment: SAP FICO R/3 4.6C

• Involved in analyzing and proposing solution to tickets. To identify functional errors and workaround for the resolution of issues is dealt with in accordance with defined support service level agreements.
• Involved in creation of G/L Accounts and configuration of Dunning and Payment programs
• Involved in of Test Scripts preparation and execution for functional testing, unit testing and system testing.
• Worked with End Users and ABAP team to map and deliver a wide range of reporting and automated tools.
• Involved in preparing end user training documents.