PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced and motivated SAP consultant professional with 7 years’ functional experience in configuring, customizing, testing, implementing, end user and support of SAP FICO module.
• Experience in different phases of implementations from gathering client requirements, conducting GAP Analysis, preparing Business Blue printing, Configuration, Unit Test, User, and production Support.
• Strong knowledge in product costing, Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting, Configured & Tested Financial Accounting and Controlling FI - GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, FI-SPL, CO-CCA, CO-PAC, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-IO in various Business Environments.
• With over three end to end implementation projects, I master various aspects of (should have - core area, extensions, IS, Cloud, New S4 and HANA, IoT and AI) integration with other modules such as SD, MM, PS.
• Configuring tax accounting within SAP and third-party applications such as Vertex has been part of my responsibility.
• Experienced in migrating data using LSMW with EDI/idocs over my years of work. Included in my experience is two years of conversion to S/4 HANA and multiple support projects.
• Over 3 full cycle projects as SAP FICO consultant in technology, Manufacturing and Production for clients like Confidential having added value to deliverables in financial and cost management configuration

• Experienced in functional configuration with the SAP Financial Accounting & Controlling (FI-CO), emphasis on General ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, FI-MM /SD/PP integration. New GL and document split concepts. Asset Accounting, Configuration of House Banks, Manual Bank Statement. Electronic Bank Statement. Revenue recognition process. Configured Input/output taxes and EWT and VAT. Lock box and Tax configuration. Configuration of credit management with credit controlling areas.
• Experience in cross functional integration of FICO with MM & SD modules.
• Expertise in CO: CO-PCA, CO-CCA, CO-PC, COPA, internal orders, activity types
• Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing,, Documentation and Production support.
• Skilled in Legacy Data Migration (GL master, vendor master, customer master, Asset master, open items, account balances, asset transactions), LSMW tool & BDC. Worked on Report painter.
• Experienced in Gap analysis and solution definition. Worked on interfaces using RFP, BAPI, IDOC/EDI
• Expertise on Documentation - (Business Blueprint, Configuration document, manual, testing. In the technical upgrade project and enhancement project created the test scenarios with business user interaction and handled unit and integration testing with HPQC & ABAP programs.
• Working knowledge on Cost center Accounting (CCA), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Cost Elements, and Internal Orders, Assessment and distribution cycles and other CO objects. Profitability analysis (COPA), Direct & Indirect activity allocation. Cost sheet for over heads. Internal orders budgeting and settlements.
• Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable with Auto Payment Program and Lock Box. Parallel ledgers for local statutory reporting. Account determination for Order to Cash and Procure to Payment Scenarios
• Created Vendor master, Customer master records and specified number ranges and screens layout.
• Configured the settings for Incoming and Outgoing Payments. Configured the Automatic Account Determinations in FI. Configured foreign currency settings and translations. Fixed Assets Configuration.
• In Cost Element Accounting, Created primary, secondary cost elements and their respective groups. Configuration of Cost Center Accounting which included creation of Cost Center hierarchy, Cost Centers to Profit Centers, distribution cycle as well as assessment cycle set up.
• Two End to End COPA - Profitability Analysis implementations.
• Configuration of revenue account determination entries /VKOA, GL Accounts, Account keys, Material account assignment groups, customer account assignment groups and order reason codes.
• Defined Depreciation areas, Depreciation terms, and periodic processing. Configuring Account Determinations, Depreciation Keys and Number Ranges for Asset Classes. Configuring Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions, Retirements and Inter-company transfers.
• Implementation experience includes - scoping, developing blueprints, configuring the system, testing & managing Cut-over & Go-Live, post go-live support, functional specifications for custom developments, material, key users and facilitating system development including business process procedures
• Experienced in Unit Testing, Documentation, Post implementation production support and end users
• Proficient in External Reporting and preparation of Financial Statements with good understanding of GAAP

KEY SKILLS:

• Financial Modeling and Integration Analysis
• Financial Instruments
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Governance framework and Compliance Management
• Business Blueprinting Documentation and GAP Analysis
• Integration of Financial with various areas.
• Costing, Variance and KPI’s
• Cash Flow & Treasury Management
• Financial Statement & Reporting
• Delivery Management
• Financial Accounting
• Funds Management
• Controlling
• Governance framework
• Vendor/Partner Management
• Blueprinting
• Business Analysis
• Testing and Test Strategy
• Advisory/Consulting
• Functional Upgrade
• Best Practice Development
• Integration Management
• Reporting and Process Mapping
• End User and Organization Change Management
• Project Analysis & Financing
• Cross Functional Integration
• Mergers/Strategic Partnership
• Financial Forecasting & Budgeting
• SWOT Analysis and Team Coordination
• Working Capital Management
• Project Cut Over and Deployment Strategy
• Service Level Matrices
• Enterprise Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Modules: FI/CO, SD, MM, HCM, PS, EWM, BW x.0, HR, EP 5.0/6.0, Web methods (PI), PM/SM, PS LO Cockpit, COPA (ECC-PCA). S4

TOOLS: LSMW, Visio, ASAP, Solution Manager, MS PM, Access, Excel, SQL, R-Studio, Microsoft Dynamic GP, Workfront

Operating System: Win NT/2K, Win XP/98/95, DOS

Web Development Tools: Familiar with JAVA, Front Page

Office Tools: Microsoft Office, Lotus123, WS7, Acrobat, NE, Notepad and more

New Technology: Big Data, IoT, SAP HANA Cloud, AWS, Azure, AI, Cryptography and Block Chain

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, fit/gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; producing the functional and nonfunctional requirements document
• Create a Point of View (POV) document to summarize challenges and potential valuers of implementations
• Requirements gathering to understand business needs for AS-IS and TO-BE documents for configuration.
• Preparing, system provisioning, project initiation and governance, project charter and scope statement, establish project governance, define project communications and reporting
• Creating the Business Blue Print in consultation with the Business process owners and end users undertaking workshops with super users
• Documenting specs and Developing process maps using MS Visio to demonstrate key business processes such as order to cash, procure to pay, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting
• Present and finalize key processes in the area of FICO with team and management using PowerPoint presentations
• Creating and Reviewing Functional Design documents and Business Process Master list
• Working on technical design documents and RICEFW (Reports, Interface, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow
• Creating the Business Blue Print in consultation with the Business process owners and end users undertaking workshops with super users.
• Coordinating Projects using ASAP methodology and solution manager including ongoing support, optimization and e-.
• Developing process maps using MS Visio to demonstrate key business processes such as order to cash, procure to pay, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting
• Present and finalize key processes in the area of FICO with team and management using PowerPoint presentations
• Reviewing Functional Design documents and Business Process Master list
• Reviewing technical design documents and RICEFW (Reports, Interface, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow)
• Evaluating functional specifications for FI, CO, SD, MM, TR, PS, PM, SM, RE and HR; estimated time for development and testing and ensured design viability
• Preparing the configuration rationales for FI and CO, maintaining configuration check list and validating the configuration
• Configurating Enterprise Structure, Financial Accounting Global Settings, General Ledger, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting (AA), Integration with SD, MM, PP, PS
• Configuring and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups
• Configuration of Asset Accounting, Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Implementing New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing
• Configuration of FI-GL, AR, AP, BL, CO-CCA, ABC, EC-PCA, CO-OM, PA, HR-ESS, MSS, FSCM (Credit and Risk Management), SD-OTC, SCM-MM/WM, BW-SEM-BPS.
• Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules
• In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and set up tolerances for budget cost. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution
• Configuring FI integration with MM and SD modules, configuring financial statement version (FSV) as per the client requirements
• Configuring General Ledger - Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files
• Coordinating Projects using ASAP methodology and solution manager including ongoing support, optimization and e-.
• Configuring all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration to generate the Payment Advice notes and to print the checks to make the payment for all Account Payable that are due, clearing of vendor and customer accounts that are due Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for payment Program, and Credit Management.
• Testing the settings on the development server and transported the settings onto the testing server for user testing and confirmation and transported into the production server after user confirmation.
• Developing test scripts, completing unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, progression test, system test, performance test and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Preparing end user documentations and trained end users. Documenting support model and escalation process. Help desk level 1,2,3
• Reducing data conversion workload by utilizing LSMW for legacy data migration into SAP.
• Incorporating authorization checks on programs and coordinated with security team to ensure information protection. (PFCG)
• Preparing and signing off the functional specification (FS) documents, FUT and UAT testing cycles (functional unit testing, and User Acceptance Testing) before Go Live.
• Involving in Data Conversions, Enhancements, EDI, Cutover activities, GO - LIVE, rollouts
• Supporting rollout after field trial and documented lessons learnt including upgrade roadmap.
• Resolving Issues on issue log and centralized repository of project documents (Shared Drive).
• Troubleshooting on post go live and re the super users (Train the Trainers)
• Establishing project documents and version controls and cut over plan for GO LIVE and Support.
• Uploading master data into the new system by using LSMW, BAPI and BADI.
• Pre and post go-live support and stabilization phase
• Conducting analysis and proof of concept for migration to S4 HANA and Analytics in Bog Data (Hadoop, Hive and MongoDB)
• Conducting cutover transition strategies and performing former system stop.
• Uploading of Cut Over Activities like (GL, vendors, customers, assets, Inventor /stock upload)
• Providing Post Implementation Support to the operational team
• Analyzing and documenting migration effort for SAP 4/HANA
• Documented business and table mapping for HANA Migration.

Confidential

Financial Process Analyst - Oracle and SAP integration

Responsibilities:

• Mapped upgrade project timelines to suit business activities for federal funds and grants management.
• Completely managed functionality mapping for FBS and BCS.
• Involved in designing, mapping, implementing & testing in the different business processes
• Contract A/C receivables and Payables set up in the sense of customer accounting to allow processing of mass data, as practiced with most Public sector projects. Further integration with other R/3 components such as Funds Management (PSCD-FBS/BCS).
• Worked with users and development teams in evolving specifications for the reports for budgeting. FBS
• BUWRTTP SAP Table - Mapping rules for migration from FBS to BCS.
• Upgrading BCS Value Type
• Workflow Status of a Record in the Budget Totals Table, Ignore Former Budgeting data during migration
• Implement budgeting functions in Grants Management for BCS after FBS upgrade.
• Migration at fiscal year-end: no specific action is required. See link below.
• Migration during the course of a fiscal year: you should carry out the activation of account assignments for BCS and optionally also define your budget structure.
• Mapping and coordinating data migration for FBS to BCS

Confidential

Business Analyst, ERP-Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and document business requirements through interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, and task and workflow analysis. Prepared Business and Functional requirement documents.
• Defined and documented high level business detail business requirements to meet stakeholder’s expectation
• Analyzed and troubleshooting ERP issues reported by end users.
• Upgrading and testing versions prior to use in production environment.
• Maintained ERP and applying Known Issues fixes.
• Documented and implemented process improvements related to ERP and business processes.
• Provided support to end users on ERP systems and desktop applications.
• Identified customer requirements and creating policies by analyzing needs to get optimum client satisfaction.
• Experienced in using business modeling tools such as MS Visio to generate data flow diagrams, process map flow charts and KPIs
• Perform detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions; identify, interpret, validate and document customer requirements Conducted risk, feasibility analysis and suggesting policy insights
• Created detailed functional Requirements Specifications (FRS) and Non-Functional Requirements
• Studding the problem areas suggesting the potential solutions, performing the impact analysis, functional decompositions of the problem
• Provided expert solutions in the Oracle ERP Cloud core finance modules: General Ledger, Contracts, Accounts Receivable, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Tax Cloud and Cash Management. Maintain Oracle configuration changes in respective application areas.
• Worked with Business Analysts, Process Owners and End Users to analyze business requirements.
• Support configurations, customization, reports and interfaces, testing and user
• Develop test scenarios and test scripts in the impacted solutions to facilitate appropriate integrated testing.
• Implement new system solutions and lead system testing and resolution of system issues per Securitas’ project management methodology.
• Worked closely with applications Support group to ensure proper post-implementations handoff.
• Closely worked with the project team members responsible for developing reports, interfaces, data conversion programs, and application extensions
• Created and maintain system/application documentation (requirements, processes, procedures)
• Provided applications knowledge in evaluating and improving current business processes.
• Provided expertise on new application releases and new functionality in Financial modules
• Document detailed business workflows and requirements for process change
• Designed and Executed data conversion plans between systems, tracked action items and owners of those items
• Prepared weekly status reports for assigned implementation engagements, develop and communicate and manage project schedules
• Analysed and documented high level and detailed business requirement and translate in use case diagram
• Translated technical applications specification into functional and non-functional business requirements
• Analysed testing impact of requirement changes and modifying test scenarios as needed adhering to the system development life cycle and project management life cycle methodologies

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted quantitative analysis of financial data to forecast revenue, identify future trends, and assess risk associated with capital expenditures, acquisitions, and joint-venture projects for large real estate investment firm
• Set standard costs for all products and directed the implementation of cost accounting methods and activities
• Oversaw the cost control systems managed and interpreted cost audits and prepared cost accounting reports for presentation to upper management
• Analyzed Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and make improvement recommendations, aligned with DWSS vision/mission
• Prepared monthly and annual financial statements conducted variance analysis and prepared ad hoc report.
• Checked monthly financial statements, analyzed financial reports, and computed financial ratios.
• Prepared and reviewed quarterly and annual financial statements including review of footnotes in accordance with the rules and regulations.
• Analyzed trends on sales volume, revenue and expenses using excel with pivot table and graph.
• Evaluated business performance on asset utilization, inventory management, contribution margin and return on investment.
• Served as the lead resource and subject matter expert for DRM (Data Relationship Management) on the Financial Systems team
• Analyzed and documented high level and detailed business requirement and translate in use case diagram
• Assisted to the development of financial strategic plan and preparation of annual budgeted financial statement.
• Provided monthly and quarterly reports and analysis of financial and performance KPI’s including P&L and Trade Working Capital