SUMMARY

• SAP FI/FSCM consultant with 7 years of experience which includes two full life cycle implementations, configuration, testing, upgrades, end user training, and production support.
• An expertise in ASAP methodology and involved in "AS - IS" and "TO-BE" study.
• Extensive experience in the phases of requirement gathering, Business Blueprinting, realization, customization/configuration, Testing, cut-over, go live planning and post go-live support and training.
• Expert and In-depth understanding of Bank Reconciliation, Inter-company Billing and Settlement using In-house Cash
• Integration specialist with solid business experience in FSCM Suite including but not limited to; Collections, Dispute, Credit Management, Cash Management-Cash position and Liquidity Forecast.
• Highly experienced in Bank Communications Management (Batching and Swift Integration)
• Expert functional and technical knowledge of Bank interfaces (i.e. Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement, Check and Wire Payments).
• Expert in FI - GL, New GL, Foreign Currency Exchange, AP, AR, banking, Lockbox and electronic Bank Statement processing.
• Experience with multiple platforms SAP R/3, ECC 5.0 & 6.0
• Expert technical understanding of different payment file format (ACH, BAI, BAI2 and SWIFT).
• Strong written and oral communications skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP FI, GL, NEW GL, AR, AP, FSCM, Functional Testing

OS: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Office Tools: MS Office, Outlook

Middleware: Gentran

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP FICO Senior Associate Advisory

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate through Design, Realization, Testing & Go-Live activities
• Assisting with technical efforts related to SAP, including Developing, Designing, implementing, and support business process in SAP environment.
• Actively participated in client discussions and meetings, communicating a broad range of Firm services
• Managed engagements including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues
• Created a positive environment by monitoring workloads for team members while meeting client expectations and respecting the work life quality of team members
• Developed and maintained issue logs for tracking system and maintained consistency with Change Requirements.
• Developed and maintained detailed project plans for all teams/individuals involved in the project/program.
• Managed and updated plans weekly.
• Conducted meetings with teams to obtain status, identify and address issues.
• Worked with onshore and offshore team members and international client.
• Perform testing of SAP S4/HANA for firm using Fiori.
• Performed different several tasks such as (Accounts Receivable lead, Data Mapping, Data Cleansing) during mergers on client.
• Performed GAP Analysis, documented and prototyped between current business practices and standard SAP functionality.
• Lead team members onshore & offshore.

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

SAP FI/FSCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed several different roles during my carrier at Accenture which includes, but not limited in the areas of AP, AR, GL, NEW GL, Foreign Currency Exchange, FSCM, Credit, Dispute & Collection Management, Test Lead, Team Lead and Financial Reporting.
• Performed gap analysis on current and future systems, including mapping of functionality, defining data needs and recommending solutions.
• Active participation through Blueprint, Design, Realization, Testing, Go Live and Stabilization activities.
• Developed and maintained detailed project plans for all teams/individuals involved in the project/program. Managed and updated plans weekly. Conducted meetings with teams to obtain status, identify and address issues. Worked with international teams and clients to develop and implement solutions.
• Defined business processes and workflows to integrate functionality and support business implementations. Identified process improvement/changes to increase effectiveness.
• Facilitated customer workshops to define and customize business workflow processes for all individual customer functions and define business requirements.
• Provided hands-on configuration experience for Implementation of Projects.
• Utilized variety of tools and techniques to define the Organization structure, identify users and define roles.
• Conducted End to End Testing including writing test plan, creating test scripts and execution of testing.
• Developed and maintained issue logs for tracking system and maintained consistency with Change Requirements.
• Worked with team to oversee the resolution of ongoing program issues, risks and concerns.
• Developed, tracked and managed project cost and schedule.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

SAP FI/FSCM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Key areas of responsibilities included New GL, AP, AR, FSCM Credit, Dispute & Collection Management and Financial Reporting.
• Key tasks completed during the Blueprinting were “as-is” and “to-be” analysis of all the major finance business processes, process design documents, position papers and process.
• Functional design documents completed for custom developments, interfaces and reports for the Finance area (RICEF objects)
• Performed configuration of org structures setup related to AP, AR, Banking and FSCM Credit management completed including unit testing and related configuration documents.
• Configured Biller Direct for the production environment for US and EU customers.
• Created Credit Management, Dispute and Collection Management analysis, as well as integration with SAP Biller Direct.
• Created Credit Management, Dispute and Collection Management analysis.
• Created Credit Management organizational hierarchy, scoring, system actions (based on classifications), credit limit management and external data interfaces with data vendors.
• Also, created credit ratings and maximum exposure computations based on various factors.
• Completed development of SAP security authorizations, profiles, roles definitions and assignments for the Finance area
• Lead efforts to develop and complete integration testing schedule, business scenarios and testing scripts for FI/CO areas
• Created account groups in chart of accounts.
• Creation of G/L master records and G/L document number ranges.
• Configured A/P and A/R including vendor and customer groups, vendor and customer number ranges.
• Configured terms of payment, Tolerance group, outgoing invoice, clearing open items, automatic payment.
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module, including vendor and customer’s invoices and payments, G/L posting.
• Successfully lead and completed 3 cycles of integration testing in collaboration of working with other functional and business teams to resolve issues & bugs arising from testing.
• Lead and managed go-live cut over tasks related to the finance areas. Worked on the post go-live stabilization phase and helping with the month-end close.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FI/FSCM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Studied and analyzed the existing business processes of Confidential . Recorded Process Flow, Created flowcharts using MS Visio and got it approved from process owners.
• Created the Business blue print documentation to map the business requirements into SAP FI/CO functionalities
• Worked in configuring FI sub-areas including GL, AP, AR and Cash Mgmt.
• Configured GL operating chart of accounts (COA) to be used by the Confidential and configured global settings for company code.
• Configured Account Groups for customer & vendor and defined Number ranges
• Configured customer & vendor tolerance groups, maintained customer credit management and dunning procedures for Confidential .
• Maintained Payment terms and payment block reasons and set the default values for payment block
• Defined house banks, and Configured automatic payment program (APP)
• Prepared Business Process Procedure documents (BPP) and trained the team members of Confidential team about new system functionality, prepared business process documents and user training manuals
• Actively involved in legacy transactional data upload using LSMW for uploading vendor, customer master company code details and internal order master records.
• Provided post implementation support after Go-Live for period of two months and was responsible for on job training for the client support team.