Professional profile:

• Business-oriented information technology professional with proven track record of providing innovative technical solutions to meet business and clients needs.
• Prior to the IT experience, fifteen years of industry experience in Accounting, Finance and Auditing.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP R/3 configuration, implementation experience in FI (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets), CO (Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Cost elements, Investment Management, CO-PA, Product Costing), Testing, Process Documentation, End-User Training, Client Business Requirements and Gap Analysis, Trouble Shooting.
• Experienced in the blueprint phase to define the project scope and planning for realization. Conducted business process blueprint workshop.
• Rich exposure to various industrial sectors: Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Consumer Goods, Chemical, Utilities, Retail and Life Sciences.
• Effective in executing multiple tasks and assignments ahead of schedule and under budget.
• Highly motivated team player, strong interpersonal and organization skills combined with international work ethics. Good problem-solving and decision-making skills- Self-motivation- Excellent teamwork and inter-personal skills.
• Setup integration between FI with SD and MM Modules. Configured Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Configuration on New General Ledger. Define leading ledger, Define ledger groups, defining splitting method and Rules, FI/CO real-time integration, foreign revaluation configuration.
• SAP R/3 implementation experience on Collections Management, Credit Control Area, Claims management and Dispute Management.
• Excellent ability to work with end users, process owners, technical & functional consulting teams in establishing business requirements, architecting and delivering solutions.
• Managed several teams involving on-site & off-shore teams
• Handled many post implementation / off-shore support engagements
• Worked in 5 Full life cycle implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects.

ERP :SAP R/3 4.6C/4.7, ECC 6.0 (FI, CO, SD, MM), New General Ledger, IBM Express
Solutions.
Operating Systems : Windows (NT, 2000, XP, 2003)
Other Software :Visio, MS Office suite, Lotus Notes, Sap Production Change Management Tool (PCMT), Solution Manager, Nestool (Nestle), HP Quality Center, uPerform, Great Plains Software, Peachtree Accounting, Quick Books, Quicken, BNA(Fixed Assets), Finavigate, SAP BI Reports. Mapics/38.

Master of Business Administration: Major: Accounting Information Systems, Minor: Finance, Quantitative Business Analysis, Marketing, Organizational Behavior

Senior SAP Financial Analyst September 2009 to May 2010
Confidential, Columbia, South Carolina

• Implemented Forex currency exchange by monthly basis, configured revaluation method. Created Cost centers, blocked cost centers. Setup revenue recognition, reconciled balances between Hyperion and SAP. Trained and supporting end users.
• Created tickets for configuration in Dev Environment and moved into QAS, transported into Production environment once testing was done successfully in QAS.
• Assist the project planning, closure of issues of the projects on time.
• Working with end users to help the issues related the postings in FI, MM and SD.
• Evaluated the training needs and prepare the end user training documentation.
• Meeting with teams on a monthly basis to review budget versus actual performance and update cost center forecasts.
• Worked with finance team to provide key analytical support for SG & A budget preparation.
• Lead and conducted workshops to gather requirements and developed business processes.
• Assisting with Brand/Product profitability analysis and new product development financials, proving reports from BW by monthly sales as well as DSR (Daily Sales Report)
• Configured Rebates in Customer Master Data, Condition Types, Sales Organization, Account keys (ERB, ERU), Account Determination, and Rebate Agreements.
• Resolving issues related accounting in Billing documents (VFX3).
• Reviewing unit testing and regression testing every week and responsible for moving FI, CO transports from QAS to Production.
• Assisting on Inventory Cycle Counting (ABC Analysis) to accurate results for Auditors.
• Calculate Revenue Recognition for every quarter for last three days of the month for different entities.
• Worked with team members in remote locations on resolving complex issues.

Confidential, August 2009 to September 2009
Client/Company: Confidential, (Project-Big Fish) Pittsburgh, PA
Module: IBM Express for SAP (Discovery, Verification, Activation, Simulation, Go-Live Support, Sustain)

• Arranging workshops, interacting with the client, demonstrating the scope of the IBM Express Solutions for SAP for G/L, A/R, A/P, Banking, Fixed Assets, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, and Product Costing.
• Work closely with business owners and executive leadership to ensure that system design supports and enables corporate strategic objectives.

WIPRO (SAP FI/CO Lead) Contractor May 2009 to July 2009
Client/Company: Confidential, Switzerland, Dublin, Ireland
Successfully implemented for Phase 1A at Mylan, Zurich, Switzerland. Implemented New G/L, Fixed Assets, Treasury, customer and Vendor master data.

• Requirements gathered for Organizational Structure General Overview, General Accounting, FI / CO Master Data, Banking Reporting, Accounts Payable Purchasing Integration, Purchase Order Processing, Tax Asset Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Sales Order Processing / Inter-company (Future).
• Created BPD's for Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable and General Ledger.
• Configured Automatic payment process in AP and bank Account G/L Structures.
• Defined Foreign Currency Valuation Methods, Prepared automatic postings for currency valuation.
• Setup Parallel currencies, setup VAT codes.
• Set up standard hierarchy for cost centers and profit centers
• Setup configuration in Development Environment.
• Set up cost centers and profit centers groups. Through accounting journal entries populated cost center with data.
• Cash Management configuration and testing included electronic bank statement, account groupings, liquidity forecast, cash management position, and cash concentration.
• Uploaded all Fixed Assets master data, balances and accumulated depreciation.
• Executed unit test plan, document and log all errors(defect) in the HP Quality Center, correct errors and log errors corrections, document and log changes as required, Fill all unit test results in HP Quality Center.
• Developed a detailed work plan for the Integration test, defined test conditions, defined test data, defined expected test results, defined test script, defined test cycles. Executed test cycles, reconciled system test results to expected test results. documented and log all errors, issues and defects, resolved errors and log error resolutions, modified system documentation as required and log changes, filed all system test results for completed test cycles, including re-tests.
• Developed detailed work plan for the execution of the performance test.
• Developed detailed work plan for the execution of the acceptance test.

Confidential, Feb 2008 to April 2009
Client/Company: Confidential, Oxford, U.K.
Project-Pioneer
SAP Managing Consultant July 2008 to March 2009

• Worked at Oxford, U.K. at the client places writing PDD documents, Functional Specifications, Configurations to achieve the target for go-live.
• Written PDD documents on Electronic Bank Statements and Accounts Receivable.
• Activated the New General Ledger, Define ledger for General Ledger Accounting, Assign Company code to Fiscal year Variant, Assigned Field Status Variant to the Company Code.
• Defined Document splitting Characteristics for General Ledger Accounting, Activated Document splitting for company code.
• Activated Cash Discounts for Fixed Assets, Assign Variant for Real-Time Integration to Company codes
• Prepared Automatic Postings for Foreign Currency Valuation, Classified G/L Accounts for Document Splitting, Defined Valuation Areas, Created Valuation Method.
• Defined Calculation bases, credits, Cost Component Structure, Costing types, Costing Variants, Valuation Variants, Date Control, Transfer Strategy, Cost Component Split Structure, and Costing Sheets for Product Cost Controlling.
• Defined Results Analysis keys, Cost Elements for WIP calculation, Results Analysis versions, and Valuation methods.
• Responsible for carrying out the Costing runs periodically. Created, Marked and Released Cost Estimates.
• Identified Gaps for Sales and Distribution, Financials and Controlling, Materials Management, Inventory Management.
• Written functional specifications for several payment interfaces which collated into one Functional specifications, such as Direct Debts, Europe Domestic/International Payments, Harley-Davidson-Australia, Domestic/International Payments, Harley-Davidson -MEA Domestic/International Payments, MT940 Format Bank Statement For Harley-Davidson-Europe and European Subs, MT940 Format Bank Statement For Harley-Davidson-Australia.
• Defined House Bank for ABN Amro and JP Morgan for Europe, and configured Electronic Bank Statement. Setup Payment Terms, Customer Account Groups and number ranges.
• Created blue print documentation for Collection, Dispute Management, Credit Management and Biller Direct
• Configured of Credit Control Area, Dispute management.
• Configured integration between Dispute Management and Account Receivables for dispute purposes as well as partial payments thru lockbox.
• Configured Collections Management including Defined Company Codes for Collections Management, Assigned Company Codes to Collections Management, Assigned Credit Segments to Collections Management, and Assigned Credit Segments to Collections Management, Assigned Collections Segment to Collection Profile, Defined Groups and assigned Strategy, Assigned Collection groups to Segment, Defined Collection Rules, Defined Business Partner and assigned Collection profile to Business Partner.
• Defined currencies for leading ledger, Defined variants for real time integration, Classify G/L accounts for document splitting, Defined document splitting method, Defined document splitting rule, Defined Business transaction variants.
• Configured Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Created Purchase Orders (ME21N), created incoming invoices (MIRO), Sales Orders, Billing Documents for Unit testing.
• Setup Financial Statement Versions for European countries.
• Setup Chart of Accounts for France, South Africa, Spain, Australia and Great Britain.
• Created BPP documents in (uPerform) Prod Pak.
• Setup Alternative G/L accounts, Field Status Groups, Sort Keys, Line Item Display, Currencies and fields in Chart of Accounts in Development, Testing, and QA Environments.

Confidential
Client/Company: Confidential, Atlanta, GA.
SAP Managing Consultant February 2008 - July 2008

• Reviewed all the Gaps, PDD documents.
• Configured lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format
• Configured automatic Cash application based on invoice, amount, reference numbers, including setup of tolerance levels and payment differences.
• Written Functional specs on Invoices Return to Vendor (RTV) and Return to Requester (RTR) Functionality Automation from the Kofax image system, Non PO Inv. Approval Reminder/Escalation.
• Coordinated different teams from IBM Endicott, IBM India and client (US, Europe) to review the Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications for approval for Change Request.
• Created Transports in SAP, Production Change Management Tool (PCMT) for Functional specifications and Technical specification for SRM and ECC, moved transports into development box after approved by client. Assigned transports to different users in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Calcutta in India for development. Issues resolved from users for development.
• Keep tracking the change request status in the Sap Production Change Management Tool (PCMT) for the development in offshore.
• Written Baseline Accounts Payable Configuration (Defined Vendor Groups, Assigned Number Ranges to Vendor Account Groups, Defined Industries, Defined Sensitive Fields for Dual Control (Vendor), Defined Minority Indicators, Check Inco terms, Maintained Terms of Payment, Defined Tolerance (Vendors), Setup company codes for payment transactions, Setup paying company codes for payment transactions, Setup payment methods per company code for payment transactions).

Confidential
Client/Company: Confidential, Phoenix, AZ.
Role - AP, AR, Fixed Assets Functional Lead October 2007 - January 2008

• Defined Leasing types, Created special asset classes and account allocations for your leased assets.
• Defined depreciation areas for capitalize leased assets using the capital lease procedure.
• Activated the depreciation areas, in which the leased assets will be capitalized and depreciated, in the asset classes.
• Assigned leasing type to the asset master records for leased assets.
• Maintained the information and conditions of the leasing agreement in the master records of the leased assets.
• Posted the acquisition of a leased asset with the display transaction for asset master data.
• Maintained Leasing conditions in asset master records (amount of lease payments, number of payments, payment cycle).
• Calculated present value based upon amount of lease payment, annual interest rate, number of lease payments, leasing cycle, number of periods in a year, period interest factor.
• Performed configuration and assisted client in testing cycles, technical preparation of BPP's, test scenarios, End-user documentation and User manuals.
• Lead the business process design, system configuration, and system integration tests (SIT), and data validation.
• Responsible for the creation of weekly status to track outcomes for the week and projected upcoming activities for the teams. Specifically, giving an account for issues at hand, ongoing status of each issue, resolutions in work to resolve the issue, or work around set in place to temporarily mitigate the issue while a permanent solution is developed. In addition, provide information on upcoming/new objectives to work going forward.
• Research and analyze data that has been gathered as a result of workshops and meetings for the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable teams.
• Reviewing and assess level 3 requirements from Chief Financial Officer
• Ensure QA team has the latest test scripts in HP Quality Center and Solution Manager
• Providing support for defect resolution. Document test scenarios, results and defects per project standards.
• Supporting execution of all "cutover" activities in preparation for Go-Live.
• Supporting other team members to better understand FM business requirements and design, and assist them in the evaluation of potential impacts to their perspective areas.

Confidential
Client/Company: Confidential, Highpoint, NC
Role - AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Controlling Lead March 2007 - September 2007

• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Created different Vendor & Customer Groups and maintained the Field Status as per the nature of these Groups and assigned number ranges for the same.
• Configured Accounts Payable - Creation of Vendor Master Data, Invoices, Outgoing Payments and Partial payments
• Implemented Terms of Payment, Interest Calculation, Automatic Account Determination for Overpayments/Underpayments & Cash Discounts, Customer Tolerance Groups
• Configured Lockbox process in Account Receivables (AR)
• Configured and tested Electronic Bank Statement processing and positive pay file generation, Bank reconciliation.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR), incoming payments, billing and credit management.
• Configured dunning program for A/R for new company codes.
• Configured Dispute Management, Credit Control Area.
• Installed Funds Management, Budget Control System (BCS), Setup Budget Profiles.
• Integration and testing of FI with MM, SD
• Tolerance for employees, General Ledger, Vendors/Customers configuration.
• Configuration of Number Ranges for GL Accounts, Accounts Receivable / Payable Accounts. Involved in Testing of different Business Processes and support packs for A/R, A/P, and G/L.
• Maintained Month end and Yearend closing procedures.
• Manually configured New Primary & Secondary Cost Elements

Confidential, CT.
Project: Nestle Purina and Nestle Waters May 2004 - January 2007
Role - Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Implementation Lead
The GLOBE project is the largest-ever deployment of mySAP.com

• Lead the project for SAP Finance AR/AP implementation to Go-Live.
• Identify the Fit/gaps and write the Functional specs.
• Co-ordinate the Interface requirements with the ACH department of JP Morgan/Chase bank representative on daily basis.
• Designed Non- PO and PO invoice approval process flow in compliance with the company policy and reviewed with different departments
• Performed the product testing of AP Bank Interfaces, i.e. Chase Bank Canada NACHA Interface, Chase Bank EDI Payments Interface and Chase Bank Reconciliation Interface.
• Performed product testing of the Invoice Authorizations outbound Interface and Disbursement Approval Interface.
• Helped with the System Investigation Request process to ensure that needed requirements get the project leadership attention.
• Support Post Production Nestle Globe Account Payable and Account Receivables issues after Go-Live. Gives updates to the stabilization command center daily on Account Payables metrics.
• Gained lots of knowledge on different middleware working processes i.e. GBI (General Billing Interface) and JETI (Journal Entry Transaction Interface)

Confidential, CUPERTINO, CA

• Set up posting of Inter-company code transactions and dunning processing which included from creation of dunning proposals to printing the dunning. (OBYA, F150)
• Responsible for creating payment proposals, processing and running the payment programs, configuration settings for payment release and interest calculation. Defined accounts for net procedure and terms of payment for holdback. Involved in check management and DME.Responsible for closing activities, which include balance confirmation and foreign currency valuation. (F.05)
• Configured payment advice notes and special G/L transactions. Involved in interest calculation transactions and responsible for running the customized interest calculation reports. (F.52)
• Tested GL transactions for fast-entry screens, posting keys.
• Implemented accounts payable check printing, periodic Sales and Use tax reporting and related month end financial reports.
• Helped in the implementing CO-PA, which includes operating concern, characteristics for the operating concern, creating value fields, maintaining CO-PA Tables, assigning values to the value fields, mapping SD condition types to the value fields ( the SD Interface), assign SD quantity fields to value fields, maintaining characteristics groups for FI and SD postings to CO-PA, maintaining Record Types and CO-PA Reporting.

Confidential, CA
IS-OIL FICO Consultant June 2001 to Feb 2002

• Participated in the blueprint phase to define the project scope and planning for realization. Conducted business process blueprint workshop.
• Responsible for Configuration of Asset Classes, depreciation areas, chart of depreciation, Asset retirements, Asset transfers, Revaluation of Assets, depreciation run and year-end closing in Asset accounting. (AS01, AS11 and AS03)
• Managed Asset Data Transfer from Legacy to SAP by using LSMW. Tested and validated the data before and after transfer and reconciling with FI-GL Accounting.
• Responsible for posting the lease payments, processing the expiration and scrapping leased assets. Carried out year-end closing, cost planning functions and simulating depreciation for future fiscal years. (F-90)
• Responsible for fixing post-implementation obstacles in various modules with respect to release of documents to accounting and tax settings. Responsible for integration settings of FI with CO, MM and SD modules with respect to account determination for various clearing and adjustment accounts and
• automatic posting. (F-02 and F.44)
• Performed business analysis and modeling for reporting requirements for BW implementation in the area of FICO, SD and MM. Using Tables like MARA, MAKT VBAK, VBAP, VBRK, VBRP, KNAI, BKPF and BSEG.

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA
Financial Analyst May 1995 - May 2001

• Oversee all areas of financial reporting from review of account entry to budget preparation, including accounting, contract administration, provide accounting management team training, coaching and mentoring to staff of 12 to 15.
• Developed audit plans, evaluate accounting operations, prepared tax returns and conduct tax research for C and S status corporations.
• Responsible for posting the lease payments, processing the expiration and scrapping leased assets. Carried out year-end closing and simulating depreciation for future fiscal years
• Prepared the monthly Financial Analysis Report, Direct preparation of cash flow reports for presentation to the Audit Finance committee.
• Direct and supervise preparation of monthly reports that project monthly debt service payments.
• Calculated Average Daily Cash Balance by using Principal Fund, Ledger, Fiscal year, Distribution Period.

Confidential, Norcross, GA
Accounting Supervisor Dec. 1992 - April. 1995

• Verified accuracy of data processing for accounting information.
• Had complete responsibility for accounts payable systems and prepaid orders, requesting checks and processing interdepartmental transfers and invoice cancellation.
• Had complete responsibility for items billed and accounts receivable, including invoice mailing, handling cash receipts and statements, and processing interdepartmental transfers.
• Supervised other regular clerical and accounting staff during minor portion of the employee's work time; duties include assigning, reviewing and evaluating work.
• Assisted with special accounting projects.
• Reconciled budget and expense statements with departmental accounts.

Other: Traveled and worked major cities in North America, Asia and Europe.

Reference Available Upon Request