SUMMARY

• 6+ years of experience in the design, configuration and implementation of SAP FI/CO modules.
• In - depth understanding of business strategy, business/IT goals and its relevance to ERP implementation.
• Hands on experience in SAP configuration, testing, development, business analysis and end user training.
• Completed 3 full life cycle FICO implementation including upgrades.
• Project Management experience working with multiple teams including Project charter, project plans, task management, resource management, communication to stakeholders, requirement churn analysis, change control management.
• Highly motivated and independent working approach by organizing meetings, identifying room for process improvement working with cross functional teams.
• Proficient Configuring General Ledger, New GL, Document Splitting, Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal Order Accounting.
• Experienced in US GAAP, IFRS and SOX requirements.
• Thorough understanding of the integration between FICO, SD and MM modules. Understanding of business scenarios such as Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay.
• Worked on creating LSMW for Data migration and master data creation
• IDOCs/ALE and interface experience with inbound and outbound interfaces
• Implemented Invoice Scanning solution using interfaces with external systems such as Onbase
• Designed and Implemented workflows for invoice approvals, purchase order approvals and intercompany billing approvals.
• Designed and Implemented webforms and workflows for Master data creation.
• Managed a team of SAP consultants in onshore/offshore model using IT ticketing tool like TrackiT and ServiceNow.
• Defined SLAs, Priorities and management structure (Escalation policies, work categories, etc.) for SAP support tickets and project enhancements.
• Performed Change management duties including but not limited to Preparation, assessment and strategy development. Detailed planning and change management implementation.
• Training documentation preparation and central hosting using tools like uPerform.
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) experience including Risk analysis and Remediation, Compliant User Provisioning and Superuser privilege management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/ 3 4.6/5.0/6.0 FI/CO modules

Tools: MS Office, FrontPage, Visio, uPerform, Camtesia, Hyland Onbase, Sharepoint, Microsoft Project, FI-General Ledger, FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Accounts Receivable, FI-Bank Accounting, Interface mapping and design, BAI2 Electronic Bank Statements, Lockbox, Segmental Reporting, Profit Center Accounting, Cost center accounting, Internal Order accounting, Assessments and Distribution Cycles, Statistical Key Figures, Secondary Cost Elements, Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support of user community in the North America region including USA, Canada and Mexico
• User training in the areas of AP, AR, GL, Bank Accounting, Asset accounting,
• Requirements gathering for new enhancements and projects
• Managing new Project within allocated budget by preparing Project Charters, Project Plans and implementation strategy to support the project plans and schedules
• Resource/Personnel Management, Task tracking in MS Project Server, Project Sharepoints, Issue and Risk management
• Designed several interfaces from multiple billing systems including Oracle, FMPro, Scheduall, LOFT, Concur, EasySource and CETA using incoming and outgoing idocs.
• Designed and implemented Bank accounting scenarios including LockBox design and configuration, Electronic Bank Statements and Positive Pay files.
• Designed and worked on various custom reports including Credit Analysis reports, Profit and Loss statements
• Implemented full cycle of payment setup including Automatic payment programs, payment advises, payment transmission using idocs/ALE, incoming bank statements through idocs
• Created detail documentation including process flow, functional specifications, interface mapping
• Involved in the testing cycle of new processes and enhancements including test scripts, test scenarios, unit testing, integration testing, user training for UAT
• User access management using SAP GRC
• Defined logical systems, ports, partners and other configurations required for iDoc/EDI transmission for accounting documents, vendor master, payments, Bank statements and Purchase orders
• Involved in carveout/migration projects from other systems such as Great Plains and JBA.
• Performed analysis on breakfixes and proposed recommendations for solutions to complex business requirements by process improvement.
• Managed day to day tickets and assigned/balanced work to other SAP team members by defining SLAs and priorities.
• Vendor management in an outsourced model including Onshore (US) and offshore service providers for SAP support and SAP projects by documenting detailed requirements and translating them into Change request documents in relation to SAP FICO scope.
• Defined assessment and distribution cycles, secondary cost elements
• Designed Profit center hierarchies, Cost center hierarchies, account groupings, validations, substitutions.
• Created PnL reports using the report painter tool

SAP FICO Lead

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and defined organizational structure for migration from legacy system (JD Edwards) to SAP including designing Profit center hierarchy, Cost Center Hierarchy
• Configured Finance structure including company codes, chart of accounts, fiscal year variants, trading partners, controlling area, profit center hierarchy, cost center hierarchy, Segments, Business Areas
• Configured Logistics structure including Sales and Purchase organizations, plants, distribution channels.
• Defined cross company code postings and account determination
• Worked on security role cleanup by analyzing GRC Reports.
• Implemented and designed online webforms by preparing requirements and functional specifications for WebDynpro Development.
• Worked with Web Dynpro team to create integration with SAP Interactive Adobe Forms.
• Provided program management support through the software development Life Cycle of on-going projects using PS.
• Developed Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) to capture business requirements
• Created functional design documentation and functional specification to translate business requirements into SAP Functionality including mappings, process definition and designs for custom programs and enhancements.
• Identified business scenarios and created test scripts including but not limited to Integration testing, User acceptance testing (UAT)
• Created training documentation for end users using tools such as uPerform, Camtesia and presentations
• Created specifications for external commands and background batch jobs.
• Designed and configured automatic payment program, house banks, check lots, custom check scripts, custom scripts for payment advises.
• Configured Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) by defining transaction types, account symbols and posting rules.
• Worked with BAML to implement BAI2 format Electronic Bank Statements in SAP
• Worked with BAML to implement positive pay files for check management including void information
• Designed and created several accounting validations in SAP per business requirements
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module, including vendor and customer’s invoices and payments, document fast entry, GL posting, and recurring entry programs, automatic payment program and others
• Modified existing Queries to meet business requirements.
• Designed and implemented Invoice OCR functionality using integration between Onbase and SAP. This project involved several interfaces in which the company used onbase for scanning and archiving of vendor invoices and payments. Designed workflows for invoice and payment approvals.
• In Project Systems, Created Budget Profiles for Projects and assigned them to Project Types.
• Created specs to support data migration from legacy to SAP by creating mapping tables and using middleware systems.
• Identified House Banks and bank accounts, created GL accounts and assigned them to the bank account, defined check number ranges and check lots.
• Configured settings for SAP LIV (Logistics Invoice Verification) and Three way match
• Participated in analysis of existing system for As-Is study, process improvement teams, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, Gap Analysis and created Business blue print document to map the business requirements into SAP FI/CO functionalities.
• Prepared and reviewed Business Process Procedures (BPP) for New-GL, AP, AR, AA & PS.
• Participated in planning, realization and preparation of functional design specification (FDS) & technical design specification (TDS) documents.
• Preparation of configuration documents, business sign-off and uploading in Share-point.
• Document splitting and Segmental reporting.
• Account clearing and settings for automatic payment program.
• Successfully transferred Assets, other open items from the legacy system to SAP by using LSMW.
• Worked on AR configuration including billing, incoming payment processing, account clearing, GL account assignments from SD, payment terms, Credit Management, dunning and customer statements.
• Worked on account determination configuration and interface points between FI, MM and SD and also on various SD & MM activities such as order management, material management.
• Leading the customized Lockbox process with Cash Application process according to the requirement.
• Redesigned the CAPEX process which was first implemented by the implementation partner.
• Supporting the issues and addressing accordingly for Internal Orders including status profile for CAPEX and Statistical Order Types, settlement rules, internal order planning, budget profile and settlement distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• OSS note implementation & testing.
• Lead functional & development teams on the design and development of RICEFW.
• Created functional specifications and provided functional inputs and solutions for the design of customized
• (including statutory reporting requirements) FI/CO Reports in ABAP, BI 7.0 & BPC.
• Working on developing training courses by curriculum and process area via RWD uPerform tools and User training from various user groups.
• Leading continuous full time support by attend all the critical issues and addressed them accordingly.
• Support User issues (production tickets) - understanding User issues, defining Root Cause Analysis
• (RCA) and documenting, communicate with User and Power-User, fix the issue by making additional configuration/program, changes to existing configuration/program or new development, providing business process as well as documenting the process in PCR Log/Issue Database for transporting TR/Approval and
• Closure of the issues based on their criticality level defined in the SLA (Service Level Agreement) by transporting the new configurations and/or changes.
• Involved in trouble shooting issues related to New-GL, AP, AR, Banking interfaces, AA and CAPEX.
• Trouble-shooting on issues related to CAPEX (Build-out & Non Build-out) Settlements, Cost Element
• Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• Monitoring financial postings and synchronization activity on a systematic and on-going basis.
• G/L master data and Cost Element creation and maintenance.
• Monitoring replication of CCA & PCA actual documents posted in source system to target system.
• Verification of the Exchange rate currency used in the source system (SAP) and target system (BPC).
• Conducted various finance review meetings to discuss the various intricacies in the business and the needed development strategies.

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented As-Is model and To-Be model.
• Configured the organizational structure from accounting view - Company Code, Chart of
• Accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Defined RA Keys and assigned them to WBS elements in Project Systems
• Integration between different modules - GL, AP, AR, Bank Ledger, Treasury, PP, CO (CCA, Internal Orders), SD and MM.
• Interacted with the client in gathering business requirement, creating business requirement document, and functional design document.
• Analyzed the as-is system, did the GAP Analysis, and designed the to-be system.
• Configuration of Project Profile for customizing WBS Elements, Networks and Activities.
• Configuring and testing the Scenarios as per the Clients new Business Process.
• Setup comprehensive testing methodology for new scenarios assisting Key Users Online.
• Wrote functional specification of New GL, Vendor Master Conversion, and Customer Master Conversion.
• Mapped classic GL to new GL as a part of upgrade.
• Integrated Asset Accounting (FI-AA), structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset values, Acquisitions entry and alterations during use, Asset retirement. Worked with Depreciation postings, calculations/reporting and Year-end closing and Change-of year.
• Worked on budgeting in investment management by integrating PS with IM using Position IDs; Worked on linking the Funds Centers to PS WBS elements from Funds management.
• Defined plan Versions for Fiscal Year. Configured Special Characters like Project Length, Structure Length, Entry Tool and Automatic Number Assigned to determine the format of Project Definition.
• Worked on Overhead calculation and settlement.
• Configured Asset Accounting module and converted legacy data into SAP.
• Defined and wrote testing scenarios for validation and substitution rules in Asset accounting.
• Configuring the operating concern which includes maintain characteristics, maintain value fields. Copying customizing from an existing operating concern.
• Maintaining user defined characteristics, maintaining characteristics hierarchy.
• Define Characteristics derivation.
• Configuring valuation strategies. Valuation using standard cost estimate.
• Configuring condition tables and costing sheets.
• Manual planning, automatic planning, integrated planning.
• Configuring the value flow from SD to COPA, configuring the value flow from FI, MM to COPA.
• Configuring assessment cycle for value flow from CO to COPA.
• Configuring settlement of production variances to COPA.
• Configuring Profitability reports for COPA.
• Configured controlling area, assigned company codes to controlling area & assigned number ranges.
• Maintained master data in Cost Element Accounting.
• Analyzed the client’s organization structure and configured standard hierarchy for cost center and assigned the cost centers to the hierarchy.
• Customized GL accounting created GL sample accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, and financial statement versions.
• Worked on different IDOC types for Invoices, FI Documents, Bank statement and Lockbox.
• Defined vendor and customer one-time-accounts.
• Defined credit limit checks for SD processing, Risk management for receivables, assigned
• Company Code to Credit Control Area.
• Integrated FI, FI-AA and CO-CCA. Involved in the design of Asset Class and Charts of depreciation in Fixed Assets
• Configured Asset Accounting structure/valuating fixed assets, Treasury cash management, foreign exchange and payment program for payments.
• Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA and to CCA.
• Payment processing in AR and Automatic Account Determination.
• Developed AR aging report, created Invoice Layout and processed invoices.
• Worked on month-end and year-end processes (Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements).
• FI- GL - General ledger accounts, company code specific areas, line items display layouts, field status groups, foreign currency exchange rate types, exchange rates, variant for opening and closing periods, and document number ranges.
• CO-CCA/IO- Maintaining Controlling Area, Standard Hierarchy and Cost Elements, Created Cost Element Groups, Cost Center Groups, Cost Centers, Secondary Cost Elements Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures and Internal Orders. Payment processing in AR and Automatic Account Determination.
• Worked on month-end and year-end processes.
• Established and maintained financial records for accounts payable to ensure accuracy of payments.
• Assisted in the preparation of ad-hoc reporting and internal and external financial statements
• Proactively interacted with clients to understand their business processes.
• Examined and verified the book of accounts and other necessary documents of the clients.
• Performed GAP analysis and analyzed various business functions to derive benefits that gave management better control in terms of cost realization/rationalization.

SAP FI/CO Lead Consultant

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centers.
• Examining the company’s document flow vis-à-vis SAP process flow and recommending suitable validation procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.
• Grouping the company’s vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Defined SOD Key controls for business and tested them using standard SAP functionality.
• Ensured reports are in line with SOX requirements.
• Configuring fiscal year variants with year - dependent periods for yearend closing and posting period variants.
• Defining document types and number ranges, understanding the concept of posting keys.
• Defining field status variant and field status groups for determining field status.
• Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for each company code.
• Created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers and assets.
• Made settings for automatic procedures in payment programs and for interest calculation on account balances and line items.
• Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
• Configured settings for Accounts Payables / Accounts Receivables (AP/AR).
• Created vendor master, customer master and specified number range and screens layout.
• Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Configured for vendor/customer who is also customer/vendor who is trading partner.
• Configured invoice verification.
• Configured for purchasing and payables.
• Ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and Customer.
• Created credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers.
• Determined how company code must be assigned to credit control areas.
• Configured the settings for outgoing payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• In Cost Element Accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element Groups, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting.
• Distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, activity types etc.
• Assigned profit center to the respective cost centers, material master and sales orders through sales order substitutions in profit center hierarchy and transferred revenue accounts and balance sheet accounts to profit centers in profit center hierarchy.