Senior Sap S4 Hana Simple Finance-fscm Lead Functional Consultant Resume
NJ
SUMMARY
- He is having 14+ years of experience which includes 12+ years of SAP Functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training and support in SAP FI/CO.
- Experience in Financial Accounting (FI) includes General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Special Purpose Ledger.
- Expertise in Controlling (CO) includes Cost Center Accounting (CO - CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC), and Internal Orders.
- 4+ years of Experience in FSCM includes Credit Management, Collection Management, Dispute Management and Biller Direct.
- Three full life cycle implementation experience including Business Process Re-engineering, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Testing and Integration of FI/CO with SD and MM.
- Strong Integration experience of FI/CO with SD, MM & PP, and thorough understanding of FI/CO, SD and MM function modules. Conceptually good at configuring procure to pay(PTP) and order to cash (OTC) in SAP
- Implemented FSCM modules in Credit, Dispute and collection Management.
- Implemented Financial Closing Cockpit 200.
- Participated in Configurations, Upgrades, Roll-Outs, Supports and Training phases.
- Configuration of House Banks, Manual Bank Statement, Bill of Exchange, Lock box processing and cash journal
- Implemented High Radius tool for clients on SAP FSCM.
- Working knowledge of data migration tools using BDC, LSMW and CATT.
- Worked on User-Exits and Background jobs.
- Experience in ABAP/4 Programming with queries, Interfaces, Reports, SAP Scripts, Dialog Programming, and Smart forms.
- Worked on S/4 HANA implementation.
- Worked on Migration of data from legacy Non- SAP systems like HFM, JAVA and PeopleSoft.
- Design and implementation of Data Archiving and Document Archiving. Expertise and Configuration and Customization in ADK, DaRT, Archive Link.
- Extensively worked with ABAP team in support of developing functional specifications for (RICE) Reports, Interfaces, Conversion programs and Enhancements.
- Worked on global rollouts across regions in America’s, Asia-pacific and Europe.
- Experience working with Solution Manager (PM Tools) for Testing, Reporting and Automation.
- Worked with CaliberRM tool which is used for Requirements Management.
- Experience working with HP Quality Center for Testing, Reporting and Automation.
- Expertise in providing training to end-user and conducting workshops.
- Experience in performing Unit Test (UT), Integration Test (IT) and User Acceptance Test (UAT).
- Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines. Highly energetic personality with structured work habits and good personal time management.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- SAP R/3 ECC 6.0/ ECC 5.0/4.6B/ 4.6C/ 4.7
- Windows 95/98/NT/2000, UNIX, MS DOS
- ABAP/4, SQL, HTML, C, C ++
- Access, Power Point, MS-Word, MS-Excel
- Oracle 8.x/9.x, MS SQL Server, MS Access
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior SAP S4 HANA Simple Finance-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant
Confidential, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Implemented new icloud solutions for digital transformation.
- Implemented High radius for FSCM solutions in credit, collections and dispute management.
- Performed profit centre re-mapping to enhance reporting at sub brands.
- Implemented winshuttle to have a workflow process with approval for Vendor and customer creation.
- Worked on setting up automatic payment process.
- Worked on implementing new tools for order processing and enhancing pricing/discounting in sales and distribution.
- Created new tools and templates for migration of master and transactional data for company mergers.
- Implemented Blue prism solutions for automating bank statements to increase hit ratio.
- Created report writer reports for controlling data to reconcile data at cost centres.
- Created new OTC training documentation after implementing credit card solution with Paymetric.
- Resolved Production support issues in Controlling reporting.
Senior SAP S4 HANA Simple Finance-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant
Confidential, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Worked on Configuring GL, CO, AR and AP modules.
- Implemented HANA Reports in AR, AP and FSCM.
- Worked on creating Fiori Apps and pages based on specific AR roles.
- Implemented custom reports and enhancements based on client requirements.
- Worked on setting up automatic payment process.
- Implemented Dunning process for EMEA
- Implemented Customer statement and payment advises.
- Worked with Global tax team to implement tax changes AR and AP process.
- Worked with One-source Tax team to rightly map AR and AP data to determine taxes.
- Created various substitutions and validations In FI.
- Worked with HANA-BW team to create/Design new CDS views for AR reporting.
- Integration: FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules.
- Worked on Automatic account assignment for MM/SD transaction (OBYC).
- Worked on vendor consignment process setup.
- Worked with Billing team for zero consolidated invoices and revenue and tax account determination
- Worked with Billing team for SD and COPA integration setup.
- Implemented AR reporting in HANA by enhancing the data at sub engagement.
- Implemented a Global reporting solution to feed 160 downstream systems with a common interface.
- Implemented COPA to have the reporting done by static week and sub engagement.
- Implemented new Reserve program based on client requirements.
- Implemented SAP BODS for converting legacy Finance data.
- Implemented Finance reports in HANA data ware house.
- Implemented High radius advanced accelerators for SAP FSCM module.
- Implemented Collection management, Credit management, Dispute management.
Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant
Confidential, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Worked with SOLMAN to update the functional, technical and other project relevant documentation.
- Worked closely with SOLMAN CHARM tool for change management process design.
- Implemented Dunning and Segment of accounts. Automated the process to send email PDF forms of dunning and SOA.
- Implemented AP work flow for invoicing process.
- Implemented centralized payment process for Panalpina.
- Configured payment program F110 for Wire, ACH, and SEPA Payments and integrated with TIBCO to send payment files to multiple external banks.
- Integrated In-House Cash with Bank Communication Management for features like Merge Payments, Approve Payments, Bank Statement Monitor and Reservation for Cross-Payment Run Payment Media.
- Integration: FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules.
- Worked on Automatic account assignment for MM/SD transaction (OBYC).
- Implemented time based and billing related revenue recognition
- Accounts Receivables:- Cash applications
- Implemented EBS with Chase and Confidential .
- Worked with business to reconcile the payment process.
- Implemented Customer ACH payments using XML interface with bank.
- Implemented lockbox with user exits for addressing client complex scenarios.
- Implemented 3rd party EBS tool SAX, to automate cash application process.
- Implemented Cash Journal for petty cash.
- Implemented FSCM Modules for credit, collections and dispute management.
- Worked on Migration using SNP tool.
- Implemented Closing cockpit to efficiently perform month end, quarterly and yearend close.
- Production Support after go-live for warranty period. Ticket Handling, Critical Jobs monitoring, Scheduled jobs maintenance, Recovery of the failed jobs, Handling User queries, Enhancement of the existing jobs.
- Analyzing runtime errors and debugging ABAP programs to recover the failed jobs.
- Responsible for preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy documents in the beginning of the project and Test Closure Report at the end of the Testing project.
- Preparing the Traceability Matrix with the list of Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Tester Name, Start Date and End Date of the test cases, Requirements mapped with the Test case.
- Used SOLMAN for executing test cases.
- Coordinating with GRC Security team to identify the test roles and test id’s for role based testing.
Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant
Confidential, Niles, IL
Responsibilities:
- Extensively worked on complete OTC process.
- Responsible for posting POS (Point of sale) transactions to SAP.
- Responsible for Revenue Account determination, Account keys, pricing procedure and condition types.
- Created various substitutions and validations In FI.
- Implemented Financial Closing Cockpit and activated new func(FIN ACC LOCAL CLOSE 3, FIN ACC LOCAL CLOSE 2)
- Written Functional specs for development team for various Custom Objects.
- Implemented Intercompany process
- Maintained FI Intercompany Setup.
- Developed intercompany STO process for direct and indirect sale.
- Worked on Drop ship scenarios.
- Developed automatic EDI for invoicing.
- Also worked on the changes to conditions type and pricing procedure for the additional posting for the intercompany transactions
- Debugging ABAP code and finding the Root cause.
- Involved in the design and testing of BW reports for AP and AR
- Also, worked on the integrated planning, value flows from SD, FI and MM, settlement of production variances and profitability reports in COPA
- Responsible of Complete testing cycle including Unit, Integration and User acceptance testing.
- Worked with business users to show the prototyping of business requirement in prototype client.
- Configuration: Whole configuration was done using Solution Manager by updating the business processes.
- Implemented FSCM Modules for credit, collections and dispute management.
Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant
Confidential, Berkley Heights, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA, FSCM and PCA.
- Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods
- Implemented Credit card processing
- Worked with Paymetric to enhance the Standard SAP credit card programs and account determinations.
- Implemented Financial Closing Cockpit and optimized month end and year end closing process.
- Implemented Dispute management and collection management in SAP FSCM
- Implemented High Radius tool to automatically get the claim copies, POD etc. and attach them to the dispute cases.
- Enhanced EBS program to determine the profit center based on the store merchant ID.
- Trained the user with Credit process and XIPAY GUI.
- Configured and maintained FI/CO substitution/validation rules, account assignment tables, etc.
- Created functional design documentation for FI/CO enhancements
- Provided guidance for integration of SD & MM modules into existing FI/CO environment
- Conducted Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing, tracked and documented results, reported and fixed issues
- Responsible for troubleshooting issues for Finance and Accounting groups which involved analyzing problems, configuring, testing, training and documentation of fixes
- Acted as liaison between the finance department and the technical BI team to design, test, and deliver required reports to the finance department
- Worked on FSCM
- Created Report Painter reports in support of new functionality (three expense analysis reports for analysis by cost center, by profit center, by GL account group)
- Created and maintained the G/L Master data and Cost Elements for all company codes.
- Monitored and fixed issues related to the batch jobs for the month end accruals reversals.
- Responsible for FI period closure and reconciliation for month, quarter & year-end.
- Conducted various training and learning program within organization.
- Raised various tickets with SAP and implemented OSS Notes to fix standard system issue.
Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant
Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed business process configuration controls within SAP.
- Running workshops for User training.
- Created Business process procedure for the FI- transactions.
- Set up the Integration of FI with MM, SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
- Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with FI, Settings for Revenue Recognition & Revenue Item Category.
- Involved in unit testing phase of Integration FI with MM, SD.
- Worked to create test scripts and test documents.
- Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings and ACH payments.
- Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL.
- Worked on Automatic account assignment for MM/SD transaction (OBYC).
- Implemented time based and billing related revenue recognition
- Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.
- Set-up via IMG 3-way match, AP tolerance for item amount check.
- Worked in setting up automatic account determination for AR and AP.
- GL and AR configurations such as accounts, Account groups, field status groups, Account determination procedures, setting up worklist (Alternative Payer), tolerances, selection and clearing process.
- Worked in Account group’s creation, Screen layout Configuration for company code view for Vendor, customer and field status groups for GL.
- Designed interfaces with third party systems namely ARIBA (for purchase invoices), Vertex O series (for sales and use tax processing) and GETPAID (Collection and Dispute management).
- Worked in requirements gathering, scope finalization and creating proto type.
- Mapped new condition types to value fields in COPA wherever missing and updated historical data.
- Assisted in designing and managing the use of Solution Manager (SolMan) for Business Blueprint, Business Process Procedures, Configuration Documents, Baseline Test Scripts and Integration Test Scripts.
- Implemented High Radius Advanced modules for SAP FSCM.
- Used LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data.
- In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis
- Prepared functional specifications and functional effort estimation for the development objects and change requests.
- Worked on FSCM
- Involved in change management control process and HPQC defect management process.
- Worked extensively on designing queries and coding in the query for order backlog and revenue reporting by country and by business units.
Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Worked on Post Production support and new enhancements and SAP TEAM LEAD experience as well.
- Worked closely with business users and with ABAPers to help understand the business requirements in development.
- Worked on postproduction issues and enhanced functionalities individually and with other ABAP developers for complex scenarios as per the client requirements.
- Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records and Assign Reconciliation Accounts in G/L.
- Configured house banks and maintained accounts in house banks. Defining Check Lots, Payment Terms, Set Up bank determination for all payment transactions, define posting keys and posting rules for check deposit.
- Worked on setting up the EDI 820 payment remittance for the customers, used basictype PEXR2002 and the message type REMADV.
- Worked on configuring the lock box process, did setup the lockbox processing for BAI2 format and also EDI 820 and 823.
- Designed end to end Lockbox process
- Maintain Control Parameters (OBAY).
- Maintain Posting Data (OBAX).
- Created Lockbox Addresses for House Banks (OB10).
- For EDI processing: Created EDI Port, EDI Partner with Inbound Parameters, Created user exits.
- Developed interface with banks/customers/ vendors using different IDOCS and EDI.
- Configured cost allocation programs like assessments and distributions.
- Configured planning versions, planning layout and planner profile in cost centre and profit centre planning.
- Involved in Customizing and Creating Validations, Substitutions and Sets.
- Created credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers.
- Worked on AR configuration including billing, incoming payment processing, account clearing, GL account assignments from SD, payment terms, Credit Management, dunning and customer statements.
- Configured Credit Management and Defined Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, Line Layout, and Reconciliation Accounts.
- Worked on AP configuration requirements, including invoices, outgoing payment processing, account clearing, settings for payment program and reason codes to write-off the differences to G/L accounts
- Worked on FSCM.
- Configured integration of AP and AR modules with Logistics modules MM and SD respectively.
- Configured CO-PA functionality for cost-based and account-based methods, Created Characteristics and Value fields in Operating Concern. Configured Derivation procedures and valuation rules used to supplement CO-PA obtained from source modules FI, CO, SD and MM.
- Modify the existing COPA reports and forms to show correct information. Some of the sales order types were missing in the COPA reports which had to be included.
- Worked with the BW team. BW wanted to pull data from COPA tables, and they required some new characteristics like sales representative, bill to party etc.
Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Worked on Global template of SAP by consolidating business processes.
- Lead the team with business users to understand the business requirements and prepared the business blueprints.
- Worked closely with business users and with ABAPers to help understand the business requirements in development.
- Worked in business consolidation of Accounts payable, Accounts receivables and Treasury and worked with multi-currency environment.
- Incorporated the new requirements from business into configuration and development.
- Designed the functional specifications for the business requirements for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and workflows (RICEFW)
- Prepared the functional specification documents for all the processes related to Accounts Payable Invoice/Credit approval automation (Non PO - FB60 & FB65 and PO - MIRO) (via SAP - Mark view Workflow).
- Wrote all the functional specification documents for all the (Interfaces - Invoice header, Payment history, Vendor Master, Void Check) processes related to the Custom GE process.
- Coordinated with the offshore team (including estimating the development effort - LOE) for all the development related to AP Workflow related components and Vendor portal interfaces.
- Wrote the functional specification document for a custom process within GE in reference to automating the existing manual process (AP Expedite Invoice or Payment process).
- Was responsible for all Enhancements in Accounts receivables and Treasury.
- Experience in SAP FSCM Credit management, Collection & Dispute Management.
- Designed the Interfaces for Electronic bank statements and Lockbox statements.
- Implemented Accounts Receivables/Lockbox and credit card processing.
- Worked with business users to show the prototyping of business requirement in prototype client.
- Configuration: Whole configuration was done using Solution Manager by updating the business processes.
- Worked on FSCM modules.
- Involved in the Purchase to Pay (Procure to Pay) analysis for Accounts Payables and integration with Materials Management with Finance Department.
- Developed interface between SAP - SAP systems and SAP - NON-SAP systems using ALE/EDI IDOC. Used EDI format 820 to Advise payee (supplier) of the details of the payment, typically used with an EFT Electronic Funds Transfer and to Advise payee of any adjustments reflected in the payment
- Implemented New GL.
- Treasury and Cash management: Configured Electronic bank statements for Confidential and bank of Montreal with BAI2 file formats.
- Configured external transaction types and assigned with posting rules. Configured the posting rule specifications for each transaction type given banks.
- Configured cash management, liquidity forecast and cash concentration.
- Development: Improved searching criteria for Electronic bank statements to improve the matching rate. Improved the searching criteria for Lockbox statements to improve the matching rate.
- Converted the master data using the LSMW tool for vendor, customers and GL.
- Involved in the Functional unit testing (FUT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users and resolved the issues in testing.
Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Lead an off shore team of 4 people for developing world wide IBM Business Data Standards (BDS) for Blue Harmony.
- Defining and Customizing Document Types A/R as well as A/P, Customizing Field Status Groups, Defining Account Groups and Screen Layouts, Maintaining Terms of Payment, Defining Interest Calculation Types and Rates, Defining accounts for Automatic postings, Defining Dunning Procedures with two Level Dunning Notices, Customizing Methods of Payment and Automatic Payment Procedure for Incoming and Out Going Payments.
- Defining Tax Procedures, Condition Types, Jurisdictions, Tax Codes, and Maintaining Tax Rates for GST and PST to calculate input and Output Taxes for Canadian transactions. Customizing SAP to calculate tax using legacy system (Sabrix) for United States taxation.
- Defining House Banks, Defining Lock Boxes for House Banks, Defining Control Parameters and Posting Data for Auto Cash with Lock Box, and Customizing configuration for Importing Electronic Bank Statement.
- In Asset Accounting, coordinated in transfers of legacy system items.
- Configured Acquisition and Retirement for Assets.
- Configured Asset classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys.
- Configured depreciation methods for assets.
- Configured Check related Lockbox payments and EFT payments in lockbox configuration
- Configuring Integration aspects of SD and MM with FI/CO.
- Preparing documentation Functional Specs, worked intensively on Enhancements for LockBox and Electronic Bank Statement.
- Configured the House Banks, G/L Accounts for Bank Accounts and Bank Account Reconciliation Program, Integration of MM and SD with FI Account Assignment.
- Designed and Created Cost Center Hierarchy. Created Cost Centers, Designed and Created Assessment Cycles to Allocate Overhead Costs.
- Involved in Supporting FI/CO Reconciliation during Month-end, Quarter-end and Year-end close.
- Involved in Developing Reports required by using the Report writer and Report painter Tree in SD, MM, FI and PP.
- Implemented New GL.
- Maintained planning version, planner profiles and planning layouts for planning in controlling.
- Development of test scenarios/ test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing and System Testing.
Environment: SAP R/3, version ECC 6.0