SUMMARY

• Experienced SAP FICO Functional consultant with more than 4 years of implementation and configuration experience in Finance and controlling module.
• Involved in two full life cycle implementations, upgrades & participated in all phases of ASAP Methodology, Blue - Printing.
• Experience in Analyzing business requirements, Configuration, Process mapping, Testing, Documentation and End User Training.
• Provide solutions based on Best practices recommended by SAP.
• Designing and configuring SAP financial modules through use of new general ledger accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, tax, bank accounting, fixed assets, and Controlling functions.
• Integrating financial and controlling SAP modules with Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Project System, Production Planning, and Plant Maintenance modules.
• Involved with Business Process re-engineering/process improvement, multitask oriented and the ability to prioritize to meet deadlines.
• Worked on Electronic bank functionality and search strings for Accounts Receivable.
• Worked on Asset accounting module with special purpose ledger and parallel ledger.
• Supported Vertex related tickets for Sales and use tax in US, GST in Canada and exemption certificate management.
• Configure house banks, Automatic payment program for Accounts Payable.
• Expertise in process improvement and gap analysis, integration project and data conversions from source SAP to destination SAP system.
• Assist in User Acceptance testing (UAT) with experience with debugging issues.
• Built custom reports for compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Wrote functional specifications for developing Interfaces, Reports and making changes to ABAP programs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Specialties: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP IS Retail Finance, SAP RMCA (FICA), Vertex O series, Ariba, POS, Excel, and Keynote.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale

SAP Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Blue printing phase for Local Currency project for Brazil.
• Perform Fit/Gap analysis for business requirements.
• Developed conceptual as well as detailed design for Remittance and Collections phase.
• Working on Sales, Refunds, Delinquent, Delinquent recovery, Subscription, Affiliates scenarios for Local currency project for Brazil
• Working on Revenue recognition process for subscription products in Brazil.
• Working on EBS and search string functionality for remittance of funds from Acquirer to the House Bank.
• Working on Functional specification for Remittance of funds from Brazil Bank to US Bank.
• Worked on credit card processing and collection.
• Designed the remittance process based on business requirements.
• Configured automatic payment program for Vendors in Brazil.
• Worked on Functional specification for Withholding tax calculation
• Worked on subscription, affiliation and obligation processes.
• Wrote functional specification for one time data conversion.
• Supported changes in interface from MasterSaf (Thompson Reuters now) with SAP.
• This was rollout project for opening Confidential Retail stores in Sweden.
• Created a Detailed Description of the configuration that needs to be done in the SAP system.
• Configured new company code for Sweden along with organization structure.
• Established POS (Point of Sales) connection with SAP for new company code.
• Made changes to the interface for Store Close to accommodate Sweden requirements.
• Configured tenders as payment method for Sweden as per business requirement (Cash, Check, Debit/Credit card, Loan, Lease, Gift Card and ITunes Gift card).
• Configured and tested AppleCare warranty process for Sweden.
• Configured AppleCare Warranty repair types for billing.
• Tested out of warranty scenarios for Sweden.
• Configured VAT codes along with tax rates.
• Configured POS (Point of Sales) reason codes (Discount codes, Return reason, Tax exempt codes)
• Configured and tested levies and recycle fees.
• Verified accounting entries for Inventory adjustments (cycle count, STO’s, Procurement, Returns etc.)
• Tested interface between SAP Retail and various other systems (POS, SAP Core, Back Stage.
• Configured asset accounting module in SAP and develop solution for tax depreciation to comply with US GAAP, IFRS and local country GAAP.
• Design and implement dunning for efficient accounts receivable process. Configured multiple dunning procedures based on products/geography.
• Configured House bank, Automatic payment program and tested the F110 functionality for Sweden.
• Configured Electronic bank statement along with search string for new company code and tested various scenarios.

Confidential, Sunnyvale

SAP Support

Responsibilities:

• Supported tickets on Withholding taxes, payment advices, foreign currency valuation, and financial statement versions and cross company code transactions.
• Maintained asset master data for asset acquisitions, retirements, inter-company transfers, settlement of AUC to assets and configured leased assets.
• Simulated asset reports, asset history sheets and depreciation to provide desired reports to the local accounting team.
• Managed financial information dealing with Assets, liabilities, and capital. And prepared B/S, P&L statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for department managers.
• Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable (A/P) check printing, periodic Sales and Use tax reporting, and related month end financial reports.
• Customized ABAP Z-reports for displaying asset account balances and developed special reporting capability for monthly depreciation forecast for future years.
• Prepared functional specifications for conversions and interfaces, performed post go live trouble shooting in FI and CO and documented various business process flows and produced end user procedures.
• Configured and supported Automatic payment program for accounts payable.
• Configured and supported dunning issues in Accounts receivable.

Confidential

Internship

Responsibilities:

• Reconciliations for cash and bank statements, accounts payable and accounts receivable against aging schedules and fixed assets and inventories against physical counts, to identify errors before period closing and as a part of balance sheet reconciliation
• Prepare and analyze financial models (TLPs) for VCA (Vendor Cost Approval) and CEA (Capital Expense Approval) weekly approval process,
• Manage weekly, quarterly, and annual sales planning & forecasting processes.
• Drafts and performs final review of financial reports and budget expenditures,
• Reviews projects for financial completeness; for compliance with financial standards; for uniformity in methods; and for adherence to financial statutes,
• Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts (Budgetary analysis)
• Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting
• Prepare ad hoc reports/analyses as well as valuations as requested by management to assist in quality improvement initiatives as well as reporting purposes.
• Conducted deep-dive analysis in Excel to identify trends in customer engagement, improve transaction margins, and propose recommendations to optimize revenue globally and across merchant segments.