SUMMARY:

Confidential is a SAP Certified Professional Consultant having extensive experience in SAP Global Architecture. Highly experienced in SAP ECC and having a knowledge and functionalities of S/4 HANA 1809/1909. He had implemented over 15 SAP full life cycle projects during his entire 25 years of consulting career. His experience includes but not limited to SAP ECC, SAP ERP, S/4 HANA 1809/1909, ECC to S/4HANA migration, Integration experience of SAP SD/MM etc. He is interested in this position as he has the required skills and is available immediately for an interview.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

S/4 HANA 1809/1909 On: Premise - FI, AM, CO, PS, RAR, PA, PC, ML

Experience in S4 HANA Migration tools: LTMC/LTMOM

SAP HANA & ERP 6.04: FI, CO, PS, GL, AR, AP, AM, FM, PS, CCA, PCA, IM, RE, PA, ML, FSCM and RAR, SAP RAR 1.3 version SP5 (Configuration and Migration, Very knowledgeable in other SAP SD/MM/LE/HCM modules.

SAP R/3: ECC 6.0/4.7/4.6C/ 4.0B/ 3.1H FI/CO/PS

SAP R/2: RF, RA and RK Modules, SAP NEW GL Expert (Configuration and Migration), Implemented projects in SAP S/4 HANA Simple Finance 1605 (Release 720)

Gained experience in in SAP MDG: F (SP2) in customer demo and Fit/Gap analysis

SEM: BCS SAP and provided production support

Tools: ABAP/4, ABAP Query, CATT, Report Painter/writer, LIS/SIS report, IDOC, QTP and LSMW, Expert in integrating SAP ECC using user exits with external tax software like Vertex and Taxware . Worked in Paymetric/Xi Pay to process credit card payments and settlements, Designed and implemented various interface between SAP and EVMS, PEOPLESOFT, CONCUR, ARIBA, STELLANT, CASS, CTRAC and KRONOS systems, Familiar in integration point with SAP GPD, CRM, SRM, IMRO, GTS, CAMS and CFORIA, Worked on Business transaction event FM to build interface with other SAP partner products, Knowledgeable in BW 7.01 Business Explorer, BOBJ and Query designer tools

Middleware: SAP PI, WBI, SAP IDOC, Exposure to Open Text VIM SAP Bolt-on solution, Extensively used HPQC/ALM for defect resolution, SNOW/JIRA/USD for problem tickets, Infopak for materials, SharePoint for documentation, Rally for Scrum project tasks, Back Office tool for conversion and BOBJ for various dashboard reports.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, California

SAP ECC- Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead various business requirement workshops to find the synergy between 21st Century Fox and Walt Disney business processes such as Plan to Consolidate, procure to pay, Order to Cash, acquire to retire, Travel & Expense using Concur and Project Initiation to Close. Introduced to 1909 and have a functional knowledge and working of it.
• Identified various funnel items that need to be explored and created different projects to fulfill those requirements from Fox Entertainment acquisition by Walt Disney Company.
• Provided solutions to map and integrate various 21st Century Fox financial systems and feed them to Disney Global SAP system for consolidation and Reporting
• Involved in defining interface functional specification to bring detailed trial balance with additional attributes from various Fox business entities (Domestic and International) to Disney SAP financials
• Responsible to define various project tasks and PAR activities to bring Fox travel and expenses processes to the Disney Concur system and then finally integrate all T&E activities to Global Disney SAP system
• Provided solution options to tackle challenges associated with different fiscal periods between Fox and the Disney financials.
• Built and leveraged various custom tables to transform financial attributes and mapped them in Fox interfaces
• Actively involved to bringing fixed assets from the Fox JDE system to the Disney SAP system using SAP LSMW and follow on depreciation area level reconciliation.
• Primarily involved in solution architecture to migrate Fox Entertainment business processes from JD Edwards to SAP
• Member of Solution Architecture team and responsible to deliver Fox Studio Entertainment SAP project architecture documents to Disney Architecture Board
• Responsible to write functional specifications for various conversions, interfaces, enhancements and reports to support Lionsgate Entertainments and Disney requirements
• Worked with offshore development team in technical specification and testing conversions, enhancements, interfaces and custom reports
• Identify solution options and resolved various SAP modules’ s defects during test cycles and documented them in HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tool
• Involved in creating production cutover, executing conversion activities and responsible to resolve post production configuration & RICEF issues.
• Successfully went live in April 2020 and supported hypercare incidents.

Confidential, Irving, TX

S/4 HANA 1806 OP- FI/CO/PS/AM/CO-PA/CO-PC/RAR Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple financial businesses process discovery Confidential with stake holders to educate S/4 HANA functionalities.
• Explained various S/4 HANA 1809 innovations to Confidential business process leaders.
• Configured and demonstrated critical business process in 1809 best practice HCL BASE90 SAP client/environment.
• Demonstrated functionalities S/4 1809 functionalities with to new asset accounting like depreciation area associated with various accounting principles, integrated posting, month end process, Documents by accounting principle, posting to ACDOCA tables, balance carry forward, technical account for offsets, fixed asset conversion, etc.
• Identified opportunities for improvement using S/4 HANA innovations like universal ledger, Accrual management, Real time margin analysis, universal allocation, central finance for Non-SAP entities, COGS & Prod. variance split, Vendor invoice upload, etc.
• Responsible to show functionalities in deep dive Confidential to educate the client about in-depth functionalities in Account based CO-PA, Predictive accounting based on sales order using extended ledger, machine learning capabilities to automatically clear customer open items with incoming payments, segment reporting using the ACDOCA table, Business partners, Migration options, Transfer pricing using Material ledger, etc.
• Demonstrated functionalities in Revenue Accounting and Reporting with project system integration for various processes like Percentage of completion, WBS Result analysis, RAR contract approvals, POB structure, Revenue schedule, using different accounting principles, Shift contracts, Periodic RAR close steps and reports from universal ledger.
• Completed in-depth discussion & solutioning with all business process leaders for Intra-Company and Inter-company processes using STO & IC Purchase order to Sales order functionalities in non-valuated project stock GPD environment
• Involved in analyzing various custom objects from HANA Smart tool. Responsible to disposition various custom programs in finance & controlling objects based on S/4 HANA 1809 OP like sunset various custom tables, BDC calls, replace old tcodes with new, etc.
• Worked with HANA Analytics team to impart new functionalities to core team members like embedded analytics, Fiori fact sheets, Ad hoc analytics, etc.
• Primarily responsible to help stake holders to create cost benefit business case for implementing various S/4 HANA innovations and associated benefits in resolving specific pain points in each Financial & Management accounting process.

Confidential, Plano, TX

SAP RAR/FI/CO/SD Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to support RAR migration and cutover activities.
• Validated SD and FI configuration associated with RAR.
• Configured relevant order item categories to RAR relevant.
• Added new pricing conditions for List price in SD pricing procedure and mapped those in RAR configuration.
• Involved in testing custom RAI split for certain Sales order line item based on account assignment category.
• Completed migrating 34 company codes in first phase up to 2017 and in the process of converting monthly. SDOI/SDFI/SDII RAI items for both revenue and cost based on 606 accounting standards.
• Responsible to validate BRF Plus table for account determination and POB application.
• Performed business reconciliation related to future revenues with BW reports.
• Worked closely with business counterparts to validate inbound from SD and outbound validation after migration into RAR.
• Responsible to resolve production issues after RAR migration.

Confidential, Southlake, TX

SAP RAR Product Owner and FI/CO/PS/SD Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Lead and finalized various critical business requirements from Stake holders of Confidential Airline Solutions
• Identified various business process improvements and recommended internal controls to streamline the existing business tasks.
• Directly reporting project statuses weekly to CFO/VP and Directors.
• Responsible to gather/lead/organize and implement SAP RAR solutions.
• Managed personnel from both the business and IT organization.
• Responsible to give Status update in Weekly Scrum meeting with stake holders.
• Monitored and provided various solution options to resolve various issues identified during validation and testing.
• Designed and monitored Plan for business testing and validation.
• Managed business, migration and implementation teams in a seamless manner.
• Hands on detailed system configuration knowledge in RAR and other SAP core modules.
• Successful in managing various challenges from project tasks to resources in the team.
• Managed project tasks to transfer all product and tool knowledge to business users and stake holders.
• Responsible to Audit project documentation and procedure documents.
• Transparent and communicated updates to Internal Audit, Leader ship, business, IT, SAP and Off-shore teams
• Extremely successful in fulfilling various business requirements from the leadership team.
• Worked closely with SAP AG development team to resolve inherent issues in the tool.
• Performed system demo and system proof of concept to stake holders in periodic Sprint review and daily Scrum meetings.
• Primarily Responsible to provide update to steering committee members.
• Effectively managed cutover team, various cutover tasks and communicated timely to management & business.
• Responsible to support contract migration using different migration packages and validated results in RAR tool for R606 accounting principles.
• Mapped Sales Order or contract Item categories and Billing plan items to RAR and validated end to end sales order to billing scenarios
• Trouble shoot SDOI, SDFI and SDII RAI item issues from both migration and post production activities
• Responsible to validate SD pricing condition to make sure it is compatible for RAR
• Configured custom SD list price condition in RAR
• Successfully created management critical reports to provide detailed statutory information from RAR tool like Remaining performance obligation at the end of the period, user friendly contract balance report based of different fulfillment types, etc.
• Worked with security team to get appropriate access to various RAR business roles.
• Responsible to migrate and perform various migration steps in Dry runs and Parallel Runs.
• Resolved various issues/incidents related to RAR using either through SAP incidents or using internal resources to debug & find out the root cause.
• Key responsibility as a product owner is to work with CFO/VP/Directors to satisfy their requirements in various areas like process validation, business readiness, Tool stability, Post go-live support in Finance, Controlling and Project system, Defects resolution, etc.
• Successfully gone live on 04/2018 and completed month end close in RAR and working on next wave of customer contracts migration
• Responsible to resolve issues in all Banking, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, FSCM, PS, PA & Controlling modules. Every issue was logged & tracked daily in RTR scrum meetings.

Confidential

S/4 HANA Finance 1605- SAP RTR-FI/CO/PS Architect

Responsibilities:

• Organized and convened very effective business requirements gathering meeting and finalized Fit/Gap analysis in S/4 HANA on premise.
• Entirely responsible to manage and execute project cost and revenue conversion to S/4 HANA PS system for all internal capital and external billable projects
• Very key contributor in designing Labor Networks in collaboration with SAP HR module
• Successfully managed the team and instrumental in getting project approval from VPs and Directors
• Responsible to design business critical executive reports
• Lead and configured Project system among other things, result analysis keys, project profiles, automatic WBS creation from SD contracts using Professional services functionality, User statuses, Budget profiles with availability control, etc.
• Successfully Managed and resolved issues related to Investment management, Fixed assets, integration between IM and PS and custom program to sync Cost center hierarchy to IM program structure
• Responsible to communicate the status of various tasks with project stake holders and address their concerns
• Provide input and demonstrate solutions in daily PS Scrum meetings and periodic Leadership meetings
• Involved in credit card configuration for Paymetric like checking groups & document schema, assigning those to sale order types, GL Account determination using access sequence, assign them to billing types, Payment card types and merchant ID, etc.
• Knowledge in /PMPAY functional modules for Paymetric, enter credit card information in XI intercept to get the token number to be stored in customer master record. Tested Payment authorization at the time of sales order, billing block for insufficient authorization (/PMPAY/VFX3), settlement (FCC1/FCC4) after invoicing transmission to XiPay via RFC and reversed settlement using FBRA with reverse payment card clearing function.
• Responsible to configure & migrate GL, fixed assets, etc for various company codes from ECC to S/4 HANA (LTMC) and to provide reconciliation report to validate APC/Cumulative or current Year depreciation in different depreciation areas.
• Resolved many business-critical business process issues across various SAP FI/FSCM/ CO/PS modules including AR, AP, GL, Fixed Assets, Investment management, Treasury, Cost center accounting, Project systems, Collection and Credit Management, etc.,
• Created functional specification to take reports based on S/4 HANA tables for fixed assets, project systems and General ledger requirements.
• Resolved issues related to tax calculation issues from VERTEX and have worked on user exit to send different tax related attributes from SAP. Knowledgeable in RFC connection, exemption s for vendors and customers, exceptions, master data in the Q series tool.
• Worked on payable and receivable tax audit reports from both SAP and Vertex
• Accountable to recommend leadership team with various process improvements and proposal to automate selective business processes.
• As part of Confidential system architecture team, responsible to review any system changes performed by other team & evaluate its impact across the system.

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

SAP Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to communicate and finalize with CFO/Stake holders for organizational structure for Company Code, Controlling Area, Operating Concern, Credit Control Area, Profit Center & Cost Center standard hierarchies.
• Responsible to complete all project deliverables for RTR work stream for all locations.
• Managed offshore team, local solution team, business core team in all locations.
• Succeeded in timely delivering various project deliverables and effectively managing both on-shore and off-shore teams.
• Extensively involved in configuring and providing technical solution for country specific fiscal requirements like Mexico Electronic invoicing, MX financial reporting, Withholding taxes and customer invoice forms.
• Closed worked with Brazil organization users and configured their requirements and integrated SAP with local fiscal reporting provided by APS systems.
• Responsible to configure Fixed Asset module and mapped all the business process. Primarily involved in converting assets & values using LSMW. This includes entities in MX, US and Brazil
• Executed and validated all integration aspects between SD, MM, HCM, BW, BOBJ, PP
• Responsible to configure Material ledger for all plants and configured product costing solution, which encompasses Joint Product, Co-Product, Scrap, Standard cost estimate, ML with MAP, Consumption based COGS, Variance analysis and Result analysis.
• Utilized hands on experience to Configure and validate foreign currency revaluation process and deliverables
• Provided unique solutions for depot repair process, MTO, MTS, Outright sale, Customer Exchange sale, Vendor consignment, customer consignment, Physical inventory and vendor outside processing.
• Responsible and primarily involved in designing Customer inventory exchanges process. Developed various enhancement to fulfill inventory exchanges, tracking customer exchange inventory, customer periodic account statement, recording associated assets & liabilities and sales & COGS in the financials, configured PA to map all these values so that sales margin report can be taken for all exchange customers by various attributes.
• Closely worked with BW and BOBJ team to deliver their financial statement package reports
• Successfully managed various teams and delivered all RTR RICEFs on time for all locations in various countries
• Lead to automate bank interfaces for Lockbox process, ACH payment, Positive pay files and Electronic bank statements
• Provided solution to restate all their fixed assets in all locations based on the new appraisal value because of this company take over. This itself is a big project with so many dependent tasks and got it done before year end close.
• Responsible to manage go live support team and effectively resolved all post go-live SAP issues from all users across the world
• Efficiently managed various activities including, SIT, UAT and production Cutover tasks.
• Successfully managed post go-live support team to resolve problem tickets in all FICO areas including FI/PS/GL/AR/AP/Fixed Assets/CO/PA/Product Costing modules

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

RTR Lead SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is the largest private well completion company in North America and this project is to sunset their all legacy systems and bring SAP on board to do their core business processes.
• Responsible to audit and validate SAP configuration done in RTR (Record to Report) modules. Reported findings and process improvement recommendations to VP and Directors.
• Provided weekly findings and resolution to address any issues to top level executives.
• Responsible to manage and resolve technical aspects of interfaces from the bank into SAP like Lockbox, EBS, etc.
• Validated various Project system interfaces from external systems to create project structure, WBS elements, networks and post oil well fracking jobs confirmation information into SAP.
• Supported to resolve post go-live SAP issues in various modules.
• Closely worked with top executives to address their concerns either by clarifying the functionalities or by providing various dash board reports.
• Identified issues and helped Shared Service to resolve different types of concerns and issues in Open Text system.
• Provided support to address any RTR SAP issues in post go live environment and communicated to leadership team.

Confidential

Lead SAP MDG Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Process Improvement Program Project - ECC6.0 EP7 and SAP MDG 7.0 (SP2 Hub).
• Confidential Energy is a Canadian integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. It specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands. This project is to build Master data governance for financials to protect the integrity and consistency of finance master data in SAP.
• Show cased multiple demos to leadership team to show MDG-F functionalities and explained the benefits of Master Data Governance for financial master data.
• Involved in gathering business requirements related to existing finance master data.
• Responsible to identify Fit/Gap for Cost Center, Profit Center, GL Account, Cost Element and all respective Hierarchies
• Successfully lead and delivered all detail design documents for the above MDG-F financial domains for configuration, interfaces, work flows and reports.
• Explored all the options in MDG-F system to identify Fit/Gap details and provided technical solution options to resolve the Gaps.
• Managed and identified various SOA rules to replicate data from MDG-F to SAP ECC in interface details design document
• Interfaced and resolved issue from FI Contract account receivable and payable modules.
• Responsible to explore and implement MDG-S vendor master implementation.

Confidential, Texas

Lead Solution Architect FI/CO/PS

Responsibilities:

• Founded in 1935 as Bell Aircraft Corporation, Confidential continues to set the pace for the industry and expand the scope of vertical lift in Aero Space & Aircraft industry.
• Involved in gathering business requirements in Blue print phase and Identified SAP application Fit and Gap analysis
• Collaborated business process flows, activity flows, process profiles and activity profiles for various business processes related to finance and controlling with various business team members
• Managed and worked with business representatives and sponsors to get Gate approval in various phases of the project
• Worked closely with finance leadership team to achieve the standardization and automation of business processes, with an objective to achieve the seamless integration of BUs and with a focus on cost reduction across various functions.
• Extensively worked with management team counterparts and cross-team members to perform the cost benefit analysis of major business processes, to develop deliverables matrix and Involved in cross team system demonstration
• Configured FI/CO/PS modules to support various finance business processes in GPD environment. FI-AP (automated vendor down payment clearing, PO/GR interface/House banks/Payments for Inter-company/Dealers) /GL/SPL/AR/AM/IM (Organization structure, foreign currency valuation, different exchange rate types for revaluation and account determination) CO-CCA (Costing sheets for commercial and Govt.business, assessments), Internal Orders, PCA (Developed / Enhanced Financial Reporting), PS (WBS structure, Result Analysis for various contract types including US government, & commercial, project sub-ledger report), MRO order settlements, Networks (Set-up project definitions, define activities at Networks for labor collection), cost planning collections and allocations and settlement rules.
• Responsible to address issues from Funds management module, which was used to budget all revenues expenditures along with project cash management.
• Trouble shoot production incidents related to commitments with actuals and FM budgets at WBS element level.
• Responsible in designing various master data and field mapping like GL account, Cost center master, Cost elements, Activity types, Project definition, WBS elements, profit centers, Internal orders, Network activities, to some extent in MRO and production orders, material master, customer, vendors, assessment cycles, allocation cost groups, Result analysis cost elements, PA and condition records.
• Designed and implemented finance business processes with multiple company code for various countries and currencies like Singapore, Amsterdam, Japan etc.
• Managed various teams in global design for all finance business process including inter-company process across the company codes situated in different countries. Responsible to make system work for various scenarios like drop ship sale, direct sale and PO/SO process for various customer facing processes.
• Accountable to implement and design valuation type, valuation class using split valuation for materials.
• Configured funds management to use in CO-PS to track both customer and vendor down payments and clearing/liquidation transactions in projects. Designed and implemented PS Result analysis to treat down payments and liquidation transactions as cost in RA calculation and project settlements for government contracts.
• Designed, developed and deployed the various finance business process solutions, after rounds of regression and acceptance testing, on an aggressive project time schedule.
• Directly reporting and communicating to business management teams inclusive of directors from various processes.
• Responsible to build and support interfaces in SAP ECC between KRONOS for labor actual hours, EVMS for networks, CONCUR for travel expenses, CITIBANK for procurement card transactions, .NET system for expense charge backs, ARIBA for purchase orders, STELLANT for vendor invoice approvals, ADP for payroll, CTRAC for cost, PEOPLESOFT for employee master records, VERTEX for input/output Tax calculation and CASS for utility charges.
• Primarily responsible to blueprint, collect, design, configure and implement CONCUR interface for US/Canada/Bell Asia employees for their travel expenses. It includes various inter-company charges for support services from one entity employees to other legal entity needs. This interface is successfully implemented and runs daily in production and post appropriate financial transactions in SAP ECC.
• Successfully designed and implemented both purchase order and goods receipt interfaces from Ariba to SAP ECC for US and Canada legal entities.
• Lead and designed automated month-end activities and year-end activities in GPD/IMRO/Govt. Billing environments across all Bell entities using Schedule Manager Tool.
• Designed automated process to period open and close for FI/CO/MM modules.
• Responsible to write functional specification and build enhancements for booking rates, credit memo for vendor returns, assessment base build program, production order split & repost to parent and child, user exit for external Taxware system, WBS determination for project stock, custom fields in various cost objects, post tax accrual based on hard pegged data, cost of sales for Inter-company transactions, PCA readjustments, RA user exit, etc.
• Created functional specification and designed various custom reports including project reconciliation, Overhead base, invoice details, OH rate true up, project settlement, LIFO WIP and purchased parts report, Contract control report, etc.
• Resolved very serious performance issues related to various programs including RA calculation, costing sheets and settlements using different techniques.
• Coordinated with cross teams (including, technical, and QC teams). Involved in multiple rounds for Integration and User Acceptance testing.
• Developed cutover schedule, managed conversion of historical balances in General Ledger and Sub-ledgers (AP, AR and Inventory)
• Billing (SD/CRM) - Billing document creation, account determination, profitability analysis integration and Credit management
• Human Resources/Payroll (HR/PY) - payroll integration to accounting, funds and position management, employee master maintenance
• Inventory Management (MM-IM) - Material master maintenance, goods movement, goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfers, standard and moving average material valuation
• Invoice Verification (MM-IV) - logistics invoice verification, GR/IR clearing, invoice blocking, subsequent debits/credits, Custom MRRL development and tolerance user exits. Responsible to update user exit to Vertex to provide all transactional attributes for calculating input and output taxes. Provided vendor and customer exemption and configured SAP (FTXP) and involved in trouble shooting issues related to tax calculation from Vertex.
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) - Customer segmentation, product segmentation, characteristic derivation, direct postings from FI, cost of sales valuation and allocations
• Responsible to convert various FI/CO objects in BSM project like material master with split valuation, WBS master, WBS cost conversion, vendor invoices, Ariba PO, Vendor down payments, activity types, network activities, tax code determination and planned tax calculation on the PO line items, etc.
• Resolved various HPQC defects raised during multiple rounds of unit/integration test cycles in a very efficient and timely manner.
• Involved in drafting business case for various new initiative to further improve Bell business processes.
• Configured and implemented AR functions including customer down payments, cash discount clearing, reason codes for differences, lockbox set up and mapped critical fields from billing document to AR receivable documents. Also mapped to post sales taxes to different cost objects for each billing document to identify tax payable by each state in the US.
• Accountable to configure and implement FI/CO/PS modules for Bell Canada entity as part of their effort to bring all entities in SAP ECC.
• Identified and designed various forms like customer invoices from billing and FI transactions, vendor down payment form
• Resolved various interface issues processed from Ariba for purchase orders and goods receipts in SAP ECC. IDOC was used to process both the interfaces from Ariba.
• Designed custom dealer commission process, commission settlement, dealer account statement and reports as part of pricing business improvement project endeavor.
• Involved in transitioning various existing finance interface using SAP PI as middleware instead WBI.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Lead FI/CO/PS Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the effort to configure New GL functionalities and migrated data from Classic GL to New GL.
• This is first SAP client in the world, to go live with New GL with ‘Retroactive’ migration date with document splitting.
• Responsible to fully implement NEW GL project from initial SAP sign off until it is fully implemented at CENTEX.
• Interact and responsible to delivery weekly update to management team and address any concern during executive steering committee meeting.
• Conducted blue printing Confidential, unit testing and integration test cycles with business leadership team and project stake holders.
• Reviewed configuration documentations and unit test results from UAT.
• Executed migration cockpit steps for two packages and resolved all the errors without getting help from SAP
• Lead the effort to configure Document Splitting in New GL to achieve balanced reporting by automating document splitting.
• Fully responsible and delivery the project on time and reporting the status to business management team.
• Very hands on experience in the tool helped tremendously to quickly complete various tasks like Configured Document Type, Business Transaction, Business Transaction Variant, item Categories to split, and Base Item Category.
• Utilized New GL Migration cockpit from classic general ledger to New Gl in ECC 6.0
• Perform monitor of migration steps with Status Management along with consistency check.
• Technical validation check in Migration cockpit in a test system after data migration.
• Configured the NEW General Ledger. Configured Real Time Integration with FI-CO.
• Responsible to configure AR and AP modules to meet their business requirements such as, payment program for checks, customer lock box, bank statement, Positive pay and Create vendor wire transfer file in SAP ECC.
• Defined new business transaction variant to support various business needs.
• Used substitution and validation user exit to meet some deficiencies in New GL functionality
• Configured document types to support document splitting.
• Defined specification to change existing Balance carry forward, prior year open item and current year document BADIs.
• Managed and audited functional specifications to change custom programs to read new GL tables for interfaces and reports.
• Successfully went live with New GL on Jan 26th 2009.
• Resolved various production issues successfully in a timely manner.
• Configured FICO modules for CENTEX Home divisions. Planned to have Pilot rollout during June 2009.
• Joined as a configuration lead in Finance and Controlling modules and the system has Real estate industry specific functionalities.
• Worked on Blue printing Confidential, Realization phase and now we are in the process in integration test cycle2.
• Conducted demo and Unit tested the business process with the core team users.
• Involved in designing various enhancements, interfaces, conversions and reports.
• Accountable for converting finance objects like open items, fixed assets, trial balances, inventory balances, real estate objects, profit centers, cost centers, business entities, buildings, etc.
• Configured company codes for different countries with multiple parallel currencies. Set up foreign currency revaluation, translation, exchange rate type, realized/unrealized gain or loss for all the company codes.
• Responsible to prototype and implement SAP ECC FI, CO, AM, PS and RE Modules.
• Successfully implemented AR functionalities like Lock box, clearing customer down payments, cash discounts and post differences using reason code.
• Responsible to deliver all AP functionalities like set up payment program for checks and wire transfers.
• Enhanced profit center master data to store various attributes for RE objects, Split check processing, WBS status update, Business entity, Land and Building status update and RA calculation based on land status.
• Responsible to build interface for positive pay file, cleared checks, EFT to bank, Daily flash inbound, Job status outbound, Plan data from EV2 to SAP, Invoice details from EV2/APO to SAP.
• Used Solution manager for project documentation and to create transports.

Confidential, Texas

Lead FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for FI/CO/PS configuration in A&D environment with GPD.
• Configured FI/CO/PS modules to support Bell Procure to Pay business process including MM determination, Account assignments, Invoice block, Logistic Invoice verification set up, vendor master set up, Purchase contracts, ERS, CO allocations, profit center readjustments, Result analysis calculation and settlements.
• Successfully defined functional and integration tested all new interfaces, reports and enhancements.
• Responsible to build new interface between Ariba and SAP, Bell to provide information from legacy MRP, Invoice payment details to external system, Vendor invoice file to Stellant for approvals, Standard cost interface from BIPACS system, etc.
• Accountable to build various reports for taxes, vendor progress payments, GRIR reconciliation, Quality usage decision with non ERS invoices, Small business with minority indicators, cost ledger report, Commitments, etc.
• Built enhancements for work order realignment, vendor progress payment clearing and user exit for external VERTEX tax system, automatic invoice clearing based on quality block, Substitution and validation rules with custom user exits, etc.
• Accounts Payable (FI-AP) - vendor master maintenance, invoices, debit/credit memos, document parking, account balance and line item display, bank reconciliation, prompt payment, down payments, automatic payments via check/ACH/wire, PAYEXT IDocs, 1099 processing, use tax
• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) - customer master maintenance, one-time customers, head office/branch management, manual customer payment processing, automated customer payment processing (lockbox BAI2), collections management, dunning notice generation, receivable clearing, refund payment runs, document parking, receivable aging, tolerance processing, account balance and line item display, output tax calculation from Vertex, credit management, dispute management, credit card processing, DIRDEB IDocs
• Asset Accounting (FI-AA) - Asset master maintenance, asset acquisition, asset retirement, asset transfer, depreciation calculation, asset under construction management and settlement, integration with project systems and internal orders
• Configured and implemented FM area for each company code and assigned commitment items in appropriate master data to analyze cash inflows and outflows.
• Resolved various HPQC problem tickets from unit and integration testing from April 2007.
• Responsible to finalize all finance batch job schedules with dependencies.
• Involved in executing cutover plan cycles and validating the conversion objects.
• Supported Go live activities and resolved various production support issues documented in HPQC tool.
• Fully involved in SAP 4.6C upgrade to ECC 6.0 version. Tested and resolved problems in ECC upgrade project.
• Responsible for configure and prototype FICO modules in 4.6c Aerospace & Defense SAP landscape
• Fully involved in integration testing and presented FICO functionality as part of road show to various business representatives
• Responsible for FI/CO modules: CCA, PS, PCA, GL, SPL, AM, AR & AP modules.
• Responsible for various interfaces which includes define functional/technical specifications, unit testing and integration testing.
• Responsible to build financial interfaces from various legacy systems for utility expense, travelling expense, procurement charges, cost leger from legacy COST system, payroll, PC allocation charges, etc.
• Accountable to configure document types, depreciation areas, costing sheet, assessments, cost object settlements, project system configuration, parking and posting using various SOX controls, etc.
• Responsible in converting fixed assets, FA transactions, GL trial balances, Open items for vendors and customers, cost conversion to WBS, WBS master data, internal orders, cost centers and profit centers
• Designed and configured FI-SPL to fulfill various financial reporting requirements.
• Responsible to implement GL, AR, AP and AM modules. All configurations were completed and tested successfully on time.
• Involved in executing multiple dry runs to ensure a smooth go-live
• Coordinated the go-live cutover process and went live on 04/02/2005.
• Defined new reports in BW-BCS module and analyzed management reports in BCS.
• Responsible for all month end closing activities in R/3 and supported month end reports from BW-BCS
• Supported custom developed Government billing solutions for A&D from AR perspective.
• Supported post go-live activities including resolving issues/problems.

Confidential, Folsom, CA

Project Manager & Lead FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include: defining project plans, managing resources, budget & expenses tracking and ensuring timely deliverables
• Configured new functionalities in Finance & controlling modules.
• Responsible for FI/CO modules: CCA, PCA, PA, GL, AM, AR, AP, TR, IM, and PS.
• Tasks included resolving upgrade issues, unit testing, integration testing, interface analysis and mapping the new functionalities to Enterprise system.
• Coordinated integration testing and dry runs for the project to ensure a smooth go-live
• Coordinated the go-live cutover process
• Project went live on-time and under budget
• Supported post go live & month-end activities.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Project Manager & Lead FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded 3.1H system to Enterprise.
• Responsible for FI/CO modules: CCA, PCA, PA, GL, AM, AR., SPL.GL and AP.
• Resolved upgrade issues from integration testing and configured new functionalities.
• Supervised dry runs for the project to ensure a smooth go-live
• Gave guidance in users
• Coordinated the go-live cutover tasks
• Successfully went live in June 2004

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Project Lead & Lead FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation of FI/CO modules, which includes configured new business processes, tested existing functionalities, resolved all the issues related to testing, documented the enhancement and gave technical specification for the interfaces.
• Supervised the upgrade for FI modules: AR, AP, GL, Special GL, AM, Vertex, Cost of sales Ledger, Special GL & Business area functionalities.
• Responsible to upgrade CO modules: CCA, Reconciliation ledger, PA and PC. Successfully tested reports, transactions, Interfaces and authorizations.
• Successfully tracked deliverables managed resources & monitored the budget.
• Provided both technical, functional specifications for FICO forms
• Identified future enhancement to support their current business process.
• Successfully tracked deliverables managed resources & monitored the budget.
• Coordinated cutover tasks & successfully went live in Feb 2004.
• Supported in Post Go-live activities.

Confidential, Murray Hill, New Jersey

Project Lead/ Lead FICO SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented 4.6C system to support their business process in cosmetics. Client is headquartered in Milan, Italy
• Managed configuration activities to comply with US fiscal & business requirements.
• Successfully completed blue printing and prototype Confidential in Miami with end users in FI/CO modules, which includes AR, AP, GL, Special Ledger, CCA, PCA, TR and AM.
• Provided support in SD/MM modules in 4.6C during Integration testing phase.
• Coordinated all the activities to understand the global templates and business process
• Managed this project from North America though couple of consultants were supporting from Italy
• Provided technical and functional specifications for FICO forms, reports and interfaces
• Supported in Post go live activities & month end closing.