SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience in IT with 8+ years of progressive SAP experience, 3 full life cycles implementation and various production support and lead roles. Hands on in business analysis, project management and business operations focusing on Finance and Controlling (FICO).
• Professional experience in configuration, enhancements and testing of FI/CO modules GL, AP, AR, Product Costing, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Taxation plus sub modules, Cost Center Accounting (CO - CCA), Internal Orders (I/O) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product costing (CO-PC) S4 HANA
• Vast knowledge in Blueprint, Configuration, Implementation, ASAP methodology, Agile methodology, system design and development, requirement gathering, User Stories, BRD, FRD and custom report
• Strong working knowledge in Controlling (CCA, IO, PCA, PC, COPA), VIM and B/W modules.
• Implemented and interfaced SAP with VIM, Concur, EDI and ARIBA as well as Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles, Post Implementation support with various industries
• Excellent communicator skilled in delivering insightful presentations and strengthening relationships with business partners, peers and senior leadership and Liaison between business and technical team to define requirements (onsite and offshore).
• Diverse Industry experience: Production, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Pharma, Insurance, Retail,
• Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects up to S4/HANA and hyper-care support experience
• Expertise in Agile Methodologies; Scrum, V-model and Kanban, Active member in conducting team meetings, customer feedback meetings & self-assimilation programs
• Demonstrated proficiency in multiple computer operating systems and tools.
• Experienced in complex project system scenarios for Capex

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• GL, AP, AR, AA, PC, COPA, PS
• EBS, Lockbox, Enhancements
• Concur, Ariba, VIM
• SAP Production Support
• SD, MM, PP
• SAP Testing and Training
• SAP Project Implementation
• ALM, Charm, Remedy, Hypercare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Implemented enhancements, interfaces, (EDI & ALE) and IDoc projects
• Designed Global Blueprint and implementation of production support strategy.
• Migrated various master data and transaction using LSMW as well as GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory in to ECC
• Implemented FI-GL, AP, AR, SD, CO-CCA, Costing, COPA and PS
• Implemented Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation
• Worked with the Run Team and managed Production Support Tickets & CR.
• Moving of production support tickets to service now and ITSM Remedy system
• Enhanced Credit Management to send customer information to D&B
• Designed SAP FICO Integration with Concur and designed all enhancements needed
• Enhanced P2P to post multiple GRIR
• Configured Forex Currency Revaluation and Translation
• Enhanced VIM by expanding the process option and utilizing OCR to retrieve expiration dates information of goods validity and certification
• Created GL Substitution and Validation rules
• Customized substation for profit center determination based on various business units
• Designed (RICEFW) enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits, Functional Modules, Enhancement Spots
• Implemented COPA Cost base and created custom reports
• Configured the operating concerns, characteristics derivation, actual value flow derivation for SD, FI and Costing
• Set up product cost variances to COPA and GL
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges
• Configured and Customized CO PC - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Profit center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
• Set up complex assessments for cost centers and WBS
• Configured costing variants, created costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Setup access authorization, archiving and deleting customer master records
• Integrated business process to create visibility of days in arrears for customers, net/cash discount
• Enhanced credit memo process, payment difference process for AR
• Integrated open item management using open and manual account clearing for AR and AP
• Accounts Payable: Built the AP Business module, customized the account balances and line items, worked on payment process, Order to cash process
• Handled Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing,
• Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning, Lockbox
• Gathered Business Requirements, led focused groups, created prototypes design
• Designed SAP Costing and COPA (Cost Based), EBS, Lockbox, EDI, AR, AP, Set up Automatic Payment Program
• Integrated functional enhancement for EBS using Business Add-In: FEB BADI
• Implemented importing and posting clearing process of Lockbox data
• Created new house banks for lock box, automatic payment and GL account determination
• Customized the payment program, defined the payment process, controlled and executed the payment program
• Integrated new legal entities (company code) from scratch with merging chart of accounts and all enterprise structure setup, cost center hierarchy, profit centers, Project System, Capital Investments, and Foreign Currency design and valuation
• Managed the corporate interfaces like RFC, Vertex, Mobile Applications, Bank Interfaces, Foreign Currency rate update, Price Update and others
• Designed integration with Ariba and handled all Ariba orders and approval workflow
• Implemented VIM open-Text to fully automate supplier invoices
• Designed Make-to-Order Costing and Consignment Process
• Implemented Intercompany Billing Process
• Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure depreciation methods.
• Worked on period-end-closing, fiscal-year-end-closing, material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, and reconciliation issues
• Implemented mapping of current data, tables and other reports to SAP
• Reviewed and delivered functional specifications documents to developers to meet business requirements
• Worked with the Run Team and managed Production Support Tickets & CR.
• Moving of production support tickets to service now and ITSM Remedy system
• In charge of SAP FICO Design and Enhancements

Confidential

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Participated in S4HANA Finance Implementation and Support
• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting and Parallel Accounting (as preparation for S4Hana project)
• Ensured the execution activity of S4Hana migration for each module by partitioning of universal journal entry line items tables, regenerate CDS views and filed mapping, analyze transactional data and display status of analysis of transaction data (as execution for S4Hana migration)
• Designed Global Blueprint and implementation of production support strategy.
• Implemented Configuration , Unit , Stress , Volume , Regression , User Acceptance and Integration Testing , Training , Documentation
• Worked with the Run Team and managed Production Support Tickets & CR.
• Moving of production support tickets to service now and ITSM Remedy system
• In charge of SAP FICO Design and Enhancements
• Managed complex integration with SAP FICO with SD, MM & PP process
• Configured Forex Currency Revaluation and Translation
• Configured Document Splitting: Configured Item Category, Business Transactions, Splitting Method, Splitting Characteristics, Default Account Assignment, Inheritance, Zero Balance Splitting, and activated splitting
• Migrated, Created & Maintained Customer Master data, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, AR Aging
• Balanced bank reconciliations and oversaw daily bank balances
• Configuration and Review of General Ledger information, General Ledger Reconciliations and Prepare/review journal entries
• Prepared monthly internal financial statements, including but not limited to bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, Statement of cash flow, Balance Sheet and P&L analysis for management and lenders
• Performed month end and year end analysis
• Configured Company Code, Number Ranges, Document Type, Integrated with SD and account determination
• Account Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning, Lockbox.
• Accounts Payable: Building AP Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Configured Automatic Payment Program, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice with purchase
• Implemented Payment Block process for vendors
• Implemented credit memo for customers and debit memo for vendors
• Automated the GR Process across corporate locations and warehouses
• Designed Intercompany process, cross company transaction and drop-shipping integration in SAP Finance
• Integrated credit management with D&B, designed enhancement with D&B for Credit Check interface
• Created the credit master and credit limit
• Designed and configured Lockbox BAI2 file and application server
• Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods, Setup account determination, design the screen layout, specifying interval of posting rules, defining depreciation keys, period control and setting the account assignment object
• Trained for SAP Design and Configuration
• Enhanced Vendor Invoicing Process based on VIM services model
• Managed all Vertex Integration with FICO
• Strongly integrated with Sales and Distribution and supported SD creating various SD Org Structure such Sales Org, Sales Office, and others
• Created various LSMWs for various master data and transactional data
• Worked on Data extraction to BW for Improved Financial Statement Reporting and Business KPI’s
• Re-designed Financial Reporting, Document Splitting and Parallel Accounting, and ledger design
• Configured Document Splitting: Configured Item Category, Business Transactions, Splitting Method, Splitting Characteristics, Zero Balance Splitting, and activated splitting
• Configured and Designed SAP New GL: Created Ledgers, Non-Leading Ledgers, Accounting Principles - IFRS & US GAAP
• Enhanced Foreign Transaction and streamline FOREX update via Realized/Unrealized gain/loss and Currency revaluation/translation
• Managed Offshore and onshore team
• Lead all SAP Integration efforts for the M&A project to include 3 new companies into the Continental Portfolio
• Designed integration with Concur for travel expense across various expense types and AMEX
• In charge of VIM open Text Design
• Designed all MM integration: Daily MRP Run for Demand Requirements & PO creation, Planned Production Order to Production Order
• Responsible for various interfaces with Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable modules
• Built Costing Model with all assessments, allocations, settlements, BOMs, Routings,
• Implemented overhead cost allocation using costing sheet and additive cost
• Configured COPA Profitability Analysis (Cost Based), Characteristics, Value Fields, Characteristics derivation, and value fields flow and Top Down Distribution.
• Configured the entire Asset solution to conduct Asset Acquisition (Capitalization), Asset Transfer, Asset Retirement (Scrap or Sale), and Depreciation
• Designed AuC and CapEx (Capital Investment) with SAP Project System Module
• Streamline Month-End and Year-End Process, Financial Statements Adjustments, and Consolidations, and next year Planning (BPC)
• Led various business process transformation for complex scenarios like incoming freight costs booked to inventory capitalization, intercompany selling IDoc AP Invoice creation, and Customer Portal Registration automated D&B Credit Limit Rating Process.
• Designed Month-End Activity for corporate costing where cost estimate, collecting actuals, variance analysis, WIP, and settlement for both Discrete & Repetitive Manufacturing Models.
• Configured Cost object as Cost Center, Internal Order, and WBS and designed allocation, assessment, distribution, settlement, and indirect allocation in between cost object
• Designed costing for various scenarios as per business requirement.
• Designed Costing Sheet, configured Cost Component Structure and Costing Variant for Product Costing
• Designed Profit Center & Cost Center Hierarchy for purchase organizations, various manufacturing plants and Material Resource Planning
• Implemented MRP to process purchase requisitions and planned orders
• Implemented overhead solution based on Practical Capacity, Factory Overhead Work Cells including Direct Labor
• Assist in Master Data Design such as BOM, Routing, Work Center, Producing Cost Center Activity Rates and Material Master
• Integrated Costing with Production Planning for actual cost and WIP calculation and variance calculation and settlement
• Implemented Dropship (3rd Party Selling) and intercompany billing process

Confidential

SAP FICO ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Entire SAP Project following Agile and Asap Methodology
• Worked using CHARM, testing in HPQC, ALM, Remedy system and Hypercare
• Migrated AR, AP, GL, Assets, and Inventory from JD Edwards to ECC
• Worked on the Integration of MM using MIGO ( goods receipts) and MIRO (invoice receipts)
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning.
• Customized Dunning letters, check, remittance advice, order confirmation, delivery, invoice and purchase order in smart forms and SAP scripts.
• Customized SAP script check form to include digital signature.
• Designed Automatic Payment Program for various Payment Methods
• Managed Bank file Process with local and international Bank
• Designed Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) with Search String
• Integrated functional enhancement for EBS using user exist - FEB00001
• Designed various Functional Specification and led enhancements with ABAP team using IDoC, EDI,
• Created Enhancement Reporting and AR Factoring Process
• Customized Aging Report based on dynamic bucket - Customer and Business Unit Contribution Margin
• Designed all SD integration for Credit management, Tax Calculation, Output Setup, Price Calculation, Revenue Account Determination, Revenue Recognition
• Organized Cut Over Operation with BASIS team and prepared for Go Live and provided extended support and production support
• Led the testing and created test cases, user acceptance testing (UAT), and integration testing
• Led the Business user training and user manual documentation
• Worked on Proposals, Orals presentation and RFP

Confidential

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and evaluating the organization internal business process and external operational environments within energy sector for business diversification.
• Identifying various attractive and viable markets that align with the organization existing capabilities and services using research and analytical frame work methods.
• Provide recommendation of strategic and viable markets to expand business portfolio.
• Provide recommendation of future research opportunities.
• Managing resources, clients, and working with the cross functional teams to ensure that all projects are directly in line with company PMO initiatives.