SUMMARY

• In - depth knowledge and hands on in enhancements, configuration 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, OM, 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

• SAP Project Implementation SAP Production Support
• GL, AP, AR, AA, PC, COPA, PS EBS, Lockbox, Enhancements
• Vertex, Concur, Ariba, VIM, BW Planning, Reporting, Scrum Mgt
• RFP, Proposal, Orals SAP Testing, Training, Leading
• ALM, Charm, Remedy, Hypercare SAP S/4 HANA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Executed business requirement for the organization and configuration of SAP FI, CO modules in IMG based on business requirements
• Responsible for FI-GL, AP, AR, SD CO-CCA, IO and PS.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups
• Configured Product Costing and designed costing variant, valuation variant, variance variant, and costing sheet, cost component structure
• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting and Parallel Accounting
• Migrated various master data and transaction using LSMW
• Led enhancements, EDI interfaces, and IDoc projects, Integrated with Vertex and implemented special design for tax exempt
• 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, Lockbox
• Gathered Business Requirements, led focused groups, created prototypes design
• Participated S4/HANA Finance Implementation and Support
• Worked on data analysis to ensure the integrity and accuracy of data with an understanding of Finance and Accounting, P&L statements, Balance sheets, and related profitability metric calculations
• Led business transformation for 3rd party selling and intercompany selling design
• Led scrum teams and planned all sprints and handled all communication with Product Owner
• Led Testing operation by creating test scripts, uploaded scripts into ALM, monitor defect, managed timeline and success rate, UAT and business sign off.
• Configured Cost Based COPA and created custom characteristics and value fields, enhanced characteristics determination and value field determination and Top Down Distribution.
• Enhanced Valuation and Substitution for profit center determination and allocation purposes
• Collaborated with SD for Consignment solution
• Expertise in leading blueprint workshops, SAP Configuration, Custom (PRICEFW) Development, Cutover Activities, Data Migration, Testing and User Training and hyper-care support experience
• Helped in setting the organization structure and configuration for SD and MM from creating sales organization, distribution channel, division, plant code, shipping point, output and partner function
• Worked closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff, reviewed and delivered functional specifications to developers in order to meet business requirements
• Led Change Board Meeting (CCB) and ensure all TR followed Charm system and ensured documentation is done in SOLMAN
• Trained end users and helped the business in their business transformation and change management
• Designed enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits and Functional Modules
• Designed Make-to-Order Costing and Consignment Process
• Re-engineered Drop-ship process and Intercompany Billing Process
• Implemented COPA Cost base and created custom reports
• Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory in to ECC from Sage
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Configured and Customized CO - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
• Organized Cut Over Operation with BASIS team, and prepared for Go Live and provided extended support and production support
• Interfaced Ariba with ECC, ensure master data replication and transaction flow in between ECC and Ariba and vendor catalog is mapped to material master
• Accounts Payable: Building AP Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Configured Automatic Payment Program, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice with purchase
• 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
• Integrated with Concur and ensured expense report is mapped in SAP to create Vendor Invoices.
• Expense types is mapped to Tax code for tax calculation
• Enhanced COPA for Characteristics Derivation and Value Fields flow from external system
• Sales and Distribution: Configuring sales organization, assigning sales organization to company code, assigning distribution channels and divisions to sales organizations, determining pricing procedure, configuring condition table and access sequence, defining sales order types, assigning number ranges to sales documents, defining billing types, assigning number ranges to billing documents
• Worked on period-end-closing, fiscal-yearend-closing, material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, and reconciliation issues
• Mapped current data, tables and other reports to SAP
• Reviewed and delivered functional specifications to developers in order to meet business requirements
• Supported Level 3 Tickets and built CR and lead CCB (Change Control Board)

Confidential

SAP Fico Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible about requirement gathering and business blueprint
• 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 analysis and close
• Configured Company Code, Number Ranges, Document Type, Integrated with SD and account determination
• Designed Intercompany process and drop-shipping integration in SAP Finance
• Design all Vertex Integration with FICO
• Designed integration with Concur for travel expense across various expense types and AMEX
• Led VIM open Text Design and configured VIM workflow (by Open Text).
• Built Costing Model with all assessments, and allocations
• Restructured COPA (Cost Based) and designed new profitability segments and reports
• Managed complex integration with SAP FICO with SD, MM, PP. Complete Order to Cash cycle (OTC) and Procurement to payment (PTP)
• Re-designed Financial Reporting, Document Splitting and Parallel Accounting, and ledger design
• Created various LSMWs for various master data and transactional data
• Designed Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) with Search String
• Co-Led ARIBA Design and all its integration with FICO
• Designed enhancement with D&B for Credit Check interface
• Interface with Trust Collection for collecting bad debt with customer
• Re-engineered the collection and dunning process using SAP dunning and collection strategy
• Designed and configured Lockbox BAI2 file and application server
• Customized Aging Report based on dynamic bucket
• Automated Customer Account statements and due Notification
• Designed all SD integration: Credit management, Tax Calculation, Output Setup, Price Calculation, Revenue Account Determination
• Responsible and participate in the capture and definition of all stakeholder requirements and agreement on their prioritization of Designing new business processes based on customer requirements and conduct user review sessions and run stakeholder agreement meetings applying thought leadership in leading the transformation
• Designed all MM integration: MRP, Input Tax, Workflow, Cost Planning, Split Valuation
• Responsible for various interfaces with Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable modules.
• Configured the entire Asset solution to conduct Asset Acquisition (Capitalization), Asset Transfer, Asset Retirement (Scrap or Sale), and Depreciation.
• Integrated Costing with Production Planning for actual cost and WIP calculation and variances
• Configured COPA Profitability Analysis (Cost Based), Characteristics Value Fields, Characteristics derivation, and value fields flow and Top Down Distribution
• Business Process (Intercompany Billing, 3rd Party Billing, Consignment Process)
• Designed and lead testing and created test cases, user acceptance testing, and integration testing
• Validation and testing of FICO Accounts Payable and Receivable configuration
• Designed Asset Depreciation Methods and Configured Asset Chart of Depreciation
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program, House bank and payments medium