SUMMARY

• 9+ Years of experience in SAP FI/CO, supporting in Business Process re - engineering and Implementation Versions from SAP R/3 Version 4.6C to ECC 6.0 and HANA.
• 3 full life cycle(E2E) implementations of SAP FI/CO starting from project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation to go Live & support using ASAP methodology and 2 rollouts, enhancements, and 4 production supports and 1 S/4, Testing projects.
• Specialties: SAP Financials General Ledger (including New GL), Banking, BRS, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable), Asset Management and Controlling (Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders), Profitability Analysis and Product Costing modules, In House Cash, Banking, Treasury and Risk management.
• Good understanding of S/4 HANA Profitability Analysis.
• Worked with Legacy System Migration Workbench tool (LSMW) for importing G/L, vendor and customer master data and transaction data from legacy system to SAP.
• Worked on project Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0.
• Involved in SAP 6.0 implementation of Global Rollout for Canada and Australia.
• Hands on experience using HP Quality Center (HPQC-11.00), and TAO.
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), Receivable (AR), BRS, Special Purpose Ledger and Treasury.
• Worked on business process procedures, from RTR (Record to Report), PTP procurement of material to payment of vendors - MIGO, MIRO and Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Lockbox configuration, Positive Pay, W2, Banks Accounting & Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and Bank Reconciliation Statement (BRS).
• Highly experienced in the Integration of FI with SD (Order to Cash) and FI with MM (Procure to pay) and RTR (Record to Report).
• Proficient in creating WRICEF functional documents for Financials and Controlling modules.
• Experienced in working with Taxation, VAT, withhold tax, Sales tax and 1099 reporting.
• Working knowledge of SAP BW, BO modules and reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer.
• Extensive experience in data transfers from CCA, EC-PCA, and Internal Orders for Profitability Analysis, Planning and Budgeting.
• Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Consolidation.
• Worked closely with business users and offshore ABAP developers to deliver cost-effective application systems to meet business needs.
• Ability to write detailed Business specifications for custom audit reports. Extensive Experience with designing, Configuring, testing & documenting of FI/CO Subcomponents in SAP versions ECC 6.0 & ECC 6.5 including Opentext (VIM).
• Specific focus is on S/4 HANA as applied to Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO), Simple Finance AKA S/4 HANA Finance Version 1610 and Process Integration areas of SAP.
• Strong SAP Experience in Gap-analysis, Blue Printing, Functional Specs documentation, Prototyping, Detailed Configuration, Training Documentation, Testing, Data Uploading, Preparing the Cutover Strategy, go live Implementation, Troubleshooting Cross Module Customization Issues.
• Experience in developing documentation for Test Plans and Test Cases based on the Design Document and User Requirement Document.
• Conducted training sessions and provided end user training.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and experience in working with business users as well as senior management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Financials: Proficient in General Ledger FI-GL, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Account Payable FI-AP, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Dunning, Credit Management, cash management, and Automatic Payment Program. Sound knowledge of FSCM configuration and FICA.

SAP Controlling: Expertise in Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Internal Orders CO-IA, Product Costing (PC), Activity Types, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Variances, and Other CO Elements, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Product Cost Planning, Cost object Controlling, Actual Costing, Material ledger.

Bank Accounting: House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement, BRS, Lockbox Processing, Exchange Rates, Cash Journal, Payment Transactions, Interest Calculations and Translation Ratios.

SAP Technical: Integration of various SAP applications like SD and MM with FI/CO. Expert in development of reports using Report Painter and Report Writer. Knowledge of ASAP implementation methodology and the capability to interact with ABAP developers for technical

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, S/4 HANA

Methodologies: ASAP Methodology, Solution Manager, Service Now

Operating System: Window NT/2000/XP/Vista, Windows 7,8,10

Applications: MS-Office Suite, MS-Outlook, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Functional Skill: FI/CO, MM, SD

Database Skill: MS- Access, STATA, SAS Programming

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working on different interfaces such as Adyen, PayPal, TIBCO and SVS for customer payment processing. The data from these third-party tools will flow into SAP for reporting purpose.
• Involved in refining sales account determination in SAP.
• Involved in writing business process definition covering different active scenarios.
• Helping the client on defect resolution using HPQC or ALM which is a defect management tool.
• Involved in writing of lean specs for different reports and involved in testing of these reports.
• Involved in cost center assessment configuration, testing the same covering all scenarios associated.
• In Asset Management configured asset classes, master depreciation and other business transactions. Fixed asset accounting, reconcile asset management to GL.
• Additionally, work with various developers, report writers and system analysts to assist in a variety of general support task.
• Configuration of Product Costing (CO-PC), including defining settlement profile, Assessment Cycle and distribution and various activities, AP, AR, and fixed Assets.
• Assists the business users with activities related to software change requests, including creation and execution of test scripts to test business functionality.
• Quickly diagnose, perform root cause analysis, and resolve production issues and analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems.
• Effectively manages scope and client expectations on individual assignments and follows through on all assignments and takes ownership of customer issues.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Provide primary support for different modules in SAP Finance including Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), and Human Resource (HR).
• Responsible for solving complex problems and design, test and implement solutions for the SAP FI module.
• Support for various interfaces like Blackline, Concur and Fieldglass which are linked with SAP.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss for inter-company transactions.
• Responsible for daily Treasury cash management duties, review bank accounts, positive pay, investment logs and resolve transfer issues.
• Support internal customers / end-users with SAP issues, resolve issues and provide excellent customer service to our internal staff.
• Primary contact for Treasury interactions with other departments, business units and third-party administrators
• Handle reporting requests by analyzing the requirements, preparing functional specifications, working with developers, and testing new reports and changes in ECC environment.
• Assist business with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing operations as needed.
• Manages CAR form and asset related issues and change the master data as per user request through LSMW.
• Work with Business and IT partners on enhancements, changes, and fixes new system implementations, bank communications (SWIFT)and providing day to day support.
• Provide estimations for the work necessary to implement enhancements requested by business users. Conduct unit testing and integration testing for break/fix and enhancement.
• Work with business users to gather FICO requirements, configure SAP systems, test new functionality, and provide on-going support.
• Fixed Assets module: Setting up depreciation charts and Areas, Asset classification, defining GL accounts for FA integration with FI, performing depreciation run and Migration of Fixed Assets across Company Codes.
• Identifying and defining ‘House banks’ and Bank Accounts, setting up bank Groups to meet the client’s project needs and to help optimize bank selection in automatic and manual payment program.
• Setup of New Financial Statement versions i.e. Balance sheet, Cash Flow, Income Statement and Multiple Currencies.
• Going through the release note and coordinating with coupa team for upgrade activities
• In Cost Center Accounting, created Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups, maintained Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, assigned Cost Centers to respective Profit Centers. Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Develop, design, test and validate SAP configuration/customizing related to new business processes developed as part of the business process improvement initiatives.
• Manages implementation of new systems, upgrades, service packs, fixes, enhancements, and process changes by coordinating and conducting testing with IT and end users to ensure applications are functioning.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program(APP), to enable wire, ACH, check and lockbox payments. Defined and implemented void reason codes.
• UAT support for business testing users, fixing UAT issues.Involved in various phases during transition from Ariba to Coupa application.
• Understand the pain points in current business process and provide workaround and resolution for process improvement
• Create and/or support creation of integration/user acceptance test scenarios and scripts as well as facilitate and provide direct support for user testing.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, BRS, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GR/IR, FA, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured the new GL functionality (standard company hierarchy, account groups, accounts for company codes, fiscal year variant, field status variant and posting period variant, implementation of parallel accounting methods and document splitting), AP, AR
• Provided appropriate solutions to the end-user reporting and training needs.
• Work closely with programmers and software developers to incorporate solutions for system or client issues.
• Responsible for developing new treasury management business and expanding existing relationships.
• I have worked for Project System as support team member/Enhancement and worked as Team Lead for Upgrade activity like testing and overall team handling, coordinating, reporting to Management for regular progress of Testing and debt management.
• Analyzed FICO related trouble tickets, and user tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the RCA and resolved them in timely manner.
• Provided leadership and guidance during the legacy data conversion and the reconciliation process.Configured the New General Ledger Accounting.
• Worked on Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), ERS, and BRS, Positive pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer, liquidity forecast and configuring and customizing multiple payment methods and automatic clearing and prepare audit reports.
• Configured and optimized SAP Treasury solutions (Treasury Management, Cash & Liquidity Management, and bank Communication Management) to improve processing efficiency and reduce errors.
• Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, EDI, ERS and House Banks for the payment program and RTR.
• Managed on-time delivery, project plan, coordinated with the offshore team.
• Involves the planning, design and implementation of data management, data archiving and system optimization solutions implementation with document splitting and parallel ledger features. Completed Integration Testing and User Training
• Worked closely with Redwood team to automate BW processes.
• Working on Core SAP business processes: FI-AR, FICO, SD and experience in BW implementations of these modules
• Maintain documentation for reference by regulators, auditors and management, DME processing.
• Helped in the month-end closing process in the areas where the user community needed help in reporting and in the reconciliation of COPA to FI.
• Trained the SAP users on the usage on day to day AP/AR activities.Worked on test scenarios, allowing integrated tests of the process flows in OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM).
• Activated the Material Ledger for posting the MIRO & MIGO Transactions, GR/IR transitions.
• Configured Business Process Flow, Implementing Work Status, RTR (Record to Report) Creating and assigning BPC security objects, SOX compliance - tasks, teams, data access profiles etc.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including payments) Integrated Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Developed API integration for extracting transaction data from coupa application to downstream system
• Created a Wed Dynpro Development Standards Document for Confidential and created Web Dynpro Check List.Providing technical support for coupa application.
• Provides general direction to the Global Finance Operations team on consolidation and other group reporting issues.
• Involved numerous customer-facing activities and user requirement meeting to develop data archiving specifications, establish data retention policies, user access requirements.
• Working with Development of Web Dynpro Components for CONCORD REALIZATION and GAT 2.0 for Confidential for integrating them onto the Portal.
• Configured the posting keys, and defined templates for recurring entries/ posting in GL accounts. AR - customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms.
• Managed on-time delivery, project plan, coordinated with the offshore team.
• Work closely with programmers and software developers to incorporate solutions for system or client issues.
• Created a SAP Business Workflow for HR (PA) for Absence Approval/Rejection business process.
• Configuration Vendor Account Groups, Vendor Master Groups EDI. House Banks, Bank accounts, Check lots, Reason codes, Automatic Payments Programs (APP), recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, etc.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Created 40+ new company codes right from requirement gathering, configuration, testing, and documentation to go live.
• Configured In House Cash (IHC), House Banks, Treasury settings for multiple company codes. Created House Banks, bank accounts(BRS), ranking order, automatic payments, term of payments, payment methods.
• Implementation of Plant Abroad Scenarios during EU roll out.
• Re-configured Product costing setup with activation of enhancements and equalization user exits and provided technical expertise for carrying out annual cost roll for both in-house materials as well as subcontracted materials.
• Installed, Implemented, and customized OpenText Vendor Invoice Management(VIM) & Invoice Capture Center (ICC) 7.0 SP3 and DME file processing.
• Configuration and implementation of data management and archiving strategies in the GR/IR, Finance, Cost Control, Sales and Distribution, Material Management.
• Extracting Master data & transactions data to Non - R3 format, clean up data, mapping interfaces, loading data into SAP format (IDOC) and testing loaded data.
• Worked on Scanning and Imaging of Invoices as part of Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) and Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) also.
• MM integration with CO along with GR/IR concept of postings and clearing from MM and FI perspective MIRO invoice posting.
• Involved in data extraction and conversion between BPC and non-ERP systems with extractors and ETL tools.
• Ariba Downstream capabilities including Ariba Procure to Pay, Ariba Procurement Content, Ariba Invoice Management, Payment Management and Discount Management.
• Workshop on the New GL features along with Document splitting (Profit Center). Demonstrated the Document splitting concepts with relevant examples and an online demo.
• Gather financial data for business units using SAP group reporting data collection.
• Implementation planning for Confidential 1610 Central Finance implementation - Central Ledger, MDG, SLT configurations. Trained the SAP users on the usage on day to day AP/AR, BRS activities.
• Good working knowledge of the Central Finance scenario in Simple Finance in a distributed system landscape in SAP S4 HANA 1709. Configuration of SAP CRM with SAP S/4 Hana STE Finance and SAP Solutions.
• Designed own input reports predefined group reports to collect data as part of data preparation for consolidation.
• Creation and enhancement of SAP S4 HANA 1610 Web-based applications with emphasis on data modeling.
• Led the various phases of SAP S4 HANA 1610 and 1510 and SAP STE Enterprise Management Implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Performs complex SAP ABAP design, development, testing, and debugging work related to the implementation, enhancement, and support of SAP modules.
• Involved in designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and implementing the S4Hana 1510 (SFin 2.0) on premises edition.
• Logging EMC support tickets, gather the data they require, applying patches for other 3rd party plug-ins etc.
• Lead the technical design and implementation of all HR and Payroll projects, enhancements, and system support and to the extent possible Treasury and Cash Management and SOX.
• Configuration experience with Vertex O series and Tax ware 3rd party tools.
• Assisted to complete tax setup for Vertex O Series tax software solution Assist in the implementation of Vertex Indirect Tax Software O Series 6.0 from infancy to its current Go-Live state.
• Configure SAP FICO systems to meet client business requirements, including connection points with RTR (Record to Report) SD (Sales and Distribution), PP (Production Planning), MM (Materials Management) and other modules and implementation of SAP best practices, SAP AR and FI.
• Hybris billing including convergent charging and the invoicing billing process and integrations to FICA and revenue recognition, Finance Subject Matter Expert (SME), participates in projects.
• Researches and resolves production support issues with SOX compliance, coordinate developments, provide technical support, contribute to overall software architecture and process solutions for SAP S4 HANA 1510.
• Provide technical and business process expertise to enhancements or changes with collaboration with IS business partners in FI (Finance), CO (Controlling), AM (Asset Management), and to the extent possible Treasury and Cash Management.