SUMMARY

• Innovative professional with 7+ years of progressive experience in SAP FICO, operations, project management and business analysis coupled with 7 years focused on SAP relevant experience in Auditing, Financial accounting with extensive knowledge in the implementation and configuration of SAP FI modules with emphasis on business process analysis.
• Functional expertise in Versions ECC, S4/HANA components including Organizational Structures, Organizational Units & Enterprise Structures General Ledger Accounting FI - G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, FI integration with Sales and Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM) and Controlling (CO) modules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: Cognos and MS office Suite including - Visio, Access

Agile Tools: Confluence, JIRA

Database Tools: Oracle, Vertiva, SQL, Nexus, Teradata, Business Object, HANA

Statistics Software: PHStat, SPSS

Languages: Javascript, Visual Basic 6.0, Java2, Python (Beginner)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Integrated SAP PS to SD, FI, CO, MM
• Worked cross functionally on (RTR, PTP, OTC, and Supply Chain)
• Integration with Vertex for US & Canada Taxes and used Standard Tax Procedure and configuration for international Tax
• Implemented COPA Cost base and created custom reports for project review.
• Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory into ECC from Sage
• Designed CapEx Project (Capital Investment) with full integration between Asset Accounting (AUC) and Project System
• 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.
• 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.
• Design and integrated Confidential solution between the Concur and SAP system used for financial transactions
• Understand local legislation and policy requirements to determine appropriate solutions that consider global design principles
• Perform advanced SAP Concur Configuration and train internal resources (Policies, Localization, Tax configuration, Travel allowance, data loads, credit card interface with bank, write simple reports in Concur Intelligence)
• Setup Service Model and Mentor Configuration team and Support team for Concur
• Design and implement integration, using Web Services and API’s, to transfer travel data to PWC for compliance assessments
• Work with Communications team to design appropriate guidance to super/end users
• Setup basic customized reports using Concur Intelligence to aid in management analysis and implementing controls
• Train and lead an internal offshore configuration team to deliver advanced SAP Concur configuration
• Design and implement ability to fetch real-time data from meeting management (Veeva), SAP and SOA
• Work with and Communications team to design appropriate guidance to super/end users
• Multi-dimensional Profitability Analysis Report Project
• Preliminary study of the existing business process (functional and technical) for preparation of “Preliminary Study Report” (PSR)
• Designing of organization structure for SAP CO module to meet the reporting levels of existing business.
• Definition of custom and fixed variables
• Hands on experience Solution design, S4 Hana Migration, and business transformation
• Set up default launchpad based on user roles using Fiori launchpad
• Customized Fiori launch pad grouped tiles into sections.
• Responsible for HANA Assessment and system readiness, scoping, roadmap plan creation
• Derivation of profitability segment
• Participated in full fledge Hands on implementation of S4 Hana Solutions with various integration with non-SAP
• Derivation rule for product, customer & distribution channel hierarchy
• Definition of value fields for different categories of quantifiable information
• Definition of assumptions for actual value flow for FI & SD i.e. sales orders
• Definition of assumptions for value flow to 3rd party BW engine
• Definition of reporting dimensions for COPA reporting engine
• Develop custom KE30 report for multi-dimensional profitability analysis
• Continuous reconciliation between COPA report and GL accounts (FSV) for Net Sales computation
• User Acceptance Training (UAT)
• Used FIORI as an interface and on the run on my mobile phone
• Post implementation monitoring
• Measurement of performance with agreed KPIs as a part of “Business Value Realization Report” (BVRR)
• Led Cost Center hierarchy changes, costing, and profitability analysis (COPA) re-design and implementation in SAP
• Designed the S4 HANA Migration plan without impacting existing interfaces and enhancements
• Implemented Concur and its integration with SAP from setting expense types till posting vendor invoices in SAP
• Logistics Visibility: Freight Accruals & Recognizing Revenue Project
• Eliminate Lack of visibility — dirty data from Transport Management System, Master Data, etc.
• Correct poor billing practices — inconsistent billing cycles, lack of internal controls, insufficient external oversight
• Review Rate agreement configuration, Cost calculation on VSA side
• Review Cost allocation - pricing procedure, condition type, material master, etc., Invoice registration, Invoice matching / verification
• Review Payment processing, Multiple currencies, Exceptions management
• Review process for Returns, Samples & Free goods
• Review Reason codes for accrued and non-accrued freight expense, freight settlement for event driven or peculiar deliveries, Cancellation requests, etc.
• Develop functional specifications for program to import 3rd party logistic invoices into SAP
• Activate functionality to match Accrual to Actual freight expense with exception reporting and analysis
• Post implementation monitoring
• Measurement of performance wrt agreed KPIs

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing legacy system, gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, participated in process improvement teams, and produced the functional requirements document.
• Configured General Ledger by creating Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files.
• Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels.
• Prepared master data for AR and AP along with Open Item processing settings, Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos (terms of payment), Outgoing Payment, Incoming Payment, Dunning, Open item Clearing, Down-payment received, and Down-payment made.
• Worked on Transactions, Check Deposit and Payment Transactions related to Bank Accounting.
• Set up Cost Center Accounting including Enterprise organization, Master data, Cost Centers, Activity types.
• Prepared and Sized System landscape for SAP S4 HANA adaptation
• Configured Project System for Make To Order, and capital investment
• Configured assignment, costing rules, target cost version
• Migrated 1 Business Unit into S4 HANA leveraging only Finance
• Redesigned the OTC process and design
• 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.
• Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice with purchase.
• Ex Tested the settings on the development server and transported the settings onto the testing server for user testing and confirmation and transported into the production server after user confirmation.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
• 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.
• Mapped current data, tables, and other reports to SAP.
• Reviewed and delivered functional specifications to developers to meet business requirements.
• Maintained Planner Profile, and created distribution and assessment cycles and supporting Month end process
• Configured all COPA costing