SUMMARY

• Thorough understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integration viewpoints
• In - depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and development, gathering user requirements, developing specification and custom report
• 3 full life cycle implementations using ASAP and Agile methodology, understanding of “As Is “Business processes, Blue Print, Realization, Configuration, Final Preparation-Unit Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Preparation of Test Scripts, Authorization of design for Roles with Security team & developing BPPs, End Users User Training and Post Go Live Support
• Experienced with creating analytical, transaction and fact sheet reports with FIORI
• Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, A/P, A/R, AA, SPL), S4 HANA, & CFIN
• Strong Post Implementation support 24/7 with experience in various industries
• Professional Client and Consulting experience with managing onsite and offshore teams
• Extensive experience in enhancements, configuration and testing of FI/CO modules General Ledger (GL), Account Payable (AR), Account Receivable (AP), Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (I/O) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Product costing (CO-PC) and Special Purpose Ledger
• Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles
• Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support
• Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects
• Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross applications
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
• Experience in cost management and bank Accounting: Inbound/Outbound Process, House Banks, Bill of Exchange, Manual and Electronic Bank Statement, Exchange Rates, Translation Ratios and Bank reconciliation
• Worked on taxes configuration for tax procedures TAXUSJ and TAXUSX
• Worked on automatic clearing and all payment methods like ACH, EDI and Lockbox
• Worked on FSCM Module: Credit Management, Collection management, and dispute management
• Assets, Asset Classes, depreciation, and PS Integration
• Excellent communication and inter personnel skills and able to motivate and influence team members
• Active member in conducting team meetings, customer feedback meetings & self-assimilation programs, and expert in Agile Methodologies
• Avid advocate for continuous learning and keeping abreast of emerging technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting.
• Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitable Analysis, And Product Costing.
• ABAP Query, Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW, ASAP and Agile Methodology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PRINCETON, NJ

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all finance application delivery during S/4HANA full lifecycle implementation from ECC (Green Field). Led 14 team members located onshore and offshore .
• Responsible for S/4HANA assessment and system readiness, scoping, roadmap creation. Designed the S/4HANA migration plan to avoid impacting existing interfaces and enhancements.
• Led business transformation to bring business processes as close as possible to best practices.
• Led the blueprinting sessions and created functional specifications, business rules, and swim lane diagrams.
• Developed detailed project plans and managed all aspects of the project lifecycle to facilitate successful delivery to leadership.
• Responsible for SAP Finance configuration, enhancements, and testing in line with end-users’ requirements.
• Designed the entire enterprise structure from company codes, operating concern, profit center/cost center hierarchy, and other objects including integration with value streams.
• Configured Business Partner: Partner Type, Partner Category, Partner Group, and Number ranges, and CVI configuration with the same number
• Designed GL module including ledger design based on various GAAP, currencies, and different valuations .
• Configured document splitting based on various characteristics like profit center, segment, and other custom fields.
• Configured and designed Asset Accounting: designed Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, and integrated acquisition
• Configured EBS & Lockbox: created house banks, account symbol & assign to accounts, created keys for posting rules, defined the posting rules, created transaction types, assigned external transaction types to posting rules, assigned bank accounts to transaction types.
• Designed capex process with Project Systems.
• Designed major enhancements like labor costing, intercompany clearing, unifying customer onboarding, visibility on PO Payments and vendors ranking.
• Designed costing process including costing variant, WIP, variances, actuals, overheads, and settlement.
• Activated COPA and leveraged the COGS splitting and predictive profit margin.
• Designed and implemented an effective plan for the integration of S/4 with various SAP & non-SAP applications including VIM, Ariba, Concur, Workday, and ServiceNow .
• Implemented VIM to bring OCR capability to vendor invoice management process. Trained OCR for various complex invoice images and multiple vendor invoice templates.
• Owned SIT & UAT and obtained final approval on the project signoffs.
• Accountable for project documentation and training materials.
• Supported the business community part of Level 3 support engaged in complex tickets like clearing the billing issues for 3000 invoices, fixed assets for the prior year, Automatic Payment Program, and many others.

Confidential

SAP FICO Acting Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Run Team and responsible for Production Support, CR and Projects related to CR
• Handled all Operation Tickets Including Finance, SD, PP, MM (Including design and Configuration)
• Designed costing variant and variance analysis
• Corrected variant conditions to ensure that cost estimates errors were rectified during product costing
• Configured bank optimization resulting in about $400,000 in bank fee reduction leveraging EBS, Lockbox, and Automatic Payment Program.
• Utilized Service Now for all CR and Ticket resolution
• Documented all ticket resolution and issue Log
• Managed Firefighter Access for the team
• Communicated Transports to Business and led CCB (CAB) team
• Led the Enhancement team (including 4 people offshore)
• Enhanced and Designed all Gap Solutions by facilitating all Enhancements and RICEFW for the Finance Team
• Enhanced Customer Credit management and interfaced with 3rd party credit Agencies.
• Built Customized reports for procurement, payment and spend analysis
• Minimized supplier dispute and communication by designing supplier portal handle most the bottleneck operation/communication.
• Streamline PO ordering with strategic suppliers leveraging IDoCs and EDI communication.
• Wrote Functional Specs for Each enhancement, and worked with the developers
• Identified and design Functional Modules, User Exits, Enhancement Spot, BAPI, BADI, IDoC related to Finance and its related integration
• Designed various workflows and skillful in debugging
• Pre-Approved Functional Specs
• Handled all procurement Integration (R2P)
• Integrated with Ariba for all Bidding, RFx, and contract award
• Worked with the change control board for all Finance Solution Governance
• Support expanded beyond FICO - including MM, SD, PP processes
• Conducted Instructor led training for end-users
• Configured various legal entities from scratch including document splitting design, currencies and ledgers
• Created User Manuals and process flows for end users
• Responsible for adding new training materials from issues log (tickets) to the training assets
• Designed the ledger standard and extended Ledger
• Designed Business Partner and created Business Partner Group and number ranges
• Designed Organization Structure from company codes, cost center hierarchy, profit center hierarchy, till all integration for purchase organization, plants, sales areas and MRP
• Designed and configured all configuration needed like company codes, chart of accounts, house banks, account groups, tolerances, document splitting, currencies, screen layouts and others"
• Designed wholistic integrations with SD, MM, PP like Make to Order Scenario (M2O), Consignments, Drop-shipping, Cross company transaction, Return, RMA, Maintenance, warranty process and others
• Enhanced account determination for stock transfer and material transfer across plants, and sales order fulfillment location
• Supported MRP to process planned orders and purchase requisitions
• Trained End user for all process related integration from receiving the customer order, to fulfillment, production, purchasing and inventory management and integration with accounting
• Implemented Entire SD and MM as part of rollout
• Create a new trade promotion in the SAP CRM back-end system from an external application
• Update trade promotions in the SAP CRM back-end system from an external application
• Send notification of new and updated SAP CRM trade promotions to external applications
• Read SAP CRM trade promotions from an external planning application by passing an SAP CRM trade promotion identifier
• Integrated PP with Costing to collect actual cost based on Backflushing
• Efficiently used SOLMAN for project implementation documentation and ensured all Project Documentation is done and packed into SOLMAN
• Integrated all Invoices during VIM into Archiving Server and document repository
• Heavily utilized SharePoint for document sharing and front facing website for our training which stored in the training server
• Detailed all documentation in actionable process, and created all Visio, Aries models, and user manuals as the company assets for business process documentation
• Designed and Completed BRD (Business Requirement Document), FSD (Functional Spec Document), CRD (Configuration Rational Document), BPD (Business Process Document), KDD (Key Design Document), and other documents for the project implementation
• Designed and configured SAP PS Structure from Project Definition, WBS, Networks, Activities, Milestones, and Others
• Configured Special Character & Coding Mask for Project, Field Selection and layout for WBS, PS Validation and Substitution, also project profile, planning profile, budget Profile, investment profile and other design
• Designed and Enhanced Project User Status, network profile, Budgeting & Planning Profile and network user status
• Configured Milestone Usage and Milestone Selection Profile
• Designed all PS Templates and integrated SAP PS with MS Project for scheduling and planning
• Integrated SAP PS with various planning tools for workforces planning, cost planning, labor cost planning, forecasting
• Designed result Analysis in SAP PS for revenue recognition and progress analysis
• Integrated SAP PS with Milestone Billing
• Integrated SAP PS with Sales for Make to order and Assembly Order scenarios
• Designed Milestone Billing and down payment between SD and SAP PS
• Built various allocation, assessments, and settlements for SAP PS
• Used WBS as cost collector and Cost element as an account assignment
• Implemented actual cost with SAP PS
• Managed and designed procurement to be executed with SAP PS
• Added materials and BOM into SAP PS from Sales order or directly
• Managed MRP with SAP PS and integrated with PLM
• Identified Business/IT Gap in related to CFIN
• Created Business Plan for Data Replication and Back-posting in CFIN
• Created IT Plan for boundary application
• Putting the CFIN Roadmap as part of S4 Implementation
• Central Reporting and Data lake phase design
• Tools selection and data architecture design
• Designed Central Payment with CFIN
• Designed all enterprise reporting needs in CFIN
• Led Integration with Data Archiving
• Design Integration with MDG and Data profiling and mapping
• Design the data integration in SLT and Magnitude
• Harmonizing data from all non-SAP sources
• 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.
• Led Vertex Integration for all Tax calculations
• Migrated master data and transactions using Migration Cockpit
• Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels.
• Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variant, customized field status variant, customized line layout, sort variant, and total variant.
• Configured and customized Asset Accounting Module. Configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account determinations, screen layout key, allocate number ranges to assets classes, defined the classes of assets, capitalization procedures and depreciation calculations.
• Designed CapEx (Capital Investment) project with Asset Accounting
• Designed Lock Box for Check customer in cash application
• Designed and configured Automatic Payment Program for various payment methods
• Prepared master data for AR and AP along with Open Item processing settings, Incoming Invoices, 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.
• 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. BASIS TEAM?
• Performed 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.
• Implemented S4HANA 1809 green field for GL, AP, AR, AA
• Led S4 HANA readiness taskforce and implemented POC for Finance
• Trained End-Users and ensured documentation was done as per the company’s standard
• Assessed tools selection for planning, reconciliation
• Led various POCs (Proof of Concept) with vendors
• Prepared and sized system landscape for SAP S4 HANA adaptation
• Streamline Supply chain operation with various SAP and none-SAP projects like Ariba, VIM, RPA, and RFID adaptation
• Designed all Finance and Controlling Enhancements like expanding coding block, adopting multiple GRIR Accounts, Customer Substations, labor allocation and cost distribution
• Re-designed the entire costing model by implementing producing costing with 15 cost components
• Implemented Overhead calculation using costing sheet and custom methods
• Re-engineered WIP analysis and calculation
• Implemented COPA Account based and Cost Based with COGS Splitting and 35 characteristics for segment profitability reposting.
• Led VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) Open-Text with 17 enhanced Process Options and 26 Workflow agents.
• Re-designed intercompany design and 3rd party stock ownership
• Integrated collection and credit management with Credit Union and AR Factoring sourcing companies
• Designed various EDI and IDoCs interfaces with various key strategic suppliers for PO processing, delivery notification, ASN, Inventory replenishment messages and others.
• Designed Make-to-Order Costing and Consignment Process
• Designed EBS (Electronic Bank Statement) for Bank Reconciliation and search string design

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Migrated AR, AP, GL, Assets, and Inventory.
• Enhanced Vendor Invoicing Process based on VIM services model.
• Managed all Vertex Integration with FICO.
• Created various Migration Cockpit & LSMWs for various master data and transactional data
• Led 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, Default Account Assignment, Inheritance, 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
• Designed integration with Concur for travel expense across various expense types and AMEX
• Led VIM open Text Design.
• Update trade promotions in the SAP CRM back-end system from an external application
• Built Costing Model with all assessments, allocations, settlements, BOMs, Routings, Factory Absorption Activity Rates
• Redesigned COPA (Cost Based) with new profitability segments and reports - configured Op Concern Characteristics & Value Fields
• 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.
• 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 Rating Process
• Designed Month Activity for corporate costing where cost estimate, collecting actuals, variance analysis, WIP, and settlement for both Discrete & Repetitive Manufacturing Models
• Designed various Functional Specs and led complex enhancements with ABAP team using IDoC, EDI, Middleware Services
• Trained in S4 HANA Finance and Obtained TS 410 SAP S/4HANA Certification
• Managed the Entire SAP Project following ASAP Methodology, and Agile Methodology
• Co-Led ARIBA Design and all its integration with FICO
• Designed Profit Center & Cost Center Hierarchy
• Designed Automatic Payment Program for various Payment Methods
• Used both PMW and Classical Payment Media
• Managed Bank file Process with local and international Bank
• Designed Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) with Search String
• Designed enhancement with D&B for Credit Check interface
• Created Enhancement Reporting and AR Factoring Process
• Designed and configured Lockbox BAI2 file and application server
• Customized Aging Report based on dynamic bucket - Customer and Business Unit Contribution Margin
• Designed all SD integration: Credit management, Tax Calculation, Output Setup, Price Calculation, Revenue Account Determination
• 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 MTO, MTS, ETO
• Designed Costing Sheet and configured Cost Component Structure and Costing Variant
• Re-engineered 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
• Configured COPA Profitability Analysis (Cost Based), Characteristics, Value Fields, Characteristics derivation, and value fields flow and Top Down Distribution
• Automated the GR Process across corporate locations and warehouses
• Organized Cut Over Operation with BASIS team, and prepared for Go Live and provided extended support and production support
• Designed and lead testing and created test cases, user acceptance testing, and integration testing
• Led Business user training and user manual documentation