SUMMARY

• An industrious and motivated SAP FICO Consultant with around 17 years of total experience in which around 14 years of experience in SAP and 3 years of functional experience, I am an experienced, skillful and accomplished SAP FI/CO/PS functional consultant with proven ability to work with technical and business teams, and coordinate consultants.
• Extensive experience in Implementing, Configuring FI/CO (GL, AP, AR, AM) / (PCA, CCA, COPA, IO,) and integrating with MM,SD, PP and PM Using Knowledge of ABAP
• Expert in performing business development analysis, application design, Configuration, business integration, testing, training and documentation.
• Expertise in completing full life - cycle projects, from conceptualization and requirements determination to final testing, cut over activities and hyper care.
• Good experience with business requirement gathering, blue print preparation, configurations, hyper care and production support.
• Expertise in SAP FI New GL accounting with multiple ledgers and document splitting.
• Expertise in Accounts payable and receivables, Tax accounting Including US jurisdiction based taxation. Working knowledge on VIM (Vendor invoice management) tool.
• Expert knowledge in FI-MM and FI-SD integration business process and configuration.
• Expertise in Fixed Asset accounting in multiple ledgers with different depreciation rates per ledger and Project systems. Exposed to Investment management to the extent of assigning the budgets to internal order meant for fixed asset purchase.
• Expertise in SAP CO cost element accounting, cost center accounting, Internal orders, profit center accounting and Profitability analysis (CO-PA), Product costing.
• Expertise in Bank accounting: Automatic payment program set up with EDI partner profiles and outbound IDOCs and Manual/Electronic Bank statements.
• Expertise in Designing Test scripts and testing, worked on HP quality center and HP ALM tools.
• Vast experience in production support projects, good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Expertise in Data Conversion, cut over activities and LSMW.
• Expertise in SAP Report painter: Developed Balance sheet/profit and loss and costing reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP R/3: ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.7.

Modules: FI, CO, PS and trained in simple finance

Operating Systems: Windows 2007/XP/NT/2000/98/95.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Senior Systems Analyst - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Participated in workshops with Business users and managers, as appropriate, to develop/refine implementation strategy for the SAP GL, Fixed Assets module, Project Systems, Accounts payable and Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Worked closely with the Finance and Technical team members to identify, design and develop custom objects to be extended to the new company codes and modifications required if any.
• Configuring Fixed Assets module: Org structure, Account determination, Master data, Transactions, valuation and Production startup.
• Configuring Accounts Payable sub-module, Automatic and Bank reconciliation statements, and Defined validations for GL, Fixed Assets.
• Identify the validations and Substations which are applicable to the NA company codes and extend those validations and Substitutions to newly created Divestco company codes.
• Creating new substitutions for functional areas to Inter-company transactions.
• Creating new number ranges for the new company codes and initializations of document number ranges of the old company codes in the clients.
• Creating new inter-company/vendor groups, and do the configuration for the cross-company clearing setting.
• Validating the GL/Customer/Vendor/Bank/Asset Master data uploaded by the master data management team and if any master failed to upload, create the missing master data with standard SAP and custom programs.
• Maintained the new Profit Centers for new company codes in 3KEH table for default profit center derivation rule.
• Preparing the Configuration design documents and Functional design documents for custom objects and working with the development team.
• Performing functional unit testing and Supporting the business users in UAT Test cycles. Fixed defects raised by the business users.
• Performing manual tasks during the cut-over activities like: Customer/Vendor group number ranges, document number ranges, modifying or adding validation and substitution steps, creating the missing master data, maintaining the 3KEH Tables entries.

Confidential, Midland, USA

Senior Systems Analyst - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Defined and formalized the requirements and specifications of various legacy business processes and integrate them into the SAP GL, Fixed Assets module, Accounts payable and Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Participated in workshops with Business users and managers, as appropriate, to develop/refine implementation strategy for the SAP GL, Fixed Assets module, Accounts payable and Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Worked closely with the Finance and Technical team members to identify, design and develop custom objects necessary for fixed asset module.
• Configured Fixed Assets module: Org structure, Account determination, Master data, Transactions, valuation and Production startup.
• Configured the Workflow for Document parking, Bank reconciliation statements, and Defined validations for GL, Fixed Assets.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, and costing sheet.
• Configured, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution, assessment and indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• Setup Internal-Orders and Cost Collector configuration. Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost centers, activities and statistical key figures.
• Maintained Profit Center Master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions and assignments. Configured PCA planning including defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations.
• Prepare Configuration design documents and Functional design documents for custom objects and worked closely with the development team.
• Supported the development and executing the Functional unit testing like build test cases, perform tests, and make changes to configuration or processes based on results
• Validating the test data in the test environment which is a copy of production environment through Data conversion, worked closely with Data conversion team and with the legacy team (AS400) who keep the test bed current with the production environment through Data captures.
• Requirement gathering for Integration testing scenarios with Functional and QA teams.
• Worked closely with QA team for preparing test scripts in HP ALM (Application Lifecycle management) for System Integration testing cycles.
• Created test data plans and sequence of execution of the test conditions.
• Review/update/change test scripts prepared by QA for System integration testing in HP ALM.
• Provided the Test data by Data mining and Data Prep and prepared Test Data sheets for test conditions for System Integration testing (SIT), Dress rehearsal (DR) and Period closing (PCS) test cycles.
• Provided Test data for Training team to be used in their training sessions
• Performed business validation for the test conditions executed during QA SIT cycles to validate the quality of the data used and the business process was followed while testing.
• Provided Win shuttle upload files for mass creation of master data and mass posting transaction test scenarios.
• Trained QA testers in SAP fixed assets and GL transactions and relevant Business processes to follow while testing.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Worked on addressing configuration and process differences, data mapping and data transformation rules including but not limited to Payment Methods, Payment Terms, Withholding Taxes (classic/ extended), Reconciliation Accounts, Assets Classes, Depreciation Area, Depreciation Key
• Analyzed feasibility of various data migration tools like LSMW, BDC, eCATT, Winshuttle and provided recommendations based on Architectural approach, business needs, given time frame and longevity of the solution
• Created End to End process/ data flow Visio diagrams which involved data extract into one instance, data validation, transformation, validation, upload into another instance, post upload validation, mass changes and process sequences involving multiple interfaces
• Prepared functional specification documents for Vendor master, Customer Master, Assets Master and transactional data migration/ upload using BAPIs, BDC which included auto transformation based on data mapping provided and mapping rules defined; for security roles/ authorization needed to execute transactions
• Dealt with complex situations bank master, IBAN, international versions, classic vs. extended withholding taxes, payment terms, payment methods, migrating high sensitive (confidential) data etc.
• Created download and upload templates, prepared test scripts, test cases, conducted System Integrated Testing (SIT), helped in UAT, contributed in cutover plan and provided post go live support.
• Managed requirement workshops, defined scopes, solution definitions and stakeholders expectations, created MS Project master project plan, requirement tractability matrix, managed the team of 20 resources, assigned, tracked the periodic tasks against baseline, actively lead design sessions, represented team at PMO, created Risk Register, assessed, monitored, tracked risks/ issues involved with mitigation plans, conducted periodic team and milestone meetings, maintained regular smooth communication with Business, handled escalations, published regular status reports to the stakeholders, steering committee, and group leaders
• Created, administered, tracked, monitored change requests, analyzed the impact (time, cost, scope, quality) associated, provided recommendations with/ without change in pre-defined project time lines.