SUMMARY

• SAP Functional Consultant with a total 11.5 years of experience and out of which 9.5 years into SAP FI/CO/MM/T&E/Concur in - depth knowledge and skills in Full Life Cycle Implementations (3), Rollouts (4), Upgrade (1), Production Support (4) and working on Interfaces (3) with various clients such as Technology companies, Financial Services, Agriculture, Media, Advertising and Education and Pharmacy. 2 years worked as an Accounts Executive in a Construction company.
• SAP experience includes analysis, design and development of applications in SAP FICO, MM, Travel and Expense Management & Concur. Interface design and integrations into / out of SAP with SAP / non SAP systems.
• Expertise in design and configuration of SAP FI including General Ledger (Classic and New GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Asset Accounting (AA/AM), Bank Management (BL), Treasury (TM) & Special Purpose ledger.
• Strong implementation experience in SAP CO includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Strong knowledge on Order to Cash (SD-Shipping, Billing & Rev Rec) and SAP RAR.
• Hands on implementation experience in Travel & Expense Management (T&E) and Concur and its integration with SAP FI.
• Thorough knowledge of FSCM Dispute Management, Collections Management, Biller direct and Treasury.
• Exposure on S/4 HANA (Simple Finance) and Reporting.
• Strong experience in Central Finance Implementation and Intercompany processes. Cross Functional knowledge and experience on integration of FICO with SD, MM & HR.
• Hands-on configuration experience in SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, and ECC 5.0 and 6.0.
• Familiarity with ASAP (Accelerated SAP), Gap Analysis, RICEF, LSMW Data Uploads, Vertex and reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer etc.
• Experienced in conducting workshops with stakeholders and business process owners, deep understanding of various phases of implementation projects including business requirement gathering (BBP- Workshops), business process analysis, gap analysis, blueprinting, configuration, providing the direction to the development/and other project team members.
• Hands on experience in User Admin activities such as SAP User Creations, Line Management Changes, User Account Movements, Roles & Authorizations & HR Master Data creation etc...
• Good knowledge on BADI, BAPI, ABAP queries, EDI/IDOC’s, ABAP dictionary, user exits and enhancements, Function modules, debugging, batch jobs, report programs and SAP scripts & Smart Forms, finding solutions for issues using SAP OSS notes and initiating OSS messages to SAP.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience in SAP Material Management areas such as Material Master, Purchase Info Record, Source list, Processes in Procure to Pay (P2P), Release Procedure, Inter and Intra Company Stock Transport Orders (STO), Subcontracting and Dropship, MM/FI Integration, Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV), 2 way and 3 way Matching & ERS process.
• Worked on various custom reports and enhancements related to FI & MM module as per client’s requirements, writing functional & test specifications on knowledge on RICEF Objects and coordinating with ABAP team, conducting Unit Testing, coordinating UAT with the users and closure of the ticket.
• Hands on experience in dealing with Production Support project, ticketing, Offshore/Onsite support model and AMS production support and Status Reports and conducting weekly status calls with users.
• Hands on experience with testing & ticketing tools like Solution Manager, ServiceNow, Remedy and HP Quality Center.
• Hand on experience in OCM (Organizational Change Management) activities and collected requirements from process owners and documented as per the requirements.
• Extensive hands on experience on India & Latin America Indirect Tax and Nota Fiscal (Brazil NF’s) Invoice Processing.
• Knowledge on Readsoft& Optical Character Recognition (OCR) invoicing scanning tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP R/3 4.6C
• 4.7
• and ECC 5.0 and 6.0
• FICO with SD
• MM & HR
• Gap Analysis
• RICEF
• LSMW Data Uploads
• Vertex and reporting tools like Report Painter
• Report Writer etc
• BADI
• BAPI
• ABAP queries
• EDI/IDOC’s
• Dropship
• MM/FI Integration
• Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV)
• 2 way and 3 way Matching & ERS process

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New Jersey

SAP FI/ Concur Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Chat of accounts, FYV, Posting period variants, field status variants. Different account groups. FSV configured for financial statements.
• Worked on Contracts, Periodic Billing, Revenue Recognition & Account Determination procedure
• Configuration of Controlling Area, Operating Concern and set up cost centers and cost elements.
• Involved in Asset Accounting end to end configuration such as Structuring Fixed asset design, Asset master data, Organization structure, Asset Classes, Capitalization, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation area and key, linking with GL Valuation Methods, Depreciation Run, asset acquisition, retirement and write-off.
• Involved in supporting issues on FI such as Asset Accounting Month ending activities (AJAB, F-90, ABUMN&ABAON etc.) Park & Post, Foreign Currency Revaluation, and Set up Cash Journals, Accruals, and Vendor block/ unblock Vendor Open Items report, Payment Methods, Payment Terms, Automatic Payment Run (APP) & Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) etc...
• Responsible for house banks creation and configured the Automatic Payment Program.
• Deletion of CO-PA Characteristics and value fields, creation of new characteristics and value fields, optimization of CO-PA, through additional indexes and summary levels, streamlining of reporting.
• Prepared Functional & Test Specification document for WBS List/ HR Master Data import from SAP to Concur system.
• Created Concur UAT test scripts and assisted the QA & business teams in conducting QA and UAT successfully with 98% success.
• Knowledge Transfer (KT) to the development, QA teams, training for key users (Super & Power Users) and preparation of training manuals.
• SAP to Concur and vice-a-versa Inbound and Outbound interface job monitoring, SAE (Standard Accounting Extract) report extraction and error log posting.
• Hands on experience in all Concur application configuration & activities such as travel claim (Expense Report) submission, Itemization Coding, Expenses Approver/ Substitution/ Delegation set up, Intelligence and Process reports.
• Assisting the users globally (More than 120 countries) though ServiceNow, telephone, OCS and e-mails to resolve their T&E (Expense Management) issues.
• Resolving issues posted/communicated by users globally as per SLA through Confidential ServiceNow ticketing tool.
• Working on User Admin, HR & PS related activities such as SAP User Creation, User Account Movements, SAP Account re-activation/unblock, Line Management Changes, Creation of HR Master Data (PA10/PA20/PA30/PA40), Organization and Staffing Change (PPOSE/PPOME) & WBS Issues.

Confidential, Northbrook - IL

Lead SAP FI/CO Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the workshops with end users and business stakeholders while collecting the requirements.
• Prepared Functional Specification document as per the business requirements discussed and got it approved by the all stakeholders.
• Coordinating with Offshore development team on conducting meetings, prepared test data in dev system for the interface development.
• Mapping the business requirements and helping the developer in field mappings for the Interface design and development as per the business requirements.

Confidential, North Carolina

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst Rollout & Support

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing and gathering business process requirements and preparing business process procedures (BPP’s).
• Worked on design and development of 4 interfaces between SAP and non-SAP systems (EDI interface design for PO's).
• Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO.
• Set up all SAP Master and Transactional Data to support the testing of all interfaces & test variations to include negative& positive testing.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation which includes the list of depreciation areas. Created Different Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes and defined the LSMW object for uploading asset masters.
• Responsible for the configuration of Lockbox, EBS, Automatic Payment Programs, LIV, Profit Center and Cost Centre Accounting.
• Implemented Stock transport order functionality across HB companies and worked on MM/SD/FI integration.
• Documented critical changes performed during UAT and trained user community.
• Development of test plans, test cases and training manuals.
• Timely resolution of Post Go live issues.

Confidential, NYC

Lead SAP FI/CO Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Closely working with Implementation & IT Deployment team and the respective SMEs at the Publicis Group to analyze and understand the unique business processes and specific training needs of a site prior to the SAP deployment for that site and adapt training materials, lesson plans and delivery methods as needed by the business community.
• Designed and configured Chart of accounts, Account groups, financial statement versions, Segments and Document splitting.
• Configured Standard Hierarchy for Profit centers and Master data with segments
• Develop and execute pre-deployment training schedules in cooperation with the client site to cover all affected roles in FI/CO area.
• Delivered the training content for the Confidential business team for 6 weeks on some key areas in FI/CO such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable (APP), Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Budget and Forecast and Period End Closing activities.
• Involved in the data migration, UAT, Cutover and hyper care support phases in the project.
• Configured the SAP automatic payment program with different payment methods (DMEE, EDI).
• Set up test data for user training and testing for Phase I & Phase II for Agency Finance & SSC
• Participated in OCM (Organizational Change Management) activities and assisted users on various business scenarios like Intercompany workflow with a RFP, Viewing the Vendor Invoices in the Readsoft Cockpit, Asset Management (CAPEX Budget & Budget and Forecast on Cost Centers), Master Data Management, CO Postings (CCA & PCA), Estimate with PO Pricing & Period End Closing Activities
• Responsible for effectively delivering the onsite pre-deployment SAP training to end users to ensure successful SAP implementations within North America.
• Ongoing post-deployment training and end user support initiatives (onsite and remote) to maintain and further enhance the SAP skills/proficiency within the end user community.
• Collect and evaluate training feedback and develop recommendations to continuously improve training content and delivery
• Got the appraisal of 4.25 out of 5 from the Client on training manual preparation and end user training

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing and gathering business process requirements and preparing business process procedures (BPP’s) for CANADIAN Rollout.
• Conducted regular meetings with the business to identify the GAAP’s between US and CA.
• As part of DT Canadian Rollout, I have set up a new Co code and configured all the relevant setting for this company code as per the business requirements. The following objects configured such as Company code and its relevant settings, Chart of Accounts, Variant (Posting Period, Fiscal Year& Field Status), Posting Keys, Document Types for G/L, Vendors, Customers, Number ranges, Tolerance Limits for Vendors & Customers, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Lock Box & Dunning processes.
• Involved in Asset Accounting end to end configuration, prepared the training document and delivered training to the end users on month ending activities.
• Implemented Standard SAP time based revenue recognition for service contracts and run revenue recognition program VF44 (SDRRAV01) during month end as background.
• Developing various Z reports related to FI module as per client’s requirement by providing functional specifications to ABAP team.
• Worked with the Development team on the custom reports, Forms for customer statements (aging reports) and enhancements required to fill the gaps.
• Timely resolution of Post Go live issues
• Writing Functional Specs &Test specs. Doing configurations and coordinating with Development team on my tickets and conducting Unit Testing etc.
• Participated in Integration Testing, training to the Canadian End Users and user manual and training documents.
• Maintaining translations in French language for Forms and printer settings as per the local requirements.
• Participated in the Go-live/ cutover activities - loading Master data such as (FI) General Ledger, Banks, Vendor, Customer, Assets, (CO) Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and Transactional Data such as Vendor, Customer Open Item balances & General Ledger Account Balances etc... using LSMW program
• Supported the business team on Period End Closing activities - Foreign Currency Open Item Revaluation in AP & AR, managing the GR/IR account and run the GR/Automatic Clearing, Posting Accruals or Provisions & Maintain Exchange Rates.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and analyzing business requirements and doing GAP analysis, understanding business and existing IT applications and designing a roadmap for further application enhancement.
• Involved in configuration and set up the processes for Vendor and Customer Master Records, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, defining and assigning Document Number Ranges, Customer Credit Control Area, Cash Discount and Payment terms etc..
• Mapping business requirements for process enhancement and translating them into Functional Specifications.
• Formulation of business/software requirement documents and specifications including business use cases.
• Created UAT test scripts and assisted the QA & business teams in conducting QA and UAT successfully with 98% success.
• Knowledge Transfer (KT) to the development, QA teams, training for key users (Super & Power Users) and preparation of training manuals.
• Participated in Travel and Expense Management implementation and implemented new features in Concur as per the business requirement.
• Preparing list of task for cut over activities and coordinating with basis on authorization roles for production system.
• Knowledge Transfer (KT) to the development, QA teams, training for key users (Super & Power Users) and preparation of training manuals on T&E and Concur.
• SAP to Concur and vice-a-versa Inbound and Outbound interface job monitoring, report extraction and error log posting.
• Acted as Subject Matter Expert on Concur application, functionality and customizations, Concur reporting and workflows.
• Knowledge Transfer to the global teams on need basis once the enhancement/ Project go live.
• Responsible for preparing ticket tracker, Issues Logs and ticket status reports for status call meetings on weekly basis and adhering to agreed SLA’s
• Assisted to other project team members on Brazil Indirect Taxation (ICMS, PIS & COFFINS) &Nota Fiscal (NF’s) Invoice Processing.
• Star of the Month award received from DuPont for the month of October in 2012 for helping Nota Fiscal (NF’s) Invoice Processing team.
• Best Team Playerof the Year award received for the year 2011 - 2012 for End User Training.
• Miracle Team Member award received for Nov 2011 for helping the Recon team on 56 GL Accounts.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defining & Documenting the high-level business and IT requirements
• Documented all changes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Describing business processes to be upgraded
• Validate coding and adjustments and custom development impacted by the upgrade
• Testing of core business functionality after the upgrade.
• Upgrade of the quality assurance system in the production landscape.
• All test results documented and all issues either resolved or at least addressed.
• The test results have been used to create a draft cutover plan for the production system upgrade.

Implementation & Production Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Studied AS-IS and participated in Blue printing the business requirement.
• Gap analysis of SAP with the existing system and prepared the GAP statement.
• Designed, configured, tested and prepared end user documentation of FI and CO modules
• Automated postings for all ZBA transactions happening in Corporate Cash Concentration accounts.
• .Configured manual memo records for cash position and liquidity forecast.
• Maintained Foreign Exchange rate table TCURR and defined Translation Ratios for multi-currency transactions and configured the Special Ledgers for reporting.
• Checked and edited Vendor, Customer master data, specified number ranges and screen layouts.
• Imported Vendor and Customer master data using LSMW migration tool.
• Configured the settings for Outgoing and Incoming payments including automatic payment method.
• Worked on enhancements/interfaces and custom developments with EDI interface. Developed treasury report generation program to receive files from EDI in IDOCs format
• Worked on interpreting IDOC Contents and Monitoring IDOC Processing
• Designed SAP Workflow for General Ledger Accounting and designed approval workflow for AP module.
• Onsite/remote Consulting &configuration, testing (both integration & unit), bug fixing during rollouts.
• Addressed reporting issues by developing ABAP query and ABAP Specified reports
• Preparing test conditions for the developed enhancements and evaluating the test results.
• Provided post-production support for 5 countries across Europe - France, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, and Italy in the landscape.
• The support activities included are trouble shooting, enhancement of existing design and development of new functionalities. Followed change management procedures, created development requests, and thoroughly tested the solution in various clients (Sandbox, DEV, QA) before transporting to Production
• Accepting tickets from Remedy. Taking to the business user on issues/ clarifications required for the tickets that I have worked.
• Identifying the root cause for issues and fixing the issues by providing feasible solution after Go-live.
• Best Team Player award received from Confidential Inc.

Confidential

Accounts Executive

Responsibilities:

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements
• Maintain Fixed Assets register, Asset classes and depreciation calculation as per the Companies Act and Income Tax Act
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs. Payment processing for Vendors on weekly basis
• Preparation and verification of books of account such as Cash & Bank book, Sales Register, Check Register & Invoice Preparation etc.…
• Outstanding Performance award received from Vision Ventures for the month of June in 2006.