SUMMARY

• Having 10 - 12 years of professional experience in business analysis, accounting and information systems domain, with 8 years of experience as SAP FICO Consultant in implementation, maintenance and support projects.
• Extensive experience on SAP Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO) and their sub modules (FI-G/L, A/P, A/R, AA, IM; CO-CCA, CO-OM, CO-PA, EC-PCA).
• Extensive experience in Design, Configuration and all other aspects of the PS module.
• Extensive experience with integration of FI/CO modules with MM, SD, PS, PCA, COPA.
• Knowledge in OTC and P2P processes.
• New General Ledger / Classical GL: Activation of New GL Accounting, Define ledger for GL Accounting, Integrating the GL with subcomponents, Document splitting, Segmentation and Parallel Accounting, Controlling Component Transfer postings, Integration with Asset accounting.
• Proficient in following Change Management process and understanding of different types of Changes and extensive experience working with Release Management.
• Working knowledge in SAP Workflow and SAP REACH Compliance.
• Excellent knowledge in Regulations with SOX and FDA.
• Experience in settlements of AUC through Investment Management.
• Hands on experience in writing Functional Specifications.
• Proficient in Month End and Year End Activities.
• Working knowledge of Closing Cockpit. Used CTM for month end.
• Working knowledge in MDG (Master Data Governance) and master data processes.
• Exposure in Foreign Currency Valuations.
• Knowledge in integration to SWIFT and banks. Knowledge in SAP Treasury and Risk Management Core Process.
• End-End experience in credit card settlements.
• Product Costing - Estimation of product costs in integration with PP and MM modules, WIP calculation and variance settlement
• Experience working in Power Plant to create Unit Estimates and the knowledge of me/R/E percentage split calculations to calculate for Budget Categories for IM.
• Experience in mapping business requirements, understanding business processes, study, analyze work flow to design solutions.
• Analyzed data and BW capabilities to build relevant financial, operational, and strategic reporting views.
• Involved and assisted in creating User Exits, Smart Forms, LSMW, ALE, and IDOCS.
• Configured EDI, Partner Profiles, Idocs.
• Good understanding of Business Process Consolidations.
• Experience in Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, Variance tracking, Internal Order Budgeting.
• Excellent communication skills that halp me quickly grasp business requirements and translate them to functional specifications.
• Experienced in conducting meetings, working with the business and technical people and ensuring that requirements are captured correctly and solutions have been vetted and documented.
• Conducted workshops with the users to train them on creating the master data like GL's, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Orders, WBS's etc..
• Knowledge in US GAAP and IFRS.
• Strong experience in ASAP methodology, creating BRD’s, configuration documents and test scripts.
• Proven ability to work independently and in team environments.
• Understanding of BPC with some support experience.
• Interacted with BI team relating to data extracts used in various activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP FI/CO: Concur, Dolphin, Taulia, Backline, JD Edwards, Open Text - VIM, Vertex, Power Plant, Yardi, SharePoint Office Server

Processes: IBM’s SDMS, Clear Quest & RPM, Remedy, Service Now

QA Tools: HPQC

Microsoft Office: Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO/PS Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• dis project includes roll-out of FI, CO, SD, PS and Vertex modules.
• Key member in the design phase, and coordinated in implementing dis design with the parent company in Japan.
• Key member in designing the Project Systems End-End.
• Conduct several meetings with business teams to understand the client business, to come up a suitable design for Project Structure.
• Document “Business Decisions”
• Conduct several sessions training the business on WBS structure set up which included training in various methods of Project structure set up.
• Training sessions conducted on Cost Planning and various methods that can be used, Activity Type/Price, Revenue Planning, Budgeting.
• Trained the teams on choosing the right Planner Profiles, Layouts etc. and options available.
• Review legacy systems data - identify data to be migrated, cleansed, and map data to SAP PS by Project type.
• Built test scripts for each test cycle, involving simple t-code testing to string testing and end to end testing. Migration and master data loads were incorporated into the test scripts as the data became available.
• Conducted several trainings sessions on AP, AR, AA, CO, Closing Process.
• Trained the team on how the tax calculations are done using Vertex.
• Trained the team on basic SD functions like creating a Sales Order, run billing and generate the accounting documents.
• Created the process flow documents for AS-IS and TO-BE by module.
• Created training manuals to the team for reference.

Confidential, San Diego - CA

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Key contact for IT Finance for month-end support, Maintenance issues, Support and Enhancements in the areas of GL, ZOption, AP, AR, AA, CO, FICA, FSCM.
• Only person responsible for supporting OpenText-VIM, as well as for any Enhancements etc..
• Only person responsible for Vertex support with any tax issues.
• Supported the credit cards payment issues, settlements, batch jobs etc..
• Key member for all the design, configuration and documentation for Finance projects.
• Follow the Change Management process diligently where significant changes required authorization at different points in the lifecycle of changes. Worked on different types of Changes including Emergency Changes, worked very closely with Release Management team. Attended the CAB meetings to represent the Changes to be moved by the Finance team.
• Trained the team end to end process from creating an Incident to closing the Incident which includes a Change with the required approvals.
• Involved in a Banking Conversion project and Working Capital Improvement project and a product line separation project.
• Work as a key member in implementation of BuySmart (a procurement tool) in the North American Region.
• Part of Ethics and Compliance Monitoring tool implementation team.
• Responsible for banking transition to JPMC transition end - end.
• Configuration of the new accounts, pos pay file program changes, reconciliation file
• generation and testing end-end check print/positive payment process with JPMorgan
• Configuration of DMEE for ACH payments with JPMorgan including setting up the variants and worked with basis team to have them set up the new jobs and existing job changes.
• Configuration of EBS (Electronic Bank Statements) integration (file format 'MT940') with JPMorgan for the new accounts.
• Work with business closely to support them with the transition.
• Goal of the project was to improve the process of buying indirect goods and services and receive/process invoices and provide visibility to stakeholders.
• Worked with the BuySmart and business teams closely, part of the design team, participated in the design meetings, create functional specs.
• Worked on various Integration Flows like Procure to Pay (P2P), Procure to Order (P2O), and Network only for Suppliers etc.
• Discussed and prepared the testing scenarios, involved in testing end-end.
• Support the business after Go-Live.
• To reduce the payment run frequency from every day to weekly once. Payment needs to be processed for critical vendors that is through automated Batch job on daily basis.
• New payment methods needs to be created for Critical vendor payments.
• Ensure that payment run will be executed on daily basis similar to existing one, for Critical vendor payments.
• Payment batches required to be designed such a way that invoice should be paid on or after due date.
• Worked with EDM team to get the Vendor master data updated with new payment method.
• Set up new batch jobs in Quality, and worked with Basis to set up the new batch jobs in production.
• Involved setting up new company codes which involved configuration of new company codes, all FI, AP, AR settings, and adding Asset functionality to them, where the client had sold 51% of their business of one a product line.
• Involved in the workshops where needed to explain the FI, VIM,CO and Vertex setup at the current client, so Vyaire can set up same structure while setting up SAP in Vyaire.

Confidential, Irvine - CA

SAP FICO Configuration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working in the IT Divison - SAP Support and Maintenance team.
• Identify and gather requirements by interacting with various business teams, senior management and provide solutions in the AP - MM areas.
• Involved in defining business requirements for Enhancements to creating of change requests, and coordinating the production validations with the users.
• Worked on the documentation of the Changes and Change Management process.
• Work with the development team to convert the requirements into working objects, test them, document and work with business on UATs
• Involved in end to end invoice processing from scanning, invoice approval routing and invoice posting by halping business with any issues encountered during dis process.
• Involved in applying SAP Notes with the halp of basis team for additional duplicate checks between Cr Memos between FI & LIV.
• Working on the dolphin mobility apps to approve invoices.
• Was involved in the Expense report and Check Request projects, which includes using HR tables.
• Key member in the Escheatment project, involved in AS-IS, TO-BE meetings. Create Vizio flow chart for the TO-BE design.
• Working on Fixed Assets Support issues like depreciation posting issues, asset history sheet, retirements, specs for custom reports etc...
• Key member of the team in converting the existing incoming interfaces from BDC to BAPIs. Responsibilities include preparing the functional specs to testing these interfaces end-end and documenting the results and working with users in their UAT testing.

Confidential

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working in the SAP Support and Maintenance team.
• Provide solutions to the month end issues to the business team.
• Create and maintain Product Hierarchy and Profit Center Hierarchy. Upload Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers using LSMW.
• Work with the users to build custom reports required for their convenience in running day to day business activities.
• Work on the FI-PCA differences from analysis to resolving them.
• Work on foreign currency revaluations.
• Coordinate with the Off-shore team on the tickets assigned to the Finance team.

Confidential

SAP FICO Data Migration - Rollout Project

Responsibilities:

• dis is a data migration project for Release II of SAP implementation, which involved travel to Germany.
• Conducted the workshops with the business team to discuss the data requirements on various sub-modules of Finance like General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting and Controlling Areas.
• Discuss the extraction of the master data from the legacy system, like required fields, optional data etc...
• Processed to the format required for uploads into the SAP system.
• Created Master data like additional Profit Centers, Cost Centers, and Vendors in the new system.
• Involved in the cut over activities for Release me of SAP Implementation.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ariba is a cloud based B2B sourcing and procurement market place where buyers and sellers can do business within a single networked structure.
• Part of ARIBA implementation project for SCE. We have implemented Discount Pro, P.O. and Invoice Automation, Invoice Pro, Procure to Pay Pro and Contracts Pro modules.
• Designed and provided the logic to tech team to develop custom programs to extract the master data in ECC to upload in ARIBA.
• Automated the sending of master data from ECC to ARIBA using ARIBA integration tool kit.
• Prepared the payment terms, tax code lookup and tax rate files to upload in ARIBA.
• Prepared and executed the test scripts for ARIBA P2P, Invoice Pro and Discount Pro modules.
• As part of cutover activities, configured EDI Idoc settings in PROD for inbound invoice Idocs from ARIBA system.
• Worked with the Change/Release Management team closely to follow the schedule to moves the Changes with all the approvals and the documentation completed.
• Key member of Investment Management implementation team, involved in designing the structure, creating the upload templates for users and then the configuration.
• Built the IM Hierarchies for Capital Projects and O&M Expenditures and also carry forwarded IM Hierarchies. Updated the O&M Hierarchy to match the Cost Center Hierarchy.
• Reconciled Capital Baseline Reports with IM Budget Variance Reports and reconciled Cost Center Report to Budget Variance Report for O&M Expenditures.
• For Capital Projects reconciliation used Power Plant to reconcile the differences between the BI and IM Reports. Used the functional knowledge of Power Plant with interfaces to ECC.
• Reviewed, modified and updated the FDS’s for multiple IM Custom Programs like Work Order Assignment, Universal Object Assignment, Budget Variance Report etc.
• Built test scripts for IM Custom objects, tested these objects and worked with technical team to get the bugs fixed and to break-fix the codes.
• Created notifications for Simple Request, Break fixes and worked with the QA teams to meet the requirements to send in the notifications on time.
• Worked with Power Plant (Fixed Assets) and PI teams to send in the Master Data into SAP through the interfaces.
• Worked on creating, scheduling and including the Batch jobs in the CTM for daily runs after the initial Master Data upload from Power Plant to SAP.
• Trained End Users on using IM Custom Objects.
• Created KT documents for IM.
• Created IM test data for PPM Project, part of which was to create Unit Estimates in Power Plant for WO’s and use the interfaces to send the data from SAP to Power Plant and Vice Versa and also did the Production Validations.
• Supported Interfaces Production Support issues for P2P, like reconciling credit card statements, uploading missing credit card transactions, working with PI team to retrieve the missing bank and credit card files after failed interface runs.
• Involved in support issues with bank payment files for Check thru EDI, ACH, Wires, and Positive Pay files.
• Provided business users with Consignment Invoices, travel and expense invoices.
• Configured WHT at payments for SCE.
• Configured automatic payment program settings to generate PAYEXT (payment), REMADV (remit) and EUPEXR (control) SAP Idocs when payments made to vendors using transaction code F110.
• Worked on clearing of old GR/IR open items.
• Configured new dunning procedure for new company code.
• Extracted the master data from the tables and processed to the format required for uploads into the new SAP instance.
• Created Master data like additional Profit Centers, Cost Centers, and Vendors in the new system.
• G/L Conversion and Vendor balances upload.
• Bank configurations.
• Built PC and CC Hierarchy using SAP ALMOST.
• Involved in Cutover activities like uploading of monthly G/L balances for 2013 for BS and P&L accounts, vendor balances, payroll posting etc..
• Production validations - G/L balances and vendor balances.
• Provided Production Support.
• Responsible for setting up Assessment cycles in test environment as well as Production tested and analyzed the cycles.
• Responsible for working on costing sheets, calculating residuals looked up different activity types to analyze the monthly residuals.
• Responsible for testing Order Group enhancement to identify orders and their bases for overheads.
• In depth testing of the Assessment cycles and documentation of the testing performed in HP.
• Involved in developing a custom Commitment Report to capture all the commitments on time.
• Reviewed current business process for Commitments, analyzed the gaps and participated in redesign analysis discussion meetings and developed a functional spec. for the technical team to develop dis report which would capture the commitments on a timely manner.
• Develop test plans, cases, scripts, as well as the technical and process flow documentations according to the adopted methodology.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Responsible for TEMPeffective communication between the project team and the customer, provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Resolve numerous FI/CO post-production support issues (primarily cash applications and lockbox processes and cost accounting reconciliation to the FI G/L) which involved working directly with the customer and SAP customer service reps via the SapNet tool and applying OSS notes.
• Worked on Asian country (Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan & Malaysia) tax procedures, worked on electronic payments and HSBC adapter engine for China ect...
• Worked on City Bank (Smine) encryption process for European countries.
• Worked on ACH, Wires and Check payments for US.
• During Upgrade participated in SPAU and SPDD activities. Code remediation and replacing the obsolete Function Modules .Also handled Unicode activities.
• Assigned Document splitting procedure and Parallel ledgers (special ledgers) as per US GAAP and local GAAP for new company code.
• As a part of support understood and followed the processes that were there in support. Handling the Incidents and making it resolved without time breach.
• Working on change request and delivering within the time. Interacting with the client for the new requirement or for any incidents raised by them