SUMMARY

• Over 13 years of IT experience in implementing and supporting Finance applications.
• Certified SAP consultant with over 9 years of SAP FICO experience having carried out 2 full life cycle SAP implementation with multiple releases, 1 SAP global roll out and 2 SAP production support projects.
• Proven skill in Business process design, Configuration, Testing, Data migration, Cutover and Go - live. Good understanding of Record-to-Report, Acquire-to-Retire, Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash business process.
• Hands on experience in finance month end and year end process. Experience working with leading SAP consulting firms and teams in multiple geographies.
• Implementation and configuration of General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Banks, Cost center accounting (CO-CCA), Profit center accounting (CO-PCA) and Internal order (CO-IO).
• Integration of FI with Sales and Distribution (SAP-SD), Material Management (SAP-MM) and POSDM.
• Exposure to SAP BI, SAP BPC and Solution manager.
• Other SAP Modules Worked - Project Systems (PS), Configuration of SAP SD for non-Merchandise sales, SAP MM for expense purchase order, Logistics Invoice Verification and Billing processes.
• Mapping & Conversion of master data from legacy system to SAP using LSMW and Idoc.
• Integration of Vertex with SAP. Worked in both internal and external tax interface configurations.
• Experience in designing the integration framework from external applications to SAP, Reconciliation, Error handling and Reporting.
• Requirement gathering, conducting Design workshops, creating Business process design, Functional specifications for RICEFW, Role definitions, End user training and cut over activities.
• Experience in setting up a new SAP support team, transition from implementation team, created dash boards for month end and year end close process.
• Industry experience: Retail, Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Studied the as-is US GAAP reporting process for 180+ entities across 50+ countries and identified the improvement areas in terms of process and system.
• Designed an integration framework, error and suspense correction process, conversion and interface strategy to interface the GL data from GL systems like Computron, SUN, SISE, Orion, Mainframe and JDE to a global US GAAP Ledger in SAP.
• Standardized the code blocks required for US GAAP reporting and Management reporting and prepared a common financial language that can be used across the organization.
• Established Master Data Governance process for GL accounts, Profit center, Cost center and custom code blocks like Regulatory line of business and producing office.
• Reengineered the Revaluation process, Translation process, Manual journal entry approval process and General operating expense allocation. Created the to-be Business Process Design.
• Identified the remediation items in the source ledgers and resolved the data quality issues working with the Controllership team of each country.
• Automated the data enrichment process for Intercompany transactions, underwriting and expenses for accurate Management Reporting.
• Partnered with Finance warehouse (SAP BI) and Corporate Consolidation team (SAP BPC) to establish Financial data flow and reconciliation from SAP ECC to SAP BI to SAP BPC.
• Created global template for Company code setup and Functional specification for interface of GL data from various source GL platforms.
• Created functional specification for reconciliation of ledgers using Solution Manager
• Automated the posting of reclassification entries for the mapping changes between Source and SAP ledger.
• Configured Chart of accounts - group account number for unit level consolidation and alternate account number for parent level consolidation, Company code, Posting period variants, Balance sheet and P&L revaluation, Translation, Exchange rate types, Document types for auto reversing entries, Validation and substitution rules.
• Configured alternate hierarchy for cost center, allocation structure, statistical key figure and assessment cycles.
• Prepared test cases and uploaded them to HP ALM. Executed cut over and go live tasks.
• Presented the data integration results, UAT test results and financial reconciliation results to the corporate, regional and country controller ship team for sign-off.
• Trained the Finance center managers on the newly established closing process, provided shadow support and transitioned the operational process to support team.
• Created the use cases for Robotics to automate the monitoring the interface and error handling

SAP FICO Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary owner for Business process design of Procure to Pay (Non Merchandise procurement) and Acquire to Retire business process design. Secondary owner for Record to report.
• Configured Finance Enterprise structure, Chart of accounts, Parallel ledger, Document splitting rules, Financial statement versions, Foreign currency valuation and Translation.
• Configured Purchasing Enterprise structure, PO release procedure and Work flow, Vendor Master, Automatic Payment program and Vendor account statement.
• Configured 1099 Vendors, Tax jurisdiction codes, Tax interface with Vertex for Sales tax, Input tax and Use tax in US and Canada.
• Configured Asset Accounting - Book and tax depreciation areas, Depreciation Keys, Settlement of Internal order to AUC, Acquisition of asset integrated with AP, Retirements, Transfers, Asset impairment and Settlement of Internal order to AUC.
• Configured Controlling area, Created planning versions, Standard hierarchy for Cost centers and Profit center, statistical key figures and Developed allocation cycles and Segment for expense allocation.
• Configured Project systems for capital Store construction, DC, IT and expense Corporate and Marketing projects and flow these costs to AUC.
• Configured Validation & substitutions for Profit center and Cost center substitution. Created LSMW data uploads for GL accounts, Cost center, Profit center, Asset and Vendor master.
• Test script preparation and execution of Integration Test Cycles using HP ALM. End user role requirements and authorization.
• End User Training and created manuals for period end closing processes like Foreign currency valuation, Translation, Reclassification, Depreciation and Asset impairment, Reconciliation of GL account balances, open and closing periods.