SUMMARY

• He is a qualified Chartered Accountant working as a Senior SAP FICO Consultant in the area of SAP Financial Accounting, Controlling and FSCM with Confidential
•  He has a total of 7 + years of progressive experience, out of which 6+ years is in SAP which includes 2 Full Life Cycle Implementation, 5 Rollouts, and 1 Upgrade and 2 Production support projects.
• He has been awarded as Majestic Performance Award by Confidential & have proven track record & in lifecycle engagements, from business case preparation to requirements gathering, blueprint, building, testing and implementation of SAP solutions based on business requirements and using industry recognized methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead onsite and offshore teams to ensure that KPIs are reached & production support issues are fixed.
• Responsible for all FICO areas of SAP including GL, AP, AR, AA,CCA, PCA, PA & FSCM Credit, Collection, Dispute & Treasury
• Work closely with the business SMEs, the other SAP process streams (Order - To-Cash, etc.), and with consultants in order to create, and ultimately support, the entire solution
• Act as the liaison between business and implementation, development and support teams to prioritize needs and requests.
• Gather requirements from business users for projects and enhancement initiatives, ensuring that functional requirements are translated into technical solutions that are scalable and flexible.
• Act as the key POC between the business users and GlobalIT, engaging with other SAP and Non-SAP teams (BI, Middleware, Infrastructure, etc.)
• Performing as a single point of contact to the business partners and providing insight to technical solutions.
• Supporting the existing system as well as planning and executing new projects & enhancements

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided end to end SAP solutions in FICO space, ranging from gathering business requirement to mapping the same in ECC.
• Held workshops providing clients with the implementation and support of SAP based solutions and helped improving business processes
• Evaluated customer’s needs, defined and established new standards, implemented changes, planned different transitions and tested functionality in order to fulfill organizations’ needs.
• Created & reviewed the configuration rationales for FI and CO and validated the configuration
• Trained users & prepared training materials, prepared guidelines, assisted users and supported technical staffs on the implementation of SAP.
• Independently handled all issues related to FI AP & Payment programs
• Worked on multiple issues related to PAYEXT & FINSTA IDOC’s
• Produce multiple reports to track project development in timely fashion
• Lead the team of 5 FICO offshore resources to meet the project timelines
• Involved in Post Go-live support leading offshore team to meet project’s SLAs

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Independently Lead and coach Quality Assurance (QA) test analysts on SAP AP module through project testing lifecycles, including testing, go-live and post-implementation support
• Identified relevant functionality deltas, additional configuration, review all the custom development to confirm no functionality was affected with the upgrade
• Lead testing of SAP EHP7 Upgrade with structured risk-based testing in RTR space using QA methodologies
• Created various Test Scripts and test Cases for Regression Testing and Integration Testing
• Participated actively in configuring the inconsistencies related to G/L A/P A/R A/A modules
• Managed on-site and off-shore geographically distributed teams
• Worked with Finance and Security team to redesign the Roles to resolve SOD conflicts and also comply with SOX requirements
• Reviewed various authorization objects and provided inputs to Security team to restrict the authorizations in the roles based on the business requirements
• Ensuring timely and accurate status reporting to management
• Ensuring timely and effective scheduling and tracking of the tasks
• Ensuring Customer Satisfaction on the various business processes being supported during hyper-care support
• Resolved many complex issues related to payment program
• Involved in completing missing Configuration related to EBS
• Handling advanced customer support issues across the SAP landscape both functional/technical in nature
• Ensuring on-time delivery of project deliverables (Problem Tickets and Enhancements).
• Ensuring 100% adherence to SLA’s and timeliness of responses.
• Building good customer insight: Application Knowledge and Business Knowledge

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration and implementation of SAP In-House Cash module in cash payments and collections for one bank area
• Integration of the Account receivable with Financial supply chain management: Responsible for configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, credit scoring and comparison of functionality
• Dispute Management: Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with account receivable.
• Collection Management setup for collection strategies, collection work lists, collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Management & account receivable
• Responsible for solving the issue during the Unit and Integration testing
• Integration with procure to pay, order-to-cash and other financial process.
• Account Receivable: involved in customization of additional billing functionality like down payment, configuration for the dunning, incoming payments, incoming payments like residuals, partial payments, payment differences like underpayment/overpayment, reason codes and cash application.
• Responsible for Setup of the ALE IDOC for in-house Cash Module for IDOC type PAYTEXT, FINSTA and DIRDEB.
• Trouble shooting and solving the IDOC issue related to In-house Cash during integration testing.
• Involved in implementation of the C-FSCM project and the associated data load and validation
• Involved In regression and integration testing using test tools like HP ALM
• Involved in documenting end user training manual

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning / leading Finance Controlling activities related to SAP implementation project
• Review existing business processes, and complete blueprint document
• Develop detailed project plan/tasks for FICO activities in coordination with business units
• Complete configuration activities, master data reconciliation/cleansing, load of master / transactional data and other related tasks associated with FICO implementation project
• Conduct training session including development of training materials
• Complete go-live cut-over activities and post go-live support issues
• Responsible to meet timelines associated with various phases of SAP implementation project
• Support implementation activities including mock month end and first month end closing.
• Research and resolve issues identified in tickets
• Resolve tickets within a reasonable timeframe to support excellence in customer service
• Escalate issue to management as needed

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead SAP FI Team in Implementation/Roll Out projects for 5 BU’s in 4 Countries
• Responsible for sequential phases of ASAP methodology starting from Project preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final preparation, Post-Go Live and support.
• Conducted workshops with users to gather requirements and to understand the flow of the As-Is system. Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be solution.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies and suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Analyzed existing business processes like Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C) and prepared business Blueprint document and functional design document.
• Coordinated the integration efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations & revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD.
• Configured payment program, Payment terms in automatic payment program (F110) and FBZP.
• Configured House Banks, Assigning Bank Accounts to House Banks, creation of check lots.
• Configurations in Asset Accounting for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).
• Configured Cost Centers necessary for CO-CCA and maintained them in Standard Hierarchy.
• Created and maintained all the Cost Elements required in the organization both Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Configured creating planned layouts and profiles, integrated planning with FI,, Create Profit Center standard hierarchy, Alternative profit center hierarchy, profit Center group, profit center master records, create dummy profit center,
• Involved in Data conversion from an external system using SAP LSMW functionality & BDC
• Monitored month end Batch Jobs and processed sessions created by the main job.
• Provided user training on procedures and assistance in developing user Training manuals and planned the training sessions
• Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting. Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.
• Planned and executed Go-Live cut over activities, and provided Go-Live/ post-implementation support.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuration and implementation of SAP implementation to other group companies.
• Responsible for Design, Configuration and implementation of FI modules, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Cost center accounting and Internal order
• Account Receivable: involved in customization of additional billing functionality like down payment, billing plans, configuration for the dunning, incoming payments, incoming payments like residuals, partial payments, payment differences like underpayment/overpayment, reason codes
• Accounts Payable: Configuration of Payment program, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox processing
• Involved in configuration of Asset accounting settings
• Configured and implemented - assigning the methods to the ledger and define the splitting fields, Assign GL accounts to item categories, Assign document types to splitting rules and configure account determination
• Responsible for configuration and integration of Credit Management functionality, AP payment program, financial statement versions, capitalization of assets by settlement from orders and depreciation postings
• Responsible for configuration and testing of MM and SD automatic account determinations includes scenarios like rebates, sample etc.,
• Responsible for defining Intercompany Service Billing process from posting of AR invoice to posting of AP invoice with workflow approval

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for FI/CO production support covering GL, AR, AP, AA and year-end closing.
• Analyzed business process re-engineering, configuration, modifications to suit the client’s requirements, user documentation and user training.
• Worked with team members in resolving configuration issues for GL, AR, AP and tracked their progress on a weekly basis.
• Supported the client in FI/CO upgrade for GL, AR, AP, and AA.
• Participated actively in configuring the inconsistencies related to G/L A/P A/R modules.
• Configured General Ledger Master Record, Incoming Payments and Reason Codes.
• Configured Automatic Payment program with Clearing of open items.
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and prepared Test Scripts.
• Documented critical changes, performed system tests and trained client team members on new system functionality.
• Effectively configured the Asset Accounting module as part of the FI implementation process.
• Performed unit tests and other tests as needed and works with end users on User Acceptance testing (UAT)
• Provided consistent progress/status reports to senior team members

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of Trouble Shooting Issues in SAP pertaining to FI Module & Integration Issues related to MM and SD
• Evaluate, assess and resolve the SAP users support requests, concerning SAP FI/CO & FSCM functionality
• Providing Functional Specifications to ABAPER & Development of FI related Z Reports
• Design detailed business solutions by representing Finance from an IT perspective in all SAP projects, upgrades, rollouts, etc...
• Design and execute test plans to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are implemented properly and meet ROI objectives
• Changes in Configurations / New Configurations related to FI Module in respect of New Developments in SAP as per the requirements of the Client
• Providing Guidance / Support / Training to Users pertaining to End User Processes in SAP
• Preparation of End User Manuals, Configuration Documents etc.
• Creation and monitoring of ALE IDOCS and SM35 error queues.
• Supporting Month end/year end closing activities.
• Dispute case creation and change, Modification in Business Partner Profile.
• Credit Management and Collection Management.
• Assist with user training.
• Initiated ideas that would result in good business benefits for the customer and process improvement.
• Conducted internal trainings and knowledge sharing session for business to understand the process flow.

Confidential

SAP Core team member

Responsibilities:

• Gathered detailed requirements from business users for level 3 support work, approved projects and small enhancements to existing SAP configuration or development objects.
• Complete Configuration of FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP & FI-AA
• Creation of master data in CO-CCA & CO- PCA.
• Understanding Business Process, study and analyze workflow to design solutions
• Conducting gap analysis, assess scope of studies & suggest solutions through ERP
• Involved in managing User Profiles, Locking & Authorizations.
• Knowledge of basic Configuration settings
• Quite familiar and well versed with SAP ERP system
• Created account assignment model for recurring entries
• Training on Budget Process to Budget Team
• Worked with Business Stakeholders & Development teams to ensure that business requirements are properly configured within SAP and that all development objects perform as designed.