SUMMARY:

• SAP FI Certified (ECC 6.0) + with ten years of experience in Implementation of various ERP and Accounting systems, including in depth SAP FI/CO, FSCM, Simple Finance functional knowledge and configuration skills.
• Customization, Global Template rollout and Production support, ASAP methodology experience with Big 4.
• As a Controller, I have managed daily accounting activities, External (FI) and Management (CO) reporting and transformed the businesses from manual to computerized accounting for mid to large size companies.
• Managed team in onsite - offshore model and working with global teams spread across multiple time-zones.
• Reviewed and analyzed business processes and mapped into IT Architecture/SAP best practices.
• Analyzed and defined requirements for customer-specific development need i.e. (RICEFW) objects.
• Integration with functional modules (FI-MM, FI-SD and FSCM), third party tool Vertex, and open text(VIM)
• Provided functional specifications to ABAP specialists, tracked progress & maintained status in Sol Man.
• Participated in testing (User Acceptance, Functional Unit & Product Integration & Regression Testing)
• Developed and executed test plan/ test scripts in HPQC; defect management, and end user training.
• Well conversant with reporting tools such as SAP Query, Report Painter, Report Writer, Crystal, BI & Brio
• Collaborated with cross functional, technical & security team. Data conversion and Migration using LSMW.
• Good understanding of the SAP roadmap with respect to Simple Finance.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Functional skills in SAP: FSCM, New GL, AR, AP, AA, CO-CCA, EC-PCA, CO-PA, IM, LSMW and PRA.

Other ERP Systems: Everest ERP, Commerce One and Prophet 21 (IS-Distribution Industry)

Other application: Solution Manager, HPQC, MS Office suite, Visio, Crystal, Brio explorer, MS Access, BI

Accounting Packages: DacEasy, Omicron, QuickBooks and Peachtree

Industry: Department of Defense, Oil & Gas, On line trading, Energy, Distribution, Mfg., Construction & semiconductor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FICO/FSCM Lead /Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 8 resources includes 3 onsite and 5 offshore in a client facing role.
• Lead FSCM project implementation and ongoing support of SAP FICO
• Conducted requirement gathering workshops; for Credit, Collection and Dispute Management and sign-off
• Setting up prototype environment for demonstrating FSCM solution for Credit, Collection and Dispute Management in quality for client testing and sign off.
• Provided weekly updates to stakeholders and Project management.
• Managed project planning, scheduling and allocation of resources.
• Prepared functional specs for technical team to build custom reports and sign-off from the End-Users
• Plan, prepare and execute Test plan/ Test script in HPQC, and defect management
• Review test results for unit testing, integration testing and monthly regression testing.
• Collaborated with cross Functional, Technical, Development, Basis & Security team
• Co-ordinate UAT and End User Training.
• Conducted review of segregation of duties (SOD) on a monthly basis and recommend the changes
• Build strong relationships with members in IT, business users, partners, and third party vendor organizations
• Plan and co-ordinate quarterly QA and DEV refresh activities.

Tools:

• BMC Remedy - Change, Incident and Task Management
• HPQC- Creating test scripts for testing and regression test
• Qlikview - Reports

Confidential

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP Accounts Payable global template rollout for Canada and US Implementation.
• Conducted requirement gathering workshops and completed the blue print phase for Canada and USA.
• Performed Fit/Gap Analysis for Source to pay process. Provided Functional specs for RICEFW objects
• Planned, executed Test plan/ Test script in HPQC, and defect resolution for various releases.
• Designed Global Checks form and Remittance advice to meet country & bank requirements i.e. MICR
• Non-PO invoices park and post thru work flow approval and co-ordinate with Open text.
• Conducted requirement gathering workshops with Finance End-Users and analyzed reporting need in FICO
• Identified the gaps between legacy and SAP FICO as well as other modules.
• Prepared functional specs for technical team to build custom reports.
• Executed custom reports in BI / WEBI, validated the data and received the approval from Business.
• Provided weekly updates to stakeholders and Project management.
• Global template rollout, data conversion process, approach, the data dependencies and load sequences
• Conducted requirement gathering workshops with the Finance End-Users
• Provided functional designed specifications for 60 PRA (Is-Oil & Gas) Master data objects.
• Provided Master Data Templates to collect the data for product revenue accounting (PRA) objects
• Developed reusable KX Data dictionary in MS Access with validation and transformation rules for data objects.
• Performed pre-load validation post load validation during Mock runs, go-live and obtained the final signoff.
• Data loaded using LSMW with100% success rate for production data loads.

Confidential

SAP FI-AR, AP & FSCM Configuration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation. Conducted requirement gathering workshops with the Finance End-Users for US, Canada and UK.
• Performed Fit/Gap Analysis in AP, AR and FSCM area, Provided functional specs for RICEFW objects
• Designed and configured AR, AP and FSCM processes, account groups, automatic payment, payment terms, payment methods, House banks and bank accounts. Electronic bank statements and Lock box processing.
• Planned, executed the proto type and testing of these AR/AP and FSCM - Dispute and Collection Management
• Setting up Dispute Case Model, attribute profile with reason, automatic write off and clearing procedure with AR
• Set up Collection strategies based on different valuation rules, collection rules, and collection groups.
• Created business partner master data with MDS with collection specialist.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Team Lead - Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of four onsite SAP production support resources.
• Resolved production issues within SLA and maintenance of the Defense Financial Accounting System (DFAS)
• Provided SAP training in (AR, AP, and new GL, CO) to end users.
• Performed Trend analysis on tickets logged in Remedy for process improvements.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured inter-company relationship for several entities
• Performed unit testing, integration testing and monthly regression testing
• Resolved production issues within SLA. Followed change management process for configuration changes.
• Created country specific Tax code, Tax rate and Tax procedure, tested and moved the changes to production.
• Maintained currency exchange rates, test and validated the foreign currency valuation

Confidential

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extended AP functionality to new company code by configuring, the vendor group /number ranges, automatic payment program, check lots, payment methods, etc.,
• Tested and validated automatic payment program, In-House cash process for Upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0
• Performed monthly bank update in master data client & extended the same to production clients.
• Resolved issues related to Inbound/Outbound interfaces with legacy system & SAP
• Performed unit testing, integration testing and monthly regression testing
• Peer reviewed resolution of tickets and Trend analysis of all the Incidents/Tickets.

Confidential

Controller / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation of Everest ERP system. Performed As-Is to To-Be design, configured, Tested and deployed GL, AR, AP, AA, Cost Center, Inventory, MM and SD.
• Finalized financial statements, audit accounts, and prepared internal management reports.
• Managed and trained subordinate staff of fifteen

Confidential

Senior SAP FI/CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Integration testing with MM and SD. Documented and resolved issues during upgrade.
• Resolved blocked billing / Billing Doc type issues as a result streamlined revenue recognition process and eliminated inconsistency in margin analysis (COPA).
• Developed query to extract data to support claim with IRS resulted in $14 Million tax refund