SUMMARY

• Proven technical and functional resource with over 8years experience in designing, implementing, testing, training and supporting multiple SAP FICO, FSCM, FICA, RMCA, Funds & Grants Management, IS - Banking, Corporate Treasury and Banking projects across Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. A motivated self-starter, able to quickly grasp issues and great attention to details.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis-MN

SAP Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Drove functional/technical blueprint and business process modeling/concepts based on SAP best designs and practices.
• Provided functional and process expertise on bank accounting (EBS), account receivables, account payables, and cash management.
• Defined integration points between different modules - bank accounting, Account Receivables, Accounts Payables, Grants Management and Fund Management
• Defined processes on treasury/cash position and cash forecast report (including Liquidity forecasts, Electronic Bank Statements(EBS), Bank Reconciliation Statements etc.).
• Defined Money Market Operations and Accounting
• F111 TR payments, cash concentration,F110 AP payments
• Configured BCM workflow, batching rules, payment status monitor, and bank statement monitor.
• Developed conversion path to convert payment format to Payment Method Workbench (PMW) format.
• Designed and configured configuration of payment methods encompassing Manual vs. automatic payment, free-from payment, ISO 20022 XML and non-ISO format payment
• Integration knowledge of CM/TR with other modules of SAP
• Developed a longer term solution on Liquidity Forecast, Liquidity Planner
• Developed processes on Treasury SOX Compliance and Internal controls
• Advance level functional knowledge of cash management processing.
• Automatic Payments - ACH Payments, Wire Transfers, Bank Interfaces and other outgoing / payroll postings(including check payments)
• Defined and configured account structure for bank reconciliation and treasury postings
• Incoming payment processing and Cash application - Enhancements forrn increasing the hit rates
• Reviewed master data requirements for all categories in FI/CO configuration by mapping legacy objects and hierarchies to the SAP object repository and hierarchy structures.
• Design - determined business requirements, identify conversion objects, and write functional specifications to meet requirements.
• Data Cleansing -identify opportunities to cleanse data in source system, develop metrics, work with business partners to execute cleanup and track progress
• Development - worked with development team to build and unit test conversion programs
• Testing - Executed functional and integrated testing. Defect analysis and resolution.
• Conversion - Plan and Execute production go-live conversions.
• Reconciliation - Design and execute reconciliation processes
• Worked on Interest Calculation, Dunning and Interest Charges.
• Developed and trained in FICO AP, AR and GL
• Worked with business process owners to develop course outlines and End User training materials
• Conducted multiple train the trainer session with business SMEs.
• Gathered user requirement with numerous customer-facing meetings to develop data archiving specifications, establish data retention policies, configuration needs, user access requirements and print list reporting.
• Helped define queries to create data views for user/data auditors.

Confidential, NJ

SAP Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Provided functional and process expertise on In-house Cash and SWIFT global disbursement/network integration using FSCM - BCM (Bank Communications Management) and In House Cash solution. Primary focus on SWIFT integration using SIPS, banking systems and electronic banking interfaces specifications and Cash Management Integration with EBS.
• Defined and developed a new cash and banking processes to achieve optimization for SWIFT integration package.
• Provided functional and process expertise on SWIFT global disbursement and network integration using FSCM - BCM Bank Communications Management via SWIFTNet Alliance Lite 2, payments batching and payment medium workbench.
• Creation of a Centralized (In House) Bank and Pay-On-Behalf (POB) functionality
• Intercompany settlement
• Validation and documentation of local legal requirements on bank area set up and bank account ownership
• Created functional/technical specifications for RICEFW items.
• Developed end-to-end configuration documents for global SWIFT disbursement steps including BCM customizations, BCM connector interface and SAP Integration Package for SWIFT (SIPS).
• Assisted in designing SAP’s BCM Connector interface for multiple BCM instances.
• Configured BCM workflow, batching rules, payment status monitor, and bank statement monitor.
• Developed conversion path to convert payment format to Payment Method Workbench (PMW) format.
• Designed and configured configuration of payment methods encompassing Manual vs. automatic payment, free-from payment, ISO 20022 XML and non-ISO format payment, Domestic vs. foreign payment, SEPA payment, MT940, MT950, MT942, MT103 and MT101.
• Configured Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) to automate payment open items and bank accounts reconciliation.
• Advised and implemented Collections, Dispute and Cash Management Integration process integration.
• Implemented a global bank master update with AP, VIM, T&E and Payments integration
• Knowledge of external and internal best practices relevant to aligned process areas •
• Assisted with end-to-end integration testing and User Acceptance Testing and provided go-live support.
• Tapped as an advisor/architect on a separate in-house project to help define business processes and configuration on FICA: Customer Account Management, Billing, Customer Accounting, Payments processing, Clearing, Dunning (Collections) and General Ledger Accounting
• Led blueprint discussion on IS-U (FS Business Partner, FSCD, Contract Accounting, Installment Plans, Broker Collections, Dunning, and Correspondence) FI-CA - Disbursement and Collections Management, Cash Management and Treasury Transaction Manager.
• Created and configured created master data models (business partners, contract accounts and insurance objects) in FS-CD & FICA Revenue Management (RMCA).
• Developed training materials and trained in FSCM, FICA,FICO AP, AR and GL
• Worked with business process owners to develop course outlines and End User training materials.
• Prepared and built data set and scenarios for user training.
• Conducted multiple train the trainer session with business SMEs. Train the Trainer.
• Managed & resolved functionalissues in FI (GL/AP/AR / Bank).
• Participating in FI and CO team meetings related to priority issues.
• Provided support in the period end closing activities (GR/IR) clearing, opening FI periods.
• Resolved the incident requests in AR & AP,HR along with master data issues.
• Tested Scenarios like Vendor master data maintenance, vendor invoice, credit memo posting, parking and posting parked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification, and Accounts Payable (FI-AP) reports.
• Creation offunctionalspecifications for the various change requests handled
• Involved Customer & vendor Master data management

Confidential

SAP Implementation Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Supported the client in Post Go Live and worked on Post Production Issues
• Facilitated and managed blueprint phases with focus on key business processes and Integration (Order to Cash, Procure to Pay), Cash Management, Dispute and Collections Management, Case and Record Management and Credit Management.
• Configured FI-AR, AP, Business Partner/Customer synchronization, Vendor Master, Bank Accounting/Recon, EDI/IDOCs, Intercompany Billing and Receivables, Dunning and tolerances.
• Developed global strategy on International Banking for all subsidiary and FX Valuation.
• Configured Cash Position, Cash Forecast, Electronic Bank Statement processing (BAI2, SWIFT, Current Day and Prior Day).
• Created different treasury reports related to daily treasury processes using drilldown reports and SAP Query.
• Configured multiple BADIs/user exits in Dispute and Collections Management (RMS ID, Element types, Record Model, Workflow, Work list, Promise to Pay and process integration with AR).
• Defined and configured credit segments, Rating procedure, formulas, limit calculations, Risk Classes and integration with D&B.
• Developed functional specifications for ABAP development (user exits and BADI) in 1099 MISC Reporting-US Withholding tax/IRS transmission file and LSMW for data upload.
• Provided support on FI-Asset Accounting, CO-PA and CCA.
• Developed day/month-end bank reconciliation and close procedures.
• Assisted with user and integration testing, coordination of transports to production.
• Collecting business requirement from the client and map to SAP system.
• Ensured timely account reconciliation- AR/AP/GRIR to support month end balance sheet reviews.
• Conducted and coordinated the support related meetings and reporting with the local and onsite teams.
• Involved in support of integration issues with Vertex application software.
• FI-MM integration - Working on 3 way matching concept.
• Have worked on the vendor master records and set up - verifying the vendor p2p documents, Bank Details, LTO (Letter heads ) and RTQ, RTV
• Intercompany trading scenarios (STO, direct shipment, 3rd party)
• Involved in COPA, Maintained the operating concern, assigned the value fields, OBYC settings, maintained changes in the FI-SD integration changes, defined the key figure schemes.
• Prepared month end reports and configured relevant master data.
• Provided Support during Month end and year closing - Foreign currency valuation, No. range extension and worked on BGCS tool.
• Provided training to end users.

Confidential

SAP Implementation Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the As-Is system, did a profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped the To-Be system. Documented the configurations and prepared functional/ technical specifications.
• Configuration of FI global settings, Configured company code, Created GL accounts, Defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing.
• Customer account groups, terms of payment, tolerance limits for customer payments, special GL indicators, dunning, and down payments.
• Configured revenue integration with SD and credit management with dynamic check of the credit limit at the time of sales order.
• Configuration for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences.
• Process Payment advices to clear customer open items through automatic processing of batch input sessions.
• Setting up of own payment methods, payment files and advices through change in SAP scripts
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot. Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in A/P.
• Configured payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Involved in the support and users trainings.
• Configured FI-MM integration interface in the areas of enterprise structure, Automatic postings for MM through OBYC, Defined required GL accounts for various transaction keys.
• Configured FI-SD integration interface in the area of Enterprise Structure, and Revenue accounts determination through VKOA, mapping required GL accounts to the account keys.
• Unit Testing - Complete Unit testing of FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA.
• Integration Testing - Complete business cycles across sub-modules were tested, in conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives from the client side.
• Involved in solving the production issues in Automatic Payment Program (APP), Account Assignment, and interest calculation on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes.

Confidential

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Transformed business requirements on FICA, FICO and treasury needs into functional and technical designs and translating these into system configuration and specifications
• Designed all phases of implementation including business process blueprint, detailed design, configuration, testing, cutover, and support.
• Responsible for integrating FS-CD with general ledger (GL). Configured and setup business partners to be used within FS-CD, contract accounts and insurance objects to enable all accounts receivables and payables (AR/AP). Setup dunning and correspondence.
• Prepared Functional Specification and co-ordinate for Technical specification and testing on FICA RICEFW
• Defined best of breed solution for FI AP, AR, GL, AA, IC Billing and Receivables, Transaction Manager (securities, Money Market, Derivatives and FX trading operations) and Cash/Liquidity Management (Cash Position, Forecast and Liquidity Planner) and mapping them to standard SAP processes within project scope.
• Led IT detailed design to centralize payments for each region (North and Latin America, Europe, Asia) using SAP In-house Cash with EBS (EDI, IDOC and File handling) and developed day/month-end bank reconciliation and close procedures.
• Led design on FI-AR, SD integration (Order to Cash), AP-MM integration (Procure to Pay), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Interface development (RICEF), Collections and Dispute Management, FX Translation and Valuations, Banking-Lockbox, Housebank and Electronic Bank Statement processing (Current Day and Prior Day).
• Designed and implemented FICO/FSCM modules (New GL, AP, AR, CCA, PCA, Banking, Payment Card, CCA) FSCM Suite (Credit &Dispute Management, Collections Management, Cash Management, In-House Cash, Billers Direct), FSCD, ISPS, IS Banking and Insurance (Customer Financials Management) with EBS
• Implemented FI AR (OTC), AP (PTP), New GL Document Splitting, Cash Management (Cash Position and Forecast, Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement) Treasury (Transaction Manager - Money Market, Securities, Forex and Derivatives) Market Risk Analyzer, and Portfolio Analyzer for Hedge Management, In-House Cash (Intra and Intercompany Payment) FX Trading - Spot/Forward contract, FX Rate Translation and Valuation.
• Implemented FSCM and IS-Insurance Customer Financials Management (Hands on configuration experience in end-to-end implementation of FICA - FSCD modules: Contract Accounting, Insurance Object, Incoming Payments, Payment Program, Dunning, Returns, Installment Plan and Master Data planning).
• Implemented SAP IS-Banking solution for a public sector organization specifically Loans Management SAP CML with collateral Management and IS-PS.
• Interfaced with several global banking platforms (ACH, BAI2, Swift Messaging, ACH, FedWire).
• Defined roadmap for Legacy data conversion using LSMW for data conversion/upload and 1099 MISC Reporting-US Withholding tax for IRS transmission.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on USA Application - Phoebus.
• Calculating the interest and finance charges.
• Working on debt sold accounts and removed the late fees of customers.
• Preparation of User Manual Procedures.
• Analyzing the documented information and converting it into assertive forms
• Identified and proposed business process and system enhancements.
• Identified, interpreted, validated and documented customer requirements.
• Joined RISE program as a member of Record to Report (R2R)/ Finance team.
• Understanding the existing business Processes in various discussions with the client & studying the available documents & preparation of Business Blue Print.
• Involved in the customization of Organizational elements for Financial Accounting like Creation of Company, Company Code etc.
• Mapped business processes into SAP Financial Accounting.
• Creation and maintenance of master records.
• Involved in Configuration of GL, AA, AR & AP with Banking (EBS and manual payments )
• Worked on Roles and Authorization Matrix by coordinating with Basis Team
• Working on the SAP Master Data Management (AP,AR,GL,CO)
• Also worked on PO based, Non Po based invoices and their maintenance
• Identified and documented the strategic orientations and project scope .
• Identified the needs of stakeholders and the impact on the company -Analyzed user requirements
• Following standard analysis procedures to understand the primary format and scope of the system requirements