SUMMARY

• SAP FI/CO consultant, with experience in Vendor Invoice Management (VIM). Active participation and Knowledge in implementation, upgrade and support including Full Lifecycle Implementations (Blue printing to Go - live) and Upgrade.
• Combination of Finance plus Information Systems Education and Experience
• Experience in all phases of ASAP methodology.
• Self motivated Team Player with Excellent Communication skills and Business Analytical skills.
• Strong knowledge in Blue printing and GAP analysis, ability to interact with client and technical team for Custom Functionality.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and Service Industries.
• Good Configuration skills in General Ledger, Accounts Payable (AP) and Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), Account Receivable (AR), Automatic Payment Program (APP), Dispute Management, Credit Management, Collections Management, Cost Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Proficient in Procure To Pay (PTP) and Order To Cash (OTC) Cycle
• Experience in integration of FI and CO with Material Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD) and Production Planning (PP).
• Experience in RICEFW objects, LSMW, BDC, and IDOCS.
• Good knowledge of ABAP Code and ability to work with developer.
• Conducted Workshops and prepared Design Documentation.
• Effective communicator with excellent skills in making Business Presentations
• Experience in Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Experienced in writing Functional Specifications, Configuration and End User Documentation.
• Good knowledge in HP Quality Center
• Conducted training sessions, provided End User Training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0

Programming Languages: C, C++ and java

Operating System: windows XP/NT, Mac-OSX

Database: SQL, Oracle

Project management Tools: M.S. Project

MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Greeley, Co

Sr. FICO/VIM Analyst

Responsibilities:

• UK implementation Hyper Care and Support
• Designed and Configured AP, AR Process
• Worked with Barkley bank for vendor payments and designed interface
• Designed workflow and Custom process types for AP
• Worked on Lockbox files enrichment with HighRadius to improve hit rate
• Made Process improvements for US invoice processing
• Implemented Fiori Approval APP for VIM invoice mobile approval
• Self Service portal implementation
• Concur Support and designed changes in Badi for FI Expense report postings

Confidential, Marysville, OH

SME FICO/VIM

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded VIM to 7.5, ICC/BCC to 16.3 and SOH Migration
• Redesigned the PO approval process for non-inventory POs in VIM to optimize the process of getting proper approvals based on business requirements and in compliance with SOX.
• Configured blocked invoice (LIV) workflow in VIM
• Configured Approval levels in VIM for Non PO invoices including Approval Flow settings (AFS) Approval determination Procedure and Expense Types
• Designed a custom program to populate Non PO invoice approvers in Chart of Authority (COA) table from HR Mini Master
• Created Role maintenance template in VIM to route the work items to work centers.
• Configured new Business Rule to optimize the duplicate invoice detection process and designed custom FM to capture duplicates posted in ECC via different sources.
• Configured VIM for IDOC invoice processing including data mapping, Business Rules and workflows.
• Worked on Integration of Invoice Capture Center (ICC) added Custom fields in ICC for Paper invoice Processing
• Configured Hotspots in ICC to process the invoices based on company code
• Worked with OpenText to resolve ICC performance issues.
• Worked on Taulia (Third party vendor portal for early payments and discounts handling) and VIM integration.
• Worked on Moving Average Price issues in ECC and configured GRbasedIV process to reduce the effect of incorrect vendor invoice on moving average price.
• Webviewer Upgrade in Windows environment

Confidential, Evansville, IN

FI-Invoicing and Pay Solution Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on SOH Migration Project
• Designed vendor invoice Approval Work flow for PO and Non PO invoices
• Resolved issues with Non PO processing workflow dumps
• Designed custom FM to determine the expense type by the vendor and determine the document type by the company code for EDI invoices.
• Worked with Citibank to setup new payment process for Philippines and with bank of America for US payments
• Worked on lockbox and EBS related issues.
• Worked on many issues with banks on pay related issues and resolved them successfully
• Designed new payment process through IDOCs and worked with Citi bank to finalize the data format and instruction keys required by payment method.
• Configured WithHoldingTax functionality for New countries/Company codes migrated to SAP.
• Worked with Procurement Team to design new process for automation of PO creation with Invoicing Plan for rent and service vendor payments.
• Worked with One Source Team to resolve tax related errors in invoicing process.
• Created Test scripts in HPQC for different Finance related changes and executed the same.
• Provided support to the users in UAT

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

FICO/VIM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Non Po invoice processing in VIM for EDI and Paper based invoices.
• Worked with Onbase and Anydoc to implement paper based invoice processing in VIM
• Designed custom logic for PO line item determination to increase the hit rate and performance for EDI vendor invoices.
• Worked with development team to create new sub screens with Search and sort functionality for DP line items.
• Created new process types and mapped to the exceptions.
• Created new process options and added to process types.
• Worked with Development team to add error message in VIM cockpit and Analytics.
• Created Role maintenance template in VIM to route the work items to work centers based on the priority field.
• Configured the new Business Rules and routed the failed documents to work centers based on exception.
• Resolved many VIM production support tickets.
• Worked on IDOC related issues for EDI invoices.
• Optimized the existing ACH file generating process by changing the design to generate the files based in the payment method for all banks in single Payment Run.
• Worked on APP (Automatic Payment Program) issues.
• Designed Auto dispute creation process for customer over payments and underpayments and assigning the same to the service center based on the invoice.
• Designed new interactive report for AR department to get the receivables by service center/plant in Collections management.
• Designed and Auto Residual item creation for underpayments and over payments on customer invoice in lockbox clearing process.

Confidential, Houston, TX

FICO/VIM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed new workflows in Vendor invoice management (VIM) by configuring new roles and mapping them to them with exception and also assignment of new work centers to the roles.
• Optimized the process to improve invoice auto posting rate in VIM.
• Configured new process types based on the custom exceptions and their role determination in Vendor invoice Management (VIM).
• Worked on configuration and enhancements involved in both PO based and Non-PO based invoices in VIM.
• Developed solution for customer partial payment for Biller Direct Portal.
• Drafted design documents for sales order release in Credit Management from SAP web application. This development also includes sales order release restriction in ECC (VKM1).
• Worked on many issues in Disputes Management and optimized the process.
• Worked on Many issues with LOCKBOX and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS)-Prior day and current day files.
• Designed Algorithms for customer line item clearing from LOCKBOX
• Involved in creation of new LOCKBOX for a House Bank.
• Resolved issues with creation of FINSTA01 idoc in LOCKBOX processing.
• Involved in Enterprise structure change and changed configuration based on business requirements.
• Designed new process for customer statements using Stream serve solution (open Text).
• Developed an enhancement for Bad Debts report and write-off.
• Worked on enhancement to increase the Auto Post rate of vendor invoice
• Worked on incidents related to Automatic Payment Program (APP) such as Vendor ACH payments and ACH pull from Customer bank account.
• Worked on Initial data loads for Fixed Assets
• Worked on year end process issues in Fixed Assets.
• Developed Solution for COPA postings for rebates from VISTEX.
• Configured new value fields for condition record values to COPA.
• Participated in FAT (Functional Acceptance Test) and prepared test documents