SUMMARY

• Over 12 Years of IT experience in various roles as SAP FI Lead, SAP FICO Consultant/Architect and Business Analyst with experience in continuous business processes improvements.
• Extensive experience in Configuration, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Troubleshooting in FICO
• Experience in Project Implementation Lifecycle including Configuration, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Troubleshooting, Realization, Hyper care, and Support in SAP with expertise in Documentation, Reporting and Coordination between different teams to meet the project schedules/goals
• Extensive knowledge of SAP with specialization in FICO modules of G/L, A/P, A/R, FSCM, FICA, SPL, AA, CCA, CO - PA, PCA,SD,MM, CRM and SCM.
• Experience with implementation of a PCI compliant solution for Credit card processes.
• Hands on experience with the DSD (Direct Store Delivery) and SBT process.
• Experience in ABAP Debugging, EDI mappings and IDOC’s, Solution Manager, Substitutions and Validations.
• Experience in Integration Testing of Legacy System interfacing with SAP as it relates to the business process and knowledge in System analysis, Application design and Performance tuning
• Strong Communication, Analytical and Customer Service Skills with experience in working in a fast paced environment demanding strong organizational, technical and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Package: SAP R/3 (FICO) 4.7, ECC (6.0)

Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic 6.0, ABAP

Operating Systems: DOS, UNIX, Windows 98/2000/XP/NT, Macintosh

Databases: Oracle 7.x/8, Microsoft Access

Packages: Oracle Forms 4.5, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Sr. FICO Analyst/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design and development of the various process for the integration of Dreyer’s Oracle system to Confidential Globe SAP solution.
• Involved in the study and customizing of Direct Store Delivery (DSD) process including Credit card / Direct debit transactions and DSD settlement process.
• Architecture and development for Scan Based Trading (SBT) process including the study of legacy customer invoice data and payments
• Developed and designed various invoice rules and payment rules to support automatic cash application for Scan Based Trading(SBT)
• Conducted work sessions with the business to identify the Gaps between Dreyer’s and Confidential USA OTC cycles.
• Organized and lead workshops with the business to identify and study the change impacts for various business processes and roles and prepared Business Process Procedures (BPP).
• Analysis and documentation of various functional specifications and configuration guides for various RICEF objects related to Dreyer’s process.
• Enhanced the existing Auto cash functionality to improve the performance and handle huge payments with line items greater than 800 by splitting the check into multiple checks.
• Developed and designed a batch list process to identify and segregate the identified checks per CSC location and Account Payment Coordinator.
• Designed and developed an automated correspondence to customers using either email or fax.
• Involved in Unit and integration testing using SAP solution manager.
• Coordinated and lead the Volume Stress Testing (VST) for various functionalities.
• Responsible for addressing Requests in Service Manager for the resolution and delivery of the solution by leading and managing the Change requests
• Involved in the design of the open item conversion process of the legacy Oracle Accounts Receivable system including deductions to the production environment for weekly and wave wise conversion strategies.
• Responsible for the Analysis and Design of the Global credit card solution using 3rd party vendor Paymetric to be PCI compliant.
• Tracked and Managed the cutover plan against the proposed project plan
• Functional specifications and configurations for various custom credit card reports and functionality.
• Design of the customer registration website for tokenization of the raw credit cards.
• Specifications for raw credit card conversion process.
• Involved in the design of automatic authorization and settlement process for Direct Debit and “2-step” credit card transactions using “Auto AR” process.
• Design of “Open AR” process to manually authorize open Accounting documents.
• Involved in the design of the credit card process for orders created through the CIC portal in CRM and the B2B customer portal.
• Involved in the design of the Trade Asset process for Sale, Loan, Rental and Trial/Demo.
• Designed and developed the Automatic updates for the Trade asset Warranty process.
• Involved in the design of the rental calculation for the trade assets on rent.
• Analysis of Document Types, G/L Accounts, splitting rules for Document Splitting
• Analyzed the various custom developments and changes required for the technical upgrade of the SAP system.
• Study of the various OSS notes and service packs related to the upgrade for system application and testing.
• Conducted and managed VST testing cycles to study the performance of the existing functionality.
• Managed XI implementation for FI interfaces like Lockbox processing and BW reporting.
• Analyzed and designed the field mappings.
• Tested the end-to-end design and obtained business signoff.
• Defined number ranges for planning data and actual postings.
• Configuration of Profit centers and maintenance of Value fields.
• CO-PA reporting, PA settlement and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Developed various Valuation Strategies in COPA such as Valuation on Product Cost Estimates, Valuation on Conditions and Costing Sheets.
• Performed reposting/ reclassifying or re-stamping activities whenever needed.
• Involved in the study/design of the Split Architecture system, GAP analysis and Project plan monitoring for implementing quality improvement techniques for efficient and better utilization of resources
• Responsible for writing business process design documents, functional specifications documents, coordinating with offshore development teams.
• Preparation of enhancement Business Process Procedures (BPPs) for new enhancements for business users
• Developing reports for management reporting requirements and decision making
• Assist with staffing and budgeting projections for development of a team of analysts, programmers and other personnel
• Developed a prototype at the end of blueprint phase and presented to the client.
• Automatic payments set up, electronic payment set-up (EFT) and check management.
• Defined, configured and tested special processes for logistics invoice verification( PO based invoices), blocking and release taking into account the unique business requirements for Confidential .
• Configured electronic bank statements EBS for payment confirmations - defining account assignments using account symbols, external transactions, defining posting rules for posting to GL and sub ledger accounts.
• Workflow for AP invoicing process and management using the Intercompany stock transfer process and billings (ICO forms)
• Experience with Vendor Managed Inventory process.
• Experience with consignment stocks and evaluated receipts settlement (ERS) process
• Responsible for the EDI 820/823 mapping and analysis for Lockbox processing
• Creation of House Banks, Multiple Bank Accounts, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment and Reason Codes for Cash and Treasury Management
• Involved in the development of reports for the Lockbox functionality for incoming Cash
• Analysis of raw data and specs for customer conversions to FEDI processing for cash application process
• Involved in the design, development and testing of the EIPP process
• Configuration of reason codes, tolerance groups, payment terms, accounting clerks, and various Substitution and Validation rules for the business processes
• Configuration of Credit Management through Credit risk categories and user exits
• Design of Dispute Management for tracking, interpreting, recording, reporting and managing of Dispute cases in Accounts Receivable
• Configuration of HR personnel data for communication and assignment of deductions.
• Customization of Dispute Management for the automatic creation, assignment, clearing of Dispute cases and interfacing to the legacy trade system
• Custom development of Collection tools, like Invoice aging report, AR history segregated by the various aging bucket for Customers
• Development of Credit reports for various external Credit Forums
• Configuration and design for various correspondence types for Affiliate and Customer Account Statements
• Configuration of dunning procedures, dunning levels and scheduling of dunning runs along with the specifications of the SAP-scripts for dunning.
• Developed client defined specs for BW reports for Accounts payable, Accounts receivables, Deduction Management and Credit and Credit Card reporting
• Test Coordinator responsible for managing and designing the MIT/MAT and connectivity testing cycles
• Preparation of Test plans, Test sets and Test scripts in Mercury Testing tools
• Design of Interfaces to and from SAP to 3rd party Seibel platforms for trade deduction management
• Research on application of OSS Notes in SAP and Integration testing of enhancements and Support packs implemented regularly in the R/3 System.
• Resolved derivation rules issues and executed COPA Top Down at month end to clear unassigned resulted of cost center assessments, WBS settlements and Journal Entries
• Debugging in ABAP to analyze various issues encountered in the Production environment and replicate the same in the lower enviroments for analysis and solution.
• Post Production Support activities like the maintenance of the R/3 system for regular scheduled outages like rescheduling of critical batch jobs, batch job monitoring and notifications etc.
• On - Call production support inclusive of 24/7 support for handling higher severity issues during non-working hours
• Working on issues like Change Control Requests for newer development, Development Requests that deal with Core Extensions of existing functionality to newer company codes, Testing Requests that arise due to a certain developments failing in the Quality client and Production Requests for resolving issues that arise in the Production environment
• Excellent experience in leading Onshore and Offshore teams, managing and coordinating various sub-projects while interacting with Analysts / Cross - Functional teams and SMEs (Subject Matter Experts)

Confidential, Michigan

FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• System configuration in the areas of FI-GL transactions and Closing activities.
• Involved in the end-user training and documentation for month end and year end closing activities.
• SAP R/3 AS IS study, Gap analysis, and Business process re-engineering to identify the problems in the present business processes and SAP functionality.
• Configured special purpose ledger (SPL) as per business requirements.
• Involved in creation of table group definition.
• Involved in developing ledger, assign activities for FI postings, order settlement, SD billing and MM Goods receipt.
• Involved in the Intercompany process activities.
• Resolved issues related to foreign currency exchange rate gain/loss accounts.
• Maintained Currency Conversion Tables.
• Configuration of Asset Classes, Addition, Transfer of assets, calculation Keys, derived depreciation area, setting up of chart of depreciation.
• Determination of depreciation amounts, settlement and retirement of assets for closing.

Confidential, CA

FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, test, gather and study data using data mining techniques for design documentation.
• Configured and customized chart of accounts.
• Configuration of Primary and Secondary Cost elements in Cost Element Accounting.
• Configured activities, statistical key figures, and maintained cost center groups in Cost Center Accounting.
• End user training and documentation
• Customized accounting transactions for postings and recurring entries.

Confidential, MI

Systems Analyst Intern

Responsibilities:

• An ASP application for a goods distribution company was developed using Visual InterDev 6.0 and Dream Weaver. HTML used as front end, JavaScript for the server side scripting and VB-Script for the client side validation. Development involved Interactive Screens and Unit & Integration testing of the application.
• A project was developed as part of the Financial Data Conversion Team involved in the Conversion Process. Several Maps and Integration Rules were developed to integrate PeopleSoft and Mainframes. Oracle Database was the backend device.