PROFILE:

• SAP FICO Consultant with 10 years of professional experience into Sap implementation, configuration, integration and support.
• Worked on 4 end - to-end implementation, 2 technical upgrades ECC6.0, 1 data migration, 1 Sap Hana Data migration and around 10+ projects in to Sap System audit, Sap controls and configuration review, Sap BBP review for Fortune 500 clients. I have worked as Sap FICO consultant, Project manager SAP, Subject matter expert (SME) for ERP implementation, Core team member for IT infrastructure upgrades and Team lead for application testing.
• I possess strong domain knowledge in Accounts, finance and reporting that I gained from my professional education CFA and working with big4 consulting firm Confidential . Working with cross functional consultants and SAP veterans, handling client requirements and managing sales presentation for projects in last 5 years i have got exposed to strong concept knowledge and business process understanding for many new age modules like SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP MDG, SAP GTS, FIORI APPS and SAP ISU.
• Got a chance to work closely with senior leadership and have been working as Core team member (CTM) for implementation and rollout of Business intelligence (BA), ETL tools at enterprise level to support effective real time decision making. Have participated for roll out of Microsoft BI (SSIS SSAS SSRS), Qlick view reports and Dash boards, SAP HANA BW framework and Informatica.
• Have got excellent communication and presentation skills for client facing roles. My role requires presentation to different stakeholders CEO, CFO, CTO, Program manager, project Manager, System Auditor, Business team, other project monitoring bodies to update them on Project status, milestone planning, resource planning, and go-live schedules. Got good experience into handling multiple IT vendors & auditors for con-current project SLA and project duties. Good at team management and resource handling task for large size cross functional implementation with Onsite or Offshore support teams.

SKILL SUMMARY:

• Strong knowledge Sap FICO configuration GL AP AR AA CO
• 2 end to end implementation with EPC, construction, infrastructure company
• Technical upgrade done for telecom, power company
• Concept knowledge & understanding SAP GTS and SAP FIORI APPS
• Implementation handled for Pharmaceuticals, energy company
• Enhancement projects with banking, metal company
• Worked cross functionally SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP ISU, SAP MDG,
• Handled Sap audit review, enhancement for automobile clients
• Worked in USA 5 years and India 5 years
• Handled IT vendors for Service level agreement SLA, scope and ontime delievry
• Integration SAP HCM, SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP PP-CO, SAP CO (COPA)
• Rich knowledge for LSMW, BDC, ETL tools, File conversion, testing, data uploads & Reconciliation
• Worked and managed change request, support
• Worked with PMO tools, Agile methodology, ASAP roadmap

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Applications: SAP Financial accounting 6.0 EPH5 SAP Certification Number 0009627053

Methodologies Used: Accelerated SAP (ASAP).

Reporting: Report painter, BI reporting, MSBI (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), Qlick view, Informatica

Applications/Tools: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr consultant SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Gather Functional FICO requirements from Demantra software and SAP business process.
• Prepare Configuration and Functional document (RGD) for Six integrations for Deduction (open AR line), Check request (F110), Payment Feedback (payment advice), Master data (AP,AR)
• Prepare Templates for Sap transaction data upload -customer AR line item clearing, Journal entries FB01, Auto payment program F110, AP-AR Master data, Review SD Sales order VA01, Billing document Vf01
• Prepare Test scripts for covering business scenarios for Unit test, UAT test and SIT (system integration test)
• Assessment & finalize Integration design for various methods BAPI, LSMW,IDOCS Mix model
• Impact assessment for each interface on Performance, Logic, Error handling, Batch Job, Scheduler
• Assessment & Review BODS queries for data cleansing, data rules, data mapping for data exchanges
• Report to Seniors on Project status weekly, Daily team Connect stand-up calls to discuss critical bugs and fixes.
• Prepare Project Review presentation with detail status, weekly plan, open items, high risks, project dependencies
• Manage Sap team for 6 onsite - offsite team for work alignment, Job allocation, milestone tasks, key deliverables. We had two resources each for SAP SD, SAP BODS, SAP ABAP

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

SAP FICO solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Greenfield SAP end to end multi location cross country implementation project.
• Facilitates customers, end users, and other stakeholders in joint analysis sessions to ensure an understanding of business goals, requirements, and deliverables.
• Interact with IT and Business teams to ensure the integrity of the customer’s project objective is maintained throughout the project, as well as to provide financial/ project status as well as scope control, risk/issue escalation, stakeholder engagement, project transition & closure.
• Design Discuss Draft organizational hierarchy for cost center, profit center, departments and locations.
• Collaborate with project team members, stakeholders, customers, and sponsors to identify and monitor budget, goals, scope, project plan, issues, risks, and milestones
• Use PMO Tool to determine success of projects for costs, scope, time, intended results.
• Manages project team activities; analyze complex business problems or requirements to provide appropriate solutions; implements solutions that leverage technology to accomplish stated strategic business goal.
• Provide Demo, Mock, UAT for Seniors in Business Team for New functionalities or requirements.
• Involved and Review critical KDS mapping, and conversion rules for data file validations.
• Review configuration financial accounting global settings: key settings being company code, segment
• Review and Involved in configuration of general ledger including creation of master data records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts configuration for open items, line item mgmt., recon ac settings.
• Review & Involved in configuration of bank reconciliation statement (BRS) and FBZP confguration.
• Review & Involved in configuration of asset accounting Module, chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, assets classes, and account determination.
• Involved in integration between FI-MM & FI-SD module.
• Involved in Parallel Ledger configuration for reporting requirements of multiple countries and calendar year.
• Prepared test cases for unit testing (UAT) and integration testing with scenarios.
• Resource and milestone planning for multi-location Go live and Roll out support.
• Follow-up for Client payments, change request approvals with client’s senior leadership team
• Link between business team, IT team & Program Manager & Internal team

Confidential, Plano, TX

Consultant SAP FICO - SAP Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead for the SAP ECC6 implementation project to set up new subsidiary company acquired by client by merger & acquisition (M&A).
• Prepared the project plan and worked in liaison with finance directors to capture the business requirements, organizational hierarchy for profit center & cost center.
• Drafted the Business Blueprint document (BBP) and configuration documents in finance track along with the master test schedule and managed the stakeholder communication.
• Got configured complete FICO set up in SAP that includes areas of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Banking, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and custom Reports.
• Got configured Chart of Depreciation, screen layouts, account determination, asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, created Asset GL accounts and assigned to asset classes & depreciation areas and prepared master data templates for legacy uploads.
• Post mock one tested standard SAP reports like Trial balance, Financial statement, ageing reports, asset accounting report, open items report (FBL1N, FBL3N, FBL5N)
• Reviewed and assessed substitution rule for Profit center, MIRO plant combination
• Got configured relevant KDS for transaction data priorities to attempt data uploads without error.
• Configures LSMW for master data, and transaction data GL AP AR AA
• Managed Informatica team to create flat file in template format from legacy data files.
• Used BI tool Informatica to reconcile post upload figures in production system
• Post implementation 30 days support with closure of error tickets in stipulated time period.
• Post load reconciliations and sign off from client senior team for tallying figures at each level 100+ profit center, 250+ cost center, company code level
• Sap train the trainer concept and refresher trainings provided.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Consultant FICO - SAP FSN

Responsibilities:

• Role required collating & understanding Business process requirement in various countries, GAP study, Impact Study on FICO, Pre - post transaction evaluation, support Financial Services network (SAP FSN) team.
• Provide solution architecture support, ideation and innovation within SAP FICO process areas.
• Configuration MT940, Excel templates, Master data layout setting GL AP AR
• Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS)
• Data cleansing vendor customer master data for payment methods and bank accounts linkages.
• Supported credit card processing and authorization related configuration and testing.
• Work in a team to conduct gap study to implement new requirement versus old legacy system.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) including complete configuration of company codes, paying company codes, payment methods (Check, ACH, Wire transfer) for country, bank selection, payment blocking reasons and payment medium.
• Used special G/L indicators for processing customer down payments; created aging buckets for customer overdue items; created terms of payments for customers/vendors.
• Worked on profit center determination by substitution rules for business processes.
• Worked on testing APP for incoming and outgoing payments
• Resolved BRS related Issues
• Involved on Automatic Clearing Procedures
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents and training documents.
• Conduct UAT and test run to client satisfactory.
• Data uploads, Post load Reconciliation and system signoff.
• Develop architectural standards and principles for SAP solutions and maintain enterprise wide architecture documentation for all the systems.
• Tallying and uploading FI objects GL AP AR AA & banks with reconciliation to Tally at Profit center & GL
• Conduct Mock run with complete data for UAT & approval
• Data uploads Post load sign off from Business team and Auditors.

Confidential, Baytown, Tx

Team lead SAP Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Managed global SAP Deployments and Rollouts at multiple locations.
• Working as module lead responsible for client interactions, escalation, business process mapping, gap analysis, realization, go live and post production support for FICO module.
• Worked directly with the Global Finance Lead of the client to successfully implement the ECC6.0
• Involved in setting up the SAP Competency Center & shared services unit in Banglore, India.
• Worked on ASAP Methodology from requirement gathering, configuration, UAT, realization, data migration and Go-live with support
• As an Enterprise Consultant, provided Production Support resolution in the areas of GL, AP, AR, CO, Banking & Taxation and worked on Month end closing activities.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Element Attributes in Cost Element Accounting
• Configured Asset class, Account determination, Master data screen layout, depreciation key, auto sync equipment master settings
• Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles and elaborated the Finance reports to obtain a P&L by product line with Report Painter.
• Configures non leading ledgers for calendar year reporting in different countries and match IAS requirement.
• Prepare LSMW, Test upload, Mock upload, Functional documents for testing and approvals.
• Reconcile and upload 56 companies to tally 250 profit centers and 800+ cost center PAN India level
• Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles and elaborated the Finance reports to obtain a P&L by product line with Report Painter.
• 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.

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Resolving post upload Tax codes errors in live environment.
• Prepared on demand reports with the help of Report painter.
• Prepared Validation and substitution for Business place and Profit center.(Error Message)
• Created Business Place and Section Code. (Configuration)
• Created new house bank as per requirement. (Configuration)
• Created New condition types to resolve tax errors in customer invoice (configuration)
• Open and Close Period of FI-MM
• Created new Cost Centers and Profit Centers. (Master Data)

Confidential

SME - SAP Customization

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering for asset accounting customization covering Indian accounting standard.
• Team with users around Business Requirements Management & Blueprinting.
• Perform high-level analysis of business processes and requirements to support project evaluations with proposed solutions.
• Ensure that statutory auditors approves the solution for Asset capitalization accounting treatment post change in Indian Accounting standard.
• Participate in project quality management tasks, such as peer and quality reviews of specifications, design documents, and code reviews.
• Work closely with internal colleagues, external partners, and customer teams to ensure successful project completion.
• Draft a custom solution to provide accounting treatment for changes in Indian accounting standard for grant accounting with special purpose ledger.
• Create functional specification documents for various solution designs and map SAP business processes to the requirements.
• Provide assessment review report to implementation team recommending SAP solution that best fits to client requirement.

Confidential

FICO Lead - SAP Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Project challenges - less then 6months to go live 13 company codes, 20 million open line items, involved implementation of SAP MDG with very limited black out period per company code as client is Telecom player. Each approval and task comes from Hungary SAP Center of excellence Confidential .
• Requirements gathering for FI sub processes and gap study with earlier legacy system.
• Worked Project documentation for each and every project task and activity as per Confidential requirement.
• Worked on BBP documents FICO, got approved from CFO CTO Confidential global team.
• Prepared configuration documents for each master data, KDS, LSMW, BDC, and Z development.
• Attempted different configuration for different company codes global setting, GL AP AR and AA
• Worked on FSV creation and worked on drilldown and report painter for creating certain reports.
• Worked closely with IBM team ( Confidential IT India) to test LSMW and get approval.
• Worked Closely with SAP team (system verifier) to get configuration approved at every milestone.
• Extracted GL, AP, AR, Assets data with Query or table and got approved from Auditors and business team.
• Worked and managed ETL MSBI to homogenize master data, replace KDS, verify figures to match
• Tally the financials at Cocd, GL and PC levelleading and non-leading ledgers. (IAS & US GAAP)
• Review & Get prepared LSMW Files ready from internal users.
• Post upload sign off from client and one month support.
• Present Weekly plan of Action as Project plan to Client on Progress review
• Follow up client on Invoices and recovery for Project Milestone
• Ongoing Client Relationship and update for any new Requirements or issues

Confidential

FICO Lead - SAP FI-AA

Responsibilities:

• ALBA had 20 Million plus assets managed only on Excel sheet from over 5 years and challenge was Rollout Asset Accounting module at group level and match FI-AA.
• Presented client various scenarios and Demo for solution FI-AA, PM linkages, sub asset creation with different useful life to win client confidence and kick start project.
• Asset registers and balance sheet to be reconciled & matched at 150 +Profit centers and 40 Company codes.
• Worked on requirement gathering for Assets to be monitored at what level.
• Worked on Setting and Configuration for asset class, depreciation terms, depreciation keys, Chart of dep.
• AA-PM linkages to track equipment and settings for auto synchronization as required by business team.
• Collate data from business team, verify the correctness at Profit center level & company code level
• Prepared worklist and attempted Mass retirements without customer scenario.
• Configured Account determination for depreciation and balance sheet for post upload OASV
• Workout enhancement with abaper for asset upload BDC and prepared LSMW for AS91 and AS92.
• Worked on reconciliation for business upload data to match trial balance figures across 40 company codes and 150 Profit centers.
• Uploaded asset with Test scenario and got test depreciation tallied with Excel working from Business team.
• Run test Depreciation and assist first period closing.

Confidential

FICO Team member SAP Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Project challenges-Total 53 Company codes, 8 different locations, 20 companies to be merged to one company code, 250+ profit centers and 800+ cost center, 10 Million GL open line items, 2 Million AP - AR line items, fresh implementation of ISU FICA and FSCM.
• Project Estimation with Seniors- Scope & time duration, Resources planning, and deliverables
• Agreement stage with client for closing on commercials and entering Contract with client
• Review Legacy system and understand scope and objectives from end user
• Understand FI process and explain technical to ABAP team
• Business team meeting for requirement gathering.
• Creation organizational hierarchy Profit center, Business area, Segment, cost center, company code
• Configuration screen layout, master data settings GL AP AR, global settings company code, Account groups, vendor groups, customer groups, creating house bank, special GL indicators, payment methods as per business requirements.
• Configure FI-AA created Master data screen layout, Asset class, Depreciation key
• Configure Fi-AR for dunning and FSCM integration.
• Work closely with seniors for integration scenarios FI-MM (OBYC) and FI-SD (VKOA)
• Preparation LSMW for GL AP AR master data upload and AS91, AS94 Upload
• Pre Business-upload reconciliation business data file to tally at profit center, GL and Trial balance level
• Extracted data from SAP Table BSIS, BSIK, BSID, BKPF using direct download or Abap team help
• Reconcile high level figures from SAP table summary to Front end report FBL1N, FBL3N, FBL5N
• Work closely with ETL team Informatica to build programs for flat file conversion
• Audit and review ETL program output to financial file sent by business.
• Simultaneous UAT and training session for key accountants - Test environment - All scenarios
• Ensure dependent uploads completed from cross functional teams - master data coming from base module like, AP and AR for Vendor and Customer Open line items required, MM New PO numbers generated for Special GL line items upload etc
• Upload ETL output file to Sap via LSMW or BDC, by attempting MOCK 1, MOCK2 and final production upload with business team Approval and sign off at each stage.
• Perform Post reconciliation to match trial balance for old company code versus new company code data internally.
• Provide Production or test system access to business team for Sign off company code wise as per matrix of company code, approver and location
• Follow up with business team and support to provide sign off and resolve any critical doubts to meet Black out period deadlines without extension so to avoid business operations.
• Post go live support, Manage Change request approval, manage scope and SLA of work as a Vendor & Scope
• Resolve Conflict for any requirement deliverable, time of delivery, numbers mismatching, or training issue.
• Maintain good and positive relations with all stake holders CFO, CTO, project sponsors, Project manager, business team Finance and Accounts, Ready to help attitude to build credibility and repeat work.