SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of experience including 9 + years SAP FICO (FI/AM/PS/AR/AP/GL/TR/Banking) (CO/CCA/PCA/IO/PC/COPA) and 4+ years of business process experience. More than 6 SAP Project implementations Globally on Version 3.0 through' ECC 6.0. Four full cycle implementations, one upgrade and several enhancement and production support projects.
• Worked on Global implementation / North American/European rollout projects.
• Handled configuration and team lead responsibilities for Core FICO: FI - GL/AM/AR/AP/GL, TR-Cash management, Banking (EBS/Lockbox),Brazilian Taxation, Credit Payment Card Processing Integration with SD and GAAP/IFRS exposure
• Highly exposed to Upgrades, ASAP, IMG, BPP, OSS, As-Is/To-Be Client process analysis, Fit and Gap study, solution manager, Prototyping and hands on Configuration of the system
• Trained users in configuration as well as post implementation production support. ASAP based database of BPP, Config and training materials/templates in all my projects resulting in project timeline savings.
• Identified and written functional and technical specs for customization of WRICEF per client requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.5B/ 4.6C/4.7 /ECC 5.00 & 6.00

Operating System: UNIX, Windows NT/2000/XP

Languages: ABAP/4, C, C++

General Tools: Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), VSTF

Interfaces: Vertex, Tax ware, Comshare & Ultipro

Integration Modules: SD, MM, PP, BW & PS

PROFESSIONAL SAP EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redmond, WA

SAP R/3 Version: ECC 6

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handling the Quarter Release Projects, and working with the off shore team on the deliverables and also review the Functional Specs as needed
• Supported in L3 level, both FI (AP/AR/GL/AA/FSCM)& CO (CCA/PCA/IO) /PS Including all Sub Modules
• FRR Project - Working on the Financial Revenue Recognition, Cost &Rev, RA & Settlements.
• Monthly FA Takeovers.
• Matter Management Invoice Project with other Integrated Systems (T360/ICOE)
• Enhance and Enable SAP Fixed Asset Intercompany Transfers Prototype
• Create Report to Show IO Budget Levels and Email Warnings to Business Users
• Supported both SD/MM Integrated Issues.
• Worked with Web services Upgrade.
• Primus Articles Updates for L1/L2 Support with new changes & QR ongoing project relevant Article.
• Involved in the Basis Activity and Release Management Activities during weekly CAB meetings.
• Worked as a POC - Point of Contact for the FI Team and responsible for the day to day activities & also monitoring & respond to the emails that are addressed to Team.
• Responsible and working on Month end/Quarter end/Year end jobs & also Archiving
• Supporting CI (Convergent Invoicing) System, Payment notes etc.

Confidential, Cottage Grove, WI

SAP R/3 Version: ECC 6

SAP CO Functional Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Business process Blue prints for the CCA & PCA structure.
• Gathered business requirements and process related to CCA/PCA.
• Configured the standard Hierarchy of CCA & PCA and made the assignments.
• Worked on the account assignment for automatic posting of CCA’S and PCA’S
• CO month end process
• Involved in all Unit & Integration Testings.
• Identified the Test Script scenarios working closely with process owners.

Confidential

SAP R/3 Version: ECC 6 - Implementation

SAP FICO Functional Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The detailed study of the entire accounting operations, the current business process, organization structure and finalizing and mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support.
• Experience includes blueprinting, design and configuration
• Created and maintained the organizational entities and master data.
• Configuration of basic settings for General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Payables.
• Bank reconciliation statement with manual bank statement entry.
• Worked on earned Rebate and chargeback’s with Vertex
• Configured the settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic payment program.
• New GL Functionality Activating the PCA Scenario & Document Splitting
• Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master records, account groups, account determinations, tolerance groups, country/company code specific payment methods, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, dunning, bank settings, Spooling, reason codes, interest calculations, Special GL Transactions and Credit Control Areas. Integration with MM, PS & SD.
• Upload Master data of GL/Vendor/Customer/Assets & Bank in Finance & Cost centers/profit Center/cost Elements/Activity types Using Standard Programs in LSMW. And also transactional data of all the vendors/customer/stock values with down payment towards customer/vendors.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area and maintained Versions
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc
• Created Statistical Cost elements for Material Stock Balance sheet Items.
• Worked with Best Practices more standard and as well on Enchancements.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Defined various Z reports and prepared Functional specifications for the various client specific reports used during daily and monthly (Customer/Vendor reports) worked with RICEF
• Involved in New GL Data Migration with Standard process, Uploading all the legacy Master data to SAP system with proper sign offs from the business before upload and after upload to maintain the accurate data.
• Data Migration Analysis, design, clean up the data migration accounts once the real upload is done to balance the figures in your real system, mapping and followed pre migration test with in QAS (Quality system) before migrating the data in live system and followed the procedures to maintain accurate data in live system with proper business signoffs once the data is upload in each system.

Confidential, Dublin, CA

SAP R/3 Version: Enterprise 4.7 - Implementation

SAP FICO Functional Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business on modifications of BPP’S (Blue prints) & updating them accordingly as per the changes in the specifications and also updating the Functional specifications and working with Technical Team
• Worked in CRM to ERP data flow for Functional Unit test & Integration test. And validating the data. Checking the values flows through debit memo request from CRM. And validating the prices. Viewing various IO reports to check the cost flow.
• Configured Business Transactions and Account Symbols, Assigned Accounts to Account Symbols, Keys to Posting Rules for Electronic Bank Statement Processing.
• Designed functional specs for client specific dunning forms. Familiarity with SOX compliance.
• Configured Tolerances for Customer and Vendors for permitted payment differences.
• Configured Automatic Payment program. Created functional specifications for Check printing.
• Worked with Contracts/services, data flow from Finance to CRM.
• Worked on GL Deferred Revenue Functional Specifications Enhancement, Month end Report and developed for RICEF.
• Responsible & Conducted Functional Unit Test & Integration Test with Key Users & End Users in both Financial & Controlling Sub Areas AP/GL/AR/AA & CCA/PCA/COPA/IO/REM (CO-Product Costing) and also for New Enhancements (RICEF) Reports & Transactions..
• Developed User manual training material for End users on Fixed Assets.
• Worked on various reports in COPA
• Investment Management Program type, program positions, budgeting/planning, year-end close, appropriation request types, integration with project system (WBS)
• Worked on Interfaces GELCO/ADP/CRONOS/Vertex & Tested them at the time of Integration testing. Tested Sales/Use Tax functionality using Vertex.
• Involved in Data Migration activities for both Master data & Transactional data and validated the data as and when required from client to client.
• Documented all the changes & processes and updated the Issue database with the changes and Issues with resolutions for future references.

Confidential, Indianapolis

SAP R/3 Version: ECC 6.0 - Implementation

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Business user workshops
• Understanding Business Process & configuring the system accordingly
• Accounting standards both IFRS & US GAAP
• Organized UAT activities developed & executed Test cases and Test scripts and documented.
• Configured the system on Fixed Asset Accounting: Asset classes, Screen layout, Account determination, various depreciations areas & Depreciation keys. Transfer methods, sale of asset, Retirement.
• In Accounts payable and receivables (SAP-AP and SAP-AR), Designed Procure - to - Pay process, Order - to - cash cycles and involved in the integration areas of SAP FI - MM, and SAP FI - SD
• Verified transactional data in SAP-AP, SAP-AR and integration areas of CO-PA,SD (Order-to-cash cycle) and MM (procure-to-pay cycle)
• Developed User manual training material for End users on Fixed Assets, IHC, Inventory valuation, Tax Management
• Configured the system to in corporate Mexico payables. Set up the GL accounts, profit center and cost center’s, incorporated their local tax set up and reconciliation accounts and interest calculation. Accounts Receivables and Payables: Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, Number ranges, Posting keys, and document types for posting / validation of business transactions.
• Worked with Costing based Profitability Analysis. Defining new derivation rules.
• Involved in RICEF (reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms).
• Configured Controlling: Profit center & cost center Standard Hierarchies & designed Cost center & Profit center groups. Inventories valuated with standard cost - FIFO (Product costing) & Inventory valuation methods.
• Worked with SAP-FI-GL in setting up the New GL accounts, Document split posting and designed the customized reports. Configured both leading & Non leading ledgers (IFRS & US GAAP)
• A single global banking platform with JP Morgan: AP and treasury payments, auto-reconciliation and cash application with electronic bank statement and lockbox (BAI2).

Confidential, NJ

SAP R/3 Version: 4.5b to ECC 6.0 - Upgradation

Sr. SAP FICO Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducting User Workshops & understanding their Business Process, Finalized BPML Business Blue Print Doc & Actively Co-coordinating with team in filling out Gap Analysis
• SAP FI with Taxware ( Canadian/ brazil /US GAAP/IFRS Taxes)
• Working under tight deadlines to take this Upgrade Project Live soon
• Worked with New GL Functionalities like Document splitting, Leading & Non Leading Ledgers.
• Conducted meetings with Users to Gather requirements and to Understand the Workflow of the As-Is System. Vertex Sales & Use Tax training had been given to the Users
• Project is purely a Technical Upgrade no additional SAP Modules or functionalities done at this level. The objective of Technical upgrade is to ensure that functionality in the old release is replaced by equivalent functionality in the upgraded solution.
• Confidential upgrade to ECC 6.0 with proven Rapid SAP Methodology for speed of execution, while forcing the necessary quality control through leveraging the best practices.
• Worked with Program modification upload for Payroll integration (ADP) & executed test scripts to check the Interfaces.
• In project preparation phase submitted the business the BPML templates and which are returned back by business by filling the BPML (Business process Master list).
• Analyzed existing GAP Analysis documents and identified the Gaps and documented.
• Worked through complex SAP process problems, documented the Business Process as Configured in SAP & Ensured proper Integration with other Modules
• Test plans will be prepared and identified based on BPML
• In Accounts payable and receivables (SAP-AP and SAP-AR), Designed Procure - to - Pay process, Order - to - cash cycles and involved in the integration areas of SAP FI - MM, and SAP FI - SD
• In Fixed Asset accounting (SAP AA), Created and configured Fixed assets, chart of depreciation, depreciation keys, Asset classes and configuration with G/L. Worked with special asset classes and integration areas with other modules
• Worked on the documentation of Configuration rationales in treasury.
• In SAP-COPA, Collaborated with other teams in defining the characteristics, value fields, derivation rules, CO-PA structures, top - down distribution, condition types, tables, access sequence, and other procedures.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

SAP R/3 Version: 4.6c - Implementation/Semi Conductor

SAP FICO Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed As is study and prepared To Be Process documents for FI/CO Module.
• Migrated data from legacy systems into SAP successfully using LSMW tool
• Studied and analyzed clients Business Processes and mapped them into SAP.
• Successfully transferred data to SAP using IDocs. Involved in creation of user-defined reports through ABAP query.
• Involved in final configuration of GL, AR, AP, and SPL and also involved in writing functional specifications.
• Defined Chart of Accounts and basic configuration of system in areas of global settings, organizational structure, company code definition, and taxes with jurisdiction code levels, pricing procedures, account groups, field status groups, line layouts, open item clearing and generating reports.
• Configured and support Intercompany posting and with various Inter company reports
• Identification of gaps and configuration errors in Revenue Recognition, Billing plans (with down payments)
• Designed House Banks, and other settings for bank transactions.
• Configured Treasury & Lockbox, bank statement processing, posting rules, and planning.
• Responsible for the facilitation of internal SAP Project System & Asset Management end-user training post go-live
• Fixed Asset Accounting: Asset Classes, Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys, posting depreciation to G/L account. Configuration of transactions like acquisitions, retirements, Intra & Inter Asset transfers, Transfer variants and write offs and capitalization of assets under constructions, & Month /year end activities
• I have supported SAP Vertex/Sales & Use tax, any new configuration and development.
• Confidential assessment and user requirements documented.
• Leading ledgers and non-Leading Ledgers and extracted reports out of both for management reporting using the table structures FAGLFLEXA and FAGLFLEXT
• Worked extensively on planning and budgeting of AR and projects. Configured investment management functionality to enable planning process at AR level. Using customized workflow to route plan values and then automatic creation of WBS from investment management. Involved with ABAP team for the development of customized report for AR amount and status.
• In Cost Center Accounting defined and assigned standard hierarchy, validations and substitutions.
• In Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, and statistical key figures.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

SAP R/3 Version: ECC 6.0 - Implementation & Support

SAP FICO Functional Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured the G/L accounts, Vendor and customer master data, defined the tax on sales and purchases, Tax accounts.
• Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables including the payment program configuration and automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, Periodic processing, correspondence.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category. Integration of MM and SD with FI account assignment.
• Configuration of Operating and Capital lease functionality
• In Accounts payable and receivables (SAP-AP and SAP-AR), Designed Procure - to - Pay process, Order - to - cash cycles and involved in the integration areas of SAP FI - MM, and SAP FI - SD. AP/AR, PO based invoicing, payment program & MM Invoice Processing
• Fixed Asset Accounting: Configuration & customizing Chart of Depreciation and its Assignment to Company Code.
• I have completed full implementation in Vertex Module.
• The configuration includes, tax by country, verify tax indicator, assign tax classifications, define default for non-taxable transactions, tax jurisdiction structure for USA, tax codes, processing key set up, condition records, configured non-USA countries, created reports, worked on customer master data conversion, supported post implementation, integrated with order entry and material management module
• Worked on Solution manager as part of documents updating & tracking the Issues etc.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet. Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods.
• Customized the CO-PC module to analyze manufacturing costs at plants. Main duties included studying functional requirements, translating them into specifications and configuring Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling accordingly

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

SAP R/3 Version: 4.7 - Utility/Electrical

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured the G/L accounts, Vendor and customer master data, defined the tax on sales and purchases, Tax accounts.
• Worked with SAP-FI-GL in setting up the New GL accounts, Document split posting and designed the customized reports & worked with leading & Non Leading ledgers.
• Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables including the payment program configuration and automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, Periodic processing, correspondence.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category. Integration of MM and SD with FI account assignment.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions.
• Configuring the Fixed Asset Management Module: Creating Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Assigning G/L account to asset classes, Screen layout for master data, depreciation Areas, Group Assets Configuration, Accounts for Posting Depreciation, Depreciation Key configuration, Acquisitions, Retirements, Transfers, Revaluation of Assets, Capitalization of Assets, assets data transfer.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet. Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods.