SUMMARY:

• Lead - SAP S/4 HANA, FI CO & FSCM
• Implementation (8+ years) Upgrade (1 Year)/ Roll-out (1+ year) / Managed Services (3+ years)
• (Pharma / Manufacturing / IS-Retail / IS-Utilities)
• FI - New G/L, FICA, FM, BPC10.1 ( Planning) and Funds Management
• CO - CCA/PCA Product Costing / Profitability Analysis /
• FSCM- Credit / Collection/Dispute/Biller/Direct/Cash Mgt/ IHC/BCM and TRM
• SAP FICO consultant with over 15 years of experience out of which 12+ years’ experience in SAP R/3 FI/CO/FSCM in Multinational Business capacity, Includes professional experience with SAP implementation, support and maintenance and Global Rollout.
• Successfully completed 4 SAP R/3 Full Life cycles with ASAP methodology Project Implementations of SAP FI-CO, FSCM Modules. including Designing, Business Process Re-engineering (Blue-Print), Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Go-Live & Support phases
• SAP Simple Finance - Underlying Data base structure, Add on to SAP Business Suits i.e Accounting, Cash Management and integrated Business Planning, Code changes, Migration, Reporting possibilities, Integration & Automation of Procure to Pay, Simplified Reconciliation and closing process. Good understanding of SAP Simple Finance, on-Premises Edition 1503, 1511 support package stack1505,
• Thorough understanding of integration points with other modules such as Sales & Distribution, Materials management, production planning, project Systems, Asset management & Vertex.
• 2 years of experience as Onsite & offshore Project Manager. Project Management, Communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with a High Learning Acumen to adopt new Tools & Technologies.
• Industry experience covers Manufacturing, Trading, Financial Institutions and Pharmaceuticals.
• Worked extensively on Finance & Controlling Modules like General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Accounting (BA) Asset Management (AM) Funds Management (FM ) Cost Element (CEL), Cost Center Accounting (CCA) Product Costing ( CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) Internal Order Management (OM), and SAP Document Management System ( DMS) & Easy DMS.
• Worked extensively on FSCM applications, such as FSCM - Credit Management, Collections Management, Dispute Management & Biller Direct, Cash Management, IHC, BCM and TRM
• Prepared BPP, User Training Manuals and Provided User Training on the processes. Designed various development objects and wrote Functional Specs, Test Scenarios, Configuration documentation and training material.
• Proficient in, EDI 820, EDI823 & BAI2, MT940 MT942 ALE and IDoc s, including IDoc types, and Interface/Data Transfer tools
• Worked extensively on unit testing, integration testing, functional testing and user acceptance testing. Writing Test scenarios, Test cases for all FI,CO,FSCM and other integration related transactions
• Experience using HP-QC (ALM) for testing and defect tracking and Remedy for tracking user tickets.
• Experience in implementing Testing best practices specific to Implementation, Upgrade and Roll out projects. Includes but not limited to Test planning, Test case execution processes and gaining buy-in from stake holder
• General Ledger (Including New GL)
• Accounts Receivables & Payables
• Accounts Receivable (Dispute Management)
• Lockbox & Bank Accounting (EBS)- EDI 823
• Asset Accounting
• Business objects Planning & Consolidations Others
• ASAP & RDS
• Business Process Analysis and re-engineering
• Report Painter & ABAP Queries
• HP-QC Tools
• Solution Manager
• Business Partner set up with Credit Profile, Credit limits, Collateral, etc
• Set up of Key Org Structure data and Master data elements - Credit segments, Credit Control area, etc
• Automatic sync of ECC Customer to BP in FSCM.
• Knowledge of CM BADI’s that need to be activated. & Automatic Credit Check
• SCASE for Credit Limit approval, automatic update of Credit Limits, working with the Workflow for SCASE approval for Credit limit changes.
• Credit Agency feeds to update credit scores in the BP Credit Master.
• Documented Credit Decision functionality.
• Integration with AR, SD, CRM and FSCM Biller Direct/Dispute / Collection management
• Intercompany Credit Check rules.
• Bypassing Credit Check for Customer with approved Financing options
• Set up of Key Org Structure data, Master data elements, Collection segments and Collection Groups..
• Collection rules and Strategies & Setting up Collection Work list
• Define Promise to Pay and Installment Plan
• Process AR Credit Card payment from the Collection Work list if offered by Customer
• Knowledge of Collection BADI’s that need to be activated
• Integration with AR and Dispute Management FSCM - Biller Direct
• Design, Build and Test Biller Direct Functionalities
• Branding solution, Integration between, FSCM Biller Direct SAP Accounts Receivables, Enterprise Portals and FSCM Dispute Management
• Working with ABAP, Basis, Portal and External service provider, PCI compliance financial institution to receive customer payments and clear open items.
• Experienced in Building and Testing end to end solution of SAP Biller direct.
• Cost Center / Profit Center/ Internal Orders
• Product Costing
• Profitability Analysis
• Project Systems ( Limited to Project cash)
• Functional Spec and Testing. Others
• US- Taxation, ( Vertex)
• End user training and documentation
• Enhancements to Standard BD portal - Field Suppressions, Adding fields for display, etc
• Credit Card payment processing from BD, tokenization, etc in multiple currencies
• Experience working with Credit card Processor like Pay Metric, or any other and integrating the Processor Solution with SAP design for AR and BD
• Electronic Bill Presentment from BD
• Enabling Invoice images and Statement images from BD
• Knowledge of BD BADI’s that need to be activated FSCM - Bank Communication management
• Implementing PMW
• Payment Grouping, Payment Status Mgt
• Creating, processing and resetting Batches
• SWIFT code mapping FSCM - In House Cash
• Centralized Payments
• Centralized Receipts
• Current Account Management
• Intercompany Settlement, End of Day Processing,
• Interest Rate run, Bank Statement Reco
• Generate IHC bank statements
• End to End Idoc Set-up
• Cash flow - Pooling, Concentration and Forecasting
• Cash position Reporting
• Bank Statement & Lockbox
• Project Cash Reports
• Business Partners Master Data & Workflow
• Deal workflow & Correspondence
• Money Market ( Forex - NDF)
• Market Risk Analysis
• Front Office, Back office functionality
• Configuration, Z reports, Digital signature, Testing and handling support activities IHC & TRM ( E5 - Solutions)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Vernon Hills

Senior SAP Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Treasury module
• In- House Cash, Master Data set-up, define conditions and assignments, Inter company Receipts / Auto payments / netting, intercompany Loans set up, payment on behalf, cash settlement, intercompany payment reversal, day end process.
• Bank Communication Management:
• Cash & Liquidity Management: Cash pooling,
• Banking interface, BCM with SWIFT connectivity, Correspondence Frame work and digital signature.
• Provide upport actives in FI-AP Electronic Banks Statements (EBS), Payment Medium Workbench (PMW), Data Medium Exchange,
• Provide support for other activities that impact the Treasury area EDI, BAI2 MT300, MT940 and MT942
• Perform unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing of changes (configuration, custom development, etc)

Confidential, Charlotte

Onsite SAP FI/CO Lead - Projects and Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Handling multiple projects and P1 Production support activities, raised by America Shared Services and Global SAP users. (Primarily from US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil).
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-1
• Over all responsible Production issues relating to GL, AP, AR, BA, AA Treasury, CCA, PCA, Product Costing and Profitabity Analysis, Project Systems, Vertex and Integration with other modules as well with external systems.
• Supporting on OSS notes review for Support Pack upgrade and other roll out projects.
• RICEF Activities (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions & Extensions.)
• Prepare Functional Spec for small project RICE objects and Test and move it Production.
• Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions relating, Inter-Company Billing, SD, MM,PP and PS
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
• In case of major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change details to leadership team.
• Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLAs.
• Complex Global environment - ECC6, ECC5, 4.6c and 4.0B with SD & chaRM process.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager /FI-CO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review of CO mapped business process into SAP functionality
• Configuration of House Banks, Payment Methods, Check lots, Manual Banking Statements
• CO-PA configuration included defining structure, operating concern, defining characteristics, value field’s summarization levels for reporting, CO-PA reporting, PA settlement, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Worked on Document splitting, FI/CO Validation and Substitution rules, Automatic Clearings, Manufacturing Overhead Absorption, Dunning and Customer Account statement.
• Analyzed and redesigned Foreign Exposure (FX) Report.
• Regression testing for end to end document flow from MM to FI and SD to FI (Upgrade specific).

Confidential

SAP FI-CO Lead - Offshore

Responsibilities:

• Review Blueprinting workshop to gather and validate client requirements for GL, AP, AR and AA
• Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Period End Postings.
• Created integration document between the IS-Retail SAP and the manufacturing side Retail Products
• Application viz., business process document, process flowcharts, gap analysis document, functional and technical specification documents for non-critical major & Minor Gaps nfigure the Enterprise Structure G/L, A/R, A/P, integration with MM and SD and IS Retail POS-DM specific process viz, Credit Cards interfaces, Cash, Gift cards, Credit Notes and return process
• Configure the Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV). Key issues determined here are the matching of LIV invoices, Good Receipts and PO, configuration of tolerances, and integration of good movement between the store POS and corporate SAP ERP.
• Working with SD team on Retail Pricing, Pricing and Revenue Management ( Manual & Markdown)
• Integration settings for Article set-up, customer return process, store to another location/ distributed channel
• Good understanding of Master data set-up on Merchandize, Perishable and other Articles
• Idoc Process, Credit Card Settlement, Discounts,Exchange, Returns, Payment with store card, REturns, Item void, Return cancellation
• Support Testing team on building test cases test automation and building regression test suite

Confidential

SAP FI/CO/FI-CA Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Client Business processes information gathering to review the available business process in scope
• Preparation of Business Blueprint (BBP), Module Project Plan (MPP), Business Process
• Gather and prioritize relevant SAP Business requirements and designing the solution
• Master List (BPML), Integration Processes, Integration Test Cases relating to Contract Accounts, Business Partner Relationship, Billing, Invoicing, Security Deposits, Payments and write off.
• Understand configuration dependencies and interrelationships between separate functional
• Modules of SAP designs and troubleshoot and perform Root cause analysis.
• Provides alternatives based on best practices and SAP functionality.
• Define test scenarios to cover full scope of the business as well as creating master data and carry out the testing of full cycle.
• Perform Integration Testing in between IS-U Modules and ERP Modules to ensuring processes results requirement based results.
• Provided cross team support for integration touch points between FICO/FICA and other modules such as Interim, Periodic and Final Billing, Individual invoicing, Joint invoicing, Device Management and CRM.
• Receivable Management - Marking as doubtful, Release item for collections, submit to collection Agency and write off.
• Security Deposit ( cash & non-cash) collection of cash Security Deposits
• Coordinate User Acceptance testing (UAT) with Business Client
• Creation of End User training Manuals using SAP tutor and RWD u performance.
• Master Data validation and Upload on PRD.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Support lead

Responsibilities:

• Configured complete organization structure for FI by creation of company code, chart of accounts, and G/L master data.
• Configured Credit control and Dunning areas, customer groups and customer master data. Defined risk categories and specified credit limits for customers and generated various reports for customer credit management.
• Configured house banks and configured automatic interest calculations on account balances/line items.
• Customized line layouts for G/L, A/P A/R / BA and CCA data entry and report displays.
• Involved in handling residual payments, disputed payments, short pays and claims.
• Configured outgoing payments, open item clearing in Accounts Receivable.
• Configuration of Asset classes, depreciation keys, depreciation areas, ordinary and unplanned depreciation runs, depreciation accounting low value asset, cutoff value key for Asset Accounting.
• Developed and documented accounting procedures needed during month end and year-end closing.

Confidential

FI-CO/FSCM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead, lead a group of 20 specialists and 200+ Business users covering Germany and Europe for New G/L Migration, Germany Roll-out and FSCM implementation
• CO - CCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Integration with Project Systems.
• FSCM - End to end implementation of Credit / Collection/ Dispute/ Biller Direct
• Confidential Germany - New G/L migration
• Data volume consideration, Restrictions to consider Document Splitting, Running programs RFINDEX, SAPF190, RAABST02 and COPCA44, Migration plan for document splitting, coordinate and work work SAP Migration specialist to adopt Migration cockpit, Performance issues, Review of OSS notes for various functional & Technical issues
• Chart of Account conversion, mapping Parallel Accounting, currency conversion settings, Analyzing and reconciling General ledgers and Rec accounts.
• Working with ABAP and Basis for evaluation and applying of various OSS notes for BADI, Fixes
• Confidential UK - FSCM Implementation
• End to end implementation of Credit Management, Collection, Dispute Management and Biller Direct ( 6 countries with different language & multiple currency)

Confidential, Marinette, WI

SAP /FI-CO/FSCM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Team in Local Business Blue Print Phase specific to US ( Global Template is already available0
• End to End Implementation of SAP FI/CO and FSCM Credit /Dispute/ covering GL, AP, AR, AM, CCA, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis MM, SD,MM PP &, Project System Vertex & interfaces.
• FSCM - End to end implementation of Credit / Collection/ Dispute/ Biller Direct /Cash & Liquidity Management.
• Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing, Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI with MM and SD
• Defining Settlement Rules and creating Selection Variants, Configured and Customized CCA - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders. In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distributions.
• In Project Systems defined the Project coding mask, created the project file and status profile
• Maintained the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability control
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Profitability Analysis reports for Water & Chemical business, CO-PA settings includes Setting up of Structures (Maintain characteristics, Value fields, Hierarchies, valuation Strategy, assigning Material cost estimates, maintain value field Groups for line item screens, Transfer incoming sales orders & Billing documents & maintain transfer structure for Direct postings)

Confidential

Project Manager & FI/CO Lead

Responsibilities:

• PM level support: Multi-site, multi-project co-ordination and integration.
• Integrate project schedule - perform program and portfolio schedule analysis
• Risk assessment and suggest mitigation plans, Review SOW, project charter & scope
• Collect weekly status from project stakeholders, update project reports
• Suggest ways & means to improve on end-to-end project execution - as status, schedule, cost, scope resources optimization, Integrate & Co-ordinate with various stakeholders to generate program level reports
• Responsible for resolving FI/CO critical tickets P1, P2 and P3.

Confidential, Latrobe PA

SAP FI/CO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, Configured the reconciliation ledgers
• In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. defined the settlement rules, and used internal order with AUC /Capital investment projects,
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc and extracted reports using PCA
• Configuration Product costing settings for Blades - Defining Costing variant, valuation Variant, Cost Component structure, Result analysis, WIP calculation, settlement and variance analysis