EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• 16 Years of IT Experience which includes 8+ years of Hands on experience in SAP FICO Configuration, Testing and Production Support.
• Demonstrated high level of expertise in General Ledger (GL), New GL, Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Internal Orders.
• Sound knowledge in Validations and Substitutions, Month End Closing Activities.
• Sound knowledge and experience in cross module integration of FI with SD (Sales & Distribution) and MM (Materials Management), P2P and OTC cycle.
• Experience in creating functional specifications and deliver them to Technical Team for RICEFW objects and Coordinating with them for the development of Custom objects.
• Solid conceptual knowledge in finance business processes.
• Experience in business requirements gathering and GAP analysis.
• Worked on multi - country and multi-currency environments.
• Self-Starter, independent and can work with limited supervision, quick adaption to new applications and technologies and focused on quality.
• Extensive experience in creating Test Plans, Test scripts, executing test scripts for Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing. Experienced in using HPALM and HPSM for managing testing activities.
• Experience in training users on SAP FICO functionalities and preparing user guides and conducting UAT sessions with the users.
• Excellent client facing skills and experience in working with Onsite-Offshore model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/95 / 98/Vista/7, MS-DOS, UNIX

LanguagesSQL: RDBMSOracle and SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

SAP FICO Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support maintenance and enhancement process on Finance Projects.
• Providing Production Support on SAP GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting.
• Monitor HPSM incidents and prioritize and work towards resolution.
• Work on Change Requests for enhancements, bug fixes which involved configuration or custom changes and based on the implementation date work towards deployment.
• Configured EBS as requested by business for various Co Codes by creating New Posting Rules and used search string functionality, Created New Co Codes, Configured Payment Program for different Payment Methods, Coordinated with Top System (Treasury) and Citibank to test the changes.
• Configured FI-HR integration by assigning GL Accounts to Symbolic Accounts and configured with Payroll team to test the changes.
• Configuration of Foreign Currency Valuation, closing cockpit.
• Create Test Scripts as needed and perform Unit Testing / Integration Testing for the changes, bug fixes and coordinate with business process owners and users in obtaining sign off on Test Scripts and Test Results.
• Monitor scheduled batch jobs and in case of any issue, analyze the job log and work towards resolution of the issues.
• Coordinate with Master Data team to maintain master data as required.
• Support business users in day to day issues encountered.
• Replicate issues from production in quality system / sand box to trouble shoot the issues.
• Created validation, substitution rules as needed by business.
• Worked on Assets Report enhancements by adding additional fields on the standard report as requested by business to help them in analyze and maintain assets data.
• Manage Off-shore team, Assign tickets and monitor the progress of deliverables.
• Designed Functional specifications for the custom reports and obtained sign off from the business owners.
• Worked extensively on Blackline Report by obtaining the requirements and creating Functional Specifications and working with technical team and obtaining sign off from the process owner for functional specifications, test scripts and test results.
• Troubleshoot the issues, research OSS notes, create OSS incidents as needed and work with technical team to implement OSS notes.
• Provided support to business users in UAT and created training documents.

Confidential

Lead Consultant - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall FICO Rollout in North America, Europe, Singapore.
• Responsible as Onsite lead and single point of contact to communicate with offshore team the requirements, assigning the tasks, ensuring deliverables in timely manner as per the timelines.
• Responsible for configuration of Asset Accounting and providing support to the team in configuration of GL, AR and AP.
• Creating the Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios and review of Test Scenarios and obtaining sign off from the client.
• Executing the test cases and monitoring the daily execution status across off shore teams and on site team.
• Presenting the reports to the higher management and escalating the issues as needed.
• Monitoring the defects status and analyzing the defects and provide inputs to the team for the timely resolution of the defects.
• Coordinating with the client and offshore team on timely execution of the test scripts and resolution of the defects.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Asset Accounting Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration of the New Co Code in Asset Accounting.
• Make Screen Layout changes to meet the specific regional requirements.
• Define strategy for the conversion of Fixed Assets and for Assets under construction.
• Perform Unit Testing in the new Co Codes to see that all the asset transactions can beexecuted in new Company Code.
• Created Test Scripts for Integration Testing for various scenarios like - Asset Acquisitions, Procurement of Assets through Internal Orders and settling to AUC and AUC to Final Assets, Inter Company and Intra Company Transfers, Retirement, Sale, Depreciation, for each region and provided required Test Data and resolved issues during the testing phase.
• Extracted the Data based on Profit Center Criteria from Legacy - SAP to be loaded to New Co Code using AS91.
• Validated the data in the New Co Code in mock conversion and obtained business approval for the conversion.
• Validated the data in Production after cutover and passed on the data to the regional teams for further validations and getting the business approval.
• Reconciled Asset Balances in Old Co Code with Asset Balances in New Co Code to ensure Acquisition Costs, Accumulated Depreciation and Book Values match.
• Mass Retirement of Assets carried out in Old Co Code using AR31.
• Created Internal Orders / AUC in New Co Code manually based on Profit Center Criteria and transferred the AUC balances from Old Co Code to New Co Code by GL postings.
• Coordinated with Central and Regional Teams to get the business approval on the

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirements Gathering and prepared Configuration Rationales.
• Involved in the configuration of PRA module.
• Coordinated the tasks with client team and offshore team.
• Responsible for building the Unit Test Scripts and execution of the unit test scripts.
• Created test scripts for Integration Testing and UAT for the Business Users who executed the scripts to test the functionality.
• Represented the team in status meetings for resolution and prioritization of the defects and coordinated with the onsite team and offshore team.
• Prepared end user training documents.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Apr 11 - Jan 12

Responsibilities:

• Did Requirements Gathering and prepared Business Requirement Documents.
• Maintenance of Project Issues Log for reporting to the client and conducting meetings with the client.
• Providing functional inputs and follow up of technical components with the ABAP Team.
• Attending client meetings and coordinated with offshore team.
• Defined Company Codes, Created Chart of Accounts, defined Financial Statement Version
• Configured Foreign Currency Valuation, Interest Charges, Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox for PNC bank in BAI2 and provided assistance to technical team.
• Prepared configuration rationales, functional design documents for RICEFW objects and conducted walkthrough with the ABAP technical team.
• Configured Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) in BAI2 format.
• Configured integration of FI with HR
• Configuration of special G/L transactions like down payments received from Customers.
• Configured and customized Asset accounting; chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement.
• Performed Unit Testing and created test scripts for Assembly Testing and Integration Testing for the Business Users and provided training to business users.
• Used Solution Manager for storing configuration rationales, functional design documents and test scripts

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Apr 10 - Mar 11

Responsibilities:

• As a core member for full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO module, gathered business process information and compiled the AS-IS, TO-BE and GAP analysis document.
• Customer master record maintenance, account group maintenance, payment terms.
• Dunning procedure configuration with four dunning levels to expedite payment cycle.
• Customer Invoice processing, defining customer tolerances, write off amounts within tolerances with reason codes for underpayment/ overpayment.
• AP configuration - Vendor Master, Vendor invoices, Payment methods, Payment program, House Bank and Bank Accounts.
• Configured and tested AR Scenarios: Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting, intercompany posting.
• Accounts payables configured House bank, ranking order, Automatic payment programs including setting up payment methods and value date determination.
• Configuration of FI integration with MM and SD Modules.
• Provided Post-Go-Live Support to users, prepared a support document and helped users in solving their problems in live environment.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Analyst /SAP-FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 Nov 06 - Mar 10

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team involved in the Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis, User Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications for documentation due to merger of Confidential with Confidential &T Services Inc.
• As a member of the functional team, responsible to work with key user groups to create business and process flows and to document "AS IS" processes.
• Created Company Codes and configuration of global settings for Company Codes due to the merger.
• Changes made to the Operational Chart of Accounts to incorporate changes as per new requirements and changes made to GL Master Records.
• Configured the settings in G/L area, such as creating G/L master data, cross-company code transactions, with multiple currencies and multiple company codes, and open item clearing. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Configured and maintained House banks with multiple bank accounts, Alternate bank selections for payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes.
• Configured Vendor Down payment, Installment payment, Automatic payment program, Check management, and recurring entries.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation which includes the list of depreciation areas. Created Different Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes. Integrated the Asset management with the plant maintenance module. Defined the LSMW object for uploading asset masters.
• Worked on integration of FI/CO with MM and SD for Inventory valuation, Movement types, damaged stocks and functions such as GR and Invoice verification, order management, pricing, delivery and transportation and billing.

Confidential, CA

Senior Analyst/QA Lead

Environment: Java, Oracle, Test Director. Nov 99 - Oct 06

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements developing the Test Scenarios, Test Cases to test the functionality of the application.
• Executed test cases and validating the results in the database using SQL and UNIX.
• Performed system testing, functionality testing, positive testing, negative testing and regression testing.
• Tracked defects and identified into Software Incident Report and communicated the same to the Development Team.
• Involved in front end testing and validated the database to check whether the data entered on the front end is getting stored in the database.