SUMMARY

• Around 10 years in SAP, gathered experience through projects with analyzing and optimizing finance and accounting functions and processes
• Involved in various stages in SAP FICO for an implementation right from Project Preparation, which includes project plan and scope, Business blue print, gap analysis to customizations, Final Testing, Go - live and then Production Support with trouble shooting
• Highly exposed to Client process analysis, Fit and Gap study, Prototyping and hands on Configuration of the system. Written functional and technical specs for customization of programs as per client requirements
• Worked Extensively on the Integration of SAP FI/CO/FSCM with SD, MM, PP, TR and HR
• Significant knowledge in Open Text VIM 5.2, 6.0, and 7.0 and higher, Enterprise Scan 9.7.1, Invoice Capture Center 7.0 (OCR Solution) and Archive Content Server
• Worked on Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash Cycles
• Worked on Industry Specific - Utilities/Customer Care and Services (IS-U/CCS)
• SAP FSCM - Biller Direct, Credit Management and Dispute Management and Collections Management
• Vastly experienced in business process re-engineering, systems design and reorganization change management, and requirements gathering.
• SAP Public Sector Collection, Disbursements (PSCD), GM (Grants Management) and FM (Funds Management)
• Postings from accounts whose accounting period start date is on or after the start date of the target share are processed asIncrementalvalues.
• Extension of Treasury functionality (Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives, Hedge Accounting& Risk Analyzers) to new Company Codes.
• Good knowledge of PP-PI, Master recipes, PI sheets.
• Money Market:- Short and Long Term Debt, Facilities,Deposit at Notice, Guarantee
• Extensive working knowledge of Intercompany postings
• Configuration for External Tax system - Vertex Q/O series
• Post Go-Live support to users in solving their problems in live environment and reconfigured settings wherever requested by users
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills and ability to make balanced and independent decisions
• Good team player with excellent functional and interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Financials: General Ledger/New General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Lockbox, Treasury and Bank Accounting, Contract Account Receivable and Payable, Grant Management and Funds Managements and Production Planning, Sales & Distribution, Materials Management and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Special Purpose Ledger: Roll Up, Subsequent Postings, Profit Center Accounting Roll Up.

SAP Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Product costing.

Reporting Skills: Report Painter and Report writer.

ERP Package: SAP (ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.7, 4.6C and 4.0)

ERP Technical: ABAP, IDOC, Debugging,WORKFLOW, BAPI, BADI, SOLMAN, LSMW, BDC and BRF (Business Rule Framework)

Interface Software’s: TaxWare, Vertex Q/O Series, Sabrix (Thomson Reuters OneSource), Citi Direct, Citi File Exchange (CFX), Tibco, Axwayand MQ

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Visio, IXOS (Content Management), IBM Rational DOORS, BMC Remedy AR System and MS Power Point, Microsoft SharePoint, Kofax Scan/Capture 8.0 /KTM 4.5 and Open Text VIM 5.2 and ICC 7.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team involved in the Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis, User Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications for documentation.
• Gathered high-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model).
• Develop test scenarios to simulate the client’s business scenario to conduct unit testing and Integration testing for the developments made.
• Responsible for implementing XML and EDI based interfaces.
• Responsible for configuration and testing of SAP-Concur travel and expense interfaces.
• Interfacing data between Legacy System and SAP
• Involved inDebuggingusing ABAP debugger, runtime Debugging Analysis, solving problems, including research, driving to Root Cause, and creating efficient solutions.
• Made enhancements to Banking - Vendor Operations program.
• Provided level II functional support in the areas of SAP FI/CO/FSCM
• Acted as key liaison between IT COE and Business Team for investigating, analyzing, and implementing SAP business solutions
• Resolved and delegated production support incidents logged on Service - Now application based on severity
• Worked with ABAP developers to solve challenging problems related to Smart Forms and Adobe forms
• Improved and simplified third party customer billing process and credit/collection integration with SAP FSCM
• Documented the configuration procedures and business procedure processes for enhancements made for a global implementation project for SAP-Concur.
• Data Conversion for devising and implementing the approach used in loading both AP open items and GL balances into SAP.
• Analyzed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• In addition, I was responsible for co-managing the AP portion of the project, which included creating the scope document, the project plan (which included a projecting a go-live date) and the scope document.

Confidential, Largo MD

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project, Involved in test phases i.e. unit testing, integration testing. Provided user training in the modules of FI and CO.
• Worked on Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, end-user training, cutover and go-live phases.
• Performed FICO requirement gathering and Feasibility Study.
• Worked on cut-over and go-live phase and provided post live support, coordinating and solving issues with QA and production.
• Configuration of Copy Commitment Items, Fund Center Hierarchy, Fund Types, Create Fund Program Type, Budget Structure, Derivation Strategy, and Funds Management Specific Posting
• Configuration of Grant Ledgers, Sponsor, Sponsor Class, Sponsor Program, Grant Number Ranges, Grant Types, Integration Between FM and GM, and Availability Control
• Worked on writing the functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Configuration for Collection and Disbursement for clearing, billing/invoicing, inbound correspondence and general ledger accounting.
• Worked on SD-FI integration and MM-FI integration for Account Determination in FI.
• Configured pricing procedure, condition types, access sequence, and built custom pricing tables.
• Configured account determination, and identified account keys to post to the related G/L.
• Prepared test scripts for the Sales and Distribution.
• Worked on integration testing and UAT (User acceptance testing), SIT with different modules and users to get sign-off.
• Created test scripts, test plans and RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).
• Hands on configuration: New GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets,
• Worked under Onsite-offshore model for month end closing support.
• Accountable to the organization for the development and organization of all the matters related to FI (G/L, A/P, A/R, AM) and CO end users, including creation, editing and maintenance of documentation.

Confidential, Falls Church VA

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined validation and substitution rules for intercompany and cost center postings
• Created sets with GL accounts for implementing validation rule
• Developed training documentation for end users on inventory movement and stock replenishment
• Troubleshoot issues with LCR Dixon and Vertex O series related to tax reporting and other automated services
• Troubleshoot tax accounting entries with incorrect dollar amount
• Configured document splitting and segment reporting in New GL
• Maintained documentation for assessment and distribution cycle under allocation activities
• Assist on Intercompany Sales Order and Purchase Order configuration and delivery/billing issues Customizedpricing procedureaccording to the company’s business process.
• Worked onRebate Agreements, assigningCondition type groups and tables, activating rebate Processing, setting up retroactive rebates.
• Customizedcontractsand configured contract related business process.
• Worked on automatic determination ofshipping points, and routes.
• Customizedoutbound delivery documents, picking, packing, and transportation.
• Configured correspondence (account statement and forms) for customer account statement
• Set up number ranges for RE-FX Contract accounting
• Worked on treasury module in Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal.
• Master Data creation for Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX) module
• Defined credit segments for Customer Credit Management
• Configured credit checking step for sales orders
• Configured Case profile and Attribute profile for Dispute Management
• Created functional design documentation for FSCM Collections Management and Dispute Management
• Implemented FSCM Collections Management in 10 languages as part of global rollout
• Archiving FSCM Dispute Management cases to content repository
• Set up Collection groups, Collection strategy and Collection segment for Collections Management module
• SAP XI-Pay (Paymetric) for credit card tokenization and authorization of customer payments
• Created new Process type for OpenText VIM 6.0 to resolve AP issues
• Defined store profiles, task groups and transaction type for KO business unit
• Executed sales audit through the POS workbench in SAP POS DM system
• Prepared test scripts on POS DM solution for the AR business unit

Confidential, Windsor CT

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Familiarity with DM (Documents Management) using DocuLink with SAP integration
• Manage structured and unstructured data into Open Text Archive Server
• Experience in administration and configuration of Open Text Archive and Storage services (LEA 9.7.1)
• Responsible for methodology presentations to IT management on Thomson Reuters OneSource solution with SAP ECC
• Design and configure Tax solutions interfacing with Thomson Reuters OneSource for transaction and reporting purposes
• Troubleshoot issues with Labor contracts, sales order processing, billing/invoicing and revenue recognition for Hardware and Software components
• Configured Revenue Recognition Account determination, GL accounts and Account keys
• Mapped Revenue Recognition process (time based - A and service based - B) as per client requirement Extensively involved in configuration of Material master record, vendor master record, Master Data for Vendor, Customer,Materials and Bill of Materials (BOM), Recipe management.
• Involved in Customized plant parameters formaterial requirement planning (MRP), consumption based planningandMRPinformation of material master is dumped to the legacy system from SAP via Interfaces.
• Configuredaccount groupsfor field selections, number ranges and partner functions forvender masters.
• Determination and assignment of Partner Schema to document types (PR & PO) and account group (vendor).
• Involved in configuration ofIM and WMmovement types and linked via reference movement types.
• Customer/Material Tax Classification process
• Support on IDOCs related to Purchase Orders
• HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tool for processing and updating test scripts.

Confidential, Woodbridge New Jersey

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production Support incidents and assignments
• 24/5 AMS coverage across NA, EMEA, and APAC
• Client interaction on a daily basis to update on SLA related activities
• Managed client relationship and performed service delivery management
• Delegated development task to offshore teams and led onshore-offshore coordination
• Track and resolve incidents and problem tickets via Service-Now tool
• Extract monthly ticket aging report from Service-Now for business users and client engagement team

Confidential, New Hampshire

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the AS-IS condition of the existing system (Oracle 11i), TO-BE (SAP ECC 6.0) analysis, gap analysis, business process re-engineering, conversion, and modifications to suit client requirements
• Communicated with the client team on a regular basis to ensure in corporation of client defined parameters in the customization part of FI/CO module
• Documented functional and technical requirements with objects mandatory for conversion
• Configured the organizational structure of FI which includes company code, purchasing organization, sales organization, incoterms, sales group, plant, payment terms, withholding tax code, chart of accounts, assignment of COA to company code, fiscal year variant, open/close posting period, foreign currency valuation, and account determination
• Documented user guide and training material for OTC and P2P streams
• Conducted in person and web based training using PowerPoint and live system demo
• Configured E2E processes in the AP module consisting of vendor account groups, number ranges, automatic payment program, check settings, and account assignment associated with material movements
• Converted MSI Bank Accounts, IBAN, Bank Key and Branches from Oracle 11i to SAP ECC 6.0
• Configured FI-MM integration through OBYC for GL account postings
• Prepared Excel template to map vendor master fields from Oracle to SAP
• Converted payment terms from Oracle 11i to SAP ECC 6.0
• Configured the settings in the AP/AR, such as house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, interest calculation, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, payment media, terms of payment, running/editing dunning proposal. Configured tax procedures, tax codes for automatic calculation of sales tax for customers and used tax for vendors. Configured the system to handle over/short/down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments
• Master data: Created BOM, work centers, rate routings, production versions, material masters.

Confidential, Memphis, TN

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the AS-IS condition of the existing system, TO-BE analysis, gap analysis, business process re-engineering, configuration, and modifications to suit the client's requirements
• Configured the organizational structure of FI/CO which includes company code, chart of accounts, assigned COA to company code, fiscal year variant, open/close posting period, valuate foreign currency, account determination
• Migration to New G/L: Activated the New GL, Created the Model phase for Migration, creation, Migration Cockpit, Remote service session for validation, test Validation, Delivery of service sessions and Migration Scenarios
• Involved in configuring Document Splitting. Classified Document Types for Document Splitting. Classify G/L accounts for Document splitting. Defined document splitting characteristics for GL and CO
• Implemented FSCM Biller Direct (EBPP and EIPP) and Collections Management project
• Credit Card processing via Paymetric for customer accounts integrated with CRM 7.0
• Worked on Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (OTC) Cycles
• Developed Cash management at accounts level and Electronic bank statement processing with its key posting rules and round off methods for different currencie