SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Consultant/Lead/Manager wif 17 years’ experience in leading several full Life - cycle implementations, partial implementations, and project supports in SAP R/3 system using ASAP methodology.
• Combining visionary, strategic, and tactical financial expertise wif strong qualifications in all areas of Accounting, Finance, and Engineering that is matched wif degrees in Engineering, Business Administration, Masters in Accounting, and Certified Public Account (CPA).
• Instrumental in achieving significant cost reductions and revenue/profit improvements through reengineering, team building, and leadership abilities.
• Expertise encompasses Business Process Reengineering, Project Management, System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, testing, Go-Live and Production support activities in various SAP versions - SAP R/3 4.0, 4.6 B, 4.6 C, 4.7B, 4.7 E, mySAP ECC 5.0, 6.0.
• A veteran of configuring and designing Company, conducting High Level & Detail Design Labs wif SME’s (Subject Matter Experts), coordinating wif Business and IT leadership, and leading multiple implementation projects etc.
• Strong Integration skills of FI wif SD, MM, Project Systems, PLM, SRM, HR, FSCM, CyberSource, and Deligo. Involved in Unit testing, Integration testing and assisted in User Acceptance Testing and End-User Training and strong noledge on US GAAP and IAS principals.
• Experience includes Fortune 500 & Fortune 1000 companies in areas of both Financial Accounting and Controlling.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SR. FICO Lead

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Managed & participated in teh evaluation of teh existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, developed blueprints and conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit teh client's requirements for Federal Projects.
• Participated in High Level Design and Detail Design of Business Process, Coordinated Design workshops, and gatheird business requirements from business users and senior management etc.
• Part of several SAP upgrades and system refresh for teh clients
• Prepared/evaluated teh functional specs, configuration documents, testing documents, and worked wif development team/web service team to develop teh RICEFWs.
• Prepared/evaluated teh functional unit testing, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing
• Designed & Configured teh implementation of A/R sub module and configured EDI820, EDI821, and EDI 823 (Lock Box) to accept payment from customers, and FI integration wif SD, MM, COPA, FSCM & CRM and etc.
• Participated teh system upgrade testing efforts
• In G/L & Master data, designed / configured G/L Master, Profit center master, Cost Center master data, several legacy interfaces to fetch teh data to/from teh legacy system into SAP using web service.
• Configured New G/L, Document splitting, and Document Type, Business Scenario, & item category for teh G/L, parallel ledger accounting and etc.
• Configured/Developed Electronic Bank Statement Interface between Trax, EI, and SAP to process teh bank statement automatically to SAP.
• Configured Collections Management, Dispute Management, and Credit Management for FSCM module
• Coordinated wif EI to develop multiple interfaces between SAP and Legacy systems such as Employee reimbursement between Gate/Concur/ People Soft to SAP, and Oracle to SAP etc.
• Prepared & Configured Data Medium Exchange (DMEE) for payment program for US, CA & Europe by using XML format
• Designed/Configured/ implemented fully automated EBS process for teh client by using MT940 standards for teh client.
• Developed interface between ARIBA and SAP to bring teh invoices from ARIBA to SAP
• Developed interface between teh Royalty system and SAP to update teh vendor information and its changes
• Designed and configured asset accounting module for various countries
• Developed 1099 & 1042 report for US/CA company codes

SR. FICO Lead/PM

Confidential, PA

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Managed & participated in teh evaluation of teh existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, developed blueprints and conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit teh client's requirements for Federal Projects.
• Participated in High Level Design and Detail Design of Business Process, Coordinated Design workshops, and gatheird business requirements from business users and senior management etc.
• Drove teh initiatives to improve teh system performance by evaluating teh programs/transactions that are taking more memory while executing it by redesigning teh existing logic and etc.
• Identified and initiated teh continues improvements activities by tracks to reduce teh ticket count per track and able to reduce overall ticket count by 10%
• As part of continues improvement process, I & our team automated repeated user enquires wif preformatted mail that contains teh instruction they have to follow to resolve each tickets in that particular area, and identified teh root cause to eliminate teh repeated errors..
• Lead teh team to deliver every enhancement items on time by developing self interacting tool and tracking its progress
• Managed teh several SAP upgrades and system refresh for teh clients
• Developed custom FSCM collections worklist that allow them to add collections team’ notes as well as teh cash team notes wifout affecting each other’s
• Developed several enhancement program for FSCM collections work list and Credit management area
• Worked wif teh integration of Cyber Source, Deligo, and Credit Cards payments
• Prepared/evaluated teh functional specs, configuration documents, testing documents, and worked wif development team/web service team to develop teh RICEFWs.
• Prepared/evaluated teh functional unit testing, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing
• Managed implementation of A/R sub module and configured EDI820, EDI821, and EDI 823 (Lock Box) to accept payment from customers, and FI integration wif SD, MM, COPA, FSCM & CRM and etc
• Provided teh guidance, validation, and participated teh system upgrade testing efforts
• In G/L & Master data, designed / configured G/L Master, Profit center master, Cost Center master data, several legacy interfaces to fetch teh data to/from teh legacy system into SAP using web service.
• Configured New G/L, Document splitting, and Document Type, Business Scenario, & item category for teh G/L, parallel ledger accounting and etc.
• Managed/Configured/Developed Electronic Bank Statement Interface between Trax, EI, and SAP to process teh bank statement automatically to SAP.
• Configured DMEE tree to accommodate teh check payment send to PNC bank.
• Coordinated wif EI to develop multiple interfaces between SAP and Legacy systems such as Employee reimbursement between Gate/Concur/ People Soft to SAP, and Oracle to SAP etc.
• Prepared & Configured COPA values /characteristics. Developed COPA reports for contribution margin & sales trends etc

Confidential, Orlando, FL

SR. SAP FICO SOLUTION ARCHITECH

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Managed & participated in teh evaluation of teh existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, developed blueprints and conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit teh client's requirements for Federal Projects.
• Mapped teh external systems into SAP to meet teh federal mandates.
• Prepared functional specs, configuration documents, testing documents, and worked wif development team/web service team to develop teh RICEFWs.
• Prepared/evaluated teh functional unit testing, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing
• Provided teh guidance, validation, and participated teh system upgrade testing efforts
• Managed mapping of teh A/R, A/P, and G/L module into SAP and back and forth to be sync wif teh external system.
• In G/L & Master data, designed / configured G/L Master, Profit center master, Cost Center master data, several legacy interfaces to fetch teh data to/from teh legacy system into SAP using web service.
• Configured New G/L, Document splitting, and Document Type, Business Scenario, & item category for teh G/L, parallel ledger accounting and etc.
• Managed/Configured/Developed Electronic Bank Statement Interface between Trax, EI, and SAP to process teh bank statement automatically to SAP.
• Coordinated wif EI to develop multiple interfaces between SAP and Legacy systems such as Employee reimbursement between Gate/Concur/ People Soft to SAP, and Oracle to SAP etc.
• Managed implementation of A/R sub module and configured EDI820, EDI821, and EDI 823 (Lock Box) to accept payment from customers, and FI integration wif SD, MM, COPA, FSCM & CRM and etc
• Trained business users as well as teh power user how they can create, release, and settle projects in Project Systems etc.
• Provided Post Go-Live support to users and helped them in resolving teh issues. As a part of teh team, actively worked wif internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues.

Confidential

SR. SAP FICO Lead

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Managed & participated in teh evaluation of teh existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, developed blueprints and conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit teh client's requirements for International projects across various regions like Asia, Latin America and Europe.
• Worked wif release management team and testing team to establish proper control before releasing any changes to teh production client.
• Managed implementation of A/R sub module and configured EDI820, EDI821, and EDI 823 (Lock Box) to accept payment from customers, and FI integration wif SD, MM and etc
• In G/L & Master data, designed / configured G/L Master, Profit center master, Cost Center master data, several legacy interfaces to fetch teh data to/from teh legacy system into SAP using EI middleware, and Idoc capabilities of SAP such as interim A/R & A/P, GL data to HFM, Payment file to Bank, DART and etc.
• Configured New G/L, Document splitting, and Document Type, Business Scenario, & item category for teh G/L, parallel ledger accounting and etc.
• Managed teh implementation of Asset accounting, and its integration wif projects system. Converted legacy asset into SAP, established teh assets governing process etc.
• Designed and configured teh A/P, Automatic Payment Process, ecounter line technology, Dolphin Automated invoicing process, House bank, payment method, established EDI820 & Idoc process to send payment advice for vendors & customer. Developed several custom programs to send payment file to Bank wif help of EI/Unix interface, Minority spend report to corporate for reporting and etc.
• Managed/Configured/Developed Electronic Bank Statement Interface between Trax, EI, and SAP to process teh bank statement automatically to SAP.
• Prepared & Configured COPA values /characteristics. Developed COPA reports for contribution margin & sales trends etc
• Coordinated wif EI to develop multiple interfaces between SAP and Legacy systems such as Employee reimbursement between Gate/People Soft to SAP, and Oracle to SAP etc.
• Managed/ Designed/Configured wif PLM team to build lead weight/Shipping weight calculation during teh process of Product cost estimate run for teh material.
• Trained business users as well as teh power user how they can create, release, and settle projects in Project Systems etc.
• Managed teh release communication for clients across every module. Conducted business requirement gathering sections wif users, coordinated wif ITL, BPL across every module to make sure each roll out met wif teh Global Design Process.
• Provided Post Go-Live support to users and helped them in resolving teh issues. As a part of teh team, actively worked wif internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Implementation, Production & Rollout

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Managed & participated in teh evaluation of teh existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, developed blueprints and conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit teh client's requirements for International projects across various regions like Asia, Latin America and Europe.
• Worked wif release management team and testing team to establish proper control before releasing any changes to teh production client.
• Managed implementation of A/R sub module and configured EDI820, EDI821, and EDI 823 (Lock Box) to accept payment from customers, and FI integration wif SD, MM and etc
• In G/L & Master data, designed / configured G/L Master, Profit center master, Cost Center master data, several legacy interfaces to fetch teh data to/from teh legacy system into SAP using EI middleware, and Idoc capabilities of SAP such as interim A/R & A/P, GL data to HFM, Payment file to Bank, DART and etc.
• Configured New G/L, Document splitting, and Document Type, Business Scenario, & item category for teh G/L, parallel ledger accounting and etc.
• Managed teh implementation of Asset accounting, and its integration wif projects system. Converted legacy asset into SAP, established teh assets governing process etc.
• Designed and configured teh A/P, Automatic Payment Process, House bank, payment method, established EDI820 & Idoc process to send payment advice for vendors & customer. Developed several custom programs to send payment file to Bank wif help of EI/Unix interface, Minority spend report to corporate for reporting and etc.
• Managed/Configured/Developed Electronic Bank Statement Interface between Trax, EI, and SAP to process teh bank statement automatically to SAP.
• Coordinated wif EI to develop multiple interfaces between SAP and Legacy systems such as Employee reimbursement between Gate/People Soft to SAP, and Oracle to SAP etc.
• Managed/ Designed/Configured wif PLM team to build lead weight/Shipping weight calculation during teh process of Product cost estimate run for teh material.
• Prepared & Configured COPA values /characteristics. Developed COPA reports for contribution margin & sales trends etc
• Trained business users as well as teh power user how they can create, release, and settle projects in Project Systems etc.
• Managed teh release communication for clients across every module. Conducted business requirement gathering sections wif users, coordinated wif ITL, BPL across every module to make sure each roll out met wif teh Global Design Process.
• Provided Post Go-Live support to users and helped them in resolving teh issues. As a part of teh team, actively worked wif internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues.

Confidential

Project: Implementation

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh As-Is system, did a profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped teh To-Be system. Documented teh configurations and prepared functional/ technical specifications.
• Participated in High Level Design and Detail Design of Business Process, Coordinated Design workshops, and gatheird business requirements from business users and senior management etc.
• Conducted various workshops wif SME and acted as teh business facing IT, and coordinated wif teh leadership to create & establish structure and guideline for teh SAP landscapes, release & transport management, testing, upgrades, etc.
• Designed and Developed proof of concept for various projects, managed & monitored teh resources, achieved 99% on time delivery.
• Worked wif various teams to create interfaces to capture data from legacy systems.
• Participated in and managed teh data migration efforts and managed go live and hyper care actives etc.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT/LEAD

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh As-Is system, did a profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped teh To-Be system. Documented teh configurations and prepared functional/ technical specifications.
• Conducted & Participated in High Level and Detail Design of business process workshops. Mapped business process wif teh input of teh power user and teh end user.
• Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules including creation of Vendor Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination, and default account assignments.
• Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments.
• Designed & Configured EDI823 and EDI820 customer payment processing through Lockbox and Idoc process.
• Designed & configured teh payroll interface between teh legacy and SAP system by using Idoc & EI process
• Prepared test scenario for various functions in FICO module and update them in teh HPQC.
• Updated functional specs in solution manager and rational etc.
• Conducted FUT, Integration testing, and UAT. Prepared documentation for user acceptance test, and update teh information in quality system.
• Configured Profit center structure, Standard Hierarchy, Configured Profit center Master Data, assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit Center Accounting
• Configured asset master data, asset classes and chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation posting, acquisition and retirement of assets, assets under construction, capitalization of assets, inter-company asset transfers
• Supported Go Live, Hyper Care Activities, prepared user manuals and training documents and conducted teh user training classes, etc

Sr. SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Confidential

Project: Implementation & Production Support

Environment: mySAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh AS-IS condition of teh existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, developed blueprints and conducted workshops for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit teh client's requirements for International project across various regions like Asia, Latin America and Europe.
• In GL, responsible for setting up/configuring of Chart of Accounts, configuring of general ledger accounts, setting up of inter-company relationship and creating inter-company accounts
• In FI -Treasury, responsible for configuring House Banks wif multiple Bank Accounts, alternate bank selections for Payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes, check lots and configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments and IDOCs
• In Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Creation of Vendor Master Records, Customer Master Records, Inter Company Vendors, Customers, Customer/Vendor account groups, tolerance groups etc. Responsible for creating inter-company vendor and customer master records to facilitate inter-company payments.
• In Accounts Receivable, configured incoming payments to accept EDI820 & EDI823 (lockbox), and developed EDI maps for various customers. Trained user to process payment advices, lockbox processing, handled issues wif delivery and billing processing.
• In Asset Accounting (AA), configured asset master, asset classes and chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation posting, acquisition and retirement of assets, assets under construction, capitalization of assets, inter-company asset transfers

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC 5.00, ECC 6.00

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized new Company codes, General Ledger - Created Master Records, configured Number Ranges and G/L Accounts for Company Code and added new Accounts, assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, defining Field Status Variant, Fiscal Year Variant.
• Involved in configuring company codes under Consolidation group and setting up of Inter- company transactions and creating inter- company vendors/customers.
• In Tax accounting, creation of Input and output tax General Ledger accounts, setting up different tax codes in various countries and assigning them to GL accounts.
• Experience working wif ABAP team to design, build and develop data migration/ conversion programs, GL balances extract, convert and load into SAP using LSMWs by providing functional and Technical specifications.
• Configured tax settings, maintained Input and Output tax codes for different jurisdiction codes, and maintained jurisdiction code settings, automatic account assignments for tax postings.
• In AP and AR created Vendor master, Customer master and specified number ranges and screen layouts. Responsible for setting up of FI - Automatic payments from Banks via IDOCs and worked wif ABAP team in setting up of IDOCs to and from Bank. Responsible for creating House Bank accounts, payment methods in FI-Treasury.
• In FI-Asset Accounting, design/configuration of Asset Class and Chart of Depreciation in Fixed Assets, grouped assets into manageable Asset Classes and customized screen layout for each asset class wif unique number ranges. Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, depreciations, intercompany transfers, write-offs and post capitalization.
• Documented end user manuals and training material and conducting end user training on GL, AR, AP, AA and CO modules. Worked wif ABAP and designed Functional specs & Technical specs for various interfaces in FI/CO and customized reports.

SAP FICO CONSULTANT/ANALYST

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed teh AS-IS condition of teh existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, developed blueprints and conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit teh client's requirements across various regions like US and Canada.
• Defined/Configured global parameters for different company codes, maintained chart of accounts, configured account groups, tolerance groups, field status groups, posting keys, configured posting period variants, fiscal year variants and set up inter- company relationship.
• In FI- GL, responsible for configuration of GL master and reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers and configured cross-company code transactions and inter-company accounts.
• In Sales and Purchases Tax, responsible for setting up of Tax codes, VAT tax configuration and Tax jurisdictions for across all teh countries. Assign input and output tax GL accounts to teh tax codes and assign tolerance keys.
• In Wifholding tax settings, extensively worked on configuring 1099 and 1042S tax rate settings for different countries. Involved in year-end filing and printing to IRS and vendors.
• In Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Creation of Vendor Master Records, Customer Master Records, Customer/Vendor account groups, tolerance groups etc. Responsible for creating inter-company vendor and customer master records to facilitate inter-company payments.
• In Accounts Receivable, configured incoming payments to accept EDI820 & EDI823 (lockbox), and developed EDI maps for various customers. Trained user to process payment advices, lockbox processing, handled issues wif delivery and billing processing, etc.
• Configured and maintained House Banks under Treasury module wif multiple Bank Accounts, alternate bank selections for Payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes, configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments and Electronic Bank Statements.
• In FI-AA (Asset Accounting), defined asset classes, asset numbers and configured asset master records. Defined and assigned various General Ledger accounts in integration of Asset management wif General Ledger.
• In CO-PCA, Profit Center Accounting, Configuring and Customizing teh basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of Reports.
• Worked wif report painter reports to develop customized reports. Worked wif LSMW and eCATTs, created scripts for mass vendor, customer master upload, cost center upload, asset master upload etc.
• Worked wif EDI interfaces, idoc processing, creating of IDOCs, BDC sessions, batch input sessions, batch job creation and scheduling, variant setup for jobs. Developed BPP's using Resite tool, for end-user training, conducted unit and integration testing.
• Provided Post Go-Live support to users and helped them resolving their problems. As part of team member actively worked wif internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues, requests, tickets, enhancements.
• Researched, analyzed and documented moderate to complex financial analysis projects wifin teh Accounting & financial department.
• Prepared and analyzed operating and strategic plans, including quarterly forecasts.
• Closed and prepared monthly financial statements, assisted financial planning department wif budget preparation, revenue, cost & bad debt forecasting.
• Prepared analysis and interpretation of financial statements and related reports. Designed complex worksheets and/or databases for tracking and reporting.
• Carried out general ledger functions, including account analysis and reconciliation, journal entries, and AR/AP.