Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: SAP FI Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Project Preparation, bug fixes, Business Blueprint, Realization, and End user-training Support for a full cycle implementation.
• Regular Interaction with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Analyzed Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution and gathered functional requirements for the to-be system.
• Configuration settings for Profit center accounting include activating Profit center accounting in Controlling Area.
• Involved in the analysis of business processes of FI-GL, A/P, A/R modules.
• Involve in Cutover plan and weekend support for Go-Live support.
• Configured multiple Transaction Types, Valuation Methods, Valuation Areas and assigned Valuation Areas to Accounting Principles to meet the Foreign Currency Valuation requirements
• Configured and developed Electronic bank statements and check deposits.
• Configured transaction types, keys for posting rules, mapping external transaction codes to posting.
• Configured OBYC and VKOA as part of MM SD integration with FI. Configuration of various areas including purchasing and Inventory Management.
• Execution of Manual and Automation Business Components, Test Scripts through Test Management Mercury tool like HP-QC.
• Participate in functional and unit testing in order to make sure that it is functioning the way it was before.
• Implementation of new payment method to make payments to Vendors via cheques and printing of Remittance Advices against them.
• Create a functional test script and scenarios to validate Chart of Accounts conversion
• Unit Testing Complete Unit testing of FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA.

Confidential

Role: SAP FI Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied And Understood the Changes in the Standard SAP System for the new version and prepare change configuration scripts.
• Was a Team member of the customization and implementation group of the FI/CO Module
• Interacted with Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Prepared a document of all the changes made, bug fixes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the Upgrade.
• Supported all phases of a Project Life Cycle Including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment of Solutions, as well as Documentation, and End-User Training.
• Remittance Advice Formats have been completely re-designed uniformly across all Company Codes taking local languages for text into consideration, enabled e-mail, fax, and print functionality for sending the Remittance Advices to Vendors automatically.
• Creation of Various types of Cost elements, Cost center groups and cost centers. Product Cost Planning and Maintain Material Master for Product Costing. Define structure of Cost Center to CO-PA Assessment and CO-PA Planning.
• Configured Lockbox, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, risk management, cash management posting rules, exchange rates, planning, integration with MM and SD
• Worked on integration testing extensively on end to end scenarios involving cross functional modules such as MM SD.
• Configured house banks, lockbox, electronic bank statement, manual bank statement, and cash journal in the bank accounting.
• Did extensive configurations in Procure to pay process involving Logistics Invoice verifications MM-Purchasing.
• Experience working on Lockbox processing configured for BAI2 format taking the flexibility feature, worked on Cash Management, cashbook, short term cash forecast, Credit Management and Invoice verification, Prepared bank reconciliation statements made Payments via EDI to Banks for checks, ACH and wires
• Used Report Painter, Report Writer for reporting during the implementation of the project and developed reports.
• Resolved issues relating to the upgrade in General Ledger Accounting, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, and Accounts Payable.
• Thoroughly involved in creation of Test Scenarios, Unit and Integration Testing and Documented the Results.
• Worked on Multiple implementations and involved in various projects as a sole point of contact for various testing efforts and documentation.
• Experienced in Vital technical and leadership resource, bringing best practices and robust solutions to SAP FI/HR testing project. Authored and executed SAP FI AR, AP, and GL HR/CRM test cases.
• Entered scripts in HP's Quality Center. Recommended ways to increase overall testing efficiency.

Confidential

Role: SAP FI Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced directly with business users to facilitate requirements gathering. Helped to design business process and system solutions.
• Participated Involved in Requirement gathering, Scope management, Process analysis, Gap analysis, Business blue print, Realization, Testing, Go-live preparation, Go-live, Post live support and Training, bug fixing, design finalization writing function specifications for the development objects which included reports, forms interfaces in the areas of GL, AR, AP, Banking, Cost center Accounting.
• Analyzed Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution and gathered functional requirements for the to-be system.
• Handled the global implementation of the Grass Valley group in 5 Countries consisting of US, UK, JP, and Mexico HK in FI consisting of GL, AR, AP, FA, Banking, and Travel Management SPL provided localized solutions for each country.
• Prepared training material gave training to Key users end users.
• Prepared specifications for mapping data between legacy system SAP worked on master data transactional data migration.
• Supported multiple sites spread across North America light support to EU sites in FI CO.
• Worked on automatic manual clearing foreign currency revaluations.
• Did vertex configurations on the SAP side worked on exception designing. Developed functional specifications for various custom reports.
• Configured payment program for Wire transfers, local checks, centralized check printing, direct deposits.
• Configured electronic Banking automatic bank reconciliation.
• Worked on GL master, Vendor master, Customer master, open item for GL, AR AP conversion using LSMW BAPI's.
• Worked on periodic annual closing procedures for FICO cross stream modules.
• Trained users to work on calculation and reporting taxes on a single platform to give them a better control on transaction tax compliance and make sure tax liability is determined accurately.

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with all phases of implementation from development of business blueprint, conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, and configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting.
• The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process, organization structure finalizing and mapping configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support
• Configured credit control area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program and Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category.
• Maintained number ranges for vendor and customer groups and also used report painter and report writer.
• Customized General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables and Accounts payable.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Configured automatic payment program for payments to vendors, created check lots, voided checks for payment blockage, and reissue of destroyed checks.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirement, transfers, depreciation calculation, write-offs and post capitalization.
• Configured necessary settings for Assets under construction and settling the same to Fixed Assets.
• Configured Global Settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, posting periods variant, field status variants and field status groups.
• Configured Account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master.
• Configured SAP SD module for US specific requirements in the areas of Sales Order Types, Item Categories, Schedule Lines, Copying Control, Number Ranges, Scheduling Agreements and Quantity Contracts.
• Integration of MM and SD with FI accounts assignment.

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked Creation of G/L Master Data, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year and Posting Period
• Configuring Organizational Units and Basic Settings, Taxes, Documents
• Assigning of GL accounts to Financial Statement Versions.
• Setting up of user-defined Special G/L for reporting purposes.
• Configuration of Clearing and Reversal Accounts, Manual Accruals, Internal Correspondence, Balance Interest Calculation and Information System
• Reports configuration in Day-End Closing, Month-End Closing, Year-End Closing, Notes on Programs, Starting Programs and Printing Lists
• Configuration of Fiscal Year, Financial Statement Versions, Preparing Financial Statements, Planning and Documenting Posting Data
• Worked as Treasurer and helped in making investment decision.
• Configuring Business Areas in General Ledger Accounting, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cost Accounting and Material Management
• Configuring Posting Document, Posting Key, Processing Posted Data, Updating Entered Data, Automatic Postings
• Designing Screen Layout, Preference Methods for Posting, Posting Documents in Foreign Currency, Cross-Company Code Transactions
• Experience in working in a global environment, work with multiple teams across multiple regions
• Configuring for open item processing, Preparing the functional specifications and testing of the report, Invoice verifications through MIRO, Open item clearing and Down payment
• Configuring automatic payment program and configuring dunning