SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of rich experience in Finance & Accounts,
• Lead SAP FI - CO Consultant in delivering impressive contributions in the stream of SAP FICO 10+ years - in Implementation, Rollout and supportSolutions and carry forward dat expertise with the Principle of continuous learning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business Workshops to understand the business process of the Client for customization of Business enterprise structure.
• Prepared Road Map of FICO Module with ASAP methodology for Unit Development - testing and Transports of Customize requests to Quality and Integration testing and Production along with Post Go-live support.
• Preparation of business blue print for NEW GL customization along with Document splitting which involves Classification of document types and GL accounts and standard account assignment for splitting rule to select the documents based on Business transactions.
• Customization of Controlling area and its control parameters and version settings.
• Preparation of Business Blue print document for currencies and additional currencies setup.
• Preparation of customization document for allocations and functional spec for enhancement for bringing the values to SKF.
• Participated in Business workshops for customization of Depreciation keys and posting rules.
• Participated in Business workshops for gathering requirements on Asset data transfers on transfer date.
• Participated in Business workshops for gathering requirements on Assets reporting and period end and year end activities.
• Prepared a business blue print document for Asset accounting along with non leading ledger and posting the different accounting principles to Leading and Non leading ledgers.
• Preparation of Design document for Month end and year end closure - for GL upload from feeder systems along with park and post work flow, Accrual and reversals and Recurring documents postings, For ex revaluations and monthly depreciations and Inter company reconciliations.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business Workshops to understand the business process of the Client for customization of Business enterprise structure.
• Participated in Business Workshops to gather the required information for setting up Co. Code and GL,AR and AP Master data setup
• Prepared Road Map of FICO Module with ASAP methodology for Unit Development - testing and Transports of Customize requests to Quality and Integration testing and Production along with Post Go-live support.
• Preparation of Business Blue print document for customizing the Enterprise structure and FI and CO modules GL, AR, AP and Controlling area settings.
• Preparation of business blue print for NEW GL customization along with Document splitting which involves Classification of document types and GL accounts and standard account assignment for splitting rule to select the documents based on Business transactions.
• Customization of Controlling area and its control parameters and version settings.
• Preparation of Business Blue print document for customizing product cost by Order and Product cost by period scenario which involves Activities master data setup and price determination, WIP RA key and RA version settings, Variance Key and Variance Version settings, Rem profile control data, Rate routing and Production version.
• Customization of SAP FICO Module as per the Business road map For Co. Code and Controlling area and Set up of GL, AR and AP org structure along with Master data maintenance.
• Participated in Business workshops to gather the requirements for customization of Asset accounting module, to Identify the number of Depreciation Areas like Book depreciation, Tax depreciation, Costing depreciation and Group depreciation area required and Asset classes needed.
• Participated in Business workshops for customization of Depreciation keys and posting rules.
• Participated in Business workshops for gathering requirements on Asset data transfers on transfer date.
• Participated in Business workshops for gathering requirements on Assets reporting and period end and year end activities.
• Prepared a business blue print document for Asset accounting along with non leading ledger and posting the different accounting principles to Leading and Non leading ledgers.
• Participated in Business meetings to gather the requirements to map the Swift codes of Bank Flat file format from BOFA .
• Prepared Functional design document to map the fields from Bank file to SAP house bank and GL clearing accounts.
• Preparation of Business blue print document to capture the END to END business process of Electronic bank reconciliation statements.... setup Account keys and posting rules to map the external file transactions to SAP posting rules and processing of Bank file to post the Incoming and outgoing payments... and clearing postings to House bank GL accounts.
• Preparation of Test document for EBS business scenario and capturing the test results as part of Integration testing.
• User manual preparation for EBS processing and Post processing of bank statement file.
• Customization of FI Integration with MM, SD and PP modules, which Involves automatic assignment of GL accounts for Mvt types.
• Preparation of Functional specs for Z programs for auto clearing of Nutri subscription billing documents and Incoming payment postings for the Receipts from Walmart.com sales process scenario.
• Participated in business workshops for Data structure design for controlling based COPA customization.
• prepared business blue print for COPA org structure and Characteristics derivations and assignment Condition types to Value fields.
• Activation of Controlling based COPA for the business scenarios Transfer of S.O, Billing documents and Transfer of FI/MM transfer structure.
• Preparation of FI part of Functional specs for the Sales and Purchases and Production IDOCS for sending IDOCs to Third parties for Manufacturing and for Incoming sales orders creations.
• Preparation of Business blue print for the Integration of SAP CRM to SAP FI. customization of SAP CRM Business partners tax groups to ECC tax conditions, assignment of CRM Account symbols derivation rules for revenue account determination, maintenance of Copy control requirements from Sales order to Delivery and billing documents.
• End to End Integration testing of All Business scenarios.
• Preparation User manuals of All Business scenarios to support the Business users for effective completion of Day to Day business activities.
• Involved in preparation of Data migration plan for GL, AR, AP and Asset accounting.
• Conducted Business Users training sessions to make them ready to use and accustom to the SAP environment.
• Involved in preparation of Period end activities and scheduling the Jobs.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and condition for all phases such as Assembly, Product, Regression and UAT.
• Involved in Identification of Test Business scenarios for (QA) Quality assurance testing to ensure all the required testing for effective Go - live.
• Involved in QA - Test Cases preparation for different business scenarios such GL, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and asset accounting.
• Preparation and Documentation of QA Test Results Documents consisting of Actual and Expected test results.
• Established procedures to report the QA Defects and timely completion of QA Defects without effecting the deadlines of Go-Live.
• Monitoring the schedules of all phases of Testing such as Unit/development testing, QA / Integration testing.
• submission of QA test results to the Business process owners for their approval for UAT and obtaining the results to CAB meetings to move the transports to production system.
• Assisting the Business Users for UAT completion on time.
• Documentation of Regression test results to ensure the changes are restricted to the existing development and not impacting any other existing business scenarios of the Client.
• Preparation of Test Scripts, Input Data sheets for effective Testing of Configuration.
• Resolving the Defects coming out of Testing by Using IBM symphony Tool.
• Participated in Workshops to gather the business requirements and developed business process documents, for incoming purchase orders to address the payment terms based on the delivery fixed date, for recording the Incoming payment file and posting the accounting document and clearing the Billing documents with the incoming payment documents.
• Prepared Business blueprint documents and get it approved by business process owners.
• Customization of the Business process for Nutri for GL, AR, AP, and Controlling modules.
• Prepared end user Guidance documents for as part of the knowledge transition.
• Participated in Workshops to gather the business requirements and developed business process documents.
• Prepared Business blueprint documents and get it approved by business process owners .
• Customization of the Business process for Nutri retail and subscription business for GL, AR, AP, and Controlling modules.
• Customization of the payment terms and automatic payment procedures for check management.
• Customization of the Asset accounting module for Plant and Machinery
• Customization of Depreciation areas for book, tax and controlling areas.
• Customization of Depreciation Keys and Integration with GL accounts.
• Customization of AUC asset settlement to Fixed assets and to expense accounts.
• preparation of Functional module for the Z report for auto clearing of the Down payments to the Revenue subscriptions.
• Customization of Parallel valuation of asset accounting.
• participated in QA testing for the successful completion of UAT approval for effective GO-Live
• Documentation of QA test results and Defects and timely resolution of defects without effecting the Go-live.
• Prepared end user Guidance documents for as part of the knowledge transition
• Assisting the Business Users for the UAT completion.
• Documentation of regression test results to ensure the changes are restricted to the current development.
• Hyper care support for one month.
• Handling the Team for resolving the tickets on priority basis.
• Submitting the MIS and Monitoring Ticketing tool Citrix to meet the SLA.
• Training to the end users as and when the new changes were moving to Production system.
• Developing query reports as per the needs of the users along with the developers.
• Configuration of FIFO method of component Stock valuation for balance sheet valuation purpose.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participating in the Business meetings with the process owners for requirement gathering
• Coordinating the FICO and SAP CRM team for preparation of CMD and Blueprint
• Submitted the Finance CMD and Blue print document with customization steps
• Customization of CIN module in ECC and in SAP CRM systems
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and condition for all phases such as Assembly, Product, Regression and UAT.
• Test cases prepared for business processes for logistics such as sales and purchases done with in India and other countries.
• Monitoring the schedules of all phases of Testing such as Unit/development testing, QA / Integration testing.
• submission of QA test results to the Business process owners for their approval and obtaining the results to CAB meetings to move the transports to production system.
• Preparation of Test Scripts, Input Data sheets for effective Testing of Configuration.
• Resolving the Defects coming out of Testing by Using IBM symphony Tool.
• Testing of the Excise taxes calculation in the Billing document and Excise document Generation.
• Handling the Team for resolving the tickets on priority basis.
• Submitting the MIS and Monitoring Ticketing tool Citrix to meet the SLA.
• Training to the end users as and when the new changes were moving to Production system.
• Developing query reports as per the needs of the users along with the developers.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Business Kick off meetings to understand the Scope of Divestiture project requirements.
• Developed business process document for Cleaning Co. Code and co-mingled Co. Code operations as part of Divestiture.
• Developed Business blueprint for customization of Co-mingled Co. Code.
• Testing all the business functions to ensure dat GMCH users could able to post all business transactions without effecting other Co-Codes of Delphi systems.
• Participating in Business Kick off meetings to understand the Scope of SOW
• Scheduling the Daily business calls with the Business Process Owners to Gather the business requirements and comparing with the scope of Sow in case of major scope change alarming the Management for the additional ITMS and alteration of Project plan.
• Preparation of CMD (Change Management documents) for each business process and taking the approval of the business before customization in the development system
• Customization of Critical Business processes and assisting the team for the regular customization
• FICO scope for Morocco project is limited to the Regular standard SAP areas covered under FICO:
• Participating in Business Kick off meetings to understand the Scope of SOW
• Scheduling the Daily business calls with the Business Process Owners to Gather the business requirements and comparing with the scope of Sow in case of major scope change alarming the Management for the additional ITMS and alteration of Project plan.
• Preparation of CMD (Change Management documents) for each business process and taking the approval of the business before customization in the development system
• Customization of Critical Business processes and assisting the team for the regular customization
• FICO Scope for Turkey project is limited to the settings of Plant and FICO integration Such as:
• Participating in Business Kick off meetings to understand the Scope of SOW
• Scheduling the Daily business calls with the Business Process Owners to Gather the business requirements and comparing with the scope of Sow in case of major scope change alarming the Management for the additional ITMS and alteration of Project plan.
• Preparation of CMD (Change Management documents) for each business process and taking the approval of the business before customization in the development system
• Customization of Critical Business processes and assisting the team for the regular customization
• Participated in Business meetings to gather the requirements to map the Swift codes of MT 101 and MT 940 Bank Flat file format of NBP and PKO bank of Polski.
• Customization of consideration of National bank rate of Poland while executing the F110 payment runs.
• Prepared Functional design document to map the fields from Bank file to SAP house bank and GL clearing accounts.
• Preparation of Business blue print document to capture the END to END business process of Electronic bank reconciliation statements.... setup Account keys and posting rules to map the external file transactions to SAP posting rules and processing of Bank file to post the Incoming and outgoing payments... and clearing postings to House bank GL accounts.
• Preparation of Test document for EBS business scenario and capturing the test results as part of Integration testing.
• User manual preparation for EBS processing and Post processing of bank statement file.
• FICO Scope for Poland is Very high and its legal requirements require the extended customization, critical business processes handled independently.
• Handling the tickets on priority basis
• Submitting the MIS and Monitoring Ticketing tool Citrix to meet the SLA
• Resolving Issues for period end closure.
• Assisting end users for extracting the GL, AR, AP reports.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisting Finance team in completeness of Preparations for Financial Statements
• Assisting Users to resolve the difficulties encountered in their day to day activities
• Assisting users by analyzing Batch Job Failures and rectifying the errors to post the entries.
• resolution of errors while processing the period end activities for posting the depreciation.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Business Process Documents By understanding the Client Laws and Requirements in the Areas of Finance - New GL, AR, AP, AA.
• Preparation of Application Procedure Documents for configuring the ECC system based on the Business Document Prepared for effectively implementing the FICO module to the requirements of Client.
• Preparation of Test Execution Scenarios and condition for all phases such as Assembly, Product, Regression and UAT.
• Preparation of Business Blue print document for New GL and Document splitting.
• Involved in customization of AP Payment methods setup and lock box settings.
• Preparation of Customization of Tax procedure for taxes on Sales and purchases with Sabrix.
• Org.structure: Creating Enterprise Structure Hierarchy & business entities, Creation of Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variant, Setting up global parameters.
• General Ledger: Account groups, GL master records through LSMW, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, closing operations, and integration with SD.
• Accounts Payable: Created vendor master data, Managed Vendor account groups, House banks creation, Managed Bank master records and Bank accounts, check lots, reason codes, configured automatic payment program, recurring entries, Vendor Invoice
• postings, Vendor credit memo postings, GR/IR clearing, Exchange Gain/Loss for Vendor, Credit memos, AP information system, payment terms, Managed Vendor master field control and number ranges, integration with MM.
• Asset Management: Involved in the creation of Fixed Assets, Posting Asset Acquisitions and Asset Retirements. Involved in depreciation calculation and settings related to the asset classes and depreciation area,
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and condition for all phases such as Assembly, Product, Regression and UAT.
• Preparation of Test Scripts, Input Data sheets for effective Testing of Configuration.
• Involved in regression testing and preparation of document to capture the test results of regression testing.
• Resolving the Defects coming out of Testing by Using Clear Quest Tool.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Blueprints
• Preparation of Configuration Documents
• Participated in the Configuration of Following Areas
• GL, AR,AP,AA and Co module in relation to Overhead management
• Org.structure: Creating Enterprise Structure Hierarchy & business entities, Creation of Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variant, Setting up global parameters.
• General Ledger: Account groups, GL master records through LSMW, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, closing operations, and integration with SD.
• Accounts Payable: Created vendor master data, Managed Vendor account groups, House banks creation, Managed Bank master records and Bank accounts, check lots, reason codes, configured automatic payment program, recurring entries, Vendor Invoice postings, Vendor credit memo postings, GR/IR clearing, Exchange Gain/Loss for Vendor, Credit memos, AP information system, payment terms, Managed Vendor master field control and number ranges, integration with MM.
• Asset Management: Involved in the creation of Fixed Assets, Posting Asset Acquisitions and Asset Retirements. Involved in depreciation calculation and settings related to the asset classes and depreciation area.

Confidential

Internal AUDIT team Assistant Manager:

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring day to day accounting, closing of periodic books of accounts and its review, review of general account balances and ensuring its correctness.
• Ensuring books of accounts are kept in accordance with the statutory requirement.
• Evaluating the internal control systems with a view to highlight shortcomings & implementing recommendations made by Internal Auditors.
• Ensuring timely processing of payment to vendors;
• Daily review of working capital position and ensuring adequate working capital at minimum cost.
• Fixed assets management and Projects preparations for term loans management.
• Formulating annual budgets and periodic update of the budget by preparing quarterly forecasts.
• Conducting variance analysis of key P&L a/c item and to find out the reasons for deviation.
• Preparing Cost cards of products and calculation of product profitability.
• Presenting monthly finance report to the management.
• Handling Internal and Statutory Audits; evaluating the internal control systems with a view to highlight short comings & implementing recommendations made by Internal and Statutory Auditors.
• Ensuring timely deposit of statutory dues and timely filing of the statutory returns for timely completion of assessment.