SUMMARY

• Confidential has over ten years of experience implementing with SAP FI/CO across various industries.
• His expertise with business process reengineering, blueprinting, configuration, unit & integration testing, training, and documentation & production support has brought great value for his customers.
• He has conducted GAP analysis, documented those findings and provided in - depth analysis on the “as-is” and “to-be” processes to effectively achieve the project goals.
• As a diverse leading, managing on and offshore teams coupled with his excellent customer engagement skills, Confidential is a proven asset to his customers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preformed testing on Fiori apps for S/4 HANA related to Finance modules
• Preformed security role testing on Fiori apps
• Configured financial accounting global settings to set up company codes, chart of account, posting variants and fiscal year variants on S/4 HANA
• Served as Lead to Apex Analytix Business Partner Portal Project from clients side
• Conduct multiple workshops to gather business requirements
• Provided new S/4 HANA table mappings applicable to Business Partner (BP) Tables
• Provided Table Mapping on HR tables for SSO authentication on Apex Portal
• Provided Table Mapping on FI tables for BP invoices
• Created test cases for UAT and assisted users with UAT
• Provided day to day production support

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FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments (Accounts Payables)
• Created and design ISO XML Version 3 files as per bank requirements
• Create interfaces with HSBC for Payment Files (XML Format Outbound)
• Performed end-to-end testing with bank for ACH, Wire, and Check payment methods
• Configured Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) in BAI2 Format using search string functionality
• Create interfaces with HSBC for EBS (Inbound)
• Worked with ABAP Development team to create custom employee expense report program
• Built test case scenarios and training documents for end users
• Trained end users with new SAP functionality
• Provided production support

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FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments (Accounts Payables)
• Created and designed ISO XML Version 2 files as per bank requirements
• Enhanced Virtual Credit Card payment files to include new company
• Created and designed interfaces with Citi Bank for Payment Files
• Configured and Performed end-to-end testing with banks using multiple currencies and company codes
• Configured and tested 1099 Withholding Tax functionality to new company
• Preform end-to-end testing with IRS test system to transmit files electronically
• Enhanced inbound Credit Card settlement interface to handle multiple company codes on a single file
• Enhanced inbound Concur expense GL posting interface to handle multiple company codes
• Enhanced outbound Concur Employee feed to include employees from multiple company codes on a single file
• Configured Distribution Cycles to allocate costs to different cost centers
• Created Interfaces with Skylogistix for the following:
• Vendor feed interface (Outbound)
• Invoice Interface (Inbound) utilizing custom BAPI to post invoices
• Invoice Status interface (Outbound)

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FI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Roxanne Laboratories Acquisition
• Configured Accounts Receivable module for Cash Application team.
• Configured Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) in BAI2 Format.
• Automated the Cash Application for the incoming transactions as per business requirements.
• Served as Co-Lead to the Lockbox Cash Application solution.
• Design custom Lockbox processing program encompassing custom report and several custom tables.
• Configured FINSTA01 IDOC type and partner profiles for inbound files from Bank of America
• Define custom tables to handle G/L account determination per payment method, customer with special payment rules, customer payment rules and customer payments
• Designate custom report to consume the incoming EDI 823 data, read the custom tables and populate the customer payment report. AR Cash specialist would review and modify the data; AR Manager will then approve it and postings would trigger automatically. Check images transmitted from the bank would get attached to the postings for audit requirements
• Build test scripts and helped users test the solution including more than 50 scenarios where payment differences should be posted with the correct reason code
• Configure Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments (Accounts Payables)
• Create and design ISO XML files as per bank requirements
• Create interfaces with Bank of America for Payment Files (XML Format)
• Perform end-to-end testing with banks
• Define and test functional specifications for custom payment approval program as an enhancement to Automatic Payment Program
• Train end users with new SAP functionality
• Served as Co-Lead with Dolphin OCR solution to automate the AP invoice processing functionality
• Tested and trained end-users on Kofax transformation module
• Tested and trained end-users on invoice processing
• Provided post go-live support and worked with Dolphin support team to resolve issues
• Configure and test 1099-MISC reporting
• Apply annual SAP notes and print 1099-MISC from SAP and send to vendors
• Define and test functional specifications for printing all various copies related to 1099-MISC in-house
• Conduct multiple workshops to gather business requirements and GAP analysis Document end-to-end process for business users and created user manuals.

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FI Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized FI modules including GL, AR, and AP with emphasis on AP and banking modules
• Defined G/L accounts for materials management and set up the integration between FI and MM through automatic account assignment
• Defined vendor/customer master records, payment terms, Lockbox, dunning and payment methods
• Automated cash application utilizing the standard Lockbox functionality
• Designed the dunning process per business requirements
• Setup IDOCs and partner profiles for outbound files in various formats for external banks
• Designed interfaces with JP Morgan Chase Bank for outgoing payment files in XML format
• Configured Open Item & Clearing and Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes
• APP Configuration: company code data, paying company code, country payment methods, creating proposal for check printing, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, DMEE structures, etc.
• Led working sessions with the offshore teams on daily basis on the automation project
• Created test cases for UAT and help users with UAT
• Trained end users on new system functionality and provided post Go-live support

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FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client business users for requirements gathering and analysis
• Configured and customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, CCA and PCA
• Designed the COA, account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, posting periods and creation of G/L account master records
• Helped designed cost & profit center’s standard hierarchy to meet the management and statutory reporting requirements
• Configured house banks, bank accounts and posting rules for automatic assignment
• Worked with purchasing and sales consultants to design a global vendor & customer master record structure
• Configured and tested the Lockbox program for accounts receivables payments in BAI2 format
• Handled the payment program configuration including company code data, paying company code, country payment methods, creating proposal for check printing, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, DMEE, etc.
• Implemented PMW prior to Bank Communication Management (BCM) configuration, assisted with basic BCM configuration and component testing
• Worked extensively in controlling module including: Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting
• Configured the cost centers, profit centers, controlling area and operating concern as per business scenario and processes
• Worked with ABAP Consultant for customization of FI/CO tables and user exits along with building interfaces and forms
• Built test case scenarios and training documents for end users
• Trained Business Process Owners and end users and offshore teams

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FI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed business processes, user procedures, and system requirements to identify process improvement opportunities
• Worked with basis team to link with Sabrix tax system in SAP
• Implemented standard Lockbox solution for the client
• Automated Electronic Bank reconciliation statement in MT940 format
• Developed interfaces for external systems to bring in AR G/L Data
• Worked with auditors to fulfill their SOX auditing requirements
• Performed UAT testing and regression testing for all functionalities implemented above
• Participated in end user training and knowledge transfer

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FI Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured financial accounting global settings to set up company codes, chart of account, posting variants and fiscal year variants.
• Assigned document ranges, defined tolerance groups for employees and assigned the variants to company codes, etc.
• Configured and customized general ledger accounting (FI-G/L), created G/L accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments and financial statement version
• Configured and customized accounts receivable (FI-AR) and accounts payable (FI-AP) modules including creation of vendor master records, customer master records, account groups, tolerance groups and account determination
• Defined new account groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, and field status groups for specific external number ranges
• Defined reason codes for payment differences and worked on writing off differences to G/L accounts.
• Configured special G/L accounts for down payment with down payment indicators and configured down payment requests
• Configured necessary settings for foreign currency valuation, payment differences and exchange rate differences with reason codes
• Configured check management with pre-numbered checks and printing in-house checks for the United States

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SAP FI G/L Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshop to gather requirements from Business Process Owners and Subject Matter Experts to understand “As-Is” process,
• Completed GAP analysis, developed business process flowchart and configured the “To-Be” system
• Configured in accounts payable (FI-AP) vendor master, vendor groups, number ranges, parking and recurring entries, special GL transactions like down payments received/made, payment terms, extended withholding tax and tax procedure configuration for multiple countries
• Configured Automatic Payment Program through payment medium workbench and manual bank reconciliation
• Configured in accounts receivables (FI-AR) customer master records, customer account groups, payment terms and interest calculations, dunning and incoming payments
• Worked on functional design document for designing various interfaces and outbound and inbound EDI conversions 810, 820, etc.
• Created reports for advanced tax reporting and intrastate reporting for goods movement
• Defined and implemented escheatment process in SAP system
• Developed user requirement specification, business blueprint of spin-off projects, configuration documents, test scripts and data sheets, design specifications and security authorizations in Documentum

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SAP FI Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported finance users regarding accounting line item analysis, advising and resolving complex finance queries, interface issues, month-end FX revaluation process and jobs monitoring, etc.
• Created master data such as G/L Account, Cost & Profit Centers
• Handled first and second-tier support tickets related to GL, AR, AP, FA and BA
• Worked on design and decision on file formats for Lockbox input files
• Loaded Lockbox input files and worked with pre-processing logic
• Developed and conducted training across different business units on using SAP