SUMMARY

• 10+ years in SAP ERP FICO implementation and configuration of SAP FICO modules.
• Expertise as Project Manager in multiple SAP roll outs and upgrade projects.
• Have demonstrated leadership abilities through various engagements and have been very effective and efficient in C - level executive communication.
• Led extensively high scope projects, assessing clients needs, coordinating with all the different teams and regions involved, following PLC
• Analyzed and evaluated each teams’ effort, build daily/weekly project progress reports/charts, set up business design workshops, create project timeline, maintain consistency throughout the life cycle
• Supervised and meticulously documented all the meetings and establish single repository for project related materials.
• Strategies and executed project cutover and go live documenting all activities in timed sequenced manner.
• Proficient in GAP analysis. Solid foundation in accounting concepts and in depth understanding of Business processes for most cost effective and efficient business solutions.
• Highly organized, productive and demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team- oriented environment with excellent Interpersonal and Communication skills.
• Experienced in gathering and analyzing business requirements, identifying process gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes, re-engineering business processes and mapping processes to SAP R/3 functionality.
• Involved in 2 full cycle implementations using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology with experience in all project phases - Project Preparation, Business Blue Print documentation, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and Support.
• Engaged in Upgrade (R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0) and Production Support Projects.
• Extensive experience with New G/L - Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, periodic processing and Segment Reporting.
• Extensive experience in Financial Accounting that includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), Fixed Asset, Bank Accounting (BA), and New GL.
• Controlling expertise includes Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders (IO), and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Strong functional experience in configuration and integration with other modules like SD, MM, FM, and PS.
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience of SAP integration with 3rd party tax software Vertex.
• Great knowledge and hands on experience of configuring PMW, classic payment medium programs, creating DMEE tree using XML file upload and user exits as needed.
• Sound knowledge in writing functional specifications, creating customized reports and working experience with Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) for conversion and transfer of master and transactional data from legacy to SAP systems.
• Very proficient in writing Test scenarios, test cases for all FICO related transactions using various tools, worked extensively on unit testing, integration testing, functional testing and UAT.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Tool: SAP R/3 Version 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7 ECC 6.0

Development Tools: LSMW, SAP scripts, Report Painter, Report Writer & BDC

R/3 Interface: EDI, ALE, IDoc, BAPI, Workflow

Data Warehousing Tools: SAP BW 3.5 / 7.0

Programming: ABAP/4, SQL, PL/SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP S/4 FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project scope: S/4 HANA Finance Implementation, Controlling, Bank Account Management, Cash Management, New Asset Management, Fiori
• Implemented S/4 HANA Finance 1709 using Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) according to Activate Methodology.
• The areas of implementation included New General Ledger, Business Partner, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, New Asset Management, Bank Account Management, Cash and Liquidity Management, Credit Management, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Order, COPA and Product Costing.
• Conducted Validation workshops with the business using the RDS system and prepared lean blueprint.
• Conduct workshop sessions with different government departments to understand As-IS business process.
• Perform requirement gathering sessions and propose industry best practices
• Conduct meetings and workshops to keep new and legacy systems in sync as the S/4HANA platform is configured, built and tested, ensuring the move doesn’t have a negative impact on existing systems and processes
• Design Chart of Account, master data template for business partners (customer & vendor), prepare functional objects documentations. Design end-to-end process flows
• Configure the S/4 HANA Finance modules in various sprints and performed Unit and Integration testing using Fiori tiles.
• Prepared end user document and provided training to the key users.

Environment: S4 Hana 1709.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Lead and Manager for multiple various projects along with project specific responsibilities, I delivered duties mentioned below for all the projects.
• Coordinated and attend business meetings for requirement gathering and design discussion
• Coordinate with multiple teams involved for project’s detailed design kick off and design discussion
• Create and finalize the project timeline reflecting different project phase milestones
• Responsible for ensuring and analyzing the business requirements can be met and implemented
• Compile and present the detailed business design playback explaining all the business requirements
• Responsible for obtaining design sign off in timely manner to kick off the development
• Work with team to identify and analyze the most scalable solution to be implemented within the timeline
• Conduct and present formal presentations and executive summaries to senior management to provide project status updates, project health throughout the project life cycle
• Oversee and hands on contribution during various different project lifecycle phases: design phase, development and Integration testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, User
• Acceptance Testing, Cutover, Go-Live, and Warranty etc.
• Cutover lead: Prepare production cutover plan for projects go-live, strategies steps in sequential manner incorporating each teams dependencies, contingency plans
• Oversee and hands on contribution in cutover execution and coordinating with all the teams involved to execute tasks in accordance to time and dependencies

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant/ New GL Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the New GL implementation IT Phase: performed demo testing for FI, AP, AR, and LIV using HP QTP tool
• Created and executed daily IT status report, coordinated with Stakeholders and business regarding project daily progress, risk, mitigation plan, and timeline
• Supervised the project cutover and coordinated with all the teams for timely project handover
• As part of New GL requirement, configured FI and SL for company codes primarily being used through SL
• Created new asset classes and new depreciation methods to amortize intangible assets.
• SAP FI-AP, LIV and, Fixed asset production support in heavy amount of tickets.
• Created function specs for FI-AP custom reports.
• Created function specs and enhanced existing custom reports for account receivable.
• Configured asset accounting module for two company codes.
• Changed monthly depreciation to daily depreciation by configuring new depreciation key, created new assets with newly configured dep key assigned, performed mass asset transfer from old assets to new assets.
• Created LSMW project to perform mass reset and reversal of F110 payment run and further imported/executed in production.
• Wrote/designed function spec to enhance to custom program in order to facilitate extracting cost center master data in pipe delimited file format.
• Created pipe de-limited files to send to vendors from custom tables by extracting cost center master data.
• Wrote function spec to enhance vendor remittance email to add vendor number
• Configured new outbound payment method for Poland company code: configured with new payment medium format MT103, payment method for country, company code, bank determination, and house bank configuration.
• Defined new formats using the function modules and assigned it to format MT103 by setting up PMW configuration in payment methods.
• Designed detailed function spec to customize function modules to facilitate creation of MT103 file format.
• Configured SEPA Mandate direct debit and credit transfer in SEPA Mandate Management SAP for European countries: UK, Netherland, Spain and France.
• Configured SEPA general settings and modifiable view to facilitate cross-border payment procedure.
• Defined new formats using the DMEE trees and assigned it to PMW in payment methods.
• Setup and configured Mandate ID and Signature ID to comply with SEPA Mandate.
• Update SAP system to support IBAN and BIC as part of SEPA implementation enabling system to start collecting IBAN and BIC from business partners immediately.
• Organized and attended workshops and gathered requirements working directly offshore with Japan team.
• Configured new FI and SD tax codes for company codes in countries: Japan and changes in VAT tax rate for France, Italy, Finland countries
• Configured new condition types, access sequence, and assigning them to pricing procedure.
• Created new FI and SD condition records for newly created condition types and tax codes respectively.
• Configured Tax relevancy master data for customer and material, creating new tax classifications.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Ehp6.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Sr. SAP FI Lead Consultant (FI-EBS Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Implemented two full roll outs of Electronic Bank Statement for EMEIA region (European countries: Russia, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Germany, and so on) company codes.
• Organized and attended workshops with Treasury team for requirement gathering and implementing EBS based on business requirement.
• Lead the offshore and onsite teams for timely managing the project tasks and work allocation
• Worked closely to evaluate the organization’s cash liquidity, formulate and analyze the risks.
• Interpreted business necessities and performed extensive requirement gathering workshops.
• Created and designed detailed function spec for two new interfaces.
• Bank Interfaces: Integrated SAP payment interface with Bank of America and adapted SAP Lockbox functionality to process AR payments for automatic cash application against customer invoices, and accounting for automatic zero-balancing account (ZBA) cash movements.
• Implemented payment network functionality of Bank of America to integrate SAP using IDOCs.
• Configured and maintained house banks master data set up and clean up for 500+ bank accounts for 50+ company codes.
• Maintained table for mapping SAP house bank keys and bank account numbers with respect to that of BAI bank statement’s house bank key and account numbers.
• Maintained configuration in automatic payment program (APP) by configuring payment methods for various company codes, bank determination specifying bank subaccount for each house bank, payment method, and currency.
• Implemented step-by-step electronic bank statement where configuration included: creation of account symbols, assigning accounts to account symbols, creating keys for posting rules, defining posting rules, creating new transaction types, assigning external transaction types to posting rules, and assigning bank accounts to transaction types.
• Configured numerous posting rules for various business scenarios such as vendor direct debit, vendor payment clearing, vendor returns, customer clearing, and configured clearing criteria for P2P transactions.
• Used and configured Search string functionality to accommodate various exceptional business scenarios and needs.
• Configured thousands of search string definitions and usages to interpret Note to Payee and facilitate daily various incoming and outgoing transactions and clearing based on document number, assignment number etc.
• Configured variants for RFEBKA00 program to run file upload for several company codes.
• Created BAI test files for each company code to perform integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Worked closely with business and banks to create itemized bank statements to utilize EBS more effectively.
• Provided extensive support and troubleshoot onsite and offshore team during UAT and warranty periods post Go-Live and helped resolving issues efficiently and in timely manner resolving 3-4 P0 and P1 tickets on daily basis.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided expert SAP implementation, solution delivery and support to the global Finance and Accounting organizations and guarantee SAP meets the needs of users.
• Handheld major reconstruction tasks of the Organizational structure of Accounts Receivable (Order to Cash cycle)
• Also redefined Accounts Payable module with respect to automatic payment methods for outgoing payments, ACH Payments, Electronic Bank Statements.
• Guaranteed system validation processes for implementing system changes.
• Collaborated with the finance team to identify opportunities for system improvement, perform gap analysis, and create implementation plan.
• I did analysis of their COPA and supported issues around CO-PA module and overall responsible for reporting requirements of the organization.
• Helped resolved SAP BPC integration issues.
• The company is segmented according to the products and customers. The profitability of the company is determined based on their segments. CO-PA happens to be a perfect match for market-oriented decision making.
• Wrote some rules again to derive the characteristics to feed COPA for accurate reporting.
• Troubleshoot issues relevant to SAP to Vertex integration.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business requirements regarding acquiring new company code, determining organizational structures and classifying business units / locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centre.
• As a team lead, participated in the preparation of blue print document for financial reporting.
• Creation of Enterprise Structure: Defining business areas, company and creation of posting period variant, posting keys, field status groups, tolerance groups, fiscal year variant, document number ranges, document types, etc. Defined chart of accounts, account groups, recurring entries, and general ledger accounts for each company code
• New General Ledger: Activation of New GL Accounting, Define ledger for GL Accounting, Integrating the GL with subcomponents, Document splitting, Segmentation and Parallel Accounting.
• In Document Splitting defined Splitting Characteristics, and Activated Document Splitting.
• Created Blue Print for New G/L, Plan of Migration, Tested and Performed Migration
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for out going payments in Accounts payable.
• Automatic creation of voluminous inter-company postings with I-doc creations and interfaces.
• Providing the solution for Procure 2 pay process- Vendor Master, Material Master Purchase Info-Record, Source List and maintained quota arrangement, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order (PO), Contract, Schedule Agreement, Pricing Procedures, Release Strategies, Split valuation, MRP
• Defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, and asset classes. Customized asset accounting structure / valuation of fixed assets, designed asset management to carryout business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs, post capitalization, and asset under construction processes.
• Sale of Asset / Retirement with scrapping / Asset Acquisition w/offsetting entry.
• Created various new (fixed asset) asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing environment and transported them into the production.
• Responsible for creating depreciation keys for new fixed assets and depreciation testing.
• Performed integrated testing for transactions relating to fixed asset retirement with scrapping.
• Experience in configuring asset classes for new fixed assets
• Provided end user training for general ledger, accounts payable, and fixed assets.
• Involved in Cost center accounting, Profit center accounting, and integration with CO, and SD.
• Configured cost allocation programs like assessments and distribution.
• Unit Testing: Tested the discrete pieces like Functionality of Foreign Currency Valuation, Journal Entry Posting, Entering Exchange Rates, Account Balances, FI Document Validation, Purchase Requisition, and Purchase Order.
• Identified GAPs across various business processes and designed the Functional Specifications (RICEFW).
• Integration with MM, PP and SD: Integration of FI with MM, PP and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination, Interfaces design and testing.
• Worked closely with Treasury team and configured Electronic bank statement (EBS).
• Tested in QA environment and transport to production instance.
• Coordinate with users for User Acceptance Testing and completion.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Ehp4.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI/CO Consultant for New G/L, FI-AA, PCA and CCA
• Implemented new company code for this entity. Parent company already had SAP implemented.
• Implemented US-GAAP and Statutory Ledgers.
• Implemented Order to Cash Cycle (Accounts Receivable), Procure to Pay Cycle (Accounts Payable), Asset Management (Fixed Asset, CIP) etc. Also worked on EDI (Inbound and Outbound) invoices generation.
• Designed and used of additional Dimensions to FAGFLEXT.
• Documented splitting with Zero Balancing on Profit Center.
• Responsible for Configuration, system and Integration test planning and execution.
• Designed Consolidation preparation in ECC 6.0
• Complete design, configuration and implementation of FI-AA module.
• Defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, derived depreciation areas and account determination for asset class.
• Involved in Foreign payments executed by the parent company on behalf of its subsidiaries and IHC intercompany payments using SAP’s In-House Cash (IHC) module. Created functional, detailed design, and testing specs for the IHC. Created a New Business Partner, New Current Account and for GL Accounts for In House Cash, Configuration for Electronic Bank Statement
• Mapped the business process to SAP transaction related to asset acquisition (with Vendor/Without Vendor), Planned and Unplanned depreciation run, asset retirement (scrapping), and asset capitalization.
• Utilization of SAP new GL functionality to support different segment reporting and reconciliation purposes.
• Worked closely with Open text team to resolve invoice management processing. Using Open text to create separate invoices in system with vendor PDF including multiple invoices with different PO references.
• Classification of GL Accounts and document types for document split activation for inventory postings such as GR/IR and activated the document splitting.
• Worked on Vertex to ease the direct and indirect tax compliance for the company.
• Establishing RFC connection between Vertex and SAP maintaining Customer Master Data and Vendor Master Data. Allowing this information to pass while processing Sales Orders or Purchase Orders.
• Bank & Customer Interfaces: Integrated SAP payment interface with various Banks and adapted SAP Lockbox functionality to process AR payments for automatic cash application against customer invoices, and accounting for automatic zero-balancing account (ZBA) cash movements.
• Migration: Data migration using LSMW, migration of master records, transactional data, legacy data up-to five years
• Testing: test scripts creation and development, testing plan including timeline, milestones and track progress, execution, conference room pilot meetings, unit and integration testing, testing team owner
• Go Live: system validation, data comparison with legacy system, conversion, pre and post go live strategy, post production support, month end closing, hot issue list.
• Configured components of Cost Center Accounting & Profit center accounting based on modified and re-structured Standard Hierarchy.
• Created a new Operating Concern with custom characteristics and value fields and tested the flows from SD and FI documents into CO-PA.
• Cost Center allocations and Internal Order settlements.
• Business processes: procure to pay, order to cash, cost of manufacturing, cost of goods sold, costing based analysis.
• Internal order accounting: settlement configuration, planning/budgeting profiles, order types.
• Involved in inventory Analysis implementing MRO material for stock-able and nonstick-able MRO materials. Customized movement types for account determination.
• Determined inventory price according to Standard Price and also Moving Average Price.
• In Production Planning, involved in the configuration includes BOM, Recipe (Routing), Resource (Work Center) and other formulas.
• Configured Costing Variant to generate cost estimate using BOM and Routing. Also defined Cost Component Structure (CCS) with input from Accountants the way they wanted to analyze the cost of the product. Activity Types, Resource, and Period end closing parameters: WIP, Variance and Settlement Profile.
• Integration: Material management (MM), sales and distribution (SD), business intelligence/ warehouse (BI/BW)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0