EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• 9 years of SAP FICO experience,
• SAP experience encompasses expertise in implementing, customizing, Configuring System, Testing, End User Training, Data Migration and support in phases like Go - live and Post Go-live.
• One Life cycle Implementation,2 supports and 1testing experience in R/3 system.
• Strong development and support experience in SAP Bank Accounting, General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and Asset Accounting.
• End to end project management entailing project scoping, technical documentation, resource & task scheduling, change management, and team meetings for reviewing progress of the project.
• Experience in assisting in technical matters with the distinction of launching and driving new IT initiatives, re-designing IT infrastructures and achieving organizational objectives.
• Proficient at managing and leading teams for running successful process operations and experience of developing business continuity plans, procedures, service standards for business excellence.
• An effective communicator with exceptional analytical, technical, negotiation and relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business and management.
• Very strong in SolMan / ChaRM process and implementation of business solutions within the deadlines.
• Assisting internal business partners and IT counterparts to define and refine business strategy and supporting operational processes; spearheading the process up-gradation initiatives.
• Analyzing business needs and spearheading initiatives regarding establishment of IT infrastructure including procurement of hardware and software.
• Managing & supervising the team to act as a single point of contact for all end users’ support needs, follow-up for most of the on-going activities and ensure quality job.
• Controlling experience includes Cost Centre Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting (PCA), Internal Order & Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Single point of contact for OPENTEXT on VIM related issues.
• Good knowledge in S4F04 S/4 HANA Central Finance
• Single point of contact for HANSE ORGA on Auto Bank Automatic Cash Application issues.
• Experience in configuration of DART and SAFT for audit data extractions including archive data from archive database
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Program (APP) & Electronic Bank Statement.
• Good working knowledge on FI-MM(P2P) and FI-SD (O2C) Integration issues.
• Experience in substitution and validations.2
• Experience in FSCM Dispute, Credit and Collections Management.
• Experience in Vendor Invoice Management VIM /Invoice to Pay(I2P)
• Strong knowledge in Data migration from Legacy system to SAP using LSMW.
• Experience in Report Painter tool
• Experience in European Legal Reports like Foreign Trade Regulation, SAFT & Audit Hungary Report
• Experience in Reports, Forms & IDOCS

SAP FICO EXPERTISE:

• Involved in life cycle implementation process (ASAP Methodology)
• Involving detailed discussions on the current business process, mapping of the current business process to SAP business process and functional specs.
• Knowledge in Basic settings Configuration for FI
• Configuration of Company, Company Code, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year, Field Status Variants, Tolerance Groups (GL, Employee, Vendor & Customers),
• Knowledge in General Ledger Accounting
• Configuration of Sample documents, Hold Documents, Park Documents, Recurring documents, Accrual/deferral documents reversals, Financial Statement Version Creation, Interest Calculation and Foreign Currency Customization
• Knowledge in Accounts Payable
• Configuration of Vendor Account Groups, No range intervals, Payment Terms Creation, Manual Payment program, Automatic Payment Program, Advance payment to Vendors
• Knowledge in House Bank Creation, Automatic Bank Reconciliation
• Configuration of House Bank, Check Lots, Check Payments, Check Receipts, Check Manual updating, Automatic Bank Reconciliation Customization
• Knowledge in Accounts Receivable
• Configuration of Customer Account Groups, No range Intervals, Advance Receipt from debtors,
• Strong knowledge in MT940, MT942, BAI BAI2 Bank statements configurations
• Integration and testing of FI-CO, FI-MM for Inventory related Transactions, FI-SD for Billing Transactions
• Knowledge in Basic settings Configuration for CO Configuration of Controlling area, No range
• Knowledge in Cost Centers & Cost Elements
• Knowledge in Profit Center Accounting, Segments
• Knowledge in developing customized reports using report painter
• Strong knowledge on FIDES bank statement process and fixing issues quickly in SAP which caused because of FIDES.
• Strong knowledge on FINSTA IDoc process - Receiving a back statement per EDI
• Strong in fixing issues related to Bank statement like statement not uploaded in to SAP or struck in AL11 directory or IDOC failed or statement already uploaded.
• Knowledge in Asset Accounting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Versions: ECC 6.0, 5.0, S/4 HANA

VIM Versions: 7.0 & 7.5

Auto Bank Versions: 5.0.0 and 5.1.0

SAP: FI/CO (FI-ES, GL, AP, AR, AA& CO-CCA, IO, PCA, CO-PA)

SAP: FSCM (Dispute, Credit and Collections Management) and Vendor Invoice Management (VIM)Open Text

CRM Tools: Service Now, Remedy and HPSM Testing Tool Quality Center (HP QC ALM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Senior SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a System Analysis - SAP FI/CO, he will be closely working with business to understand the functionality and analyzing the issues faced by the business user related to SAP Systems applying knowledge.
• Direct and manage projects from initiation through closing.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team, FSCM Dispute, Credit and Collections Management
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Provide SAP FI/CO system support for incident management, problem management, change management processes which are specific (Remedy, Work Request, Problem Management Report).
• Using service now tool and work request management tool reports to analyze the area wherein more issues or enhancements occurred, using which usability or upgrading to higher version can be decided.
• Exploring new improvements in SAP Finance/Controlling (FI/CO) modules explain the advantages of those to client’s business and make the business efficient.
• Coordinate with offshore team to explain the client objectives and deliverables and Deliver Knowledge Transfer between FICO central Functional Team and Application Management Team.
• Work with the client in designing the SAP FICO System template for business. This template once developed would be implemented to Client’s all business unit setup.
• Track employee hours and ensure productivity is maintained
• Create job descriptions for new practitioner positions
• Recruit, schedule, and provide orientation for new teams
• Develop and implement an annual recognition plan to recognizes and evaluates practitioner performance.
• Improve work culture and resolve any conflicts among practitioner
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary.

Confidential

Senior SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production support for SAP FI/CO, FSCM and VIM
• Resolving issues related to GL, AR, AP, AA, COPA, I2P, I2A, Collections Management, Dispute Management, CCA, PCA, Project Settlements, Internal Orders, Workflows and DART & SAFT.
• Prepared functional specs and Application Support Handbooks as per project requirement
• Creates and provides quality training material for user assistance and system usage.
• Works closely with the development team (internal and external) to assure a timely solution according to the specifications and implementation of business needs.
• Assures quality of business systems by developing and executing test specifications, and
• Implementing test and quality plans, while working with quality assurance analysts to improve IS quality processes.
• Guides implementation of enterprise and system level architectures and systems by creating and communicating well-written documentation and presentations.
• Lead multiple project activities simultaneously, working with internal and external cross - functional groups.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling day-to-day issues in production support using BMC Remedy and Lotus database.
• Providing online support on various queries related to SAP FI module in the area of Basic Settings, General ledger, Account Payables, Asset Accounting, Interfacing files which includes Inbound/Outbound
• Provided support to users on day to day issues logged in related to Automatic Journal uploads, Payment to vendors, Cost and profit center accounting, validation rules, WBS element issues, Missing interface files, GL Master Data, Purchase to pay.
• Interacting with the client in understanding and carrying out modifications according to the specifications made.
• Ensure that all P2, P1 support issues are resolved as per 0ur agreed SLA.
• Reprocess the error IDOC Trouble shooting the IDOC
• Monitoring Batch Input sessions and reprocess the errors after fixing it.
• Carrying out the entire Testing of all Customization and Enhancements
• Changes to additional configuration settings as required by the client
• Testing of the changes made and preparing necessary CR request, based on TR and move to AS0 and PS0
• Coordinating with technical consultants for modifications in outputs
• Proactively discuss critical issues with other functional consultants for timely resolution

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global setting and enterprise structure were configured.
• Defining chart of accounts, Accounts Groups, Number Ranges and General Ledger accounts for each company code.
• Tolerance for vendors, Settings for Automatic Payment Program.
• Customized reports using report painter.
• Defined settings for period end closing procedures.
• Configuration of controlling module using IMG, defining controlling area, Defining Operating Concern, Customizing the Cost Centre, Customizing Activity Types.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Attending severities as per Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Customizing changes as per business process changes.
• Understanding Business process of the Client’s Business and actively involved in SAP- FI/CO Implementation in Opera Com Group
• Making setup in SAP for MT940, MT942, BAI, BA2 and Multi Bank statements, checking rule configurations, creating those Bank statements for testing purpose.
• Structuring the SAP and Auto bank settings as per Opera Requirement
• General Ledger (FI-GL) taking care for uploading master data and configuring the pre-requisites which includes Creation of Accounts
• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), and Accounts Payable (FI-AP) master data uploading and maintaining the prerequisites such as creation of account groups, number ranges and Payment configuration etc.
• Taking care of Remittance advice format setting for Automatic clearing.
• Improving hit-rate for all newly implemented Auto bank or non-Auto bank company codes
• Defining depreciation keys separately for book depreciation
• Imparting Training to the End Users.
• Taking care of Remittance advice format setting for Automatic clearing
• Imparting Training to the End Users.
• Customization changes related to Cash applications for automatic customer and vendor clearing.
• Analyzing project documentation (Blueprint, Test Strategy, Test guidelines).
• Study of Functional & Technical specifications to understand the changes implemented.
• Creation of MT940, MT942, BAI1, BAI2 and mulita bank statement preparation for testing purpose and involved end user training for end-to-end process for automatic clearing using cash applications.
• Responsible for development of Test Cases using various test case development techniques.
• Creation of Master Records for Customers (A/R Process), Vendors (A/P Process), and General Ledger accounts.
• Execute test cases and validate test results.
• Responsible for timely execution of the project.
• Documenting the test results and logging defects in Quality enter.
• Development of Process Overview document.
• Reporting of Daily & Weekly status to onsite coordinator.
• Strong knowledge in preparation of FS for Z- Reports and Master Data creation or change uploading programs
• Refining of master data in codification of new materials, customers, vendors across all modules for user acceptance training in development & testing client.
• All master data & transaction data had been uploaded through LSMW process into SAP system.
• Settings deadlines for uploading master data in development client followed by testing client.
• Changes to the condition table and pricing procedure.
• Strong business, analytical and communication skills to understand and document client business requirements. Analyze business scenarios, business issues, internal & external customer needs and propose business and system solutions.
• Understanding the organization structure and maintaining the Master Data.
• Expertise configuration and customization of Master Data.
• High end use of SAPICM&SAP BW.
• Responsible for making changes, migrating, updating the Master Data (SAPICM) on a weekly basis.