SUMMARY

• Over 17 years of experience inclusive 16+ years of SAP implementation, Rollout, Enhancement and Support in SAP FICO.
• SAP Certified Solution Consultant in Financials & Controlling apart from holding Masters of Business Administration in Finance & System as major.
• Proven Project Manager/Project Lead experience gained by managing full - fledged development activities involving project planning and design, blue print, configuration, data migration, functional testing, integration testing, end user training, cut-over, go-live and post go-live support.
• Worked on Full Life Cycle Implementations, Roll-outs, and Support Projects. Hands on Project Management, Team & Project Lead experience
• Extensive FICO expertise in implementation and Customization of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting.
• Good working knowledge of integration and Interfaces for FI with AR/SD (O2C), AP/MM (P2P) and coordinating between different module teams to meet the project schedules/goals
• Incorporated New General Ledger ( GL) configuration in (FI), while upgrading the Classical General Ledger of SAP R/3 to enhance Segmental Reporting in Real Time across International Accounting Standards (IAS), United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP), and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); mapping of Parallel Ledgers for entity's legal reporting requirements.
• Extensive experience preparing functional and technical specifications for new enhancements and to ensure effective unit test plans, end user training, integration, functional, regression, UAT, performance and end-to-end testing.
• CO experience includes Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability analysis.
• Perform and confirm the baseline design for Product costing implementation Product Costing, Cost Object Controlling.
• Hands on experience in the intercompany setup, foreign currency revaluations, and balance sheet accounts.
• Expertise in handling Month End, Year End Closing with regard to GL, AR, AP and Asset Accounting, Material Ledger etc.
• Worked on Various Enhancements in the area of AP & AR Correspondence Statements like Ageing analysis Report, Account Balances report, External Printing Agency to print forms
• Good Experience in understanding ABAP and DB tables, Electronic Data Interchange EDI, User Exits, BAPIs, BADIs and write queries.
• High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with demonstrated leadership, ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with high analytical & problem solving ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP FICO Sub Components: G/L, AP, AR, AA, BA; CO - CCA, CEA, PCA;

Methodology: ASAP, Agile, Predictive/Waterfall, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Activate.

Applications/Tools: Applications MS Visio, MS Access, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Architect/SAP Support Manager

Environment: SAP S4, ECC 6.0, IS- Retail, Business Suite on HANA.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, building and deploying SAP-based ERP solutions; leading analysis and design in the SAP FI/CO area.
• Responsibility includes independently lead the SAP projects, drive & participate in business discussions; provide best practice recommendations, solutions in various processes of Finance and Controlling.
• Preparing of Project documents .viz. Project plan, Blue print documents, Configuration documents, training manuals, test script document for implementing of the project.
• Independently handled the SAP projects implementations, Rollouts or support engagements in AFG Sectors.
• Designing of Systems and process Solutions, workshops and freeze the requirements, preparation of blueprints and solution documents, writing functional specifications.
• Configuration, Unit &Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
• Design and maintaining the configuration and customization of the following modules.
• FI (GL (Classic, NEW GL),
• FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Fixed Assets,
• FI-Banking Module with E-Banking Integrations (MT100/MT940)
• Experience in Cost Center Accounting.

Confidential

SAP Support Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handling day to day queries/ issues related to FICO and other logistic modules integrated with FI-GL, AR, AP, FA, PCA and Internal orders.
• Attending for weekly status calls on ticket/issues, Providing Production Support as per SLA’s.
• Interacting with client for new business requirements and mapping the process in SAP
• Responsible for handling integration issues with other modules like MM, SD, PM and PS
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and identify appropriate solution for assigned Incident and Enhancement requests as per agreed SLA.
• Proactively identify process improvements and communicate those to the client to demonstrate value addition
• Responsible for ensuring the end-to-end delivery of SAP team by working with SAP leads and monitor service delivery and directly reporting to Top management and fully accountable for the SAP support in AFG landscape.
• Management of SAP Support Team and their Performance - include responsibility for SAP end user support, SAP enhancements and SAP assigned projects
• Comply with SLA of Group, appropriate escalations and ticket assignment to IT resources. IT keeping in mind working days, user, business needs
• Implement and rollout SAP related Service Management (SM) Processes, Tools and Controls.
• Ensures all SAP team adhere to enterprise policies and procedures for Incident, Problem, Change, Release, and Capacity Management
• Recommend SAP solution, process improvements, Help in identifying/highlighting opportunities for SAP enhancements and best practices to align with industry trends that serves and enhances SAP across markets.
• Partners with markets IT Managers and Group IT to develop world-class SAP capabilities across all markets
• Executes SAP support strategy for the sectors ensuring integration between (level 0, level 1, level 2 integration) for both infrastructure and application support
• Develops and publishes AFG controls compliance scorecard quarterly.
• Collaborate with IT managers and Program manager on assessing and tracking IT value realization and quantify business benefits, halp in estimating Return on IT investment for projects.
• Ensuring the Solution Architecture and Design meet functional requirements and internal guidelines, coordinating design inputs across SAP Cross functional teams(SD/MM/PP/HCM/Basis and ABAP) etc.
• Fosters a positive work environment and consistently supports continuous learning.
• Communicate all aspects of SAP Sustain and Project information to top management/CIO in Weekly meetings.
• Evaluate and recommend SAP solutions to meet the future business needs.
• Resolve customer issues with SAP solutions and respond to suggestions, for improvements and enhancements.
• Interact with business users, IT managers to define current, future applications requirements, and success factors.
• Closely working with technical team for enhancements.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Environment: SAP ECC

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design, development and implementation of SAP FICO modules by replacing the legacy e-Marine system and automating the core Marine Business Processes described in SOW.
• Attending Project meetings with the client, to Understanding the business requirement of the organization related to Finance and Cost accounting area.
• Preparation of Project scope documents, Business blue print (ASIS Summary report, To Be) Configuration documents document, Detailed design, Configuration documents, Test catalogue, User Training Documents, test script document for implementing of the project..
• Gap Analysis-to identify the gap between current As-Is and To-Be processes and
• Configuration of SAP FI/CO module based on the project requirement to configure the business processes and design the solution.
• Providing detailed specification and technical details to ABAP team for Enhancement or any RICEF requirements.
• Functional testing, Unit, Integration Testing and Regression testing of configured solution based on test strategy and plan.
• Preparation training manuals for all the processes covered in the scope of the projects.
• Providing detailed process training to End users, business executives and core team members.
• Preparing Production cutover plan, to conduct the end user training, and to obtain signoff on the final User Acceptance Tests.
• Go-Live and Support- Providing production support for all functions implemented.
• Automation of Marine Vessels & Services rate determination based on full Cost absorption model for Owned Vessels and Contract price for Chartered vessels using SAP CO module.
• Design and Implement full automation of Planning, Forecasting of Marine Vessels and Services.
• Automation of planning process which includes the initiation, collection, approvals, consolidation and finalization of vessels and other marine services to be forecasted for the upcoming year.
• Configuring workflow using Aramco (AAE) common workflow tool (using an interactive form to fill up the vessel and other marine requirements)
• Integration of forecast data to IPS (Integrated Planning system) from SAP Marine operation system.
• Integration of Internal Cost allocations (Vessel & Service Charges) to the Customer department using SAP CO- activity allocation tool.
• Implementation of contract management process in SAP for Marine operation and other services.
• Automate the creation of monthly Vendor Invoicing process integrated with custom developed MOMS. (Marine Operation Management Systems) applications and Posting of invoice to SAP - Service Entry Sheet/ERS.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Environment: SAP ECC

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the client's business requirements, gathered requirements through user meetings, identified the gap and produced the functional documents as per the client's requirement.
• Responsible for preparing test scripts and performing and monitoring testing for support pack implementation.
• Checking Validation and Substitution rules in analyzing an issue related to automatic account determination.
• Preparation of Project Estimation matrix report based on Complexity points and Work break down estimate, Project schedule and resource allocation matrix.
• Implemented FI-AP, INV-Logistics verification, Auto Payment clearing configurations thru EDI-IDOC technical developments and completed documentations
• Conducting end to end functional, and integration tests and obtains the required approval for all applications
• Preparing Production cutover plan, to conduct the end user training, and to obtain signoff on the final User Acceptance Tests
• Go-Live and Support- Providing production support for all functions implemented.

Confidential

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, 6.0 SAP BI, SAP SRM, HP QC, Remedy

Responsibilities:

• Handling day to day queries/ issues related to FICO and other logistic modules integrated with FI-GL, AR, AP, FIXED ASSETS, COPA, PCA and Internal orders
• Interacting with client for new business requirements and mapping the process in SAP
• Responsible for Handling FI integration with SD and MM modules.
• Acknowledge receipt of incident and enhancement requests in a timely manner.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and identify appropriate solution for assigned Incident and Enhancement requests as per agreed SLA.
• Proactively identify process improvements and communicate those to the client to demonstrate value addition
• Resolving requests in order of priority and update all associated documentation on the per project instructions.
• Build and maintain close working relationships with business owners.
• Proactively communicate potential issues in a timely manner.
• Preparing the user documents for new enhancements and new process implementations.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6C, 4.7E

Responsibilities:

• Design, configuration and testing of core CO modules (Product Costing, COPA, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order and Profit center accounting).
• Guide the business in utilizing SAP functionally to the best extent possible, involves review of business processes and system integration challenges.
• Prepare detailed functional specifications for development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms.
• Develop and maintain the configuration and functional design documents and support role based profile changes for the FI/CO module.
• Involved multiple deployments model enhancements in the areas of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cost Centre Accounting, Internal orders and Profit Centre accounting.
• Supporting the issues within the SLA in all the areas in FICO.
• Resolution of routine support queries in FICO involving issuance of clarifications, analysis of ABAP dumps and Job cancellations in Production environment and user training.
• Providing assistance to team members in resolving configurations issues.
• Identify the functional errors and recommend design change/maintenance for functional improvements.
• Worked on day to day support issues which comprise General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Account Receivable, Asset Accounting and Cost center accounting.
• Hands on experience to setup new company codes as per the client’s requirements.
• Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement.
• Extensively involved in modification of customer statements, dunning statements and payment advices.
• Configured house banks and maintained accounts in house banks. Defining Check Lots, Payment Terms, Set Up bank determination for all payment transactions, defined posting keys and posting rules for check deposit.
• Supported in solving the issues related to the automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• Configured Asset classes, depreciation keys and areas, ordinary and unplanned depreciation runs, depreciation accounting, Low value asset, cutoff Value Key for Asset Accounting.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) created Cost elements, cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, statistical key figures, master data groups, validations and substitutions, reconciliation ledgers, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, activity types and planning them on different cost centers, planned and actual activity price calculations.
• Work with other functional support team to ensure that all integration issues of changes are covered.
• Knowledge in EDI/IDOC configuration, processing and handling the issues.
• Responsible for Unit testing and assisted in User Acceptance testing of reports and documents.
• Provided Post Go-Live support to users and halped them resolving their problems.
• As part of team member actively worked with internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues, requests, tickets, enhancements.
• Worked on interfaces flowing from NON-SAP system to SAP.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP Version 4.7C, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the structures and procedures of Eli Lilly, and tan match them to the SAP Structures and Designs.
• Creation of Master Scope Book based on the Business Requirement and designing of Functional Specifications with explaining the Business Functionality, Business Dependencies and Business Criticality for implementing all FI/CO Modules related Objects and Configuration.
• Configuration of all FI and CO modules and assisting Area Architect for successful implementation and Post implementation support.
• Design, configuration and testing of core CO modules (Product Costing, COPA, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order and Profit center accounting).
• Guide the business in utilizing SAP functionally to the best extent possible, involves review of business processes and system integration challenges.
• Prepare detailed functional specifications for development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms.
• Develop and maintain the configuration and functional design documents and support role based profile changes for the FI/CO module.
• Preparation of testing Scenarios and Test strategies to Perform Manual Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing in Quality Environment for all the Configuration and Z program Reports developed in Config Environment using Testing Software Test Director and Quality center.
• Search of appropriate SAP OSS Notes to rectify the functional errors or bugs in the standard program.
• Job Monitoring analysis of Job error and Resolution and handling of all BDC related issues Of Customized Z programs..
• Stringent process of documentation, validation and testing to be followed to move changes inProduction as per FDA guidelines.
• Providing production support and solved end users issues/tickets in line with SLAs
• Designed and developed custom reports such as duplicated invoice identification while posting the invoices
• Resolving configuration issues and customization request.
• Designed and configured Automatic Payment Program, payment terms and Electronic Bank Reconciliation
• Involved in regression testing and integration testing FI with PS, MM & SD
• Involved in integration with FI-MM, FI-SD, FI - HR and F me - PS
• Designed and configured House banks, Bank Accounts and GL Accounts for Bank Accounts as per business requirement
• Co-ordinated with users for UAT / Integration testing & issue resolution. Provided training to the functional heads and core users from procurement to pay and order to Cash.