PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP Certified with 12 years of experience Finance and Accounting Experience in implementation of SAP FICO Module as a Functional Consultant .
• Involved in New S/4 Implementations Project with focus on Business Partner conversion and Accounting Migration
• Involved in New Implementations, Enhancements, Up gradation, Testing & Production Support/User issues, Super - User & End-User Training & Documentation
• Involved in world wide roll outs travelling extensively in NA, Central America, Europe, Asia & Africa during workshops, training and hypercare support.
• Search functionality and standard algorithms to automate clearing and matching invoices.
• Involved in 5+ Full cycle implementations using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology with experience in all project phases - Business blue print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support and post live production support, documentation(FDD).
• Involved in preparing Functional Specifications for the RICEFWS and perform GAP Analysis.
• Expert knowledge on ECC 6.0 Activating New General Ledger Accounting, Defining Ledgers for General Ledger, Real time Integration of Controlling with FI.
• Experienced in gathering and analyzing business requirements, identifying process gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes, re-engineering business processes, creating business blueprints, mapping processes to SAP functionality, and collecting master data.
• Experience in Financial Accounting (FI) includes General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Extensively involved in Asset master data maintenance, Acquisitions, Fixed Assets, and Depreciation areas, Depreciation Keys, Retirements and transfers, Settlement process from IO/WBS to Fixed Assets,Revaluation of Fixed Assets, Fiori Apps for Depreciation Run.
• Proficient knowledge of GAAP
• Proficient in Configuration and Integration of SD and MM with FI and thorough understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules (FI/CO, SD(OTC), MM,HR).
• Experienced in configuring Foreign currency taxes and Maintaining parallel currency during international assignments
• Worked on EDI /Idocs and SAP User exits.
• Experience using SDLC tool like JIRA (Atlassian).
• Worked on Material Ledger for Global Company
• Worked on Taxation for US( 3rd party Vertex) and South American Countries. Worked on business scenarios for VAT for European Regions and African Regions.
• Worked on Process and FICO Configuration documentation, Unit and Integration Test Scripts and end user training.
• Strong understanding of Project Management, Software Development life cycle, Quality Assurance process, and Software quality metrics.
• Provided functional support by being the liaison between users and technical support teams. Worked in offshore support model and supported month end and year end activities.
• Involved in the Implementation of Paymetric Credit Card Processing using XiPay /Xi (Integration)Secure/Xi Intercept functionalities for Credit Card settlements.
• Team lead experience in managing small teams both on site and offshore (Support model).
• Accounts Payable Integration with Kofax & Norikkon (Invoice Process Mgmt)
• Involved in FI integration with Plant Maintenance module and Pool Asset Management
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to transform business requirements into test strategies, test plans, test scenarios and test scripts.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and team-oriented environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude for learning and creativity.
• Experience in House Bank Configuration, Bank accounts, and Interface with Banksin ECC & Managing banks in S4 using Fiori Apps.
• Experience working on Bank Account Management(BAM) functionality in S4 system.
• Cash application- Standard SAP Lock box (Accounts Receivable) in SAP &. Cash application using SAP Add-on (Autobank-Serrala ) to automate Cash Receivables and increase hit ratio. Worked on Project involving Accounts Receivable Securitization (Factoring).
• Experience working with Payment files((Cross Media) generated through PMW/DMEE & Idoc Payment processing in conjunction with Bank Communication Management (BCM).
• Experienced in SAP automated Payment configuration (Wires/ACH/CHECK payment/Payment Orders/E-payables.
• Experienced with Extended Withholding Tax functionality and Tax reporting .
• Use of ALM for SAP FICO testing scenario in conjunction with Panaya.
• Payments involving intermediary banks (Corresponding banks) using Bank chains.
• Supply chain Payments (using Payment Orders ) with Domestic and International banks.
• Experience in Electronic Banking configuration(EBS) for domestic and International banks using BAI & MT940 formats.
• Experience on working with FSCM modules such as Credit Management, Dispute Management & Collection Management along with Bank Account Management.

SAP SKILLS:

• Business Partner Conversion/Accounting Migration & S4 Fiori Security& HR to Business Partner Synchronization using BADI’s & User exits.
• FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business areas, functional areas, and sales and use tax.
• General Ledger: Account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, intercompany automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups. Multiple Ledgers/Currencies and parallel Valuations.
• Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, reason codes, check runs, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, AP information system, integration with MM.
• Banking: House banks, Check printing and Management, Manual and Electronic Bank Reconciliation(MT940/BAI2) and Lock box.
• Integration: Integration with SAP add-ons like Vertex/Paymetric/Autobank applications/FOREX Rate Integration through API.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, AR information system, SAP Cash Receipts, closing operations, sales order, and integration with Sales & Distribution.
• Treasury: Electronic bank statement processing, Cash management posting rules(Cash Concentration, and Cash management position, Credit lines/Borrowings (LTD/STD), Exchange rates.
• FSCM: SAP Credit Management/Dispute Management/Collection Management
• Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting: Planning, cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, statistical keys, activity type, assessment, distribution, reposting and integration with MM.
• Profitability Analysis: Configuring and customizing the operating concern, characteristics, value fields, maintaining the derivation rules and valuation, creating Drilldown Reports and Planning.
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-objects to profit centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of reports.
• Asset Accounting: Depreciation areas, chart of depreciation, fixed assets, setting up of master data, asset transactions, periodic processing in FI-SL, information system.
• Investment Measures/Project System: Worked on Budgeting of projects using Investment Measures and Project Systems.
• Reports: Worked extensively with Technical team on Custom report developments and also familiar with Report Painter
• Integration with MM & SD: Worked on integration touch points between MM & FI /SD & FI on topics related Intercompany Sales/Intercompany STO/PO Condition types/SD Pricing procedures .
• Interface: Worked on various interfaces with Banks and expense reporting with Concur
• Closing: Closing Cockpit, Foreign Currency Revaluation and Translation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (EHP 8)

Database: MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle.

MS Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point.

Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr SAP FI Analyst

Environment: SAP S4 HANA (1909/2020)

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Workshops to address the Gaps from migrating from ECC to S4
• Custom reporting for Funds Management.
• Analyze the Fiori Apps needed to address business requirement.
• Work with SAP to address any gaps found missing in Fiori Apps
• Security build for Catalog & Group from Fiori App perspective.
• Functional Specs for Interfaces for Business Partner conversion.
• Business Partner: Configuration of Business Partner, Master data Synchronization, HR to BP synchronization, Functional specs for Business Partner conversion.
• Integration of E-Payables with Wells Fargo
• Integration of Forex rates into SAP through Bank API.
• Implementation of Bank Account Management .
• Post S4 Accounting Migration Activities(after System conversion using SUM tool)
• AP payment Apps, Payments through ACH /WIRE (International Banks)

Confidential, Cary, NC

Senior FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with consultants to carve out the business division out of SAP
• Confidential brought a certain section of business of Industrial Solutions from GE . Worked on the migration aspects from legacy system to SAP
• Paymetric Credit Card Processing: Processor Platform Migration /Xi secure/Xi Intercept in AR for Confidential Canada
• Automation of Exchange Rate into SAP through feeder system with a schedule job
• Vertex Support for Tax
• Implementation of SAP approved Audit tool - Smart Exporter for Ernst & Young0
• Implemented Global Trade Service (GTS) for Confidential Canada. This SAP tool is ensure business compliance with Sanctioned Party list countries (In conjunction with Deloitte team
• Custom reports in modules of Dispute Management/Credit Management /Collection Management
• Part of MAIA Project -A Global initiative to standardize the Master accounts in Confidential (Chart of Accounts)
• Support internal Audit with KPMG & and external audit Deloitte from SAP systems control perspective
• Global Cash Application in SAP using an Add on SAP approved tool (Autobank). to stream line the Cash application (AR) process and the automate Bank Reconciliation . The Solution has been rolled to Confidential US, Mexico & Canada.
• SAP upgrade to EHP8
• Park & Post Functionality with custom workflow to adhere to the new Group Policy
• Product Costing business Support from Costing sheet /Settlements perspective.

Confidential, Morrisville, North Carolina

SAP ECC6.0 FI/CO - Solution Architect

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Utilized ASAP methodology for developing a Blue print, Implementation and Production support.
• Gathered business requirements through client meetings and designed the Financial Accounting business processes, prepared SAP Gap analyses.
• Involved as a team member and Configured /Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, and Treasury.
• Accounts Payable: Extensively worked on Vendor Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms. Defining Credit control areas
• Worked on Vendor/Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.
• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records. Configured Funds Management module (FM)to accommodate budgets for all revenues and expenditures for individual responsibility areas.
• Involved in configuring the settings for Sales and Use Tax.
• Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to Design a global Vendor / Customer Master Record Structure.
• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and Set up the Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Configured Intercompany process settings.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments
• Configured and Tested the Electronic Bank reconciliation processes.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Involved in defining Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable.
• Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc.
• Extensively worked in the configuration of Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination.
• Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Interval & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Specified Document Type for Posting of Depreciation, Specified Account Assignment types for Account Assignment Object, Defined Depreciation Areas, Specify Transfer of APC Values, and Determined Depreciation Areas in the Fixed Asset Class.
• Revaluation of Fixed Assets (Argentina)
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Maintaining multi - level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes.
• Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition, Retirement, and Transfers & for Inter-company Asset Transfers. Configuration of Capitalization of Assets under Construction with different Settlement Rules. AUC class was created with line item settlement option.
• Created Different settlement profiles settling to different assets by line item. Four Depreciation Areas are created to take care of Book Depreciation, Tax Depreciation, and Cost Depreciation, Management Depreciation. Group assets were created to take care of the Block Assets for Tax Depreciation purposes.
• Configurations of House Banks, bank accounts, check lots and void reason codes.
• Configuration of the Cash management position and Cash concentration functionality of the Treasury module.
• Credit line with Short time and Long time borrowing Contracts in Treasury.
• Interface
• Worked on Exchange Rate Interface for auto uploads
• Interface with Legacy Systems

Confidential

Configurator and support

Responsibilities:

• On Site and worked with local consultants on Tax configuration.& Mastersaf Interface
• On Site and Involved in Training Users

Confidential

Configurator and support

Responsibilities:

• End to End FI configuration of GL/AP/AR/Banking/MM-SD Configuration/Tax Configuration
• On Site Dry runs to Financial Controllers
• Involved in Data Migration of GL Balances
• Month end and Year end Support

Confidential

Configurator and support

Responsibilities:

• End to End FI configuration of GL/AP/AR/Banking/MM-SD Configuration/Tax Configuration
• On Site Dry runs to Financial Controllers
• Involved in Data Migration of GL Balances

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• On Site gathering Business requirements specially in reference to Local Statutory Requirement
• Supervised the configuration of FI team in every module
• Dry Run session with business leads
• Conducted meetings with local business leads and Corporate Accounting (N.A)
• Designed Interfaces for Bank and Local feeder system(Farmer Accounting System)
• Supervised Data migration and Go Live Activities

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• On Site, gathering Business requirements specially in reference to Local Statutory Requirement
• Supervised the configuration of FI team in every module
• Dry Run session with business leads
• Conducted meetings with local business leads and Corporate Accounting (N.A)
• Supervised Data migration and Go Live Activities
• Design and implemented a new interface from Legacy to SAP

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• On Site, gathering Business requirements specially in reference to Local Statutory Requirement
• Supervised the configuration of FI team in every module
• Dry Run session with business leads
• Conducted meetings with local business leads and Corporate Accounting (N.A)
• Supervised Data migration and Go Live Activities

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supervised the configuration of FI team
• Configured Localized Tax requirements (VAT Sales/Purchase Journal & VAT protocol)
• Designed a customized program for Foreign currency Translation program based on Average Month end rate.
• Dry Run session with business leads
• Conducted meetings with local business leads and Corporate Accounting (N.A)
• Supervised Data migration and Go Live Activities
• On site for first month end support

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supervised the configuration of FI team
• Configured Localized Tax requirements (VAT)
• Dry Run session with business leads
• Training the Users
• On site for first Quarter end support

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• On Site, gathering Business requirements specially in reference to Local Statutory Requirement
• Supervised the configuration of FI team
• Configured Localized Tax requirements
• Dry Run session with business leads
• Training the Users

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Re - implementation assessments Strategy Discussions with business
• Supervised the configuration from FI perspective and facilitated UAT with business

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• On Site, gathering Business requirements specially in reference to Local Statutory Requirement
• Supervised the configuration of FI team
• Configured Localized Tax requirements
• Dry Run session with business leads
• Training the User
• Month end and Year end Support