SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience in SAP, S/4Hana with Functional & Technical proficiency.
• Over 8+ years of experience in SAP, S/4 Financial modules with 3+ full lifecycle implementations including cross - application experience.
• Defined systems strategy, developed systems requirements, designed, prototyped, defined support procedures and implemented various financial solutions.
• Knowledgeable in general business process on other core modules like SD, HR, MM, LE, PP & PM.
• Efficient in configurations, customization and integration of financial modules with other core modules.
• Implemented solutions for analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and long range planning of all allocated expenses.
• In depth understanding of the configuration, business processes and issues involving US GAAP, IFRS & SOX.
• Tested, trained and supported business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Experienced in understanding of “As Is” Business processes, Blue Printing, participated in Realization, Configuration, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• In-depth knowledge on LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data for devising and implementing approaches for loading open items and GL balances into SAP.
• Knowledge and hands-on exposure on upgrades, Enhancement and Migration.
• Hands on experience on tools using ITIL framework like Remedy, JIRA.
• In depth knowledge on integrating FiCo with other third party software like Vistex, Vertex, Tibco, Oracle and others.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with clients using innovative tools for continuous implementation strategy like Agile methodology over one-off implementation strategy like Waterfall methodology.
• Efficient in coordinating offshore - onsite communications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Enterprise Structure: Company code, GL account design, Fiscal year configurations, Tax Configurations, Document settings.

New General Ledger / Classical GL: Define ledgers, Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, Posting, Clearing, Accruals, and Reporting.

Accounts Receivable: Customer Master Data, posting business transactions, Payments, Clearing, Payment Advices, Interest Calculation, Dunning, Down Payments, Payment Guarantees, Bills of Exchange, Payment Release.

Accounts Payable: Vendor Master Data, Account Balances, Line Items, Reversals, Clearing, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Reconciliation, House Banks, Check configurations.

Treasury: Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, risk management, cash management posting rules, exchange rates, planning, integration with MM and SD

Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, Defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.

Cost Element/Center Accounting: Creation of Primary and secondary cost elements, creation of cost center standard Hierarchy, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, plan price calculation, periodic allocations in plan.

Internal Orders: Creation of settlement cost element, configuration of the Settlement structure, settlement profile, real and statistical postings, Configuration of order planning, Budgeting, Defining status profile, Defining order types.

CO-Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing Costing based CO-PA and Account based CO-PA including setting up of the operating concern, characteristics, value fields.

Closing and Reporting: Run and reconcile all incoming interface, start control and clearing reconciliation, run customer billing and vendor payments, approval of all parked documents, Run final sales figure and dunning reports, Open new period, close old sales and material periods, Run all settlements in CO, Creating management accounting reports with Report painter.

Integration with MM, PP, HR and SD: Integration of FI with MM, PP and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination, Interfaces design and testing, CATS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

IT Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed, analyzed, expanded and modified the business and IT systems to improve business and IT process efficiencies and work flow. Performed this task for Oracle EBS system migration to SAP S/4Hana, Credit Card Tokenization, Metranet integration with SAP Fi-CA.
• Experienced in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Hands on experience in implementing business processes related to S/4Hana Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable and Cash Collections.
• Sound configuration knowledge of master data, GL, AP, AR, Asset accounting, Product costing, COPA, Treasury - Cash and Bank accounting, automatic payment programs and closing cockpit.
• In-depth understanding of configuration dependencies and interrelationships between separate functional modules of SAP.
• Hand-on experience in Fi-CA (SAP S/4 Contract Accounting), SAP S/4 Convergent Charging and Revenue Accounting Reporting. Work experience in setting up Business Partners, Contract Accounts, Provider Contracts and related processes.
• Experienced in IT operations tasks sorting out Billing and Invoicing issues.
• Integration experience on SAP S/4 FICA with Vertex, Biller Direct.
• Investigated operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, and sought effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
• Identified potential benefits, and available options for consideration.
• Applied data analysis and data modeling techniques to establish, modify or maintain data structures and its associated components.
• Developed implementation plans on complex requests for change.
• Evaluated risks to integrity of infrastructure inherent to the proposed implementations.
• Reviewed the effectiveness of change implementation, and suggested improvement to organizational procedures governing change management.
• Also led the assessment, analysis, development, documentation, and implementation of changes.

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Customized General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting and Special Purpose Ledger Sub Modules in FI Module.
• Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules & Revenue Recognition
• Maintained Controlling areas and made assignments
• Configuring and Customizing Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules in CO
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) configured and customized the Standard Hierarchy for cost centers, maintained Activities, Statistical Key Figures, developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Configured and customized the settlement structures, cost splits for activity price calculations
• Carried out changes in the Configuration for Tax on Purchases & Sale and its integration with Third party software.
• Complete Configuration for transferring from Classic withholding Tax to Extended withholding Tax platform.
• Updated Material Master Data elements to support calculation of consolidated cost- SPK, with quantity Structures, Material Origin, Origin Group, Price unit, Costing View.
• Used LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Used FI-LA, FI-CA as the inbound target of ERP for each contract created in CRM. Also configured the Lease Accounting Engine for AROM (Asset Retirement Obligation Management) activities.
• Streamlined Asset capitalization process for better tracking of budgets.
• Performed changes in the automatic account assignment for material movement for price differences and account determination for FI postings
• Worked on FI-SD account determination rule to accurately capture accounting requirement during Billing and PGI. Fi-SD-Vertex integration for handling all sales taxes and VAT to ensure compliances with various tax jurisdictions.
• Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics. Defined both basic reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at customer and product levels. Developed multiple reports for the reporting of profitability. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-PC/CO-IO/FI and MM, and carried out extraction of data from COPA to SAP BW system

Confidential

SAP Portal - Content Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Process re-engineering and change management.
• Worked on gathering business requirements coordinating resources worldwide.
• Configuring the Payment Program with the related Bank Accounting Sub module Transactions in order to outsource payment execution to Bank of America for various countries.
• Experienced in SAP Insurance Collections/Disbursements (FS-CD) part of the Business Function Set (BFS), performing tasks like Commission Management, Claims Management, Reinsurance Management and Policy Management.
• Worked on Treasury related processes on interfacing the needs of the Treasury team with those of the Accounts Payable team.
• Data Conversion for devising and implementing the approach used in loading both AP open items and GL balances into SAP.
• Analyzed requirements for processing intercompany AR & AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support including interfacing temporary business processes to manage the transfer of unconverted legacy data into SAP.
• Conducted Post-Go Live support integrated workshops for teams.
• Financial Controlling experience include implementing Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Product Costing, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis through business blue printing, scoping and design.
• Designed and implemented solutions based on business requirements received on Accounts payable functionalities for enhancements of Intercompany Payment Run, Intercompany Invoices, Recurring Invoices and Manual Payments (Residual and Partial).
• Performed solution analysis on FI-Cash Management. Determined the level of work effort required for outbound electronic payments.
• Hands on experience on FSCM tasks like Credit, Collections and Dispute Management, treasury tasks like treasury management, risk management and in-house cash.
• Preparation of test cases and performance of unit and integration testing.
• Facilitated the business with user acceptance testing.
• Worked closely with project managers as a subject matter expert in ensuring all projects are delivered on time, within budget and of the expected quality.
• Ability to lead a collaborative environment with internal and external vendors and IT business partners.
• Responsible for active support and adherence to IT Service Management procedures.
• Responsible for support and compliance with problem, change and release management procedures using BMC Remedy.

Confidential

SAP Portal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in People, Process, Information and Application Integration of Netweaver.
• Experience in creating Webdynpro applications in Netweaver Developer studio.
• Experience on developing RFCs, BAPI’s, Business Server Pages (BSP’s), WD4A applications and have accessed them from JAVA iViews using JCo (SAP Java Connector).
• Experienced in Security aspects such as implementing Single Sign On with SAP R/3, BW, CRM, cFolders, and non-SAP systems, user Mapping, authorization of permissions and integrating Microsoft Active Directory server, Integrity site minder with Enterprise Portal.
• Installation and Configuration of Knowledge Management and collaboration components and administered Content Management, Retrieval and Classification (TREX) in the Knowledge Management (KM) of the Enterprise Portal.