SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Consultant having around 15+ years of experience in the implementation, roll - out, upgrade, development and support of SAP FICO and SAP S/4 HANA.
• In-depth knowledge and experience inthe implementation of SAP FICO, SAP T&E, SAP S/4 HANA Finance, SAP FIORI Apps, SAP Personas, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur. Development & support of FI, CO, SAP T&E, SAP S/4 HANA Finance, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, IHC & BCM.
• 4+ years of functional experience in the area of Accounts.
• Have exposure working at different client locations across the globe in Singapore, U.K & U.S. Lead the onsite and offshore teams.
• Working experience across various industries like Manufacturing, Telecom, Utilities, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance.
• Proficient in configuration of FI Components - New GL Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting & Bank accounting. CO sub modules -Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) & Internal Orders. Travel Management sub module - Travel Expenses. SAP FSCM - In-House Cash & Bank Communication Management.
• Undergone on S/4 HANA Finance, SAP Treasury & Risk Management, SAP FICA and SAP Product Costing. Have understanding of SAP FSCM & FS-CD modules.
• Worked on Supply chain management, which involves integration with SD and MM modules. Have experience working with payment medium workbench (PMW), lockbox processing, integration with third party tax applications (Sabrix, Taxware), EBS, Financial Statement Versions, integration with HR, Inter-company accounting, implementation of SAP Best Practices, HANA for reporting, Interfaces, IDOCs, RFCs, data migration.
• Worked on SAP Travel and Expense Management and integration of Travel Management with FI. Worked on implementing SAP Concur integration with SAP ECC and SAP S/4 HANA.
• Worked on implementing and enhancing the SAP FIORI Apps.
• Have knowledge on SAP HANA & worked on HANA accelerators.
• Involved in HRSP, EHP7, Sabrix, Database, OS upgrades and Data Center Migration.
• Experience working on workflows, reports, conversions, interfaces, enhancements & forms (RICEFW).
• Ability to understand the programming logic and debug the programs.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Excellent team player with the ability to work well in a team and also independently.
• Involved in preparation of RFPs to present to the prospective customers, estimates and reviews.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP

SAP FICO Modules: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger/New General Ledger, CO-PA, Product Costing, Bank Accounting.

SAP Concur: Integration with ECC through the Add-on & CPI. Financial Postings, Payments, Credit card reconciliations, HANA Reporting, Workflows, Audit Rules, Expense Types.

SAP Ariba: Integration with ECC & S/4 HANA, Invoice postings, Payment status update, Invoice status updates, discounting.

SAP IHC & BCM: Bank Area set-up, Transaction types, business transaction codes, account maintenance, payment requests, payment orders, payment grouping, bank statement monitor, conditions, limits, current account master.

SAP T&E: Trip provision variants, schemas, audit rules, workflow, expense types, symbolic accounts, authorizations, budgets.

S/4 HANA Finance: Ledger configuration, CVI integration, AP & IHC set-up, Bank account management, Data Migration, New Asset Accounting, Material Ledger, Concur & Ariba Integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

SAP FICO Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead various phases of SAP S/4 HANA 2020 implementation from initiation & discovery to release.
• During Solution Confirmation phase, got SAP Best Practices implemented and conducted workshops using pre-configured S/4 HANA system, gathered requirements and adjusted the standard process flows as per NWN business process.
• Confirmed the configuration, performed Fit-Gap Analysis, identified data objects, finalized the scope, preparation of BRTM, BPDs, CRD, FDD & user stories.
• Implemented new chart of accounts, ledgers, document splitting, profit center accounting and recurring entry functionality.
• Configured company codes, automatic payment program, EBS as per the new chart of accounts and updated the relevant user exits accordingly.
• Changes done in Concur to update G/L as per new chart of accounts, expense form changes done to remove the statistical IO field and audit rules updated accordingly. Integration updated and tested with the new CPI middleware.
• Enhanced approval workflow for journal entry posting and accruals through journal entry upload. Custom programs built for invoice posting through excel upload and workflow for vendor invoice approval.
• Enhanced the Ariba invoice status update and payment proposal interfaces as per client requirement.
• CPI was introduced as a middleware. Tested integration with Blackline, CIS, Engie, Allegro and banks. Assisted in preparation of test scripts, supported and resolved issues during build, unit testing, SIT and UAT.
• Participated in the cut-over plan design, mock cut-over, final cut-over and dress rehearsal. Migrated data through LTMC and custom programs during pre-cutover and cut-over.
• Provided demos, job aids and knowledge transfer to the end users.
• Usage of Azure DevOps for document storage, test planning, test case execution and defect tracking.
• Custom FIORI Apps built for reporting as per user requirement.

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducting and Co-ordinating Business Blueprint workshopsfor understanding client requirements. Preparation of Business Blue Print.
• Liaison with the client, understand problem areas, gather requirements from the client, performed detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provided appropriate system solutions.
• Prepared Project scope document, Process design document (AS-IS and TO-BE), Process flow diagrams, Business Requirement Traceability Matrix and Business Requirement Document.Prepared configuration documents and got the necessary configuration changes done in SAP FICO & S/4 HANA Finance.
• Analyzing & estimating efforts for Change Requests and projects. Tracked incidents in Service Now analyzed & provided resolution and reported the status.
• Prepared functional specifications for the requirements, which do not meet the SAP Standard product functionality. Assisted the technical team in development and review of functional unit testing, integration testing.
• Providing UAT support and post-implementation warranty support for the changes/developments done.
• Development and incident resolution in the areas of New General Ledger, Accounts receivable, Accounts Payable, Controlling, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reporting, Ariba, Concur & In-House Cash.
• Integrated SAP ECC with SAP Concur through Concur Add-on. Implemented the Financial Integration Add-on. Enhanced the standard Add-on code to implement custom functionality. The code was customized to post Travel Expense accounting documents to the employee’s home cost center and move the cost to the relevant orders & operations; post P-card and storm card transactions. Involved in the requirement gathering, design, preparation of functional specifications, build and delivery.
• Implementation of SAP S/4 HANA Finance (1809) for the client. Involved from project preparation to deployment and post go-live support.
• Implementation, enhancement & support of the SAP FIORI Travel Expense Approval App, invoice creation & approval App.
• Involved in HRSP, EHP7, Database, OS and Sabrix upgrades. Worked in enabling HANA Accelerators.
• Worked on change request to update ECC program variants through HANA views.
• Worked on enhancement in IHC to post payment advices more than 999-line items.
• Custom enhancements built to the Ariba programs while posting invoices from Ariba, sending invoices to Ariba, Invoice status update and payment status update to Ariba.
• Provided functional inputs and lead the team in migration of the Data Center.
• Work on yearly 1099 reporting, 3rd party payroll payments enabling and work with the audit team during yearly reviews.
• Worked with the testing team to identify the test scenarios, reviewed test scripts &test evidences in HPQC at various phases of the project like assembly testing, integration testing & regression testing.
• Co-ordinate with technical, functional, cross-functional teams to get the work delivered and provides necessary updates to the management & the client.
• Provided demos to the clients on new changes/enhancements/POCs. Delivered various changes requests & automations.Managed the team, mentored the team members and given knowledge transfer on the application & business processes to the resources in the team.
• Planning of work schedules & allocation of work to the team members.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in S/4 HANA Finance discovery & preparation workshops to implement S/4 HANA for the client.
• Implemented SAP Best practices, worked on baseline configuration and GAP Analysis, updated configuration documents and functional specs, worked with the technical team on customizations.
• Configured ledgers, customer-vendor integration with BP, BP configuration for employee vendors, automatic payment program set-up, house bank and bank account set-up, EBS and IHC configuration.
• WRICEF changes based on the S/4 HANA data model.
• Integration of SAP Ariba and SAP Concur with S/4 HANA system.
• FIORI Apps implementation and customization.
• Support unit testing, integration testing & pre-UAT & UAT testing.
• Responsible for data migration and conversion activities such as extraction, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data.
• Involved in cut-over; Data migration of master data, open A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, GL Balances, Internal Orders, Cost Centers, Bank Accounts through BODS.
• Change management through SAP ChaRM.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Got trained in SAP Treasury and Risk Management and assigned to develop the SAP Treasury Management module for the client.
• Gathered and analyzed requirements from the client.
• Configured the COE system to enable SAP Treasury & Risk Management.
• Worked with the technical, onsite functional & business teams to enable workflow with the Treasury Transaction Manager.
• Reviewed the defects with development team & worked with them in fixing of the defects.
• Performed testing of the functionality developed.
• Prepared necessary documentation and provided demo of the functionality to the client.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on enhancements/changes in the SAP Claims Management, Collections and disbursements modules for the client.
• Managed a team of consultants. Planned activities and allocated work to the team members.
• Involved in gathering and analyzing requirements from the client, worked with the team in building the design and development of the requirements.
• Provided weekly status report and conducted progress review meetings with the team.
• Co-ordinate with the onsite team and client about the deliverables.
• Worked with the technical team in fixing defects in a claim’s management report.
• Tested the changes/fixes and updated the test results in HPQC.
• Configured Business rules framework & policies.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from the client and prepared Business Requirement Specification/Business Blueprint, done GAP analysis, effort estimation.
• Learnt Travel & Expense Management. Configured wage types, expense types, mapped expense types to wage types, wage types to symbolic account mapping and symbolic account to g/l account mapping.
• Worked on Amex interfaces. Configured Amex transaction types to SAP expense types. Enhanced Amex standard programs to capture additional details.
• Worked on UBS specific custom requirements like pre-approval of an expense claim, custom workflow, budget updating, claims against budget and payment against budget for financial advisors.
• Worked on UBS specific validations and rules to process and approve an expense claim.
• Prepared configuration document and functional specifications.
• Updated Requirement Traceability Matrix to map the requirements to the configuration documents, functional specifications and test cases.
• Co-ordinated with the technical team to build UI for the users to access Travel application.
• Built FUT and SIT test plans and test cases.
• Prepared end user process documents and KT documents.
• Presented process demos to the client and knowledge transfer to the support team. Data uploads through LSMW & BDC.
• Owned FUT, SIT testing, cut-over and post cut-over activities.
• Provided prompt and quick resolution during warranty support phase.
• Worked on Change requests and critical support issues. Worked on both Travel Management and integration of Travel Management with FI.

Confidential

SAP Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support and maintenance to the client SAP ECC application.
• Maintained new House Banks and inter-company relationships for FI posting.
• Worked on document reversals, Cross company document reversals, deleting bank statements and editing recurring documents.
• Involved in master Data maintenance activities like creation /editing / blocking GL accounts / Cost Centers & profit centers, Changes to Cost center hierarchy and financial statement hierarchy.
• Responsible for FI Month end activities like forex rates upload, mass reversals, running recurring journals, forex revaluations.
• Prepared custom reports for the client.Resolved issues in CO-PA.
• Involved in business meetings with developers and other testers.
• Incidents were tracked, analyzed, and documented using Remedy.
• Worked with cross functional team, and participated in formal/ informal meetings.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interface with external tax system, ‘Tax ware’ for tax calculation and tax Jurisdiction code determination on applicable sales transactions.
• Pass HP co, as company code and sales office company code as division to ‘Tax ware’.
• Enhancement to existing programs, user-exits, reports to call external tax system.
• Creation of accounting documents using appropriate g/l accounts.
• Prepared scoping, design, configuration and KT documents.
• Prepared test scripts and done testing in quality center.
• Involved in design, construction, SIT, UAT and Implementation.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation of two new company codes. Creation of new g/l accounts, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers as required.
• Standard setting for new build and buy parts through product costing. Cost component structure maintenance, Costing run execution.
• Automatic account determination.
• Map g/l accounts, cost centers, profit centers, document types, number ranges according to AFM (Accounting Financial Manual) standards via XI to send to interface system for consolidation.
• Set-up new tax codes for A/P and A/R.
• GR/IR re-class and GR/IR clearing.
• Daily & Month-end close variants, jobs set-up.
• Enhancement to existing programs, reports, user-exits.
• Prepared scoping, design, configuration and KT documents.
• Involved in design, construction, SIT, UAT, Implementation and post go-live support.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of new company code, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, chart of accounts, number ranges, payment terms.
• Creation of new cycle count reconciliation report to reconcile the inventory at CM and on HP’s books. This report will calculate a BTP variance and will help to post the variance to the appropriate books.
• Leverage/make enhancements to the existing reports on the new system.
• Establish EDI linkage between CM and HP for receipt of invoices, acknowledgment notification, sending of payment advices.
• Creation of new cost/profit centers for controlling.
• Configuration settings for MM and SD integration.
• Inter-company billings between two HP entities for procurement of raw-material and sale of finished product.
• Establish interface with bank for payment to vendor via bank transfer through EDI.
• Preparation of scoping, analysis and design documents.
• Documenting and updating Knowledge database.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in the implementation of the project and provided post implementation support.
• Was involved in studying of the current business process, evaluation of business requirements and preparation of the scoping, analysis, design, configuration and test documents.
• Basic configuration in FI: Defined company code, assigned fiscal year variant, posting period variant and field status variant to the new company code.
• General Ledger Accounting: Assigned Chart of Accounts and g/l accounts to the new company code. Defined document number ranges.
• Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable: Configured company code data for inter-company customers & vendors for Indonesia sales office to procure from Singapore and China plants. Configured company code data, dunning procedure for trade customers. Defined new tax procedure and tax code for Indonesia.
• CO-CCA: Configured controlling area, created cost centers, primary and secondary cost elements, and distribution and assessment rules for transfer of costs from cost centers to other cost objects.
• CO-PCA: Configured profit center accounting and created new profit centers.
• Integration: Assigned sales organization to new company code. Maintained g/l accounts for inter-company and trade sales. Maintained condition records for inter-company discounts.
• Enhancement made to several existing customized programs to convert local currency to USD with a factor for inter-company billing. Regression testing done for the changes made.
• Unit, integration and regression testing done and provided support for UAT.
• Prepared KT document and provided to production support team and end users.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collection of details related to inbound and outbound finance interfaces about the connectivity type, interface programs, jobs and requesting the partner systems to make changes to their settings.
• Changes made to inbound and outbound RFC connections with the new server names in development, test and production systems.
• Made changes to the existing SAP jobs in test system to point to new DCC server and tested SFTP scripts, jobs, RFC connections in the new test server. Sent data to business finance and partner systems for validation.
• Unit, integration and regression testing done and provided support for UAT.
• Prepared KT document and provided to production support team and end users.
• Provided post-implementation warranty support

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business requirements and prepared design document based on the business requirements.
• Activated profit center accounting for Japan by configuring profit center hierarchy, profit center groups, dummy profit center. Created additional cost centers and new profit centers for Japan and mapped them to cost elements in the controlling area.
• Leveraged existing Australian programs for BTO/CTO accounting and sales order re-costing. Regression testing done for the enhancement made on these programs.
• Maintained necessary tables for BTO accounting, valuation class change, profit center change.
• Enhancement done to the ALE user exit for changes to profit center, cost center and business area information when sending information to other interface systems.
• Enhancement done to one of the interface programs to send accounting document with both USD and 3rd currency information.
• Enhancements done to existing Japan reports to include profit center field in the output screen and add additional data extraction table in the selection screen. Leveraged existing additional reports from Singapore.
• Provided functional specifications to the ABAPers for the enhancements done.
• Created new variants, daily and month end closing jobs for Japan.
• Unit, integration and regression testing done and provided support for UAT.
• Provided post-implementation warranty support.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided functional specification to the ABAPers to develop a new report of all export shipments to be made and their export values before PGIed.
• Testing done and provided test results to the users.
• Created new variant and job for daily report generation and e-mail to users.
• Provided warranty support.

Confidential

Customer Support Expert

Responsibilities:

• Auditing the processed Invoices in SAP for payments, Debit Note, Credit Note, Cheque request. Manual Cheque request, Wire Payments, Adjustments notes, Returns to vendor invoices.
• Processing invoices in SAP for payments, Debit Note, Credit Note, Cheque request. Manual Cheque request, Wire Payments, Adjustments notes, Returns to vendor invoices.
• Generating and maintaining daily reports.
• Onboard for new joiners in Auditing and Invoice processing.
• Processing of Non-PO batches. (Rent, Tax, Labor payments, Leasing, Amex card payments)
• Cancel and repost of batch documents and rectification of any fallouts