SUMMARY

• CPA wif over 9 years of SAP Implementation experience in Financial Accounting (FI) & Controlling (CO) areas in all phases of Global End - To-End SAP implementation Projects.
• Experience in three full lifecycle implementations, rollout, Support and Enhancements projects.
• Configured and Tested FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-SPL,RAR-Revenue accounting and reporting, VIMOpen Text, CO-CCA, EC-PCA, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO - Material ledger, Contract Accounting, SAP TRM, PS and ECCS. FSCM - Credit & Collection Management and billers direct.
• Experience in creating single and composite roles for authorizations in PFCG. Well versed in using SUIM, ST01N, SU01, SU24 and SU01 for SAP user’s creation and auditing the user transactions.
• Proficient wif COPA - operating concern, value fields, quantities, Characteristics and Derivation rules.
• Broad based skills set entails expertise in SAP Finance, Controlling, Accounts receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP) Payment files in multiple formats using DMEE for PMW, XML and classic payment medium workbench, Asset Accounting, Product costing, Treasury, Cash Management, New G/L Migration, IDOCS, Credit Management, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, ABAP, debugging, ABAP Query, S/4 Hana and Project Management .
• Experience in Internal Orders - Overhead orders, Investment orders and orders wif Revenue, Statistical orders, Allocation structure, settlement profile and period end settlements.
• Experience in Cost center and Profit Center Accounting-hierarchies, Assignments, planning, layouts, and overheads, Allocations - Assessments and Distributions, manual allocations, Re-classifications, substitutions and validations.
• In depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration wif SD, MM, HR and PP wif Procure to Pay, Order to cash Cycles and providing support for account determination.
• Experience in New GL Configuration, defining leading and non-leading ledgers, setting up criteria, Assigning Business Scenarios, Document splitting, Zero balancing of documents.
• Extensive experience in Lockbox configuration and processing, FA- Acquire to retire process, Fixed assets migration from Legacy system, automatic processes like payment program and dunning program and EBS.
• Extensively worked on LTMC, IDoc, LSMW, CATT, ALV and ABAP Queries wif the ability to act as a techno functional consultant. Good working noledge on User exits, Substitutions, Validations, Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Good noledge on SAP BPC & Hyperion integration wif SAP ECC 6.0
• Developed Functional and Technical Specifications for development objects (RICEFW).
• Proficient in Project Evaluation, AS-IS study, Fit-GAP analysis, TO-BE process, troubleshooting, performance tuning, Production Support and End-user training.
• Conversant wif IFRS, US and Indian Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP), Government accounting principals and SOX compliance.
• Well versed in interacting wif Business Users, Business Analysts.
• Expertise in different phases in FULL life cycle implementation (Global Implementation) of SAP using SDLC, ASAP methodologies including business process re-engineering, System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Documentation and Testing.
• Business requirement collection, Industry Solutions (IS), ERP project analysis, process design, blue print, GAP analysis, Go-Live and Support and train user staff.
• Highly organized, and productive team player
• Excellent Interpersonal relations, Communication, Management, Mentoring and Team building Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Applications: SAP R/3 4.7, 5.0, 6.0, S4 Hana, SAP BI, BW & BPC, Success Factors EC & ECP.

SAP R/3 Tools: LSMW, Report Painter, Report Writer, Cats, Debugger.

Cross Applications: PI, CRM, BI, IBM Maximo, SOLMAN (Solution Manager), SQL, MS Office, Anaplan

Documentation tools: MS Word, MS Publisher, RWD InfoPak, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, OSX, Wiondws7, 10

Testing & Changing mgmt. Tools: Mercury, QAT, HP-QC, Remedy, Clarify, Service Now,Jira.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirement pertaining to SAP FICO AS-IS, TO-BE & GAAP.
• Involved in Implementation/Migration from Classic or New GL to S/4 Hana-Simple finance
• Conducted Activate methodology workshop, Involved in RDS (Rapid Deployment solution.- Discovery / Prepare, Explore, Realize Deploy & Run)
• Configured, Developed and tested BDD-Business process Document and Diagrams pertaining to Transactional (Tcode based) and Non transactional processes (Fiori/Netweaver) for FI-GL, Tax, AR, AP, Month end closing Cockpit, Assets, Bank communication using NWBC (House banks by Hierarchy), Cost Center, Profit Center, COPA, Transfer Price, Product Costing and Central Finance (Connecting External System wif SAP and interface via MDG, ETL and AFI ).
• Introduced Fiori Apps according to GRC roles - use SAP standard provided by Best practices and special user-defined.
• Involved in BCM - Bank communication management and FSCM component.
• Reporting using a Single source of Truth via ACCA Table, having multiple modules wif-in single report sliced by various reporting matrix meeting different reporting audience.
• Engaged in WRICEF for Virtual Data Module (VDM) to develop Hana and Fiori output.
• Involved in Training, testing, and Cutover for Go-live strategy.

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for carrying out the design and implementation of the General Ledger, AP, AR, AA and CO-Cost center, CO- Profit center areas for US and Canada company codes.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes,created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges,invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants)and financial statement version.
• Configured and optimizedSAPTreasurysolutions (TreasuryManagement, Cash &Liquidity Management, and bank Communication Management) to improve processing efficiency and reduce errors.
• Responsible for dailyTreasurycash management duties, review bank accounts, positive pay, investment logs and resolve transfer issues.
• Testing, and support of In-House Cash, A/P andTreasuryAutomatic Payment Programs, IDOC creation/troubleshooting, Configuration of electronic bank statements, and testing of the IHC end of day process and development and maintenance of supporting detail documentation
• Reviewed the company's Global bank entities & advice on plan and strategy on consolidation, implementingSAPIn-house Cash for centralized payments across foreign entities
• Builtdatamigrationplanfromlegacysystem(MicrosoftGreatPlains)toSAPusing LTMC and BDC to load AP, AR, GR/IR open items, Assets and GL balances into SAP.
• Configured Revenue Accounting Engine - Set up Revenue Accounting Item (RAI) Class, RAI Interface components, source Item type for creation of respective RAI from ECC SD Component
• Maintained Decision table and assign this to BRF plus application
• Developed upload template for loading operational documents into RAR
• Assigning accounting principals to company codes. Setting up Migration transfer date and transferring legacy data per company code
• Setting up Number ranges for the RA contract, Performance Obligations, Run ID
• Revenue Price Allocation as per US-GAAP and IFRS
• ALE & IDOC configuration - Configured ALE/IDOC’s for loading Cost center, Vendor and GL master data to SAP Success factors Employee central Payroll system (ECP)
• Build interfaces between clients third party systems and SAP and developed custom programs to post financial entries by reading data parked in AL11 folder.
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP).
• Configured ISO20022 XML payment file to run F110 payments for five house banks using DMEE structure - (OBPM1,OBPM2 & OBPM4) in payment method work bench(PMW). Also directly involved in discussions wif Bank’s support team and ABAP team to finalize the requirements on both functional and technical ends and prepared the Functional Spec.
• Managedmultiple ledgers wifin the general ledgeraccording to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules ofNew GL.
• SAP FI - MM and SD Integration, Responsible for process design, configure account determination objects for AP & AR invoice positing’s.
• SAP FI & HR integration - Configured Symbolic accounts and wage type mapping to GL accounts
• Configured vendor account groups & assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• Created ad-hoc reports using SUIM and ST01N t-codes to audit the transaction codes used by users to access SAP data and postings.
• Configured the Automatic payment program for outgoing payment method check, ACH using NACHA format and wire transfer.
• Worked wif banks in ACH, Lockbox and EBS (BAI2 and MT940) integrations.
• Worked on Positive pay interface to bank.
• SupportedEDI/IDOC AP customized workflow programs related issues Involved in Payment process Check Printing configuration, Printer setup testing activities coordinating wifSAPBASIS and Unix teams.

Confidential, Findlay, OH

SAP FICO & FSCM Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Roki Japan Global template to Confidential & Roki Mexico.
• Prepared functional specifications and validated test results to establish lockbox process using BAI2 for Accounts Receivables.
• Performed bank reconciliations, control of ABS factoring process, intercompanynetting, and cash pool interest calculations.
• PresentedSAPFinancial Supply Chain Management features, demonstrated and designedSAPIn-house Cash solution for inter-company (I/C) Loans and bill settlement, including transaction manager for money market operations and portfolio management, Cash Position andLiquidityforecast for cash flow reporting to support a centralizedTreasuryoperation.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed requirements using RUP methodology and documented requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Designed and configured Transaction Mgr (FX, Money Mkt, Securities and Derivatives), Cash Position/LiquidityForecast, AP andTreasurypayments, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, and Exchange Rates, Credit Risk Analyzer, Market Risk Analyzer.
• Designed and blueprinted cash management for Cash position Reporting, Cash Forecast Reporting,LiquidityPlanner and Transaction Manager for different borrowing and Investment processes
• Write and run test scripts for accounts payable, general ledger and travel expenses production support in general ledger, accounts payable, asset management, project cost and expenses.
• Design and ConfigureSAPFI- GL, AP (Procurement-to-pay), AR (Order-to-Cash Process), Banking, Integration forSAPFI/CO wif MM/IM, SD, PP as per business process.
• Design and Configured Parallel currency for Mexico, VAT process (IVA), Wifholding taxation process for Mexican taxation process for localization for legal reporting.
• Configured VAT process for Mexico for input/out taxes, VAT process for Mexico wif legal reporting, update VAT process for Denmark (Europe) and China plants as per Global Templates.
• Configure Inter-Company process to create arm's length financial transactions and complete month end reconciliation process.
• Worked on Credit card processing solutions, Established Pay-metric Credit card processing wif the Bank of America bank.
• Configured automatic payment process wif Chase bank for ACH/Wire transfer as automatic process.
• Wrote Functional Specs for RICEF development prepareSAPTraining manuals and provide training toSAPUsers.
• Design and configuredSAPProduct Cost Planning, Product Costing by Production Order, Product Costing by Repetitive Manufacturing process, variance analysis and other reporting.
• Configured and changes Fiscal Year Variant for client as per business requirement and checked for integration wifSAPMM/SD/PP Module for Fiscal Year Variant change.
• Prepare Cut-Over activities for PROD preparation and monitors as per schedule and plan.
• Management reporting to IT Director forSAPProject update and Cut-Over activities on Daily and weekly basis.
• Prepare task list to complete some pending task after Go-live and monitor them to be completed as per schedule time.
• Successful GO-Live and Post Go-Live Support.
• Configured and Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Configureddispute case type, Configured Dispute Case Attribute profile, created case search profile, text profile, status profile and assigned to dispute case type
• Gathered business requirements on Dispute Case Categories and Configured along wifDispute Reason codes.

Confidential, Lake forest, IL

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely wif Logistic Invoice verification (LIV) issues and its resolution for different scenarios like blocking duplicate invoices, vendor pro forma invoices etc.
• Tested Brazil nota fiscal from creation to cancellation on sales order, PO, STO, delivery and goods issue.
• FI-GL (New GL) Utilizing the Migration cockpit for conversion. New GL implemented wif Full Document Splitting, and Profit Center capabilities, Fiscal Year Variant, Field Status Variant, and Chart of Accounts, Accounting group creation.
• Several GL account master data changes were proposed in accordance to SAP recommendations mainly involving factors like open item management, line item display and reconciliation accounts.
• Identified critical issue wif zero balance clearing account, its postings and proposed a new GL account wif SAP recommended settings for fixing the issue. Worked on several New GL issues
• Resolved several issues in revenue account determination, billing documents not releasing to accounting, FI-SD integration, and FI-MM integration. Worked on several Inter-company invoices and different processes.
• Co-ordinate wif business team for requirement related to Finance module testing and configuration.Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas and Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition.
• Defining Special GL indicator and accounts for down payments made and received and for other transactions.
• Tolerance Group for GR/IR Clearing.
• Wifholding tax configuration and testing from creation of vendor down payment to annual tax return by defining tax types and tax codes as per Act.

Confidential

SAP System Audit Associate

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management and delivery of IT and business process audits to ensure business risks were recognized and appropriately managed before the company was adversely effected.
• Performing data analysis and researching wifin the SAP systems and interpret data to strategically support business needs.
• Reassessing the controls and deficiencies and retesting all the identified key controls wifin SOX guidelines.
• Performing SAP audits and conducting pre- and post-SAP implementation reviews.
• Assessing IT control elements to mitigate IT risks regarding the confidentiality, integrity,and the availability of business information.
• Reviewing the systems for IT general controls, risk and compliance wif policies and regulations.
• Provided on-the-job training, clarification and mentorassociateson a timely basis on accounting noledge, finance noledge andauditprocedures.
• Provided performance feedback to manager for input into Performance report.