PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Possess around 13+ years of strong experience in SAP & Non - SAP design, configuration, setup, development, integration and testing of SAP Solutions with various software applications in multiple countries US, UK & India.
• 10+ years of experience in functional and technical areas of SAP S/4 HANA Finance, SAP ECC FICO, SAP MDG, SAP Ariba, SAP FIORI, Solution Manager. More than 3 years of implementation experience in Product development in different ERP -SCM, Finance and Accounting Areas. SAP S/4 HANA FINANCE 1709 Certified Consultant.
• SAP FICO consulting experience with multiple full cycle implementations, system upgrades and production support experience.
• Currently working as SAP S/4 FICO Application Specialist for Automotive Industry in S4 HANA Finance 2020.
• Previously worked as a Senior Lead Consultant in FMS Project, Retail Industry on S/4 HANA 1709 Environment. Prior to that having consulting experience in Insurance, Pharma, Logistics Industries in ECC platform.
• Extensively worked in the phases of requirement gathering, scope management, process analysis, Gap analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Go-live, post live support and . Also, an expert in ASAP methodology and involved in and “AS-IS” and “TO-BE” study.
• Extensive experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger, New GL, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Asset Accounting (AA).
• Well versed in configuration and implementation in Controlling Module-Internal Orders (CO-IO), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Extensive experience with Integration of FICO with various modules such as SD, MM modules.
• Having knowledge in Record to Report (R2R) Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (P2P) processes.
• Expertise in analyzing workflows and writing SOPs, Use cases, Test script as per requirements.
• Designed & execution of Test Plan scenarios for Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing. End-to-End testing of all business scenarios.
• Intensively involved in handling incident and change management tickets resolving using tools such as IBM- Rational, HPQC, Service NOW as per SLA Norms.
• Strong expertise with client presentations, assessments, conducting business process workshops and good at communication and team building skills.
• Coordination with Business Team as well as Onsite & Offshore teams
• Strong organizational and time management skills. Ability to motivate team members and others in process development and utilization. Experienced in Client Facing Business meetings and On-shore/Offshore model of development and implementation.

SUMMARY:

SAP Modules: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger/ New General Ledger, Product Costing, Internal Orders and S4 HANA Finance.

ERP: SAP S4 HANA 2020, 1909, 1709, SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7, SAP R/3 4.7, Wings Accounting 16.5, FourSoft eAccounts & eTrans.

SAP & Other Tools: SAP MDG, SAP FIORI, NWBC, Report Painter, Solution Manager, HP ALM (QC), PractiTest, SAP ARIBA, LSMW, CONCUR, PeopleSoft 8.2, SQL Server 2008, SnagIT, Crystal Clear Software, IBM Rational, EGNYTE, Service NOW, Share point, BMC Remedy, WPBN, Tally Accounting 7.2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP S/4 HANA FICO Application Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and error handling GL RTR application interfaces inbound and outbound in AIF and outside the AIF.
• Daily monitoring CFIN interface errors in AIF, analyzing and troubleshooting interface errors, error resolving and reprocessing the errors which gets data transferred to SAP Prod system.
• CFIN Data Validation into SAP after the error resolution.
• Monitoring of GL & AP Interfaces in AIF like My Time to SAP, Inbound Payroll data from Pegaso, Payroll GL posting, NVS Accounting document, MDC, STARR, iPlus, AIRFLEET, FX Rates, EBS Files, PCARD, AMEX. Outbound Interfaces like Cost Center updates to Workday, AR extract for Citi Netting, GL JE details to legacy systems, iPlus outbound write back file.
• Worked for Legacy system to SAP Migration; SAP RTR & MDM Support; PeopleSoft Chartfield Maintenance, SharePoint site maintenance.
• PeopleSoft to SAP inbound interface data maintenance, trouble shooting errors, error rectification, reprocessing and data validation.
• Maintaining Mapping tables to keep Legacy and SAP systems in sync.
• Regular maintenance of reprocessing Posting period errors, contacting to FR team to open and close the periods.
• Having extensive knowledge on rectifying the Interface errors like Duplicate Posting errors, Inconsistent Amount errors, Posting Period errors, Co object assignment errors, GL Account not defined in COA errors, Cost center is blank errors, System Status CLSD is Active errors, Internal Client Received Failed error while receiving, other technical errors like uncaught exceptional errors, Job failure errors.
• Support on S/4 HANA 2020 upgrade process, involved in Smoke testing & Unit testing of Interfaces and Business processes. Worked on fixing the impacted interfaces in Upgrade.
• Worked on XML-Restart Process in AIF.
• Support month-end finance and accounting close activities such as reconciliations, general ledger close, consolidations and financial reporting, plant inventory counts, supplier payments, vehicle and parts production order support.
• Dual maintenance of SAP and PeopleSoft master data governance and maintenance (MDG/MDM) responsibilities to keep both ERP’s in-sync during the lifecycle of the project.
• Master data mappings, production support ticket resolution, and execution of key SOX controls, working on pending and open incidents, Maintain Master Interface documentation.
• Support Mass data creation, updates and blocks of Cost Centers, Profit Centers, GL Accounts through SAP FIORI MDG as part of Cutover.
• And involved in Workflow approvals for individual requests of GL & Profit Center create and change requests.
• Working on requirements gathering, design review, system integration testing, UAT, production cutover, hyper-care support and user .
• Support FICO Cross sessions within the team.
• Attending Core ERP Weekly Meetings, FAST & COE bi-weekly standups, Ad-hoc Meetings.
• Expertise in Business process flows, Interfaces & SAP FIORI Apps.

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Lead Consultant in SE development activities and Production Support environment in NYL. Also worked on Roll out project in NYL.
• Worked on new Enhancements as part of new acquisition and new project for HR Cloud.
• Worked on requirement gathering, analysis, writing Functional Specifications, Coordinating with APP Dev team and getting them developed.
• Working sessions with business team and app dev team on regular basis as part of developing new enhancements, Unit & Regression testing and moving changes to Quality, Preprod and Production environments.
• Worked on various Interfaces like Internal Orders Feed to Beeline (Vendor Invoice Management), Exchange Rates to IDW system, Vendor Master Feed, Concur Expenses Feed, ARIBA Interfaces, HR Master data to World Aware System and Master Data feed to NCAA system. Writing functional specifications and work sessions with app dev team and testing the functionality and moving changes to the quality, preprod and production systems.
• Worked on SAP Support Pack upgrade and involved in smoke testing and Unit testing done in model VDA before the upgrade process deployed in existing VDA system. End to end testing done for all major processes for GL, AP & AA.
• This testing includes of AP module - Manual Vendor Creation, Vendor Upload, Vendor Extensions, Vendor Confirmation for Individual and multiple, Garnishment Vendors to ECP, Manual Invoice processing, Excel Upload Invoice postings, Interface Invoice postings, Outgoing payment for Check, Outgoing payment for EFT, Error Correction process, Reverse Payment to Reset process, Withholding tax, Duplicate Payments, Canadian Reclass program, Accrual process. AA module - Workflow testing for Asset creation, CAPEX approval and post capitalization through FIORI for Individual asset and mass creation of assets & capitalization.
• Worked on requirements for Company Codes Configurations, Plant & Office location configurations, House Bank Configurations, New Document Types.
• Worked as part of ME development activities like Increase in ACH threshold limit for GDS payments.
• Worked on rollout project in NYL as part of new acquisition. New Company Codes have been configured for both US & Canada extended to GL, AP & AA modules.
• As part of AP configuration, new EFT payment process has been configured for Canada Company code & new payment methods have been added for GDS & AMEX.
• Testing the existing programs for Bank Master update, GL Upload program & Vendor master Upload program. working on additional fixes to the existing programs as per the business requirements.
• Worked with Release management team for moving the changes from development to prod system. This includes submitting change requests, updating in CHARM and getting approvals.
• Worked on Variants creation for the F110S, AP Invoicing processes, GL Invoicing processes, Asset Accounting programs, New Enhancements & Reports. Scheduling Jobs for the ESP/Basis scheduling team. Coordination with Basis/ETL team for creating new batch jobs.
• Incase of any job failures, route cause analysis done on ECS errors and tracing out the issues and getting them fixed with App dev team.
• Executing the Synchronization program to update the table values in Quality and preprod environments.
• Supporting GL team & Quality team on missing configurations on request basis.
• Support given to Quality team on new developments and existing functionalities.
• Grooming new team members and Coordination with offshore and on-site/business teams.
• Attending Bi-Weekly status calls, Internal SE/ME Calls, Daily status calls, AP calls & ad hoc meetings.

Confidential

SAP S4 FICO Lead Consultant - Implementation & Support/S4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Currently Working in Production Support and Phase 3 Implementation for Retail FMS Project in S4/Hana -1709 Finance.
• Completed Implementation for Phase 1 and Phase 2 for both Coach and Kate spade Brands in Tapestry.
• Worked on complete Implementation process, Cutover and Hypercare activities as part of Go-Live process for both Phase 1 and Phase 2.
• Working in implementation and support for Master Data Maintenance and RTR in S4 HANA Finance.
• Playing an important and active support role in performing the data governance on various SAP Finance Master Data such as Profit Centers, Cost Centers, GL Accounts and Bank Master Data.
• Working independently with various parties to resolve issues and ensure master data requests are completed with in the agreed SLA with business.
• Maintaining all governance policy documentation in centralized location.
• Participation in projects implementation to ensure all Master Data complies with the data governance policies.
• Working in Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), GL Accounting and Bank Master Data.
• Created Profit Center Hierarchy Structure, Cost Center Hierarchy Structure and GL Accounting Structures.
• Creating Profit Center Groups, Profit Centers, Cost center Groups, Cost Centers for the New Sites requests from Business.
• Q&A with Business for future state master data creation in S4 for Cost Centers, Profit Centers, GL Accounts and Bank Master Data.
• Coordinating with Business and Internal Site Teams, for reviewing and validating Cost center, Profit Center, GL and Bank Forms and getting the correct and Consistent information from them.
• Understanding and analyzing the Business Logic before creating Master Data like Profit Center Segments and other Master Data.
• Creating GL Accounts and Bank Master data as part of phase 2 and phase 3 requests.
• Working on LSMW for Profit Centers, Cost Centers, GL and Bank Master data Create and Update for Mass maintenance requests.
• Working on ALE process for master data sending from one environment to another environments.
• Working on mass maintenance like mass create, change and update requests for finance master data i.e., GL, Bank Masters, Cost Centers and Profit centers.
• Worked on Interface and Mapping Tables (Custom Tables) as part of data conversion from ECC to S4.
• Creating Cost Centers, Profit Centers and Material Ledger activation as part of phase 2 and phase 3 activities.
• Working on Production Support issues and defects as per SLA for phase 1 & Phase 2.
• Working on New House Bank Setup requests.
• Working on resolving Vendor Payment Run fails issues, Bank Data related issues, Swift change requests for vendor Bank details, bank key mapping to vendors.
• GL Updates, GL - Create, Update, Block and extending to all company codes. Cost center and profit center - create, change and block requests.
• Worked on Cut over & Hyper Care activities as part of phase 2 GO-Live.
• Working on Functional Specs for LSMW for Bank Master Data, Profit Center Master Data and Cost Center Master Data.
• Prepared Webinars for PC, CC, GL and Bank FORMS for user friendly to the Business.
• Responsible for timely deliverables to the business based on SLAs and priority basis.
• Attending Standup Calls meetings, By-weekly Status meetings and attending daily status update calls by leads.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant - Implementation & Support

Responsibilities:

• EMC is a multinational corporation headquartered inHopkinton, Massachusetts, United States.EMC sellsdata storage, information security, virtualization, analytics,cloud computing and other products and services that enable businesses to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.
• Participated in workshops with Business users and managers, as appropriate, to develop/refine implementation strategy for the SAP New GL, Fixed Assets module, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Worked closely with the Finance and Offshore Technical team members to identify, design and develop custom objects to be extended to the new company codes and modifications required if any.
• Configuring & Testing New GL- New General Ledger, AP- Accounts Payable, AA- Asset Accounting, CCA- Cost Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Internal Order.
• Identifying and configuring the NEW GL setups as company codes, Business Areas, Segment, Fiscal Year Variant, posting periods, Field Status Variant, Tolerance Groups of Employees, Document types, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Retained Earnings Account, GL creation & Document Splitting.
• Configuring AR setups as Customer Account Groups, Number ranges, Reconciliation of Customer Account, Tolerances for customers, Customers Creation.
• Configuring AP setups as Vendor Account Groups, Number ranges, Reconciliation of Vendor Accounts, Tolerances for Vendors & Vendors Creation.
• Configuring Fixed Assets module: Org structure, Account determination, Master data, Transactions, valuation and Production startup.
• Creating new number ranges for the new company codes and initializations of document number ranges of the old company codes in the clients.
• Creating new inter-company/vendor groups and do the configuration for the cross-company clearing setting.
• Validating the GL/Customer/Vendor/Asset Master data uploaded by the master data management team and if any master failed to upload, creates the missing master data with standard SAP and custom programs.
• Preparing the Configuration design documents and Functional design documents for custom objects and working with the development team.
• Performing functional unit testing and supporting the business users in UAT Test cycles. Fixed defects raised by the business users.
• Performing manual tasks during the cut-over activities like: Customer/Vendor group number ranges, document number ranges, modifying or adding validation and substitution steps, creating the missing master data, maintaining the 3KEH Tables entries.
• Configured Profit Center master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center groups, distribution and assessments in CO-PCA.
• Monitoring regularly SAP FICO tickets from the business team through ticketing tool Service Now.
• Performing Month end activities: Depreciation postings, Recurring entries postings, Accrual and Deferral postings, Opening and Closing Periods.
• Maintaining the project documentation in Solution Manager prior to TR to production environment i.e. Business Requirement, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Configuration Document, Demo to Business team PPT, Unit Testing and User Acceptance Test documents, Cutover Activities document (Table Maintenance or any).
• Fixing the data issues pertaining to the existing interfaces.
• Managing on-site & offshore teams, Project deliverable and Project Management Activities
• Performing Year end activities: Opening and Closing periods, Maintaining Number Ranges, Reconciliation of all ledgers and sub-ledgers, Balances carry forwarding, Closing Assets fiscal year.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant - Implementation & Support

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of the Organization structure for FI- company code, Business Area, Chart of Accounts, G/L master data, Field status Variant, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting Periods, Document Number Ranges, Tolerance Group and Assigning users to the tolerance group
• Configuring & customizing General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
• Configured Customer & Vendor account groups, number ranges, Reconciliation accounts for both customer & vendors, tolerance groups for customers/vendors, creating customer & vendors
• Controlling Area Configurations for company code, setting up Cost Center Standard Hierarchy
• Creation of primary and secondary cost elements, and creating cost element groups according to client requirements
• Creation of True/Statistical cost objects viz., cost center and internal order
• Configuring Profit Center Accounting
• Uploading of Vendor Master records using LSMW
• Configured settings for Cash journals
• Prepared end-user manuals and provided to the End-Users
• Resolving the assigned tickets & ongoing daily operations
• Responsible for GL, AR & AP Master Records
• Interacting with end users for resolving the issues based on severity levels
• Prepared configuration documents on new developments
• Generated Reports using Report Painter
• Provided day to day operational and process support to users

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of eAccounts Product Requirement (PR) documents based on PR specifications for enhancing the AR, AP and GL Modules.
• Designing the Reports on Crystal Clear application as a part of PR document preparation.
• Reviewing the Requirement Review Reports of QA and Development Teams.
• Preparation and execution of UAT Test Cases on new releases
• Raising the tickets in WPBN for Functionality Issues and enhancements
• Review and Preparation of Impact analysis of the new functional requirements written by global functional consultants (Four-soft UK Team) of the Product.
• Co-ordination between the global Functional team and PDT team for PR document review clarifications.
• Support Customer Implementation teams (CSI) by explaining the latest enhancements of the application.
• Functional provided to the CSI and PDT teams on need basis. eAccounts Product Demonstration to the Clients and Internal teams.
• Preparation of RFQ and RFP by understanding Customer Business Process. eAccount Product Demos given in companies as part of Pre-sale activity in Delhi & Chennai
• Developed new requirements VAT & Sales Tax for Reliance ltd Client
• Visited UK and participated with Four-soft UK global team for the new functionality developments in the existing eTrans & eAccounts Products
• Business Analysis, Mapping the Process Flow and Designing the Business Flow
• Developing functional designs for new requirements and coordinating with programmers in development activity.
• Testing the developed product and reporting the defects to the development team and getting them rectified.
• Guiding the documentation team in preparing the user manual.
• Responsible for completing the projects within the deadlines and delivering the products on a timely basis
• Developing reports through ERP Report writer
• Developing Print formats using Form Designer

Confidential

ERP Consultant - Support

Responsibilities:

• Developed functional designs for new requirements and coordinating with programmers in development activity.
• Developed Reports, print formats through ERP Report writer and using Form Designer.
• Testing the developed product and reporting the defects to the development team and getting them rectified.
• Online Support given to the clients.

Confidential

ERP Consultant - Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Developed functional designs for new requirements and coordinating with programmers in development activity.
• Developed Reports, print formats through ERP Report writer and using Form Designer.
• Testing the developed product and reporting the defects to the development team and getting them rectified.
• Online Support given to the Clients.

Confidential

 ERP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work with product managers in the conceptualization, designing and development of Wings E Trade software product.
• Setting the flow for the concept to begin with the development process
• Designing screens based on flow
• Testing and reporting the defects to the development team and getting them rectified.
• Verification of required reports for the module / sub-module designed
• Active Team member and the Key responsible person in Functional Tea