SUMMARY:

• An accomplished SAP professional, with overall 14 years of diversified expertise with in SAP FICO end user, implementation and support experience.
• Experience in Business requirement analysis, process mapping, configuration, conversions, testing, documentation and end user .
• 2 Full life cycle large implementations, Understanding of “As Is “ Business processes, Blue Print, Realization, Process Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Cutover activities, Final Preparation, Preparation of Test Scripts & Post Go Live Support.
• Involved in large projects consists of mapping complex financial business processed for multiple sectors like Insurance, Chemicals, Beverages and Food Industry.
• Partner with the Business Process Owners and Business Leadership on the SAP projects design, build and execution.
• Implemented projects using SAP Best Practices, ASAP and other Quality Methodologies / Practices for Project Deliverables.
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills and able to interact with Management, team and client at all levels.
• Ability to work effectively with a distributed multi - culture international team, across time zones.
• Financial Accounting: Classic General Ledger and New General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting.
• Controlling: Cost Center Accounting,, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis.
• Bank Accounting: Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box Processing.
• Project Assessments: Instrumental in analysis phase involving high-level strategy from project planning to data migration.
• Cross Module: experience in integration within FI/CO modules and between other modules such as SD, PP and MM
• ERP Central Components: Understanding knowledge in BW query formation and execution, theoretical knowledge in data extraction and data mining.
• Technical: Knowledge in ABAP query, Report painter, Report writer, Taxware system.
• Implementation Experience: AS-IS business process study, Preparation of Business Blue Print, Process Definition Documents, Experience in solution manager, Conducting process workshops with Business Experts, Subject matter expert’s, Business row leaders and Business Process owners for requirements gathering & analysis. Preparation of Roll-out Templates, Data migration from legacy systems to SAP R/3 using LSMW and from R/3 to ECC using ALE. Unit Testing, System Integration Testing regression & User acceptance testing, documentation preparation, END user, Train the Trainer.
• Support Skills: Production Support, Experienced in usage of OSS-Notes for Support Packs (OSS)/Maintenance), customer satisfaction, Ensure trouble tickets are resolved appropriately. Adhere to SLA’s.
• Trained in SAP IS-Utilities with emphasis on Contract accounting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility included conducting Blueprint workshops, gathering As-Is and To-Be requirements for current business processes.
• The major business processes being implemented was Accounts Receivables including Cash Application, Credit Management, Collections and Deductions Management.
• The biggest challenge was migration of business data to ensure only the relevant data was given to the new company and not sharing all the data from the parent company. SAP Archiving was used and since there were hundred of documents which were open there was challenges to close them to ensure only the relevant cleansed data was migrated.
• Configure the system to map business requirements and gaps if any. Carry out system design and configuration as required.
• Performed post Go-Live Support.Some of the key features/functionalities implemented in this project are
• Automatic bank payment interface
• Vendor and Customer master migration.
• Credit Management.
• Lockbox bank interface.
• Cost center and Profit center planning using manual and upload with excel spreadsheet.
• Valuated Sales order costing.
• COPA configuration included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics,
• CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement.
• Designed authorization profiles according to SOX compliance.
• Co-ordinated Unit testing, Integration testing and UAT.
• Organized and Conducted User for the new systems and processes.

Confidential

FICO Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Conducting meetings with business owners for gathering business requirements.
• Analyzed and reviewed all business processes and verified whether all the systems were as per the requirements for the management.
• Resolving several gaps in the systems and hence needed to spend time with the client team especially for user .
• Worked closely with the technical team members to help them achieve their deliverable timelines by providing functional inputs to them.
• Performed post Go-Live Support.
• Responsible for managing support team and making sure all the helpdesk tickets and enhancement requests are resolved in time.
• Some of the key features of the project.
• Working on the New General Ledger.
• Creating CO-PA reports by customers, product group and product hierarchies to analyze profitability for the senior management.
• Designed specs and developed reports and layouts using the report painter and writer.
• Financial Statement Versions for US reporting, Global reporting and Functional Area reporting.

Confidential

FICO Consultant.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for resolving trouble tickets within the SLA time frame.
• Developed SLAs and KPI reporting for IT helpdesk.
• Identifying the root cause of issues and making proper documentation on the same.
• Prepared Functional specifications for enhancement request. Coordinating and collaborating with the technical team to deliver niche solutions.
• Active participation in the process improvement of the client’s accounting and controlling processes.
• Conducted Super user for finance and controlling module and its sub modules.
• Some of the key features of the project.
• Handled enhancements like ERS implementation, Reports performance optimization, automating the payment processes including ACH, EDI implementations and Lock box implementation.
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable.
• Responsible for resolving trouble tickets having different priorities related to FICO modules.
• Customizing and support activities related to enhancements requests.
• Identified the root causes of the issues reported and resolved the same.
• Explaining the standard functionality of few transactions and reports in SAP to the end users and helping them in working better with SAP.
• Supported ABAP team in the event of program adjustments for existing customer specific modifications or new development.
• Some of the key features of the project.
• Credit Management.
• Designed and developed a custom reconciliation tool for the FI-COPA reconciliation.
• Worked on validations, substitution rules, ALE, user-exits, and reporting tools.
• Supported operations with regard to Month End Closure & Year End Closure activities.
• Created CO-PA reports by customer, product group and product hierarchies to analyze profitability.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed all business processes procedures from AS-IS and successfully designed and mapped the TO-BE system.
• Worked on the Business Process Procedure (BPP) using the Info Pak and created scenarios for the transaction.
• Preparation of test plan, test scripts and testing of SAP processes.
• Some of the key features of the project.
• Designed and configured Organizational settings for Company Codes, Credit Control Area, Operating Concern, and Controlling Area.
• Configured leading ledger and cost center, profit center and Segment scenarios in the New GL.
• Established the period end procedures like GR/IR account clearing, Automatic Account clearing and foreign currency valuations.
• Configured the design of GL, AR and AP and Internal orders.
• Created Substitutions. Developed custom drill down reports Drill down Reports for Trail Balance, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet through Report Painter.

Confidential

SAP FICO Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted monthly regression testing for investment orders in order to monitor the investment costs that can be capitalized and settled to fixed assets.
• Coordinate with the technical team for customized developments.
• Conducted sessions remotely for key-user in Finance & Controlling module.
• Prepared functional specifications for reports and transactions.
• Supported operations with regard to Month End Closure & Year End Closure activities.

Confidential

SAP End user

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in the execution of end-to-end accounts payable process in SAP R/3 3.0.
• Prepared standard operational procedures and reports to facilitate of new team members.
• Compiled and communicated procedural updates to team members to ensure consistency in their application.
• Analyzed and entered inbound invoices, ran payment proposals verified and eliminated duplicate invoicing. Carried out age wise analysis of payments, vendor and validating the business for the company.
• Actively monitored 40+ agents under the supervision of four lead agents. Served as online trainer for new employees.
• Reduced margin of errors in data from 85%- 90% to 0% (zero error) as a result of andquality check.
• Responsible for ensuring optimal execution of quality checks before running vendor payment proposals.
• Was promoted as project Manager of Signature File Imaging process - automation of signature verification process, matching process for over 4,000 invoices with 50+ signatures on a daily basis.
• Handpicked for key duties involving ISO 9002 in the department including documentation of process.
• Organized company activities, social events and teamwork.
• Specialized in Personal Expense claims for the employees of the company.
• Quality Champion - Used Six Sigma.