SUMMARY

• SAP S/4 HANA Finance Professional Certified (1709,1809 & SAP S/4 HANA Central Finance) FI/CO Functional Consultant.
• I have a strong analytical and finance background through working on several projects.
• I am an experienced SAP Consultant of 8+ years working with ASAP Methodology, upgrade & Greenfield project experiences. Worked on 2 full life cycle implementations and 2 go - live phases with Quality Assurance, production support, user acceptance testing and end-user training.
• S/4 HANA 1610/1709/1809 Finance project experiences in G/L, A/P, A/R, Banking, Fiori Apps.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New GL, Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Transport Request (TR), Document Splitting.
• Controlling knowledge includes Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal Order.
• Involved in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, developing Business Blueprint AS-IS/TO-BE, Gap Analysis, Documentation, Customization and Configuration.
• Worked on 2 full life cycle implementation and two production support projects. Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling. Good working knowledge in MM-FI and SD-FI integration.
• Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), International Financial Reporting concepts (IFRS) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act.
• Month End and Year End Closing
• Understanding of business scenarios such as Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay
• Performed Documentation for end users and provided end user training
• Excellent Finance and Accounting knowledge with demonstrated competence in Financial and Business Analysis knowledge developed while working with different Clients.
• ASAP and Activate implementation methodology.
• Integration: FI with MM and SD modules.
• Configuration of Data Medium Exchange (DME), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for auto payments and creation of House Banks, Bank Accounts, Payment methods and Check lots.
• Automated clearing house ACH with EFT payments by using EDI Interface.
• Configured the EBS and LOCKBOX and EDI payment processes.
• Payment Processing (Inbound/Outbound) - ACH, Domestic Wire and Cross-Border Wires.
• Electronic Bank Statements - Prior day and Current Day EBS statements from multiple domestic and international banks in BAI2 and MT940 formats.
• Possess strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Prepared documents & trained new team members.
• Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills.
• Writing Test scenarios, Test cases for all FI related transactions. Executed test cases and tracked defects using tools with HP ALM.
• Develop and implement all kinds of documents such as Test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, defect analysis report, RTM) by following Agile (Scrum) Methodology with large scrum team.
• Documented the modification requests and defects and their trailing history using JIRA.
• Manual Testing/Functional Testing. Experience in all phases of QA life cycle, including Requirements gathering, Planning, Scheduling Testing, Defect Tracking, Management and Reporting.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Methodologies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Summary Reports and Execution of entire QA process and documentation.
• Involved in manual testing based on the User Requirement Document and System Requirement Specifications. Very good experience in Automation scripts using HP Unified Functional testing.
• Worked extensively on unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Proficient in functional, negative, regression, system integration (SIT), acceptance (UAT), and load/performance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Package: SAP (4.7, 5.0, ECC 6.0) FI/CO, S/4 HANA

Databases: HANA, Excel, Access

Testing Tools: HP ALM, HPQC, LSMW, LTMC, JIRA

ERP: ECC5 & 6, SAP S/4 Hana

Tracking Tools: ALM/QC, JIRA, DevOps

Other Tools: Postman, MS Office, Power Pivot, Power BI

Operating Systems: Mac OS, Windows, Linux/UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: S4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in a Migration project from existing SAP R/3 system to a new template.
• Extensively used LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) tool and BDC (Batch Data Communication) for migration of extracted data from the legacy system.
• New General Ledger: Basic Set up, Leading Ledger, Non-Leading Ledger, Extension/Appendix Ledger, and Universal Journal.
• Configured Account payable like Create Vendor Account Group, Number Range Account etc.
• Configured Automatic payment program - As a part of configuration, worked in setting up paying/sending company code, creating country and company code relevant payment methods and Bank determination.
• Define tolerance group for vendor.
• Worked on chart of accounts, Accounts receivables, Accounts payable configuration.
• Worked on change requests related to GL, AR, AP, and Bank accounting.
• Configured global settings for Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) and created BAI2 file format.
• Defined Account Symbols, posting rules created and assigned business transactions for manual and electronic bank statements.
• Write and execute test cases in development phase.
• Test scripts for FUTs, test scripts for Integration test scripts, supporting Integration testing activities.
• Data Validation and FI/CO Batch Testing
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies.
• Analyzed the testing results and submitted the report to the development team.
• Created test designs, processes, cases, and test-product documentation.
• Conducted testing as per the set standards and procedures.
• Ensured that the testing is carried out as per the defined standards and procedures
• Collaborated closely with other team members and departments to meet targets and deadlines in UAT
• Build queries and extracted data for last 5 years of all Accounts Payable tables for Audit team. Worked on maintenance of all the modules of AP including vendor management, ARIBA, ePayables, EDI Invoices (both PO and non-PO), non-EDI invoices (both PO and non-PO), banking, check processing.
• Implement BCM to map ACK, Reject and Confirmation messages from XML file into SAP PI maps to update payment status in the Payment Monitor

Confidential, Kent, OH

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements, creating functional specification and functional design document.
• Configuring & Customizing Company Code, Chart of Accounts, GL & New GL Master Records, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Document Number Ranges, Document Types, Document Splitting, Tolerance Groups and Financial Statement Versions
• Configured Accounts Payable - Vendor Master Data, Account Groups, Outgoing Payment, Payment Terms, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items in S/4 HANA.
• Configured House Bank, Bank Accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank Statement, Lock Box processing and Automatic payment program.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) Configuring and customizing the cost elements (primary and secondary), Cost Center Master Data, Standard Hierarchy in S/4 HANA.
• Did UAT testing phase in S/4 Hana.
• Keep close communication with ABAP development team.
• Participated in meeting for testing status.
• Using HP ALM for bug tracking tool.
• Using Jira for Load testing. Raising Defect, monitoring defects, and executing tests into the target system.
• Configure House Bank, EBS and APP in S/4 HANA.
• Utilize the Service Now application to support incident and service request tracking and reporting
• Monitors Queue and Provides Support as defined in Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Design, customize, configure and testing of FI/CO modules.
• Take lead and ownership to gather requirements from the clients. Developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Identify gaps, issues, and work around solutions.
• Provide training manuals and other materials for users, providing in-person training.
• Received issue Tickets from user using HP ALM and explained the resolved issue to user.
• Testing in development phase.
• I have good knowledge in Procure-to-Pay (P2P).
• Finding the root causes for critical issues.
• Involved in FI-MM and FI-SD integration.

Confidential, NY

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements, creating functional specification and functional design document.
• Configuring & Customizing Company Code, Chart of Accounts, GL & New GL Master Records, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Document Number Ranges, Document Types, Document Splitting, Tolerance Groups and Financial Statement Versions
• Involved in the Full Life Cycle Implementation phases, including defining the business requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications, configuration, and testing.
• Interacted with business users to understand the As-Is process and identified the requirements for To- Be process.
• Configured outgoing payments for ACH, Checks, and Wire payments.
• Configured global settings and enterprise structure. In configuring Master records for A/P: Defined Vendor Account Groups and screen layouts per activity & company code; defined number ranges for vendor accounts and assigned these number ranges to vendor account groups. Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable.
• Worked on interface related to ACH payments, Payment Confirmation and Check Encashment.
• Customized Electronic Bank Statement Reconciliation Accounts. Also completed several Reports, Interfaces, and functional specifications and worked closely with the technical team in developing the functional objects.
• Coordinated with the team for post go-live support until first month end close in SAP system.
• Developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Using HP ALM for testing.
• Designed, developed, and tested data conversion programs to load material master, vendor master, customer master, vendor and customer open account receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC
• Worked on functional specifications of RICEFW objects.
• Defined unit test scenarios for GL, AP, AR
• Kept close communication with ABAP development team.
• Worked on ALM for bug tracking tool.

Confidential, PITTSBURGH, PA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Support Offshore Developers in technical detailing & continuous Validations
• Analyzed & Resolved Technical issues and helped developers in Performance Tuning for RICEFS custom programs in SAP FI (custom product development).
• Worked on implementing Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and New GL.
• Worked with PMO for project timelines and deliverables
• Created cost centers (CCA), profit centers (PCA) in Controlling (CO)
• Activated new GL in FI
• Configured/created the master data for new GL reporting
• Added new scenarios for new GL
• Worked with security team in identifying the security role
• Implemented advance payment (down payment) functionality for customers and vendors
• Worked with EDI for payment processes
• Designed the configured Foreign Currency Evaluation
• Created Financial Statement Version (FSV) for reporting
• Implemented three-way match for procure-to-pay (P2P) process
• Set up GL accounts for multiple company codes
• Validation, audit, and legal compliance of system

Confidential, DALLAS, TX

Tax Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing client financial records using SAP for month-end and year-end closing
• Prepare month-end journal entries, assist with monthly tax account reconciliations
• Identifying potential tax deductions and savings clients have not considered
• Advising clients about tax laws and how to meet requirements
• Completing and submitting tax returns on behalf of clients