SUMMARY

• Certified SAP Finance Consultant, with overall 15+ years of Financial and IT experience including 10 years of extensive experience in SAP FICO and S4 HANA SFIN. 3 years of experience as a Team Leader experience includes leading the team, review project documents, set up meetings with External customer like Banks & bolt on teams.
• Experience in various industries including Chemical, Manufacturing, services, Telecom and utilities has served as a strong foundation in understanding the underlying business processes and implementing the system requirements.
• Strong core consulting skills - communication, organization and planning, customer-facing and interpersonal skills to communicate and manage relationship with business stakeholders and work collaboratively with partners and cross functional teams to analyze, design, configure, test, and implement, SAP solutions to meet business requirements.
• Experience with ASAP Implementation methodology with all phases of SAP Implementation from Project planning Requirements gathering, GAP analysis, business Blue Print document preparation and signoff, Configuration design, write Functional SPECS, Data Migration, Configuration manuals, materials, Unit Test (FUT), Integration Test, provide test cases for UAT, Cutover, Implementation and Post Go-Live support.
• Strong implementation experience and expertise in design and configuration of SAP FI including General Ledger (Classic and New GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Asset Accounting (AA/AM), Bank Management (BL), Treasury (TM).
• Strong implementation experience in SAP CO includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• Good experience on implementation of Treasury functionalities includes Cash management and liquidity forecast and Money market products such as Term Deposits, facilities, commercial paper, interest rate instruments and Forex contracts and securities.
• Familiarity with System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies and Experience with working on Solmon for Change request management and incidents tracking and worked with ChaRM functionality for transport management system.
• Experienced with ASAP (Accelerated SAP), Gap Analysis, RICEF, LSMW and Create design specifications for all of SAP related activities including: reporting, transactional programming, interfaces, Remote Function Calls (RFCs), Business Application Program Interface (BAPIs),IDOC, User Exits and workflow.
• Working experience of 6+ months on S./4 HANA SFIN, Simple Finance 1610 on premise/cloud versions and experience on implementing IFRS 15 Revenue Accounting Report (RAR).
• Strong Knowledge in SAP FSCM sub Modules Dispute Management, Collections Management, and Credit management.
• Strong experience in PTP, OTC, RTR and in-depth experience in make to stock and make to order scenarios and Business Workflow process.
• Experience in working with GRC roles environment and experience with providing inputs for BI Team and coordinate right from providing required functional specifications and testing the reports.
• Tracking and analyzing project control metrics. Lead project development, production support and maintenance activities and proactively addressing any issues before they are escalated open tickets/ incidents in queue and allocate tickets to resources and ensure that the tickets are closed within the deadlines as per SLA.
• Assist Project Management in Risk Management and participate in quality reviews and implement quality norms.
• Expertize with Cross Functional knowledge of integration of FICO with Security, SD, PS, PP, HR and MM and experience with Vendor invoice management processes such as open text invoice image.
• Strong Knowledge on developing functional specifications for application development requests and provides support to technical development activities
• Expert in Migration activities such as converting classic withholding tax data including Master data and transaction data in to extended withholding tax data with standard cockpit.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Sr SAP-FICO Lead-Roll out and Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the Global Solution template for rollouts across APAC, EMEA and Latin America regions.
• Involved with scope/planning/design implement S4 HANA SFIN along with project team/sponsors.
• Developed Business Blueprint document for the GEOX Rollout projects according to global template and Shown expertise in business process knowledge and mapping all the requirements to SAP.
• Coordinated with Non-ERP teams such as IDS, Sales force teams to inbound for maintain inbound and outbound relationships.
• Responsible to configure/setup/document the system with all basic configurations.
• Implemented Parallel ledgers & accounting principles function i.e. leading, appendix.
• Configured posting period variants and made organizational assignment for new legal entities created.
• Preparations and Customizing Migration in the General Ledger and converting New Universal Journal historical data in to ACDOCA view.
• Migration & Conversion of House Bank for cash management & activation of Account based COPA.
• Activation & Migration to New Asset Accounting FI-AA (New) & Configuration of changes in Accounting principles and depreciation. Area.
• Maintained Account determination for Inter-company code configuration between all entities set up in system.
• Defined tax calculation procedure and created required tax codes and maintained Account determination.
• Worked with interfaces between ECC to Sales force, IDS, MES and Shipex.GL/AP/AR/ CO, Module:-
• Several GL account master data were proposed in accordance to SAP recommendations mainly involving factors like open item management, line item display and reconciliation accounts.
• Configured product wise profit centers and generate reports at division wise.
• Uploaded the GL Accounts, customer, vendor, cost center master records and Accounts payable, accounts receivable and assets transaction data.
• Uploaded Assets balances and AR Conversion of customer balances as part of cutover activities.
• Assigned Default profit centers for General ledger accounts range.
• Created Bank keys and maintained required parameters for country level settings for bank key length and bank account number length. Configured New House banks and configured Automatic payment settings for New Company codes Extended EDI - IDOC process for New House banks and set up payment methods for company codes.
• Configured payment methods for ACH and wire transfers and defined check forms for payment medium.
• Configured Electronic bank statement settings and lockbox settings.
• Maintained chart of depreciation and defined Account determination and Asset classes.
• Identified Determined all required depreciation areas as per business requirement and defined posting rules and posting specifications depreciation area wise.
• Maintained depreciation keys with the required calculation methods and specifications.
• Configured Foreign exchange conversion factors between all currencies.
• Account determination maintained for Forex revaluation
• Maintained substitution rules for Profit centers to default for various sales offices.
• Maintained default Account assignment for various cost centers and profit centers.
• Analyzed Account determination maintained for integration between FICO and other logistics modules FI-SD, MM, PS and PP.
• Made proper Unit testing, integration testing and validations for the data for scoped work and resolved break fixes on Post-Go Live issues for new requirements.
• Worked on Jira for Resolution of Break fixes during UAT Phase, Go-Live and Post-Go Live support.

Confidential, Houston,TX

Sr. SAP-FI-CO/Treasury - Lead Consultant-Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Project-Kickoff Meeting with Business stake holders and Project planning Phase
• Conducted Business workshops with user community to understand the AS-IS functionality and gather business requirements, analyze and design the To-BE functionality to implement.
• Developed Business Blueprint document for the Europe, APAC and US implementation and prepared global template for further rollouts if necessary and Shown expertise in business process knowledge and mapping all the requirements to SAP and got signed off from Business stakeholders.
• Defined organizational elements, and Defined Field status variant, fiscal year variant and posting period variants and maintained organization structure
• Configured SAP New GL for functionality for all legal entities. Defined leading ledger and maintained parallel ledgers as Non-Leading ledgers for various reporting purposes IFRS, US-GAAP and local ledgers.
• Maintained additional currencies along with company code local currency for ledgers and defined document types for various postings.
• Maintained Tax calculation procedure and created required tax codes according to the Business requirement.
• Participated in cutover activities for gathering the required data for upload.
• Designed the Concur & ADP interfaces mapping to SAP and coordinated with Basis team for scheduling jobs as per Business requirement.Module: FI GL,AR AP,Banking,CO,Treasury and AR & AP Interfaces.
• Identified and Created Group Chart of Accounts along with operating chart of Accounts and made organizational assignments.
• Identified GL Account groups, Vendor and customer Account groups for Sub ledgers.
• Defined financial statement versions for financial statements reporting and mapping for consolidations.
• Maintained tolerances for Accounts payable and receivables processes.
• Uploaded the GL Accounts, vendors, and customers, assets, cost centers master data and Accounts payable, receivable and assets transaction data and ensured the balances match with the outstanding invoices as on cutover.
• Several GL account master data were proposed in accordance to SAP recommendations mainly involving factors like open item management, line item display and reconciliation accounts.
• Worked closely with P2P Team Logistic Invoice verification (LIV) processes two way and three ways match processes and issues encountered along with its resolution for different scenarios like blocking duplicate invoices, vendor proforma invoices etc.
• Created Bank keys and maintained House banks settings and configured all relevant company code, payment method and house bank settings for Automatic payment program and lockbox.
• Maintained payment medium workbench for standard DME and created and maintained variants.
• Configured electronic bank statement functionality for various banks with MT940 and BAI Formats.
• DMEE set for all Asiapac regions & Australia company codes with associated banks (SCB, Westpac)
• Worked with Gentran team to set up EDI process for Europe countries with Citi & HSBC banks.
• Analyzed and identified the procure to pay process and order to cash process and worked together with SD and MM Team integration areas to set up Rev rec process and maintained Account determination for integration between FI-SD and FI-MM for different material movements and valuation classes and Revenue recognition for combination various account assignment categories for Account keys.
• Knowledge in SD function, Sales, Billing, Pricing with to copy controlling functionalities, condition types, pricing procedures to establish relationship.
• Identified and maintained Tax jurisdiction codes and maintained tax procedures, created required tax codes, account determination for VAT Calculation for EU and maintain settings for external tax calculation and mapping RFC to determine tax process with vertex.
• Configured and defined multiple valuation areas for various valuation purposes and maintained Account determination for Foreign exchange revaluation.
• Defined Dunning areas and maintained various parameters for dunning procedures and assignment to company code and maintained various parameters for dunning levels viz. Dunning charges
• Configured the all the relevant settings for Fixed Assets life cycle processes.
• Maintained chart of depreciation and defined Account determination and Asset classes and determined all required depreciation areas as per business requirement.
• Maintained depreciation keys with the required calculation methods and specifications.
• Maintained controlling area, maintained versions and Number Ranges for various object Controlling Documents and defined Assessment and distribution cycles
• Created cost element groups and cost center groups and mapped the cost elements and cost centers.
• Identified and created statistical key figures and activity types to assess the cost between various cost objects.
• Analyzed the cost flows and settlement process and Configured internal order management to capture costs and settlement the costs other cost objects.
• Maintained settlement profile and allocation structure.
• Defined Operating concern and structures and maintained Value fields and characteristics.
• Create PA Transfer structure to define source cost objects to value fields.
• Mapped SD conditions from pricing procedures & direct postings in FI/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA.
• Maintained configuration for cash management and liquidity forecast such as activation, define planning levels, planning types, planning groups, groupings and structures.
• Configuring settings for Treasury and risk management such as defining Business partner roles, defining and assigning no. ranges, accounting principles, defining required portfolios and defining valuation areas, valuation class and assignment.
• Working with a 3rd party implementation partner, support the implementation and maintenance of SAP Financial Account & Management Accounting, including SAP module and 3rd party interfaces
• Responsible for EDI 820, 821, 828, 823 Functional Design documents
• Provided user on procedures and assistance in developing user manuals by RWD Info Pack software and planned the sessions to power/super users and provided the post Go-live support and handed the configuration documents and materials as process of Knowledge transfer.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team as a Project Lead and worked at Client site to deploy the extended withholding tax changeover functionality from Classic withholding tax and implementation Extended withholding tax and it’s reporting (both forms and reports).
• Understanding the current set up, business process and reporting structure of Classic withholding tax functionality and appraise business process owners on the merits of the EWT functionality and Local statute regulations specified by Bureau of internal revenue(BIR).
• Conducted workshops to user community and Business process owners to gather requirements and expectations on the required reports, freezing the new design of withholding taxes viz. Withholding tax types, codes, official withholding tax keys (ATC codes defined as official withholding tax keys) and withholding tax rates for each nature of payment.
• Handled preparation of the Business blue print and got accepted and signed off by client.
• Coordinated with other modules viz.Treasury and RE-FX and closely worked with ABAP developments and worked with client team to establish VPN connectivity at offshore.
• Made detailed analysis on various tables data statistics company code wise on Migration to check the data volume and to estimate the system down time required and impact analysis.
• Configured the EWT new design as proposed and performed Migration activities of conversion of Master data, customizing and existing data conversion.
• Prepared the Functional specs for the existing programs for the modifications on changeover from classic withholding tax to extended withholding tax functionality.
• Worked on existing workflow for Accounts payable Invoice process to identify the enhancements required for extended withholding taxes and found the routines to be included via SAP notes and implemented.
• Monitoring the project status and team members’ performance and updating the status to the delivery management and client periodically through Project status meetings and reports.
• Provided business the run guide on the cutover activities and validations to check the data integrity to ensure comprehensive Migration and shared the statistics and financial statement comparative analysis and appraised the project Steering committee and business to validate and ensure NO impact on financial statements upon migration.
• Performed unit testing, integration testing and regression testing with various interfaces.VIZ.GL Upload functionality with various files from feeder systems, check outsourcing program interface with various banks.
• Mass uploading of Vendor master and customer master records with extended withholding tax information through LSMW.
• Prepared and handed over configuration and user manuals on cash management and liquidity forecast report and Electronic bank statement functionalities.
• Conducted on the processing of the EWT functionality, prepare questionnaire to conduct the Class room test as per the PLDT group’s protocol and assess the understanding of the conducted.
• Providing the Post-Go live support to handle break fixes and handing over the documents as part of knowledge transfer to In - House support team.
• Understanding the current set up on cash management and liquidity forecast and process of reconciliation of the bank statements with bank accounts.
• Conducted workshops to user community to gather requirements and expectations of the report, freezing the restructuring of the groupings and appraised the business the merits and process of the Electronic bank statement.
• Handled solely the preparation of the Business blue print and got accepted and signed off by client.
• Defined groupings and headers, planning levels, planning groups, maintaining grouping structures.
• Discussed with bankers regarding the electronic bank statement format and gather the nomenclature used by each bank in their statements.
• Made Global settings for electronic bank statement.viz.Creation of account symbols, keys for postings, assigning accounts to account symbols, defining posting rules, creation of transaction types, mapping external transactions to posting rules and assigning bank keys and bank accounts to Transaction types.
• Performed unit testing and helped client to perform UAT.
• Prepared and handed over configuration and user manuals on cash management and liquidity forecast report and Electronic bank statement functionalities.

Confidential

SAP- FI Consultant-Support

Responsibilities:

• Advisory roles like gathering information on required reports from Bank,analzing and providing information and inputs to technical team Viz.ABAP,BI/BW,CE and PI teams and liasioning between technical team and Bank.
• Reviewing the existing Functional specs and documented the deficiencies in the specs.
• Providing detailed information and functional inputs to Development teams for various reports development.
• Monitoring the development phase and conducting unit testing and make break fixes to the reports.
• Coordinating between technical team offshore and onsite for code modifications.
• Conducted review meeting for regular status updates with teams internally and with client.
• Carrying out integration & regression testing before moving any code change/new configuration into production.
• Facilitates users to perform User acceptance testing.
• Working on new enhancements like development of new report / scripts Updation / Implementation of new process based on enhancement launched in other interfaces.
• Conducting functional to Technical teams and client.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant-Rollout and Production support

Responsibilities:

• Participation in project workshop and Identification of AS-IS to be process.
• Identified the GAAPs correlation with Confidential
• Preparation of functional spec for new CR’s on GAAPs legacy data upload
• Functional Support to Development team on new CR’s.
• User on Confidential support process and issue handling process
• Resolving the tickets based upon SLA time frames.
• Working on new enhancements like development of new report / scripts Updation / Implementation of new process based on enhancement launched in other modules.
• Performed integration & regression testing before moving any code change/new configuration into production.
• Monthly recurrent testing on new CR’s which are impacting to current release to reduction of production issues.
• Gathering user requirements for customized reports for output and input criteria and prepare Functional specs and co-ordinate with development team to design the customized reports and testing.
• Preparation of user Documents & on new developed reports.
• Preparation of Support procedure documents on recurrent issues and to support members on newly implemented scenarios.
• Documentation of test scripts for testing team to testing the functionality in FI/CO Module.

Confidential

SAP- FI Consultant-Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Business workshops with user community to understand the AS-IS functionality and gather business requirements, analyze and design the To-BE functionality to implement.
• Developed Business Blueprint document for the US implementation according to global template and Shown expertise in business process knowledge and mapping all the requirements to SAP.
• Defined the Chart of Accounts, company and company codes and assign to the organizational elements.
• Customized the GL Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records.
• GL Accouns,Vendors,customer accounts and Asset Master data upload through LSMW
• Configuration of special GL transactions viz. vendor down payments etc.
• Configured of Payment Terms for customers and Dunning to customers.
• Customization of item interest calculation and arrears interest calculations
• Involved in configuration of Asset accounting - Account determination, screen layout rules, number ranges and asset classes, depreciation keys, assignment of G/L accounts.
• Analyzed and identified the procure to pay process and order to cash process and worked together with SD and MM Team integration areas to set up Rev rec process and maintained Account determination for integration between FI-SD and FI-MM.
• Involved partly in CIN implementation viz. withholding taxes
• Preparation of test cases and performed unit testing and integration testing
• Prepared user manuals for end user

Confidential

SAP- FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business workshops with user community to understand the AS-IS functionality and gather business requirements, analyze and design the To-BE functionality to implement.
• Defined the Chart of Accounts and organizational elements and maintained organization structure.
• Maintained GL Account groups, Vendor and customer account groups and field status for Master data as per business requirement and maintained Number ranges and Configured of Payment Terms for customers and vendors.
• Identified and participated in cutover activities and gathered required data for uploading from legacy system.
• Defined various document types for various kinds of business transactions postings.
• Uploaded Mater data for GL Accounts,Customers,vendors and Assets and transaction data of outstanding customer and vendor invoices and asset wise balances
• Configured of special GL transactions viz. vendor down payments etc.
• Configured of Cash journal and configured of Dunning to customers.
• Customized of item interest calculation and arrears interest calculations.
• Configured of House banks and automatic payment program.
• Involved in configuration of Asset accounting - Maintained Chart of depreciation, Asset classes, Account determination, screen layout rules, depreciation keys, and assignment of G/L accounts for depreciation areas.
• Maintained Account determination for integration between FI-SD and FI-MM.
• Involved partly in CIN implementation viz. withholding taxes
• Preparation of test cases and performed unit testing and integration testing
• Prepared user manuals for end user .

Confidential

FICO Consultant Support

Responsibilities:

• Track the incident service desk and Supporting in day to day issues according to SLA.
• Analyzing the errors, researching for the cause of errors, providing corrective solutions, and suggesting for preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Configured Cash journal and all its relevant settings.
• Define official withholding tax codes for reporting, created new withholding tax codes and assign them to company code.
• Maintained new terms of payment and create house banks and assign them to automatic payment program configuration.
• Created new tax codes and maintained Account determination for tax codes and withholding tax types.
• Unit & integration testing before moving the configuration to Production.
• to Core team members and End users on business process
• Preparation of user manuals.

Confidential

FICO Consultant -Support and enhancements

Responsibilities:

• Involving in the development of FI Interface with AMOS.
• Worked closely with ABAP team to record and create BDCs and worked with Basis team to scheduled routine/daily jobs for the data upload to SAP from AMOS interface.
• Analyzing the errors, researching for the cause of errors, providing corrective solutions, and suggesting for preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Created new payment terms, bank keys and House banks.
• Resolved break fixes and assist users to test the same.
• Unit & integration testing before moving the configuration to Production.
• to Core team members and End users on business process

Confidential

FICO Consultant -Support and enhancements

Responsibilities:

• Involving in the development of FI Interface with AMOS.
• Worked closely with ABAP team to record and create BDCs and worked with Basis team to scheduled routine/daily jobs for the data upload to SAP from AMOS interface.
• Analyzing the errors, researching for the cause of errors, providing corrective solutions, and suggesting for preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Created new payment terms, bank keys and House banks.
• Resolved break fixes and assist users to test the same.
• Unit & integration testing before moving the configuration to Production.
• to Core team members and End users on business process
• Preparation of user manuals

Confidential

SAP-FI Consultant -Production support

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on General Ledger, Accounts receivable and payables such as Client Specific Payment Terms, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Coordinating with client management and Key users for resolution of production issues.
• Worked on configuration of House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Creating Tax Codes for input & output tax, withholding tax types and codes
• Assigning withholding tax types to company code
• Account determination for tax accounts for input, output tax codes and withholding types codes combination.
• Coordinating with the technical team for customized developments and prepared functional specifications.
• Analyzing the errors, researching for the cause of errors, providing corrective solutions, and suggesting for preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Break fixes to the supporting issues according to SLA.
• Monitoring Funds, Monitoring Cash credit & Bill Discounting Limits, Submission of QIS Data & SOD Data to Banks
• General Accounting & finalization of accounts, Project Accounting & Capitalization of Projects, Looking after the Central Excise, Sales Tax, and Income tax.