SUMMARY

• Certified SAP FICO functional consultant over 17 years of experience which includes 12+ years of consulting experience in managing complex SAP projects that increase client’s Efficiency, Productivity, and Profitability.
• As a SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant successfully completed 3 full life cycle implementations and multiple roll - outs, upgrades, enhancements/improvements, production support.
• Expert in SAP FI-GL, AR, AP, Fixed assets, Revenue recognition, Cash Management, EBS, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, ECCS Consolidations and Travel & Expense (SAP).
• Having knowledge and experience in SAP-RAR - Revenue Accounting and Reporting.
• Having knowledge and worked on setup and testing of SAP S/4 HANA 1610 (Simple Finance) system.
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Program (APP), Lockbox configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Automatic Payment Run (APP) check management, DME configuration and document splitting and credit card processing.
• Excellent working knowledge of Materials Management (MM), SAP Sales and Distribution (SD), Human Resources (HCM), ABAP, IDocs, ALE, BAPIs and SAP PI.
• Experience in Tax accounting with One Source (Sabrix)
• Performed a variety of analyst and consulting roles in application designs and development, implementation, data mapping, integration, training, upgrade and support.
• Having ability to correlate a customer’s business needs to the requirements and to partner solution offerings in line with SAP’s overall strategy and direction.
• Strong Analytical conceptual thinking, deep experience in communications and adept at creating offerings, proposals, presentations and supporting materials.
• Demonstrated capabilities across different areas of leadership at project management, change management, team lead and team member roles.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills for leading blueprint workshops, cross-functional meetings, training, and client interactions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Financial Accounting: Proficient in General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Account Payable (FI-AP), Asset Management (FI-AA), Travel Management (T&E), Bank Accounting, Tax Accounting, ECCS - Consolidations, S/4 Hana Simple Finance.

SAP Controlling: Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA), Activity Based Accounting (CO-ABC), Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Variances, Results Analysis (RA), Product Costing (CO-PC), Cost object Controlling .

SAP Technical Skills: Integration of various SAP modules PP, PM, SD, MM, CRM, SRM & HR with FI/CO. Expert in development of reports using Report Painter and Report Writer. Knowledge of ASAP implementation methodology and the capability to interact with ABAP developers for technical specifications SAP Query and LSMW, AMEX T&E Inbound Interface, Sabrix (Tax Engine)

Other Tools: ZOptions, JE Tools, Service-Now, JIRA, Remedy, HPQC, SAP PI, Solution Manager, SharePoint, Power BI, Lumira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FI/CO Lead

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Overall project is related to Invoice upload and importing/exporting from the csv format.
• Through these applications, the user (External Vendors) can see and upload invoices corresponding to their POs.
• Gathered business requirements by conducting workshops with business stakeholders for design, development, implementing SAP Logistics Invoices verification for external vendors.
• This application is developed for users to upload their invoices using the Vendor Id and Bill to Party to search the open invoices for all the PO’s where user can edit and submit the invoices.
• User can also export the selected invoices or export all the invoices to excel.
• Lead the project and successfully completed within the schedule.
• Responsible for setting up the interfaces between partner systems, creating the workbooks, functional specs for interface programs/file path, folders, naming and testing of interfaces within and outside the firewall.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Performed AS-IS Study of the system and TO-BE Analysis.
• Involved in conducting GAP Analysis. Revision of Business Process Procedures to in corporate the necessary changes.
• Fixed Asset - configuration considering Local GAAP requirements; migrated Asset Master Data and transactional data using LSMW during mid-year Go-Live.
• Migrated Historical Exchange Rates to support FA migration.
• Worked with Business to reconcile Asset sub ledger and General Ledger.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Configured Lock Box accounts that are referenced in customer master records and used invoices as a part of remittance information.
• Defined control parameters that are used by the Lock Box Processing Program, bank statement processing and exchange rates.
• Configured Credit management and dunning based on the blueprint.
• Configured and tested Customer invoice posting and incoming payment processing.
• Designed, configured and tested Lockbox under Treasury Management, Lockbox import, post and post processing.
• Implemented electronic bank statement reconciliation after downloading electronic bank statements.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined Procurement process to Corporate Standards. Introduced Vendor partner functions to take care of existing AP problems with payment program F110.
• Intercompany Process - harmonized and used custom program to generate intercompany invoices between US, Europe and APAC Trading Partners.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Realization activities relating for configuration and developments of customized objects to meet client requirements.
• Prepared SAP T&E documentation including training documents & presentation materials as needed to support Business users.
• Demonstrated business processes developed and trained the end-users and business users. Prepared end user manuals and trained the end users.
• Supported users to perform Unit testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of onsite, and offshore resources and managing steady state support and monitoring SAP ECC Finance & Controlling area.
• Responsible for design validation, configuration, implementation and functional and technical support and maintenance.
• Worked closely with process teams to facilitate project progress and ensure integrated system solutions.
• Worked with the onsite-offshore resources globally to prioritize, coordinate and execute daily production support and guide them in implementing small to medium size projects.
• Function as a key member of project teams throughout the full project lifecycle (blueprinting, realization, final prep, go-live, and support) including the operate phase.
• Worked with cross functional teams to prioritize work and drive system solutions by clearly articulating business needs
• Provided implementation support, preparing the business for system solutions.
• Demonstrated the ability to solve problems that allows for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages.
• Maintained proper change control and release management.
• Worked with functional teams (SD, MM, PP, PM, PS, CRM, FICO) and technical teams (ABAP, PI, Basis, and Security).
• Implemented customized portal to maintain better control over fixed assets and allow for online retirement and transfer of these assets.
• Settlement of investment orders and Asset and under construction.

SAP Technical Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Global Template against local Gaps to ensure compliance with Local Tax, statutory and regulatory requirements of the industry.
• Adjusted to accommodate US Tax Jurisdiction and Tax codes against Europe VAT.
• Handled daily production support and delegated tasks to other team members.
• Ensured 100% SLA compliance and improvement in period end close time.
• Designed process improvements in PTP Processes and OTC process as part of the engagement.
• Coordinated weekly review meetings with Support Team with business for tracking and resolution of issues.
• Responsible for generating time sensitive reports and submitting them to various authorities.

Systems Analyst

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Responsibilities:

• This project is Implementation of IS-Media with OTC module, Roll-out of SAP to new company and support & maintenance.
• This was in line with customers overall objective of leveraging new technologies & to align with SAP Release Strategy.
• Developed PI interface for vendor invoice processing using XML and flat file format.
• Amex inbound interface for T&E receipts/Amex outbound interface for payment.
• Worked SRM team to streamline the workflow procedure with proper ownership set up at Cost center level.
• Post Go-live Support activities for OTC IS - Media Solution, which includes IS-Media Contracts, Orders and Billing.
• Teamplay to SAP Interface for Project/WBS creations/synch & resources(HR) data - through middleware Impress.

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on resolution of SAP ERP FI/CO issues, conducted super users meeting to prioritize projects, tickets, and training.
• Handled daily production support and delegated tasks to other team members.
• Managed client expectations by resolving issues pertaining risk and change management.
• Prepared extensive documentation for end-user training with respect to GL, AR, AP and AA modules.
• Addressed the Controlling, Directing, and Monitoring and Quality dimensions of the Project.
• Analyzing and providing resolution relating to Finance and Controlling within the SLAs.
• Analysis and mapping of enhancements/ new requirements of the client in the FICO module.
• Addressed issues posted in all functional areas and interfaces.
• Preparation of functional specifications for enhancements and worked with Technical team development and deployment.
• Responsible for monthly jobs, period end runs, scheduling of the jobs and year end issues.

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in implementation of roll out project, including defining the additional business requirements, analyzing the gap, configuration and testing.
• Analyzed the existing system for AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops.
• Prepared training materials and conducted training for users in asset acquisition, transfers and disposals.
• Configured and tested Project System and Investment Management. Trained users on Fixed Assets
• Month End and Year End processes including AUC’s settlement and use of asset explorer and asset history sheet.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for FICO module configuration and integration with other modules and processes.
• Responsible for Knowledge transfer to the existing Support team
• Responsible for documentation for different phases of the project - requirements and blue print documentation, test scripts, data cleansing, go live support on multiple sites etc..
• Developed test cases and involved in unit testing and Integrating testing
• Instrumental in developing Functional specs for data migration using BDC. Worked closely with Development team
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
• If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change detail to Level 3 to have the deepest level of application or product understanding.
• Determine problems found by the proactive application monitoring being done on a regular basis.
• Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLAs.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master.
• Configured exchange rate types, currency factors for currency conversion and entered exchange rates in global settings.
• Configured settings for automatic account determination for intercompany transactions.
• Defined rules for automatic clearing of documents.
• Created house Banks, bank Accounts and assigned the accounts to a check lot.
• Configured automatic payment program for out going payments in Accounts Payable.
• Configured vendor account groups, number ranges, vendor tolerances, payment methods and payment terms.
• Configured customer account groups, number ranges, customer tolerances, interest and dunning.
• Defined accounts for cash discounts, over payment and under payments, rounding differences and bank charges for vendor and customer payments.
• Assigned GL accounts for revenue account determination for each access sequence.
• Prepared functional specifications for various custom reports.
• Conducted testing of various configuration settings in FI & CO.
• Prepared documentation and conducted user training in GL, AP, AR and AA modules.

Account Executive/Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled Accounts, Auditing, Fund Management, Project Evaluation & Finance, Budgeting, Taxation, Statutory Compliance, Sales Accounting, & Management Information Systems
• Ensured budgeting was implemented and costs controlled within budgets.
• Effective management of working capital by management of Debtors and treasury.
• Preparation of Financial Statements and making changes as per Auditors suggestion.
• Assisted in preparation of Projected Financial Statements and collection of Documents to be submitted for Financing Purpose to the Bank.
• Streamlining of Tax deduction to be done on salaries including deduction of tax and e-filing of TDS returns.
• Keeping track of all the exports made by the company and realization of payment on such exports.

Account Executive/Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Finalized bank reconciliation at month end accounts.
• Responsible for purchase ledger and sales ledger, invoicing, monthly credit control, daily banking and posting money.
• Verification of vouchers and authorizing them for posting and payment.
• Purchase and sales verification.
• Cash voucher verification and bank voucher verification.
• Regular analysis of sundry creditors status and reconciliation of balances.
• Monitored aging analysis of sundry creditors.
• Monitored accounts related to inter-unit material transfers.
• Individually handling of books of accounts up to income & expenditure Statement, balance sheet in coordination with external & statutory audits.
• Maintenance of cash & bank payments, Bank reconciliation statement, vendor’s statements & correspondence with banks & parties.
• Follow up of Accounts receivable & Manual Dunning statements.
• Maintenance of fixed assets register
• Preparation of purchase orders as per requirements
• Handling petty cash
• Payroll preparation on monthly basis
• Maintenance of TDS register and issue certificate to parties