SUMMARY

• Senior SAP professional with more than 12 years of world wide experience and 11 years of experience primarily in SAP FI/CO as Solution Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, Sr. Analyst, S/4 HANA, Simple Finance
• Hands on experience in Simple Finance S4HANA 1610/1709, ECC 6.0 and New G/L, Procure to Pay (Accounts Payable), Order to Cash (Accounts Receivable) and asset acquisition to retirement with internal order integration.
• Involved in 5 full Life - cycle implementations of SAP R/3 using ASAP methodology involving Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Prod Support.
• CO Configuration for CCA, CE, Profit Center Accounting, CO- Product Costing, COPA, Overhead Cost Accounting, Internal Orders and other related areas.
• Configured and Customized SAP Screen Personas.
• Extensive working experience in Cutover and Rollout activities.
• Worked ondata migration from legacy systems to SAP Systems.
• Extensive working experience in Payment Methods like Check, ACH, Wire Transfer
• Extensive working experience across various industries of Automobile, Banking, service, Pharmaceuticals, telecom, Finance Retail, Utilities, and manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of Credit and Asset Management, Special Ledger FI-SL, New GL- Document splitting, Project Systems, Bank Accounting, Foreign Currency, Treasury.
• Development of Business Processes and Business Process Reengineering.
• Master Data Management (MDM) related to FICO Module.
• Cross functional expertise including integration with SD, MM, PP & PS including integration of these modules with FI & CO module.
• Experience in reports, conversions, interfaces, enhancements & forms (RICEF). Identifying GAPS & Writing functional and technical specs for WRICEF per unique client specific requirements
• Production support and after go live support for FI CO as Sr SAP Business Analyst with users all over the World.
• User profile & authorization settings, Role Definition, transport requests management etc.
• End User training provided of user manual and preparation of user manual and training material including test scripts.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, provided inputs during the analysis of the "As-Is" and "To-Be" processes, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions.
• Strong Solution Manager experience (CHARM, SOLAR01, SOLAR03)
• Good working understanding of onshore/offshore working model.
• Good knowledge in ABAP/4 Programming and conceptual understanding of ALE, LSMW, EDI and IDOC.
• Good understanding of ABAP Code, guiding technical consultants in developing the reports/programs and using OSS notes in fixing the issues

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial: New General ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, and Special Purpose Ledger.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting & Profitability Analysis

Integration: FI/CO integration with SD, MM, HR, PS and PP.

Development: LSMW, Report Painter, Report Writer, EDI, IDoc, ALE, ABAP

Migration: S/4 HANA migration and Simple Finance.

ERP Package: SAP R/3 Version 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0 Ehp7, BPC, Simple Finance.

Office Tools: MS WORD, MS Excel, MS VISIO, MS Power Point, MS Access, Report Write Report Painter

Tools: LSMW, Report Painter & BDC.

Testing: Manual testing, Functional, System Integration, User acceptance testing, Regression, Testing, Performance testing, HP Quality Center 9.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP Lead FICO/AP Consultant

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the existing system for AS-IS study: gathered functional requirements through user workshops.
• Acted as a liaison between business users and technical developers and worked closely with technical developers to meet the business needs.
• Created mock data for testing the interfaces
• Testing of interfaces for various scenarios, in conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives from the client side.
• Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules
• Creating custom Reports on AR and AP by giving functional specifications to the ABAP team for development.
• Configured partial, full, residual payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable.
• Created House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Void Reason Codes.
• Configuration of Automatic Payment for Vendors for Check payment, ACH and Wire transfer.
• Generation of Positive pay file.
• Prepared test plans for unit testing, integration testing, and end to end testing.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing.

SAP Sr FICO Consultant

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Responsibilities:

• Worked Developed and analyzed business and functional requirements.
• Analyzed the “AS IS”, ‘TO BE” systems and carried out Gap-Analysis. Clearly defined and documented required business functionality.
• Conducting andCoordinating Business Blue print workshopsfor understanding client requirements
• Implemented new company code for this entity. Parent company already had SAP implemented.
• Preparation of business blue print deliveries. The task involved identification of data conversions required, interfaces needed.
• Performeddata validation and account determination for mapping of the processes on to the SAP system.
• Configuration of Bank accounting, Asset accounting, Cost and Profit center accounting.
• Prepared, documented and maintained all documentation and processes for end users.
• Conversion of year dependent periods to normal calendar month periods.
• Preparation of LSMW data upload templates, testing and performing data upload.
• GL balances both cumulative and line item balances including vendor, customer and asset master data were loaded via LSMW technique.
• House bank creation including the usage of EDI related fields required for the creation of IDOC (which were the means of transmitting the data to the bank via FTP)
• Configureddunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level.
• Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration
• Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting.
• Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc.

SAP Sr Lead FI/CO Consultant

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and analyzed business and functional requirements. Analyzed the “AS IS”, ‘TO BE” systems and carried out Gap-Analysis.
• Clearly defined and documented required business functionality.
• Designed and implemented an interface from legacy system to create Invoice Postings in SAP.
• Proposed new or improved business processes. Validated new processes with the business process owners. Analyzed change and update requests.
• Worked with ABAP on IDOC/ EDI and User Exits.
• Mapped invoices, bank statements, payments to appropriate IDOC’s for automatic upload and clearing into SAP.
• Configured SAP FICO and completed successful integration with another modules SD/ MM.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Configured Material Ledger, Material Price Determination, Material price analysis, and multi-level settlement.
• Regression testing against existing SAP system. Unit and Integration testing.
• Defined Material Movement Type, Material Update Structure. Configured Actual Costing and Actual Cost Component Split.
• Verified the Test Scripts executed including the Month End Closing Scripts
• Worked with data conversion team to design and successfully convert legacy data to SAP.
• Designed and implemented an interface from legacy systems to update Standard cost in material master from legacy system with 7 regional costs worldwide.
• Run Assessment Cycle for Quality Costs, Record Purchase-Order Related AP Transactions, Release Blocked Invoices
• Master data preparation in Test cycles: material master, activity types, cost centers, activity type planning, template loads, over heads loading, PIRs, BOM, Routings
• Developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment to allocate manufacturing overhead cost to cost objects.
• Configured settlements, cost splits for Activity Price calculations. Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration
• Configuration and Functional design documentation, peer review and approval
• Test Scripts, Unit testing the Business requirements and SIT testing and its approval

SAP Lead FI/AP Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Configured Bank Reconciliation Electronic and Manual Inbound Bank Communication BCM
• Assisted in designing SAP’s BCM Connector interface for multiple BCM instances and Configured BCM workflow
• Setup House Bank for Automatic payments and EDI setup for inbound and outbound IDOC’s, BAI2 and ACH processing
• Closely work with Development team to develop conversion program and technical design documents. Provide testing data for unit testing and UAT.
• Prepare Test scripts for vendor conversion process and help business users to execute test scripts in ALM (HPQC).
• Understanding duplication issues and defining a strategy for data consolidation and reconciliation on data load.
• Implemented Payment Network functionality of Bank of America to integrate SAP using IDOCs.
• Ensured financial statements are in accordance with GAAP reporting requirements and company policies
• Worked closely with MDM team to standardize vendor address to identify duplicate vendors across all the sites.
• Design, develop and maintaindata migration programs and manage migration tools like LSMW
• Cost Elements Accounting involving both primary and secondary cost elements.
• In Cost Center Accounting defined and assigned standard hierarchy, validations and substitutions, Assessments and Distributions, integration with MM, SD, PP.
• In PCA, created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Center groups, Dummy profit centers, Profit center Master Data, assigned different Objects to Profit Center, and Reports.
• Responsible for mapping and updating configuration (payment methods, payment terms, taxes, e-mail to purchasing, withholding tax etc) to accommodate the changes in processing requirements.
• Prepared mapping of Open Accounts Payable Invoices from different legacy systems to SAP, including intercompany and down payment invoices.
• Responsible for conversion for employee vendors from legacy systems which included mapping employees to cost center and updating banking information for expense reimbursement.

SAP FI Lead Consultant

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and Blueprinting for New G/L functionality.
• Definedfinancial statements versionfor internal and external user groups.
• Configured the company code global settings.
• Configured the automatic posting forInter-company code posting.
• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
• Designed the month end & Year end closing procedures.
• Supported the integration between FICO and BPC.
• Defined Account Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.
• Creation of GL Master Data, posting, Displaying balances, Parking and Reversal of document
• Worked on interface of 3rd party systems to connect to SAP system using ALE - IDOCs.
• Defined Document Splitting Characteristics and activated Document Splitting.
• Helped in month end and year closing activities
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Product Costing (COPC).
• Designed various interfaces to connect various non-SAP systems to SAP systems
• Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing by preparing the test scripts for all FI business processes.
• Worked with data conversion team to design and successfully convert legacy data to SAP.
• Prepared unit test scripts, integrationandinterface test scriptsanddocumented acceptance sign from the business owners.
• Provided trainings to End users as a part of Internal training activities.
• Worked on Production issues after Go-Live.

SAP FICO Sr. Lead Consultant

Confidential, Anaheim, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed the workflow for all treasury payments for create, approve and release treasury payments.
• In-house Cash Treasury solution
• Configuring VIM document types, VIM workflow trigger implementation, VIM Parking and block reason enhancement. Invoice approval process design and implementation.
• Implemented electronic bank statement (EBS) and lockbox processing for JP Morgan Bank.
• Supported various Migration and Upgrade projects, from Physical servers to Virtual Servers and Enhancement Packages.
• Analyzed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• Educating the client on FI and CO Master and transaction data information with Intercompany processing details.
• Logistic Invoice Verification: Enhanced the MM user exit to extend the duplicate invoice check for credit memos.
• Involved in Production Support, Migration to NEW GL, Intercompany processes and Transactions, Payment Medium Workbench (PMW), Release management and Change Management
• Supported daily production Issues related Order to Cash Cycle O2C (Accounts Receivable), Procure to Pay Cycle P2P - Goods receipt against inbound delivery and Revenue Recognition.
• Created validation rule in FI (Text on line item with VIN number format) and Asset accounting (Internal Order assignment) to streamline the entries.
• Configured and Customized CO - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Provided support for month end close and year end close activities.
• Configured the SAP Screen Personas, Created customized flavors for different users as per requirements.
• Created customized DASHBOARD flavors for different users using SAP Screen Personas.
• Scripting the Dashboard for easy access for users using SAP Screen Personas.
• Customized the standard SAP transactions, like tab merger, using SAP Screen Personas.
• Responsible for configuration of customer/vendor mater records, terms of payment, cash discount base for invoices.

SAP FI Sr. Consultant

Confidential, Hollywood, CA

Responsibilities:

• Documented splitting withZero Balancing on Profit Center.
• Developed customer program to use the splitter logic to split the revenue generated for various MPM products.
• Responsible for Configuration, system andIntegration test planning and execution.
• Designed, wrote functional specs and tested the complex Customized programs and interfaces.
• Like Splitter Program to split cost and Revenue. Commission calculation for various organizations from the profit margins.
• Accrual and deferral calculation custom program by various dimensions.
• Worked on SAP IS media solution with special fields like SKU, MPM Product, etc.
• Worked with SAP Finance Invoices and Credit/Debit Memos into SAP via IDOCs.

SAP FICO Sr. Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of additional Country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, and dunning.
• Re-configuration of discounts, house bank configuration, bank determination, bank reconciliation statements, and bank settings.
• Implemented various SAP functionalities and enhancements that were not included in initial implementation e.g.
• Park and Post Process, Tolerance Groups to handle discounts, Availability Control on Internal Order Budget, Financial Statement Version etc.
• Created a new Operating Concern with custom characteristics and value fields and tested the flows from SD and FI documents into CO-PA.
• Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA planning including creating planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• Worked on maintaining Versions in Profitability analysis.
• Cost Center allocations and Internal Order settlements.
• Internal order accounting: settlement configuration, planning/budgeting profiles, order types.
• Determined inventory price according to Standard Price and also Moving Average Price.
• Configured Costing Variant to generate cost estimate using BOM and Routing.

SAP FI/CO Sr. Consultant

Confidential, Hollywood, CA

Responsibilities:

• Participated in GAP analysis and coordinated business requirements from the client.
• Gathered business process information and compiled Delta analysis document.
• Customized and configured FI/CO modules and involved in unit testing and integration testing.
• Involved in post go-live support. Assisted the users in month end and year end closing.
• Worked with data conversion team to transfer legacy data to SAP.

SAP Sr. CO Consultant

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• In Product Cost Planning (manufacturing): I configured cost component structure, costing sheet (Overhead Calculation) and Configured material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, by maintaining costing variants and its components: Costing type, Valuation Variant, Quantity Structure Control, Transfer Strategy.
• In CO- Cost Object Controlling: I did configuration for costing the products on various cost objects: Production order, Product Cost Collector (Period) and Sales Order product cost estimate.
• Further I configured the period end activities like work in process and posting rules, variance was calculated and finally settled to the PA segments using PA transfer structure in Settlement profiles.
• Generated reports using Report Painter, Documentation for end users, end user training.
• As a lead consultant, I was responsible for implementing CO-PA module and overall responsible for reporting requirements of the organization.
• The company is segmented according to the products and customers. The profitability of the company is determined based on their segments.
• CO-PA happens to be a perfect match for market-oriented decision making.
• Carried out detailed study of reporting requirements and accordingly scope, design and configuration of Profitability Analysis were done.
• Activated and Implemented profit center accounting to have segment reporting.
• Material Master Data update, Cost center Master Data update, IO Master Data.
• Changing Field Status Variant. For GL Accounts.
• Creating derivation rules to populate profit center for some SD related transactions
• Worked on report painter to develop some custom reports.
• Provided support and fixing daily ticket issues.
• Worked with team members for automatic account determination of sales / use tax, inter-company, MM and SD account assignments.
• I documented their closing procedures, financial statement versions, G/L displays, posting amount defaults and tolerance groups, number ranges and document types.

SAP Finance Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Configured of Treasury and Finance with regards to G/L account postings.
• Integrated Treasury and the Financial Accounting modules.
• Worked with Treasury Workflow Processes.
• Configured Lockbox program, customized customer invoice search criteria for both Lockbox and Electronic Bank statement files.
• TR Configurations - ACH Payments, Electronic Bank Statements, Bonds Configuration, Liquidity Planner.
• Mapped system requirements for Money Market and Risk Management Functions.
• Created business process blueprints.
• Appreciation of Client Account Management, allocations, interest accruals and distributions.
• Knowledge and appreciation of Equities processes- Stocks.
• Facilitation of User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0