PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10 years of Financial Management, Corporate Accounting, designing and development of SAP solutions in Finance and cross streams. Successfully implemented Systems, Practices and Solutions for Clients from Scope study, Fit - Gap analysis to Go-Live and Post-Live support in various projects. Has excellent communication skills and is a good team player.
• Led several IT implementation and upgrade projects contributing to the strategy of corporate and business units. Led several integrations and roll out projects to Asian, North American, and Latin American countries coordinating with Global IT teams across the world.
• Set up end to end configuration of multiple co codes, profit centers, business areas and mapping divisions and other organization units for both internal and external reporting and integrate with full logistics and HR.
• Successfully implemented S/4 HANA Green field implementation and Conversion project from ECC 6.0 to New GL to ECC Suite on HANA.
• Successfully completed 2 SAP full life cycle implementations in SAP FI/CO module. Also have worked on upgrade, global rollout and support projects . Familiar with several project management methodologies and frameworks like Agile, ASAP and Activate.
• Strong production support experience in an onsite and offshore support delivery model. Currently serving as a SPOC for onsite production support. Responsible for Root cause analysis, After action reviews and post implementation reviews and address the outcome. Review the KPI’s and the SLO’s for both ticket based and non-ticket based activities.
• Designed and wrote functional and technical specifications for various interfaces from SAP to Data warehouses, Winshuttle/GL Batch load/ GL Dashboard. Strong knowledge of SAFT Reporting and SAP notes implementation in all types of SAP.
• Strong knowledge in data and integration between various instances and modules (SD, MM, HR) of SAP. Designed report interfaces from SAP to Non-SAP, Bloomberg, GFIS and other legacy applications.
• Led several PEC and YEC activities and supported Corporate Reporting, Tax and Audit team heavily on numerous complex statutory reports within tight deadlines. Collected system process run times to compare and improve system performances. Worked with SAP America max attention to enhance reporting performances.
• Successfully demonstrated in helping P2P, OTC, R2R, H2R end-users to validate system codes and settings. Influenced and collaborated to lead and drive collective decisions with cross-functional teams.
• Developed and managed large testing scopes with multiple phases of FUT, SRT, DRT and UAT and various regression and integration testing for new implementation, upgrades, and patch release.
• Strong problem-solving skills and customer focus. Incident and Problem identification, resolution, and Co-ordination with Global/offshore team for providing solutions. Understanding on multiple modules and capability to do configuration, gap analysis and proof of concepts of various requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Expertise: SAP Financials: Proficient in ECC and S/4 HANA Org Structure, New GL, Classic GL, Accounts Receivable FI - AR, Account Payable FI-AP, Asset Management FI-AA, JVA, Special Ledgers, Treasury Management, Integration with other modules and EC-CS (Enterprise Consolidation) for internal and external reporting, DART and Archiving. SAP Controlling: CO expertise in Cost Centre Accounting CO-CCA, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Profit Centre Accounting PCA, Internal Orders IO, Project Systems, Activity Types, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Variances, and Other CO Elements. Cash Management House Banks, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios. SAP Technical: Integration of various SAP applications like SD and MM with FI/CO. Knowledge of ABAP Coding, function modules, LSMW, BDC, CATT, Report writers, Report Painter. Developed technical specifications for interfaces, custom developments, and enhancements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attending the daily team meetings along with onsite, offshore managers and team members to know the project deliverables and new requirements from business users and other challenges facing between the team members.
• Work on SAFT VAT report configuration setup and VAT implementation in Poland/Angola/Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania/Portugal/Norway, One source to ECC integration, Brazil Nota Fiscal testing and support.
• Writing the high-level documents -BRD's on business process, daily operations and new business process changes, user manuals, Unit test and integration test documents.
• General ledger - Working on GL batch load process which is posting the employee vendor expense/P-card fiels on daily basis using the custom programs, IFM and ICRRB invoices postings, Exchange rates load for all countries from Bloomberg to SAP ECC system.
• Account payable - Responsible to handle and resolve the defects on Vendor automatic payment program, treasury batch creation and DMEE file generation and move the bank files into respective bank folders and servers, cheque and payment advices generation using the C - series and SDP systems, employee vendor creation, update, delete and termination using the new custom program which support the employee vendor life cycle in E&Y project.
• Accounts Receivables: New customer master data creation and changes, AR reserves postings for customer who are not paying for longer period, also responsible for custom programs "Customer invoices reposting for foreign currency postings, developing of customer open item and aging reports via WBS elements, Define Lock box/EBS configuration and MBS configuration.
• Daily monitoring of automatic batch job's on Automatic payment program run to pay the vendor invoices and Processing of treasury batch jobs to load the payment files into respective banks and Posting of customer reserves, master data changes includes vendor, customer and WBS elements and exchange rate file processing from Bloomberg to SAP system.
• Collaborate across Global teams in problem resolution. Support and provide resolutions for Global reconciliation report (ledger reconciliations), lay out best practices, root cause analysis, preventive actions, and continuous monitoring.
• Provide support for the SAP FICO/Open Text VIM operation in the company for North America, Canada and Mexico. Supported in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting and Treasury) and Open Text VIM, Archiving & Document Access.
• Monthly batch job monitoring on open and closing of financial periods, Asset depreciation postings, Foreign currency revolution postings.
• Maintaining Validations and Substitution rules on different requirements (Payment currency, Custom open/close period, Work location, Material group and User access with exchange rate modification)
• Winshuttle - Support and guidance to user's on winshuttle process for vendor, customer invoices and journal entry posting.
• Asset accounting - Involved in new company code setup and changes to existing company code, Depreciation postings on monthly basis, asset procurement, sale and developing the documents for new changes and asset process life cycles.
• Month end and year end support to business users to open and close the periods and new fiscal years.
• Providing the Knowledge sharing session to all new joiners in team and also scheduling the meeting to share the new changes in business process.
• Support the process of Legacy data and employee expenses incurred in GFIS systems to SAP ECC system.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a team in delivering requirement to our customer in area of RRB/Fixed Assets and Accounts payable.
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data.
• Configuration of house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment
• Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, Bank determination.
• Setup the manual and automate payment batch approval process and custom DMEE tree setup.
• Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.
• Key projects handled so far includes Service pack (SP13) upgrade, Connectivity for Bank files.
• Involved in DG4 Build, Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Lead the ITC-TF/RRB team in DG4 and Participation in client meetings to gather the requirements.
• Create, Review and Analysis of CSI and CSD documents and walk-through the Configuration documents.
• Configuration and Unit testing of Asset accounting, RRB/ICRRB process.
• Unit testing and Integration testing based on the test scripts prepared in HPQC Tool.
• Daily coordinating with the Regional and onshore Team for updates and reviews.
• SPS-13 - Unit testing and Integration testing and identified the bugs and fix the same issues as per the priority.
• Writing FDS and involved in development of the new custom reports and changes.Upgrade from ECC 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Performed the testing to support the technical upgrade.
• Interfaces testing, security roles and custom related programs testing.
• Support for the technical go live and cut over activities.
• Create and schedule the jobs to process the inbound and outbound Idocs.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defining of chart of depreciation and depreciation areas, configuration of asset classes and Account determination, depreciation keys.
• Define the Accounting principals and assign to ledgers and Depreciation areas.
• Validation and substitution for cost objects and Evaluation group on asset master record.
• Creation of Asset Master and Depreciation run and Uploading of the Asset masters and balances through the LSMW and historical Asset year wise balances uploading through the Z program.
• Configuration of house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment
• Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, Bank determination.
• Setup the manual and automate payment batch approval process and custom DMEE tree setup.
• Define the Operative char of accounts and Account groups and alternative account setup.
• Setup the country specific chart of accounts.
• Developed the interface to load the exchange rates from legacy tools to SAP TCURR tables through PI/PO systems.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Set up 16 company codes across the Zones, Global Parameters, design chart of accounts, Group chart of accounts for consolidation, set up relevant profit center groups, cost center hierarchies, Plant setup, sales areas, sales credit, business area and other relevant org units for logistcs.
• Responsible for supporting Finance migration with respect to business requirements gathering, data mapping, fixed assets migration, open items migration, master data set up.
• Set up new DMEE trees, Payment method, Bank communication Management to interpret and record part payments in AR and AP.
• Set up parallel currencies, valuation area for forex revaluation. Upload forex rate via spreadsheet to TCURR table.
• Set up Lockbox partner profile, lockbox ID and batch job.
• Set up SEPA payments for EUR accounts due to Brexit. Set up long account numbers for countries that have longer bank account numbers.
• Set up intermediary banks for manual wire transfer payment method W via FIBPS for vendor and house banks.
• Clean up of bank routing information, validating SWIFT codes and ensuring the bank addresses due to several bank mergers and cleansing initial data load. Familiar with tables T012K, T012K, FEBA.
• Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments. Checks Management through assigning number ranges for Check Lots, Checks Printing and defining void Reason Codes.
• Set up payment medium exchange/format for several payment methods, mapping external transaction types to internal transactions, posting rules, mapping accounts, AL11 directories, batch jobs.
• Set up Idoc interface between SAP and non-SAP treasury system Quantum for commercial instruments.
• Remove special characters from the invoice field in the DMEE file which changes the column structure in the bank file.
• Set up Bank statement for new house banks by assigning transaction type to the bank key and test for the postings, set up batch job.
• Set up country specific digits for house bank and bank accounts for LATAM vendor and set up wire payments.
• Maintain derivation strategies for different reporting requirements and update the COPA transfer structure for proper reporting of P/L lines.
• Set up integration between FI and MM for new material types and FI and SD.
• Testing of new desinged interfaces between Concur and FI via ALE for FI postings.

Confidential

SAP Analyst Programing Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintained standards in implementation methodology by following ASAP implementation strategy including the documentation of case procedures, end user documents, business process procedures.
• Defined the enterprise structure for the company, Company code and controlling area global settings.
• Designed and configured the Chart of Accounts, GL masters, No ranges, Account groups, field status groups.
• Defined account groups, document types, number ranges, field status groups, special Gl Accounts
• Configured automatic postings in integration with SD, MM & PP module.
• Configuring Automatic Payment Program and the Manual Bank Reconciliation Statement.
• Worked on configuration of the Cash Journal by defining the business transactions and creating the number range for the documents.
• Worked on configuration of Asset Accounting module doing configuration of Chart of depreciation, Depreciation areas, asset types, period control, Calculation keys, account determination, assigning GL accounts for posting etc.
• Designed the Financial Statement Version for the company.
• Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Developed Customized reports for Vendor/Customer Aging Analysis.
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.
• Customized the Account Groups and Field Status Groups.
• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and set up the Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Performed Unit testing Integration testing and assisted in User Acceptance testing.
• Worked on data migration from legacy system to SAP R/3 using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) tool.
• Authorized user for Document Types.
• Designed and configured the primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups, Cost center groups, Activity types, and Activity type groups.
• Developed the specs for the country specific custom reports requested by the clients and tested the reports after development.

Confidential

SAP Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Writing High Level Design Documents (HLDs) and providing the inputs to the offshore team.
• Provide the alternative solutions to the business with detailed analysis for the requirements
• Validating the test scripts and test results done at offshore.
• Responsible for developing the functional specifications for “Archiving of FI documents and tables”
• Responsible for testing of archive documents.
• Unit testing the configuration settings and acceptance testing for AP & AR (testing the end-to-end business scenarios for all the releases.
• Continuously provide the (Functional Specifications) support for the ABAPers for the objects built on-site and at offshore.
• Creation of business scenarios and writing the test scripts for the functional specifications written and testing the business scenarios.
• Involved in Cut over activities and in Go-Live support.
• Resolving the defects during (Unit testing, Acceptance testing, SIT testing, LES testing and Post Go-live).
• Accepted the additional responsibility of performing the regression testing.
• Defect management and assignment of defects within the AP team.
• Preparation of End-user documents.