SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years hands on Design and Configuration experience in SAP FICO / FSCM. 5 Full Life Cycle SAP implementations, 4 SAP rollouts, enhancements, and multiple support engagements. Industry vertical experience includes Energy, Chemicals, Retail, Printing, and Telecom.
• 11 years of Business Process experience as a Finance Manager in the Manufacturing and the Oil and Gas Industry.
• Expertise includes GL, New GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, EBS, Lockbox, Vertex,
• Expertise includes Cost Center Accounting, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting
• FSCM: Implementation experience in Collection Management, Cash Management, Dispute management and Credit management,
• Treasury and Risk Management: Money Market, Forex, Derivatives, Securities and In House cash management.
• Involved in Requirement Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration, with an in - depth understanding of business processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and integration with SD & MM.
• Supported implementations on SAP Solution manager - from Solution Documentation to Template Management, Test Management, Change Control Management and Defect Management.
• Trained in the new S/4 Hana Simple Finance covering General Accounting, Asset Accounting. Migration and configuration activities for General accounting, Asset Accounting and FSCM (Collection, Cash and Dispute and Credit management)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLs: SAP Functiona l Skills SAP Financial Accounting General Ledger / New GL / Parallel Ledgers Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivables Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

SAP Finance Lead (FI/FSCM)

Responsibilities:

• Configured cash application for FI-AR. Configured automatic clearing of open items using lockbox interface n the BAI2 and IDOC formats. Enhanced the Clearing hit rate with a specialized Post Processor
• Setup all incoming payments including Lockbox using EDI820
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program, which included creation of house banks, company code payment methods, employee tolerances, terms of payment.
• Designed and developed a solution for posting NSF changes to the customer account in the event of insufficient funds check returns for different amounts in the different states.
• Designed and developed complex multi level workflows (e.g. Blocking the Sales Order for a Customer on dunning level 3, with sufficient credit limit, triggering a workflow to a central credit approval team.)
• Designed and developed a comprehensive Collection process with an external collection agency with seamless integration to the SAP Lockbox incoming payment process.
• Performed period end closing activities before migration
• Used pre check program to make sure all the prerequisite activates are taken care.
• Customizing settings
• Tools used:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

SAP FICO Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities as the SAP FICO Functional Lead
• Managed the entire Order to Cash Cycle, from Invoicing, Collections, Tolerance Management, Payment applications, Interest Calculations, and Dunning
• Other ancillary processes included:
• Withholding tax
• Intercompany payment process.
• Credit card payment process and settlement
• Automatic Write off - through Dispute management
• Bad debts write off

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP Accounts Receivable - Lead

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a leading global independent energy company primarily engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.
• Responsible for implementing Release 2 for Asia region and for all bank & cash management related activities, such as grouping existing local bank to international bank fund transfer activities.
• Included Malaysia company code bank accounts in the cash position and liquidity forecast report by configuring / grouping and structuring the mapping of the GL accounts.
• Responsible for data load migration from classic GL to New GL migration process.
• Responsible for the following master data load for Customer master data and customer open items, Vendor Master data and Vendor open item and Bank Master Data. This includes data cleansing, data validation and post load and preload validations.
• Cost centre and profit centre master data load.
• Material ledger configuration and activation for the MM plant.
• Exposure in joint venture accounting.
• Involved with project system team for restructuring the existing projects.
• Created WBS element and cost center for projects.

Confidential - Saginaw - Michigan

SAP FSCM Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Sole owner for FSCM implementation; implemented four SAP FSCM sub modules in this project and directly managed offshore finance team to complete the Testing and material documents. Managed client coordination, customization and periodically updated senior management.
• Managed complete AS IS and TO BE discussion (Requirement gathering & FIT GAP analysis as per the country specific requirements) configuration, testing (product test, UAT and ) for all the four FSCM sub modules.
• Recommended SAP best practices based on the AS IS/TO BE discussion for Collection Management, Cash Management, Credit Management and Dispute Management for this new implementation.
• Prepared master data process mapping design for FSCM Credit and Collection management and loaded customer master data, FSCM Credit management and Collection management.
• Collection Management:
• SAP Collections Management supports an active receivables management. The receivables processing is divided into the following processes:
• Automatic business partner creation using CVI (Customer vendor integration), implemented automatic creation of business partner when business creates customer.
• Master Data synchronization
• Controlling the Collection of Receivables:
• Data Synchronization and Creation of Worklists
• Transferring data from Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) to Collections Management
• Dispute Management
• Responsible for requirement analysis discussion, customization, involved in product test, Unit test, Integration and UAT with Client, till to post Go-live support.
• Responsible for the complete configuration, Create RMS ID, Attribute profile creation, case search, functional profile, Automatic status change functional process for the dispute cases.
• Dispute cases and role assignment setup, processing the dispute case and integrating with accounts receivable
• Dispute case processing, with workflow and without workflow approval
• Dispute management Integration with Accounts Receivable- AR
• Dispute management integration with Collection management.
• Write off- authorization and work flow process and approval mail.
• Credit Management
• Configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, set up credit limit functionality, credit scoring and Credit formula etc.
• Integration with AR and SD,
• Credit limit setup and request for new credit limit for new and existing customers.
• Obtain Credit Information and Business Partner Rating score.
• Score and Credit Limit Calculation and Credit Limit Check (Credit Rules Engine)
• AR- Dunning and mapping harmony Credit management for credit history.
• Cash Management:
• Cash Management- Grouping and Structure definition for daily Cash Position, wire transfers, EBS, EDI 820 and IDC mapping and creation, configuration and cash concentration
• Basic settings for liquidity calculation
• Configuration of cash accounting (source symbol, planning level, planning groups, structuring the cash position report.
• Configuration of liquidity planning and calculations
• Liquidity planning and Reporting
• Grouping structure created to group together bank and sub ledger accounts in the cash position or the liquidity forecast report
• Money Market transactions and Securities (Short term to medium term investments and borrowing capitals)
• Configured different product types MM, FX and Derivatives
• Defined transaction types, flow types, product types
• Had set up BP partner and BP roles activation and assignments
• Make general settings
• Fixed term deposit, Deposit at notice, commercial paper and interest rate instrument
• Back office (settlements, reversals and Netting)
• Accounting functions (postings, payments, Accrual / Deferral)
• Created security account for Stocks and bonds purchase tradings.
• Hedging Instruments (Foreign Exchange and Derivatives, )
• Spot exchange transactions, Forward exchange transactions
• Forex swaps, OTC currency options, Trading, back office activities and Accounting functions.
• Credit risk analyzer and Market risk analyser. Limit management and Limit utilizations
• Completely involved, Trading, back office and Accounting activities.

Confidential, Miamisburg, OH

AR Application Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on banking conversion project from JP MORGAN BANK to Confidential .
• Completed EBS (Electronic bank configuration) and Lockbox configuration for US company codes.
• MT940 structure created for download the bank statement and reconciliation with SAP.
• Created account symbols, posting rule and internal transaction types for electronic bank statement.
• IDocs mapping
• Implemented Collection management and Dispute management and credit management.
• Created DME file structure.
• Cash and Liquidity management:
• Created source symbol, account group, planning level
• Created payment request
• Designed Liquidity forecast report
• Collection Management:
• Collection strategy for four type of customers, Collection Group per strategy of customers
• Work list creation process, promise to pay, status change configuration
• CVI integration for automatic BP creation
• Dispute Management, Activate company code for the collection
• Dispute case process configuration, RMS ID, attributes, dispute reason codes.
• Manual creation of Dispute cases and Automatic creation of dispute cases and Dispute auto write off
• Credit management:
• FI- AR integration
• SD- Credit management integration
• Dunning
• Created collection rule used for customer collection strategy to achieve valuation objectives.
• Worked on Dunning extensively.

Confidential, Miamisburg, OH

SAP FICO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed finance team and supervised 30 resources in India; led FI, MM, SD and ABAP teams.
• Worked on day to day finance support issues on product costing, Internal order, Project Systems
• Controlling, profitability analysis, profit centre and Cost centre etc
• Prepared COPA KE30 reports and created and mapped character and value field for the reporting.
• Handled employee performance reviews, set targets and objectives...
• Involved for one to one discussion with all the resources for the ratings.
• Conducted one-on-one discussions with all the resources regarding ratings.
• Foreign currency valuation and translation
• Prepared few data design - functional design document for custom developments.
• Sales, VAT & Use Tax Accounting: Tax Accounting Design, Configuration, Tax procedures, assignment, tax codes, tax jurisdictions, GL assignment to keys
• Used External Tax Interface and configured the integration points between FI and Vertex.
• Closing operations: Performed Month end closing operations for GL, AR, AP and AA running the depreciation run, running the APP program, opening new periods, MMPV, Foreign currency revaluations, update exchange rates, recurring entries.

Confidential

FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Chart of account creation, Company code and company, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting period variant, Number range creation, Field status group, setting up account group, Clearing process, like open item clearing and
• Cash journal configuration and different FSV
• Accounts Receivable:
• Defined Customer Master data, Customer account group, number ranges, Created tolerance groups etc
• Tax code for Sales tax / Purchase
• In Accounts Receivable, Configured Customer Accounts Groups, Tolerances and configured the system for customized A/R customer statement. Configured special G/L indicator for down payments
• Accounts Payable:
• Defined Vendor master data
• Vendor account group, number rang creation,
• Screen layout rules
• APP- Automatic payment program

Confidential

FICO Lead for Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Asset master data, Organization structure, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation area and key, Depreciation key, Depreciation Run, Asset acquisition, write-off. Asset Creation,Asset Class
• Bank Accounting: Created house banks and configured manual bank statement and Cash journal configuration Involved in creating Financial statement version - FSV for India location company code as per the country specific requirement.

Confidential

FICO Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ledger Solution: Defined ledgers for various company codes as per legal reporting requirements. Assigned scenarios to leading and non-leading ledgers.
• Document Splitting. Designed logic for zero balanced - active splitting rules. Defined splitting rules for Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, FI-AR and FI-AP business transactions.
• Accounts Payable (FI-AP):
• Automatic payment medium configuration and Functional specification for the check print for US payment
• Responsible for designing and creating payment proposals and payment program/FBZP and configuration of settings for payment release
• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR):
• EBS configuration Billing, Configured Dunning for collection of defaulted payments
• Complete bank configuration for incoming payment with bank transactions for multi house bank scenario.
• Down payment request, manual payment, automatic, clearing open items, setting credit limits
• EDI/ALE IDOC review for the missing docs, fixing defects, Lockbox and Business process EBS
• Customer master data creation, Customer Group, Number range, Down payment process
• Dunning process

Confidential - Columbus- Ohio

FICO Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global SAP rollout for Hong Kong and Singapore, Global template has been used for the complete rollout projects.
• Worked with LSMW and eCATT’s, created scripts for mass vendor, customer master upload, cost center upload, asset master upload.
• Prepared Data upload programs using LSMW.
• Collated data and handled cutover activities with Business Solution Team
• Uploaded data in Test, Development, and Quality and Production clients.Participated in data cleansing, preparation, conversion and validation for FICO master data upload namely Profit Centers, Cost Centers, Bank Masters, Vendors master data, Customer master datam GL Account items and CHA

Confidential

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Capital budgeting and working capital management and Monitored the actual/budget and analyzed variances.
• Involved in preparation of projects reports, budget forecast and planning for efficient working capital utilization and Prepared Monthly P&L Statement and Yearly Balance Sheet.
• Prepared monthly MIS Reports and quarterly bank statement.
• Involved in half yearly internal audit work.

Confidential

Assistant Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a leading Indian leather goods manufacturer, a sister concern of Confidential .