SUMMARY:

• Certified SAP FI Consultant with total of Fourteen (14) years of experience in which Nine (9) years of strong experience in SAP FICO .
• Expertise in giving the Business/ Stakeholders the direction to make an educated decision on the Process design with recommendations.
• Expertise in FULL LIFE CYCLE implementation, involving Blueprints - Realization-Final preparation, AS IS and TO BE systems.
• Extensive Experience working on ECC 6.0, 4.7, 4.6 Versions.
• Expertise in different areas of General Ledger Accounting FI-GL, Accounts Payable FI-AP, Inter Company Settings, Accounts Receivable FI-AR and Asset Accounting FI-AA, Flexible Real Estate Module REFX, New GL Configuration and FI-CO Real time integration
• Experience in configuring House Banks, Automatic payment program, Payment medium workbench for various company codes, designing payment medium work bench for various banks; configured Electronic bank statement for various banks
• Configured automatic payment for ACH payment.
• Experienced in Special Purpose Ledger.
• Worked on Grant Management and Funds Management
• Experienced in Withholding Tax Configuration and Testing
• Designed SAP training and project documentation including curriculum, training plan, and summary.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with clients, and other team members, in a diverse matrix environments

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Enterprise structure design and configuration: Setting up enterprise structure and assigning relationships between the organizational units of FI,CO, Integration with FI, SD and MM
• General Ledger: Configuring and Customizing G/L account master records, chart of accounts, field status groups, automatic account determination, account posting, G/L display configuration, foreign currency valuation, travel management
• Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables: Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master data, account groups, configuration for dunning, payment program configuration, dispute management, interest calculation, tolerances groups, integration with MM and SD, foreign currency open item revaluation, Setting up for Inter-company postings.
• Bank Accounting: House Bank, Bank statement processing
• Asset Management: Chart of depreciation configuration, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, screen layout and depreciation keys
• Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting: Configuring and customizing the cost elements/cost centers, standard hierarchy, activity types, statistical key figures, assessments, and distributions. Handled the change of cost center hierarchy
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, Planning and development of Reports. Configuring Profitability Analysis setting COPA.
• Project Systems: Configuration of Project Creation, WBS Element Creation and performing AUC settlement.
• REFX Flexible Real Estate: Setting up the master data of Land, Building, Contracts, Lease Renewal, Lease expiration, Lease Auto Renewal, periodical postings, Common Area Management.
• Extensive experience in analysing runtime errors and debugging ABAP programs, LSMW, Winshuttle, Vertex .
• Key user training and providing end user documentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, BW V7, Solution Manager

Tools: Vertex, Winshuttle, Control-M V7, HPQC 11, MFT, Sterling Integrator, LSMW, Cransoft, Rev Trac

Responsibilities:

• Regularly Interacted with Business Users to ensure proper understanding and gathering of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications. Defined the Use cases, process flows for the business requirements.

• Preparation of business blue print deliveries . The task involved identification of data conversions required, interfaces needed.
• Collaborative work with the key users in the documentation of “As-is process ”.
• Performed data validation and account determination for mapping of the processes on to the SAP R/3 system.
• Gap Analysis with realization of open issues and design of best fit functionalities.
• Developed the FICO Baseline configurations and designed the documentations
• Configured system settings for Chart of Accounts, New GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets including the payment run program, automatic check payment and Lock Box
• Made necessary setting for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the liens
• Configured Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) - treasury files from bank to ecc via sterling integrator and mft
• Configured House Banks, Automatic Payment Methods, Dunning program configuration, involved with the design of bank interface for automatic payments to vendors etc.
• Configured automatic payment for ACH payment and wire transfer.
• Check management - maintain checks lot, define void reason, displaying check information, check register, renumber checks, void checks, cancel check payment.
• Configured Withholding Tax and performed unit testing
• Worked on Grant Management - Planning Program expenses, Availability checking on the budget items, Budgeting internal and external funding sources
• Worked on Special Purpose Ledger Configuration and Testing
• Configuration of Delivery, shipping, transportation, goods issue, route determination, shipping point Determination, Warehouse Management
• Customization of sales documents, delivery and billing documents, Sales/Billing copy controls.
• Designed function specification (FS) documents: - Country specific FS which relates to moving due date to next working day if the due date falls on public holiday / weekends, workflow related FS etc.
• Worked with the Treasury consultant on interfacing the needs of the Treasury department with those of the Accounts Payable
• Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support . This includes interfacing with the Accounts Payable and Purchasing departments to implement temporary business processes to manage the transfer of unconverted legacy data into SAP.
• Responsible for training team members on, and for facilitating the creation of global business process flows related to Accounts payable; which includes FI-AP and MM-LIV invoice entry, exception handling and the payment program.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP FICO Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, BW/BI 7, Solman

Modules: Fixed Assets, Project Systems and Flexible Real Estate.

Methodology: ASAP & RDS (Rapid Deployment System)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Gathering for Project System and PLAT (Property Lease Accounting & Terms) Business team; identified the risks and Gaps.

• Involved in preparation of Blueprint Document for Asset Accounting and Project System; REFX module and involved in Test designing activities
• Configured treasury module for Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal
• Created Chart of Accounts, Asset Classes, Master Data, Valuation, Asset types, Allocations of number ranges and transfers of legacy data in Asset Management Module.
• Defined Depreciation areas, Depreciation terms, and periodic processing. Configuring Account Determinations, Depreciation Keys and Number Ranges for Asset Classes. Configuring Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions, Retirements and Inter-company transfers.
• Involved in integration of Fixed Asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.
• Created documentation for the Fixed Assets module for the client from scratch. Worked on testing the new Fiscal Year Variant and its impact on Fixed Assets. Fixed Production support issues related to Fixed Assets.
• Involved in solving Depreciation key related issues. Built good interaction with technical people when working on Enhancements.
• Responsible for Design and configuration of Project systems.
• Configured Single Location Project and Multi-Location Projects, WBS elements and various business scenarios in PS
• Maintaining Budget profile, Actuals and Commitment posting, PS - AUC Settlement to Fixed Assets
• Integration of SAP PS with Pro-Log, Concur; Integration between TRIRIGA Capital Management with SAP PS - Outbound files of Project System Master Data, Purchase Order Details, Budget Info and Inbound files of Contracts, PO Request, Retainage.
• Analysed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions . Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• Configured Dunning program, Dunning Levels, Dunning Areas and Dunning Forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing.
• Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing. Configured Lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format.
• Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts. Maintained the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability control
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions . Defining
• Product costing Planning including cost component structures, Costing sheet, Costing variant, valuation variant, costing types, Settlement Rules and creating Selection Variants.
• CO-PC-Product Costing/ML/AC (Implementation): Product costing Planning including cost component structures, Costing sheet, Costing variant, valuation variant, costing types,,
• Activity types, Result analysis, Allocation structures, Settlement profiles, WIP, Variance keys, Target cost version, variance keys, posting rule, WIP, valuation methods, Result analysis version.
• Configured CCA by creating cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Activity type planning, Budgeting, planning statically key figures, Cost Element planning, plan distribution, Internal Activity planning, plan assessment, activity input planning, indirect activity allocation, plan reconciliation, planned price iteration,
• Creation of Tolerance groups for GR/IR clearing. Revise and delete Terms of Payment.
• Production Support after go-live for warranty period. Ticket Handling, Critical Jobs monitoring, Scheduled jobs maintenance, Recovery of the failed jobs, Handling User queries, Enhancement of the existing jobs.
• Analyzing runtime errors and debugging ABAP programs to recover the failed jobs.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP FICO Test Lead

Environnent: SAP BI 7.0, ECC 6.0

Tools: HPQC ALM 9.5, ITSM Service Now, Control-M, Winshuttle

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirement from the business and map the test scenarios with requirements

• Responsible for preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy documents in the beginning of the project and Test Closure Report at the end of the Testing project.
• Coordinating with GRC Security team to identify the test roles and test id’s for role based testing.
• Identify the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and share with the Business and Development Team; identify the different variants for single test case.
• Preparation of Datasheets for the test cases.
• Preparing the Traceability Matrix with the list of Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Tester Name, Start Date and End Date of the test cases, Requirements mapped with the Test case.
• Preparing the test cases for inbound and out bound scenarios of FI General Ledger, Inter Company Postings, AP Vendor master creation, Automatic Payment Postings, House Bank Creation, Treasury Reports, Fixed Asset Master Data creation, Asset Creation, Asset Transfer, Asset Retirement, Depreciation Run.
• Executing the test cases for new developments. Tested the generation of reports with respect to account statements, open item analysis, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss account statements
• Designed function specification (FS) documents: - Country specific FS which relates to moving due date to next working day if the due date falls on public holiday / weekends, workflow related FS etc.
• Specified testing requirements, planned tests, executed tests, and tracked defects with Quality Center.
• Working with the quality center (HPQC) experience in executing the test cases.
• Responsible for Daily Test Status Report and share across all the stakeholders;
• Defect Management: Maintaining Test Defect Report and coordinate with different business partner to resolve the Defect and make sure that defect is retested successfully.
• Was responsible for user acceptance (UAT) of custom ABAP program from a functional point of view. Educated the Super users from Business to execute the Test Cases and provided adequate knowledge on SAP FI, GL, AP and AA.
• Identify the Test Scenarios and Test Cases for future Regression Testing purpose with valid business justification.
• Knowledge in Setup and Configure Solution manager Early Watch Alerts, System Monitoring, Job scheduling management, Uploading the documents
• Worked on creating Transport Requests though Revtrac tool and SolMan and Releasing to the Test and Production servers
• Resolved issues/problems arising out of the end user testing.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO consultant

Environment: SAP-R/3 Version: ECC 6.0, EHP 3

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements for existing business processes, identifying the non-value adding events, to follow ASAP Methodology.

• Understanding the business goals of the company & to determine the business requirements base AS-IS document.
• Based on the Business Blue Print already finalized, configured the system for FI and CO and thoroughly tested the business processes finalized.
• Company code, Business area, Document control, Fiscal year maintenance. Field status Group, Finalization of Chart of Accounts, foreign currency, Tolerance groups for GL, GL Master, Park document, Hold document Recurring entries.
• Vendor master data configuration, Tolerance group, Automatic Payment Program, Invoice, Credit memo, Check management, Down payment, Integration with MM module.
• Customer master data configuration, Terms of payment, Open item management, Dunning, Invoice, Credit memo, down payment, Interest calculation, Integration with SD module.
• Asset master data, Organization structure, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation area and key, linking with GL Valuation Methods, Depreciation key, Depreciation Run, asset acquisition, write-off, Information system.
• Cost element group, assignment of cost elements to group, Actual postings, Information System.
• Cost center hierarchy, Actual Postings, Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment, and Information System .
• Order types, Creation, Expense booking, Status management, Settlement, Planning, Actual Postings, Year-end closing, Information System.
• Responsible for Treasury Management Business Process documentation AS-IS and TO-BE
• Working with IPG Cash Management and Treasury Department for understanding current business process and to present SAP solution.
• Gathering technical and functional requirements for Electronic Bank Statement and Cash position, Liquidity Forecast.
• To test the configuration of Electronic Bank Statement, Cash position and Liquidity Forecast
• Bank Reconciliation Statement (Automatic and Manual)
• Coordinated setting up the Interface between Kyriba (Legacy Treasury System) and SAP
• Detailed Concept presentation on Corporate Finance Management (CFM) including Transaction Manager, In-House Cash (IHC), Portfolio Analyzer, Market Risk Analyzer and Credit Risk Analyzer
• System Demo for Transaction Manager Components of CFM including, Money Market, Foreign Exchange and Derivatives.
• Creation of Profit Center, Maintain automatic account assignment of revenue element, Choose additional B/S & P&L A/C - Account groups.
• Involvement FI & Co testing with specific UAT’s in development and Q&A Environment. User training and sign off. Transported Customer, Vendor and GL Master Data from legacy system in to SAP through LSMW. Upload of opening balance through Account Assignment Model.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included support and maintenance of FI & CO modules

• Prepared documentation on GL, AP, AR and Asset Management for month end and year end closing activities.
• Provided Post Go Live Support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users
• Designed function specification documents
• Specified testing requirements, planned tests, executed tests, and tracked defects with Mercury Quality Center
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents and training documents
• Was responsible for user acceptance (UAT) of custom ABAP program from a functional point of view
• Resolved issues/problems arising out of the end user testing
• Team Leader for the group of 20 members
• Assigning and tracking the job
• Communicating with Client for queries and Escalations; preparing the team shift roaster and
• Assigning the buddy system for the new recruiters with a senior to get KT in day to day routine
• Recruiting the candidates by conducting technical and managerial tests.