SUMMARY:

• Seeking highly energetic work environment with potential growth in IT environment (SAP ERP - FI ECC 6.0 EhP 7.2) and consulting field.
• Experience in Systems development life-cycle (SDLC) with full lifecycle implementation project experience SAP - FI (Finance i.e. FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AR and FI-AP) R/3 ECC 6.0 EhP 6 and should be able to drive FI (Finance) RICEFW technical development including Functional Specifications.
• Knowledge in SAP Functionality, data conversion /migrations tool (LSMW), integration and configuration for FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AP and FI-AR.
• Support continuous implementation of Record - to- Report (R2R).
• Strong computer proficiency in G/L systems (SAP - FI (Finance) and PDI ERP System - MM and SD, i.e. Configured OBYC and VKOA as part of MM & SD integration with FI) & Microsoft Office suite; advanced Excel skills. (Pivot tables; lookups, etc.)
• Responsible for designing, configuring, documenting, delivering, supporting, and testing SAP FI/CO solutions (i.e. general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, cost & profit center accounting, internal orders, fixed assets, and closing cockpit)to meet business requirements.
• 5 years’ experience of SAP FICO component configuration in SAP functional system (design, development, UTA testing and SOX/JSOX documenting of applications to satisfy business requirements) like General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Assets Accounting.
• 4 years’ experience in functional supporting role for business end user’s customer with BMCs Remedy business support software.
• Strong experience supporting the full life cycle implementation (i.e. from start-to-end all step like gathering information for Finance Roadmap System and design blueprint)
• Analyzing problem tickets and change requests and determining appropriate solutions; and updating configuration as needed and working with developers to modify programs and ensuring adequate end user testing and acceptance of all FI module changes.
• Extensive financial business process knowledge acquired by working with highly skilled finance and controlling personnel.
• Experience in integration topics i.e. integration with FI-AA, FI-MM and FI-SD, best practices and procedures, solution architecture and reporting.
• Experience with small scale to large scale projects, including roles on projects lead by direct client with complex legal entity structure and complex intercompany (cross company) accounting flows.
• Training, mentoring and documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

FI-Enterprise Structure: Legal Entity Structure, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year, Posting period, Company code, Credit Control Area, Business areas, Field status groups, functional areas, sales and purchase tax, Group Currency and Hard Currency Account.

FI-GL: Account groups, GL Master Records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company/cross company automatic account posting, sales/purchase tax assignment, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Business Area accounting. New GL (YL, YU, YZ, ZU and ZZ), Parallel Ledger (ABD ledger i.e. Z1, Z2 and Z3), Document Splitting.

FI-AR: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, Lockbox Process and Closing operations.

FI-AP: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts, foreign currency valuation (OBA1, T030h table).

FI-Asset Accounting: Asset Class, Asset Master Record, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys, Multilevel methods, Acquisition, Work in Progress, Retirement, Multiple Depreciation area, Parallel Currencies.

Bank Accounting: House Banks, bank accounts, Manual Bank statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Free form of payment, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program.

Co: Configuring controlling areas profit/cost center hierarchy, currency and valuation profile.

Cost Centre Accounting (CCA)-KS01: Creating Cost center and cost center groups. Activity types and statistical keys, Reposting, Distribution, Assessment and Overheads.

Profit Centre Accounting (PCA)-KE51: Profit Centre, Revenue elements, Create Allocation Cycle for ledger 0L, ZU and ZZ (FAGLGA11/15) and assign to variant.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Senior Associates SAP

• Responsible for designing, configuring, documenting, delivering, supporting, and testing SAP FI/CO solutions (i.e. general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, cost & profit center accounting, internal orders, fixed assets, and closing cockpit)to meet business requirements.
• 5 years’ experience of SAP FICO component configuration in SAP functional system (design, development, UTA testing and SOX/JSOX documenting of applications to satisfy business requirements) like General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Assets Accounting.
• 4 years’ experience in functional supporting role for business end user’s customer with BMCs Remedy business support software.
• Strong experience supporting the full life cycle implementation (i.e. from start-to-end all step like gathering information for Finance Roadmap System and design blueprint)
• Analyzing problem tickets and change requests and determining appropriate solutions; and updating configuration as needed and working with developers to modify programs and ensuring adequate end user testing and acceptance of all FI module changes.
• Extensive financial business process knowledge acquired by working with highly skilled finance and controlling personnel.
• Experience in integration topics i.e. integration with FI-AA, FI-MM and FI-SD, best practices and procedures, solution architecture and reporting.
• Experience with small scale to large scale projects, including roles on projects lead by direct client with complex legal entity structure and complex intercompany (cross company) accounting flows.
• Training, mentoring and documentation skills.
• Supported the Integration of the functional and technical aspects of the SAP template within the SAP FICO modules, providing application support and maintenance, including resolving defects and working on enhancements, integration, and reconciliation.
• Supported SAP Finance functionality, specifically in Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Profitability Analysis and Management Reporting.
• Interacted with member firms and end users to resolve incidents by developing workarounds, submitting defects, and change requests.
• Managed tickets in Remedy and provide documentation for incident and problem reports, effectively coordinating support escalation communication with business, service desk, and technical teams.
• Write functional specifications for change requests, creating test plans, process documentation and conducting user training.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP Functional Analyst

• Strong experience in Systems development life-cycle (SDLC) with full lifecycle implementation project experience SAP - FI including blueprint design (Finance i.e. FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AP and FI-CO) R/3 ECC 6.0 EhP 6.2 in Confidential (Upgrade from ECC 6 EhP 5.1 to ECC 6.1) Global environments.
• In New GL, defined and activate non-leading ledgers (YL, YU, YZ, ZU and ZZ) with ABD ledger (Z1, Z2 and Z3) and define currencies of leading ledger (10, 30 and Index currency 50), fiscal year variant (OB29 i.e. Calendar Year and non-Calendar fiscal year) and defined Posting Period Variant and update variant.
• Strong expertise in General Ledger, AR, AP modules with a good understanding of SAP CO module and its components.
• Worked directly with various clients’ at all different levels to guide complex projects. Designing, developing, and testing SAP core functions.
• Create monthly new company code (L egal E ntities ) as per business requirement along with FUT test in lower environment and create master data for SIT in quality (EQ) system (i.e. extended master data to new company code with global chart of account, number ranges with PC/CC) and Go-Live support. Updated different variant i.e. FAGLGVTR, FAGLGA15, GCAC, Set updated (GS03) and attached with transport for new company code.
• Work with other team for different environment testing i.e. ECC to RDR syndicate, BPC to ECC to BPC cost allocation mapping.
• Participating in and supporting of SAP FI/CO global processes including but not limited to Accounts Payable, Account Receivables, Fixed Assets, Inter-company Accounting, General Ledger and Standard Costing.
• Support offshore team as need for client comparing (SCU0), monthly cutover activities and client refresh activity (manual config task) etc.
• Support business user for rising issue related to FI-AA, FI-AP and ECS (Error Correction System ) tool .
• Responsible for troubleshooting the production issues analyze the root cause, fixing the root cause in production environment.
• Update Purchase Taxes, Withholding Taxes for vendors (table: T059 for Type of Recipient, Withholding Tax Type, Income Type and Withholding tax type, code etc.) as per business requirements.
• Configure BAC Intercompany payment process i.e. Draft, ACH, C ash P ro (WE20-PREX2002 partner profile) etc. and support cross-company payment related issue of child job (A uto S ys job) in quality (EQ) and production client.
• Design, configure, and test core FI/CO modules which include writing test strategy, plan, test cases & perform end to end testing.
• Work closely with program and project management teams in requirements and testing phase to understand business testing requirements, translate these needs into system requirements.

Confidential, Mahwah, NJ

Financial Analyst

• 5 year experience of 4 full life-cycle (end to end) implementations with 4 legal entity enterprise structure of SAP FI module included business requirements gathering, blueprinting, workshop for functional testing and SAP configuration (Finance module) in US.
• Participated data analysis for RTR FI-Team, documentation and presentation to SAP Process FI-Team members and SAP Implementation for the client.
• Gathering documentation of RTR FI-team meetings and workshops during the SAP development phases and implementation.
• Provided assistance to the RTR FI-team with preparation of SAP implementation documentation to record project progress, key decisions and results.
• Experience of the sub modules of SAP FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AR and FI-AP and knowledge of SAP CO-Cost center accounting and profit center accounting.
• 3 years’ hands on working experience of configurations, functional specification in SAP (Finance) FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AR and FI-AP modules
• 2+ years’ working with BMCs Remedy business support software for supporting role business end user’s customer.
• Excellent skills in gathering business requirement, functional configuration, troubleshoot and client facing skills.
• Developed business relationships and integrate activities with other IT areas to ensure successful implementation and support project efforts.
• Experience of configurations FI components and processes (FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AR and FI-AP) and technical site knowledge with data conversation/migration tool (LSMW) from legacy system and Intercompany functions.
• Deep understanding of business process requirements and capabilities with other key SAP integrated different components i.e. FI-AA, FI-CO, FI-SD and FI-MM.
• 3 years of experience with configuration/customizing of SAP FICO R/3 4.7 ECC 6.0 EhP 5 support and development including FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AR and FI-AP and Taxes i.e. Purchase Taxes, Withholding Taxes.
• Managed, monitored and controlled compliance with US GAAP and company accounting policies.
• Manages the finance solution (processes, data, applications, business controls, roles, and metrics) through appropriate change management processes and tools.
• Ensures the finance solution is documented with up-to-date information that accurately reflects the latest functionality. Key areas of the solution include, but are not limited to, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Intercompany Accounting, Chart of Accounts and Disputes.
• Performs configuration, testing, and deployment management of the finance solution and related integration areas.
• Work with all the finance organizations to ensure ramp-down, cutover and ramp-up has minimal impact on business operations.

Confidential, Rahway, NJ

Accountant

• Was responsible for General accounting, cost accounting, account analysis, budget and forecast preparation and inventory accounting activities.
• Managed, monitored and controlled compliance with US GAAP and company accounting policies.
• Was responsible for month-end financial closing activities, preparation of journal entries; account analysis; account reconciliations; monthly operation forecasting and annual operations planning activities.
• Assisted with the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual analysis, responsible for annual inventory reporting and annual standard cost analysis.
• Monitored: Accounts Payable - monitor of whole A/P function including matching invoices to purchase orders, coding invoices to G/L accounts, processing check runs. Monthly inter-company reconciliations
• Accounts Receivable - monitor of A/R function including posting of cash receipts, matching receipts to open accounts and accounting for discrepancies, reviewing aging report and following up with customer on past-due receivables.
• Monthly bank reconciliations and p reparing details monthly and quarterly fuel tax and NJ sales tax return.
• Design, create, test, and document the configuration of the SAP modules as assigned and understand and effectively communicate the capabilities of SAP functionality in assigned areas. Lead or participate fully in requirements and design workshops, representing a sub-process or process.
• Review key deliverables throughout the project lifecycle to ensure completeness, accuracy, and quality and Create, execute, and document unit, string, and integration test scripts and scenarios as assigned.
• 5 years of SAP R/3 3.1 business functional experience covering FI and CO modules SAP R/3 3.1 GL/AA/AR/AP.
• Strong experience with General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Coordinate the SAP governance process with key business stakeholders to identify requirements for their business processes.
• Facilitate documentation and evaluation of business requirements for SAP enhancements and other initiatives.
• Document functional specifications for approved enhancements and provide configuration, testing and implementation support for all assigned enhancements.
• Ensure that the SAP application and related legacy applications support the needs of the representative process area and have appropriate controls in place.
• Fulfill a project manager role on assigned cross-functional projects and act as a primary liaison and strategic partner between IT and the cross-functional business area that you support. Provide consulting support for business planning and business readiness efforts.
• Participate in the development, implementation and delivery of the IT Annual Operating Plan and the integration of IT into the Strategic Business Plan.