SUMMARY:

• More than 16 years of experience in Implementation, customization, configuration, Cross Functional Integration, testing, user training, Upgrading, system integration, Interfaces, Business process reengineering, automation and optimization, Performance improvement, data conversion, Custom enhancement and Production support in SAP R/3 FI/CO - GL, NEW GL AP/AR, AA, COPA, CCA, PCA, Product costing, PS, T&E, FICA, Simple Finance(S4Hana), FSCM(Biller Direct, Dispute, Collection, Credit Management), BCM, In House Cash, Treasury and Risk Management, Tax, Warranty, Service Management, With Holding Tax, BPC, Simple Finance & S4 Hana
• Experience in Requirements gathering, FIT/GAP analysis, Blue printing, prototyping, design, development, Providing Business solution, Process reengineering, Business best Practice, Global Template, testing, data mapping, Conversion, writing specifications, quality adherence, documentation, implementation, troubleshooting & User Training
• Having in depth understanding of business processes relating to SAP Finance & Controlling and integration to other modules such as SD, MM, PP, HR, GRC, Plant Maintenance, Service, EDI & ABAP
• Managed Team and many End-to-End Global projects .
• Industry experience: Manufacturing, Automotive, Retail, OIL & GAS, Utilities, Pharma, Food & Beverages (Consumer Goods), AFS(FMS) and Media/Service industries.
• Worked in enhancing the SAP Net weaver integration, mobile integration, Wiki & Fiori
• Knowledge in US GAAP/IFRS/SOX / FASB 52
• Having very strong Finance, Accounting, and SAP Functional and technical Knowledge.
• Having extensive experience in
• Simple Finance /S4 HANA - Implementation of SAP Simple Finance On premise Business edition (SFIN 2.0) involving SAP accounting, Cash Management, Integrated Business Planning. NIW integration for Banking / Fiori
• Accounts Payable(P2P/OTP/B2P): LIV, MAP, Tolerances, Enhancement of Payment Block and Workflow Integration, MM& FI integration and MM-PO, Purchasing & Invoice Process, Message Control, ERS, Auto Payment and Bank Integration-ACH, WIRE, Check, Positive Pay, EDI 810/820-Outbound, Reconciliation of ACH(Outbound), WIRE, Cashed Check
• Accounts Receivable (OTC): (SD-Integration, Lockbox (BAI/BAI2/EDI/IDOC), Customer ACH (Inbound), WIRE, EBS, Credit Card Integration, EDI 810/820(Inbound), Credit Management, Write off, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Tolerances, Alternative Payers, Automated Open item Clearing Process standard and Custom enhancements. Strong knowledge in SD- Pricing, Sales Order, Billing process, Billing interfaces and SD - FI & CO integration
• General Ledger and New General Ledger (Doc Split, Seg/Profit Center), Multiple Ledger/Parallel accounting, GL Planning
• Multi Country/ Multi Currency -Foreign Currency valuations and translations
• Tax Implementation in SAP (Tax procedures) as well as Integration with Taxware, SABRIX, Vertex Integration with MM and SD (Pricing Procedures) for TAX Implementation and Custom Enhancements for US, Canada, MX, EMEA(VAT, Commissionaire Structure) & Asia Pacific Countries.
• Expert in Withholding Tax Implementation, Configuration, custom reports. Implemented to North America, EMEA and Asia pacific countries. Well versed with US 1099 and 1042
• COPA (Custom enhancements-Derivation rule, reports). Expert in COPA
• Cost Center Accounting & Planning, Profit Center Accounting (Classical and New GL), Substitutions & validations COPA (Custom enhancements-Derivation rule, reports). Allocations (Assessment, distribution-Cost Center and Profit Center). Report Painter
• Travel management: Implemented for NA/EMEA countries
• Asset Management - Configuration, data conversion Global Rollout for North America, EMEA and Asia
• Project System: Implementation of PS & IM Investment Management, Integration with MM, SD,AA &FICO, Internal Order, Cost & Budget, Revenues & Payments. Result Analysis, RRB
• Revenue Recognition: Understanding the business models, company practices, and accounting policies, Applying standards, preparing Blue Print, Item Category and RR Category mapping, and FI configuration for revenue accounts, account determination, Data conversion. Familiar to RAR new Engine.
• Month end and Year end Closing Activities, SAP Query
• FSCM - Biller Direct, Dispute Management, Collections, Credit Management, Cash Management, Treasury & Risk Management(Market, Portfolio Analyzer, In-house cash, Liquidity Planner), In House Cash
• TRM: Worked in design and configuration of TRM
• BCM - Worked in implementation of Bank Comm. Management
• Worked in bolt on applications like DART, Paymetric, XIGN & Nivanasoft
• Worked in plan, design and implementing Archiving strategy.
• BPC: Knowledge creating Models, Dimensions, property, members, script logic, Input Forms, Business Rules, Business Work Flow, security, reports, Publishing, offline distribution, Data Manager and BADI enhancements, Planning, Forecasting & Consolidation . Having experience with BPC - HANA-10.1
• Product Costing /Material Ledger: Strong business process knowledge in Manufacturing process - Repetitive, Discrete Manufacturing, MTS, MTO, ATO, KANBAN, Phantom, SO, Production & Process orders in order to effectively implement Product Cost Planning and Controlling and strong knowledge in Master data such as Material Master, BOM, Routings, Recipes, Work centers & Costing sheets, Costing Run and integration with COPA
• Expert in the I/C sales /STO, Transfer Pricing, Intercompany Sales / Service/ Purchase
• Experienced in Service / Warranty claim management
• Knowledge in Preparing Global templates, Multi Country and Multi Currency Implementations, Multiple Financial statements, Foreign Currency Valuations. Experience in GAAP / IAS / IFRS
• Automated and Process reengineered- many complicated Receivable, Payable and other financial processes such as GL, Asset and CO functionalities of Pharma, Retail & Auto industries using SAP standard process as well as designing custom enhancements in the SAP in order to optimize the process, reduce the cost of business process, maintenances and ownership
• Having knowledge in Pharmaceutical industry Charge back, rebate, Medicaid & Auto industry retro pricing, ERS,JIT & EDI & Retail industry complex billing & Clearing process .
• Worked in many Divestitures, Merger & Acquisition, System shared services implementation and security enhancements projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Package Primary: SAP R/3 -FI, CO, T&E, PS, Simple Finance2.0

Secondary: FSCM, MM, SD, PP, BPC

Others: MS-Projects, Excel, Access, VISIO, Mercury Test Tools

Programming &Others: ABAP, EDI, System integration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

FICO LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Working as Project lead in the ECC6.0 to S4 HANA 16.05 upgrade.

Confidential

FICO LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Working in the End to End implementation of SAP on HANA platform ( Simple Finance), GL, AP, AR, COPA, IO, Bank Integration, Tax(Vertex), Product costing, Material ledger, Transfer Pricing, STO, Intercompany sales & purchase, EDI setup automate the I/C process and Asset accounting. Service and Warranty along with SD, MM & PP. As part of Simple finance worked in activation of business frame work, design configuration, data migration of GL, AA,CO (SAP Accounting) Cash Management, Planning. Foreign Currency Valuations /Translation.
• Worked in Partitioning of Universal Journal Entry Line Item Table, Fiori integration, Asset implementation with multiple ledgers, Activation Accounting COPA along with Costing COPA
• Worked on running workshops for Requirements Gathering Developing Blue Print Preparation to bring the US and Canada, Business that is running in SAP, JDE, & BPCS.
• Design and developed Revenue Recognition process for Packages consists of Physical Items sales, Service and Warranty. Created custom Enhancements to meet the business requirement. Familiar to the RAR process configuration and integration such as POB, Contract, Cost objects integration, CRM, Familiar to FASB2014, IFRS 15
• Worked on Design, configuration, data conversion, Vertex setup, preparation of test scripts, test coordination.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created workshop documentation and ran workshop for requirements gathering, and finalize the scope.
• The scope of the project involves CRM, SD,MM, Warranty, AP,AR,GL/Simple finance migration, FSCM-credit, dispute &collection, Tax, Banking, Connexis from BNP Paribas & Swift Integration (MT 940/42/RIBA/DTAUS/SEPA), RMA, Service and Warranty .
• The scope of the implementation is for EMEA countries, south Africa, Russia and UAE. Scope finalization is on progress.

Confidential

Enhancement/Integration

Responsibilities:

• FICO, MM, PS, SD integration and T&E - Global Template Roll out, Enhancement, Localization, Net weaver, mobile integration and System integration. Business requirements gathering, FIT/GAP analysis, Solution development, Prototyping for solutions, Technical and Functional Spec, Development, testing and implementation
• The template is heavily customized with custom process and program enhancements for the media/ service sector. Responsibility includes finding solutions for the template Gaps, Localization requirements and enhancements such as Asset depreciation, Foreign Currency issues, Local statutory reporting needs, Period Closing, Closing schedule Manager, Hyperion Integration, and Interfaces integration.
• Localization requirements and enhancements, Payment clearing process, Tax, WHT, Workflow enhancements for LIV, FI invoice, JE, Dunning forms, Bank integration(Lock box(BAI2), EBS,BCM -SWIFTnet to support SEPA payments, MT940/942/MT101, Check, WIRE, Direct Debit and reporting process, DME, EDI), reports enhancements, Forms localization(Customer invoices, Customer/Vendor statement, Dunning, GL Voucher, WHT), multi-language support, custom made business processes and security enhancements. Many custom objects were developed for other APAC/ EMEA/NA country/company codes.
• The Global template has been implemented for more than 300 entities /Agencies of the IPG, located in USA.
• Meet the Complex Business need.
• Worked in Bank Communication Management and Custom enhancement of workflows
• As part of Global roll out, worked in BPC Agency Planning, B/S PL statement and Country and corporate consolidation that includes Balance Carry forward, Currency translation, eliminations, Allocation.
• Worked in T&E Rollout for US, EMEA and Asia Pacific Countries with many custom enhancements
• Understanding the business models, company practices, and accounting policies, Applying standards, preparing Blue Print, Applying OSS notes, Item Category and RR Category mapping, and FI configuration for revenue accounts, account determination for Revenue, Receivables, Differed Revenue, Unbilled receivables, Data conversion. Schedule job for recurring process, Automatic clearing of Accruals, User manual, testing and training
• Created Custom report for RR monitoring
• Configured Tax and WHT for many EMEA, ASIA Pacific and NA countries
• WF approval and Purchase Processes have been developed in Net weaver /web /Mobile/Fiori.

Confidential

Dispute Management & Treasury and Risk Management

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced configuration with such as custom Record model, case search, Function profile, Profile, workflow, business rules, security enhancements. Applied notes to fix many issues, such as Promise to pay, fix authorization check.
• Made many custom enhancements to meet the business such as
• In dispute Management: Custom logic for processor determination as disputes and collections are managed two different teams. Custom logic for Dispute case priority determination by reason code and amount. Enhanced to determine the expected closing date based on reason code and priority
• In Collection Management: Enhanced to have collection management grouping by Business area validates at line item level.Custom logic for collection specialist determination.
• Design, Implemented Transaction Manager, Money Market, FX, Securities,
• Derivatives, Portfolio Analyzer, Credit Risk Analyzer, Liquidity Planner, Cash
• Management. Implemented BCM
• In - house cash: Internal, external payments, Central cash receipt, cash pooling, FX spread,
• Bank Statements, Integration with Cash Management and Treasury
• Worked on finalizing and developing Models, Dimension, Property, members, hierarchies for Complex sales and revenue, promotion, Planning, Budget and forecasting, FI planning and statements, consolidation/ I/C elimination logic & currency.
• Developed input forms/ EPM reports, report publish, Business process flow, Work spaces, security, Business rules, scripts, Macros

Confidential, NJ

SAP

• Managed LOREAL Projects and Production support.
• Loreal is 30 Billion Euro, world largest Skin care and Beauty products manufacturing company.
• Designed and implemented following Complex heavily customized Loreal projects. This involves Business requirements gathering, FIT/GAP analysis, RICEF, Project plan, Design, Resource planning, Hands on System work, testing and training
• Managed Implementation, Merger and Acquisitions, roll out, integration enhancement and upgrade projects.
• Implemented Salon centric wholesale and retail Business in the SAP. It involves AP/AR, COPA, New GL, AA, CCA, PCA, Banking and Tax. Integration with SD, MM and EIW
• Implemented Credit Card Process, Integrated with Paymetric system and Itelligence POS for Loreal Salon Centric Business. Implemented CASH DESK.
• Implemented Credit card Process for call center and ECOM Business integrated with SAP and Paymetric
• Implemented and enhanced product costing, that includes costing sheet, variants, COPA integration
• Implemented BCM(Bank Communication Manager) and SWIFTnet package, interfaced thru’ XI
• Implemented Confidential, Collection, Dispute Management and Credit Management. Extensively Customized for retail business need
• Implemented Taxware, configured SAP and enhanced the Interfaces to meet the business need
• Implemented Withholding Tax, Vendor field status, custom reports. Set up form printing for 1099/1042S and electronic filing to IRS .
• Implemented LOCKBOX for new businesses, Implemented EBS, enhancement
• Managed many Mergers and acquisition business integrations includes data conversion
• Enhanced COPA to meet the Complex Loreal Business need.
• Asset Management - Configuration, data conversion Global Rollout for North America, EU and Asia
• BPC: Worked on finalizing and developing Models, Dimension, Property, members, hierarchies for Complex sales and revenue, promotion, Planning, Budget and forecasting, FI planning and statements, consolidation/ I/C elimination logic & currency.
• Developed input forms/ EPM reports, report publish, Business process flow, Work spaces, security, Business rules, scripts, Macros

Confidential

Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Worked as FICO Architect to design and implement the Accounts payable /AR/New GL/PCA/CCA, Asset accounting, Bank Integration, Credit Card Processing, System integration, Foreign Currency, Forms Design, Vertax Integration for US and Canada,
• Worked in Running Workshop, requirements gathering FIT/GAP analysis, Blue Print, solution / Prototyping. Designed and implemented
• Worked in implementation of Bank solution for payable, (Check, ACH, Wire, Check Reconciliation) Receivable - Lockbox, EBS, Direct Debit, Customer ACH.
• Implemented Costing Based COPA, Integrated with COPC, Report Painter reports.
• Enhanced COPA to meet the Complex business reporting Needs. Implemented Credit Card Process, Integrated with Paymetric system.
• Worked in design and implementation of COPC with additive costs
• Pay card Integration with AMEX: The pay card integration with AMEX involves design of the business process, implementation of Amex workbook for creating payment output file
• (DME/PMW) in the XML format, inbound Idoc process for posting and clearing the Amex payment details. The Paycard process will be used for paying small vendors.
• PS: Designed /Implemented PS project for tracking R&D Capital Planning and Budgeting. Integration of RRB,RA and Revenue Recognition
• FSCM implementation for Collection and Dispute Management. Data Conversion, Cutover planning, Documentation, KT, Post Go live support

Confidential, Woodbridge, NJ

Environment: ECC6.0-IS-OIL & GAS- Retail, IS-Utilities

FICO Architect and project lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Utilities implementation. Business Blueprint Documentation & Analysis and End User Training. Worked in configuring new company Code and configuring AP, AR, GL and (AA) Asset Accounting. FICA Automatic Clearing, FICA Integration with CRM, FICA Integration with General Ledger, ISU Integration with Device Management, Billing and Customer Service, ISU Billing and Invoicing Integration with SD and MM, CCA, PCA, IO,
• Configured new company Code for Hess Ireland. This involves GL, Asset accounting configuration and multiple depreciation area from Assets and Asset data conversion.
• Implemented Foreign Currency valuation and translation process per FASB52 requirement.
• Worked in Requirements gathering, FIT/GAP analysis, designing and implementing SAP OTP (Order to Pay / P2P) and integrating with Chase Bank - XIGN system. XIGN is a Chase Portal system where vendor receives PO, make PO flip to create invoices, receive Payment status and Payment advice. As part of the project, designed and implemented 16 SAP interfaces (IDOC) for inbound PO invoices (LIV)/Non PO invoices(FI), ASN,ACK & Outbound PO,PO change, Invoice, Invoice status, discount instructions &Payment files(ACH/Wire/Check) and for Master Data integration such as WBS,CC,GL, PC, Vendor Master. During this project, Configured LIV, designed many system enhancements in IDOC/Vendor master/ Payment, Methods/ Message control/PO validation to meet the process requirements. The Process has been integrated with Filenet, Docustream and image scanning process, OCR, indexing the document, Preprocess validation and Workflow
• Enhanced SAP-Lockbox Process for Hess Retail with BAI2 & FIFO from BAI format.
• Enhanced EBS for auto reconciliation process.
• Enhanced Substitution and validation to update Profit Center.
• Design and Configured SAP - FICO GL and CCA for implementing SAP-HR Payroll & Travel and Expenses. Designed integration 2 SAP FICO system instances with HR instance using ALE to interface master data(GL/CC) to HR instance and inbound interface to post GL entries for financial reporting.
• Production support of FI & CO, AA, Project System &IM.

Confidential, North Brunswick, NJ

Lead FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Requirements Analysis, Solution design and Prototyping, implementation and Go live support
• Implemented Customized LIV pre-process to validate business process & data validation of interfaced invoices from ARIBA and legacy applications to SAP. Designed Workflow that is integrated with custom pre-processes validation and LIV validation in order to have automated & controlled payment process.
• Implemented LockBox, EBS (Electronic Bank Statement), Paid Check/ Cashed check, ACH payment and ACH Return Report process with Confidential . Designed Custom Programs in order to process the Bank Format file of Cashed Check & NACHA file (ACH) into SAP format.
• Worked in the design and developing of Data conversion and reconciliation process with ARIBA, Legacy Applications. Worked Go Live data conversion and Post live support.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

AFS implementation

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Configured Tax procedures and Integrated with SD Pricing Procedures and MM Condition Techniques for US and Canada.
• Business requirement gathering and Implementation of LIV, Variances/Tolerance, Down payment, Auto Payment configuration, MM integration for Automatic Account determination, With Holding Tax Implementation
• Configuration of Account receivable, SD integration (Account Determination), Reason codes, Payment Terms, Credit Management Dunning process
• Reports: Prepared specifications for Custom reports
• System Integration: Outbound feed for global credit Management
• Worked in data conversions, cutover planning, cutover activities, Design option documentations.