SUMMARY:

• Lead SAP FICO Consultant/Business integration analyst with over 8 + years of strong functional experience in the implementation, customization and configuration of SAP FI module with three full lifecycle implementations, with a thorough understanding of integration between other modules. 
• Senior SAP professional with broad industry experience that includes Healthcare Finance and administration, Chemicals and Petroleum, Retail, Healthcare and Semiconductor manufacturing experience as a Big 5 global consultant. 
• Four Full life cycle implementations in SAP PP module and integration with other logistics modules.
• Experience in SAP idocs, SAP EDI configurations, SAP output determination, SAP workflow administration, working knowledge of SAP SD order to cash processes, excellent multi - tasking and trouble-shooting.
• Expertise in data migration system from legacy to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Senior SAP HR Consultant with BIG5 consulting background
• Proficiency in complete PP life cycle, Business plan, Master data, SOP, Demand Management, MRP, Planned Orders, Process/Production Orders, Routing, Batch Determination, Confirmations, Material staging, Good receipt and Order settlement.
• SAP experience encompasses expertise in designing, implementing, configuring, testing and customizing SAP R/3 in R/3 4.6C, 4.7 and ECC 6 Versions. 
• Implementation experience in General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM), Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product Costing (PC), Material Ledger, and Profitability analysis (CO-PA). 
• Good understanding and knowledge in SAP Project System (PS) and Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM). 
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements gathering and system functional specifications, including BRD, FRD, SSD. RTM and FSD. 
• Experienced in development methodologies such as ASAP, Software development life cycle (SDLC), agile, waterfall and Rational Unified Process (RUP). 
• Experienced in developing and evaluating business process models, change management as well ITIL. 
• Worked with EIGHTG end-to-end SAP Implementations and Roll outs for fortune 100 companies.
• Strong knowledge in business processes and business scenarios with base in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts as well as strong knowledge in GAAP and IFRS. 
• Experienced working with different tax configurations including Vertex and VAT for different countries. 
• Extensive experience in Lockbox configuration and processing, automatic payment program and dunning. 
• Work experience handling on shore and offshore team as well lead experience for controlling Finance team. 
• Experience working in SAP HCM implementations delivering HR solutions for fortune 1000 companies through top big5 implementation partners. 
• Experience working as tester in UAT, SIT, integration testing using HPQC (HP Quality Center) & Mercury. 
• Experience with report development Tool like Report Painter/Report Writer.

SKILLS:-

• SAP ECC 6.0
• SAP MRO
• Seeburger B2B Gateway
• SAP Configuration Management
• SAP Transport Management
• SAP Migration
• SAP ITS Mobile
• Project Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Internal Auditing
• HP Quality Center Test Management
• Supply Chain
• Business Continuity Planning
• Inventory Management
• Forecasting
• Projections
• Capital Budgeting
• Financial Analysis
• Business Planning
• Strategy
• Import/Export Compliance
• Business Turnaround
• Union Relations
• Accounting
• Financial Analysis
• Auditing
• Excel
• Word
• Visio
• SAP - APO
• JD Edwards
• EAR
• Sales Presentations
• RFP's
• RFQ's.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Lead SAP Consultant

Richardson, TX  

Responsibilities: 

• Involved in SAP System implementation, Insurance claims and benefits configuration, Inbound/  Outbound Interfaces and Extensions in end to end process using Captiva, iSEIT and thunderhead. 
• Worked as Cross-functional consultant in SAP-FI (Financial System) with collections and disbursements specific in functional design. 
• I am involved in Big5 implementation partners or Big5's projects implemented by (Accenture, HP, IBM, Hitachi) as a consultant and contributed to their SAP practices, and as well as Design & developed RFC FM to maintain employee record based on BIG5 legacy system i. 
• As a core member for full cycle implementation of SAP FI module, conducted interviews with users to gather requirements to understand the flow of the as-Is system. Gathered business process information and compiled the AS-IS, TO-BE to prepare system process map and GAP analysis of the SAP ECC. 
• Worked in various FI aspects relating to AR, AP, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, payment settings for customers, automatic payment program, reversal of documents and exchange rates. 
• Data Migration from several source systems into SAP ECC and SAP Sourcing - created functional specification documents, data validation and cleansing plans.
• Working on Design & developed RFC FM to maintain employee record based onBig 5 legacy system.
• Involved in development phase meetings for Business Analysis and Requirements Gathering. 
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project. 
• After GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies and suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations. 
• Supported 24/7 software development initiatives and international vendor relationships (including big 5consulting organizations) 
• Upgrades from 4.7 to ECC 6.0. Expert in data migration from Classic GL to New GL valuated G/L, A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variant, account groups, number ranges, account determination, default account assignments. 
• Successfully lead the HANA migration project from the BASIS team.
• Certified in OS/DB Migration for 7.3 systems and expert in the same
• Worked through all the issues during the HANA migration across HANA version 1.0 SP4, SP5 & SP6.
• Direct and review of work schedules, review and update work papers for peer review. 
• Developed an interface object migrate Goods Movement Data from legacy system to SAP using Standard BAPI method.
• Full desk recruiting for Big5, Tier 1 and 2 consulting firm clients on all IT-related requirements across multiple verticals.
• Configured SAP PI to route all the EDI data both inbound and outbound between ECC, PI and trading partners.
• Configured AS2, SFTP, File, SOAP, REST and JDBC adapters to send both the EDI and non-EDI data.
• Maintained Fund management structure and proper GL assigning in Fund management in leveraged requirements. 
• Completed cut-over activities for data migration from legacy to SAP system during pre-go-live activities.
• Worked extensively with intercompany billing and sales in intercompany accounting.  Working as testing consultant in SIT, UAT and performance testing. 
• Design & developed RFC FM to maintain employee record based on BIG5 legacy system.
• Worked on HP Quality Center (HPQC) as functional tester, build test scripts and test steps. 
• Worked in discrete as well as integration testing with other modules such as SD, MM and PP in OTC and PTP cycles. 
• Maintained and build documentation on functional specification, technical specification, test scripts and test scenarios. 
• Maintained documents for the team and taken write off for approvals. 
• Validated test scenarios and test steps according to different needs of business.

Sr. SAP Business Analyst/FI Functional Consultant

Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• This project involves the upgrade of SAP 46c implementation to ECC 60 of Confidential all over the world. 
• Customizing the Company’s Structure and documentation. 
• Define and Assignment of Enterprise Structure to the documentation. 
• Involved in analyzing the existing system for as is study; gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, closed the gaps by providing appropriate solutions. 
• Involved in Configuring and Demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities to Client Team by prototyping business scenarios based on the business requirements of the client. 
• Configured and Customized General Ledger - Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, defining Field Status Variant, Fiscal Year Variant, Created Master Records, configured Number Ranges and G/L Accounts for Company Code and added new Accounts. 
• Involved in various data migration across SAP systems, data cloning within different system environments, daily monitoring and reprocessing ALE/IDoc for the different master data.
• Responsible for Seeburger system maintenance including patches and upgrades.
• Worked on Customer/Vendor Master Records, created Tolerance Limits as per business requirement for Over Payments and Under Payments, Reason Codes in Customer Accounts, Configured Credit Management Area, Interest Calculation and Payment Terms as per Customer's Needs, Check Void Reasons, and Payment Advices. 
• Maintains data integrity for all EDI customer account information that directly impacts inbound order generation and outbound invoicing.
• First point of contact for the EDI department. Assessment on requests or trouble shooting often times completing the task myself, or filtering it to the appropriate department for resolution.
• Configured Controlling Area, assigned Company Code to Controlling Area, and assigned Number Ranges to Controlling Area. 
• Provides technical support for EDI applications, interfaces and data for Butterball Customers, Customer Service, Sales, Brokerage, Accounting and Transportation.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Element Attributes. 
• SAP Upgrade: 4.6C to ECC 6.0. Configured and tested EDI functions in SAP and Seeburger. Supported SD and Procurement business areas during development, testing and go-live.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups, maintained Cost Center Standard Hierarchy assigned Cost Centers to respective Profit Centers. Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles. 
• In Profit Center Accounting, maintained Profit Center Standard Hierarchy, Assessment and Distribution of Costs. 
• Created Internal Orders for various project implementations, assigned the costs incurred by Internal Orders from different Cost Centers, distributed the costs incurred by Internal Orders to the respective Cost Centers. 
• In Product Costing, maintained overhead groups, Defined Costing Sheet, Assigned Costing Sheet to the Controlling Area, Defined Cost Component Structure. 
• Involved in resolving Production Support issues relating to creation of Characteristic Fields, Value Fields, and assigning value to Value Fields.

Sr. SAP FICO Analys

Responsibilities: 

• Mainly responsible for leading the 4 member production support team based out of Argentina and India 
• Provided timely and effective Level 3 production support to SAP users throughout LS&CO. - issues and problems identified, responded to, resolved and escalated within agreed service level commitments. Support provided for SAP FICO (AP/AR/New GL/Assets/COPA/Internal Order/CCA) 
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of global Functional SAP standards and monitoring of adherence to these by any regional SAP support hubs as well as by 3rd parties engaged to perform SAP related activities. 
• Contribute to the provision of a robust, reliable and effective SAP system for LS&CO. users as measured by established service levels and to Leverage best practices in SAP solution and service delivery 
• Worked in environment of win shuttle to maintain easy sales order for end users and super users. 
• Work collaboratively with IT staff, especially via the Regional SAP Support Hubs, across the 3 Regions. 
• Worked in change management to bring up any change in configuration to come up with solution for end users. 
• Plan and monitor the FICO teams' workload and provide day-to-day direction to support team members. 
• Worked in issue resolution and ticket management according to ticket priorities. 
• Drew up sunset strategy for Legacy applications and documented the business requirements for absorbing the functionality in SAP. Created and demonstrated proof of concepts for business. 
• Process automation: Requirement gathering, documenting, development and testing of incoming and outgoing FICO interfaces between legacy applications and third party vendors. The monitoring and archiving of interfaces and set up of batch jobs/error notification were part of the initiative. 
• Hands on working on key issues facing support team and monitoring and testing of related ABAP development. 
• Work closely with business to understand pain points and address change management issues.

Sr. SAP FICO/ FSCM Analyst

Dayton, OH

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FI, and CO 

Responsibilities: 

• Involved in project completion from 'Blueprinting' to 'Go-Live'. 
• Experience handling General Ledger, Account Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting modules, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center accounting, Profitability analysis modules. 
• Worked on Vertex O series and SAP FI integration through RFC and SAP Integration component. 
• Configured File to File interfaces using the FTP, Seeburger AS2, and SFTP and Split 997 adapters.
• Worked with Big5's projects implemented by (Accenture, HP, IBM, Hitachi) as a consultant and contributed to their SAP practices. Experienced with their streamlined delivery processes and their methodologies. 
• Successfully completed a Full Life-Cycle project at one of the Big 5 Canadian Bank implementing Dormancy Process by leveraging not only standard SAP BI Business Content but also creating and configuring necessary custom data sources and ABAP program modules.
• Maintained tax procedures, tax codes and jurisdiction codes in SAP-vertex integration. 
• Configured and Customized G/L A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variant, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments. 
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments, which included payment methods, house banks bank accounts, electronic bank reconciliation and ranking order of bank accounts. 
• Configured house banks, automatic payment, lockbox configuration, BAI2 file format as well EDI Idocs.
• Developing and migration of all existing SAP BI 7.0 Bex reports to SAP BO 4.0 (Web intelligence).
• Performed the HANA migration with Downtime Minimized via Delta queue cloning approach.
• Built/managed long-term customer relationships (incl. CXOs). At a Fortune500 client, unseated an entrenched Big 5 Consulting firm, gaining client approval on a $120+mm solution portfolio. 
• Used the SAP tool PCA to attain the above-mentioned approach for the migration.
• Support in migration of SAP Performance management to Success Factors.
• Worked on Account Payable, maintained reports in record to report and workflow management. 
• Worked extensively in Procure to Pay (PTP) cycle. Maintained G/L accounts and postings for PTP cycle. 
• Actively migrating Honeywell EDI transactions off of AS400 platform to transmit through Seeburger. This includes all order-to-cash and procure-to-pay functions. Transactions include 810/880, 875/850, 855 and 856.
• Conduct GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization. 
• Extensively worked on Biller Direct, Dispute management and collection management in SAP FSCM. 
• Worked extensively with collection management, credit management, biller direct and dispute management, credit collection rules and credit strategies. 
• Set up business partner profile and worked on collection strategies for outstanding billing in FSCM. 
• Managed features in New G/L such as document splitting and segmental reporting. 
• Maintained overhead cost elements and overhead keys and planning in product cost planning maintenance. 
• Maintain data integrity through review and analysis of data submitted by EDI Partners.
• Daily monitoring of EDI transactions and documentation.
• Maintained cost component structure, costing type, valuation variants and costing variants. 
• Utilized various tools and programs within SAP including eCATT (Extended Computer Aided Test Tool), ABAP load programs, LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench), HP Quality Center, and the development of custom SAP programs for data migration efforts.
• invoice management (VIM) for account payable and vendor invoice handling. 
• Maintained SAP archive link, document channels, data mapping for open text VIM. 
• Worked with offshore technical consultant and managed finance team in US. 
• Worked as FICO tester, created test scripts, scenarios and for IT team in HPQC. 
• Created functional testing scripts for finance side including test steps for finance as well with SD and PP for OTC and P2P cycles. 
• Concerned in different testing phases, unit testing, integration testing and Regression testing.

SAP Consultant 

Stamford, CT

Resonsibilities: 

• Analyzed clients' business requirements, needs and objectives and map them to the SAP processes and solutions. 
• Translating business requirements into functional specification documents and attained sign off. 
• Designed and built FI module, configuration and testing of budget billing, installment plan, security deposit, dunning procedure, payment program and the accounts determination. 
• Configured and Customized G/L A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variant, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments. 
• Completed necessary setting for the account assignment model for Recurring entry and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program 
• Configured system for partial/residual payments for customers/vendors and performed dunning. 
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for open item payments for vendors, created check lots, worked on Online Cashed Checks, Voided Checks for payment blockage for vendor and Reissue of destroyed checks. 
• Worked on different Project Types & Project Profiles; designed WBS elements, network activities & work centers; managed budget allocation. 
• Assigned WBS elements to various cost center groups created and configured system with WBS elements using apposite project profile. 
• Configured chart of depreciation worked on different assets such as fixed assets, intangible assets and leased assets. 
• Configured depreciation areas, depreciation methods, calculation methods and valuation methods. 
• Configured Fixed Assets module- configured all the key elements like chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, various asset classes, account determinations, depreciation keys, etc. 
• Optimized information flow through use of automatic and integrated workflow processes in cross functional areas and departmental processes. 
• Configured tax configuration including tax codes, tax rates, withholding tax, tax rates, base amount of tax calculation and other indicators. 
• Configured business places, rounding rules for withholding tax types, defined withholding tax types for invoice posting and payment posting. 
• Configured organizational hierarchies in closing cockpit with task, and releasing task list. 

Confidential

SAP Business Analyst

TX

Responsibilities: 

• Involved in analyzing and gathering business requirements. 
• Involved in preparation of business requirement document and functional design document. 
• Analyzed the as-is system, did the Gap Analysis and designed the to-be system. 
• Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, Financial Statement Versions (FSV). 
• Reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status groups, document types, posting keys, etc. 
• Configured vendor groups, vendor master records, tolerance limits for over and under payments, payment terms, and payment methods. 
• Configured accounts payable, automatic payment program, and check lot. 
• Configured Accounts Payable (AP), Defined vendor account groups and created master data. 
• Configured and customized customer Master records, Account groups, Company code specific payment methods, Automatic incoming payment program. 
• Customized and configured Cash management including Bank statements, payment program,
• Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration. Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles .Set-up planning profile for cost center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning. 
• In Profit Center Accounting, maintained standard hierarchy .Configured Planning layout, Planning profile, Plan allocations for Profit Center Accounting.