SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of experience in SAP FICO with three full cycle implementations, support and upgrade projects
• Implemented three Full Life Cycles using ASAP methodology, from understanding “As Is” business processes, blueprint to realization, configuration, customization, Data migration, final preparation, testing, authorization designing for roles with security team & developing BPP’s, end user training, pre & post go - live support.
• Strong expertise in Functional Configuration and implementation of the following SAP R/3 modules: New GL, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA(Assets), Banking, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PCA, CO-PC, COPA, Cash Management, Credit Management, Funds Management, Grants Management and Taxes, Treasury Debt/Investment Management SOX Compliance and Internal controls
• Strong knowledge in Integration of various SAP applications like SD, MM, PP,HR, BI,PS with FICO, FSCM and BO.
• Good knowledge of Vertex, Tax configuration, Pricing and their configurations, BGCS, Phoebus and have good knowledge on different countries Taxation and Lockbox with different payment methods and file formats.
• Experienced in working with OCM, SOX and SOD compliance Teams with Mergers and Acquisitions.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, ACH, Positive Pay, OTC, P2P, APP, Lockbox configuration and dunning process.
• Good knowledge in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows) and Open text VIM and concur integration
• Have the working experience on Invoice transformation (ICC,OCR and Validation and Invoice Verification and workflow triggers)
• Significant knowledge in Open Text VIM 5.2, 6.0, and 7.0 and higher, Enterprise Scan 9.7.1, Invoice Capture Center 7.0 (OCR Solution) and Archive Content Server and also through ARIBA
• Expertise in Manual/Functional Testing, Cycle & Cutover testing
• Experience in performing Black box testing, Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Business Process Testing.
• Experience in developing Test Plan, Test Cases, writing Test Scripts by decomposing Business Requirements and developing Test Scenarios to support quality deliverables.
• Experience in Back end testing and data verification using Oracle/SQL Server database environments.
• Have Good Knowledge in areas of ABAP like BDC, Reports-BAPIs, BADI, User exits, IDOCs, Index Screens.
• Strong working experience in various kinds of Testing such as Manual Testing, GUI Automation Testing, System testing, User Acceptance Testing, Unit & Integration Testing, Performance, Stress and Regression Testing of client/server and web based applications
• Trained on S4 Simple finance and HANA.
• Ability to understand the projects business requirements and timelines and have the ability to drive closure of design issues to meet the projects go-live.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Modules: Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivable, Banking, Taxes, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger/New General Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders along with BA, Stake Holder Management and Reporting

Industry Expertise: Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Utiliity & Entertainment.

ERP: SAP R/3 version, ECC 6.0

TAX: Vertex O Series

Reporting Tools: SAP Queries and Report Painter

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Solution Manager, CATTS, eCATTS, LSMW,QTP

Methodologies Used: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP FICO Consultant (GL, AP, AR,CO-COPA,COPC ) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Solving Tickets on various aspects on AA/AR/AP/GL/CO- PA, PCA including Invoice, Cash Application, Lockbox, Electronic Payments, Automatic Customer/Vendor Payment Clearing programs, settlement, Adjustments, ERS, Credit Management, Banking integration.
• Provided Functional specs for reports in AP, AR and concur integration
• Customization settings for Asset Accounting such as Chart of depreciation, account determination, Depreciation areas, Number ranges, Asset classes, GL accounts etc.
• Configured funds management areas, management and derivation rules.
• Act as the primary liaison between IT and Business units (Vendor Finance, Procurement, Sales) on reporting requirements, enhancements, and troubleshooting data related issues. 
• Supporting client with configuration on basis of the business requirements
• Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.
• Providing support daily trouble shooting problems and data retrieval through open text .
• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including identification of business needs and constraints, collection of requirements, architecture, UI Design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance
• Drafted Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to check the project requirements and to track the documentation and project tasks.
• Experience with Enhanced user-interface applications and resolving cross-browser Compatibility issues.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design.
• Have the working experience on Po based and Non Po based invoices on VIM and through ariba
• Worked closely with the Engineering department in order to develop effective EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions monitoring tools for the Customer Support Representatives and interfaced the data from Profit Center Reorganization tool and mapped the data in existing sap. 
• In FI -Treasury, responsible for configuring House Banks with multiple Bank Accounts, alternate bank selections for Payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes, check lots and configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments and IDOCs
• Dispute Management: Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with accounts receivable.
• Collection Management setup for collection strategies, collection work lists, collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Optimized Cash Application process for bank statements, remittance advices and lockbox using Auto Bank.
• Experience working with ABAP team to design, build and develop data migration/ conversion programs, GL balances extract, convert and load into SAP using LSMWs by providing functional and Technical specifications and also working on PS and implemented the FM and GM areas and Activated it
• Developed global strategy on International Banking for all subsidiary and FX Valuation.
• Configured Cash Position, Cash Forecast, Electronic Bank Statement processing (BAI2, SWIFT, Current Day and Prior Day).
• Implemented the Lockbox payment process and developed the tracking reports of it
• Created different treasury reports related to daily treasury processes using drilldown reports and SAP Query.
• Configured multiple BADIs/user exits in Dispute and Collections Management (RMS ID, Element types, Record Model, Workflow, Work list, Promise to Pay and process integration with AR).
• Defined and configured credit segments, Rating procedure, formulas, limit calculations, Risk Classes and integration with D&B.
• Developed functional specifications for ABAP development (user exits and BADI) in 1099 MISC Reporting-US Withholding tax/IRS transmission file and LSMW for data upload.
• Provided support on FI-Asset Accounting, CO-PA and CCA.
• Configured taxes for US and Canada using Vertex.
• Configured tax settings, maintained Input and Output tax codes for different jurisdiction codes, and maintained jurisdiction code settings, automatic account assignments for tax postings.
• Internal orders: processing and closure of orders and CO Master Data
• Maintained Operating Concern, and assigned controlling area to operating concern and activated Profitability Analysis. Imported characteristics and Value Fields to Operating Concern.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA.
• Responsible for designing and implementing Product costing, overhead cost management and COPA area
• Conducted workshops for Business community for SAP functionality and reviewing the fit gap analysis.
• Determined BOM structure for Configurable materials and Bundles for cost roll up
• Designed Sub Contracting process for cost roll up and defined user exits for customization.
• Designed COPA value flow from SD and MM and also responsible for delivering FSD documents for building BW cube for extracting COPA documents.
• Designed Top down distribution process for allocating plant expenses to SKU level..
• Documented end user manuals and training material and conducting end user training on GL, AR, AP, AA and CO modules.
• Have the knowledge on S4 HANA and derived the HANA transformation rules for S4 migration.
• Actively Involved in Month End Activities.

Confidential, Hamilton city, NJ

SAP FICO Lead consultant (GL, AP, AR, CCA,FI-TV, Integrations, CCA,PCA COPA,COPC) - ECC 6.0(Implementation W3)

Responsibilities:

• Collected and analyzed users business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshot and supported the system users.
• Followed ASAP implementation methodology, designed the business processes, wrote blue print phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• AP Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying Company code, Country payment methods, Wire transfer settings, ACH payments
• Implemented the full life cycles of FM and GM .
• Involved in Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Backend Testing, System testing and Integration Testing of Application.
• Worked in the agile development environment with frequently changing requirements feature set
• Reviewed functional specification documents, design documents, and involved in developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents.
• Responsible for creating complete test cases of varying complexity, executing tests, measuring expected and actual results, reporting status and ensuring accurate coverage of requirements.
• Worked in collaboration with other teams, identified all the possible scenarios and developed test procedures for integration testing of the application.
• Configure the AP modules. Key configuration includes House banks and Accounts, Payment Program Configuration, and the vendor master data
• Involved in monitoring of actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI direct Postings to CO.
• Worked on Customer Statement and configured Lockbox
• Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest calculation and Credit Management with 3 levels.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, and costing sheet.
• Configured Cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution, assessment and indirect activity allocations. Gathered country specific requirements for all the European entities and documented PDD and DPD documents.
• Responsible for blueprinting Material Ledger and analyzing the functionalities as per CAT business needs.
• Implemented parallel valuation using ML for valuating inventory leading and non leading ledgers based for Europe and US GAAP.
• postings(including check payments) and Supported the Client in providing a holistic approach in the evaluation of options available in the areas of payment processing, bank reconciliation, integration with other modules, and master data strategy to ensure a scalable Cash Management structure that can support the Organization in the years to come 
• Set up the payment methods and lock box payment process with file formats
• Defined and configured account structure for bank reconciliation and treasury postings
• Incoming payment processing and Cash application - Enhancements increasing the hit rates
• Reviewed master data requirements for all categories in FI/CO configuration by mapping legacy objects and hierarchies to the SAP object repository and hierarchy structures.
• Design - determined business requirements, identify conversion objects, and write functional specifications to meet requirements.
• Data Cleansing -identify opportunities to cleanse data in source system, develop metrics, work with business partners to execute cleanup and track progress
• Designed process for updating standard cost based on local standards and US GAAP standards using standard SAP functionality.
• Identified needs for new costing sheet as per Europe local GAAP valuation and designed costing sheets for fulfill business requirements
• Conducted workshops to gather requirements for implementing material ledger.
• Responsible for building a prototype for Material Ledger based on the business requirements.
• Conducted Demo sessions for material ledger proto type with the client BPO’s
• Working on SAP FI-TV(travel management ).
• Solving the issues of SAP FI and Travel Management (Settlement, Advances, TRIP).
• Tested payroll and benefits in HR and identified necessary jobs to execute plans also Travel Management
• Worked with ABAPERs in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms and Workflows) and data retrieval through open text VIM.
• Helped in Month end and Year end closing activities.
• IDoc extensions were created and implemented in order to handle the exchange of customer-required data that was not available in the SAP delivered IDocs.
• Documented gaps as per the global design template and from the system perspective to accommodate Travel retail business in COPA
• Responsible for leading the sessions for all integrating all the POS systems into SAP
• Designed PA transfer structure in COPA to update entries from POS systems to COPA.
• Identified design gaps and resolved reconciliation issues from CO perspective.
• Re engineered integrated sales Business process and documented definitions from SAP system perspective.
• Configured SAP system for all the travel retail business and successfully completed integration test cycles.
• Got Trained on HANA an developed the FM areas, activation and Implementation
• Performed Regression Testing, Unit testing, coordinated with technical & functional people from other modules in integration testing.
• Involved in creating Test Cases & Test Scripts and also verified the executed Test Scripts.
• Provided Pre go-live and Post go-live production support.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO,COPA,COPC) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.
• Analyzed the current business processes, GL structure, financial and controlling objects to provide solutions in line with global design.
•  Interacted with end users of the company to understand requirements
• Supported in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Accounting)
• Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules with FI and CO modules. Configured automatic account determination, ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).
• Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.
• Configured in-house cash center management payment process and cash forecasting.
• Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.
• Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.
• Worked on New GL, configured the ledgers, set up integration with Controlling, and made the general setting for the fiscal year, the posting periods and the currencies.
• Dispute Management: Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with accounts receivable.
• Created LSMW to upload Debit memos.
• Created new House banks and configured Automatic Payment Program.
• Configured payment program using IDOCs and EDI.
• Expertise in SAP cross applications such as BAPI-ALE interfaces.
• Created functional spec to read Cash Checks file and upload it in SAP.
• Have worked on the vendor master records and set up - verifying the vendor p2p documents, Bank Details, LTO (Letter heads ) and RTQ, RTV
• Drafted Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to check the project requirements and to track the documentation and project tasks.
• Experience with Enhanced user-interface applications and resolving cross-browser Compatibility issues.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design.
• Worked on the key business process functionalities related to Marketing, Communication & Outreach and provided solution using the Campaign Management, High Volume Segmentation & Campaign Execution offerings from standard SAP CRM. 
• Prepared presentations to showcase the CRM system capabilities in meeting the business requirements for the client  and transformed into Fund centres, Fund activation checks etc.
• Have worked on the issues of Po based invoices, Non-Po based invoices, Batch based invoices and provided satisfactory resolutions on VIM
• Documented the defects in BGCS and also involved in submitting daily status reports of testing to end client.
• Intercompany trading scenarios (STO, direct shipment, 3rd party)
• Involved in COPA, Maintained the operating concern, assigned the value fields, OBYC settings, maintained changes in the FI-SD integration changes, defined the key figure schemes.
• Business Users interaction on daily basis for daily production activities and assigning work schedules to the team to meet deadlines if any.
• Maintained new Profit Center, Cost Center and Activity types Master Data for newly added entities.
• Defined new Splitting Rules to split both Plan and Actual for different activity types.
• Designed new Assessment Cycles for Cost Centers and WBS Elements as per the business changes.
• Constant monitoring of the month end process and as a part of the month end procedure executed both Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Responsible for developing an interface for loading Plan data from Hyperion and ESSBASE to SAP using custom transaction codes.
• Transferred all the WBS and Cost Center Plan Data to EC- PCA.
• Defined Planning Profiles for both Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Designed Functional specifications for Customized ABAP Reports for actual and plan in CCA.
• Developed new reports using report painter for CCA planning.
• Performed testing in different test environments and documented all the test scenarios.
• Defined Internal orders for different order types, Planning profile, settlement profile, settlement rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers, Distribution and Assesment cycles
• All Relevant CO Master Data
• Worked with BW team on reports.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO) - ECC 6.0(Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS - TO-BE).
• Performed GAP analysis, actively participated in blueprint phase using ASAP methodology.
• Configured AP, uploaded master data setup and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for AP for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules with FI and CO modules. Configured automatic account determination, ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).
• Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.
• Configured in-house cash center management payment process and cash forecasting.
• Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.
• Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.
• Tested and performed web-demos of GL transactions for fast-entry screens, splitting, posting, parking and reversals.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements in CO and worked on Month end and year end closing procedures.
• Configured CO-IO (Internal Orders) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules and Settlement Profile.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy using CATTS, Alternative Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Configured and managed all Period-End closing activities with Schedule Manager, Capitalized Assets with Budget monitoring using statistical internal orders.
• Created customized reports using report painter/report writer.
• Generated Investment Program Hierarchy tree diagram with direct definition of the corresponding program positions and their assignment to the desired positions in the hierarchy using fast entry.
• Participated in testing using Solution Manager. Thoroughly involved in creation of Test Scenarios. Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• On a regular basis performed knowledge transfer to Super users and management using web demos; citrated BPP documentation.
• Involved in post Go-live support.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Production support in the areas of GL, AP, AR, Banking,CO
• Ensured that SAP Applications are delivered to meet customers’ needs and expectations.
• Ensured that district application system and new business standards were reliable.
• Assisted and supported SAP Applications Management Team Lead.
• Participated in Regional and Global Specific application projects.
• Identified and managed gaps in the Regional design.
• Involved in the Development of test scenarios/test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing provided Courseware and Documentation in FI/CO Modules.
• Documented the defects in HP Quality Center and also involved in submitting daily status reports of testing to end client.
• Analyzed monthly Financial Reports for management to assist them in financial decisions and assist the accounting firm to make yearly financial statements.
• Mocking up the data considering security and confidential data. Thorough Documentation of all the Reports with Report definition, field definitions and layouts.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on USA Application - Phoebus.
• Calculating the interest and finance charges.
• Working on debt sold accounts and removed the late fees of customers.
• Preparation of User Manual Procedures.
• Analyzing the documented information and converting it into assertive forms
• Identified and proposed business process and system enhancements. 
• Identified, interpreted, validated and documented customer requirements. 
• Joined RISE program as a member of Record to Report (R2R)/ Finance team.
• Understanding the existing business Processes in various discussions with the client & studying the available documents & preparation of Business Blue Print.
• Involved in the customization of Organizational elements for Financial Accounting like Creation of Company, Company Code etc.
• Mapped business processes into SAP Financial Accounting.
• Creation and maintenance of master records.
• Involved in Configuration of GL, AA, AR & AP.
• Worked on Roles and Authorization Matrix by coordinating with Basis Team
• Working on the SAP Master Data Management (AP,AR,GL,CO)
• Also worked on PO based, Non Po based invoices and their maintenance
• Identified and documented the strategic orientations and project scope .
• Identified the needs of stakeholders and the impact on the company -Analyzed user requirements 
• Following standard analysis procedures to understand the primary format and scope of the system requirements