SUMMARY:

• Resourceful, positive, sincere and proactive SAP FICO consultant with over 9 years of progressive experience with implementation, Customization, Configuration, Testing, Documentation, Reporting, and Support.
• Experience also include close Integration with other SAP modules MM (Material Management) SD (Sales and distribution) SAP Insurance (FSCD), IM(Investment Management), SAP Project Systems (PS), SAP Financial Supply Chain Management(FSCM) Have SAP s in S/4 Finance (1610 Version) and Central Finance 1809 Versions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Industry Experience
• Includes Manufacturing, legal, health care, Retail and Insurance industries.
• FICO (AP,AR, GL, AA, Banking, Internal orders, CCA, PCA, PS, CO - PC) FSCM
• Full Cycle Implementations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Business Architecture and Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Business solution architecture by gathering requirements, find opportunities to improvise and optimize the solutions in S/4 1709 Version
• Understand Pharmacy industry specific regulations for drugs and their controlled disposal to implement solutions in SAP in compliance with federal Drug regulations.
• Worked on the Return Logistics for Controlled and Non- Controlled drug disposal, donation and liquidation by integrating several external systems with SAP S/4.
• Worked with several external teams to understand the complete business cycle that includes, Stericycle, Inmar etc to integrate the transaction flow to SAP. Conducted several workshops to gather requirements and to discuss design solutions.
• Worked on complex inventory accounting scenarios using moving average price and the impact due to stock differences, scrap loss etc and provided workable solutions for both transition period where each retail store converts to SAP and for the end state solution where all the stores are completely migrated to SAP.
• Worked as the liaison between the business and the Offshore team to translate the requirements and facilitate the Configuration and the development activities.
• Articulate and communicate with different levels of leadership for prompt actions on the issues.
• Mentoring junior consultants with sessions and knowledge sharing discussions.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Project Implementation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Main client facing SME for US company codes and responsible for the business requirements, Functional specifications and work with global project team to align them to the global template.
• Worked closely with the EMEA and the APAC teams to create a Global Requirement template for gathering the requirements in all the regions.
• Documented the complex requirements for US and Canadian company codes and worked on adjusting the gaps within the Confidential and Confidential solutions.
• Worked on manual file loads till the automation and the users by creating user guides. Provided post Go live support with the initial issues and stabilization.

Confidential, Cincinnati OH

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Main client facing SME, Project Manager for the implementation of the Cash automation and the FSCM Modules for EyeMed.
• Managed resources both in India and Italy to work on the requirements, configuration and custom developments through regular web sessions, meetings and interactive screen sharing.
• Implemented Lockbox solution for 7 banks with a successful automation rate of 90% of the total transactions. Worked on complex scenarios for cash applications that includes complex payer criteria with a little bit of customizing and worklists functionality.
• Implemented IDOC mapping for Customer invoices, Vendor Invoices and the remittance slips using the standard IDOCs and extending them where applicable.
• Also implemented Collections and Disputes (FSCM) module for the Eyemed department to augment the prompt collections through dispute management.
• Worked on complex Custom commission program for the Broker payments (Vendor payments) by using a customer and vendor link through custom tables and making the payments to the vendor only based on the customer payments.
• Created several power point presentations, flow charts and presented to the business users to depict the business processes. Created several BPP guides for the business users to get them independent.
• Worked on complex business scenarios related to 835 files and on the clearing criteria the line items.
• Worked on the unit testing, integration testing with the bank files, idocs and provided user for the business users through interactive wed sessions.
• Provided Go Live support to the team members and trained them through the hyper care phase.
• Responsible for any issues with the incoming IDOCS from banks, mercury gate, and other integrated systems. Closely worked with the technical teams for any code related changes.
• Closely worked with the Master data team for maintaining the correct data on the worklists to avoid any errors.
• Worked on creating several BPP guides for users related to Costing Transactions, SQVI queries, loading files, post processing, creating disputes etc.

Confidential

SAP FICO LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Direct client facing SME for all the business users in Miamisburg office for any SAP Finance issues.
• Manage FI resources both in India and Mexico through regular web sessions, meetings and ticket assignments, configuration and custom developments.
• Created several power point presentations, flow charts and presented to the business users to depict the business processes. Created several BPP guides for the business users to get them independent.
• Worked on the bankruptcy related activities like Asset Revaluation approximately for 100,000 Assets, running requests for Auditors, explaining the postings to the auditors. Created LSMW loads for running the revaluation Asset files.
• Took part in the legal Entity name changes with the new merger. Took part in the new warehouse plant testing by creating the configuration steps related to finance like COPA mapping and default Cost center assignments.
• Responsible for any costing issues with in the production plants, third party warehouse plants and sub -contracting plants. Took part in the implementation of EPS system and updating costs in KKPAN. Took part in the year end activities in both FI and CO areas.
• Worked on Streamlining the Costing process with the Third party warehouses and the subcontracting plants and trained the users. Proposed changes to the whole process to increase data quality of the master data and Cost run processes.
• Worked on re classifying the COGP (Cost of goods produced) custom report as per the new Cost Hierarchies due to the merger.
• Worked on DART Extracts for business on various modules.
• Worked as a liaison between the business and the directors to articulate and escalate the issues in a timely manner.
• Responsible for any issues with the incoming IDOCS from banks, mercury gate, and other integrated systems. Closely worked with the technical teams like N Link and Liaison during the batch failures. Responsible for monitoring the daily, monthly and yearly batch jobs by having a close equation with Basis team and the TWS server team.
• Closely worked with the Master data team for maintaining the correct data to avoid any costing related errors.
• Worked on creating new Capital project profiles aligned with Investment measures to create assets automatically with these attributes.
• Worked on creating several BPP guides for users related to Costing Transactions, s, SQVI queries, loading files and running payments.

Confidential

SAP Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Solely responsible for the whole SAP FICO functionality. Worked closely with the directors and business users from different departments.
• Took part in the SAP insurance (FSCD module) implementation since the integration cycle testing. Picked up the module on the run and worked through cutover, Go live and ongoing production issues.
• Worked on the FSCD configuration for the additional company codes and testing. Took Active role in pre and post go live activities. Worked on the production issues related to Transaction files, Bank files, deferred revenue and Insurance plans. Worked on issues related to the government subsidies related to the member premiums and deferred revenue reports.
• Worked as a liaison between the business and the directors to articulate and escalate the issues on a timely manner.
• Responsible for daily runs of member, Transaction, payments files and for the weekly and monthly Invoice and dunning runs. Responsible for sending the timely Invoice and Dunning notices to the members related to their insurance plans.
• Worked on restructuring the Lease Assets functionality to optimize the business process and eliminate the existing issues.
• Worked on creating several BPP guides for users related to lease payments, Check payments, SQVI queries, loading files and running payments.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP Application consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support incident tickets from various customers. Tickets could be in the form of simple issues to enhancements, custom programs to small projects.
• Provided solutions for issues with check printing, customer correspondence types,
• Payment programs, dunning, dispute managements, payment terms and ageing reports, asset retirements, settlements, transfers etc,
• Provided solutions to different customers on EBS, Lockbox and user on uploading the files, using work lists for multiple payments for customers having the Head office and branch office relation using the alternate payer functionality.
• Worked on issues related to Project systems and budget process for Projects. Product Costing issues like Additive costs, Costing with special procurement Keys, Production Order processing, result analysis, cost center variances related to the production orders. Worked on Custom made complex scrap reports.
• Worked on Report painter reports for profit centers and cost centers. Created 15-25 custom reports that include, customers, vendors, scrap consumption. Created validation and substitution rules for Cost centers, WBS elements and Profit centers.
• Set up exchange rate configuration and running the period end revaluation and translation of foreign currency transactions. Set up purchase orders with foreign payments.
• Worked with different banks creating the positive pay files, ACH files and Lock box files. Created functional specifications for various custom functionalities.
• Created functional specifications for Vendor Ageing reports and customized MR21 reports for scrap calculation at the material level.
• Worked on the creating duplicate invoice warning for Fb60, MIRO and parked documents. Adding custom fields to the Line item reports. Worked on creating new layouts for MIRO invoices as per the user defined sequence.
• Worked on a couple of real estate tickets which deals with salesbased rent settlement.

Confidential, IL

SAP FI consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study of existing business processes and GAP analysis
• LMS (Legal Management Systems) product is developed by TCS in collaboration with SAP to meet the legal system requirements.
• Part of the implementation team at Confidential and Mckenzie as a FI Consultant.
• Understanding the Legal terminology like Client (customer) Matter (Project) and mapping them to SAP terminology. Responsible for extending the configuration to 139 company codes.
• Understanding the business requirements, analyzing the existing functionality of the product and working with the product team to record the new requirement to be added to the product functionality.
• Test the functionalities and the new developments yet to be developed and recording the errors and getting them fixed by the product team.
• Design of functional specifications for the development of custom objects and enhancements such as user exits and enhancements
• Conducted sessions for end users.

Confidential, KY

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Accounts payables and Travel Management.
• Conducted workshops for requirement gathering. Created workshop presentations and user sessions for the end users through U perform tool.
• Worked on the BC sets activations some part of the configuration. Took active part in the global template changes along with the Deloitte and the Client counterparts.
• Responsible for the configuration related to the ERS and consignment functionality, testing with direct integration with the PTP team.
• Developed the P card process functionality for vendors through CITI bank Portal. Engaged directly into the client and CITI bank calls. Took Active participation during the unit testing and the three FIT cycles and also the object testing. Closely worked with the Development teams for the development related to the Bank interfaces and other CITI bank interfaces for Travel management.
• Engaged with the CITI bank throughout the Project for the Travel portal and the corporate credit card interfaces. Developed interfaces for the travel charges incurred by the employees using the CITI bank corporate credit card.
• Completely responsible for the travel management configuration for North America and Latin American Countries.
• Developed HR mini master interface between People soft and SAP for North America and Latin American Countries to meet unique bank requirements at each country level. Completely took responsibility for the requirement gathering, analysis and the Development.
• Worked closely with the People Soft, Web methods, PGP encryption and the ABAP teams to meet the development requirement.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FI CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The client is a Canada based manufacturing company and the makers of the Black Berry.
• As a FI consultant provided overall FI CO production support off site for their start up office in Atlanta.
• Configurations for the new company codes including payment methods, creation of vendors, customers and house banks.
• Work with the ABAP team for customization like validation rules and other enhancements.
• Provided support on Account payables for Z reports and user specified enhancements.
• Help the end users with the reconciliation issues with the deferred revenue.
• Resolve production tickets and prepare documentation for the end users.
• Functional specifications for enhancements, user exits, and reports

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As an FI consultant, provided Production Support for The Canadian Home Depot Retail.
• Responsible for GL Master Data maintenance and tax ware maintenance, Profit centers and cost center and monthly reports.
• Provided Production Support for Canada Retail with successful updating of the data to the corporate level using heavy interfaces.
• Responsible for interfacing sales related transactional data coming from POS systems and Vault.
• Worked on Updated versions of SAP ECC.6.0, Quality center defect Management and HP solution Ticket handling and Tax ware.
• Maintenance of customized tables for GL master data and changes to the master data.
• Maintenance of Tax ware and responsible for tax related issues. Maintained Functional modules for Tax calculations and updates.
• Responsible for monthly reporting of Capital Improvement Tax, Self-Usage Tax and GRIR account.
• Responsible for smooth interfaces and resolving batch jobs issues. Correcting IDOC errors between the systems.
• Worked on THD tools for Functional areas. Maintained validation sets for cost center categories.
• Maintained Customized transactions for different functions like JV uploads and Accrual entries.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As an SAP FICO consultant, reviewed business processes, mapping them to SAP functionality. Performed As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies and suggested solutions through SAP implementation and customizations with successfully using Solution Manager.
• Mapped and defined, Chart of Accounts and created Company codes.
• Configured Accounts Receivables (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledgers (GL), Defined and configured tolerances for employees, customers and vendors.
• Managed credit control areas, defined risk categories for new customers. Conducted dunning procedures for customers and vendors periodically at different dunning levels.
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting (CEA), Internal Order Accounting (IOA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Mapped out Company Cost centers, reviewed resource classifications and assigned primary and Secondary Cost elements. .
• Created User Documentation, technical documentation and user manuals. Conducted sessions for end users. Provided Post go live support.

Confidential

SAP FI CO Junior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Mapping the enterprise structure and planning and forecasting business processes. Worked with different teams including Sales division, Plant managers and controller. Responsibilities included Cost centers, Internal Orders and Profitability Analysis.
• Creation of Organization objects and related assignments, financial Year variants, Posting periods, document numbering intelligence, tolerances, currency settings, business correspondence and finalizing on different views of an organization structure and specific report requirements.
• Configuration of GL which included Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Specialized GLs, upload of existing chart of accounts, Financial Statement Versions creation, Special report requirements, Cross company code transactions and Business Correspondences.
• In Accounts Payable, configured all business transactions including the payment program
• Configuration and automatic check payment, clearing of vendor open items, defined house Banks for payment. Maintained credit control areas, risk categories, conducted dunning procedures.
• Prepared Automatic Posting for foreign currency valuation. Define Interest Calculation types, defined interest rates, defined time dependent terms and prepared G/L account balance interest calculation.
• Configuration of cost centers, Controlling area, parallel currency management, cost center groups in accordance to CO view of the organization and reporting, upload of cost center master data, Primary Cost Elements, creation of Various Secondary Cost Elements for various assessment segments, assisted in creation of distribution rules of overhead costs.
• Configuration of profit centers which included creation of profit center hierarchy, dummy profit center, upload of profit center master data and plan data with numbering intelligence.

Confidential

Junior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Support Functional Consultant provided support to the senior consultant with configuration, support tickets and end users.
• Replaced 11 legacy systems to one central integrated system.
• Merger experience with updating new entries and integration among new systems.
• Financial and Controlling modules through, system support and improving overall end users experience on the system by ensuring system liability, optimization of business processes solution operations.
• Heavy interfacing with end users to diagnose any system issues and problems by resolving them in a timely manner.
• Resolution of production issues, performance tuning and providing daily support to the users and fostering good working relationship with business managers.

Other Industry Experience

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Set up computer systems for accounting system. Implemented ACCPAC computer finance and accounting package.
• Involved in studying, analyzing the business processes, and documenting "As-Is" & "To-Be" processes.
• Trained two accounting apprentices for bookkeeping and general ledger maintenance.
• Prepared functional specifications for application development requests and provided support to technical development activities.
• Managed approximately 300 accounts receivable and account payable portfolios.

Confidential

Financial Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed general Financial and Controls reporting computer systems for specialized boat building company.
• Developed & tested assessments, costing sheets, settlement structures, and order types.
• Conducted reconciliations, prepared financial statements, analyses statements,
• Maintained budgets, involved in planning and profitability analysis.