SUMMARY

• Over 11 years of strong SAP FICO Functional experience with sound experience in module configuration, Global Implementations, functional lead, project manager and application integration.
• Over 7 years of proven leadership skills in Evaluation, strong SAP FICO Functional experience recommend paths, Provide detailed analysis and high - level project plans.
• Over 5 years of project management experience being in charge of schedules, budgets, resources and deliverable for project.
• 9+ full life cycle implementation in FICO and FSCM with ASAP methodology (Releases 4.6c through ECC-6.0 EHP7). Worked in Realization, Design, Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Testing, Hyper care, Cut-over, Trouble shooting and Go-Live phases
• Excellent diverse experience in management consulting and corporate finance in multinational environments.
• Strong project management skills to run small to big budget project including full life cycle implementation, upgrades, and enhancements.
• Skilled technical lead to for any size project
• Excellent experience in International AP practices, Inter-company Processes, Order to Cash processes, Special Ledger, ERS, FI- substitution rules, SAP BI reporting, PCA Balance sheets activation, Tax, CO-PA and product costing
• Also experienced with integration SD, MM and other sub-modules
• Skilled in working with solution manger, ChaRM, OnIT, SM7 tasks and tickets
• Experience in assisting the Business in new way of doing FASB 52 (Foreign Currency Translation), GL Account mapping in SAP using Special ledger functionality.
• Experience in working with end users to explain the Special ledger functionality.
• Extensive experience in preparing user training document and user training onsite or remote
• Extensive functional experience in Leading configuration efforts and Customization in FI-GL, AR, AP, Credit and Asset Management, Special Ledger FI-SL, Bank Accounting, Foreign Currency, Cash Management (including FI team Lead role), and interfacing FI with SD and MM modules .
• SAP, FICO, GL, NEW GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Product costing, service orders, SD/MM Integration, FSCM, Collection Management, Dispute Management, Credit Management, Project Management, Budgeting, Project Leader, Solution Architect, Customer relations, Negotiations, leadership, Team Leader

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. IT Business Analyst Finance/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a senior SAP Consultant, responsibilities included design, configuration, implementation, testing and re- engineering of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Acted as project manager to handle multiple projects as once to work on all aspects of project management including budgeting and resourcing.
• Worked as technical lead on the multiple projects simultaneously.
• Worked and managed in Full life cycle implementations, Roll-outs, Support and Upgrade projects
• Extensive experience in Blueprint, configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and development and gathering user requirements and testing of FI/CO modules -GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• In-depth understanding of a customized SAP system and integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects
• Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports.
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).
• Interaction with user and client to understand their requirement and concern over existing system to identify system improvement points.
• Highly involved and led noted projects like Automation of BOA AP process, Automation of daily FX rates, FSCM, EBS Changes in the automatic account assignment for material movement for price differences and account determination for FI postings
• Carried out additional report development & enhancement in existing system using various tools ABAP query and ABAP reports.
• Involved in technical documentation and end user training.
• Leading AR and FSCM implementation for Global Roll out for collection management, dispute management, credit management.
• Conducted workshop and designed MDS for SAP Business Partner.
• Involved in design and Configuration for the Org Structure for Credit segments and Collections management. Designed and implemented the SCASE credit approval functionality.
• Developed custom table to house the DOA for various region.
• Active member in conducting the team meetings, Customer feedback meetings & self-assimilation programs Actively involved in day to day business support, Month end closing activities, resolving ChaRM and OnIT tickets

Confidential

Sr. FICO Consultant and FI Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for SAP FICO module and manage SAP FI projects as project manager.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for FI/CO module.
• Managed and coordinating and leading a team of offshore consultants (SD, MM, ABAP & Basis consultants)
• In charge of drafting test scripts and conducting tests of FICO ABAP programs and functional processes along with UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, and coordinating the testing activities in project
• Customized new vendor master data, payment terms, payment methods and house bank details. Configured for automatic payment program for vendor with checks printing, direct deposits Configured the account determination process for integration between FI, MM, and SD.
• Defined reports using tools like report writer and report painter according to the client’s requirements.
• In Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) maintained the Basic settings, Created Master Data for Profit Centers, Profit Center Groups, Profit Center Hierarchy, and Activity Types.
• In Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet, cost centers, standard hierarchy, assigned the cost elements to various cost centers.
• Designed and configured Lockbox procedures and control parameters for incoming payments. Worked on BAI and BAI2 lockbox file formats.
• Worked with data conversion team to bring data in to SAP from legacy system. Highly involve in preparing project documents like blue print, SOW etc.
• Acted as interim project manager to finished current running project.

Confidential

SAP FICO lead functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for FI-GL, New GL, AR, AP, AA, PCA, CCA, PC, CO-PA.
• Worked with Solution manager and SM7 tasks and tickets
• Acted as project manager to handle many small to mid-size project from end to end.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Worked on US GAAP standard and other sub module like SD, MM and materiel ledger
• Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments. Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI with MM and SD. Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts.
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions. Solved the Post Production issues.
• Configured General Ledger - Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files.
• Configured and customized Asset Accounting Module - Copied country specific chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account determinations, screen layout key, allocate number ranges to assets classes, Down Payment configuration for Assets, and uploading of assets from Oracle Financials (Legacy) to SAP.
• Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using the report writer and report painter in CO-PA. Helped in month end and year closing activities.
• Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing.
• Responsible for making changes, migrating them, completing the ticket and communicating the change to the support person.
• Co-ordination of problems with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the issuer is resolved within the stipulated SLAs.
• SAP FI CO Consultant for Pre and Post Go live and stabilization phase. End user training, Business Signoff for the development changes. GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues.
• Issues related Invoice verification (MIRO). Failed IDocs processing.
• Maintained Controlling area settings and made hierarchy and other assignments
• In Cost Element Accounting Created Primary and secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, Configured the reconciliation ledgers.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) created the cost centers and maintained the Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities, Statistical Key Figures.
• In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and set up tolerances for budget cost. Defined the settlement rules and used internal order with AUC /Capital investment projects.
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc. and extracted reports using PCA.