SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of extensive functional experience in SAP FI/CO best practices encompassing eight projects, three of which are full life cycle implementation from blue printing, realization, go live to production support.
• I have been part of Implementations, Development & Production support projects and exposure includes preparation of Project Blueprint, Configuration, Unit &Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
• Specific focus is on S/4HANA as applied to Finance and Controlling, Simple Finance AKA S/4 HANA Finance, and Process Integration areas of SAP. Provide innovation and generate business value for customers on the latest SAP HANA platform. Participated in multiple end - to-end implementation and roll-out projects using ASAP methodology, and in various support roles.
• Responsible for business and system solutions, design and document methodologies, configuration of S/4HANA FI & CO functional module, integration processes, conduct workshops, user training and continued support during the projects.
• Excellent configuration and training skills in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Bank Accounting, Treasury-Cash Management (TR-CM), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, & Internal Orders.
• FSCM: Receivable Management Collection & Dispute Management implementation experience.
• Extensive experience in Procure to Pay (P2P), Record to Report (RTR) and Order to Cash (OTC) processes. Excellent configuration skills in Electronic Bank statement (EBS); Lockbox; and foreign exchange business processes.
• Excellent understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) and Integration with SD, PP, MM & PS (WBS Element, Network and Activity) modules. Strong knowledge in GAAP and SOX Act.
• Experience in reports, conversions, interfaces, enhancements & forms (RICEF).
• Proficient in all aspects of Project Systems including Planning, Budgeting and Cost allocation.
• Well versed with integrating Vertex with SAP. Extensive experience in conversions using LSMW and ECATT. Well versed with SAP security roles and profiles.
• Extensive experience in delivering large and small group (one-on-one) end-user training using MS Visio templates.
• On controlling side: I have implemented product costing - make to order and make to stock processes and COPA - Costing based / Account Based. I also have hands-on experience on integrating COPA with non-SAP systems.
• Extensive experience on BAPI, BADI, SMARTFORMS, SAP Script, ALV Reports, User Exists, Enhancement Frameworks, Remote Function Calls (RFC), ALE, EDI and IDOC’s.
• Project management experience with Microsoft Project includes managing timelines, resources, prioritizing activities, monitoring milestones, Gantt chart analysis, and Critical factors and reworking the project to changing project scope, timelines and resources availability. Other project management skills include managing team issue logs, Conducting Blueprint Workshops, using MS Power Point, MS Excel.
• Experience working with an integrated team of onsite, onshore and offshore resources.
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP System: SAP 4.6, 4.7, an ECC 6.0 S/4 HANA migration and Simple Finance (SFin 2.0).

SAP Financial: General Ledger/New General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Banking, Special Purpose Ledger, Funds Management, Sales and Distribution, Material Management and material ledger.

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing (CO-PC), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

Applications: MS Visio, MS Access, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Platforms: Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/NT/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0

Database: My SQL, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supported all Finance applications and processes within SAP including GL, AR, AP, FA, CCA, PCA, Cost and PA.
• Supported Sarbanes-Oxley and other internal audit activities.
• Lead the design, development and implementation of global financial and accounting solutions on time, within budget.
• Implemented new company code finical global settings, automatic account assignments, cost center and profit center hierarchies and LSMW load. New plant configuration and enhanced VIM open text for new Company code.
• Analyzed financial business processes to provide industry best practices recommendations.
• Prioritize resources and projects in support of and in response to business requests and appropriate strategic initiatives of the company.
• Established and enhanced collaborative relationships with the financial business partners to explore opportunities and alternatives to meet business needs.
• Implemented global financial and accounting support processes. Coupled with broad and deep knowledge of technical/analytical models and solutions, provide value-added input and alternatives and facilitate requirements definition whenever appropriate.
• Managed multiple projects/solutions for multiple business area requestors.
• Participated in the establishment and enforcement of best-practice work processes and standards.
• Implemented and use (fact-based) metrics to continuously improve on quality and efficiency of solutions and to validate business value delivered.
• Communicated status of projects and initiatives to all levels of business management.
• Worked with VP of financial planning to gather requirement on BPC implementation.
• Worked with Business users to resolve any issues on VIM open text on a daily basis.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Created new standard adopted as corporate policy with streamlined templates and faster process by developing and implementing change management tools and activities.
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Worked with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), credit debit memos, maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc.
• Configured Controlling areas, CO-OM (Overhead Cost Accounting), CO-CA (Cost Center Accounting), CO-PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CO-PA (Profitability Analysis), CO-PC (Product Costing).
• Developed and configured the Electronic bank statement procedure in TR-CM module.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client.
• Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL.
• Worked on EBS, Positive pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer, and configuring and customizing multiple payment methods and automatic clearing.
• Created integrated asset acquisition and defined account assignment type for Asset Account, Account Assignment Objects for the Depreciation Areas.
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset.
• Configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Built prototype to develop data model for BW reporting and BPC planning and consolidation implementation.
• Involved in complete SDLC project management activities
• Responsibilities included the design, configuration, and implementation of the Controlling module.
• Performed requirement collection and analysis for PS module.
• Configured WBS elements, networks and various business scenarios in PS
• Responsible for developing BPP
• Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing
• Assisted in developing job aids, transaction aids and quick reference guides
• Developed configuration scripts.
• Involved in Period-end-closing activities.
• Assisted in the preparation of Integration test scripts for testing the data for outbound and inbound data.
• As a post implementation support personnel extended round the clock support
• Present o Concur Team Leader
• Led and managed Concur's incidents and Change Requests in Service Now.
• Maintained Concur interfaces with SAP.
• Managed, configured and implemented Concur groups and Audit roles.
• Developed customized reports according to the business needs and roles permissions. SAP Concur Lead / Experienced SAP Functional Consultant and Trainer

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements
• Handheld configuration tasks of the Organizational structure of G/L, Account Group and Account type.
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, vendors, G/L accounts and users.
• Configured AP module including the vendor groups / number ranges, automatic payment program, payment terms, withholding taxes and check settings.
• Created and maintained customer master data along with customer groups, payment terms, creation of house banks, assigning bank accounts to house banks.
• Responsible for Global treasury roll-out in the following areas..
• Electronic Bank Statements / Lock box configuration
• Bank Communication management
• In-house Cash Management with 2 Regional Cash Centers Established
• Integration of AP, AR, Cash Management, Banking with In-house Cash Management
• Train users and document step by step process for processing bank BAI2 files in SAP.
• Configured required settings for asset classes, account determination, screen layout rules, defining number ranges.
• Worked with Year End Closing and Month End Closing procedures.
• Verified the Test Scripts executed including the Month End Closing Scripts.
• Conducted regular briefings of the Steering Committee on the status of the change management work stream
• Valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, asset under construction, external asset acquisition.
• Configured the controlling area, Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, manual cost element creation, activated reconciliation ledger.
• Used Report Writer to generate reports of profit center accounting (EC-PCA) needed by the business owner.
• Created & Maintained Customer Master Data along with Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, and AR Aging.
• Developed and implemented communication plan as a part of the organizational change management component of the Ceradyne to Confidential Procurement Transformation.
• Have worked on Partial and Residual Payment types.
• Met with mid-level and senior management to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
• Preparation of business process requirements, analysis and user requirement specifications.
• Modifications of functional specifications and user exits to make them compatible with the new version.
• Participate in super user meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivery of presentations using MS Visio as required.
• Asset Transfer with all tax books, Product Costing under new Controlling Area and company code.
• Costing: Product costing (CO-PC), integration with PP, Costing Variants, valuation variant, milestone-billing, Overhead Costing Sheet.
• Assigned the product costing keys and costing variants for material valuation.
• Worked on Product Costing/Inventory Valuation, Sales and Distribution, Materials Management.
• Worked on Product Costing/Inventory Valuation, Sales and Distribution Materials Management
• Implemented Payment Network functionality of Confidential to integrate SAP using IDOCs.
• Foreign payments executed by the parent company on behalf of its subsidiaries and IHC intercompany payments using SAP’s In-House Cash (IHC) module. Created functional, detailed design, and testing specs for the IHC. Created a New Business Partner, New Current Account and for GL Accounts for In House Cash.
• Mapped invoices, bank statements, payments to appropriate IDOC’s for automatic upload and clearing into SAP.
• Configuration of Project Profile for customizing WBS Elements, Networks and Activities.
• Configuring and testing the Scenarios as per the Clients new Business Process.
• Participated in Post Implementation Support for Project Systems.
• Program Management Support through the Software Development Life Cycle of on-going projects using Project Systems.
• Program Management Support through the Software Development Life Cycle of on-going projects using Project Systems.
• Developed Standard/Template WBS, Networks & Operative Projects for customer projects, proposals.
• Creating Milestones and assigning them to WBS Elements and Activities
• Proficient in using Project Builder, Project Planning Board and Special Maintenance Functions.
• Configured Pricing Procedure Determination.
• Created Project Sales Orders using Assembly Order Processing.
• Strong working knowledge on Project Versions and Simulation versions.
• Handled Planning Functions like Date Scheduling, Resource Planning, Material Planning, Cost Planning and Revenue Planning.
• Worked on Spain SII SAP add on for immediate supply of information. Configured VAT management system
• Assist in Work Package Creation, Budgeting, Earned Value Analysis.
• Intensively involved in discussion with the Business team for collecting required information and data for functional design document for the RICEF (Interfaces, Enhancement and Conversion) objects

Confidential, Smithfield, VA

SAP FI & Simple Finance Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC: 6.0

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible as lead for designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and implementing the S4Hana 1503 (SFin 2.0) on premises edition.
• I completed HANA Business Value Assessment, execution of pre-check technical assessments S/4HANA.
• Prepared the presentation for user community to educate about simple finance and impact on the current functionalities.
• Successfully configured and tested GL, AP, AR, Controlling/Planning as part of SAP Accounting powered by HANA Add-on, Cash Management S/4 HANA Add-on, and Fixed Assets modules in SFIN2.0 - S/4HANA Finance and SAP HANA specific Fiori apps.
• In Cash Management, configured BAM (Bank Account Manager), setup BPs (Business Partners).
• Hyper Care: Worked with SAP support team to resolve the product issues like Balance Carry forward, Asset GL Reconciliation error, etc.
• Handed SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of problems.
• Prepared Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.
• Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.
• Developed the complete process to upload the budget in SAP system and then pull the data into the BW system and reporting it on Tableau.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Lead FI/CO consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 (ASAP Methodology)

Responsibilities:

• Configured CO enterprise structure. Created cost center hierarchy, cost elements (primary and secondary). Defined activity types and statistical key figures for calculation of overheads.
• Configured COPA characteristics & value fields. Created reports out of profitability segments.
• Configuring the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, dummy profit center, assignments, CO-objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of reports. Created profit center hierarchy and profit centers.
• CO-PC-Product Costing/ML/AC (Implementation): Product costing Planning including cost component structures, Costing sheet, Costing variant, valuation variant, costing types
• Develop the functional design document of Check printing and outbound interface IDOC for Payment manager that is sent to the Bank.
• Documented the change management strategy, proposal and implementation plans for XEON enterprise project
• Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted business blueprint documentation. Performed gap analysis, documented and prototyped between current business practices and standard SAP functionality
• Designed and configured Enterprise structure with multiple company codes (3 company codes), chart of accounts, reconciliation. Accounts, fiscal year variant, created terms of payment and interest calculation configuration, and reason code creation. Trained users in creating and printing sales orders and bills.
• Configured credit management functionality. Created credit control areas, credit risk categories and defined credit representatives groups as per the client requirements. Prepared credit master and assisted ABAP team in uploading credit master through LSMW.
• Configured and documented cross modular integration of FI/CO with Sales and Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM) and Human Resource (HR) and Payroll. Assigned G/L accounts to wage types (&symbolic accounts) and cost centers to various positions in HR, dealing with 3rd party vendors. Assigned G/L accounts to valuation classes in MM and for revenue recognition in SD.
• Integrated A/P and A/R modules in FI with MM and SD respectively, provided configuration support in MM, SD integration for account determination of MM (Procure-to-Pay), and SD (Order-to-Cash).
• Responsible for year-end close and reconciliation of sub-ledger like A/R, A/P and Fixed Asset.
• Developed entire Reporting for FI/CO environment (Multi-company/Multi currency/Consolidation Reports). ured automatic payment program for vendors and trained accounts payable users in automatic payment program, vendor check printing and creating master data. Configured FI-AP parameters for the paying and sending company, house banks and payment methods. Configured vendor down payment process and trained users in creating, posting down payment and posting vendor invoice with the down payment request.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. FI/CO Business Analyst

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC: 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Studied And Understood the Changes in the Standard SAP System for the new version and prepare change configuration scripts.
• I was a Team member of the customization and implementation group of the FI/CO module.
• I was actively involved with upgrade team (4.7 to 6.0).
• Interacted with Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Prepared a document of all the changes made, bug fixes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the Upgrade.
• Supported all phases of a Project Life Cycle Including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment of Solutions, as well as Documentation, and End-User Training.
• Worked on integration testing extensively on end to end scenarios involving cross functional modules MM & SD.
• Activated costing based Profitability Analysis (COPA) to report profitability by customer, product, and market. Monitored actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI. Generated Profitability reports using forms
• Did extensive configurations in Procure to pay process involving Logistics Invoice verifications & MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of New G/L and created Blue Print for New G/L, Plan of Migration, Tested and Performed Migration.
• Activated New General Ledger, Created Leading and Non Leading Ledgers for the different Company Codes and activated Parallel Accounting for the Different Accounting Principles like US GAAP and other countries. Modeling, development, and enhancement of SAP FSCM business scenarios in Credit Management and Collections Management.
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure and calculated costs on Production Order, Standard and Modified Cost Estimate and worked on Price Update.
• Configured Costing Variant, Valuation Variant, Cost Component Split, Cost Component Structure, BOM and Route Settings.
• In Cost Object Controlling configured Product Cost by Order, WIP calculation and Variance Analysis using Planned and Actual Costs
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, manual cost element creation, activated reconciliation ledger.
• Created Cost Center groups and Cost Centers, Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Used Report Painter, Report Writer for reporting during the implementation of the project and developed reports.
• Configured FI and PS integration. Configuration of Project Profile for customizing WBS Elements, Networks and Activities.
• Developed the processes for bottom-up activity-based-costing & quantity based process flow models to help accurate collection of overhead costs for future project pricing & with SD Consultant for resource related billing for maintenance projects. Investment Management/Fixed Assets.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

FI/CO Business Analyst

Environment: SAP 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented business requirements .Gap analysis, configuration and end-user training. Creation of G/L accounts and determining MM & SD automatic assignments.
• End user support and resolving production issues in G/L, A/P, A/R, CCA,& PCA
• Technical specs for financial reporting and enhancement in existing reports. Job setup for automated bill printing every night.
• Added characteristics and value fields to operating concern for additional reporting. Developed profitability segments such as customer groups, product groups, customer zip codes and product hierarchies for analyzing profitability results. Mapped SD pricing procedure and direct postings from FI/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA.
• Worked with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), credit &debit memos, maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc.
• Managed investment trades and portfolio analysis.
• Configured FI-MM account determination assigning valuation areas to valuation grouping codes, defining valuation classes, account grouping and account determination.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Fine-tuning interfaces with FI GL, AP, and AR including validation / substitution rules.
• Responsible for year-end close and reconciliation of sub-ledger like A/R, A/P and Fixed Asset.
• Configured account assignment category for MM by Valuation Class. Used various processing keys such as GBB and BSX for account determination.
• Configured Account Assignments for MM (OBYC) and SD (VKOA) for integration purposes.
• Configured additional reason codes for customer under payment processing. Resolved end user issues and training on customer master and dunning procedure.
• Maintained CCA standard hierarchy, cost element groups, cost element categories like primary cost element group and secondary cost element groups, activity type groups and statistical key figures. Maintaining settlement structures, configuration of assessment, distribution and reposting and also segments and cycles. Cost center planning, manual and automatic planning of SKF, activity types, accrual calculations, setting planner profiles, planning areas, and creation of planning layout using report writer/painter.
• AR-customer transactions, Master data, credit management credit limits for customers, processing sales documents, automatic credit control checks, settings for risk management check for receivables, payment terms, Cash application, Incoming Payments, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Open item clearing, Credit Management Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, Customizing payment advice notes. Classifying deductions with reason codes and reason code conversion program. Processing unidentified, on-account and partial payments and Clearing customer accounts through various transactions.
• Hands on experience with EBS (Electronic Bank Statement), Credit Management
• Customized new vendor master data, payment terms, payment methods and house bank details in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Defined posting keys and assigned business transactions for Manual Bank statement and Check deposit.
• Successfully executed Month end, quarter end and Year end activities
• Configuration and Vendor master setup for Evaluated Receipt settlements (ERS) with logistics invoice verifications.