SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of rich experience in SAP implementation, rollouts, upgrade and support projects in SAP FI - CO with multiple onsite, end to end implementations.
• 1.5+ years of experience on S/4HANA Finance(Simple Finance) with hands on Implementaion & migration projects.
• Extensively worked on FSCM with AP, AR, GL, TR, Credit, Collections, dispute management.
• Strong knowledge in Financial Accounting General Ledger GL Postings, Reconciliation, Open Item Management, Foreign currency valuation, Accounts Receivable Customer Dunning, Interest calculation, Accounts Payable and Asset Accounting.
• Involved and Lead Various Activities like Requirement Gathering, Preparation of configuration Rationale Designs, Functional Specification Designs, Validation of Data Migration Objects, Record To Report (RTR) Process, Mapping of the different environments, GAP Analysis, Defining the Test Scope and Test cases, Period End Closing and Cutover Activities in the areas of GL,AR and AP.
• Works closely with the funds manager to design and implementation of funds management as part of SAP ERP implementation.And analyzing business processes and developing workflows and configures, SAP funds management module, budget control system, and availability control.
• Mapping the Business Processes in SAP and Documenting the Processes, Designing the Organization Structure and Setting it up in SAP in Association with Other Members of the Implementation Team.
• Involved in Scrum & Agile methodologies for the project requirements & having complete understanding of SDLC to meet the client requirements.
• Sound Knowledge on E-commerce,Retail industry.
• Worked on FI-MM,FI-SD & FI-HR Integration projects.
• Working Experience on New GL, Central finance, ABAP debugging, SAP S/4 Data Dictionary, SAP HANA & BI sreports related to FI.
• Hands on Experience with cross functional teams like SD,MM,PP,CRM,PS,SRM,HR,BPC.
• Organizational structure - Define the org. structure based on the customer’s business process and map the same into SAP for Finance & Controlling Module including the configuring the global parameters.
• General Ledger - Creation of Chart of Accounts, Assign to company code, Account Group, maintaining the range of GL account for the account group, Group GL account Number, Financial Statement Versions, Document types, number ranges etc.
• Accounts Payable - Define the vendor account groups, assign the number ranges (external & Internal), settings in respect of Automatic Payment Programs.
• Accounts Receivable - Define the Customer account groups, assign the number ranges (external & Internal).
• Bank Accounting - Creation of House Bank, account symbols, posting rules, transaction types, assigning the bank accounts to transaction types. For EBS - defining the port, partner profile.
• Asset Accounting - Asset Classes, Account Determination, Screen Layout, Number Ranges for asset classes, Defining & Assigning Chart of depreciation, Defining and Assigning Depreciation Key, assign input/output tax, mapping to Finance.
• Finance Supply Chain Management (FSCM): Electronic Bill Presentment and Payments,Working knowledge of Collections, Dispute Management, Credit Management,Loans Management, SAP Treasury Management.
• Cost Centre Accounting - Designing the cost centres, fixing the cost centre hierarchy.
• Cost Element Accounting - Designing and fixing the Primary & Secondary Cost elements, creation of assessment & distribution cycles, Planning.
• Internal Orders – Order Types, Planning Profile, Budgetary Profile, planning, budgeting with availability control check.
• Product Costing – creation of costing variant, cost component split, cost component groups, activity types, activity rates, costing run.
• Material Ledger-Standard costing, Moving Average Costing, Performing Actual Costing for Materials.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale California

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary Responsibility is to analyze the requirements of Business users, Understanding the business to prepare conceptual design.
• Preparing Functional Specifications based on Concpetual design.
• Worked closely with ABAPERS, Perforamce team to develop the requirements for the multiple enhancements.
• Worked on Accounts receivables like Cash receipts and payments, Accounts Analysis and reconciliation related to Confidential Retail.
• Worked on various reports for Account receivables.
• Hands on Experience on with Multi-Currecny Valuation & COGS for material Valuation.
• Worked on Inventory Management related chaina as per US GAAP.
• Worked on multiple Interfaces that have multiple flows as per the enterprise structure.
• Performing Actual costing run of Material Ledger at the end of every period in the sandbox, Development and QA environments to re-class variances from income statement to balance sheet and to revalue consumption, while fixing the issues that arose during Actual costing run.
• Worked on Foreign currency translation configuration: maintenance of currency translation ratios and automatic GL account determinations for foreign currency valuation and realization gain/loss postings.
• Extensively worked with ABAP team in support of developing functional specifications for (RICEF) Reports, Interfaces, Conversion programs and Enhancements.
• Analyzing business reporting requirements that could be satisfied by the standard reports and providing specifications to the technical consultant for report modifications.

Confidential, New Jersey

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Core responsibility is to analyze the incidents raised by the business users, in SAP FICO module, and provide satisfactory resolution to the same as per the SLA.
• Solving production issues in the area of General Ledger- related to line item management, open item management, tax category.
• Solving production issues in the area of Accounts receivables and Accounts payables-master data,Transaction data. Trained business users on the usage of Automatic Payment Program.
• Solving production issues in the area of Accounts payable using Readsoft - analysis of Automatic Payment program, EDI instruction related errors etc.
• Analyze errors relating to Cost Center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Internal Order Settlement and providing resolutionat BPC level.
• Working on issues related to 3-way match on PO related invoices and FI-MM integration aspects.
• Working on issues related to Asset Accounting such as AUC settlement, depreciation, Writeoff.
• Creating and using LSMW objects for master data maintenance.
• Working on issues related to Allocation cycles, Internal Order settlements and WBS element settlements.
• Providing support for period end operations in FICO (Monthly close process).
• Worked on integration issues between Simple finance and HANA.
• Designing various test case scenarios for the relevant business process customizations and giving the end users training for UATs.

Confidential, North Carolina

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved, as a team member, in all phases of ASAP methodology from gathering functional requirements, As-Is study, GAP analysis, development of Business Blueprint, configuration, data migration, testing, post implementation support, End user training.
• Configured the basic Enterprise structure of the organization: defined fiscal year variant, posting period variant and field Status Variants. Created Chart of accounts and financial statement versions.
• Involved in Analysis and pilot project for Simple Finance or S/4 Hana implementation.
• Liaised with ABAP team to complete all identified new GL developments.
• Worked on Inbound & outbound interfaces along with abap team to get the FICO related information.
• Worked on Asset Capitalization for CIP projects.
• Worked on S/4 HANA as applied to Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO), 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.
• Configured the Central Finance is part of S4 HANA Simple Finance.
• Involved in FI-CO real time integration configuration: defining variant, assignment of variants to company codes and account determination for real time integration.
• Implementation of MRO solutions with Result Analysis and Settlement along with Service Orders and Project Systems with Material Ledger.
• Mapping of the key client requirements to Product Costing and Material Ledger configuration. Creation of Origin groups, Valuation variant, Cost component structure for Costing with and without quantity structure; while reading the input costs from the Purchase Info Record (PIR).
• Closed the Material Ledger Actual Cockpit, transferred Actual costs to COPA.
• Customized Lockbox processing, treasury groupings, bank statement processing (EBS), posting rules and exchange rates.
• Created the Business process Blue Print documents for processes in Billing, AR, Credit Management,FSCM Disputes,FSCMCollections, Cash Management, banking process, Loans management.
• Configuring theFSCMand Cash Management including Lockbox, Cash journal and Electronic Bank Statements(EBS), Evaluated Recipet Settlement(ERS).
• ConfiguredFSCMDispute Management functionality - Dispute Management Case Processing, Process Integration with Accounts Receivable.
• Performed complete set of material ledger configuration and ran several tests for approval.
• Point of contact for the Execution of costing/marking/releasing the standard costs of materials in the sandbox, Development and QA environments.
• Performed the investigation for the requirement of a BAdI for Material Ledger to obtain the real-time split of actual cost components for raw material costing scenario involving origin groups.
• Automate and simplify sales tax calculation, management, and reporting using vertex tool.
• Seamlessly integrate Vertex sales tax calculation engine with SAP core financial system.
• SAP FI integrated seamlessly with Vertex Enterprise to ensure that all transaction data is properly accounted for and managed.
• Configured Asset Accounting - Chart of depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Asset classes, Period controls, Calculation Keys, Assigning GL Accounts for postings. Defined Depreciation keys as per the client requirement.
• Created Asset history sheets, Sort Variants and worked on data transfer from legacy system to SAP ECC system using LSMW objects.
• Configured controlling area, activated the components/ indicators, assigned the company codes to controlling areas, and assigned number ranges.
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA) with cost centers, activity types, cost center categories, document numbers, cost center standard hierarchy etc.
• Involved in Profit Center Accounting (PCA) configuration: Created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, defined Document Types, and Number Range Assignment.
• Involved in Profitability Analysis configuration - Costing based profitability analysis - Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structure including designing Characteristics, Value Fields, Profitability Segments.
• Experience in implementingSAPBPCNW 10.1 for Consolidations and Integrated Planning.
• Expert in handling FI GL, Rate, Ownership Data, Hierarchies, Process Chains,BPCSecurity, Audit, Work status.
• Hands on experience in Computing Direct and Indirect Cash Flow Statements for the Consolidation, Budget and Forecast version related to BPC.

Confidential

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business partners and end users to identify the business requirements, determined the impact to various business areas and documented the findings.
• Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.
• Customization settings for Asset Accounting such as Chart of depreciation, account determination, Depreciation areas, Number ranges, Asset classes, GL accounts etc.
• Supporting client with configuration on basis of the business requirements.
• 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.
• Good knowledge in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools
• Determine problems found by the proactive application monitoring being done on a regular basis by the level 2-support person. Therefore, the level 3 person may also have to apply patches, complete performance tuning, re-create tables or indices, etc.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.

Confidential

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements.
• Attended training sessions, and practice sessions to cope the organization.
• Maintained Company Codes & Company Code Global Parameters.
• Configured additional House Banks, Bank Accounts, and Check Lots.
• Customized the Financial Statement Versions and assigned it to the Chart of Accounts
• Created Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, and Customer Master Record etc.
• Created Cost centers, Profit centers and completed the account assignment for the cost objects.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups and maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data and Purchasing Data that on the Vendor Master Records.
• Created tax invoices for the customers and recorded the invoices sent by the vendors.
• Made necessary changes for the validations and substitutions, defined rules and messages for the substitutions.
• Created end to end order flow with the purchase/sales orders to billing with an accounting document tied to the flow.
• Defined the account keys for the access sequence and automatic account determinations for the Pricing and conditions.
• Configured the additional Depreciation areas and defined depreciation keys.
• Worked on the Derived depreciation area, screen layouts of Fixed assets.
• Established a connection between the asset master records and the corresponding accounts in the GL in Financial Accounting through account determination.
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups.
• Hands on experience with tax & revenue management using third party tools sabrix/onesource vertex.
• Configured system settings in the areas of FI - GL transactions, House bank, Tax, AP - Payment
• Program, Bank reconciliation, AR - Customer Credit, Credit controls, Credit memos, Period end closing, EDI and performed Dunning.
• Hands on experience on Taxation tools like Vertex,Thomson one.Integrated Vertex application area with FI, SD, MM for one of the requirement.
• Integrated FI with MM, SD and participated in the logistic invoice verification for the Logistics.
• Worked on the year-end activities and transfer of accounts and month end closing activities.

Confidential

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved, as a team member, in all phases of ASAP methodology from gathering functional requirements, As-Is study, GAP analysis, development of Business Blueprint, configuration, data migration, testing, post implementation support.
• Defining Vendor master data. Configuring down payments, Vendor Management Inventory(VMI),Payment methods, and automatic Payment program.
• Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items.
• Hands on Experience on SAP Integration with ONESOURCE Indirect Tax determination.
• 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 t programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing
• Configured Withholding Tax settings (TDS) as per Country Version India.
• Configured Cost centre hierarchy, cost element accounting, & cost centre accounting.
• Worked on Integration of Dolphin & SAP for FI-AP related data loads.
• Creation of Internal Orders and settlement to external (FI) accounts for expenses/assets.
• In respect of Controlling Area, configuring the CO Area, Operating Concern, Internal Orders and creation of Cost Centers, Profit Centre Accounting and Cost Elements.
• Worrked on Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) for ManagerialConsolidation (Profit Center level) as Well as Financial Planning.
• Product Costing i.e., Secondary Cost Elements, Activity types, Costing Variant, Costing Run
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution i.e debugging.
• Worked on FI/CO interface to sends the data to the Accounting application component (such as Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, and so on).
• Experience in loading Master data & testing the same using CATT tool.
• Analyzing business reporting requirements that could be satisfied by the standard reports and providing specifications to the technical consultant for report modifications.