SUMMARY

• A highly experienced financial system analyst with over 15 years diverse industry experience of which 10 years have been in design, configuration and analysis of SAP FICO working with SAP ECC6.0. Participated in 2 full cycle implementations using the ASAP methodology. Expert in process integration, cross functional and interpersonal skills to understand the business, communicate effectively and get the job done.
• FI lead and managed two FICO resources for SAP implementation project with responsibility of requirement gathering, designing, and implementing SAP with new Design and Business processes.
• Succeeded in designing, implementing and integrating FICO, BW projects.
• Worked as a Functional FICO point of contact with Business process owners, global controllers, finance managers and corporate accountants to perform GAP analysis and create Business process documents, functional and technicalspecifications.
• Design, develop, test and implement appropriate system configurations within primary modules of responsibility (specifically FI/CO) to effectively meet business requirements.
• Prepare detailed design documents, functional specifications for development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms. Follow all internal standards and change control procedures in performing required work.
• Perform testing activities (unit, conference room pilots, integration and user acceptance testing), including test plan creation and data and test execution (in conjunction with the other functional team leads). Promote transports to quality assurance and production.
• Co - ordination with the onsite team to clarify functional specifications.
• Implementation experience in General Ledger (GL), Account Receivable (AR), Account Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), Special purpose Ledger, Controlling Areas, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Played a key role in reimplementation of FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-Asset, FI-PCA, CO-PA moduleswhich involves process improvements, project preparation, requirement gathering, creating Business Blueprints,customizing and production support.
• Extensively worked on automating many functions and transactions in SAP FICO using SECATT
• Conducted different workshops with Business process owners and users in North America to capture detailed legal and statutory business requirements, which were missing in legacy SAP R3.
• Succeeded in providing solution for Standard and Interim Inter Company Billing process during different phases of the project, which helped the company to consolidate in BW.
• Succeeded in incorporating Park and Post functionality, which helped internal auditor to comply with SOX requirement.
• Responsible for providing functional analysis to ABAP programmers for the RICEF development. Worked with ABAPprogrammer for providing the logic for different custom processes. Worked extensively to analyze SAP standard and customuser exits to provide solutions for complex requirements.
• Experience in VERTEX
• Supported Business for Month-end and Year-end activities.
• Extensively worked in designing SAP Security profiles and roles.
• Worked in designing and developing Conversion data-cutover program to load FICO data (open AR, open AP, Expense,Revenue, Balance Sheet and GRIR). Responsible in creating and reconciling FICO data file before posting in system.
• Conducted end user training for different processes of Finance
• Knowledge within SAP S4 HANA and Fiori application
• Ensures compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and internal audit requirements, change management process
• Provided Post-Go-Live Support to users, prepared support documentation and training manuals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Applications: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP ECC 6.0, FICO Configuration GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Accounting (CO-CCA), COPA, Profit Center Accounting, SAP Front End Applications

Operating Systems: Windows 7/NT/2000/XP/98/95, Lotus Notes

Applications: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Design Functional Spec for enhancements and program changes
• Hard coding analysis and contact ABAPers for any technical changes
• Lead for legal entity separation projects and data center migration
• Extensively worked in modules like GL, AP and Treasury
• Extensively worked on automating many functions and transactions in SAP FICO using SECATT
• End to End Implementation of Enhancements (Creating FRS, SRS, Implementation and Testings)
• Involved in Post Implementation Support and Maintenance of existing applications
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the issue If the resolution is a major development or configuration change then a Problem Request is created and the required change is done which is then communicated to the user for UAT
• Ensuring that the subordinate team resources are properly loaded, help them in solving tickets where required and ascertain that the tickets are resolved well within the stipulated SLA timelines set
• Month end closing activities
• Process Change requests, develop and implement
• New GL Configuration and Implementation

SAP Functional Analyst

Confidential, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• RTR front point of contact for business team
• Prepare functional spec for Interfaces and applications
• Work closely with business team for enhancements
• Prepare status update and host conference calls with offshore team twice weekly
• Work with customer for requirement analysis of SAP projects in FICO area
• Work on the actual SAP projects delivery
• Provide consulting on optimization on the ongoing operations in SAP FICO area
• Checking and analyzing activities with middleware team for the connectivity and mapping of interfaces
• Meeting with business team for requirement gathering and Interface review and analysis
• Performed Unit testing, QA testing, Mock testing, Production testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Performance Testing, UAT Testing and Volume Testing
• Prepare Test Scripts and Sample data, System Separation: Before and After analysis of test results
• Validate Test Cases, Review Testing done by TCOE team
• Conducted requirement gathering workshops for AS-IS and TO-BE process
• Designing solutions for new requirements in the Manufacturing Finance space. Analyzing current scenario and finding and implementing improvements for the client. Plan, Manage and Execute projects with offshore/onsite resources
• Analyzed all business applications and interfaces between SAP systems and Non SAP Systems as part of the separation of the automotive business unit of the Fortune 500 company
• Identified possible impacts in the SAP and Non SAP applications and interfaces between due to Separation of the business unit and domain migration
• Gathered requirements for new development objects and write Functional Specifications
• Work closely with other SAP functional teams to analyze and test the effect of system changes
• Design, document, and execute thorough test scenarios for SAP changes
• Configured IDOCs and EDI set ups in SAP for the new interfaces
• Configured ALE setups between SAP systems
• Performed Unit testing, Integration testing of the interfaces and the applications and documented the issues faced due to domain migration

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement gathering workshops for AS-IS and TO-BE process
• Analyzed and mapped gaps in current processes through GAP analysis
• Definition, development and documentation of business requirement for new programs
• Configuration including chart of accounts maintenance, Vendor/Customer/GL account groups, Auto-posting assignment, number ranges, cost and profit centers hierarchies, document type creation, chart of depreciation creation and asset class definition
• Worked on integration with MM, SD, HCM and BW
• General Controlling, Cost centre Accounting-Maintaining Controlling Area, Activated Controlling Area components and assigned Controlling Area
• Enterprise Structure: Defining Companies and Company codes as per industry industries
• Configuring Account Determination for postings in various asset classes and depreciation areas, configuring the Depreciation calculation methods and maintained various Depreciation keys, straight line, declining balance and unit production.
• Configured profitability assessment (COPA) based on business requirement analysis, identified derivation for value filed under different planning versions and strategies.
• Configured cost centres, Internal orders and cost elements using standard costing
• Coordinated the configuration, testing, conversion activities in the FICO, AA, COPA, PCA
• Documented test scripts and test plan for User Training (UT) and User Acceptance Training (UAT)
• Identified business and user impacts associated with the implementation of new SAP solutions and the requirement for end-user training
• Trained users, developed user manual and maintained system documentation
• Created support model and managed issue log
• Responsible to support in-house SAP FICO, MM, SD and ECCS modules.
• Provide analysis and solution for different issues from FI, CO, MM and SD modules.
• Extensively worked on design and developed interface to implement EDI, IDOCS to receive and send different objects like sales order, purchase order, FI posting and others.
• Worked closely with Business during Audit reviews and for SOX compliance.
• Worked extensively in FICO, ECCS modules as well as integrating FI-MM and FI-SD modules.
• Key person for month-end, year-end processes and other FICO support activities.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Held workshops with process owners and documented functional specifications
• Analysed and mapped gaps in current processes through GAP analysis and finalized TO BE scenario using SAP best practices
• Configured enterprise structure and maintained the FI global settings: Fiscal year variants, Field status variants and posting period variants, Set up master data for GL and chart of accounts
• Handled roll-out projects and enhancements
• Special Purpose Ledger:Define Summary table, Group, Define ledger, Activities field movements, Activity transaction. Worked on special purpose ledger (FI-SL) for special reporting needs at cost center, profit center and business area level. Created and maintained special ledger table groups.
• Defined validations and substitutions for special purpose ledgers.
• Maintained configuration for payment programs, foreign currency valuations and Bank definitions
• Detailed configuration of account groups, Number ranges, employee tolerances, dunning and taxes.
• Worked on FI-CO. Configured controlling area, standard hierarchy structures, cost centers, cost elements Internal orders, allocation structure and settlement rules
• General controlling, Cost centre accounting, Maintaining controlling area, activated controlling components and assigned controlling area to company code.
• Proficient in investigating material variances and have the ability to explain the reason for variance
• Review submitted requests for changes; evaluate what if any impact it may have to other programs, processes, departments or divisions.
• Fixed assets Management. Maintaining organization structures, chart of depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Asset Classes, Account Determination, Screen layout rules and Number ranges for Asset Classes.
• Maintaining Depreciation areas for different Accounting principles and legal requirements, Book depreciation and assigned respective ledgers and statutory depreciation areas.
• Facilitated escalation and resolution of integration points between modules (SD, MM)
• Created handover document for support of business applications
• Design, execute & inventories FICO configuration, Design Business Scenario for Integrated Script Testing, Create Testing Script and manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Worked with VERTEX, Manage, inventories & implement Finance Interface

Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrutiny of General Ledger transactions and Reconciliation, ATM transactions audit and reporting, Investigate fraud activities and report to concerned officials
• Debiting customers for various transactions and sending reminder letters to customers for insufficient funds, handling mortgage loan account, sending details to collection agency for overdue accounts.

SAP Business Analyst/Finance Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Major involvement in migration of data from the old applications to the SAP system, parallel running of both legacy system and SAP for 3 months, configuring the ERP system for reporting, implementing security, interfaces etc., involved at this stage to test the system after being trained and seek feedback, identify software bugs/corrections, performance bottlenecks and apply the fixes.
• Verify and validate data migrations
• Support change management to ensure end user understanding and acceptance of the business process changes that the Request to Pay deployments will require Identify improvement opportunities to optimize Request to Pay Process and enabling technologies end to end
• Create context charts, process flow documents, business requirement documents, as needed
• Preparation of MIS (Management Information System), Financial Statements & Reporting
• Prepare budgets and cash flows, Cash Management, Cash Flow Forecast and Free Cash Flow Analysis, Consolidation, Prepare yearly working papers for the auditors
• Responsible for the month end close including applicable journal entries and accruals
• Responsible for analyzing & reconciling all balance sheet and P & L accounts for the month end binder
• Responsible for the verification and accuracy of journal entries, vouchers, and accounting classifications assigned to various records
• Responsible for the completion of the Fixed Asset Continuity Schedule including all calculations.
• Engage in writing Hyperion Reports, Wrote all Financial Statements Hyperion Reports for Management, Participated in writing Hyperion financial statements reports and books
• Engage in creating complex Smart view Retrieve Spreadsheets, Engage in Data validation, Load data from general ledger system to Hyperion, Generate Financial Statements - P&L and Balance Sheet, Reconcile all prior year data
• Finalization of Accounts & Scrutiny of Balance Sheet, Prepared Variance Analysis Reports including Budget, Forecast, and Actual
• Cost Analysis, Model Analysis, Cost Comparison and Cost Model analysis
• Credit Control, Direct Supervision of Accounts Receivables by giving directions to Credit Controllers, Reviewing of ageing Analysis, ABCD Analysis and Customer Rating to bring down the receivables days to meet the commitment as per Budget, Liaising with Banks for Credit Facilities
• Maintain and reconcile monthly bank and general ledger accounts, Payroll Reconciliation
• Calculate and maintain amortization schedules, Record purchase and disposals of capital assets, Prepare monthly financial statements with supporting excel spreadsheets
• Prepared and analyzed financial reports, spreadsheets and financial information for management decision making