SUMMARY

• SAP Open TEXT ECM consultant with 2 years of experience and with functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules and integration with logistics modules (SD, MM & PP).
• Experience in Open Text - Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) like understanding the end-to-end workflow, configuring the new roles, exceptions and also some of the enhancement and interface objects related to it.
• Experience in working on all SAP Open textareas like Vendor Invoice Management VIM, Archive link configuration, ICC/OCR and ES.
• Sound knowledge on Purchase Order Parking and Purchase Order Blocking.
• Worked extensively on PO/Non PO Parking Process, and Invoice Approval.
• SAP experience encompasses expertise in Implementing, customizing, configuring, System upgrade, integrating, testing, user training and support of SAP with different versions including ECC 6.0.
• Worked in 3 Full cycle implementations using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology with experience in all project phases - Business blue print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support and post live production support, with documentation.
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New G/L, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Special Purpose Ledger and Treasury.
• Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Material ledger, Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Worked on Vertex O Series and Open Text VIM (Vendor Invoice Management), Revenue recognition tools to enhance the business process.
• Expertise in SAP Opentext Contract Management.
• Advanced knowledge of SAP Invoice & Logistics Verification (Price Variances, 3-Way Match).
• Experience with OpenText Approval Portal and Invoice Approval on Mobile Devices.
• Experienced in testing scenarios such as Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Performance and End-To-End Testing.
• Facilitated the UAT process and supported end users during UAT phases and Worked on defect life cycle for UAT defects.
• Documented client business requirements (business scenarios, business issues, internal & external customer needs), analyzed and proposed business and system solutions and been a part of the drafting of the client Blue Prints and performed testing in HP QC and HP QTP environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO/VIM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supervised formulating, executing and consolidating ECM and existing ERP solutions.
• Collaborated with Business Analyst and Project Architect to devise and assess integration tests.
• Engineered packages for data migration in BI and Integration Services packages for Data manipulation in SSIS.
• Authored Microsoft Reports using SQL server and maintained processing records.
• Collaborated with Architect and Project Manager to analyze and design new processes based on business requirements.
• Formulated Enterprise System Capacity sizing solution, Document Scanning solution and Kofax Capture migration solution for database enhancements.
• Assisted in cataloging and incorporating Data Migration Process using OnBase ECM software.
• Initiated QA & UAT builds and enhanced TFS team data collection.

Confidential, Toledo, OH

SAP FICO/VIM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on resolving the tickets within the SLA based on its priority. Also identifying the root cause for the issue and necessary steps were taken care to ensure the issue was permanently resolved.
• Worked on implementation of the End-to-End Open text VIM includes document type configuration, process type Configuration, process option configuration, ICC/OCR Setup, Archive link configuration.
• Developed new interface for EDI 810 vendor invoice and mapped them to the corresponding fields in VIM.
• Designed new end-to end- workflows in Open Text- Vendor invoice management (VIM) by configuring new roles and mapping them to them with exception and also assignment of new work centers to the roles.
• Worked on configuration and enhancements involved in both PO based and Non-PO based invoices in Open Text VIM.
• Proposed a solution to Business so as to improve the Auto- post rate of the vendor invoices in VIM.
• Configured new process types based on the custom exceptions and their role determination in Vendor invoice Management (VIM).
• Configured new roles and their assignment to the exceptions and agent determination in VIM.
• Worked on multiple issues related to FI- MM and FI-SD integration.
• Configured OBYC settings for account determination for invoice reduction scenario using in MIRO.
• Worked on issues and enhancements related to Evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) for the vendors.
• Worked on AP scenarios including Vendor master maintenance, vendor invoice and credit memo postings, park and posting parked invoices, down payment clearing, automatic payment program ACH payments.
• Worked on AR scenarios including Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting, maintained payment terms for customers, defined cash discount base for outgoing invoices, and SD billing invoices.
• Worked several enhancement objects related to the GL, AP and AR.
• Worked on issues related to Dispute Management and worked on the enhancements of auto opening and closure of the dispute based on the status of the dispute.
• Worked with FSCM (credit management, dispute management and cash management) and Treasury modules.
• Worked on account determination and interfaces between FI, MM and SD.
• Configured New G/L for document splitting and provided Document simulation facility rather than waiting for period end process.
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents, training and documentation of all relevant process UAT, trouble shooting.
• Provided end user training and assistance in developing user documents.

Confidential, New Orleans, LA

SAP FICO/VIM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business processes using ASAP implementation methodology, collected and analyzed users business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshoot and supported the system users.
• Extensively participated in client discussions in blue printing phase. Designed functional specifications, configuration documents, and training and user manuals and also made user exits based on the business scenarios.
• Designed new end-to end- workflows in Open Text- Vendor invoice management (VIM) by configuring new roles and mapping them to them with exception and also assignment of new work centers to the roles.
• Worked on the creating the work centres and their assignment to the roles in Open Text - VIM.
• Worked on configuring the new roles and exception types in VIM.
• Worked on configuration and enhancements involved in both PO based and Non-PO based invoices in VIM.
• Worked on configuring new process options and mapping them to process types in Open Text VIM.
• Worked on creating the new Archive document types and mapping them to content repositories. Also worked on SAP Archive link configuration and connection from ICC/OCR to ECC.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
• Worked on integration of FI&MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures.
• Configured FI-MM account determination - assigning valuation areas to valuation grouping codes, defining valuation classes, account grouping and account determination.
• Worked on different scenarios in Material Valuation like goods receipt with price variance, planned delivery costs, posting from plant - plant, consignment to company stock, valuation type to valuation type and goods receipt with price reversal.
• Worked on price control in Material valuation and adjusting the price of the material when there is variance of price in purchase order and invoice received.
• Generated credit/ debit memos when purchase order differs with invoice and compensated them when there are any previous balances to be cleared.
• Worked on valuation of stocks using LIFO and FIFO through various methods and carried-out with different scenarios when increase / decrease in stock material occur.
• Extensively worked on Input and Output Taxes during sale and purchase of goods by maintaining separate tax accounts.
• Configured and customized the basic settings for Profit Center Accounting. Maintained profit centers hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs.
• Created Standard hierarchy using in Cost Center Accounting, Cost centers, Assigned cost centers to cost elements, configured Activities and Statistical Key Figures, developed Assessment, Distribution, Periodic reposting cycles and segments.
• Configured the Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure and Configured the cost component structure, Costing variants for standard cost estimate for planned and actual Production orders in Product Costing Planning.
• Maintained Overhead cost elements, calculation bases, credits, costing sheets, activity plan, and costing types in Product Costing.
• Extensively worked on Cost Object controlling period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance calculations, settlements of process orders, cost estimate updates, costing run, marking and releasing for updating the price in material master records, display reports etc.
• Maintained setting for Costing Sheet like calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, and quantity based overhead rate in Product costing.

Confidential, Emeryville, CA

SAP FICO (AP) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, Preparation of Blue Print by reengineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the TO-BE system, mapping processes to SAP functionality, and collecting master data.
• Responsible for all Accounts Payable processes.
• Processed and audit of Employee Expense reports
• Resolved collection and invoice discrepancy matters
• Worked extensively on Setup and maintenance of vendor filing system.
• PO & NON PO invoice processing
• Duplicate audit via Generic duplicate audit tool (GDAT)
• Configured all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration to generate the Payment Advice notes and to print the checks to make the payment for all Account Payable that are due, clearing of vendor and customer accounts that are due Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for payment Program, and Credit Management.
• Created LSMW'S for revaluation of assets and transferring of accounts payable from one company code to another as a part of Fresh start accounting.
• Modifications for existing Functional Specifications for any field changes, new field and enhancing the customer objects to make them compatible with new version.
• Documented all changes, revised the Business process procedures (BPPs) to facilitate the changes during the upgrade and team and users of new functionality being added with version change.
• Maintained Controlling Area settings and Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions.
• Facilitated Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• Maintained Profit Center Accounting settings, created Master data for Profit Centers, Profit Center Hierarchy, Dummy Profit Centers, Profit Center Groups, & Activity types. In Cost Center Accounting, created standard hierarchy, assigned Cost Centers to cost elements; configured statistical key figures & activities. Maintained validations & substitutions, overhead structure, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution & assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Configured CO-PA and CO-PCA to provide Product Line P&L and Balance Sheet reporting. Implemented CO / Overhead model, using Overhead Key, Activity Types, and Cost Centers.
• Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Creating characteristics in KEA5 and value fields in KEA6. Maintaining the Operating Concern in KEA0 and applying Costing Based CO-PA with USD currency according to different fiscal year variants (FYV's).
• Monitored background jobs and fixed production issues & problems where applicable.

Confidential, Midland, TX

SAP FICO/FICA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extensively participated in client discussions in blue printing phase for ISU-FICA/RMCA module. Designed functional specifications, configuration documents, traininguser manuals and also made user exits based on the business scenarios.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
• Prepared the Functional Requirements Specification, Configuration Documents, System Test Plans, Test Scripts, Project Schedules, and end user manuals for implementing the solution.
• Worked on the mapping of ISU-FICA main and sub transaction with General ledger (GL).
• Designed the batch job schedule for ISU-FICA using the Variants for Billing, Invoicing, Payments, and transfer to FI-GL.
• Worked on Billing & Invoicing based on the regulatory requirements.
• Implemented dunning by dunning procedure for ISU-FICA and Configured clearing control variant for FICA (RMCA).
• Integrated real time updates with treasury cash management module with ISU- FICA.
• Integrated banking with cash position update. Worked in integrating ISU-FICA with Banking using EBS. Mapped external banking transactions with EBS.
• Worked intensively on intercompany market transactions in a deregulated environment.
• Created main sub account determination of Convergent invoicing and Integrated Convergent billing with convergent invoicing.
• Wrote Functional specifications using ISU-FICA Events for Convergent invoicing and FICA,prepared configuration documents.
• Wrote Functional specifications (RICEF/ WRICEF) using ISU- FICA Events, Wrote unit and integration test scripts.
• Documented the defects in HP Quality Center.
• Assisted the users in BPP (business process procedure) Creation Developed Unit and Integration test plans and prepared test scripts and also monitored defects using HP Quality Center.
• Designed specs for development of FICO Reports and Layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Involved in the migration of master data and transaction data into SAP system.
• Analyzed monthly Financial Reports for management to assist them in financial decisions.