PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP Certified with 12 years of experience in IT, Finance and Controlling (FICO) Functional Modules.
• Chartered Accountant (equivalent to CPA) and Cost Accountant (CWA) with great functional Domain experience and can understand the business process quickly with clarity.
• Certified in SAP Controlling, Financial Accounting, S/4 Hana Simple Finance (SFIN) modules.
• Experience in implementation, configuration, production support full life cycle implementations for Automobile, Manufacturing, Telecom/Service Provider, Chemicals, Beverage and Retail (Repetitive and Discreet manufacturing costing - cost collectors, assembly- Make to Stock, Make to Order).
• 7 full life cycle project implementations experience in SAP S/4 Hana Simple Finance, ECC Finance and Controlling modules with hypercare and 4 Rollouts, 3 Production Support Projects.
• Expertise in GAP Analysis, COPA
• Experience in working on Global Rollout Functionality covering all responsibilities and stages of project with go-live and support.
• Worked as SAP Consultant, Business Analyst, Functional Lead, Subject Matter Expert, Functional/ Solution Architect.
• Experience with large scale implementations ( Confidential, Verizon) and global companies with multi-currency environment.
• Strong functional domain experience in understanding the business requirements, GAP Analysis, delivery, Production support.
• Expert in analyzing the current (AS-IS) business process, Business Requirements, Flow Chart Maintenance and mapping them as per SAP processes (TO-BE), Business Analysis, Business Blueprint/ Business process design documents, getting approvals, Configuration, India GST, Functional Specifications Preparation for development objects (RICEFW), Test scripts, Testing, Deploy Solution design, moving requests, Prepare User manuals/ Knowledge Transfer, Migration, Cut-over, Status Report, Go-Live, Hypercare, Production Support.
• Inter plant Stock transfers, Mark-ups, Intercompany eliminations, Reconciliation, Consolidation.
• Good Exposure in SAP Best practices, US Tax and interfaces with external tax systems.
• Coordinates with Project leader / PMO.
• Good Integration experience and Impeccable understanding of Accounts Receivable- Order to Cash (OTC-FI/CO-SD) and Accounts payable - Purchase to pay (PTP-FI/CO-MM) business processes.
• Extensively worked in in-bound and out-bound Interface designs with SAP and non-SAP like PeopleSoft, Warrior, JDE, Vertex, Sabrix, Taxware, Hyperion.
• At functional level, able to identify and ensure that strategies, requirements and priorities are understood.
• Testing: E2E testing process includes Test Script Preparation and Execution; Functional Unit test (FUT), Regression test (RT), System Integration Test (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT) for implementations, projects and CR's. Batch monitoring, user exits and custom programs.
• Experience with testing methodologies and test tools: HP-Quality Centre / ALM, SAP Solman
• : Prepared documents and conduct workshops for SAP business users.
• Data Migration: LSMW, MASS, Customer, Vendor and Assets Master data, Transaction data from Legacy system.
• Experience with ABAP: EDI-IDOCs, IDoc rejections and errors, debugging, SAP tables, data dictionary, ABAP Query Reports,
• Report Painter - Maintain Sets, variables, Key Figures, create & Modify the existing Reports, Report Groups, Headers & Text, SL Ledgers, Layouts, Libraries.
• Month End and year end activities and co-ordination
• Production support: SLA with P1, P2, P3 support - IT change management process, Problem management procedures, Incidents with SAP Solution manger- ChaRM, Service Desk Tool, SharePoint, SunLog.
• Implement custom enhancements.
• Member of change management and Incidence Management team, collecting business requirements, planning and prioritizing.
• Member of Internal board meeting with IT directors and Managers on ticket metrics and tickets status.
• Project Experience with US, UK, Brazil, Canada, India, UAE clients
• Communicate information, solutions, ideas, concepts to IT and business at all levels.
• Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports.
• Good working knowledge in Material management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), FSCM, Logistics, Project Systems (PS), Treasury (TRM), FSCM, Open Text - SAP Invoice Management (VIM), Business Intelligence/ Business Warehouse (BI/BW), Planning & Consolidation, Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication skills with emphasis on clear, detailed business requirements.
• Experience in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping.
• Knowledge in Security Roles Design and Testing.
• Good consulting skills, Customer Focus, Problem Solving, Process Management, Strong analytical, communication skills.
• Ability to handle offshore and onshore team
• Ownership of issues within team or outside area with focus on resolution, providing efficient results.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team and prioritize own work load.
• Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills able to work with all levels of company staff.Rich Domain experience in Manufacturing, Finance and Auditing.
• Ensure financial transactions were accurate and complied with “Generally accepted accounting principles” (GAAP), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), International Accounting Standards (IAS), Accounting Standards (AS) like Revenue recognition, Inventory, Accounting policies.
• Experience in MIS Reports, Budgeting, Financial Analysis & Reporting, Consolidation
• Prepared Project Reports, Budgets, Raising of Funds, Allocation of Funds, Investment planning, cash and liquidity management.
• Basic accounts, Book keeping, Reconciliation of Bank statements, Profitability Analysis, Variance Analysis
• Experience in internal and Statutory Audits for Manufacturing, Banking, Finance and Construction companies
• Conducted audit U/s 44 AB of Income Tax Act for Individual and Partnership firms.
• Experience in financial planning, analysis and accounting principles GAAP.
• Designed the controls and procedures for conducting the audit
• Experience in Treasury, Depository Participant’s operations relating the Equity, Debentures, MIS, Front office operations like Equity, Options and Futures, Registry or Transfer (Physical Share s) operations relating the Equity, Preferential and Debentures

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP Version ECC 6.0/ 5.0/ R/3 4.7, S4 HANA SFIN

Application Packages: Tally 6.2, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Case Tools: Report painter, ABAP Query, LSMW

Concepts: Agile Methodology, ASAP Methodology, ITIL

Functional Skills: Project preparation Phase to Go Live and Production Support Phase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Durham, NC

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study the current (AS-IS) business process, organization structure, GAP Analysis, finalizing and mapping of to-be Business process
• Prepare Business process design documents (BPDD), getting approvals, Configuration, Prepare Functional Specifications, Test Scripts, Testing, Deploy Solution design, moving requests, Prepare User manuals/ Knowledge Transfer, Migration, Cut-over, Go-Live, Hypercare, Production Support.
• FI-GL: New GL Configuring and customizing Basic settings, General Ledger master data setup, account groups, chart of accounts, G/L master records, Scenario validation and system analysis, field status groups, automatic account determination, Document Splitting, Parallel ledgers, Local and Parallel Currency settings, intercompany automatic account posting, Consolidation, financial statement versions, Intercompany, US Tax and interfaces with external tax systems, validations and substitutions
• Profit Center accounting (PCA): Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers; Dummy Profit Center; Maintain Automatic Assignment
• FI-AA: Asset Accounting- Chart of Depreciation, Assign Chart of Depreciation to company code, Account Determination, settlements for assets under construction (AUC), Determine Depreciation Areas in the Asset Class.
• FI-AP- Vendor master data setup, Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments, Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) invoicing, credit Memo, debit memo, Procure to Pay process (PTP).
• FI-AR- Customer master data setup, Billing, Dunning; credit Memo, debit memo, interest calculation; Lockbox, Order to Cash process (OTC).
• Creation of new Tax codes, Tax rates and automatic account assignment maintenance.
• FI-BL: House banks, Master data, Check management, Electronic bank statements- creation of new posting rules, new transaction types, file corrections, Banking integration.
• Configured the controlling area and operating concern, maintained versions.
• Configure COPA: Operating Concern, characteristics, value fields, Number Ranges, Assigning SD Condition Types to Value Fields, Maintain PA transfer structure for Direct postings, CO-PA planning, Create COPA drill-down Reports, Derivation rules.
• Product Costing (CO-PC): Configure product cost planning and cost object controlling, configure material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, Overhead Costing Sheet, activity types, activity prices, Statistical Key Figures, Integration with SAP PP and MM modules - BOM/Routings, valuation variant, cost component split, cost component structure.
• Product costing: Material Ledger: Activate Valuation Areas for Material Ledger; Assign Currency Types; Assign Material Ledger Types; Maintain Number Ranges for Material Ledger Documents; Define Movement Type Groups of Material Ledger; Activate Actual Costing; Account Determination in Material Ledger.
• CO-Cost Center Accounting (CCA): Controlling Areas settings; Cost Center Hierarchy; Cost center master data setup, Multiple Cost Elements; Multiple Cost Centers; Planning, Activity Types; Assessment Cycles, settlements
• Global Roll out- Requirement gathering, Blueprint, configuration, customization, unit testing, UAT, Go-Live and support
• Created new requirement documents, project scope documents with continuous communication with business process.
• Interface design - Inbound and outbound - to interact with External Legacy Systems like PeopleSoft, JDE, Vertex, Hyperion and Fix the interface issues, IDOCs
• Workshop: Requirement, Design,, UAT and documentation
• FI Integration with MM, SD and PP.
• Primary point of contact for all BAU (business as usual) issues relating to the functionality of SAP FICO.
• Data migration, LSMW, Co-ordination of transports to production, User roles (security) Design/Testing
• Created ABAP Query Reports and Report Painter - Maintain Sets, variables, Key Figures, create & Modify the existing Reports, Report Groups, Headers & Text, SL Ledgers, Layouts, Libraries.
• Perform basic ABAP debugging, Prepared Documents and conducted for end users
• Coordinated with the ABAP team for the RICEF requirement and testing.
• Testing: E2E testing process includes Test Script Preparation and Execution; Functional Unit test (FUT), Regression test (RT), System Integration Test (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Hypercare, Month End and year end activities, coordinating with the stake holders, Batch monitoring
• Production support for US, UK, UAE plants and company codes- SLA with P1, P2, P3 support - Incident, problem and change management process with SAP Solution manger- ChaRM, SharePoint, SunLog.
• Prepare documents and conduct workshops for SAP business users
• Member of Change control board meetings with business users to prioritize the tickets and discuss on new enhancements.
• Prioritization and Assignment of Incidents/Tickets/Requests to the team.

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study the current (AS-IS) business process, organization structure, GAP Analysis, finalizing and mapping of to-be Business process
• Prepare Business process design documents (BPDD), getting approvals, Configuration, Prepare Functional Specifications, Test Scripts, Testing, Deploy Solution design, moving requests, Prepare User manuals/ Knowledge Transfer, Migration, Cut-over, Go-Live, Hypercare, Production Support.
• Configure COPA: Operating Concern, Costing based COPA, characteristics, value fields, Number Ranges, Assignment of SD Condition Types to Value Fields, Maintain PA transfer structure for Direct postings, Create COPA Reports, Derivation rules.
• Customized settlement profile, allocation structure and PA transfer structures to facilitate order settlement to COPA.
• Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to COPA.
• Product Costing (CO-PC): Discreet manufacturing - Make To Stock (MTS) setup - configure product cost planning and cost object controlling, configure material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, Overhead Costing Sheet, activity types, activity prices, Statistical Key Figures, Integration with SAP PP and MM modules - BOM/Routings, valuation variant, cost component split, cost component structure.
• Configure EC-Profit Center accounting (PCA): Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers; Dummy Profit Center; Maintain Automatic Assignment, profit center splitting.
• Configure CO-Cost Center Accounting (CCA): Controlling Areas settings; Cost Center Hierarchy; Cost center master data setup, Multiple Cost Elements; Multiple Cost Centers; Activity Types; Assessment Cycles, settlements
• Project: India GST configuration, Tax codes, Testing, Official Document Numbering (ODN), Sales Register Report, Purchase register Report, SAP Release notes.
• Integration with Material Management (MM), SD and PP modules
• Create SAP Query Reports and Report Painter - Maintain Sets, variables, Key Figures, create & Modify the existing Reports, Report Groups, Headers & Text, SL Ledgers, Layouts, Libraries.
• Interface design - Inbound and outbound - to interact with External Legacy Systems like PeopleSoft, Warrior, Hyperion.
• Prepare Functional specifications; Functional help to the ABAP consultants in preparing the Technical Specifications and coding.
• Extensively worked in Material Management (MM) and Production Planning (PP) areas for Material cost reports and Labor cost reports.
• Data migration, Cutover Activities
• Moving the configuration transports to Quality system and testing, Co-ordination of transports to production
• Managed the Co-ordination between onsite and offsite teams

Confidential

Sr SAP FICO Consultant/ Lead 3

Responsibilities:

• Provided Production Support in CONTROLLING (CO): Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-OPA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Provided Production Support in FINANCE (FI): General Ledger (FI-NGL), Parallel ledgers, Intercompany, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR).
• Open Text - SAP Invoice Management (VIM)
• Accounts Payable Automation with VIM and Invoice Capture center (ICC).
• Testing- VIM Process from paper/fax/email invoices to the final posting of an invoice Scanning and invoices.
• Evaluate and improve the systems and processes continuously.
• Design, test and implement the solutions based on client requirements.
• Regularly interact with the team/client
• Project: Interface design - Inbound and outbound - to interact with External Legacy Systems - PeopleSoft, Hyperion.
• Manage and implement Defects;
• Perform FUT (Functional Unit Testing)/ UAT and fix the issues
• Experience in HPQC, SLA with L2, L3 and L4 support tickets
• Prepared Functional specifications, Created ABAP Query Reports, Report Painter reports, Month end and year end activities
• Evaluate and Improve the systems and processes continuously.
• Regularly interact with the onsite team/client, Provided status updates in daily/weekly conference calls.
• Manage and implement Change Requests (CRs)
• Provided Functional help to the ABAP consultants in preparing the Technical Specifications and development.
• Lead the FICO Team

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant/ Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided Production Support in FINANCE (FI): General Ledger (FI-GL), Intercompany, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
• Provided Production Support in CONTROLLING (CO): Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-OPA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC)
• Transition- Project: Taxation and Country India settings (CIN)
• Created ABAP Query Reports; LSMW; Prepared Functional specifications
• Provided Functional help to the ABAP team, Perform basic ABAP debugging.
• SLA with L2, L3 and L4 support tickets, Experience in HPQC
• Design, test and implement the solutions based on client requirements.
• Month end and year end activities, interact with the onsite team/client, Provided status updates in daily/weekly conference calls.
• Maintain cordial relationship with onsite team/client; Create presentations to present to the client.
• Manage and implement Change Requests (CRs); Manage and implement Defects.
• Testing: E2E testing process includes Test Script Preparation and Execution; Functional Unit test (FUT), Regression test (RT), System Integration Test (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT) for CRs and Projects.
• Lead the FICO Team

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant/ Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided Production Support in CONTROLLING (CO): Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Provided Production Support in FINANCE (FI): General Ledger (FI-NGL), Parallel ledger, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Procure to Pay process (PTP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Order to Cash process (OTC), Banking.
• Automatic Payment Program (APP); Dunning for customer balances
• Electronic Bank Statement (EBS)
• Prepared Functional specifications, Provided Functional help to ABAP team
• Interface design - Inbound and outbound - to interact with External Legacy Systems like PeopleSoft, JDE, Vertex, Sabrix, Hyperion- Interfaces support: Fix the interface issues
• Testing the Outbound interfaces, Enhancements, Reports
• Moving the configuration transports to Quality system and testing, User roles (security) Design/Testing
• Evaluate and Improve the systems and processes continuously.
• Testing: E2E testing process includes Test Script Preparation and Execution; Functional Unit test (FUT), Regression test (RT), System Integration Test (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT) for CRs and Projects.
• SLA with L2, L3 and L4 support tickets
• Design, test and implement the solutions based on client requirements.
• Regularly interact with the onsite team/client, Provided status updates in daily/weekly conference calls.
• Maintain cordial relationship with onsite team/client; Create presentations to present to the client.
• Provided Functional help to the ABAP consultant in preparing the Technical Specifications and development.
• Manage and implement Change Requests (CRs) and Defects.
• Lead the FICO Team

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study the current (AS-IS) business process, organization structure, finalizing and mapping of to-be Business process
• Configured CO-CCA- Controlling Areas settings; Cost Center Hierarchy; Multiple Cost Elements; Multiple Cost Centers; Activity Types; Assessment Cycles
• Configured CO-IO -Order Types; Assessment Cycles; Settlement Profiles
• Configured EC-PCA- Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers; Dummy Profit Center; Maintain Automatic Assignment
• Configured COPA - Operating Concern; characteristics; value fields; Assigning Value Fields to SD Condition Types; Assessment Cycles; Direct Postings from FI; Profitability Reports.
• Global Roll outs- Requirement gathering, Blueprint, configuration, customization, unit testing, UAT, Go-Live and support
• Configured FI-New GL: Account Groups; Chart of Accounts; Parallel ledgers, Financial Statement Version, Intercompany, Consolidation.
• Configured FI-AP: Vendor Account Groups; Automatic Payment Program (APP), Document Types, Procure to Pay process (PTP)
• Configured FI-AR: Customer Account Groups; Billing, Dunning for customer balances, Order to Cash process (OTC),
• Configured Bank Accounting: House banks, Master data, Check management, EBS
• Configured FI-AA - Asset Accounting- Chart of Depreciation, Assign Chart of Depreciation to company code, Account Determination, Screen Layout Rules, Number Range Interval, Asset Classes, Financial Statement Version for Asset Reports, Determine Depreciation Areas in the Asset Class, Configuring the depreciation keys, acquisitions, retirement, settlements, etc.
• Data migration, FI-MM and SD Integration.
• Interface design - Inbound and outbound - to interact with External Legacy Systems- PeopleSoft, JDE, Vertex, Sabrix, Hyperion - IDOCs
• Interfaces support: Fix the interface issues
• Report Painter - Maintain Sets, variables, Key Figures, create & Modify the existing Reports, Report Groups, Headers & Text, Layouts, Libraries.
• Prepared Functional Specifications
• Provided Functional help to the ABAP consultant in preparing the Technical Specifications and development.
• Testing: E2E testing process includes Test Script Preparation and Execution; Functional Unit test (FUT), Regression test (RT), System Integration Test (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Managed the Co-ordination between onsite and offsite teams.
• Prepare documents and conduct workshops for SAP business users
• Provided Post go- live Support.

Confidential

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study the current (AS-IS) business process, organization structure, finalizing and mapping of to-be Business process
• Configured CO-CCA: Controlling Areas settings; Cost Center Hierarchy; Multiple Cost Elements; Multiple Cost Centers; Activity Types; Assessment Cycles
• Configured CO-IO: Order Types; Assessment Cycles; Settlement Profiles.
• Configured EC-PCA: Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers; Dummy Profit Center; Maintain Automatic Assignment
• Configured COPA: Operating Concern; characteristics; value fields; Assigning Value Fields to SD Condition Types; Assessment Cycles; Direct Postings from FI
• Configured FI-NGL: Account Groups; Chart of Accounts; Intercompany, Parallel ledgers, Financial Statement Version
• Configured FI-AP: Vendor Account Groups; Automatic Payment Program (APP), Document Types, Procure to Pay process (PTP)
• Configured FI-AR: Customer Account Groups; Dunning, Order to Cash process (OTC)
• Configured FI-AA: Asset Accounting
• Interface design - Inbound and outbound - to interact with External Legacy Systems--PeopleSoft, Hyperion.
• Interfaces support: Fix the interface issues, IDOCs
• Prepared Functional specifications; Functional help to the ABAP consultant in preparing the Technical Specifications;
• Testing: E2E testing process includes Test Script Preparation and Execution; Functional Unit test (FUT), Regression test (RT), System Integration Test (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Managed the Co-ordination between onsite and offsite teams; Knowledge Transfer

Confidential

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study the current (AS-IS) business process, organization structure, finalizing and mapping of to-be Business process
• Configured CO-CCA: Controlling Areas settings; Cost Center Hierarchy; Multiple Cost Elements; Multiple Cost Centers; Activity Types; Assessment Cycles
• Configured CO-IO: Internal Order Types; Assessment Cycles; Settlement Profiles, Multiple Internal Orders for Employee salaries, Vehicle Expenses
• Configured EC-PCA: Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers; Dummy Profit Center; Maintain Automatic Assignment
• Configured COPA: Operating Concern; Account based COPA, characteristics; value fields; Assigning Value Fields to SD Condition Types; Assessment Cycles; Direct Postings from FI; Profitability Reports at Sale Order, at Sales organization and at other Levels
• Prepared Report Painter reports
• Prepared Functional specifications, Prepared End-User manual; Provided Post go- live Support

Confidential

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Study the current (AS-IS) business process, organization structure, finalizing and mapping of to-be Business process
• Configured COPA: Operating Concern; characteristics; value fields; Assigning Value Fields to SD Condition Types; Assessment Cycles; Direct Postings from FI; Profitability Reports at Sale Order, at Sales organization and at other Levels
• Configured CO-CCA: Controlling Areas settings; Cost Center Hierarchy; Multiple Cost Elements; Multiple Cost Centers; Activity Types; Statistical Key Figures; Assessment Cycles
• Configured CO-IO: Order Types; Assessment Cycles; Settlement Profiles, Multiple Internal Orders for Employee salaries, Vehicle Expenses
• Configured EC-PCA: Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers; Dummy Profit Center; Maintain Automatic Assignment
• Configured CO-PC: Product Cost by Sales Order (MTO): Product Cost Planning with Quantity Structure- Costing Variant; Valuation Variant; Costing Sheets; Cost Component Structure, Integration with SAP PP, MM- BOM/ Routing

Confidential

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured CO-CCA: Cost Center Hierarchy, Multiple Cost Elements, Multiple Cost Centers, Activity Types, Assessment Cycles
• Configured CO-IO: Order Types; Assessment Cycles; Settlement Profiles
• Configured EC-PCA: Profit Center Hierarchy, Maintain Automatic Assignment
• Configured CO-PC: Discreet manufacturing - Make To Stock (MTS) setup - Product Cost Planning with Quantity Structure- Costing Variant; Valuation Variant; Costing Sheets; Cost Component Structure.
• Configure COPA: Operating Concern, Costing based COPA, characteristics, value fields, Number Ranges, Assignment of SD Condition Types to Value Fields, Maintain PA transfer structure for Direct postings, Create COPA Reports.
• Prepared Report Painter reports.
• Prepared End-User manual and trained the core users.
• Provided Post go- live Support (Hypercare).