SUMMARY

• 10 years of working experience in various verticals of SAP with different industries including three full life cycle SAP implementation.
• Team Lead experience in multiple projects: aggressive implementer of best practices using SDLC, GSM and ASAP methodologies (implementation, customization, creation of end - user training documents, testing and go-live / post go-live support.
• Extensive experience in business process definition, risk analysis, gap analysis, uses case analysis, baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.
• Built SAP to Hyperion interface to send accounting data to Hyperion for consolidation.
• Strong sales experience: SAP system assessment, issue determination, prioritization of short - and long - term fixes, recommendations, new proposals, and system upgrade advice.
• Performed research to develop business plans and strategies and Use cases for Business and End users.
• Experience in Validation, Acceptance, Conformance, Compatibility, Functional, Unit, Integration, Regression, Performance, GUI, Back-end, Smoke Testing, Test cases, Test plans, and Test scripts.
• FI configuration expert of the SAP Global Environment, Master Data, New GL, Bank Accounting, Accounts Receivable, and Treasury sub-modules.
• Extensive Experience in Accounts Payable processes including Procurement and Inventory Management (Purchasing Documents, Output Determination, Condition Technique, Release Procedure, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Transfer Posting, Movement Types, Account Determination, and Special Procure. Types)
• CO configuration expert of Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) sub-modules.
• Expertise in SAP FI Accounts Receivable Cash Application: lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement, Cash Positioning, Liquidity Forecasting.
• Highly skilled in implementing SAP FI Accounts Payable, Automatic Payment Processing, including SEPA payments using XML format.
• Excellent in writing Business Blueprint Design (BPD), Configuration Rationale (CRD), Functional Design / Specifications (FD), Technical Design (TD), and Advanced Layout (ALD) documents.
• Extensive experience using LSMW to perform data conversions / migration from legacy systems to SAP, mass journal entry uploads with third-party software such as Win-shuttle and Z-Option.
• Demonstrated the ability to work in complex environments including matrix organizations. Worked with external vendors, offshore vendors, outsourcing contracts, and managed the performance of the contracts.
• Successfully led teams in various assignments through complete Project Life Cycle ensuring on time delivery including testing for onshore and offshore teams using various tools, such as HPQC, IBM-RQM, IBM-CQ, U-Perform, JIRA and Work-soft.
• Work on End to End cycle for Order to Cash, Procure to pay and configuring Business Partners for different Roles.
• Developed specification for multiple RICEF objects and expert in performing Fit Gap Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Union Beach, NJ

SAP FICO / AP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance with best process, project scheduling, resource availability for successful implementations, defining statements of work, change control and change requests.
• Conduct various meeting with key Management in the Financial Management department to discuss various needed development strategies
• Conduct meetings to measure the scope of system and user-related issues regarding SAP FICO, and create detailed assessment reports.
• Perform Fit Gap Analysis for AR and AP and helped them reach better alternative. Define and implement functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Implement the new GL, enhanced the coding block and provided a complete P&L reporting solution for several dimensions.
• Assist in the design for COPA, and played a key role for making changes to Chart of Accounts to enable COPA - based reporting solution.
• Activate Organizational Unit, Operating Concern, for costing based Profitability Analysis.
• Define system generated values and characteristics for CO-PA, as well as configuring user defined Values & Characteristics.
• Configure controlling area, cost centers & profit centers, cost elements, and number.
• Customize intercompany payment process for worldwide payment and research payment using the In-House Cash Functionality.
• Calculate cash position and liquidity forecasting based on planning types and levels.
• Design and implement EBS for Bank Reconciliation Accounts.
• Configure the lockbox (EDI 823) process: origin-destination, posting rules, lockbox number, house banks, bank accounts, GL and sub-GL accounts, customer / vendor / employee / GL tolerances, partner profile, reason codes, logical message types for lockbox with EDI and remittance details (EDI 820 & EDI 812), lockbox processing and post-processing.
• Configure BCM for outgoing payments; Implemented Payment Medium Workbench for BCM.
• Design all subsidiaries as the account holders in the SAP system by creating a simulated virtual bank that received messages via Financial Statement (FINSTA), which sent messages via PAY-REC.
• Explain flat file processing for IDOC creation to middleware staff.
• Completely restructure the company’s global list of G/L accounts, resulting in a systematic and sequential series of accounts by account group. Also define employee tolerances, field status groups, procedure for document reversals, new G/L accounts with multiple currencies, and manage open item clearing.
• Perform data migration from legacy systems: define field-mapping conversion rules, maintenance of fixed values, user-defined routines, data conversion, and create/execute batch-input sessions. procure to pay (P2P), customer and vendor down payment and Payment terms.
• Configure and implement multiple Financial Statement versions (FSVs) to customize business reporting requirements.
• Successfully complete end-to-end testing of SAP FICO Technical Upgrade in the SAP 4.7 - ECC 6.0 environments.
• Create Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes. Integrated Asset management with the plant maintenance module. Defined LSMW object for uploading asset masters.
• Create reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Supported day to day issues related to Order to Cash (OTC) and month’s end/year-end closing issues, investigating payment program issues on weekly basis.
• Provide go-live and post go-live support.

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP Fico/ AR/AP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in and facilitated client meetings, interviews and workshops focused on collecting business requirements for SAP FICO & MM functionalities and created a Business Blueprint Design & Functional Design Document.
• Provided support to end users and supported the SAP solution, resolved user’s day to day tickets and worked on multiple enhancements.
• Performed GAP analysis between business requirements and standard SAP solutions. Involved in Business Process Re-engineering workshops and presentations to help explain the new procedure for better efficiency.
• Enhanced End to End Procure to Pay infrastructure.
• Create end-to-end process for Cash Application (lockbox - BAI2) including Business blueprinting Documents, Configuration Rationale Document and Advanced Layout design document (Job Aid).
• Experience in analyzing runtime errors and debugging ABAP programs.
• Worked on different Accounts Payable processes for vendors. For example vendor master data, payment terms, payment methods, automatic payment run, check management, ACH, Logistics Invoice verification, and GR/IR auto clearing.
• Performed various tests during master data conversion phase to validate data integrity.
• Configured enhancement to the outbound file using User Exit (EXIT RFFOEXIT *) for extracting data from REGU* tables and populating in the out bound files.
• Configured Electronic bank statement with the bank, this EBS was also used to clear customer open items using sub-ledger posting.
• Helped transform data from R/3 to ECC 6.0 using LSMW.
• Configured data medium exchange for direct debt, ACH and other process required by the house bank.
• Performed conversion mapping with various legacy back-end systems and provided guidance on overall master data conversion strategies, approaches and methodologies.

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

FICO A/P LEAD

Responsibilities:

• FI AR and AP Implementation.
• Setup all incoming payments including lockbox, electronic bank statement.
• Designed and implemented complete position management and liquidity forecast solution using SAP cash management module.
• Configured treasury related parts of the project including GL for cash accounts, house banks and bank accounts, automated payment Processing.
• Collection Management: defined basic, collection rules, process strategies, priorities, collection segment / profile / group, automatic status changes, case type and collection profile. Created RMS ID, element type, attribute profile, status profile, and process integration.
• Dispute Management: created element type, process case record model, attribute profile, functional profile, profile for case search, and status profile. Defined case types, forms, automatic status changes, process integration for dispute management and FI, automatic write-off of dispute cases, integration with SAP biller direct, and assignment of open credits and payments.
• Customized customer master data, customer field status, customer groups, payment terms and lockbox configuration.
• Conducted iterative integration testing cycles for existing and new configuration and master data through the execution of simulated business procedures required to support all reporting requirements.
• Configured automated outbound payment processes including check, ACH and European payment methods for within EU and within US.
• Configured all activity around position and liquidity management including GL accounts, house banks, planning levels, open item clearing, sort keys, values dates and account groupings.
• Implementing the Dunning program: Dunning areas, Dunning levels, and Dunning forms for each individual company at the company code level. Customized payment terms for Dunning, down payments and automatic clearing of line items.
• Configured partial payments, exchange rate differences, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, payment media, interest calculation, credit management, and carrying forward balances.
• Analyzed reporting systems and prepared functional specifications for user review and modifications.
• Identification and the preparation of integration testing scenarios and test data sets that is representative of the business procedures.

Confidential, Pittsburg, TX

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all phases of ASAP methodology: project preparation, business blue print, realization, final preparation, go live and support. Performed a complete GAP analysis to identify problems and inconsistencies with the business requirements specification with the existing system during work shop meetings.
• Coordinated with the Development, BASIS, and End-User teams to gather business requirements, created the BPD, CRD based on BPD, identified RICEF objects
• Worked closely with RICEF team creating functional specification for data conversion, mapping data fields and developing custom reports. the organizational structure: company, company code, chart of accounts, account groups, fiscal year variant, field status variant and posting period variant, GL accounts, account number ranges, document types and number ranges, posting keys,
• Created house banks, bank accounts, payment methods in country and company code
• Uploaded vendor and customer master record from the legacy system into SAP using LSMW.
• Worked on EDI process (partner type, partner profile, message type, Inbound and outbound parameters) for purchase orders, sales order, and ASN.
• Configured lockbox based on BAI2 format with three banks (two in US and one in Canada) to automatically post and clear the customer invoice.
• Worked with the basis and technical teams for the run schedule for the payment programs, file FTP and exceptions and error procedures.
• Configured terms of payment, incoming and outgoing invoice payment, clearing open items, automatic payment.
• Assisted in conducting end user training and provided post implementation support.
• Performed unit testing and Integration testing using HP Quality Center (Mercury) tools along with software testing team.
• Provided go-live and post-live support. Coordinated with the local team to resolve post go live integration issues.

Confidential, New Jersey

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated with business and technical teams to understand requirements, defined scope, and participated in all phases of the development life cycle, including analysis, design, configuration, testing, implementation, and support.
• Conducted QADB to capture requirement during business workshop.
• Involved in the day-to-day business implementation activities
• Created and configured different material types, Field Selections, number ranges, valuation classes, and account determination.
• Developed specs for multiple RICEF objects, reports, enhancements to transactions, user exits, BADI’s, BAPI’s and enhanced standard SAP reports.
• Created source list, quota arrangement and used source determination in purchase requisition.
• Analyzed EDI mapping templates for gaps and suggested fields in the IDOC segments for procurement of orders placed via EDI.
• Coordinated with ABAP team for enhancements and creating interfaces.
• Analyzed the requirements for lockbox and worked with the bank to understand optimal interface and file format BAI2/IDOC to create new payment process for AR.
• Supported enhancement effort for post processing programs including RFEBLB30.
• Allocated EDI orders for all EDI Customers, such as Printing UCC labels, receiving of 850, sending F/A 855, checking change of PO’s 860, sending invoices 810, checking reports 852, 753/754 routing request, 864 text messages.