SUMMARY:

• An SAP FI Certified Consultant with a vast experience of 12 years in SAP FICO and FSCM experience in Implementation, Enhancement, Support, Testing projects and up - grade project experience with latest S/4 HANA Finance capability.
• S/4HANA project experience including migration from current ECC version.
• Experience in ASAP methodology in all phases of Project Life Cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and support. Experience in documentation and end user training.
• SAP FICO expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Special Purpose Ledger (SPL) and New General Ledger, CCA, Profit Center Accounting and Internal Order.
• Experienced in business relating to APP, House Banks, Payment Terms, PMW, DME, Document Split, Dunning and Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Knowledge in configuring Automatic Account Determinations, Customer and Vendor down payment, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax, Company code global parameters. Creation of Input and output tax General Ledger accounts assignments, setting up different tax codes in various countries and assigning them to GL accounts . C onfiguring taxes for tax procedures TAXUSJ and TAXUSX.
• Manage testing resources, test case sequencing, gathering of required test data files and other test coordination activities.
• Business requirement collection, ERP project analysis, process design, blue print, Expertise in requirement gathering, GAP analysis , upgrade, Reports, conversions, Interfaces, enhancements, Go-Live and Support and train user staff.
• 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.
• Experience in FSCM configuration for Credit Management, Collection and Dispute Management, In-House Cash Center with multiple SAP Systems and Cash and Liquidity Management.
• Experience in Confidential and RFC port connectivity between multiple clients in SAP.Worked on IDOC message type, IDOC Types, Basic Types and Process Codes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP S/4 HANA Simple Finance, SAP R/3 Version 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP: Simple Finance, Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Automatic payment program, Customer and vendor down payment, Dunning, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, and Month End Close.

Integration: Migration from ECC 6.0 to Simple Finance. FI/CO integration with SD & MM module.

Technical: LSMW, Implementation: ASAP Methodology.

Application: MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Platforms: Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0/8.0/10

Testing: HPQC, ALM, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sarasota, Florida

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working in Production Support in Finance (FI) P2P and R2R and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to GL, AR, AP, PCA and CCA.
• Support to business end users at month end activities and year end activities.
• Working on incidents to resolve the issues in area Bank revaluation, Period end closing activities, open and close posting period in production system.
• Working on customized application support getting issues while upload Budget and Forecast for Cost centers in SAP.
• Support areas Foreign exchange revaluation, AP and AR.
• Support areas Collection and Dispute Management areas.
• Providing solutions on incidents and preparing business process and procedure documentation, testing document and training to end users.

Confidential

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding the company's business process and gatheringthe initial requirement from the end users and the test requirements with the process owners.
• Implementation in Collection, Dispute and Credit Management.
• Gathering functional requirement to understand the business process for FSCM Collection, Dispute and Credit Management implementation.
• Documented Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training (Job-Aid) and (Modified design after feedback from users to suit their requirements) GO LIVE.
• Configured Collection Strategy, Collection Rule, and Collection Segment for Company codes, Collection Profile, and Collection Groups.
• Identified Business Function and Authorization Roles for FSCM Collection and Dispute Management.
• Master data Synchronization for data flows from SAP FI-AR to SAP FSCM Collection Management.
• Maintain and Create RMS ID, Attribute Profile and Attribute Values for Dispute Cases.
• Configure Text IDs, Create Text Profile and Action Profile in Case Type.
• Define process integration for processing the automatic status changes for dispute cases.
• Define document category for attachments to dispute cases.
• Configured Credit Segment, Rating Procedure, and Customer Credit group.
• Define Formulas for credit scoring in Credit Management.
• Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation and maintained risk classes.
• Maintained Credit limit blocking reasons, info categories.
• Integration with Accounts Receivables and Sales and Distribution
• Involved in Regression Testing for identify if any impact on existing functionality at client level and Company code level for activate Business Functions.
• Prepared Business process document, testing documents for Unit Testing and UAT testing, trained to users.
• Provided solution to the business to automatic adjustments of down payments to counterparties.
• Implemented new enhancements on Down Payments Deal Work list at deal/Customer/Vendor balancing level. In corporate the Prepayment functionality in Deal Work List Functions.
• Coordinated with developers to implement the Down payments at DWL level and automatic data fetch into down payment screen from deal line item.
• Implemented the down payment adjustments against the counterparty automatically and final due amount will be shown in payment authorization list for approval.
• Experienced in SAP FI-MM and SAP FI-SD integration.
• Automatic Account determination to maintain and assign the Transaction Keys and assign G/L Accounts based on movement types. And Posting Rules.
• Configure the Account Modification or General Modification for offsetting accounts.
• Automatic account determination for FI-SD integration.
• Configure Application, condition type, chart of accounts Customer account assignment group and material account assignment group.
• Involved in testing of the overall business process of OTC and P2P&integration.
• Resolve errors and mismatch items in DWL and compared with the down payment screen.
• Trained key users regarding the complete process of down payment at DWL such as how to post down payment at DWL Deal/Customer/Vendor line item level and adjust the down payment against respective counterparty and due amount will be shown into payment authorization list for approval and once approved user will perform the automatic payment program for clear the counterparty open items.
• Tested Outbound and Inbound IDOCs. Involved in end-to-end testing of all inbound and outbound processes.
• Analyzed Product Requirements, Business and System Requirements and Participated in the inspection (walk through).
• Tested the functionality of Incoming and Outgoing Payments. Automatic vendor/customer payments, payments proposal creation and validate the result.
• Have provided on call support executed theTest Cases Manually and reported the defects to Developers.
• Created and documented test plans and Generated test scripts and test data for functional and regression testing, Unit testing & UAT.
• Enhanced and configured new tax code, tax procedures, Tax types for Input and Output taxes based on country key and representative country and maintained G/L account assignments.
• Enhanced with the support from technical team while execute the transaction Automatic Payment Program create the 3rd IDOC with updating the additional data in the segments.
• Enhanced CSO Trade Blotter automatic creation of Sales Order, Billing Document and Accounting Document while upload the file into SAP.

Confidential

SAP S/4 Simple Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• S/4HANA project experience including migration from current ECC version and knowledge of new S/4HANA features.
• Deep understanding of finance business processes and implementation of those processes in S/4HANA Simple Finance and traditional SAP ECC.
• Migration Path - Rapid Database Migration of SAP Business Suite to SAP S/4 HANA (all one Step migration, including SAP S/4 HANA Simple Finance) using SUM (Software Update Manager) with DMO (Database Migration Option).
• Roadmap: SAP New G/L to SAP Business Suite on HANA to S/4 HANA, on premise.
• Migration Steps involved Pre-checks/Consistency Checks, preparation for all Simple finance configuration changes and functional migration strategy. These Pre-checks ensured to verify if SFIN can be installed on current system set up.
• Functional/technical changes in SFIN reviewed w/ reference to new Financials back-bone Universal Journal entry architecture. Universal Journal - Single repository of journal entries & single source of truth across all sub-ledgers eliminating redundancy and reducing the memory footprint.
• Migrate all new General Ledger to new customizing, define source ledger for Migration of balances. Activate Business functions for migrating to SFIN add-on for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Migration of Customization in Simple Finance for General Ledger, Asset Accounting and Controlling.
• Activate SAP Reference IMG for Financial Accounting (New).Activate Asset Accounting (New).Data Migration for GL, AA and Controlling.
• Activities after migration into SAP Simple Finance powered by SAP HANA.
• Deactivate the reconciliation ledger for all controlling areas.

Confidential

Lead SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved and responsible for sequential phases of ASAP methodology like business Blue printing, gap analysis, prototype, design.
• Configuration for Collection, Dispute, Credit Managements and In-house Cash Management and Cash Management Modules.
• Collection Management setup for Collection strategies, Collection Rules, Collection Segment for company code, Collection Profile, collection Groups and Collection work lists.
• Collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Management & account receivable.
• Identify Business Function and authorization roles for FSCM Collection and Dispute Management.
• Configure for Correspondence, Dunning Notice and Dunning Letters as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Integration of the Account receivable with Financial supply chain management: Responsible for configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, credit scoring and comparison of functionality,
• Configure Credit Segment, Rating Procedure and Customer Credit group.
• Create Rule for Scoring and Credit Limit Calculation and maintained risk classes.
• Maintain Credit limit blocking reasons, info categories.
• Prepared Business process document, Testing documents for Unit Testing and UAT testing, trained to users.
• Involved in Regression Testing for identify if any impact on existing functionality at client level and Company code level for activate Business Functions.
• Worked in In-House Cash Centre implementation and involved.
• Responsible for configuration and implementation of SAP In-House Cash module for central cash payments process, Central incoming receipts which include customer collection from different lockboxes, Mapping the service Companies Bills using the Posting rules in order to reflect the In-House Cash Current accounts, andIntercompany payment process setup for the Transaction Management activities
• Responsible for Confidential IDOC setup for the in-House Cash module throughout the landscape where both Financial module and In- house Cash exit in the same system.
• Responsible for Setup of the Confidential IDOC for in-house Cash Module for IDOC type PAYTEXT, FINSATA and DIRDEB.
• Trouble suiting and solving the IDOC issue related to In-house Cash during integration testing.
• Advance inbound and outbound electronic banking configuration like wire, ACH process, lockbox file, Electronic Bank statements.
• Responsible for the setup of the P-Cards/Credit card process
• Involved In integration testing using test tools like HPQC.
• Responsible for resolveissue during the Unit and Integration testing.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Production Support in Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) & Asset Accounting (AA) and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to GL, AR, AP, PCA, CCA, and CO-PA.
• Documented blue-prints for new company code and configured the system for implementation of CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA; responsible updating for Finance Work plan for new company code.
• Made changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts; also includes modification of COPA user exits and creation of new field status groups. Involved in yearend closing operations for FI, CO and AA; also responsible for opening and closing for MM and FI monthly periods for postings.
• Presented Order to Cash/Procure to Pay business scenario in highlighting FI integration with SD and MM
• Coordinate and document global and regional SAP Cutover requirements across.
• Working with end users to explain , Payment Medium Workbench (PMW), Special ledger functionality and itemize differences between the old functionality and new functionality.
• Involved in Migration of data from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of migration cockpit.
• Interaction with user and client to understand there requirement and concern over the existing system to identify system improvement points.
• Creation of Asset Classes, Asset Number Ranges, Account Determination, and related settings.
• Configured new Asset Classes as per user request, resolved month end and year-end issues for Asset Accounting, balance carries forward for FI- AA reconciliation, supplied transactional data from SAP tables for Asset Audit, Period Rules creation in different company codes and resolved Asset Issues.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training (Job-Aid) and (Modified design after feedback from users to suit their requirements) GO LIVE.
• Involved in the preparation of Global blue template business print, designing & configuring the various R2R processes.
• Configured Company codes, Chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Tolerance limits, financial statement version, G/L accounts for company codes, business area, functional area, currency type, AR, AP, AA, Confidential, Banking, Workflow variant and screen layouts.
• Created contribution margin and user defined profitability reports using reporting tools like Report Writer & Report Painter and conducted ABAP queries as and when needed and trained users for the same. Also worked on LSMW for data migration.
• Configured House bank, Bank determination and set tolerances limits, scheduled Automatic Payment Program for payments to vendors and others, created check lots and online-cashed checks. Configured Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Configured Primary & Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups and Assigned Number ranges to groups, configured Automatic and Manual cost element creation.
• Configured CCA through creation of Cost Centers, Activity Types, Cost Center Categories, Statistical Key Figures, Assessments & Distributions cycles and Allocations for periodic reposting, Planned and Actual activity price calculations.
• Configured EC-PCA by creating Profit centers, Standard hierarchies, assigned revenue elements, to profit center, planning profile and planning layouts.
• Performed integration of FI/CO with SD, MM.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document.
• Designing business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP - Finance (FI) and controlling (CO) modules.
• Configured the settings of Enterprise Structure, Company code global setting Account Groups, Retained Earnings Accounts, Field Status Variant, Tolerance Groups and Posting Period Variant and set upfinancial statement variant..
• Experienced in activating of New G/L and Leading Ledger with creation of Segments and assigning Scenarios and Customer Fields in the Parallel Ledgers, Document splitting, parallel accounting, parallel currency, Real Time FICO integration.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for checks, and outgoing payments in Accounts
• Configured Lockbox setup defined control parameters for BAI2 file import, for handling incoming payments from customers and worked on Special GLtransactions like Down Payments.
• Configured Dunning, Interest calculation, foreign currency valuation.
• Involved in yearend closing book and helped to resolved inconsistency in closing and opening book.
• Configured chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas and depreciation key.
• Preparation and presentation of extensive financial analysis for the annual planning and budgeting exercise for the bank along with variance analysis for the same.
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces ( Confidential & Confidential ), user-exits, and reporting tools
• Involved in the Configuration of Controlling areas , Company code assignment to Controlling Areas, creation and assigning of number ranges for Controlling Areas, Version maintenance for controlling areas and statistical key figure (SKF)
• In Cost Element Accounting, created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintain Cost Element Attributes and performed unit and system testing.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) maintained Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers. Developed for cycles, segments cost center distributions and assessment.
• In Profit Center Accounting (PCA) maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups etc. and extracted reports using PCA.
• In Internal Orders (CO-IO) configured various internal order types, Defined settlement profile, settlement structure, settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements. Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders, set up tolerances for budget cost and also Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Created BPP (Business process procedure)’s for end users and conducted end user training.
• Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using report painter.
• Provided Post-Go-Live support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment, and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users.