SUMMARY:

Motivated professional with 14+ years of financial management and business analysis experience of which over 6+ years is in SAP FI/CO,S/4 HANA implementation, support, design, testing, configuration and integration with SD, MM and PP. In addition, I have extensive experience in Financial Services, Accounting, Business Process & Analysis. Comprehensively performed two full life cycle (ECC - 6.0) R/3 Configuration of FI/CO, AA, PC,ABC, CCA, PCA, IO, COPA, FSV (financial Statement Version),FSCM/TRM, and Integration of MM, SD, PP,PS,HCM having added value to companies. Also have the knowledge in SAP FICA and RMCA modules. Well versed with, new and some future technologies like (S4 HANA, Big DATA, AI, IoT - financial mobile reporting, Block chain, etc.) .

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Financial Modeling and Integration Analysis
• Testing, Issue Resolution and Test Strategy
• End User Training, Change Request and Change Management
• Project Analysis, Effort Estimation, budgeting and compliance
• Enterprise Risk Management, GRC, auditing and reporting
• Configuration, Documentation and Gap Analysis
• Business Blueprinting Documentation and GAP Analysis
• SWOT Analysis and Team Coordination
• Project Cut Over and Deployment Strategy
• Costing, Variance and KPI’s
• Cash Flow & Treasury Management, Credit Management
• SWOT Analysis and Team Coordination
• Worked on FICO, S/4 HANA simple finance including cross functional integration with areas like SD, MM, PP, PS, HR and cloud solutions.
• Financial Statement, Reporting &Business Analysis

KEY AREAS OF STRENGTH:

• Strong team player with good leadership skills and the ability to multi-task within a dynamic workplace
• Communicated at all levels of organization, escalated issues and coordinated project tasks.
• Demonstrated client management and relationship management skills efficiently.
• Excellent time-management skills and the ability to deliver quality results with an aggressive timeline
• Strong facilitation skills and ability to lead client meetings and workshops in organizational settings.
• Excellent Communication, Interpersonal Skill and Team Skills of working in diverse environment.
• Analyzed process gaps and reports for business intelligence and data conversion.
• Good grasp on project phases with ability to meet deadlines under pressure with good work ethics and analytical skills.
• Ability to effectively express complex technical concepts, objectively view and effectively explain issues and/or their resolution from an end-user, customer, and/or business perspective;
• Lead workshops for customer requirements and preparing detailed requirement documents with specifications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

APPLICATION MODULE: FI/CO ( GL, AR, AP, CCA, AA,PCA ),SD,MM, PP,COPA, S4/ HANA Finance

NEW TECHNOLOGIES: SAP Leonardo,SAP Fiori,Big Data, IoT- Mobile,Analytics, # 1 CRM (Salesforce platform).

TOOLS: Visio, ASAP, Solution Manager, MS PM, Access, Excel. Microsoft Office, Acrobat, Notepad and more

Testing Tools: ECATT, QTP, Selenium, Load Runner, Solution Manager

OPERATING SYSTEM: Win NT/2K, Win XP/98/95

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented full life cycle of a project using ACTIVATE methodology.
• Conducted workshops on the New GL features along with Document splitting (Profit Center). Demonstrated the Document splitting concepts with relevant examples and an online demo.
• Hosted workshops with all business parties involved to gather business requirements, Docs and support model.
• Performed AS-IS analysis and developed TO-BE analysis. Focus centered on SAP Best Practices Industry specifics. Documented Process improvement charts, BPML and RICEF
• Configuration of Enterprise structure, FI-GL (General Ledger), AR (Accounts Receivable), AP (Accounts Payable), BL (Bank Accounting), CO- CCA (Cost Center Accounting), EC-PCA (Profit center Accounting), IO (Internal Order), COPA (Profitability Analysis).
• Configured Chart of Accounts, House banks(FBZP), Taxes on sales and purchases, Asset Accounting (AA) maintained field status variants, field status groups, customized screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Defined detailed configuration of Account Groups, Number ranges, Employee Tolerance, Banks, Variants, Dunning and Taxes.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation. Created Different Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes.
• Worked in integration T- codes such as OBYC & F-53, VKOA & F-28
• Error checking, Unit Test scripting, Integration Testing, and getting configuration sign offs
• Facilitated discussions between FI and CO teams for dialog programming of automatic payments system
• Have good practical knowledge about important table names.
• Maintain custom tables, troubleshoot errors in posting, provide error correction instructions, create screen shot instructions
• Configuration expert of New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS.
• Cost centers CO-CCA, CO-IO (Real and Statistical), SKFs, Allocation, Settlements and Distributions
• Settlement Profiles, Rules, CO Substitutions
• Configured COPA in Realize Phase with UNIT Testing and Integration Testing
• Cutover testing, moving Transports from Dev to QA
• Developed Specifications for Custom Reports (RICEF) from FI and CO modules
• Used Zen desk for uploading issue logs.
• Document test cases and test scenario’s using use/test cases for UT, Integration Testing and UAT’s.
• Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields, table names such as BKPF, BSEG, KNB4, SKA1 etc.
• Worked with the team in POC for S4 HANA migration.
• Analyzed and documented functional specifications for reporting in BI.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented full life cycle of a project using ASAP methodology.
• Workshops and documentation.
• Involved in project preparation and project kick off meetings.
• Documented FICO part of project charter and performed a fit/gap analysis
• Identified Gaps and configuration values are added to the backlog for use in the next phase.
• Involved in discussions with Business in understanding the existing process in FI & CO.
• Helped the business in preparing AS-IS, TO- BE document with GAP analysis.
• Assist the business users defining the business requirements and prepare Functional Design Documents (FDD’s) and PDD (Process Design Document).
• Prepared the business blueprint document which explains the procedural detail of process mapping in SAP.
• Responsible for FI-GL (General Ledger), AA (Asset Accounting), CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting), CO-PCA (Profit Center Accounting), IO (Internal Order).
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code, Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Configured General Ledger - Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files.
• Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Implemented New GL, activated new General Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
• Configured the Customer Master Data (VD/XD01-SPRO), Selection of fields applying suppressed, mandatory and optional functions for Customer Master Data and defined Account Groups for Customers.
• Created Valuation Class for Material Master, set up Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
• Worked on integrating FI with other modules like CO, MM, SD & PP.
• Exposed to integration issues of FI with CO (Controlling), MM (Material Management), SD (Sales & Distribution) & PP (Product Planning).
• Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts.
• Maintained the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability control.
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Configured and Customized CO-Controlling module.
• Configured and customized Asset Accounting (AA).
• Helped in month end and year closing activities.
• Involved in Unit & Integration testing, Data Migration.
• Worked with BI consultants for generating customized reports.
• Support post go live and issue management.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for FICO, FSCM and Treasury Management Business Process for clients including AS-IS and TO-BE gap Analysis
• Involvement included from Project definition (BPML/RICEF), business blueprint till realization phase including post-live Support using Solution Manager.
• Designed and configured organizational structure of FI GL, FI AR-FI AP, and CO and defined the settings of operating concern.
• Teamed to Configure FSCM (CFM) module to satisfy business needs.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), post processing via FEBA BANK STATEMENT.
• Configure Portfolio Analyzer (FIN-FSCM-TRM-PA). AIS Settings & implementation of RFC
• Responsible for configuration and implementation of SAP In-House Cash module in cash payments and collections.
• Managed resource and work plans; provided work effort estimates and ensured delivery within timeline and budget.
• Reduced data conversion workload by utilizing LSMW for legacy data migration into SAP.
• Scheduled batch jobs for FI and CO (SM35/SM37) interfaces on SAP R/3 4.7 environment.
• Defined Tax jurisdictions and Withholding Tax types and respective rounding rules for Invoice postings.
• Maintained variants, tolerance groups and interest calculations for A/R and A/P.
• Resolved all the FI/CO issues with the upgrade due to table changes.
• Thoroughly involved in creation of Test Scenarios, Unit and Integration Testing and Documented the Results.
• Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO.
• Provided SAP FI/CO tuning and troubleshooting including the identification and resolution of performance related issues.
• Provided End user support to the SAP user community.

Confidential

Financial data analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed the accounts related to customers and vendors.
• Auditing financial reports thereby helping company with financial accuracy.
• Compiled data to generate financial statements including cash flow, P&L, and Balance sheet for review by management.
• Perform bookkeeping for all financial transactions.
• Gathered, reviewed, and consolidated financial data.
• Reconcile and balance all customer, vendor and Bank Accounts.
• Execute monthly billing operations, cash management, reconciliations, and payroll.
• Complete month end closings.
• Present financial statements.
• Analyze financial data and produce financial reports.
• Administer accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Audit ing work done by colleagues.
• Developed new reports as necessary and efficiently.
• Responsible for payment collections.
• Extracting relevant information for reports and presentations.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Determined cost of operations by establishing standard costs; collecting operational data.
• Identified financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Guided cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining processes and techniques; recommending actions.
• Improved financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.
• Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
• Maintains database by entering, verifying, and backing up data.
• Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; studying proposed changes in methods and materials.
• Increases productivity by developing automated accounting applications; coordinating information requirements.