SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Consultant with over 8+ years of strong functional experience in the implementation, customization, and configuration of SAP FICO module.
• Excellent Configuration skills in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profitability Analysis and Product Costing mentioned below.
• 3 Full life cycle implementation using ASAP methodology, understanding of “As Is “Business processes, Blue Print, Realization - Configuration, Final Preparation-Unit & Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Preparation of Test Scripts, Authorization design for Roles with Security team & developing BPP's, End Users User Training Pre & Post Go Live Support.
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects of RTR (Record to Report), PTP (Procure to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash).
• Experienced with Record to Report (RTR), creating Functional specification for BI to extract data from FI and CO for reporting and Financial Accounting. Integration of FI with MM, SD and WM, LE (Logistic Execution), LIV (Logistic Invoice Verification), Internal orders and Month End closing.
• Experience in Requirements Gathering, Conducting Workshops, Analyzing, Process Designing, Prototyping, Training, Configuring, Implementing, Testing of Business Application Process in SAP HCM Module: Payroll, ECM, Benefits and Leading the Payroll Implementation Teams.
• Configured the Project System Module which includes Project profiles, Planning, Budget Profiles, Status profiles and Planning Layouts, Operational Structures
• Experience in SAP Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) module and Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) module
• Knowledge and Experience in FSCM Module - Collections & Dispute Management, Biller Direct, New Credit Management, In-house Cash (IHC) and Bank Communication Management (BCM).
• Proficient in project evaluation, business blueprint documentation, configuring and in depth understanding of business relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and integration with SD, MM modules.
• Specific focus is on S/4 HANA as applied to Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO), Simple Finance AKA S/4 HANA Finance, Process Integration areas of SAP. Provide innovation and generate business value for customers on the latest SAP HANA platform.
• Responsible for business and system solutions, design and document methodologies, configuration of S/4HANA FI & CO functional module, integration processes, conduct workshops, user training and continued support during the projects.
• Expertise in configuring and customizing Logistics Invoice verification, GR/IR account maintenance, Automatic payment program, house banks, check management.
• Participated in multiple end- to-end implementation and roll-out projects using ASAP methodology, and in various support roles.
• Record to Report Accounting (RTR) is responsible for RTR process for dedicated Affiliate/s and coordination and oversight of accounting activities for this affiliate as a first point of contact (FPOC).
• Conducting as-is study of business processes, conduct work-shops to define project requirements and scope, gap analysis, activities list, project schedules, conduct walk-through sessions for quality assurance for specifications, garner user acceptance to the to-be scenario, plan and execute integration tests, cut-over tasks, post go-live support, second level help-desk support and key-user training.
• Experience in working with Manufacturing, Retail industries served as background knowledge for understanding the business requirements and processes
• Extensive experience in Lockbox configuration and processing, automatic payment program and dunning process.
• Controlling experience in configuration CO Enterprise structure and testing Cost Center accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Internal Orders, RICEF and Credit Management.
• Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to understand the shortcomings of SAP’s business processes, capture justified user requirements, and manage these through to completion within a structured development cycle
• Configured and changes Fiscal Year Variant for client as per business requirement and checked for integration with SAP MM/SD/PP Module for Fiscal Year Variant change.
• Knowledge of SAP BW on HANA and BusinessObjects Architecture with the ability to design, develop and implement Data Warehouse and Business Analytics solutions to support complex business requirements.
• Experienced in configuring and resolving issues in procure to pay (P2P), order to cash (OTC) cycles
• Successfully executed global implementation for clients from Scope study to Go-Live and Post-Go-Live support in various projects.
• Administration of the Blackline Account Reconciliation System which includes security, exchange rates, reassignments, data management, and reporting responsibilities.
• Ability to work as an SAP techno-functional consultant with sound knowledge in CATTS Programming, ABAP queries and LSMW.
• Strong knowledge in Report Painter, Report Writer, and unique functional reporting .
• 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.
• Ability to take on challenges and strong determination towards meeting deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Finance: Classic GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, VAT Taxes

S/4 HANA: Finance (SFin 2.0, 1503, 1511 and 1610 ).

Bank Accounting: Electronic Bank Statement, Manual Bank Statement, Lock Box, Blackline Account Reconciliations

CO: CCA, CEA, IO, Product Costing, and COPA.

Other Skills: LSMW, CATT, IDOCS, ABAP Queries, Report Painter, Report Writer / Report Painter, EDI, ERS, BW, WM, Solution Manager, RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms).

Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8.1, 10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO/RTR

Responsibilities:

• Preparing required documents user training providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business process in SAP.
• Responsible for analyzing requirement for production support gathering data and test cases in the development landscape and resolving the issue.
• Analyzing the issues with custom transactions for customer master creation and other custom transactions for the customer.
• Core SAP FI areas such as Banking, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger accounting Asset Accounting.
• Production support - solving priority tickets P1, P2, P3 related to GL, AR, AA.
• For Accounts Receivables (AR), configured Customer Master Data and master groups, grouped customers to defined Credit Control Area and Dunning Areas. Maintained Bank Customer Accounts, configured tolerance limits for customers and managed AR reconciliation account for sub-legers for customers, Lockbox Configuration, Configured down payment settlement and customized payment terms for customers with multiple payment types like Automatic payments, ACH etc.
• Support for various interfaces like Blackline, Concur and Fieldglass which are linked with SAP.
• Administrator of Blackline, and online tool for month end close tasks and accounts reconciliations
• Collect the business requirements for FSCM Dispute, Collection, Credit Management and Biller Direct.
• Prepared scope and business Blue Print Documents based on the business requirements.
• Configuration for Auto creation and synchronization of Vendor and Customer Mater changes to Business Partner Master Data in FSCM.
• Providing SAP configuration support to SAP modules, specifically Financial Accounting and RMCA
• Configure and maintain the new and existing functionality in the SAP RMCA and FI modules including gathering business requirements, determine system design impact of business process changes and develop specifications.
• Conduct several sessions training the business on WBS structure set up which included training and various methods of Project structure set up.
• Implemented Dispute Management Application - Creation of Dispute Case Type, Priority, Status and Person Responsible and Integrated with Biller Direct.
• Implemented the New FSCM Credit Management Application - Configure Rules for Credit Check, Activate BADI’s and Master Data (Business Partner) set up.
• Co-ordinate with portal development team for custom enhancements in Biller Direct portal screens.
• Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces.
• Record to Report (RTR), creating Functional specification for BI to extract data from FI and CO for reporting and Financial Accounting. Integration of FI with MM, SD and WM, LE (Logistic Execution), LIV (Logistic Invoice Verification), Internal orders and Month End closing.
• Worked on following SAP functionality: FI - GL, Asset Accounting, FI-AP, FI-AR, Inter-company postings, Product Costing, Material Ledger, COPA, CCA, Internal Order, Project System, Production Order Closing, FI-Accruals, Credit Management, WRICEF Objects.
• Conducted Unit Testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing for FICO processes.
• Provided training to a group of Super Users.
• Co-ordinated with cutover team for FICO cutover activities.
• Provided hyper-care support.
• Worked on the following Integration issues:
• FICO Integration: Product Costing, Costing Run, Standard Cost, WIP Settlement, Variance Settlement of production orders.
• MM Integration: Invoice Receipt process, usage of PIR for product costing.
• FICO Integration: COPA Postings for the billed documents, Intercompany Billing, Invoicing, Freight Settlement, Rebate Settlement.
• Implemented global system management and perform final integration test for Order to Cash (OTC) and for roll out of ECC 6.0 system.
• Created various custom reports for WM and FICO such as stocks overview, transfer order, payroll reconciliation summary related to AP and AR cleared and open items, procure to pay and OTC process.
• Configured end-to-end Business processes (Order to Cash- OTC) with new sales document types, new item categories, new delivery document types and new billing document.
• Functional specification for RF Pick and Pack to support real time and more accurate inventory control and
• Created outbound and inbound interfaces using IDOCS, integrating POSDM with SAP ECC system for WM, FICO and OTC processes with SAP PI, message monitoring, web service integration using ABAP Proxies.
• Product Costing - Estimation of product costs in integration with PP and MM modules, WIP calculation and variance settlement.
• For Accounts Receivable Team, I have designed a Custom program Functionality to send invoices which is generates a PDF and pull the data from the customer master populates to the email and pdf attachment.
• Partner with outsourced support partner to ensure optimal delivery and mailed invoice copy to avoid this the above custom Customer statement program was created
• Provide SAP End to End support for Avon OTC process across heterogeneous environments
• Resolving critical issues in production like performance issues, application related issues or job scheduling issues.
• Responsible in creating Functional specification
• Working on the change of asset transfer program considering the sub number of the asset.
• Good Exposure to ticketing tools like JIRA and Ivanti.
• Leveraging Excel spreadsheet functions such as VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, IF CONDITION, and IF AND CONDITION and CONCATENATE to streamline data analysis required to perform various activities in SAP and to create excel based dash boards.

Confidential

SAP FICO/RTR Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analyzing requirement and the data provided and prepared SOW based on the requirement where there are two company codes with assets which needs to be transferred to the another company code with all the asset values, Master data and the depreciation simulation values and this is a Mid-Year transfer and made configuration changes to fiscal year variant.
• Involved in designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and implementing the S4 Hana 1503 (SFin 2.0) on premises edition.
• Successfully configured and tested GL, AP, AR, Controlling/Planning as part of SAP Accounting powered by HANA Add-on, Cash Management S/4 HANA Add-on, and Fixed Assets modules in SFIN2.0 - S/4HANA Finance and SAP HANA specific Fiori apps.
• Configured the Automatic payment setup for vendor payments using the S/4 HANA functionality.
• Configured Dunning procedures and Dunning runs for customers and sending notifications to customers.
• Worked on Accrual engine setup for posting manual accruals and PO based accruals in S/4 HANA.
• Setup the closing cockpit in S/4, preparing task lists, task templates and releasing task lists.
• Performed intercompany reconciliation (ICR) setup and execution in S/4.
• Performed parallel valuation in S/4 for multiple accounting principles and setup of non- leading ledgers.
• Configuration of SAP CRM with SAP S/4 Hana Finance.
• Worked on requirement gathering for Record to report (RTR) from End Users and the BI team.
• Responsible for coming up with a Best SAP practices there were
• Assisted project management and engineering on estimating for capital projects
• Prepared monthly Fixed Asset ARO (Asset Retirement Obligation) Rollforward
• Reviewed capital project costing reports and capital project close out reports
• Processed monthly journal entries and balance sheet reconciliation
• Provided billing support for all invoices to justify the capital expenditure
• Prepared monthly ARO Summary project activity reports
• These are affiliated company codes where were two approaches to use Intercompany Asset transfer (ABT1N) and the other is the legacy transfer using upload file with all the asset data through a BAPI, which is already been created.
• Responsible in choosing the best practices of SAP, which is Intercompany Asset Transfer (ABT1N) and minimizes your efforts at the time of reconciliation.
• Analyzing all the test scenarios and test case on the types of assets that might be present like assets with Current year Acquisition, Prior Year Acquisition, Acquisition values with different values in different depreciation areas and with different ordinary depreciation and unplanned depreciation
• These test cases were tested and the reconciliation is done between before the transfer AR01 and depreciation simulation reports and after the transfer reports.
• Assisted project management and engineering on estimating for capital projects
• Prepared monthly Fixed Asset ARO (Asset Retirement Obligation) Rollforward
• Reviewed capital project costing reports and capital project close out reports
• Processed monthly journal entries and balance sheet reconciliation
• Provided billing support for all invoices to justify the capital expenditure
• Prepared monthly ARO Summary project activity reports
• Perform services to upgrade from SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 4 to S/4 HANA with Simple Finance
• Conduct Delta Design Workshops to identify remediation activities needed for a successful technical upgrade
• Provide Program Management to ensure a smooth transition to the new platform
• Successful implementation of S/4 HANA Enterprise Cloud platform
• Identifying all the differences in values in depreciation simulation reports in between the before and after transfer and found out that the chart of depreciation areas are different for one of the company code. Therefore, we try to create new depreciation key in the destination company code because of the different chart of depreciation in reference with sending company code.
• Responsible for the Configuration of Asset acquisitions, Asset retirements which is done automatically in the ABT1N, Asset transfers, revaluation of assets, depreciation run posting values until period 8 because we are doing the transfer as of period 9 (June) which is a mid-year transfer and year-end closing activities in Asset accounting.
• Created a BAPI program to Simulate and post the ABT1N transfer to know where the sending asset is active and can transfer or not
• Tested all the scenarios that are present in the development Landscapes
• Moved all the configurations and performed the actual Asset transfer using the intercompany transfer using a BAPI to the Quality system
• Created LSMW to change the Depreciation key and the useful life if required to manage the values of depreciation simulation of the asset if they posted incorrect after the transfer.
• Reconciliation Files of data provided to business after the whole asset transfer and acceptance by the Business.
• Implemented each step in Production Landscape further proceeded to GO-LIVE.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements for Simple Finance implementation Develop and Build S/4HANA / Simple Finance Architecture, Build S/4HANA Design Configure, S4/HANA / Simple Finance system. Define HANA sizing, Define Interfaces to the system, Defining Solutions for Proposals and Customer problems, arranging trail for customer to give a feel of service conducting financial analysis for proposed solutions.
• Exploration of S/4HANA Cloud S/4HANA On-Premises for Assets Management functionality adaption and involved in the decision-making process of scope selection.
• Responsible for successful implementation of SAP starting from business process definition to project preparation, gathering business requirements, blueprint, realization and providing post Go-live support.
• Designed and configured core FI modules; New-GL, AP, AR, AA.
• Activated New GL, defined ledgers for General Ledger accounting, activated non-leading ledgers for individual company codes, Defined currencies of leading ledger, assigned scenarios to ledgers, activated cost of sales accounting to create profit and loss statements, segment reporting and document splitting.
• Defining the Corporate Data Model, Configuring the Succession Data Model and Configuring the Country-Specific Corporate and Succession Data Models
• Monitoring Nightly Batch Jobs.
• Online User support - Ticket Handling
• Understanding various Clients’ business processes related to Utility industry
• Feasibility and effort estimation
• Responsible for job delivery and coordinating with the onsite team/client
• Handling Change Requests
• Have good knowledge in Technical Master Data (Connection Object, Premise, Device Category, Device Location, Portion and MRU)
• Worked in areas of Device Management such as Creation of Material and Devices, Device Grouping, Installation/Removal of devices, Device Modification, Device allocation, Meter Reading Uploads
• Importing the Picklist, Creating Foundation Objects, Configuring Propagation Rules
• Creating Event-Reason Derivation Rules, Creating Workflow Derivation Rules and Managing Role-Based Permissions
• Identify the critical Business Processes and Transaction in SAP CC, CI and RMCA space
• Checking & Analyzing the release notes for each component in the CI and RMCA system
• Providing SAP configuration support to SAP modules, specifically Financial Accounting and RMCA
• Configure and maintain new and existing functionality in the SAP CC/CI, RMCA and FI modules including gathering business requirements, determine system design impact of business process changes and develop specifications.
• Importing Employee Data and HRIS Sync to integrate other Success Factors modules with Employee Central.
• Designed and configured core CO modules (CCA, PCC, PCA) and tested PCA within New GL.
• Created actual costing configuration and activation for the material ledger. Completed manufacturing cost roll-out, responsible for design, configuration, and support of Product Costing to all subsequent plants.
• Set up Cost Center assessments to segments, Co-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with SD.
• Set up costing and settlement of production order, configured costing and cost settlement to plant maintenance order/WBS element from production order/maintenance order.
• Implemented direct activity allocations for manufacturing costs; collecting overhead costs and allocating to Cost Centers.
• Provide support during month end closure, for issues related to GRIR account, product costing, foreign exchange revaluation etc. and helped for a smooth month end closure
• Configuring production orders posting to WIP, and subsequent tracking of WIP through Result Analysis cost elements to manage cost variances.
• Configured the Accounting Principles, Valuation methods for Foreign Currency Valuation as per the US GAAP and Local reporting requirements for Indonesia, China, and Australia.
• Determined WIP revaluation from price differences
• Responsible for the configuration and build of the PS elements of the solution specifically: Project templates, advanced ECP estimation, WBS & cost collection, profitability reporting.
• Created functional specifications for new RICEFW objects and through completion of Reports and Interface, working closely with the technical team in developing the functional objects.
• Defined new Vendor Account Groups and screen layouts & company code; defined number ranges for vendor accounts and assigned these number ranges to vendor account groups.
• Lead mini project for, process designing/configuring/implementing Roth benefits Plans and corrected 401K process related routines in payroll schema
• Built extensive/comprehensive data base for all the client’s wage types, for different characteristics of the wage types
• Configured Garnishments- Child support/Creditor/Leavy.
• Analysis and testing of various Interfaces in different areas.
• Worked with Payroll & time schema, Rules, and operations extensively.
• Bank Interfacing. Customized Electronic Bank Statement Reconciliation Accounts. Configuration of processing Lockbox and execution of month end closing procedure
• In Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, asset class configuration with associated asset classes, number ranges, and revaluation settings. Also defined depreciation areas and depreciation keys.
• Asset capitalization, Asset posting, asset retirements and write offs, asset settlement processing, asset depreciation process.
• Defined Field Status Variants and Field Status Groups for convenience of company code document entries.
• Created Report painter reports for 10K reporting to extract P&L statement from Profit Centers.
• Prepared scenarios for unit, functional, integrations testing and user acceptance tests. Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Execution in Quality Center.
• Extended production support for critical business issues and trained end users, prepared user documentation and necessary training material.
• Worked on incident management of procure to pay, order to cash, make to order and other month end closing activities.
• Worked on Fixed Asset Migration from Legacy to SAP
• Setup fixed asset structure - Asset class, Depreciation areas, & Asset master data. Maintained master data and structure for Asset accounting modules.
• Responsible for Configuration of Asset acquisitions, Asset retirements, Asset transfers, revaluation of assets, depreciation run and year-end closing activities in Asset accounting.
• Complete asset accounting with three depreciation areas including Book, Tax - Federal and State, with group and company currency as parallel currencies. It included complex depreciation keys and period controls for each depreciation areas, periodic posting to more than one depreciation area.
• Responsible for posting of lease payments, acquisition of leased assets, processing of the expiration and scrapping of leased assets. Responsible for designing of asset transaction types for capitalization of assets under construction.
• Defined and configured Dunning process, which included creation of dunning proposals to creating dunning notices, Interest calculation - open items/balance outstanding, correspondence and account statement process and financial statement versions.
• Responsible for customizing of payment methods, payment terms, cash discount automatic postings, bills of exchange and doubtful receivables postings. Designed and configured Payment program, electronic bank statements for payments such as direct debits, check and bank transfers.
• Period end closing operations for foreign exchange valuations on payables/receivables and G/L account balances.
• Responsible for Lockbox design, configuration and testing the complete lockbox process and incoming payments settings.
• Designed, created, and executed Unit test scripts and integration test scripts at every stage of the project. Coordinated with Users during User acceptance testing and resolved issues during UAT.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas, and profitability center.
• Grouped the company’s vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Configured fiscal year variants with year - dependent periods for year-end closing and posting period variants.
• Configured for inter-company transactions.
• Defined document types and number ranges, understanding the concept of posting keys.
• Defined field status variant and field status groups for determining field status.
• Configured chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for each company code. Creating Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers.
• Configured Asset Accounting module, including Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class, account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.
• Expertise in configuring settings for controlling area and worked on cost element accounting creating primary & secondary cost elements.
• Created and generated operating concern, created characteristics, value fields and defined the segment level characteristics to address the Profitability Analysis requirement
• Implement SAP FSCM Dispute, Credit Management and Treasury (TRM Transaction Manager) Modules.
• In Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, and availability control.
• Configuration of Rate Structure as per Business Requirement.
• Creation of Billing Master Data (Billing Class, Rates, Rate Types, Rate Categories, Operands, Prices), Rate Determination, Variant Program and Billing Schema.
• Change rate data, creation of new device, modification, technical groups scenario handled.
• Billing & Invoicing reverse, release Bill and Invoice doc scenario handled.
• Defined cost component structure, origin groups, calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, credit keys, costing sheets, overhead keys and group and cost components in Product Costing.
• Close Interaction with the migration team during code move from Test Client to Production Client.
• Documented the end user training manuals and changes made for the existing system
• Performed Unit Testing for the new developments made
• Performed knowledge transfer to business team.