SUMMARY

• SAP FI Certified with Over 9 years of experience in SAP FI/CO, SAP - SME along with Big 4 Consulting Experience
• Business process knowledge of Retail, Manufacturing, Trading and Service industry sector
• Two full life cycle implementation projects - Blue printing to Go live and post production support
• FI expertise includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting
• CO expertise includes - Cost Center accounting (CCA), Profit Center accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Material Ledger.
• Worked on Implementation, support and roll out projects.
• Expert in all aspects ofRTR (Record to Report), PTP (Procure to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash)
• Extensive hands-on experience in the integration of FI/CO with SD, MM, PP and PS.
• SAP R/3 exposed to all phases of project from Planning, Blueprinting, Configuration, Development, Integration Testing, Cutover, and Training to Go Live.
• Expertise in Month end and Year end closing operations and process improvement.
• Worked on Custom Reports, Interfaces and custom enhancements in FICO.
• Financial Statements - Preparation and evaluation of Income statements and Balance Sheet
• Sound knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principal (GAAP), International Accounting Standards (IAS) required FICO module implementation
• Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to understand the standard SAP business processes, capture User requirements, and manage these through to successful completion and for long term growth with best practices
• Strong Problem Solving and Analytical skills with high aptitude to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate skills set into the project implementation lifecycle
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively interact with all levels of organization, and prepare required documentation
• Involved and led effort in development of a Project Plan, Defining Business Processes, and Mapping of Existing Processes to SAP Functionality, Performing Gap Analysis, Defining Project Scope, Defining Project Time Line and defining Resource Requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Skills: Simple Finance ( S4) / FI General Ledger, Accounts Payable / Receivable, Asset Accounting, bank accounting and RTR, E’Banking

CO: Cost Center Accounting, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order, Material Ledger,Profit Center Accounting & Profitability Analysis, Product Costing

Integration/ Interfaces: FICO integration with SD, MM and vertex / LSMW, I Doc’s, BDC

Technical Skills/Tools: Test Director and Quick test pro

Operating Systems: WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 95-2007&XP, UNIX, MS DOS

ERP: SAP R/3 3.1H - 4.7, ECC 6.0, SAP Business one

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server

Application Software: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power point, Access)Ms-Visio, Ms-Project

Accounting Tools: Tally, Focus, Wings, Quick Books

Reporting Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Simple Finance (S4) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP Simple Finance (S4) Functional Consultant On premise Business edition 1503 and involved in Green field implementation on SAP S4/ HANA.
• Responsible for SAP New GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Banking, Cost Center accounting, Product Costing, COPA and integration with logistics modules
• Worked on the Central Finance scenario in Simple Finance in a distributed system landscape
• Designed and recommended Finance transformation roadmap with Simple Finance to clients, based on various deployment scenarios
• Resolved issues in Finance, Accounting and Costing domain processes in order to guide large and complex client requirements
• Involved in preparing HANA Live reports and Fiori Apps
• End user Training

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the custom reports as per the client requirements
• Preparing the config rationales for FI and CO and validating the configuration
• Reconciliation of COPA,FI and PCA reports
• Substitutions for Profit center derivations
• Developing the SOP and BPP
• Month end closing activities
• End user training
• Business Signoff for the development changes
• Resolved issues relating to Payment program
• Substitutions for Profit center derivations
• Changes to the POS configuration with respect to financial transactions happening Confidential stores
• Building up the program for reconciliation of Retail business and wholesale business
• Intercompany reconciliation

Confidential, Columbus, OH

SAP Byd & FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Being a signatory as SAP FICO solution architect, designed, reviewed and approved SCM - Controlling configuration, test results and documents for SOX/Pharma compliance..
• Configured Financial Settings: Creation & Activation of Organizational Structure, Set of Books, Fiscal Year, Periods, GL creation, Bank Master, Tax authorities.
• Creation of Complete Customized Chart of accounts(GL List) along with GL a/c number, right from scratch
• Defined the Cost and profit center mapping across all entities, each cost centre mapped with multiple reporting unites and linked Business Residence based on Cordis Business Process.
• Successfully tested the required financial scenarios and prepared Test scripts/cases.
• Completed Unit Testing, System Integration testing(SIT), User Acceptance Testing(UAT)
• Created few Master data templates for collecting data from Client for Initial Set up of the system
• Finance Solution Walk through for the required scenarios, End user training
• Data Cleansing, Validation and Migration of cut over data templates into Cutover and Production systems
• Worked closely with ABAP developers to define programming requirements and test programming solutions.
• Provide functional support for master data governance, and master data troubleshooting. Work closely with end users to prioritize and manager completion of support tickets.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, FICO, SD, MM, Material Ledger

Responsibilities:

• General Ledger / Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable / Fixed Assets / Material Ledger/ Record to Report
• Material Ledger Expert - ML group valuation implementation and as a Configuration Analyst implemented the controlling modules with Material Ledger activation, involved to provide a systematic strategy for redesigning and transitioning to material ledger with group valuation as a global solution by SAP ECC6 using ASAP methodology.
• Reconfigured, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing with quantity structure, this involves blueprinting, business process prototyping and configuration.
• Created the Business process Blue Print documents for processes in AP, AR, GL, PCA, CCA, IO, COPA, CO-PC and Inter Company related scenarios
• Worked with end users and business owners to map SAP FI/CO standard processes and Company template standards to meet business requirements.
• Worked closely with business members of record to report (R2R) business functions (accounting, tax, finance) to facilitate effective solution implementations and provide knowledge transfer of system functionality to super users, subject matter experts and end users.
• As the SAP FI R2R SME responsible for the delivery of key R2R processes within a newly formed competency center and involved with end to end process of system changes, ensure requests for change are managed effectively and party to testing and UAT activities.
• Worked on the New GL Functionality Document Split: Classified GL Accounts/ for Document splitting and classified GL Accounts/Document Types for Document Split Activation
• Worked closely with P2R Team on the pricing conditions involving rebate, discount, intercompany pricing and free sample products
• Maintained settings for foreign currency translation and Exchange rate gain/loss post automatically
• Configured Lockbox with Confidential Bank with detailed reporting as required by customer
• Configured and tested the Electronic Bank Statement and Manual Bank statement
• Lead and managed go-live cut over tasks related to the finance areas. Worked on the post go-live stabilization phase and helped with the month-end closer.