SUMMARY

• 9+ Years of Functional experience in SAP FI/CO, supporting in Business Process re - engineering and Implementation Versions from SAP R/3 Version 4.6C to ECC 6.0
• 2 full life cycle implementations of SAP FI/CO starting from project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation to go Live & support using ASAP methodology.
• Specialties: SAP Financials General Ledger (including New GL), Banking, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable), Asset Management and Controlling (Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders), Profitability Analysis and Product Costing modules, In House Cash, Banking, Treasury and Risk management.
• Requirement gathering, gap analysis, application design and configuration.
• Expertise in pre-implementation study, end-user training & preparing training manuals.
• Worked with Legacy System Migration Workbench tool (LSMW) for importing G/L, vendor and customer master data and transaction data from legacy system to SAP.
• Worked on project Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0.
• Involved in SAP 6.0 implementation of Global Rollout for Canada and Australia.
• Hands on experience using HP Quality Center (HPQC-11.00), and TAO.
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), Receivable (AR), Special Purpose Ledger and Treasury.
• Worked on business process procedures, from procurement of material to payment of vendors - MIGO, MIRO and Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Lockbox configuration, Positive Pay, W2, Banks Accounting & Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Highly experienced in the Integration of FI with SD (Order to Cash) and FI with MM (Procure to pay) SOX.
• Knowledge of S4 HANA Finance Enterprise Management 1610 and Central Finance.
• Proficient in creating WRICEF functional documents for Financials and Controlling modules.
• Experienced in working with Taxation, VAT, withhold tax, Sales tax and 1099 reporting.
• Working knowledge of SAP BW, BO modules and reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer.
• 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.
• Successfully completed multiple full-cycle implementation projects of S4 HANA 1610 enterprise solution with BI 4 reporting tools for numerous global clients.
• Specific focus is on S/4 HANA as applied to Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO), Simple Finance AKA S/4 HANA Finance (Versions 1503, 1511 and 1610), and Process Integration areas of SAP.
• Extensive experience in data transfers from CCA, EC-PCA, and Internal Orders for Profitability Analysis, Planning and Budgeting.
• Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Consolidation.
• Expertise in SAP S4 HANA 1503 data modeling (creating information models, packages, attribute views, analytic views, calculation views) and data provisioning technology including SLT, BODS and smart data access.
• Worked closely with business users and offshore ABAP developers to deliver cost-effective application systems to meet business needs.
• Experience in FICA configuration of Main /Sub, Payment hierarchy, clearing rules, Dunning, Security Deposits, Payment Clearings, Open item management, Tax, Installment plans, Returns, Refund Process, Write offs.
• Ability to write detailed Business specifications for custom reports. Extensive Experience with designing, Configuring, testing & documenting of FI/CO Subcomponents in SAP versions ECC 6.0 & ECC 6.5.
• Experience in developing documentation for Test Plans and Test Cases based on the Design Document and User Requirement Document.
• Conducted training sessions and provided end user training.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and experience in working with business users as well as senior management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0SAP

Methodologies: ASAP Methodology, Solution Manager

Operating System: Window NT/2000/XP/Vista, Windows 7,8,10

Applications: MS-Office Suite, MS-Outlook, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Functional Skill: FI/CO, MM, SD

Database Skill: MS- Access, STATA, SAS Programming

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO/ Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support users by troubleshooting issues directed to the Support Desk. Conducted interviews with users to gather requirements and to understand the As-Is system.
• Provided appropriate solutions to the end-user reporting and training needs.
• Configured the New General Ledger Accounting, cost accounting and PCA.
• Managed on-time delivery, project plan, coordinated with the offshore team.
• Support the implementation of development solutions following a standardized development/implementation methodology.
• Maintain documentation for reference by regulators, auditors and management in SAP S4
• Helped in the month-end closing process in the areas where the user community needed help in reporting and in the reconciliation of COPA to FI.
• Configured the New General Ledger Accounting, internal orders and consolidation of the financial data.
• Implementation planning for Confidential 1610 Central Finance implementation - Central Ledger, MDG, SLT configurations.
• Trained the SAP users on the usage on day to day AP/AR activities.
• With the financial closing cockpit, we expand client proficiency through unified observing and control and improved automation.
• Good working knowledge of the Central Finance scenario in Simple Finance in a distributed system landscape in SAP S4 HANA
• Configuration of SAP CRM with SAP S/4 Hana Finance.
• Activated the Material Ledger (ML) for posting the MIRO & MIGO Transactions.
• Creation and enhancement of SAP S4 HANA 1610 Web-based applications with emphasis on data modeling.
• Led the various phases of SAP S4 HANA 1610 Enterprise Management Implementation using ASAP methodology.
• Universal Journal entry system and its implementation.
• SAP Native Hana Data Modeler Developer to utilize S4 HANA 1503 Data Modeling for custom Revenue Accounting solution.
• Provide innovation and generate business value for customers on the latest SAP HANA 1610 platform. Participated in multiple end - to-end implementation and roll-out projects using ASAP methodology, and in various support roles.
• Configuring and setting up functionalities involving cash stream processes and heavy focus on FSCM components disputes and collections management.
• Configured Business Process Flow, Implementing Work Status for S4 HANA, Creating and assigning BPC security objects - tasks, teams, data access profiles etc.
• Functional expertise in several BRIM areas including Subscription Order Management, Convergent Mediation, Convergent Charging, Convergent Invoicing, FI-CA.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including payments) Integrated Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Functional expertise in Billing process with integrations to FICA and Revenue Recognition.
• Configured the posting keys, and defined templates for recurring entries/ posting in GL accounts. AR - customer transactions, sales orders, Master data, Payment terms.
• Viewed and resolved business issues relating to FICA and Billing/Invoicing, Billing on tax.
• Managed on-time delivery, project plan, coordinated with the offshore team.
• Involved in designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and implementing the S4Hana 1610 (SFin 2.0) on premises edition.
• Work closely with programmers and software developers to in corporate solutions for system or client issues.
• Deep understanding of US GAAP accounting standards according to SOX compliance protocols.
• Configured and maintain internal orders used for a variety of purposes like overhead orders, investment orders, Accrual orders.
• 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.
• Ensuring that offshore team resources are properly loaded, help them in solving tickets where required and ascertain that the tickets are resolved well within the stipulated SLA timelines set.
• Worked on TRM process including Front office, Back office, Accounting, position management, Risk analysis, Limit management, in out bound interface and Exposure Management. FICO Semi-Annual Test of SAP Automated SOX controls. SOX compliance with treasury and risk management.
• Configuration Vendor Account Groups, Vendor Master Groups, IHC, House Banks, Bank accounts, Check lots, Reason codes, Automatic Payments Programs (APP), recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, etc.
• Configured the posting keys, and defined templates for recurring entries/ posting in GL accounts. AR - customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms.
• Provided support and guidance to the Business Re-engineering team by identifying potential data risks or issues that existed within the enterprise.
• Managed on-time delivery, project plan, coordinated with the offshore team.

SAP FICO/ Consultant

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created 40+ new company codes right from requirement gathering, configuration, testing, and documentation to go live.
• Configured In House Cash (IHC), House Banks, Treasury settings for multiple company codes. Created House Banks, bank accounts, ranking order, automatic payments, term of payments, payment methods.
• Implementation of Plant Abroad Scenarios during EU roll out.
• Back to basics invoice to cash lead, SAP FICO FSCM SAP versions: ECC 6.0 EHP 6, CRM 7.0
• Re-configured Product costing setup with activation of enhancements and equalization user exits and provided technical expertise for carrying out annual cost roll for both in-house materials as well as subcontracted materials.
• Extracting Master data & transactions data to Non - R3 format, clean up data, mapping interfaces, loading data into SAP format (IDOC) and testing loaded data.
• Prepares financial and operating reports to provide a basis for management planning, operating controls, and performance measurements and results in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP).
• Create, enforce, and adhere to S4 HANA 1503 development standards.
• Developing SAP S4 HANA 1503 information models such as Procedure and Hana Views (Attribute, Analytics and Calculation views) with graphical and SQL Scripting, SDA (Smart Data Access).
• Performs complex SAP ABAP design, development, testing, and debugging work related to the implementation, enhancement, and support of SAP modules. Designed and executed of end to end scenarios for FICA.
• Lead the technical design and implementation of all HR and Payroll projects, enhancements and system support and to the extent possible Treasury and Cash Management.
• Gathering/analyzing requirements and translating them into detailed SAP FICO/ TRM/FSCM functional specifications.
• Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for designing, developing, and testing SAP functions associated with financial operations, which includes expertise in general ledger accounting, accounts receivables, accounts payables, asset management, cost center accounting, project/product cost controlling, profitability analysis, and profit center accounting.
• Configure SAP FICO systems to meet client business requirements, including connection points with SD (Sales and Distribution), PP (Production Planning), MM (Materials Management) and other modules and implementation of SAP best practices, SAP AR and FI.
• Mapping is used during the initial load and day to day transactional data transferring to central finance system.
• Hybris billing including convergent charging and the invoicing billing process and integrations to FICA and revenue recognition, Finance Subject Matter Expert (SME), participates in projects.
• Implementation planning for Confidential Migration - 1709 Brownfield Implementation
• Researches and resolves production support issues, coordinate developments, provide technical support, contribute to overall software architecture and process solutions for SAP S4 HANA.
• Provide technical and business process expertise to enhancements or changes with collaboration with IS business partners in FI (Finance), CO (Controlling), AM (Asset Management), and to the extent possible Treasury and Cash Management.
• Prepare and maintain current BPC process and system documentation in compliance with the company’s information security policy.
• Recognizes impacts of changes and ensures appropriate due diligence performed before making changes and is thorough in testing solutions before implementing to avoid rework. Demonstrate a sound knowledge and application of IT change, release, problem, incident and continuity management processes, identify risks and SODs in finance treasury.

SAP FICO Production Support

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the AS-IS system, performed gap analysis and designed the TO-BE system
• Provide Production Supportfor the Financial Accounting - General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable, bank accounting, Asset accounting and for Controlling - Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, and Product Costing in SAP Application for AstraZeneca - US and Canada, Medimmune Biologics - US, UK, and Europe, and IPR Pharmaceuticals - Puerto Rico.
• Design, implement and deliver business processes within the FICA functional area, including high-volume customer financials management with SAP IS-U and fund management using SAP Funds Management (PSCD).
• Product Costing (COPC): Configuring Material Cost Estimate with and without Quantity Structure, Maintained Settlement Structures, Configuring Variance Calculations and WIP Calculation, Setting of Activity and Maintaining Planning for Overhead Cost and Integrating COPC with SD, MM and COPA, Cost Variants, Valuation Variants
• Worked on customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes on Accounts Receivable (A/R).
• Performed different types of testing’s like Functional, Integration and Regression for the new enhancements on FICA module.
• Integration aspects between CATS (time)- PS- SD (DIP profile, resource related billing, pricing procedure) - FI/CO
• Designs, develops, codes, and tests complex programs for SAP modules and functions using ABAP programming language.
• Troubleshooting, performance monitoring & analysis, HANA, ERP, experience with mainframe, DB2, Oracle, Wintel, Unix, Linux.
• Responsible for the day to day support activities for the COPA / HANA and BW/ HANA landscape.
• Supporting SLT for the data replication from ECC to HANA for the COPA / HANA landscape.
• Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting.
• Convey leading practices using standard SAP FSCM, - Credit Management.
• Update and maintain dimensions and hierarchies and data elements in BPC.
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, and extracted reports.
• Create R& D Internal Order, Set Planner Profile, plan costs for R& D order, Check Settlement Rules, Execute Settlement of planned costs for R& D order, Confirm Correct Settlement
• Configuration of PS-revenue recognition (Results Analysis, settlement) process.
• Provided configuration support in MM, ML and SD integration for account determination.
• Worked Closely with Various Cross Functional Teams in the areas of Procurement, Order to Cash, and Supply Chain Management modules and provide the required assistance with the Financial Configuration in the SAP Application for better integration.
• Developed functional specifications for various RICEFW objects identified to address the GAP’s in standard SAP in fulfilling business requirements.
• Developed and maintained new reports in Report painter

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked in all phases of ASAP Methodology; Project Preparation, Business Blue-Printing, Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live & Support. Interacted with end users to understand the process flow and suggested improvements.
• Configuration for Product Costing (CO-PC) which includes Cost Defining and maintaining activities, defining Input & Output/Price setting for Activities.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP through LSMW. Extracting Master data & transactions data to Non - R3 format, clean up data, mapping interfaces, loading data into SAP format (IDOC) and testing loaded data.
• Accounts Payable: Creation of vendor master records, groups, vendor documents, number ranges, payment terms, discounts, Configured Automatic Payment Program.
• Troubleshooting, performance monitoring & analysis, HANA, ERP, experience with mainframe, DB2, Oracle.
• Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items
• Configured and customized integration links between FI/CO/SD/MM/ML/PP to optimize transaction processing and analyze issues in interfaces EDI & IDOCs.
• Creates specialized reports for SAP modules using ABAP programming languages.
• Defined and assigned reconciliation ledgers and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) created the cost centers and maintained the Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities, Statistical Key Figures
• Developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment to allocate manufacturing overhead cost to cost objects. Configured settlements, cost splits for Activity Price calculations. Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration
• In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. defined the settlement rules, and used internal order with AUC /Capital investment projects
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc. and extracted reports using PCA
• In Asset Management configured asset classes, master depreciation and other business transactions. Fixed asset accounting, reconcile asset management to GL.

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined Automatic Payment Program, check management, defined settings for invoices and credit memos.
• Worked on costing variant component: Define Costing Variant, Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Date Control, Quantity Structure Control, and configured variance calculation
• Configuration of Product Costing (CO-PC), including defining settlement profile, Assessment Cycle and distribution and various activities
• Created Standard Cost Estimate, Mark and Release, Costing Run
• Designed the month-end process for Overhead, WIP, variance, settlement process
• Created of Assessment Cycles, Costing Sheet and Activity type
• Customized and tested the account assignment, screen layout rules and number ranges for the asset classes, created depreciation keys like ordinary depreciation, special depreciation and imputed depreciation.
• Developed, configured and tested the electronic bank statement, cash management and lockbox procedure.
• Configured area of AP-house banks, recurring entries, accruals, deferrals and areas of AR-dunning, interest calculation and credit management.
• Defined Controlling areas within the company, assigned number ranges to controlling area, maintained versions, maintained Budget Profile, Planning Profile and Planning Versions in controlling, created various Cost center and Profit center hierarchies, CO object assignments, Substitution and Validations, configured Primary & Secondary manual and auto Cost Elements
• Configured Operating concern attributes and the CO-PA Settlement Structure with the settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in CO-PA.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, Exchange rate types, Distribution, assessment of costs and statistical key figures.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured costing based CO-PA, assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures, including decisions on characteristics, key figures, derivation rules and settlement to CO-PA
• Used CO-PA to report profitability by Customer, Product and Market. Created P & L statements CO-PA reporting tools
• Maintained Cost Center Hierarchy, and defined Distribution and Assessment cycles for monthly allocations

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering for business process.
• Mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/ validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO.
• Documented critical changes performed system tests and trained client team members on new system functionality
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss for inter-company transactions.
• AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Cash receipts.
• Worked extensively Configuring Lockbox and mapping Banking data format
• Product Costing - Estimation of product costs in integration with PP and MM modules, WIP calculation and variance settlement
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)- created the Operating concern, configured costing-based Profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in Profitability analysis
• Involved in FI - SD integration.
• GR/IR ledger configurations. Creation of reconciliation accounts for account receivables (AR) and accounts payables (AP). Setup of automatic incoming payments.
• Configured for customer and vendor master data migration from legacy system to SAP system through LSMW (IDOC format).
• Created house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, automatic payments, terms of payments, payment methods in AP/AR and also configured the system for short and over payments.
• Configured electronic bank statement, payment confirmation, accounts receivable and master data setup.
• Integration of finance module with sales & distribution (SD), Material Ledger (ML) materials management (MM) and involved in primarily sales orders.
• Involved in post go live phase by resolving various issues.

SAP FICO Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on New GL in the areas of parallel accounting, document splitting and real-time integration between FI and CO.
• Configured Withholding taxes, payment advices, valuation, financial statement versions and cross company code transactions.
• Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, assigned company codes to depreciation areas, created screen layouts and number ranges, configured depreciation keys, parallel valuation of assets, depreciation run, periodic depreciation posting and error handling, involved in uploading of asset data using LSMW.
• Simulated asset reports, asset history sheets and depreciation to provide desired reports to the local accounting team; Customized ABAP Z-reports for displaying asset account balances and developed special reporting capability for monthly depreciation forecast for future years.
• Involved in the maintenance of GL Master Records, Tolerance groups, Reversal of documents, Document types and Posting keys
• Worked on Customer Master Records, payment terms, reason codes, Lock Box Program Cash application, Credit Management and closing operations in Account Receivables (AR)
• Involved in the entire Consolidation (ECCS) process which involves collection, Preparation of reported financial data, and the consolidation of the financial data
• Prepared business process flow charts and conducting workshops with business process owners to sign each process before moving to another phase and getting conformation about the same.
• Customized and configured the GL, creation of master data - chart of accounts, GL posting and reversal of documents.
• Configured recurring entries, special GL transactions-down payments.
• Defined EBS, lock box processing program, configured Lock Box processing at banks, worked on liquidity forecast, cash management and cash journal.