SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Consultant with over 9 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, Blueprint, 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.
• Worked in Multiple sectors such as Pharmaceuticals, CPG, Utilities, AFS, Manufacturing and Automotive Industries.
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects of RTR (Record to Report), PTP (Procure to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash).
• Strong understanding of configuration for the SAP FI-FM applications and fixed assets functionality; and experience in SAP FI-FM configuration for SAP public Sector Funds Management; Experience with SAP Industry Solutions for Public Sector.
• Work directly with Cross-Product Line and SAP S/4 HANA QA by supporting their data needs.
• 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.
• Central Finance S4 Hana Implementation planning for Confidential - 1709 Brownfield Implementation, 1709 Simplification list Analysis
• Hands-on experience and technical proficiency in implementation, design and configuration of major functionalities in SAP PS: e.g., Assembly processing, material requirement integration and project deliveries, workforce planning, milestone related billing, resource related billing, CATS integration, revenue and cost planning, PS/CO reporting, RAR, Revenue Recognition
• Enhanced ICMR (Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation) to properly capture auto AP/ AR sub-ledger matching which involved configuration/ customization of intercompany reconciliation areas
• 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
• Facilitated data conversion activities for assigned application implementation projects with end users, other IT team members, and vendor technical resources as needed.
• Contributed to the design of the future data governance structure with Client and developed roadmap for future Data Conversion Implementations.
• Resolving complex issues by deploying expert problem-solving skills within the entire team. Worked on Data Migration including the mapping, conversion and loading of data through LSMW and IDOCs for both master and transactional data.
• Coordinated and driven the mock conversion loads to ensure quality data is loaded into the system to support requisite PT/UAT cycles with established entry/exit criteria, report out mock conversion results at the Program level.
• Readily developed functional specifications for all conversion objects within migration and set-up projects. Updated the functional design based on the successful outcome of mock conversion results.
• SAP Concur experience in implementation and global rollout of SAP Concur Travel and Expense.
• Designed, Documented and Assisted Super-Users Month End and Year End process in CO and AA, AP, AR and Supported Key Users on Period and Year Close Activities.
• 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.
• Configuration experience with Vertex and Tax ware 3rd party tools
• Created many Validations and Substitution rules as per the needs of the client and involved in creating SAP queries and user exits
• Sound knowledge of configuring taxes for tax procedures TAXUSJ and TAXUSX
• Experience in foreign currency valuation, taxation, and localization
• Global experience includes exposure to UK GAAP, IFRS, HGB, Mexican and Japanese GAAP along with US, Canadian, European, Brazilian and Mexican Taxation principles
• Configured SAP TAX interface for Vertex with respect to, configuring communication, testing the Tax retrieval data, activating Tax interface system, configured external tax document, tax jurisdiction code structure, customizing SD&MM master data Tax indicators, setting MM&SD master data, tax codes, setting condition records SD, configuring Tax per document.
• Worked closely with other teams to understanding the data migration strategies employed by the team.
• 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.
• Collaborated with technical team to develop data conversion programs with SAP ECC 6.0 to load legacy data from IS&GS business sector to Space Systems.
• Support Complex Assembly Manufacturing Solutions (CAMS)
• Experience in Non-SAP systems analysis, design, and implementation of Financial, Costing, Purchasing and Payroll systems.
• Extensively worked on both Manual and Automated Testing. Proficient with automated testing and management tool: BPT, Load Runner, QTP, Quality Center, Clear Quest and Clear Case. Performed Smoke, Unit Test, System, and Integration, UAT, Performance and Regression Testing. Good experience in defect tracking and generating various types of reports. Proficient in analyzing defects, prepare defect report and following up with design/development team.
• 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 workshops 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
• Experience in Funds Management with configuring FM Area, Fund Center, Hierarchy Variant, Fund Type, Fund, Funded Program, Commitment Item, Update Profile, Budget Profiles, Budgeting, Account Assignment Derivation, Document Type, Number Ranges, and Reports.
• 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.
• Working with salesforce (SFDC) team to explore options of SAP ECC integration with SFDC service component
• 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.
• Design and implement business solution based on SAP HANA, BW and BO suite will be considered as a main track as they represent core solutions in the BI area, we will also evaluate expertise gained on enterprise performance management (BPC) or advanced analytics (Big Data, IoT, predictive analytics)
• Familiar with all kinds of BI tools like Tableau, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI, etc.
• Experienced in configuring and resolving issues in procure to pay (P2P), order to cash (OTC) cycles
• Experience in the entire cycle of Procure to pay process right from the stage of RFQs until the vendor invoice.
• 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.
• Thorough understanding of the BusinessObjects Integration with SAP BW, SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA ABAP CDS Views.
• Strong knowledge in Report Painter, Report Writer, and unique functional reporting, Expose to the Global E&O Dashboard on Tableau
• Power BI for building, deploying, and managing applications and services
• Exposure and Good knowledge in developing Power BI Reports and Dashboards from multiple data sources using Data Blending.
• 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.
• Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench LSMW for data uploads for various SAP Projects.
• Extensive experience in developing Interfaces from Non-SAP systems tools like KEENAN, EPOS, CRM, PeopleSoft and Lawson and Development of SAP Custom Reports as per client requirements.

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, Sunrise, FL

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing requirement and gathering data such use cases, test cases and Proof of concept in the development landscape.
• Providing Production or enhancement and configuration support for COPA reports, updating/adding Characteristics values to the existing COPA reports, updating COPA Derivation Rule.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrading /new implementation/ integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW for excel data Loads.
• According to the client specific, writing the functional specification for generating new standard SAP programs, custom programs and new reports to ABAP Team for development
• Involved in Trade Fund Configuration
• Automation Process - Applying deductions, creating deductions, reconciliation, reporting
• Invoice/check requests- invoicing, check request, financial control reconciliation
• Live CPF Accrual - CPF Accrual for shipments, integration in between SAP and Salesforce (SFDC) with snaplogic as the middleware, CPF indirect accounts, master data
• Reporting to IT DIRECTOR, WORKING WITH PM'S AND BA'S
• Involved Post-Go Live support integrated workshops.

Confidential, West Palm Beach, FL

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

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.
• Performs intercompany reconciliation, data gathering and coordination
• 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.
• Setup basic customized reports using Concur Intelligence to aid in management analysis and implementing controls.
• Prepared Configuration Rational, Visio process flow diagrams and design documents to configure and customize/ design the SAP Treasury- IHCC module to have capability of IC Netting/ auto clearing of customer and vendor open invoices by auto posting of Internal Bank Statements (EBS) using EDI/ Idocs (e.g. INVOICE, PAYEXT, FINSTA), for user exit/ BTE enhancement needed for reversal of Payment Orders in IHC intercompany transactions, ICR or ICMR (Intercompany Reconciliation or Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation) enhancements to properly capture auto AP/ AR sub-ledger matching
• Implemented Concur in some of the countries across EAME, APAC, NA and LATAM
• Advanced SAP Concur Configuration like Expense, Request, Advance, Intelligence/Cognos, Travel, Web Services, Imports and Extracts, Concur integration with other systems
• 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.
• Performed the implementation of US tax strategy, Canadian tax strategy and Australian tax strategy for Indirect taxes for over 200 entities to the parent company
• Worked SAP HANA XS development to expose data into client, Core data services (CDS) to create tables and views
• Worked on HANA development XS OData, XSJS, Core data services (CDS) to create tables and views
• Created CDS Views to Display Sales order header and item details, generated OData services &Consuming OData service in Fiori App.
• 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.
• Worked on Power BI Desktop to develop data analysis multiple data sources to visualize the reports with middleware teams.
• Deployed Dashboards, Reports and Data sources in the Power BI Service.
• Develop and test functional designs for BI, data discovery and analytics solutions
• Designing and setting up Proof of Concept or Demo environments for our clients
• Use of good BI throughout DB, driving adoption and growth in the user base
• Sustain positive business engagement, partnering with stakeholders to ensure BI unlocks value
• Carefully manage any impact to business change together with the project managers and co-ordinate delivery through to release.
• 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.
• Worked on following SAP functionality: FI - GL, Asset Accounting, FI-AP, FI-AR, Inter-company postings, Product Costing, 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.
• FICO Integration: Product Costing, Costing Run, Standard Cost, WIP Settlement, Variance Settlement of production orders.
• Implemented global system management and perform final integration test for Order to Cash (OTC) and for roll out of ECC 6.0 system.
• Involved in Investment Projects scenario, Custom Reports for projects, BDC for CJIC, Prepared test scripts and carried out UAT & Integration Testing.
• Worked as a Liaise between Business user, developer and solicitors regarding Project Systems transactions.
• Defined and implemented a procurement system driven by materials requirements planning.
• 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.
• Experience in the entire cycle of Procure to pay process right from the stage of RFQs until the vendor invoice.
• 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.
• Prepared documents for procurement of consumable materials.
• Set up info records for subcontracting & consignments to meet certain core business requirements.
• Implemented P2P solution with MM-FI integration for indirect Procurement
• 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, Milwaukee, WI

SAP FICO 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.
• Understand all the non-SAP team testing environments and how they map to the SAP R/3 environment and recommend best approaches to migrating to maintain product continuity with R/3 while allowing for integration testing with S/4.
• 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
• 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
• Designed and developed data conversion programs using conventional LSMW, BDC and IDocs.
• Responsible for data migration and conversion activities such as extraction, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data.
• Developed data migration approach and strategies. Provides guidance to internal IT key users to design and develop data loaders / templates to fit the business requirements.
• Prepare and review cash and intercompany reconciliations
• Developed validation programs to cross check all the data before and after the data loading. Identifies problematic areas and conducts research to determine the best course of action to correct data.
• Performed tax interface configuration for Vertex US sales and use tax.
• Worked on integration issues with Vertex.
• Worked with developers to design and test custom 1099 tax reporting transactions and related report
• Configured sales and use tax configuration to improve accuracy and efficiency of processing for U.S. and international company codes
• Carried out design, configuration, and three rounds of testing (including user acceptance and validation testing), and end-user training, knowledge transfer.
• Production support in the areas of accounts payable, purchasing, vendor master, house banks, payment program, sales and use tax, foreign currency, deposits, logistics invoice verification (LIV), account determination
• Worked with developers to design and test various interfaces between SAP and outside systems including Vertex tax bolt-on software vendor and bank related interfaces. Vendor interfaces included invoice uploads using BDC and EDI functionality
• 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.
• Involved 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, Texas

Sr. SAP FICO S/4 HANA 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.
• Help to identify and develop innovative tools for enhanced analysis or data presentation to improve decision making and performance.
• Schedule and Deliver Monthly SD SAP Reports.
• Worked on Configuration of VIM based on ICC Document types, Exception Flows and 3 way/2-way matching, integration of EDI to VIM IDOC's, custom parking reasons, duplicate check logic, VIM user exits
• Enhancements to VIM Indexing Screen, DP Dashboards, VIM Analytics report (DP Table extensions) as part of implementation
• Exposure to APO System, and to Tableau and BODS as Dashboard Tools.
• 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
• Understand all of the mechanism for creating Test Use Cases and Test Data in S4/HANA, using scripting options and recommend best practices to non-SAP team per use case.
• 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.
• Configured the Project System Module which includes Project profiles, Planning, Budget Profiles, Status profiles and Planning Layouts, Operational Structures,
• 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.
• 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.
• Experience in the entire cycle of Procure to pay process right from the stage of RFQs until the vendor invoice.
• 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, Sugarland, TX

Sr. SAP FICO/ Central Finance 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.
• Central Finance S4 Hana: Implementation - 1709 Brownfield Implementation.
• 1709 Simplification list Analysis
• Responsible for complete SAP Landscape, assisted with S4 Logistics integrations
• 1709 Central Finance implementation - Central Ledger, MDG, SLT configurations and mappings for key mapping (ID mapping) entities, as well as for value mapping (code mapping) entities.
• Stop replication of CFIN ACCHD (and AUFK and COBK if required)
• Clear transfer status for triggers & status & Replication & Runtime objects
• Clear migration logs for FI extraction.
• Conducted several meetings with clients to help them formulate conversion rules for each field.
• Involved in every aspect of Data Conversion from start to Go-Live.
• Managed Vendor / Quality / APO / CRM objects for data conversion.
• BW/BI Sales History and Obligation data conversion lead
• Conversion of Material Master, Purchase Orders, Fixed Assets, Vendor Master, Customer Master Data and using information tools to analyze and improve data quality prior to migrate data to ECC
• Assists in driving the implementation of reports, interfaces and data conversions
• FI/CO reporting, interface and data conversion skills
• Plan and executing data conversion activities (e.g., test data)
• Must be effective in turning functional/technical solutions and discussions into business minded conversation on how to grow the value of ERP
• 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.

Confidential, Portland, OR

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project implementation from ‘Blueprinting’ to ‘Go-Live.’
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Developed the FICO configurations and designed the documentations.
• Configured system settings for Chart of Accounts, Classic GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets including the payment run program, automatic check payment and Lock Box.
• Used Solution Manager for the Central Data Repository for the Business Blueprint, Configuration
• Made necessary setting for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client.
• Real time integration setup with FI Sub ledgers, Asset Accounts, Controlling and Materials Management
• Made settings for the Dunning procedure and configured the dunning procedure.
• Created Financial Statement Version for Balance Sheet and P & L Reports
• Configured Cost center accounting, Profit center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, and Product Costing.
• Integrated Product Costing with MM and SD, and worked for better reporting in Profitability Analysis.
• Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, maintained versions, distribution, and assessment.
• Developed the test cases for the regression, system integration testing.
• Performed the logistic invoice verifications for the Sales and Distribution.
• Developed the pricing and conditions for the Logistics.
• Participated in the integration process of FICO with MM and SD
• Defined the financial statements, and month end and year end.