SUMMARY

• A Dynamic professional with 11 years of experience in SAP Finance and Controlling in SAP ECC and S4 HANA Finance and having 8 years of experience in the field of Finance & Accounts.
• Involved in 4 Full Life Cycle implementations, 1 upgrade and 1 support projects
• Extensive experience in analysis, design, development, customizations, and implementation of SAP ERP applications.
• Experience in General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting and Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Project Systems, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting.
• Extensive experience in processes, Procurement to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash(O2C) and Record to Report.
• Hands on experience of FI integration with SD, MM and HR
• Strong experience in the FICO space, creating master data in the Finance module, GL Accounts, Customers, Vendors, Bank Accounts, Profit/Cost Center, a good understanding of SAP master data loads techniques LSMW, Data Migration Cockpit (DMC) and LTMC
• Expertise in Implementing SAP integration with banks, in various formats like IDOCS, XML, TXT, etc.
• Experience in data migration process from existing SAP ECC system to new SAP Confidential /4 HANA system.
• Hands on Experience in New GL Configuration, Document Splitting, Parallel Accounting.
• Well versed in SAP FI/CO implementation and post implementation functions viz. Requirement Mapping, Documentation, Gap Analysis, Testing and Post Implementation Support.
• Experience in Greenfield and brownfield implementations of S4 HANA.
• Well versed with most of SAP standard FIORI Apps in the Finance.
• Very strong Financial Accounting, Auditing and Taxation background.
• Excellent communication, inter - personal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP

SAP FICO Modules: General Ledger/New GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting.

Financial Accounting: Chart of accounts, Fiscal year, Company Code configuration, Business areas, Functional areas, Intercompany transactions, Validation and Substitution and Open/Close Posting periods.

General ledger (FI - GL): Account Groups, GL Master Records, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Sample & Recurring Documents, Parking Document, Hold Document, Partial Payment, Parallel Currency, Reversals.

Accounts Payable (FI - AP): Vendor Account Group, Vendor Master Data, Payment Program Configuration, House Bank, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Payment Methods, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, Down Payments, Integration with MM, Closing Procedures.

Accounts Receivable (FI - AR): Customer Account Group, Customer Master Data, Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open Item Clearing, Dunning Procedure, Terms of Payment, Outgoing Invoices, Incoming Payments, Lockbox and Integration with SD.

Asset Management (FI - AA): Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Account Determination, Asset Acquisition, Capitalization, Scrapping and Inter Company Asset Transfer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Confidential /4 Hana Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business process analysis to facilitate and understand requirements, define, analyze business process and mapping.
• Involved in Blueprint workshops to gather the requirements in the General Ledger and Asset Accounting.
• Configured Company Code global settings, Chart of Accounts, General Ledger and Asset Accounting
• Configured settings for Parallel ledgers and Currencies.
• Configured settings for input taxes, output taxes, deferred taxes, withholding taxes for various countries.
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and UAT support on various fiori apps in General Ledger and Asset Accounting.
• Created Financial Statement version, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Groups and Profit centers.
• Created GL Accounts and Cost Centers using LSMW.
• Writing detailed functional specifications to support technical development.
• Supporting the development team with unit test data to validate correct behaviour of the technical development programs.
• Responsible for uploading financial master data for GL Accounts, Asset Balances, Assets Master Data, Cost Centers & Profit Centers.
• Configured settings for internal orders to settle the internal orders to AUC.
• Involved in requirements gathering and development of journal upload program.
• Involved in Legacy data loads for GL balances, Fixed Assets balances.
• Involved in intercompany clearing process for automatic posting and clearing of intercompany transactions.
• Prepared BPPs and trained users on various fiori apps in General Ledger and Asset Accounting.
• Provide Production Support in areas of GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and Asset Accounting.
• Working with Development Team to resolve the break-fix items.

Environment: Windows, SAP, SAP FICO, GL, AA, SAP Confidential /4HANA, ASAP.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Confidential /4 Hana Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the system upgrade to S4 HANA and fixing the issues with configuration, master data and transactional data conversion in General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Bank Accounting.
• Configured Business Partners and converted Customers to Business Partners.
• Analysed various standard apps in General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Bank Accounting as per client requirements.
• Prepared functional specifications and worked with development team on various custom Fiori apps in the Trust Accounting.
• Involved in the design and development of Bank Reconciliation Report to identify the reconciling items for bank statements.
• Setup the required changes in Parallel Ledgers, Currencies and Asset Accounting.
• Involved in conversion of GL Accounts, House Banks, House Bank Accounts and validated the financial statements and GL transactional data after the data conversion.
• Configure G/L, A/P, A/R, Asset Accounting
• Configured Electronic Bank Statements and Search strings for processing bank statements.
• Expertise in Controlling (CO) includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Project Systems and Internal Orders.
• Involved in testing and UAT support on the SAP GUI transactions and fiori apps in General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Bank Accounting.
• S4 Hana interface via ETL, MDG, Mapping structure and AIF) and Fiori Apps and Tile-based on user roles within the area of FI-GL, Tax (Input/Output by Jurisdiction) Business partners - AR/AP, New Assets (Account-based and ledger-based), Treasury.
• Involved in the preparation of User training documentation on the fiori apps related to Finance.
• Worked in business consolidation of Accounts payable, Accounts receivables and Treasury and worked with multi-currency environment.
• Involved in production Data migration, validation and Hypercare support.

Environment: SAP, ASAP, UAT, S4 Hana, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, SAP GUI, Data Migration, Windows.

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP Confidential /4 Hana Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Blueprint workshops to gather the requirements in the processes Financial Management and Procure to Pay.
• Configured Purchasing Org, Purchasing Groups, LIV tolerances, default tax code, MM-FI integration, Business Partner settings, Vendor Master, Payment Terms, Payment Methods, and Automatic Payment Program.
• Interacting with client for new business requirements and mapping the process in SAP.
• Configured settings for Manual Bank Statement to enter the bank statements.
• Responsible for handling integration issues with other modules like MM, SD.
• Purchasing assets through AP, inter-company transfers, Revaluations, Post capitalization.
• Created Vendors, GL Accounts, Profit Centers, Cost Center and Check Lots.
• Designing and mapping business process from legacy to SAP ECC for A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, A/R factoring, SAP Concur to SAP interface mapping, SD, A/R integration to SAP FSCM for Credit Management for creditworthiness.
• Worked with development team to create custom check form and custom program to generate positive pay files as per bank requirements.
• Unit Testing, Integration Testing and UAT support on various fiori apps in Purchasing, Accounts Payable and Bank Accounting.
• Prepared BPPs and trained users on various fiori apps in Accounts Payable and Bank Accounting.
• Involved in legacy data conversion for Vendor Master and Open Vendor Invoices.

Environment: FICO, SAP, FI-GL, AR, AP, FA, MM, SD, Profit Centers, Cost Center, Check Lots, ASAP, Windows.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

SAP Confidential /4 Hana Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Blueprint workshops to gather the requirements in the processes Financial Management and Asset Accounting.
• Configured Company Code, Controlling Area, Document Types, Fiscal Year, Posting Period Variant, Chart of Accounts, Ledgers, Currencies, GL Account Groups, Field Status Variants, Automatic Account Determinations, Tolerances, Valuation methods and Valuation areas for Foreign currency valuation.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Asset Technical Clearing Account, Depreciation Keys, Asset Classes, Account Determination, and legacy Asset Data Transfer.
• Unit Testing, Integration Testing and UAT support on various fiori apps in General Ledger and Asset Accounting.
• Created Financial Statement version, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Groups and Profit centers.
• Created GL Accounts and Cost Centers using LSMW.
• Revaluation of Assets, Asset retirement process and settlement of Asset under construction to fixed assets.
• Involved in Legacy data loads for GL balances, Fixed Assets balances.
• Prepared BPPs and trained users on various fiori apps in General Ledger and Asset Accounting.

Environment: SAP, Windows, UAT, BPP, FICO, SAP GL, AA, LSMW.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Vendor Master, Automatic Payment Program, Payment Terms, Purchasing Organizations, PO tolerances, LIV tolerances, small differences, bank charges, special GL indicators, alternate reconciliation accounts for AP and GR/IR Account.
• Reviewed the requirements on bank statements and configured necessary settings for Electronic bank statements.
• Reviewed the requirements on DMEE files and configured necessary settings for Payment medium workbench and DMEE trees.
• Involved in design, development and testing of custom programs to mass upload journal entries and AP invoices.
• Worked with technical team to develop interfaces to process electronic payments to various banks and bank statements & payment advices from various banks.
• Prepared functional specifications for inbound interface to post AP invoices from legacy system.
• Worked with technical team to develop various check forms and positive pay file.
• Involved in unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Prepared BPPs and trained users in Purchasing, Accounts Payable and Bank Accounting.
• Involved in Hypercare support and extended Production Support.

Environment: Windows, GL, SAP, GR, IR, DMEE, BPP, Purchasing, Accounts Payable and Bank Accounting.

Confidential

Associate SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Execution of Automated test scripts in development server and quality server as a part of Upgrade Projects as well as HANA Testing Projects.
• Performed executing test cases of various sub processes in FI.
• Procure to Pay- PO Based and Non-PO Invoices
• Organizational Master Data Set up
• Grants-Govt n Private Grants Process
• Order to Cash- MSA Billing Process
• Involved in Manual Execution of Test Scripts, which are not automated.
• Involved in extracting the test scripts from SOLMAN (Solution Manager).
• Participating in Weekly Client Calls.
• Understood the business processes of client from manual execution of test scripts.

Confidential

Accounts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised accounting department staff
• Worked with Internal Auditors and External Auditors
• Reviewed financial statements.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Financial statements of 10k, 10q reports submitted to SEC in a manner that lets investors to understand financial status of companies listed in American stock exchanges in easy and simple manner, which helps investors for taking investment decisions.
• Processing main line items in Income Statement and to bring break-ups for those items to show the true financial position of the Company
• Quality Assurance of the data -- Checking & Verification (ISMIQC) of processed information files, which are processed by production department on daily basis

Confidential

Audit Associate

Responsibilities:

• Prepared financial projections like CMA Reports, Cash flow statements, Fund’ Confidential flow statements, Break Even analysis, Debt service coverage ratio, internal rate of return, Profitability Statements and Balance Sheets.
• Evaluated and analyzed financial statements of various corporate entities for funding.
• Prepared and submitted project proposals to various banks and financial institutions for funding.
• Assisted Clients in Company Law, Income Tax, and Wealth Tax and Customs matters.