SUMMARY

• Experience of 8 years as a functional consultant in SAP, OTC, FI, Sabrix, Vertex modules including Full life cycle implementations with Upgrades, Testing, Production Support projects and Enhancements.
• Experience of over 6 years in Sabrix/One Source Indirect tax, Vertex O series and also tax configuration in SAP with the integration of third party tool Sabrix/Vertex.
• Solid understanding of tax calculation procedures, tax accounts setup, configuration of automatic postings to tax accounts in SAP for its integration with Vertex.
• Experience in OneSource Tax provision, One Source Indirect taxation for North America Region (US & Canada)
• Experience in Sales and Use Tax, Consumer’s Use Tax, VAT and ECM in Vertex.
• Solid experience in the integration and tax touch points in SAP and SD, AP, AR, MM with the external tax calculation modules like Sabrix and Vertex.
• Solid understanding of the integration components Global Next and SIC for Sabrix and Vertex respectively.
• Have an in depth understanding of the Business Processes related to SAP Finance, Controlling and their Integration with MM, PP and SD Modules and worked on various versions of SAP ERP like SAP ECC 6.0, SAP ECC 5.0 and SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7.
• Experience with ASAP methodology in SAP and have solid expertise in Project Evaluation, Business Requirement Gathering, Feasibility Analysis, blue printing, Analysis, System Design, configuration, testing, documentation, training, cut - over planning, Go- live and post implementation support.
• Deep understanding of integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to cash (OTC) Cycles.
• Expertise in working with Automatic payment program (APP) for invoices, Foreign Currency Evaluation, Intercompany Transactions, Lockbox File Format and lockbox processing, manual bank statement and (EBS) processing.
• Sound configuration experience of input tax, output tax & withholding (WHT) taxes in accordance with US/ Canada jurisdiction tax laws.
• Sound experience in controlling modules: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Internal Orders (CO-IO) and Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA),
• Expertise in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows).
• Solid expertise in Data Migration with LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) and batch input recording for data uploads in various projects.
• Very good experience in handling tickets in production support, ticket monitoring and reporting with SAP solution manager.
• Extensive experience in testing scenarios like Unit, Integration, Functional, Validation, Performance, Stress, Regression and User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Ability to peer review test cases, proficient in managing QC Test planning, Test execution and defects tracking in HP Quality Center and Panaya Testing Tool
• Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills. Good problem solving aptitude with the ability to effectively work in a team.
• Outstanding abilities in making Business Presentations, Business Reports and creating documentations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cleveland OH

SAP Sabrix/Tax Lead Architect

Environment: Sabrix Applications Suite 5.2, One Source Indirect tax provision, Global Next, Sales and Use Tax, VAT, GST, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP taxes, SAP FI, AR, SD.

Responsibilities:

• Attended the blueprinting workshops with client and gathered the tax requirements for US and Canada from the AG corporate sales and use tax team.
• Analyzed the existing legacy version of tax software and SIPOCed them.
• Assisted the Basis team in the installation of Sabrix Applications Suite 5.0 and establishing the Global Next tax interface Component for Sabrix.
• Worked with the Sabrix product team for the installation of Sabrix Applications Suite for SAP.
• Created the RFC connections and tested the standard RFCs them to check the basic integration between SAP and OneSource.
• Published the Functional Design Documents (FDD) and came up with Key Design Decision (KDDs) for configuration (or development) to map them to requirements.
• Created Functional Specification documents (FSD) for enhancements in SAP for its integration with OneSource.
• Coordinated with ABAPers to explain the FSDs and reviewed the technical specification documents (TSDs) for Sabrix enhancements in SAP.
• Sound understanding of the process of passing data and tax requests from SAP through Global Next to One Source and passing data and tax information back through Global Next to SAP.
• Configured SAP system for tax calculation and jurisdiction code determination using Sabrix in US and Canada.
• Worked on the Tax rate finder, Workbench and reporting in One Source.
• Completed the company configurations within Sabrix like Companies, Registrations, Allocations, Exemptions and Authorities etc.
• Created Registrations based on the locations where the client has nexus.
• Created product mappings within One Source in accordance with the SAP product groups with similar taxabilities.
• Created products, customers, materials, product mappings in Sabrix for identifying transactions in SAP.
• Have done end-to-end testing of Sabrix system using transaction tester during tax data updates from Sabrix.
• Designed the test cases to test the SAP integration and internal configuration in One Source.
• Worked on the tax calculation procedure, tax codes, tax GL accounts setup, configuration of automatic postings to tax accounts in SAP to debug tax calculation related issues.
• Worked on the Input & Output configuration module in Sabrix.
• Discussed the tax reporting requirements with corporate tax team and suggested the standard tax reports in SAP and One Source.
• Made necessary changes to the SD pricing procedures and created tax condition types, condition records, tax classification indicators in SD for accurate tax calculation during sales order and billing using Sabrix. Calculated tax on freight also using Sabrix.
• Have been the Single Point of Contact for troubleshooting any integration issues between SAP and One Source.
• Sound knowledge of tax touch points in OTC and P2P cycles with FI.
• Conducted end user trainings in Sabrix Application Suite and created the necessary documentation for the user understanding.

Confidential, Orlando FL

SAP Vertex/Tax Lead Consultant

Environment: Vertex O series Platform, Vertex indirect tax solutions 7.0, Consumers and Use Tax, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP taxes, SAP GL, AP, AR, MM, SD, Panaya Testing Tool

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, conducting workshops with the Accounting team/ tax business users.
• Created the necessary settings in SAP for its integration with the Vertex O series Platform and tested the RFC connections.
• Provided inputs and worked with S-24 / basis team for the installation of Vertex SAP Integration Component (SIC), creation of users, roles and partitions in Vertex
• Sound understanding of the process of passing data and tax requests from SAP through SIC to Vertex O Series and passing data and tax information back through SIC to SAP.
• Worked on SAP RFC function modules and parameters for external tax system Vertex to debug tax calculation related issues in SAP.
• Worked on the Vertex.cfg file to edit/ set the default tax parameters as per the client’s business requirements.
• Worked on the procurement business events in Vertex.
• Extracted the tax rules and setup from the existing source system and imported them into the destination system using the Data management functionality in Vertex.
• Created tax payers, vendors and customers as part of the tax enterprise setup in Vertex.
• Performed end-to-end tax setup including registrations, drivers and tax rules when a new tax payer is created/configured in Vertex.
• Created taxability drivers and did the appropriate taxability mapping by analyzing Vertex supplied taxability categories.
• Configured user-defined taxability categories in Vertex and mapped them to user-defined/Vertex defined tax rules as per business requirements
• Created new calculation tax rules, qualifying conditions, tax rates, and tiers as per business requirements in Vertex
• Configured automatic and conditional tax rules in various Vertex jurisdictions for US/Canada.
• Mapped the new tax rules to taxability categories (user defined), taxability drivers and tax payers as per business needs.
• Configured and tested pre-calculation and post-calculation tax assist rules in Vertex as per business needs.
• Performed End-to-end testing of Vertex system using transaction tester during data updates from Vertex
• Tested single and batch transactions using transaction tester in Vertex when new user-defined tax rules / configuration changes are made.
• Have done integration testing of SAP-Vertex during data updates from Vertex.
• Solid understanding of tax calculation procedure, tax accounts setup, configuration of automatic postings to tax accounts in SAP to debug tax calculation related issues.
• Added new tax codes in SAP as per business requirements.
• Coordinated with offshore FI team for day-to-day status calls, troubleshooting and ticket resolution. Good experience in P2P and OTC cycles.
• Sound integration knowledge of SD and MM modules with FI.
• Worked with Vertex product support and resolved production issues by raising service requests through myVertex customer Portal. Received critical tax change notifications from Vertex.
• Conducted end user trainings in Vertex and provided necessary support for technical issue resolution during UAT.
• Performed FICO consistency checks as part of cut over activities before go-live.

Confidential, San Jose CA

SAP Sabrix Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP GL, AP, AR, SAP taxes, Sabrix Applications Suite 5.0, Sabrix MTS, Sales and Use Tax, VAT.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, suggested technical solutions in Sabrix and configured tax setup in Sabrix as per client requirements.
• Examined the AS-IS documents and recommended suitable TO-BE process in SAP.
• Provided Functional Design Documents and Functional Specification Documents in Sabrix after blue printing sessions
• Made configurations for input and output taxes by defining tax codes, assigning account for automatic postings and tax categories in accounts liable to tax.
• Configured tax GL accounts and assigned them for automatic tax postings for accruing the taxes sent by One Source sent during Accounts Payable/ Accounts Receivable Invoices.
• Used the SAP standard tax procedure TAXUSX for the calculation/ verification of US/ Canada taxes using external tax system Sabrix.
• Sound understanding of RFC modules that call external tax system Sabrix.
• Tested various scenarios in SAP like the creation of Vendors, Customers, Cost Centers, Plants, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders for the retrieval of appropriate jurisdiction codes/ tax area Ids from jurisdiction database in Sabrix
• Worked on Company Configurations, exemption licenses, authorities, product code qualifiers in One Source.
• Performed monthly updates to the existing Sabrix application as and when they are provided by the Product team in the customer portal.
• Designed the test scenarios and tested AP/AR invoices with different tax codes for US/Canada
• Created utility reports, tax rate finder, licenses, materials and customers within Sabrix.
• Calculated taxes using One Source at the US jurisdiction level. Done Unit testing, functional Testing related to third party Sabrix tax rules.
• Worked with One Source product support team to resolve tickets.
• Participated in Tax rules implementation and performed end to end testing scenarios during migration activity of Sabrix MTS.
• Designed the functional specifications for the business requirements for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and workflows (RICEFW) in SAP.
• Configured Chart of accounts, account groups, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, financial statement versions, number ranges and document types.
• Configured and customized Account Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) modules including pre-requisites to create vendor master Records, customer master records, tolerance groups, account determination and default account assignments.
• Good experience in P2P (Procure to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash) cycles.
• Solid understanding of business processes in purchasing and sales cycles.
• Coordinated the integration efforts of FICO with SD, MM and PP teams based on functional requirements.
• Involved in preparation of End User training Documentation and provided trainings to End users and supported them during the time of UAT.

Confidential, IN

SAP SD/Tax Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Vertex O series 5.0, SAP GL, AP, AR, Vertex O Series, Assets Accounting, CO-PCA,CO-PA,CO-CCA,CO-PC, SAP BI/BOBJProject: Full Life cycle Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Functional Design Documents (FDD) and Functional Specification Documents (FSD) in Vertex after blue printing sessions.
• Solid understanding of business processes in purchasing and sales cycles (OTC).
• Customizing screen layouts for document posting at account levels, Document clearing and posting in foreign currencies, exchange rate differences for the foreign transactions.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Configured Tax procedures in sales and purchase tax.
• Configured Vendors and customers subjected to input and output taxes by defining tax codes, assigning account for automatic postings and tax categories in accounts liable to tax.
• Gathered business requirements and developed technical solutions in Vertex and configured Vertex as per client requirements.
• Created the necessary settings in SAP like activation of tax interface, defining tax jurisdiction code structure, setting up tax codes for its integration with the Vertex O series Platform and tested the RFC connections.
• Created tax payers, registrations, taxability drivers and did the appropriate taxability mapping by analyzing Vertex supplied taxability categories.
• Created automatic and conditional tax rules in Vertex.
• Mapped the new tax rules to taxability categories (user defined), taxability drivers and tax payers as per business needs.
• Imported the tax setup and rules from one Vertex instance to another using import and export data management functionality in Vertex.
• Worked with Vertex production support team to resolve tickets.
• Solid experience in Vertex with Tax rules implementation and performed end to end testing scenarios during migration activity of Vertex application.
• Tested the tax area Ids and taxes calculated using the transaction tester in Vertex.
• Used the SAP RFCs to test the taxes sent from Vertex by passing the input parameters
• Scripted Test cases on Accounts Payable (FI-AP) issues and documented the issues for future purpose for the Users while execution.
• Configured AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Worked on data conversion, custom development QA and security team in implementation for prevention of LSMW program changes.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for payments to vendors, created check lots, voided checks for payment blockage, and reissue of destroyed checks.
• Configured House banks, EBS (Electronic Bank Statement), G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Worked completely on Order to Cash and Procure to pay cycles..
• Maintained settings for credit control area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers.
• Worked with EDI interfaces, idoc processing, creating of IDOCs, BDC sessions, batch input sessions, batch job creation and scheduling, variant setup for jobs.
• Trained users on daily routines and month end closing procedures.

Confidential, KS

SAP Support Consultant

Environment: SAP ERP ECC 6.0 Eh.P 4, HP Quality Center, Solution Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-1.
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
• If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change detail to Level 3.
• To have the deepest level of application or product understanding.
• 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.
• Designed Fresh Start Accounting solution approach for this client emerging from Bankruptcy.
• Worked on Accounts Payable workflow to have automated approval process
• Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, manual and unplanned depreciation.
• Distribute, settle capital assets under construction and defined maximum amount for low value asset in depreciation areas
• Configured Credit Check blocks on the sales order
• Solid understanding of business processes in purchasing and sales cycles.
• Developed custom report for business to tie intercompany accounts payable and accounts receivable transactions
• Resolved intercompany markup issues.
• Configured structures for Tax Jurisdiction codes, calculation procedures, message control and field control for Tax amounts.
• Worked with Technical team on data archiving of AP Invoices
• Worked on FI-MM and FI-SD Integrations
• Resolved FI-SD warranty Integration issues
• Worked extensively on MM and SD pricing schema’s
• Configured the posting blocks for the parked documents
• Worked on maintenance of Factory/ Holiday Calendars.
• Worked on the user and supervisor roles and authorization with BASIS team.

Confidential, Fort Myers, FL

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business processes using ASAP implementation methodology, collected and analyzed users business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, configured, troubleshoot and supported the system users.
• Designed functional specifications, configuration documents, training and user manuals based on the business scenarios.
• Written functional Specs for RICEF objects (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) as per the Business Requirements.
• Thorough understanding of overall business processes such as Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (P2P).
• Worked Vertex integration with SAP FI. Worked with Vertex production support team to resolve tickets.
• Calculated taxes using Vertex at the US jurisdiction level. Done Unit testing, functional Testing related to third party Vertex tax rules.
• Have done integration testing of SAP-Vertex during data updates from Vertex.
• Solid understanding of tax calculation procedure, tax accounts setup, configuration of automatic postings to tax accounts in SAP to debug tax calculation/accrual related issues with Vertex.
• Designed the test scenarios and tested taxes sent from Vertex in AP/AR invoices with different tax codes for US/Canada.
• Tested the jurisdiction code retrieval from Vertex Geocodes database during vendor, customer and cost center creation.
• Tested the tax area Ids and taxes calculated using the vtstest test scripts in Vertex Q series.
• Used the SAP RFCs to test the taxes sent from Vertex by passing the input parameters.
• Worked on optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items in FI- AP.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), cash management in treasury.
• Defined Exchange rates, configured currency valuation, automatic posting for foreign currency valuation and determined realized & unrealized gain.
• Created tolerance limits for employees, invoices and customers.
• Designed dunning procedures, running/ editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices based on customer segmentation.
• Integration and validation of test scripts to validate all business requirements.
• Trained business/super users at the client's strategic business units.
• Performed Cut-Over activities, Go Live and post-Go live support.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

SAP FICO/ Sabrix MTS (Managed Tax Service)

Environment: SAP Version ECC 6.0, Sabrix MTS, SAP BI, HP Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all phases of implementation from development of business blueprint, conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, and configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing.
• Proficiency in writing Functional Specs for all RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflow) objects.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot. Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in AP, payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Configured Product cost using Production Planning cost collector.
• Assigned Number Ranges for Documents, Vendors and Customers, reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Made necessary changes to the SD pricing procedures and created tax condition types, condition records, tax classification indicators in SD for accurate tax calculation during sales order and billing using Sabrix. Calculated tax on freight also using Sabrix.
• Testing Tax configuration in Vendor master data as well as customer Master data.
• Used the SAP standard tax procedure TAXUSX for the calculation/ verification of US/ Canada taxes using external tax system Sabrix.
• Sound understanding of RFC modules that call external tax system Sabrix.
• Provide guidance to user in overall SAP SD functionality generally and chargeback/rebate process specifically
• Configured system settings for integration of PS module with IM, FI, CO and MM modules.
• Participated in Tax rules implementation and performed end to end testing scenarios during migration activity of Sabrix MTS
• Created products, customers, materials, product mappings in Sabrix for identifying transactions in SAP.
• Sound knowledge in foreign currency revaluation, individual value adjustment and flat rate individual value adjustment.
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in COPA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Created check lots, voided checks for payment blockage, and reissue of destroyed checks.
• Expertise in LSMW for data migration from Legacy system to SAP system.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirement, transfers, depreciation calculation, write-offs and post capitalization.
• Integration of MM and SD with FI accounts assignment and appropriation request, investment measure in Investment Management.
• Prepared the Cutover plan and carried out cutover tasks as per schedule and frequent meetings for discussion of issues, new requirement and fixing bugs.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

SAP FI Tester

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, AP, AR, GL, FI-SD, Unit testing, Integration testing.

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in using solution manager in Test Plan management, Tester Work list, Business Blueprint, Configuration and Project administration to create the test projects.
• Creation of business process test cases and upload to solution manager.
• Configured and tested settings for Fiscal year variants, Chart of accounts, posting period variants, Field status groups, G/L Accounts, Account groups, Retained Earning Account and Tolerance groups for their employees.
• Worked on testing customer/vendor master records, tolerance limits per business requirement for over payments and under payments, reason codes and in open item management in customer accounts, configured and customized credit control area,credit management, interest calculation and payment terms tailored to specific Customer’s needs, payment advices, check number ranges, check void reasons, check printing, carrying forward balances.
• Provided configuration and test support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement’s setup, and inter-company billing.
• Worked on testing the flow of P2P (Procure to Pay) including creating Purchases Order, Good Receipts, Invoice Receipt and Outgoing Payments and trained end users on complete existing procurement to pay cycle documenting all accounting entries.
• Developed interactive and ALV reports which shows the list of paid vendors for any given date with information of payment details, payment run details, check information etc.
• Worked with technical consultants to design country/company specific forms for check printing and ACH payments and other Banking Interface requirements.
• Developed test scenarios RICEFW objects which includes both global and regional, like freight payment, case pack, supersession and unit functional testing of the same.
• Testing Tax configuration in Vendor master data as well as customer Master data.
• Involved in testing Account Determination and Number Ranges.
• Involved in testing Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Testing TAX calculation procedure TAXUSJ, tax jurisdiction code, tax codes Maintained tax codes and taxable percentage rate calculation, defined tax codes for Non taxable transactions.
• Configured and tested House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments. Checks Management through assigning number ranges for Check lots, Checks printing and defining void reason codes.
• Tested all modules of FICO with the new functionalities.
• Resolved help desk tickets with respect to various areas of FI and CO. Developed necessary process flows, documentations, change requests etc based on the requirements.