SUMMARY

• 15 years of experience in Accounting and IT industry, with over 14 years of focused experience in the configuration and implementation of SAP FI/CO Module and BPC 10
• More than a Year experience in S/4 Finance(1610/1511 Version) using Green/Brown Field approach implementation
• Experience in global financial integration/ consolidation, including mergers and acquisitions.
• FI expertise includes New General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA) and Bank Accounting.
• CO expertise includes - Cost Center accounting (CCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Profit center Accounting (PCA), Account Based Profitability
• Experience in implementing SAP EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) using SAP BPC 7.5 /10.0 NW for Financial Consolidation, Capital Expenditure, Budgeting and Forecasting.
• Experience in SAP NW BW 7.1/7.3 in relation to BPC 10.
• Knowledge of Financial Supply Chain Modules (FSCM)
• Implementation experience includes business requirement collection, business process analysis, gap analysis, process design, blue print, configuration, prototype, data conversion, data loads, unit test, integration testing, user training, and production support.
• Global Financial Applications Lead for functional and ABAP development team.
• As a lead, proficient in project evaluation, business blue print documentation, customization, configuring and in depth understanding of business processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling, integration with PP,SD, MM modules, and Business Planning and Consolidation.
• Proven experience in designing specifications for conversions, interfaces, custom reports, enhancements and forms.
• Experience in ASAP methodologies, project management & planning.
• Experience in Simple and S/4 Hana implementation
• Strong functional experience in SAP S/4 Hana Finance (1610/1511), R/3 4.7 ~ ECC 6.0 in FI/CO and SAP BPC 7.5.
• Extensive experience in handling the functional aspects like Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Consolidations, and Financial Planning and Budgeting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: MS SQL Server, VB, IBM DB2, MS Access

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS-Dos, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, Windows 7,MVS

Software Package: MS Word, MS Project, MS Power Point, and MS Excel

Statistical tools: SPSS, SAS

Process Mapping: MS Visio

SAP: SAP S/4 Hana Finance, SAP-R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0 (FI/CO, GL, AR, AP, AA, CEL, CCA, IO, CO-PA, OTC, P2P, COPC, SD, MM, Treasury, Fixed Assets) TAX, PS, Vertex

LANG/TECH: ABAP

EPM: BPC 7.5, BPC NW 10.0

Consolidation: ECCS, BPC

TOOLS: SAP Tools (LSMW, Report Painter/Writer)

Shipping Systems: Bourque Data Systems(Truck/Rail), Boss system for Barges, EDGE

Material Management(MM): P2P, Material Ledger

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

S/4 Finance Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• S/4 Finance Implementation Consultant I am involved in Blue Print Design / Development and process setup and Data Migration activities from existing Legacy SAP and BVP to S/4 Hana.
• Involved in design of Data Migration Activities from Legacy and Third Party Systems like BVP, Pack manager & Navison
• Involved in creating functional specs for Data Migration into ETL using BODS Program
• Involved in Asset Accounting Migration process from Legacy systems into New Asset Accounting in SAP
• Involved in Open Items conversion from Legacy to SAP
• Involved in Profitability Analysis design and workshop session to educate business regarding new design and process
• Involved in Account Based Profitability Analysis and Design process to migrate the revenue and cost from Legacy and SAP to S/4 Hana
• Involved in FIT GAP Analysis for corrugate plants
• Involved in design of Production Order Consumption process from costing perspective
• Involved in Product Costing Design of Costing sheets/ Product Cost by Production Order checking Costing Variant for Product Cost Collectors, Valuation Variant for Product Cost Collectors defines Cost-Accounting-Relevant default setting for order type and plant.
• Implemented several OSS notes to support new S/4 Hana Finance from Asset Accounting/GL Planning/Bank Management/Customer/Vendor BP’s
• Involved in Procurement and Tax Calculation methods for Material Procurement and Tax Determination process using Vertex based on Tax Jurisdiction
• Involved in Material Ledger configuration for costing and valuation
• Implemented Parallel Ledger Functionality for GAAP/IFRS reporting
• Performed and documented the month end and year end FI close procedures
• Designed system validations for Logistics Invoice processing and FI postings based on the business requirements
• Involved in conversion and revaluation of consumption functionality using Material ledger
• Involved in Design process for indirect taxes using Vertex
• Design Tax Depreciation process for Book and FED/STATE in New Asset Accounting
• Design the Authorization for Expenditure process using internal orders for FI-FA teams and also the automatic equipment creation integrated with Asset Accounting module.
• Design BI/BW Specs for creation of Product Segment/Price Variance analysis/BS/IS reports
• Configuring Product Cost by Period, Product Cost by Production Order checking Costing Variant for Product Cost Collectors, Valuation Variant for Product Cost Collectors, defines Cost-Accounting-Relevant default setting for order type and plant
• Design FSD’s for ABAP Program to reclassify payroll allocation to GL
• Designed and developed Elimination tasks for Intercompany Payables/Receivable and Inventory elimination tasks
• Involved in Cut-Over activities and pre/post go-live check
• Involved in design of KIT schedules/MEC/Year end Close process
• Currently involved Pre GO-Live support to help SAP users to process G/L entry, vendor invoices, vendor payment, automatic payment runs, to resolve day to day issue in SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling Modules

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

S/4 Finance Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As S/4 Finance Implementation Consultant I am involved in Blue Print Design / Development and process setup and Data Migration activities from existing Legacy ECC to S/4 Hana
• Involved in design of data migration strategy using BODS for GL/Assets/Customers/Vendors/GL Open Item Balances
• Redesign of Legacy SAP Custom Objects into S/4 Finance
• Design and development of GL Planning for B/S and P&L Accounts in S/4 Hana
• Involved in Design and configuration of Account Based Profitability Analysis for Billing/Purchase
• Performed Design workshops for Legal entity restructure/ Product Flow analysis for material movement/Shipment system process(Bourque/Transpay/Boss)/A/R Trade Receivables / Treasury & Cash flow process/GL Reconciliation/MEC Analysis/Consolidation changes/CCA Analysis / PCA analysis/Controlling analysis for Gas Cost/Product Cost/Payroll Cost/Plant cost/Transfer Price analysis
• Performed blue print analysis for COA/CE’s/PC’s/Cash Recs/Assets/Balance Transfers of assets/Vendors/Customers/Tax implications, etc.
• Performed FIT GAP Analysis for Legal Entity structure redesign based on direct sale by adding and provided the solution as per the clients business requirements
• Designed the New Payroll structures for MED-HAT and Deerfield
• Design FSD’s for ABAP Program to reclassify payroll allocation to GL
• Designed ECCs changes and Elimination tasks for Intercompany Payables/Receivable and Inventory elimination tasks
• Involved in Design Configuration of actual costs using Material Ledger
• Designed new Financials Statement for CHS - CFN Agreement for partnership reporting
• Involved in restructuring of debt accounts in Financial statement hierarchy
• Implemented several enhancements in SAP P2P module for PO,GR,IR processes at CHS
• Design and developed interfaces to load data into SAP GL from clients banking applications. And also developed reconciliation reports for the same business process
• Designed new Payment Program changes/EBS Configuration/House Bank for CFN-CHS agreement
• Design Bank Management and treasury/lockbox process using FIORI APPS for A/R and A/P Payments
• Design Transfer Price which is standard cost of material during title transfer process between legal entity move
• Designed the Budget program for Capital expenditures and Operational expenditures for the company
• Created Cost center Alt Hierarchies and Profit Center Alternative hierarchies for Reporting purposes by Plant/Business Segment
• Involved in Hana Architecture workshops
• Designed the process for SAP block contracts which forms the basis for individual billing documents based on the work done at plant for different business segments like UREA/UAN
• Developed the cost center upload layouts for yearly budget process and designed custom reports for the budgeting and forecasting
• Developed functional specs for Product Costing Reports like Daily Production Report. Scrap report. Product Cost Comparison Report, PPV report etc.
• Did Testing like Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing for any changes done and get it signed off by Business.
• Extensive experience working with SAP MM/SD Inventory Management, doing material reconciliation process, Plant level financial reports, Product wise reports, Plant level costing reports etc.
• Involve in uploading data using data migration tools
• Prepared SAP Training Documents / User-Manuals for giving Training to the SAP Users for SAP S/4 Finance 1511 T. Codes as per Business requirements.
• Involved in Cut-Over activities and pre/post go-live check
• Involved Post GO-Live support to help SAP users to process G/L entry, vendor invoices, vendor payment, automatic payment runs, to resolve day to day issue in SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling Modules
• Involved in End to End implementation from SAP Security role design to production and process

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Implementation Consultant I am involved in Blue Print Design / Development and process setup
• Performed Design workshops to understand Legal impacts for US/UK GAAP procedures
• Design New Legal Entity process & procedures for US GAAP and SEC Reporting
• Performed FIT GAP Analysis in the current CF Legal Entity structure and redesign based on direct sale by adding and provided the solution as per the clients business requirements
• Design the New Employee Payroll structures from costing perspective for GH Employees
• Designed new Product Flow hierarchies in current CF Product Flow Landscape for new nutrient compounds and other ammonia compounds
• Design new GL Hierarchies
• Design new ECC’s elimination hierarchies between Intercompany Payables/Receivables and Equity/Interest and Dividend eliminations
• Design New Cons Units and Data Transfer between ECC and ECC’s
• Design New Reports out of BW/BO using Top Sided Financials from GrowHow
• Design FSD’s for ABAP Program to reclassify payroll allocation to GL
• Configured the account determination and interface points between FI, MM and SD.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area, assigned new company codes to controlling area and maintained Versions.
• Cost Element Analysis configuration involving Primary and Secondary cost elements activation and clearing account.
• Created new cost center hierarchy nodes and cost centers, changed cost center categories, maintained existing cost center master data, created new analysis periods, activity types, statistical key figures and automatic account assignments, defined distribution and assessment Cycles for cost and profit centers as part of period-end closing.
• Involved in Cut-Over activities and pre/post go-live check
• Involved in design of KIT schedules/MEC Close
• Involved Post GO-Live support to help SAP users to process G/L entry, vendor invoices, vendor payment, automatic payment runs, to resolve day to day issue in SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling Modules

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead for Global Financial Application Systems, including SAP ECC 6.0 and relevant areas of SAP BW/BI
• As Implementation Consultant I am involved in Blue Print Design / Development and process setup
• Performed the GAP Analysis for FI-AP/AR requirements.
• Design merge process of CFL structure and CFCL into Canadian Entity(TCAN)
• Design the New Elimination Tasks for Equity/Earnings/Interest Earnings between TCAN and CFH
• Designed the Interface to integrate SAP and clients Vendor payment system, Vendor Invoice management and developed the reporting required as per client’s needs.
• Designed Core extension configuration work for CO-Profitability Analysis and Product Costing and developed several reports in COPA and CO-PC
• Involved in the roll out of AP/AR and Banking modules
• Involved in the design of CO- Cost center and Profit center module set up as per the new global rollouts.
• Designed the integration between FICO, MM and Plant maintenances modules as per the client’s business requirements.
• Involved in the functional unit testing, Integration testing and assisted users in the User acceptance testing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Financial support consultant for this project I used to Interact with Client / Business Users for requirements Gathering and Analysis to patch the existing environment
• Involved in configuring the Scanning / Archiving process with IBM Content Management tool
• Involved in configuring the Tabware by creating specs for new design which involves in writing the new z-programs which runs in SAP but fetches the data from the Oracle Views which resides on the Tabware System, the programs reads the data from the views and kicks off a job for each plant does the posting in A/P.
• Involved in handling support tickets for Tabware, Borque systems
• Involved in configuring the IXOS system access for A/R resources to scan the invoices and archive them based on the profile
• Designed the new specs to the existing Z-programs to the enhance the requirement for Lockbox, Check Processing, Financial statements, A/R and Assets
• Prepared required documents providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business processes in SAP
• Helped to prepare the design documents, configuration documents, and functional requirement documents for technical developments, unit testing and integration testing
• Setting up new company codes for Canadian Process
• Involved in Design of Down Payment Process for Forward Contracts with Customers
• Involved in Design of Cross Functional Setup for A/P and A/R Process
• Involved in Fixed asset configuration for Tax/Book Depreciation

Confidential, Sioux City, IA

SAP FI/CO Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Production support for existing R/3 system and implementation of new ECC 6.0 system.
• Functional support for month-end and year end issues.
• Team lead for group of offshore ABAP developers and functional consultants.
• Performed Business Process Analysis for new requirements.
• Designed and configured separate entities and process for invoice and payments for Woodward plant in order to save on tax benefits, as provided by Oklahoma State.
• Revaluation of fixed assets to 3.5 billion after acquisition by Confidential .
• Interface of SAP with plant maintenance software “Tabware”, with expense management software “Concur”, and ADP payroll.
• Automatic payment program configuration via EDI-IDoc and interface with bank for prenotes.
• Lockbox configuration and testing for incoming payments.
• IFRS reporting using parallel ledger approach.
• 1099 process change to include corporate expense.
• Worked in coordinating add-on/ interfaces/ reports such as check print, payment advice, Reconciliation - Intercompany Payables, Reconciliation - Rebate Clearing, Operating interest, and Operating tax.
• Worked to integrate with other modules for Automatic account posting and account determination.
• Created Credit Control Areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers.
• Customized forms for dunning balance list and confirmation of balances or period closing.
• Designed and created COPA reports.
• Creation of financial reports.
• Designed and created hierarchies for cost center and profit center accounting.
• Reviewed and supported in creation of master data related to Cost elements, Cost Centers, Statistical key figures, Activity types and profit Centers.
• Prepared cost center assessments, configured settlement rules for various order types settling to Cost Centers.
• Streamlined custom development efforts by writing functional and technical specifications or gathering information on and interpreting customer needs, translating them into technical requirements, and working closely with development teams to deliver solutions on time and on budget.
• Designed SAP Query and custom reports in Report Writer.
• Worked on Data conversion, Data Migration plans, and testing. Project implemented with interface managers to upload the data to the system.
• Worked in version upgrading with new dimensional products, Prepared Test script and aggressive testing
• Documentation and training.

Confidential, Berkley Heights, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As a FICO Implementation Consultant in the project I am involved in design of architecture for Salon Centric, JE Upload and Region field mandatory in PC master data, payment methods, bank interfaces, new G/L process, developing custom Reports as per Customer requirements.
• Involved in design of overwrite PC on street sub-orders and line item’s profit center of street (DC 83)/sub distributors (DC 85) sales orders (tab account assignment of sales orders) will be overwritten with profit center assigned to the sales group of the ship-to-master data.
• Designed overwrite PC on store orders against line items profit center of store (DC 84) sales orders
• Salon Centric is a FSCM module which we are implementing for all the Salons across the country to promote the L’ Confidential Products and services
• Involved in BOM postings elimination program design and architecture, these postings will be generated via perform in ZF30 that will generate a batch input.
• Involved in Auto - GR for sales related TEA Agreement in which it retrieves data from source file generated.
• Involved in New Tax calculation procedure using SABRIX for L’ Confidential customers outside US using FSSC
• Designed and configured Global Budgeting and Forecasting application in BPC for Corporate and in ECC 6.0 for Plants.
• Support BPC consolidations application, including eliminations, group currency conversions and month end activities.
• Development and support of Capex monitoring application in BPC
• ECC/BW integration and maintenance of BPC master data / dimensions and ECC new-GL leading/ Non-leading transactions data.
• Cons and Rate applications architecture including business rules, Data Manager Packages, Evdre and Bex financial report integrations.
• Expertise in EvDre, Input schedules, Transformation files, Conversion files, BPC process chains, and integration with BW.
• Processes for managing IFRS reporting and Tax Journal entries.
• Setup and supported BPC on NW security; Member Access Profiles, Tasks, integration to Active directory.
• Creation of new entities in ECC 6.0, assignment of global settings, and extended GL, Vendor, Customer, and Asset master records.
• Designed and configured global payment system in ECC 6.0 for US entities to interface Wells Fargo in their single file payment format, as well as Australian banks in their BECS and MT101 format.
• Configured lockbox and electronic bank statement process, and automated receivables manager process with Wells Fargo.
• Created new segment for Mineral Sands after acquisition and assigned new profit centers to it.
• Creation and support for global financial reports in ECC and BPC.
• Support for the 1099 reporting to the tax authorities.
• Foreign currency translation and revaluation in ECC.
• SAP ECC and BPC training to the global end users.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered high-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model).
• Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, open and close posting periods and created G/L Account master records.
• Automatic payment program configuration for check and wire payments.
• Configured Lockbox to facilitate the accounts receivable payments.
• Design and conversion of COBOL/DB2 Program from third party systems to ABAP
• Configured the process of Electronic Bank Statement using the clearing accounts.
• Created interface with Vertex for tax calculations.
• Integration with SD and MM.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created cost centers, cost center groups, statistical key figures, maintained standard hierarchy, and defined distribution cycle for allocation.
• Developed test scenarios/test cases, resolved issues in unit testing, integration, system testing.
• Created BPPs and provided extensive training in the FI/CO module.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Corrected the existing BPPs (Business Process Procedures), and identified the missing ones and created them.
• Data Conversion process from Mainframe Cobol to ABAP BAPI for customer and vendors
• Configured the process of Order to Cash (OTC) and Purchase to Pay (PTP)
• Integration Testing of FI-MM for Inventory Related Transactions, FI-SD for all Billing Transactions.
• Assisted client in redesign and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA.

Confidential, New York

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured FI/CO applications in “all-in-one” solution that includes the basic configuration of all modules, so that mid-sized companies can implement SAP within low cost and time.
• FI Enterprise Structure: Configured company codes, business areas, functional areas, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, validation and substitution
• FI G/L: Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys; assigned these variants to company codes
• FI A/P: Created vendor account groups, configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments, defined house banks, bank accounts, bank directory, check lots, checks printing, voided reason codes
• FI A/R: Created customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, account assignments
• FI & Insurance risk analysis for asset and liability using risk key measures
• FI & GL Subledger postings according to multiple standards as per insurance policies,claims,reserve
• Treasury: Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing, setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, defining lockbox parameters, posting data and testing the lockbox functionality. Configured Electronic Bank Reconciliation process.
• Created various payment terms as per the client specific requirements.
• Defined asset class, chart of depreciation using reference chart of depreciation, defined depreciation areas and assigned it to company code, performed depreciation run and posting
• Conducted unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, and gap resolution.

Confidential

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the day to day reporting of the financial transactions.
• Performed accounting functions such as Writing Cash Vouchers, Managing Cash Books, Passing Journal Entries, Ledger Accounting and Drawing Bank Reconciliation Statement.