SUMMARY

• High energy, results driven professional with SAP FI S/4HANA and Fiori experience
• SAP FI implementation in S/4HANA and Fiori environment with Retail & Consumer Product Industries
• Subject matter expertise in Finance, Commercial Banking, Sales and Use Tax, including OneSource implementation
• Experienced in implementation projects, sales tax accounting and commercial banking.
• Strengths include strong client interaction and communication with peers and PMO.
• High energy and results driven professional with a record of displaying strong client interaction and interpersonal skill in post undergraduate tenure. Experienced in implementation/support projects, sales tax accounting, and commercial banking. Major strengths include strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, sharp analytical skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills; very coachable with high aptitude to quickly learn/master/implement any duty to above quality completion.
• Strong integration experience of FI/CO with SD and MM modules and worked on different scenarios for Purchase/Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (OTC).
• Exposed toSAPS4/HanaFinance/ Central Finance:General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable, Profitability Analysis, Cash Management, CentralFinanceandFioriApps.
• Extensive experience in FI - GL General Ledger, FI-PCA Profit Center Accounting, FI-AP Accounts Payable, FI-AR Accounts Receivable, FI-AA Fixed Asset and FI- BL Bank Accounting
• Experience in configuring New General Ledger with Parallel Ledgers and Document Splitting.
• Comprehensive experience in CO-CCA Cost Center Accounting, CO-IO Internal Orders and CO-PA Profitability Analysis.
• Hands on experience in Master Data Creation with expertise in Vendors, Customers, G/L accounts, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Order, and WBS element.
• Experience in documenting as well as ensuring that FI/CO processes and procedures are adhered to by GAAP principles.
• Hands on experience in testing FI/CO configuration: Regression Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Stress Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong understanding of the business processes, technology, project planning, and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions.
• Very strong interpersonal and communication skills, good team player, objective oriented and able to communicate to all organizational levels. .
• Develop necessary specifications and modifications to meet and exceed customer requirements and objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Maplewood, MN

SAP S/4 HANA FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led daily calls with SAP offshore team and delegated tasks to be completed for test preparation
• Actively participated in setting up testing environment in Jira in preparation for SIT, TestRail and UAT testing
• Created functional specs for numerous RICEFW objects including Concur Interface, JV Mass Upload Interface, GL Master Data Conversion, Profit Center Master Data Conversion, Material Master Standard Cost Mass Update Conversion, AP Indirect Procurement Workflow, AP Remittance Advice Smartform, AP Check Smartform, AR Customer Statement Smartform, Journal Voucher Approval Workflow, Concur Interface
• Engaging in SAP’s latest ACTIVATE project implementation methodology, joining the project in the initial Prepare phase and scheduled through the Deploy phase
• Involved in preparing master data for functional unit test in SAP GL, AP, AR CCA, PCA, COPA, RAR, Product Costing and Profitability reports.
• Performed configuration changes in baseline configuration in order to upload data in development system, then transporting objects to Q and P clients
• Worked on Global Settings for Financial Accounting, configured retained earning account, account group, terms of payment, employee tolerance, and tolerance group for users and configured Financial Statement version. Worked with SAP security to configure user profiles and ensure authorizations for client’s park/post requirements
• Was in charge of manually uploading all bank key, house bank and bank account data into Fiori FID, FIQ, and FIP systems
• Completed GL Master Data and GL Balances data upload into Quality and Production environments
• Completed FA Balances data and Fixed Asset Master Data upload into Quality and Prod environments

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Engaging in SAP’s latest ACTIVATE project implementation methodology, joining the project in the initial Prepare phase and scheduled through the Deploy phase
• Participated and scribed in FI requirement gathering meetings, capturing business processes and noting gaps (RICEFW) between business functions and SAP standard delivery for GL, AR, AP, AA, COPA, RAR
• Created functional specs for numerous RICEFW objects including Concur Interface, JV Mass Upload Interface, GL Master Data Conversion, Profit Center Master Data Conversion, Material Master Standard Cost Mass Update Conversion, AP Indirect Procurement Workflow, AP Remittance Advice Smartform, AP Check Smartform, AR Customer Statement Smartform, Journal Voucher Approval Workflow, Concur Interface
• Performed configuration changes in baseline configuration in order to upload data in development system, then transporting objects to Q and P clients
• Was in charge of manually uploading all bank key, house bank and bank account data into Fiori FID, FIQ, and FIP systems
• Actively participated in setting up testing environment in TestRail and Jira in preparation for SIT and UAT testing
• Led daily calls with SAP offshore team and delegated tasks to be completed for test preparation
• Test ongoing development objects within D and Q clients to resolve defects before walking SMEs through completed RICEFW objects
• Completed GL Master Data and GL Balances data upload into Quality and Production environments
• Completed Fixed Asset Master Data, FA Balances data upload into Quality and Prod environments
• Configured exchange rates for 24 int’l company codes, as well as maintenance of exchange rate translation ratios for all company codes
• Worked with SAP security to configure user profiles and ensure authorizations for client’s park/post requirements

Confidential - New York, NY

SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of Production support Tickets in the GL/AP/AR/AA, system issues in billing and invoicing.
• Assisting in Month End Closing operations
• Interacting and guiding the users to their day to day problems in Finance and Controlling modules.
• Analysis and reclassification of individual as well as team tickets and addressing to onsite as well as offshore team members regarding the status of tickets.
• Involved in ECC6 New GL project with Document Splitting, Creation of Design template, Configuration, Implementation and Testing.
• FI Enterprise Structure: Company, Company code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variant
• Accounts Payable: Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts, Check lots, Payment Program Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master Data and Vendor Groups, Down payment, check forms.
• Configured Account determination between MM and FI.
• Configured special GL transactions like Down Payment Made or Down Payment Received.
• Configured Automatic payments for Account Payable and dunning for Account Receivable and settings for Outgoing/Incoming payments including Automatic Payment Program, exchange rate differences, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run.
• Create and execute integration and regression test scripts. Coordinate User Acceptance Testing with business users.
• •Coordinate and work with other support teams to understand integration points within SAP Accounts Payable and Banking and other systems, grasp the impact of all proposed system changes.
• •Implement, test and validate configuration changes for SAP AP module in accordance with their business requirements and the company’s custom made IT guidelines.
• Internal Orders: Creation of Order type Real and Statistical
• Set up the payment method for Checks and ACH
• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
• Involved in preparing and execution of unit test scripts, integration test scripts and User acceptance test scripts

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Fixed Assets: Copy reference chart of depreciation/Depreciation areas, Assign chart of deprecation to Company code.
• Customization of asset classes, defined number range interval.
• Integration with General Ledger, Assign GL accounts, Assign input tax indicator for non-taxable acquisitions, Specify document type for posting of depreciation, Specify intervals for posting rules.
• Configured LVA Asset classes as per the client requirement.
• Configured screen layout for Asset Master Data and Depreciation Areas.
• Created Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas and configured them in business processes.
• Configured Key for US company codes as per the law requirement for tax depreciation areas.
• Worked on Asset Master Record, Mass Asset Creation and the configuration.
• Performed Planned, Unplanned and Accelerated depreciation
• Worked retirement of asset scenarios like Retirement by Scrapping.
• Worked on Sale of Asset by Customer scenarios and configured and tested the business processes.
• Defined Document Type, Number Range, and specify Document Type for posting of Asset values.
• Provided leadership role for the development teams to deliver flawless solutions.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for helping resolve functional issues raised by users in GL, AP, AR, AA sub modules.
• Analyzed the tickets, recommending solutions for the issues and creating configuration requests if needed.
• Ensured timely response and resolution of problem tickets within the stipulated time period by adhering to the severity level benchmarks and achieving 100% efficiency with customer satisfaction as top priority.
• Handled tickets on day-to-day basis.
• Actively participated in studying existing business processes and deciding to be process to map it in SAP system.
• Assisted Month End and Year End closing Operations
• Modified financial statement versions to more accurately reflect business.
• Handled issues related to Automatic payment program, Dunning, Automatic clearing and Interest Calculation.
• Handled cross functional issues in the area of SD - FI - MM integration, especially Account Determination issues.
• Configured Automatic Payment for Account Payables, configured Vendor/Customer Master Data, Payment Terms, and also configured different payment methods - ACH payments, Wire Transfer, and checks.
• Worked on importing data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
• Worked on Order to Cash Process, performed AR-SD integration: Worked with SD team to configure condition type, pricing procedure, automatic account assignment of revenues through VKOA.
• Worked with ABAP team to create different z-reports.

Confidential, Ramsey, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Play key role in current implementation project of Sabrix One Source; taking part in initial blueprint meetings, following TCPs with user testing and finding solutions to test situations
• Led data migration portion of implementation project, transferring data out of Taxware and into Sabrix One Source
• Set up new customer tax exemptions in Taxware and SAP; as well as set manual tax rates in specific jurisdictions for customers within Taxware
• Maintain previous customers’ exemption statuses, including researching and issuing any tax adjustments that were owed to exempt customers.
• Assist with special projects and handle administrative duties within the sales tax department
• Proficient user of SAP/Taxware/CCH/RIA

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Opened bank and investment accounts daily, provided clientele investment products and complete financial services
• Maintained client financial portfolios by actively monitoring accounts and updating client requirements
• Acted as liaison between retail clients and financial advisor to enable full growth and opportunity for clients’ investment portfolios
• Produced new retail investment clients by diligent research of clients' current bank holdings in order to optimize their investment growth
• Gained further experience with extensive customer contact, including building & maintaining customer relationships by contacting and meeting customers on a daily basis
• Demonstrated excellent knowledge and compliance with AML regulations contingent to client accounts
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills by working as a team member with upper management and staff members
• Displayed strong presentation, planning, organization and follow-up skills by keeping client accounts under detailed review in order to ensure customers took full advantage of available features of the retail bank
• Maximized the depth and profitability of customer relationships through collaborating with sales specialists in Retail Lending, Small Business, Investments, and other product areas
• Discovered clients’ financial needs and provided product recommendations in order to acquire, retain, and deepen new and existing relationships