SUMMARY:

• More than 11 years of corporate accounting and finance experience including over 9+ years of SAP R/3 expertise with a strong focus on Financial Accounting and Controlling (FI/CO) modules with 3 Full Life Cycle Implementations, 3 Support and one migration from R3 to S4Hana (1503) including Business Process Re-engineering, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration and Testing.
• Prolific experience in customizing and configuring FI- General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, CO- Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Treasury & Risk Management (FSCM),Collection Management (FSCM) & Cash Management (FSCM)
• Strong understanding and experience in Integration of FI with SD, MM.
• Implemented master data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via LSMW and Batch Input Session.
• Solid experience in creating House Banks for Lock Box Processing.
• Hands on experience configuring Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments.
• Rich experience in developing Functional Specifications for the technical team.
• Experience in conducting Unit test, Integration test and User Acceptance test.
• Assessed the business and application requirements, designed robust business processes, considering accepted industry best practices.
• Prepared User Training Material on the processes and assisted in Developing End User Documentation for Training. Fluent in communication with colleagues, management and business unit(s) on requirements, problems, project status, risks, and adaptation issues, to integrate new tools into the Project Implementation Lifecycle.

SAP Skills:

Financial Accounting: Enterprise structure, Company Code configuration, Chart of accounts, Fiscal year, Business areas, Functional areas, Tax on Sales and Purchase, Inter company transactions, Validation and Substitution and Open/Close Posting periods

General Ledger: Account groups, GL Master records, Sample accounts, Field status groups, Posting keys, Automatic account determination, Number ranges, Document types, Tolerance groups, Sample & Recurring Documents, Parking Document, Hold Document, Partial Payment, currency, reversal

Accounts Payable: 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: Customer Account Group, Customer Master Data, Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, Dunning Procedure, terms of payment, outgoing invoices, incoming payments, Integration with SD and open item clearing

Asset Accounting: Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Account Determination, Asset Acquisition, Capitalization, Scrapping and Inter Company Asset Transfer

Collection Management (FSCM): Defined co. code, Collection Strategies, Profiles, Organization Structure, Collection Segment, Collection Groups, Collection Specialist, Assignment all concepts with each other, Defined and assigned number range to Business partner, Synchronization with customer master in AR module, Distribution of data from AR module, Creation of Work lists, Creation of Promise to pay, Integration with accounts receivable module and Creation of Variant for Background processing for automatic data transfer.

Treasury: Cash Management, Lock Box Processing, Manual and Automatic Bank Statement, Posting Rules, Mapping Bank Accounts to GL Accounts, Processing Incoming Checks, Money Market Instrument, Securities & Derivatives configuration.

Cost Center Accounting: Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Elements, and Statistical Key Figures, Activity types, Assessments and Distributions

Profit Center Accounting: Configuration of the basic settings, Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-objects to Profit Centers, Reports

Report Development: Report Painter, Drill - down Reporting and SQL queries.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Applications: SAP (ECC 6.0) & S4H (1503) FI/CO, FSCM, MM, SD, PP, HR

SAP R/3 Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, CATS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential 

Sr. SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop new business processes through developments and setting up new interfaces with third Party Applications.
• Handling and resolving bug in the running programs, support issues & taking care of adding new functionalities in the area of SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling) covering Assets, FI-GL, AR/AP, Special Purpose ledger.
• Business requirement gathering, blue printing and preparation of Functional Specification document.
• Prepare and execute regression and integration testing plans to ensure quality deliverables before they are released to client.
• To follow up on escalations and issues with clients and onsite managers
• Initiate Problem Management for recurring issues and implement permanent fix
• Make sure all committed enhancements are delivered on agreed release dates
• Guide and motivate team members to accomplish the technical and schedule goals of the team.
• Effective change management on projects by analyzing the impact of any new requirements on the project scope & timelines

Confidential, Plano, TX 

Sr. SAP FICO / FSCM Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop new business processes through developments and setting up new interfaces with third Party Applications.
• Handling and resolving bug in the running programs, support issues & taking care of adding new functionalities in the area of SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling) covering Assets, FI-GL,AR/AP, Integration with Esker & High Radius, SAP FSCM - Dispute & collection Management.
• Business requirement gathering, blue printing and preparation of Functional Specification document.
• Prepare and execute regression and integration testing plans to ensure quality deliverables before they are released to client.
• To follow up on escalations and issues with clients and onsite managers
• Initiate Problem Management for recurring issues and implement permanent fix
• Make sure all committed enhancements are delivered on agreed release dates
• Guide and motivate team members to accomplish the technical and schedule goals of the team.
• Effective change management on projects by analyzing the impact of any new requirements on the project scope & timelines

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized the business areas, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document types, document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants
• Configured New GL Account.
• Configured for Vendor/Customer data in (FI-AR/AP) which included payment terms, dunning, and Special GL Account transaction.
• Prepared the Documents for the processes like Month end, Payment Proposal run etc.
• Configuration of Travel related Expenses reimbursed to Employees and paid through A/P.
• Copying the Employee Master data as a Vendor Master Data.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing. Provided user training on processes and assistance in developing user documents.
• Analyzed the as-is system, did the Gap Analysis and designed the to-be system.
• Cash Management, Manual and Automatic Bank Statement, Posting Rules, Mapping Bank Accounts to GL Accounts, Processing Incoming Checks, Money Market Instrument, Securities & Derivatives configuration

Confidential , Englewood Cliffs (NJ)

SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Configured the settings of Enterprise Structure. Defined Company Code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Plants for logistics, Sales Organization, Purchase organization, assignment of company code to company, assignment of plant, sales organization and purchase organization to company code.
• Configured Financial Global Settings such as Company code, Business Areas. Fiscal Year Variant, posting periods, document types, document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants. Tolerance group for employees, Tax on sales and purchases.
• In General Ledger involved in Defining and Configuring Chart of Accounts, Account Groups. Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes. Configuring Functional Areas and Business Areas based on Organizational Structure. Defining Retained earning a/c, Defining Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings.
• Customized settings for Customer and Vendor master records, Line item processing of documents, displaying of Account Balances, Credit Management and Closing Operations.
• Involved in Automatic account assignment for various AR & AP transactions like Bank charges, Overpayments, Underpayments, and Cash discount, Exchange Rate Difference.
• Configuration of Credit Card settlement process in the integration with SD module.
• Independently implemented Collection Management module (FSCM) in financial supply chain management which includes: Defined co. code, Collection Strategies, Profiles, Organization Structure, Collection Segment, Collection Groups, Collection Specialist, Assignment all concepts with each other, Defined and assigned number range to Business partner, Synchronization with customer master in AR module, Distribution of data from AR module, Creation of Work lists, Creation of Promise to pay, Integration with accounts receivable module and Creation of Variant for Background processing for automatic data transfer.
• Configured and tested working of TAXWARE software for calculation of tax on sales and purchases.
• Configured and Involved in Automatic procedures for Payment program and Check deposition.
• Configured and created Correspondence Types related to communication with customers and vendors.
• Configured accounting transactions for GL posting, AR/AP posting and Recurring entries.
• Created Financial Statement Version by defining Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account.
• Involved in the integration of FI/CO module with SD and MM modules.
• Involved in the testing of different transactions in the Finance module in G/L posting, Payment processing, recurring entries, posting and deletion of Parked and Hold documents, Customer and Vendor transactions with MM and SD module.
• Preparation of Functional Specifications for various reports developing by the technical team.
• Explained and prepared To-Be documents on the basis of As Is analysis for all financial business processes.
• Prepared user manual for all business processes in finance for user testing and final approval.

Confidential 

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized the business areas, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document types, document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants
• Configured New GL Account.
• Configured for Vendor/Customer data in (FI-AR/AP) which included payment terms, dunning, and Special GL Account transaction.
• Prepared the Documents for the processes like Month end, Payment Proposal run etc.
• Configuration of Travel related Expenses reimbursed to Employees and paid through A/P.
• Copying the Employee Master data as a Vendor Master Data.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing. Provided user training on processes and assistance in developing user documents.
• Analyzed the as-is system, did the Gap Analysis and designed the to-be system.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Requirement from Business
• Conducting Workshops
• Designing Business Processes.
• Preparation of Business Blue Print Documentation.
• Configuration of Cash Management, Money Market, Securities and Hedge Management.
• Making Testing Scripts for Unit, User Acceptance and Integration Testing.
• FS for Treasury Report and complete Logic for Insurance Module
• and Business Areas based on Organizational Structure. Defining Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings.
• In AR/AP involved in Configuring Accounts Receivable (AR) and Sample Ledger Accounts. Defining House Banks, Bank Accounts and Reason Codes, Check Lots. Defining Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Creating Customer /Vendor Master Data. Configuring Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable (AP). Configuring Incoming Payments, Billing, Credit Management and Dunning Programs.
• In Asset Accounting, involved in Configuring Asset Master Records, Chart of Depreciation and Customizing Screens for Asset Creation. Involved in defining Depreciation Keys, Calculation Methods and Depreciation Areas to the Assets Masters.
• In CCA & COPA involved in Defining and Configuring Controlling Area. Assign the Company Code and Chart of Accounts to Controlling Area. Configuring Operating Concern with Characteristics and Value Fields. Configuring Cost Elements, Revenue Elements, Cost Center, Profit Center and Hierarchies. Designing and developing Analysis Reports of Products Profitability by Configuring Profitability Analysis. In CO-PA Report Profitability by Customer, Product, and Market. Creating P&L statements using CO-PA reporting tools.
• Assigning Profit Center to the respective Cost Centers, Material Master, Production orders, fixed assets, and Sales Orders through Sales Order Substitutions in Profit Center Hierarchy and Transferred Revenue Accounts and Balance Sheet Accounts to Profit Centers in Profit Center Hierarchy.
• Involved in preparing Functional Specifications for the technical team.
• Involved in uploading and migrating the Master records to SAP from Legacy using LSMW.
• Involved in Project Management and Training in Generating Metrics for Senior Management for Progress Tracking Purposes. Documenting End User Manuals and Training Material. Conducting End User Training on GL, AA and TM modules.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Designing BPML, BPD’s for Implementation of FICO, Treasury & Risk Management and BW reporting.
• Conducting Workshop & Design solution.
• System Configuration for GL, Profit Center, Cost Center, AP/AR & Bank along Money Market Instrument, Securities, Credit & Risk Analyser of Treasury Module and Configuring Cash Management & Liquidity planning
• iMapping Syndicate facility, Working Capital, Buyer/Supplier Credit instruments in system.
• Designing FS for Business Critical Report such as waterfall Mechanism cash flow, liquidity report Involved in the Configuration of screens for Period end operations including Depreciation run, posting to General Ledger, and transfer of AR / AP balances.