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SAP Sr. FICO Lead

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Grapevine, TX
Posted:
October 16, 2023

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Raghyrvir Saini Grapevine, TX

ad0eqo@r.postjobfree.com US Citizen https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghusaini/

SUMMARY :

20+ years of IT experience, 12+years SAP FICO & S/4 SFIN HANA experience with 2- Greenfields, 1 Brownfield, and 2 in ECC6.0 full IMG.

SAP FICO (GL, AR, AP, FSCM, COPA, PC, CO and Banking) professional with projects implementation, several years of production support, enhancements and upgrade experience.

Experience in all phase of project implementation from blueprint, solution designed mapping, requirements gathering, writing functional specifications, customizations, enhancements, go live and support.

Project management and team lead experience, coordinating with on/offshore support teams and working w/other consulting firms and clients from various business disciplines and backgrounds

Support & Knowledge in BPC, BW, OpenText, Kofax-Markview, ECC & SAP S/4 FIN, file transport (HTTP and SOAP, FTP, SFTP, Workflow, BAPIs, BADIs, and Tax software (Vertex & Router (OneSource)).

Configuration & designed in ECC6, S/4 HANA FIN, FICO, FSCM & IHC, validations, substitution rules, interfaces (EDI, XML & POS, EDI, IDOC, ALE configuration and Message Control), RFCs, and Reports

Designed & Configured Cash Management with integration to Bank Accounting/EBS, TRM, AP, AR, MM & SD using a multitude of standard file formats (BAI&2, MT940&2, SWIFT, & A820,3), Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) methodology using DMEE formats with seamless integration (no ABAP coding).

Worked on SAP S/4 FIN process for configuration and Fiori applications

Worked with user with process and production issue.

Knowledge of Effective Internal Controls in operation to ensure compliance with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), perform auditing procedures in compliance with US-GAAP & IFRS16 (Revenue Accounting Reporting RAR) for external reporting also good understanding of SAP landscape and architecture

Experience in SLAN (SAP Lease Administration Nakisa)

Automation Work-Soft Certify.

Strong FICO Functional and Technical skills

EXPERIENCE:

Employer: HCL Jun 21 to Present

Client Trident – Greenfield 2020 Meat and Fish Sr. SAP FICO Lead WA

GL- Configuration, user testing and training (exchange rate)

Banking- configuration, user testing and training

FSCM - Configuration, UAT and training (Credit, Collocation, Dispute, Treasury, & cash)

OpenText (VIM) - Configuration, Support UAT and training

Material ledger configuration and end month processing and posting

Create new plant and activating for ML.

Controlling – product cost planning, actual posting allocation and posting,

Strong FICO Functional and Technical skills

Client Restaurant Brand International - ECC Food and beverages Sr. SAP FICO Ohio

Responsible for functional developments and integration strategy of the following applications:

SAP (FI-GL, AR, AP, AA, CC, PC, FSCM, and Lockbox, EBS)

Analyzed Failed Postings for tax, GL, cost center, IO, EDI, and expanse type

Creating of master data all type (MDG)

Concur configuration for Expense Types –Accounting Codes, Audit Rules, Car Setup (Personal Mileage), Delegates, Payment Types, Tax, and Print Reports

Integration to SD/MM/PS, Workday, and Concur

Responsible primarily for successful implementation of SAP, including providing functional expertise, guidance, presentation, and instruction on SAP products to clients

Assists in proactively defining IT solutions, provides production support services and issue resolution for existing applications.

Working with technical team alongside business, development and infrastructure teams to Architect and functional customer applications.

Responsible for the overall functional design of SAP solutions and support SAP enhancements/ implementations.

Produces conceptual and logical solution designs that address business requirements while respecting corporate and architectural standards and guidelines.

Research current and future tech/functional developments and applications.

Strong FICO Functional and Technical skills

Client Sugar Crystals &ASR – Brownfield 2020 Agricultural Sr. SAP FICO FL

Interacted with Business for proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications. Configured COA, GL, Account receivable/payable, master data (Cost/profit center), reconciliation accounts, and automatic account assignments

Configurations on FSCM (TRM, dispute collection, Credit Management), and Banking Lockbox, EBS)

Configure and manage Cost and Account base COPA

Update and configure PM and allocation structure.

Mapping of master data in LSMW (MDG)

Configure product costing/ planning, cost center account and internal orders, and settlement allocations.

Strong FICO Functional and Technical skills

Employer: Alleare Consulting Apr 21 to Jun 21

Client Lehigh Hanson - ECC Construction Materials Sr. SAP FICO Dallas

Experience in FI, AR, AP, TRM, FSCM, Asset Valuation, & FS version

Experience designing, Integration with SD, MM, PS, & PP

Functional experience with SAP FICO implementations

High quality functional solutions from the supplier for enhancements and 2nd level support

Ensure high quality documentation of the solutions

FICO configuration: Experienced in setting up new Company Codes along with Chart of accounts, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, fixed assets, Cost elements, Cost center accounting, profit center accounting, product costing and COPA. Strong business analysis skills; process mapping; business process redesign and implementation

Experience designing and implementing Finance solutions incorporating SAP and third-party solution components

Finance Functional skills developed in classic SAP ECC based client facing engagements, coupled with an understanding of the transformational benefits that SAP S/4HANA can deliver

Implementation Methodologies (Agile or traditional Waterfall (cascade)).

Analyzed Concur Failed Postings for tax, GL, cost center, IO and expanse type

Concur configuration for Expense Types –Accounting Codes, Audit Rules, Car Setup (Personal Mileage), Delegates, Payment Types, Tax, and Print Reports

Employer: Planet121 Nov 20 to Apr 21

Client Energy Transfer - Greenfield 1809 Gas & Oil Sr. SAP FICO Lead Dallas

Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements/Processes and mapped as required

Interacted with Business for proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.

Configured COA, GL, Account receivable/payable, master data (Cost/profit center), reconciliation accounts, automatic account assignments, and.

Configured New Asset Accounting, Chart of Depreciation/area, Asset Capitalization, Post Capitalization Master data.

Worked on VIM PO/NON Invoice processing, DocType, VIM user Utilities(role), VIM reporting

PRA Lease setup (plant, Measurement type (Lease tank or lact meter), Regulatory indicator (Private-ETP), Severance Tax indicator-DOI type)

Measurement points and well completions, Delivery Network (transporting oil or gas to final point), Fuel system delivery network pouches produce, DN downstream node.

Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.

Configured SAP FI-GL, Tax, lockbox, EBS, well wise Ventures, integrated Production Revenue Accounting (PRA).

Developed cut over plan of all steams like Consulting team, conversion team, testing team etc.

Tested processes step particularly the PRA processes along with SAP FICO process.

Resolved SAP FICO, (GL, AR, AP, JVA, PRA, Banking/Treasury, Assets, Profit Center, Cost Center, Internal order, month end issues) and other support.

Applied Fiori Apps according to GRC roles – use SAP standard provided by best practices and special user-defined.

Reporting - Bank reporting process, Lead time sales report Process, AR, AP process, Financial Reporting (FS, Intercompany, Currency, Etc.), ash flow statement report, Intercompany elimination report, and AR Activity report, AP Payment Register

Employer: Accenture May 17 to Sept 20

Client FirstEnergy ECC Utility SAP FICO Lead Ohio

Worked on FERC process (FERO to run actual and copy the parameters, Setup Reg indicator for account, update variant FERC trace, Load table, setup flow of primary cost, FERC_C3, 8 entry, drilldown reporting, Etc.

Worked on IHC (Centralized/ Manual payment (POBO), Intercompany payments, Centralized receipts (ROBO), End-of-Day Processing, Cash Pooling, banking (Cash Management- Daily Cash position, TM daily processing, TM month-end) and Treasury (Financial Instruments – (MM, Trade, FX) FTD, DON, CPP, CFT, IRI))

Worked on the formal of LABOR (interest rate) when no borrowing.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve VIM issue

Worked on UNICODE project and testing

Worked on may type of interfaces (EDI-IDoc, RFC, Swift)

Worked on AMS & Enhancement projects

Worked on Sales and Purchase & Withholding Tax

Worked on Integration with FI & SD

Worked on Fiori App & LSMW

Client FMC Greenfield 1809 Agricultural SAP FIN Migration Lead PA

Configure and manage Account base COPA

Work on Credit, Collocation and Dispute MGMT

Configure and manage all types banking (Cash Management) and treasury aspects

Work on may type of interfaces.

Configure and manage all types of taxes according to region or country requirements

Data migration from Legacy system to SAP S4 HANA.

Worked on Fiori App, LSMW and Lumira

Tracing defect for data issue, configuration and resolving with business users

Implementation changes in Accenture Data migration tool and with legacy system for data extraction.

Client Google Greenfield 1809 Network Media SAP FICO Engineer Austin TX

Lead the FICO, MDG and SAP Security Automation process.

Implemented Test Automation Framework and the Transition guide for client deliverable.

Experience in Automation Tool WorkSoft Certify/Capture for SAP and Fiori Web pages scripting and testing.

Client GE Greenfield 1709 Utility SAP SR. FIN Lead Atlanta GR

Data migration from Legacy system to SAP Power Max System

Managing Finance data migration in GL, AR, AP, CC, PC, and Banking.

Leading workshop for Fin data migration

Lease Objects:(Master Lease Agreement (MLA -Single / Multi Level), Contract w/Lease Component, Activation, Unit, help on setting up filters. Import/export, Dashboard, External/transaction Reports, Extract Audit logs, Workflow for approvals, Payments, Liability, Deprecation, Accrual, Delete / copying MLA & end- terms

Client Enbridge ECC Oil, Gas & Pipeline SAP SR. FICO Lead Houston TX

Onshore Sr. FICO lead - Lead the AMS support team from offshore (INDIA).

Manage the Treasury, Cash Management with workflow standard SAP solution along with EBS and lockbox.

Manage the Travel management, self serves employee portal request.

Manage the Enhancement of the new request or report for project or Audit tax reporting

PRA_Base DOI, DOI_Preload, CR_ETP_PRA DOI Status Codetable, C3018_Base_DOI, C3021_DOI_to_WC_Xref & R3007_Operator to Venture

Client DANONE ECC Dairy Products Service Delivery Manger Louisville CO

Delivery Manager – Lead the AMS support team from offshore (Philippines).

Asset classes migration and created new asset classes

Functional Process Re-Engineering Design assessment, banking optimization

Lead the relationship with the customer & coordination of activities managed from Manila offshore team:

Worked, design, configure and support Cash Management.

Worked, design, configure and support Account receivables, Account Determination, Collection and Dispute

Automatic Payment Program (APP): Payment Run – Setting parameters, generating a proposal, Scheduling the payment run, Printing the payment media

Integrating FICO with SD, MM, & PP

House Banks, Bank Accounts ID, Electronic and Manual Bank statements

Trained in SAP Lease Administration by Nakisa.

Client Astella Greenfield 1709 Pharmaceutical SAP FIN Lead Northbrook, IL

New Greenfield project from ECC to SAP S/4 HANA SFIN Leading AR, AP, COPA, Bank/Treasury.

Building client Global Template of S4 and bringing all their ECC systems into S4.

Leading the offshore team and onshore from the Finance side.

Created the blueprint workshop design documents for modules (Banking, BCM, BAM & Treasury, AP&AR, Interface-Swift Net).

Presented many workshops to the client (including CEO & CFO) for the Global template design.

Focus of the workshops to present the new functionalities in S4 HANA Finance.

Working on creating Finance demo for workshop for the upcoming presentations.

Gathering all the requirements and handing off to offshore team to build a sandbox for demo.

Employer: SOFTTEK Jan 16 to Mar 17

Client Southwest Airlines ECC Airline SAP FICO Lead Dallas, TX

Manages and leads the Functional/technical team & Plans and tracks projects.

Support, Spot, DART, SIRAX, Bloomberg, Captiva & MARKVIEW(Kofax) and Allegro.

ECC6.NewGL -Configuration, Support and Enhancements - Company, Account Receivable & Payable, Asset Accounting, Travel Management, (FSCM)Treasury, Project, Internal Order, Cost & Profit Center,

Designs, implements system solutions as well as writes functional specifications.

Daily Invoice IDOC monitoring and troubleshot, if needed also re-processed when need it.

Updating settings related to integration from SD to FICO, like maintaining VKOA and OBYC setting for integration flow from SD, MM also, OKB9, KEDR settings for account object assignments.

Support Procure to Pay business process – AP configuration in SAP, FI-MM integration for accounting, pricing, taxes & invoices entry, AP payments with workflow & acknowledgments support

Support Order to Cash process – AR configuration in SAP, AR interfaces inbound/outbound LINK to other interface systems, AR lockbox & bank statement cash application

Support Treasury, Cash & Liquidity management with workflow standard SAP solution along with EBS reconciliations

Employer: T-Systems Oct 09 to Dec 15

Client T-Mobile ECC Telecomm SAP FICO Lead Frisco, TX

Manages and leads a Functional/technical team. Plans and tracks projects.

Support - ARIBA on Cloud, BPC10.NW on HANA, & Open-text-Workflow

Configuration, Support and Enhancements - Company, Classic & New GL, Account Receivable & Payable, Asset Accounting, Travel Management, (FSCM)Treasury, Project System, Internal Order, Cost & Profit Center,

Designs, implements system solutions as well as writes functional specifications.

Daily Invoice IDOC monitoring and troubleshot (WE02/9, BD87.

Worked and supported (Account/Costing Base COPA), checking the logical (SD11) structure & table with directory.

Updating settings related to integration from SD to FICO, like maintaining VKOA and OBYC also OKB9

Support Procure to Pay business process – AP configuration in SAP, FI-MM integration for accounting, material, taxes, invoices & acknowledgments support.

Experience in design, configuration and support of Interfaces in the corresponding with SD, MM, PI, Tax system Vertex, TIBCO, JPAY, external party etc.

Work on the Conversion & Migration project & used tools like LSMW (Metro PCS to TMO)

Support issues related to 1099, wires, ACH, checks & EDI IDOC’s, NACHA format, DME formats & forms.

Helped stabilize & streamline the support processes within the finance module within 60 days’ time of joining the project as lead & helped deliver close to 100 defects as part of 3 monthly releases successfully

Changes to the POS configuration with respect to financial transactions posting in ECC

Experience in, design, configuration and support IDOC segments, Partner profile and all other IDOC settings.

Create new custom program to extract the data from CJI3 and CJI5 for Retail Store Expense Monitoring

Create a custom program to send daily total posted of settlements to Treasury Team to sync with bank data.

Customer program to update the jurisdiction code on cost center, customer master, and WBS.

Key Expertise

Key Expertise

Key SAP Certifications & knowledge

Program and Delivery Management

Full-lifecycle implementations and global rollouts in SAP

S/4 SAP SFIN HANA

SAP Financials & Controlling

SAP Cash & Liquidity and Banking

SAP interfaces to legacy and packaged solutions

Process Improvement & Excellence

Process harmonization and reimplementation

SAP HANA 1.0 Certified Application Associate - 6820988

SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 1511) – 17270693

Completed training in SAP S/4 HANA Simple Finance 1503/11 March 2017 Softtek Inc.

Completed training in BPC Application Functional Sept 2014 T-Systems.

Completed training in SAP HANA Application Functional June 2014 T-Systems

Self-training from external Partners:

Completed training in SAP BW 7.3 and 7.4.

Completed training in SAP BODS, BOBJ, Fiori, and PI

Industry Experience

Network Manufacturing Utility and Power

Healthcare Aviation

Telecommunication Oil, Gas & Pipeline

Banking Agricultural (Natural chemical)

Education

Bachelor’s degree, Business Administration – Maharshi Dayanand University, India Feb1990.

AAS. Information Technology Application Development - Tarrant County College - Hurst, TX Mar2005

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP R/3-ECC6: FICO, P2P, FSCM, SD (O2C), ABAP, BPC, Sap Query, PI & BI/BW

Project execution tools: SAP Solution Manager, LSMW, BDC, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, ASAP, SDLC, Remedy, Serves-Now, Jira and Agile

SAP releases exposure: ECC 6.0 with Ehp5 to 7 and SAP HANA DB on BW

SAP INTEGRATION & EXTERNAL SYSTEM

External System (interfaces)

Where used

Vertex RFC

T-Mobile, Southwest Airline

Payment Tech (JPAY) IDOC

T-Mobile

Payment IO-Wells Fargo, JPMC, CITI & BOA - EDI

T-Mobile, Southwest Airline (lockbox and EBS)

CONCUR Employee expanse

T-Mobile

TIBCO Process integration

T-Mobile, Southwest Airline

Mark view Invoice approval and payment RFC

Southwest Airline

Allegro -Fuel input - AP invoice and expense payment

Southwest Airline

SAP FULLLIFE CYLE IMPLEMENTATIONS

Type of Project

Project Name

Role

Module

Full life Cycle Implementation/Acquisition

Symbol Technology Project SUSMX

FI Coordinator

FI

Full life Cycle Implementation

CLSA Project - IHKCLSA

ECCS Coordinator

FICO- ECCS

Full life Cycle Implementation/Acquisition

T-Mobile Project TMMP – Metro PC S

Team Lead

FICO

Upgrade from SP4 to 5

T-Mobile

Team Lead

FICO, SD

Upgrade Doclink to SAP OpenText

T-Mobile

Coordinator Lead

FICO P2P

Upgrade BPC

T-Mobile

Coordinator Lead

FICO BW/BPC

Upgrade ARIBA

T-Mobile

Coordinator Lead

FICO P2P

ECC to S/4 HANA FIN project

Astellas - Apple

Lead FSCM

FICO/SFIN Treasury

Projects

A. Symbol Technology integration MX AS/400 to SAP ECC Project – SUSMX - AMS

1. Review all the workshop notes (meeting min), coordinate the meeting and work w/business side to understand the requirements.

2. Review the blueprint and work with the external team for realization &Final Preparation on the mapping, configurations, and documentations.

3. Clarified with user and external team if any discrepancy was found in the as-is to be.

B. CLSA - Project IHKCLSA ECC

1. Work with the business user to coordinate workshop to understand the reporting process of all FSV.

2. Gather the requirements, Create blueprint, realization &Final Preparation.

Requirements: Master data, Organization units, Consolidation COA, Ledger, structure layout.

C. T-Mobile - Project -TMMP AMS

1. Work with T-Mobile Dev team to understand the requirements to create new company code and all the mapping request.

2. Customer and vendor master data migration

3. Asset accounting - Asset classes migration and created new asset classes.

4. Work on the open item migration

D. Southwest Airline - Project -SSAS - AMS

1. Work with Southwest Dev team to understand the requirements for variance process in FICO/FSCM

2. Support the integration of southwest to Softtek for SAP support project

3. Work on the SAP Treasury and Banking configuration

4. Gather all the requirements for all the interface and Vertex

E. Accenture - Project -Apple – S/4 FIN/TRM HANA

1.Global Template

2.New Project from ECC to SAP S/4 HANA SFIN 1610

3.Leading the Treasury and Bank Account Management

F. Accenture – Delivery Manger

1.SAP Migration project

2.Lead the AMS support team from offshore

3.Asset classes migration and created new asset classes for new Accounting Principle

4.Functional Process Re-Engineering Design assessment, banking optimization.

5.SAP Lease Administration by Nakisa



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