Sap Financial Analyst

Lakshmi Anna, MBA

SAP FICO / S* HANA New Jersey

Profile

•SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant with 7+ years of experience in SAP FI/CO implementation, configuration, upgrade, testing, training and support with a proven record of continuous improvement and effectiveness

•Involved in 3 Full Life-cycle implementations and 2 projects as a Support Role. Experience in SAP R/3, upgrade projects using ASAP methodology

•Worked closely with Project management team in preparation of Go-Live schedule and coordinated with Project team for On-Time completion

•Experienced in all phases of the systems development life cycle which include system design, blueprint, configuration, system testing, data conversion, and production support in FI- General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Asset Management, Banking, CO-Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting

•Over the past one year, worked and gained knowledge on SAP S4 HANA and FIORI with Activate methodology

Experience/Project Work

Industry: Sanofi Aventis

Project Description/Scope: Full Life Cycle Implementations & two Improvement projects

Role: SAP FICO Specialist Senior Duration: Oct 2018 – Current

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Responsibilities include understanding system landscape, architecture and current business process. Worked towards completion of key client deliverables – Functional Specifications, Configuration and Design, Configuration Documentation, Configuration Unit testing, Smoke Tests, Cutover Preparation, Integration Test

Achievements:

Led and facilitated the process modelling activity for the project to transform the client requirements into logical process flows with the help of ARIS (IP5) by understanding the business requirement and adding the new transaction codes

Involved in the UAT testing, pre Go-Live and Hypercare support for all the functional activities in Simple Finance AP, AR & GL

Independently managed both onsite and offshore team as required

Worked with SAP in resolution of OSS notes and fixes for Fiori apps and worked on deployment and testing of additional Fiori applications in FI & CO modules

Led the meetings to gather the requirement and designed the business process. Responsible for FI Profit Center Derivation initiative by involving in gathering the requirements, finalizing business process, Configuration, Documentation (BPD & Configuration) based on customer template, Testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live issues for all the New GL, AP, AR, FA, CCA PCA and IO modules

Industry: Alvogen

Project Description/Scope: Greenfield Implementation

Role: Senior FI Consultant Duration: Jan 2018 – Oct 2018

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Involved in Blueprint and Realization Phase of the implementation for new g/l, Accounts Payable and Banking

Achievements:

Worked with business and IT team members in full life cycle implementation including - blueprint, configuration, testing, training, and post-implement support across sub-modules of FI-New General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), and Banking. Supported the design of the Bank Reconciliation process.

Authored the functional specification for Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) for the Payment Method ACH and Check and Wire. Worked extensively with EDI for sending the positive pay file to the bank and Logistics Invoice Verification.

Configured and tested the Payment process for different payment types and outbound payment files to Banks.

Industry: Zulily

Project Description/Scope: Full Life Cycle Implementation

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant Duration: Jan 2017 –Dec 2017

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Implementation of SAP Finance (FI). Main objective of the project includes configuration designing the business process for the Automatic Payment which includes the intermediary banks.

Achievements:

Worked on GL, A/R, AP and FA (Fixed Assets). Experience working with the FICO Org Structures; Cost Centers / Elements, Profit Centers, Company Codes for a Global Organization. Worked with Foreign Currencies.

Configured Account Determination, chart of accounts, account groups in General Ledger, incoming payments, reason codes, outgoing payments, open item clearing. Created and maintained field status groups, posting keys, document types, open and close posting periods and created G/L account master records.

Configured all business transactions for AP and AR including the Payment Program configuration and Automatic Check Payment Advice, Payment Analysis and Printing, Clearing of Vendor and Customer Open items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for payment program. Identified the Finance Test Scripts/Cases, executed the integration testing.

Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using the report writer and report painter

Conducted Finance end to end testing (AP - Accounts Payable, AR – Accounts Receivable) - Payment Program, Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (PTP) and Master Data Creation.

Industry: Abbott Laboratories

Project Description/Scope: Production support

Role: SAP FICO Consultant Duration: Jan 2016 – Dec 2016

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Monitored and supported defect resolution and support the users with the necessary reports all the GL, AP, AR, AA, IO, CCA& PCA

Achievements:

Provided production support for SAP FICO areas and resolved various integration related issues.

Responsible for end user training and documentation as well as day-to-day FI Functional support.

Experience working with different Master Data updates like GL Account, Vendor,Customer,Bank,Cost Element, Cost Center, Activity Type, Statistical Key Figure, Internal Order.

Responsible for ticket management, authoring functional specifications, and the design and development of enhancements to improve processes. Maintained and tracked the status of support issues across regions and provided updates to leadership.

Industry: Kennametal

Project Description/Scope: Production support

Role: Financial Analyst Duration: Jan 2013 – Dec 2015

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Implementation of SAP FICO. Main challenge of the project includes working with the third-party system which the client system MTS.

Achievements:

Analyzed new business requirements and changes to existing functionality. Developed & supported Blueprint Documentation for FI and CO Modules.

Act as liaison with the business user community to identify business requirements to system. Mapping of data structure in legacy system and SAP system and prepared functional specifications for various custom reports.

Responsible for delivery for the Accounts Payables and Banking work areas. Supported the Procure to Pay (PTP) and Order to Cash (OTC) cycle. Wrote Functional Specifications for the Automatic Payment Program (Payment Medium Workbench), AR Lock Box.

Industry: Johnson and Johnson

Project Description/Scope: Production support

Role: Consultant Duration: Jan 2012 – Dec 2012

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Adherence to SLA and managing the status of tickets. Interactions with users based on tickets.

Achievements:

Prepared documentation for end users for GL, AP, AR, AA & CO and trained them to use the SAP R/3 system to do their job on a day-to-day basis.

Resolved various critical and non-critical issues while providing support for integration and user acceptance testing. Month-end Close experience. Day-to-day FI Functional support. Ticket Management experience

Education & Certifications:

Certified in SAP Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5

Certified in SAP Management Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP4

Certified in SAP Application Professional S/4 HANA 1511

Citizenship: US citizen

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