Boben Thomas MOBILE: 469-***-****
SAP FICO Consultant, E-MAIL: adgpq8@r.postjobfree.com
Sunnyvale, TX 75182
Professional Summary:
SAP FICO Consultant with 25 years of overall experience and 7+ years of experience in SAP FI and Controlling. Proven expertise in full life cycle implementation projects; Business Process Re-engineering, Design, Realization, Configuration, Integration, Testing, Go-Live, Hyper-care and Support.
Worked on 2 End to End full life-cycle SAP Project Implementations and 4 Upgrade/Rollout projects using AGILE methodology.
One year of hands on experience in S/4 Hana environment, Green field implementation S/4Hana 1809. New asset Accounting, Technical clearing, Delta migration points, ACDOCA, LTMC, BP, Customizing New General Ledger, COGS splitting and Material ledger.
Configuration Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Account Determination, Asset Acquisition, AUC Assets, Distribution profile, Fixed Asset clearing Account, Migration of assets, Capitalization, Scrapping and Inter Company Asset Transfer.
Writing FS on many WRICEF objects integrating with SD, MM, PP, and PM.
Product Costing (CO-PC): Configuring material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, maintained settlement structures, configuring variance calculations and WIP calculation, integrating CO-PC (Product Costing) with SD, MM and Account based COPA, cost variants, Costing Sheet, valuation variants.
Migration of master data and open items from AS 400 to SAP.
Extensive knowledge in Quality Assurance in Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Hands-on knowledge and experience in ASAP Methodology of SAP project implementation.
Experience in Tax integration in ECC 6.0 with Vertex. Vertex integration settings, data mapping, tax code maintenance and reconciliation reports.
Hands-on experience in P2P, O2C processes and Integration of FI-MM & FI-SD.
Experienced in configuring Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS).
Experienced in Logistics Invoice Verification, EDI Interface and IDOC Process.
Prepared Test scripts and involved in Unit/System/Integration/Regression Testing & provided UAT Support. Hands on experience in testing tool Panaya.
Well experienced in drafting the End User Manuals and delivered End User trainings.
Involved in Cutover Activities and Data Conversion using Migration tools like LSMW and BDC.
Strong implementation experience of cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting, product costing and profitability analysis
Worked on Report painter, Validation & Substitutions, Interfaces, User exists and BTEs.
Involved in handling Tickets, Incidents, Problem records, Change Management and Change Control Requests.
Basic knowledge in SAP other Modules MM, SD and have good Debugging skills.
With Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities highly focused on deliverables, Proficient at setting priorities and meeting goals. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Skill Set:
General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, GL Master Records, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Sales/Use Tax, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups.
New GL: Document Splitting, Parallel Accounting, Parallel ledgers, Segment reporting.
Accounts Payable: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Automatic Payments, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, AP Information System, Integration with MM.
Accounts Receivable: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, Billing, Payment Terms, Interest Calculation, Incoming Payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Account Systems, Credit Management, Dunning, Closing Operations, Sales Order and Integration with SD.
Cash Management and Bank Accounting: Inbound/outbound process House Banks, Manual & Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, electronic funds transfer and Bank statement processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios, Bank reconciliation and Cash journal.
New Asset Accounting: Configuring Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Unplanned Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Posting, Acquisition and Retirement of Assets, Assets under Construction and Capitalization of Assets.
Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the Cost Elements, Costing Sheets, Reconciliation Ledgers, Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Master Data Groups, Assessments, Distributions and Reposting, Allocation Cycle and Segment.
Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the Basic Settings, Maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, Distribution and Assessment of Costs, Planning and Development of Reports.
Internal Order: Create Internal Order, Order Type, Settlement and Disbursement of Cost through Assessment Cycle, maintain Settlement Rule,
Integration of FI/CO, SD (VKOA) and MM (OBYC) functional Modules
PROFESSIONAL / ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
(Reverse chronological order)
Client: Zimmer Biomet, Denver, Colorado
Implementation Partner : Tata Consultancy Services
Duration – January 1, 2020 till date.
Environnent: SAP ECC 6.0
SAP FICO Consultant - Lead
RESPONSIBILITIES :
Interacted with Client to understand Asset Management configuration and user requirements for capitalization of instrument asset.
Checked and tested user requirements fields with system configuration and carried out modifications.
Interacted with users to understand existing accounting system and procedures
Configured asset sub numbers and group asset and Defined Organizational Structure required for Fixed Assets.
Configured chart of depreciation and depreciation areas to meet the US GAAP and Country Specific Statutory Requirement
Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including Asset master, account determination etc.
Configured the system to post the Acquisitions and Scrapping.
Calculation of standard price and COGS splitting, Integration with condition types and pricing procedure.
Configured the system for creating, posting and settling an asset under construction.
Configured the system for closing procedures.
Worked on postings made for the asset (acquisitions, retirements, depreciation) to the Company code and business area.
Configured Group Assets defined depreciation area, transaction type for retirement and created individual assets.
Configured Inter Company Asset Transfer fields and transaction type.
Prepared Work step procedure for various asset transactions and user exits.
Involved in Unit Testing of various asset transactions, user exits and asset reports with super users.
Involved in String Testing of various asset transactions, user exits and asset reports with super users.
Involved in Integrated Testing of various asset transactions, user exits and asset reports with super users.
Successfully completed capitalization of assets of through integration between Assets Accounting module with PP and MM modules.
Configured Asset balance list and asset master record.
Configured the system in assigning asset to various CO objects and logistic organizational units.
Configured the system for maintaining Asset master record and Asset classes.
Developed specification changes to Asset Module to allow ABAP developers to program required changes.
GAAP requirements for Capex and Opex funds in Acquisition, Depreciation and Tax.
Designed Special Purpose Ledger to meet the requirement of US GAAP Reporting and Country Specific Statutory Reporting for France, China, Singapore and so on.
In Special Purpose Ledger, Created Tables Group, Field Movement for SPL postings, Created Ledger for US GAAP Reporting and Statutory Reporting for different countries, Rollup Ledger and Rollup Field Movements, Created Sets.
Conversion and migration of Fixed Assets through a Zprogram.
Creating Asset through Ztable, BAPI and Asset Clearing Account.
Configuration and account determination for creating new plants.
Creation of assets on the basis of brands and product hierarchy on a monthly basis.
Writing FS/TS coordinating with Technical consultants and other module leads.
Coordinating in the preparation of Design document, Project plan and estimation.
Creation of profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, Profit center assignment (material, GL accounts), etc.
Creating cost center, Segment and GL Accounts for BU.
Writing Test scripts and involved in UAT and SAT etc.
Implementation Partner : UST Global
Client: Hanes Brands Inc, Winston Salem
Duration – April, 2019 to December, 2019.
Environment: SAP S/4 Hana Environment
SAP FICO Consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Successfully configured and tested GL, AP, AR, Controlling/Planning as part of SAP Accounting powered by HANA Add-on, Cash Management S/4 HANA Add-on, and Fixed Assets modules.
Responsible for business and system solutions, design and document methodologies, configuration of S/4HANA FI & CO functional module, integration processes, conduct workshops, user training and continued support during the projects
Worked on Product Costing process. COGS splitting, COPA - design and implement Account based COPA including COPA planning, Allocation structure, Flow of actual vales from SD and MM, Settlement of values from SD and other cost objects, Design the interfaces to get the plan data from external systems, COPA top-down distributions, COPA planning, transfer/copy COPA planning data to New GL by PC.
Working closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities.
Coordinating with Basis team on EDI, ETL, Interfaces and Idocs.
Interacted with client's business process team; collected business requirements, created functional specifications.
Creating Profit center, Cost center, Segment and GL Accounts for BU.
Creating mapping document for IDOC and EDI.
Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record and Customer Master Record.
Customized Operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Accounts & Country Chart of Accounts.
Created different G/L accounts centrally and at company code level, like expenses, revenue, cash, asset and liability.
Configured customer account groups & assigned number ranges to customer groups.
Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
Customized the Payment Program to incorporate Company Code Data, Paying Company Code Data, Country Payment Methods, Company Code Payment Methods, and House Banks etc.
Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
Configured Electronic bank statement and familiar with new EBS and Lockbox application conforming to BAI2 format and methodology algorithams.
In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) Worked on Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Cost management and profitability, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, and Cost Center Categories.
Maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, Profit center assignment (material, GL accounts), etc.
Involved in testing in development and Q&A environments. Issues resolving, compile documentation, user training and sign off.
Writing Test Scripts and familiar with testing tool Panaya.
Expertise in Vertex while determining Tax Jurisdiction codes based on the address for customers and Calculating taxes.
Analyzed FICO related trouble tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.
Client: American Best Care Hospice, Dallas, Texas
Duration – August, 2017 – March, 2019
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
SAP FICO Consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Handled issues related to GL, AR, AP, AA, CO-PC, IO, CCA, PCA, and Project Systems, etc.
As part of the Production Support Team worked closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities.
Analyzed FICO related trouble tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.
Interacted with client's business process team; collected business requirements, created functional specifications.
Design and Configured Parallel currency for Mexico, VAT process (IVA), Withholding taxation process for Mexican taxation process for localization for legal reporting.
Configured VAT process for Mexico for input/out taxes, VAT process for Mexico with legal reporting, update VAT process for Denmark (Europe) and China plants as per Global Templates.
Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record and Customer Master Record.
Customized Operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Accounts & Country Chart of Accounts.
Created different G/L accounts centrally and at company code level, like expenses, revenue, cash, asset and liability.
Configured vendor account groups & assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
Customized the Payment Program to incorporate Company Code Data, Paying Company Code Data, Country Payment Methods, Company Code Payment Methods, and House Banks etc.
Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
Configured Electronic bank statement and familiar with new EBS and Lockbox application conforming to BAI2 format and methodology algorithams.
Integrated FI with MM & SD modules.
In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) Worked on Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, and Cost Center Categories.
Maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, Profit center assignment (material, GL accounts), etc.
Involved in Unit Testing, provided the User training and UAT support, Cutover activities and post go-live support.
Design and Configured Denmark (European company code) VAT taxation process to calculated taxes as per business process to include tax in vendor invoices and system to post to VAT G/L account mapped to VAT as per business process.
Involved in testing in development and Q&A environments. Issues resolving, compile documentation, user training and sign off.
Client: Americold Logistics LLC, Atlanta, GA
Duration: September, 2016 – July, 2017
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
SAP FICO Functional Consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Created new company codes for the countries Mexico & Canada and Rolled out SAP FICO solutions.
Configured all the basic settings as per the Global template, Created Tax codes, Number ranges, Payment output files, EBS, LOCKBOX, EDI settings, Cost center Hierarchy, Cost centers and Cutover activity.
Customized and Configured General Ledger Account Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance Groups & retained earnings account in New GL.
Configured Electronic bank statement and familiar with new EBS and Lockbox.
Worked on extensive customization for Asset Accounting and coordinated with SharePoint team to setup a connection between one-gate and ECC to process asset transactions from SharePoint.
Developed and tested a customized vendor master design which includes web dynpro forms, workflows, enhancements, interfaces. Worked with MDM (Microsoft Master Mata Management) team in designing an interface through PI/PO. Designed a mapping for data transfer between ECC and MDM.
Experienced in KOFAX invoice processing and involved in custom program design in ECC for monitoring invoices coming through KOFAX.
Developed SAP query for Withholding tax from BSIK and LIFNR table -open item information.
Worked on customized AUC settlement process.
Managing on-site & off-shore teams.
Involved in Unit Testing, provided the User training and UAT support, Cutover activities and post go-live support.
Executing Data Manager packages for weekly reports from flat files and BW.
Good experience in configuration of leading and non-leading ledgers.
Extensively involved in preparation of test data, writing test scripts and execution of test scripts.
Played a key role in System integration testing for finance and reporting of test results to management by creating defects in application life cycle management (HP QC/ ALM)
Good understanding of payment process and expert in tracing the payment issues.
Involved in post go live support for finance and led a team of 6 members.
Familiar with "Service now" ticketing tool.
Involved in reporting activities with respect to team productivity and ticket resolution.
Client: Ligabue Saudi Arabia, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Duration: December, 2014 – July, 2016
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
SAP FICO Consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES
Gathered business requirements and Coordinated with ABAP team for development of new Reports required by user and for modification of programs.
Identified the gap by doing Gap analysis and prepared Functional Specification documents for the custom developments and supporting the technical people in completing Technical Specification documents.
Coordinating with the legacy system owners and preparing the Functional Specs for the Inbound and Out bound interfaces from Legacy to SAP and from SAP to Legacy.
Handled issues related to AR, AP, AA and GL.
Implemented SAP notes as suggested by SAP for our OSS messages to fix standard SAP issues.
Brought up lot of process improvements that reduced incidents count.
Profitability Analysis and Cost management.
Prepared End user documents and created a knowledge database, which helped both business users and support teams to easily fix the repeated issues.
Handled issues related to FI-MM-SD Integration.
Supported business in UAT testing.
Configured Vertex - FI integration.
Configured substitutions and Validations as part of CRs.
Involved in functional unit testing for CR and Enhancements
Involved in defining Roles and Providing authorization to User IDs
Handling low to high priority tickets and providing resolutions with in SLA.
Configuring and testing the new functional enhancements & Reports.
Worked on problem management, which includes root cause analysis to reduce the flow of the incidents.
Coordinating with ABAP team for development of Reports required by user.
Conducted knowledge sharing sessions.
Client: Saipem SA, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Duration: September, 2000 – November, 2014
Financial Controller
Prepare general ledger account reconciliations, intercompany eliminations & journal entries.
Review the completeness of revenue, and expenses booked each month to ensure all the expenses recurring and non-recurring are recorded and complete.
Research expense variances for both fixed and variable expenses. Prepare appropriate adjustments for review. Preparation of yearly and quarterly budgets, analyze budget variances with actual.
Preparation and review of balance sheet, income statements, and supporting schedules and comparative financial information.
Assist with internal and external audits by providing lead schedules and analysis.
Reconciled A/R, A/P, and all Expense accounts on general ledger.
Reconciled daily cash flow resulting in maximized investment on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
Keeping Asset ledger, inventory ledger, and inventory management.
Supervise subsidiary accountants and approval of ledgers.
Accruals, Provisions, Depreciations, Prepaid and Amortization.
Client: Saudi Arabian Catering Enterprise Ltd.
Duration: December, 1994 – August, 2000
Accounting Manager
Prepare and analyze Financial Statements, and reconciliations of ledgers.
Review and analyze Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable entries
Foreign exchange valuation and entries in unrealied/realised accounts and balance sheet entries
Preparation of Trend Analysis and Forecasting
Preparation of Annual Operating Budgets
Ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis
Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries to accounts.
Analyzes financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital, and prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement, cash flow statements.
Work with internal and external auditors during reviews, and audits to ensure full cooperation from accounting staff and compliance with all qualified requests.
Project accounting, and profitability statements.
Preparation, and coordinate the Year End group consolidation reports.
Technical Skills:
ERP
SAP R/3 FI/CO, SAP S/4 HANA FINANCE,
Operating systems
Window 95/98/XP, Server 2000/2003, Unix, RDBMS, MS-SQL Server 2000 / 2005, MS Access 2000
SAP R/3 Tools
SAP-FICO, Report Painter, Report writer
Visa Status
Green Card
Education:
Master of commerce in Financial Accounting - University of Calicut in 1992
Bachelor of commerce in Financial Accounting – University of Calicut in 1990
Completed Becker CPA Review (Thorough knowledge of GAAP and IFRS regulations and Practices)