PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience in SAP FI-CO implementation including two full lifecycle implementation in ECC 6.0 environment and an upgrade from 4.6C to My SAP
• 20 years of IT experience in support systems within Consumer Product Goods, Automotive, manufacturing and Telecommunication industries.
• Proficient in stages of implementation from “”Blue-print to “Go live”.
• Extensively worked on configuration of Cost Element Accounting, CostCenter Accounting, Internal Orders and ProfitCenter Accounting.
• Exposure to Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.
• Proficient in New GL, AR, and AP.
• Strong integration skills of FICO with MM, PP and SD modules.
• Knowledge of Legacy system data migration into SAP System using LSMW and CATTS.
• Knowledgeable in creating ABAP Queries and reports using Report Painter.
• Knowledgeable in gathering business requirements and customizing according to client needs.
• Created documentation including functional specifications and user training manuals
• Excellent analytical, technical and strategic skills with strong client interaction.
• Displayed excellent communication skills while interacting with super users and SME’s.

SAP SKILLS:

FINANCIAL

• ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE: Chart of accounts, Fiscal Year, Posting Period, Company Code, Functional Areas, Sales and Use Tax.
• GENERAL LEDGER: Account Groups, GL Master Records, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups.
• ACCOUNTS PAYABLE: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots, Automatic Payments, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, Closing Procedures, Integration with MM.
• ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, Billing, Payment Terms, Incoming Payments, AR custom reports, Credit Management, Integration with SD
• TREASURY: Lockbox Configuration, Bank Statement Processing, Cash Management Posting Rules.

CONTROLLING

• COST ELEMENT/COST CENTER ACCOUNTING: Planning Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Elements, Activity Type, Assessment and Distribution cycles, Cost Reposting.
• PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS: Exposure to Configuring and Customizing the Operating Concern, Characteristics, Value Fields, and Creating Drilldown Reports.
• PROFIT CENTER ACCOUNTING: Configuring and Customizing the basic settings in New GL. Maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Alternative Hierarchies, assignments of CO-Objects to Profit Centers, Distribution and Assessment Cycles and reports using Report Painter.
• PRODUCT COSTING: Exposure to configuring of Cost Component Structure, Valuation Variants, and updating Material Cost Estimates.

SKILLS PROFILE

• ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C - ECC 6.0
• Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista, Unix and AIX
• Packages: Adobe Photoshop, MS Office, Report Painter and SAP Query

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,April-2012- Present

Englewood, CO
Environment: RTR Support / Bus Syst Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Team member in R3 implementation (Realization Phase).
• Unit testing using HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Mngt) software.
• Testing scenarios with data and recording defects.
• Responsible for RTR support with end users.
• Month End and Year End Closing.
• Trained users with Park & Post functionality of SAP.
• Create New Users in Solman working with BASIS Team.
• Create Data for testing scenarios.
• Worked with offshore team for Master Data load of G/L, Vendors and Customers accounts.

Confidential,Oct- 2011- March-2012

Jacksonville, FL
Environment: RTR Support / IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for resolving record to report issues and testing.
• Create Test Plans for change management.
• Mapping of External Transaction Codes (BAI) to G/L Accounts.
• Update Bank Statement Configuration for Missing Posting Rules
• Update New Bank Routing information for EBS processing.
• Assigned and Maintain FX rate difference accounts for gain/loss.
• Define and Assign Inter-Company trade payables tolerance limit.
• Make default profit center for Cost Element.
• Develop custom report to include purchases for all tax codes with detail at the line item level with ABAP resource.
• Part of team for Payment Run Enhancement project to add Value Date for cash management.
• Created and implemented Authorization Group for opening and closing posting periods.
• Help Basis Resource to create test roles for posting periods.
• Created data journal entry reports by periods for statutory audits.
• Participated in year end close activities

Confidential,Feb- 2011- Sept-2011

Lisle, Ill
Environment: Post Production Support ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Resolve daily end user and super user issues
• Create variances and reports for vendors and customers
• Help end user with creating recurring entries
• Resolve computer/User generated tickets
• Involve with month end closing. Opening and closing posting periods.
• Attend meetings with business to discuss consolidation of company codes.
• Work in A/P module with end user to resolve variety of issues: vendor history report, vendor hierarchy, Clear and block Inactive vendors, duplicate invoicing.
• Work with offshore team to have pay method auto populate when creating an Invoice.
• Manual check printing for vendors
• Create reports for IRS audit.
• Was involved with BASIS Team for archiving.
• AssignProfitCenters and CostCenters to G/L Accounts
• Create G/L Accounts
• Worked with IDOC team to resolve transmitting issues
• Worked with Offshore team to customize the end user needs in master data.
• Testing Cases in DEV and QA
• Maintain Weekly Auto Jobs-Runs for Lockbox, GR/IR Clearing, GL Balances, Weekly Settlements, Monthly Invoicing, and APP-F110 Runs.
• Resolved FI-MM and FI-SD issues.

Confidential,Nov 2008 - Aug 2010

Lisle, Ill
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in blue print in accordance to the Client requirement.
• Defined specifications and developed to-be processes for New General Ledger, PCA Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Controlling.
• Designed the Enterprise Structure, with Multiple Company codes to reflect legal and management requirements.
• Implemented New GL with two scenarios, Segment Reporting, and ProfitCenter Accounting. Worked in scenarios involving IFRS principles and GAAP
• Configured Document splitting functionality by assigning splitting rules to each combination of business transaction, business transaction variant and Splitting methods using base item category as a document splitting reference
• Logically assigned the GL accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and configured reason codes for disputed cases, accounting clerks and credit representative groups
• Participated in workshops to design the transformation of the existing Legacy Organizational structure into SAP system
• Responsible for configuration of AR and AP module: Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, line layout configuration, terms of payment,
• In FI-AR Configured Account Groups with screen layouts, Tolerance Groups, Customer Master Records, Defined Document Types and Number Ranges. Maintained Terms Of Payment for Customers. Created Recon Account for down payment given by Customers.
• Designed and implemented custom processes for Lockbox, Check Register and Check Cashing (positive pay).
• Configured house banks for branches across countries resulting in reduction of currency valuation fluctuations also set the entire prerequisite for APP (Automatic Payment program).
• Configured electronic payment processes (APP) for check payment, so that maximum discount can be claimed by timely payment of invoices.
• Mapped the BAI2 Format (Electronics Bank statement) with lockbox data structure.
• Designed and implemented custom processes for Lockbox, Check Register and Check Cashing (positive pay).
• Worked on the development execution and testing of account assignment, cost element accounting cost centers profit centers.
• Worked extensively on integration of FI with MM, PP and SD modules involving Procure to pay and Order to Cash cycles.
• Responsible for knowledge transfer to users and performed end user training.

Confidential,May 2007 - Oct 2008

Irving, TX
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented “as-is” model and “to-be” model to organized the Project requirement in a better way.
• Developed User Requirement specification (URS) and proposed solution using RICEF methodology, Performed GAP analysis.
• Developed blue print and Functional Specification accordingly.
• Worked on PTP and OTC cycle by customizing automatic account determination so that smooth integration of FI-MM and FI-SD was possible.
• Worked on logistics invoice verification (LIV), posting, invoicing, conducting a three-way match and blocking of invoices
• Used the Cost element planning (cost center) for analyzing the efficiency of cost center and keeping the expenses under control.
• Activity type was configured with planed fixed and variable costs depending on the Cost center.
• Assessment and distribution cycles were configured for distribution of expenses among cost center at month end settlement.
• Developed Custom Reports in CostCenter Accounting using Report Painter to meet reporting requirements
• Dealt with cutover activities for go-live involving static data loads for the activity rates, cost centers and their verification, static conversion and validation of cost center budgets, in depth quality checks of configuration setting for dependencies and integrated modules, created month end CO Jobs, like cost object settlement.
• Conducted End user training on maintaining standard profit center, cost center hierarchy, creation of cost center group, profit center group to see cost center expenses department wise, category wise, How to create internal order using predefined order type. How to Change Activity fixed and variable rates, how to run settlement and assessment cycles, Explaining period end and year end closing Procedures.

Confidential,Nov2006-April2007
Lisle, Ill
Environment: Upgrade 4.6C to ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements created functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Devised and implemented strategy for migrating master data for Customers, Vendors, Materials, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Activity Types and transaction data pertaining to Customer Open Items, Vendor Open Items using LSMW and CATTS.
• Configured the NEW GL and the current ledgers being set as leading ledgers and update rules for the non-leading ledgers based on the report requirements and assigned the scenarios to leading ledger.
• Defined the Splitting Procedure for online splitting of entry document, using Business transaction, variant and base item categories. Integrated CO-FI, AR, AP for online update
• Configured the Payment Program for the AP-Accounts Payables, house bank configuration, and creation of Bank Accounts in the House Banks. Payment run configuration was completed for check printing, testing of vendor and customer master data
• Maintained Bank Clearing Accounts, Reconciliation accounts for AP/AR.
• Provided Configuration Support in SD, MM integration for Account Determination, Material Movement’s Setup.
• Developed user manuals and conducted end-user training.

Confidential,Feb 2005 - Oct 2006

Southfield, MI
Environment: 4.7 (Post Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the GL, AP, AR modules and changing the required field in master data according to Client requirement.
• Resolving the Configuration and customization related Tickets.
• Helping Account Payable Accountant in running Automatic Payment Program Bi-Monthly created different Payment Variant, updates check lots and developed new House Bank.
• Changed the message status from warning to hard error according to client daily need.
• Involved in Month end closing by following all the steps.
• Maintained new ProfitCenter, CostCenter, Activity Types and Master Data for newly added entities.
• Designed new Assessment Cycles in CostCenter Accounting as per the business needs.
• Monitored month end process and as a month end procedure executed both Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Developed Reports using Report Painter for CCA.

NON- SAP PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,President/Owner 1987 – 1994

• Computer Parts Whole seller/Retailer

Confidential,Director/Owner 1989 – 2000

• Custom build computers/service/networking

Confidential,Director/Owner 2001-2004

• Computer Repair and InternetCenter

There was lot of similarities in businesses I managed as an owner, which I can relate to FICO. My businesses also taught me how to lead and analyze the critical needs of my customers in time sensitive situations and to finish my projects on time or early.

My experience in Owning and managing my businesses gave me strong understanding of clients) needs. I participated in facilitating my corporate clients to customize their computer and networking needs and training of end users after the installations.

• Managed my own AR/AP for my corporate customers and my vendors via customized software and EDI.
• Balanced my P&L and B/S at month end and year-end with an accountant. Also calculated corporate tax, sales tax and payroll tax. I oversaw internal audits quarterly via my accountant.
• Managed payroll of my employees by interfacing with ADP.
• Handled Sales orders from customers and Purchase orders to vendors. Also Order to Stock.
• Dealt with discount sales. Partial payments, net terms for corporate customers and evaluated associated credit risk.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science