SUMMARY:

• Around 7 plus years of experience in SAP - FI/CO module with proven expertise in SAP analysis, design, implementation, upgrade, support, configuration, documentation and testing of applications.
• Experience includes two full life cycle large implementation projects using ASAP methodology.
• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts Payable (FI-A/P), Accounts Receivable (FI-A/R), Asset Accounting (FI-AA) Business Analyst (FI-BA), Banking, foreign currency translation, Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SPL), Credit Management, Investment Management and New G/L.
• Controlling expertise includes CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting), CO-PC (Product Costing), CO-PA (Profitability Analysis), CO-I/O (Internal Orders), CO-PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CO-PS (Project System), Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Extensive expertise in Configuration, Design, Development, Testing, Trouble shooting, Documentation and Reporting in FI/CO.
• Rich experience in Integration of SD/MM/PP/IM/PS/BW-BPS modules with FI/CO and in overall business processes such as, order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay and make-to-Order.
• Extensive experience in using ABAP Queries, Infopak, Visio, LSMW and CATTS.
• Part of a Team - skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD and MM Modules.
• Experienced in working with SOX and SOD compliance. Strong knowledge of US GAAP, ACH, Positive Pay, OTC, PTP, APP, GMPs, Lockbox configuration and dunning process.
• Experience in ERP covering all stages of pre-implementation, implementation and post-implementation with the expert knowledge of relevant integration aspects.
• Experience in both Manual and Automated tools such as Quick Test Professional, Win Runner, and Load Runner in testing client-server, web-based and Database applications.
• Experience with Module Integration Testing (MIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Regression Testing.
• Experienced in Integration testing of Legacy System Interfaces with SAP functionality.
• Strong Communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with good Acumen, adopting new Tools and Technologies with ease.
• Strong Problem Solving and Analytical skills and abilities to make Balanced & Independent Decisions.
• Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills combined with Self-Motivation, Initiative and Project Management Attributes.
• Good hands on experience in designing & implementing FI - GL, AR, AP, AA, New GL, Lease Accounting, Treasury, Special Purpose Ledger and in CO - CCA, PCA, COPA, COPC & IO.
• Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: Configuration and customizing Company code, Posting Period Variants, creating GL account codes and Chart of Accounts, configuration of Global settings, configuration of GL automatic clearing, configuration of Foreign currency valuation, Sales Tax/Purchase Taxes (Vertex).
• General Ledger/ New GL: Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, GL Master Records, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Sales/Use Tax, VAT, Account Display, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Document Splitting and 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, and Integration with MM. Worked on business process procedures from procurement of material to payment for vendors - MIGO, MIRO, MRBR and Logistics Invoice Verification.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, Billing, Payment Terms, Interest Calculation, Incoming Payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Account Systems, Credit Management, Closing Operations, Sales Order and Integration with SD. Building AR business module along with Order to Cash process, Finance documents Global settings (posting keys, payment terms), Reporting, Down Payment, Discount, over and Under Payment.
• 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,Validations and Substitutions, 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 Orders: Creation of settlement cost element, configuration of settlement structure, settlement profile, real & statistical postings, configuration of order planning, budgeting, defining status profile and order types.
• CO-Profitability Analysis: Configuring and customizing Costing based CO-PA and Account based CO-PA including setting up of the operating concern, characteristics and value fields.
• Closing and Reporting: Run and reconcile all incoming interface, start control and clearing reconciliation, run customer billing and vendor payments, approval of all parked documents, Run final sales figure and dunning reports, Open new period, close old sales and material periods, Run all settlements in CO, Creating management accounting reports with Report painter.
• Integration with other SAP modules: Integration of FI with MM, PP and SD modules. Configured the account determination and involved in designing & testing of interface points between MM and SD. Knowledge of various SD activities such as order management, pricing, delivery & transportation and billing. Analyzed the existing Credit Control Process of the business and defined the Credit Control Structure in SAP on Credit Management using FSCM.
• Migration to New GL: Activating New GL, Migration Cockpit.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS Windows 95/98/2000, ME, XP, Vista, MS Windows 7

DBMS: MS-ACCESS.

RDBMS: MS SQL Server 7.0/2000

ERP: SAP R/3 FI/CO, ECC 5.00, ECC 6.00.

SAP R/3 Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, CATTS, LSMW, SAP Test Programs.

Miscellaneous: MS Front Page, MS Word, Power Point, Excel, and Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP FICO Consultant

Skill Set: GL, AP, AR, New G/L, PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CCA (Cost Center Accounting), COPA, Invest Management, OTC, P2P, BA, BI, BOMs, AA (Asset Accounting), AAP, Validation, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Advances, Intercompany.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the preparation of Business Blue Print (As-Is, To-Be, and Fit-Gap Analysis).
• Configured Enterprise Structure and Company codes including Chart of Accounts.
• Used LSMW for uploading of G/L, customer and vendor master data.
• Provided and demonstrated end to end solutions in RTR area.
• CATTS for creation and modification of GL, customer, and vendor master data.
• Configured account groups, G/L master records, field status groups, fiscal year and posting period variant, document types, posting keys, open item management and line item management, balance interest indicators, rate interest and assignment for interest values to G/L.
• Maintained A/R & A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations, check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits for customers. Defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific payment methods, Payment Method Supplements, Withholding Tax, Payment Runs, Variant Configuration, Reversals (FBRA), Vendor Balances, etc., manual incoming/outgoing payments, open item clearing, credit memos, partial payments, installment payments, residual payments, claims and disputed payments, reason codes and discounts, account assignment model for recurring entries.
• Involved in Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis. Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys. Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts. Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification, discrepancy handling, invoice match payment processes in In-house cashetc.
• Cash Management System, House Banks, Bank Statement processing and exchange rates in Treasury module.
• Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions.
• Experienced in Travel Management configuration.
• Lock box program with EDI and IDOC setup.
• Configured Asset Accounting module, including mainly Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements. Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.
• Performed the Inter-Company transactions of the Assets and customized interfaces. And also Inter-company transactions involving the deprecation area, retirement of assets, scrapping of assets using ALE.
• Configured special G/L transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc. Configuration of Alternative reconciliation accounts for special G/L transactions.
• Defined the tables, created the master data, activities and Field Movements, and configured document splitting for special purpose ledger, and developed reports using report painter.
• Configuration of Controlling Area, Activation of components/control indicators, Number ranges assignment to controlling area. Maintained cost center standard hierarchy.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements using automatic cost element creation, cost element groups, Imputed costs calculation methods, cost centers, cost center groups, cost element attributes, statistical key figures and activity types in Cost Center Accounting.
• Defined Assessment, Distribution, and Periodic Reposting of costs using cycle segment method in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configuration of Internal-Orders using order types, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, budget profile and also tolerances for budget cost.
• Involved in setting up the default values for order type, template allocations, defining control parameters for work in process, variance calculations, and settlements (Settlement Profile, Allocation Structure, Source Structure and PA Structure).
• Configured settings for multiple variation, transfer pricing, planning, integration, profit center determination and balance sheet items.
• Created data structure (value fields and characteristics) in CO-PA. Configured derivation rules and PA settlement structures for population of characteristics and value fields respectively.
• Configured direct transfer postings from SD, MM and FI to CO-PA and Customized drill down reports.
• Worked with the Logistics Consultants to develop a mapping of all Logistic objects such as Sales Offices, Service groups and Plant Codes into CO-PA Characteristics and value fields and also worked in uploading of plan data from External data system into CO-PA.
• Worked on integration points between PP/MM/SD/HR with CO.
• Conducted Blueprint workshops, prepare process design documents (including functional specifications for custom objects), configuration of the system, Testing,, getting requisite sign-offs from the customer project team and all such activities that are part of an implementation cycle (ASAP methodology).
• Involved in Travel management covers the request, planning and booking of trips, as well as the settlement of travel expenses and the transfer of settlement results to other business function areas. And also in integration of SAPTravel Managementguarantees the benefits of synergies that increase efficiency and reduce process costs.
• programs for end-users, supervisors, and managers on the client site and also done the Unit and Integration Testing.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, SAP CRM, HP Quality Center, SAP BI, SAP BO and Vertex

Responsibilities:

• Involved and supported in documenting all changes, revising the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Maintained Cost center master data Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers and assisted on issues involving activity types, account assignments, validations and substitutions.
• Maintained profit center hierarchy, assigning CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs.
• Configured Profitability Analysis CO-PA included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures.
• Maintained AR/AP account groups, defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific, Payment Method Supplements, Withholding Tax, Payment Runs, Variant Configuration, Reversals, Vendor Balances, etc.
• Involved in analyzing and testing the business processes with the key-users. Tested the integration between CO/MM and SD Customization.
• Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification, discrepancy handling, invoice match payment processes in In-house cashetc.
• Worked with testing and modifying test scripts and defects.
• Trained the users of new functionality being added with version changes during the upgrade. Production Support Activities:
• Provided Production Support for the FI module - GL, AP and AR, Asset Accounting and for CO module - CEA, CCA, PCA, and CO-PA.
• Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Worked with users to analyze problems and proposed, developed, tested and Implemented SAP Solutions using standard configuration as well as worked with ABAP programmers.
• Supported on FI integrations with MM and SD Modules. Checking assignments of relevant cost objects in particular materials to profit centers.
• Provided support in Configuring of Asset Accounting Module Integrating with PS Module.
• Customized Asset Accounting Module - Copied country specific chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account determinations, screen layout key, allocate number ranges to assets classes, Down Payment configuration for Assets, and uploading of assets from Oracle Financials (Legacy) to SAP.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss for inter-company transactions.
• Involved in solving day to-day issues in Travel Management.
• Supported both the decentralized and central organization of the trip process, as well as a mixture of the two with the focus on decentralization in Travel Management.
• Involved in Travel Planning Integration with FI.
• Performed Unit testing to compare the balances of FI-GL, AP and AR.
• Worked closely with technical team to design and develop ABAP reports and enhancements. And also developed custom reports in controlling module using Report Painter.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

SAP FICO Consultant

Skill Set: GL, AP, AR, New G/L, SOX, SOD, PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CCA (Cost Center Accounting), COPA, Invest Management, OTC, P2P, BA, BI, BOMs, AA (Asset Accounting), AAP, Validation, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Advances, Intercompany.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS - TO-BE).
• Performed GAP analysis, actively participated in blueprint phase using ASAP methodology.
• Configured and managed all Period-End closing activities with Schedule Manager, Capitalized Assets with Budget monitoring using statistical internal orders
• Configured in-house cash center management payment process and cash forecasting.
• Improved company Lockbox performance with User Exit, a reformat program and customized reports. Activated NEW GL, Lending Ledger and Parallel Ledger for the possibility of Parallel Accounting according to the US GAAP.
• Defined the Splitting Characteristics for the GL (passive split, rule-based and zero balance formation by document).
• Created reconciliation accounts for AP and AR and configured AP including vendor account groups, number ranges and tolerance groups.
• Eliminated duplicated inter-company AR/AP postings in Cross-Company Sales Orders and ensured that SD Billing Document Invoices were posted in FI.
• Uploaded AP master data and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for AP for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Tested and performed web-demos of GL transactions for fast-entry screens, splitting, posting, parking and reversals.
• Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules with FI and CO modules.
• Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.
• Worked on Dispute Management functionality including creating dispute cases, forwarding of disputes and clearing disputes.
• Configured Bank Accounting (BA) including defining House Banks, Lockbox for House Banks, Bank Chains and also configured Lockbox.
• Lockbox processing, setting up house banks, defining House banks accounts at House banks, defining lockbox parameters, posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
• Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.
• Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.
• Created customized reports using report painter/report writer.
• Entered PS (Project System) texts for WBS elements using SAP Script Editor/Microsoft Word, assigned documents to WBS elements through DMS and assigned PS texts to copy templates and categorize as per text types.
• Worked on Project Budget Profile and uploading the budgets and customized settings for availability control for WBS elements.
• Managed start/finish rules and executed Project scheduling; worked on Project Settlement Profile and customized Result Analysis as input to Project Settlement.
• Generated Investment Program Hierarchy tree diagram with direct definition of the corresponding program positions and their assignment to the desired positions in the hierarchy using fast entry.
• Responsible for FI-MM integration; configured automatic account determination, ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).
• Participated in testing using Solution Manager; on a regular basis performed knowledge transfer to Super users and management using web demos; citrated BPP documentation.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, Test Pro, Load Runner, Test Director

Responsibilities:

• Support day to day business process pertaining to issues classified on enhancements and new developments in the FI and CO modules.
• Created Test Scripts and carrying out System Testing in the areas of FI-General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Profitability Analysis, Cost Center Accounting, and Product Costing.
• Provided resolutions for client’s day to day queries on Accounts Payable - Vendor master maintenance, processing invoices, entering AP credit Memos, GR/IR exception reporting, blocking invoices and executing the payment run.
• Configured FI GL, AP/AR & Banking - Doc types & posting keys, analysis of all open items and clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) accounts. Designed Account groups and Configured Payment program for check printing and Wire Transfer payments. Configured tax codes for vendor invoices. Worked on Vendor Master, Vendor invoices, Payment methods and reporting, Customer Master, and Default account assignments for Overpayments/Underpayments.
• Maintained Lockbox processing, Lockbox File Formats, Lockbox Configuration Changes 823 Type Idoc Processing, supporting prior day activities like bank statement preprocessing and clearing GL accounts.
• Maintained Cost Center Accounting, Standard Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements, CO versions.
• Developed custom programs to meet business requirements. Building custom programs to Automate the Retro’s. Worked on various interfaces Cross Worlds, GXS, EAI and EDI.
• Supported Profitability Analysis activities concerning maintaining user defined characteristics, updating characteristics derivation rules.
• Worked closely with the PP/MM team and clients costing team for resolving the issues.
• Designed functional specifications and tested various Accounts receivable reports and coordinated with ABAP team and Business users to fix various issues.
• Extensively worked on Archiving, Deletion and Retention periods for various FI and CO Objects. Carried out Archiving, Deletion and Retention periods on Special Purpose Ledger objects.
• Provided functional specification to Technical Team (ABAP and BW) in building various Reports.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.6C, SAP CRM, HP Quality Center, SAP BI, SAP BO and Vertex

Responsibilities:

• Performed gap analysis between 4.7 and ECC 6.0 systems to analyze the functional changes or business processes affected by upgrade including the objects that have been modified in 4.7.
• Performed table comparisons for major General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting between 4.7 and ECC 6.0 systems.
• Worked on the configuration changes for the business processes related to Finance, Controlling, and Configured Validation and Substitution rules according to new ECC 6.0 system.
• Used LSMW to upload G/L accounts, cost centers, commitment items, Fund, Fund Centers, functional areas in SAP.
• Configured automatic account determination, account groups, field status groups, posting periods, document types and document number ranges.
• Configured controlling area, assign number ranges to controlling area, assign company code to controlling area, maintained cost center standard hierarchy.
• In Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting implemented planning in Overhead Cost Controlling.
• Configured Account based COPA and creation of characteristics, value fields, and COPA Transfer structure.
• Mapped SD conditions to have the system automatically transfer sales revenues and deductions to COPA.
• Worked on month-end and year-end closing processes for Finance and Controlling. And also on the integration issues of Finance and Controlling with MM and SD.
• Provided support at the Client site in giving solutions for the issues pertaining to configuration changes needed due to the enhanced functionality supported by ECC 6.0.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing for all business processes related to General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Controlling.

Confidential

SAP FICO Testing Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3, SQL, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Test Director

Responsibilities:

• Involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process and organization structure to finalize, map and configure to-be business process.
• General ledger: Rationalized chart of accounts by mapping existing accounts to the company global chart of accounts supplied for the implementation. Configured G/L display configurations and recurring items.
• Tested G/L transactions for business process (fast-entry screens, posting, reversal etc) and created multiple financial statement versions.
• Account payable: Configured vendor creation, vendor group and vendor field status. Designed and Configured check printing and payment blocking reasons.
• Accounts Receivable: Configured customer master data and risk categories. Configured payment methods, payment terms, cash discount automatic postings, bills of exchange, Payment method supplement country payment settings, wire transfer settings and ACH payments. Design and configuration of automatic account assignments, over/under payments, interest calculation and write-offs.
• Created CATTs for creation of general ledger masters, customer masters and vendor masters.
• Cost center accounting: Created cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements and allocation cycles. Configured activity type and statistical key figures.
• Profit center accounting: Maintained basic settings, standard hierarchy, profit center master record, assignments and planning.
• Created internal orders, configured planning, budget and settlements.
• Testing: Involved in SD and MM integrating testing in accounts receivable and accounts payable.
• : Trained end users on finance module and prepared documentation for various procedures.

Confidential

SAP FICO Testing Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3, SQL, Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Test Director

Responsibilities:

• Developed and created Test plans, test cases and test scenarios.
• Designed and developed tests scripts for manual testing of all the modules.
• Conducted Integration testing for Period End closing, Account assignment, Logistics Invoice verification, Credit management, and Accounts receivables
• Worked with User Acceptance Test. Manually checked the interface between SAP modules.
• Testing the inbound and outbound interfaces related to logistics modules from Third party systems to SAP.
• Coordinating reviews of test plan, test cases, test schedules and identified project milestones & risks.
• Verifying and validating that tests are conducted and documented according the standards approved by management.
• Prepared detail test cases using test director for automated testing, and created a test strategy to assist in leading and managing day to day activities.
• Tested internal control policies and procedures. Evaluated internal control system over financial reporting .Helped the team to develop material and documented the daily activities.
• Involved in integration, system, Functional Testing and End to End testing, Review test plans, Test case scenarios and test scripts.
• Developed test scripts for integration test scenarios.
• In Profit Center Accounting, maintained standard hierarchy. Configured Planning layout, Planning profile, and Plan allocations for Profit Center Accounting.
• Worked on reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Involved in Support tickets related to month end closing procedures.
• Handled postproduction issues in FI and CO.