OBJECTIVE:

Challenging SAP Functional position, where strengths in problem solving and leadership skills, will help develop business applications using best practices.

SUMMARY:

• Eight years of strong functional experience in SAP as function consultant in FI/CO module. Extensive experience in configuration of FI/CO modules - New GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting. Worked with Chart of Accounts, configured line item displays and balances. General Ledger Accounts Assignments for automatic postings. Configuration terms of payments and discounts. Configured Field Status Groups and assigned field status variants.
• Controlling: Worked with Cost Centers, Cost Elements, Standard Hierarchy, and Profit Center Strong problem solving, analytical skills and ability to make balanced, independent decisions. High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the project implementation lifecycle.
• Worked as a consulting specialist responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of SAP for the client and worked actively with the management and project teams of the client to implement SAP FI/CO.
• Configuration of organizational structures, chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups’ Fiscal year Variants, posting periods, document number ranges. Setting up of document types and posting keys for business transactions, Foreign Exchange Management.
• New GL, Grouping G/L accounts into various account groups, Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts payables, cross company transaction.
• Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys and document types for posting and validation of business transactions. Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels Automatic payment configurations. Integration with SD and MM modules
• Creation of Chart of Depreciation, Defining Assets class, Account determination, Creation of Asset, Retirement of assets, In-house creation of Assets, Depreciation run.
• Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system. Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy, creating CO version and defining control indicators.
• Creation of cost center groups under the standard hierarchy, creation of cost centers including collection cost centers and allocation cost centers, creation of secondary cost elements. Setting control parameters for actual posting, Allocation characteristics for sender/receiver cost, Configuration of Assessment, distribution and reposting.
• Configured cost center planning, Configuration of Profit centers accounting.
• Configuring material cost estimate with and without quantity structure (costing variant, quantity structure control), price update, product cost collector, manufacturing order sales order, preliminary and simultaneous costing, order BOM costing, Result analysis, configuring WIP calculation and variance calculations, maintained settlement structures, costing variants, valuation variants, Material Ledger data, Periodic, Actual Costing, Material Price determination, Actual cost component split, Price changes, integrating CO-PC with SD, MM and CO-PA.
• Created dummy profit center, Creation of profit center and Doc No ranges of PCA, Created operating concern and controlling version, Creation of Attributes and Data structures, Configuration of CO-PA costing bases and accounts bases analysis, Created CO-PA master data, PA settlement structures, CO-PA planning / profile / layout.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 FI/CO

General Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Operating Systems: MS Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston,TX

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained Chart of Accounts, Customized Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Created G/L Account master records
• Interacted with client to update and group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit
• Control Areas and Dunning Areas
• Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customer and vendors
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, and Posting Rules for automatic assignments
• Configured Payment Program such as Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country
• Payment methods, Wire Transfer Settings and ACH payments
• Configured and Customized the Credit Control Area
• Treasury: Lockbox Spec Configuration, Setup for Liquidity Forecast, Cash Position and Cash
• Concentration
• Prototype of Cash Management Module Incorporating Customers, Vendors and Bank
• Transactions
• Worked with team members for Automatic Account Determination of Sales / Use Tax, Inter-Company, MM and SD Account Assignments
• Performed unit testing and integration testing of MM with Account Payable and SD with
• Account Receivable
• Documentation: Responsible for maintaining Project Documentation including Writing Position Papers, Scenarios, Testing Scripts and Configuration details
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and maintained Cost Elements Attributes
• Set up Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Hierarchy, Created Cost Center Categories, Cost Center, Profit
• Center, Activity Types, and Statistical Key Figures
• Worked with the project management.
• Documented the Processes, Changes and Trained The End Users

Confidential, CT

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In Accounts Payable (AP) created vendor master records, account groups, defined client Specific payment terms, vendor invoices, manual incoming/outgoing payments, automatic Payment program configuration, partial payments, and payment advices
• Maintained customer master records, configured the system for daily accounting transactions, worked on closing procedures for post value adjustments and balance carry forward program in
• Accounts Receivable (A/R).
• Configured the system for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming Payments with difference and defined reason codes for payment differences and worked On writing off these differences to G/L accounts. Tolerance groups, credit management
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, and Posting Rules for automatic assignments.
• Define multiple clearing accounts for the cash reporting
• Tax configuration, Integrating the master records of SD, MM in the tax fields, Tax
• Processing, Calculation procedure, Tax jurisdiction codes Configuration for TAXUSX and
• Knowledge of tax interfaces with Vertex and Tax ware
• Configured the fund management, created different FM areas.
• Worked closely with SD for AR and MM for AP.
• Integrated Asset Accounting, structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset master Involved in the designing of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, inter-company asset Transfers and balance-carry forward jobs, depreciation areas, depreciation keys,
• Calculations/reporting and Year-end closing in fixed assets. Designed and configured Asset Accounting to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements and Transfers.
• Conducted User testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch.
• Session and also involved in providing training to end-users.

Confidential, Canton, OH

SAP R/3 FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the design review and business model.
• Did the gap analysis and figured out the best possible match to resolve the gap.
• Defined Company, configured company codes and their global settings, and assigned company to company code.
• Defined Fiscal year variants and assigned them to various company codes.
• Configured posting period variants, posting keys, number ranges, document types, field status groups and tolerance group.
• Configured chart of accounts, account group, G/L account master records. Created sample accounts and configured field status groups.
• Made initial settings for vendor/ customer master records.
• Defined Organizational Structures required for Fixed Assets.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, retirement.
• Grouped assets into manageable Asset Classes and customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges. Made settings for GL accounts for AUC, loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, for posting depreciation. Defined settings for depreciation runs.
• Defined Credit control area, risk categories and specified credit limits for customers and generated various reports for customer credit management.
• Integrated AP with MM and AR with SD modules with respect to account determination for various clearing and adjustment accounts.
• Successfully tested various business scenarios in the FI module.
• Configured lockbox processing and customized processing of incoming checks.
• Customized settings for controlling areas, activated the components/ indicators, assigned the company codes to controlling areas, assigned number ranges.
• Defined the Operating Concern and maintained the controlling versions.
• Cost Elements Analysis involving both primary and secondary cost elements, activated the reconciliation ledger, and maintained accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• Enterprise Controlling: EC-PCA. Used Profit center accounting to create profit and loss statements on key business metrics for predefined areas of responsibility. Created reports using report painter for consolidation.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) created the operating Concern; Configured the Costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field and profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Designed specs for development of FI/CO Reports and Layouts. Generated reports using tools like
• Report Writer, Report Painter.