SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience in finance industry with 3 years of experience in SAP R/3 with a strong focus on Financial Accounting and Controlling Modules.
• Expertise in configuration testing of FI/CO modules - General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Banking, Enterprise Controlling (EC), Cost Center accounting (CO-OM-CCA), and Internal orders (IO).
• Experience in integration of FI/CO with SD and MM modules.
• Strong knowledge in Financial Accounting.
• Experience in Testing, Go-Live, Post-Live support.
• Self-motivated with an ability to work independently and in a team with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Worked as Power user in SAP FI/CO Module.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP
• Business Intelligence
• M3
• QuickBooks
• Microsoft Windows & Office
• UltraTax
• COPAS
• A/X
• CATS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
• Maintained required settings in Accounts Payable viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), linking of Vendor documents with EDI.
• Created & Maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, AR Aging.
• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
• Processed and accrued daily and month-end aging A/P&A/R invoice list, taxes and rent.
• Reviewed month-end financial reports, including freight, shipping, & trial balance to resolve variances.
• Analyzed inter-company transactions daily and during month end to resolve any issues.
• Advised on month on budgeting and forecasting models during month end.
• Reconciled and accrued inventory shipments to proper intercompany G.L. accounts.

Financial Associate

Responsibilities:

• Process quarterly reports, such as cross charges, 401k reclass, leases, and mortgages to be submitted to Switzerland corporate headquarters per JSOX compliance.
• Analyze returned inventory from retailers, including Walmart, Kroger, Speedway and 7-Eleven, to determine whether to process chargebacks or the destruction of inventory.
• Prepare month-end journal entries, including bonus and marketing accruals, inventory adjustments, business development, and payroll entries.
• Review and submit monthly key account reconciliations, including sales, depreciation, auto leases, tax and inventory, to eliminate discrepancies between SAP general ledger accounts and manual records.
• Verify employee travel expenses and payments; determine proper allocations to GL accounts in SAP.
• Create SAP cost centers, internal orders to process expenses, issue credit memos and sales orders.
• Create and verify 2015 financial statement reconciliations, including restructuring, liability, accrual and revenue accounts, to be submitted to external CPA for tax audit.
• Submit 2015 federal and state business and employee tax extensions and payments.

Asst. Business Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed month-end financial reports, including chargebacks, trial balance, P&L to resolve variances.
• Determined and processed monthly sales commissions reported by the publishing distributor for national and international territories, and reported by big-box vendors such as Target and Amazon.
• Supervised inventory shipments to reconcile inventory with corporate headquarters in Japan.
• Assessed month-end inventory, A/R variances between Kumon N.A. and publishing distributor.
• Negotiated with wholesalers/retail vendors such as Barnes & Noble for customized price structures.
• Implemented internal audit function by generating financial reports (sales, chargebacks, expenses).

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed monthly reports, including P&L and balance sheet to determine budget, expense and revenue discrepancies of hotel properties; Advised controllers on budgeting and forecasting of revenue/expenses.
• Processed and accrued daily and month-end aging A/P invoice list, taxes and rent revenue.
• Handled internal payroll audit with NJ State to reconcile and allocate employee wages and tax liabilities.

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed payroll, federal/state corporate filings such as payroll taxes, deductions, and tax returns.
• Analyzed financial data to form forecasting models and tax strategy; Presented reports to supervisor.
• Posted and analyzed critical journal entries, including gross up payroll, payroll liabilities and sales tax.

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured all the basic settings including Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variants, Exchange Rate Types and Currencies.
• Defined Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, GL Account Master Records for each company code
• Customized and Configured Retained Earnings Account and Tolerance Groups for Employees.
• Creation and maintenance of field status groups, posting keys, document types and open and close posting periods.
• Prepared and Reviewed Business Process Procedures (BPPs) For GL
• Created Financial Statement Versions as per specification given by client.
• Inter Company Billing through Vendor, Customer & GL Accounts.
• Created Reconciliation accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Defined Document control settings including Document structure, Posting Periods, Posting Authorizations and made necessary settings to enable the user to post documents in R/3.
• Integration between FI with MM, SD and PP
• Customized settings for controlling areas, activating the components/indicators, assigning the company codes to controlling areas, assigning number ranges.
• Cost Elements Analysis (CO-CEA) involving both primary and secondary cost elements, activating the reconciliation ledger, and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• CO-CCA created Cost Center master data, Cost Center standard hierarchy, created assessment cost elements.
• Maintained various internal order types, order groups, status management profiles.