SUMMARY:

• 11 years of Experience in Software Development Environment as a SAP R/3 - FI/CO Functional Consultant.
• Involved in End to End Implementations with Pre Go-live and Post Go-live support, Upgradation Projects and Production support projects.
• Experience in Analyzing business requirements, Configuration, Testing, Documentation and End User Traning.
• Expertise in Data Mapping and Data Migration of Master data and Transactional data in both FI and CO.
• Excellent Configuration Skills in FI Module: which include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Treasury sub modules which also include Automatic Payment program, Lockbox Process, ACH payments, Positive Pay configuration and Check Printing.
• Excellent Configuration skills in CO Module: which include Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing and Profitability Analysis sub modules .
• Extensively worked on Cost Center Planning and Profit Center Planning.
• Strong integration skills and thorough understanding of the integration of FI/CO with various SAP module like SD, MM, PP,FM and HR .
• Configured Taxes for US and Canada using third party software Confidential for USA, Withholding Tax (1099) for USA.
• Good Working experience in development of reports using Report Painter, Report Writer.
• Familiarity with Creation and usage of Projects and WBS elements in the PS module.
• Good Working experience in development and usage of data migration tools like CATTS, ECATTS, LSMW.
• Sound Knowledge in period/year end closing and reporting.
• Worked on SAP Reports, BDC, and SAP Script in SD, MM, and FI Modules.
• Experience in use and maintenance of ABAP/4 Data Dictionary objects: tables, structures, domains, data elements etc.
• Created Classical reports and interactive reporting in various modules.
• Creating and processing batch input using BDC Session and Call transaction methods.
• Written interface programs to migrate data from Legacy System to SAP R/3 system in BDC’s as a part of implementation process using Session Method and Call Transaction Method.
• Experience in using the ABAP/4 Workbench tools like ABAP/4 debugger, SQL Trace and Runtime Analysis.
• Worked on User Exits, Dialog Programming, Smart Forms, LSMW, ALE, and IDOCS.
• Experienced in job scheduling and back ground processing.
• Proficient in Dialog Programming using Screen Painter, Flow Logic - with PBO, PAI and Menu Painter.
• Proficient in ABAP Queries
• Using and maintaining aggregate objects like views.
• Experience in SAP Solution Manger Tool to handle the Change Management Process in SAP.
• Experience in Test Director tool used for Test tracking.
• Expertise in ASAP methodology.
• Proficient with Gap analysis.
• High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the Project implementation life cycle.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. Strong points include quicker grasp to new concepts, the ability to pursue matters in great detail and able to work in a team

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Financial Accounting: GL, AR, AP, AA

Controlling: CEL, CCA, IO, PC, COPA, PCA

Languages: ABAP/4, VB, C, C++, SQL and PL/SQL

Databases: Oracle 8i, MS Access 2000

O/ S and Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Vista

Reporting: Crystal Reports 9.0, Report Painter, Report Writer and ABAP Query.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

FICO Functional Lead Consultant

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Working as a FICO Functional lead for the SAP ECC6.0 implementation for Confidential Motors, USA. My role requires leadership and extensive interaction with the business users IT department and third parties
• Involved in Planning, Design Blue Printing, Development and Testing phases of the project in the FICO module, primarily focused on Finance module - GL, AP, AR, Bank accounting and Controlling Module - CO, CCA, PCA, IO, COPA.
• Conducted workshops with SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), Business Users, IT dept. and discussed, documented ‘AS-IS’, ‘TO-BE’ documents for FI and CO processes. Worked with Director of Finance and the Controller for the approval of the Blue print documents.
• Worked with third party companies like banks, payroll providers etc. in establishing the new data transmissions and new data formats, file layouts.
• Worked on the design and development of legacy interfaces and the configurations of various Sub-modules of FICO.
• Prepared functional specification documents for the new ABAP objects to be developed for daily interfaces and data migration .
• Performed data migration for master data and transactional data from multiple legacy systems to the new SAP landscape.
• Configured GL, AR, AP, Bank accounting including Electronic Bank Statement ( EBS) in FI and CCA, PCA, IO, COPA in CO.
• Performed testing for the legacy interfaces from IT legacy systems and third party companies.
• Conducted Key user and End user training and prepared training materials and user manuals.

Sr. FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• I am an integral part of the Downstream SAP team implementing SAP ECC6.0 for the units of Confidential across US and Canada. I was involved in the Planning, Design Blue Printing, Development and Testing phases of the project in the FICO module, primarily focused on Cost accounting(Cost center accounting, Internal Orders) PCA, Product Costing and COPA.
• Conducted workshops with SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), discussed and documented ‘AS-IS’, designed and documented ‘TO-BE’ for Cost Accounting processes.
• Worked on the design of the Organization structures and Cost Objects in accordance with the Global Design.
• Involved in data migration of the CO master data from the old SAP system to the new landscape. The data included Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center, Profit Center Hierarchy, Internal Order data with settlement information, CCA and PCA assessment cycles and Work Centers.
• Activated COPA settings in the Controlling module basic settings for Costing based COPA. Defined business requested COPA structure by defining user defined Characteristics and the value fields for capturing values in the customized reports for Break Even Analysis. Defined Profitability Segment characteristics and the attributes for the operating concern. Defined different currencies for Operating concern as a foreign currency to be able to analyze data in different currency.
• Configured Product Costing module for the Lubes and F&M entities. Created Work Centers, Routing, BOM . Configured cost component structure, costing sheet, Costing Variant, Valuation Variant for Standard Cost Estimates, work in process and variance calculations. Configured new O/H percentage for plants for Costing purpose. Configured new Variance key for plant and variance reporting. Added new Valuation Variant for current cost estimate.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, master data validations, validations and substitution rules, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• Configured Standard PCA hierarchy and designed and constructed PCA Report Writer reports as per the User requirements.
• Provided mapping rules for CO data like Internal Orders, Allocations cycles, cost centers, cost center hierarchies, profit centers, profit center hierarchies to facilitate data migration.
• Designed custom reports for downloading and uploading assessment cycles and Internal order data (including the settlement related data)
• Documented the design in Solution Manager and configured the system as per the design.

Techno-Functional Lead Consultant FI/CO

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in FI and CO modules configuration on the project with roles also involving gathering information from End users and configuring the system as per the requirements, Unit tests, Regression tests and User Acceptance Tests. Participated in the structured walk through sessions to get the user acquainted to the new system and the new processes.
• Organization structure: - Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year, Posting period, Company code, Business areas, Field status groups, functional areas, Group currency.General Ledger: Account groups, GL Master Records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/purchase tax assignment, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Business Area accounting.
• Taxes: Configured Taxes for US with an interface to Confidential and taxes for Canada based on the regional and business requirements .
• Accounts Receivables: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, Lockbox Process and Closing operations.
• Accounts Payables: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, Credit Memos recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts.
• Asset Accounting: Asset Class, Asset Master Record, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys, Multilevel methods, Acquisition, Work in Progress, Retirement, Multiple Depreciation area, Parallel Currencies.
• Financial Statements: Financial Closing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, GR/IR accounts, financial statement creation.
• Bank Accounting: House Banks, bank accounts, Manual Bank statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Free form of payment, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program.
• Treasury: Cash Concentration, Cash forecasting, planning level and planning groups. Data flow from logistics modules.
• Cost Center Accounting: Cost centre and cost center groups. Activity types and statistical keys, Reposting, Distribution, Assessment and Overheads, Settlement rules and settlement parameters for settlement of orders to cost objects.
• Profit Center Accounting: Profit Centers, Profit Center groups, Profit center Standard hierarchy, Profit Center Alternative hierarchy.
• Product Costing: Settings for Product cost estimates with quantity structure, Cost component structures and Costing Variants. Created BOM, Routing and Work centers that were used in creating cost estimates.
• Profitability Analysis: Operating concern, Characteristics, Value fields, Characteristic groups, Value field groups, Valuation Strategy, Actual flow of data from SD and MM into COPA, Derivation rules, Variances, COPA Planning.
• Created Balance Sheet and Income statement in Report painter and configured financial statement version
• Involved in Cost center planning for the production cost centers to calculate the activity type prices
• Actively involved in the data transfer of inventory, receivables, payables and general ledger balances from the legacy SAP system to the new Global SAP system
• Worked closely with the Technical teams to make sure the custom reports / programs were built as per the requirements and standards. Provided the Functional and the Technical Specs to the Technical team .
• Worked with Controlling team and US / Canada Accounting groups to map SAP roles of end users with their business functions to ensure that the end-users had access to the appropriate transaction codes and SAP reports.
• Streamlined and standardized the finance and controlling business process value flows and ensured that they are in line with the best practices and global accounting standards and guidelines.
• Conducted user training and knowledge transfer in FI-General Ledger/Accounts Receivable /Accounts Payable modules and CO-Cost Center Accounting/Profit Center Accounting /Product Costing/Profitability Analysis module.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support role involved break fixes for Production issues on FI and CO modules and also new Enhancements to facilitate additional functionality requests for the business.
• As an on-site coordinator, worked with the offshore team in India in managing the Peregrine system process for ticket handling for changes and bug fixes to make sure the fixes were done in a timely manner and per the Confidential standards.
• Involved in the Test Director testing for the implemented changes.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Data migration activities in mapping and converting legacy data into SAP. Data included master data and transactional data.
• Maintained Global parameters, Defined Field Status Variants, Defined variants for open posting periods, Assigned variants to company code, Defined document number ranges and Created Doc Types, Maintained field status variants & Message Control, Assigned company code to field status variant, Screen variants for document entry, Defined tolerance groups for employees, Maintained fast entry screens for G/L account items.
• Assigned country to calculation procedure, Defined tax codes for sales and purchases and Assigned tax codes for non taxable transactions.
• Defined Tax Codes for Sales and Purchases, Account Determination, Withholding tax (1099) configuration.
• Defined Chart of accounts, Assigned company code to Chart of accounts, Transported chart of accounts, Defined Account Group, Defined retained earnings account, Assigned number range to document type, Defined Field status variant, Defined variants for open posting periods, Open and close posting periods, Assigned variants to company code, Assigned company code to field status variant, Defined tolerance groups for employees, Maintained fast entry screens for G/L account items. Integration and Account Determination with SD, MM and HR.
• Defined Credit Controlling Areas and Assigned to Company code, Defined Account Groups with Screen Layout (Customers), Created Number Ranges for Customer Accounts, and Assigned Number Ranges to Customer Account Groups. Configured Lockbox processing, Defined Tolerances (Customer), Defined Reconciliation Accounts for Customer down payments. Defined partner functions, Defined Partner Functions for internal Customers, Defined customer groups and Defined Number Ranges. Assigned G/L Accounts and Defined Account Determination Procedures. Defined Sales Document Types, Defined Number Ranges for Sales Documents and Defined item categories.
• Defined account groups with screen layout, Created number ranges for Vendor accounts and Assigned number ranges to Vendor account groups, defined vendor Tolerances Set up all company codes for payment transactions, Set Up the Paying company codes for payment transactions, Set up payment methods per country for payment Transactions, Set up payment methods per Company code for payment Transactions, Set Up Bank determination for payment transactions, Assigned payment forms for payment method in Company code, Assigned payment Medium Program for payment method in country and Defined House Banks .Created functional specifications for Positive pay file, Check printing form and AP Aging reports. Automatic Payments: Configured Automatic payment program. Enter Available amounts for payment and Assign G/L account to cash clearing account. Credit Memos, Down payments received - Define posting key and Alternative Reconciliation Accounts for Down Payments or Special G/L Account determination.
• Maintained Controlling Area, Maintained Versions, Maintained Number Ranges
• Defined Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Defined Cost Centers, Defined Cost Center Categories, Defined Activity types. Actual Postings: Configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, Defined Cost Center Hierarchy, Maintained Plan Versions and Planning configurations and Defined Cost Center assessments and Distribution cycles.
• Internal Orders: Activated Order Management in controlling area, Configured Order Types and Created Number Ranges for Order Types and Created Model Orders. Defined Budget Planning Profiles, Maintained Budget Profile and Defined Tolerance Limits for Availability Control. Maintained Settlement Profiles, Maintained Allocation Structures and Created Number Ranges for settlement documents.
• Profit Center Accounting: Activated Profit Center Accounting, Defined Number Ranges, Activated Direct Postings and Maintain Plan Versions. Defined Profit Center Hierarchy, Created Profit Center accounts Groups based on Financial Statements Version and Profit Center assignments to Material and Cost centers.
• Product Costing: Defined work centers, Routing, BOM and created cost estimates for materials individually and as a group. Configured cost component structure, Costing sheets, Work in Process, Variance Calculations.
• Participated in structured walk through sessions to gain consensus and support from the end users on key design changes.
• Adapted standard methods and best practices to meet the end user needs and preferences.
• Played an active role in the Change Management Workshops organized by Confidential PMO and Change Management teams.
• Worked effectively with the key users to identify training needs of end users.
• Reviewed training course material with FICO process leads and ensured that the course was designed to meet the training needs.
• Worked with DC Controlling and US Plant Accounting groups to map SAP roles of end users with their business functions to ensure that the end-users had access to the appropriate transaction codes and SAP reports.
• Reviewed and tested the FI and CO business scenarios and closing tests as part of user acceptance testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• After implementation, ensured that all "compliance issues" have been corrected.
• Participated in the CMT process to ensure SAP system integrity, consistent business design
• Worked on Streamlining and standardizing the finance and controlling business process value flows and ensured that they are in line with the best practices and global accounting standards and guidelines.

Technical consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided ABAP/4 support in the implementation of SAP/R3. The work includes development of various Reports, BDC’s and SAP scripts
• Modified SAP standard process Order report according to the customer requirement
• Created Vendor performance report that lists vendor name, materials supplied, planned and actual delivery times, payments terms and prices
• Created a report that display list of purchase requisition with details like MRP controller, release date and unit of measure along with standard details
• Created a report that displays missing quantity list that gives the difference between sent and received quantities during stock transfer
• Developed custom modifications for VL02, VA01 and VA02 transaction related user exists.
• Designed and coded BDC’s for MEK1, VK11, FB01 transactions.
• Developed a BDC-batch input program fro transaction FK01 to transfer vendor address into r/3 systems
• Developed and modified sap standard production, process order related sap scripts. (Pick list, Process Order).
• Invoice Receipt: This report displays differences between the actual goods receipts in the store and the invoice sent by the customer in the customer’s format