SUMMARY:

• Over 3 years of experience as in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New G/L, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Special Purpose Ledger.
• Controlling (CO) experience includes Cost Center and Element Accounting (CCA, CEA), Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Consolidation.
• Experience in full life - cycle implementations of SAP FI/CO modules using all phases of ASAP methodology - Project preparation, Business blue print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live Support and post-live Production Support.
• A Master’s degree and prior domain experience in the field of Management.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, systematic approach, and demonstrated ability to work very effectively in fast paced environments
• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in preparing budgets and business planning, including projected room revenue and reconcile bank statements
• SAP FI/CO skill set (R/3 5.0 to ECC 6.0)
• FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, Fiscal year, Company code configuration, Business and Functional areas, and Posting periods
• General Ledger: Account groups, GL Master records, Field status groups, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting keys, Automatic account determination, Number ranges, Document types, Tolerance groups, Recurring Documents, Parking Document, Hold Document, Partial Payment, Currency, Document Reversal, Substitution and Validation Rules.
• Accounts Payable: Vendor Account Group, Vendor Master Data, Payment Program Configuration, House Bank, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Payment Methods, Cash Discounts Taken, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, Integrating with MM, AP Information System, Closing Procedures.
• Accounts Receivables: Customer Group, Customer Master Records, Sales Invoice, Terms Of Payments, Interest Calculation and Posting, Reason Codes, Employee Tolerances, Sales Order, Incoming Payments, Clearing, Automatic Payments, Cash Discounts Given, Down Payments, Credit Management, Bills of Exchange, Dunning Procedures, Closing Procedures, Integration With SD.
• Cost Element Accounting (CEA): Element Type, Automatic Cost Element Creation, Manual Cost Element Creation, Imputed Costs, Reconciliation Ledger, and Statistical Postings.
• Cost Centered Accounting (CCA): Planning Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Elements, Activity Type and Statistical Key Figures, Assessment, Distribution and Reposting.
• Internal order Accounting: Internal Order Configuration, Order Settlement for Configuration, Order Planning and Budgeting, Order Status Management, and Order Type Development.
• Profit Center accounting (PCA): Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-objects to Profit Centers, Distribution and Assessment of Costs, planning and Development of Reports.
• Asset Accounting: Asset Classes, Chart Of Depreciation, Customizing and Configuring specific settings for managing Assets, Depreciation Keys, Depreciation Methods, Posting Depreciation, Sub Asset, Sale of Asset, and Leased Asset Accounting.
• Profitability Analysis: Configuring and customizing the operating concerns, Characteristics, Value Fields, Maintaining the Derivation Rules and Valuation, CO-PA Planning, Activating, Reporting, and Transports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP System: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.7 (FI/CO and integration with MM,SD)

Reporting: Crystal Reports and Report Painter

Operation Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/ XP/ Vista/7.

Applications/Tools: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Crystal Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all phases of implementation from conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, business blueprinting, and configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Profitability Analysis.
• The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process, organization structure finalizing and mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Configured Product cost using Production Planning cost collector.
• Assigned Number Ranges for Documents, Vendors and Customers, reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Made settings for GL accounts for AUC, Fixed Assets and Internal orders, Loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, and posting depreciation under different Depreciation Areas.
• Configured credit control area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers, costing based COPA, Account based COPA, created characteristic and value fields.
• Configured Costing Variants for Preliminary Costing in Cost Object Controlling.
• Maintained overhead cost elements, defined costing sheets, allocations and settlements in CO.
• Defined internal order types, planning and settlement profile and created standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, distribution and assessments in CO-PCA, BCM.
• Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for variance documents, used report painter and report writer.
• Created Lock box, Bank Master Data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Worked on Integration of MM and SD with FI accounts assignment and appropriation request, and investment measure in Investment Management.

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Maintains and prepare payroll, including summary registers and reports.
• Responsible for all the financial activities of the shipping line as well as with Creditors and Debtors
• Responsible for monthly closing of account and reconciliation of sub-ledger account to general ledger
• Identifies and recommends improved business processes resulting in strong internal control and makes a positive contribution to financial result
• Configured Eligibility rules for the employees based on their duration of hours.
• Worked on Interest Calculation, billing, and Dunning, Incoming Payments, and Cash Discounts.

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• ECC 6.0 New Implementation- Participated in full life cycle implementations of SAP FI/CO modules using ASAP methodology in all phases - Project preparation, Business blue print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support and Post-live Production Support.
• Responsible for gathering requirements on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements and determined organizational structure, business units, company codes, and profitability centers (AS IS - TO BE)
• Performed GAP analysis and actively participated in designing blueprints (ASAP Methodology).
• Configured New General Ledger (GL) and updated rules for other ledgers, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, posting periods and GL master records creation.
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries and also worked on FI Substitution and Validation rules.
• Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Payment Terms and Payment Methods.
• Configured vendor groups, vendor master records, Tolerance limits, Payment Terms, payment methods and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Configured the settings for House Bank, outgoing and incoming payments including Automatic payment program (APP), down payments, inter-company transaction in Accounts Payables (AP).
• Configured customer account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits, credit limit groups, Interest Calculation, Incoming Payments, Dunning, AR Information System in Account Receivables(AR).
• Defined the General Ledger(GL) accounts for Materials Management and set up the Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA) by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Configured Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Planning
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in COPA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer . Performed Documentation for end users and provided end user training.

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Check the accuracy of monthly accruals, and inter-company reconciliation to ensure volume allocations and prices are correct.
• Completed hotel reports, including budget projections and financial statements.
• Maintained and prepared hotel payroll, including summary registers and reports.
• Supervised and trained new accounting hires at the request of the management.
• Managed financial information dealing with Assets, liabilities, capital. And prepared B/S, P&L statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for department management.

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for corporate banking and resolving any issues and discrepancies regarding these bank accounts.
• Oversee the accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll functions at the property level and monitored budgets, prepare and balance payroll and benefits records
• Prepare tax reports, statements and Work with external auditors in access company accounting books

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the financial activities of the Hotel as well as with Creditors and Debtors.
• Compiled and analyzed financial information to prepare entries general ledger accounts, and document business transactions.
• Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents and analyzed revenue and expenditure trends and recommended appropriate budget levels, and ensure expenditure control.

Confidential

Acting Manageress

Responsibilities:

• Managed the affairs of the Hotel, was in-charge of key performance indicators of the daily running of the Hotel. Ascertained the cost of services at different levels of operations at the hotel.
• Providing costing information for the guidance of management, by introducing cost control methods and assisting managements in establishing appropriate prices for services. Evaluated staff performance and prepared budget management programs.

Assistant Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed, analyzed and presented financial data, revenue projections and expenditure reports to management to determine funding requirements.
• Prepared financial statements, reports of operations, expenditure reports, statistical data, and other information concerning financial requirements; assisted budget preparations
• Maintains various ledgers, journals, registers and other fiscal records; allocates revenues to appropriate functions; classifies expenditures and posts to various accounts as required.