SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Functional consultant with more than 8 years of implementation and configuration experience in FI module - - GL, AR, AP, AA, NEW GL and exclusively on CO module -- CCA, PCA, COPA, COPC & IO.
• Two full life cycle implementations, Upgrade and production support in ECC 6.0 and R/3 system using ASAP Methodology; Project Preparation, Worked with, As-Is, To-Be Conducted workshops, Business Blue-Printing, Realization, BPP’s and Go-Live.
• Extensive knowledge in CO-PA, Cost Center & Profit Center Accounting and Internal Orders in CO side, GL, Asset Accounting, GL, AP & AR in FI side.
• Good knowledge of ABAP Queries and Reporting Tools: Report Painter and Report Writer, User-exit programming, LSMW, CATTS, Programming and Debugging.
• Expertise in configuring Document Splitting and Zero Balancing of Documents in New GL.
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New GL, Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Special Purpose Ledger (SPL), Treasury (TR) and Consolidation
• Exclusively worked on Actual costing, Material update, customizing production startup.
• Performed Integration of FICO modules with other modules - SD, MM & PP and well versed with overall business process like Order to Cash, Make to Order & Procure to Pay.
• Implemented Asset Accounting: Acquisition, Transfer, Retirement, Asset Class and Depreciation Areas.
• Good implementation knowledge of Solution Manager (SolMan).
• Proficiency to configure Electronic bank statement (EBS), APP, Lockbox and Dunning
• Good understanding about enhancements in New GL in SAP ECC 5.0 & 6.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 (4.6c, 4.7 and ECC 5.0, 6.0)

Technical: ABAP Query, Report Painter, Report Writer, CATTS, LSMW;

Implementation: ASAP Methodology.

Languages: C, JAVA, ASP and ABAP/4

MS office: MS Access, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel,Visio

Operating Systems: Windows 2000 / 2003 / XP / Vista, UNIX, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP R3 4.7 to ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Working on Enhancements along with giving production support to the Chicago and European regions.
• Worked on OKB9 settings for posting to the appropriate cost centers at the plant level.
• Worked on Allocations and assessments for the month end process.
• Wrote Functional specs for the Concur program for the integration.
• Worked on Substitution and Validation Rules.
• Helped ABAP developers in developing custom reports and prepared functional specifications for reports for Concur
• Created new company codes, Customized the FBZP settings for House banks, bank accounts, bank determination and payment methods.
• Created new reports in BPC as per the specifications provided by the end users.
• Created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA planning parameters in Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Defined Internal orders for different order types, Planning profile, settlement profile, settlement rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.

FICO Lead Consultant(Upgrade to SAP ECC 6.0) SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Member of Global Finance COE team supporting the Global SAP Roll out.
• Working on Enhancements along with giving production support to the North Americas Region
• Solved the critical issues with Auto Clearing of GRIR accounts with Purchasing Document as Scheduling Agreement
• Worked on FI & CO Reconciliation issues arising due to the good issue in previous year and billing of the goods after the new costing run at the beginning of the year.
• Improved the efficiency of the KO8G settlement of Plant Maintenance work orders by creating the Status Selection Profile and using it in the Variants for KO8G per plant, which helped to reduce the time taken by system to settle the Orders.
• Worked on configuring Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement and Automatic Payment Run. Coordinated with EDI team on the issues with Bank File upload Failures into SAP and also failure of files going to bank from the SAP.
• Configured a new bank account in SAP for a company code for automatic upload of bank statements.
• Worked on setting up 2012 OB (Operating Budget) Planning into COPA
• Coordinated with the ABAPer for changing the Various Forms as per the requirements.
• Created the Special Procurement Key for costing of the new products.
• Worked with Data Governance team with issues related to Master data for GL, Vendor, Customer and Cost Center master data.
• Coordinated with Security team on the issues related to end user roles and authorization.
• Worked on OKB9 settings for posting to the appropriate cost centers at the plant level.
• Solved the issues with the internal orders settling to Cost Centers and COPA.
• Rectified the bugs with the Pre-Processor Lockbox Program used for the processing of the Lockbox file coming from the bank before processed by the main program.
• Modified the substitution rules for posting of WIP Cycle Counts to variance cost centers instead of Cost Object Hierarchy.ACH File set up for new Company Code:
• Configured the Automatic payment run for a new company code for the Payment Method ACH and Wire payments.
• Customized the FBZP settings for House banks, bank accounts, bank determination and payment methods.
• Created the selection variants for payment medium so as to allow the ACH file generated to upload in the right SAP Directories through F110 program.
• Involved with the end users, EDI team and Bank for the testing of ACH file generated and successful testing at the bank system

FICO Consultant SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• In FI-AM organizational structure, defined assets classes, account determination, screen layout key and allocate number ranges to assets classes.
• Integrated Asset Accounting (FI-AA & AM) structured and valuated Fixed Assets, new Acquisitions, Alteration, Retirement, Depreciation postings, Year-End closing and Fiscal Year Change.
• Configured house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment, settings for Treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration.
• Worked on the transfer of legacy asset to the SAP system.
• Well versed with overall business process like Order to Cash, Make to Order & Procure to Pay. Also provided support for Account Determination (Transaction Keys).
• Configured Fixed Assets module- configured all the key elements like chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, various asset classes, account determinations, depreciation keys, etc.
• Defined depreciation area and specify transfer of APC value (acquisition and production cost value), specified maximum amount for low value assets, specified depreciation area for foreign currency and specified the use of “parallel currencies.
• Transferred legacy asset data to the sap system.
• In master data maintained screen layout for asset master data defined evaluation groups, valuation keys, period control as well as defined calculations key.
• Determined depreciation area in all assets classes like; useful life, minimum/maximum useful life, attached screen layout etc., integrated AA to integrate with G/L ledger, defined acquisition accounts, assigned and allocated G/L accounts.
• Defined depreciation areas for ordinary depreciation accounts, special depreciation and unplanned depreciation.
• Configured Customer Master Data and master groups. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments in Accounts Receivables.
• Designed Functional Specification Documents and development of interfaces in conjunction with technical support.
• Assisted issues related to Invoice verification / credit memos, Automatic Payment program, Account determinations, credit management, liquidity forecast, foreign currency valuation - vendor open items.
• Prepared detailed test plan for integration testing in FICO module with a focus on improving accuracy of inventory and to be able to match cost and revenue within a period.
• Month-end FI closing, Period closing and opening in FI., Adding/Deleting/Modifying Financial Statement versions in GL, Running Clearing procedures for GR/IR, Handling Issues related to Parallel Currencies, Foreign currency translation, Maintaining new exchange rate types.

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the organizational structure and the current business, provided business analysis in the form of Blue Prints.
• Conducted As-Is study interacting with the core team members and developed a To-Be process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology. Involved in Business Blueprint Phase and worked on field mapping to study the GAP Analysis
• Written functional and technical specifications for the new custom developments which included forms, reports and enhancements.
• Created a Dummy Profit Center, Maintained Plan Versions, defined Profit center hierarchy, profit centers, assigned revenue elements to profit center, defined Account Determination for internal goods movement and production variances in Profit Center Accounting (PCA)
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA) by creating Standard hierarchy, Cost Centers, Activity types, Cost Center categories, Statistical Key Figures
• Created Planning Layouts for Cost Element Planning, defined Allocation structures, defined and created Assessment and Distribution cycles
• Defined Internal Order types, maintained Settlement Profile and Settlement Structure. Configured Budgeting, Planning Profile and Planning Layouts
• Associated with the SD team for determining the condition type and account key in the pricing procedure for linking the GL account to the account key
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA Structures including decisions on characteristics and settlement to Cost based COPA and CCA
• Settled Production Cost Center variances and Production Order variances to COPA. Created Reports in COPA to report profitability by Customer, Product and Market
• Configured Cost Based COPA to enable more detail level of Cost of Sales analysis.
• Worked on GL Master Records, document number ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, reversal of documents, opening and closing periods, field status variants, validation, substitution, currency translations
• Gathered analyzed, documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate the needs of the business stakeholders.

CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business team and Developers to understand the business and user requirements. Adopted the RUP methodology for the project.
• Developed Use cases based on requirements gathered from business and allies. Spearheaded the effort to liaison with business executives to gather all relevant details about requirements for the web site.
• Extensively worked on Product Costing, configured Local and Group costing variants to create Standard cost estimates for finished products, Raw Materials and Semi finished products.
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure—with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP in Product Costing (COPC).
• Structures: Created Operating Concern, Maintained Characteristics, Maintained User defined Characteristics, Maintain Value Fields, Assigned Characteristics and Value Fields to Operating Concern, Maintained Operating Concern, and Assigned controlling area to operating concern and activated Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Activated costing based Profitability Analysis (COPA) to report profitability by customer, product, and market. Monitored actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI. Generated Profitability report s using forms.
• Configured costing based COPA and created Operating Concern with characteristics and value fields.
• Developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile in cost center planning. Configured Business processes in Activity Based Costing and configured for transferring data from Business processes into profitability segments in COPA.
• Created Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Primary Cost Elements, Secondary Cost Element categories, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations in Cost Center Accounting (CCA).
• Created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA planning parameters in Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Defined Internal orders for different order types, Planning profile, settlement profile, settlement rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.
• Configured system settings in the areas of FI-GL transactions, House bank, AP - Automatic Payment Program(APP), AR - Customer Credit, Credit Controls, Credit memo and performed Dunning
• Configured Customer Master Data and master groups. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments in Accounts Receivables.
• Involved in the team of Unit and integration testing. Developed end user training manuals and provided end user training on business processes in SAP. Created authorization profiles for end-users.

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis (Workshops), GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training and GO LIVE.
• Developed the blue print for the company and configured the system for implementation of CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-PC.
• Maintained Overhead Cost Elements, Calculation Bases, Credits, Costing Sheets, Costing Variant, Costing Types, Date Control, Valuation Variants, Overhead Keys/Groups in Product Costing, Overhead Rates: Percentage & Quantity Based, Transfer Strategy and Material Cost Estimate with Quantity structure.
• Created Operating Concern with definition of characteristics and value fields; Configured Costing & Accounting Based CO-PA.
• Defined Result Analysis Keys, cost elements for WIP calculation, variance keys, settlement profile and PA transfer structure in Product Costing.
• Maintained summarization hierarchies, cost component structure, primary cost component split, annual costing and budgeting runs across multiple plants within the company.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management and Planning levels in Treasury.
• Created Activity types, Primary & Secondary Cost elements, Profit Center Hierarchy, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Cost Centers, Splitting Structures and Maintained Statistical key figures.
• Configured Adjustment accounts for reconciliation postings and document number range for reconciliation ledger and worked primarily on reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers, set credit limits for customers, configured system for Partial/Residual payments for customers/vendors, ERS, EBS and performed Dunning.
• Created Planning Layouts for Cost Element Planning, Distribution Cycles, Assessment Cycles and Allocation structures.
• Created a Dummy Profit Center, Maintained Plan/Versions, Maintained the Master data, Defined profit center hierarchy, provided support for Account Determination for internal goods movement and for production variances.
• Defined Internal Orders for different order types, Planning profile, Settlement Profile, Settlement Rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.
• Maintained number ranges for Settlement and Controlling documents and for variance documents, defined posting rules for settlement to financial accounting with different G/L accounts. Used Reporting tools: Report Painter & Report Writer.
• Configured Valuation areas for Material Ledger, maintained number ranges for material ledger documents and assigned currency types to material ledger.
• Provided support for Configuration, Implementation and Testing of the customer master records and incoming payments. Used LSMW for data migration of customers/vendor master records from Legacy System.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for open item payments for vendors, created check lots. Worked on Online Cashed Checks, Voided Checks for payment blockage for vendor and Reissue of destroyed checks.
• Involved in Budget Structures, Budgets Updates and Roll Up of budget values to prevent budget overrun issues.
• Ensured that the project and the WBS element followed a Naming Convention which allows them to be readily identified by the function and the department.
• Provided End-User training and prepared Documentation for the end-users. Identified opportunities to improve system functionality and business processes.
• Ensured compliance requirements (Title 21 CFR Part 11) were met.