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Sr. Sap Fico Functional Analyst Resume

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SUMMARY:

  • Over 8 years of extensive experience in Implementing, Configuring and Customizing SAP FI/CO Module while incorporating in accounting experience.
  • Experience on three full lifecycle SAP implementation including ASAP Methodology for requirement gathering, business blueprint, gap analysis, testing strategies, cut over & go - live support, user training & documentation and SAP security.
  • Proficient in design & configuration of financial accounting (FI); Classic & New General Ledger(GL), Account Receivable(AR), Accounts Payable(AP), Special Purpose Ledger(SPL), Treasury & Bank Accounting(BL), and Assets Accounting(FI-AA).
  • Proficient in design & configuration of Management Accounting(CO); Cost Center Accounting(CO-OM-CCA), Cost Element Accounting(CO-OM-CEL), Internal Orders(CO-OM-OPA), Profitability Analysis(COPA), Profit Center Accounting(EC-PCA) and Product Costing(CO-PC).
  • Worked on parallel accounting, document splitting, cross-company code transaction, multi currencies. Lockbox processing and electronic Banking, dunning & automatic clearing program, tax category, sales & use tax, data migration and conversion process.
  • Sound knowledge on G/L, Customer and Vendor Master Record, Master Data for Cost Element, Cost Center, Profit Center, Activity Type and Statistical Key Figure.
  • Good Knowledge of integration between SD, MM with FI/CO with in depth understanding on Order to Cash, & Procure to pay process.
  • In depth knowledge on Group EC-CS, GAAP, IASB, IFRS & Sarbanes Oxley.
  • Excellent analytical, quick learning and problem solving skills with a desire to work in a team oriented environment.
  • Achieve a challenging position in the area of Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP), where my analytical, academic and professional skills can be used to the benefit of the organization as well as my career growth
  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills in resolving SAP FICO functional issues.
  • Active member in conducting the team meetings, customer feedback meetings and self-assimilation program.
  • Knowledge on SAP S/4HANA finance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 FI/CO, ECC6.0

SAP R/3 tools: SAP FI/CO, SD, MM, ABAP, Report painter and Report writer

Microsoft applications: MS Word, MS Excel; V lookup, Spreadsheet, Macros, Pivot table, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Assisting client in implementing/configuring, upgrading/optimizing SAP/Vistex solution.
  • Working with SAP Solution Architect to review proposed changes/implementations to ensure overall solution plugs into the global enterprise solution and demonstrating subject matter expertise in the specified technical area.
  • Working with business team and implementing partner to analyze business requirement document and request for proposal.
  • Experience in working with EAI technologies, writing High Level Design document, process automation, information sharing and agility and waterfall.
Confidential, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Provided production and onsite support for FI/CO in GL, AR, AP, FA, CCA, PCA, Product costing and SAP user roles in SAP security.
  • Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for new each company code set up, created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers and assets for new company set up.
  • Configured house banks, bank accounts, check lots and void Reason codes, Lockbox process and EBS.
  • Worked on tax on sales & purchase, tax, jurisdiction codes, tax return to authorities and manage tax ware to update monthly new version of tax and apply tax patches into SAP system
  • Creation and customized SAP FI financial statement through SAP report writer and painter.
  • Assigned and maintained variants for financial month end closing activities.
  • Processing cost center master data group, editing standard hierarchy, activity type category, primary & secondary cost planning, periodic allocation in plan.
  • Create profit center data, assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit Center Accounting, designed and developed customized reports in CO-PA for management reporting purposes through characteristics and value field. Coordinated with other consultants to resolved issue related with SD and MM integration; revenue recognition and released billing document for accounting, material master and product cost planning.
  • Using GL wand to manage SAP users to create different SAP reports and diagrams.
  • Assignment of new SAP role and prepare SOD conflict document for audit enquiry.
Confidential, NC

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Working with business users to understand the requirement and concern over existing system (AS-IS) so as to identify system improvement points and to prepare the GAP analysis.
  • Worked on Creation of House Bank, Lockbox and Setup EDI Partner Profile.
  • Configured Global Settings for Manual Bank statement and EBS like Create Account Symbols, Create Keys for Posting Rules, Create Transaction Types, Assign Bank Accounts to Transaction Types for EBS.
  • Have involved in maintain Activity prices and release of Standard Cost Estimate, involved pre Go live, post Go live and cutover activities, Experience in Data Migration and LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
  • Asset Valuation is used to determine the values of all fixed assets (AA) and Asset acquisitions and retirements that are integrated with Accounts Payable.
  • Prepare and Present pre-sales presentations for PCA, COPA, Product Costing and Materials Ledger concepts to key stakeholders justifying significance of these high-end modules as to the relevance to client in terms of Client’s business landscape and business model
  • Fixed Assets such as Account determination, Depreciation types, Depreciation areas and Asset classes
  • Worked on new GL like document splitting, leading ledger, Non leading ledger, segmental reporting.
  • Worked on New GL to configure parallel ledgers to fulfill parallel accounting needs for US GAAP and Local GAAP requirements.
  • Performed configuration of G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants and tolerance groups.
  • Involved in Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting Setting, maintaining the standard hierarchy and worked on assessment cycles.
  • Fixing the go-live critical issues and documented critical changes performed during UAT and trained user community.
  • Development of test plans, test cases and training manuals.
  • Helping the team in preparing & executing cut over tasks.
  • Trained Business Process Owners and End Users and Conducted workshops.
  • Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis.
Confidential, CA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in the full life cycle implementation beginning from business process review, design, configuration, testing, end user training and documentation (Hitachi Chemical Mexico and Hitachi Metal America).
  • Worked extensively from functional business requirement to production support of the system.
  • Involved in designs, plans, and procedures to support legacy data migration through Z program and Outline the key element of the testing methodology inputs including: types, methods and tools of testing & end user training.
  • Performed configuration of New GL, AP, AR, BA, AA, and CCA, CPA.
  • Defined document splitting, segmentation, parallel accounting, dunning procedure, automatic payment program, lockbox system, manual & electronic bank statement, business consolidation (EC-CS), cross company transaction.
  • Configured point between FI-MM and FI-SD integration which includes procure to pay and order to cash.
  • Defined chart of depreciation: depreciation areas, asset classes, depreciation key and assigned depreciation keys number ranges, calculation depreciation, CIP settlement, Inflation accounting & Impairment of asset as per IFRS.
  • Analysis of profit center, cost centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, assigned Cost Centers to respective Profit Centers cost center planning, manual actual posting, assessment & distribution cycle, characteristics derivation, planning framework & method and flow of actual value.
  • Trained Business Process Owners and End Users and Conducted workshops.
  • Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis.
Confidential, CA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Worked on business process mapping & design, development, implementation and maintenance support activities.
  • Gathered business requirements and documented deliverables based on client expectations for the To-Be process & identifying the non-value adding events, to follow ASAP Methodology.
  • Involved in configuration, business procedure documents, unit testing, integration testing, enhancements, documentation and production support issues relating GL, AR, AP, AM, Internal Order, CO-CEL, CCA, COPA, EC-PCA, Treasury & Bank Accounting, Credit management, Cash management, Special Purpose Ledger, Consolidation ES - CS & FI - LC.
  • GL Accounting creation of GL masters, Cash journals, Sample document, Parked documents Month end provisions.
  • Implemented New GL accounting in addition with document splitting, parallel accounting and segment reporting, house bank configuration.
  • In GL configured, tested, and resolved production support issues, enhancements relating to GL master records, document postings, integration with MM and SD transactions and GL balances reporting.
  • In AR/AP involved in configuration, testing, & production support issues relating to customer master records, vendor master records, interest calculations, dunning procedure, automatic payment program, multi-currency configuration and valuation, special GL transactions, credit management, MM-Invoice verification, SD-Billing, Treasury grouping & Planning, Bank Statement Processing, Exchange rate.
  • Customizing tax jurisdiction, category and tax code, extended withholding tax.
  • Supported AM issues in asset management, configured & customized Fixed Assets master records, Depreciation Area, Special Valuation, Acquisition.
  • Defined segments based on IASB/IFRS/US GAAP reporting requirements.
  • Design and configured controlling area & operating concern, cost element group, primary & secondary cost element, batch input session, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, assessment and allocation of cost element.
  • Worked on cost center planning, manual planning, manual actual posting and manual actual price & cost allocation.
  • Designed settings for planning and period end closing such as periodic reposting, assessment, distribution and activity allocation.
  • Maintaining settlement structure & cost element, order type & status, Settlement profile, profit center master data, costing based COPA, characteristics and value field, characteristic derivation, COPA planning.
  • All master data & transaction data had been uploaded through LSMW process in to SAP systems
  • Change in customizing as per client's requirement and Inter Company transactions, UAT process.
  • Design and preparation of end user training manual.
  • Involved in final preparation (Final integration test and validation, End User Training, Quality Checks.
Confidential, TX

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in the full life cycle implementation beginning from business process review, design, configuration, testing, end user training and documentation.
  • 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.
  • Data Conversion guidelines including conversion plan, data purging, cleansing and mapping rules.
  • 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.
  • Have worked on Partial, Residual Payment types.
  • Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment (FI-AA Integration).
  • Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
  • Used Report painter to generate reports of PCA needed by the Business Owner and Consolidation (EC - CS) in order to generate group financial statement.
  • Meet regularly with Business Owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
  • Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications.
  • Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
  • Participate in Super User meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required.
  • Helped project manager in creating and updating project plan. Created cost estimate based on project plan and laid out procedures to calculate Return on Investments.
  • Configured and customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA, PCA and Internal Order.
  • Extensively worked on vendor/customer master records, Client specific payment terms, and lockbox processing, dunning and payment methods. Creation of few reports like aging analysis.
  • Activated the New GL, assigned scenarios, activated Document Splitting involving moving from the account approach to ledger approach, implementing parallel accounting and document splitting.
  • Worked on vendor/customer analysis including days in arrears, payment history, cash discount overview and credit limit display, Source symbol, Treasury grouping, Cash & Credit Management
  • Customized the account Groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, posting periods and creation of G/L account master records.
  • Configured the settings for Sales and Use Tax.
  • Worked with purchasing and sales consultants to design a global vendor / customer master record structure.
  • Worked on Order to Cash Process (OTC) involving sales order, delivery, billing documents.
  • Worked on issues relating to asset retirement and assisted in doing asset retirement with scrapping, helping in smooth month end closing in assets accounting.
  • Resolving all issues relating to internal order settlement, asset accounting issues and accounts payable issues.
  • In cost element accounting, created primary and secondary cost Elements, cost Element Groups.
  • In CCA, created cost centers, cost center groups, maintained cost center standard hierarchy, assigned cost Centers to respective profit centers. Configured assessment and distribution cycles.
  • Configured internal orders, activity types, and statistical key figures, developed assessment, distributions and Reposting periodic cycles and segment in cost center accounting.
  • In EC-PCA, define methods of calculating profit, profit center master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center assignment of materials & sales order, transfer pricing and actual posting.
  • Trained Business Process Owners and End Users and Conducted workshops.
  • Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis.
Confidential, CO

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Performed and completed in configuring and testing of financial accounting and some portion on managerial component of SAP.
  • Responsible for business requirements, documentation on findings assessed scope of studies and suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
  • Involved in configuration of GL, AP, AR, and AA included master data, chart of account, document & posting control, field status variant, screen layout, foreign currency valuation, payment & clearing program, financial closings, dunning and correspondence.
  • FI-MM integration which includes configuration of GL accounts to the valuation class and account modifier for various transaction keys and FI-SD integration which includes configuration of GL accounts in condition tables.
  • Defined reason codes, customized reason code conversion versions & mapped external reason codes to the defined reason codes to facilitate accountability for the underpayment and overpayment of incoming payments from customers.
  • Configuring lockbox system processing, keys for posting, bank statement processing, house bank master data and posting rules for automatic assignment.
  • Implemented specified maximum value for low value assets, determined depreciation areas for special depreciation and assigned GL accounts for special valuation.
  • Defined asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation key and assigned depreciation keys number ranges.
  • Assisted in cost center master data maintenance on issues involving activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs.
  • Maintained profit center hierarchy, assigning CO-Objects to profit centers, distribution and assessment of costs.
  • Analysis of cost centers, cost center planning, manual actual posting, assessment & distribution cycle, characteristics derivation, planning framework & method and flow of actual value.
  • Troubleshooting and resolve system error messages encountered by end users and pre Go-live checks and activities.
  • Performed and conducted integration and user acceptance testing and provide in house training for end users.
  • Coordinated the integration efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations & revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD.
  • Involved in configuring the required settings for VAT with respect to Vendors (AP-MM) & Customers (AR-SD).

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