PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 11+ Years of Experience in, Design, Implementation, Realization/Configuration, Customization, Integration, Analysis, Testing in FICO, and Integrating FICO with MM & SD Across industry verticals like Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare.
• Proficient knowledge in SAP FICO, S4 HANA, SD (Order to Cash) & P2P (Purchase to Pay) integration configuration.
• Good expertise in resolving production support issues in a given time frame.
• Extensive knowledge in Configuration and Customization for FI - GL, Bank SL, AP, AR, Fixed Asset and in Controlling like CO-PA, CO-CEA, CO-CCA, EC-PCA, standard costing, Internal order, cost center and profit center.
• Implemented new GL functionalities of ECC 6.0 such as document splitting, leading ledger and non-leading ledger, reporting/query and real time integration with CO.
• Good working knowledge in bank accounting/Treasury including funds management, lockbox, electronic bank statement, house bank, automatic payment program, foreign currency etc.
• Worked on GL, AP, AR, Fixed assets for enhancement, implementation and production support projects.
• Good working knowledge in Order to Cash (FI-SD, Revenue Recognition), Retail POS, banking/finance, intercompany billing and Procure to Pay, Revenue Recognition business scenarios.
• Experience in using Solution Manager Tool for Blueprinting and Realization phases.
• Solid experience in gathering business requirements and analysis, blueprinting, mapping business requirements in to SAP environment, realization, final preparation, go live and supporting.
• Managing the Implementation & functioning of SAP system (FICO Module) entailing.
• Mapping business Requirements Control for quick understanding of Gap Analysis.
• Experience in Accelerated data migration using LSMW & BDC with Basis Team, mapping fields, EDI, IDOC.
• Extensive work experience in Gap analysis, Business Blueprint, Business Process Re-engineering, Business Process Procedure, Configuration, Customization and Production support.
• Conducting Gap Analysis, Assess Scope of Studies and Suggest solutions.
• Coordinating with the Development Team for development and customization of software.
• Integration of other Modules, integration & user acceptance testing & extending post Go-live support, including training support to end -users.
• Extensive knowledge in writing functional specification for different RICEFW objects.
• Expert in Document Preparation such as Business Blue Print, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications and Configuration Specifications. Extensive hands-on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New G/L, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA) and Special Purpose Ledger.
• Controlling experience includes Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Consolidation
• Extensive exposure to IFRS, US GAAP/GASB 34/IPSAS, Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay (PTP) process.
• Support services include - Resolve issues on the basis of priority, testing of transactions according to business process, Prepare FDDs and Test scripts for new report requirements, Handling CRs etc.
• Proficient in planning, GAP analysis, design implementation, trouble shooting, performing tuning support, unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and user training.
• Sound knowledge in integrating FI with CO, SD, MM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 FI/CO, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, HANA SFIN.

Reporting Skills: Report Writer and Report Painter

Integration: FICO integration with MM, SD, PP and PS

Tools: ASAP Methodology, LSMW, Report Painter & BDC.

EPM: BPC 10.0 Net Weaver version.

Testing: Manual testing, Functional, System Integration, User Acceptance, Testing, Regression Testing, Performance testing, HP Quality Center.

Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, PL/SQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP FICO Architect

Confidential, Rancho Cordova, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring the accuracy of management reporting. Creating and maintaining various controlling reports into Report painter/writer.
• Supporting Product Cost Planning module to ensure successful costing run and releasing the price for inventory valuation.
• Engaged into constant improvement into COPA reporting by ensuring the correctness of data derivation, data flow and reporting.
• Understood, designed and configured (along with ABAP coding) the interest calculation and posting of the related parties invested into the company.
• Designed and implemented complete bad debt process starting from bad debt write off to bad debt recovery with great control and monitoring with accurate reports.
• Lead for set up and design of new plant/company code and authorized for releasing/rejecting the change request for all applied modules.
• Extensive co-ordination with SAP team involving all modules for successful result to meet expectation of stakeholders.
• Configured and designed Cost Center Planning, Assessment, Distribution and application of overheated. Use of internal order for tracking employee expenses.
• Support for Financial Accounting module involving all areas like GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, and Bank Accounting.
• Regular engagement with CFOs, systems manager, and business process owners for consistent improvement into business function and reporting.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0. FI, CO, MM, WM, PP, PS, SD, HANA.

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on review, update and sign-off of complex functional specifications all (RICEFW) interfaces, conversions, enhancements, Forms and Workflows and business process design documents.
• Configuration of FI/CO Module, assigning chart of accounts to company code and cost objects/primary and secondary elements to controlling area, posting period variant, field status variant and field status groups, fiscal year variant, number ranges for accounting documents.
• Migration from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of the migration, data analysis and migration of master/transactional data from legacy systems to SAP ECC6.0 as per the data conversion strategy approved in design phase. Extraction (from legacy system) Conversion Transformation Load (through tools: LSMW, Manual excel).
• Configured SAP bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Positive pay and ACH payments.
• Reviewed Functional and Technical Specs for automated Lockbox processing and Electronic Bank Statement functionality AP F110 payment program and payment advice.
• Analyzed, configured new Credit Management Areas, Credit representative groups, Lockbox system for new business requirements.
• Part of the team involved in configuration of Product costing, Costing Variants, including Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Date Control, and Quantity Structure Control.
• Worked on transports from Development-Quality-Production systems (complete Landscape) coordinating with various teams and understanding the procedures and risks associated with it
• Performed Functional Unit testing and cutover activities using the testing tool HP Quality Center.
• Coordinated on Tax procedures for sales tax calculations via external tax interface (Vertex).
• Build key organizational and reporting relationship with internal users in areas of corporate accounting, Treasury, Fixed assets, AP, AR and external third-party application suppliers, banks and consultants related to SAP
• Worked with training team to provide user training per training material and business process procedure documents.
• Collaborated with GRC team on business roles (to make sure business and single roles matched to BPML and BPDD) Defined Settlement Structure and Settlement Profiles for settlement of the costs collected in the Internal Orders.

Environment: SAP ECC6.0

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, WA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Worked with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), credit debit memos, maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc.
• Developed and configured the Electronic bank statement procedure in TR-CM module.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client.
• Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL.
• Worked on EBS, Positive pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer, and configuring and customizing multiple payment methods and automatic clearing.
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset.
• Configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Handed SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of problems.
• Prepared Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.
• Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.
• Managed the AP, AR, GL and QA teams offshore
• Involved in complete SDLC project management activities
• Performed requirement collection and analysis for PS module a Configured WBS elements, networks and various business scenarios in PS Responsible for developing BPP
• Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing
• Assisted in developing job aids, transaction aids and quick reference guides
• Developed configuration scripts.
• Involved in Period-end-closing activities.
• Ensured that all Period End Closing activities assigned to the CO-PA team are completed correctly and timely.
• Assisted in the preparation of Integration test scripts for testing the data for outbound and inbound data.
• As a post implementation support personnel extended round the clock support

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 to EHP8

SAP FICO Functional

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Provide production support for SAP FICO modules. Functional scope includes FI- GL, AP, AR, AA and CO- CCA and CO PCA production issues.
• Fixed the production issues in FI organizational data, master data such as filed status groups and GL accounts, vendor master data, vendor payment program, check printing, incoming EDI invoices.
• Maintain user defined Characteristics, Key figure scheme elements, COPA Realignment, complex Reports and Forms, like by Storage location, Product class, Product and Market, Created P & L statements etc.
• Resolved issues related to year-end closing in Asset Accounting
• Maintaining Value Fields, Define Characteristic Derivation, Valuation, Assign Value Fields, Valuation Strategies, Set Up Valuation Using Material Cost Estimate, Assign Costing Keys to Material Types.
• Worked on configuring the necessary settings to transfer plan data from controlling components to Special Purpose Ledger and resolved issues pertaining to SPL.
• Month end activities related to Product costing. Creating Costing Run, Determining Material Prices, WIP, Variance Calculation, Overhead calculation. Define cost sheet, upload overhead rates, labor rates for current year and plan rates for future budgeting.
• Scope of work includes: Responsible for all PS & COPA configuration/Support including project structures, costs settlement, revenue & earnings (results analysis), COPA structures (characteristics & value fields), resource related billing (RRB).
• Configured settings for remanufacturing of retired assets and asset transfers.
• Resolved issues related to profit center line item reports and internal order settlements.
• Working on Treasury Management (Lockbox Processing, inbound/outbound process, electronic funds transfer and Bank statement processing).
• Live Production support, interaction with business users in handling tickets.
• Prioritize the tickets and meets SLA.
• Preparation of reports of tickets and report to the client as well as management.

Environment: ECC 6.0, SAP FI, CO, MM, PP, SD.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the team responsible for solving issues on priority basis.
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-1.
• Creation of Time estimates to resolving issues.
• Involved on day to day ticket resolution on SAP FI, AP AR and CO.
• Involved in General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting.
• Providing Production support for the FI module - GL, AP and AR, Asset Accounting and for CO module - COPA, CCA and PCA.
• Customize system related to OTC Module item category, account assignment etc.
• Experienced all phases of development including testing, cutover activities, functional specification, configuration documents.
• Managing Team and providing value added business process and technical design for Project Management with PS and IM.
• Helped configured PS and IM, including to provide unique solutions on Settlements
• Outline FICO/FA/PS support processes with global template, GAAP compliance and governance that integrate with existing client's SMI project Implementation and global support.
• Modification of existing Report Painter reports for Stores Agreement project. Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for variance documents, used report painter and report writer
• Configured SAP RAR revenue accounting engine and integration with Finance.
• Developed reports in FI for open items and closed items with GL accounts and document dates.
• Write Use Cases for Enhancements in application by gathering requirements for ABAP Programmers for development upon approval and testing of the enhancements for specific performance, unit testing and regression testing & User Acceptance testing.
• Documenting and Reporting all the Customizations and reports using Business Objects (BOBJ).
• Assisted the team in preparing the documentation and provided Go-Live, Post implementation support.
• Providing Production support for the FI module - GL, AP and AR, Asset Accounting and for CO module - CEA, CCA, month end closing, and yearend closing.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0/S4HANA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Involved in end to end implementation.
• Scope of work included: Study of the client's business processes (AS-IS Study).
• Blue printing documentation for the client requirements as per the standard SAP functionality and configuring the SAP system as per the business requirements.
• Company code configuration which includes creating chart of accounts, creating posting period variant, defining retained earnings account, creating document types.
• New GL Functionality (Document splitting, Leading and Non-leading ledgers, Financial statements, Account assignments, Taxes, Foreign Exchange valuation, Interest calculation etc.).
• Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable (Payment program, Dunning program, Banking (including Cash Journal and BRS), Extended Withholding Taxes).
• Asset Management (FI-AA required configuration of asset classes, account determination, screen layout, asset under construction, capitalization, acquisition, depreciation, disposition, Group Assets, Revaluation Fixed Assets and reporting.
• PSM-Funds Management (Revenue budgeting controls implemented).
• Integration with SD, MM and HR. Extensive development of reports using Report painter, SAP Query.
• Involved in New-GL PCA (Online balance sheet at Profit Center level including Transfer Price), COPC (Product cost collectors, Process Orders), CCA (Assessments, etc.), Internal Orders (CAPEX Budgeting, user defined statuses, etc.), COPA (Costing based).
• Prepared all Functional & Interfaces Test scripts for execution.
• Upload of FI open items (GL, Vendor, Customer and Assets).

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP FI, GL, AP, AR, FA, MM, SD, CO, OTC, P2P.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a team member in Requirements gathering for business process and also mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support
• Documented all changes, revised the business process procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Created new reports for the validation of SAP R/3 4.7 and SAP ECC 6.0 Asset data.
• Worked on New GL, configured the ledgers, set up integration with Controlling, and made the general setting for the fiscal year, the posting periods and the currencies.
• Maintained the GL account master data and Profit Center master data for the New GL
• Configured identical settings for updating segments and profit centers as well as the relevant partner information in the ledgers of the New G/L.
• Followed the Active Split process for the document splitting, defined the splitting rules, business transaction and item category.
• Set up parallel accounting by creating additional accounts in New GL, one joint account area for posting that are the same for both accounting principles and one area with specific accounts for each accounting principle.
• Provided assistance in developing an interface program for uploading the salary details in the F-02 transaction from legacy system into SAP using LSMW.
• Created cost elements i.e., Primary & Secondary, Revenue elements, Cost element groups and Overhead structure for Accrual calculation using percentage method.
• Worked on Project systems, creating of WBS elements, budgeting and cost allocation.
• Created CCA standard hierarchy, cost element groups, cost element categories like primary cost element group and secondary cost element groups, activity type groups and statistical key figures.
• Familiarized with business scenario before configuring the steps in controlling module (CO- PA).
• Worked on Reporting Tools used in Profit Center Accounting and defined Drilldown Reports.
• Maintained settings related to Controlling Area, Operating Concerns and also maintained Versions.
• Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on reference and simulation costing.
• Worked on Primary Cost Planning for Manual and Automatic planning and Secondary Cost Planning for Manual Planning and Periodic Allocations and Inter-company Transport Orders.
• Worked for the Cost Centers participating in accrual calculation.
• Assisted Technical Consultants and Super-Users to achieve desired results
• Documented the end user training manuals using Info Pak and involved in the Train the Trainees programs.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0, GL, New GL, AP, AR, LSMW, CCA, PCA, IO, CEA, COPA

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Role Mapping and Role Redesign process for Users to assess IS Policies & Processes to ensure client is compliant to the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002
• Reviewed existing IS policies, processes and governance to identify gaps and remediate them to achieve compliance
• Remediation areas included SAP SOD violations clean-up and SAP Role Re- Design with enhancement to Change Management Processes and to User Access Management Processes
• Performed Unit Testing and Integration testing of Roles containing different transactions based on different business and SAP processes
• Involved in Role Mapping of users based on their execution history and team designations
• Performed SOD checks and cleanups in Quality Assurance environment for each user access using Security Weaver
• Identified SOD violations and gaps and coordinated with Business leads and managers to remediate/mitigate risk
• Calculated new SKUs in SAP for each plant and uploaded them in SAP as part of Product Costing
• Worked on Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality, also created LSMW recordings for different transactions
• Performed Account Payable activities by defining Automatic Payment Program (APP) parameters and bank interfaces (IDOCs and EBS)
• Prepared informative End User Manuals and provided end user training to process owners in GL, AR, AP as well as Core Team members
• Provided Post Go-Live production support to remediate missing user access and debug authorization errors
• Bug/Issue reporting and tracking using Test management tools
• Involved in testing various z transactions and reports as well as testing FI-AP payment run program, FI-AR and Billing document creation.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP-BI/BO, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BL, FI-FM, CO-CEA, CO-CCA

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining, building & maintaining SAP configuration necessary to support business scenarios and processes in Finance & Controlling.
• Responsible for configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, credit scoring and comparison of functionality,
• Analysis of functional and technical needs and identified gaps and alternative solutions to existing design.
• Coordinated with the technical teams for RICEFW objects, and covered logistics and sales interfaces via IDoc and EDI functionality
• Conversion of year dependent periods to normal calendar month periods. I was involved in Period end and Year end closing activities. Assist in month-end closing process.
• Developed and created Test plans, test cases and testing scenarios and conducted Integration testing in all areas of SAP FI/CO, SD (Sales Orders, Deliveries, Billing, and Shipping) and MM (Purchase Orders, Goods Delivery, Invoice) module.
• Involved in Collection Management setup for collection strategies, collection work lists, collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Management & account receivable.
• Configured multiple financial statement versions for internal and external financial reporting.
• Set up Customer Master Records at Company code level and Sales area level to facilitate creation of one time accounts, alternate payee and trading partners.
• Write functional specifications for change requests, creating test plans, process documentation, and conducting user training.
• Setup the Automatic Payment Program and maintained it regularly, configured rules according to which the open items are selected and grouped for payment, specified payee, payment methods, settings to determine bank and bank account.
• As a part of FI-MM integration configured the SAP system to be able to directly post any GR/IR or withdrawals from warehouse onto Fixed Assets.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, FICO, MM, SD, FSCM.