PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• MBA and SAP FICO consultant having 6 years of Finance and IT experience in SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling module.
• Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle SAP FICO implementations, 2 Upgrade, Production Support and Maintenance & Data Migration projects.
• Well versed with ASAP & Agile Methodology and all the phases involved in Project implementation.
• Extensively worked on gathering Functional Business Requirements, analyzing business requirements, Mapping Business Process Requirements in SAP System, Implementation/ Customization/ Configuration, Integrating with other sub modules within SAP, Testing, Documentation and End User Training.
• Created Functional Specification Templates for implementing new process/enhancement of existing functionality/modification of existing process.
• Strong knowledge in business processes and business scenarios with base in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts as well as strong knowledge in GAAP and IFRS
• Strong Knowledge on AR Accounts Receivable Process with SD Sales Distribution Module.
• Expertise in all aspects of Configuration and Customization of SAP FI - GL, FI-AP, with additional knowledge in FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-GL (New GL) Confidential, Confidential, CO-PA. and product costing.
• Sound understanding on FI-MM-SD configuration viz., GR/IR account determination setup, Small Differences posting configuration, Logistic Invoice Verification Quantity and Price Block configuration, Defining of Vendor Purchase Organization etc.
• Strong Knowledge on Product Costing (material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, cost object controlling, WIP calculations, Costing sheet for overhead calculation, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures)
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, managerial skills and positive work attitude and self-motivated to work independently and as well as in a team.

SAP CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

• General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management. Controlling Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis.
• Experience in configuring General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets & Controlling modules.
• Setting up enterprise structure and assigning relationships between the organizational units of FI, CO, SD and MM, Writing functional specification s by meeting the business requirements and also giving the proper direction to technical consultants to get desired result.
• Banking system design, setting up electronic bank statements, implementation of AP -vendor check printing, AR-Lock box configuration, AP F110 Payment Program, TR F111 Payment Program.
• Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, COPA, PCA and Product cost controlling
• Configuration of Automatic payment program for outgoing payments and Lockbox configuration for AR receipts using BAI and BAI2 forms for open items processing
• Setting up depreciation charts and Areas, Asset classification, defining GL accounts for FA integration with FI, performing depreciation run and Migration of Fixed Assets across Company Codes.
• Setting up integration of SAP SD, MM, CO and FA with FI by defining the automatic account determination tables
• Key user training and providing end user documentation
• Able to adapt quickly to new technologies and work environments.
• Configuring Operating Concern, Contribution margin, and costing and account based profitability analysis.
• Solid prowess on Revenue Accounting Module.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Support the design and development of SAP financial configuration and business process procedures
• Demonstrates proficiency for standard SAP configuration and internally developed solutions or custom programs
• Performs detailed analysis of moderate to complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions
• Assists with the collection, interpretation, validation and documentation of customer requirements
• Developed and delivered application training to customers
• Proactively identifies and proposes business process and/or technical enhancements
• Guide the business in utilizing SAP functionality to the best extent possible, and involves review of business processes and system integration challenges.
• Extensive coordination with Business Users in delivering and supporting SAP solutions.
• Involved in for product costing. Involved in analyzing the existing system for AS-IS study and provided estimates & solutions for TO-BE system.
• Gather functional requirements through user workshops, and analyzing Gaps.
• Understood business process, and tested all the customizations before and after the upgrade.
• Configured and maintained banking system design, AR Lock-box, Payment Program.
• Configured the material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, configured cost object controlling, configured WIP calculations, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures,
• Executed integration with Production orders, Bill of Materials (BOM), routings.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the existing system for AS-IS study and provided estimates & solutions for TO-BE system,
• Gather functional requirements through user workshops, and analyzing Gaps.
• Understood business process, and tested all the customizations before and after the upgrade.
• Prepared Functional Documents for FI-MM-SD Integration
• Created and customized GL accounts and also created financial statement versions
• Configured and customized Vendor (FI-AP) & Customer (FI-AR) master data
• Configured Electronic bank statements, Liquidity forecast, cash pooling
• Configured House Banks, automatic payment method.
• Created Cost Center Accounting ( Confidential ) standard hierarchies, cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment.
• Created Profit Center Accounting ( Confidential ) standard hierarchy, configured profit center master data, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment
• Worked on Post-GO-Live support as SAP Production Support specialist, handling SAP FI/CO tickets/issue, provide analysis of issue, provide solution to User and resolve issue.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and configured controlling area settings.
• Designed and configured cost center group hierarchy and cost centers in cost center accounting ( Confidential ).
• Configured basic settings in profit center accounting ( Confidential ), and also configured profit center planning.
• Configured activity types and created assessment, distribution and settlement cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Facilitated planning for Product Costing and Cost Object controlling by creating product cost by order, and product cost by period.
• Integration with Production orders, Bill of Materials (BOM), routings.
• Defined posting rules to FI-structure and created settlement profiles.
• Running Standard Cost Cycles, Actual Costing, Variance Analysis and Settlement.
• Configured General Ledger - Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, tolerance groups and Document Types.
• Defined House banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots.
• Defined customer/vendor account groups and created customer /vendor master data.
• Configured Automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (A/P).
• Defined payment block reasons, defining correspondence types, configured vendor specific tolerance.
• Configured terms of payment, tolerances, invoices, outgoing payment, and cash discount.
• Configured the Automatic Account Determination and interface points between FI, MM, and SD.
• Maintaining Operating Concern, contribution marigin, defining characteristic values, Costing-based and Account-based profitability analysis.

Modules: GL, AP, AR, CCA, PCA, TR, P2P, Taxes, Lock Box, Report Painter/Writer and LIV.

Confidential, Waukegan, IL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP analysis, experience in blueprinting phase (ASAP Methodology) and prepared MS Visio graphs and documents on new customized FI/CO company structure.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting by creation Standard Cost Center Hierarchy, and primary and secondary cost elements, cost centers, activity types, cost center categories, document numbers, and allocations using cycle-segment method for reposting, distribution and assessment
• Created Number ranges, posting periods for G/L accounts, defined G/L account groups, created chart of accounts, participated in modifying and uploading G/L accounts.
• Created financial statement versions and defined the Splitting Characteristics for the General Ledger (passive split, rule-based and zero-balance formation by document).
• Created reconciliation accounts for Accounts payable (A/P), Accounts receivable (A/R) and configured Accounts payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, uploaded A/P master data.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for A/P for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Tested and performed web-demos of G/L transactions for fast-entry screens, splitting, posting, parking and reversals.
• Configured A/R including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for A/R, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits, and credit limit groups.
• Was responsible for FI-MM integration: configured automatic account determination, insured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (procure-to-pay).

Modules: GL, AP, AR, CCA, PCA, COPA, TR, CM, OTC, BA, AA, APP, Validations and Substitutions, Product Costing, LSMW, Lock Box, Taxes, New G/L, LIV.