PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant with 8+ years of experience in SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) including studying, analysing business processes, requirements, gap analysis, solution design, documentation - As-Is & To-Be, functional specifications (FSDs), configuration rationales (CRs), business requirements (BRDs), training materials, best practices and support.
• Worked as SAP FI/CO Analyst in more than 10 Waterfall full life cycle ASAP/ SDLC End to End projects, full life cycle implementations, rollouts, enhancements & support in FI, SD, MM, FSCM, LIV, IM.
• Good Understanding of IS-Utilities, EDM, EDI and Customer service and the CIC functionalities
• Working knowledge of SOX and SOD compliance, IFRS, US Sales/ Use Taxes, Withholding Taxes, Service tax, Order to Cash (OTC), Procurement to Pay (PTP), APP, Dunning, Lockbox, eCATTS, EDI, IDOCS and GTS (Global Trade Services).
• Strong expertise in Data Migration specifications with LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) and BAPI for data uploads in various projects.
• Good Understanding of SAP S/4 HANA functionalities, through an extensive training.
• Good working knowledge in providing functional & technical assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows).
• Strong working experience in various kinds of Testing such as Manual Testing, GUI Automation Testing, System testing, User Acceptance Testing, Unit & Integration Testing, Performance, Stress and Regression Testing of client/server and web based applications.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills, good presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to work independently or perform in a team
• Ability to understand the projects business requirements and timelines and have the ability to drive closure of design issues to meet the projects go-live.

SAP FI/CO CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

• Good hands on experience in designing & implementing FI - GL, AR, AP, New GL, Treasury, and in CO - CCA, PCA & IO.
• Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: Configuration and customizing Company code, Posting Period Variants, creating GL account codes and Chart of Accounts, configuration of Global settings, configuration of GL automatic clearing, configuration of Foreign currency valuation, Sales Tax/Purchase Taxes (Vertex).
• New General Ledger / Classical GL: Activation of New GL Accounting, define ledger for GL Accounting, Integrating the GL with subcomponents, Document splitting, Segmentation and Parallel Accounting, Controlling Component Transfer postings, Integration with Asset accounting.
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR business module, creating and maintaining Customer Master Data along with Customer Groups, Order to Cash process, Finance documents Global settings (posting keys, payment terms), Reporting, Dunning, Down Payment, Discount, over and Under Payment.
• Accounts Payable: Building AP business module, creating and customizing Vendor Master Data, configuring Vendor Account Groups, defined sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Outgoing payment, Reporting. Worked on business process procedures from procurement of material to payment for vendors - MIGO, MIRO, MRBR and Logistics Invoice Verification.
• Treasury: Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, Risk management, Cash management posting rules, Exchange rates, planning, integration with MM and SD
• Cost Element/Center Accounting: Creation of primary and secondary cost elements, creation of Cost center standard hierarchy, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, Plan price calculations and periodic allocations in plan.
• Internal Orders: Creation of settlement cost element, configuration of settlement structure, settlement profile, real & statistical postings, configuration of order planning, budgeting, defining status profile and order types.
• Integration with other SAP modules: Integration of FI with MM, PP, HR and SD modules. Configured the account determination and involved in designing & testing of interface points between MM and SD. Knowledge of various SD activities such as order management, pricing, delivery & transportation and billing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• ERP
• R/3 Interfaces
• Report Writer
• Report Painter
• ECATT
• LSMW
• EBS
• ABAP Query
• ABAP Dictionary
• ABAP Editor
• Data Browser

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Sr. SAP FI/COFunctional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC, Confidential Test Manager, Win-shuttle, eCATTs, Visual studio, SAP BODS and Velocity

Responsibilities:

• Followed Accelerated SAP (ASAP) methodology in implementing the project.
• Involved in analysing the existing system for AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Responsible for business analysis and writing functional specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the subject matter experts, developers and users.
• Involved in blue-print preparation, configuration, testing, end-user training, go-live and support phases.
• Accounts Payable - Uploaded Master data, Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP), Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, created proposal to Check Printing, Created Check lots, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc.
• Worked on material master, movement types, valuation class and GR/IR clearing. Configured automatic account determination and ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).
• Worked with various purchasing documents, including source list, info record, purchase requisition, purchase order, contracts, and Framework orders.
• Worked on AP - Payment processing, electronic bill presentation & payment. Defined Accounts for clearing entries for Cross Company Code Transactions.
• Defined various payment methods like ACH, Wire, Check, Credit memo, 3PP and etc., in AP. Created Bank Master Data, worked on FI/AR incoming payments, reconciliation accounts, overall receivables management and terms of payment.
• Accounts Receivable - Configured Customer Group and created Customer Master Data, configured Reserve for Bad Debts, created dunning program for reminder to customers, with different dunning levels.
• Configured in-house cash centre management payment process and cash forecasting.
• Worked on Customer Analysis including days in arrears, payment history, cash discount overview and credit limit display.
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings.
• Configured Company code, Exchange rates, VAT groups, tax authority, input & output in Vertex.
• Extensively worked on VAT and Withholding taxes. Configured the required tax codes for VAT applicable countries and set up the account determination for VAT.
• Configured the required Withholding tax codes and defined additional Specifications for Vendor Withholding Tax. Defined formulas for Calculating Withholding Tax for Tiered Withholding TaxCalculation Defined Withholding Tax supplement and additional Withholding Tax Characteristics. Defined Account assignments for Withholding Tax for Outgoing Payments.
• Worked on the required configuration: defining tax codes, tax percentage determination and tax GL assignment, for Service tax for India.
• Written functional Specs for RICEFW objects (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms and Workflows) as per the Business Requirements.
• Worked with ABAPERs on explaining RICEFW functional specifications.
• Designed & Executed Data Mapping, cleansing and Cutover Plans for Conversion of Legacy system into SAP.
• Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter
• Developed Test Cases and involved in all the testing phases; unit testing, integration testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Verified the Test Scripts executed including the Month End closing scripts.
• Helped in Month end and Year end closing activities.
• IDoc extensions were created and implemented in order to handle the exchange of customer-required data that was not available in the SAP delivered IDocs.
• Performed Regression Testing, Unit testing, coordinated with technical & functional people from other modules in integration testing.
• Involved in Manual Testing, GUI Automation Testing, and System testing including Functionality, Acceptance Testing, Integration Testing, Performance, Stress and Regression Testing.
• Created user requirement documentation by extensive interactions with the user teams, development teams and management teams. Provided informative documentation to help the end users such as end user manuals and involved in end user training.
• Provided Pre-go-live and Post go-live production support.

Confidential, Plainville, CT

Sr. SAP FI Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, HP Quality Centre, New GL

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Analysis, Manual Testing, GUI Automation Testing, System testing, including Functionality, Acceptance Testing, Integration Testing, Performance, Stress and Regression Testing of Client/Server and Web based applications.
• Responsible for the cutover of FI - GL, AP, AR open items from SAP R/3 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0 systems.
• Responsible for writing functional specifications and unit-testing all of the above mentioned cutover activities.
• Modified the existing functional specifications for any field changes, new fields and enhancing the customer objects to make them compatible with new version.
• Worked on PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process, inter-company clearing and recurring entries.
• Configured automatic posting for reconciliation ledger, real & statistical postings.
• Involved in the checking of GL account, GR/IR accounts and vendor accounts for transactions.
• Participated in knowledge transfer to the client team members in new system functionality and performed the integration of FI and CO with SD, MM. Responsible for all issues related to SD, MM integration impacting FI/CO.
• Documented all changes, revised the business process procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Tested all modules of FI/CO with the new functionalities. Resolved the issues during integration testing.
• Performed Go-Live Support to ensure a stable SAP ECC 6.0 system.
• Set up parallel accounting by creating additional accounts in New G/L. Maintained the G/L account master data and Profit Center master data for the New G/L.
• Configured identical settings for updating segments and profit centers as well as the relevant partner information in the ledgers of the New G/L.
• Configured additional Reconciliation account based on the client requirements and made necessary settings for the Special Purpose Ledgers.
• Responsible for writing functional specifications based on the business requirements and interaction with the subject matter experts, developers and users.
• Involved in setting up the Testing Methodology for the QA department and generated various documents to enable uniformity in recording the test process and results.
• Creating user requirement document for companywide reports by extensive interactions with the user teams, development teams and management teams.
• Creation of User Scenarios, which defined what action users can take and what result are expected and to test whether the desired results are achieved
• Experience in preparation of End user documentation and Training to end-user.

Confidential, North Wilmington, Delaware

SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI, SAP BO, BADI, BOM, HP Quality Centre, HP QTP

Responsibilities:

• Collected and analysed users’ business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshot and supported the system users.
• Followed ASAP implementation methodology, designed the business processes, wrote blue print phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, and costing sheet.
• Configured Cost Centres, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution, assessment and indirect activity allocations.
• In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• Setup Internal-Orders and Cost Collector configuration. Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles.
• Set-up planning profile for cost centres, activities and statistical key figures.
• Maintained Profit Center Master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions and assignments. Configured PCA planning including defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations.
• Configured the material cost estimate with quantity calculations, WIP calculations, Variance calculations, maintained settlement structures, configured costing variants and valuation variants.
• Defined various reports. Configured COPA planning including creating planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• Configured and activated costing based Profitability Analysis (COPA). Defined Operating concern attributes and generated operating concern environment.
• Configured settings for multiple variation, transfer pricing, planning, integration, and profit center determination and balance sheet items.
• Studied the Organizational requirements to analyse the Profitability of each Product.
• Defined the segment level characteristics and Assigned value fields to different condition types of SD.
• Involved in monitoring of actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI direct Postings to CO.
• Involved in creation of Assessment cycles to allocate the overhead costs among various Characteristics. Worked on Data Transfers between COPA and other systems, mainly BW.
• Configured the automatic write-off process, which included implementing the BADI for getting cost center to the correct reason code.
• Configured cost component structure and roll ups, BOMs. Set up material cost estimate with quality structure.
• Worked with ABAPERs in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms and Workflows).
• Helped in Month end and Year end closing activities.
• IDoc extensions were created and implemented in order to handle the exchange of customer-required data that was not available in the SAP delivered IDocs.
• Performed Regression Testing, Unit testing, coordinated with technical & functional people from other modules in integration testing.
• Involved in creating Test Cases & Test Scripts and also verified the executed Test Scripts.
• Provided Pre-go-live and Post go-live production support.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Full Life Cycle Implementation Remedy, HP Quality Centre, Solution Manager, SAP BI

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analysed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS - TO-BE).
• Performed GAP analysis, actively participated in blueprint phase using ASAP methodology.
• Configured AP, uploaded master data setup and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for AP for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules with FI and CO modules. Configured automatic account determination, ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).
• Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.
• Configured in-house cash center management payment process and cash forecasting.
• Improved company Lockbox performance with User Exit, a reformat program and customized reports. Activated NEW GL, Lending Ledger and Parallel Ledger for the possibility of Parallel Accounting according to the US GAAP.
• Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.
• Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.
• 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.
• Tested and performed web-demos of GL transactions for fast-entry screens, splitting, posting, parking and reversals.
• Worked on Dispute Management functionality including creating dispute cases, forwarding of disputes and clearing disputes.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements in CO and worked on Month end and year end closing procedures.
• Configured CO-IO (Internal Orders) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules and Settlement Profile.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy using CATTS, Alternative Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Configured and managed all Period-End closing activities with Schedule Manager, Capitalized Assets with Budget monitoring using statistical internal orders.
• Created customized reports using report painter/report writer.
• Entered PS (Project System) texts for WBS elements using SAP Script Editor/ Confidential Word, assigned documents to WBS elements through DMS and assigned PS texts to copy templates and categorize as per text types.
• Worked on Project Budget Profile and uploading the budgets and customized settings for availability control for WBS elements.
• Generated Investment Program Hierarchy tree diagram with direct definition of the corresponding program positions and their assignment to the desired positions in the hierarchy using fast entry.
• Participated in testing using Solution Manager. Thoroughly involved in creation of Test Scenarios. Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• On a regular basis performed knowledge transfer to Super users and management using web demos; citrated BPP documentation.
• Involved in post Go-live support.

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

SAP FI/CO Testing & Support Consultant

Environment : R/3 4.7 , HP Quality Centre, SAP BI and SAP BO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the cutover of FI - GL, AP, AR open items from SAP R/3 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0 systems.
• Prepared Legacy Asset Data Transfer for Asset accounting cutover.
• Responsible for writing functional specifications and unit-testing all of the above mentioned cutover activities.
• Created new reports for the validation of SAP R/3 4.7 and SAP ECC 6.0 Asset data.
• Checked for inconsistencies related to G/L, A/P, A/R modules in financial accounting and CCA, CEA, PCA in controlling modules.
• Configured Tax Reconciliation account.
• 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 G/L. Maintained the G/L account master data and Profit Center master data for the New G/L.
• Configured identical settings for updating segments and profit centers as well as the relevant partner information in the ledgers of the New G/L.
• Configured additional Reconciliation account based on the client requirements and made necessary settings for the Special Purpose Ledgers.
• Modified the existing functional specifications for any field changes, new fields and enhancing the customer objects to make them compatible with new version.
• Worked on PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process, inter-company clearing and recurring entries.
• Configured automatic posting for reconciliation ledger, real & statistical postings.
• Involved in the checking of GL account, GR/IR accounts and vendor accounts for transactions.
• Configured and customized Cost center standard hierarchy, defined cost elements, and configured settings for assessments, distributions, reporting.
• Participated in knowledge transfer to the client team members in new system functionality and performed the integration of FI and CO with SD, MM. Responsible for all issues related to SD, MM integration impacting FI/CO.
• Documented all changes, revised the business process procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Tested all modules of FI/CO with the new functionalities. Resolved the issues during integration testing.
• Performed Go-Live Support to ensure a stable SAP ECC 6.0 system.
• Configuration expertise focusing in areas of Asset Accounting (AA), General ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Involved in collecting business blue print documentation, customization, and configuration and in depth understanding of business process relating to SAP Finance, Integration with SD, MM modules.
• Configured FI Enterprise Structure includes Company Code, Business Areas, Function Areas and Fiscal Year Variant.
• Configured General Ledger include chart of accounts, G/L accounts, Sample accounts, Field status groups, Posting Key and Sales/use tax assignment, Automatic Account Determination.
• Configured Document Type, Tolerance groups, Number ranges and Financial Statement versions.
• Defined Accounts Payable includes Vendor Master Data, Vendor Groups, House Banks, Payment Program and Recurring entries, Credit memos, and Special Ledger.
• Defined Accounts Receivable including Customer Master Data, Customer Groups, Terms of Payment, Interest Calculation, billing, and Dunning, Incoming Payments and Cash Discounts.
• Configured ALE/IDOC setting for Inbound & outbound IDocs, Message Handling, Asset master data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys, Depreciation postings, and Depreciation Calculation methods.
• Conducted unit testing, integration, User Acceptance Testing and user training.