PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 12+ years of extensive functional experience in SAP FI/CO best practices encompassing eight projects, three of which are full life cycle implementation from blueprinting, realization, go live to production support.
• I have been part of Implementations, Development & Production support projects and exposure includes preparation of Project Blueprint, Configuration, and Unit &Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
• Specific focus is on S/4HANA as applied to Finance and Controlling, Simple Finance AKA S/4 HANA Finance, and Process Integration areas of SAP.
• Provide innovation and generate business value for customers on the latest SAP HANA platform. Participated in multiple end - to-end implementations and roll-out projects using ASAP methodology, and in various support roles.
• Responsible for business and system solutions, design and document methodologies, the configuration of S/4HANA FI & CO functional module, integration processes, conduct workshops, user training and continued support during the projects.
• Excellent configuration and training skills in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Bank Accounting, Treasury-Cash Management (TR-CM), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, & Internal Orders.
• FSCM: Receivable Management Collection & Dispute Management implementation experience.
• Extensive experience in Procure to Pay (P2P), Record to Report (RTR) and Order to Cash (OTC) processes. Excellent configuration skills in Electronic Bank statement (EBS); Lockbox; and foreign exchange business processes.
• Involved in 3 full life cycle end-to-end implementations using ASAP and ITIL methodologies and two Production Support projects using ASAP methodology.
• Solid Finance, Accounting and Tax background including familiarity with Sarbanes Oxley Act(SOX), conventions and standards of US GAAP and IFRS.
• Expertise in FI-GL, New GL, AP, AR, AA, SPL, Bank Accntg, Consolidations, workflow approvals and Travel & Expense.
• Expertise in CO - CCA, CEM, OM, IO, PCA and PA.
• Good understanding of SD and MM integration issues and related functional process.
• Experience in AS-IS analysis and TO-BE documentation, blueprinting, configuration, unit, Security and integration testing, training super/end users and SOP documentation.
• Excellent understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) and Integration with SD, PP, MM & PS (WBS Element, Network, and Activity) modules. Strong knowledge of GAAP and SOX Act.
• Experience in reports, conversions, interfaces, enhancements & forms (RICEF).
• Proficient in all aspects of Project Systems including Planning, Budgeting, and Cost Allocation.
• Well versed in integrating Vertex with SAP. Extensive experience in conversions using LSMW and ECATT. Well versed with SAP security roles and profiles.
• Extensive experience in delivering large and small group (one-on-one) end-user training using MS Visio templates.
• On controlling side: I have implemented product costing - make to order and make to stock processes and COPA - Costing based / Account Based. I also have hands-on experience in integrating COPA with non-SAP systems.
• Extensive experience on BAPI, BADI, SMARTFORMS, SAP Script, ALV Reports, User Exists, Enhancement Frameworks, Remote Function Calls (RFC), ALE, EDI, and IDOC's.
• 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.
• Experience working with an integrated team of onsite, onshore and offshore resources.
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, account history, and day to day business processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Systems: R/3, ECC-6.0; FI-CO (GL, AR, AP, AA, New GL, SPL, CCA, PCA, PC, PA), Integration with SD and MM, New GL, Workflow, SAP-Business one, Ramco and Tally

Testing Tools: HP Quality Centre, QTP. Test Director, Load Runner, Win Runner

Languages: C & C++

Database Products: SQL and MS Access

Project Mgmt. Tools: SharePoint and VISIO

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, Z/OS, VM/ESA, MVS/XA, and UNIX

Reporting Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW, CATTS, eCATTs

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), UML, SDLC, Business process restructuring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all phases of implementation for the development of business blueprint, conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, and configured the system for implementation of New General Ledger Accounting. 0
• The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process, organization structure finalizing and mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support.
• Translated client's business requirements into actual system configuration by developing a configuration specification document (CSD) to map client's business requirements to the relevant functionalities in the new SAP General Ledger including document splitting, segment reporting, CO-FI integration and parallel ledger functionality
• Enlightened business leads to the new functionality of Profit Center Accounting within the SAP General Ledger and provided expert advice on, but not limited, to the following: Profit Center Accounting setup and usage; Document Splitting; CO/FI integration; Parallel ledgers; SAP New GL Migration Cockpit and Migration Activities; SAP New GL authorization impacts.
• Identified New GL authorization impacts and worked with client's authorization team to create and amend user roles and profiles.
• Identified New GL developments (reports, interfaces, enhancements, substitution rules, batch jobs, authorizations etc.) and created functional specifications (bespoke).
• Liaised with ABAP team to complete all identified new GL developments.
• Prepared, provided recommendations and assisted in the conduct of the User Acceptance Test (UAT), including test script creation, data preparation, and issues resolution.
• Conducted Key/ End User training including training documents creation and data setup.
• Led Client through a successful UAT.
• Conducted a pre-migration review to analyze the quality of client's financial data. Recommended for an early data cleansing and open item clearing.
• Conducted several meetings to analyze client's current SAP environment and assisted in drawing out a to-be environment for the migration project.
• Worked with business process leads to complete the SAP Migration Questionnaire and gave recommendations on the appropriate target migration scenarios.
• Assisted client in drawing up a migration timeline based on the selected migration scenarios contained in the SAP questionnaire. The timeline included every major milestone of a New GL Migration project. Including the two major milestones: Migration date and Activation date.
• Developed a cutover strategy for the migration process.
• Conducted a demo of the Migration Cockpit in a Pilot system to educate the Project Team on various activities with the six phases of the Migration Cockpit.
• Worked with business community and SAP Migration Back office to resolve the two red light items that came up on the SV report.

Environment: SAP ERP ECC 6.0 Eh. P 4, SAP BI, SAP SRM, Vertex, HP Quality Center, Solution Manager, Remedy and Visio.

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in configuration and testing of GL, Banking, Accounts Payable, Cash Management and Treasury Payments.
• Responsible for setting up of House Banks, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), Payment methods (FBZP), Cash management and Treasury payments (F11CU) for various company codes across the globe.
• Having good exposure to NEW GL Functionality with Document splitting, Document reversals, foreign currency valuations and Month End / Period End activities.
• Define segments and configured document splitting functionality so as to have the automotive splitting of documents based on profit centers and segment.
• Maintained item category for various GL accounts.
• Configured Zero Balance account for Document Splitting.
• Played a major role in SWIFT 2012 program for Reporting and Payments (PDR & CDR).
• Setting up of house bank and bank accounts for new accounts.
• Updating FI12 configuration (EDI Partner profile, EDI Payment Methods, IBAN numbers).
• Setting up Instruction Keys for countries in scope and assigning Instruction Keys to House Banks.
• Electronic Banking Configuration including updating Transaction types, assigning clearing accounts to account symbols etc.

Environment: ECC 6.0, SAP BI, SAP SRM, Tax ware, Visio, Transport Express, GL, AP, AR, CCA, COPA, TR, AA, CM, PCA, Taxes, New G/L, Intercompany, Validations and Substitutions, Foreign currency valuation, LIV, Positive pay and PS.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked on 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.
• Configured customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, account assignments, defined various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client. Worked on different tax modules like withholding tax, tax jurisdiction code.
• Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration with the BAI2 format, cash management and planning levels in treasury and worked on Electronic bank statements (EBS). Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements, working on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL.
• Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation. Created integrated asset acquisition and defined account assignment type for Asset Account, Account Assignment Objects for the Depreciation Areas.
• Made settings for the Dunning procedure and configured the dunning procedure. Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset
• The configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Configured Cost center accounting (CCA), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), and Profitability Analysis (PA).
• Tested report generation using reporting tools Report Painter and report writer and performed end-user training and documented training materials for the users.
• Have worked in solution manager and diagnostics, Configuration of solution manager and created a role for solution manager.

Environment: ECC 6.0, SAP ARIBA, Tax ware, Visio, GL, New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cash Management, Internal Orders, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Inter Company, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Taxes, LIV, COPA, User Exits, LSMW, EDI, IDOC, BAPI, RICEFW.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Understood the business process and studies the current implementation of various modules AP, AR, GL Controlling, FSCM, PS, CRM, SD, and MM.
• Enhanced Automatic Payment Program functionality for outgoing Payments in Accounts Payable to include additional Payment methods like Check, Wire transfer and ACH Payments.
• Configured for leading ledger to add various scenarios like cost center update, profit center update, segment and defined additional currencies such as Hard currency and group currency for leading ledger in New GL.
• Configured settings for Document Splitting to create segment financial statements and defined Zero Balance Clearing Account. Classified GL Accounts for Document splitting and defined splitting characteristics for General Ledger Accounting and Controlling.
• In Project Systems (PS) defined the Project coding mask, created the project file and status profile. Maintained the budget profiles and tolerance limit for the availability control.
• Configured settings for EDI for incoming invoices and IDOCS for Payment Program.
• Configured Account groups for customer master and Partner determination procedures for customers. Configured Settings for Lockbox Processing and Bank lockbox format to SAP Lockbox format (BAI2) and Post processing of Lockbox data.
• Configured Reason Codes, correspondence types and automatic clearing of open items.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups and maintained cost element attributes in Cost Element Accounting.
• Configured PM order Types, Service Order types, Settlement Profiles, Allocation structures, Source structure for settlement of PM orders.
• Enhanced basic settings standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, Distribution and Assessments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers in Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in COPA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Configured the Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure and Configured the cost component structure, Costing variants for the standard cost estimate for planned and actual Production orders in Product Costing Planning (COPC).
• Maintained Overhead cost elements, calculation bases, credits, costing sheets, activity plan, and costing types in Product Costing. Integrated Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) component in the R/3 System, for planned budget using various costing methods, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants in Product Cost Planning.
• Extensively worked on Cost Object controlling period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance calculations, settlements of process orders, cost estimate updates, costing the run, marking and releasing for updating the price in material master records, display reports etc. Analyzed Material Ledger, results from analysis and product costing in Make-to-Order (MTO) procedures.
• Implemented FASB52 (Foreign Currency Revaluation), Used LSMW to load Cost center, Profit Center, Customer, Vendor Master Data. Tested with ABAPer in the process of writing functional specs using RICEFW objects.

Environment: ECC 6.0, Vertex, Visio, GL, New GL AP, AR, AA, CCA, PCA, COPC, COPA, CM, LIV, P2P, Taxes, Intercompany.

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked on 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.
• Designed the document for the new Rollouts and implemented them in the system which included the creation of new company codes and the configuration related. Also mapped the GL accounts for the MM and SD postings.
• Worked on the functional specification document to change the appropriation request workflow and made it right.
• Worked on issues related to IM planning & budgeting, projects structures, project planning& budgeting, period end closing and PS& IM roll over.
• Independently worked on configuring FI sub-areas including GL, AP, AR, New GL, and Cost Center, Internal Order and Profit Centre in CO area.
• Integrated FI module with other modules such as SD, MM, PP, PS and Logistic, well versed in an overall business process in Order to Cash, Make to Order & Procure to Pay. Provided support for account determination (transaction key) and worked on ERS (Evaluated receipt settlement), EBS & EDI.
• In New General Ledger, maintained New GL configuration to create leading and non-leading ledger for different reporting purpose, defined currency for leading ledger, defined segment, Document Splitting, Account Assignment types for objects, defined and assigned Accounting Principles to ledger group, maintained Chart of Account, created GL accounts, Field Status Group, maintained Financial Statement Version, Manual and Automatic clearing, Recurring Postings, Intercompany reconciliation, Maintained Posting Period Variant and integration with Asset Accounting.
• Created Interest calculation and foreign currency postings.
• Configured house bank, bank determination and sets tolerance according to the company's tolerance limit, for the smooth functioning of Automatic Payment Program (APP).
• Configured Manual and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) and worked on EDI/IDOC for processing invoices.
• Worked to improve the efficiency in the complete end to end financial process of R2R from general accounting to closing.
• Customized screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub-ledgers and asset depreciation area and defined transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements.
• Configured Controlling areas, Cost Center and profit center hierarchies and CO object assignments, Substitution, and Validations. Defined, settlement profile, settlement structure and cost elements for internal order settlements.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured operating concern for costing-based Profitability analysis, maintained CO version, defined characteristics, value fields and attributes, Assignment of relevant value fields to SD condition types for online transfer of billing document data to CO-PA, configured the derivation structure and rule for characteristics and created reports as per client requirements.
• Worked on Material Ledger configuration like Assign currency types to material ledger type, assign a material ledger type to valuation area, maintain number ranges for material ledger documents, assign material Update structure to valuation Area, Configured Dynamic Price Changes, Defined and assigned movement type groups of material ledger, Activate Actual cost, Actual cost component split.
• Successfully implemented product cost estimate information transfer from CO-PC into CO-PA, through cost component values which facilitated the import of detailed cost-of-sales information into CO-PA for flexible margin reporting.
• Implemented transfer of overhead costs from Cost center accounting on a periodic basis and transfer of activities indirectly into profitability analysis segment also designed the PA transfer structure to control the secondary cost elements.
• Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to CO-PA.
• Documented the changes and Conducted user training on the new functionality in the configuration of financial accounting including GL, AR, AP, Banking and controlling modules.
• Helped end users in the month end closing operations involving overhead calculation, variance calculation, Result Analysis settlements, and activity price calculations.
• Developed all the Month End over/Under absorption allocation cycles to CO-PA.
• Created planning layouts for cost element planning and statistical key figure planning.
• Configured Key Figure Schema for CO-PA reports.
• Integration Testing - Complete business cycles across sub-modules were tested, in conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives from the client side.
• Generate and monitor Daily ticket report from Remedy and assign new tickets to relevant groups.
• Provided Production Support for all the issues involved in AP.
• Provided end user training and documentation.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, GL, AP, AR, SOX, PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CCA (Cost Center Accounting), OTC, P2P, AA (Asset Accounting), ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM & FI-SD Integration, Rollout.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Created functional specifications and worked together with the technical team and ABAP developers to develop and modify RICEFW objects.
• Responsible for the cutover of FI - GL, AP, AR open items from SAP R/3 4.6C to SAP ECC 6.0 systems.
• Responsible for all issues related to SD, MM integration impacting FI/CO.
• Responsible for writing functional specifications and unit-testing all of the above-mentioned cutover activities.
• Prepared Legacy Asset Data Transfer for Asset accounting cutover.
• Created new reports for the validation of SAP R/3 4.6C 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.
• 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.
• 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 is the same for both accounting principles and one area with specific accounts for each accounting principle.
• 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.
• Configured additional Reconciliation account based on the client requirements.
• 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 the new version.
• Worked on PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process.
• Worked on inter-company clearing and recurring entries.
• Configured automatic posting for reconciliation ledger, real & statistical postings.
• 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.
• Documented all changes, revised the business process procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Support and Regression testing of New GL, AP, AR, AA, FSCM Collections Management and FSCM Credit Management modules.
• Tested in all modules of FICO with the new functionalities and resolved the issues during integration testing.
• Performed Go-Live Support to ensure a stable SAP ECC 6.0 system.

Environment: SAPR/3 4.6C & SAP ECC 6.0, New G/L, SOX, OTC, P2P, BA, AA (Asset Accounting), Credit Memos, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Intercompany, eCATTs, LSMW, ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM& FI-SD Integration

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in using solution manager in Test Plan management, Tester Worklist, Business Blueprint, Configuration and Project administration to create the test projects.
• Creation of business process test cases and upload to solution manager.
• Configured and tested settings for Fiscal year variants, Chart of accounts, posting period variants, Field status groups, G/L Accounts, Account groups, Retained Earning Account and Tolerance groups for their employees.
• Worked on testing customer/vendor master records, tolerance limits per business requirement for overpayments and underpayments, reason codes and in open item management in customer accounts, configured and customized credit control area, credit management, interest calculation and payment terms tailored to specific Customer's needs, payment advice, check number ranges, check void reasons, check printing, carrying forward balances.
• Provided configuration and test support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement’s setup, and inter-company billing.
• Worked on testing the flow of P2P (Procure to Pay) including creating Purchases Order, Good Receipts, Invoice Receipt and Outgoing Payments and trained end users on complete existing procurement to pay cycle documenting all accounting entries.
• Developed interactive and ALV reports which show the list of paid vendors for any given date with information of payment details, payment run details, check information etc.
• Worked with technical consultants to design country/company specific forms for check printing and ACH payments and other Banking Interface requirements.
• Developed test scenarios RICEFW objects which include both global and regional, like freight payment, case pack, supersession and unit functional testing of the same.
• Designed and tested dunning procedures, running/ editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices based on customer segmentation.
• Testing Tax configuration in Vendor master data as well as customer Master data.
• Involved in testing Account Determination and Number Ranges.
• Involved in testing Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Testing TAX calculation procedure TAXUSJ, tax jurisdiction code, tax codes Maintained tax codes and taxable percentage rate calculation, defined tax codes for Nontaxable. Transactions.
• Configured and tested House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments. Checks Management through assigning number ranges for Check lots, checks printing and defining void reason codes.
• Tested all modules of FICO with the new functionalities.
• Resolved help desk tickets with respect to various areas of FI and CO. Developed necessary process flows, documentation, change requests etc. based on the requirements.

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, AP, AR, GL, FI-SD, Unit testing, Integration testing.

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 is 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 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, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Participated in blueprinting phase using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) Methodology.
• Configured House banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment and Automatic Payment Program (APP) configuration.
• Maintained relations with Banks by resolving the issues in receiving the Flat file for processing customer remittances.
• Worked on the creation of Asset classes, depreciation types, depreciation areas Specified Automatic Account Assignments to link asset master data to G/L accounts; Created depreciation keys with an assignment to depreciation areas.
• Configured and worked on Project Structures, PS Financials - Financial transactions, calculations, and evaluations of project performance, PS Cross Application Time Sheets, PS reporting.
• Extensively worked to design/configure business processes in APPS to support the planning, control, and monitoring of programs/projects including limiting actions that can be performed.
• Worked in Credit Management and Credit control areas, interest calculation and developed Assessment, Distribution, Periodic reposting cycles and segment.
• Configured and used LSMW for uploading master data of General Ledger, Customers, and Vendors. Worked on CATT's for creation and modification of master data of G/L accounts, Customers, Vendors.
• Executed test scripts for various business processes related to Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Controlling, Internal Orders, Funds, and Grants Management.
• Helped the training team to develop training material.

Environment: ECC 5.0, SAP BI, Visio, SAP CRM, G/L, AP, AR, BA, AA, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Project Systems (PS), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Assessments, Distributions, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Internal Orders (IO), LIV, P2P, OTC, Report Painter/Report Writer, Lockbox, EBS, LSMW, Interest Calculation.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, New Kensington, PA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured all settings for P2P including inventory, GRIR, and tolerances
• Configured P2P settings for Automatic Payment Program F110 configuration to allow for automatic clearing of Vendors.
• Maintained settings for P2P (Procure to Pay) business requirements.
• Configured Outgoing Payments - Outgoing Payments global settings, Manual Outgoing Payments, automating outgoing Payments, Define Tolerances per vendor, Check Payment Blocking Reason Code, Define House Bank, Define Payment Method per Company Code, Bank Determination for Payment Transactions, Bank Ranking order, Bank Accounts, Available Amounts per Bank.
• Worked with LSMW for loading multiple master data and data conversion from legacy to SAP
• Configured settings for P2P, FI-MM integration.
• Configuring fixed assets for various deployments in different countries: US, UK, Poland and others
• Managing depreciation policies differences across different accounting principles
• Assisted in designing the entire Parallel Ledger Accounting within SAP FI for Dual Reporting and Revenue Recognition
• Define various GAAP as accounting principles
• Created step-by-step tasks list for month-end and year-end closing
• Configuring Fixed Assets module by configuring: Chart of depreciation, Define Depreciation Area, Define Zero tax code, setup account determination, designs the screen layout; define asset classes, Determining Depr. The area in the asset class, specifying an interval of posting rules, defining depreciation keys and period control, setting the account assignment object.
• Configured Invoices processing, credit memo, debit memos and invoice processing.
• Configured Accounts Payable F110 -Invoices/Credit Memos, Maintained Terms of Payments, and EDI invoice posting, Screen Layout for invoice posting, Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing, Bank Accounting, Closing, Vendor Group and Vendor Master Data.

Environment: SAP ECC6.0, FI, GL, AP, AR, CRM, FA.