PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO functional consultant with 7 years of functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) module in Implementation, System user training and support of R/3 with different versions including ECC 6.0.
• Two full life cycle implementation experience with ASAP methodology, proficient in interacting with business users to identify information need and initiate process change.
• Strong experience in analysis, design development, blue printing, detailed configuration, testing, documentation, training, data uploading, preparing the cutover strategy, Go- live and post implementation support.
• Strong expertise in financial accounting in configuring and testing General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Bank accounting and special purpose ledger.
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Lockbox configuration, Banks accounting and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Strong expertise in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Hands on configuration and customization experience in Treasury, Bank Accounting , Automatic Payment Program ,Dunning, Special Ledger Transactions and Intercompany Transactions, Travel management.
• Extensively worked on configuring New General Ledger accounting (NEW GL).
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes.
• Worked extensively on Business processes of SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with MM &SD Modules.
• Very good experience in handling tickets during production support, ticket monitoring and reporting with SAP solution manager.
• Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business process for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions.
• Worked effectively on configuring MIGO, MIRO and Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Knowledge of working with Architect, Business team, Subject matter Experts, Analysts and End users. Good knowledge in Accounting, Management and Financial.
• Worked with ABAP consultants and designed functional & specifications for various interfaces in FICO.
• Experience covers all aspects of Implementation process like Project Evaluation, Requirement Gathering & Design, Complete System Configuration, Testing, End User Training & Production Support.
• Configuration and Designing with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Element, Networks, Activities Setup, Settlement Rules.
• Hands on working knowledge in Unit, Integration, Functional, Validation, system, stress, Regression and User acceptance testing (UAT), Experience in and executed the automated test scripts and worked on HP Quality Centre (HPQC) & Quick Test Professional.
• Ability to work independently as well as in team oriented environments with good organizational skills, excellent communication skills and inter-personal skills with problem solving aptitude.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,IN Aug’11 - current
Role: SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0,CO-PCA,CO-PA,CO-CCA,CO-PC.
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Responsibilities:

• Thoroughly analyzed the clients business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshot and supported the system users.
• Implemented ASAP methodology, planned, designed, developed, implemented and supported the business processes.
• Wrote blue print phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA): Performed corrections by reposting line items, also checked the results of reposting for particular cost centers in the current periods through Actual/Plan/Variance reports, and by displaying actual line items for the cost centers in report rows for the cost elements.
• Generated reports for Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) for Actual/Plan/Variance costs which provided summarized view of costs, activities, and statistical key figures that were posted to cost centers, which allowed for a consolidated view of multiple cost centers.
• By using Assignment Monitor tool in Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA): Checked the assignments of controlling objects and materials to the Profit Centers; checked which internal orders of a particular order types have not been assigned to the profit centers and also checked unassigned WBS elements, ensured that all materials of particular material types have been assigned to the right profit centers in order to correct representation of a revenues and cost of sales.
• Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA): Executed actual and planned line item reports for different profit centers for specific periods/accounts to check the balances of line items with the profit centers, and also checked open item balances for receivables and payables.
• Product Costing (CO-PC): configured material cost estimates with quantity structure, maintained settlement structures, activity types, price planning, and creation of material cost estimate, material price update, and calculation of actual costs on production orders.
• Defined Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Date Control and Transfer Strategy for the costing variants in Product Costing. Created the cost component structure and valuation variants for Product costing purposes, overhead costing sheet with relevant overhead groups.
• Implemented Product Cost by Order. Configured Costing Variants for Preliminary Costing in Cost Object Controlling.
• Period-end activities included allocation of production costs to production cost centers, splitting price calculation, application of overheads. Documented existing business processes and month end procedures. Configured period end allocations including cycles and segments for assessments, distributions. Created assessment cost elements. Designed and configured settings for various manual actual postings like reposting cost manually, reposting line items, direct activity allocation, manual cost allocation.
• Generated Plan/Actual Comparison reports for Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) to provide the contribution margin for divisions and products which helped for in depth analysis of the specific divisions and products and to identify the “bottom line” impact of revenues and costs. Both actual and planned data was listed in this report for the contribution margins and variances calculated for each value in it.
• Helped with reconciliation of FI with COPA, created missing cost elements and mapped them to value fields, mapped some new condition types to value fields.
• Developed a GRC implementation strategy and plan for entire suite.
• Worked with LSMW and eCATT’s, created scripts for mass vendor, customer master upload, cost center upload, asset master upload.
• Worked on creation of test scripts for valid business scenarios and working with functional/design team on the test script and test data.
• Worked on different issues related to HP Quality Centre (HPQC) and defects. Supported offshore team for HPQC and Test execution.
• Involved in different processes like data migration (master & transactional) and writing functional specs for RICEFW objects.
• Worked with HP ALM Explorer Add-in to enable HP ALM client users to run a browser-independent version of HP ALM.
• Developed a proof of concept for regression testing on SAP handheld transactions, SAP FI module, and Reflections terminal emulator with HP’sQuick test Professional, HP ALM, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP TAO.
• Conducted ROI (Return on Investment) studies to shrink the cycle time needed to conduct SAP (both targeted and final) regression testing.
• Worked extensively on vertex integration with sales taxes.
• Worked on integration of vertex with sales order and used some user exits regarding these.
• Conducted UAT and Integration testing in various phases of the project.

Confidential,NJ Sep’10 – Aug’11
Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant (Full life cycle implementation)
Environment: ECC 6.0, Tax ware, Transport Express, AP, AR, AA, CO-PC, CO-PA, Bank Accounting, SPL and Costing
Industry: Manufacturing
Responsibilities:

• Worked on Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, end-user training and go-live phases.
• Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project, Involved in test phases ie unit testing, integration testing. Provided user training in the modules of FI and CO.
• Worked on go-live phase and provided post live support, Coordinating and solving issues with QA and production.
• Worked on writing the functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Performed testing in Mercury Quality Center.

General Ledger (FI-GL):

• Configuration of FI global settings, Configured company code, migrated GL accounts, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios..
• Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing.

Accounts Receivable (FI – AR):

• Customer account groups, terms of payment, tolerance limits for customer payments, special GL indicators, dunning, and down payments.
• Configuration for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences.
• Process Payment advices to clear customer open items through automatic processing of BDC sessions.
• Expertise in lockbox file format and lockbox processing, manual bank statement and EBS processing.

Accounts Payable (FI – AP):

• Setting up of own payment methods, payment files and advices through change in SAP scripts
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot. Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in A/P.
• Configured payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Worked on logistics invoice verification (LIV). Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendor Payment and Check clearing sub-processes.

Asset Accounting:

• Assigned Chart of Depreciation to company code, Specified Depreciation types for Depreciation areas.
• Worked with Asset classes, Assigned GL Accounts, Specified Intervals and Posting rules.
• Worked with Asset Number Ranges, Account Determination and Month end activities such as Depreciation run (AFAB).

CO- Allocations:

• Worked on Distributions-Defined Distribution and receiver types for distribution. Worked on assessments- Created assessment cost elements, Maintained allocation structures and process assessment.
• Worked on Indirect activity allocation determined sender receiver categories.
• Defined and maintained activity types for direct indirect activity allocations and used statically key figures.

Confidential,NC Mar’10 –Sep’10
Role:SAPFICOFunctional Consultant
Environment:SAPECC6.0,FI-AP,FI-AR,CO-CCA,CO-PCA
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Responsibilities:

• Mapped current state to future state, developedtest scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans,cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Studied the changes in the standardSAPsystem for the new version and prepared change configuration scripts.
• Provided extensiveGo live supportpertaining to all issues related toFI and CO.
• Documentedcritical changes performed system tests and trained client team members on new system functionality.
• MaintainingNew GL configuration, document splitting, Parallel ledgers, Segment Reporting, define variants andaccount determinationfor Real-Time Integration, intercompany clearings.
• System configuration and testing in the areas ofFI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Lossfor inter-company transactions.
• AR-customer transactions,credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Created basic settings to add additional vendor and customer master data and Invoice usingCATT, down payment, advances to vendors, adjustment of advances against invoice.
• ConfiguredMaterialCost Estimatewith Quantity Structure,costing variant, cost component structurelikeBOMandRouting for costingthe product provided byPP.
• ConfiguredControlling area, standard hierarchy, cost centers, primary cost elements, secondary cost elements, order types, settlement structures and distribution cycles in controlling, forCost Center Accounting.
• DefinedCosting type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing.
• Complete knowledge of theworkflowfrom the creation of sales order to delivery and billing in the Sales & Distribution module that involves theOrder-to-Cashend to end process.
• Configured bothcosting basedCO-PA andaccount basedCO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation usingProduct CostingandCosting sheet.
• Setupinternal orders and cost collector configuration.Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system oforder settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning.
• Knowledge onAllocationusing cycle segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessments for costs to product line cost centers.
• Actualpostings: additional balance sheet and P&L account (3KEH), period end closing assessment and distribution cycles.
• InProfit Center Accounting, maintained standard hierarchy. Configured Planning layout, Planning profile, Plan allocations for Profit Center Accounting.
• Good understanding of SD condition techniqueused in the Pricing procedures, how the GL accounts for revenue and accrual postings are determined using account keys, copy controls, item category determination and its significance.
• Tested the system rigorouslycovering all the business cases to ensure the integrity of the system after the upgrade.
• As a member oftesting teammonitored integration-testing efforts and drafted the testing scripts. Utilized the Mercury testing tools like Load Runner and Test Directorto assist with the testing process.
• Performed System, Volume and Interface testingduring various phases of test cycle.
• Training and Documentation of all relevant processUAT (User Acceptance Testing),Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting.
• PerformedGAP analysisof business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements.

Confidential,IN Jan’09- Feb’10
Role: SAPFI/CO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0Full Life Cycle Implementation, FI-SD, FI-MM, FI-CO, FI-PC, SD-CO
Industry: Manufacturing and supplies
Responsibilities:

• As a team lead worked in all the phases of implementation including Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, and End user-training, Go-Live & Production Support. Extensively worked with Chinese team from Tianjin and Beijing.
• Worked with CFO, Controllers and Application Analysts to analyze the existing system and functional requirements gathering. Finalized the functional and technical specifications for the proposed system. Worked closely with SD, MM, WM, PP, ABAP and BASIS teams.
• Documented and Developed RICEF objects.
• Leading indirect reports and team members in configuration and testing phases.
• Defined and improved the business processes for intercompany transactions between Tianjin and Beijing plants.
• Configured the Automatic payment Program FBZP, setting up house banks. Lockbox configuration.
• Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the end-to-end project solution, including creation of the detailed project design, functional specifications, and test plans.
• Master data upload using LSMW.
• FI Design and Configuration for AP, AR and GL sub-modules, including financial statement version for individual company codes of Tianjin and Beijing and the consolidated one. Configuring the FI-SD, FI-MM, FI-CO, FI-PC (Product Costing), and SD-CO integration. FI-Assets Management design configuration including Intercompany asset transfer. Worked extensively on New GL, document splitting and parallel ledgers, Taxes including VAT.
• Trouble shooting with cross functional issues, supported Individual Test (Unit Test, Integration Test, Stress Test & System Performance Test) including creation, scheduling and execution of test plans during different cycles, resolving test issues while transferring knowledge to the client, the technical team and the production support group. Defining and working with end user to perform the month-end closing activities.
• Organizing various workshops to train power users, business and end users.

Education:

Masters in Computer Science