SUMMARY:

• An accomplished professional, with 10years of SAP FICO implementation and support experience.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles.
• Adequate knowledge of ASAP Methodology followed during the Project implementations and well versed with business process, its mapping & configuration in SAP.
• Proficient in design and configuration of FI - Enterprise structure, FI-global settings, sub-modules General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP) Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), APP, Bank Ac, Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
• Strong background in ERP, ECC, Finance and business process analyses.
• Outstanding record of success in management accounting, manufacturing accounting, and auditing.
• Experience in analyzing business specification documents, developing Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Scope and defining Test Cases and Automating Test Scripts
• Good communication and interpersonal skills being flexible and versatile to new environments and ability to work with teams as well as individually
• Detail oriented, quick learner, good listener with strong problem solving skills .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

General Ledger (GL): Chart of accounts, account groups, new-GL, GL master records, field status groups, posting keys, Document splitting, leading & Non-leading ledgers, and Automatic account determination, reference and Account Assignment documents, open item management, tolerance groups and Financial Statement Versions.

Accounts Payable (AP): Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, AP information system, and integration with MM.

Accounts Receivable (AR): Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, dunning, party statements, AR information system, credit management, discounts and payment differences, Data Medium Exchange (DME) and integration with SD.

Fixed Assets (FA): Asset class, asset master records, Chart of depreciation, depreciation keys, screen layouts, lean implementation, acquisition and retirements. In Special Purpose Ledger created master data for the Ledgers and defined the Tables and Table Groups, and configured Fiscal Year Variant, Company Code and Activity assignments for the Ledger.

Cost Center Accounting (CCA): Planning cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, variances, Planning, activity types, statistical key figures, reposting, distribution and assessment.

Project Systems (PS): Project definition creation, WBS element Creation, Tested for project system workflow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Farmington, CT

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling day to day queries/ issues related to FICO and other logistic modules integrated with FI-GL,AR,AP,BL, FIXED ASSETS, PCA and Internal orders
• Interacting with client for gathering new business requirements and mapping the process in SAP
• Adding Auxiliary cost component to company codes of EME and NA. Responsible for activating and implementing Material ledger with Cost Component
• Implementation of Account based and Costing Based - COPA.Unit and Integration test performed Cost Center splitting performed
• Configured COPA costing and account based related settings for Actual Cost Component of ML. Mapped COPA ML actual cost component break up to Value Fields
• Configured all COPA and ML related integration settings
• Responsible for implementing CO PA - Costing Based. Responsible for making/designing the Product Costing. Inventory Valuation
• Responsible complete integration of MM PP FI CO and SD
• Involved and configured in S 4 HANA account based COPA implementation
• Configured all business transactions for AR and AP including the payment program configuration and automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program.
• Customized and configured Cash management including Bank statements, payment program, Payment advises and Bills of Exchange
• Designed the Generic Non-PO Invoice Postings Interface for Purchase to pay division so that Vendors can submit the Invoices electronically.
• Co-ordinate with technical team on development of function module for the DME to generate flat file based on bank proprietary file format for payment processing.
• Worked exclusively on payment methods like ACH processing and check runs.
• Supported in solving the issues related to the automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• FI SD integration: Assigned revenue accounts, deferred revenue accounts, freight accounts, and tax and discount accounts in SD account determination.
• FI MM Integration: Created a spec for automatic GL account determinations for material movements and configured the same in sap.
• Worked as a functional consultant to provide IDOC extensions working along with ABAP team. Implemented the exchange of customer required data that was not available in SAP delivered IDOCs.
• Trained business users on various business processes of treasury like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Extracting and providing standard and custom table data outside of the standard reports on adhoc basis.
• Responsible for monitoring (critical) interfaces and background jobs.
• As part of team member actively worked with internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues, requests, tickets, enhancement

Confidential, PA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the client's business requirements, gathered requirements through user meetings, identified the gap and produced the functional documents as per the client's requirement.
• Problem resolution as part of support- analyzing the tickets which included identification of issue, determining the root cause of issue and suggesting the solution to users based on root cause analysis done.
• Responsible for supporting the existing SAP design and implementing new business required functionality for FICO module - FI-GL/New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Bank accounts and CCA, Profit Center, and Internal order in CO area.
• Responsible for preparing test scripts and performing and monitoring testing for support pack implementation.
• Responsible for implementing of various enhancements or mini Projects (New Co Code)
• Involved in the configuration of payment terms for vendors, maintained the vendor master records and create payment orders for vendors as per the client's requirements.
• Involved in extending the view for FBL1N- vendor line item report as per the requirement.
• Checking Validation and Substitution rules in analyzing an issue related to automatic account determination.
• Addressed the pricing, tax, rebate & chargeback issues relating to VISTEX application.
• Working with SD and MM team when needed to solve the issues related to condition type and movement types.
• Involved in uploading the planned price and future price in material master as a part of testing the custom programs, Involved in the MM validations- Costing and Accounting views as part of conversions.
• Involved in the Cost center Planning. Configured new Activity types, Cost centers, Cost center group and assigned default cost centers to cost elements. Involved in loading of the planned activity rates for the cost centers.
• Working with Technical team (ABAP) to analyze the root cause of the issues like batch job failures, to analyze the functionality of the custom programs.

Confidential, Georgia

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements & preparation of As-Is & To-Be Analysis.
• Preparation of project estimates and delivery plans.
• Worked with the training team to assure appropriate training material is created for identified changes.
• Financial business processes mapping and redesign with SAP R/3. Financials functional solution options analysis and solution proposal studies.
• Review the system design and suggest improvements.
• Assist project sponsors / business stake holders to make key decisions by providing proof of concepts. Configured FI-GL, AR, AP, House banks & Asset accounting.
• Involved in integrations between FICO and MM & SD.
• Involved in Unit testing, Integration testing and User acceptance testing
• Basic Setting for Controlling.
• Involved in Creation of Automatic creation of Primary Cost Elements for Direct postings from other modules to CO and Secondary Cost elements for with in co postings like for settlements and Assessments.
• Involved in Creation of Cost Centers Standard Hierarchy and creation of Distribution, Periodic Re-posting and Assessment cycle and execution.

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of SAP FICO (GL/AP/AR/AA)
• Configured chart of accounts, Account group & general ledger accounts for Company Codes
• Configured Posting Period, Field Status Variants and Assigning Document Number Ranges. Configured the settings of Field status groups to be assigned to GL master.
• Setup of Input tax & Output tax codes
• Creation of customer master data, vendor master data and asset master. Creation of Various Payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables
• Banking - configuration of House Banks and Account IDs, payment method assignment for use in automatic payment program. Performing automatic payment program.
• Configured Fixed Assets module- configured all the key elements like chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, various asset classes, account determinations, depreciation keys, etc.
• Unit testing & Integration Testing.
• Training to the Core team members regarding Application and functionalities of SAP FICO.

Confidential

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving the financial/operational performance of the company by using management information to influence managerial and director level decision making within the company.
• Banking & Cash Management
• Cash Flow Monitoring
• Account Receivable - Open Customer, Collection of Approved Timesheets, Invoicing, Realization & Balancing Customers, Follow-up of Overdue invoices
• Accounts Payable - Lodgment, Payment & Balancing
• Open Employee, Compile Payroll & liaise with Payroll Service providers
• Balance Accounts Payable
• Compile Payroll Data (including Advance Salary)
• Open & maintain payroll Statewide Tax withholdings & Vendor ships
• Coordinate with Marketing Department
• Liaise with Accountant for Tax Preparation