PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• With 8+ years of Professional Experience with an emphasis on FI - CO module with integration between different modules and successfully implemented 3 Full Life Cycles by using ASAP Methodology.
• Knowledge and Experience in Implementation, Configuration, Customization, Integration and Testing in Versions ECC 4.7 through ECC 6.0.
• Possess hands on knowledge in Finance, which includes New General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Fixed Asset (FA), Bank Accounting and Treasury (TR).
• Controlling Experience Includes Cost Center Accounting ( Confidential ), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (COPC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Excellent skill set in integration, documentation, testing, user training and support encompassing different work environments including Industrial Manufacturing, Chemical, Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Oil & Gas.
• Proactive in identifying the Business Problems, Troubleshooting, Formulating Strategic Plans, Initiating Changes, and Implementing New Processes To Diverse Environments.
• Experienced in Implementations, Development & Production support projects and exposure includes preparation of Project Blueprint, Configuration, Unit & Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
• Experienced in AP Invoice Processing with Open text (VIM) and their Workflows.
• Lead end-to-end change management process for FICO configuration updates and authorizations; changes include initial through final approval in Rev-Trac (Solman).
• Expert in configuring Automatic Payment Program (APP) for Outgoing/Incoming Payments, Dunning, Validation and Substitution, Lockbox, and EBS processing.
• Responsible for creating and executing test scenarios such as FUT, SIT, UAT, and performed end-to-end test2ing. Authored and executed test scripts in HPQC.
• Designed and worked with development team on Confidential Objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows).
• Experienced in data migration from Legacy to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Highly motivated FICO Analyst who thrives in high-pressure environments with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with demonstrated leadership, ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• GL, and New GL Cost Center Accounting
• A/R and A/P Internal Orders
• Fixed Assets Product Costing
• FI - MM-SD, PM, PP integration Profitability Analysis (Costing- based, Account-based)
• Profit Center Accounting
• Report Painter & Report

WORK HISTORY:

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant and Support

Confidential, East Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities involved reviewing and analyzing business requirements across business functions, and developing requirement plans to meet business needs.
• Defined cut-over activities for upgrade of SAP system from ECC 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Coordinated with the ABAP team for RICEF r equirement and testing.
• Managed several critical program integrations with SAP including Re-Platforming ECC 6.0 to HANA, Message-Broker, and Tidal.
• Implemented FI transactions and configured accounts for GL, AP, AR, AA, Special Ledger and Consolidation, CO sub modules and New GL for segment reporting with integration between MM, SD and PP.
• Supported IDOC's related to Purchase Orders, as well as other inbound and outbound IDOC data transfers.
• Designed the process of payment proposal approvals for different payment methods like ACH, Wire, and Checks in Accounts Payable.
• Configured Customer Master, Vendor Master; Incoming Payment (Manual and Automatic Clearing), Down Payment, AR Debit/Credit Memo, Interest Calculation Parking and Posting of Finance documents FI-SD Integration. Bank Master, House Bank, EBS, Lockbox. Conducted Integration testing for P2P and OTC processes.
• Streamlined posting of Inter-Company Code Transactions and Dunning Processing that includes from creation of Dunning Proposals to Print.
• Maintained configuration in Confidential, PCA, CCE, IO, COPA, and PC areas of the CO module.
• Designed and developed custom reports in Confidential, PCA and COPA for Management Reporting.
• Used HPQC for developing test scripts and to Raise, Assign, Modify, Clear Defects.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions on Functional and Technical issues, to other members in the team.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant and Support,

Confidential, Marysville, OH

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Functional Specifications (including configuration and test plans) and related work requests such as Reporting, Data Conversion, Integration, Enhancements, and Workflow ( Confidential ) issue resolution and process design needs in order to get production issues resolved.
• Lead and organized teams to implement changes working with different module leads per business requirements.
• Monitored and analyzed financial, statistical and operational data trends.
• Developed EDI interfaces, IDOC processing, creation of IDOCs, and BDC sessions.
• Proficient in Logistic Invoice Verifications (LIV-3-way match) and optimization of 3-way match process in VIM (Vendor Invoice Management).
• Exceptional with the Treasury module in Lock Box processing, creation of new bank accounts, manual and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS).
• Experienced on check image attachment project for Lockbox clearing documents in FB03.
• Maintained tax codes and tax jurisdiction codes for company codes operated by FTXP and Vertex Systems.
• Prepared functional specifications, custom reports (based on user requirements) and coordinated with ABAP Programmers Optimized the existing ACH file generation process by changing the design to generate the files based on the payment method via single payment run.
• Enriched the process of improvement of invoice auto posting rate in VIM.
• Prepared training material guides and trained end-users on SAP projects.
• Optimization of General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting ( Confidential ), Profit Center Accounting, (PCA) and Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Involved in month end closing operations for New GL, AR, AP, AA, and CO that include clearing GR/IR Accounts, regrouping and sorting of AR/AP.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Provo, UT

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops for requirement gathering (Blue Printing ), and applied this to the Solution Manager as a Central Data Repository.
• Responsible to the organization for the development and organization of all the matters related to FI (GL, AP, AR, and FA) and CO ( Confidential, CCE, COPA, PCA, and COPC ) end users: including, but not limited to creation, editing and maintenance of documentation.
• Delivered configuration, integration and implementation of FI with other modules such as, MM and SD, and for changes required for client’s specific needs through RT and RFC guide lines.
• Accountable for Procure to Pay (PTP ) Cycle, including Integration of FI with MM (OBYC) by mapping Movement types and Valuation classes.
• Worked with MM team for Inventory Valuation and reporting.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) including House Bank creation, Bank Determination, and Payment Methods.
• Executed configuration of Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting ( Confidential ) and Profit Center accounting (PCA) .
• Established Product Costing (CO-PC) planning including cost component structures, costing sheet, costing variants, valuation variants and costing types.
• Configured Lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format.
• Prepared, documented and maintained all documentation and processes for end users.
• Assisted Functional Team leads; Technical Team leads in coordination of test activities.
• Supported end users in month end closing activities as well as training.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Burlington, IA

Responsibilities:

• Involved directly in UAT testing with processing all Cutover Activities prior to Go-Live.
• Provided day-to-day production support.
• Functional Support for New GL, FA, AR, AP, Banking and Financial Reporting.
• Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FICO.
• Configured General Ledger: Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and GL accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files, Substitutions and Validations rules for documents, recurring entries, interest calculations etc.
• Worked on various fields in taxes, such as Withholding Taxes, input and output taxes.
• Expanded third party Invoice entry into SAP using IDOCS.
• Supported Banking included configuration and business processes for Cross Company Payments, Lockbox, ACH Payments and Bank Statements.
• In Accounts Payable (AP) - configured vendor groups, number ranges, tolerance limits, payment terms, payment methods and maintained initial settings for recurring entries in accounts payable (AP).
• Supported the FI team in setting up the SAP-GL accounts in coordination with Asset Accounting.
• Improved both Orders to Cash (OTC) business in association with SD team and Procure to pay (PTP) process with the MM (Materials Management) and Manufacturing teams.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics and settlement to COPA.
• In Cost Center Accounting ( Confidential ) worked on Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, and Cost Center Categories.
• Involved in post Go-Live support.
• Aided the users in month end and year end closing.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated Business Blue Printing Phase, Realization, Testing, End User training, and Go-Live phase based on Accelerated SAP (ASAP) Methodology.
• Worked very closely with the business users and the other implementation group to support all relative production issues related to FI, CO, MM, and SD.
• Configured business transactions for AP and AR including the Automatic Payment Configuration (APP), automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, periodic processing, and correspondence.
• Verified configurations in Procure to Pay (P2P) process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications (LIV) & MM Purchasing.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format.
• In Asset Accounting (AA), configured asset classes, GL integration, chart of depreciation, group assets, depreciation areas, depreciation key, calculation key, valuation, acquisitions and retirements and configuration of Assets Under Construction (AUC).
• Shaped automated credit card processing functionality through SAP.
• Involved as a team member in configuring controlling area, operating concern, Profitability Analysis (PA), Cost Element Analysis, Cost Center Accounting ( Confidential ) and Product Costing (PC).
• Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to COPA and to Confidential .
• Responsible for Profit Center Accounting (PCA), created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, defined Document Types, Number Range Assignment.
• Prepared end user training documentation and conducted training sessions for FICO end users on GL, AR, AP processes as well as month-end processes.
• Provided on-going technical support to new uPerform users.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements.
• Delivered functional assistance in the development of Confidential (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow).
• Comprehensive understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules (FI-CO, SD, MM, and PP) and of overall business processes such as Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (P2P).
• Experience in the integration of Fixed Asset accounting (FA) with Internal Orders (IO), maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, configuring capitalization of Assets Under Construction (AUC), assigning cost elements.
• Configured additional House Banks, Bank Accounts, and Check Lots.
• Created Cost Center groups and Cost Centers and Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Worked on Profit Centers (PCA) and completed the account assignment for the cost objects.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups and maintained Vendor Group.
• Set-up Lockbox processing, setting up house banks, defining House bank accounts defining lockbox parameters, posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
• Worked on the year-end activities and transfer of accounts and month end closing activities.
• Supported productions issues and worked on the issue tickets and performed the End User Training on the check management in APP and ACH payments.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Business Blueprinting including functional specifications and configuration documents.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, conduct workshops with the business users, designing, configuring, and testing and providing post implementation support.
• Worked on different Testing scenarios related Order to Cash process (OTC), Sales Order, Billing and Delivery.
• Prepared Test Conditions, test cases and scripts in Quality Center for Project Systems(PS), COPA, AP, AR.
• Created several Validations and Substitutions to meet the business requirements.
• Created various new (Fixed Asset) Asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production.
• Worked on configuring the necessary settings to transfer plan data from controlling components to Special Purpose Ledger (SPL) and resolved issues.
• Configured and designed the full functionality of FI module relating to AP & AR configuration: Credit management, tolerance limits, open item clearing, account groups, field status groups, and reason codes.
• Configured the General Ledger: Tested Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and GL accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files.
• Configured House Banks, bank accounts, assignment of the accounts to a check lot, automatic payment program for out-going payments in AP exclusively on payment methods like ACH processing and check runs.
• Lockbox configuration with BAI2 format and also worked on Electronic bank statements (EBS) with MT 940 and Multicash format.
• Used LSMW for data migration of vendor and customer master data.

SAP FICO Consultant,

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the cutover of FI - GL, AP, AR, MM, and SD open items from ECC 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Created new reports for the validation of ECC 4.7 and ECC 6.0 Asset data.
• Resolved issues relating to new upgrades in the modules like GL Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Profit Center Accounting.
• 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/CO with SD, MM.
• Responsible for all issues related to SD, MM integration impacting FI/CO.