SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience to in SAP functional experience in FI/CO.
• FI expertise in Accounts Payable FI - AP, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Treasury and Special Ledger FI-SL
• CO expertise Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis ( Confidential ).
• Strong knowledge and experience in Management Component of SAP.
• Implemented FSCM bolt on to control the Credit management and integrate Dispute management with Biller direct.
• Worked extensively with defining credit control areas and automatic credit control processes.
• Worked on enhancing cash-application functionalities with excel uploads for payments, claims, invoices and credit memos.
• Sound knowledge in integrating FI with SD and MM modules.
• Strong functional Experience in Systems Development, Financial Accounting and Costing
• Focused on analysis, design, development and implementation of the financial modules in the most cost effective manner.
• Involved in preparing and executing integration test scripts and User acceptance test scripts
• Participated in ongoing Production Support
• Executed three SAP full life cycle implementation projects.
• Excellent communication, presentation and knowledge transfer skills
• Strong experience of analyzing the clients business processes and developing the best business practices for long-term growth.
• Worked on BW reporting and analytics.
• Knowledge of ABAP/4 for creating reports, interfaces and SAP Scripts.
• Excellent management skills with an ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting.

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Product Costing

Technical: ASAP Methodology, ABAP Query, Report painter, Report Writer, LSMW

ERP: SAP R/3 Version, 4.7

Platforms: DOS, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/NT/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Advised on business practices and accounting law, principles and methods and implementing the financial accounting systems under US GAAP and IFRS.
• Integrated FSCM Dispute Management with Biller Direct to allow customers to view the disputed open items online and allow them to attach their comments to resolve them.
• Configured Biller Direct to allow creating new users, change existing data and log web user activities.
• Created profiles and element types for Case Search, created attribute profile in Dispute Management. Worked on automatic write-off of the dispute cases.
• Integrated Dispute Management with Biller Direct to allow customers to view the disputed open items online and allow them to attach their comments to resolve them.
• Configured settings for Cash Management, Credit Management and Risk Management.
• Defined credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Configured terms of payment and interest calculation on open items/ balance outstanding, cash discounts procedures on A/R aging, partial payments and residual payments.
• Configured automatic credit control processes.
• Scheduled and maintained background jobs for FSCM and work-list generation.
• Worked on configuring Bank Master Data, House banks, and assigning G/L accounts.
• Configured payment methods for automatic incoming payments from customers, Bills of Exchange Receivable and Payable, promissory notes, checks, wire transfers and direct debits.
• Configured EDI partners to process incoming payments, bank statements and invoices.
• Worked on Web Methods to monitor EDI processes, and resolving production issues.
• Defined substitution and validation rules to resolve complex issues related to GL accounts, brands, branch accounts, tax etc.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Biller Direct to allow creating new users, change existing data and log web user activities. Configured Collection Management to create Promise to Pay for invoices from AR
• Configured House banks for Defined House Banks for Both US and CANADA banks based on the client business requirement and accounts.
• Created collection strategies, profiles with segments and groups in Collection Management.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format and EDI setup for inbound and outbound Idocs, BAI2, and ACH.
• Worked on foreign currency valuation. Worked on currencies like CAD, USD and GBP
• Unit testing and integration testing of the developed functionality. Also worked on mercury testing.
• Configured settings for Cash Management, Credit Management and Risk Management.
• In Accounts Receivables, configured Customer Master Data and master groups. Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms. Configuration of terms of payment and interest calculation on open items/ balance outstanding. Also worked on A/R aging, partial payments and residual payments.
• Worked on New G/L and Configured the Parallel Accounting, Document Splitting, Multiple currencies, valuation, Segment, Reporting, Master Data, Configuration of Leading and Non Leading ledgers, Assigning Scenarios, Cost of Sales accounting and Real time integration of controlling with the FI.
• Set up the segments in order to define the division of the company. Also worked on 6 scenarios in New GL.
• In Accounts Payable, created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups.
• Implemented OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool to aid in Invoice matching and payment processing.
• Worked on vendors reporting, Down payment, check form and EDI outbound and inbound.
• Worked on configuring Automatic Payment Program (APP): Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc.
• Created Financial Statements for external reporting from the segments.
• Configured dunning procedure to remind late payment to risky customers. Configured the system to display account balance, line item balance, open item clearing, and customer/vendor clearing.
• Responsible for Month End closing process for AP and AR. Involved in Reconciling cash, AR/AP roll forward summary reports, running Month End reports
• Configured Special GL indicator for Down Payment and created billing documents.
• Worked on Revenue Account Determination with SD.
• Sound knowledge of Purchase-to-Procure - MM Business Process Procedures (Purchase Order Processing, Goods Receipt PO, AP Invoice, Outgoing Payment).

Confidential, AZ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on foreign currency valuation. Worked on currencies like CAD, USD and GBP
• Unit testing and integration testing of the developed functionality.
• Worked on Dispute Management while dealing with partial payments for customers by creating dispute cases, dispute case reason codes.
• Created collection strategies, profiles with segments and groups in Collection Management.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format and EDI setup for inbound and outbound Idocs, BAI2, and ACH.
• Worked on New G/L and Configured the Parallel Accounting, Document Splitting, Multiple currencies, valuation, Segment, Reporting, Master Data, Configuration of Leading and Non Leading ledgers, Assigning Scenarios, Cost of Sales accounting and Real time integration of controlling with the FI.
• In Accounts Payable, created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups.
• Created Financial Statements for external reporting from the segments.
• Worked on Special purpose ledger (FI-SL) system - standard ledgers and special purpose ledgers. Worked on the maximum integration of FI-SL with other SAP applications like FI, CO, MM and SD.
• Configured dunning procedure to remind late payment to risky customers. Configured the system to display account balance, line item balance, open item clearing, and customer/vendor clearing.
• Responsible for Month End closing process for AP and AR. Involved in Reconciling cash, AR/AP roll forward summary reports, running Month End reports
• Configured Special GL indicator for Down Payment and created billing documents.
• Worked on Revenue Account Determination with SD.
• Sound knowledge of Purchase-to-Procure - MM Business Process Procedures (Purchase Order Processing, Goods Receipt PO, AP Invoice, Outgoing Payment).
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting’s, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center Planning, developed Planning Area, Planning Layout and Planner Profile.
• Designed and developed customized reports in CO-PA for management reporting purposes, where both operating area currencies as well as company code currency were utilized.
• Configured PCA- profit center structure, standard hierarchy, master data, and assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit Center Accounting.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support in the area of testing and prepared training documents for end-users.
• Created testing strategy for unit testing and integration testing.
• Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, posting rules, exchange rates and planning.
• Defined operating concerns based on characteristics and value fields.
• Maintained transfer structures to post data from FI, CO and PCA to Confidential .
• Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on the 4.6C environment.
• Tested the FI/CO transactions for field errors and missing data in SAP standard programs, and tested all the custom programs, modified the field changes and enhanced the customized programs.
• Written functional and technical specifications for the new custom developments which included forms, reports and enhancements.
• Fixed issues with valuation areas for material ledger, maintained number ranges and assigned currency types to material ledger.
• Implemented internal orders for research and development.
• Budgeting Corrected entry errors and reposted transactions.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Generated testing strategy for unit testing and integration testing.
• Reviewed all business processes, user procedures, and system requirements.
• Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, posting rules, exchange rates and planning.
• Defined operating concerns based on characteristics and value fields.
• Maintained transfer structures to post data from FI, CO and PCA to Confidential .
• Tested the FI/CO transactions for field errors and missing data in SAP standard programs and tested all the custom programs, modified the field changes and enhanced the customized programs.
• Written functional and technical specifications for the new custom developments which included forms, reports and enhancements.
• Cooperated with SAP service team in applying relevant OSS notes to the system to resolve issues.
• Fixed issues with valuation areas for material ledger, maintained number ranges and assigned currency types to material ledger.
• Implemented internal orders for research and development.
• Budgeting Corrected entry errors and reposted transactions.
• Continued support in go live activities like master data preparation, data migration, cutover and post production support.

Confidential, CO

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for each company code
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets
• Configured the whole assets management from Blue printing to Go-Live (Lean implementation)
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for out-going payments in Accounts payable
• Configured Controlling Area, versions and maintain number ranges for controlling area.
• Created Financial Statement Versions
• Defined and configured cost & revenue elements and cost centers
• CO-CCA - Configuration including account determination and account assignments for transaction processing.
• Solved issues related to Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and automatic payment program such as invalid payment program, no costing object found and customer has debit balance and generating the file for electronic payments in TEM-SE format.
• Defined and configured cost centers
• Configured cost allocation programs like assessments and distributions
• Support activities to resolve the issues in FI/CO
• Define currency Translation ratio & exchange rates
• Creation of new House Banks
• Auto clearing of the GR/IR account & Vendor open item
• Assigning of G/L accounts to new materials created
• Automatic posting of gain/loss on exchange rates
• Monitor support to track tickets till the closure
• Raising issues with SAP - OSS for the resolution.