SUMMARY:

• Sr. SAP Functional Consultant with 9 years of experience specializing in FI modules with a good understanding about the integration to SD and MM modules in ECC 6.0 and multiple end to end full life cycle implementations.
• Good business knowledge relating to manufacturing industries.
• Strong business process and financial accounting knowledge with a keen understanding of SAP Finance and Controlling functionalities, integration aspects and implementation methodologies.
• Expertise in business process reengineering, system design, strategic business operation planning and organizational change management to manufacturing industries.
• Expert and Active role in different phases of implementation from gathering client requirements, conducting GAP Analysis, preparing Business Blueprint document, Configuration, Unit Testing, User Training, End user manuals and Production Support.
• Worked on the development of end user training documentation and go live support.
• Very good understanding of business processes across different industry verticals like Manufacturing, Financial Services and Chemical Industry.
• Worked on authorizations, roles creation and security etc.
• Strong business and analytical skills and extremely well with users and business unit managers by proposing right technology.
• Experience in using ASAP Methodologies.
• Self motivated, versatile team player by gaining and sharing latest software trends by participating in ASUG, SAP latest release presentations, conferences etc.
• Easily adaptable, highly organized, flexible and user oriented by meeting the long term vision of the organization.
• Very good organizational, interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills with proven ability to interact across multiple levels of organization.
• Actively participated in ASUG, SAP latest release presentations to keep up to date.
• Experienced in creating functional specifications to facilitate ABAP developments to meet business requirements for data migration, reports and custom transactions.
• Demonstrated strong technical and leadership skills to deliver projects efficiently.
• Extensive experience in Implementing, Configuring of FI module, which includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Credit Management(CM), Accounts Payable (AP), Taxation (Sales, Purchase, VAT & WHT).
• Extensive experience in configuration of Bank Accounting and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Lockbox, DME Process in SAP and Multi currency and Parallel currency evaluation.
• Worked on boarding new acquisitions to SAP ECC and Ariba environments.
• Worked Extensively on FI - Asset Accounting (Fixed Assets) module, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Asset classes for individual assets, Low Value Assets and group assets, Processing of Asset under Construction, Parallel ledgers for different valuations as per different accounting principles.
• Worked Extensively Configuration of Asset Accounting and Investment management with key Integration of PS.
• Well versed with Report painter/writer: Developed B/S, Profit & Loss, Fixed Assets, and costing reports.
• Extensive experience in configuration of CO module, which includes Cost Element Accounting, Cost & Profit Centre Accounting, Allocation Cycles Assessment & Distribution and Internal Orders.
• Well versed with Cost & Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) Implementation, developed Forms and Reports as per client requirement.
• Well versed with Product Costing- Product Cost Planning & Cost Object Controlling, Production/Process orders, Product Cost Collectors, Sales Order Costing and Joint and by Products with M-T-S & M-T-O scenarios with Discrete and Repetitive process.
• Well versed with Material Ledger- Multiple Currency valuation, Multiple Valuation areas, Parallel Valuation of actual COGM and Actual Costing, Material update structure, ML Period end process Actual Costing Cockpit run, WIP Revaluation, Revaluation of Single Level Consumption, Alternative Valuation Run(AVR), Periodic Unit Price.
• Well versed with the key Integration of Finance module with Logistics MM, SD, PP & PS and also have great experience in configuration of MM, SD and PS Modules.
• Well versed and experienced in Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to cash (OTC).
• Experience in Revenue Recognition and knowledge in Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR) solution as well as understanding of IFRS15 standards.
• Experience in SAP FI New GL Accounting with parallel ledgers and document splitting.
• Experience on SAP powered by S/4 HANA Finance Configuration for the General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Account-Based CO-PA.
• Experience in Partitioning of Universal Journal Entry Line Items Table and Field Mapping.
• Expertise in completing Full life-cycle projects from conceptualization and requirements determination to final testing cut over activities and production support.
• Preparation of functional specification design and interacted with technical team for different RICEFW (reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements, forms, workflows) objects.
• Expertise skills in writing Business Requirements Documents (BRD/FRD), KPI dashboards, Use Case Specifications and diagramming skills for drawing UML diagrams.
• Expertise in Support includes troubleshooting of tickets, incident response, root cause analysis, interface stabilization as well as developing and facilitating Train-the-Trainer.
• Expertise in Designing Test scripts and testing, manual and automation test scenarios, test scripts and report defects.
• Expertise in Data Conversion, cut over activities and LSMW/SCATT/eCATT tools and Substitutions & Validations.
• Expert and Active role in different phases of implementation from gathering client requirements, conducting GAP Analysis, preparing Business Blueprint document, Configuration, Unit Testing, User Training, End user manuals and Production Support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: S/4 HANA Finance-1511 & 1610 , ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7

Modules : FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, PS and ABAP/4

Reporting Tools: Report Painter, FSV

Operating Systems : Windows 2007/XP/NT/2000/98/95.

App & Actg Package: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Project, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,MI

Sr. SAP FI CO Consultant

• Interacted with business users for requirement gathering and analysis of existing business processes and prepared business blueprint and functional design document.
• Worked as an SAP lead on SAP-Ariba Procure to Pay integration solution design and deployment.
• Configuration of the organizational structure for FI and CO modules.
• Configuration of general controlling, cost and revenue element accounting and overhead cost controlling, cost center accounting; and internal orders.
• Worked in cost element accounting for creating primary and secondary cost elements, creation of cost element groups and maintaining cost element attributes.
• Configured the cost center accounting by the creation of cost center hierarchy and cost center groups, attaching work centers to cost centers.
• Worked on improving existing report writer and report painter methods.
• Involved in setting up costing variants - UPC1, UPC2 and PREM.
• Coordinated with the SD team for the configuration of revenue account determinations & revenue recognition.
• Configuration of COA, creation of GL in COA, GL accounts in company code, defining global parameters, account groups and reconciliation accounts.
• Configuring the settings for creation of G/L master records, retained earnings, line item layouts, sample accounts, data transfer rules, field status groups and posting keys.
• Defining House banks and bank accounts.
• Configuring Electronic check deposits, Electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements and post processing of bank statements.
• Configuring Vendor/Customer Master Data. Defining tolerance groups, tolerance for employees, customers and vendors and maintaining initial settings and recurring entries. Defining various Payment terms.
• Configuring automatic payment programs for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable.
• Configuring General Ledger master records, accounts groups, number ranges, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, tolerance groups and Document Types.
• Created customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment and assigning credit control area to the company code.
• Configuring Incoming payments, Billing, Credit management and dunning programs.
• Configuring terms of payment, tolerances, invoices, outgoing payment, cash discount and AR aging report.
• Responsible for Configuration of chart of depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).
• Coordinated with the MM team for the configuration of automatic account assignment.
• Involved in the creation of House Banks, Assigning Bank Accounts to House Banks, creation of check lots.
• Participated in the study for implementing the right software to communicate to the supplier community.
• Prepared training documents and conducted user trainings for FI-GL, AR, AP, AA and CO-CCA, PCA, CO-PA, Product Costing modules. Extensively trained the users in FICO month end close process.
• Actively pursuing production support for product costing, CCA, PCA, CO-PA modules. Worked with the technical team in preparation of specifications, development and testing of various reports.

Confidential,Plymouth,MI

Sr. SAP FI CO Consultant

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
• Actively interacted and worked with consultants for various vendors to implement the solution of sales tax integration with Ariba as per the client's business process.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of CO transactions, secondary support for FI configuration.
• Participate in super user meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required.
• Configured the controlling area and assigned to company code.
• Worked on cost center standard hierarchy using the naming convention guidelines mentioned in the business blueprint.
• Automatic creation of primary cost element by running the batch input session. In case any cost elements are to be deleted, the process will be followed provided they do not have any value in them.
• Manually creation of the secondary cost element from various places within the CO module for potential uses in cost center assessment, internal order settlement and internal allocation of overhead to maintenance orders.
• Creation of cost element group based on the business requirement.
• To support management reporting a standard hierarchy design is created with lower nodes level within the hierarchy which are assigned to cost center master data.
• Creating cost center categories based on the functional areas and making changes to them which serves the default control indicator value to cost center master record. Categories are also assigned to activity type master record, which is created to exclusively serve the key cost center.
• Creating cost centers on the basis and functional area ranges.
• Customizing settings for automatic account assignment if the user did not enter a CO account assignment object for a cost accounting relevant posting. This is always the case with automatically created line item in question like discounts, exchange rate differences and banking fees in FI.
• Configuring statistical key master data. Statistical key figures are designed only for reporting and analysis purposes.
• Configuring activity types, which are used to track quantities and allocate both directly and indirectly, expenses based upon an amount of output for a given cost center. The other CO objects pulls from the cost center resources and use them as their own.
• Developing the periodic allocation methods: assessments, distribution and periodic reposting.
• The allocation methods are selected based on sender and receiver CO object and type of cost element, which needs to be allocated. Developed Various Reports through Report Painter/writer as per Group company requirement.
• Configuring internal orders as investment measures for AuC. The asset class created for the AuC has the Status of AuC selection set to investment measures’ so that the class can only be used for Capital Investment Measures and can be processed only investment program Internal Orders.
• Defining status profile for internal orders with object types - internal orders, investment program, maintenance order and making business transaction control setting for the individual status level defined within the status profile.
• Business transaction are controlled for the specified internal order type through order status maintained within status profile and through transaction group created for order status management where transaction can be grouped together and disallowed for an order type.
• Defining investment profiles which control the creation of AuC belonging to capital investment measure, creation of depreciation simulation/forecast and the settlement to various receivers when settling investment measures.
• Maintaining ‘Settlement Profile’ for internal orders and capital investment measure to the CO receivers.
• Configured settings for company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
• Maintained required settings in accounts payable i.e., vendor groups, vendor payments, number ranges, configuration for payment program and payment terms and check settings configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (automatic account assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), linking of vendor documents with EDI.
• Created and maintained customer master data along with customer groups, payment terms and reporting.
• Used report painter to generate reports of PCA needed by the business owner.
• Meet regularly with business owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
• Worked on conducting user training in CO and FI modules.

Confidential,Livonia,MI

SAP FI CO Consultant

• Worked with business community to decide the SAP FI/CO project scope, as-is, to-be and gap analysis.
• Worked on boarding new acquisitions to SAP ECC and Ariba environments.
• Configured FI processes for GL- accounts creation, maintain and postings. Worked with SD team in AR billing, advance billing, down payment and clearing incoming payment. Worked with MM team on down payments, no PO payment, automatic payment and bank payment.
• Configured new costing variant, costing sheet for standard cost estimate.
• Worked on product cost collector creation process for new products, mark and release of a new cost estimate.
• Worked on setting up of assessment cycles.
• Configured CO-PA and value fields mapping to SD conditions.
• Worked on period end closing processes like WIP calculations, Variance Calculation and Analysis, Settlement of Production Orders.
• Creation of 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.
• Worked with other module consultants to prepare core business process like order to cash and procurement to pay etc flow charts.
• Configured enterprise structure - financial accounting definition like company code, credit control area and controlling area, assignment company code to credit control area and controlling area.
• Configured customer/vendor master record creation using account groups with screen layout.
• Worked on incoming invoice/credit memo by maintaining term of payment, outgoing payment global setting, define open item clearing tolerance for customer/vendor, check payment block reason, automatic outgoing payment.
• Defined alternative reconciliation account for vendors/customers.
• Configured bank process by defining house bank and account number and lockboxes for house bank.
• Worked with SD team for revenue account determination based upon custom account assignment groups for customer and materials by assigning GL accounts.
• Worked on automatic credit control for customers.
• Worked with MM team on account determination and testing the GL postings for various movement types.
• Worked on unit, integration testing and resolving authorization issues.
• Created FI and CO BPP’s, conducted knowledge transfer as well as user training.
• Worked on post go-live issues in FI/CO by supporting the daily transaction processes and month end closing process.

Confidential,Valhalla,NY

SAP FI CO Consultant

• Configure Controlling Area, maintain number ranges for controlling area and also maintain Standard Hierarchy for a controlling area.
• Provided subject matter expertise for given application technologies or application functionality to application users and support staff, SAP Reporting tools ABAP List Viewer, SAP Query Ariba purchasing.
• Create Primary and Secondary Cost elements, Create Cost Centers and creation of Assessment cycle and execution.
• Define Settlement Structure and Settlement Profiles for settlement of the costs collected in the Internal Orders.
• Configured the internal Order types, settlement cost elements, settlement profiles, order status management and maintained allocation structure.
• Configured the cost based CO-PA by creating characteristics, key figures, characteristic derivation rules.
• Worked on assignment of value fields and quantity fields to SD conditions.
• Worked on the definition of costing sheet, costing sheet components, overhead keys, define costing variant, variance calculation, create settlement Profiles and create allocation structure and PA transfer structure.
• Participated in business requirements meetings with stakeholders to understand the current business process and preparation of fit-gap analysis.
• Configure organizational structures, company code, chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups’ Fiscal year Variants, Field Status Variant, posting periods, document number ranges.
• Create various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Account Receivables.
• Identify one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Work with Reason codes, Discounts, House Bank configuration and Bank reconciliation statements.
• Work with the users to provide instruction on required and optional data elements. Set up credit limits for customers and tolerance groups to the vendors.
• Create profit center Accounts and Cost & Profitability Analysis (CO - PA).
• Worked on testing the report writer and report painter reports.
• Worked on helping user training courses in preparation for go live and complete the implementation.

Confidential,Boston,MA

SAP FI CO Consultant

• Involved with customizing FI. This included setting of various Organizational Structures and parameters for a Company code, setting up Master Records in Chart of Account and G/L.
• Worked on setting up of primary and secondary cost elements.
• Helped in the creation of cost center standard hierarchy, creating cost centers, activity types and statistical key figures, distribution cycles.
• Internal order settlement configuration, settlement cost elements, maintain settlement profiles, maintain number ranges.
• Worked on developing report painter reports for balance sheet and income statement.
• Configure settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, posting period variant and field status variant.
• Define Account Groups, Number Ranges and Maintain Field Status Groups.
• Create Tolerance Groups for Account Postings, Ledger Account and Document Entry Process.
• Create Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and create reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Helped in configuration of AP and AR and configuration of customer and vendor master data, local and global data, number ranges.
• Set up credit limits for customers and tolerance groups to the vendors.
• Set up Enterprise Structure in controlling area and assign company codes.
• Create cost center groups under the standard hierarchy, create cost centers including collection cost centers and allocation cost centers and create secondary cost elements. Set up control parameters for actual posting; allocate characteristics for sender/receiver cost, Configure Assessment, distribution and reposting.
• Create dummy profit center, Create profit center and Doc No ranges of PCA, Configure CO-PA costing bases and accounts base analysis, Create CO-PA master data, PA settlement structures and CO-PA planning/profile/ layout.
• Assisted in user training documentation and provided go-live and post implementation support.
• Assisted in customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy.