SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of ex per i en ce as SAP FI/CO consultant in designing, configuring, customizing, integration, Go - live and supporting with full life cycle implementation. A pr o ven t r ac k recor d of s u ccessf ul l y implementing ASAP methodology, good understanding of AS-IS and TO-BE Business Process, Business Blueprint, Realization-Configuration, Final Preparation, Unit and Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing. Ability to efficiently interact with the clients to understand business processes for GAP analysis and propose strategic solutions.
• Extensively involved in translating business requirements in to functional specifications for developing RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflow) objects.
• Experience in functional configuration and implementation of following sub-modules: New General ledger (G/L), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Cost center Accounting (CCA), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Internal Order (IO).
• Strong understanding and experience in cross-functional integration of FI/CO with MM and SD modules.
• Designed three way and two-way match invoice postings through interfaces for direct and indirect material purchase orders, ERS, invoice verification and automatic account determination process.
• Expertise in Payment process, EBS, Lockbox, Dunning, Check Lots, Bank interfaces, Payment Reversals and Remittance process.
• Extensive experience in SAP Configuration from three end-to-end implementations, three global rollouts and Post go-live support projects
• Experience in designing inbound interfaces to post PO/Non-PO based invoices from legacy systems using BAPI and IDOCS.
• Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports.
• Experience in processing inbound/outbound interface files through Process integration (PI/PO), encryption process and file transmission using FTP/SFTP.
• Worked on Data migration from legacy systems to SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Strong experience in New GL with document splitting configuration, parallel ledgers and parallel currencies.
• Experience in external Reporting, Report Painter, Report Writer, Queries, G/L month end closing support.
• SAP Solution Manager Experience in Test management, Business process monitoring and Project management.
• Experience in working with BW teams to build Vendor open item due report, customer past due report, P&L reports and other reports requested by business.
• Involved in SAP Overview training and End User navigation training.
• Able to solve intricate discrepancies with strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent Analytical, Quick learning and Problem-solving skills with a proven ability to work in both independent and team environments.

SKILL:

ERP System: ECC 6.0

Reporting tools: SAP Queries, Report painter and Report writer

Testing tools: Mercury tool QAT

Methodology use: Accelerated SAP (ASAP)

Databases: MS SQL server, MS Access, Oracle

Operating systems: Windows Vista, XP, 7, 10

Others: MS Office, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bala Cynwyd, PA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project of migration to new asset accounting.
• Examined the company’s document flow, SAP process flow and recommended suitable validation procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.
• Prepared pre - cutover and post - cutover activities prior to activating new asset accounting.
• Created test scripts based on the business processes.
• Executed end to end testing based on the business scenarios.
• Created SOPs for the transaction codes which were upgraded with the new asset accounting.
• Involved in designing interfaces for the incoming and outgoing payments through ACH, Check payments.
• Worked with the client for analyzing the gaps for designing the interfaces.
• Prepared blueprints based on the gap analysis for the interface to receive the EBS and the acknowledgement for every transaction.
• Configured cost center allocations for the business users in 5 different business locations.
• Executed end to end testing for the allocations for all the sending and the receiving cost centers.
• Prepared SOPs for the cost center allocations.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program in Accounts Payable for different payment methods.
• Configured the settings required to upload Electronic Bank statement and for Payment medium workbench.
• Configured the terms of payment and Interest calculation on open items/ balance outstanding according to client’s requirement.
• Designed three-way and two-way match invoice postings through interfaces for direct and indirect material purchase orders, ERS, invoice verification and automatic account determination process.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Full Cycle Implementation through the Project Planning, preparation of Blueprint documents, Realization and System Configuration, Testing, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support.
• Gathered the business requirements and analyzed the GAP between the Legacy System and to the TO-BE system in the Blueprint phase.
• Configured the complete organizational structure for Financial Accounting.
• Involved in business workshops, requirement gathering, writing functional specification document, design, configuration and testing business process.
• Configured new company codes, documents types and number ranges required for business process.
• Maintained Accounting configuration for various types of Special General Ledger accounts like Down Payment Request, Down Payment for Vendors as well as Customers.
• Implemented payment run process, payment medium to send ACH, Check, Wires and customer drafts ACH files to JP Morgan Chase bank and Wells Fargo.
• Configured House Banks and Automatic Payment Program for different Payment Methods in Accounts payable.
• Configured new payment terms for the Down Payments as per the client’s requirements.
• Worked on Customer Analysis including Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Worked on Credit Management and Customer Correspondence Periodic Statement, Invoice Processing and Reporting.
• Analysis of organizational reporting structure for Controlling, mapping Characteristics into Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting based on geographical locations.
• Worked directly with the end users, conducted various presentations and work-around solutions to meet client specifications.
• Worked on Closing Operations of Foreign Currency Valuation, Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt (GR-IR) Clearing and Open and Close Posting Periods.
• Experience in working with BW teams to build Vendor open item due report, customer past due report, P&L reports and other reports requested by business.
• Worked on FSCM implementation - worked with high radius team to implement credit management.
• Actively involved in Go-Live activities like Master Data preparation, Data Migration and Cut-Over.
• Worked extensively on Solution Manager for creating transport requests, configuration and testing business processes/ scenarios.
• Scheduled and tracked Change requests, Transport requests in Change management system using ChaRM.
• Used Report Painter/Report Writer and assigned different transactions to these specific reports.
• Very good experience in system patch update testing, executing cut over steps during Go live .
• Documented the roles in the company and created different test scenarios using the Mercury Quality Center in order to test the configuration.
• Monitored background jobs and Period End Closing Procedures. Prepared Month End Reports and Year End Reports and configured Relevant Master Data.

Confidential, Auburn hills, MI

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing and gathering business requirements, preparing functional and technical design documents.
• Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status groups, document types, posting keys, etc.
• Created customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment and assigned credit control area to the company code.
• Created house banks, Payment methods, bank determination for multiple company codes and currencies.
• Worked on Electronic bank statement (EBS), ACH payments and Wire payments in multiple currencies.
• Worked on ERS vendors and invoice verification process.
• Worked on Month end closing activities, GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues, Issues related Invoice verification (MIRO), for the intercompany invoices and Failed IDOCS Processing.
• Worked on integration of the Finance module with cross functional modules like Sales and Distribution, Materials Management and project systems.
• Designed workflows for invoice approval/rejection process based on the PO type, Material group and threshold amount.
• Worked on treasury module in Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal.
• Resolved issues related to Invoice verification (MIRO)and tax issues with respect to VERTEX
• In Account Receivable, worked on various support issues like investigating blocked billing document from SD and identifying the root cause of it.
• Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Performed unit testing and regression testing for different accounts payable and accounts receivable functionalities.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO.
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
• Worked in support project on 24/7 model and resolved high priority tickets within stipulated SLA time.

Confidential, Plymouth, MI

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and coordinate with client for identifying business requirements.
• Analyze and document functional requirements for enhancements and production issues and assign it to support team for execution.
• Configured the complete organizational structure for FI module like creation of company code, chart of accounts, General Ledger master data and GL account groups.
• Defined and assigned document number ranges, field status variants, fiscal year variant, posting periods and tolerance groups.
• Set-up the document types and posting keys for business transactions, General Ledger.
• Configured House banks, Bank accounts and posting rules for automatic assignment.
• Interacted with client to configure vendor/customer groups and set up vendor/customer master records.
• Participated in the configuration of Accounts Receivable sub module like customer groups, Number ranges, employee tolerances, terms of payment and Down payments received.
• Configured vendor groups, tolerance groups, payments program which includes creation of bank account G/L structure and company code payment methods in the Accounts Payable sub module.
• Posted Validations, Substitutions and Forms.
• Configured Chart of depreciation which included Depreciation areas, Acquisitions, Retirements and Revaluation of fixed assets in Asset Accounting sub module and defined asset classes.
• Uploaded G/L Master records using data migration tool LSMW.
• Configured the Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting and Profit center accounting sub modules in controlling module.
• Automated the Background job control system for scheduling, monitoring and reporting using Autosys tool.
• Participated in the month-end closing scenarios for closing and executed test scenarios during unit and integration testing.
• Written Assembly, Integration and Regression test cases and involved in testing of Accounts payable functionalities.
• Debugged post production issues and helped technical team in fixing the issues quickly.