PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO S/4HANA certified consultant with 9 years of hands on SAP experience encompassing several projects, whichinclude Full Life Cycle Implementations from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live, implementation, up gradation and Production Support.
• Firsthand experience in Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Product Costing (CO - PC).
• Highly Proficient in implementation of SAP R/3 Financials which includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA).
• Experience in providing End-User training and process documentation in Financial Accounting and controlling modules.
• A results-driven expert who is proficient in analysis and implementation of SAP ERP solutions in order to ensure optimal integration and information access.
• Solid experience in gathering business requirements and analysis, blueprinting, mapping business requirements to SAP environment, realization, final preparation, go live and supporting.
• Expertise in ASAP methodology, that includes Vision and Planning, Design, Blue print, Configuration, Unit testing, Integration testing, End User training, Data Migration, Cut-Over, Go-live and Post Go-live.
• Experience implementing Concur Travel and Expense Management System.
• Experienced at combining expertise in Project Planning and Design with strong technical qualifications.
• Competencies include US GAAP, Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, LSMW, eCATT, EDI and IDOCS.
• Resilient problem solverwith diverse experience in finance, accounting, and all aspects of office operation, as well as expertise in general accounting, analysis, management, budgeting, cash management, cost accounting, management reporting, inventory, accounts receivable and accounts payable.
• Well Motivated achiever with strong leadership skills who has guided organizations in applying technology to business settings, provides added value, and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.

KEY SKILLS

ERP System: SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0

Reporting tools: Report Writer, Report Painter, Solution Manager, eCATT, LSMW

Other Tools: Autosys, HPQC

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

Modules Implemented: General Ledger(GL), Accounts Payable(AP), Accounts Receivable(AR)Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, ProfitabilityAnalysis, Product Costing (PC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr SAP FICO Analyst, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the configuration of Concur Travel and Expense System.
• Liaised between IT and Business to resolve most of the incidents.
• Configured multiple company codes from the start and maintained cross companyconfigurations to ensure smooth flow of transactions.
• Configured A/R & A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations, check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits for customers.
• Defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, open item clearing, credit memos, partial payments, installment payments, residual payments, claims and disputed payments, reason codes and discounts, account assignment model for recurring entries.
• Worked on integration between MM and FI by configuring automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts.
• Responsible for configuring the financial modules in SAP including GL, AP, AR, AA and Credit Management.
• Reviewed the design documents and analyzed the data that SAP SLO needs to split.
• Configured AP and AR modules for the purpose of setting up new house banks and lockboxes with Client.
• Worked extensively with the Banks in order to design checks as per their specification. Made sure that the new check printers were setup correctly at the corporate and plant locations.
• Maintained asset and tax configurations for the new company codes.
• Extended vendors and customers to the new company codesas part of the cutover activities.
• Used LSMW and Quadrate to transfers FI documents to the new company codes.
• Resolved high priority tickets in a timely fashion by making quick and reasoned decisions, during Post go-live hyper care sessions.
• Configured parameters of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling, Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure which included costing variants, valuation variants, cost component splits, costing sheets, cost component structure, BOM and routing settings, origin groups, overhead keys, overhead groups
• Worked on In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Worked on Configuring Standard Cost estimates in Product Cost Planning for production orders with quantity structures and configured WIP Calculations and Variance Calculations.
• Worked on Product Cost by Order for cost object controlling part. Worked on master data such as BOMs, Routings, Work centers, Info records, activity types.
• Provided support post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis.
• Worked on Production Support which involved resolving Production tickets at Service Centers.
• Worked with Logistics Consultants to develop a map of all Logistic objects such as Sales Offices, Service groups and Plant Codes to be converted into CO-PA Characteristics and value fields.
• Worked on uploading plan data from External data system into CO-PA
• Ran Training programs for end-users, supervisors, and managers on the client site.

Confidential

Sr SAP FICO Analyst, Hercules, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on VIM workflow trigger implementation, VIM Parking and block reason enhancement, Invoice approval process design and implementation, preparation of Functional design documents, configuration EDI/IDOC for Open Text, Enhancing the VIM approval classes, Designed and wrote test cases and trained the end-users and IT resources.
• Assisted in building a roadmap forSAP S4HANA.
• Configured credit management module which involved setting up new credit control areas and establishing automatic credit check process
• Worked on LSMW for uploading of G/L, customer and vendor master data.
• Worked on Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis.
• Worked on configurations and business processes for Cross Company Payments, Lockbox, ACH Payments and Bank Statements.
• Worked on down payment processing.
• Configured Asset Accounting module, including Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements.
• Configured Charts of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement, G/L accounts for Assets under construction.
• Configured parameters required for Inter-Company transactions of the Assets and customized interfaces, transactions involving the deprecation area, retirement of assets, scrapping of assets using ALE.
• Configured document splitting for special purpose ledger, and developed reports using report painter.
• Created data structures (value fields and characteristics) in CO-PA.Worked on Configuration of derivation rules and PA settlement structures for population of characteristics and value fields respectively.
• Spearheaded the UAT sessions for AP and AR modules and successfully resolved the issues in a timely manner.
• Configured direct transfer postings from SD, MM and FI to CO-PA and Customized drill down reports.
• Worked on Configuring CO-PA functionality for cost-based and account-based methods. Configured Derivation procedures and valuation rules used to supplement CO-PA obtained from source modules FI, CO, SD and MM.

Confidential

Sr SAP FICO Analyst, Lancaster, PA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparation of aBlueprint of the Global Template for the structure of organization.
• Mapped Business requirements to SAP processes, solutions and products that were being implemented
• Configured Partial, full and residual payments along with open item clearing in accounts payable.
• Worked on SAP BPC planning characteristics such as creation of Basic and Multi Planning areas, planning levels, planning functions, Global Planning sequences, Planning Profiles.
• Worked on integrating AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively for the purpose of Account determination for various clearing and adjustment accounts and automatic postings.
• Configured the parameters in G/L Area, Parallel Ledgers and Cross Company Code transactions for the purpose of Business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Maintained Overhead Cost Elements, defined Costing Sheets, Credits, and Overhead Keys in Product Costing.
• Worked on maintaining internal Order by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Status Management, Settlement Rules, Settlement Profile and Planning Profile
• Defined distribution and assessment cycles based on cost elements
• Generated reports through ABAP Query for Vendors and Customers
• Configured Standard Cost estimates in Product Cost Planning for the production orders with quantity structure
• Configured WIP Calculations and Variance Calculations
• Worked on Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality
• Had responsibility for unit testing, integration testing and regression testing
• Configured Report Painter and Report writer reports

Confidential

Sr SAP FICO Analyst, Shawnee, KS

Responsibilities:

• Worked on accounts payable of purchasing users to provide a clearer understanding of business processes related to PO in the areas of invoice processing, invoice discrepancy research and invoice block removal.
• Liaised with the client to gain an understanding open text, FICO requirements and functional designs which led to a finalization of solutions and an approach into the realization phase
• Customized account Groups, field Status Groups, posting Keys, document Types, posting Periods and creation of G/L Account Master Records
• Worked extensively on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, and Lockbox
• Provided Vendor/Customer Analysis which included Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount
• Worked on Data Uploads of Master Data using LSMW.
• Worked on Configuring VIM document types, enhancing indexing screen.
• Worked on configuring, enhancing and maintaining Charts of authority (COA), PO & Non-PO Vendor Invoice Workflow design and development.
• Worked on configuring the settings for Sales and Use Tax.
• Designed a global Vendor / Customer Master Record by working with purchasing and sales consultants.
• Worked on Order to Cash Process (OTC) with regards to Sales orders, Delivery and Billing documents.
• Configured lock box according to the business requirements.
• Resolved all issues relating to internal order settlement, Asset Accounting issues and Accounts
• Created new Asset classes for AUC which involved completing various processes from the creation of internal order, settlement of periodic charges to Asset under Construction (AUC) settlement to the final fixed asset.
• Worked on internal orders to maintain order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc. Configured activity types, and statistical key profile, developed assessment, distributions and reposting periodic cycles and segment in cost centre accounting.
• Worked on Asset procurement and Acquisition via a real Internal Order via an AUC.
• Worked on ConfiguringReport Painter and Report writer reports.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant, Piscataway, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Supported testing and the preparation training documents for end-users.
• Created and implemented testing strategies for unit and integration testing.
• Provided Analysis and Reviews all business processes, user procedures, and system requirements.
• Worked on 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 in order to post data from FI, CO and PCA to COPA.
• Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on the 4.7 environment.
• Worked on testing FI/CO transactions for field errors and missing data in SAP standard programs.
• Worked on testing on all customprograms, modification offield changes and enhancing the customized programs.
• Created and edited functional and technical specifications for the new custom developments which included forms, reports and enhancements.
• Customized SAP BPC reports, Input Schedules and logic to meet the specified needs of the client using supported functions with BPC
• Worked with SAP service team to apply relevant OSS notes to the system to resolve issues.
• Configured FI-MM account determination by assigning valuation areas to valuation grouping codes, defining valuation classes, account grouping and account determination extensively for GBB, BSX and PRD transaction keys.
• Budgeted Corrected entry errors and reposted transactions.
• Actively participated in Go live activities like master data preparation, data migration, cutover and post production support.
• Identified requirements for AS IS business processes by conduction meetings with users and then modeled TO-BE process based on said requirements.
• Worked on In Cost Element Accounting by creating Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Element Attributes, Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups; maintaining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, and assigning Cost Centers to respective Profit Centers.Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles.

Confidential

SAP FICO Analyst, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Lead creation ofblueprint, realization, and go-live support of Finance, Controlling.
• Was made responsible for the implementation, go live in CCA, COPA, Product costing.
• Worked on Configuration of Overhead cost elements, Product Cost planning, Cost object controlling to make order.
• Worked on Defining Cost component structure for different cost components.
• Worked on Testing all Finance customprograms, reports, forms andinbound and outbound interfaces.
• Worked Extensively on BOM and Routing rework, cost estimate updates and costing run.
• Configured Costing run for various finished materials across various plants.
• Configured Cost element accounting with primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups and maintained cost element attributes.
• Worked on Creating Cost Element, Cost Center, Internal Order and Project Systems account assignments.
• Designed and implemented the configuration relating to project systems with controlling.
• Planned output activity for a cost center to determine the volume of costs and created primary and secondary cost planning methods.
• Worked on Defining assessment, distribution cycles and reposting rules amongst cost centers.
• Worked on Configuration of material cost estimate with quantity structure, cost variant and cost component structure like BOM and routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Worked on Product costing (make- to- order and make- to-stock) configuration, planning, cost object controlling, material ledger configuration, customize settings in transaction key OBYC.
• Ran Training for key users as well as end users on the business processes.
• Performed extensive unit tests and integration tests.
• Worked on post go-live support.

Confidential

SAP FI CO Analyst, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Working on defining Company Codes and Chart of Accounts.
• Configured the master data for GL accounts, Vendors and Customers.
• Created and changed Document Types; Configured Automatic Postings for P&L; Maintained Fiscal Year Variant; Set up Inter-company Transactions. Worked with Global, Local Chart of Accounts.
• Provided Customized reports for open items, credit overview and account analysis.
• Set up Reason codes to charge off differences/grant additional cash discounts and account for collection.
• Worked on Setting up and assigning the accounts for MM and SD integration.
• Configured Outgoing payments- Manual Payments, configuration, Payment differences, Exchange rate differences, Payment advices, Payment Proposal, Payment Run, Payment media Involved in the unit testing and integration testing phases of the project.
• Configured house bank and bank accounts, automatic interest calculations on account balances/line items, Customer Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups for Account receivable.
• Worked in Controlling module which was comprised of General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting (CCA)- developing the Cost Center Hierarchy, Creating Cost Elements such as Primary & Secondary, Assessment and Distribution of costs, developing necessary reports for Cost Center Analysis and budgeting.
• Configured Internal Orders by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Status Management, Settlement Rules, Settlement Profile and Planning Profile.
• Appreciated the intricacies of Plant Maintenance (PM- Module) with Controlling and ensured the accuracy of costing for Maintenance Order.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant, Cleveland, OH

Responsibilities:

• Developed custom report for withholding taxes incurred from customers and vendors.
• Worked on LSMW to upload GL accts master data and extending to company codes, customer master data, and vendor master data.
• Prepared functional specification document for BDC conversion load program to upload AR open items from flat file. Flat file gets data from downloading legacy system BPCS of ICP plant AR open items.
• Trained end users about the new system functionality and explained the integration between the various modules SD, MM, FI & CO.
• Worked on enhancement of user exit ZXKKEU11 to make account assignment group field mandatory while manual entries are posted to COPA for adjustments via t code KE21N. Account assignment group is needed to accurately reflect 3rd party or intercompany adjustments.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant, Ocoee, FL

Responsibilities:

• ERP Consolidation Project: Eliminate intercompany transactions (ICD), close period and allocate consolidation company code in Hyperion
• Configuration for merger/acquisitions - Copy Company codes using template and make necessary changes, maintain global parameters, and make necessary assignments (fiscal year, period, number ranges, documents etc.)
• Credit Management - Credit profile, Risk Categories, maintain payment terms etc.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program and house banks. And also prepared functional specification for payment interface with banks like BANAMEX, BANCOMAR where report program enables F110 to produce text file with payment information.
• Nota-Fiscal document related to Brazil consolidation.
• Designed functional specification for user exit for ICMS Brazil taxation to capture the tax value and send it to the CIAP depreciation area related to the asset. User exit gets the value tax amount from GRIR document.
• Configure Controlling Area, and Profit Center and Cost Center hierarchies, and define Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and Configure Order Types, Orders and Order Settlement to both CCA and PA.
• Define Operating Concern, Profitability Segments, Characteristics, and value fields for Costing-based Profitability Analysis (CO PA)