SUMMARY:

• Around 9 + years of strong functional experience in SAP FICO consulting including Two Full Life Cycle Implementations and One System Upgrade.
• Worked in all phases of ASAP Methodology; Project Preparation, Business Blue - Printing, Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live & Support. Interacted with end users to understand the process flow and suggested improvements.
• Strong expertise in Functional Configuration and implementation of the following SAP R/3 modules: New General Ledger, FI-General Ledger, FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Automatic Payment Program, FI-Accounts Receivable, FI-Asset Accounting, FI-Special Purpose Ledger, CO-Cost Center Accounting, CO- Cost Element Accounting, CO-Internal Order, CO-Profit Center Accounting, CO-Product Costing, CO-Profitability Analysis.
• Accounts Receivable: Customizing Customer Account groups & Creation of Customer Master Data, Maintain Number Ranges & Assign Number Ranges to Customer Account Group, Configuration of Document types and Document Number Ranges.
• Firm integration understanding of AR & AP with FSCM.
• Created reconciliation accounts for Accounts Receivables & Configuration of Dunning.
• Configuration experience with Lockbox, Automatic payment program, Dunning, Credit management.
• Excellent working experience in different industries i.e., Manufacturing, Automotive, and Pharmaceutical firms.
• In depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration with SD, MM, PS and PP.
• Expertise with sound knowledge in ABAP Queries and Reporting Tools: Report Painter and Report Writer, User-exit programming, LSMW, CATTS Programming and Debugging.
• Excellent working experience in configuration of Lockbox Program to clear A/R open items, and Dunning as well to follow up with Customer and Vendor payments.
• Proficient in Project Evaluation, AS-IS study, Fit-GAP analysis, TO-BE process, troubleshooting, performance tuning, Production Support and End-user training.
• Worked in environments adhering to US GAAP & SOX compliance. Good experience in developing interfaces using EDI and ALE.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.

SAP FUNCTIONAL SKILL:

Financial Accounting: G/L, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA) and New GL.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Order Accounting (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Project Systems (PS).

TECHNICAL SKILL:

ERP Package: SAP ECC 6.0, 5.0, R/3 4.7

Databases: Oracle, MS-Access and MySQL

Operating Systems: Windows95/98/NT/2000/Millenium/XP, Red-Hat Linux, UNIX and Mac-OSX

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MSAccess, MS Projects and Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathering functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots and lockboxes for payments. Configured automatic interest calculation procedure, payment terms, correspondence and dunning procedures.
• Activated of New G/L and Leading Ledger with creation of Segments and assigning Scenarios and Customer Fields in the Parallel Ledgers, Document splitting, parallel accounting, parallel currency, Real Time FICO integration.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for checks, and outgoing payments in Accounts.
• Implementing the Electronic Bank Statement with the bank for all of the cash application.
• Configured Lockbox functionality, defined control parameters for BAI2 file import for handling incoming payments from customers, worked on Special GL transactions such as Down Payments.
• Responsible for year-end close and reconciliation of sub-ledger, such AR, AP and Fixed Asset.
• Worked on chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers and balance-carry forwards and re-organized accounts for various cost and profit centers and programmed schedules and jobs.
• Integrated AP and AR modules in FI with MM and SD respectively.
• Participated in system integrated testing (SIT) to test FI and CO related multiple scenarios, as part of Confidential ’s new Europe release.
• Have been testing various functionalities as part of modular test cases general ledger, account payable, account receivable, fixed assets and month end closing activities for 27 Europe countries.
• Involved and supported FI team in testing the scenarios related to indirect country specific taxes and withholding taxes for all the 27 countries.
• Supported and trained business users in user acceptance testing (UAT), in all test cases related to FI and CO.
• Test case validations were updated and defects were entered using the quality analysis tool HP ALM.
• Involved in the Development of test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing. Provided End User Training, Courseware and Documentation in FI/CO Modules.
• Interacted and coordinated new projects developments/enhancements with various users and organized Web-Ex meetings for training sessions with users.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Kansas City, KS

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Set up company codes, chart of account, account groups, fiscal year variants, tolerance limits, posting periods and financial statement variant.
• Configured General Ledger Accounts (G/L) master records.
• Activated New G/L, leading ledger and parallel ledger for the possibility of parallel accounting according to the US GAAP
• Created reconciliation accounts for A/P and A/R
• Configured Accounts Payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, automatic payment program, and create house bank
• Configured Accounts Receivable (A/R) including customer account groups, number ranges, terms of payment, interest calculation procedures, and reason codes for underpayment and overpayment, default account assignments, employee tolerances, Lockbox procedure and configure dunning procedures
• Configured Credit Control Areas, risk categories and Pre-Defined Credit Limits for customers
• Extensively worked on LSMW, CATTS and ABAP Queries with the ability to act as a techno functional consultant
• Configured and customized account groups, posting keys, document number ranges and document types, open and closed posting periods and maintained field status groups
• Configure Integration of FI with MM & SD
• Configured Controlling area, Cost Elements, Cost Centers, Profit Centers for CCA and PCA.
• Configured cost objects, account assignments, allocations and settlements in CO
• Maintained overhead cost elements defined costing sheets, credits, overhead keys. Configured standard cost estimates in Product Cost planning for the production orders with quantity structure and configured WIP calculations and variance calculations. Created settlement profile, allocation structure for period end closing and maintained number ranges for settlement documents.
• Finalization of chart of Accounts and LSMW for upload of Accounts Group, Field status Group that existed previously in the company.
• Configured various components in the SAP FI/CO like Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP) and General Ledger Accounts, mainly differentiated between one time vendors and regular vendors in manufacturing sector.
• Defined and Configured GL, Vendor/Customer master data and account groups.
• Configured the Automatic payment program for Inter company automatic account posting, running program for Check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• Configured Cash journals and special GL transactions.
• Configured New G/L for document splitting and provide Document simulation facility rather than waiting for period end process
• Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants
• Defined and Maintained tolerance groups for GL, AP and AR.
• Provided Consolidated reports for viewing both Finance and controlling activity.
• Preparing User Exits for Characteristics derivation not defined in standard SAP system.
• Mapping SD condition types to value fields (for SD interface)
• Used COPA to report profitability driven by characteristics like customer, product and market for a clearer picture of the company’s profitability. Created CO-PA forms and Report Line Structures.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in studying the AS-IS Process, Project Preparation, Re-Scoping from initial scope of work, Blue Print Preparation and Realization activities
• Performed GAP analysis. Evaluated the significance of internal control gaps according to the risk it poses to the organization
• Conducted workshop with business process to obtain an understanding of the general flow of transactions, SAP functionality utilized, interfaces systems and available process/control documentation.
• Proto typing and demonstration of FICO and other module functionalities to the business.
• Created and maintained the necessary documentation in form of scenario scripts and Business Process Procedures (BPP) throughout the project.
• Configured Controlling Area settings to address the Management Accounting requirements of the Organization.
• Customized settings for Cost Element Accounting, CCA, Internal Order Accounting, CO-PCA and CO-PA.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and Reconciliation Ledger and also configured Cost Element Accounting groups for the Cost Elements.
• Defined Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy.
• Configured Costing Variant, Valuation Variant and performed necessary settings to do preliminary costing for new materials with quantity structure.
• Defined activity types, activity type categories and plan prices for activity types in cost center
• Defined Internal Order settings and created different Order types based on the internal order category and also configured them based on the order types with the settlement profiles.
• Worked on Operating Concern Configuration as per Business Scenario and Processes. Defined PA transfer structure, assigned primary cost element groups and value fields to PA transfer structure, mapped condition types and FI account keys to the COPA value fields.
• Mapped SD conditions from pricing procedures & direct postings in FI/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA.
• Maintained document types and derivation rules for finding the profit center for actual postings.
• Implemented transfer of overhead costs from CCA on a periodic basis and transfer of activities indirectly into profitability analysis segment also designed the PA transfer structure to control the secondary cost elements.
• Customized A/R and A/P modules, created vendor-customer master records, APP for outgoing payments, credit management and lockbox processing.
• Involved in the configuration of New G/L with regard to segment reporting and also configuration of non-leading ledgers for parallel valuation.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Medina, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions
• Facilitated Cost Element Accounting by created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• Involved in Cost Center Accounting by creating cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. Developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile for cost center planning.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting in SAP system by maintaining the master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions, and assignments. Configured Profit Center Accounting planning included defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations.
• Did Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configuration both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• CO-PA (Cost Base and Account base) Using CO-PA to Report profitability by Customer, Product and Market.
• Created P&L statements CO-PA reporting tools.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA.
• Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA and cost center accounting (CCA).
• Configured material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure, BOM and route settings required for costing the product.
• Defined Costing Sheets and Cost component structure for their new range of products in water-proofing, roofing, patching products.
• Defined Costing variant and Valuation variant.
• Worked extensively on order based product costing configuration and configured costing runs and actual costs posting.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in implementation of SAP R/3 using ASAP Methodology in the post go-live support.
• Worked on GL/AR/AP/CO-CEA, CO-CCA & EC-PCA Modules.
• Configured Multi Currencies for Mexico Subsidiaries as U.S Dollars along with local Currency Pesos.
• Configured Reconciliation Clearing Account Creation for posting in reconciliation ledger.
• Worked on Electronic Bank Statement with Lockbox method BAI2 Format and automatic Payment Advice Notes.
• Worked on integration between SD and CO/FI and MM and CO and successfully resolved.
• Configured and Customized FI/CO Module. Integrated with Sales and Distribution Module.
• Integrated IM with Internal Orders in CO and asset accounting AA in FI.
• Built on CCA and PCA hierarchy and assigned PC to CC. Customized CO-CEA, CO-CCA & CE-PCA.
• Configured Accrual Calculations using Percentage Method. Assigned Dependencies to Overhead rate for determining the Overhead Percentages.
• Maintained Manual Planning and Periodic Allocations under Cost Center Planning.
• Worked on Primary Cost Planning for Manual and Automatic planning and Secondary Cost Planning for Manual Planning and Periodic Allocations and Inter-company Transport Orders
• Worked on CO Commitments Management for Purchase Order.
• Worked for the Cost Centers participating in accrual calculation.
• Responsible for issue identification and gap definition in regards to SAP functionality for all Finance related processes as well as cross-functional points in the areas of Sales and Distribution and materials Management.
• Created Payment programs in Accounts Payables including Creation of House Banks.
• Created various Payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
• Involved in the Development of test scenarios/ test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing. Provided End User Training, Courseware and Documentation in FI/CO Modules.
• Configured Costs of Goods Manufactured and Cost of Goods Sold in Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Customized Contribution Margin Accounting.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Irvine, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Production Support in Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) & Asset Accounting (AA) and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to FI, AP & AA.
• Responsible for updating development tracker for Finance, Controlling & Assets, opening & closing of tickets in BME Service Desk Express, Issue Log & Magic Service Desk, categorizing issue logs under Web-trac and improving solution turnover time. Coordinated cross-functional teams throughout the organization to identify and assess system issues influencing multiple departments.
• Interacted and coordinated new projects developments/enhancements with various users and organized Web-Ex meetings for training sessions with users.
• Configured the system for Banking configuration &responsible for updating Finance Work plan for new company code.
• Involved in month and year end closing operations for FI, CO and AA; also responsible for opening and closing for MM and FI monthly periods for postings.
• Configured new Asset Classes as per user request, resolved month end and year end issues for Asset Accounting, balance carry forward for FI- AA reconciliation, supplied transactional data from SAP tables for Asset Audit, Period Rules creation in different company codes and resolved Asset Issues.
• Executed configuration changes in company’s SAP current business processes as per changes requested by manages/users to meet business requirements & performing integration & unit testing with users for application change approval;
• Configured & customized Asset Accounting. Configured Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisition and retirement.
• Solved issues related to Automatic payment program; Involved in year-end closing operations for FI, CO and Asset accounting.
• Created new tax jurisdiction codes and input/output tax keys and made changes to current input/output tax keys (tax calculations) as per new regulations.
• Created EDI partner profile and defined EDI Compatible payment methods, Assigned EDI payment method to external payment methods, Defined clearing account for payment requests.
• Worked on Treasury Management (Transaction Manager). Defined cash management account names, account codes, valuation areas, assigned accounting codes to valuation areas and defined account assignment reference determination (OTC Transactions)
• Understanding of accounting functions including country specific requirements
• Ability to work with all levels of client personal i.e. Corporate controller to AP/AR clerk and explain SAP functionality with a business/functional frame/reference.
• Ability to translate business requirements to SAP functions and discuss available options for solutions to tickets as well as new requirements.
• Ability to quickly resolve issues and distinguish between data related, business process and configuration issues.
• Ability to work with the development team to resolve any interface and customs reporting issues.
• Worked on Inbound/Outbound process House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual & Electronic Bank Statement.
• Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes on Accounts Receivable (A/R).

Environment: ECC 5.0

Confidential

Jr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring and demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios based on business requirements of the client.
• Configured company codes, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code.
• Setting of the financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Configured the Procure to Pay and Order to Cash scenarios.
• In Accounts Receivables FI-AR, define interest calculation types, interest indicators, and accounts for item interest calculations.
• Performed unit and integration testing with users, documented approved test scenarios, evaluated User Exits for Inter-company and Export shipments and overall ITSS Finance development/applications/enhancements for new merger.
• Configuration for Account Assignment model & Recurring entry.