SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Consultant Certified by SAP. With 7 Years and 3 full life cycle experience, speaking and writing both English and French with Excellent Oracle Database Administration as well as IT audit and SOX Experience.
• Financial Accounting (Configuration) - AR, AP, ASSET, TAXES,GL
• Controlling - Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, Projects, Cost Object Controlling/Product Costing
• Enterprise Controlling, Profit Center Accounting
• Integration between FI/CO and logistics modules (SD, MM)
• External Sales and Use Tax System design and implementation with Vertex and Taxware.
• RICEF
• EDI, IDOC’S
• SOLMAN
• ASAP Methodology, Business Blue Print Activities
• Unit testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing User acceptance testing
• Master Data conversion activities
• New GL
• Production support
• SAP ECC 6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with conducting workshops for business users for gathering requirements of the intended business processes
• Responsible of Unit testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing.
• Involved in house small projects related to SAP ( One time payment, vendor master enhancement, Coupa, Gold Prairie etc)
• Interacted with Business users wherever required for getting resolved the tickets.
• Production support and end user training

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for solving tickets in GL AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Banking in FI area and cost center accounting, Profit center, Internal order and Project System in CO area Provided documentation management process for issue resolution
• Interacted with Business users wherever required for getting resolved the tickets.
• Solution provided for various change requests on the priority bases
• Business Signoff for the development changes
• Integration Test scripts, and training end users
• Assist in ongoing fusion new project
• Provided 2nd level on extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO
• As the only consultant working on site, I Worked remotely as the team leader with other consultants

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Involved with conducting workshops for business users for gathering requirements of the intended business processes using the ASAP methodology.
• Provided documentation management process for issue resolution
• Extensive use of solution manager for the development of configuration scripts
• Prepared unit test scripts and integration test scripts
• Configured the integration points between FI, AP, AR, MM, and SD
• Configured automatic assignments for taxes, foreign currency valuation and asset
• Configured bank directory, house banks, bank accounts, GL accounts, posting rules for automatic assignment of accounts, check deposit configuration
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for account payables including partial payment Configuration, check management and check printing, open item clearing in account payables, outgoing payments for outstanding invoices with invoice verification for good receipts
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI/BAI-2 formats and interfaces for EDI files from banks with payment details for updating GL and customer accounts
• Involved in technical documentation of all custom business objects and end user training.
• Developed conceptual design document for various in house small projects related to SAP (interface with Concur, and I2P)
• Designed the blueprint document for Giagen Germantown with the requirement and scope for the COPA implementation configured and customized the Standard Hierarchy for cost centers, maintained Activities, Statistical Key Figures, developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center
• Created Costing Sheets and assigned to relevant cost centers for calculating Bonus to eligible employees based on the salary paid
• Configured Cost Center related Planning, Budget Management, and Actual Postings and assigned relevant Profit Centers to Cost Centers
• Configured Internal Orders by identifying and creating required Order Types.
• Created Different Plan Versions for Planning for Cost Centers and Internal Orders.
• Built the architecture for a market segment oriented profitability analysis costing based for the Maryland region
• Responsible for configuration of various value fields and mapping it to the respective characteristic values on sandbox and transporting them in to the production client after thorough testing
• In Profitability analysis (CO-PA) involved in customization and configuration of the operating Concern, Configured the Costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, Profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics
• Involved in CO-PA period ending closing operations such as transfer cost center costs to co-pa by assessments, distributions etc. provided training to end users for the various functions on Product Cost Planning preparation and execution of first period ending closings
• Resolved issues relating to Payment program
• Configured Procurement process integrated with third party systems with EDI and Idocs
• Retest and suggested for enhancement in General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR and other related configurations
• Interaction with user and client to understand there requirement and concern over existing system to identify system improvement points
• Updated some of the configuration and settings for enhanced functionality of GL, AR, AP, Cash, and Bank.
• Carried out changes in the Configuration for Tax on Purchases & Sale and its integration with Third party software 'Taxware’
• Changes in the automatic account assignment for material movement for price differences and account determination for FI postings
• Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing Activities such as accounts receivables, accounts payables, period closing, accruals and deferring entries, balance carry forwards, GR/IR account reconciliation
• Intercompany reconciliation
• Involved in production support for CCA, PCA, CO-PC, GL, FI-CO, AP, AR modules

Confidential, NC

Responsibilities:

• Configured bank directory, house banks, bank accounts, GL accounts, posting rules for automatic assignment of accounts, check deposit configuration
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for account payables including partial payment Configuration, check management and check printing, open item clearing in account payables, outgoing payments for outstanding invoices with invoice verification for good receipts
• Interacted with Client business users for requirements gathering and analysis
• Interacted with the business Analysts and end users to get the user requirements and Business process using ASAP methodology
• Preparing required documents user training providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business process in SAP
• Configured and Customized FI sub-modules Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Interacted with Client to Update and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas.
• Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories
• Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing
• Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts
• Customized Lockbox, Payment Requests and Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line Items
• Created Bank interfaces for EDI and Wires with Mapping Documents
• Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups, discount overviews
• Configured general Controlling Organization by defining Controlling Area
• Maintaining document number ranges for controlling Area and maintaining Versions for controlling areas. Configured Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting by maintaining control Area settings, Activating Direct postings, Plan versions, analyzing and updating the basic settings
• In Internal orders, Configured different internal Orders Types and their screen layouts and status management. Configured Allocation structures, settlement rules and settlement profile for internal orders
• Documented End User Manuals and Training Material

Confidential, Missouri

Responsibilities:

• Performed configuration of FI enterprise structure that included creating few company codes
• Defined the fiscal year variant and the employee tolerance limits, posting keys, document number ranges and document types, successful integration of FI and MM modules
• Worked on configuration of A/P and A/R module: credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, terms of payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item clearing
• Configured accounts payable (AP), Defined vendor account groups and created master data
• Configured Internal Orders by identifying and creating required Order Types
• Configured Cost Center Accounting by creating Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centers, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures based on client requirements configured General Controlling by maintaining Controlling Areas and assigned different Company Codes accordingly, creating CO document number ranges and version maintenance
• Building LSMWs as upload tool for some of the objects
• Cost Element Accounting configuration involved in identification and creation of Primary Cost elements through Batch Input Session and created Secondary Cost Elements for the purpose of Settlement of Internal Orders and Project Systems
• Designed course curriculum and lesson plans for the SAP Financial modules training to be delivered to the end users.
• Delivering of SAP Financial modular training and Navigation courses
• Solving tickets and interacting with the Users
• Support End Users after Go-Live

Confidential, Racine, WI

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
• 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 viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, 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 & Maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, AR Aging.
• Have worked on Partial, Residual Payment types.
• Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference 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).
• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
• 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.
• Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications.
• Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Participate in Super User meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required.

Confidential

SAP Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Freight - Code & Posting in SAP
• Run payment proposals, pull invoices, cut checks, match invoices and checks, mail checks
• Send out wire payments
• Review “open items “ list for accuracy and completeness
• Process all PO invoices for one of the 7 ( company code)
• Weekly downloading and SAP importing for Concur expenses
• Review check proposal and send out for approval
• Reviewed Printed checks and give to manager
• Processed and audit employee expense reports using the Concur Expense

Confidential

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Processed and audit employee expense reports using the Concur Expense system
• Ensured Expense Reports adhere to company travel policy
• Entered vendor invoices into PeopleSoft, generating checks
• Maintained vendor files
• Audits for input accuracy by matching invoices to check stubs
• Extensively work with Sox team
• Bank reconciliation; 6 banks accounts
• Make Journal entries, adjustment and all corrections
• Reconcile all GL accounts, and close out accounting period