SUMMARY:

• Over11+ years of experience including 9+years of experience in SAP FICO implementing, customizing and configuring SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 in various sectors like manufacturing, Health care, Service industry and Retail industry.
• Worked in Two Full life cycle SAP R/3 implementations, Support and Upgrade projects experience Project Preparation, Confidential Design, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Support.
• I have experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules - GL, AR, AP, SCM, Fixed Assets, Bank Accounting, EBS, and Lockbox. Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO) Product costing (COPC) and COPA.
• Integration of FI with MM(VIM), SD, HR.CO with PP.
• Performed integration for O2C (Order to Cash), P2P (Purchase to Pay) processes during implementations, Inventory Management and logistics.
• I have Integration experience in Material Ledger and costing (CO-ML) and Experience on SAP HANA Simple Finance.
• Implemented Closing business processes to ensure Month-end, Year-end closing, Automatic GR/IR clearing account, Variance Calculation, Settlement, and Depreciation run according to closing calendar
• I have Integration experience with Controlling and project system.
• Requirements to SAP environment, realization, cut over activities, go live and supporting.
• S/4 HANA Simple Finance FI and CO integration, such as Define the Leading, Non-Leading and Appendix Ledger. Maintain the Base Ledger for the Appendix Ledger and assign the separate posting period variant to the Appendix Ledger
• New Asset accounting implemented as part of S/4 HANA Simple Finance with account and Ledger approach. Define new document types for CO postings, Created the CO Mapping variants and assign the required business transactions and Define ledger for CO version
• Expertise in managing offshore team with experienced in Documenting Functional Specifications, Tax Configurations, and Training core team members.
• Thorough understanding of SAP R/3 FI/CO module configuration, support & maintenance functions as well as the integration with MM, SD, HR,QM and PP modules.
• Incident and Problem identification, resolution and Co-ordination with offshore team for providing solutions
• Experience in Confidential, Configuration, Unit, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Enhancements, Documentation and Production support.
• Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects

FICO CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

General Ledger: Company codes, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal year Variant, Field Status Groups, Posting Period Variants, Configured Posting Keys, Automatic Account /Determination, G/L Display, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges and Document Types and Record to Record, New GL,RTR(Record to Record).

Accounts Payable: Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts, Automatic Payment Program Configuration, APPO (Automatic Payment Processing-Outgoing) and Creation of Vendor Master Data and Vendor Groups.

Accounts Receivable: Creation of Terms of Payment and Interest Calculation, Reason Codes, Default Account Assignment, Credit management and Creation of Customer Master Records.

Bank Accounting: Inbound/Outbound process House Banks, Manual & Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Electronic funds transfer and Bank statement processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios, Bank reconciliation

Asset Accounting: Creation of Assets Master records, Handling Depreciation for these Assets, Calculation of Scrap value for these Assets at the time of Sale of Fixed Assets and posting the profit/loss in the Respective G/L accounts.

Integration of FI/CO: SD (VKOA), MM (OBYC),PP and HR functional Modules of a Business Module.

Cost Element Accounting: Cost Element Types, Automatic Cost Element Creation, Reconciliation Ledger, and Explanation of CO Updates.

Cost Center Accounting: Cost Center Accounting Configuration, CCA hierarchy, Controlling Area/Profit Center Accounting Maintenance, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, Reposting, Cost Center Accounting, and Automatic Account Assignment in CO.

Profit Center Accounting: Master Data Review, MM Assignment, control parameters, assignment of revenue elements, Assignments in Profit Center Accounting, Actual Posting Maintenance and Profit Center Accounting Planning, Profit Center Reorganization for cost center, transfer in aggregated form the balances in new General Ledger Accounting to the correct profit centers.

Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern Development, Characteristic Derivation, Assigning Values to Value Fields. Hierarchy level, Report Writing and report painter. Product Costing (COPC): Material Cost Estimates, Materials Price calculation, Configuration of the costing sheet, Calculation bases, Planned and actual overhead percentages and Integration with PP at the time of production order settlements

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• S/4 HANA Simple Finance FICO integration such as Define the Leading, Non-Leading and Appendix Ledger
• S/4 HANA Implemented wit Activate methodology as per SAP best practices for specific business processes.
• New transactions with HANA Optimization and New objects like Business partner.
• GL and cost elements have been merged in S/4 HANA and SAP has plans to de-normalize the table structure like ACDOCA / MATDOC.
• Merger of objects like Secondary cost elements also now GL accounts.
• Maintain the Base Ledger for the Appendix Ledger in S/4 HANA and assign the separate posting period variant to the Appendix Ledger
• Maintain Fiscal year variant and Posting Period Variant settings for the combination of company code and ledger.
• Strong Knowledge in SAP Material Ledger Actual Costing and Standard Costing. configuration experience with all aspects of Material Ledger- Parallel Valuation, Multi-currency Valuation & Actual Costing and COGS.
• S/4 HANA-Define new document types for CO postings, Created the CO Mapping variants and assign the required m business transactions and coding block for new field creation.
• S/4 HANA-Mapped the CO document type to mapping variants, Mapping variant assign to company code. Define ledger for CO version. Material ledger concept and Product costing with PS integration.
• Involved in Data Migration and data reconciliation of balances during Data migration. And LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench.
• Handled Issues on S/4 HANA-SFIN related to GL, New Asset accounting, Ledger, Universal Journal table(ACDOCA) for reporting and mapping CO transaction to document type.
• Define the Leading, Non-Leading and Appendix Ledger. Maintain the Base Ledger for the Appendix Ledger and assign the separate posting period variant to the Appendix Ledger
• Cost elements are merged with GL account masters and Default account assignments are maintained in OKB9 as part new configuration in S/4 HANA Simple Finance.
• S/4 HANA -Created the CO Mapping variants and assign the required business transactions, BP roles for customer and vendor
• Handling production support issue all the areas in FI and CO.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AP, AR, CEA, CCA and Product Costing.
• Configuration settings for WIP calculation, variance calculation & settlement of production orders and sales order.
• Data monitoring and review for posting errors (IDOC errors), and system and transaction failures.
• P2P and O2C business process with accounting entries (PGI/price difference/billing and GR/IR). Integration experience.
• Running BW reports and doing detailed analysis, excel skills, LSMW, SAP queries
• Functional specs, inbound and outbound interfaces, custom tables
• Worked on interfaces Order to Cash (SD) and Procure to Pay (P2P) data through middleware (ESB). Experienced in BAPI, BADI, User exits, Enhancements and ABAP reports. Record to Report Process.
• IDOC (53 - Good; 51 - Error; 64 - Pending processing), LSMW, debug experience.
• Configured Controlling modules including Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting and PS integration.
• Legacy Interface testing (Non-SAP) such as Jesta (SQL DB), Sterling Integrator, ADP, Serengeti Applications, and SAP Testing (OTC, P2P). Inventory Management and logistics
• Involved in Interface testing from Legacy to SAP via middleware and IDOC process.
• Integration of Product Costing and Material Ledger to SAP Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Intercompany transfer pricing and RICEFW.
• Cost Element Accounting - Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and Reconciliation Ledger
• Cost Center Accounting - Created Cost Centers, Defined Cost Center Categories, Time based fields, configured Allocation Methods and Cost center planning methods.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Tax, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment
• Inventory accounting (material standard price (S) and moving average price (V) price control indicator, valuations, valuation class, movement types, price difference, serial number)
• Configured Bank Statement processing and Mapping External Transaction Codes to Posting Rules.
• Worked on Treasury system for lockbox, electronic bank statement, payment run, account reconciliation and clearing, FOREX transactions, EFT, global cash pooling, intercompany netting, credits and collections and interfaces with SAP.
• Implemented EBS with file format (MT940), Lockbox file (BAI2 format).

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• I have involved in walk through with business team to complete the test scripts.
• I worked on UAT,I integration testing
• I have experience on test data, test shell, test plan, test scenarios and test scripts preparation to upload in to HPQC tool
• I worked on Revenue and Integration with SD, Consolidation, Account Receivable, and Management reporting to get the requirements.
• I worked on gold scripts preparation, validation and quality control.
• I have experience on ALM(Application Lifecycle Management)testing Tool

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Dublin, Ohio

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• To provide solution various module like FICO and other modules(MM,SD,PP,PS)
• I have experience to prepare the test plan, test scenarios and test scripts preparation.
• I have involved in GL, AP, AR,AA module to get the requirements and fulfillment .
• I have involved to Business team to get the requirements
• I have involved business team meeting to complete the master data as well as transaction data uploading
• I have involved solution design as per business requirements as well as experience on ALM(Application Lifecycle Management)testing tool.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented New General Ledger functionality as well as Document splitting, Leading ledger, Parallel ledger and Segmental reporting. Experience in Data Migration and LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• Worked on Ledger group and Segments defined in addition to company codes, profit center level. Involved on PCA & SPL balances are required to be carried forward in addition to GL balance. I have good experience with SAP GL Migration
• PS (Project System) integration with FI like Network Profile (OPUU) - Cost elements for Activities, Costing Sheet, Settlement Profile, Commitment Items for Cash flow.
• Worked on Derivatives like Currency swap, Currency option and Preparing for posting and payment, Interest rate guarantee.
• To provide solution various module like FI (GL, AP, AR, AA)and CO(CEA,CCA,PCA) and integration with SD,HCM and MM and RICEFW objects including BAPI’s, BADI’s, IFRS function groups and modules.
• General Ledger (FIGL) taking care for uploading master data and configuring the prerequisites which includes Creation of Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Retained earnings accounts, GL Account Maintenance, Recurring Entries, FI Entries, Reversals, Parked Docs, Clearing, GL Reporting, RTR(Record to Record).
• Accounts Receivable (FIAR), Revenue Accounting and Accounts Payable (FI AP) Open Text (VIM)master data uploading and maintaining the prerequisites such as creation of account groups, number ranges and Payment configuration etc. I have involved in Unit testing, Integrating Testing and Regression Testing to prepare the test scenario and Test case
• Creation of Cost Center Groups and cost centers (CO-CCA), Defining different Activity types and Statistical key figures, Settings for Allocation of costs among cost objects with different methods like Assessments, distributions and reposting.
• Worked on Fixed Assets (AA) such as calculated depreciation types, Asset Accounting is a subsidiary ledger of Financial Accounting, along with Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. Assets under Construction (AUC).

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 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 Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis. Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys. Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts. Tax procedure (Input and output tax).
• Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification, Inventory Management and logistics, House Banks, Bank statement processing and exchange rates in Treasury module.
• Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions, Lock box program with EDI-IDOC setup and ABAP reports..
• Imputed costs calculation methods, cost centers, cost center groups, cost element attributes, statistical key figures and activity types in Cost Center Accounting.
• Defined Assessment, Distribution, and Periodic Reposting of costs using cycle segment method in Cost Center Accounting and VAT & Excise taxes.
• Interaction with bank and ADP to get the file format and validate the payroll file
• To Validate the Bank master data and sending to ADP, develop the file format as per time line and bank confirmation
• To interact with GXS and set the connection to transfer the file to bank, interact with HR to get the employee master data and bank master data
• To develop the payroll file and push in to Quality system for SIT and Parallel testing, involved the penny test plan and to prepare the test plan, Involved Go live activities
• Set default values for order type, MTO, MTS, template allocations, defining control parameters for work in process, variance calculations, and settlements (Settlement Profile, Allocation Structure, Source Structure and PA Structure) and COPA reports.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Duncan, South Carolina

SAP FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Rollout Project at Confidential phase
• Preparation of Confidential and resolved Gaps
• Preparation of Functional specification and review the documentation.
• Co-ordination with off shore and Onsite team
• SAP CO with different area in Product Costing, COPA reports and Integration with PP, PS
• Integration of Product Costing and Material Ledger for actual cost valuation. Cost Estimate for material
• Adjustment of RM is charged to Other Cost of Sales and Adjustment reports - stock takes
• ABP (Activity Based Pricing) Contract management and PPV reports Integration with BW Team.
• Full absorption costing vs. variable costing, Cost Allocation, Overheads Calculation, Material valuation
• The standard cost estimate to calculate the each production order at the end of the accounting period Variances for the actual costs of a product
• Target costs for evaluating the work in process based on the confirmed quantities. Blueprinting Workshops.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling issues on G/L, AR, AP, Asset management, Cost center accounting and Profit center accounting and made change as per client requirements.
• Receiving the tickets and resolving the same based on client requirements
• Coordinating with the Client and support team for timely closure of the tickets, as per Service Level Agreement.
• Purchase to pay business process review and enhancement, production support.
• Assist the FI in the overall coordination of system updates, enhancements, etc.
• Configure SAP Module and solutions to support with HPSD'Tools.
• Attending the clients call as and when required and Enhancements.
• I have good experience in EBS(Electronic Bank Statement)like uploading files with different format FF 5 and posting it through FEBAN, payment order process in the statement,
• Involved in Support solving tickets of the end users and helping them to understand the Sap and changes has been done based on client requirements and VAT & Excise taxes.
• Environment keeping their nature of business in mind .used to solve tickets such as creation/change of Master records of Vendor (Procure to pay)/Customer (Order to cash).
• Month end Support Activities like User Education in Period Closing, Forex valuation and Carry forward of Balances Activity. Calculate Variance (KKS1), Settle all process orders which are technically complete, Carry out GR/IR clearing (F.13) transaction, Depreciation Run (AFAB) has been carried out for the month,
• I have good experience month end closing activities and year end activities.
• Problem Resolution- working along with the team on technical & functional issues and
• Guiding the team in arriving at better solutions, systems strategy, developing systems requirements, design and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under tight deadlines
• Solving issues as per the priority given to them within SLA time lines.
• Update all necessary documentation for any changes made in the system and
• Co-ordinate with users.
• Update ticket management tool on the request status as and when required.
• Monitoring and analyzing daily and monthly batch jobs.Participating in status calls and client calls.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I have involving preparation of business process document
• I have involving Unit testing and Integrating testing.
• I have involving preparation of test case document and test scenarios document as per tested data.
• I have involving uploading activities like master data and transaction data.
• I have involving preparation of validation scenarios document as per client requirement.
• I am handling GL, AP, AR, AA and FI integration with SD, MM(VIM), HR pay roll activities, Tax procedure, Withholding tax and Extended withholding tax.
• I am handling C.E.A, C.C.A, P.C.A, I.O and product costing accounting.

Environment: SAP R/3 6.0

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on day to day support issues and implementation related issues which comprise Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Cost center accounting, internal orders
• Supported day to day issues like creating new payment terms, creating new banks, investigating payment program issues on weekly basis. from third party application and developed functional specs, procure to pay related process and RICEFW.
• Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement and rebate. and system design, training and documentation as required to support our SAP System
• I have experience in EBS like configuration and uploading files use the search string search with the target field and Tax procedure (Input/output tax), Withholding tax and Extended withholding tax.
• Supported in the area of Internal Order Settlement to Asset under Construction and respective asset (settlement profile, etc.) Configured Internal Order.
• Experience in Data Migration, Data Test, Validation and Reconciliation Approaches
• I have experience in production support environments with upgrade or migrations experiences and with enhancing, upgrading and supporting the SAP systems.
• I have experience in working closely with onsite and offshore development teams
• Conducted various meeting with key Management in the Financial Management department to discuss various needed development strategies
• The position with entire working with “super” and end-users to identify and resolve process and functional/technical issues.
• Test the system functions, identify, design, and develop system updates in support of business requirements and VAT & Excise taxes.
• I have Experience Month end and year end activities like Update Exchange Rates, Open and Close Posting Periods, Enter Recurring Entries, Run Batch Input Session, Foreign Currency Revaluation, Carry Forward AP/ AR Balances, Carry Forward GL Balances, Final Close and Release Financial Reporting, Complete Bank Reconciliation (T. Code: FF67),
• Experience in Integration with HR monthly payroll run activities.
• Experience designing and performing data conversions. Design experience in the FI / CO area including knowledge of specific tables, data elements.

Environment: 4.7c