PERSONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a SAP Certified FICO consultant with over 4 years of hands - on experience in SAP FICO in customizing, configuring, developing and integrating of SAP ECC 6.0 FI/CO module for multiple clients and industry. Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle implementations using SDLC model through ASAP methodology, Upgrades & production support.
• Expertise in SAP R/3, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), New GL Accounting (document splitting, parallel accounting, segment reporting), Product Costing (PC), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Project Systems, COPA, Integration with MM to FI, Integration with SD to FI, Credit Management, & Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE IN FINANCE:

Analyst and Student Portfolio Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing student managed portfolio worth $2.4 million.
• Conducting financial research and gathering financial data on specific companies on Bloomberg research terminal.
• Creating valuation models, using FCFF, FCFE, DDM, DCF, Relative Valuation, RI, NAV, LBO etc.
• Analyzing financial statements
• Analyzing the macro and micro economic factors specific to the companies in the portfolio
• Evaluating stocks pertaining to specific sectors included in the portfolio
• Reporting my analysis and recommendations on buying, selling or holding the stocks to the board
• Planning to diversify the portfolio to reduce risks to the minimum

Treasurer of Analytics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing financial transactions
• Keeping track on the returns and losses
• Maintaining an update of the same in the Bloomberg panel
• Preparing the quarterly report of the portfolio to be presented to the Board of Investors
• Coordinating meetings between student analysts, investors and teacher-in-charge

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creating Finance study materials, presentation slides and supplementary notes for basic and advanced Finance courses.
• Doing field research for the development of financial journals
• Reviewing answer sheets, grading students, and answering to student queries

Freelance Financial Writer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developing content related to financial services, capital budgeting, derivatives, risk management, securities etc.
• Analyzing financial statements of specific companies
• Researching on macro and micro economic factors affecting the companies
• Creating financial models for the analysis of the company's financial health
• Giving recommendations based on the analysis
• Developing financial content on timeshare

SAP FICO Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirements, gathering functional requirements through user workshops, identifying and analyzing Gaps, developing minutes of the meeting, recommending solution/ business processes to address the Gaps, documenting AS-IS model and TO-BE model.
• Configuring and demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities
• Configuring New GL Accounting, AP, AR, AA and Bank modules in the SAP system.
• Configuring partial payment and residual payment
• Defining reason codes for payment differences and configuring account determination for offsetting these differences to GL accounts.
• Configuring house banks, different payment methods, automatic payment program, payment terms, auto-clearing rules and lockbox processing.
• Defining check lots and void reason codes.
• Configuring credit management functionality, such as defining credit control areas, credit risk categories and credit representative groups according to client requirement.
• Setting up lockbox configuration for customer payments in BAI2 format.
• Configuring Electronic bank statements and check deposits.
• Configuring document splitting for vendor invoice by classifying G/L accounts, document types, defining document splitting rules, characteristics, and zero balance clearing account
• Configuring Asset Accounting to facilitate business transactions, including asset acquisitions, retirements, transfers, depreciation calculation, and write offs and post capitalization.
• Configuring Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, multi-level methods for depreciation, depreciation run
• Assisting in the configuration support for MM integration for account determination using OBYC.
• Configuring PCA and CCA by defining Standard Cost Center Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements
• Configuring CO- Internal Orders by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules, and Settlement Profile.
• Creating standard drilldown reports, dummy profit center, and account groups in PCA
• (COPA): Creating Operating Concern, Maintaining Characteristics, Maintaining User-Defined Characteristics, Maintaining Value Fields, Define Characteristic Derivation, Valuation, Assign Value Fields, Valuation Strategies, Set Up Valuation Using Material Cost Estimate, Assign Costing Keys to Material Types
• Defining Variables for report, forms for report, create reports, Planning Versions, Layouts, Planning Methods, Excel Uploads, COPA master data, Transfer structures, COPA flows
• Configuring Product Costing (CO-PC), including defining settlement profile, Assessment Cycle and distribution and various activities.
• Involved in FI integration with SD and MM
• Using agile methodology to monitor development tasks
• Preparing use case diagrams, participating in UATs
• Performing unit testing and coordinating with various technical and functional people from other modules in integration testing.

SAP FICO Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation for the tobacco division.
• Extensively used SAP Solution Manager to define processes and control configurations.
• Designing, configuring, testing and re-engineering various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Configuring and testing General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR, AA and assigning different processing keys as required.
• Configuring automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Setting of Financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Configuring inter-company transactions
• Defining Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement, transfer and other business transactions
• Maintaining settings for special GL transactions
• Automatic determination of G/L accounts, mapping valuation classes to G/L & mapping G/L accounts to Material groups.
• CCA Configuration, setting up of controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, valuation profiles, field status groups, internal orders, WBS elements
• PCA configuration, setup, Profit center hierarchies, Profitability analysis, Profit center-based Balance sheets & P&L statements
• Maintaining Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Fixed Asset modules.
• Working on debugging programs to identify the functionality and program errors.
• Executing the test Performance scripts using Load Runner and analyzing the results.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for database management of Confidential document repository of SAP projects.
• Created SQL queries and web based interface for easy and seamless access and reporting
• Created industry based templates and contents for SAP Materials Management and SAP FICO implementations. These documents were harvested and successfully implemented by many projects to reduce implementation time and cost of SAP MM