Su mmary

• MBA with over 12 years of expertise in Strategic Planning, Financial Management, Accounting, Analytical Reporting, Forensic Analysis, Internal Control, budgeting and Forecasting. Applies a proactive rather than reactive management style with focus on business growth and retention
• Over 6 plus years of SAP experience
• Experienced in configuring General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, & Controlling modules, SD-FI Integration and MM-FI Integration
• Proficient in implementing ASAP methodology, As-Is documentation, to-be process documentation

Key SAP Skills

• Enterprise structure design and configuration : Setting up enterprise structure and assigning relation ships between the organizational units of FI,CO,SD and MM
• Configuration of FI modules: GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets
• Treasury: Banking system design, Setting up electronic bank statements, implementation of AP -vendor check printing, AR-Lock box configuration
• Configuration of CO modules: Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, COPA ,PCA and Product cost controlling
• FI- AR & AP: Configuration of Automatic payment program for out going payments and Lockbox configuration for AR receipts using BAI forms for open items processing
• Fixed Assets module: Setting up depreciation charts and Areas, Asset classification, defining GL accounts for FA integration with FI, Performing depreciation run and Migration of Fixed Assets across Company Codes.
• Setting up integration of SAP SD, MM ,CO and FA with FI by defining the automatic account determination tables
• COPA: Defining characters and value fields and Profitability segments that suits the business needs, Characteristic derivation and assignment of values to value fields and postings to COPA module for reporting
• Product cost controlling: Standard Cost estimate with and with out quantity structure
• Key user training and providing end user documentation

Employment History

SAP Project Experience
Organization: Confidential,NJ
Duration: Sep 10 – Dec 2011
Position Holding: FICO - Production Support Consultant
Job Profile:

• As part of the Production Support Team worked closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities.
• Analyzed FICO related trouble tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.
• FI Modules supported: : Customization and configuration of General Ledger, Account Receivable, Account Payable; Defined account groups, customer and document number ranges, Terms of payment, posting keys, reason codes, automatic clearing, account assignment, and tolerance groups.
• Identifying and defining ‘House banks’ and Bank Accounts, setting up bank Groups to meet the client’s project needs and to help optimize bank selection in automatic and manual payment program.
• Defined layout, selection fields, and profiles; added Internal Trading Partners, exchange rate valuation accounts, update calculation bases in Costing Sheets, maintain currency translation ratios.
• Configured additional terms of payment, reason codes, created new GL accounts, cost elements and edited the control feature of the existing one for enhanced functionality.
• Maintaining Customer Tolerance Groups to specify the maximum payment difference that can be charged off to a GL account, the maximum Cash Discount percentage amount and the maximum allowable difference in percentage terms.

Organization: Confidential, MN
Duration: Aug 09 – Sep 10
Position Holding: FI/CO Consultant
Environment: Version: SAP ECC 6.0
Job Profile:

• Configured financial accounting global settings. Set up company code, fiscal year variants, settings for screen layout rules, Posting Keys, automatic account assignments.
• Configuration of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable master data accounts.
• Maintaining custom field status groups and assignment of the same to the master data per business user’s requirements.
• Maintaining default account assignments of primary cost elements to support cost object assignments at the time of posting goods receipts.
• Configuring Profit center accounting, maintaining standard hierarchies, Profit center groups, assigning profit centers to the hierarchy and defining company codes for profit center.
• Configuring the Internal Order master data, Order Types, validity periods. Settlements to Cost Centers and generating reports through information systems.
• Collaborating with technical team to design solutions, testing plans and maintaining the Currency conversion activities.
• Interacting with Business users, gathering the system and user requirements, documenting the change requests and preparing test scripts.
• Defined chart of depreciation using reference chart of depreciation, defined depreciation areas and assigned it to company code, performed depreciation run and posting
• Defined Asset Class, Asset Numbers and Organized them into asset groups.
• Defined account determination, screen layout rules, number ranges, created asset master records, customized screens for asset acquisition, transfer, and retirement (scrapping)
• Integrated Asset management with General ledger through Account Determination.
• Worked on New GL concepts like activating the PCA Scenario & Document Splitting.

Duration: Dec Nov 08-Jul 09
Position Holding: FI/CO Consultant
Environment: Version: SAP ECC 6.0
Job Profile:

• Worked as SAP-FICO consultant in all phases of the project from blue print development to the end user training and post implementation support.
• Studied the requirements of the client, translated the clients requirements in functional specifications, studied AS-IS, TO-BE process and performed GAP analysis
• Defined and configured the enterprise structure - Chart of accounts, company codes, fiscal year variants, field status variants and posting period variants.
• Configured the settings for employee tolerance groups, field status groups, and automatic account assignment for the G/L
• Configured Vendor & Customer account groups and defined screen layout for them, invoice creation and payment postings
• Involved in the integration of other modules (MM, SD) with FI.
• Implemented in the configuration of Month end closing activities of AR/AP
• Created different G/L accounts centrally and at company code level, like expenses, revenue, cash, asset and liability
• Worked on A/P & A/R including configuring customer and vendor master data, number ranges, payment types including partial payments, residual payments, discount payments
• Set up credit limits for customers and tolerance groups to the vendors and employees.
• Created cost center group, with cost hierarchy and cost elements including secondary cost element created accounts with cost elements
• Created profit centers, with profit hierarchy including dummy profit center
• Assisted the team in preparing the documentation and provided Go-Live, Post -implementation support
• Activated New General Ledger , configured Master data,configured ledgers under leading ledger,non leading leadger for parallel accounting and document splitting.

Organization: Confidential,OH
Duration: Sep 07-Nov 08
Position Holding: FI/CO Consultant
Environment: Version: ECC 6.0
Job Profile:

• Classified business requirements for determining organizational structure. Conducted interviews, Q&A database, interacted with Managers of various departments to gather the system requirements and prepared a Business Blueprint. Worked closely with process teams in understanding the As-Is system and finalizing design of the To-Be system.
• Prepared and Reviewed Business Process Procedures (BPPs) For GL
• Configured all the basic settings including Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variants, Exchange Rate Types and Currencies.
• Defined Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, GL Master Records for each company code
• Customized and Configured Retained Earnings Account and Tolerance Groups.
• Creation and maintenance of field status groups, posting keys, document types and open and close posting periods.
• Created Financial Statement Versions as per specification given by client.
• Created House Banks and related accounts and configured settings for Bank operations.
• Created Reconciliation accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Defined Document control settings including Document structure, Posting Periods, Posting Authorizations and made necessary settings to enable the user to post documents.
• Defined Posting Control Settings including default value , change control and document reversal
• Grouping the company vendors and customers and define credit control and dunning areas Configured Dunning program processing which included from creation of dunning proposals to printing the dunning notices.
• Customized settings for controlling areas, activating the components/indicators, assigning the company codes to controlling areas, assigning number ranges.
• Cost Elements Analysis (CO-CEA) involving both primary and secondary cost elements, activating the reconciliation ledger, and maintaining accounts for posting of automatic reconciliation.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups, maintained Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, assigned Cost Centers to respective Profit Centers. Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles
• Profit Center Accounting: Created Profit Centers, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, Distribution and assessment of costs..
• Configured Internal Order by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Status Management, Settlement Rules, Settlement Profile and Planning Profile.
• Provided Post Go Live Support to users, helped users in solving problems in Go Live Environment

Organization: Confidential,CA
Duration July 05 - Aug 07
Position Holding: FI/CO Consultant
Environment: Version: 4.7
Job Profile:

• Configured General Ledger – Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, tolerance groups and Document Types.
• Configured and customized AR and AP modules.
• Defined House banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots.
• Defined customer/vendor account groups and created customer /vendor master data.
• Configured Automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (A/P).
• Defined asset classes, depreciation areas, and determined how depreciation areas post to general ledger, involved in the creation of the assets. Configuring organizational structure, chart of depreciation, country specific settings, asset classes, depreciation areas, and account determination.
• Defined payment block reasons, defining correspondence types, configured vendor specific tolerance.
• Configured Incoming payments, Billing, Credit management and dunning programs.
• Configured terms of payment, tolerances, invoices, outgoing payment, and cash discount.
• Configured and designed Product Cost (PC) ,costing run, Forecast, price update Cost object controlling product cost by period, product cost by order, product cost collector.
• Configured the Automatic Account Determination and interface points between FI, MM, and SD.

Functional Experience

Confidential, May 03 - July 05
Controller

• Responsible for asset management and strategic planning of $16 Million portfolio for two plants.
• Designed and implemented a simulation tool to optimize excess stock of $1 Million annually.
• Formulated financial budgets and Latest Estimate for $10 Million business segment.
• Devised a Materials Management road map involving geographically scattered suppliers, submitted proposals to senior management which was favorably received and successfully implemented leading to cost saving of $1Mil.
• Led SOX compliance initiatives, facilitating internal/external audits across diverse locations.
• Managed business entities by utilizing forensic analysis, contingency planning and open dialogue with various business leaders.
• Supported Business Unit Managers by conducting monthly calls to review business key metrics.
• Recipient of multiple awards for risk management and process improvements.

Confidential, April 00 - May 03

Accounting Manager

• Maintained full responsibility for preparing financial statements, reconciliations and budgeting activities.
• Prepared revenue report, processed accounts payables/receivables, conducted margin analysis and internal management reporting.
• Efficient financial reporting resulting in shortened project timelines and completions.

Confidential, June 97-March 00

Cost Accounting Manager

• Responsible for all Cost Accounting functions, including: oversight of cost centers; variance and COGS analysis; streamlining BOMs; capital project spending; physical inventories; Lean Manufacturing implementation; and, auditor liaison.
• Developed and Implemented Accounting and Product Costing (Job Order) system.
• Managed statutory reporting requirements as dictated by local / Regional / National governing bodies.
• Academic Credentials

Education:

• Master of Business Administration
• Gold Medalist and won Certificate of Merit
• SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5
• Five year training of Audit, Tax and Accounts with Chartered Accountants firms under the by laws of Institute Of Chartered Accountants.

Technical Skills:

• ERP System: SAP R/3 4.7 and ECC 6.0
• Operating systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/NT
• Worked with Oracle Financial, Quick books 11, MAS 90 DecEasy. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access and Outlook). G. W Basic, Lotus, FoxPro.