SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Lead Consultant with 10 years’ experience which includes 2 ERP Full Life Cycle implementations in SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling
• Expertise in functional configuration of SAP modules which include New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, CCA, Internal Orders, PCA and COPA
• In depth understanding of business processes like Procure to Pay (MM), Order to Cash (SD) with FICO, and Project Systems
• Facilitated blueprinting, design sessions, created functional specifications documents and documented end user guides on how to perform daily, periodic routine functions and required maintenance items
• Experience in data conversion of master, transactional data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 using LSMW. Experience coordinating with offshore ABAP development team, prioritizing work and assisting with ticket resolution efforts across multiple teams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FICO Lead Business Analyst

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, NEW GL, AP, AR, and Asset Accounting

• In SAP Accounts Payable module, defined business specific payment terms and configured automatic payment program (FBZP) for different payment methods like Checks, ACH, and Wire Transfers
• Configured and customized lockbox program for inter - company postings and miscellaneous receipts postings for lockboxes with BAI2 format
• Configured Charts of Depreciation, Assets Classes, Acct Determination, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Transaction Types, Acquisition and Retirement.
• Involved in the creation and conversion of assets from the legacy system using LSMW, posted asset acquisitions, inter and intra company asset transfers and asset retirements
• Reviewed and approved all impact analysis and scope changes within finance work stream concerning hours and requirements.

Confidential, ChesterBrook, PA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, NEW GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, and Project Systems

• Customized NEW GL, Accounts payable and Accounts Receivables. Created/maintained customer/vendor account groups, number ranges and its assignment to accounts groups, customer/vendor master records, document types and its number ranges, payment terms, and validations
• Worked with the bank for setting up and testing the Lockbox. Made changes to the customer invoice to reflect the new lockbox information
• For Asset accounting, configured and customized organizational structure, country specific settings, Depreciation Areas, Asset classes, Account determinations, Screen layout rules and depreciation keys
• Configured Capitalization of Assets-Under-Construction, maintaining allocation structures and creating settlement profiles with summary settlement and line item settlement option.
• Created and executed test cases for unit testing, integration testing, and Performance Testing in HP Quality Center

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 Full lifecycle Implementation, GL, AP, AR, Vertex and Product Costing

• Member of SAP FI/CO team 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.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Clearing Accounts, cost center with standard hierarchy, internal orders and costs allocations /distributions
• Coordinated with Purchasing, Accounts Payable and Asset Management departments to analyze and resolve issues related to taxes calculated from Vertex.
• In Product Costing, configured the material cost estimate with quantity structure, cost object controlling, WIP, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures, costing variants and valuation variants
• Support business users including Treasury, G/L Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable through Go-Live and Post Go-Live.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, Full lifecycle Implementation, GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting and COPA

• Designed and configured FI modules - GL, AR, AP, and Asset Accounting. Configured vendor, customer and asset master data, and tested the integration of AR, AP and Asset Accounting sub-ledgers into the FI system
• Implemented Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, and customized assessment and distribution cycles for Period-end Closing
• Involved in automatic creation of primary cost elements for direct postings from other modules to CO and secondary cost elements for within CO postings like for activity types, settlements and Assessments.
• Configured Profitability Analysis COPA through derivation and reporting of multiple characteristics and mapping of value fields with SD to help the organization in making timely decisions to further its strategic and operating initiatives
• Involved in uploading cost centers and controlling master data using LSMW. Developed test scripts, performed unit tests, integrated tests and worked with end users on User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Confidential - Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 Upgrade, GL, AP and AR

• Facilitated client core team workshops, Business Process Mapping (Analysis of AS-IS, TO-BE and GAP Analysis), Blueprint, Testing, Go Live and Support Post Go Live
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope & suggested solutions for implementation and customizations
• Defined Chart of Accounts, Company Code, account groups, field status groups, foreign currency exchange rate types, exchange rates, open item clearing, variant for opening and closing periods, and document number ranges
• Configured the G/L accounts, Vendor, Customer master data, Payment Terms, and Interest Calculation. Customized Document types, posting keys, posting periods and document number ranges

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, NEW GL, AP and AR

• Member of SAP FI/CO team 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
• Configured FICO modules including NEW GL, AP and AR. Involved in incident management of procure to pay, order to cash, and month end closing activities
• Configured company codes, chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period & field status variants, global company codes, tolerances and number ranges
• Setting up of customer master records, client specific terms of payment, employee and customer tolerances, interest calculation, setup house banks, lockbox, automatic bank reconciliation and automatic payment program for vendors
• Configured Accounts Payable including 1099, Accounts Receivable and Credit Management. Created and executed Test Plans in HP QC for integration and regression cycles

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Business Analyst

Environment: - Teradata , Requisite Pro, Cognos Analysis & Report Studio, Erwin, IBM Info Analyzer, DB2, Excel, SQL Server 2005, SSIS, SSRS, AQT and Excel

Responsibilities:

• Led BA/DA team to develop business, functional requirements, traceability Matrix, report mockups and source to target data mappings for analyzing business Insurance controllable income and profitability ratios
• Analyzed legacy ETL code to extract the business rules and guided a team of ETL developers in developing ETL transformations for the new system
• Coordinated with multiple source system & business users, Subject Matter Experts for source data and reporting requirements
• Participated in logical & Physical data modeling session and developed high-level use-case diagrams. Coordinated with development, QA and UAT teams to reconcile source & Data Warehouse tables by using pivot tables

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Business Analyst

• Responsible for gathering requirements for automating Mortgage Origination, Servicing and Real Estate operations using Microsoft.NET, MS office and SQL Server