SUMMARY:

• Confidential is having 14+ years of experience which includes 12+ years of SAP Functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user and support in SAP FI/CO.
• Experience in Financial Accounting (FI) includes General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Special Purpose Ledger.
• Expertise in Controlling (CO) includes Cost Center Accounting (CO - CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC), and Internal Orders.
• 4+ years of Experience in FSCM includes Credit Management, Collection Management, Dispute Management and Biller Direct.
• Three full life cycle implementation experience including Business Process Re-engineering, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Testing and Integration of FI/CO with SD and MM.
• Strong Integration experience of FI/CO with SD, MM & PP, and thorough understanding of FI/CO, SD and MM function modules. Conceptually good at configuring procure to pay(PTP) and order to cash (OTC) in SAP
• Strong Knowledge in FSCM in Credit and collection Management.
• Implemented Financial Closing Cockpit 200.
• Participated in Configurations, Upgrades, Roll-Outs, Supports and phases.
• Configuration of House Banks, Manual Bank Statement, Bill of Exchange, Lock box processing and cash journal
• Implemented High Radius tool for clients on SAP FSCM.
• Working knowledge of data migration tools using BDC, LSMW and CATT.
• Worked on User-Exits and Background jobs.
• Experience in ABAP/4 Programming with queries, Interfaces, Reports, SAP Scripts, Dialog Programming, and Smart forms.
• Worked on S/4 HANA SFIN 1610/1709 and CFIN 1610
• Knowledge of RAR 1.2
• Worked on Migration of data from legacy Non- SAP systems like HFM, JAVA and PeopleSoft.
• Design and implementation of Data Archiving and Document Archiving. Expertise and Configuration and Customization in ADK, DaRT, Archive Link.
• Extensively worked with ABAP team in support of developing functional specifications for (RICE) Reports, Interfaces, Conversion programs and Enhancements.
• Worked on global rollouts across regions in America’s, Asia-pacific and Europe.
• Experience working with Solution Manager (PM Tools) for Testing, Reporting and Automation.
• Worked with CaliberRM tool which is used for Requirements Management.
• Experience working with HP Quality Center for Testing, Reporting and Automation.
• Expertise in providing to end-user and conducting workshops.
• Good knowledge of different procurement processes like direct, indirect, third party, sub-contracting, stock transport orders, stock transfers, account assigned POs, asset procurement, consignment etc.,
• Experience in performing Unit Test (UT), Integration Test (IT) and User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines. Highly energetic personality with structured work habits and good personal time management.

SAP FICO SKILLS:

FI Enterprise Structure: Company, Company code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variant

General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Key Configuration, Automatic Account Determination, G/L Display configurations, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges and Document Types.

Accounts Payable: Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts, Check lots, Payment Program Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master Data and Vendor Groups.

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

Treasury: Bank Account G/L Structure, Lockbox Configuration, Treasury groupings and Exchange Rates.

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

Integration: FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules.

Controlling: Configuration of Controlling Area, activate Components/Control indicators, Assign number ranges to Controlling area and Maintaining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy.

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

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

Internal Orders: Creation of Order type Real and Statistical, Creation of IO group, Planning order-wise, Maintain Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile.

Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern Development, Characteristic Derivation, Assigning Values to Value Fields, CO-PA planning, Activation of CO-PA, CO-PA Reporting and Creating Drilldown Reports.

Profit Center Accounting: Configuration and Customization of Basic Settings, Maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignment of CO Objects to Profit Centers, Actual Posting Maintenance, Assessment of Costs, Planning and Development of Reports.

Product Costing: Configuration of Product Costing and SD functionality to support Make to Order and Make to Stock scenarios.

ABAP SKILLS:

• Classical and Interactive Reports, ALV Reports (Grid & List).
• BDC, LSMW, CATT and QTP.
• Logical Data Base, Conversion and Interface.
• Module Pool programs Development including Screens & Menu painter.
• SAP Layout/SAP Script and SmatForms.
• SAP Enhancements includes User Exits, BADIs.
• SAP Data Dictionary (Tables, Views, Data Elements, Domain, Search Lock objects).
• Worked on ALE, RFC, BAPI, IDOC, EDI, and WORKFLOW

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP R/3 ECC 6.0/ ECC 5.0/4.6B/ 4.6C/ 4.7
• Windows 95/98/NT/2000, UNIX, MS DOS
• ABAP/4, SQL, HTML, C, C ++
• Access, Power Point, MSWord, MS: Excel
• Oracle 8.x/9.x, MS SQL Server, MS Access

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Senior SAP S4 HANA Simple Finance-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Configuring GL, CO, AR and AP modules.
• Implemented S4 HANA simple finance in AR, AP and FSCM.
• Worked on creating Fiori Apps and pages based on specific AR roles.
• Implemented LTMC (migration cockpit) objects for data upload.
• Implemented custom reports and enhancements based on client requirements.
• Worked on setting up automatic payment process.
• Implemented Dunning process for EMEA
• Implemented Customer statement and payment advises.
• Worked with Global tax team to implement tax changes AR and AP process.
• Worked with One-source Tax team to rightly map AR and AP data to determine taxes.
• Created various substitutions and validations In FI.
• Implemented Financial Closing Cockpit and activated new functions (FIN ACC LOCAL CLOSE 3, FIN ACC LOCAL CLOSE 2)
• Worked with HANA-BW team to create/Design new CDS views for AR reporting.
• Integration: FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules.
• Worked on Automatic account assignment for MM/SD transaction (OBYC).
• Worked on vendor consignment process setup.
• Worked with Billing team for zero consolidated invoices and revenue and tax account determination
• Worked with Billing team for SD and Confidential integration setup.
• Implemented AR reporting in HANA by enhancing the data at sub engagement.
• Implemented a Global reporting solution to feed 160 downstream systems with a common interface.
• Implemented Confidential to have the reporting done by static week and sub engagement.
• Implemented new Reserve program based on client requirements.
• Implemented SAP BODS for converting legacy Finance data.
• Implemented Finance reports in HANA data ware house.
• Implemented High radius advanced accelerators for SAP FSCM module.
• Worked on FSCM
• Implemented Collection management
• Implemented Credit management
• Implemented Dispute management.
• Created data conversion objects for business partners and extended it all roles.

Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential to update the functional, technical and other project relevant documentation.
• Worked closely with Confidential CHARM tool for change management process design.
• Implemented Dunning and Segment of accounts. Automated the process to send email PDF forms of dunning and SOA.
• Implemented AP work flow for invoicing process.
• Implemented centralized payment process for Confidential .
• Integrated In-House Cash with Bank Communication Management for features like Merge Payments, Approve Payments, Bank Statement Monitor and Reservation for Cross-Payment Run Payment Media.
• Integration: FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules.
• Worked on Automatic account assignment for MM/SD transaction (OBYC).
• Worked on vendor consignment process setup.
• Worked on Setting up Central Finance system as part S/4 HANA SFIN 1511.
• Implemented Revenue Recognition process.
• FI accounts and their settings
• SD item categories and their settings
• Revenue recognition category on item category level
• Account determination
• Implemented time based revenue recognition in contracts/orders
• Implemented service based revenue recognition in contracts/orders
• Implemented time based and billing related revenue recognition
• Accounts Receivables:- Cash applications
• Implemented EBS with Chase and Bank of America.
• Worked with business to reconcile the payment process.
• Implemented Customer ACH payments using XML interface with bank.
• Implemented lockbox with user exits for addressing client complex scenarios.
• Implemented 3rd party EBS tool SAX, to automate cash application process.
• Implemented Cash Journal for petty cash.
• Worked on FSCM:
• Implemented Global FSCM credit management template and rolled out to the countries with local requirements.
• Worked with PI team to setup the integration between ECC and FSCM.
• Upgraded FSCM versions to get all the new features provided by SAP.
• Implemented Global Collections and Dispute management.
• Customized dispute management Work flow, based on client requirements.
• Worked on Migration using SNP tool.
• Mapped the master data objects(Customers, vendors, Confidential .tc)
• Designed strategy for GL balance and items transfer and mapped the conversion data.
• Designed the AP/AR open items conversion to new system
• Mapped and converted FSCM master data in new SAP target system.
• Implemented Closing cockpit to efficiently perform month end, quarterly and yearend close.
• Production Support after go-live for warranty period. Ticket Handling, Critical Jobs monitoring, Scheduled jobs maintenance, Recovery of the failed jobs, Handling User queries, Enhancement of the existing jobs.
• Analyzing runtime errors and debugging ABAP programs to recover the failed jobs.
• Responsible for preparing Test Plan and Test Strategy documents in the beginning of the project and Test Closure Report at the end of the Testing project.
• Preparing the Traceability Matrix with the list of Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Tester Name, Start Date and End Date of the test cases, Requirements mapped with the Test case.
• Used Confidential for executing test cases.
• Coordinating with GRC Security team to identify the test roles and test id’s for role based testing.

Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, Niles, IL

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on complete OTC process.
• Responsible for posting POS (Point of sale) transactions to SAP.
• Responsible for Revenue Account determination, Account keys, pricing procedure and condition types.
• Created various substitutions and validations In FI.
• Implemented Financial Closing Cockpit and activated new func(FIN ACC LOCAL CLOSE 3, FIN ACC LOCAL CLOSE 2)
• Written Functional specs for development team for various Custom Objects.
• Resolved the issues by applying the OSS notes and the corresponding SAP best practices
• Implemented mapping for CFIN.
• Implemented Intercompany process
• Maintained FI Intercompany Setup.
• Developed intercompany STO process for direct and indirect sale.
• Worked on Drop ship scenarios.
• Developed automatic EDI for invoicing.
• Also worked on the changes to conditions type and pricing procedure for the additional posting for the intercompany transactions
• Debugging ABAP code and finding the Root cause.
• Involved in the design and testing of BW reports for AP and AR
• Also, worked on the integrated planning, value flows from SD, FI and MM, settlement of production variances and profitability reports in Confidential
• Responsible of Complete testing cycle including Unit, Integration and User acceptance testing.
• Accounts Receivables/Lockbox
• Configured payment terms, correspondences, Automatic outgoing payments for customers
• Worked with XI team and Payment warehouse for interfacing of credit cards and pay metric systems.
• Configured Lockbox payment settings for incoming payments. Configured Check related Lockbox payments and EFT payments in lockbox configuration
• Enhanced Lockbox program with custom requirements to improve matching criteria and hit rate in lockbox application
• Worked with business users to show the prototyping of business requirement in prototype client.
• Configuration: Whole configuration was done using Solution Manager by updating the business processes.
• Worked on FSCM:
• Defined Credit groups, Credit representative groups and created custom enhancements.
• Configured Dispute case relevant Attribute profiles, and values for attributes etc.
• Activated dispute management and configured automatic status changes
• Configured automatic write off settings for dispute cases
• Implemented workflows for Dispute case write offs and Credit limit approval processes
• Defined collection strategies and assigned collection strategies to collection groups.
• Each collection strategy was assigned to collection rules and each rule is assigned valuation points.
• Created customized reports needed for Credit & collections and Debt &Recovery department
• Configured Biller direct

Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, Berkley Heights, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA, FSCM and PCA.
• Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods
• Implemented Credit card processing
• Worked with Paymetric to enhance the Standard SAP credit card programs and account determinations.
• Implemented Financial Closing Cockpit and optimized month end and year end closing process.
• Implemented Dispute management and collection management in SAP FSCM
• Implemented High Radius tool to automatically get the claim copies, POD etc. and attach them to the dispute cases.
• Enhanced EBS program to determine the profit center based on the store merchant ID.
• Trained the user with Credit process and XIPAY GUI.
• Configured and maintained FI/CO substitution/validation rules, account assignment tables, etc.
• Created functional design documentation for FI/CO enhancements
• Provided guidance for integration of SD & MM modules into existing FI/CO environment
• Conducted Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing, tracked and documented results, reported and fixed issues
• Responsible for troubleshooting issues for Finance and Accounting groups which involved analyzing problems, configuring, testing, and documentation of fixes
• Acted as liaison between the finance department and the technical BI team to design, test, and deliver required reports to the finance department
• Implemented Revenue Recognition process (RAR)
• FI accounts and their settings
• SD item categories and their settings
• Revenue recognition category on item category level
• Account determination
• Worked on FSCM
• Configured Collections management, credit management and Dispute managements
• Defined Collection rules, collection strategies, Collection profiles, collection segments, collection groups and collection specialists as per business requirements
• Defined Resubmissions, settings for Promise to pay
• Configured RMS ID, Attribute profiles and status profiles.
• Worked on creation on FSCM business partner master data and conversion of business partner master data
• Configured Credit segments, Risk classes, checking rules and blocking reasons
• Configured and worked on integration of accounts receivable and Sales and Distribution with credit management. Resolved issues in integration
• Defined Credit groups, Credit representative groups and created custom enhancements.
• Configured Dispute case relevant Attribute profiles, and values for attributes etc.
• Activated dispute management and configured automatic status changes
• Configured automatic write off settings for dispute cases
• Implemented workflows for Dispute case write offs and Credit limit approval processes
• Created Report Painter reports in support of new functionality (three expense analysis reports for analysis by cost center, by profit center, by GL account group)
• Created and maintained the G/L Master data and Cost Elements for all company codes.
• Monitored and fixed issues related to the batch jobs for the month end accruals reversals.
• Responsible for FI period closure and reconciliation for month, quarter & year-end.
• Conducted various and learning program within organization.
• Raised various tickets with SAP and implemented OSS Notes to fix standard system issue.

Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business process configuration controls within SAP.
• Running workshops for User .
• Created Business process procedure for the FI- transactions.
• Set up the Integration of FI with MM, SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with FI, Settings for Revenue Recognition & Revenue Item Category.
• Involved in unit testing phase of Integration FI with MM, SD.
• Worked to create test scripts and test documents.
• Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL.
• Worked on Automatic account assignment for MM/SD transaction (OBYC).
• Implemented Revenue Recognition process (RAR)
• FI accounts and their settings
• SD item categories and their settings
• Revenue recognition category on item category level
• Account determination
• Implemented time based revenue recognition in contracts/orders
• Implemented service based revenue recognition in contracts/orders
• Implemented time based and billing related revenue recognition
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.
• Set-up via IMG 3-way match, AP tolerance for item amount check.
• Worked in setting up automatic account determination for AR and AP.
• GL and AR configurations such as accounts, Account groups, field status groups, Account determination procedures, setting up worklist (Alternative Payer), tolerances, selection and clearing process.
• Worked in Account group’s creation, Screen layout Configuration for company code view for Vendor, customer and field status groups for GL.
• Designed interfaces with third party systems namely ARIBA (for purchase invoices), Vertex O series (for sales and use tax processing) and GETPAID (Collection and Dispute management).
• Worked in requirements gathering, scope finalization and creating proto type.
• Mapped new condition types to value fields in Confidential wherever missing and updated historical data.
• Assisted in designing and managing the use of Solution Manager ( Confidential ) for Business Blueprint, Business Process Procedures, Configuration Documents, Baseline Test Scripts and Integration Test Scripts.
• Implemented High Radius Advanced modules for SAP FSCM.
• Used LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis
• Prepared functional specifications and functional effort estimation for the development objects and change requests.
• Worked on FSCM
• Configured Collections management, credit management and Dispute managements
• Defined Collection rules, collection strategies, Collection profiles, collection segments, collection groups and collection specialists as per business requirements
• Defined Resubmissions, settings for Promise to pay
• Configured RMS ID, Attribute profiles and status profiles.
• Worked on creation on FSCM business partner master data and conversion of business partner master data
• Configured Biller direct.
• Configured Credit segments, Risk classes, checking rules and blocking reasons
• Configured and worked on integration of accounts receivable and Sales and Distribution with credit management. Resolved issues in integration
• Defined Credit groups, Credit representative groups and created custom enhancements.
• Configured Dispute case relevant Attribute profiles, and values for attributes etc.
• Activated dispute management and configured automatic status changes
• Configured automatic write off settings for dispute cases
• Implemented workflows for Dispute case write offs and Credit limit approval processes
• Involved in change management control process and HPQC defect management process.
• Worked extensively on designing queries and coding in the query for order backlog and revenue reporting by country and by business units.

Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant

Confidential, Valhalla, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Post Production support and new enhancements and SAP TEAM LEAD experience as well.
• Worked closely with business users and with ABAPers to help understand the business requirements in development.
• Worked on postproduction issues and enhanced functionalities individually and with other ABAP developers for complex scenarios as per the client requirements.
• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records and Assign Reconciliation Accounts in G/L.
• Configured house banks and maintained accounts in house banks. Defining Check Lots, Payment Terms, Set Up bank determination for all payment transactions, define posting keys and posting rules for check deposit.
• Worked on setting up the EDI 820 payment remittance for the customers, used basictype PEXR2002 and the message type REMADV.
• Worked on configuring the lock box process, did setup the lockbox processing for BAI2 format and also EDI 820 and 823.
• Designed end to end Lockbox process
• Maintain Control Parameters (OBAY).
• Maintain Posting Data (OBAX).
• Created Lockbox Addresses for House Banks (OB10).
• For EDI processing: Created EDI Port, EDI Partner with Inbound Parameters, Created user exits.
• Created new planer profile for Profit center plan budget uploads via Excel, also created new layout for to upload data for 1 to 12 months with Tcode 7KEA
• Assigning Profit Center to the Respective Cost Centers, Material Master, Production orders, fixed assets, and Sales Orders through Sales Order Substitutions in Profit Center Hierarchy and Transferred Revenue Accounts and Balance Sheet Accounts to Profit Centers in Profit Center Hierarchy.
• Developed interface with banks/customers/ vendors using different IDOCS and EDI.
• Basic type PEXR2002 Message Type REMADV
• Basic type PEXR2002 Message Type PAYEXT3
• Basic type FINSTA01 Message Type LOCKBX
• Basic type FIDCCP02 Message Type FIDCC2
• Basic type ACC DOCUMENT02 Message Type ACC DOCUMENT
• Basic type ACC GL POSTING01 Message Type ACC GL POSTING
• Configured cost allocation programs like assessments and distributions.
• Configured planning versions, planning layout and planner profile in cost centre and profit centre planning.
• Involved in Customizing and Creating Validations, Substitutions and Sets.
• Created credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers.
• Worked on AR configuration including billing, incoming payment processing, account clearing, GL account assignments from SD, payment terms, Credit Management, dunning and customer statements.
• Configured Credit Management and Defined Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, Line Layout, and Reconciliation Accounts.
• Worked on AP configuration requirements, including invoices, outgoing payment processing, account clearing, settings for payment program and reason codes to write-off the differences to G/L accounts
• Worked on FSCM:
• Bank Settings, EBS Settings, Lockbox, Basic Treasury management settings- risk and Credit management.
• Worked on Credit management, Collections management and Dispute management
• Created workflow for credit management for credit approvals
• Created workflow for dispute case write off processes
• Worked on creating collection management reports. Worked on dispute cases issues.
• Worked on enhancements of Dispute cases.
• Configured integration of AP and AR modules with Logistics modules MM and SD respectively.
• Created Internal Orders, assigned the costs incurred by Internal Orders from different Cost Centers, distributed the costs incurred by Internal Orders to the respective Cost Centers.
• Configured CO-PA functionality for cost-based and account-based methods, Created Characteristics and Value fields in Operating Concern. Configured Derivation procedures and valuation rules used to supplement CO-PA obtained from source modules FI, CO, SD and MM.
• Modify the existing Confidential reports and forms to show correct information. Some of the sales order types were missing in the Confidential reports which had to be included.
• Worked with the BW team. BW wanted to pull data from Confidential tables, and they required some new characteristics like sales representative, bill to party etc.

Senior SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Global template of SAP by consolidating business processes.
• Lead the team with business users to understand the business requirements and prepared the business blueprints.
• Worked closely with business users and with ABAPers to help understand the business requirements in development.
• Worked in business consolidation of Accounts payable, Accounts receivables and Treasury and worked with multi-currency environment.
• Incorporated the new requirements from business into configuration and development.
• Designed the functional specifications for the business requirements for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and workflows (RICEFW)
• Prepared the functional specification documents for all the processes related to Accounts Payable Invoice/Credit approval automation (Non PO - FB60 & FB65 and PO - MIRO) (via SAP - Mark view Workflow).
• Wrote all the functional specification documents for all the (Interfaces - Invoice header, Payment history, Vendor Master, Void Check) processes related to the Custom Confidential process.
• Coordinated with the offshore team (including estimating the development effort - LOE) for all the development related to AP Workflow related components and Vendor portal interfaces.
• Wrote the functional specification document for a custom process within Confidential in to automating the existing manual process (AP Expedite Invoice or Payment process).
• Was responsible for all Enhancements in Accounts receivables and Treasury.
• Experience in SAP FSCM Credit management, Collection & Dispute Management.
• Designed the Interfaces for Electronic bank statements and Lockbox statements.
• Accounts Receivables/Lockbox
• Configured payment terms, correspondences, Automatic outgoing payments for customers
• Worked with XI team and Payment warehouse for interfacing of credit cards and pay metric systems.
• Configured Lockbox payment settings for incoming payments. Configured Check related Lockbox payments and EFT payments in lockbox configuration
• Enhanced Lockbox program with custom requirements to improve matching criteria and hit rate in lockbox application
• Worked with business users to show the prototyping of business requirement in prototype client.
• Configuration: Whole configuration was done using Solution Manager by updating the business processes.
• Worked on FSCM:
• Defined Credit groups, Credit representative groups and created custom enhancements.
• Configured Dispute case relevant Attribute profiles, and values for attributes etc.
• Activated dispute management and configured automatic status changes
• Configured automatic write off settings for dispute cases
• Implemented workflows for Dispute case write offs and Credit limit approval processes
• Defined collection strategies and assigned collection strategies to collection groups.
• Each collection strategy was assigned to collection rules and each rule is assigned valuation points.
• Created customized reports needed for Credit & collections and Debt &Recovery department
• Configured Biller direct
• Involved in the Purchase to Pay (Procure to Pay) analysis for Accounts Payables and integration with Materials Management with Finance Department.
• Account receivable: Defined and configured customer account groups, payment terms, and payment methods for customers, Special GL indicators, Interest calculation, Automatic and Manual payment incoming settings for customers. Configured outgoing payment settings for customers and configured direct debit setup for customers.
• Developed interface between SAP - SAP systems and SAP - NON-SAP systems using ALE/EDI IDOC. Used EDI format 820 to Advise payee (supplier) of the details of the payment, typically used with an EFT Electronic Funds Transfer and to Advise payee of any adjustments reflected in the payment
• New GL:
• Configured Leading & Non Leading Ledgers: Assigned Scenarios To Ledgers, Assigned accounting principles, Created Ledger Groups
• Involved in configuring Document Splitting: Classified Document Types, GL accounts, Defined document splitting characteristics for GL and CO
• Defined Valuation Methods & Valuation Areas &assigned valuation Areas to Accounting Principles, configured Foreign Currency Valuation
• Treasury and Cash management: Configured Electronic bank statements for Bank of America and bank of Montreal with BAI2 file formats.
• Configured external transaction types and assigned with posting rules. Configured the posting rule specifications for each transaction type given banks.
• Configured cash management, liquidity forecast and cash concentration.
• Development: Improved searching criteria for Electronic bank statements to improve the matching rate. Improved the searching criteria for Lockbox statements to improve the matching rate.
• Converted the master data using the LSMW tool for vendor, customers and GL.
• Involved in the Functional unit testing (FUT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business users and resolved the issues in testing.

Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential, Harmony, CT

Responsibilities:

• Lead an off shore team of 4 people for developing world wide Confidential Business Data Standards (BDS) for Confidential Harmony.
• Defining and Customizing Document Types A/R as well as A/P, Customizing Field Status Groups, Defining Account Groups and Screen Layouts, Maintaining Terms of Payment, Defining Interest Calculation Types and Rates, Defining accounts for Automatic postings, Defining Dunning Procedures with two Level Dunning Notices, Customizing Methods of Payment and Automatic Payment Procedure for Incoming and Out Going Payments.
• Defining Tax Procedures, Condition Types, Jurisdictions, Tax Codes, and Maintaining Tax Rates for GST and PST to calculate input and Output Taxes for Canadian transactions. Customizing SAP to calculate tax using legacy system (Sabrix) for United States taxation.
• Defining House Banks, Defining Lock Boxes for House Banks, Defining Control Parameters and Posting Data for Auto Cash with Lock Box, and Customizing configuration for Importing Electronic Bank Statement.
• In Asset Accounting, coordinated in transfers of legacy system items.
• Configured Acquisition and Retirement for Assets.
• Configured Asset classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys.
• Configured depreciation methods for assets.
• Configured Check related Lockbox payments and EFT payments in lockbox configuration
• Configuring Integration aspects of SD and MM with FI/CO.
• Preparing documentation Functional Specs, worked intensively on Enhancements for LockBox and Electronic Bank Statement.
• Configured the House Banks, G/L Accounts for Bank Accounts and Bank Account Reconciliation Program, Integration of MM and SD with FI Account Assignment.
• Designed and Created Cost Center Hierarchy. Created Cost Centers, Designed and Created Assessment Cycles to Allocate Overhead Costs.
• Involved in Supporting FI/CO Reconciliation during Month-end, Quarter-end and Year-end close.
• Involved in Developing Reports required by using the Report writer and Report painter Tree in SD, MM, FI and PP.
• New GL:
• Worked on Leading and Non Leading Ledgers, Ledgers are customized and assigned to Ledgers, created Ledger Groups, assigned Accounting principles.
• Defined Valuation Methods and Valuation Areas. Assigned the Valuation Areas to Accounting Principles.
• Worked on multiple chart of accounts, foreign currencies, global templates and global roll outs
• Maintained planning version, planner profiles and planning layouts for planning in controlling.
• Development of test scenarios/ test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing and System Testing.

Environment: SAP R/3, version ECC 6.0

Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP.
• General Ledger: Created the financial statement version as per the client requirements to assist with month end close reconciliation, GL posting issues - posting period, created new GL accounts to meet the requirements.
• Accounts Receivable / Accounts payable: configured manual incoming and outgoing payments, house banks, ranking order, bank accounts, check management, automatic payment program to meet the client specific requirements, worked on random partial payment through AP automatic payment program issue, recurring payments issues, defined terms of payment, tolerances for customers, performed mass changes of correspondent codes and dunning clerks, configured the credit management, running/editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices, worked on integration of FI with SD and MM.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation with Asset Classes and the Master Data populated by using LSMW from the earlier legacy system and configuration, conversions
• Worked on FSCM:
• Created Risk categories based on information from Collections management department and updated master data using an interface.
• Worked on write up and write off processes to clear bad debts using workflows.
• Defined collection strategies and assigned collection strategies to collection groups.
• Each collection strategy was assigned to collection rules and each rule is assigned valuation points.
• Created customized reports needed for Credit & collections and Debt &Recovery department
• Created outbound interface to update collections management transactional data into third party system.
• Created functional specifications for FSCM modules and trained users after development
• Worked with business leads and technical team to transfer knowledge on collections management and required customization for business
• Configured Biller direct
• Responsible for creating depreciation keys for new fixed assets and depreciation testing.
• Performed integrated testing for transactions relating to fixed asset retirement with scrapping.
• Created various new asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing environment and transported them into the production.
• Experience in configuring asset classes for new fixed assets.
• Defined new tax procedures and tax codes as per new requirements.
• Performed user acceptance testing for new tax changes and moved them into the production.
• Provided SAP FI/CO tuning and troubleshooting, including the identification and resolution of performance related issues.
• Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Info records, Source list, GL uploads, Account Payables and Customer Open Account Receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Developed an interactive and ALV reports which shows the list of paid vendors for any given date with information of payment details, payment run details, check information etc
• Developed interfaces for FI annual cost upload, general ledger format entries.
• Developed technical specifications for reports, interfaces, forms, and conversions.
• Worked as quick fix of both technical and functional issues when ticket raises.
• In Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) maintained the Basic settings, Created Master Data for Profit Centers, Profit Center Groups, Dummy Profit Centers, Profit Center Hierarchy, and Activity Types.
• Involved in Maintaining Default Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions, Overhead Structure for Accrual Costs, Planning Layout and Profile.
• Provided end user support to the SAP user community.

Environment: SAP R/3, version ECC 5.0

Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full life-cycle implementation beginning from Business process review, design, configuration, testing, documentation and end-user .
• Conducted meetings with the users to understand the AS IS business processes and documented business process flow charts using Microsoft Visio. Identified the requirements and modeled TO-BE process.
• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA and PCA.
• Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Worked on Vendor/Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records.
• Defined different Validations and Substitutions as per requirement.
• Worked on LSMW for Data Uploads of Master Data.
• Lead functional & development teams on design and development of RICEFW and security system by working with BASIS/Security Teams to define requirements and perform testing of authorizations.
• Configured the settings for Sales and Use Tax.
• Designed a process for inter company billing for labor charges and developed Functional specifications for a program which will extract records from the CATSCO table which would result in an intercompany posting if they were transferred to CO. After a record is selected for the intercompany extract file, the Transfer Flag (CATSCO-TRANSFER) will be set so the record will never be transferred.
• Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to Design a global Vendor / Customer Master Record Structure.
• Worked on Order to Cash Process (OTC) involving Sales order, Delivery, Billing documents
• Worked extensively on Integration of MM and SD with FI through Automatic Account Assignment. And developed Intercompany billing process in which the sales organization belongs to another company code than the delivering plant, EDI outbound processing for intercompany billing links to EDI inbound processing for invoice receipt in FI and posting to vendor account is carried out in the selling company code. This process involves:
• Creation of Intercompany customers and vendors
• Creation of the Port and maintain output types.
• Creating a Logical Address
• Creating a Partner Profile for both Customer & Vendor
• And maintain relevant FI customizing
• Developed interface between SAP - SAP systems and SAP - NON-SAP systems using ALE/EDI IDOC. Used Basic type IDOC’s FIDCCP02 (message type FIDCC2) and ACC DOCUMENT03 (message type ACC DOCUMENT).
• Implemented interface between SAP and Sabrix Tax package, developed project plan, project proposal, and bank interfaces.
• Defined transeditor rule sets, loading Sales/ Use Tax Rates and VAT tables, defining Sabrix jurisdiction codes to SAP and managing deliverables.
• Helping in smooth month end closings in Asset Accounting.
• Worked on issues relating to Asset retirement.
• Assisted in doing asset retirement with scrapping
• Resolving all issues relating to internal order settlement, Asset Accounting issues and Accounts Payable issues
• Configured WBS element and cost structures using Project system, Worked on AUC asset class integration with project systems & internal orders.
• Created new Asset class for AUC, included complete process from creation of internal order, settlement of periodic charges to Asset under Construction (AUC) to settlement to final fixed asset.
• Worked on Asset procurement and Acquisition via a real Internal Order via an AUC
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Element Attributes.
• 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.
• Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc Configured activity types, and statistical key figures, developed Assessment, Distributions and Reposting periodic cycles and segment in Cost Center Accounting.
• Trained the business users to work with Sabrix Tax engine to analyze the tax results on overall tax-impacted transactions.
• Worked with CaliberRM tool which is used for Requirements Management.
• Prepared Integration test scripts and worked with Mercury tool (HP QC) during the SIT, UAT with the Business.
• Trained Business Process Owners and End Users and Conducted workshops.
• Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis.
• Worked as a Production Support and resolved the Production tickets logged in HP Service Center.
• Helped Project Manager in creating and updating Project Plan. Created cost estimate based on project plan and laid out procedures to calculate Return on Investments.

Environment: SAP R/3, version ECC6.0