SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of SAP experience across all primary modules (FI, CO, MM, SD)
• Experienced in multiple sectors in FI/CO Design Realization, BPR, Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Integration, Testing, and Go - Live & Support.
• Four full Life Cycle Implementation.
• Industry experience in Chemical,Financial,Engineering, Retail and Telecommunication
• In depth understanding of SAP FI/CO modules. Experience with SAP configuration and testing in the areas of logistics (FI/CO).
• Ability in implementation, configuration and customization of GL, AP, AR, AA, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Order, CO-PA and PCA.
• Cross-functional business experience with an understanding of the logistics impact to finance.
• Excellent experience in SAP ERP Design Document Review and Findings, Legacy to ERP Interface Design Documentation, SAP ERP Financials Development, Interface/API Code Packages, Functional/Unit Testing and SAP ERP Financials Functional Specifications along with Test plan/script development and training roll out plan for end users.
• Experienced with full scope ERP implementations including integration with Materials Management (MM), Production, Sales and Distribution (SD).
• Solid analytical capabilities to evaluate issues or new business requirements.
• Strong business acumen, project management skills, excellent verbal and written skills and professional demeanor.
• Multi-tasking skills: ability to work on a number of deadline driven tasks simultaneously with a sense of urgency, Ability to work with all levels. Flexibility to work in a changing environment with rapidly changing deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: Financial Accounting, Company Code, Functional Area, Fiscal year Variant.

General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL): Creating Chart of Accounts, Number ranges, creating G/L Account and creating an account in the Company Code area.

New General Ledger: Expertise in ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0, Ledger Configuration, Parallel Accounting, Document Splitting, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel currency.

Account Payable (AP): Set Tolerance for Vendors and Employees, House Bank, Maintaining Check Register, Configure Automatic Payment Program, Vendor Master Data, Voiding a Cheque/Check, Configure the line item settings, Payment Terms, Clearing of GR/IR account, Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV).

Account Receivable (AR): Set Tolerance for Customers and employees, Customer Account Groups, Allocate Number Ranges to Customer Groups, Customer Master Record, Lock Box configuration for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 format.

Treasury and Cash Management: Configured and tested the Lock Box program for account Receivable, Automatic Bank statement processing and manual bank statement and mapping external Transaction code to posting rules

Asset Accounting: Configuring Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Creation of chart of Depreciation, creation and retirement of assets, In-house creation of assets, depreciation posting, depreciation Run, Change the year for asset accounting.

Reporting: Financial Statement Version, Simple Financial Statement, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement and use of BW for reporting. Report Painter, Report Writer and Drilldown reporting.

Cost Element/ Cost Centre Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the Cost Elements/Cost Centers, Reconciliation Ledger, Allocation Cycle and Segment, Settlement Structure.

Product Costing: Product costing procedure for various clients, Material Cost Estimate with Quality Structure, Bill of Materials (BOM), Valuation Variants, Routings, Settlement Structures, and Integration with SD, MM and CO-PA.

Profit Centre Accounting (PCA): Configuring and Customizing the Basic settings, maintaining Profit Centre hierarchy, assignments, and CO-Objects to Profit Centre, Distribution and assessments of Costs, Planning and Development of reports.

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Configuring and Customizing the Operating 11 Concern Characteristics, Value Fields, Maintaining the Derivation Rules and Valuation, Creating Drilldown Reports.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Salisbury, Maryland

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a team member, involved in all phases of the project s Full Life Cycle Implementation.
• Performed assessment of business requirement, mapping with SAP R/3 functionality and assisted in planning of cost, Budgeting and commitment using WBS. f full order to cash and procure to pay process.
• Implementation of FI (GL, AR, AP) and CO settings on the development server and ultimate transportation on to the testing and production servers.
• ERP structure and Financial Accounting global settings: key settings being company code, Business area, fiscal year variants, field status variant, open and close posting periods, document types and document number ranges and validations. dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing. documentation for the Fixed Assets module for the client from scratch. Worked on testing the new Fiscal Year Variant and its impact on Fixed Assets. Fixed Production support issues related to Fixed Assets.
• Handled awareness issues on executing transactions. Find the solution to the particular problem. Test the solution to the testing client. The problem resolution to the user.
• Resolved problems pertaining to SAP transactions.
• Involved in integration issues in SAP from SD and MM modules to the FI module.
• Involved in Final Preparation (Final integration test and validation, End User Training, Quality checks)
• Based on the Business Blue Print already finalized, configured the system for FI and CO and thoroughly tested the business processes finalized.
• Involvement FI & Co testing with specific UAT’s in development and Q&A Environment. User training and sign off.? Transported Customer, Vendor and GL Master Data from legacy system in to SAP through LSMW. Upload of opening balance through Account Assignment Model
• As a member of FI/CO team my responsibilities included design, configuration, testing and re-engineering of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Interaction with client to configure Vendor/Customer groups, setup Vendor/Customer Master Records and assign reconciliation accounts in G/L.
• Configured Automatic Payment Processing (APP) for outgoing payments, Vendors and inter-company payment using In-House cash, Payment using Direct Debit, Commission and royalties, Vendor Down payments, partial payments, Interface bank through EDI, Employee down Payments, Vendor down payments Credit Notes in Account Payable.
• In Account Payable, Configured automatic Payment Program (APP).
• Configured the new House Bank and bank determination order in account payable.
• Configured in order to pull out lock box file daily twice as agreed upon schedule with the bank (Bank of America).
• Supported all phases of the project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of solution as well as live production support and end use trainings.

Environment: SAP R/3 Ver. 4.7

Confidential

SAP AP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project and followed ASAP methodology.
• Understood AS-IS process and helped gathering the requirements for the TO-Be process and participated in GAP analysis and user meeting to help client understand functional requirements.
• Performed FI testing (FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA & FI-GL).
• Conducting and Coordinating Business Blue print workshops for understanding client requirements. the business scenario in the Q/A database and generate issue log to track issues in the following areas.
• General Ledger/ Chart of Accounts, Accounts Receivable.
• Preparation of business blue print deliveries. The task involved identification of data conversions required, interfaces needed.
• Collaborative work with the key users in the documentation of “As-is process”.
• Performed data validation and account determination for mapping of the processes on to the SAP R/3 system.
• Gap analysis with realization of open issues and design of best fit functionalities.
• Educating the client on FI and CO Master and transaction data information with Intercompany processing details.
• Testing of full order to cash and procure to pay process
• Configured Automatic Payment Processing (APP) for outgoing payments, Vendors and inter-company payment using In-House cash, Payment using Direct Debit, Commission and royalties, Vendor Down payments, partial payments, Interface bank through EDI, Employee down Payments, Vendor down payments Credit Notes in Account Payable.
• In Account Payable, Configured automatic Payment Program (APP).
• Configured integration with GL accounting to new GL features of leading ledger and sub ledger posting according to needs of parallel valuation.
• Created Lock Box account to clear out though the electronic bank statements processing into the main lock box account. Created over/under payments and un- allowed deductions as well as customer discount accounts to facilitate the lock box clearing process into appropriate G/L accounts.
• Involved in configuration of costing based COPA and account based COPA, defined Operating concerns and Operating Concern attributes. Created Characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques such as table lookups and derivation rules to determine value of characteristics.
• Interaction with client to configure Vendor/Customer groups, setup Vendor/Customer Master Records and assign reconciliation accounts in G/L.
• In Account Payable, Configured automatic Payment Program
• Performed User Acceptance testing, and wrote test scripts in integration testing complete business cycle across the sub modules were tested integration of FI with SD and MM.
• Involved in Post implementation maintenance support in FI and CO modules.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential . Portland, OR

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project.
• Actively participated in business blue Print (AS-IS, TO BE analysis. Fit-Gap analysis). Prepared organization structure.
• Configured charts of accounts, Posting Period Variant and created new G/L accounts for accounting to permit timely reporting.
• Configured Automatic Payment Processing (APP) for outgoing payments, Vendors and intercompany payment using In-House cash, Payment using Direct Debit, Commission and royalties, Vendor Down payments, partial payments, Interface bank through EDI, Employee down Payments, Vendor down payments Credit Notes in Account Payable.
• Testing of full order to cash and procure to pay process.
• Successful Implementation of FI (GL, AR, AP) and CO settings on the development server and ultimate transportation on to the testing and production servers.
• Configured ERP structure and Financial Accounting global settings: key settings being company code, Business area, fiscal year variants, field status variant, open and close posting periods, document types and document number ranges and validations.
• Configured the new House Bank and bank determination order in account payable.
• Configured FI integration with SD and MM modules by automatic account determination.
• In Account Payable, Configured automatic Payment Program
• Performed User Acceptance testing, and wrote test scripts in integration testing complete business cycle across the sub modules were tested integration of FI with SD and MM.
• In CCA, created primary and secondary cost elements. Activity types. Cost center category, document number, Configured / Maintained cost element Groups as well.
• Performed assessment of business requirement, mapping with SAP R/3 functionality and assisted in planning of cost, Budgeting and commitment using WBS.
• In COPA, Configured both costing based COPA and account based COPA, defined Operating concerns and Operating Concern attributes. Created Characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques such as table lookups and derivation rules to determine value of characteristics. .
• Interaction with client to configure Vendor/Customer groups, setup Vendor/Customer Master Records and assign reconciliation accounts in G/L..
• Configured in order to pull out lock box file daily twice as agreed upon schedule with the bank (Bank of America).
• Supported all phases of the project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of solution as well as live production support and end use trainings.