PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Consultant with over 8 years of experience in designing, documenting, configuring and implementing Finance and Controlling Functions using SAP R/3 version 4.7 - ECC 6.0.
• Good experience in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue print, Documentation, Customization, and Configuration with an in-depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD, MM Modules.
• Proficient in SAP’s ASAP Methodology and well versed with business process, mapping in SAP.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Industrial Manufacturing, Chemical, Oil & Gas and Pharmaceuticals business processes.
• Proficient in design and configuration of FI sub-modules General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Bank Accounting (FI-BA).
• Proficient in configuring of CO sub-modules Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Order Accounting (CO-IOA), and Profitability Analysis CO-PA.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade / new implementation /integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Expertise in creating Company code, Posting Period Variant, Assigned document number ranges, Tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
• Expert in configuring Automatic payment program (APP) for outgoing/incoming invoices, dunning, validation and substitution, lockbox file format and lockbox processing , manual bank statement and EBS processing .
• Created and Maintained Customer Master Data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, Dunning, Down Payment, Discount, Over and Under Payment.
• Expertise in Inbound/Outbound process House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual & Electronic Bank Statement.
• Experienced in Logistics Invoice Verification, EDI Interface and IDOC Process.
• Working experience in Document splitting, foreign currency valuation and Bank Reconciliation (E-BRS).
• Responsible for the projects for A/R and FSCM and driving the blue print discussions for both A/R, Cash application Dispute and collection modules.
• Defined number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers in Asset Accounting (A/A).
• Worked on Biller direct, Bank Settings, EBS Settings, Basic Treasury management settings- risk and securities management.
• Working knowledge on Global Rollout Functionality, cross-company code transactions, and multi-currencies.
• Created many Validations and Substitution rules as per the needs of the client and involved in creating SAP queries and user exits.
• Configured Controlling area - Activate components/control indicators. Assign number ranges to controlling area and integrated FI and CO.
• Worked on Controlling part which includes Recurring entries, Testing, Revenue and Tax management, New G/L, Budgeting, Automatic Payment Run, Cash and Investment Management.
• Knowledge on Withholding Taxes also involved in Year-end closing support activities.
• Worked on various RICEF objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects . Drafted functional specifications and detailed design for reports and interfaces and coordinated the development of Object with the team .
• Conducted training sessions, provided end-user training and prepared training documents using Visio, and SnagIt tools.
• Designing the organization structure and setting it up in SAP in association with other members from different streams of the implementation team.
• Open to dynamic work environment and ability to work collaboratively with business analysts, testers, developers and other team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 Version, 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP: Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Testing.

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitable Analysis, And Product Costing.

Technical: ABAP Query, Report Painter, Report Writer, CATTS, LSMW, ASAP Methodology.

Databases: MS Access, Oracle 11g.

Application: MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, OH

Sap Fico consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support for issues involved in FI, AP, AR.
• Conducted meetings with business users to gather requirements, performed configuration changes as per change requests, developed functional and technical specifications/designs.
• Worked with business partners in the process to ensure solutions met business requirements.
• Configured Adjustment Accounts for reconciliation postings and document number range for reconciliation ledger and worked on reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers.
• Configured customer/vendor account groups, master data settings, payment methods, banking, intercompany transactions and foreign currency valuation.
• Maintained Lockbox BAI2 configuration for automatic incoming payments, reason codes for residual/partially applied payments and supported month end closing processes.
• Worked on open item transactions, G/L accounts transfer, vendor master data and vendor open items, report Painter Tools.
• Configured settings for Controlling, maintained versions and number ranges.
• Configured Asset Accounting - Asset Class, Legacy Assets transfer to SAP, NEW GL Account.
• Worked on opening/closing of production tickets, created a hierarchy for FICO for issue logs and coordinated with Change Management Team on projects relating to process flows, projects with other SD, MM & EDI teams, testing, new changes to existing processes and enhancements.
• Configured Internal order for expenses related to advertising and sales campaigns.
• Created test cases and performed functional testing to ensure conformance to requirement.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications, worked on Business planning and consolidation (BPC).
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys , assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers , document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups , automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Performed testing, validation, conversion and evaluated test scripts and test cases.
• Participated in the scheduling of the Batch jobs and their test run.
• Interacted with the business users to solve, facilitate and ensure a smooth month end and quarter end close.
• Worked on the System testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss for inter-company transactions.
• Worked on the FI related issues that includes automatic payment program run, foreign exchange rates, foreign currency valuation, electronic bank statement, house banks, bank accounts etc.
• Solved the client’s day to day queries on AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Worked on manual check deposit, electronic bank statement and payment run, clearing open items and dunning program for the client in treasury
• Involved in exchange rates set up rate types, define transaction ratios and entering exchange rates in cash management in treasury.
• Configured area of AP-house banks, recurring entries, accruals, deferrals and areas of AR-dunning, Interest Calculation and Credit Management.
• Involved in the creation of assets, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers, and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).
• Executed the asset fiscal year change, year-end asset closing and stimulating depreciation for future fiscal years.
• Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes.
• Responsible for Production support for SAP FICO module and extensive go-live assistance.
• Interacted and provided solutions to the end users on queries related to AP- Vendor transactions, Master data, check management, house banks, payment program, payment terms, deduction management, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Logistics invoice verification, Evaluated receipt settlement.
• Supporting the day - to - day business process pertaining to issues classified on severity, enhancements and new developments in the SAP FICO module.
• Responsible for all the issues and queries related to the implemented Fixed Assets module involving the depreciation run, asset retirement, inter and intra company asset transfer etc.
• Responsible for year-end close and reconciliation of sub-ledger, such AR, AP and Fixed Asset.
• Provided users with training and detailed reference training manuals.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Mapped Legacy Chart of account to SAP Chart of Account for the EMEA Release with eliminating and merging General ledger accounts wherever possible and adding company specific ledgers.
• Created the Business Process Blue Print documents for processes in AP, AR, GL, PCA, CCA, IO, COPA, CO-PC and Inter Company related scenarios.
• Worked on the New GL Functionality Document Split: Classified GL Accounts/ for Document splitting and classified GL Accounts/Document Types for Document Split Activation.
• Customer master record maintenance, account group maintenance, payment terms.
• Configured and tested AR Scenarios : Customer master data maintenance, partner functions, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting and intercompany posting.
• Configured new Asset Classes as per user request, resolved month end and year end issues for Asset Accounting, balance carry forward for FI- AA reconciliation, supplied transactional data from SAP tables for Asset Audit, Period Rules creation in different company codes and resolved Asset Issues.
• Configured new valuation method to reset foreign currency revaluation for AR/AP open items.
• Configured automatic account assignments for various transaction keys and assigned accounts for revenue account determination.
• Assisted in reports on HANA data using BO 4.0 tools - Web intelligence, Bo explorer.
• Worked with converting GL balances from legacy to S4 HANA.
• Created GL data mapping for converting GL balances from legacy to S4 HANA.
• Resolved issues with data and line items during and after GL balances from legacy to S4.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program, defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category.
• Conducted automatic payment processing including checks printing for accounts payable and dunning in accounts receivables, foreign currency valuations
• Lockbox configuration, liquidity forecast, cash management, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, posting rules, exchange rates, planning.
• Configured Electronic Bank Statement, manual bank statement, Cashed Checks and Check deposit functions.
• Defined Cash Management Account Name, distributed Cash Management and reorganized Cash Management.
• Assigned planning levels and updated types for cash management.
• Activated Project Cash Management in company code and Checked CO Number Ranges for Project Cash Management.
• Configured cash management in treasury master data and did cash management budgeting and financial budgeting.
• Configured Bank to Bank transfers (payroll transfers).
• Configured chart of depreciations and valuation of assets in various depreciation areas.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area, maintained Versions.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• Defined cost center hierarchy, cost center groups, activity types, and statistical key figures.
• Defined distribution and assessment cycles in Cost center accounting.
• Configured Operating Concern, Maintained Operating Concern Attributes.
• Created user defined reports like profitability by customer, product, and market using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Configured the settings for new plants that used process manufacturing and enabled calculation of standard cost for valuation of manufactured products. Facilitated the cost center planning and budgeting process to calculate activity prices of various operations.
• Documented system configuration and consolidation process.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.
• Participated as member of go-live team to ensure successful cutover from legacy system.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and determined the organizational structure and current business process being follow provided business analysis in the form of a Blue Print.
• Involved in AS-IS study, TO-BE analysis, gap analysis, business process re-engineering, configuration, user training, and user documentation.
• Master data extraction from legacy system, formatting as per SAP fields, mapping with SAP, data cleaning and preparing upload files.
• Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality.
• Created house banks, bank accounts, void reason codes, check lots and automatic payment program for outgoing payments.
• Involved in clearing of GR/IR account in FI-GL area during month-end procedure.
• Configured Customer master data: customer group, customer field Status, creating customer with reference and integration with Sales & Distribution Module.
• Configured incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment to meet the need of the organization.
• Setting up document types and posting keys for business transactions, general ledger, intercompany clearing and recurring entries.
• Configured payment terms for customer and vendor with holdback/retainage.
• Involved in setting up lockbox functionality including configuration, communication with bank about lock box format (used BAI2 format).
• Involved in testing various scenarios of lock box functionality, training the users and resolving various issues related to applying cash.
• Created documentation on post process of lock box including handling of payment advice correction, partially applied, on account, unprocessed scenarios.
• Used report program RFBILA00 to create a budgeted financial statement to compare plan data with actual data.
• In Cost Center Accounting, configured controlling area, standard hierarchy, cost centers, primary cost elements, secondary cost elements, order types, settlement structures and distribution cycles in controlling.
• Worked on CATTs for the Uploading of Cost Center Master Data.
• Configured Profit Center Structure, including creation of Profit Center master records and CO Object assignments to profit Centers.
• Configured automatic account assignment in PCA customizing for P&L accounts and balance sheet accounts.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), configured costing-based CO-PA and created characteristics and value fields.
• Developed multiple derivation strategies and table look ups in line with business requirements of reporting based on product lines, business lines, product hierarchy, country of origin, ship-to-party, trading partner and configured valuation using conditions and costing sheet.
• Configured PA transfer structures for transferring values from FI and Controlling.
• Customized settlement profiles, allocation structures and PA transfer structures to facilitate order settlement to CO-PA.
• Designed and developed contribution margin reports in CO-PA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Configured the basic settings for material costing and material cost estimate with quantity structure.
• Defined costing types, valuation variants, date control and quantity structure control.
• Created and analyzed standard cost estimates with quantity structure, created, executed and analyzed costing run.
• Calculating process costs and overhead costs for the manufacturing Order.
• Executed variance analysis for the process order items and settled variance analysis to Profitability Analysis.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Lionville, PA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirement for business process, prepared Business Process Procedure (BPP) for all the client requirements.
• Performed GAP Analysis and provided work around solutions to map current state to future state .
• Developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans , cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Implemented New GL, performed document splitting , parallel accounting and periodic processing.
• Resolved issues relating to payment program.
• Involved in solving and setting up Automatic Payment Program (APP), Account assignment.
• Validation and Substitutions for Profit Centre derivations.
• Month end closing activities, good knowledge of closing cockpit.
• Configured Asset accounting module, Chart of Depreciation area, Number Assignment Screen Layouts, Depreciations Keys, Asset Class. Asset transfer , Asset retirement and integration with PS module. Corrections made in the configuration settings for different company codes as per the client’s requirement.
• Customized settings for clearing, posting in foreign currencies, exchange rate differences and gains and losses on valuation, realization and translation.
• Activated new GL accounting, parallel ledgers.
• Defined document splitting and parallel currencies, setting up of Document Types for business transactions and configured of Terms of Payment.
• Integration FI with MM and SD.
• Trained employees at various levels for document entry with concepts like Reverse, hold documents, parking, reference documents, editing and document Entry screen.
• Involved in Asset accounting basic settings like Chart of depreciation, Define Depreciation Areas & Depreciation Keys, Define Depreciation Valuation Methods.
• Configuration of House Banks and assigning bank sub accounts to house banks.
• Involved in controlling like Cost element accounting to define the cost elements.
• Worked with CO-CCA to define the cost centers based on the business requirement.
• Participated in Unit testing to test the developed functionality in the SAP system and also involved in Integration and Regression testing.
• Provided end user training for the new configuration and reporting to management and business groups.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Keep all documentation up to date by team on share point of time.
• Providing day to day operational and process support to users.
• Preparation of User manual Documentation.
• Had discussions with process owner system developers and end users.
• Resolved User issues on timely basis.
• Migration to New GL - Customizing of New Ledger Accounting, creation of Migration Plan, Test Migration, Validation and Actual Migration
• Attended KT sessions & updated knowledge with new issues.
• Responsible for Month end closing activities.
• Receiving of tickets Tool and analyzing them to know ticket involves configuration changes or requires new enhancements or can be solved at this level.
• Providing production support to the users.
• Maintaining documentation for Change Requests.
• Analyzing and providing solutions on the issues raised by the client.
• Coordinating with the customers and Business Integrators in resolving the Trouble Tickets and Change Requests within SLA's.
• Worked closely with functional consultants of other modules to resolve the incidents
• Provided day to day operational and process support to end-users

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0