Summary of Experience

• 8+ years of experience with2 full life cycle implementationsusing ASAP methodology.
• Experience of Financial Accounting (FI) Customization, Configuration and testing in General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Bank Accounting FI-BA, Asset Accounting FI-AA & FI - TAX in a complex business environment.
• Extensive experience in Controlling Area configuration in Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center, Internal Order, Profitability Analysis, and Product Costing.
• Implemented New GL functionalities in ECC 6.0 environment.
• Expert in GAP analysis, requirement gathering, and writing functional specification documents,
• Excellent hands on experience in reports used for internal and external purpose, worked extensively on report painter and report writer.
• Strong integration experience with MM and SD modules. Excellent understandings of procure to pay (P2P) & order to cash (OTC) processes in various industries.
• Hands on experience in data migration & conversion from legacy system to SAP using LSMW.
• Worked on global templates, global rollouts, and multiplecharts of accounts and multiple currencies.
• Experience with implementation if US GAAP and IFRS accounting principles

Proficient inFollowing Areas:

• Global Settings: Configuration of organizational structures, chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups, Fiscal year Variants, posting periods, document number ranges. Setting up of document types and posting keys for business transactions, Foreign Exchange Management.
• General Ledger: Grouping G/L accounts into various account groups, Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts payables, cross company transaction.
• New G/L: Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, periodic processing and Segment Reporting.
• Account Receivables and Payables: Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys and document types for posting and validation of business transactions. Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels Automatic payment configurations, Integration with SD and MM modules.
• Contract Account Receivables and Payables:Maintained Business partner master data, contract accounts and assigned various contracts to contract accounts, maintained customer profile, created payment terms, dunning procedures
• Asset Accounting: Creation of Chart of Depreciation, Defining Assets class, Account determination, Creation and Retirement of assets, In-house creation of Assets, Depreciation run.
• Closing: Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system.
• Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy, creating CO version and defining control indicators.
• Creation of Master data: Creation of cost center groups under the standard hierarchy, creation of cost centers including collection cost centers and allocation cost centers, creation of secondary cost elements. Setting control parameters for actual posting, Allocation characteristics for sender/receiver cost, Configuration of Assessment, distribution and reposting.
• Cost Center Accounting: basic settings (CO area, Reconciliation accounts for inter-company and inter-BA), master data (cost centers, work centers, activity types, statistical key figures, and primary/secondary cost elements), actual postings/period-end (re-postings, allocations, variances) and profitability analysis.
• Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis: Creationprofit center hierarchy, Creation of profit center and Doc No ranges of PCA, Created operating concern and controlling version, Creation of Attributes and Data structures, Configuration of CO-PA costing based and accounts based, Created CO-PA characteristics & value fields, PA settlement structures, CO-PA planning / profile / layout.

SAP FI/CO Skills

• FI: New GL, GL, AR, AP, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting and special purpose ledger
• CO: CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis
• Reporting Skills: Report Writer and Report Painter
• Integration: Heavy FI/CO integration with SD and MM

Technical Skills

• ERP System: SAP (ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B, and 3.7)
• Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Millennium/XP/Mac OX
• Office Tools: MS Word, MSExcel, MSPowerPoint

Educational Qualifications

• Master’s in Business Administration(Major: Finance and Accounting)

Snapshot of Projects

Project: Confidential
Industry: Technology
Role: Sr. FICO Consultant, New GL, CCA, PCA,COPA, Product Costing, End User Training, Testing & Reporting

Project: Confidential
Industry: Laboratories
Role: Sr. FICO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, FI-CA, FI-LA ,Testing & Reporting

Project: Confidential
Industry: Beverage
Role: FICO Consultant: Full Implementation, GL, AR, AP, CCA, PCA,

Project: Confidential
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Role: FICO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, AA, Bank Accounting.

Project: Confidential
Industry: Oil
Role: FICO Consultant: Full Implementation, Developed business process procedures, GL, AR, AP, COPA, PCA

Project: Confidential
Industry: Oil
Role: FICO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, CCA

Project: Confidential
Industry: Banking
Role: FICO Consultant Trainee: GL, AR, AP, AA, Bank Accounting, CCA, PCA and IO.

Project: Confidential
Industry: Banking
Role: Worked as an Accountant and used SAP.

Professional Experience

Confidential USA, Huston Jan 2012 - Till Date
Technology Industry
FICO Functional Consultant: New GL,COPA,COPC

New GL

• Configured Leading & Non Leading Ledgers: Assigned Scenarios To Ledgers, Assigned accounting principles GAAP and IFRS, Created Ledger Groups
• Involved in configuring Document Splitting: Classified Document Types, GL accounts, Defined document splitting characteristics like Segments and Profit Centers for GL and Cost Center for CO
• Defined Valuation Methods & Valuation Areas, Assigned valuation Areas to Accounting Principles, configured Foreign Currency Valuation

Profitability Analysis &Product Costing

• Configured settings for on line posting of FI documents to COPA Tables. And in the process modified programs of SD/FI Interface for Inter Company billing (which generated FI Documents without generating SD documents so that postings of FI can capture COPA assignments).
• Created many new characteristics / value fields and configured derivation /valuation rules through Exits to improve margin analysis involving inter-company billing/cross plant dispatches
• Created and modified COPA Reports for better management information system, including many reports where both operating area currency as well as company code currency were utilized
• Met management’s long pending requirement of creating, releasing multiple cost estimates for the products where split costing was active using the concept of different production version for different valuation type for the same material. Also configured COPA to capture different cost based upon different valuation type/actual batch of the material sold
• Created User Exits for derivation of Profit Center based upon manufacturing plant and involved in ABAP Coding
• Met management’s long term pending requirement of deriving values for S/D Value fields for COPA Tables where S/D values were themselves derived from MM module by applying OSS Notes
• Created many new COPA Authorization object for COPA Information System for more controlled access for COPA Reports for actual users
• Created many Profit Centre Accounting Reports using Report writer as well as Report Painter for meaningful analysis of Profit Centre performance.
• Introduced concept of recording Transfer Pricing in Profit Center Accounting for one of the overseas manufacturing unit where Material Ledger was already active
• Maintained overhead groups, defined costing sheet, assigned costing sheet to the controlling area, defined cost component structure to configure Product Costing sub module
• In Product Costing configured: Actual Costing, Material Price determination, Actual cost component split, Price changes, integrating CO-PC with SD, MM and CO-PA

Confidential, Wilmington, MA May 2011 - Jan 2012
Laboratories Industry
Sr. SAP FI-CO Functional Consultant: GL, AR, AP, FICA, CCA, COPA

Requirement Gathering, Enhancements

• Worked with different business teams like finance, sales and purchasing for Gathering Business Requirements
• Worked with different team leads to Enhance the existing system for better capturing values related to costs & revenues

General Ledger

• Configured company codes, chart of accounts & number ranges
• Created GL accounts & groups, posting period variant, fiscal year variant
• Configured field status group, Financial Statement Version,Report Painter/Writer

Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payables

• Created vendor and customer master data, defined tax on sales & purchases
• Configured FBZP for maintaining payment methods, bank determination and house banks
• Performed clearing of open items for vendors and customers
• Configured and tested F110 for Automatic Payments & Receipts
• Defined Customer Account Groups, Configured Open Item Processing
• Terms of Payment, Worked on EDI For Incoming Invoices
• Defined accounts for cash discount, under/overpayments, exchange rate differences, bank charges, Tolerance Groups for Employees & Customers
• Configured Payment Method/Bank Selection For Payment Program
• Maintained Automatic Posting Procedures for Payment Program
• Configured & Tested The Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables Payments In BAI2 Format,
• Worked on Order To Cash process, performed AR-SD integration through VKOA, account assignments, pricing procedures & Condition Types
• Assisted the SD team in configuring for inter-company sales & billing like defining order types, defining internal customer by sales organization
• Performed clearing of open items for vendors and customers
• Configured and tested F110 for automatic payments and receipts
• Assisted end users in resolving issues concerning customer invoice postings

Lease Accounting:

• Created value IDs, Configured formulas for value determinations, Assigned Value IDs to Asset Creation, Asset Acquisition,Asset Retirement,
• Assigned accounting principles company code and depreciation areas, Posting Asset Transactions, Automated periodic calculation for accruals, defined accrual methods, accrual types,
• Configured posting control, Configured derivation rules and characteristic combinations, derivation of accrual types, configured account determination rules
• Worked on test scripts and end user training documentation

Cost Center Accounting, COPA

• Continuously interacted with the accounting department while creating necessary primary and secondary cost elements to ensure that all the relevant cost data gets captured
• Configured costing sheet in consultation with the cost center manager to enable them to plan irregular costs
• Assigned cost center to the standard hierarchy, configured cost center categories with appropriate block indicators for plan and actual data
• Interacted with the accounting department to identify the scenarios for assessments and distributions
• Configured the assessment and distribution cycle as per requirements
• Designed CO-PA based on costing based and account based approach
• Analyzed the client requirement for profitability reporting and configured the characteristics and value fields accordingly
• Created derivation rules for characteristics and configured CO-PA planning

Testing & Reporting

• Performed Regression Testing, Stress Testing, User Acceptance Testing
• Worked on year and month end closing process

Confidential, Full Implementation Sept 2009 - May 2011
Beverage Industry
SAP FI/CO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, CCA, IO, PCA, COPA

Blueprinting, GAP Analysis and Configuration

• Part of full life cycle implementation team of SAP 4.7
• Actively participated in Conducting Meetings with business managers and end users for understanding the business processes and needs
• Analyzed the existing system for As is Study; gathered functional requirements through User Workshops, performed Gap Analysis and Closed the Gaps by providing appropriate solutions
• Configured and demonstrated SAP R/3 capabilities to client by Prototyping business scenarios based on the business requirements of the client
• Worked with BW team to Develop logical database design by capturing the business processes using REA ontology

General Ledger

• Redesigned chart of accounts and account groups by employing best practices for designing efficient and effective accounting information system
• Determined the number of legal entities and configured company codes, fiscal year and posting period variant, number ranges & document types

Accounts Receivables/Accounts Payables

• Worked on customer and vendor master records & created tolerance levels for employees based on corporate governance frameworks like COSO
• Configured reason codes in customer accounts, check void codes & payment advices
• Defined interest calculations and terms of payment as per client requirements
• Configured Payment Methods like Check, ACH, Wire Transfer
• Defined Ranking Order, Bank Accounts, Available Amounts, Value Date & House Banks
• Defined Vendor Account Groups, Created & Assigned Number Ranges
• Configured Payment Methods like Check, ACH, Wire Transfer
• Defined Ranking Order, Bank Accounts, Available Amounts, Value Date & House Banks
• Defined Check Lots, Void Reason Codes and Wrote Functional Specs For Check Design
• Defined Accounts For Cash Discounts, Underpayments, Overpayments, Exchange Rate Differences, Rounding Differences, Lost Cash Discounts
• Set Up Automatic Payments Using F110
• Resolved Issues Related To Automatic Payments
• Maintained Automatic Postings Procedures For Payment Program
• Configured ERS based invoices, Logistic invoice verification (LIV) and wrote the functional specification of different FRICE objects
• Worked on Purchase to Procure/Procure to Pay processes
• Involved in FI-MM integration through OBYC, Movement Types, Valuation Class, Assignment of Movement Types to T-codes, Value String

Cost Center Accounting, Internal OrdersProfit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis

• Configured controlling area, assigned company codes to controlling area & assigned number ranges
• Maintained master data in Cost Element Accounting
• Analyzed the client’s organization structure and configured standard hierarchy for cost center and assigned the cost centers to the hierarchy
• Assigned the cost centers to the respective profit centers
• Configured activity types, assessment and distribution cycles
• Created standard hierarchy for profit center, performed assessment and distribution of costs
• Created Internal Orders for various project implementations, assigned the costs incurred by internal orders from different cost centers, distributed the costs incurred by Internal Orders to the respective cost centers
• Involved in resolving production support issues relating to creation of characteristic fields, value Fields, and assigning values to value fields

Confidential. Bridgewater, NJ Jul 2008 - Aug 2009
Pharmaceuticals Industry
SAP FI/CO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, AA, Bank Accounting

Financial Accounting

• Organizational structure: Created company code, configured currency settings, Defined posting period, fiscal year & field status variant
• GL Accounting: created of chart of accounts, account groups, GL master, tolerance groups performed cross company code configuration
• Accounts payable: created of vendor master, vendor account groups, configured automatic payment program, defined alternative reconciliation account for special GL transaction like Down payments and Bills of Exchange
• Account Receivable: created customer master, account groups, configured interest calculation, dunning program & defined terms of payment
• Asset accounting: created chart of depreciation, configured account determination, screen layout, asset class, asset master data, depreciation areas & calculation methods, executed depreciation posting
• Bank accounting: configured house bank and account indicators, manual check management, and manual bank statements

Controlling

• Cost Element Accounting: Cost elements, imputed costs, overhead costing sheet, reconciliation ledger and clearing accounts.
• Cost Center Accounting: Cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, statistical key figures, activity type, assessment, distribution, planning, reposting and integration with MM.
• Profit Center Accounting: Planning, profit center, revenue elements, sales order, material master assignment, control parameters and integration with SD.

Confidential, Houston, TX Sept 2007- May 2008 Oil Industry
Full Implementation

SAP FI/CO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, CO-PA, PCA
Blueprinting, GAP Analysis and Configuration

• Actively participated in all phases of full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 4.7.
• Involved in GAP analysis and Blue Printing of businesses requirements, analyzing As-is System and designing the To-be System
• Involved in developing Cut Over Plans from legacy system to the SAP system
• Conducted meetings with managers & business users for Documenting Business Requirements

Financial Accounting

• Configured GL, AR, AP master data
• Created Company Codes, Fiscal Year & Posting Period Variant, GL Accounts
• Created Account Groups, Chart Of Accounts, Document & Account Ranges
• Created Financial Statement Version, Field Status Groups, Document Types

Accounts Receivables/Accounts Payables

• Configured Vendor/Customer Groups, master records and Configured Account Receivable Account
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format, worked on CFM for revenue forecasting
• Configured multiple payment methods and automatic clearing
• Worked on ERS and workflows in order for the invoice approval.
• Configured tax, used calculation procedure TAXUSX to handle the US sales and use tax calculations
• Defined Check Lots, Void Reason Codes and Wrote Functional Specs For Check Design
• Defined Accounts For Cash Discounts, Underpayments, Overpayments, Exchange Rate Differences, Rounding Differences, Lost Cash Discounts
• Defined Adjustment Accounts for GR/IR & worked on GR/IR mismatch issues
• Defined Ranking Order, Bank Accounts, Available Amounts, Value Date & House Banks
• Defined Vendor Account Groups, Created & Assigned Number Ranges
• Configured Payment Methods like Check, ACH, Wire Transfer
• Defined Ranking Order, Bank Accounts, Available Amounts, Value Date & House Banks
• Defined Accounts For Cash Discounts, Underpayments, Overpayments, Exchange Rate Differences, Rounding Differences, Lost Cash Discounts
• Worked on Purchase to Procure processes, assisted the end users in GR/IR mismatch issues,
• Involved in FI-MM integration, movement types, purchase requisition/order & valuation class

Controlling

• Configured Controlling modules including Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Centers
• Designed and configured the hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of Profit center Accounting. Created Profit Centers and assigned cost centers. Assigned Balance Sheet items to respective Profit Centers
• Created Distribution and Assessment Cycles

Testing, Reporting, Documentation

• Tested & validated processes throughout the project
• Created different test scenarios using Mercury Quality Center to test settings
• Developed customized Reports for Management Reporting for Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable using Report Painter & Report Writer
• Created documentation in the form of Scenario Scripts and Business Process Procedures (BPP) throughout the project using the RWD Infopak
• Wrote documentation for user roles in the company to comply with SOX rules
• Involved in Escheat, Div Track and1099 vendors reporting & EPOD

Confidential, Kathmandu, Nepal Feb 2006- July 2007
SAP FI/CO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, CCA, CEA

• Worked with different business teams like finance, sales and purchasing for Gathering Business Requirements
• Worked with different team leads to Enhance the existing system for better capturing values related to costs & revenues
• Organizational structure: Creation of company code and business area, currency settings, Defining posting period variant, Fiscal year variant, field status variant and Assigning global parameters to company code.
• GL Accounting creation: chart of accounts, Account group creation, GL masters, Tolerance groups, cross company code configuration, sales tax and withholding taxes configuration.
• Accounts payable: creation of vendor master, vendor account groups, configuration for Automatic payment program, Defining Alternative reconciliation account for special GL transaction like Down payments and Bills of Exchange.
• Made initial settings for: Customer/Vendor Master Records, display and processing of Line Items of Documents, Correspondence, displaying Account Balances, Interest Calculation and Posting, Credit Management and Closing Operations.
• Defined Automatic Procedures such as Payment Program and Dunning Program.
• Customized Accounting Transactions for GL Posting, AR/AP Posting and Recurring Entries.
• 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.
• Involved in SAP FICO maintenance activities.
• Resolved the User raised tickets (problems) related to AR & AP
• Trained the Users in SAP FICO posting related to vendors/customers invoice and payments, assessments, distributions, re-postings.
• Involved in maintenance of SAP Configuration documentation.
• Supported the FICO module during month ends and year ends.
• Generated the financial reports as requested by the users.
• Coordinated the BW team in implementing BW solution for FI/CO data.
• Configured basic data like cost centers profit centers, primary & secondary cost elements, cost center hierarchies and assessment & distribution cycles.

Confidential, Kathmandu, Nepal May 2005- Feb 2006
SAP FI/CO Consultant: GL, AR, AP, CCA, PCA

• Configured parameters for Company, Company Code, Business Area, Functional Area, and Credit Control Area.
• Defined Fiscal Year Variants and assigned Fiscal Year Variants to various Company Codes.
• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts GL, AP, AR and assigning different process keys as required.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program(APP) for vendors and worked on daily accounting transactions in AR.
• Configured settings for creation of house banks, bank accounts, lockbox file formats, void reason codes, check lots and other criteria required for lockbox processing to expedite customer payments. Uploaded GL accounts using Batch Input.
• Participated in data uploads and trouble shooting and also in user training and issue resolution.
• Ensuring master data upload of asset master and configuring FI-Asset integration.
• Was also responsible for general controlling month end activities of CCA, PCA and IO.

Confidential, Kathmandu, Nepal Dec 2003 - May 2005
Accountant, User of SAP FI/CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed general ledger master data, adjustment postings, run payment program, check printing,
• Created customer master records, assets masters, depreciation run, Employee Masters Record and various payroll functions.
• Involved to keep track record of cash inflow and outflow of bank and presented the reports to management team.
• Generated budgets and forecasts and reported variances on a quarterlybasis.
• Monitored the amount for the day-to-day transactions and maintained the minimum balance of money required.
• Prepared financial statements every month and when it will be needed.
• Administered online banking functions.