SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Consultant with 8+ years of implementation, support, enhancement and testing experience.
• Implemented all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, implementation, testing, upgrade, support and deployment of solutions, as well as documentation, and end - user training.
• Prepared documentation of financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy.
• Experience in working closely with business and technological stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Managed and delivered projects on time, on budget and on set standards.
• Coordinated with clients and ERP Techno/Functional consultants to map existing legacy system data and structures to the SAP ERP system. Experienced in direct communication with clients to validate requirements for cleansing and standardizing existing legacy master data and provide custom configurations in unique environments.
• Experience includes two full life cycle implementation projects using ASAP methodology, Ability to communicate and interface effectively with partners, vendors, and other developers.
• Knowledge and worked in Generally Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).
• SAP Financials: Proficient in General Ledger FI-GL, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Account Payable FI-AP, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Dunning, Credit Management, cash management, and Automatic Payment Program. Sound knowledge of FSCM configuration and FI-CA.
• SAP Controlling: Expertise in Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Internal Orders CO-IA, Product Costing (PC), Activity Types, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Variances, and Other CO Elements, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Product Cost Planning, Cost object Controlling, Actual Costing.
• Bank Accounting House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Exchange Rates, Cash Journal, Payment Transactions, Interest Calculations and Translation Ratios.
• SAP Integrations: Integration of various SAP applications like SD and MM with FI/CO.
• Developed reports using Report Painter and Report Writer. Knowledge of ASAP implementation methodology and the capability to interact with ABAP developers for technical specifications.
• Strong understanding of HCM (Human Capital Management) and Payroll modules integration.
• Strong Understanding of VIM (Vendor Invoice Management).
• Maintained WRICEF, IDOC and LSMW documents.
• Strong Understanding of Cross-functional integration knowledge of FI with MM and SD modules with Procure to Pay (PTP) and Order to cash Cycles (OTC).
• Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load, GL uploads, Account Payables and Customer Open Account Receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Worked on FI-GL period end processing, G/L reporting, vendor master records, configured payment transactions, processed payment runs, customer master data, Automatic Account Determination, Bank Master Data, Lockbox, Dunning and Automatic Payment Program.
• Worked in environments adhering to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance.
• Working knowledge in creating reports using report writer and Report Painter tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP - FI: General Ledger

SAP - FI: Account Payable

SAP - FI: Account Receivable

SAP - FI: Assets Accounting

SAP - CO: Cost Element

SAP - CO: Cost Center Accounting

SAP - CO: Internal Order

SAP - CO: Profit Center Accounting

SAP - CO: Profitability Analysis

SAP - Testing: ALM

To SAP - Documentation: FSD, WRICEF, IDOC and LSMW

Tools: Jira, Balsamic, Tableau

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, Visio, PowerPoint, Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential - Phoenix, AZ

• Strong Knowledge of SAP Financials: Proficient in General Ledger FI-GL, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Account Payable FI-AP, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Dunning, Credit Management, cash management, and Automatic Payment Program. Sound knowledge of FSCM configuration and FI-CA.
• Strong Knowledge of SAP Controlling: Expertise in Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Internal Orders CO-IA, Product Costing (PC), Activity Types, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Variances, and Other CO Elements, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Product Cost Planning, Cost object Controlling, Actual Costing, Material ledger
• Strong knowledge of Organizational Structure and Contributed to the team in the Configuration of various Company codes, Account, Department, posting period variants, field status variants and field status groups, Document number ranges, tolerance groups and assigned those variants to company.
• Strong Understanding of Cross-functional integration knowledge of FI with MM and SD modules with Procure to Pay (PTP) and Order to cash Cycles (OTC).
• Configured G/L accounts maintained automatic account assignments, and Financial statement versions.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, maintained profit center standard hierarchy and created profit centers based on Company’s market segments, Exchange rate types, Distribution, assessment of costs, and statistical key figures
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), configured costing-based CO-PA, assisted management in the design and configuration of PA structures, including decisions on characteristics, key figures, derivation rules, and settlement to CO-PA.
• In General Ledgers Accounts (SAP - GL) configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, Reconciliation Ac 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.
• Implemented areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP).
• Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments (ACH), check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• In Account Receivables (SAP-AR), worked exclusively on configuration on many areas in AR like Customer Master data, Automatic Dunning program, Lock Box processing, Cash discount depending on Payment terms and others.
• Participated in preparing documentation and supported end-users specifically in reporting.
• Strong Knowledge of SAP FICO Configurations and Testing module based or end to end as per required.

Environment: FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PA, FI-CO Configuration and Testing.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, NJ

• Implemented all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of solutions, as well as documentation, and end-user training.
• Prepared documentation of financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy
• FI New GL, AP/AR & Banking Configuration- Document Splitting, Segment Reporting, Special purpose ledger, Doc types, posting keys, analysis of all open items, clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) accounts.
• Designed, developed automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, accepted forms of payment, defined automatic account assignments for exchange rate differences, over and under payments, bank charges, cash discounts, keys & procedures in Accounts Payable.
• Created an Electronic Bank Statement Posting Rules.
• New line layouts configuration for incoming customer payments with fields according to client requirement
• Designed and developed terms of payment, invoices, cash discount, credit management, risk categories, tolerances and down payments configurations.
• Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load, GL uploads, Account Payables and Customer Open Account Receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Implemented standard hierarchy for cost center accounting designed Automatic Account Assignments, Assigned Cost Centers to Profit Centers and created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes.
• Configured New GL functionalities: Document splitting and Non-Leading ledgers to satisfy client's country specific reporting requirements.
• Implemented Cash Management Account Name, distributed Cash Management and Cash Management.
• Configured Operating Concern, Maintained Operating Concern Attributes.
• Configured Account-based CO-PA and Created the characteristics, used various derivation techniques like table lookups and derivation rules to determine values for characteristics.

Environment: SAP FICO, SAP BI Analysis, WRICEF, Tableau, Access, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

• Coordinated with clients and ERP Techno/Functional consultants to map existing legacy system data and structures to the SAP ERP system.
• Experienced in direct communication with clients to validate requirements for cleansing and standardizing existing legacy master data and provide custom configurations in unique environments.
• Work with MDM (Master Data Management) team to deliver a single version of Material master.
• Develop cleansing, De-duplication and profiling jobs using Data Integrator, Platform and DQXI.
• Lead the Offshore development team and validate their jobs: the jobs must follow SAP AIO standards, Naming convention and tuning.
• Migrated Material Master, Equipment and Material Consumption from an ECC6 system to an ECC6 target system using SAP standards and IDOC and LSMW documents.
• Assisted colleagues on the migration of Vendor, and Customer
• Involved in the process of Record to Report by means of the consolidation of financial statements through BPC SAP in order to generate the financial reports
• Solved complex problems; design, configure, test and implement solutions for the SAP AM modules
• Gathered requirements, including leading, designing and providing guidance on recommendations
• Transformed business requirements into system specifications to meet requirements.
• Managed IT testing and coordinate user testing of SAP solutions
• Participated in IT department process improvement activities.
• Coordinated of documentation and the development of the processes
• Centralized the company's requirements for changes in Finance and/or processes

Environment: FI-CO Configuration and Testing, IDOC and LSMW documentation.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

• Worked with SAP Functional consultants in drafting functional requirements of Finance and accounting teams.
• Worked in Designing, Developing and testing the application.
• Provided Rule set management in various environments.
• Maintain WRICEF documentation.
• Involved in Designing High Level Class structure, Workflows and Rule sets in SAP/Microsoft Dynamics PRPC.
• Involved in the migration and deployment of the application rules from Development to Testing and Production environments.
• Test General Ledger entries in SAP and move test cases to production environment.
• Collect information from the functional IT teams, consolidate information, and create status updates
• Worked in requirements elicitation using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
• Assist the finance & accounting teams in timely month end close in SAP and raise tickets on issues.
• Pull financial reports from SAP and consolidate for monthly CFO reviews
• Assist in GL reconciliation during month end close.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams to support accounting and finance change objectives.

Environment: SAP FICO, SAP BI Analysis, WRICEF, Tableau, Access, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

• Developed end user documentation and training plans for production system
• Gathered of user requirements for re-implementation of FICO
• Analyzed of gathered information for re-implementation of FICO
• Created systems and user requirements for re-implementation of FICO
• Gathered a list of reports that need to be developed and delivered for use by finance after FICO re-implementation
• Setup meetings to recommend solutions
• Finalized the blueprint FICO modules reconfiguration
• Executed re-configuration for FI (GL, AP, AR, Asset, Banking - Electronic Bank Statement)
• Executed re-configuration for CO (Cost center, Internal orders and profit centers)
• Executed configuration for Product costing and profitability Analysis configuration
• Executed configuration for purchase order and scheduled agreements integration activities
• Executed configuration for Sales orders integration activities with FICO
• Executed various reports in report painter, SAP Query and Report.
• Documented the RICEF requirements
• Tested RICEF developments
• Gathered data take on activities before go-live
• Supported for Go-live activities (including pre-go live and after go-live).
• Executed unit testing after re-configuration of FICO
• Executed integration testing after re-configuration of FICO
• Executed User Acceptance testing and end user training after re-configuration of FICO
• Executed cut-over activities for all projects after re-configuration of FICO
• Developed all the system and user documentation after re-configuration of FICO

Environment: FI-CO Configuration, Testing, Documentation.