EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 5 years of experience as SAP FICO Functional consultant with implementation and configuration of FICO module
• Implemented 2 full life cycles by using ASAP Methodology in version ECC 6.0
• Involved in all stages of project implementing ASAP Methodology including business process analysis, AS - IS to TO-BE designing, GAP analysis, Realization, Go-Live, post production support, user training and documentation
• Worked on SAP FICO Versions R/3 4.7 and ECC 6.0
• Solid implementation experience in FI sub-modules - General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables, Asset Accounting and NEW General Ledger
• Strong expertise in CO sub-modules - Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Order and Profitability Analysis
• Proficient in Configuration and Integration of SD and MM with FI
• Sound knowledge in ABAP Queries and Reporting Tools: Report Painter and Report Writer, User-exit programming, LSMW, CATTS Programming and Debugging.
• Worked on different aspects of a business relating to FI-G/L Transactions, Inter Company Transactions, House Banks, Automatic Payment Programs, Credit Management, Cash Application, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Carry Forward Balance, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI & BAI2), Dunning, CO-CCA and Assessment & Distribution Cycles
• Hands on experience with Functional testing and Integration testing
• Assisted with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Coordinated cross-functional teams throughout the organization to identify and assess system issue influencing multiple departments. Prepared End User Training & Documentation material
• Comprehensive problem solving abilities, excellent interpersonal skills, good verbal and written communication skills. Willingness to learn, committed Lead player
• Reporting, proficient in writing oracle SQL queries

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP and other tools: Solution Manager, Schedule Manager. S4 HANA, LSWM, IDOC, ALE, SAP Queries, Interfaces, Service Now, Transport Express.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Santa Clara,CA

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 in Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost canters.
• Involved with all phases of implementation from conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, business blueprinting, and configured the system for implementation of Cost Center Accounting, Profit centre Accounting, Product costing, Profitability Analysis.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups
• Conceptualized and configured a comprehensive SAP Treasury.
• Worked on the integration touch points of CO-PC with Production planning PP-PI using a process that included master recipes, routings, and Bill of Materials BOM.
• Created Characteristics and Value fields in CO-PA. Configured the derivative rules for user defined characteristics, created costing keys for transferring current cost estimate in CO-PA.
• Activated New GL and Configured new functionalities available in New GL according to client requirements. Resolved issues in various modules such as COPA, COPC, CCA, AP and PCA Participated in building roadmap for S/4 HANA.
• S/4 Finance and support ASAP Methodology in all following lifecycles phases - Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run - Prototype

Confidential, San Jose,CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the Business Blueprint involving appropriate field mapping after going through the new Global Template.
• Involved in the Unit, Integration, UAT testing and end-user training.
• Involved in data migration through interactions with the technical team, mapped necessary tables and fields.
• Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Software Requirement Specifications Document (SRS), User Acceptance Test (UAT), and UML Diagrams using various tools including MS VISIO.
• Prepared functional specs for ABAP programs and coordinated with programmers.
• Reconciliation of data pertaining to AP, AR, Assets and CO between the existing SAP ECC 6.0 version to SAP ECC 6.0
• Performed testing, validation, conversion and evaluated test scripts and test cases.
• Responsible for Production support for SAP FICO module and extensive go-live assistance.
• Supporting the day - to - day business process pertaining to issues classified on severity, enhancements and new developments in the SAP FICO module.
• Participate in the Team meeting and client meeting weekly and monthly for better performance of services.
• Monitoring and ensure the Service Level Agreements.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted “As-Is” study interacting with the core team members and developed a “To-Be” process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology.
• Defined template containing scenarios for Global Rollout, blueprint documents and configuration at head office for subsidiaries.
• Engaged in discussions with business to understand the requirement, translate into effort and explain them SAP enablement and customizations into RICEF objects.
• Configured the New G/L - Activated the General ledger, Configured the ledgers - assigned Chart of accounts, fiscal year, activated document splitting, defined non-leading ledgers for Parallel Accounting
• Used the document splitting procedure to split up payables lines by profit center to affect a zero balance
• Configured exchange rate types, translation ratios, rounding rules & set decimal places for currencies, configured new fiscal year variant and assigned it to company code.
• Integration of SAP with VERTEX involving creation of Tax Codes
• Activated External Tax Calculation - Defined the ID for VERTEX, defined the RFC destination
• VERTEX Configuration- defined logical system, maintained pricing procedures, allocated company code to Non - taxable transactions, created number ranges for External tax Documents, created Tax Codes
• Configured general sales and use tax codes, assigned tax codes for nontaxable transactions, new input and output tax codes, Tax rates, and Tax accounts
• Designed & developed automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, accepted forms of payment, defined automatic account assignments for exchange rate differences, over & under payments, bank charges, cash discounts, configured dunning areas, keys & procedures in Accounts Payable.
• Defined Order types to be able to create orders, assigned each order types to a number range.
• Issued authorization keys for the user statuses, so that only authorized users can set or delete a certain user status.
• Performed a results analysis for internal orders.
• Documented system configuration and consolidation process.
• Participated in testing using eCATT.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 FICO module. Experience in analyzing existing business processes, gathering business user’s requirements, functional specifications, conducting gap analysis and updating relevant documentation.
• Involved in the Business process re-engineering and integration by configuring GL, AR, AP and AA modules.
• Discussed with Client and End Users to prepare Blueprint, Business Process Master List and Mapped Business Requirements with SAP Functions.
• Created and maintained Chart of Accounts, Setting Global parameters, Account Groups, Document types, Posting Period Variants, Fiscal Period Variants and Financial Statement Versions.
• Customized Vendor Master Data, Customer Master Data, Specified Number Ranges and Configured Employee and Tolerance Groups for Vendors, Created G/L Master Records and Reconciliation Accounts for Sub Ledgers.