SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO functional Consultant, having around 7 years of experience, responsible for handling Finance and General Controlling related SAP support tasks.
• Dedicated and experienced professional charged with leading, organizing and managing complex multifunctional/multiplatform projects involving both software and infrastructure.
• Configured the new GL functionality (standard company hierarchy, account groups, accounts for company codes, fiscal year variant, field status variant and posting period variant, implementation of parallel accounting methods and document splitting).
• Configured AR/AP for customers based upon interest calculation on items, account balance configuration / validation of substitution rules for documents, recurring entries, taxes, currencies and correspondence.
• FI - AP Expertise in configuration and usage of automatic payment program, configuration of House Banks & Payment methods at country level, ranking order and account amounts, levels, creation of check lots, defined check lots and void reason codes, payment terms, clearing vendor or customer open items.
• Expertise in G/L, AP & AA data migration.
• Utilized LSMW to transfer Master Data.
• Created reports via Report Painter and Report Writer
• Implemented tolerances for budget cost and settlement rules in the Internal Order.
• Created the Cost Center with maintenance of the standard hierarchy and the subsequent assignment to Cost Elements.
• Provided functional resource on troubleshooting day-to-day and month-end closing production support in SAP R/3 FI-CO.
• In depth working knowledge of the payments functionality, master data upload; cut-over processes, lockbox functionality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Strategy Development and Execution
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Project Lifecycle and Program Management
• SAP Support
• People Development, Mentoring & Training
• Analytics and Root Cause Determination
• Process Improvement
• Quality Assurance
• Requirements Development
• Problem Resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting services to SAP including a tool add on implemented at a Fortune 2000 Company. Provided project management, technical assistance, best practices and client relationship management for owner of the tool with onsite presence. Assisted with problem and issue prioritization, escalation and solution delivery.
• Created/customized Customer Master, Material Master, Customer Material Info Record, Condition Tables and Worked on Product Hierarchy and Product Proposals.
• Doing new configuration FI-CO with ERP, MM, PS module as per organization and users requirement.
• Update maintains GL master, FSV & FA. Do production support for funds management, Budget team and grant management. Maintain funds center master data, grant master data.
• Support AR and AP team to maintain records in SAP system. Set up Dunning processes and other AR supporting process. Maintain vendor master data to support AP with Revenue.
• Collect all the business requirements from deferent departments and prepare documents and flowchart for any necessary new implementation.
• Work closely with SAP Support team for any SAP note implementation requirements or any update.
• Managed Account Groups for Vendor, Customer and GL Accounts, Dunning Area definitions, Account Clearing, Period-End Closing, Bank Reconciliation and Master Data; including, but not limited to Cross Company Code Transactions, Down Payments, Asset Master Records, Asset retirement, Depreciation Areas definitions, and Master Data preparation
• During all of above phases, SAP implementation, implemented various testing strategies, and with dedicated business team members incorporated testing and configuration, while advising the Client Business team, with regards to deliverables, such as: Blueprints, business process documents, design documents, and Functional documents. Good Understanding over different testing tools both manual and automated process.
• Configured Sales Document Types, Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, Document Flow, Copying Control, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Incompletion Logs, Material Listing/Exclusion & Product Selection, and Availability Check & TOR (Transfer of Requirements)
• Customized Pricing, Taxes, Free goods, Rebates and Promotions
• Translated business requirements into SAP functional specifications and configured the requirements.
• Involved in Cross Functionality of SD with MM & Mass maintenance via LSMW and custom transactions
• Configured Delivery Types, Delivery Item Categories, Automatic Delivery Blocking, Delivery Scheduling, Processing Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Shipping, Shipping Material Groups, Shipping Point Determination, Batch Splits, Transportation Planning and Scheduling, Route Determination and Freight Costs.
• Configured Billing Components comprising Billing Document Types, Invoices Based Deliveries, Credit and Debit Memo, Billing to specific deadlines, Collective Invoices, Invoice Splits, Invoice Lists, Billing Plans, Billing Blocks, Down Payments, Revenue Account Determination, Credit Management and Integration of SD with FICO
• Developed functional/technical specifications for Programs, Reports and Interface Requirements
• Worked on cross-functional configuration aspects of SD with LE, MM, WM and FICO
• Created Test Scenarios for Unit Testing and Integration Testing
• Created Procedures & Process Documents including training to End Users and Production Support Team.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues.
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues.
• Involved in 4 dual ledger projects with complete knowledge on configuration & unit testing.
• Involved in 2 data migration projects.
• Expertise in G/L, AP & AA data migration.
• Utilized LSMW to transfer Master Data.
• Responsible for making changes, migrating them, completing the ticket and communicating.
• Configured the new GL functionality (standard company hierarchy, account groups, accounts for
• Company codes, fiscal year variant, field status variant and posting period variant, implementation of
• Parallel accounting methods and document splitting).
• Configured AR/AP for customers based upon interest calculation on items, account balance
• Configuration / validation of substitution rules for documents, recurring entries, taxes, currencies and
• Correspondence
• FI- AP Expertise in configuration and usage of automatic payment program, configuration of House
• Banks & Payment methods at country level, ranking order and account amounts, levels, creation of
• Check lots, defined check lots and void reason codes, payment terms, clearing vendor or customer
• Open items.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible within SAP Business analyst and FICO with ERP (Implemented risk regulatory framework including infrastructure for modeling, regulatory reporting and analysis).
• Involved in SAP FI roll out of 6 countries.
• Involved with ECC 6.0 Eph 7 with key areas of responsibilities including New FI- CO, GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Taxes and Financial Reporting. Have knowledge of configuration of Taxes like Access secq. Condition types, Account key, Tax jurisdiction and country specific (International) taxes configuration.
• Assess current state for manufacturing organization and implement SAP ECC solution. The area of focus is Cost Accounting (AA) and Investment Management (IM) and its close integration with project systems (PS), controlling (CO), and material management (MM).
• Analysis experience over record to report method for all FI related entries. Able to understand and analyzes each records.
• Maintain internal cost of materials and production for profitability and management accounting. Keep eye on actual cost through purchase price and actual expenses. Support MM for material masters, quantity structure.
• Managed Account Groups for Vendor, Customer and GL Accounts, Dunning Area definitions, Account Clearing, Period-End Closing, Bank Reconciliation and Master Data; including, but not limited to Cross Company Code Transactions, Down Payments, Asset Master Records, Asset retirement, Depreciation Areas definitions, Master Data preparation and using EDI and mapping customer IDOC fields to SAP data fields.
• During all of above phases, SAP implementation, implemented various testing strategies, and with dedicated business team members incorporated testing and configuration, while advising the Client Business team, with regards to deliverables, such as: Blueprints, business process documents, design documents, and Functional documents.
• Did Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configuration both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), configured Costing Based CO-PA and Account Based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, generated Operating Concern and assigned controlling area to the Operating Concern. Also worked on valuation using material cost estimates and valuation using condition types. Defined various reports in CO-PA.