SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Consultant with a total experience of 8+ years.
• Involved in 3 Full Life Cycle implementations, 2 Rollout and also 1 support support.
• Extensive hands on experience in Configuration of GL/New GL, AP - Accounts Payable, AR-Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Banking. Worked on bank formats MT940, BAI2 etc.
• Hands on experience in Controlling areas - Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO).
• Good exposure to Order to Cash (OTC), Procurement to Pay (PTP) Record to Report (RTR) process, Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) and experience in integration of FI-MM and FI-SD
• Experienced in configuring Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), Experienced in Logistics Invoice Verification, EDI Interface and IDOC Process.
• Implemented Asset Accounting along with AUC (using investment management and Internal orders). Involved in migration of assets from the legacy system using LSMW.
• Provided extensive support in End to End testing activities, such as Integration testing, Manual Regression testing, unit testing, performance testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Involved in Cutover Activities and Data Conversion using Migration tools like LSMW and BDC.
• Good Exposure in Validations, Substitutions, and BADI’S.
• Good knowledge in configuring integration between SAP and Third-Party System using BAPI’S and ALE/IDOC.
• Proficient in developing SAP Query Reports
• Involved in handling Tickets, Incidents, Problem records, Change Management and Change Control Requests. Prepared Test scripts and involved in Unit/System/Integration/Regression Testing and provided UAT support to the business team.
• Well experienced in drafting the End User Manuals and delivered End User trainings.
• Good working Knowledge in Testing tools HP Quality Center (HPQC) and Ticketing tools Remedy and Service-now.
• Involved in Fit/Gap Analysis and Prepared good number of Functional Specification Documents (WRICEF’s).
• Ability to interact effectively with clients, understanding to client expectation and provide end-to-end solutions to the business requirements.
• Good Management skills, Documentation skills and quick to comprehend new technologies.
• Exceptional presentation, written & verbal communication and problem-solving skills. Self-motivated and has proven ability to work in both independent and team environments.
• Performed Functional testing to ensure that software requirement specified Standards and end user requirements.
• Performed Regression Testing during various phases of development.
• Performed Manual Testing of the application Front-End and Functionality.
• Perform Functional, Data Validation, Integration, regression and User Acceptance testing.
• Formulate methods to perform Positive and Negative testing against requirements.
• Reported the daily status of test cases executed/failed, worked with business analysts to assure new functionality changes were reasonable regarding existing physical design.
• Monitored production programs for expected performance and reported errorsand performance results.
• Preparing Test summary report and send it to concern person

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Tools: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0 EHP 7Tools: HPQC-ALM, Share Point, Remedy Ticket Tool, Ms. Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling day to day queries/incidents related to FICO - FI-GL, AR, AP, FIXED ASSETS, PCA and Internal orders.
• Designing and preparation of Functional specifications for various Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms (RICEF’s).
• Responsible for complete integration of MM-FI and SD-FI
• Configured all settings for AR and AP including the Automatic Payment program, Dunning.
• Customized and configured Cash management including Bank statements, payment program, Payment advises.
• Designed the Generic Non-PO Invoice Postings Interface for Purchase to pay division so that Vendors can submit the Invoices electronically.
• Worked exclusively on payment methods like ACH processing and check runs.
• Supported in solving the issues related to the automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• FI-SD integration: Assigned revenue accounts, deferred revenue accounts, freight accounts, and tax and discount accounts in SD account determination.
• As a functional consultant, provided IDOC types and extension details and coordinated with ABAP team. Implemented the exchange of customer required data that was not available in SAP delivered IDOCs.
• Asset Accounting(FI-AA) - Configured Country specific Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, defined account determinations, screen layout rules, number range intervals, assets classes, account assignments, posting rules, depreciation methods, depreciation keys, creation of asset masters.
• Implemented Investment management for Capital investment (AUC) using internal order as the investment measures.
• Preparing the unit test scripts for all the custom developments and interfaces, perform unit test and assign the same to QA testing.
• Trained business users on various business processes of treasury like EBS and Lockbox processing, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Extracting and providing standard and custom table data outside of the standard reports on ad hoc basis.
• Responsible for monitoring (critical) interfaces and background jobs.

Confidential, Bolingbrook, IL

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handled issues related to GL, AR, AP, AA, CO-PC, IO, CCA, PCA, and Project Systems, etc.
• As part of the Production Support Team worked closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities.
• Analyzed FICO related problem tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.
• Gathered business requirements and Coordinated with ABAP team for development of new Reports required by user and for modification of programs.
• Implemented SAP notes as suggested by SAP for our OSS messages to fix standard SAP issues.
• Brought up lot of process improvements that reduced incidents count.
• Prepared End user documents and created a knowledge database, which helped both business users and support teams to easily fix the repeated issues.
• Handled issues related to FI-MM-SD Integration. Supported business in UAT testing.
• Configured substitutions and Validations in FI. Handling low to high priority tickets and providing resolutions with in SLA. Configuring and testing the new functional enhancements & Reports.
• Configured Asset classes along with its account determinations, Chart of Depreciations & AUC.
• Implement the Project System (PS) and Assets Management (FI-AM) to manage the Capital projects.
• As part of the roll out involved in the migration of assets from legacy system to SAP using LSMW for t-code AS91 and later OASV for reconciliation of G/L balances with Asset Accounting.
• Coordinating with ABAP team for development of Reports required by user.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Played a vital role in performing FI Configuration including FI Master Data, GL, A/R, A/P and Configuration for General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting for four company codes.
• Worked on customizing Chart of Accounts, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, and GL Account Groups for 4 company codes.
• Based on the business activities, involved in customizing Document Types, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Field status variant, posting period variants for all the company codes.
• Configured validations and substitution rules as per requirement.
• Responsible for designing the Automatic payment program for multiple company codes. As a part of configuration, worked in setting up paying/sending company code, creating country and company code relevant payment methods and Bank determination.
• Worked in customizing bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and also worked in customizing and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Configured Lockbox Application using BAI2 file format.
• Worked on configuring Account Receivable, such as creation of customer account groups, interest calculation configuration. Worked on configuring dunning program for customer accounts.
• Responsible for reviewing the existing payment terms and making necessary changes or create new payment terms for company codes, as per the business requirement
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account Determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings.
• Worked in configuring Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Depreciation terms, and periodic processing. Configuring Account Determinations, Depreciation Keys and Number Ranges for Asset Classes. Configuring Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions, Retirements and Inter-company transfers.
• Configured CO module - Organizational structure setting, Maintenance of cost center standard hierarchy, Creation of Profit centers, cost centers, Cost elements, Internal Orders. Built Assessments and Distribution cycles.
• Provided support during month end and year end closing activities.

Confidential . Concord, NC

SAP - FI/AR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Functional Consultant for a major consulting firm during the SAP reconfiguration Project of one of the lead Telecom Company.
• The project represented a merger scenario in which two companies were merging and the Child Company’s system had to be reconfigured to make it compatible to the Parent company’s system requirements.
• Reconfigured organizational structure like setting up of client, creation of company, assigning company to company code, chart of accounts, coding scheme, G/L master data, country-specific checks, factory calendar as used by the company.
• Populating G/L accounts using BDC’s, specifications were given for transfer from legacy into SAP using flat files, Accounts receivables and payables.