SUMMARY:

• Over 12+ years of functional experience in SAP including four full life cycle implementation and an upgrade.
• Industry experience and Proficient Domain knowledge in Finance, Processing industry, Manufacturing, Construction and Engineering Business Process.
• Expertise in ASAP methodologies, project management, planning and successfully completed full life cycle implementations.
• FI expertise includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting, Dispute and Collections Management.
• Expertise in Configuring New GL, performing Document split, Zero balancing of documents and parallelism in the New GL.
• CO expertise includes - Cost Center accounting (CCA), Profit Center accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Project Systems, Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Material Ledger.
• Techno functional experience in CATTS, LSMWS.
• Part of Teams skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD, PP, MM Modules, Project Systems, HR payrolls etc.
• Reporting tools such as: ABAP queries, Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Responsible of process definition for Cash Management, Bank accounting, Treasury Management, Hedging for USA
• North American (USA & Canada) cash management, daily issuance of commercial paper and foreign exchange trading at CareFusion. Co-lead for design of SAP In-House Cash Module solution for Europe
• Experience in configuring Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Treasury, and Financial Supply Chain Management in highly complex business environment
• Experienced in configuring House Banks, Lockbox, defining control parameters for BAI2 file Import and parameters for partial payment clearing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP

Software tools: MS Office, Microsoft Visio & Front Page

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Findlay, OH

SAP FICO Lead

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible and leaded all phases of project implementation, which includes Blueprinting, Development, and Testing.
• In blueprint phase, guided and assisted team with TO-BE process flows by understanding their current business practices (AS-IS) for Cost center Accounting, Product cost Controlling, Material ledger and Profitability Analysis.
• Designed and developed standard sap process of transfer pricing to satisfy CT&RC managerial reporting requirements.
• Worked with scrap and efficiency factors for materials and activities, Configured system settings for variance calculation for different activity types and cost centers.
• Configured Account determinations for different material movements and valuation classes.
• Actively involved in the configuration of Costing types, Valuation variants, Date Control and Transfer strategy for Material cost estimate with Quantity Structure.
• Configured BOM for various semi-finished and finished materials, routing and costing sheets for overhead calculations.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, Result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its Settlements.
• Cost Center Accounting- FERC accounting/actual assessment cycles and costing sheets
• Configured Non-leading ledger to provide the reporting requirement to meet the FERC standard (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
• Configured system to handle mixed costing for finished products using procurement alternatives based of production process and purchase info records.
• Designed BI Reporting on CO-PA Data in SAP HANA
• Integrated HANA database for generating attribute views and analytic views automatically via transaction KEHA
• Configured CO-PA valuation strategy to transfer cost component structure to PA.
• Configured complicated derivation strategies for deriving characteristic value derivation in COPA.
• Tested all business transactions from payables, receivables, asset capitalization from projects to asset capitalization, sales to COPA flow and bank accounting.
• Developed multiple LSMW using batch recording for master data loads such as vendor extensions and partnering, sales history load to PA, cost center/ internal order master data, asset master creation and load additive costs.
• In SAP Simple Finance and Central Finance can be used in conjunction with SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SAP LT Replication Server) and SAP Master Data Governance (SAP MDG).
• If you integrate SAP MDG with SAP Simple Finance, then you can use SAP MDG to harmonize the master data from the source system to the Central Finance system.
• You have activated the Central Finance (FINS CFIN) business function, Error Correction System (Reversible) (FIN GL ERR CORR), Error Correction and Suspense Accounting (Reversible) (FIN GL ERR CORR SUSP).
• Functional development for EDI IDOC's.
• It is responsible for technical consulting and design build test for inbound/outbound processing; Functional development for EDI IDOC’s; solution manager administration for inbound/outbound.
• Presented SAP In-house Cash Management, demonstrated its concepts and use in helping the business understand functional requirements and achieving a solution for centralized and efficient Treasury operations.
• Worked with treasury team for the Cash management, local payment, IC netting functionality post-merger changes.
• Worked on improved AR/AP operational efficiencies using SAP Lockbox and Electronic bank Statement and Insight with SAP Cash Management and implementing In-House Cash for payment netting.
• Work with the implementation team of SAP Treasury module, which includes Cash Management, Liquidity forecasting, forex, hedging and other treasury products.
• Understood their existing code and made changes to adapt the new environment.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential - Evansville, IN

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Formulated business requirements for all areas of FICO, met with key members of business community to ensure that business requirements were met in design.
• Finalized design and documented all key business requirements.
• Documented the process definition documents in areas of New GL, A/P, A/R, Product costing, COPA, CCA and PCA.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, Result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its Settlements.
• Defined variance keys and formulated month end process for Product costing
• Implemented Material Ledger as part of the roll out to Brazil.
• PUP calculation and Dynamic price release Config using material ledger.
• Designed month end close process for costing and Material ledger with CKMLCP.
• Created Operating Concern and defined user defined characteristics and value fields Created
• Designed Enhancements for COPA updating quantity and Labor costs from third party systems
• Set up COPA derivation for all the custom characteristics and designed mapping of SD condition types and value fields in COPA.
• Resolved design and Config defects during the test cycles for release 1
• Finalized open design issues in areas of FICO for North America implementation.
• Created End user training documents and conducted training for North America Super users

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential - Andover, MA

SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible of designing and testing phases of project implementation.
• In Realization phase, guided and assisted team configuration for Travel Management, New GL,A/R, Cost center Accounting, Product cost Controlling, Material ledger and Profitability Analysis.
• Validate the business requirement and worked with multiple teams for configuration/development and testing the FSCM objects.
• Presented SAP In house Cash Management, demonstrated its concepts and use in helping the business understand functional requirements and achieving a solution for centralized and efficient Treasury operations.
• Actively involved in the configuration of Costing types, Valuation variants, Date Control and Transfer strategy for Material cost estimate with Quantity Structure.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, Result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its Settlements.
• Designed the integration for PP and PM with CO
• Designed settlement process for plant maintenance orders and process orders.
• Designed Periodic settlements and actual activity price calculation as per the design.
• Prepared test scripts and executed test scripts for system integration testing.
• Documented test results and resolved defects as per the test cycles

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential - Orlando, FL

SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As a responsibility for a smooth go live in key business areas of the client in FI and CO modules of SAP.
• Being a key Player in the team and worked closely with the business in streamlining the client's business process and performed GAP analysis to kick of the implementation in the areas of New GL, Product Costing and Profitability analysis.
• Recommended the use of document splitting functionality to have the Balance Sheet and P&L reports by Profit Center.
• Designed Zero Balancing account for document splitting using Profit center.
• Activated New GL and Document splitting functionality; Configured the NEW GL, AR, AP and the current ledgers being set as leading ledgers and update rules for the other ledgers based on the report requirements
• Designed the Product Costing system for the client based on the clients MTO and MTS business Process and successfully trained the Key users in making the best possible use of the system.
• Configured valuation variants and costing Variants based on the clients business and also designed Costing Sheets to help them keep a track of their Overheads.
• Developed Cost Object Controlling for Combination Orders production process.
• Designed new RA Keys and attached the variance Keys to various Production Order types used.
• Activated Material Ledger and carried inventory valuations in multiple currencies and maintained data for different types of valuations.
• Determined the differences between preliminary Valuations, exchange rates through actual cost component split.
• Manual and automatic Determination of Future Prices.
• Handled issues on exchange rate fluctuations that arise with procurement documents.
• Activated Actual Costing and determined the periodic unit price for materials under different plants. Performed preliminary costing for the materials in CO-PC product costing

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential -- Columbia, MD

SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Conducted Workshops to understand the travel retail Business division business requirements for Profitability analysis.
• Documented gaps as per the global design template and from the system perspective to accommodate Travel retail business in COPA
• Responsible for leading the sessions for all integrating all the POS systems into SAP.
• Designed PA transfer structure in COPA to update entries from POS systems to COPA.
• Identified design gaps and resolved reconciliation issues from CO perspective.
• Re engineered integrated sales Business process and documented definitions from SAP system perspective.
• Configured SAP system for all the travel retail business and successfully completed integration test cycles.
• Designed functional specification documents for developing interfaces with the POS systems and middle wares.
• Implemented RDS for COPA accelerator implementation using SAP HANA.
• Maintained configuration in KEHC for activating HANA integration
• Generate Column Views using transaction KEHC
• Fine tuning Hana- COPA integration for 85 million line items and 33k customers.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential - Sparks, MD

SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and testing phases of project implementation.
• Responsible of designing and testing phases of project implementation.
• Gathered country specific requirements for all the European entities and documented PDD and DPD documents.
• Responsible for designing and implementing the roll out plan for Europe as per CAT design template
• Responsible for blueprinting Material Ledger and analyzing the functionalities as per CAT business needs.
• Identified gaps and determined SAP functionalities to leverage Europe GAAPs and business process without affecting the CAT template.
• Implemented parallel valuation using ML for valuating inventory leading and non-leading ledgers based for Europe and US GAAP.
• Designed process for updating standard cost based on local standards and US GAAP standards using standard SAP functionality.
• Identified needs for new costing sheet as per Europe local GAAP valuation and designed costing sheets for fulfill business requirements
• Conducted workshops to gather requirements for implementing material ledger.
• Responsible for building a prototype for Material Ledger based on the business requirements.
• Conducted Demo sessions for material ledger proto type with the client BPO's
• Implemented Material ledger for US and European facilities after getting sign off from the BPO's
• Executed test cycles and scripts as CAT business requirements.
• Conducted end user training sessions and prepared training materials for the material ledger month end closing steps.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0