PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:

Utilize strong system analysis, problem solving, and teamwork skills to continue to deliver value - added processes as an ERP (SAP) consultant

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

• SAP Certified Financial Solution Consultant (ECC 6.0)
• 7 years of functional expertise in SAP R/3 with touch points in customizing, configuring, integrating, SAP FICO module- FI-GL, FI-AP, FI - FSCM, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-SPL, CO-CCA, EC-PCA, CO-PC, CO-PA
• Involved in multiple SAP upgrades from SAP 4.6c, 4.7 to ECC 6.0, also several support pack and Enhancement pack upgrades
• Implemented New GL migration projects from Classic GL with document splitting and also Parallel Ledgers.
• Expertise in SAP analysis implementation, support, configuration and
• Involved in 3 Full Life Cycle implementations of SAP R/3 system including Business process, Re-engineering, configuring and testing.
• Experience in report development- report painter and drill down reporting
• Involved in Data conversion projects in FI
• Expertise on production support and ticket resolving
• Expertise in FI/MM and FI/SD integration. Strong experience with procure to pay (PTP) and order to cash (OTC). Integrated with SRM in the process
• Assistance to team members in resolving configuration issues
• Extensively worked with ABAP team in support of developing functional specifications for (RICE) Reports, Interfaces, Conversion programs and Enhancement
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query , Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes
• Dynamic, skilled IT specialist with proven success in managing multiple projects. Providing workable strategies to the business by working effectively in a team environment.
• Communicated effectively with the customers to gather business requirements and translated them to Functional specifications for the development team.

SAP FI/CO SKILLS:

• Accounts Receivable and Payable: Vendor/Customer Groups and Master Data, Reconciliation Accounts, Invoice, Down Payments, Credit Management, House Banks, Dunning, Reason Codes
• General Ledger: Account Groups, GL Master Records, Sample Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Sample & Recurring Documents, Parking Document, Hold Document, Partial Payment, Currency, Reversal
• Asset Accounting: Configuration of Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset class, asset master creation, Account determination, settings for acquisition, sale and retirement of asset and depreciation run
• FSCM: Credit management, Biller Direct, Treasury and risk management, Dispute management, collections management, In House Cash
• Treasury: Cash Management, Configuring for House Banks, Electronic Bank Statements, Cash Journal, Lockbox Processing
• Cost Center Accounting: Cost Elements, Cost Centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Reconciliation Ledger, Statistical Key Figures, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Planning, Report generation
• Internal Orders: Order Types, Settlement Rules, IO Planning, Distribution Cycles, Cost Collector Configuration and Cost Element Planning.
• Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern, Characteristics, Value fields, Derivation Rules and Structures, Valuation Strategies, Derivation Tables, Planning Versions, Layouts & Profiles, Drilldown Reports
• Product Costing: Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, Bill of Materials, Routings, Settlement Structures, Variance and WIP Calculations, Costing Variants, Valuation Variants, Integration with SD, MM, PP and COPA.
• SAP S/4 HANA: Attended several SAP workshops and learning sessions. Attend SAP TechEd to meet and understand implications of implementing S/4 HANA.

Relevant Skills:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7 and ECC6.0, S/4 HANA, SAP HANA, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Report Painter. SAP S/4 HANA

MS Office: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point

GUI Tools: MS Visio, SAP Scripting

Programming: C, Java, ABAP (Debugging)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sterling, VA

SAP Sr. FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with all the involved parties such as SAP ECC, SRM, RSL, SUS Portals, BI, BOBJ etc during migration of SAP ECC to HANA.
• Worked very closely with the ABAP team, SAP BASIS team during the initial analysis on the migration to HANA to understand all the changes that were performed on the custom programs to resolve the inconsistencies in queries as recommended by SAP
• Demonstrated advantages of migrating to SAP HANA to key stakeholders - Report time and SAP Future compatibility being the two major areas of SAP
• Worked closely with Portal teams to establish clean connections with ECC, SRM and BW databases.
• Coordinated the testing efforts with key business users
• Worked as the lead SAP FICO consultant for implementing all the SAP FICO modules like FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC and CO-PA
• Evaluated the scope of the project and estimated man-hours needed to complete the project
• Identified key users of the business process for the project
• Provided user to facilitate the Business Blueprint process
• Gathered business requirements and drafted the Business blueprint (BBP)
• Obtained signoff of the BBP from the key users and the steering committee
• Customized all the business requirements gathered in SAP.
• Implemented full length AR module used to enter invoices, cash application both manually and by using a lockbox. Based on Risk categories, implemented Credit Management settings to block sales order entry and delivery levels. Matched customer master data and company code data to the credit data of customer master. Implemented lockbox to receive all the checks to the lockbox in Toronto, Canada.
• Implemented FSCM - Credit Management, Collections Management, dispute management and Biller Direct. Worked with SAP Net weaver consultants to set up a customer portal using FSCM-Biller Direct along with the implementation of integration points between Biller Direct and other AR and FSCM Modules. Set up Credit Management to block the customers at a delivery level, implemented user exits for processes like CSP (Customer specific Procurement), ATO (Assemble to order) etc.
• Worked on the integration between FI and SD such as account determination and Tax classification categories. Involved in working with the SD consultants to develop the pricing procedure for the sales organization. Created and mapped specific account keys and condition types with accruals like Freight, Rebates etc. Implemented scenarios like simple sales from stock, make to stock, make to order, schedule arrangements, rebate arrangements etc.
• Created and mapped a new company code with the legacy chart of accounts to the standard chard of accounts. Worked on custom reports for tax, cash flow and other reporting needs.
• Created a new tax procedure for Canada (ZAXCAJ) based on the tax jurisdiction codes. Configured sales tax based on the ship to location and for purchasing based on the receiving location.
• Created Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments and invoice processing using checks. Configured the complete Logistics invoice verification in MM. Configured House Banks, Payment methods, assigned payment method in vendor and tested the payment run by using Bank reconciliation and other vendor reconciliation accounts. Configured check printing to send the Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) file in NACHA format and the positive pay file. Worked with the master data team in vendor matching and creation of vendor master.
• Created depreciation areas: Local GAAP depreciation, IFRS depreciation, Tax depreciation and Economic depreciation (Client specific)
• Created a profit center hierarchy based on the product line in alignment with the product hierarchy of material master. Developed IFRS and NKLR (Client internal accounting) reports for income statement in PCA.
• Created cost centers and cost center hierarchy based on functional area and location. Created cost center assessments, distributions and COPA assessments
• Implemented various costing techniques such as standard costing for materials, production order costing, sales order costing for scenarios such as make to order engineer to order, assemble to order and service scenarios. Configured costing variant, costing sheet, valuation variant, overhead cost elements.
• Created Profitability analysis reports using Forms and Report line structures. Developed KE30 reports to generate income statement from CO-PA. Defined new operating concern attributes and generated operating concern environment.
• Tested all the above developed functionality by creating end to end scenarios (storybooks) and obtained the signoff from the business.
• Developed LSMW’s for data migration like Credit data migration (KNKK table), Customer open items, Vendor open items, GR IR Open items, Fixed Assets (AS91 + OASV) and Work in process (WIP)
• Developed a cutover plan with all the Go Live activities and assigned scheduled times
• Provided the business with additional and post go live support
• Performed cleaning of old production orders including full settlement and periodic settlement profit centers
• Solved several settlement issues related to Production orders, sales orders and service orders and provided support for major processes like Make to stock, make to order, assemble to order and engineer to order.
• Assisted users in rectifying the errors during the depreciation run.
• Executed asset balances report, asset history report and the cost center report. Reconciled the sub-ledger with general ledger.
• Created LSMWs for the mass creation of asset shells and mass retirement of assets.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting planning included defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations. Set up Internal Orders. Generated reports using Report Painter.
• Worked extensively on Month end closing activities during testing and assisted users with the closing activities in production.
• Opening and closing MM & FI periods, Depreciation runs, GR/IR account clearing, inter-company receivables and payables reconciliation, booking accruals, GL and sub-ledger reconciliations, asset balance sheet reports, Foreign Currency revaluation, making GL journal entries.
• CO period locks, assessment and distribution cycles for cost centers, Internal order settlement, Production order settlement, calculation of WIP and production variances,
• Fiscal year balance carries forward for sub ledgers and GL, Asset accounting sub-ledger closing and fiscal year change closing current periods and opening next fiscal year, creating new number ranges, balance sheet adjustment postings, posting accruals
• Closing CO posting periods, CO-FI reconciliation, closing and archiving the production orders, running assessment and distribution cycles.

Confidential, Atchison, KS

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Full Life cycle implementation consisting of defining the business requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications, configuration and testing.
• Analyzed the business requirements, determined organizational structures and classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centers
• Migrated from Classic GL to SAP New GL by partnering with SAP America.
• Involved in Migration of Classic GL to New GL, with Basis and Project Management by establishing a client structure by Filling a SAP Questionnaire, SAP Performing Production system review and Final Test Migration review
• Identified the New GL scenario - 05 (New GL migration with Doc Splitting and Parallel Ledgers) and activated FAGLFLEXT and FAGLFLEXA
• Added a custom field Country to the coding block
• Identified document splitting characteristics - Set up the configuration for document splitting by Profit center, Segment and Country
• Performed Data cleansing by reviewing Open items and accounts with balances in foreign currencies and performed data cleansing
• Installed the SAP Migration cockpit in Sandbox and Migration Quality clients and performed test migrations
• Performed the final migration in Production with support from SAP along with the BASIS team supervision
• Co-Led the project to upgrade the SAP ECC system from EHP4 to EHP7 by working closely with the other involved systems such as SRM, RSL, SUS Portals, BI, BOBJ etc.
• Evaluated the new areas of AR - Interest, Integration of AR with Grants Management, New GL closing cockpit.
• Implemented new business functions benefitting the business by Coordinating the upgrade with SAP BASIS and Development teams.
• Held regular meetings with all the teams involved, tracked the issues and coordinated with SAP of all the technical issues, Issues were prevalent in newer systems including SRM, SAP HCM, ESS/MSS portal etc.
• Created Report Painter reports in support of new functionality used by expense analysis reports for analysis by cost center, by profit center, by GL account group
• Implemented E Invoicing Mexico with 3rd party integration services. Generated customer invoice in required XML format and a readable PDF format
• Custom enhancement to write the UUID back to the SAP document for approved invoices
• Implemented E-Accounting and Accounts Payable solution to auto integrate with VIM
• Implemented Mexico PAGOS solution to send all the Cash received to the Mexican government and get the approvals.
• Integrated MM and FI modules for according to movement types and valuation classes.
• Made configuration for automatic account postings in the transaction code OBYC.
• Configured the MM Data Dictionary
• Integrated SD and FI modules according to Account keys and condition types.
• Implemented effective Change management processes to Accelerate all the implementation phases using a centralized solution environment
• Fastened the Blueprint, Configuration and final preparation phases by using a process driven approach.
• Configured Global Rollout with a Template that led to effective standardization and harmonization across organizations and different locations.
• Configured Vendor groups, assigned number ranges for vendor master data and documents (KR, KZ,and KA).
• Configured automatic payment programs and maintained additional payment methods.
• Use of special GL indicator transactions including down payment for AR and AP.
• Configured the complete Logistics Invoice Verification in MM (MIRO).
• Created Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments and invoice processing using checks. Configured House banks, Payment Methods, Assigned Payment Method in Vendor and tested the Payment Run by using Bank Reconciliation and other vendor Reconciliation accounts.
• Configured customer groups, assigned number ranges for master data and documents (DR, DZ, DA), created payments terms, created reason codes and accounts for exchange rate differences, rounding differences,
• Complete bank configuration for incoming payment with bank transactions for multi house bank scenario.
• Created Customer Master Data and corresponding reconciliation accounts for automatic posting in GL accounts. Maintained document number ranges for customer invoices and incoming payments.
• Made configurations for entire Order to Cash business process including - creating Sales Order, Post Goods Issue (PGI), Billing and incoming payment.
• Set different Tolerance limits for several customers.

Confidential, Fairfield CT

Sr. SAP R2R Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the asset accounting rollover for the newly acquired company codes in U.S.A and Asia Pacific countries.
• Configured 4 company codes for asset accounting
• Created new depreciation keys in compliance with the local statutory regulations of the country, for Local GAAP and Tax depreciation areas.
• Created test plans and test packages with all the required transactions and reports by using solution manager for unit testing and integration testing.
• Created Business Process Procedures (BPPs) and conducted session for the users on the delta functionalities.
• Setup fixed asset structure, Asset class, Depreciation area and Asset master data. Maintained master data and structure for Asset accounting modules.
• Responsible for Configuration of Asset acquisitions, Asset retirements, Asset transfers, revaluation of assets, depreciation run and year-end closing in Asset accounting.
• Integrating Asset accounting with the General Ledger by defining how Depreciation Areas post to General Ledger. Specifying Financial Statement Version for Asset Reports.
• Responsible for Asset Data Transfer from Legacy to SAP by using LSMW.
• Developed interfaces with several 3rd party sales systems to load AR Invoices and Credit memos
• Developed a custom table structure to accommodate the sales level information for the sales interfaces to load the relevant data in FI-AR documents
• Loaded customer master data from several interfaces with external number assignment, Also created customer master data in SAP and transferred back as a to the external sales systems
• Worked with different interface formats such as XML files loading as IDOC’s to SAP, Files being loaded in SAP BAPI format etc
• Setup SD - FI integration for all the products that use SD.
• Implemented Lockbox functionality in BAI2 format
• Activated a user exit to be able to search for invoice number from the assignment number field along with the standard SAP search methods
• Implemented Rebates and discounts for major customers. Worked very closely with the SD consultants to match the custom developed pricing structure in SD
• Worked with HSBC bank to develop an interface to retrieve the LOCKBOX file on daily basis
• Implemented EBS in SWIFTMT940 format for Asia pacific countries such as Australia, Singapore
• Implemented EBS in BAI2 format for Canada and US
• Supported FSCM collections and Dispute Management.
• Configured Business Partners, converted customers to BP under the role of Collections management
• Setup collection profiles, Collection Segments and groups
• Setup collection worklists for AR collection specialists as well as supervisors.
• Set up automatic integration using High Radius to generate invoices, statements, dunning and other correspondence automatically from the collection worklists
• Setup Dispute management configuration with High Radius integration
• Automatic creation of dispute cases based on AR reason codes for short payments and payment differences
• Created Dispute workflow for dispute cases created to add notes and other actions
• Created different payment methods for ACH IN, ACH OUT, WIRE IN and WIRE OUT; Generated payment files in XML and text format and worked with HSBC bank to test the interface
• Created a positive pay file in text format and sent it to HSBC bank and tested the interface with SAP XI
• Implemented active interface with Vistex for several charge back scenarios with the customers
• Developed a report to reconcile the differences between GL and COPA to analyze the differences between GL and COPA
• Maintained COPA transfer structures to transfer values from cost centers and direct postings to FI and MM
• Created several COPA derivation rules to derive product hierarchy and sales group etc
• Implemented a COPA user exit to allow COPA planning at a consolidated level by adding value fields for planning
• Developed a list of business scenarios and Special functions that need to be tested as a part of the upgrade. Met with business teams in several manufacturing plants to understand their daily activities and develop a comprehensive testing spreadsheet
• Tested all the standard SAP functionality and Custom SAP functionality. This included business scenarios and a list of special functions.
• Worked with several technical teams like Basis and Security while developing special SAP instances - exclusively built for the ECC 6.0 upgrade; and copying the necessary roles for users.
• Coordinated and completed the IT testing for FICO
• Was the IT team member responsible for the completion of business testing for a couple of Manufacturing plants and the corporate headquarters. Held weekly meetings with business and coordinated the testing to make sure all the functionality including the interfaces and SAP Jobs are all tested.
• Coordinated resolving several authorization issues and ABAP issues related to the Upgrade. Modified the roles by adding several new auth objects in ECC 6.0
• Conversion of the classic GL to the new GL
• Developed some custom reports for the journal entry, Mass uploads and reversals.
• Created few validations and substitutions for the PO process and for production Orders to validate and substitute consistent cost centers and Profit centers
• Intercompany Matching Report: Developed a custom report to match the intercompany balances of the company with its trading partners (partner entities)
• Created financial reports (drilled down by GL accounts) in Report Painter.
• Automated PA entry (Automated Accrual) report: Developed a custom report to read the sales data from PA and perform accrual entries in FI GL

Confidential

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gatherings for the new changes.
• Prototype the solution to the business in test system.
• Meeting with key users on the solution demonstrations.
• Involved in testing ongoing business processes, transactions, central functions, interfaces, integration areas in SD with other modules and written test scripts for ECC 6.0 up gradation.
• Communicated the status of issues and impacts with key users, template coordinators and project managers.
• Involved in Business Process discussions and preparation of Business Blue Print.
• Accounting and periodic processing.
• Creation of Customer & Vendor Account groups, master Data, defining House Bank.
• Payment program configuration.
• Asset Accounting configuration
• Involved in integration with MM, SD Module.
• Involved in preparing Validation & Substitutions Rules
• Work with Technical team on new developments and interface set-up
• Worked on different IDOCs processing and step-up. (INVOIC, Lockbx, PAYEXT, Exchange rate, COSMAS)
• Worked on Credit Card Payment process for sales invoices
• Configuration of CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting) including Controlling Area settings, Cost Center hierarchy, Cost Center master data and Cost Elements.
• Internal Orders - Maintaining Order Types, Creating the orders (Real / statistical), maintaining the Settlement & Budget Profiles.
• Cost Centers, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures. Maintained the primary and secondary cost elements.
• Good Experience on Invoice to Pay (I2P) process. Worked on VIM end-to-end process.

Confidential

SAP Master data and QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studying and understanding the business process requirement of the client documents for FI/CO Sub modules.
• Master Data: Creation of General Ledgers masters, Customer Masters, Vendor Masters.
• Creation of cost elements & groups, Cost centers & groups, profit center accounting.
• Configure FI-MM Integration settings as per the business goods moments to generate the accounting entries while goods moments.
• Developed the new reports in controlling.
• Configure and design report using report painter to generate service process cost and revenue.
• Preparation of end user manual and manual and Go live & support.
• Functional Specification for Technical Developments
• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
• Documentation of configuration done on the system Design and Development
• User .
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration testing Cycle and User Acceptance testing.
• Cut-over activity and Go-Live