PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Excel years of Business experience and SAP FICO Functional experience in implementing SAP Finance Solutions in various industries like Automotive, Real Estate, Electronics, Manufacturing and Retail.
• Successfully completed 3 company codes SAP full life cycle implementations in SAP FI/CO module. Also have worked on upgrade, global rollout and support projects .
• Handled and supported several Year - end and Period-end closing activities and supported the IS/IT team and end users in executing their tasks and reporting.
• Expert knowledge in EDI/IDOC, LSMW and other ABAP related areas
• Incident and Problem identification, resolution and Co-ordination with offshore team for providing solutions. Understanding on multiple modules and capability to do configuration, gap analysis and proof of concepts of various requirements
• Worked on developing test scripts for various business scenarios for Unit testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Conducted extensive session for business users. Prepared documentation and user manuals.
• Excellent communication skills, highly organized, work-devoted and a good team player.
• Worked on third party application with Opentex

TECHNICAL SKILLS BY APPLICATION:

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

Documentation: MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, PowerPoint, Project)

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 Server 2003, MS- DOS

WORK PROFILE:

Confidential, RI

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation for 3 company codes for US, Greece & Ireland
• Worked on the multiple Enhancements requests and development projects for multiple region like APAC, Mexico,
• New Bank Account Implementation for US Vendors Payable from Canada Company Code.
• Setting up New House Bank, Customization for Bank Reconciliation, and Determination of Bank Clearing account for BRS Posting, Determination of Expenses Account for the posting of bank charges and handling of various end user queries regarding BRS
• Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open Items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL, Create functional specifications for Custom interfaces.
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting.
• Management of assets, Master Data Maintenance, Handling of depreciation, Legacy Data transfer. Structuring fixed assets, Configuring Asset class and Asset types, Asset Re-Valuation and retirement, Integration, Depreciation, Master data maintenance, Legacy data transfer, Acquisitions, Period Closing, Knowledge management and documentation.
• Defined Automatic postings for foreign currency valuation
• In SAP-FI-GL, configured account groups, posting period, fiscal year variants, and document number ranges, field status groups.
• Implementation experience and experience with creating functional specifications for 3 company codes
• Knowledge transfer and end user .
• Unit and Integration testing of customization changes and rendering assistance to the users during UAT
• Created and maintained Master Records like Customers, Vendors, Fixed Assets and G/L Accounts according to client's requirements
• Developed LSMW tools for Migration of Vendor Master, Customer Master, and Asset Master Data.
• Implemented major functionalities like Electronic/Manual Bank Statements, Payments, and Electronic/Manual Check deposit.
• Worked on design and development of custom objects for GL Balance Migration and Open Item Conversion.
• Involved in the customization of dunning program including creation of the dunning proposals and editing the dunning proposals.
• Worked on configuration of US sales/use tax solutions.
• Defined Financial Statement Version for the Balance Sheet report run.
• Involved in transfer of Fixed Assets in Asset Accounting (FI-AA). Configured the system for No depreciation for a period in Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
• Worked on Month end and Year-end closing for all FI and CO postings.
• Developed Testing Scenario and Testing Strategy to Validate GL Account and Open Item Balances.
• Worked on Vendor Invoice Management (Opentext)
• Assisted the business user to perform the cutover task and help in validating the data.
• Provided post-production support and after go-live.

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migrated two R&D companies from ECC Classic GL to New GL in Suite on HANA Environment.
• Responsible for supporting Finance migration with respect to business requirements gathering, data mapping, fixed assets migration, open items migration, master data set up.
• Set up Promises to pay, Dispute Management, Deductions Management to interpret and record part payments in AR.
• Set up AR Interest calculation and created variants to run the program.
• Configured Assessment and distribution cycles to allocate indirect costs to various cost centre.
• Creation of LSMW and Data migration of Master Records like Vendors, Customers, Cost Centre, Profit Centre, and Internal Orders.
• Set up month end closing activities for generating PCA balance sheet.
• Mass Assignments of Profit Centre’s to Company Code. Default account assignments for Cost Elements.
• Define dunning procedures, dunning forms, dunning levels.
• Designed interfaces between Concur and FI via ALE for FI postings.
• Researched for unsettled costs and fixed the settlement rules, sender and receiver definitions.

Confidential, WI

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business users in collecting the requirements and perform GAP analysis.
• Responsibilities include configuration of GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivables, Asset Management, Treasury, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre accounting and Internal Orders.
• Configuring Enterprise Structure elements Chart of Accounts, leading ledgers, Variant configuration and define Financial Statement Versions for different reporting purposes.
• In the Accounts Payable module, defined and configuring vendor account groups, maintained terms of payments, reason codes, open item management in vendor accounts, tax account for incoming invoices and intercompany clearing.
• Manual and Automatic Payment Program with payment advice and payment analysis printing and clearing of vendor open items.
• Configured exchange rate types, default account assignments for foreign currency valuation and Configured Tax Interfaces like Vertex to meet indirect taxations in USA.
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, account determinations, number ranges, screen layouts, depreciation keys, calculation keys and period controls.
• Define transaction types for acquisition retirement and transfer of assets.
• Involved in design and customisation of Cost Centre accounting and Internal Order in order to configure Asset under Constructions and its settlements.
• Set up Cost centre and Profit Centre hierarchies and set up default profit centre assignments for PCA balance sheet reporting
• Prepared test scripts for different scenarios in Asset Accounting and Accounts Payable integrated with MM and Performed Unit testing, integration testing and UAT Testing.
• Involved in Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy data of Vendors and assets masters and the future depreciations of the assets.
• Involved in migration of GL master data, Vendor master data and Asset master data from legacy system.
• Set up statistical and real internal orders for cost allocation via secondary cost elements.
• Worked on the defect resolution created by the cross functional module as Sales and Distribution, Material Master Team and Product Costing team.
• Participated in Go-Live and initial support after go live.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Initial planning for project infrastructure, landscape and resources requirements, and timelines/mile stones.
• Analyzed the AS-IS system, did a profound GAP analysis and designed and mapped the To-BE system across Finance, AR and AP space for different implementation projects
• Conducted work shops for senior management to demonstrate new GL functionalities, its limitations and migration issues and restrictions to help management to decide the appropriate solutions,
• Configured,demonstrated and modified prototype solution to meet client’s requirements,
• Participated in preparation of Blueprint and provided inputs to business on various aspects of new GL requirements in order to take decisions on specific functioanlities,
• Configured the cross company and Intercompany setups, GL Master data upload.
• Analysed SAP’s scenario validation report and identified the areas to fix and master data inconsistencies for clean up.
• In New General Ledger, developed parallel ledgers to maintained New GL configuration to create Leading and Non Leading Ledger for legal and corporate reporting.
• Worked on the design for Segment Reporting and configured Document Splitting on profit centre level.
• Configured document splitting, CO-FI real time integration, changes in AA depreciation areas for posting to different ledgers, foreign exchange revaluation for open items, additional document types to meet document splitting and zero balance functionality, segmentation derivation using BAdI, assignment of scenarios and custom fields to ledgers, defining parallel accounting principles, sub screens for coding blocks, GL allocations (distribution and assessment), Profit centre planning etc.
• Ledger specific clearing for open item managed accounts, Document Splitting Wizard and line item extractor for data upload to BW.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable .
• In AR worked on Terms of payment, Interest calculations and credit management.
• In Integration with MM, configured for Logistic invoice verification (LIV).
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively.
• Wrote validation and substitution rules to meet document splitting and migration requirements,
• Conducted traning sessions for SMEs and users. Prepared traning documents and user manuals for users using Infopak.