Objective:

To secure a challenging position in the field of ERP and testing that will utilize my strengths and knowledge.

Summary:

• Over Eight years IT experience including Almost Seven years of excelling experience of implementations, analysis & production support.
• Accomplished SAP FICO Functional Professional Consultant with strong affinity for technology and keen business sense for the application of emerging technologies to add value and expand markets.
• Specializing in SAP FI, CO, AR, AP, AA, CCA, PCA, PA and knowledge in Report Painter, CO-PA, and Special Purpose Ledger
• Excellent implementation skills like business process mapping, gap & fit analysis, prototyping.
  Integration of FI with core applications like CO, PP, MM, SD (Invoicing, Billing and Pricing).
• Other SAP implementation skills include: Business Analysis, GAP Analysis, Requirement gathering, Solution Delivery, writing Integration Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Business Process Procedures etc., performing volume, stress regression testing and End User Training.
• High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the project implementation life cycle.
• Able to Perform integration of SAP-MM and SAP-SD with FICO module- Order to Cash, Account determination.
  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.
• Experienced in importing master data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 by using LSMW & Batch Input Session techniques and exposed to ABAP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
ERP: FICO: 4.6 C and SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise ECC 6.0
Accounting Software: Pastel
Tools: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, Report Painter, Report Writer, Test Director, Winrunner, Quick Test Pro, Loadrunner, Quality Center.
Database: MS-Access, SQL Server 2000, Oracle, SAP GUI
Software: C++, Visual Basic, HTML, C, Java

SAP R/3 FICO SKILLS:
Financial Accounting (FI): Asset Accounting, Enterprise Structure, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting and Special Purpose Ledger
Controlling (CO): Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis
Reporting Skills: Report Writer & Report Painter
Integration: FI integration with SD, MM and Overhead Cost Controlling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Ashburn, VA Dec 06 – Till Now
SAP R/3 FICO Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Worked as FI- CO production support for Finance and controlling issues. Supported programs that ran outbound and inbound interfaces in SAP to various systems. Resolved day to day operation tickets from legacy system 4.6 R/3 to ECC 6.0

• Actively represented upgrade project from 4.6 versions to ECC 6.0 (NEW GL). Was involved in analyzing the as-is system and gathered functional requirements for the To-Be system. Actively participated in the upgrade project blue printing, Requirement gathering, development, testing and training.
• Maintained various master data including customer, vendor, cost element, cost center, Inter Company customers/Vendors and GL Master Data. Wrote a functional spec to extract master data from SAP to external billing systems for their use of data to interface SAP
• In G/L created company code, Created chart of Accounts, Assigned company code to COA, defined account groups, defined retained earnings account, maintained fiscal year variant, assigned company code to fiscal tear variant, defined posting period variant, defined variants for open posting periods, created number ranges, maintained field status variants, defined tolerance groups for employees, maximum exchange rate difference, defined company, created G/L accounts in chart of accounts and company code, defined financial statement version, Maintained INTER CO Clearings, monitoring monthly HR Headcount IDOC to SAP from People Soft System, FX, Currency set up, EX RATE, EX Rate Type, FX Valuation, FX Translation

• Worked on upgrading the FI GL interface to SAP from third party billing systems. Adjusted program to accommodate both domestic entities and international entities.
• Analyzed Field Status Groups for GL accounts on both legacy and to be systems and worked with business on assigning correct FSG to consolidated GL accounts from two different instances. Worked on workflow related design and Support. Tested.
• Wrote and loaded testing scenarios scripts in Mercury/HP Quality Center, used Quick Test pro to test various standard TCodes, custom interfaces, and Master Data load.
• Actively participated in Balance and MD Conversion from two separate SAP entities to one consolidated system. Prepared LSMW script to load Customer and vendor master data. Wrote a functional spec to automate GL accounts load in ECC 6.0 upgrade.

• Developed conversion functional specs for Inter-Company Open Items from the legacy system, tested the program with a Mock load, loaded successfully to production. Documented RICEF ID’s in Solution manager, created links in Solution manager and attached documentations in solution manager.
• Maintained combined Financial Statement Version in ECC 6.0, worked with business on determining the consolidated hierarchy for FSV. Worked with COPA team on FI-CO integration, on primary cost elements, COPA reports, and COPA characteristics, and custom COPA fields, Substitution & Validation

Confidential,Nashville, TN April 06 - Dec 06
SAP R/3 FICO Consultant,

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
• Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications. Participated in Super User meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required and training the users. Analyzed the as-is system, did the Gap Analysis and designed the to-be system. System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions.
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users, Define global (group) currency and a local (company) currency - , defined Factory Calendar, Currencies, Document Types, Field Status Group, Tolerances, Fiscal Year Variant, Number Ranges. Configured MM-FI Integration and Automatic Account Determination
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger, Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), linking of Vendor documents with EDI, exchange rate differences, interest calculation, Set up House Banks, GL accounts for Bank Accounts, and Bank Recon Accounts, Defined forms of payments.
• Tested configurations using SAP T Codes using Quick Test Pro and documented the test scenarios in Quality Center

Confidential,Dallas, TX Oct 05 - April 06
SAP R/3 FICO Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Regular Interaction with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
  
• Was involved in analyzing the As-Is system and gathered functional requirements for the To-Be system. Involved in configuring the functional process design built in Business Blueprint Phase, preparing training documents and training.
• Configured in AR and CO working with FI, SD, and MM team. Master data specialist. Involved in decision-making for the screen layout and Field Status Group of Customer and Vendor Master Record using LSMW scripts

• Worked with the SD team in analyzing and implementing the sales process in the SAP system, Dunning for Account Receivable, credit management for the customers, configured customer records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination for over/under payments, cash discounts, overall A/R employee tolerances, special G/L transactions and reporting. Completed FI – SD integration and account determination for revenue tracking, Dispute Management, worked on Workflow requirements for dispute management, Worked with Currencies, FX Valuation, FX Translation, Lock Box Processing, and house bank set up for Treasury Module
  
• Manually configured New Primary & Secondary Cost Elements. Configured the Cost Center Accounting Standard Hierarchy & Cost Centers. Configured the Profit Center Accounting Standard Hierarchy, Dummy Profit Center & Profit Centers. Wrote Validations and substitutions. Worked with ABAP on a user exits for validations. Used LSMW to load Cost Center and Cost Element Master Data.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured both costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods.
• Configured Fixed Assets, Created Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, Depreciations runs, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).

Confidential,Thornton, CO May 04 - Sept 05
SAP R/3 FICO Consultant

• Worked with users to understand the requirements and provided SAP solutions per requirement
• In Cost Center Accounting, created Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, created cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements, developed Assessment, created activity types, statistical key figures, cost center categories, document numbers, validations and substitutions. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Cost Element Accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet etc.
• In Profit center accounting created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, maintained the master data,
  Substitutions and assignments. Configured Profit Center Accounting planning included defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations.
  Set up Internal Orders. Generated reports using Report Painter.
  

Confidential,Denver, CO May 03 to May 04
SAP R/3 FICO Consultant

• Configured Company Code settings including maintaining Company code global parameters. Customized the COA to incorporate the Existing & New GL Accounts. Configured the GL Account Groups, Field Status Variants and groups. Assigned Company codes to other components such as Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variants etc to ensure a proper internal integration within the FI Module.
  
• Configured Automatic Account Assignment for Cross-company codes
  Maintained Bank Account Master Data involving configuration of House Banks, Bank Accounts.
  
• Worked as a lead for Customer and Vendor Master Data, Created different Vendor & Customer Groups and maintained the Field Status as per the nature of these Groups and assigned number ranges for the same. Created Vendor and Customer Master Records.
  
• Configured Cross Company Code clearings, assigned GL Accounts for automatic clearings for Cross Company transactions.

Confidential,Minneapolis, MN Jan 02 – Mar 03

SAP R/3 FICO Consultant

• Was involved in full life-cycle Implementation.
  
• Analyzed the Business Process Requirements provided by the client. Assisted the Project Lead during the Project Preparation Phase. Conducted meetings with users to understand the workflow of the As-Is system. Analyzed workflow to design the To-Be solution & documented the same in the Business Blueprint Phase. Underwent a training to understand the legacy system PeopleSoft. Writing configuration notes and Super user / End user training
• Configured Co Code, COA, Account Groups, Number Ranges, Fiscal Year Variant, Created Companies, Maintained currency codes, currency code exchange rates, defined Exchange rates types for currencies, Defined Global Currency and Local Currency, Defined Tolerances, set up Inter Company Relationships, Created GL Master data, Customer Master Data, Vendor Master Data, Cost Element Master data with help of ABAP program, LSMW, and manual process.
• Was involved in training internal IT team and Business Users, Was involved in documentation and presentation

Confidential,Minneapolis, MN May 00 – Dec 00
Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and identified business requirements from the business stakeholders and translated them to system specifications. Interacted with a business users and Managers to finalize the Business Requirement Documents. Created Business Use-Case Model and Business Use-Case specifications after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the Business processes. Created Use Case Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams and Activity Diagrams to model requirements.
• Produced Functional Specifications and led weekly meetings with technical teams to discuss outstanding technical issues and deadlines that had to be met. Managed all the requirements (Business Use Cases and Functional Specifications) in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members and maintained traceability between requirements, design, SIT test cases and UAT test cases. Conducted JAD sessions with CRM SMEs, system architects, technical teams and other stakeholders for open and pending issues. Conducted informal sessions with development team to make sure that design and configuration meets Business requirements.

Confidential,St Cloud, MN Jan 00-May 00
VB Developer/Tester (Intern)
Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional and GUI testing manually. Developed System Test Plans, Test Strategies after thoroughly reviewing the business documents. Provided project teams resource estimates and schedules for QA and testing activities. Developed and enhanced Automated Test Scripts using WinRunner. Executed SQL Queries for the backend testing. Performed Load Testing using Load Runner. Identified and reported software defects using Test Director.
• Developed database test scripts using database checkpoints and TSL statements. Developed the test scripts and used various checkpoints such as GUI, Bitmap, Text checkpoints. Analyzed the performance of various servers using Server Resource graphs. Created user defined functions to reduce the redundant code and enhance the maintainability of scripts. Created data driven tests to validate the scenario with different test data. Created automated test scripts using Win Runner.
• Played a lead role in doing the acceptance test for every new build deployed on to QA environment. Performed load test weekly and generated a report indicating any memory leaks, any unacceptable latency issues and concurrent session issues.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

MBA in Finance & Accounting

Bachelor of Science in Computer Info. System with Minor in Accounting.