PROFILE:

• Sr. FI/CO Functional Consultant with over 13 years of IT experience in which includes 9 years of experience in SAP FICO as well as working experience in SAP S4 HANA with version 1809.
• Completed 4 Full life cycle implementations in SAP FICO.
• SAP FICO experience includes:
• Created and maintained master data for GL, New GL, Vendor, Customer, Assets, PCA, CCA.
• Worked in the areas of FI - MM (procure to pay cycle) and FI-SD (order to pay cycle) integration.
• Created and maintained master data for GL, New GL (parallel Ledger), Fixed Assets, PCA, CCA, Product cost planning and controlling (PCP).
• Created configuration change requests for new configurations or change in the configuration within the existing template for the Order - to - Cash Process Configuration experience of Customer Order Management cycle, Pricing, Organizational structures, Credit management, and Inter Company Sales Process.
• Experience in VAT use tax, sales tax, and withholding tax configuration including 1099 vendor.
• Member of Global Business Support team supporting business users all over the world.
• Account Receivable (AR): Test FI-AR scenarios as an order to cash, Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.
• Performed inbound and outbound interfaces through PI/EDI.
• Performed FICO Integration with MM, SD, FI-AP (PTP), FI-SD (OTC).
• Performed upgrade from NEW G/L Accounting to SIMPLE FINANCE in HANA.
• Expertise in Configuration and Customization in FI - GL, AR, AP, AA Fixed assets, Controlling - CO-CEA CO-CCA, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-PCA and Internal Orders Processing.
• Extensive experience working on Integration of FI/CO with Material Management (MM) P2P, Sales& Distribution (SD) and Order to Cash.
• Knowledge of compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, IFRS, US GAAP and non-US countries’ GAAP.
• Industry experience includes: Manufacturing, Utilities, Healthcare, Semiconductor, Building material and Telecommunication.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Environment: SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, Visio, MS Project., SAP S/4 HANA SAP ECC 6.0

Programming Language: HTML, CSS, DHTML, SQL, Java, J2EE, ARIA.

Testing Tools& Data Bases.: HP ALM/ Mercury Quality Center, JAWS, Dragon, WAVE, WAT, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server 2000, MySQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Juno Beach, FL

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gather high-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model). Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of solutions, as well as documentation, and end-user .
• Lead configuration and production support on S/4 HANA Finance all phases of the migration process and create BPP in FICO to train users.
• Create and maintaine master data for GL, New GL,Fixed Assets, PCA, CCA,PP .
• Perform FICO Integration with MM, SD, FI-AP (PTP), FI-SD (OTC ). Mapp FI accounts to MM master Data using Movement Types.
• Create new payment term and document type.
• Create new fiancial version to group GL accounts correctly in financial statemnet.
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings.
• Configure Automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning AND define cash discounts based upon payment terms.
• Write the functional specification and corordinate with team to fullfill client requrement.
• Solved issues related to Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and automatic payment program such as invalid payment program, no costing object found, and customer has debit balance and generating the file for electronic payments.
• Configure and handle the Lockbox reporting.
• Working on Integration of Asset accounting and Internal Order to capture Asset under construction.
• Configuration of input tax and output tax as well as Withholding tax code and procedures.
• Determination in Translation and Revaluation for the month end closing.
• Writing functional specifications for custom developments such as Age trial balance report, and Customer Credit Information report.
• Involve in Function Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Integration testing and Market acceptance testing for all custom developments and key business processes implemented in SAP.
• Involve in new G/L migration. Created multiple target scenarios to suit the existing business needs during migration.
• Configure new G/L for profit center and Segment reporting
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuration settings for Profit center accounting include activating Profit center accounting in Controlling Area.
• Restructured Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers.
• Prepared the Business Process Procedures (BPP’s) for various transactions in GL, AR, AP sub modules.
• Maintain Validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Profitability Analysis: PA assessment, reports, forms, derivation rules, characteristics, value fields maintenance and PA transfer structure.

Confidential, Palm Beach Garden, FL

SAP FI/CO Consultant - Financials

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between the development and business teams to discuss and configure efficient solutions.
• Member of Global Business Support team supporting business users all over the world
• Consulted with end users, management to design and implement solutions for new business requirements.
• Create and maintain master data for GL, New GL, PCA, CCA, Lockbox.
• Worked in the areas of FI-MM (procure to pay cycle) and FI-SD (order to pay cycle) integration.
• Account Receivable (AR): Tested FI-AR scenarios as an order to cash, Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.
• Maintained Automatic Payment Program (FBZP, F110), Goods receipt, Invoice receipt, bank determination.
• Transported Customer, Vendor and GL Master Data from legacy system in to SAP through LSMW.
• Work on creation of new House banks, bank accounts (FI12)
• Work with payment run, payment plan, vendor master account set up, and vendor statements.
• Maintained clearing accounts for inter-company postings.
• Preparation of Technical specifications for Actual Invoice, Sales summary report for reconciliation of GL postings by finance User Acceptance Testing, Integration testing.
• Maintained Validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Cost Center Accounting: Configured Cost Centers necessary for CO-CCA and maintained them in Standard Hierarchy. Defined and maintained Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures needed for CO-CCA. Maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, Allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution, and assessment.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered high-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model). Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of solutions, as well as documentation, and end-user .
• Analyzed the AS-IS system, did a profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped the TO-BE system on SAP at client’s site.
• Configured company code, posting period variants, fiscal year variants, field status groups, document number ranges, tolerance groups, and assigning the variants to company code etc.
• Configured and customized General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version etc.
• Configured New GL functionalities: Document splitting and Non-Leading ledgers to satisfy client’s country specific reporting requirements.
• Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules including creation of Vendor Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups, assigned authorizations for users, account determination and default account assignments.
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings.
• Configured Customer Master Data and master groups.
• Created Account Groups, Document Types, Document Number ranges, Open item clearing
• Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms,
• Configured House Banks, Payment Programs,
• Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments, Checks Management through assigning number ranges for check lots, checks printing and defining void reason codes, Posting Invoices with and without Invoice Verification.
• Prepared the Business Process Procedures (BPP’s) for various transactions in GL, AR, AP sub modules.
• Trained end-users on Material Costing, Work-In-Process, Overhead calculation and Production Order Settlement.
• Configured Currency and Valuation Profile for multiple currencies and valuations such as legal valuation / group valuation / profit center valuation and attached to controlling area.
• Worked with planning aids to transfer plan data from PP to Cost Center accounting.
• In CCA, redesigned Periodic Re-posting,
• Distribution, and Assessment cycles and allocated various costs (percentage, fixed, portion, or variable tracing factors) among different cost centers.
• In COPA, created Characteristics and Value fields as per the analysis requirement. Maintaining Derivative rules and Values.
• Defining the segment level characteristics. Assignment of value fields to different condition types of SD.
• Identified and Configured Enterprise Controlling Profit Center Accounting Standard Hierarchy created required Profit Centers based on geographical locations into criteria.

Confidential, CT

SAP R/3 FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project covered the understanding of the existing structure and business processes of the organization and relating the same with the standard processes of SAP, reorganizing the existing structures and processes and implementing the same in the R/3 System by way of configuration and customization.
• Involved in gathering business requirements, Preparation of BP by Re-engineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the TO BE system.
• Defined business and functional requirements through analysis of potential alternatives and reviewed technology solutions to meet business processes.
• Mapped business requirements to attain detailed design of the SAP architecture third party system solutions.
• Set up company codes, chart of account, fiscal year variants, tolerance limits, and Financial Statement Version.
• Configured General Ledger Accounts both at Chart of Accounts and at Company Codes level.
• Created Account Groups, Document Types, Document Number ranges, Open item clearing, Account assignment models for recurring entries, Balance Sheet, P&L Statement Versions.
• Created of Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, sales order and Integration with SD and thereby improving the business process flow.
• Mapped FI accounts to MM master Data using Movement Types.
• Maintained Validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Configured Internal Orders by Identifying and creating required Order Types
• Involved in Operating Concern Development.
• Identified and Configured Enterprise Controlling Profit Center Accounting Standard Hierarchy created required Profit Centers based on geographical locations into criteria.
• Studied the Organizational requirements to analyze the Profitability of each Product. Generated the Operating Concern.
• Configured Internal Orders by Identifying and creating required Order Types.
• In COPA, created Characteristics and Value fields as per the analysis requirement. Maintaining Derivative rules and Values.
• COPA: Monitoring of actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI direct Postings.
• Creation of Assessment cycles to allocate the overhead costs among various Characteristics. Generated Reports using Report Painter.
• Involved in creation of user-defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter.

Confidential, Portland, OR

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Perform gap analysis, identifying deficiencies in current software system, and identify desired enhancements.
• Responsible for the analysis, design, configuration, documentation, testing, and final implementation of revised FI and CO modules of SAP.
• Responsible for overseeing configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost centers, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Cash Management and Fixed Assets.
• Defined Account groups for vendors and uploaded vendor master data into current system
• Configured House Banks, created cheque lots and created Automatic Payment Program.
• Worked on Orders to cash, from enquiry to the billing and payment
• Part of a team responsible for the EDI configuration of inbound and outbound invoice, delivery, shipment, and sales order transactions.
• Interacted with users for developing test cases for unit testing, Integration testing (with EDI and other modules)