SUMMARY

• Professional Experience of 8 years in ERP/SAP, Experience in Implementing, Customizing and Configuring FICO Module and also worked in various phases of Project Life Cycle.
• Experience in New Implementations, Enhancements, Upgrades, and Testing & Production Support/User issues, Super - User & End-User Training & Documentation.
• Experienced in gathering and analyzing business requirements, identifying process gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes, re-engineering business processes, creating business blueprints, mapping processes to SAP R/3 functionality and collecting master data.
• Involved in 3 full life cycle implementations using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology with experience in all project phases - Project Preparation, Business Blue Print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and post live Production Support, with documentation.
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Special Ledger.
• Strong expertise in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) IFRS/ and GAAP reporting.
• Proficient in Configuration and Integration of SD, MM and PP with FI. Good understanding of SD (OTC) and MM (PTP) business processes.
• Worked on FI-GL period end processing, G/L reporting, vendor master records, configured payment transactions, processed payment runs, customer master data, Automatic Account Determination, Bank Master Data, Lockbox, Dunning and Automatic Payment Program.
• Configured Asset Accounting: Maintained Chart of Depreciation, Defined Assets class, Account determination, Created Asset Master, Asset Retirement, In-house creation of Assets and Depreciation Run.
• Competent in client relation management, presentation, documentation, training and support.
• Defined variables and created form reports using Report Painter and Report Writer for profitability reports.
• Prepared Functional Specifications as per client needs including the analysis of SAP Scripts.
• Extensive experience in Data Mapping and Conversions with migration tools like IDOCs, LSMW, CATTs, Batch Data Communication (BDC) using Call Transaction and Batch input methods.
• Worked on UAT Testing (Beta Testing) from requirements to record results.
• Have knowledge on S4 HANA and worked on multiple POC’S on S4 HANA.
• Worked on S4 HANA financial operations and accounting in real time and reporting using BI tools.
• Worked on creating in EBS, Lockbox interfaces.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table and profitability segments.
• Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC.
• Configuring and Customizing the basic settings, maintained profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, Planning and development of Reports.
• Worked on SAP master data, transaction data, configuration, SAP tables, and table content.
• Phases for Migrating SAP ECC System to S/4 HANA 1709 which includes Preparatory Phase, Technical Migration (SUM), Delta Customization, Data (Functional) Migration (Migration Cockpit),Testing, Go-Live.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Modules: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders.

ERP: SAP R/3 versions 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, CATTs, LSMW and IDOCs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale CA

Sr. SAP FICA/FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as FICA consultant where I had to Gather business requirements, participated in the system design, configured and tested the existing system.
• Involved in different phases of the project cycle starting from business blueprints, open items, Develop business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CA.
• Part of the implementation team for FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Cost center Accounting and Profit Center accounting modules at HASS Automation.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its settlements.
• Configured valuation areas, multiple currency types, movement type groups and material update structure in product costing.
• Responsible for carrying out valuation in COPA to access pricing and product cost information thereby allowing projected revenue and cost of sales figures to be calculated.
• Implemented transfer of overhead costs, transfer of activities from cost center accounting over to COPA segments.
• Configured account assignment objects for incurred costs and revenues to profit centers.
• Designed company specific reporting for HASS in multiple currencies involving multidimensional P&L reports across product lines.
• Configured the new GL functionality (standard company hierarchy, account groups, accounts for company codes, fiscal year variant, field status variant and posting period variant, implementation of parallel accounting methods and document splitting)
• Configured AR/AP for customers based upon interest calculation on items, account balance configuration / validation of substitution rules for documents, recurring entries, taxes, currencies and correspondence
• Customized payment terms for Dunning and down payments, lockbox application in compliance with the BAI2 Format.
• Utilized LSMW to transfer Master Data.
• Have been direct point of contact for middleware teams working on PI.
• Created reports via Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Implemented tolerances for budget cost and settlement rules in the Internal Order.
• Created the Cost Center with maintenance of the standard hierarchy and the subsequent assignment to Cost Elements.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of implementation from configuration and testing to cutover tasks and go-live support for one of their global rollouts
• Lead Business requirement workshops to understand the existing system and requirements. Develop business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO.
• Worked on SAP Activate Methodology and Agile/Scrum principles in four phases Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy.
• Configured company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Experienced in Inter-company vendor/customer open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit management, and payment terms configurations.
• Configured Dunning Program, Interest Calculation and Down Payments in Accounts Receivable.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program and Down payment and Interest Calculation in Accounts Payable.
• Experience in SAP payment process through IDOC / PEXR2003 format.
• Worked on EBS configuration starting with Account symbol creation, Assign accounts to account symbol, Create keys for posting rule, Define posting rules, Create transaction type, Assign bank account to transaction type s and worked on interfaces as well.
• Worked on LOCKBOX Payment Configuration starting with to Define house banks, Lockbox Accounts for house bank,control parameters, posting data,Preparing the lockbox file for the test purpose,Lockbox process testing.
• Worked on P2P modules, Purchase requisition, Request for Quotation, Open Contract, Contract Release Order, purchase order, Payment, Invoice handling, service Entry, Goods Receipt.
• Defined House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Reason Codes.
• Performed requirements analysis and functional matching for asset accounting.
• Configured asset classes, AA - GL integration, chart of depreciation, group assets, depreciation areas, depreciation key, calculation key, valuation, acquisitions and retirements. Configuration of Assets under Construction.
• Worked on UAT Testing starting from Analysis of Business Requirements,Creation of UAT test plan,Identify Test Scenarios,Create UAT Test Cases,Preparation of Test Data(Production like Data),Run the Test cases,Record the Results,Confirm business objectives.
• Worked on different stages of RTR (Record To Report) groundwork, closing cycle, validated and assimilated.
• Experienced in the conversion of assets from legacy systems using LSMW, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers (Intra Company and Inter Company) and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).
• Experienced in development and deployment of multiple RICEFW custom objects. Involved in generating reports using WRITE statements, ALE/Idoc development and customization, and data upload from legacy system to SAP system through BDC, LSMW.
• Worked on S4 HANA as well by intregrating with other modules and tools.
• Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, manual and unplanned depreciation.
• Configured distribution and settlement of capital assets under construction and defined maximum amount for low value asset in depreciation areas
• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
• Experienced in PCA configurations, hierarchy, account assignment objects, product costing - PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting. Calculate overheads; work in process (WIP), variances and settlement.
• Instrumental in CO-PA Profitability Analysis configuration, which included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, PA settlement, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Defined and customized business rules for VAT and sales taxes including jurisdiction codes, tax procedures for US and Canada, tax condition types, and account assignment.
• Experienced in Integration testing of Finance and controlling processes.
• Experienced in testing and implementation under validated SOX, GMP and GXP environments.
• Worked with Production Support on tasks like Valuation and Substitution.
• Involved in testing issues relating to Asset Master records, Depreciation, Acquisitions, postings and reports.
• Performed Unit and Integration testing for the development.
• Conducted training to Key business users on SAP functionalities in general ledger, account payables, account receivables, overhead management, cost center accounting and profit center accounting
• Responsible for Functional Troubleshooting of Go-Live issues and Post Production issues.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Proficient in preparation of Business Blue Print (As-Is, To-Be, and Fit-Gap Analysis).
• Configured Enterprise Structure and Company codes including Chart of Accounts.
• Phases for Migrating SAP ECC System to S/4 HANA 1709 which includes Preparatory Phase, Technical Migration (SUM), Delta Customization, Data (Functional) Migration (Migration Cockpit),Testing,Go-Live.
• Used LSMW for uploading of G/L, customer and vendor master data.
• Used CATTS for creation and modification of GL, customer, and vendor master data.
• Configured account groups, field status groups, fiscal year and posting period variant, document types, posting keys, open item management and line item management, balance interest indicators, reference rate interest and assignment for interest values to G/L.
• Configured A/R & A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations, check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits for customers.
• Defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, open item clearing, credit memos, partial payments, installment payments, residual payments, claims and disputed payments, reason codes and discounts, account assignment model for recurring entries.
• Defined Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis. Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys. Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts.
• Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification, Cash Management System, House Banks, Bank statement processing and exchange rates in Treasury module.
• Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions, Lock box program with EDI and IDOC setup.
• Configured Asset Accounting module, including Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements. Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.
• Performed the configurations required for Inter-Company transactions of the Assets and customized interfaces, transactions involving the deprecation area, retirement of assets, scrapping of assets using ALE.
• Configured special G/L transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc. Configuration of Alternative reconciliation accounts for special G/L transactions.
• Configured document splitting for special purpose ledger, and developed reports using report painter.
• Configuration of Controlling Area, Activation of components/control indicators, Number ranges assignment to controlling area. Maintained cost center standard hierarchy.
• Imputed costs calculation methods, cost centers, cost center groups, cost element attributes, statistical key figures and activity types in Cost Center Accounting.
• Defined Assessment, Distribution, and Periodic Reposting of costs using cycle segment method in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configuration of Internal-Orders using order types, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, budget profile and also tolerances for budget cost.
• Set default values for order type, template allocations, defining control parameters for work in process, variance calculations, and settlements (Settlement Profile, Allocation Structure, Source Structure and PA Structure).
• Created Profit Center standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit centers and profit center groups. Analysis using account assignment monitor. Configured settings for multiple variation, transfer pricing, planning, integration, profit center determination and balance sheet items.
• Configuration of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling, Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure which included costing variant, valuation variant, cost component split, costing sheets, cost component structure, BOM and routing settings, origin groups, overhead keys, and overhead groups. Configured Actual Costing/Material ledger.
• Created data structure (value fields and characteristics) in CO-PA. Configured derivation rules and PA settlement structures for population of characteristics and value fields respectively.
• Configured direct transfer postings from SD, MM and FI to CO-PA and Customized drill down reports.
• Worked with the Logistics Consultants to develop a mapping of all Logistic objects such as Sales Offices, Service groups and Plant Codes into CO-PA Characteristics and value fields.
• Worked in uploading of plan data from External data system into CO-PA.
• Training programs for end-users, supervisors, and managers on the client site.
• Worked on S/4 HANA CLOUD and CONCUR and ARIBA tools starting from Set up system connection, Export master data,Maintain integration of Financial Posting.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, participated in the system design, configured and tested the existing system.
• Performed functional gap analysis, interface requirements definition, and specifications.
• Coordinated meetings with the users to understand existing business processes and documented business process flow charts, identified the requirements and modeled the ‘To-Be’ process.
• Good understanding of Product Costing methodology and association with MES (manufacturing execution systems) and LTS (Lot Tracking Systems).
• Worked on Black Box approach for both front end and back end manufacturing processes.
• Worked on Product Costing implementation and support in a discrete manufacturing scenario.
• Worked on functional specifications of RICEF objects.
• Prepared the Functional Specifications for various reports as per client requirements.
• Worked on different material formats such as MPNs, CPNs and Costing part numbers.
• Worked on Product Cost Planning which includes basic settings for material costing, overhead cost elements, origin groups, costing sheets, overhead keys, overhead rates and credit keys as part of material cost estimate and also configured cost component structure.
• During the implementation of the project, worked on cost components, assignment of cost elements to the cost components, cost component views and cost component split.
• Configured material cost estimate with Quantity structure, costing variant, BOM and Routing settings required for costing the product. Also worked on costing estimate, marking and release of material price and costing run.
• Analyzed and validated product costing configuration, procedures and reports. Also worked on cross company costing and costing versions.
• Worked on the configuration for Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for costing variant in Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Experience in SAP payment process through IDOC / PEXR2003 format.
• Worked on EBS configuration starting with Account symbol creation, Assign accounts to account symbol, Create keys for posting rule, Define posting rules, Create transaction type, Assign bank account to transaction type s and worked on interfaces as well.
• Worked on LOCKBOX Payment Configuration starting with to Define house banks, Lockbox Accounts for house bank,control parameters, posting Data,Preparing the lockbox file for the test purpose,Lockbox process testing.
• Worked on P2P modules, Purchase requisition, Request for Quotation, Open Contract, Contract Release Order, purchase order, Payment, Invoice handling, service Entry, Goods Receipt.
• Worked on both purchase orders and production orders for back end manufacturing process which involves Subcontracting.
• For Cost Object Controlling part, worked on Product Cost by Order. Also worked on master data such as BOMs, Routings, Work centers, Info records, activity types.
• Implemented the month-end functionalities for product costing i.e. overhead calculation, WIP calculation, and variance calculation and manufacturing order settlement processes.
• Worked on costing sheets and overhead keys for Overhead calculation, Results analysis version and Results analysis key for WIP calculation, settlement profile for settlement of production orders. Also interacted with business users to enhance the current WIP report for the manufacturing process.
• Worked on Inventory Reconciliation and Stock adjustments during month end closing process.
• Worked on special procurement keys to transfer the material costs from one plant to another plant. Also worked on extending material views for different materials.
• Worked on both Order to Cash process in association with SD team and Procure to pay process with MM and Manufacturing team.
• Set-up planning profile for cost centers, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured credit management, dunning procedures, and Bank accounting and customer statements.
• Generated Operating Concern with relevant characteristics and value fields.
• Developed profitability segments such as customer groups, product groups, customer zip codes and product hierarchies for analyzing profitability results.
• Configured material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, maintained settlement structures, configuring variance calculations and WIP calculation, integrating CO-PC (Product Costing) with SD, MM and COPA, cost variants, valuation variants.
• Worked on PCA Standard Hierarchy, Master Data Settings, Assignment of Material Master, Actual Posting Maintenance, PCA Planning, Periodic processing, PCA Reporting.
• Configured and customized the Asset accounting. Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement.
• Define settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, and manual upgraded value asset in depreciation areas.
• Creation of Project Definition and Work Break Down structure.
• Worked with Project System team in creating appropriate project profile using WBS elements.
• Carried out critical changes in profit center accounting related controls that affect the SAP order flows and COGS flow into profit center.
• Mapped SD pricing procedure and direct postings from FI/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA.
• Cost center planning, manual and automatic planning of SKF, activity types, accrual calculations, setting planner profiles, planning areas, and creation of planning layout using report writer/painter.
• Created CCA standard hierarchy, cost element groups, cost element categories like primary cost element group and secondary cost element groups, activity type groups and statistical key figures.
• Maintained settlement structures, configuration of assessment, distribution and reposting and also segments and cycles.

Confidential

SAP FICO 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 blueprint design, design, development, implementation, testing, creation of BPPs and other end user documentation
• Configured and customized the Company Code, Fiscal year Variant, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Field status variant and assignments etc.
• Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, cross-company code transactions, and open item clearing. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast- entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings
• Defined tolerance groups, tolerances for employees, customers and vendors
• Configured settings in the A/P & A/R, such as house banks, ranking order, interest calculation, lockbox and electronic bank statement
• PO related vendor invoicing, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, payment media, and terms of payment, check lots, void reasons and running/editing dunning proposal.
• Configured the system to handle over/short/down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments. Worked on Vendor/Customer master records, account groups.