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Redlands, CA

SUMMARY

  • Over 12 plus years of experience in implementing, configuring, integrating, testing, customizing, and providing user training and support in SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules.
  • Involved in three full life cycle implementations, upgrades. Production support and rollout projects, participated in all phases of ASAP Methodology, Blueprinting.
  • Involved in different phases of life cycle implementation using ASAP methodology AS - IS studies, Fit-GAP analysis, TO-BE process, troubleshooting Production Support and End-user training.
  • Strong knowledge in business processes and business scenarios with base in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts as well as strong knowledge in GAAP and IFRS.
  • Financial accounting expertise includes configuring New General Ledger, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (A/A) and Controlling (CO).
  • Worked on Biller direct, Bank Settings, EBS Settings, Basic Treasury management settings- risk and securities management.
  • Responsible for Inbound/Outbound process House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual & Electronic Bank Statement. Experienced in configuring Lockbox, Dunning, Electronic Bank Statement ( EBS ), Automatic Payment Run, check management, Document Splitting and Zero balancing of Documents in New G/L.
  • Integration of FICO with Logistics modules SD, MM, PP Reporting, ABAP debugging, Report Writer, Report Painter, Drill-down reporting.
  • Created Substitution and Validation for different FI scenarios to suit the business needs.
  • Worked on Business Process Procedures from procurement of material to payment of vendors-MIGO, MIRO, and Logistic Invoice Verification and MRBR.
  • Configured New G/L for document splitting and provide Document simulation facility rather than waiting for period end process.
  • Controlling expertise includes Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), CO-PA and Product Costing (CO-PC)
  • Responsible for the projects for A/R and FSCM and driving the blue print discussions for both A/R, Cash application Dispute and collection modules.
  • Worked on Dispute Management module, which includes the designing and configuration of Check free case record model using FSCM.
  • Financial Supply Chain Management Expertise Configuring Credit Management, Collections Management, Dispute Management and Biller Direct (Basic)
  • Worked in environments adhering to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance.
  • Functional specification for Customized Reports and LSMW for conversion and transfer of master and transactional data from legacy to SAP system.
  • Experience in developing interfaces using EDI and ALE.
  • Extensively worked on Report writer/ Report painter, CATT, ABAP queries.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • GL/AP/AR/BA, FI/CO integration with SD, MM & PP
  • CEA/CCA/PCA/IO/COPA/COPC
  • Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW, CATTs & eCATTs
  • SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 - ECC 6.0 Versions
  • MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel & MS Access, HP ALM, HP QC, HP Agile Manager, SolMan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redlands, CA

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in configuring field status groups, posting keys, inter-company postings, financial statement version, field status variants, validation/substitution, document types, Open and Close Posting Periods and carried out Mass change in G/L, AP and AR.
  • Worked with all the A/P and A/R payments in the FI area including the F110 payment program and lockbox. Worked on Customer Master, House Banks, Payment Programs, Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box and had successfully configured clearing to clearing open items in GL/AR/AP Modules.
  • Teamed with Treasury Department to Configure TR-CM Cash Management. Cash Management configuration included account management, electronic bank statement, account groupings, Lockbox processing, liquidity forecast, cash management position, manual check deposit, cash concentration, and the payment program.
  • Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, manual cost element creation, activated reconciliation ledger.
  • In Profit center accounting created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA planning parameters.
  • Trained Confidential employees on complete knowledge of the workflow from the creation of sales order to delivery and billing in the Sales & Distribution module.
  • Controlling for the Production orders with quantity Structure, configuration of costing sheet, calculation bases, planned and actual overhead percentages.
  • Provided proper linkage between Plant/Work Center/Cost Center/BOM/Routings and tested the system for interfaces with PP, MM, SD, and ALE integration.
  • Configured CO-PA to facilitate complex price reporting requirements and profitability reporting. Worked on customizing CO-PA both costing based (with value fields) operating concerns. Created cost component structure, future cost estimates by assigning costing keys in COPA and created custom user exit enhancement for reporting of planned price in COPA.
  • Developed contribution margin and user defined profitability reports using reporting tools BI Report Painter and Report Writer.

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Carried out AS-IS business process analysis and documented current business process flow. Identified the requirements and modeled the TO-BE process and provided guidance for implementing best practices for SWIFT payments.
  • Design and configuration of Automatic Payment Program for A/P including Partial Payment configuration, Payment Order, Check Management and Check Printing. Worked on foreign currencies for the payment program in A/P.
  • Designed tax determination logic for various country specific implementations and resolved issues by providing subject matter expertise pertaining to Tax and Tax related queries. Assisted in the business requirement discussions, technical design, and implementation of various tax topics including US, VAT, Withholding, and Use tax.
  • Teamed with Treasury Department to Configure TR-CM Cash Management. Cash Management configuration included account management, electronic bank statement; account groupings, Lockbox processing, liquidity forecast, cash management position, manual check deposit, cash concentration, and the payment program.
  • Customized AP/AR and configured House banks, and Automated Payment Methods.
  • Maintained customer/vendor master records, terms of payment, and cash discount base for invoices.
  • Worked in Production Support in Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) & Asset Accounting (AA) and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to FI, AP, AR, PCA, CCA, CO-PA and CO-PC.
  • Designed and applied various LSMW Layouts for the Data Conversion, which includes, G/L Master, Vendor Master, Fixed Assets, G/L Transaction Records, Vendor Transactions (Open Items) and Fixed Assets balances.
  • Documented blue-prints for new company code and configured the system for implementation of CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-PC; responsible updating for Finance Work plan for new company code.
  • Worked on ECCS and added new interunit elimination and reclassification tasks to be used instead of Consolidation of Investment module within ECCS
  • Advised client of steps to be performed in order to begin using already-configured ECCS module
  • Involved in Integration of New GL with Controlling for reconciliation activity through real time integration variant. Activated New GL and Document splitting functionality; Configured the NEW GL, A/R, A/P and the current ledgers being set as leading ledgers and update rules for the other ledgers based on the report requirements.
  • Responsible for the configuration of asset master records, subclasses, various depreciation area calculations, capitalizations and acquisitions, upload of legacy assets to SAP, calculations of depreciation and corresponding postings in finance and controlling modules. In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination.
  • Support Month end, Quarter end and Year end closing activities and issue resolution
  • Engaged in Multiple Enhancements for the existing business process. Architect and designing solution, Functional spec preparation, coordinating with Technical team for developments, testing and deployment of solutions.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Defined G/L account groups; created chart of accounts, participated in modifying and uploading G/L accounts, Account Determination with regards to movement types. Worked on assignment of G/L accounts in Transaction OBYC.
  • Involved in configuring field status groups, posting keys, inter-company postings, financial statement version, field status variants, validation/substitution, document types, Open and Close Posting Periods and carried out Mass change in G/L, AP and AR.
  • Worked on configuration areas of Bank Accounts, House Banks, defined Posting Rules and keys for check deposit, configured variants for Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box and had successfully configured Clearing to clearing open items in GL/AR/AP Modules.
  • Designed specs for development of FI/CO reports and layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer & Report Painter and run ABAP Queries.
  • Extensively worked on EDI IDOC (inbound, outbound, mapping with third party logistics service providers’ WM system, message type, segment extension, IDoc monitoring, posting)/ALE (distribution model maintenance, logical system, ports, partner profiles.
  • Involved in Cost Center Accounting by creating cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. Developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile for cost center planning.
  • In Profit center accounting created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA planning parameters, substitutions, and assignments.
  • Defined like 75 new assessments and distributions cycle for the business to run during the month end-closing period for the allocation of costs to different profit centers.
  • Did Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configuration both costing based CO-PA and account-based CO-PA to Report profitability by Customer, Product and Market, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
  • Configured the company consolidation Group companies and Inter unit eliminations including profit, payables and receivables, investments on purchase and equity methods.
  • Configured the tasks of currency translations, balance carry forwards, validations and data monitor, consolidation monitor.
  • Established integration with General Ledger and Asset Accounting.
  • Configured the documents types to map the business transactions
  • Created the Chart of Accounts, FS version FS items hierarchies
  • Created the group chart of accounts and linked to the consolidation Ledger.
  • Consolidation ledger updated for non-sap companies
  • Considered the requirements from FASBs
  • Worked with the ECCS consultant on identifying, defining and implementing the business requirements.
  • Responsible and lead the new changes for the FICO production support in the Change Control Board (CCB) meeting among the managers and the CCB approval committee.

Confidential, Hercules, CA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Created cost component structure, future cost estimates by assigning costing keys in COPA and created custom user exit enhancement for reporting of planned price in COPA.
  • Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC. Configured for product costing with quantity structure for standard cost estimate. Facilitated planning for Product Costing and Cost Object controlling by creating product cost by order, product cost by sales order and product cost by period.
  • Configured material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure, BOM and route settings required for costing the product.
  • In Profit center accounting created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA planning parameters.
  • Resolution of Incidents and Application defects related to Accounting / Financial Accounting / Cost center Accounting / Product Costing. Providing Design & Estimation for New requirements related to modification of accounting business process, month end accounting close issue, new reports for Financial accounting departments.
  • Integrated FI with MM & SD modules.
  • Worked on configuration areas of Bank Accounts, House Banks, defined Posting Rules and keys for check deposit, configured variants for Manual Bank Statement.
  • Involved in interfacing and integration of FI/CO with MM, PP and SD modules for Revenue recognition.
  • Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, 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).
  • Issues relating to backdating of assets, bonus depreciation, unplanned depreciation.
  • Delivering urgent Enhancements that are business critical for Financial and Accounting departments.
  • Providing SME support to the Global Production Support team for resolving issues related to financial accounting and controlling system of Bio-Rad.
  • Tested report generation using reporting tools; Report Writer & Report Painter worked extensively on LSMW & CATTS programs and trained end users for the same.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Configured A/R including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for A/R, tolerance groups; credit control area, customer credit limits, credit limit groups
  • Configured Accounts payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups; uploaded A/P master data. Configured Automatic Payment Program for A/P for checks, ACH and wire transfer; created check lots. Created reconciliation accounts for A/P and A/R
  • Configuration of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and updating/maintaining posting rules for new accounts. Configured SAP Payment Program, EDI Partner/Port, and payment methods.
  • Activation of New GL Accounting define ledger for GL Accounting, Integrating the GL with subcomponents, Document splitting, Segmentation and Parallel Accounting, Controlling Component Transfer postings, Integration with Asset accounting. Worked with the client in preparing and loading GL and AP Master Data when the system is migrated from classic GL to NEW GL.
  • Created new asset classes, chart of depreciation, depreciation keys. Four Depreciation Areas are created to take care of Book Depreciation, Tax Depreciation, and Cost Depreciation, Management Depreciation. Group assets were created to take care of the Block Assets for Tax Depreciation purposes. Transfer of assets from one unit to another unit, Sale and Scrapping of assets.
  • Configuration of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and updating/maintaining posting rules for new accounts. Configured SAP Payment Program, EDI Partner/Port, and payment methods.
  • Involved in Unit testing, cross-functional Testing, System Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
  • Planned, conducted meetings on User Acceptance Testing for Asia Pacific, EMEA and North America region, worked with users regarding concerns during UAT and worked in Agile UAT environment.
  • Engaged in Dress rehearsal and cutover activities, worked on Pre-Go Live activities and Go Live activities.
  • Designed specs for development of FI/CO reports and layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer & Report Painter and run ABAP Queries.

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