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Sap Fico Lead Resume

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Carmel, IN

SUMMARY

  • Over 18 years of experience in IT and 10+ years of experience in analysis, design, configuration, customization, testing, user acceptance testing, preparation of cutover task list, cutover, implementation, post go live support and production support, performance tuning, documentation and training in the SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules.
  • Experience in three full life - cycle implementations, one system upgrade and production support projects using ASAP methodology. Gathered business requirements, conducted workshops to identify requirements, analyzed AS-IS process, designed TO-BE process, prototyped solution, Fit-GAP analysis, scoping, blueprinting, developed detailed business requirement, and functional design and configuration documents.
  • In depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules ( FI-GL, FI-NEW GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-BA (EBS, MBS), CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-OM, CO-IO, EC-PCA, CO-PC and CO-PA) and their integration with SD, MM, PP, CS, HCM and PS modules. Involved in roll-outs to Asia Pacific, Europe, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
  • In depth understanding of R2R, OTC and PTP process. Excellent working knowledge on profitability analysis, overhead management, product cost planning, cost object controlling, product cost by order, product cost by period, product cost by sales order including MTS, MTO and ETO scenario’s.
  • Extensively worked on LSMW, CATT, ALE, IDOCS, EDI, ABAP queries, Report Painter, process runner, Report Writer, Excel, Word, Power Point, share point, Visio, remedy, quality center and project portfolio management tools with the ability to act as a techno functional consultant/Project Manager.
  • Excellent accounting and finance knowledge with demonstrated competencies in financial and business analysis while working in different industries i.e., Manufacturing, Retail, Automotive, Public Sector and Chemical firms.
  • Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent analytical, technical, communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Carmel, IN

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Led the design and development phases of SAP ECC 6.0 to successfully implement SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7 CO module. This Big Bang implementation included rollout’s for the US and Canada. It included 17 Manufacturing plants, adapting SAP Best Practices.
  • Led the design and development phases of SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7 CRM integration with Finance and Controlling Modules (Accounts Receivables, Internal orders, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing).
  • Designed and configured Profitability Analysis, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product costing including MTS and MTO with Variant Configuration. Designed and developed MTO process for Service Orders originating from CRM. Configured Product costing drill down reports and created multiple reports in Controlling and Profitability analysis (CO-PA).
  • Designed and configured Intercompany processes including SD, FI and CO-PA modules.
  • Designed and developed Dunning Process, Dunning Archival and Dunning Execution Process. Integration of FICO with Sales and Distribution, Materials Management and CRM. Integration of Vertex.
  • Resolved multiple defects of different severity levels in the CO Module including Internal orders, Cost Center Accounting, Product costing, and Costing based Profitability Analysis functionality.
  • Led the development and delivery of the functional specifications, configuration, unit testing and master data validation with respect to SAP CRM Integration Project involving FICO Modules such as Accounts Receivables, Internal orders, Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.
  • Led the development phase review, testing and obtained customer signoff approval for Enhancements and Defect Resolution for CSIT and CRM Bridge Defect Management. Excellent skills in coordinating with Offshore.
  • Provided key inputs to detailed cutover planning and implementation activities for the CO area. This included the sequencing for locking periods, completing cost estimates, executing preliminary costing of product cost collectors, Cost Rollup. Created Multiple ABAP SQL Queries to support cutover activities.
  • Advise and facilitate client meetings; collaborate with business stakeholders and business users to define requirements for multiple enhancements (Such as reorganization of company code for CRM Services) with respect to the CRM Integration Project.

Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7, SAP CRM, SAP BW, UNIX, Oracle, DB2

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Led the implementation of Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and thereby eliminate the use of Business Areas.
  • Developed scope and designed PCA.
  • Created standard profit center hierarchies and alternative profit center hierarchies.
  • Configured PCA.
  • Successfully completed Unit, Integration, and System testing and helped UAT Users to test all the Business Process in the system.
  • Verification of BW data to support the transition to PCA and Training users.
  • Helped BPC team to redesign reports due to implementation of PCA.
  • Cutover and Go-Live support.
  • Documentation and Transition.
  • Led the FICO team to successfully rollout SAP ECC 6.0 to a new Plant and managed the transition and consolidation of several plant locations.
  • Led the FICO team in the cost roll up for a new plant including multiple product lines and also helped the team to successfully implement SAP ME/MII.
  • Extended WESCO ecrib system to interface Confidential ’s new Plant to support the purchases and use of Maintenance, Repair and Operation (MRO) products.
  • Led the Data Migration effort to migrate data from the legacy systems to SAP using tools such as LSMW and Winshuttle.
  • Created Internal orders types for capital acquisition processes and Research and development at a new plant location.
  • Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BW, UNIX, Oracle, DB2

Confidential, Wickliffe, OH

SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in the implementation of Confidential Information Management (AIM) project.
  • Report orders and revenue in CO-PA/BW by sales order, line item.
  • Report in CO-PA/BW to identify orders and revenue by end user application, industry usage and channel.
  • Involved in the analysis to streamline cost of goods sold for the US operating concern.
  • Streamlined processes of project systems, customer service and production planning to switch from the existing custom solution to standard SAP CO-PA solution.
  • Configured external data transfer to transfer data from excel spreadsheets to CO-PA for both plan and actuals. Cleaned up CO-PA data by cancelling and reposting documents.
  • Resolved foreign currency revaluation issues for orders in CO-PA.
  • Designed scheduling agreements flow into CO-PA.
  • Implemented Full Cost Model (FCM) for customer service module to bring the FCM functionality into SAP and eliminate the existing third party EFCM solution.
  • Designed business flow for service order creation, cost estimate and margin calculation.
  • Identified enhancements for sales order creation/change, production order creation/change, service order creation/change.
  • Integrated customer service orders to finance and controlling.
  • Designed and configured revenue recognition and cost recognition for a software subscription sales. Designed and configured freight and expense revenue. Designed BW for reporting software subscription sales and freight revenue.
  • Designed RA, overhead, settlement and variances Reports (BW) for sales orders, production and customer service orders.
  • In profitability analysis, configured costing based CO-PA, created and deleted characteristics and value fields, used various derivation rules and techniques, configured valuation using product costing, regenerated operating concern, configured PA transfer structure and allocation structures, realignment.
  • In profitability analysis, extensively worked on A, B, C, D, F, I and custom record types. Configured integration of project systems including WBS elements, network parameters and activities to CO-PA. Documented CO-PA planning including planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
  • In product costing, created plant specific costing sheets for 23 plants in the Power Products division and thereby eliminating the omnibus costing sheet. Configured complex overhead costing sheets, maintained overhead cost elements, calculation bases, percentage and quantity based overheads, overhead keys and credits. Configured real time overhead calculation for production orders.

Confidential, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Configured cost center accounting including creation of cost center hierarchy, cost centers, cost center groups, cost center categories, primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups, activity types, statistical key figures, planned layout using report writer/painter, planning and budgeting of cost center, accrual calculations, set planner profiles and planning areas.
  • Maintained automatic account assignment in OKB9. Validated and substituted cost centers. Built and executed assessment and distribution’s cycles. Designed and built cost center to CO-PA assessments cycles. Designed and implemented reports in profitability analysis (CO-PA).
  • Effectively used +/- sign for SD conditions and value field mapping to handle complex sales scenarios. Handled assignments for the value flow from FI/MM, order/project settlement to CO-PA. Simulated orders/projects to analyze inconsistent data transfer to CO-PA. Reconciled SD and FI to CO-PA including modification of CO-PA user exits.
  • Defined and assigned costing keys and valuation strategy, designed top-down distribution and material ledger cycles, set up profitability segment level characteristics.
  • Configured standard cost estimates in cost object controlling for production orders, configured WIP and variance calculations and maintained settlement structures. Knowledge of material ledger, material valuations, material account determinations, actual costing and month-end closing procedures for production orders.
  • Created costing variants to estimate cost for sales and production orders. Configured cost component structures, posting rules for settling WIP and settlement profiles.
  • Developed results analysis for WIP calculation appropriate to the production process and to reflect the production activity / costs associated with a sales order line item in the financial statements at the end of a fiscal period.
  • Helped end-users with month-end closing operations involving overhead calculation, variance calculation, result analysis, settlements and activity price calculations. Worked on costing runs to cost, mark and release multiple materials at the same time.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Configured chart of depreciation and set up the various depreciation areas such as book depreciation, taxation, and investment support. Configured period controls keys, depreciation keys, and calculation keys.
  • Created asset classes and configured screen layouts for asset master records. Configured the required settings for acquisition through lease, posting investment subsidies, revaluation of assets, and posting depreciation. Configured necessary settings for assets under construction (AUC) and settled to fixed assets.
  • Activated internal order (CO-IO) component for controlling area, created order types, assigned number ranges for order types, created and assigned model order. Created planning layouts and maintained planner profile for internal orders.
  • Maintained default account assignment group for internal orders, created and modified allocation structures, maintained settlement profiles and number ranges for settlements.
  • Created profit center standard hierarchy, profit centers/groups, activated, inactivated and deleted profit centers, Controlling area setting for EC-PCA, Maintained plan versions, profit center account assignment, maintained account types and number ranges.
  • Maintained automatic account assignment, assigned sales orders to profit centers using the sales order/profit center substitution. Archival process for profit center data. Helped users and resolved issues related to incorrect transfer of data from FI, MM, SD, CO to PCA. Made necessary changes to reconcile PCA to CO-PA for P&L accounts including modification of CO-PA user exits.

Confidential, Norfolk, CT

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in design and configuration of Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (PTP) process - End to end order flow with the sales and purchase orders to receivables or payments with an accounting document tied to the flow. Integrated SD and FI modules (VKOA) for automatic account determination.
  • Configured lockbox with BAI2 for customer payment processing in account receivables. Collaborated with banks to define file layouts. Extensively used EDI’s and IDOC’s. Developed interface to create purchase orders.
  • Designed and configured Automatic Payment Program for A/P including Partial Payment configuration, Check Management and Check Printing. Helped users with payment program run.
  • Configured vendor account groups, tolerance groups, terms of payment, discount, posting periods, number range, reason codes, user exits, house bank, bank accounts, payment method, and check printing and vertex integration.
  • Designed make to order business process, Designed and customized, sales order costing for configurable materials with valuated sales order stock, facilitates external procurement service costs on sales order items.
  • Configured customer account assignment groups, created payment terms, reason codes and accounts for exchange rate differences. Configured Check management with pre-numbered checks and printing.

Confidential, St Paul, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Created chart of accounts, G/L B/S and P&L Accounts, G/L reconciliation accounts, account groups, tolerance groups, document types, posting keys, document number ranges, retained earnings account, field status group, archiving, month-end and year-end closing, integration with SD, MM and user access roles in compliance with SOX requirements.
  • Configured fiscal year variants with year dependent periods for year-end closing and posting period variants. Created field status variants for balance sheet and profit and loss reports.
  • Created business process procedures and documented the core business transactions such as invoice parking, credit memos, posting incoming payments and outgoing payments with clearing.
  • Integrated MM and FI modules (OBYC) for automatic posting according to movement types and valuation classes. Worked on movement types 101, 261, 551, 561 and 601.
  • Complete bank configuration for incoming payment with bank transactions for multi house bank scenario. Designed bank reconciliation process with emphasis on electronic bank statements, manual bank statements using MT940 format.
  • Designed the process of payment proposal approvals for different payment methods like ACH, Wire, Check and P-Cards in A/P.

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Business Analysis, Architecture, design and management of
  • Order Fulfillment - Scheduling Vehicle System & Material Release.
  • Customer relationship management - customer data link, customer inquiry and record concerns, Seibel, Customer knowledge system, intensified customer concern definition.
  • Business Warehouse - Global order relational database system.

Confidential, NY

Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Production support and maintenance of
  • LIFE-70 (Generate paystubs based on agent’s commission per pay period).
  • BASIS (Policy processing and maintenance application).
  • Production support, Maintenance and upgrade of
  • LIFE-COMM (Policy Processing & Maintenance).
  • I have gained excellent experience in IT and have worked on ASPMS-ACCESS, JAVA, COBOL, C, C++, XML, DB2, Oracle, IMS DC/DB, SQL, JCL, MVS, TERADATA, ETL, BTEQ, A SSEMBLER, COBOL, CICS, FOCUS, JCL, VSAM, EASYTRIEVE and many IBM tools.

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