SUMMARY

• An accomplished professional having 12+ years of total experience including 7.9 years in SAP FI - CO (Primarily working on CO (controlling) with Material ledger & Budgeting (FM) moduels experinece with an analytical,managerial skills matched with determination to succeed.
• Being a competency manger actively involving in RFP process, Resource Development in FICO Area, Conducting Trainings and handling multiple project issues.
• Good Knowledge Expouser in SAP S/4HANA Simple Finance (sFIN) migration process
• Exposure on S/4 HANA Analysis of the Central Finance deployment option and Overview of Reporting Options for SAP Simple Finance SAP Fiori
• Analysis of the Migration process per system starting point
• Configuration of General Ledger Accounting for migration
• Configuration of Asset Accounting for migration
• Configuration of Management Accounting
• Performing a Migration to the SAP Simple Finance add on starting from Classic G/L
• Good expouser on SAP Actual costing process using Material Ledger and proficient in Controlling module Period-end activities.
• Proven experience in Implementation and Support projects with strong Designing and Configuring enterprise structure skill set in SAP FICO, FM and SAP Product Costing (CO-PC) with ML (Material Ledger) .
• Proven Exposure in Preparation of slution demos presentation, Presales Activity,RFP preparation.
• Good expouser in configuration of FI,CO and FM, along with integration of MM, SD & PP modules

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP CO Consultant & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the day to day activities in SAP FICO module which includes GL, AR, AP, AA and CCA, PCA, COPA and Product Costing for clients.
• Daily support responsibilities include user assistance, trouble shooting, configurations, and project implementations. Led and successfully completed several projects.
• Analyze the system, gather requirements and translate requirements to realize required results by infusing configuration changes and customizations.
• Extended the Cost Center PO Release strategies to other company code.
• Enhanced Cost Center and Profit Center landscape by modifying the hierarchy, distribution cycles and segments. Coordinated with Production Planning team members to develop work centers and routings for new production line integrating work center to cost center and activity input. Enhanced cost center landscape to bifurcate production cost centers according to product segments.
• Creating functional specifications and coordinated with the technical team to develop and modify RICEF objects.
• Interfaced with EDI team to resolve EDI issues regarding sales order transmittals.
• Performed SD and MM customization settings, analyzed and utilized structures of process flow to enhance customizations and integration areas. Created customer specific output type in SD with functional module enhancement. In MM activated value update for new material to solve PO issues.
• Enhanced the automatic credit control by changing and incorporating settings for various risk categories as per requirement from the credit team. Provided detailed clarifications to the team with test results, report layout changes with consideration to specific fields for credit monitoring. Developed functional specifications for custom report.
• Resolved issues with COPA report with regard to data inconsistency on creation of new pricing condition in SD, performed realignments, researched and found S-Note to be applied for an issue preventing inclusion of all selection criteria while exporting report. Maintained characteristics and value fields.
• Supported month end and year end closing activities.

Confidential

SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design, maintains Controlling Area, and Configured settings for Controlling Area, maintained Versions.
• Configured the Cost Element Accounting by creating primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups.
• Created cost centers and cost center categories, defined activity types and statistical key figures. Default CO objects assignments. Maintained in automatic account assignment.
• Worked on designing Standard Hierarchy for CCA to fulfill the reporting requirements.
• Defined assessment and distribution cycles and reposting rules among cost Centers.
• Configured Standard Cost estimate settings in Product Cost Planning, Costing Variant, Cost Component structure and Costing Sheet including additive cost settings.
• Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times in Product Costing (COPC).
• Configuration of Material Ledger process
• Configuration settings for WIP calculation, Variance calculation & settlement of production orders and sales order.
• Configured Cost object controlling settings, actual and plan costing variants, RA Key settings to calculate WIP and variance calculations, maintained settlement profiles.
• Defined Internal Order Type, Number Ranges, Budget Profile and Budget Related settings, Settlement Profile and Allocation Structure through Internal Order.
• Creation of Operating Concern, Characteristics, Characteristics Group, Value fields, Value fields Groups, Segment level characteristics, Derivation and Valuation Strategy, CO-PA Budgeting, Flow Of Actual Values, CO-PA Assessment, CO-PA Costing Sheet, PA Transfer Structure and CO-PA Reports (Report Painter), Realignments and CO-PA Summarization.
• Carried out Reporting for profitability by Customer, Product and Market segments, characteristics, value fields, maintained derivation rules.
• Working Knowledge on Primary Cost Component split, Mixed Costing, Material Split Valuation.

Confidential

SAP CO & Material Ledger Consultant

Responsibilities:

• This project was ML (material Ledger) Re Implement process for Confidential which part of the John keels group in Srilanka.
• Training on ML for the Core and End Users
• Re-creation of ML Process list,
• Trouble shooting areas -
• ML Issues / SD issues integration with costing
• Creation of End user Manuals. testing Case execution and documentation
• Executed Business case unit testing and Integration testing

Confidential

SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured company codes, controlling area, operating concern and maintained financial statement versions.
• Responsible for controlling area settings in management accounting, and requirements of organization.
• Creation of primary and secondary cost element groups and assigned number ranges to groups. Configured automatic and manual cost element creations.
• Creation of cost center standard hierarchy,
• Creation of assessment cost elements and Allocation cycles
• Configured internal order settlements, order planning and budgeting profiles.
• Created order types and order master records and assigned the order master records to the respective order types.
• In profit center accounting, created master data, profit center groups, profit center hierarchy, activity types etc.
• Created user defined reports using report painter in COPA and CCA.
• Created FI-CO training documents and trained end users.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing FICO support by handling issues raised by client involving changes in master data and configuration data
• Constantly interacting with users for resolving functionality and process related queries and identifying need for additional developments
• Preparing the Functional Documents.
• Testing and delivery as per the schedule.
• Customized solution for Asset Installation & Discard memo Auto mated process
• Developed Vendor auto mail process
• Worked on CIN issues
• Configured the TCS Process in SAP environment.