SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Functional Consultant with more than 8+ years of implementation and configuration experience including three full life cycle implementations.
• Experience working as a Project Lead of SAP and SME in SAP ECC & S4HANA Finance GL AR AP & AA, Controlling, COPA, ML.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Finance, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing Industry, Food and Paper Industry and Engineering business processes.
• Highly proficient in project evaluation, information gathering, business blueprint, documentation, customization, and configuration with an in - depth understanding of business processes relating to sap finance, controlling and integration with SD, MM modules, project systems, HR payrolls etc.
• Responsible for configuration and implementation of SAP in House Cash module in cash payments and collections.
• Responsible for Setup of the ALE IDOC for in-house Cash Module for IDOC type PAYTEXT, FINSATA and DIRDEB.
• Defined PP and PS security requirements-maintained authorization profiles, activity groups/roles, and user maintenance.
• Strong acquaintance in GAAP, Taxation, FASB and SOX Act.
• Extensive experience in configuration and customization in FI - NEW GL, FI-SL, AR, AP, Tax, AM, T&E, Bank Accounting, Credit Management, Project Systems and in Controlling - COPA, CO-CEA CO-CCA, EC-PCA .
• Experiences with unit testing ( UTR ), user acceptance testing ( UAT ), regression testing, integration testing, performance testing.
• Extensive experience in design, configuration and all other aspects of the PS module.
• Exposure to US GAAP , Order to Cash ( OTC ) and Procurement to Pay process ( PTP ), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, Treasury Management, LSMW, ECATT, EDI and IDOCS
• Configuration of the business processes for CO area and documenting it, Module CO-CCA; CO-PCA; CO-IO; CO-PA.
• COPC: Month end closing IT support as per month activities related to Product costing. Creating Costing Run, Determining Material Prices, Consumption Revaluation, Closing Postings, Confirming Costing Result, CO-PA Periodic Revaluation, Marking Material Price, Releasing Material Price.
• Extensive experience on BAPI, BADI, SMARTFORMS, SAP Script, ALV Reports , User Exists, Enhancement Frameworks, Remote Function Calls (RFC), ALE, EDI, and IDOC's .
• Working knowledge on Global Rollout Functionality, cross-company code transactions, and multi-currencies.
• Effective communicator with excellent skills in making Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports and Technical Specifications.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade / new implementation /integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end-user training and prepared training documents using Visio, RWD Infopak, and SnagIt tools.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills and abilities to make balanced & independent decisions.
• Understanding & Analyzing customers 'AS-IS' Business Processes and mapping 'TO-BE' processes.
• Defined and configured controlling area and business areas
• Defined and managed cost centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers.
• Configured activity types, statistical key figures.
• 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.
• Configured basic settings and master data
• Assigned to Profit Centers all objects which store data relevant for profits to a profit center
• Used parallel valuation approaches/transfer prices, made necessary settings in Customizing for the component General Controlling
• Performed activities to transfer prices specifically in Profit Center Accounting
• Configured settings necessary for the entry and allocation of plan data in Profit Center Accounting (Basic settings for Planning, Manual Planning, Profit planning)
• Made settings necessary for creating and allocating actual data in Profit Center Accounting.
• Configured both costing-based CO-PA and account-based CO-PA.
• Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules
• Configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet and defined various reports
• Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA
• Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to CO-PA.
• Treasury: Configured lockbox processing, utilized lockbox processing to apply cash received and clear accounts receivable, Liquidity Forecast, Cash Management Position, Cash Concentration, In-House cash (IHC) management, Configured Electronic Bank Statement Processing
• Accounts Receivable (AR): Defined Customer groups, Billing, Payment terms and Interest calculation, Incoming payments. Good understanding of Dunning, AR information system, Account systems, Credit management. Configured Closing operations, Sales order, Integration with SD.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP FICO Team Lead

Technical Environnent : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Conducted “As-Is” study interacting with the core team members and developed a “To-Be” process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology.
• Defined template containing scenarios for Global Rollout, blueprint documents and configuration at head office for subsidiaries in Canada and UK.
• Configured the New G/L - Activated the General ledger, Configured the ledgers - assigned Chart of accounts, fiscal year, activated document splitting, defined non-leading ledgers for Parallel Accounting
• Used the document splitting procedure to split up payable’s lines by profit center to affect a zero balance
• Configured exchange rate types, translation ratios, rounding rules & set decimal places for currencies, configured new fiscal year variant and assigned it to company code.
• Integration of SAP with TAXWARE involving creation of Tax Codes
• Activated External Tax Calculation - Defined the ID for TAXWARE, defined the RFC destination
• TAXWARE Configuration- defined logical system, maintained pricing procedures, allocated company code to Non - taxable transactions, created number ranges for External tax Documents, created Tax Codes
• Configured general sales and use tax codes, assigned tax codes for nontaxable transactions, new input and output tax codes, Tax rates, and Tax accounts
• Designed & developed automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, accepted forms of payment, defined automatic account assignments for exchange rate differences, over & under payments, bank charges, cash discounts, configured dunning areas, keys & procedures in Accounts Payable.
• Configured new line layouts for incoming customer payments with fields according to client requirement and designed and developed terms of payment, invoices, cash discount, credit management, risk categories, tolerances & down payments.
• Configured new valuation method to reset foreign currency revaluation for AR/AP open items
• Configured automatic account assignments for various transaction keys and assigned accounts for revenue account determination.
• Configured account assignment for SD and MM (OBYC).
• Configured Invoice verification process.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category.
• Conducted automatic payment processing including checks printing for accounts payable and dunning in accounts receivables, foreign currency valuations
• Lockbox configuration, liquidity forecast, cash management, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, posting rules, exchange rates, planning
• Configured Electronic Bank Statement, manual bank statement, Cashed Checks and Check deposit functions.
• Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes.
• Defined Cash Management Account Name, distributed Cash Management and reorganized Cash Management.
• Assigned planning levels and updated types for cash management.
• Activated Project Cash Management in company code and Checked CO Number Ranges for Project Cash Management.
• Configured cash management in treasury master data and did cash management budgeting and financial budgeting.
• Configured Bank to Bank transfers (payroll transfers).
• Configured chart of depreciations and valuation of assets in various depreciation areas.
• Involved in the creation of assets, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers, and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).
• Executed the asset fiscal year change, year-end asset closing and stimulating depreciation for future fiscal years.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area, maintained Versions.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• Defined cost center hierarchy, cost center groups, activity types, and statistical key figures.
• Defined distribution and assessment cycles in Cost center accounting.
• Configured Operating Concern, Maintained Operating Concern Attributes.
• Configured both costing-based CO-PA and account-based CO-PA.
• Created the characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques like table lookups and derivation rules to determine values for characteristics.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields and configured PA transfer structure for flow of values from FI/MM to COPA.
• Created user defined reports like profitability by customer, product, and market using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Configured the settings for new plants that used process manufacturing and enabled calculation of standard cost for valuation of manufactured products. Facilitated the cost center planning and budgeting process to calculate activity prices of various operations.
• Product costing / Material Ledger defined and configured Product Cost planning that include cost estimates. Defined product cost per order and period
• Customized for the material ledger, reconciling accounts for the material ledger in different currencies, settings for material costing, maintained costing sheets, Costing & Valuation variants, product cost by period and valuation categories with balance sheet values by account.
• Used Material ledger to analyze material on ad hoc basis
• Used Material ledger for recording of currencies in two parallel currencies with recording of historical exchange rates
• Used Material ledger for actual cost splitting to analyze costs over multiple production levels
• Defined Order types to be able to create orders, assigned each order types to a number range.
• Issued authorization keys for the user statuses, so that only authorized users can set or delete a certain user status.
• Performed a results analysis for internal orders.
• Documented system configuration and consolidation process.
• Participated in testing using eCATT.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.
• Participated as member of go-live team to ensure successful cutover from legacy system.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Technical Environnent : SAP S/4 HANA Version: 1511, SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Greenfield implementation on SAP S/4 HANA Finance: Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted BBP, Performed GAP Analysis between current business practices and standard SAP functionality, Lead the realization, testing phase, supported client after Go-Live.
• Configured settings for the SAP New General Ledger Accounting, Assign the Accounting Principle to the Ledger Group, Define the Ledger for the Controlling Version.
• Configured SAP S/4HANA Finance with New Asset Accounting, Define Charts of Depreciation, Define the Depreciation Area for a Quantity update, Customization Prior to activation. Activate New Asset Accounting, Adjust Parameters in Charts of Depreciation.
• Define Asset Balance Sheet Accounts of Parallel Valuation Define the Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset Acquisition, Specify an Alternative Document Type for Accounting Principle, Specific Documents, Specify Revenue Distribution for Asset Retirement, Check Transaction Types.
• Cost Center: Controlling Areas settings, Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Center Structure regarding the Organization structure, configuration for period end postings like, Cost Center distributions and Assessments.
• Internal Order: Defined Settlement Structure and Settlement Profiles for settlement of the costs collected in the Internal Orders.
• Profit Center: Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, Maintain Automatic Assignment, Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Product Costing: Planning & Cost Object controlling by creating product cost by order, product cost by sales order with discrete process, Period end closing process, result analysis keys, result analysis versions to calculate Work in Process, Variance calculations and its settlements.
• Product cost by period: Product cost collectors with production versions and backflush with repetitive process
• Material Ledger- Multiple currency valuation, Multiple Valuation areas, Parallel Valuation of actual COGM and Actual Costing, Material update structure, ML Period end process, Actual Costing Cockpit run, Revaluation of Single Level Consumption, Periodic Unit Price.
• Configured Profitability Analysis in SAP S/4HANA Finance: Operating Concern, Characteristics, and Value Fields, Define Derivation, Forms and Reports, Activate Account-Based Profitability Analysis.
• Designed and developed test scripts for manual testing of FI & CO modules.
• Developed Various Reports through Report Painter/writer as per Group company requirement.
• Involved in integration testing of FICO with SD, MM and PP conducted integration testing for SD (sales order, deliveries, billing, and shipping) and MM (purchase order) modules.
• Involved and Worked in all aspects of Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to cash.
• Involved in preparation of end user documentation and trained end users majorly on CO modules.
• Developed enhancements in CO for replacement prices and auto run variances.

Confidential, Erie, PA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Technical Environnent : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Client Team for the “As-Is” study leading to the “To-Be” solution to suit the company’s objectives using the SAP Best Practices.
• Documented the Business Blueprint involving appropriate field mapping after going through GAP Analysis.
• Documented the Flow Chart Documentation and Presentation on various Business Scenarios.
• Activated the New GL, Assigned Scenarios, activated Document Splitting
• Configured Field Status groups, Posting Keys, Inter Company Automatic Account Assignment and Financial Statement versions in the New GL.
• Defined and Configured the Enterprise Structure including Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Assets according to the client needs
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data - Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.
• Configured house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment.
• Configured the Payment Program- Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices.
• Configured Logistic Invoice Verification
• Configured relevant settings for treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration
• Configured Electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, conversion programs, post processing of bank statements
• Configured Electronic check deposit.
• Worked on lockbox configuration and lock box processing.
• Assets Management including defining Assets Classes, defining depreciation areas for special depreciation, unplanned depreciation, configuring the depreciation keys, Special Valuation of Assets.

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Technical Environnent : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Freeze, Blue Printing, Implementing, Testing, Training & Cut Over Planning and GO Live are the Main Phases for any process under Implementation.
• Cost Components to be designed for the Procured Materials, taking the base from the Info Records or Pos or the latest Receipts.
• The components defined for the Procured Materials is Freight Charges, Procurement Over Head & Material Handling Charges.
• Designing the Subcontracting process accommodating the cost structure at component Level and Sub Assembly Level.
• Striking a sink among the UOM at Info Record and Material Maser and maintaining the conversions at both the places. The combination of Costing Lot Price Unit and Info Record UOM.
• Handling the Variance/Revaluation of cost at all Movements including the Reversals.
• Designing the Cost Sheets at Component Level and FG Level configuring to Plant specific.
• Designing New Costing Variants and new Valuation Variants Plant specific.
• Designing and configuring all the Account Determinations at Material Level and Sales Level.
• Enhancements Related to Drop Ship, Consignment and Asset Deployment.
• Enhancement to arrive at and post the Original Variance and the OH Burden to different GL Accounts.
• Implementation of NEW ASSET ACCCOUTING and Lease Accounting as a Lessor.
• Costing the Configurable Materials and Variants.
• Designing the Foreign Currency Valuation, Valuation Area wise with spl. Methods.
• Activation of New Local Currencies and designing the Depreciation Areas accordingly.
• Maintain the ML documents and the cc currency and Gc currency at MM Level.
• Implementing the New GL Accounting up to final step of Tagging to various Document Types.
• In AR AP new Head Office, Branch Office, Netting the customer and Vendor amounts, alternative Vendor and customer.
• Configure APP for IDOC Process for ASC format. Allowing vendor payment groupings and Partial Payments etc.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP FICO/AA Functional Consultant

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Specified automatic account assignments to link asset master data to G/L accounts.
• Created depreciation keys with assignment to depreciation areas
• 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, 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).
• Integrated Asset Accounting (FI-AA & AM) structured and valuated Fixed Assets, new Acquisitions, Alteration, Retirement, Depreciation postings, Year-End closing and Fiscal Year Change.
• Developed Functional Specifications for new interfaces and conversions
• Configured GL accounts, Account groups, sort variants, field status groups, document types, document number ranges, document splitting, defining and assigning clearing rules to account types.
• Defining line layouts for document posting and processing as per end user requirements. Configure automatic account assignments for recurring entries.
• Defined non-leading ledgers as per user requirements.
• Demonstrated Document Splitting concepts with relevant examples and online demo.
• Assigned scenarios for cost centers, profit centers and segment reporting.
• Developed custom reports based upon segment reporting.
• Define forms for tax on sales/purchase returns and designed custom reports for displaying GL balances.
• Was Involved in Business Process re-engineering regarding the costing and reporting functionalities. Worked on the model to make it SOX compliant in consensus with IFRS standards.
• Was Involved in Business Process re-engineering regarding the costing and reporting functionalities. Worked on the model to make it SOX compliant in consensus with IFRS standards.
• Created internal milestones and dashboards to track the progress on the streams in sync with the Global Parameters.