SUMMARY

• Overall 15 years of Finance experience in which10 years in SAP FICO Functional consulting Experience with 2 full life cycle implementations; roll out, up gradation, support and maintenance projects.
• Implementation experience with Business Process and Integration of FI/CO with SD and MM with Go Live readiness and Post Go Live Support.
• Hands - on configuration experience in SAP R/3 and ECC in Financial Accounting & Controlling (FI-CO) includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting.
• Proficiency on different aspects of a business relating to FI-G/L Transactions, Inter Company Transactions, House Banks, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Document Splitting, Dunning, CO-CCA Assessment & Distribution Cycles and CO-PA.
• A team player, strong interpersonal and communication skills, Professional demeanor and analytical skills with a high learning acumen to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate skill sets into the project implementation lifecycle.
• Strengths include strong understanding of the business processes and conversion of business requirements into SAP solutions in the most cost effective manner, with sound Financial Analysis.
• Experience with end user training, preparing user manuals, production support, troubleshoot tickets and develop various reports for users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: SAP (ERP), Windows 2000/NT/XP

Accounts packages: Invoice Management, Microsoft Dynamics, and Sage Line50

Tools: GMS, DQMS, CARMS, Voyager, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• This Project is a Support and roll out for Finance, Working within the team responsible for Global support and enhancement and rollout of SAP FICO modules.
• Develop and execute pre-deployment training schedules in cooperation with the client site to cover all affected roles in FI/CO area.
• Responsible for effectively delivering the onsite pre-deployment SAP training to end users to ensure successful SAP implementations within North America.
• Ongoing post-deployment training and end user support initiatives (onsite and remote) to maintain and further enhance the SAP skills/proficiency within the end user community.
• Collect and evaluate training feedback and develop recommendations to continuously improve training content and delivery
• Post go-Live Support for ensuring smooth operational activities (stabilization support), resolve any issues identified by super user such as master data, compliance of various forms and reports.
• Exposure in various test phases such as UT, and Performance testing that all are intended for smoothing the go-live.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and participated in business scenarios, configuration documents and functional specifications for implementation of Finance module, general controlling, cost center accounting.
• Configured G/L Master records, documents number ranges, posting period variants, reversal of documents, opening and closing of periods, field status variants, document types, posting keys.
• New GL Segment and Document Splitting. Reporting in New Ledger, Reconciliation between financial accounting and controlling. Hands on experience with the migration.
• Configured and tested accounts receivable and accounts payable - customer master data, account groups, number ranges and screen layout rules.
• Configured the system to handle partial payments, exchange rate differences, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, payment media, and interest calculation.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in AP.
• Configured and implemented asset master records, chart of depreciation and asset sub ledger.
• In Asset Accounting, defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys, Asset Classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Also, defined transaction types for various business transaction likes acquisition, retirement, transfers and account determination.
• Configured Cost Element Accounting by creating primary and secondary cost elements, cost elements groups, maintained cost element attributes and Costing Sheets.
• Configured Profit center accounting (PCA) by creating Standard Hierarchy, Profit centers, Dummy Profit center.
• Maintained a settlement profile and settled the AUC asset to a fixed asset for capitalization.
• Responsible for making changes, migrating them, completing the ticket and communicating the change to the level 2 support person, who can then resolve and close the call.
• Order types, Settlement profile, Settlement structure and Settlement Cost element for Internal order settlements.
• Implemented various SAP functionalities and enhancements that were not included in initial implementation e.g. Park and Post Process, Availability Control on Internal Order Budget, Financial Statement Version etc.
• Integrated SAP FICO with MM, SD, PS.
• Collecting business requirement from the client and map to SAP system.
• Created Operating Concern with definition of characteristics and value fields; Configured Costing Based CO-PA.
• Participated in full project life cycle implementation including business process blueprint, configuration, conversion, testing, and support.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a part of GL transaction processing set the types of journal entries, recurring entries and accrual posting. GL Fiscal month end closing defined financial statement preparation, reconciliations and adjustments, integrated closing schedules and the closing process.
• Configured G/L Master records, documents number ranges, posting period variants, reversal of documents, opening and closing of periods, field status variants, document types, posting keys.
• Configured Vendor and Customer Master Record, tolerance limits for over Payments and under payments, payment terms, and payment methods.
• Involved in the design of Asset class and Chart of Depreciation in Fixed Assets. Grouped assets into manageable Asset Classes and customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups and Assign Number ranges to groups, configured Automatic and Manual cost element creation.
• Worked on PO based invoices - the function modules to process incoming invoices customized for error resolution workflows (price, quantity, amount and Tax errors)
• Create a custom AP report that includes VIM, Workflow and AP details
• Mass Reversal of Goods Receipts
• Maintained Subsystems such as Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Responsible for Processing Payments.
• Interacted with client business users for requirement gathering and analysis.
• Study and documentation of existing processes for Shipping and Distribution

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• This Project was a Support and roll out for Finance for SAP 4.6c. Worked as a FI consultant in the team responsible for Global support and enhancement and rollout of SAP FI modules.
• Identified to use Profit center accounting to create P&L and Balance sheet statements on key business metrics for predefined areas of responsibility.
• Identified Internal Orders that has to be settled to Cost Centers at the end of the period.
• Balance Sheet reports, CCA reports etc along with check forms and dunning forms.
• Testing: Planned and executed the realization phase and unit testing. Guide the team to integration testing.
• Prepared the system for day in life activities and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Prepared documentation and end-user training manuals for business users.
• Auto Good Receipt for High Volume Items.
• Test build of custom objects in development, testing before moving to Production using test scripts covering test scenarios.
• Coordinated with users for User Acceptance Testing and completion

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in providing solutions against tickets in areas of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Asset Accounting.
• Configured Down Payment Received and Down Payment Made for Vendor and Customers this includes accounting configuration and Special GL accounts with reconciliation accounts.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, keys, and created asset classes.
• Worked on complex asset master, assign asset classes to account determination, and assign chart of depreciation to asset classes.
• Define depreciation areas to post GL accounts, specify FSV for asset reporting, specify document types for posting depreciation and maintain period control.
• Monitoring Month End settlement jobs and Period End activities.
• Discussing with End Users and providing solutions at a given time period.
• Resolved the issues related to GL, AP, AR, Taxation, and Foreign Currency Calculations.
• Enhancement to the customized reports after discussing with the User.
• Providing day-to-day operational and process support to users.
• Making configuration changes whenever required.
• Creation New Tax codes and assigns the related GL Accounts