Summary

• 8 years of SAP experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, document preparation, user training, and support in SAP FICO. Knowledge and experience in handling interfaces betweenSAPand non-SAPsystems.
• 4 full cycle implementations.
• Client process analysis Fit and Gap study, Prototyping and hands on Configuration of the system. Trained users in configuration as well as post implementation production support and documentation; consulting skills. Written functional specs for customization of programs per client requirements.
• Extensive experiance in Configuration and Customization in FI - NEW GL, FI-SL, AR, AP, AM, T & E, Bank Accounting, Credit Management, Project Systems and in Controlling -COPA, CO-CEA CO-CCA, EC-PCA,.
• Strong integration experiences with SD, MM, HR modules with FICO
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.
• AP/AR : Configuring and Customizing vendor/ customer master data, account groups, ERS based invoices, Logistic invoice verification(LIV),Terms of payment, Payment blocks, Tolerances Groups, Invoice, Payment Configuration ,Automatic payment, Recurring entries, House bank, Dunning, Interest calculation, Check management and Special ledger.
• Asset Accounting: Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Fixed Asset Class, Asset Master Data, Asset Acquisition, Depreciation Keys, Account Determination, Asset Transfers, Asset Retirement, Assets under Construction.
• Project System: Project Definition, WBS Elements, Networks, Sub-networks, Maintaining Relationship, Structure Planning, Status Management, Result Analysis and settlement.
• Internal orders: Created and maintained order types, Screen layouts, Maintained order
  groups, Status management, Overhead costing sheets, settlement rules, Settlement profile, Planning profile, Budgeting ,Budget profile, Availability control.
• Treasury: Lockbox Configuration, Liquidity Forecast, Cash Management, Treasury Groups, Bank Statement, EBS, Bank Reconciliation.
• Special Ledger: Create FI-SL master data, Populating the data base, Determining the characters and key figures to be used in maintaining the coding block and activity groups, Activating the Validation/Substitution for each organizational unit and call up point, Defining sets and variables for groups, Execution of reports using Report Painter
• CO-PA: Operating concern, characteristics, value fields, CO-PA tables, characteristic derivation, settlement structures, Realignment, Valuation, CO-PA Reporting
• Experience in functions of accounting, financial analysis, and general management.
• Expertise with definition of functional requirements, process improvement, and project scope definition, blue printing, gap analysis, configuration, testing, documentation, full life cycle implementation and support.
• Expertise in business process engineering, change management, team management, systems design and development.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills and ability to make balanced & independent decisions.
• Configured FI/MM settings, releasing strategy, GR/IR, and updated Material Master Data.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-customer transactions, house banks, payment program, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, dunning procedures, TR- Lockbox processing, Cash application, CO-CCA-Assessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, Product Costing - PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting.
• Worked on EDI, I-Doc monitoring, change, process, delete.
• Experienced in Job monitoring and processing.

FICO Expertise

• Financial Accounting - SAP 6.0 FI/CO New GL, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Bank Accounting (FI-BA), Treasury & Asset Accounting (FI-AA), FI-SL.
• Controlling - Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting CO-CEL, Profitability analysis CO-PA, Internal Order Accounting (CO-IOA), Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA), Product Costing (CO- PC)
• Reporting - LSMW, Report Writer & Report Painter
• Testing: Test Director, Testing Scripts, Mercury
• Integration - FI/CO Integration with SD, MM and HR.

Education
Masters in Business Administration in Finance

Technical Skills
ERP Package: SAP (ECC 6.0, 4.7C and above) FI/CO
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Millenium/XP, VISTA
MS Office Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage
Statistical tools: Minitab, Mega Stat, Quick Books

Professional Experience

Employer: Confidential, Bangalore. (July 2010 to June 2012)
Client: Confidential
Role: FICO Team lead

Confidential, commonly referred to as Confidential, is one of the world\'s leading international fashion houses in the design, marketing and distribution of premium fashion products in different categories ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewelry, sunglasses, and books.

Role & Responsibilities:
LV has implemented AFS, FI, CO, SD, MM, PS, HR. FI-CO included, GL, Taxes, AR, AP, Treasury, Asset Management, CCA, PCA, IO, CO-PA, etc. This was a ticket based production support/ enhancement project. Get awarded from client with two consecutive times with customer satisfaction award. My role in the project was FI-CO Lead and COPA expert, my responsibilities include:

• Tracking and monitoring status of issues to meet all service level agreements coming on daily bases
• Direct interaction with client team for daily reporting, status update, to understand to enhancement requirement, feasibility and gap analysis.
• Analyze the tickets and assign it to different team members.
• Handling COPA tickets.
• Handling all the complex tickets coming from integration of SD, MM, HR.
• Handling all enhancement's including new customized report creation or changing the existing reports for FI, COPA and PCA.
• Helping team to close all tickets especially complex issues in SLA. Keep them motivated to stretch a mile extra when ever needed.
• Providing month-end and year and on call support.
• Daily Invoice idoc monitoring, if needed used change, process and delete functionality.
• Providing solution and doing configuration required for enhancements, bug-fixes, for GL, AR, AP, AA, T & E, CEA, CCA, PCA, CO-PA.
• Updating settings related to AFS to integrate data flow from SD and MM to FICO, like maintaining VKOA and OBYC maintaining characteristics for different products (shoes, Bags, etc), color, maintaining KEDR settings to integrate the flow form SD and MM to COPA.
• Worked on report painter to create and change reports,
• Writing functional specification.
• Writing test scripts and co-ordination with business for UAT testing and analyzing the test results.
• Co-coordinating with basis team for transport requirement

Employer: Confidential, (Aug 2009 to June 2010)
Client: Confidential
Role: FICO Analyst SAP (4.7C)

Confidential, is a multinational food packaging and processing company of Swedish origin. The company offers packaging solutions, filling machines and processing solutions for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice-cream and prepared food, including distribution tools like accumulators, cap applicators, conveyors, crate packers, film wrappers, line controllers and straw applicators.[

Role & Responsibilities:
I worked as senior FI-CO consultant, My responsibilities includes Client process analysis Fit and Gap study, Prototyping and hands on Configuration of the system based on Global template and was responsible for AR, AP, Treasury, AA, Travel & Expenses and Controlling - inclusive of Cost Center accounting, cost element accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting. Workflow, FI-SD, FI-MM integration. Preparation of blue-print document, Configuration, preparation of test scripts for Controlling and TM based on Global roll-out template. Inter- action with Business and suggesting business solutions. Guiding and Mentoring the new team members.

• Direct interaction with client to understand the AS-IS process, doing gap analysis and proposing appropriate solution.
• Preparation of blueprint document, taking business sign off.
• Configured settings for AR, AP, AM, Taxes, Treasury, T & E.
• Configuration of CO- CEA, CCA, PCA, IO, CO-PA.
• Configured settings for settlements, allocation, distribution, etc
• Configured settings of automatic postings in FICO from SD, MM.
• Created reports using report painter.
• Written test cases and did system integration testing.
• Coordinated with business for UAT and analyzed test results.
• I was responsible for regression testing.
• Go-live and initial support.
• Worked on various enhancements.
• Written technical specification.

Employer: Confidential, (Nov 2008 to July 2009)
Client: Confidential
Role: Sr. SAP - FICO Functional consultant
Confidential, is the flag carrier airline of Singapore. Singapore Airlines was the launch customer of Airbus A380, currently the world\'s largest passenger aircraft. SIA has diversified airline-related businesses, such as aircraft handling and engineering. Its wholly owned subsidiary, SilkAir, manages regional flights to secondary cities with smaller capacity requirements.

Responsibilities:
Worked on various roll out, enhancement and support projects. SIA has implemented FICO, SD, MM, PC, and HR. The rollout projects are for SIA India Cochin station and Hyderabad stations and SIA Confidential,. My current role as a FICO consultant includes the direct dealing with client for requirement gathering, scope analysis, gap analysis, solution proposal and blueprint design, configuration, unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, cut-over to production and initial support for the rollout.

• Defining enterprise structure.
• Configuration of settings related to GL, Taxes, AR, AP, Treasury, CO-CCA, CCE, Internal orders, CO-PCA, CO-PA.
• Worked on various inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Configured settings for settlements, allocation, distribution, etc.
• Configured settings of automatic postings in FICO from SD and MM.
• Worked on workflow structure:
• AP workflow setup.
• AR workflow Setup.
• PO workflow setup.
• Test script creation based on business scenarios, SIT and UAT
• User training document creation and user training.
• Go-live and initial support

Client: Confidential, (Nov 2008 to July 2009)
Role: Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (CEA support)
Version ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Capital Expenditure Application is used by SIA to manage their capital expenses. This is fully customized system and is integrated to SAP PS module. In this project my role is:

Providing daily and month end support. Analyzing and solving reported issues and bugs. Tracking and monitoring status of issues to meet all service level agreements coming on daily bases. Running various month-end reports. Solving all the reported issues on daily basis and analyzing and providing solution for all the issues arises on month-end closing. Worked on various enhancements like, creation of new WBS elements, cost centers, creating new reports and modification of existing reports etc.

Employer: Confidential, Singapore. (May 2008 to Nov 2008)
Client: Confidential
Role: Sr. SAP - FICO Functional consultant

Confidential, is a company which provides electricity and gas transmission, distribution services, and market support services to more than a million customers in Singapore. It is the only electricity company in Singapore, and is also one of the largest corporations in Singapore

Responsibility: The current project is SAP 3.1 to ECC 6.0 technical and followed by a functional upgrade. It is considered to be like a fresh implementation by the client as the there is vast difference between the two versions of SAP. My role, as a FICO consultant includes direct client handling for requirement gathering, Blueprint preparation, configuration of Enterprise Structure, New GL, Taxes, Treasury, AR, AP, AA, CCA, Internal orders, Activity types, CO-PCA, CO-PA, WIP, SIT, UAT, preparation of user training manual and user training. Participating in all the review meetings and updating the Client on the status.

• Configured settings for company, company code, currency code, business area, controlling area, tax codes.
• Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system.
• Configured settings for ledger, document splitting, AR, AP, Treasury, AM.
• Configured settings for cost element accounting, cost center accounting, activity types, and internal orders and CO-PA.
• Created and modified report using report painter.
• Configured settings for settlements, allocation, distribution, etc.
• Configured settings of automatic postings in FI-CO - SD, MM.
• Took part in data migration.
• Prepared training manual for users and provided training to them to use SAP ECC 6.0 system.
• Done successful SIT and UAT and GO-Live.

Employer: Confidential, Gurgaon. (Sep 2006 to April 2008)
Client: Confidential
Role: SAP - FICO Functional consultant

Confidential, is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony. Headquartered in Culver City, California, USA, SPE comprises various studios and entertainment brands.

Responsibilities:

• Providing daily ticket based support and working on various enhancements including areas of GL, Taxes, AR, AP, Treasury, AA, CEA, CCA, PCA, Reports, etc.
• Analyzing and solving reported issues and bugs, track and monitor status of issues to meet all service level agreements coming on daily bases, doing enhancements as per requirement.
• Opening and closing of posting periods
• Creation of new tax code or changing properties of existing tax code which includes define condition types, creating tax procedure, assigning tax procedure to companies country, defining tax jurisdiction structure, defining tax jurisdiction code, define tax codes, define tax accounts, export-import of tax codes.
• Creation of new GL, vendor, customer, asset, asset account, cost center, profit center.
• Cash journal, correspondence, dunning, AR-AP forms, and automatic payment.
• Analysis of various reports.
• Creation of functional spec.
• Job and idoc monitoring.
• Ensure the data is flowing correctly between different interfaces, etc.

Employer: Confidential, Singapore.(Sep 2005-June 2006)
Client: Confidential, Singapore
Role: SAP - FICO Functional consultant

Confidential, is a leader in an industry-computer networking-that connects people and organizations around the World.

Responsibilities:

• To take part in all the daily meetings with business to understand their process, requirement gathering. Taking part in blueprint preparation and sign-off, Implementation, configuration settings, user training, post implementation support, created training documents and test scripts for ITG and UAT. The scope of work included AS-IS study, TO-BE analysis, configuration, and modifications to suit the client\'s requirements, and user training.
• Go live and support Customization with respect to Global Settings & FI/CO Enterprise Structure keeping in mind integration with MM/SD modules.

Customization of FI module.

• Global Settings: Configuration of organizational structures, tax codes, chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups' Fiscal year Variants, posting periods, document number ranges.
• General Ledger: Creating G/L accounts, Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts payables, cross company transaction. Setting of various type of accounting posting like Negative posting.
• Accounts receivables and payables: Configuration of customer master and vendor account groups, master data in FI, Number ranges, Posting keys, and document types for posting. Terms of payment, Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels, correspondence, automatic payment configurations. Integration with S & D and MM modules, Foreign exchange, various types of automatic postings.
• Asset Accounting: Defining Assets class, Account determination, integration with G/l, creation of asset, Retirement of assets, Asset acquisition. Depreciation runs.
• Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system.

Controlling:

• Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy, creating CO version.
• Cost Element Accounting: Cost element individual processing, collectively processing (Create, display and delete), and Imputed cost calculation.
• Cost Center Accounting : Creation of cost center groups under the standard hierarchy, creation of cost centers including collection cost centers and allocation cost centers, creation of secondary cost element,. Creating activity types & statistical key figures, Cost allocation using Assessments, Distributions.
• Profit center accounting: Basic setting and master data setting, Assignment in profit center accounting, Actual posting maintenance.
• Internal orders: Settings / configurations for Master data, planning, actual posting, budgeting, period end closing, year-end closing.
• Worked on Period end & year end closing activities for FI & CO and created reports using Report writer & Report Painter.
• Configured settings period end activities including settlements, allocation, distribution, etc.
• Configured settings of automatic postings in FICO from SD, MM, WIP, and HR.

Employer: Confidential, Singapore (Jan 2005-Aug 2005)
Client: Confidential, Singapore.
Role: SAP - FICO Functional consultant

Confidential, is an American multinational hardware and software corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise, and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers, and other imaging products.

Responsibilities: This was a implementation project. As a team member I took part in Blue print preparation, Signoff, Configuration of Global settings, FI-CO settings (Company code, chart of accounts, General ledger, Account Receivables, Account Payables Controlling area settings, Creation of cost center, profit center and cost element, and setting one to one relationship between them) and settings based on FI-MM & FI-SD integration, table maintenance, creating user specific reports with developers, documentation for user training and preparation of ITG & UAT test scripts, user training, successful ITG testing, UAT and MTP.

• Configuration of organizational structures, Company code creation, Global settings, taxation, chart of accounts, G/L master data, assigning fiscal year variant to company code, assigning posting period variant to company code, number range assignment, field status variant assignment, assigning company codes to chart of account.
• Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts payables, cross company transaction.
• Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy.
• Primary and secondary cost element creation using collective processing, Creation of cost center, Creation of cost center groups under the standard hierarchy.
• Basic setting and master data setting configuration for Profit Center Accounting, created profit centers, assignments in profit center accounting, Actual posting maintenance.
• Setting up one to one relationship between Cost element, Cost center and Profit center.
• Configured settings for FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-CO, FI-WIP, FI-HR integrations.
• Created various daily and monthly reports with developers based on the user specifications.
• Created user training documents and provided training to user.
• Completed successful ITG, UAT and MTP.
• Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy.
• Primary and secondary cost element creation using collective processing, Creation of cost center, Creation of cost center groups under the standard hierarchy.
• Basic setting and master data setting configuration for Profit Center Accounting, created profit centers, assignments in profit center accounting, Actual posting maintenance.
• Setting up one to one relationship between Cost element, Cost center and Profit center.
• Configured settings for FI-MM, FI-SD integrations.
• Created various daily and monthly reports with developers based on the user specifications.
• Created user training documents and provided training to user.
• Completed successful ITG, UAT and MTP.
• Providing production support.

Employer: Confidential, Singapore (Oct 2004-Dec 2004)
Client: Confidential, Singapore.
Role: SAP - FICO Functional consultant

Confidential, is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services. DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail.

Responsibility: As a team member my responsibilities are to ensure successful ITG, UAT, to take part in go-live, to train users on implemented workflow.

• Testing PTP (Purchase to Pay). Testing various interfaces of PTP with Banks includes posting creating PO, GR, IR, Automatic Payment Program Run, mapping the data using Imaging solutions, based on different Business scenarios using validations.
• Trained end-users to help them to use various configured settings for posting business-transactions.
• Completed successful ITG and performed integrated user acceptance testing successfully.
• Took part in project Go-Live and provided initial support to users.