SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Business Analyst diverse experience knowledge of Finance and Accounting experience which allows making an immediate contribution with continued personal and professional growth.
• Over 13 years of experience working as Financial Analyst out of which 9 years of experience in SAP FICO as Functional Consultant.
• This includes all aspects of the SAP implementation process from proof of concept through pilot configuration, business process analysis, complete system configuration and testing.
• Creation and Maintenance of Fixed Assets, Depreciation areas, Asset Acquisitions & Transfers, Asset postings, Asset Retirement and Reporting and period closing.
• Configuring and Maintenance of Account Groups, Incoming and Outgoing payments, Down Payments, Interest Calculation, Dunning and Month/Year end Closing Activities, Configuring Automatic payment and Master data fields.
• Maintaining Master Data, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Cost Center Planning, Derivation Rules and Period - end closing activities namely Assessment, Distribution, Periodic Reposting, Manual Reposting and valuation based assignment to COPA, Dummy Profit Center, Maintaining default parameters and assignments, Reporting and Reposting values in Profit Center and other period end closing activities.
• Operating Concern, Characteristics and Values, Report Painter and SAP Query, Integrating postings in other modules/sub modules to CO-PA, Derivation and Substitution rules
• Costing Sheets, Cost Components, Costing Variants, Standard Cost Estimate, Unit Cost Estimate, Overhead, Work in process, Variance Calculation and Settlement of Process and Production Orders.

PROFESSIONAL SAP HIGHLIGHTS:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create a process for customer payment Advice including new custom program to upload modified Excel Sheet into SAP.
• Design a New custom report for Vendor Master for audit purpose includes All the ADRC Field.
• Add new fields in Sap Standard Program for Profit Center actual line item level.
• Help to creates new attributes for FSCM module to replace the existing receivable related collection process.
• Develop a New enhancement feature for Automated Order Settlement period end close process.
• Build a new month end accrual and reversal process for general ledger posting at the month end and reverse after the month close.
• Identify and correct Default profit center posting in Price Purchase variance Account.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Systems Analyst-Finance

Responsibilities:

• Identified and Activate All the SAP Standard reports available in ECC 6.0 by business role in order to have better reporting available to business users.
• Determined best method to allow each plant controller to run their plant settlement without IT assistance in SAP rather than Autosys job Scheduler.
• Extended AR BW multi-providers to include additional extractors and reporting requirements done manually by the AR/Credit team via spreadsheet from existing SAP R3 data e.g. Credit Risk, Average days late, Unearned cash discounts, Customer payment history, Cash forecast
• Create an Intercompany process when transfer price is missing in Inter Company billing without revenue line items. Requires rework to cancel the bad billing. When Transfer Price is missing, the objective was billing to be held up in VFX3, where it will be managed and corrected.
• Implement, create and Schedule a background Job in Autosys job scheduler using factory and customize calendars to run on specific days and dates of the month.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Business Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Product Costing (CO-PC), including defining settlement profile, Assessment Cycle and distribution and various activities.
• Preparing Business Scenarios, Test Scripts and Testing Cases in QA for SAP Consolidation Part 3 Integration Test.
• Designed and implemented Custom processes for BOL (Buy on Line and Pick up from Store) and Mobilize project
• Worked with ABAP team for developing customer specific reports i.e. Capex, Archive GLPCA
• Primary support for All Accounts Payable Issues including monitoring schedule jobs.
• Secondary/back up support foe POS and Credit Card issues
• Resolving the Configuration and customization related Tickets
• Consults with business to develop understanding of Business needs and the priority of those needs.
• Set up new mechanism for handling payments to high risk vendors by adding new vendor hold percentage and amount custom field at the vendor company code level.
• Managed all the FICO jobs for the mid month close as part of the special merger close.
• Change Period for FI Year Variant to end on normal close nstead of new mid month close

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP Application Consultant

Responsibilities:

• New General Ledger.
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable - including lockbox implementations and electronic payment methods.
• Fixed Assets,
• Profitability Analysis.
• Integration with Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, and Production Planning.
• Troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Implementation of process improvements.
• Development of customer training documentation.

Confidential

SAP FI-CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for Account Determination, Depreciation Areas. Asset Classes, Screen Layout Rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Settings for automatic account assignment
• Create Functional Specification Document (FSD) for Various FICO Module
• Involved in Business Process Procedures (BPP's) such as Accounts Payable - Manual Invoice/Credit,
• Generate Configuration Rational Document (CRD) for Various FICO Module such Inter Company Process, Manual Accruals in GL, Reset and Post Cleared Items, Foreign Currency Valuation Processing.
• Performed Cutover Activities and Manual Configuration in Golden Client during IT Test and in QA client during UAT Testing.

Confidential, IL

SAP FI-CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supporting GL, AP, AR, Bank Accounting, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing and COPA sub modules
• Provide input on technical implications of specific requirements of SAP and other application solutions, including development of technical objects and interfaces.
• Design and Implemented EBS process include inter company funds.
• Finalizing Test Plans, Arranging for Integration testing and documenting the process
• Managing a team of 4 Developers to ensure timely delivery of the Defects at hand.
• Designing, testing and configuring of new business processes to support business activities
• Designing new Business process, end- user training, developing training documentation, simulations, testing and ABAP queries
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Gathered requirements created functional specifications and business process information via interviews with key business users. Developed BPP

Confidential, TX

SAP FI-CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Create Scenarios, Process and Sub Process for FICO related module
• Analyzed and documents the Business requirements and determines the impact of those requirements within a FICO module and across all modules of the system
• Developed use Cases, Test Plans, test scripts and Test Cases.
• Executes Test Plans and Test Scripts to ensure system is aligned with business requirements.
• Developed Training Materials in collaboration with the Business and assist in the training delivery
• Reviewed and identify Ascend relevant Interfaces, Batch Jobs and Closing Schedule which include Month End, Quarter End and Year End activities
• Create Curved out Scenario Process comprise Closing process and End to End testing meets Business requirements.
• Participate in 3 Cycle Tests, Sanity Check and resolved the incident tickets created by tester/end-user during the cycle tests

Confidential, IL

SAP FI-CO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Resolve Service Request tickets in accordance with agreed upon SLAs helpdesk cases involving assigned SAP modules through Clarify-Front Office software.
• Creating program specifications for new reports or system capabilities that will be used by the development Team for ABAP programming
• FI- GL: Account Groups, GL Master Records, Sample Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Inter-Company Automatic Account Posting, Assignment, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups and Business Area Accounting, GR/IR accounts
• FI-AR: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, Payment Terms and Interest Calculation, Incoming Payments, Dunning, AR information System, Lockbox Process and Closing operations
• FI-AP: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, Closing Procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts
• Financial Statements: Financial Closing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, Financial Statement Creation
• Testing new functional changes produced by the Development Team using Test Director 7.6
• Responsible for Unit, String, integration, Regression and UAT testing - Includes performing the test, making changes in configuration based on results and error resolution
• Develop functional design to create new batch job to close open paid open purchase order

Confidential, IL

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Cost Center Hierarchy and cost center groups, link cost and profit centers, attach work centers to cost centers, Distribution Cycle set up
• Planned as well as actual, Assessment Cycles
• Planned as well as actual, configuration of activity types and plan them on different cost centers, configuration of the system for planned and actual activity price calculations, Implementation of Internal Orders for research and development projects. Create Profit Centers, with Profit Hierarchy including Dummy Profit Center. Prepare plans for cost structure i.e. Cost element planning
• Document all functional specifications with each functional / business requirement.
• Unit Testing on the system using different test scenarios and test cases and documentation and end-user training manuals for business users
• Configure CO-PA - build the operating concern, develop value fields & characteristics, configure summarization levels for reports and assessments, Cost Center Assessments to segments, CO-PA reports, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement
• Create costing run analysis report and modify according to client requirement
• Configured Order Settlement job run on daily, weekly and month end basis with creating a variants for each job
• Defined Costing sheet by defining percentage overhead, bases and costing variant (Costing type, Valuation Variant, Date Control)
• Supported SAP month-end close system processes and reporting requirements.
• Provided support to end users in reconciliation of CO-PA with SD/MM/FI/CO-PC
• Extensively work with ABAP team in debug process in forms and payment program.

Confidential, CA

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Account Groups, Number Ranges, Tolerances and G/L Master in New G/L
• Configured PCA Master Data for New G/L in SAP 6.0
• Configuring and testing basic settings for material costing and reporting for Sales Order based costing and production scenarios and configuring COPA postings
• Created Activity types, Primary Cost elements, secondary cost elements, cost centers, maintained statistical key figures
• Configuration of activity types and planning them on different cost centers, configuration of the system for planned and actual activity price calculations
• Configured Fixed Assets Module- configured all the key elements like chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, various Asset Classes, Account determinations, Depreciation keys, etc
• Define Account Groups, Number Ranges and Maintain Field Status Groups.
• Supported the client in Post Go-Live Session and sustained continuous
• Improvements
• Configure different payment terms and perform unit testing with Users.

Confidential, TX

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured Company Codes, General Ledgers, Fiscal Year Variant, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Posting Periods, Parallel Currencies, GL account Master records and assigned field status groups to the account groups
• Created Customers, Vendors, Account Groups for Vendors and Customers
• Configured Customer Account Groups, Vendor Account Groups, defined payment terms and tolerance groups. Worked on credit management for the customers
• Maintained recurring entries and performed automatic payment program extensively
• Configured House Banks and Bank Accounts and created GL accounts for each bank account. Defined check number ranges and check lots
• Created Cost Centers, Primary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Centre, Secondary Cost Elements, Assessment and Distribution Cycles
• Performed configuration for Depreciation run at period end close
• Configured Controlling Area, assign number ranges to Controlling area, assign Company Code to Controlling area, maintained Cost Centre standard hierarchy
• Schedule batch jobs and create variants for batch jobs.
• Configured Fixed Assets module- configured all the key elements like chart of Performed configuration for Depreciation run at period end close
• Extensively worked to resolved check printing issues in automatic payment program.

Confidential, AL

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Set up employee tolerance groups, field status groups, and automatic account assignment for the G/L
• Create Credit limit for costumers, country/company code specific payment methods, Manual incoming/outgoing payments, Automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, Credit memos, Partial payments, Installment payments, Residual payments, claims and disputed payments.
• Create Number Ranges and assign them to Account Groups for customer/vendor master, configure and define screen layout for them.
• Configure Valuation and Account Assignment including definition of Valuation Control, grouping of Valuation Areas, definition of Valuation Classes, Account groupings and Automatic G/L Account Assignment
• Configure Controlling area with number ranges and create cost center group, with cost hierarchy and cost elements including secondary cost element, maintain versions
• Configure Cost Center Accounting - Creation of Cost Center Hierarchy and cost center groups, link cost and profit centers, attach work centers to cost centers, Distribution Cycle set up - Planned as well as Actual, Assessment Cycles configuration of activity types and plan them on different cost centers, configuration of the system for planned and actual activity price calculations, Implementation of Internal Orders for research and development projects. Create Profit Centers, with Profit Hierarchy including Dummy Profit Center. Prepare plans for cost structure i.e. Cost element planning
• Derivation rules in COPA, Manual postings in COPA, mapping of SD conditions to COPA
• Prepared for Month End Closing and setting up relevant master data for Allocation (Assessment and Distributions), Internal Orders, Etc

Confidential, MN

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in day-to-day activities to production support on global environments.
• Defined and configured Chart of accounts and Account Groups
• Configured Incoming payments, Billing and Credit management
• Involved in Integration of FI with MM (Purchase to Pay) and FI with SD (Order to Cash) modules.
• Automatic Payment Program - Maintaining the Payment Parameters, Scheduled the Proposal Run, Verified the Exception Lists, Edited the Proposal Lists, Scheduled the Payment Run, Verified the Payment Document, Spooled and Ran the check printing program
• EC-PCA- CO Area settings, Created Dummy Profit Centers, Created Revenue Elements, Creation of Actual Profit Centers and Assignment of the same to the Respective Cost Centers, Generated Various Profit Reports using Report Painter for Profit Centers
• Assigned controlling area to operating concern, Assign SD conditions to the value Fields
• Configure and Executing Period End Closing for FI and CO: Daily, Monthly and Year End