OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging SAP FI/CO Consultant position, where my extensive knowledge in Finance and Accounting with Over Eight years of functional experience in implementing, customizing and configuring in both FI and CO and excellent skill set in integrating, testing, documenting, user and support would allow me to make an immediate contribution with continued personal and professional growth.

SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of Functional Experience in implementing, customizing and configuring in SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5, and ECC 6.0 in both FI and CO modules.
• Successfully implemented 3 Full life cycle Projects - worked through the phases of requirement gathering, scope management, process analysis, GAP analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Go-live, post live support and .
• Very good experience in ASAP Methodology.
• Excellent skill set in Production support, Integrating, Testing and Documenting.
• Expertise in Analysis, Development, Testing, Implementation and Support in SAP R/3 FI-CO
• Extensive experience in user profile and authorization settings, user on the processes and assistance in developing End User Document, Role Definition, Transport Requests Management, etc.
• Excellent Domain and Functional Experience in Finance and Controlling.
• Strong Work in Master Data Management under FI-CO Module.
• Strong experience in Configuration of Enterprise Structure, Fiscal Year Variant, Ledgers, Documents Types, Chart of Account, Foreign Currency Translation and General Ledger Accounts Assignments for Automatic Postings.
• Expertise in Configuring New GL Performing Document Split, Zero Balancing of documents, Parallel Accounting and Parallel Currencies.
• Extensive system Configuration and Testing in the areas FI-CO: General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable, Taxes, Lockbox configuration and processing, Assets Accounting, Treasury, CO-CCA, PCA, PA, Planning and Reporting.
• Good knowledge in SAP MM configuration of Enterprise Structure (Definition and Assignment), Logistics and Material Management etc. and SAP SD configuration of Enterprise Structure (Sales Organization, Distribution Channel and Division), Customer Master Records, and Material Master Data etc.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, Strong analytical view, problem solving, capable to make balanced and independent decision and an excellent team player.
• High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the project implementation lifecycle.

SAP FI/CO CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

• Worked as a consultant responsible for the Analysis, Design and Implementation of SAP for the clients and worked actively with the management and project teams of the clients to implement SAP FI/CO.
• Configuration of Organizational Structures, Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting Periods, Document Number Ranges, Document Types, Posting Keys, Foreign Currency Exchange Management, Inter-Company Management, Validation and Substitution.
• Configuration of Account Groups, G/L Master Data, G/L Master Records, Business Transactions, Financial Statement Versions, Automatic Account Determination and Tolerance Groups.
• Configuration of Customer and Vendor Master Records in FI, Number Ranges Intervals, Down Payment Made and Received, Validation of Business Transactions, Invoice Processing, Document Parking, Outgoing Payment, Reporting, Automatic Payment Program, Open Item Management. Credit Limit Management, Payment Terms and Dunning Procedures.
• Configuration of Extended Withholding Tax, Input Tax, Output Tax, Tax Types and Tax Codes.
• Configuration of House Banks, Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer, Lockbox Configuration and Processing, Cash Application, Treasury Groupings, Bank Statement Processing, Risk Management, Cash Management, Posting Rules, Exchange Rates, Planning, Integration with MM and SD.
• Configuration of Chart of Depreciation, Assets Class, Account Determination, Screen Layout Rules, Number Range Interval, Depreciation Key, Fixed Asset Design, Integration with the GL. In-house Creation of Assets and Sub-Assets. Posting of Assets Acquisition and Assets Retirement. Configuration of Depreciation run.
• Maintain Controlling Area, Number Ranges For Controlling Documents and Versions.
• Creation of Primary/Secondary Cost Elements Manually and Automatically, Cost Elements Group. Display of Cost Elements List for Controlling Reports.
• Define Cost Center Categories and Cost Center Groups. Create Cost Centers under Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centre Planning, Plan Price Calculation, Periodic Allocations in Plan, Display and Print the Cost Center Information for Master data Report.
• Configuration of Controlling Areas Setting. Creation of Dummy Profit Center and Profit Centers under Standard Hierarchy.
• Creation of Centers including collection Cost Centers and Allocation Cost Centers. Setting Control Parameters for Actual Posting. Allocation characteristics for Sender/Receiver Cost, Configuration of Assessment, Distribution and Reposting.
• Define Order Type, Configure Internal Order Number Range, Creation of Internal Orders, Settlement Cost Element, Configuration of the Settlement Structure, Settlement Profile, Real and Statistical Postings, Configuration of Order Planning, Budgeting, Defining Status Profile and Display Internal Orders Plan / Actual / Variance Report.
• Maintain Operating Concern, Characteristics, Cost based and Account based. Define Valuation Strategy using Condition Types and Material Cost Estimate. Configure Transfer of Incoming Sales Orders, Billing Documents and Overhead. PA Transfer Structure and Automatic Account Assignment for Direct Posting from FI/MM in COPA. Transfer of Overhead by assigning Characteristics Groups to Actual Cycles. Performing Assessment of Cost Center Costs/Process Costs and allocating Direct/Indirect Activity. Settlement of Production Variances by defining PA Transfer Structure for Variance Settlement. Assigning PA transfer structure to Settlement Profile in COPA.
• Analysis, design and implementation of PCP. Configuration of WIP, Variance Calculation and Settlement, Cost Estimates for new materials without Quantity Structure. Standard Cost Estimates for specific market segments. Define Costing Variants. Review business process procedures for Costing Sheet for Direct Material, Production Costs and Overheads. Ensure flow of SALES and COGS for the Products. Design Reports for Inventory, Cost of Goods Manufactured and sold, external procurement and transfer prices.
• Run and Reconcile all Incoming Interface, Start Control and Clearing Reconciliation, Run Customer Billing and Vendor Payments, Approval of all Parked Documents, Run Final Sales Figure and Dunning Reports, Open new Period, Close Old Sales and Material Periods, Run all Settlements In CO, Creating Management Accounting Reports with Report Painter.
• Integration of FI with MM, PP and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination, Interfaces design and testing.
• Activating New GL, Migration Cockpit.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6, ECC 6.0, EH6

General Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Operating Systems: MS Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000/98/95, Mac OS X.

Adobe CS6: Photoshop. Illustrator, InDesign.

Tools: Report Painter, Report writer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Client for requirements gathering and analysis. Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FI/CO developments, Full life cycle Implementation.
• Involved in developing detailed Functional Specifications Documents.
• Configured settings for Company Code, Fiscal Year Variant, Chart of Accounts, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant and Field Status Groups.
• Worked on Vertex for External Tax Update, Withholding Tax, Used Tax, Sales Tax, Sales Tax and Tax calculation at the jurisdiction level from Vertex integration.
• Involved in Configuring and Customizing Vendor/Customer Account Groups, Field Status, Vendor/Customer Masters Records, Tolerances, Down Payments Made/Received, Automatic Payment Program, Cash Discounts, Dunning, Payment terms, Lockbox Processing and managing Full / Partial / Residual Payment Processing.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data, Acquisitions, Retirements, and Revaluation of Fixed Assets, Customized Depreciation keys for Depreciation Run, Planned, Special, and Unplanned Depreciation, Screen Layouts For Asset Master Data, Asset Sub Ledgers and Asset Depreciation Areas. Defining Transaction Types and Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions and Retirements.
• Involved in Integration of New General Ledger with Controlling for Reconciliation activity through Real Time Integration Variant.
• Configured CO-CCA and maintained it in Standard Hierarchy, Defined Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures needed, Maintained Default Account Assignments and Automatic Account Assignments, Allocations using Cycle-Segment Method for Periodic Reposting, Distribution, and Assessment.
• Configured (CO-PCA) Master Data Setting, Material Master Assignment, setting Control Parameters, Number Range Assignment, maintained Profit Center Derivation Rules for Balance Sheet Accounts. Maintained Standard and Alternate Hierarchies of Profit Centers.
• Maintained Credit Management, Credit Control Areas, Dynamic and Static Check. Representative Groups, Credit Risk Categories. Automatic Credit control, Payment Cards, DSO and Aging analysis.
• Carried out additional Report development & enhancement in existing system using various tools like Report Painter, Report Writer.
• Integration of FI with CO, MM, SD Modules.
• Trained Users in Posting Data and executing various Transactions in GL, and prepared User Documentation for Knowledge Transfer.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 Jul‘12 - Dec‘13

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable: I was involved for creating Vendor/Customer Master Records, Inter Company Vendors/Customers, Vendor/Customer Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, configuring Open Item Processing, preparing the Functional Specifications, Invoice Verifications, Open Item Clearing, Down Payment Made/Received, Configuring Automatic Payment Program, Dunning, Incoming Payments, creating and processing Payment Advices, Lockbox Processing, handling issues with Delivery and Billing Processing.
• In Treasury: my duty was configuring multiple Bank Accounts, Lockbox Processing for Incoming Payments, alternate Bank selections for Payments, assigning Check Lots, defining Void Reason Codes, Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments and IDOCs.
• In Taxes: Defined Withholding Tax Types/Codes for Invoice/Advances Posting, Formulas for Calculating Withholding Tax, Assigned Withholding Tax to Company Code, Activate Withholding Tax and defined Account for W/Tax to be Paid Over. Defined different Federal, States and Cities sales tax in US, Configured Tax Procedures, Tax keys, Input / Output Tax, Configured SAP and Vertex to meet the business needs of the project.
• In CO-CCA: Configured Cost Elements/Cost Centers, Reconciliation Ledgers, Standard Hierarchy, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions and Customized Costing Sheets.
• In CO-PCA: Configured and customized the Basic Settings, Maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, Distribution and Assessment of Costs, Planning and Development of Reports.
• In COPA: Configured the User Defined Characteristics, d Characteristics and User Defined Value Fields, Maintained the characteristics values for the User Defined Characteristics, Characteristics Derivation Rules. Generated Reports using Report Painter.
• In: I was responsible for users in posting data and executing various transactions in GL, and prepared User Documentation for Knowledge Transfer.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 Feb‘11 - June’12

Confidential, SFO

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined and configured Company Codes, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Field Status Groups, Document Types, Document Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Tolerance Groups for Employees.
• Defined Chart of Accounts, Account Groups for GL Accounts, GL Accounts (Master Records), and Tolerance for GL Accounts.
• Configured Automatic Clearing of Open Items, assigned accounts for Clearing Differences in GL and Account Clearing Process, Foreign Currency Valuation Methods, Financial Statement Versions and created Functional Specification for Reports.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Area, Screen Layout for Fixed Assets Master Data, Number Range Intervals for Assets, Specified Depreciation Posting Intervals and Depreciation Posting Rules Asset Classes, Fixed Assets Master, Asset Acquisition with MM Integration, Subsequent Acquisition, Transfer, Retirement (with or without Revenue). Specified Account Determination and Performed Integration of Fixed Assets with GL Accounts.
• Performed configuration for FI / MM and FI / SD Integration.
• In Controlling Areas, I was involved in maintaining Controlling Area, Number Ranges for Controlling Documents, Valuation Clearing Account, and Adjustment Accounts for Reconciliation Postings, maintaining and assigning Currency and Valuation Profile to Controlling Area.
• Involved in (CO-CCA) to Create Cost Elements for activity allocation, Cost Center Categories, Cost Center Groups in Standard Hierarchies, Distribution, Assessment and Statistical Key Figures.
• Involved in CO-PCA, to configure and customize Profit Center Accounting, maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of Costs.
• Trained users in posting data and executing various transactions in GL, and prepared User Documentation for Knowledge Transfer.
• Worked on Report writer/painter in developing and modifying the reports.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 Sep‘09 - Jan’11

Confidential, Peoria, IL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• New General Ledger / Classical GL: Defining Leading ledger, Non-Leading Ledgers and Ledger group for GL Accounting. Integrating GL with Sub-Components, Document splitting, Segmentation, Parallel Accounting, Parallel Currencies and activating New GL. Migrating Data from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of Migration Cockpit.
• General Ledger: Configuring and Customizing G/L Account Master Records, Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Automatic Account Determination, Financial Statement Versions, G/L Display Configuration, Validations and Substitutions.
• Taxes: Configuring Tax Procedures, Tax keys, Sales / Use Tax, Extended withholding Tax Type / Codes / formula.
• Cash and Bank: Configuring and Customizing Cash Journal and other related areas including Cash Management and Funds Management. Customization of Bank, House Bank, Lockbox Processing, Payment Method, Automatic Payment, Check Payments, all other related areas including Treasure Management and Financial Statement Version.
• Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the Cost Elements/Cost Centers, Costing Sheets, Reconciliation Ledgers, Standard Hierarchy, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Assessments and Distributions.
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the Basic Settings, Maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, Distribution and Assessment of Costs, Planning and Development of Reports.
• Product Costing: Configuring Material Cost Estimate with and without Quantity Structure, Maintained Settlement Structures, Configuring Variance Calculations and WIP Calculation, Setting of Activity and Maintaining Planning for Overhead Cost and Integrating COPC with SD, MM and COPA, Cost Variants, Valuation Variants.
• Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing the Operating Concern, Characteristics, Value Fields, Maintaining the Derivation Rules and Structures, Maintaining Derivation Tables, Planning Versions, Planning Layouts, Planning Profiles, Creating Drilldown Reports.
• Worked on integration of FI/CO with MM and SD for Inventory Valuation, Movement Types, Damaged Stocks and functions such as GR and Invoice verification, Order Management, Pricing, delivery and transportation and billing.
• Involved in the Cutover and Go-Live Process.
• Provided technical Support during Go-Live and Production Support after Go-Live.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 Mai‘08 - Aug’09

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured the FI/CO Module in SAP as per the Business Blue Print.
• Defined Company Code, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Number Ranges and General Ledger Accounts for each Company Code, Creating of Open and Close Periods, Field Status Variants, Field Status Groups, and Creation Assignment of Document Numbers for Various Documents.
• Configured the Settings in GL Area, Such as creating GL Master Data, Open Item Clearing, Configured GL Transactions for Business Processes such as Posting, Parking, Reversals and Month End Closings.
• Configured Settings in the Treasury, such as House Banks, Bank ID, Check Lots, Lockbox Processing, Ranking Order, Manual Outgoing/Incoming Payments, Automatic Payment Program, Terms of Payment, Worked on Different Currencies and involved in the Setting of Financial statement version.
• Configuration of Tax Procedures, Tax keys, Sales / Use Tax, Extended withholding Tax.
• Configured Accounts Payable/Receivable Module, Defined Payable/Customer Account Groups, Number Ranges, Field Status and Tolerance Groups, Also Created Payable/Customer Master Data.
• Configured and Customized Regular Vendors/Customer as well as One Time Vendors/Customer Master Records. Customized Cross-Company Code Transaction, created Clearing Accounts for Cross-Company Code Transaction, Configured Automatic Payment Methods for Outgoing Payments and Configured Terms of Payment for Cash Discount and Alternative Payer/Payee.
• Configured Fixed Asset, Defined the Chart of Depreciation, which includes the list of Depreciation Areas. Created different Asset Classes and defined the Screen Layout Rules for the corresponding Asset Classes. Integrated the Asset Management with the Plant Maintenance Module. Defined the LSMW object for uploading Asset Masters.
• Provided production support for critical business issues and to end-users for The Go-Live.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 Jan‘07 - Apr’08

Confidential, Alameda, CA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined and configured Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Field Status Groups, Document Types, Document Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Tolerance Groups for Employees.
• Configured New G/L, Splitting Rule, GL Account Mapping, Document Types, Business Transactions, Special GL Transactions, Parallel Accounting and Parallel Currency setting of valuation and Translation.
• Configured Foreign Currency Valuation Methods for the valuation of Foreign Currency Balances and Open items in foreign currency, Configured Automatic Clearing of Open Items, and assigned Accounts for Clearing Differences in GL Account Clearing Process.
• Configuration of Accounts Receivable/Payable, Created Customer/Vendor Reconciliation Accounts, Vendor/Customer Account Groups with Screen Layout, Customers/Vendors Screen Layout per Activity, Customer/Vendor Master Records, and Number Ranges.
• Configured Withholding Tax Types and Codes, Withholding Tax Formula, Tax Procedures, Tax keys, Input /Output Tax.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Asset Classes, Account Determination, Screen Layout and Allocating Number Ranges to Asset Classes, Fixed Assets Master.
• Involved in the creation of Assets and configuration settings for Asset Acquisitions, Asset Transfers (Intra-Company and Inter-Company) and Asset Retirements (with/without Revenue).
• Configured settings for revaluation of Assets, Normal Depreciation Run, Manual and Unplanned Depreciation. Involved in defining Asset History Sheets.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0