SUMMARY

• Master in Commerce with total 9+ years of experience having over 7+ years of experience in SAP FICO configuration, design and implementation and 2+ years as a Banker.
• 3 End to End implementations in SAP FICO AP, AR, GL and Asset Accounting.
• In - depth knowledge and experience in SAP FI/CO implementation from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live and support projects.
• Implementation project having Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Elements accounting.
• Knowledge on COPA - Profitability Analysis and Product Costing.
• Expert in customization of S/4 HANA and SAP ERP ECC 6.0 versions in FI-CO modules.
• Performed FI testing (FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, FI-GL, New GL, CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-OCA).
• Vast experience in Cash Management and Automatic Payment Program and ACH.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents, test script preparation.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor\'s management, including credit control.
• Have knowledge on Central Finance (CFIN) and standard Vanilla Controlling.
• Strong skills in integration with MM, SD and PP modules.
• Excellent analytical and programming as well as communication and interpersonal skills.
• Competent in client relation management, productive and a good team player.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with the end users, conducted various presentations and provided solutions to meet client specifications.
• Highly involved in GLSU JE upload 6.0 Version upgrade program
• Involved in creating custom TCODE for FBB1 transaction to post foreign currency transaction as per the business need.
• Integration with user and client to understand their requirement and concern over the existing system to identify system improvement points
• Worked closely with finance RTR department regarding JE upload program and provide training materials.
• Carried out additional report development & enhancement in existing system using various tools like Report Painter, RTR and Report Writer.
• Created all function specification document for each development and coordinate with team members.
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users, Define global (group) currency and a local (company) currency, Document Types, Field Status Group, Tolerances, Fiscal Year Variant, Number Ranges.
• Analyzed the existing credit control process of the business process and defined the credit control structure in SAP on Credit Management using FSCM .
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), linking of Vendor documents with EDI, exchange rate differences, interest calculation, Set up House Banks, GL accounts for Bank Accounts, and Bank Recon Accounts, Defined forms of payments.
• Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing, setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, defining lockbox parameters and Posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
• Configured MM-FI Integration and Automatic Account Determination .
• Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting. Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.
• Worked on Regression testing with old and latest version.
• Conduct UAT session with users and walkthrough the new system.
• Provided Post-Go-Live support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment, and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP financials (FI/CO) and SAP Asset Accounting .
• Process re-engineering and change management. Worked on gathering business requirements and responsible for heading up the definition of the client’s business processes, re-engineering said processes and implementing AP in the organization.
• Configuration of Bank accounting, Responsible for creation of house banks and configuring the Payment Program with the related Bank Accounting, Sub Module Transactions in order to outsource payment execution to different Banks.
• Configuration and training of team members to facilitate configuration
• House bank creation including the usage of EDI related fields required for the creation of IDOC (which were the means of transmitting the data to the bank via FTP). Creation and usage of bank chains for both Vendors and House Banks.
• Maintenance and creation of vendor master data including the setting up of tolerance limits for employees. Defining and setting payment blocks
• Assisted the Vendor Master Team with clean-up and validation of bank details for over 100+ vendors paid via wire worldwide.
• Data Conversion for devising and implementing the approach used in loading both AP open items and GL balances into SAP.
• Analysed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• Set-up assets based upon requests received. Issue and track number logs.
• Run Asset Creation Process and investigate and clean-up items as appropriate.
• Process asset transfers and disposals . Maintain assets in the system to ensure integrity of data and codes. Run monthly depreciation on all assets.
• Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support . This includes interfacing with the Accounts Payable and Purchasing departments to implement temporary business processes to manage the transfer of unconverted legacy data into SAP.
• Conducted Post-Go Live support integrated workshops for the Accounts Payable department to educate on the integrated aspects of the two modules which included GR/IR maintenance, Blocking Codes and Framework Order Management .

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducting and Coordinating Business Blue print workshops for understanding client requirements.
• Understanding the business scenario and generate issue log to track issues in the following areas -
• Preparation of business blue print deliveries. The task involved identification of data conversions required, interfaces needed.
• Collaborative work with the key users in the documentation of “As-is process”.
• Performed data validation and account determination for mapping of the processes on to the S/4 HANA system.
• Gap analysis with realization of open issues and design of best fit functionalities.
• Educating the client on FI and CO Master and transaction data information with Intercompany processing details.
• Testing of full order to cash and procure to pay process. Have good experience in writing functional specification for generating new reports to ABAP programmers .
• Successful Implementation of FI (GL, AR, AP) and CO settings on the development server and ultimate transportation on to the testing and production servers.
• Configured ERP structure and Financial Accounting global settings: key settings being company code, Business area, fiscal year variants, field status variant, open and close posting periods, document types and document number ranges and validations.
• Implementation and maintenance of FI-AR, FI-AP master data of customers and vendors with open item processing.
• Configuration of Bank accounting, Asset accounting, Cost and Profit Center accounting .
• Responsible for the design, configuration and implementation of all CO sub-modules like Profitability Analysis, Product Costing .
• Prepared, documented and maintained all documentation and processes for end users.
• Conversion of year dependent periods to normal calendar month periods. Involved in Period end and Year end closing activities . Assist in month-end closing process . Work with various departments to identify assets to be capitalized, retired or have their lives accelerated or decelerated. Perform depreciation function on a monthly basis. Responsible for maintaining the SAP project system for Capital Projects. Prepares the Roll forward for Asset retirement obligations.
• Coordinate with various departments to determine monthly Capital and Depreciation accruals . Perform General Ledger Expense analysis, provided support for various departments as necessary (i.e.: Running queries, reports, research, etc.).
• Prepare monthly & quarterly general ledger account reconciliations. Prepare schedules and provide support to our external auditors.
• Preparation of LSMW data upload templates, testing and performing data upload. GL balances both cumulative and line item balances including vendor, customer and asset master data were loaded via LSMW technique.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP, AR, G/L, Treasury - Liquidity Forecast & Cash Management, Disputes, Collections, Month End Closing, Special G/L & ERS. Reported weekly on support ticket numbers and solution turnover time
• Defined Costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation).
• Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Created Internal Orders for different order types, Planning profile, Settlement Profile, Settlement Rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.
• Worked on Bank statements, liquidity and cash management in SAP FSCM .
• Analysed the assignment of Cost Centers in FSCM for Automatic Write off Dispute cases.
• Worked on Activity type planning, Budgeting, planning statically key figures, Cost Element planning, plan distribution, Internal Activity planning, plan assessment, activity input planning, indirect activity allocation and plan reconciliation.
• Helped in configuring necessary changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts including modification of COPA user exits, and creation of new field status groups.
• Designed and developed contribution margin reports in CO-PA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Report Writer .
• Used FSCM to employ tools to analyze credit worthiness and establish policies . Enabled customer access to invoices, account status and payment information over the internet.
• Configured Standard Cost estimates in Cost object controlling for the orders with Quantity Structure and Configure for WIP Calculations and variance calculations, maintained settlement.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management, Planning levels in Treasury and EDI & Month End Closings .
• Provided support for Configuration, Implementation and Testing of the customer master records and incoming payments, Banking & Intercompany transactions.
• Provided End -User training and prepared Documentation for the end-users.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling day to day issues
• Handling Incidents and Service request raised by users
• Defined parameters for Company, Company Code, Business Area, Functional Area, and Credit Control Area.
• Defined Fiscal Year Variants and assigned Fiscal Year Variants to various Company Codes.
• Made initial settings for: Customer/Vendor Master Records, display and processing of Line Items of Documents, Correspondence, displaying Account Balances, Interest Calculation and Posting, Credit Management and Closing Operations.
• Defined Automatic Procedures such as Payment Program and Dunning Program.
• Customized Accounting Transactions for GL Posting, AR/AP Posting and Recurring Entries.
• Provided configuration support in MM Integration for Account Determination, Material Movement Setup.
• Defined Organizational Structures required for Fixed Assets. Defined Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas and Depreciation Keys. Defined required Period Control Methods and Special Valuations. Configured for Low Value Fixed Assets. Uploading of Legacy Data, Reconciliation of Net Value of Assets with Legacy Data.
• Created Reports as per the requirements of the Customer.
• Performed Period End Operations including Depreciation Run and Posting to General Ledger.
• Defined Distribution and Assessment Cycles for Departmental Allocations and Defined Planning Profiles.
• Finding root causes for issues raises and fixing it using RFC and changes
• Creating changes in Solution manager and working on the change until moved to production.
• Performing unit testing on changes and handling it to UAT.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to deal with investments and new accounts every day.
• Managed branch operations and day to day activities like handling of vault operations.
• Guiding new employees in defining the work environment.
• Having experience on working in Fixed Deposit Department.
• Extensively involved in month end / quarter end closing activities as per the Reserve Bank of India guidelines.
• Report preparations as per the requirement.