OBJECTIVES:

• Seeking a challenging and rewarding career in SAP FICO consultant to achieve both personal and company’s growth.

SUMMARY

• An astute professional with 12 years of extensive finance experience with big five consulting companies out of which 9 years in SAP FI/CO environment.
• Completed one full lifecycle implementations in SAP R/3 system, participated in all phases following ASAP Methodology, Project Preparation, Business Blue - Printing, Realization (including Test planning, Test case design and execution), Final Preparation and Go-Live & Support.
• In-depth understanding of ASAP methodology, system design and development and gathering user requirements
• Expert in the areas of Automatic Payment Run (APP), Manual Payment, Bank accounting, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Account Payable (AP), Account Receivable (AR), General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA).
• Experienced in Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Project Systems (PS), Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Experienced in Requirement Analysis, Design, creating Functional Specifications Documents, Technical Design Documents, Development, and Implementation.
• Possess knowledge on New G/L - Document splitting, Parallel Accounting, ledger configuration, periodic processing and Segment Reporting.
• Experienced on creation of custom Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Form, workflow (RICEFW).
• Hands on experience on Lockbox, Automatic payment batch jobs.
• Expert in the areas of dunning configuration, testing and development.
• Good knowledge in FI-SD integration, end to end process of OTC and FI-MM integration, end to end process of P2P.
• Expert in the areas of customer statement configuration and development
• Experienced in LSMW, Validation, substitution and Report painter etc.
• Possess strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experienced in monitoring all the automatic payment programs for the auto debit customer APP jobs.
• Monitored APP vendor payments.
• Good understanding of ITIL 3.0 framework and Agile Project Management Methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas TX

SAP FI-Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in configuration and usage of automatic payment program configuration of House Bank and payment methods at country level, ranking order and accounts amounts, levels, creation of checks lots, payment terms, creating payments for customer and vendor.
• Worked on chart of accounts, Accounts receivables, Accounts payable configuration.
• Monitored APP for Vendor payments
• Managed all the end user issues.
• Supported the business in their use of the FI, module. Resolved issues relating to configuration problems.
• Configured lockbox and processed lockbox file and worked on post processing.
• Defined Account Symbols, posting rules created and assigned business transactions for manual and electronic bank statements.
• FI AR, configured, Dunning, generated dunning notice to the customers with periodically.
• Worked on custom reports for Customer ageing analysis report.
• Monitored all the automatic payment programs for the auto debit customer APP jobs
• Worked on Customer Correspondence Statement.
• Analyzed FICO related incident tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in accordance with agreed upon SLAs.

Confidential, Dallas TX

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Full Life Cycle Implementation phases, including defining the business requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications, configuration and testing.
• Unit and Integration testing of configurations carried out and provided active support to enable smooth User Acceptance testing.
• Conducted training and knowledge transfer to the end users by providing them with documentation.
• Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load material master, vendor master, customer master, vendor and customer open account receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC
• Configured Account Payable - Vendor Master Data, Account Groups, Outgoing Payment, Payment Terms, Vendor open items.
• Configured Account Receivable - Customer Master Data, Account Groups, Incoming Payment, Payment Terms, And Customer Open Items.
• Configured House Bank, Bank Accounts, Lock Box processing and Automatic Payment Program.
• Kept close communication with ABAP development team.
• Participated in standup meeting for testing status.
• Worked on ALM for bug tracking tool.

Confidential, Houston TX

SAP FI Functional Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Configured Automatic payment program - As a part of configuration, worked in setting up paying/sending company code, creating country and company code relevant payment methods and Bank determination.
• Worked on chart of accounts, Accounts receivables, Accounts payable configuration.
• Worked on change requests related to GL, AR, AP, and Bank accounting.
• Worked on cash application process, Lockbox and post processing.
• Worked on Dunning configuration, prepared end to end testing and updated dunning procedure in customer master data via Mass changes.
• Team member of the team responsible for supporting Monthly period closing activities.
• Take lead and ownership gather requirements from the clients. Developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.