PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seven plus years of experience as SAP FICO Functional consultant in implementing SAP Finance Solutions in various industries like Automotive, Real Estate, Electronics, Manufacturing and Retail.
• Involved in migration from ECC6.0 to S4 HANA and participated in various testing and discussions with related to migration.
• Successfully completed 3 SAP full life cycle implementations in SAP FICO module.
• Also have worked on upgrade , global rollout and support projects.
• Strong production support experience in onsite and offshore support delivery model.
• Currently serving as a SPOC for onsite production support .
• Responsible for Root cause analysis, after action reviews, post implementation reviews and address the outcome.
• Review the KPI’s and the SLA’s for both ticket and non - ticket based activities.
• Handled and supported several Year-end and Period-end closing activities and worked closely with key user and end users in executing their tasks and reporting.
• Worked with VIM for Invoice scanning, OCR search and post MIRO for PO’s in SAP.
• Hands on setting up Bank statements, DME for payments, interfaces, batch jobs, bank reconciliation and more.
• Set up account determination for automatic posting of transactions from MM using several account keys, familiar with freight shipment, shipment cost documents , CASS accrual postings.
• Set up interfaces for legal declaration of Confidential spares and parts that goes to assembly line, through FTZ cockpit.
• Successfully demonstrated in helping SAP FI, P2P, OTC, R2R, CO, SD, MM, PP, TR, PS, CRM end-users on various Expertise and ability to lead and work with cross-functional teams.
• Incident and Problem identification, resolution and Co-ordination with offshore team for providing solutions. Understanding on multiple modules and capability to do configuration, gap analysis and proof of concepts of various requirements
• Worked on developing test scripts for various business scenarios for Unit testing , Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing using Solution Manager and HP ALM.
• Conducted extensive session for business users. Prepared documentation and user manuals .
• Excellent communication skills, highly organized, work-devoted and a good team player.

SAP EXPERTISE:

SAP Financials: Proficient in ECC and S/4 HANA Org Structure, New GL, Classic GL, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Account Payable FI-AP, Asset Management FI-AA, JVA, Special Ledgers, Integration with other modules and EC-CS (Enterprise Consolidation) for internal and external reporting, DART and Archiving.

SAP Controlling: CO expertise in Cost Centre Accounting CO-CCA, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Profit Centre Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders IO, Project Systems, Activity Types, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Variances, and Other CO Elements.

Cash Management: House Banks, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios.

SAP Technical: Integration of various SAP applications like SD and MM with FI/CO. Worked on multiple function modules, LSMW, BDC, CATT, Report writers, Report Painter. Developed technical specifications for interfaces, custom developments and enhancements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS BY APPLICATION:

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 version ECC 6.0 & S4 HANA for Finance

SAP Modules: FICO Integration with MM, SD, Migration to Simple Finance

Microsoft Tools: MS - Excel, word, Access, Power Point

SAP Tools: LSMW, BDC, IDOCS, RICEFW Objects

Operating Systems: Windows/XP/Vista

WORK PROFILE:

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

SAP Version: ECC/S4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Part of development team and working on critical development using function modules and complex logics.
• I worked on developing the Z program which will update the material standard/moving average price automatically as and when user upload the file with appropriate price list.
• Provided functional logic from FICO, coordinated with developer, performed FUT and coordinated UAT with end user and made sure the development changes deployed to production successfully.
• Currently working on developing a Z report for asset master data creation and asset retirement as a part of asset reengineering project which is suggested by audit team.
• Currently working on business AS-IS and TO-BE documents and identifying the required steps in order to execute the complete asset reengineering smoothly.
• Coordinating with offshore team and actively communicating with them in order to get the expected deliverable on time.

Confidential, IL

SAP FICO Consultant

SAP Version: ECC/S4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting Finance migration with respect to business requirements gathering, data mapping, fixed assets migration, open items migration, master data set up.
• Involved in migration from ECC6.0 to S4 HANA and participated in various testing and discussions with related to migration to S4 HANA.
• Set up parallel currencies, valuation area for forex revaluation. Upload forex rate via spreadsheet to TCURR table.
• Set up Lockbox partner profile, lockbox ID and batch job.
• Set up intermediary banks for manual wife transfer payment method W via FIBPS for vendor and house banks.
• Clean up of bank routing information, validating SWIFT codes and ensuring the bank addresses due to several bank mergers and cleansing initial data load. Familiar with tables T012K, T012K, FEBA.
• Configured House Banks , Payment Programs , Automatic Payment Methods , and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments. Checks Management through assigning number ranges for Check Lots , Checks Printing and defining void Reason Codes .
• Set up payment medium exchange/format for several payment methods, mapping external transaction types to internal transactions, posting rules, mapping accounts, AL11 directories, batch jobs.
• Worked with VIM for Invoice scanning, OCR search and post MIRO for PO’s in SAP.
• Configured Assessment and distribution cycles to allocate indirect costs to various cost center.
• Creation of LSMW and Data migration of Master Records like Vendors, Customers, Cost Centre, Profit Centre, and Internal Orders.
• Generate profit center reports from GLPCA, GLPCT tables for external auditing with KPMG.
• Set up month end closing activities for generating PCA balance sheet.
• Mass Assignments of Profit centers to Company Code. Default account assignments for Cost Elements.
• Define dunning procedures, dunning forms, dunning levels.
• Maintain derivation strategies for different reporting requirements and update the COPA transfer structure for proper reporting of P/L lines.
• Supported the SLAN Nakisa implementation, interface and FI flow and validation in SAP for IFRS15
• Supported the implementation of Customer pick up allowance moving to revenues as part of IFRS16 revenue recognition.
• Designed interfaces between Concur and FI via ALE for FI postings.
• Researched for unsettled costs and fixed the settlement rules, sender and receiver definitions.
• Support PEC activities for COPA interfaces, Top Down distributions and COPA Master Data maintenance.

Confidential, Rhode Island

SAP FICO Consultant

SAP Version: ECC/S4 HANA

Responsibilities:

• Carried out all the baseline configurations in CO area after obtaining a sign off from the business.
• Configured operating concern and maintained CO versions
• Maintained Master Data and structures for Cost Center Accounting.
• Configured cost centers, standard hierarchy, activity types, assessments, and distributions.
• Configured costing-based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured CO-PA planning including planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC
• Defined origin groups, overhead keys, overhead groups and cost component structure.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Over head (percentage based over head calculation).
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure—with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on and simulation costing and adhoc cost estimate.
• Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Configured production order as a cost object to collect actual costs, plan costs and determine WIP at the end of every period, variance calculation after the order technically completed.
• Customized Period end closing functions including overhead costing, interest calculation and result analysis and settlement procedures.
• Defined variance keys, valuation variants for WIP and scrap, target cost versions for variance calculation and result analysis keys, result analysis version, valuation methods, line ids and assignment for work in process (WIP) .
• Involved extensively in Unit testing (UT) and User acceptance testing (UAT) right from processing to solving of issues during the post implementation support.
• Providing business application support (Postproduction support) in the areas of Product Costing and Profitability analysis

Confidential, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

SAP Version: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business users in collecting the requirements and perform GAP analysis.
• Responsibilities include configuration of GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivables, Asset Management, Treasury, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre accounting and Internal Orders.
• Configuring Enterprise Structure Elements Chart of Accounts, leading ledgers, Variant configuration and define Financial Statement Versions for different reporting purposes.
• In the Accounts Payable module, defined and configuring vendor account groups, maintained terms of payments, reason codes, open item management in vendor accounts, tax account for incoming invoices and intercompany clearing.
• Manual and Automatic Payment Program with payment advice and payment analysis printing and clearing of vendor open items.
• Configured exchange rate types, default account assignments for foreign currency valuation and Configured Tax Interfaces like Vertex to meet indirect taxations in USA.
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, account determinations, number ranges, screen layouts, depreciation keys, calculation keys and period controls.
• Define transaction types for acquisition retirement and transfer of assets.
• Involved in design and customisation of Cost Centre accounting and Internal Order in order to configure Asset under Constructions and its settlements.
• Set up Cost centre and Profit Centre hierarchies and set up default profit centre assignments for PCA balance sheet reporting
• Prepared test scripts for different scenarios in Asset Accounting and Accounts Payable integrated with MM and Performed Unit testing, integration testing and UAT Testing.
• Involved in Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy data of Vendors and assets masters and the future depreciations of the assets.
• Involved in migration of GL master data, Vendor master data and Asset master data from legacy system.
• Set up statistical and real internal orders for cost allocation via secondary cost elements.
• Worked on the defect resolution created by the cross functional module as Sales and Distribution, Material Master Team and Product Costing team.
• Worked on FI-SD automatic account determination to accurately capture the accounting requirement during Billing and PGI.
• Participated in Go-Live and initial support after go-live.
• Conducted in class and online for SMEs and users

Confidential, VA

SAP FICO Consultant

SAP Version: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured company codes, fiscal year variant , posting periods, document number ranges, document types, posting keys, field status variants and financial statement versions.
• Set up New GL functionality to split FI Document by different dimensions.
• Configured account groups, field status, number ranges and terms of payment in AP &AR.
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data.
• Configuration of house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment
• Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, GIRO Payments.
• Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable check printing, periodic Sales and Use tax reporting, and related month end financial reports.
• Set up of Dunning Procedures, Dunning Levels and successfully tested and trained Users on Dunning Run and printing of dunning notices.
• Set up Deductions Management to track the entire chain of Inter-related documents in AR Part Payments.
• Responsible for covering Logistics Invoice Verification, GR/IR Account Clearing, issuing invoices and credit memo, Billing processing and purchase order issues, reporting on vendor, payment proposal.
• Created Change Requests / Resolved the Defects and tracking them until they are closed.
• Written functional specs for Payment Advices, Tax Invoices, Aging Reports, Dunning forms, Payment forms and others.
• Set up Forex rate transfer from Spreadsheet.
• Creating Data Migration Templates, Structuring and cleansing and Migration of Master Data and Transaction Data

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

SAP Version: 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business to outline conversion strategy from legacy system to SAP for a newly acquired business unit.
• Performed initial analysis of various legacy system fields and developed mapping rule related to the current production SAP system.
• Researched extensively on WBS settlements set up, rules and definition for unallocated costs
• Reached out to the cost center owners during the month end for addressing the settlement issues and clear the balances to next month.
• Performed GAP analysis to identify new business process related to the newly acquired business unit and mapped to the existing business processes.
• Developed LSMW tools for Migration of Vendor Master, Customer Master, and Asset Master Data .
• Implemented major functionalities like Electronic/Manual Bank Statements , Payments, and Electronic/Manual Check deposit.
• Configuration of the Internal Order module to support capital procurement process involving planning, budgeting, approvals, settlements, status management, reporting, in integration with investment management.
• Worked on design and development of custom objects for GL Balance Migration and Open Item Conversion.
• Involved in the customization of dunning program including creation of the dunning proposals and editing the dunning proposals.
• Worked on design and configuration of US sales/use tax solutions using Vertex.
• Defined Financial Statement Version for the Balance Sheet report run.
• Developed various Report Writer and Report Painter Report .
• Involved in transfer of Fixed Assets in Asset Accounting (FI-AA) . Configured the system for No depreciation for a period in Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
• Worked on Month end and Year-end closing for all FI and CO postings.
• Developed Testing Scenario and Testing Strategy to Validate GL Account and Open Item Balances.
• Assisted the business user to perform the cutover task and help in validating the data.
• Provided post-production support and after go-live .