SUMMARY:

• Dedicated and detailed oriented SAP FICO Consultant with 9 years of experience in configuring, customizing, implementing, end user training and production support of SAP FICO ERP Application.
• Participated in 2 full implementation cycle with experience in different phases from requirement gathering, GAP Analysis, preparing business blue print, configuration, unit testing and solution delivery.
• Sound Knowledge in configuration and customization of FI (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable & Asset accounting) And Controlling Modules. Knowledge and exposure of SAP ABAP and SAP S4 HANA.
• Extensive experience on SAP Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO) and their sub modules (FI - G/L, A/P, A/R, AA; CO-OM, CO-PA) and SAP FICO Entity Structure
• Extensive experience with integration of FI/CO modules with MM, SD, Procure to Pay and Order to cash Processes.
• New General Ledger / Classical GL: Activation of New GL Accounting, define ledger for GL Accounting, Integrating the GL with subcomponents, Document splitting, Segmentation and Parallel Accounting, Controlling Component Transfer postings, Integration with Asset accounting.
• Hands on experience in Special GL transactions and VIM (Vendor Invoice Management).
• Proficient in Month End and Year End Activities and Internal Orders.
• Experience in Product costing and profitability Analysis.
• Hands on Experience in writing Functional Specifications.
• Knowledge in integration to SWIFT and banks.
• Proficient in following Change Management process and understanding of different types of changes and extensive experience working with Release Management.
• Product Costing - Estimation of product costs in integration with PP and MM modules, WIP calculation and variance settlement.
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes.
• Prepared interactive dashboards using Tableau tool.
• Conducted workshops with the users to train them on creating the master data like GL's, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Orders, WBS's etc.
• Knowledge in US GAAP and IFRS.
• Strong experience in ASAP methodology, creating BRD’s, configuration documents and test scripts.
• Interacted with BI team relating to data extracts used in various activities.
• Good understanding of Databases and knowledge in SQL.
• Capable of understanding ABAP Code and work with development teams effectively to translate the functional requirements.
• Excellent communication skills that help me quickly grasp business requirements and translate them to functional specifications.
• Knowledge of Treasury and cash Management.

SKILLS:

ERP Package: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP ECC 5.0

SAP FICO Sub Components: G/L, AP, AR, BA, AA, CO - CCA, PCA

Methodology: ASAP, Agile, SDLC

Applications/Tools: VIM OpenText, Remedy, Spira, Jira, Radar, Solution Manager, MS Office, Service Now (Snow), Vertex

OTHER SKILLS:

Requirement gathering

GAP Analysis

Effective Documentation

Strong Analytical Skills

Financial Analysis

GAAP knowledge

Microsoft Office tools

SQL

Cost Accounting

Financial Reporting

Investment and Fund Management

Power BI tool

Tableau

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Remedy

Area of work: G/L, AP, AR, AA, RICEFW, Taxes, Procure to Pay, Order to cash, CO- CCA

Responsibilities:

• Providing immediate solutions to the queries and problems by users in FI/CO module, suggesting configuration changes and required corrections as and when required.
• Handle day to day queries/ issues related to FICO modules: GL, AP, AR and AA
• Worked on Procure to pay and Order to Cash Processes
• Configured, implemented and tested New GL functionalities, Document Splitting and Dunning Configuration.
• Configured Asset classes, Chart of Depreciation, depreciation keys and depreciation areas .
• Worked on Fixed Assets Support issues like depreciation posting issues, asset history sheet, retirements.
• Involved in end to end invoice processing from scanning, invoice approval routing and invoice posting.
• Interacted with Client to understand Asset Management configuration and user requirements.
• Configured the system to post the Acquisitions and Scrapping.
• Configured the system for posting Internal Orders like Overheads, Investment Orders and Order for revenues. Real orders, statistical orders.
• Worked on postings made for the asset (acquisitions, retirements, depreciation) to the Company code and business area.
• Configured Inter Company Asset Transfer fields and transaction type.
• Provide Production Support as per SLA’s.
• Attending for weekly status calls on ticket/issues.
• Coordinating with technical consultants for modifications in outputs.
• Worked on Z reports for client specific business process and bug fixes.
• Participated in Testing before release of the latest upgrade in Test, Development and in Quality Environments.
• Assisting the end users in Month End Closing, quarter end closing and year end closing Transactions
• Prepared interactive dashboards for customer vendor data, geographical orders using tableau.
• Updating remedy tool on regular basis with the status of issues/tickets
• Responsible for handling integration issues with other modules like MM and SD.
• Co-ordinated with users for UAT / Integration testing & issue resolution. Provided training to the core users.
• Worked with Technical ABAP team in explaining the requirement and coordinating with them to get development moving.
• Worked on change requests, and coordinating the production validations with the users.
• Worked on the documentation of the Changes and Change Management process.
• Work with the development team to convert the requirements into working objects, test them, document and work with business on UATs
• Involved in end to end invoice processing from scanning, invoice approval routing and invoice posting by helping business with any issues encountered during this process.
• Involved in AS-IS, TO-BE meetings. Create Visio flow chart for the TO-BE design.
• Working on Fixed Assets Support issues like depreciation posting issues, asset history sheet, retirements, specs for custom reports etc., generated reports using Report Painter.
• Responsibilities include preparing the functional specs to testing these interfaces end-end, understand the interface issues and documenting the results and working with users in their UAT testing.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Remedy

Area of work: G/L, AP, AR, AA, CO-CCA, CO- PCA

Responsibilities:

• Design, Configure, implement and support SAP business solutions for FI modules like General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable and Asset Accounting.
• Configured Enterprise structure and company codes.
• Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted business requirement documentation.
• Integration of FI module with SD and MM.
• Provide support in configuration and enhancements in the areas of account determination, field status groups, order types, documents types, cost elements and reports.
• Perform Unit testing, Integration testing and UAT testing and Prepare Unit Test scripts, Integration Test scripts, and training end users.
• Defined Chart of accounts, Account groups and GL Accounts, Fiscal Year variants, Field status variants and Groups and screen variants for document entry.
• Defined and configured special purpose ledger. Worked on Internal Orders and New GL accounting and Account Reconciliation.
• Configured payment terms for vendors, maintain vendor master records , run automatic payment programs and create payment orders as per client requirement.
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, asset classes, number ranges for Asset Accounting Sub module of FI module.
• Uploaded primary and secondary cost elements, Cost center hierarchy, Cost Centers.
• Integration of FI module with SD and MM.
• Created Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), Use Cases and Tractability matrix.

Confidential

SAP FICO Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Remedy

Area of work: G/L, AP, AR, AA, BA

Responsibilities:

• Providing Support to business on-going daily operations like, acknowledging the issues based on the SLA and Business requirement
• Resolving end user queries as per SLA
• Assisting the end users in Month End Closing, quarter end closing and year end closing Transactions
• Working on Product Costing and profitability Analysis, Profit and Cost centers.
• Resolving issues relating to FI-GL, AP and AR
• Interact with Client and Project manager to understand the requirements and working on the same
• Update all necessary documentation for any changes made to the application
• Updating remedy tool on regular basis with the status of issues/tickets
• Managing and co-ordinate the testing activities with clients
• Preparing configuration documents for new configuration requirements.
• Building and maintaining relationships with clients and key personnel of corporate clients.
• Research securities of target industries and companies to provide investment recommendations.
• Maintain up-to-date technical knowledge of financial instruments, market conditions, and trends.
• Advise Clients for investments in various Financial instruments like Equity, Derivatives, Mutual Funds, Insurance, Fixed Income Securities.
• Evaluate investment portfolio of clients and recommended investment options.