SUMMARY

• SAP certified FICO consultant with 11 years of diligent experience in implementing, configuring, and customizing SAP FI/CO with multiple full life cycle implementations, analysis & production support.
• Extensively involved in studying and analyzing business process, understanding the As - Is process and modeling the To-Be process.
• Expertise in all implementation phases that includes vision and planning, design, Blue Print, Build and Data Migration.
• Financial Accounting expertise includes General Ledger (GL), Account Receivable (AR), Account Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), and Special Purpose Ledger (SPL) .
• Controlling expertise in Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Order (IO), Product costing (CO-PC), and Profitability Analysis (PA),
• Configured Automatic Payment programs for outgoing payments in AP. Setting up the Dunning program including dunning areas, dunning level and dunning charges.
• Good working knowledge of SAP PS and created project templates for professional services.
• Coordinated in Integration with SAP modules like FI, MM, and SD, performed Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Procure-to-Pay (PTP).
• Worked on creating standard and customized reports using Report Writer and Report Painter with the reference of RICEF.
• Conversant with LSMW, IDOCs and EDI with the capability to interact with ABAP developers for development specifications.
• Data from the legacy systems using SAP are migrated using Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance Testing, End User Training, Cut-Over, Deliver, Go-Live and Post Go-Live.
• Strong Communication and interpersonal skills in SDLC environment for business application and product development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Accounting: General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting Special Purpose Ledger, New General Ledger

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability AnalysisProduct Costing, Internal Orders

Treasury: Lock-Box, Cash Journal, manual check deposit, and the payment program

Integration: FICO integration with MM, SD, PS

O/S and Platforms: Windows 98/2000/XP Windows 7, Windows 10 & UNIX

Reporting: Report Painter, Report Writer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO LEAD & SME

Responsibilities:

• FICO lead and SME helping the business to configure, maintain and support new initiatives in two productive SAP landscapes operating business in 60+ countries.
• Configured multiple company codes across the globe and assisted the business in setting up the associated consolidation units in EC-CS
• Configured Account groups, Posting Period Variants, Automatic account determination, sales/use tax assignment, and document number ranges, document types, tolerance groups, Account assignment model, closing procedure, and Sets. Maintained fiscal year variants, Configured cross company automatic postings.
• Define document types for posting enjoy transactions in NEW GL. In document splitting classified GL accounts, document types for document splitting, document splitting characteristics for GL and controlling and activated document splitting. Define rules for document splitting. Create Tax accounts and made assignments for sales/purchase tax. Involved in migration of legacy system.
• Supported end users in analyzing and fixing the ZOption (GLSU excel add-in) JL postings.
• Developed GR55 Balance sheet, Income statement & FX currency exposure reports for monthly reporting.
• Configured vendor groups, house banks, Bank Customer Accounts, check lots, reason codes, Automatic payment Program, Payment using electronic payment advice and clearing of open items, invoices, Outgoing Payments, integration with MM.
• Responsible for migration of Vendor master data including clean up in 2 legacy systems and classifying into different account groups like Trade, No PO, Government, Contract, Inter-company, Freight and Employee.
• Created Vendor payment terms, Installment payment terms, defined accounts for cash discount taken, payment block reasons and default values for payment block. Configured GL accounts for Vendor down payment process.
• Worked on Standard Invoice Verification Process upon Goods Receipt, duplicate invoice checking rules, Credit Memos managed to a GR/IR Clearing Account, Vendor Consignment Processes and subsequent settlement of liabilities to Vendor Account.
• Streamlined GRIR clearing process and scheduled weekly jobs to send output to AP users.
• Worked with ABAP team to develop reports and provide daily Goods receipt reports for consignment vendors. Monitored the settlement process jobs for auto invoicing.
• Involved in the discussion, implementation and production support of Brazil automatic payment program set up for Boleto vendors, TED and DOC payments with JP Morgan Brazil bank in CNAB 240 format.
• Configured DMEE, and provided post go-live support for SEPA implementation in Finland region.
• Define Electronic Bank Statement. Configure Electronic Bank Statement, created search strings for check mapping, assignment of external business transactions to various movement types and GL accounts and funds movement within House Banks of different companies. Importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, conversion programs, post processing of bank statements and electronic check deposit.
• Configured DMEE payments for US and EMEA region for 12 countries.
• Configured F110 set up for ACH, check & wire payment methods. Provided FS for check form, configured check printer to adjust new signature plates and worked with BOA in auto transfer of positive pay and ACH files through BizTalk for US company codes.
• Configure Electronic Bank Statement, created search strings for check mapping, assignment of external business transactions to various movement types and GL accounts and funds movement within House Banks of different companies. Importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, conversion programs, post processing of bank statements and electronic check deposit.
• Monitored weekly jobs for employee travel expense reports coming through GERS(IBM Global Expense Reporting System) and supported the business in identifying, analyzing and fixing the issues.
• Worked with Business in implementation of CONCUR Travel expense system.
• Worked with Business on the employee vendor master set up for Concur travel expense postings and employee Out-of-Pocket payments, identified the error reports on weekly basis and closed the expense items for AP entries.
• Accounts Receivable: Configured Accounts Receivable and credit management modules. Maintained terms of payment for customers, Created Credit Control Areas, accounting clerk and credit rep groups.
• Worked with ABAP team in developing Z reports for mass updates to customers. Customized forms for dunning balance list and confirmation of balances for period closing. Grouping the company’s vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Worked with ABAP team in modifying the smart forms for Remit to info on customer invoices based on sales org/account currency maintained in customer master.
• Configured new account groups, number ranges and maintained authorization checks for Government customers.
• Worked on separate lockbox configuration, House banks and cash flow process for Government and regular check, electronic payments.
• Monitored incoming ACH, Lockbox and check payments, processing in SAP and designed a program to saving PDF copies of postings for Audit purpose.
• Lockbox configuration and setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, testing the lockbox functionality, treasury groupings, electronic bank statement processing.
• Supported the business in monthly exchange rate load and configured foreign currency revaluation functionality.
• Developed currency exposure reports for CFO reporting using Report painter/Report Writer.
• Configured Asset classes, depreciation keys, account assignment in cost accounting, number ranges, and integration with GL, acquisitions, retirements, transfer of Assets and Asset data transfer.
• Worked with KPMG in asset revaluation project and configured new transaction keys for step-up, step-down and post capitalization transactions.
• Proposed new solution for tax depreciation postings. Supported the business in Monthly depreciation runs. Worked on post go live issues for legacy assets brought into SAP.
• Trained end users in month-end, year-end activities, running fiscal year change and generating Asset reports.
• Configured tax procedures, created new condition types, new tax codes for countries and maintained tax percentages for existing tax codes.
• Supported multiple US entities using Vertex and configured tax jurisdiction codes for US entities on Second ERP system, which was not using Vertex.
• Configured withholding tax types and tax codes at invoice posting and payment posting for Brazil, Argentina and India.
• Worked with ABAP team to design, test and generate Inward and Outward GST reports for tax filing.
• Configured planning and actual versions into future years, supported business in identifying cost center related issues and running cost center reports for FI and PS users.
• Configured the settings for new plants that used discrete manufacturing and enabled calculation of standard cost for valuation of manufactured products.
• Facilitated the cost center planning process to calculate activity prices of various operations. Mapped the cost component layout for calculation of direct and indirect costs for product costing purposes and created overhead cost sheet with relevant overhead groups to absorb overheads.
• Worked on the integration touch points of product costing with production planning (PP-PI) using a process setup that included routings, bill of materials (BOM) and resources.
• Configured the settlement rules for settlement of variances. Involved in CO-PC period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance calculations, Settlements of production orders, Cost estimate updates, Costing run, mark and, release for updating the price in material master record, Defined Cost Component layout.
• Defined Accounting and Costing views in Material Master, Ensured linkages of Plant/ Work center / Cost center/BOM/Routings, Tested the system for interfaces with MM, SD and PS.
• Monitored monthly cost rolls and identified the costing issues for price updates on specific materials.
• Set up Material ledger costing runs at the end of month.
• Configured sales order costing for variable configuration materials. Captured Sales order cost estimates in COPA for profitability segment reporting
• Created new characteristics in characteristics for reporting.
• Involved in Annual sales hierarch re-sync and worked on updating COPA records through re-alignment, identify and fix issues arising through revenue-recognition after sales resync.
• Performed BW-COPA report tie-out and informed FI users for Management reporting.
• Supported business with day-to-day project related activities, Month-end, quarter-end and year-end activities.
• Supported two month-end schedules (5-4-4) and K4 for Brazil every month.
• Responsible for coordinating and overseeing the execution of implementations in various test, staging and production environments.
• Responsible for getting management and business approval on all changes going into production environment

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Accounts Receivable and credit management modules. Maintained terms of payment for customers, Created reconciliation accounts for down payment, Created Credit Control Areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers. Grouping the company’s vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Maintained terms of payment for vendors, defined terms of payment for installment payments, defined cash discount base for incoming invoices. Worked on Automatic payment program and configured bank accounting.
• Involved in asset management configuration including creation of Chart of depreciation, and assignment to the organizational unit. Define asset classes, relevant G/L reconciliation accounts, depreciation keys,
• Define Depreciation postings and calculate the depreciation for assets. Transfer the legacy system master data using BDC. Calculating the depreciation and evaluating the transferred assets. Maintaining multi-level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes.
• Determined various reporting needs of the Asset Accounting and created BPPs for standard SAP reports.
• Asset Master Creation, chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers without revenue, retirement with sale and disposal of asset.
• Uploaded, tested and reconciled the assets in SAP with the legacy system.
• Tested client specific interfaces, including month end, and year-end closing process.
• Testing and review of the programs for the upload of the master and transaction data from the existing legacy systems using LSMW and BDC programs for Fixed Asset Master records and GL Master Data. Categorized defects according to severity and monitored them accordingly.
• Designed, configured and tested FX rate types, FX revaluation, Electronic & Manual bank statements. Worked on In-house intra and intercompany payments, credit risk Analyzer, Reconciliation of Foreign payments by parent company.
• Participated in the activities of the Cash Management/Applications group of Treasury and Finance. Areas of participation and analysis included cash management optimization, banking systems and corporate controls.
• Reviewed monthly bank account analysis statements and provided recommendations where appropriate. Prepared monthly subsidiary cash and investment reported. Maintained cash management-banking relationships.
• Worked on special purpose ledger data loads and created GR55 reports.
• Involved in testing of FI CO test cases for EHP5 testing.