SUMMARY

• Seven plus years of SAP functional experience in implementing, configuring, integrating, customizing and support on SAP R/3 Financial Accounting and Controlling.
• Strong knowledge of Product Costing configuration and experience with solving production support issues.
• Especially skilled in Configuration and Integration areas of FICO with other modules such as SD (Sales and Distribution), MM (Materials Management) and PP (Production Planning).
• Multiple Industry Experience i.e. Pharmaceutical, Consumer Goods, Automobile & Manufacturing Industries.
• Good understanding of xGMP processes.
• Two life cycle implementations, one SAP version Upgrade and involved in Production support.
• Ability to deliver high - quality configuration that meet the business needs on a timely basis.
• Skilled in understanding existing business processes and translating them into SAP solutions.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, technical, analytical, problem solving and leadership skills.
• Good Knowledge of SOX compliance. Used Approva software to ensure company is SOX compliant.
• Experience in creating informative documentation of all configurations that have been completed, end-user documentation on how to perform daily and periodic routine functions and maintenance checks that may be required.
• Extensively used LSMW for Master Data Migration using both Direct object Method and Batch Input Method.
• Experience with creating Report Painter reports, creating Quick Viewer queries and writing specifications for ABAP report.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in knowledge transfer sessions to gain an understanding of organizational structure, business processes related to costing and the configuration.
• In Product Costing changed mapping of cost centers to work centers and updated overhead rates in costing sheet for the upcoming fiscal year.
• Defined functional specs to extract costing and BOM related data to be loaded in the interface.
• Scheduled and monitored month end background jobs for costing which included calculation of overhead, calculation of WIP, calculation of variance and order settlement.
• Changed configuration of plant specific material to allow the costing of discontinued materials in order to prevent issues arising during clearing of shipments.
• Proposing and configuring Material Ledger functionality to allow the system to hold estimates in multiple valuations.
• Implemented and tested SAP’s standard functionality of Additive Costing in order to accommodate changing business model. This resulted in accurate reporting of freight charges in non-producing plants.
• Drafted multiple functional specifications in order to develop custom programs.
• Participated in the Local Repository and Global Repository project to bring legacy SP in line with Merck accounting standards. The project involved data mapping and developing multiple custom programs to interface data back and forth between LRGR and SAP.
• Designed and implemented strategy to allow calculation of activity rates based on machine hours instead of labor hours.
• Assisted users in mass load of data related to Material Master.
• Helped end users develop a better understanding of Production Versions and their role in costing.
• Developed new templates to allow activity based costing.
• Configure changes to costing sheet to allow application of freight on additional overhead groups.
• Participated in FitGap Analysis for the Canadian Roll Out.
• Led Overhead cost controlling and Product Costing Workshop.
• Assisted in defining Cost Center Hierarchy for Canada in conjunction with the business users.
• Completed customizing sheets in accordance with the global template for Canadian roll out.
• Customized existing test scenarios and monitored the testing process.
• Developed interfaces between SAP and several applications such as Concur (Employee Expense Management) and Salesforce.com (CRM).
• Used IDOCs for postings in SAP that may have occurred as a result of activity in different applications.

Confidential

SAP Controlling Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In Product Costing defined Costing Variant, Valuation Variant, Date Control, Quantity Structure Control, Transfer control.
• Defined Overhead Costing Sheet - Cost base, Overhead keys.
• Defined new Cost Component Groups and assigned them to existing cost components.
• Configured new Planning Profile and created CC & IO budget upload layouts.
• Used LSMW to upload CO related Master Data such as cost centers.
• Created new Master Data such as cost centers for work centers/ overhead pools and new profit centers.
• Created new Cost Center, Profit Center, Cost Element and Internal Order groups to meet reporting requirements for use with standard and customized reports.
• Created Statistical Internal Orders to track small projects by Brand.
• Analyzed and Documented existing configuration and processes and suggested improvements.
• Provided specification for developing ABAP reports for reporting requirements that could not be fulfilled using report painter.
• Used Quick Viewer to generate reports where only basic lists were required.
• Familiarized end users with all the standard product costing reports in the system.
• Worked on Ticketing System to assign tickets for issues related to SAP. Maintained SAP issue log. Coordinated and organized monthly Change Control Board meeting.
• Provided support and resolved production support issues for cost center accounting, profit center accounting, cost element accounting and product costing.
• Developed Test Scripts to carry out unit tests for SAP and Approva.

Confidential

SAP Controlling Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Settlement profile and number ranges for settlement documents.
• Worked on CO-PC reports for materials, cost estimates and object comparison for materials etc
• Evaluated training needs and prepared training materials and conducted training for client’s Product Costing team involving both Product Cost Planning and Month End Closing.
• Configured vendor master, customer master and specified number range and screens layout.
• Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Organize and develop Customer Master Records based on geographical locations, time zones etc.
• Defined AR groups, Tolerance groups, payment requests, and House Banks.
• Configured various payment terms applicable to customers and assigned to customers in Master Records.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program to get optimum discount enabling the company to make prompt payments by due date for increased profitability.
• Created account assignment models for recurring entries and involved in troubleshoot of other OTC (Order To Cash) and Cash Management issues.
• Provided support & training to end users on financial accounting.
• Performed day to day support on FI/CO related issues.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.