SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Business Consultant with 8 years of functional experience in implementation, customization, and configuration of SAP R/3 4.7 - ECC 6.0 in FI /CO modules. Highly skilled in areas of integration, testing, document preparation, user, and production support.
• Configuration, Customization, Implementation and Roll-out Experience in Manufacturing, Technology and Financial industries.
• Skilled in various aspects of the SAP process, including blue-printing, requirements gathering/documentation preparation, implementation, integration, data migration, testing, user, and support using ASAP methodology.
• Experience of FI/CO Modules, including GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, and CO - Cost Center Accounting, internal orders, profitability analysis, and product costing.
• Experience with integration points of FICO and MM, PP, HR, and SD.
• Able to work with other team members in designing solution for functionality GAP that cannot be delivered by standard SAP
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 FI/CO module (4.7 thru 6.0)

SAP R/3 Tools: REPORT PAINTER, REPORT WRITER SAP testing using Solution manager and HP Quality Center SAP data migration using Winshuttle, LSMW.

Testing tools: WINRUNNER, LOADRUNNER MSWORD, MSEXCEL, MSPOWER-POINT, MS PROJECT, VISIO

SAP FICO SKILLS

• Participated in SAP R/3 Project Planning (GAP Analysis), Blueprints Phases, Realization Process, Final Preparation and Go-Live using ASAP Methodology.
• Organized Meetings with Internal Team to discuss client needs, and with External groups to conduct blue printing sessions and explain SAP best practices.
• Prepared blueprint and functional design documents based on blueprinting sessions.
• FI Enterprise Structure: Settings for Company, Company Code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Fiscal Year Variant, and Posting Period Variant.
• General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Automatic Account Determination, Tolerance Groups, and Number Ranges.
• Accounts Payable: Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts, Payment Program Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master Data and Vendor Groups.
• Accounts Receivable: Creation of Customer Master Records, Creation of Terms of Payment and Interest Calculation, Reason Codes, Default Account Assignment and Dunning.
• Treasury: Bank Account G/L Structure, Lockbox Configuration. Worked with Electronic Banking Interfaces, ACH Payments, E-bank Statement, AP Positive Pay and Encashment Interfaces, Credit Management & Dunning Procedures for Overdue Items.
• Hands on knowledge of Integration with SD & MM for O2C (Order to Cash), P2P (Purchase to Pay) and other processes during implementations.
• Worked with ABAP resources to Develop Custom Transactions and Reports.
• Asset Accounting: Creation of Assets Master records, Handling Depreciation for the Assets, Calculation of Scrap value for the Assets at the time of Sale of Fixed Assets and posting the profit/loss in the respective G/L accounts.
• Controlling: Configuration of Controlling Area, activate Components/Control indicators, Assign number ranges to Controlling area and Maintaining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy.
• Cost Center Accounting: Cost Center Accounting Configuration, Profit Center Accounting, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, Re-posting, and Automatic Account Assignment in CO.
• Internal Orders: Creation of Order type, Creation of IO group, Maintain Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile.
• Product Costing (Standard Cost/Actual Cost): Creation and maintenance of costing variant, including material costing strategies, cost component structure, settlement of actual cost, and variance allocation and analysis.
• Data Conversion using WinShuttle and LSMW in collaboration with technical team using MS Excel
• Executed an aggressive and speedy Cutover plan during the SAP implementation and provided hyper care/ production support/ enhancements for projects
• Experience in support pack upgrade testing and documentation.
• Trained users on Business Processes to ensure Month-end & Year-end closing, Variance Calculation, Settlement, and Depreciation Run according to Closing Calendar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in blueprint design sessions with process owners, technical consultants and team members for gathering business requirements, demo of standard functionality, and to follow-up on open items/issues for Automated AP Invoice Process.
• Prepared functional specifications for updating in-house FSCM Process to accommodate new Business Unit updates.
• Provided functional input and integration in providing Business Solutions for Intercompany Billing Order to Cash process flows, narratives, and process documentation as part project deliverables.
• Leverage standard SAP functionality (Error Correction and Suspense Accounting) for posting FI documents via CSV upload.
• Implemented custom transaction for Invoice Approval Workflow Process.
• Prepared new payment terms and tolerances to allow for Grace Period based on Customer Logistics of Business Units
• Worked with ABAPer to develop User Exits for Posting Date, Baseline Date, Text and Assignment Fields and Payment Terms for Incoming Invoices.
• Developed several queries to provide easy reports to users
• Implemented Credit Control Groups and Credit Control areas; and created Open Sales Order Clean up program.
• Worked with security team to identify right role for new user group and performed testing.
• Reviewed IDOC Process for Billing and configured partner profiles for inbound invoices coming through EDI and worked with EDI consultant developing it.
• Worked with BW Team to generate AR Reporting
• Day to Day Support to Cash Management Team with their Lockbox Processes, House Bank configurations, G/L Account Determinations, Invoice Clearing
• Work with RPA Teams to assist them with Mapping FSCM Process
• Supporting Finance and Accounting Teams for their Periodic Processing and Reporting, also to include automation.
• Supported Canadian Tax issues by reviewing tax by country, verify tax indicator, assign tax classifications, define default for non-taxable transactions, tax jurisdiction structure, tax codes, processing key set up, condition records.
• HR-FI integration for Time and Payroll Reporting, for Payroll and Accrual Booking, for GL Reconciliations and Reclassifications.
• Responsible for fixing day-to-day post implementation, production support issues.

Confidential, Washington DC

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in blueprint design sessions with process owners gathering business requirements, demo standard functionality, and follow-up on open items/issues.
• Prepared functional specifications for conversions for Fixed Assets, G/L Balances, Open Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Cost Centers, and Profit Centers.
• Provided technical input in creation of process flows, narratives, and process documentation as part project deliverables.
• Leverage standard SAP functionality (Error Correction and Suspense Accounting) for posting FI documents via CSV upload.
• Responsible for fixing all FICO-NEW GL, AP, AR/TREASURY, production issues and integration point with other modules like MM /SD /PP.
• Implemented custom transaction for auto incoming payments along with Lockbox- TREASURY.
• Prepared new payment terms and used user exit to skip holidays as due date
• Configured new factory calendar
• Developed several queries to provide easy reports to users
• Implemented auto clearing of intercompany transactions through custom TCODE.
• Worked with SD team on pricing procedure for accrual posting.
• Implemented credit management module by sales area and maintained different reconciliation accounts for different sales area
• Worked with security team to identify right role for new user group and performed testing.
• Implemented WE20, WE57, WE82 and configured partner profiles for inbound invoices coming through EDI and worked with EDI consultant developing it.
• Tested and fixed several iDocs from status .
• Trained user on GR/IR clearing (MR11 and F.13)
• Trained users to maintain default variants and SU3.
• Trained users to understand the functionality of cost collectors
• Developed and Trained users on mass upload through transaction code MASS and LSMW.

Confidential, MI

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the SAP (FI-CO) team, responsibilities included design, configuration, and testing of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Configured Accounts Receivable Order to Cash Process. Defined tolerance groups, tolerance for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings and recurring entries.
• Defined customer account groups and created customer master data for accounts receivable.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Performed Lockbox configuration.
• Maintained and supported Org Structure Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.
• Account assignment in cost accounting and define base method.
• Configure operating concerns and Profit center.

Confidential, Westchester, IL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documented business requirements and define To Be process flows.
• Defined future state data standards and validation rules.
• Configured settings for company code, posting period variants, field status variant, assigned number ranges and defined tolerance group for employees.
• Maintained existing G/L accounts, Bank Master Data, House Banks for Payment Program, and Periodic Processing.
• Configured business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Automatic Payment Program.
• Supported the project team on managing, tracking and maintenance of Master data.
• In product Costing (CO-PC), maintained existing Standard Cost Estimate settings for Production Orders with Quantity Structure. Configured WIP and variance calculations.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) maintained Operating Concern, Costing based profitability analysis. Utilize Report Painter to design standard reports with value fields and profitability segments.
• Defined user cases for gap analysis and support development with test cases.

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined Validation and Substitution Rules related to tax and profit centers.
• Wrote custom program specifications on budget upload process in SAP.
• Prepared functional spec for GL interface.
• Involved in most of the analysis part for new custom reports and prepared functional specs.
• Responsible for Configuration and Modification for new enhancements for SAP GL, AR, AP, AA, and CO modules.
• Automated wire transfer payment process in SAP-AP system.
• Defined new forms for dunning.
• Configured interest calculation settings for customers. (Interest on arrears) and Dunning.
• Configured tax by country, verify tax indicator, assign tax classifications, define default for non-taxable transactions, tax jurisdiction structure for USA, tax codes, processing key set up, condition records, configured non-USA countries,
• Responsible for FI-MM and FI-SD integration (example maintaining OKB9, Automatic account assignment OBYC etc).
• Integrated with order entry and material management module.
• Configured and created custom PCA reports in CO module using report writer/painter.
• Worked on customer master data conversion,
• Worked on EDI interfaces (Vendor invoices, price change updates, pick up notice, customer payments, purchase orders, etc).
• Configured the EDI steps for new partner OBCE, OBCB, OBCD etc
• Responsible for changing the IDOCs status from 51(error) to 53(successfully posted).
• Created queries for reporting purpose.
• Responsible for fixing day to day post implementation, production support issues.

Confidential, New York, NY

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Blue printing.
• Able to work with other team members and designs a solution for functionality GAP that cannot be delivered by standard SAP
• As a member of the SAP (FI-CO) team, responsibilities included design, configuration, testing and re-engineering of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR and assigned different keys as required.
• Created G/L accounts in the company code, defined global parameters, account groups and reconciliation accounts.
• Configured the settings for creation of G/L master records, retained earnings, line item layouts, sample accounts, data transfer rules, field status groups and posting keys.
• Maintained Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.
• Defined templates for configuring recurring entries in GL postings.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) and maintained initial settings and recurring entries.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Created customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment and assigned credit control area to the company code.
• Configured the integration of logistics modules such as MM, SD and PP.
• In Profitability Analysis, configured costing based CO-PA, created operating concern, characteristics and value fields.