SUMMARY

• SAP Certified Confidential Consultant - Financial & Management accounting (CO Module)
• Certified Management Accountant from IMA,USA
• Successfully played the role of FICO team lead and SME for CO module
• Three Greenfield end-to-end SAP implementation. Overall experience of 10+ years in SAP R/3. Over 6+ years of Project experience in SAP-FI/CO module.
• Hands on experience in manufacturing Industry as a Cost and Management Accountant
• Expert and In-depth knowledge into Costing system set up, MIS reporting, Budgeting and data Analysis.
• Expert in Product Costing, Profitability Analysis and cross module integration (FI/CO integration wif MM, SD & PP modules)
• Worked on SAP Vistex ( Pricing module): Solutioning of complex Product costing process for one of the biggest client in USA
• Worked on ECC5 / 6 implementation and support projects. Involved in the design, blue printing & Realization phase of SAP Implementation
• Understanding of client’s reporting requirements, involved in feasibility study and provided adequate solutions
• Worked on following sub modules of FI/CO:
• FI - General Ledger (FI-GL), Account Receivables (FI-AR) Account Payables (FI-AP) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Business Consolidations
• CO - Cost Element accounting(CO-CEA), Cost Center accounting(CO-CCA), Internal Order accounting(IO), Product Cost Controlling(CO-PCC), Profitability Analysis(CO-PA), Profit Center accounting(EC-PCA), Material ledger/Actual Costing
• Worked extensively on the I-Doc functionality: Configuration of business scenarios, complex cross module integration and troubleshooting of the related issues
• Thorough experience in the FI-CO Master data Management and data loading
• Good Interpersonal Skills, Strong analytical ability, problem solving capabilities wif good written and business communication skills
• Ability to make timely and sound decisions based on logical assumptions, factual information or strong intuition
• Ability to work as a team leader supporting the commitment to the overall success of a project. Work TEMPeffectively wif internal customers, co-workers and management and have clear and concise verbal and written communications skill

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP Vistex
• ECC6
• FI & CO module
• CO viz
• FI-AP
• SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP-FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential

Team Lead: Implementation & Improvisation of Product Costing Solution

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Client s core business/products and complex business processes and scenarios in the area of Product Costing
• Understanding the Complex Product Costing Confidential implemented in SAP Vistex environment (Pricing module).
• Gathering and understanding the Business requirements in the area of Product costing and Budgeting.
• Improvisation and optimization of the current product costing solution: Understanding the AS - IS standard costing process, identifying the Gaps, designing, Implementation, configuration and testing of the Standard Product Costing Confidential in SAP-CO module and Vistex
• Worked on the interface between SAP and various third-party applications (Legacy system, supplier and sub-contractor s external applications).
• Functional and technical designing and implementation of the Confidential for the business requirement in Actual product costing area.
• Understanding the complex reporting requirements of the client. Solutioning and development of the critical reports.
• Mentoring and training the offshore team in understanding the business requirements, providing necessary guidance to the team in designing and configuration of the objects.
• Co-ordination wif the development team, reporting team and the interface team for tracking the status of ongoing developments, providing necessary information and guidance from functional perspective.
• Co-ordination and working wif Performance testing team to carry out Baseline and Performance testing for the existing and new developments.

Confidential

AP-FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential

FI/CO Team member / Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor the FICO team, performance tracking of the team, training, coordinating the team efforts and providing necessary guidance so to ensure quality and on time deliverables.
• Interaction wif the client, accountable for providing remote support to the client, gathering their requirements and developing solutions, providing user training and adequate documentation of critical processes.
• Worked as a Lead consultant in CO - Product Costing and Profitability analysis. Identification of the gaps and optimization of the processes in these areas.
• Actively involved and contributed in resolving critical issues relating to differences in Legal & Group valuations in Finance, differences in the financial accounting & Controlling books, optimization of assessment cycles, improvement in Product Costing Processes.
• Extensively worked on the IDoc functionality, the configuration and complex cross module integration in dis area. Identified the major gaps in dis area and successfully streamlined the processes.
• Established self as a key contributor and as a SME for SAP-CO module across the projects wifin the organization.
• In the organization s SAP best practices, I was responsible for developing white papers, user training materials, reusable documents, training and knowledge sharing sessions across different projects, initial screening, knowledge assessment and mentoring of the FICO resources.
• Also, successfully contributed towards developing SAP process documents in the critical areas such as product costing, material ledger and Split Valuation functionality for showcasing to the prospective clients.
• Acheivements
• Ranked as the topmost performer in the Project wif the highest performance rating and promoted to the Team Lead position in the year 2009-10.
• Received the Star Performer award twice during the project tenure.

Confidential

SAP-FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential

FI/CO Team member

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparation of Business Blueprint for ECC6
• Involved in the Realization phase (Configuration) of ECC 6.0 - FI & CO module
• Worked on major enhancements in FI/CO
• Gathering and understanding of client’s requirement
• Handling support calls of severity level 1 & 2
• Streamlining of Information system tools of CO viz., Profit center accounting & Profitability analysis & Annual Budgeting
• Analysis of client's Product Costing processes provided the process document for optimizing the Product Costing functionality for Client's key Products
• Study of present configuration and understanding of current business processes of the client
• Contributed in development of crucial reports to meet the statutory requirements as well as management requirements through Enterprise Portal-Management cockpit
• Implementation of Internal Order functionality for tracking of project specific cost and budget analysis for the client’s Food Additives division
• Implementation of Automatic Payment Program functionality (FI-AP) for client’s Fertilizers division
• Assisting in master data management
• Conducting user training and knowledge sharing sessions as per the requirement and preparation of the user manuals

Confidential

SAP-FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential

FI/CO Team member

Responsibilities:

• Involved in implementation (basic Configuration) of the Asset Accounting module
• Preparation of Process Documents (Swim lanes) for Asset accounting.
• User Hands - on training on Asset Accounting processes.
• Understanding Client's Costing Processes, identifying the Gaps and providing solutions and suggestions for improvements in the processes.

Confidential

Cost Executive, FICO Functional team member

Responsibilities:

• Understood the business processes and the reporting requirements of the organization.
• Leveraging of IT - Implementation of Cost Center Information system and optimization of Profitability analysis tool.
• Involved in configuration of CO-Profitability Analysis- Defining Operating concerns, Quantity & Value fields, Defining valuation strategy for material cost estimates, mapping of value fields to SD condition types & FI-Cost elements.
• Involved in analysis of product wise profitability, estimation of the contribution from the new products, labor efficiency and productivity analysis, Inventory management, etc
• Handling support issues related to Integration of FI/CO module wif MM, SD & PP module
• Preparation of user manuals & documentation of business processes.
• Master data management-creation of General ledger accounts, cost centers, customer & vendor masters
• Maintenance & Monitoring of Purchase & Pricing Info Records in SAP
• Involved in month closing activities in FI & CO module - Depreciation run, Settlement of cost objects, opening and closing of posting periods, release of standard cost estimates for Product Costing, FI/CO reconciliation activity.
• Acheivements
• Ranked as the Star performer in the area of Product Costing and Analysis of product profitability.

Confidential

Cost accountant (Internship)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SAP end User (SAP 4.7 version) in the Finance department.
• Worked on General Ledger accounting and Accounts Payable module.
• Responsible for Vendor Invoice posting, verification and processing of vendor payments
• Month end reconciliation and reporting on: GR/IR clearing, vendor overdue, advance payments, prepaid expense postings, Bank reconciliation activity.
• Assisted in the finalization of the accounts.