SUMMARY

• SAP FICO consultant with active participation in SAP Implementation, upgrade, and support for 8 years in SAP R/3 4.6 through ECC 6.0 with Three Full Life Cycle implementations
• Experience in working with Manufacturing, Retail industries served as background knowledge for understanding the business requirements and processes
• Experience in ERP covering all stages of pre - implementation, implementation and post-implementation with the expert knowledge of relevant integration aspects
• Proficient in project evaluation, business blue print documentation, customization, configuring and in depth understanding of business processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and integration to SD, MM modules.
• Good knowledge on product costing (CO-PC) and actual costing (PC-ACT) or material ledger (CO-ML).
• Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to understand the shortcomings of SAP’s business processes, capture justified user requirements, and manage these through to completion within a structured development cycle
• Expertise in business process engineering and ASAP methodology
• Involved in post production issues and customization of the user required reports
• Expertise in Plants Abroad functionality, Evaluated Receipt settlement
• Worked on the third party systems,, knowledge on the flow on information from upstream and to downstream systems
• Experience working on End to End business process for Trade Payables, Trade Receivables, Inter-company Payables, Intercompany Receivables, Material Movements, Stock Transfer Orders, Scheduling Agreement
• Testing modules, setup for inconsistencies and missing steps - Test scripts and Users Acceptance Test (UAT)
• Successfully executed global implementation for clients from Scope study to Go-Live and Post-Go-Live support in various projects
• Proficient with planning, gap analysis, design implementation, trouble shooting, performance training support and end user training
• Knowledge of working with Architect, Business team, Subject matter Experts, Analysts and End users. Good knowledge in Accounting, Management and Financial
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional team environments and experience of providing training to business users

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Finance: New GL, GL, AR, AP, SPL Asset Accounting, VAT Taxes, Special Purpose Ledgers, Bank Accounting Electronic Bank Statement, Manual Bank Statement, Lock Box, Treasury - Cash Management, Liquidity Management

Controlling: CCA, PCA, CEA, IO, Material ledger, PC, COPA

Other Skills: LSMW, CATT, IDOCS, ABAP Queries, Report Painter, Report Writer / Report Painter, EDI, ERS, Solution Manager, RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Toledo, OH

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• This is a Full Implementation project of SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling)
• Should design and configure SAP Finance for the Utilities Organization
• High level requirements include implementing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Banking and Fixed Assets
• SAP Finance should be integrated with other SAP modules MM, PP and SD
• Responsible for Product Cost Planning (PCA) and SD integration (COGS).
• Configured Product Cost Collectors in Sales-order-Related production.
• Configured Price Control in Material Master.
• Knowledge on inventory posting (BSX), valuation modification and valuation class.
• Knowledge on offsetting entry for inventory posting (GBB).
• Configure automatic account determination or postings (OBYC).MM-FI integration.
• Knowledge on movement types 101,261,551,561,601.
• Responsible for Supply Chain Management (SCM) including Logistics Execution (LE)
• Responsible for Inbound Deliveries (MM) and Outbound Deliveries (SD).
• Conducting workshops to gather requirements, analyze and design the data
• There are multiple legacy systems being used now, so go forward strategy is to take the data from all the existing legacy systems to SAP with proper integration and real time postings
• Creating documentation - BP Master List, Business Blue Print with the SAP Solution Manager
• Preparing Functional Specifications for the Finance objects like GL accounts, Vendor/Customer master data, Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Work Orders etc.
• Responsible for Configuring Revenue Recognition (RR), Resource Related Billing (RRB) and Dynamic Item Process Profile (DIP Profile).
• Knowledge on production version with combination of BOM &ROUTING.
• Configured Complex Over Head Costing Sheets.
• Configured Costing Variant including Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Date Control and Quantity Structure Control.
• Knowledge on material costing, and maintain over head cost elements (41), and indirect activity allocation (43).
• Worked on define calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, overhead keys, overhead groups, and costing sheets.
• Worked on variant valuation method, variance calculation, and work in process (WIP) calculation for result analysis cost element (31), result analysis keys, and result analysis versions.
• Performed Costing Run (CK40N) and solved the issues in Costing Run.
• Configured Credit Management in both Account Receivable (AR) and Sales and Distribution (SD).
• Responsible for mapping Condition Types with Value fields and Derivation Tables in CO-PA.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on different implementation, support, on board projects on SAP modules as GL, AP, AR, AA, PCA, CCA, Bank Accounting, SPL and Costing
• Participated at the high level discussions on the timeline, scope of the projects, the Project scheduled dates, deliverable dates etc
• Prepared Business Requirements document, Analysis document, participated in the meetings for BRD review, Design review, and Gap analysis.
• Knowledge on vendor invoice management (VIM).
• Developed the Analysis document with the suggested solutions and impact for the identified business gaps and issues
• Setup the interfaces for the information flow, mapping, and customized the changes
• Delegated work to the team, coordinated team activities, weekly meetings for the updates and assignments
• Worked as liaison between the business team and IT team, to understand the requirements, to suggest the solution and best practices.
• Knowledge on ITIL based approach for application life cycle management (ALM).
• Reporting to the Finance Business team on the deliverables, deadlines and issues
• Created master data for General ledger accounts, Materials, Assets, Cost centers, Internal Orders, Profit centers, Vendors and Customers
• Defined AP, AR Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Worked on the Automatic payment program and Lock Box setup for the Accounts Payables and accounts Receivables
• Configured the setup for new company codes, sales organizations and plants
• Automatic account determination process for different transactional flows, defined the access sequence.
• Knowledge on dunning forms, dunning letters, dunning areas, dunning credit memos, dunning one time account, and dunning proposals.
• Integrated FI with SD and MM for the logistics and order management trade and Inter-company transactions
• Configured the integration steps for Account determination and Revenue account Determination for inter-company transactions
• Worked with ABAP team on electronic data interchange (EDI), with IDOC types, IDOC segments, and IDOC message types.
• Worked on End to End flow for the inter-company transactions all from Procurement to Billing, like 3 Way matching PO creation, GR/IR transactions, Automatic Sales order Creation setup, Delivery, Goods issue and Billing
• Experience working on the Zero billing and normal billing for the inter-company transactions like IC Receivables
• Defined new account keys, document types and number ranges
• Wrote functional and technical specifications for the program code changes by the developer to meet the business requirements
• Setup House banks for the newly added banks to the company
• Maintained customized and SAP tables to complete the configurations, and customizations
• Enabled Plants Abroad functionality to meet the business requirements in across the countries with one Company code
• Prepared Test cases for different testing scenarios with the relevant test steps
• Conducted CRP meetings for the final validations and review of the changes done on the project
• Documented all the information, documentation, configurations, solution monitoring in Solution Manager
• Performed Year end and month end activities, to close the posting periods, transfer account balances
• Participated in User Acceptance Tests (UAT).

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP
• Regularly Interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization
• Defined the Use cases, process flows for the business requirements
• Developed the FICO configurations and designed the documentations
• Configured system settings for Chart of Accounts, New GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets including the payment run program, automatic check payment and Lock Box
• Made necessary setting for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program
• Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation
• Created additional ledger and Special Purpose Ledger to work with the New GL
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client
• Real time integration setup with FI Sub ledgers, Asset Accounts, Controlling and Materials Management
• Made settings for the Dunning procedure and configured the dunning procedure
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of Fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset
• Configured the inter-company transactions for finance and revenue processes
• Integrated Asset accounting with FI online real time
• Created Financial Statement Version for Balance Sheet and P & L Reports
• Performed the inter-company finance and revenue process testing
• Configured Cost center accounting (CCA), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (PA), and Product Costing (PC)
• Integrated Product Costing with MM and SD, and worked for better reporting in Profitability Analysis
• Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, maintained versions, distribution, and assessment.

Confidential, Charlottesville, VA

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP
• Regularly Interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization
• Configured system settings for Chart of Accounts, New GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets including the payment run program, automatic check payment and Lock Box
• Made necessary setting for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program
• Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL
• Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation
• Depicted Parallel accounting using as Additional Ledger
• Created additional ledger and Special Purpose Ledger to work with the New GL
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client
• Real time integration with FI Sub ledger, Controlling and Materials Management
• Created integrated asset acquisition and defined account assignment type for Asset Account, Account Assignment Objects for the Depreciation Areas
• Made settings for the Dunning procedure and configured the dunning procedure
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of Fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset
• Configured setting for revaluation of Fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition
• Created Financial Statement Version for Balance Sheet and P & L Reports
• Configured Cost center accounting (CCA), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO).
• Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, maintained versions, distribution, and assessment.
• Participated in the integration process of FICO with MM and SD
• Defined the financial statements, and month end and year end procedures.
• Worked on depreciation run (AFAB) and Settlement of Investment Orders to AUC and Settlement of Investment Orders to Fixed Assets (KO8G).
• Knowledge on organizational structure of Fixed Assets. And master data record.

Confidential

Jr. FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements
• Attended training sessions, and practice sessions to cope the organization
• Maintained Company Codes & Company Code Global Parameters.
• Defined Reason codes for the payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to GL accounts
• Configured Posting Keys, Number Ranges & Document Types
• Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by adding GL accounts as per the client’s requirements
• Customized the Financial Statement Versions and assigned it to the Chart of Accounts
• Created Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, and Customer Master Record etc
• Created Cost centers, Profit centers and completed the account assignment for the cost objects
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records
• Created tax invoices for the customers and recorded the invoices sent by the vendors
• Created end to end order flow with the purchase/sales orders to billing with an accounting document tied to the flow
• Defined the account keys for the access sequence and automatic account determinations for the Pricing and conditions
• Worked on the Derived depreciation area, screen layouts of Fixed assets
• Established a connection between the asset master records and the corresponding accounts in the GL in Financial Accounting through account determination
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups
• Integrated FI with MM, SD and participated in the logistic invoice verification for the Logistics
• Worked on the year end activities and transfer of accounts and month end closing activities
• Participated in the data migration and go live process, and generated appropriate reports

Confidential

Jr. FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements, performing GAP analysis and re-engineering business Processes to implement the solution in SAP
• AP Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices
• Designed and configured Automatic Write off, Clearing, Late Fee for Accounts Receivable AR including Manual Clearing and Refund Process
• Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest calculation and Credit management with 3 levels
• Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable(AP) check printing, periodic Sales and Use tax reporting, and related month end financial reports
• Postings from FI/MM - Maintained PA Transfer structure for Direct Postings in CO-PA
• Foreign Currency Transactions, translation, Valuation, maintaining Exchange rates
• Created Trail Balance Reports and PL Reports using Report Painter. Trained users on settings for Leading Columns, Element Types.
• Worked on transports from golden client to copy clients
• Configured settings for creating the reports without using Sets, using Direct Layout Control in Report Painter
• Identified and resolved issues and communicated FICO status on a regular basis to project team members and management and participated in regular Workshops

Confidential

Jr. FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups in General Ledger and Reason codes
• Creation and grouping of Customer Master Data to define credit control areas, dunning areas and customizing interest calculation program.
• Configured Outgoing payments, Open item clearing, credit & debit memos in A/P
• Configuration of Vendor Master Data centrally, FSG, FSV, FYV
• Configured the House Bank with for outgoing and incoming payments
• Design and configuration of Automatic Payment Program including Down Payments Requests, Check Management and Check Printing
• Configuring dunning program and writing specifications for customer reports
• Configuration of Lockbox Procedure through EDIs with IDoc interface for sending and receiving information from third parties
• Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting
• Periodic Sales and Use tax reporting, and related month end financial reports
• Allocate activity types and statistical key figures for calculation of overheads