PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Extensive 10 years of SAP FI/CO Consulting experience in ECC 4.6 & 6.0 EhP7.(Overall more TEMPthan 15 years of work experience, including Accounts, Management, Audit, finance and IT )
• Worked in Industry including Oil - Gas, Plastic, Chemicals, Retail, Consulting, Manufacturing, Food, Government and Mortgage.
• Hands on Knowledge in SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) with Three Project Life Cycle Implementations, Acquisitions, Upgrades, Rollouts, Enhancements, Production Support with additional experience in Project Portfolio Management.
• Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (COPC) and Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New GL, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Special Purpose Ledger (SPL).
• Hands On knowledge of SAP Fixed Assets.
• Responsible for critical business issue, including performed Month End and Year End activities.
• Involved, managed and executed end to end implementation with onshore and offshore teams with Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills combined with Self-Motivation, Initiative and Project Management Attributes.
• Strong Communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with good Acumen, adopting new Tools and Technologies with ease.
• Motivated achiever who guides organizations in applying technology to business settings, provides added value, and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.
• Having United States Top Security Clearance.
• Hands on knowledge of SAP Methodology followed during teh Project implementations and well versed with business process, its mapping & configuration in SAP.
• SAP knowledge spread across FI & CO Core Modules.
• In SAP FI- Hands on knowledge spread across sub modules like GL, AR, AP, Bank and Asset Accounting.
• In SAP CO- Hands on knowledge spread across sub modules like CCA, PCA, COPA and IO.
• Experience in integration with other modules like FI-MM & FI-SD.
• Hands On knowledge of SAP Data services, SAP BI/BW, SAP PI (Process Integration), SAP TAO, Autosys, HPQC, HP PPM Management.
• Experience in Preparing Functional specifications and guiding technical team.
• 10 years of consulting experience in SAP FICO across Acquisitions, implementation, upgrade, Releases, roll-out projects including post go-live hyper care support.
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Banks accounting, Foreign Currency valuation and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing and testing teh lockbox functionality.
• Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to understand teh shortcomings of SAP business processes, capture justified user requirements, and manage these through to completion within a structured development cycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr SAP Cost Management Consultant

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Provide Training to teh Users in sandbox about different tools of SAP CO to capture cost.
• Performed extensive review of Controlling and Project Systems master data.
• Worked on creating new Cost Objects like WBS & IO based on requirements.
• Conducted evaluation and analyses of various Army Commands’ cost management models and current processes.
• Led analysis of current actual data for compliance with teh US Army cost management policies.
• Review Current Army process and implementing new business process for USAREUR.
• Provide solution to USAREUR on how to capture cost by country, by unit and by exercise.
• Extensive knowledge of GFEBS (General Fund Enterprise Business System) which is Web-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for teh United States Army.
• Performing SAP BI tool to pull report and navigate reports based on Army needs.

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Findlay, OH

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between teh development and business teams to discuss and configure efficient solutions.
• Production Support related to incident tickets, request solving, process improvement and new solutions.
• Responsible for monitoring and scheduling jobs for setting CO status on sales orders, overhead calculation, variance calculation, work-in process calculation, results analysis and settlements for production orders, sales orders and service orders.
• Conducts root cause analysis using knowledge of applications, interfaces, and technology for defect resolution.
• Based on teh analysis of teh organizational structure categorized business areas according to respective functions and designed Cost Centers with appropriate Cost element assignments.
• Having meetings arranged with teh subsidiaries to obtain a snap shot of their existing business processes and provide an easy alternative to their legacy system using SAP best practices.
• Documented all changes, revised teh Business Process Procedures to facilitate teh changes from teh clients legacy system.
• Worked on Training Documentation and Customization documentation.
• Created a Detailed Description of teh configuration that needs to be done in teh SAPsystem.
• Fully migration of teh classic Profit Center Account (PCA) reports to teh Profit Center Account of teh general ledger.
• Configured Internal Orders to be able to collect and pass on capital expenditure to assets and to collect depreciation and interest from FI-AA to CO objects.
• Configuring and implementing cash-basis accounting as a parallel ledger.
• Master Data compilation and upload on Quality and production using LSMW.
• Transaction data compilation from legacy and upload on Quality and Production.
• Done unit testing and integration testing and documented test cases.
• Successfully defined distribution and assessment cycles with activity types for indirect activity allocation and splitting structure as a part of Cost Center Planning activity.
• Created planning layouts for cost element planning and statistical key figure planning, accrual calculation, distribution and assessments.
• Working in Production Supportin Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) & Asset Accounting (AA) and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to GL, AP, AR, PCA, CCA, CO-IO & PS.
• Prepare detailed functionalspecifications for development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms (RICEF).
• Responsible for implementing teh change, migrating them, unit test, integration testing & documentation, communicating teh change to teh customer, and close teh call.
• Support in Internal orders for cost booking and settlement.
• Configuration, Master Data set up, Process simulation, solution integration, co-ordination, implementation, work shop, user training and post go-live support.
• Areas of configuration included Cost Center Hierarchy design, creation of Cost Center Groups, attaching work centers to cost centers, Distribution and Assessment Cycle set up for planned as well as actual costing.
• Worked on SAP Data services and SAP PI to set up Inbound and Outbound Jobs for FICO Modules.
• Configured new depreciation areas for teh group reporting purposes, new Assets classes in Asset Accounting

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Strong expertise in financial accounting in configuring and testing General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Bank accounting and special purpose ledger.
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Banks accounting and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing and testing teh lockbox functionality.
• Strong expertise in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Hands on configuration and customization experience in Bank Accounting, Automatic Payment Program, Dunning, and Special GL Transactions.
• Extensively worked on teh configuration of New General Ledger Accounting (NEW GL).
• Involved in teh legacy systems data Migration (Master Data) mapping and converting them into teh right specifications and using LSMW for uploading GL, Vendor and Customer master records and Migration to New GL.
• Thorough understanding of teh relationship between various SAPmodules (SD, MM, PM, PP) and ample knowledge on Order to Cash and Procure to Pay, Make to Order and exposure to US GAAP and IFRS methodologies.
• TEMPEffectively interacted with teh clients to understand business process for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions.
• Involved in design, configuration, & process re-engineering for Standard Cost Estimates in Product Costing. It TEMPhas been configured for 'Product Cost by Period' in Product Costing (COPC)
• Maintained Overhead cost elements, percentage overhead rates, calculation bases, credits, costing sheets, activity plan, and costing types in Product Costing (COPC).
• Configured teh Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure and Configured teh cost component structure, Costing variants for standard cost estimate for planned and actual product cost collector in Product Costing Planning (COPC)
• Extensively worked on Cost Object controlling, period ending activities such as WIP and Variance calculations, overhead calculation, settlements of orders.
• At teh year-end supported teh business on Standard cost estimation, Costing Run, Marking and Releasing for updating teh price in material master records in Product Costing (COPC)
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation) in Product Costing (COPC).
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in COPA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, theirby allowing projected revenue and cost of sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Worked on Assessment & Distribution cycle and trained teh end users on teh same.
• Configured Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Planning Profile, Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile.
• Worked on SAP Data services and SAP PI to set up Inbound and Outbound Jobs for FICO Modules.
• Configured FI-MM integration interface in teh areas of enterprise structure, Automatic postings for MM through OBYC, Defined required GL accounts for various transaction keys.
• Configured FI-SD integration interface in teh area of Enterprise Structure, and Revenue accounts determination through VKOA, mapping required GL accounts to teh account keys.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Studying teh Current (AS-IS) Business Process, Organization Structure, finalizing and mapping of TO- BE Business process & Complete Configuration.
• Prepared teh Business Blueprints (FI - GL,AR,AP,AA,APP)
• Configured teh Enterprise Structure, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables, Cash Management, and Asset Accounting & Automatic Payment Process.
• Implemented Cash & Bank Management.
• Responsible for conducting workshops, presentation for teh users to gather business requirements.
• Documenting teh new Process, User training and testing of new developments related to any new Business requirement.
• Handling teh CO - Cost Center/Profit Centers/Cost Element related Issues.
• Analyzed Business requirements and configured Asset accounting module based on client requirements.
• Maintained Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.
• Configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), & Product Costing (CO-PC) including defining settlement profile, Assessment Cycle and distribution and various activities.
• Complete Configuration for transferring from Classic withholding Tax to Extended withholding Tax platform.
• Setup configuration for GL on chart of accounts, field status groups, reason codes, tolerance groups commitment items and special purpose ledger.
• Configured terms of payment for incoming invoices, credit memos.
• Defined processes around AR general billing for creating and distributing invoices, customer correspondences, accounting updates, credit checks and interest calculation.
• Defined process for financial statement preparation, reconciliations and adjustments, integrated closing schedules and closing process.
• Configured tax codes and jurisdiction codes for tax calculation and adjustments.
• Involved in configuring teh automatic payment program and manual payments for customer and vendor accounts.
• Configured house banks, payment methods, paying company code data and bank determination settings.
• Carried out functional and unit testing including definition of appropriate test scripts.
• Consulted with end users, management to design and implement solutions for new business requirements.
• Created and maintained master data for GL, PCA, and CCA.
• Account Receivable (AR): Tested FI-AR scenarios as an order to cash, Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.
• Accounts Payable (AP): Automatic Payment Program (FBZP, F110) and bank determination.
• Worked on creation of new House banks, bank accounts (FI12)
• Maintained clearing accounts for inter-company postings.
• Worked on setting up New Default Cost center and Profit centers.
• Managed Asset Accounting (AA), Investment Mgmt (IM), and acquisition of new asset with Asset under construction (AUC) and settlement of teh same to final asset Maintained Group and Low Valued Assets.
• Configuration of FI global settings, Configured company code, migrated GL accounts, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested teh configuration in various scenarios.
• Configured teh settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing.

Account Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Promote and market teh business.
• Ensure that each department head is aware of operational goals and is supplied with teh necessary tools to accomplish them.
• Manage budgets and financial plans.
• Manage Accounts Payable and Receivables

Account Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identifies process improvements, executes solutions, and TEMPeffectively introduces new procedures to staff.
• Monitors daily, weekly, and monthly performance to ensure staff hits set targets.
• Monitors incoming volume to ensure teh alignment of capacity and headcount.
• Compose and administer employee performance reviews.
• Resolves escalated issues
• Responds promptly to request for information relating to processes and procedures from senior level management.