SUMMARY

• SAP FI & CO Certified Consultant with total 12 years of experience in SAP FI/CO in - depth noledge of 3 Full Life Cycle implementations, multiple support, upgrade and Enhancement projects.
• Experience in business blueprints for the processes and specified the requirements. Preparation of documentation and flow charts, describing interfaces, collecting of master data, testing, Conducting of Cut Over activities and reviewing training documentation.
• Major strengths include in-depth business process noledge integrating with strong SAP FICO/MM/SD design and blue print development. Proven talent for identifying core business needs and translating into required technical deliverables. Involved large projects that provided innovative financial business processes, information technology, and operation solutions.
• Expert in different phases of life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 including Business Process Re-engineering, using ASAP Methodology System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, and Testing.
• Expert in FSCM-Credit Management, Dispute Management, Collections Management and Biller Direct business processes.
• Expert in Inbound/Outbound process House Banks, Bill of Exchange, Manual &Electronic Bank Statement.
• Expert in Lockbox processing, electronic funds transfer and Bank statement processing, Exchange rates, and Translation Ratios, Bank reconciliation.
• Extensive experience with New G/L - Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, periodic processing and Segment Reporting, Migration from OLD GL to New GL, and multiple currency valuation.
• Extensive experience with Taxation procedures-TAXUSJ using Jurisdiction codes and TAXUSX using SABRIX, VERTEX and TAXWARE etc.
• Expert in CO-Profitability Analysis process for Costing Based and Account Based CO-PA.
• Extensive experience in Controlling Area with CO-CCA-Assessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, Product Costing - PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting
• Strong noledge of Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow (RICEFW) in different FI/CO modules.
• Strong noledge of data migration using LSMW, Data integration and Data conversion processes. Worked with Data conversion process of different accounting systems
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills and ability to make balanced & independent decisions. Good team player with excellent functional and interpersonal skills.
• Expertise in the entire Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to pay (P2P) processes.
• Knowledge in GP Recalculation, worked on Charge backs, Rebates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Package: SAP R/3(ECC6.0,4.7E ) with FICO, SD, MM, PP, PS, and HR

SAP Technical: ABAP/4,ALE, IDOCS, EDI, Workflow, BAPI, BADI, BDC, LSMW

Interface tools: VERTEX, SABRIX, TAXWARE, Citi Direct, BOA Direct

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Visio

Testing Tools: Mercury-Quality Center

Support Ticketing Tool: Remedy, Synergy, Web Monitor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling production Issues include Bug fix issues, creating the Change Requests for the Configuration setup as per business process.
• Handled various Issues related to Accounts Payables in the areas of Automatic Payment Program, Payment Advice Notices, Payment Terms Creation, Payment Method Creation, etc.
• Scheduling New Jobs and Monitoring the existing Jobs as part of support activity.
• Creating Validation and Substitutions as per business requirement.
• Complete Unit Testing of FI-AP-Automatic Payment Run, FI-Accounts Receivable, FI-Asset Accounting.
• Budget monitoring of assets procurement using internal orders.
• Configured settings for Automatic postings for Sales and Distribution from FI, under TCODE: VKOA by combination of condition types, Chart of accounts, account assignment group, Account Key and G/L Account.
• Responsible for all cycles of testing during implementation and working closely with the users for user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Creating Customized Reports as per the Business Requirement.
• Preparing Functional Specification for Newly Customized Requirements.
• Configuration of New House Banks as per Client Requirement.
• Configured Payment terms & terms of Payment for Installment Payment as per the Client Requirement.
• Integrated the clients’ sales tax software, Vertex, and its interface to SAP
• Successfully demonstrated the business flow to AP/AR users in various areas like payment terms, process payment runs, and manual processing of incoming payments, running/editing, Dunning proposals, and Reconciliation accounts in the GL.
• Performed customization in the FI module for ageing reports and dunning notices with ABAP/4 Programmers and tested the data flow.
• Responsible for configuration changes if needed through Fire Fighter ID in the Production System.
• Worked on Support Tool Remedy to update the issues status
• Worked on problem tickets related to Finance like G/L, Asset Accounting and controlling module like cost center accounting and Internal Orders.
• Communicate the problem resolution to the user.
• Ensure successful transition of support responsibility.
• Worked with other SAP module members and other application team to implement various corporate dashboard reports used by the Corporate Management Team.
• Configured the settings for foreign currency translations includes exchange rate types, translation ratios.
• Responsible for Inbound/Outbound process House Banks, Bill of Exchange, Manual &Electronic Bank Statement.
• Worked on Lockbox processing, electronic funds transfer and Bank statement processing, Exchange rates, and Translation Ratios and Bank reconciliation
• Interacting with Corporate & Business end users on a periodic basis to discuss about the pain areas & the areas of improvement with the current System and to address them based on the priority.

Confidential, Rockaway,NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Classified company codes as GP relevant and non-GP relevant (based on company code country, description and posting to sales relevant account).
• For GP Relevant company codes identifying GL accounts that blocked for posting, marked for deletion and GL accounts with no entries posted.
• Classifying Vendors as GP relevant and Non-GP relevant based on account group.
• Written Functional spec for HANA queries related to chargeback, Rebates, Manual Direct sales, Manual Rebates.
• Writing Test scripts for chargeback, Rebates, Manual Direct Sales, Manual Rebates to ensure that data extracted from source system to HANA accurately.
• Loading CIS files, Model-N and Contract sphere files to HANA and testing
• Comparing CIS values, Forest/ Aptalis Values and HANA values for AMP,AMP Impact, BP,BP Impact, URA,CPIU Impact, MCD Units, New liability, Old liability, Fiscal Impact, Impact
• Identifying the transactions that were base for BP and identifying whether the transactions are valid or not.
• Identifying the transactions that were in between HANA BP and CIS BP,CIS old BP and CIS new BP.
• Identifying and extracting the transaction from SAP system
• Providing support to business in identifying transactions and HANA Reports.
• Reconciliation of data between Source System, SAP System and CIS Data.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising in SAP.
• Carried out Configuration and scenario mapping of Cost Center Hierarchy, Product cost Planning, Cost Object Controlling, Planned/Actual Allocation, Distribution Cycles, COPA Allocation/Actual Assessments, and Profitability Segment Reports.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules maintained derivation table and profitability segments used in Profitability.
• Carried out Unit/Integration testing and User Acceptance testing with proper documentations.
• Created Functional specifications for the ABAP developers for custom based reports.
• Master Data collections, inventory and master data conversions & testing of the data upload programs
• Involved in data migration from legacy to SAP.
• Successfully implemented all the business process with an effective switch over from their legacy systems with a successful integration and acceptance testing.
• Prepared of end-user training documentation and provided training to the end users.
• Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration. Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning.
• Configured Dunning procedure for Customers, Interest calculation on open items/ balance outstanding.
• Defined Lock boxes, Lock box control parameters, defined Lock box posting data (used BA12).
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in A/P.
• Payment Program Configuration for Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc
• Configured Incoming Payments, Billing, Credit Management and Dunning Programs
• Configured Lockbox Processing, Customized Processing of Incoming Checks

Confidential, NewJersey

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business Process Mapping (Understanding the Current As is Process and Identifying the Gaps)
• Cost Center Accounting and Cost Element Accounting including setting up Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Business Process Mapping with Relevance to Product Costing and Profitability Analysis Module Scenarios.
• Prepared Fit Gap documents for Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profitability Analysis and Product Costing.
• Analyzed and configured the Cost Center Structure Hierarchy Master data.
• Analyzed and configured Inter Order Structure Master data.
• Prepared the understanding document for Product Costing Process with PP Module.
• Involved in Product cost configuration, Profitability Analysis and special purpose ledger
• Analyzed configured the Value Fields and Characteristics for CO-PA Reports.
• FI-MM Integration Check Relating to All Inventories Related Transactions of Goods Receipt, Goods Issue and All Material Related Trans.
• Responsible Unit and Integration testing for External Bank Interfaces and Sabrix Tax interfaces.
• Performed Sales Tax and Purchase Tax business scenarios using SABRIX tool.
• FI-Asset Management Relating to Depreciation Accounting, Asset Master Data Creation, Asset Acquisition.
• Internal Order Creation for Internal Short Term Projects and Fairs.
• Conducted process owner workshops to identify functional requirements and process improvements, and documented the business process procedures for the business reorganization.
• Configured cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, allocation cost elements, allocation cycles/segments and customized planning.
• Internal Order Setup and Settlement Configuration.
• Developed & tested assessments, allocation/source structures and settlement profiles.
• Maintained characteristics derivation, including derivation rules, table lookups, moves and clear.
• Maintained PA settlement structure and COPA cost center assessment.
• Changing GL account for sales order type ZDO associated with export trade customer donation and also changing profit center derivation logic
• Changing AP BDC interface, BDC session RFBIBL00* fails if the file uploaded into SAP contains documents which has cost object company code that do not match with header record company code
• Changing IRS extract program to include Recurring Entries and Special GL indicator.
• Changing Sort Variant to sort checks for payment method B & C according to payment method supplement,vendor country and number of items posted.
• Maintained custom table to reflect text “RD” in account receivable invoice of sales organization.
• Involved in resolving sev1 and sev2 related Travel and Expense issues, lockbox issues and Payment program issues
• Worked with Solman for creating Charm request and getting approvals for transport request, moving to quality and checking whether changes had been moved successfully to production system
• Worked in HPQC for writing test scripts for the changes and testing changes and attaching results
• Experienced in writing functional specification for new development and changes in existing functionality.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in ASIS- TOBE business study process and use ASAP methodology in SAP implementation.
• Understand the Freeport’s business requirements for Finance and Controlling.
• Preparation of Module related Education presentations.
• Conduct education sessions on Finance and controlling with core team members.
• Preparation of questionnaire for requirement gatherings from SME’s.
• Worked on Inbound Electronic Banking-Importing bank Master data, Importing bank statements, Uploading cashed checks files and processing Lockbox files.
• Configured account symbols, posting rules and transaction types for SAP Electronic Bank Statement process.
• Cash Management: Developed Cash management at accounts level and Electronic bank statement processing with its key posting rules and round off methods for different currencies.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in A/P.
• Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc
• Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels Automatic payment configurations.
• Configuring for G/L, Accounts Payables / Accounts Receivables (AP/AR).
• Configured and set the master data required for cost controlling pertaining to cost centers, Activity types, internal orders and product costing and segment level creation.
• Configured Organizational Structure by creating Company Code, Chart of Accounts, Posting Period Variants, and Field Status Variants.
• Tested settings for Automatic postings for Sales and Distribution from FI, under TCODE: VKOA by combination of condition types, Chart of accounts, account assignment group, Account Key and G/L Account.
• Customized the Lock Box Procedure and worked on different kinds (Applied, Partial Application, On Account and Unapplied)
• Identified the areas of process improvement.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible On calls support for solving the problem tickets with in SLA time.
• Responsible for FICO period & closing activities.
• Worked on problem tickets related to Finance like G/L and controlling module like cost center accounting, Cost elements, Internal orders, Profit center, Profitability Analysis and Internal Orders.
• Provided production support in the areas of GL, and controlling modules along with the integration of GL with pricing, billing and order management.
• Provided support in configuration, break fix, and enhancements in the areas of account determination, field status groups, movement types, order types, document types, cost elements, reports and CO-PA characteristics and derivation rules.
• Involved in KT meetings given by Confidential and responsible for KT evaluation in Cost centers, Profit Center, Profitability analysis for Confidential business process.
• Involved in writing of integration test scripts in HP Mercury Quality Center.
• Responsible for External Billing system data flow in to CO-PA.
• Involved in CO-PA Derivation rules & strategy and responsible for CO-PCA & CO-PA Reports data match.
• Worked for external systems interfaces of Bravo, HCM, Man-hours, Headcount and COGS-Reclass.
• Handled 7 to 8 enhancements for each release and delivered within time.
• Responsible for moving GL accounts, Costelements, Cost centers and Profit centers from SAP Finance system to SAP HR System.
• Performed Lockbox Business Scenarios for New Reason Codes.
• Maintained PA settlement structure and COPA cost center assessment.
• Resolved Issues related to month-end assessment and distribution.
• Identified the areas of process improvement.

Confidential, Seattle

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Blueprint: - Refines the original project goals and objectives, Define the base line scope.
• Involved in Realization Phase: Project team Training, Baseline configuration and Confirmation, Final configuration and confirmation
• Performed Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement, SAP-Treasury and Cash Management Business Scenarios.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Reason Codes and Check Lots.
• Configuration includes: Account Groups, Document types, Customer and Document number ranges, Terms of payment, clearing functions - Posting Keys, Reason Codes, Automatic clearing, Account assignment, and Tolerance groups, Bank master data, Interest calculation, Statements, and Credit Management functionality.
• Worked on Electronic/Manual Bank Statement and Exchange Rates. In-House Cash, Interfaces for exchange rates.
• Worked with the client on BAI2 format to populate fields of client’s interest on the bank statements.
• Configured the payment terms for customer payments and rolled the reason codes (Discounts and Over payments) to respecting GL accounts.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for Accounts Payable
• Responsible Treasury - Cash Management-Cash Liquidity, Cash Forecast.
• Responsible for Unit Test and Integration Test business scenario test cases in NewGL,AP,AR,CO-CCA,IO and PCA.
• Unit Testing: Tested the discrete pieces of Functionality of Foreign Currency Valuation, Journal Entry Posting, Entering Exchange Rates, Account Balances, FI Document Validation, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, etc.
• Integration Testing: Tested point-to-point Functionality and end-to-end scenarios between Modules and Systems.
• Reviewing Functional Requirements documents and Detailed Design Documents.
• Write Test scripts based on the functional and Technical documents.
• Performed Unit testing, Integration, System and Regression testing.
• Reported the bug’s in the Testing of different modules in e-room and assigned it is correct person and halped in resolving the bug’s in correct time.
• Documented test results and followed up with the configuration team to resolve various issues/problems identified during testing.
• Created different types of internal orders and internal order groups released for posting. Allocated costs to the internal orders, created reports and settled costs based on settlement rule.
• Configured COPA module; customized operating concern, characteristics and value fields.
• Maintained characteristics derivation, including derivation rules, table lookups, moves and clear.
• Assigned condition types and SD quantity to value fields.
• Responsible for New GL Document splitting functionality- Financial Statements by any Dimensions, Fast entry screens, Bank accounts, Recurring items, Validations and Substitutions.
• Performed sales tax, purchase tax business scenarios using SABRIX
• Involved actively with the Cross-Functional team members to solve production issues.
• Developed & tested assessments, allocation/source structures and settlement profiles.
• Tested Automatic Payment Program which included customizing company code data, paying company code data, defining payment methods in Country and Company Code, Bank Selection.

Confidential, Boston

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented FSCM - Biller Direct, Dispute Management, Collection Management, Credit Management.
• Responsible Treasury - Cash Management-Cash Liquidity, Cash Forecast.
• Configured FI GL, AP/AR, House Banking, Document types & posting keys.
• AP configuration - Vendor Master, Vendor invoices, Payment methods, Payment program for Check printing, ACH and Wire Transfer payments.
• Configured Dunning Procedures and customized dunning process for Customers.
• AR configuration - customer master data, terms of payment, incoming payments, dunning, interest calculation, open item clearing and credit management.
• Customized Two-way match invoice, three-way match invoice business process using OCR(optical Character Recognition) tool.
• Treasury - Configuration of Lockbox and Bank statement processing in Treasury.
• FI-AA Configuration - Customization of chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, account determination for integration with the general ledger, Asset Classes, number range intervals, Master records.
• Accelerated data migration using LSMW with the halp of Basis Team.
• Provided Post-Go-Live Support to users, prepared a support document and halped users in solving their problems in live environment.
• Configured Foreign Currency Translation of all transactions for the foreign operations for month end management and legal reporting.
• Configured Special G/L transaction, such as down payment program to meet the customer requirement.
• Treasury: Lockbox Spec Configuration, Setup for Liquidity Forecast, Cash Position Cash Application program and Cash Concentration.
• Prototype of Cash management Module Incorporating Customers, Vendors and Bank Transactions.
• Configured SABRIX setting with SAP
• Customized SAP business process with SABRIX for calculation of input and output Taxes.
• Worked with team members for Automatic Account Determination of Sales / Use Tax, Inter-Company, MM and SD Account Assignments.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing of MM with Account Payable and SD with Account Receivable.
• Documentation: Responsible for maintaining Project Documentation including Writing Position Papers, Scenarios, Testing Scripts and Configuration details.
• Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Responsibilities also involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user requirement.
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customer and vendors
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, and Posting Rules for automatic assignments FI
• Complete Workable Solutions for Product Costing (Standard Costing Run)
• Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting Set-up for Management Reporting.
• Profitability Analysis: Drawing up the Characteristics and Value Fields Table and Mapping it on to SAP. Ensuring that All the Revenues and Cost Postings Flow in Correctly.
• Internal Order Setup and Settlement Configuration and configured COPA Reports for Profitability Analysis

Confidential, San Jose

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• GL configuration- chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, document type, posting keys, GL master records, tax codes, automatic clearing, financial statement version.
• Created and maintained Validations (OB28), Substitution (OBBZ).
• AP configuration- vendor master records, vendor groups, incoming invoices, manual outgoing payments, tolerances and reason codes, automatic outgoing payments.
• Fixed asset accounting: Configuration and customization of chart of depreciation and depreciation areas.
• Resolving issues on settlement of WBS elements to Auc and then to Assets.
• Defined and configured controlling area and assigned it to appropriate company codes.
• Creation of Cost Center Standard Hierarchy in CCA, cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center categories, default and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessments.
• CO-PA Configuration - operating concern, characteristics, and value fields.
• Participated in unit and integration testing. Documented test results and followed up with the configuration team to resolve various issues/problems identified during testing.
• Integration Testing: FI-MM Procure to pay transactions and Inventory related transactions, FI-SD for Billing Transactions.
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Test, Regression Test, Validation Test, End to End Test, Performance Test, Citrix Test.
• Tested the GLX Reports, ALV Layouts and Excel Downloads for Office 2007.
• Reported the bug’s in the Testing of different modules in e-room and assigned it is correct person and halped in resolving the bug’s in correct time.
• Unit Testing: Tested the discrete pieces of Functionality of Foreign Currency Valuation, Journal Entry Posting, Entering Exchange Rates, Account Balances, FI Document Validation, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, etc.
• Integration Testing: Tested point-to-point Functionality and end-to-end scenarios between Modules and Systems.
• Performance Testing: Stress Testing of the system is checked that it ca handle the expected volumes of transactions in expected Time and the Response times of the Transactions are tested.
• End-to-End Testing: Involved in Order to Cash and Procure to pay, Asset acquisition process.
• Validation Testing: Performed Validation Test on different Systems. Tested the operation of the program. Tested whether the new functionality is working properly. Tested the performance is satisfactory at various Business scenarios.
• Regression Test: Performed the Regression Test after the bug was fixed. Tested the upstream and downstream of the transactions related to the bug. Tested all the scenario’s related to the process. Tested new feature has not broken the previous working Process.