SUMMARY

• SAP Certified FICO Consultant having 11 years of Experience comprising 8 years in SAP FICO, SD module & 3 years of Functional Experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.
• Involved in 4 Full Life Cycle implementations using ASAP methodology, Upgrades & production support projects including ticket resolving.
• Strong ERP Skills in FI (New GL, AP, AR, AA, BANKING), CO (CCA, IO, PCA, COPA), PS (RRB), FSCM (Collection, Dispute and credit Management), SD (Pricing, Billing, Credit Management), MM (Procurement, Sub contracting process, LIV), ABAP (EDI, LSMW, ECATT and Debugging).
• Expert in master data migration (Vendor / Customer / Chart of Accounts / PO / PIR / Bank / Cost Center / Profit Center).
• More TEMPthan 4yrs Team Lead Experience as Order to Cash (OTC) & Procure to Pay (P2P) process.
• Worked on latest mySAP components like New GL (including document splitting, Configuring parallel ledgers, Migration from classical to New GL accounting).
• Extensive knowledge on EDI / ALE / IDOC concepts.
• Expertise in all implementation phases (ASAP methodology) that include business process analysis, GAP Analysis/Blue Print Phase, Implementation, Unit, Integration and End - User Testing, Cut-Over strategy, Data Migration, Go-live and Post Go-Live.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
• Implementation & Support experience of more TEMPthan 4yrs in following Netweaver components & Tools like SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management, SAP Solution Manager
• Experience in design and implementation of interfaces to non-SAP systems
• Supporting BI/BW and ABAP team in developing reports for FICO, SD and MM modules.
• Having very good experience in using MS Office (MS-Excel, Word, Power Point presentation).
• Expertise in providing Super User Training and preparation of BPD’s, work instructions, quick reference guides, transaction aids and job aids.
• Executed SAP projects for Retail / Rental, Government, banking, Oil & Gas and Process industry.
• Strong technical, analytical skills combined with outstanding leadership ability, creative problem solving skills in both strategic and tactical areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP 4.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0SAP Modules FI, CO, SD, FSCM, MM

RDBMS: Oracle 6.0, MS Access 2000

O/S: Windows NT/2000 ServerTools LSMW, BDC, Vertex, HP Quality Center (QC), ALM, ECATT, MS-Visio, Pro vision, ITSM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: -

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI (GL, AP, AR, AA, BANKING), SD (Pricing, Revenue account determination, Billing), ABAP (Data Migration)
• Understanding teh As-Is business process (based on teh business case and role plays)
• Preparation of Business Process Master List, Key Data Structure, Process Definition Document, To-Be documents and GAP Analysis.
• Arranging process validation workshop and getting sign-off of “To-be” document
• System Configuration which included following:
• Framing and assignment of FICO Organizational elements like Chart of Accounts, Chart of Depreciation, Controlling Area and Company Code.
• Creation of Vendor and Customer Account Groups along with creation and assignment of number ranges.
• Configuration with respect to Extended Withholding Tax, Input and Output Tax.
• Configured automatic payment program (Check, ACH, wire transfer) for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Configuration of Dunning Letter to be sent to customers.
• Configuration for intercompany transactionsand month end clearings.
• Configuration for Integrating FI with MM & SD Module.
• Configuration of Sales document types, billing document types, pricing procedure and credit management in SD module.
• Configuration of Characteristics and Values, data flow from FI, MM and SD in Cost Based CO-PA.
• Worked on Customer, Vendor master and transactional data conversions.
• Creation of Configuration Document and End-User Manual.
• Coordinating testing process (Unit, Integration and UAT)
• Preparing project implementation road maps for different submodule implementaions.
• Conducting user trainings and providing user transaction guides.
• Overall FICO single point contact for co-ordination with development team and business users.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI (GL, AP, AR, AA, BANKING), CO (CCA, PCA), MM (Procurement, Sub contracting), ABAP (Data Migration)
• As a Sr. SAP(FI-CO) consultant, 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, AA and assigned different processing keys as required. Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups.
• Configured payment card types, categories, plan types and blocking reasons for Paymetric integration with SAP.
• Configured automatic payment program (ACH, wire transfer) for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Complete Customization of Cash Journal and House Bank and setting up Cash and fund management sub module
• Complete Configuration for FI/CO integration with MM for material movements and SD with pricing and billing including automatic account determination and GL account postings
• Configured Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statements. Created sample A/R data for Bank of Confidential and Royal Bank of Canada to test Lockbox functionality in BAI2 format.
• Complete Configuration for Tax on Purchases & Sale and withholding Taxes integration with Vertex.
• Setting of Financial statement version me.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Configuration for intercompany transactionsand month end clearings.
• Design of Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement, transfer and other business transactions, Federal clientspecific process and transaction development for accountable, personal and real property in accordance withFederal Regulations
• Cost Center Accounting Configuration, setting of controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, valuation profiles, field status groups, internal orders, WBS elements
• Profit center accounting configuration, setup, Profit center hierarchies, Profitability analysis, Profit center based Balance sheets & P&L statements
• Customized and implemented teh revenue recognition, including teh customization for FI accounts for unbilled and deferred revenue.
• Configured Validations and Substitution rules in FICO header and line item levels.
• Worked on Master Data Management (MDM) for customer master and Vendor master data using SAP Net Weaver. Configured sensitive fields for vendor and customer master data.
• Involved in teh planning, design and implementation of data management, data archiving.
• Carried out additional report development & enhancement in existing system using various tools like Report Painter, Report Writer, and ABAP query, ABAP customized report usingSAPtables.
• Worked on debugging programs to identify teh functionality and program errors.
• Worked on ALE-IDOCS and EDI-IDOCs for teh interfaces.
• Worked on Change requests for teh enhancements and reports.
• Involved in technical documentation of all custom business objects and end user training.
• Supported user community for all finance related queries in ERP system.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI (AP, AR, Banking, AA), CO (CCA, PCA, COPA), MM (Procurement, Sub contracting, Inventory valuation), SD (Pricing, Shipping, Revenue account determination).
• Understanding teh business requirements, legacy system functionalities and customizations, gathering functional requirements through user workshops, identifying and analyzing Gaps, recommending solution/ business processes to address teh Gaps, documenting AS-IS model and TO-BE model.
• Involved in configuring and demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios based on teh business requirements of teh clients.
• Configured New GL, AP, AR, AA and Bank modules in teh SAP system.
• Implemented New GL Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting (Non Leading Ledgers) and periodic processing.
• Configured automatic payment program in FBZP Sending co. code, payment co. code, and payment methods at country level, house banks, ranking order and account amount level. Configured house banks, automated payment program, payment terms and Auto clearing rules. Defined check lots and void reason codes. Worked extensively on P2P (Procure to Pay) business process.
• Defined reason codes for payment differences and configured account determination for writing off these differences to GL accounts.
• Configured credit management functionality. Created credit control areas, credit risk categories and defined credit representative groups as per teh client requirement.
• Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules & Revenue Recognition. Provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination using OBYC.
• Designed and configured asset management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, depreciation calculations, and write offs and post capitalization.
• Configuration of Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement, transfer and other business transactions, Property tax, Lease accounting, Configurationof Book and Tax depreciation related Dep. /calculation Keys in accordance withTax Regulations.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting by creation Standard Cost Center Hierarchy using CATTs, Alternative Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements; Configured CO- Internal Orders (me/O) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules, and Settlement Profile.
• Profitability Analysis (COPA):Creating Operating Concern, Maintaining Characteristics, Maintaining User-Defined Characteristics, Maintaining Value Fields, Define Characteristic Derivation, Valuation, Assign Value Fields, Valuation Strategies, Set Up Valuation Using Material Cost Estimate, Assign Costing Keys to Material Types
• Configured Validations and Substitution rules in FICO header and line item levels.
• Worked on interfaces (ALE & EDI).
• Involved FI integration with SD, MM and HR.
• Worked on change requests for configuration, development changes.
• Performed unit testing and coordinated with technical and functional people from other modules in integration testing. Worked on month-end/year-end closing procedures.
• Worked on developing a script for uploading customer vendor master data using LSMW.
• Participated in integration testing for all teh processes using HPQC. Provided production support, knowledge transfer and end user training.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI (New GL, AP, AR, AA, Banking), CO (CCA, PCA, COPA), MM (Procurement, Sub contracting, Inventory valuation), SD (Pricing, Shipping), FSCM (Collection, Dispute management)
• Finance team Lead of UU, Implementation team responsible for requirement gathering, Blueprinting, Realization, cutover, go-live and post production support.
• Worked on prototyping, requirement gathering, and client interaction workshops, FIT/GAP analysis and blueprinting.
• Define/assign chart of accounts, account groups, retained earnings account. Configuration of Reclassification of customers and Vendors, Intercompany transactions, down payments, dunning, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), APP with PMW and DME file structure, multiple email remittances to vendors, transaction and screen variants and Asset accounting.
• Worked on New GL functionality on ECC 6.0 with document splitting, Setup by using Profit center as teh reporting segment, Document reversals, foreign currency valuations and period end activities.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation.
• Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements.
• Setting Controlling Area and Activating Controlling Components. Maintaining number range documents for controlling and maintaining Controlling Versions. Creation of primary and secondary cost elements.
• Setting Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Center Categories, Creating Cost Centers. Creation of Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures. Automatic Account Assignment from FI to CO area. Planning in CCA which includes setting Planning Layout and Planning Profile. Create and execution of splitting structure.
• Configuring Internal Orders and settlement. Internal Order Planning & Budgeting
• Responsible for synthesizing teh SAP Procure to Pay (P2P) process and teh SAP accounts payable solutions
• Settling Cost based Projects to AUC and Fixed Assets.
• Created costing keys and revenue segmentation when a condition type needs to be transferred to multiple value fields in COPA.
• Provides quality assurance review of teh business process after implementation to ensure it is operating as designed or recommend additional enhancements
• Worked on bug fixes and enhancements for several interfaces pertain to AP/MM relevant data
• Preparation of Functional Designs for WRICEF to support new developments / Enhancements / modifications to teh existing ones.
• Supported highly integrated systems with around 100 systems interacting with SAP.
• Extensively supported 3rd party Interfaces those use IDOC types ORDERS05 / DELVRY03 / INVOIC02 / SHPCON / DEBMAS / CREMAS / MATMAS related to logistics & PEXR2002 / FINSTA / FIDCCP02 related to FI
• Supported EDI Standards 855 (Orders) / 856(Delivery) / 810 (Invoicing) related to OTC & P2P.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FI (GL, AP, AR, AA, Banking, Vertex), CO (CCA, IO, PCA), ABAP (Scripts, EDI, Data migration), Data Migration (Vendor / Customer / Chart of Accounts / PO / PIR / Bank / Cost Center / Profit Center)
• Designing Templates for design phase which contain Functional Specification, Configuration Design Document, Test Script, Work instruction Template and Delivered 8 rollout projects on time with proper testing documents
• Master data and cut over data cleansing and upload.
• Involved in configuration between FI/CO/MM/SD in setting up auto account assignments and process linkage.
• Automated Intercompany Sales and Buying processes. Configured Intercompany purchasing organization and Vendor/Customer relationship between intercompany trading partners.
• Configured Intercompany code billing, automated posting to vendors account (EDI).
• Actively worked on issues related Milestone Billing and Revenue Recognition during Production Support.
• Streamline of Global Asset accounting process for entire Trading business in line with individual countries legal requirements.
• Capitalization of cost to AUC and later Fixed Assets using Project systems (PS). Configured WBS elements, networks and various business scenarios in Project systems (PS).
• Worked for teh Canadian Rollout project and configured ‘Vertex’ tax system.
• ManagedExemption Certificatesin teh newVertex “O”seriesExemption Certificate Manager (ECM).
• RedirectedSD (Order-to-Cash/Quote to Cash)andMM-PU (Purchase-to-Pay/Order to Pay)master data links to Vertex. Setting up of user definedtaxcodes.
• Coordinated for developing interfaces of SAP R/3 system with other systems.
• Defined specifications for User Exits, Enhancements, Interactive & ABAP Query reports.
• Worked on debugging ABAP programs to identify teh program errors and functionality.
• Developed test scenarios for testing ABAP developments.
• Extensively used EDI-IDOC basic type FIDCCP02 to interface financial data from one SAP system to another.
• Used following Message types MATMAS / CREMAS / MBGMCR02 / PEXR2002 / FINSTA to interface MM/AP related data.