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Sap Fico Functional Consultant Resume

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Kansas City, KS

SUMMARY:

  • Over 9 years of extensive functional experience in SAP FICO including two full life cycle implementations, one upgrade and four production support.
  • Extensive involvement of ASAP methodology in all phases of a project life cycle including business process analysis, AS - IS to TO-BE designing, GAP analysis, Realization, Testing, Go-Live, post production support, user training and documentation.
  • Strong expertise in Financial Accounting (FI) including New General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) Funds Management (FM), Controlling (CO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Internal Orders (IO).
  • Experienced in configuring SAP Funds Management Module including FMDERIVE, Budget Control System (BCS) and Availability Control (AVC).
  • Proficiency in configuration and integration of Sales and Distribution, Material Management and Inventory Management with FI/CO.
  • Expertise in configuring Document Splitting and Zero Balancing of Documents in New GL.
  • Experienced in data migration from Legacy system to SAP and imported the data from other external system to SAP using LSMW.
  • Expertise in creating flow charts and work flow diagrams using MS Visio.
  • Expertise in Report Writer/Report Painter, ABAP query and CATT.
  • Experienced in defining control parameters for BAI2 file for LOCKBOX processing and automatic payment program.
  • Proficiency to configure Electronic bank statement (EBS), APP, Lockbox and Dunning and Treasury module.
  • Working knowledge on cross-company code transactions and multi currencies.
  • Proficient in Project Systems - Planning, Budgeting and Cost Allocation.
  • Worked on unit testing, Integration testing and user acceptance testing.
  • Efficient in analyzing the business requirements, needs and objectives and map them to the SAP processes, solutions and products being implemented.
  • Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents using RWD Infopak and SnagIt tools.
  • Translate complex business requirements for RICEFW development in SAP Business Objects and ECC.
  • Expert in performing data analysis using Microsoft Excel and or Microsoft Access.
  • Worked on configuration of Vertex and Sabrix for tax calculation.
  • Exposure to US GAAP, Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, Treasury Management, LSMW, ECATT, EDI and IDOCS
  • Excellent communication skills, exceptional ability to perform individually, good interpersonal relations, motivated and hardworking personal.
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills and abilities to make balanced & independent decisions
  • Understanding & Analyzing customer’s ‘AS-IS’ Business Processes and mapping ‘TO-BE’ processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Modules: FICO, MM-FI, SD-FI, PS, COPA, PM/SM-FI, PLM, HR.

Other Tools: Solution Manager, JIRA, MS Office-Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Outlook, Project, MS Visio, SharePoint.

ERP Packages: SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, R/3 4.6B, 4.6C, SAP S/4 HANA

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

SAP Tools: ALE, IDOC, EDI, Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager

Data Migration: LSMW, BDC

Testing Tool: HPQC, Panaya

Integration: FI & CO integration with MM, SD, QM, PP and PM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City, KS

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Gathered business requirements, participated in the system Design, Configured and Tested the existing system.
  • Performed functional Gap Analysis, interface requirements definition, and specifications.
  • Coordinated meetings with the users to understand existing business processes and documented business process flow charts, identified the requirements and modeled the ‘To-Be’ process.
  • Good understanding of Product Costing methodology.
  • Responsible for requirements gathering, prototyping, and configuration of GL, AR, AP modules. Responsible for standardizing and organizing the reporting structure which included development of reports using Report Writer and Report Painter.
  • Raised OSS notes & applied SAP notes recommended by SAP
  • Created variants for various batch jobs to run automatically.
  • Gathered requirements from the Finance Department for general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and asset accounting transactions
  • Designed, implemented and verified various financial statements in SAP in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GaaP)
  • Design, implement and verify various cross module financial transactions using SAP in the following modules: Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP) and Plant Maintenance (PM)
  • Conducted user acceptance testing for all FI processes in AP, AR, GL, AA, CO
  • Experienced in using LSMW, CATT, ABAP Queries, Report Painter, Report Writer, EDI and Solution Manager.
  • Provided production support in the areas of FI and CO modules.
  • Coordinate with ABAP team to convey the technical Requirement
  • Completed Final Preparation, for FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, including testing, end user training, system management and cutover activities.
  • Designed the process of payment proposal approvals for different payment methods like ACH, Wire, Check and P-cards in A/P.
  • Worked on both Order to Cash process in association with SD team and Procure to Pay process with MM and Manufacturing team.
  • Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV or GR-IR verification) in FI-MM (Procure to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD (Order to Cash) cycles.
  • Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
  • Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
  • Configured company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
  • Experienced in Inter-company vendor/customer open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit management, and payment terms configurations.
  • Configured Dunning Program, Interest Calculation and Down Payments in Accounts Receivable.
  • Configured Automatic Payment Program and Down payment and Interest Calculation in Accounts Payable.
  • Recommended additional servers for load balancing for night batch jobs
  • Worked in PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process
  • Resolved failed tax documents that did not update the Vertex Tax ledger due to consistency failures Resolved max tax issues for invoices destined for Florida and Tennessee
  • Analysed XML messages in the SIC log sent in by both CRM and ECC systems
  • Assisted in customization call from CRM to invoke the Distribute Tax functionality in Vertex for tax only adjustments
  • Created Data extracts for reconciliation of SAP General Ledger and Vertex Tax Journal
  • Created Customer, Exemption Certificate and Product Hierarchy Mapping data documents for Mass Uploads in Production environment
  • Recommended additional servers for load balancing for night batch jobs
  • Verified invoice and sales order taxability using Transaction Tester

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible to Configure FI organization structure and Company code, Chart of Accounts.
  • Configured G/L master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, financial statement versions (FSV)
  • Configured period end process like reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status groups, document types, posting keys, etc.
  • Customized automatic invoice verification and configured accounts payable, automatic payment program, and check lot
  • Configured and customized customer master records, account groups, company code specific payment methods, automatic incoming payment program for the better control of receivables
  • Customized and configured cash management including bank statements, payment program, payment advises and bills of exchange
  • Handled Electronic Bank Statements, Lockbox BAI2, Dunning Procedures, Credit Management (dealing with setting up Credit Control Area, Risk Categories, and Credit Limits for customers) on FI-AR
  • Worked on the automatic payment program and lock box setup for the accounts payables and accounts receivables
  • Configured various components in the SAP FI/CO like Accounts Receivable (A/R), Accounts Payable (A/P) and General Ledger Accounts
  • Maintained Lockbox Configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management
  • Analysed and validated material ledger requirements and product costing (make-to-order and make-to-stock) configuration, procedures and reports. Also worked on cross company costing and costing versions.
  • Cost Object Controlling by period (repetitive manufacturing), cost object controlling by order and configuration settings for CO-Product Costing.
  • Extensively worked on Controlling Area and Operating Concern Configuration as per Business Scenarios and Processes.
  • Coordinated with the team for post go live support until first month end close in SAP system.
  • Configured End to EndAP moduleincluding the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges,Automatic Payment Program,Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments),linking of Vendor documents with EDI, exchange rate differences, interest calculation, Set upHouse Banks, GL accounts for Bank Accounts, and Bank Recon Accounts, Defined forms of payments.
  • Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing, setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, defining lockbox parameters and Posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
  • ConfiguredMM-FI Integrationand Automatic Account Determination
  • Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting. Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.

Confidential, Corona, CA

FICO Functional Consultant (upgrade)

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the existing business process and documenting the To-Be process for finance and accounting systems.
  • Tested FI transactions for field errors, missing data and for various RICEFW objects. Modified the field changes and enhanced the custom programs.
  • In general ledger accounting, made settings for the line item display using the ABAP list view.
  • Defined a new field status group in the field status variant to maintain more account specific screen layout for general ledger accounts.
  • Setup of Automatic payment program, for a new payment method of wire transfer, which included the settings of payment methods per company code for payment transactions and settings of bank determination for payment transactions.
  • Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
  • Worked extensively on asset accounting module for the maintenance of asset classes, depreciation keys, and ordinary/special/unplanned depreciation methods.
  • Defined an interest indicator for account balance interest calculation in bank accounting.
  • Trained users on month end and year end processes for balance sheet and profit/loss statements.
  • Written functional and technical specifications for the new custom developments which included reports, forms and enhancements
  • Created test scenario and performed unit and integration testing.
  • Prepared training material for the users.

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant (Full Cycle implementation)

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in the study of the company business processes and preparing the Business Blue Print.
  • Involved in the Full Cycle Implementation through the Project Planning, preparation of Blueprint documents, Realization and System Configuration, Testing, Cut-Over, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support.
  • Designed Chart of Accounts, setting up of Company Codes, Fiscal Year Variant. Configuration of FI Global settings for GL, AR & AP.
  • Proficiency in writing Functional Specs (FS) for all FRICEW (Forms, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Workflow) objects.
  • Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing, setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, defining lockbox parameters and Posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
  • Documented and created different test scenarios using the Mercury Quality Centre in order to test the configuration
  • Worked on New GL, configured the ledgers, set up integration with controlling and made the general settings for the fiscal year, posting period and the currencies.
  • Followed the Active Split processes for the Document Splitting, defined the Splitting Rules,, business transactions and item category.
  • Maintained the GL account Master Data and Profit Centre Master for the New G/L.
  • Set up necessary settings for the Special Purpose Ledger.
  • Modified the existing functional specifications for any field changes, new fields and enhancing the customer objects to make them compatible with the new version.
  • Configured and customized Cost centre standard hierarchy, defined cost elements and configured settings for assessments, distributions and reporting.
  • Participated in knowledge transfer to the client team members in new system functionality.
  • Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CCA, CO-PCA and profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
  • Extensively involved in resolving alignment in CO by mapping cost center to their respective profit center.
  • In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), maintained the Operating Concern Attributes, Characteristics and Value fields, Profitability segments based on the client requirements.
  • Worked on integration of FI/CO with Material Management (MM) and Sales and Distribution (SD).
  • Maintained the stock and revenue from invoices for year-end evaluation.
  • Extensively worked in executing the required processes for year-end closing.
  • Reviewed existing allocations and CO-PCA assessments and made necessary changes to set up new assessment cycles or cancel older, outdated ones.
  • Worked on Allocations by distribution cost form source profit center to target profit center for proper execution of Assessment cycle.

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

SAP FICO Functional Consultant (Support)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • Conducted As-Is study interacting with the core team members and developed a To-Be process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology. Involved in Business Blueprint Phase and worked on field mapping to study the GAP Analysis.
  • Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users, Define global (group) currency and a local (company)currency, Document Types, Field Status Group, Tolerances, Fiscal Year Variant, Number Ranges.
  • Configured End to EndAP moduleincluding the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges,Automatic Payment Program,Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments),linking of Vendor documents with EDI, exchange rate differences, interest calculation, Set upHouse Banks, GL accounts for Bank Accounts, and Bank Recon Accounts, Defined forms of payments.
  • Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing, setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, defining lockbox parameters and Posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
  • ConfiguredMM-FI Integrationand Automatic Account Determination
  • Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting. Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.
  • Experience in handling tickets and providing support based on the priority levels of tickets.
  • Worked on integration of FI/CO with Material Management (MM) and Sales and Distribution (SD).
  • Maintained the stock and revenue from invoices for year-end evaluation.
  • Extensively worked in executing the required processes for year-end closing.

Confidential

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Worked on customization of material master record including material types, number ranges, material group, deletion of fields and applying suppressed, mandatory and optional functions.
  • Defined parameters for Company, Company Code, Business Area, Functional Area, and Credit Control Area.
  • Defined Fiscal Year Variants and assigned Fiscal Year Variants to various Company Codes.
  • Made initial settings for: Customer/Vendor Master Records, display and processing of Line Items of Documents, Correspondence, displaying Account Balances, Interest Calculation and Posting, Credit Management and Closing Operations.
  • Defined Automatic Procedures such as Payment Program and Dunning Program.
  • Customized Accounting Transactions for GL Posting, AR/AP Posting and Recurring Entries.
  • Provided configuration support in MM Integration for Account Determination, Material Movement Setup.
  • Defined Organizational Structures required for Fixed Assets. Defined Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas and Depreciation Keys. Defined required Period Control Methods and Special Valuations. Configured for Low Value Fixed Assets. Uploading of Legacy Data, Reconciliation of Net Value of Assets with Legacy Data.
  • Created Reports as per the requirements of the Customer.
  • Performed Period End Operations including Depreciation Run and Posting to General Ledger.
  • Defined Distribution and Assessment Cycles for Departmental Allocations and Defined Planning Profiles.

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