SUMMARY

• Having 11+ years of experience in SAP as a SAP FICO functional consultant
• Having hands on experience in Implementation, Upgrades, Roll - Outs and Production Support Projects
• Good experience in Financial Accounting General Ledger GL Postings, Reconciliation, Open Item Management, Foreign currency valuation, Accounts Receivable Customer Dunning, Interest calculation, Accounts Payable and Asset Accounting
• Involved and Lead Various Activities like Requirement Gathering, Preparation of configuration Rationale Designs, Functional Specification Designs, Validation of Data Migration Objects, Mapping of the different environments, GAP Analysis, Defining the Test Scope and Test cases, Period End Closing and Cutover Activities in the areas of GL,AR and AP
• Expertise on Electronic Bank Statement Configuration and testing as per business requirement
• Developed Third Party Interfaces related to Lock Box
• Worked on Month End, Year End Closing, GL, AR, AP and Asset Accounting
• Worked on Configuration & testing of Cash Journal as per the business requirement
• Worked on Various Enhancements in the area of AP & AR Correspondence Statements like SAP06, 09, 13, Ageing analysis Report, Account Balances report, External Printing Agency to print forms, in the area of Controlling Cost Planning, Revenue Planning, Evaluated Receipt settlement.
• Supported period end close, Reconciliation and Cutover Activities in the areas of GL, AR and AP
• Proficient in Conversation of Business Requirements into Functional Specification and Technical Specification for Solution Design, Development, Unit and Integration Testing and other aspects of lifecycle
• Mapping the Business Processes in SAP and Documenting the Processes, Designing the Organization Structure and Setting it up in SAP in Association wif Other Members of the Implementation Team
• Experienced in using ALM Quality Centre (QC) for creating Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test execution

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 FI/CO, ECC 6.0, Ehp7

SAP FI/CO Sub Components: GL, AP, AR, AA, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profit Center Accounting

SAP Integration wif FI: MM, PS, SD

Operating systems: Unix, Windows 95/98/XP, Server 2000/2003/2007/2010

Methodology: ASAP, Agile, SAP Solution Manager, IMG

Defect Tracking Tools: Web Test Tracker, Test Director 7.2/7.6, Mercury quickest (QTP), HP Quality Centre Testing tool

Issues Tracking Tools: Radar, Central Station, SPIRA, JIRA, IBM JAZZ, ISD, Asent, Solution Manager 7.0 and 10 versions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand business requirements and prepare business blueprint
• Translating the requirements to playbacks to business
• Performed the Standard and Custom Configuration in SAP FICO ECC 6.0 such as Asset Accounting, Cost Center & Profit Center Hierarchies
• Designed and Configuration of Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile
• Defined new asset class, account determination & Depreciation keys
• Design & build asset capital expenditure report as per business requirement
• Configuration of Integration FI wif Material Management & Sales & Distribution
• Preparing design documents and configuration and unit testing
• Conducting integration testing in co-ordination wif different teams, which involve doing a complete business flow including upstream and downstream business.
• Helping business complete user acceptance testing.
• Executing cutover and pre go live activities.
• Go live activities and post go live support

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Ehp7

Confidential, Franklin, TN

SAP FICO Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Handled Sev2, Sev3 and Sev4 incidents in the areas of GL Postings, Reconciliation, GL Account Pre-requisites
• Line Item Display, Open Item Management, and Balances only in local Currency,
• Vendor payments, Customer Invoice, Creation of Bank Master Data, Electronic Bank Statement, Automatic Payment Program, and Dunning.
• Handling the incidents include Recreation of issues, identifying the point of failure by going through the ABAP Code and identifying the resolution
• Bug fixing, Testing and migrating the changes
• Involved in Month end Bank Reconciliation
• Involved in Month end Asset Reconciliation
• Involved in Year End activities balances carry forward GL, AR, AP and Asset Accounting.
• Conducting GAP Analysis necessary for the Roll Out Activity
• Communicating wif the Onsite Lead for information and data needed for solving the incidents in GL,AR,AP and Asset Accounting areas
• Worked on Financial Statement Versions for the purpose of Finance Reporting Profit and Loss Reporting, Balance Sheet Reporting

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Randburg, SA

FICO Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Attending Workshops wif Business Team to understand their Business process and requirement in SAP. Host a Presentation on what we can give them as a part of Standard SAP
• Gather the Non Standardized Requirements and check out the Development Feasibility
• Analyse the new Requirements and come up wif the Estimated Man days Finance+RICEFW+any other cross team efforts for each of the requirement
• Preparation of Configuration Rationale Design Documents for GL, AR, Cash journal and AP
• Worked on AR, Cash Journal and AP as per the business requirement
• Master data configuration of group key, alternative payer, bad debt provision
• Preparation of migration documents for mock upload of Customer master data, Vendor master data and Open items
• Worked on Configuration and testing of Dunning Levels, Minimum Amounts, Charges, Forms as per business requirement and testing
• Worked on Configuration and testing of Interest Calculation Procedures, Interest Indicator, Time Dependent Terms, Forms
• Worked on Configuration and testing of House Banks, APP
• Worked on the standard correspondence statements like Dunning, Interest, open items, credit memo, and Account Statements
• Prepared Functional specifications gathering the business requirements for Enhancements
• Worked in cut-over activities for Go Live and after Go Live worked in hyper care support and handover the project to supporting team

Environment: SAP 4.7 & ECC 6.0

Confidential, Pretoria, SA

SAP FICO Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Mapping Business requirements and preparation of Functional Specs
• Implementing the new business requirement and performing unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing
• Extending post go live support and preparation of End User Manuals
• Co-ordination wif the team to deliver the FICO objects in time
• Worked on Integration of major interfaces like Portal and Clarity wif SAP
• Worked on Integration of Controlling wif PS
• Configured CO Substitutions like 0001 Document Row, 0010 Order and 0100 Document Header
• Involved in implementing and testing the customization of Standard Programs
• Involved in Cutover Activities and hyper case support

Environment: SAP 4.7

Confidential, Randburg, SA

Consultant

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Business Requirement Study (AS-IS) and TO-Be Business Process Mapping for Requirement and Finalization of Business Blue Print Document
• Performed the Standard and Custom Configuration in SAP FICO ECC 6.0 such as Asset Accounting, Cost Center & Profit Center Hierarchies
• Designed and Configuration of Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile
• Configuration of Integration FI wif Material Management
• Conducted Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Impaired End User Testing
• Preparation of Master Data Templates & Cutover Strategies. Preparation of training Manuals and final Preparation Go Live
• Data migration activities including final check of data, trouble-shooting issues during data upload