SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of cumulative experience in SAP R/3 environment and 3 full cycle implementations and functional experience in Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation Software Customization.
• Possess Excellent Accounting and Finance knowledge with demonstrated competencies in Financial and Business Analysis while working in different industries. Successfully worked with and lead teams across the globe delivering business value.
• Proven experience in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing. Acted as the liaison between business units and the information technology department in different project scenarios.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Finance: Excellent Financial accounting expertise in Configuring, Testing, deployment and support of General Ledger Accounting GL, Accounts Payable AP, Accounts Receivable AR, Asset Accounting AA & Internal Orders IO and Investment measures IM, especially in highly Complex Business Environment. Good knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) required during the implementation of FI/CO module. Capable of converting business requirements into functional specifications for developing ABAP programs.

Controlling: Expertise in Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO - CCA, Profit Center Accounting EC-PCA, and Report Painter. Sound functional experience of Financial, Management and Cost Accounting practices prevailing in diverse segments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

SAP Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Project Preparation, bug fixes, Business Blueprint, Realization, and End user-training & Support for a full cycle implementation.
• Regular Interaction with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Analyzed Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution and gathered functional requirements for the to-be system.
• Configured the functional process design built in Business Blueprint Phase.
• Participated in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, Customer Master Record etc
• Activate a group currency as a parallel currency in CAD for all of their productive company codes within the FI module.
• Run parallel currencies conversion tool to copy the local currency amounts to parallel currencies amount in FI for the US11 company code.
• Verify and Configure parallel currency type and exchange rate type according to requirements.
• Validate 12 tables for group currency and make sure that there is no inconsistency.
• Involve with SAP general ledger migration process from Classic GL to New GL.
• Develop Analysis Design Documents for the customer for New GL.
• Deliver Technical Design Documents and Test Plan for New General Ledger how to complete it successfully.
• Participate in functional and unit testing in order to make sure that it is functioning the way it was before.
• Create a functional test script and scenarios to validate Chart of Accounts conversion.
• Run report for a customized program where New G/L account number used.
• Create a functional test script and scenarios to validate Chart of Accounts conversion.
• Involve in Cutover plan and weekend support for Go-Live support.
• Configured multiple Transaction Types, Valuation Methods, Valuation Areas and assigned Valuation Areas to Accounting Principles to meet the Foreign Currency Valuation requirements
• Extensively worked in a Multi-Currency Environment. Configured the Automatic Postings for Foreign Currency Valuation and Account Determination for Currency Translation
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups.
• Configured OBYC and VKOA as part of MM & SD integration with FI. Configuration of various areas including purchasing and Inventory Management.
• Procurement, Pricing and conditions for contracts and purchase orders.
• Used SAP tools including SE16N and data dictionary tools for data analysis and development work.
• Written functional specification and have good knowledge of drill down reports.
• Created user defined reports by using Report Painter. Generated reports through ABAP Query for Vendor and Customers.
• Configured the payment program & designed the form for Checks along with the MICR code. Configured settings for booking Inter Company Transactions for Consolidation. Configured settings for booking Inter Company Transactions for Consolidation.
• Configured the Chart of Depreciation and settings up the various depreciation areas like Book Depreciation, Taxation, and Investment Support etc.
• Configured the Period Controls key’s, Depreciation key’s, Calculation key’s etc.
• Created Asset classes & configured screen layouts for Asset master records.
• Configured Period control & posting rules to handle depreciation calculation and automatic posting of the same on a monthly basis.
• Configured the US and Canada tax procedures and rates as per the jurisdiction, Worked on SAP Integration and Certification Center like Vertex and provided high quality solution to end user in calculating tax within the SAP Solution Manager.
• Extensively worked on Tax accounting and configured TAX codes for EDI procedures, Configured Tax clearing accounts, accounts for withholding taxes, tax forms, tax reports, accounts for down payments,
• Used Vertex to consolidate and determine all the domestic and international taxes.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Studied And Understood the Changes in the Standard SAP System for the new version and prepare change configuration scripts.
• Was a Team member of the customization and implementation group of the FI/CO Module
• Interacted with Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Prepared a document of all the changes made, bug fixes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the Upgrade.
• Supported all phases of a Project Life Cycle Including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment of Solutions, as well as Documentation, and End-User Training.
• Remittance Advice Formats have been completely re-designed uniformly across all Company Codes taking local languages for text into consideration, enabled e-mail, fax, print functionality for sending the Remittance Advices to Vendors automatically
• Worked on integration testing extensively on end to end scenarios involving cross functional modules such as MM & SD.
• Did extensive configurations in Procure to pay process involving Logistics Invoice verifications & MM-Purchasing.
• Automatic Payment runs configuration done for ORBIAN, EFT, WIRES using PMW and automated Checks design based on Banks requirements.
• Subscriptions Billing and payment process for Air show subscriptions
• Configuration of CONCUR Employee travel and non-travel expenses Credit Card Automatic payments through Confidential Bank.
• Experienced in data migration (LSMW and BDC Methods), EDI, IDOC’S, User-Exits, BADIs, BAPIs, ALEs and ECATT scripts. Has experience in writing functional specifications for interfaces, customizing reports and working experience with conversion and transfer of master and transactional data from legacy to SAP systems.
• Experience working on Lockbox processing configured for BAI2 format taking the flexibility feature, worked on Cash Management, cashbook, short term cash forecast, Credit Management and Invoice verification, Prepared bank reconciliation statements made Payments via EDI to Banks for checks, ACH and wires
• Defined Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, manual cost element creation, activated reconciliation ledger.
• Created Cost Center groups and Cost Centers, Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Used Report Painter, Report Writer for reporting during the implementation of the project and developed reports.
• Resolved issues relating to the upgrade in General Ledger Accounting, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, and Accounts Payable.
• Interacted with all the remote team members in providing resolution of issues outside of FI/CO Scope like technical, custom programs and integration issues

Confidential, Naperville, IL

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced directly with business users to facilitate requirements gathering. Helped to design business process and system solutions.
• Participated Involved in Blueprinting, bug fixing, Gap analysis, design finalization & writing function specifications for the development objects which included reports, forms & interfaces in the areas of GL, AR, AP, Banking, Cost center Accounting.
• Analyzed Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution and gathered functional requirements for the to-be system.
• Handled the global implementation of the Grass Valley group in 5 Countries consisting of US, UK, JP, and Mexico & HK in FI consisting of GL, AR, AP, FA, Banking, and Travel Management & SPL & provided localized solutions for each country.
• Prepared training material & gave training to Key users & end users.
• Prepared specifications for mapping data between legacy system & SAP & worked on master data & transactional data migration.
• Supported multiple sites spread across North America & light support to EU sites in FI & CO.
• Worked on automatic & manual clearing & foreign currency revaluations.
• Did vertex configurations on the SAP side & worked on exception designing. Developed functional specifications for various custom reports.
• Configured payment program for Wire transfers, local checks, centralized check printing, direct deposits.
• Configured electronic Banking & automatic bank reconciliation.
• Worked on GL master, Vendor master, Customer master, & open item (for GL, AR & AP) conversion using LSMW & BAPI’s.
• Worked on periodic & annual closing procedures for FICO & cross stream modules.
• Configured settings for booking Inter Company Transactions for Consolidation.
• Worked on Budgeting, commitment management & automatic upload of CCA & PCA budgets.
• Worked on Validations & substitutions.
• Determined the sequence for scheduling the various background jobs and created Variants to be used while creating jobs on Maestro
• Developed integration test scripts & tested them in coordination with SD, PP & MM Modules
• Configured the required settings for acquisition through Lease, Posting Investment subsidies, Revaluation of assets, Posting Depreciation etc
• Configured necessary settings for Assets under construction and settling the same to Fixed Assets.
• Used BDC method to transfer the Asset master records from legacy system to SAP
• Used Report Painter, Report Writer for reporting during the implementation of the project and developed reports.
• Trained users to work on calculation and reporting taxes on a single platform to give them a better control on transaction tax compliance and make sure tax liability is determined accurately.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with all phases of implementation from development of business blueprint, conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, and configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting.
• The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process, organization structure finalizing and mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support
• Configured credit control area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program and Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category.
• Maintained number ranges for vendor and customer groups and also used report painter and report writer.
• Customized General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables and Accounts payable.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Configured automatic payment program for payments to vendors, created check lots, voided checks for payment blockage, and reissue of destroyed checks.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirement, transfers, depreciation calculation, write-offs and post capitalization.
• Configured necessary settings for Assets under construction and settling the same to Fixed Assets.
• Configured Global Settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, posting periods variant, field status variants and field status groups.
• Configured Account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master.
• Integration of MM and SD with FI accounts assignment.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, standard hierarchy, cost center groups and cost centers, activity types
• Created Statistical Key Figures which were used as tracing factors for periodic allocations, Periodic reposting of particular costs in which Cost Center Groups were used as receivers
• Defined Automatic Account Assignment, and planning layouts for cost center planning
• Created standard hierarchy, profit centers and dummy profit center, profit center groups, maintained Planner Profiles and defined Distribution, created Assessment Cost Elements and defined Assessments.

Confidential

SAP Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked Creation of G/L Master Data, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year and Posting Period
• Configuring Organizational Units and Basic Settings, Taxes, Documents
• Assigning of GL accounts to Financial Statement Versions.
• Setting up of user-defined Special G/L for reporting purposes.
• Configuration of Clearing and Reversal Accounts, Manual Accruals, Internal Correspondence, Balance Interest Calculation and Information System
• Reports configuration in Day-End Closing, Month-End Closing, Year-End Closing, Notes on Programs, Starting Programs and Printing Lists
• Configuration of Fiscal Year, Financial Statement Versions, Preparing Financial Statements, Planning and Documenting Posting Data
• Configuring Business Areas in General Ledger Accounting, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cost Accounting and Material Management
• Configuring Posting Document, Posting Key, Processing Posted Data, Updating Entered Data, Automatic Postings
• Designing Screen Layout, Preference Methods for Posting, Posting Documents in Foreign Currency, Cross-Company Code Transactions
• Experience in working in a global environment, work with multiple teams across multiple regions
• Configuring for open item processing, Preparing the functional specifications and testing of the report, Invoice verifications through MIRO, Open item clearing and Down payment
• Configuring automatic payment program and configuring dunning
• Process Remittance Payment advises to clear customer open items through automatic processing of BDC sessions.
• Worked on Organizational structure, Asset Classes, Integration with GL, Valuations, master data, Transaction types, data transfer, Settlement of Asset under construction, validations and Substitutions
• Mapping Business Process to Blue prints
• Special Purpose ledger Configuring and Customizing master data, defining tables, activities and field movements, maintaining sets, rollup ledgers, developing various reports using the Report Writer and Report Painter
• Helped troubleshoot and resolve trouble tickets from users for SAP Applications, in the module areas of CO Controlling, Finance (GL, AP, AR), and integration points between FI and MM/SD.