SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of diversified domain, functional experience in SAP FICO/MM implementations
• Four years of Treasury, Lockbox experience, cash management, Liquidity forcast and House bank configuration with credit card processing experience
• Expert in invoice verification, assigning single and multiple account assignment.
• Experienced in Two full lifecycles of SAP FI/CO implementations.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade / new implementation / integration, import of data from other external system to SAP using LSMW
• Worked on Global Template design.
• Responsible for the documentation of the functional specifications, configuration and preparation of training material.
• Responsible in implementation of Financial Accounting: General Ledger (GL), Special Purpose Ledger, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Treasury, and Asset Accounting.
• Involved In Credit Management
• Expertise in configuration and customizing of G/L Master records, Chart of accounts, Field status groups, Financial Statement Version, Output Tax and with hold tax
• Worked on Vertex, Taxware, E - commerce and Sabrix(US/CANADA)
• Worked in configurations of Chart of Depreciation area, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas. Strong knowledge in Asset Accounting (Fixed Assets), Lockbox and comfortably handles to acquaint/transfer/add/sale the depreciation areas
• Experience in BPC in AP,AR, GL
• Excellent knowledge in Controlling and ability to create the Cost Centers, Standard Hierarchies, activity types, statistical key figures, assessments & distributions
• Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, Product Cost Controlling and Profit Center Accounting of Enterprise Controlling.
• Knowledgable in SAP CO-PA, Taxware/Vertex, SOA and BPC Outlooksoft.
• Configuring Manual Bank Statement and Electronic Bank Statements
• Worked on Master data configurations for G/L, Cost centers, Internal order, Cost Element, Profit center, Funds Center, Commitment Item, Asset, Customer.
• In CO-PA I checked Direct posting from F1, document Values, MM values, Internal orders, activity types and cost centers.
• In CO-PA Expert in Operating concern, Characteristics, Value fields, maintaining the Derivation rules and Structures.
• Huge experience in Validation, Substitution, Report Painter and LSMW
• Provided expert support & training to the SAP users, worked for resolve the application problems efficiently to minimize business disruption
• Ability to make timely and sound decisions based on logical assumptions, factual information or strong intuition. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong analytical ability & problem-solving capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R\3 4.6b, 4.6c, 4.7, 5.0, 6.0

SAP Interfaces: BDC, RFC, ALE, IDOC, EDI

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX and Windows95/98/2000/NT/XP

GUI Tools: Microsoft Visio

MS Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston(TX)

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 version ECC6.0, FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO PCC, CO PA, SD and MM integration

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Created G/L Accounts, Vendor, Customer Master Data and all business transactions for Accounts Payable / Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration.
• Involved in Configured reconciliation accounts and alternative reconciliation accounts.
• Configured tolerance groups for employees, G/L accounts, Vendors and Customers.
• Create Number Ranges for Documents, Vendors and Customers.
• Created Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Assign Reconciliation Accounts for Vendor Master Records and assets.
• Configured House banks for vendor automatic payment.
• Create Treasury Groups, creating House Bank Configuration
• Using Cash position report and Liquidity forecast report to find cash Position(Treasury)
• Maintain (ABA) American Banking Association(Treasury), Electronic Check deposit
• Using Electronic Bank Reconciliation(Treasury), Electronic bank statement procession
• Experience in Lockbox configuration as well as find the cash management position and Liquidity fore cast report
• Worked on configurations step for Automatic payment
• Configuration: Whole configuration was done using Solution Manager by updating the business process.
• Maintain Different exchange rate types for Valuation conversion, translation and planning
• Maintain currency Exchange rates
• Using (Exchange rate Spreads) tool for maintaining the exchange rates for currencies
• Worked in exchange currencies on Average Rate(M), Buying (B) and Sellying (G)
• Working experience with the SAP BPC Business Planning and Consolidation application and Product Costing for COGS.
• Using BPC business outlook soft, managed operational planning, critical financial, reporting, budgeting and analytic requirements.
• Involved in configuration of Base currency and Translation between two Foreign Currencies
• Working experience with TCURR table (currency exchange Table)
• Involved in Data Cleansing and removed redundancy data, created LSMW script from scratch and uploaded the file into SAP
• Configured for Vendor Down payments and Customers Advanced payments.
• Configured Customers and Vendors Invoice, Incoming and Outgoing Payment to meet the need of the organization.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas and Depreciation Keys
• Configured steps for Automatic payment.
• Involved in Production support issues in Automatic payment process
• Involved in Production support issues in tax configuration in R/3
• Credit card processing: Worked on Credit card processing using AR module through middle ware (payware and Caledon) for US and Canada.
• Configuration of Lockbox processing.
• Configured TAX calculation procedure TAXUSJ, tax jurisdiction code, tax codes Maintained tax codes and taxable percentage rate calculation, defined tax codes for Non taxable transactions
• Worked on Treasury, Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, posting rules, exchange rates, planning, integration with MM and SD.
• Electronic bank reconciliation, Check deposit. Configuration of relevant settings i.e. Settings for Treasury, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, Bank Reconciliation, House Banks Settings, GL and Sub Ledger Master Data Settings.
• Integration of SD and FI

Confidential, Omaha(NE)

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 version ECC6.0, FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO PCC, CO PA, SD and MM integration

Responsibilities:

• GL Configuration settings, House Bank, Interest Calculation, Foreign Currency Exchange Rate and Valuation to suit client organization parameters.
• G/L Accounts, Vendor, Customer Master Data and all business transactions for Accounts Payable/Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration.
• Implemented customization in the areas of AP-payment program, AR-credit control, dunning, customer master data, retained earning account assignment, employee tolerance, customer tolerance, field status for GL Account groups.
• Configured Customers and Vendors Invoice, Incoming and Outgoing Payment to meet the need of the organization.
• Involved in master data Creating of General Ledger, Vendor and Customer master data
• Tested the generation of Reports in respect of Account statements, Special Reports to reflect due date forecast analysis, Purchasing/Sales lists, Open item analysis, Balance sheet and Profit and Loss account statements.
• Enhancements to existing VALIDATION and SUBSTITUTION for FI module.
• Maintained cost center categories and configured additional cost centers.
• Configured and implemented Product Costing Module, determined the Activity type to ensure cost composition with BOM, Routing and Costing sheet acquire accurate data via the valuation variant.
• 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 Programmers and test the data flow.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 version 5.0E, FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO PCC, CO PA, SD, PM and MM integration.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements for implementing SAP R/3 and defined the business process procedures as per the client requirements.
• Examined the company’s document flow vis-à-vis SAP process flow and recommended suitable validation procedures for documents at header and line item level.
• Mapping requirements and providing the best solution involving evaluation, defining scope of the project and finalization of project requirements.
• Configured settings for Fiscal year variants, Chart of accounts, Posting period variants, Field status groups, G/L Accounts, Account groups, Retained Earning Account and Tolerance groups for their employees.
• Configured the Customer and Vendor Master Data
• Worked on Clearing of Vendor and Customer Open Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for Payment Program, Payment Analysis Printing, Periodic Processing and Correspondence.
• Create Check lots for House bank and setup Automatic payment for vendors and customers.
• Used Read Software to automatically classify and sort the invoices
• Configured step for vendor discount (AP) and customer discount (AR)
• Worked on Cash Management Functionality
• Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM): Worked on credit and collections (C&C) management for debt recovery system. Created a workflow for Bad debts and approval processes in Credit and collection department.
• Worked in dispute management with credit & collection management to update account status and risk category of customers
• In Treasury, worked on issues in lockbox processing, cash management, cash concentration and bank statement processing
• Interest calculation, creating interest indicators and setting up the interest run program according to the client’s needs.
• Tax calculation using E-commerce, printing of invoices, settlement of credit card transactions using Paymetric and to create credit memo requests in case of returns/refunds
• Created E-commerce tax reports for US State summary, US invoice summary, input and output taxes, EC Sales lists, Intrastate reports and Audit extract reports
• Configured Stock transport order, Involved with external TAX system software (Vertex) in the pricing, Credit and Debit notes, standard order to billing, Return Order
• Defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas and depreciation keys, account determination, number ranges and other configuration Worked on Cost Element accounting and Cost Center Accounting
• Configured Internal orders by defining order types, internal orders, screen layout, allocation structure and settlement profile.
• Goods receipts invoice payment, verification, parking and releasing of invoice.
• Worked on LSMW for Migrating data from legacy system to SAP
• Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines, extending post-implementation and maintenance support.
• Provided support to UAT (Create, Change Vendor, Vendor Account Group, Vendor Block, and Delete Vendor), finished manual cutover tasks and Go-Live and documented the process
• Assist the users and Prepared the User’s training manuals and documents

Confidential, Indianapolis (IN)

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 version 4.6c, FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA & integration with SD and MM

Responsibilities:

• Identified business processes in SAP FI/CO to enable integration between various functionalities in a cross functional team.
• Conducted system study and coordinating with team members for requirements mapping, system design & integration, implementation, etc.
• Configured the business flow to vendors (AP)/ Customers (AR) in various areas like payment terms (Discounts), down payments from vendors, advanced payments from customers, process payment runs, and manual processing of incoming payments, running/editing Dunning proposals, and Reconciliation accounts in the GL.
• Created House bank of automatic payments for vendors.
• Creating payment proposals and payment program/FBZP and configuration of settings for payment release and interest calculation.
• Worked on asset retirement and settlement profile.
• Maintained cost center categories and configured additional cost centers.
• Created asset Class determination and Screen layout in order to create and Asset master records.
• Worked on AUC (Asset under Construction) for unfinished assets.
• Worked on Cost Element accounting and Cost Center Accounting.
• Worked on Solution Manager
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, statistical key figures, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, activity types and planning them on different cost centers, planned and actual activity price calculations.
• Created internal order for fixed asset cost assessment.
• Configured Taxes for the Gabonese and Equatorial Guinea sites (tax jurisdiction codes for suppliers, vendors) using SAP integration with Vertex
• Worked on Payroll taxation, gross to net calculations and third party remittances using SAP integration with Vertex.
• Define Tax procedure and tax codes including VAT configuration, Integration of Company Code to all other sub module, multiple currency, worked on interfaces like Vertex and developed FI reporting for corporate office.
• Responsible for Integration of FI-MM and FI-SD modules.
• Providing the solution for Procure 2 pay process- Vendor Master, Material Master Purchase Info-Record, Source List and maintained quota arrangement, Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order (PO), Contract, Schedule Agreement, Pricing Procedures, Release Strategies, Split valuation, MRP
• Involved in Data Migration From Legacy system to SAP (LSMW)
• Developed Test Scripts and Test Scenarios. Actively involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Designing and executing test plans and gap analysis to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled.
• Provided support to UAT (Create, Change Vendor, Vendor Account Group, Vendor Block, and Delete Vendor), finished manual cutover tasks and Go-Live and documented the process
• Performed Application enhancements, Maintenance and Production Support.
• Handled the production issues raised by the Corporate & Business end users and resolved them.

Confidential, Rochester (MN)

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 version 4.7E, FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP & integration with SD and MM.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for GL, AP, AR period ending and year ending Closing operations such as balancing the entries, Recurring entries, Interest calculations, Closing & Opening Posting periods
• Defined Account Groups and Screen layouts for Customers & Vendors
• Configured Customer and Vendor Master Data, FOREX transactions, Account Determination, Down payments and Automatic payments
• Configured Automatic Bank Reconciliation Process
• Configured LSMW programs for Vendor Demotion Program
• Worked on RICEF Objects and provided the specs to ABAP Programs
• Post go live support on GL, AR, AP, Cost Element Accounting(CO-CE), Cost Center Accounting(CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting(EC-PCA) Modules and interacted with end users for providing technical and functional help for the above module
• Configuring Inventory Management Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc.,
• Used Vertex to consolidate and determine all the domestic and international taxes
• Good experience working on SAP tax processing, computing and recording tax on post-purchase goods movement transactions by using the Tax engine Vertex
• Configured tax exemption certificates in Vertex and mapped product codes, jurisdiction codes, product categories in Vertex
• Trained the business users to work with Vertex Tax engine to analyze the tax results on overall tax-impacted transactions.
• Involved in setup RFC (Remote Functional calls) for 3rd party external tool Vertex
• Creating storage location automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt
• Configuring special stocks in Inventory management for Subcontracting, and Consignment materials.
• Customized Physical inventory documents and posting of the difference quantity for carrying out physical inventory using cycle counting.
• Provided production support in the areas of GL, AR, AP and CO-PA modules along with the integration of GL with pricing, billing and order management.

Confidential, Chicago (IL)

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 version 4.6c, FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA & integration with SD and MM

Responsibilities:

• Configured settings in the GL, house bank, interest calculation, foreign currency exchange rate and valuation, GR/IR clearing account and automatic clearing to suit client organization parameters.
• Prepared configuration setting for cross company code transactions, line item display, and open item processing for G/L, AR and AP.
• Configured fiscal year variant, posting periods, tolerance groups for employees, G/L Accounts, Vendors and Customers.
• Created Chart of Accounts and automatic Cost elements.
• Create Reconciliation Accounts for Customer and Vendors
• Created terms of payment and tax code on purchase and sales.
• Configured master data of vendors and customers.
• Configured incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment to meet the need of the organization.
• Created cost elements, cost elements group, cost center, cost center group, profit center, and profit center hierarchy.
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry programs.
• Configured Characteristics, value fields, define derivation rule for User defined Characteristics.
• Involved in creating Valuation Strategies in CO-PA
• Reviewed mapping of SD conditions (Revenue interface) to ensure smooth DATA FLOW to CO-PA.
• Evaluated the current process for Product Costing Module and ascertained Cost Object Controlling (Analysis of actual cost) by Production Order and Sales Order (manufacturing scenario) vis-à-vis the Standard Cost.
• Implemented for 23 products the Product Cost Estimate with quantity structure and configured 13 BOM’s and 17 Routings. Overhead was allocated on a predetermined percentage value as per historical rates.