SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of professional experience in Finance, Procurement, Inventory, Logistics, Warehousing and Sales in Building Technology, Communication, Software, Minerals, Retail, Energy & Gas sector, Automobile and FMCG industries
• Over 5 years of experience in SAP (FI/CO) Accounting with an aptitude in achieving organizational goals and objectives.
• Two Full life cycle implementation using ASAP methodology, expertise of “As Is” and GAP analysis, Business processes, Requirements gathering, Blueprint, Realization, Configuration, Cutover activities, Unit & Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Preparation of Test Scripts, Authorization design for Roles with Security team, End Users Training, Pre & Post Go Live Support.
• Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules - GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and knowledge in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Product costing (CO-PC) and special purpose ledger
• Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles
• Worked on SAP New GL functionality with ECC 6.0 and knowledge of with New GL including its functionalities for Document splitting.
• Cross Functional Knowledge of Overall Business Processes in Energy, Trading, Construction and Manufacturing Industries.
• Strong functional experience in Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Integration, Testing, User Training and Support.
• Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross applications
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
• Well-rounded exposure to all back office Finance and Accounting functions for over 10 years with progressively increasing Accounting and Financial Analyses responsibilities and Process Management.
• Excellent communication, quantitative and qualitative analytical skills combined with presentation and negotiation skills.
• Confident and energetic; professional and team oriented.
• Strategic thinker with a strong technical aptitude

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 Version, ECC 6.0

Operating Systems: MS Dos, Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Windows/NT and Linux.

Databases: SQL, MS Access and Oracle.

MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, MS Visio and Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Functional Analyst - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business meetings, workshops to understand the AS-IS system and design the To-Be System, developed detailed Business blueprint and functional specifications documents
• FI-AP: GL Account mapping and Configuration of Automatic Account assignments (OBYC: FI-MM Integration) for Automatic Postings and definition of Tolerances and Automatic GR/IR clearing. Vendor Settlements using Automatic Payment (F110)
• Configured Accounts Receivable - Customer Account Groups, Number ranges, Customer Master setup, configured payment terms, methods, Business Partners and deployed and trained users on FI based Customer Invoices and Credit Memos
• Configured Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, Field Status Groups), Dunning, Reporting.
• Prepared test scripts and supported to cycles of integration testing. Delivered user training sessions.
• Provided Go-Live and Post-Implementation Support by resolving problems relating to reports, training and balance upload.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6

Confidential

Functional Analyst - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• As a team member involved in all phases of implementation from development of business blue print to end-user training and Go-live. Involved in defining requirements, process Reengineering configuration integration testing and training.
• Involved in development functional process designed and configured client organizational structure as specified.
• Configured company codes, created and maintained chart of accounts and financial accounting global settings.
• Configured document types, posting period variants, fiscal period variants and financial statement versions.
• Customized vendor master data, customer master data and specified number ranges.
• Created G/L master records and Reconciliation Accounts and sub-ledgers.
• Configured employee and vendor tolerance groups.
• Tested G/L transactions for fast entry screens, posting parking and reversals.
• Customized account groups, field status groups and posting keys.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts check lots and void reason codes.
• Configured setting reasons automatic payment program for interest calculation on account balances and Line items
• Worked with the ABAP for customization of FI/CO tables and user exists.
• Configured cost and profit centers, CCA allocations, primary and secondary cost elements activities statistical key figures and substitutions.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6

Confidential

Functional Analyst - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the business blue print involving appropriate field mapping.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Maintain associated development, support and configuration activities within SAP environment in FI/CO functional areas
• Sort tickets and conduct configuration changes to accommodate change requests and prototype activities.
• Worked in collaboration with senior business leads, technical and functional off shore SAP Teams on various projects to gather requirements, analyse, design functional specification for enhancements and fixes
• Respond to user requirements, problem resolution, develop designs, and process modelling.
• Knowledge of Foreign Currency Valuation re-designed and tested (FSV) Financial Statement Versions.
• Gathered Requirements, conducted Fit-Gap Analysis and documented them as Business Process Design Documents (BPD).
• Configured and maintained house banks and multiple bank accounts alternate bank selections for payments, assigned check lots and defined void reasons codes.
• Worked on integration of FI/CO with MM and SD for inventory valuation, movement’s types, damaged stocks and functions such as GR and invoice verification, order management, pricing, delivery, transportation and billings.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6

Confidential

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Configured financial accounting global settings, chart of accounts, GL account grouping and retained earnings account.
• Configured document types, posting period, field status, fiscal year and financial statement versions. Defined templates for recurring entries, posting keys, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications.
• Created account group for local and international vendors and terms of payment. Configured employee, vendor tolerance groups and reason code.
• Configured automatic payment program, interest calculations on open items and foreign currency valuation.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups and assigned number ranges, configured automatic and manual cost element creation.
• In cost center accounting, defined and assigned standard hierarchy, validations and substitutions.
• Configured profit center accounting, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, exchange rate types, distribution, assessment of costs and statistical key figures.
• Worked on functional design for custom developments, interfaces and report generation.
• Provided training to super users and end users
• Provided support for FI-MM and FI-SD integration

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6

Confidential

SAP Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system and worked on improvement, recommended, scheduled and performed software improvements, interface and upgrades.
• Provided support to the Business user regarding issues in General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting in day to day activities.
• Issues solved during creating the new Customer, Vendor, and House Banks, Payment methods, Automatic payment Program, Dunning Process and reporting.
• Prepare financial reports and statements for the management
• Preparation of training materials for End user
• Providing Support to End Users on day to day Activities.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6