SUMMARY

• SAP FICO functional Consultant wif a strong financial accounting background.
• Total 13 Years of Experience, out of which 9 years of SAP FICO experience in different Industries and 4years of functional experience in the area of accounts and finance in manufacturing industry.
• Worked in 5 Full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodology wif experience in all project phases - Business blueprint, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support and post live production support, wif documentation.
• Worked in 4 Support Projects for different versions in SAP.
• Experience in migration of ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 implementations.
• Strong SAP Configuration experience in FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PC, EC-PCA and CO-PA.
• Experience in FSCM - Dispute management, Collections and Credit management and Treasury & Risk management. Travel Management and New GL configuration
• Strong experience in integration aspects covering Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, HR/Payroll integration wif FI/CO and Production Planning.
• Experience working on production support activities and expertise in resolving the production support issues as per service level agreements (SLAs).
• Monitored and Conducted User Acceptance and Integration (SIT) Testing, Training, Documentation, Development, Production support & Customer care.
• Experience in FI data archival
• Strong noledge in SAP PS-Project Systems, MM, SD and PP modules
• Planned and Supervise Core team & End User Strategies for Cut over, Data migration, transition, authorization & workflow.
• Good command on Report Painter / Writer, ABAP Query, data conversion using LSMW.
• Experience in designing, building, testing and deploying SAP FICO technical solutions, emphasizing RICEFs (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Forms) design and development.
• Experience in working wif BDC, LSMWto migrate data from Legacy system to SAP.
• Experience working wif,IDOCS,User-Exits, substitutions & validations, BAPI, BADI and BTE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ohio

Sr FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the team for planning, coordinate/conduct testing and create clear testing documentation;
• Monitoring operation of SAP technical components (batch jobs, interfaces, messaging, etc.);
• Provided training to Business users. Raised many improvement needs for systems and processes;
• Designed and developed Vendor master data template for Confidential professional where the requestor uses electronic form to enter the vendor information for all accounting activities.
• Instrumental in the design of converting existing US Confidential Professional Trade processes and transactions to the NPB model
• Handling issues related to validations/substitutions, FI- MM integration, FI-SD integration, house banks, automatic payment program, dunning, customer clearing etc.
• Identified the recurring issues, provided root cause analysis and solutions to fix the issues permanently.
• Involved in process design, mapping and business process re-engineering to match the client requirements wif SAP. Worked closely wif ABAP development team for carrying out new enhancements, Interfaces and reports.
• Providing support for the month end closing activities.

Confidential, Maplewood, Minnesota

Sr FI/Treasury Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead responsibilities include ensuring dat the SLAs for the incidents are on target, ensure dat continuous improvements are presented and delivered to the client.
• Resolved the issues treasury and risk management especially money market, short term and long term debt management, Derivatives and foreign exchange.
• Configuring new port folios as and when required as per the diversity of the business.
• Providing support in the areas of house banks, automatic payment program, dunning, customer clearing etc.
• Worked on IHC - External payments by cheque, incoming payments and cash pooling, external returns and internal returns.
• Worked on Integration between Treasury and accounts as per the business requirements.
• Provided support in cash and liquidity management.

Confidential, Winston-Salem, NC

SAP Sr FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS - TO-BE).
• Represented the FI CO team during the design phase to present the AS-IS and TO-BE processes. Prepared design documents, functional Specifications for custom objects.
• Configured new general ledger, leading and non-leading ledgers, document splitting, accounting principles, variants, valuation area, methods, account assignment types, account determination.
• Worked on procure to Pay(P2P) and Order to cash process (OTC)
• Configured various payment methods, Automatic payment program and Set up house banks for ACH, Wires and check payments.
• Worked as a liaison between the Bank of America, CITI bank and the client development team to gather requirements on incoming payments and outgoing payments interface using EDI.
• Configured Electronic bank statement (EBS) for Lockbox and MT940 formats.
• Configured FI integration wif MM and SD and HR.
• Product Costing (COPC): Configuring Material Cost Estimate wif and wifout Quantity Structure, Maintained Settlement Structures, Configuring Variance Calculations and WIP Calculation, Setting of Activity and Maintaining Planning for Overhead Cost and Integrating COPC wif SD, MM and COPA, Cost Variants, Valuation Variants.
• Profitability Analysis: Configuring, maintaining user defined characteristics and characteristic hierarchy and Characteristic derivation, configuring valuation strategies, Costing Sheets and Condition tables, deriving value flows from SD, MM and FI to COPA, assessment cycles for value flow from CO to COPA and customized various profitability reports. Maintain Versions.
• Prepared functional specs, test scripts, testing and end user training materials for configured functionalities.
• Worked wif ABAP team to design forms using SAP script, SMART Forms for critical business processes for payments via US check, remittance advices, dunning forms and customer statement forms.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

SAP Sr FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided gap analysis for business requirements and other issues dat might effect the business units. Ensured a strong, team-oriented working relationship.
• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS - TO-BE).
• Configured and managed all Period-End closing activities wif Schedule Manager, Capitalized Assets
• Created reconciliation accounts for AP and AR and configured AP including vendor account groups, number ranges and tolerance groups.
• Uploaded AP master data and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for AP for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Handled issues related to Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules wif FI and CO modules.
• Configured Bank Accounting (BA) including defining House Banks, Lockbox for House Banks, Bank Chains and also configured Lockbox.
• Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements.
• Created customized reports using report painter/report writer.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements in CO and worked on Month end/Year end closing procedures.
• Responsible for FI-MM integration; configured automatic account determination, ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).

Confidential

SAP Sr FI-CO and Treasury

Responsibilities:

• Implemented CIN - TDS, TCS, VAT and Service Tax, ensuring the Statutory compliance through SAP.
• Instrumental in developing Critical MIS reports for Top management.
• End to end implementation of Treasury and Risk Management - Loans, Fixed deposits, Commercial Papers, Bank Guaranty and letter of Credit as part of money market. OTC derivatives, Cash management and FX
• Defined flow types, update types and condition types as per the business requirement. Product types for Money market instruments, Foreign exchange and Interest rate swap.
• Training Manuals for treasury and Risk Management has created and hands on training imparted to the business users.
• Support provided for the Controlling module -Cost center Accounting, Internal order and Profit center accounting, Product costing and COPA.
• Worked on solution manager, Sol Man 4.0 for Issue tracking.
• Conducted vendor evaluation for third party tools for XBRL using scorecards. Supporting the non SAP tools for XBRL reporting for more than 50 entities for ROC filing
• Worked in Data Archiving. Performed data archiving activities for FI, CO and Special Purpose ledger.
• Responsible for providing production support activities and resolving the all high, medium and low priority issues according to SLA’s for all the areas of FICO, Treasury modules.
• Implemented system controls using User exits, substitution, Validations and business transaction events (BTE)
• Responsible for supporting month and year-end activities.

Confidential

Senior SAP FI-Treasury Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement gathering of current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers.
• Designed and configured Organization Structure. Configured FI- GL, AR, AP, Banking and Asset accounting.
• Configured Treasury and risk management configuration which involves Money Market, Forex, Credit risk analyzer.
• Integrating FI module wif MM, SD and HR.
• Implemented Asset Accounting as per the companies act
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices and payments, document entry, GL postings and recurring entry programs.
• User training provided in the areas of GL, Fixed Assets, AR, AP and Banking
• Provided production support for FI and Treasury modules.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all the phases of implementation, from Project Preparation, As-Is study, To-Be Analysis (Workshops), GAP analysis of Business process document signoff, realization, End User training and GO LIVE, Post Implementation support
• Configured FI &Co Enterprise Structure. GL, Vendor, Customer, Banks and Assets were configured as per the Business Requirement.
• Implemented Asset Accounting in SAP as per business requirements. The chart of depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Account Determinations, Asset Classes, Depreciation Keys, Asset transactions (acquisition, transfers, Retirement), Intercompany asset transfers.
• Configured Banking - Banking Master Data, Check Management, Bills of Exchange Management, Payment transactions which includes Electronic Bank Statements, Manual Bank Statements, Cash Journal and Automatic payment program.
• Implemented CO- IO, CCA and PCA. Defined Internal Order for different order types, maintained Settlement profile and Settlement structure. Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders.
• Financial statement versions were configured as per the requirements of Schedule VI.
• Configured Travel management module. Training manuals prepared and training imparted to the business users.
• FI - MM, SD and HR integrations were configured as per the business process.