SUMMARY

• An astute certified professional with over 14+ years of extensive IT experience including 8+ years of SAP FI/CO functional experience in various aspects such as Requirement Analysis, Design, creating Functional Specifications Documents, Technical Design Documents, Development, Implementation, Testing, Performance Tuning and Application Support of various business applications and strong emphasis on financial applications, E - commerce applications using legacy and client server systems.
• Completed 3 full lifecycle implementations in SAP R/3 system, participated in all phases of ASAP Methodology: Project Preparation, Business Blue-Printing, Realization (including Test planning, Test case design and execution), Final Preparation and Go-Live & Support.
• Solid foundation in Financial, Managerial Accounting Concepts and good understanding in Taxation and Business Analysis.
• Configured and customized financial statement in compliance with IFRS, IAS & GAAP
• Extensive experience in Integration of FI with SD billing process & MM Purchasing process and Non-SAP systems
• Expertise in designing intercompany business process for FI module includes configuration experience of payment systems and fixed assets for intercompany postings
• Post implementation support in FICO module with emphasis on FI-GL, FI-AR, and FI-AP
• Worked on successful global implementations, version up-grades and system enhancement in SAP R/3 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0
• Extensive functional experience in FI-General Ledger (GL), FI-Accounts Payable (AP), FI-Accounts Receivable (AR), FSCM-Financial Supply Chain Management, FI-Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) and Product Costing (CO-PC).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Senior FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and implementing major enhancements and projects.
• Implemented automated AP/AR payment process. Experience included designing Payment method process, setting up Banks, EBS, Idoc interface and EDI settings
• Knowledge in Dolphin Invoicing process including OCR process.
• Participated in teh requirements gathering and Configuring Financial supply chain management (Credit management, Dispute Management and Collection Management)
• Configured and customized General Ledger Accounting - Creation of GL accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version.
• Configured FI-SD interface in teh areas of Enterprise Structure, Credit Management, and Customer master reconciliation account.
• Configured credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk Categories, and Credit Monitoring groups, discount overview.
• Created credit group representatives and assigned selected customers to those groups.
• Designed and configured interest calculation process for customer invoices in AR.
• Configured house banks, planning levels, Cash management account names, groupings structure.
• Configured lockbox and electronic bank statement.
• Configured intercompany between multiple company codes to do reconciliations for Procurement and Sales.
• Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocated number ranges to asset classes.
• Involved in teh creation of assets, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers (Intra Company and Inter Company) and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).
• Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, manual and unplanned depreciation. Involved in defining asset history sheets.
• Configured financial statement version.
• Supported 1099 process including data validation, generating spools and file for IRS e-filing.
• Defined Validations and Substitutions in Finance and controlling area to meet teh client specific requirements.
• Experienced in preparing test scripts, executing scripts and preparing training materials.
• Experienced in training end users and implementing and executing change management process.

Confidential, Miami, Florida

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and implementing major enhancements and projects.
• Implemented automated AP/AR payment process. Experience included designing Payment method process, setting up Banks, EBS, Idoc interface and EDI settings.
• Extensive experience in setting up EURO SEPA and GACH/GIRO payment process.
• Configured paying company codes for intercompany postings for Global Royalty Collections.
• Assisting client on planning and implementing for New G/L Migration project.
• Implemented new GL functionalities like Document splitting, parallel ledger reporting.
• Experience in creating Company Codes, Depreciation areas, Transaction types, Account determination, and Document splitting for controlling.
• Configured and customized General Ledger Accounting - Creation of GL accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version.
• Configured SD integration with FI-AR for Incentive Commission Management (ICM) and Royalty Discounts.
• Designed and configured interest calculation process for customer invoices in AR.
• Supported financial supply chain management.
• Configured foreign currency valuation and translation settings for multiple currency reporting.
• Configured financial statement version.
• Knowledge in Open Text VIM Invoicing process including KOFAX OCR process.
• Supported 1099 process including data validation, generating spools and file for IRS e-filing.
• Configured intercompany vendor and customers mapping and master data validation
• Configured supply chain management to meet teh client requirements.
• Defined Validations and Substitutions in Finance and controlling area to meet teh client specific requirements.
• Experienced in preparing test scripts, executing scripts and preparing training materials.
• Experienced in training end users and implementing and executing change management process.

Confidential, Peoria

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and executed integration test scenarios to test whole migration process related to Finance and its sub components.
• Configured Material cost estimate, maintained settlement structures, configuring WIP calculations, variance calculations and integrating CO-PC with FI, SD, MM and CO-PA, cost variants and valuation variants.
• Defined, configured, and documented Posting Logic, Commitment Updates, and teh integration and reconciliation between FM, FI, CO, and Project Systems
• Configured Intercompany reconciliations for Procurement and Sales. Designed and implemented reports to do business need
• For Funds Management (FM), Blueprinted, Designed, Built, Tested, and Cutover Cross Reference tables to translate legacy Funds Management data to SAP Funds Management structures. Re-worked existing Budget Structures into new sets of Budget Structures.
• Prepared control matrices which covers teh test plan of configuration settings/elements for Funds Management including Budget Controls, GL/SGL, AP & AR modules.
• Experience with configuring Product Costing and Material Ledger (MM) for new Plant rollouts and additional functionality related to Actual Costing, and resolving costing inconsistencies.
• Tested Budget versions, Budget profiles and Activation of Multi-year budget execution.
• Extensive experience implementing Account/Cost based COPA.
• Designed and implemented Global HR payroll GL posting interface with ADP.
• Implemented LSMW for many data conversations related FI module.
• Extensive experience with design and configuration of Asset Accounting.
• Very good integration knowledge of SD and MM modules.

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in preparation of Business Blueprint discussions with teh Board of Directors, upper level management, along with teh implementation partners.
• Gatheird in detail, teh technical and functional specifications for teh R/3 system configuration. Prepare teh documentation for teh same.
• Assisted teh team with teh configuration of company codes, tolerance groups for employees and vendors.
• Gatheird all teh accounting related information from teh legacy system (GL accounts, account groups, etc.) and configured it in teh new R/3 system.
• Configured system for Profit Centers, Cost Centers, Business Areas and Functional Areas.
• Assisted in configuring house banks, bank accounts, automatic payments, terms of payments and payment methods in AP/AR.
• Assisted and validated teh automatic payment program (F110) for different types of payments, such as checks, ACH and electronic bank statements.
• Configured all teh basic elements of New GL, AP, AR and AA.
• Experienced in creating check-lots, release blocked invoices, vendor invoice posted through invoice verification, printing checks with teh existing check number, manual check printing, cancel payment, reinstate teh check information in teh check register and A/P reporting.
• Tested teh R/3 system as per teh Business Blueprint documentation. Prepared teh Unit test cases and Integration test cases for teh various business process flows.
• Provided end-user training in New GL, AR, AP and AA to teh process owners, as well as core team-members, and also maintain detailed documentation.
• Assisted in teh go-live process. Provided support after go-live in various end-user questions and queries.

Confidential, Warren, New Jersey

Financial Systems Analyst

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS, SP2, JCL, NDM, FTP and MQ

Responsibilities:

• Involved in teh analysis, design and development of many projects.
• Implemented new functionality and did enhancements in teh existing system.
• Mostly worked with teh system that is responsible for A/R, Booking, Taxes, Collections and Write-Off’s.
• Responsible for creating, maintaining and relieving teh A/R for teh Customer Mobile usage.
• Worked in teh Billing system which creates teh Bills (A/R) for teh customer’s mobile usage.
• Created and maintained channels to receive teh online payments with credit card companies.
• Created and maintained teh LOCKBOX processes to get teh payments from Banks.
• Maintained APO data and process (automatic payment process).
• Maintained Installment payment process and interest calculation.
• Maintained teh booking and taxes.
• All along maintaining teh books in accordance with teh GAAP rules.
• Maintained teh collection systems and write-off systems.
• Acquired strong knowledge in Account Receivables, Collections, Write-offs and G/L Accounting. me have good working knowledge in teh Orders, Billing, Customer Care and Taxes.
• Contributed to teh idea of LOCKBOX redesign where payments can be processed in batches in real time.
• Part of teh team responsible for streamlining and improving APO (Automatic Payment Option). Redesigned teh database to remove redundant data and code to simplify teh process allowing different venues to process APO following one set of business rules.
• Added new property to Customer Profiles called Wallet enabling them to save financial information for reuse. Used MQ to send SMS to customers when APO payments were processed.
• Implemented real time reconnects.
• When payments from Hotline or Suspended customers were received, balances moved to current, reconnecting teh customer in real-time.
• Worked with teh Performance Analysis and Tuning team. Tuned many processes for better concurrency, reducing teh elapsed time and saving teh valuable CPU time. Result increased system availability and removed negative dependencies.
• Involved in design, development, and implementation and documenting teh Commit-Restart Process.