SUMMARY

• Strong experience in SAP Finance & Controlling, Material Management, Sales & Distribution and Production Planning with More than 9+ years of SAP R/3 functional consulting experience in Financial Accounting Module.
• Configuration and Customization experience in two full life cycle project implementations of SAP R/3 FI module as per the business process requirements. Good understanding of Integration of FI module with MM and SD modules including production support.
• Experience in project implementation stages: Business requirement collection; As - Is business process analysis and To-Be process development; Designing business processes; Configuration; Go-live support.
• Good communication, analytical, problem solving, investigative and decision making abilities with the ability to resolve problems and meet deadlines.
• Basic Debugging skills, an communicate with the ABAP consultant and taking part in RICEF
• Extensively worked in Interfaces with SAP and non SAP.
• General Ledger - Configuring and customizing chart of accounts, account groups, G/L master records, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, New GL configuration, Document Splitting, sample accounts, Local and Parallel Currency settings, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types financial statement versions, validations and substitutions.
• Accounts Payable - Vendor groups, Vendor master data, terms of payment, tolerances groups, Logistics invoice verification, interest calculation, automatic payments, Dunning, AP information system.
• Accounts Receivable - Customer groups, customer master data, tolerances, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, Dunning, Credit processing, incoming payments, AR information system, consignment process, customer credit.
• Asset Accounting - Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, retirement, settlements for assets under construction, settlement of WBS to fixed assets.
• Cost Center Accounting - Cost elements, Standard hierarchy, Cost centers groups, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center planning, Assessments, Distributions, Actual postings, and reconciliation ledgers, budget profiles.
• Profit Center Accounting - Configuring and Customizing the profit center hierarchy, Transfer prices, profit center planning, Planner profiles, distribution and assessment of costs, Actual postings, Period end closing, development of Reports.
• Profitability Analysis - Configuring the operating concern, Characteristics, Value fields, maintaining the derivation rules and structures, maintaining derivation tables, planning versions, planning layouts, planning profiles, creating Drilldown Reports.
• Project System: Responsible for Design and configuration of Project systems, Performed requirement collection and analysis for PS module a Configured WBS elements, networks and various business scenarios in PS
• Integration - Assigned G/L accounts for the predefined processes for integration with AM, SD and MM modules.
• Debugging: Basic debugging skills and knowledge in Interfaces
• SAP Simple Finance: Trained in Simple Finance module

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 FI/CO

Database: MS Access

Reporting Skills: Report Writer and Report Painter

Integration: FICO integration with MM, SD, PP and PS

Tools: ASAP Methodology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP Developer

Confidential - Franklin, TN

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the End user and gathering the requirements for the process
• Documenting the User requirement by interacting and understanding their necessities.
• Configured account groups, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, g/l account master records, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, financial statement versions, number ranges and document types.
• Fi-ar: in accounts receivables configured customer master data and master groups. Lockbox processing for incoming payments. Configuration of terms of payment and interest calculation on open items balance outstanding.
• Fi-ap: in accounts payable, created vendor master data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups. Configuration of payment program for posting invoices which included creating Confidential banks, bank accounts, checks.
• Configured special gl transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc.
• Configured settings for controlling area and operating concern, maintained versions.
• In cost element accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet etc.
• In cost center accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic repostings, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In internal orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution. Used bdc for uploading internal order master records.
• In profit center accounting maintained the master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions, and assignments. Configured profit center accounting planning included defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations.
• Worked on creating and assigning Work breakdown structures to internal orders in Project Systems.
• In profitability analysis (co-pa) configured both costing based co-pa and account based co-pa, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet. Defined various reports. Configured co-pa planning including creating planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• In product costing configured product cost planning and cost object controlling. In product cost controlling configured material cost estimate with quantity structure which included costing variant, valuation variant, cost component split, costing sheets, cost component structure, bom and routing settings, origin groups, overhead keys, and overhead groups. In cost object controlling configured product cost by order which involved product cost collectors and cost object hierarchies. These configurations involved costing sheets, setting default values for order type, template allocations, defining control parameters for work in process, variance calculations, and settlements (settlement profile, allocation structure, source structure and pa structure).
• Preparing User manuals for the end users

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Troy,MI

Responsibilities:

• Followed the ASAP methodology for the process which included Requirement gathering, creating blue print.
• Configured New GL Concepts like Document Splitting and Multiple Ledgers.
• Configured and customized Account Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) modules including creation of vendor master records, customer master records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination, default account assignments, payment advises, Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, Confidential Banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, invoice verification, credit management, check management, check layouts, reason codes. 3Way Match is configured for a check on the outgoing payments.
• Integration with other modules like MM and SD is also done. Reconciliation problems are solved between SD/FI and MM/FI Modules.
• MM/SD Integration is done to record inventory of products. Involved in cross plant distribution with SD/MM integration.
• Configured legal consolidation including maintaining of consolidation ledger, group currency, companies, subgroups, fs chart of accounts, financial statement items, transaction types, maintaining sets, versions, currency translation parameters, maintaining selected items.
• Develop training documents, conduct training session and transfer new system knowledge to both user and computer operations areas.
• Involved in Documentation of the whole process, post implementation support. Unit and Integration testing is done and send to Go-live.
• Worked on different reports which can be generated using the SAP system.
• Month End Activities, Depreciation run, Open and Close periods, recurring Entries etc
• Configured settings for controlling area and operating concern, maintained versions.
• In Cost Element Accounting involved in the creation of primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, Maintained Settlement Rules, settlement profile, Planning Profile, Budget Profile, availability control etc. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution. Used bdc (Batch Data Communication) for uploading internal order master records.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured both Costing Based CO-PA and Account Based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet. Defined primary and secondary segments, Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA planning including creating planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• In Product Costing configured product cost planning and cost object controlling, configured material cost estimate with quantity structure which included costing variant, valuation variant, cost component split, costing sheets, cost component structure, BOM and routing settings, origin groups, overhead keys, and overhead groups. In cost object controlling configured product cost by order which involved product cost collectors and cost object hierarchies
• Preparing Documents and conducting training for end users
• Extensive interaction with SD, in creating Order to Cash (OTC),process involving Presales activities, Sales order, Shipping process billing and payment
• Coordinated with the ABAP team for the RICEF requirement and testing

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Franklin,TN

Responsibilities:

• Customized General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting and Special Purpose Ledger Sub Modules in FI Module.
• Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules & Revenue Recognition
• Maintained Controlling areas and made assignments
• Configuring and Customizing Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules in CO
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) configured and customized the Standard Hierarchy for cost centers, maintained Activities, Statistical Key Figures, developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Configured and customized the settlement structures, cost splits for activity price calculations
• Used LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis
• Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics. Defined both basic reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at customer and product levels. Developed multiple reports for the reporting of profitability. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-PC/CO-IO/FI and MM, and carried out extraction of data from copa to SAP BW system
• Developed Report Writer and Report Painter Reports by Customer/Profit Center/Product/Period.
• Involved in FI/CO Data loads.
• Resolved the issues in Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Documentation and training on procedures for Finance (AR,AP,GL)
• Verified the Test Scripts executed including the Month End Closing Scripts
• Tested the settings on the development server and transported the settings onto the testing server for user testing and confirmation, and transported into the production server after user confirmation.
• Creating custom Reports on AR and AP by giving functional specifications to the ABAP team for development.
• Data-up load, by using ABAP designed BDC programs, Account assignment modules & LSMW.
• Documented the processes using standard templates.

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, NYC,NY

Responsibilities:

• Defined and configured company code, chart of accounts, account groups, assigned chart of accounts to company codes, templates for configuring recurring entries in GL postings, document types, number ranges, tolerance groups, fiscal year variants, field status groups, posting keys, document reversals, invoices and payments, defined account assignment models.
• Configured and defined customer/vendor master data, created customer/vendor account groups, defined payment terms, partial and residual payments, cash discounts, vendor invoices, payment advices, manual incoming/outgoing payments, payment proposal/payment schedule, automatic payment program, payment run, interest calculation, default account assignments, credit management, reason codes in Accounts Payable/Receivable (AP/AR).
• Defined and configured controlling area, assigned the company codes to controlling area.
• In Cost Element Accounting, Created primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups, assigned the cost elements to various cost centers, activating the reconciliation ledger and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• In Cost Center Accounting, Created cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, reconciliation ledgers, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting.
• In Profit Center Accounting, Configured the basic settings, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, assessment and distribution of costs.
• Created Internal Orders for various project implementations, assigned the costs incurred by internal orders from different cost centers, distributed the costs incurred by internal order to the respective cost centers.
• Configured Operating concern, costing based profitability analysis, created the characteristics, value fields and profitability segments used in profitability analysis,

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Responsibilities:

• Added new account groups, accounts to meet client’s requirements.
• Modified the existing structure to accommodate taxes.
• Involved in the Configuration of Customer and Vendor account groups.
• Created vendor accounts, customer accounts.
• Configured the Automatic Payment program, Payment terms, and Reason codes.
• Configured dunning and credit management programs.
• Involved in the integration of FI with SD and MM.
• Defined and configured controlling area.
• Defined cost element, cost center and cost center hierarchy.
• Configured activity types, statistical key figures.
• Configured cost allocation programs like assessments and distributions.
• Customized asset balance sheet.
• Customized reports for displaying account balances.
• Generated reports for overhead costs, statistical key figures, cost center variances.
• Generated test scripts and test data for testing various reports.
• Reported defects and followed up consistently with the implementers to ensure quality.

FICO consultant

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• As part of the implementation follow up team, I was solely responsible for supporting the finance and controlling functionality.
• Includes over all examine and providing support to the implementation teams. Also providing assistance and training to the power and super users of implemented company.
• Conducting periodical evolution and Quality testing of the finished tasks Supporting the Role-out teams
• Member of the team Responsible for netting procedure and intrastate reporting in the European Union.
• Responsible for the financial reporting tools required for Danube region companies in the European Union.
• Preparation of new financial statement versions and payment terms.
• Creation of Public holidays, holiday calendar and factory calendar.
• Conducting end user training and preparing user manuals.
• Preparation of business process documentation.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined and configured company code, chart of accounts, account groups, assigned chart of accounts to company codes, document types, number ranges, tolerance groups, fiscal year variants, field status groups, posting keys, document reversals, invoices and payments, defined account assignment models.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
• Configured and defined customer/vendor master data, created customer/vendor account groups, defined payment terms, partial and residual payments, cash discounts, vendor invoices, payment advices, manual incoming/outgoing payments, payment proposal/payment schedule, automatic payment program, payment run.
• Development of Enhancements, Preparation of Functional specifications, Mapping the business process in SAP, guide for the technical changes, Unit Testing.
• Monitoring of interfaces jobs on daily basis and ensuring the execution and processing of jobs.
• Confidential Bank Configuration and Payment files uploads