SUMMARY

• Over 11+ years of SAP wif functional modules experience and business information systems, analysis and development.
• 4 Full Life Cycle Implementation, upgrade and rollout experience.
• Expertise wif definition of functional requirements, process improvement, and project scope definition, blue printing, gap analysis, configuration, testing, documentation, full life cycle implementation and support.
• Proficiency in the configuration of financial accounting(FI); Classic & New General Ledger(FI - GL), Account Receivable(AR),Accounts Payable(AP), Asset Accounting (AA)Lease Accounting(FI-LA).
• Controlling experience in configuration CO Enterprise structure and testingCost Center accounting(CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Material Ledger, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Internal Orders,Profit Center Accounting (PCA), andCredit Management, business partners (BP). Extensive experience in New General Ledger Functionality ECC 6.0, FSCM-Credit, Collections and Dispute Management.
• Configuration and Implementation of New GL wif excellent experience in document splitting, parallel accounting, real time integration, parallel ledger and segments.
• Experience wif fiscal year end closing, month-end close processes in all FICO areas.
• Data Migration and Cut-over Activities: Extensive use of Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW). Involved wif pre-go live activities and good rapport wif ABAPers in providing guidance in uploading of legacy data, developing customized reports, etc.
• Extensive noledge in all phases of the System Development Life Cycle, including: Analysis, ( ex:, working wif the end-users collaboratively to understand their needs and translating them into functional specifications, executing risk/issue identification and tracking) ; Design, ( ex. working to develop system and process solutions);
• Testing, (ex: developing relevant test cases and executing regression system/integration/regression testing, coordination of user acceptance testing); Cutover/Implementation, (ex: executing actions for successful deployment); Post-implementation (ex: develop operational support documents and administer support of end users’ use of system functionality, support post-implementation tasks resolution).
• Expert in writing the functional and technical specs,worked on SAP business one Inventory revalution, Fiscal year close setting up of administration .
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature wifin the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature wif SD module, Debtor's management, including credit control, Worked on Concur Integration wif T&E .
• Expertise in different phases in FULL life cycle implementation (Global Implementation) of SAP using SDLC, ASAP methodologies including business process re-engineering, System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Documentation, and Testing.
• Worked extensively in the areas of FI, CO, conversant wif other packages like taxware, vertex, OneSource (Sabrix), Open text, Vistex, etc.
• Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing the operating concern, Custom characteristics, value fields, maintaining the derivation rules and valuation, Summarization, creating Drilldown Reports and Planning .Expertise in the Configuration of Cash Application for FI-AR. And reconciling payments efficiently Worked extensively on Accounting Modules like Finance (FICA,GL, AP, AR, AM, FM, FSCM) and Controlling (CCA, me/O, PCA, COPA and CO-PC).
• Extensively worked onEDI IDOC(inbound, outbound, mapping wif third party logistics service providers, message type, segment extension, IDoc monitoring, posting)/ALE(distribution model maintenance, logical system, ports, partner profiles
• Provide process and application supportand training for business unit related to product and processdevelopment and information management
• Reporting - My extensive noledge in SAP report writer and report painter, Report drilling down, SAP Query Business Object, BW and BO Crystal reporting enables me to determine whether a solution requires just a report or a new SAP functionality
• Customer-focused, service attitude, working wif all levels of the organization, both technical and non-technical. Ability to work wif different external interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments wif well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills wif problem solving ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Accounting (FI): New General Ledger, Classic GL, Foreign currency valuation, Sales /Purchase Taxes (Vertex), Document Splitting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Special Purpose Ledger, Order to Cash Process, Procure to Pay, Travel Management, Project system, Funds and Grants Management module, Migration to New GL Activating New GL, Lease Accounting(LA).

Controlling: Cost center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profit center accounting, Internal Orders, CO-Profitability Analysis and Product costing.

Reporting: Report Painter and Report Writer

Integration: Integration of FICO wif MM, PP, PM, PS and SD modules and other packages like taxware, vertex, OneSource (Sabrix), Vistex, Opentext etc.

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Power Point, Tally Accounting - 7.2, 9.1, Sabrix (Onesource), Open Text.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In the Business blueprinting phase, gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings wif key users and drafted business blueprint documentation. Performed GAP Analysis, documented and prototyped between current business practices and standard SAP functionality. Lead the realization, testing phase. Supported client after Go-Live.
• Analyzed business requirements, determined organizational structure and classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas, cost centers and profit centers.
• Standard Cost Estimate run configuration involving setting up Cost Component Structure, Costing Sheets and Costing Variants for monthly and yearly costing runs .Worked on CO-PA Costing based and account based.
• Reviewed existing reports and determined changes to be made in light of changes to organizational hierarchy. Worked on several issues related to Accounts Receivables (AR), FSCM, Accounts Payable (AP) and General Ledger (GL), Product Costing.
• As a core member for full cycle implementation ofSAP FI/CO module, gathered business process information and compiled theAS-IS, TO-BE and GAP analysisof the SAP R/3 system. Performed assessment of business requirements, mapping wif SAP functionality.
• Collections Management: Evaluate, document and design collections Strategy using FSCM functionality .
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated. And Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions and making changes, migrating them, completing the ticket and communicating the change to the concern support person, who can tan resolve and close the issue.
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code (wif the halp of ABAP Programmer) and identifying the problem resolution. If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change detail to concern group.
• As a Senior SAP FICO Consultant, updated the Successful Configuration and Implementation of FI (GL, AR, AP) and CO settings on the development server and ultimate transportation on to the testing and production servers.
• Reviewed and modified the Configuration of ERP structure and Financial Accounting global settings: key settings being company code, Business area, fiscal year variants, field status variant, open and close posting periods, document types and document number ranges and validations.
• Configured CCA by creating cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Create internal orders, Set Planner Profile, Plan costs for order, Check Settlement Rules, Execute Settlement of planned costs for order, Confirm Correct Settlement
• Activity type planning, Budgeting, planning statically key figures, Cost Element planning, plan distribution, Internal Activity planning, plan assessment, activity input planning, indirect activity allocation, plan reconciliation, planned price iteration,
• Responsible for training team members on, and for facilitating the creation of global business process flows related to Accounts payable; which includes FI-AP and MM-LIV invoice entry, exception handling and the payment program.
• Analysis of existing process of Procure to pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (OTC).
• Advance inbound and outbound electronic banking configuration like wire, ACH process, lockbox file, Electronic Bank statements and Integration wif PI for generating payment outdoor.
• Responsible for configuration and implementation of SAP In-House Cash module for central cash payments process, Central incoming receipts which include customer collection from different lockboxes, Mapping the service Companies Bills using the Posting rules in order to reflect the In-House Cash Current accounts, and
• Intercompany payment process setup for the payroll and Transaction Management activities and successfully done the concur Integration wif T&E .
• Tested the wholeEDI IDOC,X12 Webmethod comparison for ASN, Invoice and Orderwif the halp of the Business Process
• Generation and Regeneration ofIdoc for ASN, Invoice and orderfor newWebmethod (WM) X12 comparison.
• Resolution ofEDI/IDOCfor the inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Responsible for ALE IDOC setup for the in-House Cash module throughout the landscape where both Financial module and In- house Cash exit in the same system.
• Coordinates/ consults wiftheThird-Party SAP system support personnel to ensure dat the SAP system issues are appropriately and timely resolved.
• Performs certain SAP system month end closing/ maintenance functions, monitors designated transactional/ balance activities and prepares reports for various Administrative, Accounting, Tax, Operations and Audit Groups.
• Involved in Full Life Cycle from Project Preparation to Go live and Support other tha halp desk and new enhancement.

Confidential, OH

Lead SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• me was involved in various phases of project Blueprinting, Documenting, Implementation and Support.
• Adjusting of frieght amount in the inventory, creating queries in sap business one .
• Gather and create business requirements for integrating SAP Business One to external applications. • Gather and create business requirements to capitalize on SAP Business One functionality
• Core member responsible for implementation of FICO sub-modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Bank Accounting.
• Configured basic settings for Profit Center Accounting, created master data for profit centers, profit center groups & profit center hierarchy, activity types. Also handled Customer master data module.
• Product costing Planning including cost component structures, Costing sheet, Costing variant, valuation variant, costing types.
• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), and Accounts Payable (FI-AP),Lease Accounting(FI-LA) master data uploading and maintaining the prerequisite configuration such as creation of account groups, number ranges, tolerances, reason codes, accounts for payment differences and Payment configuration.
• Standard configuration of payment methods, Payment terms, payment processing and clearing, electronic bank data import wif automatic clearing, check payment process, foreign currency translations and revaluation and check management.
• Credit Management: Design and implementation of Credit Organization Structure wifin FSCM for appropriate FSCM Functionality.
• Creation of FI-AR Customer Groups, overall Receivables and Employee Tolerances, Terms of Payment, Interest Calculation configuration, and Reason Code creation. And Configured payment terms, cash discounts, credit management and customer master records.
• Involved in Customization and Configuration of Asset Management/Fixed Assets, defined the Depreciation Areas for all Asset Classes.
• Developed a new functionality for AP invoices approval process using EBP, Email and SAP workflow compared to the earlier manual routing of the invoices to the approvers.
• Worked closely wif technical team; developed functional specifications for new interfaces and conversions.
• Configured cash application for FI-AR. Configured automatically clearing open items using lockbox interface including BAI2 and IDOC formats
• Implemented Electronic Bank Statement processing in SAP wif Bank of NY; adapted SAP Lockbox functionality to process AR payments for automatic cash application against customer invoices.
• Setup all incoming payments including Lockbox using EDI823, Electronic bank statement (EDI820).
• Created G/L accounts for A/R and Credit card reconciliation; automatic account procedure and assignment; Customized for credit card authorizations, payments and settlement process in SAP.
• Job schedule for transferring the data from AR to FSCM Collection Worklist .
• Inter-company postings; Month-end FI closing/GR-IR closing; Customizing Financial Statement versions.
• Involved and responsible for sequential phases of ASAP methodology like business Blue printing, gap analysis, prototype, design, configuration for In-house Cash Management and Cash Management Modules

Confidential - Ranch, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included interacting wif clients business process team; collected all the business requirements, created functional and technical specifications, which would be used by the construction/programming team.
• Carried out AS-IS business process analysis and documented current business process flow.
• Identified the requirements and modeled the TO-BE process and provided guidance for implementing best practices at Wilson sporting goods
• As a part of G/L transaction processing set the types of journal entries, recurring entries and accrual posting. G/L Fiscal month end closing, defined financial statement preparation, reconciliations and adjustments, integrated closing schedules and the closing process. Year-end closing involved sequencing of activates, setting up closing schedule and carry forward and adjustment activates.
• Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger (G/L), Vendor Master Record (A/P), Customer Master Record (A/R),Material Ledger etc.
• Configured new Intercompany Reconciliation tool to clear open items cross-company.
• Designing of Gross margin reports using CO-PA. in second project
• Designing of Reports in ABAP and Report Painter and functional specs.
• Configuration of SABRIX tax settings in SAP and working closely wif Sabrix third party team to verity the test results for SABRIX tax interface.
• Testing of interface testing using standard RFC
• Testing of MM/SD integration flow to verify the results from SABRIX system.
• Creating Trans editors for mapping custom fields to tax determination fields and tax flags.
• Primarily handled areas of G/L; A/P; A/R; Banking; Asset Accounting; COPA; Wif Sabrix and Vistex .
• Setup new tax codes wif Sabrix interface product code integration and transport into production system.
• Closely working wif Sabrix team to resolve all the Sabrix interface issues and resolve it in time.
• Creation of New Exemption codes and Integration wif Vistex.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
• Created newGLaccounts for accounting to permit timely reporting, modified financial statement version to more accurately reflect business and allow accurate analysis of company
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• For end users, involved in Uploading of Opening balances through account assignment model, go live & early watch post implementation support.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the As-Is business process and prepared To-Be documents.
• Done Configuration - Company code wif all setups.
• Analyze and map as per requirements for FI GL, LA, AP, AR Bank and Assets modules.
• Done Configuration- Cost Centers, Internal orders, Profit Centers and project systems.
• Configuredvendor master data. Defined different business partners,account groupsfor different partners, screen layout, number ranges, and terms of payment, purchasing groups, and partner determination.
• Configuration and customization requests-RFQ-quotations, purchase requisitions, purchase Order, outline agreements, purchase information records, contract (value/contract),scheduling agreement and goods receipt.
• ImplementedProcure-to-pay (P2P)cycle process. Configuredpurchase requisitionsandautomated purchase ordering processto a great extent by assigning processing requisitions based oninfo records, and extensive use ofcontracts.
• Worked on Integration wif other modules and done the Unit testing/Integration testing.
• Raising the Defects for the failed test cases and Submission of the reports on Test execution.
• Preparation of User Training manual and trained to key users and new employees.

Confidential, Troy, Mi

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Lead consultant Finance in Business Process Transformation team responsible for blueprinting, designing, testing, training and implementing the business processes in SAP. Financial Accounting (General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Lease Accounting, Fixed Assets), Controlling (Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting), and Credit Management wif specific focus on the Business Process.
• Responsible for configuring the SAP Financial and controlling module based on the business requirement
• Conducted As-Is and To-Be Analysis and documented the process.
• Gathered, defined, and assisted in documentation of financial reporting requirements.
• Involved in Functional, implementation, designing, and business process re-engineering, customizing, configuring, integrating, training, go-live and supporting using ASAP methodologies and industry best practices.
• Utilized SAP New GL functionality to support different segment reporting and reconciliation purposes.
• Classified GL Accounts and document types for document split activation for inventory postings such as GR/IR and activated the document splitting.
• Define Company code and maintain Global parameters.
• Configure AR/AP Account Groups, Tolerance groups and Payment terms.
• Configure Special G/L indicator for down payments.
• Configured settings in the AP/AR, such as house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, payment media, terms of payment, running/editing-dunning proposal.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for Accounts Payable including complete configuration of company codes, paying company codes, payment methods (Check, ACH, Wire transfer) for country, bank selection, payment blocking reasons and payment medium.
• Define assets classes, created chart of depreciation, areas of depreciation, account determination and assigned chart of depreciation to company codes.
• Expertise in configuring Asset module and through understanding of entire Asset cycle from Procurement of Asset to Retirement.
• Supported the Integration of FI-MM-HR.
• Supported configuration of Funds and Grants module.
• Trained the Business users on GL, AP, and AR, AA, CO, Funds and Grants Management modules.
• Support users on Post Go-Live support, halp resolve issues in live environment, and reconfigure settings.
• Coordinated overall efforts to develop testing scenarios, test scripts and business process procedures.
• Responsible for gathering the after bankruptcy requirements.
• Designed the global solution for the fixed assets revaluation.
• Conducted daily “status meeting” wif the offshore team, and weekly meeting wif the organization VP.
• Supervised the offshore teams and provided assistance as needed.

Confidential, Pennsylvania

SAP FICO Consultant and Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a core member for full cycle implementation ofSAP FI/CO module, gathered business process information and compiled theAS-IS, TO-BE and GAP analysisof the SAP R/3 system. Performed assessment of business requirements, mapping wif SAP functionality.
• InAsset Accounting (FA), assisted in creating Fixed Assets, MaintainedDepreciations, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Area, Fiscal Year Variant, Number range, and Substitution Rules in the Fixed Asset Master records and reviewed various Fixed Assets Accounts.
• Detailed Mapping, Designing and Documentation of FI/CO Module requirements
• Work closely wif other process teams to facilitate Project Progress and to Ensure an Integrated System Solution
• Configured the FI/CO Module along wif Global Settings and Organizational Structure
• Configured the different Parameters for the Client such as Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variants, and Credit Control Area
• Defined Master Records for G/L, A/R and A/P
• Configured the Payment Program for Automatic Payment to Vendors
• Configured the Terms of Payment and Dunning program for A/R
• Configured the Interest Calculation on Unpaid Invoices
• Configured the Employee Tolerance Groups for Clearing against a Customer Account
• Maintained US Jurisdictions Tax Code
• Customized Accounting Transactions for G/L, A/P, and A/R such as Account Assignment Models and Recurring Entries
• Configured the settings for Cross Company Code Transactions
• Set up the Cost Centers, Profit Centers and Primary and Secondary Cost Elements
• Defined the Statistical Key Figures and Standard Hierarchy
• Set up the Cost Center Hierarchy, Assessments/Distributions, PCA-settings, and Hierarchy.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and Configuration of 15 company codes over the Globe covering FI-GL - General Ledger Accounting, FI-AP - Accounts Payable, FI-SL Special purpose ledger, CO-CCA - Cost Center Accounting, COA PCA - Profit center Accounting, CO-PA - Profitability Analysis, and Funfd Management
• Study of As-Is business processes, envisioning and mapping the to-be processes for SAP R/3 FI/CO implementation.
• Identification of Gaps and resolution of Gaps in Business processes at Process/ Activity/ Transaction level. Actively participated in design of Key Data elements and finalization of Organization Structure. Critical and complex FI & SD integration for different line of business ex -Fertilizers, Chemicals and other line of business processes.
• Worked on special purpose ledger (FI-SL) for special reporting needs at cost center, profit center and business area level. Created and maintained special ledger table groups.
• Defined validations and substitutions for special purpose ledgers.
• Configured SAP Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), SAP Lockbox, Project System, Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL) and designed BW data cube wif extraction from FI-SL for reporting and financial consolidation. Participated in two SAP upgrades.
• Implemented Procure-To-Pay cycle for direct Procurement and rolled out the solution wif integration to MM
• Created and verified functionality of Purchase Requisitions\Shopping Carts, Request for Quotation\Proposal (RFQ, RFP), and Purchase Orders wif appropriate data to execute procurement scenarios.
• Worked on configuration of Inventory Management including Plant parameters for Inventory Management, Good Receipts, and Invoice receipts.
• Worked in a heavily customized Procure-To-Pay environment specifically in the areas of Material master,
• Configuring SAP FI/CO settings as per requirements of the To-Be processes.
• Configuring Product Cost Controlling. Worked on Analysis, design and roubleshooting activities relating to integration between various other modules, including account determinations for all MM, SD and PP Module.
• Configuration of Funds management and integration wif CO-CCA and FI-GL to meet client specific procurement budget requirements. (Fund Center, Commitment Items, Release Budgets etc) .
• Configuration of Foreign currency valuation and financial statement version. Configuring Automatic and Default Account Assignment for MM, SD, FI and CO.
• Data planning for data conversion and data migration. Data Migration of Master and Transactional data - using LSMW.
• Providing Functional specs for FI/CO Reports and Layouts. Writing Test Plans and Test Cases to cover end to end testing scenarios. Creation of ABAP Queries to meet user’s requirements.
• Also halped as a Business Analyst