SUMMARY

• 8+ years of strong functional experience in SAP FI and CO.
• Good understanding of US - GAAP and IFRS.
• Involved as Functional Consultant in 1 full life cycle implementation of SAP ECC 6.0
• Financial expertise in Configuration and testing of New General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Treasury & Purchasing, and Asset Accounting.
• Expertise in Automatic Payment Program (APP), Dunning Program.
• Knowledge in the integration aspects of SD and MM modules with FI/CO
• Expertise in ASAP methodology and data migration using LSMW.
• Expertise in supporting all interfaces during migration and integration with a keen eye for issue resolution and implementation of functionality for post go-live support.
• Experience in working with end users and the QA team for developing use cases, test cases and test plans, process documentation, end-user training and post go-live support.
• Exceptional problem solving and sound decision making capabilities, recognized by alternative solutions, and confident, accurate, decision-making coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent track record for meeting deadlines and submitting deliverables on time.
• Have exposure in educating internal customers on business systems and procedures and working with other analysts and QA team to set priorities and schedules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 Versions (4.6, 4.7) & ECC 6.0

Reporting: Crystal Reports

Tools: Solution Manager 4.0, MS Office, Excel & PowerPoint presentation

Integration: FI & CO integration with MM & SD

Database: Oracle, SQL, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows (2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead involved in project management, configuration, testing and support of various functionalities in FI/CO modules such as New GL, AP, AR, Period end processes, Treasury and purchasing integration.
• Communicating with process owners to maintain process documentation,process mapping and business process redesign.
• Writing functional specifications for various modules in FI/CO and Documentation of Business Process Procedures for Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payable modules.
• Solving configuration issues in General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, and House Banks.
• Depicting the Organization structure of the client from controlling perspective and preparing a controlling structure to enable flows within the organization.
• Cash Position and Liquidity Forecast reporting.
• Creation of Master Data like Cost Centers, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures.
• Developed bank interfaces for Canada. Payment details of cleared invoices from SAP were sent to the banks for payments to vendors. The interfaces used Connect: Direct as the file transfer tool.
• Defining translation ratios for currency translation for exchange rate types M, P, PR and 1001. Assisting in the development of various financial statement versions to support diverse reporting requirements.
• Working with ABAP consultants in creating an Interactive report for displaying vendor information. Gathering and analyzing requirements and converting them into User Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications for the designers and developers to understand them as per their perspective.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP FI Consultant

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Project: Configuration of Financial Accounting Enterprise structure.
• Configuring Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting period variant, Business Areas, Account groups, Field status groups, and Automatic account determination.
• Assisting in developing various financial statement versions to support diverse reporting requirements and integrating Accounting module with other core module such as Material Management, Sales & Distribution Management and Order Management.
• Migrated data from the Legacy system to the SAP system using LSMW.
• Configuring Production Order, Sales Order and Internal order as controlling objects.
• Configuring G/L display including Line item layouts, Special fields and Sort variants.
• Configuring number ranges, Document types and Fast data entry screens.
• Conducting extensive unit and integration testing, and review SAP configuration settings to determine if configurable system controls are being used appropriately.
• Review and map SAP business processes in an effort to understand the business process controls (both manual and system controls). Configure automatic payment program.
• Configure employee tolerances, and reason codes for over and under payments, and automatic account determination for over payments and under payments.
• Configure chart of depreciation with multiple depreciation areas and depreciation run for planned depreciation posting.
• Configure Assets class creation and account determination for automatic posting.
• Configure Asset Accounting with multiple methods of procurement, and retirement of Assets with Loss Gain determination.
• Cost Centre Accounting (Creation of Cost Elements, Cost Centre Hierarchy, Activity types).
• Defined the master records like cost elements (primary and secondary), cost element groups, reconciliation ledger, cost centers, time-based fields, cost center groups and standard hierarchy, in controlling.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client for requirements gathering and analysis. Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FI/CO developments.
• Conducted the 'As-Is' study, design of the 'To-Be' Processes and carried out 'Gap Analysis' for Configuration of SAP system and involved till post go-live support.
• Involved in developing detailed functional specifications documents.
• Configured Account Payables Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendors credit memo and Check clearing sub-processes, Advance paid or down payment made to vendors.
• Configuration for the creation of Account Receivables invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation.
• Defining the currency of relevant G/L accounts as multicurrency to post transactions of any currency that could be defined for the company.
• Developed AR custom report for month end closing to capture the every detail of Closed and Open Customer invoices. Configure Chargebacks in AR.
• Involved in setting up the dunning procedures for customer payments.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation.
• Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements.
• Involved in integration of Fixed Asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.
• Involved in Integration of New general ledger with Controlling for reconciliation activity through real time integration variant.
• Involved in Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.
• Integration of FICO with MM and SD modules and data migration using LSMW.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP FI/CO Support Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO.
• Configured down payment functionally and payment medium workbench and also worked extensively on bank specific payment files to automate check and electronic payments to meet client's specific requirements.
• Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Created various new (fixed asset) asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production.
• Performed unit testing and regression testing for different accounts payable and accounts receivable functionalities.
• Provided SAP FI/CO tuning and troubleshooting including the identification and resolution of performance related issues.
• Provided End user support to the SAP user community by strictly following SOX rules for the Support Phase.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

SAP FI/CO Support Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handling of issues of discounts/ payment problems.
• Configurable issues of GL, AR, AP and AA.
• Settings related with field selection of Master Data.
• House Banks and Automatic Payment related issues.
• Creation of Tax Codes.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7