SUMMARY

• SAP FICO functional consultant with 7+ years of functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) module in Implementation, System upgrade, user training and support with different versions including ECC 6.0.
• Two full life cycle implementation experience with ASAP methodology, proficient in interacting with business users to identify information need and initiate process change.
• Strong experience in analysis, design development, Blueprinting, detailed configuration, testing, documentation, training, data uploading, preparing the cutover strategy, Go - live and post implementation support.
• Strong expertise in financial accounting in configuring and testing General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank accounting and special purpose ledger.
• Strong expertise in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Hands on configuration and customization experience in Treasury, Bank Accounting, Automatic Payment Program, Dunning, Special Ledger Transactions and Intercompany Transactions, Travel management.
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes.
• Experience in configuration of Lockbox configuration, Banking and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Worked extensively on Business processes of SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with MM (Procure to Pay) & SD Modules (Order to Cash). Very good experience in handling tickets during production support, ticket monitoring and reporting with SAP solution manager.
• Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business process for GAP analysis, proposed long-term and short-term strategic solutions, outsourcing of payment processing, positive pay and check register reconciliation.
• Worked on various RICEFW objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects. Drafted functional specifications and detailed design for reports and interfaces and coordinated the development of Object with offshore team. Hands on with User Exits, BAPIs/Function Modules and BADIs.
• Experience working on Implementation process like Project Evaluation, Requirement Gathering & Design, Complete System Configuration, Testing, and End User Training & Production Support.
• Involved in yearend closing operations for FI, CO and AA; also responsible for opening and closing for MM and FI monthly periods for postings.
• Worked effectively on transferring data from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW. Participated in migration to the New GL involving moving from the Account Approach to Ledger Approach, Integration with Asset Accounting, Depreciation Area Switch, implementing parallel Accounting and document splitting.
• Worked on SAP FSCM modules like Dispute Management (FIN-FSCM-DM), Credit Management (FIN-FSCM-CR) and Biller Direct (FIN-FSCM-BD).
• Experienced in identifying the Test Plan scenarios/scripts for Functional Unit testing (FUT), Integration & System testing (ITC), User Acceptance testing (UAT), Regression testing and End to End Testing on HP Quality Center (HPQC).
• Highly motivated individual with strong technical, analytical and creative problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP ECC 6.0

Languages: ABAP/4, Visual Basic, C, C++, SQL, UNIX Shell Programming, PL/SQL

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Microsoft Windows 2000/NT/XP

Packages: MS Office including MS Word and Excel, MS Project, Visio, MS Spread Sheets.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

SAP Sr. FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP Quality Center V9, GL, AP, AR, APP, Taxes, Lockbox, Asset Accounting (AA), EBS, RICEFW, CATTs, LSMW, IDOC, Treasury, Dunning, CO-CCA, EC-PCA

Responsibilities:

• Configured Lockbox processing, Cash management, Generated bank advice and account posting. Imported and processed Electronic bank statement (EBS) and worked with BAI2 file formats. Created lock box at house bank and configured control parameters and posting data. Configured GL account structure for each bank account. Configured electronic bank statement and worked with different file formats (Multi-cash and BAI), EDI Processing.
• Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions.
• Configured and support for Tax related management issues. Created tax invoices for the customers and recorded the invoices sent by the vendors.
• 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.
• Maintained settings for Automatic Payment Program (APP) for payments to vendors, created check lots, voided checks for payment blockage, and reissue of destroyed checks.
• Defined Reason codes for the payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to GL accounts.
• Configured the Dunning program, Interest Calculation on Open Items, Correspondences and Account Statement process. Defined Dunning area and Dunning procedure, Assign Dunning Procedure in Customer Master, Invoice posting and executed Dunning for the customer.
• Worked effectively on Chart of Depreciations and Asset master data. Configured specifications for account determination in Asset accounting.
• Worked on International Financial Reporting Standards /International Accounting Standards (IFRS/IAS) and the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) in the configuration of NEW GL to meet statutory requirements.
• Worked effectively on transferring data from legacy systems using LSMW. Worked on uploading customer master data, Data conversions and Data loads of GL balances, open AR, open AP balances and open GR using LSMW techniques. Worked on multiple recordings and validations using LSMW.
• Implemented a Custom process with the help of IDOC Functionality which enables the successful processing of data files even though there are errors at line item level including integration with ALE.
• Configured the automatic write-off process, which included the implementation of BAdIs for getting cost center to the correct reason code.
• Analyzed all open items, foreign currency revaluation, re-classification of payable/receivables, performed reconciliations, profitability allocations by business area.
• Worked on WTH reporting with t-codes to print 1099 form and created the electronic file. Worked on WTH taxes for invoices and payments.
• Configured GL recurring entries, accrual deferral documents, month-end closings.
• Worked on detailed Business process modeling for FICA including Payment Processes, Process Disbursements, Collection Activities (Dunning), Account Maintenance (Clearing Control). Mapped GL accounts for automatic account determination with main and sub transactions in FICA (Contract Accounts).
• Configured and customized Treasury module including Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, cash budgeting.
• Resolved issues relating to automatic payment program, intercompany reconciliation, month end closing activities and Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV).
• Managed financial information dealing with Assets, liabilities, capital and prepared Balance sheet (B/S), Profit and Loss (P&L) statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for department managers.
• Configured the Travel Requests and customized the Trip Rules & Profiles in Travel Management (FI-TV)
• Configured Travel Management application component including Travel Planning & Travel Expenses as per the client requirement in Travel Management. Also configured Employee Self-Service Travel Management (FI-TV)
• Configured cost element, cost center and profit element and profit center accounting, along with internal orders, profitability analysis in CO.
• Developed Test Plan and Test execution strategy for the automated tests using QTP and HP Quality center.
• Worked on CATT's for modification of master data of G/L accounts, Customers, Vendors.
• Worked with Architect, Business team, Subject matter Experts, Analysts and End users.

Confidential, MI

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, SAP CRM, HP Quality Center, SAP BI, SAP BO and Vertex, GL, AR, AP, New G/L, BA, CCA, Taxes, Lockbox, Treasury, Validation and Substitution, Testing.

Responsibilities:

• The project involved both Onsite and Offshore support for SAP Production system on HP UNIX Operating System.
• Implemented and administered third-party software tools to enhance SAP functionality and streamline business processes.
• Configured FI GL, AP/AR & Banking - Doc types & posting keys, analysis of all open items and clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) accounts. Designed Account groups and Configured Payment program for check printing and Wire Transfer payments.
• Configured tax codes for vendor invoices. Worked on Vendor Master, Vendor invoices, Payment methods and reporting, Customer Master, and Default account assignments for Overpayments/Underpayments.
• Configured relevant settings for Lockbox processing and Outgoing Payments.
• Involved in Implementation of SAP solutions, Integration of new components and business scenarios, Customer developments, Function tests, Integration tests with other components, Upgrades, regression tests, Importing support packages.
• Created multi-dimensional financial statements in accordance with U.S Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) using ledger approach provided by SAP NEW GL functionality.
• Creation and management of manual and automated test cases, Creation of test plans and management of test series.
• Execution of mass tests using Extended Computer-Aided Test Tool and Integration of test cases and test scripts of non-SAP providers, Assignment of work lists (test packages) to individual testers.
• Creation of Bug reports, Updating on bugs report to management. Resolving of Bugs and creation of end-user documents.
• Permanent overview of test progress and test results, Complete documentation of test processes in the test plans (test cases, test case descriptions, test results, test case notes, error messages), Detailed tabular and graphical evaluation of all test plans, Export of test results to Office applications and Message processing.
• Helped troubleshoot and resolve trouble tickets from users for SAP Applications, and integration points between FI and MM/SD.
• Created Validation & Substitution rules to solve duplicate creation of master data in Assets.
• Implementation and support for SAP Treasury which involved setting up House Banks, Vendor payment programs using check forms, EDI/IDOC formats, Lockbox BAI/BAI 2 format, DME Trees, Positive Payment processing, BAI/Multi Cash 940 EBS statements.
• Worked on SAP VIM Functionalities, optimized and simplified the process of creating, managing, monitoring and routing purchase orders and invoices for AP personnel and vendors. Problem invoices were automatically routed for problem resolution, approval, and payment.
• Planned and executed Go-Live cut over activities, and provided Go-Live/ post implementation support.
• Identified need for new or changed end-user secure roles; test roles; clarified role conflicts, and coordinated with Business Process Owners on a strategy to manage conflicts.
• 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). Wrote blue print phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Configured and designed the full functionality of FI module relating to FI-AR & FI-AP configuration: Credit management, open item clearing, account groups, Incoming & Outgoing payments, Automatic Payment Program, field status groups.
• Defined tolerances for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings for recurring entries and account assignment model.

Confidential, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP Quality Center V9, MM Integration, New GL, Taxes, APP, Product costing, Lockbox, Order-to-cash, Procure-to-pay, Credit memos, Asset Accounting, EDI, EBS, RICEFW, CATTs, CCA, CO-PA, PP-PI, LSMW, IDOC, SAP BDW.

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all phases of implementation from development of Business blueprint, conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, and configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting and Profitability Analysis.
• The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process and organization structure; finalizing, mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support.
• Worked on configurations and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, and Profit & Loss for inter-company transaction. Configured AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Dunning, Interest calculation, Reason codes, Integration with SD module. Configured AP-vendor transactions, Tolerance Groups, Automatic Payment Program, Invoices, Credit Memos, Check Management, Down Payment, Integration with MM module.
• Worked on uploading of Batch input data using LSMW techniques. Configured New GL FI processes for an implementation of SAP ECC 6.0.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for payments to vendors, created check lots, creation of void reason code, void check cancellation, issued check cancellation.
• Worked effectively on Credit and debit memos related to logistics invoice verification.
• Configured House banks, EDI, EBS, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Maintained validation/substitution rules for certain revenue accounts and material numbers, complete supervision in issue resolution of check runs, automatic payment program through F110.
• In Travel & Expense Management (TEM), worked with HR and Payroll in Expense tracking and receivables and payables. Settlement of travel expenses for regular employees through regular payroll, Integration of Travel Expenses of employee trip handling with workflow approval process, Worked on TRIP, PR05, PRAP, PRFI and PRRW transactions.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, depreciation calculation, write-offs and post capitalization. Made settings for G/L accounts for AUC, Loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, and posting depreciation under different Depreciation Areas.
• Configured the PTP (Procure to Pay) Business Process which enables the integration of purchasing department with account payable department with control and visibility over the entire life-cycle of a transaction - From the way an item is ordered to the way that the final invoice is processed.
• Configured FI-SD integration and revenue accounts determination through VKOA, Order to Cash (OTC).
• Maintained settings for credit control area, cost elements, cost centers and profit centers.
• Configured costing based COPA, account based COPA, created characteristic and value fields and configured valuation using product costing sheet. Responsible for carrying out Valuation in COPA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Configured Costing Variants for preliminary costing in Cost Object Controlling. Worked on the integration touch points of Product costing with Production planning (PP-PI) using a process setup that included process orders, master recipes, routings, Bill of Materials (BOM & resources).
• Configured standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc. and extracted reports using PCA.
• Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for variance documents, used Report painter and Report writer.
• Documented the end user training manuals using Infopak and also worked on IDOC’s which includes monitoring of status and error processing, message types, idoc type and process codes.

Confidential, IN

SAP FICO CONSULTANT (Global Support Team)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP Quality Center V9, GL, AR, AP, Taxes, APP, Lockbox, Foreign Currency valuation, FSCM, EBS, RICEFW, CCA, CO-PA.

Responsibilities:

• Provided guidance and Mentoring team members for supporting day to day activities.
• Co-coordinated with different module leads, QA, ABAP, Business user community, Management and executive committee for SAP implementations and roll out. Worked closely with ABAPer and provided functional assistance in the development of RICEFW Objects.
• Hired additional resources globally and expanded the team to meet expectation and SLA's as per company's requirement.
• Analyzed the previous configuration and provided with enhanced solution to meet the business needs.
• Resolving Level 1 & Level 2 tickets of FICO Module in the area of General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable, Bank Accounting, Assets Accounting and CO Reporting. Sorted out issues like credit limit block on certain documents, credit exposure doesn't update perfectly to KNKK Table, Intercompany Billing taking a wrong value of the Bill, etc.
• Trained employees at various levels for document entry with concepts like Reverse, Parking and Reference documents.
• Supported end user for automatic payment program, dunning, interest calculation, depreciation calculation, Bank reconciliation, Foreign Currency Valuation. Configured the vendor details like payment terms, master data and other information into SAP system when started business with new vendor.
• Worked on various FI aspects related to AR, AP issues, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/ partial payment setting for vendors and customers.
• Configured special G/L transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc. Configuration of Alternative reconciliation accounts for special G/L transactions.
• Provided support for all issues in processing Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Worked with SAP FSCM Module team that included SAP FSCM Biller Direct- for handling Web-based payments and bill display and Credit Management where managed company-wide credit lines.
• Created Test Scripts in detail for each aspect of AR and created Case Studies on different scenarios.
• Configured COPA settlement structure and defined cost center and order settlement rules to populate the value to value fields inCOPA. Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to COPA. Used Top-Down Distribution inCOPA to Report Overhead Costs at Lower-Level Characteristics.
• Created Cost Center Groups and cost centers (CO-CCA), Defining different Activity types and Statistical key figures, Settings for Allocation of costs among cost objects with different methods like Assessments, distributions and reposting.

Confidential, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP Quality Center V9, GL, AP, AR, Taxes, Dunning, Advances, Product costing, Lockbox, Order-to-cash, Procure-to-pay, TV, EBS, CCA, CO-PA, PCA, CO-IO, and Report painter.

Responsibilities:

• Provided project planning and functional support to successfully upgrade the system from 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Responsible for preparation of Blue Print by reengineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and the TO-BE system.
• Involved in creating and executing Test scenarios based on Approach documents (Requirements Document) and participated in the meetings with the Project Manager and the development team.
• Developed Business Requirement, Design, and Functional documents for both the upgrade and existing systemic issues.
• Configured the business flow to vendors (FI-AP) / Customers (FI-AR) in various areas like payment terms (Discounts), down payments from vendors, advanced payments from customers, process payment runs, and manual processing of incoming payments, running/editing Dunning proposals, and Reconciliation accounts in the GL.
• Performed the integration of FI and CO with SD (Order to cash), MM (Procure to Pay) and participated in knowledge transfer to the client team members in new system functionality.
• Reviewed all invoices (including vendor invoices, travel expense, travel advance requests, check requests) and made timely payments based on terms.
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) by creating cost elements, cost centers, activity types, cost center categories, document numbers and allocations using cycle-segment method for reposting, Distribution and Assessment.
• Configured Automatic Account Assignment in Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) customizing for P&L accounts and Balance Sheet Accounts. Configured master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, distribution and assessment in Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA)
• In Internal Orders (CO-IO), 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.
• Created and generated operating concern, created characteristics, value fields and defined the segment level characteristics to address the Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) requirement.
• Worked on Product Costing/Material Ledger. Configured the Standard cost estimates for finished products include cost estimates with/without quantity structure etc. with price update parameters and variance settlement, product cost per period and per order in material ledger.

Confidential, MN

SAP Jr. FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP Quality Center V9, MM Integration, Taxes, Product costing, Lockbox, Order-to-cash, Procure-to-pay, Asset accounting, Dunning, APP, EBS.

Responsibilities:

• Defined and Configured Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups
• Customized screens for Document entry, Document reversals, Invoices, and Payments
• Created Account Assignment Models for Recurring Entries
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR), House Banks, Bank Accounts, Reason Codes, Check Lots
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data
• Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments.
• Configured Incoming Payments, Billing, Credit Management and Dunning Programs
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings
• Configured and Customized the Credit Control Area
• Configured and Customized the Fixed Assets Accounting. Maintained Account Determinations, Screen Layout Rules, Number Ranges for Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas in the Asset Classes, Define Screen Layout Rules for Asset Master Data and Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Involved in integration of FI with MM (Purchase to Pay) and FI with SD (Order to cash) modules.
• Configured GR/IR clearing accounts.
• Configured automatic payment processing including checks printing for automatic payment program and dunning in accounts receivables - FBZP and FBMP.