PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of technical and functional experience in SAP FICO modules including Implementation, Customization, Configuration, System upgrade, Integration, business process re - Design, Testing, user and support with different versions SAP ECC 6.0, 5.0, R/3 in various work industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Banking, Manufacturing.
• 3 Full cycles’ implementation using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology in all project phases - Project preparation, Business blue print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support, and post live production support with documentation.
• Expertise in interfacing with SAP for AR and AP.
• Several FI application areas extensive hands on experience:
• General Ledger (GL), New G/L, Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Receivable (AR), Special Purpose Ledger, and Treasury.
• CCA, PCA, Profitability Analysis (COPA), Internal Orders, Material ledger, Assessment and Distribution cycles.
• Enterprise Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Profitable analysis CO-PA, Internal Order, Managerial Accounting reports testing. Exposure to Product costing CO-PC, CO-Material Ledger, WIP, WBS element, Multiple Currency, Recurring entries.
• External Reporting andFinancialStatementspreparation with good understanding of GAAP.
• FI-SD integration-entireOrder-2-Cash business process: Configuration of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor's management including credit control.
• FI-MM integration-entirePurchase-2-Paybusiness process: Configuration of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Strong experience in requirement analysis, impact analysis, modeling test strategy, test planning, estimation, and reporting activities.
• Experience in Unit Testing, Integrated System Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) experience in various FI sub modules and application areas.
• Experienced in working with HP Quality center (HPQC) in defect documentation.
• Experience in handling House Bank, Lockbox configuration, Foreign Exchange transactions, Bank statement processing, Bills of exchange, Loans Management in banking module of FICO.
• Proficient in writing the blueprint and functional specifications for development objects (RICEFW).
• Experienced in the documentation of the procedures for system design, development, testing, and support operations for the information technology service management (ITSM).
• Solid relationship building skills and so have ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and Good problem solving ability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, Full cycle implementation, FI, CO, AP, AR, GL, AA

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Conducted workshops with global teams to implement intercompany transactions and sub-contracting processes. Educating the client on FI and CO Master and transaction data information with Intercompany processing details.
• Configured and Tested Accounts Receivable - Customer Master Data, Account Groups, Number ranges and Screen Layout Rules.
• Handled Terms of payments, Installment Payments, Cash Discounts, Rounding offs, Foreign Exchange Variations, and Valuation Differences.
• Configured and Tested Accounts Payable - Creation of Vendor Master, Account Groups with number ranges and Assign them to Account Groups with Screen Layouts.
• Configured multi company Chart of Account and setting of multi currencies for different company codes and complete GL, AR, AP and AA.
• Configured New Vendors, Vendor Account Groups, Assign Number Ranges and Payment to vendors through APP.
• Customized Cash Journal and House Bank completely.
• Configured Automatic Payment Programs, Clearing Open Items, Account Assignment model & Recurring entry, Payment term, Interest calculation & posting, Tax on Purchases & Sale and withholding Taxes.
• Worked on Account Assignment & Account determination for integrating MM and SD module with FICO module for material movements and pricing.
• Worked with Setting of Financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Outgoing payment settings for cash, Cheques, Direct Debit, Automatic payments.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), cash management in treasury.
• Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
• Enterprise Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Profitable analysis CO-PA, Internal Order, Managerial Accounting reports testing. Exposure to Product costing CO-PC, CO-Material Ledger, WIP, WBS element, Multiple Currency, Recurring entries.
• Providing a demo/feasibility study on new functionalities such as automation (scheduling) of payment run in the background.
• Worked in various FI aspects relating to AR, AP, SPL, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/partial payment settings for vendors & customers, automatic payment program, down payments, reversal of documents and exchange rates.
• Configured General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Component Structure and Cost Components.
• Configured adjustment accounts for reconciliation postings and document number range for reconciliation ledger and worked primarily on reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers, configured system for partial/residual payments for customers/vendors and performed dunning.

Confidential, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, Full cycle implementation, FI, CO, AP, AR, GL, AA, LSMW

Responsibilities:

• Worked for all phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, as-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User to (Modified design after feedback from users to suit their requirements) Go-live.
• Gathered functional requirements, coordinated and facilitated design workshops and blueprint deliverables.
• Configured and Customized G/L,A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variant, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments.
• Configured and Tested Accounts Receivable - Customer Master Data, Account Groups, Number ranges and Screen Layout Rules.
• Handled Terms of payments, Installment Payments, Cash Discounts, Rounding offs, Foreign Exchange Variations, and Valuation Differences.
• Configured and Tested Accounts Payable - Creation of Vendor Master, Account Groups with number ranges and Assign them to Account Groups with Screen Layouts.
• Outgoing payment settings for cash, Cheques, Direct Debit, Automatic payments.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), cash management in treasury.
• Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
• Customized the Collection process by setting up Manual Incoming Check Deposit and Manual Bank Statement. A program for automatic upload of Incoming Checks file was also created. Bank Statement was used to reconcile both incoming checks and Outgoing payments.
• Customized AP and AR Aging Reports in ALV format were also developed to provide better analysis as standard reports did not fulfill the client’s requirements.
• Worked extensively on sales order creation, maintenance of sales order type, pricing procedure, Assess sequence, Contracts, Dunning /dunning letter.
• Worked extensively on cancelation and change of billing document, billing due list, setup of billing.
• Configured Bank Master Data, House Bank and G/L Accounts, bank charges, payment difference. Configured Electronic Bank Statement, Cash Journal.
• Worked on Output determination procedure and Account determination procedure.
• Enterprise Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Profitable analysis CO-PA, Internal Order, Managerial Accounting reports testing. Exposure to Product costing CO-PC, CO-Material Ledger, WIP, WBS element, Multiple Currency, Recurring entries.
• Involved in Reviewing, preparing and analyzing accounts receivable (AR) aging reports.
• Performed accounts receivable (AR) monthly and year end closing.
• Prepared vouchers, invoices, account statements, reports, and other records and review for accuracy.
• Configured FI/CO integration with MM for material movements and SD with pricing and billing including automatic account determination and GL account postings.
• Worked on LSMW for all the data migrations/conversions and master data uploads.
• Assisted in managing and tracking project progress, issues, in order to meet required key milestone dates.
• Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items.
• Worked in various FI aspects relating to AR, AP issues, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/ partial payment settings for vendors and customers, Automatic Payment program, down payments, reversal of documents and exchange documents.
• Identified sales order or ticket discrepancies and provided error resolution.
• Performed reporting in Day-End Closing, Month-End closing and Year-End Closing.
• Conducted user meetings, compiled issues list, and worked with end users and managers to resolve issues.

Confidential - Indianapolis, IN

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, Full cycle implementation, FI, CO, AP, AR, GL, AA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, configuration, testing and reengineering of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Designed and configured Chart of Account and multinational company codes in multi currencies.
• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR and assigned different processing keys as required.
• Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) and sample ledger accounts. Defined tolerance groups, tolerance for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings and recurring entries.
• Defined customer account groups and created customer master data for accounts receivable.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Created Vendor and Customer master records and loaded legacy data into the system using LSMW and BDC programming. Prepared and maintained Financial Accounting Master Data.
• Customized complete Cash Journal and House Bank and set up Cash and fund management sub module.
• Configured FI/CO integration with MM for material movements and SD with pricing and billing including automatic account determination and GL account postings.
• Supported user community for all finance related queries in ERP system.
• Configured Settings of Financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement and Tax on Purchases & Sale and withholding Taxes.
• Configured adjustment accounts for reconciliation postings and document number range for reconciliation ledger and worked primarily on reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers, configured system for partial/residual payments for customers/vendors and performed dunning.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for open item payments for vendors, created check lots, worked on Online Cashed Checks, Voided Checks for payment blockage for vendor and Reissue of destroyed checks.
• Worked in various FI aspects relating to AR, AP, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/partial payment settings for vendors & customers, automatic payment program, down payments, reversal of documents and exchange rates.
• Uploaded master data like Customer Master, Vendor Master, Customer Credit Limits and Materials using LSMW.
• Identified one time vendors and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Configured vendor credit memos and vendor down payment request.
• Configured Special GL indicators to make advance payment to vendors in APP.
• Involved with additional report development & enhancement in existing system using various tools like Report Painter, Report Writer, and ABAP query, ABAP customized report using SAP tables.

Confidential - Santa Clara, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, FICO, Support Project, FI, CO, AP, AR, GL, AA

Responsibilities:

• Outgoing payment settings for cash, Cheques, Direct Debit, Automatic payments.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), cash management in treasury.
• Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
• Responsible for solving tickets in FI/CO issues (Enhancement and regular support) on GL, AR AP, Asset Accounting.
• Worked for Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions.
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-1. Problem determination included re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Providing a demo/feasibility study on new functionalities such as automation (scheduling) of payment run in the background.
• Delegated the tickets to level 3 with the necessary change details if the resolutions are major developments or configuration fixes.
• Responsible for making changes, migrating them, completing the ticket and communicating the change to the level 2 support person, who can then resolve and close the call.
• Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLAs.
• 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.
• Solved maintenance issues and tickets in the area of G/L, A/P, A/R and A/M.
• Provided day to day operational and process support to users.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the day to day problems in various FI CO modules.
• Responsible for solving tickets in GL AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Banking in FI area and cost center accounting, Profit-center, internal order and Project System in CO area.
• Interacted with business users wherever required for getting resolved the tickets.
• Provided Solution for various change requests on the priority bases.
• Prepared Impact analysis and conflict management documents for the change request.
• Worked in unit testing of standard SAP functionality after configuration is completed, read and understand functional specification document, build test plan and perform testing of custom enhancements delivered by technical team.
• Involved in defect creation and monitoring defect log and ensure closure of defects upon fixing the errors.

Confidential - Montvale, NJ

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0, FI, CO, AP, AR, GL, AA

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client for requirements gathering and analysis. Supported the SAP FICO module for the enterprise level customization.
• Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FICO developments, Full lifecycle implementation.
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Providing a demo/feasibility study on new functionalities such as automation (scheduling) of payment run in the background.
• Identified the needs of stakeholders and the impact on the company -Analyzed user requirements.
• Involved in developing detailed functional specifications documents.
• Configured and customized Enterprise Structure and New GL Setup, performed company code configuration, whereby assigned codes to different business areas.
• Configured the settings such as creating General ledger master data, inter-company transactions, and open item clearing. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Established Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant, Field Status Variant, Field Status Groups, Document Number Range, Posting Period Variants, GL postings.
• Customized and configured Vendor Master Records including Vendor groups, Screen layouts, Number ranges and assigning authorizations for users in Accounts Payable.
• Customized and configured Customer Master Records including Customer groups, Screen layouts, Number ranges, Credit Management and actual postings in Accounts Receivable.
• Configured and Customized New General Ledger accounting, Creation of G/L Accounts, Screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version.
• Worked on New GL activation project with multiple currency and multiple reporting standards.
• Uploaded customer & vendor master data using LSMW.
• Tested Cost estimate creation and release, Tested settlement of internal orders and cost center assessments.
• Tested Business Partner Role Grouping, Payment Transactions and Status.
• Involved in testing FI - AP payment run program, custom programs of Checks printing and invoice verification.
• Involved in detailed testing of Vendor Master Data: testing vendor master, input observations, vendor change report, and Vendor master alternate payee.
• Involved in testing FI - AR billing document creation.
• Involved in testing standard cost estimate process.
• Successfully ran month end foreign currency valuation to test the accuracy of the configuration.
• Involved in End user and prepared documentation.
• Involved in Business Signoff for the development changes.

Confidential -Appleton, WI

SAP FICO Testing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Requirements and conducted requirement understanding sessions with the client.
• Executed test cases with data variation. Raised and tracked defects and test results.
• Ensured all the testing deliverables and reports are version controlled and are accessible for testing team and other privileged users.
• Worked on understanding Business, Functional and Technical requirements for FICO module in different sub-tracks like AR, AP, and GL.
• Tested various sub modules of FI: Accounts payable, Accounts receivables, G/L.
• Created Change Requests and Transports in Solution Manager for different releases.
• Checked the interface between SD & FI modules manually.
• Created User Scenarios, which defined what action users can take and what result are expected and to test whether the desired results are achieved.
• Involved in Test Specifications and Unit test plans for all the developed objects.
• Prepared End user documentation and to end-user.
• Involved in testing Invoice Processing.
• Involved in creating traceability matrices, documenting User Requirement Specification / Functional Requirement Specifications and appropriately mapped to the test cases in the qualification testing protocols.
• Tested some custom programs based on the customer requirements.
• Tested conversion of accounts receivable from legacy system to SAP.
• Tested internal orders for R & D projects.
• Involved in defect creation and monitoring defect log and ensure closure of defects upon fixing the errors.