OBJECTIVE:

To work in an innovative and challenging environment as an SAP Functional Consultant that utilizes solid experience and knowledge of core financial concepts and a sound skill set in financial reporting and analysis by leveraging my experience and continuing to be challenged

SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years’ experience in providing financial services and 8 years of SAP FICO - ECC6 functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, end user and production support
• Expertise includes configuration and customization of FI-GL, AP, AR, AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA).Strong working knowledge on controlling (CCA, OM, IO, PCA, PC including Material Ledger).
• Have experience of two full life cycles in implementation of SAP FICO Configuration and post implementation support
• Knowledge of various activities in SAP MM and SAP SD such as sales, purchase order management, pricing, delivery, service orders, service entry sheets, revenue recognition, and invoicing.
• Two global complete implementation lifecycles experience.
• Work experience in auto, medical devices, retail, communication and oil and gas sector.
• Strong trouble-shooter, able to identify problems, diagnoses causes and determine corrective action while providing technical support during implementations and upgrades.
• Ability to self-direct, prioritize and manage multiple tasks and demands.
• Possessing in depth knowledge of mortgages, loans, investment strategies and working hard to provide a high-quality, customer-driven and sales-focused service
• Having excellent communication skills, able to work in a targeted environment, as an individual and also part of a team, and experienced at working to strict compliance requirements.
• Created LSMW and SAP GUI scripts for legacy data mapping

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Modules: SAP FICO ECC6, SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP PM

Microsoft: MS Excel 2013, MS Power Point 2013, MS Word 2013, MS Visio, MS Project Manager etc.

Operating Systems: Window 95, 98, XP, Server 2000, 2003, 2008

Databases RDBMS: MS: SQL Server 2005, 2012, Oracle 11g, Sybase, DB2, MS Access 2013

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Created LSMW and SAP GUI scripts for legacy data mapping.
• Configured A/R including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for A/R, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits, and credit limit groups.
• Created reconciliation accounts for Accounts payable (A/P), Accounts receivable (A/R) and configured Accounts payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, uploaded A/P master data.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for A/P for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level - 1. If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change detail to Level 3.
• 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
• Created and executed Project System test scripts - Unit Testing, Integration testing, and User acceptance testing. (HPQC ALM)

Confidential, Tampa, FL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP analysis, experience in blueprinting phase (ASAP Methodology) and prepared MS Visio graphs and documents on new customized FI/CO company structure.
• Created Number ranges, posting periods for G/L accounts, defined G/L account groups, created chart of accounts, participated in modifying and uploading G/L accounts.
• Configured the costing based COPA. Created characteristics and value fields used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using Product costing and costing sheet.
• Created separate country-specific financial statement versions and defined the Splitting Characteristics for the General Ledger (passive split, rule-based and zero-balance formation by document).
• Created reconciliation accounts for Accounts payable (A/P), Accounts receivable (A/R) and configured Accounts payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, uploaded A/P master data.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for A/P for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Configured electronic bank statement, created of bank master data, created of Account symbols, posting rules, created transaction types and BAI & BAI formats and EBS files uploaded.
• Configured A/R including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for A/R, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits, and credit limit groups.
• Worked on Dispute Management functionality including creating dispute cases, forwarding of disputes, clearing disputes.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting by creation Standard Cost Center Hierarchy, Alternative Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Was responsible for FI-MM integration: configured automatic account determination, insured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (procure-to-pay).
• Preparation of material and of end users.
• Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Used LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data.
• Generated reports from PS information system and created custom reports using Report painter, Report writer and SAP Queries.
• In Asset accounting configured, asset classes, chart of depreciation, unplanned depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation posting, acquisition and retirement of assets, assets under construction and capitalization of assets.
• User authorization testing - Testing roles and user access.
• Collected legacy data, prepared load templates and data migration by executing LSMW and SAP GUI Scripts and IDocs.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing requirements for processing intercompany SAP AR and SAP AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• Excellent knowledge of the interfacing needs with SAP FICO, Banking, Taxation, Reporting systems and Integration knowledge of the other modules into SAP FICO.
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-1. If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change detail to Level 3.
• 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.
• Customized general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivables, asset accounting and special purpose ledger sub modules in financial module.
• Assisting the Vendor Master Team with cleanup and validation of bank details for over 7,000 vendors paid via wire worldwide.
• Maintained controlling areas and made assignments.
• Configured and Customized CO - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders.
• In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and set up tolerances for budget cost.
• Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Defined Procurement Indicators, material, profiles for BOM, points for BOM transfer, and availability check, check requirement types, requirement classes, planning strategies, strategy groups, MRP groups, item category, item category group, etc.
• In Cost center, accounting (CO-CCA) configured and customized the standard hierarchy for cost centers, maintained activities, statistical key figures, developed costing sheet, distribution 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.

Confidential

SAP Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and Documented Business requirements, preparing Business process flow charts using MS Visio.
• Created and executed Project System test scripts - Unit Testing, Integration testing, and User acceptance testing.
• Project System user support to define and create project structure, cost planning, Allocations and Settlements. Accounting for deferred revenue, accruals and running result analysis.
• Configured Project System settings, PS integration and configuration support.
• Generated reports from PS information system and created custom reports using Report painter, Report writer and SAP Queries.
• User authorization testing - Testing roles and user access.
• Created LSMW and SAP GUI scripts for legacy data mapping.
• Responsible for mentoring, and guiding the SAP FICO team members and end users.
• Collected legacy data, prepared load templates and data migration by executing LSMW and SAP GUI Scripts and IDocs.
• Provided guidance to the technical team in the design and development of reports, interfaces, conversions, user exits and enhancements.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configure Company Code and Chart of Accounts, Define Posting Keys and Maintain Field Status Variants.
• Configure and Customize G/L Master Data including Reconciliation Accounts, Automatic Account Assignments, and Inter-Company postings.
• Configure screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios. Integration between different modules FI, SD and MM. Configured document postings, GL recurring entries, accrual deferral documents, month end closings.
• Configure document number ranges, document types, tolerance ranges, line item controls, maintain fast entry screens for G/L account items, park documents, individual or mass reversal of documents, valuate foreign currency.
• In Asset accounting configured, asset classes, chart of depreciation, unplanned depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation posting, acquisition and retirement of assets, assets under construction and capitalization of assets.
• Maintain master data for Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables.
• Configure Credit Management and Define Payment Methods and Payment Terms.
• Configure system for Customer/Vendor down payments using Special G/L indicators.
• Defining House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Reason Codes.
• Configure and Customize Treasury module involving Automatic Payment Program, Payment Advices, lockbox Processing, Electronic Bank Statement Processing, and Cash Management.
• Define Month-end Closing and Year-end closing.
• Preparing the configuration rationales for FI and CO and validating the configuration.
• Implementing month end closing activities.
• Business Signoff for the development changes.
• Configured financial accounting global settings like; Key settings being company code, business areas, fiscal year variant, document types, and document No. ranges, validations, tax on sales and purchases.
• Bank Accounting: House banks transactions- Check Deposit, Payment Transactions (manual bank statement).
• Product Costing: Performed material costing with cost estimate using quantity structure. Costing runs with bifurcation into variable and fixed cost. Analyzed costing runs, analyzed BOM and materials type, inventory valuation.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP FI Consultant for Post Go live and stabilization phase.
• Resolve issues relating to Payment program.
• Substitutions for Profit center derivations.
• Building up the program for reconciliation of retail business and wholesale business.
• Month end closing activities. GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues.
• Resolving integration issues. Changes to conditions type and pricing procedure for the additional posting for the intercompany transactions.
• 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 on procedures for finance (AR, AP, and GL).
• Verified the test scripts executed including the month end closing scripts.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of implementation from business development process to end-user and go-live. Involved in analyzing the existing system for AS-IS study and provided estimates &solutions for TO-BE system, gather functional requirements through user workshops, and analyzing Gaps. Understood business process, and tested all the customizations before and after the upgrade. Checked Z-program developed for client for enhancements and reports.
• Configured and customized chart of accounts, GL accounts, accounting groups creation with different field status, defined posting keys for GL account posting, open item clearing, and adjustment accounts for GR/IR clearing, created financial statement version and drill down reports for GL accounts.
• Configured vendor groups in account payable (FI-AP), vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor accounts groups. Configured automatic payment for outgoing payments to vendors.
• Configured & customized customer master data in account receivables (FI-AR), integrated automatic account assignment for billing process in SD, defined reason codes for over/underpayments. Defined payment terms for customer accounts as per client requirement and configured bank details for incoming payments. Created check lots.
• Configured organizational structure in asset accounting (FI- AA).
• Evaluated and configured controlling area settings.
• Designed and configured cost center group hierarchy and cost centers in cost center accounting (CO-CCA).
• Configured basic settings in profit center accounting (CO-PCA), configured profit center planning.
• Configured internal orders (CO-IO) for comparing budgets with actual planed and actual costs. Configured activity types and created assessment, distribution and settlement cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Facilitated planning for Product Costing and Cost Object controlling by creating product cost by order, product cost by sales order and product cost by period.
• Creation of costing variants, valuation variants, costing sheets and costing types.
• Created Settings for Material costing, by defining calculation bases, defining percentage overhead and cost component structure.
• Integration of CO-PC with material masters.
• Configured the material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, configured cost object controlling, configured WIP calculations, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures,
• Integration with Production orders, Bill of Materials (BOM), routings.
• Defined posting rules to FI-structure and created settlement profiles.
• Running Standard Cost Cycles, Actual Costing, Variance Analysis and Settlement.
• Configured FI-MM-SD integration.
• Writing test scenarios, test cases, and test steps for Integration, Regression, and UAT testing.
• Provided in-class and one-on-one to end users on various levels with client organizations.
• Developed work instructions in Natural Language that was easily understood by use analyzing Gaps. Understood business process, and tested all the customizations before and after the upgrade. Checked Z-program developed for client for enhancements and reports.
• Configured and customized chart of accounts, GL accounts, accounting groups creation with different field status, defined posting keys for GL account posting, open item clearing, and adjustment accounts for GR/IR clearing, created financial statement version and drill down reports for GL accounts.