PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 years of SAP FICO experience including 5 years of COPA experience.
• 3 full life cycle implementations and several upgrade & enhancement projects.
• Worked with major clients across Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Pharma, Retail and Public Sector industries.
• Excellent expertise in configuration of Accounts Receivables (AR), Accounts Payables (AP), General Ledger (GL) and Asset Accounting (AA) in Financial Accounting with Procure - To-Pay and Order-To-Cash Processes.
• Experience in configuration of Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Order (IO) and Profitability Analysis (PA) in Controlling.
• Highly exposed to Upgrades, ASAP, IMG, BPP, OSS, As-Is/To-Be,Client process analysis, Fit and Gap study and solution manager.
• Trained users in configuration as well as post implementation production support - createdand extensively used “ready-to-use” ASAP based database of BPP, Configuration and materials/templates in all my projects resulting in project timeline savings.
• Extensive experience in integration of FI with Sales & Distribution (SD) and Material Management (MM).
• Expertise in configuring programs for Dunning, Correspondence, Lockbox, Automatic Payments, Check Management and Bank Interfaces like ACH, Wire Transfers, Check Payments and EBS processing’s.
• Proficient in Month-End and Year-End closing activities like creating Accrual/Deferral postings, balance confirmations, foreign currency valuations, value adjustments, regroupings, balance carry forward and technical reconciliation.
• Proficient with exchange rate types & maintenance tables, Validations & Substitutions rules, valuation methods, Internal & External reporting and preparation of Financial Statements with good understanding of GAAP and IFRS accounting principles.
• Experienced in report development using Drilldown Reports, Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Good knowledge of Core Business Processes, SAP Best Practices and Process Improvements.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

S AP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted end-user workshops for design specifications.
• Created design specifications for a global implementation.
• Created technical specifications for custom designs.
• Designed COPA integration with FI/CO, SD, Customer Service, Contracts, MM, ECC, and CRM.
• Configured the COPA environment for ECC 6.0.
• Configured consolidations module for multi-country/multi-currency environment (Distributions, Business Areas, Consolidation Areas, etc.).
• Created Consolidation reports using Report Painter, Report Writer, and ABAP Query.
• Created COPA reports using Report Painter, Report Writer, and ABAP Query.
• Mapped COPA Characteristics to BI 7.0 Characteristics.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Maumee, OH

Responsibilities:

• Production Support and New Enhancements using BEx in the areas of COPA, FI/CO, Consolidations and Special Ledger.
• Using existing business requirements designed and created new reporting functionality for COPA and other FI/CO Infoareas.
• Supported CO-Profitability Analysis Info Providers for a global company.
• Enhanced COPA based on new user requirements.
• Worked foreign currencies and company codes.
• Lead team and instructed team members on reporting requirements and policies and procedures.
• Trained users on existing and new reporting functionality.
• Created new functionality and created reporting processes in accordance with SOX compliance requirements.
• Created Demo Presentations for team members, end-users, and upper management.
• Created reporting documentation.
• Created BW Reporting Team Guidelines and Standards documentation for all reporting functions in accordance to SOX requirements.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full life-cycle implementation.
• Conducted meetings with the users to understand the AS IS business processes and documented business process flow charts. Identified the requirements and modeled TO-BE process.
• Created vendor account groups, vendor number ranges, document types, document number ranges and terms of payment.
• Worked with the client in preparing and loading Vendor Master Data. Developed LSMW object to upload Vendor Master Data from legacy system to SAP.
• Maintained Payment Terms. Set up of Automatic Payment Program includes Payment Company codes, payment methods, bank determination and payment forms for payment transactions per company code. Defined ranking order, number ranges for checks and also the void reasons.
• Configured FI-MM Integration with appropriate Account Assignments.
• In Asset Accounting (AA), configured asset master data, asset classes and chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation posting, acquisition and retirement of assets, assets under construction, capitalization of assets, inter-company asset transfers.
• Changed depreciation keys according to new depreciation rates. Updated valuation methods and updated Asset Master with new depreciation keys.
• Involved in handling Tangible Assets with direct capitalization, which included creating, planning & budgeting of internal order, acquiring asset and analyzing the internal order.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured operating concern for costing based Profitability analysis, maintained CO version, defined characteristics, value fields and attributes, assignment of relevant value fields to SD condition types for online transfer of billing documents data to CO-PA, configured the derivation structure and rule for characteristics and created reports as per client requirements.
• Involved actively during post implementation .
• Prepared a document of all the changes made, revised the Business Process Procedures (BPPs) to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Involved with the team members to perform integration testing for all the processes and regression testing for the key business practices.
• Provided Pre go-live and Post go-live production support.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Moline, IL

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized General Ledger - Created Master Records, configured number ranges and G/L Accounts for Company Code and added new accounts, assigned Chart of Accounts to Company Code, created field status variant and fiscal year variant (4+4+5).
• For Accounts Receivables (AR), grouped customers to define Credit Control Area. Configured tolerance limits for customers and managed AR reconciliation account for sub-legers for customers. Configured down payment settlements and customized payment terms for customers.
• Involved with the developers for designing interfaces and maintained EDI file format to receive EDI orders from customers.
• Created Controlling Area, maintained versions and number ranges for controlling documents.
• Created primary cost elements by creating and executing batch input sessions.
• Defined secondary cost elements for assessment and internal activity allocation.
• Created standard hierarchy in CO-CCA and created cost center groups and cost centers. Also created activity types and assigned to cost center to calculate activity cost per cost center.
• Turned on validations for G/L account and cost center combinations. Defined Specs for tables which will be used to enter the valid combinations.
• Configured Assessment and Distribution cycles to settle both the actual and plan costs among different cost objects.
• Coordinated with BW Consultants to create different types of reports like Year-to-date reports, monthly reports, quarterly reports and annual reports for Group and individual Cost center analysis.
• Involved in using Tax Reporting and related month end financial reports.
• Designed Functional Specifications and tested various Accounts Receivable reports; coordinated with ABAP developers and Business Users to fix various bugs.
• Ensured smooth Rollout by doing 2 rounds of Unit testing followed by equal Number of Integration Testing rounds, regression Testing & Full Documentation of entire Rollout Project.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Wallingford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Studied and analyzed the existing business processes, recorded Process Flow, created flowcharts and got it approved from Key users, and created Business blue print for the existing processes.
• Conducted interviews with concerned personnel using structured and open questionnaires and documentation of processes using SAP Documentation Tools like SAP Notes, and MS Word.
• Based on AS-IS analysis and functional requirements, SAP business processes are modeled to suit client's requirements, using SAP Model. To-be processes were designed in terms of Process view, component view, functional view, information view and organizational view. Demonstrated 'To-Be' way of working for the approval of the client.
• Gap analysis was carried out between SAP Process and To-be concept and additional functional requirements were documented.
• Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, Open and close posting periods and created G/L Account master records.
• Configuration of Master data, business transactions, dunning /paymentprocesses in AR/AP.
• Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required Fixed Asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Responsibilities also involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user requirement.
• Cost Center /Profit Center Accounting - Defined standard hierarchy for cost center accounting, Designed automatic account assignments, Assigned profit centers to cost center, Created primary & secondary cost elements.
• Information System - Created forms and generated various reports using Variants, key figures and constants to produce the Balance Sheet Analysis and to calculate Ratio Analysis like current ratio, debt-equity ratio and income per employee etc. Written functional and technical specs.
• Integration - Assigned G/L accounts for the predefined processes for integration with SD and MM modules.
• Closing of accounts - Created GR/IR clearing accounts, Individual value adjustments, posting of periodic accrual and deferral expenses and revenues and Carry forward of Balances.
• Involved with the team of members to perform integration testing for all the processes and regression testing for the key business practices.
• Provided Pre go-live and Post go-live production support.