SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in SAP FICO consulting, and over 15 years in financial accounting/cost accounting functional experience.
• Experienced, 3 full life cycle SAP - FICO implementation projects and support projects.
• Experience in Accelerated data migration using LSMW & BDC with Basis Team, mapping fields, EDI, Idoc.
• Functional experience in General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Accrual Accounting, Standard Costing, Activity Based Coasting and preparation of Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flows statements. Thorough knowledge and understanding on accounting concepts such as Accrual Accounting and Matching Concepts and other concepts related to US GAAP and IFRS.
• Excellent leadership and management skills resolving issues and growing client relationships

  Effective communication, inter-personal, team-building, facilitation, and presentation skills

  Able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users

• Effectively working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Proven ability to respond strongly and positively to challenging work and deadlines

  Work as an integral part of a talented team in a fast-paced, proactive environment

• SAP FICO Consultant with functional & technical knowledge of Asset Accounting, Cost Accounting, Inventory Valuations and Controls, Investment Management, Project Systems, Internal Order Processing, A/P, A/R, GL and New GL, Cost Centre Accounting, Treasury & Cash Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Consultant Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on completion of the COA mapping.
• Configured and defined requirement for house bank
• Test interface of SAP to legacy BPCS
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Developed and tested allocation logic
• Test SAP configuration

Confidential, Texas

Sr. SAP Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creation of user-defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter.
• Involved in configuration of Planning and Actual Postings of Profit Center Accounting.
• Documented End User Manuals and Material.
• Performed requirement collection by holding meetings with Users and understanding the Workflow of the As-Is System (JDE).
• Worked on Analysis of existing Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution by reviewing all Processes, User procedures, and System requirements.
• Configured and Customized FI-CO modules: GL, AR, AP, AA, CEA, CCA.
• Defined the Operating Chart of Accounts and mapped the legacy system accounts to Operating Chart of Accounts by customizing the needful according to the client requirements.
• Involved with setting up chart of accounts, item master and inventory account description

Confidential, Texas

Sr. SAP Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed SAP scripts to test and maintain integrity of all FI/CO OSS notes applied.
• Configured and applied all FI/CO notes to current system. Performed requirement collection by holding meetings with Users and understanding the Workflow of the As-Is System (JDE).
• Worked on Analysis of existing Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution by reviewing all Processes, User procedures, and System requirements.
• Configured and Customized FI-CO modules: GL, AR, AP, AA, and CO.
• Defined the Operating Chart of Accounts and mapped the legacy system accounts to Operating Chart of Accounts by customizing the needful according to the client requirements.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Developed test scenarios and performed unit and integration testing for enhancements related to configuration of FI - GL, AR, AP,CO-PA.
• Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing Activities such as accounts receivables, accounts payables, period closing, accruals and deferring entries, balance carry forwards, GR/IR account reconciliation.
• Involved in generating the FI-GL standard reports for month end reporting purposes and Generated Customized Reports for Managerial requirements by using Report Painter.
• Documented End User Manuals and Material

Confidential - Dallas Texas

SAP Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with configuring general controlling by maintaining controlling areas and assigned company codes accordingly, creating CO document number ranges and version maintenance.
• Involved with creating primary cost elements as per the management requirements through batch input session, in accordance with FI - GL accounts. And secondary cost elements have been created with various cost element categories for apportionment.
• Configured cost centers related planning layout for cost element planning, user defined planner profiles, defined distribution cycles, defined assessment cycles.
• Involved with designing and configuring master data for standard hierarchy for cost centers, cost center groups. Created activity types, activity price, cost element for activity allocation, cost allocation structures, splitting structures, and maintaining statistical key figures, assigning profit centers to cost centers based on client requirements Involved in preparing unit test scripts, integration and interface test scripts and documented the results, getting final acceptance sign from the business owners.
• Carried out test scenarios and performed unit and integration testing. Involved and assisted with configuring general controlling by activating and maintaining components in controlling areas and assigned company codes to controlling area, assigning number ranges, fiscal year variant, currency types and currency, and cost center hierarchy, cross-company code cost accounting, fiscal version maintenance, assessment, distribution, and general overhead controlling.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved with configuring general controlling by maintaining controlling areas and assigned company codes accordingly, creating CO document number ranges and version maintenance.
• Involved with creating primary cost elements as per the management requirements through batch input session, in accordance with FI - GL accounts. And secondary cost elements have been created with various cost element categories for apportionment.
• Configured cost centers related planning layout for cost element planning, user defined planner profiles, defined distribution cycles, defined assessment cycles.
• Involved with designing and configuring master data for standard hierarchy for cost centers, cost center groups. Created activity types, activity price, cost element for activity allocation, cost allocation structures, splitting structures, and maintaining statistical key figures, assigning profit centers to cost centers based on client requirements Involved in preparing unit test scripts, integration and interface test scripts and documented the results, getting final acceptance sign from the business owners.
• Carried out test scenarios and performed unit and integration testing. Involved and assisted with configuring general controlling by activating and maintaining components in controlling areas and assigned company codes to controlling area, assigning number ranges, fiscal year variant, currency types and currency, and cost center hierarchy, cross-company code cost accounting, fiscal version maintenance, assessment, distribution, and general overhead controlling.
• Loaded standard cost file, routers, bills of material, item master and inventory using LSMW
• Maintained and update monthly milk cost. Balance Inter-company sales.
• Analysis of milk utilization and shrinkage, reported results to management. Analyzed/Evaluate actual Manu acting costs and prepared monthly reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Prepared monthly Cost of Goods Sold for month in close. Conducted monthly physical inventory of both plants above, Finish goods, Raw Materials, components and work in process Inventories.
• Reconciled inventory to general ledger. And made the necessary adjustment in DMS Accounting System.
• Provide management with reports comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products explaining monthly budget variances to senior management.

Confidential - Fort Worth, Texas

Sr. SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Integral member of the financial management team of a major national boot/apparel manufacturer.
• Utilizing SAP, performed analysis of purchase price and manufacturing variances against plan.
• Compiled and submitted daily sales and profit margin reports to management on a line item basis.
• Prepared formal summaries of cost of sales and product mix.
• Analyzed budget vs. actual performance of all cost centers within the plant. handpicked by corporate management to take project lead for the installation of SAP's current Financial and Cost Accounting (FI/CO) modules.
• Developed SAP scripts to test and maintain integrity of all FI/CO OSS notes applied.
• Configured and applied all FI/CO notes to current system. Performed requirement collection by holding meetings with Users and understanding the Workflow of the As-Is System (JDE).
• Worked on Analysis of existing Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution by reviewing all Processes, User procedures, and System requirements.
• Configured and Customized FI-CO modules: GL, AR, AP, AA, and CO.
• Defined the Operating Chart of Accounts and mapped the legacy system accounts to Operating Chart of Accounts by customizing the needful according to the client requirements.

Confidential, Dallas,Texas

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured Cost Center related Planning, Budget Management, and Actual Postings and assigned relevant Profit Centers to Cost Centers.
• Work in Progress Configuration- Calculation of Results Analysis keys, Valuation Method & Assignments and Detailed Variance Calculation configuration and setting up of Variance keys.
• Created Functional Specification Documents(FSDs) wherever required and provided to the developers to create required Custom Programs.Involved with conducting work shops for business users for gathering requirements of the intended business processes using the ASAP methodology.
• Documented existing business processes and analyzed them in order to identify the GAPs in the current business processes and these GAPs were used to determine the scope of the business blueprint.
• Involved in identifying proposed solutions to bridge the gap by way of documenting necessary reports, forms, interfaces. And analyzed their suitability in the overall solution perspective.
• Invloved in creating functional specification documents for the enhancements required in FI - GL, AR, AP to enable ABAP programmers to develop custom programs.
• Involved in creating customer master data such as field status groups, number range, account group, payment terms, dunning, document type, reconciliation account, screen layouts, payment terms, and customer/vendor clearing, inter-company clearing accounts and setting up inter-company transactions.
• Involved in creating value adjustment clearing accounts for doubtful receivables using valuation methods and updating customer master data.
• Involved in creating integration point FI - GL with Sales and Distribution module, and related GL account determination through access sequences.
• Carried out Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview using user-defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter.
• Involved in creating master data on Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line Items, interest indicator, time-based terms, and account determination through posting keys and account symbols.
• Involved in configuring, customizing and assigning company code to credit control area and defined Risk Categories and assigning to credit control areas
• Credit limit, risk categories along with document types, customer credit groups for analysis by credit representatives and groups, and maintain central credit master data in credit management.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI/BAI-2 formats and interfaces for EDI files from banks with payment details for updating GL and customer accounts.
• Involved with creating vendor master data such as screen layouts, field status group, number ranges, Account group, payment terms, down payment with special GL transactions, document type, posting rules, reconciliation account, customer/vendor clearing, partnering vendors using B2B and data flows thro EDI.
• Involved with creating integration point with Materials Management by determining GL account through material movement types with valuation classes.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for account payables including partial payment Configuration, check management and check printing, open item clearing in account payables, outgoing payments for outstanding invoices with invoice verification for good receipts.