SUMMARY

• SAP Certified Controlling Consultant with 8+ years of functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules and integration with logistics modules (SD and MM)
• Hands - on experience on 2 full lifecycle implementation of SAP FICO from requirements gathering to Designing the organization structure and setting it up in SAP in association with other members from different streams of the implementation team
• Expertise in Product Cost(COPC) and Profitability Analysis(COPA) and Material Ledger
• Excellent in Assessment & Distribution, Costing sheet, Costing Variant & Standard cost Estimation, Additive cost, Material split valuation, Report painter and CO-PA drilldown reports
• Experience in integrating FI/CO with other SAP modules including SD, MM and PP
• Experience in Settlement profile, Allocation Structures, Source Structures and PA Transfer structures
• Preparation of Functional Specification for Developing ABAP Reports
• Good exposure in Legacy System Migration workbench(LSMW)
• Involved in Post-production support and maintenance
• Extensive functional and configuration experience in Financial Accounting (SAP-FI) including FI-General Ledger, FI-Account Payable, FI-Account Receivable and FI-Asset Management
• Expertise in Controlling (SAP-CO) that included CO - Cost Center Accounting, CO - Profit Center Accounting, CO - Profitability Analysis, CO - Product Costing and Material ledger

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP R/3 Versions: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.0

Languages: ABAP, SQL, C and C++

Operating Systems: MS Windows 2000/2003/ 7&8

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP R/3 - CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed, configured and tested the CO sub-modules like Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, COPA, Product cost and Material ledger
• Analysis of Business requirements to determine organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, Cost Centers and profit centers. Role included functional analysis, creation of prototype for clients, Data mapping with legacy system to SAP system
• Successfully implemented Product cost estimate information transfer from CO-PC into CO-PA, through cost component values which facilitated the import of detailed cost-of-sales information into CO-PA for reporting purpose
• Used LSMW to migrate Cost element Master Data, Cost center Master Data and Profit center Master Data from Legacy system to newSAPversion
• Helped end users in period end activities involving Overhead calculation, WIP, Variance calculation, Settlements of production orders
• Configured Material Costing with Quantity structure, Configured Valuation Variant, Costing Variant, Cost Component Split and Overhead Costing sheet; Created Costing run variant and Analysis of costing run
• Maintained valuation strategies as business need to view the cost of product value in plant (Material master costing price)
• Worked on material valuation in KEPC to eliminate cost estimate errors
• Activated Material ledger and Dynamic price release as business required to change the actual price of the material automatically
• Configured Additive cost and special procurement key and Material split valuation settings
• Have been involved in the preparation of test scenarios, integration test documents and training documents

Confidential

SAP R/3 - CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements and configured Controlling modules based on client requirements
• Involved in the analysis of Costing process followed by client. Involved in setting up of Material Cost Estimate with quantity structure, Costing Variants, Costing Sheet and Integrating COPC with COPA
• Configured the Operating Concern, Characteristics, Value Fields, Maintaining the Derivation Rules and Structures to create Drilldown Reports
• Worked with the client in explaining the features of CO-PA including characteristics, value fields and integration with SD,FI and MM modules
• Worked extensively on support for CCA, Product costing(CO-PC), Material Ledger and Profitability analysis(CO-PA)
• Helped the costing users with the Period end activities like - Overhead calculation, WIP calculation, Variance calculation and Settlements of orders
• Conducted various work session and workshops with business people to understand their business and map into SAP with regard to assessments, distributions, settlements of cost objects, profit centers
• Worked closely with super users and master data team for successful data loads

Confidential

SAP R/3 - CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Controlling AS-IS system for requirement gatherings to prepare To-BE processes along with recommendations on business transformations.
• Developed Business process design and process flow for each master data element(cost centers, profit centers, secondary cost elements, internal orders, activity types ) and cost allocations and settlements in controlling area
• Conducted various work session and workshops with business people to understand their business and map into SAP with regard to assessments, distributions, settlements of cost objects, profit centers
• CO-PA configuration included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, COPA Assessments, CO-PA reporting, Forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures,, PA settlement, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution
• Prepared Users' manual and trained the users
• Conducted Unit testing and integration testing and super user's sign off for successful completion

Confidential, 2011 to July, 2012

SAP R/3 - CO Consultant

• Handled day-to-day trouble tickets and completing them well in time
• Emphasized and supported the need for continuous improvement through the use of proven methods such as Root Cause Analysis
• Supported Controlling module period end closing issues
• Worked with senior management and business to perform quality reviews at the requirements, design and development phases and to pass stage gates
• Actively supported the deployment phases through knowledge transfer, global template configuration extension, new design configuration and appropriate documentation
• Provided consistent progress/status reports to senior leadership

Confidential

SAP R/3 - FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized G/L account master records, chart of accounts, field status groups, account determination, financial statement versions, G/L display configuration, validations and substitutions.
• Configured FI-AP and FI-AR, Customer/ Vendor Master Records, Account groups, Tolerance groups, Document number ranges and account determination.
• Worked on configuration areas of House banks, Automatic payment program and Dunning procedures.
• Asset Accounting: Determined depreciation area in all asset classes like useful life, minimum/maximum useful life. Attached screen layout etc. Integrated AA with G/L-Defined Acquisition accounts assigned and allocated G/L accounts.
• Defined depreciation area for ordinary depreciation, special depreciation and unplanned depreciation.
• Profit Center Accounting: Created Profit Centers, maintained profit center standard hierarchy
• Prepared Functional specification for the Movement type Report
• Developed report for Comparison between Budget cost and Actual cost
• Developed automation report for Profit center change in Material master
• Prepared Functional specification for Sale order wise cost component break up

Confidential

SAP R/3 - FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as consultant for the Project, helping in various FI/CO configurations
• The Scope involves implementation of FI/CO sub modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Asset Accounting
• Configured Chart of Accounts, Dunning procedures, G/L master records, Bank master data, and Asset master data
• Created and assigned Controlling area to company code
• Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost elements, Cost element groups, Cost center, Cost center groups and Standard hierarchy
• Configured Settlement profiles, Allocation Structures and PA Transfer Structures

Confidential

SAP R/3 – FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• The main support was for configuration and testing General Ledger, Accounts payables, Accounts Receivables, and controlling
• Involved in production support activity and complex SLA’s
• Actively interact with users to resolve any pending issues
• Day-to-day production support for FICO modules
• Handling day-to-day trouble tickets and completing them well in time