PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Confidential is an accomplished and integrity driven professional having more than 14 years of proven success in providing techno - functional expertise in designing and implementing SAP FI and CO modules with a wide range of industry experience includes Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Construction, Financials, Advertisement and Energy with 6 full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodology.
• Strong expertise in functional configuration and implementation SAP Controlling module in the areas of Profitability Analysis (COPA), Product Costing (COPC), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Material Ledger especially in highly Complex Business Environments.
• Strong knowledge of business processes in cross modules SD, MM, PP, SM and PS and their integration points with FI and CO modules.
• Worked on all stages of life cycle implementation in Business Process Engineering & Analysis, As-Is Study, To-Be Process, GAP Analysis, Blueprint Mapping & BPP, Testing, GO-LIVE, Post Production Support, End User Training (Job-Aid), Trouble Shooting, Cut Over Planning and Documentation using ASAP methodology.
• Proficiency in designing, configuring and testing Product Costing for a variety of manufacturing environments like Make-to-Stock(MTS)- Discrete, Repetitive and Process Industries, Make-to-Order - Sales Order Controlling with Valuated and Non Valuated Stock Scenarios.
• Extensively worked on the configuration and testing of Product Costing components like
• Costing Variant, Valuation Variant, Transfer Control, Cost Component Structures, Costing Sheet, Cross Company Code Costing, Standard Cost Estimation Run, Error log analysis and corrections of Standard Cost Estimation, Scrap Variances analysis and settlement to COPA.
• Profound knowledge and extensive work experience in configuring Result Analysis Keys, Update Rules, Posting Rules, Settlement Profile, Allocation Structures and PA Transfer Structures for different Cost Object Controlling application components Product Cost by Period, Product Cost by Order and Product cost by Sales Order .
• Techno-functional proficiency in designing and configuring COPA module and the related configuration like Maintaining Operating Concern, Characteristics and Value Fields, Characteristics Derivations, Valuations using Material Cost Estimate and User Exit, Key Figure Schemas and Form Based Reports in COPA .
• Experience in configuration of Settlement Profiles, Settlement Rules, PA transfer Structures, Allocation Structures, Result Analysis, Cost Element Groups etc
• Strong experience in creating reports using Report Painter, Report Writer, and SAP Query etc. Extensively worked on creating the Reporting Elements like Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Sets, Reusable Column Model and Row Model, sections, Cells etc.
• Experience in implementing Multiple Valuations, Actual Costing and Transfer Prices using Material Ledger.
• Techno-functional expertise in Classical and advanced programming techniques of ABAP like OOPs, Enhancement Points, BADIs, Customer Exits, ALV reports, BAPIs, Smart Forms, Scripts, Workflow, BTEs, Interfaces, IDOCs, EDI, ALE and BDCs etc.
• Strong experience in creating reports using Report Painter, Report Writer, SAP Query
• Experience with client presentations, assessments, conducting business process workshops.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Sr. SAP CO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0, COPA, CCA, COPC, Internal Orders, Material Ledger

Responsibilities:

• Conducting requirement gathering workshops with Cost Accounting users in the functional areas of COPA, Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting and Material Ledger and document the business requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Designing, Implementing, Testing and Deploying the Configurational and Development Objects to meet the identified business requirements.
• Provide business users with assistance in Month End closings and reconciliations.
• Provided production support on a regular basis for monthly Costing Run, Material Ledger Costing Run, FICO Reconciliations, Cost Center Assessments, COPA Assessments, Variance Calculation and Settlements.
• Extended the existing functionalities of Product Costing and COPA to the newly acquired Taiwan plant by adjusting the structures wherever necessary.
• Added new cost components to the existing Kraton’s Global Cost component structure, added new value fields to COPA to map the newly created cost components and modified the COPA valuation to map the new cost components in COPC to the new value fields in COPA. Modified the KE30 reports with the newly created value fields.
• Created several reports using Report painter in CO and FI for COPA reconciliations, Variance Analysis, P&L reports etc.
• Created allocation cycles using distribution to allocate the balances on Utility/Maintenance cost centers to the Production Cost Center.
• Created assessments for allocating the Under/Over Absorptions on production cost center to COPA value fields for a complete margin reports in COPA.

Confidential, Chantilly VA

Sr. SAP CO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0, COPA, CCA, COPC, Internal Orders

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provided functional and configuration expertise in the implementation of SAP CO modules COPA, Internal Orders, Cost Center Accounting and Product costing.
• Involved in the analysis, design and implementation of SAP CO modules COPA, CCA, Internal Orders and Product Costing
• Configured all baseline settings for Controlling Area, Operating concern as per management accounting and requirements of organization.
• Configured the Cost Center Accounting module and customized Planning Layouts and Planning Profiles for Activity Input Planning, Primary Cost Planning and Activity Price Planning.
• Created the required Cycles and Segments for Allocations in Cost Center Accounting and COPA.
• Designed and Implemented Internal Orders Module for recording Operational and Capital Expenses for short term Job Orders and Investments. Configured settlement profiles, Allocation Structures, Source Structures and Cost Elements Groups to settle the Capital Expenses to AuC and Operational Expenses to G/L.
• Developed functional specifications for Interfaces, Enhancements, Forms and Reports for customdevelopments along with performing their testing and providing support
• Configured Costing Variant and various Costing Variant Components Valuation Variant, Transfers Control and Costing Types for Standard Cost Estimates as well as for Ad Hoc cost estimates like Modified standard cost estimate and Current cost estimates
• Configured Cost Component Structure, Costing Sheet, Over Head Groups
• Configured Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) created Operating Concern Attributes, Characteristics and Value Fields, Maintained Derivation Tables, Structure and Rules.
• Implemented Cost Object Controlling for Sales Orders with Valuated Stock. Configured Result Analysis, Allocation Structure and PA transfer Structure to settle the RA to COPA.
• Worked on COPA valuation strategy to access the Cost Component Structure for the material cost and mapped the Cost components to COPA value fields as required.
• Configured the PA transfer structure for transferring the Vistex Documents like Accruals and Settlements into COPA.
• Created Key Figure Schemas in COPA for calculating Contribution Margins, Gross Profit Margin, Operating Margin, Net profit etc. and use them in the reports.
• Configured MM-FI integration in Automatic Account Determination for Consumption, Inventory Account, PPV and Dropship scenarios.
• Created various reports in COPC and COPA using SAP Report Writer, Report painter and SAP Query Tool.
• Conducted training sessions for users and trained them on various transactions like Costing Runs, Order Balance Reports, Result Analysis Runs and Analysis Reports, Settlement Runs and Analysis and created a Job Aid documents.

Confidential NC

Sr. SAP CO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0, Product Costing, COPA, Cost Center Accounting

Responsibilities:

• I have provided my expertise in SAP controlling to their implementation team in UAT, GO-Live and Hypercare phases of the project in Validating the Material Costs, Cost Components and Inventory Valuations between QAD and SAP.
• Worked extensively in analyzing the costing rolls errors and co-ordinated with data migration team to make the changes to Master Data such as Material, BOMs, Routings, Source Lists, Inforecords and Work Centers which caused the costing differences.Analyzed the inventory valuation differences between Legacy System and SAP and recommended the required functional changes such as Special Procurement Types, Discontinued materials, Scrap etc
• Created reports to compare the cost components and Inventory differences between legacy system and SAP system.
• Worked thoroughly through the IT cycles to validate the Planned Scrap Set up and Scrap Variances Analysis and Settlement
• Trained users in Cost Center Planning, COPA reporting and Product Costing functionalities

Confidential PA

Sr.SAP CO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Senior CO Consultant responsible for Implementation, maintenance and supporting COPA, COPC, Material Ledger, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Special Purpose Ledger.
• Participated in business process workshops and presented new functionality with upgrade and provided requirements for the planned enhancements in the system.
• Implemented Sales Order Costing using non-Valuated Stock for MTO production. Configured Result Analysis, Settlement Rules, Allocation Structures and PA Transfer Structure to settle the Result Analysis Data to COPA.
• Analyzed the manufacturing processes and configured various components of Product Costing module including Costing Variant, Valuation Variant, Cost Component Structure, Costing sheet and Split Valuations.
• Configured Internal Orders for Operating and Capital Expenses. Configured Order Types, Number Ranges, Settlement Profiles and Allocation Structure. Worked on the migration of Internal Order Master data from Legacy system.
• Developed functional specifications for Interfaces, Enhancements, Forms and Reports for customdevelopments along with performing their testing and providing support
• Configured Variance Keys and PA transfer structure to settle the Variance categories to different value fields in COPA.
• Activated Material Ledger and implemented Multiple Valuations, Actual Costing and Transfer Prices
• Maintained cost center standard hierarchy with cost center groups representing organizational structure of the company, representative cost centers for summarization.
• Designed Assessment cycles to transfer costs from cost centers to segments in CO-PA.
• Designed PA transfer structure for complete postings of costs and revenues to in CO-PA.
• Configured settlements of price and quantity variances of materials and activities to respective value fields through PA transfer structure.
• Worked on issues related CO-PA in reconciliation with Financial Accounting.
• Involved in the configuration of Valuation areas, Multiple Currency types and number ranges, Movement type groups.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) defined the Operating Concern and maintaining the controlling versions, configured the operating Concern and defined the attributes and the data structures.
• Configured the reporting characteristics from reference tables and field catalogue, and defined additional user defined characteristics to meet the different needs for reporting profitability.
• Created the derivation for the user defined characteristics using the derivation table. The characteristic values for other user defined Characteristics were maintained by defining derivation structures and rules.
• Created reports in COPA, SIS and Overhead Management using Report Painter and Report Writer. Created all the required report elements Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Cost Center Groups, Cost Element Groups, Sets etc
• Master Data conversion for Internal Order, Cost Center and Profit Center from Different Legacy System using LSMW.
• Defined structure for cost center to CO-PA assessments by creating an assessment cycle with assigning the profitability segment as the receiver value.
• Created CO-PA drilldown reports according to different profitability reporting.

Confidential VA

Sr.SAP CO Consultant

Environment SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various workshops conducted at various phases of these projects to gather and document the business requirements and transform the BRDs into Functional specifications for implementing the Controlling Module.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of CO-Internal Orders, CO-CCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, Product Costing with Cost Splitting Valuation - PA-structure, value fields, planning and reporting.
• Worked on the configuration of Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost, Ad-hoc cost estimates, and special procurements and releasing of the new cost estimate.
• Analyzed end user needs and propose viable solutions for report improvement, QA and user training in CO. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Eliminated Discrepancies between FI and PCA by Posting PCA Adjustments and Uploaded master data for cost centers. Activity types using LSMW.
• Cost Center Accounting Settings for Periodical Processing, Inventory management, Purchasing, and complete design /configuration of general CO functionality (CCA).The scope of CO included Product Costing and Profitability Analysis
• Design and configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA transfer structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA
• Designed and Created Custom reports in FI, CCA and COPA using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Defined various reports. Through knowledge in Defining Costing Sheet and calculating Overhead.

Confidential, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities

• Participated in business process workshops and presented new functionality with upgrade and provided requirements for the planned enhancements in the system.
• Analyzed the AS-IS, performed gap analysis and designed the TO-BE system.
• Worked with technical resources to design Interfaces and data Conversion Programs and developed functional specifications for information exchange in-between existing SAP legacy systems and SAP.
• Used Top-Down Distribution in CO-PA to Report Overhead Costs at Lower-Level Characteristics. Configured and Managed All Period-End Closing Activities with Schedule Manager.
• Worked and maintained Cost center standard hierarchy with cost center groups representing organizational structure of the company, representative cost centers for summarization.
• Configured Account determinations for different material movements and valuation classes. Actively involved in the configuration of Costing types, Valuation variants, Date Control and Transfer strategy for Material cost estimate with Quantity Structure.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, Result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its Settlements.
• Involved in the configuration of Valuation areas, Multiple Currency types and number ranges, Material update structure in the Material Ledger.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) defined the Operating Concern and maintaining the controlling versions, configured the operating Concern and defined the attributes and the data structures. Configured the settings for implementation of Costing based profitability analysis.
• Configured the reporting characteristics from reference tables and field catalogue, and defined additional user defined characteristics to meet the different needs for reporting profitability.
• Assigned values to value fields by mapping SD condition types to value fields after discussing the appropriate condition types to be used with the SD team. Also mapped the SD quantity fields to relevant CO-PA quantity fields.
• Configured the FI PA settlement structure including the assignment of responsible cost element and settlement structure line assignment to value fields.
• Defined structure for cost center to CO-PA assessments by creating an assessment cycle with assigning the profitability segment as the receiver value.
• Created CO-PA drilldown reports according to different profitability reporting.

Confidential, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

• Participated in full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 using ASAP Methodology.
• Configured new company codes, Inter-company code assignments & processing and Inter-company Transport Orders.
• Configured and Customized Internal Orders. Configured Order Types, Number Ranges, Settlement Profiles and Allocation structures.
• Configured the system to handle various receivables scenarios (over, shorts, down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments etc.). Verified and Tested GL transactions for business process (fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals, etc).
• Integrating/Configuring Intercompany Processing, MM (Logistics), SD and HR Modules with FI and CO.
• Created Validation/Substitution Rules for AP/AR and CCA & PCA.
• Worked on chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers and balance-carry forwards and re-organized accounts for various cost and profit centers and Programmed schedules and jobs.
• Worked on Cross Company Code Configuration, Automatic Postings, Foreign Currency Valuation, and Multi Currency Configuration and Tax ware.
• Worked on Customer Master, House Banks, Payment Programs, Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box and had successfully configured Clearing to clearing open items in GL/AR/AP Modules.
• Configured Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Edging.
• Gap analysis of clients/sandboxes for further consistent testing and validated custom ABAP/4 programs to ensure delivery of expected results and interacted with end users to analyses testing issues and concerns subsequent to re-organization.
• Configured and Customized the Credit Management (Credit Control Area) to manage the receivables in association with SD team.
• Designed technical specifications for MIS reports. And also worked on preparing design specifications, maintaining and developing new programs; Integration, acceptance testing and Quality assurance; supported on technical documentation and end-user documentation and Courseware. Designed, developed and maintained reports with support from ABAP Team.
• Involved in post go live support and maintained the system.

Confidential, CA

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• As a production support member involved in solving the production issues, provided user training, Reviewed/Updated the Functional Design Documents for FI/CO developments
• Extensive support for GL, AP, AR, AA, CCA and other modules which include MM and SD.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of S
• Involved in solving the Production issues in Automatic Payment Program (AP), Account Assignment (AR), interest calculations on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes
• Setup the Gain/Loss accounts for exchange rate differences in vendor and customer payments and testing different production scenarios
• Set up the balance sheet adjustment accounts and exchange rate Gain/Loss accounts for Goods Receipt (GR), Invoice Receipt (IR) and Goods Issued (GI).
• System configuration in the areas of GL transactions, balance sheet reports, profit and loss, inter-company transactions, consolidation, automatic posting GL master records
• Worked with ABAP team members to solve the production issues in balance sheet and P&L reports
• Heavily involved in writing functional and technical specifications and worked closely with the technical personnel.

Confidential

SAP ICO Developer

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Developed a conversion program to read G/L balances from an excel file and Park the G/L document. The second level business user will review and post the document.
• Developed a custom program to automatically clear the GR/IR account via F-03 transaction. The customer has specific situation where the automatic clearing can’t be achieved through the SAP standard configuration.
• Configured the Workflow to automate the third party Invoice approval using the standard workflow template. Used Approval Strategy, Approval Paths to the account assignment and Amount approvals.
• Develop a customer exit using the enhancement GVTRS001 to execute the Balance carry forward for Secondary Cost Types
• Developed a customer exit using the enhancement FEB00001, to default the Business Area in Bank Statement postings.
• Developed a job summary report which brings data from tables in several Modules. This report gives details of estimated amounts of projects, Employee hours, Labor Amount, Open PO Amount, Billed Amount, and Vendor Actuals.
• Developed a custom report for Accounts Payable Aging report to show the vendor vise due amount in the buckets of 30 days, 31-60 days, 61-90 days and more than 90 days
• Direct margin Report: This report is used to display the Sales, COGS, Internal consumption and revenues by Channel.
• Used ALVs to display the Customer Return Order Analysis. This report displays all the Customer Returns by date. Based on the Reason code for Return, the corresponding action will be taken.
• Developed a BTE to send an Email Notification to Vendors on Wire and ACH payments with payment advice note as attachment
• Analyzing the client’s requirements.
• Preparing the Object Development Documents- Technical Specification documents.
• Developing, Testing and Preparing UTPs
• Preparing user manuals
• Developed a customer exit to generate the purchase orders based on the regions. The first two digits of the generated Purchase orders are replaced by region code.
• Modified the form layouts for purchase order and Invoice to display the NBCU logo. Logo is uploaded into SAP and stored it as standard text.
• Uploaded the Purchase order and purchase order change details into Universal’s SAP system from NBC eBuy system using BAPI.
• Sent the response file back to NBC with purchase order numbers (if successfully created in SAP) and errors (if any data is missing while posting the purchase order).
• Uploaded the GR/GI documents into SAP system from eBuy using BAPI and Sent the response file back to NBC with material document numbers (if successfully posted in SAP) and errors (if any data is missing while posting the goods movement).
• Designed and developed an interface to upload the vendor master data from GSL into SAP using BDC session method
• Designed and developed an interface to send all the invoice details from SAP to ACS.
• Scheduling and Monitoring the background jobs

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Developer

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities

• Review of functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements (extensions), Forms, and Workflow (RICEFW) requirements in FICO stream for completeness from a functional requirement perspective
• Plan, Design, Architect and Implement technical solutions using the capabilities of SAP system in the areas of ABAP and Workflow to meet the business expectations
• Provide estimates on work level to design & build the RICEFW components as input to the project plan
• Develop technical specifications for RICEFW objects
• Document and perform unit, string, integration, and regression testing in support of new implementations and releases
• Designed and implemented Interfaces to send the ACH and WIRE payment advices to house bank. The SAP Standard IDOC PEXR2002 and Message type PAYEXT are used for this interface. Configured Partner profiles, Ports and RFC destinations.
• Designed and developed an interface to send Positive Pay File to house bank. This report is scheduled to run once a day to generate a positive pay file. The generated file will be written to application server from where it will be picked and send to bank by SAP XI.
• Developed an ABAP proxy to load the Bank Statements into SAP using the SAP standard transaction FF 5. This proxy gets triggered by XI whenever it receives a bank Statement File from bank.
• Designed and developed an interface to upload Bloomberg Exchange Rates into Global SAP system. Designed and implemented an ALE distribution model to distribute Bloomberg Exchange rates from Global Systems into all other Local and Regional SAP system.

Confidential

ABAP Developer (FICO)

Environment SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements identified in Blueprint phase in FICO, MM, SD andQM modules
• Collaborate with business analysts to understand functional specifications and to developTechnical specifications
• Develop and deliver an efficient code on-time adhering to defined programming standards andNaming conventions.Reports
• Contract Profitability Analysis Report
• Contract Cost balance report
• Sales Order Line Items Cost Balance VS WIP Posted Matching Report
• Product Type profitability Analysis Report
• Developed Report to display the Statistical Value of Non-Valuated Stock.BDC
• Cost Center Master Data through LSMW
• Profit Center master Data
• G/L Master Data
• As part of realignment, Purchase Orders are updated with new cost centers using BDC