SUMMARY:

• SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant with 14+ years of total experience and more than 12+ years of experience in SAP FI/CO with 6 Full life implementations and 5 Production Support and 1 Roll - Out project with Mexico Maquladora and Test Lead experience
• Certified Cost and Management Accountant from India (ICWA like CMA from USA)
• Extensive functional experience in FI-General Ledger (GL), FI-Accounts Payable (AP), FI-Accounts Receivable (AR), FI-Asset Accounting (AA), FI-MM Integration, FI - SD Integration, Project Systems (PS), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing (CO-PC), FM - Funds Management
• Experience in Requirement Analysis, Design, creating Functional Specifications Documents, Technical Design Documents, Development, Implementation, Testing (HP QC), Performance Tuning and Application Support of various business applications and strong emphasis on financial applications.
• Good Understanding of Tax system Sabrix and its integration with SAP
• Extensive experience in integration of FI with MM, IM, SD, PS with FM and Period End Closing.
• Post implementation support in FICO module with emphasis on FI-GL, FI-AR, and FI-AP, COPA, PC, PS, Open Text- VIM
• Extensive Experience in IDOC's - EDI,Inbound / Outbound Processing, Interface Setup withSAP& Third Party Tools, SM59 RFC Connections, Partner Profiles, Ports & User Exits inFICO
• HP - QC & ECATT Testing:Deep Testing Experience with HP - Quality Center, Creation of Test Cases, Test Scripts, Defects Creation, Closing Defects. performing AUTOMATED TESTING using ECATT for both Unit Testing & Integration Testing in FI & CO Modules
• SAPTables and Transport System: Extensive knowledge and experience ofSAPTables, Data Dictionary, Message Classes for Message Control & Programs ( SE38 ),SAPQuery &SAPTransport Requests, ( CTS )
• Worked in Support projects involved process approvals for creating CR, SR, incidents based on priority (Change Requests, Services Requests, Incidents) with direct interaction with business users (2nd level and 3rd level support).
• Involved in help desk activities to support the business users.
• Proficient in Manual Testing, SOX compliance validation, Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Data Validation, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Security Testing and Performance/Stress/Load Testing.
• Strong Knowledge of best practices of Software Quality Assurance and Testing (SQAT) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements analysis, design,devlopment, testing and deployment.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with clients, and other team members, in a diverse matrix environment.
• Research and analysis of issues and do the quick prototyping and give alternative solutions and provide the most cost effective solutions
• Designed Training and Project documentation including curriculum, training plan and summary. Extensive experience or providing Classroom and online training to SAP Key User and End User.
• Meet regularly with Business Owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
• Strong functional domain experience in financial accounting.
• Strengths include strong Leadership skills, understanding of the business processes
• Willing to accept responsibilities beyond immediate job duties and take on specific projects at management request
• A dynamic, results and goal-oriented leader with excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills, capable of making astute decisions and working under pressure.

SAP - CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

• Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: Configuration and customizing Company code, Creating GL account codes and Chart of Accounts, Configuration of Global settings, Configuration of GL automatic clearing, Configuration of Foreign currency valuation, Sales Tax/Purchase Taxes.
• Accounts Receivable: Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Oder to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms) Dunning and Reporting.
• Accounts Payable: Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, Define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Outgoing payment and Reporting.
• New General Ledger: Configure the New GL, Define the additional ledger (Leading and non-leading ledger), define currency, define segment, activate document splitting, define and assign accounting principle, transfer balance carry forward, define and assign the migration plan, activate and execute the migration plan.
• Integration with MM, IM,PS and SD: Integration of FI with MM, IM, PS and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination, interfaces design and testing.
• Asset Management: Creation of AUC, Internal Order, Investment Management, Capital Budgeting, Planning, Appropriation request, Asset acquisitions, Asset transfers (Intra Company and Inter Company), Asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue). Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, manual and unplanned depreciation. Involved in defining asset history sheets.
• Tax Configuration: Worked with Vertex Configured communication and tested external system tax data retrieval. Activated tax interface, configured external tax document, defined tax jurisdiction code, Configured and Implemented US and Canadian Tax customization and Withholding tax for 1099 vendors.
• Project Systems: Defining Project Profile, Investment Profile, Budget Profile, creating Project. Types for WBS elements, maintaining networks, network profiles, Value categories, Settlement Profile, defining Settlement rules for networks, defining parameters for availability check.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. SAP- FICO Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Senior Lead FICO Consultant responsible for Implementing Accounts Payable and Asset Management modules
• Interacted with Client Business Users for requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Prepared required documents providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business processes in SAP
• Analyzed the AS-IS, performed gap analysis and designed the TO-BE system.
• Configured Relevant Settings for Asset Management and Accounts Payable and Logistic Invoice Verification
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) in FI - MM(Procure to Pay)integration and configured for automatic posting to G/L for Invoice Verification and account determination for FI - SD (Order to Cash) cycles
• Involved in conversion of assets from legacy system to SAP
• Worked on In bound idocs for EDI invoices and outbound idocs for payment remittances and ACH
• Involved in Unit testing for AA and AP modules and capturing the results in HPQC
• Involved in Functional Unit Testing for RICEF Objects and Capturing the results in HPQC
• Preparation of BBP documents for the processes
• Helping the Users in UAT
• Cutover activities and Validation the data for conversions for AP data like Bank Master data, Vendor master data, Asset Master data load

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Sr. SAP- FICO (RTR) Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 5

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Production Support team, assign and resolving issues in the areas of FI-GL, AR, AP, AA and CO-CCA, PCA, CO-PA and CO-PC.
• Provided support in configuration, break fix and enhancements in the areas of account determination, field status groups and movement types
• Worked on Interfaces issues which send PO data, Invoice data to SAP
• Worked on BI/BO reports issues and closely worked with BI/BO consultants to resolve the issues
• Resolving of Landesk Incidents and interacted with user regarding the requirement and proposed the solutions
• Worked on Report Painter tool to create the Segment level reports in get the financial reports of the client by segment wise as each product division taken as division
• Preparation of training and test plan document

Confidential, Northfield, IL

SAP- STP (MM/IM) Solution Architect

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 5

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing business processes, developments & interfaces with other sub-system
• Involved in End to End solution proposal for 2 way PO match for Contingent solutions vendors comes from IBX/SRM system
• Involved in all phases of project starting from Blueprinting, implementation, testing, issue follow-up, training delivery and support
• Conducted workshops to map business requirements against the standard SAP Best Practice
• Analyzed / Assessed Existing Business process and proposed changes from Third party IBX / SRM tool to be in sync with ECC system for 2 way PO option
• Prepared Functional specification documents / Business Process document for the proposed solutions and for interfaces to flow from SRM / IBX to ECC
• Executed Unit Testing and Integration Testing
• Prepared Training document and gave training to the users

Confidential, Northfield, IL

SAP- RTR Test Lead / SAP Application Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 5

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing business processes, developments & interfaces with other sub-system
• SAP Testing experience with various modules in ECC 6.0
• Experience in writing/enhancing of Test Plan, Test Strategy specifying the system’s inputs, outputs, limitations, entry and exit criteria etc.
• Experience in identifying and escalation system or business issues and any concerns
• Manage Test Leads & UAT Leads in delivering test services to the program including test planning, specification, development, execution and defect management activities
• Proficient in using Quality Center for Test Planning, Requirements Management and Defect Reporting and Tracking expertise in analyzing Business/System Requirements documents and Use Cases
• Experience in different kinds of tests such as functionality, positive, negative, smoke, integration, User Acceptance, Performance, Regression, Load, security, installation etc.
• SAP Testing including best practices for test documentation, test tools, and test approach
• Collaborate with RTR BPE / Process team for Month End Closure (MEC) activity
• Understand RTR Project map and plan QA activities
• RTR team meeting, collaborating with BPE / Process team. Defect analysis and feed back to project teams with corrective actions
• Reviewing functional specifications, ensuring effective completion of unit testing and configuration testing

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing business processes, developments & interfaces with other sub-system
• Extending the Organizational Structure to the Mexico Company code
• Configured Additional Parallel Currencies, House Banks, ACH Payment method(1024 Pay link), Inter company set up (US to MX), Tax configuration for Mexico company Code
• Involved in Interface program of Uploading Payroll Journal into SAP on Weekly basis
• Extending the Controlling area settings to Mexico Company
• In Internal Order maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc
• Activating Versions in Project Systems & Creation of WBS Elements for getting data from internal order
• Define Origin Group; define Costing Sheet, Cost Component Structure, Costing Sheet Component, Overhead Keys, Overhead Group.
• Define Costing Variants, Costing Types, and Valuation Variants for setting standard cost with different vendor pricing process.
• Configuring Product Cost by Period, Product Cost by Production Order checking Costing Variant for Product Cost Collectors, Valuation Variant for Product Cost Collectors, define Cost-Accounting-Relevant default setting for order type and plant.
• Maintenance of CO-PA Operation Concern and Realignment of Characteristics.
• Designing and implemented CO-PA transfer structure, Allocation structure, COGS analysis, Top down Distribution of actual and Plan data.
• Developed functional specs for Product Costing Reports like Daily Production Report. Scrap report. Product Cost Comparison Report, PPV report etc.
• Did Testing like Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing for any changes done and get it signed off by Business
• Prepared SAP Training Documents / User-Manuals for giving Training to the SAP Users for SAP FI/CO T. Codes as per Business requirements.
• Involving in Cut-Over activities and pre go-live check
• Uploading data using data migration tools
• Post GO-Live support for SAP FI/CO Modules, to help SAP users to process G/L entry, vendor invoices, vendor payment, automatic payment runs, to resolve day to day issue in SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling Modules.

Confidential, Holtville, NY

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP FI/CO Production support of existing plants and company codes and to help for on-going roll out and implementation for other plants.
• Work on day-to-day production support tickets for SAP FI/CO area, talk to Users and provide solutions to problems.
• Created Functional documents for RICEF objects for various reports.
• SAP Data migration field mapping for SAP finance data form legacy system to SAP.
• Create SAP Training manual for SAP FI/CO User groups.
• SAP FI integration with SD MM, Inventory management
• On-going support for SAP Finance - G/L, New G/L, Accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed asset, banking, Cost Center, profit center, product costing and Internal order process.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Sr. SAP FICO Production Support Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Provided Support on various queries related to SAP FI/CO and especially in AP, AR and CO-PC module.
• Provided solutions to client in the area of Basic FI/CO settings, GL Accounts, AP, AR, Bank, Controlling Module and Asset Management
• Helped User to get required reports or information, and also provide solution to User for their problems regarding Reports.
• Worked on CCA, PCA, Product Costing and CO-PA, Project Systems issues.
• Provide support for Month End closing like GR/IR Clearing process, Production order costing, variance calculations and settlement issues. To analyze the issue and provide solutions to SAP End Users and Key Users.
• Prepare SAP Training Documents for SAP FI/CO/PS Modules and provide training as classroom training to all SAP user explaining in details about SAP functionality. Handed over SAP User manuals to team for future use.
• Provided assistance in data uploading to production system
• Provide Help Desk support as production support for other area of SAP FI/CO/PS.

Confidential

Sr SAP FICO Consultant-Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Senior CO Consultant responsible for Implementing Product Costing, Project Ssytems and CO-PA modules
• Interacted with Client Business Users for requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Prepared required documents providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business processes in SAP
• Analyzed the AS-IS, performed gap analysis and designed the TO-BE system.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area, assigned new company codes to controlling area and maintained Versions.
• Cost Element Analysis configuration involving Primary and Secondary cost elements activation and clearing accounts
• Created new cost center hierarchy nodes and cost centers, changed cost center categories, maintained existing cost center master data, created new analysis periods, activity types, statistical key figures and automatic account assignments, defined distribution and assessment Cycles for cost and profit centers as part of period-end closing.
• Involved in design, configuration, & process re-engineering for Standard Cost Estimates in Product Costing (PC). Product Costing has been configured for ‘Product Cost by Order’ and ‘Product Cost by Sales Order’.
• Extensively worked on Product Costing (COPC) period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance calculations, Settlements of process orders, cost estimates updates, costing run, mark and release for updating the price in material records, display reports and so on.
• Defined cost component structure, origin groups, calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, credit keys, costing sheets, overhead keys and groups and cost components in Product Costing (COPC).
• Responsible for Costing Sheet like Calculation Bases, Percentage Overhead Rates, COGS Calculation, and Quantity Based Overhead Rate in product costing (COPC).
• Configured CO-PA module to determine the profitability based on products and customer groups.
• Created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Mapped SD condition types and FI account keys to the COPA value fields.
• Worked with the Logistics Consultants to develop a mapping of all Logistic objects such as Sales Offices, Sales Groups and Plant Codes into COPA Characteristics and Cost Centers
• Conducted User testing after the implementation and involved in post-production issues.
• Configured assessment cycle for value flow from CO to COPA and configured the value flow from SD to COPA, configuring the value flow from FI, MM to COPA.
• Prepared SAP Configuration documents and SAP Training documents for clients business requirement.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Team member in creating in-process design, mapping and business process re-engineering to match the client requirements with SAP.
• Conducted meeting with the Business Users and Owens-Illinois Center of Excellence (COE) team to identify the AS-IS project and design the TO-BE process along with thorough GAP analysis of required customizations.
• Configured and Customized in areas of FI-GL, AR, AP, AA and in CO-CEL,CCA,CO-PC,CO-PCA and Project Ssytems
• Participated in integration testing. Documented test results and followed up with the configuration team to resolve various issues/problems identified during testing.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.
• Prepare Functional Specs for RICEF objects for SAP- FI/CO and coordinate with business and SAP development for development, testing and move to Production System.
• Prepare End User Training Documents for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing and Performed End-User Training with group of users.
• Post Go-Live support to handle day to day ticket/issue, month end closing issue. During Month End closing, working with business users team to help User to perform step-by-step month end closing for FI/CO Module.
• On-going support to resolve day-to-day production issue for SAP Controlling Module and SAP- Financial module.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement Study, blue print and solution map for finance functions
• Business process mapping (understanding the Current as is process and identifying the Gaps).
• Configuration of company codes, creation of Chart of accounts, field status groups, posting keys, document types, posting period variants, fiscal period variants. Created G/L master records and reconciliation accounts for sub ledgers, configuring foreign currency valuation and translation
• Configured Controlling area, cost elements, Cost Centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, and Cost center hierarchy
• Cost Center Accounting and Cost Element Accounting including setting up Assessment and Distribution Cycles
• Business Process Mapping with Relevance to Product Costing and Profitability Analysis Module Scenarios
• Transactions and Master Data Set-up for Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders
• Prepared Fit Gap documents for Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profitability Analysis, And Product Costing
• Analyzed and configured the Cost Center Structure Hierarchy, allocation cost elements, allocation cycles / Segments and customized Cost Center planning.
• Developed & tested assessments, allocation / source structures and settlement profiles.
• Analyzed and configured Internal Order Structure Master data
• Involved in Product Cost Configuration and Profitability analysis.
• Implemented costing based CO-PA, configured attributes, created and activated operating concern environment. Defined characteristics as per the client’s requirement along with SAP defined characteristics and value fields in the operating concern data structure and also implemented characteristic derivations
• Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) includes creating standard hierarchy, Controlling Area maintenance and Profit Center Planning.
• Extensively worked on Product Costing, Configured the Standard cost estimates (CK11N) for finished products, Costing run for Materials at Plant level (CK40N) with the price update (CK24) parameters for updating the price in Material Master Records.
• Extensively worked on CO-PC period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance calculations and settlements of process orders etc.
• Configured in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) costing based CO-PA, assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures, including decisions on characteristics, Key figures and settlement to CO-PA.
• Responsible for Unit Testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Test and extensively prepared training manual and notes for end user training.
• Responsible for data migration / upload strategy for uploading the data such as Masters (Vendors/Customers/Assets and open items).

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured Controlling area settings, Cost Element, CCA, COPC and COPA.
• Configured CO Master Data - cost elements, cost centers, activity types and statistical key figures.
• Cost Element Accounting: Master Data Maintenance for Cost Element and Cost Element Group, Posting Reconciliation, Posting Rules.
• Cost Center Accounting: Configured Cost Centers necessary for CO-CCA and maintained them in Standard Hierarchy. Defined and maintained Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures needed for CO-CCA. Maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, Allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution, assessment and Cost Center Planning.
• Product costing: Involved in design, configuration of Standard Cost Estimate for Product Cost by Order.
• Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) includes creating standard hierarchy, Controlling Area maintenance and Profit center Planning.
• Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting Set-up for Management Reporting
• Profitability analysis (CO-PA): Created Characteristics and Value fields. Generated Operating Concern.
• Maintaining Derivative rules and Values.
• Defining the segment level characteristics. Assignment of value fields to different condition types of SD. Monitoring of actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI direct Postings.
• Involved in documentation of training manuals and planning and conducting user training programs.
• Mentor users in the implementation process.
• Generated Reports using report writer.
• Conducted detailed training for core FICO users on FICO
• Post Go-Live support to handle day to day ticket/issue, month end closing issue. During Month End closing, working with business users team to help User to perform step-by-step month end closing for FI/CO Module.
• On-going support to resolve day-to-day production issue for SAP Controlling Module and SAP- Financial module.