SUMMARY

• SAP FICO and FSCM Consultant with diverse experience as a SAP FI/CO Business Analyst and Functional Consultant with more than 10 years of Progressive Experience in SAP (FI/CO) Designing, Business Process Re - Engineering, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Unit & Integration Testing, Go-Live & Support with 2 Full Life Cycle Implementations and global implementation.
• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Project Systems, Bank Accounting and New General Ledger.
• Controlling expertise includes Cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost center accounting (CO-CCA), Statistical key figures (SKF), Profit center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal orders (I/O), Budgeting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Full lifecycle FSCM implementation with multinational organization covering Credit management, Dispute, and Collections Management.
• Experience in ABAP Reports, Data Migration Techniques (BDC), BAPI, IDOCS, Function Modules, Debugging, RFC.
• Worked on Treasury, Travel management, customized Collections Management.
• Written Functional specifications, custom reports and Change Management processes. Written sap test scripts for unit testing and Integrated testing.
• Strong SAP Experience in Gap-analysis, Blue Printing, Prototyping, Detailed Configuration, Training Documentation, testing, Data Uploading, Implementing Cutover Strategy, Troubleshooting Cross Module Customization Issues.
• Created User Manuals, Configuration Manuals and conducted End user training.
• Experience in Implementation of SAP PS (Project Systems) Module. Configuration of Project Systems as per the Business Requirement. Configuring for CAPEX Project as well Overhead Projects, PS Budgets and Release. Developed end to end auto Asset creation and settlement from Project Systems to Asset Accounting from one Server to another server.
• Hands on experience in up-gradation from 4.7 to ECC 6.0 using standard and customized tools such as ECATT and ZFAST, etc.
• Expertise in different aspects of a business relating to FI-GL Transactions, Inter Company Transactions, House Banks, DME, Payment Terms, Cash Discounts, Automatic Payment Programs, Incoming payments, Partial and Residual payments, Defined check Lots, Clearing Vendor/ Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI2), Dunning, and Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Possess extensive knowledge in configuring Automatic Account Determinations, Customer and Vendor down payment, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currency valuation.
• Excellent product costing knowledge which includes Overhead calculation using costing sheet, WIP, variance calculation, Month end settlements.
• Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, Automatic clearing (Customer, vendor, GL), Company code global parameters.
• Worked with the process owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend solutions and improvements, and conduct unit testing and validation of process and provide recommendations for automated solutions.
• Can lead others by enabling them to achieve and develop while successfully delivering within project timeline.
• Proved ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Accounting: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Project Systems, Bank Accounting, Lockbox, Integration with SD and MM.

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal order, Profitability Analysis, and Product Costing.

FSCM: Credit Management, Collection Management and Dispute Management, Treasury & Risk Management, Cash Management.

Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM, Project Systems also COPA with SD & MM.

Technical: ABAP Debugging, BAPI, BADI, BDC, RICEF, LSMW, ECATT.

Reporting Skills: Report Writer & Report Painter

Implementation: ASAP Methodology.

Application: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, PowerPoint.

Support Tools: HP Quality Center, HP Service Manager, ALM tool and Solution Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Sr. SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Client System Architecture, Business process, Mapping into SAP and finding the GAP’s.
• Organized workshops to Set up design and process for periodic billing, licensing On-Qtrac software app as subscription with monthly and annual models which includes recognizing revenues as per RR method.
• From ATR stand point, performed Configurations from FI, CO and SD.
• Extensively worked on Revenue Recognition cycle business activities, such as sales order entry with billing plan, and periodic billing creation.
• Worked on Time related and Billing related revenue recognition procedures.
• Expertise in configuring Billing Plans, SD Item categories, Billing types and dependencies for Revenue account determination for RR method.
• Configured GL accounts related to Revenue, Deferred Revenue, Unbilled Receivable, Trade Discounts, Discount-Deferred accounts.
• Configured controlling, COPA with PA transfer structures and assignment of SD conditions to Value fields.
• Set up Revenue Recognition for Item categories.
• Set up Process related to Credit memo and Debit memo with reference to billing documents.
• Meeting with business process owners to identify the business requirement and brain storming sessions with various IT teams and finding feasible solutions.
• Prepared business process documents for the FI, COPA, SD from the perspective of Accounting to Reporting stand point.
• Prepared SAP questionnaire and Assessment form for their Approvals in Production system.
• Drafted functional specifications for extending SAP enhancement SDVFX004 for Auto clearing process.
• Implemented SAP notes and BTE 00503111 to meet the client requirement billing and accounting numbers synchronization along with RR functionality.
• Identified RICEFW objects to meet the client specific requirement.
• Prepared Test scripts and performed unit testing, integration testing, regression testing.
• Trained testers to execute the test steps in SAP and recording the test results in traceability Matrix.
• Prepared User manuals, KT documents and trained users and process owners on the SAP functionality.
• Designed smart forms for Billing outputs, Debit memo and Credit memo.
• Currently Working on Acquisition process of new entity Corpak Medsystems UK Limited, mapping their system in line with Confidential SAP systems.
• Setting up configurations for cross Company Code Transactions, house bank and FEBA configurations.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Light house migration to migrate data from 4.7 version to ECC 6.0 version.
• Developed a new tool for migration of data from 4.7 version to ECC 6.0 version.
• Created templates and developed FAST tool for exporting and importing of data.
• Worked on Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) tool and part of development team for new functionalities of approval process.
• Worked on multiple projects in parallel with different project delivery managers.
• Responsible for withholding Tax configuration setup globally and its maintenance as per the legal requirements and in continuous relations with business IDT team.
• Configured setup between SAP and Interface ALE and IDOC Processing.
• Worked on eCATT tool for mass data upload, testing and validating the data.
• Extensively used BTE's, user exits and enhancement points to meet client's criticalbusiness requirements.
• Worked with ABAPers for TDD preparation as per the BRDs.
• Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP, AR, AA, G/L, Treasury - Liquidity Forecast & Cash Management, Month End Closing activities.
• Implemented configuration settings for Asset master creation, Asset Procurement, Depreciation Calculations as per Companies Act and Federal Tax Act, Legacy asset data creation, Asset Closing Activities, Month end and Year end closing Activities.
• Configured Asset Procurement process from Material, External Asset Procurement, and Asset from AUC settlement.
• Configured Asset scrapping and Retirement process with Revenue and w/o Revenue process, Asset sale through SD module and retirement in Finance module.
• Configured House bank, Bank determination and set tolerances limits, scheduled Automatic Payment Program for payments to vendors, created check lots and online cashed checks.
• Tested FI-AR scenarios as an order to cash: Customer master data maintenance, full,partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.
• Configured Auto Lockbox system for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management.
• Provided Knowledge Transfer and documentation to the team as part of training for the users and team members.
• Worked on ALM tool for testing CRs and IMs.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO & FSCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as an SAP Application Functional Specialist, providing application functionalsupport and implementation within SAP Applications in the module areas of FSCM Dispute and Collections Management.
• To provide L2 Functional support on the Accounting Operations (FI) tickets & configurations to all the zones (AOA, EUR & AMS).
• Lead the SAP FI Scoping, Configuration, development support in Financial Accounting.
• To co-ordinate the Onsite and Offshore FICO support and configuration teams of all the zones (AOA, EUR & AMS).
• Experienced with all of RICEFW Items - Reporting, Interface, Configuration, Enhancements Forms and Workflow.
• Responsible for Configuration of Finance module including Travel Management, Credit Management, ICO Forms etc.
• Used FSCM to employ tools to analyze credit worthiness and establish policies. Enabled customer access to invoices, account status and payment information.
• Controlled company's accounts receivable processes and ensure cash flows through online billing, more streamlined handling of billing disputes and collections using FSCM.
• Used Collection in FSCM to ensure faster collection of delinquent payments. Resolved accounts receivable disputes faster and more systematically through prioritized collection management.
• Configured CCA through creation of Cost Centers, Activity Types, Cost Center Categories, Statistical Key Figures, Assessments & Distributions cycles and Allocations for periodic reposting, Planned and Actual activity price calculations.
• Configured EC-PCA by creating Profit centers, Standard hierarchies, assigned revenue elements to profit center, planning profile and planning layouts.
• Defined Internal Order for different order types, maintained Settlement profile and Settlement structure, settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements.
• Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders. Modified the copied template operating concern to accommodate client requirements with new characteristics and value fields. Defined derivation structures and rules for customer characteristics.
• Configured Operating concern attributes and the COPA Settlement Structure with the settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Over head (percentage based over head calculation).
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Extensive Knowledge on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Configured production order as a cost object to collect actual costs, plan costs and determine WIP at the end of every period, variance calculation after the order technically completed.
• Customized Period end closing functions including overhead costing, interest calculation and result analysis and settlement procedures.
• Assigned value fields to condition types in MM and SD, performed integration of FI/CO with SD, MM & PP, account assignments and used COPA to report profitability by customer, product, and market.
• Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying Routines and Sub-routines during sales order creation for Credit checks for different customer risk categories and Pricing Conditions.
• Involved in Data Conversions, Enhancements, EDI, Cutover activities, GO - LIVE, rollouts in several regions like Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, etc), Asia pacific and European regions.
• Maintenance of SAP Scheduled Jobs and monitor the progress of the Jobs.
• Lead the integration of Legacy systems with SAP and Supported the IDoc related issues (EDI).

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO & FSCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Since Nestle is customized Split Architecture, got a scope to learn technical aspects hence we are called as “L2 Techno-Functional” consultants.
• Lead some of the Support issues and resolved by applying OSS notes and corresponding best practices.
• SAP FI & Batch Job related configurations across Nestlé Globe, handling all deliveries starting from Transport creation to raising CI to delegating the change request for Unit Test to market, reassigning back to Nestlé Business Analysts post releasing the Transport after successful Unit test done by RBS / market users.
• House Bank related Configurations, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) related configurations.
• Created Process Documents for Nestlé AMS that can act as a Reference SOP document for all SAP FI consultants so as to help them deliver all Zones (AOA, AMS & EUR)FSCM Dispute Management
• Configured dispute case type, Configured Dispute Case Attribute profile, created casesearch profile, text profile, status profile and assigned to dispute case type.
• Gathered business requirements on Dispute Case Categories and Configured along withDispute Reason codes.
• Configured Root cause codes for identifying the main causes for the dispute cases so that they can be reviewed over periodically to improve the business process efficiency.
• Defined escalation reason codes, explained and trained users to use the escalationreason code to auto write-off small balanced dispute cases.
• Worked on setting up the system to Auto create dispute case and auto write-off for approved dispute cases.
• Configured Automatic Dispute Case creation from Residual Items with the batch job.
• Captured the disputes where and when they arise, optimized the collaboration between the AR Accounting and Dispute department, streamlined the Dispute resolution process and handled cross-department dispute resolution.
• Created case record model, element type, case type, attribute Profile, status profile, function profile, text profile and set up workflow correspondence.
• Involved in integration between Dispute management and AR. Involved in advanced
• Customization for new attribute and RMS ID. Created dispute case correspondence,Automatic write-off and automatic function.
• FSCM Collection Management:
• Configured Collections module and Integration with Accounts Receivable.
• Configured collection strategy, collection segments, collection rules, collections groups and collection profile for business partners and collection specialists.
• Configured Collection Management integration with Dispute Management.
• Trained users in collections department to effective use collections worklist to makecollections call and document the notes upon call.
• Trained collections supervisor to actively monitor the worklist processing completed by the collection specialist and balance the workload by re-assigning the collections workitem to different collectors and how to update the collection strategy by adoptingcollections rules and modifying valuation points to determine the priority for collections.
• Coordinating with the Users and GC’s in resolving the Tickets.
• Taking up change Requests according to the business requirements. Understanding the BRD’s and working for the CR’s. Maintaining documentation for Change Requests.
• FI & CO Configuration changes, documentation for the configuration changes, testing documents for the changes.
• Handling Batch job processes such as variant creations and resolving the tickets on it.
• Supported Period End closing activities.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in analyzing business requirements, needs and objectives and map them to the SAP processes, solutions and products that are being implemented.
• Support the client with the functional areas of expertise to configure, test, support and implement SAP SD and FICO (Accounts Receivable and Collection management).
• Configured and customized Account Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) modules.
• Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments. Check Management through assigning number ranges for check lots, checks printing and defining void reason codes.
• Configured New GL with document splitting rules, splitting method & characteristics in New General Ledger to be used for document splitting and defined variants for real time integration between Controlling and Finance.
• Automatic Payment configuration using FBZP & trained the AP department on efficiently using F110 - Automatic payment program to make payments to outstanding vendor invoices.
• Provided GO-LIVE support for all issues involved in GL, AP, AR, PCA, CCA and COPA.
• Configured Cost Elements, Reconciliation ledgers, Standard Hierarchy, Cost Center Groups, Distribution and Allocation Structures for Cost Center Accounting.
• Reported weekly on support ticket numbers and solution turnover time.
• Created functional specs for various customizing development requests like billing w/o Sales order processing.
• Collaborated with SD team for configuring SD pricing procedures and its calculation steps, maintained condition master records, account determination.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP FI consultant for project preparation, BBP, Realization and finalization, Go Live & Support phases.
• Organized and Presented FI module with power point presentation to Nash directors, Finance manager, IT manager and FI core team users.
• Participated in JTMs (Joint Team Meetings) to arrive at BPD’s, acceptable to the user groups and Management.
• Worked with user groups to create business process flows by understanding Nash business processes.
• Gathering of information, requirement analysis by studying the Legacy system, and interacting with Top Management.
• Interacted with the end user and finalized the user requirement by updating Questionnaires.
• Finalized FI business scenarios for Nash by understanding their business processes.
• Organized meetings on a daily basis with core users and discussed on confirmed business scenarios in detail.
• Configured Asset Accounting by copying standard country specific COD/Depreciation Areas, Assignment to company Code, Input Tax Indicator Configuration, Screen Layout rules, specify Account Determination rules
• Define Asset Classes, Number Ranges, Integration of Asset Accounting with General Ledger
• Defining Posting Rules to Cost Center, Specify Financial Statement Versions for Asset Accounting, Depreciation Calculation Procedures, Setting up of Depreciation key.
• Configured calculation methods such as Base Method, Declining Balance Methods, Multilevel Methods, Period Control Method.
• Prepared FI annexure as per E&Y auditors and Functional Specifications.
• Prepared configuration rationales for FI and integration with MM, SD, validated the same.
• Configured multiple Cash Journals for all manufacturing plants as per the requirement.
• Configured BOE payables and receivables, BG, Buyer’s credit and Letter of Credit.
• Configured TDS and TCS for the Vendors and Customers respectively.
• Activated New GL functionality along with document splitting to generate financial statements profit center wise to support the business requirement.
• Conducted Core team training and prepared detailed End user manual.
• Preparation of Unit Test Scripts based on Business Process Managers input.
• Organized JTM’s and participated for Integration training and integration testing.
• Organized internal meetings for Cut over plan and strategy for the same.

Confidential

SAP Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration Activities includes Creation of Chart of Accounts and Account Groups for GL, customers and vendors.
• Configured special GL Transaction for Vendors, Customers.
• Defining House Banks and Configuration of Automatic Payment program with Cheque printing.
• Trained and assisted core users in creating Master data for GL, customer, Vendors, Cost element, profit Center, Cost element Groups, Profit Center Groups.
• Cost Center Accounting: To support management reporting a Standard Hierarchy design is created with lower nodes level within the hierarchy which are assigned to Cost Center Master data.
• Designed Process involving Statistical Key Figure Master data, Activity Types.
• Configured the Periodic Allocation methods: Assessments and Distribution.
• Profit center accounting: Maintaining the Standard Hierarchy, creation of Profit Center Master Record and Document Number ranges.
• Maintained Operating concern (Costing based CO-PA) Creation of attributes and data structures, Mapping SD condition types to Value fields, PA settlements structures and CO-PA Reporting.
• Uploading of legacy data through LSMW
• Preparation of End user training material and imparting training to end-users.
• Post Implementation Support.