PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP Functional Consultant with 10 years of experience in SAP Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) & PS module. Worked in SAP projects ranging two Full life cycle implementation, one upgrade and three production support projects.
• SAP R/3 system using ASAP methodology including Business Process Reengineering, Project Management, System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, and Testing and integration with other modules ( AA,SD,MM,CRM,BW).
• Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI modules - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA) and Treasury.
• Experience in configuration and testing of CO modules includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA) with good conceptual understanding of Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Element accounting (CEA), Internal Order (IO) Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Cost controlling, Cost Object Controlling.
• Expert in configuring EBS and Lockbox statements. Configured House Bank Master Data and Vendor Master Data for the requirement of Automatic payment transaction, incoming payment and outgoing payments.
• Hands on Experience in Asset Accounting: configuring Asset Master records, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation keys, lean implementation, Acquisition and Retirements
• Extensive knowledge in Withholding Tax Configuration
• Extensive experience in New General Ledger, Parallel Ledger and document splitting functionality.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in ABAP/4 programming, debugging and workflow.
• Strong experience in data migration system from legacy to SAP R/3 using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) and ECATT tools. Expert in preparation of reports using Report writer/Report Painter.
• Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business processes for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions.
• Experience in customization related to integration between FI/CO & Logistics Modules (SD, PP & MM).
• Worked on SAP IDOCs, Workflows and Business Transaction Events (BTEs).
• Analyzed the business processes, customized the client’s application systems to generate Management Information System (MIS) Reports (Segment/Fund Reporting) and Statutory Reports (for example Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Reporting Skills: Report painter, SAP Query.

Integration: FI/CO Integration with MM, SD, AA, CO, PI, PS & HCM.

Applications: SAP R/3 FICO.

ERP: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0 and 4.7 versions.

GUI: ABAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support and handled changes on New GL (Parallel Ledgers, Document Splitting) Account Payable, Accounts Revivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting, and Internal Orders.
• Configured the Non Leading (parallel) ledgers for All Americas Co. Code Rollout Local reporting requirements, Assignment of the scenarios to the ledgers, Payment Program settings for SEPA implementation.
• Configured the Financial Statement Version, Accounting Principles, Valuation methods for Foreign Currency Valuation as per the US GAAP and Local reporting requirements for Canada and Mexico.
• Configured the Planner Profile, Planning Layouts and settings to enable planning in New GL. Created allocation cycles in New GL for profit center allocations.
• Co-ordinate with PI team in troubleshooting issues with (payload) interfaces to Bank and 3rd party systems.
• Provided Month End Support and help users on issues relating to Billing, Revenue Recognition, Depreciation Run, and Cost Allocation/Assessment Cycles and ensure smooth and timely Closure of Books.

Confidential

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with the onsite client members and offshore team members across all streams.
• Responsible for the Release and support management activities for Finance & Reporting.
• Explained the advantages of New G/L to the business and implemented New G/L functionalities as per client requirements.
• Configured Document splitting procedure, Configured Parallel ledgers (special ledgers) as per US GAAP and local GAAP.
• Implemented Revenue Recognition (RR) functionality along with Logistics team.
• Created unbilled receivables and deferred revenue GL accounts, customized the account determination for the documents resulting from recognizing revenue.
• Worked closely with SD team in customizing settings to implement revenue recognition at the time of billing, time related revenue recognition and service related recognition.
• Documentation of Business requirements, Functional Specifications, Unit Test Scripts, User Acceptance Testing and Configuration changes.

Confidential

SAP FICO & FSCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided functional support on the issues related to New GL, AP, AR AA, Project System, Internal Order (IO), Profitability Analysis, Biller Direct, Dispute and Collections Management
• Trouble shoot issues with document Splitting and Profit Center Determinations in New GL and configuration/ modifications to document splitting rules according to new business process and postings.
• Troubleshoot issues with Foreign Currency Revaluations in New GL.
• Configured Payment Method Supplement, Provision for Bad Debts and Alignment of MM & FI document numbers as a part of new functionalities after the system upgrade to ECC 6.0. EHP4.
• Apart from regular support issues, my activities include continuous monitoring of various FICO jobs, Legacy asset data transfer (using Microsoft excel through customized BDC program), downloading tax files from SABRIX and testing the uploaded tax rates in the production system.
• Support users in generation of the required reports from the SAP ECC system using standard transactions, SAP Query and Report Painter.
• Prepared training documents for New GL, AP, AR including profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Open Text (VIM), Asset Accounting and Period End Activities.
• Identification and preparation of Financial Accounting Master Data
• Customization & configuration of New GL, AR, AP & Treasury and Cash Management.
• Configuration for New GL, Document Splitting Rules and Migration of Data form Classic GL to New GL and Configuration for Real Time Integration with CO.
• Performed data migration using LSMW for the Vendor, Customer and Asset master records, Opening Balances and upload for Customer and Vendor Open Items.
• Design Organization Structure for Approval process and Design Workflow for Invoice Approval in Open Text (VIM).
• Configured settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic Payment Program, Open item clearing, Validations and Substitutions rules
• Configuration for General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• Preparation of Security Profiles of Key Users & End Users.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configure SAP FI module involving A/R, A/P, G/L, Asset accounting and treasury
• Maintenance of customers’ credit limits, automatic credit check, releasing of orders blocked due to credit issues and reporting.
• Set-up and maintenance of cost center master data and planning of costs by cost center, collection of costs by cost center, allocation and distribution of costs by cost center, and cost center reporting.
• Responsible for taking KT from old IT vendor, providing internal KT to the team members and delivering qualitative end-user support on all FICO issues as per SLA.
• Prepared the KT plan, System Appreciation Document and build the FICO team.
• Guiding the team on project specific standards, tools and ticket assignment with in the team.
• Provide support for issues in Lockbox and DME (Data Medium Exchange) process.
• Participated in various meetings, workshops for implementation of Travel and Expenses Module (T&E), configuration of ALE interface for data transfer from T&E system and involved in integration testing.
• Supported all phases of the Project Life Cycle Including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment of Solutions, as well as Documentation, and End-User Training.
• Worked on Purchase to Pay (P2P) scenario.
• Created new and maintained old G/L accounts.
• Configured automatic payment program (APP) and used PMW to create custom payment advices.
• Configured Profit Center Standard Hierarchy and Cost Center Standard Hierarchy.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L structure, and Check Lots.
• Created Cost Center Master Data and Internal Order Master Data including the setting up of settlement rules for the internal orders.
• 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.
• Proven experience in intercompany transactions and reconciliation between companies.
• Strong vendor management abilities for partnering across multiple vendors to meet SLA agreements.