PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Functional Consultant with 7+ years of functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules including 3 years of migration project experience ( SAP 4.5 to 6.0)
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New G/L, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Receivables (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP).
• Have hands on experience in using Charms for transports.
• Experienced in testing scenarios such as Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Performance and End - To-End Testing.
• Ability to work as a SAP techno-functional consultant with knowledge in ABAP Queries, Reporting Tools: Report Painter and Report Writer, Debugging.
• Sound knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) required during the implementation of FI module.
• Supported Month End Close and YEC for GL and Fixed Assets from IT perspective.
• Involved as a team member to ensure quality and adherence to time lines.
• Integrated Asset Accounting (FI-AA & AM) structured and valuated Fixed Assets, new Acquisitions, Retirement, Depreciation postings, Year-End closing and Fiscal Year Change.
• Worked on Multiple implementations and involved in various projects as a sole point of contact for various testing efforts and documentation.
• Created Function Design Documents (FDDS) based on the Use Case Documents.
• Active participation in Knowledge Transfer and Documentation. Experience in mentoring team members.
• Sound knowledge of SDLC processes.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with clients, team members and Management team and has worked with international clients to assess requirements and develop specific strategies.

TECHINCAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 Release 4.6C, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager

R/3 Interfaces: EDI, ALE, IDoc, and BAPI

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, UNIX

Languages and Software: ABAP, C, SQL

Web Technology: HTML, WCMS

Database: Ms-Sql, MS Access

Project Management Tools: MS-Project, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FI Consultant (Separation project)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Accounts receivables, General ledger and Banking process area during separation project.
• Analyzed the requirements from Business and prepared design documents.
• Set up new reason codes for misdirected cash.
• Set up AR sub ledger for new company codes. responsible for setting up the customer number ranges, creation and extension of customers from company code to company code, special GL indicator configuration for customer down payments ( OBXR), house banks set up and working with banks to change the address of the company code, F110 set up, EBS, payment method set up and payment term configuration.
• Experience working on multiple inbound interfaces via XI, ALE interfaces, setting up partner profiles (WE20), creation of ports (WE21) and new logical systems ( BD54).
• Hands on experience using Solution manager to upload documentation and Charms for transports creation and moving to different test systems.
• Experience with Idoc conversion rule creation, assignment of conversion rule to the segment and sender partner and maintaining the conversion rules.
• Responsible for preparation of test cases, execution using ALM during SIT and supporting UAT.
• Responsible for migration of customer open items for different countries.
• Complete cleansing of AR related data from AR tables and related tables for the company codes in a new company to start AR sub ledger from zero balance
• Support Month end close testing and first MEC after Go Live. This includes revaluation jobs, allocations, posting period change, GL sets validity date changes etc.
• Support during Go Live, preparation of end user documents, and training end users and production support team.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I have been involved in the project to migrate sub-ledgers from 4.5 to ECC 6.0 for over 4 releases which includes 100+ company codes.
• Analyzing the requirements given by the business.
• Preparation of design documents based on the requirements and presenting the design to the business.
• Hands on experience on uploading the documents using Solution Manager.
• Creation of Company Code, Field status groups, Fiscal year variants, posting period variants, Revaluation variants, and substitutions and validations.
• Maintaining the posting periods.
• Creation of General ledger accounts and maintaining the attributes according to the requirements.
• Creation of Chart of accounts and worked on alternate COA depends on the country requirements.
• Designed monthly spot rate upload process for revaluation for the daily spot rate requirement countries.
• Configuration of document types and assigning the number ranges to the document types and maintaining the number ranges per Fiscal year.
• Experience on creating distribution models and maintaining partner profiles to ALE master data.
• Creation of conversion rules, maintaining conversion rules and assigning conversion rules.
• Maintenance of OKB9
• Created primary and secondary cost elements based on the requirements.
• Configuring field status group, posting period variants depending on the requirement.
• Preparation of functional specification documents to work with the developers.
• Foreign currency revaluation and allocation jobs on NEW GL environment.
• Supported MEC and YEC in GL process area.
• Setting up the spot rate for the company codes that require daily spot rate and involvement in designing the spot rate monthly upload program for revaluation.
• Updating the SAP XI mapping tables for the data flow from source to SAP 6.0
• Maintained partner profiles, created distribution models for ALE in between the systems.
• Hands on experience on using Application Interface Framework (AIF), IDOC monitoring in AIF, checking the value mappings in AIF and reprocessing the IDOCs in AIF.
• Performing the system integrated testing and documentation of results to be validated with Business.
• Supporting User Acceptance Testing and Move to production activities.
• Providing support during Go-Live of the project and during project warranty period.
• Preparation of end user manuals and providing training to the end users.
• Involved in configuration changes on NEW GL environment.
• Configured Port definitions, Partner Profiles, Condition tables for Messages. Created user defined Segments and attached to the Standard segments.
• Acted as a design team member to review the designs of the other projects to make sure there is no impact on the existing processes of the company.
• Set up Fixed Assets sub-ledger for a co code and migrated assets from the old co code to new co code.

Environment: SAP 4.5 and 6.0, Unix, Windows7, SAP-ABAP, Microsoft SharePoint

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Fixed Assets Sub-Ledger for new company codes in SAP 6.0
• As part of configuration of sub-ledgers, creation of depreciation areas, configuring asset classes, depreciation keys, account determination based on the requirements.
• Configuration of Transfer variants for automatic asset transfers.
• Creation of transaction types, asset master data, validations and substitutions.
• Preparation of test scripts and performing system integrated testing.
• Prepared functional specifications for the Asset transfer mass programs and communicated to the developer and involved in unit testing and Use acceptance testing for the programs developed.
• Creation of assets, posting to an asset using different transaction types for acquisitions, retirements and post capitalizations.
• Creation of asset balance report, history sheet report, retirement report and asset roll-forward reports.
• Creation of variants to perform operations like periodic posting run, depreciation recalculation, monthly depreciation test and live runs.
• Preparation of functional specifications for process improvements efforts.
• Support during User Acceptance Testing and MTP activities.
• Providing deep level support to business users during project Go-Live and warranty phase.
• Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL, Create functional specifications for Custom interfaces.
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for A/P including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing.
• Set up the Parameters for Cross-Company Code Postings.
• Resolving production tickets as part of production support.
• Preparation of end user manuals and training end users.

Environment: SAP 6.0, Unix, Windows7, SAP-ABAP, Microsoft SharePoint

Confidential

SAP FI Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Accounts payable sub-ledger set up for new company codes.
• Configured payment programs.
• Configuredasset module(fixed assets), includingasset classes, integration with purchasing, andassets under construction.
• Configuration of Asset Module for various company codes including system configuration, chart of depreciation, asset classes, revaluation and periodic GL postings from multiple depreciation areas (One set of posting to US GAAP Accounts, one set of postings to foreign GAAP accounts).
• Management of assets, Master Data Maintenance, Handling of depreciation, Legacy Data transfer. Structuring fixed assets, Configuring Asset class and Asset types, Asset re-Valuation and retirement, Integration, Depreciation, Master data maintenance, Legacy data transfer, Acquisitions, Period Closing, Knowledge management and documentation.
• Preparation of functional specifications for process improvements efforts.
• Support during User Acceptance Testing and MTP activities.
• Preparation of end user manuals and training end users.

Environment: SAP 6.0, Unix

Confidential

SAP FI Analyst (SAP 4.5)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business process of the Client’s Business and actively involved in SAP-FI Implementation
• Structuring the Organization as per the Requirement
• General Ledger (FI-GL) taking care for uploading master data and configuring the pre-requisites which includes Creation of Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Retained earnings accounts, etc.
• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), and Accounts Payable (FI-AP) master data uploading and maintaining the prerequisites such as creation of account groups, number ranges and Payment configuration etc.
• Configuration of AA (FI-AA). - Creating Legacy Assets and maintaining the prerequisites such as Chart of Depreciation, account determination, screen layouts, asset classes, defining depreciation key separately for book depreciation and Tax depreciation, asset master record and sub assets, acquisition, Creating Legacy Assets, Period end Closing
• Responsible for configuration of inter-company process involving configuration of sales document types for orders/contracts, item categories, copy control, billing document types, pricing procedure engine, Sales Incompletion procedures, GL account assignment for revenue discount accounts based on customized conditions.
• Configured Inter-Company process for transactions involving sales between two different company codes to recognize revenue correctly.
• Imparting Training to the End Users.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating GL master data, open item clearing. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Configured settings in the AP/AR, such as house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, terms of payment. Configured Accounts Receivable module.
• Defined customer account groups, number ranges, field status and tolerance groups, also created customer master data. Configured Accounts Payable module. Defined vendor account groups, number ranges, field status, also created vendor master data.
• Configured and customized regular vendors as well as one time vendor master records. Customized cross company code transaction and created clearing accounts for cross company code transaction. Configured automatic payment methods for outgoing payments.
• Configured terms of payment for cash discount and alternative payer/payee.
• Configured parameters for Company, Company Code, Business Area, Functional Area, and Credit Control Area.
• Defined Fiscal Year Variants and assigned Fiscal Year Variants to various Company Codes.
• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts GL, AP, AR and assigned different process keys as required.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for vendors and worked on daily accounting transactions in AR.
• Configured settings for creation of house banks, bank accounts, lockbox file formats, void reason codes, check lots and other criteria required for lockbox processing to expedite customer payments. Uploaded GL accounts using Batch Input.
• Ensuring master data upload of asset master and configuring FI-Asset integration.
• Participated in data uploads and trouble shooting and also in user training and issue resolution.