SUMMARY:

• SAP Business Consultant with over 8 years of functional and technical experience in ASAP methodology implementations, customization, and configuration of SAP R/3 5.0 - ECC 6.0 in both FI and CO modules.
• Possess deep noledge and understanding of FI/CO integration with SAP SD, MM, PP and HCM modules. Proficient in unit and integration testing, documentation, user training, and user support.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FI Enterprise Structure: Settings for Company Trading Partner, Company Code (OBY6), Functional Areas, Field Status Variant, Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variant.

General Ledger: G/L Account Groups, Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Automatic Account Determination, G/L upload programs, Tolerance Groups, and Financial Statement Versions. New G/L configuration including document types for document splitting, zero balance accounts, partner fields and characteristics, splitting method and splitting rules and customization of business transaction variants.

Accounts Payable: Settings for Vendor Account Groups such as Suppliers, Returns Vendor, Freight Vendor, Ordering Address, and Payee Vendor, etc. Ownership of finance fields on Vendor Master. Implement OCR and Workflow for inbound invoices using third-party tools. Configure vendor payment terms and special prox terms as per business requirements.

Accounts Receivable and Cash Applications: Configure Lockbox accounts for FBL2 upload and FEBAN post processor. Setup cash application validation rules for postings. SD Account determination for Sales, Cost, and Tax account keys used in condition records.

Treasury: Setup House Bank, Bank Account structure including inbound, outbound, and main accounts for clearing and bank reconciliation. Configure European Banking Integration with SEPA Direct Debits and SEPA Credit Transfer payment methods. Configure Electronic Bank Statements including BAI and UK transaction type along with setting up Search Strings as per client’s bank(s).

Product Costing Standard Cost: Creation and maintenance of costing variant, including material costing strategies, cost component structure, settlement of cost, variance allocation and analysis.

Taxes: Setup SD and MM input taxes in native SAP using FTXP, including setup of tax code/jurisdiction combinations. Also has experience with integration with Taxware and Vertex.

Asset Accounting: Setup/Copy Chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, depreciation keys (including all calculation methods). Has experience in inflationary fiscal depreciation and valuation with Mexico regulatory requirements.

Cost Center Accounting: Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Center Planning with Activity Types (KP26) and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments and Distributions.

Profit Center Accounting: Profit Center Hierarchy, Dummy Profit Center Assignments (3KEH for classical G/L), and design Profit Center P&L and Balance Sheets.

Internal Orders: Creation of Order types (Real and Statistical),, Planning order-wise, Maintain Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile.

Data Migration: Designed LSMW using recording, IDocs, and Batch/Direct Input for all finance objects such as Profit Centers, Cost Centers, G/L Accounts, and Fixed Assets. Worked with developers to design load programs/interfaces for G/L balances at cut-over, Open AP, Open AR, and Journal Entry uploads.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a member of teh SAP (FI-CO) team, responsibilities included design, configuration, and testing of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Maintained and supported Org Structure Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.
• Account assignment in cost accounting and define base method.
• Configure operating concerns and Profit center.
• Configured Accounts Receivable Order to Cash Process. Defined tolerance groups, tolerance for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings and recurring entries.
• Defined customer account groups and created customer master data for accounts receivable.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Performed Lockbox configuration.
• Configured Electronic bank statements including Posting Keys, Posting Rules, Posting Rule Assignments.
• Setup Internal Transaction Types and mapped to External (Bank) Transactions of various client bank formats such as BAI and UK-APACS.
• Work on process enhancement and support finance global roll-out model (template model) for various client plants/locations including functional unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance/training documentations and presentations.
• Develop LSMW for Hierarchies, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Fixed Assets, and Open Line Items.
• Maintain Finance Org level configurations for project including Company Codes, G/L Chart of Accounts, Inter-Company Clearing, and Number Ranges.
• Maintain SD and MM tax configuration in native SAP (FTXP) including setup of tax codes, tax jurisdictions, combinations of product hierarchies with various jurisdictions.
• Design and Configure Asset Accounting functions to support Depreciation Run, Sale/Transfer/Scrap of Asset.
• Setup Alternate Depreciation and Asset Revaluation process for Inflationary Depreciation Fiscal requirements.

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a member of teh SAP (FI-CO) team, responsibilities included requirement gathering, mapping costing process, and blueprinting.
• Activated New General Ledger functionality, Performed Document Splitting configuration, and Parallel Reporting.
• Configured Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, and Down Payments.
• Created daily, monthly and yearly closing processes for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.
• Configured costing module including costing variant, cost component structure, costing sheet (base, overhead and credit).
• Defined vendor account groups and create vendor master data for accounts payable.
• Configured and perform costing estimates via CK11n and CK40n, mark and release costing estimates into Material Master.
• Maintained house banks, GL structure with various bank clearing accounts, check lots for bank accounts and reason codes for voided checks.
• Created Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes, and Account Determination.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, maintained default and automatic account assignments.
• Setup customer/vendor down payment process, including clearing and post-processing.
• Work on numerous Finance conversion and WRICEF objects including preparation of functional spec and passing down technical noledge to developers.
• Developed test scenarios and user training manuals for client specific processes.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Business Process Master List, Key Data Structures, To-Be documents, Detailed Design documents.
• Conduct Gap analysis review and identification of WRICEF and other development identification.
• Arranged process validation workshop and getting sign-off of “To-be” document
• Defined Account group for G/L Accounts, Master data, field status for master data, Assignment of number ranges. Accounts groups for Customers & Vendors, master data set-up for customer and vendor, centralized versus decentralized maintenance of master data, Assignment of number ranges to account groups. Bank Accounts-Maintain Bank master data, Defining house bank and bank accounts, maintain link between bank and GL account
• Configure operating concerns and Profit center.
• Configured Accounts Receivable Order to Cash Process. Defined tolerance groups, tolerance for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings and recurring entries.
• Defined customer account groups and created customer master data for accounts receivable.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Performed Lockbox configuration.
• Configured Electronic bank statements including Posting Keys, Posting Rules, Posting Rule Assignments.
• Setup Internal Transaction Types and mapped to External (Bank) Transactions of various client bank formats such as BAI and UK-APACS.
• Work on process enhancement and support finance global roll-out model (template model) for various client plants/locations including functional unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance/training documentations and presentations.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created fiscal year variants and assigned fiscal year variants to various company codes. Defined posting period variants, field status, number ranges and screen layout rules.
• Configured Customer and Vendor Account Groups, and LSMW their respective master Data.
• Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Configured and customized Accounts receivable (AR)Ø and Accounts payable (AP) modules including Terms of payment, Interest calculations, country specific and company code specific payment methods, and payments grouping.
• Maintained house banks, GL structure with various bank clearing accounts, check lots for bank accounts and reason codes for voided checks.
• Created Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes, and Account Determination.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, maintained default and automatic account assignments.
• In Product Costing, Configured standard Cost estimates in Cost object controlling for production orders, Configured WIP calculations and variance calculations and maintained settlement structures.
• Created documentation of end user training procedures and prepared test scenarios, post-implementation review and functional troubleshooting guides.