SUMMARY:

• 7 years’ experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, document preparation, user training, and support in SAP FI/CO(GL/AR/AP/ AA/TR/CO).
• Expertise in definition of functional requirements, process improvement, and project scope definition, blue printing, gap analysis, configuration, testing, documentation, full life cycle implementation and support.
• System configuration and testing in teh areas of FI - GL-transactions, AP-customer transactions, house banks, payment program, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Taxes, Use/Sales Tax and VAT. AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, dunning procedures, TR- Lockbox processing, Cash application procedures, Cash Management, Pool movement of Cash, LSMW, IBIP, CO-CCA-Assessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects.
• Participated in 2 full life cycle implementations working through all teh phases of design, development, implementation and support of SAP FI and CO from blueprinting through go-live.
• Experience in configuring, training and support of SAP R/3 Version 4.6c, 4.6B, 4.7 and FI/CO.
• Configuration experience in General Ledger Accounts, Special Ledger, Treasury Management, A/c Receivable & A/c Payable, Depreciation Charts, Asset Accounting; Creation of master records, Customers and Vendor account groups and accounts. Defining and assigning of number ranges and reconciliation accounts.
• Experience in Cost element accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, CO-PA, Report Painter, CATTS. Internal Orders, Treasury Management (Cash management system, Setting up house banks, Lockbox Processing, file formats, configuration, Bank statement processing and exchange rates).
• Integration experiences wif other modules like SD, MM. Proficient at mapping client’s business goals and requirements to SAP functionality.
• Self-starter and a team player wif excellent functional, analytical, and communication skills.
• FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business areas, functional areas, and sales and use tax.
• Basic Tasks: country specific setting, enterprise structure, created company, company code, business area and assigning company code to company.
• General Ledger: Account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, intercompany automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups.
• Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, reason codes, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, AP information system.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, account systems, credit management, and closing operations.
• Asset Accounting: Depreciation Areas, Teh chart of depreciation, fixed assets, setting up of Master Data, Asset transactions, Periodic processing in FI-SL, Information System.
• Cost Center Accounting: Planning cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, statistical keys, activity type, assessment & distribution.
• Internal Orders: Activate Order Management in Controlling Area, Number Ranges, and Model Orders.
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing teh basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of Reports.
• Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing teh operating concern, characteristics, value fields, maintaining teh derivation rules and valuation, creating Drilldown Reports and Planning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential, AZ

Responsibilities:

• System configuration in teh areas of FI-GL transactions, house bank and accounts, AP-payment program, paying vendor invoices, master records, AR-customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, dunning, master data.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Chart of depreciation, assets class, depreciation area, fiscal year variant, number range and fixed asset master records.
• Configured lockbox, liquidity forecast, cash management and cash concentration in treasury.
• In Cost Center Accounting created teh standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities and Statistical Key Figures. Developed assessment, distribution, periodic reposting cycles and segments.
• Part of SAP life cycle project implementation.
• Conducted interviews wif users to gather requirements and to understand teh workflow of teh as-Is system.
• Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed teh To-be solution.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document teh findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and system requirements.
• Reported tasks & authorization profiles to fit new requirements.
• Refined business requirements; developed a list of interfaces, reports and data conversions.
• Implemented teh Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and G/L in SAP-FI.
• Configured organizational structure like setting up of client, creation of company, company code, chart of accounts, G/L master data and country-specific checks as used by teh company.
• Configured field status groups, posting periods, document number ranges.
• Grouped G/L accounts into various account groups.
• Developed and configured teh electronic bank statement, cash management and lockbox procedure in Treasury.
• Created and maintained COA, customized account groups, posting keys, document types, open and closed posting periods, created G/L account master records.
• Configured master data, business transactions, dunning /payment processes in AR/AP.
• Configured controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers for CCA and PCA wif integration of FI wif SD and MM modules.

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant Version ECC 6.0

Confidential, KY

Responsibilities:

• Participated in teh complete SAP life cycle implementation.
• Converted business requirements and specifications into SAP functional design.
• Performed configuration of FI and CO modules in teh enterprise organizational structure.
• Customized SAP/IMG for G/L chart of accounts and cost center accounts.
• Configured lockbox processing, liquidity forecast and cash management position in Treasury.
• Setup cost elements, internal orders, created cost center hierarchy, cost centers, profit centers, activity types and statistical key figures.
• Created multiple balance sheets and maintained them using financial statement versions.
• Defined asset class, asset numbers and grouped them into asset groups.
• Defined chart of depreciation and depreciation areas.
• Conducted automatic payment processing including checks printing for accounts payable and dunning in accounts receivables.
• Documented system configuration and consolidation process.
• Gatheird, defined and assisted in documentation of financial reporting requirements, using ASAP methodology.
• Participated in testing using CATT.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.
• Participated as member of go-live team to ensure successful cutover from legacy system.

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Confidential, MO

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews wif users to gather requirements and to understand teh workflow of teh as-Is system.
• Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed teh To-Be solution.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented teh findings, assessed scope of studies and suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Defined conversion strategies and user acceptance testing.
• Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and system requirements
• Reported tasks and authorization profiles to fit new requirements.
• Refined business requirements, developed a list of interfaces, reports and data conversions.
• Suggested development of new standard policies and procedures, and developed system administration and operational procedures.
• Defined and configured chart of accounts, account groups, tolerance groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, fiscal year variants, and field status groups.
• Customized screens for document entry, document reversals, invoices, and payments.
• Created account assignment models for recurring entries. Involved in configuration of chart of accounts, account groups, automatic account determination setting.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR), house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots.
• Defined customer/vendor account groups and created customer /vendor master data
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable.
• Configured incoming payments, billing, credit management and dunning programs.
• Integrated AP and AR modules wif MM and SD respectively wif respect to account determination for various clearing and adjustment accounts and automatic postings.
• Configured lockbox processing, customized processing of incoming checks.
• Documented end user manuals and training material.

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant Version 4.6

Confidential, IA

Responsibilities:

• Discussed wif Client and End Users Business Requirements to prepare Blueprint.
• Prepared Business Blueprint, Q&A, Business Process Master List, Mapped Business Requirements wif SAP Functions and prepared GAP Analysis and resolved wif FRICE GAP Tools
• Created Sample Database and carried out Unit & Integration Testing, Validation and Substitution for customizing Business Processes.
• Developed Functional Process Design and Configured Client Organizational Structure as specified.
• Configured Company codes, Created and maintained Chart of Accounts, Financial Accounting Global Settings.
• Configured Document types, Posting Period Variants, Fiscal Period Variants and Financial Statement Versions.
• Customized Vendor Master Data, Customer Master Data and Specified Number Ranges.
• Created G/L Master Records and Reconciliation Accounts for Sub Ledgers.
• Configured Employee and Vendor Tolerance Groups.
• Tested G/L transactions for Fast-Entry Screens, Posting, Parking and Reversals.
• Customized Account Groups, Field Status Groups and Posting Keys.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Void Reason Codes.
• Configured settings for Automatic Payment Program and for Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line Items.
• Configured Credit Management and Defined Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, Line Layout, and Reconciliation Accounts.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Configured and Tested teh Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format.
• Configured Bank Statement processing and Mapping external Transaction Codes to Posting Rules.
• Configured Liquidity Forecast, Cash Management Position and Cash Concentration. Created Planning Level and Planning Groups and Assigned.
• Internal MM and SD transactions to Planning Levels. Worked wif MM and SD Team to Configure Automatic Account Assignments. Worked wif ABAP team for Customization of FI/CO Tables and User Exits.
• Directed Tech Dev to import Master Data from Legacy Systems using LSMW.
• Configured Cost and Profit Centers, CCA Allocations, Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Activities, Statistical Key Figures and Substitutions.
• Configured teh Operating Concern, Characteristics and Value Fields for CO-PA Analysis.
• Set Various Characteristics and Key Figures to Design User Defined Reports to present Complex Data Analysis in Structure using Report Painter and Report Writer Tools.
• Documented teh Vital Changes, Performed teh System Tests and trained teh members in teh client team on New System Functionality.
• Involved in writing Integration Testing Scripts as well as User Acceptance Testing Scripts.
• Supported teh client in Post Launch Session and worked on Post Production Issues.

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant Version 4.6

Confidential, NC

Responsibilities:

• Configured teh G/L accounts, Vendor and customer master data.
• Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables including teh payment program configuration and automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, Periodic processing and correspondence.
• Configured teh house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Integration of MM and SD wif FI account assignment.
• In CCA designed and created Cost center hierarchy. Created Cost Centers. Designed and created Assessment Cycles to allocate overhead costs
• In PCA, designed and configured teh hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of Profit center Accounting. Created Profit Centers and assigned cost centers. Assigned Balance Sheet items to respective profit centers. Created Distribution and Assessment Cycles.
• Proposed and coordinated solution offering to prospective clients in core financial domains like Banks and Stock broking companies.
• Gatheird required information and positioned teh product.
• Prepared road map for project implementation.
• Proposed business solution technology companies for product integration.
• Responsible for all financial and costing operations.
• Participated in strategic planning sessions for short to medium term plan of action.
• Determined cash flow by constructing teh cash budget, to anticipate teh cash inflow and outflow.
• Liasoned wif banks & financial Institutions for working capital and long term funding.