PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience as a SAP FI/CO Functional Expert in Designing, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Testing, Document preparing, User training, Go - Live and Support in SAP R/3 FI/CO wif 3 Full Life Cycle Implementations experience, upgrade and rollout experience.
• Expertise in all phases of ASAP Methodology - Business Blueprint (AS-IS Analysis, TO-BE Analysis) to Post Go-live Support.
• Strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, end user document preparation, user training and support in SAP R/3 systems including versions 4.6, 4.7 and ECC 6.0.
• Specialized in SAP FICO modules wif sound noledge on SAP logistic packages including MM, PP and SD and the integration points wif FICO modules.
• Conducted SOX § 404 compliance audits and financial reviews.
• Communicated accounting policies and procedures to be performed by finance staffs.SAP R/3 FICO consulting skills
• Extensive experience in process study, System design and development, Business process reengineering and team management.
• Development of project plan, Defining business processes, Process mapping to SAP functionality, Performing Gap analysis, Defining the project scope and time lines and resource requirements.
• Organizing workshops wif key users for requirements gathering, definition and documentation of functional requirements.
• Worked extensively wif teams from third party interfaces for data mapping and exchange wif SAP systems.
• Enterprise structure design and configuration: Setting up enterprise structure and assigning relationships between the organizational units of FI,CO,SD and MM
• Configuration of FI modules: GL, AR, AP and Special purpose ledger
• Fixed Assets module: Setting up depreciation charts and Areas, Asset classification, defining GL accounts for FA integration wif FI, Performing depreciation run
• Configuration of CO modules: Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, COPA, PCA and Product cost controlling
• FI- AR & AP: Configuration of Automatic payment program for outgoing payments and Lockbox configuration for AR receipts using BAI forms for open items processing
• Setting up integration of SAP SD, MM, CO and FA wif FI by defining the automatic account determination tables
• COPA: Defining characters and value fields and Profitability segments that suits the business needs, Characteristic derivation and assignment of values to value fields and postings to COPA module for reporting
• Product cost controlling: Standard Cost estimate wif and wifout quantity structure, providing costs to Material master and
• Key user training and providing end user documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP 4.6C/ 4.7 / ECC 5.0 / 6.0
• Lotus Notes, Tally, Wings, Focus, Next-Generation, Busy, Ace, Quick Books, Peach Tree, Dac Easy
• MS Office - Excel, Word, Power Point.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia PA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 AP, AR, AA, COPA

Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif client for requirements gathering and analysis. Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FI/CO developments, Full lifecycle implementation.
• Involved in developing detailed functional specifications documents.
• Configured Account Payables Starting wif Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendors credit memo and Check clearing sub-processes, Advance paid or down payment made to vendors
• Configuration for the creation of Account Receivables invoices and posting of manual incoming payments wif differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation.
• Developed AR custom report for month end closing to capture the every detail of Closed and Open Customer invoices
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation.
• Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements.
• Involved in integration of Fixed Asset accounting wif internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.
• me was involved in Integration of New general ledger wif Controlling for reconciliation activity through real time integration variant.
• Involved in Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues wif SD.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.
• Integration of FI wif MM, PP and SD modules, Integrated SD and FICO wif Project System.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing Blue Print and identified areas of entire Controlling Configuration for US location.
• Involved singly in entire CO configuration based on the requirments of the client.
• Involved in creation of primary and secondary cost elements and secondary cost elements has been created wif various cost element categories.
• Master data for all required Cost Centers, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures has been created.
• Assessment cycles has been created for allocation between the senders and receivers.
• Involved in Internal Order configuration and created few required Order Types and provided the necessary Settlement Profile for Order Types.
• Involved in configuration of Product Cost Controlling and Cost Object Controlling.
• Product Costing TEMPhas been configured for ‘Product Cost by Order’ and ‘Product Cost by Sales Order.
• Costing variant, costing scope, cost component, valuation variant, order type, costing sheet configured based on the requirement for Planned and Actuals for ‘Product Cost by Order’.
• Period-end closing related configuration for WIP(work-in-process) TEMPhas been made by creating Results Analysis key, RA version, cost elements for WIP, valuation method, line ids, assigment of source elements for line ids and posting rules for WIP.
• Period-end closing related configuration for Variance determination TEMPhas been made by creating varinace key, variance calculation, default value for variance key and variance variant category.
• Period-end closing related configuration for Settlement TEMPhas been made by creating settlement profile, control parameters, Allocation structure and PA transfer structure.
• Product Cost by Sales Order related configuration TEMPhas been made by providing overhead costing sheet, identified secondary cost elements for Admin and Sales besides settings made for Requirments class and Requirement type.
• Configured Preliminary costing and period-end related configuration for WIP and Settlement for Sales Order controlling.
• Configured entire Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) by creating required user defined Characteristics and Value fields, required for reporting purposes.
• Configured flow of actual values as a part of Profitability Analysis, for Incoming Sales Orders, Order Settlement, Direct Account Assignment of FI, Settlement variances of production.
• Data transfer settings has been made for overhead costs related to Production, Service, Sales, Administration cost centers.
• PA transfer structure TEMPhas been provided wif all source cost elements and value fields including assignment of value fields for CO-PA assessments.
• Documented End User Manuals and Training Material.

Confidential, Valley Forge, PA

SAP FICO functional consultant

Environment: SAP R3 version 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing system for, As Is Study, gatheird functional requirements through user workshops, Gap Analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Created flowcharts for Key users and management team approval, and created Business Blue Print for the existing processes
• Configured the FI Global Settings - Company Code, Fiscal Year settings & posting periods, Document Types and Number Ranges.
• Customized and Configured General Ledger Account Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance Groups & retained earnings account.
• Customized and Configured Vendor Account Groups and Vendor Master Records
• Customized and Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records (wif combined effort of SD consultant)
• Configured Accounts Payable module including creation of Vendor Master Records, default account assignments, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, check management, special G/L transactions defining tolerance groups, check management.
• Configuration of Fixed Asset module: Setting up Depreciation charts and areas, Defining asset classification, Setting up GL accounts for FA transaction types
• Tested the document flow from MM to FI and SD to FI.
• In Product Costing, maintained overhead groups, Defined Costing Sheet, Assigned Costing Sheet to the Controlling Area, Defined Cost Component Structure.
• In Product Costing (CO-PC) Configured for Standard Cost estimates in Cost object Controlling for the production orders wif Quantity Structure and variance calculations, maintained settlement structures. Created the Cost variants, valuation variants and made the assignments, created the cost component structure, material ledger /actual costing etc.
• Configured COPA, PCA and SPL modules and provided training to the key users.

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO functional consultant.

Environments: SAP 4.7

Responsibilities

• Provided production support in the areas of FI- GL, AR, AP and CO- CCA, COPA modules.
• Provided support in configuration, break fix and enhancements in the areas of account determination, field status groups, movement types.
• Configured chart of accounts & corresponding assignments of account groups and Field status variants
• In Account Receivables (AR) worked exclusively on configuration on many areas of AR including Automatic Dunning program, Lock Box processing, Cash discount depending on Payment terms and others.
• Involved in Master data Maintenance, Create House Banks, Assigning bank accounts to House Banks, Bank reconciliation statement & Automatic Payment Program
• Integrated AP wif MM and AR wif SD modules wif respect to account determination for various clearing and adjustment accounts.
• Maintained vendor account groups, number ranges, field status. Configured terms of payment for cash discount and alternative payer/payee

Confidential

SAP FICO functional consultant.

Environments: SAP 4.6c

Responsibilities

• Resolved issues in the areas of Product Costing, Profit Center Accounting, CO-PA, variant Configuration, Sales Order Costing, and GR IR streamline process, account determination like OBYC, VKOA etc.
• Responsible for gathering requirements for development of customized reports.
• Documentation of Functional spec and was responsible to make sure that the output of the program was as expected.
• Responsible for Leading Unit Testing and Integration Testing of Finance and Controlling.
• Preparation of User training documentation
• Configuration of Assessment Cycles and Settlements
• Assisting the users in Period End Activities
• In cost center accounting, creating and maintaining of the standard hierarchy, cost elements and cost centers, configuring the activity types, statistical key figures, allocation cost elements, maintain the time based fields, allocation characteristics for the sender/receiver and automatic account assignment.

Confidential

Financial Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the then on-going mergers and acquisition by gathering data from press releases, stock exchange filings and company releases.
• Researched and prepared Confidential Information Memorandums (CIMs), Company Profiles and other marketing collateral materials.
• Compiled and analyzed the financial statements and balance sheet of the target company to determine the value of the deal and the financing behind the takeover.
• Conduct valuation modeling in support of transactions.
• Analyzed the management statements to report the synergies of the merger/acquisition and the benefits to both the target company and the bidder.
• Examined the premiums/discounts paid by the acquiring company over the period of one year.
• Conducted project assessment, cost-benefit analysis and feasibility determination.
• Created NPV, IRR, DCF and ROI models for evaluating financial aspects of upcoming projects.