SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of diversified experience in implementation, configuration, customization & support of SAP Finance and Controlling modules.
• Performed three full life cycle phased implementations from Project Preparation, Business Blueprinting (including requirements gathering and specifications), Realization, Testing, End User Training and documentation, to Go Live and Post - Go Live Support.
• Expertise in analyzing the customer business requirements and map them to the SAP processes.
• Strong working knowledge and expertise in “As Is” versus “To Be” business processes using GAP Analysis.
• SAP configuration and process design using versions 4.7, 5.0 and ECC 6.0.
• Expertise in configuration/customization of SAP - FI: Classic/New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, configuring in compliance with report multiple accounting methods including GAAP and IFRS to meet reporting requirements. CO: PCA, CCA, PC in addition to CO-PA module.
• Extensive experience in configuring Automatic payment program, Credit Management, dunning, lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (OTC) business process.
• Hands-on experience in customizing FSCM implementations, including Biller Direct, Credit & Risk management, Dispute management, and Collection management.
• Prepared functional specifications and documentation of RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflow) objects, scripts and test-models.
• Perform FI and CO testing that includes AR, AP, AA, GL, SPL and Cost Element, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting respectively.
• Utilized LSMW, External Data Transfer (EDT), eCATT, and other data migration methods (field-mapping conversion rules, maintenance of fixed values, user-defined routines, data conversion, creation and execution of batch-input sessions, etc.)
• Knowledge of overall business process flows in Media, Telecoms / Communications, Pharmaceutical and Automotive industries.
• Adept in identifying and working with integration points from a Treasury, MM and SD perspective.
• Strong functional experience in configuration, integration, migration, test-scripts & execution, document posting, end-user training, end-user documentation and support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills; proven ability to work independently as well as a collaborative, value-adding team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 4.0, 4.6c, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

Business Intelligence: SAP BW 3.1/3.0 B/2.1C

Languages: ABAP/4, PL/SQL, SQL*PLUS, HTML, Shell Scripting

DBMS: Oracle 8x, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2K, and mySQL

Platforms: Windows XP, Windows NT4.0, Windows 9x/2K/XP, UNIX, Sun Solaris

Reports: BEx and Business Objects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented customization in the areas of AP-payment program, AR-credit control, dunning, customer master data, retained earning account assignment, employee tolerance, customer tolerance limits.
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot.
• Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in AP, payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable check printing, periodic Sales and US tax reporting, and related month end financial reports.
• Configured lockbox, generated bank advices and account posting. Imported and processed Electronic bank statements (EBS) worked with BAI2 file formats. Created lockboxes at house bank and configured control parameters and posting data.
• Configured G/L account structure for each bank account. Configured electronic bank statement and worked with different file formats (Multi-cash and BAI)
• Worked on EBS, Positive pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer, liquidity forecast and configuring and customizing multiple payment methods and automatic clearing.
• Solved problems on Invoice, Cash Application, Lockbox, Electronic Payments, and Automatic Customer Payment, clearing programs, Settlement, Adjustments, and Credit Management and Banking integration.
• Uploaded master data records of customers from the legacy ERP system into SAP through LSMW and ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for all customers.
• Written Functional Spec's for all RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflow) objects.
• Implemented a Custom process with the help of IDOC Functionality, which enables successful processing of data files.

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client in Business Blue Print Phase to analyze and document the customer business requirements.
• Composed “As Is” versus “To Be” business processes using GAP Analysis.
• Implemented SAP FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BA, Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting.
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts according to the Client requirements.
• Defined Account Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups
• Creation of GL Master Data, posting, Displaying balances, Parking and Reversal of document.
• Defined Leading Ledgers & Non-Leading Ledgers. Defined Currencies for Leading Ledgers. Assigned Accounting Principles for Ledger Groups to enable Parallel Accounting.
• Defined Document Splitting Characteristics and activated Document Splitting.
• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Number ranges, Tolerance for Vendors/Customers and Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records
• Created House Banks, Bank Accounts and Check Lots.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments in Accounts Payable.
• Configured AR Scenarios: Customer master maintenance, tolerances, over-under payments, cash discounts, Incoming payment (full payment/partial payment/residual payment), dunning procedures, and Age-Wise AR reports.
• Configured Controlling Area, Maintain versions, Number Ranges and Standard Hierarchy for Controlling Area.
• Set up the Cost Centers, Profit Centers and Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Prepared test plans for unit testing, integration testing, and end to end testing.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Trained users and prepared Training documentation.

Confidential, Montville, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of the Implementation team for AP / AR, GL (New) and FSCM.
• Maintained House banks with multiple bank accounts and alternate bank selections for payments. Worked with Treasury in configuration/testing Lockbox (BAI2, MT940 formats). Configured EBS to handle negative values, credit memos, remittance advice and customer-specific Credit Limits
• Defined and implemented void reason codes. Configured the automatic payment program, which was designed to enable processing of wire, ACH, check and lockbox payments
• Defined the LSMW object for uploading AR master data. Restructured customer master records. Defined customer and vendor payment terms, payment blocks, and reason codes for payment differences. Configured account determinations for write-offs and partial payments. Created AR custom reports for month-end closings
• Identified and prepared integration test scenarios, test datasets and advanced integration testing cycles for current and upcoming configurations
• Defined and implemented functional specifications for new and improved RICEF objects
• Assigned planning types, especially for cash-flow purposes, in the General Ledger
• Analyzed cash position, liquidity forecasting based on planning levels
• Streamlined cash-pooling in local accounts functioning under In-House Cash Centers
• Designed and implemented the lockbox process (origin-destination, lockbox number, house bank, partner profile, message types and logical message types for lockbox based with EDI)
• Utilized the Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) for cash management (cash position and liquidity forecasting)

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

SAP FI-AP/AR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on day to day support issues and implementation related issues which comprise AP, AR, Cost center accounting, internal orders and Profitability analysis.
• In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains/losses and then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations.
• Created and defined credit control areas to company code including pre-defined credit limits for customers, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing.
• Involved in the basic implementation and development of Blue Prints for the entire project lifecycle related to MM module covering the full “Procure to Pay” business process.
• Transaction Data Configuration & Processing Invoice Verification (MIRO - LIV): Maintained Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits, Reductions in invoice, credit memos and Evaluated receipt settlements (ERS).
• Configured and customized integration links between FI/CO/SD/MM to optimize transaction processing.
• Developed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis to ensure successful execution of the plan.

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Migration of data from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of migration cockpit.
• Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
• Configured the settings in G/L area, such as creating G/L master data, cross-company code transactions, with multiple currencies and multiple company codes, and open item clearing.
• Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Configured and maintained House banks with multiple bank accounts, Alternate bank selections for payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes.
• Configured Vendor Down payment, Installment payment, Automatic payment program, Check management, and recurring entries.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation which includes the list of depreciation areas.
• Created Different Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes.
• Integrated the Asset management with the plant maintenance module. Defined the LSMW object for uploading asset masters.
• Worked on integration of FI/CO with MM and SD for Inventory valuation, Movement types, damaged stocks and functions such as GR and Invoice verification, order management, pricing, delivery and transportation and billing.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Vendor/Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.
• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records.
• Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to Design a global Vendor / Customer Master Record Structure.
• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and set up the Integration between FI and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable.
• Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc.
• Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management.
• Configured Credit Control Area and Defined Risk Categories, Credit Representatives and Intervals for Days in Arrears.
• Configured and customized for monthly depreciation run.
• Tested AR scenarios for Order to Cash scenario, worked on Customer master data, maintenance of complete, partial, residual and incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.
• Interacted with Client Business Users for requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Trained Business Process Owners and End Users.
• Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing Activities.