SUMMARY

• 7 years of extensive functional experience in SAP including three full life cycle implementation.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Chemical and Energy business processes.
• Part of Teams skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP FI, CO and Integration with SD, PP, MM Modules. Experience in New G/L, Special G/L, AP, AR, COPA, Cost Center & Profit Center Accounting.
• Experience in MTO (Make to Order), OTC (Order to Cash) processes.
• Configuration experience of vendor master, automatic payments, electronic bank statement(EBS), advance payments, ACH payments.
• Bank Interfacing and accounting: House Banks, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox processing, Cash journal.
• Configured FI - MM integration interface in the areas of enterprise structure, Automatic postings for MM through OBYC.
• Configured FI-SD integration interface in the area of Enterprise Structure, and Revenue accounts determination, mapping required GL accounts to the account keys.
• Configured and maintained profit centers, currency revaluation, document splitting, non-leading ledger and created substitution and validation rules,
• Knowledge in writing Functional specifications for PRICEFW objects.
• Experience in running ABAP queries and LSMW.
• In Depth knowledge in Report Painter and Report Writer.
• In depth knowledge in functional areas, financial closing and consolidations, intercompany processing.
• Strong knowledge in complex Product costing using Variant configuration and sales order cost estimate.
• Designed and Configured COPA.
• Working knowledge on cross-company code transactions and multi currencies.
• Effective communicator with excellent skills in making Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents.
• Experience on Preparation of test plan, test procedures, manual and automation test scenarios, test scripts, report defects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Packages: SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Software tools: MS Excel, MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Tab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Madison, WI

SAP FICO FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked on account determination of MM-FI, SD-FI and PP-FI
• Used LSMW for data migration to load Cost center, Profit Center, Customer, Vendor Master Data.
• Worked in various FI aspects relating to AR, AP issues, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/ partial payment settings for vendors and customers, Automatic Payment program, reversal of documents.
• Created Partner profiles (WE20) and configured new house banks in FBZP.
• Configured ACH payment process and wire transfers for 3 company codes.
• Worked on payment media generation for ACH payment method for NACHA format.
• Defined new Vendor Account Groups and screen layouts & company code; defined number ranges for vendor accounts and assigned these number ranges to vendor account groups.
• Bank Interfacing and accounting: House Banks, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox processing, Cash journal.
• Configured FI-MM integration interface in the areas of enterprise structure, Automatic postings for MM.
• Configured FI-SD integration interface in the area of Enterprise Structure, and Revenue accounts determination mapping required GL accounts to the account keys.
• Supporting MTO processes.
• Configured 6 New report painter reports in Finance & controlling. Enhanced 4 other report painter reports. Functional specification & configuration done.
• Helped end users in month end closing operations involving overhead calculation, variance calculation, Result Analysis settlements and activity price calculations.
• Created validations and substitutions as per user requirements.

Confidential, Lakeforest, IL

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-paying vendor invoices, AR-customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, dunning, Master data, CO-CCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, Product Costing with Cost Splitting Valuation - PA-structure, value fields, planning and reporting.
• Analyze end user needs and propose viable solutions for report improvement, QA and user training in CO. Generated reports using tools Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Provide System configuration, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/P, A/R, Fixed Assets, Special ledger and Consolidation (EC-CS)..
• Created budgeted financial statement to compare plan data with actual data and restricted the report to a period on a quarterly basis. Created Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements
• Cost Center Accounting Settings for Periodical Processing, Activity Based Costing (ABC), Order processing, maintain/ control Billing documents, Inventory management, Purchasing, Variant Configuration and complete design /configuration of general CO functionality (CCA)
• The scope of CO included Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.
• Design and configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA transfer structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA
• Created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Defined various reports.
• Through knowledge in Defining Costing Sheet and calculating Overhead.
• Activated and configured Material Ledger for multiple valuation and PUP.
• Integrated Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) component in the SAP System, for planned budget using various costing methods, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants in Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP).
• Releasing Production Orders, Confirming Operations, Simultaneous Costing, final Costing, Price Transfer / Update, Confirmation/ Settlement, and Period-End closing.
• Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost, special procurements and releasing of the new cost estimate.

Confidential, Woodbury, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering for business process
• Mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss for inter-company transactions.
• AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Configured source symbols, planning levels, planning groups, treasury groupings for liquidity forecast, Cash management and Cash concentration.
• Work extensively Configuring Lockbox and mapping Banking data format
• AP- Vendor transactions, Master data, Check management, house banks, payment program, payment terms, deduction management, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Logistics invoice verification, Evaluated receipt settlement.
• Designed structure for Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting and Internal orders.
• Knowledge in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based Profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in Profitability analysis
• Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics. Defined both basic reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at customer and product levels.
• Developed multiple reports for the reporting of profitability. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-IO/FI and MM.
• Involved in FI - SD integration.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Vendor master and Customer master and specified Screen layouts.
• Assigned unique number ranges to various document types.
• Integrated AP and AR modules in FI with MM and SD respectively.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts, check lots and lockboxes for payments.
• Configured automatic interest calculation procedure, payment terms, correspondence and dunning procedures.
• Created credit control area and predefined credit limits for customers.
• Configuration of FI-AA Asset classes, depreciation areas, assigning company codes to chart of depreciation
• Responsible for Fixed Asset ledger reconciliation.
• Responsible for year end close and reconciliation of sub-ledger, such AR, AP and Fixed Asset.
• Design and implementation of comprehensive reporting solution in profit center accounting (EC-PCA) and profitability analysis (CO-PA)
• Configured costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured CO-PA planning including planning levels, plan package and planning methods
• Created several validations and substitutions to meet the user requirements.
• Designed an Activity Based Costing solution for the client, who could be implemented using CO-CCA (operational view), or using CO-ABC (parallel view).
• Product costing / Material Ledger, defined and configured Product Costing planning that include cost estimates. Defined product cost per order and period
• Configured Standard Cost estimates in Cost object controlling for the orders with Quantity Structure and Configure for WIP Calculations and variance calculations, maintained settlement structures.
• Created the Cost variants, valuation variants and made the assignments, created the cost component structure etc. Knowledge of material ledger, material valuations, material account determinations, actual costing, LIFO and other valuation methods, product costing roll-ups, month end closings including material ledger
• Completed Unit testing and integration testing. Created authorization profiles and tested the system before go live.
• Providing production support in FICO modules.
• Checking assignments of relevant cost objects and in particular materials to profit centers.
• Preparing for the month end close and setting up the master data for Allocations (Assessments and Distribution).

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

SAP Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 using ASAP Methodology.
• Configured new company codes, Inter-company code assignments & processing and Inter-company Transport Orders.
• Configured and Customized Internal Orders.
• Configured the system to handle various receivables scenarios (over, shorts, down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments etc.). Verified and Tested GL transactions for business process (fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals, etc).
• Integrating/Configuring Intercom any Processing, MM (Logistics), SD and HR Modules with FI and CO. .
• Created Validation/Substitution Rules for AP/AR and CCA & PCA.
• Configured FM Acct Assignment to CO Acct Assignment.
• Worked on chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers and balance-carry forwards and re-organized accounts for various cost and profit centers and Programmed schedules and jobs.
• Worked on Cross Company Code Configuration, Automatic Postings, Foreign Currency Valuation, and Multi Currency Configuration and Tax ware.
• Worked on Customer Master, House Banks, Payment Programs, Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box and had successfully configured Clearing to clearing open items in GL/AR/AP Modules.
• Configured Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Edging.
• Gap analysis of clients/sandboxes for further consistent testing and validated custom ABAP/4 programs to ensure delivery of expected results and interacted with end users to analyses testing issues and concerns subsequent to re-organization.
• Configured and Customized the Credit Management (Credit Control Area) to manage the receivables in association with SD team.
• Involved in post go live support and maintained the system.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

SAP FlCO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured General Ledger - Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files, substitutions and validations rules for documents, recurring entries, house banks, interest calculations etc.
• Configured and customized AR and AP modules-for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items, foreign exchange calculations, automatic payment program, Dunning program, credit management etc.
• Configured and Customized Treasury module including Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, cash budgeting.
• Configured Funds Management, Budgeting and Availability, Budget Objects, Posting Objects
• Developed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis to ensure successful execution of the plan.