SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience with emphasis on SAP as FI/CO Consultant; Experience with 3 full lifecycle and several support of SAP FI/CO modules.
• Expertise in SAP - FI- GL, New G/L, AP, AR, Fixed Asset, Banking/Treasury /Lockbox, Controlling - CCA, PCA, Internal Order Accounting, etc.
• Excellent in Business and process analysis with demonstrated ability to understand client expectations, strategic objectives and project deliverables.
• Excellent communications skills with experience in presenting solutions to Senior Management and all levels of the organization
• Experience in managing projects using ASAP methodology. Thorough understanding of integration between FI-SD, FI-MM. Experience in handling the Functional aspects like Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis and Financial Management.
• Proven ability to understand and assess current processes and develop a solution which achieved company’s goals and objectives. Experience in Gathering/analyzing the business requirements, which included analyzing the legacy systems and converting them into functional specifications with data element.
• Skilled in learning and assimilating new information quickly while demonstrating excellent work ethic and quality work.
• FI Enterprise Structure: Company code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Fiscal year Variant.
• Accounts Receivable: Creation of Terms of Payment and Interest Calculation, Reason Codes, Default Account Assignment, Credit management and Creation of Customer Master Records.
• General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Key Configuration, Automatic Account Determination, G/L Display configurations, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges and Document Types.
• Accounts Payable: Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts, Payment Program Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master Data and Vendor Groups.
• Asset Management: Creation of Assets Master records, Handling Depreciation for these Assets, Calculation of Scrap value for these Assets at the time of Sale of Fixed Assets and posting the profit/loss in the respective G/L accounts. Integrationof FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules of a Business Module.
• Cost Element Accounting: Cost Element Types, Automatic Cost Element Creation, Reconciliation Ledger, and Explanation of CO Updates.
• Cost Center Accounting: Cost Center Accounting Configuration, Controlling Area/Profit Center Accounting Maintenance, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, Reposting, Cost Center Accounting, and Automatic Account Assignment in CO.
• Structure: Segments, Profiles, and Groups, Activated Business Partners using CVI process, Promise to Pay, Integration with A/R and Dispute Management.
• Credit Management: Creation of Credit Segments, Credit Checking Rules, Credit Relationships, Created Credit Case Functionality, and Activated Business Partners using CVI process, Integration with A/R, SD, and Collections Management.
• Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern Development, Characteristic Derivation, and Assigning Values to Value Fields, CO-PA planning, Activation of CO-PA, and CO-PA Reporting.
• Profit Center Accounting: Introduction to PCA Configuration Basic Settings and Master Data Review, Assignments in Profit Center Accounting, Actual Posting Maintenance and Profit Center Accounting Planning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed the high level and detailed solution in New GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, and Cost Center Accounting
• Accounts Receivable and Factoring
• Accounts Payable and Logistics Invoice Verification
• Process integration with Production Planning, Sales and Distribution.
• Expert in configuration of New GL for segment reporting and use of parallel ledgers
• Configured non-leading ledgers for each accounting principle for different fiscal year variants
• Cost Centers and Business Areas
• Banking Interfaces
• Electronic Invoicing
• Designed the structures in Operating concern based on business requirements gathered for new Characteristics, Value Fields and CO-PA reports
• Provided solution to correct the mapping of SD Condition types to Value Fields, Maintained CO-PA Transfer structure, Configured the Derivation Rules
• Designed CO-PA reports with Report painter
• Presentations and Pre-Sales activities
• Gathered business process information and compiling the AS IS, SHOULD BE and fit the GAP analysis of the SAP R/3 system to the said processes. Perform assessment of business requirements, mapping with SAP R/3 functionality and project plan
• Developed End User Training Program for SAP FI/CO modules and use of the Business

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed solution design Architecture for Credit Card Payment Methods American Express, and First Data. Alternate Payment methods Paymetric
• Worked on Finance Related tickets in GL, COPA, A/P, and A/R
• Prepared and documented Business Process for Financial Transactions related to Credit card Processing Automation of Cash Clearing, Chargebacks and Fees Postings
• Prepared Functional Specs for each Payment type
• Developed Public Private Key Strategies
• Led Workshops with 3rd Parties
• Developed SE38 Upload program to fill custom Z Tables with Settlement data from 3rd Parties.
• Managed Integration with Order to Cash processes
• Developed Test Cases for Unit and Integration Testing.

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed the high level and detailed solution in New GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, and Cost Center Accounting Expert in configuration of New GL for segment reporting and use of parallel ledgers
• Configured non-leading ledgers for each accounting principle for different fiscal year variants
• Provided solution to handle operations with different accounting treatment for depreciation with use of non-leading ledgers
• Expert in Foreign currency valuation process and configuration
• Conducted several requirement gathering workshops, identified gaps in functionality between as-is processes and ECC 6.0 processses. Recommended work around solutions and initiated development of custom objects
• Integration expert for ensuring end-to-end business processes such as Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash and Record-to-Report are designed to meet business requirements
• Formulated business process scope and objectives and outlined the “to-be” design in the business blueprint document
• Co-ordinated with business stakeholders, IT teams and ABAP team

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implement Cash Management, Funds Management and Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, New G/L
• Electronic invoicing and payments
• Analyzed customer's complex business requirements in areas of Cash Management and In-house cash control, Bank Accounting, AP, AR, GL and map them to standard SAP processes, solutions and products within project scope. (i.e Electronic Bank Statement, Bank Chains, Payment Instruction IDOCS, ACH, Wires foreign and Domestic utilizing Data Medium Exchange via Payment medium Workbench, LIV and Invoice Processing, Sales and Use Tax )
• Sales and Use Tax for US.
• Responsibility of key areas included blueprinting, design, configuration, testing and documentation with emphasis on IHC and A/P
• Developed detailed RICEFW, functional specifications, enhancements and modifications documentation and track development progress partnering with on-site and Off Shore ABAP specialists.
• GR/IR Maintenance
• Designing and driving testing initiatives at all levels (unit, integration and user testing) and executing test plans
• Documentation and training end users on Business processes.
• Work closely with business process owners and conduct review meetings to discuss the intricacies in the business and the needed development strategies.
• Supporting all project team members in breakthrough strategies impacting cross-functional modules and business processes related to Accounts Payables.
• Provided knowledge transfer and training to the client.
• Extensive use of Solution Manager

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to end-to-end Project delivery for all the FICO Projects
• Effectively completed full life cycle implementation as part of a major systems transformation project in a global SAP environment
• Integrated SAP CRM and Service Management with FICO
• Expert in Service Management processes is required (Service Contracts, Service Orders, In-house Repair, Billing)
• Integrated SAP FICO modules with SD, MM, PP, SM, HR and with other technologies or systems such as Vertex
• Performed highly complex and demanding tasks dealing with analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of project assignments.
• Acquired experience in CO-PA and CRM integration, SD-FI and CO-PA integration
• Carried out ECC 6.0 upgrade and Unicode upgrade tasks
• Educated the users on the options available with New GL, such as Document splitting, Segment reporting, Parallel ledgers and ways to handle different fiscal year reporting requirements
• Resolved several issues in Asset Management module and developed custom reports
• Earned Material Management - FI integration experience by designing several custom reports to ensure that there was no financial impact when moving $40 million Inventory from one material type to another
• Made settings for automatic procedures in Payment Programs and for interest calculation on account balances/line items and foreign exchange calculation.
• Configured Accounts Payable module, 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.
• Configured the automatic account determination for Sales & Distribution transactions
• Integrated Vertex with ECC 6.0
• Gained data loading experience with creation of LSMW scripts

Confidential

FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed BPP’s (Business Process Procedures) in the following FI/CO areas: G/L, A/R, A/P, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Fixed Assets and Product Costing
• Assisted in the resolution of support issues in Lockbox
• Assisted in the resolution of support issues in Interest Calculation
• Assisted in the resolution of support issues in Fixed Assets in conjunction with current
• SAP Production issues
• Documented proposed solutions to Post production issues
• Configured Company Codes, Account groups, posting periods, fiscal year variant, document number ranges, field status groups.
• Provided and presented to Senior Management issues and risks on a weekly basis.
• Assisted project team for successful implementation of PO Workflow Release Strategy.
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account groups, created vendor/ customer master data.
• Defined Payment Methods and payment methods for vendor/customer.
• Configured Automatic Account Payment Program for outgoing payment for company codes.
• Created Configuration for AP automatic payment program
• Maintained number ranges for settlement document, defined number ranges for variance document, defined posting rules for settlement to financial accounting
• Maintained Chart of Account, COPA Derivation Rules, Org Structures such as Company Code, and Standard Hierarchy for PCA and CCA
• Supported and trained all end users in the following SAP Modules: GL,AP, PS,FI-AA, PCA, COPA, CCA, MM-Purchasing
• Responsible for defining scope, gathering business requirements, testing, and go live