SUMMARY

• Functional consultant with 8+year experience of SAP R/3 and ECC 6.0 FI/ CO - Configuration, Implementation and support experience including GL/AP/AR, FSCM, Controlling (CO) and MM module.
• Expertise Knowledge of SAP R/3 Architecture, SAP System Landscape and ASAP Project Implementation Methodology.
• As a member of implementation team responsible to perform for the preparation of Business Blue print for assigned modules- Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and General Ledger and Cost Center Accounting.
• Strong experience to review and analyze client’s business requirements and existing business process.
• Conducted workshops for the business users to defined the scope of implementation of SAP ERP Package and suggest best practices in the industry.
• Experience of Full Life Cycle implementation of SAP FICO.
• Having good experience to interact and communicate with the clients by conducting live demos for SAP business process of various modules.
• Designed and Documented the AS - IS and TO - BE documents.
• Extensive experience in GAP Analysis and Change Management for assigned SAP modules.
• Involved in organizing periodically meetings with the team members and business users to achieve a common understanding of how client intends to run its business within the framework of SAP ECC system.
• Good experience with SAP table structures.
• SAP Implementation for a large manufacturing company in the areas of Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR).
• Designed, Configured, and Customized FI and CO modules for the Client business processes.
• Strong working knowledge of Integration of SAP-FI and MM processes.
• Strong working knowledge of Conversion process.
• As a functional team member was assigned to develop, test and implement a migration path from existing legacy systems to SAP environment. .
• Successfully executed business re-engineering activities, system configuration, and user defined enhancements.
• Involved in writing / preparing functional specifications for each object of RICEF for organization.
• Designed, created and executed Unit test scripts and Integration test scripts at every stage of the project.
• Coordinated with Users during User acceptance testing and resolved various issues during UAT.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program Payment Run, House Bank, Check Lots in Accounts Payable.
• Having good working experience in Controlling Module - CCA, Internal Orders and COPA.
• Good knowledge of Product Costing and its integration with MM and PP modules.
• Good working knowledge of FSCM - Maintain Credit profiles, dispute and collection management.
• Working experience of setting Lockbox for company.
• Strong working experience of coordination with off- shore team.
• Excellent Client interfacing skills including proven oral and written communication skills.
• Good working knowledge of handling tickets for supporting client requirements.
• Expertise in Data Conversion by LSMW and Batch Input Data process.
• Understand Business logic and prioritize requirements according real time scenarios.
• Created PowerPoint presentations for management review..
• 5+ year experience in Accounting and Financial Management professional.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling modules: The FICO modules included FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, Banking, CCA, Internal Orders, COPA and COPC.

GUI/Tools: Ms Word, Ms Excel, MS Access, Ms PowerPoint, Outlook

Platforms: Windows 95 NT/2000/XP

Database: SQL Server 2005 and 2008, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, AZ

SAP Conversion Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Working on Conversion of FI and FSCM Master and Transactional data.
• Working with Solution Manager and HPQC .
• Working on Functional Specifications, Data Maps, ETL and LSMW processes.
• Conducting meeting and coordinating with Offshore team.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed entire existing business process, suggested best practices in the industry and implement the same.
• Studied the business requirements and defined the scope of implementation.
• Designed and conducted various sessions of workshops in the assigned areas with Business Users.
• Prepared detailed documents for FIT & GAP analysis process.
• As per the business blue print map the entire legacy business process with SAP FI functionalities.
• Configured settings for Enterprise Structure as Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, posting period variant, field status variant and field status groups etc.
• Created and set up all SAP FI processes relating to General Ledger, Account Payable and Accounts Receivable.
• Customized Check Management program for Automatic Payment Program.
• Customized Automatic Payment Program for vendors including Down and Advanced Payment.
• As part of FI-MM integration team involved in settings of GL account postings with various transaction keys.
• Worked for FI-SD integration in order to mapping SD condition types to the value field in COPA.
• Involved in Product costing configurations as Standard Costing Estimations for Prototype materials.
• Configured settings for Base Line Material valuation with and Without Quantity Structure.
• Evaluated cost for BOMS and Routing for baseline material.
• Involved in Controlling customization activities for Overhead and other costs allocation in COPA.
• For Reporting in COPA, configured and maintained Derivation Rules, Table Look Up, Move, Clear.
• Created Overhead cost allocation cycles in COPA.
• Customized various Forms for Correspondence Activities.
• Responsible for Unit and User Acceptance testing by creating test scenarios and test cases.
• Involved in User Training also.
• As a team member responsible for providing solutions and resolutions to the end users in day-to-day activities and transactional postings.

Confidential, Boston MA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing power point presentations for local and global workshops in the assigned areas of FICO.
• Involved in reviewing legacy business process, and documented the detailed case studies.
• Studied the business requirements and defined the scope of implementation.
• Prepared and designed AS - IS and TO - BE documents in business blue print phase.
• Actively involved in preparing of functional Specification on the basis of the GAP between the client requirement and SAP standard functionalities.
• As a team member configured basis enterprise structure and check global settings for all company codes.
• Configured various Accounts Groups, number ranges, and tolerance groups for Vendors and Customers.
• Actively involved in customizing Automatic Payment Program for Incoming and Outgoing Payments.
• For Automatic Payment Program Setup the House Banks and Check Lots.
• Involved in setting up planning groups, create Keys for posting rules for EBS (Electronic Bank Statement), Automatic Account Assignment.
• Worked on Reports Preparation and print forms configuration settings.
• Customized Actual and planed cost reports setup in CCA.
• Responsible for configuring Version, Planner profiles and Planning Layouts for deriving the Actual and Plan Cost Comparison Reports in Cost Centers Accounting.
• Customized Account Assignments for Profitability Analysis in controlling module.
• Involved in COPA settings including Costing and Account based. Configured Planned and Actual Data comparison Reports with settings of different parameters.
• Experience in configuration COPA characteristic derivation and valuation.
• Involved in CO-PA Planning with Top - Down distribution.
• Customized settings for COPA planning in terms of Maintain Distribution Key and Revaluation Key.
• Prepared Cost Allocation by Distribution method and Assessment method.
• Created senders and receivers of cost objects in allocation cycles.
• Executes the Cost Allocation segment's cycles.
• Customized settings for Fixed percentage, variable portion cost allocation tracing factors.
• Created Profitability Segments for Costing based and Account based COPA.
• Involved in Configuring Dispute and collection management..
• Responsible for Unit testing and prepared test strategy for test cases.
• Involved in test data preparations and tested the various transactions.
• Provide End User training for UAT.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

SAP FI Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Project was in the phase of pre cut-over activities. So, responsible for setting up Master Data uploading strategies depending upon go-live date.
• Involved in setting of conversion strategies with peer team.
• Attended discussions over this issue with business users, ABAP team members and trying out the possible data conversion tool of Master Data uploads into production system like BDC / LSMW.
• For conversion process follow the steps in terms of identifying the scope of project, cleansing data, did the conversion mapping for every system for a given conversion period, integrate with informatics for developing the logics given in conversion mapping.
• Maintained the conversion cycle in LSMW process.
• Prepared the source file data in word /notepad format.
• During conversion mapping use V-Lookup files 0:1 mapping.
• Validate the data in SAP through the tables.
• Handled the tickets for resolving the various issues related to FI and CO.
• Coordinate with off-shore team for support activites.

Confidential, NY

SAP FICO Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized Company Code, Controlling Area, Credit Control Area Operating Concern etc.
• Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels.
• Created and assigned document number ranges, defined Tolerance groups for employees.
• Created House Banks, Bank Accounts and assigned the accounts to a check lot.
• Configured Account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master.
• Setting up Automatic Payment Program for payments and receipts
• Defined tolerance groups, tolerances for employees, customers and vendors.
• Customized as per the business requirement, posted and tested the transactions.
• Prepared Business Process Procedures for all the transactions for finance Scripts.
• Prepared the test scripts for the integration testing for AP, GL and month end processes and coordinated the testing with the offshore team.
• Create Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and Cost Element Groups.
• Involved in Controlling area Set-up and Cost Center Accounting pertaining to Cost Centers and Cost Center Groups.
• Experience in preparing various reports for cost centre and cost elements.
• Responsible for Setting up Version, Planner Profile and Planning Layouts for preparing comparable reports for actual and planning data for COST CENTERS and COST ELEMENTS per fiscal year.
• Proficient in setting up customization for Cost Allocation relating to period end activity in Cost Center accounting.
• Create entire Cycle, Segments for Actual and Plan Cost Distribution in term of Cost Elements of different Cost Centres to other Cost Centers.
• Strong experience in Assessment of Actual and Plan Cost of different cost elements from different cost centers to other COST CENTERS through Secondary Cost Element.
• Responsible for setting up Senders and Receiver rules for Cost Allocation.
• Customized Statistical Key Figures for variable cost tracing factors relating to cost distribution and assessment activities in CCA.
• Worked in customizing Inter Order Settlement costs for a cost centre and profit centre, set settlement profile.
• Provided support in training the users in AP and GL.
• Resolved issues/defects throughout the testing process.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Configuration and Customization of FI & CO Module.
• Customized and configured sub modules like General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting .
• Involved in integration with MM, SD Module and setting up organizational hierarchy.
• Configured for setting up G/L master data & house bank master data, processing open items.
• Involved with function/menu enhancements, configuration & creation of customer/vendor master data, account groups, defining reconciliation accounts for AP/AR.
• Involved with setting and customizing of Automatic Payment Program and postings.
• Handled Dunning program settings and generating list for dunning.
• Resolved issues/defects throughout the testing process.
• Providing production support to end users in the Phase I go live and training users in the daily activities.
• Responsible for the Chart of Accounts conversion planning. The client explored the possibility of changing their existing (legacy) chart of accounts to the chart of accounts used by the parent company. Analyzed different scenarios, identified critical points, and created project and testing plans.