SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience in SAP FICO as Financial Consultant.
• Certified SAP Certified Associate - Financial Accounting.
• Worked with two Full Life Cycle Implementation Project relating to configuration and End User Testing of GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost center, Profit center, Internal Orders of FICO Implementation.
• Strong analysis, design, configuration, upgrade and maintenance experience of FICO Modules.
• Design and Configuration experience in FI - GL, AR, AP, and AA modules in the areas of Financial Accounting.
• Sound understanding of integration between FICO and other SAP modules such as Sales and Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM).
• Involved in several SAP implementations process including requirement gathering, GAP analysis, design, configuration, and end user training
• Configuration experience in CO - Internal Orders and Cost Center Accounting.
• Worked with Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) tool to import master data from legacy system.
• Analyze the Business requirements, Needs and objectives and Map them to the SAP processes, solutions and products that are being implemented.
• Proficient in Analysis, Interactive development, excellent in documentation and end user training. Experienced in interaction with End Users converting the End User Requirements into Technical Scenarios for the Technical Team.
• Worked with the Process Flows associated with Procure to Pay (P to P) and Order to Cash (O to C) Functionality in Retail and Manufacturing Industry Applications.
• Worked extensively in AR Module relating to generation of Quotes and Sales Orders and related configuration of Master Data for Invoice Verification and Availability Check.. Worked in overall testing of the functionality of the Application before GO-Live and provide After Go live Support.
• Participate in application development for new projects as well as troubleshoot problems with existing code using ABAP, EDI, ALE, IDoc´s.
• Assist with integration, performance testing, troubleshooting and application performance issues.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), methodologies and test processes and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Excellent problem solving skills, committed, result oriented, hardworking and zeal to learn new technologies.
• Has the motivation to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.
• Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: Configuration and customizing Company code, Creating GL accounts and Chart of Accounts, Configuration of Global settings, configuration of General Ledger Automatic Clearing, Foreign Currency Valuation.
• New General Ledger: Activation of New GL, Defining Custom Scenarios, Use of Coding Block, Defining Parallel Currencies, Defining Segments and Integration of Segments, With Profit Centers, Cost Centers, Automatic Creation of Cost Elements and Integration of the Controlling area with the FI area for Generation of Controlling area Documents, Profit center and Cost Center Documents. Worked with ABAP
• Programmers to make changes to the Totals Table (FAGLFLEXT) to accommodate custom transactions posting.
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business Module, Configuration of Master Data, Debtor Management, Incoming Payments, Customer Invoice Processing, Order to Cash Process (O to C), Financial Documents Global Settings, Posting Keys, Define Document Types, Document Number Ranges, & Define Payment Terms. Worked with Customization of Dunning Program and Generation of Dunning Reports.
• Accounts Payable: Customization of Vendor Master Data, Vendor Account Groups, and Define Sensitive Fields for dual Control, Vendor Invoice Processing, Posting of Parked Documents, Configuration of APP Automatic Payment processing Program for the outgoing payments, and Post Processing of Payment Program Logs.
• Banking: Creation of house banks, relevant bank account and Cash Journal. Lockbox configuration, EBS Processing of Electronic Bank Statements, Handling of Incoming feed files in EDI 820 Format and processing of EDI Files using RFLBOX programs to create Batch Input Sessions and Update of Master Data by processing of additional information from EDI on Customer Master and LSMW workbench
• Asset Accounting: Configuring Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed Asset Design, and Integration with the GL, defining asset classes. Worked with the creation of Chart of Depreciation and assignment of Company Codes to Chart of Depreciation.
• Cost Elements and Cost Accounting: Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Creation of Cost Center Standard Hierarchy
• CO-PA: Worked in maintaining field values, Operating Concern and Characteristic values apart from assigning value fields and quantity fields. Define number ranges for actual document posting of CO-PA line item postings. Select elements and assignment to element groups. Defining forms for profitability reports and activating cost based profitability analysis for controlling area.
• EC-PCA: Master Data, Planning, Postings, closing activities
• Reports: Report Painter and Drill-down reporting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0

Reporting Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP, UML, SDLC, Business process restructuring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading on-site team & Off-shore team meetings for the knowledge transfer transition.
• Responsible for the (AR) Accounts Receivable from the invoice creation process to the billing document
• Responsible for configuring & testing Customer master data
• Worked on the Collection Management process with the accounts receivable from the customers.
• Worked on the Dispute management process with the customer in the stage between invoice and payment if there are discrepancies
• Worked on automatic clearing process including Lockbox processing and matching the payment from the lockbox with the open invoice that we have
• Responsible for providing different options for clearing the AR open items to avoid residual items
• Responsible for different FICO aspects which including General Ledger(GL),Accounts Payable(AP), Accounts Receivable(AR), Asset Accounting(AA)
• Responsible for Order to Cash process starting from order creation till the billing document.
• Responsible for providing High level financial flow for the business requirements
• Understanding the SD process from the Sales Order creation passing through the Deliveries till the Invoice Creation then the Billing document
• Worked on COPA configuration to meet the business integration with the other third party interface
• Responsible for providing the Cash Application Process to meet the business requirements
• Worked on Credit memo request & debit memo request
• Configured Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Provided Production Support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO End Users
• A/P Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notice.
• Customized and configured FI/CO modules and involved in unit testing and integration testing.
• Involved in configuration of company code, global settings, general ledger, posting keys, field status variant, document types, number range, tolerance groups, leading and non-leading ledgers, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, retained earning account, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Configured leading ledger for corporate reporting needs and non-leading ledgers with local currency and fiscal year variant for different countries for local legal reporting as per local fiscal year and GAAP accounting.
• Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing by preparing the test scripts for all FI-CO business Processes and getting the sign-off after successful completion of testing.
• Interaction with end user’s to understand the existing business procedure both at Plant & Depots.
• Involved in post go-live support. Assisted the users in month end and year end closing.
• Worked with data conversion team to transfer legacy data to SAP.
• Configured cost center accounting, cost element groups, cost center groups, standard hierarchy, number ranges, activity types, statistical key figures, document numbers.

Environment: ECC 6.0 BPC 7.5 to 10.0 Upgrade, SAP FI, MM, SD, CO, OTC, GL, P2P, LSMW, Vertex, PS and Visio.

Confidential, Hicksville, NY

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Main role was Accounts receivable (AR) & Accounts payable (AP) Configurations & Support
• Worked on In house cash process both for Internal & Central payments.
• Responsible for FI Integration with MM through Procure to Pay process purchasing requisition, purchasing order till the payment process
• Responsible for Accounts receivable area which includes receiving payment from the customers & AR Clearing process
• Responsible for Accounts payable area which includes automatic payment program for the vendor payment
• Supporting vendor master & bank master data by correcting the missing or the wrong information with the correct information
• Responsible configuration and testing of General Ledger (GL), Account Payable, (AR), Account Receivable (AP), Fixed Assets, Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM)
• Responsible for configuring Automatic Payment Process (F110 Transaction)
• SAP document output (sending of purchase orders and remittance advices to vendors)
• Master Data in SAP for both purchasing and accounts payable areas
• MIGO & MIRO Transactions Posting for the goods received & for the invoice received
• To Be Preparation - prepared Documentation on Current Finance Process mapped with Standard SAP FINANCE Process.
• Worked on month end Process to avoid any errors carry on for next month
• Supporting users IM Tickets & RM Tickets.
• Loading of batch data loads when the user required a lot of data to be loaded in the SAP system
• Consignments and Info records configuring
• Configured Withholding taxes, payment advices, foreign currency valuation, financial statement versions and cross company code transactions.
• Intercompany setup and posting of accounts payable invoices
• Worked on Purchase order lock functionality, Purchase order sourcing approval process & Purchase order spend approval process
• Worked on the configuration of Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, Sub Assets, and Depreciation Methods.
• Maintained Asset Master Data for asset acquisitions, retirements, inter-company transfers, settlement of AUC to assets and configured leased assets.
• Simulated asset reports, Asset history sheets and depreciation to provide desired reports to the local accounting team.
• Worked on Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, assigned company codes to depreciation areas, created screen layouts and number ranges, configured depreciation keys, parallel valuation of assets, depreciation run, periodic depreciation posting and error handling, involved in uploading of asset data using LSMW.
• Worked on Dolphin application (PTS) a third party application to process invoices with attached images & limit the access for the users who can view specific invoices
• Support end users to request the correct SAP Security Task Group & supporting Purchasing Requisitions & Purchasing Orders
• Supporting Inbound corporate card feed & Down payment processing in SAP
• Invoice processing and approval and working on Blocked invoices supporting
• Running & Supporting testing scripts failure, and working with the ABAP team to figure this failure and testing this scripts after fixing
• Offshore Team Coordination by handling daily meeting with the offshore team to check the status of the tasks required to be done
• Prepared and executing test case/plans.

Environment: AR, AP, GL, EBS, APP, GAP Analysis, Dolphin Application

Confidential, Columbus OH .

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business process through consultation. Designed and mapped the business process on SAP FICO modules. Gathered financial requirements and mapped these requirements into an appropriate SAP FI/CO model.
• Performed Team member roll in full cycle project as a FI consultant.
• Worked on New GL, Configured Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Field Status Group and GL account Master Record.
• Created house banks and bank details.
• Created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP), ACH/Wire and EDI payments.
• Configured customer master in Account Receivables, configured Dunning activities based on a customer’s dunning history, dunning level and dunning procedure, defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments.
• Involved in MM and SD integration in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules.
• In Asset Accounting, defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys, Asset Classes, number ranges etc.
• Configured Controlling Area, assigned number ranges to controlling area, and maintained versions.
• Worked in Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting
• Involved in transferring legacy data transfers excel to SAP using LSMW.
• Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Involved in Post Implementation Support and End User Training
• Involved in successful GO-LIVE
• Involved in Post Go-Live Support.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-GL, FI-PTP, FI-APP

Confidential, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support for issues involved in FI, AP, AR.
• Involved in full cycle project as a FI consultant
• Conducted meetings with business users to gather requirements, performed configuration changes as per change requests, developed functional and technical specifications/designs.
• Worked with business partners in the process to ensure solutions met business requirements.
• Configured Adjustment Accounts for reconciliation postings and document number range for reconciliation ledger and worked on reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers.
• Configured customer/vendor account groups, master data settings, payment methods, banking, intercompany transactions and foreign currency valuation.
• Maintained Lockbox BAI2 configuration for automatic incoming payments, reason codes for residual/partially applied payments and supported month end closing processes.
• Worked on open item transactions, G/L accounts transfer, vendor master data and vendor open items, Report Painter Tools.
• Configured settings for Controlling, maintained versions and number ranges.
• Configured Asset Accounting - Asset Class, Legacy Assets transfer to SAP,NEW GL Account.
• Worked on opening/closing of production tickets, created a hierarchy for FICO for issue logs and coordinated with Change Management Team on projects relating to process flows, projects with other SD, MM & EDI teams, testing, new changes to existing processes and enhancements.
• Configured Internal order for expenses related to advertising and sales campaigns.
• Created test cases and performed functional testing to ensure conformance to requirement.
• Prepared FICO user procedure manuals and imparted user training.