PROFILE/SUMMARY:

• Experienced SAP FICO functional consultant with more TEMPthan 7 years of experience in FI and CO modules in versions 4.6 to ECC 6.0
• Customizing and configuring FICO module and worked in various phases of Project Life Cycle.
• Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle Implementations using Accelerated SAP (ASAP) methodology with experience in all Implementation Phases - Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Cut over, Go- Live and post Go-Live Production Support.
• Extensive knowledge of FI- GL transactions and configuring accounts for General Ledger (G/L) New G/L, Accounts payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Asset Accounting (A/A), Taxes, Special Purpose Ledger (SPL), Multiple Currencies Configuration, Treasury Management, Financial Consolidation.
• Strong expertise in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Also has a good understanding of Product Costing (CO-PC).Activated Components/ Control Indicators, assign Number Ranges to Controlling Area, integrated FI and CO.
• Experience of Input/output tax codes and Withholding Tax.
• Expertise in the SAP Project Systems (PS) module along with a working knowledge of the Financials and controlling
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects of RTR (Record to Report).
• Proficient in External Reporting and preparation of Financial Statements with good understanding of US GAAP.
• Experience of Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Excellent issues analyze skills, expert in document functional requirements and fix issues (tickets).
• Proficient in configuration and integration of SD (Sales Distribution), and MM (Material Management) with FI. Good experience in SD (OTC) and MM (PTP) business processes.
• Expertise in creating and maintaining Company Code, Posting Period Variant, Document Number ranges, Field Status Variant, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts, and users.
• Define required customizing in Accounts Payable, configured for Terms of Payments, Vendor Groups, Number Ranges, and Automatic Payment Program.
• Creating and maintaining Customer Master Data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, Dunning, Down Payment, Discount, Over and Under Payment.
• Worked for configurations in Fixed Assets like, copy reference Chart of Depreciation, make required configuration for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules.
• Defined Document Number Ranges, Valuation of Assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company transfers in Asset Accounting.
• Analyzed the existing credit control process of the business process and defined the credit control structure in SAP on Credit Management using Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM).
• Extensive expertise in Configuration, Design, Development, Testing, Troubleshooting, Documentation, and Reporting in FI/CO.
• Provided End- User Training and Prepared Documentation for End-Users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Modules: Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) Asset Accounting (AA), Controlling, Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), General Ledger (G/L), Consolidation, Special Purpose Ledger (SPL), Profitability Analysis (PA), Internal Orders (IO), Fixed Asset (FA), Tax Accounting, Treasury Management (TR), Cash Management (TR-CM), Loans Management (TR- LM), Funds Management (TR- FM), Dispute Management (TR- DM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Treasury Management (TR), Project System

ERP: R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

Programming Languages: ABAP/4, SQL

Interface: Vertex, Sabrix, Report Writer, Report Painter, Sabrics, Solution Manager, HP Quality Center

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP)

Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Vertex

Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Andover, MA

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Production Support Team worked closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities.
• Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Created of General Ledger (GL) master with posting, display, change, block, unblock, creation of layout.
• Prepared functional specification for Parking document workflow and Parking document report.
• Configured Account Payables (AP) Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendors credit memo and Check clearing sub-processes, Advance paid or down payment made to vendors.
• Configured partial, full, residual payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable.
• In Accounts Payable (AP), participated in setting up the configuration for Automatic Payment Program (APP), especially relating to payment methods, bank determination, and house banks.
• Configured Down Payments and Bills of Exchange.
• Created cross account clearing between Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR). Analyzed the Bank Master data for APP.
• In Accounts Payable, participated in setting up the configuration for Automatic Payment Program, especially relating to payment methods, bank determination, and house banks.
• Handled Accounts Payable to vendors/contractors/employees & Travel bills Payment & maintained the MIS of payments tovendor.
• Performed unit testing and regression testing for different AP and AR functionalities.
• Created Fixed Assets master records and trained client on how to execute the monthly depreciation posting run and month-end close processes.
• Involved in Asset Accounting Configuration which included configure Asset Classes, GL integration, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Key, Calculation Key, Valuation, Acquisitions and Retirements.
• Involved in Fixed Assets Configuration which included configure Asset Classes, GL integration, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Key, Calculation Key, Valuation, Acquisitions and Retirements.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation
• Configuration of Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement., transfer and other business transactions, Property tax, Lease accounting.
• Involved in integration of Fixed Asset Accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.
• Created various new asset master (Fixed Asset) data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production.
• Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, manual and unplanned depreciation.
• Customized Screen Layouts for Asset Master Data, Asset Sub Ledgers and Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Participated Project System (PS) and FICO workshop.
• Created Project in Project Builder in Project System (PS).
• Activating of Versions in Project Systems and Creation of WBS Elements for getting data from internal order.
• In Project Systems, defined the Project coding mask, created the project file and status profile.
• Developed the pre-project work products required for project planning, budget estimation and statement of work.
• Creation of allocation structures and settlement profiles, Creation of Different Internal Order Types, maintain planning and budgeting of Internal Orders (CO-IO).
• Creation of planning layouts, various types of cost elements for Cost Center Accounting, activity type planning, statistical key figure planning, distribution receiver cost centers, internal goods movement, account determination, and Planning reports.
• Participated integration testing of CO, MM, SD, and PS, involved in documenting Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Procedure using Business requirements document and Functional requirements document of the system.
• Created test plans & test cases in Quality Center from the business requirement document and technical specifications.
• In AR and AP, defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, exchange rate losses and tan posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0(Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Configured company code parameters, document number ranges, operating concern, tolerance groups. Maintained fiscal year variant and assign various company codes to different fiscal year variants. Defined variants for posting periods and assign variants to multiple company codes.
• Configuration of G/L Accounting included chart of accounts. Defined account groups, retained earnings account, posting keys, document types, field status groups for field status variants, and assign company code to different field status variants.
• G/L account configuration and master data analysis, account posting, automatic accounts assignment, retained earnings accounts.
• Created parking documents, hold document, sample document, accrual/deferral document recurring document, and reversal of document.
• Configured FI documents parking workflow configurations which included workflow creations, workflow configurations, and workflow testing.
• Working with validations and substitutions, LSMW, IDOC and EDI.
• Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
• Worked on New GL functionality on ECC 6.0 with document splitting, Document reversals, foreign currency valuations and period end activities.
• Tested various scenarios under New GL business transactions and document splitting.
• Configuration and testing in areas of Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR). Defined tolerance groups, created vendor/customer account groups, created vendor/customer reconciliation accounts, created and maintained terms of payment, defined number ranges, created and maintained vendor/customer master data, posted vendor/customer invoices. Created credit memos, down payments and set credit& tolerance limits for customers and vendors.
• In Accounts Receivable (AR), built AR Business module, Configured and Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Oder to Cash (OTC) process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms),Dunning, Reporting.
• Configuration for the creation of Account Receivables (AR) invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation.
• Configured Tax settings, maintained Input/output tax codes for different jurisdiction codes, and maintained jurisdiction code settings, automatic account assignments for tax postings.
• Configurations of Taxation including setting up of Tax codes, VAT tax configuration and Tax jurisdictions for across all the countries. Assign input and output tax GL accounts to the tax codes and assign tolerance keys.
• Defined Tax codes and jurisdictions and foreign currency valuation methods.
• Configured Tax settings, maintained Input and Output tax codes for different jurisdiction codes, and maintained jurisdiction code settings, automatic account assignments for tax postings.
• Created House Bank accounts and configured payment methods in FI-Treasury (TR).
• In Treasury Management, Configured Dispute management, dispute case processing, settings in Accounting, and Automatic write-off of disputes.
• Customized and configuredCashManagementincluding bank statements, payment program payment advises and bills of exchange in Treasury Management (TM).
• Configured Controlling Area including maintain controlling area and number ranges for controlling documents.
• Configuration of Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA) in controlling area, which included defining profit center /cost center standard hierarchy, create profit center groups and profit/cost centers, activations of cost centers/profit centers, assignment of cost centers to profit centers, assignment of work centers and activity types to cost centers.
• Created CCA and PCA Hierarchies and master data records.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules.
• 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 (PTP) business process.
• Configuration of FI with SD module included Revenue account determination, G/L accounts, account keys.
• Configured SD-OTC process by customized inquiry, quotation, sales order, cash order, rush order, deliveries, transfer orders, post goods issue, billing and release to accounting.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of sap FICO.
• InGL Accounting,configured, tested, and resolved production support issues, enhancements relating toGLmaster records, document postings, integration withMMand SDtransactions, andGLbalances reporting.
• Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Accomplished closing and reporting, which included start control and clearing reconciliation, run customer billing and vendor payments, approval of all parked documents, Run final sales figure and dunning reports, Open new period, close old sales and material periods.
• Building Accounts Receivable (AR) Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, Define sensitive fields for dual control, House Banks, invoice processing, document posting, document parking, outgoing payment, Reporting.
• Involved in the whole Accounts Receivable (AR) process including configuration of Customer Master Data, AR Down payment, Customer/Vendor Master Change Report, AR Debit/Credit Memo, Intercompany Payment Process, Lockbox, Dunning Procedure, Incoming Payments with Reason Codes.
• In Accounts Receivable, configured the settings for Dunning Procedures, Customer Master Data, and Lockbox Processing.
• Customization settings for Fixed Asset Accounting such as Chart of Depreciation, Account Determination, Depreciation Areas, Number Ranges, Asset Classes, G/L Accounts, Etc.
• Participated in solving some issues aroused during Asset Accounting configuration and Depreciation Calculation.
• Configurations and troubleshooting Fixed Asset Accounting. Major Configuration points includeconfiguration of Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement, transfer and other business transactions.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation
• Responsible for Fixed Assets (real estate properties) inventory keeping. Maintained an active inventory of all Fixed Assets.
• Configured various Asset Master Data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production.
• Maintained master data in Profit Center Accounting (PCA) which included set up of Profit Center Groups, Profit Centers. Enhanced COPA reports.
• In Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting (CCA) created primary and secondary cost elements, maintained cost element attributes, cost centers, standard hierarchy.
• In Profitability Analysis (COPA) involved in creation of Characteristic Group, Number Ranges for Actual Postings, Regions, and execution of Profitability Analysis Reports.
• Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run, and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Customized the settings for FI-SD integration with regard to customer group, material group, and account keys in VKOA.
• Configured Order to Cash (OTC) processes including sales order to invoicing, and cash application of integration FI with SD module.
• Customized SD- OTC process control elements such as document types, item category, and schedule line category.
• Configured Order To Cash (OTC), Material Determination, Account Determination, Route Determination, Contracts, Agreements and Rebates Processing.
• Configured custom order types, OTC (Order to Cash) scenario related delivery and billing type for a specific material characteristic billing variant configuration and Multi level BOM.
• Testing of full Order to Cash and procure to pay process.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• An initiative to replace customer legacy systems with SAP CRM
• Identified necessary data elements in CRM, represented the interaction between them and developed the customer data model
• Developed SAP CRM business processes based on business requirements, mapped data elements to CRM processes and business requirements
• Maintained Company Code parameters, Controlling Area, Operating Concern.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA) including set up Profit Centers, Profit Center Groups, and Profit Center Hierarchy.
• Configured Cost Element Accounting, created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Configured the settings for Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), and Profitability Analysis (PA).
• Worked on Go- Live & Support handling Production Support, post Go- Live activities monitoring system transactions and optimizing overall system performance.
• Configured Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable included Master Data, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Terms of Payment, Dunning Procedure, Reconciliation Accounts, and Document Invoice.
• Involved in the analysis of business process of FI- General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), CO- Profit Center (PC).
• Configured Asset Accounting included Chart of Depreciation, various Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Asset Classes, Number Ranges, and Revaluation Settings.
• Created Master Data for General Ledger Accounts, Materials, Assets, Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Profit Centers, Vendors, and Customers.
• Involved Configuration of Controlling- Profitability Analysis (COPA), by maintaining characteristics, value fields, Operating Concern, defining Segment Characteristics, mapping Condition Types to value fields, flow of actual values by activating the transfer of Incoming Sales Order, transfer of Billing Documents, and maintaining PA Transfer Structure for Direct Posting from FI.
• Performed Year- end and Month- end activities, to open and close the posting periods, transfer account balances.
• Configured Down Payments and Bills of Exchange.
• Involved in testing conversion procedures and programs, testing interface programs, conducting final user acceptance test. Performed extensive unit tests and integration tests.
• Trained key users as well as end users on the business processes.
• Prepared the cut-over plan. Provided post go- live support.

Confidential, Belmont, Michigan

FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0 (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing and gathering business requirements.
• Configured General Ledger (G/L) master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, financial statement versions (FSV).
• Configured and customized Customer Master Records, account groups, company code specific payment methods, and Automatic Payment Program (APP).
• Configured Automatic Payment Program including paying Company Codes, Payment Methods, House Banks, Lockbox Processing, and Bank Determination. Configured the Automatic Payment Program functionality for multiple vendor bank accounts with a Purchase Order (PO) and without PO reference for multiple currencies.
• In Internal Orders (IO), configured different Internal Order Types and screen layouts according to business requirements.
• Defined Chart of Accounts, Performed Basic Configuration of system in areas of Global Settings, Organizational Structure, and Company Code Definition.
• Maintained versions for Controlling Area and Operating Concern.
• Configuration of Cost Center Accounting which included creation of Cost Center Hierarchy, assigned cost centers to profit centers.
• Created Vendor/Customer Master data, reconciliation accounts, account groups.
• Tested post Vendor/Customer Invoice. Integrated configuration of FI with MM.

Confidential

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0 (Implementation Project)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of implementation from development of Business Blue Print to End- User training and Go- live.
• Defined the Enterprise Structure and configured global settings for GL postings including automatic account assignments, financial statement version.
• Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO.
• Maintained G/L master records and reconciliation accounts.
• Defined accounts groups, field status groups and posting keys.
• Configured Accounts Payable (AP) including creation of vendor master records, vendor groups, vendor documents, number ranges, terms of payments and discounts. Created reconciliation accounts for AP/AR.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program (APP) to incorporate company code data, paying company code data, country payment methods, company code payment methods, and house banks.
• Involved in the end- to end processes Procure to Pay and Order to Cash
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined chart of depreciation which included 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.

Confidential

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Gathered high level financial information requirements from client business users and translated requirements into SAP financial hierarchy.
• Customized G/L Accounting, A/R Accounting, and A//P Accounting. Configured the Dunning procedures, lockbox processing,
• Customized account groups, posting keys, document number ranges and document types.
• Open and closed posting periods and maintained field status group.
• Created customer/vendor master data, defined master records, terms of payment, payment methods, risk categories, number ranges for multiple customers and vendors, credit memos, down payments and set credit& tolerance limits for customers and vendors.
• Created vendor, customer, and asset reconciliation accounts. Defined bank master data, house banks, and G/L accounts for each bank account.
• Configured one-time vendors and customers.
• Configuration of automatic payment program (APP) for incoming and outgoing payments for accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Configured internal order types, order layouts, plan versions, settlement profile, availability control, budget management, and commitment management.
• Integrated FI configuration with MM and SD modules.