PROFILE/SUMMARY:

• Experienced SAP FICO functional consultant with more than 7 years of implementation and configuration 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 3 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.
• Hands on experience in Active Ingredient Management.
• Expertise in Data Migration using teh tool Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
• Extensive noledge of FI- GL transactions and configuring accounts for General Ledger (G/L), Accounts payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Asset Accounting (A/A) and Special Purpose Ledger.
• Strong expertise in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Material Ledger (CO-ML), Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Proficient in configuration and integration of SD, and MM with FI. Good noledge of Procurement.
• Good understanding of SD (O2C) and MM (P2P) business processes.
• Knowledge of ABAP/4 included design, development, and debugging.
• Good exposure in ALE, IDOC.
• Good noledge in BAPI and how access this customized BAPI or standard BAPI form java code and display output in internet Explore.
• 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 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 teh existing credit control process of teh business process and defined teh 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), Product Costing (CO-PC) General Ledger (G/L), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Internal Orders (IO), Order to Cast (O2C), Procure to Pay (P2P), Active Ingredient Management.

Interfaces: BAPI, EDI/ALE/IDOC, RFC

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

Programming Languages: ABAP/4, SQL

Reporting Tools: Report Writer, Report Painter, Solution Manager.

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP)

Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0(Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on supporting teh end users in teh Order to Cash scenario in SD module which included configuration of Master Data, Availability Check, Pricing, Product Proposal, Purchase Orders, Purchase Requisitions Stock Transport Orders, Outbound and Inbound Deliveries, Picking, Packing, Transfer Order, Goods Issues, Goods Receipts, Billing, Batch Management, Variant, and Inventory Management.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Customized Screen Layouts for Asset Master Data, Asset Sub Ledgers and Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Created and verified functionality of Purchase Requisitions\Shopping Carts, Request for Quotation\Proposal (RFQ, RFP), and Purchase Orders with appropriate data to execute Procurement scenarios.
• Developed functional specifications for Procurement custom reports.
• Supplier integration in Sourcing and Procurement processes.
• Implementation of Procurement processes with FI integration to maintain material master, vendor master and info record.
• Configuration setup to Integration In-House Cash Management with MM module- Procure to Pay (P2P), Payroll, General Ledger, and Transaction Management.
• Creation of custom Promotion programs to replace SAP standard promotion transactions and creating outbound Idoc for promotions.
• ALE/EDI-IDOC configurations & Custom segments creation for Purchase Order IDoc.
• Developed ALV reports, conversion programs using BDC and BAPI.
• 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.
• In Internal Orders, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, Internal Order Planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution
• Setup Internal Orders and cost Collector Configuration
• Customized Order Classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning
• Configuration of Product Costing including Cost Defining and maintaining activities. Responsible for Product Costing application including Production Orders for actual cost calculation.
• Creation of Planning Layouts, Activity Type Planning, Statistical Key Figure Planning, Internal Goods Movement, Account Determination.
• Defined Valuation Categories, Valuation Types for Split Valuation configuration.
• Configured Reference Purchasing Organization and assigned different purchasing organizations and purchasing groups. Carried out split valuation of materials based on Valuation Category
• Highly Skilled in Actual Costing Run for Material Ledger period closing. Also executed alternative valuation run for cumulative valuation of inventories.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules.
• Configured Inventory Management- Customization for Movement Type, creation of a new movement type as per client requirement, number assignment for Inventory Management documents and integration with FI.
• Worked in Procure to Pay (P2P) process.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Provided extensive support to teh business users regarding business issues arising out of sap FICO.
• Carried Data Migration for Customer Master and Material Master in LSMW workbench by defining source fields/ structures and relationships and creating conversion rules and field mapping.
• Set up Batch Management and Active Ingredient Management for all key materials,
• Procured all components and Active Ingredients for Processing and Packaging.
• In Accounts Payable, participated in setting up teh configuration for Automatic Payment Program, especially relating to payment methods, bank determination, and house banks.
• In Accounts Receivable, configured teh settings for Dunning Procedures, Customer Master Data, and Lockbox Processing.
• Customization settings for 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.
• Configured various Asset Master Data and tested them thoroughly in teh testing client and transported them into teh 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.
• Reconfiguration of Product Costing, including defining settlement profile, Assessment Cycle and distribution.
• 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.
• Integration involvement MM account Determination for inventory valuation set up Revenue Account Determination in SD.
• Customized teh settings for FI-SD integration with regard to customer group, material group, and account keys in VKOA.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• 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 teh 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 teh 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 teh 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 teh 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 teh business processes.

Confidential

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 teh 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 (Full life cycle implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of implementation from development of Business Blue Print to End- User training and Go- live.
• Defined teh 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 teh 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 teh 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 teh end- to end processes Procure to Pay and Order to Cash
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined chart of depreciation which included teh list of depreciation areas. Created different asset classes and defined teh screen layout rules for teh corresponding asset classes. Integrated teh asset management with teh plant maintenance module.

Confidential

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird 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 teh 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.