SUMMARY

• 8+ years of strong functional experience in SAP FICO and business information systems, analysis and development.
• Involved as Functional Consultant in 3 full life cycle implementation of SAP ECC 6.0, 1 production support and 1 upgrade project.
• Financial expertise in Configuration and testing of New General Ledger (FI - GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), and Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
• Experience in Automatic Payment Program (APP), Lockbox, Dunning, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Currency Translation, and credit management.
• Well versed in configuration and implementation in Controlling Module-Internal Orders (CO-IO), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC), and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Expertise in supporting all interfaces during migration and integration with a keen eye for issue resolution and implementation of functionality.
• Significant noledge in teh integration aspects of SD and MM modules with FI/CO.
• Good understanding of various modules like MM, SD.
• Good understanding of US-GAAP.
• Have noledge in Reporting: Report Painter, Report Writer, Legacy System Transfer: LSMW, CATTS.
• Sound noledge in migration from CLASSIC GL to New GL write from creation of blue print for new GL to teh customization of document splitting, allocation, planning, Zero Balancing of documents.
• Excellent communication skills with broad international exposure in Analytical, Technical and Strategic Skills to communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Demonstrated top-notch organizational skills, with ability to prioritize and multitask with a keen interest for identifying and quickly mastering emerging technologies.
• High level of composure even while working under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Modules: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger/ New General Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders.

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 EHP4.

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, CATTS, LSMW and IDOC’s

Other Tools: MS Office, MS Excel, MS ACCESS, PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Enterprise, Full-Life Cycle Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all teh phases of implementation of ECC 6.0 from development of business blueprint to user training and Go live.
• Configuration and customizing Company code, Creating GL account codes and Chart of Accounts, Configuration of Global settings, Configuration of GL automatic clearing.
• Configure and maintain account groups, field status groups for G/L master
• Define and configured splitting characteristics for New G/L.
• Maintained document number ranges, field status variant, tolerance Groups, Posting Keys, Posting Periods, Document Types.
• Involved in teh FI team in setting up SAP-AP (Accounts Payable), SAP-AR (Accounts receivable), and Asset accounting (SAP-AA), Asset classes, capitalization and acquisitions, Depreciation runs, calculation of depreciation and configuration of Depreciation areas.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts, posting rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing Payments in accounts payable via payment medium workbench. Configured DME format tree based on bank proprietary format.
• Responsible for configuration of customer account groups, number ranges, credit control area, incoming payments, and dunning.
• Worked closely with SD consultants for integration of FI-SD for teh order to cash cycle and procure to pay (PTP) process with MM consultants.
• Involved in migration of customer, vendor and material master from legacy system to SAP.
• Designed functional specification document for technical team for teh migration of Customer open items from legacy system via program interface. Created migration accounts for open item migration.
• Created characteristics, maintain value fields; activate operating concern for CO-PA. Configure profitability segments characteristics for reporting. Responsible for defining and assigning valuation strategy.
• Defined number ranges for planning data and actual postings, maintain versions, assign quantity fields, creating teh value fields group and assigning them for line item screens, activated transfer of incoming sales orders for CO-PA.
• Responsible for carrying out valuation in CO-PA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Implemented transfer of overhead costs from cost center accounting on a periodic basis and transfer of activities indirectly into profitability analysis segment also designed teh PA transfer structure to control teh secondary cost elements.
• Other areas of configuration included cost center hierarchy design, creation of cost center groups, attaching work centers to cost centers, distribution and assessment cycle set up planned as well as actual.
• Created planning layouts for cost element planning and statistical key figure planning
• Configured profit center accounting, created dummy profit center, cost center accounting by creating standard hierarchy using CATTs, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Responsible for creating and defining internal orders, order types, planning profiles, budget profile and settlement profile. Maintained allocation structures, settlement cost elements, PA settlement structure, settlement profiles and settings for automatic generation of settlement rules for settlement of internal orders.
• Performed documentation for end users and provided training.

Confidential - New York, NY

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Enterprise, Full Life-Cycle Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Project preparation, Blueprint preparation, Realization, Go-live and Post Production Support activities.
• Defined General ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable configuration.
• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records.
• Defining field status variant and field status groups for determining field status.
• Tested migration from SAP’s classic General Ledger to New General Ledger.
• Uploaded GL master records by using Data Migration tool-LSMW.
• Configured fiscal year variants with year - dependent periods for year-end closing and posting period variants
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) module involving manual incoming payments, house banks, ranking order, bank accounts, and check management.
• Defined account groups, payment terms for incoming payments, outgoing invoices /credit memos.
• In Accounts Receivable (AR), defined terms of payment for installation payments for incoming payments, maintained terms of payment for cash discounts and down payments for outgoing invoices /credit memos.
• Worked on customer master records, tolerance limits per business requirement for over payments and under payments, reason codes and in open item management in customer accounts, configured and customized credit control area, interest calculation and payment terms tailored to specific customer’s needs, payment advices, check number ranges, check void reasons, check printing, carrying forward balances.
• Designed and implemented cost structures in teh SAP system to complement teh existing departmental structures with teh objective of capturing and reporting costs and revenues by service using Internal Orders.
• Designed, Implementation and testing of Internal Orders in SAP FICO Module to capture Cost and Revenue for teh Analysis of Rate Model implemented at client’s organization.
• Configured accounting based CO-PA, created Operating Concern with characteristics and value fields.
• Created Standard hierarchy in Cost Center Accounting, Cost centers, Assigned cost centers to cost elements, configured Activities and Statistical Key Figures in teh CO-CCA, developed Assessment, Distribution, Periodic reposting cycles and segments
• CO-PA: Activated CO-PA for controlling area, CO-PA Planning, Structured CO-PA, Maintain Master data and Derivation in CO-PA, Maintained Flows of Actual Values, and Carried out CO-PA Reporting.

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

SAP FI Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Enterprise, Full Life-Cycle Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client for requirements gathering and analysis. Reviewed and updated teh functional design documents for FI/CO developments.
• Conducted teh 'As-Is' study, design of teh 'To-Be' Processes and carried out 'Gap Analysis' for Configuration of SAP system.
• Involved in developing detailed functional specifications documents.
• Configured Account Payables 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.
• Configuration for teh creation of Account Receivables invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation.
• Created Legacy Assets and maintaining teh prerequisites such as Chart of Depreciation, account determination, screen layouts, asset classes, defining depreciation key separately for book depreciation and Tax depreciation, asset master record and sub assets, acquisition, Creating Legacy Assets, Periodend closing.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation.
• Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements.
• 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.
• Involved in Integration of New general ledger with Controlling for reconciliation activity through real time integration variant.
• Involved in Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.
• Configuration of Asset Accounting Module Integrating with PS Module. In Project Systems defined teh Project coding mask, created teh project file and status profile
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Integrated SD and FICO with Project System
• Worked on LSMW for data transferring data from legacy system to SAP

Confidential - Piscataway, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: Upgrade R/3 4.7 to ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration and testing of FI and CO in ECC 5.0 after Upgrade
• Performed gap analysis between 4.7 R/3 and ECC 5.0 systems to analyze teh functional changes or business Processes affected by upgrade
• Addressed teh major concerns of teh client regarding teh upgrade to ECC 5.0
• Tested teh entire configuration on teh QAS Server using Test Director after Upgrade to ECC 5.0
• Track teh defects and report for teh enhancements to be done
• Performed table comparisons for major General Ledger (CLASSIC GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), customizing tables to list teh differences between 4.7 R/3 and ECC 5.0 systems
• Configured Lockbox BAI2 for customer payment processing
• Worked on teh configuration changes for teh business processes related to Finance and Controlling required as per teh upgrade to ECC 5.0
• Configured validation and substitution rules according to new ECC 5.0 system.
• Worked on teh integration issues of Finance and Controlling with MM and SD
• Worked with GR/IR clearing Accounts from teh MM side
• Trained teh end users and prepared training documents on using new ECC 5.0 system
• Planned and performed all teh activities in Cut-Over plan.

Confidential - Sterling, VA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: R/3 4.7, Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Worked on day to day support issues and implementation related issues which comprise Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Cost center accounting, internal orders
• Supports teh issues like creating payment terms, creating new banks, investigating payment program issues on weekly basis.
• Various support issues like investigating blocked billing document from SD and identifying teh root cause of it, in Accounts Receivables.
• Created new types for Payment advices, customer account statement and rebate document which help business to communicate with Customers.
• Supported in teh area of Internal Order Settlement to Asset under Construction and respective asset (settlement profile, etc.) Configured Internal Order.
• Maintain teh Master Data in PCA, which included set up of new, Profit centers.
• Configuration of Account Receivables with Dunning, Incoming payments settings, Down payments procedure and Credit management.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting all CCA and PCA test cases.