PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Accomplished and Integrity driven professional having more than 14 years of proven success as an FICO Consultant in implementation, support, rollouts and maintenance of SAP FICO module with diverse industry experience includes Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Medical, Public Sector, and Electronics industries with 5 full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodology.
• Strong expertise in functional configuration and implementation of FI - G/L, New GL, FI-A/P, FI-A/R, FA/AM, FI-SPL, COPA, Product Costing, CO-CCA, CO-PCA especially in highly Complex Business Environment.
• Extensively worked on the integration of cross modules MM, SD, PP, PS, CS and Vistex with FI and CO.
• Techno-functional experience in ABAP, BW/BI and BPC.
• Worked on all stages of life cycle implementation in Business Process Engineering & Analysis, As-Is Study, To-Be Process (conducted Workshops), GAP Analysis, Blueprint Mapping & BPP (Coordinated with Counter Part/SME’s), Testing (Unit/Regression/Integration), GO-LIVE, Post Production Support, End User Training (Job-Aid), Trouble Shooting, Cut Over Planning and Documentation using ASAP methodology.
• Knowledge of different aspects of a business relating to FI-G/L Transactions, Inter Company Transactions, House Banks, Automatic Payment Programs, Credit Management, Cash Application, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Carry Forward Balance, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI & BAI2), Dunning, CO-CCA, CO-PCA and Assessment & Distribution allocations.
• Worked extensively in New GL based on IFRS guidelines, parallel ledgers, document splitting, segment reporting and coding Block etc.
• Extensive experience in supporting and configuring Product Costing components like Cost Component Structure, Costing Sheet, Overhead, Split Valuations, Costing Variants, Scrap, Valuation Variants etc
• Strong experience in creating reports using Report Painter, Report Writer, and SAP Query etc.
• Worked on COPA configuration of Key figures schemas, characteristics derivation, Hierarchies etc
• Extensive work experience and technical proficiency in implementation of major functionalities like Electronic Bank Statements, Payments, Electronic and Manual Check deposit, Payment Advices, complete Check Management functionality.
• Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing, setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, defining lockbox parameters and Posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
• Worked on end to end configuration and testing of Tax calculation ad posting on Purchases and Sales using condition technique such as Tax Calculation procedure, Access Sequences, Condition types and Tax Codes. Experience in implementing interfaces with external tax systems like Taxware and Vertex.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS, OTC, PTP, APP, Lockbox configuration, ICR - Inter Company Reconciliation Tool, Resource Related Billing, LSMW and dunning process. Experienced in designing interfaces, conversion and data mapping programs for data flow to/from existing legacy systems.
• Experience in end to end configuration of Project Systems module for Capex, Opex and Customer projects including WBS Elements, Project profile, Settlement Profiles, AuC Scenarios, Settlement to Cost Centers, Result Analysis and Resource Related Billing
• Techno-functional expertise in Classical and advanced programming techniques of ABAP like OOPs, Enhancement Points, BADIs, Customer Exits, ALV reports, BAPIs, Smart Forms, Scripts, Workflow, BTEs, IDOCS, EDI, ALE, Interfaces, and BDCs etc.
• Experience with client presentations, assessments, conducting business process workshops. Multiple currencies accounting and multiple currency valuation. Expertise in cross company code transactions.
• Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP Release ECC 6.0, 5.0, R/3 4.7, 4.6C, BI/BW, BPC

Languages: C, C++ and ABAP/4

Tools: HPQC, Hp ALM, CRMS, MS SharePoint, Lotus Notes, EDM, Solution Manager, Report Painter, Report Writer, SAP Query:

MS Office: Office, Excel, PowerPoint, VISIO, Project and Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential TX

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0, New G/L, AP, AR, AA, COPA, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Cost Center Accounting, Project Systems

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting expertise in maintenance, enhancing and supporting the Kraton’s business in the functional areas of FI and CO modules.
• Responsible for integrating the FI and CO modules with the cross functional areas SD, MM, PS and PP.
• Configured the automatic account determination for various business transactions like Material Movements, Revenue Postings, production Orders Settlements.
• Worked on FI-Substitutions for automatic account assignment
• Implemented and end to end solution for Automatic Posting of Lock Box and EBS files into SAP. This includes Requirements gathering, Communicating with the Bank, Configuration, Developments and testing with business users.
• Configured the Settlement profile, Variance Keys and PA Transfer Structure for the settlement of different variance Categories to the corresponding value fields in COPA.
• Configured the Project profile and Settlement profiles for Capital Expense projects using project systems.
• Worked on the configuration of Valuation Strategies to access the Cost Components and mapping them to the COPA Value Fields
• Developed reports using Forms with Report writer in COPA module which are used during month end COPA-FI reconciliations
• Created allocation Cycles using Assessments and Distributions between Cost Centers to Cost Centers and Cost Centers to COPA
• Supported the regular month end closing activities such as Reconciliations, GRIR Account maintenance etc.

Confidential VA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0, COPA, GL, AR, AP, Vistex

Responsibilities:

• Provided functional and configuration expertise in the implementation of SAP FICO modules New G/L, AR, AP, COPA, Internal Orders, Cost Center Accounting.
• Participated in Blueprint and Design phases to interact with users to identify the Gaps and document the Business Requirement Document and Functional Design Documents.
• Analyze the business requirements and perform the required functional configuration or design custom solutions using the capabilities of SAP to fulfill the identified requirements.
• Interact with Executive/Senior Management to synthesize reporting requirements in the areas of SAP FI, CO and Vistex functional areas.
• Worked on NEW G/L Configuration on Document Splitting, Segment Reporting and COFI integration
• Worked with cross functional areas Purchasing, Sales and Vistex teams to understand the process and setting up the Stock, Consumption, Revenue, COGS and SBA Contra accounts for various process in the respective modules.
• Configured all baseline settings for Controlling Area, Operating concern as per management accounting and requirements of organization.
• Configured Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) created Operating Concern Attributes, Characteristics and Value Fields, Maintained Derivation Tables, Structure and Rules.
• Configured the Cost Center Accounting module and customized Planning Layouts and Planning Profiles for Activity Input Planning, Primary Cost Planning and Activity Price Planning.
• Created the required Cycles and Segments for Allocations in Cost Center Accounting for allocating the costs from IT cost center to the Receiver Cost centers of IT services.
• Designed and Implemented Internal Orders Module for capturing Operational and Capital Expenses for short term Job Orders. Configured settlement profiles, Allocation Structures, Source Structures and Cost Elements Groups to settle the Capital Expenses to AuC and Operational Expenses to G/L.
• Involved in the Fixed Assets configuration like Asset Class, AuC, Capitalizations and Depreciations
• Created Key Figure Schemas in COPA for calculating Contribution Margins, Gross Profit Margin etc. and use them in the reports.
• Worked with Business and Banks to set up the Auto cash application using Lockbox with HSBC house bank. Trained the users on how to execute the Lockbox Post process and clear the open items.
• Configured the Purchase Price variance for different scenarios like Standard POs, back to back Orders and Drop Ship POs.
• Configured Automatic Payment program settings for Vendor Payments via different payment methods like Check, Wire and ACH.

Confidential NC

Sr. SAP CO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0, Product Costing, COPA, Cost Center Accounting

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively in analyzing the costing rolls errors and co-ordinated with data migration team to make the changes to Master Data such as Material, BOMs, Routings, Source Lists, Inforecords and Work Centers which caused the costing differences.
• Analyzed the inventory valuation differences between Legacy System and SAP and recommended the required functional changes such as Special Procurement Types, Discontinued materials, Scrap etc
• Created reports to compare the cost components and Inventory differences between legacy system and SAP system.
• Trained users in Cost Center Planning, COPA reporting and Product Costing functionalities

Confidential PA

Sr.SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Senior FICO Consultant responsible for maintenance and supporting CO-PA, New GL, AR, AP, CCA, COPA and PCA modules.
• Participated in business process workshops and presented new functionality with upgrade and provided requirements for the planned enhancements in the system.
• Analyzed the as-is system, performed gap analysis and designed the to-be system.
• Developed functional specifications and worked with technical resources to design Interfaces and data Conversion Programs for information exchange in-between existing SAP legacy systems and SAP.
• Implemented Lockbox for customer payments through American Express Bank. Configured the Lockbox and Bank Master relevant settings in SAP. Worked with Developer to implement the customer exit for identifying the AR open item based on custom algorithm.
• Implemented ORBIAN SCF process for Siemens Accounts Payable process. Configured the Banks. Customized the APP to generate the Payment Advice file in MT100 format.
• Involved in the configuration and testing of interfaces for Taxware system for calculating, posting and reporting Taxes.
• Maintained cost center standard hierarchy with cost center groups representing organizational structure of the company, representative cost centers for summarization.
• Designed Assessment cycles to transfer costs from cost centers to segments in CO-PA.
• Designed PA transfer structure for complete postings of costs and revenues to in CO-PA.
• Configured settlements of price and quantity variances of materials and activities to respective value fields through PA transfer structure.
• Worked on issues related CO-PA in reconciliation with Financial Accounting.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) defined the Operating Concern and maintaining the controlling versions, configured the operating Concern and defined the attributes and the data structures.
• Configured the reporting characteristics from reference tables and field catalogue, and defined additional user defined characteristics to meet the different needs for reporting profitability.
• Created the value fields for the operating concern from field catalogue and also defined some user defined value fields.
• In project Systems, configured the WBS elements for Capex and Opex Projects. Configured the RRB for customer projects. Created the Settlement profile and Result Analysis configuration.
• Activated the structure, created the core CO-PA tables (profitability segments) and generated the operating concern environment in the target client.
• Created the derivation for the user defined characteristics using the derivation table. The characteristic values for other user defined Characteristics were maintained by defining derivation structures and rules.
• Created reports in COPA, SIS and Overhead Management using Report Painter and Report Writer. Created all the required report elements Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Cost Center Groups, Cost Element Groups, Sets etc
• Defined structure for cost center to CO-PA assessments by creating an assessment cycle with assigning the profitability segment as the receiver value.
• Created CO-PA drilldown reports according to different profitability reporting.
• Configured derivation strategy for custom characteristics through table lookup and derivation rule.

Confidential

Sr.SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-paying vendor invoices, AR-customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, dunning, Master data, CO-CCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, Product Costing with Cost Splitting Valuation - PA-structure, value fields, planning and reporting.
• Analyzed end user needs and propose viable solutions for report improvement, QA and user training in CO. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Eliminated Discrepancies between FI and PCA by Posting PCA Adjustments and Uploaded master data for cost centers. Activity types using LSMW.
• Created and Extended the SAP General Ledger Zero-Balancing Capability to Multiple General Ledger Accounts, and effectively created a Standard Cost Estimate across Plants.
• Provide System configuration, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/P, A/R, Fixed Assets, Special ledger and Consolidation (EC-CS). Restored the Balance Between FI and EC-CS Data
• Implemented Lockbox Auto cash application for CITI bank. Configured Posting and Control Parameters, Reason Code mapping for Cash Discounts. Trained the users on the Lockbox Post processing process.
• Multiple consolidation charts of accounts within a single dimension to generate multiple financial statements at the same time in order to meet various requirements.
• Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on the ECC 6.0 environment.
• Used report program RFBILA00 to create a budgeted financial statement to compare plan data with actual data and restricted the report to a period on a quarterly basis. Created Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements.
• Dynamically Created a Standard Cost in a Sales Order Using Options Chosen for a Configurable Material.
• Improved company analysis by adding Cost Components to Cost Estimate Lists and Effectively Created a Standard Cost Estimate across Plants.
• Cost Center Accounting Settings for Periodical Processing, Activity Based Costing (ABC), Order processing, maintain/ control Billing documents, Inventory management, Purchasing, Variant Configuration and complete design /configuration of general CO functionality (CCA).The scope of CO included Product Costing and Profitability Analysis
• Design and configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA transfer structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA
• Designed and Created Custom reports in FI, CCA and COPA using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Defined various reports. Through knowledge in Defining Costing Sheet and calculating Overhead.
• Implemented a Lean Cost Control Process in a Repetitive Manufacturing Environment to Improve System Performance.
• Releasing Production Orders, Confirming Operations, Simultaneous Costing, final Costing, Price Transfer / Update, Confirmation/ Settlement, and Period-End closing.
• Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost, special procurements and releasing of the new cost estimate.

Confidential, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business process workshops and presented new functionality with upgrade and provided requirements for the planned enhancements in the system.
• Analyzed the AS-IS, performed gap analysis and designed the TO-BE system.
• Worked with technical resources to design Interfaces and data Conversion Programs and developed functional specifications for information exchange in-between existing SAP legacy systems and SAP.
• Used Top-Down Distribution in CO-PA to Report Overhead Costs at Lower-Level Characteristics. Configured and Managed All Period-End Closing Activities with Schedule Manager. Worked and maintained Cost center standard hierarchy with cost center groups representing organizational structure of the company, representative cost centers for summarization.
• Configured Account determinations for different material movements and valuation classes. Actively involved in the configuration of Costing types, Valuation variants, Date Control and Transfer strategy for Material cost estimate with Quantity Structure.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, Result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its Settlements.
• Involved in the configuration of Valuation areas, Multiple Currency types and number ranges, Movement type groups, Material update structure in the Material Ledger.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) defined the Operating Concern and maintaining the controlling versions, configured the operating Concern and defined the attributes and the data structures. Configured the settings for implementation of Costing based profitability analysis.
• Configured the reporting characteristics from reference tables and field catalogue, and defined additional user defined characteristics to meet the different needs for reporting profitability.
• Created the value fields for the operating concern from field catalogue and also defined some user defined value fields.
• Activated the structure, created the core CO-PA tables (profitability segments) and generated the operating concern environment in the target client.
• Created the derivation for the user defined characteristics using the derivation table. The characteristic values for other user defined Characteristics were maintained by defining derivation structures and rules.
• Assigned values to value fields by mapping SD condition types to value fields after discussing the appropriate condition types to be used with the SD team. Also mapped the SD quantity fields to relevant CO-PA quantity fields.
• Configured the FI PA settlement structure including the assignment of responsible cost element and settlement structure line assignment to value fields.
• Configured Fixed Assets, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox and Automatic Payment Program.
• Defined structure for cost center to CO-PA assessments by creating an assessment cycle with assigning the profitability segment as the receiver value.
• Created CO-PA drilldown reports according to different profitability reporting.
• Configured derivation strategy for custom characteristics through table lookup and derivation rule.

Confidential, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Participated in full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 using ASAP Methodology.
• Configured new company codes, Inter-company code assignments & processing and Inter-company Transport Orders.
• Configured and Customized Internal Orders.
• Configured the system to handle various receivables scenarios (over, shorts, down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments etc.). Verified and Tested GL transactions for business process (fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals, etc).
• Integrating/Configuring Intercom any Processing, MM (Logistics), SD and HR Modules with FI and CO.
• Created Validation/Substitution Rules for AP/AR and CCA & PCA.
• Worked on chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers and balance-carry forwards and re-organized accounts for various cost and profit centers and Programmed schedules and jobs.
• Worked on Cross Company Code Configuration, Automatic Postings, Foreign Currency Valuation, and Multi Currency Configuration and Tax ware.
• Worked on Customer Master, House Banks, Payment Programs, Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box and had successfully configured Clearing to clearing open items in GL/AR/AP Modules.
• Configured Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Edging.
• Gap analysis of clients/sandboxes for further consistent testing and validated custom ABAP/4 programs to ensure delivery of expected results and interacted with end users to analyses testing issues and concerns subsequent to re-organization.
• Configured and Customized the Credit Management (Credit Control Area) to manage the receivables in association with SD team.
• Designed technical specifications for MIS reports. And also worked on preparing design specifications, maintaining and developing new programs; Integration, acceptance testing and Quality assurance; supported on technical documentation and end-user documentation and Courseware. Designed, developed and maintained reports with support from ABAP Team.
• Involved in post go live support and maintained the system.

Confidential, CA

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• As a production support member involved in solving the production issues, provided user training, Reviewed/Updated the Functional Design Documents for FI/CO developments
• Extensive support for GL, AP, AR, AA, CCA and other modules which include MM and SD.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of S
• Involved in solving the Production issues in Automatic Payment Program (AP), Account Assignment (AR), interest calculations on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes
• Setup the Gain/Loss accounts for exchange rate differences in vendor and customer payments and testing different production scenarios
• Set up the balance sheet adjustment accounts and exchange rate Gain/Loss accounts for Goods Receipt (GR), Invoice Receipt (IR) and Goods Issued (GI).
• System configuration in the areas of GL transactions, balance sheet reports, profit and loss, inter-company transactions, consolidation, automatic posting GL master records
• Worked with ABAP team members to solve the production issues in balance sheet and P&L reports
• Heavily involved in writing functional and technical specifications and worked closely with the technical personnel.

Confidential

SAP FICO Developer

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Developed a conversion program to read G/L balances from an excel file and Park the G/L document. The second level business user will review and post the document.
• Developed a custom program to automatically clear the GR/IR account via F-03 transaction. The customer has specific situation where the automatic clearing can’t be achieved through the SAP standard configuration.
• Configured the Workflow to automate the third party Invoice approval using the standard workflow template. Used Approval Strategy, Approval Paths to the account assignment and Amount approvals.
• Develop a customer exit using the enhancement GVTRS001 to execute the Balance carry forward for Secondary Cost Types
• Developed a customer exit using the enhancement FEB00001, to default the Business Area in Bank Statement postings.
• Developed a job summary report which brings data from tables in several Modules. This report gives details of estimated amounts of projects, Employee hours, Labor Amount, Open PO Amount, Billed Amount, and Vendor Actuals.
• Developed a custom report for Accounts Payable Aging report to show the vendor vise due amount in the buckets of 30 days, 31-60 days, 61-90 days and more than 90 days
• Direct margin Report: This report is used to display the Sales, COGS, Internal consumption and revenues by Channel.
• Used ALVs to display the Customer Return Order Analysis. This report displays all the Customer Returns by date. Based on the Reason code for Return, the corresponding action will be taken.
• Developed a BTE to send an Email Notification to Vendors on Wire and ACH payments with payment advice note as attachment

Confidential

Sr. SAP ABAP Developer

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities

• Analyzing the client’s requirements.
• Preparing the Object Development Documents- Technical Specification documents.
• Developing, Testing and Preparing UTPs
• Preparing user manuals
• Developed a customer exit to generate the purchase orders based on the regions. The first two digits of the generated Purchase orders are replaced by region code.
• Modified the form layouts for purchase order and Invoice to display the NBCU logo. Logo is uploaded into SAP and stored it as standard text.
• Uploaded the Purchase order and purchase order change details into Universal’s SAP system from NBC eBuy system using BAPI.
• Sent the response file back to NBC with purchase order numbers (if successfully created in SAP) and errors (if any data is missing while posting the purchase order).
• Uploaded the GR/GI documents into SAP system from eBuy using BAPI and Sent the response file back to NBC with material document numbers (if successfully posted in SAP) and errors (if any data is missing while posting the goods movement).
• Designed and developed an interface to upload the vendor master data from GSL into SAP using BDC session method
• Designed and developed an interface to send all the invoice details from SAP to ACS.
• Scheduling and Monitoring the background jobs

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Developer

Environment SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities

• Review of functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements (extensions), Forms, and Workflow (RICEFW) requirements in FICO stream for completeness from a functional requirement perspective
• Plan, Design, Architect and Implement technical solutions using the capabilities of SAP system in the areas of ABAP and Workflow to meet the business expectations
• Provide estimates on work level to design & build the RICEFW components as input to the project plan
• Develop technical specifications for RICEFW objects
• Document and perform unit, string, integration, and regression testing in support of new implementations and releases
• Designed and implemented Interfaces to send the ACH and WIRE payment advices to house bank. The SAP Standard IDOC PEXR2002 and Message type PAYEXT are used for this interface. Configured Partner profiles, Ports and RFC destinations.
• Designed and developed an interface to send Positive Pay File to house bank. This report is scheduled to run once a day to generate a positive pay file. The generated file will be written to application server from where it will be picked and send to bank by SAP XI.
• Developed an ABAP proxy to load the Bank Statements into SAP using the SAP standard transaction FF 5. This proxy gets triggered by XI whenever it receives a bank Statement File from bank.
• Designed and developed an interface to upload Bloomberg Exchange Rates into Global SAP system. Designed and implemented an ALE distribution model to distribute Bloomberg Exchange rates from Global Systems into all other Local and Regional SAP system.