SUMMARY

• Worked with Fortune 500 companies in the global Finance and Controlling implementations, countries include USA, Australia, Romania, Bulgaria and India. Good Consulting with team members with excellent communication, coaching and problem solving skills in vario
• us stages of Project life cycle from Requirement gathering to blueprint, from configuration to testing, from pre - go live activities to documentation and training and from go-live to Intensive care support phases successfully.
• Functional e xperience in implementing, configuring, customizing, integrating, testing, support and user training in SAP R/3 in FI/CO module.
• Strong leadership skills with an ability to lead team of consultants.
• Three full lifecycle SAP implementation project experience. Experience in multinational, multi currency and global template environments.
• Strong Experience in FI General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Reporting and information system.
• Experience in Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Order accounting, Product Cost Controlling and Profitability Analysis.
• Experience in period end closing activities, closing cockpit design and testing.
• Experience in Reporting tools such as Report Painter.
• Experience in project evaluation, business blue print documentation, customization, configuration and in-depth understanding of business processes relating to SAP Financials and controlling modules along with integration to MM, SD, PP, PS and PM modules.
• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills. Worked on multiple SAP finance implementations, streamlining business processes, design and configuration, testing and post-implementation support.
• Experience in writing functional specifications based on the business needs.
• Experience in developing end user testing and training materials

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Moline IL

SAP FICO Consultant SAP Implementation ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Working as a FICO Consultant for the Parts Next gen project implementation.
• Working very closely with the business users and the other implementation groups to support all relative production issues related to FI, CO, MM and SD.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations
• Involved in gathering the requirements in Finance and controlling modules interacting with Stakeholders and key business users and service providers.
• Documented requirements/meeting notes/decisions for signing off
• Configuration of SAP Financials General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and Internal order requirements
• Configuration of New GL Accounting, definition of ledger for GL Accounting, integrating the GL with subcomponents, document splitting, segmentation and parallel Accounting
• Created LSMW’s for General Ledger account uploads, vendor’s master data uploads, and cost center uploads.
• Creating/changes the Idoc’s- Creating and Processing New Idoc’s for Invoices and change the Idoc’s
• Configured all business transactions for AP and AR including the Automatic payment configuration, automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, periodic processing and correspondence.
• Maintained and created master data for vendors, general data, company data and purchasing data.
• Configured AP payment runs, Automatic payments, Tax, Manual payments, Check management, GR/IR clearing account maintenance (MIGO, MIRO and LIV) and Account maintenance documents.
• Configured the costing based COPA. Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules
• In COPA configured the flow of data from SD billing using SD-FI account assignment and assigning it cost elements in FI. Also configured flow of data from PS by assigning cost elements to value fields.
• Configured the integration between FI-SD to post billing documents to FI. Also worked on tax codes and condition types to FI and SD to identity the tax and posting it to FI.
• In FI-SD integration worked on revenue recognition to post revenue lines to FI and COPA.
• Working and trained super users on various different modules.
• Created ABAP query reports and Report Writer/Report Painter reports.
• On a regular basis scheduled meeting with business users on current implementation updates, training sessions, additional requirement approvals etc.
• On a regular basis performed current live system production support resolving all assigned issues.
• Created testing documentation, unit and integration test scenarios, performed testing activities, recorded results.
• Go-live and Post Go-Live support and Maintenance.

Confidential, North Ridge, CA

SAP FI/CO Lead Consultant R 2 R, Production Support and Roll-out

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business team in identifying the new requirements during the functional and technical upgrade.
• Worked with the Implementation team in creating business blueprint documentation, customizing and identifying the gap between the current/future business requirements and the current system functionalities and production support.
• Worked on full life cycle implementation of Asset Accounting (fixed asset, Asset management) and new GL.
• Structure complex strategic and analytical problems into an actionable plan; produce miscellaneous internal reports required for daily/monthly business functions.
• Mapped As-Is and To-Be processes for the client’s current business and worked in blue printing and implementation phases of the project, worked on CO-PA, Operating Concern, characteristics & value fields, derivation tables.
• Worked on NEW GL, additional ledger ( Leading and non leading ledger),parallel accounting, foreign currency valuation, segment, document splitting, accounting principle, transfer balance carry forward, Integration with other modules, Hard Currency configuration and reporting, migration plan, active and execute migration plan.
• Configured the Chart of Accounts, Account Groups in General Ledger and Reason Codes, Account Groups & Tolerance Groups for Vendors and Customers, vertex, Regrouped the G/L accounts into various account groups, validations and substitutions, exchange rates, currency translation, realized gain loss postings, exchange rate difference key.
• Configured and customized Asset Accounting by creating Chart of Depreciation and Account Determination, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Key and Calculation Method, Created physical assets in various modes of acquisition including legacy asset transfers, Customized screens for asset acquisition, Asset under Construction (AUC), Asset Retirement (scrapping) and Capitalization of Assets, Asset Fiscal Year Change, Yearend-Asset Closing
• Worked on P to P processes, assisted the end users in GR/IR mismatch issues, involved in FI-MM integration, movement types, purchase requisition/order and valuation class,experience with PO/NON-PO workflow
• Provided daily support for customizing issues, tickets and retraining end users for the various functions.
• Provided user friendly documentation and conducted end-user training sessions.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

SAP FICO Functional Analyst Functional Upgradation from 4.6 C to ECC 6

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and determined the organizational structure and current business process and provided business analysis in the form of a Blue Print and developed Blue print documents.
• Involved and supported in documenting all changes, revising the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Customized the implementation settings of CO Module based on the Business blue print
• Maintained Cost center master data Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers and assisted on issues involving activity types and account assignments
• Configured Profitability Analysis CO-PA included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures.
• Involved in analyzing and testing the business processes with the key-users. Tested the integration between CO/MM and SD Customization.
• Worked with testing and modifying test scripts and defects.
• Prepared end user training manuals
• Documented the changes and Conducted user training on the new functionality in the configuration of financial accounting including GL, AR, AP, Banking and controlling modules.
• Analyzed client's requirements for the new interfaces and prepared functional specifications for the new interfaces and created test sets for UAT.
• Training and documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble shooting.
• Trained the users of new functionality being added with version changes during the upgrade.
• Performed Unit testing to compare the balances of FI-GL, AP and AR
• Worked with users to analyze problems and proposed, developed, tested and ImplementedSAP Solutions using standard configuration as well as worked with ABAP programmers.
• Provided Production Support for the FI module - GL, AP and AR, Asset Accounting and for CO module - CEA, CCA, PCA, and CO-PA.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed research plans for data gathering and analysis to develop action plans for global roll out with integration
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for roll-out implementation and customizations
• Interfaced regularly with senior management to produce timely and valuable results for new implementation roll-out and Gap Analysis
• Presented Comparative Analysis Reports, Worked on work flow process, Prepared high quality work documentation to support findings and communicate results, Significant contributor towards business process re-engineering, Documenting Use Cases (Visio), Flowcharts, performing UAT and end-user training, production support.
• Worked on NEW GL additional ledger ( Leading and non leading ledger),parallel accounting, foreign currency valuation, segment, document splitting, accounting principle, transfer balance carry forward, Integration with other modules, Hard Currency configuration and reporting, migration plan, active and execute migration plan
• Defined Electronic Bank Statement, define acct symbol, assign acct to account symbol, posting rules, posting key, transaction type, assign external transaction type to posting rules, assign bank acct to transaction type
• Designed and Configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data, Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, payment advice
• Configured for One-time Vendors/Customers with a Separate Screen Layouts and Customers/Vendors who were Vendors/Customers respectively and Trading Partners,experience with PO/NOn-PO workflow
• Worked on CO-PA, Operating Concern, characteristics & value fields, derivation tables, basic CO configuration.
• Configured and customized Asset accounting (Fixed asset) module copied country specific chart of Depreciation and depreciation areas, defined asset classes, account determinations, screen layout key and allocate number ranges to assets classes and postings for various transactions of Assets.
• Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with FI
• Periodic Sales and Use Tax Reporting, related Month-end Financial Reports Customizing Interest Calculation Program
• Worked on Sol Man (Solution Manager) & Provide Post & Production support, Solve tickets, Enhancement, project testing interfacing, reviewing and documenting Test Plan, generating test cases, test reporting, test automation, test capacity and testing resource management and quality metrics.
• Worked on unit testing and system Integration testing of GL, AP, AR, CCA, IO and PCA Modules

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant SAP ECC 6 Implementation & Global Rollouts

Responsibilities:

• Gathered information and mapped SAP business processes to the client business requirements. Identified gaps between company business model and SAP processes.
• Designed research plans for data gathering and analysis to develop action plans for global roll out with integration for countries Romania and Bulgaria.
• Involved in gathering the requirements in Finance and controlling modules interacting with Stakeholders and key business users and service providers
• SAP New G/L: The Ledger Solution: Defined ledgers for various company codes as per legal reporting requirements. Assigned scenarios to leading and non-leading ledgers
• Spearheaded the deployment of Document Splitting. Designed logic for zero balanced - active splitting rules. and FI-AR & FI-AP business transactions
• Configured Cost Center Accounting: Standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, automatic account assignments, and overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Configured settlements, distribution cycles for actual cost distribution of IO. Corrected Entry Errors and Reposted Transactions.
• Customized the CO-PC module to analyze manufacturing costs at plants. Main duties included studying functional requirements, translating them into specifications and configuring Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling accordingly
• Set up period end activities like costing runs, Overhead calculation, Variance calculation, WIP calculations and settlement of production orders and product cost collectors.
• Assigned the primary cost elements to their respective cost centers in Cost Center Accounting. Used both periodic reposting and distribution cycles to allocate primary costs and used assessments cycle to allocate both primary and secondary costs
• In Profit Center Accounting, configured profit center structure, standard hierarchy, profit center Master Data, assigned different controlling objects to profit center accounting.
• Created Operating concern environment, defined various characteristics and value fields and defined different summarization levels to generate reports on different profitability segments from the data stored in CO-PA
• Worked on Reporting Tools used in Profit Center Accounting and defined Drilldown Reports
• Trained end-users on Material costing, Work-In-Process, Overhead calculation and Production Order settlement
• Interacted with fixed team members for better understanding of business process.
• Corrections made in the FICO configuration settings for different company codes as per the client’s requirement.
• Providing status to SME’s and IT Manager on a regular basis and as required
• Provided solutions for issues related to FI and CO.
• Worked on the configuration changes for the business processes related to Finance, Controlling, and Configured Validation and Substitution rules. and Trained the key users
• Simulated the scenarios for better understanding to end users.
• Worked closely with technical team to design and develop ABAP reports and enhancements. And also developed custom reports in controlling module using Report Painter

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant SAP FICO Implementatio

Responsibilities:

• Continuous interaction with client for definition and refinement of business processes.
• Customized the implementation settings of FI/CO Module based on the Business blue print
• Defined Enterprise structure
• Customized the settings for FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA and Bank Accounting Associated with Finance and Controlling Module implementation
• Created House banks settings and Bank reconciliation
• Created Financial Statement Version as per statutory requirements
• Involved in tax settings on sale and purchase as per the rates applicable for relevant items as per respective state and central acts
• Integrated with MM and SD consultants for configuring off-setting entries for initial stocks and other areas on the basis of movement types and valuation classes
• Maintained Controlling Area, Versions and Activating integrated Planning. Configured for Cost Center and Profit center accounting
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements & Groups
• Defined cycles for Distribution and Assessment Maintaining Master Data for Internal Order types and its components
• Created Master data for Cost centers, groups, Activity types and SKF.
• Maintained Operating Concern, Characteristics, Characteristics Values, Value fields, and their derivation strategy, valuation strategy.
• Customized planning customized different Hierarchies to get different regions in the same operating concern
• Prepared end user training execution at site with the relevant super users
• Teamed with super users/users (20) to facilitate classroom training sessions
• Follow up on questions and issues parked during training sessions
• Communicate training participation statistics to site coordinator
• Assist with pre Go-live site based cutover activities as necessary
• Act as site representative at daily support calls
• Understanding of relevant SAP modules and ability to learn and apply Godrej specific solution
• Involved in Integration process with other modules.
• Perform data Migration using BDC.
• Perform data reconciliation after loading to SAP
• Identify errors and communicate corrective actions
• Supported on FI integrations with MM and SD Modules. Checking assignments of relevant cost objects in particular materials to profit centers
• Provided Production Support for the FI module - GL, AP,AR, AA, and Bank Accounting and for CO module - CEA, CCA, PCA, and CO-PA