SUMMARY

• Enterprising and diligent consultant with expertise in SAP FICO implementation and support, excellent communication, analytical and client service skills looking for a challenging role as Senior SAP FICO Consultant with an organization that values professional excellence, innovation and best solution.
• Result oriented professional with 7 plus years of experience as an SAP FI/CO in Designing, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Testing, Document preparing, User training, Go - Live and Support in SAP R/3 FI/CO with 4 Full Life Cycle Implementations experience, upgrade and rollout experience.
• Strong communication skills and ability to stay on task and on points which are critical for project success.
• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts Payable (FI-A/P), Accounts Receivable (FI-A/R), Bank Accounting (FI-BA), Asset Accounting (FI-AA) & Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SPL) especially in highly Complex Business Environment.
• Controlling knowledge includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Experienced and knowledgeable of Integration of FICO with, MM, SD, PM, PP, PS.
• User Training on the processes and assistance in Developing End User Manual.
• Data Migration and Cut-over Activities: Extensive use of Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW). Involved with pre-go live activities and good rapport with ABAPers in providing guidance in uploading of legacy data, developing customized reports, etc.
• Strong Problem Solving and Analytical skills and abilities to make Balanced & Independent Decisions.
• Good Team Player, Self Starter, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills combined with Self-Motivation, Initiative and Project Management Attributes.
• General Ledger: Account Groups, GL Master Records, Field Status Groups, Inter-company automatic account posting, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Sample Accounts, Accruals & Deferrals, Sample & Recurring Documents, Parking Document, Hold Document
• New G/L: Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, Ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, Periodic Processing and Segment Reporting.
• Accounts Payable: Vendor Master Data, Vendor Account Group, Automatic Payment Program Configuration, House Bank, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Payment Terms, Payment Methods, Invoices, Credit Memos, Down Payments, Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), GR/IR account maintenance, Electronic Payment implementation.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer Master Data, Customer Account Group, Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open Item Clearing, A/R aging, Dunning Procedure, Terms of Payment, partial payments, Residual payments, Outgoing Invoices, Incoming Payments, Integration with SD.
• Fixed Assets: Chart of Depreciation, Defining Assets class, Account determination, Creation and Retirement of assets, In-house creation of Assets, Depreciation run.
• Controlling: Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profitability analysis CO-PA, Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA, Profit center Accounting EC-PCA and Product costing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full project life cycle implementations of replacement of Coned previous methodology of paying vendors by check with electronic payments (ACH and EFT) With the approval workflow using the ASAP road map.
• This change piloted with +20 vendors per file and later on encompassed the majority of vendors for all three banks currently in use by CONED.
• As a key client personnel, and part of the core team, involved in various stages of project change management and organizational dynamics and involved in delivering and gathering business requirements.
• Conducted the kick-off meeting and created the Blue Print of the project and presented to the Steering Comity and key users and got the approval.
• Responsible for writing the functional spec for the E-Payment approval process Workflow and the ACH and EFT formats of the BANK as well as the Vendor Notification via E-mail and assisted with the off-shore team in development of the Custom objects and Workflow.
• Worked with ABAPers in resolving the issues using BAPI and BTE in order to generate the Workflow work item and Vendor Notification E-mail content.
• Extensively created the customized SAP Scripts (Smart forms) to generate the Payment advice.
• Worked on different payment mediums like SAP’s standard RFFO* programs as well as the Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) and also DMEE, to generating Data Medium (DME) files.
• Performed the realization built with the new changes like creation of the new document type and assigned the new number ranges for them, creation of new payment methods and defining the bank determinations and creation of new variant templates for ACH and EFT Payments.
• Configuration of new rules for Electronic Bank Statement (EBS - BAI) for daily reconciliation of Bank accounts.
• Performed the Unit and Integration testing and UAT with the key business users.
• Responsible for the master data changes in order to populate and update the Vendor master records based on the new requirements like Vendor E-mail address, Vendor Bank account and Bank Key or routing number using Win-shuttle Template.
• Created the training material of the change and conducted the end user training sessions.
• Identified the cut-over Activities and performed Pre Go-live and Go-live activities.
• Responsible for the production support after go-Live.

Confidential, Marietta, OH

SAP CO - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full project life cycle implementations using SAP Best Practice of Load One Solutions for Mining, for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC.
• Was involved in Pre-project planning activities and gave introduction to SAP FICO to the client and performed requirement gathering.
• Responsible for Best Practice Adoption phase (i.e. pre-defined Blueprinting phase of Load One Solution) and identified the fit and gaps with the client and documented them.
• Assisted business leads in finalizing the Organization structure and Chart of Accounts.
• Finalizing and creation of Cost Centre & Profit Centre standard hierarchies, And Creation of them in SAP and transferring then via transports.
• Configured the automatic creation of the Co-cost & Revenue Elements and created the Allocation structure for Internal Order Settlement.
• Transferring of master data using Win-Shuttle by creating different master data templates.
• Came up & provided the solution to settle the Internal Ro-tables settlement to Refurbished material via production Order.
• Conducted sessions on Standard cost Accounting and identifying Product Costing (CO-PC) requirements and configuration and testing of Make-To-Stock Scenarios, and user training.
• Identifying the RICEF objects and writing of Functional Specifications and assisting Developers in finding the Tables and Table fields.
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and assisted In User Acceptance Training (UAT) Test cases and documented them.
• Creation of Training Document to business users for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC. And provided training and assisted them in running the allocation at month end and other month end activities.
• Has performed creation of Business Process documents and excessive use of Visio in order to create the process flows for User Training and workshops.
• Integration of FICO with SD, MM, PP, & PM modules in a complex business environment.
• Identified the cut-over Activities and performed Pre Go-live and Go-live and provided the SAP Application Management Services (AMS) support using Solution Manager.
• Exclusively used the Microsoft Share-Point.

Confidential, Whitehouse Station, NJ

SAP FI/CO Source to Settle (S2S / P2P) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible For Configuration & Implementation Of SAP ECC 6.0 FI/CO and NEW GL with Document Splitting Functionality for Canada, Spain and Italy.
• Worked on Accounts Payable (AP) module including creation of Vendor Master Records, default account assignments, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, check management, special G/L transactions defining tolerance groups, check management for the new transactions.
• Integrated Account Payable (AP) and Account Receivable (AR) modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account Determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings
• Maintained Depreciation Keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Depreciation Areas.
• Successfully configured Asset Master Data creation, Asset Classes, Depreciation Run and Integration of Asset with GL.
• General Ledger Accounting: Configuration of G/L account groups and master records, posting key groups, Setting up of posting amount defaults and tolerance groups, setting up document types and assigning them to number ranges for different transactions.
• Creation of Training Document to Run AR/AP Regrouping and Foreign Exchange Revaluation.
• Reconfigured Profit Centre Accounting To Prepare Financial Statements Based On Product Lines.
• Configuration of CO-PA costing bases and accounts bases analysis, Created CO-PA master data, PA settlement structures, CO-PA planning / profile / layout.
• Supported the implementation and configuration of SAP Controlling and Project Systems (CO/PS) module of SAP.
• Assisted in Month-End & Year-End Close Operations & Balances Carry Forward To Various Ledgers and new Fiscal Year.
• Performed the Lead role as Source to Settle (P2P) support processes of the Global implementation.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

SAP FI/CO Consultant ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the As-Is study and modeled the To-Be Process.
• Gathered information and mapped SAP business processes to the client business requirements.
• Identified gaps between company business model and SAP processes through Fit-Gap Analysis.
• Gathered business requirements through client meetings and designed the New G/L, AP and AR, FA business processes and involved in writing the Functional specifications.
• Gathering detailed requirements from business users for level 3 support work, approved projects and medium to complex enhancements to existing SAP FICO configuration or development objects.
• Created bank master data. Configured house banks and bank accounts.
• Configured the automatic payment program.
• Configured lockbox with BAI format and compared the hit rate on daily basis.
• ‘’Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined separate screen layout for them.
• Worked on Logistic invoice verification.
• Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables including the payment program configuration, check payment advice, payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, Periodic processing and correspondence.
• Performs unit tests and other tests as needed and works with end users on User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Helped the training team to develop training material and documented the daily activities.
• Documented end user manuals for G/L, AP, AR and Fixed Asset modules at all phases from project preparation to go-live including project systems business process procedures.
• Unit of Production (Fixed Assets): Confidential wanted to capitalize assets based on the Unit of Production. This involved in creation of Depreciation Key and a Depreciation Method.
• Amortization Project: Confidential provides Tooling Equipment for manufacturing Car Parts to Supplier. To track the assets, payments made for these assets and to account the Inventory / parts supplied, we have designed a process with MM integration. This Project involves customization of Asset Class, creation of Condition Type and Custom Reports.
• Involved as a team member in configuring controlling area, Profitability Analysis, Cost Element Analysis, Cost Center Accounting and Product Costing.
• Responsible for Profit Center Accounting (PCA), created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, defined Document Types, Number Range Assignment, PCA planning Parameters.
• Involved in Creating Internal Orders, assigned the costs related to that internal order from different cost centers. Detailed configuration of overhead keys, costing sheets and Complete Cost Component Structure, in Product Cost Planning.
• Responsible for configuring costing based CO-PA, configured valuation using Product Costing (PC) and costing sheet.
• Designed and developed contribution Margin Reports in COPA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Involved in Production Support after Go-Live.

Confidential, Houston TX

SAP FI/CO Consultant ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• FI/CO Team Production support for FI and CO including GL, AR, AP, AA and EC-CS.
• Maintain on-going configuration of the installed SAP R/3 modules, and application support for new SAP R/3 projects. Review and analyze FICO business requirements and provide technical and functional specifications for these requirements.
• Offshore support project for fourteen Asia & Pacific countries.
• 24X7 support project covering the application areas of Contract Administration, Products & Pricing, Finance, HP Managed Services (Controlling) and Non-accounting interfaces.
• Providing support for multiple customers at one time irrespective of their level to help them perform the SAP transactions easily & smoothly.
• Complete Comprehensive Knowledge Transfer & Document K/T.
• Resolution of Problems through tickets
• Preparation of Design Specification as per the System Requirements
• Prepared product cost flow diagrams (CO).
• Prepared flow charts for planning and controlling internally.
• Instructing, Training & helping the users of all the departments to understand the process flow and learn the SAP transactions to perform their corresponding operations.
• Proactive troubleshooter with understanding of the gaps between Business Processes and provide solutions within the structured development cycle
• Experienced in developing interfaces using IDOC in SAP R/3.
• Assisting in Period end closing, peculiar business situations, and generating exceptional reports.
• Involved in Supporting the entire Global implementation effort of project structures, Grouping, Pegging and Distribution, project accounting, result analysis during all project stages.
• Coordinating with the other team members for the solutions, enhancements and log processing & business rules for post go live support.
• Figuring out the relevant documentation to all the users so they get used to solve the problems on their own in future.
• Interface to the customer for ticket status, escalations.
• Respond to end-user questions on a timely basis and Support the Team Leads on any ongoing knowledge transfer to end-users in Production Costing (PC).
• Provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination, material movement setup.
• Conducted in house training for the project team members on FICO functionality.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed gap analysis between 4.6C and ECC 6.0 systems to analyze the functional changes or business processes affected by upgrade.
• Performed table comparisons for major General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Project Systems and customizing tables to list the differences between 4.6C and ECC 6.0 systems.
• Configured the basic credit management settings for OTC team for Credit check and post goods issue.
• Defined order type to create orders, assigned each order type to a number range and defined users.
• Assigned the tax procedure to the country, define tax structure for jurisdiction code as per the upgrade.
• Configured GL account group to make profit centre mandatory and applied a user exit to get the reconciliation ledger postings into PCA.
• Configured the document splitting for controlling as per the business requirements.
• Worked on the configuration changes for the business processes related to Finance, Controlling and required as per the upgrade to ECC 6.0.
• Coordinated migration of production data planning and reconciliation into NEW GL using SAP Migration Cockpit.
• Defined the company code global parameters by assigning the already existing chart of accounts, fiscal year variant and credit control area.
• Activated document splitting functionality by defining the document split method with business transaction and variant. The business transaction was defined with different accounting transactions and item categories.
• Worked on Cost Center Accounting (CCA) including cost centers, activity types, cost center categories, document numbers, cost center standard hierarchy etc.
• In Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), maintained the basic settings, master data for profit centers, profit center groups, dummy profit center, planning, actual postings and period end closing.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing for all business processes related to General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, and Project Systems.
• Prepared and changed the documentation as required by the upgrade to ECC 6.0.
• Trained the end users and prepared training documents on using new ECC 6.0 system.