Professional Summary

• 8 years of strong SAP functional experience on Financial Accounting and Controlling FI/CO with profound understanding of business processes, technology and implementation methodologies with project experience in all phases Requirement gathering, Scope management, Process analysis, Gap analysis, Business blue print, Realization, Testing, Go-live preparation, Go-live, Post live support and Training.
• Excellent ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Empowered to evaluate profitability of projects and ensure financial aspects of business are properly handled. Strong understanding of business workflow, technology, project planning duration of project, budget estimates, resources, tasks and change management issues etc and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions
• Participated in 4 full SAP R/3 Implementation Life Cycle using ASAP Solution Manager Methodology through all phases from Project Preparation, Biz Blueprint, Realization, and Finalization up to Go Live and Support stage. Also involved in upgrade.
• Documented functional specifications BPML , Analysis of AS-IS, Redesigning business processes TO-BE, Integration Testing, Trouble Tickets, Documentation and User training in FI, CO and SD, MM OTC/PTP modules.
• Configuration of Functional Areas: General Ledger accounting FI-GL , Closing and Reporting of Business Area, Postings, Preparation for consolidation, Accounts Receivable FI AR , Accounts payable FI AP , Bank Accounting FI BL , Asset Accounting FI AA .
• Documented test scenarios and test scripts.
• Facilitated cut over process during GO LIVE.
• Experienced in Financial Analysis, G/L Accounting, Credit Management and Tax Processes for Sales/Purchase and Dunning Procedures.
• Worked on FI-AR/AP, Organization Management OM workflows using Org. Unit, Job, Task and work Centre.
• Designing Configuration for CCA, PCA, CO-PA.

SAP Configuration Skills:

• FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business areas, functional areas, and sales and use tax.
• General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Financial Statement Versions.
• Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, AP information system, integration with MM.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, account systems, credit management, cash discounts, closing operations, sales order and integration with SD.
• Asset Accounting: Configuring Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Unplanned Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Posting, Acquisition and Retirement of Assets, Assets under Construction and Capitalization of Assets.
• Product Costing: Configuring overhead, costing sheet, cost component structure, valuation variant, costing variant and made assignments, material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, performing costing run.
• Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting CCA : Configuring and Customizing the cost elements, costing sheets, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy, cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, master data groups, validations and substitutions, assessments, distributions and Reposting, allocation cycle and segment. Cost Center Planning including defining versions, planning layouts, planner profiles and activity planning
• Internal Orders IO : Configuring and Customizing internal orders, order types, screen layout, status management, order groups, substitution rules, commitments, overhead costing sheets, settlement profiles, planning, budget management and availability control.
• Profit Center Accounting PCA : Planning, profit center, revenue elements, sales order, material master assignment, control parameters and integration with SD.
• Profitability Analysis COPA : Cost based COPA, Planning, operating concern, characteristic derivation, reports on profitability analysis.
• EC-CS: Enterprise controlling and Consolidation systems, consolidation of chart of accounts for multiple company codes, reclassifications and report painter reporting.
• Financial Statements: Financial closing of GL, accruals and deferrals for revenues and expenses, GR/IR accounts, cost of sales accounting, cost of goods sold accounting, financial statement creation.

Confidential

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Functional Areas: General Ledger accounting FI-GL , Closing and Reporting of Business Area, Postings, Preparation for consolidation, Accounts Receivable FI AR , Accounts payable FI AP , Bank Accounting FI BL , Asset Accounting FI AA .
• Involved in resolving various G/L, A/P, A/R, SL Special ledger accounts.
• Managed all of the financial objects that need to be converted from the existing legacy legal objects and G/L account numbers to the G/L account numbers, cost centers, cost elements.
• Defined and Configured Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.
• Open item interfaces for multiple SAP systems and legacy systems.
• Accounts Receivable Customer master data validation and mapping for bank remittances reconciliation.
• GL Vendor reconciliation account setup.
• Centralized trade vendor and accounting vendor and customer master data broadcasting and mapping.
• Data migration analysis and mapping for Account Payable/Accounts Receivable processes.
• Company code Split Document split for invoice posting with reference to specific cost centers.
• Configuring Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Unplanned Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Posting, Acquisition and Retirement of Assets, Assets under Construction and Capitalization of Assets.
• Maintained Derivative rules T-code: KEDR and Value fields in COPA.
• Created Characteristics and Value fields. Generated the Operating Concern.
• Assigned GL accounts in account determination T-code: OBYC-Integration with MM
• Analyzed the flow of actual values for MM, SD in CO/PA.
• Cost Center Accounting CCA , Created cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, reconciliation ledgers, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and maintained Cost Elements Attributes
• Set up Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Hierarchy, Created Cost Center Categories, Cost Center, Profit Center, Activity Types, and Statistical Key Figures
• Worked closely in areas of Profit Center Accounting PCA such as Planning, profit center, revenue elements, sales order, material master assignment, control parameters and integration with SD.
• Involved extensively in Profitability Analysis COPA operations of Cost based COPA, Planning, operating concern, characteristic derivation, reports on profitability analysis
• Documented the Processes, Changes and Trained The End Users
• Expertise in solution manager, HP Quality Center.
• Streamlined asset capitalization process for better tracking of budgets.
• Responsible for the knowledge transfer to the user community of all aspects relating to the configuration and daily use of the SAP Fixed Assets sub module.
• Assisted with loading of the Assets from Legacy System to new SAP environment.
• Worked on integration of FI-SD, FI-PP and FI-MM
• Integration of Fixed Assets, FI, Internal Orders.
• Created new depreciation Keys, Transaction types, Period controls to facilitate the value change for book purpose.
• Actively involved in design, configuration and testing of asset Management Module.
• Conducted user training session in a group environment as well as one on one basis.
• Wrote functional specifications for extracting data from ECC.

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained Chart of Accounts, Customized Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Created G/L Account master records
• Interacted with client to update and group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas
• Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customer and vendors
• Configured Accounts Payable items such as Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, AP information system, integration with MM.
• Configured Accounts Receivable items such as Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, account systems, credit management, cash discounts, closing operations, sales order and integration with SD.
• Configuring Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Unplanned Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Posting, Acquisition and Retirement of Assets, Assets under Construction and Capitalization of Assets.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, and Posting Rules for automatic assignments
• Configured Payment Program such as Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment methods, Wire Transfer Settings and ACH payments
• Configured and Customized the Credit Control Area
• Worked with team members for Automatic Account Determination of Sales / Use Tax, Inter-Company, MM and SD Account Assignments
• Performed unit testing and integration testing of MM with Account Payable and SD with Account Receivable
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and maintained Cost Elements Attributes
• Set up Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Hierarchy, Created Cost Center Categories, Cost Center, Profit Center, Activity Types, and Statistical Key Figures
• Worked closely in areas of Profit Center Accounting PCA such as Planning, profit center, revenue elements, sales order, material master assignment, control parameters and integration with SD.
• Involved extensively in Profitability Analysis COPA operations of Cost based COPA, Planning, operating concern, characteristic derivation, reports on profitability analysis
• Documented the Processes, Changes and Trained The End Users

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Based on As-Is analysis and functional requirements, SAP reference business processes are modeled to suit client's requirements, using SAP Reference Model. To be processes were designed in terms of Process view, component view, functional view, information view and organizational view.
• Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, Open and close posting periods and created G/L Account master records.
• Accounts payable/receivable: Configuration of Master data, business transactions, dunning/payment processes in AR/AP. Worked on Lock box configuration for accounts receivables. Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification.
• Fixed Asset Accounting: Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required for Fixed Asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc.
• Cost Center /Profit Center Accounting: Defined standard hierarchy for cost center accounting, Designed automatic account assignments, Assigned profit centers to cost center, created primary amp secondary cost elements.
• Integration: Assigned G/L accounts for the predefined processes for integration with AM AA , SD and MM modules. In SD integration worked on automatic account assignment.
• Closing of accounts Created GR/IR clearing accounts, Individual value adjustments, posting of periodic accrual and deferral expenses and revenues and Carry forward of Balances.
• Prepared training material and gave end user training to the process owners in GL, AR, AP, and CO as well as to core team members and also maintained detailed documentation.
• Integration of FI-MM involved creating automatic account assignment, logistic invoice verification. Involved in creation of purchase order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Receipt before making the payment in FI.

• Integrated FI with Cost Center Controlling module, and MM. Customized the Controlling Area and Operating Concern.

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Blueprint and Realization in the Implementation and interfaces of SAP with Oracle interfaces. Worked with the process owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend solutions and system improvements, and conduct unit testing and validation of process. Reviewed the Business processes and compatibility of the SAP system with the present business as a part of SAP Implementation Scoping. Conducted Knowledge transfer workshops SAP-FICO , interviews with Super users, realization and Go-Live.
• Worked closely with process streams in raising FITGAPs and suggested best business practices.
• Responsible for working with Business Systems Analysts to define, construct, test, document, and deploy common processes across multiple business units.
• Involved in configuration of Accounts Payable FI-AP , Accounts receivables FI-AR , Cost Center accounting SAP-CCA , Profit center accounting SAP-PCA , Assessment and distribution cycles and Settlements. Supported the FI team in setting up the SAP-GL accounts Record to report areas , and in other SAP-FI modules like SAP- AP Accounts Payable , SAP-AR Accounts receivable , and Asset account
• Worked with interfaces like SAP-Business Warehousing and integration planning SAP-BW and other Legacy systems. Involved in US-Localization, Unit testing Functional unit testing, Cycle testing I and II and provided test scripts. In SAP-AP Accounts payable , Configured the vendor master data, payment methods and limits of payments. Tested to end to end business processes in Accounts payable including bank file transfer testing. Documented all the changes including OSS notes applied in the business and their corresponding changes in SAP along with best solutions. Used Solution Manager

Confidential

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created the Company and Company Codes
• Configured the Chart of Accounts, Account Groups in General Ledger and Reason Codes
• Defined and Assigned Document Number Ranges
• Defined Account Groups and Tolerance Groups for Vendors and Customers.
• Interacted with Client to Create and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data, Define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas
• Customized Line Layouts for GL, AP, and AR data entry and Report Displays
• Designed and Configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable
• Cost Center Accounting Master Data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting
• Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with FI
• Periodic Sales and Use Tax Reporting, and related Month-end Financial Reports Customizing Interest Calculation Program
• Configured for One-time Vendors/Customers with a Separate Screen Layouts and Customers/Vendors who were Vendors/Customers respectively and Trading Partners