SUMMARY

• More than 8 years of experience in implementing SAP with an emphasis on FI/CO modules, this includes 2 full life cycle implementations, 1 Roll out Project and hands on experience in support and up - gradation projects.
• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Special Purpose Ledger(SPL) Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA), New General Ledger especially in highly complex business environment.
• Hands on experience in allphases of a Project Life CycleIncluding Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment of Solutions, as well as Documentation, and End-User Training.
• Expertise in different aspects of a business relating to FI-GL Transactions, Inter Company Transactions, House Banks, DME, Payment Terms, Cash Discounts, Automatic Payment Programs, Incoming payments, Partial and Residual payments, Defined check Lots and Void reason codes, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI2), Dunning, and Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Hands on experience in up gradation from 4.7 to ECC 6.0. Expert in data migration from Classic GL to New GL
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects ofRTR (Record to Report), PTP (Procure to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash).
• Ability to work as a SAP techno-functional consultant with sound knowledge in ABAP Queries and Reporting Tools: Report Painter and Report Writer, User-exit programming and LSMW.
• Possess extensive knowledge in configuring sample document, Recurring entries, Automatic Account Determinations, Customer and Vendor down payment, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, Interest calculation, Automatic clearing (Customer, vendor, GL), Company code global parameters.
• In Tax accounting, creation of Input and output tax General Ledger accounts, setting up different tax codes in various countries and assigning them to GL accounts. Resolving user queries in Tax posting journal entries.
• Sound knowledge of configuring taxes for tax procedures TAXUSJ and TAXUSX
• Controlling expertise includes Cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost center accounting (CO-CCA), Statistical key figures (SKF), Profit center accounting (CO-PCA), Internal orders (I/O) and Budgeting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Experience in Integration ofProductCostingandMaterialLedgertoSAPProfitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Hands on experience in configuring e-invoicing in SAP and prepared training materials for end users.
• Experience in process invoices automatically with ReadSoft invoice cockpit.
• Manage testing resources, test case sequencing, gathering of required test data files and other test coordination activities.
• Business requirement collection, Industry Solutions (IS), ERP project analysis, process design, blue print, GAP analysis, Q & A database, design, upgrade, Reports, conversions, Interfaces, enhancements, Go-Live and Support and train user staff.
• Can lead others by enabling them to achieve and develop while successfully delivering within theproject environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.
• Ability to take on challenges and strong determination towards meeting deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 Version 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP: Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Lockbox, Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Automatic payment program, Customer and vendor down payment, Dunning, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, and Month End Close. Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal order, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing. Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM module, HR & AP integration. Technical: LSMW, ECATTS, Report Writer, Implementation: ASAP Methodology.

Application: MS Word, MS Access, PowerPoint, Excel

Platforms: Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0/8.0/10

Testing: HPQC, QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

SAP FI Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured Ariba e-invoicing solution and integrated to Readsoft in SAP Process director.
• Responsible for understanding the company's business process and gathering the test requirements with the process owners.
• Involved in testing of the overall business process of P2P & integration.
• Resolve errors and mismatch items in ReadSoft with compare to original PO and SRM invoices.
• Involved in the gathering the initial requirements from the end users and coordinated with the offshore team.
• Trained key users regarding the complete process of E-invoicing such as how to upload invoices through Bill Manager, matching invoices and sending workflow in ReadSoft invoice cockpit.
• For each vendor ensure that master data is updated with Fiscal ID, bank account details, alternative payee, and partner function.
• Tested Outbound and Inbound Idocs. Involved in end-to-end testing of all inbound and outbound processes.
• Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying Routines and Sub-routines during sales order creation for Credit checks for different customer risk categories and Pricing Conditions.
• Worked closely with MM consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO (goods receipt).
• Analyzed Product Requirements, Business and System Requirements and Participated in the inspection (walk through).
• Trained end users how to use work cycle to communicate work flow messages, approving workflow and updating workflow status.
• Tested the functionality of Incoming and Outgoing Payments. Automatic vendor/customer payments, payments proposal creation and validate the result.
• Have provided on call support executed the Test Cases Manually and reported the defects to Developers.
• Created and documented test plans and Generated test scripts and test data for functional and regression testing, Unit testing & UAT.

Confidential, MA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP, AR, G/L, Treasury - Liquidity Forecast & Cash Management, Disputes, Collections, Month End Closing, Special G/L & ERS. Reported weekly on support ticket numbers and solution turnover time
• Defined Costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation).
• Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Created Internal Orders for different order types, Planning profile, Settlement Profile, Settlement Rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.
• Worked on Activity type planning, Budgeting, planning statically key figures, Cost Element planning, plan distribution, Internal Activity planning, plan assessment, activity input planning, indirect activity allocation and plan reconciliation.
• Helped in configuring necessary changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts including modification of COPA user exits, and creation of new field status groups.
• Designed and developed contribution margin reports in CO-PA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Used FSCM to employ tools to analyze credit worthiness and establish policies. Enabled customer access to invoices, account status and payment information over the internet.
• Configured Standard Cost estimates in Cost object controlling for the orders with Quantity Structure and Configure for WIP Calculations and variance calculations, maintained settlement
• Maintained Lockbox configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management, Planning levels in Treasury and EDI & Month End Closings.
• Provided support for Configuration, Implementation and Testing of the customer master records and incoming payments, Banking & Intercompany transactions.
• Provided End -User training and prepared Documentation for the end-users.

Confidential, IL

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Production Support in Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) & Asset Accounting (AA) and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to FI, AP, AR, PCA, CCA, CO-PA and CO-PC.
• Documented blue-prints for new company code and configured the system for implementation of CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-PC; responsible updating for Finance Work plan for new company code.
• Made changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts; also includes modification of COPA user exits and creation of new field status groups. Involved in yearend closing operations for FI, CO and AA; also responsible for opening and closing for MM and FI monthly periods for postings.
• Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying Routines and Sub-routines during sales order creation for Credit checks for different customer risk categories and Pricing Conditions.
• Presented Order to Cash/Procure to Pay business scenario in highlighting FI integration with SD and MM
• Coordinate and document global and regional SAP Cutover requirements and cross-team dependencies across.
• Working with end users to explain Average Costing, Intercompany Transactions, Payment Medium Workbench (PMW), Special ledger functionality and itemize differences between the old functionality and new functionality.
• Involved in Migration of data from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of migration cockpit.
• Interaction with user and client to understand there requirement and concern over the existing system to identify system improvement points.
• Creation of Asset Classes, Asset Number Ranges, Account Determination, and related settings.
• Configured new Asset Classes as per user request, resolved month end and year-end issues for Asset Accounting, balance carries forward for FI- AA reconciliation, supplied transactional data from SAP tables for Asset Audit, Period Rules creation in different company codes and resolved Asset Issues.
• Experience in creating business transaction type and an item type to handle VAT. Configuration forWithholding Taxes1099FederalandStateTaxreporting and1042Foreign Vendor/ Non-Employee Reporting.
• Configuration forWithholding Taxes1099FederalandStateTaxreporting and1042Foreign Vendor/ Non-Employee Reporting.
• Assist in the implementation of Vertex Returns Software and Vertex Reporting and Analysis. Also, assist in the setup of LCR Dixon Tax Software for consumer’s tax
• Assisted Tax department in customization ofVertex Sales by TermTutor">Tax Returns (STR)towards auditor andIRS requirements.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training (Job-Aid) and (Modified design after feedback from users to suit their requirements) GO LIVE.
• Involved in the preparation of Global blue template business print, designing & configuring the various R2R processes.
• Configured Company codes, Chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Tolerance limits, financial statement version, G/L accounts for company codes, business area, functional area, currency type, AR, AP, EDI, Banking, Workflow variant and screen layouts.
• Using DART to periodically extract and retain tax relevant data from active SAP applications.
• Responsible for configuration & settings of ERS to reduce errors relating to Invoice Verification and to eliminate price & quantity variances.
• Worked on 1099 vendors reporting, Down payment, check form and EDI outbound and inbound
• Maintained various criteria’s in the Evaluated Receipt Settlement program - Transaction Criteria, Invoice Criteria & Test Mode.
• Created contribution margin and user defined profitability reports using reporting tools like Report Writer & Report Painter and conducted ABAP queries as and when needed and trained users for the same. Also worked on LSMW for data migration.
• Configured House bank, Bank determination and set tolerances limits, scheduled Automatic Payment Program for payments to vendors and others, created check lots and online-cashed checks. Configured Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Defined Controlling areas within the company, assigned number ranges to controlling area, maintained versions, maintained Budget Profile, Planning Profile and Planning Versions in controlling, created various Cost center and Profit center hierarchies, CO object assignments, Substitution and Validations.
• Configured Primary & Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups and Assigned Number ranges to groups, configured Automatic and Manual cost element creation.
• Configured CCA through creation of Cost Centers, Activity Types, Cost Center Categories, Statistical Key Figures, Assessments & Distributions cycles and Allocations for periodic reposting, Planned and Actual activity price calculations.
• Configured EC-PCA by creating Profit centers, Standard hierarchies, assigned revenue elements, to profit center, planning profile and planning layouts.
• Defined Internal Order for different order types, maintained Settlement profile and Settlement structure. Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders. Defined settlement profile, settlement structure, settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements.
• Modified the copied template operating concern to accommodate client requirements with new characteristics and value fields. Defined derivation structures and rules for customer characteristics.
• Configured Operating concern attributes and the COPA Settlement Structure with the settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Over head (percentage based over head calculation).
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Configured production order as a cost object to collect actual costs, plan costs and determine WIP at the end of every period, variance calculation after the order technically completed.
• Customized Period end closing functions including overhead costing, interest calculation and result analysis and settlement procedures.
• Assigned value fields to condition types in MM and SD, performed integration of FI/CO with SD, MM & PP, account assignments and used COPA to report profitability by customer, product, and market.

Confidential, Boise, ID

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document.
• Designing business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP - Finance (FI) and controlling (CO) modules.
• Configured the settings of Enterprise Structure, Company code global setting Account Groups, Retained Earnings Accounts, Field Status Variant, Tolerance Groups and Posting Period Variant and set up financial statement variant..
• Experienced in activating of New G/L and Leading Ledger with creation of Segments and assigning Scenarios and Customer Fields in the Parallel Ledgers, Document splitting, parallel accounting, parallel currency, Real Time FICO integration.
• Designed and configured a foreign payments strategy executed by the parent company on behalf of its subsidiaries using SAP In-House Cash (IHC) module.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for checks, and outgoing payments in Accounts
• Configured Lockbox setup defined control parameters for BAI2 file import, for handling incoming payments from customers and worked on Special GL transactions like Down Payments.
• Configured Dunning, Interest calculation, foreign currency valuation.
• Involved in yearend closing book and helped to resolved inconsistency in closing and opening book.
• Configured chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas and depreciation key.
• Preparation and presentation of extensive financial analysis for the annual planning and budgeting exercise for the bank along with variance analysis for the same.
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools
• Involved in the Configuration of Controlling areas, Company code assignment to Controlling Areas, creation and assigning of number ranges for Controlling Areas, Version maintenance for controlling areas and statistical key figure (SKF)
• In Cost Element Accounting, created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintain Cost Element Attributes and performed unit and system testing.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) maintained Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers. Developed for cycles, segments cost center distributions and assessment.
• In Profit Center Accounting (PCA) maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups etc. and extracted reports using PCA.
• In Internal Orders (CO-IO) configured various internal order types, Defined settlement profile, settlement structure, settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements. Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders, set up tolerances for budget cost and also Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Created BPP (Business process procedure)’s for end users and conducted end user training.
• Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using report painter.
• Provided Post-Go-Live support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment, and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users.

Confidential, CA

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Testing and troubleshooting that the live production sites encountered.
• Creation of User Scenarios for UAT, which defined what action users can take and what result are expected and to test whether the desired results are achieved.
• Testing of functional issues before fixing them and moving to production.
• Analyzed to various business process of different functional modules like FI, SD and MM.
• Tested various sub modules of FI: Accounts payable (FI-AP), Accounts receivables (FI-AR), GL.
• In Asset accounting, supported fixed assets team. Changes in the configuration of depreciation areas and loading of additional assets into SAP system.
• Resolved issues regarding the foreign currency valuation by configuring the conversion ratios for parallel currencies.
• Involved in detailed testing of Invoice verification.
• Worked directly with the end users, conducted various presentations and provided solutions to meet client specifications.
• In FI perform financial verification on inter/intra company transactions.
• Defined the process of credit management to set the credit limit for customer group.
• Automated GR/IR process of clearing the accounts, which has the assignment of goods, receipts to the corresponding invoice receipts used in the purchase order number.
• Trained users at various levels for document entry with concepts like Reversal documents, hold documents, parking documents, reference documents, editing and document entry screen.