SUMMARY

• A highly motivated professional with over 9+ years of strong functional experience in SAP FICO Implementation, Customization, Upgrade and Production Support.
• Supporting all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, configuration, testing, and deployment of solutions, post - production support/maintenance, documentation, and end-user training.
• Successfully delivering configuration solutions of SAP Financial Modules (FICO).
• Extensive experience in Cross-functional integration across various modules of SAP FICO with SD, MM, PS and HR.
• Expertise in business process analysis and design, process rationalisation, cost control, performance measurement and quality.
• Worked with cross functional teams at various levels to effectively gather requirements, drive process improvements and best practices, and deliver solutions.
• Extensively worked in New General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Withholding Tax and Banks modules on FI side.
• Extensively worked in Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Internal Orders modules on CO side.
• SAP Treasury Commodity and Risk Management, Futures, options Trade
• In House cash for inter-company ZBA sweeps, central and internal payments
• Custom development to generate IHC payment order for treasury intercompany loans and FX transactions via TBB1
• Exposure to US GAAP, Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, Treasury Management, LSMW, ECATT, EDI and IDOCS.
• Experience in preparation of report design and report creation using report writer, report painter, SAP Query, writing functional specifications for SAP FICO.
• Ability to work within a defined set of standards and practices, including a Systems Development Lifecycle Methodology (SDLC), and an established promote-to-production process.
• Ability to build and maintain strong team relationships with remote partners and customers.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to deliver high-quality configuration that meet the business needs on a timely basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7E, ECC 6.0

SAP R/3 Tools: ASAP, Solution Manager, LSMW, Report Painter and Report Writer

Operating Systems: Windows - 7/Server 2003/XP/Vista, UNIX, Linux

Others: MS Projects, Visio, ARIS, Quality Center, Test Director, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis, design, configuration, documentation, testing and support of FI - AA module (Fixed assets - Primary).
• Implemented asset accounting for Latin America entities (Countrys statutory).
• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Defined Screen Layout, Defined New transaction types for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Developed the custom (Z) programs and reports for the country requirements.
• Worked on accounts payable (AP), PS, Inventory and PTP areas.
• Extensively worked on the Lease billing program for Latin America countries.
• Worked with AMI team for Intra and Intercompany Equipment transfers.
• Understand the business custom requirements and create functional specs and work with developers.
• Analyze and resolve production support issues/tickets relating to GL, AP, AR and AA
• Worked on the cutover/conversion activities and batch jobs set up
• Supporting Month end and Year end closing activities.

Environment: AA, AP, AR, GL, RTR, AMI, CO, EDI, Hyperion, HR, MM, SD, TAX, CO

Confidential, Cranbury, NJ

Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis, design, configuration, documentation, testing and support of FI and CO (RTR) modules for ECO Services.
• Configured company code and their global settings.
• Responsible for overseeing configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost centers, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, and Fixed Assets
• Designed and implemented EBS bank reconciliation for domestic and foreign bank accounts, auto clearing for treasury clearing accounts
• FX rates, forward points, yield curve and interest
• Market date interface with Reuters, Bank guarantees
• Designed and implemented OTC derivatives - Interest rate swaps
• Worked with SAP commodity hedging module along with GTM module implementation team implemented commodity listed derivatives (futures and option) for commodity price exposure.
• Wrote FS to create custom program to create treasury payment requests via custom program
• In Fixed Asset Management, copied reference chart of depreciation and assign chart of depreciation to company codes, specify number assignment across company codes.
• Created screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Interval, Account determination & Asset classes.
• Defined calculation methods and assign in depreciation keys. Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas. Define Depreciation Methods
• Worked with ABAPers to develop the interfaces between CITI bank and ADP to SAP
• Configured Electronic Data interchange (EDI) for processing automatic payments.
• Data mapping for AP, AR and GL migration, UAT sign off, Cut over activities, Go-live and Month End closing activities.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Integration testing.

Environment: AP, AR, TR, GL, AA, RTR, CCA, PCA, PA, EDI, PP, MM, SD, TAX.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing training to new users.
• Gathered business requirements for both A/P and A/R and created blueprints.
• Configured FI-SD-MM integration for account determination.
• Setting up document types and posting keys for business transactions
• Extensively used substitution user exits and enhancement points to meet client’s critical business requirements.
• Configured payment terms, vendor payment program, reason codes, electronic bank statement, document change rules, customer statement and dunning statements. Also configured the partner profile and the RFC destination for the EDI/IDOC processes.
• Worked on Asset accounting screen layouts, asset classes and account determination and first month end issues.
• Involved heavily in testing (unit, integration and UAT) as well as in BPP and training sessions in all the above modules with the end users.
• Worked on the cutover/conversion activities and batch jobs set up.
• Working on post-go live support.

Environment: AP, AR, SRM, CCA, PCA, PA, EDI, PP, MM, SD, Vertex

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the functional specifications for implementing New GL, AR, Cost Center, Profit Center, Internal Orders and COPA.
• Configured settings for controlling area, assigned new company codes to controlling area and maintained versions.
• Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).
• Cost element analysis configuration involving the creation and activation of primary and secondary cost elements and clearing account.
• Created new cost center hierarchy nodes and cost centers, changed cost center categories, activity types, statistical key figures and defined distribution and assessment cycles for cost and profit centers as part of period-end closing.
• Configured product costing (CO PC) which includes costing variants, valuation variants, costing sheets and sales order settlement.
• Defined cost component structure as a primary cost component split and created cost component group for raw material costs in product costing (COPC).
• Performed raw material consumption variance analysis with BOM.
• Worked with MM and PP consultant to gather the inputs required for the creation routing, cost centers objects, cost center elements.
• Created and configured activity types, rates and cost component structures.
• Created internal orders for various project implementations, assigned the costs incurred by internal orders to different cost centers, distributed the costs incurred by internal orders to the respective cost centers.
• In Profitability Analysis (COPA), created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table and profitability segments.
• Configured settings for operating concern, characteristics and value fields, maintain derivation tables, structures and rules, PA settlement and realignments.
• Assigned CO objects to profit centers and maintained company code wise assignment for PCA
• Set up external data transfer functionality to transfer both plan and actual data into COPA from files created by external systems.

Environment: GL, AP, AR, AA, CO, MM, SD, PP, WM, Solman

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed business requirements at requirements workshops; worked with Design Team to map them to Functional Specification documents; developed prototypes in conjunction with developers to deliver to the business for approval.
• Defined Finance/Controlling, Order to Cash business requirements from Workshops.
• Worked with SMEs to configure/develop Finance/Controlling, Order to Cash functionality
• Created single Chart of Accounts for the various entities of the business.
• Business Blueprinting using SAP Solution Manager (ASAP methodology) in the areas of Finance and Controlling.
• Validated FICO areas: FI-GL, FI-A/P, FI-A/R, Asset Accounting, Internal Orders, Controlling and Profitability Analysis.
• Worked extensively in New General Ledger configuration.
• Configured Leading Ledger/non leading ledgers, and did real time integration of non-leading ledger with controlling.
• FI-G/L Accounts, FI-Bank Master, FI-AP/AR, FI-Asset Accounting, FI-Intercompany Customers and Vendors, COPA, Cost Centers, Activity Types, Cost Center Budget, Internal Orders.
• Translated business user requirements into functional specifications.
• Worked on the integration of Vertex for configuration of Sales and Use tax to fully utilize the vertex system.
• Develop User Training Guides.
• Change Management of all FICO system change requests and enhancements including Master data changes.
• Translated user requirements to system/configuration requirements; Configure and develop RICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
• Created and modified test scripts including system connection to vertex for tax calculation
• Involved heavily in testing (unit, integration and UAT) as well as in BPP and training sessions in all the above modules with the end users.
• Involved in post-production support & resolution of issues. Documented all the processes involved.

Environment: GL, AP, AR, AA, CO, MM, SD

Confidential, Binghamton,NY

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in gathering information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities; analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes, and profitability centers (AS IS - TO BE).
• Worked on G/L, AP and Treasury modules.
• Performed GAP analysis actively participated in blueprinting phase (ASAP Methodology).
• Created Number ranges and posting periods for G/L accounts.
• Defined G/L account groups created chart of accounts, participated in modifying and uploading G/L accounts, Account Determination with regards to movement types..
• Activated New G/L, Leading Ledger and Parallel Ledger for the possibility of Parallel Accounting according to the US GAAP.
• Created Segments and assigned Scenarios and Customer Fields in the Ledgers.
• Created reconciliation accounts for A/P and A/R.
• Configured Accounts payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups.
• Worked with data migration team to convert A/P master data.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for A/P for checks, ACH and wire transfer; created check lots.
• Tested and performed web-demos of G/L transactions for fast-entry screens, splitting, posting, parking and reversals.
• Configured Bank Accounting (BA) including defining House Banks, Lockbox for House Banks, bank chains.
• Made global settings for electronic bank statements.
• Created and assigned business transactions for Manual Bank statement.
• Defined Variants for Manual Bank Statements.
• Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposit.
• Worked on Cash Journal Configuration.
• Created aNew FI Drilldown Report, Segment Financial Statements, Profit Center financial Statements (US GAAP).
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting by creation of Standard Cost Center Hierarchy using CATTs, Alternative Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Worked with developers on generating workflow for parked journal entries.
• Trained users on Z Option to prepare and upload journal entries.
• Worked on month-end/year-end closing procedures.
• Participated in testing using Solution Manager; Worked on integration and regression testing FICO, SD and MM Modules.
• On a regular basis performed knowledge transfer to Super users and management using web demos; created BPP documentation. Participated in training for end users.

Environment: GL, AP, AR, CO, MM, SD, Solman.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Studied the business processes and procedures in the assigned areas, gathered the information from stakeholders related to country specific legal and reporting requirements, and documented all the Gaps by arranging, preparing & participating in the workshops.
• Prepared the Business Process Flow Charts, conducting workshops with business process owners to sign each process before moving to another phase and getting confirmation for the same. Prepared Business Blue Print (BBP) with ARIS team.
• Performed AS-IS Study of the system and TO-BE Analysis. Involved in conducting GAP Analysis. Revision of Business Process Procedures to in corporate necessary changes.
• Participated in global blue printing sessions and created process maps.
• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Gathered business requirements for implementing FI-AP& FI-ARand defined the business process procedures as per the client's requirementskeeping in view the industrypractices.
• Actively involved in importing data from old legacy system to newly implemented SAP system using LSMW.
• Provided production support for various Severity and Priority level tickets which comprised of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Account Receivable.
• Involved in resolving issues related to Payments, Returns, Reversals, Account Maintenance, Reset Clearing, and Dunning.

Environment: GL, AP, AR, CO, MM, SD