SUMMARY

• Overall 10+ years of extensive experience in SAP FICO Functional area.
• Excellent understanding of ASAP methodologies and gathering business process procedures (BPP) documentation for preparing Test Plan
• Strong expertise in Financial Accounting (FI) including New General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR), Internal Orders (IO), Cost Element Accounting and Cost Center Accounting (CCA)
• Experience in integration with SD, MM modules, Scheduling agreements etc.
• Knowledge on Tax configurations - Input and Output Tax, US Sales tax and New GL.
• Creation of House Banks with multiple bank accounts and multi-currency accounts.
• Good knowledge in configuring and creation of Exchange rates in SAP NetWeaver for multiple currencies for both direct and indirect quotations.
• Experienced in configuration of APP (Automatic Payment Program) in SAP for payment processes and Automatic Dunning Program for sending notices to customers.
• Good knowledge in configuring Document Splitting and Zero Balancing in New GL.
• Hands on experience in Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Extensive experience in Enhancement, Upgrade & post Go Live implementation support.
• Advanced knowledge on Excel, PowerPoint, Access database and MIS reporting.
• Expertise in creating flow charts and work flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Analytical problem solver, driven to learn-apply new ideas and dedicated.
• Good communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to work in a team environment with tight schedules and capable of working efficiently under pressure, manage multiple project
• Financial Accounting - Company code, Business area, Document control, Fiscal year, Field status Group, Finalization of Chart of Accounts, foreign currency, Sales tax, US Tax, Tolerance groups for GL, GL Master, Park document, Hold document Recurring entries.
• Accounts Payable - Vendor master data configuration, Tolerance group, Automatic Payment Program, Invoice, Input and Output Tax, US Tax - MACRS & AMT tables, Credit memo, Check management, Down payment, Integration with MM module.
• Accounts Receivable - Customer master data configuration, Terms of payment, Open item management, Dunning, Invoice, Credit memo, Down payment, Interest calculation, Integration with SD module.
• Treasury: Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, risk management, cash management posting rules, exchange rates, planning, integration with MM and SD
• Cost Element Accounting - Cost element group, assignment of cost elements to group, Actual postings, Information System.
• Cost Center Accounting - Cost center hierarchy, Actual Postings, Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment, Information System.
• Internal Orders - Order types, Creation, Expense booking, Status management, Settlement, Planning, Actual Postings, Year-end closing, Information System.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements from End-users and mapping the same to SAP system as per requirements.
• Prepared Business process procedure documents, user guides and user summary sheets mapped the processes and activities performed based on To-be processes.
• Supporting the users in resolving issues pertaining to scheduling agreements (SD)
• Experience with Accounts payable and Accounts receivable configuration
• Addressing the customized enhancements and testing the same in quality system
• Substituting the invoice documents based on validation and substitution rules
• Configuring Validations and Substitutions for the accounting documents as per the requirement and testing on all Vendor invoice and Customer invoice creations and posting
• Conducting reviews with the SMEs to obtain sign-off on requirements pertaining to custom enhancements
• Testing the configured settings on the development server
• Co-ordination in transporting onto the testing and moving the change requests to the production server after successful testing.
• Bridging the gap between the user and technical consultants based on new requirements
• Knowledge transfer and End user training across FI & CO module based on Business Blue Print (BBP).
• Providing support daily trouble shooting problems
• Supporting client with configuration on basis of the business requirements
• Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss project related issues
• Knowledge transfer sessions to PDC (Philippines Development Centre) towards off-shoring the process and tickets handled during tenure
• Helping user in transactions - Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos (terms of payment), Outgoing Payment, Incoming Payment, Dunning
• Down-payment received, Down-payment made, Bill of Exchange.
• Assisting development team towards MACRS and AMT tax tables for Berco (BOA) Credit
• Imparted User-training on AR and AP processes.
• Documented the processes using standard templates.
• Documentation and training on procedures for Finance (AR,AP,GL)
• Resolved issues relating to Payment program.
• Active member in conducting the team meetings, Customer feedback meetings & self-assimilation programs.
• Collecting business requirement from the client and map to SAP system.
• Prepared Business process procedure documents.
• Preparing and updating end user manuals and training end users

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Colluded with the Key users to study and understand the existing business procedures and documented the “As-is processes”
• Mapped the processes onto the SAP system and also prepared the “To-be processes” document.
• Worked with 3rd party interfaces like TLM, RAM with SAP FI applications
• Involved in interacting and analysing the Legacy system with ABAP team and client to understand the Business process and AS is Business
• Experience with Accounts payable and Accounts receivable configuration
• Substituting the invoice documents based on validation and substitution rules
• Performing GAP and Risk analysis of existing system and evaluated benefits of new system
• Interacting with SME’s through JAD sessions to gather Business Requirements to be converted to the Functional requirements specification document for designing the new system
• Testing the configured settings on the development server and co-ordination in transporting onto the testing and ultimately to the production server after successful testing.
• Responsible for setting up of House Banks, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), Payment methods (FBZP), Cash management and Treasury payments(F11CU) for various company codes across the globe
• Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss project related issues
• Working on identifying training areas for specific groups for complicate processes
• Down-payment received, Down-payment made, Bill of Exchange.
• Special G/L accounts (other reconciliation accounts)

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Company codes, Chart of Accounts, US Sales tax, Fiscal Year Variant, Tolerance Limits, Financial Statement Versions, G/L accounts for company codes, business area, functional area, currency type, AR, AP, Workflow Variant and screen layouts.
• Integration with SD, PP, PM modules and resolving issues with scheduling agreements etc.
• Having good exposure to New General Ledger Functionality with Document splitting, Document reversals, foreign currency valuations and Month End / Period End activities.
• Define Segments and Configured Document Splitting functionality so as to have automotive splitting of documents based on segments and profit centres.
• Configured Zero Balance account for Document Splitting.
• Creation and Testing on House banks with complete bank data, SWIFT message and IBAN details
• Good knowledge on Input and Output Tax, US Sales tax and New GL, exchange rates configuration in SAP NetWeaver integrated to external system with Bloomberg
• Configured withholding tax categories, input tax and output tax for Accounts payables and Receivables, terms of payment, cash discounts and also delivered training to end users.
• On a regular basis scheduled meeting with business users on current implementation updates, training sessions, additional requirement approvals etc.
• Performed current live system production support resolving all assigned issues.
• Created testing documentation, unit and integration test scenarios, performed testing activities, and recorded results for any new additions or customizations.
• Creation of Master Data, Cost Element Group, Cost element category, Reconciliation Ledger under Cost Element Accounting.
• Cost Center and Profit Center creation using Standard Hierarchy, Activity Types, Planning, Postings, Allocations, Reporting, closing activities.
• Internal Orders- Master Data, Order Types, Funds Commitments, Postings, Settlements, closing activities.
• Participated in resolution of various queries raised by end users.
• Effective prioritization of tasks to ensure adherence to timelines.
• Supported in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Accounting).
• Providing the first level support on SAP FICO issues raised by end users.
• Assisting the end users in posting day to day transaction into SAP.
• Dealing with client fresh requirements and Coordinating with technical consultants.
• End user training across FI module as of required.
• Providing support daily trouble shooting problems.
• Responsible for creating Test plans & Test scripts
• Responsible for Point of contact for UAT testing
• Supporting client with configuration on basis of the business requirements
• Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring field status groups, posting keys, Intercompany postings, financial statement version, Document types, and fiscal year variants and carried out mass changes in GL, AP and AR as required from transition from Oracle to SAP.
• Configured account groups, vendor master data, tolerance limits, posting period variant, fiscal year variants, document number ranges and field status groups in AP and AR.
• 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.
• Created master data for vendors/customers, general data, company and purchasing data
• Customized vendor settings to set ERS indicator as default in the info record for materials and vendors.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions. In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• Worked on configuration of Automatic payment program and Dunning with training and documentation
• Regular monitoring of the output of data matches both in Oracle and SAP Testing.
• Maintained weekly reports in excel for Sr. Magt to check status updates.
• Review of Journal entries processed by BU controllers at regular intervals.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• One among the Pilot team in process of migration of SAP Implementation project from UK to India.
• Customizing and configuration of various areas of IMG activities including: G/L master records, AR/AP, House bank, Cash Journals, Extended Withholding Tax, Taxes on sales and purchases, Asset Accounting, Basic setting of Controlling, Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Tax configurations - VAT, Excise Tax, Service Tax, Material and Customer tax and integration with SD and MM.
• Configured FI/CO Organizational Structure - Company Code, Credit Control Area, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant, Tolerance Groups, Exchange Rates & Translation Ratios, Foreign Currency Valuation settings, Work lists for G/L, Field Status Groups, Controlling Area, Number Ranges and Plan Version Settings, Automatic Creation of Cost Element Settings, Cost Center / Profit Center Master Records, Cost Center, Profit Center Groups, Segments.
• Performed Configuration in FI - GL, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Valuation Methods, Valuation Areas, Account Determination for FCV Postings, Inter-company Clearing Account Determination, Customer Account Groups & Number Ranges, Vendor Account Groups & Number Ranges, Terms of Payments, Balance / Item Interest Calculation Settings and Account Determination, Recurring Entries Settings,
• Configured AR Terms of Payments, Settings for residual payments, Defined Reason Codes, Open Item Clearing, Customer & Vendor Tolerance groups, Dunning Procedures, Areas & Blocks, Customer / Vendor Balance Confirmation Settings.
• Good knowledge on Integration with external system like Optima, TLM with SAP.
• Responsible for Creation of Functional Specification Documentation.
• In New General Ledger, Customized IMG settings & Assigned G/L Master Records to Item Categories, Define Document Splitting Characteristics such as Profit Center, Segment, Business Area in G/L, Defined Zero Balancing Clearing Account for Balancing, Classified Inheritance option in New G/L for Account Assignment Objects, Defined Business Transaction Variants.
• Trained End Users and Created Training Manuals pertaining to End-user access.

Confidential

Financial Reconciler

Responsibilities:

• Processing of core accounting transactions under US Finance Operations.
• Processing of invoices of various vendors.
• Performs Quality Check for the work delivered by fellow team members.
• Identifying invoices which doesn’t get accounted through payment and ensure get accounted.
• Processing of all accounting transactions and issuance of checks, payments.
• Preparation of metrics reports for vendors, invoice status and duplicate audit reports.
• Reconciliation of monthly statements of Bank A/C and transaction summary.
• Preparation of MIS reports in financial operations