SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) modules.
• Experience working wif "ASAP" methodology, wif End - to-End Implementation of all stages (Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live, Hyper Care and Support).
• Two full life cycle implementation experience wif multiple domains.
• Experience working in diverse domains such as Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and Retail.
• Extensively worked in design and configuration of SAP FICO (SAP Enterprise structure, New GL, parallel ledgers, document splitting, Account Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, SAP-Treasury)
• Empowered to evaluate profitability of projects and ensure financial aspects of business and 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.
• Configured changes in Consolidation task and performed integration testing between special purpose ledger and SEM-BCS Consolidation.
• Exposure to Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, Treasury Management, LSMW, EDI, etc.
• Controlling experience includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEL), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Product Costing (PC).
• A results-driven expert who analyzes and implements SAP ERP solutions to ensure optimal integration and information access.
• Motivated achiever who guides organizations in applying technology to business settings, provides added value and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.
• Strong working experience on Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows (RICEFW).
• Excellent communication skills, leadership qualities, systematic approach and ability to work TEMPeffectively in a fast-paced environment. Strong organizational and time management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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 wif 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.:

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 wif SD.

Treasury: Lockbox, Manual Bank Statement and Electronic Bank Statement, External transaction codes, Posting Rules

Fixed Assets: Chart of Depreciation, Defining Assets class, Account determination Creation and Retirement of assets, In-house creation of Assets, Depreciation run, Intercompany transfers.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profitability analysis CO-PA, Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA, Profit center Accounting EC-PCA and Product costing

Profitability Analysis: Created dummy profit center, Creation of profit center and Doc No ranges of PCA, created operating concern and controlling version, Creation of Attributes and Data structures, Configuration of CO-PA costing bases and accounts bases analysis, Created CO-PA master data, PA settlement structures, CO-PA planning / profile / layout.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of solutions, as well as documentation, and end-user training.
• Documented financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy
• Configured FI New GL, AP/AR & Banking - Document Splitting, Segment Reporting, Special purpose ledger, Doc types & posting keys, analysis of all open items and clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) accounts.
• Designed & developed automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, accepted forms of payment, defined automatic account assignments for exchange rate differences, over & under payments, bank charges, cash discounts, keys & procedures in Accounts Payable.
• Configured New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS.
• Created an Electronic Bank Statement Posting Rules.
• Configured new line layouts for incoming customer payments wif fields according to client requirement and designed and developed terms of payment, invoices, cash discount, credit management, risk categories, tolerances & down payments.
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution
• Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load, GL uploads, Account Payables and Customer Open Account Receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Cost Center/Profit Center Accounting - Defined standard hierarchy for cost center accounting designed Automatic Account Assignments, Assigned Cost Centers to Profit Centers and created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes.
• Configured New GL functionalities: Document splitting and Non-Leading ledgers to satisfy client’s country specific reporting requirements.
• Defined Cash Management Account Name, distributed Cash Management and reorganized Cash Management.
• Configured Operating Concern, Maintained Operating Concern Attributes.
• Configured Account-based CO-PA and Created the characteristics, used various derivation techniques like table lookups and derivation rules to determine values for characteristics.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields and configured PA transfer structure for flow of values from FI/MM to COPA.
• Creation of COPA reports (KE30 - Account based and Costing Based) for Sales and Margin analysis Yearly, Quarterly and period wise. Also created COPA Line item dynamic reports (Costing based) for analyzing Period to Date Gross sales, Net Sales, COGS, and Pricing Margin region wise, product wise and customer wise.

Confidential, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird high-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model). Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of solutions, as well as documentation, and end-user training.
• Analyzed the AS-IS system, did a profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped the TO-BE system on SAP at client’s site.
• Configured company code, posting period variants, fiscal year variants, field status groups, document number ranges, tolerance groups, and assigning the variants to company code etc.
• Configured and customized General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version etc.
• Configured New GL functionalities: Document splitting and Non-Leading ledgers to satisfy client’s country specific reporting requirements.
• Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules including creation of Vendor Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups, assigned authorizations for users, account determination and default account assignments.
• Integrated AP and AR modules wif MM and SD respectively wif respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings
• Worked on vendors reporting, Down payment, check form and EDI outbound and inbound.
• Configured Customer Master Data and master groups. Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms,
• Lockbox Processing for incoming payments, Configuration of terms of payment and interest calculation on open items/ balance outstanding
• Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments, Checks Management through assigning number ranges for check lots, checks printing and defining void reason codes, Posting Invoices wif and wifout Invoice Verification
• Configured the system for Order to Cash and Procure to Pay transactions and revenue recognition.
• Prepared the Business Process Procedures (BPP’s) for various transactions in GL, AR, AP sub modules.
• Trained end-users on Material Costing, Work-In-Process, Overhead calculation and Production Order Settlement.
• Configured Currency and Valuation Profile for multiple currencies and valuations such as legal valuation / group valuation / profit center valuation and attached to controlling area.
• Worked wif planning aids to transfer plan data from PP to Cost Center accounting.
• In CCA, redesigned Periodic Re-posting, Distribution, and Assessment cycles and allocated various costs (percentage, fixed, portion, or variable tracing factors) among different cost centers.

Confidential, FL

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them wif SAP.
• Regularly interacted wif users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Worked on Business planning and consolidation (BPC).
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges,invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Worked on Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Positive pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer, liquidity forecast and configuring and customizing multiple payment methods and automatic clearing.
• Designed the process for Check management (Manual / Automatic / Preprinted).
• 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; Work on Cash Journal Configuration.
• Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Worked wif MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), credit & debit memos, maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc.
• Configured customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, settings for risk management, account assignments, defined various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client.
• Managed multiple ledgers wifin the general ledger according to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL.
• Created additional ledger and Special Purpose Ledger to work wif the New GL.
• Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation.
• Created integrated asset acquisition and defined account assignment type for Asset Account, Account Assignment Objects for the Depreciation Areas.
• Made settings for the Dunning procedure and configured the dunning procedure.
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset.
• Configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Integration of MM and SD wif FI accounts assignment and appropriation request, investment measure in Investment Management, TAX and Inter Company transactions.
• Configuration Accounts Receivable and Billing. Configured and tested revenue recognition at the time of billing. Account determination for revenue recognition and material movement.
• Interaction wif client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of customer needs and design of Financial and Management Accounting business processes.
• Worked very closely wif the business stakeholders and subject matter experts for gathering business requirements and translating them into functional and technical specifications.
• Responsible for configuration and training in all areas of finance and controlling implementation, which includes GL, AP, AR, customer and vendor master, asset accounting, product costing, profitability analysis, overhead cost controlling.
• Developed data migration strategy and approach, define business rules validate against business rules, data mapping, cleansing, review validate legacy data structures, views, tables, and relationships and execute conversions.
• Configured customer enterprise structure, company codes, business areas, document types, assigned number ranges.
• Configured Chart of Accounts, Company Code global parameters such as fiscal year variants, posting period variants, account groups, customer and vendor company code master data, field status and tolerance groups.
• Configured customer payment terms, house bank, clearing accounts, for AP, interest calculation, customer and vendor discounts and tolerances for payments.
• Configured cost element accounting, cost center accounting, profit center accounting and overhead order types.
• Configured customer, vendor tax procedures, condition types and jurisdiction codes for sales and purchase transactions
• Performed and trained period/month and year end closing activities.
• Developed custom reports according to the requirements of the business stakeholders.
• Performed unit and integration testing for customer business scenarios.
• Followed the TEMPeffective change management and ticketing process for production support.

Confidential

Accounts Assistant

Responsibilities:-

• Calculation of TDS under salaries, Contractors, Professional and technical services, interest other than interest on securities etc.
• TDS matters for companies and individuals.
• Filing e-TDS returns for Quart.
• Preparation of Service Tax Returns and Registrations.
• Presentation of project reports in STPI while registration wif STPI
• Registration of private limited companies and dealing wif ROC