SUMMARY

• 17 plus years of Full Software Development Life Cycle including 10plus years of experience inSAP FICODesigning, Documenting, Configuration and implementation of Finance and Controlling Functions using SAP R/3 ECC 6.0.
• Worked on project from requirements gathering, blueprint developments, mapping business requirements, attend and participate in design review sessions, gap analysis, provide best approach analysis, Q & A database, design, upgrade, Go - Live, Post Live support and end user staff (ASAP) support.
• Involved in five step End to End Implementation.
• Strong Implementation and configuration experience in SAP; General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA) and Controlling (CO).
• Experience in configuring House Bank Master Data and Vendor Master Data for teh requirement of Automatic Payment Transaction.
• Configuration of Assets by creating Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Depreciation keys and Automatic Running of Depreciation.
• Extensive working experience across various industries like Apparel, Manufacturing and Retail.
• Good exposure on LSMW, Report painter and Queries.
• Prepared training material and gave end user training to teh process owners in GL, AR, AP, and AA and also maintained detailed documentation.
• Good understanding in controlling module including Cost Center Accounting (CCA) with good conceptual understanding of Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA) and Internal Order (IO) - Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing.
• Excellent skills in integrating, testing, document preparation, user training and support.
• Good knowledge in ABAP/4 programming, debugging,workflow and ability to work with developer.
• Excellent Communication, Problem-Solving, Time Management, Analytical, and Client-Interaction skills. Possess teh ability to take on challenges and strong determination towards meeting deadlines.
• 7 years of Client/Server Web Based applications experiencein Developing, Implementing and leading applications in Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft .Net framework, Visual Basic, Cognos reporting, ETL tools like Informatica.
• In-depth knowledge in configuration and testing of FICO modules (GL, A/P, A/R, FA, New GL, CCA, IO).
• Expertise in teh Procure to Pay cycle (FI- MM Integration) and Order to Cash cycle (FI- SD Integration).
• Design and configure teh Invoice Processing, Billing, Collections Management and Credit Management.
• Good in configuring and design of cost center, profit center hierarchy with teh operations.
• Ability to develop teh reports/drill-down reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Good knowledge configuring cost element/center, Internal order settlements & product costing.
• Familiar with Variance calculations, WIP determination, assessment & distribution cycles configuration.
• Working knowledge of real-estate management (asset management) and Investment accounting.
• Good understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integration view points.
• Experienced working along with ABAP team and have basic understanding of ABAP programming.
• Proficient in evaluating Client’s business process, gathering requirements and planning activities.
• Very good understanding of R2R process, ASAP methodology, developing functional design and implementation.
• Experience in preparing Blueprint, configuration, test scripts and end-user training documents.
• Worked with Data Migration specifications with BDC, LSMW for data uploads.
• Excellent in developing functional specifications for Interfaces, custom reports and read ABAP code.
• Experience working with Inter-Company reconciliations and Inter-company process management.
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, Interfaces (ALE & EDI), IDOCs, user-exits, workflow and reporting tools.
• Knowledge in testing of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).
• Familiar with external tools: Vertex, Taxware, Sabrix, Basware, Gentran and their Integration with SAP.
• Active participant in team meetings and conducted extensive training sessions for business users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

SAP R/3 Tools: Report Painter

General Tools: Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Client Server: Microsoft Technologies (.Net/VB), Cognos, Oracle.

Operating Systems: MS Windows 7 / XP / 2000/98/95, WinNT 4.0, and UNIX

Tracking Tools: HPQC, MS Outlook, SOLMON & Lotusnotes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, GL, AP, AR, CO (Implementation & Testing)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in customization of Automatic Payment Program for payment transactions.
• Analyzed third party payee information verification system (Bridger Insight XG).
• Checking teh process of different payment methods - ACH payments, Wire Transfer, and checks.
• Check lots creation, void, and reissue of checks, online and blockage of payments for certain vendors.
• Worked on teh integration of Accounts Receivables with SD. Worked with teh SD team to configure teh automatic account determination required for teh SD process.
• Developed LSMW to load Customer Master Data.
• Experience in system design of Inter-company process management.
• Done Intercompany reconciliations (EOM activities, aggregating values) using SAP ECC 6.0
• Participated in teh Integration of Vertex system with SAP. Used Vertex Q series for teh automation of tax compliance for Payroll taxes.
• Performed required EDI Settings for teh Payment program
• Worked on teh design, development and testing of EDI interface for Invoices from select vendors.
• Involved in customization of programs to generate teh positive pay file format specific to banks.
• Involved in facilitating teh complex billing process with teh halp of Convergent Invoicing (SAP CI).
• Created, tested and approved RFC's and eRFC's for configuration changes.
• Used HPQC for develop test scripts and to raise, assign, modify, clear defects.
• Customized and configured third party software (Gentran & Bridger) with in teh AP- Automatic payment process(F110)
• Customized automatic payment process for daily payments and quarterly closings in AP and AR.
• Created adhoc queries using SAP Query.
• Worked on Script creation in HP Quality Center. Executed test cases as per test cycles.
• Preparation of test specifications and involved in defect management process.
• Provided post go live support and training. Generated reports using Report Painter.

Confidential, Exton, PA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for interacting with teh Business Users, SAP Technical Team members, IT Associates, Customers, and other external partners to implement teh solution involving gather requirements, Blueprinting, Configuration, testing, and training.
• Collected all teh business requirements to create functional specifications.
• Defined teh number ranges.
• Configured teh settings for employee tolerance groups, field status groups, and automatic account assignment for teh G/L.
• Configured vendor & customer account groups and defined screen layouts.
• Customer and vendor invoice creation and payment postings.
• Implemented in teh configuration of Month end closing activities of AR/AP.
• Configures G/L Accounts including creating G/L accounts, charts of accounts and defined global parameters in company code area defined different account groups like reconciliation, bank accounts etc.
• Created fiscal year variants, posting periods (opened and closed posting periods).
• Created financial statement version.
• Worked on Functional area, Profit center, Cost center with validation and substitution.
• Configured F.13 auto clearing.
• Worked on A/P & A/R including configuring customer and vendor master data, local and global data, number ranges, payment types including manual and automatic payment methods including partial payments, residual payments, discount payments.
• To transfer Purchase Order data from SAP to Conex system via IDoc extensions when a new Purchase Order is created in R/3 system.
• Worked on issue of credit memos, cleared dues, reclassification of vendor and costumer accounts.
• Setting up credit limits for customers and tolerance groups to teh vendors.
• Handling month end related issues on FI & CO Modules.

Confidential, NewYork, NY

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for regular maintenance & medium enhancements.
• Set up House Banks, Set up Lockbox accounts, defined Control Parameters for BAI2 file Import Defined Parameters for partial payment clearing.
• Made configuration changes for teh changing of bank for A/P and A/R processing.
• Tested new bank processes and data communication between SAP and teh Bank.
• Working closely on AP related activities like Automatic Payment Program, Check form, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) and Payment Terms etc.
• Liaison in coordinating other team members on issues with master data integration.
• Developed FI/CO reporting solutions utilizing account line displays, report painter, and developed specs for ABAP programs when needed.
• Resolved issues related to Automatic Payment Program.
• Involved in cross functional testing.
• Transfer of master and transactional data through LSMW.
• Worked Closely with SD team in their sales process and transferring billing documents to A/R.
• Ensuring master data upload of asset master and configuring FI-Asset integration.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on requirements gathering and gap analysis
• Analyzed and mapped business requirements to SAP processes
• Configured financial accounting global settings like company code, company, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, document number ranges, field status variant, and field status groups, tolerance limits for employees.
• Configured chart of accounts, GL account groups, and retained earnings account.
• 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 Attribute etc.
• Worked on New GL functionality on ECC 6.0 with Leading and non-leading ledgers, ledger groups, segments, cost center and profit center update and document splitting
• In Cost center Accounting created teh Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions.
• Involved in Data Uploading & Data Migration of Masters Data.
• Involved in Order-to Cash, Procure to Pay cross-functional requirement gathering and integration activities.
• Tested various scenarios under New GL business transactions and document splitting.
• Created Primary cost elements through automatic batch run, manually created secondary cost elements, assigned costing sheet to teh controlling area, created overhead costing sheet, activated reconciliation ledger to keep activity within FI G/L in balance with CO.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, CC categories, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for actual costs, distribution and assessment.
• Defined standard hierarchy in Profit Center Accounting
• In cost center planning, developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained teh master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions, and assignments.

Confidential, Canton, OH

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Went through full life cycle of SAP FI implementation.
• Conducted interview sessions with senior management, project management, application team leads, technical team leads, team members, business owners and users to prepare Project Plan.
• Assisting clients in defining key capabilities /requirements dat will enable their strategy.
• Identifying and monitoring interdependencies between various application implementation activities.
• Planning and establishing after go-live activities including ongoing application support.
• Working closely on A/R related activities like Cash Applications, Customer Bank Statements, Lockboxes and Customer Aging Reports and Payment Terms etc.
• Working closely on AP related activities like Automatic Payment Program, Check form, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) and Payment Terms etc.
• Participated in test planning and execution.
• Configured account groups and different vendor types.
• Set up House Banks, Set up Lockbox accounts, defined Control Parameters for BAI2 file Import Defined Parameters for partial payment clearing.
• Developed FI/CO reporting solutions utilizing account line displays, report painter, and developed specs for ABAP programs when needed.
• Provided post implementation support.
• Made configuration changes for teh changing of bank for A/P and A/R processing.
• Tested new bank processes and data communication between SAP and teh Bank.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments in Accounts payable.
• Liaison in coordinating other team members on issues with master data integration.
• Created unit and integration test scenarios and resolved configuration and business process issues resulting from testing.
• Created FI/CO training documents and trained end users.

Confidential, LA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked in AR module creating invoices, posting and clearing incoming payments with interest calculation.
• Worked on AP module starting with purchase requisition, purchase order, goods receipt, invoice verification, vendors’ credit memo advance paid, down payments and Automatic payment program.
• Performed month end closing operations.
• Worked on Treasury module like lockbox processing, bank accounts etc.
• Responsible for setting up rules for Master and Transaction Data Migration
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in teh finance module, including vendor and customer’s invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry programs
• Performed testing and data validation in training client
• Interacting with other interface teams. System Integration Testing.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Environment: Cognos 7.3/8.4, .Net, ASP, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Develop ICES and EBT Daily and Monthly reports in Cognos 8.4.1
• Upgraded teh Cognos reports from version 7.3 to 8.0 and tan to 8.2 and tan to 8.4
• Developed Cognos CHIP cubes using Analysis Studio.
• Written Java programs to create PDF reports tan post them on teh server.
• Developed Dashboard pages for access to different report links.
• Stick to teh SLA agreements on teh delivery of reports.

Confidential, RTP, NC

Programmer Analyst

Environment: .Net, ASP, VB .Net, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports.

Responsibilities:

• Client Server technology having front-end screens developed using VB 6.0 and ASP.
• Migrated some of teh applications to VB.Net and ASP.Net.
• Used Visual SourceSafe for backup and as a versioning control and Reports in Crystal Reports.
• Worked on MobileVB Software using VBA for developing PALM Application.
• Worked with registry settings. Executing script dat creates DSN Connection in teh Registry while installing PALM App.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Environment: ASP, ASP .Net, Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle Reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Developed front end screens for Client Server using Visual Basic and Web Apps using ASP.
• Used Frames, option buttons, images, combo boxes, list boxes and ADO for Database Connection.
• Developed ASPWebpages utilizing Oracle, XML, and VB.
• Converting of client server Visual Basic application into web ASP application.
• Designed reports using Oracle Reports.