SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience as SAP FICO Functional consultant with three full life cycle implementation and two production support projects.
• Worked in different phases of Implementation - Realization, Design, Customization, Configuration, Testing, Go-Live and production support phases.
• Good Knowledge in analyzing teh Business Requirements, Flow Chart Maintenance and mapping them as per SAP processes.
• Proficient in SAP’s ASAP Methodology and well versed with business process, its mapping & configuration in SAP.
• Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI modules- General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting and Treasury.
• Coordinated in Integration with SAP modules like MM and SD.
• Worked as New G/L Consultant and designed teh Parallel Ledgers, Document Splitting,and ForeignCurrency Valuation, Parallel Currencies model, Segment Reporting, Periodic Processing and Real-time Integration.
• Prepared training material and gave end user training to teh process owners in GL, AR, AP as well as to Core Team Members and also maintained detailed documentation.
• Good working Knowledge 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).
• Extensively interacted with ABAP Programmers for preparing reports, interfaces, and enhancements to meet custom Requirements.
• Project management skills including working with user community, understanding their needs and developing strategies to implement them.
• Expertise in data migration system from legacy to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Effectively interacted with teh clients to understand business processes and theirby to GAP analysis and proposed long-term and short-term strategic solutions.
• Impressionable interpersonal written and oral communication skills with teh aptitude to work collaboratively at various levels within teh organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Versions: 4.7, ECC 5.0 & 6.0.

Reporting Tools: Report Painter,Report Writer

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

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

Tracking Tools: HPQC, MS Outlook, SOLMON & Lotusnotes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Eagan, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, conduct workshops with teh business users, designing, configuring, and testing and providing post implementation support.
• Examining teh AS-IS documents and recommending suitable TO-BE process in SAP.
• Designed teh functional specifications for teh business requirements for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and workflows (RICEFW).
• Configured account groups, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, financial statement versions, number ranges and document types.
• Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules including pre-requisites to create vendor master Records, customer master records, tolerance groups, account determination, and default account assignments.
• Worked on migrating customer & Vendor master data from legacy system in to SAP through LSMW.
• Configured dunning program, dunning levels and dunning areas for each company at company code level.
• Worked with ABAPers to create dunning forms for dunning procedures.
• Configured exchange rate settings in SAP and maintained exchange rates for different currencies.
• Configured Automatic payment program and different types of payments for multiple company codes.
• Created House banks for different bank accounts and maintained clearing accounts with in teh house banks.
• Created check lots for different house banks individually and configured reason codes for check management.
• Designed functional specification for lockbox interface and configured relevant settings in SAP for lockbox processing.
• Worked with technical team and bank while setting up teh lockbox interface with TD bank.
• Coordinated teh integration efforts of FICO with SD and MM teams based on functional requirements.
• Configured country specific Chart of Depreciation and maintained Depreciation Areas that are relevant to teh specific country requirements.
• Created Asset Classes, Asset Class Account Determination, and number ranges.
• Configured multiple Depreciation Keys to suit teh business requirements
• Created substitutions for certain document postings based on some conditions to meet business requirements.
• Involved in preparation of End User training Documentation and provided trainings to End users.
• Supported users during UAT testing.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided extensive support to teh business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO.
• Worked on day to day support issues which comprise General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Account Receivable, Asset Accounting and Cost center accounting.
• Created and Defined new company codes and customized as per teh client’s requirements.
• In Account Receivable, worked on various support issues like investigating blocked billing document from SD and identifying teh root cause of it.
• Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement.
• Responsible for configuring House Banks with multiple Bank Accounts, alternate bank selections for Payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes.
• Maintained automatic payment program for new payment methods in multiple company codes.
• Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Created new asset classes and maintained related configuration and tested them thoroughly.
• Responsible for running test cycles under Assessment and Distribution under month end operations and resolving upload error logs.
• In Cost Element Accounting, assisted in creating primary and secondary cost elements, creating cost element Groups and maintaining cost element attributes.
• Responsible for Unit testing and assisted in User Acceptance testing of reports and documents.
• Conducted various meeting with key Management in teh Financial Management department to discuss various needed development strategies.
• Provided Post Go-Live support to users and helped them resolving their problems.
• As part of team member actively worked with internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues, requests, tickets, enhancements.

Confidential, Troy, MI

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included interacting with client’s business process team; collect all teh business requirements, create functional specifications, which would be used by teh construction/programming team.
• Involved in decision-making for teh screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record and Customer Master Record.
• Customized Operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Accounts & Country Chart of Accounts.
• Created different G/L accounts centrally and at company code level, like expenses, revenue, cash, asset and liability.
• Performed different transactions like clearing, post with clearing, credit memo etc.
• Configured vendor account groups & assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on teh Vendor Master Records.
• Configured Cash discount lost account and set tolerance limits for customers for posting AR documents.
• Customized teh Payment Program to in corporate Company Code Data, Paying Company Code Data, Country Payment Methods, Company Code Payment Methods, and House Banks etc.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
• Configured lockbox application conforming to BAI2 format.
• Integrated FI with MM & SD modules.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) Worked on Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, and Cost Center Categories.
• Maintained teh basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, Profit center assignment (material, GL accounts), etc.
• Involved in testing in development and Q&A environments. Issues resolving, compile documentation, user training and sign off.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved as a team member in supporting and solving issues in General ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable.
• Identified One-time vendors and customers and configured master records in AR & AP modules. Resolved production tickets in one-time customer accounts.
• Worked Closely with SD team in their sales process and transferring billing documents to A/R.
• Supported in solving teh issues related to teh automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments.
• Configured house banks and maintained accounts in house banks. Defining Check Lots, Payment Terms, Set Up bank determination for all payment transactions, defined posting keys and posting rules for check deposit.
• Maintained Validations and substitutions for Development, R&D, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities.
• Performed month end activities and Setting of Financial statement version me.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Provided support to end-users when database applications are migrated to new technology or upgraded to new versions.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing for teh Order-to Cash, Procure -to-Pay and Inventory Management processes.
• Resolved production support issues and worked on financial reports using Report painter/writer tools.
• Worked with Quality Center for all testing related activities.
• Assisted Users during UAT and resolved teh defects during dis process.
• Interacted with ABAP developers for custom developments.

Confidential, Covington, KY

SAP FICO Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of monthly Financial Reports.
• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts G/L, A/P, A/R and assigning different process keys as required.
• Tested Automatic Payment Program for vendors and worked on daily accounting transactions in A/R.
• Worked Closely with SD team in their sales process and transferring billing documents to A/R.
• Tested master data upload of asset master records.
• Created training documents to run AR/AP regrouping and foreign exchange revaluation.
• Involved in writing Integration Testing Scripts as well as User Acceptance Testing Scripts.
• Responsible for solving teh defects during teh Integration and User acceptance testing.