SUMMARY

• Experience of over 8 years in IT and 7 years in functional SAP including Full life cycle implementations with Upgrades, Production Support projects and Enhancements in SAP FICO module which also involves SAP ECC 6.0, SAP ECC 5.0 and SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7 including four years in SAP ECC 6.0.
• Has industrial experience and strong domain noledge in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Construction and Engineering business processes.
• Handled Team lead responsibilities for Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization, Data Migration (Cut Over) and Configuration with an in depth understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD, MM Modules, HR payrolls etc.
• Expertise in the area of Controlling including Cost Center Accounting (CO - CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Worked TEMPeffectively on the techniques involving Product costing (CO-PC) which includes overheads, costing sheets.
• Worked on product cost planning and configured cost object controlling.
• Worked extensively on configurations involved in profitability analysis.
• Worked on cross functional modules with SD and MM.
• Worked extensively on Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles.
• Has extensive noledge on configurations and customizations in General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), designing of Chart of Accounts, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Dunning, Special Ledger Transactions and Intercompany Transactions.
• TEMPEffective communication skills and outstanding leadership abilities in making Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports and Technical Specifications.
• Provided training sessions by conducting end user training and also prepared training documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• General Ledger
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Dispute Management
• ABAP Query
• Report Writer
• Report Painter
• Asset Accounting
• Bank Accounting
• Cost Element Accounting
• Collections Management
• LSMW
• Cost Center Accounting
• Profit Center Accounting
• Profitability Analysis
• Product Costing
• Internal Orders
• Project Systems
• ASAP Methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on High-level design and detailed design of the project.
• Extensively Involved and conducted blueprinting sessions to gather requirements from the users.
• Worked on Process Design documents, Process flows, Functional specs and configuration documents.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on AP, AR, GL and Treasury modules.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on Fixed Assets, Project systems, Internal Orders.
• Worked extensively on support for CCA, PCA, product costing, Material Ledger, CO-PA.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on all the processes related to Accounts payables.
• Worked with client to globally roll out their system in all the areas.
• Worked on all the details in Vendor/customer Master data.
• Worked extensively on Product Costing. Helped client in designing their costing methodology.
• Worked on all the planning and Budgeting processes.
• Worked on all the plans, Actuals, Allocations, Activity types etc related to product costing.
• Worked on the cost component structure, splits, allocations of Activity-Dependent and Independent costs.
• Worked on all the Repetitive and Discrete Manufacturing scenarios, Product cost collectors, Production orders.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on subcontracting, Info Records, special procurement keys, Transfer pricing.
• Worked on Costing variants, production versions, Costing sheets, overhead allocations, Additive costs.
• Extensively worked on calculation of Actuals, Allocations, Variances, settlements.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on payment methods, payment runs, payment mediums, related configurations etc.
• Worked extensively on AP, AR including Lockboxes, Dunning and EBS.
• Worked on Fixed assets, CIP accounts.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on Validations and Substitutions in FI.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on bank standard EDI 820 files.
• Worked on localizations for China, Germany etc. Worked on China Gloden Tax system.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on Canadian and US taxes.
• Worked on all the Incoming BAI files including EBS from bank.
• Created unit tests, integration test scripts, regression testing.
• Worked with Business users on UAT testing.
• Provided end user training manuals.
• Worked extensively on all combinations of F110 payment runs and FBZP configurations.
• Worked on reversing the documents, rejection of payments.
• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, CO-PC and CO-PA.
• Analyzed the profitability of market segments according to the client’s relevant characteristics.
• Helped the client in configuring Automatic Account Assignment in (CO-PA).
• Configured master data relevant to the product cost controlling.
• Configured Account assignment categories and requirements classes’ in product cost planning.
• Settled Production cost center variances and production order variances to (CO-PA).
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA. Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA and to CCA
• Defined and Assigned movement types to Material Ledger Master Data.
• Created reports in CO-PA to Report profitability by Customer, Product and Market.
• Defined summarization levels to call up data stored in Profitability analysis and generated Reports on different profitability segments using the data from CO-PA tables.
• Worked on configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product costing.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA transfer structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA.
• Worked on price control with and without the material ledger in product costing.
• Worked extensively on actual costing in material ledger product costing.
• Worked on material ledger and product cost collector in product costing.
• Worked extensively on material ledger data and also collected actual data for material ledger.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on testing of all the FI Modules.
• Hands on experience with HPQC and other testing tools

Confidential, FRANKLIN, TN

SAP BA/FICO ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on High-level design and Detailed design of the project.
• Worked Extensively on Functional specs and configuration documents.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on AP, AR, GL and Treasury modules.
• Worked extensively on support for CCA, PCA, product costing, Material Ledger, CO-PA.
• Worked TEMPeffectively with banks like JPM Chase, RBC along with Treasury team.
• Worked with client to standardize their sap from AP/AR modules.
• Worked on all the minor details in Vendor/customer Master data.
• Worked extensively on document postings, all the fields at the document level etc.
• Has extensive noledge and worked TEMPeffectively on payment methods, payment runs, payment mediums, related configurations etc.
• Worked extensively on AP, AR including Lockboxes, Dunning and EBS.
• Worked on lockbox Configurations, Account setups, file formats.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on Validations and Substitutions in FI.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on bank standard EDI 820 files.
• Implemented IDOCS very TEMPeffectively.
• Worked on issues including Billing, Pricing especially with the Tax Jurisdictions.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on Canadian and US taxes.
• Worked on all the Incoming BAI files including EBS from bank.
• Also, worked on different LSMW programs to upload vendor/Customer Bank data.
• Created unit tests, integration test scripts, regression testing.
• Worked with Business users on UAT testing.
• Worked with the scheduling team to schedule all the jobs, maintain variants, cutover activities.
• Provided end user training manuals.
• Worked with dealers/users to sort out their issues on various reports.
• Guided FTP team and PGP for encryptions and decryptions of the payment files.
• Worked on all the positive payee files and check Reconciliation files.
• Worked extensively on all combinations of F110 payment runs and FBZP configurations.
• Worked on reversing the documents, rejection of payments.
• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, CO-PC and CO-PA.
• Analyzed the profitability of market segments according to the client’s relevant characteristics.
• Helped the client in configuring Automatic Account Assignment in (CO-PA).
• Configured master data relevant to the product cost controlling.
• Configured Account assignment categories and requirements classes’ in product cost planning.
• Settled Production cost center variances and production order variances to (CO-PA).
• Worked extensively on user exits and enhancements in CO-PA.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA. Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA and to CCA
• Worked TEMPeffectively on testing of all the FI Modules.
• Hands on experience with HPQC and other testing tools.

Confidential, Toledo, OH

SAP FICO LEAD

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Core member in SAP implementation team for FICO module.
• Worked Extensively on Blueprints including splitting structures, functional specs and configuration documents.
• Worked extensively on the AP, AR, FSCM, Treasury modules along with Controlling.
• Worked on some defects in CRM, TM modules including the data related issues.
• Worked extensively on product costing while upgrading from 3.1i to 6.0 by implementing all the modifications required including costing versions, production versions, UoM, planned prices, deletion flags in all the mm03 views etc.
• Worked extensively RICEFW objects including reports in Target, planned, Actual costs, quantities and their variances and worked on enhancements like display only MIGO authorizations.
• Worked on Activity rates, types, BOMS, Routings, split valuations, cross-plants, settlement profiles, WIP
• Has profound noledge in Cost center, profit center, cost element hierarchies.
• Worked on CO-PA reports for FI split postings.
• Worked extensively on European, Canadian, US taxes (Ship-to-party, shipping point/plant Region) and related issues.
• Worked on batch jobs archiving by creating variants and also worked on CO related LSMW scripts.
• Worked on the workflow from PI to CRM through IDOCS and also worked on Material Management including bulk orders and mass management (MM17).
• Worked end on end process on procure to pay cycle and also worked with MM modules.
• Worked on authorizations and authorization objects in funds management.
• Worked extensively on LSMW, IDOCS (Inbound & Outbound), EDI including the middleware with integration of Data services using BODS.
• Worked on all the Transport Management related activities including all the orders relating to the freights.
• Worked on FI issues including Billing, Pricing especially with the Tax Jurisdictions.
• Worked on security issues and also involved in discussions related to security issues with SAP.
• Worked extensively on Automatic payment programs, Bank Accounting & Asset Accounting.
• Worked extensively on AP, AR including Lockboxes, Dunning and EBS.
• Worked on Lockbox files coming from the banks (from PI through GENTRAN) also checked for duplicate lockbox files.
• Worked on compliance checks based on invoice data in VIM.
• Worked extensively on processing’s and validations of data in VIM.
• Worked on tax implementations for Latin countries like Brazil.
• Worked on providing audit trail from receipt through settlement in VIM
• Worked TEMPeffectively by providing support users through calls as well as application support.
• Created many test cases for scenario related issues.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0(Full Life Cycle)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Customer Transactions, Master Data, Payment Terms, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with SAP Lockbox format, Customizing payment advice notes on AR.
• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, CO-PC and CO-PA.
• Configured master data relevant to the product cost controlling.
• Configured Account assignment categories and requirements classes’ in product cost planning.
• Settled Production cost center variances and production order variances to CO-PA.
• Defined and Assigned movement types to Material Ledger Master Data.
• Created reports in CO-PA to Report profitability by Customer, Product and Market.
• Defined summarization levels to call up data stored in Profitability analysis and generated Reports on different profitability segments using the data from CO-PA tables
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Banks Accounting and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and Dunning.
• Involved in mainly FSCM Settlement controls, determination of settlement variants, account maintenance in invoicing, amount check groups, selection restrictions, dunning.
• Worked on configurations of cost orders, cost elements, internal orders.
• Configured the automatic write-off process, which included the implementation of BADI for getting cost center to the correct reason code.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration with BAI2 format, cash management and planning levels in treasury and worked on Electronic bank statements (EBS).
• Analyzed all open items, foreign currency revaluation, re-classification of payable/receivables, clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt GR/IR accounts, performed reconciliations, profitability allocations by business area.
• Created FI/AR number ranges, incoming payments, reconciliation accounts, overall receivables management and terms of payment.
• Worked on AR portion of credit management to settle credit limits and monitoring customer against their credit limits.
• Designed the process of payment proposal approvals for different payment methods like ACH, Wire, and Check in AP.
• Involved in modeling of invoice processing, disbursement run, check printing and bank reconciliation processes for AP.
• Eliminated duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings in cross-company sales orders and ensured that SD billing invoices were posted in FI. Worked on month-end closing activities in FI-CA related to differed revenues.
• Worked on Budget types, Budget entry, budget updates in Funds management.
• Worked on dunning procedure, payment run in FI-CA.
• Worked on all service, sales, market related transactions in CRM.
• Worked on upgrades of CRM to EHP1.
• Worked on Bill of Exchange configuration and processing in FI/AR by configuring the reconciliation accounts in the Special GL.
• Worked on correspondence types on AR, which means different outputs, which can be printed and sent to your business process partners, based around customer GL information.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Check, Wire and ACH payments.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification in FI/MM integration and configured account determination for FI/SD cycles.
• Configured Cost Center Hierarchy design, created Cost Center Groups, Mapped work centers to cost centers.
• Worked on layout related, variant related security issues required by the business with basis.
• Created planning layouts for cost element planning and statistical key figure planning.
• Thoroughly analyzed the clients business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshot and supported the system users.
• Followed ASAP implementation methodology, designed the business processes, wrote blue print phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Configured company code which includes creating of chart of accounts, posting period variant, retained earning account, document types, tolerance groups and financial statement versions.

Confidential, Rochester, MN

SAP FICO/Product cost Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, CO-PC and CO-PA.
• Worked extensively on Transfer structure involving cost components.
• Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC
• Defined origin groups, overhead keys, overhead groups and cost component structure.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation).
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure.
• Worked on the structure of the Master data hierarchy in Funds management.
• Worked extensively on maintaining rules and master data indexes in Funds management.
• Worked on integration of Funds management with various modules.
• Worked on transaction types and their settings in CRM.
• Worked on reversal and reconciliation of G/L documents in FI-CA.
• Worked TEMPeffectively on Automatic clearing using FPMA in FI-CA and also created cheque lots in FI-CA.
• Worked on setting up FSCM dispute management so that it processes receivable related to disputes and dealt with huge number of payment deductions, delays and non-payments
• Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on reference and simulation costing.
• Extensively worked on techniques like run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Customized Period end closing functions including overhead costing, interest calculation and result analysis and settlement procedures.
• Maintained settings related to Controlling Area, Operating Concerns and also maintained Versions.
• Worked on price control with and without the material ledger in product costing.
• Worked extensively on actual costing in material ledger product costing.
• Configured costing based CO-PA, involving characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels, plan package, planning methods and also mapped SD condition types to value fields to has the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA. Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA and to CCA.
• Worked on uploading of Batch input data using LSMW techniques.
• Configured settings for EDI for incoming invoices and IDOC for payment program.
• Configured Vendor Master Data, vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups, Configuration of payment program for posting invoices with and without invoice verification and Customized accounting transaction for posting and recurring entries.
• Worked on configurations and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, and Profit & Loss for inter-company transactions.
• AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Worked on Funds center authorizations in Funds management.
• Hands on experience in implementing Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Worked on RICEFW objects with expertise in writing Functional specs.
• Used Report Painter to compare the actual costs and planned costs.
• Prepared month end close reports and set up the master data for Allocations (Assessments and Distribution).
• Trained users on daily routines and month end processing.

Confidential -San Diego, CA

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a team member in Requirements gathering for business process and also mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO.
• Documented critical changes performed system tests and trained client team members on new system functionality
• Configured AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Configured source symbols, planning levels, planning groups, treasury groupings for liquidity forecast, Cash management and Cash concentration.
• Worked extensively on configuring Lockbox and mapping Banking data format
• Worked on AP- Vendor transactions, Master data, Check management, house banks, payment program, payment terms, deduction management, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Logistics invoice verification, Evaluated receipt settlement.
• Designed structure for Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting and Internal orders.
• Worked on material ledger and product cost collector in product costing.
• Worked extensively on material ledger data and also collected actual data for material ledger.
• Has noledge in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, Configured cost based Profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in Profitability analysis.
• Worked on CRM implementation and activated Retail module.
• Worked on improving margins with CO-PA for retailing modules.
• Worked extensively on Profitability analysis.
• Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics. Defined both basic reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at customer and product levels.
• Developed multiple reports for the reporting of profitability. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-IO/FI and MM and involved in FI-SD integration.

Confidential, Durham, NC

SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on configurations and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-paying vendor invoices, AR-customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, dunning, Master data, CO-CCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects..
• Analyzed end user requirements and proposed some viable solutions for report improvement, QA and user training in CO. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Provided System configurations, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/P, A/R, Fixed Assets, Special ledger and Consolidation (EC-CS).
• Maintained multiple consolidation charts of accounts within a single dimension to generate multiple financial statements at the same time in order to meet various requirements.
• Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on the ECC 6.0 environment.
• Used report programs to create a budgeted financial statement to compare plan data with actual data and restricted the report to a period on a quarterly basis. Created Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements.
• Configured Cost Center Account Settings for Periodical Processing, Activity Based Costing (ABC), Order processing, maintain/ control Billing documents, Inventory management, Purchasing, Variant Configuration and complete design /configuration of general CO functionality (CCA)
• Worked on configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product costing.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA transfer structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA.
• Created the value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Defined various reports.
• Has thorough noledge in defining Costing Sheet and calculating Overhead.
• Activated and configured Material Ledger for multiple valuation and PUP.
• Integrated Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) component in the SAP System, for planned budget using various costing methods, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants in Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP).
• Releasing Production Orders, Confirming Operations, Simultaneous Costing, final Costing, Price Transfer / Update, Confirmation/ Settlement, and Period-End closing.
• Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement and also worked on Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost and special procurements and releasing of the new cost estimate.