SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Consultant wif more TEMP than 7 years of implementation in Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO) and Account Payable (AP) modules and integration wif logistics modules (SD, SRM and MM).
• Three Full Life Cycle of SAP Implementations using ASAP Methodology wif experience in all project phases - Requirement gathering, Business blue print, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support.
• Provide functional assistance in the development of WRICEF objects (Workflow, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
• Extensive FI Experience in implementation of new General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Contract Accounts (FI-CA), Bank Accounting FI-BA.
• Experience wif PO Invoice functionality including large volume of expense invoices.
• SAP Accounts payable hands-on experience wif AP functionality including vendor master, bank master, invoice posting, payment processing, check printing and EFT payment files.
• Extensive experience wif Lockbox which includes creation of dis account at its bank, payment collection process for customer payments.
• Knowledge of end-to end AP functionality to prepare test scenarios and test data.
• Experience wif workflow tool for AP invoice management for scanning, invoice approval routing and invoice posting.
• Experience in testing scenarios such as Integration Testing, Test Script preparation, Functional, Unit Testing, Performance and End to End Testing.
• Knowledge of Test tools including ECATT, LSMW and User exit programming.
• Good knowledge of EDI/ IDOC interfaces wif third party software.
• Work closely wif Purchasing on P2P (Procure to Pay) and Sales on OTC (Order to Cash) processes.
• Effective communicator wif excellent skills in making Business Presentations, documentation, writing and developing Business reports and technical specifications.
• Experience wif HP Quality Centre (HPQC) and Solution Manager in all projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St Paul, MN

Sr. FI AP Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 GL, AP, AR, New G/L, Bank Accounting, vendor master, bank master, invoice posting, payment processing, check printing and EFT payment files, EBS, Validation, Material Ledger, Product Costing, Lockbox, HPALMQC, Sol Man (Solution Manager) and Dunning.

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked in all Project Phases which includes Project Initiation, Business Blue Print (Analysis & Designing), Realization (Configuration & Customization), Final Preparation (Testing, Training & Cutover), and Go-live Support & Post Live Support.
• Worked wif a 3rd party implementation partner, support the implementation and maintenance of SAP Financial Account & Management Accounting, including SAP module and 3rd party interfaces.
• Worked on Lockbox which includes creation of its account which acts as payment collection process and customer payments.
• Integrated Account Payable (AP) and Account Receivable (AR) modules wif MM and SD respectively wif respect to Account Determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings and Credit Collections.
• Worked on Profit Center Accounting (PCA), created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, defined Document Types, Number Range Assignment, PCA planning Parameters.
• Configured GL accounts, Vendor and Customer master data, defined the tax on sales and purchases and Tax accounts.
• Involved in Creating Internal Orders, assigned the costs related to dat internal order from different cost centers. Detailed configuration of overhead keys, costing sheets and Complete Cost Component Structure in Product Cost Planning.
• Derived characteristics; map the value fields by Sales & Distribution SD condition types, direct postings from FI and MM, cost center assessments, production order settlements and Integrated Planning in COPA.
• Worked on Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade, new implementation, integration, import of vendor and customer master data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Involved in the issues related to transferring AP/AR Sub ledger to Profit Center Accounts (PCA). Variance calculation and transfer to COPA.
• Tested majority of Account Receivables areas in HP Quality Centre which included creating test scripts, uploading them and test it manually for Unit testing, regression testing and integrated testing.
• Worked on Break-fix/Issue resolution activities during testing phases.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Sr. SAP FI AP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 GL, AP, AR, New G/L, Bank Accounting, vendor master, bank master, invoice posting, payment processing, check printing and EFT payment files, EBS, Validation, Material Ledger, Product Costing, Lockbox, HPALMQC, Sol Man (Solution Manager) and Dunning.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted As-Is study interacting wif the core team members and developed a To-Be process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology. Involved in Business Blueprint Phase and worked on field mapping to study the GAP Analysis.
• Integrated Account Payable (AP) and Account Receivable (AR) modules wif MM and SD respectively wif respect to Account Determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings and Credit Collections.
• Worked on Lockbox which includes creation of its account which acts as payment collection process and customer payments.
• Worked on Profit Center Accounting (PCA), created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, defined Document Types, Number Range Assignment, PCA planning Parameters.
• Configured GL accounts, Vendor and Customer master data, defined the tax on sales and purchases and Tax accounts.
• Involved in Creating Internal Orders, assigned the costs related to dat internal order from different cost centers. Detailed configuration of overhead keys, costing sheets and Complete Cost Component Structure in Product Cost Planning.
• Worked on AP scenarios: - Vendor master maintenance, Vendor invoice and credit memo postings, special ledger, park and posting parked invoices, down payment clearing, automatic payment program for check payments, house bank, ACH payments, wire payments, manual outgoing payments, defining check lots, release blocked invoices, and AP reporting.
• Worked on Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade, new implementation, integration, import of vendor and customer master data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Integrated Account Payable (AP) and Account Receivable (AR) modules wif MM and SD respectively wif respect to Account Determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings and Credit Collections.
• Involved in the issues related to transferring AP/AR Sub ledger to Profit Center Accounts (PCA). Variance calculation and transfer to COPA.
• Used ECATT and LSMW for creation and modification of master data of General Ledger accounts.
• Tested majority of Account Payable areas in HP Quality Centre which included creating test scripts, uploading them and test it manually for Unit testing, regression testing and integrated testing.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr. SAP FI AP Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 GL, AP, AR, New G/L, Bank Accounting, vendor master, bank master, invoice posting, payment processing, check printing and EFT payment files, EBS, Validation, Material Ledger, Product Costing, Lockbox, HPALMQC, Sol Man (Solution Manager) and Dunning.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on designing, developing and customizing the SAP system from Business blue print stage to Post go live support.
• Worked wif business management to gather requirements, prepared as-is to-be, configuration changes, unit testing and data conversion process.
• Worked on Accounts Payable module including creation of Vendor Master Records, default account assignments, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, check management, special G/L transactions defining tolerance groups, check management for the new transactions.
• Worked on AP scenarios: - Vendor master maintenance, Vendor invoice and credit memo postings, special ledger, park and posting parked invoices, down payment clearing, automatic payment program for check payments, house bank, ACH payments, wire payments, manual outgoing payments, defining check lots, release blocked invoices, manual check printing and AP reporting
• Worked on AP scenarios: - Vendor master data maintenance, full, partial, residual outgoing payments, invoice posting, maintained payment terms for customers, defined cash discount base for outgoing invoices, and SD billing invoices.
• Worked on AP/AR data uploading and conversion using LSMW functionality.
• Worked on account determination and interfaces between FI, MM and SD.
• Worked on Lockbox which includes creation of its account which acts as payment collection process and customer payments.
• Worked on Cost Center Accounting (CCA) including cost centers, activity types, cost center categories, document numbers, cost center standard hierarchy etc.
• Maintained the basic settings, master data for profit centers, profit center groups, dummy profit center, planning, actual postings and period end closing in Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA).
• COPC-costing run for the mass data for costing, marking and releasing the material wif quantity structure, exploded BOM’s and materials wif the final result of costing runs and price updates
• Analyzed and modified custom programs in accordance wif business user needs.
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents, training and documentation of all relevant process UAT, trouble shooting.
• Provided end user training, and assistance in developing user documents.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Sr. SAP FI AP Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 GL, AP, AR, New G/L, Bank Accounting, vendor master, bank master, invoice posting, payment processing, check printing and EFT payment files, EBS, Validation, Material Ledger, Product Costing, Lockbox, HPALMQC, Sol Man (Solution Manager) and Dunning.

Responsibilities:

• Involved wif all phases of implementation from conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, business blueprinting, and configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Profitability Analysis.
• The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process, organization structure finalizing and mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Configured Product cost using Production Planning cost collector.
• Assigned Number Ranges for Documents, Vendors and Customers,reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Used LSMW for mass data migration of vendor and customer master data
• Made settings for GL accounts forAUC, Loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, and posting depreciation under different Depreciation Areas.
• Worked on different Consolidation (ECCS) levels like Statutory Consolidation, Business Area Consolidation and Profit Centre Consolidation.
• Configured credit control area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers, costing based COPA, Account based COPA, created characteristic and value fields.
• Configured Costing Variants for Preliminary Costing in Cost Object Controlling.
• Maintained overhead cost elements, defined costing sheets, allocations and settlements in CO.
• Defined internal order types, planning and settlement profile and created standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, distribution and assessments in CO-PCA.
• Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for variance documents, used report painter and report writer.
• Worked on Integration of MM and SD wif FI accounts assignment and appropriation request, and investment measure in Investment Management.
• Prepared the cutover plan and carried out cutover tasks as per schedule and frequent meetings for discussion of issues, new requirement and fixing bugs.

Confidential, North Wilmington, DE

SAP FI AP Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 GL, AP, AR, New G/L, Bank Accounting, vendor master, bank master, invoice posting, payment processing, check printing and EFT payment files, EBS, Validation, Material Ledger, Product Costing, Lockbox, HPALMQC, Sol Man (Solution Manager) and Dunning

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Production Support and responsible for resolving all techno-functional issues related to AP, AR, PCA, CCA, COPA and COPC.
• Defined variance keys, valuation variants for WIP and scrap, target cost versions for variance calculation and result analysis keys, result analysis version, valuation methods and assignment for Work In Process (WIP).
• Created new House Banks for Automatic Payments and Lockbox, Internal Orders Settlement, Assessment and Distribution Cycles, Budget Uploads, Primary and Secondary cost elements, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures.
• Worked closely wif the MM consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO (goods receipt).
• Configured SD condition records in COPA by creating access sequence, tables, condition types and mapping of these value fields to SD condition types and assigned pricing procedure in COPA
• Coordinated wif various cross-functional teams throughout the organization to identify and assess system issues influencing multiple departments.
• Worked on AP scenarios: - Vendor master maintenance, Vendor invoice and credit memo postings, special ledger, park and posting parked invoices, down payment clearing, automatic payment program for check payments, house bank, ACH payments, wire payments, manual outgoing payments, defining check lots, release blocked invoices, and AR reporting.
• Created new tax jurisdiction codes and input/output tax keys and made changes to current input/output tax keys (tax calculations) as per new regulations and also worked on Tax software for 1099 forms.
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents, training and documentation of all relevant process UAT, trouble shooting.
• Worked on account determination and interfaces between FI, MM and SD.
• Provided post implementation support and training documents.

Confidential, Morgantown, WV

SAP Tester (FI AP)

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on writing the script for UAT, Parallel and End to End.
• Extensively worked on HP Quality Center and Landscape Management.
• Participated in Unit testing, Integration Testing and UAT of SAP HR, FI/CO, SCM and tracked defects using HP Quality Center.
• All UAT queries went in to a parking lot and provided effective solutions in the form of configuration changes and enhancements in SD, FI and HR.
• Resolved configuration and functional business issues.
• Configured Eligibility rules for the employees based on their duration of hours.
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for the plans.
• Coordinated wif other team members to test end-to-end test scenarios.
• Tracked Test discrepancies on day to day basis in conference calls and resolved.
• Conducted unittesting, integration Configured Accounts Payable includes Vendor Master Data, Vendor Groups, House Banks, Payment Program and Recurring entries, Credit memos, and Special Ledger.
• Worked on Interest Calculation, billing, and Dunning, Incoming Payments, and Cash Discounts.
• Worked on Asset Accounting (AA) including testing, UATtesting, and user training.
• Worked closely wif SAP configuration team to create manual test scripts, scenarios, test data and test conditions in quality center.
• Worked wif basis team, functional teams wif the issues of load testing.