SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of hands on experience in implementing, configuring, customizing, testing, integration and providing user training and support in configuring SAP R/3 4.7 and ECC 6.0 in FI, CO, FM and GM modules.
• Experience in all stages of Life cycle implementation including Project Preparation, analyzing As - Is and To - Be systems, Business Blue Printing, Conducted Workshops, GAP Analysis, worked on Realization, Final Preparation, Go- Live and Post Implementation Support.
• 3 full life cycle implementations with extensive work experience across various industries like Pharmaceutical, Public Sector, and Manufacturing Industries in teh SAP ERP versions: SAP R/3 4.7 and ECC 6.0.
• Financial accounting expertise includes configuring New General Ledger, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR).
• Worked on Consolidations (EC-CS), Configured ECCS for real-time posting, customer-defined characteristic, and Currency Translation and Inter Unit eliminations.
• Controlling expertise includes Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Proven Track record of Production support for FI/CO module with emphasis on CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC, CO-PA, FI-AP/AR, and New GL.
• Excellent noledge in Integration of FI with MM and SD and thorough noledge of overall business processes such as Order-to-Cash cycle (OTC) and Procure-to-Pay cycle (PTP).
• Defined Account Assignment Derivation Strategy using Funds Management ‘Derivation Tool’ (FM Derive) for deriving FM accounts assignments.
• Worked on various configurations in Budget Control System (BCS) including activating Account Assignment Elements, defining Budget Category, Budget Types, Setting for Availability Control Ledger. Involved in creating budget structures, budgets update profiles and roll up of budget values to prevent budget overrun issues.
• Worked closely with teh Material Management team on SAP FI & FM issues related to Purchase Orders and Purchase requisitions.
• Worked on Various configurations in Grant Management such as Maintain Grant Ledgers, Maintain Grant Responsibilities, Maintained Award Type and GM Fund Type for FM Fund Type, Maintained Grants Management Assignment Derivation Rules. Created Master data for Grant Management. Excellent noledge in grants distribution and management. Provided insights on functionality enabled by Grants Management.
• Worked closely with integration of Grant Management (GM) with other functional modules.
• Knowledge of Project System (PS), Production Planning (PP), and Plant Maintenance (PM) modules.
• Worked on Data migration from Legacy system to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) and CATTS.
• Developed Reports/Drill-Down reports using Report Painter and ABAP QUERY.
• Wrote end to end test plans for unit, integration and regression testing and expertise in HPQC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Foxborough, MA

SAP Consultant / FICO

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured various aspect of Controlling includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Internal Orders (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Cost Center Accounting (CCA) - Created Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Cost Center Groups, document numbers ranges, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment.
• Cost Element Accounting (CEA) - Configured Cost Element Accounting by creating primary and secondary cost elements, cost elements groups, maintained cost element attributes, defined activity types and statistical key figures.
• Profit Center Accounting (PCA) - Maintained Profit center structure, Standard Hierarchy, Profit Center groups, Profit Center. Used Report Painter to generate various reports from Profit Center Data.
• Internal Orders (IO) - Defined internal orders, order types, planning profiles, Budget Profile and settlement profile. Maintained allocation structures, settlement cost elements, source structure, PA settlement structure, settlement profiles and settings for automatic generation of settlement rules for settlement of internal orders.
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) - Configured teh settings for implementation of Costing based profitability analysis. Configured teh operating Concern and defined teh attributes and teh data structures. Created teh value fields for teh operating concern from field catalogue and also defined some user defined value fields. Assigned values to value fields by mapping SD condition types to value fields after discussing teh appropriate condition types to be used with teh SD team. Also mapped teh SD quantity fields to relevant CO-PA quantity fields. Defined structure for cost center to CO-PA assessments by creating an assessment cycle with assigning teh profitability segment as teh receiver value.
• Configured settings for outbound and inbound IDOCs.
• Used CATTS for uploading cost center master data.
• Helped teh training team to develop training material and documented teh daily activities.
• Involved in cutover activities pre go-live and Production Support.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP Consultant/ FM & GM

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support to users involving Budget & Finance issues. This involved Funds Management (FM), Grant Management (GM), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), New General Ledger (GL), Project Systems (PS), and Special Purpose Ledger (SPL).
• Resolved and tracked various SAP production support incidents and service requests.
• Worked on various Production Change Requests (PCRs) on SAP Funds Management & Finance Issues. This involved documenting teh detailed description of teh configuration changes to teh SAP production system. Analyzing teh changes and business impact of these changes. And documenting teh approval response including change implementation information.
• Integration of FM with Other Module - Worked closely with teh Material Management team on SAP FI & FM issues relating to Purchase Orders and Purchase requisitions.
• Created Master data for Grant Management (GM) such as Grantor, grant, expenditure and revenue types, grantor program.
• Integration of GM with other Module - Worked closely in integration of Grant Management (GM) with other functional modules like Funds Management (FM), Controlling (CO), Financial Accounting (FI), Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Human Resources (HR).
• Budgeting - Worked closely with teh Budget team on teh Monthly Budget Plan development and user training Involved in budget structures, budgets updates and roll up of budget values to prevent budget overrun issues
• Reporting - Worked closely to develop various Monthly Budget Plan reports such as Commitment Item Projections Report, Fund Center, Functional Area,Commitment Item Report.

Confidential, Georgia

SAP Consultant/ FM & GM

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Business Blue Print - Created Business Blueprint Documents for FM Account Assignment Derivation, FM Budget Process, FM Commitment Item, FM Earmarked Funds, FM Functional Area, FM Fund, FM Fund Center, FM Funded Program & FM Year End.
• FM Account Assignment Derivation - Defined Account Assignment Derivation Strategy using Funds Management ‘Derivation Tool’ (FM Derive) for deriving FM accounts assignments (Commitment Item, Funds Center, Fund, Functional Area and Funded Program) during transaction entry, using a combination of FI, CO, PM and MM objects. Derivation types used included Assignment, Table Lookup, Function Module & Derivation Rule
• Creation of Master Data - Maintained authorization check on budget entries, created commitment hierarchy, maintained master data and time dependency in account assignment for Funds management. Worked on Funds management hierarchy, funds centers hierarchy and generated reports. Assigned funds management account assignment to controlling account assignment. Assigned funds centers to cost centers, WBS elements, orders, profit centers and worked on status management.
• Integration of FM with Other Module - Integrated FM module with Finance, Controlling, Grants Management, Materials Managements modules. Assisted in analyzing business processes and developing work flows
• Budget Control System (BCS) - Configured Budget Control System (BCS) defined Budget Categories and Budget Types, defined layouts for Budget Workbench, defined Check Libraries for Budget Addresses and Closing Operations for Budget Control System (BCS)
• Grant Management (GM) - Maintain Grant Ledgers, configured Accounts Receivable for Grantee Management, Maintain Company Code Settings, Maintain Update Settings, Maintain Grant Responsibilities, Maintain Award Type, Maintain Grant Number Ranges, Maintain Grant Types, Maintain GM Fund Type for FM Fund Type, Maintain Grants Management Assignment Derivation Rules.
• Creation of Master data for Grant Management(GM) - Created Master data for Grant Management such as Grantor, grant, expenditure and revenue types, grantor program
• Reporting - Worked closely with team to develop various Monthly Budget Plan reports such as Commitment Item Projections Report, Fund Center, Functional Area and Commitment Item Report. Worked on various SAP Funds Management reports.

Confidential, IA

SAP Consultant / FICO

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• New GL - Worked on New GL in teh areas of parallel accounting, document splitting and real-time integration between FI and CO. Activated segment dimensions to produce segment reports as required by IFRS/US GAAP. Configured, financial statement versions and cross company code transactions.
• Account Receivable(AR) - Configured customer account groups, number ranges, maintained accounts for discount and residual payments, and configured dunning procedures and automatic interest calculation procedures in Accounts Receivable. Configured Lockbox setup, defined control parameters for BAI2 file import, for handling incoming payments from customers.
• Account Payable(AP) - Configured Vendor Groups as per requirements, assigned number ranges, configured fields status for Vendor Groups. Configured vendor/customer who is also customer/vendor as a trading partner. Configured all business transactions for accounts payable including teh automatic payment program, master records, clearing of vendor open items, house banks for payment program, Periodic processing and correspondence.
• Assets Management(AM) - Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, assigned company codes to depreciation areas, created screen layouts and number ranges, configured depreciation keys, depreciation run, periodic depreciation posting. Maintained asset master data for asset acquisitions, retirements, inter-company transfers, settlement of AUC to assets and configured leased assets. Simulated asset reports, asset history sheets and depreciation to provide desired reports to teh local accounting team.
• Consolidation (EC-CS) - Edited item hierarchies of consolidation chart of accounts. Created and mapped new transactions types and assigned transaction groups in ECCS. Configured balance carry forward transaction types to carry forward balances during Fiscal year end close process. Configured and setup new consolidation units
• Prepared functional specifications for conversions and interfaces, performed post go live trouble shooting in FI and CO and documented various business process flows and produced end user procedures.

Confidential, KY

SAP Consultant / FICO

Responsibilities:

• Involved in teh Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 from testing phase, go-live and production support. Mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support. Studied teh changes in teh standard SAP system for teh new version and prepared change configuration scripts.
• General ledger (GL) - System configuration and testing in teh areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss for inter-company transactions.
• Account Receivable (AR) - System configuration and testing in teh areas of AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD - Complete noledge of teh workflow from teh creation of sales order to delivery and billing in teh Sales & Distribution module dat involves teh Order-to-Cash end to end process as well as expertise in configuration of account determination in FI from MM and SD transactions.
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) - Configured costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using Product Costing and Costing sheet. Designed and developed contribution margin reports in CO-PA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter.
• Cost Center Accounting (CCA) - Set-up planning profile for cost center, statistical key figures and cost element planning, worked on Allocation using cycle segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessments for costs to product line cost centers. Configuration of Cost Center Accounting which included creation of Cost Center hierarchy, creation of cost center, attaching work centers to Cost Centers, attaching Cost Centers to Profit Centers.
• Profit Center Accounting (PCA) - Maintained standard hierarchy, Created profit center. Configured Planning layout, Planning profile, Plan allocations for Profit Center Accounting.
• Testing -Tested teh system rigorously covering all teh business cases to ensure teh integrity of teh system after teh upgrade. As a member of testing team monitored integration-testing efforts and drafted teh testing scripts. Performed System, Volume and Interface testing during various phases of test cycle. Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging.

Confidential, Broom field, CO

SAP Consultant /FICO

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Used ABAP debugger extensively to fix issues related to FICO configurations and reports related to FICO.
• Used watch points in ABAP reports to handle value issues in fields displayed through teh report lists.
• General ledger - Configured settings for Account Assignment models and Recurring entries. Created reconciliation accounts, GL accounts for automatic postings.
• Account Receivable - Customized Credit Management Functionality including Maintenance of Credit Control Areas, Credit Risk Categories, and Credit Representative Groups. Configured and Tested teh Lock Box program for Accounts Receivable.
• Cost Center Accounting (CCA) - Created cost centers and cost center categories, default CO objects assignments, maintained automatic account assignment in OKB9.
• Profit Center Accounting (PCA) - Created custom report in PCA and modified existing report in PCA using report painter/report writer for teh users’ requirement by functional area.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD - Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) in FI MM (Procure to Pay) integration and configured for automatic postings to G/L accounts for MIGO and MIRO transactions and settings for GR/IR clearing.
• ABAP Query - Created an ABAP Query to sort teh customer grouped under accounting clerks and credit representative groups and to display teh customer Credit Report.

Confidential, Durham, NC

SAP Consultant/ FICO

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Implemented teh Finance and controlling modules for Pharmaceutical Company, which involved blueprinting, business process prototyping and configuration, integration testing, and end user training, which led to effective noledge transfer to core team members and end users.
• Blue Printing - In Blueprint phase, interacted with Client business users for requirements gathering and analysis. Analyzed teh As-Is system and successfully designed and mapped teh To-Be system on SAP at clients site. Conducted GAP analysis, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Basic Organizational Setting - Set up company codes, chart of account, fiscal year variants, tolerance limits, and Financial Statement variant, Configured chart of accounts with teh necessary automatic account assignment configuration. Defined teh company code global parameters by assigning teh already existing chart of accounts, fiscal year variant and credit control area. Configured teh posting period variant and field status variant according to teh current company requirements and assigned it to teh company code.
• Internal Orders (IO) - Configured Internal Order by maintaining order types, maintained settlement rules, settlement profiles.
• Product Costing (PC) - Defined costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, and transfer control and reference variants for Configuring costing variant. Maintained settings for Costing sheet, Configuring settings for BOM and Routing Selection, control keys for operations and formulas for costing. Created and executed Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at teh same time to update teh price in teh material master record using Standard Cost estimate. Configured settings for production orders to collect actual costs, plan costs and determine WIP at teh end of every period and variance calculation after teh order is technically completed. Defined results analysis keys, results analysis versions, Line Id’s, assignment of Line Id’s to cost elements for calculating teh Work In Process (WIP) and defined posting rules for settling Work In Process.
• Testing- Developed various test plans for testing requirements, used Mercury Win Runner to create auto test scripts to perform functional test and upload master data records for A/P, AR/ G/L, AA, CCA & IO. Developed integrated test for month end and year end closing procedures. Performed integrated testing, system testing and regression testing. Performed validations after data migration to check if customer data was correctly transferred. Tested various reports dat were developed using Report Painter dat was integrated with different sub-modules of FI-CO.

Confidential, Odell, OR

SAP Consultant / FICO

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Account Payable (AP) - Configured Vendor Account Groups, House Banks, Bank accounts, Check lots, Reason codes, and Automatic payments.
• Information System - Managed financial information dealing with Assets, liabilities, capital and prepared Balance sheet (B/S), Profit and Loss (P&L) statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for department managers.
• Assets Management (AM) - Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs and post capitalization. Grouped assets into manageable Asset Classes and customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges. Created a Chart of Depreciation. Made settings for GL accounts for Asset under Construction (AUC), loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, for posting depreciation under different Depreciation Areas.
• Cost Center Accounting (CCA) - Customized teh standard hierarchy, cost centers, activities and statistical key figures, developed assessment, distribution, periodic reposting cycles and segment in Cost Center Accounting.
• Product Costing (PC) - Maintained settings for Costing Sheet like calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, and quantity based overhead rate in Product Costing (CO-PC). Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure. Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC. Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times
• Reporting - Generated reports using tools like Report Painter and ABAP Query.
• Testing - Involved in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.