SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Functional Consultant with more than 9 years of implementation in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling, FSCM modules and integration with logistics modules SD (OTC) and MM (P2P).
• Three Full Life Cycle of SAP Implementations using ASAP Methodology with experience in all project phases - Requirement gathering, Business blue print, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support.
• Possess industrial experience and strong domain knowledge of business processes in Software, pharmaceuticals, technology, retail and Manufacturing sectors.
• Provide functional assistance in the development of WRICEF objects (Workflow, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms). Extensive Experience working with ABAP, Basis, Data Warehouse and other teams in design and implementation of SAP FI functionalities.
• Extensive FI Experience in implementation of New General Ledger Accounting FI-GL, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Fixed Assets Accounting, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Asset Accounting FI-AA and Cost Accounting, Dunning and Special Ledger Transactions and document splitting.
• Extensive CO expertise in implementation of Material ledger Actual Accounting, Cost and Revenue Element Account, COPA, PCA, Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA and Product Costing CO-PC.
• Good Experience in FSCM including In House Cash, Cash and Liquidity Management, Credit and collections Management, Treasury and EBS. Worked with major banks in a multinational Company for Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), conversion, translation and multi-currency, multi Country Company codes implementations.
• Extensive experience in FI- GL with New GL full lifecycle implementations, and allocations and translations. Expertise on SAP Global Taxes including U.S and European Taxes.
• Experience in testing scenarios such as FUT, Integration Testing, and Test Script preparation, Functional, Unit Testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and End to End Testing. Expertise of Software Quality Assurance andTesting(SQAT) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements analysis, design, development,testing in HP QC.
• Effective communicator with excellent skills in making Business Presentations, documentation, writing, developing Business reports and technical specification and also involved interacting with clients on daily basis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Sr. FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, GL, A/P, A/R, Lock box, document Splitting, LSMW, FI- GL, Electronic Bank StatementsOrder to Cash, Intercompany, COPA, PCA, AAP, Validation, Material Ledger, Fixed Assets, Automate

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Finance accounting and controlling on AP, AR, FI- GL and Product Costing to support their current implementation, making enhancements to existing functionality and minor projects requested by business.
• Heavily worked on supporting Accounts payable and Accounts Receivable Issues reported by users on daily basis along with business. Followed the business process to document the issues using Service Desk Manager and My Help tools in order to track changes as needed.
• Worked on extensive number of enhancements to existing functionality in main area of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable as well as Integration areas including Sales distribution and Material Management.
• Worked on major reports in Accounts payable which included Accounts Analysis reports, Audit Reports, P.O Invoice reports and Taxes reports. Also made enhancements to Vendor Inquiry Tracking and Contracted Service Database areas reports.
• Worked with major banks like BOA, CITI, JPM, Mellon and HSBC in a multinational Company for AP and AR transactions processing with Electronic Bank statement (EBS) for Cash management areas.
• Heavily worked with Major Brazil and Mexico banks to create the Outgoing payment files formats as per bank requirements. Created incoming and outgoing payment files in flat file and XML formats using the standard programs as well as Data Medium structure by using customized trees.
• Worked on supporting Product costing areas which included cost Centre Accounting sub area as information of cost centers, work center, Activity types and Activity wise cost canters to determine conversion costs with manufacturing process. Worked on material and stock valuation as well.
• Generated quarterly reports and worked on month end and year end activities.
• Worked on AR and OTC scenarios: - Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting, maintained payment terms for customers, defined cash discount base for outgoing invoices, and SD billing invoices.
• Worked on test scenarios, integration test documents, training and documentation of all relevant process. Worked with ABAP, Basis, and HR teams in design and implementation of SAP FI functionalities.

Confidential, ST. Paul, MN

Sr. FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, GL, AP, AR, New GL, Bank Accounting, Intercompany Billing, Lock box, document SplittingFI- GL, EBS, OTC, BA, AA, intercompany, COPA, PCA, AAP, Validation, Material LedgerFixed Assets, Automate wire payments, EDI, Project System, Lockbox, HPALMQC and Dunning.

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Finance accounting and Controlling on Fixed assets, AP, AR, FI- GL using ASAP Implementation Methodologies in all Project Phases i.e. Project Initiation, Business Blue Print (Analysis & Designing), Realization (Configuration & Customization), Deployment, Final Preparation (Testing, Training & Cutover), Go-live Support & Post Live Support.
• Heavily worked on configuration heavily worked on configuration in AR, AP, GL, Asset Accounting, Direct and Indirect taxes, excise taxes, New GL, multi Country Company codes implementations including Indian localization.
• Worked on core configuration for Integration of FI with BI Module. Configured Design documents focuses on the Product Costing functionality to be implemented for SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) v6.0 as part of the Visibility to Profitability project. Worked on IFRS and GAAP for various taxes including sales and Withholding taxes.
• Worked with major banks like BOA, CITI, JPM, and HSBC in a multinational Company for AP and AR transactions processing with Electronic Bank statement (EBS) for Treasury module.
• Worked on Lockbox which includes creation of its account which acts as payment collection process and customer payments. Heavily worked on Parking & Posting of FI documents & related Workflow approvals. Generated quarterly reports and worked on month end and year end activities.
• Worked on AR and OTC scenarios: - Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting, maintained payment terms for customers, defined cash discount base for outgoing invoices, and SD billing invoices.
• Resolved failed tax documents that did not update the Vertex Tax ledger due to consistency failures.
• Worked on various RICEFW (reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements, forms, workflows) objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects.
• Worked on test scenarios, integration test documents, training and documentation of all relevant process and EDI (Electronic data interface) for Migration.
• Worked with ABAP, Basis, Data Warehouse and other teams in design and implementation of SAP FI functionalities.
• Tested payment run program, custom program of check printing, invoice verification and billing document creation.
• Performed Data Report Process, functionaltesting, integrationtestingand regressiontesting during various phases. Created BPP's and training documentation for the End-Users.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Sr. FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, GL, AP, AR, New G/L, PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CCA (Cost Center Accounting), AA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Finance accounting included AP, Fixed Assets, AR, GL, Taxes using ASAP Implementation Methodologies in all Project Phases i.e. Project Initiation, Business Blue Print (Analysis & Designing), Realization (Configuration & Customization), Final Preparation (Testing, Training & Cutover), Go-live Support & Post Live Support.
• Heavily worked on configuration in FI- GL, Asset Accounting, and Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Product costing, Direct and Indirect taxes,New GL, multi Country Company codes implementations including Indian implementation.
• Worked on Lockbox which includes creation of its account which acts as payment collection process and customer payments. Worked on core configuration for Integration of FI with BI Module as well.
• Worked on Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade, new implementation, integration, import of vendor Master and customer master data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Worked on AR scenarios: - Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting, maintained payment terms for customers, defined cash discount base for outgoing invoices, and SD billing invoices.
• Worked with JP Morgan, BAC, HSBC, CITI, Deutsche Bank to verify the automatic payments by sending the payment to the banks after receiving daily Electronic Bank statements (EBS) from banks for Treasury. Worked on IFRS and GAAP for various taxes including sales and Withholding taxes.
• Involved in Creating Internal Orders, assigned the costs related to that internal order from different cost centers. Detailed configuration of overhead keys, costing sheets and Complete Cost Component Structure in Product Cost Planning. Created Quires for ABAP teams to test the functionality of FI and set up the batch job for Report writer reports.
• Worked on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and provided training to users during post go live support.
• Worked on quarterly reports and month end transactions and year end activities. Worked on various RICEFW (reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements, forms, workflows) objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects.
• Worked closely with ABAP, Basis and other teams in design and implementation of SAP FI and CO functionalities.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr. FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP AR, GL, Taxes, Credit Management, FUT Testing, COPA, House banksLockbox, Accrual calculations, General Ledger and Product costing, document splittingLSMW, Logistics Invoice verification, Cost Center planning, Project System, Cost center, Sol ManHPQC

Responsibilities:

• Worked on designing, developing and customizing the SAP system from Business blue print stage to Post go live support and interacted daily with business partners and client.
• Worked with business management to gather requirements, prepared as-is to-be, configuration changes, unit testing and data conversion process.
• Heavily worked on configuration in General Ledger, FI- GL A/R, A/P, Consolidation, Cost Elements, Excise taxes, Fixed Assets, Travel Expense, and other areas of the FI and CO modules.
• 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 with quantity structure, exploded BOM’s and materials with the final result of costing runs and price updates.
• Worked on various RICEFW (reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements, forms, workflows) objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects.
• Worked on AP scenarios: - Worked with JP Morgan, HSBC, CITI, Deutsche Bank to verify the automatic payments by sending the payment to the banks after receiving daily Electronic Bank statements (EBS) from banks.
• Automatic payment program for check payments, house bank, ACH payments, wire payments, manual outgoing payments, defining check lots, release blocked invoices, manual check printing, cancel payment, and AP reporting in Treasury EBS.
• Configured Designdocuments focuses on the Product Costing functionality to be implemented for SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) v6.0 as part of the Visibility to Profitability project.
• Worked on AP/AR data uploading and conversion using LSMW functionality.
• Worked on account determination, Fixed Assets and Internal orders 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.
• Analyzed and modified custom programs in accordance with business user needs.
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents, training and documentation of all relevant process UAT, trouble shooting.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, GL, AP, AR, P2P, BCM, New G/L, OTC, FUT, Integration, PCA, CCA, AA (Asset Accounting), AAP, Validation, Taxes, Dunning, Material Ledger, Project System, Advances and Intercompany and HPQC.

Responsibilities:

• Involved with 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.
• Involved heavily in 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, direct taxes an d excise, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups and Fixed assets related areas.
• Worked with major domestic banks like BOA, CITI and HSBC in a multinational Company for Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) for Treasury.
• Worked on various RICEFW (reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements, forms, workflows) objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects.
• Used LSMW for mass data migration of vendor master and customer master data
• Made settings for GL accounts forAUC, Fixed Assets and Internal orders, 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, and Account based COPA, created characteristic and value fields, Costing Variants for Preliminary Costing in Cost Object Controlling.
• Maintained overhead cost elements, defined costing sheets, allocations and settlements in CO.
• Worked on internal order types, planning and settlement profile and created standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, distribution and assessments in CO-PCA, BCM.
• Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for variance documents, used report painter and report writer.
• Created Lock box, Bank Master Data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors master, customers and assets.
• Involved on automatic payment program (FBZP) for outgoing payments, which included payment methods, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, and automatic account determination using FBKP.
• Worked on Integration of MM and SD with FI accounts assignment and appropriation request, and investment measure in Investment Management.
• Prepared the cutover and deployment plan and carried out cutover tasks as per schedule and frequent meetings for discussion of issues, new requirement and fixing bugs and helped in support role as well.

Confidential, North Wilmington, DE

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, GL, AP, P2P, FUT Testing, Integration testing, AR, Project System, FS-RI, FS-CD, FI- GL, PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CCA (Cost Center Accounting), OTC, COPA, BA, AA (Asset Accounting), Service Management, AAP, Validation, Material Ledger, Product Costing, Sol Man and HPQC.

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Production Support and responsible for resolving all techno-functional issues related to AP, AR, PCA, CCA, COPA and COPC.
• Worked on various RICEFW (reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements, forms, workflows) objects including design and development of various complex interfaces and conversion objects.
• Supported configuration for 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 with the MM consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO (goods receipt).
• Involved in the issues related to transferring AP/AR Sub ledger to Profit Center Accounts (PCA). Variance calculation and transfer to COPA.
• Supported 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 with various cross-functional teams throughout the organization to identify and assess system issues influencing multiple departments
• 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.
• Worked on Break-fix/Issue resolution activities during testing phases.
• Worked closely with ABAP, Basis, Data Warehouseand other teams in design and implementation of SAP FI functionalities.
• Conducted Functionalitytestingduring various phases of the application using QC Configuring the Enterprise Structure for Sales and Distribution (SD) and Material Management (MM) module.
• Responsible for preparation of the test data for End-User Performance based training on the system.

Confidential, Morgantown, WV

SAP Tester (FICO)

Environment: ECC 6.0, UAT testing, Integrated Testing, Test Scripts, HP Quality Center, Testing tools, testing scenarios, user training, AA Testing, Solution Manager and ALM HPQC testing tool.

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, COPA, PCA, AA, 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 with 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 with SAP configuration team to create manual test scripts, scenarios, test data and test conditions in quality center.
• Worked with basis team, functional teams with the issues of load testing.
• Worked on Break-fix/Issue resolution activities during testing phases.