SUMMARY

• SAP Functional Consultant in 8 years of professional expertise with SAP FICA/RMCA modules.
• Experience with Two Successful full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodologies.
• Full life cycle implementation using ASAP methodology, Understanding of As Is Business processes, Blue Print, Realization, Final Preparation and Post Go Live Support.
• Experienced on Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Preparation of Test Scripts, Authorization design for Roles with Security team and developing BPP's.
• Cross Functional Knowledge of Overall Business Processes in Technology, Pharmaceutical, Electrical, Utilities and Manufacturing Companies.
• Strong Functional Experience in Migration, Up - gradation, Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Integration, Testing, User Training and Support.
• Strong knowledge of Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow (RICEFW) in different FI/CO modules.
• SAP FICA/RMCA Implementation of the FICA/RMCA module implemented by the client for a specific business line involving mass business transactions.
• Experience on reviewing the business process with the users and preparing the FICA/RMCA account determination sheet based on the requirements of the business.
• Expertise on FICA/RMCA Revenue management contract accounting and FS-CD Financial services collections and disbursements.
• Configured and customized AR and AP modules for vendors subject to withholding tax.
• Involved in configuration of Withholding Tax and Sales and Use Tax.
• Worked on taxes configuration for tax procedures TAXUSJ and TAXUSX.
• Worked on batch jobs Processing, IDOCs processing, Data archiving Between EDI, FICA/ RMCA and Biller Direct.
• Worked on SAP FSCM Module Including SAP Collection Management, SAP Dispute Management, SAP Credit Management for processing customer invoice/complaints.
• Understood the technical aspects like ABAP programming, Debugging, LSMW, Batch Input session, BDC, BADI and SAP Script Forms.
• Extensive Financial Accounting FI experience in implementation of New General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable(AP), Accounts Receivable(AR), Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting and Treasury.
• Experience in implementation of Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting (IOA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing.
• Migration to New GL: Activating New GL, Migration Cockpit.
• Treasury experienced with Lockbox Processing, Liquidity Forecast, cash Management, and Cash concentration, Bank Statement Processing and Exchange Rates.
• Expertise in data migration system from legacy to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench LSMW that validates templates.
• Experienced working with SOX and SOD compliance.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination, Interfaces design and testing.
• Worked on a Project Systems implementation focusing mainly on Planning, Work In Progress (WIP) allocations, Planning, Budgeting, and WBS elements.
• Excellent communication skills, Team building and Project management skills, good analytical skills and logical approach to problem solving.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 Versions (4.6, 4.7) & ECC 6.0

Integration: FI & CO integration with MM, SD

Reporting: Crystal Reports, Hyperion

Tools: Solution Manager 4.0, MS Office, Excel & PowerPoint presentation.

Support: Develop User Guidelines / Manuals and End user support

Database: Oracle, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP, Vista, Windows 8.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Germantown, MD

SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Implementation & Support)

Responsibilities:

• Managed different RICEF object development for Invoice Processing.
• Analyzed the as-is system, did the Gap Analysis and designed the to-be system.
• Worked on Integration with Financial Accounting subsidiary ledgers and with Controlling (real-time integration of Controlling into Financial Accounting).
• Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable: Worked on Configuring Down payment, check forms and worked on EDI outbound and inbound 820,828.
• Designed the functional design documents on Open item conversion, custom reports and Enhancements.
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks, Automatic Payment Program, optimizing bank by bank group for wire payments, check lots and void reason codes, clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Provided solution for the issues on Vertex interface.
• Configured the work flow between CCS and FICA and wrote Functional Specifications.
• Worked on Master Data Management MDM of FICA.
• Created the Process steps for handling the FICA to external collection agencies. Configured the Releasing, Submitting and management of Submitted items.
• Configure and tested Master data Contract account, Assignment to the Business partner.
• Worked on FICA Configuration, Creation of Master data for Business Partners, Contract Accounts, and Billing Accounts.
• Customized the events for submitting receivables to external collection agencies in FICA. Configured the Display of the Bills, Credits and Payments, Payments and Paying Bills in Standard mode.
• Worked on the AR from the invoice creation process to the billing document.
• Responsible for configuring and testing Customer Master Data.
• Worked on automatic clearing process including Lockbox processing and matching the payment from the lockbox with the open invoice.
• Configured Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Configured Credit Control and Dunning Areas, customer groups and customer master data and generated various reports for customer credit management.
• Responsible for providing the Cash Application Process to meet the business requirements.
• Generate report which displays the documents from contract accounts receivable and payable FICA that have been transferred to the general ledger FI as totals records.
• Supported trouble shooting the Bank Interface for Credit Cards processing of Travel and Expense file.

Confidential, Fox borough, MA

Sr.SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, (Full life cycle implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Created the AS-IS Model of the system and performed a complete GAP analysis to identify problems and inconsistencies with the business requirements specification and the existing system.
• Assisted in designing and managing the use of Solution Manager for Business Blueprint, Business Process Procedures, Configuration Documents, Baseline Test Scripts and Integration Test Scripts.
• Assisted with configuration, technical master data and initial GO-Live user master data set. Worked on Assessments and Distributions in controlling for allocation overhead expenses.
• Specially focused on the Documented and SAP Interfaces using Archive linking, worked on BDC programming conversions, User Exit and BADI enhancements.
• Wrote the Functional specifications for the new application of Electronic Business Presentment and payment (EBPP).
• Unit testing and Integration testing of the developed functionality. Also worked on mercury testing.
• Inbound and Outbound IDOC set up process and generation of it. Worked on EDI- 820 and 827 to set up the flow of IDOC between Bank and SAP.
• Configured and customized AR and AP modules for vendors subject to Withholding Tax, interest calculations on item balance, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances/line items, automatic payment program, dunning program, credit management.
• Worked on F110 functionality to make the ACH process of the online payments.
• Establish audit trails for Corporate Tax provisions, review working papers prepared by audit staff, and coordinate and direct junior tax staff to ensure timely and accurate completion.
• Worked on Parallel valuation & multiple currencies (USD, Mexican Peso Canadian Dollar) in new general ledger.
• Configuring variance calculations, maintained settlement structures and WIP calculation, Integrating Product Costing with SD and MM, cost variants, valuation variants.
• Configured structures for Tax Jurisdiction codes, calculation procedures, message control and field control for Tax amounts.
• Worked on the Realization Phase and did the unit testing of the general ledger functions. Validated the USGAAP, MXGAAP with the Ledger Design and the Currency valuations.
• Configured Automated Payment Programs in Accounts Payable. Created EDI Partner Profile in WE20 and linked to House Banks.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr.SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, (Full life cycle implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business processes using ASAP implementation methodology.
• Worked on batch jobs Processing, IDOC Processing, Data archiving Between EDI and Biller Direct.
• Worked on integration of FI-GL with FICA, reconciliation key transfer, billing, Invoicing in contract accounts receivable and payable.
• Reconciliation between the general ledger and contract accounts receivable, summary records in the general ledger and compares them with the FICA.
• Created Budget billings and configured partial Bills. Worked on automatic clearing and account maintenance. Set up of payment lots.
• Maintained Full clearing and partial clearing process.
• Worked on FICA Revenue management contract accounting and FS-CD Financial services collections and disbursements.
• Worked on Collections and Dispute Management on FICA.
• TAX: Taxation Procedures TAXUSX, VAT configuration, interface configuration of third party software Vertex.
• Worked on VAT and Withholding taxes for Latin American countries. Used both input and Output tax categories.
• Changed tax procedure for ElSalvador to accommodate multiple tax codes per line item.
• Offshore Team Coordination by handling daily meeting with the offshore team to check the status of the tasks required to be done.
• Review vendor payments made to US vendors, and vendors accompanying US tax documentation to verify exemption from US withholding.
• Configured Withholding taxes, payment advices, foreign currency valuation, financial statement versions and cross company code transactions.
• Designed the process flows as per the Integration between the PS and FI modules. Configured the Standard operating process for PS.
• Configured Data, Resource, Material, Cost, Revenue planning and Budgeting process.

Confidential, Federal Way, WA

LEAD SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Tested various scenarios under New GL business transactions and document splitting.
• Configured GL Master records, posting period variants, document number ranges, Tolerance groups, Financial Statement versions, reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status groups, posting keys.
• Used AR information system to analyze customers based on payment history, overdue items, due date breakdown.
• Created and generated operating concern, created characteristics, value fields and defined the segment level characteristics to address the Profitability Analysis requirement.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), performed configuration for both costing based (CO-PA) and account based (CO-PA) created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• Configured valuation strategy for CO-PA using various valuation techniques with reference to Product Costing information, Costing sheet, condition types and user exits.
• Configured Material Cost estimate with quantity structure by defining costing types, valuation variants, transfer strategy, costing variants.
• Worked on Assessments and Distributions in controlling for allocation overhead expenses.
• Created Primary Cost Elements through automatic batch run, manually created secondary cost elements, assigned costing sheet to the controlling area, activated reconciliation ledger to keep activity within FI G/L in balance with CO.
• Integrated Cost Object Controlling component for planned budget using various costing methods, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants in Product Cost Planning (CO-PC).
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification in FI-MM integration and configured account determination and revenue recognition for FI-SD cycles.
• Worked on FI-MM integration: configure automatic account determination; ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (procure-to-pay P2P).

Confidential, San Rafael, CA

SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked in AR team in the areas cash applications and Lock Boxes. Worked with billing team on issues related to Debit memo, Credit memo and Invoice.
• Worked on Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Configured Bank Accounting, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Electronic Bank Statement EBS, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program APP.
• Setup House Bank for Automatic payments and EDI setup for inbound and outbound IDOC’s, BAI2 and ACH processing.
• Setup Lockbox in BAI2 format and configured Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Worked on Treasury module in Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal.
• Configuration of Master data groups, Incoming Payments, Terms of Payment, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Open item clearing and Credit Management in Accounts Receivable.
• Worked closely with the corporate teams regarding price control for different mater types-Standard and Moving Average Price, Split valuation.
• Configuration of Special Purpose Ledger, Document splitting and developed reports using report painter and Enhanced COPA.
• Configuring the Cost Estimates, Cost Collection Model and Implemented Profit Center Accounting.
• Configured Customer Master Data and master groups. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms.
• Lockbox Processing for incoming payments in Accounts Receivables.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FICO consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Involved in integration of Fixed Asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning Cost elements.
• Customization settings for Asset Accounting such as Chart of Depreciation, Account Determination, Number ranges, Asset classes.
• Participated in solving issues in Asset Accounting Configuration and Depreciation calculation.
• Customizing screen layouts for Asset Master data, Asset depreciation areas and Asset sub ledgers.
• Defining transaction types and account assignments for Asset acquisitions and Retirements.
• Configured fixed Assets relating to Asset Classes, Acquisitions, Documents postings and settlements, Posting Indicators for Depreciation Areas.
• Configuration of Asset classes, depreciation keys, depreciation areas, ordinary and unplanned depreciation runs, depreciation accounting low value asset, cutoff value key for Asset Accounting.
• Worked on Tax accounting: creation of input and output tax general ledger accounts, setting up different tax codes and assigning them to GL accounts.
• Resolving user queries in Tax posting journal entries.
• Experience in Intercompany concepts in Sales and Billing including Validation and Substitution concepts.
• Configured Account Receivables which included Dunning, Incoming payments settings, Down payments procedure and Credit management.
• Worked on closing activities like Posting Depreciation, parallel valuation, carrying out fiscal year change, simulation of depreciation of individual assets.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured company code settings, Defined Chart of accounts, account groups, assigned Chart of accounts to company codes.
• Grouped Customers/Vendors by company code and creation of account groups, number ranges for customers/vendors and respective screen layouts.
• Defined fiscal year variants and assigned fiscal year variants to various company codes.
• Designed the process for the configuration of general ledger, account receivable and account payable and coordinated with other team members for the development.
• Customized Credit Control Area for Credit Management in the application components AR and AP and also created Vendors, Customers and Cost Centers.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements in cost element accounting, configured cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes.
• Configured Cost Elements, Cost Center, Revenue Elements, Profit Center and Standard Hierarchies.