SUMMARY

• Extensive experience as SAP FICA Consultant with Utilities domain experience with three full life cycle implementation and two production support projects.
• Worked in different phases of Implementation - Realization, Design, Customization, Configuration, Testing, Go-Live, Cutover and Production support phases.
• Good Knowledge in analyzing the Business Requirements, Flow Chart Maintenance and mapping them as per SAP processes.
• Proficient in SAP’s ASAP Methodology and well versed with business process, its mapping & configuration in SAP.
• Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FICA, FICO modules.
• Experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders including technical teams in order to accomplish project goals.
• Expertise in testing configuration settings: Regression Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Prepared training material and gave end user training to the process owners as well as to Core Team Members and also maintained detailed documentation.
• Project management skills including working with user community, understanding their needs and developing strategies to implement them.
• Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business processes and proposed long-term and short-term strategic solutions.
• Impressionable interpersonal written and oral communication skills with the aptitude to work collaboratively at various levels within the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Versions: 4.7, ECC 6.0.

Reporting Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer

General Tools: Visio, MS Office, MS Project

MS Office: Excel ( VlookUP & Pivot), MS-Word, MS-Powerpoint

Tracking Tools: HPQC, MS Outlook, SOLMON, LOTUS Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, California

SAP FICA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, conduct workshops with the business users, analyzing, designing, configuring and testing and providing post implementation support.
• Responsible for requirements gathering, Process Definition and systems analysis and designing, identifying, monitoring and scheduling specifications.
• Documentation includes High Level Business Requirements, High Level Functional Design Requirements for the development of custom programs.
• Conduct meetings with the business, Technical Lead, and technical IT resources to analyze impact to business, to gather functional design requirements for configuration enhancements.
• Analyze SAP transactions & configurations in order to complete functional design requirements for configuration enhancements and provide a full list of systems impacted.
• Worked on FICA/RMCA sub ledger accounting for processing large document volumes and for configured accounts receivable, business partner and contract accounts.
• Worked on FICA/RMCA (Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable) for managing the contract accounts on open item basis and processed open items paid by the payment cards.
• Involved in the manual and automatic creation of documents in FICA/RMCA and configured the reconciliation keys.
• Managed the outgoing payments of the business partner and the contract account in FICA/RMCA and executed the payment runs.
• Configured dunning program, dunning levels and dunning areas for each company at company code level.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team. This includes creating process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to the team.
• Worked on integration testing and supported users during testing with different modules.
• Provided Production support to the users.
• Involved in preparation of End User training Documentation and provided trainings to End users.
• Coordinated with both on-site and off-site teams.

Confidential, San Mateo, California

SAP FICA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Meet the business partners, project managers, and vendor partners to determine project scope and vision, set system goals, identify and resolve system issues, and lead prioritization of build items.
• Responsible for communicating changes, enhancements and modifications to stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project throughout the solution development life cycle, from establishing vision and scope to validating requirements.
• Worked with key users for troubleshooting: investigates, analyses, and solves software problems and maps business requirements, processes and objectives; develops necessary product modifications.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICA/RMCA.
• Created and Defined new company codes and customized as per the client’s requirements.
• Maintained automatic payment program for new payment methods in multiple company codes.
• Responsible for transferring FICA/RMCA documents periodically to the GL of the FI component or to a non-legacy system.
• Worked on mass data processing and acceleration of critical activities such as postings, payments and returns processing in FICA/RMCA.
• Configured and executed the dunning proposal runs of the business partner and assigned the dunning procedures to the contract accounts in FICA/RMCA.
• Responsible for testing and assisted in testing of reports and documents.
• Provided production support to users and helped them resolving their problems.
• As part of team member actively worked with internal team to perform batch jobs and to resolve issues, requests, tickets, enhancements.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

SAP FICA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included interacting with client’s business process team, collect all the business requirements, create functional specifications documents which would be used by the construction/programming team.
• Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record and Customer Master Record.
• Created company code, Chart of Accounts, Account Determination, Account Groups, Fiscal Year variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Credit control area, substitutions, validations and Financial statement version, cost centre standard hierarchy, document types and number ranges, field status groups etc.
• Created contract partner profile accounts and posted the receivables and worked on GL reconciliation activities in FICA/RMCA.
• Worked on account balance for month end activities and transactions and account determinations in FICA/RMCA.
• Involved in solving the production issues in Automatic Payment Program (APP), Account Assignment, and interest calculation on open items and foreign currency valuation.
• Involved in testing in development and Q&A environments. Issues resolving, compile documentation, user training and sign off.

Confidential, Valley Forge, PA

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed month end activities and Setting of Financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Provided support to end-users when database applications are migrated to new technology or upgraded to new versions.
• Involved as a team member in supporting and solving issues in General ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR).
• Maintained Validations and substitutions for Development, R&D, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing for the Order-to Cash, Procure -to-Pay processes.
• Resolved production support issues and worked on financial reports using Report painter/writer tools.
• Worked with all testing related activities.

Confidential, St. Paul, Minnesota

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on testing GL/AR/AP/CO-CCA/CO-PCA/CO-PA Modules.
• Tested GL, AP, AR and assigning different process keys as required.
• Tested Automatic Payment Program for vendors and worked on daily accounting transactions in AR.
• Worked Closely with SD team in their sales process and transferring billing documents to AR.
• Tested master data upload of asset master records.
• Created training documents to run AR/AP regrouping and foreign exchange revaluation.
• Responsible for solving the defects during the Integration and User acceptance testing.
• Performed unit, regression, integration testing and assisted the business users for performing acceptance and quality assurance.