SUMMARY

• 7 Years + of Information Technology experience including Design, Configuration, Customization and Implementation of SAP FI/CO projects.
• Worked in full cycle implementation using ASAP methodology with experience in all project phases - Business blueprint, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Production Support.
• Financial Accounting (FI) experience includes General Ledger (GL), New GL, Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Accounting (BA), Collection Management, Treasury (TR) and Consolidation.
• Expertise in different aspects of a business relating to FI-GL Transactions, Intercompany Transactions, House Banks, Payment Terms, Cash Discounts, Automatic Payment Programs, Incoming payments, Partial and Residual payments, Defined check Lots and Void reason codes, Clearing Intercompany Vendor/Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI2), Dunning.
• Implemented Vendor Invoice Management to become more efficient and reduce the number of FTE's in Accounts Payable by approx 25%. Resolved issues due to invoice disputes, invoices submitted without PO's; insufficient approvals, cost center errors, duplicates, errors in quantity, price, date, special tax conditions etc.
• Possess extensive knowledge in configuring sample document, Recurring entries, Automatic Account Determinations, Customer and Vendor down payment, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, Interest calculation, Automatic clearing (Customer, vendor, GL), Company code global parameters.
• Thorough understanding of SAP R/3 FI/CO module configuration, support & maintenance functions as well as the integration with PP, MM, SRM, CRM, IM, SAP Media and SD modules. Good knowledge of Material Ledger.
• Controlling expertise includes Cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost center accounting (CO-CCA), Statistical key figures (PCA), Internal orders (I/O) and Budgeting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product
• Worked on Solution Manager (SOLMAN) components - Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA), Change Request Management (ChaRM) and building Business Process.
• Implemented and worked on SAP Test Data Migration Server (TDMS) 4.0 and Hayes/Attunity Glod Client Solutions to copy the data from Production to QA/Dev/Sandbox.
• Excellent Interpersonal, Organizational, and Communication skills and highly motivated team player with creativity to work towards realizing the defined goal and targets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 Version 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset ManagementLockbox, Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Automatic payment program, Customer and vendor down payment, Dunning, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, and Month End Close.

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal order, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing.

Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM module

Technical: Report Writer, Implementation ASAP Methodology.

Data Copy Tools: SAP Test data Migration Server (TDMS) 4.0, Hayes/Attunity Glod Client Solutions 8.0

Application: MS Word, MS Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Tally

Platforms: Dos, Microsoft Windows, Vista, Windows 7.0/8.0

Testing: Testing HPQC 10.00, ALM 11.52, QTP 10.00, UFT 11.53, SAP TAO 2.0, 3.0 and Load Runner

Database: SQL Server 2000, MS-Access

Programming Languages: ABAP, Visual Basic, C, C++, and HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TXHOUSTON, TX

SR. FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Analyzed the existing legacy system; gatheird functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document.
• Designing business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP - Finance (FI).
• Configured the settings of Enterprise Structure, Company code global setting Account Groups, Retained Earnings Accounts, Field Status Variant, Tolerance Groups and Posting Period Variant and set up financial statement variant.
• Experienced in activating of New G/L and Leading Ledger with creation of Segments and assigning Scenarios and Customer Fields in the Parallel Ledgers, Document splitting, parallel accounting, parallel currency, Real Time FICO integration.
• Implemented VIM to effective review and approval of invoices, automate invoice routing and sorting, to build custom reports with delivery to BW, multiple location invoice entries, automatic classification of invoices, and monitor the status of notification for reconciliation.
• Applied OpenText Invoice solution to reduce invoice processing which saved time to be more productive and lower overall project cost as compared to legacy system with manual processing of invoice processing.
• Took Advantage of discounts for on-time and early payments to vendors of Confidential as invoices are received electronically and leveraged economies of scale through shared business services and standardized proceses.
• Applied VIM to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for checks, and outgoing payments in Accounts
• Configured Lockbox setup defined control parameters for BAI2 file import, for handling incoming payments from customers and also worked on Special GL transactions like Down Payments.
• Configured Dunning and Interest calculation.
• Involved in year-end closing book and helped to resolved inconsistency in closing and opening book.
• Configured chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas and depreciation key.
• Involved in the Configuration of Controlling areas, Company code assignment to Controlling Areas, creation and assigning of number ranges for Controlling Areas, Version maintenance for controlling areas and statistical key figure (SKF).
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintain Cost Element Attributes and performed unit and system testing.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) maintained Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers. Developed for cycles, segments cost center distributions and assessment.
• In Profit Center Accounting (PCA) maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups etc. and extracted reports using PCA.
• In Internal Orders (CO-IO) configured various internal order types, Defined settlement profile, settlement structure, settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements.
• Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders, set up tolerances for budget cost and also Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using report painter.

Confidential, ST. LOUIS, MO

SR. FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Handled issues in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling via ChaRM (Change Request Management), HP Service Manager (HPSM) and HPQC (Upgrade Projects).
• Worked on the functional/technical specifications on various WRICEF objects (development items, custom forms, enhancements, reports and workflows).
• Prepared functional specification document and coordinated with the development team to develop a custom program and smart form to generate the reminder letters in Accounts Payable
• Created Functional Specification document for ZFAP W21099M - 1099 Report to identify individuals dat receive a W-2 and 1099-Misc in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Worked on the various BW Reports in the Finance Module & validated the reports with ECC
• Worked on the EDI 820/831 which is used for transmitting ACH and wire payment to Wachovia for different company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Worked on the various Outbound and Inbound Interfaces related to Finance module including its integration with Mainframe and Third Party systems.
• Worked on Dunning to Correct the Dunning Procedure to have a single dunning level and to automatically pick up items dat are one day past due in Accounts Receivables (AR).
• Extensive Working Experience with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) in Procure to pay (PTP), maintaining Material master data and Material groups.
• Month End Closing activities have been performed and monitored using Closing Cockpit.
• Involved in the implementation of Full Support Pack Upgrade Project to SP12
• Created the Test Cases, Test Plans by using HP Quality Center and also it is used for defect tracking and used HPQC in setting up integration test scripts.
• Developed scenarios to migrate specific data related to the finance team as needed. Ex: To copy all the master data along with the invoices, payment information, checks and its related data for a

Confidential, NAPLES, FL

SAP FI/CO/CONFIG/IMPLEMENTATION

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized FI sub-modules Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Created Vendor Account groups and created number ranges for vendor/customers account
• Created Customer Account group and number range assignments.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts.
• Created House Banks, Bank Accounts & GL accounts for bank accounts.
• Defined Fiscal year variant, posting period variant, Account group & Field status variant.
• Created and maintained field status groups, open and close posting periods and created G/L
• Configuration of FI global settings, configured company code, created GL accounts, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating Concern, configured Costing Based and Account Based Profitability Analysis. Created the Characteristics and Value Fields.
• Assigned value fields to condition types in MM and SD, performed integration of FI/CO with SD, MM & PP, account assignments and used COPA to report profitability by customerCreated Reports using Report Painter with Forms.

Confidential, FORD MYERS, FL

SAP FI/CO/IMPLEMENTATION

Responsibilities:

• Studied the existing processes through detailed discussions with the client’s core team members.
• Designed and Configured New General Ledger, defined Global Chart of accounts, define ledgers for GL Accounting, Document splitting and Segmentation.
• Multi-currency configured - Company code currency and group currency.
• Configured customer account groups, vendor account groups, tolerance limits for over payments and under-payments.
• Created account determination, default account assignments, automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts.
• Configured the lockbox accounts at the House banks, defined control parameters and posting data, Customized and tested the Lockbox functionality with BAI2.
• Setup of cost elements/cost centers, standard hierarchy, assessments and distributions.
• Designed Cost Center groups for various managerial reporting.
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers and Profit center master data.
• Provided support after the project go-live.

Confidential, CO

JR. FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshop with users to gather requirements and to understand the workflow of the as-is system.
• Configured and documented the areas of General Ledger, Account Payable, Account
• Receivable and Asset management.
• Design and configuration of Parallel Ledger for localization.
• Configured Document Splitting functionality for new General Ledger and profit center level
• Configured Segments for Segmental Reporting.
• Configured and designed the special GL for customer and vendor advanced payments and
• Provided support for accounts payable related to payment file creation and setting of tolerances.
• Defined and Configured Automatic Dunning and interest calculation program.
• Design and configuration of process in SAP for partial payment and payment differences on
• customer and vendor invoices.
• Configured controlling area and assigned to company codes, number ranges and maintained version.
• Performed post go live support.

Confidential, FREMONT, CA

JR. FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked with MM Team and SD Team in setting up the integration with FI.
• Worked on the Enhancement to create a New Company Code and treated as a Holding Company.
• Configured and Customized General Ledger - Create Company Code, Configure and Assign
• Chart of Accounts, Field Status Variant, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting period variant to the
• Configure GL Account groups, number ranges and GL accounts for Company Code.
• Defined Value Date and created GL Master Records.
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and
• Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Configure the automatic payment program using the payment medium workbench.
• Configured Lockbox configuration by setting up the Lockboxes for House Banks, Lockbox
• procedure (BA12) and its posting parameters, and Lockbox bank data in Accounts Receivables.
• Responsible for configuration of Customer Account Groups, number ranges, Credit Control
• Area, Customer Master Data, Incoming Payments and Dunning in Accounts Receivables.
• Received Signoff from business users on User Acceptance Testing and End User Training.