SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Functional Consultant with 7+ years of functional experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules in SAP R/3 4.7 through ECC 6.0 with Three Full Life Cycle implementations.
• Extensively involved in implementation of ASAP methodology on all stages of project including business process analysis, AS - IS to TO-BE designing, GAP analysis, Realization, Go-Live, post production support, user training and documentation.
• Expertise in configuration and testing of General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Assets Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting, Special Purpose Ledger, Lease Accounting & Treasury.
• Strong Knowledge and Expertise in Controlling - Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Hands on experience in upgrade from 4.7 to ECC 6.0. Expert in data migration from Classic GL to New GL.
• Have strong skills in integration of FI with SD (Order to Cash) and MM (Procure to pay).
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Program (APP), Lockbox configuration, Revenue Recognition, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Dunning, BDC, ALE and IDOCs.
• Sound Knowledge in migration of data from Legacy system to SAP for Upgrade / new implementation / integration using LSMW.
• Strong knowledge of tax procedures in sales, purchase, use tax and withholding tax expertise in third party tool Vertex for managing the tax calculation.
• Ability to work as a SAP techno-functional consultant with sound knowledge in ABAP Queries, Report Painter and Report Writer, CATT, User-exit programming.
• Extensive experience in writing the functional specs for RICEFW objects of FI and CO modules.
• Experience working on End to End business process for Trade Payables, Trade Receivables, Inter-company Payables, Intercompany Receivables, Material Movements, Stock Transfer Orders, Scheduling Agreement.
• Experience with diverse manufacturing processes like Make to order (MTO), Engineer to Order (ETO) and Make to stock (MTS).
• Experienced in SAP BPC, Net Weaver and Microsoft versions in planning and consolidation.
• Extensive experience in data transfers from CCA, PCA and Internal Orders for Profitability Analysis, Planning and Budgeting.
• Have solid foundation in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting; Knowledge of the compliance of SOX, GAAP and IFRS for external/internal reporting.
• Have strong knowledge in other SAP modules such as SD, MM, CRM, BI, and BW.
• Experience in implementations involving Multi currency environments and Global Rollouts.
• Experienced in identifying the Test Plan scenarios/scripts for Functional Unit testing (FUT), Integration & System testing (ITC), User Acceptance testing (UAT), Regression testing and End to End Testing on HP Quality Center (HPQC).
• Ability to work independently as well as in team oriented environments with good organizational skills, excellent communications skills and inter personal skills with problem solving aptitude.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Finance: General Ledger/New General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting Electronic Bank Statement, Lock Box, Treasury - Cash Management, Liquidity Management, Travel Management, Contract Accounts Receivables & Payables ( FI-CA).

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (PA), Internal Order (IO), Planning & Budgeting.

Other Skills: LSMW, CATTs & eCATT, IDOCs, BDOCs, EC-CS, ABAP Queries, SAP Scripts, User Exits, Report Writer / Report Painter, BDC, EDI, RICEFW Objects, MS Excel, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin, OH

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, SAP BI/BW, Business Objects, FA, Vertex, HP Quality Center (HPQC). Modules: New GL, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Profit Canter Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Product Costing (CO-PC), P2P, OTC, Payment Media, Lockbox, Dunning, LSMW.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analyzing, Designing and documenting business processes.
• Prepared functional specifications for modification to the existing standard reports to meet client specific requirements.
• Mapped existing report package to the delivered SAP reports for FI and CO modules.
• Resposible for writing functional documents for RICEF Objects for the project and interacting with technical personal doing Entry and Exit Creteria for fuctional documents.
• Maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, Profit center assignment (material, GL accounts).
• Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation.
• Created account groups for Vendors and One-time vendors by copying the account group KRED and 0099 respectively, and configured them as per the requirements of the business scenarios as a part of Accounts Payable (AP) Module.
• Run reports for list of vendors open items for particular periods as per AP reconciliations accounts, country of vendors and accounting clerks.
• In Accounts Payable (AP) Module, Run reports for vendor balances in local currency by vendor account numbers and reconciliation accounts which provided carry-forwarded balances, current debit and credit balances for each vendor in the chosen periods.
• Resolved issues related to Automatic Payment Program (APP), Account Assignment, interest calculation on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes.
• Integrated FI with SD and MM for the logistics and order management trade and Inter-company transactions.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration with BAI2 format, cash management and planning levels in treasury.
• Worked on End to End flow for the inter-company transactions all from Procurement to Billing like 3 Way matching PO creation, GR/IR transactions, Automatic Sales order Creation setup, Delivery, Goods issue and Billing.
• Resolved the issues related to GR/IR clearing, automatic clearing Issues, invoice verification (MIRO), intercompany invoices and reconciliation.
• Imported and processed Electronic bank statements (EBS) worked with BAI2 file formats. Created lockboxes at house bank and configured control parameters and posting data.
• Worked on Vertex interface configuration and testing external system tax data retrieval, tested mater data, setting up the tax codes and tested all condition records and configured tax rules.
• Created integrated asset acquisition and defined account assignment type for Asset Account, Account Assignment Objects for the Depreciation Areas.
• Responsible for various supporting activities in Profitability Analysis (COPA) like valuation strategies using costing sheet and Condition tables, Realignment and updating existing reports.
• Configured operating concern attributes, and the Profitability Analysis (COPA) settlement structure with the settlement rules, to populate the value to value fields in COPA.
• Used COPA to report profitability by customer, product, and market.
• Configured costing based COPA, account based COPA, created characteristic and value fields and configured valuation using product costing sheet.
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in COPA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Run Plan/Actual Comparison reports for Profitability Analysis (COPA) to provide the contribution margin for divisions and products which helped for in depth analysis of the specific divisions and products and to identify the “bottom line” impact of revenues and costs.
• Designed and developed contribution margin reports in COPA based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Established a connection between the asset master records and the corresponding accounts in the GL in Financial Accounting through account determination.
• Tested report generation using reporting tools Report writer / Report Painter, worked extensively on LSMW & CATTS programs and trained user in working with this reports.

Confidential, New Hope, MN

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, SAP BI/BW, Business Objects, FA, HP Quality Center (HPQC).

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project implementation from ‘Blueprinting’ to ‘Go-Live’.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Used Solution Manager for the Central Data Repository for the Business Blueprint & Configuration.
• Configured system settings for Chart of Accounts, New GL, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Fixed Assets including the Automatic Payment Program (APP) and Lock Box.
• Made necessary setting for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Defined tolerances for customers and vendors, payment terms, account for cash discounts and payment differences in Account Receivables (FI-AR) & Account Payables (FI-AP).
• Worked on various FI aspects relating to AR, AP issues, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/ partial payment settings for vendors and customers, down payments, Revenue Recognition, Intercompany transactions, reversal of documents and exchange documents.
• In Asset Accounting (FI-AA), configured Asset class, chart of deprecation, master data, acquisition, retirement and depreciation.
• Integrated Asset Accounting (FI-AA), structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset Values, Acquisitions Entry and Alterations during Use, and Asset Retirement.
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset.
• Configured and tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) payments in BAI2 Format and EDI setup for inbound IDOCs.
• Worked on BDOC mapping Errors and also reprocessed the BDOCs.
• Worked on the Vendor interfaces including invoice uploads using BDC and EDI functionality.
• Worked on the integration of FI-MM (Procure to pay) and FI-SD (Order to cash) modules.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEFW Objects.
• Defined Costing Keys for accessing Material Cost Estimates to valuate data in COPA and to determine which cost estimates from product cost planning should have been used to valuate actual or planning data in COPA; and further assigned these Costing Keys to defined Characteristics.
• Maintained Characteristics, Value fields and Operating Concern, Profitability segment characteristics, characteristic hierarchy, Assessment, COPA transfer structure, Defined variables and forms for profitability Analysis (COPA) reports.
• Configured both costing based COPA and accounting based COPA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules and configured valuation using Product costing and Costing sheet.
• Developed multiple reports for Profitability analysis (COPA) reporting purposes and maintained the integration of FI with SD (Order to Cash) and MM (Procure to pay) for proper flow of data and reporting.
• Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to Profitability analysis (COPA).
• Designed and developed customized reports for Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) & Accounts Payable (FI-AP) using Report Painter & Report Writer.
• Helped end users in month end closing operations involving overhead calculation, variance calculation, Result Analysis settlements and activity price calculations.
• Created E-Learning training material using Solution Manager to train the end users after the implementation.
• Documented the changes and conducted user training on the new functionality in the configuration of financial accounting including GL, AR, AP, Banking and controlling modules.
• Participated in Unit testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential Corp, Giddings, TX

SAP FICO Functional Consultant Industry: Utilities

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, FA, SAP BI/BW, Business Objects.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 using ASAP Methodology.
• Prepared various configuration document, business sign-offs and uploaded them same into Solution Manager.
• Configured new company codes, Inter-company code assignments & processing and Inter-company Transport Orders.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code global parameters, fiscal year variants, Posting period variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Configured the Customer Master, House Banks, Payment Programs and had successfully configured Clearing for clearing open items in GL/AR/AP Modules.
• Defined, configured and tested Account Keys, Account assignment groups, customer master groups, and number ranges, and field status in General Ledger (FI-GL) and Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) modules.
• In Accounts Payable (FI-AP), configured automatic account determination for price differences, discounts, exchange translations, and for rounding offs. Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
• Defined Automatic Payment Program (APP) configuration, payment advice and tax procedures and worked on vendor interfaces including invoice uploads using BDC and EDI functionality.
• Designed functional specs for various RICEWF’s, tested various Accounts receivable (FI-AR) reports and coordinated with ABAP team and Business users to fix the trouble tickets.
• Made necessary changes for the validations & substitutions, defined rules and messages for the substitutions.
• In Bank Accounting (FI-BL), worked on Payroll taxation, gross to net calculations and third party remittances using SAP integration with Vertex.
• Configured manual bank statement, electronic bank statement (EBS) for mt940 format, Lockbox processing for customer payments and cash journals with document splitting in Bank Accounting (FI-BL).
• Worked on Payroll taxation, gross to net calculations and third party remittances using SAP integration with Vertex.
• Used extended withholding Tax to calculate pay and report the withholding tax.
• Worked on Automated collection of transaction data in Enterprise Consolidation for Intercompany (EC-CS)
• Used FI-LC to Enterprise Consolidation for Intercompany (EC-CS) migration tool to create the configuration, master data and transactional data & also worked on financial consolidation of data.
• In Asset Accounting (FI-AA), created Asset Class determination and screen layout in order to create and Asset master records.
• Configured Account Determinations, Depreciation Keys and Number Ranges for asset classes in Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
• Configured Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions, Retirements and Inter-company transfers in Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
• Configured Treasury accounts to post automatically. Run TBB6 for the revaluation of the postings on the Treasury accounts. Resolved issues regarding update of Notes in Deduction Management.
• Worked on configuration of COPA and responsible for various supporting activities in Profitability Analysis (COPA) like valuation strategies using costing sheet and Condition tables, Realignment and updating existing reports.
• Designed functional specs for various RICEWF’s, tested various COPA reports and coordinated with ABAP team and Business users to fix the trouble tickets.
• Made necessary changes for the validations & substitutions, defined rules and messages for the substitutions.
• Used LSMW to load Cost center, Profit Center, Customer & Vendor Master Data.
• Performed customization in the FI module for ageing reports and dunning notices with ABAP Programmers and test the data flow.
• Involved in the design and testing of BW reports for Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) including Aging and Charge off reports.
• Resolved issues relating to automatic payment program, profit center derivations, intercompany reconciliation, month end closing activities, GR/IR clearing, automatic clearing Issues, Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) and integration issues.
• Configured both costing based COPA and account based COPA. Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using Product costing and costing sheet
• Used Profitability Analysis (COPA) to report profitability by customer, product, and market.
• Developed all the Month End over/Under absorption allocation cycles to COPA.
• Provided production support in the areas of GL, AR and AP modules along with the integration of GL with pricing, billing and order management.
• Successfully demonstrated the business flow to AP/AR users in various areas like payment terms, process payment runs, and manual processing of incoming payments, running/editing Dunning proposals, and reconciliation accounts in the GL.
• Provided support to UAT (Create, Change Vendor, Vendor Account Group, Vendor Block, and Delete Vendor) and finished manual cutover tasks.
• Provided post go live support and maintained the system.

Client: Lannett Company Inc, Philadelphia, PA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant Industry: Pharmaceutical

Project Type: Implementation / Support

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FA, SAP BI/BW, HP Quality Center (HPQC).

Modules: General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Bank Accounting (FI-BL), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Product Costing (CO-PC), Multi Currencies, Taxes, APP, LIV, IDOC, Dunning, LSMW.

Lannett Company Inc is a pharmaceutical company which manufactures and markets generic prescription drugs with two manufacturing facilities. The company has had strong growth of its leading drugs.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed detailed functional specifications.
• Participated in the project meeting with business people and core users.
• Responsible for primary configuration work on FI module with core focus on AR/AP/GL.
• Configuring and customizing GL account master records, chart of accounts, field status groups, automatic account determination, financial statement versions, GL display configuration, validations and substitutions.
• Worked on configuration of FI master data settings, Automatic payment settings, incoming payments, interest calculation, open item clearing and Credit Management.
• Worked on the migration of Classic GL to New GL and worked on document splitting & Parallel Ledgers in New GL.
• Maintained the GL account master data and Profit Center master data for the New GL.
• Configured identical settings for updating segments and profit centers as well as the relevant partner information in the ledgers of the New GL.
• Responsible for the implementation of a complex interface from legacy billing system to SAP Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) to post the receivables onto the customers.
• Configured manual bank statement, electronic bank statement (EBS) for mt940 format, Lockbox processing for customer payments and cash journals with document splitting.
• Provided day-to-day support to the end users on payment program, payment methods, payment run and foreign currency valuation.
• Responsible for the configuration of House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual Bank Statement and Cash journal in Bank Accounting.
• FI-MM integration was done by configuring automatic posting for various material movement and valuation class.
• Integrated FI-SD modules by allocating GL accounts for Revenue account determination.
• Run reports for Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) to display Actual Line Items for cost centers which listed individual line items that were posted to the selected cost centers.
• In Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Run list-oriented reports for the Profit Center groups for plan/actual data to check the actual sales revenue and results for particular profit centers. Also run reports for the profit center groups for quarterly comparison of actual data and profit center statistical key figures.
• Configured the costing based Profitability analysis (COPA). Created characteristics and value fields and configured valuation using Product costing and costing sheet.
• Designed specs for development of Profitability analysis (COPA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) reports and layouts. Generated reports using Report Writer & Report Painter.
• Developed Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) custom report for month end closing to capture the every detail of Closed and Open Customer invoices.
• Worked on eCATT automation tool to create large number of master data for customer master, vendor master, material master, cost center and employee master.
• Designed integration testing scripts as well as User acceptance testing (UAT) scripts.

Client: Owens Corning, Toledo, OH

SAP Functional Consultant Industry: General Building Materials

Project Type: Full Life Cycle Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, SAP BI/BW, Business Objects, OpenText VIM, HP Quality Center (HPQC).

Modules: General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Bank Accounting (FI-BL), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), P2P, OTC, Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Withholding Tax, LSMW, Report Painter/Report Writer.

Owens Corning is a leading global producer of residential and commercial building materials, glass-fiber reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS - TO-BE).
• Performed GAP analysis, actively participated in blueprint phase using ASAP methodology.
• In General Ledger (FI-GL), configured account groups, posting period, fiscal year variants, document number ranges & field status groups.
• Created General Ledger (FI-GL) master records and reconciliation accounts for Vendors, Customers, Assets and Materials.
• Configured Accounts Payable (FI-AP) including vendor account groups, number ranges and tolerance groups.
• Configured the creation of customer account groups, number ranges for Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.
• Uploaded Accounts Payable (FI-AP) master data and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Configured AP module for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item/ balance interest calculation.
• Worked on configuration of Invoice processing - VIM, Check Handling, Manual Non-PO Invoice processing using VIM & payment processing in Account Payables (FI-AP).
• Eliminated duplicated inter-company AR/AP postings in Cross-Company sales orders and ensured that SD Billing Document invoices were posted in FI.
• Involved in entire Enterprise Controlling Consolidation (EC-CS) process which involves collection, Preparation of reported financial data, and also on financial consolidation of data.
• In Asset Accounting (FI-AA), configured Asset Class, Depreciation area, Asset master records, Acquisition & retirements.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirement, transfers, depreciation calculation, write-offs and post capitalization in Asset Accounting (FI-AA).
• Configured Chart of Depreciation with Asset Classes and the master data populated by using LSMW from the earlier legacy system.
• In Bank Accounting (FI-BL), configured global settings for electronic bank statements (EBS), created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.
• Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.
• Integrated FI-MM (Procure to pay), FI-SD (Order to Cash). Worked on Time based and contract based Revenue Recognition.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) and Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy using CATTS, Alternative Hierarchy, and Primary and Secondary cost elements.
• Configured Internal Orders (CO-IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules and Settlement Profile.
• Customized settlement profiles, allocation structures and PA transfer structures to facilitate order settlement to COPA.
• Configured operating concern attributes and COPA settlement structure with the settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation) in Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Used LSMW to create master data, to delete master data and fix few production issues on the Product cost collectors.
• Performed Year end and month end activities, to close the posting periods, transfer account balances
• Created customized reports using report painter/report writer.

Client: Methapharm Inc., Coral Springs, FL

SAP FICO Functional Consultant Industry: Pharmaceutical

Project Type: Upgrade

Environment: Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, SAP BI/BW, HP Quality Center (HPQC).

Modules: General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Product Costing (CO-PC), LSMW.

Methapharm Inc. is a privately held brand-name pharmaceutical company specializing in niche branded pharmaceuticals and medical devices, specifically those concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of asthma and related fields of allergy.

Responsibilities:

• Provided project planning and functional support to successfully upgrade the system from 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Responsible for preparation of Blue Print by reengineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and the TO-BE system.
• Supported the client in upgrade for AP, AR, AA, CCA, PCA and COPA.
• Configured Company codes, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant, Tolerance Limits, Financial Statement Versions, G/L accounts for company codes, business area, functional area, currency type, AR, AP, Workflow Variant and screen layouts.
• Made Enhancements to existing Validations & Substitutions for FI module and configured the EDI process for invoice postings and used LSMW for migrating Customer and vendor Master Records.
• Configured the business flow to vendors (FI-AP)/ Customers (FI-AR) in various areas like payment terms (Discounts), down payments from vendors, advanced payments from customers, process payment runs, and manual processing of incoming payments, running/editing Dunning proposals, and Reconciliation accounts in the GL.
• Performed the integration of FI with SD (Order to cash), MM (Procure to Pay) and participated in knowledge transfer to the client team members in new system functionality.
• Used BDC method to transfer the Asset master records from legacy system to SAP.
• Carried out asset value transfer from legacy systems and involved in preparation for go-live for Fixed Assets.
• Created and generated operating concern, created characteristics, value fields and defined the segment level characteristics to address the Profitability Analysis (COPA) requirement.
• Maintained Assessment cycles and the relationship to Profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Defined cost component structure, origin groups, calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, credit keys, costing sheets and group and cost components in Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) by creating cost elements, cost centers, activity types, cost center categories, document numbers and allocations using cycle-segment method for reposting, Distribution and Assessment.
• Configured Automatic Account Assignment in Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) customizing for P&L accounts and Balance Sheet Accounts. Configured master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, distribution and assessment in Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA).
• Defined Internal Orders (CO-IO), Order types, Planning Profile, Budget Profile and Settlement Profile.
• In Internal Orders (CO-IO), maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc.
• Created and generated operating concern, created characteristics, value fields and defined the segment level characteristics to address the Profitability Analysis (COPA) requirement.
• Extensively worked on Product Costing/Material Ledger. Configured the Standard cost estimates for finished products include cost estimates with/without quantity structure etc. with price update parameters and variance settlement, product cost per period and per order in material ledger.
• Configured and customized Cost center standard hierarchy, defined cost elements, and configured settings for assessments, distributions, reporting.
• Worked on Move to Production (MTP) activities including transports, data migration sequencing, communications planning, legacy retirement and DR planning.
• Used Report Painter for reporting during the implementation of the project.
• Developed Test Scripts and Test Scenarios, and involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Designed and executed test plans and gap analysis to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled.
• Handled the production issues raised by the Corporate & Business end users and resolved them.

Client: Jarden Corporation, Milford, MA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant Industry: Consumer Products

Project Type: Implementation / Support

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP BI/BW, HP Quality Center (HPQC).

Modules: Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Product Costing (CO-PC), Lockbox, EBS, APP, IDOC, LIV, LSMW, Dunning, Report Painter/Report Writer.

Jarden Corporation is a leading provider of global consumer products with a portfolio of over 100 trusted, quality brands sold in more than 100 countries.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business process analysis, prototyping, and configuration of GL, AR, AP modules. Responsible for standardizing and organizing the reporting structure which included development of reports using report writer and report painter.
• In Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Configured Vendor Account Groups, Vendor Master Records, House Banks, Bank accounts, Check lots, Reason codes, Automatic Payments Program (APP), recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, etc.
• In Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), worked on creation Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, AR Information System, Credit Management and closing operations.
• Defined, configured and tested Account Keys, Account assignment groups, customer master groups, and number ranges, and field status in GL and AR modules, and worked on revenue account determination.
• Provided support for all issues in processing Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Defined and configured Dunning process which included creation of dunning proposals to creating dunning notices, Interest calculation - open items/balance outstanding, correspondence and account statement process and financial statement versions.
• Responsible for customizing of payment methods, payment terms, cash discount automatic postings, bills of exchange and doubtful receivables postings. Configured the Payment program for payments such as check and bank transfers.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format and EDI setup for inbound and outbound IDOCs.
• Worked on MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc.
• Maintained Overhead cost elements, calculation bases, credits, costing sheets, activity plan, and costing types in Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Worked on CATT’s for modification of master data of G/L accounts, Customers, Vendors.
• Period end closing operations for foreign exchange valuations on payables/receivables and G/L account balances.
• Designed functional specifications and tested various Accounts receivable reports and coordinated with ABAP team and Business users to fix the trouble tickets.
• Generated contribution margin reports in Profitability analysis (COPA) based on a combination of characteristics using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements in CO and worked on Month end/Year end closing procedures.
• Designed, created and executed Unit test scripts and integration test scripts at every stage of the project. Coordinated with Users during User acceptance testing and resolved issues during UAT.

Client: Cooper Standard Automotive, Auburn, IN

SAP FICO Functional Consultant Industry: Automotive

Project Type: Support

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP BI, HP Quality Center (HPQC).

Modules: Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), APP, IDOC, LIV.

Cooper Standard is a leading global automotive supplier, offering solutions in the body sealing, fuel, brake and emissions, thermal management and anti-vibration segments of the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements.
• Maintained Company Codes & Company Code Global Parameters.
• Defined Reason codes for the payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to GL accounts.
• Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by adding GL accounts as per the client’s requirements.
• Configured additional House Banks, Bank Accounts, and Check Lots.
• Created Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, and Customer Master Record etc.
• Created Cost centers, Profit centers and completed the account assignment for the cost objects
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records
• Created tax invoices for the customers and recorded the invoices sent by the vendors
• Made necessary changes for the validations and substitutions, defined rules and messages for the substitutions.
• Created end to end order flow with the purchase/sales orders to billing with an accounting document tied to the flow
• Configured the additional Depreciation areas and defined depreciation keys.
• Worked on the Derived depreciation area, screen layouts of Fixed assets
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups
• Configured system settings in the areas of FI-GL transactions, House bank, Tax, AP - Payment Program, Bank reconciliation, AR - Customer Credit, Credit controls, Credit memos, Period end closing, EDI and performed Dunning.
• Responsible for Integration of FI with MM (Procure to Pay) & SD (Order to Cash) and configured the logistic invoice verification (LIV) for the Logistics.
• Participated in the data migration and go live process, and generated appropriate reports and worked on month end closing activities.
• Supported productions issues and solved the worked on the issue tickets.
• Performed the end user training on the check management in Automatic payment Program (APP) and the solved issues.