SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience working as a SAP FICO Consultant and Financial Analyst with 3 full life cycle implementations.
• SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0
• Good experience working for production support, upgrade and global roll out projects of SAP R/3 system.
• Expertise in configuration and customization of FI module (Classic GL, Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Asset Management (AM), Special Ledger, New GL Migration).
• Strong working knowledge in Controlling (Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, Product costing, Material Ledger, Profitability Analysis).
• Very good knowledge of Integration with other modules: FI-MM (Procure to Pay), FI-SD (Quote to Cash), FI-IM (Investment Management), FI- PM (Plant Maintenance) and FI-SL.
• Familiar with US legal requirements (GAAP, IFRS standards) and experience implementing FI modules in multiple currencies.
• Good experience in Testing (SolMan, Quality Center) and strong post Implementation support.
• Good knowledge of MM, SD, PP, PS, BW reporting, CS, TRM and Credit Management modules.
• Experience with SAP Best Practices and interaction with Client for documenting Business Processes, gathering and designing Functional Specifications.
• Experience with Module integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing and Unit testing.
• Expertise in preparing training documents, troubleshooting and providing training for end users.
• Excellent Communication, Analytical & Presentation skills along with strong people and organizational skills.
• Experienced in analyzing complex issues, coordinating with different teams, work & managing resources.
• Familiarized with all phases of SDLC, change management, problem management & Incident management.
• Good in customer facing, issue resolution and training.
• Highly motivated and ability to work independently and in team environments.
• Attended ITIL Foundation Certification training and completed ITIL V3 Certification.
• Worked in pharmaceutical, manufacturing, business services, chemical & construction Industries.
• In-depth knowledge in configuration and testing of FICO modules (GL, A/P, A/R, FA, New GL, CCA, IO).
• Expertise in the Procure to Pay cycle (FI- MM Integration) and Order to Cash cycle (FI- SD Integration).
• Design and configure the Invoice Processing, Billing, Collections Management and Credit Management.
• Good in configuring and design of cost center, profit center hierarchy with the operations.
• Ability to develop the reports/drill-down reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Good knowledge of configuring cost element/ center, Internal order settlements & product costing.
• Familiar with Variance calculations, WIP determination, assessment & distribution cycles configuration.
• Working knowledge of real-estate management (asset management) and Investment accounting.
• Good understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integration view points.
• Experienced working along with ABAP team and have basic understanding of ABAP programming.
• Proficient in evaluating Client’s business process, gathering requirements and planning activities.
• Very good understanding of R2R process, ASAP methodology, developing functional design and implementation.
• Experience in preparing Blueprint, configuration, test scripts and end-user training documents.
• Worked with Data Migration specifications with BDC, LSMW for data uploads.
• Excellent in developing functional specifications for Interfaces, custom reports and read ABAP code.
• Experience working with Inter-Company reconciliations and Inter-company process management.
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, Interfaces (ALE & EDI), IDOCs, user-exits, workflow and reporting tools.
• Knowledge in testing of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).
• Familiar with external tools: Vertex, Taxware, Sabrix, Basware, Gentran and their Integration with SAP.
• Active participant in team meetings and conducted extensive training sessions for business users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Application: SAP R/3 FI/CO, 4.6, 4.7 and ECC 6.0.

Project Management: MS Office, Excel & PowerPoint presentation, MS EPM

Operating Systems: Windows 98/XP/Vista/windows7, Red hat Linux 6.0

Database: Oracle 10.0.2.1, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2005

SAP R/3 tools: SAP- FICO, SAP-MM, SAP-SD, ABAP/4, Report Painter and Report Writer

Programming: Visual Basic, SQL, C, Java, Matlab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rockville, MD

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 AA, AP (Production Support (Testing) and Global Rollout)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the migration of fixed assets from HGS legacy system (FAS sage) to SAP.
• Prepared test scenarios and executed test scripts for fixed assets Implementation using HP QC.
• Done Unit testing, data validations, legacy system data conversions for Fixed Assets module and helped in month end and year end closing activities.
• Involved in the Implementation of Citibank Interface for the P2P (Procure to Pay) process.
• Worked with the IDOC configuration, outgoing IDOCS (PEXR2002) and IDOC field mapping.
• Worked closely with ABAP team to create the customized reports and documentation.
• Creation of Configuration documentation and technical Roll Out templates.
• Prepared the SAP Asset accounting end-user training manuals for different T-Codes.
• Familiarized with the whole Fixed Asset accounting process and year-end closing activities.
• Involved in the capitalization of CIP projects, Asset life cycle management, internal order settlement, FA GL reconciliation, legacy asset transfer and required configurations.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, account determination, screen layouts.
• Participated in the training sessions for the business and end-users.

Confidential, Canton, OH

SAP FICO Senior Functional Consultant (Team Lead)

Environment: ECC 6.0 AP, AR, New GL Migration (Implementation and production support)

Responsibilities:

• Studied and evaluated the client’s business processes and gathered the client's requirements.
• Helped in creating business blueprint document, testing and training end users.
• Created Functional specs, technical specs, Test scenarios and Test data.
• Configured and customized Master data, Account groups, Number ranges, Fiscal year variants, posting period variant and Field status groups.
• Activated the New GL functionality and assigned segments for Profit Centers.
• Worked on New GL, Document Splitting, Parallel accounting and Segment Reporting.
• Configured House Banks, Bank accounts, GL structure and Automatic Payment program (APP).
• Worked on purchase orders, goods receipts, MIRO/MIGO transactions.
• Configured Customer/ Vendor Master Data and master groups.
• Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Reason Codes in Customer Accounts.
• Configured Lockbox Processing, EBS for incoming payments in Accounts Receivables (AR).
• Tested AP scenarios by writing test cases for different scenarios and preparing log bugs.
• Customer master data maintenance, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.
• Conducted regression testing, unit testing using HP Quality Test Professional.
• Checking and creating requiring business transactions by examining the document flow.
• Extensively worked on LSMW for Data Uploads of Vendor and Customer Master Data.
• Worked on designing the CO Organizational structure for managerial reporting.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Created Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures,
• Distribution and Assessment, indirect activity allocations in Cost Center Accounting (CCA).
• Updating of the configuration, specification and other technical documentations and support end user documentation regarding change requests and bug fixes
• Performed knowledge transfer and documentation of project as part of training end-users.
• Conducted successful training programs for end-users, supervisors, and managers.

Confidential - Roseland, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0, GL, AP, AR, CO (Implementation & Testing)

Responsibilities:

• Developed LSMW to load Vendor/ Customer Master Data.
• Involved in customization of Automatic Payment Program for payment transactions
• Provided support for implementing Procure to Pay (P2P) process for the Client
• Analyzed third party payee information verification system (Bridger Insight XG)
• Checking the process of different payment methods - ACH payments, Wire Transfer, and checks.
• Check lots creation, void, and reissue of checks, online and blockage of payments for certain vendors.
• Worked on the integration of Accounts Payable with MM. Worked with the MM team to configure the automatic account determination required for the MM process (Procure to Pay).
• Experience in system design of Inter-company process management.
• Done Intercompany reconciliations (month end activities, aggregating values) using SAP ECC 6.0
• Participated in the Integration of Vertex system with SAP. Used Vertex O series for the automation of tax compliance for sales tax, consumer use tax, and VAT.
• Performed required EDI Settings for the Payment program
• Worked on the design, development and testing of EDI interface for Invoices from select vendors.
• Involved in customization of programs to generate the positive pay file format specific to banks.
• Involved in facilitating the complex billing process with the help of Convergent Invoicing (SAP CI).
• Creates, tested and approved RFC's and eRFC's for configuration changes.
• Used HPQC for develop test scripts and to raise, assign, modify, clear defects.
• Implemented web services for the functional modules and tested those web services using SOAMANGER.
• Customized and configured third party software (Gentran & Bridger) with in the AP- Automatic payment process(F110)
• Customized automatic payment process for both daily payments and quarterly closings in AP
• Customized automatic payment process for both daily refunds and quarterly closings in AR
• Worked on vendor/customer tables likes LFA1, LFB1, REGUP, REGHU,REGUV, KNA1,KNB1
• Worked on Script creation in HP Quality Center. Executed test cases as per test cycles.
• Preparation of test specifications and involved in defect management process.
• Provided post go live support and training. Generated reports using Report Painter.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAP FICO Consultant / Tester

Environment: ECC 6.0 Upgrade, FI AR (Order To Cash), Integration, FI Testing

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SAP tester and coordinated with user testing. Worked for FI testing with SD.
• Configured Accounts Receivable: Accounts Groups, Tolerances, Payment terms, Cash Discounts, Interest Calculations, discount memo letters and Payment Advices through EDI 820 and Lockbox.
• Configured Account Receivables which included Dunning, Incoming payments settings, Down payments procedure and Credit management.
• Defined risk categories and specified credit limits for customers and generated various reports for customer credit management.
• Developed SAP LSMW to load Customer Master Data from Excel Database.
• Configured and customized Quote generation and Order to cash process for Quote to Cash process.
• Created functional specification documents to build the interface between banks and EDI for receiving Electronic Bank Statements and sending the EDI820 (PAYMUL) IDocs.
• Integration with SD: Configured account assignment with respect to Sales & Distribution module.
• Worked with SD functional team to ensure that account determination (VKOA) met all requirements
• Worked along with the ABAP team in customization of the Interfaces
• Familiarized with Module Integration Testing (MIT), User Acceptance (UAT) & Regression testing.
• Execution of test cases and responsible for Unit testing and Regression testing.
• Hands on experience on HP QTP and involved in problem management and defect management.
• Prepared a matrix of SLA’s and generated daily reports.
• Configured Tax Calculation Settings by defining structures for Tax Jurisdiction codes, calculation procedures, message control and field control for Tax amounts.
• Provided support for the users in the post Go-live environment and live environment by reconfiguring the settings that help in resolve the User problems.
• Conducted End-user training on Month-end processes and Reports.

Confidential, Dublin, OH

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: ECC 4.7/ 6.0, FI-GL, AP, AR, CO (Full Life cycle Implementation and Enhancement)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering requirements on company’s legacy systems, business processes & activities.
• Analyzed business requirements and determined organizational structure, business units, company codes, and profitability centers (AS IS - TO BE).
• Involved in performing GAP analysis & actively participated in designing blueprints(ASAP Methodology).
• Configured New General Ledger (GL) and updated rules for other ledgers, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, posting periods and GL master records creation.
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries and also worked on FI Substitution and Validation rules.
• Worked on Vendor/Customer master records, Client specific payment terms & payment methods.
• Configured vendor groups, vendor master records, Tolerance limits, Payment Terms, payment methods and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Configured the settings for House Bank, outgoing and incoming payments including Automatic payment program (APP), down payments, inter-company transaction in Accounts Payables (AP).
• Configured customer account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits, credit limit groups, Interest Calculation, Incoming Payments.
• Participated in transferring GL accounts, vendor and customer master data using LSMW.
• Configured structure of standard cost center hierarchy, hierarchy node name coding, and cost center naming standards.
• Creation of cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, creation of cost sheet and assignment to a Controlling Area.
• Internal order configuration, order settlement configuration, Order planning and budgeting.
• Configured Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Planning Profile, Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA) by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Familiarized with business scenario before configuring the steps in controlling module (CO- PA analysis).
• 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.
• Configured settings for multiple variation, transfer pricing, planning, integration, and profit center determination and balance sheet items.
• Month end Closing process support for FI module, End user/Super User training
• Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer. Performed Documentation for end users and provided end user training.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 V 4.7, GL, A/P,A/R,CO (Full life cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of A/P, A/R, AA, Treasury sub-modules of SAP R/3 system.
• Configured the A/P system for the logistics & non-logistics bills, service bills and outsourcing bills (Vendor master data, Vendor groups, purchases accounting, outstanding payments, payment processing, terms of payment).
• Configured G/L transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, holding, parking, open item clearing and reversals.
• Involved in the integration of FI with SD module for the sales order billing, project related billing, miscellaneous revenue billing and collections
• Familiarized with the asset life cycle management: budgeting, asset master, capitalization, asset transfer, depreciation posting and year end closing activities.
• Configured all types of taxation & their reporting requirements (payment of ED, sales tax, service tax).
• Maintenance of cost center cost element, GL, vendor, customer and house bank master data.
• Excise Master maintenance through (j1id) - tax master for sales tax & vat, and withholding tax for it.
• Involve in the data migration for Controlling using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• Involved in the creation and conversion of assets from the legacy system using LSMW, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers and asset retirements.
• Worked with Report painters and Report writers for reporting purposes.
• Actively participated in the training sessions and created training documents for end-users.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in carrying out the working capital analysis for various divisions and preparing quarterly budgets.
• Supported upper management in various business operations and gathering financial information.
• Performing revenue and expense forecasts in order to make financial decisions.
• Familiarized with financial accounting and business process. Involved in General Ledger accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and reconciliation process.
• Provided technical assistance in the design of cost accounting or reporting systems and related forms.
• Performed financial or cost analyses (cash-flow analysis, "what-if" analysis); prepared related reports.
• Assisted in reviews of financial and internal controls to determine if such controls are adequate to meet management objectives and ensure the safeguarding of assets.
• Taking surveys of other companies to creating and analyzing business plans.
• Presenting financial information to managers and arranging training sessions.
• Attended ITIL Foundation Certification training and completed ITIL V3 Certification.
• Made use of ERP in evaluating the Management Information Reports. Introduced to SAP system