Sap Fico Consultant Resume
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Long Island, NY
SUMMARY
- Over 7 years of experience in implementing SAP with an emphasis on FI modules that include 3 full life cycle implementations.
- Involved in all phases of the project from Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go - Live, to Post Go-Live Support.
- Extensive expertise in Design, Development, Configuration, Testing, Trouble shooting, Documentation and Reporting in FI
- Responsible for putting together and documenting the plan for data conversion of the AR and AP open items along with the General Ledger data conversion
- Extensive experience in configuration of financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Account Receivables (AR) and Credit Management
- Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Material ledger, Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
- Experience in Integration testing of Legacy System Interfaces with SAP functionality.
- Expert in SAP Treasury - TR: Cash Management, Treasury Management, CML Loans and Market Risk Management, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and TRM Securities
- Worked on documenting client business requirements(business scenarios, business issues, internal & external customer needs), analyzed and proposed business and system solutions and been a part of the drafting of the client Blue Prints and performed testing in HP QC and HP OTP environments
- Knowledge in documenting and supporting functional specifications for Interfaces (ALE & EDI), Reports, Conversions Enhancements(User-exits), Forms and Work-flows Skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD and MM Modules
- Worked on Mapping current state to future state, developed test scenarios, RICEFs, Conversion/Interfaces/Validation plans, cutover, and end user training and post go-live production support
- Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, and Reporting tools (Reporting painter and Report writer)
- Sound Knowledge in migration of data from Legacy system to SAP for Upgrade / new Implementation / integration using LSMW for various SAP Projects
- Strong working knowledge in Order Types, Settlement Rules, IO Planning, Distribution Cycles, Cost Collector Configuration and Cost Element Planning.
- Experienced in preparing test plans & packages for Unit testing and Integration testing scenarios
- Excellent Technical, Accounting & Finance knowledge with demonstrated competencies in Financial and Business Analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Long Island, NY
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Involved in all phases of implementation from configuration and testing to cutover tasks and go-live support for one of their global rollouts
- Lead Business requirement workshops to understand the existing system and requirements. Develop business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI.
- Configured company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
- Coordinated, managed, and executed trading partner testing including processing, test results tracking, implementing emergency fixes, and daily hot wash conferences. Partner testing included point to point connectivity, middleware processing, and SAP functionality of idoc processing through FI.
- Involved in vendor/customer open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit management, and payment terms configurations.
- Configured Dunning Program, Interest Calculation and Down Payments in Accounts Receivable.
- Configured Automatic Payment Program and Down payment and Interest Calculation in Accounts Payable.
- Defined House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Reason Codes.
- Performed requirements analysis and functional matching for asset accounting.
- Configured asset classes, AA - GL integration, chart of depreciation, group assets, depreciation areas, depreciation key, calculation key, valuation, acquisitions and retirements. Configuration of Assets under Construction.
- Configured in the conversion of assets from legacy systems using LSMW, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers (Intra Company and Inter Company) and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue)
- Involved in development and deployment of multiple RICEFW custom objects. Involved in generating reports using WRITE statements, ALE/Idoc development and customization, and data upload from legacy system to SAP system through BDC, LSMW
- Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, manual and unplanned depreciation.
- Configured distribution and settlement of capital assets under construction and defined maximum amount for low value asset in depreciation areas
- Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy
- Involved in PCA configurations, hierarchy, account assignment objects, product costing - PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting. Calculate overheads; work in process (WIP), variances and settlement
- Defined and customized business rules for VAT and sales taxes including jurisdiction codes, tax procedures for US and Canada, tax condition types, and account assignment
- Performed in Integration testing of Finance and controlling processes
- Worked in testing and implementation under validated SOX, GMP and GXP environments
- Worked with Production Support on tasks like Valuation and Substitution
- Involved in testing issues relating to Asset Master records, Depreciation, Acquisitions, postings and reports
- Performed Unit and Integration testing for the development
- Conducted training to Key business users on SAP functionalities in general ledger, account payables, account receivables, overhead management, cost center accounting and profit center accounting
Confidential, WI
SAP FI /CO CONSULTANT
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Involved in all phases of the project life cycle including Requirements Gathering, Blue Printing, Development, Unit & Integration Testing, Go Live and Post Production Support
- Identified Gaps in the system, based on user and policy requirements and prioritize the requirements of the users
- System configuration in the areas of GL transactions, balance sheet reports, profit and loss, inter-company transactions, consolidation, automatic posting GL master records, Account Group and Document Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Reversing Documents, Automatic Account Determination, Sales/Use Tax Assignment, Multi-Currency configuration.
- Worked on Mapping current state to future state, developed test scenarios, RICEFs, Conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
- Worked on payment lots, incoming payments, partial payments, clarification documents, write-off, GL automatic account assignment, CO account assignment.
- Accounts Payable (FI-AP): Configuration: Vendor Master Data, Automatic Payment Transaction, Recurring Entries, Invoice posting, Bank Master Data, House Banks, Check Management: Check voiding with Reason Codes.
- Accounts Receivable (FI-AR): Configuration: Customer Master Data, Customer Tolerance Groups, Customer Down Payments, Customer invoice posting and clearing (open item management), Transaction types: Invoice, Credit Memos; AR Reconciliation, Payment Terms, Interest Calculation (Invoice Statement pay), Partial and Residual Payments, ACH/EFT Payment Formats; OTC Cycle components; Deductions Management, Dunning; FSCM: Credit Management
- Worked with ABAP personnel on providing the functional specifications and also defined the test scenarios for development of RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow).
Confidential, Corte Madera, CA
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, BI, XI, BO
Responsibilities:
- Proficient in preparation of Business Blue Print (As-Is, To-Be, and Fit-Gap Analysis).
- Configured Enterprise Structure and Company codes including Chart of Accounts.
- Used LSMW for uploading of G/L, customer and vendor master data.
- Used CATTS for creation and modification of GL, customer, and vendor master data.
- Configured account groups, field status groups, fiscal year and posting period variant, document types, posting keys, open item management and line item management, balance interest indicators, reference rate interest and assignment for interest values to G/L.
- Have written functional specs for different RICEF objects
- Configured A/R & A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations, check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits for customers.
- Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions, Lock box program with EDI and IDOC setup.
- Defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, open item clearing, credit memos, partial payments, installment payments, residual payments, claims and disputed payments, reason codes and discounts, account assignment model for recurring entries.
- Defined Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis. Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts.
- Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification, Cash Management System, House Banks, Bank statement processing and exchange rates in Treasury module.
- Configured Asset Accounting module, including Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements. Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.
- Performed the configurations required for Inter-Company transactions of the Assets and customized interfaces, transactions involving the deprecation area, retirement of assets, scrapping of assets using ALE.
- Configured special G/L transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc. Configuration of Alternative reconciliation accounts for special G/L transactions.
- Configured document splitting for special purpose ledger, and developed reports using report painter.
- Training programs for end-users, supervisors, and managers on the client site.
Confidential, Washington, D.C
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 G/L, AP, AR, AA
Responsibilities:
- Identified actual user requirement through Brainstorming Sessions
- Involved in all phases of the project life cycle including Requirements Gathering, Blue Printing, Development, Unit & Integration Testing, Go Live and Post Production Support
- Identified Gaps in the system, based on user and policy requirements and prioritize the requirements of the users
- System configuration in the areas of GL transactions, balance sheet reports, profit and loss, inter-company transactions, consolidation, automatic posting GL master records, Account Group and Document Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Reversing Documents, Automatic Account Determination, Sales/Use Tax Assignment, Multi-Currency configuration.
- Worked extensively on Materials Management (MM), Purchase Orders (POs), Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), Non-PO invoicing (financial postings) and PO invoicing (LIV MM invoice and financial postings).
- Accounts Payable (FI-AP): Configuration: Vendor Master Data, Automatic Payment Transaction and Recurring Entries, Invoice posting, Bank Master Data, House Banks, Check Management: Check voiding with Reason Codes.
- Accounts Receivable (FI-AR): Configuration: Customer Master Data, Customer Tolerance Groups, Customer Down Payments, Customer invoice posting and clearing (open item management), Transaction types: Invoice, Credit Memos; AR Reconciliation, Payment Terms, Interest Calculation (Invoice Statement pay), Partial and Residual Payments, ACH/EFT Payment Formats; OTC Cycle components; Deductions Management, Dunning; FSCM: Credit Management
- Configured Automatic Payment Program (AP), Account Assignment (AR), interest calculations on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes
- Configured Setup the Gain/Loss accounts for exchange rate differences in vendor and customer payments and testing different production scenarios
- Defined and configured the balance sheet adjustment accounts and exchange rate Gain/Loss accounts for Goods Receipt (GR), Invoice Receipt (IR) and Goods Issued (GI).
- Configured House Banks, clearing customer open items, lockbox processing for A/P and A/R.
- Configured the Fixed Assets, chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation area, fiscal year variant, number range, substitution rule in the fixed asset master records, integration with purchasing, assets under construction, mid-year legacy asset take-over, asset master data acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation
- Configured credit control area and assigned number ranges for Customer Master Data for A/R.
- Configured Special G/L Accounts for down payment with down payments indicator
- Configured Cost Center Accounting / Cost element, maintained standard hierarchy, cost center categories, distribution and assessment.
- Configured Profit Center master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center groups, distribution and assessments in CO-PCA.
- Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions,
- Lock box program with EDI and IDOC setup.
Confidential, Omaha, Nebraska
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, G/L, AP, AR, AA
Responsibilities:
- Designed Functional Specifications and developed process flow of the system to convert existing system into new system including defining the roadmap
- Extensively participated in client discussions in blue printing phase for ISU-FICA/RMCA module. Designed functional specifications, configuration documents, training, and user manuals and also made user exits based on the business scenarios.
- Configured settings for Company Code, Currency and Parallel Currency, Posting Period Variant, Assigned Document Ranges, and Defined Tolerance Groups for Employees
- Configured and customized General Ledger accounting - Creation of G/L accounts, automatic account assignments and financial statement versiConfigured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments which included Payment Methods, House Bank accounts, Ranking Order of Bank Accounts, and lockbox
- Configured and Customized FI-AR and FI-AP modules including Account Groups, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Reason Codes, Account Determination, and Default Account Assignments
- Creation of asset classes, asset groups, maintenance of sub-assets, legacy reference data.
- Configuration of account assignments, integration of AA with FI.
- Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas.
- Settlement of asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.
- Testing different asset transactions like posting depreciations, manual capitalization of fixed assets, post capitalization, reverse asset transaction, disposition and assisted in asset retirements, asset scrap.
- Generating Asset reports using Asset explorer and Asset history sheets, used Report painter, performed Unit testing and Negative testing.
- Involved in training of key business users and coordinated with various teams and ensured that project deadlines are met.
Confidential, Dallas, TX
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP Quality Center, HP Service Desk
Responsibilities:
- Gathered high level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model). Supported all phases of a project life cycle including blueprint design, design, development, implementation, testing, creation of BPPs and other end user documentation
- Configured and customized the Company Code, Fiscal year Variant, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Field status variant and assignments etc.
- Designed specs for development of FICO Reports and Layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter
- Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, cross-company code transactions, and open item clearing. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast- entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings
- Defined tolerance groups, tolerances for employees, customers and vendors
- Configured settings in the A/P & A/R, such as house banks, ranking order, interest calculation, lockbox and electronic bank statement
- Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
- PO related vendor invoicing, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, payment media, and terms of payment, check lots, void reasons and running/editing dunning proposal.
- Configured the system to handle over/short/down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments. Worked on Vendor/Customer master records, account groups.
- Worked intensively on intercompany market transactions in a deregulated environment.
- Analyzed monthly Financial Reports for management to assist them in financial decisions.
- Assisted the users in BPP (business process procedure) Creation Developed Unit and Integration test plans and prepared test scripts and also monitored defects using HP Quality Center.