SUMMARY

• 8 years of professional experience in SAP applications with an emphasis on FI - CO module and successfully implemented 2 full life cycles by using ASAP methodology ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0.
• Experienced in understanding the business process in the legacy system of client and in recommending an effective solution for To-Be system.
• Solid implementation experience of all sub modules of FI: General ledger (GL), Account Payable (AP), Account Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting module (AA).
• Experienced in integration of FI with CO, MM, SD and PP module, have a thorough knowledge and understanding in the integration of FI with all other modules.
• Proficient in all sub modules of Controlling: Cost element Accounting (CLE), Cost center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product costing (PC).
• Worked extensively in LSMW, IDOCS, EDI, ABAP queries in multiple projects
• Actively involved in all phases of ASAP roadmap: Project preparation, Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Final preparation, Go live support in full life cycles.
• Provided an extensive end user training at the stage of Go Live Support, analyzed every functions in FI and confirmed system functions as smoothly as possible.
• Unique capability of working in independent as well as in team environment by learning and sharing my skills with the team partners.
• Experience in business process documentation, FICO Configuration documentation and functional specifications documentation.
• Experience in production support, Ticket resolving, End user Training and course material preparation and documentation. Worked on Unit Testing (UT), Integration Testing (IT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, Good written and oral skills, ability to learn and resolve problems fast and apply the knowledge to meet the business requirements and have the functional business experience to understand.
• Detail oriented and great organizational and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 6.0

Operating Systems: Windows XP, VISTA, 7

Reporting Tools: Report Painter and Report Writer

Database: MS Access

MS Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, Visio, Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for configuration in FI modules: Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and GL master
• Engaged in gathering business requirement and in creating template for global and local environments
• Helped business associates in preparing process documents, training materials for end users of Production
• Executed the upload programs to upload GL entries from legacy system to SAP and provided solution for different upload failures
• Worked on open item management GL accounts for Clearing accounts, Bank accounts, customer and vendor accounts
• Used Leading and non-Leading ledger for journal entry posting in different scenarios
• Experienced in analyzing US GAAPand foreign GAAP requirements and how accounts principals are connected to the Leading and non-Leading ledger
• Worked on Foreign currency Translation and Revaluation for both local and global environment scenarios
• Set up the Translation adjustment accounts and Gain/Loss accounts for account determination in Translation and Revaluation for the month end closing
• Run the batch input session for both Foreign currency Translation and Revaluation
• Accomplished multiple testing for ALE distribution from Pre-Production to all lower clients for maintaining different exchange rates in OB08
• Worked on intercompany code Transactions and verified if posting billing document triggered IDOC, created invoice document, and posted accounting document for both company codes

Environment: SAPECC6.0

Confidential, New York,NY

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for configuration in FI modules: Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and GL master.
• Involved in analyzing and gathering business requirements.
• Involved in preparation of business requirement document and functional design document
• Good understanding and hands on experience on P2P and OTC cycle, FI-MM and FI-SD integration
• Strong knowledge in understanding the business process and recommended an effective TO-BE system
• Worked on GL master, created company code, chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Posting period variant
• Worked extensively with defining credit control areas and automatic credit control process
• Defined default values for reversal and defined specification for clearing item
• Configured the essential tax accounts and assigned them for tax account determination
• Configured different tax codes for client in accordance with the different types of customers
• Involved in PCA configurations, product costing, account assignment objects, Planning and reporting
• Calculated the overhead, Settlement, work in process in Product costing
• Created cost centers, categorized the cost centers under particular cost center groups, configured allocation and distribution methods.
• Defined the sales and purchase tax calculation procedure for US, Canada & assigned the calculation procedure for the corresponding countries
• Maintained both customer and vendor number range for maintaining the master data
• Configured the reconciliation accounts for Customer and vendor master, posted customer and vendor invoice transaction, verified the customer and vendor open item for recent due payment
• Used both manual and automatic payment program to clear the open item
• Worked on Asset Master: Created the asset account, maintained corresponding cost center, business area, account determination
• Worked on to settlement for Asset Under Construction(AUC) process

Environment: SAPECC6.0

Confidential, Pittsburgh PA

SAP FICO/ (ECC 6.0)

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the basis team in analyzing the regular programs that were created, and recommended changes according to client’s requirement
• Recommended an effective To-Be system for the client
• Assisted the end Users in TR department to have a very clear idea about the complex issues in Lockbox and EBS
• Maintained the house bank settings for Bank Accounts and foreign currency valuations and translations
• Configured different payment methods (Check, ACH, bank Transfer) and run the payment program for a 2-3 week interval
• Worked on development server as wells as in Unit testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Verified the credit limits for customer by test run and the functionality of risk categories by developing test cases
• Configured expense types, cost elements, cost centers and GL account mapping with CO module
• Helped users to learn how to post trip costs, approving expenses, posting run, keeping the posting period close and open when necessary and transfer to regular GL and reconciliation account
• Configured Payment terms and assigning them to customer master for corresponding pricing procedure
• Involved in discussions with the house bank of client for creating a new lock box and key in instructions
• Defined dunning areas and assigning them to customer master

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Jr. SAP FICO Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Studied the changes in the standard SAP system for the new version and prepared change configuration scripts.
• Configured the ledgers, set up integration with Controlling, and made the general setting for the fiscal year, the posting periods and the currencies.
• Analyzed the AS-IS, performed gap analysis and designed the TO-BE system.
• Worked with technical resources to design Interfaces and data Conversion Programs and developed functional specifications for information exchange in-between existing SAP legacy systems and SAP.
• Performed table comparisons for major General Ledger (G/L), Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), customizing tables to list the differences between 4.7 R/3 and ECC 5.0 systems.
• Customized screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas.
• Tested different asset transactions like posting depreciations, reverse asset transaction, disposition and assisted in asset retirements.
• Trained key business users and coordinated with various teams and ensured that
• Planned the data migration and activation of New GL
• Involved in blueprinting and workshops, requirement analysis for streamlining the various processes in corporate and treasury management projects
• Conducted requirements gathering workshops and documented the business processes
• Configured outgoing payments for ACH, Checks, and Wire payments
• Configured global settings and enterprise structure

Environment: SAPECC6.0

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

SAP FICO Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirements gathering, 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
• Configured settings for house Bank Accounts and foreign currency translations
• Configured Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statements and tested the lockbox functionality
• Configured and executed the Automatic Payment Program and worked exclusively on payment methods like ACH processing and check runs for customers and vendors
• Gathered business processes, requirement, participated in the system design, configured and tested the legacy system
• Completed functional gap analysis, interface requirements definition, and specifications
• Coordinated meetings with the users to understand legacy business system processes and documented business process flow charts, identified the requirements
• Analyzed and validated product costing configuration, procedures and reports. Also worked on cross company costing and costing versions.
• Configured asset classes, AA - GL integration, chart of depreciation, group assets, depreciation areas, depreciation key, calculation key, valuation, acquisitions and retirements
• Configured settings for interest calculation- defined interest calculation type and time dependent terms, frequency of calculation, interest rates and interest posting.
• Configured settings for withholding taxes.
• Expertise in configuring settings for controlling area and worked on cost element accounting creating primary and secondary cost elements.
• Created Primary cost elements through automatic batch run, manually created secondary cost element
• Implemented the month-end functionalities for product costing i.e. overhead calculation, WIP calculation, and variance calculation and manufacturing order settlement processes

Environment: SAPECC6.0

Confidential, Charlotte

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration and testing in Finance modules, Controlling
• Analyzed all the development/customizing objects implemented in 4.6C including the objects that have been modified in 4.6C
• Reprocessed the failed IDOC in the system and used EDI format to send the IDOC
• Created different vendor groups in the vendor master and assigned the number ranges for each vendor group
• Classified each vendor under a particular vendor group and created the vendors accordingly
• Configured different payment terms for different types of vendors
• Worked on AP invoice tolerances, execute actual assessment, distribution
• Successfully configured the Automatic Payment Program for A/P for check, ACH and Wire Transfer
• Configured GL validation and accomplished Substitution for a new scenario
• Enhanced the intercompany clearing process by using the functional module to update the assignment field for matching records of AP documents
• Cleared the payment through manual posting as well as Automatic Payment Program
• Worked on Automatic clearing to offset the balance for same vendor and customer
• Resolved lot of issues that happened in the SD, MM, WM modules while it was complex
• Explained the end users regarding the importance of integration of FI with all other modules:MM, SD
• Configured house banks, bank accounts and posting rules for automatic assignment
• Configured LSMW for uploading master data of Vendors.
• Uploaded mass changes to the vendor master data records.
• Created chart of depreciation, assigned chart of depreciation to company code
• Specified account determination and defined number range interval in Asset Accounting

Environment: SAPECC6.0

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

FICO Tester Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for blueprint, realization, and go-live support of Finance
• Involved in analyzing and gathering business requirements.
• Used LSMW to migrate vendor and customer master data from Legacy to SAP System
• Used group chart of account for reporting consolidated financial statement
• Mapped the GL accounts with group chart of account number of Group chart of account
• Used both leading and non-leading ledger in reporting for maintaining US GAAP,IFRS rule and local tax requirement
• Defined ledgers for General Ledger accounting, activated non-leading ledgers for individual company codes, activated new GL
• In Treasury, worked on lockbox configuration, mapped the BAI2 format for parameter
• Created house banks, account numbers and mapped them with lock box in Treasury
• Mapped the Bank account and clearing account with the lockbox and uploaded the lockbox file to the sap system
• Defined currencies of leading ledger, assigned scenarios to ledgers, activated cost of sales accounting to create profit and loss statements, segment reporting and document splitting
• Worked with finance management team to revisit the organization structure to suit the new G/L
• Involved in preparation of business requirement document and functional design document
• Worked on GL master, created company code, chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Posting period variant
• In Cost center accounting, created cost center, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center group, assessment and distribution cycle
• Created dummy profit center, profit center hierarchy, assigned profit center to the cost center, created separate profit center to the different plant and division
• Created reconciliation accounts for both A/P and A/R
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) including customer account groups, number ranges and tolerance groups, uploaded A/R master data
• Configured Dunning area and executed Dunning for the delinquent customers
• Used dunning level 4 for most of the dunning execution
• Worked on all GL master data, created Fiscal and Posting period variant, created all different types of GL accounts, account groups.
• Created document number range for document and assigned them with the particular document types KR, KZ, DK, DR etc.
• Sound knowledge and experienced in the integration of FI with MM, SD, WM,
• Experienced with OTC cycle: Customer order, Delivery, Billing, payment collection
• Created Lockbox for client and Electronic Bank Statements. Configured A/R data for client’s house bank to test Lockbox functionality in BAI2
• Automated the automatic GR/IR process of clearing the accounts which has the assignment of goods receipts to the corresponding invoice receipts.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0