SUMMARY

• Over 7 + years of IT Experience related to Design and Implementation of SAP R/3 FI/CO module, Experience in Implementing SAP FI - GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Controlling. Extensive Experience in Business Process and SAP Implementation Methodology including ASAP Methodology from Banking, Pharma, IT domains.
• Extensive Functional experience in Configuration and Customization in FI-GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Dunning, Bank Accounting, Internal Orders, Credit Management and experience in CCA, PCA.
• Analyze, design solutions for issues related to Accounts Receivables (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Sales and billing.
• Experience in integrating FI with CO, SD and MM modules.
• Broad Experience in ASAP Project Implementation Methodology, fast learner of new tools and technologies.
• Strong commitment to team environment dynamics with the ability to contribute expertise and implement effective solutions.
• Strong Communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with a High Learning Acumen to adopt new Tools and Technologies with ease and seamlessly Integrate skills set into the Project Implementation Lifecycle
• Good knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act
• User on the processes and assistance in Developing End User Manual.
• Excellent Accounting and Finance knowledge with demonstrated Competencies in Financial and Business Analysis acquired during BBA program and further developed while working with different Clients
• Strong Problem Solving and Analytical skills and abilities to make Balanced & Independent Decisions.
• Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills combined with Self-Motivation, Initiative and Project Management Attributes.FI Enterprise Structure: Define Company, Credit Control Area, Functional Area, Financial Management area, Chart of Accounts and Copy Company Code Date.
• General Ledger: Configuring Account Groups, GL master records, Posting Period Variants, field status variants, field status group, posting keys, Financial Statement Versions, sample accounts, account determination, document number ranges, document types, tolerance groups, Reconciliation legers.
• Account Payable: Configuring and customizing vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, Bank accounts, check lots, reason codes, Automatic payment Program, recurring entries, invoices, and outgoing payments.
• Account Receivable: Configuring and customizing customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms, match codes, interest calculation, Dunning, credit management, AR information system, Incoming Payments, Credit memos.
• Asset Accounting: Asset class, Asset master data, Depreciation, depreciation keys, account assignment in cost accounting, number ranges, creating reconciliation accounts for assets, acquisitions, retirements, transfer of Assets and Asset data transfer.
• Cost Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the primary cost elements, Secondary Cost elements, Cost centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Cost Center Groups, Cost Center Categories, alternative groups, Planning, Activity types, statistical key figures, assessments, distributions, re postings and allocation cycles.
• Profit Center Accounting: Maintaining the basic settings, creating master data for profit centers, profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center Standard hierarchy. Assigning profit centers to the respective cost centers, Assigning profit centers in the material master, transferring revenue accounts and balance sheet accounts to profit centers in profit center hierarchy.
• Internal Orders: Configuring internal order types, settlement profiles, number ranges, maintaining hierarchies, generating groups, defining settlement rules, running settlements

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 FI/CO 4.5B, 4.6B,4.6C, 4.7EE, ECC 5.0, 6.0

Methodology: ASAP

MS Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point

Operation Applications: Windows 2003, Window Vista, and XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included interacting with client s business process team; collect all the business requirements create functional and technical specifications, which would be used by the construction/programming team.
• New GL Functionality Activating the PCA Scenario&Document Splitting
• Defined Project Management Line Layouts for GL, Customer and vendor balance display.
• Configured settings required making postings of processed data in asset master records into the G\L accounts of FI and vice versa.
• Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master records, account groups, account determinations, tolerance groups, country/company code specific payment methods, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, dunning, bank settings, Spooling, reason codes, interest calculations, Special GL Transactions and Credit Control Areas. Integration with MM and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting. Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.
• Worked with New GL Functionalities like Document splitting, Leading & Non Leading Ledgers.
• Integrated asset accounting with other components, structured and valuated fixed assets and asset retirement. Configured asset sub numbers and group asset and Defined Organizational Structure required for Fixed Assets.
• Setup chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, inter company assets transfers. Configured account determinations, depreciation keys and number ranges for asset classes. Configured account assignments including Fund Accounting.
• Customized company codes, chart of account, posting variants, fiscal year variants, inter company transactions, foreign currencies and translation rates.
• Configured dunning Procedure for customers and also automatic payment programs.
• Configured relevant settings for treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.
• Supported custom development and configuration in SAP FI Module in the areas of General Ledger, accounts receivable (A/R), accounts payable (A/P), Asset Accounting, Internal orders (IO).
• Business Analysts who can explain the testing approaches to Business using Global Test Plan (align to Global template rollouts)
• Tested various business transactions in General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable and Fixed Asset and Controlling modules.
• Provided expertise in Vendor master data maintenance, vendor invoice, credit memo posting, parking and posting parked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification.
• Integrated G/L accounts for the defined processes for integration with FI, SD, and MM modules.
• Prepared user documentation and conducted user in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Accounting.
• Analyzed Business requirements and configured Asset accounting module based on client requirements
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Configured AR - Dunning process, Interest calculation on Account Balances and Line Items
• Set up the integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments.
• Defined and maintained versions for Controlling Area.
• Created Internal Orders for different project implementations, assigned the costs from different cost centers related to that internal order. At the end, distributed the cost of the internal order to the respective cost centers using settlement rules.

Confidential, New York, NY

Environment: SAP R/3, Version ECC5.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AP, AR, AA, CCA, PCA in ECC 6.0 Environment.
• G/L-Account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups, financial statement versions, G/L display configuration, posting amount defaults and tolerance groups, and fast entry screens
• Interacted with the business Analysts and end users to get the user requirements and Business process using ASAP methodology.
• Defined Account Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.
• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records and Assign Reconciliation Accounts in G/L
• Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Define Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Configured Accounts Payable (AP) with manual and Automatic Payment Program to do Check, ACH and Wire Payment.
• Configured Credit Management and Defined Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, Line Layout, and Reconciliation Accounts
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Configured AR - Dunning process, Interest calculation on Account Balances and Line Items
• Set up the integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Configured Tax procedure for Purchases /Sales and Created Tax code master data. Conducted various workshops conducted for on the Taxes for users.
• Configured Asset Management, Configured Asset financial statement version, asset sub numbers and group asset and Defined Organizational Structure required for Fixed Assets, Configured chart of depreciation and depreciation areas, posting of Acquisitions and Scrapping, Defined Closing Procedure
• Configured the system for Creating, Posting and Settling an Asset under construction, Defined Closing Procedures, Configured Asset acquisitions, retirements, depreciation, Configured Inter Company Asset Transfer, Prepared Functional Specs for User Exit Developments.
• Configured Controlling modules including Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting
• Designed and Developed Customized Reports for Management Reporting Purposes using tools like Report Painter and Report Writer
• Extensively involve in Testing and Validation of processes throughout the project
• Played a vital role in End User and Post Production Support

Confidential, MN

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Conducted session with stakeholders to Gather requirements and to Understand the Workflow of the As-Is System.
• Worked through complex SAP process problems, Documented the Business Process as Configured in SAP & Ensured proper Integration with other Modules
• Interacted with Client to Update and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas
• Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories
• Set up the Credit Management Configuration
• Configured Company codes, Chart of accounts, redesigned Account groups, assignment of Fiscal year variant, posting periods Analysis of mechanism of Open & close periods, Definition of Accounting Documents Number Ranges.
• Involved in the post GO LIVE support and preparation.
• Solving tickets for issues in various areas in FI and CO module like General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Accounts payables, Banking, Cost Center Accounting and profit center accounting and Profitability Analysis.
• Providing day to day operational and process support to users
• Interacting actively with the Onsite and Business Users on daily basis and effectively manage the problems they face on their daily activities along with providing solutions.
• Involved in integration with other modules MM, SD.
• Resolved User issues on priority and schedule basis.
• Preparation of User manual Documentation & preparation of monthly quarterly and yearly reports

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP FICO(Implemetation) Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3, Version 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with the users to analyze the business processes and defined the test plans according to the scheduled time frame.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing of MM with Account Payable and SD with Account Receivable.
• Prepared the clients business process flow charts for accounts payable, accounts receivable, cost center accounting, and profit center accounting
• Tested GL scenarios - GL master data maintenance, all GL transactions, GL inquiry, Month end closing and year-end closing activities and GL reporting.
• Tested AP scenarios - Vendor master maintenance, vendor invoice and credit memo postings, park and posting parked invoices, automatic payment program for check payments, release blocked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification, price variance, quantity variance, unplanned delivery costs, evaluated receipt settlement printing the check with the existing check number, printing the checks without payment program, cancel payment, reinstate the check information in the check register and AP reporting
• Tested AR scenarios - Customer master data maintenance, partner functions, full, partial, residual incoming payments, invoice posting, intercompany postings, remove export hold on the sales order, post tax payable and AR reporting
• Tested AM scenarios - Create asset mater data, asset master with sub numbers, asset acquisitions, intercompany asset transfers without revenue, intra company asset transfers, retirement with customer and without customer, asset depreciation run, change tax depreciation, asset reporting.
• Tested CCA scenarios - Cost center maintenance, change existing cost center validity period, create primary, revenue and secondary cost elements, create and execute distribution and allocation cycles, accrual calculation, cost center planning-activity type/cost center, cost center planning-expense, internal order creation, CCA standard reporting.
• Documented the Processes, Changes and Trained The End Users

Confidential

Jr. SAP R/3 FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3, Version 4.6B

Responsibilities:

• Configured G/L Master records, documents number ranges, posting period variants, reversal of documents, opening and closing of periods, field status variants, document types, posting keys.
• Configured Vendor and Customer Master Record, tolerance limits for over Payments and under payments, payment terms, and payment methods.
• Ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and customer.
• Dunning, Interest Calculation and Credit Management.
• In Asset Accounting, defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys, Asset Classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Also, defined transaction types for various business transaction likes acquisition, retirement, transfers and account determination.
• Configured asset master records, chart of depreciation and asset sub ledger.
• Configured controlling area and maintained versions.
• Defined Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Cost Center Categories, document numbers, maintained Default Account Assignments and Automatic Account Assignments.
• Defined profit centers/ Profit Centre Standard hierarchy and dummy profit centers, and defined document types.