SUMMARY

• Over 12 years Professional experience with Business Users Interaction, Requirement Gatherings, Configurations, Development, Data Migration, Testing and End User Training with SAP ERP, SAP CRM, Accounting, and Technical Support.
• About 8 years in SAP Finance and Controlling with 3 full life - cycle Implementations of Business Consulting & Functional Analysis of SAP FI/CO Module in SAP Project as per ASAP methodology
• Possess excellent internal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities to handle multiple tasks, Team Management, Customer relationship Management and planning with strict adherence to time schedules.
• Implementation experience in General Ledger (GL), Account Receivable (AR), Account Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), Special purpose Ledger, Controlling Areas, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), and Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Strong working knowledge in Controlling (CCA, OM, IO, PCA, PC) and B/W modules.
• Experience covers all stages of SAP FI/CO activities from Fit Gap analysis, Develop, Creation of business blueprints, Configuration, Realization, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Learning training, Go Live support, Control Start, Support production.
• Integration of FI with MM, SD and HR with Procure to Pay, Order to cash and Payroll Cycles.
• Special emphasis on Data Migration and ETL Techniques specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects
• Experienced in Enhancements, Testing & Production Support/ user issues, super-users and End user training and documentation.
• Extensive exposure in writing functional specifications including interfaces and working with ABAP programmers.
• Strong knowledge of business processes with strong foundation in Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts.
• Provided end user support for all issues pertaining to Finance and Controlling modules &Worked closely with Business Leaders to consult and influence direction of business process.
• Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports
• Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross applications.
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools
• Experienced in User Acceptance Testing and Integration testing of Legacy System Interfaces with SAP functionality.
• Coordinated with Global Team in Project Estimates forRICEFdevelopment and tested the RICEF’s developed by offshore team.
• Excellent project execution track record with good leadership, strong communication and analytical skills.
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).
• Expertise in preparing User Manuals with perfect documentation and conducting training sessions for end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP ERP Application: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.6/4.0b, CRM 7.0

Functional Area: SAP ERP - Finance and Controlling, Project SystemsData Migration Tools LSMW, eCATT, Report Painter, Report Writer, custom BAPI

Other Tools: HP Quality Center 11.0, Remedy, M-Office Suite

Testing Strategies: Integration System, Performance, UA & Black Box Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, FL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP CRM 7.0, HR, BI, HP QC, Oracle 11i, SAP Enterprise Portal, EDI, SOLMAN

Responsibilities:

• As a core member for full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO module, gathered business process information and compiled the AS-IS, TO-BE and GAP analysis of the SAP R/3 system.
• Performed assessment of business requirements, mapping with SAP functionality.
• Configured FI New GL, AP/AR & Banking - Document Splitting, Segment Reporting, Special purpose ledger, Doc types & posting keys, analysis of all open items and clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) accounts.
• Designed Account groups and Configured Payment program for check printing and Wire Transfer payments. Configured tax codes for vendor invoices. Worked on Vendor Master, Vendor invoices Payment methods (ACH/Wire Transfer, Check and Credit Card) and reporting, Customer Master, and Default account assignments for Overpayments/Underpayments.
• In Asset Accounting (FA), assisted in creating Fixed Assets, Group Assets, Assets Class, Post Periodic Assets, and Asset Acquisitions. Maintained Depreciations, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Area, Fiscal Year Variant, Number range, and Substitution Rules in the Fixed Asset Master records and reviewed various Fixed Assets Accounts.
• Integration of parallel accounting concept during configuration for Fixed Assets Module, General Ledger, re-grouping and currency valuation processes for each period-end.
• Responsible of delivering integrated solution for service process with R/3 and CRM system.
• Configured relevant settings for Lockbox processing and Outgoing Payments. Resolved issues during Unit, Functional, Integration and Regression testing of business scenarios and test conditions.
• Defined Profit Center and Cost Center hierarchies. Created reports using Report Painter and Report Writer in CCA and PCA.
• Responsible for configuration of asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes. Customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges.
• Configured Leasing types, Account Determination, Screen layout rules, Asset classes for capital lease. Assign GL Accounts for Depreciation Area Impairment.
• Built custom transaction that allows systemic match between a searchable list of goods receipts and vendor invoice information entered into the screen. Developed custom programs to meet business requirements.
• Providing functional specifications to technical team in building custom program to automate the Retro process to reduce the manual Intervention.
• Coordinated the integration efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations & revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD.
• Implemented integrations with SAP HR Module (Pre-Payroll and Post-Payroll Processes) with Finance Module.
• Mapped SD pricing procedure and direct postings from FI/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA.
• Involved in Maintaining Default Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions rules, Overhead Structure for Accrual Costs, Planning Layout and Profiles.
• Extensively worked in Data Migration from legacy system to SAP using LSMW and Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load, GL uploads, Account Payables and Customer Open Account Receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Identified the RICEFs related to the processes above and create the RICEF (reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms) functional designs.
• Worked extensively on identifying RICEF factors, documented them, and trained the team on writing RICEF functional designs.
• Created BRD, FRD for User exits, module pool programs, Custom Idocs, Interface and reports.
• Conducted User testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch Session and also involved in providing training to end-users.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP CRM 7.0, BI, HR, HP QC, Oracle 11i, SAP Business Objects, Sharepoint Portal, EDI, SOLMAN

Responsibilities:

• Conducted interviews with users to gather requirements and to understand the flow of the As-Is system.
• Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be solution
• Involved in solving configuration issues in Accounts receivables and Accounts Payables.
• The bill of exchange configuration and processing in FI-AR by configuring the reconciliation accounts in the special GL.
• Creation of House Banks, Check Lots, Check Register, Correspondence and void of Checks in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Accounts Payable (AP) - Worked on foreign currencies for the payment program.
• AR-Configured Cash discount lost account and set tolerance limits for customers for posting AR documents.
• AP-Developed specs to develop custom Interface for sending outbound Positive Pay file, and Cashed Checks file.
• Defined the BAI 2 format, which provided different level of detail of the incoming payment.
• Illustrated the flow of data through the lockbox procedure.
• AR- Improve Your Receivables Management with SAP Collections Management
• AR- Use Customer Evaluation Reports to Improve Your Accounts Receivable Team’s Efficiency.
• AR- Monitor credit accounts effectively with credit management.
• Customer master data: customer group, customer field Status, creating customer with reference and integration with Sales & Distribution Module.
• Intercompany setting in AP/AR,workedonthe process from a Logistics standpoint to the end result In Finance.
• Transfer of master and transactional data through LSMW
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments which included Payment Methods, House Bank accounts, Ranking Order of Bank Accounts
• Configuration of house banks, electronic bank statement, manual bank statement, and cash journal in the bank accounting.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0/ R.3 4.7, SAP CRM 7.0, BI, HR, HP QC, Oracle 11i, SAP Business Objects, Sharepoint Portal, EDI, SOLMAN

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.
• Carried out AS-IS business process analysis and documented current business process flow.
• Identified the requirements and modeled the TO-BE process and provided guidance for implementing best practices.
• As a part of GL transaction processing set the types of journal entries, recurring entries and accrual posting. GL Fiscal month end closing defined financial statement preparation, reconciliations and adjustments, integrated closing schedules and the closing process. Year end closing involved sequencing of activates, setting up closing schedule and carry forward and adjustment activates.
• Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, Customer Master Record, etc.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
• 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.
• Customized the Payment Program to in corporate Company Code Data, Paying Company Code Data, Country Payment Methods, Company Code Payment Methods, and House Banks etc.
• Defined Reason codes, Customized Reason Code Conversion Versions & Mapped external reason codes to the defined reason codes to facilitate accountability for the underpayment and overpayment of incoming payments from customers.
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups.
• Customized Operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Accounts & Country Chart of Accounts.
• Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by adding new G/L accounts as per the client’s requirements.
• As a part of AR general billing defined the process around creating/distributing invoices, customer correspondences, accounting updates, credit checks, interest calculation/late fee payment terms, dunning forms, reason codes and overall AR tolerances, over/under payment and discounts.
• As a part of recording customer payments from an AR perspective defined the various types of payments received, defining payment activity and lock box payments, Intercompany vouchers and interface requirements.
• Integrated FI with MM & SD modules.
• Final Preparation & Support: - Involved in testing in development and Q&A environments. Issues resolving, compile documentation, user training and sign off. Transported customer & Vendor master data from legacy system in to SAP through LSMW. Setup of Substitution and Validations.
• For end users. Upload of Opening balances through account assignment model. Go live & early watch post implementation support.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP Version: SAP R/3 4.7, HP QC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business Prepared Blue Print by Re-engineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the TO BE system
• Involved as a team member in implementing Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
• Defined business and functional requirements through analysis of potential alternatives and reviewed technology solutions to meet business processes
• Mapped business requirements to SAP R/3 to attain detailed design of SAP R/3 and third party system solutions
• Finalization of chart of Accounts and LSMW for upload, Accounts Group, Field status Group that existed previously in Apotex
• Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants, Configured Credit representative group and accounting clerks in Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP) and General Ledger (GL) Accounts, mainly differentiated between one time vendors and regular vendors in manufacturing sector
• Year end Closing Procedures, General Ledger Account (GL) and Cost Element Entry(CE), Annual budget by Cost Center Accounting(CCA) and Profit Center Accounting(PCA).
• Configured the automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments. Configured special GL transactions.
• Maintained Validations and substitutions for Development, R&D, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities. Maintained overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations
• Involved in creation of user-defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter
• Set strategy for reporting and executed them consistently.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP Version: R/3 4.7, HP QC

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of monthly Financial Reports.
• Managed financial information dealing with Assets, liabilities, capital. And prepared B/S, statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for department managers
• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts G/L, A/P, A/R and assigning different process keys as required
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for vendors and worked on daily accounting transactions in A/R
• Worked Closely with SD team in their sales process and transferring billing documents to A/R
• Ensuring master data upload of asset master and configuring FI-Asset integration