SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of Financial Accounting experience in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI - G/L), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Asset Accounting (FI-AA) and Fixed Assets.
• High level of experience with developing Project Systems by working closely with upper management.
• Expertise in Bank reconciliation, set up lockbox.
• Experienced in SAP upgrades from R/3 4.6C to ECC 5.0 and 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
• Involved in 3 Full Life-Cycle implementations of SAP R/3 system Designing, Business Process Re-Engineering, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Go-Live & Supporting
• Experience with configuration of Financial Supply Chain Management(FSCM)
• Worked on different aspects of FI Transactions:
• Part of a Team 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 and Controlling.
• Expertise in Controlling includes Cost Element Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA), and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Ability to work independently as well as in team oriented environments with good organizational skills, excellent communications skills and inter personal skills with problem solving aptitude.
• High Learning Curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the project implementation cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

FI: Classic General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable

CO: Cost Center Accounting, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Bank configuration, EBS Configuration.

Integration: FI/CO integration with HR, SD, PP & MM.

Operating Systems: WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 98, 2000, XP, Vista & 7, MS DOS

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7 E - ECC 6.0{SAP FI (Classic GL, AR, AP, AA).

Tools: MS Office (Excel, Word, PP, Access), Adobe suite, HP Quality Center, Sap Scripts, ABAP programming, project systems, Web Dynpro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, LA, CA

Sr. SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handling - General Ledger, Account Receivable, Cash Management, Accounts Payable, T Asset Accounting modules,
• Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profit Center accounting modules
• Configured and Customized G/L, A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variant, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments, automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, credit risk management
• Automatic account determination.
• Configured Asset Management module, defined different Asset Classes, Account determination, Screen layout Rules, Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys
• Asset Data Carried out settings for old data takeover
• Designed and configured Project systems and integrated with Fixed Assets.
• Project systems configuration, defined WBS, WBS elements, networks.
• Treasury implementation including Cash forecast, money market, EFT Transfer implementations.
• Cost Center Accounting: Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments
• Cost Element Accounting: Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups.
• Profit Center Accounting: Created Profit centers, Standard Hierarchy, Configured Profit center Master Data, maintained Default Account Assignments and Automatic Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions, Distribution and Assessment..
• Involved in different testing phases, unit testing, integration testing and Regression testing.

Confidential, Marshall, MN

Sr. SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of SAP FI/CO Full Life Cycle Implementation team, responsible for gathering business requirements, Data archiving, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system, and providing post implementation support
• Analyzed the existing system for, AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Analyzed the business requirements, determined organizational structures and classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centers
• Customized settings for controlling areas, activating the components indicators, assigning the company codes to controlling areas, assigning number ranges.
• Provided end user training and prepared training documents for SAP users and handles several post production support issues.
• Involved in all the test phases unit testing, integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Provided informative documentation to help the end users.
• Created Chart of accounts, Company Code, account groups, document number ranges and Field status variables in both master data level and posting level.
• Created Posting Period Variants, open and closing posting periods, tolerance groups, recurring entries and sample documents
• Created Automatic clearing accounts for clearing the balances.
• Integration of SD and MM with FI:
• Made configuration for automatic account postings in the transaction code OBYC.
• Vendor Master Records, Vendor groups, Vendor invoices, Payment methods, Payment program, House Bank and Bank Accounts.
• Made configurations for entire Procure to Pay business process including - creating Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification and Outgoing Payment.
• Created Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments and invoice processing using checks. Configured House banks, Payment Methods, Assigned Payment Method in Vendor Master.
• Created Customer Master Data and corresponding reconciliation accounts for automatic posting in GL accounts. Maintained document number ranges for customer invoices and incoming payments.
• Worked in AR team in the areas cash applications and lock boxes. Worked with billing team on issues related to debit memo, credit memo and invoice.
• Configured Lock Boxes for automatic processing of incoming payments from customers.

Confidential, Camden, NJ

Sr. SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating New Lockbox configuration, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) for the production environment in North America Banks
• Implemented company codes and plants in Europe and parts of Asia and followed rules and regulations for these countries in the implementations.
• Creating Cash Designation Accounts in the Chart of Accounts and activating the ALE to the GL Accounts
• Monitoring the Lockbox, EBS & other Financial daily files through FTP site into R/3 by a Middleware program
• Working with SAP scripts for integration purpose.
• Unblocking the GL Accounts through FS00 for postings based on the end user requests through HP Service Manager tickets
• In General Ledger activated Document Splitting feature of New GL and defined Financial Statement Version besides setting up GL Accounts.
• Resolving issues on Different methods of Payment run via F110 for AP team
• Perform regular FICO Validation based on the production server patch implementations and communicating to the End Users
• Creating GL Accounts for Bank Accounts to process the Lockbox activities for new House Bank setups
• Creating New Payment Methods in FBZP for making payments to vendors for various company codes
• Running the MRBR transaction customized program to release the price & quantity blocks of the vendor EDI invoices
• Open and Close Posting Periods in OB52 by customized ABAP program with variants in each segment of FI areas.
• Production Support issues on Bug fixes, Maintenance and enhancements.
• Check Printing Program for F110 Payment Run on Payment Method B & C
• Check layout design with ABAP team on SAP Script for ABAP customized check printing program
• Established skills in creating Technical Designs and SAP ABAP programs.
• Create and use Web Dynpro controllers

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Sr. SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a part of the Blueprint team, specifically dealt with collecting customizing specs through Questionnaires and interaction with each department. Also worked on putting on paper the actual configuration details for GL & AP.
• Configured settings in the new GL, house bank, interest calculation, GR/IR clearing account and automatic clearing to suit client organization parameters.
• Prepared configuration setting for cross company code transactions, line item display, and open item processing for new G/L, AR and AP.
• Customized company codes, chart of account, posting variants, fiscal year variants, intercompany transactions, foreign currencies and translation rates.
• Configured for partial, full, residual payments of line items and in holding and parking of documents. Configured for tolerance groups and employee tolerances.
• Configured for master data of vendors and customers. Setup house banks and accounts and also configured for payment program. Configured for terms of payment and tax code on purchase and sales.
• Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables including the payment program configuration and automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items.
• Bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, Periodic processing, and correspondence.
• Lock box configurations, source symbols, keys for posting rules and mapping external transaction codes
• Creating New GL Accounts for Bank Accounts to process the Lockbox activities for new House Bank setups
• Creating New Payment Methods in FBZP for making payments to vendors for various company codes
• Setup for special G/L transactions like Down payments and Bills of exchange.
• Configured for dunning letters for customers and also automatic payment programs.
• Successfully configured Asset master record creation, asset classes, depreciation run and integration of assets with new GL.
• Customized the controlling area, operating concern, and also defined the number ranges for controlling area.
• Created cost elements primary and secondary, cost elements group, cost center, cost center group, cycle, profit center, and profit center hierarchy.
• Setup profit centers, dummy profit centers, assignments in profit center accounting, configuring planned profit center accounting.
• CO-objects to profit centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of reports.
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry programs.
• Involved in training to the users and also support work during the post implementation.

Confidential, Marysville, OH

Sr. SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivering the solutions, those are suitable and sustainable to the customer requirements within the project scope and timeframes
• Extending technical and functional help to team members wherever possible and knowledge / information sharing
• Worked towards the implementation of new GL in ECC 6.0 and worked closely with the project management and the implementation team defining project scope, timeline and specifications
• Knowledge and skills upgrade that are needed by the customers (market) and the organization
• Addressing the New business Requirements & configuration
• Providing day-to-day operations and process support to users.
• Reports customization for customer & vendors.
• Period Closing Operations and Closing Activities
• Handled Asset Acquisition, Capitalize Asset under Construction
• Asset Transfer and Retirements
• Edit Asset Documents, Reverse Asset Documents
• Asset Creation, changing and locking of Assets
• Periodic Processing like Depreciation Run, Asset Year-End Closing.

Confidential, Harbor, MI

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Workflow to design solutions and designed the To-Be Solution by reviewing all Processes, User procedures, and System requirements.
• Migrating from 4.7 to ECC 6.0 for existing entity set up in Classic GL and incorporating New GL features by migrating from Business Areas to Profit Centers and Segments as per the requirement.
• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CEA, CCA and COPA.
• Used the New General Ledger concept to create a Leading Ledger for the existing entity and a Statutory Ledger for the new entity, to configure Document Splitting, and to define and derive Segments.
• Defined the Chart of Accounts and mapped them to the legacy QUINTE system accounts by customizing the needful according to the client requirement and used LSMW to upload data to the SAP system
• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records.
• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and set up the Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Defined Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox Process (using BAI2 format), Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Set up the Credit Management Configuration by defining Credit Control Areas and Risk Categories, Credit Representatives & Intervals for Days in Arrears.
• Configured Open Item Clearing and Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes using multiple currencies and following multiple countries’ check design requirements.
• Worked with the SD Team to Design and Configure the Sales Billing and Invoicing Processes in order to integrate with FI.
• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specified Number Assignments across Company Codes & Account Determination, Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• In Controlling, configured General Controlling by maintaining Controlling Areas and assigned different Company Codes accordingly, creating CO document number ranges and version maintenance.
• Configured entire Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) by creating required user defined Characteristics and Value fields required for reporting purposes.
• Documented End User Manuals and Training Material.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in defining management strategies for implementing SAP R/3 FI-CO modules.
• Defining Organization structure In FI-CO
• Discussed with steering committee members for Implementation, scope of work for Business Plan and Blue Print
• Maintained settings for General ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Assets Management, and Closing
• Worked in Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, CO-PA: Profitability Analysis
• Participated in defining management strategies for implementing SAP R/3 FI modules.
• FI-General Ledger
• Enterprises structure and system settings creating G/L Account in the Charts of Accounts and defined global parameters in company code area, Define Account Group
• Created G/L master records, sub-ledger accounts for customers, vendors and assets, tax accounts for state, county and city, reconciliation accounts, special ledger accounts.
• Created screen variant template for GL account fast entry, Reference document for batch posting of recurring expenses (rent and insurance) and account assignment model for distribution of phone bills and utilities.
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Documents Types: Such as A: Assets, D: Customers, K: Vendors, M: Material, S: GL Accounts
• Financial Statement Versions using Report writer: Maintaining language, Item key, Chart of Accounts, group account Number for generating Balance sheet, P & L statement.
• SAP special ledger hands-on experience Configuration, testing, etc.
• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination
• Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Interval & Fixed Asset Classes
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions
• Specified Document Type for Posting of Depreciation, Specified Account Assignment types for Account Assignment Object, Defined Depreciation Areas, Specify Transfer of APC Values, Determined Depreciation Areas in the Fixed Asset Class
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas

Confidential, DE

SAP R/3 FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and system requirements.
• Configured functional areas and business areas based on organizational structure.
• Defined templates for configuring recurring entries in GL postings.
• Customized the screens for document entry, document reversals, invoices, and payments.
• Defined reference accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models.
• Defined asset class, asset numbers and grouped them into asset groups.
• Defined chart of depreciation and depreciation areas.
• Integration with Project system, settlement of WBS elements to AUC and finally to the assets.
• Configured asset master records, chart of depreciation and asset sub ledger.
• Customized screens for asset creation.
• Customized screens for asset acquisition, asset under construction and asset retirement (scrapping) and capitalization of assets.
• Worked on RFEBKA96 standard functionality program to delete wrongly posted EBS & Lockboxes in Production System.
• Uploaded the correct EBS & Lockboxes in Production.
• Performed Unit Testing, Prepared Documentation for business users, Performed End User
• Supported the client in Post Launch Session and worked on Post Production Issues