SUMMARY

• SAP FI/CO Functional consultant with 7 + years of experience in Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules and integration with logistics modules (SD and MM), training, testing and production support.
• Performed a variety of analyst and consulting roles in coordinating application designs, development and implementation, production, data mapping, integration, training, upgrade and support.
• Implemented a full life cycles using ASAP methodology including blue print GAAP analysis, process analysis, testing, controlling and training.
• Comprehensive knowledge in Financial Accounting including General Ledger(GL), Accounts Receivables (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA) and Special Purpose Ledger.
• Controlling proficiency includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA) Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Program (APP), Lockbox configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), check management and document splitting and zero balancing.
• Knowledge of IFRS, Sarbanes Oxley (Sox) Compliances, US GAAP/GASB 34 IPSAS, Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV), Order to Cash and Procurement to Pay (PTP) process.
• Knowledge in creation of reports using Report Writer and Report Painter Tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP Finance and Control (FICO)
• SAP Security and Controls
• Software Testing & Quality Assurance
• Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Participated in blue print phase using ASP (Accelerated SAP) methodology.
• Analyzed business process and documented current business process flow, identified the requirements to project processes and provided a road - map to implement healthier practices.
• Configured global company code, fiscal year variant, chart of accounts, posting periods variant, field status variants, field status group.
• Customized (client specific) General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables and Account Payables.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment and automatic payment program (APP) configuration.
• Maintained relations with banks by resolving issues in receiving flat file for processing customer remittances.
• Defined internal order, order types, planning and settlement profiles.
• Implementing automatic vendor payment program, created check lots, void checks for payment blockage and reissuances with replacement of checks.
• Configured master data, standard hierarchy and default profit center.
• Configured operating concern attributes and COPA settlement structure with settlement rules to populate the values in the value field in COPA.
• Participated in user, integration and user acceptance testing.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.2

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phase of implementation from development of business blue print to end user training.
• Analyzed business requirements, to comprehend legacy system functionalities and customization.
• Gathered functional requirement through user workshops and GAP identification analysis.
• Configured leading ledger set-ups like cost center update, profit center update, segment and defined additional currencies including hard currency an group currency.
• Customized operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Account & Country Chart of Accounts.
• Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by adding new GL accounts as per client’s requests.
• Configured system settings in the area s of FI-GL transactions, house bank, AP-Automatic Payment Program (APP), AR-Customer Credit, Credit Controls, and Credit Memos and performed Dunning.
• Configured customer account groups by defining cash discounts based upon payment terms, lockbox processing for incoming payments in Accounts Receivables.
• Performed GAP analysis and evaluated internal gaps within the system.
• Guiding configuration in areas of pricing, rebates, customer master, and availability checking, listing and exclusions, output and inter-company process.
• Configured Automatic Payment program for outgoing payments in Accounts Payable for checks, wire transfers and ACH payments.
• Performed unit testing and Integration testing to ensure proper integrity with the other modules.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.2

Responsibilities:

• Assessed accounting operations through reviewing the current business process, organization structure, finalizing, mapping and providing necessary support for implementation process.
• Configured and customized chart of accounts, company code global parameters’, fiscal year variants, account groups, field status groups and tolerance groups.
• Configured accounts receivables, defining receivable terms, over due interest calculations, and automatic clearing of line items, default account assignments, over and under payments.
• Configured Accounts Payable including Automatic Payment Program (APP) configuration, automatic check payment advice, lockbox processing, clearing of vendor, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, periodic processing, Dunning and correspondence.
• Created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number ranges assignments PCA planning parameters in profit center accounting.
• Involved in developing specifications for Interface and custom reports.
• Assisted end users in month end closing operations involved overhead calculations, variance calculations, results analysis settlements and activity price calculations.
• Participated in group integration testing, development of end user training manuals and provided end user training on business processes in SAP.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Assessed areas of AP, house bank and Automated Payment Program.
• Configured customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, account assignments defined various payments terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
• Identified vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout as required by the client.
• Worked on credit management and credit control areas, interest calculations and developed assessment, distribution, periodic reposting cycles and segments.
• Configured Lock Box accounts that are referenced in customer master records and used invoices as a part of remittance information. Defined control parameters that are used by the Lock Box Processing Program. bank statement processing and exchange rates.
• Created asset classes, depreciation types, depreciation areas, specified automatic account assignments to link asset master data to GL accounts, created depreciation keys with assignment to depreciation areas.
• Defined internal orders for different order types, planning profile, settlement profile, settlement rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.
• Reconciliations of COPA, FI and PCA reports.
• Configured and Instituted Dunning Procedures.

Confidential, Indianapolis IN

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible included working with clients in collecting corporation requirements and prepared blueprint design documents and also recognizing Gap Analysis by performing AS-IS and TO-BE process Systems.
• Responsible for configuration of GL document number ranges, positing period variant, field status variants, fiscal year variant, tolerance groups, opening and closing posting periods.
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and automatic Payment Program (APP) involved in optimizing bank details for wire transfer, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limit groups. Cash management, planning levels in treasury and Electronic bank statements (EBS).
• Configured Cost Centers necessary for CO-CCA and maintained and maintained them in standard hierarchy.
• Defined and maintained activity types and statistical key figures needed for CO-CCA maintained default account assignment and automatic account assignments, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, assessment and distribution.
• Configures Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, and Planning, Profile, Allocation Structure and settlement profiles.
• Worked closely with MM Consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO (goods receipts).
• Prepared configuration documentation for end users that included complete project processes.
• Assisted training team to develop training material.

Confidential, Miami, FL

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Assessed the document flow in reference to SAP process and recommended suitable validation procedures for documentation at the applicable document level.
• Configured vendor group & assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained vendor group field status for general data, company code data and purchasing data that reflected on vendor master records.
• Configured system settings in the area of FI-GL transactions, House Bank, AP-Automatic Payment Program (APP), AR customer credit, credit controls, discounts and credit memos’ and performed Dunning.
• Configured the Credit Management (credit control area) to manage the receivables in association with SD team.
• Clearing of records in GR/IR accounts and develop substitutions for clearing accounts.
• Configured cost centers, cost centers categories, cost center standard hierarchy and maintained cost center assignment for primary cost element posting in FI.
• Configured the costing based profitability analysis (CO-PA) Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability used in profitability analysis.
• Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents and for variance documents used Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Analyzed and configured cost element categories and cost center hierarchy.
• Involved in the team for integration testing.