PROFESIONAL SUMMARY

• Certified CPA with 8 years of SAP Implementation experience in Financial Accounting FI Controlling CO areas in all phases of Global End-To-End SAP implementation Projects.
• Experience in Manufacturing, Medical Equipment FDA , Semiconductor and Chemical Domain.
• Involved in 3 full life-cycle implementations, Support, Enhancements and system upgrade.
• Implementation expertise in SAP FSCM - Dispute Management, Collection Management, Cash Management, Liquidity Planner and Billers direct.
• Configured and Tested FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-SPL, FI-AM, CO-CCA, EC-PCA, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO Material ledger , Contract Accounting ,PS and ECCS.
• Product costing experience in configuringCosting variants, valuation strategy, quantity structure, cost component structure, RA key, working withStandard cost estimate and Actual costingcockpit, production order settlements, WIP,Standard cost and moving avg.
• Proficient with COPA operating concern, value fields, quantities, Characteristics and Derivation rules.
• Experience in Internal Orders Overhead orders, Investment orders and orders with Revenue, Statistical orders, Allocation structure, settlement profile and period end settlements.
• Experience in Cost center and Profit center Accounting-hierarchies, Assignments, planning, layouts, and overheads, Allocations Assessments and Distributions, manual allocations, Re-classifications, substitutions and validations.
• Hands-on experience in Project Systems PS include Project budgeting PS-APP , Basic data PS-BD , Project execution/integration PS-EXE , Information system PS-IS , Operative structures PS-OPS , Project planning PS-PLN .
• In depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration with SD, MM and PP with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles and providing support for account determination.
• Involved in New GL Configuration, Defining leading and non-leading ledgers, setting up criteria, Assigning Business Scenarios, Document splitting, Zero balancing of documents.
• Experience in Cash Management liquidity forecast, cash position, electronic bank statement, lockbox, and payments , Cash Budget Management, Credit Management, Treasury and Risk Management.
• Extensive experience in Lockbox configuration and processing, automatic processes like payment program and dunning program.
• Extensively worked on IDoc, LSMW, CATT, ALV and ABAP Queries with the ability to act as a techno functional consultant. Experience in using Infopak, Visio.
• Good working knowledge on User exits, Substitutions, Validations, Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Developed Functional and Technical Specifications for development objects RICEFW .
• Proficient in Project Evaluation, AS-IS study, Fit-GAP analysis, TO-BEprocess, troubleshooting, performance tuning, Production Support and End-user training.
• Conversant with IFRS, US and Indian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP and SOX compliance.
• Well versed in interacting with Business Users, Business Analysts.

Technical Skills

• ERP Applications: SAP R/3 4.7, 5.0, 6.0.
• SAP R/3 Tools: LSMW, Report Painter, Report Writer, DART, SAP MDG, BC Sets, Cats, Debugger.
• Cross Applications: EDI, ALE, IDOC, PI, CRM, BI, SOLMAN Solution Manager , Portal, Concur Expense.
• Documentation tools : MS Word, MS Publisher, RWD InfoPak, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio
• Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP,OSX,Wiondws7
• Testing Changing mgmt. Tools: Mercury, QAT, HP-QC, Remedy, Clarify, Service Now.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidiential

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities

• Dealt with intercompany transactions, billing and flow of thesedocuments SD, FI, MM in to CO-PA, worked in Product Costing withPricing and material ledgers.
• Mapped SD conditions from pricing procedures direct postings in FI/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA.
• Designed SG A Expenses allocation strategy for Cost Center COPA,this has considerably reduced the period-end closing process time.
• Configured Settings for plant, company code and valuation area for the Material costing. Activated Material ledger to determine the futurevaluation price in each currency and each valuation
• Activation of Actual costing for warehouse plants.
• Worked with actual costing through material ledger. Activatedvaluation areas for material ledger, assigned currency types.Configured dynamic price changes.
• Activated actual costing, set up for actual cost component split, flowof actual costing to CO-PA through actual valuation at period end.
• Co-ordinate with SCM and OTC in designing and developing financialaspects of inter-company stock transport orders.
• Created unit and integration test scenarios, executed the scenarios, and resolved configuration and process issues that occurred during testing.
• Coordinated data conversion activities and liaised with other teams to take care of integration areas for rollout projects including regression testing.
• Involved in local projects on Organization structure additions and modifications, and system enhancements for changing Business processes.
• Coordinated day to day issues on a global basis. Worked with otherTeam Leads for prioritization of work requests, allocation of work andutilization of resources.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidiential

Responsibilities

• Activated sub-contracting with chargeable components, configured valuation class for chargeable components, automatic postings for goods issues and receipts, invoices for chargeable components to sub-contractors, configured billing documents and copy control. Also defined document types and credit control memos.
• Worked on writing FD's, running mock cycles, unit testing and validating conversions.
• Maintained different validations and substitutions for different business requirements like populating trading partner, blocking cost center postings for consumption accounts etc.,
• Created new posting keys, new payment methods, new and document types and worked on several CO-FI reconciliation issues. Developed various validation rules for different requirements and activated them for different company codes.
• Shown expertise in resolving several issues in revenue account determination, billing documents not releasing to accounting, FI-SD integration, and FI-MM integration. Worked on several Inter-company invoices and different processes.
• Identified critical issue with zero balance clearing account, its postings and proposed a new GL account with SAP recommended settings for fixing the issue. Worked on several New GL issues
• Several GL account master data changes were proposed in accordance to SAP recommendations mainly involving factors like open item management, line item display and reconciliation accounts.
• Worked closely with Logistic Invoice verification LIV issues and its resolution for different scenarios like blocking duplicate invoices, vendor proforma invoices etc.,
• Shown expertise on different AP business processes like 2 way match, 3 way match invoice verification, new GL splitting for vendor down payments, automatic payment program etc.,
• Involved in all the business meetings to gather all the requirements, functional specifications for different enhancements that have to be developed. Shown expertise in business process knowledge and mapping all the requirements to SAP.
• Configured, implemented Material Ledger Actual coting , trained end users in Material Ledger Processes, worked with ABAP and BI Technical team to prepare Functional Specifications, build, test and implement reports.
• Configured and defined multiple currency valuation in controlling, to support Material Ledger in view of Group and company specific currency reporting
• Configured the Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure and Configured the cost component structure, Costing variants for standard cost estimate for planned and actual Production orders in Product Costing Planning COPC
• Developed and tested different allocations cycles in CO which are developed according to Lufkin specific allocation requirements. Two phases of cycles were developed where phase I cycles are with fixed percentages and phase II cycles are based on earned hours, with the use of SKF's.
• Worked on report painter and developed a profit loss report at a profit center level. Created a form with required characteristics and then the report with required input selection, ABAP skills like queries, debugging etc., Responsible for custom report development, extensive SAP table knowledge.
• Worked on Planning, Appropriation request, IM structure in IM and Project Structure and defining settlement rules for Capital and Expense projects in PS.
• Worked on consumption and settlement section specific to Lufkin Industries, reconciliation of it for all orders like production orders, revenue orders, service orders, and maintenance orders. Worked on month end settlements of production orders and issues around it.
• Resolved issues in standard cost estimate and sales order cost estimate by making the necessary configuration changes.
• Worked on account based COPA - filled gaps that are in COPA configuration. Made necessary configuration changes in order to get necessary MLO split in COPA.
• Configured COPA planning framework, COPA assessment cycles and top-down distribution for the costs that are not distributed such as freight costs etc.,
• Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources functional as well as technical to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLAs.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidiential

Responsibilities

• Involved in SAP 6.0 implementation of Global Rollout
• As a CO Consultant responsible for implementing Product Costing and Profitability Analysis, Cost center Accounting and Profit Center accounting modules.
• Worked on Make to Stock MTS , Make to Order MTO and Engineer to Order ETO scenarios with integration with Project Systems PS
• Created Project types for WBS elements, defined user defined field field selection for WBS element Project definition and maintained substitution/validation in PS.
• Activated and configured Material Ledger for multiple valuation and PUP
• Defined cost component structure, origin groups, calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, credit keys, costing sheets, overhead keys and groups and cost components in Product Costing CO-PC
• Maintained setting for Costing Sheet like calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, and quantity based overhead rate in product costing CO-PC
• Extensively worked on Product Costing COPC period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance calculations, Settlements of process orders, cost estimates updates, costing run, mark and release for updating the price in material records, display reports and so on.
• Worked on settlement profile, allocation structure, settlement rules and settlement of asset in Project System and Asset management.
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in CO-PA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Developed all the Month End over/Under absorption allocation cycles to COPA
• Implemented transfer of overhead costs from Cost center accounting on a periodic basis and transfer of activities indirectly into profitability analysis segment also designed the PA transfer structure to control the secondary cost elements.
• Worked closely with the PP team to get to the accurate cost estimate of the material.
• Helped end users in month end closing operations involving overhead calculation, variance calculation, Result Analysis settlements and activity price calculations.
• Configured Account determinations for different material movements and valuation classes.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process WIP and its settlements.
• Prepared the FSCM Dispute and Collections Management Blueprint, Prototyped the FSCM modules and demonstrated the business proof of concept
• Structured FSCM dispute management into one summarized central business object and created a single view showing actions like reason code, processor, disputed amount, amount paid as well as customer correspondence for a particular customer.
• Responsible for Creating and tracking promises to pay in FSCM Collections Management and used Collections Management to define information about expected payments in system and monitor their progress.
• Wrote functional specs for Collection and Biller Direct BADI 's as well as for dispute management workflows and unit tested all of them.

SAP FICO Consultant Jan' 11 - Aug' 12

Kla Tencor, Milpitas, CA Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Tencor Corporation is the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries.

Responsibilities

• In Asset Accounting, defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys, Asset Classes, number ranges etc.
• Involved in MM and SD integration in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules.
• Configured customer master in Account Receivables, configured Dunning activities based on a customer's dunning history, dunning level and dunning procedure, defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable AP , ACH/Wire and EDI payments.
• Developed a Test Script in eCATT for uploading additional and Tolerance Limits in inspection plant QM .
• Participated in Project meetings attended Inspection and Reviews meetings and initiated conference calls to discuss issues originated while testing. Executed the Test Cases and reported the defects to Developers.
• Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Involved in transferring legacy data transfers excel to SAP using LSMW.
• Worked in Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting
• Configured Controlling Area, assigned number ranges to controlling area, and maintained versions.
• Participated as a member of the team conducting workshops for business users for gathering requirements of the intended business processes as well as the documenting and analyzing existing business processes using the ASAP methodology.
• Analyzed the business process through consultation. Designed and mapped the business process on SAP FICO modules. Gathered financial requirements and mapped these requirements into an appropriate SAP FI/CO model.
• Worked on New GL, Configured Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Field Status Group and GL account Master Record.
• Created house banks and bank details.
• Created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups
• Involved in Month-end and Year-end closing Activities.Post Implementation Support and End User Training.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidiential

Responsibilities

• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CEA, and CCA.
• Worked extensively on General Ledger, Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.
• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records.
• Defined G/L accounts for Materials Management and Set up the Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.
• Performed configuration of Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable. Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal for Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc.
• Worked extensively on Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management and control.
• Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes Account Determination in Fixed Asset Management.
• Designed 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.
• Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition, Retirement, and Transfers for Intercompany Asset Transfers.
• Configuration of Capitalization of Assets under Construction with different Settlement Rules. AUC class was created with line item settlement option.
• Created Different settlement profiles settling to different assets by line item. Depreciation Areas created to take care of Book Depreciation, Tax Depreciation, and Management Depreciation.
• Extensively worked in controlling modules including, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• Configured Different kinds of Order Types, Delivery Types, Billing Types, Copy Controls and Text Controls, assigned order type to the sales area, assigned number range, item category, schedule line.
• Configured the Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Controlling area and Operating Concern as per Business Scenario and Processes.
• Responsible for automated testing in FI, SD and MM. Worked on SCM Movement and storage of materials, work in progress inventory and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.
• Tested AP/AR and reconciliation of GL accounts for SAP FI.
• Conducted Functionality, Back-end and Regression testing during the various phases of the application.
• Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing Activities.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidiential

Responsibilities

• Configuration of Enterprise Structure and Assignment of organizational Units
• Fiscal year, Posting Period, COA, G/L Master Records, G/L Accounts
• Creation of Customer and Vendor Account Groups and Accounts required.
• Defining Reconciliation Accounts and linking the same to Master records.
• Defining Field Status Variants required for data input.
• Configuration of Dunning Areas, Level Etc.
• Configured Asset Master Data after diagnosing Business and Client requirements.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation keys for book and tax based on client requirements.
• Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas and Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition.
• Defining Special GL indicator and accounts for down payments made and received and for other transactions.
• Tolerance Group for GR/IR Clearing.
• Withholding tax configuration and testing from creation of vendor down payment to annual tax return by defining tax types and tax codes as per Act.
• Involved in the preparation of detailed test plan including test procedures and test cases for the above system using MS Excel. The application was tested manually.

Audit Executive.

Confidiential

Responsibilities

• Instrumental in handling various accounting, audit, taxation financial matters for corporate individual clients while analyzing inflow outflow of funds to plan internal financial controls.
• Efficiently conducting audits to express an opinion on the client's financial statements as per Indian GAAP/ US GAAP, this includes preparation of audit reports with a view to highlight shortcomings and implemented necessary recommendations including process mapping and risk assessment.
• Spearheading efforts across providing comprehensive business analysis through various audits including statutory audit, internal audit, Transport audit, investigation audit and special audits for banks for formulating their future business strategies.
• Advising the clients on operational expenditure/control and strategically plan implement innovative business strategies on various financial and statutory aspects of business set-up.