SUMMARY

• SAP FICO consultant 8+ years of hands on experience in implementation of FICO activities, along with Accounts Payable - open text VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) and its support activities.
• Experience in business blueprints for the processes and specified the requirements.
• Preparation of documentation and flow charts, describing interfaces, collecting of master data, testing and reviewing training documentation.
• Responsible for configuration and support resolution of issues in the areas of GL (General Ledger), AP (Accounts Payable), AR (accounts Receivable), IHC - FSCM, Lockbox, Banking, VIM, and Travel & Expense in FI module and cost center accounting, profit center accounting, Asset Accounting.
• Extensive experience in Controlling Area with CO-CCA-Assessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, Product Costing - PA- structure, value fields, planning, and reporting. Good knowledge in US GAAP, UK GAAP, report painter, report writer and Inventory accounting.
• Strong knowledge of Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflow (RICEFW) in different FI/CO modules.
• Provided resolutions for many change requests (CRB’s) with documented impact analysis by considering conflict effects and thereby suggesting immediate work around without any delay in ongoing business process.
• Strong regression testing experience covering all the areas of FICO, i.e., Asset Postings, VIM, TRIP postings, Costing, IHC, GL postings, reprocessing of bank statements, AP/AR and all the process scenarios of FI-SD/MM.
• Configured and customized FI - AP - APP and Dunning Programs.
• Strong knowledge of data migration using LSMW, Data integration and Data conversion processes. Worked with Data conversion process of different accounting systems
• Single Point of Contact for consolidation and submission of reports i.e., managerial activities in the areas of FI-SD, Lockbox processing, Bank Reconciliation Statements ( Confidential )
• Worked as a tower lead and manager in the areas of VIM (Accounts Payable) and Travel & Expenses (SAP FI) where it covers major portion of the project ( Confidential ).
• Mentor for new trainees by presenting the test cases of all the scenario’s and other documented analysis of major issues ( Confidential ).
• Proposed multiple process improvements, one of which is on material-based PO’s that are struck with blocked status in VIM analytics. My logical and innovative solution filled the process gap and helped business to get 1.2 Million GBP which is pending from their customers ( Confidential ).
• I was nominated as a delegate to GENPACT organization for a new production Go Live coordination and post Go Live cutover & hyper case coordination ( Confidential ).
• Proposed process improvement in travel management with respect to credit card transactions of the employees that enter SAP which helped client’s ( Confidential ) business to eliminate duplicate costs around 1.06 Million GBP.
• Involved in Documentation, Configuration and Testing during Go Live, performed unit testing and regression testing for FI-GL, Bank, APP, AP, IHC end to end processes and involved in providing solutions for integration issues related to FI with MM, and SD ( Confidential & Confidential ).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP ECC 6.0

OpenText tools: VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) - Accounts Payable

SAP Modules: FICO/MM

Ticketing Tool: BMC Remedy

Testing Tools: HP-QC

Software Languages: ABAP (Basics), C, MAINFRAMES, JAVA, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin, OH

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working on configuration settings related to bill of exchange, reprocessing of incoming electronic bank statements from third party sources.
• Configured Inter-company billing process for inter-company transactions through I-docs.
• Configured Lockbox Processing, customized processing of Incoming Checks formatted the BAI and BAI2 format file.
• Defined Lockbox for better liquidity, depositing, crediting of checks, and reducing processing workload.
• Gathered business requirement, held meetings with Super users as well as internal IT resources in the process of Lockbox implementation.
• Created lockbox accounts to clear out through the electronic bank statement processing into the main Lockbox account.
• Created over/underpayment and un-allowed deductions as well as customer discount accounts to facilitate the lockbox clearing process into appropriate GL accounts.
• End to End configuration of FI-MM Integration.
• Manual reprocessing incoming electronic bank statements ended up in error TA cluster via transaction code SXMB MONI using firefighter access.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Posting Rules for automatic account assignment, Bank Statement processing and mapping external transaction codes to posting rules.
• Working on configuration of vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys and document types for posting and validation of business transactions.
• Configured Foreign Currency Valuation for G/L, AP and AR. Set up the Parameters for Cross-Company Code Postings.
• Working on regression test cases for lockbox implementation, GL postings, bank accounting, FI-MM/SD process scenarios in the quality system.
• Customized screens for Document entry, Document reversals, Invoices, and Payments.
• Configured Credit Management and Defined Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, Line Layout, and Reconciliation Accounts.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on configuration settings related to bill of exchange, reprocessing of incoming electronic bank statements from third party sources.
• Worked on Creating the new electronic payment method and checking the manual processing of full and partial payments.
• Worked on APP and IHC configurational settings and issues related to configuration.
• Worked with Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow (RICEFW) in different FI/CO modules.
• Worked on performing regression testing on TRIP postings, Asset settlements, costing activities, VIM end to end process flow, FI/MM process scenarios with the help of HP-QC.
• Worked on issues related to Travel Managementand worked on maintaining employee HR profile and credit card transaction issues.
• Worked on issue related to Employee TRIP postings, settlement till the generation of Accounting Document.
• Worked as Module Lead and Team mentor for the Travel Management section of the project.
• Worked on configuration of FI-AP/GL - VIM document types, Exception handling, two-way/ three-way matching, duplicate checks.
• Worked on level 2, level 3 configuration and business issues related to FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, Bank accounting, Travel Management, FI-PCA, CCA modules.
• Configuring Document types, Posting Period Variants, Fiscal Year Variants and Financial Statement Versions
• Worked on configurational settings of FI-AA GL mapping and issues regarding managing acquisition of new asset with Asset Under Construction (AUC) and settlement of the same to final asset.
• Configuring Cost and Profit Centers, CCA Allocations, Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Activities, Statistical Key Figures and Substitutions.

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on installation, implementation and customization of OpenText Vendor Invoice Management and ICC.
• Involved in blueprinting sessions and worked on creating functional specifications and business rules swim lanes.
• Analyzed AS-IS condition of existing system and Performed TO-BE Analysis, Gap Analysis.
• Configuration and Modifications to suite the client’s requirements regarding Plants Abroad Functionality. Tested the Support pack Upgrade consistency
• Daily client meetings and interaction with business in gathering business requirements and other third-party clients for repository services.
• Worked on configuring VIM document types, process options, process types, invoice approval process and blocked invoice resolutions.
• Worked on creating an interface program to read approvers from SRM system into VIM COA with the help of ABAP team.
• Worked in setting up the substitutes for the invoice approval, issues in roles setup, maintaining VIM batch jobs.
• Designed new customized archive document types to process invoices for customized DP documents.
• Worked on ASAP methodology, Agile frameworks (Scrum Master).
• Worked on SAP MT-940 and BAI2 file customizations. Worked on EBS configuration and generated the Electronic bank statements.
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings.
• Worked on designing the Cost Centers, Profit Centers and mapping the cost centers to the Profit Center Standard Hierarchy.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in blueprinting sessions and worked on creating functional specifications for the enhancements and clients manufacturing business implementation.
• Successfully configured and tested GL, AP, AR, Bank accounting as part of Go-lives and roll outs.
• Helped and conducted training sessions for business users in posting manual journal entries, G/L account postings, vendor invoice postings.
• Configured Lockbox Processing, Customized Processing of Incoming Checks.
• Configured Bank Statement processing and Mapping external Transaction Codes to Posting Rules.
• Created origin-destination, house bank, partner profile, port definition, message types and logical message types
• Configured partial payments, exchange rate differences, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, and payment media.
• Worked on configuration of Travel Management (Travel Expenses) for Manufacturing market of the client and mapping of GL accounts.
• Solved day to-day issues in Travel Managementand worked on submitting weekly report to client on the issuesas a part of my tower lead activity.
• Involved in business discussions regarding SAP Concur roll out activities. I also participated in feasibility study and immigration to concur.
• Asset Under Construction (AUC) and settlement of the same to final asset.
• Worked on Product Costing (CO-PC), configured the basic settings for the Product Costing with quantity structure.
• Worked as VIM- Accounts Payable Single Point of Contact for Europe market and Asian pacific market where I had hands on experience on resolving many days to day.

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on creation of house banks, worked on EBS configuration.
• Customized the Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, G/L Account Master records, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types and Posting Periods.
• Worked extensively on configuration of Posting Period Variants (PPV’s), and Financial Statement Version FSV’s - Change and addition of new nodes).
• Worked on order to cash scenarios involving Sales order, Invoicing, Outbound deliveries, and integration activities.
• Worked on FI-MM integration - account determination and configuration including calculation of valuation class, valuation control, assigning field to field selection groups.
• Worked on daily incidents related to bill of exchange, error detection of electronic bank reconciliation statements which enter SAP.
• Resolved many issues regarding In House Cash, house banks, configuring cash discounts and tolerances.
• Possess very good knowledge and understanding on the procurement process starting from creation of purchase requisition to vendor payment.
• Helped in generating and reviewing EDI, master data, and workflow specifications related to functional module.
• Worked on order to cash scenarios involving Sales order, Invoicing, Outbound deliveries which are related to SD.
• Performed end to end regression testing by reviewing the test cases for Asset postings, IHC scenarios, GL postings, Costing, bank statements, SD scenarios, AP process.
• Worked on issues related to FI-MM integration and FI-SD integration.
• Worked on APP and IHC configurational settings and issues related to configuration.
• Worked with ABAP team for Customization of FI/CO Tables and User Exits
• Worked with technical team members to design and implement an MS Access based validation system to evaluate the results of data conversion and system processing.