SUMMARY:

• Business /Application analyst with more than 10 years of SAP Functional configuration in both FI and Controlling and strong functional knowledge of manufacturing environments with Solid foundation in accounting concepts and reporting requirements and software skills along with the understanding of business processes, communication skills, multitasking and the ability to prioritize goals are my assets that help organizations reach desired goals. A Certified Management Accountant (CMA) with MBA, excellent expertise in cost accounting, profit center, cost center, product costing, planning and budgeting.
• Firsthand experience spanning the entire gamut of the SDLC: GAP analysis and prototyping, analysis, data mapping, writing specifications, design, development, testing, quality adherence, documentation, implementation, troubleshooting and customer support.
• FI expertise in General Ledger FI - GL, Accounts Payable FI-AP and Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Credit Management FI-CM.
• CO expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting CO-CEL, CO-Profitability analysis CO-PA and Profit center Accounting. ASAP project management implementation methodology, Blueprinting and Configuration of the FI/CO Modules (use of Q&A db).
• Extensive Project experience in Configuration and Implementation.
• Organized structure in finance, master data and maintenance, document entry and change, FI-GL period end processing, G/L reporting, vendor mater records, configured payment transactions, process payment runs, customer master data, Automatic Account determination, Bank Master data, Lockbox and AR Reporting.
• Good experience in integration of FI with MM, SD, CO.
• Cross-module business processes knowledge
• Developed User procedure manuals for Knowledge Transfer
• Expert in development of Report Painter, Report Writer, Drill-down Report, and SAP Query Expertise in data analysis and data reconciliation using pivot tables, Vlookup, formulas, multi-linked Excel spreadsheets and Access tools.
• Competent in client relation management, team leading, presentation, documentation, and support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Cost Center Accounting (CCA)
• Configured Controlling area settings to address management accounting requirements of organization. Defined profit center hierarchy and cost center hierarchy
• Defined versions to take into account initial budgeting and subsequent revisions
• Defined substitution rules at sales order level to derive right profit center
• Derived profit centers for balance sheet items by maintaining assignment of additional balance sheet items in IMG.
• Created complete balance sheet and profit and loss account at profit center level while ensuring its integrity with FI reports.
• Designed and developed new report for Standard Cost synchronization. Created user defined planning layouts and planner profiles in PCA and its integration with excel.
• Created cost center planning layouts and profiles and integrated it with PCA
• Defined distribution and assessment cycles in CCA. Did Unit testing and integration testing.
• Provided user on processes and assistance in developing user documents, both in PCA and CCA. Created authorization profiles for end-users
• Provide System configuration, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/R and A/P

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included interacting with clients business process team; financial institutions; collecting all the business requirements to refine and improve existing credit card settlement and reconciliation process.
• Create functional specifications, which were used by the programming team to develop custom application.
• Reduced the number of merchant IDs from more than 400 to only 50, thus obviated the need to maintain more than 400 G/L accounts
• Interacted with Clients bank to provide the Chargeback notification information and converted the information into a format that was understandable to the user. Worked with the cash reconciliation team to help them understand the settlement functionality from a business perspective and use SAP to achieve the business objective of credit card settlement and reconciliation
• Improved existing custom reports to provide enriched and meaningful information to the user group and advised them on the appropriate business procedures to be followed under different circumstances
• Created document to streamline the chargeback and cash reconciliation issues. The new recommended process spanned multiple departments and replaced the existing offline chargeback process
• Finalized the credit card process such as authorization, settlement request, settlement and application of cash

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included interacting with clients business process team; collecting all the business requirements.
• Create functional and technical specifications, which would be used by the construction/programming team.
• Illustrated the flow of data through the lockbox procedure. Defined the components of the process.
• Developed to be process for lockbox data flow
• Defined the BAI 2 format, which provided different level of detail of the incoming payment. Completed lockbox configuration
• Wrote testing scenarios and planned for integration testing, user acceptance test,, and Go Live execution for Lockbox
• Configured CCA period ending closing operations such as periodic postings, distributions, assessments, Planning activity prices and so on
• In EC-PCA involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving production support issues relating to production centers, assignments, postings, reports and so on
• Involved in CO-PA period ending closing operations such as transfer cost center costs to co-pa by assessments, distributions, reports
• Involved in Customization and configuration of the Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers, maintained the activities, Statistical key figures, developed the cost sheets, Cycles, segments for Cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs. Customized and configured the settlement structures and so on
• In Profitability analysis (CO-PA) involved in customization and configuration of the operating Concern, Configured the Costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, Profitability segments used in profitability analysis
• Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics. Defined both basic reports and form repots for the business units by Profit centers to analyze the profit at Customer and Product levels
• Configured CO-PA. Defined market segments by selecting appropriate value fields and characteristics to fulfill market profitability analysis of clients business
• Configured in COPA and transferred data to PCA
• Created numerous reports using report painter to analyze sales and gross profit.
• Created summarization levels in COPA to minimize report execution time. Identified business requirements that necessitated use of Profit centers in order to fulfill internal financial reporting
• Defined profit center hierarchy and cost center hierarchy and maintained assignment monitor
• Defined substitution rules at sales order level to derive right profit center based on agency, location and division
• Created user defined reports using Report Painter and Report Writer in PCA and CCA. Created user defined planning layouts and planner profiles in PCA and CCA and its integration with excel.
• Customized credit control area for credit management in the application components AR and SD
• Defined credit limit checks for SD processing, Risk management for receivables, assign Company Code to Credit Control Area
• Payment processing in AR and Automatic Account Determination
• Designed Lock Box procedure for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2
• Developed AR aging report, created Invoice Layout and processed invoices
• Configured Evaluated Receipt Settlement in AP and automatic generation of Credit/Debit Notes for Return Goods.
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.
• Configured the integration of logistics modules such as MM and SD
• Configuration of house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment
• Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices
• Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable check printing, payment blocking reasons and defining check lots, periodic Sales and Use tax reporting, and related month end financial reports
• Configured automatic, paying company codes, payment blocking reasons and defining check lots.
• Created Various Reconciliation account for Vendors and Customers Clearing, Regrouping of Receivables / Payables, Bad Debts etc