Professional Summary:

• Almost 9 years of experience in Industry and ERP implementations.
• Almost 8 years of SAP experience in Implementation, Support and up-grade project experience.
• 2 Full life cycle Implementations of SAP R/3 ECC Systems using ASAP Methodology.
• Strong analysis, design, configuration, upgrade and maintenance experience of FICO Modules.
• Design and Configuration experience in FI GL, AR, AP, and AA modules in the areas of Financial Accounting.
• Sound understanding of integration between FICO and other SAP modules such as Sales and Distribution SD and Materials Management MM .
• Design and Configuration experience in new general ledger and additional ledgers and document splitting.
• Configuration experience in CO Internal Orders and Cost Center Accounting.
• Proficient in using tools like Remedy, Mercury test system Solution Manager.
• Worked with Legacy System Migration Workbench LSMW tool to import master data from legacy system.
• Extensive experience in business processes across the following modules FI/CO, SCM, etc.,
• Extensively performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing in HP QC ALM 11 and HP QC 10 .
• Experience on all Quality Center modules like Requirements, Test for Defect Tracking, Organizing, Managing, Planning and executing the Test scripts
• Coordinating Testing activities including Test Plan creation, Test Case creation, debugging, execution, test analysis
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , methodologies and test processes and Software Testing Life Cycle STLC .
• Prolific experience in Production Support ticket resolution of SAP systems.
• Advanced skills in User Requirement Analysis and preparing Configuration Specific scripts.
• Worked on Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Business Process Procedures, UAT and documentation.
• End user training in SAP modules to key users.
• Good communication and inter-personal skills
• Excellent problem solving skills, committed, result oriented, hardworking and zeal to learn new technologies.
• Has the motivation to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.

Technical Skills:

Functional Experience:

Responsibilities:

• Managing Day to Day Book Keeping
• Involved in MFG/Pro ERP Implementation for Finance module at Bacardi.
• Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring of Actual Vs Budgeted Expenses, Revenues
• Preparation of Financial Statement Balance Sheets/Profit Loss accounts
• Accounts receivables, Accounts Payables monitoring
• Banking, Treasury monitoring and execution
• Manufacturing Costing, Overhead allocations, Product costing, Inventory valuations
• Taxation, Withholding taxes handling
• Federal tax, Local tax returns submissions.

Tools:

• ERP Packages: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0
• Reporting Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW
• Methodologies: Accelerated SAP ASAP , UML, SDLC, Business process restructuring

Professional Summary:

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Controlling Area, Activation of components/control indicators, Number ranges assignment to controlling area. Maintained cost center standard hierarchy.
• Imputed costs calculation methods, cost centers, cost center groups, cost element attributes, statistical key figures and activity types in Cost Center Accounting.
• Defined Assessment, Distribution, and Periodic Reposting of costs using cycle segment method in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configuration of Internal-Orders using order types, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, budget profile and also tolerances for budget cost.
• Set default values for order type, template allocations, defining control parameters for work in process, variance calculations, and settlements Settlement Profile, Allocation Structure, Source Structure and PA Structure
• Created Profit Center standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit centers and profit center groups. Analysis using account assignment monitor. Configured settings for multiple variation, transfer pricing, planning, integration, profit center determination and balance sheet items.
• Configuration of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling, Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure which included costing variant, valuation variant, cost component split, costing sheets, cost component structure, BOM and routing settings, origin groups, overhead keys, and overhead groups. Configured Actual Costing/Material ledger.
• Created data structure value fields and characteristics in CO-PA. Configured derivation rules and PA settlement structures for population of characteristics and value fields respectively.
• Configured direct transfer postings from SD, MM and FI to CO-PA and Customized drill down reports.
• Worked with the Logistics Consultants to develop a mapping of all Logistic objects such as Sales Offices, Service groups and Plant Codes into CO-PA Characteristics and value fields.
• Worked in uploading of plan data from External data system into CO-PA
• Used LSMW for uploading of G/L, customer and vendor master data.
• Configured A/R A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations, check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits for customers.
• Defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, open item clearing, credit memos, partial payments, installment payments, residual payments, claims and disputed payments, reason codes and discounts, account assignment model for recurring entries.
• Defined Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis. Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys.
• Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts.
• Configured Asset Accounting module, including Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements. Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.
• Performed the configurations required for Inter-Company transactions of the Assets and customized interfaces, transactions involving the deprecation area, retirement of assets, scrapping of assets using ALE.
• Configured document splitting for special purpose ledger, and developed reports using report painter.
• Training programs for end-users, supervisors, and managers on the client site.

Environment: ECC 6.0 BPC 7.5 to 10.0 Upgrade, SAP FI, MM, SD, CO, OTC, GL, P2P, LSMW, Vertex, PS, ACH, BPP, RICEFW, HP-QC and Visio.

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in full life cycle implementation of ECC 6.O EHP1 using ASAP Methodology.
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned documents number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
• Defined, configured and tested Account Keys, Account assignment groups, customer master groups, and number ranges, and field status variants in GL and AR modules, and worked on revenue account determination.
• Configured the Customer Master, House Banks, and Payment Programs, Electronic Bank Statements EBS and Lock Box and successfully configured clearing for open items in GL/AP/AR Modules.
• Defined Automatic Payment Program APP configuration, payment advice and tax procedures.
• Configured document splitting rules characteristics to be used for document splitting, and defined variants for the real time integration between Controlling and Finance.
• Resolved issues relating to automatic payment program, profit center derivations, intercompany reconciliation, month end closing activities, GR/IR clearing, automatic clearing Issues, Logistics Invoice Verification LIV and integration issues.
• Configured used tax procedures TAXUSX , tax jurisdiction code structure for third party tax system-VERTEX.
• Created Standard hierarchy using CATTs in Cost Center Accounting, Assigned cost centers to cost elements and configured activities and statistical key figures.
• Used LSMW to load Cost Center, Profit Center and Customer Master.
• Provided Gap analysis for clients/sandboxes for further consistent testing and validated custom ABAP/4 programs to ensure delivery of expected results and interacted with end users to analyze testing issues and concerns subsequent to re-organization.
• Configured business partners according to client requirements and redefined functional area according to the project scope on check deposits and manual memos and cash management.
• Provided post go live support and maintained the system.
• Federal and State Income Tax reporting from SAP towards IRS Form 1120 U.S. Corporate Income Tax Return
• Recommendations for capturing of Taxes and Freight as part of Asset Cost build-up .
• Configuration for Withholding Taxes 1099 Federal and State Tax reporting and 1042 Foreign Vendor/ Non-EmployeeReporting
• Assist with the preparation of the quarterly and year end foreign tax information packages used in the preparation of the Company's US tax reporting and US GAAP reporting including the documentation and support of the foreign entities' deferred taxes and FIN 48 positions accounting for uncertain tax positions, including recognition and measurement of their financial statement effects.
• Activation of New General Ledger and definition of leading/non-leading Ledgers for reporting To SEC and NEC Japan according to US GAAP and Japanese GAAP respectively
• Liasoning with System administrator in selection of version specific directories for Taxware installation, system and Taxaudit files
• Validation of Goods and Service Tax GST , Provincial Sales Tax PST and
• Harmonized Sales Tax HST for Canadian taxation.

Environment: AR, AP, GL, EBS, Lock Box, APP, BDC, EDI, LIV, VERTEX, CATT, LSMW, GAP Analysis

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Translated business requirements into SAP Functional and Configuration requirements.
• Involved in preparation of BBP Documents ASAP methodology and Q A database.
• Configured Organization Structure, General Ledger GL , Accounts Receivable AR , and Accounts Payable AP .
• Identified one time vendors and customers and defined customized screen layouts for them.
• Configured Accounts Payable, vendor groups, vendor master records, tolerance limits for over and under payments , payment terms and payment methods.
• Involved in configuration of Automatic Payment Program.
• Configured Accounts Receivables, customer groups, customer master records and customized payment methods.
• Configured for vendor/customer who is also customer/vendor.
• Configured system to handle various scenarios in receivables like down payments, discounts, credit memos, etc.
• Configured dunning procedures for customers with outstanding balances and also responsible for debit and credit memos.
• Configured Bills Of Exchange and House Banks for the payment program.
• Configured Cost Centre Accounting by creating cost center standard hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Configured internal orders by maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, planning profile, allocation structure and settlement profiles.
• Created Financial Statement Version for balance sheet and P L reports.
• Involved in preparation of end user documentation and trained end users majorly on GL, AP and AR.
• Problem resolution as part of support-analyzed the tickets which included identification of issue, determining the root cause of issue and issue resolution.
• Helped users in handling partial and residual payments.
• Prioritized issues based on level of severity and priority levels and classified them as problem request, service requests and change requests..

Environment: AR, AP, GL, EBS, Lock Box, APP, BDC, EDI, LIV, VERTEX, CATT, LSMW, GAP Analysis

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, developing and coordinating testing activities including Test Plan Creation, Test Case Creation, debugging, execution, test analysis in HP QC.
• Preparation of Functional Test Scripts on the basis of Business Test scenarios
• Familiarize with the business functionality and technology used for assigned applications under testing.
• Performed Manual Testing, Regression Testing and End to End Testing
• Executed the Test Scenarios in support of the testing team.
• Familiarize with the business functionality and technology used for the assigned applications under testing.
• Recognized the test scenarios from the requirements Business requirements documents for the FI/CO module
• Preparation of Functional Test Scripts on the basis of Business Test scenarios
• Prepared the Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM , mapping the Requirements to scenarios and to Test scripts
• Executed the test scripts and logged the defects using defect management tool HP Quality Center 11.0.
• Conducted the peer review for the scripts written by other testers
• Tested the Configuration of Finance Procurement to Pay, Treasury Cash Management , SCM modules.
• Effectively used QA testing tools, methodologies and processes.
• Interact with other module leads for across module solutions.
• Interacted effectively with the business and IT users to understand the as-is current process based on which the new to-be process was modeled.
• Understand business and application requirements and constraints
• Kept a track of all the defects raised during all the phases of testing and thoroughly followed up with the concerned teams for the resolution of those defects
• Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status.
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client and Onshore Lead.
• Planning of all project related activities
• Involved in the preparation of Master Data required for testing various SAP applications.
• Good knowledge on project management methodology, standards and processes.
• Involved in Day to day Team/Business Meetings
• Independently handling various Local Markets and interacting with business/service owners.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-GL, FI-PTP, FI-TCM, SCM, T E testing in HP QC.

Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing production support in the areas General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting.
• Provided the solutions to user for their problems regarding automatic payment program.
• Analyzing the errors, searching for causes of errors, provided corrective solutions and Suggested for Preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
• Handled Issues related to Asset Accounting Module.
• Resolving configuration issues as per client requirement
• Coordinated with End Users for Month End and Year End Closing Activities.
• Coordinating with Client, advising the client on process related issues.
• Discussing the issues with end users and working closely with technical and functional consultants of other modules to resolve the cross functional issues.
• Attending KT sessions to update knowledge on new issues.
• Thoroughly documenting the above activities and keeping it up-to-date by the share point of time.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of all processes and business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units / locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centers.
• Configuring fiscal year variants dependent periods for year-end closing and posting period variants.
• Customized document types, posting keys and number ranges according to client's requirements.
• Defining field status variant and field status groups for determining field status.

Configuring for G/L:

• Defining Chart of Accounts, Account Groups and General Ledger Accounts, Creating Bank Master Data, House Banks, G/L Accounts in different currencies for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• GL posting and reversal of various documents including recurring entries, sample documents and parking documents.
• Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels.
• Created tolerance groups for employees without assigning groups.
• Open item clearing including full payment, partial payment and residual payment.

Configuring for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

• Grouping Vendors and Customers by Company Code including identification of nature and volume of business transactions.
• Creating vendor customer master and specified number ranges with screen layouts.
• Configured settings for Special GL transactions like Down Payment from vendors and Down Payment for customers.
• Created payment methods, forms and document types for payment and clearing.
• Configured settings for outgoing/incoming payments including automatic payment program.
• Configuration of different payment terms, with day limits where required and specification of baseline date.
• Configuration of the Dunning Program according to the client requirements.

Fixed Assets:

• Worked on Assignment of Chart of Depreciation, definition of New Asset Classes, Account Determination.
• Made settings for GL accounts for AUC, loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, for posting depreciation under different Depreciation Areas.

Controlling:

• Enterprise Structure: Maintaining controlling area, defining versions, defining versions for actual postings, manual and automatic creation of cost elements
• Cost Center Accounting: Maintenance of cost center master records, cost center groups, repost line items, and repost costs, assessment, distribution, statistical key figures.
• Internal Order: Involved in creating internal order created internal orders for the purpose of collecting and analyzing actual and planned costs related to a specific division .
• Profit Center Accounting: Maintaining controlling area, creation of profit centers, defining versions and account assignment

Environment: SAP ECC4.7, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-GL