SUMMARY:

• Around Nine years of experience in SAP FICO with four full cycle implementations, support and upgrade project.
• Strong expertise in Functional Configuration and implementation of the following SAP R/3 modules: New GL, FI - GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, Banking, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PCA, CO-PC, COPA and Taxes.
• Strong knowledge in Integration of various SAP applications like SD, MM,PP, HR with FI/CO; Good knowledge of Vertex, BI(BW), PS and CATS.
• Expertise in implementing ASAP methodology on all stages of Global projects using Global templates. Business Process Analysis, AS-IS and To-Be designing, Business Blueprint Mapping, BPP (Business Process Procedure), BPML, Go-live, post live production support, user training, documentation and worked on best practice environment.
• Areas of expertise include SAP FICO - New General Ledger implementation, Change management and Business Process Reengineering and Improvement, providing innovative, effective business solutions in system design according to SOX Compliance, Integrated implementation and training, Project management.
• Domain expertise in Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical Industries.
• Involved in conversion/cutover activities with greater efficiency. Resourceful problem solver.
• Excellent ability to understand the short comings of SAP’s business processes, capture justified user requirements, and manage these through completion within a structured development cycle.
• A profit-conscious individual who is highly motivated and welcomes new challenges and responsibilities. Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines, motivated to develop successful solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Modules: Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivable, Banking, Taxes, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger/New General Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders, BI, BW, Project Systems

Industry Expertise: Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Food Industry, Public Sector.

ERP: SAP R/3 versions 4.6, 4.7, ECC 6.0

TAX: Vertex O Series

Reporting Tools: SAP Queries and Report Painter

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Solution Manager, CATTS, eCATTS, LSMW

Methodologies Used: Accelerated SAP(ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Formulated business requirements for all areas of FICO, met with key members of business community to ensure that business requirements were met in design.
• Finalized design and documented all key business requirements.
• Identified design gaps and resolved reconciliation issues from CO perspective.
• Documented the process definition documents in areas of New GL, A/P, Product Costing, COPA, CCA and PCA.
• In Profitability Analysis, configured costing based CO-PA.
• Defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Defined Result Analysis Keys, Cost Elements, Result Analysis Versions and Valuation Methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP)and its Settlements.
• Maintained Key Figure Schemefor developing reports in COPA.
• Defined variance keys and formulated month end process for Product Costing.
• Implemented Material Ledger as part of the roll out to US plants.
• Designed month end close process for costing and Material Ledger with CKMLCP.
• Created Operating Concern and defined user defined characteristics and value fields.
• Responsible for designing and implementing Product costing for make to stock, make to order, overhead cost management.
• Designed COPA value flow from SD and MM and also responsible for delivering FSD documents for building BW cube for extracting COPA documents.
• Developed contribution margin and user defined profitability reports using reporting tools BI, Report Painter&Report Writer.
• Designed Enhancements for COPA updating quantity and Labor costs from third party systems.
• Designed Periodic settlements and actual activity price calculation as per the design.
• Responsible for testing and executing test scripts for AP, VIM (Open Text), Profit Centers, Product Costing, COPA.
• Resolved defects during the test cycles for release 1.
• Finalized open design issues in areas of FICO for North America implementation.
• Created end user training documents and conducted training for North America Super users.

Confidential, OH

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Solving Remedy Tickets on various aspects on AA/AR/AP/GL/CO-PC,PA,PCA including Invoice, Cash Application, Lockbox, Electronic Payments, Automatic Customer/Vendor Payment Clearing programs, settlement, Adjustments, ERS, Credit Management, Banking integration.
• Provided Functional specs for reports in Fixed Assets.
• Customization settings for Asset Accounting such as Chart of depreciation, account determination, Depreciation areas, Number ranges, Asset classes, GL accounts etc.
• In Accounts Payables, created Vendor Master data, House Banks, account determination, Automatic PaymentProgram configurations, configuration for 1099 vendors and reports, Logistics Invoiceverification and integration with Purchasing and Procurement.
• In Accounts Receivables, involved in the configuration of Customer Account Groups, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Customer Master Data, Payment terms, Incoming Payment Processing, Open Item Clearing and Dunning Procedures.
• Worked on Dunning Statements, Customer Correspondence and provided support on Lockbox.
• Created Validations and Substitutions in AP. Resolved issues on WHT in Accounts Payable.
• Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest calculation and Credit Management with 3 levels.
• Designed, configured and implemented accounts payable check printing, periodic Sales and Use tax reporting and related month end financial reports.
• Worked on various Interfaces including Lockbox Interfaces, AP-AR From/To Legacy, Inbound and Outbound Interfaces for Electronic Payments, AP-Integration with Legacysystems, MM(LIV or GR-IR verification).
• Provided support and resolved issues for Year-end closing in Fixed Assets and Taxes.
• Problem solving with End users involved in, Collections, Adjustments, Credit Management, closing, Payment run, Banking, Reporting and Cash applications.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF(Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
• Defined the user roles and authorizations. Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.

Confidential, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of clients’ business requirements and operational processes to maximize market value and support major change efforts involving corporate, operational, informational technology, organizational, and change strategies.
• Lead and defined project scopes and development plans to meet specific business requirements and business processes of the clients.
• Efficiently networked with the clients to understand business process for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short term strategic solutions to the Global system design.
• Activated New GL and Document splitting functionality: Configured the New GL, AR, AP and the current ledgers being set as leading and update rules for the other ledgers based on the report requirements.
• Credit Management - credit limits for customers, automatic credit control checks, settings for risk management check for receivables, payment terms, Cash application, Incoming Payments, Deductions, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Lockbox processing. Customizing payment advice notes.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Check, Wire and ACH Payments.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification(LIV or GR-IR verification) in FI-MM(Procure to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD(Oder to Cash) cycles.
• Involved in the configuration of Interest calculation settings, Exchange Rate calculations, Partial Payments, Hold, Park, and Recurring Documents.
• Unit testing for AP, AR, Banking, Taxes, PCA, COPA, PC functionality and integration testing with SD and MM.
• Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured CO-PA planning including planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• Configured CO-PA to facilitate complex price reporting requirements and profitability reporting.
• Identified and provided solution to the problem of inconsistent values in COPA due to the signs behavior in COPA.
• Created cost component structure, future cost estimates by assigning costing keys in COPA and created custom user exit enhancement for reporting of planned price in COPA.
• Design and Configuration of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling areas for the Organization.
• Developed contribution margin and user defined profitability reports using reporting tools BI, Report Painter & Report Writer.
• Involved in the design of the Month end and Year end closing steps.

Confidential, NC

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production in the areas of GL, AP, AR, CCA, IO, COPA.
• Examining the company’s document flow, SAP process flow and recommending suitable validation procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.
• Responsible for customizing, testing, end-user training and production support. Leading meetings with business owners to define application requirements.
• Configured New GL, defined Segments, Leading and Non-Leading Ledgers, enhanced Document Splitting rules, maintained variant for real-time integration variant and assigned scenarios as per business reporting requirements.
• Defined Business transaction Variants as per requirements for Document Splitting.
• Settings for Zero-balancing indicators for segments and profit centers to accommodate Segment & Profit center reporting.
• Provided Functional specs to development team for some GL reports. Created LSMW to upload Debit memos.
• Configured system settings in the areas of House bank, AP-Payment Program, AR-Customer Credit, Credit Controls and Customized Dunning notices, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification(LIV) in FI-MM(Procure to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD(Order to Cash) cycles.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation keys for book and tax based on client requirements.
• Mapped fields from the IDOC to SAP and was also involved in mapping Account groups, payment methods and vendor numbers.
• Configured settings for outbound and inbound IDOCs and EDI.
• Used a custom program to convert the IDOC into a CSV file so that the SAP standard program RFEBCK00 (T-code FCKR) can read.
• Involved in Day to day Management of info cubes to CCA, IO, AP, New GL.
• Provided with info cubes to the BW team to generate reports on CO-PA.
• Defined Internal orders for different order types, Planning profile, settlement profile, settlement rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.

Confidential, IL

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• A full cycle SAP implementation. Involved in gathering requirement, preparation of Blue Print by reengineering the system to fill the GAP between existing system and to the TO-BE system.
• Involved in Asset Accounting by creating asset class, chart of depreciation, depreciation areas and keys.
• Integrated AA with G/L after configuring Asset master data and depreciation areas and keys, performed Depreciation run, performed month-end and period-end closing and Fiscal Year change.
• Configured area of AP-house banks, automatic payment program, areas of AR-dunning, Interest Calculation and Credit Management. Worked on electronic bank statement and payment run and dunning program for the client.
• Worked on closing operations of foreign currency valuation, GR-IR clearing and open and close posting periods.
• Worked on month-end process of transferring the amounts on check clearing account from Business Company codes to Corporate Company code using Trading Partner.
• Involved in developing test scenarios/test cases, executing and error correction for integration testing in FI/CO area with SD.
• Worked on an enhancement in Fixed Assets in the creation of Asset based on Order Type, Material and Asset class. Monitored actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI Direct posting to COPA.
• Major tasks include configurations and testing in Profitability Analysis(COPA), Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting.
• Worked with the logistics consultants to developa mapping of all logistic objects such as sales offices, sales groups and plant codes into COPA characteristics.
• Configured Operating Concern, characteristics, and value fields, maintained Derivative rules, defined COPA settlement structure; Generated Profitability reports.
• Monitored actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI direct posting.
• Worked closely with MM consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO(invoice verification) and MIGO(goods receipt).
• Defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table and profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions; Distribution, assessment,direct and indirect activity allocation.
• Implementation of Internal Orders for research and development projects. Budgeting, corrected Entry Errors and Reposted Transactions.
• Actively involved in go live activities like master data preparation, data migration and cut over. Post production support.

Confidential, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Resonsibilities:

• ASAP Methodology is used to do thorough study of Activity flow & AS IS documentation. Resultant BPR studies from Blueprint Workshops documented for TO BE blue prints. Used Solution Manager and BPML for Project planning methodologies.
• Provided Functional specs for Ship-to party and Residual Items reports for customers to BI.
• Worked on Payments terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, etc.
• Customized House Banks, payment program and payment methods includes ACH, Checks and Wire.
• Developed a process for employee advances in AP, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open items.
• AR-customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with SAP Lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes.
• Integration of MM and SD with FI accounts assignment for P2P and OTC cycles.
• Configured required settings for Inbound and Outbound IDOCs.
• Designed and configured Asset management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs and post capitalization.
• Created a Chart of Depreciation and carried out settings for asset company code. Made settings for GL accounts for AUC, loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, for posting depreciation under different Depreciation Areas.
• Maintained validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Customized the standard hierarchy, cost centers, activities and statistical key figures, developed assessment, distribution, periodic reposting cycles and segment in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configured Internal Orders, status management, Order Settlement, Settlement Structure.
• Done Reposting and settlements for Internal Orders and Internal Order Planning.
• Defined allocation structures for allocation of overheads costs from CCA to COPA.
• Designed specs for development of FI/CO Reports and Layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer and Report Painter.
• Analyzed monthly Financial Reports for management to assist them in financial decisions.
• Monitoring of Background jobs, interface related issues, and Period end closing procedures.

Confidential, KY

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a team member supporting at the Client site in providing solutions for the issues pertaining to configuration changes needed due to the enhanced functionality supported by Version ECC 6.0.
• Identifying the business processes that ate affected by the upgrade.
• Identifying the new functionality available by the upgrade.
• Mapped current state to future state using GAP analysis, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Involved in configuring of Product cost through sales order and production order using Variant Configuration for MTO, MTS scenario through Object dependencies.
• Involved in configuring Cost Component Structure, Costing Variants and Complex Overhead Costing sheets.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process(WIP) and its settlements.
• Helped end users in month end closing operations involving overhead calculation, variance calculation, Result Analysis settlements and activity price calculations.
• Activated Valuation areas for Material Ledger.
• Assigned Material Ledger types to Valuation areas.
• Activated Actual Costing and determined the periodic unit price for materials under different plants.
• Activated Actual Cost Component Split for each valuation area.
• Developed Reports for Actual Cost Component Split.
• Worked closely with the PP-PI team to get to the accurate cost estimate of the material.
• Maintained Operating Concern, and assigned controlling area to operating concern and activated Profitability Analysis. Imported characteristics and Value Fields to Operating Concern.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA.
• Order and Project Settlement: Defined PA Transfer Structure for Settlement and Assigned PA Transfer Structure to Settlement Profile.
• Settled Production cost center variances and production order variances to COPA.
• Maintained key Figure Scheme for developing reports in COPA.
• Wrote all report writer and report painter reports for CO-CCA and CO-PA reports.
• Providing business applications support(Post production support) in the areas of Cost Center Accounting and Product Costing.