SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of total experience with strong functional experience in versions 4.7 and ECC 6.0 in FICO as an SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant in implementation and production support projects with 2 full Life Cycle Implementation.
• Extensive experience in configuration of New General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Dunning, Automatic payments, Tax calculation, Interest calculation, Special GL accounts, Cost center accounting and Psrofit center accounting. Having experience with Fiscal year end Closing Cycle.
• ASAP project management implementation methodology, Blue Printing and configuration of FICO. Main areas of expertise in Configuration Management, Implementation, Testing and Production support, worked on various project phases till Go Live and Production Support including Configuration, Master Data Setup, Data Conversion, Interface testing and End user training.
• SAP Application Expertise in Bank Accounting - House Banks, Check Deposits, Cash Journal, Asset Accounting - Organization Structure (Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Area, Account Determination, Screen Layout Rule, Number Range Interval, Asset Classes, Integration with GL (Assign GL Accounts, Post depreciation areas to GL, Posting Rules), Depreciation Key, Period Control Methods, depreciation methods. Internal Order - Order Types, Model Orders, Allocation Structure, settlement Profile
• Having excellent Global template role out between the local country and the foreign country
• Strong Communicational skills as well as good Interpersonal skills, proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments
• Experienced in interacting with client to understand the business process and do requirement analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Worked on SAP versions ECC 6.0, R3 4.7.
• MS Office - Excel, Word, Power Point
• Operating Systems - Windows 2000 / 2003 / XP

SAP SKILLS:

• General Ledger: Account groups, New GL Accounting, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, AR information system, customer tolerance, customer credit management, closing operations.
• Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, reason codes, automatic payments, invoices, credit memos, AP information system.
• Asset Accounting: Configuration of Asset master data, Asset Classes, Chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, depreciation postings, depreciation calculation methods.
• Foreign Exchange:Configuring the basic settings,creation of foreign gain and loss accounts, configuring for automatic postings.
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, distribution and assessment of costs, development of Reports.
• Cost Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the cost centers, standard hierarchy, cost centers, statistical key figures, Activity types, master data groups, assessments, distributions and reposting, allocation cycle and segment.
• Cost Element Accounting: Creation of cost elements, overhead costing sheet, Reconciliation Ledger, Configured automatic posting for reconciliation ledger.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ohio

SAP FICO Lead Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation using SAP ECC 6.0
• Responsible for gathering requirements, participating in system design
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL - Company code, posting period
• Maintained required settings in Accounts payable i.e. Configuration for payment program,Created and maintained Customer master data along with customer groups, payment terms,Used report painter tool to generate user required reports.
• Configuration of Tax Procedure, assigning automatic postings to tax account.
• Cash and Bank accounting - House Bank Masters, Cash Journal Configuration.
• Configured controlling - Cost Centre Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Allocation of Asset Accounting Module set up and configuration.
• New GL Configuration including Document Splitting, Custom Document Types (ZA, ZB)
• Maintenance of Financial Statement Version

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Mundelein, Illinois

Senior SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Sap R/3 4.7 version to ECC 6.0 using the global templates and modules implemented included FI - G/L, AR, AP, Bank Accounts.
• Participated in teams that gathered and documented business requirements, conducted interviews with key Users and drafted Business Blueprint Documentation.
• Coordinated the Gap Analysis study and Prototyping analyzed gaps between current Business Practices and standard SAP functionality.
• Configured settings for Company code specific area, General ledger accounts, Line Item display layout, Field Status group, Variant for open and closing periods, Document number ranges, Foreign Currency Exchange rate types, Exchange rates.
• Configured areas of AP, House bank for Automatic Payment Program and check lots.
• Maintained and Configured the Cash journals and maintained cash transcations.
• Configured the settings for Dunning, Interest Calculation, Payment Differences and Payment term for Vendors as well as Customers.
• Undertook Unit Testing and Integrated Testing and end user trainings.
• Maintaining FI-Accounts payable - Vendor Master Data, Payment Programs
• Maintaining FI- Accounts receivables
• Analyzed the assigned tickets and provided satisfactory resolution to the users within time frame.
• Handling daily tickets and mails in support, participate in regular net meetings with other consultants and managers regarding the status and solution of issues according to the severities.
• Some of the issues handled included: Customization and configuration of General Ledger, Account Receivable, Account Payable; Defined account groups, customer and document number ranges, Terms of payment, posting keys, reason codes, automatic clearing, account assignment, and tolerance groups.
• Defining Interest indicators, Reference interest Rates keys for Interest calculations procedure to charge interest on overdue customer accounts using open line items and account balances and maintain account determination.
• Identifying and defining House banks and Bank Accounts, setting up bank Groups to meet the client’s project needs and to help optimize bank selection in automatic and manual payment program.Worked with Bank configuration for Asia and Europe by creating House banks, Account I.Ds.

Environment: FI, SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 and Support.

Confidential, Houston,TX

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured G/L Master record, Document number ranges, Posting Period Variants, Tolerance groups, Reversal of document, open and closing periods, Field status groups, Document types, posting keys.
• Created Customer Master Data, Customer groups, Customer field status, Terms of payment and assigned credit control area to the company code.
• Configured Vendor Master Data, Vendor groups, Tolerance limit for over and under payments, Payment terms and Payment Methods.
• Configured the Bank accounts for Automatic Payment Program and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open item.
• Configured settings for controlling areas, Reconciliation ledger. Assigned company codes to Controlling areas and assigned number ranges and documented the processes, changes and trained the end users.
• Configured Cost Center Accounting, maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary and secondary cost element categories. Setting control parameters for actual cost posting.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting, standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit centers, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA parameters.
• Created financial statements i.e. Balance sheet and Profit and loss a/c for the company.

Environment: FICO, SAP R/3 Version 4.7

Confidential, Ohio

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined and configured the enterprise structure. This included creation of chart of accounts, country specific chart of accounts, company codes, fiscal year variants, field status variants and posting period variants.
• Created and modified the existing account groups and defined the number ranges.
• Created and grouped the company’s business partners, customer and vendor master to define credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Configured settings for creation of G/L master records, retained earnings, line item layouts, field status groups and posting keys.
• Configured tolerance groups, tolerance for employee, customers and vendors.
• Performed Unit testing.
• Configured and created the Asset Master, Depreciation area, Account Determination, defined Asset Classes, Depreciation calculation method and Depreciation key to carry out Acquisition and Retirement of assests.
• Defined the master records like Cost element (primary and secondary cost), Cost element groups, Reconciliation ledger, Cost Centers,CC groups and standard hierarchy.
• Provided functional resources on troubleshooting, month-end and year-end closing
• Worked with the project management. Documented the Process, Changes and trained the End Users.

Environment: FICO, SAP ECC 6

Confidential, Ohio

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a core member for full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO module, gathered business process information and compiled the AS-IS and GAP analysis document.
• Performed assessment of business requirements, mapping with SAP R/3 functionality and assisted in planning of costs, budgeting and commitment. Prepared functional design specification document.
• Creation of masters like GL accounts, cost centers, cost elements.
• Configurations of complete organization structure for FI like creation of company code, Chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups, Fiscal year variants, posting periods, document number ranges
• Setting up document types and posting keys for business transactions, General Ledger, A/R and A/P.
• Defined standard hierarchy for Profit center groups and Cost center groups.
• Cost center groups are created so that cost centers can be assigned to a relevant Cost center group.
• In Cost Element Accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet, assigned the cost elements to various cost centers, activating the reconciliation ledger and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• In Profit Center Accounting configured the basic settings, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, exchange rate types, distribution and assessment of costs.
• Updating of masters and performed Unit Testing and end user trainings.
• Configured the Accounts Receivable as per the business blue print including the customer master records, and tolerance groups.
• Performed the Configuration of all business transactions for A/R including the cash discounts, down payments and dunning.
• Configured FI GL, AP/AR, House Banking, Document types & posting keys.
• AP configuration - Vendor Master, Vendor invoices, Payment methods, Payment program for Check printing.
• Set-up the Foreign Exchange Configuration for the company’s foreign clients.
• Involved in the configuration of Asset Accounting including Account Determination.
• Screen Layout, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Key and definition of Asset Classes.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7