PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of experience in SAP FICO with three full cycle implementations, support and upgrade projects
• Implemented three Full Life Cycles using ASAP methodology, from understanding "As Is" business processes, blueprint to realization, configuration, customization, Data migration, final preparation, testing, authorization designing for roles with security team & developing BPP's, end user training, pre & post go - live support.
• 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 &FSCM; Good knowledge of Vertex, BGCS, Phoebus.
• Experienced in working with SOX and SOD compliance Teams. Strong knowledge of US GAAP, ACH, Positive Pay, OTC, P2P, APP, Lockbox configuration and dunning process.
• Good working knowledge in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows).
• Have Good Knowledge in areas of ABAP like BDC, Reports-BAPIs, BADI, User exits, IDOCs, Index Screens
• Strong working experience in various kinds of Testing such as, Manual Testing, GUI Automation Testing, System testing, User Acceptance Testing, Unit & Integration Testing, Performance, Stress and Regression Testing of client/server and web based applications.
• Ability to understand the projects business requirements and timelines and have the ability to drive closure of design issues to meet the projects go-live.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Solving Tickets on various aspects on AA/AR/AP/GL/CO- 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 AP, AR.
• Customization settings for Asset Accounting such as Chart of depreciation, account determination, Depreciation areas, Number ranges, Asset classes, GL accounts etc.
• Act as the primary liaison between IT and Business units (Vendor Finance, Procurement, Sales) on reporting requirements, enhancements, and troubleshooting data related issues.
• Supporting client with configuration on basis of the business requirements
• Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.
• Providing support daily trouble shooting problems.
• Worked closely with the Engineering department in order to develop effective EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions monitoring tools for the Customer Support Representatives.
• Tested Universe and reports, which includes database connectivity and aggregate awareness to ensure the query is pulling the correct level of aggregation.
• In FI -Treasury, responsible for configuring House Banks with multiple Bank Accounts, alternate bank selections for Payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes, check lots and configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments and IDOCs
• Dispute Management: Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with accounts receivable.
• Collection Management setup for collection strategies, collection work lists, collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Optimized Cash Application process for bank statements, remittance advices and lockbox using Auto Bank.
• Experience working with ABAP team to design, build and develop data migration/ conversion programs, GL balances extract, convert and load into SAP using LSMWs by providing functional and Technical specifications.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• Material Master Data elements update to support calculation of consolidated cost- SPK, with quantity Structures, Material Origin, Origin Group, Price unit, Costing View.
• Interaction with users and client to understand there requirements and concern over existing processes and validating processes that were to be implemented in the new plants.
• Proactively advise on improving /re-engineering business processes in close cooperation with the Business and/or the Businesses Process Owner involved in a project.
• Month End closing activities related to Product costing. Creating Costing Run, Determining Material Prices, Consumption Revaluation, Correcting and confirming Costing Run Results.
• Configured and created Cost Centers, Work Centers and Product Costing., Defined Costing Variant, Activity types, Statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, Rate Routing, Overhead Structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Configuration for Product Costing that includes Cost defining and maintaining activities, defining Input & Output/Price setting for Activities.
• Configured, Activated and trouble shoot Material Ledger.
• Prepared Functional Specs (FS) for Plants that were activated but not Productive in Material Ledger.
• Configured Business Process and Business Process Hierarchy and created Activity Type Group.
• Configured project budgets via Capital Investment measures through Internal Orders

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Midland, MI

Responsibilities:

• Worked on global company code, fiscal year variant, chart of accounts, posting period's variant, field status variants, field status group.
• Customized (client specific) New General Ledger Accounting to perform parallel accounting, Document splitting, allocation, distribution and planning, Accounts Receivables, Customer Credit, Credit Controls, Credit memo and Dunning.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment and automatic payment program (APP) configuration.
• In AP and MM worked on logistic invoice verifications (3-way match) and displayed various different functionalities like background invoice verification and invoice reductions.
• Involved in configuring Business Partners and Inter-Company transactions that are required to report to European Repository of original, change and closing of transactions.
• Configured Fixed Asset Accounting - Country specific settings configured, specified asset classes, defined depreciation areas, and created custom defined depreciation keys for calculations.
• Involved in Depreciation Posting, Acquisition and Retirement of Assets, Assets under Construction and Capitalization of Assets.
• Streamlined Asset capitalization process for better tracking of budgets.
• Configured Lock Box accounts that are referenced in customer master records and used invoices as a part of remittance information. Defined control parameters that are used by the Lock Box Processing Program, bank statement processing and exchange rates.
• Reconciled and Monitored of daily bank activity and determination of short term investment to optimize the overall Cash Position. via Portfolio Analyzer, Market -Analyzer and Credit Risk Analyzer
• Cash Management: - Daily monitoring of cash balances via cash reporting and the electronic banking interface.
• Performed Treasury operational functions such as cash management, cash forecasting, interest rate monitoring and capital funding and financial derivative analysis.
• Managing foreign currency consolidation, reporting and hedging for US divisions to control risk.
• Defined internal order, order types, planning and settlement profiles.
• Worked with on FI-SD account determination rule to accurately capture accounting requirement during Billing and PGI.
• Worked with Vertex developer in Data Mapping document preparation based on the Functional Specs and identified data needed to be captured on the interface files.
• Created Data extracts for reconciliation of SAP General Ledger and Vertex Tax Journal
• Maintained Tax codes and Tax Jurisdiction Codes for Company Codes Operated by FTX Panel and Vertex System.
• Involved in the review of internal controls, risk management, regulatory compliance and reporting functions.
• Worked on North American tax requirements and European Value Added Tax (VAT.)
• Created Data extracts for reconciliation of SAP General Ledger and Vertex Tax Journal

Fico Consultant

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, determined organizational structure, process and classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas, cost centers and profit centers and created solution proposals. For success for the project.
• Involved to ASAP Methodology for SAP road map solution implementation that was in cost effective manner.
• Analyzed business requirements, to comprehend legacy system functionalities and customization.
• Gathered functional requirement through user workshops and GAP identification analysis.
• Configured leading ledger set-ups like cost center update, profit center update, segment and defined additional currencies including hard currency and group currency.
• Customized operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Account & Country Chart of Accounts.
• Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by adding new GL accounts as per client's requests.
• Responsible for configuration setup to Integration In-House Cash- Management with Procure to Pay, Payroll, general ledger &Transaction Management.
• Customization for the Global Cash Position Reporting, liquidity-forecasting and planning calculation of the cash flow, planning and actual versus plan comparisons.
• Configured Money Market Investment by Defining Product Types, Foreign Exchange and Market Risk Analyzer.
• The scope included purging some of the existing company codes and adding new ones and integrating them with existing chart of accounts.
• Configured system settings in the area s of FI-GL transactions, house bank, AP-Automatic Payment Program (APP), Open Text vendor Invoice Management (VIM,) Event Management, AR-Customer Credit, Credit Controls, and Credit Memos and performed Dunning.
• Defined customer account groups by defining cash discounts based upon payment terms, lockbox processing for incoming payments in Accounts Receivables.
• Configured SAP CRM products per requirements, including testing, problem solving, and debugging.
• Identified and documented business processes in CRM for professional services clients.
• Involved in IT Service Management on the technical details of the systems management that it focused on providing a framework to IT-related activities and structures and the interactions of IT technical personnel with business customers and users.
• Lead SAP Data migration team for Legacy data analysis, Master Data (Materials, Customers, Vendors), and transactional data collection, extraction, cleansing, harmonization, and transformation to load into SAP
• Interacting with legacy business users to understand business process flow, business logics and to assess major data objects, data volume for data migration.

Fico Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized chart of accounts, company code global parameters', fiscal year variants, account groups, field status groups and tolerance groups.
• Define accounts receivables and receivable terms, overdue interest calculations, and automatic clearing of line items, default account assignments, over and under payments.
• Configured Accounts Payable including Automatic Payment Program (APP) configuration, automatic check payment advice, lockbox processing, clearing of vendor, bank master data, and house banks for payment program, credit management, periodic processing, Dunning and correspondence
• Tested Sales and Distribution Module Configuration Settings.
• Involved in performing different types of Testing Unit, Integration, Regression, Data Driven and Validation Testing.
• Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying routines and sub-routines during the sales order creation and credit checks for different customer risk categories and pricing conditions..
• CRM functional modules, encompassing sales planning, order management, account and contact management, and commission management
• Configures the Credit Management (credit Control Area) to manage the receivables in association with SD team.
• Clearing of records in GR/IR accounts and develop substitutions for clearing accounts.
• Coordinated new structures using to upload or transfer historical data, sales order, billing, and project settlement information from legacy and SAP modules into COPA for comparison to actual postings according to management reporting requirements using COPA characteristic derivation.
• Participated in structuring the valuation strategies required cost of products sold to be valued for both valued plants (using the material master cost) and region distribution centers (using a percent from the pricing conditions) to perform integrated planning of sales quantities with manufacturing overhead calculations
• Worked on treasury module in Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal.
• Created standard hierarchy, profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number ranges assignments PCA planning parameters in profit center accounting.
• Transfer of Overheads by Assessment from CCA to CO-PA, Integration between SD, FI & MM to CO-PA.
• Configured material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure, BOM and route setting required for costing the product.
• Involved in order based product costing configuration and configured costing run, actual costs posting
• Assisted end users in month end closing operations involved overhead calculations, variance calculations, results analysis settlements and activity price calculations.
• Maintained tax codes and tax jurisdiction codes for company codes operated by FTXP and Vertex Systems