SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of extensive experience in Implementing, Configuring and Customizing SAP FI/CO Module while incorporating in accounting experience.
• Experience on three full lifecycle SAP implementation including ASAP Methodology for requirement gathering, business blueprint, gap analysis, testing strategies, cut over & go - live support, user training & documentation and SAP security.
• Proficient in design & configuration of financial accounting (FI); Classic & New General Ledger(GL), Account Receivable(AR), Accounts Payable(AP), Special Purpose Ledger(SPL), Treasury & Bank Accounting(BL), and Assets Accounting(FI-AA).
• Proficient in design & configuration of Management Accounting(CO); Cost Center Accounting(CO-OM-CCA), Cost Element Accounting(CO-OM-CEL), Internal Orders(CO-OM-OPA), Profitability Analysis(COPA), Profit Center Accounting(EC-PCA) and Product Costing(CO-PC).
• Worked on parallel accounting, document splitting, cross-company code transaction, multi currencies. Lockbox processing and electronic Banking, dunning & automatic clearing program, tax category, sales & use tax, data migration and conversion process.
• Sound knowledge on G/L, Customer and Vendor Master Record, Master Data for Cost Element, Cost Center, Profit Center, Activity Type and Statistical Key Figure.
• Good Knowledge of integration between SD, MM with FI/CO with in depth understanding on Order to Cash, & Procure to pay process.
• In depth knowledge on Group EC-CS, GAAP, IASB, IFRS & Sarbanes Oxley.
• Excellent analytical, quick learning and problem-solving skills with a desire to work in a team oriented environment.
• Achieve a challenging position in Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP), where my analytical, academic and professional skills can be used to the benefit of the organization as well as my career growth
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills in resolving SAP FICO functional issues.
• Active member in conducting the team meetings, customer feedback meetings and self-assimilation program.
• Knowledge on SAP S/4HANA finance.
• Analyzed client’s business requirements, needs and objectives and mapped them to the processes, solutions and products that are being implemented.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, provided inputs during the analysis of the "As-Is" and "To-Be" processes, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, technical, research, technical writer, general business and functional skills. I have demonstrated leadership abilities through his various engagements and have been very effective and efficient in C-level communication.
• On controlling side: I have implemented product costing - make to order and make to stock processes and COPA - Costing based / Account Based. I also have hands-on experience on integrating COPA with non-SAP systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP FI/CO ECC6.0

SAP tools: SAP FI/CO, SD, MM, ABAP, Report painter writer, SAP Vistex

Microsoft applications: MS Word, MS Excel; MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant 

Confidential, Redlands, CA

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Ehp 5

Responsibilities:

• Configured end to end Order to Cash Cycle O2C (Accounts Receivable), Procure to Pay Cycle P2P (Accounts Payable) international and domestic process.
• Implemented electronic bank statement (EBS) and lockbox processing for JP Morgan Bank.
• Configured fixed assets (FI-AA) Chart of depreciation, Asset master records, asset classes, account determination, configuration for Asset under construction for work in progress assets and creation of depreciation keys.
• Supported various Migration and Upgrade projects, from Physical servers to Virtual Servers and Enhancement Packages.
• Conducted workshop to gather requirements from Business Process Owners, and Subject Matter Expert and understand As-Is process, did GAP analysis, developed business process flowchart and configured the system.
• Logistic Invoice Verification: Enhanced the MM user exit to extend the duplicate invoice check for credit memos.
• Supported daily production Issues related Order to Cash Cycle O2C (Accounts Receivable), Procure to Pay Cycle P2P - Goods receipt against inbound delivery (ASN).
• Created validation rule in FI (Text on line item with VIN number format) and Asset accounting (Internal Order assignment) to streamline the entries.
• Designed, wrote functional specs and tested the complex Customized programs and interfaces. Like Remittance program to apply Cash, Report to match part numbers on Invoice and Payments.
• Customized and implemented the revenue recognition, including the customization for FI accounts for unbilled and deferred revenue.
• Configured the SAP Screen Personas, Created customized flavors for different users as per requirements.
• Bank Interfaces: Integrated SAP payment interface with Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase Bank and adapted SAP Lockbox functionality to process AR payments for automatic cash application against customer invoices, and accounting for automatic zero-balancing account (ZBA) cash movements.
• Implemented Payment Network functionality of Bank of America to integrate SAP using IDOCs.
• Foreign payments executed by the parent company on behalf of its subsidiaries and IHC intercompany payments using SAP’s In-House Cash (IHC) module. Created functional, detailed design, and testing specs for the IHC. Created a New Business Partner, New Current Account and for GL Accounts for In House Cash.
• Employee travel advance.
• Responsible for configuration of customer/vendor mater records, terms of payment, cash discount base for invoices.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant 

Intel, Portland, OR

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Ehp 5

• Requirement gathering and Blueprinting for New G/L functionality.
• Defined financial statements version for internal and external user groups.
• Configured the company code global settings.
• Configured the automatic posting for Inter-company code posting.
• Defined Account Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.
• Creation of GL Master Data, posting, Displaying balances, Parking and Reversal of document
• Defined Document Splitting Characteristics and activated Document Splitting.
• Helped in month end and year closing activities
• Designed various interfaces to connect various non-SAP systems to SAP systems
• Creation of test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing by preparing the test scripts for all FI business processes.
• Worked with data conversion team to design and successfully convert legacy data to SAP.
• Prepared unit test scripts, integration and interface test scripts and documented acceptance sign from the business owners.
• Provided trainings to End users as a part of Internal training activities.
• Worked on Production issues after Go-Live.
• Procure to Pay Cycle P2P - Goods receipt against inbound delivery (ASN).
• Created validation rule in FI (Text on line item with VIN number format) and Asset accounting (Internal Order assignment) to streamline the entries.
• Designed, wrote functional specs and tested the complex Customized programs and interfaces. Like Remittance program to apply Cash, Report to match part numbers on Invoice and Payments.
• Customized and implemented the revenue recognition, including the customization for FI accounts for unbilled and deferred revenue.
• Configured the SAP Screen Personas, Created customized flavors for different users as per requirements.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Ehp 5

• Working with business users to understand the requirement and concern over existing system (AS-IS) so as to identify system improvement points and to prepare the GAP analysis.
• Worked on Creation of House Bank, Lockbox and Setup EDI Partner Profile.
• Configured Global Settings for Manual Bank statement and EBS like Create Account Symbols, Create Keys for Posting Rules, Create Transaction Types, Assign Bank Accounts to Transaction Types for EBS.
• Have involved in maintain Activity prices and release of Standard Cost Estimate, involved pre Go live, post Go live and cutover activities, Experience in Data Migration and LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).
• Asset Valuation is used to determine the values of all fixed assets (AA) and Asset acquisitions and retirements that are integrated with Accounts Payable.
• Prepare and Present pre-sales presentations for PCA, COPA, Product Costing and Materials Ledger concepts to key stakeholders justifying significance of these high-end modules as to the relevance to client in terms of Client’s business landscape and business model
• Fixed Assets such as Account determination, Depreciation types, Depreciation areas and Asset classes
• Worked on new GL like document splitting, leading ledger, Non-leading ledger, segmental reporting.
• Worked on New GL to configure parallel ledgers to fulfill parallel accounting needs for US GAAP and Local GAAP requirements.
• Performed configuration of G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants and tolerance groups.
• Involved in Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting Setting, maintaining the standard hierarchy and worked on assessment cycles.
• Fixing the go-live critical issues and documented critical changes performed during UAT and trained user community.
• Development of test plans, test cases and training manuals.
• Helping the team in preparing & executing cut over tasks.
• Trained Business Process Owners and End Users and Conducted workshops.
• Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis.

SAP CO Lead Functional Consultant

Confidential, Aurora, IL

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Ehp 5

• In Product Cost Planning: I configured cost component structure, costing sheet (Overhead Calculation) and Configured material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, by maintaining costing variants and its components: Costing type, Valuation Variant, Quantity Structure Control, Transfer Strategy.
• In CO- Cost Object Controlling: I did configuration for costing the products on various cost objects: Production order, Product Cost Collector (Period) and Sales Order product cost estimate. Further I configured the period end activities like work in process and posting rules, variance were calculated and finally settled to the PA segments using PA transfer structure in Settlement profiles.
• In Production Planning: we defined BOM, Recipe and work center. These production planning objects were used in Product costing to generate material cost estimate, preliminary costing and simultaneous costing.
• Developed documentation for end users, end user training.
• As a lead consultant I was responsible for implementing CO-PA module and overall responsible for reporting requirements of the organization.
• The company is segmented according to the products and customers. The profitability of the company is determined based on their segments. CO-PA happens to be a perfect match for market-oriented decision making. I carried out detailed study of reporting requirements and accordingly scope, design and configuration of Profitability Analysis were done.
• Generated various reports using Report Painter tool.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, South Bend, IN

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0,

• Analysis of Financial accounting global settings: fiscal year variant, document number ranges, document types, posting periods, posting keys, field status groups and tolerance groups for employees.
• Configure the GL module. Configuration include the design of the corporate chart of account, configuring the TAX system, configuring the automatic account determination for MM and SD integration, field status group, financial statement version, number range and document types.
• Configuration of additional Country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, and dunning.
• Re-configuration of discounts, house bank configuration, bank determination, bank reconciliation statements, and bank settings.
• Implemented various SAP functionalities and enhancements that were not included in initial implementation e.g. Park and Post Process, Tolerance Groups to handle discounts, Availability Control on Internal Order Budget, Financial Statement Version etc.
• Created a new Operating Concern with custom characteristics and value fields and tested the flows from SD and FI documents into CO-PA.
• Configured both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using costing sheet.
• Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA planning including creating planning levels, plan package and planning methods.
• Worked on maintaining Versions in Profitability analysis.
• Cost Center allocations and Internal Order settlements.
• Internal order accounting: settlement configuration, planning/budgeting profiles, order types.
• Determined inventory price according to Standard Price and also Moving Average Price.
• Configured Costing Variant to generate cost estimate using BOM and Routing. I also defined Cost Component Structure (CCS) with input from Accountants the way they wanted to analyze the cost of the product. Activity Types, Resource, and Period end closing parameters: WIP, Variance and Settlement Profile.

SAP Business Analyst 

Confidential, South Bend, IN 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0,

• Worked on vendor/customer master records, Client specific payment terms, and lockbox processing, dunning and payment methods. Creation of few reports like aging analysis.
• Interacted with client business users for requirement gathering and analysis of existing business processes and prepared business Blueprint document and functional design document.
• Creation of House Banks, Assigning Bank Accounts to House Banks, creation of check lots.
• Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration
• Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting.  Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.
• Prepare financial statements and supporting schedules according to monthly close schedule by collecting, analyzing and summarizing account information.
• Analyze financial information, prepare journal entries, and reconcile monthly bank reconciliations and credit card statement.
• Understand, manage, and sustain global regulatory and compliance risk through proactive initiatives that reflect your particular structure, industry, and regulatory environment.