SUMMARY:

• Four and a half year of Functional Experience in implementing, customizing and configuring SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 for both FI and CO modules.
• Successfully implemented one Full Life Cycle Project - worked through the phases of requirement gathering, scope management, process analysis, GAP analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Go-live, post live support and training.
• Very good experience in ASAP Methodology.
• Excellent skill set in Production support, Integrating, Testing and Documenting.
• Excellent Domain and Functional Experience in Finance and Controlling.
• Strong Work in Master Data Management under FI-CO Module.
• Strong experience in Configuration of Enterprise Structure Global Sitting.
• Expertise in Configuring New GL Performing Document Split, Zero Balancing of documents, Parallel Accounting and Parallel Currencies.
• Extensive system Configuration and Testing in the areas FI-CO: General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable, Taxes, APP, Lockbox configuration and processing, Assets Accounting, CO- CEA, CO-CCA, EC-PCA, Internal Order, Product Costing, Planning and Reporting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, Strong analytical view, problem solving, capable to make balanced and independent decision and an excellent team player.
• High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the project implementation lifecycle.
• Worked as a functional consultant responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of SAP for the clients and worked actively with the management and project teams of the clients to implement SAP FI/CO.
• Global Settings: Configuration of Organizational Structures, Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting Periods, Document Number Ranges, Document Types, Posting Keys, Foreign Currency Exchange Management, Inter-Company Management, Validation and Substitution.
• General Ledger: Configuration of Account Groups, G/L Master Data, G/L Master Records, Business Transactions, Financial Statement Versions, Automatic Account Determination and Tolerance Groups.
• Account Receivables and Payables: Configuration of Customer and Vendor Master Records in FI,
• Number Ranges Intervals, Down Payment Made and Received, Validation of Business Transactions, Invoice Processing, Document Parking, Outgoing Payment, Reporting, Automatic Payment Program, Open Item Management, Lockbox Processing, Payment Terms, Dunning Procedures and Automatic creation of Business Partner in FSCM.
• Taxes: Configuration of Withholding (Extended) Tax, Input Tax, Output Tax, Tax Types and Tax Codes.
• Bank Accounting: Configuration of House Banks, Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer, Lockbox Configuration and Processing, Cash Application, Bank Statement Processing, Cash Management, Posting Rules and Exchange Rates.
• Asset Accounting: Configuration of Chart of Depreciation, Assets Class, Account Determination, Screen Layout Rules, Number Range Interval, Depreciation Key, Fixed Asset Design, Integration with the GL. In-house Creation of Assets and Sub-Assets, Posting of Assets Acquisition and Assets Retirement and Configuration of Depreciation run.
• Controlling Areas: Maintain Controlling Area, Number Ranges For Controlling Documents and Versions and Integration between FI and CO.
• Cost Element Accounting: Creation of Primary/Secondary Cost Elements Manually and Automatically, Cost Elements Group. Display of Cost Elements List for Controlling Reports.
• Cost Center Accounting: Define Cost Center Categories and Cost Center Groups. Create Cost Centers under Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centre Planning, Plan Price Calculation, Periodic Allocations in Plan, Display and Print the Cost Center Information for Master data Report.
• Profit Centre Accounting: Configuration of Controlling Areas Setting. Creation of Dummy Profit Center and Profit Centers under Standard Hierarchy, maintain Profit Center Derivation Rules for Balance Sheet Accounts and Maintain Standard and Alternate Hierarchies of Profit Centers.
• Creation of Master data: Creation of Centers including collection Cost Centers and Allocation Cost Centers. Setting Control Parameters for Actual Posting. Allocation characteristics for Sender/Receiver Cost, Configuration of Assessment, Distribution and Reposting.
• Internal Orders: Define Order Type, Configure Internal Order Number Range, Creation of Internal Orders, Settlement Cost Element, Configuration of the Settlement Structure, Settlement Profile, Real and Statistical Postings, Configuration of Order Planning, Budgeting, Defining Status Profile and Display Internal Orders Plan / Actual / Variance Report.
• Product Costing: Analysis, design and implementation of PCP. Configuration of WIP, Variance Calculation and Settlement, Cost Estimates for new materials without Quantity Structure. Standard Cost Estimates for specific market segments. Define Costing Variants. Review business process procedures for Costing Sheet for Direct Material, Production Costs and Overheads. Ensure flow of SALES and COGS for the Products. Design Reports for Inventory, Cost of Goods Manufactured and sold, external procurement and transfer prices.
• Closing And Reporting: Run and Reconcile all Incoming Interface, Start Control and Clearing Reconciliation, Run Customer Billing and Vendor Payments, Approval of all Parked Documents, Run Final Sales Figure and Dunning Reports, Open new Period, Close Old Sales and Material Periods, Run all Settlements In CO.
• Integration with MM and SD: Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination, Interfaces design and testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Chicago,IL

SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I have joined the Team Project Implementation as an Independent Consultant from the “Blueprint” Phase to “REALIZATION” Phase, where I was involved in Full Configuration of FI for: GL, New GL, Currency, AP and AR.
• Global Setting: Defined and configured Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant as well as Field Status Groups, Document Types and Document Number Ranges, Posting Keys, and Tolerance Groups for Employees, Configured Special GL Transactions and Recurring Entries. Defined Chart of Accounts, Account Groups for GL Accounts, GL Accounts (Master Records), and Tolerance for GL Accounts.
• Configured Automatic Clearing of Open Items, and assigned accounts for clearing differences in GL Account Clearing Process.
• Foreign Currency: Configured Foreign Currency Valuation Methods for the valuation of Foreign Currency balances (e.g. Bank Accounts holding foreign exchange) and Open items in foreign currency (e.g. Customers and Vendors).
• Accounts Receivable & Payable: Created Customer/Vendor Reconciliation Accounts, Vendor and Customer account groups with Screen Layout, Customers and Vendors Screen Layout per Activity (Display, Create, and Change for Master Data), Customer and Vendor Master Records, and Number Ranges Worked closely with the SD and MM teams to oversee and validate the Customer and Vendor master data as well as Open Item conversions and data load into Development Client. Defined Tolerances for Customers and Vendors, Payment Terms and Accounts for Cash Discounts and Payment Differences. Configured Automatic Payment Program, Item Interest Calculation, Dunning Program, and settings for Special G/L Transactions (Down Payments), Master Data (Material Data, Vendor Data, and Accounting Data) as well as Transaction Data (Purchasing Document, Material Document, Accounting Document. Configured and defined the Account Determination and Account Assignment steps in the FI-AP, FI-SD and FI-MM integration.

Confidential,Charlotte,NC

SAP FI CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As an active project team member involved in Full Life Cycle Project: Process Design, Mapping Business Process, Re-engineering to match the client requirements with SAP. I was involved in gathering Business Requirements, preparing Business Blue Printing, Maintaining and Configuring GL, AP, AR, Taxes, Bank and AA.
• In global settings and organization structure: I was responsible for Setting up Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Posting Variants, Fiscal Year Variants, Inter-Company Transactions and Foreign Currencies.
• In Accounts Payable: I was involved in configuring and maintaining Vendor Master Records, Inter Company Vendors, Vendor Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, Down Payment Made, creating Vendor Invoice, Park and Posting Parked Invoices, Manual Outgoing Payments, Automatic Open Item Processing, releasing Blocked Invoices, Vendor Invoice posted through invoice verification, Payment Methods, Automatic Bank Payment Programs, Bank Reconciliation, printing the check with the existing check number, manual check printing, cancel payment, reinstate the check information in the check register and AP reporting and handling issues with Delivery.
• In Accounts Receivable: I was involved in configuring and supporting Customer Master Records, Inter Company Customers, Customer Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, Down Payment Received, maintaining Dunning Program, Incoming Payments, creating and processing Payment Advices, Lockbox and ACH configurations, Payment Methods, Special GL transactions, House Bank settings and correspondence activities.
• In Bank Accounting: I was configuring multiple Bank Accounts, alternate Bank selections for Payments, assigning Check Lots, defining Void Reason Codes, Automatic Payment Program for Incoming and Outgoing Payments.
• In Taxes: Defined different Federal, States and Cities sales tax in US, Configured Tax Procedures, Tax keys, Maintained Input and Output Tax.
• In Asset Management: I Configured Asset Financial Statement Version, Asset Sub Numbers and Group Asset and Defined Organizational Structure required for Fixed Assets, Configured chart of depreciation and depreciation areas, posting of Acquisitions and Scrapping Assets, Defined Closing Procedure.
• Tested transactions for GL, AR, AP and Bank
• Integrated FI with MM and FI with SD
• In Training: I was responsible for Training users in posting data and executing various transactions in GL, AR, AP and Bank and preparing User Documentation for Knowledge Transfer.

Confidential,New Jersey

SAP FI CO Consultant

• I have joined the Team Project Implementation as an Independent Consultant to be responsible to perform the tasks mentioned below:
• Responsible for Production support and Configuration of FI- GL, AP, AR, AA.
• Analyzed the FICO related trouble tickets, discussed with the business users, and determined the root cause to resolve them in a timely manner.
• Defining Reason Codes to segregate different reasons for over/under payment on A/R line items and maintaining account determination for difference in payment to be charged off to G/L account or to make residual posting.
• Maintaining Customer Tolerance Groups to specify the maximum payment difference that can be charged off to a G/L account, the maximum Cash Discount percentage amount and the maximum allowable difference in percentage terms.
• 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.
• 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.
• Analyzed and demonstrated SAP capabilities and flexibilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios based on the business requirements.
• Created G/L accounts in the charts of accounts and defined global parameters in company code area, defined account groups, configured the settings for creation of G/L master records, sub-ledger accounts for customers, vendors and automatic account assignment, reconciliation accounts.
• Grouped vendors/customers by company code and creation of account groups, number ranges for vendors/customers and respective screen layouts.
• Configured for Vendors subject to extended withholding tax settings. Determining how company code must be assigned to credit control areas through various credit managers. Ensure that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and customers.
• Settings for automatic payment program and customization of forms for vendor/ customer’s confirmation letters.
• FI-AR configuration included customer master, terms of payment, incoming payment, interest calculation, open item processing and clearing, dunning and dunning run.
• Configuration for lockbox, file formats, cash management position, bank statement processing, posting rules for automatic account assignment.
• Asset Accounting configuration Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Asset Class, Asset Master Creation, Integration with GL Account, Asset Acquisition, Sale and Retirement of Asset, AUC, Depreciation Configuration, Depreciation Run, Asset Data Transfer, Specify Financial Statement Version for Asset Accounting.
• Integration of FI with CO.

Confidential,Alameda,CA

SAP FI Consultant

• New GL: System configuration (activating the new general ledger, defining and deriving segments, assigning scenarios, defining customer-specific fields), Documents and document splitting, Configuration of chart of accounts, GL account groups and Number Ranges in General Ledger, field status groups, posting keys, document types, open and close posting periods, recurring entries, GL account tolerance, and GL account master records
• Integration: Financial Accounting subsidiary ledgers with Controlling (real-time integration of Controlling into Financial Accounting)
• Closing operations: Parallel valuation and the new general ledger (introduction of the ledger solution in the new general ledger and the integration of this solution into Asset Accounting)
• Bank Account: Configuration of House Banks and bank accounts, Cash Journal, G/L Bank Account Integration, posting rules for Bank Transactions and for Check Deposit Transactions
• Reporting: Using the new Financial Accounting drill down reporting function (segment reporting) and the new G/L account balance display)
• Training: Trained supporting consultants and end users on creating master data for customer, vendors and cost centers, automatic payment program for vendors, dunning procedures and distribution cycle.

Confidential,Richardson,TX

SAP FI Consultant

• Configured Company Code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Chart of Account, Posting Variants and Fiscal Year Variants, General Ledger Accounting, Screen Layout Rules, Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees.
• Defined House Banks and set up Automatic Payment Program. Configured multiple Currency Valuation and Standardization of the Processes, identified One-time vendors and customers, and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Configured Partial, Residual and Standard Payments for Open Item Management, made settings for Check Printing and assigned Forms to Payment Methods.
• Define multiple Clearing G/L Accounts for the Cash Reporting.
• Configured and Customized Accounts Payable/Receivable Master Record, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, Account Determination, Client Specific Payment Terms and Payment Methods.
• Customized Accounting Transactions for GL Posting, AR/AP Posting and Recurring Entries.
• Configured the system for the creation of A/R invoices and Posting of Manual Incoming Payments with difference and defined reason codes for payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to G/L accounts.