SUMMARY:

• I have more than Eighteen plus years of experience in Accounting and IT industry with Ten years of strong functional experience in configuration, implementation and supporting SAP ECC6.0 and R/3 4.7.
• Functional/configuration experience includes FI - General Ledger, FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Accounts Receivable, CO-Cost Center Accounting, CO-Internal Orders and CO-Cost allocations and Fixed Asset Management.
• Strong in module integration, with solid understanding of how FI integrates with CO, MM, HR, PM and PS modules and FI integration with Materials Management.
• SAP TAX interface for Vertex, Value Added Tax (VAT) .
• Skills and experience in systems development, detailed knowledge of business processes, technical background and supervisory skills to implement business solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Chicago, IL

FI Consultant Support

• Attended kick-off meetings, on-boarding sessions to understand the Global roadmap vision, initiatives for transformation of a regionally-focused organization to global enterprise, need to streamline business processes, sponsors, cornerstone decisions, milestones, international operations etc.
• Configured AP and AR modules for business processes, incoming invoices and credit memos, document types, posting keys, outgoing payments, check, electronic payments, outgoing remittance layout and configuration, vendor number ranges, account groups, and payment types and terms.
• Configured integration points with other modules, including funds management, Finance, Materials Management and Human Resources.
• Configured Lockbox process in Account Receivables (AR).
• Fiscal year variants, posting period variants, document, field status variants configuration.
• Configuration of Number Ranges for GL Accounts, Accounts Receivable / Payable Accounts.
• Configured automatic payment program, which includes creation of house banks, company code and country payment methods, employee tolerances, terms of payment, and reason codes, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Configured vendor and customer master data, and tested the integration of A/R and A/P ledgers into the FI.
• Assisted in A/R Credit and Collections integration and assisted team lead and Controller with A/R issues where processed invoices and credits for all monthly service charges where prepared monthly A/R reports and Analyzed account discrepancies and resolved issues with customers.
• Performed the configuration of US tax strategy, Canadian tax strategy and Australian tax strategy for Indirect taxes for over 200 entities to the parent company.
• Configuring New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS. Activated document splitting at profit center level.
• Set up company codes, account groups, retained earnings accounts, field status groups and variants, document number ranges, fiscal years, posting periods and controlling area etc.
• Tested critical business transactions in the finance module, including vendor’s invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry programs.
• Created Customer Master records, Vendor Master records, Account Groups, Automatic Interest Calculation, and Account Assignments for recurring entries.
• Tested the integration points between FI and MM, SD and FI.
• Created G/L master records and configured cross company code transactions, line item display, and open item processing for General Ledger.
• Involved in all phases of IT life cycle development, including systems analysis, design, development, data modeling, quality assurance, unit, functional and integration testing and defect tracking.
• Participated in To-Be, Organizational Structure, Architecture/Design, and Prototyping stages of SAP implementation. Fully configured “sandbox client” for the SAP General Ledger.

Confidential, Irving,TX

SAP FICO Consultant

• Implemented and tested FI General Ledger module, configuration of Fixed Assets module, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting modules; Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Internal Orders/Project System
• Handled the Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendor Payment and Check clearing sub-processes.
• Configured the payment program and payment run for check printing, house bank configuration, testing of vendor and customer master data.
• Participated in To-Be, Organizational Structure, Architecture/Design, and Prototyping stages of SAP implementation.
• Set up company codes, account groups, retained earnings accounts, field status groups and variants, document number ranges, fiscal years, posting periods and controlling area etc.
• Conducted training on the user of Accounts Payable module for users. Also in the audit, loan, human resources and accounting departments.
• Configured AP and AR modules for business processes, incoming invoices and credit memos, document types, posting keys and outgoing payments.
• Set up FI and CO enterprise structure components, such as company codes, fiscal year variant, posting periods, controlling area, document number ranges, match codes, tolerance levels required for detailed implementation of FI and CO modules.
• Configured SAP TAX interface for Vertex with respect to, configuring communication, testing the Tax retrieval data, activating Tax interface system, configured external tax document, tax jurisdiction code structure, customizing SD&MM master data Tax indicators, setting MM&SD master data, tax codes, setting condition records SD, configuring Tax per document.
• Designed and configured chart of accounts, company codes, controlling area, cost center and profit center accounting modules, planning and budgeting of the cost centers, distribution and allocation of costs, and configuration of fixed assets module.
• Completed General Ledger IMG configuration with a total reorganization of master data for chart of accounts, cross Company posting, validation and substitution, user exits, document types, document number ranges, accruals, cost elements, account master, field status groups, account group etc.
• CO-PA - responsible for the implementing of integrated excel flexible uploads of budget data. Maintaining versions for planning, building report layouts, planning levels and planning packages for the planning data to be loaded.
• CO-PC-Removing and creating new product collectors for materials based on user requirement and desired controlling level
• CO-PC-Resolving issue related to incorrect confirmation against production order. Determining best possible approach to reverse statistical postings to cost centers
• Configured Valuation Variant, Costing Type, Costing Variant, Unit Costing, Material Costing with and without quantity structure, Cost Component Split, Costing sheet, and Costing Run (Mark and Release). Configured Integration with PP for material, labor and activity costs (BOM, Routing, Work Centers etc).
• Configured Cost Object Controlling for Make-to-Stock (Costing by Order), Product cost collectors, calculating Planned and actual costs, Work in process, scrap costs, and variances at period end close. Configured Settlement Profile and Settlement Cost Elements, PA Transfer Structure for Settlement of Production Variances (COPA) and Settlement of Price Differences (FI and EC-PCA), Work in Process (FI and EC-PCA), Scrap (COPA) and Product Costing Reports.
• Configured partial payments, exchange rate differences, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, payment media, interest calculation, credit management, and carrying forward balances.
• Configured the payment program and the payment run for check printing, house bank configuration, testing of vendor as well as customer master data.
• Involved in the configuration and users training for the Materials Management module which included purchase order to cash process with logistics invoice verification.
• Created asset classes, defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation keys definition for assigning calculation methods.
• Conducted interview sessions with senior management, project management, application team leads, technical team leads, team members, business owners, and users to prepare the project plan.

Confidential,Dallas,TX

FI Consultant Support

• Worked as a liaison between departmental end-users and programming personnel in the analysis, design, configuration, testing, and maintenance of assigned SAP system modules.
• Configured SAP for required Organizational Units, Master Data, end-to-end business processes: FI- GL, FI-AP such as entry, parking, posting of journal entries, vendor invoices, and debit-credit memos recurring and accrual entries.
• Created vendor groups, number ranges, assigned, tolerance groups and document types.
• Configured automatic payment program which included creation of house banks, company code, payment methods, tolerances limits, and check lots.
• Customized G/L accounting, created G/L sample accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, and financial statement versions.
• Implemented and tested FI General Ledger module, configuration of Fixed Assets module, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting modules; Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Internal Orders/Project System
• Tax code configuration verification for Mexico Taxation, Impuesto al Valor Agregado, IVA which is a kind of Value Added Tax (VAT) and varies by location and nature of transaction.
• Configuration of European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) for United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands and France using Calculation Procedures, Condition Types and Process Keys.
• Identifying IT related problems using a variety of materials or sources; gathers and applies technical information to determine accuracy and relevance to moderately complex problems; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives; makes decisions or recommendations that influence IT policies or programs and applies new developments to previously unresolved problems.
• Providing training, support and assistance to functional users; and communicate both verbally and in writing in order to prepare and present briefings, participate in conferences, working groups and planning sessions.
• Involved in detailed discussions on the current business processes, mapping of current business process of one SAP instance to another SAP instance.
• Attended several kick-off, on-boarding sessions to understand the Global roadmap vision, initiatives for transformation of a regionally-focused organization to global enterprise, need to streamline business processes, sponsors, cornerstone decisions, milestones, international operations etc.
• Created functional specifications for interfaces, conversions, and participated in the development of detailed technical specifications.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant

• Performed technical configuration tasks in a support environment which requires ABAP programming knowledge and test the functionality of assigned SAP system(s) module(s) from development phase to production.
• Prepared workshop output documents, a detailed description of business processes, global -local requirements, improvement opportunities, process variants, assumptions, organizational impacts and business changes.
• Served as a technical team lead provided development and production support for a SAP Budget and Finance systems, gather, analyze, model requirements and perform impact analysis studies to proposed changes; manage software development projects throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle.
• Performed technical configuration tasks in a support environment which requires ABAP programming knowledge and test the functionality of assigned SAP system(s) module(s) from development phase to production
• Collaborated directly with the ABAP and BASIS teams to provide quick resolution to a problem.
• Performed technical configuration tasks in a support environment which requires ABAP programming knowledge and test the functionality of assigned SAP system(s) module(s) from development phase to production.
• Performed data cleaning and data load task using LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) including creating data conversion templates, used direct input method, BAPI as well as Bach input recording.
• Conducted analysis sessions with the client personnel to arrive at mapping of data from legacy system to SAP.
• Collaborated closely with RICEF team, created functional specs for data conversion and mapping data fields.
• Developed test scenarios/test cases, resolved issues in unit testing, integration, and system testing.
• Used ASAP methodology for implementation of the project.
• Designed the organization structure, conducted the business process workshops, and implemented the change management that includes handling the user issues and forming a help desk. Formulated account structure to meet business needs, budget control, FM derivation strategies, fund accounting, funds centers, functional areas, commitment items, funded programs, grants, cost center accounting, and year end processes.
• Collaborated closely with RICEF team creating functional specs for data conversion, mapping data fields and helped in developing custom reports.
• Participated in To-Be, Organizational Structure, Architecture/Design, and Prototyping stages of SAP implementation. Fully configured “sandbox client” for the SAP General Ledger.