SUMMARY:

• SAP FI/CO consultant, about 7 years of strong functional experience in SAP FI/CO with expertise in GL, New GL, AR/ AP and AA. 
• Actively participated in 3 full lifecycle implementation.
• Designing, Business Process Re - engineering, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Go-Live & Supporting with2Full Life Cycle Implementations.
• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Bank Accounting FI-BA& Asset Accounting FI-AA especially in highly Complex Business Environment. 
• Conversions, Enhancements, Interfaces and Forms in the areas of General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting. 
• Achievement-oriented Finance Professional with more than 10 years of progressive experience in Financial Statement Preparation, Financial Analysis, Costing, Management, Accounting & Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting, Cash Flow, and Gain-Loss. 
• Strong Implementation experience in FI includes General Ledger (FI-GL), New GL Preparation & Configuration Enterprise Structure and Chart of Accounts, Vertex, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Tolerance Groups and Document Postings, Parallel Currencies and Dual Currency, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Credit Management, Dunning and third party tax procedure. 
• Expertise in Bank Accounting configuration and Created Bank Master Data, House Banks, Foreign currency, Bank Accounts GL accounts for bank accounts and creation of reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and Assets. 
• Strong understanding and experience of ASAP methodology and its implementation phases - Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support. 
• Integration of Material ledger (MM) and SD with FICO. 
• Strong Implementation experience in Controlling CO includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders Accounting (CO-IOA) Product Costing Accounting (CO-PC) and CO-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). 
• Created and define Primary and Secondary Cost Element with Internal Order, Distribution and Assessment. 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP System: ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.6C/4.7 

Database: SQL, Access, Excel, 

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows … XP/ Vista/7. UNIX, LINUX 

Applications: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project and MS Visio 

Others: Quality Center, Test Directory

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York Life, NY

SAP-FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied and documented business process, user requirements, customized SAP standard solutions to fit client needs and functionality. 
• Analyze and redefine Requirements Document as part of defined projects and initiatives.
• Configured and customized Enterprise Structure and New GL Setup, performed company code configuration, whereby assigned codes to different business areas. 
• Configured the settings such as creating General ledger master data, inter-company transactions, and open item clearing. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings. Established Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant, Field Status Variant, Field Status Groups, Document Number Range, Posting Period Variants, GL postings. 
• In Accounts Payable involved in customization and configuration of the Vendor Master Records including Vendor groups, Screen layouts, Number ranges and assigning authorizations for users. 
• Activate New GL with US GAAP as leading and IFRS for Parallel ledger. 
• Co-ordinate onshore-offshore, ABAP developers, Web Dynpro business application developers and interfacing. 
• In Accounts Receivable involved in customization and configuration of Customer Master Records including Customer groups, Screen layouts, Number ranges, Credit Management and actual postings. 
• In Bank Accounting configured and created House Banks and Banks, ranking order of Bank Accounts. 
• Experience in Asset Accounting configuration: Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset class, asset master creation, Number Ranges, Screen Layout Rules, Account determination, Integration with General ledger, settlement of AUC, Post Capitalization and Depreciation Calculations. 
• Maintaining Controlling Area, Assignments and Versions including Operating Concern Definition. 
• Provide User Support with problems and issues related to the GL, posting of documents, AP and AR issues related to Vendors and Customers. In addition provided user training on processes, provided assistance in developing user documents, in CO-PCA, &CO-CCA. 
• Configuration of output tax, input tax & withholding (WHT) tax requirements in accordance with local and US tax laws. 
• Manage Material ledger for stationary and Staples inventory 
• Configuring and customizing the Cost Centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Activity types, Statistical Key figures, Master Data groups, Validations, Assessments, Distributions and Reposting, Allocation cycles and Segments. 
• Responsible for FI-MM-SD integration: configured Valuation Class, Movement Type and Automatic account Determination. 
• Engaged in foreign currency valuation. 
• Provided day-to-day technical support and production support.

Skill Set: SAP ECC 6.0, Role Mapping, SOD Cleanups, Security Weaver, Unit Testing, UAT, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, Product Costing and LSMW 

Confidential, New York, NY

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities: 

• Involved in Role Mapping and Role Redesign process for Users to assess IS Policies & Processes to ensure client is compliant to the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 
• Reviewed existing IS policies, processes and governance to identify gaps and remediate them to achieve compliance 
• Remediation areas included SAP SOD violations clean-up and SAP Role Re- Design with enhancement to Change Management Processes and to User Access Management Processes 
• Performed Unit Testing and Integration testing of Roles containing different transactions based on different business and SAP processes 
• Involved in Role Mapping of users based on their execution history and team designations 
• Performed SOD checks and cleanups in Quality Assurance environment for each user access using Security Weaver 
• Identified SOD violations and gaps and coordinated with Business leads and managers to remediate/mitigate risk
• Calculated new SKUs in SAP for each plant and uploaded them in SAP as part of Product Costing 
• Worked on Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality, also created LSMW recordings for different transactions 
• Performed Account Payable activities by defining Automatic Payment Program (APP) parameters and bank interfaces (IDOCs and EBS) 
• Prepared informative End User Manuals and provided end user training to process owners in GL, AR, AP as well as Core Team members
• Provided Post Go-Live production support to remediate missing user access and debug authorization errors 
• Bug/Issue reporting and tracking using Test management tools 
• Involved in testing various z transactions and reports as well as testing FI-AP payment run program, FI-AR and Billing document creation.

Skill Set: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP-BI/BO, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BL, FI-FM, CO-CEA, CO-CCA

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Business blueprints including functional specifications and configuration documents and post go-live support 
• Responsible for conducting workshops with business users, designing, configuring, testing and providing post implementation support 
• Responsible for configuration of G/L Account Groups as well as creating and assigning number ranges to G/L Accounts and Document Types 
• Managed revenue and expenditure budgets using the FM module 
• Worked on BL to manage Bank master data and processing of incoming and outgoing payments
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) performed corrections by reposting line items, also checked the results of reposting for particular cost centers in the current periods through Actual/Plan/Variance reports, and by displaying actual line items for the cost centers in report rows for the cost elements
• Configured Account assignment categories and requirements classes' in product cost planning
• Worked on Procure to Pay and Order to Cash processes
• Configured Posting Period Variants, Field Status Groups, Field Status Variants as well as Posting Keys based on client requirements for different G/L Account transaction
• Provided support for all issues regarding Electronic Bank Statements processing in Multicash as well as SWIFT MT940 format
• Developed a GRC implementation strategy and plan for entire suite
• Worked with LSMW and eCATT's, created scripts for mass vendor, customer master upload, cost center upload, asset master upload
• Worked on Customer and Vendor Down payments as well as Advance Payments 
• Worked on Void Reason Codes for checks, reversed Payment Documents related to the checks and re-processed transactions 
• Generated test scripts and test scenarios
• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing and System Integration Testing
• Generated reports using Report Writer and Report Printer during data migration processes.

Skill Set: SAP ECC 6.0, Role Mapping, SOD Cleanups, Security Weaver, Unit Testing, UAT, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, Product Costing and LSMW 

Confidential, Hershey, PA

Associate FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business partners and end users to identify the business requirements, determined the impact to various business areas and documented the findings
• Prepared business requirement document, functional requirement document, project scoping document, work flow diagrams and business process flow diagrams 
• Assisted in End-to-End Retail Solution which include SAP's integration services and solutions for retail merchandise management and workforce deployment 
• Built the program for reconciliation of Retail business and wholesale business
• Worked extensively on Check Management issues; created check lots, voided checks for payment blockage, lengthening check numbers, reprinted and reissued voided checks etc. 
• Involved in Month End Closing and Year End Closing activities such as Foreign Currency Revaluation, Recurring Entries, Balance Interest Calculation, Automatic Clearing GR/IR Accounts etc. 
• Created tax code, jurisdiction code, tax calculation procedure in sales and purchase, confirmed the output and tax report for sales and purchase 
• Tested and verified FI period end closing procedures, automatic account assignment of FI with CO and MM, automatic payment program for incoming/outgoing invoices and validated FI master data
• Prepared risk assessment report based on technology, technical issue, development environment, experience staff, available tools and prepared feasibility study report 
• Assisted in developing functional, conceptual and logical design specification documents, worked in creating test plan, used cases and test cases, documented the bugs and bug fixes 
• Worked with project management to establish deadline of each test phase and for the completion of project deliverables, tested various test cases to ensure the quality of product and cover business requirements.

Skill Set: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP-BI/BO, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BL, FI-FM, CO-CEA, CO-CCA