SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of experience in implementing, configuring, integrating, testing, customizing, and providing user training and support in SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules.
• Involved in two full life cycle implementations, upgrades & production support projects, participated in all phases of ASAP Methodology.
• Configured Classic G/L and New G/L (rule definition), FI - AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, Bank accounting, Treasury, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-I/O and CO-PC in highly Complex Business Environment.
• Sound configuration knowledge of cost element, cost centre, internal order, product costing, profitability analysis and profit center accounting.
• Experience on supporting Day-to-day FI activities along with Month-end and Year-end closing activities.
• Experience working on Change / Ticket Management/tool(AMS Support; Ticket Resolution; Confidential / Major Enhancements)
• Sound knowledge of Order-to-cash (OTC), Make-to-Order (MTO), and Procure-to-Pay (P2P).
• Improved Business Processes, enhanced data flow, and ensured accurate and timely reporting. Reviewed Business Requirement Documents for Enhancements and Projects.
• Created and managed transports, including log analysis and object analysis within the transport.
• Worked on Lockbox Processing, electronic funds transfer and Bank statement processing, EBS Settings, Exchange Rates, Bank reconciliation and Cash journal.
• Worked on CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Designed & mapped IDOCS, created specifications for a custom program, validated interfaces posting into SAP.
• Tested the Revenue Recognition program in all scenarios in SD, FI and COPA and improved the performance of the Revenue Recognition program.
• Supported and managed change request initiation, approval and reporting processes.
• Experience in all phases of project including SIT Testing, script writing, System Integration testing, Supporting UAT Defect resolution.
• Supported business implementations by sharing best practice configuration skills.
• Assisted with responding to user requirements, problem resolution, developed designs, and process modeling.
• Understand configuration dependencies and interrelationships between other functional modules of SAP and provided financial expertise into the definition and resolution of issues and supported production configuration and assisted in functional change requests.
• Assisted in the design of the unit test cases. Analyzed the results to ensure that they meet the business objective, communicated any needed changes, and analyzed the re-test results.
• Well conversant in working on Incident, Problem, Change Management and Release Management processes.
• Handled L2 support in support engagements, flexible in working with onsite and offshore teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, OH

SAP FICO Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Functional Design Documents with process owners and customers and set up an approval and a sign off process.
• Worked on re-designing vendor invoice processing and assisted on EDI data transfers. Checked Worked on re-designing vendor invoice processing and assisted on EDI data transfers. Checked and tested incoming data through I-Docs.
• Analyzed business process potentials for streamlining and improvements in the systems.
• Engaged with users regarding business requirements.
• Monitored recommendations from the implementation partner to ensure proper configuration approach was taken.
• Reviewed test strategy document, ensuring proper testing procedures were being followed. Advised on stage containment etc. software validation principles.
• Business process review, design, configuration, testing, documentation and training in the areas of General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Accounts payable (AP).
• Documented procedures for user training in maintenance of G/L master, various G/L transactions, G/L reporting, month end and year-end activities.
• Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis
• For Accounts Payable (AP), defined and customized vendor master data - vendor groups, vendor group field status, number ranges, and vendor account groups.
• Conducted meetings with the users to understand the AS IS business processes and documented business process charts.
• Moved transports and released assigned task requests in SAP, once related configuration was finished.
• Developed functional specifications to implement user exit for aligning A/R partial payments date with invoice date.
• Worked on OTC process and pay metrics payment software.
• Configured House banks, Bank accounts, EBS, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment, settings for Treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration.

Confidential, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured and re-designed the functionality of FI module relating to AR & AP configuration: Credit management, tolerance limits, open item clearing, account groups, Incoming & Outgoing payments, Automatic Payment Program, field status groups and reason codes.
• Configured settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Tolerance limits for different account postings, Account groups, Screen layouts, Posting Keys and Field Status Groups.
• Established Audit scope through analysis of prior reports and documents and performed audit walkthroughs with key stakeholders and managers.
• Created Account Assignment Models for periodic and recurring entries and worked with users to resolve issues relating to Accruals and Deferrals. Involved in month end closing of all transactions relating to FI and carry forward of balances to next period.
• Maintained default account assignment and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment and indirect activity allocation.
• Proactively interacted with clients to understand their business processes and extended support to management in analyzing monthly reports for profitable financial decisions.
• Worked on configuration and customization of Asset Accounting, configures chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset class, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions and retirement.
• Configured Internal Orders, Status management, Orders settlement and settlement structure.
• Responsible for A/R (Account Receivable) customer transactions, credit management, check printing, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts, clearing and month end and Year-end activities.
• Created & Maintained Customer Master Data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, Dunning, Down Payment, Discount, Over and Under Payment.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Tested the Revenue Recognition program in all scenarios in SD, FI and COPA and improved the performance of the Revenue Recognition program.
• A/R- Improved Your Receivables Management with SAP Collections Management
• A/R - Used Customer Evaluation Reports to Improve Your Accounts Receivable Team’s Efficiency.
• A/R- Monitored credit accounts effectively with credit management.
• Supported and maintained Convergent Invoicing process for service consumption from billing to dispatch of invoice.
• Creation of House Banks, Check Lots, Check Register, Correspondence and void of Checks in A/P and configuration of new void and reversal reason codes for check reversal.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments in A/P.
• Developed functional specifications to implement user exit for aligning A/R partial payments date with invoice date.

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO/Treasury Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured New Payment methods for Treasury implementation and updated Z table for correct file naming convention for XML.
• Maintained payment request settings (F111) for payment proposal in SAP for treasury.
• Configured and updated DMEE tree to get the expected output for XML file.
• Configured House banks, Bank accounts, EBS, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment, settings for Treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration.
• Worked on banking integration with treasury for cash position update.
• Worked on different trade generations like Foreign exchange, derivatives, fixed term deposit and investments.
• Updated existing function modules to bring treasury related information as per the Country specific requirements.

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Production Support in Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) & Asset Accounting (AA) and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to FI, AP & AA.
• Responsible for updating development tracker for Finance, Controlling & Assets, opening & closing of tickets in BME Service Desk Express, Issue Log & Magic Service Desk, categorizing issue logs under Web-trac and improving solution turnover time. Coordinated cross-functional teams throughout the organization to identify and assess system issues influencing multiple departments.
• Interacted and coordinated new projects developments/enhancements with various users and organized Web-Ex meetings for training sessions with users.
• Worked on custom payment types in treasury, Optimized treasury payment process, payment methods with cash discount and maintained configuration for F111 for payment requests.
• Performed unit and integration testing with users, documented approved test scenarios, evaluated User Exits for Inter-company and Export shipments and overall ITSS Finance development/applications/enhancements for new merger.
• Configured the system for Banking configuration &responsible for updating Finance Work plan for new company code.
• Maintained product types for debt, FX, options and swaps along with cash concentration groups and bank configuration.
• Involved in month and year end closing operations for FI, CO and AA; also responsible for opening and closing for MM and FI monthly periods for postings.
• Configured new Asset Classes as per user request, resolved month end and year end issues for Asset Accounting, balance carry forward for FI- AA reconciliation, supplied transactional data from SAP tables for Asset Audit, Period Rules creation in different company codes and resolved Asset Issues.
• Executed configuration changes in company’s SAP current business processes as per changes requested by managers/users to meet business requirements & performing integration & unit testing with users for application change approval;
• Configured & customized Asset Accounting. Configured Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisition and retirement.
• Solved issues related to Automatic payment program; Involved in year-end closing operations for FI, CO and Asset accounting.
• Created new tax jurisdiction codes and input/output tax keys and made changes to current input/output tax keys (tax calculations) as per new regulations.
• Created EDI partner profile and defined EDI Compatible payment methods, Assigned EDI payment method to external payment methods, Defined clearing account for payment requests.
• Worked on Treasury Management (Transaction Manager). Defined cash management account names, account codes, valuation areas, assigned accounting codes to valuation areas and defined account assignment reference determination (OTC Transactions)
• Understanding of accounting functions including country specific requirements
• Ability to work with all levels of client users and explain SAP functionality with a business/functional frame/reference.
• Worked on 1099 activities and updating burden rates for the business.
• Ability to work with the development team to resolve any interface and customs reporting issues.
• Worked on Inbound/Outbound process House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual & Electronic Bank Statement.
• Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes on Accounts Receivable (A/R).

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Lockbox Configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management, Planning levels in Treasury and EDI & Month End Closings.
• Provided support for Configuration, Implementation and Testing of the customer master records and incoming payments, Banking & Intercompany transactions.
• Worked on LSMW for transfer of data migration from Legacy System to SAP system for transactions relating to customer master data, open item transactions, Collections, G/L accounts transfer, vendor master data & vendor open items.
• Worked on Custom Reports (interface program) for extraction of data from SAP to non-SAP systems.
• Maintained and supported FSCM module for biller direct and dispute management.
• Configuration of extended withholding tax and creation of custom report for 1099 vendors.
• Configured document type and document number ranges and set up of how foreign currency gets posted during invoice and goods receipt.
• Define new functional areas and assignment to GL account for reporting requirements.
• Worked with the SD Team for design, configuration and testing of the Sales order processing and its integration with FI (FI-SD)
• Performed GAP Analysis and provided work around solutions
• Resolved issues related to internal order settlement by modifying settlement profiles and settlement rules.
• Created Operating Concern with definition of characteristics and value fields;
• Configured Dummy Profit Center for Statistical postings, Maintained Plan/Versions, Maintained the Master data, defined profit center hierarchy, provided support for Account Determination for internal goods movement and for production variances.
• Maintained number ranges for Settlement and Controlling documents and for variance documents, defined posting rules for settlement to financial accounting with different G/L accounts.
• Configured Accounts payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups.
• Provided the production support for the Revenue Recognition program.
• A/P (Accounts Payable) Payment Program configuration: Company code data, paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices.
• Designed and configured Automatic Write off, Clearing, Late Fee for Accounts Receivable (A/R) including Manual Clearing and Refund Process.
• As a member of the functional team, worked with user groups to create business and process flows and to document "AS IS" processes and performed gap analysis.
• Configured FI-SD integration. Worked closely with MM consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO (goods receipt).
• Created Cost center for different in house design centers, provision for primary & secondary cost elements to facilitate Profitability Analysis and Created Profit Centers for Profit Center Accounting.
• Worked on customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes on Accounts Receivable (A/R).
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification in FI/MM integration and configured account determination and revenue recognition for FI/SD cycles.

Confidential, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Developed functional specifications and worked with technical resources to design Interfaces and data Conversion Programs for information exchange in-between existing SAP legacy systems and SAP.
• Maintained cost center standard hierarchy with cost center groups representing organizational structure of the company, representative cost centers for summarization.
• Worked on multiple RICEF objects including customer master, vendor master and GL master.
• Setup House Bank for Automatic payments and EDI setup for inbound and outbound IDOC’s, BAI2 and ACH processing.
• Setup Lockbox in BAI2 format and configured Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)
• Developed test cases for unit testing, Business Validation testing, security testing, RICEFS testing of interfaces and integration testing based on the process flows for Finance, Controlling, supply Chain management.
• Consulted with client on design, development and maintenance of FI-CO module to meet enterprise and business unit’s expectations and business goals for various projects.
• Defined Lockbox for better liquidity, depositing, crediting of checks, and reducing processing workload. Gathered business requirement, held meetings with super users as well as internal IT resources in the process of Lockbox of implementation.
• Provided Support for Month-end and Year-end Closing Activities.
• Customizing screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels, settings for clearing, for posting in foreign currencies, for exchange rate differences and gains and losses on valuation realization and translation.
• Closing and Reporting - Defined financial statement version for generating B/S and regrouping of Receivables and Payables.
• Integrated automatic posting for FI-MM through OBYC.
• Configured FI-SD integration and revenue accounts determination through VKOA Order to Cash(OTC)
• Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules.
• Maintained Controlling area settings and made hierarchy and other assignments in Cost Element Accounting created Primary and secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, Configured the reconciliation ledgers
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) created the cost centers and maintained the Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities, Statistical Key Figures
• In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. defined the settlement rules and used internal order with AUC /Capital investment projects,
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, and extracted reports.

Confidential, DE

SAP FICO Consultant - Full Life Cycle Implementation

Environment: SAP - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training (Job-Aid) and (Modified design after feedback from users to suit their requirements) GO LIVE.
• Configured Company codes, Chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Tolerance limits, financial statement version, G/L accounts for company codes, business area, functional area, currency type, AR, AP, EDI, Banking, Workflow variant and screen layouts.
• Responsible for configuration & settings of ERS to reduce errors relating to Invoice Verification and to eliminate price & quantity variances.
• Maintained various criteria’s in the Evaluated Receipt Settlement program - Transaction Criteria, Invoice Criteria & Test Mode.
• Provided production support for the issues involved in AP, AR, G/L, Treasury - Liquidity Forecast & Cash Management, Disputes, Collections, Month End Closing, Special G/L & ERS. Reported weekly on support ticket numbers and solution turnover time.
• Configured House bank, Bank determination and set tolerances limits, scheduled Automatic Payment Program for payments to vendors and others, created check lots and online cashed checks. Configured Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Defined Controlling areas within the company, assigned number ranges to controlling area, maintained versions, maintained Budget Profile, Planning Profile and Planning Versions in controlling, created various Cost center and Profit center hierarchies, CO object assignments, Substitution and Validations.
• Configured Primary & Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups and Assigned Number ranges to groups, configured Automatic and Manual cost element creation.
• Configured CCA through creation of Cost Centers, Activity Types, Cost Center Categories, Statistical Key Figures, Assessments & Distributions cycles and Allocations for periodic reposting, Planned and Actual activity price calculations.
• Configured PCA by creating Profit centers, Standard hierarchies, assigned revenue elements, to profit center, planning profile and planning layouts.
• Defined Internal Order for different order types, maintained Settlement profile and Settlement structure. Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders. Defined settlement profile, settlement structure, settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements.
• Defined Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures for calculation of over heads and maintained number range for different operations being performed.
• Configured Operating concern attributes and the COPA Settlement Structure with the settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure—with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on reference and simulation costing and cost estimate.
• Configured production order as a cost object to collect actual costs, plan costs and determine WIP at the end of every period, variance calculation after the order technically completed.
• Assigned value fields to condition types in MM and SD, performed integration of FI/CO with SD, MM & PP, account assignments and used COPA to report profitability by customer, product, and market.
• Identified and resolved issues and communicated FICO status on a regular basis to project team members and management and participated in regular status meetings.

Confidential, MO

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP - ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on configuration changes for up gradation to ECC 5.0 and prepared changes in configuration scripts.
• Configured new G/L updated/defined rules for other ledgers, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, posting periods and G/L master records creation.
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data - Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data - Customer Credit Limits, Terms & Method of payment and Risk Categories.
• Worked in various FI aspects relating to G/L, AR, AP, Collections, Special G/L, ERS issues, EDI, Treasury, Recurring entries, carry forward balances, residual/partial payment settings for vendors & customers, automatic payment program, Down Payments, Reversal of transactions, Exchange Rates and Intercompany transactions.
• Configured House banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment, settings for Treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration.
• Ensured smooth functioning of Quote to Cash and Procure to Pay and resolved issues relating to the same.
• Configured Electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, conversion programs, post processing of bank statements and electronic check deposit.
• Performed Mass Change for different G/L accounts to modify postings with tax and to change payment terms and payment methods for vendors and customers.
• Configured Lock Box using BAI2 format for incoming payments
• Worked on creation of Project Definition, Network Activities, Work Centers and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and responsible for testing of Budgeting for WBS in PS.
• Confirmed the naming convention for the project and WBS element to ensure that these are identified readily by their respective functions and departments.
• Worked on Milestone Billing and cash management to enhance profitability and performed configuration of Project Cost Planning and assigned Planning Profile to Project Profile.
• Delivered potential solutions as per the Change Requests and performed testing on overall budgeting of WBS.
• Maintained authorization check on budget entries, created commitment hierarchy, funds center hierarchy, maintained master data and time dependency in account assignment.
• Designed and mapped asset accounting to funds management using commitment items to identify the consumption (statistical and real) of the budget during an asset life cycle.
• Defined number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers in Asset Accounting (A/A).
• Involved in budget structures, budgets updates and roll up of budget values to prevent budget overrun issues.
• Helped in configuring necessary changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts including modification of COPA user exits, and creation of new field status groups.
• Worked with senior managers of the company to configure Security Profiles for different end users to assign system access.

Confidential, PA

SAP FICO Consultant - Full Life Cycle Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis (Workshops), GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training and GO LIVE.
• Configured settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Tolerance limits for different account postings, Account groups, Screen layouts, Document Number Ranges, Posting Keys and Field Status Groups.
• Configured Controlling area for the company and set currency for controlling area same as company code.
• Created customer/vendor master data, edited field status for master records, payment terms, payment methods, arrangements for residual/partial payments, risk categories, different number ranges for domestic/global/one time customers/vendors, credit memo’s, down payments and set credit & tolerance limits for customers & vendors.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Customized General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables and Accounts payable.
• Created primary and secondary cost centers, cost element groups, cost element attributes, costing sheet, costing variant, date control and valuation variant.
• Created profit center hierarchy, cost center hierarchy, multiple profit and cost centers, dummy profit center, maintained distribution & assessment cycles and defined statistical key figures and activity types.
• Configured costing based CO-PA; maintained Operating concern with characteristics and field values and defined versions.
• Performed Integration testing of FI with other modules; SD/MM & PP and extended support for account determination. Worked with end users and explained them the overall business workflow for integration (MIGO, MIRO & LIV).
• Coordinated cross-functional teams throughout the organization to identify and assess system issue influencing multiple departments. Prepared End User Training & Documentation material.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6

Responsibilities:

• Configured settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Tolerance limits for different account postings, Account groups, Screen layouts, Posting Keys and Field Status Groups.
• Configured and customized Account groups, posting keys, Document number ranges and document types, Open and closed posting periods and maintained Field status groups.
• Responsible for A/R (Account Receivable) customer transactions : Credit management, tolerance limits, open item clearing, account groups, Incoming & Outgoing payments, Automatic Payment Program, field status groups and reason codes.
• Established Lock Box settings in collaboration with Punjab National Bank to manage cash inflows and work on Dunning processing for faulty customers.
• Established Audit scope through analysis of prior reports and documents and performed audit walkthrough with key stakeholders and managers.
• Created Account Assignment Models for periodic and recurring entries and worked with users to resolve issues relating to Accruals and Deferrals. Involved in month end closing of all transactions relating to FI and carry forward of balances to next period.
• Maintained default account assignment and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment and indirect activity allocation.
• Proactively interacted with clients to understand their business processes and extended support to management in analyzing monthly reports for profitable financial decisions.
• Worked on configuration and customization of Asset Accounting, configures chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset class, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions and retirement.
• Configured Internal Orders, Status management, Orders settlement and settlement structure.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.