SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience as an SAP FI - CO Functional Consultant in implementing, customizing, configuring, supporting and testing of FI-GL, AR, AP, AA, NEW GL and in CO- CCA, PCA AND COPA and in MM and SD integration.
• Worked in 3 Full cycle implementations using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology with experience in all project phases - Business blueprint, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support and post live production support, with documentation.
• Working knowledge in Open Text workflow and ICC.
• Proficient in all aspects of Project Systems including Planning, Budgeting and Cost allocation.
• Worked on project Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 6.0 to ECC 7.0.
• Involved in SAP 6.0 implementation of Global Rollout for Canada and Australia.
• Hands on experience using HP Quality Center (HPQC-11.00)and TAO.
• Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), New G/L, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting (BA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Special Purpose Ledger and Treasury.
• Project Systems: Definition of the project and project hierarchy with WBS elements, settlement of the project based on the settlement rule, closing of the project as required and not required functionality; commitments; project planning, data conversion testing, user exits and validation for a combination of cost centers and WBS elements on the FI side and on the CO side for Purchase requisition entries.
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Lockbox configuration, Positive Pay, W2, Revenue Recognition, Bank Accounting & ElectronicBank Statement (EBS).
• Highly experienced in the Integration of FIwith SD (Order to Cash)and FI with MM (Procure to pay).
• Experience in SAP FSCM Credit management, Collection & Dispute Management.
• Proficient in creating WRICEF functional documents for Financials and Controlling modules.
• Experienced in working with Taxation, VAT, withhold tax, Sales tax and 1099 reporting.
• Experience in working with BDC, LSMW and eCATTs to migrate data from Legacy system to SAP.
• Experience working with, IDOCS, User-Exits, Foreign Currency Translation,substitutions & validations, BAPI, BADI, ALE, SQVI.
• Working knowledge of SAP BDW, BO modules and reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer.
• Extensive experience in data transfers from CCA, EC-PCA, and Internal Orders for Profitability Analysis, Planning and Budgeting.
• Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Consolidation.
• Worked closely with business users and offshore ABAP developers to deliver cost-effective application systems to meet business needs.
• Experience in developing documentation for Test Plans and Test Casesbased on the DesignDocument and User Requirement Document.
• Conducted training sessions and provided end user training.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and experience in working with business users as well as seniormanagement.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FICO, Open Text, Solution Manager, Validation, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Advances, Intercompany, eCATTS, LSMW, ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM & FI-SD Integration, FSCM, Global Rollout

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business processes using an ASAP implementation methodology, collected and analyzed users' business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for the development; configured, troubleshoot and supported the system users.
• Created functional specifications and worked together with the technical team and ABAP developers to develop and modify RICEFW objects.
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices and payments, document entry, GL postings and recurring entry programs.
• Prepared Test Conditions, test cases and scripted in Quality Center for Project systems, COPA, AP, AR.
• Worked with users to analyze problems, and proposed, developed, tested and Implemented SAP Solutions using standard configuration as well as working with ABAP programmers.
• Configured company code which includes configuring the chart of accounts, posting period variant, fiscal year variant, retained earnings account, document types, tolerance groups and financial statement versions.
• Worked on SAP open text (VIM) workflow and invoice capturing center.
• Configured FI/AR/AP number ranges, incoming payments, Invoices in foreign currency and clearing, reconciliation accounts, overall receivables management and terms of payment.
• Responsible formonth end and year end activities.
• Responsible for configuring thecustom Dunning program, correspondences and Account Statement process, defined the layout and the functional specifications for creating dunning letters which will have the ability to be both mailed and emailed.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification in FI/MM integration and configured account determination for different material movements and valuation classes in FI/SD cycles. Eliminated duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings in cross-company sales orders and ensured that SD billing invoices were posted in FI.
• Extensive knowledge in Blueprinting and Enhancing Product Costing features for US SAP implementation in R2R team and blueprinting of Cost Center Accounting.
• Maintained Copy control rule to ensure proper flow of data and information in sales and billing document types.
• Configured components related to Sales Orders: Sales document types, Item categories, Schedule Line Categories, Document flow, Copying controls, Contracts and scheduling agreements, Incompletion logs.
• Worked on different costing scenarios like Sales orders with processing, Sales orders without processing, Back to Back orders, consignment issue, consignment fills up, subcontracting, Intra company STO.
• Used Solution Manager 7.1 extensively as a part of enhancemnets, support and customization.
• Worked on upgradationand testing of 7.1 EHP from ECC 6.0.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms.
• Actively took part in 'cut over planning' while moving configuration into production environment.
• Created ABAP queries to map data tables.
• Worked on preparing user documentation for the new business processes, user training and support to business users.

Confidential, Chesterbrook, PA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Full Life Cycle implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FICO, Validation, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Advances, Intercompany, eCATTS, LSMW, ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM & FI-SD Integration, FSCM, Global Rollout

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business processes using an ASAP implementation methodology, collected and analyzed users' business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for the development; configured, troubleshoot and supported the system users.
• Record to report design and life cycle including AP, AR, CCA, PCA, PC, PS and AA.
• Global Roll out with template design: Defined templates containing scenarios, Blueprint documents and Configuration. Set the Global Rollout Functionality. Assign values in the structure element Global Attribute column. Assign transactions and general documentation. Assign Business Configuration Sets. Global roll out was done to Australia and Canada.
• Configured company code which includes configuring the chart of accounts, posting period variant, fiscal year variant, retained earnings account, document types, tolerance groups and financial statement versions.
• Configured FI/AR/AP number ranges, incoming payments, Invoices in foreign currency and clearing, reconciliation accounts, overall receivables management and terms of payment.
• Responsible for AR customer transactions,Master data,credit management, check printing, payment terms, cash applications, Lockbox processing, cash receipts, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with SAP Lockbox format, Customizing payment advice notes on AR, Clearing, month end and year end activities. Defined accounts for Realized/Unrealized loss/gain due to foreign currency valuation.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for different payment methods like ACH, Wire and Check in AP.Worked on revenue recognition and implemented crediting differed revenues while billing with sales order.
• Defined numbers ranges for claim notifications, configures screen templates, maintained catalogs, defined report structures, partner structures and start & finish project dates. Analyzed integration points of Project Systems (PS) with other modules and make recommendation to improve Former Engagements.
• Worked on Budgeting, Planning, Appropriation request, IM structure in IM and Budgeting and availability control for capital, customer and marketing project in PS.
• Integrate the In-House Cash (FSCM) with Accounts Payable and Treasury Cash Management.
• Responsible for configuring the Dunning program, Interest Calculation on Open Items, Correspondences and Account Statement process, defined the layout and the functional specifications for creating dunning letters which will have the ability to be both mailed and emailed.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification in FI/MM integration and configured account determination for different material movements and valuation classes in FI/SD cycles. Eliminated duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings in cross-company sales orders and ensured that SD billing invoices were posted in FI.
• ConfiguredAsset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, Defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.
• Extensive knowledge in Blueprinting and Enhancing Product Costing features for US SAP implementation in R2R team and blueprinting of Cost Center Accounting.
• Carried out all the baseline configurations in the CO area like maintaining settings for controlling areas, activating the component/indicators and assigning the company codes and number ranges to controlling areas. Configured different order types, their screen layout and status management, according to the business requirement.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA), configured standard hierarchy, cost centers, primary cost elements, secondary cost elements, order types, settlement structures and distribution cycles in controlling.
• Worked on different costing scenarios like Sales orders with processing, Sales orders without processing, Back to Back orders, consignment issue, consignment fills up, subcontracting, Intra company STO.
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in CO-PA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Made changes to reconcile PCA to CO-PA for P&L accounts which also include modification of CO-PA user exits and creation of new field status groups.
• Configured Valuation and Account Assignment including grouping of Valuation Areas, definition of Valuation Control, definition of Valuation Classes, Account groupings and Automatic G/L Account Assignment.
• Involved in design, configuration, & process re-engineering for Standard Cost Estimates in Product Costing. It has been configured for ‘Product Cost by Order’ and ‘Product Cost by Sales Order.
• Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its settlements.
• Configured the automatic write-off process, which included implementing the BADI for getting cost center to the correct reason code.
• IDoc extensions were created and implemented in order to handle the exchange of customer-required data that was not available in the SAP delivered IDocs.
• Set up workflow organizational model. Workflow was used to handle errors encountered when processing the IDocs.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms.
• Actively took part in 'cut over planning' while moving configuration into production environment.
• Created LSMW to migrate GL postings, asset master data, vendor master, customer master etc. onto the new company code.
• Created ABAP queries to map data tables.
• Worked on preparing user documentation for the new business processes, user training and support to business users.

Confidential, TX

Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, GL, AP, AR, SOX, PCA (Profit Center Accounting), CCA (Cost Center Accounting), OTC, P2P, AA (Asset Accounting), ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM & FI-SD Integration, Rollout

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.
• Designed the document for the new Rollouts and implemented them in the system which included creation of new company codes and the configuration related. Also mapped the GL accounts for the MM and SD postings.
• Worked on the functional specification document to change the appropriation request workflow and made it right.
• Worked on issues related to IM planning & budgeting, projects structures, project planning& budgeting, period end closing and PS& IM roll over.
• Independently worked on configuring FI sub-areas including GL, AP, AR, New GL and Cost Center, Internal Order and Profit Center in CO area.
• Integrated FI module with other modules such as SD, MM, PP, PS and Logistic, well versed with overall business process like Order to Cash, Make to Order & Procure to Pay. Provided support for account determination (transaction key) and worked on ERS (Evaluated receipt settlement), EBS & EDI.
• In New General Ledger, maintained New GL configuration to create leading and non leading ledger for different reporting purpose, defined currency for leading ledger, defined segment, Document Splitting, Account Assignment types for objects, defined and assigned Accounting Principles to ledger group, maintained Chart of Account, created GL accounts, Field Status Group, maintained Financial Statement Version, Manual and Automatic clearing, Recurring Postings, Intercompany reconciliation, Maintained Posting Period Variant and integration with Asset Accounting.
• Created Interest calculation and foreign currency postings.
• Configured house bank, bank determination and sets tolerance according to the company’s tolerance limit, for smooth functioning of Automatic Payment Program (APP).
• Configured Manual and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) and worked on EDI/IDOC for processing invoices.
• Worked to improve the efficiency in the complete end to end financial process of R2R from general accounting to closing.
• Customized screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation area and definined transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements.
• Configured Controlling areas, Cost Center and profit center hierarchies and CO object assignments, Substitution and Validations. Defined, settlement profile, settlement structure and cost elements for internal order settlements.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured operating concern for costing based Profitability analysis, maintained CO version, defined characteristics, value fields and attributes, Assignment of relevant value fields to SD condition types for online transfer of billing document data to CO-PA, configured the derivation structure and rule for characteristics and created reports as per client requirements.
• Worked on Material Ledger configuration like Assign currency types to material ledger type, Assign a material ledger type to valuation area, maintain number ranges for material ledger documents, Assign material Update structure to valuation Area, Configured Dynamic Price Changes, Defined and assigned movement type groups of material ledger, Activate Actual cost, Actual cost component split.
• Successfully implemented product cost estimate information transfer from CO-PC into CO-PA, through cost component values which facilitated the import of detailed cost-of-sales information into CO-PA for flexible margin reporting.
• Implemented transfer of overhead costs from Cost center accounting on a periodic basis and transfer of activities indirectly into profitability analysis segment also designed the PA transfer structure to control the secondary cost elements.
• Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to CO-PA.
• Documented the changes and Conducted user training on the new functionality in the configuration of financial accounting including GL, AR, AP, Banking and controlling modules.
• Helped end users in the month end closing operations involving overhead calculation, variance calculation, Result Analysis settlements and activity price calculations.
• Developed all the Month End over/Under absorption allocation cycles to CO-PA.
• Created planning layouts for cost element planning and statistical key figure planning.
• Configured Key Figure Schema for CO-PA reports.
• Integration Testing - Complete business cycles across sub-modules were tested, in conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives from the client side.
• Generate and monitor Daily ticket report from Remedy and assign new tickets to relevant groups.
• Provided Production Support for all the issues involved in AP.
• Provided end user training and documentation.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAPR/3 4.6C & SAP ECC 6.0, New G/L, SOX, OTC, P2P, BA, AA (Asset Accounting), Credit Memos, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Intercompany, eCATTs, LSMW, ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM& FI-SD Integration

Responsibilities:

• Created functional specifications and worked together with the technical team and ABAP developers to develop and modify RICEFW objects.
• Responsible for the cutover of FI - GL, AP, AR open items from SAP R/3 4.6C to SAP ECC 6.0 systems.
• Responsible for all issues related to SD, MM integration impacting FI/CO.
• Responsible for writing functional specifications and unit-testing all of the above mentioned cutover activities.
• Prepared Legacy Asset Data Transfer for Asset accounting cutover.
• Created new reports for the validation of SAP R/3 4.6C and SAP ECC 6.0 Asset data.
• Checked for inconsistencies related to G/L, A/P, A/R modules in financial accounting and CCA, CEA, PCA in controlling modules.
• Worked on New GL, configured the ledgers, set up integration with Controlling, and made the general setting for the fiscal year, the posting periods and the currencies.
• Followed the Active Split process for the document splitting, defined the splitting rules, business transaction and item category.
• Set up parallel accounting by creating additional accounts in New GL, one joint account area for posting that are the same for both accounting principles and one area with specific accounts for each accounting principle.
• Maintained the GL account master data and Profit Center master data for the New GL.
• Configured identical settings for updating segments and profit centers as well as the relevant partner information in the ledgers of the New G/L.
• Configured additional Reconciliation account based on the client requirements.
• Made necessary settings for the Special Purpose Ledgers.
• Modified the existing functional specifications for any field changes, new fields and enhancing the customer objects to make them compatible with the new version.
• Worked on PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process.
• Worked on inter-company clearing and recurring entries.
• Configured automatic posting for reconciliation ledger, real & statistical postings.
• Configured and customized Cost center standard hierarchy, defined cost elements, and configured settings for assessments, distributions, reporting.
• Participated in knowledge transfer to the client team members in new system functionality and performed the integration of FI and CO with SD, MM.
• Documented all changes, revised the business process procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Support and Regression testing of New GL, AP, AR, AA, FSCM Collections Management and FSCM Credit Management modules.
• Tested in all modules of FICO with the new functionalities and resolved the issues during integration testing.
• Performed Go-Live Support to ensure a stable SAP ECC 6.0 system.

Confidential, Oregon, Ohio

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, New G/L, SOX, OTC, P2P, BA, AA (Asset Accounting), Credit Memos, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Intercompany, eCATT, LSMW,, ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM& FI-SD Integration

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers.
• Performed GAP analysis, actively participated in the blueprint phase using ASAP methodology.
• As a team leader oversaw the change request process along with facilitating weekly meeting with business and technology team to assist in timely and quality project completion.
• Worked on FI-MM integration using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO (Goods receipt) as well as Integration with FI-PS.
• Created reconciliation accounts for AP and AR and configured AP including vendor account groups, number ranges and tolerance groups.
• Eliminated duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings in Cross-Company Sales Orders and ensured that SD Billing Document Invoices were posted in FI.
• Uploaded AP master data and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for AP for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.
• Tested and performed web-demos of GL transactions for fast-entry screens, splitting, posting, parking and reversals.
• Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules with FI and CO modules.
• Worked on Dispute Management functionality including creating dispute cases, forwarding of disputes and clearing disputes.
• Configured Bank Accounting (BA) including defining House Banks, Lockbox for House Banks, Bank Chains and also configured Lockbox.
• Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.
• Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.
• Defined the Splitting Characteristics for the GL (passive split, rule-based and zero balance formation by document).
• Improved company Lockbox performance with User Exit, a reformat program and customized reports. Activated NEW GL, Lending Ledger and Parallel Ledger for the possibility of Parallel Accounting according to the US GAAP.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy using CATTS, Alternative Hierarchy, Primary and Secondary cost elements.
• Configured CO-IO (Internal Orders) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules and Settlement Profile.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements in CO and worked on Month end/Year end closing procedures.
• Created customized reports using report painter/report writer.
• 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.

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C & SAP ECC 6.0, New G/L, SOX, OTC, P2P, BA, AA (Asset Accounting), Credit Memos, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, IntercompanyABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM & FI-SD Integration

Responsibilities:

• Documented all changes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Involved in the configuration of Special GL indicators.
• Configured the NEW GL and the current ledgers being set as leading ledgers and update rules for the other ledgers based on the report requirements.
• Production support to users involving Budget & Finance issues. This involved Funds Management, Grants Management, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, General Ledger, Project Systems, Special Purpose Ledger and Asset Accounting.
• Developed and documented requirements for proposed SAP modules such as Budget Development, Funds Management (FM), and Grants Management (GM).
• Developed and configured the Electronic bank statement, Cash management and Lock box procedure in TR-CM module. Configured areas of AP and for banking - house banks, automatic payment program etc.
• Thorough working knowledge in Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Fine-tuning interfaces with FI GL, AP, and AR including validation / substitution rules.
• Configured operating concern and maintained CO versions, defined characteristics, value fields and attributes.
• Involved in resolving of issues during the post implementation support.
• Done Testing for Service Pack Up gradation.
• Maintained Master Data and structures for Cost Center Accounting
• Worked with users to analyze problems, and proposed, developed, tested and Implemented SAP Solutions using standard configuration as well as working with ABAP programmers.
• Trained the users of new functionality being added with version change during the upgrade.
• Configured Multi Currencies for foreign Subsidiaries as U.S Dollars along with local Currency.
• Configured Reconciliation Clearing Account Creation for posting in reconciliation ledger.
• Responsible for issue identification and gap definition in regards to SAP functionality for all Finance related processes as well as cross-functional points in the areas of Sales and Distribution and materials Management.
• Created Payment programs in Accounts Payables including Creation of House Banks.
• Created various Payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
• Prepared Test Conditions, test cases and scripted in Quality Center for Project systems, COPA, AP, AR.
• Involved in the Development of test scenarios/ test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing. Provided End User Training, Courseware and Documentation in FI/CO Modules.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0, New G/L, SOX, OTC, P2P, BA, AA (Asset Accounting), Credit Memos, Taxes, Foreign Currency Valuation, Dunning, Intercompany,ABAP, SAP BW, Data Migration, FI-MM & FI-SD Integration, Testing

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for issue identification and gap definition in regards to SAP functionality for all Finance related processes as well as cross-functional points in the areas of Sales and Distribution and materials Management.
• Created Payment programs in Accounts Payables including Creation of House Banks.
• Created various Payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
• Prepared Test Conditions, test cases and scripted in Quality Center for Project systems, COPA, AP, AR.
• Tested GL scenarios: GL master data maintenance, all GL transactions, Month end closing and year-end closing activities and GL reports.
• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices and payments, document entry, GL postings and recurring entry programs.
• Tested AP Scenarios: Vendor master data maintenance, vendor invoice, credit memo posting, parking and posting parked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification, price variance, and Accounts Payable (FI-AP) reports.
• Tested AR Scenarios: Customer master maintenance, tolerances, over-under payments, cash discounts, Incoming payment (full payment/partial payment/residual payment), dunning procedures, and Age-Wise Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) reports.
• Tested AM Scenarios: Asset Master Creation, chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers without revenue, retirement with sale and disposal of asset.
• Involved in the Development of test scenarios/ test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing. Provided End User Training, Courseware and Documentation in FI/CO Modules.

Confidential . Elmhurst, NY

Accounts/Office Manager

• Plan, organize, direct and control the operations of finance, transportation and purchase and sales.
• Develop and implement the financial policies, systems and procedures of the company.
• Prepare and co-ordinate the preparation of financial statements, estimates, summaries and other financial analysis and management reports.
• Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting procedures and investment activities and make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets and other financial control functions to the management.
• Introduced work processes that improved efficiency in activities and work productivity.
• Prepare monthly statements and assist the accounting firm to make yearly financial statements.
• Maintain payroll and stock.