SUMMARY:

• 11 years of total experience in Finance and IT with 7 years of functional experience, Configuration, Integration Lead, Testing, Upgrade and Cutover Planning implementing SAP R/3 and SAP ECC 6.0 for Fortune 500 clients
• 3 full life cycle experience with in - depth understanding of SAP implementation right from the concept stage (RFP) to go-live and support activity
• Configured and customized chart of accounts, GL accounts, accounting groups creation with different field status, defined posting keys for GL account posting, open item clearing, and adjustment accounts for GR/IR clearing, created financial statement version and drill down reports
• Configured vendor groups in account payable (FI-AP), vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor accounts groups. Configured automatic payment for outgoing payments to vendors
• Configured & customized customer master data in account receivables (FI-AR), integrated automatic account assignment for billing process in SD, defined reason codes for over/ underpayments. Defined payment terms for customer accounts as per client requirement and configured bank details for incoming payments
• SAP-FA/AM/AA Specific experience includes Designing the complete Fixed Asset / Asset Accounting / Asset Management, identification of business needs, configuration, Country specific treatment of Depreciation, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Fixed Asset classes,, Lease accounting, Reporting, month/year end closing processes,
• Configuration of Operating and Capital lease functionality
• Configured settings in profit center accounting (CO-PCA), configured profit center planning.
• Configured internal orders (CO-IO) for comparing budgets with actual planed and actual costs.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Hands-on experience customizing FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management) implementations, including Biller Direct, Credit & Risk management, Dispute management, and Collection management
• Financial Accounting (FI) General Ledger (GL), New General ledger (New-GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Accounting (BA), Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), Funds and Grant Management (FM &GM)
• Solid knowledge about Procure-To-Pay and Order-To-Cash processes and integration points amongst different modules involved
• Integration of FI with SD, and FI with MM

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Process: SAP FI, Workflow, EDI, EBS, Foreign Currency, User Training and Production Support in SAP R/3 Versions 4.7, SAPECC 5.0 & 6.0.

SOFTWARE: SAP, Windows XP, 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

• To gather and interpret user/system requirements so as to prepare "As-is document" and "Business Blue Print" for baseline configuration of GL, AR, AP, BA and AA .
• Configure Company Codes and Chart of Account and with different currency and fiscal year variants.
• Configure and Customize the Chart of accounts, Account Groups, G/L account master records, G/L display configurations, Document splitting, Segments and Parallel Accounting, Financial Statement versions, Recurring items.
• To migrate Master Data (GL, Vendor, Customer & Asset) and Transaction data from legacy into SAP using LSMW.
• Configure Payment term, Dunning Program, Interest calculation & posting
• Configure Automatic Payment Programs, Down Payments, Sensitive fields, Clearing Open Items
• Customize bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account, Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statement( EBS)
• Testing of full order to cash and procure to pay process .
• Complete Configuration for Assets Accounting module up to depreciation run & posting.
• Account Assignment & Account determination for integrating MM and SD module with FI.
• Major Configuration points included configuration of Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement., transfer and other business transactions, Property tax, Lease accounting, Configuration of Book and Tax depreciation related Dep .
• Configure settings for Controlling Area and maintaining Versions.
• Create Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, maintain Cost Element Attributes.
• Create cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center categories, document numbers.
• Configure settings for Cost center and Profit Center hierarchy, Actual Postings, Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment, and Information System
• Configure settings for Internal Orders - Order master data - Order types, Settlement, Settlement profile.
• Create custom Reports on AR, AP and AA by giving functional specifications to the ABAP team for development.
• Prepared all levels of test scripts and responsible for unit testing, module testing and providing support to UAT.
• Prepared the Business Blueprints, BPML, Business process procedure, configuration document, test scripts.
• Provide end user Training and draft user manual

Confidential

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

• Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project, Involved in test phases i.e. unit testing, integration testing. Provided user training in the modules of FI and CO.
• Worked on Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, end-user training, cutover and go-live phases.
• Performed FICO requirement gathering and Feasibility Study.
• Worked on cut-over and go-live phase and provided post live support, coordinating and solving issues with QA and production.
• Configuration of Copy Commitment Items, Fund Center Hierarchy, Fund Types, Create Fund Program Type, Budget Structure, Derivation Strategy, and Funds Management Specific Posting
• Configuration of Grant Ledgers, Sponsor, Sponsor Class, Sponsor Program, Grant Number Ranges, Grant Types, Integration Between FM and GM, and Availability Control
• Worked on writing the functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Worked in AP/AR (F110, LIV, Vendor master setup, Payment method set up, Check printing). Worked in Treasury (EBS, Lockbox, Dunning etc.).
• Worked on SD-FI integration and MM-FI integration for Account Determination in FI.
• Worked on integration testing and UAT ( User acceptance testing ), SIT with different modules and users to get sign-off.
• Created test scripts, test plans and RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix).
• Worked under Onsite-offshore model for month end closing support.

Confidential, Woodbridge New Jersey

SAP FICO Consultant

• Defined and Assigned Document Number Ranges.
• Defined Account Groups and Tolerance Groups for Vendors and Customers and Documents types.
• Interacted with Client to Create and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data, Vendor Field Status, Defined Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas.
• Customized Line Layouts for GL, AP, and AR data entry and Report Displays.
• Designed and Configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable.
• Worked with SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with FI, Settings for Revenue Recognition & Revenue Item Category, Defined Condition Tables & Account Keys.
• Configured for One-time Vendors/Customers with a Separate Screen Layouts and Customers/Vendors who were Vendors/Customers respectively and Trading Partners.
• Customized Lockbox, Payment Requests and Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line items.
• Defined and Configured Controlling Area: Assigned Company Codes and Number Ranges, Operating Concern.
• Analyzed and Configured Cost Element Categories and Imputed Costs; Cost Center Accounting ( Hierarchy nodes CC Categories, Time-Based Fields and Analysis Period, Statistical Key Figures and Activity Types, Allocation Types, Assessments, Planning setups, Auto Account Assignments )
• Profit Center Accounting Controlling Area Settings, MM Assignment, Control Parameters, Document Types, Number Ranges, Assign Revenue Elements, Planning Parameters.
• Involved in Documentation, End User Training and Post Production Support.
• Configured the organizational structure and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Integration between different modules - GL, AP, AR, SD and MM .
• Customized credit control area for credit management in the application components, credits limit checks for SD processing and Risk management for receivables.
• Designed Lock Box procedure for Accounts Receivable payments with various banks.
• Created Invoice Layout and processed invoices, Customer Master Data.
• Configured house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic Payment Program configuration.
• Write and execute unit test and integration test scripts.
• Documentation for Training to end-users.

Confidential, Windsor CT

SAP FICO Consultant

• End to end ASAP methodology implementation.
• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, testing, end-user training and go-live phases.
• Interacted with client for requirements gathering and analysis. Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FI/CO developments
• Uploaded 10000 records of customers and Vendors from Legacy system into SAP using LSMW.
• Created company code, Chart of Accounts, Account Determination, Account Groups, Fiscal Year variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Credit control area, substitutions, validations and Financial statement version, cost center standard hierarchy, document types and number ranges, field status groups etc.
• Configured the assignment of company code to controlling area.
• Configured FI-MM integration interface in the areas of enterprise structure, Automatic postings for MM through OBYC, defined required GL accounts for various transaction keys.
• Worked in creation of different artifacts in different phases of the SAP project life cycle.
• Created functional specs for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, and Forms etc.
• Worked with ABAP coders to determine the right fields and tables in SE11 and SE16.
• Developed custom program to send positive pay file to bank.
• Configured FI-SD integration interface in the area of Enterprise Structure, and Revenue accounts determination through VKOA, mapping required GL accounts to the account keys.
• Unit Testing - Complete Unit testing of FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PC.
• Integration Testing - Complete business cycles across sub-modules were tested, in conjunction with the users and core team representatives from the client side.
• Involved in solving the production issues in Automatic Payment Program ( APP), QTP, Account Assignment, and interest calculation on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping offline items, check management and void reason codes.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

• Configuring and customizing G/L account master records, chart of accounts, field status groups, automatic account determination, financial statement versions, G/L display configuration, validations and substitutions.
• Configuring and customizing vendor/customer master data, account groups, Logistic invoice verification (LIV), payment program configuration, interest calculation, credit management, tolerances groups, check management.
• Bank Accounting: House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Lockbox processing, Cash journal.
• Performed process requirements ( OTC, PTP ) and analysis workshops with clients to define business, process, functional requirements and data element requirements
• Integrated MM and FI modules for according to movement types and valuation classes.
• Setting up of basic data, organizational units, Assignments of master data indexes, Created Earmarked funds, Filed Controls for Earmarked funds, Status management.
• Developed, stabilized and maintenance of inbound/outbound master data/transactional data.
• Developed custom ABAP reconciliation reports and embedded in data transmitting interfaces which enables legacy user community to reconcile and validate the data in legacy systems immediately.
• Interacted with BW team, Conducted meetings, coordinated in Functional specs, analysis and Query developing in BW Box .

Confidential Memphis, TN

SAP FICO Consultant

• Worked with MM team as a part of FI-MM integration . Also worked with SD Team as a part of FI-SD integration.
• Worked on Vendor/Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.
• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records.
• Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to Design a global Vendor / Customer Master Record Structure.
• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and set up the Integration between FI and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account Group s and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable.
• Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc.
• Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management.
• Configured Credit Control Area and Defined Risk Categories, Credit Representatives and Intervals for Days in Arrears.
• Configured and customized for monthly depreciation run.
• Tested AR scenarios for Order to Cash scenario, worked on Customer master data, maintenance of complete, partial, residual and incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.
• Interacted with Client Business Users for requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Trained Business Process Owners and End Users.
• Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing Activities.

Confidential

Junior SAP FI-Consultant

• Performed process requirements ( OTC, PTP ) and analysis workshops with clients to define business, process, functional requirements and data element requirements
• Provided guidance with best process, project scheduling, resource availability for successful tax automation implementations
• Managed project schedules, budget allocations, defining statements of work, change control and change requests
• Troubleshot software and implementation issues, provided workaround and functional implementation guidance
• Gathered business, process and integration requirements between third-party tax engines such as Sabrix and SAP (for SD and MM)
• Supported customers in preparing and documenting tax use-cases and testing scenarios