SUMMARY:

• 5+ years of strong functional experience in SAP FI and CO.
• Good understanding of US - GAAP and IFRS guidelines.
• Involved as Functional Consultant in 4 full life cycle implementation of SAP ECC 6.0, from Production support.
• Financial expertise in Configuration and testing of New General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Treasury & Purchasing, and Asset Accounting.
• Expertise in Automatic Payment Program (APP), Dunning Program.
• Knowledge in the integration aspects of SD and MM modules with FI/CO and Project System with good experience in ALE functionality. Expertise in data migration using LSMW.
• Expertise in supporting all interfaces during migration and integration with a keen eye for issue resolution and implementation of functionality for post go-live support.
• Experience in working with end users and the QA team for developing use cases, test cases and test plans, process documentation, end-user training and post go-live support.
• Excellent communication skills with broad international exposure in Analytical, Technical and Strategic Skills to communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Demonstrated top-notch organizational skills, with ability to prioritize and multitask with a keen interest for identifying and quickly mastering emerging technologies. High composure even while working under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 Versions (4.6, 4.7) & ECC 6.0.

Methodologies Used: Accelerated SAP (ASAP).

Reporting: Crystal Reports, Hyperion and Report painter.

Integration: FI & CO integration with MM, SD and HR.

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000, XP, vista and windows 7.

Applications/Tools: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Power Point, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP FI/ CO Consultant

Version : ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked with SMEs in gathering business requirements and prepared Blue Prints for as-is and to-be process systems. Performed Gap Analysis to design to-be system.
• Configured and customized the basic settings for Profit Center Accounting. Maintained profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs.
• Created Standard hierarchy using CATTs in Cost Center Accounting, Cost centers, Assigned cost centers to cost elements, configured Activities and Statistical Key Figures, developed Assessment, Distribution, Periodic reposting cycles and segments.
• Configured Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Planning Profile, Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile.
• Customized the FI-SD interface by preparing the Revenue account determination process.
• Well acquainted with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc
• Configured FI-MM account determination - assigning valuation areas to valuation grouping codes, defining valuation classes, account grouping and account determination.
• 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.
• Configured the Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure and Configured the cost component structure, Costing variants for standard cost estimate for planned and actual Production orders in Product Costing Planning (COPC).
• Maintained Overhead cost elements, calculation bases, credits, costing sheets, activity plan, and costing types in Product Costing (COPC).
• Extensively worked on Cost Object controlling period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance calculations, settlements of process orders, cost estimate updates, costing run, marking and releasing for updating the price in material master records, display reports etc.
• Maintained setting for Costing Sheet like calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, and quantity based overhead rate in Product costing (COPC).
• Designed and configured Material Valuation in Material Ledger based on standard prices(S) and moving average price (V) including distribution of price difference between raw materials and finished goods inventory.
• Configured Automatic payment program (APP) for domestic and foreign payments using Check and Wire transfers.
• Developed interfaces for inbound and outbound transaction data from legacy systems.
• Migrated master data into SAP using LSMW and also worked on various customized tools for master data upload.
• Configured foreign currency valuation for Mexican peso and USD and trained clients on month end procedures involving foreign currency revaluation and daily exchange rate maintenance.
• Responsible for developing test plans and doing all Unit testing, combination and scenario testing.
• Responsible for holding weekly status meetings with the clients and also scheduling the project deadlines.
• Worked extensively on reporting requirements for Mexican GAAP and USGAAP.
• Was responsible to impart training to End users and also involved in creating user manuals.
• Responsible for Go-live support.

Confidential, Houston,TX

SAP FI/ CO Functional Consultant

Version : ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for successful ASAP implementation of SAP starting from business process definition to project preparation, gathering business requirements, blue print, realization and providing post Go-live support.
• Designed and configured core FI modules; New-GL, AP, AR, AA.
• Activated New GL, defined ledgers for General Ledger accounting, activated non-leading ledgers for individual company codes, Defined currencies of leading ledger, assigned scenarios to ledgers, activated cost of sales accounting to create profit and loss statements, segment reporting and document splitting.
• Designed and configured core CO modules (CCA, PCC, PCA) and tested PCA within New GL.
• In CO-PA, maintained Characteristics, Value fields, Building Operating Concern, and defined profitability segment characteristics.
• Provided support for Configuration, Implementation and Testing of the customer master records and incoming payments, Banking & Intercompany transactions.
• Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP, AR, GL and Integration of FI-MM-SD-CO.
• 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 closely with MM consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO (goods receipt).
• Configured Valuation areas for Material Ledger, maintained number ranges for material ledger documents and assigned currency types to material ledger.
• Configured down payment functionally and payment medium workbench and also worked extensively on bank specific payment files to automate check and electronic payments to meet client's specific requirements
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) including Bank determination and payment methods
• AR-customer transactions, Master data, credit management credit limits for customers, processing sales documents, automatic credit control checks, settings for risk management check for receivables, payment terms, Cash application, Incoming Payments, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Open item clearing, Credit Management Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, Customizing payment advice notes.
• Classifying deductions with reason codes and reason code conversion program. Processing unidentified, on-account and partial payments and Clearing customer accounts through various transactions.
• Provided configuration support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement's setup, and inter-company billing.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of WRICEF (Workflow, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms)

Confidential

SAP FI/ CO Functional Consultant

Version: Sap Fi-Co ECC 6.0.

Modules: FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, PCA CO-PC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, end-user training and go-live phases.
• 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.
• Involved in go-live phase and provided post live support, Coordinating and solving issues with QA and production.
• Configuration of FI global settings, Configured company code, Created GL accounts, Defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios..
• Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing.
• Changed various GL settings like - balance in local currency, calculation of Group Currency from Transaction Currency and their impact on foreign currency valuation and translation.
• Customer account groups, terms of payment, tolerance limits for customer payments, special GL indicators, dunning, and down payments.
• Configured revenue integration with SD and credit management with dynamic check of the credit limit at the time of sales order.
• Process Payment advices to clear customer open items through automatic processing of BDC sessions.
• Setting up of own payment methods, payment files and advices through change in SAP scripts
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot. Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in A/P.
• Configured payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Involved in the support and users training for the Materials Management module, which included purchase order to cash process with logistics invoice verification. Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendor Payment and Check clearing sub-processes.
• Configured lockbox processing, cash management. Generated bank advices and account posting. Imported and processed Electronic bank statements (EBS) worked with BAI2 file formats. Created lockboxes at house bank and configured control parameters and posting data. Configured G/L account structure for each bank account. Configured electronic bank statement and worked with different file formats (Multi-cash and BAI).
• 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.
• 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), Account Assignment, and interest calculation on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

SAP FI/ CO Functional Consultant

Version : Sap ecc 6.0 Upgrade from 4.6B

Modules : FI-AA,CCA,PCA

Responsibilities:

• Configured Asset Master Data after diagnosing Business and Client requirements.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation keys for book and tax based on client requirements.
• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination.
• Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Interval & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions.
• Specified Document Type for Posting of Depreciation, Specified Account Assignment types for Account Assignment Object, Defined Depreciation Areas, Specify Transfer of APC Values, and Determined Depreciation Areas in the Fixed Asset Class.
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas
• Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition, Retirement, and Transfers & for Intercompany Asset Transfers.
• Created new asset classes, chart of depreciation, depreciation keys.
• Four Depreciation Areas are created to take care of Book Depreciation, Tax Depreciation, and Cost Depreciation, Management Depreciation.
• Group assets were created to take care of the Block Assets for Tax Depreciation purposes.
• Interacted with Client Business Users for requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Trained Business Process Owners and End Users.
• Configured Account determination, screen layout rules and number ranges Assets.
• Asset Acquisition, Retirements, transfers, down payments & write-ups.
• Transfer of assets from one unit to another unit, Sale and Scrapping of assets.
• Customized asset transactions for acquisitions, retirements and transfers.
• Monitored profit and loss accounts for purchase against asset sales and scrapping.
• Capitalization of AUC.

Confidential, NJ

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant.

Version: SAP ECC 6.0 (Full Life cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Configured Company Code, New general ledger, Vendor and Customer Master Data. Integration between NEW GL and AA, PCA.
• Define the leading and Non leading ledger. Also made sure the rollup ledgers are defined in order to get the summary of both general ledger and other ledgers. Worked on the segmental reporting for Balance sheet.
• Worked on multiple RICEF objects including customer master, vendor master and GL master conversion.
• Configured all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration and Automatic Check Payment Advice and Payment Analysis Printing, Clearing of Vendor and Customer Open Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for Payment Program, Credit Management, Periodic Processing, Correspondence.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category. Integration of MM and SD with FI account assignment.
• Worked on the different processes of OTC (Order to Cash) and P2P (Procure to pay).
• Worked on the enhancement like positive pay, legal entity payment through different profit center as an entity using the document splitting.
• Worked on foreign currency payments.
• Worked on the collection, disbursement and the dispute cases for the customers.
• Define the activities, activity elements and relationships in order to set up the networks.
• Worked with the Vertex for calculating the sales and use tax.
• 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.
• Created G/L master records, sub-ledger accounts for customers, vendors and assets, tax accounts for state, county and city, reconciliation accounts, special ledger accounts.
• Integrated FI, FI-AA and CO-CCA. Involved in the design of Asset Class and Charts of Depreciation.
• Configured Asset Accounting structure/valuating fixed assets, Treasury cash management, and foreign exchange and payment program for payments.
• Designed and configured Asset management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs and post capitalization.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Define global (group) currency and a local (company) currency - to help meet the requirements of corporations operating on an international level.