SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in SAP R/3, ECC PS module with proven expertise in SAP analysis design, implementation, upgrade support, configuration, and documentation and testing of applications.
• Experience working on an on - site and off-shore model, and coordinating with the off-shore technical, functional, and testing team.
• Three full life cycle implementations including Business processes, Configuration, Reports and Testing.
• Strong ability to work as an SAP functional consultant with a good knowledge of configuration SAP project systems.
• Extensively involved in studying, analyzing Business Processes, understanding the “As-Is” process and modeling the “To-Be” process including RICEF-W design and testing.
• Expertise in the SAP Project systems module along with a working knowledge of the Material Management, Plant Maintenance, Asset Accounting (Fixed Asset), Sales and Distribution, Financial and Controlling.
• Practical knowledge of configuring the requirement to SAP PS module, Investment Management, Claim Management & setting up the organizational structure and global settings using IMG and worked on Capital Project, Expense Project and Customer Project.
• Experience in using and working with Solution Manager for maintaining the Business Design, Blue Printing, Key Decision, Functional/Technical/Configuration documentation.
• Configuring experience in all aspects of project systems including planning, Budgeting, WBS(Work Breakdown Structure), WBS Element, Milestones, Network, cost and Resource planning, Workforce Planning, Revenue Planning, Revenue and earnings, DIP Profile, Result Analysis, Plan Versions, Time and Capacity Planning, ETO, MTO, production resources, procurement revenues, settlement and period end.
• Expertise in configuration CO Enterprise structure and testing General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL), Controlling (CO), Account Payable (FI-AP), account receivable (FI-AR), CO-PC (product costing) and CO-PA (profitability analysis), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Plant Maintenance (PM), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Investment Management and Treasury.
• Experience in PS integration with FICO, MM (and SRM), IM, HR and PM.
• Knowledge of MRS (versions 8.0 and 9.0) and experience with version 7.0
• Thorough understanding of SAP FI/CO module configuration, support & maintenance functions as well as the integration with PP, MM, and SD modules. Good knowledge of Material Ledger.
• Analyze the Business Requirements, Needs and Objectives and Map them to the SAP processes, solutions and products that are being implemented.
• Controlling experience in configuration CO Enterprise structure and testing Cost Center accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting PCA, RICEF and Credit Management.
• Expertise in CATT (Computer Aided Testing Tool), LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench), Win Shuttle, Resite, Mercury Quality Center and ABAP queries.
• Experience in using Mercury Quality Center and HP quality center for testing and Solution Manager for business process documentation.
• Experience in using SQL and SAP BODS for migration of data from legacy system to SAP
• Experience with report development tools like Report Painter/Report Writer & Infopak.
• Ability to take on challenges and strong determination towards meeting deadlines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN and Denver, CO

PS/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design of business process documents in controlling, project systems and financial areas
• Day to day meetings with business personal in understanding the current business processes in order to achieve the same in SAP
• Presentation of demos for SAP process and master data in controlling and project system areas
• Documentation of business process documents for costing process, allocation processes, and master data (CCA, CEA, WBS, and IO)
• Conducting interviews with regulatory accounting and general accounting business personal to capture SOX and FERC standard reporting requirements
• Preparation of integration documents across multiple modules (PM, SD and MM) with which FICO and PS integrate
• Providing with tables and field names for reporting in BI/BW

Metropolitan Utilities District, Omaha, NE

PS/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of open tickets pertaining to PS and CO modules in the production environment
• Provided solution and configured automation of opening and closing posting periods
• Configuration changes to allocation cycles in order to accommodate the changed requirements
• Settlement of projects (WBS) and internal orders to AUC and capitalization of assets
• Gained some working knowledge of IS-U and FICA and their integration points with FICO
• Worked with ABAP team in order to implement SAP OSS and user exits for customer related billing
• Resolving issues related to intercompany transactions between water and gas companies
• Documentation of tickets resolved in RT ticketing system
• End user training and documentation of training materials for PS and FICO modules integration with other modules (MM and SD)
• Preparation of training materials using uPerform

Confidential, NYC, NY

SAP PS/AA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on implementing SAP in Latin America and European Countries in which SAP PS is implemented in integration with SAP Media, FICO, AA and IM modules
• Configuration of Asset accounting for more than 20 countries with different books of depreciation
• Configuration of period control and multi-level methods for the calculation of Tax depreciation
• Configuring functional changes to project templates, profiles, intercompany transactions and other code block elements
• Involved in business requirement change request in order to accommodate the different depreciation and tax procedures for Asset Management in different countries
• Consultation with end users to determine business process and application development /enhancement requirements and serving as their contact by ensuring requirements are communicated accurately to key stakeholders with the progress.
• Customization of T-Codes and tables including enhancements and user defined fields with the help of technical teams
• Worked on workflow of project budget approvals and PS Integration through SRM portal
• As an RTR team member involved with PTP and OTC teams in order to get the integrated functionality go through smoothly in a timely manner
• Month end and Year processes documentation and testing for different countries (Latin America, Europe, and USA) which involve asset depreciation, balance carry forward and reporting
• Performed partial and full settlement process of projects and re-class of project balances
• Development of test scripts and user training material for integration and UAT environments using HP ALM

Confidential, Waltham, MA

SAP PS/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SAP Functional/Data consultant in ECC 6.0 implementing SAP, which involved the migration of data from the legacy system (Powerplant)
• Developed functional and technical specification for development of RICEFW objects according to the business requirement for ABAP development and for interfaces to legacy applications
• Worked hands in with offshore team by giving requirements for source to target mapping and analyzing data according to functional specifications
• Worked with P&D teams of different modules in integration of PS with FICO, PM, SD and MM
• Configured and worked on designing number range and order type logic for both WBS elements and plant maintenance orders
• Configuration of WBS elements, Internal orders and cost centers and worked on settlement of WBS to cost center or G/L accounts and also settle costs from PM orders to WBS elements
• ET (extraction and transformation) analysis of objects according to FS
• Documentation of reports using standard SAP reports for PM module
• Worked on settlement of PM orders to WBS and GL accounts using settlement rules configured in settlement profile
• Worked in migrating data using SQL and SAP BODS (Business objects data services) software
• Worked in an Hyper-care environment during cutover period before go-live and supported data cleansing and mapping during cutover
• Conducted meetings with different business unit members for understanding implementation/integration of different modules and mentored members of the team on best practices of SAP configuration and customization
• Worked with HP quality center to raise and close defects based on their area of concentration

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

SAP PS/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a PS/CO consultant in ECC 6.0 to enhance the standard and customized SAP functionality, and was involved in all phases of the Blue printing, Realization, Configuration, Testing, and Documentation.
• Worked collaboratively with the offshore team (development and testing), since the client implemented an on-site and off-shore model.
• Designed and configured the client-specific PS/IM, CO, PP and PM functionality including Basic Data, structures, Networks, Cost Planning, Project Information System & Status Management.
• Conducted and attended meetings with the client and the end-users to get a better understanding of the business requirements.
• Analyzed and worked on developing and making changes to their existing interfaces for better communication with the legacy and accurate data transfer to SAP (both inbound and outbound interfaces).
• Configured various status profiles and selection profiles for better and efficient reporting capabilities.
• Configured CCA (Cost Center) and PCA(Profit center) including IO (Internal Orders)
• Gained some knowledge of Material ledger when working with MM team.
• Configured and customized the costing sheets, and recalculated the bases, rate and overhead percentages.
• Worked with Production Planning (PP) team in configuring activity types, routing and work centers and with SD and MM team in execution of logistics
• Worked on configuration of costing variant, product cost marking and release
• Created Project types for WBS elements, defined user defined fields & field selection for WBS element & Project definition and maintained substitution/validation in PS.
• Worked on settlement profile, allocation structure, settlement rules and settlement of asset in Project System and Asset management.
• Developed the automation of creating projects in SAP, where all the work center master data and the budget estimates are available in legacy.
• Worked on integration with Fixed Assets including automatic creation of AUC from WBS elements
• Worked closely with the technical team for enhancements based on the business requirements.
• Developed the testing scripts and executed the various phases of testing in QC test lab (i.e. Unit testing, UAT, Integration testing and Regression testing, in Mercury Quality center)

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAP PS/IM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SAP-PS & IM consultant to implement SAP for common project in North America and Mexico and was responsible for validating the blue print, Development, Testing and Implementation of customized reports.
• Conducted/attended meetings with client to understand the requirement and fulfill that requirement through SAP and configured the system according to the user’s requirement and tested the same.
• Gathered the requirements from SME in different location in North America and Mexico by communicating with them to replace their legacy system.
• Involved in studying, analyzing Business Processes, understanding the “As-Is” process and modeling the “To-Be” process including RICEF-W design and testing.
• Assigned program types to Budget profile, Program types to Planning Profile and status profile to program type in Investment Management.
• Defined reasons for investment management, scales, versions & assigned versions to approval year and program type, person responsible for investment and project system.
• Configured Budget Profile, Planning profile, settlement profile for project profile and configured Project profile.
• Created Project types for WBS elements, defined user defined field & field selection for WBS element & Project definition and maintained substitution/validation in PS.
• Defined milestone usage and milestone group and assigned milestone to milestone group for different activities.
• Defined tolerance limit and assigned budget profile to tolerance limit to activate the availability control for the project on the purchase requisition and purchasing order.
• Defined project definition object class and applicants for WBS elements.
• Worked on edit original Budget, supplements Budget & return budget in investment management & budget distribution from Investment Management to Project System
• Worked on creating standard milestone and grouping milestone in one group and worked on standard reporting in sap project system.
• Configuration of MRS (version 7.0) for the integration with SAP HR
• Involved in the integration of PS with Material Management, Plant Maintenance and Asset Management and automatic creation of asset from equipment master in Plant Maintenance and maintained quotes and vendors data in PM for internal reporting.
• Worked with win shuttle to upload data from legacy system to SAP and created BPP using Resite software for users.
• Wrote the testing script and did the testing in testing lab i.e. Unit testing, UAT, Integration testing and Regression testing.
• Prepared a mapping template for the automated conversion of data from legacy system to SAP and upload the data using Win Shuttle.
• Conducted workshops with end users to give them training to the end users and make glossary for them so that they can understand SAP terms.

Confidential, Melville, NY

SAP PS/IM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Functional Consultant to support IM and PS in ECC 6.0 and did the enhancements in DEV and did the testing in Quality environment and move to production.
• Worked on Budgeting, Planning, Appropriation request, IM structure in IM and Budgeting and availability control for capital, customer and marketing project in PS.
• Worked on resolving the issues on appropriation request, investment structure, IM, PS carry forward budget and commitment in SAP.
• Worked on Resource Related Billing (RRB), maintained DIP profile for pricing and worked on sales order, created RRB request and created billing document using debit memo and integration of PS with SD for pricing.
• Worked on the integration of PS with Material Management and resolve the issues between PS and MM.
• Worked with Network scheduling to calculate the dates and perform the activities that are assigned to a network.
• Worked on resolving issues in Templates of WBS and Network and creation of projects with customizing code and worked on settlement of projects.
• Worked on SAP MRS with the integration of HR
• Worked on customized reports according to the requirement with BW team and ABAP.
• Worked on IM close and PS close on previous year projects and worked on different reports according to client requirement.
• Worked on the network, internal activities, activity element and with the integration of PS with CRM and worked on IDOC for transferring data from CRM to PS and PS to CRM.
• Worked on resolving the issues between PS and Controlling related to cost posting and worked on the enhancement in that and worked on cost element planning in PS.
• Worked on billing issues and was a part of team to solve the major double billing issue.
• Worked on the integration of PS with BPS (Business planning and simulation) for planning and interfaces with PS and worked on settlement of capital, expense and marketing project.
• Worked on peregrine and star team for resolving the tickets for users and communicating with them for errors in IM and PS.
• Worked with ABAP team for creating customizing code for mass closer of projects in PS and worked on the mass change of the projects.

Confidential, Tampa-FL

SAP PS/FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed PS Master Data including Project definition, WBS, network and Project Profile using Project Builder/Project planning board and IMG module.
• Worked on Engineer to order environment preparing Sales Order, Engineer to order (ETO), make to order (MTO), Billing Document, account keys and condition types in SD and worked on milestone billing, DIP Profile, revenue reorganization from SD to integrate with PS.
• Involved in studying, analyzing Business Processes, understanding the “As-Is” process and modeling the “To-Be” process including RICEF-W design and testing.
• Worked on activity planning like dates, cost materials, workforce in the work centers like create capacity and hierarchy in the project system.
• Worked on resource planning, material planning, cost planning and revenue planning in project system.
• Gained some knowledge of Material ledger when working with MM team.
• Used SD to setup construction contracts/issue invoices based on the following billing methods: milestone billing, resource related billing (RRB) & monthly billing plans.
• Integrated Asset Management (AM) with Project Systems (PS) for overseeing projects with new plant constructions and settlement of Asset under Constructions (AUC) to projects.
• Worked on the revenue and earnings in automatic plan revenue calculation and manual revenue planning.
• Worked in creation of purchase requisitions in MM module to procure a certain quantity of product or service so that it is available at a certain point in time.
• Customized PS module along with interface to MM and CO modules.
• Worked on Project stock in various scenarios and Collaboration i.e. business process between internal and external business partner.
• Worked on activity relationship like Finish-start, start-start, finish-finish and start-finish relationship and multiple valuation approach in overhead cost controlling.
• Involved in Transfer of prices i.e. actual and planned prices and Currencies in the Project System i.e. controlling area currency, object currency and transaction currency.
• While implementing PP/MM module worked closely to create various BOM’s with having information like object number of each component together with the quantity and measure.
• Worked in leading Company in Changing from Non-Valuated Project Stock to Valuated Project Stock.
• Worked on revenue based & cost based methods with profit realization in revenue based method and settle it in COPA in result analysis.
• Worked on result analysis version, result analysis key (RAK), valuation method and execution of result analysis.
• Designed Cost Flow from the Manufacturing Process through Delivery from Project Systems.
• Worked on budgeting and investment management and release the project.
• Worked on reporting i.e. controlling reports, Revenue and earnings report, Progress Analysis report etc.
• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders and CO-PC.

Confidential, Springfield, MA

SAP PS/IM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirement, Preparation of Blue Print by reengineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the TO BE system.
• Defined business and functional requirements through analysis of potential alternatives and reviewed technology solution to meet business process.
• Mapped business requirements to SAP R/3 to attain detailed design of SAP R/3 and third party system solutions.
• Worked on Functional & Technical specifications.
• Designed and configured the client-specific PS/IM functionality including Basic Data, structures, Networks, Cost Planning, Project Information System & Status Management.
• Analyzed integration points of Project Systems (PS) with other modules and make recommendations to improve former engagements.
• Mapped the requirements into the SAP Project Systems and Involved in PS-controlling integration with cost elements, revenue planning and budget management set up.
• Implemented all functionality of PS module like date planning, project structure, capacity planning, network planning, project resource planning, scheduling and execution.
• Configured functional specifications for Work In Progress (WIP calculations), worked on Result analysis scenarios during period end closing activities
• Prepared templates for all categories depth of WBS level, activity duration and Worked on Automation of project material management with process tracking and delivery capabilities for projects.
• Customized Period end closing functions including overhead costing, interest calculation and result analysis and settlement procedures.
• Developed PS Master Data including Project definition, WBS, network and Project Profile using Project Builder/Project planning board and IMG module.
• Assisted the team with MRP Controller, Schedule margin key, MRP Group and MRP Profile.
• Worked on configured plants, warehouse and assigned warehouse number to plant & assigned plant to company code and maintained storage location & purchasing organization in MM.
• Worked on preparing Sales Order, ETO, MTO, Billing Document, account keys and condition types in SD and worked on milestone billing from SD to integrate with PS.
• Developed Report Painter and Report Writer reports for PS module per user needs and in order to analyze the financial health of the project.
• Involved in the real state module in making contracts, lease and to integrated with Project system.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

SAP PS/FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SAP Consultant to implement CO and Project System module in organization.
• Worked on the 5.0 implementation project for the client including requirement gathering, designing, configuration, training and go live activities.
• Developed PS master data including project definition, WBS, Network and Project profile using project builder/project planning board and IMG modules.
• Implemented all functionality of PS module i.e. project structure, networking planning, project resource planning, scheduling and execution.
• Created cost center groups, so that cost centers can be assigned to relevant cost groups and worked on creating claims, processing claims and evaluating claim.
• Defined notification types, assign number range for notification type, configure screen templates for notification types and maintained catalogs for claim entry in Claim Management in Project System.
• Defined report structure, partner structure for a notification type, priority types for notification type and worked on created claims in Claim Management in Project System.
• Created match codes in SAP to enable uploads in to the system and set up collaborative work environment including interfacing with MS-project.
• Maintained all PS related IMG items and troubleshooting and helped the training team to develop the training material.
• Involved in the design of Asset Class and Charts of Depreciation in Fixed Assets and grouped assets into manageable Asset Classes and customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirement, transfers, depreciation calculation, write-offs and post capitalization and created Chart of Depreciation and carried out settings for asset company code.
• Worked on integration with PS including automatic creation of AUC from WBS elements.

Confidential

SAP PS/IM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working as a SAP-PS consultant to implement SAP in McMoRan Copper & Gold and Responsibilities includes validating the blue print development to implement SAP and Studied “AS-IS”, “TO-BE” process and perform GAP Analysis.
• Conduct/attend meetings with client to understand the requirement and fulfill that requirement through SAP.
• Configured PS module for NPEG project and integrate it to EBP, IM and FM.
• Created WBS elements and WBS hierarchy and assigned status profile to WBS element and assigned WBS element to the WBS hierarchy and created project types for WBS element and user defined field for WBS elements.
• Assigned activity funds to WBS element and defined dates and cost to individual activities using milestones and collaboration.
• Created work breakdown structure and activities in the project system and configured special character for project, project coding mask and assigned authorization keys for WBS.
• Worked on planning i.e. dates, cost, resources planning and execute them, worked on created project profile and monitored (progress analysis, capacity load utilization).
• Created network structure with internal, external processed activity and general cost activity and also include sub network and assigned number to the network structure and assigned activity to WBS element.
• Created Work center and cost center and assigned work center to cost center with activity type and calculated planned cost for the activity.
• Created activity element using internal processing system, assigned activity element to WBS element and assigned milestone to activity or WBS element.
• Worked on transferred planned cost from WBS element to version and changed cost in simulation version, defined controlling keys for activities.
• Configured Funds Management for automatic creation of commitments at SB approval and configured Budget allocation and project through Investment Management module.
• Worked closely with technical developers to make several enhancements in SAP, in order to meet business requirement.
• Prepared Functional specification and configuration documents for the development that was done for the project.
• Performed Unit testing and Integration testing for all the development and development several reports in order to analyze the financial health of projects.

Confidential

SAP PS/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted “As-Is” study interacting with the core team members and developed a “To-Be”.
• Worked as a SAP PS consultant to implement SAP.
• Interacted with different departments of the company and prepared a report for the required enhancements.
• Configured Funds Management for automatic creation of commitments at SB approval.
• Prepared a report with budget estimates taking all the aspects in to consideration.
• Performed manual cost planning, assigned work force centers to the activities and worked on Easy Cost Planning, defined derivation rule and assigned characteristic to the model.
• Developed, conducted end user training on creating WBS, Networks, Activities and work centers, involved in defined exchange rate types, costing variants, costing types and cost component structure.
• Worked on defined standard milestone usage, milestone groups for standard milestone and configured date categories and maintain budget profile and defined tolerance limits in the project System.
• Participated in workshops involving detailed analysis of existing Systems and business processes related to GL, SL, AP & AR and CO.
• Configured FI-GL, AP (Account Payable) and AR (Account Receivable).
• Created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups, Configuration of payment program for posting invoices with and without invoice verification and Customized accounting transaction for posting and recurring entries.
• Configured Controlling areas, CO-CA (Cost center Accounting) and PCA (Profit Center Accounting).
• Created Controlling area, operating concern, maintain versions, primary and secondary cost elements, cost elements groups and assigned number ranges to groups.
• Created profit center groups, Dummy profit centers, Profit center standard Hierarchies, assigned objects to the profit centers.
• Developed training for all the end users.