OBJECTIVE

To become a contributing SAP FI/CO Consultant / Business Analyst in an organization for its success, by applying the best business practices, through innovative solutions and constantly updating my skills

PROFILE

Several Years of Professional experience with over 5 years of SAP functional experience in implementation of SAP R/3 Finance and Controlling modules Involved in 2 full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodology Involved in different phases of life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 including Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Testing and Support Performed As-Is study, Business requirement collection, Project Analysis, Process Design, Blue Print, GAP analysis, design, upgrade, Go-Live and Support

• Experienced in SAP FI/CO configuration and integration with MM, SD, PP and PS modules
• Participated in Joint Agreement Discussion (JAD) sessions Skilled in understanding existing businesses processes and translate them into SAP solution Knowledge and training in Oracle Financials, Oracle 8 and VB 5 Ability to work well in a team; takes ownership of problems and work proactively under pressure Endowed with excellent interpersonal skills; communicate articulately and honestly with peers, managers, and customers Canadian Citizen; SAP Certified; CA

SAP FI/CO Expertise

Financial Accounting (FI)

General Ledger (G/L), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA); Knowledge of Lockbox and New GL Controlling (CO) Cost Element, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Order (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA); Knowledge of COPA

Skill Set

Operating Systems : Windows 98/NT/XP, UNIX, Linux
SAP R/3 Versions : 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0
SAP Tools : LSMW, Solution Manager
Applications : Ms-Office
Training Tools : RWD InfoPak, RWD uPerform
Testing tools : Test director

Client :Confidential, Montreal, QC
Duration : Nov 2008 - Jul 2009
Role :SAP FI Functional Consultant
Environment :SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the business process review, validation and testing of the current SAP system in accordance with the business structure providing the support for technical upgrade for GL,AR and AP
• Analyzed the existing process for Asset Accounting and redesigned the process by gap identificationand analysis after carrying out re-engineering, preparation of prototype, and pre-process testing
• Performed business process design and documentation
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings
• Configured asset class and account determinations, Group Assets, Asset under Construction, Asset acquisitions, transfers and retirement
• Configured Tax Depreciation related Depreciation Calculation Keys, Derived depreciation area, and special valuation of assets including Revaluation using revaluation measures
• Configured the system for Customer / Vendor down payments (Special G/L indicators)
• Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Client : Confidential, Toronto, ON
Duration : Oct 2007 - Aug 2008
Role :SAP FI Functional Consultant
Environment :SAP ECC5.0
Responsibilities:

• Worked as SAP consultant for Implementation using the ASAP methodology in the organization.
• Understanding the clients business as a whole, anticipate its needs and clarify its expectations. Prioritize tasks.
• Identify implications of proposed solutions on people, processes, strategy, finance etc.
• Responsible for FICO module - Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), GL Accounting (GL), Asset Accounting (AA/ FA/AM)
• Responsible for customization of the organization structure, client interaction, user training, process and transaction testing
• Configured the Company code Global settings.
• Analysis of customer requirements in preparing the master data for GL accounts, asset masters, Cost centers, Customer masters etc.
• Cross company code transaction process set up
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program in Accounts Payable.
• Accounts Receivable: Configured customer incoming payments full, partial, & residual payments.
• Configured dunning, clearing, statistical postings, down payments.
• General Ledger accounting: Finalized Chart of Accounts, GL postings, and foreign currency valuation.
• Bank Accounting: Configured master data for house banks, Bank statement, reason codes, check printing, interest calculation.
• Asset Accounting: Configured and customized Chart of Depreciation and its Assignment to Company Code.
• Involved in the Legacy data asset transfer, which is taken into the system using batch data processing.
• Created Asset Master Data, asset classes, and depreciation areas/keys.
• Handled assets acquisition/retirement of assets & postings.

Client :Pharmasave, Langley, BC
Duration : Jan 2007 - Aug 2007
Role :SAP FI Functional Consultant.
Environment :SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Developed Business Requirement, Design, and Functional documents
• Performed GAP Analysis on current SAP system.
• Responsible for maintaining relationship between the business community and the FICO community in resolving problems within programs, configuration, and training for SAP 5.0 AR, AP, GL
• Provided support in configuration and enhancements in the areas of account determination, field status groups, order types, documents types, cost elements and reports.
• Defined reference accounts and sample accounts.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) and sample ledger accounts.
• Defined additional house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Configured incoming payments, credit management.
• Customized the screens for document entry, document reversals, invoices, and payments.
• Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively.
• Configuration of Credit Management and Bank Accounting.
• Creation of required Payment Methods, Payment Terms, and Payment Programs
• Prepared Unit Test scripts, Integration Test scripts, and training end users

Client :Confidential, Toronto, ON
Duration : Feb 2006 to Oct 2006
Role :SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant.
Environnent :SAP R/34.7

Responsibilities in FI

• Performed As Is study and prepared To Be Process documents for FI/CO Module.
• Studied and analyzed client's Business Processes and mapped them into SAP.
• Involved in final configuration of GL, AR, AP.
• Involved in writing functional specifications.
• Worked on GL account master records, creation of company codes, chart of accounts, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and financial statement versions, General posting Account clearing, Incoming posting, Outgoing posting, Automatic payment Program, Account Clearing, Interest Calculation configuration, Payment terms, Business areas, FI Validation and Substitutions
• Worked A/R & A/P: Vendor/customer master records, Account groups, Number ranges for account groups, Tolerance groups, Credit limit for costumers, country/company code specific payment methods, Manual incoming/outgoing payments, Automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, Credit memos, Partial payments, Instalment payments, Residual payments, claims and Disputed payments,
• Worked on reason codes, Discounts, House Bank configuration, Bank reconciliation statements,
• Worked on Dunning, Bank settings, Check management, Interest calculations
• Worked closely with other consultants on the integration aspects between FICO and SD, MM, PP and Project systems
• Performed Unit testing using different test scenarios and test cases.
• Prepared documentation and end-user training manuals for business users Responsibilities in CO
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• Configured controlling area, operating concern and maintained versions.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups and assigned number ranges to groups. Configured automatic and manual cost element creation.
• Created cost center standard hierarchy, configured activity types and statistical key figures.
• Created assessment cost elements.
• Created order types and order master records. Created order groups to process the orders collectively.

Confidential

Client :Confidential
Duration : Jan 2005 - Sep 2005
Role : SAP FI Consultant
Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

Worked as SAP consultant to implement FI module in the organization. Studied and analyzed the client's Business Processes and mapped them into SAP. Worked on different phases such as requirement gathering, design, configuration, and training. Defined and configured the Enterprise structure. This includes creation of chart of accounts, country chart of accounts, company codes, fiscal year variants, field status variants and posting period variants. Created and modified the existing account groups and defined the number ranges Configured the settings for Employee tolerance groups, field status groups, and Automatic account assignment for the G/L Configured vendor and customer account groups and defined screen layout for them. Creation of customer and vendor invoice and payment postings.

• Configured Incoming and Outgoing Invoice, Incoming and Outgoing Payment to meet the need of the Organization.
• Provided user support/training by maintaining customer and material information. Configured the sending and paying company codes in AP. Configured valuation methods for open item clearing for GL, AR and AP. Created vendor and customer master records specifying number ranges and screen layouts.
• Successfully tested Critical Business Transactions in the Finance Module including Vendor and Customer Invoices and Payments, Document Entry, G/L Posting, and Recurring Entry Programs

Confidential, India

Duration :Apr 2003 - Dec 2004
Role : Business Analyst
SAP Implementation and Support - FI/CO
SAP Project Coordination - FI/CO, MM and SD modules
Environment : SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Involved in system study and requirements gathering - As Is - To Be process analysis
• Participated in Business Blue Print preparation and Sign off
• Supported unit testing during implementation
• Participated in testing scripts review to ensure accuracy of integration and regression testing
• Coordinated during user documents preparation
• Involved in end user training as a member of the support team and later as a super user
• Participated in User Acceptance Test and Sign off document
• Participated in Master data & Opening balances upload
• Involved in cutover tasks at "go Live"
• Resolved and addressed end users trouble tickets during post "go-live" support phase

Confidential, India

Duration: Jan 1998 - Mar 2003

Role : Audit Senior

Responsibilities:

• Performed Statutory Audit of manufacturing and financial services companies as well as internal audit of financial services companies
• Conducted post performance business review and analysis
• Prepared business review memorandum and performed strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis
• Performed business process reengineering, process analysis and resource planning for various clients
• Reviewed client's information system controls and evaluated their internal control environment
• Designed accounting and management reporting for multinational companies
• Consolidated group accounts and accounts of international operations of Fortune 500 and multinational companies

TRAINING

Undergone training in SAP FI/CO in ECC 6.0

EDUCATION

SAP FI Certified
CGA 4th level
CA (India)
B.Com. (Major: Accounting)

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST