SUMMARY OF EXPERIECNE :

• 8+ years of SAP experience, which includes enterprise business facilitation via software development, data
• management, and information delivery. In addition 10 years of Experience in Project finance ,project appraisal and implementation of large industrial projects before taking up SAP career.
• Expertise in configuration and customization of FI/CO modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting.
• Experience in Treasury module such as Lockbox processing, Liquidity forecast, Cash Management, Integration of FI with other modules (MM and SD)
• Worked with Legacy System Migration workbench tool (LSMW) for importing data from legacy system to SAP R/3
• Configuration experience with Vertex and Tax ware 3rd party tools
• Experience in Production Support Role and testing the Configuration Setup in different scenarios
• Created many Validations and Substitution rules as per the needs of the client and involved in creating SAP queries and user exits
• Sound knowledge of configuring taxes for tax procedures TAXUSJ and TAXUSX
• Experience in Workflow Design, development and implementation.¨ Hands on experience in Workflow Triggering through Function Modules.¨ Used Deadline Monitoring in different workflow scenarios. Workflow Error handling and workflow logs
  

Skills:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.x, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0
DBMS: Oracle 7.x/ 8i/ 9i/, MS SQL Server 6.5/ 7.0/ 2000, MS Access
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000, XP, NT and UNIX
Other: MS Office suites, SQL*, LSMW, Report Painter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential : Confidential
Duration : July 2012 to till date
Role :Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

• Assisted to complete tax setup for Vertex tax software solution Assist in the implementation of Vertex Indirect Tax software O Series 6.0 from infancy to its current Go-Live state.
• Assist in the implementation of Vertex Returns Software and Vertex Reporting and Analysis. Also, assist in the setup of LCR Dixon Tax Software for consumers tax.
• Performed the implementation of US tax strategy, Canadian tax strategy and Australian tax strategy for Indirect taxes for over 200 entites to the parent company .
• Configuring New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS. Activated document splitting at profit center level.
• Configuring Cost Centers (CO-OM-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-OM-IO), Profit Centers (EC-PCA), Profitability Segments (CO-PA), and performing automatic account assignments to address accounting requirements of the client
• Defining profit center hierarchies, cost center hierarchies, primary & secondary cost elements and planning versions to take into account initial budgeting and subsequent changes
• Implementation of a SAP workflow approval process for all manual journal entries. This workflow has the ability to attach all supporting documentation for the entry and send it to the approver electronically
• Assisted in creation of SAP reports, both custom and standard "out-of-the-box" reports. Worked on Pay roll integration
• Worked on ticket resolution in AR/AP/Taxes

APPLE Computers : Confidential 
Duration: Oct2011 to July 2012 
Role: Sr. SAP FICO CONSULTANT

• Outgoing payment settings for cash, Cheques, Direct Debit, Automatic payments.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), cash management in treasury.
• Involved in the analysis of business processes of FI-GL, A/P, A/R, CO-PA modules.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Product Costing (make- to- order and make- to-stock) configuration, –ML Configuration, Planning, Cost object controlling, custom setting in OBYC and Material Ledger.
• Thoroughly involved in creation of Test Scenarios, Unit and Integration Testing and Documented the Results
• Worked in a cross functional role spanning the Finance/Accounting, Billing Operations, Product Development and IT organizations.
• Direct and support various Accounts Receivable related projects from a business owner perspective, including concept development, requirement identification, user acceptance testing, and production implementation from a process and operational standpoint..
• Manage all accounting and reconciliation related aspects of receivables tracked in the Global Billing System from recognition through cash collection.
• Oversee the detail payment file level reconciliation and monthly Subledger to GL reconciliation processes.
• Evaluate reconciliation processes continuously to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to stream-line existing processes and improve automation through better utilization of systems (i.e. SAP, Business Objects, MS Access, etc.
• Ensure SOX 404 compliance for the controls defined in the account receivable reconciliation process and maintain/update the corresponding SOX process documentation following implementation of various automation initiatives.
• Develop workflows for atomizing the different Business Processes for the Central Procurement Organization (CPO)
  Simplifying the Month end closing process for 105 company codes by rationalizing the scheduling of Jobs.
• Implementation of Vertex tax tool, complete tax configuration, testing of the RFCs.
• Worked on withholding Tax configuration.
• As a part of global VAT process improvement project, involving the global VAT practices and improved control and management of worldwide VAT processes,
• Worked on integration of Vertex VAT O SIC with SAP.Various Reports i.e. VAT Change Report, List Of Sales Orders, List Of Billing Documents, Sales Order Line Item Variation Report, Milestones Report, Outstanding Sales Document report
• Worked on VAT triangular determination

Confidential: Richmond, VA 
Duration: Jan 2010 – Oct2011 
Role: Sr. SAP FICO CONSULTANT

• Interacted with the client to update group customer and vendor master data, to define credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Configuration of New G/L to perform parallel accounting, Document splitting, allocation, distribution and planning and also used enhanced reporting functionality of New G/L
• Involved in helping the users clearing Inter-Company vendor/Customer open Items, manually processing incoming payments, reconciliation accounts in the GL · Set up the parameters for Cross-Company Code postings.
• Configured the one-time Vendors/Customers with separate screen Layouts
• Customized lockbox, payment requests and interest calculation on account balances and line items
• Performed tax interface configuration for Vertex US sales and use tax.
• Worked on integration issues with Vertex.
• Worked with developers to design and test custom 1099 tax reporting transactions and related report
• Configured sales and use tax configuration to improve accuracy and efficiency of processing for U.S. and international company codes
• Carried out design, configuration, and three rounds of testing (including user acceptance and validation testing), and end-user training, knowledge transfer.
• Production support in the areas of accounts payable, purchasing, vendor master, house banks, payment program, sales and use tax, foreign currency, deposits, logistics invoice verification (LIV), account determination
• Worked with developers to design and test various interfaces between SAP and outside systems including Vertex tax bolt-on software vendor and bank related interfaces. Vendor interfaces included invoice uploads using BDC and EDI functionality

Confidential : Atlanta, GA 
Duration: :Aug 2008 – Dec 2009
Role: : SAP FICO Consultant

• Designing the Legacy AR/AP billing systems interface with SAP
• Write functional specifications for Interfaces from Legacy billing for customer master to SAP Customer master.
• Wrote functional specifications legacy lock box interfaces to SAP AR.
• Wrote functional specifications to DMS interface to SAP for AP/AR related functionality
• Wrote functional specification to AP/AR netting in Agency fees reimbursement.
• Wrote functional specification TAX interfaces with VERTEX
• Wrote functional specifications for ACH interfaces for inbound and outbound payments
• Exposure to lock box post processing
• IDOC Monitoring for error management
• AR Process split remit ,Charge off to G/L account
• AR/AP deduction management interfaces with SAP. Customer credit check and Paymetrics interface with SAP
• Automated dunning interface functional specifications Help provide solution in the AR Customer credit card payment system.
• Assist in the integration point of SD/FI/MM
• Develop and submits business process documentation for approval
• Testing of bank checks(SAP AP), Positive Pay file and Cleared checks file
• Write functional specification to modify existing program(ABAP)
• Provide solution to duplicate AR Customer master data
• Test, modify and document system configuration
• Involved extensively for developing test cases for many different scenarios for AR/AP interfaces and running them for Unit Testing through manual loading of production files and also Mercury Test Director.

Confidential, :GA 
Duration: July 2007 - June 2008
Role: SAP FICO Consultant

• Worked as Lead consultant to solve production support issues in AP/AR and controlling
• Involved in the production support issues with interest calculation on open items, regrouping on line items and reason codes.
• Configured SAP TAX interface for Vertex with respect to ,configuring communication, testing the Tax retrieval data, activating Tax interface system, configured external tax document, tax jurisdiction code structure, customizing SD&MM master data Tax indicators, setting MM&SD master data, tax codes, setting condition records SD, configuring Tax per document.
• Worked in resolving tickets with respect to interfaces like Vertex, LPA, Documentation
• Coordinated with various departments like engineering, accounts payable, purchasing, asset management etc to analyze various issues related to taxes calculated from Vertex and helped in documenting the process flow
• Configured 1099 vendors
• Writing functional specifications for standard procurement program
• Designing end-to-end business process for Order-to-Cash, Accounts Receivable, Credit Management, and Payment Program
• Worked on inventory valuation issues for transfer posting relating to movement types

Confidential, : MN 
Duration :Mar 2006 - June 2007
Role : SAP FICO Consultant

• Configuration of A/R and A/P modules: Terms of payment, Open item Management, configuring account assignment for Overpayments/Underpayments and Cash Discounts, Reason codes configuration
• In Accounts Receivable (AR) Defining Account Groups, Customer Groups, number ranges, Field Status for A/R Master Records. Setting up the dunning program including dunning areas, dunning level and dunning charges
• Configured FI-SD integration interface in the area of Enterprise Structure, customer Master Reconciliation Account, and Revenue accounts determination .
• Worked on split inventory valuation issues with price control and valuation types in month-end closing functions in MM with movement types 309 and transactions OMWO and OMWC.
• Worked on revaluation of inventory in month end processes.
• Worked in Inventory valuation issues relating to transfer posting in movement types
• Participated in the creation of assets, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers (Intra Company and Inter Company), and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue)
• Capitalized assets under construction, structure, and valuation of fixed assets

Confidential:Chicago, IL
Duration : April 2005 - February 2006
Role : SAP FICO Consultant

• Configured AR and AP modules, wherein configured terms of payment, open item Management, configuring account assignment for Overpayments/Underpayments and Cash Discounts, and Reason codes configuration
• Configured automatic payment program (F110) and also involved in running the program
• Worked on Accounts Receivable (AR), wherein defined Account Groups, Customer Groups, number ranges, and Field Status for AR Master Records
• Set up the dunning program including dunning areas, dunning level, and dunning charges
• SAP FICO support roles

Confidential : Chicago, IL
Role : SAP FICO CONSULTANT
Duration :Aug 2004 - Mar 2005

• Maintained customer master records in AR and configured the system for daily accounting transactions in AR
• Responsible for FIC, configured the system for the creation of AR invoices, and posted manual incoming payments with difference
• worked on dunning, clearing, statistical postings, down payments, and information system module
• worked on Bank Accounting Master data for house banks, Electronic Bank statement, reconciliation, check printing, and interest calculation
• worked on sales and used tax jurisdiction codes and structures
• worked on EDI transactions 810, 820, 830, and 856
• worked with ABAP team in the implementation of New Outbound ACH Bank Payment Interface for foreign currencies
• Participated in the design of the month end closing steps, determination of the job schedules, and defined the job variants for all CO closing activities

Education:

• MBA, IRMA
• MDP Programs on
• Project Appraisal
• Development Planning
• Media Planning