SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years Professional experience with Business Users Interaction, Requirement Gatherings, Configurations, Development, Data Migration, Testing and End User Training with SAP ERP, Accounting, and Technical Support.
• Expert in SAP Finance and Controlling with 3 full life-cycle Implementations of Business Consulting Functional Analysis of SAP FI/CO Module in SAP Project as per ASAP methodology.
• Possess excellent internal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities to handle multiple tasks, Team Management, Customer relationship Management and planning with strict adherence to time schedules.
• Implementation experience in General Ledger GL , New GL, Account Receivable AR , Account Payable AP , Asset Accounting AA , Special purpose Ledger, Controlling Areas, Cost Center Accounting CCA , and Profit Center Accounting PCA and Strong working knowledge in Controlling CCA, OM, IO, PCA, PC and B/W modules.
• Experience covers all stages of SAP FI/CO activities from Fit Gap analysis, Develop, Creation of business blueprints, Configuration, Realization, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Learning training, Go Live support, Control Start, Support production.
• Integration of FI with MM, SD and HR with Procure to Pay, Order to cash and Payroll Cycles.
• Special emphasis on Data Migration and ETL Techniques specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench LSMW for data uploads for various SAP Projects
• Extensive exposure in writing functional specifications including interfaces and working with ABAP programmers.
• Strong knowledge of business processes with strong foundation in Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts.
• Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports
• Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross applications. Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces ALE EDI , user-exits, and reporting tools
• Experienced in User Acceptance Testing and Integration testing of Legacy System Interfaces with SAP functionality.
• Coordinated with Global Team in Project Estimates for RICEF development and tested the RICEF's developed by offshore team.
• Excellent project execution track record with good leadership, strong communication and analytical skills.
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act SOX .
• Expertise in preparing User Manuals with perfect documentation and conducting training sessions for end users.
• Provided end user support for all issues pertaining to Finance and Controlling modules Worked closely with Business Leaders to consult and influence direction of business process.
• Documenting Business Requirement Document BRD , Functional Design Document FDD , Functional Specifications FS and other documents.

SAP FI/CO Skills:

• FI Enterprise Structure: Defining the organizational structure of Company, Configure Chart of Accounts and Define company codes.
• General Ledger: FI GL Configuration Create Account groups, Account types B/S P/L, Retained Earnings Account, Field status variant, GL Master records, Fiscal year, Post Period variant, Account type, Customized Document type, Sort Keys, Posting keys, Exchange rate. Reconciliation Accounts for customers, vendors, Assets.
• Account Payables: FI AP Defined vendor groups, vendor Master data, House Banks, Down payments, Automatic payment program, Recurring Entries Program, Closing procedure.
• Integration of MM with FI.
• Accounts Receivable: Defined customer groups, customer master data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, down payments, closing operations, Define Lock Boxes, Clearing Accounts, and payment methods.
• Integration of SD, MM, HR with FI.
• Asset Accounting: Configuring chart of Depreciation, Define Depreciation areas, Depreciation key, Account Determination and Asset classes and calculate of depreciation.
• Controlling: create cost centers, primary cost element, secondary cost elements, Distribution and Assessment cycles, statistical key figure, Planning development of reports. Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing CO-PC and Profitability Analysis CO-PA .
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-objects to profit centers etc.
• Special Purpose Ledger: Define Summary table, Group, Define ledger, Activities field movements, Activity transaction.

Technical Skills

SAP ERP Application: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.6/4.0b, CRM 7.0

Version : 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.7, ECC 6.0, SCM/APO

Functional Area : SAP ERP Finance and Controlling, SD MM,

Data Migration Tools: LSMW, eCATT, Report Painter, Report Writer

Other Tools : HP Quality Center 11.0, Remedy, SOLMAN, M-Office Suite

Testing Strategies : Integration System, Performance, UA Black Box Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP Systems Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP QC 10.0, Remedy

Responsibilities:

• Configured relevant settings for Lockbox processing and Outgoing Payments for bank change project.
• Functional specification for SAP Vertex interface. Changing exit to pass sold-to party for exemption.
• Fixing issues in COPA and other CO objects.
• Performing other day to day support work.

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP FICO Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP QC 10.0, Oracle, MS-Office, Remedy, SOLMAN

Responsibilities:

• As a core member for full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO module, gathered business process information and compiled the AS-IS, TO-BE and GAP analysis of the SAP R/3 system. Performed assessment of business requirements, mapping with SAP functionality.
• Configured FI New GL, AP/AR Banking Document Splitting, Segment Reporting, Doc types posting keys, analysis of all open items and clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt GR/IR accounts. Designed Account groups and Configured Payment program for check printing and Wire Transfer payments. Configured tax codes for vendor invoices. Worked on Vendor Master, Vendor invoices Payment methods ACH/Wire Transfer, Check and Credit Card and reporting, Customer Master, and Default account assignments for Overpayments/Underpayments.
• In Asset Accounting FA , assisted in creating Fixed Assets, Group Assets, Assets Class, Post Periodic Assets, and Asset Acquisitions. Maintained Depreciations, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Area, Fiscal Year Variant, Number range, and Substitution Rules in the Fixed Asset Master records and reviewed various Fixed Assets Accounts.
• Integration of parallel accounting concept during configuration for Fixed Assets Module, General Ledger, re-grouping and currency valuation processes for each period-end.
• Responsible of delivering integrated solution for service process with R/3 and CRM system.
• Configured relevant settings for Lockbox processing and Outgoing Payments. Resolved issues during Unit, Functional, Integration and Regression testing of business scenarios and test conditions.
• Defined Profit Center and Cost Center hierarchies. Created reports using Report Painter and Report Writer in CCA and PCA.
• Created an Electronic Bank Statement Posting Rules. Created Lockbox in House banks.
• Responsible for configuration of asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes. Customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges.
• Configured Leasing types, Account Determination, Screen layout rules, Asset classes for capital lease. Assign GL Accounts for Depreciation Area Impairment.
• Built custom transaction that allows systemic match between a searchable list of goods receipts and vendor invoice information entered into the screen. Developed custom programs to meet business requirements.
• Providing functional specifications to technical team in building custom program to automate the Retro process to reduce the manual Intervention.
• Coordinated the integration efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD.
• Implemented integrations with SAP HR Module Pre-Payroll and Post-Payroll Processes .
• Mapped SD pricing procedure and direct postings from FI/MM modules to value fields in COPA.
• Reconciliation of COPA,FI and PCA reports
• Involved in Maintaining Default Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions rules, Overhead Structure for Accrual Costs, Planning Layout and Profiles.
• Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load, GL uploads, Account Payables and Customer Open Account Receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Identified the RICEFs related to the processes above and create the RICEF reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms functional designs.
• Created BRD, FRD for User exits, module pool programs, Custom Idocs, Interface and reports.
• Extensively worked in Data Migration from legacy system to SAP using LSMW.
• Worked extensively on identifying RICEF factors, documented them, and trained the team on writing RICEF functional designs.
• Conducted User testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch Session and also involved in providing training to end-users.

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP QC 10.0, Oracle, MS-Office, Remedy, SOLMAN

• Involved in gathering business requirements, Preparation of Blue print by Re-engineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the to be system
• Defined the Enterprise structure and configured global settings for GL postings including automatic account assignments, financial statement version.
• Involved in Treasury Module upgrade, Money Market, Foreign exchange, Loans and Bank reconciliation.
• Prepared Documentation for business users.
• Created GL account master, document number ranges and field status groups.
• Provided Production Support after the go-live.
• Created Tolerance groups for employees and GL accounts.
• Created Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Records, Reconciliation Accounts, Number ranges and payment terms.
• Defined accounts for cash discounts, exchange rate differences and rounding differences.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program APP for invoice processing in Transaction Codes FBZP and F110.
• Created Profit Centers with hierarchy including dummy profit center, defined Number Ranges for documents.
• Configured the basic settings for distribution, assessment of actual and plan costs.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements and cost element groups in Controlling.
• Created cost center standard hierarchy, cost centers and assigned cost centers to cost elements.
• Involved in Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.
• Configured with costing and accounting based PA. Data flow to PA from SD, MM. Also configured the CCA to PA assessments, and reconciliation with PCA. Drill down reporting and COPA planning.
• Configured Operating Concern, Operating Concern Attributes, Created characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in Profitability Analysis, created custom reports in COPA
• In Profitability Analysis CO-PA configured costing based CO-PA, assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures, including decisions on characteristics, key figures, derivation rules and settlement to CO-PA
• Top down distribution and settlement of orders.
• Carried out Reporting for profitability by Customer, Product and Market segments, characteristics, value fields, maintaining the derivation rules.
• Successfully implemented Project to change Vertex Q series to Vertex O series to meet purchasing tax calculations.
• Setting up configuration in Vertex O and testing it.

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, HP QC 10.0, Oracle, MS-Office, Remedy, SOLMAN

Responsibilities:

• Deigned, configured and tested the FICO process in SAP R/3 to replace non-integrated, incongruent legacy systems, and eliminate redundancy, and to allow the county government to take advantage of vendor discounts.
• Set up Vendor Account Groups including One-Time Vendors, discussed options on the Vendor Master Data, and reviewed legacy master data, provided data cleansing logic, set up LSMW, and verified loaded master data.
• Created Tolerance Groups for AP, and Tolerances for Purchasing, Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt.
• Configured new Payment Terms including Installment Payment Terms for retentions in the case of contracts.
• Defined special GL accounts for Vendor Down Payments.
• Set Valuation Control, assigned Valuation Area Grouping, defined Valuation Classes, configured automatic postings for Goods Movements and Taxes, and set up parameters and default values for Invoice Verification.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments, defined accounts for Cash Discounts, Rounding Differences, Bank Charges, defined Payment Block Reasons and default values. Defined Tolerances, Reason Codes, and accounts for Payment Differences for Manual Outgoing Payments.
• Configured F.13 and MR11 for automatic GR/IR clearing.
• Set up the Extended Withholding Tax functionality in SAP.
• Provided a list of standard SAP reports and developed custom reports using Report Painter.
• Unit tested the configuration, tested the Procure-to-Pay scenario and conducted a walk-through session for end-users, and verified integration with GL, AR, AA, MM, and CO.
• Process lead for Order to Cash OTC and Record to report R2R
• Implemented the Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and G/L in SAP-FI. Also did tax procedure setup.
• Defined roles according to business requirements for AP, AR, GL and other areas.
• Studied and analyzed the existing business processes and recorded Process Flow
• Created flowcharts and got it approved from Key users, and created Business blue print for the existing processes.
• Electronic banking, Extended Withholding tax and tax procedure setup
• Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, Open and close posting periods and created G/L Account master records.
• Configuration of Master data, business transactions, dunning /payment processes in AR/AP
• Hands on experience in designing, development and testing of reports, interfaces and enhancements.
• Configured of integration of FI with SD and MM.
• Trained end-users on FI, CO.

Confidential

Role: Sr. SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities

• Implemented Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and G/L in SAP-FI and CCA, PCA, IO, IM and COPA in SAP-CO.
• Process lead for Order to Cash OTC , Record to Report R2R and Procure to Pay P2P .
• Configured new pricing procedure, order types via EDI, outputs for invoicing and shipment configuration in SD.
• Configured new Purchase order types, plants and other setup for Purchase orders.
• Studied and analyzed the existing business processes and recorded Process Flow,
• Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status groups, posting keys, document types, Open and close posting periods and created G/L Account master records.
• Working with developer's onsite and offsite in custom program developments.
• Setting up TRAX for banking interface. Used to send files to banks.
• Setting up interface to connect TRAX with SAP using DME and XML files.
• Configured Vertex and did testing and reporting as per requirement.
• Configuration of Master data, business transactions, dunning /payment processes in AR/AP
• Configuring 'Outgoing Payments': Identifying and defining 'House Banks' and Bank Accounts linked to it, setting up bank Groups to meet the client's project needs and to help optimize bank selection in automatic and manual payment program
• Configuring Automatic payment program for Vendor payment
• Developed other custom reports, interfaces as per requirement. Wrote Functional specification for these requirements and tested them.
• Maintaining Terms of Payment, Configuring Incoming Payment, and Configuring 'Down Payments.