SUMMARY

• With 8+ years of Professional Experience with an emphasis on FI - CO module with integration between different modules and successfully implemented 3 Full Life Cycles by usingASAPMethodology.
• Knowledge and Experience in Implementation, Configuration, Customization, Integration and Testing in VersionsECC 4.7throughECC 6.0.
• Possess hands on knowledge in Finance, which includes New General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Fixed Asset (FA), Bank Accounting and Treasury (TR).
• Controlling Experience Includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders (IO), Product Costing (COPC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).
• Excellent skill set in integration, documentation, testing, user training and support encompassing different work environments includingIndustrialManufacturing,Chemical,Food,Pharmaceuticals, andOil & Gas.
• Proactive in identifying the Business Problems, Troubleshooting, Formulating Strategic Plans, Initiating Changes, and Implementing New Processes To Diverse Environments.
• Experienced in Implementations, Development & Production support projects and exposure includes preparation ofProject Blueprint,Configuration,Unit & Integration Testing,Training,DocumentationandProduction support.
• Experienced inAPInvoice Processing with Open text (VIM)and their Workflows.
• Lead end-to-end change management process for FICO configuration updates and authorizations; changes include initial through final approval in Rev-Trac (Solman).
• Expert in configuring Automatic Payment Program (APP) for Outgoing/Incoming Payments, Dunning, Validation and Substitution,Lockbox, andEBSprocessing.
• Responsible for creating and executing test scenarios such asFUT,SIT,UAT, and performed end-to-end test2ing. Authored and executed test scripts inHPQC.
• Designed and worked with development team onRICEFWObjects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows).
• Experienced in data migration from Legacy to SAP using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Highly motivated FICO Analyst who thrives in high-pressure environments with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with demonstrated leadership, ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• GL and New GL
• Cost Center Accounting
• A/R and A/P
• Internal Orders
• Fixed Assets
• Product Costing
• FI - MM-SD
• PM
• PP integration Profitability Analysis (Costing- based
• Account-based)
• Profit Center Accounting
• Report Painter & Report

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant and Support

Confidential - East Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities involved reviewing and analyzing business requirements across business functions, and developing requirement plans to meet business needs.
• Defined cut-over activities for upgrade of SAP system fromECC 4.7toECC 6.0.
• Coordinated with the ABAP team forRICEFrequirement and testing.
• Managed several critical program integrations with SAP including Re-Platforming ECC 6.0 to HANA,Message-Broker, andTidal.
• Implemented FItransactions and configured accounts forGL,AP,AR,AA, Special Ledger and Consolidation,COsub modules andNew GLfor segment reporting with integration betweenMM,SD and PP.
• SupportedIDOC'srelated to Purchase Orders, as well as other inbound and outbound IDOC data transfers.
• Designed the process of payment proposal approvals for different payment methods likeACH,Wire, andChecksin Accounts Payable.
• Configured Customer Master, Vendor Master; Incoming Payment (Manual and Automatic Clearing), Down Payment, AR Debit/Credit Memo, Interest Calculation Parking and Posting of Finance documentsFI-SDIntegration. Bank Master, House Bank,EBS,Lockbox.
• Conducted Integration testing forP2PandOTCprocesses.
• Streamlined posting ofInter-Company CodeTransactions andDunningProcessing that includes from creation of Dunning Proposals to Print.
• Maintained configuration inCCA,PCA,CCE,IO, COPA, and PCareas of theCOmodule.
• Designed and developed custom reports in CCA, PCA and COPA for Management Reporting.
• UsedHPQCfor developing test scripts and to Raise, Assign, Modify, Clear Defects.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions on Functional and Technical issues, to other members in the team.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant and Support

Confidential - Marysville, OH

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Functional Specifications (including configuration and test plans) and related work requests such as Reporting, Data Conversion, Integration, Enhancements, and Workflow (RICEFW) issue resolution and process design needs in order to get production issues resolved.
• Lead and organized teams to implement changes working with different module leads per business requirements.
• Monitored and analyzed financial, statistical and operational data trends.
• Developed EDIinterfaces,IDOCprocessing, creation of IDOCs, andBDCsessions.
• Proficient in Logistic Invoice Verifications (LIV-3-way match) and optimization of 3-way match process inVIM(Vendor Invoice Management).
• Exceptional with theTreasurymodule inLock Boxprocessing, creation of new bank accounts, manual and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS).
• Experienced on check image attachment project for Lockbox clearing documents in FB03.
• Maintained tax codes and tax jurisdiction codes for company codes operated by FTXP andVertex Systems.
• Prepared functional specifications, custom reports (based on user requirements) and coordinated withABAPProgrammers Optimized the existingACHfile generation process by changing the design to generate the files based on the payment method via single payment run.
• Enriched the process of improvement of invoice auto posting rate inVIM.
• Prepared training material guides and trained end-users on SAP projects.
• Optimization of General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting, (PCA)and Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Involved in month end closing operations forNew GL,AR,AP,AA, andCOthat include clearingGR/IR Accounts, regrouping and sorting of AR/AP.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential - Provo, UT

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops for requirement gathering (Blue Printing), and applied this to the Solution Manager as a Central Data Repository.
• Responsible to the organization for the development and organization of all the matters related to FI (GL,AP,AR, andFA) and CO (CCA,CCE,COPA,PCA, and COPC) end users: including, but not limited to creation, editing and maintenance of documentation.
• Delivered configuration, integration and implementation of FI with other modules such as,MMandSD, and for changes required for client’s specific needs throughRTandRFCguide lines.
• Accountable for Procure to Pay (PTP) Cycle, including Integration ofFIwithMM(OBYC) by mapping Movement types and Valuation classes.
• Worked withMMteam for Inventory Valuation and reporting.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP)including House Bank creation, Bank Determination, and Payment Methods.
• Executed configuration ofBank Accounting,Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Profit Center accounting (PCA).
• Established Product Costing (CO-PC) planning including cost component structures, costing sheet, costing variants, valuation variants and costing types.
• ConfiguredLockboxApplication conforming to BAI2 format.
• Prepared, documented and maintained all documentation and processes for end users.
• Assisted Functional Team leads; Technical Team leads in coordination of test activities.
• Supported end users in month end closing activities as well as training.

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential - Burlington, IA

Responsibilities:

• Involved directly inUATtesting with processing all Cutover Activities prior to Go-Live.
• Provided day-to-day production support.
• Functional Supportfor New GL,FA,AR,AP,Bankingand Financial Reporting.
• Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FICO.
• Configured General Ledger: Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges andGLaccounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files, Substitutions and Validations rules for documents, recurring entries, interest calculations etc.
• Worked on various fields in taxes, such asWithholding Taxes, input and output taxes.
• Expanded third party Invoice entry into SAP usingIDOCS.
• Supported Banking included configuration and business processes for Cross Company Payments, Lockbox, ACH Payments and Bank Statements.
• In Accounts Payable (AP) - configured vendor groups, number ranges, tolerance limits, payment terms, payment methods and maintained initial settings for recurring entries in accounts payable (AP).
• Supported the FI team in setting up the SAP-GL accounts in coordination withAsset Accounting.
• Improved both Orders to Cash (OTC) business in association with SD team and Procure to pay (PTP) process with the MM (Materials Management) and Manufacturing teams.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics and settlement toCOPA.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) worked on Cost Centers,Activity Types,Statistical Key Figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, and Cost Center Categories.
• Involved in post Go-Live support.
• Aided the users in month end and year end closing.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential - Bloomington, MN

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated Business Blue Printing Phase, Realization, Testing, End User training, and Go-Live phase based on Accelerated SAP (ASAP) Methodology.
• Worked very closely with the business users and the other implementation group to support all relative production issues related toFI,CO,MM, andSD.
• Configured business transactions forAPandARincluding the Automatic Payment Configuration (APP), 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, and correspondence.
• Verified configurations in Procure to Pay (P2P) process involving Logistics Invoice Verifications (LIV) & MM Purchasing.
• Configured and Tested theLock Boxprogram for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format.
• InAsset Accounting (AA), configured asset classes, GL integration, chart of depreciation, group assets, depreciation areas, depreciation key, calculation key, valuation, acquisitions and retirements and configuration of Assets Under Construction (AUC).
• Shaped automated credit card processing functionality through SAP.
• Involved as a team member in configuring controlling area, operating concern,Profitability Analysis (PA), Cost Element Analysis,Cost Center Accounting (CCA)andProduct Costing (PC).
• Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement toCOPAand toCCA.
• Responsible for Profit Center Accounting (PCA), created Standard Hierarchy, Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, defined Document Types, Number Range Assignment.
• Prepared end user training documentation and conducted training sessions for FICO end users on GL, AR, AP processes as well as month-end processes.
• Provided on-going technical support to new uPerform users.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential - Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements.
• Delivered functional assistance in the development ofRICEFW(Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow).
• Comprehensive understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules (FI-CO,SD,MM, andPP) and of overall business processes such as Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (P2P).
• Experience in the integration ofFixed Assetaccounting (FA) with Internal Orders (IO), maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, configuring capitalization of Assets Under Construction (AUC), assigning cost elements.
• Configured additionalHouse Banks, Bank Accounts, and Check Lots.
• Created Cost Center groups andCost Centers and Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Worked onProfit Centers (PCA)and completed the account assignment for the cost objects.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups and maintained Vendor Group.
• Set-up Lockbox processing, setting up house banks, defining House bank accounts defining lockbox parameters, posting data and testing the lockbox functionality.
• Worked on the year-end activities and transfer of accounts and month end closing activities.
• Supported productions issues and worked on the issue tickets and performed the End User Training on the check management in APP and ACH payments.

SAP FICO Consultant (Full Life Cycle)

Confidential - Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked onBusiness Blueprintingincluding functional specifications and configuration documents.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, conduct workshops with the business users, designing, configuring, and testing and providing post implementation support.
• Worked on different Testing scenarios relatedOrder to Cashprocess (OTC), Sales Order,Billingand Delivery.
• Prepared Test Conditions, test cases and scripts in Quality Center for Project Systems(PS),COPA,AP,AR.
• Created several Validations and Substitutions to meet the business requirements.
• Created various new (Fixed Asset) Asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production.
• Worked on configuring the necessary settings to transfer plan data from controlling components to Special Purpose Ledger (SPL) and resolved issues.
• Configured and designed the full functionality of FI module relating toAP&ARconfiguration: Credit management, tolerance limits, open item clearing, account groups, field status groups, and reason codes.
• Configured the General Ledger: Tested Master records, accounts groups, number ranges andGLaccounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files.
• ConfiguredHouse Banks, bank accounts, assignment of the accounts to a check lot, automatic payment program for out-going payments inAPexclusively on payment methods likeACHprocessing and check runs.
• Lockboxconfiguration with BAI2 format and also worked on Electronic bank statements (EBS) with MT 940 and Multicash format.
• UsedLSMWfor data migration of vendor and customer master data.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential - Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the cutover of FI -GL,AP,AR,MM, andSDopen items fromECC 4.7toECC 6.0.
• Created new reports for the validation of ECC 4.7 and ECC 6.0 Asset data.
• Resolved issues relating to new upgrades in the modules like GL Accounting,Cost Center Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, andProfit Center Accounting.
• Configured automatic posting for reconciliation ledger, real & statistical postings.
• Involved in the checking of GL account,GR/IRaccounts and vendor accounts for transactions.
• Participated in knowledge transfer to the client team members in new system functionality and performed the integration of FI/COwithSD,MM.
• Responsible for all issues related to SD, MM integration impacting FI/CO.