SUMMARY

• SAP FICO consultant with over 7 years experience encompassing seven projects, three of which are Full Life Cycle Implementations from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live, one in implementation, one in upgrade and two in Production Support.
• Expertise in implementation of SAP R/3 Financial ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0 which includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA).
• Hands on experience in Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Product Costing (CO - PC).
• Worked on cross-functional integration of FI/CO module with other modules like MM, SD and PP.
• Expertise in ASAP methodology, that includes Vision and Planning, Design, Blue print, Configuration, Unit testing, Integration testing, End User training, Data Migration, Cut-Over, Go-live and Post Go-live.
• Created reports using the report writer and report painter in CO-PA.
• A results-driven expert who analyzes and implements SAP ERP solutions to ensure optimal integration and information access.
• Experienced at combining expertise in Project Planning and Design with strong technical qualifications.
• Exposure to US GAAP, Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, Treasury Management, LSMW, eCATT, EDI and IDOCS.
• Exceptional problem solver and decision maker with diverse experience in finance, accounting, and all aspects of office operation, as well as expertise in general accounting, analysis, management, budgeting, cash management, cost accounting, management reporting, inventory, accounts receivable and accounts payable.
• Motivated achiever who guides organizations in applying technology to business settings, provides added value, and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP System: SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0

Reporting tools: Report Writer, Report Painter, Solution Manager, eCATT, LSMW

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

Modules Implemented: General Ledger(GL), Accounts Payable(AP), Accounts Receivable(AR), Asset Accounting(AA), Cost Center Accounting(CCA), Internal OrdersProfit Center Accounting(PCA), Internal Orders, Profitability AnalysisProduct Costing (PC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 (Full life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full life-cycle implementation beginning from Business process review, design, configuration, testing, documentation and end-user training.
• Conducted meetings with the users to understand the AS IS business processes and documented business process flow charts using Microsoft Visio. Identified the requirements and modeled TO-BE process.
• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA and PCA.
• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records
• Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Worked on Vendor/Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Worked on LSMW for Data Uploads of Master Data.
• Configured the settings for Sales and Use Tax.
• Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to design a global Vendor / Customer Master Record Structure.
• Worked on Order to Cash Process (OTC) involving Sales order, Delivery, Billing documents.
• Configuring FI-MM account determination, assigning valuation areas to valuation grouping codes, defining valuation classes, account grouping and account determination extensively for GBB, BSX and PRD transaction keys.
• Configured lock box according to the business requirements.
• Resolving all issues relating to internal order settlement, Asset Accounting issues and Accounts Payable issues.
• Created new Asset class for AUC, included complete process from creation of internal order, settlement of periodic charges to Asset under Construction (AUC) to settlement to final fixed asset.
• Worked on Asset procurement and Acquisition via a real Internal Order via an AUC.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Element Attributes.
• Configured Report Painter and Report writer reports.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups, maintained Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, assigned Cost Centers to respective Profit Centers. Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc. Configured activity types, and statistical key figures, developed Assessment, Distributions and Reposting periodic cycles and segment in Cost Center Accounting.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Configured CO-PA functionality for cost-based and account-based methods. Configured Derivation procedures and valuation rules used to supplement CO-PA obtained from source modules FI, CO, SD and MM.
• Configured Standard Cost estimates in Product Cost Planning for the production orders with quantity structure and configured WIP Calculations and Variance Calculations.
• Product costing (make- to- order and make- to-stock) configuration, planning, cost object controlling, material ledger configuration, customize settings in transaction key OBYC.
• Worked on Product Cost Planning which includes basic settings for material costing, overhead cost elements, origin groups, costing sheets, overhead keys, overhead rates and credit keys as part of material cost estimate and also configured cost component structure.
• For Cost Object Controlling part, worked on Product Cost by Order. Also worked on master data such as BOMs, Routings, Work centers, Info records, activity types.
• Supported post go-live production issues on a day-to-day basis.
• Worked as a Production Support and also resolved the Production tickets at the Service Center.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• As a team member involved in all phases of implementation from development of business blue print to end-user training and go-live.
• Involved in defining requirements, process reengineering, configuration, integration, testing and training.
• Involved in analyzing the existing system for AS- IS study; gathered functional requirements through user workshops.
• Involved in configuring and demonstrating SAP core capabilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios based on business requirements of the client.
• Involved in development of functional process design.
• Configured client organizational structure as specified.
• Deciding the required master data for SAP FI/CO module implementation.
• Configured financial accounting global settings.
• Configured general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury and integrated with other SAP modules.
• Dunning functionality configuration and testing.
• Configured tolerance groups for employees.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Configured asset accounting module. Copied country specific chart of depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined asset classes, account determinations and allocated number ranges to asset classes.
• Worked on both Order to Cash process in association with SD team and Procure to Pay process with MM and Manufacturing team.
• Configured cost and profit centers, CCA/PCA allocations, internal orders, primary and secondary cost elements, activities, statistical key figures, automatic account assignments and substitutions.
• Created Internal Orders, assigned the costs incurred by Internal Orders from different Cost Centers, distributed the costs incurred by Internal Orders to the respective Cost Centers.
• Configured product costing and profitability analysis.
• Configured costing based COPA. Created characteristics and value fields used various derivation techniques and rules.
• Implemented transfer of overhead costs from Cost center accounting on a periodic basis and transfer of activities indirectly into profitability analysis segment also designed the PA transfer structure to control the secondary cost elements.
• Created costing sheets for CO- Product Costing: with overhead cost elements, bases, percentage overhead, credits, cost component structure, valuation variants.
• Configured cost estimates, marking, releasingupdated material prices and configured WIP calculations, Settlements for Product Costing.
• Involved in unit and integration testing.
• Conducted in-house training for end-users and project members.
• After Go-Live continued to develop and also involved in production support.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 (Full life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for blueprint, realization, and go-live support of Finance, Controlling.
• Responsible in the implementation, go live in CCA, COPA, Product costing.
• Assigned activities to WBS elements, defined dates and costs in individual activities.
• Configured Overhead cost elements, Product Cost planning, Cost object controlling to make order.
• Defined Cost component structure for different cost components.
• Create and display material cost estimate, mark and release of price.
• Configured Cost component structures and roll ups. Set up BOM and material cost estimate with quantity structure.
• Defined business partners in production revenue accounting according to the business requirements.
• Worked on open text routing invoices and preparing reports on the unpaid invoices.
• Worked Extensively on BOM and Routing rework, cost estimate updates and costing run.
• Configured Costing run for various finished materials across various plants.
• Configured Cost element accounting with primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups and maintained cost element attributes.
• Defined activity types, Created cost centre and cost centre categories and maintained automatic account assignment in OKB9.
• Made the configuration changes and implemented various SAP Notes and corrections required as per business documents.
• Defined dimensions for company consolidations, defined functional areas and profit centers.
• Did the table comparisons for major Finance, Controlling, and designed the method variance and COGS clearing analysis reports.
• Configured down payments and bills of exchange.
• Build the design of interfaces for creating standard costs and current costs.
• Worked on Functional designs and wrote functional specs according to the business requirements.
• Provided go live and post implementation support by resolving problems relating to report, training and system outage.
• Created Cost Element, Cost Center, Internal Order and Project Systems account assignments.
• Designed and implemented the configuration relating to project systems with controlling.
• Planned output activity for a cost center to determine the volume of costs and created primary and secondary cost planning methods.
• Defined assessment, distribution cycles and reposting rules amongst cost centers.
• Tested all Finance custom programs, reports, forms and inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Configured material cost estimate with quantity structure, cost variant and cost component structure like BOM and routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules using product costing and costing sheet.
• Trained key users as well as end users on the business processes.
• Performed extensive unit tests and integration tests.
• Prepared the cut-over plan.
• Provided post go-live support.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 version 4.7 to ECC 5.0 (Upgrade Project)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration and testing of Finance, Controlling.
• Performed gap analysis between 4.7 and ECC 5.0 systems to analyze the functional changes or business processes affected by upgrade.
• Addressed the major concerns of the client regarding the upgrade to ECC 5.0.
• Analyzed all the development/customizing objects implemented in 4.7 including the objects that have been modified.
• Reviewed the release notes to list the changes between 4.7 and ECC 5.0.
• Performed table comparisons for major General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Project Systems and customizing tables to list the differences between 4.7 and ECC 5.0 systems.
• Configured the basic credit management settings for OTC team for Credit check and post goods issue.
• Defined order type to create orders, assigned each order type to a number range and defined users.
• Assigned the tax procedure to the country, define tax structure for jurisdiction code as per the upgrade.
• Configured GL account group to make profit centre mandatory and applied a user exit to get the reconciliation ledger postings into PCA.
• Worked on the configuration changes for the business processes related to Finance, Controlling and required as per the upgrade to ECC 5.0.
• Defined Segments based reporting on US GAAP reporting requirements and derived them from the Profit Center master data.
• Integrated financials with Funds Management.
• Field status groups were defined to make default profit centers.
• Profit Centers were maintained using FAGL3KEH transaction.
• Configured validation and substitution rules according to new ECC 5.0 system.
• Worked on the integration issues of Finance and Controlling with MM and HR.
• Defined the company code global parameters by assigning the already existing chart of accounts, fiscal year variant and credit control area.
• Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments.
• Responsible for the automation of project material management with process tracking and delivery capabilities.
• Interacted closely with the security authorization administrator during development and testing of end-user security role objects.
• Performed unit testing and integration testing for all business processes related to General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, and Project Systems.
• Prepared and changed the documentation as required by the upgrade to ECC 5.0.
• Trained the end users and prepared training documents on using new ECC 5.0 system.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 (Go - Live Support)

Responsibilities:

• Provided support in the area of testing and prepared training documents for end-users.
• Created testing strategy for unit testing and integration testing.
• Analyzed and reviewed all business processes, user procedures, and system requirements.
• Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, posting rules, exchange rates and planning.
• Defined operating concerns based on characteristics and value fields.
• Maintained transfer structures to post data from FI, CO and PCA to COPA.
• Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on the 4.7 environment.
• Tested the FI/CO transactions for field errors and missing data in SAP standard programs. And tested all the custom programs, modified the field changes and enhanced the customized programs.
• Written functional and technical specifications for the new custom developments which included forms, reports and enhancements.
• Interacted with SAP service team in applying relevant OSS notes to the system to resolve issues.
• Fixed issues with valuation areas for material ledger, maintained number ranges and assigned currency types to material ledger.
• Implemented internal orders for research and development.
• Budgeting Corrected entry errors and reposted transactions.
• Actively participated in go live activities like master data preparation, data migration, cutover and post production support.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting in trouble shooting that the live production sites encountered.
• Worked directly with the end users, conducted various presentations and work around solutions to meet client specifications.
• Configured the process of foreign currency valuation to evaluate the AR and AP open line items and balances of GL accounts in foreign currency to calculate the foreign exchange gain/ loss.
• Enhanced the inter company clearing process by using the functional module to update the assignment field for matching records of AR and AP documents.
• Defined the process of credit management to set the credit limit for just one parent customer in a group which becomes the credit account for the entire group.
• Automated GR/IR process of clearing the accounts which has the assignment of goods receipts to the corresponding invoice receipts used in the purchase order number.
• Configured the system to show vendor name and number in FBL3N GL line item display.
• Configured new payment terms for the down payments as per the client’s requirements.
• Worked on the configuration of automatic payment transactions to vendors for all three formats of ACH payment types CCD, CCP and CTX to reduce costs associated with issuing all checks in the current configuration.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts and posting rules for automatic assignment and dunning notices.
• Configured LSMW for uploading master data of General Ledger, Customers and Vendors.
• Uploaded mass changes to the vendor master data records.
• Defined additional account determination to default cost centers, profit centers and profitability analysis for postings to cost elements in OKB9.
• Defined cost component structure as a primary cost component split and created cost component group for raw material costs in product costing.
• Used Report Painter/Report Writer and assigned different transactions to these specific reports.
• Maintained validations and substitutions, allocations and distributions using cycle segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Customized the Standard hierarchy, cost center activities and statistical key figures.
• Monitored Background jobs and period end closing procedures.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C (Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Define Company Codes and Chart of Accounts.
• Configure master data for GL accounts, Vendors and Customers.
• Created and changed Document Types; Configured Automatic Postings for P&L; Maintained Fiscal Year Variant; Set up Inter-company Transactions. Worked with Global, Local Chart of Accounts.
• Customized reports for open items, credit overview and account analysis.
• Set up Reason codes to charge off differences/grant additional cash discounts and account for collection.
• Setup and assign the accounts for MM and SD integration.
• Configured Outgoing payments- Manual Payments, configuration, Payment differences, Exchange rate differences, Payment advices, Payment Proposal, Payment Run, Payment media Involved in the unit testing and integration testing phases of the project. Resolving all the issues in integration and unit testing by redefining the processes. And worked on check management.
• Configured house bank and bank accounts, automatic interest calculations on account balances/line items, Customer Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups for Account receivable.
• Controlling module - comprising of General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting (CCA)- developing the Cost Center Hierarchy, creation of Cost Elements- Primary & Secondary, Assessment and Distribution of costs, developing necessary reports for Cost Center Analysis, budgeting.
• Configured Internal Order by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Status Management, Settlement Rules, Settlement Profile and Planning Profile.
• Appreciating the intricacies of Plant Maintenance (PM- Module) with Controlling and ensuring the accuracy of costing for Maintenance Order.