SUMMARY:

• Qualified professional with an MBA - Finance, over 12 years (4 full life cycle implementations and upgrades) of experience in SAP R/3 (4.x, 4.7 E, ECC 5.0-6.0, EhP7) FI/CO module.
• Prolific experience in implementing, integrating, customizing and configuring SAP R/3 FI/CO in: FI-GL, FI-AP, P2P, Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), FI-AR, Master Data Management (MDM), FI-CA, FI-Asset Accounting, Lockbox, Customer Master Data, Vendor Master Data, Electronic bank Statement (EBS), Treasury Management - Cash Management, In House Cash, Foreign Exchanges, Money Markets, payment programs for payment requests; NFE/CTE/MDFE Brazilian interfaces, FSCM; FI-FM Funds Management integration, CO-CCA, CO EC-PCA, ECCS Consolidations, Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC), CO-CEA, COPA, Product Costing (e.g. manufacturing cost planning), CO-Internal Orders, Investment Management, Architecting business processes, Open Text, Project Systems, and Special Purpose Ledger, SAP Archiving, Fiscal Year Variants (FSV) creations and changes. Experience with Batch Management and Procurement, closing processes & workflows, closing cockpit.
• Extensive experience with New G/L - Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, New company code setup, Parallel Currencies, periodic processing and Segment Reporting, Migration from OLD GL to New GL, foreign multi/dual currency configuration and valuations, group currency, currency conversion.
• Experience in integration with other modules like Sales & Distribution (SD) and Material Management (MM), HR - Payroll systems, VERTEX. Further, performed FI and CO integrations with other modules and sub-modules.
• Worked on ASAP methods of project preparation to identify business objectives to integrate industries, Blueprint of the business requirements, realization of the configuration or proof of concept, final preparation of testing, interfaces, conversions, reporting,, and the go- live and support.
• Closely worked with people from SD, MM, PP, and BW modules for the better understanding of the processes and reporting aspects, further for smooth integration developments with these modules.
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes.
• Experience in importing master data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 by using LSMW & Batch Input Session techniques, writing functional specifications for the interfaces and IDOCs.
• Developed excellent communication and interpersonal skills through working in a fast paced and challenging environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 - 4.7 - 3.1H, 5.0 - 6.0

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, ABAP Query, Solution Manager.

Operating Systems: WINDOWS XP, NT, Windows 2000 advanced server.

Other systems & Tools: Vertex, NESTOOL, DOCUMENTUM, MS VISIO, MSOffice Suite, Lotus Notes, Sarbix, Crystal Reports 8, Hyperion, HP Quality Centre HPQC, BEX Analyzer, HP ALM, WORKSOFT, SPAW, GEAC, Remedy, Quality Manager, NFE/CTE/MDFE Brazilian interfaces, U Perform, ITSM, ITLC, PRIMUS, TIDAL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reno, NV

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of IGT Global roll outs for various countries, leading Blue Printing phase for Columbia and Chile roll outs. Efforts include: conducting and leading Blue Printing workshops, requirements gathering, localizations for various local reporting and tax requirements for Columbia and Chile. Providing solutions for the local and country level business processes which do not fit into IGT Global SAP template, FIT GAP analysis.

Environment: SAP GL, AP, AR, AA, Intercompany, SAP-CO, CCA, PCA, Internal Order, WBS, Project Systems, Batch Jobs, COPA, Treasury Management, Cash management, Credit Management, Batch Jobs, EDI, EBS, Multi currency accounting, ACH.

Confidential, Cherry Hill, NJ

SAP FICO/FICA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided support during HANA Migration and Cutover activities. Further supporting during Hyper care period towards SAP FICO/FICA area. Involved with HANA Migration activities which include: Preparation, pre-migration, up-time, final business processing, downtime, transports, system recovery, smoke testing, business validations, and batch recovery. During Hyper care - providing support on issues and defects related to FICO, FICA, and Treasury.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working as part of GL Optimization and Global GL initiative which comprise of many small roll-out projects within these initiatives.
• Addition of additional coding blocks (Risk Location, Branch/Producing office, and Treaty) to Foreign Exchange FX Re-measurement and Translation in order to standardize the process and facilitate enhanced reporting, and fulfilling the requirement of US GAAP Ledger (U0) and US STAT Ledger (S1).
• With an effort of addition of additional coding blocks, adopted the following testing approach for the SAP solution: Test Manual Journal Entries, Test Interface Postings, Running Balance Carry Forward Program, Test extraction of the data to SAP BI, Test the FX Re-measurement & Translation processes, Analyse and update any other SAP program which is using summarization table.
• Verify that the totals table for U0/0L and S1 are now populates branch and risk location, Run re-measurement for U0 and 0L via FAGL FCV to ensure that Branch and Risk Location are populated on the YA entry derived from the original document.
• Verify that the translation structure has been updated with Branch, Run translation for U0 and 0L via FAGL FC TRANS to ensure that Branch is populated on the YB translation entry resulting from the original document; Verify that FAGLL03 now populates Branch and Risk Location correctly for U0/0L.
• Actively Performed as team member of an effort for Global BCF Cutover activities with phases of Preparation/Pre-Migration/Migration of GL Objects/and Final Validation; Ensure the GL transport list(sequence of transports) is in sync with the CM Team, Validate transports imported to EC1 successfully, Verify run time objects for FAGLFLEXA, FAGLFLEXT, YOCGLTANAFLEXA, and YOCGLTANAFLEXT, Query FAGLFLEXA, FAGLFLEXT, YOCGLTANAFLEXA, and YOCGLTANAFLEXT, Execute syntax program (RGZZGLUX), Confirm GL Changes Deployed.
• Creation and changes of Variants due to adoption of program by AIG for running FX re-valuation and re-measurement program from FAGL FC VAL to FAGL FCV.
• Performed validations, analysis, and testing of Security roles, testing of inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Performed Unit testing, regression testing which include custom and normal SAP transactions codes to make sure new programs and developments are inline before moving to production environment. Made sure transactions were passing to US GAAP Ledger and STAT Ledgers by running JE uploads, JE Cover sheets, Trial Balance reports, payment run program F110, Balance Carry Forward BCF for various company codes, Foreign Exchange FX Re-measurement/re-valuation (FAGL FCV) and Translations (FAGL FC TRANS) programs, posting of foreign currency Valuations, Mass Reversal of documents, Acquisition/Depreciation/Transfer/and Retirement of Fixed Assets.

Environment: s: SAP GL, AP, AR, RMCA, AA, MDM, VIM, Open Text, Treasury Management, Cash & Liquidity management, Transaction Manager, Batch Jobs, EDI, ALE, Revenue Recognition, EBS, ACH, DME, CCA, PCA, Internal Order, CRM integration, WBS, Project Systems, Batch Jobs, COPA, FICA, FSCM dispute/credit/collection management.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Working as part of Service Engineers (SE) team for Service Design Engineering of the SAP Finance solutions, which is a part of SESIT and MSIT.
• Working on escalated issues and new projects managed internally by MSIT.
• Reworking of existing applications and processes and/or designing of new applications and processes for optimized operations.
• Working on Weekly (Support Maintenance Changes, low risk items, and changes that have no impact to upstream/downstream systems), Quarterly (projects, new business functionalities/enhancements, changes required by BPRTs and SAP Support Packs), and out of cycle release changes.
• Worked on Side Effects Report, analysis for FI area of various OSS notes as part of new enhancement pack implementation for quarter end releases, analyzed applicable or not applicable notes as per Confidential existing functionality and business processes.
• Contributed towards Year-End activities include Fixed Assets and GL Accounts close for the year-end in various client systems.
• Creation, change and deletion of various variants under different programs and systems.
• Business Process Regression Testing (BPRT) task for quarter end, making sure all transports, batch jobs, reports and various processes running smoothly as per business needs. Fixed the issues if there required so.
• Participation in month and year end closing process.
• In COPA, defined PA transfer structure for settlement of orders and projects and further assigned PA transfer structure to settlement profile.
• In COPA, defined PA transfer structure for production variance settlements, and further assigned PA transfer structure to settlement profile.
• In COPA, maintained PA transfer structure for direct postings from MM and automatic account assignment of FI/MM integration.
• In COPA, in assessing cost centre costs and processing costs - defined structure of cost centre assessment, PA transfer structure for assessment, and allocation structure.
• In COPA, in direct and indirect activity allocation maintained transfer structure and set up indirect allocations of activities from cost centers and processes.
• In COPA, in multiple valuation approaches and transfer prices, assigned accounts for internal goods movements and activated profit center valuation.
• Contributes towards Business Requirements Planning by reviewing requirements for solutions which results in alignment between multiple programs or services and the business strategy and ensures plan or strategy buy-in.
• Designs service specifications that meet business requirements by analyzing solution priorities and service or system processes.
• Problem management Analysis - Leads investigations of problems by using standard and custom problem management tools and processes.
• Managing specific initiatives designed to enhance the SAP system and increase system supportability and performance. Further, investigating root cause analysis and driving the resolution.
• Facilitating the quarterly release process - for which new functionality and changes are applied to the SAP production systems by reviewing of Business Unit IT requirements analysis, participation in specification and test plan review, ensuring realistic and practical changes to the SAP environment while meeting the business requirements.

Environment: SAP GL, AP, AR, RMCA, AA, MDM, VIM, Open Text, Treasury Management, Cash & Liquidity management, EDI, ALE, Transaction Manager, Revenue Recognition, EBS, ACH, DME, CCA, PCA, Internal Order, CRM integration, WBS, Project Systems, Batch Jobs, COPA, FICA, FSCM dispute/credit/collection management.

Confidential, Issaquah, WA

SAP FICO QA

Responsibilities:

• Providing business analysis and process redesign expertise in SAP-FICO functions and processes.
• Gathered, analyzed and documented business and functional requirements. Translated business needs into applicable system design solutions via configuration and development.
• Developed functional specifications, data mapping, function mapping, setting of configuration tables and development of business scenarios in a test environment. Identified and resolved gaps in the business processes.
• Revised current system and interfaces, prepared functional specifications for the new and revised interfaces, made enhancements to improve performance and quality.
• Defined and recommended future business processes and systems interactions including new company code setups with effects of multi currency. Also provided leadership and to the business users.
• Test Scenarios and test cases development through business processes and interaction with the Business.
• Testing of SAP functionality to satisfy business requirements and business process design.
• Working on RICEFW and development of test scenarios and test cases.
• In COPA, defined characteristics values and hierarchies, further defined characteristics derivation, derivation rules.
• In COPA, defined and assigned valuation strategies. Setup valuation using material cost estimate by defining standard cost estimate and actual costing with material ledger, and by assigning to value fields and costing keys to products, material types, and characteristics.
• In COPA, setting up conditions and costing sheets by defining condition tables, access sequences, and pricing reports, further assigning value fields.
• In COPA, defined number ranges for actual postings, maintained characteristic/value field groups and assigned them for assignment and line item screens.
• In COPA, assigned value fields and quantity fields in transferring of sales orders (record type-A) and billing documents (record type-F) data.
• Resolving the conflicts in test cases by Interaction with implementation partner and business.
• Designing and executing test plans to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are implemented properly and meet business objectives.
• Developed business relationships and integrate activities with other IT areas to ensure successful implementation and support project efforts.
• Communicate SAP capabilities/possibilities within functional module. Reviews all deliverables throughout the project lifecycle to ensure completeness, consistency, quality and requirement traceability. Identify and resolve design issues, participate and provide critique for design reviews.
• Applies subject matter expertise to identify, develop, and implement techniques to improve Product and Process Quality.
• Traceability among Business requirements, RICEFWs, and Test cases.

Environment: SAP GL, AP, AR, MDM, RMCA, AA, VIM, Treasury Management, Cash & Liquidity management, EDI, ALE, Transaction Manager, Batch Jobs, CRM integration, Revenue Recognition, Open Text, EBS, ACH, DME, CCA, PCA, Internal Order, Material Ledger, WBS, Sabrix, Project Systems, COPA, FICA, FSCM dispute/credit/collection management.

Confidential, Calgary, AB

SAP FICO Consultant- Material Ledger

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise during designing and architecting for the implementation of Material Ledger and all its implications towards FICO, PP, MM, and other SAP and non-SAP (Legacy) areas. Communicated SAP Material Ledger capabilities and possibilities including multi currency configuration and valuations for new company codes. Identified and resolved design issues, participated and provided critique for the design reviews. Developed business processes into SAP Material Ledger’s functionality, and integrated activities with other SAP and non-SAP areas to ensure successful implementation.

Environment: s: SAP GL, AP, AR, AA, Material Ledger, Batch Jobs, EDI, CCA, PCA, Internal Order, WBS, Project Systems, LIFO/FIFO Inventory Valuations, Batch Jobs, COPA.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supports the transition from Project to Post Go-Live Support by performing break/fix analysis and resolution.
• Conducting solution architecting workshops with the business managers and working with Confidential staff and end-users to determine the functional requirements for the system within the SAP FI/CO module. Creating detailed systems documentation, test scripts, and presentations.
• In COPA, defined PA transfer structure for settlement of orders and projects and further assigned PA transfer structure to settlement profile.
• In COPA, defined PA transfer structure for production variance settlements, and further assigned PA transfer structure to settlement profile.
• In COPA, maintained PA transfer structure for direct postings from MM and automatic account assignment of FI/MM integration. Configuring the SAP FI/CO system to meet the business requirements.
• In COPA, in assessing cost centre costs and processing costs - defined structure of cost centre assessment, PA transfer structure for assessment, and allocation structure.
• Leveraging business and technical expertise to address technology architecture, blueprinting, data analysis, business modeling, technical design, application development, integration, and enablement.
• In COPA, in direct and indirect activity allocation maintained transfer structure and set up indirect allocations of activities from cost centers and processes.
• Guides small teams implementing business process improvements and implementing SAP FI/CO systems for Confidential .
• In Product cost planning, involved in configuration for Master Data, Cost Center, Activity Types, Materials and Bill of Materials, Routings, Work Center, Activity Types and Planning Prices, Cost Component Split, Activation of Cost Component Split in Controlling.
• Managing and overseeing the design and development of customized reports, utilizing ABAP technical resources and other tools functionality within SAP.
• Designing and development of interfaces programs to/from existing partner systems.
• Providing general technical support in FI/CO business systems analysis for Confidential business customers and conducting SAP as required for internal COE personnel/ end users.
• Providing leadership and guidance to other systems analysts and client personnel assigned to the projects.
• Working on multiple interfaces with the New GL and configuration of New GL.

Environment: SAP GL, AP, AR, MDM, RMCA, AA, VIM, Treasury Management, Cash & Liquidity management, Transaction Manager, EBS, ACH, DME, Batch Jobs, CCA, PCA, EDI, ALE, IDOCS, Open Text, Sabrix, Internal Order, WBS, Project Systems, COPA, Material Ledger, FSCM dispute/credit/collection management.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership skills in the FI area, which includes working with SWA client to analyze and plan work, managing workload and team assignments and deliverables (communicating commitment dates and issues. provided consultation to the SWA client by using in-depth knowledge of SAP FI business / functional knowledge in FI/CO (new GL), AP, AR, Asset Management, ECCS, CCA, PCA, Internal orders, Project Systems, module integration with FI, US Tax and third party tax software, as well as understanding of technical enhancements, changes, and defects for reports, interfaces conversions, enhancements, and forms (RICEFs).
• In COPA, defined and assigned valuation strategies. Setup valuation using material cost estimate by defining standard cost estimate and actual costing with material ledger, and by assigning to value fields and costing keys to products, material types, and characteristics.
• In COPA, setting up conditions and costing sheets by defining condition tables, access sequences, and pricing reports, further assigning value fields.
• In COPA, defined number ranges for actual postings, maintained characteristic/value field groups and assigned them for assignment and line item screens.
• Provided day-to-day point of contact with the client stakeholders.
• Led onshore/onsite/offshore FI teams in determining defined FI tower-level initiatives.
• Maintained ticket list for the tower (work scoping, assignments, throughput, sign-off, releases, etc.).
• Led client teams through work initiatives when applicable (close activities, pay cycles, etc.), building off best practice, report on performance metrics and status items for my area, and escalated client, team or work issues to the program manager.
• In COPA, assigned value fields and quantity fields in transferring of sales orders (record type-A) and billing documents (record type-F) data.
• In COPA, defined PA transfer structure for settlement of orders and projects and further assigned PA transfer structure to settlement profile.
• For Application Maintenance, provided comprehensive knowledge of interfaces with SAP FI, application development as it applies to FI, CO and consolidations for configuration and creation of functional specs for technical team as applicable, and critical solution design.
• For System Integration, provided strong knowledge of FI and CO functions and processes, purchasing, Project Systems and US taxation processes in SAP with in-depth functional knowledge of the FI module and how it relates across the application.
• Provided strong knowledge to make informed decisions and to formulate appropriate responses in connection with requirements analysis, application design, construction, and testing strategies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving abilities

Environment: SAP GL, AP, AR, RMCA, AA, VIM, Treasury Management, Revenue recognition, Open Text, MDM, Cash & Liquidity management, Transaction Manager, Sabrix, EDI, ALE, IDOCS, EBS, ACH, DME, CCA, PCA, CRM integration, Batch Jobs, Internal Order, WBS, Project Systems, COPA, FICA, FSCM dispute/credit/collection management.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on customers invoices and credit memos, settlement, payments and also used recurring entry program to generate documents for recurring transactions.
• Assisting business user team all over US with supporting for first and second level priority tickets.
• In FSCM, worked on Biller Direct issues, Dispute Management resolutions, credit card payment issues, posting periods and billing issues.
• In FSCM, modified APAR EBPP GET DATA interface to add few additional attributes while send customer invoice online to view using Biller Direct.
• Helped in processed the Open item payment, Down payments and Lump sum amount.
• Helped in resolving Incoming Payments, Billing, Credit Management and Dunning Program problems.
• Resolved settlement issues in the area of credits, billings, and other discrepancies by analyzing through transactions /PPSCARD/ZSETT, /PPSCARD/ZAUTH, /PPSCARD/ZDEP.
• Resolved settlement issues in the area of credits, billings, and other discrepancies by using SE16N with BSEGC table whether settlements have occurred in the system.
• Resolved issues related to Credit disputes, Credit memo routing, Credit Card Memos, Collection issues, payment postings, late fees, incorrect postings for unprocessed transactions, unapplied payments on various accounts, misapplied payments, billing problems and errors, over and under applied invoices, posting period errors, payments in lockbox, credits to apply, problems regarding ACH payments, SAP Tokenizer problems, refunds on credit cards, budget pay contract issues.
• In New GL: Worked on Document Splitting: knowledgeable in document splitting method, rule, classified GL accounts, defined characteristics for controlling, classified document type for information analysis at granular level.
• In New GL: Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, New GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment.
• Interacted with users regarding resolving complex issues.
• Worked on Inter-company configuration and creating Invoices in FI. Extensively worked on OBYA (Inter Company Clearing) to create Invoice and Payment Procedure.
• Resolved issues in Lockbox files with Melon Bank.
• Interaction with users and AmeriGas banks regarding any issues in lockbox files formatting.
• Resolved issues with SAP and third party clearing softwares.
• Resolved issues on Month - end closings.
• Used HPQC software for resolving defects in production by tracking defects, adding new defects, matching & updating defects, linking defects to tests.

Environment: SAP GL, AP, AR, RMCA, AA, Treasury Management, CRM integration, Cash & Liquidity management, EDI, ALE, IDOCS, Transaction Manager, EBS, ACH, DME, CCA, PCA, Sabrix, Revenue Recognition, Internal Order, LIFO/FIFO Inventory Valuations, WBS, Batch Jobs, Material Ledger, Project Systems, COPA, FICA, FSCM dispute/credit/collection management.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring, customizing, developing, implementing, integrating, and enhancing system related to FI - GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cash management; and CO - CCA, ECCS, PCA, Internal orders, CEA, COPA; Project Systems and Investment Management.
• Worked at a technical level of most phases of systems analysis while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment. Performed configurations, testing and implementation of application solutions.
• Gathered, analyzed and documented business and functional requirements. Translated business needs into applicable system design solutions via configuration and development.
• In COPA, defined characteristics values and hierarchies, further defined characteristics derivation, derivation rules.
• In COPA, defined and assigned valuation strategies. Setup valuation using material cost estimate by defining standard cost estimate and actual costing with material ledger, and by assigning to value fields and costing keys to products, material types, and characteristics.
• In COPA, setting up conditions and costing sheets by defining condition tables, access sequences, and pricing reports, further assigning value fields.
• In COPA, defined number ranges for actual postings, maintained characteristic/value field groups and assigned them for assignment and line item screens.
• Developed functional specifications, data mapping, function mapping, setting of configuration tables and development of business scenarios in a test environment. Identified and resolved gaps in the business processes.
• Integrated points between Financials and other SAP modules (MM, PM, PS, SD) including set up of automatic account assignment configuration.
• Initiated communication as necessary to ensure clear understanding of business needs, issues, project status, etc.
• Actively involved with month, quarter and year closing activities for AP, AR, and other sub-ledgers.
• Involved in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing,, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines

Environment: SAP GL, AP, AR, RMCA, AA, Material Ledger, LIFO/FIFO Inventory Valuations, Treasury Management, Cash & Liquidity management, Transaction Manager, EBS, ACH, DME, CCA, PCA, Internal Order, WBS, EDI, ALE, IDOCS, Batch Jobs, Project Systems, COPA, FICA, FSCM dispute/credit/collection management.

Confidential, Sellersville, PA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring, customizing, developing, implementing, integrating, and enhancing system related to FI - GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cash management; and CO - CCA, ECCS, PCA, Internal orders, CEA, COPA; Project Systems and Investment Management.
• Worked on SAP All-in-One Best practices towards SAP implementation by using ASAP methodology. Completed study of business processes relating to GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Banking, Cash Management, preparation of Business Blue Print document based on AS-IS study, recommended TO-BE processes and documentation of functionalities.
• Configured and implemented all the FI sub modules which include Banking, AR, and AP, Asset Accounting, General Ledger Accounting and Cash management and complete FI consolidation.
• Configured of Controlling sub modules Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Centre Accounting, and Profitability Analysis COPA.
• Worked with cross module integration with MM, Procure to Pay (P2P), and SD modules. Coordination with other all other modules for integration issues.
• Applied best practice towards FI and CO processes.
• Completed Unit Testing of FI-AP, FI-Accounts Receivable, FI-Asset Accounting, and Banking which includes bank reconciliation, further Unit Testing for Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Centre Accounting, and COPA.
• Coordinated with the ABAP team for changes/ Enhancement/ development of existing/ new reports and testing the same in test server.
• Focused on end user by providing key user and end user with detailed manuals.
• Customizing, testing and for Closing Operation programs.
• Supported the client in finalizing the authorization matrix and testing of business processes in the system.
• Data uploaded of all FICO modules providing templates for uploading using upload program by ABAP and LSMW.
• Interacted with the end user on regular basis understanding their requirement and initiating configuration changes where necessary support. Provided end user with detailed manuals.
• Involved in Support environment of FI business flow by handling the requests raised by users, solving the service requests raised by the users within the stipulated timeframe and intimating the users the solution.

Confidential, Portland, ME

SAP FICO Design Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided analysis on SAP functionality and the Abbott Nutrition’s fit into the current Abbott solution. Further ensured Abbott Nutrition’s desired state (To-Be Process) is understood and adapted by each impacted organization.
• Revised legacy inventory reports and reporting requirements, identified SAP standard reports that would replace them.
• Performed FIT/GAP analysis on the business requirements and developed the RICEF inventory by understanding incremental SAP functionality that needed to be enabled and gaps with standard functionality plus mitigation options available to address these gaps. Further, tested “fits” with current SAP functionality and developed SIT scripts.
• Defined and recommended future business processes and systems interactions. Also provided leadership and to the business users.
• Configured the automatic account determination, setting for various movement types and valuation classes.
• Worked on enhanced rebate and royalty reporting to fulfill department’s reporting needs.
• Revised current system and interfaces, prepared functional specifications for the new and revised interfaces, made enhancements to improve performance and quality.
• Configurations for ECCS aspects.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior SAP Business Analyst - Decision Support

Responsibilities:

• Worked on production orders WIP, settlement calculations, costing sheets and costing runs.
• Worked on matching revenue and cost of goods sold (COGS) automatic settlement calculations.
• Assisted in initiation of Core Super User Induction Process. Conducted Knowledge transfer, interviews and to Super users.
• Performed F&C validations correspond to GLOBE template to check, financial posting were valid, postings were generated against correct general ledger accounts and cost objects, whether all necessary data was captured and recorded for financial and cost analysis, and all financial data captured in source systems (SOS & COM boxes) was replicated to the (FI box) accurately and in a timely manner.
• Actively participated various workshops and meetings organized by Confidential to get familiarity and interaction between business practices and the system processes, to discuss and resolve various issues between the streams, and to be involved and engaged participants in key decision areas.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In A/R: Maintained payment terms for customers, defined cash discount base for outgoing invoices. Further defined accounts for cash discount granted and for reconciliation accounts for customer down payments.
• In A/P configuration: Created regular and one time vendor accounts in respective account groups by completing necessary fields for Search terms, Group keys, Reconciliation accounts, Cash Management (Planning) Groups, Payment terms, and Sort Keys.
• Executed reports in GL Accounting to display the list of accounts which showed both current account and numbers for the legacy chart of accounts. Also run reports to search with the output criteria of document entry controls to determine which accounts were configured for automatic postings.
• In A/P: Run reports for list of vendors open items for particular periods as per A/P reconciliations accounts, country of vendors, and accounting clerks.
• In Asset Accounting: Checked and completed data for asset classes, assigned default values in asset classes and specified in the field layout rules whether entries are required, optional, or suppressed. Further, used the asset classes to create asset master records.
• In depreciation posting program for Asset Accounting: Reviewed the log to ensure that the depreciation run was processed without errors and to identify the FI document numbers were created when depreciation was posted. Run the report RAGAFA01 to check the amount of depreciation posted to each asset class.
• In Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA): Performed corrections by reposting line items, also checked the results of repostings for particular cost centres in the current periods through Actual/Plan/Variance reports, and by displaying actual line items for the cost centres in report rows for the cost elements.
• Run reports for Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA) for Actual/Plan/Variance costs which provided summarized view of costs, activities, and statistical key figures that were posted to cost centres, which allowed for a consolidated view of multiple cost centres.
• By using Assignment Monitor tool in Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA): Checked the assignments of controlling objects and materials to the Profit Centres; checked which internal orders of a particular order types have not been assigned to the profit centres and also checked unassigned WBS elements, ensured that all materials of particular material types have been assigned to the right profit centres in order to correct representation of a revenues and cost of sales.
• In Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA): Executed actual and planned line item reports for different profit centres for specific periods/accounts to check the balances of line items with the profit centres, and also checked open item balances for receivables and payables.
• Run Plan/Actual Comparison reports for Profitability Analysis (COPA) to provide the contribution margin for divisions and products which helped for in depth analysis of the specific divisions and products and to identify the “bottom line” impact of revenues and costs. Both actual and planned data was listed in this report for the contribution margins and variances calculated for each value in it.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In A/P: Reviewed Vendor Master Records to find out whether specific requirements were fulfilled or not, verified that the fields were not required entries on the master records and the fields were marked required entries on the account groups, and investigated the causes of the fields were not being displayed on the master records.
• In A/R: Created regular customer accounts in relevant account groups by completing necessary fields for Search terms, Group keys, Reconciliation accounts, and Payment terms.
• In GL, run reports to list open and cleared items by using parked documents as a selection criterion to capture both posted and preliminary posting documents in the same reports, specified the key dates to separate the items posted before the key dates and a range of dates for clearing. Also searched line items of particular G/L accounts for specified periods for accrual accounts and the subsequent reversals of those accruals.
• In A/P: Run reports for vendor balances in local currency by vendor account numbers and reconciliation accounts which provided carry-forwarded balances, current debit and credit balances for each vendor in the chosen periods.
• In Asset Accounting: Checked for G/L accounts that were entered in asset classes by finding out initially what account determinations were entered in those asset classes.
• For period-end closing activities in Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA): Entered statistical key figures that were used as the basis for periodic allocations and also as tracing factors for period-end closing tasks. Also checked the effects of postings in the current and the following periods through drilldown reports for all periods in the current fiscal year.
• Run reports for Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA) to display Actual Line Items for cost centres which listed individual line items that were posted to the selected cost centres. These reports helped to reconcile postings between the GL and cost centres, to monitor actual postings made to particular cost centre, and to search for specific material or purchase order postings.
• In Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA): Run list-oriented reports for the Profit Centre groups for plan/actual data to check the actual sales revenue and results for particular profit centres. Also run reports for the profit centre groups for quarterly comparison of actual data and profit centre statistical key figures.
• Transferred Condition Types (Values) of billing documents in SD to the corresponding COPA value fields by making sure that the Condition Types (Values) were already linked to an account in FI that was also defined as a cost element of particular category in CO, and also ensured that all Conditions Types to be transferred were active in the SD pricing.

Confidential, Ft Lauderdale, FL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In Company Code Configuration for GL Accounting: Created company codes and chart of accounts, assigned company codes to chart of accounts, defined account groups; maintained Variants for Fiscal Year, Posting Periods, Open Posting Periods, Field Status, and Screens; further assigned these variants to the company codes and defined tolerance groups for employees.
• In GL Accounting: Created required field status groups in field status variants and made necessary entries in the field status groups as optional, required, or suppress as per the requirements; Further, assigned these field status groups to the particular GL Accounts.
• In configuring Master records for A/R: Defined Customer Account Groups and screen layouts per activity & company code; defined number ranges for customer accounts and assigned these number ranges to customer account groups.
• In configuration for A/P: Created account groups for Vendors and One-time vendors by copying the account group KRED and 0099 respectively, and configured them as per the requirements of the business scenarios. And, then assigned the number ranges to these account groups.
• Integrated Asset Accounting with General Ledger: Defined how Depreciation Areas would have been posted to General Ledgers and further assigned GL accounts, specified Financial Statement Version for asset reports, document types for posting of depreciation, and also specified intervals and posting rules.
• In Cost Centre Master Data for Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA): Checked and maintained cost centres master data, established time-dependent changes to master data for the cost centres, used collective processing to check whether cost centres in particular departments have been released for actual and planned postings, defined and activated list variants, changed cost centre group to automatically include all new cost centres regardless of assignments to particular hierarchy nodes.
• Configuring period-end closing in Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA): Created a cycle with a segment to repost the costs from one cost centre to the other cost centres in a particular department.
• In Transfer Pricing Configurations for Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA): Configured Basic Settings for pricing; Defined Account Determinations for - Internal Goods Movements, Production Variances in deliveries to other Profit Centres, and Special Handling for Internal Goods Movements.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created various GL accounts, Configured Automatic Clearing for General Ledger and assigned accounts for GL clearing differences, Configured foreign currency valuation by defining Valuation methods and assigned GL accounts for foreign currency valuation, defined adjustment accounts for GR/IR clearing.
• Performed FI integration with Overhead Cost Controlling, Material Management, and Sales & Distribution.
• In Posting Control for GL Accounting: Checked and prevented the assignment field “BSEG-ZUONR”, if it was changeable in basic FI posted documents, by altering the change rules for the account types ‘S’, ‘D’, and ‘K’ for the company code.
• In configuring Master records for A/P: Defined Vendor Account Groups and screen layouts per activity & company code; defined number ranges for vendor accounts and assigned these number ranges to vendor account groups.
• In configuration for A/R: Created account groups for Customers by copying the account group KUNA, and configured them as per business requirements, further assigned the number ranges to these account groups.
• In configuring valuation part of Asset Accounting: Defined Depreciation Areas, determined depreciation areas in the asset classes, and specified transfer of depreciation terms and APC values.
• In configuration of the depreciation keys for Asset Accounting: Defined Base Methods, Declining Balance Methods, and Mutli-Level Methods; also maintained period control methods and depreciation keys.
• Configuring Master Data for Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA): Created cost centres, primary and secondary cost elements, activity types, activity types which supported direct activity allocation and activity types as a template; specified the prices for activity types by using the planning menu.
• For period-end closing in Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA): Defined and assigned periodic repostings to a cycle flow group and run the cycle, also checked the results of periodic repostings for particular cost centres in the current periods through Actual/Plan/Variance reports, through drilldown by partner reports for cost elements, and by displaying actual line items for the cost centres in report rows for the cost elements.
• In Maintaining Master Data for Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA): Maintained Standard Hierarchy, monitored profit centres and group profit centres in a standard hierarchy to check: in which node of the profit centre hierarchy was a profit centre and the assignments of production accessories, and to check the linkages of the profit centres to the group’s node and which node was a superior node.
• In Basic Settings for Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA): Created Profit Centres and a Profit Centre Groups, and for the reporting and allocation purposes linked profit centres to the group’s node on the standard hierarchy.