SUMMARY

• Certified CPA with 8+ years of SAP Implementation experience in Financial Accounting (FI) & Controlling (CO) areas in all phases of Global End - To-End SAP implementation Projects.
• Experience in Manufacturing, Medical Equipment (FDA), Semiconductor and Chemical Domain.
• Experience of 3 full life-cycle implementations, Support, Enhancements and system upgrade.
• Configured and Tested FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-SPL, FI-AM, CO-CCA, EC-PCA, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO - Material ledger, Contract Accounting, PS and ECCS.
• Product costing experience in configuring Costing variants, valuation strategy, quantity structure, cost component structure, RA key, working with Standard cost estimate and Actual costing cockpit, production order settlements, WIP, Standard cost and moving avg.
• Proficient with COPA - operating concern, value fields, quantities, Characteristics and Derivation rules.
• Experience in Internal Orders - Overhead orders, Investment orders and orders with Revenue, Statistical orders, Allocation structure, settlement profile and period end settlements.
• Experience in Cost center and Profit center Accounting-hierarchies, Assignments, planning, layouts, and overheads, Allocations - Assessments and Distributions, manual allocations, Re-classifications, substitutions and validations.
• Hands-on experience in Project Systems (PS) include Project budgeting (PS-APP), Basic data (PS-BD), Project execution/integration (PS-EXE), Information system (PS-IS), Operative structures (PS-OPS), Project planning (PS-PLN).
• Experience in SAP FSCM - Dispute Management, Collection Management, Cash Management, Liquidity Planner and Billers direct.
• In depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration with SD, MM and PP with Procure to Pay, Order to cash Cycles and providing support for account determination.
• Experience in New GL Configuration, Defining leading and non-leading ledgers, setting up criteria, Assigning Business Scenarios, Document splitting, Zero balancing of documents.
• Extensive experience in Lockbox configuration and processing, FA- Acquire to retire process, automatic processes like payment program and dunning program and EBS.
• Extensively worked on IDoc, LSMW, CATT, ALV and ABAP Queries with the ability to act as a techno functional consultant. Good working knowledge on User exits, Substitutions, Validations, Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Developed Functional and Technical Specifications for development objects (RICEFW).
• Proficient in Project Evaluation, AS-IS study, Fit-GAP analysis, TO-BE process, troubleshooting, performance tuning, Production Support and End-user training.
• Conversant with IFRS, US and Indian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and SOX compliance.
• Well versed in interacting with Business Users, Business Analysts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 4.7, 5.0, 6.0.

SAP R/3 Tools: LSMW, Report Painter, Report Writer, Cats, Debugger.

Cross Applications: EDI, ALE, IDOC, PI, CRM, BI, SOLMAN (Solution Manager), Portal.

Documentation tools: MS Word, MS Publisher, RWD InfoPak, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, OSX, Wiondws7

Testing & Changing mgmt. Tools: Mercury, QAT, HP-QC, Remedy, Clarify, Service Now.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Roki Japan Global template to Confidential .
• Experienced in Configuring AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Oder to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning and Reporting
• Worked on treasury module in Lockbox processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal
• Configured and tested the Lockbox program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format
• Configured Account Receivables which included Dunning, Incoming payments settings, Down payments procedure and Credit management
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Fine-tuning interfaces with FI, GL, AP, and AR including validation / substitution rules
• Configured the settings in G/L area, such as creating G/L master data, cross-company code transactions, with multiple currencies and multiple company codes, and open item clearing.
• Configured GL transactions for business processes such as fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Configured and maintained House banks with multiple bank accounts, Alternate bank selections for payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes
• Create LSMW for mass data changes in AR acquisitions and create business process documents.
• Handle AR interfaces to solve day to day production issues. Fixing error in the batch jobs and re-loading the file to create or update AR lockbox records on daily or weekly basis.
• Conducted GAP analysis and found GAPs in the areas of US taxation, F110 payment run, check printing and Remittance advice.
• Configured chargeable and Non chargeable sub-contracting process.
• Configured the Automatic payment program for outgoing payment method check, ACH using NACHA format and wire transfer.
• Worked with banks in ACH, Lockbox and EBS (BAI2 and MT940) integrations.
• Worked on Positive pay interface to bank.
• Customized and implemented the revenue recognition, including the customization for FI accounts for unbilled and deferred revenue for sales contracts.
• Configured Tax procedure for USE tax and INPUT tax scenarios using third party tool tax ware.

Confidential, Lake forest, IL

SAP FICO & FSCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP FI - OTC and PTP full end-to-end business process.
• Responsible for carrying out the design and implementation of the New General Ledger AP and AR areas
• Configure (Bank Accounting) Electronic Payment Program, Automatic Bank Transfer, Lockbox, Electronic Check Deposit,
• Configured the house banks in bank accounting. Completed an upload program for all worldwide SWIFT and BAI format banks.
• Introduced a new future in Bank accounting called Bank Chains which allows for payment via multiple banks improved clients new business process and more refined Treasury’s process.
• Configured new Treasury’s Business Partners for bank accounting.
• Design Idoc for Receiving account statement using EDI.
• Configured for automatic Business Partner creation and Synchronization objects.
• Provided specification, and configuration of posting rules for processing customer payments via Lockbox
• Involved in providing functional specifications for modifying the lockbox program to handle negative values and credit memos and also created Credit Control Areas and pre-defined Credit Limits for Customers
• Created three case types ZCD (Customer Dispute), ZDD (Deduction Mgt. Dispute) and ZGC (Group Case) to be used in Dispute management and defined separate Case Record Models for each case type and Case Element Types.
• Designed custom program ZRFDM3000 for Automatic creation of dispute cases to include additional fields Document type, Posting Key, Posting date and few other fields in General selections tab.
• Configured Automatic Write off of dispute cases and Automatic document changes from dispute cases in process integration with Accounts Receivable Accounting.
• Configure Collection Management elements starting with Creation of new Basic Rules (BAdI UDM BASIS RULE), Collection Rules (BAdI UDM RULE) that evaluates the points that are collectively used for maintaining the Collection Strategies (UDM STRATEGY).
• Configuring Promise to pay elements including Case structure creation to process integration and customer contact, resubmission and dispute management integration with collections management.
• Assisted in Worklist configuration that included assisting and co-ordinating with technical team to create BAdIs on Amount to be collected and enhancing worklist items on creation and display.
• Created new payment method "9" for Biller Direct Incoming Payments using the Payment medium program RFFOEDI.
• Integration of Accounts Receivable with Biller Direct Portal for updating the customer selected invoices with Payment method. Set up the batch for automatic payment run for Biller Direct payments.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all the business meetings to gather all the requirements, functional specifications for different enhancements that have to be developed. Shown expertise in business process knowledge and mapping all the requirements to SAP.
• Configured LIV to clear vendor invoices based on 3 way match, new GL splitting for vendor down payments, automatic payment program.
• Worked closely with Logistic Invoice verification (LIV) issues and its resolution for different scenarios like blocking duplicate invoices, vendor pro forma invoices etc.
• Tested Brazil nota fiscal from creation to cancellation on sales order, PO, STO, delivery and goods issue.
• FI-GL (New GL) Utilizing the Migration cockpit for conversion. New GL implemented with Full Document Splitting, and Profit Center capabilities, Fiscal Year Variant, Field Status Variant, and Chart of Accounts, Accounting group creation.
• Several GL account master data changes were proposed in accordance to SAP recommendations mainly involving factors like open item management, line item display and reconciliation accounts.
• Identified critical issue with zero balance clearing account, its postings and proposed a new GL account with SAP recommended settings for fixing the issue. Worked on several New GL issues
• Resolved several issues in revenue account determination, billing documents not releasing to accounting, FI-SD integration, and FI-MM integration. Worked on several Inter-company invoices and different processes.
• Created new posting keys, new payment methods, new and document types and worked on several CO-FI reconciliation issues. Developed various validation rules for different requirements and activated them for different company codes.
• Maintained different validations and substitutions for different business requirements like populating trading partner, blocking cost center postings for consumption accounts etc.,
• Wrote FD's, running mock cycles, unit testing and validating conversions.
• Activated sub-contracting with chargeable components, configured valuation class for chargeable components, automatic postings for goods issues and receipts, invoices for chargeable components to sub-contractors, configured billing documents and copy control. Also defined document types and credit control memos.
• Configured, implemented Material Ledger (Actual coting), trained end users in Material Ledger Processes, worked with ABAP and BI Technical team to prepare Functional Specifications, build, and test and implement reports.
• Created Chart of Accounts, Asset Classes, and Master Data, Valuation, and Asset types, Allocations of number ranges and transfers of legacy data in Asset Management Module.
• Configured COPA planning framework, COPA assessment cycles and top-down distribution for the costs that are not distributed such as freight costs etc.,
• Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLAs.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP FICO Consultant/FSCM

Responsibilities:

• Served as anSAPApplication Functional Specialist, providing application functional support and implementation withinSAPApplications in the module areas ofFSCM Dispute and Collections Management.
• Configured dispute case type, Configured Dispute Case Attribute profile, created case search profile, text profile, status profile and assigned to dispute case type
• Gathered business requirements on Dispute Case Categories and Configured along with Dispute Reason codes
• Configured Root cause codes for identifying the main causes for the dispute cases so that they can be reviewed over periodically to improve the business process efficiency
• Defined escalation reason codes, explained and trained users to use the escalation reason code to auto write-off small balanced dispute cases
• Worked on setting up the system to Auto create dispute case and auto write-off for approved dispute cases. Configured Automatic Dispute Case creation from Residual Items with the batch job
• In Dispute Management, captured the disputes where and when they arise, optimized the collaboration between the AR Accounting and Dispute department, streamlined the Dispute resolution process and handled cross-department dispute resolution.
• In dispute management created case record model, element type, case type, attribute profile, status profile, function profile, text profile and set up workflow correspondence.
• Involved in integration between Dispute management and AR. Involved in advanced customization for new attribute and RMS ID. Created dispute case correspondence automatic write-off and automatic function.
• Designed and configured Make to Order (MTO) scenario with integration with Project Systems (PS)
• Created Project types for WBS elements, defined user defined field & field selection for WBS element & Project definition and maintained substitution/validation in PS.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated as a member of the team conducting workshops for business users for gathering requirements of the intended business processes as well as the documenting and analyzing existing business processes using the ASAP methodology.
• Analyzed the business process through consultation. Designed and mapped the business process on SAP FICO modules. Gathered financial requirements and mapped these requirements into an appropriate SAP FI/CO model.
• Configured Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Field Status Group and GL account Master Record in New GL.
• Created house banks and bank details.
• Created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP), ACH/Wire and EDI payments.
• Configured customer master in Account Receivables, configured Dunning activities based on a customer's dunning history, dunning level and dunning procedure, defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments.
• Configured Account determination for MM and SD integration with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules.
• Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Participated in Project meetings attended Inspection and Reviews meetings and initiated conference calls to discuss issues originated while testing. Executed the Test Cases and reported the defects to Developers.
• Developed a Test Script in eCATT for uploading additional and Tolerance Limits in inspection plant (QM).
• Involved in Month-end and Year-end closing Activities. Post Implementation Support and End User Training.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CEA, and CCA.
• Configured General Ledger, Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements. settings, ACH payments etc.
• Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management and control.
• Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination in Fixed Asset Management.
• Designed Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
• Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition, Retirement, and Transfers & for Intercompany Asset Transfers.
• Configuration of Capitalization of Assets under Construction with different Settlement Rules. AUC class was created with line item settlement option.
• Created Different settlement profiles settling to different assets by line item. Depreciation Areas created to take care of Book Depreciation, Tax Depreciation, and Management Depreciation.
• Extensively worked in controlling modules including, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• Configured Different kinds of Order Types, Delivery Types, Billing Types, Copy Controls and Text Controls, assigned order type to the sales area, assigned number range, item category, schedule line.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Enterprise Structure and Assignment of organizational Units
• Fiscal year, Posting Period, COA, G/L Master Records, G/L Accounts
• Creation of Customer and Vendor Account Groups and Accounts required.
• Defining Reconciliation Accounts and linking the same to Master records.
• Defining Field Status Variants required for data input.
• Configuration of Dunning Areas, Level Etc.
• Configured Asset Master Data after diagnosing Business and Client requirements.
• Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation keys for book and tax based on client requirements.
• Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas and Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition.
• Defining Special GL indicator and accounts for down payments made and received and for other transactions.
• Tolerance Group for GR/IR Clearing.
• Withholding tax configuration and testing from creation of vendor down payment to annual tax return by defining tax types and tax codes as per Act.
• Involved in the preparation of detailed test plan including test procedures and test cases for the above system using MS Excel. The application was tested manually.

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Confidential

Audit Executive

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in handling various accounting, audit, taxation & financial matters for corporate &individual clients while analyzing inflow & outflow of funds to plan internal financial controls.
• Efficiently conducting audits to express an opinion on the client’s financial statements as per Indian GAAP/ US GAAP, this includes preparation of audit reports with a view to highlight shortcomings and implemented necessary recommendations including process mapping and risk assessment.
• Spearheading efforts across providing comprehensive business analysis through various audits including statutory audit, internal audit, Transport audit, investigation audit and special audits for banks for formulating their future business strategies.
• Advising the clients on operational expenditure/control and strategically plan & implement innovative business strategies on various financial and statutory aspects of business set-up.