SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in implementing, configuring, integrating, testing, customizing, and providing user training and support in SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules.
• Implemented 3 Full Life Cycles using ASAP methodology, from understanding "AS - IS" business processes, blueprint to realization, configuration, customization, Data migration, final preparation, testing, authorization designing for roles with security team & developing BPP's, end user training, pre & post go-live support.
• Good industrial experience and strong domain knowledge in Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, Public Sector, oil & gas and Manufacturing industries.
• Knowledge in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows).
• Have extensive knowledge on configurations and customizations in General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), designing of Chart of Accounts, Transactions and Intercompany Transactions.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to cash (OTC) Cycles.
• Expert in configuring Automatic payment program (APP) for outgoing/incoming invoices, dunning, validation and substitution, lockbox file format and lockbox processing, manual bank statement and (EBS) processing.
• Experienced working in Data Migration specification with LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) and batch input recording for data uploads in various projects.
• Worked on check management including Positive Pay, Online Check Printing and Creating Check Extract.
• Worked on Input and Output Taxes during sale and purchase of goods by maintaining separate tax accounts.
• Experience in Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) like understanding the end-to-end workflow, configuring the new roles, exceptions and also some of the enhancement and interface objects related to it.
• Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Consolidation.
• Experienced in testing scenarios such as Integration, Functional, Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Performance and End-To-End Testing.
• Worked with ABAP consultants and designed functional & technical specs for various interfaces in FICO.
• Ability to work independently as well as in team oriented environments with good organizational skills, excellent communications skills and inter personal skills with problem solving aptitude.
• Effective co-ordination with team members and client for giving acceptable solutions to problems, queries raised by client within predefined stringent time limit.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fort Myers, FL

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ASAP, SAP GL, AP, AR, AA, APP, Check Management, EBS, Lockbox, LSMW, Foreign Currency Revaluation, IDOCs, With-holding tax, House Banks, Vertex, and Controlling.

Responsibilities:

• Designed the business processes using ASAP implementation methodology, collected and analyzed users business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, configured, troubleshoot and supported the system users.
• Extensively participated in client discussions in blue printing phase.
• Designed functional specifications, configuration documents and training and user manuals and also made user exits based on the business scenarios.
• Written functional Specs for RICEF objects (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) as per the Business Requirements.
• Thorough understanding of overall business processes such as Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to Pay (P2P).
• Participated in transferring Confidential G/L accounts, vendor master data (FK01) using LSMW from legacy to SAP system.
• Modified the existing data in Excel spreadsheet by adding the payment terms and interest calculations.
• Responsible for configuring Accounts Payable (AP) includes creating Vendor Account Groups, Vendor Master Records, Number ranges, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos.
• Configured and customized customer Master records, Account groups, Number ranges and Company code specific payment methods and Automatic incoming payment program.
• Involved in the Configuration of several House Banks based on several businesses and technologies and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) using F110 and FBZP. Also worked in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items in FI- AP.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration in BAI2 format with bank, along with cash management and planning levels in treasury.
• Used FLB2 to pull the file that bank sent to Confidential in addition with using OBAX, OBAY, and OB10.
• Configured global settings for Electronic bank statements (EBS) in Multi Cash Format, Created Account Symbols, Posting rules, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements.
• Defined Exchange rates, configured currency valuation, automatic posting for foreign currency valuation and determined realized & unrealized gain.
• Created tax setting for third party tax ware - Vertex (tax on sales and Purchase), set tolerance limit for employees, invoices and customers.
• Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items.
• Designed dunning procedures, running/ editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices based on customer segmentation.
• Configured Country Specific chart of Depreciation and maintained depreciation areas that are relevant to the country specific requirements.
• Created Asset classes, Account Determinations, Screen Layouts and Number ranges.
• Configured various Deprecation Keys according to the business requirements.
• Experience in Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) like understanding the end-to-end workflow.
• Customized settings for Controlling (CO) area and assigning company code to controlling area, worked on number ranges.
• Created Standard hierarchy using Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost centers, Assigned cost centers to cost elements, configured Activities and Statistical Key Figures, developed Assessment, Distribution, Periodic reposting cycles and segments.
• Configured and customized the basic settings for Profit Center Accounting (PCA). Maintained profit centers hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs.
• Generated reports using Report Painter and Report Writer. Performed Documentation for end users and provided end user training
• Integration and validation of test scripts to validate all business requirements.
• Trained business/super users at the client's strategic business units.
• Performed Cut-Over activities, Go Live and post-Go live support.

Confidential, New Hope, MN

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ASAP, SAP GL, New GL, AP, AR, AA, EBS, Functional Specs, Input/output Taxes, Validations & Substitutions, LIV, Controlling

• Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities.
• Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS - TO-BE).
• Assisted in Blueprints (Requirement Analysis and Process Design), Realization (configuration, QA testing and Production support hand-over), Go-live (data conversion, production system build and final QA testing) and Post Go-Live Support for customize reports for aging reports
• Responsible for creating functional design specifications for RICEF Objects.
• Responsible for Asset Data Transfer from Legacy to SAP by using LSMW (Legacy system migration workbench), testing, validating the data before and after transfer and reconciling with FI-GL Accounts.
• Created and maintained Field Status Groups and Variants. Changed the various fields based on the requirement of the client. Including the fields for different Vendors and Customers.
• Created Reconciliation accounts for AP and AR and configured AP including Vendor account groups, Number ranges and Tolerance groups.
• Expertise in creating an asset, Depreciation Areas, Copy Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assign Chart of Depreciation to Company Code, Creating an Asset Class, Copy Asset Classes from Reference and Assign Accounts.
• Defined transfer type for Acquisition, Retirement and transfer for Inter-Company Asset Transfer.
• Configured Tax procedures in sales and purchase tax and withholding taxes. Configured Vendors and customers subject to withholding tax, input and output taxes by defining tax codes, assigning account for automatic postings and tax categories in accounts liable to tax.
• Configured the settings for Outgoing payments for Logistics vendors such as including Automatic Payment Program (APP) in F110 & FBZP.
• Configured Multi-Cash format and BAI2 formats for Electronic Bank Statements (EBS).
• Integration with MM includes Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) ensuring smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to pay).
• In New GL Worked on Document splitting, defining segment, defining profit centre, define translation ratios for currency translation, assigning exchange rate to the work list, Validations and substitutions.
• Created Controlling Area (CO), maintained versions and number ranges for controlling documents.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups, imputed costs calculation methods, cost centers, cost center groups, cost element attributes, statistical key figures and activity types in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configured Internal-Orders (IO) using order types, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning and budget.
• Created standard hierarchy for Confidential profit centers, dummy profit center, defined various document types for profit centers, assigned number ranges and contributed for PCA planning parameters in PCA.
• Configured and activated costing based Profitability Analysis (COPA). Defined Operating concern attributes and generated operating concern environment.
• Actively participated during the UAT phase to understand feature enhancement and demonstrated the core module of the system to the client team.
• Prepared the Cut-over plan and carried out cut-over tasks as per schedule and frequent meetings for discussion of issues and fixing them.
• Performed Go-Live Support to ensure a stable SAP ECC 6.0 system.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, ASAP, GL, AR, AP, AA, APP, EBS Taxes, Month End Closing, House Banks, Automatic Payments, Controlling.

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the functional team, worked with user groups to document AS- IS processes.
• Participated in JTMs (Joint Team Meetings) to arrive at TO- BE design which was acceptable to the team, user groups, and Management.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAPfor implementation and customizations.
• Worked closely with MM and SD consultants so as to ensure that commercial controls and accounting requirements are met as per business process blueprint.
• Involved in solving Issues related to FICO and Cross- Functional Issues that were documented during the pre-study.
• Worked with ABAPERs in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms and Workflows).
• Participated in Migrating Vendor and Customer master data from legacy to SAP by using LSMW.
• Configured company code which includes creating of chart of accounts, posting period variant, retained earning account, document types, tolerance groups and financial statement versions.
• Created Vendor master and Customer master, specified Screen layouts and assigned unique number ranges to various document types.
• Integrated Account Payables (AP) and Account Receivables (AR) modules in FI with MM and SD respectively.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts, Void reason codes, check lots and lockboxes for payments.
• Configured automatic interest calculation procedure, payment terms, Cash Discounts, Down Payments correspondence and dunning procedures.
• Expert in configuring the Automatic payment program for outgoing invoices with check, ACH using NACHA format and wire transfer, dunning for Customers, lockbox processing for both BAI2 and BAI formats files for incoming cash flows, EBS configuration and updating the GL accounts.
• Created credit control area and predefined credit limits for customers.
• Worked on several interfaces for EDI 820 file processing, IDOC mapping and clear the customer account using lockbox.
• Configuration of FI-AA Asset classes, depreciation areas, assigning company codes to chart of depreciation.
• Responsible for year-end closing and reconciliation of sub-ledger, such as AR, AP and Fixed Asset.
• Worked on validations and substitutions to meet the user requirements.
• Configured and customized the cost elements/cost centers, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy, activity types, Statistical key figures, Assessments, Distributions and Internal Orders by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups and Settlement Rules.
• Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for variance documents, used Report painter and Report writer.
• Developed test plans, test cases and acceptance criteria, monitored & communicated project progress against the project plan, requirements, quality measures, milestone & budget to steering committee.
• Train and support end users in day-to-day operational specifics of SAPFI, and CO.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Automatic Payment, EBS, ACH, Controlling, Cash discounts, Vendor down payments.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for solving tickets in FICO issues (Enhancement and regular support) on GL, AR AP, Asset Accounting, Automatic payments.
• Supported day to day issues like creating New Payment Terms, Creating New Banks, investigating payment program issues on weekly basis.
• Also worked on interfaces for printing checks from third party application and developed functional specs to create interface to provide check status to external legacy system.
• Worked on correspondence types on AR, which means different outputs, which can be printed and sent to your business process partners, based around customer GL information.
• Worked on AP- Vendor transactions, Master data, Check management, house banks, payment program, payment terms, deduction management, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Logistics invoice verification, Evaluated receipt settlement.
• Worked on month-end and year-end closing processes for Finance and Controlling.
• And also on the integration issues of Finance and Controlling with MM and SD. Worked on configuration of Automatic payment program.
• Worked on Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) file formats like BAI2, MT940. Configured the interpretation algorithms, user exits to clear the Customer/Vendor invoices.
• Worked on Lockbox configuration and resolved issue related to applied and partially applied, legacy vendor data migration and foreign currency Revaluation.
• Worked extensively with remittance advices and vendor related payments thru F110 /check management / ACH / Wire and different payment method configurations in FBZP.
• Worked on cash discounts (Vendor and Customers), Worked on down payments (Vendors) and period end closing activities.
• Worked on Foreign Currencies including Definition of Exchange rates and valuation methods.
• Provided assistance in posting the total difference from all the open items into a financial Statement adjustment account.
• Worked on FI issues including Billing, Pricing especially with the Tax Jurisdictions.
• Extensively worked on Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation.
• Dealt with Cost Element Analysis (CO-CEA) involving both primary and secondary cost elements, activated the reconciliation ledger, and maintained accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.
• Worked on Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) involving in both Primary and secondary cost centers.
• Worked effectively by providing support to users through calls as well as application support.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0, GL, New GL, AP, AR, LSMW, CCA, PCA, IO, CEA, COPA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a team member in Requirements gathering for business process and also mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support
• Documented all changes, revised the business process procedures to facilitate the changes during the upgrade.
• Created new reports for the validation of SAP R/3 4.7 and SAP ECC 6.0 Asset data.
• Worked on New GL, configured the ledgers, set up integration with Controlling, and made the general setting for the fiscal year, the posting periods and the currencies.
• Maintained the GL account master data and Profit Center master data for the New GL
• Configured identical settings for updating segments and profit centers as well as the relevant partner information in the ledgers of the New G/L.
• Followed the Active Split process for the document splitting, defined the splitting rules, business transaction and item category.
• Set up parallel accounting by creating additional accounts in New GL, one joint account area for posting that are the same for both accounting principles and one area with specific accounts for each accounting principle.
• Provided assistance in developing an interface program for uploading the salary details in the F-02 transaction from legacy system into SAP using LSMW.
• Created cost elements i.e., Primary & Secondary, Revenue elements, Cost element groups and Overhead structure for Accrual calculation using percentage method.
• Worked on Project systems, creating of WBS elements, budgeting and cost allocation.
• Created CCA standard hierarchy, cost element groups, cost element categories like primary cost element group and secondary cost element groups, activity type groups and statistical key figures.
• Familiarized with business scenario before configuring the steps in controlling module (CO- PA).
• Worked on Reporting Tools used in Profit Center Accounting and defined Drilldown Reports.
• Maintained settings related to Controlling Area, Operating Concerns and also maintained Versions.
• Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on reference and simulation costing.
• Worked on Primary Cost Planning for Manual and Automatic planning and Secondary Cost Planning for Manual Planning and Periodic Allocations and Inter-company Transport Orders.
• Worked for the Cost Centers participating in accrual calculation.
• Assisted Technical Consultants and Super-Users to achieve desired results
• Documented the end user training manuals using Infopak and involved in the Train the Trainees programs.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, AP, AR, GL, FI-SD, Unit testing, Integration testing.

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in using solution manager in Test Plan management, Tester Work list, Business Blueprint, Configuration and Project administration to create the test projects.
• Creation of business process test cases and upload to solution manager.
• Configured and tested settings for Fiscal year variants, Chart of accounts, posting period variants, Field status groups, G/L Accounts, Account groups, Retained Earning Account and Tolerance groups for their employees.
• Worked on testing customer/vendor master records, tolerance limits per business requirement for over payments and under payments, reason codes and in open item management in customer accounts, configured and customized credit control area,credit management, interest calculation and payment terms tailored to specific Customer’s needs, payment advices, check number ranges, check void reasons, check printing, carrying forward balances.
• Provided configuration and test support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement’s setup, and inter-company billing.
• Worked on testing the flow of P2P (Procure to Pay) including creating Purchases Order, Good Receipts, Invoice Receipt and Outgoing Payments and trained end users on complete existing procurement to pay cycle documenting all accounting entries.
• Developed interactive and ALV reports which shows the list of paid vendors for any given date with information of payment details, payment run details, check information etc.
• Worked with technical consultants to design country/company specific forms for check printing and ACH payments and other Banking Interface requirements.
• Developed test scenarios RICEFW objects which includes both global and regional, like freight payment, case pack, supersession and unit functional testing of the same.
• Designed and tested dunning procedures, running/ editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices based on customer segmentation.
• Testing Tax configuration in Vendor master data as well as customer Master data.
• Involved in testing Account Determination and Number Ranges.
• Involved in testing Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Testing TAX calculation procedure TAXUSJ, tax jurisdiction code, tax codes Maintained tax codes and taxable percentage rate calculation, defined tax codes for Non taxable transactions.
• Configured and tested House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments. Checks Management through assigning number ranges for Check lots, Checks printing and defining void reason codes.
• Tested all modules of FICO with the new functionalities.
• Resolved help desk tickets with respect to various areas of FI and CO. Developed necessary process flows, documentations, change requests etc based on the requirements.