SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of experience working as SAP consultant specializing in FICO and its sub modules.
• Fully performed FICO Lead roles in ‘Production Support’ roles for Manufacturing Industries (Heavy to Compact) in FI - AR, FI-AP, FICA, Treasury and Risk, Lead consulting roles in major projects involving interaction with senior management.
• Hands on experience in effective use of ASAP implementation methodology for SAP R/3 implementation.
• Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle implementations from Blue Print through Integration.
• Testing to GO-Live and Production Support activities.
• Experience in Unit Test (UT), Integration Test and User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• Configured SAP Funds Management, giving consideration to offline systems in use and other funds tracking systems centrally maintained Master Data budget object (fund, Fund Center (FC), Functional Area (FA), Commitment item (CI), and Fund Program (FP), Budgeting Workbench.
• Good knowledge Funds Management of budget and all revenues of expenditures for individual areas to control future funds transactions in accordance with the distributed budget, and to stop the budget being exceeded and budget to changes in conditions by entering releases, supplements, returns, and transfers.
• Involved in project preparation with SAP Project system, created Breakdown structures Keep eye on actual cost through purchase price and actual expenses
• Good hands on experience in Configuration of Project system Ensure clear communications of project responsibilities (e.g., expectations, assignments, reviews) necessary to ensure desired project outcomes
• Involved in Integration of FI-FM with MM, SD and CO modules to support for product costing. Integration knowledge of FI-CO with MM, IM, SD & WM.
• Configuration knowledge in FICA- Contracting Accounting
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
• Worked for SAP Data Management with functional knowledge of maintain all master data line finance, product and others.
• Facilitated Global Business Transformation by providing detailed guidance to both Core Business and project Technical Teams: collected requirements, defined scope, and participated in all phases of the development life cycle, including analysis, design, configuration, testing, implementation, and support
• Configured In-House Cash, Cash Management - Cash positioning, Payment Processing, Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statement
• While responsible for supporting new project issues as SAP consultant, worked closely with Core Business Teams in SD (Maintain Sales Order Types, Condition Types ect.), MM (Maintain PR, PO, Material Master ect.), Treasury and FICO, AR & AP (dispute management).
• Guided and Advised business and technical teams to understand requirements, define scope, and participated in all phases of the ASAP Methodology development life cycle including analysis, design, configuration, testing, implementation, and 'go-live' support
• Good understanding over FI records analysis and SAP process record to report.
• Oversaw the non-SAP/Third-Party application integration with SAP
• Maintained detailed project plan of entire transition and controlling/assigning resources
• Managed timelines and meeting milestones within the process
• Articulate, committed and enthusiastic team professional who is well organized and goal-oriented
• A strong & flexible group player, able to work independently and with others, and able to deliver quality work under pressure
• Excellent analytical & problem solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CFM/Treasury: Transaction Manager (Debt Management, Money market, FX, Derivatives, Securities (Stocks, Bonds), Options, etc.), Hedge Management, Market Risk Analyzer, Credit Risk Analyzer, Portfolio Analyzer, Cash Management (liquidity forecast, cash position, electronic bank statement, lockbox, wire and ACH payments), Liquidity Planner, Bank Communication Management (BCM), In-House Cash, TPM MIGRATION

Financial: GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA, PCA, FICA, CO-PA etc.

Banking Interfaces: Global electronic payments and bank statement processing with US and Foreign banks.

Security: Processes, authorizations, and systems.

Reporting and Technical Skills: Business Warehouse (BI/BW), LSMW, ABAP Query, Report Painter, BEX, DMEE, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand current business process and client legacy customer portal functionality.
• Understand client SAP master data structure and its relationship to prepare client future customer portal functionality.
• Analyses client’s material, customer, vender and other master data for the purpose of their business and provide client most effective solution and improve process development.
• Working on data conversion/creation as per requirement for client new system.
• Maintain client material master plant and co code specific standard. Maintain product hierarchy and profit center hierarchy in order to customize client future customer portal.
• Involved in Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable components form SAP Convergent Invoicing. Working knowledge of FICA, Convergent Charging- Convergent Invoicing, JVA/Lease Accounting and integration enables you to implement the business process from the consumption of a service through pricing and billing right up to dispatch of the invoice to the customer
• Maintain contract account categories. Convergent Charging- Convergent Invoicing, JVA/Lease Accounting. Maintain business partners for each contract account.
• Working on client other master data like product, sales & finance. Working on maintain client customer and vender master.
• Involved Convergent invoicing with Combine invoices in a single invoice, which were previously sent to customers individually, to display new services more quickly and easily on an existing invoice.
• Good hands on Convergent invoicing to integrate invoicing with subledger accounting and make invoices for your customers available on the Internet and provide options for downloading these invoices.
• Prepare functional specification and technical specification for any development requirements.
• Work closely with end user and business team to understand their requirement. Work closely with product, finance and other business group to help predict future data needs and establish project to create/maintain this data.
• Work with system owner to help execute changes and thoroughly test new system solution.

Confidential, WI

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to review existing business process from current SAP system from exiting company and try to understand new company’s business requirements.
• Responsible to prepare documents and work flow for new acquired company with reference from existing company.
• Working on new configuration for new company for FICO, MM, SD and WM module as per reference Company. Maintain organization standard as per requirements.
• Communicate with Analysts and user since some FICO configuration was already maintained for new company in order to create some FI-MM, FI-SD and FI-WM integration.
• Hands on experience configuring SAP FICA module for a new legal entity.
• While responsible for supporting new project issues as SAP consultant, worked closely with Core Business Teams in SD (Maintain Sales Order Types, Condition Types ect.), MM (Maintain PR, PO, Material Master ect.), Treasury and FICO,FICA, AR & AP (dispute management).
• Working knowledge of FICA, Convergent Charging- Convergent Invoicing, JVA/Lease Accounting
• And integration enables you to implement the business process from the consumption of a service through pricing and billing right up to dispatch of the invoice to the customer
• Maintain contract account categories. Convergent Charging- Convergent Invoicing, JVA/Lease Accounting. Maintain business partners for each contract account.
• Involved in Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable components form SAP Convergent Invoicing.
• Create new plant, Storage location, Shipping point, sales organization and warehouse for new company. Maintain internal setup for storage location like creating storage bin and there parameters.
• Working on assignment part for new company. Assign plant to co code, controlling area to co code, plant to division, sales organization to co code, sales organization to distribution channel to plant, purchasing organization to plant and warehouse to plant to storage location.
• Maintain material valuation, Inventory management, Account determination setup for new plant. Maintain plant parameters for new plant. Maintain STO process.
• Set up logistics invoice verification for new plant and new co code.
• Create new material for testing purpose since master data was not moved yet in the system with specifications like material basic data, sales data, accounting data, source list for vendor, PO details, MRP and etc.
• Maintain sales and distribution configuration steps like selling, shipping and billing of products and services for new co code. Maintain intercompany billing process for new co code.
• Account determination set up for billing / invoice with new co code.
• Create warehouse structure with storage type, section and bin. Maintain WM transfer requirements and WM transfer orders mapping. Worked on transfer pricing method for intercompany goods transfer.
• All interfaces with IM & WM replicate to new warehouse with reference from exiting warehouse.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Business Analyst under responsibility to support, maintain and develop SAP system as per company’s requirement.
• Doing new configuration in FICO,FICA, MM, PS and RE-FX module as per organization and users requirement
• Communicate with Analysts and user since some FICA configuration was already maintained for new company in order to create some FICA, FICO -MM, FI-SD and FI-WM integration.
• Update maintains GL master, FSV & FA. Do production support for funds management, Budget team and grant management. Maintain funds center master data, grant master data.
• Maintain deviation rule and strategy for mostly fund and grant management but not limited to all the departments.
• Support AR and AP team to maintain records in SAP system. Set up Dunning processes and other AR supporting process. Maintain vendor master data to support AP.
• Analysis standard reports for GL, AR, AP, AA reports are used to record thetransactions or the data flow in SAP FI experience over record to report method for all FI related entries. Able to understand and analyzes each records.
• Support MM and purchasing group to maintain GR/IR process, PR and PO related issues in SAP ECC 6. Maintain P2P processes and support to run PROGPAY report. Review SES sheet via T code ML81N & ML84.
• Worked very closely with Real Estates team to understand business needs. Support Real Estates group to maintain RE-FX master data, business partners. Maintain RE lease in and lease out contracts for Confidential leased properties. Maintain RE condition types & contract types.
• Work with all the departments for any testing process and interact with user directly to help them for testing process.
• Collect all the business requirements from deferent departments and prepare documents and flowchart for any necessary new implementation.
• Work closely with SAP Support team for any SAP note implementation requirements or any update.
• Support SAP GRC system for Role violation, Role assignment and T code access for users.
• Support all departments for month end and year end process in SAP system.

Confidential, Carrollton TX

Senior SAP FICO Consultant / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible within SAP Treasury and Risk Module, and Banking (Implemented risk regulatory framework including infrastructure for modeling, regulatory reporting and analysis)
• Involved with ECC 6.0 Eph 6 with key areas of responsibilities including New GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Taxes and Financial Reporting
• Doing new configuration in FICO, FICA, MM, PS and RE-FX module as per organization and users requirement
• Analysis experience over record to report method for all FI related entries. Able to understand and analyzes each records.
• Assess current state for manufacturing organization and implement SAP ECC solution. The area of focus are Asset Accounting (AA) and Investment Management (IM) and its close integration with project systems (PS), controlling (CO), material management (MM) plant maintenance (PM), production planning (PP) and Product Costing (PC).
• Collect all the business requirements on Project system from deferent departments and prepare documents and flowchart for any necessary new implementation.
• Have good hands on experience with project system, created Breakdown structures Keep eye on actual cost through purchase price and actual expenses
• Maintain internal cost of materials and production for profitability and management accounting. Keep eye on actual cost through purchase price and actual expenses. Support MM for material masters, quantity structure.
• Managed Account Groups for Vendor, Customer and GL Accounts, Dunning Area definitions, Account Clearing, Period-End Closing, Bank Reconciliation and Master Data; including, but not limited to Cross Company Code Transactions, Down Payments, Asset Master Records, Asset retirement, Depreciation Areas definitions, Master Data preparation and using EDI and mapping customer Idoc fields to SAP data fields
• Working knowledge of FICA, Convergent Charging- Convergent Invoicing, JVA/Lease Accounting
• Working knowledge of FICA, Maintain Company code group and assignment of that co code group to co code. Maintain application areas. Maintain contract account categories. Convergent Charging- Convergent Invoicing, JVA/Lease Accounting. Maintain business partners for each contract account.
• During all of above phases, SAP implementation, implemented various testing strategies, and with dedicated business team members incorporated testing and configuration, while advising the Client Business team, with regards to deliverables, such as: Blueprints, business process documents, design documents, and Functional documents.
• Did Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configuration both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), configured Costing Based CO-PA and Account Based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, generated Operating Concern and assigned controlling area to the Operating Concern. Also worked on valuation using material cost estimates and valuation using condition types. Defined various reports in CO-PA.

Confidential, Arizona

SAP FICO Consultant/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible within SAP Treasury and Risk Module, and Banking (Implemented risk regulatory framework including infrastructure for modeling, regulatory reporting and analysis)
• Involved with ECC 6.0 Eph 6 with key areas of responsibilities including New GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Real Estates, Taxes and Financial Reporting
• Invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable and contact for post go-live stabilization and for assisting core business team with close processing
• Configured Budget all revenues and expenditure, Budget Control System (FM-BCS) Concept Presentation And monitor future funds movement and prevent budget overruns with this SAP FI-FM component.
• Expertise on SAP FICA module for public sector and utilities. Assist in the design of Funds/Grant interfaces conversion programs reports and enhancements; Control the finances of your organization by comparing commitment and actual values with current budget values and Control revenues and expenditures and thus control the funding of business transactions of an organization.
• Worked for In-House Cash set up for client HQ base. Works closely with business requirement for consolidate cash, centralize cash. Creating BP, Bank account, IHC house bank, Bank key, GL account. Did some configuration for company code which we are using for In-House Cash.
• Develop and maintain systems documentation including business process procedures functional design specifications process flows and test cases; Provided Fund Management configuration data migration interface support and functional support as necessary;
• Involved in Integration of FI-FM with MM, SD and CO modules.
• Designed and configured the SAP ECC 6.0 Flexible Real Estate (RE-FX) module in accordance with Activation of Real Estates Extension, planned business processes and requirements. Configuration included basic Co Code settings, master data (Address-person name-number range), business partners, contracts, condition/flow types, accruals and deferrals, sales-based settlement, and financial postings.
• Implemented SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) for Real Estate.
• Managed Account Groups for Vendor, Customer and GL Accounts, Dunning Area definitions, Account Clearing, Period-End Closing, Bank Reconciliation and Master Data; including, but not limited to Cross Company Code Transactions, Down Payments, Asset Master Records, Asset retirement, Depreciation Areas definitions, and Master Data preparation
• During all of above phases, SAP implementation, implemented various testing strategies, and with dedicated business team members incorporated testing and configuration, while advising the Client Business team, with regards to deliverables, such as: Blueprints, business process documents, design documents, and Functional documents. Good Understanding over different testing tools both manual and automated process.
• Demonstrated to Client on resolving daily system/business issues, while instituting requisite configuration updates, with an effective Test Plan in place for critical business issues.
• Acted as main support contact for post go-live stabilization and for assisting core business team with month-end close processing

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

SAP FINANCIAL Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Fix issues (accruals, amortization, valuation classes, account assignment reference, etc.) related to Treasury Management.
• Configuration for Market Risk Analyzer and Portfolio Analyzer to calculate yield by security and by portfolio; duration (Macaulay, Modified, Convexity, PVBP) by investment type and by portfolio and Value at risk (VAR) calculation.
• Worked on Cash Management, payment files and other bank interfaces.
• Work on FICO support including GL, AP, AR and CO.
• Analyzed the requirements for lockbox and worked with the bank to understand optimal interface and file format/IDOC to create new payment process for AR.
• Configured lockbox based on BAI2 format to automatically post and clear the customer invoice. This process had frequency of once a day and slightly bigger file at the start of week.
• Configured Electronic bank statement with the bank, this EBS was also used to clear customer open items using sub-ledger posting
• Configured Manual memo records to enter temporary records from the customer information provided over the phone.
• Worked closely with RICEF team creating functional specs for Data conversion, mapping data fields and helping in developing custom reports.
• Configured system for fiscal year change, yearend closing procedures and activities
• Customized G/L accounting screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, and financial statement versions.
• Developed test scenarios/test cases, resolved issues in unit testing, integration, system testing.
• Configured Customer Master Data, account groups, tolerance limits and number ranges.
• Configured automatic payment program for different types of payments such as checks, bank transfer-electronic bank statements.
• Assisted in conducting end user training and provided post implementation support. Full production support role, post Go-Live liaise with business user community and technical community personnel to ensure that the system is functioning as designed and financial close activities are completed in line with financial close calendar.
• Post Go Live Support involving helping the end user in the day to day transactions and closely monitoring the system performance.
• Involved in Unit Testing of FI-AP-Automatic Payment Run, FI-Accounts Receivable, Integration Testing of FI-MM for Inventory Related Transactions, FI-SD for all Billing Transactions.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

AR Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Manual and Electronic billing/Collection/Credit for high profile HEMO, LYSO & PAH accounts.
• Contact Account Management team and Insurance companies for claim rejection and other payer problem.
• Support pricing team for financial reporting.
• Billing Nursing Services - electronic & manual claims.
• Help department for achieving financial monthly goals.
• Support pricing team to update, load and adjust pricing for various contracts.
• Prepare and do analysis various type of management reports in Access and Excel.