SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Functional Consultant with 8 Years and 3 full life cycle experience, speaking and writing English, French and German.
• Financial Accounting (Configuration) - AR, AP, ASSET, TAXES,GL
• Controlling - Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, Projects, Cost Object Controlling/Product Costing
• Enterprise Controlling, Profit Center Accounting
• Integration between FI/CO and logistics modules (SD, MM)
• External Sales and Use Tax System design and implementation with Vertex and Tax ware.
• RICEF
• EDI, IDOC’S
• SOLMAN
• ASAP Methodology, Business Blue Print Activities
• Unit testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing User acceptance testing
• Master Data conversion activities
• New GL
• Production support
• Bachelor’s Degree and Master Degree with concentration in Accounting and Finance
• Experience working with SAP, FICO, AR, AP
• Expertise in SAP ECC 5.0/6.0 in the Finance, Controlling and Fixed Assets
• Strong Financial and Accounting experience
• Project Management experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98, XP, VISTA, Windows 7

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 Versions (4.6, 4.7) and ECC 6.0

Database: MS Access

Tools: MS Office, Excel and Power Point Presentation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FI/CO SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Involved with conducting workshops for business users for gathering requirements of the intended business processes using the ASAP methodology.
• Provided documentation management process for issue resolution
• Extensive use of solution manager for the development of configuration scripts
• Prepared unit test scripts and integration test scripts
• Configured the integration points between FI, AP, AR, MM, and SD
• Configured automatic assignments for taxes, foreign currency valuation and asset
• Configured bank directory, house banks, bank accounts, GL accounts, posting rules for automatic assignment of accounts, check deposit configuration
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for account payables including partial payment Configuration, check management and check printing, open item clearing in account payables, outgoing payments for outstanding invoices with invoice verification for good receipts
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI/BAI-2 formats and interfaces for EDI files from banks with payment details for updating GL and customer accounts
• Involved in technical documentation of all custom business objects and end user training.
• Developed conceptual design document for various in house small projects related to SAP (interface with Concur, and I2P)
• Configuration of New GL modules with Document splitting and parallel ledgers
• Designed the blueprint document for Confidential Germantown with the requirement and scope for the COPA implementation
• Configured and customized the Standard Hierarchy for cost centers, maintained Activities, Statistical Key Figures, developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center
• Created Costing Sheets and assigned to relevant cost centers for calculating Bonus to eligible employees based on the salary paid
• Configured Cost Center related Planning, Budget Management, and Actual Postings and assigned relevant Profit Centers to Cost Centers
• Configured Internal Orders by identifying and creating required Order Types.
• Configured Settlement profile and Structures (for Internal Orders, Plant Maintenance Orders and Project Systems) Settlement Cost Elements, Order Planning, Budgeting
• Created Different Plan Versions for Planning for Cost Centers and Internal Orders.
• In PC-product costing revaluated inventories of semi finished products, and finished products with calculated actual costs or accrue variances. Provide feedback to management on the actual performance of the production process in relation to those targets. Identified variances indicated inefficiencies that were investigated.
• PC - Involved in creating Material Ledger for actual costing and integration with PP module.
• PC - Involved in Product cost estimate and planning with and without quantity structures
• PC-Utilization of BOM for variable and fixed costing as well as specialized Save/Mark/Release procedures with costing variants defined for various product types.
• Configured the material ledger to collect the values connected with material movements together with the preliminary valuation and any variance derived from invoice or order settlement while in Product Costing
• Built the architecture for a market segment oriented profitability analysis costing based for the Maryland region
• Responsible for configuration of various value fields and mapping it to the respective characteristic values on sandbox and transporting them in to the production client after thorough testing
• In Profitability analysis (CO-PA) involved in customization and configuration of the operating Concern, Configured the Costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, Profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics
• Involved in CO-PA period ending closing operations such as transfer cost center costs to co-pa by assessments, distributions etc.
• Provided training to end users for the various functions on Product Cost Planning

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Preparation and execution of first period ending closings
• Resolved issues relating to Payment program
• Configured Procurement process integrated with third party systems with EDI and Idocs
• Retest and suggested for enhancement in General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR and other related configurations
• Interaction with user and client to understand there requirement and concern over existing system to identify system improvement points
• Updated some of the configuration and settings for enhanced functionality of GL, AR, AP, Cash, and Bank.
• Carried out changes in the Configuration for Tax on Purchases & Sale and its integration with Third party software 'Tax ware’
• Changes in the automatic account assignment for material movement for price differences and account determination for FI postings
• Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing Activities such as accounts receivables, accounts payables, period closing, accruals and deferring entries, balance carry forwards, GR/IR account reconciliation
• Intercompany reconciliation
• Involved in production support for CCA, PCA, CO-PC, GL, FI-CO, AP, AR modules

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, NC

Responsibilities:

• Configured bank directory, house banks, bank accounts, GL accounts, posting rules for automatic assignment of accounts, check deposit configuration
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for account payables including partial payment Configuration, check management and check printing, open item clearing in account payables, outgoing payments for outstanding invoices with invoice verification for good receipts
• Interacted with Client business users for requirements gathering and analysis
• Interacted with the business Analysts and end users to get the user requirements and Business process using ASAP methodology
• Preparing required documents user training providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business process in SAP
• Configured and Customized FI sub-modules Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Interacted with Client to Update and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas.
• Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories
• Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing
• Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts
• Customized Lockbox, Payment Requests and Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line Items
• Created Bank interfaces for EDI and Wires with Mapping Documents
• Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups, discount overviews
• Configured general Controlling Organization by defining Controlling Area
• Maintaining document number ranges for controlling Area and maintaining Versions for controlling areas. Configured Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting by maintaining control Area settings, Activating Direct postings, Plan versions, analyzing and updating the basic settings
• In Internal orders, Configured different internal Orders Types and their screen layouts and status management. Configured Allocation structures, settlement rules and settlement profile for internal orders
• Documented End User Manuals and Training Material

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, Missouri, KS

Responsibilities:

• Performed configuration of FI enterprise structure that included creating few company codes
• Defined the fiscal year variant and the employee tolerance limits, posting keys, document number ranges and document types, successful integration of FI and MM modules
• Worked on configuration of A/P and A/R module: credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, terms of payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item clearing
• Configured accounts payable - Defined vendor account groups and created master data
• Configured Internal Orders by identifying and creating required Order Types
• Configured Cost Center Accounting by creating Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centers, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures based on client requirements
• Configured General Controlling by maintaining Controlling Areas and assigned different Company Codes accordingly, creating CO document number ranges and version maintenance
• Building LSMWs as upload tool for some of the objects
• Cost Element Accounting configuration involved in identification and creation of Primary Cost elements through Batch Input Session and created Secondary Cost Elements for the purpose of Settlement of Internal Orders and Project Systems
• Designed course curriculum and lesson plans for the SAP Financial modules training to be delivered to the end users.
• Delivering of SAP Financial modular training and Navigation courses
• Solving tickets and interacting with the Users
• Support End Users after Go-Live

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, WI

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
• Maintained required settings in Accounts Payable viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), linking of Vendor documents with EDI.
• Created & Maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, AR Aging.
• Have worked on Partial, Residual Payment types.
• Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).
• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
• Used Report painter to generate reports of PCA needed by the Business Owner.
• Meet regularly with Business Owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
• Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications.
• Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Participate in Super User meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required.

Accountant

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed weekly accounts payable batches for proper coding and accuracy.
• Performed bi-weekly Commissions Expenses reports for Representatives.
• Reviewed daily cash receipt entries and reconcile all payment related issues.
• Prepared monthly reconciliations for both accounts payable and receivable.
• Assisted with annual 1099 for vendors.
• Prepared various ad hoc reports for Senior Accountant and assisted with of annual audits
• Performed Commissions for fixed business(EIA)
• Input wire transactions
• Created new Accounts for new Representatives and new Vendors
• Audited vendors’ statements and payments requests.