SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience working as a SAP FICO Consultant. Participated in SAP implementation projects including designing blueprints, configuring IMG with user community, understanding client needs, documenting the project processes.
• Performed FI Configuration including FI Master Data, GL, A/R, A/P and New General Ledger.
• Configuration expert of New GL to meet requirements to report multiple accounting methods including US GAAP and IFRS.
• Expert in customization of SAP ERP ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.7 & 4.6c versions in FI - CO modules.
• Responsible, detail oriented with strong technical, analytical, problem solving skills.
• Performed FI testing (FI-AR, FI-AP, and FI-AA & FI-GL).
• Excellent analytical, quick learning and problem solving skills with a desire to work in a team oriented environment.
• Configure Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation which includes the list of depreciation areas.
• Extensive work experience in CO-PA, Product costing, Material ledger, Vertex, New GL, Treasury, FICA and FSCM.
• A team player with excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in External Reporting and preparation of Financial Statements with good understanding of GAAP.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents.
• Adept in various financial processes including Auditing, Assurance, Accounting processes, Financial statements, Fund Flow Management, Reporting, Consolidation and analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting.
• Worked on SAP FSCM (Dispute management, collections management).
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to take on challenges and strong determination and can run extra mile to meet deadlines.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor's management, including credit control.
• Financial Accounting - Company code, Business area, Document control, Fiscal year maintenance. Field status Group, Finalization of Chart of Accounts, foreign currency, Tolerance groups for GL, GL Master, Park document, Hold document Recurring entries.
• Accounts Payable - Vendor master data configuration, Tolerance group, Automatic Payment Program, Invoice, Credit memo, Check management, Down payment, Integration with MM module.
• Accounts Receivable - Customer master data configuration, Terms of payment, Open item management, Dunning, Invoice, Credit memo, Down payment, Interest calculation, Integration with SD module.
• Asset Accounting - Master Data of Organization structure, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation area and key, linking with GL Valuation Methods, Depreciation key, Depreciation Run, asset acquisition, write-off, Information system.
• Cost Element Accounting - Cost element group, assignment of cost elements to group, Actual postings, Information System.
• Cost Center Accounting - Cost center hierarchy, Actual Postings, Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment, Information System.
• Internal Orders - Order types, Creation, Expense booking, Status management, Settlement, Planning, Actual Postings, Year-end closing, and Information System.
• Profit Center accounting - Creation of Profit Centre, Maintain automatic account assignment of revenue element, Choose additional B/S & P&L A/C - Account groups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Software: SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7 & ECC version 5.0, 6.0

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, MAC OS X.

Application Software: MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

SAP FI Documentation Specialist

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, FI-AR, FI-GL, FI-AP, CO-CCA, HPALM, UPerform 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Working alongside the business process manager, and director, responsibilities required configuration, testing, developing functions for various FI modules via credit cards, and direct debit.
• Configured UPerform 5.0 to write work instructions, for credit card processes, and direct debit process for the global team of Canada.
• Worked as an author to write work instructions, and back to basics training manuals, for the training team. Created work instructions for unidentified payments, payments with residuals, direct debit functions, generating proposals and payment runs, creating credit memos, settlement reports, export of TPM data, updating host batch details, releasing deliveries, credit management, and assigning open items.
• Worked on SAP FSCM (dispute and collections management) module.
• Created performance data worksheets with data mining, for trainers to teach back to basic for credit and debit.
• Created data for most testing purposes.
• Created exercise guides for credit card processing in Canada.
• Created exercise guides for process customer receipts (automated) for Canada.
• Used HP application lifecycle management for script testing, mapping, and configuring.
• Mapped UAT’s approved with the proper URS in HPALM with their corresponding processes.
• Helped correct and map proper URS’s to help perform the proper processes.
• Helped create and organize proper scripts for Lockbox & Direct Debit.
• Reviewed scripts in order to create proper work instructions using Uperform.
• Used excel to organize and review HPALM integration scripts, all linking Invoice to Cash.

Confidential, New Castle, DE

SAP FI/CO Consultant Lead

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C, FI-GL, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, COPC, BEx.

Responsibilities:

• As a team lead of the SAP (FI-CO) team, responsibilities included design, configuration, testing and re-engineering of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.
• Designing and configuring Chart of Account and multinational company codes in multi currencies.
• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR and assigned different processing keys as required.
• Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) and sample ledger accounts. Defined tolerance groups, tolerance for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings and recurring entries.
• Defined customer account groups and created customer master data for accounts receivable.
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Creation of Vendor and Customer master records and loading of legacy data into the system
• Complete Customization of Cash Journal and House Bank and setting up Cash and fund management sub module.
• Preparation of Financial Accounting Master Data Preparation & Maintenance.
• Complete Configuration for FI/CO integration with MM for material movements and SD with pricing and billing including automatic account determination and GL account postings.
• Supported user community for all finance related queries in ERP system.
• Complete Configuration for Tax on Purchases & Sale and withholding Taxes.
• Setting of Financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.
• Configuration for intercompany transactions.
• Cost Center Accounting Configuration, setting of controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, valuation profiles, field status groups, internal orders, WBS elements.
• Profit center accounting configuration, setup, Profit center hierarchies, Product Costing, Profitability analysis, Profit center based Balance sheets & P&L statements.
• Maintained Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.
• Configuration of Product Costing (CO-PC), including defining settlement profile, Assessment Cycle and distribution and various activities.
• Involved in production support for CCA, PCA, Co-PC, GL, AP, AR modules.
• Worked on Bex analyzer to generate reports for FI-GL and COPA.
• Involved in technical documentation of all custom business objects and end user training.

Confidential, Kansas

Sap Analyst

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.00, FI-GL, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, BIW, Tax ware.

Responsibilities:

• Enhancement, design, configuration, testing of various additional functionalities in R/3 like Group Account, Functional Area Profit Center Accounting.
• Understanding client's current Planning and forecasting process and preparation of AS~IS formal model.
• Taking part with BPS and BW consultant in designing and preparation of TO-BE model for BPS/IP project.
• Interaction with user and client to understand there requirement and concern over existing system and tested existing functionality for further improvement.
• Updated some of the configuration and settings for enhanced functionality of GL.
• Change in the Customization of Cash Journal and House Bank and changes in Treasury module.
• Setting of New Financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement for new Group Account.
• Changes in the Cost Center Accounting, Profit center accounting, cost elements, cost centers, for enhancement in functionality and reporting.
• Carried out additional report development & enhancement in existing system using various tools like Report Painter.
• Involved in production support for CCA, PCA, CO-PC, GL, FI-CO, AP, AR modules.
• Carried out technical and end user training documentation for BPS/IP project.
• Conducted workshop for end user training for new product BPS-IP.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6b, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, CO-CCA, CO-PCA

Responsibilities:

• Carried out current business process study and Preparation of AS~IS document
• Carried GAP study and prepared GAP analysis report.
• Prepared TO~BE and Business Blue Print Document.
• Business data preparation & Management related to FICO Module.
• Defining Vendor master data. Configuring down payments, Payment methods, and automatic Payment program.
• Invoice verification, GL account assignments, Accounts for auto-posting.
• Creation of customer account groups, number range group and numbers, customer masters creation and terms of payment.
• Configuring advances from parties.
• Configuring dunning program. Incoming payments, partial payments. Writing specifications for customer reports.
• Defining vendor master data. Invoice verification. Configuring automatic payment program, check management, GL account assignments, Accounts for auto-posting, GRIR etc and vendor down payment.
• Configuration for General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• In Controlling defined the Master Records like Cost Elements (primary and secondary), Cost Element Groups, Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups and Standard Hierarchy.
• Defined Profit Center and Profit Center Groups.
• End User Demo, Training and preparation of User Manual Document.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Utilized ASAP methodology for project scope, business process documentation, testing, and training materials.
• Configuration of FI module starting with Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, posting period variant, field status variant and field status groups.
• Defining chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for each company code. Creating Bank Master data, House banks, GL accounts for each bank account and creating bank reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers.
• Customizing screen layouts for document posting at account levels, Document clearing and posting in foreign currencies, exchange rate differences for the foreign transactions.
• Ensured monthly General Ledger and Accrual reconciliations were performed on time and recommend accrual adjustments based on forecasting non-capital expenditures and budget with actuals for the functional group.
• Analyzed expense trends and Accrual levels.
• Analyzed, configured new Credit Management Areas, Credit representative groups, Lockbox system for new business requirements.
• Defined Settlement Structure and Settlement Profiles for settlement of the costs collected in the Internal Orders.
• Defined Procurement Indicators, material, profiles for BOM, reference points for BOM transfer, availability check, check requirement types, requirement classes, planning strategies, strategy groups, MRP groups, item category, item category group, etc.
• Defined new order types for internal orders and their budgeting profile.
• Created settlement profile to settle them finally to cost centers.

Confidential, Pittsburgh PA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, CO-CCA, CO-PCA

Responsibilities:

• Identification and preparation of Financial Accounting Master Data.
• Customization of Financial Account global setting, Document setting.
• Customization & configuration of GL, AR, & AP.
• Business data preparation & Management related to FICO Module.
• Creation of Vendor and Customer master records and loading of legacy data into the system.
• Defined document types and Number ranges, understanding the concept of posting keys.
• Defined field status variant and field status groups for determining field status.
• Configured tolerance groups and also defined Validations and Substitutions.
• Configured of Master data groups, Terms of Payment, Incoming Payments and Open item clearing.
• Configured the settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• Creating Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers.
• Integration of Financial with Material movements and billing for automatic postings and taxation postings in FI.
• Configuration for General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions.
• Defining profit centers. Profit center assignments. Maintaining revenue and cost elements.
• User Demo, Training and preparation of User Manual Document.
• Evaluated existing systems and procedures, devised/revised control systems and procedures keeping in view future growth, management requirements and the revealed lapses.
• Developing Security Control and Back up procedures Computer System under LAN.