SUMMARY

• 7 years of professional experience in SAP applications with an emphasis on FI - CO module as a Business Analyst and consultant and successfully implemented 1 full life cycle by using ASAP methodology ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0
• Sound knowledge and experienced in understanding the business process in the legacy system of client and in recommending an effective solution for To-Be system
• Solid implementation experience of all sub modules of FI: General ledger (GL), Account Payable (AP), Account Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting module (AA)
• Experienced in integration of FI with CO, MM, SD and PP module, have a thorough knowledge and understanding in the integration of FI with all other modules
• Drafted and generated external and internal report that involved an effective integration of FI with CO and worked on profitability analysis based on the region, product segment level using COPA
• Proficient in all sub modules of Controlling: Cost element Accounting (CLE), Cost center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product costing (PC), Profitability analysis (COPA)
• Worked extensively in LSMW, IDOCS, EDI, ABAP queries in multiple projects
• Actively involved in all phases of ASAP roadmap: Project preparation, Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Final preparation, Go live support in full life cycles
• Provided an extensive end user training at the stage of Go Live Support, analyzed every functions in FI and confirmed system functions as smoothly as possible
• Unique capability of working in independent as well as in team environment by learning and sharing my skills with the team partners
• Written functional specification for RICEF (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms) for complex developmental work such asEDI, LSMW, IDOC
• Involved in all phases of ASAP Methodology; Project Preparation, Business Blue-Printing, Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live &Support.
• Strong Project Management Skills, Proven ability to comprehend business requirements, cross functional module impact, and finding solutions.
• Experience in data migration and providing functional specifications.
• Excellent in system analysis, documentation and designing the technical specifications of the processes, with excellent knowledge transfer / training techniques.
• Designed Test Plan scenarios for Unit Testing, Integration Testing and regression testing.
• Excellent team player, strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills combined with self-motivation and initiative.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP versions: R/34.7 and ECC 6.0

SAP Tools: Solution Manager, LSMW, Report Painter and Report Writer.

Tools: Mercury-Quality Center, Taxware, Remedy.

MS Office: MS Word, Power Point, Excel, Access.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/XP Vista

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Consultant/ FICO

Responsibilities:

• As a core member for full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO module,gathered business process information and compiled the AS-IS, TO-BE and GAP analysis document.
• Understanding the company’s current structure and Business processes. Gap analysis was carried out between mapping company structure & SAP Organization structure and additional functional requirements were documented.
• Configuration of FI global settings, configured company code, created GL accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Configured and Customized G/L A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variants, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments, automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, credit risk management.
• Assisted in activation of New G/L, Migration from G/L to New G/L, and Leading Ledger with creation of Segments, Customer Fields in the Parallel Ledgers.
• Configured the settings in New GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing and Configured terms of payment, definedTax codes for sales and purchase and tax accounts, tolerance limits for customer payments, special GL indicators, dunning, and down payments
• Uploaded accounts payable master data through LSMW, Configured Automatic payment program for Accounts payable for checks, ACH and write transfer. Also created check lots.
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys and transaction types for Asset Accounting.
• Assisted in maintaining Cost center category (CO-CCA) and defined cost center hierarchy.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Internal Orders (IO).
• Maintained settings for Controlling Area, Operating Concern and maintained Versions.
• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, CO-PC and COPA.
• Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC.
• Defined origin groups, overhead keys, overhead groups and cost component structure.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation).
• Defined costing types, valuation variations, date control, quantity structure control, transfer strategy, reference variation & costing variants.
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Configured PC by Order, PC by period & PC by sales order: define analysis keys, cost elements for WIP calculation, Result analysis version, Valuation method for actual cost, Line Ids, Assignment, Update, Posting rules for settlement, Number Ranges, Variance Keys, Variance Keys for Plants, Valuation Variance for WIP & scrap, Order type dependent parameters, target cost versions.
• Configured costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• Configure CO-PA Master Data: Hierarchies, Derivation, Valuation strategy, Keys for accessing Material cost estimates.
• Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods, mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA.
• Trained cost accountants/managers on period end closing procedures like application of overhead costs, calculation and posting of goods still in production, calculation of variances between standard and actual costs, settlement of variances to CO-PA, EC-PCA and FI modules.
• Define CO-PA: number range for actual posting, value field groups & line item screens, transfer of incoming sales order & billing docs, Quantity fields, maintaining PA structure for direct posting to FI-MM.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project including ASAP methodology, BBP preparation, Data migration, configuration, end-user training, and go-live phases, involved in test phases i.e. unit testing, integration testing.
• Configuration of FI global settings, configured company code, created GL accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Configured and Customized G/L A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variants, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments, automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, credit risk management.
• Configured the settings in New GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing and Configured terms of payment, definedTax codes for sales and purchase and tax accounts, tolerance limits for customer payments, special GL indicators, dunning, and down payments.
• Configured Automatic payment program for Accounts payable for checks, ACH and write transfer. Also created check lots.
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys and transaction types for Asset Accounting.
• Assisted in maintaining Cost center category (CO-CCA) and defined cost center hierarchy.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Internal Orders (IO).
• Maintained settings for Controlling Area, Operating Concern and maintained Versions.
• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, CO-PC and COPA.
• Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC.
• Defined origin groups, overhead keys, overhead groups and cost component structure.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation).
• Defined costing types, valuation variations, date control, quantity structure control, transfer strategy, reference variation & costing variants.
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Configured product costing by sales order:, cost elements for WIP calculation, Result analysis version, Valuation method for actual cost, Line Ids, Assignment, Update, Posting rules for settlement, Number Ranges, Variance Keys, Variance Keys for Plants, Valuation Variance for WIP & scrap, Order type dependent parameters, target cost versions.
• Configured costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• Configure CO-PA Master Data: Hierarchies, Derivation, Valuation strategy, Keys for accessing Material cost estimates.
• ConfiguredCO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods, mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA
• Provided Post - go-live support to users. Prepared a support document and helped users in solving their problems in live environment.
• Executed test scripts and performed system testing for SAP processes
• Conducted end-user training for SAP implementation.
• Supported FI/CO reconciliation during month-end, Quarter-end & year-end close.

Confidential, Emerveille, CA

Sr.SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designedand executed Data Mapping, cleansing and Cutover plansfor Conversion of Legacy system from India and US into SAP
• Wrote functional specifications for different business requirement thoroughly for Fixed Asset.
• Fixed Assets: Configured of FI-AA Asset classes, depreciation areas, assigning company codes to dep. Areas, creation of screen layouts and number ranges, creation of dep. Keys like ordinary depreciation, special depreciation and imputed depreciation. Creation of G/L accounts and determines automatic assignment, posting dep., insurance amounts and interests to G/L account. Configuration of transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, inter-company transfers, write-offs and capitalization of assets under constructions.
• Configured Tax Depreciation Areas for US GAAP such as Federal ACRS/MACRS, Alternative Minimum Tax, Earnings & Profits (ACE), State ACRS/MACRS and California tax.
• California Tax: Fixed Asset calculated the accumulative values based on the key and useful life at the time of conversion.
• Created Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas and configured them in business processes.
• Configured Key for US company codes as per the law requirement for tax depreciation areas.
• Worked on Asset Master Record, Mass Asset Creation and the configuration.
• Performed Planned, Unplanned and Accelerated depreciation
• Worked on Transfer of assets like Inter Company Transfer and Intra Company Transfers
• Worked retirement of asset scenarios like Retirement by Scrapping.
• Worked on Sale of Asset by Customer scenarios and configured and tested the business processes.
• Worked on Integration of AM (AA) with PS, FI, MM and CO.
• Defined Document Type, Number Range, and specify Document Type for posting of Asset values.
• Created a Work list in order to do the Mass change by cost center.
• Worked on Integration of FA/PS/FI/CO. Such as by assigning GL accounts in the asset classes.
• Conducted training programs for end users. Also developed training concept decks, end user documentation and process narratives.
• Worked through every aspect of analysis, design and development of business intelligence solutions.
• Provided leadership role for the development teams to deliver flawless solutions.
• Provided technical direction to make best use of the Business Intelligence (BI) tools in company's environment.
• Developed complex reports in BI for Fixed Assets end users, such as Book and Tax areas.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in ECC6 New GL project with Document Splitting, Creation of Design template, Configuration, Implementation and Testing.
• Production Support FI/CO
• Worked on End to End plan, scheduling and configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Account Receivable.
• Defined leading and non leading ledgers, defined different segments for segment reporting
• Configured document splitting characteristics for finance and controlling both,
• Classified G/L accounts for document splitting.
• Defined and assigned different accounting principles to ledger groups
• Worked on special purpose ledger for the quarterly reporting.
• Worked on Info Pack to create Training materials and successfully trained Users.
• Worked on importing data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
• Creation of Files with Test Data from the Conversion
• Created Company codes, Operating Chart of accounts, Country chart of accounts, Financial Statement Versions
• Created G/L accounts, customer master data, Vendor Master data, House banks
• Configured Automatic Payment Program, Configured payment terms, Employee tolerance, Vendor tolerance, Customer tolerance.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, complete design, configuration and GL, AP, AR, AA integration with Project System, Internal Orders, Plant Maintenance, configuration of some part of controlling.
• Configured Automatic Payment for Account Payables, configured Vendor/Customer Master Data, Payment Terms, and also configured different payment methods - ACH payments, Wire Transfer, and checks.
• Worked on Order to Cash Process, performed AR-SD integration: Worked with SD team to configure condition type, pricing procedure. Automatic account assignment of revenues through VKOA.
• Worked with ABAP people to create different z-reports.
• Worked on different treasury processes for different countries in North America and Europe for corporate treasury.
• Configured Depreciation areas, Defined Asset Classes, created Screen layout rules, created financial statement version for Asset Reports.
• Configured Integration of Assets with General Ledger, Created different type of Depreciation terms, created Screen layout for depreciation areas, created depreciation area for different currencies, Special depreciation.
• Defined and configured different depreciation keys declining-Balance method, Multi-level Methods, Period Control methods.
• Configured Screen layout for Asset Master Data, created asset classes for Group Assets, created Allocation structures and settlement profiles.
• Defined Validation and Substitution rules for different scenarios in Asset accounting. Developed technical specification document for ABAP people as per the business requirement.
• Created all Training materials, BPPs and power points to train employees.
• System modifications, communicated project status to management, and assisted users during training.

Confidential, Northridge, CA

Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated studying existing business process and deciding to be process to map it in SAP system.
• Involved in analyzing and gathering business requirements. Involved in preparation of business requirement document and functional design document.
• Worked on New General Ledger Configuration as well
• Defined leading and non leading ledgers, defined different segments for segment reporting
• Classified G/L accounts for document splitting
• Created customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment and assigned credit control area to the company code.
• Worked on special purpose ledger for the Intercompany process.
• Define multiple payment method for ACH, Wire Transfer, checks and for foreign currency.
• Creation of House banks and payment methods, for new vendor master data.
• Set up the Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Worked on Fixed Asset Depreciation and Intercompany Revenues, Payables and Receivables, Balance Sheets and income statements and Retained Earnings accounts.
• Worked with SD and MM teams for all Intercompany related Billing and Invoicing
• Worked with Master Data team to manage “Trading Partner” field for Customer and Vendor Company Codes etc.
• Define validation Rules to validate that Trading Partner field is captured in all Intercompany transactions
• Standardized and organized the report structure, developed the reports as per the user requirement.
• Provided supports to BI team regarding the sources of reports, tables names, fields and characteristics constantly throughout the report automation project.
• Prepared Business Blue Print, Process Work Flow Documents, Configuration Rationale Documents, Test Scripts etc., and upload them in Solution Manager.
• Performed User-Acceptance Test for the same reports in the QA environment.
• Assisted in the creation of end user training documents, writing curriculum for training purpose, configuration details.
• Conducted one on one key user training.
• Conducted in-class/group training sessions for end users.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in all phases in the life cycle implementation of the project.
• Reviewed and evaluated the business blue-print to identify the requirements.
• Involved extensively in the configuration of company code, sales and use tax, chart of accounts, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling Area, CCA, and PCA.
• Analyzed and Configured account groups, field status group, posting keys, document types, and number ranges in GL.
• Configured special purpose ledger for US GAAP, and statutory reporting.
• Created Customers and Vendors Account Groups with screen layout.
• Configured Automatic payments for Account Payable and dunning for Account Receivable and settings for Outgoing/Incoming payments including Automatic Payment Program, exchange rate differences, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, interest calculation, Credit management, running/editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices, carrying forward.
• Created new asset classes, documented the configuration process, tested new asset class by creating new assets.
• Designed test plans and testing scenarios and tested the same in Development client and had the user test the same in QA.
• Assigned G/L account to asset classes, Screen layout for master data, depreciation Areas and number range.
• Created validation rules at asset master data level to allow business user to choose equipment types which are only valid to the combination of a given company code and asset class.
• Created a custom table for the maintenance of asset master record validation and substitution.
• Actively participated in the configuration of controlling areas, CEA, CCA, and PCA.
• Defined primary and secondary cost element as per the client’s requirement.
• Created cost center and profit center hierarchy.
• Performed integration of profit center with FI, MM, and SD through material master assignment, and sales order substitution.
• Configured and tested assessment, distribution cycle in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configured Cost Component structure as per the business requirement.
• Used reporting tools report painter to create forms as per the client’s requirement for managerial reporting.
• Provided production support as well as enhancement support to the IT and different business user groups in Finance and controlling area.