SUMMARY

• Over 11 years of experience inSAPconfiguration of design and implementations plus 5 + years of domain experience as accountant.
• In - depth knowledge and experience inSAPFI/CO implementation encompassing seven projects, three of which are full implementation cycles from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live.
• 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 USGAAP, IASand 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, FI-AA & FI-GL).
• Excellent analytical, quick learning and problem solving skills with a desire to work in a team oriented environment
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to configure SD(Order to Cash) module with tax determination rules and pricing procedures.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay (MM) 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 Automatic payment program business process covering automatic payment program.
• Involved in complete configuration of Financial Accounting(FI): GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, taxes on sales and purchases and New GL aspects, document splitting, Inter company reconciliation
• Involved in complete configuration of Controlling(CO): Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability analysis, Profit center accounting and Product Costing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO Analyst Consultant

Confidential, RESTON, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions using Service-Now systemCo-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLAs.
• Conducted various meeting with key Management in the Financial Management department to discuss various intricacies in the business and the needed development strategies.
• Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in A P.
• Bank Configuration: Setup House banks for the newly added banks to the company
• Created master data for General ledger accounts, Materials, Assets, Cost centers, Internal Orders, Profit centers, Vendors and Customers.
• Involved in Functional unit testing, Integration testing and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Extensively took part in designing and writing Functional Specifications for various procedures
• Involved in Conducting Interviews with users to gather requirements and understanding the workflow of the As-Is system. Analyzing workflow to design solutions and designing the To-Be solution.
• Created, Reviewed and Updated the functional design documents FDS for FI CO developments.
• Worked on Customer Master, House Banks, Payment Programs, Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box and had successfully configured Clearing to clearing open items in GL AR AP Modules.
• Setup the interfaces for the information flow, mapping, and customized the changes
• Involved in End User Training forFICOand preparing BPP Business Process Procedure
• Involved in GHR upgrade project and made sure all financial areas are working well by doing regression testing using HPQC system.
• Developed documentation for customizing automatic payment program (changes in segments according to the bank requirements,SAPbank payment related interfaces).
• Configured organization structure for company code, field status variant, fiscal variants, posting periods, document number ranges
• Provided user training and prepared user documentation for all important business processes.
• Payment terms and its application in invoices.
• Configured withholding tax according to jurisdictions requirements.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP implementation experience covering various facet of ERP implementation like Process mapping, Configuration, Documentation, Training, data migration, for the project and post-implementation support.
• Participated in Minutes of meeting (MOM) from customer and prepared the business blue print documentation as per requirement
• As-is Business processes in the Financial and Controlling areas documented, To-Be processes documented and mapped in SAP for FI
• Configuration of basic setting, master data level like G/L, A/P, A/R, AA & controlling.
• Configured Enterprise structure elements like Company code and Business areas and assignment of Enterprise elements.
• Bank Accounting: Definition of House Banks, Creating Cheque Lots & Configuring Automatic Payment Program (APP) and Dunning.
• Maintained account determination for MM integration.
• Creation of cost elements and cost elements groups as per client requirements.
• Uploading the balances of GL’s, Customers, vendors and Assets

Confidential, East Hanover, NJ

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Assisted clients in finalizing organization structure design in SAP. Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements.
• As a part of GL transaction processing set the types of journal entries, recurring entries and accrual posting. GL Fiscal month end closing defined financial statement preparation, reconciliations and adjustments, integrated closing schedules and the closing process.
• Maintained Subsystems such as Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Responsible for Processing Payments.
• Involved in the design of Asset class and Chart of Depreciation in Fixed Assets.
• Grouped assets into manageable Asset Classes and customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups and Assign Number ranges to groups, configured Automatic and Manual cost element creation.
• Interacted with client business users for requirement gathering and analysis.
• Study and documentation of existing processes for Shipping and Distribution.
• Configured COPA profiles according to order types to meet company needs for profitability analysis.
• Configured PCA(Profit Center Accounting) according internal managerial requirement for certain divisions.
• Worked on configuring the necessary profile settings to transfer plan data from controlling

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved developing prototype and demonstration of New GL Functionalities.
• Involved configuring and implementing document splitting, Classifying G/L Accounts and document types for document splitting, and document splitting characteristics.
• Involved in design of non-leading ledger for additional currencies.
• Involved configuring FI and CO real time integration.
• Involved end-end AR functional integration testing.
• Involved in fixing the issue raised during testing.
• Prepared BPP’s and end user training
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO.
• Configured down payment functionally and payment medium workbench and also worked extensively on bank specific payment files to automate check and electronic payments to meet client's specific requirements.
• Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.
• Created various new (fixed asset) asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production.
• Calculation of Taxes for MM, worked on tax procedure, Condition types, condition records, Tax codes settings and account determinations.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed, implemented and streamlined the complete AR process, with SAP FI, which saved 20% of the resource utilization time.
• Streamline collection process for outstanding AR and payment Cycle with implementation of Dunning procedures.
• Responsible for Incoming Receipts and Outgoing payments for various Banks
• Reconciliation Statements including Automatic and Manual upload of Bank data.
• Configured Customer Master Data, Vendor Master Data and Terms of Payment,
• Comfortable with process flow of Lockbox, post processing, Data replication and
• Writing, Mapping of Functional Specifications, Coordinating and Supporting Programmer in Development and Executing Developed Programs.
• Suggested solutions for Freight Reconciliation Analysis and developed solutions for effective tracking and reporting.
• Handled Dunning Procedures and Integration with Collection Management
• Assisted in Developing Corporate Dispute cases and management
• Configuration of Internal Order both Real and Statistical due to management budgeting concerns for various departments.
• Configuration of Cost Center and Profit Center including Hierarchies.
• Design Develop BPP’s and Training Material for End users, Trained Core Responsible Team members in SAP for their relevant work area.
• Configured Financial Statement Versions and Reports for various Business requirements including Fixed Assets Statements.