SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of strong functional experience in SAP FI/CO Implementation, Customization, Upgrade, and Production Support.
• 3 Full Life Cycle Implementation and 1 Upgrade experience.
• Proficient in ASAP Project Implementation Methodology.
• Well versed with US. GAAP and SOX standards. Strong knowledge of Finance and Accounting gained through higher education and experience.
• Strong working experience in SAP FI - New General Ledger, Classic General Ledger, Accounts Receivable & Collections, Accounts Payable and Asset Accounting and CO - Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Product Costing (Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling).
• Extensive work experience of integration of FICO with Sales Distribution (SD) and Purchasing (MM) sub modules.
• Good work experience with Sales tax, Use tax, Withholding tax, Extended Withholding tax. Knowledge on U.S Tax regulations along with external tax systems like “VERTEX”, “TAXWARE”, “SABRIX”, “SAP CRM TTE (Transaction Tax Engine)” etc.
• Extensive work experience in Gap analysis, Business Blueprint, Business Process Re-engineering, Business Process Procedure (BPP), Configuration, Customization and Production support.
• Expert in Documentation and Testing. Prepared documents such as Business Blue Print, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications, Configuration Specifications. Conducted Unit Testing, Integration Testing and worked closely with business user to conduct User Acceptance Testing.
• Good knowledge in Project Management, Project Planning & Budgeting (BOE), Vendor Management & Business Development.
• Proficient in IDOC processing, SAP Queries, ABAP Reports.
• Experience in creating LSMW and implementing OSS notes.
• Interacted with stakeholders, customers and users to gather, manage and validate requirements.
• Excellent Team Player, and has good ability to work under stringent dead lines.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, budgeting, and time management skills.
• Strong teamwork and client management skills.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with particular emphasis on the production of clear and detailed written Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Ability to quickly understand, learn and implement new requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Accounting: General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Special Ledger, Cash Accounting and Bank Accounting, Taxes, Travel Management.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost & Revenue Element Accounting (CEA)Internal Orders (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC) & Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

Treasury: Liquidity Forecast, Cash Management Position and Cash Concentration.

Integration: Integration of FICO module with SD, MM, PS and PP modules.

OTHER SKILLS: MS Word, Excel. Access, MS Visio, Windows 98/NT/XP/Vista/Windows 7, SQL Server, SAP R/3 4.6/4.7, ECC 5.0/6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Norristown, PA

Senior Functional Consultant (SAP FI/CO)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full life cycle from blueprint, configuration, realization, testing and go-live activities and provided post production support.
• Studied existing business process in the context of FI/CO and deciding to be process and to be mapped to the SAP system.
• Involved in Functional Requirement Gatherings and design of Master data. Prepared Blue Print, Functional specifications and Configuration specifications.
• Implemented new functionalities of ECC 6.0 such as New General Ledger.
• Finance: Worked extensively in Configuration, Customization of FI New General Ledger module, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables.
• Prepared new Chart of accounts, Configured Number ranges for Account Groups and also set up the Screen Layout Rule.
• Worked extensively on Document splitting.
• Worked extensively on Open items management, Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments in Accounts Payables (AP)
• Worked extensively on Special G/L Transactions (Down payment), Authorization, Payment program, ACH
• Maintenance of the Bank Clearing Accounts, Reconciliation accounts for AP
• Payment program and Payment run configuration is completed for check printing, testing of vendor and customer master data
• Provided Support for the configuration, implementation and testing of Customer Master Records, Incoming Payments
• Validated and documented AP, AR business process procedures and recommended/ implemented process improvements where applicable
• Provided configuration support in SD, MM integration for Valuation and account determination, Materials movements’ type setup.
• Controlling: Configured Controlling Area, Number Ranges and Versions in Controlling, and set up Primary & Secondary Cost Elements in Cost Element Accounting.
• Configured Costing variant, Costing sheet (Calculation Bases, Overheads, Credits), valuation variant, order type, overhead cost elements.
• Integration: Involved heavily in integration of SD and MM with FICO .
• Reports: Created Master Data Reports and Transaction Data Reports - GL Master, Vendor/Customer Master etc, Account Balance Reports, Line item reports etc.
• Coordinated with ABAP team to design and develop dunning forms and check forms.
• Testing: Involved in preparing Test Plan, conducting unit testing and integration testing. Prepared the system for day in life activities and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Prepared documentation and end-user training manuals for business users.
• Post Live: Worked on month end and year end closing activities.
• Leading the team involved in post go live support.
• Worked extensively on LSMW for loading of Data related to Master data and also for exporting/importing data from the legacy systems to SAP
• Extensively worked on multiple interfaces to support the data flow from one system to other system. Worked on IDocs both inbound and outbound for the data transfer from and Interfaces from SAP to Legacy System.

Confidential, Kansas City, KS

Functioanl Consultant (SAP FI/CO)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of up gradation process in the capacity of a FICO consultant.
• Interacted with client to define New General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups.
• Performed GAP analysis, prepared Blue Print, Functional specifications and maintained traceability matrix.
• Configured Field Status groups, Posting Keys, Fiscal Year variant and financial statement versions in GL
• Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest calculation, Write-Offs, and Tax (Vertex) in AR
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories
• Worked on Asset Master Data and Created new Asset Groups with new part numbers.
• Configuration of House banks, ACH, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment
• Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices
• Configured relevant settings for treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration
• Configured Profitability Analysis CO-PA included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments
• Helped in Configuring necessary changes to reconcile PCA to CO-PA for P&L accounts including modification of CO-PA user exits, and creation of new field status groups
• Successfully tested cross-company, multi-currency postings and reporting in local, group, and transaction currency
• Resolved integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Provide user training of new configuration and reporting to management and business groups
• Worked with the quality team in carrying out Configuration testing and integration testing. Also involved in unit testing and user acceptance testing(UAT).

Confidential, German Town, MD

Senior Functional Consultant (SAP FI/CO)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on G/L Master Data, creation of New G/L Accounts.
• Mapped G/L Accounts for Company Specific Financial Statement Version for Multiple Company Codes.
• Created Account Assignment Models for Recurring Entries.
• Activated New General Ledger, configured Master data,configured ledgers under leading ledger,non leading leadger for parallel accounting and document splitting.
• Worked extensively on cofiguration of FI - GL, AR, AP. Created new Account Groups, Number Ranges(External), Posting Keys, Document Types(for External No. Range Specific), Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups(for External No. Range Specific) based on client requirement.
• Worked on Asset Master Data and Created new Asset Groups with new part numbers.
• Configured Product Cost Planning by basic settings for Material Costing and Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure.
• Defined Costing Sheet, Over head cost elements, Overhead Keys, Cost Component Structure
• Carried out various configuration and enhancements of CO based on client’s requirments. Defined primary and secondary cost elements with various Cost Element categories along with master data for all required Cost Centers, Activity Types and Statistical Key figures.
• Played major role in configuring Profitability Analysis by creating required user defined Characteristics and Value fields.
• Integrated MM, SD with FICO.
• Configured Period-End Closing for WIP(work-in-process) and provided Production Support for Month-end and Quarter End Closing.
• Created Reports Using Report Painter.
• Prepared Functional Specification Documents.
• Worked closely with the QA team to perform integration and regression testing of the system.
• Provided training to Business Users and prepared User Training manual.
• OSS notes analysis / implementation.

Confidential, Cleona,PA

Senior Functioanl Consultant (SAP FI/CO)

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Daily Support of functional and customizing issues and retraining of new end users of various functions.
• Supported FI-GL (General Ledger), FI-AP (Accounts Payable), FI-AR (Accounts Receivable), modules and suggested and implemented process improvements
• Customized document types, posting keys, posting periods, document number ranges.
• Designed and implemented modifications in the automatic payment functionality in Accounts Payable module.
• Resolved post-implementation stabilization phase issues in Accounts Payable
• Configured settings for Costing variant, Valuation variant, Result analysis Keys/ versions, valuation methods, variance keys, settlement profile, settlement structure etc for repetitive manufacturing environment
• Updated product cost estimates for all the products.
• Met management’s long pending requirement of creating, releasing multiple cost estimates for the products where split costing was active using the concept of different production version for different valuation type for the same material.
• Released Product Cost estimates periodically.
• Defined cost centers and standard hierarchy. Maintaining cost elements. Defined Cost center planning and created layouts for cost center planning.
• Extensive Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Regular interaction with the users, understanding their requirements and developing Specifications per Customer Requests and prepared Test Plans.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Functioanl Consultant (SAP FI/CO)

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• FI Analyst on a project involving the global implementation of SAP 4.7 including FI, CO, MM, PP, and SD modules. Configured, customized, and provided production support of the FI/CO modules.
• Configured the General Ledger for new company codes.
• Configured the Accounts Payable module for North America
• Configured the Internal Orders module, including Internal Order Types, Budget Profiles, Availability Control, and Settlement Profiles for North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
• Configured the Asset Management module, including Charts of Depreciation (US, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom, China and Singapore), Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys (Book and Tax), Investment Support, Leased Assets, and Group Assets.
• Managed all data conversions for Fixed Assets, Investment Management, and Internal Orders, using both ABAP programs and LSMW.
• Created and reviewed Business Process Procedures (BPPs) for Fixed Assets and Internal Orders.
• Developed and delivered all training for Fixed Assets, Investment Management and Internal Orders.
• Integrated SD and MM with FICO.
• Prepared all configuration and end-user Training Guide.
• Gathered user requirements and mapping those requirements to specific SAP functionality.
• Unit and Integration Testing all system changes for Fixed Assets, Investment Management, and Internal Orders.
• Provided all end-user support for Fixed Assets, Investment Management, and Internal Orders.
• Researched and provided recommendation on the application of OSS Notes as required.

Confidential

Functioanl Consultant (SAP FI/CO)

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Part of SAP Production support team in FI/CO.
• Closely interacted with users to gather requirements to understand the workflow of the as-is system.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Reported tasks & user authorization profiles to fit new requirements.
• Refined business requirements; developed a list of interfaces, reports and data conversions and mappings.
• Involved in the extraction and migration of customer master data from legacy system to SAP system.
• Maintained master data and structures for Account Payables and Accounts Receivables.
• Customized master data, business transactions, dunning /payment processes in AR/AP.
• Customized automatic payment program and defined payment methods required for Accounts Payable.
• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes and profitability centers for internal reporting purposes.
• Customized controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers for CCA and PCA with integration of FI with SD and MM modules.
• Thoroughly tested the change requests after implementation.
• Maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.