PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Experience of over 7 years in functional SAP including three full life cycle implementations with Upgrades, Production Support projects and enhancements in SAP FICO module which also involves SAP ECC 6.0, SAP ECC 5.0 and SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7 including four years in SAP ECC 6.0.
• Have industrial experience and strong domain knowledge in Pharmaceutical, Construction and Engineering business processes.
• Had Profound knowledge on Business analysis and Data analysis.
• Handled Team lead responsibilities for Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization, Data Migration (Cut over) and Configuration with an in depth understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD, PP, MM Modules, Project Systems, HR payrolls etc.
• Have extensive knowledge on configurations and customizations in General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL) and its integration with AR and AP.
• Expertise in the area of Controlling including Cost Center Accounting (CO - CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Worked effectively on the techniques involving Profitability analysis (CO-PA).
• Worked on both Cost based Profitability Analysis and Account based Profitability Analysis.
• Have experience in configuring characteristics, value fields, derivate rules for user defined characteristics, created costing keys for extracting the current cost estimate in CO-PA
• Worked on product cost planning and configured cost object controlling.
• Worked extensively on Cost component structure which includes Transfer structure.
• Worked extensively on Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles.
• Have extensive knowledge on configurations and customizations in General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), designing of Chart of Accounts, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Dunning, Special Ledger Transactions and Intercompany Transactions.
• Expertise in CO-PA, Product costing, Material Ledger.
• Effective communication skills and outstanding leadership abilities in making Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports and Technical Specifications.
• Provided training sessions by conducting end user training and also prepared training documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• General Ledger
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Dispute Management
• ABAP Query
• Report Writer
• Report Painter
• Asset Accounting
• Bank Accounting
• Cost Element Accounting
• Collections Management
• LSMW
• Cost Center Accounting
• Profit Center Accounting
• Profitability Analysis
• Product Costing
• Internal Orders
• Project Systems
• ASAP Methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Core member in SAP implementation team for FICO module.
• Worked Extensively On Blueprints including splitting structures, functional specs, configuration documents.
• Worked extensively on the AP, AR, FSCM, Treasury modules along with Controlling.
• Worked on some defects in CRM, TM modules including the data related issues.
• Worked extensively on product costing while upgrading from 3.1i to 6.0 by implementing all the modifications required including costing versions, production versions, UoM, planned prices, deletion flags in all the mm03 views etc.
• Worked extensively RICEFW objects including reports in Target, planned, Actual costs, quantities and their variances and worked on enhancements like display only MIGO authorizations.
• Worked on Activity rates, types, BOMS, Routings, split valuations, cross-plants, settlement profiles, WIP
• Had profound knowledge in Cost center, profit center, cost element hierarchies.
• Worked on CO-PA reports for FI split postings.
• Worked extensively on European, Canadian, US taxes (Ship-to-party, shipping point/plant Region) and related issues.
• Worked on batch jobs archiving by creating variants and also worked on CO related LSMW scripts.
• Worked on the workflow from PI to CRM through IDOCS and also worked on Material Management including bulk orders and mass management (MM17).
• Worked extensively on LSMW, IDOCS (Inbound & Outbound), EDI including the middleware.
• Worked on all the Transport Management related activities including all the orders relating to the freights.
• Worked on FI issues including Billing, Pricing especially with the Tax (GA, AL, vf03) Jurisdictions.
• Worked extensively on Automatic payment programs, Bank Accounting & Asset Accounting.
• Worked extensively on AP, AR including Lockboxes, Dunning and EBS.
• Worked on Lockbox files coming from the banks (from PI through GENTRAN ) also checked for duplicate lockbox files
• Created many test cases for scenario related issues.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, CO-PC and CO-PA.
• Analyzed the profitability of market segments according to the client’s relevant characteristics.
• Helped the client in configuring Automatic Account Assignment in (CO-PA).
• Configured master data relevant to the product cost controlling.
• Configured Account assignment categories and requirements classes’ in product cost planning.
• Settled Production cost center variances and production order variances to (CO-PA).
• Worked extensively on user exits and enhancements in CO-PA.
• Defined and Assigned movement types to Material Ledger Master Data.
• Created reports in CO-PA to Report profitability by Customer, Product and Market.
• Defined summarization levels to call up data stored in Profitability analysis and generated Reports on different profitability segments using the data from CO-PA tables
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Banks Accounting and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and Dunning.
• Worked on configurations of cost orders, cost elements, internal orders.
• Configured the automatic write-off process, which included the implementation of BADI for getting cost center to the correct reason code.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration with BAI2 format, cash management and planning levels in treasury and worked on Electronic bank statements (EBS).
• Analyzed all open items, foreign currency revaluation, re-classification of payable/receivables, clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt GR/IR accounts, performed reconciliations, profitability allocations by business area.
• Created FI/AR number ranges, incoming payments, reconciliation accounts, overall receivables management and terms of payment.
• Worked on AR portion of credit management to settle credit limits and monitoring customer against their credit limits.
• Involved in modeling of invoice processing, disbursement run, check printing and bank reconciliation processes for AP.
• Eliminated duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings in cross-company sales orders and ensured that SD billing invoices were posted in FI.
• Worked on Bill of Exchange configuration and processing in FI/AR by configuring the reconciliation accounts in the Special GL.
• Worked on transaction types and their settings in CRM.
• Worked on all service, sales, market related transactions in CRM.
• Worked on upgrades of CRM to EHP1.
• Worked on Billing plan and milestone billing in revenue recognition.
• Worked on correspondence types on AR, which means different outputs, which can be printed and sent to your business process partners, based around customer GL information.
• Worked on Mater data and transaction management in treasury management.
• Worked on reporting with the information systems in treasury module
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Check, Wire and ACH payments.
• Worked on all the data screens and work flows in Treasury management.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification in FI/MM integration and configured account determination for FI/SD cycles.
• Configured Cost Center Hierarchy design, created Cost Center Groups, Mapped work centers to cost centers.
• Created planning layouts for cost element planning and statistical key figure planning.
• Thoroughly analyzed the clients business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshot and supported the system users.
• Followed ASAP implementation methodology, designed the business processes, wrote blue print phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Configured company code which includes creating of chart of accounts, posting period variant, retained earning account, document types, tolerance groups and financial statement versions.

Confidential, MN

SAP Sr. FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on Transfer structure involving cost components.
• 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).
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure.
• Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on reference and simulation costing.
• Extensively worked on techniques like run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Customized Period end closing functions including overhead costing, interest calculation and result analysis and settlement procedures.
• Maintained settings related to Controlling Area, Operating Concerns and also maintained Versions.
• Configured costing based CO-PA, involving characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• Worked with client in configuring and analyzing the profits of some products in a particular region according to the hierarchy given by the client.
• Worked on debugging user exits for sales and distribution data coming to CO-PA.
• Worked with Decision-making team by configuring the profitability analysis for some products in some key areas.
• Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels, plan package, planning methods and also mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA. Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA and to CCA.
• Worked on uploading of Batch input data using LSMW techniques.
• Configured settings for EDI for incoming invoices and IDOC for payment program.
• Configured Vendor Master Data, vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups, Configuration of payment program for posting invoices with and without invoice verification and Customized accounting transaction for posting and recurring entries.
• Worked on configurations and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, and Profit & Loss for inter-company transactions.
• AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Worked on CAT7 labor integration with HR module including payrolls.
• Worked extensively on Budgeting and Expense management.
• Worked on Travel planning procedures and controlling spiral costs in expense management.
• Worked on Operational Reporting in Treasury management.
• Worked on Foreign exchange trading in treasury module
• Hands on experience in implementing Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Worked on RICEFW objects with expertise in writing Functional specs.
• Used Report Painter to compare the actual costs and planned costs.
• Prepared month end close reports and set up the master data for Allocations (Assessments and Distribution).
• Trained users on daily routines and month end processing.

Confidential, CA

SAP Functional Consultant Self-Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a team member in Requirements gathering for business process and also mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
• Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO.
• Documented critical changes performed system tests and trained client team members on new system functionality
• Configured AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Defined and worked on Master data, profit center, statistical key figures in New GL accounting.
• Configured G/L account posting, Cash journal, Document splitting in NEW GL accounting
• Configured source symbols, planning levels, planning groups, treasury groupings for liquidity forecast, Cash management and Cash concentration.
• Worked extensively on configuring Lockbox and mapping Banking data format
• Worked on AP- Vendor transactions, Master data, Check management, house banks, payment program, payment terms, deduction management, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Logistics invoice verification, Evaluated receipt settlement.
• Designed structure for Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting and Internal orders.
• Have knowledge in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, Configured cost 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. Defined both basic reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at customer and product levels.
• Developed multiple reports for the reporting of profitability. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-IO/FI and MM and involved in FI-SD integration.

Confidential, NC

SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on configurations and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-paying vendor invoices, AR-customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, dunning, Master data, CO-CCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects..
• Analyzed end user requirements and proposed some viable solutions for report improvement, QA and user training in CO. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Provided System configurations, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/P, A/R, Fixed Assets, Special ledger and Consolidation (EC-CS).
• Maintained multiple consolidation charts of accounts within a single dimension to generate multiple financial statements at the same time in order to meet various requirements.
• Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on the ECC 6.0 environment.
• Used report programs to create a budgeted financial statement to compare plan data with actual data and restricted the report to a period on a quarterly basis. Created Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements.
• Configured Cost Center Account Settings for Periodical Processing, Activity Based Costing (ABC), Order processing, maintain/ control Billing documents, Inventory management, Purchasing, Variant Configuration and complete design /configuration of general CO functionality (CCA)
• Worked on configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product costing.
• Assisted client in design and configuration of PA transfer structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA
• Created the value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Defined various reports.
• Have thorough knowledge in defining Costing Sheet and calculating Overhead.
• Activated and configured Material Ledger for multiple valuation and PUP.
• Integrated Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) component in the SAP System, for planned budget using various costing methods, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants in Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP).
• Releasing Production Orders, Confirming Operations, Simultaneous Costing, final Costing, Price Transfer / Update, Confirmation/ Settlement, and Period-End closing.
• Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement and also worked on Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost and special procurements and releasing of the new cost estimate.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Created Vendor master and Customer master and specified Screen layouts.
• Assigned unique number ranges to various document types.
• Integrated AP and AR modules in FI with MM and SD respectively.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots and lockboxes for payments.
• Configured automatic interest calculation procedure, payment terms, correspondence and dunning procedures.
• Configuration of FI-AA Asset classes, depreciation areas, assigning company codes to chart of depreciation.
• Worked extensively on OTC cycle which includes sales order, invoice etc.
• Responsible for Fixed Asset ledger reconciliation.
• Responsible for yearend close and reconciliation of sub-ledger, such AR, AP and Fixed Asset.
• Design and implementation of comprehensive reporting solution in profit center accounting (EC-PCA) and profitability analysis (CO-PA)
• Configured costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured CO-PA planning including planning levels, plan package and planning methods
• Created several validations and substitutions to meet the user requirements.
• Designed an Activity Based Costing solution for the client, who could be implemented using CO-CCA (operational view), or using CO-ABC (parallel view).
• Worked on Product costing / Material Ledger, defined and configured Product Cost planning that involved cost estimation and also configured product cost per order and period.
• Maintained settings related to Controlling Area, Operating Concerns and also maintained Versions.
• Worked on price control with and without the material ledger in product costing.
• Worked extensively on actual costing in material ledger product costing.
• Configured costing based CO-PA, involving characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.
• Configured Standard Cost estimates in Cost object controlling for the orders with Quantity Structure and Configure for WIP Calculations and variance calculations, maintained settlement structures.
• Established Lock Box settings in collaboration with Sindh National Bank to manage cash inflows and worked on resolving the faults in Dunning processing.
• Completed Unit testing and integration testing. Created authorization profiles and tested the system before go live.
• Monitored day-to-day activities and fixed some incorrect postings.
• Checking assignments of relevant cost objects and in particular materials to profit centers.
• Prepared month end close and set up the master data for Allocations (Assessments and Distribution).

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Participated in full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 using ASAP Methodology.
• Configured new company codes, Inter-company code assignments & processing and Inter-company Transport Orders.
• Configured and Customized Internal Orders.
• Configured the system to handle various receivables scenarios (over, shorts, down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments etc.). Verified and Tested GL transactions for business process (fast-entry screens, posting, parking, and reversals).
• Integrating/Configuring Intercom any Processing, MM (Logistics), SD and HR Modules with FI and CO.
• Created FM Structure and Integrated with FI and Built the Cash Budget and Funds Management and different planning versions. Set Up the commitment item management in FICO integrated with FM and MM. Integrating the MM Purchase orders with FM.
• Created Validation/Substitution Rules for AP/AR and CCA & PCA.
• Configured FM Account Assignment Logic. Integration with Financial Accounting.
• Configured Commitment Hierarchy, Funds Center Hierarchy in Funds Management.
• Worked on chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers and balance-carry forwards and re-organized accounts for various cost and profit centers and Programmed schedules and jobs.
• Worked on Cross Company Code Configuration, Automatic Postings, Foreign Currency Valuation, and Multi Currency Configuration and Tax ware.
• Worked on Customer Master, House Banks, Payment Programs, Electronic Bank Statements and Lock Box and had successfully configured clearing of open items in GL/AR/AP Modules.
• Configured Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Edging.
• Worked on Gap analysis of clients/sandboxes for further consistent testing and validated custom ABAP programs to ensure delivery of expected results and interacted with end users to analyses testing issues and concerns subsequent to re-organization.
• Configured and Customized the Credit Management (Credit Control Area) to manage the receivables in association with SD team.
• Designed technical specifications for MIS reports. And also worked on preparing design specifications, maintaining and developing new programs; Integration, acceptance testing and Quality assurance; supported on technical documentation and end-user documentation and Courseware. Designed, developed and maintained reports with support from ABAP Team.
• Involved in post go live support and maintained the system.

Confidential, Omaha, Nebraska

Jr. SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C

Responsibilities:

• Core member in SAP implementation team for FICO module.
• Configured and designed the full functionality of FI module relating to AR & AP configuration: Credit management, tolerance limits, open item clearing, account groups, Incoming & Outgoing payments, Automatic Payment Program, field status groups and reason codes
• Configured General Ledger - Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files, substitutions and validations rules for documents, recurring entries, house banks, interest calculations etc.
• Configured and customized AR and AP modules-for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items, foreign exchange calculations, automatic payment program, Dunning program, credit management etc.
• Established Lock Box settings in collaboration with Punjab National Bank to manage cash inflows and work on Dunning processing for faulty customers.
• Established Audit scope through analysis of prior reports and documents and performed audit walkthroughs with key stakeholders and managers.
• Created Account Assignment Models for periodic and recurring entries and worked with users to resolve issues relating to Accruals and Deferrals. Involved in month end closing of all transactions relating to FI and carry forward of balances to next period.
• Maintained default account assignment and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment and indirect activity allocation
• Configured Funds Management, Budgeting and Availability, Budget Objects, Posting Objects.
• Supported for supply chain management and planning, Superior functionality for inventory optimization.
• Developed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis to ensure successful execution of the plan.