SUMMARY

Over Eight years of IT experience with around six years of experience as a SAP FI/CO Consultant with thorough knowledge of applications such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Treasury and Controlling.

Overview:

• SAP FI/CO Technical Consultant with 6+ years of experience in SAP FI/CO covering multiple sectors such as Pharmaceuticals, CPG, Utilities, and Manufacturing Industries. Worked on end-to-end project implementations, configuration, upgrade, testing, training and production support with a proven record of continuous improvement and effectiveness
• Involved in Creating business blueprints for the processes and specified the requirements.
• Excellent Configuration knowledge in SAP FI.
• Expertise in Cross-module business processes knowledge. Lockbox, Positive pay and Bank reconciliation.
• Involved in Preparation of Annual Budget (Projected - Balance sheet, Profit & Loss statement, Cash flow, Capital Expenditure, Human resource, Inventory, Sales etc.,) Branch & Department-wise, line of Activity -wise (business area) and consolidation of company wide budget
• Developed high quality deliverables including: Business Process Procedures (BPP) and Process Design Document (PDD) with Visio Process Flows and narratives
• Involved in writing various test plans and coordinate Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance testing and Lead the testing team
• Expert in data migration system from legacy to SAP R/3 using Legacy System Migration
• Preparation of Management Information report (MIS) and variance report.
• Management of Accounts Receivables (Credit control, Invoice Management, Collection, Allowance for Doubtful debt), Accounts payables (Approval of Invoice to Disbursement) & Cash flow (Forecasting collection using cash Manager and collection Manager Analysis from Software)
• Good Skill set of MS word, MS excels, MS Access, MS Outlook, Power Point, ACT Contact management software.
• A good team player and a good individual starter with excellent communication skills.

Educational Qualifications
Bachelors in Engineering (Computers) (India)
Masters in Computers (India)

SAP Skills

FI: GL, A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, SPL
Treasury: Lock-Box, Cash Journal
Reporting: Report Painter & Report Writer
Integration: FICO integration with MM, SD
Tools: ASAP Methodology
Other Skills ERP:SAP R/3 Versions 3.1H, 4.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7
RDBMS: Oracle 8.1.5
TOOLS/UTILITIES: MS Office suites, Visio Professional
O/S: MS DOS, Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000

Professional Experience:

Client Name :Confidential, OMAHA, NE Jan '10 - Present
Role : SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in gap analysis and coordinated business requirements from the client.
• Performed As- Is and To-Be study for the client's current business and worked in blue printing and implemantation phases of the project.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL, FI-AR, FI AP, FI-AA and FI-GL: Master data preparations, G/L accounts creation and processing, creation of sample accounts and data transfer rules, setting for processing of open items.
• Created house banks, bank Accounts and assigned the accounts to a check lot.
• Creation of FI-AP vendor groups, creating number ranges and assigning, creation of tolerance groups, creation of vendor master and document types.
• Creation of FI-AR customer groups, overall Receivables and employee tolerances, terms of payment and interest calculation configuration. Configuration of lock box, lockbox file formats and lock box processing and bank statement processing.
• Configuration of FI-AA Asset classes, depreciation areas, assigning company codes to dep. Areas, creation of screen layouts and no. ranges, creation of dep. Keys like ordinary depreciation, special depreciation and imputed depreciation.
• Configuration of Dunning, Correspondence, Payment Terms and Automatic Payment Program.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN
SAP FI/CO Configuration Consultant Jan07 - Dec09

Project involved the configuration of FI/CO.

• Configured Company Codes, Chart of Accounts and Business Areas
• Worked on Configuration and Validation rules for the Company Code
• Worked with the basis team to transport changes across environments
• Configured the posting key, Tolerance groups, Number ranges and Document types
• Extensive experience with creation of master data relating Accounts Payable including vendor masters.
• Assigned tax codes, Configured fiscal year variants and tolerance groups and assigned tax codes
• Configuration of Field status and also settings related to Document and Posting Control
• Development and enhancement of Automatic payments program
• Integration FI with Materials Management and Sales and Distribution modules
• Configuration of Dunning program
• Extensive experience with creation of master data relating Accounts Receivable including customer masters.
• Experience in configuring and maintaining Special General ledger accounts including Guarantees and bill of exchange.
• Master data creation for cost elements, cost centers, Internal orders and profit centers
• Developing training documentation relating various cost objects creation and CO-postings

Confidential, Naperville, IL
Mar\'06 - Nov\'06
Sap FICO Consultant

Involved in process design, mapping and business process re-engineering to match the client requirements with SAP. Involved in As-is and To-be process.

• System configuration and testing in the areas FI and CO includes internal trading partners creation.
• Creation of New G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, FSG, FSG Variant assignment, Posting periods, financial statement version and configuration for open item processing.
• Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable: Configuring for open item processing, preparing the functional specifications and testing of the report, Invoice verifications, Open item clearing, Down payment, Configuring automatic payment program and dunning.
• Creation of Cost centers, cost elements, activity types, standard hierarchy and settlement.
• Report creation in Report Painter/writer for cost center accounting and profit center accounting.
• Write functional design specs for FI-CO RICEF includes Outgoing payment interface, Journal upload, email remittance to employee vendors, dunning notice forms, correspondence letters to customers, cost center to MPC outbound and currency rate upload.
• Involved authorizations process including identifying authorizations, profiles, objects, fields and activities.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN
FI/CO Consultant Sep'05 - Feb'06

• Project involves the implementation of G/L, Treasury and Accounts Receivable modules.
• Implemented the lock box processing including file formats, configuration, lockbox processing
• Implemented Bank statement processing and Exchange rates.
• Implemented overall AR and Employee tolerances
• Implemented Credit Management.
• Configured Dunning Program and implemented enhancements to customer master and vendor master
• Implemented Credit Management & Interest calculation Implemented the settings for interest calculations of delayed payments
• configured the parameters for payment program and implemented clearing of open items
• Implemented payment check processing and management.
• Worked on month-end and year-end closing processes
• Cash Management (liquidity forecast, cash position, electronic bank statement, lockbox, payments), Hedge Management, Market Risk Analyzer, Credit Risk Analyzer, Cash Budget Management.
• Formulated and implemented cross training schedules to ensure full function coverage, and all management requirements are met

This project involves the implementation of FI/CO Treasury configuration

• Participated in the activities of the Cash Management/Applications group of Treasury and Finance.
• Areas of participation and analysis included capital/money market investing, short-term funding, cash forecasting, cash management optimization, funds mobility, banking systems and corporate controls.
• Reviewed monthly bank account analysis statements and provided recommendations where appropriate.
• Monitored daily cash position and verified prior day bank account activity.
• Prepared monthly interest accruals for outstanding debt and investments and confirm activity on investment account statements.
• Reviewed monthly bank account analysis statements and provided recommendations where appropriate.
• Prepared monthly subsidiary cash and investment reported and verified that all investments are in compliance with our investment policy.
• Monitored debt covenants for credit agreement and prepared quarterly compliance certificate.
• Maintained cash management-banking relationships.
• Created and maintained a database of worldwide banking relationships, account numbers and signatories.
• Monitored daily cash position and verified prior day bank account activity.
• Formulated and implemented cross training schedules to ensure full function coverage, and all management requirements are met
• Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy, creating CO version and defining control indicators.
• Cost Center Planning: Configured cost center planning, Configuration of Profit centers accounting.

Confidential

Sr.QA Engineer Jun'04 - Dec '04

Software Analyst

• Involved in Analysis, design, construction and deployment phases of SDLC.
• Interfaced with IT staff, client organization.
• Created detailed test plans and scripts to verify functionality and adherence to business requirements.
• Adhere to the project delivery process and documentation requirements and internal project.
• Done functional testing and regression testing with Win runner.
• Developed test scripts for Data driven tests to gauge the performance of the application.
• Manage all verification and validation activities for all production modifications including projects, releases and changes.
• Conditioned accounts as per the functional requirements such as change of status combine of accounts and etc.
• Scheduled test execution using Test Director and documented the defect findings.
• Co-ordinate with developers in reviews and solving the problems encountered in the application.
• Coordinated with business leads, project managers and QA core members.
• Developed time estimates, & provided with written status reports.
• Used Test director to track the defects.
• Performed Regression testing upon defect fixes and reported results to the business leads.
• Interfaced with IT staff, client organization.
• Involved in understanding functional requirement document and providing feedback. Provided documentation Design programs to meet specifications and conform to internal standards

Confidential, Atlanta, GA.
Programmer Analyst
Jan04 - Jun04.
The project was developed to enable the bank customers to access their various accounts over the web, account holders can handle their, accounts including saving,checking,money market accounts & credit card accounts. The application also allowed users to administer & monitor their account performance and activity electronically by having access to account balances, bill pay & transfer of funds & make changes in future allocations and personal information. Application also dealt with providing customer with services like ordering checks, requesting copies of checks & statements made in the past.
Tested softwares developed for various banks like Bank of America,Suntrust,WAMU.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding functional requirement document and Buisness requirement document.
• Involved in black box type of testing where I was responsible for running registration, login, deposits, and withdrawals for online banking system.
• Performed regression testing to make sure that any modifications in the product did not side effect the system, or caused any errors
• Involved in black box testing where I was responsible, for running registration, login test cases.
• Responsible for running forgot password testcases, transfer money from and into accounts test case.
• Used Load Runner for Web Performance and Web Monitoring Testing to check for the maximum customers it can handle at a time.
• Involved in writing test plan for the testing cycle.
• Created and Performed Data Driven Testing.
• Tested backend database using SQL queries to carry out Regression test easily.
• Developed testcases & executed with all phases of testing.
• Interacting with developers for the savior priority bug issues.
• Extensively used Web functional test tools like Win Runner for Functional Testing, Load Runner for Web Performance and Web Monitoring Testing.
• Used Test director as defect tracking tool.