SAP FI / CO Consultant

Skills Summary

• Well developed experience in Information Technology industry with 5+ years of SAP FI/CO functional experience with multiple full life-cycle implementation
• Strong functional experience in implementing, Testing, User training, Production support, and Upgrade projects
• Implementation experience in FI (GL, AR, AP, AA)
• Experience with implementation in CO (CC, PC, PA and Internal Orders)
• Experience in Integration of FI-SD and FI-MM modules
• Knowledge base of MM-QM module
• Fully understand organization structure and set up in SAP with members of implementation teams
• Excellent communicator with an aptitude to interact with the clients for production support
• Past experience as an Manufacturing Engineer in Aerospace / Railcar industry (end-user of ERP systems)

Technical Skills

ERP: SAP ECC6.0
OS: Windows 95/98/XP/2000/NT/Vista
Software: Ms Office Suite
ERP End User Experience: IBM, CAPP, JDE, HMS

Education

SAP FICO Training 2007
Oracle DBA Certification, Herzing College, Toronto ON 2001
Tooling Engineer, Humber College, North York ON 1999
Manufacturing Engineer Technology, Confederation College, Thunder Bay ON 1993
Bachelors of Commerce, Osmania University, Hyderabad India1984

SAP Professional Experience

Client: Confidential, Miamisburg Ohio
Duration: July 2011 to Feb 2012
SAP FICO Consultant

• NEWPAGE Inc is a mfg of quality papers, certified & recycled options for all type of printing applications
• Provided production support for AP, AR and GL
• Interacted with users involving support issues and initiating implementation of solutions with best SAP practice issues relating to AR/AP/GL/CO side in SAP
• Resolved issues related to payment program (EDI, ACH formats), withholding taxes, document number ranges, and document types
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, account determinations, number ranges and screen layouts
• Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas and different asset classes
• Assisted in issues related to ERS, Purchasing and Invoice verification / credit memos, Automatic Payment program, Account determinations, credit management, liquidity forecast, and foreign currency valuation – vendor open items
• Performed Month-end FI closing, Period closing and opening in FI. Ran Clearing procedures for GR/IR, Handling Issues related to Parallel Currencies, Foreign currency translation, maintaining new exchange rate types
• Configured new payment method for different company code based on the region in FBZP
• Supported daily and period close production processes for FI/CO (GL, AP, CO-CCA, CO-PA) including creation and maintenance of PA assessment cycles, PA reports
• Responsible for resolving all Issues for Automatic payment Program in A/P, Lockbox in A/R, Month end Processing and daily job run Issues
• Handled all Remedy tickets for G/L, A/P, AR, CC, PC, PA
• Processed CR’s (change request) by reconfiguring creating Transports in G/L, A/P, A/R, CCA, PC, PA

Client: Confidential, Hornell NY
Duration: Jan 2010 to June 2011
SAP FICO Consultant

• ALSTOM is worldwide manufacturer of Locomotive, Railcars (new & overhaul) & Power Generation
• Provided system configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-paying vendor invoices, AR-customer credit, credit controls, credit memo, dunning, Master data, CO-assessments & distribution
• Provided System configuration, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/P, A/R
• Worked on configuration areas of House banks, Automatic payment program, Automatic interest calculation, Bank statements (electronic/manual) & Dunning procedures
• Configured IDOCS (FBZP) / EDI for electronic statements
• Scheduled batch jobs for all FI
• Worked extensively on inter-company invoicing, and payments
• Performed fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specified Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination
• Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Interval & Fixed Asset Classes
• Maintained Depreciation keys, Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Dep. Areas
• Created new asset classes, chart of depreciation, depreciation keys
• Performed individual transaction and document testing
• Interacted with end users to gather business requirements and prepared the requirement documents
• Participated in on of the current business processes, mapping the existing business process
• Define Accts Payable: Vendor MD, acct groups, create/assign number ranges for vendor docs
• Define Accts Receivable: Customers MD, acct groups, create/assign number ranges for customer documents
• Cost Element Analysis configuration involving Primary and Secondary cost elements activation
• Maintaining number range groups, versions for planning, CC standard hierarchies & PC hierarchies
• Reconciled dummy profit centers before period end closings in Profit Center Accounting

Client: Confidential, Troy MI
Duration: June 2008 to Dec 2009
SAP FICO Consultant

• Worlds largest auto manufacture with many divisions (note: GM did not continue to use SAP afterwards)
• Configured & tested General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR and assigned different processing keys as required.
• Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups. Supported user community for all finance related modules.
• Maintained Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.
• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR). Defined tolerance groups, tolerance limits for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings and recurring entries. Defined customer account groups and created customer master data.
• Set up the Cost Centers and Primary and Secondary Cost Elements
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments.
• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting
• Configuration of FI-banking with House banks with manual statement entry and lock boxes and defining posting rules and clearing with algorithms.
• Defined bank areas, payment orders, setting format for payment notes, business transaction events, partner product, customer product, information systems, controls for directly created payment orders, central incoming payments, dual currency phase, product definition, authorizations, treasury and risk management, parallel processing, Transaction manager, collection case processing.
• Responsible for cash management, liquidity analysis, cash concentration, payment orders for banks, Check deposits, outgoing invoices, and Manual bank statements.
• Defined Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy
• Configured the Profit Centers, Controlling Area and Operating Concern as per Business Scenario and Processes

Client: Confidential, Troy MI
Duration: March 2007 to May 2008
SAP FICO Consultant

• MERITOR is Global OEM supplier of Axles, Brakes & Suspensions solutions for transportation & Industries
• Worked on Cross Company Code Configuration, Automatic Postings, Foreign Currency Valuation, and Multi Currency Configuration
• Maintained 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
• Define: tolerance groups Customers / Vendors terms of payment for cash discount
• 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, recurring entries, interest calculations etc
• Configure Field Status Variant for G/L, Customers, Vendors accounts
• Define & Assign Posting Period variants for fiscal year
• Responsible for resolving all Issues for Automatic payment Program in A/P, Lockbox in A/R, Month end
• Configure AA chart of depreciation, Screen layout rules, Number range intervals, Define asset classes
• Period End Closing: Inter-company asset transfers, Asset Depreciation Run, ACP Value
• Reporting Asset: History, Balances, Acquisitions list, Retirements

NON-SAP Professional Experience (Aerospace & Railcar)
Confidential, Winnipeg MN, Manufacturing Engineer July06 to Dec06
Confidential, Montreal QC, Manufacturing Engineer Oct05 to June06
Confidential, Montreal, Bath NY, Manufacturing Engineer Jan05 to Sept 05
Confidential, Toronto ON, Assembly Technician Aug01 to May04
Confidential, Toronto ON, Manufacturing Engineer Dec98 to June01
Confidential, Toronto ON, NC Programmer Nov97 to Dec98
Confidential, Fort Erie ON, NC Programmer Jan94 to Nov97
Confidential, Thunder Bay ON, Assembly Technician Aug87 to Dec89

Manufacturing Industry Software (ERP & CAD)
CATIA V5 (2500 hrs) CAPP/BOM (Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Fleet Aerospace)
ENOVIA DELMIA V5 DPM Assembly
AutoCAD V14 (2000 hrs) Unigraphics V9.0 (2000 hrs)
MS Office Digitizing & NC nesting software (various)