Profile Summary:

• 17 years of IT experience (including 14 years of SAP FICO) & Certified in SAP Finance module
• SAP FI-CO Implementation & Support experience in India, Kuwait, Singapore and USA
• Experienced in 4 full and several partial life cycle implementation of SAP R/3
• Hands on experience in configuration and customization of FI-CO Modules (GL, AR, AP, Asset, Banking, Treasury, CCA,PCA, COPA and PC)
• Working knowledge in FI-CA, New GL, SAP Business Partners and Solution Manager
• 3 years experience in Non-SAP systems analysis, design and implementation of Financial, Costing, Purchasing and Payroll systems in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia)
• 6 years Functional experience in Accounting, Financial analysis and reporting

Other Module Expertise:

• P2P/Materials Management (MM): Inventory Valuation, Purchase Requisition / Order, Goods Receipts, LIV & Account Determination
• OTC/Sales & Distribution: Credit Management, Sales Orders, Billing & Rev A/C determination, Revenue Recognition
• Project Systems, Service Management, BW
• IS-Media Advertising

Skills:

• ERP: SAP R/3 FI/CO Modules (Version 3.1h, 4.7 & ECC 6.0)
• BW: SAP BW, Informix Metacube
• Packages: MS office, ACCPAC, Peachtree, Great Plains

Education & Trainings:

• Masters Degree in Accounting & Commerce (Majoring Financial, Cost, Management Accounting)
• Qualified Member - Par Accountant Association of Canada
• Diploma in Computer Applications/Training in Oracle 8 & VB6 from SSI, Chennai, India
• Training in SAP R/3 FI/CO and ABAP/4
• SAP Certification in SAP/Mysap.com Finance module
• Training in SAP IS-Media solutions, Product Cost Planning (AC505)Cost Object Controlling
• Training in Product Cost Planning (AC505) and Cost Object Controlling (MTO&MTS)AC520

ERP Experience

Confidential, New York City, New York Jun '12 - Present
SAP FICO Consultant

SAP FICO design and configuration for Visual Merchandising Supply chain Project. Currently Coach manages the production, distribution and allocation of Visual Merchandising products through custom tools, excel spreadsheets and emails. The aim of this project is to optimize the flow of Visual Merchandising supply chain process with SAP solution.
My role involved integration of FICO modules with SD,MM, Inventory modules for the VM process. Designing of the organization structure, Master data including Internal order process for the VM capital spending, Intercompany set up, testing and user training.

Confidential, New York City, New York March '11 - May’12
SAP FICO Specialist

Primary responsibility includes SAP FICO system design for new process/Project Implementation, configuration, documentation, Unit/integration/User acceptance testing, deployment and support. Fixed several program issues in credit card settlement, chargeback process, re-designed 1099 misc, K process and reports, documented important SAP FICO processes, reports and trained the business users. Provided Production support of B&N.com Retail SAP FI modules, vertex interface and CCA, PCA and COPA modules

Confidential, Valhalla, New York Jul '09 - Feb '11
Senior SAP FICO Business Area Analyst

Key achievements in the job: played a key role in the design and configurations of Product costing for new Products in Fujifilm plants at South Carolina. Lead/participated in the implementation of SLO project (Company code merger project using SAP’s technology SLO-System Landscape Optimization) to merge two company codes into one, QC Center implementation which reduced the SAP testing efforts drastically for new projects, Implementation of SAP-BNA interface to automate and improve the accuracy of Fixed Assets tax depreciation calculation and reporting process for Fuji Group of companies. Production support of credit card process, lockbox, EBS, Treasury was also included in my job role.

Confidential Santa Clara, CA Sep '08 - Feb '09
SAP FI/CO Consultant

Project: SAP ECC 6.0 Redeployment Project. The challenges faced in the project were to re-engineer the FICO org structure and to re-classify the Org units from Company codes to Funds, Fund Centers, Funded Programs and functional area. Mapping of cost centers to fund centers and GL accounts to commitment items were important aspects of the new configuration in ECC 6.0. Several custom programs in 4.6c were re-organized in the new ECC 6.0 environments.

Confidential, Glen Allen, VA May '08 - 'Jul 08
SAP FICO consultant

Project: OAK - Charleston Plant Divestiture Project in SAP R/3 (ver 4.7). Majority of the work on the project involved analyzing the master and transaction data related the Plant, Materials, vendors, customers, cost and Profit centers and most importantly the Fixed Assets. Other tasks in the project were to configure new company code and transfer all the divested plant data to the new company code. Several master data like cost/profit centers, GL accounts, etc were to be created in the new company code. Assets retired in the old company code and acquired in the new company. The project was successfully completed after overseeing the first month-end close of the new company.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA Sep '06 - Apr '08
SAP FICO consultant

Project: SAP R/3 Implementation (R3 Full cycle ECC 6.0 &SAP IS-Media Implementation).The project aim was to build an ERP solution using SAP ECC 6.0 which can be used as a global template for the Cox group of companies. This way the individual units (companies) processes will be standardized/optimized mostly following the SAP best practices, it offers a platform for the use of synergy effects, the global template can be rolled out to the individual units at different points of time, the number of interfaces can be reduced to the minimum.
I was responsible for conducting the workshop with the Finance Business users/Stake holders from all the group companies to gather requirements, documenting the as is and to be processes, demonstrating the SAP process solutions to the business by process maps, prototypes. I was also responsible for configuring GL, P2P process, taxes using SAP Jurisdiction code method, Treasury and Fixed Assets modules, creating test scripts for integration and UAT, Business process procedures for training the users.

Confidential, Washington DC Jan '05 - Jul '06
SAP FI/CO Consultant

Project: SAP R/3 Implementation - ECC 5.0 (IS-Media). I was contracted thru SAP America for this project. SAP’s IS-Media solution was new in New America during early and mid-2000. I was tasked to work on the GAP analysis to build new user exits, interfaces or work flow which later became part of the Standard IS-media solution in SAP. Some of those processes include Pre-payment of orders, Aging of receivable by Agency/Advertisers, Credit Master sheet redesign, Agency/Client credit management, Baseline date determination for billing, etc.
Other activities in the project were designing the chart of accounts, controlling area design, Revenue recognition design specific to Media/new paper industry, Integration with SD, MM modules via account determination, taxes, Dunning, Customer refunds via SAP Automatic Payment processing, CO-CCA, PCA hierarchy, Primary and secondary cost elements, Distributions and Assessments design, Data migration, BPP documentations, unit/integration, User acceptance testing.

Confidential, USA (Client: Syngenta Seeds Inc, Golden Valley, Minneapolis) Aug '04 - Jan '05
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Project: SAP R/3 Implementation Project ver 4.7

• Configuration & documentation for the following areas in Fi-Co
• G/L: Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Account groups, retained earning accounts, Financial Statement versions
• A/P: Vendor Master data, House Banks, account determination, Automatic Payment Program configurations, configuration for 1099 vendors and reports, Logistics Invoice verification and integration with Purchasing and procurement
• Banking: House Banks, Check Lots, EBS and Lockbox configuration
• CO: Definition of CO area, Planner profiles, layouts, Imputed cost planning, assessment, Indirect allocation, activity Input Planning, Plan reconciliation, Cost/Profit centers, Activity type group, Number ranges, Statistical key figures, Cost Object controlling by Product cost by period, Order and sales order, Definition of Origin Groups and Costing Sheets
• Data Migration, User training and BPPs

Confidential, Saddle Brook, NJ Jun '04 - July '04
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Project: FICO Profiles testing & Upgrade 4.0 to 4.7

• FI/ CO Profiles testing for countries going live with SAP / Enterprise version in Asiapac regions
• Unit & Integration testing
• Cutover and Data migration
• SAP System upgrade from ver 4.0 to 4.7 (testing and applying required OSS notes)

Confidential, Singapore Mar '02 - Jun '04
SAP FI/CO Application Lead Analyst
Project: Production Support, Integration of Compaq & HP SAP systems - ver 4.7 & 3.1h

• Production Support of FI-Co applications including the Revenue Recognition bolt on application which supports HP service contracts in AsiaPac region
• Implementation of New functionalities and releases, Upgrades(4.6c to 4.7) in FI-Co area
• Leading Off-shore support team in India
• Working with the global team to Integrate of HP & Compaq SAP application systems
• Plan, Document and execute SAP configuration changes in FI, Co, PS, SM and BW areas
• Training end users as required and training documentation

Confidential, Singapore (a Subsidiary of Molex Inc.) Sep '01 - Feb '02
SAP FI/CO Configuration Analyst
Project: SAP R/3 Implementation - ver 4.5b.
Responsible for the FI configuration settings and documentation
G/L Configurations:

• Chart of Accounts and G/L account set up (P&L, B/Sheet accounts, etc)

A/R & A/P Configurations:

• Customer and Vendor account groups, Number ranges, Account determinations for revenue, discount accounts, materials, reconciliation accounts, dunning, automatic payment processing
• Data Migration, User training and documentation

Confidential, Singapore (client: Confidential) Jun '01 - Aug '01
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Project: Implementation of SAP R/3 Ver 4.5b in Asiapac region

• FI-Co Profiles testing and assignment of roles to different job functions
• Unit & Integration testing
• Cutover and Data migration
• Production Support

Confidential, Kuwait Dec '99 - Apr '01
SAP FI/CO Module Consultant
Project: Full life cycle implementation of SAP R/3 system ver 4.0b

• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centers
• Configuring multiple currencies in which accounts are to be managed at Group/Company code level
• Grouping the company’s vendors and customers to define credit control and dunning areas
• Configuring for inter-company transactions
• GL,AR and AP module configurations and documentations
• Co Area configurations, Planner profiles/layout, auto creation of Primary cost elements, Creation of Secondary cost elements, Std hierarchies for cost/profit centers
• Material cost estimate with/without quantity structure
• Product costing (component layout costing variant/modified/current/budgeted, valuation variants)
• Definition of Origin groups and Costing sheets
• Definition of Operating concern, Profitability segments, characteristic values & hierarchies

Confidential, Chennai, India Jun'98 - Nov '99
SAP - FI CO Module Implementation Consultant
Project: SAP R/3 Full Cycle Implementation ver 3.1h

• Documenting As-Is Processes, Mapping of to-be processes to SAP R/3 via Visio flow charts, FI&CO Configuration, Integration and User Acceptance testing and Post implementation support
• Modules configured: GL, AR, AP, CO-CCA,PCA and PA

Confidential, Chennai, India Nov '97 - May '98
Trainee Consultant SAP R/3 FI/CO and ABAP ver 3.1h

Project: In house SAP training & 2 Prototype Projects

• Training in ERP, Business Process Re-engineering, SAP FI-Co modules configurations (GL, AR, AP, AA, Bank, CCA, PCA, PC, PA modules) ABAP Programming, iDocs ,ALE, EDI and simulated projects

Other Experience summary:

• Evaluation, Selection and Implementation of Bought out packages for Financial, Cost Accounting, Purchasing and Payroll/Systems maintenance and support

• Overseeing Accounting and IS departments, Monthend/Yearend closing, Financial statements, Management reporting, Managing systems implementation & maintenance

Confidential, Madurai, India May '88 - Oct '92
Accountant

• Book Keeping, Financial Accounting, Accounts Receivable & payables, Monthly Financial Statements, Budgeting, Financial Analysis, Cost Accounting and Variance reporting