SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years (3 full life cycle implementations) of experience in SAP R/3 (4.x, 4.7 E, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0) FI/CO module.
• Sound working knowledge in all areas of Finance and Accounts and preparation of Management Reports in the I.T. enabled enterprise business solutions.
• Functional, Configuration and implementation of the following SAP R/3 modules: New GL, FI - GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-HR, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PCA, CO-PC and COPA
• Involved in all implementation phases that includes Vision and Planning, Design, Blue print, Build, Configuration, Data Migration, Unit testing, Integration testing, End User training, Cut-Over, Go-live and Post Go-live.
• Extensive experience with New G/L - Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, periodic processing and Segment Reporting.
• Experienced in configuring Document Splitting and Zero Balancing of Documents in New GL.
• Strong working knowledge on Sales & Distribution - Orders, Billing, Credit Management, Revenue Recognition (RR), Plants abroad, Rebate/Sales Deals Processing & Settlement.
• Experience in customization related to integration between FI/CO & Logistics Modules (SD, PP & MM, HR).
• Exposure to Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, Treasury Management, LSMW, EDI etc.
• Controlling experience includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEL), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Product Costing (PC).
• Worked on Use Taxes and 1099 Forms for Vendors. Good exposure in Solution Manager ticketing tools
• A results-driven expert who analyzes and implements SAP ERP solutions to ensure optimal integration and information access.
• Motivated achiever who guides organizations in applying technology to business settings, provides added value, and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.
• Strong working experience on Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows (RICEFW).
• Excellent communication skills, leadership qualities, systematic approach and ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment. Strong organizational and time management skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

General Ledger: Account Groups, GL Master Records, Field Status Groups, Inter-company automatic account posting, Posting Keys, Automatic Account DeterminationNumber Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Sample Accounts, Accruals & Deferrals, Sample & Recurring Documents, Parking Document, Hold Document

New G/L: Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, Ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, Periodic Processing and Segment Reporting.

Accounts Payable: Vendor Master Data, Vendor Account Group, Automatic Payment Program

Configuration, House Bank, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Payment Terms, Payment Methods, Invoices, Credit Memos, Down Payments, Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), GR/IR account maintenance.:

Accounts Receivable: Customer Master Data, Customer Account Group, Credit managementTolerance groups, Open Item Clearing, A/R aging, Dunning Procedure, Terms of Payment, partial payments, Residual payments, Outgoing Invoices, Incoming Payments, Integration with SD.

Treasury: Lockbox (BAI, BAI2, EDI-IDOC), Manual Bank Statement and Electronic Bank Statement(BAI, MT940), External transaction codes, Posting Rules

Fixed Assets: Chart of Depreciation, Defining Assets class, Account determinationCreation and Retirement of assets, In-house creation of Assets, Depreciation run, Intercompany transfers.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profitability analysis CO-PA, Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA, Profit center Accounting EC-PCA and Product costing

Profitability Analysis: Created dummy profit center, Creation of profit center and Doc No ranges of PCA, Created operating concern and controlling version, Creation of Attributes and Data structures, Configuration of CO-PA costing bases and accounts bases analysis, Created CO-PA master data, PA settlement structures, CO-PA planning / profile / layout

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hilmar, CA

SAP FICO - COPA Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various enhancement projects, from Implementing new company codes with the functionalities of GL, AP, AR, CCA to successfully testing all business scenarios.
• Worked on Various Change Requests (CRQ’s), critical Production Issues such as - Settling Stock Variances across company codes, the difference between Material and Stock account, GR/IR variances.
• Provide production support on FI-MM & FI-SD. Production issues related to Stock Variance, Pricing procedure, billing & COPA.
• Provide production support on Asset Accounting. Helped business to perform mass assets retirement, worked on the Security Roles for the Users. Worked on special reporting requirements for Assets, updated Sort Versions. Provide production support on AUC issues.
• Successfully implemented 1099 SAP notes for 2015, printed supplier 1099 forms and created 1099 Tax return files for IRS upload.
• Successfully Implemented Cross Border Functionality, Intercompany payments.
• Worked on Data Migration as part of Cut Over activities before Go-Live.
• Worked on Validation & Substitution.
• Provided Production support for issues related to Payment files to the Bank, IDOC issues for Travel & Expense Payments. Implemented Automatic payment program for payment methods ACH & SEPA, worked on PMW to create DME files to the Bank.
• Worked on Check Lots, Electronic Check printing & rearrangement of Electronic signatures.
• Worked on Lockbox using BAI2 format. Implemented Electronic Bank Statement using SWIFT format, tested scenarios for EBS posting and post processing, documented and signoff from COE.
• Worked on Validation & Substitution.
• Providing Production Support for COPA reports, updating/adding Characteristics values to the existing COPA reports, updating COPA Derivation Rule.
• Helped business to perform a successful Audit by providing numerous financial reports/data. Created custom custom programs to provide Financial data to IRS Statutory reporting.
• Creation / Change of GL Master Data.
• Provided production support on FI-SL (Special ledger), rollup reports, configured the required settings for new company codes. Provide production support for various rollup reports, made the changes in the existing report sets as per the business requirements, updating new GL accounts and Cost centers.
• Developed transaction data count report on ALV grid as well as .txt. output. The requirement is to provide a transaction data count report with the user id, transaction count, transaction codes etc. for all manual transactions. This would be an easy alternate to document parking workflow as the business didn't want to implement it.
• Worked on Report Writer and Report painter for Special Ledger & COPA reports.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Transformation through Project Design and implementation of SAP FICO with New GL system in ECC 6.0
• Conducted workshops with SMEs, discussed AS-IS and designed To-be and identified GAPs and worked on fixing them using User Exits.
• Prepared FICO project timeline and the resources required to the steering committee.
• Prepared power point presentations for training and submitted to the steering committee for approvals.
• Created flowcharts and got it approved from Key users, and created Business Blue Print for the existing processes. Created Bank area in country US level
• Accounts Receivable: Customer Master Data, Customer Account Group, Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open Item Clearing, A/R aging, Dunning Procedure, Terms of Payment, partial payments, Residual payments, Outgoing Invoices, Incoming Payments, Integration with SD.
• Treasury: Lockbox (BAI, BAI2, EDI-IDOC), Manual Bank Statement and Electronic Bank Statement (BAI, MT940), External transaction codes, posting Rules.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format and EDI-IDOC format. Helped users process the on-account and unprocessed items of lockbox execution.
• Maintained IHC account determination for payment notes, external and internal bank accounts. Worked with IDOCs monitoring. Worked with automation of IHC project
• Worked with integration of PI server automation of ACH, Positive pay and lockbox files.
• Worked with intercompany transactions
• Data upload using LSMW/BDC in coordination with technical consultants
• Completely responsible for the Unit and Integration testing of FICO sub modules.
• In charge of the Master data uploads and all associated dry run tasks. Managed the dry run and cut over process across all modules.
• Worked with ABAP Consultant by providing functional specifications for User Exits, Reports, and Upload Programs using BAPI’s and Interfaces with third party tools like Visualization
• Involved in Unit and Integration Testing (SIT) in different clients and documenting test results. Provided training to end users and follow-up documentation.
• Worked on Co. Code for GM USA with US GAAP including Tax Procedure without Tax Tool.
• Worked on Sales & Use Tax Configuration with Tax Codes, Tax Jurisdiction Codes.
• Go Live: system validation, data comparison with legacy system, conversion, pre and post go live strategy, post production support, month end closing, hot issue list.

Confidential, IN

SAP FICO- COPA Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Prepared SAP Questionnaires and completed the scoping document after taking inputs from Client
• Prepared presentation slides and conducted Several Workshops.
• In Accounts Payable, Configured Automatic Payment Processing for Outgoing Payments for high invoice volume using payment methods Check, ACH and Wire payments, Interface/Flat file with bank through EDI, Employee Down Payments, Vendor Down Payments, Partial Payments, Credit Notes.
• Asset Accounting Configured the Chart of Depreciation. Setting up the various depreciation areas like Book Depreciation and Taxation. Configured the Period Controls key’s, Depreciation key’s, Calculation key’s etc. Created Asset classes & configured screen layouts for Asset master records
• Configured the required settings for external acquisition, Posting Investment subsidies, Revaluation of assets, Posting Depreciation etc. Configured necessary settings for Assets under construction and settling the same to Fixed Assets
• Conducted Integration Meetings with team Materials Management
• Defined enterprise structure, created company codes, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, field status variant and Chart of Accounts.
• Defined & created Customer & Vendor master Groups. Configuration of settings for Special GL Transaction like down payments, Security deposits. Created Payment terms for vendors. Maintained automatic payment program, which included payment methods by country and company code, sending and paying company codes.
• Configured new House banks, assigned GL accounts to banks and assigned ranking order to house banks
• Configuration of Chart of Depreciation, Asset Class, Account Determination, Depreciation Key and Depreciation Area.
• Creation of Assets and post-Acquisition of Assets, Retirement of Assets and Depreciation Run
• Integration of MM module with FICO module
• Data migration work using LSMW and BDC as part of Cut over activities.
• Define Controlling Area and Activate controlling components.
• Defined automatic creation of Primary cost elements.
• Implemented Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and profit center Accounting

Confidential, Baltimore

SAP FICO Team Lead,

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the financial reporting process by providing periodic financial data to management on an accurate and timely basis.
• Providing data and reports for analysis and completing research on variances to plan, prior year, and forecasts. Also prepares periodic flash report for further review.
• Supporting the fiscal year planning process by providing historical data and trend information for review.
• Inputs planning information into firm’s planning system and distributes final plan to US based Analysts and functional management.
• Monitoring both unbilled and billed receivables to ensure timely billing and collections, as well as the opening and closing of engagements.
• Tracking and monitoring the financial impact of AR on financial performance, including bad debt reserves.
• Prepares periodic reports and system downloads for further review, as well as various ad-hoc reports as needed based on the requirement.
• Monitoring, projecting, and reconciliation of headcount within a given function or practice and in region specific.
• Monitoring time and expense reporting process to ensure optimal revenue and proper cost controls were maintained.
• Timely resolving the tickets in the areas of FI and CO including ALE Interfaces and Idocs.
• Have involved in configuration changes as per requirements.
• Have Involved in Preparing Test Results in quality environment and attach the same in Kintana.
• Have capturing all type of Tickets on daily basis which relates to FI and CO from users.
• Interacting with Users on daily basis to resolve the tickets through Phone and same time.
• Have involved in Updating & Monitoring of Master Data in SAP.

Confidential, Hackett Group, PA

SAP FICO Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Procure to Pay Process and Order to Cash Process.
• Worked on Product Costing process. COPA - design and implement Cost based COPA including COPA planning, design the interfaces to get the plan data from external systems, COPA top-down distributions, COPA planning, transfer/copy COPA planning data to New GL by PC.
• Cost Center accounting - Cost Centers Planning, master data design/configuration, cost centers to cost centers distributions, cost centers to COPA assessments, CC planning, reporting, automatic account assignments.
• Worked on preparation of Business Blueprint and Functional specifications of processes.
• Developed Benchmarking Processes in FI, SD and MM for SAP Germany in ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0. Worked on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Idocs (Inbound and outbound).
• Worked on setting up SAP BCM.

Confidential, Atlanta.

SAP FICO Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Defined and formalized the requirements and specifications of various legacy business processes and integrate them into the SAP GL, Fixed Assets module, Accounts payable and Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Participated in workshops with Business users and managers, as appropriate, to develop/refine implementation strategy for the SAP GL, Fixed Assets module, Accounts payable and Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Worked closely with the Finance and Technical team members to identify, design and develop custom objects necessary for fixed asset module.
• Configured Fixed Assets module: Org structure, Account determination, Master data, Transactions, valuation and Production startup.
• Configured the Workflow for Document parking, Bank reconciliation statements, and Defined validations for GL, Fixed Assets.

Confidential, VA.

Sr FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined and formalized the requirements and specifications of various legacy business processes and integrate them into the SAP GL, Fixed Assets module, Accounts payable and Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Participated in workshops with Business users and managers, as appropriate, to develop/refine implementation strategy for the SAP GL, Fixed Assets module, Accounts payable and Cost center and Profit center accounting modules.
• Worked closely with the Finance and Technical team members to identify, design and develop custom objects necessary for fixed asset module.
• Configured Fixed Assets module: Org structure, Account determination, Master data, Transactions, valuation and Production startup.
• Configured the Workflow for Document parking, Bank reconciliation statements, and Defined validations for GL, Fixed Assets.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, and costing sheet.
• Configured, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, 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, assessment and indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• Setup Internal-Orders and Cost Collector configuration. Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost centers, activities and statistical key figures.
• Maintained Profit Center Master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions and assignments. Configured PCA planning including defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations.
• Prepare Configuration design documents and Functional design documents for custom objects and worked closely with the development team.
• Supported the development and executing the Functional unit testing like build test cases, perform tests, and make changes to configuration or processes based on results

Confidential, LA

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing of PDD and Functional Design Document for Interfaces between SAP and Legacy System and involved in SIT, UAT Phase and till Go Live Phase.
• Was Involved in the Blueprint Phase and also participated in discussions with stakeholders for Implementing GL and new GL modules and also suggested Interfaces for IFRS reporting.
• Configuration of New GL Accounting for Parallel Accounting, Leading and Non-Leading Ledgers in ECC 6.0.
• Preparing Process Design Document for Document Splitting as a part of new GL module.
• Preparation of Functional Design Documents for GL Interfaces covering both Inbound and Outbound Interfaces, covering GL balance Extract from SAP to external System.
• Preparation of Functional Design Document for Fixed Assets for an Outbound Interface from SAP to Poers System covering Vehicles, Inventory and Fixed Assets.
• Electronic Bank statement configuration through Auto bank functionalities.
• Preparation of Unit test and integration test cases and getting Users Sign off for UAT Phase related to GL and new GL Areas .

Confidential, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA): Performed corrections by reposting line items, also checked the results of reposting for particular cost centers in the current periods through Actual/Plan/Variance reports, and by displaying actual line items for the cost centers in report rows for the cost elements.
• Run reports for Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) for Actual/Plan/Variance costs which provided summarized view of costs, activities, and statistical key figures that were posted to cost centers, which allowed for a consolidated view of multiple cost centers.
• Product Costing (CO-PC), configured material cost estimates with quantity structure, maintained settlement structures, activity types, price planning, and creation of material cost estimate, material price update, and calculation of actual costs on production orders, Integration with SOP.
• CO PA: Maintained Characteristics, Value fields and Operating Concern, Profitability segment characteristics, characteristic hierarchy, Assessment, PA transfer structure, Defined variables and forms for profitability reports. Worked on mapping of value fields, reconciliation, Profitability analysis depending on various characteristics.

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Global Roll Out with template design. Defined templates containing scenarios, Blueprint documents and configuration. Transported the centrally defined template to the subsidiaries. Global roll out was done to Canada.
• New GL: Segment and Document Splitting. Reporting in New Ledger, Reconciliation between financial accounting and controlling. Hands on experience with the migration.
• A/P configuration: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, reason codes, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos. Involved in AP customization including GL accounts and automatic account assignments maintenance vendor master accounts.
• Product Costing (CO-PC): Configuring material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, maintained settlement structures, configuring variance calculations and WIP calculation, integrating CO-PC (Product Costing) with SD, MM and COPA, cost variants, valuation variants.