SUMMARY:

• Eight plus years of Functional Expertise as a SAP R/3 FICO Consultant with end-to-end projectimplementations, configuration, upgrade, testing, training and production support with a proven record of continuous improvement and effectiveness.
• Involved in over two Full Life Cycle implementations in the USA, with contract roles and limited roles with different organizations in US and India.
• Skilled in R/3, ECC5.0, and ECC 6.0 with New GL of clients of SAP.
• Strong experience with New GL full lifecycle implementation and post-production support activities in versions ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0.
• Expertise in business process improvement, SAP ASAP methodology systems design, development and full SAP R/3 Life Cycle implementation.
• Expertise in Implementing SAP FI General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Asset Accounting (FI-AA) especially in highly complex Business Environment.
• Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Internal Order.
• Worked onAccounts Payable(Procure topay) andAccounts receivablemodule (Order to Cash) with the concentration on FSCM and Treasury.
• Extensive experience in integrating FI with CO, SD and MM modules.
• Knowledge in Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW).
• Experience in report development- report painter and drill down reporting
• Strong knowledge of Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow (RICEFW) in different FI/CO modules.
• Good experience onproduction support.
• Prepared User Training Manuals and Provided User Training on the processes.
• Documented the end user training manuals and involved in the train the trainees programs.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Power Point and Quick Books.

• Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills combined with Self-Motivation, Initiative and Project Management Attributes.

FICO Skills
Financial Accounting- General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L (New GL), Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Bank Accounting FI-BA, Treasury, Cash Management & Asset Accounting FI-AA, Consolidations.
Controlling– Product costing,Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting CO-CEL, Profitability analysis CO-PA,Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA,Profit center Accounting EC-PCA.
Integration- FI/CO Integration with SD& MM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential,FL
Duration: Oct 2012 to March 2013
SAP FI AP Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, Report Painter.

Responsibilities

• Developed Business Process Requirement Document (BPRD) & Functional Specifications Document (FSD) for new Interfaces between SAP & third party Legacy System.
• Developed field mappings between SAP and Legacy systems for both inbound and outbound interfaces. Inbound interfaces include bringing both Customer (AR) & Vendor (AP) invoices from legacy systems to SAP. Outbound interface updates the master data from SAP to Legacy Systems.
• Acted as a liaison between business users and technical developers and worked closely with technical developers to meet the business needs.
• Created mock data for testing the interfaces (Both for development & Business).
• Testing of interfaces for various scenarios, in conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives from the client side.
• Prepared Functional unit test document for various interfaces.
• Developed & Modified reports using Report Painter. Created a consolidated report at corporate level with independent view at each company code level based on account groupings which drill downs to individual accounts.
• Preparation of End User Documentation for both the interfaces and reports.
• Provided trainings to End users as a part of Internal training activities.
• Worked on Production issues after Go-Live.

Confidential,IL
Duration: Feb 2012 to Oct 2012
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CCA, PCA, COPA.

Responsibilities

• Successfully demonstrated in helping SAP FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BA, Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting.
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts according to the Client requirements.
• Defined Account Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups
• Creation of GL Master Data, posting, Displaying balances, Parking and Reversal of document.
• Defined Leading Ledgers & Non-Leading Ledgers. Defined Currencies for Leading Ledgers. Assigned Accounting Principles for Ledger Groups to enable Parallel Accounting. Defined Document Splitting Characteristics and activated Document Splitting.
• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Number ranges, Tolerance for Vendors/Customers and Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records
• Created House Banks, Bank Accounts and Check Lots.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments in Accounts Payable.
• Configured AR Scenarios: Customer master maintenance, tolerances, over-under payments, cash discounts, Incoming payment (full payment/partial payment/residual payment), dunning procedures, and Age-Wise AR reports.
• Configured Controlling Area, Maintain versions, Number Ranges and Standard Hierarchy for Controlling Area
• Set up the Cost Centers, Profit Centers and Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Created Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center and Assigning Profit Center to Cost Center.
• Issues related to FI including Automatic Payment Program and Dunning Program.
• Prepared test plans for unit testing, integration testing, and end to end testing.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Training key users and preparation of Training documentation.
• End user assistance and support on general issues.

Confidential,IL
Duration: Feb 2011 to Jan 2012
SAP FI Consultant
Full Life Cycle Implementation Accounts Payable
Environment: ECC 6.0, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC & COPA.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered high-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model).
• Part of a team involved in the Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis, User Requirement Specifications and Functional Requirement Specifications for documentation.
• Develop test scenarios to simulate the client’s business scenario to conduct unit testing and Integration testing for the developments made.
• Created functional specification whenever needed during the entire project experience.
• Worked on the whole flow of P2P (Procure to Pay) including the creation of the purchases order, Goods receipts, invoice receipt and outgoing payments.
• Successfully transferred the vendor open items from the legacy system to SAP system using LSMW.
• Created vendor master data, configuredvendor account groupsand edited thefield statusas per the client requirement.
• Defined thepayment termsand configured thePayment Program.
• Definedcheck lots,made settings forcheck printingand assigned forms to payment methods.
• Documented the configuration procedures and business procedure processes.
• Performed unit testingandintegration testing.
• Involved in the preparation of extensive documentation forEnd-User Training.
• Acted asliaisonbetween business users and technical developers and worked closely with technical developers to deliver cost-effective application systems to meet business needs

Confidential,OK
Duration: Aug 2009 to Dec 2010
Role: FICO Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC & COPA.

Responsibilities

• Analyzed various business issues, provided different suggestions/solutions for some gaps found in the gap analysis.
• Responsible for managing and allocating daily problem tickets and generating weekly metrics of open issues.
• Involved in configuration of house banks, bank account, check lots for the company code and tested outgoing payments and discussed with end user for GL account structure and defined lock box process, control parameters and posting rules for automatic assignment.
• Involved in configuration of defining various valuation methods and assigning different GL accounts for taking automatic postings in Foreign Currency Evaluation.
• Maintained Internal Order settlement parameters created and maintained settlement Distribution rules according to different posting periods and supported end users for month end process including depreciation run and carried out various reports.
• Documented and trained end users to understand the new GL features like - entry view and GL view modes and how to interpret the split documents in GL.
• FI-SD Integration in respect to Pricing Condition, Material Type, Customer Type and Access sequence.
• Production problem solving in FI-MM Integration with respect to Valuation Class.
• Configured Controlling Area settings to address the Management Accounting requirements of the Organization.
• Configured Controlling modules including Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• Cost Element Accounting - Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and Reconciliation Ledger.
• Generated & Modified reports usingReport Painteras per the business requirements.

Confidential,CA
Duration: Oct 2008 to July 2009
SAP FICO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 5.0 FICO, SD, MM, CO – CCA, CPA.

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, FA, CEA, CCA and PCA.
• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.
• Defined Account Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.
• Defined Chart ofDepreciation, Screen layoutsandAccountDetermination.
• Defined different asset classes as per the client requirements, activatedDepreciationAreas, Createddepreciationkeys, Setup the field for master data.
• Creation of General ledgers accounts and its assignmenttoasset classes and Depreciation areasand preparing master data templatesforLegacy uploads.
• Architect Experience in Finance and Asset Modules Both modules.
• Configured Controlling modules including Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• Assisted in Internal Order Settlement Procedures.
• Involved in the preparation of extensive documentation forEnd-User Training.

Confidential,NC
Duration: Feb 2008 to Sep 2008
Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant (Production Support)
Environment: ECC 5.0, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AM, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC & COPA.
Responsibilities

• Configuration/Customization in the area of AP, AR and GL Master Data, configured Chart of Accounts and Account Groups in General Ledger.
• Creation and grouping of Customer and Vendor Master Data
• Worked on A/P Outgoing payments and Open item clearing in A/P.
• Design and configuration of Automatic Payment Program for A/P including Partial Payment Configuration.
• Created and Maintenance of Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Dunning / Payment processes in AR/AP.
• Worked on configuration of House Bank details and Lockbox.
• Reviewed line items in the lockbox clearing account, displayed customer balance, customer line items and ensured that all unprocessed and partially applied transactions are reviewed and manually corrected by the business user.
• In Fixed Asset Accounting, copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Accounts Determination, Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Configured for Internal Orders, Allocation Structure for Settlement.

Confidential,CA
Duration: May 2006 to Dec 2007
SAP FI Consultant
Full Life Cycle Implementation
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7C, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, MS-Visio, MS-Project.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing system for, As Is Study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, Gap Analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Responsibilities include system configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL, FI-AP and FI-AR.
• Customized and Configured theFIGlobal Settingslike Company Code, Company Code Currency, Fiscal Year settings & posting periods, Document Types and Number Ranges.
• Customized and ConfiguredGeneral LedgerAccount Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance Groups & retained earnings account.
• Configured partial, full, residual payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable.
• Customized and ConfiguredVendor AccountGroups and Vendor Master Records (with combined effort of MM consultant).
• Customized and ConfiguredCustomer AccountGroups, Customer Master Records (with combined effort of SD consultant).
• Configured Automatic Payment Program and Dunning Program.
• Defined lock box process, control parameters and posting rules for automatic assignment.
• Configured OBYC and VKOA as part of FI-MM AND FI-SD integration.
• Responsible for Unit testing and integration testing.
• Preparation of End User Documentation and Process Documents and provide trainings to End users as a part of Internal training activities.

Confidential,Duration: July 2005 to Mar 2006
Role: Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7C, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC.

Responsibilities

• Involved in analyzing the existing system for AS-IS study: gathered functional requirements through user workshops.
• Successfully demonstrated in helping SAP FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-BA, FI-AA, Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting.
• Set up company codes, Global Parameters for company code, configure chart of account, Account Groups in General Ledger, Posting variants, fiscal year variant.
• Defined and Assigned Document Number Ranges, Document Type, Tolerance Groups. Term of payment, Interest Calculation.
• Creation of GL Master Data, posting, Displaying balances, Parking and Reversal of document.
• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records.
• Configured partial, full, residual payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable.
• Created House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Void Reason Codes.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments in Accounts Payable.
• Configured Dunning program in Accounts Receivable.
• In Fixed Asset Accounting, copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Account Determination, Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed Asset Classes.
• Maintained Depreciation Keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Depreciation Areas.
• Successfully configured Asset Master Data creation, Asset Classes, Depreciation Run and Integration of Asset with GL.
• Configured Controlling Area, Maintain versions, Number Ranges and Standard Hierarchy for Controlling Area
• Set up the Cost Centers, Profit Centers and Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Internal Order.
• Created Profit Centre, Dummy Profit Centre and Assigning Profit Centre to Cost Centre.
• Issues related to field’s status, documents entry and display, open item management, clearing process.
• Issues related to FI, Cash Journal, Automatic Payment Program, and Special GL transactions, Financial Statement Version, Dunning Process, House Banks and Manual Bank Statements.
• End user assistance and support on general issues.