SUMMARY:

• 8 years of working experience in implementing, configuring, integrating, testing and providing user training and support in SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules.
• Working experience in business processes of industry domains like Retail, Manufacturing,Pharma/Chemical, Finance and Food industries.
• Three full life cycle implementation using ASAP methodology and SAP best business practices.
• Solid experience in gathering business requirements, business blue print, mapping business requirements to SAP environment, realization, final preparation, data migration, cut over planning, go live and supporting.
• Strong functional configuration and implementation of the following SAP R/3 modules: New General Ledger (G/L), FI - General Ledger, FI- Accounts Payable, FI-Automatic Payment Program, FI-Accounts Receivables, FI- Asset Accounting
• Working experience on functional configuration of Controlling sub-modules: CO- Cost Center Accounting, CO-Cost Element Accounting, CO- Internal Orders, CO- Profit Center Accounting, CO-Product Costing, CO- Profitability Analysis.
• Working experience with Accounts Payable invoice processing using Esker.
• Integrating Esker’s order to cash and purchase to pay solutions with SAP business systems for automation.
• Strong experience with Accounts payable: customizing vendor account and creation of vendor master data, maintain number ranges and invoice processing and posting the transactions.
• Configuration experience with lockbox, automatic payment program, dunning procedure, credit management.
• Experience in working with bank modules: foreign currency valuation and Electronic bank statement.
• Configuration of tax: withholding tax, input tax, output tax in accordance with local and US tax laws.
• Working experience with Accounts Receivable: customizing customer account groups & creation of customer master data, maintain number ranges and assign number ranges to customer account groups, configuration of document types and document number ranges.
• Integration experience with material management and sales and distribution for FI-MM and FI-SD.
• Experience in Unit, integration and user acceptance testing and knowledge on report painter and report writer.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work both independently and team environments with problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/2, R/3 versions, ECC 5.0, ECC6.0

SAP FI: General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting

SAP CO: Cost Element/Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Internal orders, Profitable analysis, Product Costing

Modules: SAP FI/SD, SAP FI/MM

Database: MS Access, Oracle

Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Project, MS Visio, JIRA, QA (HP-ALM)

Platforms: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

SAP FI- AP/Banking consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collected and analyzed user’s business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshooting and supporting for systems users.
• Analysis of all open items, foreign currency revaluation, reclassification of payable and receivable, clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt GI/IR accounts, performing reconciliation’s, profitability allocations by business area.
• Followed ASAP Implementation methodology and designed the business processes, wrote blueprint phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Designed the process of payment proposal approvals for different payment methods like ACH, Wire, Check in A/P.
• Involved in modeling of invoice processing, check printing and bank reconciliation processes for Accounts Payable (A/P).
• Worked on cash management in house banks.
• Completed all daily AP/AR reconciliations utilizing the cash management module in SAP
• Uploaded bank activity into cash management module in SAP.
• Eliminated duplicated inter-company AR/AP postings in cross-company sales orders, ensured that SD billing document invoices are posted in FI.
• Worked on bill of exchange configuration and processing in FI-AR by configuring the reconciliation accounts in the special GL.
• Worked on customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms, cash application, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes on Accounts Receivable (A/R).
• Worked on Correspondence types on A/R which means different outputs which can be printed and sent to your business partners based around customer G/L information.
• Responsible for A/R customer transactions, credit management, check printing, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts, clearing and month end and Year-end activities.
• Cleaned Legacy Customer Master Data . Reviewed customer address data, Credit limits, Dunning, Line item displays and carry forward balances.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Check, Wire and ACH payments.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV or GR-IR verification) in FI-MM ( Procure to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD ( Order to Cash) cycles.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).
• Created custom KE31 reports for the management and users in CO-PA.
• Resolved end-user issues involved in cost roll, WIP calculation, variance calculation and period end settlement in different plants
• Configured Cost component structure and roll ups, BOM. Set up material cost estimate with quantity structure.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Accounts Payable/Banking- payment process (ACH, wire, check), bank reconciliation, invoice verification, credit management, check printing, lockbox processing, CO-PA (profit center analysis).

Confidential - Gurnee, IL

SAP FI/CO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Experience working with workshop decks on Accounts Receivable and Vendor Master data.
• Customized the financial statement versions and assigned it to chart of accounts.
• Created Master records including general ledger, vendor master record and customer master record etc.
• Created cost centers, profit centers and completed the account assignment for the cost objects.
• Configured vendor groups and assigned number ranges to vendor groups and maintained vendor groups field status for general data, company code data and purchasing data that on vendor master record.
• Created the invoices for customer i.e. tax invoice and recorded them and sent by the vendors.
• Created end to end over flow with the purchase/sales orders to billing with an accounting document tied to the flow.
• Defined the account keys for the access sequence and automatic account determinations for the pricing and conditions.
• Configured the additional depreciation areas and defined depreciation rules.
• Experience in working with derived depreciation area, screen layouts of fixed assets.
• Established connection between asset master records and the corresponding accounts in the GL in financial accounting through account determination.
• Maintained employee tolerance group and customer tolerance group.
• Configured system settings in FI- General ledger transactions, House Bank, Tax, Automatic payment program, Bank reconciliation, Account receivable- customer credit, credit controls, credit memos, period end closing, EDI and performed dunning.
• Integrated FI with MM and SD and participated in logistic invoice verification for logistics.
• Worked on year end activities and transfer of accounts and month end closing activities.

Environment:: SAP ECC 6.0, Accounts Payable- banking, customer credit, credit memos, EDI, reconciliations, customer master records, vendor master and invoice verification

Confidential - Westbrook, ME

SAP FICO Support consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Business blueprints including functional specifications and configuration documents and post go-live support
• Responsible for conducting workshops with business users, designing, configuring, testing and providing post implementation support .
• Responsible for configuration of G/L account groups as well as creating and assigning number ranges to G/L Accounts and document types .
• Worked on Bank master data and processing of incoming and outgoing payments .
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) performed corrections by reposting line items , also checked the results of reposting for 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.
• Configured account assignment categories and requirements classes' in product cost planning .
• Worked on Procure to pay (PTP) and Order to cash (OTC) processes.
• Configured Posting period variants , field status groups , field status variants as well as posting keys based on client requirements for different G/L Account transactions.
• Worked on customer and vendor down payments as well as advance payments.
• Worked on void reason codes for checks, reversed payment documents related to the checks and re-processed transactions.
• Generated test scripts and test scenarios.
• Assisted in user acceptance testing(UAT) and system integration testing(SIT) .
• Worked on testing end to end enterprise and commercial applications.
• Involved in executing the test cases for positive testing, alternative and negative testing.
• Developed and executed test scripts, recorded test results and maintained errors and bug reports using HP Quality center (QC).
• Generated reports using report writer and report printer during data migration processes.

Environment:: SAP ECC 6.0, Cost center accounting, profit analysis, customer/vendor down payments, variance reports, testing- user acceptance testing (UAT), system integration testing (SIT)

Confidential - Harrisburg, PA

SAP FICO - Asset Accounting consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business partners and end users to identify the business requirements, determined the impact to various business areas and documented the findings.
• Primary contact and responsible for solving the tickets based on priority and within the project time.
• Customization settings for asset accounting such as chart of depreciation, account determination, depreciation areas, number ranges, asset classes, GL accounts etc.
• Based on business requirements provided support on configuration.
• Solving tickets on various aspects on asset accounting, account receivable, account payable, general ledger and in Controlling module: profitability analysis, profit center accounting including invoice, cash application, lockbox, electronic payments, automatic customer/vendor payment clearing program, settlements, adjustments, credit management, Banking integration.
• Good knowledge in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces and reporting tools.
• Determine problems found by the proactive application monitoring being done on regular basis by level 2 support person. Therefore level 3 person also must apply patches, complete performance tuning, re-create tables or indices, etc.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-General Ledger transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for General Ledger, Account Payable.
• Configured Check Management and provided training to process and void checks with reason codes, use Check Register program.

Environment:: SAP ECC 5.0, cost center accounting, accounts payable, asset accounting, profitability analysis, automatic payment program.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

SAP FI consultant

Responsibilities:

• Core responsibility is to analyze the incidents raised by the business users, in SAP FICO module, and provide satisfactory resolution to the same as per the SLA.
• Solving production issues in GL-related to line item management, open item management, tax category.
• Solving production issues in Accounts receivables and Accounts payables - master data , Transaction data and trained business users on the usage of Automatic Payment Program .
• Analyze errors relating to cost center accounting, profit center accounting, internal order settlement and providing resolution at BPC level.
• Worked on issues related to 3-way match on purchase order related invoices and FI-MM integration aspects.
• Worked on issues related to Asset accounting such as Asset under construction (AUC) settlement, depreciation write-off.
• Creation and using of master data maintenance.
• Worked on issues related to Internal order settlement, allocation cycle.
• Providing support for period end operations in FICO (Monthly close process).
• Designing various test case scenarios for the relevant business process customizations and giving the end users training.
• Managed the RICEFW tracker and coordinated with the business teams to schedule meetings and update status of development objects

Environment:: SAP ECC 5.0, Accounts receivable, Accounts payable, cost center accounting, profit center accounting, internal orders and asset accounting, master record, 3-way match, purchase orders and sales orders, FI-MM integration.

Confidential, Chicago

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Taken part in Gathering Information on current organization's legacy system, business processes and activities.
• Defined Account Groups and Tolerance Groups for vendors and customers and documents types.
• Interacted with client to create and group customer and vendor master data, vendor field status, defined credit control areas and dunning areas.
• Customized Line Layouts for GL, AP, and AR data entry and Report Displays.
• Designed and configured vendor master data: vendor group, vendor field status, creating vendor and customer master data and risk categories.
• Configured outgoing payments, open Item clearing in Accounts Payable.
• Worked with SD Team for design and configuration of the sales process and integration with FI, Settings for revenue recognition & revenue item category, defined condition tables & account keys.
• Configured for one-time vendors/customers with a separate screen layouts and customers/vendors who were vendors/customers respectively and trading partners.
• Customized lockbox, payment requests and interest calculation on account balances and line items.
• Defined and configured controlling area: assigned company codes and number ranges, operating concern.
• Analyzed and configured cost element Categories and Imputed Costs; cost center accounting (hierarchy nodes CC categories, time-based fields and analysis period, statistical key figures and activity types, allocation types, assessments, planning setups, auto account assignments).

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, Accounts receivable, Cost center accounting, Cost element accounting, one-time customers/vendors, customer master record, vendor master record.

Confidential, Gurgaon, Haryana

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all the phases of ASAP methodology (Accelerated SAP methodology) from gathering functional requirements, AS-IS study, GAP analysis, development of Business Blueprint, configuration, data migration, testing, post implementation support.
• Defining Vendor master data. Configuring down payments, vendor management inventory (VMI), payment methods, automatic payment program.
• Configured in interest calculations on items, balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, account balance calculation on account balances and line items.
• Configured Dunning program, Dunning level, Dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level.
• Configured payment terms for dunning, for overdue interest calculations for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to programmers regrading report format, object of report, technical information i.e. tables, fields and testing.
• Configured with holding tax (TDS) as per country version and configured cost center hierarchy, Cost element accounting, cost center accounting.
• Creation of internal orders and settlement for external accounts for expenses and assets.
• Integrated controlling area by implementing: Cost element accounting, cost center accounting, profit center accounting, internal orders, profitability analysis.
• In Product costing: Secondary cost elements, Activity types, costing variants, costing run.
• In Profitability Analysis: Created the operating concerns, configured costing-based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field, profitability segments, used in profitability analysis.
• Experience in loading the master data and testing the same thing and worked on FI-CO interface to send the data to accounting application component.
• Analyzing business reporting requirements that could be satisfied by the standard reports and providing specifications to the technical consultant for report modifications.

Environment:: SAP ECC 5.0, General ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, cost center accounting, product costing, profit analysis- operating concerns, value field, profitability segments