PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Functional Consultant with more than 7 years of implementation and configuration experience including three full life cycle implementations.
• Industry experience and strong domain knowledge in Finance, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing Industry, Food and Paper Industry and Engineering business processes.
• Part of Teams skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization, and Configuration with an in - depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD, MM Modules, Project Systems, HR payrolls etc.
• Strong acquaintance in GAAP, Taxation, FASB and SOX Act.
• Working knowledge on Global Rollout Functionality, cross-company code transactions, and multi-currencies.
• Effective communicator with excellent skills in making Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports and Technical Specifications.
• Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade / new implementation /integration, import of data from any other external system to SAP using LSMW.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end-user training and prepared training documents using Visio, RWD Infopak, and SnagIt tools
• Working knowledge of Solution Manager for Minimizing technical risk and ensuring technical robustness of the solution using Solution Manager.

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

• Defined and configured controlling area and business areas
• Defined and managed cost centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers.
• Configured activity types, statistical key figures.
• 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 and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile for cost center planning.
• Configured basic settings and master data
• Assigned to Profit Centers all objects which store data relevant for profits to a profit center
• Used parallel valuation approaches/transfer prices, made necessary settings in Customizing for the component General Controlling
• Performed activities to transfer prices specifically in Profit Center Accounting
• Configured settings necessary for the entry and allocation of plan data in Profit Center Accounting (Basic settings for Planning, Manual Planning, Profit planning)
• Made settings necessary for creating and allocating actual data in Profit Center Accounting.
• Configured both costing-based CO-PA and account-based CO-PA.
• Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules
• Configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet and defined various reports
• Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA
• Maintained assessment cycles and the relationship of cost elements to profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to CO-PA.
• Configured lockbox processing, utilized lockbox processing to apply cash received and clear accounts receivable, Liquidity Forecast, Cash Management Position, Cash Concentration, In-House cash (IHC) management, Configured Electronic Bank Statement Processing
• Defined Customer groups, Billing, Payment terms and Interest calculation, Incoming payments. Good understanding of Dunning, AR information system, Account systems, Credit management. Configured Closing operations, Sales order, Integration with SD.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant, Budd Lake, NJ

Technical Environnent : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the Business Blueprint involving appropriate field mapping after going through the new Global Template.
• Involved in the Unit, Integration, UAT testing and end-user training.
• Involved in data migration through interactions with the technical team, mapped necessary tables and fields
• Reconciliation of data pertaining to AP, AR, Assets and CO between the existing SAP ECC 6.0 version to SAP ECC 6.0
• Performed testing, validation, conversion and evaluated test scripts and test cases.
• Responsible for Production support for SAP FICO module and extensive go-live assistance.
• Supporting the day - to - day business process pertaining to issues classified on severity, enhancements and new developments in the SAP FICO module.
• Participated in the scheduling of the Batch jobs and their test run.
• Interacted with the business users to solve facilitate and ensure a smooth month end and quarter end close .
• Worked on the System testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss for inter-company transactions.
• Worked on the FI related issues that includes automatic payment program run, foreign exchange rates, foreign currency valuation, electronic bank statement, house banks, bank accounts etc.
• Solved the client’s day to day queries on AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts.
• Worked on manual check deposit , electronic bank statement and payment run , clearing open items and dunning program for the client in treasury.
• Involved in working on Cash Management, c onfiguring source symbol, planning level , planning groups, planning level for logistics, cash position, liquidity forecast and maintained structure & headers, define cash management account name and bank accounts in cash management in treasury .
• Maintained lockbox configuration for vendors' payment using BAI2 format , cash management , planning levels in treasury and Electronic bank Statement.
• Involved in worked on exchange rates i.e. set up exchange rate types , define transaction ratios and entering exchange rates in cash management in treasury.
• Involved in worked on liquidity management , market risk management , risk controlling, exposure analysis , valuation principles and cash flow in the treasury and understand business partner’s needs.
• Configured area of AP-house banks , recurring entries , accruals , deferrals and areas of AR-dunning, Interest Calculation and Credit Management
• Interacted and provided solutions to the end users on queries related to AP- Vendor transactions, Master data, check management, house banks, payment program, payment terms, deduction management, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Logistics invoice verification, Evaluated receipt settlement
• Responsible for all the issues and queries related to the implemented Fixed Assets module involving the depreciation run, asset retirement, inter and intra company asset transfer etc.
• Responsible for Fixed Asset ledger reconciliation
• Responsible for year-end close and reconciliation of sub-ledger, such AR, AP and Fixed Asset.
• Provided users with training and detailed reference training manuals.

Confidential

SAP FICO Team Lead, St. Petersburg, Florida

Technical Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Conducted “As-Is” study interacting with the core team members and developed a “To-Be” process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology.
• Defined template containing scenarios for Global Rollout, blueprint documents and configuration at head office for subsidiaries in Canada and UK.
• Configured the New G/L - Activated the General ledger, Configured the ledgers - assigned Chart of accounts, fiscal year, activated document splitting, defined non-leading ledgers for Parallel Accounting
• Used the document splitting procedure to split up payables lines by profit center to affect a zero balance
• Configured exchange rate types, translation ratios, rounding rules & set decimal places for currencies, configured new fiscal year variant and assigned it to company code.
• Integration of SAP with TAXWARE involving creation of Tax Codes
• Activated External Tax Calculation - Defined the ID for TAXWARE, defined the RFC destination
• TAXWARE Configuration- defined logical system, maintained pricing procedures, allocated company code to Non - taxable transactions, created number ranges for External tax Documents, created Tax Codes
• Configured general sales and use tax codes, assigned tax codes for nontaxable transactions, new input and output tax codes, Tax rates, and Tax accounts
• Designed & developed automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, accepted forms of payment, defined automatic account assignments for exchange rate differences, over & under payments, bank charges, cash discounts, configured dunning areas, keys & procedures in Accounts Payable.
• Configured new line layouts for incoming customer payments with fields according to client requirement and designed and developed terms of payment, invoices, cash discount, credit management, risk categories, tolerances & down payments.
• Configured new valuation method to reset foreign currency revaluation for AR/AP open items
• Configured automatic account assignments for various transaction keys and assigned accounts for revenue account determination.
• Configured account assignment for SD and MM (OBYC).
• Configured Invoice verification process.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category.
• Conducted automatic payment processing including checks printing for accounts payable and dunning in accounts receivables, foreign currency valuations
• Lockbox configuration, liquidity forecast, cash management, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, posting rules, exchange rates, planning
• Configured Electronic Bank Statement, manual bank statement, Cashed Checks and Check deposit functions.
• Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes.
• Defined Cash Management Account Name, distributed Cash Management and reorganized Cash Management.
• Assigned planning levels and updated types for cash management.
• Activated Project Cash Management in company code and Checked CO Number Ranges for Project Cash Management.
• Configured cash management in treasury master data and did cash management budgeting and financial budgeting.
• Configured Bank to Bank transfers (payroll transfers).
• Configured chart of depreciations and valuation of assets in various depreciation areas.
• Involved in the creation of assets, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers, and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).
• Executed the asset fiscal year change, year-end asset closing and stimulating depreciation for future fiscal years.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area, maintained Versions.
• Created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• Defined cost center hierarchy, cost center groups, activity types, and statistical key figures.
• Defined distribution and assessment cycles in Confidential .
• Configured Operating Concern, Maintained Operating Concern Attributes.
• Configured both costing-based CO-PA and account-based CO-PA.
• Created the characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques like table lookups and derivation rules to determine values for characteristics.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields and configured PA transfer structure for flow of values from FI/MM to COPA.
• Created user defined reports like profitability by customer, product, and market using Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Configured the settings for new plants that used process manufacturing and enabled calculation of standard cost for valuation of manufactured products. Facilitated the cost center planning and budgeting process to calculate activity prices of various operations.
• Product costing / Material Ledger defined and configured Product Cost planning that include cost estimates. Defined product cost per order and period
• Customized for the material ledger, reconciling accounts for the material ledger in different currencies, settings for material costing, maintained costing sheets, Costing & Valuation variants, product cost by period and valuation categories with balance sheet values by account.
• Used Material ledger to analyze material on ad hoc basis
• Used Material ledger for recording of currencies in two parallel currencies with recording of historical exchange rates
• Used Material ledger for actual cost splitting to analyze costs over multiple production levels
• Defined Order types to be able to create orders, assigned each order types to a number range.
• Issued authorization keys for the user statuses, so that only authorized users can set or delete a certain user status.
• Performed a results analysis for internal orders.
• Documented system configuration and consolidation process.
• Participated in testing using eCATT.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.
• Participated as member of go-live team to ensure successful cutover from legacy system.

Confidential, MI

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Technical Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Cross-checked the configuration for the in use Account Based COPA
• Configured the CO-PA planning framework - maintained Planning Versions, Planning levels, Planning Packages & Planning Layouts
• Evaluated the performance of BAPI to see if it is an acceptable alternative from a performance standpoint.
• Evaluated and configured the CO-PA planning to SL functionality.
• Evaluated and configured the CO-PA planning to BW functionality
• Supported moving plan data to the BW team by providing CO-PA extraction
• Configured the basic for Special Ledger for upload of plan data from CO-PA to Special Ledger
• Wrote functional specifications for creating custom reports based on client requirements

Confidential, PA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Technical Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Client Team for the “As-Is” study leading to the “To-Be” solution to suit the company’s objectives using the SAP Best Practices.
• Documented the Business Blueprint involving appropriate field mapping after going through GAP Analysis.
• Documented the Flow Chart Documentation and Presentation on various Business Scenarios.
• Activated the New GL, Assigned Scenarios, activated Document Splitting
• Configured Field Status groups, Posting Keys, Inter Company Automatic Account Assignment and Financial Statement versions in the New GL.
• Defined and Configured the Enterprise Structure including Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Assets according to the client needs
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data - Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.
• Configured house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment.
• Configured the Payment Program - Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices.
• Configured Logistic Invoice Verification
• Configured relevant settings for treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration
• Configured Electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, conversion programs, post processing of bank statements
• Configured Electronic check deposit.
• Worked on lockbox configuration and lock box processing .
• Assets Management including defining Assets Classes, defining depreciation areas for special depreciation, unplanned depreciation, configuring the depreciation keys, Special Valuation of Assets.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant, Florham Park, NJ

Technical Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Administered interviews with users to gather requirements and to understand the workflow of the “As-Is” system.
• Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed the To-be solution.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Participated actively in configuring the inconsistencies related to CCA, CEA, and PCA in controlling modules and G/L, A/P, A/R modules in financial accounting
• Migration to New GL - Customizing of New Ledger Accounting, creation of Migration Plan, Test Migration, Validation and Actual Migration
• Creation of FI-AP vendor groups, creating no. ranges and assigning, creation of tolerance groups, creation of vendor master and document types. Configuring payment program which includes creation of bank account G/L structure, company code payment methods, and payment.
• Creation of FI-AR customer groups, overall Receivables and employee tolerances, terms of payment and interest calculation configuration, reason code creation, credit management, dunning, creation of master records and no. ranges.
• Designed a new business process to automate Akon’s GR/IR clearing functionality
• Configured and Customized Treasury module including Cash Management, Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges. Configured and Customized Cash Budget Management including commitment management.
• Configuration of lock box, lockbox file formats and lock box processing and bank statement processing.
• Creation of basic sets, key figure sets, assigning reports to report group and executing the report groups using Report writer.
• Configuration of FI-AA Asset classes, depreciation areas, assigning company codes to dep. Areas, creation of screen layouts and no. Ranges, creation of dep. Keys like ordinary depreciation, special depreciation and imputed depreciation.
• Configured Depreciation Keys, Legacy Asset Data Transfer for AA cutover.
• Created new reports for the validation of Asset data.
• Trained the client team members about the new system functionality and performed the integration between the various modules SD, MM, FI, CO.
• Maintained Controlling Area settings.
• Created the Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities, Statistical Key Figures. Developed assessment, distribution periodic reposting cycles and segment.
• 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 center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning.
• Provided end user training for the new configuration and reporting to management and business groups.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Technical Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed end users to understand the As-Is system and identified GAP’s in the requirements. Actively involved in preparation of PDD’s & BPP’s.
• Configured General Ledger Accounts (GL) master records
• Involved in configuring Field Status groups, Posting Keys, Inter Company Automatic account assignment, and financial statement versions in GL.
• Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups.
• Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest calculation, Write-Offs, and Tax (Vistex) in AR.
• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data - Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.
• Configured house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment.
• Payment Program configuration - Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices.
• Configured relevant settings for treasury- cash management position, liquidity forecast and cash concentration
• Configured Electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, conversion programs, post processing of bank statements.
• Importing of data from cashed checks using RFEBCK00 program
• Configured Electronic check deposit.
• Payment advice comparisons with account and bank statements, interest calculation.
• Worked on lockbox configuration and lock box processing.
• Configured Profitability Analysis CO-PA included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
• Helped in Configuring necessary changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts including modification of COPA user exits, and creation of new field status groups.
• Successfully tested cross-company, multi-currency postings and reporting in local, group, and transaction currency.
• Created reports using Report Painter, Report writer, Drill down Reports for Finance, Marketing, Accounting, and Plant Level Management.
• Involved in End user training for new configuration and reporting to management and business groups.