SUMMARY
7+ years of strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, document preparation, user training and production support in SAP FI/CO.

• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring New General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Asset Accounting FI-AA & Special Purpose Ledger FI-SPL.
• Controlling module knowledge includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA and Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA.
• Involved in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, developing Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration.
• Worked on 3 full life cycle implementation and two production support projects.
• Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD, MM.
• Comprehensive object analysis of the system using SPAD and SPAU transactions in SAP System upgrades.
• Solid knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), International Financial Reporting concepts (IFRS) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act.
• Performed Documentation for end users and provided end user training
• Excellent Finance and Accounting knowledge with demonstrated competence in Financial and Business Analysis knowledge developed while working with different Clients.
• Worked extensively on unit testing, integration testing, functional testing and user acceptance testing. Writing Test scenarios, Test cases for all FI related transactions.
• Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge of SAP interfaces.

SAP EXPERTISE:

• Financial Accounting: General Ledger FI-GL, Accounts Payable FI-AP, Bank Accounting FI-BA, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Credit Management, Asset Accounting FI-AA, FI Treasury.
• Controlling: Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Overhead cost Controlling CO-OM, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting, Cost Object Controlling CO-OBA, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Product Costing CO-PC.
• Legacy System Migration Workbench LSMW.
• ASAP implementation methodology.

Technical Skills
ERP Package: SAP (4.7, 5.0 & 6.0) FI/CO, SD, MM & BW
Languages: JAVA, C, SQL
Databases: Oracle, Excel, Access
Others: SAP Solution Manager, Rev-Trac, MS Office Suite & HP QC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,FL Jan11-present
SAP FICO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0, BI, EDI, Solution Manager, Rev-Trac & HP QC

CHEP is Global Pallet Leader in pallet and container business. It servers almost all types of the business across the globe. CHEP handles pallet and container supply chain logistics for customers in the consumer goods, produce, meat, home improvement, beverage, raw materials, petro-chemical and automotive industries. CHEP is an Australian based company with operations in more than 45 countries.

• Collaborated with business process owners (BPO) and with subject matter experts in reengineering business process and design.
• Configured in SAP FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP and configured master data for CO-CCA (cost center, cost center group, standard hierarchy), cost element accounting including setting up distribution & assessment cycles.
• Worked on configuration of standard cost estimate in standard cost planning.
• Worked on product costing for Make to Stock scenario and make to order scenario.
• Configured for costing the product on cost objects production order, sales order and product cost collector.
• Calculated WIP &input and output variance and worked on settlement.
• Worked on Characteristics and Value Fields Table in Profitability Analysis and Mapping it on to SAP.
• Ensured that all the revenues and cost postings flow in correctly in Profitability Analysis.
• Worked on transfer of assets from legacy system to SAP.
• Worked on the cutover plan and involved in go live support.
• Closely worked with other modules in the aspect of integration.

Confidential,WI Jun10-Jan11
SAP FICO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0

It is an electrical company which manufactures battery and UPS for commercial use. It also provides support and maintenance with field engineers spread across the country.

• Involved in gathering business requirements, Preparation of Blue print by Re-engineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the to be system
• Defined the Enterprise structure and configured global settings for GL postings including automatic account assignments, financial statement version.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment.
• In Profit Center Accounting, configured Profit center structure, Standard Hierarchy, Configured Profit center Master Data.
• Made configuration for costing in a discrete manufacturing industry environment.
• Configured Costing variant, Costing sheet (Calculation Bases, Overheads, Credits), valuation variant, order type, overhead cost elements.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting all CCA and PCA test cases.
• Prepared Documentation for business users.
• Provided Production Support after the go-live.

Confidential,IL. May08-Jun10
SAP FI CO Consultant
Environment: ECC 5.0

Tenneco is one of the worlds leading suppliers of automotive emission control and ride control products and systems for the automotive original equipment market and after the market.

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
• Worked on foreign currency exchange rate and valuation, GR/IR clearing account and automatic clearing.
• Configured terms of payment, incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment.
• Worked on Customer Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them. Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
• Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignments
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format
• Configuration of Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement, transfer and other business transactions.
• Set up the Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment
• Responsibilities in CO module:
• Extensively worked in controlling modules including, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting.
• Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
• Created Training Scripts for the MM, FI and CO modules. Script development included MM Procurement processes; FI-GL Account Maintenance, Journal Processing, General Ledger processing and Financial Statements; and CO-CE creation, assignments and reporting; CO CCA object creation, assignments and Reporting; CO-IO and reporting.
• Detected and resolve configuration errors in FI-AM for asset transfers.
• Provided project organization and work planning inputs to local level project managers for flow of Training Script development and progress reporting to Management.
• Responsible for identifying and documenting all CCA and PCA test cases.
• Tracked and resolved business process and configuration issues resulting from unit and integration testing.

Confidential,TX Dec06-Mar08
FI Consultant
Environment: FI, CO, MM, Version R/3 4.6C

Tarrant County is one of the fastest growing counties in the State of Texas. The county has an estimated population of 730,000 with about 93 people moving in every day.

Responsibilities:

• Deigned, configured and tested the Procure-to-Pay process in SAP R/3 to replace non-integrated, incongruent legacy systems, and eliminate redundancy, and to allow the county government to take advantage of vendor discounts.
• Set up Vendor Account Groups including One-Time Vendors, discussed options on the Vendor Master Data, and reviewed legacy master data, provided data cleansing logic, set up LSMW, and verified loaded master data.
• Created Tolerance Groups for AP, and Tolerances for Purchasing, Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt.
• Configured new Payment Terms including Installment Payment Terms for retentions in the case of contracts.
• Defined special GL accounts for Vendor Down Payments.
• Set Valuation Control, assigned Valuation Area Grouping, defined Valuation Classes, configured Automatic Postings for Goods Movements and Taxes, and set up parameters and default values for Invoice Verification.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments, defined accounts for Cash Discounts, Rounding Differences, Bank Charges, defined Payment Block Reasons and default values. Defined Tolerances, Reason Codes, and accounts for Payment Differences for Manual Outgoing Payments.
• Configured F.13 and MR11 for automatic GR/IR clearing.
• Set up the Extended Withholding Tax functionality in SAP.
• Provided a list of standard SAP reports and developed custom reports using Report Painter.
• Unit tested the configuration, tested the Procure-to-Pay scenario and conducted a walk-through session for end-users, and verified integration with GL, AR, AA, MM, and CO.
• Trained end-users on FI, CO.

Confidential,KY Oct04-Nov06
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: Version: SAP R/3
Century Aluminum produces various aluminum products. It produces molten, ingot, extrusion bullet and rolled aluminum products. The company has a total capacity of 615,000 of primary aluminum and has direct interest in three plants in America.

Responsibilities in FICO module:

• Extensively worked on vendor master records.
• Client Specific Payment Terms and Payment Methods.
• Worked on Lockbox BAI2 format.
• Worked on Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display.
• Configured the settings for outgoing payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• Configured cross company code transactions, line item display, and open item processing for G/L.
• Clearing open items, automatic payment and dunning program for the client.
• Responsibilities in CO module:
• Configured settings for Controlling Area and maintained Versions.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, worked on Automatic, Manual cost element creation and reconciliation ledger.
• Configuration in Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) included creation of cost center hierarchy and cost center groups, distribution cycle set up; planned as well as actual.
• Configuration of activity types and planning them on different cost centers, configuration of the system for planned and actual activity price calculations.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment.
• In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc.
• Created Internal Order, Order Groups, Budgeting, Corrected Entry Errors and Reposted Transactions.
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the master data, planning, actual postings and period end closing.
• Generated reports using Report Painter.
• Coordinated overall testing and QA activities required to meet system validation requirements.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering.