Summary:

• 8 years of SAP FI/CO experience as a Functional Consultant during Blue Print/Design, Realization, Customization/Configuration, Integration, Testing, Go-Live & Support with 3 Full Life-Cycle Implementations.
• Strong integration experience of FI/CO with SD and MM modules and worked on the different scenarios for Purchase/Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (OTC) and Record to Report RTR).
• Extensive experience in FI-GL General Ledger, FI-AP Accounts Payable, FI-AR Accounts Receivable, FI-AA Fixed Asset and FI- BA Bank Accounting etc
• Experience in configuring New General Ledger with Parallel Ledgers, Document Splitting Functionality, and Segment Reporting.
• Comprehensive experience in CO-CCA Cost Center Accounting, CO-PCA Profit Center Accounting, CO-IO Internal Orders and CO-PA Profitability Analysis.
• Expertise in ABAP Query, Report Writer and Report Painter etc
• Hands on experience in Master Data Creation with expertise in Vendors, Customers, G/L accounts, Assets, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Order, and WBS element.
• Extensive experience in documenting as well as ensuring that FI/CO processes and procedures are adhered to by GAAP principles.
• Hands on experience in testing FI/CO configuration: Regression Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Stress Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong understanding of the business processes, technology, project planning, and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, good team player, objective oriented and able to communicate to all organizational levels. .
• Develop necessary specifications and modifications to meet and exceed customer requirements and objectives.
• Experienced in Solution Manager, HP/Mercury Quality Center, Microsoft Visio and UPerform etc

SAP SKILLS: 

FI Configuration Experience

• FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business areas, and functional areas.
• General Ledger: GL & New GL, Account groups, master records, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company postings, sales/purchase tax assignment, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Financial Statement Versions.
• FI-AP/AR: Customer Configuring and Customizing vendor/ customer master data, account groups, ERS based invoices, Logistic invoice verification (LIV),terms of payment, tolerances groups, invoice, payment configuration, dunning, interest calculation, check management
• Asset Management: Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, retirement
• Financial Statements: Worked on multiple financial statement versions.
• Bank Accounting: House Banks, bank accounts, check lots, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, and Automatic Payment Program.
• Worked extensively on integration of FI with SAP MM, SD and PS modules.
• SAP Solutions using standard configuration as well as working with ABAP programmers
• Worked with ABAP team for developing customer specific reports and other RICEFs etc.

CO Configuration Experience

• General Controlling – Configuring controlling areas, cost center hierarchy, nodes as required in the blue print
• Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting: Configuring and customizing the cost elements/cost centers, costing sheets, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy, activity types, statistical key figures, assessments, distributions
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, Planning and development of Reports
• Internal Orders: Designed and Configured Order Types, Number Ranges, Settlement Profile, Allocation Structures, Month End Closing activities and Cost flow etc
• Profitability Analysis (COPA): Configuring and Customizing the operating concern, characteristics, value fields, maintaining the derivation rules and structures, maintaining derivation tables, planning versions, planning layouts, planning profiles, creating Drilldown Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Auburn, IN
Jan 2011- Till to date
Role: Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in ECC6 New GL project with Document Splitting, Creation of Design template, Configuration, Implementation and Testing.
• Production Support FI/CO
• Worked on End to End plan, scheduling and configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Account Receivable.
• Defined leading and non leading ledgers, defined different segments for segment reporting
• Configured document splitting characteristics for finance and controlling both,
• Classified G/L accounts for document splitting.
• Defined and assigned different accounting principles to ledger groups
• Worked on special purpose ledger for the quarterly reporting.
• Worked on Info Pack to create Training materials and successfully trained Users.
• Worked on importing data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
• Creation of Files with Test Data from the Conversion
• Created Company codes, Operating Chart of accounts, Country chart of accounts, Financial Statement Versions
• Created G/L accounts, customer master data, Vendor Master data, House banks
• Configured Automatic Payment Program, Configured payment terms, Employee tolerance, Vendor tolerance, Customer tolerance.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, complete design, configuration and GL, AP, AR, AA integration with Project System, Internal Orders, Plant Maintenance, configuration of some part of controlling.
• Configured Automatic Payment for Account Payables, configured Vendor/Customer Master Data, Payment Terms, and also configured different payment methods - ACH payments, Wire Transfer, and checks.
• Worked on Order to Cash Process, performed AR-SD integration: Worked with SD team to configure condition type, pricing procedure. Automatic account assignment of revenues through VKOA.
• Worked with ABAP people to create different z-reports.
• Worked on different treasury processes for different countries in North America and Europe for corporate treasury.
• Configured Depreciation areas, Defined Asset Classes, created Screen layout rules, created financial statement version for Asset Reports.
• Configured Integration of Assets with General Ledger, Created different type of Depreciation terms, created Screen layout for depreciation areas, created depreciation area for different currencies, Special depreciation.
• Defined and configured different depreciation keys declining-Balance method, Multi-level Methods, Period Control methods.
• Configured Screen layout for Asset Master Data, created asset classes for Group Assets, created Allocation structures and settlement profiles.
• Defined Validation and Substitution rules for different scenarios in Asset accounting. Developed technical specification document for ABAP people as per the business requirement.
• Created all Training materials, BPPs and power points to train employees.
• System modifications, communicated project status to management, and assisted users during training.

Confidential, Northridge, CA
May 2009- Dec2010
Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated studying existing business process and deciding to be process to map it in SAP system.
• Involved in analyzing and gathering business requirements. Involved in preparation of business requirement document and functional design document.
• Worked on New General Ledger Configuration as well
• Defined leading and non leading ledgers, defined different segments for segment reporting
• Classified G/L accounts for document splitting
• Created customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment and assigned credit control area to the company code.
• Worked on special purpose ledger for the Intercompany process.
• Define multiple payment method for ACH, Wire Transfer, checks and for foreign currency.
• Creation of House banks and payment methods, for new vendor master data.
• Set up the Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Provided production support to custom master data by maintaining customer MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) data and maintained bank key, bank account, alternative payer, and assigned lockbox number to certain customer master records.
• Worked on Fixed Asset Depreciation and Intercompany Revenues, Payables and Receivables, Balance Sheets and income statements and Retained Earnings accounts.
• Worked with SD and MM teams for all Intercompany related Billing and Invoicing
• Worked with Master Data team to manage “Trading Partner” field for Customer and Vendor Company Codes etc.
• Define validation Rules to validate that Trading Partner field is captured in all Intercompany transactions
• Standardized and organized the report structure, developed the reports as per the user requirement.
• Provided supports to BI team regarding the sources of reports, tables names, fields and characteristics constantly throughout the report automation project.
• Prepared Business Blue Print, Process Work Flow Documents, Configuration Rationale Documents, Test Scripts etc., and upload them in Solution Manager.
• Performed User-Acceptance Test for the same reports in the QA environment.
• Assisted in the creation of end user training documents, writing curriculum for training purpose, configuration details.
• Conducted one on one key user training.
• Conducted in-class/group training sessions for end users.

Confidential, Houston, TX
April 08 - April 09 
Role: Sr. SAP R/3 FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on New General Ledger and Profit Center Accounting with reduced total cost of ownership (Faster Close etc.)
• Also worked on System configuration (activating the new general ledger, defining segments, assigning scenarios, defining customer-specific fields)
• Configured Leading & Non Leading Ledgers: Assigned Scenarios To Ledgers, Assigned accounting principles, Created Ledger Groups
• Involved in configuring Document Splitting
• Classified Document Types for Document Splitting
• Classify G/L accounts for Document splitting
• Worked on Integration with Financial Accounting subsidiary ledgers and with Controlling (real-time integration of Controlling into Financial Accounting)
• Developed design specification for system enhancements, reports and interfaces
• Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys, required asset classes, number ranges, and revaluation settings.
• Created new asset classes, documented the configuration process, tested new asset class by creating new assets. Designed test plans and testing scenarios and tested the same in Development client and had the user test the same in QA.
• Worked on importing data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
• Defined validation and substitution rules for different scenarios in Asset accounting.
• Configured Asset financial statement version, Configured asset sub numbers and group asset and Defined Organizational Structure required for Fixed Assets.
• Successfully completed capitalization of assets of through integration between Project Systems and Assets accounting modules.
• Responsible for creating Asset balance list and asset master record.
• Configured the system to post the Acquisitions and Scrapping.
• Configured the system for creating, posting and settling an asset under construction
• Define document types for real time updates
• Configured Automatic payments for Account Payable and dunning for Account Receivable and settings for Outgoing/Incoming payments including Automatic Payment Program, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, payment media, interest calculation, Credit management, running/editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices, carrying forward.
• Worked on MM FI (OBYC) and SD FI (VKOA) integration.
• Coordinated the integration efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations & revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD.
• Defined Credit control area, risk categories and specified credit limits for customers and generated various reports for customer credit management.
• Created Purchase Requisitions and Purchase orders.
• Worked on different kinds of purchase orders according to the client requirements
• Interacted with different banks on deciding the destination and origin as being the part of lockbox files formatting that will equivalence the standard SAP environment.
• Defined Adjustment Accounts for GR/IR & worked on GR/IR mismatch issues
• Defined Ranking Order, Bank Accounts, Available Amounts, Value Date & House Banks
• Resolved various issues related to Partial payments and deductions created in A/R
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks, Automatic Payment program, optimizing bank by bank group for wire payments, check lots and void reason codes, clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items
• Worked with report painter/writer for creating multiple reports. Also worked upon documenting business process requirements.
• Continuously interacted with the accounting department while creating necessary primary and secondary cost elements to ensure that all the relevant cost data gets captured
• Configured costing sheet in consultation with the cost center manager to enable them to plan irregular costs
• Assigned cost center to the standard hierarchy, configured cost center categories with appropriate block indicators for plan and actual data
• Interacted with the accounting department to identify the scenarios for assessments and distributions
• Configured the assessment and distribution cycle as per requirements
• Designed CO-PA based on costing based approach
• Analyzed the client requirement for profitability reporting and configured the characteristics and value fields accordingly
• Created derivation rules for characteristics and configured CO-PA planning
• Configured Controlling modules including Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting
• In PCA, designed and configured the hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of Profit center Accounting.
• Created Internal Orders for various project implementations, assigned the costs incurred by internal orders from different cost centers, distributed the costs incurred by Internal Orders to the respective cost centers

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI Oct 2006 - March 2008

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in all phases in the life cycle implementation of the project.
• Reviewed and evaluated the business blue-print to identify the requirements.
• Involved extensively in the configuration of company code, sales and use tax, chart of accounts, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling Area, CCA, and PCA.
• Analyzed and Configured account groups, field status group, posting keys, document types, and number ranges in GL.
• Configured special purpose ledger for US GAAP, and statutory reporting.
• Created Customers and Vendors Account Groups with screen layout.
• Configured Automatic payments for Account Payable and dunning for Account Receivable and settings for Outgoing/Incoming payments including Automatic Payment Program, exchange rate differences, payment advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, interest calculation, Credit management, running/editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices, carrying forward.
• Created new asset classes, documented the configuration process, tested new asset class by creating new assets. Designed test plans and testing scenarios and tested the same in Development client and had the user test the same in QA.
• Assigned G/L account to asset classes, Screen layout for master data, depreciation Areas and number range.
• Created validation rules at asset master data level to allow business user to choose equipment types which are only valid to the combination of a given company code and asset class.
• Created a custom table for the maintenance of asset master record validation and substitution.
• Actively participated in the configuration of controlling areas, CEA, CCA, and PCA.
• Defined primary and secondary cost element as per the client’s requirement.
• Created cost center and profit center hierarchy.
• Performed integration of profit center with FI, MM, and SD through material master assignment, and sales order substitution.
• Configured and tested assessment, distribution cycle in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configured Cost Component structure as per the business requirement.
• Used reporting tools report painter to create forms as per the client’s requirement for managerial reporting.
• Provided production support as well as enhancement support to the IT and different business user groups in Finance and controlling area.

Confidential, Birmingham, Al, US 
May 2005- Sept 2006
Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on G/L Master Data, Creation of New G/L Accounts.
• Responsible for setting up new Account Groups, Number Ranges(External), Posting Keys, Document Types(for External No. Range Specific), Posting Period, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.
• Worked on Asset Master Data and Created new Asset Groups with new part numbers.
• Configured the program for Accrual and their Auto Reversal.
• Created various FICO reports using Report Painter.
• Responsible for Documentation (BPPs) and User Manuals.
• Provided training to Super Users.
• Extensively worked on Customer/Vendor Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms & Methods.
• Worked with ABAP programmers to resolve and fine-tune processing/clearing of multiple checks and invoices.
• Provided training to the users and core team members.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA
May 2003 – April 2005
Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured the organizational structure of FI/CO which includes company code, chart of accounts, assigned COA to company code, fiscal year variant, open/close posting period, account determination.
• Configured the settings in GL area, cross-company code transactions, and open item clearing.
• Configured settings for FI like additional currencies, posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Configured tolerance groups for employees, Vendors, Customers, Fiscal year variant, posting Period Variant, Field status variant and Field status groups.
• Created vendor master, customer master, account groups, planning and specified number range and screens layout.
• Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.
• Configured for vendor/customer who is also customer/vendor who is trading partner.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program, determination of payment methods and bank determination for payment transactions.
• Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit management, closing operations, sales order and integration with SD.
• Configured invoice verification and other application consultants for FI/CO and non-FI/CO issues.
• Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting: Configuring and customizing the cost elements/cost centers, costing sheet, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy, activity types, statistical key figures, assessments, and distributions.
• Involved in FI-CO module integration with SD and MM.
• Involved in project plan update and team meetings for co-ordination of work in blue print, realization, testing, training and Go live activities.
• Involved in the design, configuration, training testing and Go Live.

Confidential.
Jan 2001 – April 2003 
Role: Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the controller in preparation of financial statements.
• Reviewed work of staff accountants and approved journal transactions for data entry.
• Assisted with corporate budget in preparation, maintenance, and projections
• Prepared monthly internal budget and actual reports of operating and working capital for distribution to management
• Assisted with monthly closing and financial reporting.
• Supervised ten staff accountants; managed accounts, cash, fixed assets, and payroll functions.
• Prepared monthly and quarterly accounting and employee benefits reports.
• Prepared monthly manufacturing accounting report.
• Maintained extensive communication with operations and finance senior management and staff.

Education:Master of Business Administration