OVERVIEW

• Over 7 years of experience in SAP configuration, design and implementation.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in SAP FI/CO implementation encompassing seven projectswhich are full implementation cycles from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live, upgrade and support projects
• Four End to End implementations in SAP FICO AP, AR and GL. 2 Implementations in SAP New G/L: Document Splitting, Ledger Solution and Multiple Scenarios.
• 3+ Implementations in Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Elements accounting. Two SAP Project Systems implementations (integration with contracts and orders).
• Three End to End COPA – Profitability Analysis implementations.
• Two product costing implementation make to stock and repetitive manufacturing processes. Three End to End OTC – Order to Cash (SAP FICO – SD Integration) implementations with complex billing and invoicing and resource related billing solutions, Revenue Recognition, Pricing procedure, Intercompany sales and STO, Credit Management.
• Two End to End PTP – Procure to Pay (SAP FICO – MM Integration) implementations with LIV, ERS, consignment business processes.
• TwoSales and Use taximplementation (for US and Canada – GST and PST). 2 Implementations in SAP Fixed Assets / Asset Management module
• Two full upgrade projects up to ECC 6.0. Efficient use of Report painter, Report writer and LSMW. Accurate and reliable Period end closing, foreign currency valuation. One Closing Cockpit implementation. Extensive working experience across various industries like Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Gas and Energy, Utility, Manufacturing and Retailing.
• Expert in customization of SAP ERP ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.7 & 4.6c versions in FI-CO modules.
• Responsible, detail oriented with strong technical, analytical, problem solving skills.
• Performed FI testing (FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, FI-GL, New Gl, CO-CCA., CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-OCA). Experienced System configuration in SAP Controlling modules costing & allocations, internal orders, management reporting, product cost controlling (CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-CCA, CO-IO).
• Excellent analytical, quick learning and problem solving skills with a desire to work in a team oriented environment .A team player with excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in External Reporting and preparation of Financial Statements with good understanding of GAAP.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents. Adept in various financial processes including Auditing, Assurance, Accounting processes, Financial statements, Fund Flow Management, Reporting, Consolidation and analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.
• Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor\'s management, including credit control.

SAP FICO Skills.
Financial Accounting – Company code, Business area, Document control, Fiscal year maintenance. Field status Group, Finalization of Chart of Accounts, foreign currency, Tolerance groups for GL, GL Master, Park document, Hold document Recurring entries.
Accounts Payable - Vendor master data configuration, Tolerance group, Automatic Payment Program, Invoice, Credit memo, Check management, Down payment, Integration with MM module.
Accounts Receivable – Customer master data configuration, Terms of payment, Open item management, Dunning, Invoice, Credit memo, Down payment, Interest calculation, Integration with SD module.
Asset Accounting – Asset master data, Organization structure, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation area and key, linking with GL Valuation Methods, Depreciation key, Depreciation Run, asset acquisition, write-off, Information system.
Cost Element Accounting – Cost element group, assignment of cost elements to group, Actual postings, Information System.
Cost Center Accounting – Cost center hierarchy, Actual Postings, Periodic Reposting, Distribution, Assessment, Information System.
Internal Orders – Order types, Creation, Expense booking, Status management, Settlement, Planning, Actual Postings, Year-end closing, Information System.
Profit Center accounting – Creation of Profit Centre, Maintain automatic account assignment of revenue element, Choose additional B/S & P&L A/C –Account groups

SKILL SETS

• ERPs: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.5b/4.6C / 4.7 , SAP Solution manager 4.0, SAP Web Application Server 6.40.
• SAP Technology: ABAP/4 Workbench, Data Dictionary, Interfaces, Conversions, Exits, BAPI, BAdIs, EDI/ALE, RFC and IDOCs, C,C++,JAVA.
• SERVERS: SAP (NetWeaver 2004s/2004, WAS 6.x, ITS 6.x) , J2EE Engine on WAS640/WAS700.
• DATABASES: Oracle 7.x/ 8.x/ 9i/10g, MS SQL Server 2000 SP04, MaxDB, DB2 UDB.
• HARDWARE: IBM RS6000, Compaq Alpha Server 4100/ ES40, IBM Netfinity, HP 9000, Sun.
• OPERATING SYSTEMS: HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/ 2000/ 2003.

EDUCATION : BS in Accounting

Professional Experience

Confidential,Deerfield, IL May 11 – Apr12
SAP FICO Functional consultant

Confidential,is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, and operates in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors. For more than 160 years, Siemens has built a reputation for leading-edge innovation and the quality of its products, services and solutions.

• Conducting and Coordinating Business Blue print workshops for understanding client requirements.
• Understanding the business scenario in the Q/A database and generate issue log to track issues in the following areas
• General Ledger/ Chart of Accounts
• Grants Management/ Accounts Receivable
• Endowment and Other Restricted Funds
• Asset Accounting – Equipment and building
• Accounts Payable
• Preparation of business blue print deliveries. The task involved identification of data conversions required, interfaces needed.
• Collaborative work with the key users in the documentation of “As-is process”.
• Performed data validation and account determination for mapping of the processes on to the SAP R/3 system.
• Gap analysis with realization of open issues and design of best fit functionalities.
• Educating the client on FI and CO Master and transaction data information with Intercompany processing details.
• Testing of full order to cash and procure to pay process. Have good experience in writing functional specification for generating new reports to ABAP programmers.
• Successful Implementation of FI (GL, AR, AP) and CO settings on the development server and ultimate transportation on to the testing and production servers.
• Configured ERP structure and Financial Accounting global settings: key settings being company code, Business area, fiscal year variants, field status variant, open and close posting periods, document types and document number ranges and validations.
• Credit management settings: key being credit control area and risk categories.
• Implementation and maintenance of FI-AR, FI-AP master data of customers and vendors with open item processing.
• Configuration of interest calculation. Worked extensively on generating standard Sales report in Accounts receivable-MB55 GR/IR balances. Consistently worked on the IDOC interfaces along with ALE.
• Configuration of Bank accounting, Asset accounting, Cost and Profit center accounting.
• I was also responsible for the design, configuration and implementation of all CO sub-modules - CO-PC, CO-IO, CO-CCA, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing.
• Prepared, documented and maintained all documentation and processes for end users. Provided SAP training for (CO-CCA, CO-PC, CO-IO, CO-PA)
• Conversion of year dependent periods to normal calendar month periods. I was involved in Period end and Year end closing activities. Assist in month-end closing process. Work with various departments to identify assets to be capitalized, retired or have their lives accelerated or decelerated. Perform depreciation function on a monthly basis. Responsible for maintaining the SAP project system for Capital Projects. Prepares the Roll forward for Asset retirement obligations.
• Coordinate with various departments to determine monthly Capital and Depreciation accruals. Perform General Ledger Expense analysis. Provide support for various departments as necessary (ie: Running queries, reports, research, etc.).
• Prepare monthly & quarterly general ledger account reconciliations. Prepare schedules and provide support to our external auditors.
• Preparation of LSMW data upload templates, testing and performing data upload. GL balances both cumulative and line item balances including vendor, customer and asset master data were loaded via LSMW technique.

Environment: SAP-R/3 Version: ECC 6.0, EHP 4

Confidential, Texas Sep 10 – Apr 11
SAP FICO Functional consultant
Ericsson is the world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and services to mobile and fixed network operators. Over 1000 networks in more than 180 countries use this network equipment , and more than 40 percent of world\'s mobile traffic passes through Ericsson networks.

Responsibilities

• Configured SAP financials (FI/CO) and SAP Asset management.
• Process re-engineering and change management. Worked on gathering business requirements worldwide, which include trips to Asia and Europe to validate the findings. Also responsible for heading up the definition of the client’s business processes, re-engineering said processes and implementing AP (FI-AP, FI-BL & MM-LIV) worldwide. This included the following:
• Responsible for facilitating the gathering of requirements specific to Accounts Payable from 34 sites in 20 countries (which included 13 different stand-alone legacy systems).
• Responsible for training team members on, and for facilitating the creation of global business process flows related to Accounts payable; which includes FI-AP and MM-LIV invoice entry, exception handling and the payment program.
• Configuration of Bank accounting. Responsible for creation of house banks and configuring the Payment Program with the related Bank Accounting Sub module Transactions in order to outsource payment execution to Bank of America for said countries. This included:
• Configuration and training of team members to facilitate configuration for 34 sites worldwide. This included an analysis of the current banking structure and interfacing with the Bank responsible for the ‘single source’ data transfer approach. Configured the payment program itself, including up to 6 different payment methods for each country.
• Acted as a liaison with BOA to clarify the requirements from both the client and banking sides.
• House bank creation including the usage of EDI related fields required for the creation of IDOC (which were the means of transmitting the data to the bank via FTP). Creation and usage of bank chains for both Vendors and House Banks. Documented and trained team members on the usage of bank details for 43 different countries to enable the client to pay said vendors via wire.
• Maintenance and creation of vendor master data including the setting up of tolerance limits for employees. Defining and setting payment blocks
• Assisted the Vendor Master Team with cleanup and validation of bank details for over 7,000 vendors paid via wire worldwide.
• Worked with the Treasury consultant on interfacing the needs of the Treasury department with those of the Accounts Payable Departments worldwide.
• Data Conversion for devising and implementing the approach used in loading both AP open items and GL balances into SAP.
• Analyzed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.
• Review invoices for proper asset account coding. Review and research ‘Revised/Unposted’ to ensure all invoices and entries have the correct asset number.
• Set-up assets based upon requests received. Issue and track number logs.
• Run Asset Creation Process and investigate and clean-up items as appropriate.
• Process asset transfers and disposals. Maintain assets in the system to ensure integrity of data and codes. Run monthly depreciation on all assets.
• In addition, I was responsible for co-managing the AP portion of the project, which included creating the scope document, the project plan (which included a projecting a go-live date) and the scope document.
• Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support of the US region. This includes interfacing with the Accounts Payable and Purchasing departments to implement temporary business processes to manage the transfer of unconverted legacy data into SAP.
• Conducted Post-Go Live support integrated workshops for the Accounts Payable department to educate on the integrated aspects of the two modules which included GR/IR maintenance, Blocking Codes and Framework Order Management.

Environment: SAP-R/3 Version: ECC 6.0, EHP 4.

Confidential,Linden, NJ Jun 09 – Aug 10
SAP FICO Functional consultant

Confidential, is a world leader in the formulation, manufacturing and marketing of petroleum additives for lubricants and fuels. Established in January 1999, Infineum is a joint venture of two of the most venerable names in lubricants and fuels, ExxonMobil and Shell. We number among our customers many of the world’s most recognized consumer brands.

Responsibilities

• Customizing and Configuring Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings, Document Types, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Reversals, Invoices and Payments, Defining Account assignment models.
• Setting up credit master data of customers. Configured credit management. Set up account assignment for different order types and pricing conditions.
• Defined risk categories, processing incoming payments & applying it to account, with types (full, partial or residual).
• Maintained accounting clerks and generate account statements and other periodic correspondence. Defined payment terms and interest calculation.
• Defined employee and customer tolerance groups Configuration of Bills of Exchange and down payment process. Created primary and secondary cost elements and cost element groups.
• Configured Tolerance limits for customers and managed A/R reconciliation account for sub-ledgers for customers.
• Imparted User-training on FI-GL, AR and AP processes.
• Accountable to the organization for the development and organization of all the matters related to FI (G/L, A/P, A/R, AM) and CO end users, including creation, editing and maintenance of documentation. (R/3 v2.2).
• Development of Document Management Plan; including tracking database, policies, procedures and ISO 9000 requirements for the maintenance of training documentation.
• Assisting Project Leader in management of internal and external matters related to global SAP implementation.
• Accountable for all tasks related to the creation and maintenance of training materials. Also accountable for the delegation and completion of all tasks relating to training materials.
• Prepared and coached functional team members in the instruction of SAP material.
• Retrieved SAP authorization objects to assist in the development of security profiles.
• Revised methodology pertaining to the final phase of end user training program.

Environment: SAP-R/3 Version: ECC 6.0, EHP 3.

Confidential,MO Dec 08– May 09
SAP FICO Functional consultant

Solae is the world leader in developing soybased technologies and ingredients enjoyed by consumers around the world in products such as baked goods, beverages, nutrition bars, meats, vegetarian meals and much more. Since Solae\'s inception more than 50 years ago, Solae has dedicated itself to soy research and product development, providing innovative solutions to enhance the nutritional, functional and economical benefits of soy food products.

Responsibilities

• Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, and exchange rate losses and then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations.
• Customized and implemented the revenue recognition , including the customization for FI accounts for unbilled and deferred revenue.
• Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing.
• Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing. Configured Lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format.
• Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts. Maintained the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability control
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions. Defining Settlement Rules and creating Selection Variants.
• Created documentation for the Fixed Assets module for the client from scratch. Worked on testing the new Fiscal Year Variant and its impact on Fixed Assets. Fixed Production support issues related to Fixed Assets.
• Involved in solving Depreciation key related issues. Built good interaction with technical people when working on Enhancements.
• Configuring all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration to generate the Payment Advice notes and to print the checks to make the payment for all Account Payable that are due, clearing of vendor and customer accounts that are due Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for payment Program, and Credit Management.
• Creation of Tolerance groups for GR/IR clearing. Revise and delete Terms of Payment.
• Created Chart of Accounts, Asset Classes, Master Data, Valuation, Asset types, Allocations of number ranges and transfers of legacy data in Asset Management Module.
• Defined Depreciation areas, Depreciation terms, and periodic processing. Configuring Account Determinations, Depreciation Keys and Number Ranges for Asset Classes. Configuring Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions, Retirements and Inter-company transfers.

Environment: SAP-R/3 Version: ECC 6.0, EHP 3