Overall 8+ years in the areas of Finance and SAP Process Engineering, rollout and Production Coordination, Proficient in managing a wide range of ASAP Methodology viz. Documentation, Scoping, Costing, Gap Analysis, Application Development & Testing, Post Implementation Support and end-user training. Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical, troubleshooting, negotiation and team building skills and abilities in planning and managing resources.

Summary

• Expertise in giving the Business/ Stakeholders the direction to make an educated decision on the Process design with recommendations.
• Expertise in FULL LIFE CYCLE implementation, involving Blueprints-Realization-Final preparation, AS IS and TO BE systems.
• Extensive Experience working on ECC 6.0, 4.7, 4.6 Versions.
• Good experience in configuring G/L, House Banks, Automatic Payment Programs, Configuration of Payment medium workbench.
• Expertise in different areas of General Ledger Accounting FI-GL, Accounts Payable FI-AP, Inter Company Settings, Accounts Receivable FI-AR and Asset Accounting FI-AA and also Real Estate Module.
• Experience in configuring Automatic payment program for various company codes, designing payment medium work bench for various banks.
• Configuration Electronic bank statement for various banks in MT940 format for European countries.
• Experience in Controlling includes Cost Centers Accounting CO-CCA, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, IO.
• Good experience in transferring legacy master data using LSMW.
• Thorough understanding of SAP FI and CO and related support & maintenance functions as well as the integration with SD and MM modules
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with clients, and other team members, in a diverse matrix environments
• Understanding and implementation of ABAP queries.
• Experience in designing Functional Specification documents for development of various requirements such as conversions, interfaces, custom dialog transactions and smart forms in conjunction with technical support.
• Designed SAP training and project documentation including curriculum, training plan, and summary.

SAP SKILLS: 

Financial Accounting 

• General Ledger: Configuring and Customizing G/L account master records, chart of accounts, field status groups, automatic account determination, account posting, G/L display configuration, foreign currency valuation, travel management
• Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables: Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master data, account groups, payment program configuration, dispute management, interest calculation, tolerances groups, integration with MM and SD, foreign currency open item revaluation.
• Bank Accounting: House Bank, Bank statement processing
• Asset Management: Chart of depreciation configuration, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, screen layout and depreciation keys
• Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting: Configuring and customizing the cost elements/cost centers, standard hierarchy, activity types, statistical key figures, assessments, and distributions. Handled the change of cost center hierarchy
• 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.

Professional Work Experience

Client: Confidential, Portland, OR Jul’11 – Till date

SAP FICO consultant

Environment: ECC 6

Nike is a major publicly traded clothing, footwear, sportswear, and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered nearBeaverton, Oregon, in thePortland metropolitan area. It is the world\'s leading supplier ofathletic shoesand appareland a major manufacturer ofsports equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Support to the existing SAP in the areas of GL, AP, AR, Intercompany billing and MM integration with FI.
• Involved with the automatic payment program setup.
• Configured treasury module for Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal
• Coordinating the team for timely deliverables.
• Involved in blueprint design/ development/ implementation/go live and support for FICO module. Participated in requirement gathering & preparing functional specifications reports.
• Gathering the information based on the identified Custom Processes & Interfaces based on the Customer Requirement Document relating to FI functionalities.
• Configure FI module in the areas of GL, AP, integration of MM and work related there with.
• Involved with lock box setting up for accounts receivable.
• Configured House Banks, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Automatic Payment Methods, Dunning program configuration, involved with the design of bank interface for automatic payments to vendors etc.
• Intercompany setting in AP/AR
• Bank master record set up and configuring the electronic bank statement etc.
• Involved the Cash Journal (CJ) set up:-Creation of GL a/c for cash journal, Defining the cash journal document types, creating cash journal number ranges, cash journal standard business transactions, cash journal set up etc.
• Uploading master and transaction data.
• Coordinating the team activities to meet the deliverables.
• Participated in requirement gathering & preparing functional specifications.
• Involved in configuration of Accounts Payable and related open item management for the client.

Client: Confidential, Peoria, IL Sep’09 to Jun’11

SAP R/3 – FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.7

Caterpillar is a world\'s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. Caterpillar has been building the world\'s infrastructure and, in partnership with its worldwide dealer network, is driving positive and sustainable change on every continent. 

Responsibilities:

• Regularly Interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications
• Defined the Use cases, process flows for the business requirements
• Developed the FICO configurations and designed the documentations
• Configured system settings for Chart of Accounts, New GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets including the payment run program, automatic check payment and Lock Box
• Made necessary setting for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client
• Preparing the test cases for inbound and out bound scenarios.
• Executing the test cases for new developments.
• Designed function specification (FS) documents: - Country specific FS which relates to moving due date to next working day if the due date falls on public holiday / weekends, workflow related FS etc.
• Working with the quality center (QC) experience in executing the test cases.
• Specified testing requirements, planned tests, executed tests, and tracked defects with Quality Center
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents and training documents
• Was responsible for user acceptance (UAT) of custom ABAP program from a functional point of view.
• Resolved issues/problems arising out of the end user testing.

Client: Confidential, IA Jul’08 – Aug’09

SAP R/3 - FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.7

Eli Lilly is a leading innovation pharmaceutical Company. Eli Lilly head quartered in Indianapolis and had sales of $10 billion in 1999. The Global Business Integration Project (GBIP) implements common global business processes across Human Resources, Financial, Project Management and Supply Chain Management. 

Responsibilities:

• Helped in Finalizing Business Organization Structure and mapping Business Processes
• Involved in Rollout project for various countries.
• Worked on the GL Accounting module, which involved activities such as configuration of Chart of Accounts, Tax procedures, open Item Management.
• Involved with Foreign currency configuration and revaluation for month-end processing
• Created Test Cases and Test Data creation for Unit Testing of configurations and programs created as per specifications.
• Created payment terms for AP transactions
• Configured Automatic Payment Program (FBZP), for checks, ACH and wire transfer
• Configured (FBKP) Special G/L transactions such as Down payments and Bills Receivable
• Tested the generation of reports with respect to account statements, open item analysis, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss account statements
• Work in Controlling Module includes creation of Activity types, Cost elements, Cost centers and Statistical key figures SKF.
• Was involved in creation of specifications for technical developers
• Handled critical Production Support Issues promptly.

Client: Confidential, IL Nov’06 – Jun’08

SAP R/3 - FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6C

Sara Lee Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of high quality, brand name products such as Bakery Products, Desserts, Sausages, Pork, Bacon, Turkey, Cakes, Breadsticks, for consumers throughout the world and its main products are Bakery Products, Desserts, Sausages, Pork, Bacon, Turkey, Cakes, Breadsticks, Chocolates, Corned Beef, Meatball Snacks, Smoked Sausages, Muffins, and Pastries 

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included support and maintenance of FI & CO modules
• Prepared documentation on GL, AP, AR and Asset Management for month end and year end closing activities.
• Provided Post Go Live Support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users
• Designed function specification documents
• Specified testing requirements, planned tests, executed tests, and tracked defects with Mercury Quality Center
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents and training documents
• Was responsible for user acceptance (UAT) of custom ABAP program from a functional point of view
• Resolved issues/problems arising out of the end user testing

Functional Experience:

Confidential July’04 – Sep’06

Accounts executive

Confidential is the pioneer in the design, development and manufacture of specialized batteries and Electronic systems in India.

Responsibilities:

• Managed the overall accounting activities including preparation of Cash/ Bank Book, General Ledger and ensuring bank reconciliation
• Prepared balance sheet, profit and loss statement and other reports to summarize current and projected company financial position
• Consolidated monthly financial results for a business or division consistent with group or division
• Supervision of payroll functions.
• Fund flow statement, Cash Flow Statement and ratio analysis.
• Preparation of Bank Reconciliation statement on monthly basis.

Additional Information

TRAINING IMPARTED:
Imparted Training on following topics such as:

• Basic SAP introduction
• GL/AP/AR/FA sub-modules
• SAP Real Estate module
• SAP Interfaces
• Cost Center Accounting/ Internal Orders sub-modules
• Forex Revaluation in SAP.
• Year-End closing procedure in SAP.

Software Skills: 
ERP Packages : SAP R/3 FI/CO 
Operating System : Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, MS DOS 
Packages : MS-Office, MS-Word, MS Excel