SUMMARY

• More than 20 years of professional experience as a financial accounting professional with more than 10 years as SAP FICO professional, in Food & Beverage, Chemical, Automotive and Mechanical Engineering industries implementing SAP Finance GL/AP/AR, Asset Accounting, Financial Supply Chain management, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis.
• Accounting, Budgeting and Taxation and Auditing Experience of 4 years including 2 years a CPA practice firms.
• 3 years of extensive Confidential FICO experience including through understanding of Confidential legacy and SAP landscape, change control and transport process, Solution Manager and HP ALM.
• Multiple End - to-End implementations and various enhancements, global rollout and support projects. S4 HANA technical upgrade and migration for distributed architecture with SAP Landscape Transformation. FIORI Portal UX customization and roles and authorization. Currently pursuing SAP S/4 HANA certification with hands on learning on SAP S/4 HANA On-premise 1610 version
• Hands on implementation experience on configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Credit Management, Collection Management, and Dispute Management (FSCM).
• Hands on experience on configuration of Cost Element, Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Orders, Activity Based Costing, Product Cost Controlling (Standard Cost and Variance calculations for actuals), Material Ledger, Profitability Analysis and Profit Centre Accounting.
• Hands on experience on configuration and extensive working experience in NEW GL with Ledger Groups, Ledgers (leading/non-leading), Parallel Accounting, Foreign Currency Valuation, Segments and Document splitting.
• Hands on implementation experience on Blue printing, Prototyping and Configuration of period end close tools such as Schedule Manager and upgraded Fast Closing Cockpit V 2.0. Provided end-to-end SAP solution integration through IDOC and RFC for SPLIT Architecture . Experience with ARIS, QTP and other tools.
• Provided consulting expertise on Product Costing for Standard Cost Budgets, Variance calculations for Actuals, Material Ledger and Multilevel Price Determination and Activity Based Costing with drivers.Master Data Repository Maintenance and Management for multi-client environment and split architecture vide LSMW and Batch Input Sessions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP ECC 6.0, Simple Finance 2.0,S4 HANA 1610 FICO AP, AR, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-ML, BW PP and PM, SD, LE, ABAP/4 and HR.
• B W, Report Painter and SAP ABAP Query.
• EDI, ALE, IDOC, Portals SAP PPM, Solution Manager, MS Project ACTIVATE HANA, ASAP, AGILE SCRUM Service Now, Remedy, HP Service Manager ChaRM, SOLMAN, ClearCase, DOORS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Asset Accounting Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As SAP FI/CO consultant implementing and supporting Internal Orders, Budgeting and Asset Management for company codes for US, Brazil, Mexico, India and China
• Through understanding of Confidential legacy and SAP landscape including PAG, PA2, PAA and PRT, Solution Manager
• Thorough understanding of Confidential change control processes and transport management process
• Implementing re-alignment of net book value and change of depreciation keys for five company codes in India.
• Supporting fixed assets integration to GL, special purpose ledgers, investment measures, budgeting and cost accounting.
• Loaded asset master required data elements, created asset classes, depreciation areas and depreciation keys required for plant and corporate assets.
• Created new depreciation keys to meet tax law requirements for onetime bonus depreciation and luxury autos depreciation rules.
• Mapped GL accounts to be used for depreciation, accumulated depreciation, reserves.
• Designed global asset acquisition process starting from procurement, investment orders, down payments, accounts payable, asset under construction to final asset.
• Performing mass retirements, write-ups, changes in useful life, and changes in depreciation keys.
• Supporting dual company code design for asset management and special ledgers.
• Maintaining and supporting configuration with integration to GL, Special Purpose Ledger and BPC for consolidations.
• Supporting Mirror Tool custom solution for master data and transactions data with special purpose ledgers.
• Resolved issues related to internal orders, asset settlements, asset transfers, month-end & year-end close.
• Implemented Insurance values and replacement values for assets.
• Prepared Training materials and conducting training sessions for end users and super users.
• Helped training team to create simulations and transactional help documents.

Confidential, Crystal Lake, IL

SAP FICO Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a FI/CO lead consultant of Oxford Global Resources has implemented nine US plants in 2 years.
• Implemented Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, IO, Cost Planning & Product Costing, Cost Object Controlling, CO-PA, and Material Ledger, AP, AR with complete integration to New GL, SPL, HFM & BI in multi-currency environment.
• Mapped AS-IS and To-Be, used ARIS for business requirements gathering and generating Blue Prints.
• Designed Asset Master required data elements, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas and Depreciation Keys required for plant and corporate assets.
• Created New Depreciation keys to meet New US Tax Law requirement for One Time Bonus Depreciation on assets.
• Mapped GL accounts to be used for Depreciation, Accumulated Depreciation, Reserves.
• Created Revaluation Indexes, replacing Old Revaluation Indexes in Asset Master with the New Replacement Indexes, assisting Developers to write BDC Programs to change Acquisition Value and Revaluation Value in Replacement Depreciation Area and Program for Calculating Replacement Value Based on New Indexes.
• Handled change of Depreciation Methods for Assets through Transfer of Old Assets to New Assets and assisting developers to develop programs for Automating Transfer of Assets/ Deactivation of Old Assets
• Implemented capital investment orders for assets under construction (AUC) creation
• Monitored of Monthly depreciation run for fixed Assets in Multi Currency /Global Environment.
• Designed Master Data requirements for Accounting 1&2, Costing 1&2 views and closing data in MRP views. FI-MM Integration for Product Costing. MM info records, subcontracting, external processing of materials.
• Implemented Cost Planning, Activity Rates, Costing Sheets, Template Allocation of Overhead, Product Costing at standard & current prices.
• Implemented CO-PC, Material Ledger and Actual Costing configuration.
• Designed extensive cost centers Distributions & Assessments within plants and inter-plants.
• Designed CO-PA allocations for production absorption and departmental expenses for different segments.
• Created specs for multiple Requests For Change (RFCs) for related to IO, CO-PC, and CO-PA.
• Maintained Derivation rules based upon sales organization, profit centers, and production plants.
• Implemented CO-PA reporting for standard and current cost.

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

SAP FICO Functional Finance, FSCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As FI/CO consultant implemented several enhancements and new initiatives in existing live system.
• Converted assets from Oracle and JD Edwards to SAP for Ohio & Oregon plants.
• Implemented Tax and AMT depreciation areas and configuration of new depreciation keys for existing SAP assets.
• Analyzed & reconciled differences due to unplanned and special depreciation.
• Configured Special & Bonus Depreciation, defined keys for Bonus Depreciation based upon rules.
• Analyzed automobiles related depreciation and configured keys for company owned cars and luxury autos.
• Reconciled values for conversion data and configured GL accounts for Depreciation.
• Developed LSMW, extract loads, reconciled balances of assets from non-SAP system.
• Designed functional specs for program to load completed capital projects from non-SAP systems to AUC in SAP.
• Met assets reporting requirements for state and county.
• Trained users on various reports like Asset History, Asset Balances, Depreciation Forecast, Asset Master Changes.
• Implemented integrated planning with CO-PA, SOP, LTP, and Cost Center planning.
• Designed CO-PA layouts for loading data for forecasts, and related CO-PA forms, and key figures.
• Changed cost planning with modifications & creation of new costing variants, valuation variants and overhead rates using costing sheets.
• Implemented FSCM Credit Management using automated credit checks.
• Evaluated Hi-Radius application for receivable and collection management solutions.
• Implemented graphic signature image for check printing and related security.
• Reviewed existing Material Ledger design and reporting for actual consumption at different levels of BOM.
• Supported ML close, accounting month-end close & year-end close activities and resolved issues.
• Supported production order costing, internal orders & settlements to AUC assets.
• Trained core and end users on budgeting, revenue and cost planning, costed BOM, assets management, credit management related SAP functions.

Confidential, Amherst, NY

SAP FICO Functional FinanceConsultant

Responsibilities:

• As senior consultant for IDS-Scheer (now Software AG) designed & implemented global template for US & Germany for SAP controlling modules including CCA, PCA (New GL), CO-PC (MTO, MTS, ATO), CO-PA Planning & Budgeting.
• Cost Planning & Order costing for Production, Service, Warranty, and Maintenance.
• Supported implementation & integration of Sales & Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), Service Management (SM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Management (QM) for costing.
• Constructed Blue Printing with ARIS BPM modeling tools and integrated in to SOLMAN.
• Used SOLMAN to configure and document system and process changes.
• Implemented SAP Best Practices based solution.
• Created organizational structures for Operating Concern, Controlling Area, Cost Center and Profit Center Hierarchy.
• Designed CO-PA Master Data elements for Characteristics and Value Fields.
• Master Data design and management for Costing 1& 2 and MRP views for product costing.
• Implemented Make to Stock (MTS), Assemble to Order (ATO) and Sales Order based costing (MTO) for production cost, WIP, variance and settlements.
• Defined Operating Concern, Characteristics, Value Fields, mapped Qty and SD conditions.
• Defined and assigned valuation strategy and access to standard cost estimate using costing keys.
• Designed reports, forms, and key figures for profitability analysis for sales, cost of sales, gross & net margin.
• Demonstrated playbacks of base-line and final configuration with the core team.
• Prepared integration testing scripts, supported integration testing with core team for wave1 rollout in Charlotte, NC plant.
• Transferred knowledge of the template design to German core team for European roll-out.
• Trained client's business analyst and supported logistics consultants.