Professional Overview

SAP FICO Consultant with 9+ years of functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, end user document preparation, user training and support in SAP R/3 systems including versions 4.6, 4.7 and ECC 6.0. Expertise in configuration and customization of FI modules i.e., G/L, A/P, A/R and assets through AM and also has hands on experience on lockbox, EBS statements (Bank file configuration) using BAI format & Cash position worksheet. Excellent hands on experience in handling SAP CO- Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and also has expertise in integration with SD and MM

Technical Disciplines
SAP-Versions 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.7 Enterprise , ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0. SAP Solution Manager 7.1
As a team member, involved in full life cycle project implementations, testing and 24/7 support. Specialized in SAP FICO modules with sound knowledge on SAP logistic packages including MM, PP and SD and the integration points with FICO modules.
Hands on experience in SAP Solution manager ASAP methodology.
Hands on Experience on Roadmap preaprationa and Interfaces.
Prepared Functional Specifications in various reports.
Worked extensively on support projects,so clear undersatnding of SLA Guidelines and severity levels.
Created Transports, released tasks and updated Config Doc’s/User Manuals as part of variuos projects.
Key user training and providing end user documentation.
Extensive experience in process study, System design and development, Business process reengineering and team management.
Development of project plan, Defining business processes, Process mapping to SAP functionality, Performing Gap analysis, Defining the project scope and time lines and resource requirements.
Organizing work shops with key users for requirements gathering, definition and documentation of functional requirements.
Enterprise structure design and configuration : Setting up enterprise structure and assigning relation ships between the organizational units of FI,CO,SD and MM. 
Configuration of FI modules: GL, AR, AP and Special purpose ledger.
Fixed Assets module: Setting up depreciation charts and Areas, Asset classification, defining GL accounts for FA integration with FI, Performing depreciation run and Migration of Fixed Assets across Company Codes.
Treasury: Banking system design, Setting up electronic bank statements ( Bank file configuration) using BAI format , implementation of AP -vendor check printing, AR-Lock box configuration and Direct debit configuration for incoming payments.
Configuration of CO modules: Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, COPA ,PCA and Product cost controlling. 
FI- AR & AP: Configuration of Automatic payment program for out going payments and Lockbox configuration for AR receipts using BAI forms for open items processing and also configured Dunning program.
Setting up integration of SAP SD, MM ,CO and FA with FI by defining the automatic account determination tables.
Hands on experiece in Costing Based and Accounting Based COPA.
COPA: Defining characters and value fields and Profitability segments that suits the business needs, Characteristic derivation and assignment of values to value fields and postings to COPA module for reporting and hands on experience on Report Painter.
Product cost controlling: Standard Cost estimate with and with out quantity structure, providing costs to Material master. 
SAP & other Tools used: CATT tool, LSMW, Autosys, Winshuttle and Reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer.In-depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and development and gathering user requirements.

Experience Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
Applications Windows XP, Windows 7, Power Point, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Excel and SQL server and Good understanding of Programing languages like C,C++, and VC++. 
Functional/ Industry Experience
Food Services & Retail 
Service
Software
Manufacturing

SAP Project Experience:

Client 1: Confidential Salisbury,MD
Duration: Aug’11 – Till Date
Role: FICO Consultant
Industry: Food Services & Retail
Environments: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager 7.1

Perdue Farms is a major chicken processing company based on Salisbury, MD and have agri business across the globe. Perdue farms has acquired coleman and i was majorly involved in coleman perdue merger implementation and Provided Production support.

Responsibilities:

Designing, prototyping , testing, training and configuration of Direct Debit process for perdue customers 
Configuration of Wire payments for vendors and prepared functional specifications for various reports and involved in Smart soft and SAP intefacing.
Configured California Depriciation Area as a Part of Coleman Project.
Resovling day to day production issues and provided 24/7 support.
Month end batch job support and issue support and also handling issues on direct debit 
Participated in requirement gathering of coleman project acquired by perdue farms
Prepared training documentation and provided SAP end user training 
Provided solutions to the business and configured as per business requirements

Client 2: Confidential Portland,OR
Duration: June’09 – July’11
Role: FICO Team Lead
Industry: AFS- Retail
Environments: SAP R3 4.6, ECC 6.0

Nike is world’s leading Supplier or Athletic Shoes and Apparel and manufacturer of Sports equipment, based in USA. Nike has several fully owned subsidiaries across the globe. The company has SAP systems for the past 10 years for managing its business process in different domains including MM, SD,FI, Projects etc and its current SAP version is ECC 6.3

I have been working in the role of Teamlead for SAP FICO critical production support, Upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.3 and also Nike - NLO migration projects.

Responsibilities:

Production Support related tasks for GL, AP, AR,Asset Accounting and COPA issues :

Nike has about 40 Company Codes set up across the Globe and the FI production support team receives issues from multiple business users/ Countries across the world. A tool by name “Kintana” is used to monitor and track support issues. Major tasks in the support process include:
Assigning tickets to the team for any non critical support issues and making sure SLA is not breaching interms of time and quality.
For Critical Support tickets- Issue Analysis and changing configuration by creating trasports & releasing tasks if configuration change is needed.
Communicating with the business users for any additional information required 
Testing the resolution before proposing to the business
Creating Kintana ticket for handling any Configuration relevant tickets
Obtaining PM approval for the ticket during the daily Config COE meetings
Coordinating with the business to test the resolution in test system and obtaining Business Signoff.
Executing the resolution and updating the Configuration documents/User Manuals.
Updating the ticket with the resolution and closing the ticket.
Supported COPA and Controlling issues during month ends.
Month end batch job support and issue support and also handling issues on direct debit &Nike.Net.

Upgrade & Roll out related tasks:

Nike was upgraded its SAP systems from 4.6 to ECC in Dec’2010. A QA tool (HP-QC) is being used at Nike for monitoring and tracking the upgrade related tickets and some of the Major tasks that I did as part of Upgrade FICO - team are:
Analyzing the TPR (test problem report) created by the business 
Work with the Developer for any Custom Programs/Reports to be Copied in to ECC
Testing the resolution and proposing it to the requestor
Obtaining user sign off for the resolutions
Update the TPR with proposed resolution and close it. 
Implemented SAP for NIKE Europe as a prt of Roll out.

Confidential - NLO migration projects:

NLO (Nike Liaison offices) is one of the Major projects at Nike with several new Legal Entities are being created (configured) as part of Nike’s Finance Strategic Planning. As part of this project, My responsibilities are to Migrate the portion of Fixed Assets from the existing Company Codes to new Company Codes. The major tasks include in this project:
Configuration of Fixed Assets Module – for enabling Migration between Company Codes
Reviewing the Assets by Location/Cost Center wise in Source Company Codes
Defining Locations in New Company Codes
Creating Sets and Validations for mapping the old and new Locations/Cost Centers/Plants
Executing the Migration in test environments
Working with the business to help them in Production system for performing the Migration.
Validating the Source and Target systems – Asset balances reports.

Client 3: Confidential,Whitehouse Station ,NJ 
Duration: Jan’08 to May’09 
SAP Version: ECC 6.0
Role: FICO Lead
Industry: Healthcare and Service

Responsibilities:

Merck is a global health care and service leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products.

Merck was implemented SAP R/3 in 1994 toremain competitive and offer the best level of service. In the yaer of 2008 they decided to move to ECC 6.0 to use advantages of Ecc6.0 and i was part of New GL implementation and other Enhancememts. Also provided Go-Live and production Support.

I worked as the FICO lead for this end to end ECC implementation

Requirements gathering form the Business users and preparation of Business Blue print Document
Worked with the Business in Designing business process docuemnts and gathering requiremnets.
GL , AP, AR, AA,CCA, PCA, COPA ,PC modules.
AP and AR : Banking system design, Setting up electronic bank statements ( Bank file configuration) using BAI format , implementation of AP -vendor check printing, AR-Lock box configuration. And also configured Automatic payemnt program for vendors and customer’s in case of Direct Debit.
Worked with the MM, SD and PP teams for integration set up between FI and Logistic Modules.
COPA: Defining characters and value fields and Profitability segments that suits the business needs, Characteristic derivation and assignment of values to value fields and postings to COPA module for reporting and hands on experience on Report Painter.
Worked in New GL, Activated Document Splitting, Zero Balance setting Configured settings for integration of FI-AA and New GL for segment reporting.
Provided training to the Business Users on ECC system
Prepared End user Documentation – Instruction Manual for performing transactions using various Transaction Codes.
Prepared functional specification for new reports that are required. 
Worked with the developers to help them understand the new reporting requirements.
Go-Live Support: Handled post Go-Live issues for two months to streamline the system.
Preparing the config rationales for FI and CO and validating the configuration.
Resolved tickets in the areas of GL,AR, AP,Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, Profit center accounting ,COPA modules and product costing.
Configured and Provided training to the key users on Cost element accounting, COPA, CCA and SPL modules.
Prepared the configuration documentation for key users reference for the controlling modules.
Client 4: Confidential,Boston,MA
Duration: Feb’06 to Nov’07
SAP Version: SAP R3 4.7 and ECC 6.0
Role: FICO Lead
Industry: Software
IBM software group has implemented SAP systems across the world for its logistic and financial operations. As part of centralization of SAP systems across IBM world wide, a central SAP ledger project has been implemented so as to provide consolidated information for the downstream systems that helps effective management reporting.

Responsibilities:

Project plan development including Milestones, Tasks and Subtasks, Time lines at task level and follow up the progress.
Discussion with the Interface teams to analyze the impact of new process being implemented, conducting workshops and resolving key business issues.
Preparation of solution design document based on the requirements given by the Central SAP systems .
Configuration of Organizational structure – Legal entities (company codes), Controlling area, Sales organizations and plants and organizational assignments.
Configuration of SAP FI modules: GL, AR,AP
Setting up depreciation charts and Areas, Asset classification, defining GL accounts for FA integration with FI, Performing depreciation run and Migration of Fixed Assets across Company Codes 
Configured Accounts Payable module including creation of Vendor Master Records, default account assignments, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, check management, special G/L transactions defining tolerance groups, check management. .
Configuration of SAP CO modules: Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, COPA and Product cost controlling.
COPA: Defining characters and value fields and Profitability segments that suits the business needs, Characteristic derivation and assignment of values to value fields and postings to COPA module for reporting and hands on experience on Report Painter.
Creating Idocs for COPA, FI, CO modules for exporting in to central system
Activated Document Splitting, Zero Balance setting Configured settings for integration of FI-AA and New GL for segment reporting.
Setting up integration with MM, SD modules by defining automatic account determination tables in VKOA and OBYC
Configuring ALE set up between the local and central systems
Setting up the Idoc parameters for inbound and outbound idocs processing.
Testing the Idocs processing and receipt of confirmation Idocs from the central SAP system and also prepared test cases and tested GL,AR,AP and Asset accounting modules using Mercury Quaility center
Working with the central system team in leading support tasks and providing necessary information

Support activities for the existing SAP systems (R3 Version 4.7 & ECC 6.0)

Resolved tickets in the areas of GL,AR, AP,Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, Profit center accounting ,COPA modules and product costing.
Configured and Provided training to the key users on Cost element accounting, COPA, CCA and SPL modules.
Prepared the configuration documentation for key users reference for the controlling modules.

Client 5: Confidential,Valley Forge, PA
Duration: Nov’04 to Dec’05 
SAP Version: SAP R3 4.7 
Role: FICO Consultant
Industry: Manufacturing.
Saint-Gobain Glass is Saint-Gobain\'s largest green field investment in and has one of the largest and most technologically advanced float glass plant. The plant produces a range of quality float glass for the mirroring and architectural segments as well as miscellaneous areas such as photo framing and solar panels.I was part of this manufacturing implementation.

Responsibilities:

Analysed existing system for, As Is Study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, Gap Analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
Created flowcharts for Key users and management team approval, and created Business Blue Print for the existing processes
Configured the FI Global Settings - Company Code, Fiscal Year settings & posting periods, Document Types and Number Ranges.
Treasury: Banking system design, Setting up electronic bank statements ( Bank file configuration) using BAI format , implementation of AP -vendor check printing, AR-Lock box configuration
Customized and Configured General Ledger Account Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance Groups & retained earnings account.
Setting up integration with MM, SD modules by defining automatic account determination tables in VKOA and OBYC

Customized and Configured Vendor Account Groups and Vendor Master Records 
Customized and Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records (with combined effort of SD consultant)
Configured COPA, PCA and SPL (Special Purpose Ledger) modules and provided training to the key users.
Configured Accounts Payable module including creation of Vendor Master Records, default account assignments, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, check management, special G/L transactions defining tolerance groups, check management. 
In Account Receivables (AR) worked exclusively on configuration on many areas of AR including Automatic Dunning program, Lock Box processing, Cash discount depending on Payment terms and others.
Configuration of Fixed Asset module: Setting up Depreciation charts and areas, Defining asset classification, Setting up GL accounts for FA transaction types 
Tested the document flow from MM to FI and SD to FI and also tested FI all sub modules.
Created controlling organization structure,controlling area and assigned it to company codes.Created Versions and number ranges for controlling documents.
COPA: Defining characters and value fields and Profitability segments that suits the business needs, Characteristic derivation and assignment of values to value fields and postings to COPA module for reporting and hands on experience on Report Painter.

Client 6: Confidential, CA
Duration: Apr’04 to Oct’04 
SAP Version: SAP R3 4.7 
Role: FICO Consultant
Industry: Manufacturing.
DuPont is a leading supplier of electronic and advanced display materials. DuPont offers a wide range of products targeted to the fast growing display industry, enabling the manufacture of advanced OLED, LCD,PDP displays and more. We provided support for the Dupont units in the USA where SAP 4.6c has been implemented.

Responsibilities:

Provided production support in the areas of FI- GL, AR, AP and CO- CCA, COPA & PC (Product Cost Controlling and Actual Costing)modules and also supported Treasury system of Dupont and EBS (Bank file configuration) using BAI format.
Provided support in configuration, break fix and enhancements in the areas of account determination, field status groups, movement types.
Configured chart of accounts & corresponding assignments of account groups and Field status variants
In Account Receivables (AR) worked exclusively on configuration on many areas of AR including Automatic Dunning program, Lock Box processing, Cash discount depending on Payment terms and others.
Involved in Master data Maintenance, Create House Banks, Assigning bank accounts to House Banks, Bank reconciliation statement & Automatic Payment Program
Integrated AP with MM and AR with SD modules with respect to account determination for various clearing and adjustment accounts. 
Maintained vendor account groups, number ranges, field status. Configured terms of payment for cash discount and alternative payer/payee.
Supported product cost planning and Material Ledger/Actual Costing issues in Product costing during month ends

Client 7: Confidential Duration: – April’02 to Dec’03
SAP Version: SAP R3 4.7
Role: FICO Consultant
Industry: Manufacturing.
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India\'s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company, with over 20 distinct categories in Home & Personal Care Products and Foods & Beverages. The Indian operations involve over 45 own manufacturing units, 2000 suppliers and associates. 
Fusion 2 - My SAP implementation project at Hindustan Unilever Ltd. covered the SAP implementation in manufacturing (MM, PP-PI, APO, QM, PM) & financials (CO) across its own and third party manufacturing units & depots across India

Responsibilities:

Financial accounting master data:- Chart of accounts , G/L accounts , Reconciliation accounts, Account groups, Customer and vendor accounts and Bank accounts and bank keys.
Organization Structure, Internal Orders, Cost Center Accounting & Cost Center Planning.
Product Cost Planning: Basic Settings for Material costing & Material cost estimate with Quantity Structure. 
Cost Object Controlling: Basic Settings for Product Costing by Period – Product Cost Collector, Variance Calculation, Settlement, Actual Postings
Master Data Management – Cost elements, Cost element groups, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Internal Order Creation & Activity Type – in Development, Quality and Production servers.
Legacy System Migration Workbench – Creation of Cost Centres, planned price upload, Costing lot size and price unit upload etc,
Unit, Integration & User Acceptance Testing .
KT on Costing Processes - On preparation of subsequent CO Master Data.
Executing the period-end closing with ML 
CO Central Roll-out Team - Central roll-out support for all plants going live in SAP
Activated valuation areas for material ledger,assigned currency types to ML,assigned material ledger types to valuation areas,cofigured dynamic price changes,activated actual cosing and configured all necessary setting s for ML/actual costing.
Actual costing/material ledger – Process of actualization of material cost and Month end activities such as ML Run.

Education:
M.B.A (Master Of Business Administration)