SUMMARY:

• More than 11 years’ experience in IT that includesover 9 years of strong functional experience in SAP FI/CO module with
• 3 full Lifecycle implementations, go live and support projects.Proficient in ASAP Methodology, full life cycle Implementation including Project Preparation, Business Blue print, Realization (including Test planning, UAT, Test casedesign and execution), Cutover, Go live, and Post go live Support. Strong Functional/Configuration knowledge of SAPFI/CO with in depth understanding of integration with SD, MM and PPmodules.Knowledge inSolution Manager to track all the activities of the project.Experience in Profit Center Accounting(PCA),Cost Center Accounting (CCA),Internal Orders and Managerial Reporting requirements, Report Painter/ Writer.
• Skilled in RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflow) objects. Knowledge of the compliance of SOX, GAAP and IFRS for external/internal reporting. Experience in preparing individual and consolidated financial statements, and segment reporting. Highly Organized Team player with Strong Communication skills along with Excellent interpersonal & Client Service skills. Strong ability to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and to integrate skills set into the Project implementation Lifecycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Package: SAP (ECC 6.0, 5.0, 4.7)

General Tools: Visio SharePoint, Remedy, MS Project, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)

Testing Tools: QTP, HP ALM, Load Runner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Memphis TN

SAP FI/CO Analyst AP, AR

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the client and business users in requirement gathering for business process in FI Accounts Receivables andAccounts Payables.
• Defined Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and age analysis, Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys.
• Worked on different aspects of FI transactions such as Parking and Posting of FI documents, Inter Company Transactions, Reconciliation Accounts, Partial and Residual Payments.
• Configured business transactions for Accounts Payable (AP) and Account Receivables (AR).
• Configured Dunning in AR. Workedin FSCMcollection management, credit management.
• Worked in Customer interest calculation process to calculate interest on customer overdue items for all the company codes.
• Worked with FSCM team in Configuration of Credit management to maintain credit limits for customers, Automatic credit control checks, Payment terms, Cash application, and Incoming check payments.
• Worked with SD team on OTC process to deal with Sales, outbound delivery, Invoicing and payment process.
• Worked in FI - MM integration, configured automatic account determination, and ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions.
• Worked with BI/BW team for Extraction, Transformation and Loading process to generate reports.
• Managed offshore-onsite coordination for development work.
• Worked in Development of functional specifications for Forms, Reports, and Interfaces.
• Involved in importing data from legacy systems to SAP via legacy system migration workbench (LSMW) and Batch Input Session.
• Worked on Solution Manager for testing and planning various processes.
• Provided support to BI team regarding the sources of reports, tables names, fields and characteristics for report automations.
• Configured House banks, Bank determination, payment methods, in order to make vendor payments and for Electronic bank reconciliation for the customer receipts.
• Worked in development of Lockbox process to upload lockbox file into SAP and posting payments along with clearing customer invoices.
• Participated in business discussions, workshops, and design review meetings.
• Worked with Vertex team in configuration of SAP tax integration with Vertex to calculate tax for US company codes based on various factors such as Customer master, material groups, ship to address, ship from address etc.
• Worked on VAT requirements for EMEA Region for Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables.
• Responsible for creating training material, end user training to assist the business to use the system functionality for business process.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst-New GL, AP, AR, Product Costing

Responsibilities:

• Engaged inActivation of New GL Accounting and Profit Center Accounting for segment reporting, Created Leading and Non Leading Ledgers for different Company Codes.
• Created Blue Print for New G/L, Plan of Migration, Tested and Performed Migration.
• Worked in customization for Parallel Accounting for the Different Accounting Principles like US GAAP and IFRS.
• In Document Splitting defined Splitting Characteristics, and Activated Document Splitting.
• In Product Costing (CO-PC) configured the basic settings for the Product costing with quantity structure.
• Configured settings for Costing Variant, Valuation Variant, result analyst keys /versions. Valuation methods, Variance keys, Settlement profile, Settlement structure for manufacturing environment.
• Involved in the AP/AR automation process, analyzed the AS-IS condition of the existing business process, Involved in the Fit GapAnalysis, and business process re-engineering (TO-BE) analysis.
• Configured settings in the AP/AR, such as house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, payment media, terms of payment, running/editing-dunning proposal.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program (APP) and set up the Paying Company Code, payment methods by country and company code.
• Worked on test cases, manual and automated Planning and performing User Acceptance Testing, Integration testing, Regression tests via HP ALM, SAP Solution Manager.
• Worked in customization for Electronic Bank Statement per business requirements.
• Worked on Vendor Master, Customer master and AP/AR Open Items Data conversion and upload from legacy systems using conversion tool LSMW.
• Configured Invoice Receipt and Goods Receipt inter-company arms-length process via IDOC processes.
• Involved in SD and MM integration in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable modules. Worked on standard and moving average price.
• Worked with ABAP team in Development for creating new customized reports and GL validations against Internal Orders for AP postings
• Tested Z-Transactions as per the user requirements and worked closely with the users for testing the scripts.
• Worked on account determination configuration and interface points between FI and SD on various SD activities such as order management, pricing, delivery and transportation and billing.
• Performed unit testing, scenario testing and integration testingfor all the newly integrated functionalities.
• Wrote functional specifications for FI/CO reports, and worked with BI Team to design and develop the customized reports as per the business requirements.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in full life cycle implementations of SAP FI/CO modules using ASAP methodology in all phases - Project preparation, Business blue print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support and Post-Live Production Support.
• Responsible for gathering requirements on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements and determined organizational structure, business units, company codes, and profitability centers (AS IS - TO BE)
• Performed GAP analysis and actively participated in designing blueprints (ASAPMethodology).
• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
• Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Payment Terms and Payment Methods.
• Configured vendor groups, vendor master records, Tolerance limits, Payment Terms, payment methods and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Worked on designing the Interfaces between third party systems and SAP using IDOCS, EDI and using ALE.
• Configured the settings for House Bank, outgoing and incoming payments including Automatic payment program (APP), down payments, inter-company transaction in Accounts Payables (AP).
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting(CCA) by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Created cost component structure, future cost estimates by assigning costing keys in COPA and created custom user exit enhancement for reporting of planned price in COPA.
• Worked on customizing CO-PA both costing based (with value fields) and accounting based.
• Created custom KE31reportsfor the management and users in COPA.
• Tested completed cycles in DEV client, QAS Client and also completed UAT, wrote testing scripts and thoroughly documented each test.
• PreparedTraining Documents for end users and provided end user training.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst FI-AA Implementation & Support

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshop to understand the legacy asset accounting system.
• Worked on data migration strategy for asset accounting from the legacy accounting system and developed LSMW to upload asset master data from the legacy system.
• Worked in Configuration and maintenance of batch management.
• Involved in business requirements gathering for operational and reporting requirement for Asset Accounting.
• Implemented Asset Accounting, Created Chart of depreciation and assigned Chart of depreciation to company codes, created depreciation keys using period control and multilevel methods.
• Assigned number ranges to asset classes, assigned balance sheet accounts and depreciation accounts for asset accounting.
• Designed and configured the State and federal tax depreciation areas and prepared tax reports. Defined Custom depreciation keys for special and bonus depreciation.
• Involved in Mapping the business process to SAP transaction related to asset acquisition (with Vendor/Without Vendor), Planned and Unplanned depreciation run, Asset Retirement (scrapping), and asset capitalization.
• Worked on Integration of Asset accounting and Internal Order to capture Asset under construction for CIP reporting.
• Implemented Automatic Intercompany and Intra-company Asset transfer.
• Developed functional specification for asset accounting interfaces with the capital planning and inventory tracking system.
• Performed various testing cycle, developed test script and test scenario using Mercury testing tools.
• Developed training document and assisted business trainer to provide training to other asset accounting users.
• Worked on the configuration of Closing Cockpit to help the Corporate Financial business user to close their books faster and efficiently.
• Worked on various enhancements related to FI-AP and FI-AR.
• Gathered business requirements for enhancement of existing reports and Z reports.
• Worked on day to day support activities with resolving the production tickets and assisting the users to perform their daily work.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created the AS-IS Model of the system and performed a complete GAP analysis to identify problems and inconsistencies with the business requirements specification and the existing system.
• Conducted workshops, documented business requirements and completed workflow diagrams.
• Configured G/L Master records, documentnumber ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, Financial Statement Versions(FSV),reversal of documents, opening and closing of postingperiods, field status groups, document types, and posting keys.
• Configured Accounts Payable, House Banks, Automatic Payment program (APP), optimizing bank-by-bank group for wire payments, check lots and void reason codes, clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Performed integration testing of New General Ledger (New GL) with Controlling for reconciliation activity through real time integration variant.
• Implement interface between SAP and Sabrix Tax package. On Sabrix project, worked for defining Transeditor rule sets, loading Sales/ Use Tax Rates and VAT tables, defining Sabrix jurisdiction codes to SAP and managing deliverables.
• Participated in unitand integration testing of the SABRIXsystem as well as defect diagnosis andresolution.
• Configuration for the creation of Account Receivables invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation.
• Maintained Field Status group for vendor for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• Configured fiscal year variants with year dependent periods for year-end closing.
• Created customer/vendor account groups and assigned number ranges to the master records as per client requirements.
• Defined functional specifications for custom reports.
• Worked with technical consultants in developing the reports/programs and using OSS notes in fixing the issues.
• Facilitated post go-live ramp-up activities and provided post implementation support along with end-user training.

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full life cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO module.
• Involved in analyzing existing business processes, gathered business user's requirements, functional specifications and conducting gap analysis.
• Created and maintained Chart of Accounts, Setting Global parameters,Account Groups, Document types, Posting Period Variants, Fiscal Period Variants and Financial Statement Versions.
• Customized Vendor Master Data, Customer Master Data, Specified Number Ranges and Configured Employee and Tolerance Groups for Vendors, Created G/L Master Records and Reconciliation Accounts for Sub Ledgers.
• Designed end-to-end business process for Order to Cash, Accounts receivable, Credit management and Payment program.
• Tested G/L transactions for Fast-Entry Screens, Posting, Parking and Reversals.
• Configured Exchange Rate Difference, Max Exchange Rate Deviation and Account Determination for Open Item Exchange Rate Differences.
• Configured settings for Automatic Payment Program and for Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line Items.
• Workedwith FSCM team in Configuration of Credit Management and Defining Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, and Line Layouts.
• In Treasury configured Lockbox accounts that are referenced in customer master records and used by invoices as part of remit-to information.
• Defined control parameters that are used by the lock box-processing program. Also worked on bank statement processing, currency relationships and exchange rates, manual post processing of checks.
• Created Special Purpose Ledger for summarizing information at user defined level.
• Involved in month end and year end closing processes which include: All the expenses including amortization, prepaid expenses, Preliminary expenses and accruals and complete Bank Reconciliation.
• Worked with technical teams to test FI/CO interfaces before go live.
• Provided Post live support.

Confidential . Newtown Square, PA

SAP FI/CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Full Life Cycle Implementation phases, including defining the business requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications, configuration and testing.
• Analyzed the existing system for AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis and participation in process improvement teams. Also involved in requirements analysis by conducting interviews with users togather requirements and understanding the workflow of the existing system and also to gather information of the user’s expectation of SAP.
• Analyzed the business requirements and determined organizational structures and classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profit centers.
• Unit and Integration testing of configurations carried out and providing active support to enable smooth User Acceptance testing.
• Conducted training and knowledge transfer to the end users by providing them with documentation.
• Designed, developed and tested data conversion programs to load material master, vendor master, customer master, GL uploads, vendor and customer open account receivables data into SAP using LSMW and BDC.
• Configured Company code, Chart of accounts, Documents number ranges, Field status variants, Fiscal year variants posting period variants, Validations & Substitutions and Tolerance groups.
• Maintained Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Number Ranges and G/L Account master records.
• Crated and maintained Vendor and Customer account groups, Vendor and Customer account master records. Configured Payment terms, Automatic payment program, Dunning, Interest calculation, Automatic clearing and Special GL transactions.
• Worked with creation of chart of depreciation with depreciation areas and configuration of Asset classes and Asset master data. Creation of depreciation keys, period controls for posting depreciation, settlement rules for AUC assets, acquisition rules for assets and integration with Materials Management for Asset Procurement.
• Definition of Controlling Area, Activation of CO components, assignment of company codes to the controlling area, Number range maintenance for various transactions in controlling area and Version maintenance.
• Defined settings for manual and automatic creation of Cost Elements and creation of cost element groups.
• Designed Cost Center Accounting as per the internal control and monitoring structure. Maintenance of standard hierarchy, creation of cost center groups and cost centers, Settings for cost center planning, Creation of new layouts for plan data entry, Period end procedure for allocations using Assessment and Distribution.
• Defined basic configuration settings for Profit center accounting, created profit center groups, profit centers, dummy profit centers, profit center assignments. Maintained settings for profit center planning.

Confidential . New Haven, CT

Feb-2008-Nov 2008

Role: SAP FI/CO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support in the areas of GL, AR, AP and AA modules.
• Involved in processing all the pending IDocs at the end of month.
• Monitoring day-to-day activities and fixing issues/problems as they occur.
• Team member of the team responsible for supporting Monthly period closing activities.
• Created different reports utilizing the versatile reporting features of asset accounting module like asset explorer, history sheet etc.
• Provided functional specifications for reports, interfaces and enhancements.
• Responsibility included daily issue solving, system upgrading coordination, and “continuous improvement projects” implementation.
• Performed testing for any new programs, process change and documenting positive and negative testing results.
• Supported the business in their use of the FI, module. Resolved issues relating to configuration problems.
• Provided daily support for customizing issues and training the end users for the various functions.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all aspects of the development life cycle, including functional design, construction and testing of property appraisal system.
• Gathered requirements from clients to write functional/technical specifications. Defined use cases and conducted research/analysis to support product development process.
• Wrote detailed description of user needs and program functions required to develop or modify systems.
• Researched and analyzed projects for new features based on system requirements for local government software solutions.
• Collaborated with the client, as well as with internal teams to ensure the client's needs are understood and to develop a plan for achieving development goals.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Performed other job-related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
• Ensured that analysis and design projects stay within the defined scope and timeline.
• Resolved high priority business driven and technical problems. Problems span different product, infrastructures, teams, and various stages of software lifecycle.
• Provided on site implementation and support on CAMA (computer assisted mass appraisal) system for clients.
• Worked with Team leads, Solutions Architects and other Application Specialists to ensure successful project execution and customer satisfaction.
• Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle including requirements gathering, design, development, testingimplementation and post production support of property appraisal software.
• Conducted business process reviews and gap analyses and prepared related written reports.
• Assisted users with UAT activities, including verifying the repeatability of software defects.
• Entered software defect tracking and test feedback into HPQuality Center.
• Collaborated with other team members to implement software customizations.