PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Consultant with over 7 years of cumulative experience in Designing, Business Process, Re - Engineering, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Go-Live & Supporting.
• Involved in 4 Full Life Cycle Implementations. 2 Roll out projects and 3 support projects.
• Excellent skill set encompassing different work environments including Public sector, Industrial Manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, Banking and Insurance and Energy
• Hands on configuration and implementation experience in SAP FI and CO modules and theirIntegration with SD, MM, CD and TR modules
• Well versed in FICO modules of New GL, AP, AR, AA, IO, CCA, PCA and their integration with ther SAP modules in various business processes like Order to Cash, Procure to Pay
• Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Bank Accounting FI-BA, Asset Accounting FI-AA Special Purpose Ledger FI-SPL, Revenue Recognition, Account Determinations (New GL)
• Controlling expertise includes CO-CCA, CO-PA, CO-IOA, CO-PC, CO-OM(ATR), (PTP), (OTC) and (LIV)
• Sound Knowledge in migration of data from Legacy system to SAP for Upgrade / New Implementation / integration using BDC, LSMW, CATT
• Ability to drive toward a standard FSCM solutions including Funds Management, In-House cash Management, Credit Management and Internal Treasury Reporting.
• Expertise in, Standard Costing / Inventory Valuation, Activity Based Costing, Variance Analysis & Reporting, Activity prices for cost centers, Manufacturing Close process, Material Ledger closing and actual costing.
• Worked on Reporting tools like Drilldown Reporting, Report Painter, Report Writer, and ABAP Query
• Worked on Cost Allocations, Cost Center Planning, Functional area reporting, Maintaining Material Master and integration to New GL.
• Good working knowledge in SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0
• Solid knowledge of International Financial Reporting concepts (IFRS), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Financial Reporting Council (FRS), Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), setting up the Vertex connection.
• Capability to deal with ambiguity, multiple priorities and stretching goals, Adept to work in a global organization in respect of regional and local cultural and organizational differences.
• Expertise in using Microsoft Access, Visio, using Pivot tables and VLookup functions to generate reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Versions: SAP R/3 (4.7), ECC 4.7 & 6.0

Languages: C, XML, SQL, Drupal

Operating System: Windows 2010, NT, IBM OS/2 2.0, Unix

Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, Vertex, CATTs, LSMW, BAPI, IDOCs, Treasury, Microsoft Office - MS-Excel (Vlookup, Formatting, Validations, Formulae, Macros), Visio, SharePoint

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Diego, California

Sr SAP FICO Consultant/Accounts Receivable

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Full cycle Accounts Receivable configuration at Confidential for a Reinsurance Recoverables project.
• Conducted business meetings, workshops to understand the AS-IS system and design the To-Be System, developed detailed Business blueprint and functional specifications documents
• Was solely responsible for interacting with the clients and Accounting Directors for requirements gathering and gap analysis.
• Configured additional customized fields for industry specific requirements using standard SAP R/3 features.
• Configured Accounts Receivable - Customer Account Groups, Number ranges, Customer Master setup, configured payment terms, methods, Business Partners and deployed and trained users on FI based Customer Invoices and Credit Memos
• Configured Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, Field Status Groups), Dunning, Reporting.
• Designed Aging reports and ceded balance reports as per business requirements using Report Painter.
• Customized Electronic Bank Reconciliation Statements.
• Mapped fields from the Idoc to SAP and was also involved in mapping Account groups, Payment methods and Customer numbers.
• Provided functional specifications for RICEF (Reports, Interfaces and Enhancements)
• Worked closely with the ABAP’er in designing an automatic invoice upload program using a Reinsurance Treaty (DAC) Relationship table and automatic calculation of Ceded paid loss and Ceded Paid Expense balances.
• Involved in designing customized invoice forms to be sent at broker level.
• Provided technical specification for enhancements and performed unit, integration and regression testing.
• Worked on SIMS software to migrate claims to SAP, printing cheques and sending out to customers.
• Worked on FD-CD and FS-CM integration with AR.
• Configured the write off workflow for bad debts, and assigned authorization to super users.
• Actively involved in Go-Live activities like Master Data preparation, Data Migration and Cut- Over.
• Facilitated month end closing through the General Ledger and Sub-Ledger close - reconciliation of Receivables account, Foreign Currency Valuation and Closing the Posting periods.
• Effective communicator with excellent skills in organizing Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports and Technical Specifications
• Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents for End- User
• Provided Go-Live and Post-Implementation Support by resolving problems relating to reports, training and balance upload.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Support Project at Confidential
• Worked on using the Global template to roll out the design and naming conventions for Company codes, GL accounts, Cost center and Profit center set up.
• Design and Mapping of Global, Operational and Local Chart of Accounts; Chart of Depreciation andIntegration with Contracts Management, Workflow customization, Integrations with Billing engine, and Accrual engine.
• Configuration of Tax on sales and purchases, Withholding tax, Tax jurisdiction codes, tax Procedures for US Company codes and worked with Vertex system and FTXP.
• Defined Segments based reporting on US GAAP reporting requirements and derived them from the Profit Center master data.
• Configured Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SPL) for External and Internal Reporting Purpose
• Defining the Revenue Recognition categories, Maintenance of Revenue recognition categories for Item categories and 08-01 implementation, Configured Accrual Engine for Revenue recognition in ECC based on Avails, Cash based and Time based principles
• Customized customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format
• Configured Account Receivables which included Dunning, Incoming payments settings, Down Payments procedure and Credit management.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Fine-tuning interfaces with FI, GL, AP, and AR Including validation and substitution rules.
• Configured the VIM pre-process exit to identify the incoming document channel (paper, EDI 810, EDI 210, excel upload) and classify the VIM DP document accordingly.
• Utilizing the basic concepts of Open Text Archiving, ICC validation and VIM system installation, developed functional specification that meet 3M's business requirements,
• Defined Cost Component Structure, Costing Sheets, Valuation Variant and Actual Cost.
• Configured Account Payables Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendors credit memo and Check clearing sub-processes, Advance paid or down payment made to vendors
• Cost Estimates and Actual Cost. Create Depreciation Areas for Tax and Consolidation.
• Worked on improving performance issues of the RICEF objects by implementing indexes and refining the program logic where needed.
• Added custom fields to standardSAPscreens, employed pushbuttons for automation of business processes using GuiXT developed scripts.
• Established and maintained healthy working relationships with key business users at all levels County-wide, especially in Finance, HR, IT and Treasurer’s Office
• Provided a subject matter expertise, functional support and functional process ownership in assigned functional areas, including break/fix, enhancements, patches, upgrades, monitoring and testing as well as troubleshooting, investigating, analyzing, solving and implementing solutions for configuration and transactional issue
• Month end closing activities such as GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues, Issues related Invoice verification (MIRO).
• Developed process documentation for processes and procedures, prepared and executed test plans for new functionality, published communication related to the deployment of new functionality and translated user requirements into user requests and program specifications.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Full Life Cycle Implementation project at City Public Service.
• Involved in gathering business requirements, performed functional gap analysis, interface Requirements, definition and specification.
• Coordinated meetings with the users to understand existing business processes and documented business process flow charts, identified the requirements and modelled the 'to-be' process.
• Designed a Data Migration strategy from legacy toSAPand support design of BDC and LSMW.
• Configuring of company codes, creation of Chart of accounts, field status groups, posting keys, document types, posting period variants, fiscal period variants, created G/L master records and reconciliation accounts for sub ledgers.
• Created Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Configuration of New G/L: Splitting rule defining, GL Account mapping, scenarios. Assigning of document splitting rule business transactions, time integration etc..
• Configured AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Electronics Bank statement, LIV (Logistics Invoice verification)
• Configuration of Tax Procedures, Tax keys etc. for USA sales/use tax and Canadian Tax (GST, PST, HST) and bolt on with Vertex system.
• Configuration of Fixed Asset Module like Creation of chart of depreciation, depreciation areas classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment (FI-AA Integration), Depreciation keys etc.
• Worked on business process such as Finance Order to Cash or Finance Record to Pay.
• Developed and documented requirements for proposed SAP modules such as Budget Development, Funds Management (FM), Grants Management (GM) and Project System (PS).
• Implemented Treasury cash management module and configured instant update from FICA
• Configured the Controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers and internal orders (CO-CCA), Number ranges, and Cost center hierarchy
• Unit testing and Integration testing with data flows from Interfaces.
• Providing support to client in dry runs, UAT and cutover activities for manual configuration of system in dry runs and data upload.
• Conducted super user training in GL, AP, FA, and controlling Modules (cost center/cost element, Internal orders etc.)
• Post go live support and month end closing support.

Confidential, Portland, OR

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on an Enhancement and Roll Out project at Confidential .
• Worked as FICO functional deployment consultant for the new plants and assisted with the new releases.
• Conducted workshops to analyze the reporting requirements Global Consolidations reporting, month end closing, impacts from the Business Processes AS-IS and created change requests accordingly to comply with the SAB 101 accounting principles
• Responsible for FI-GL, AA, CO-CCA, IO, and PS.
• Performed the product costing runs to validate the accuracy of the master data from domains Purchasing, PP, SD, MM and released the standard cost estimates.
• Responsible for assisting in trouble shooting that the live production sites encountered.Worked directly with the end users, conducted various presentations and work around solutions to meet client specifications.
• Enhanced the inter company clearing process by using the functional module to update the assignment field for matching records of AR and AP documents.
• Defined the process of credit management to set the credit limit for just one parent customer in a group which becomes the credit account for the entire group.
• Automated GR/IR process of clearing the accounts which has the assignment of goods receipts to the corresponding invoice receipts used in the purchase order number.
• Designed and configured the completePSfunctionality including Basic Data, structures, Networks, Cost Planning Project Information System and Status Management.
• Configured new payment terms for the down payments as per the client's requirements.
• Configured solution for PO and Non-PO based invoices wherein PO based invoices included 3-way match and 2-way match scenarios in Open Text VIM and CRM functionalities.
• Configured house banks, bank accounts and posting rules for automatic assignment and dunning notices.
• Investigated Revenue Recognition functionality and identification of implementation gaps. This lead to decision to upgrade to 46C support pack 50 and to expand the Revenue Recognition implementation to include service-based as well as time-based revenue recognition.
• Defined cost component structure as a primary cost component split and created cost component group for raw material costs in product costing.
• Used Report Painter/Report Writer and assigned different transactions to these specific reports.
• Maintained validations and substitutions, allocations and distributions using cyclesegment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations.
• Configured account groups for vendors based on user specification and also configure new void reason code for both check encashment and encashment check.
• Created new custom characteristics (i.e. Model year, interior, exterior, truck variant/ package, etc)

Confidential, Plymouth, MI

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Full Life Cycle Implementation at Confidential .
• Prepared the delta business blue print, test scripts and documentation and sign off from core team.
• Preparation of results as per Gene standards.
• ASAP methodology used for analyzing the existing system for AS- IS study; and gathering functional requirements through user workshops.
• Wrote RICEF objects for enhancements
• Involved in defining requirements, configuration, integration, testing and training. Checking programs and reports developed by client for enhancements.
• Worked with Legacy System Migration workbench tool (LSMW) for importing data from legacy system to ECC 6.0.
• Identified and prepared the list of all Z transaction codes and custom developments, forms, interfaces, Enhancements to be tested.
• Configuration and customization of G/L master records, posting keys, tolerance groups, posting
• Configure Profit Center Accounting, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, Exchange ratetypes, Distribution, assessment of costs and statistical key figures.
• Worked on SD-FI Integration: Customer Master Records, company code data, account groups, payment terms, and Revenue account determination - Account keys, accruals and clearing the blocked invoices, credit control area etc., as part of testing and Data load cycles.
• Was Involved in FI-MM integration including automatic account determination, account identifiers, Workflow's quantity and price discrepancies.
• Suggested solutions and corrections required for configuration for the problems encountered duringthe testing of processes for upgraded version.
• Configured Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and intercompany and currency revaluations complying with the US GAAP and IFRS..
• Created the Conversion Design Documents (CDD) templates and executed the Fixed Assets Conversion, Inventory conversion, GR/IR balance conversion process.
• Created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules using product costing and costing sheet.
• Simulated and Executed the Month End Closing and annual standard cost revision process.
• Worked with business users for UAT successful completion. Provided training to the users on the delta transactions in 6.00 versions and created the training documents, BPP's using UPK and DPD's.

Confidential, Bethlehem, PA

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Roll Out Project at Confidential Energy.
• Involved in enhancement and roll out. Prepared AS~IS and Business Blue Print document, Configured New General Ledger functionality which includes foreign currency valuation, JE Workflow, Intercompany set up.
• Setting up Parallel ledger functionality and document splitting, Default cost centres, verifying FX clearing
• Lead team member in successfully carrying out the realization phase of FICO, including CCA, PCA and COPA, discussing efforts, benefits and outcomes. Created presentations on current and future state of the project implementation and outcomes
• Configured Controlling Area, assigned number ranges to controlling area, and maintained Versions.
• Involved in Profit Center Accounting configuration like Basic Settings, Assignments and Actual Posting Maintenance. Development of master data for the business process, Consolidation Chart of Accounts, global session parameters, list processor, organizational units, consolidation units and groups, designed parallel hierarchies, financial statement items and account assignments.
• Developed documentation for customizing automatic payment program (changes in segments according to the bank requirements, SAP - bank payment related interfaces). Revenue determination, recognition, automatic account determination for integration with FI and CO.
• Configured In house Cash Management and Automatic payment program. Also maintain Electronic bank statements parameters
• Performed Month end closing and maintenance of GR/IR account
• Profit Centre Accounting: Create dummy profit center, Configure data flow, Create profit centerhierarchy, Create profit center.
• Automatic Account Assignment: FI-AA Integration, FI-CO Integration, FI-MM Integration, FI-SD Integration, FI-PP Integration.
• Preparing functional specifications and configuration design documents, Substitution and Validations.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Full Life Cycle Implementation at Confidential Pharmaceuticals.
• Involved in full cycle implementation of SAP R/3 FICO module.
• Experience in analyzing existing business processes, gathering business user's requirements, functional specifications, conducting gap analysis and updating relevant documentation.
• Involved in the Business process re-engineering and integration by configuring GL, AR, AP and AA modules.
• Discussed with Client and End Users to prepare Blueprint, Business Process Master List and
• 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
• Design 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.
• Configured Credit Management and Defined 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, Making sure that Sum of intercompany balances is Zero.
• Provided Post live support