SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of strong functional experience in SAP FI/CO, MM Implementation, Customization, Data Migration, and Production Support.
• Involved in 3 full life cycle implementations & Upgrade experience using ASAP methodologies, planning and project management.
• Extensive experience of over 3 years in Asset management with implementation and configuration skills.
• Extensive experience in Cross - functional integration across various modules of SAP viz., FI/CO, MM, SD and PS.
• Expertise in writing functional specs for FRICE objects to meet the end user expectations.
• Experience in creating reports using ABAP Query, Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Experienced in migration from legacy systems to SAP R/3 using LSMW.
• Experienced in job scheduling and back ground processing.
• Strong Communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with a high learning acumen to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate skills set into the common goal of Project blueprint preparation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 (Versions 4.7,4.6C, 4.6B), ECC 6

Office Applications: Excel/Power Point/ Access/Word/Project

Languages: C, C++, SQL and PL/SQL

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98, 00.NT, XP

Modeling Tool: Microsoft Visio

Application Software: MS-Office XP/2000, SPSS 11.0, MS Project 2003, Maestro, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Edison, CA

SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the business users to identify additional enhancements depending on business requirements.
• Prepared functional specification documents for these additional enhancements including Reports, Forms, and Interfaces.
• Configuration of FI-AA: Asset Classes, Depreciation areas, depreciation keys, and posting.
• Copy and assign chart of depreciation to the company code and assigning tax indicator for non-taxable acquisitions.
• Creating screen layout for the asset master records, define number range intervals and specifying account determination.
• Helped the development team in preparing the Technical Design Specification and provided inputs in developing the code.
• Hands on experience in handling the Inbound and Outbound Banking Interfaces with Technical assistance of PI/XI middleware team.
• Testing: Prepared test plans for unit testing, integration testing, and end to end testing.
• Configured Internal Orders for Investment Management of the fixed assets.
• Tested client specific interfaces, including month end, and year-end closing process.
• Developed the functional specification to trigger a workflow whenever invoices are posted for Nuclear Fuel Accounting involving high amount transactions.
• Developed a Journal Entry upload program for automatically loading Power Plant JE entries.
• Worked in the production support team and helped Users from various Business teams in fixing multiple issues in both finance and controlling.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business process in existing legacy system and determined the TO-BE process for Accounts Payable and Receivable modules and prepared the blue print documents.
• Defining specifications for preparing balance sheets at periodic intervals, for valuation of stocks and account balances, for creation of reserve for bad debts and other provisions, for business area balance sheets and for GR/IR clearing accounts reconciliation.
• Designed the solution and prepared process design documents for inter-company business scenarios.
• Configuration: Created new customer and vendor account groups, determined the number ranges for customer and vendor accounts, created number ranges for various customer and vendor documents, assigned tolerance groups for employees.
• Worked on the account determination for integration of FI with MM and SD modules.
• Assigned revenue accounts, deferred revenue accounts, freight accounts, tax accounts and discount accounts in SD account determination (Revenue recognition).
• Worked with SD consultant to implement time related Revenue recognition.
• Posting manual incoming and outgoing payments. Configured outgoing auto payment program and created house bank accounts and bank accounts, configured accounts for posting customer and vendor invoices from SD and MM respectively depending on purchase order and billing document.
• Configured controlling area settings to address management accounting and requirements of organization.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups and assigned number ranges to groups. Configured automatic and manual cost element creation.
• Created cost center standard hierarchy, configured the reconciliation ledgers, activity types and statistical key figures.
• Created assessment cost elements. Responsible for the cost center reposting, cost center distribution and cost center assessment.
• Created new order types and order master records and assigned the order master records to the respective order types. Created order groups to process the orders collectively.
• Configured internal order settlement, order planning and budgeting profiles.
• In profit center accounting PCA, maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, profit center groups, dummy profit center, profit center hierarchy.
• Involved in transferring plan data from other applications like Excel and manually posting of plan data.
• Created user defined reports using report painter in PCA and CCA.
• Trained and prepared user documentation for users.
• Production support: Worked with users on high priority issues related to Accounts Payable and Receivable modules. Assisted the offshore team in resolving medium and low priority tickets. Prepared the month end and year end closing activities document and assisted them in handling these activities for 6 months. Worked on new enhancements and reports as per business requirements.
• Asset accounting (FI-AA): Copied and changed chart of depreciation, configured Asset Classes, Depreciation areas, screen layouts for the asset master records. Integrated general ledger to Asset sub ledger by assigning GL accounts to the asset classes, maintained depreciation keys, period control methods, multi-level methods.
• Conversion: Prepared the design documents for Asset Conversion and planned for two mock conversions before Go-Live. Prepared the LSMW recording for AS91 and worked with the asset team to clean up the legacy data for uploading into SAP. Posted the asset GL balances by opening recon status using OASV T-code. Executed the asset balance reports to make sure that all conversions are successful.
• Provided warranty support for 2 months before handling it to Production support team.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

SAP FICO functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Understood the AS-IS process, TO-BE process and TO-BE reporting requirements for the client.
• Blue printed the business requirements and performed the GAP analysis.
• Suggested different business processes of settling AUC to assets and implemented one of them.
• Integrating with general ledger by assigning GL accounts to the asset classes and maintaining depreciation keys.
• Maintaining multi-level methods and performing depreciation run. Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes.
• Determined various reporting needs of the Asset Accounting and created BPPs for standard SAP reports.
• Tested AA Scenarios: Asset Master Creation, chart of depreciation, inter-company asset transfers without revenue, retirement with sale and disposal of asset.
• Configuration of IM with project systems: Configured budget profile, plan profile and assigned to program type. Created and budgeted investment program.
• Configured coding mask for appropriation requests, and created allowed values for master data fields like priority, scaling etc
• Worked with the development team in debugging the custom objects based on issues raised by the users. Provided the fixes for the issues depending on priority.
• Worked on SAP batch job monitoring, SAP notification creation, updating tasks and closing notifications in SAP.
• Created project profiles for capital projects. Configured investment, budget, plan and settlement profile, assigned to the project profile.
• Created coding mask for projects. Defined tolerance limits for project availability control.
• Did planning with appropriation requests and WBS elements. Provided to Power Users on how to create appropriation requests, WBS elements and budgeting projects and WBS elements.
• Provided user on how to use project builder and project budget availability control.
• Created projects for capital investment projects and overhead costs and settled them to AUC and cost centers respectively.
• Created a report painter report to view project actuals and commitments.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

SAP FICO functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business requirements, conducted discussions with consultants and drafted business Blueprint documentation.
• FI-AR: Configured Accounts Receivable and credit management modules. Maintained terms of payment for customers, Created reconciliation accounts for down payment.
• FI-AP: Maintained terms of payment for vendors, defined terms of payment for installment payments, defined cash discount base for incoming invoices. Worked on Automatic payment program and configured bank accounting.
• Integration: Worked with the SD team in analyzing and implementing the order to cash (OTC) process. Configured customer records, account groups, tolerance groups, automatic account determination for over/under payments, revenue account determination, pricing, cash discounts, overall A/R employee tolerances, and reporting.
• Integration of FI-MM involved creating automatic account assignment, logistic invoice verification. Involved in procure to pay process starting from purchase order till payment to the vendor. Involved in inventory valuation Goods Receipt, Damaged goods/Discrepancy Goods Receipt from production, Inter-warehouse transfer, storage location to storage location transfer, Provision for stock, End of period valuation and Period End closing in the PTP process.
• Worked on Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Cost Center Accounting (CCA).
• Participated in User acceptance testing and categorized defects according to severity and worked on them accordingly.
• Tested client specific interfaces, including month end, and year-end closing process.
• Testing and review of the programs for the upload of the master and transaction data from the existing legacy systems using LSMW for Vendor, Customer, and GL Master Records.

Confidential, Hunt Valley, MD

SAP FI Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• FI-AR: Created Credit Control Areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers. Customized forms for dunning balance list and confirmation of balances for period closing.
• Grouping the company’s vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas. Involved in creating Lock box configuration for enabling customer payments.
• Prepared the settings for lock box accounts and used EDI with the help of IDOCs to transfer the lockbox data to SAP.
• FI-AP: Defined accounts for cash discount taken, accounts for payment differences for manual outgoing payments, and reconciliation accounts for down payment given to vendors; defined payment block reasons and default values for payment block.
• Integration: Worked with MM and SD Team to Configure Automatic Account Assignments.
• Cost center accounting: Configured the basic settings for cost centers, define cost center hierarchy and created number ranges for cost centers, created cost center groups, primary and secondary cost elements, Involved in Manual and automatic postings.
• Profit Center Accounting (PCA): 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. Worked on implementation of foreign currency valuation and multicurrency implementation.
• Internal Orders: Configured the Internal order and created the order settlement, PA settlement structure, Order Planning and Budgeting
• Profitability Analysis (COPA): Derivations, Table Maintenance in various operating concerns, Integration with SD and MM, especially in a Split environment, Distribution and assessment cycles, transferring the CO-PA Planning Values to Profit Centers and Creation and Display of the Profitability Reports from the management perspective using Drill down Reporting, Maintaining Default Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions, Overhead Structure for Accrual Costs, Planning Layout and Profile. Involved in preparing planning and actual cost reports using report painter and report writer.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6

Responsibilities:

• Configured account groups, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, G/L account master records, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, financial statement versions, number ranges and document types, line item layouts
• Supported GL, AR, AP, CCA, IO, PCA and COPA issues. Suggested and implemented process improvements.
• Regular interaction with the Super users, understanding their requirements and developing Specifications per Customer Requests.
• Supported and resolved post-implementation issues with Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis.
• Providing Post Go Live Support and involving in configuration changes for better process improvements.