SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of strong functional experience in implementing SAP FI - CO as a Functional Consultant, Business Analyst and End User Trainer.
• Involved in Two full life cycle implementations of FI/CO projects.
• Supported all phases of Project life cycle including Process Design, Configuration and Development, Testing, Go-Live, Production Support, as well as Documentation and End - User training
• Functional Expertise in FI (GL, AP, AR, FA) Treasury, Cash Management, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, COPA, Info-Pak, UPerform End user training, and developing Test Scripts.
• Delivered different training sessions from small to large groups from client side.
• Proficient in Order to Cash and Procure to Pay processes Automatic Account Determination and Credit Management.
• Accounts Receivables/ Payables: Creating Customer/ Vendor Master Records, configuring and Customizing account groups, terms of payments, tolerance groups, Automatic Payment Program, house banks, check management, reason codes.
• Treasury: Lock-box processing, manual and automatic bank statement, mapping bank accounts with GL accounts, and processing incoming checks.
• Controlling: Cost Center/ Cost Element Accounting; Configuring and customizing the cost element/ cost centers.
• Strong understanding of business processes of various industry segments.
• Self-motivated and goal oriented team player with strong technical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment and effectively meets deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP ECC 5.0 6.0
• SAP FI/CO
• GL
• AP
• AR
• FA
• Treasury
• Cash Management
• Cost Centers
• Profit Centers
• COPA
• UPerform
• HPQC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Towson, MD

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as SAP FICO SME for global re-organization of SAP landscape and managed small projects
• Supported Business blueprint workshops and work sessions with business counterparts for requirement gathering.
• Created functional specifications for conversion of open Accounts Payable, open Accounts Receivable
• Participated in data cleansing, data enrichment sessions and data consistency exercises
• .Configured new GL landscape - chart of accounts, account groups, fiscal year variant and posting period variants
• Configured and managed Dunning Process for Customer Payments.
• Design New GL splitting rules - Mapped Items categories to GL accounts.
• Worked with key business counterparts to create test scripts for Unit test scripts, and Integration test scripts
• Work with integration of SAP FI with MM and SD
• Provided Production Support in Record to Report domain including Continuous Business Improvement

Confidential, Chicago IL

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Implementation blue print workshops and created Level-1 and level-2 process documents.
• Worked with business process managers to understand the As-Is process and identify any Gaps
• Created process flow documents based on the To-Be process design
• Worked with cross teams to identify key integration points in different processes.
• Configured Customer Account Groups, Credit Control Area, Payment Terms
• Configured integration of FI with SD by setting up account determination rules.
• Created Test plans for unit testing and Integration testing

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Blue-Print phase, workshops and work sessions with business counterparts for requirement gathering.
• Analyze requirements, and develop process designs Documentation for AP, AR and GL.
• Configure and manage Dunning Process for Customer Payments.
• Perform configuration of GL which consists of Defining Chart of Accounts, Account groups and general ledger accounts for each company code.
• Design New GL splitting rules - Mapped Items categories to GL accounts.
• Collaborate with business counter parts in preparing and executing Unit Testing, Integration Testing.
• Work with integration of SAP FI with MM and SD.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Senior FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported COPA relevant configuration for management reporting.
• Resolved issues and tickets utilizing Remedy relevant to FI/CO as part of production support.
• Supported and facilitated in requirements gathering for Enhancements of new interfaces and reports.
• Provided training to different groups in FI/CO using uPerform and Snagit.
• Conducted meeting with clients and team member on regular basis to ensure constant feedback is incorporated in the implementation plan and documentation.
• Provided hands on assistance in Financial, Controlling, Sales and Distribution, and Material Management Modules.
• Prepared Business Process and Configuration Documents.
• Assisted users in resolving Finance issues which involved Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, General Ledger, and Asset Accounting.
• Worked on various Production Change Requests (PCRs) on Finance Issues which involved documenting the detailed description of the configuration changes to the SAP production system.
• Analyzed the changes and business impact of these changes, and documented the approval response including change implementation information.
• Worked on G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, reversal of documents, opening and closing periods, field status variants, validation, substitution, currency translations, document types and posting keys.
• Utilized vendor invoice, vendor payment, payment with discount, block payment, transfer with and without clearing for vendors, line item display for vendors, reconciliation, park document, Manual payment for vendors, reversal of document, checks register, reissue, and void checks in AP.
• Configured costing based Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), characteristic and value fields.
• Defined Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy.
• Integrated SD and MM module with FI and CO.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in FI/CO and MM Modules, specifically in the configuration of FI (New GL, AP, AR), and FI-SD and FI-MM integration.
• Participated in Blue-Print phase, workshops and work sessions with business counterparts for requirement gathering.
• Analyzed requirements, developed process designs, and performed documentation for AP, AR and GL.
• Configured and managed Dunning Process for Customer Payments.
• Performed Configuration of GL: Defining Chart of Accounts, Account groups and general ledger accounts for each company code.
• Defined tolerance groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, Fiscal Year Variants, and field status groups.
• Configured credit profiles and defined master records, linking to reconciliation account in General ledger.
• Worked on Treasury business processes: configuration of Automatic payment program, house banks, Payment methods, ACH, CTX and wire payments
• Cleared incoming/outgoing payments in the Customer/vendor sub-ledger, accounting of payment differences, clearing between Vendor and customer accounts, Down payment and adjustment of balance against outstanding dues.
• Configured AP and AR modules for Business processes - Incoming Invoices and Credit Memos, Document types, Posting keys, Outgoing payments, Check Electronic Payments, Outgoing remittance layout and configuration, Vendor Number ranges, Account groups, Payment types, and Terms.
• Created PTP and OTC integration rules with GL by Plant.
• Designed Unit Test scripts and provided updates on the execution status with the help of Business process owners.
• Involved in End User Training, and helped create Test Scripts and Test Scenarios.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Blue Printing phase and participated in Requirement gathering, gap analysis and prototyping the system configuration.
• Resolved issues and tickets utilizing Remedy relevant to FI/CO as part of production support.
• Provided detailed hands - on configuration of financial module including organization structures, business processes and configuration and maintenance of master data.
• Worked on configuration of General Ledger master records and setting up of number ranges, account groups, tolerance groups, and field status groups.
• Configured Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable.
• Maintained and configured the vendor and customer master records.
• Defined new customer/vendor account groups, client specific payment terms, vendor/customer invoices, manual incoming/outgoing payments, automatic payment program configuration, partial payments, payment proposal/schedule, payment run, maintained terms of payment for cash discounts.
• Provided support on P2P and OTC processes for FI-SD and FI-MM integration points.
• Customized credit control area for Credit Management by defining the credit control area, credit risk categories and credit profile.
• Participated in the testing cycles and testing mocks.
• Created GL, AR, AP accounts to conduct unit testing and integrated testing.
• Designed training material of different SAP transactions using uPerform tool.
• Assisted end users in running, generating, and understanding the standard reports.
• Resolved end user related errors/issues, and tickets.