SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience delivering SAP FI/CO (Finance and Controlling) and FSCM solutions in the USA for Fortune clients as well as small and medium enterprises. Skilled in SAP Business Suite project management, configuration, testing, cross - module integration, and business processes simplification.
• Highly organized and experienced at interfacing between functional and technical teams. Efficient at delivering client-facing consulting services for all project types and all project life cycle phases.
• 7+ years of SAP FICO and FSCM experience in 3 Full Lifecycle Implementations across the SAP R/3 4.6, 4.7 and ECC 6.0 (EHP 5.0/6.0) environments using ASAP accelerators in each phase of the SAP project: knowledge of business process mapping and re-engineering techniques, “AS IS” v. “TO BE” FIT-GAP analysis, Blueprint, Design, Implementation, Post-Implementation, and Go-Live / Post Go-Live end-user support
• Configuration lead knowledge of FICO sub-modules - GL (New GL), AP, AR, Fixed Assets, PCA, CCA, CO-PA and other Controlling components; thorough understanding of P2P, OTC and R2R processes and experience of working on FICO integration with SD and MM.
• Has worked as a FICO Lead in client-facing environments while maintaining direct relationships with the management teams including CFO, COO and Controllers; conducted several presentations to business and technical audiences as FICO Subject Matter Expert.
• Experience in mentoring FICO/financial team members Onsite, Offshore and at Shared Services locations.
• Deep knowledge of Financial and Accounting processes, SOX compliance requirements, and US GAAP and IFRS principles..
• General Ledger - GL Master, New GL, Special Purpose Ledgers, Document Splitting, Financial Statement Versions, Chart of Accounts, Period End Closing, Account Groups, Automatic Clearing Program, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods, Fiscal Year Variants, Accruals and Deferrals, Recurring Entries, Variant Principles, Field Status Groups, Account Groups.
• Excellent at designing, customizing and documenting RICEFW objects, SAP Scripts and Test Plans
• Accounts Payable - Vendor Master, Payment Run, Vendor Account Groups, Payment Terms, Payment Methods, Vendor Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges. Accounts Receivable - Customer Master, Dunning, Customer Account Groups, Customer Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges.
• Configuration expert of NEW GL, especially in transitioning to IFRS; Cash Applications - Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) - inbound and outbound in the BAI / MT940 file format, Lockbox in the BAI2 / IDOC file format
• Fixed Assets - Asset Master, Asset Classes, Depreciation Methods, Depreciations Keys, Depreciation Run, Asset Purchase, Asset Transfer, Asset under Construction, Revaluation, Retirement, Scrapping.
• Controlling - Cost Centers Accounting, Profit Centers Accounting, Cost Elements, Statistical Key Figures, Profitability Analysis.
• Part of the team involved in configuration, customization and integration of Accounts Receivable and FSCM (Dispute, Collection and Credit management).
• Other - IS-Media, Inter-Company Transactions, Banks, Foreign Currencies, WBS Elements, Internal Orders, MS Office, Remedy, HPQC, MS Visio, MS Project, Hyperion, Concur, Vertex, Dolphin, LSMW.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Environments: SAP R/3 4.6, 4.7. ECC 5.0, 6.0 (EHP 5.0-6.0)

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8, Enterprise Server 2003/2008

RDBMS: MS-SQL Server, MS-Access

SAP R/3 Tools: SAP Solutions Manager 7.1, SAP Business Objects, Report Painter, UAT Script Development & HPQC (6, 10, 11), IBM RQM for SIT, Winshuttle

MS-Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, HTML,Visio, Note

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential - New York, NY

Environment: SAP ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• Worked on review, update and sign-off of complex functional specifications all (RICEFW) interfaces, conversions, enhancements, Forms and Workflows and business process design documents.
• Configuration of FI/CO Module, assigning chart of accounts to company code and cost objects/primary and secondary elements to controlling area, posting period variant, field status variant and field status groups, fiscal year variant, number ranges for accounting documents.
• Migration from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of the migration, data analysis and migration of master/transactional data from legacy systems to SAP ECC6.0 as per the data conversion strategy approved in design phase. Extraction (from legacy system) Conversion Transformation Load (through tools: LSMW, Manual excel).
• Configured SAP bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Positive pay and ACH payments.
• Reviewed Functional and Technical Specs for automated Lockbox processing and Electronic Bank Statement functionality AP F110 payment program and payment advice.
• Analyzed, configured new Credit Management Areas, Credit representative groups, Lockbox system for new business requirements.
• Part of the team involved in configuration of Product costing, Costing Variants, including Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Date Control, and Quantity Structure Control.
• Worked on transports from Development-Quality-Production systems (complete Landscape) coordinating with various teams and understanding the procedures and risks associated with it.
• Performed Functional Unit testing and cutover activities using the testing tool HP Quality Center.
• Coordinated on Tax procedures for sales tax calculations via external tax interface (Vertex).
• Build key organizational and reporting relationship with internal users in areas of corporate accounting, Treasury, Fixed assets, AP, AR and external third party application suppliers, banks and consultants related to SAP.
• Worked with training team to provide user training per training material and business process procedure documents.
• Collaborated with GRC team on business roles (to make sure business and single roles matched to BPML and BPDD) Defined Settlement Structure and Settlement Profiles for settlement of the costs collected in the Internal Orders.

Lead SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential - New York City, NY

Environment: SAP ECC6.0

Responsibilities:

• As a team lead involved in all phases of implementation from Development of Business Blue Print to End-User Training and Go-Live. Involved in Defining Requirements, Process Reengineering, Configuration, Integration, Testing and Training
• Involved in the Development of Functional Process Design and Configured Client Organizational Structure as specified.
• Configured Company codes, Created and maintained Chart of Accounts, Financial Accounting Global Settings.
• Worked on Statutory reporting using Leading and Non-Leading Leger of New GL, Segment reporting, Document Splitting, Inter-company Reconciliation, and Foreign Currency configuration.
• Configured Document types, Posting Period Variants, Fiscal Period Variants and Financial Statement Versions.
• Customized Vendor Master Data, Customer Master Data and Specified Number Ranges.Created G/L Master Records and Reconciliation Accounts for Sub Ledgers.
• Configured Employee and Vendor Tolerance Groups.Tested G/L transactions for Fast-Entry Screens, Posting, Parking and Reversals.
• Customized Account Groups, Field Status Groups and Posting Keys Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Void Reason Codes Configured settings for Automatic Payment Program and for Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line Items
• Extensively worked on Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management.Configured Credit Control Area and Defined Risk Categories, Credit Representatives and Intervals for Days in Arrears.
• Worked with MM and SD Team to Configure Automatic Account AssignmentsDefined tax procedure and tax code for sales and purchases and assigned tax accounts.
• Configured External Tax Package (Vertex software added to SAP configuration)
• Worked with the ABAP team for Customization of FI/CO Tables and User Exits
• Directed Tech Dev to import Master Data from Legacy Systems using LSMW
• Configured Cost and Profit Centers, CCA Allocations, Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Activities, Statistical Key Figures and Substitutions. Configured the Operating Concern, Characteristics and Value Fields for CO-PA Analysis
• Set Various Characteristics and Key Figures to Design User Defined Reports to present Complex Data Analysis in Structure using Report Painter and Report Writer Tools
• Documented the Vital Changes, Performed the System Tests and Trained the members in the client team on New System Functionality
• Involved in writing Integration Testing Scripts as well as User Acceptance Testing ScriptsSupported the client in Post Launch Session and worked on Post Production Issues

SAP FICO Senior Functional Consultant

Confidential, BOSTON

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

• Studied business processes, user requirements, customized SAP standard solutions to fit client's needs and functionality.
• Interaction with client to identify the business process requirement, analyzes methodology, understand the process, and document the prior requirements.
• Configured Controlling Area general settings of activation of Cost Center Accounting, Activity types, Order Management, Sales orders.
• Configured Versions of Plan/Actual/Variance for the Fiscal year.
• Configured Product Cost Planning. Calculation Bases for material consumption and Production Costs, Overhead types and credits for Material Overhead and Production Overhead.
• Defining cost component structure. Assign to Organizational units to Cost Component Structure and activating of cost component structure.
• Configured and Customized Costing based CO-PA, including setting up of the Operating Concern; Configure SAP delivered Characteristics & Value fields, as well as Creation of User Defined.
• Part of the team involved in configuration, customization and integration of Accounts Receivable and FSCM (Dispute, Collection and Credit management).
• Defining of valuation Variant for Object costs being determined.
• Done the Settings for Costing Variant relevant to standard Cost Estimate.
• Configured Cost object controlling-Make to Order Business Processes. Relevant to Production Order Result analysis and settlement.
• Configured relevance to WIP calculation, Overhead calculation, Variance calculation and settlements of Production orders.
• Prepared User Acceptance Test Scripts for Business Scenarios and got the sign off from Core Team. Designed end to end scenarios for integration testing in HPQC.Given training to core user on Master Data and Business Process Transactions. Prepared User manuals for Trained Business Process Transactions.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Environment: SAP ECC 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of the Implementation team for AP / AR, GL (New) and FSCM.
• Production support (financial and operational processes for the recording of all customer transactions: revenue, tax and accounts receivable).
• Maintained House banks with multiple bank accounts and alternate bank selections for payments. Assisted Treasury in configuration/testing Lockbox (BAI2, MT940 formats).
• Defined and implemented void reason codes. Configured the automatic payment program, which was designed to enable processing of wire, ACH, check and lockbox payments.
• Integrated FICO with MM and SD for inventory valuation, movement types, damaged stocks and functions (GR/IR Invoice Verification, order management, pricing, delivery, billing, etc.).
• Defined the LSMW object for uploading AR/AP master data. Restructured vendor and customer master records including vendor payment terms, payment blocks, and reason codes for payment differences. Configured account determinations for write offs and partialpayments.
• Worked on integration of FICO modules with MM/SD/HR/PM/PS and changes in automatic account assignment for material movement for price differences, account and tax determination for FI-SD postings.
• Setup of New Financial Statement versions i.e. balance sheet, cash flow, income statement and multiple currencies.
• Involved in production support for New GL, AP, AR, Fixed assets CCA, Cost elements etc.
• Assisted stakeholders in the development, implementation, and adherence of systems development methodologies within projects.
• Responsible for the Blue printing Phase involving detailed discussions on the current business processes, mapping of the business requirements to SAP, identifying the gaps and recommending suitable workarounds/solutions.
• Liaised with management/users to troubleshoot and resolve system application problems.
• Collaborated with other consultants (internal & external) and stakeholders to implement functional changes.
• Helped/Monitored on cut-over activities in preparation for go-live.
• Provided support/training to core users during implementation and post implementation.

Junior SAP FICO Junior Consultant

Confidential, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Environment: SAP ECC 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Performed process requirements (OTC, PTP) and analysis workshops with clients to define business, process, functional requirements and data element requirements.
• Conducted meetings with Users to gather requirements and to understand the Workflow of the as-Is System.
• Worked through complex SAP process problems, documented the Business Process as Configured in SAP & Ensured proper Integration with other Modules.
• Configured Cost Elements, Cost Objects, such as WBS Elements, Internal Orders, Cost Centers, and Profit Centers for New General Ledger
• Worked closely with process teams in understanding the As-Is system and finalizing design of the To-Be system.
• FI-AR: In Accounts Receivables configured Customer Master Data and customer groups. Configuration of terms of payment.
• FI-AP: In Accounts Payable, created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups.
• Creating House banks, Bank Accounts, Cash Journal. Configured Special G/L transaction, such as down payment program to meet the customer requirement.
• Trained users on using AP and AR screens and how to request support when needed.Responsible for Unit Test and Integration Test business scenario test cases in GL, AP, AR, and AA.

SAP FICO Business Analyst & Assisted Junior Consultant

Confidential - Detroit, MI

Environment: SAP ECC 4.0

Responsibilities:

• An American multinational holding corporation that designs manufactures markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts in 37 countries under eleven brands, including Chevrolet.
• Assisted the BA team in the management and delivery of projects, completion of key analyses focused on comprehensive research and data collection, the development of business cases and the preparation of presentation material
• Defined and configured GL, AP, AR, requirements as well as integration points with MM and SD
• AR - Set up Posting of Inter-Company Code Transactions and Dunning Processing that includes from Creation of Dunning Proposals to Print.
• Created business plans and Excel-based financial models and assisted in developing marketing strategies
• Worked on presentations pertaining to distribution and supply chain
• Assisted in Customizing screen layouts for document entry at account / documentlevels.
• Configured validations for documents, recurring entries, correspondence, taxes, and currencies.
• Conducted interest calculations on account balances and line items.
• Assisted in Customizing Configured and customized Cash Budget Management,including commitment management.
• Configured integration links between FICO & SD to optimize transaction processing.