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Senior Sap Fico Consultant Resume

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Sfo, CA

SUMMARY

  • SAP Certified Solution Consultant having more than 10+ years of rich experience in ERP - SAP ECC 6.0, 4.7 and 5.0 versions with 2 end to end Implementation project as a Finance and Controlling Consultant.
  • Good understanding in SAP S/4 HANA-Simple Finance.
  • SAP experience encompasses expertise in Implementing, Customizing, Configuring System upgrade, Conversion and Integrating, Testing, End to End testing, End User training, Data migration and Production Support of R/3 with different versions including ECC 6.0 and in phases like Cut-Over, Deliver, Go-live and Post Go-live.
  • Expertise in General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, House Bank configuration.
  • Good expertise in Configuration, Design, Development, Testing, Trouble shooting, Documentation and Reporting in FI/CO.
  • Hands on experience in Dunning Process and its functionality in SAP.
  • Sound knowledge in Automatic Payment Program and its payment functionality to Customers and vendors with payment Advice through SAP.
  • Good Understanding in PSM - Public Sector Management for effective Funds management.
  • Good knowledge in Auto bank clearing and Banking, bank interface (Swift, MT940, BAI)
  • Extensive experience in requirements gathering and documenting by preparing Business Requirement document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Software/Technical Requirement Specification (SRS) covering all business process deliverables in a project.
  • Extensive experience in Tax code configuration.
  • Good Knowledge in Project Systems Module for WBS, project definitions and Cost centre creation from Scratch for the new business requirement.
  • Worked in ticketing tools like HPOV, HPSM, HPQC, Peregrine
  • Good understanding in VIM - Vendor Invoice Management (open text VIM) and Master Data Management (MDM) related to FICO & Project Systems.
  • Having a very good knowledge in SAP Travel management and its functionality, this includes both SAP and Legacy Systems which is maintained for travel expense booking.
  • Good Knowledge in Controlling - PCA, CCA, CO-PA and Special purpose Ledger.
  • Good knowledge in designing the Roles and Authorization matrix for finance and Controlling Module in SAP for the whole business team.
  • Excellent ability to work independently and team environments with developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - SFO, CA

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC (version 6.0), Project Systems/Plant Maintenance - and Oracle Primavera P6

Responsibilities:

  • Played a major role in SPSI - (SAP Project Systems Integration) P6 - Primavera with project Systems (PS) and Plant maintenance (PM) conversion factory for all the three level of Business units (Power, Gas and Electricity).
  • Implementing a new project Definition and WBS Structure in PS with OAA - Operational Account Assignment for all Lines of business across the PG&E business Groups.
  • Discussion with various Lines of Business leads for project Consolidation which has to be converted for SPSI Conversion.
  • Validated the Master data records like Plant Maintenance Order, Planning order, Actual Cost, MAT code, Major Work category field, project Status, order type, functional Location and County code etc. before conversion.
  • P6 - Primavera System (Oracle) interacts with SAP through interface called Maxavera where the Project definition and WBS Structure will be created in P6 Scheduler List in “Generated Node”
  • Actual cost laying in Old PM order will be transferred to new OAA PM Order through KB61 and KB65 transaction code for (Material and Labor Cost) which is automated in SAP through a customized program and remaining unsettled cost will be settled through a journal entry for the new OAA PM order as per the business process.
  • Coordination with P6 Scheduling team to make sure their activity is completed for each and every project which is send from SAP to P6.
  • Worked Closely with Business Cost Accounting Team for Actual Cost reposting, Project Forecast reporting issues as part of SPSI conversion project.
  • Conducted Various Workshops in Quality System by giving a demo to each lines of business, for them to get a good grip on the new SPSI process and its advantage.
  • Guidance given to the business users in the SPSI Conversion project perspective by giving a SPSI process Job Aid document and through remote Support whenever it is required.
  • Converted around 1500 approx. P (dot) projects to new SPSI projects as per the business plan document which is almost 8 to 10 projects we have converted per day.
  • Provided adequate Training to business users in creating the master data like creation of planning order, PM order, Notification, Project Creation and final validation of certain key fields, which is more important in SPSI Enhancement part.
  • Maintaining the validated documents in the project share Folder for the SOX Audit perceptive and for Top Management and Record to Report (R2R) reference.

Confidential, Minneapolis

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC, version 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • Participating actively in analyzing error, researching the cause of the error and solving the issues relating to financial accounting module (FI module) and controlling modules (CO).
  • Resolved issues relating to Payment program (APP). Substitutions for Profit center derivations.
  • Defined activity types, Created cost center and cost center categories and maintained automatic account assignment in OKB9.
  • Worked on Functional designs and wrote functional specs according to the business requirements
  • Provided daily support for customizing issues and retraining the new end users for the various functions.
  • Co-ordination of tickets with offshore resources to ensure that the tickets are resolved.
  • Design, configure and test core FI/CO modules & providing basic training SAP FI/CO end users.
  • Worked in Record to Report Process - R2R for Sub Modules like Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable.
  • Defined assessment, distribution cycles and reposting rules amongst cost centers.
  • Preparing test scenarios& writing test scripts.
  • Made the configuration changes and implemented various SAP Notes and corrections required as per business documents.
  • Hands on Experience in procure to pay and order to cash process in SAP.
  • Gathered business requirements and created functional specifications for business critical projects.
  • Configuration of new House Banks and Bank Accounts as and when we get the requirement from the business.
  • Creation of various Payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Payables.
  • Creation of vendor accounts, number ranges and its assignment to accounts groups.
  • Experience on document splitting, parallel valuation - Special Purpose Ledger
  • Participated in Month End Closing Processes to carry forward balances to the next period and generating Financial Statements.
  • Monitoring the scheduled background jobs interfacing from other systems to SAP
  • Customizing and Master Data maintenance as per the requests from business team.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC, version 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • All onshore support activities related to FICO. Resolving issues related to Finance and Controlling.
  • Configuration of FICO relevant components required by client.
  • Involved in creating the Functional Specification / Estimation document and co-ordinate with the Technical team for the technical requirements.
  • Responsible for completing all the Unit Testing and the Service calls/Incidents as per SLA.
  • Worked in FI Sub-Modules which covers General Ledger accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Asset Accounting.
  • Worked in GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues
  • Issues related Invoice verification (MIRO)
  • Failed idocs Processing
  • Defining New GL Accounts as per business requirement.
  • Verification of duplicate Customer & Vendor accounts before creating a new master data.
  • Month-end / Year-end Closing activities and Record to Report Process for various Financial Reports.
  • Functional testing for any new development in all three servers development, Quality and finally in production server.
  • Preparing Root cause analysis document for the repeated issue or incidents as per the business process.
  • Preparing the end user training manual for each and every business process.
  • Providing online training for the business users if any new process step inn.
  • Documenting know error data base for future reference and swift action as a proactive measure.
  • Conducting monthly review meeting with the business SPOC for any suggestion and improvement in the currently following process as a value addition to the business.
  • Preparing the monthly MIS report for the incidents received during the month to the Senior Management.
  • In-house Cash (payments on behalf, intercompany netting)
  • Reviewing the pending transport request which is not yet moved to production server by giving the justification documents to the senior management on monthly basis.
  • Providing value addition to the business by analyzing the root cause analysis documents prepared for various incidents received during the month.
  • Worked on SAP production support tickets logged in support tool Remedy or Solution Manager
  • Member of the Internal Audit Group / FICO Support Team.
  • Hands on Experience in P2P and O2C Business process mapped in SAP.
  • Journal Entry Posting, Parking of documents, Release / Post / Delete the parked documents.
  • New GL functionalities e.g. Document splitting, parallel accounting, Ledgers etc., Open Item Clearing
  • Hand on experience in FI Validations and Substitutions
  • Creation of Customer/Vendor Accounts Groups, Number Ranges, and Customer/ Vendor
  • Invoice posting, credit memo and reversal of invoice and Credit memo
  • Customer/Vendor Payment and Clearing
  • Configuring changes in Automatic Payment Program and Dunningfor Vendors/Customers if any.

Confidential, Plano, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC, version 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • Created Organizational Structure - Company Code, Chart of Accounts, Posting Periods, Fiscal year Variant, Field Status group.
  • Client level assignments include - Chart of accounts assignment, Fiscal year variant, filed status variant to the respective company code.
  • Defining Number Ranges for customer, vendors and General Ledger master records for the newly defined company code.
  • Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules.
  • Settings for calculation of terms of Payment and Interest Calculations.
  • Successfully tested Business Transactions in the FI module including G/L postings, recurring entries, customer invoices, payments & Cash journal.
  • Settings for Asset Classes, Depreciation Keys & legacy system postings, transaction types for retirement, transfers and acquisitions.
  • Configured the basic settings for profit center accounting (PCA), maintained profit center standard hierarchy & statistical key figures. Derived profit centers for balance sheet items by maintaining assignment of additional Balance Sheet items in IMG.
  • Assigning New G/L accounting concepts like document splitting, segment reporting, leading & non leading ledger accounts.
  • Worked on lockbox processing, bank accounts, manual and electronic bank reconciliation statements and cash journals.
  • Customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules including creation of Vendor Master Records, Customer Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination & default account assignments.
  • Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments, which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, credit risk management.
  • Configuration Financial Statement Versions, Preparing Financial Statements, Planning and Posting Data& Assigning of New G/L Accounts to Financial Statement Versions.
  • Reports configuration in Day-End Closing, Month-End Closing, Year-End Closing, notes on Programs, Starting Programs and Printing Lists.
  • Configuring Document Reconciliation, Financial Information System and Check Management.
  • Uploaded Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Center hierarchy, Cost Center Groups and Cost Centers. Responsible for assessments, distributions, Statistical Key Figures (SKF) and Activity Types.
  • In Profit Center Accounting, configured Profit center structure, Standard Hierarchy, Configured Profit center Master Data, assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit center Accounting.
  • Created cost center planning layouts and profiles and integrated it with PCA. Defined distribution and assessment cycles in CCA.
  • Preformed duplication check for the Master Data Records before uploading the master Records through LSMW.
  • Defining the Tax procedures and integrating it with the accounting system.
  • Finalized the balances of all accounts in previous accounts. Given post go live support for the team.

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7D, SAP ECC Version 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • Participated in Blueprint to Go Live phase of the SAP 6.0 Environment implementation.
  • Responsible for data migration strategy ensuring data integrity and successful migration between the old and the new system. Adapt using Gap Analysis techniques to gain a clear understanding of the AS IS of the system and additionally gain new user scenarios to understand the potential TO BE system
  • Directed and managed the Change Control Request process for the project as a whole by facilitating group meetings.
  • Performed design reviews for Report Generation for respective SBUs.
  • Responsible for creation/designing of customized reports relating all sub-modules GL, AP, AR, FA, Controlling. Execute the UAT and collect the feedback, defect and share it Business and Tech team.
  • Interacting with MM/SD Consultants to generate master records of customers and vendors as well as monitoring of AP & AR.
  • Creation or changes in Project code, WBS, Network, and Activities (SAP PS)
  • Worked on Report painter, creation of master records, have been actively involved in SAP upgrade project where migration of the data from legacy system and support to user testing was the main responsibility. (SAP FI)
  • Created and tested workflow test scenarios for FI module and business processes.
  • Validated data for FIconversion
  • Gathering and Documenting requirements and Created training data for Training client.
  • Assisted with the implementation of change management plans that minimize employee resistance
  • Communicated daily & weekly project results to PM and core team members.
  • Delivered instructor led training forFI/COmodules and Basic Navigation.
  • Delivered instructor led training formonth end, and year end closing processes.
  • Participated in Train the Trainer workshops.
  • Created training materials forFI/CO end users.

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7D, SAP ECC Version 6.0

Responsibilities:

  • Configured G/L Master records, documents number ranges, posting period variants, reversal Of documents, opening and closing of periods, field status variants, document types, posting Keys.
  • Configured and tested accounts receivable and accounts payable - customer master data, Account groups, number ranges and screen layout rules.
  • Configured the system to handle partial payments, exchange rate differences, payment Advices, payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, payment media, and interest Calculations.
  • Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in AP.
  • Configured asset master records, chart of depreciation and asset sub ledger.
  • In Asset Accounting, defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and Depreciation keys, Asset Classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Also, defined Transaction types for various business transaction likes acquisition, retirement, transfers and Account determination.
  • Configured Cost Element Accounting by creating primary and secondary cost elements, cost Elements groups, maintained cost element attributes and Costing Sheets.
  • Configured Profit center accounting (PCA) by creating Standard Hierarchy, Profit centers, Dummy Profit center.
  • Maintained a settlement profile and settled the AUC asset to a fixed asset for capitalization.
  • Integrated SAP FICO with MM, SD, PS.
  • Collecting business requirement from the client and map to SAP system.
  • Created Operating Concern with definition of characteristics and value fields; Configured Costing Based CO-PA.
  • Maintained Subsystems such as Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Responsible for Processing Payments.
  • Involved in providing solutions against tickets in areas of General Ledger, Accounts
  • Receivable, Accounts Payable and Asset Accounting.
  • Configured Down Payment Received and Down Payment Made for Vendor and Customers which includes accounting configuration and Special GL accounts with reconciliation accounts.

Confidential

Environment: International Banking Operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for Processing Customer Inwards Payments received from various bank clients.
  • Checking the beneficiary name, address and account number and approving the final confirmation to credit the beneficiary account.
  • Processing customer Inward Payments in accordance to the approval process and procedure, and the international regulations.
  • Assist other units in times of need to ensure equal distribution of workload and seamless, execution of departmental tasks in adherence to the approved service level.
  • Responsible for the quality of delivered product and service and at the same time responsible for the speed, accuracy, timeliness of the production.
  • To be fully aware and adhere to the Security Regulations of the system, procedures and Function separations and acting accordance to the organizations information security policies.
  • Reports to be issued in time and with accurate information to the Leads.

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