SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in implementing, customizing and configuring SAP R/3 4.7 - ECC 5.0 and ECC6.0 in both FI and CO modules.
• Three full life cycle implementation experiences with ASAP methodology, proficient in interacting with business users to identify information need and initiate process change and expertise in business process engineering.
• Solid experience in gathering business requirements, blueprinting, mapping business requirements to SAP environment, realization, final preparation, data migration, cut over planning, go live and supporting.
• Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to understand the shortcomings of SAP business processes, capture justified user requirements, and manage these through to completion within a structured development cycle.
• Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), New G/L, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset accounting (FI-AA), and Treasury-Cash Management (TR-CM).
• Worked on different aspects of FI Transactions such as Inter Company Transactions, Reconciliation Accounts, Partial and Residual Payments, Credit Memos/ Dunning and Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items.
• Controlling experience includes Cost element Accounting (CO-CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA).
• Hands on experience in configuring Cost Elements (CO-CEA), Cost Centers (CO-CCA) and Cost Element Categories and configuring Assessment and Distribution cycles.
• Sound knowledge in migration from GL to New GL right from creation of blue print for new GL to the customization of document splitting, allocation, planning, Zero Balancing of documents.
• Configuration of output tax, input tax & withholding (WHT) tax requirements in accordance with local and US tax laws.
• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Banks accounting, Foreign Currency valuation and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing and testing the lockbox functionality.
• Sound knowledge in validations of SOX, GMP, GXP and FDA, IFRS regulated environments.
• Experience in Unit, Integrating and User Acceptance Testing and knowledge of Report Painter, Report Writer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bedford, MA

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0, SAP PI, Diver, Vertex O Series, and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all phases of implementation from development of business blueprinting, conducting workshops, GAP Analysis.
• The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process, organization structure finalizing and mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support.
• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Configured reconciliation accounts and alternative reconciliation accounts, tolerance groups for employees, G/L accounts, Vendors and Customers.
• Assigned Number Ranges for Documents, Vendors and Customers, reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Made settings for GL accounts for AUC, Loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, and posting depreciation under different Depreciation Areas.
• Worked on different Consolidation (ECCS) levels like Statutory Consolidation, Business Area Consolidation and Profit centre Consolidation.
• Maintained the budget profiles and tolerance limit for the availability control, defined the Project coding mask, by creating the project file and status profile in Project Systems (PS).
• Configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing.
• Configured credit control area, cost elements, cost centers, profit centers, costing based COPA, account based COPA, created characteristic and value fields, and configured valuation-using product costing sheet.
• Extensively worked on cost estimate updates, costing run in Product Costing, implemented Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure and Configured Costing Variants for Base Planning Object, standard cost estimate and current cost estimate.
• Defined Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Date Control, Quantity Structure Control, and Transfer Strategy for the costing variants in Product Costing.
• Configured Costing Variants for Preliminary Costing in Cost Object Controlling,
• Maintained overhead cost elements, defined costing sheets, allocations and settlements in CO.
• Sound knowledge in Foreign currency revaluation, individual value adjustment and flat rate individual value adjustment.
• Experience with FSCM Credit Management, FSCM Dispute Management, and FSCM Collections Management and also created business partner in FSCM.
• Responsible for carrying out Valuation in COPA planning to access pricing and product cost information for products having planned quantities, thereby allowing projected revenue and cost-of-sales figures to be calculated automatically.
• Defined internal order types, planning and settlement profile and created standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, distribution and assessments in CO-PCA.
• Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for variance documents, used report painter and report writer.
• Worked with multiple currencies, US taxes and sales taxes, Maintained tax codes and tax jurisdiction codes for company codes worked with Vertex O Series.
• Worked on withholding Tax concepts, including year-end 1099 & 1042 tax processing and reporting.
• Configured VAT Tax codes for European countries to calculate the sales/purchase tax.
• Created Lock box, Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
• Worked on EBS, Positive pay, ACH payments using NACHA file formats, and Wire Transfer.
• Configured automatic payment program (FBZP) for outgoing payments, which included payment methods, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, and automatic account determination using FBKP.
• Created check lots, voided checks for payment blockage, and reissue of destroyed checks.
• Expertise in LSMW for data migration from Legacy system to SAP system.
• Enhancements to existing Validations and Substitutions for FI module.
• Proficiency in writing Functional Specs for all RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflow) objects, strong knowledge in using BAPI, BADI, User exits and also worked with interfaces like SFDC, Secure Care Online.
• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirement, transfers, depreciation calculation, write-offs and post capitalization.
• Integration of MM and SD with FI accounts assignment and appropriation request, investment measure in Investment Management.
• Prepared the Cutover plan and carried out cutover tasks as per schedule and frequent meetings for discussion of issues, new requirement and fixing bugs.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI, Ariba, Vertex O Series, Transport express and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis of AS-IS business - To-Be process, gap analysis, BPP and finalizing the Business Blueprint.
• Created G/L Master records, accounts groups, assigned number ranges for account groups and G/L accounts for each company code, substitutions and validations rules for documents, recurring entries.
• Implemented customization in the areas of AP-payment program, AR-credit control, dunning, customer master data, retained earning account assignment, employee tolerance, customer tolerance limits.
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot. Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in AP, payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable check printing, periodic Sales and US tax reporting, and related month end financial reports.
• Used Vertex to consolidate and determine all the domestic and international taxes, computing and recording tax on post-purchase goods movement transactions by using the Tax engine Vertex.
• Worked on withholding tax process and also performed yean end 1099 reporting.
• Customized Credit Management Functionality including Maintenance of Credit Control Areas, Credit Risk Categories, and Credit Representative Groups etc and performed timely execution of WBS Settlement.
• Defined Reason codes, Customized Reason Code Conversion Versions & Mapped external reason codes to the defined reason codes to facilitate accountability for the underpayment and overpayment of incoming payments from customers.
• Within the treasury module configured, Cash Management to obtain the cash position and liquidity forecast and recreated groups within Cash Management.
• Configuring and testing of the Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) process including Invoice verification online, Document parking, Invoice verification in the background, Automatic settlements, Invoices received via EDI and Automatic payment processing
• Configured lockbox, generated bank advices and account posting. Imported and processed Electronic bank statements (EBS) worked with BAI2 file formats. Created lockboxes at house bank and configured control parameters and posting data. Configured G/L account structure for each bank account. Configured electronic bank statement and worked with different file formats (Multi-cash and BAI).
• Worked on EBS, Positive pay, ACH payments and Wire Transfer, liquidity forecast and configuring and customizing multiple payment methods and automatic clearing.
• Solved problems on Invoice, Cash Application, Lockbox, Electronic Payments, Automatic Customer Payment, clearing programs, Settlement, Adjustments, and Credit Management and Banking integration.
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CO - CCA) included creation of cost center hierarchy and cost center groups, assigned work center to cost centers.
• Configured CO-Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules and Settlement Profiles.
• Set up of CO-PA planning framework, planning levels, planning methods and planning layouts.
• Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, maintained versions, distribution, and assessment.
• Experience in integrating SAP ECC 6.0 with Vertex O Series and creating tax codes for US and Canada to calculate sales and user taxes.
• Experience in configuring tax codes for VAT to calculate taxed in European countries.
• Experience with FSCM Credit Management, FSCM Dispute Management, and FSCM Collections Management and also created business partner in FSCM.
• Uploaded master data records of customers from the legacy ERP system into SAP through LSMW and ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for all customers.
• Written Functional Spec’s for all RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflow) objects.
• Implemented a Custom process with the help of IDOC Functionality, which enables the successful processing of data files even though there are errors at line item level.
• Wrote the documentation for the roles in the company according to the SOX regulations and created different test scenarios using the Mercury Quality Center in order to test the configuration.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI, SAP ARIBA, Tax ware, Transport express and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project implementation from ‘Blueprinting’ to ‘Go-Live’.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly Interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Configured customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, account assignments, defined various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
• Identified one-time Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client.
• Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration with BAI2 format, cash management and planning levels in treasury and worked on Electronic bank statements (EBS).
• Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL.
• Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation.
• Created additional ledger and Special Purpose Ledger to work with the New GL.
• Created integrated asset acquisition and defined account assignment type for Asset Account, Account Assignment Objects for the Depreciation Areas.
• Made settings for the Dunning procedure and configured the dunning procedure
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of Fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset.
• Configured setting for revaluation of Fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Configured Cost center accounting (CCA), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (PA), and Product Costing (PC).
• Integrated Product Costing with MM and SD, and worked for better reporting in Profitability Analysis
• Maintained costing types, costing sheets, overhead groups and overhead keys in Product Costing
• Tested report generation using reporting tools Report Painter and report writer and performed end user training and documented training materials for the users.

Confidential, Montville, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI, SAP CRM, Vertex, Transport express and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Studied And Understood the Changes in the Standard SAP System for the new version and prepare change configuration scripts.
• Was a Team member of the customization and implementation group of the FI/CO Module
• Interacted with Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
• Prepared a document of all the changes made, bug fixes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes during the Upgrade.
• Supported all phases of a Project Life Cycle Including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment of Solutions, as well as Documentation, and End-User Training.
• Worked on integration testing extensively on end to end scenarios involving cross functional modules such as MM & SD.
• Did extensive configurations in Procure to pay process involving Logistics Invoice verifications & MM-Purchasing.
• Configuration of New G/L and created Blue Print for New G/L, Plan of Migration, Tested and Performed Migration.
• Activated New General Ledger, Created Leading and Non Leading Ledgers for the different Company Codes and activated Parallel Accounting for the Different Accounting Principles like US GAAP and other countries.
• Configured Product Cost Planning, Marking, Releasing the Cost Estimate in Price Updating and defined Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy.
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure and calculated costs on Production Order, Standard and Modified Cost Estimate and worked on Price Update.
• Configured Costing Variant, Valuation Variant, Cost Component Split, Cost Component Structure, BOM and Route Settings.
• In Cost Object Controlling configured Product Cost by Order, WIP calculation and Variance Analysis using Planned and Actual Costs
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, manual cost element creation, activated reconciliation ledger.
• Created Cost Center groups and Cost Centers, Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.
• Used Report Painter, Report Writer for reporting during the implementation of the project and developed reports.
• In Project Systems, Created Projects, WBS Elements, Project coding mask and budgeting.
• Designed & helped build interfaces to create the WBS elements from the Legacy systems to facilitate the settlement of work orders to WBS elements.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements.
• Attended training sessions, and practice sessions to cope the organization.
• Maintained Company Codes & Company Code Global Parameters.
• Configured additional House Banks, Bank Accounts, and Check Lots.
• Defined Reason codes for the payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to GL accounts.
• Configured Posting Keys, Number Ranges & Document Types.
• Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by adding GL accounts as per the client’s requirements.
• Customized the Financial Statement Versions and assigned it to the Chart of Accounts
• Created Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, and Customer Master Record etc.
• Created Cost centers, Profit centers and completed the account assignment for the cost objects.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups and maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data, Purchasing Data that reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• Created tax invoices for the customers and recorded the invoices sent by the vendors.
• Made necessary changes for the validations and substitutions, defined rules and messages for the substitutions.
• Created end to end order flow with the purchase/sales orders to billing with an accounting document tied to the flow.
• Defined the account keys for the access sequence and automatic account determinations for the Pricing and conditions.
• Configured the additional Depreciation areas and defined depreciation keys.
• Worked on the Derived depreciation area, screen layouts of Fixed assets.
• Established a connection between the asset master records and the corresponding accounts in the GL in Financial Accounting through account determination.
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups.
• Configured system settings in the areas of FI-GL transactions, House bank, Tax, AP - Payment Program, Bank reconciliation, AR - Customer Credit, Credit controls, Credit memos, Period end closing, EDI and performed Dunning.
• Integrated FI with MM, SD and participated in the logistic invoice verification for the Logistics.
• Worked on the year-end activities and transfer of accounts and month end closing activities.
• Participated in the data migration and go live process, and generated appropriate reports.
• Supported productions issues and worked on the issue tickets and performed the end user training on the check management in APP.

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP BI, SAP SRM, Tax ware, Transport express and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business partners and end users to identify the business requirements, determined the impact to various business areas and documented the findings.
• Prepared business requirement document, functional requirement document, project scoping document, work flow diagrams and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio.
• Studied the integration of various departments and focused key areas and tasks of each area, extensively worked in the FI integration with logistics and sales and distribution for proper FI reporting.
• Independently worked in configuring FI sub-areas including GL, AP, AR, Cost Center, Internal Order and Profit Center in CO area.
• Created tax code, jurisdiction code, tax calculation procedure in sales and purchase, confirmed the output and tax report for sales and purchase.
• Tested and verified FI period end closing procedures, automatic account assignment of FI with CO, MM and SD, automatic payment program for incoming/outgoing invoices and validated FI master data.
• Prepared risk assessment report based on technology, technical issue, development environment, experience staff, available tools and prepared feasibility study report.
• Created use cases and use case diagrams, used UML tool - Rational Rose for the development and modeling of use UML diagrams.
• Assisted in developing functional, conceptual and logical design specification document, worked in creating test plan, use cases and test cases, documented the bugs and bug fixes.
• Persistently overseeing the change request process along with facilitating weekly meeting with business and technology team to assist in timely and quality project completion.
• Worked with project management to establish deadline of each test phase and for the completion of project deliverables, tested various test cases to ensure the quality of product and cover business requirements.
• Actively participated during the UAT phase to understand feature enhancement and demonstrated the core module of the system to the client team.