SUMMARY

• SAP FICO Functional Consultant with over seven plus years of IT experience.
• In depth understanding of business processes relating to SAP Finance and Controlling.
• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation, Rollout, Support and Upgrade projects.
• Worked on Three Full Life Cycle Implementations using SAP ASAP methodology.
• Active role in different phases of implementation from gathering client requirements, conducting GAP Analysis, preparing Business Blue Print document, Configuration, Unit Testing, User Training and Production Support.
• Very good understanding of business processes across different industry verticals like retail, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, public sector and construction.
• Strong knowledge in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts - MBA, Finance.
• Experience in integrating FI and CO modules with logistics modules SD and MM.
• Hands on experience in configuration of FI module, which includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting, Treasury, Bank Accounting and Special Purpose Ledger.
• Extensive experience in configuration of CO module, which includes Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Cost Centre Accounting (CCA), Assessment & Distribution, Internal Orders, Profit Centre Accounting (PCA), Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Consolidation.
• Knowledge of multi currency and parallel currency evaluation.
• Worked on different aspects of FI transactions like Inter Company Transactions, Reconciliation Accounts, Automatic Payment Program, Partial & Residual Payments, House Banks and Dunning.
• Experience in migration of GL to New GL.
• Experience in configuration of Bank Accounting and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Knowledge of US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and SOX (Sarbanes Oxley Act).
• Experience in using tools like Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Experience in master data upload using LSMW.
• Provided training for users on various processes, prepared training documents and user manuals.
• Excellent analytical skills in understanding the business process.
• Very good organizational, interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills with proven ability to interact across multiple levels of organization.
• Demonstrated strong technical and leadership skills to deliver projects efficiently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Packages: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0

Reporting Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), UML, SDLC, Business process restructuring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Translated business requirements into SAP Functional and Configuration requirements.
• Involved in preparation of BBP Documents (ASAP methodology) and Q&A database.
• Configured Organization Structure, General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Accounts Payable (AP).
• Identified one time vendors and customers and defined customized screen layouts for them.
• Configured Accounts Payable, vendor groups, vendor master records, tolerance limits (for over and under payments), payment terms and payment methods.
• Involved in configuration of Automatic Payment Program.
• Configured Accounts Receivables, customer groups, customer master records and customized payment methods.
• Configured for vendor/customer who is also customer/vendor.
• Configured system to handle various scenarios in receivables like down payments, discounts, credit memos, etc.
• Configured dunning procedures for customers with outstanding balances and also responsible for debit and credit memos.
• Configured Bills Of Exchange and House Banks for the payment program.
• Configured Cost Centre Accounting by creating cost centre standard hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.
• Configured internal orders by maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, planning profile, allocation structure and settlement profiles.
• Created Financial Statement Version for balance sheet and P&L reports.
• Involved in preparation of end user documentation and trained end users majorly on GL, AP and AR .
• Problem resolution as part of support-analyzed the tickets which included identification of issue, determining the root cause of issue and issue resolution.
• Helped users in handling partial and residual payments.
• Prioritized issues based on level of severity and priority levels and classified them as problem request, service requests and change requests..

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of business requirement workshops.
• Conducted GAP analysis for existing system and proposed system.
• Prepared BBP documents.
• Done base line configuration.
• Defined screen layouts and number ranges for both customers and vendors.
• Defined credit control areas and credit limits for customers.
• Involved in creation of customer and vendor master record.
• Ensured that bank and correspondence data is entered for each customer and vendor.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable
• Involved in migrating customer and vendor master data through LSMW.
• In controlling, maintained controlling area, created number ranges, maintained versions.
• In cost element accounting, configured automatic creation of cost elements and created master data for cost elements by grouping the cost elements
• Provided user training on various processes, majorly on CO-PA, Internal Orders and basic navigation in SAP system.
• Involved in integration FICO module with SD and MM.
• Involved in unit testing and integration testing.
• Prepared configuration and test results documents for FI and CO.
• Responsible for creation of customized reports.

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared AS-IS model of the system and problems & inconsistencies in the existing system are identified using GAP Analysis.
• Organizational structure and business processes are studied.
• Configured organizational structure by creating company code, chart of accounts and GL master data.
• Screen layouts for GL, AR, AP data entry and report displays are customized.
• Configured customer groups and customer master data.
• Risk categories are defined and credit limits for customers are specified.
• Generated reports for various customer credit management.
• Defined interest calculation types, reason codes and assigned them to GL accounts.
• Configured automatic interest calculations on line items.
• Configured Inter Company Transactions for finance and revenue processes.
• Designed and configured Electronic Bank Statement.
• Configured New GL and Document Splitting.
• Involved in migration from GL to New GL.
• Worked on Order to Cash and Procure to Pay in association with SD and MM teams respectively.
• Existing system is studied and gaps are identified before going for the configuration.
• Maintained Controlling Area settings.
• Configured settings for controlling area and operating concerns.
• In Profitability Analysis configured both costing based and account based CO-PA.
• Maintained versions in profitability analysis.
• Worked on designing standard hierarchy for Profit Centre Accounting (PCA) and Cost Centre Accounting (CCA) to fulfill the reporting requirements.
• Restructured Profit Centre Hierarchy and Profit Centers.
• Profit centre account groups are created.
• Restructured assignments to profit centers.
• Planning framework is set and worked on planning layout.
• Configured internal orders by maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, planning profile, allocation structure and settlement profiles.
• Mentored users in CO-PA.

Confidential, Port Washington, NY

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration and testing of Finance and Controlling modules.
• All processes, user procedures and system requirements which need to be extended to new company code are reviewed and analyzed.
• Involved in configuration of company code, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, field status variant, document types, number ranges, tolerance groups and assigned them to company code.
• Extended global chart of accounts and corresponding assignments, account groups, field status variants.
• Defined reference accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models.
• Part of master data maintenance, special purpose ledgers, creating house banks, assigning bank accounts to house banks, bank reconciliation statements, and automatic payment program.
• Involved in Asset Accounting by creating chart of depreciation, screen layout rules, asset classes, depreciation areas and depreciation keys.
• Integrated asset accounting with general ledger after configuring asset master data, depreciation areas and depreciation keys.
• Involved in maintaining controlling area settings.
• Involved in integration testing of the accounting modules with SD and MM modules.
• Created testing strategies for unit testing and regression testing.
• Involved in testing of document postings, document reversals, invoices and payments.
• Tested house banks, bank accounts and posting rules for automatic assignments.
• Verified and validated that tests are conducted and documented according to the standards approved by management.
• Involved in testing the functionality and usability of the system from end user perspective.
• Assisted training team in development of training manual and documenting the daily activities.

Confidential, Canonsburg, PA

SAP FICO Consultant / Tester

Responsibilities:

• Handled assigned tickets based on level of severity.
• Analyzed and provided quick solutions to the problems raised by FI and CO users.
• Tickets were mainly based on AP, AR and CO-PA.
• Interacted with users when necessary to solve the problems.
• Assisted users in GL transactions like fast data entry, document splitting, holding and parking.
• Trained end users on day to day to transactions like document reversals, intercompany transactions, etc.
• Supported users to get the required reports from the SAP ECC system.
• Prepared training documents for GL, AP, and AR.
• Trained users on GL, AP and AR.
• Trained users on month end and year end closing activities.
• Made changes to configuration settings like addition of new account groups and accounts based on the requirement.

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

SAP Tester-FI

Responsibilities:

• Mapped client requirements into SAP processes, solutions and products that were being implemented.
• Involved in preparation of BBP documents.
• Involved in preparation of functional and technical specifications for the new custom developments.
• Responsible for configuring and testing the system for GL and New GL related business processes.
• Involved in migrating customer and vendor master data through LSMW.
• In GL, tested business processes such as fast entry screens, posting, parking, reversals, holding and month end closings.
• Manually tested GL master records, field status groups and posting keys.
• Tested FICO transactions for field errors and missing data in SAP standard programs.
• Fixed issues with valuation areas for material ledger, maintained number ranges and assigned currency types to material ledger.
• Involved in integration of AP and AR modules with MM and SD modules respectively.
• Modified existing test cases and prepared additional test cases as per the new requirements.
• Involved in unit testing, integration testing and regression testing.
• Tested report painter and report writer reports.