SUMMARY

• Over Eight Years of domain experience in SAP with right focus on SAP FI/CO Module.
• Involved in Full Life - cycle implementations of SAP R/3 system including Business process Re- engineering, configuration and testing.
• Sound knowledge of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)
• Extensive experience managing and leading onsite, off-shore teams.
• Experience in coordinating an delegating work amongst various team members to effectively get the work completed with the scheduled time-frame.
• Experienced in all stages of projects, Business Process Analysis, As-Is and To-Be designing, Gap Analysis to customization, post live production support. First line of contact in warranty period.
• Proficient in creating Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Use Cases & UML Diagrams
• Extensive experience in configuration and customizing SAP R/3 FI/CO modules.
• Competency in carrying Business Process Analysis, GAP analysis and configuration.
• Preparing questionnaires for clients, Business blue print Prototype and User Manual by implementing ASAP methodologies.
• Mapping legacy Chart of Accounts to SAP Chart of Accounts, assisting data migration team by providing the mappings for data migration. Strong knowledge of SD. Carrying out Integration between FI & SD and FI & MM.
• Worked with different applications of SAP Enhancements like BAPIs BADIs
• Good knowledge working with external tax software like vertex and Vistex.
• Extensive experience working with Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Extensive working experience across various industries.
• Knowledge of compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, GAAP and IFRS standards.
• Experience in preparing and documenting the User Acceptance test (UAT) plan and obtaining the necessary signoffs from the concerned business units
• Responsible to Track, Document, Capture, Manage and Communicate the Requirements.
• Creating and executing test plans.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment. Ability to correctly estimate work requirements to implement any changes within the system or the overall landscape.
• Excellent oral, written communication and interpersonal skills. Enjoys working in large environments with various business units.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP: SAP R/3,4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager 4.0

Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Office Tools: MS Office, Macros.

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Languages: ABAP/4,C, SQL, PL/SQL

Accounting Package: Tally 5.4, 6.3 & 7.2,WINGS Accounting Package

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reno, Nevada

Sr SAP FICO Consultant/Onsite co-ordinator

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Support Project, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various sub-modules in FICO - Asset Accounting, PCA, CCA, CO-PA, GL,AP, & AR.
• Worked on ticket resolution and answering how-to questions.
• Assisted the team in bringing down the ticket backlog by 40%.
• Worked on SD issues pertaining to changes to conditions type and pricing procedure for the additional posting for the intercompany transactions.
• Configured from scratch Condition types, new access sequence and pricing procedures to meet the new business requirement.
• Worked on COPA issues relating to Positive, negative posting to COPA. Created new Value Fields and regeneration of operating concern for activating the new value fields.
• Managing the integration of technical and application components while continuously maintaining and improving SAP Support processes and procedures.
• Worked on Issues related to taxes with respect to set-up of tax conditions and also the flow of data from SAP to VERTEX
• Worked on Defining Settlement Rules and creation of Selection Variants.
• Worked on account determination issues arising from FI-MM integration.
• Worked on SAP to DTS (Data Tracking System) data flow and back-end DTS configuration.
• Worked on issues arising out of SAP Roll up costing, settlement profile and transfer structures.
• As a joint effort with the client manager, defined and managed business goals and expectations; leading to utilization of efficient and effective processes and standards in order to continuously improve quality.
• Effective self-management and performance ownership
• Effectively managed resource status and needs, deploying resources, and coordinating sourcing and outplacement.
• Worked extensively of revenue recognition establishing the contract or order item, and implementing revenue before, during and after billing.
• Monitored the work load, performance and progress of the off-shore resources one each in SD, MM and HR area.
• Worked on Adobe and Smart FORMs issues.
• Creating and fostering an environment that facilitates high performance and motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team; inspiring individuals on team to contribute their best efforts. Responsible for developing a high-performing, motivated staff. Achievement of a team environment that enables maximum productivity and drives efficiencies within the existing support team.
• Leading the design and implementation of a metrics program to track and report on key performance indicators. Track record in leading / managing people in a team based and participative environment (experience in managing a service operation advantageous)
• Assisting in planning, estimating, managing, and/or delivering multiple projects within a program
• Exposure to business planning processes.
• Business development skills to identify and uncover enhancement/project opportunities
• Met with users to gather requirements for project definition.
• Analyze existing procedures and evaluate requirements to identify system changes.

Confidential, IL

SAP Business Analyst-FICO

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Support Project, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Configured global settings and organization structure.
• Troubleshooting and resolving day-to-day business problems, providing solution to the process changes.
• Creating the documentation like Business Blue Prints, CDDs, FTIS, URDs and User Training Material.
• Supporting the key business users in their daily business transactions, master data and related documentation, detailing the use masters.
• Create and change functionality as per requirements from client.
• Designed Functional Specifications for the RICEF Objects as per the Functional Requirements given by the client.
• Did revenue posting in revenue recognition, wherein the costs are were also posted into the profitability analysis (CO-PA). Posting costs only takes place if no other cost assignment (for example, account assignment to the sales order or project) is used. The cost price was used for posting costs in the standard system (control using condition category G).
• Posting of costs in specific periods is then possible after implementing revenue recognition.
• Change and new Configuration as per requirement and change in business processes.
• Provided end user training and prepared training documents for SAP users and handled several post production support issues.
• Provided configuration support in SD, MM integration with FI for account determination, material movement setup, and inter-company billing. Also worked on activating and implementing the NEW GL functionality by doing the end to end configuration after activating the NEW GL setting. Worked on defining the ledger for General Ledger for accounting, defining currencies for leading ledger, assigning scenarios to ledger, defining segments, activating document splitting, classifying GL acts for Document splitting and such.
• Made Product Cost Planning by Basic settings for Material Costing and Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure in Product Cost Planning, Cost Object Controlling through Product Cost by Order, Product Cost by Period. Product Cost by Sales Order. Used Material Ledger for Actual Costing for Material and Material Valuation. Integrated with PP.
• Scheduled automated batch jobs for costing runs, reports, cost marking and release.
• Defined Operating concern attributes and generated operating concern environment
• Created characteristics and value fields from different field sources and copy them into data structure definition
• Configured derivation and valuation techniques for all relevant transactions
• Defined planning layouts and planning aids to facilitate planning
• Defined and activated summarization levels for COPA
• Created Profitability Analysis reports using Forms and Report Line Structures.
• Created reports using report painter in
• Created General Ledger master records using LSMW and Batch Input Session, which loads the master record data from the Excel Sheet to the G/L master record structure in SAP.
• Created dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels. Created data conversion documents for loading legacy customer data.
• Extracted data from SAP modules like CO-PA.
• Hands-on experience of working with the SAP BW tools, focusing on Extraction, Transformation and Loading of Data. (ETL)
• Worked with the BW Consultants in the Data modeling process which included development of Logical model by analyzing the requirements and transforming them to a reliable Physical model.
• Identifying reporting requirements and designing the same with help of ABAP programmers.
• Designed specs for development of FI/CO reports and layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
• Provided end user training and prepared training documents for SAP users and handles several post production support issues.
• Debugged Several ABAP programs.
• Performed testing at all the levels like Unit Testing of all FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CEA, CO-CCA.
• Integration testing of complete business cycles across sub-modules was tested, in conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives from the client side.
• Provided help with test plan and test script development (in the areas of FI, CO and EC-CS), test execution, and issues resolution.
• Developed and executed data conversion and integration test plans.
• Performed Month end closing operations from accounting perspective. GL, AR, AP and AA that includes clearing GR/IR accounts, regrouping and sorting of AR /AP, running the depreciation run, running the APP program etc.
• Performed Year end operations - creating Financial Statement Versions, Grouping GL accounts into Balance Sheet and Income Statement accounts. Closing the old posting periods and opening the new fiscal year and posting periods, carrying forward the balances.

Confidential, MI

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation Project, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Member of SAP FI/CO Full Life Cycle Implementation team, responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system, and providing post implementation support.
• Involved in the Full Life cycle implementation phases of, including defining the business requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications, configuration and testing. Participated in new and existing client development.
• Created Chart of accounts, Company Code, account groups, document number ranges and Field status variables in both master data level and posting level.
• Used NEW G/L for internal and external reporting purposes and accelerated the closing procedures such as Foreign Currency Evaluation.
• Used NEW G/L for designing customized planning layouts and also allocating the planned values.
• Used Document Splitting and several advanced reporting techniques complying to international standards.
• Created Posting Period Variants, open and closing posting periods, tolerance groups, recurring entries and sample documents
• Created Automatic clearing accounts for clearing the balances.
• Analyzed the existing system for, AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Analyzed the business requirements, determined organizational structures and classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profitability centers
• Customized settings for controlling areas, activating the components indicators, assigning the company codes to controlling areas, assigning number ranges.
• Worked on both non-billed receivables recenue recognition and also calculated revenue recognition.
• Configured Costing variant, Costing sheet (Calculation Bases, Overheads, Credits), valuation variant, order type, overhead cost elements..
• Integrating CO-PC (Product Costing) with SD and MM, cost variants and Valuation variants.
• Testing and Reporting
• Provided end user training and prepared training documents for SAP users and handles several post production support issues.
• Involved in all the test phases unit testing, integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Provided informative documentation to help the end users.
• Gather the requirements for IT service catalogue and prepare the scope, vision and the Business Requirements Specification for the process flow.
• Involved in gathering requirements and documentation of business requirements
• Involved in development of Use Case from Business Requirements
• Define and Develop Use Case and the Test Case
• Attended Test meetings to discuss and resolve issues and change requests.
• Created lists of providers for test database and loaded it into mass load environment in database. Also tested and validated the databases.
• Modeled the detailed design of the system using Use Case Diagrams
• Participated in periodical Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with the management and IT teams; technical design walk-through to gauge extent of compliance with Trading Partner’s expectations.
• Involved in life-cycle documentation from product requirements in the developmental stage to functional specifications for the completed modules of application components
• Submitted change requests and worked with change request records in Clear quest.
• Participated in entering, tracking system defects in Rational Clear quest
• Involved in configuration management, requirement management and analysis
• Provide technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Worked with quality notification processing to help optimize company’s business processes through continuous process improvement
• Designed specs for development of FI/CO reports and layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: Global Banking System (GBS)

Responsibilities:

• Preparing profit and loss statements and monthly closing and cost accounting reports.
• Compile and analyze financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, and document business transactions.
• Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.
• Analyze and review budgets and expenditures for local, state, federal, and private funding, contracts, and grants.
• Prepared GTEM- Global Treasury Exposure Management.
• Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.
• Analyze revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels, and ensure expenditure control.
• Explain billing invoices and accounting policies to staff, vendors and clients.
• Resolve accounting discrepancies.
• Recommend, develop and maintain financial data bases, computer software systems and manual filing systems.
• Supervise the input and handling of financial data and reports for the company's automated financial systems.
• Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits.
• Other duties as assigned.

Confidential

Junior SAP R/3 Financial Analyst

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c,Oracle 7

Responsibilities:

• Part of the Full Life Cycle Implementation team responsible for the customization and implementation of the SAP FI/CO Module involving interaction with client business users for requirements gathering and analysis.
• Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating GL master data, open item clearing. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as posting, parking, reversals and month end closings. Involved in setting up Transportation Management system (STMS)
• Configured settings in the AP/AR, such as house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, terms of payment.
• Worked on revenue recognition at the time of billing which is the standard method, time-related revenue recognition, and also service related revenue recognition.
• Configured Accounts Receivable module. Defined customer account groups, number ranges, field status and tolerance groups, also created customer master data.
• Configured Accounts Payable module. Defined vendor account groups, number ranges, field status, also created vendor master data.
• Configured the Procure to Pay process for the Vendors. Worked with the MM team in implementing MM purchasing functionality.
• Activated Material Ledger for the valuation of stock in different currencies, for reporting purposes.
• Good knowledge of external tax software vertex, used the same for reporting both input and output taxes.
• Configured and customized regular vendors as well as one time vendor master records. Customized cross company code transaction and created clearing accounts for cross company code transaction.
• Configured automatic payment methods for outgoing payments.
• Configured terms of payment for cash discount and alternative payer/payee.
• Designed and created cost center hierarchy. Created cost centers and created assessment cycles to allocate overhead costs. Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
• Designed and configured the hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of profit center accounting. Created profit centers and assigned cost centers. Assignment of balance sheet items to respective profit centers.
• Created distribution and assessment cycles.
• Involved in user training and post project support to the company.