SUMMARY

• 6 years of SAP FI - CO system configuration/analysis experience including 2 full life-cycle implementation and 3 years of Financial Accounting experience.
• Excellent knowledge of all SDLC phases in SAP (ASAP Methodology).
• Experience in General Ledger (Classic and New), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Order Accounting (CO-IOA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) and some exposure to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Experience in different Taxes and Tax procedures.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to lead blueprint workshops and follow-up on approvals from process owners.
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documentation of SAP application controls in compliance with SOX
• Excellent skills in conducting walkthroughs, interviews, seminars, questionnaires and JAD sessions.
• Possess good team building, decision-making and problem solving skills. Adjust readily to multiple demands and shifting priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP APPLICATION: SAP R/3 Version 4.6C, 4.7 & ECC 6.0

PROJECT METHODOLOGY: ASAP Methodology

REPORTING TOOLS: Crystal Reports, Hyperion, AS400

TOOLS: Vertex, Solution Manager, MS Office Suite, HP Quality Center

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows (2003/XP/Vista)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rochester, MN

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed existing legacy system, gathered requirements and prepared functional specifications document.
• Configured account groups, Substitutions and Validations, FSV, Screen Variants, New document types and Recurring entries.
• Configured the integration point between FI-MM modules and maintained the G/L accounts for the same.
• Configured Automatic Account Determination for activities such as Sale/Use Tax, cash discount and GR/IR.
• Configured extended withholding Tax settings and defined tax on sales/purchase and tax code for non-taxable transactions.
• Defined the Tax procedures and integrated it with accounting system. The scenarios cover INTRASTAT/EXTRASTAT processes, triangulation and US Tax jurisdictions that involve integration with external tax computing systems (Vertex).
• Configured house banks with multiple bank accounts and configured alternate bank selections for payments. Assigned check lots and defined void reasons for checks.
• Maintained customer payment terms and defined overpayment and underpayment account assignment.
• Configured electronic bank statement and configured lockbox application processing in BAI2 format.
• Configured Automatic and Manual Payment program process with Check clearing and Positive payment.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups and assigned number ranges to groups.
• Created cost center standard hierarchy, configured the reconciliation ledgers, activity types and statistical key figures.
• Created profit centers and profit center groups. Maintain basic settings in PCA and assigned profit center to the respective cost centers.
• Created the operating concern for CO-PA and configured costing based profitability analysis. Created characteristics and value fields for data structure. Configured derivation structures and rules and assign values to value fields.
• In Internal Order, setup status profile for order types, maintained settlement profile and settlement rules. Also configured settlement distribution cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Performed unit and integration testing of selected sub-modules.
• Worked with testers to develop test plan and design. Performed unit testing for various accounts receivable and accounts payable functions and coordinated user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Developed a training plan and communicated with client’s team on a regular basis to ensure successful execution of the plan.
• Worked with Users to build necessary functional skills in Tax and Vertex to support the user community.
• Organized and participated in knowledge transfer sessions.
• Provide tier/ level 1 support to end users in solving issues after go live.
• Created SAP Queries for the users and worked on Report painter reports wherever business required.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client for requirement gathering through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement sessions.
• Collected and documented the business processes and business rules; translated the Business and User needs into System requirements. Provided key input in working with users in defining project and system requirements
• Involved in developing detailed functional specification documents.
• Configured enterprise structure for finance.
• Created GL master data of various balance sheet and P&L accounts both at chart of accounts level and company code level.
• Configured validation and substitution rules for documents.
• Defined and configured manual and automatic payment program, lockbox processing, House Banks, check printing for Accounts Payables, payment blocking reasons, check lots etc.
• Primarily responsible for tax services which include elements within Tax, Acquire-to-Retire and Plan-to-Report areas.
• Completed Tax configuration tasks which involved creation of Account keys, Condition types for various taxes, Defining Tax calculation procedure, Tax clearing accounts, maintaining various tax codes as per requirements & various reports needed for monthly tax returns.
• Configured and customized asset accounting module; copied country specific chart of depreciation and configured depreciation area, defined asset classes and account determination. Assign number ranges to asset classes and upload assets from Sun financials (legacy system) to SAP.
• Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI, MM and SD.
• Created Controlling Area and assigned company codes for cross company code controlling purposes.
• Maintained number ranges for controlling area, profit center number ranges etc.
• Configured controlling area settings to address management accounting requirements.
• Defined primary and secondary cost element categories and created cost elements for the same.
• Configured cost center accounting standard hierarchy, created activity types, statistical key figure.
• Created new cost centers and profit centers and assigned them to company codes.
• Performed unit tests in various FI sub-modules and was involved in testing of FI-SD integration.

Confidential, Evansville, IN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Took the role of primary liaison between developers and stakeholders.
• Managed project activities following ASAP methodology to ensure on-time, accurate deliverables and tasks and communicate project status to both the technical project manager and the business partner. Maintained and reviewed project documentation through Solution Manager, Quality Center and other SSC tools.
• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions in order to identify and document process requirements and business model detail.
• Analyzed existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, Q&A sessions and participation in process improvement teams; prepared functional specification document.
• Involved in “as-is” process flowcharts and designed blueprint workshops for finalizing organizational elements.
• Defined and configured the enterprise structure. This included creation of chart of accounts, country chart of accounts, company codes, fiscal year variants, field status variants and posting period variants.
• Worked closely with the legacy system maintenance team to capture/import master data into SAP systems using batch input interface of LSMW.
• Configured withholding Tax settings and defined tax on sales/purchase.
• Defining Tax calculation procedure, Tax clearing accounts, maintaining various Tax codes as per requirements & various reports needed for monthly Tax returns.
• Configured Customer and Vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance limits and terms of payment.
• Configured down payment functionality and payment medium workbench and worked extensively on bank specific payment files to automate checks and electronic payment to meet client’s requirements.
• Provided specification and configuration of posting rules for processing customer payment via lockbox.
• Configured and tested the lockbox program.
• Developed AR custom reports for month-end closing to capture every detail of closed and open items.
• Worked with testers to develop test plan and design. Performed unit testing for various accounts receivable and accounts payable functions and coordinated user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Handled Change Requests by capturing them in available organizational templates and thoroughly analyzed them for impact on existing requirement.
• Prepared end user training manuals and participated in user training sessions.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed month-end close activities for 6 business units in a timely and efficient manner.
• Analyze monthly sales; perform variance analysis and various reporting for use by management.
• Maintain master data in the general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable. Also maintain cost centers, cost elements and internal orders for proper cost settlement.
• Post payments manually and by automatic payment program, maintain and post lockbox file.
• Performed both manual and automatic clearing of open items in customer accounts.
• Prepared complex balance sheet accounts reconciliation including bank and intercompany accounts reconciliation, making sure all discrepancies are identified, researched and resolved.
• Responsible for calculating and filing monthly and annual GET tax return. Monitored income account closely for accurate return filing and possible tax adjustment at year end.
• Monitored Accounts Payable very closely, performing thorough invoice matching with PO and goods received. Review check requests for proper coding to GL accounts and cost receivers.
• Prepared and analyzed monthly financial statement for use by senior management; answer questions as it relates to financial results.
• Participated in the development, review and performance analysis of quarterly budget.
• Maintained Chart of Accounts. Perform regular review and maintenance of the General Ledger.
• Monitored cash flow report closely for prompt and accurate update and prepare weekly cash projection for use by Controller.
• Reviewed monthly operating expenses for conformity with budget; prepared adjusting Journal Entries and/or performed segment allocations where necessary.