Sap Fico Lead Consultant Resume
San Diego, CA
SUMMARY
- SAP FICO Certified consultant with over 9 years of strong functional experience in the implementation, customization and configuration of SAP FI module with three full life cycle implementations, with a thorough understanding of integration between other modules.
- SAP experience encompasses expertise in designing, implementing, configuring, testing and customizing SAP R/3 in R/3 4.6C, 4.7 andECC 6Versions.
- Worked in Oil&Gas, Retail, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Public sector industries.
- Experience in implementation, Business analysis,blueprinting, configuration, testing, road mapping, and training. PerformedAS ISandTO BEstudy for theGAP analysis.
- Implementation experience in General Ledger(GL), Accounts Receivable(AR), Accounts Payable(AP), Asset Accounting(AA), Asset management(AM), Cost Element Accounting(CEA),Cost Center Accounting(CCA), and Profit Center Accounting(PCA), Product Costing(PC), Profitability analysis(CO - PA),Financial supply chain management(FSCM)and sub-modules of FI/CO including three full life cycle implementations as well as a system upgrade.
- Expertise in configuration FI Enterprise structure and testingGeneral Ledger Accounting FI-GL, Controlling CO, Account Payable FI-AP, account receivable FI-AR, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Investment Management and Treasury.
- Excellent knowledge ofSD, Order to Cash (OTC), pricing, order processing, customercredit management/risk managementandMM (PTP)business process.
- Strong knowledge in business processes and business scenarios with base in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts.
- Exceptional knowledge ofnew GL, new GL migrationand accounting principles likeGAAPandIFRS.
- Controlling experience in configuration CO Enterprise structure and testingCost Center accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Internal Orders,Profit Center Accounting PCA, andCredit Management, business partners (BP).
- Experienced withcost centerandprofit centeras wellassessmentsanddistribution cycle.
- Expertise inSupply chain management, OTC, Credit management, dispute management, collection managementandbiller direct.
- Worked in environment ofSAP CRMandSAP HR.
- Worked on Maintaining and supporting Bank Data.
- Involved in configuring the required settings for VAT with respect to Vendors (AP-MM) & Customers (AR-SD), configured all Tax and VAT business related issues sales tax, withholding tax, property Tax, Tax return and other tax exempted transactions.
- Experience with Vertex Tax tool with the integration with FICO
- Experience on EDI processes which includes (Outbound & Inbound) processes as well IDOC setup which includes (Port, RFC destination, partner profiles & message control)
- Experience on Bank Communication Management (BCM) configurations and Support.
- Developed functional specifications including conversions and interfaces (performed Fit - Gap analysis against SAP functionality)
- Extensive experience inLockbox configurationand processing, automatic payment programand dunning process.
- Experience on Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) to scan processing incoming vendor invoices
- Hands on Electronic bank statement (EBS) configurations & support
- Hands on PRICEFW objects functional specs documentation
- Worked on taxes configuration for tax procedures TAXUSJ and TAXUSX
- Worked on automatic clearing and all payment methods like ACH, Checks and Wires
- Practical knowledge of customizing the requirements to SAP PS module & setting up the organizational structure and global settings using IMG.
- Designed and configured the complete PS functionality includingBasic Data, structures, Networks, Cost Planning, Project Information System and Status Management
- Maintain settlement forinternal settlement, settlement to assets, cost centers and GL accounts.
- Configured the partner functions and billing plans as per the requirements.
- Performed EarnedValue Analysis, Milestone Trend AnalysisandResults Analysisto monitor projects progress and performance.
- Expertise inASAP methodologywith 3 full life cycle implementation with end user support role.
- Trained end users on methodology as well as software.
- Expertise as techno functional inLSMW(Legacy System Migration Workbench) and table change.
- Experience working as tester usingHPQC(HP Quality Center).
- Experience with report development tool likeReport Painter/ Report Writer and user exit programming.
- Conversant with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles(GAAP), andSEC Reporting Requirements.
- Conducted meetings for data gathering and project requirements.
- Good Team Player with strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP: SAP R/3 Versions 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0
SAP: Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting. Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitable Analysis, And Product Costing. SRM: Purchasing Module, Procurement, Supplier performance management
Technical: Loading of batch data loads, Understanding of web applications and their functionality, Interfaces with web applications, Viewing of tables, Understanding of user exiting and debugging, LSMW, ASAP Methodology, EDI & IDOCS
Databases: MS Access
Applications: MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, OneNote & Outlook
Platforms: Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/NT/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0, 8.1
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Houston, Texas
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)
Responsibilities:
- Developing&Supportingthe Procure to pay area which integrated withMM, starting fromPurchase Requisitionstep, and then raising aPurchase Order, then we will receive theGoods Receipt, then we will receive theInvoice (A/P)then after reviewing the invoice & be sure that matches ourPO&GR, to me sure that three way matching is correct, after that we process thepayment manuallyor through theAutomatic Payment Program.
- Worked on migrating a non-SAP legacy mainframe to SAP by loading open invoices, vendors & payments
- Worked with the Automatic Payment Program (APP) starting from the configuration through FBZP till the execution (parameters, proposals & payments)
- Worked on Bank Communication Management (BCM) to facilitate the workflow approvals for the outgoing payments through different Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) for each region.
- Worked on setup different legacy interfaces with SAP & configure the batch jobs for these interfaces.
- Setting meetings with the business & the end user to agree on the changes that need to be made to the system
- Configured, Tested & supported IDOC process to transfer data in & out of SAP through an EDI.
- Supporting the end users to understand the process work flow & helping them in solving the system issues.
- Worked with the scheduler batch team to schedule all the programs to run automatically based on the time that the business needs.
- Responsible for creating program variants, updating vendor master data & migrating the changes to the testing system to test then move the changes to production.
- Worked on HPQC tool to document the testing cases & scenarios, view reports, raise defects & tracks my testing results.
- Under the treasury sub module responsible for configuring House Banks with multiple Bank Accounts, alternate bank selections for Payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes, check lots and configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments and IDOCs.
- Provided training to the end users on how to use HPQC during the URT phase
- Configured & supported Electronic bank statement.
- Responsible for creating a transport request through change request management (CHARM) then set the transport in Development system to be able to assign the changes to it then next I move the changes to the testing client to test the changes & let the user preform the testing as well, then finally moving the changes to production.
- Responsible for vendor master configurations & support
- Worked on Evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) process to settle confirmed purchase orders
- Responsible for maintaining the Details Design Documents (DDD) & Step Design Documents (SDD) in the solution manager (SMBB) for PRICEFW objects.
- Worked on the configuration ofWithholding Taxes1099FederalandStateTaxreporting and1042Foreign Vendor/ Non-Employee Reporting
- Responsible for the creation ofProcess Design Documents(PDDs)forWithholding Taxes1099Federaland StateTaxreporting and1042Foreign Vendor/ Non-Employee Reporting
- Supporting Vendor Invoice Management system (VIM) which simplifies the process of creating, managing, monitoring POs & invoices.
- Troubleshooting the existing system issues & problems that facing the end users
- Analyzing business data to be enhance on the current system through specification design
- Write technical requirements from a critical phase to meet the business requirements
- Reviewing & updating the business documents to be sure that all the workflow is updated with the latest changes
- Performing system testing through testing scripts and analyzing the testing scripts to avoid any failure when we run the script for testing
- Working on Training Documentation and Customization documentation.
- Supporting the Procure to Pay Process Starting From the creation of the Purchasing Order, then the Goods Receipts then the Invoice Receipts till the Payment Process to the Vendor
Confidential, San Diego, CA
SAP FICO Lead Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)
Responsibilities:
- Doing Enhancements to current SAP System by integrated with another third party interface system
- Handling the business meeting from the FICO point of view to be sure that the third party interface meet the business requirements
- My Role was Accounts Receivable (AR), Leading on-site team & Off-shore team meetings for the knowledge transfer transition.
- Responsible for the (AR) Accounts Receivable from the invoice creation process to the billing document
- Involved in design, configuration, & process re-engineering for Standard Cost Estimates in Product Costing. It has been configured for 'Product Cost by Period' in Product Costing (COPC)
- Maintained Overhead cost elements, percentage overhead rates, calculation bases, credits, costing sheets, activity plan, and costing types in Product Costing (COPC)
- Configured the Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure and Configured the cost component structure, Costing variants for standard cost estimate for planned and actual product cost collector in Product Costing Planning (COPC)
- Extensively worked on Cost Object controlling, period ending activities such as WIP and Variance calculations, overhead calculation, settlements of orders.
- At the year-end supported the business on Standard cost estimation, Costing Run, Marking and Releasing for updating the price in material master records in Product Costing (COPC)
- Defined costing sheets for calculating Overhead (percentage based overhead calculation) in Product Costing (COPC).
- 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
- Worked on Assessment & Distribution cycle and trained the end users on the same.
- Configured Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Planning Profile, Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile
- Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms)
- Developed unit and integration test plans and prepared test scripts
- Worked on LSMW for the transfer of material prices from Legacy system toSAP
- Assisted the end users in writing work instructions for various Transaction codes and trained on the same.
- Configuring and Supporting the Dunning process to send the letters to customers for the Open AR items & the credit memos
- Responsible for configuring & testing Customer master data
- Hands on HPQC testing tool to complete my testing cases
- Worked on CO-PA configuration included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
- Worked on automatic clearing process including Lockbox processing and matching the payment from the lockbox with the open invoice that we have
- Responsible for providing different options for clearing the AR open items to avoid residual items
- Responsible for Order to Cash process starting from order creation till the billing document.
- Responsible for providing High level financial flow for the business requirements
- Understanding the SD process from the Sales Order creation passing through the Deliveries till the Invoice Creation then the Billing document
- Configured Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
- Responsible for providing the Cash Application Process to meet the business requirements
- Worked on Credit memo request & debit memo request
- Responsible for different FICO aspects which including General Ledger(GL),Accounts Payable(AP), Accounts Receivable(AR), Asset Accounting(AA), Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM)
- Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP, AR, G/L, Treasury- Liquidity Forecast & Cash Management, Month End Closing, Special G/. Reported weekly on support ticket numbers and solution turnover time.
- Provided Production Support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO End Users
Confidential, Midland, MI
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for FI Integration with MM through Procure to Pay (PTP) process purchasing requisition, purchasing order till the payment process
- Responsible for Accounts payable area which includes automatic payment program for the vendor payment
- Configured & testing Electronic bank statement (EBS) & Evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) process
- Responsible configuration and testing of General Ledger (GL), Account Payable, (AP),
- Responsible for configuring Automatic Payment Process (F110 Transaction)
- SAP document output (sending of purchase orders and remittance advices to vendors)
- Master Data in SAP for both purchasing and accounts payable areas
- MIGO & MIRO Transactions Posting for the goods received & for the invoice received
- Worked on month end Process to avoid any errors carry on for next month
- Supporting users IM Tickets & RM Tickets.
- Worked on CO-PA configuration included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
- PRICEFW objects specs creation
- Loading of batch data loads when the user required a lot of data to be loaded in the SAP system
- Consignments and Info records configuring
- Configured Withholding taxes, payment advices, foreign currency valuation, financial statement versions and cross company code transactions.
- Intercompany setup and posting of accounts payable invoices
- Worked on Purchase order lock functionality, Purchase order sourcing approval process & Purchase order spend approval process
- Worked on the configuration of Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, Sub Assets, and Depreciation Methods.
- Worked on Dolphin application (PTS) a third party application to process invoices with attached images & limit the access for the users who can view specific invoices
- Support end users to request the correct SAP Security Task Group & supporting Purchasing Requisitions & Purchasing Orders
- Supporting Inbound corporate card feed & Down payment processing in SAP
- Invoice processing and approval and working on Blocked invoices supporting
- Running & Supporting testing scripts failure, and working with the ABAP team to figure this failure and testing this scripts after fixing
- Offshore Team Coordination by handling daily meeting with the offshore team to check the status of the tasks required to be done
Confidential, Melrose Park, IL
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for supporting PTP Cycle starting from Purchase Req.,Then Good Receipt, Then Invoice Receipt (LIV), till The Payment Process
- My Role was Accounts Payable (AP), Leading on-site team & Off-shore team meetings for the knowledge transfer transition.
- Extensive experience inAccounts payable,Vendor Group, Vendor Master,Invoicing, Maintain Material Master, Credit Memos, Closing Procedures,and TaxConfiguration.
- Worked onAutomatic payment programand processed manual payments for the vendor accounts for Accounts Payable (AP) department
- Supported different bank interfaces starting from sending the payment file to the bank till the bank get back to us with the confirmation that the payments have been posted
- Handling the business meeting from the FI point of view to be sure that the third party interface meet the business requirements
- Responsible for configuring & testing Vendor master data
- Hands on HPQC testing tool to complete my testing cases
- Worked on Withholding tax configurations.
- Worked on automatic clearing process including Lockbox processing and matching the payment from the lockbox with the open invoice that we have
- Responsible for providing High level financial flow for the business requirements
- Responsible for providing the Cash Application Process to meet the business requirements
- Worked on Credit memo request & debit memo request
- Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP, AR, G/L, Treasury- Liquidity Forecast & Cash Management, Month End Closing, Special G/. Reported weekly on support ticket numbers and solution turnover time.
- Provided Production Support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO End Users
Confidential, Miami, FL
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: Upgrade SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Involved in the new functionality with Upgrade from 4.7 to 6.0 from testing phase to go-live and provided requirements for the planned enhancements in the system.
- Studied the changes in the standard SAP system for the new version and prepared change configuration scripts.
- Maintained Asset Master Data for asset acquisitions, retirements, inter-company transfers, settlement of AUC to assets and configured leased assets.
- Simulated asset reports, Asset history sheets and depreciation to provide desired reports to the local accounting team.
- Worked on Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, assigned company codes to depreciation areas, created screen layouts and number ranges, configured depreciation keys, parallel valuation of assets, depreciation run, periodic depreciation posting and error handling, involved in uploading of asset data using LSMW.
- Worked on the Collection Management process with the accounts receivable from the customers.
- Worked on the Dispute management process with the customer in the stage between invoice and payment if there are discrepancies
- Designed and configured Automatic Write off, Clearing, Late Fee for Accounts Receivable A/R including Manual Clearing and Refund Process.
- Configured Automatic Payment Program (APP)
- Documented all changes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes from the clients legacy system.
- Worked on Training Documentation and Customization documentation.
- Worked on all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training (Job-Aid) and (Modified design after feedback from users to suit their requirements) GO LIVE.
- Master Data compilation and upload on Quality and production using LSMW.
- Transaction data compilation from legacy and upload on Quality and Production.
- Done unit testing and integration testing and documented test cases.
- Created automatic Dispute Cases for Customer Payments Received through Lockbox
- Facilitated the Data Exchange Between Headquarters and Subsidiaries with SAP In-House Cash
- Improved the Receivables Management with SAP Collections Management
- Extensively worked on New GL in the areas of parallel accounting, Code Blocks, document splitting and real-time integration between FI and CO.
- Activated segment dimension to produce segment reports as required by IFRS/US GAAP.
- Configured Withholding taxes, payment advices, foreign currency valuation, financial statement versions and cross company code transactions.
- Maintained asset master data for asset acquisitions, retirements, inter-company transfers, settlement of AUC to assets and configured leased assets.
- Simulated asset reports, asset history sheets and depreciation to provide desired reports to the local accounting team.
- Prepared functional specifications for conversions and interfaces, performed post go live trouble shooting in FI and CO and documented various business process flows and produced end user procedures.
Confidential, Houston, TX
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)
Responsibilities:
- System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-paying vendor invoices, AR-customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, dunning, Master data, CO-CCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, Product Costing with Cost Splitting Valuation - PA-structure, value fields, planning and reporting.
- Analyze end user needs and propose viable solutions for report improvement, QA and user training in CO. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter.
- Provide System configuration, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/P, A/R, and Fixed Assets
- Multiple consolidation charts of accounts within a single dimension to generate multiple financial statements at the same time in order to meet various requirements.
- Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on SAP environment.
- Used report program RFBILA00 to create a budgeted financial statement to compare plan data with actual data and restricted the report to a period on a quarterly basis. Created Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements
- Cost Center Accounting Settings for Periodical Processing, Activity Based Costing (ABC), Order processing, maintain/ control Billing documents, Inventory management, Purchasing, Variant Configuration and complete design /configuration of general CO functionality (CCA)
- The scope of CO included Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.
- Design and configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
- Assisted client in design and configuration of PA transfer structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA
- Created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Defined various reports.
- Through knowledge in Defining Costing Sheet and calculating Overhead.
- Activated and configured Material Ledger for multiple valuation and PUP.
- Integrated Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) component in the SAP System, for planned budget using various costing methods, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants in Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP).
- Releasing Production Orders, Confirming Operations, Simultaneous Costing, final Costing, Price Transfer / Update, Confirmation/ Settlement, and Period-End closing.
- Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost, special procurements and releasing of the new cost estimate.
Confidential
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C
Responsibilities:
- Started as a Trainee in SAP FI-CO Area.
- Involved in blueprinting and workshops, requirement analysis for streamlining the various process in corporate and treasury management projects in AES.
- Configuredglobal settingsand enterprise structure.
- Trained in Configuring Master Data, Configured vendors subject to withholding tax, standard interest and interest in arrears based on line and balances items.
- Conducted requirements gathering workshops and documented the business processes.
- Configured outgoing payments forAutomatic clearing house (ACH), Checks, electronic bank interfaces, lockboxandWire payments.
- Configured Master records for A/P: DefinedVendor Account Groupsand screen layouts per activity & company code; defined number ranges for vendor accounts and assigned these number ranges to vendor account groups.
- ConfiguredAutomatic Payment ProgramforOutgoing Paymentsfor Company Codes in Accounts Payable.
- Customized credit control area for credit management in the application components AR and AP and also created Vendors, Customers and Cost centers.
- Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants, Configured Credit representative group and accounting clerks in Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger Accounts, mainly differentiated between one time vendors and regular vendors in manufacturing sector.
- Configured Controlling Area settings, Created the Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements.
- Configured Internal Order by maintaining Order types, screen layouts, order groups, status management, maintained settlement rules, settlement profiles.
- Configured master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, distribution and assessment in CO-PCA.
- Configured G/L: Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, tolerance groups, reversal of documents, opening and closing periods, field status variants, document types, posting keys etc.