Summary:

• Over 9 years of experience in IT which includes around 7 years of experience in SAP FI/CO functional expert in Design, Implementation, customization, configuration, integration, testing, documentation, user training, Go-Live and support in SAP R/3 FICO with 2 full Lifecycle implementation experience, upgrade, rollout experience and over 2 years of business analysis in Finance
• Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, A/P, A/R and AA).
• Extensive experience Two Full life cycle large implementations in SAP Configuration, realization, go-live, post production training in multiple projects.
• Strong Post Implementation support 24/7.
• Full life cycle implementation using ASAP methodology, Understanding of “As Is “ Business processes, Blue Print, Realization - Configuration, Final Preparation-Unit & Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing , Preparation of Test Scripts ,Authorization design for Roles with Security team & developing BPP\'s, End Users User Training Pre & Post Go Live Support.
• Cross Functional Knowledge of Overall Business Processes in Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Banking, Finance and Manufacturing Companies.
• Strong functional experience in Migration, Upgrading, Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Integration, Testing, User Training and Support.
• Strong knowledge of business processes and SAP functions associated with finance operations.
• Creating functional process flow, functional design and working with the technical team to come up with the solutions.
• Excellent communication and inter personnel skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.
• Worked in Full life cycle implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects.
• Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: Configuration and customizing Company code, Creating GL account codes and Chart of Accounts, Configuration of Global settings, Configuration of GL automatic clearing.
• Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms),Dunning, Reporting.
• Accounts Payable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Outgoing payment.
• Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with GL, Define asset classes, Depreciation areas, Balance and Multilevel depreciation methods.
• Cost Element/Center Accounting: creation of Primary and secondary cost elements, creation of cost center standard Hierarchy, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions.
• Internal Orders: Creation of settlement cost element, configuration of the Settlement structure, settlement profile, real and statistical postings, configuration of order planning, budgeting.
• Closing and Reporting: Run and reconcile incoming interface, control and clearing reconciliation, run customer billing and vendor payments, approval of all parked documents, Run final sales figure and dunning reports, Open new period ,close old sales and material periods.
• Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to Cash Cycles.
• Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integration view points.

Technical Skills:

• ERP:SAP R/3 FI/CO, 3.0F, 4.6,4.7,ECC 6.0.
• Tools: Office, Excel, Power Point.
• RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.2.3 / 9.2.0.7/ 10.0.2.1, MS-SQL Server 2000 / 2005.

Education:

• Bachelor of Management Studies

Work Experience:
Confidential,MO Nov 2010-till date
Role: SAP FICO Functional consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0, AP, AR, Treasury, SD and MM.

Anheuser-Busch produces the two best-selling beers in the world, operates 12 breweries in the United States; and has operations around the globe. I was responsible for supporting the construction and implementation of SAP FI/CO (Financials, Controlling) at a consumer products company as the functional member of the Systems Integration team.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on treasury module in Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal.
• Customized customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment Performing Lockbox configuration.
• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format
• Provided specification, and configuration of posting rules for processing customer payments via Lockbox.
• Involved in providing functional specifications for modifying the lockbox program to handle negative values and credit memos and also Created Credit Control Areas and pre-defined Credit Limits for Customers
• Configured Account Receivables which included Dunning, Incoming payments settings, Down payments procedure and Credit management.
• Defined Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis. Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys. Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts.
• Configured A/R & A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations, check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits for customers.

Confidential,MN Jan 2010 -- Nov 2010
Role: SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0 AP, AR, AA, COPA

Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. designs, sources and markets a range of fashion footwear and handbags .Through license agreements, the company designs and markets apparel and accessories under its Kenneth Cole New York, Kenneth Cole Reaction, Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc operates in three segments: Wholesale, Consumer Direct and Licensing. SAP\'s End-to-End Retail Solution include SAP\'s integration services and solutions for retail merchandise management, workforce deployment, financials, business warehouse, POS data management and SAP Triversity POS solutions.


Responsibilities:

• SAP FI Consultant for Post Go live and stabilization phase
• Resolved issues relating to Payment program
• Substitutions for Profit center derivations
• Changes to the POS configuration with respect to financial transactions happening at stores
• Building up the program for reconciliation of Retail business and wholesale business
• Intercompany reconciliation
• Month end closing activities
• GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues
• Issues related Invoice verification (MIRO)
• Issues related to ERS (MRRL), for the intercompany invoices
• Failed idocs Processing
• Issues related to taxes with respect to VERTEX
• Physical Inventory postings
• Solving Integration issues
• Changes to conditions type and pricing procedure for the additional posting for the intercompany transactions
• End user training
• Creation of BPP and other user manuals
• Business Signoff for the development changes

Confidential,PA. Feb 2009 -- Dec 2009
Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0 AP, AR, AA, COPA

FMC Corporation is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally. Project involved customization of SAP ECC 6.0 and implementation across all enterprises in US, I was Involved in analyzing the requirements of clients and configuration in Financial and Controlling modules.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client for requirements gathering and analysis. Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FI/CO developments, Full lifecycle implementation.
• Involved in developing detailed functional specifications documents.
• Configured Account Payables Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendors credit memo and Check clearing sub-processes, Advance paid or down payment made to vendors
• Configuration for the creation of Account Receivables invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation.
• Developed AR custom report for month end closing to capture the every detail of Closed and Open Customer invoices
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation.
• Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements.
• Involved in integration of Fixed Asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.
• I was involved in Integration of New general ledger with Controlling for reconciliation activity through real time integration variant.
• Involved in Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.
• Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.
• Integration of FI with MM, PP and SD modules, Integrated SD and FICO with Project System.

Confidential,NJ Jan 2008 – Feb 2009
Role: SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0, AP, AR, AA and IO

AT&T is a premier communications holding in the United States and worldwide. Recently AT&T started to implement CFM (Customer Financial Management) which is post-billing application of SAP that supports the Financial and Operational processes for the recording of all Customer transactions for revenue, tax and accounts receivable and for managing the consolidated financial results of the Customers. I was involved as a part of Implementation team for AP, AR, GL and CO module.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Migration of data from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of migration.
• Configured the settings in G/L area, such as creating G/L master data, cross-company code transactions, with multiple currencies and multiple company codes. Configured GL transactions for business processes such as posting, parking, reversals and month end closings.
• Configured special G/L transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc. Configuration of Alternative reconciliation accounts for special G/L transactions.
• Configured and maintained House banks with multiple bank accounts, Alternate bank selections for payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes.
• Configured Vendor Down payment, Installment payment, Automatic payment program, Check management, and recurring entries.
• Configured Fixed Asset: Defined the chart of depreciation. Created Different Asset classes and defined the screen layout rules for the corresponding asset classes.
• Worked on integration of FI/CO with MM and SD for Inventory valuation.

Confidential,USA January 2005 to December 2007
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0, GL and AR

Johnson Controls Inc (JCI) is a $26.6 billion Fortune 500 global market leader in automotive systems, facility management and control. The Project Genesis is to Implement SAP ERP software for communizing Finance and Purchasing Systems into a single Global Shared Finance and purchasing system. This enables global visibility of data & business intelligence, establish common business processes, reduce cost of Finance and Purchasing operations and enable global organizations pilot projects successfully delivered in European and North American regions and the rollout across 167 sites spanning North America, Europe and Africa

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams produced the functional requirements document.
• Configured General Ledger – Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files.
• Configured company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
• Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels. Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variant, customized field status variant, customized line layout, sort variant, and total variant.
• Defined House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Reason Codes.
• Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, exchange rate losses and then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations.
• Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items.
• Configured special G/L transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc. Configuration of Alternative reconciliation accounts for special G/L transactions.