PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years Professional experience with Business Users Interaction, Requirement Gatherings, Configurations, Development, Data Migration, Testing and End User Training with SAP ERP, SAP CRM, Accounting, and Technical Support.
• Around 7 years in SAP Finance and Controlling with 3 full life-cycle Implementations of Business Consulting & Functional Analysis of SAP FI/CO Module in SAP Project as per ASAP methodology
• Possess excellent internal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities to handle multiple tasks, Team Management, Customer relationship Management and planning with strict adherence to time schedules.
• Implementation experience in General Ledger (GL), Account Receivable (AR), Account Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA), Special purpose Ledger, Controlling Areas, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), and Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Strong working knowledge in Controlling (CCA, OM, IO, PCA, PC) and B/W modules.
• Experience covers all stages of SAP FI/CO activities from Fit Gap analysis, Develop, Creation of business blueprints, Configuration, Realization, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Learning training, Go Live support, Control Start, Support production.
• Integration of FI with MM, SD and HR with Procure to Pay, Order to cash and Payroll Cycles.
• Special emphasis on Data Migration and ETL Techniques specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects
• Experienced in Enhancements, Testing & Production Support/ user issues, super-users and End user training and documentation.
• Extensive exposure in writing functional specifications including interfaces and working with ABAP programmers.
• Strong knowledge of business processes with strong foundation in Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting concepts.
• Provided end user support for all issues pertaining to Finance and Controlling modules &Worked closely with Business Leaders to consult and influence direction of business process.
• Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports
• Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross applications. Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools
• Experienced in User Acceptance Testing and Integration testing of Legacy System Interfaces with SAP functionality.
• Coordinated with Global Team in Project Estimates forRICEFdevelopment and tested the RICEF’s developed by offshore team.
• Excellent project execution track record with good leadership, strong communication and analytical skills.
• Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).
• Expertise in preparing User Manuals with perfect documentation and conducting training sessions for end users.
• Prior IT experience in Financial EDI mapping of EDI 810, EDI 811, EDI 820, EDI 824, EDI 831, EDI 835, EDI 997 formats in Sterling commerce/Metavante/FIS environment.

SAP FI/CO Skills:

• FI Enterprise Structure: Defining the organizational structure of Company, Configure Chart of Accounts and Define company codes.
• General Ledger: (FI GL) Configuration Create Account groups, Account types B/S & P/L, Retained Earnings Account, Field status variant, GL Master records, Fiscal year, Post Period variant, Account type, Customized Document type, Sort Keys, Posting keys, Exchange rate. Reconciliation Accounts for customers, vendors, Assets.
• Account Payables: (FI AP) Defined vendor groups, vendor Master data, House Banks, Down payments, Automatic payment program, Recurring Entries Program, Closing procedure.
• Integration of MM with FI.
• Accounts Receivable: Defined customer groups, customer master data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, down payments, closing operations, Define Lock Boxes, Clearing Accounts, and payment methods.
• Integration of SD, MM, HR with FI.
• Asset Accounting: Configuring chart of Depreciation, Define Depreciation areas, Depreciation key, Account Determination and Asset classes and calculate of depreciation.
• Controlling: create cost centers, primary cost element, secondary cost elements, Distribution and Assessment cycles, statistical key figure, Planning & development of reports. Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-objects to profit centers etc.
• Special Purpose Ledger: Define Summary table, Group, Define ledger, Activities field movements, Activity transaction.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelors of Engineering

Technical Skills:
SAP ERP Application: ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.6/4.0b, CRM 7.0
Version : 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.7, ECC 6.0, SCM/APO
Functional Area : SAP ERP – Finance and Controlling, Project Systems,
Data Migration Tools: LSMW, eCATT, Report Painter, Report Writer, custom BAPI
Other Tools : HP Quality Center 11.0, Remedy, M-Office Suite
Testing Strategies : Integration System, Performance, UA & Black Box Testing

PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Orlando FL Aug’11 to Till Date
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP CRM 7.0, HR, BI, HP QC, Oracle 11i, SAP Enterprise Portal, EDI, SOLMAN
CHEPis the global leader in pallet and container pooling services serving many of the world\'s largest companies with having business across the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Examining company’s document flow, SAP process flow and recommending suitable validation procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.
• Resolved issues related to document splitting postings which included application of OSS notes, change in customization etc.
• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms)
• Provided Functional Specs to development team for some GL reports.
• Involved in the configuration of all automatic account determination to handle Exchange rate differences, foreign currency valuations, cash discounts. Automatic payment program (F110) and manual payments for the vendor accounts for Accounts Payable (AP) department.
• Involved in working with House Banks, Check Lots, Check Register, Correspondence and void of Checks in Accounts Payable (AP) and configuration of new void and reversal reason codes for check reversal.
• Accounts Payable-Automate payments to multiple vendor accounts &Automate Email Communication of Payment Advices
• Mapped fields from the IDOC to SAP and was also involved in mapping Account groups, Payment methods and Vendor numbers.
• Involved in providing functional specifications for modifying the lockbox program to handle negative values and credit memos and also, involved in improving the lockbox efficiency by using alternative payee functionality.
• Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) in FI-MM (Procure to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD (Order to Cash) cycles
• FI-MM account determination – assigning valuation areas to valuation grouping codes, defining valuation classes, account grouping and account determination extensively for GBB, BSX and PRD.
• Configuration of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and updating/maintaining posting rules for new accounts.
• Configured SAP Payment Program, EDI Partner/Port, payment methods.
• Foreign Currency Transactions, translation, Valuation, maintaining Exchange rates.
• Worked with the business users, validation, and QA teams during Asset cutover to process the Master data transfer from Legacy into the SAP system.
• Clearing of records in GR/IR accounts and develop substitutions for clearing accounts.
• Creation of new foreign currency valuation method to valuate open items based on the transaction currency and configuration of account determination for open item exchange rate differences.
• Monitoring of Background jobs, Interface related issues, and Period end closing procedures.
• Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality.
• Developed multiple derivation strategies and table look ups in line with business requirements of reporting based on product lines, business lines, product hierarchy, country of origin, ship-to-party, trading partner and configured valuation using conditions and costing sheet.

Confidential,Charlotte, NC Aug’10 to Jul’11
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP CRM 7.0, BI, HR, HP QC, Oracle 11i, SAP Business Objects, Sharepoint Portal, EDI, SOLMAN
Goodrich Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global supplier of systems and services to the Aerospace and Defense industry.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in solving configuration issues in Accounts receivables and Accounts Payables.
• The bill of exchange configuration and processing in FI-AR by configuring the reconciliation accounts in the special GL.
• Creation of House Banks, Check Lots, Check Register, Correspondence and void of Checks in Accounts Payable (AP).
• Accounts Payable (AP) - Worked on foreign currencies for the payment program.
• AR-Configured Cash discount lost account and set tolerance limits for customers for posting AR documents.
• AP-Developed specs to develop custom Interface for sending outbound Positive Pay file, and Cashed Checks file.
• Defined the BAI 2 format, which provided different level of detail of the incoming payment.
• Illustrated the flow of data through the lockbox procedure.
• AR- Improve Your Receivables Management with SAP Collections Management
• AR- Use Customer Evaluation Reports to Improve Your Accounts Receivable Team’s Efficiency.
• AR- Monitor credit accounts effectively with credit management.
• Customer master data: customer group, customer field Status, creating customer with reference and integration with Sales & Distribution Module.
• Intercompany setting in AP/AR,workedonthe process from a Logistics standpoint to the end result In Finance.
• Transfer of master and transactional data through LSMW
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments which included Payment Methods, House Bank accounts, Ranking Order of Bank Accounts
• Configuration of house banks, electronic bank statement, manual bank statement, and cash journal in the bank accounting.

Confidential,Atlanta GA Aug’08 – Jul’10
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0/ R.3 4.7, SAP CRM 7.0, BI, HR, HP QC, Oracle 11i, SAP Business Objects, Sharepoint Portal, EDI, SOLMAN
Coca-Cola is the most popular and biggest-selling soft drink in history, as well as the best-known product in the world. Coca-Cola offers more than 3500 products in over 200 countries.

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included interacting with client s business process team; collect all the business requirements create functional and technical specifications, which would be used by the construction/programming team.
• Carried out AS-IS business process analysis and documented current business process flow. Identified the requirements and modeled the TO-BE process and provided guidance for implementing best practices.
• As a part of GL transaction processing set the types of journal entries, recurring entries and accrual posting. GL Fiscal month end closing defined financial statement preparation, reconciliations and adjustments, integrated closing schedules and the closing process. Year end closing involved sequencing of activates, setting up closing schedule and carry forward and adjustment activates.
• Involved in decision-making for the screen layout of Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, Customer Master Record, etc.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, Bank Account G/L Structure, Check Lots, Void Reason codes etc.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Maintained Vendor Group Field Status for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.
• Customized the Payment Program to incorporate Company Code Data, Paying Company Code Data, Country Payment Methods, Company Code Payment Methods, and House Banks etc.
• Defined Reason codes, Customized Reason Code Conversion Versions & Mapped external reason codes to the defined reason codes to facilitate accountability for the underpayment and overpayment of incoming payments from customers.
• Maintained Employee Tolerance Groups & Customer Tolerance Groups.
• Customized Operating Chart of Accounts, Group Chart of Accounts & Country Chart of Accounts. Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by adding new G/L accounts as per the client’s requirements.
• As a part of AR general billing defined the process around creating/distributing invoices, customer correspondences, accounting updates, credit checks, interest calculation/late fee payment terms, dunning forms, reason codes and overall AR tolerances, over/under payment and discounts.
• As a part of recording customer payments from an AR perspective defined the various types of payments received, defining payment activity and lock box payments, Intercompany vouchers and interface requirements.
• Integrated FI with MM & SD modules.
• Final Preparation & Support: - Involved in testing in development and Q&A environments. Issues resolving, compile documentation, user training and sign off. Transported customer & Vendor master data from legacy system in to SAP through LSMW. Setup of Substitution and Validations.
• For end users. Upload of Opening balances through account assignment model. Go live & early watch post implementation support.

Confidential,OH Jan’08 to Aug’08
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Airgas is the United States\' largest distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related equipment, safety supplies and MRO products and services to industrial and commercial markets.
SAP Version: SAP ECC6.0, R/3 4.7, HP QC (System Upgrade)
Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business Prepared Blue Print by Re-engineering the system to fill the GAP between the existing system and to the TO BE system
• Involved as a team member in implementing Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
• Defined business and functional requirements through analysis of potential alternatives and reviewed technology solutions to meet business processes
• Mapped business requirements to SAP R/3 to attain detailed design of SAP R/3 and third party system solutions
• Finalization of chart of Accounts and LSMW for upload, Accounts Group, Field status Group that existed previously in Apotex
• Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants, Configured Credit representative group and accounting clerks in Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP) and General Ledger (GL) Accounts, mainly differentiated between one time vendors and regular vendors in manufacturing sector
• Year end Closing Procedures, General Ledger Account (GL) and Cost Element Entry(CE), Annual budget by Cost Center Accounting(CCA) and Profit Center Accounting(PCA).
• Configured the automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments. Configured special GL transactions.
• Maintained Validations and substitutions for Development, R&D, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities. Maintained overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations
• Involved in creation of user-defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter
• Set strategy for reporting and executed them consistently.