SUMMARY

Highly motivated professional having strong business background and specialization in Accounting and Finance with over eight plus years of SAP FICO functional experience in implementing customizing and configuring SAP in both FI and CO modules. Highly skilled in areas of integration, testing, document preparation, user training, and user support. A well grounded FICO functional consultant and Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Industry experience include, over 5 years in systems development, MIS, Financial Accounting, Costing, Budgeting, Auditing and Working Capital Management.

Master of Science - Accounting
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)
SAP Certified

Computer:

Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7
Certified UNIX Administrator
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook)
Oracle and Visual Basic, Tally 4.5, 5.4, 6.3 and 7.2 Version
ERP: SAP R/3 (FI/CO) 6.0

Functional consulting expertise includes General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Cost/Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Cost Object Controlling, Profitability Analysis and FI/CO Integration with MM, SD and PP. Implementation experience with New General ledger. Worked on ASAP methodology in all project phases - Business blue print, Realization, Testing, Final preparation and post live production support, with documentation.
Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), New G/L, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA). Worked on different aspects of FI Transactions such as P2P, Inter Company Transactions, Reconciliation Accounts, partial and Residual Payments, Credit Memos/ Dunning and Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items. Controlling experience includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA). Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Banks Accounting, Foreign Currency Valuation and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing Worked on handling conversion from GL to New GL right from preparing of blue print for new GL to the customization of document splitting, allocation and planning. Configured Automatic payment program for outgoing/incoming invoices, dunning, validation & substitution, lockbox file format, lockbox processing, manual bank statement, EBS processing including bank accounting, Cash concentration and Liquidity forecast.
Strong communication (both written and verbal) skills, inter-personal, mentoring, as well as strong attention to detail, ability to conduct one-on-one training to teammates and business users.

Professional summary:

PROJECT: Network services company, Chicago
Oct 2011 - Till date
FI Test Lead, Preparing required documents user training providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business process in SAP. Configured and Customized FI sub-modules Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts. Worked on P2P process including Logistics Invoice Verification. Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data Defined and customized business rules for sales taxes including jurisdiction codes, tax procedures for US and Canada, tax condition types, and account assignment. Worked with Production Support on tasks like Validation and Substitution. Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces. Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts. Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups, discount overviews. Created Number ranges, posting periods for G/L accounts, defined G/L account groups, created chart of accounts, participated in modifying and uploading G/L accounts. Documented End User Manuals and Training Material.

Confidential
JULY 2010 - SEPT 2011
FICO Consultant for Navajo is a multi- utility company serving the needs of the Navajo station in New Mexico my responsibilities includes preparing blueprint, realization, testing and Go-live support of migration to New General Ledger from classic general ledger.This was done with the help of migration cockpit . Implemented BADIs for account assignment of open items.Prepared comparison reports in the preparation phase.
Prepared worklists for migration and performed reconciliation for account assignments.Prepared assessment document including scope of the upgrade, key decisions, preparation, configuration, testing plan, and risk identification and mitigation plan. Made the configuration changes and implemented various SAP Notes and corrections required. Master data set up like vendor master data, Customer master Configuration of Automatic Account determination for Logistics and resolved problems in the P2P process. Made changes to New General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Internal Order and Project Systems tables and fields affected through upgrade. Resolved various integration issues between Finance and HR/Payroll module. Configuration of FI global settings, configured company code, created GL accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios. Executed test scripts for various business processes related toNew General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Controlling, Internal Orders, Project Systems. Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Internal Orders (IO). Experience in solving the production issues in Automatic Payment Program (APP), Account Assignment, and interest calculation on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes.

Confidential
AUG 2009 - JUNE 2010
FI/CO production support consultant for Fast Rite provides fasteners, stampings, fittings and assemblies to various manufactures all around the world. My responsibilities includes Configure chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items. Configured customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, account assignments, defined various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables. Identified Vendors and Customers and defined a separate screen layout for them according to the requirement of the client. Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for Recurring and Periodic entries, Bank master data, and House Banks for the payment program. Assigned new scenarios to the leading ledger like Cost center update, Preparations for Consolidation, Profit Center Update and Segmentation. Created integrated asset acquisition and defined account assignment type for Asset Account, Account Assignment Objects for the Depreciation Areas. Made settings for the Dunning procedure and configured the dunning procedure
Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset. Configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition. Configured Cost center accounting (CCA), Profit center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), and Profitability Analysis (PA). Tested report generation using reporting tools Report Painter and report writer and performed end user training and documented training materials for the users.

Confidential, HOUSTON, TX
MARCH 2008- JULY 2009
FI Consultant for Champion Technologies a global specialty chemical, my responsibilities includes preparing required documents user training providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business process in SAP. Interacted with Client business users for requirements gathering and analysis. Interacted with the business Analysts and end users to get the user requirements and Business process using ASAP methodology. Interacted with Client to Update and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas. Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories. Redefined and Configured Payment Methods, Payments Terms, House Bank, Bank Accounts for AP, AR - Dunning process, Lockbox, Interest calculation, and Credit Management. Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces. Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting. Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing. Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts. Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups, discount overviews. Documented End User Manuals and Training Material.

Confidential, Warrendale, PA
AUG 2007- FEB 2008
FI Consultant for Talisman Energy USA is helping reduce America's dependence on foreign energy. Advanced seismic exploration capabilities help us successfully locate deposits of natural gas. Studied the business process and user requirements. Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status variants, document types, posting keys. Configured Vendor and Customer Master Records, tolerance limits for over payments and under payments, Payment terms, and Payment methods. Performed Month end closing, maintenance of GR/IR accounts. Updated functional specifications to develop business requirements involving various FICO SAP enhancementsaltered chart of accounts in accordance with the requirements. Configured Posting Periods, new tolerance groups, account groups and field status variants for new company codes within the company. Configured Recurring Entries, hold & park and sample documents, training end users. (AP) Creation of one time vendors, new payment terms on clients request, discounts, interests calculation and materials creation. Updating functional specifications with respect to client requirement Creation of Check lots. Automatic Payment Program, Dunning notices. Configured withholding taxes, defined WHT codes, WHT groups, maintained Tax structures and percentages for jurisdictions and for different periods).