SUMMARY

• Result oriented professional with overall 8+ years of functional Experience in Finance, Controlling.
• Successfully implemented 3 Full life cycle projects - worked through the phases of requirement gathering, scope management, process analysis, GAP analysis, Business Blueprint,Realization, Testing, Go-live, post live support and training.
• Implemented SAP ECC 6.0, SAP FICO, Project Systems, SAP FICA, SAP FSCM, SAP SEM 6.0, Banking & SAP Tax
• Experience in Production support projects mainly into SAP New General Ledger.
• Experience inGeneral Ledger Planning, Company codes and FI global settings.
• Experience in foreign currency valuation, taxation and localization
• FI expertise includes General Ledger (GL), New Ledger, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Treasury- Cash Management (TR-CM), Asset accounting (AA) and Special Purpose Ledger (SL).
• Expertise in ABAP, ObjectOriented ABAP, Webdynpro ABAP and SAP BI7
• Expert experience in functional Testing of RICEFW, Unit, Integration (SIT), Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using HPQC tool.
• Knowledge of various SD activities such as Order Management, Pricing, delivery and transportation and billing.
• Strong education background in Finance & Accounting, Taxation - specialized in Finance & Cost Accounting.
• Experience in House banks creations, Dunning Procedure, and well versed with Automatic Payment Program.
• Extensive Experience with SAP FSCM Modules in SAP Biller Direct: for handling Web-based payments and account and bill display, SAP Dispute Management: for processing customer invoice complaints.
• Excellent Configuration and Customization experience in SAP CollectionsManagement: for proactively collecting outstanding receivables, SAP Credit Management: for managing customer credit lines
• Experience in configuring Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), creating Customer groups, Customer downpayments, Processing Invoices and Credit memos.
• Experience in Customer Payments, Account clearing, and Correspondence with customers, Customer Account Analysis and generating Reports.
• Extensive knowledge in Cost Element and Cost Center Accounting, configured basic Controlling settings, number ranges, created primary and secondary cost elements.
• Configuration testing and support experience with different SAP Versions 4.6, 4.7, 4.7E and ECC 6.0.
• Expertise in analyzing incidents/issues and providing fixes (production support).
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, Good written and Oral skills, ability to learn fast and apply the knowledge to meet the business requirements and have the functional experience to understand and propose changes to the business processes of the client.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP - ABAP: Object Oriented ABAP, Webdynpro ABAP, ALE/IDocs, Interfaces, Classical and ALV reports, SAP Scripts, Function modules/BAPIs, Module pool/Dialog programming, User exits, BADIs and Workflows
• SAP BI7: InfoObjects, InfoCubes, DSO, InfoSets, BEx queries, RFCs, transformations, Process chains, Data sources and Extractors.
• FI/CO: Configuration, master data and user transactions related to: FI Enterprise Structure & Global Settings, General Ledger (FI-GL), New General Ledger, Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Cost Element and Cost Center Accounting (EC-CCA), Profit center accounting (EC-PCA), Profitability analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing (CO-PC)
• SAP MODULES: Finance and controlling (FI/CO), Plant Maintenance (PM) asset management and Sales and Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM), Project System (PS) , Human Resources ( HR) and Production Planning (PP)
• Sap Archiving, Sap Workflow
• SAP BPC: Data Loading, ETL, EVDRE Reports, Script Logic, BADIs and System Administration
• Testing Tools: CATT, eCATT, Solution manager
• IS - Solutions: Trained on IS-Banking modules - Transactional Banking( FS-CMS, FS-AM, FS-BP, FS-CML) , Analytical Banking ( FBD, BA)
• Programming Methodologies: ASAP, Lean Methodology
• OTHERS: Unix Shell Scripting, Autosys

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NE Jan2011 to Till Date.
SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Scope: New Development and Production Support.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on different implementation, support, on board projects on SAP modules as NewGL, AP, AR, AA, PCA, CCA, Bank Accounting.
• Configured Current Account Master Data Master Data with Conditions & Limits for SAP Banking.
  Configured Means of Payment Management for SAP Banking.
• Participated at the high level discussions on the timeline, scope of the projects, the Project scheduled dates, deliverable dates etc.
• Configured Site, Business Partners, Article, Grouping of Articles & Conditions in SAP IS-Retail.
• Worked extensively on HP Quality Center (HPQC-10.00) modules (Requirements module, Business Component module, Test Plan, Test Lab, Test Resource, defect and dashboard). Specified Requirements and analyzed application and determined requirements. Planned and confirmed test run schedules and requirement.
• Created and Executed Test Cases for Unit Testing, Integration Testing, BSVT, Performance Testing in HP Quality Center (HPQC)
• Managed Defects for FPM Team in HPQC.
• All phases of testing has been done and tracked in HPQC.
• Created and Executed Test Cases in HPQC, tracked all Change Requests.
• Worked as a Bridge between off shore and onsite counterpart. Coordinated team activities, weekly meetings for the updates and assignments.
• Defined the setup for new company codes, sales organizations and plants.
• Worked on Integration of FI-GL with asset accounting, Material Management and Sales and Distribution.
• Maintained settings for settlement of variances in production order - settlement profile and PA transfer structure for transferring to COPA, CO-PC
• Worked on the design of the Internal Order module to support capital procurement process involving planning, budgeting, approvals, settlements, status management, reporting, in integration with investment management.
• Implemented procurement portal using ABAP Webdynpro.
• Implemented transport portal using ABAP Webdynpro.
• Created characteristics, value fields, and generated operating concern for costing based COPA by selecting required characteristics and value fields from field catalogue.
• Configured valuation strategy for COPA using various valuation techniques with reference to Product Costing information, Costing sheet, condition types and user exits.
• Configured setting for transfer of billing data from SD by mapping condition types to value fields in costing based COPA.
• Setup House banks for the newly added banks to the company.
• Configured Validations rules to restrict GL accounts to certain document types in line with management reporting requirements by creating required sets in Special Purpose Ledger.
• Defined master data for General ledger accounts, Materials, Assets, Cost centers, Internal Orders, Profit centers, Vendors and Customers.
• Defined AP, AR Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Defined new account keys, document types and number ranges.
• Worked on the Automatic payment program and Lock Box setup for the Accounts Payables(AP) and accounts Receivables(AR).
• Defined the setup for Asset Accounting (AA) Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation keys and Asset classes, automatic offset postings.
• Integrated FI with SD, MM and PP for the logistics and order management trade and Inter-company transactions.
• Used LSMW to create master data, to delete master data and fix few production issues on the Product cost collectors.
• Prepare receipts of the goods purchased by the customer and maintain hard copies of receipts as well.
• Structured FSCM dispute management into one summarized central business object and created a single view showing actions like reason code, processor, disputed amount, amount paid as well as customer correspondence for a particular customer
• Responsible for Creating and tracking promises to pay in FSCM Collections Management and used Collections Management to define information about expected payments in system and monitor their progress
• Wrote functional specs for Collection and Biller Direct BADI\'s as well as for dispute management workflows and unit tested all of them.
• Prepared the FSCM Dispute and Collections Management Blueprint, Prototyped the FSCM modules and demonstrated the business proof of concept
• Used Read Soft to scan and extract information from paper or electronic vendor invoices to SAP. Work around included analyzing the effects of the incoming payments and update the promise to pay accordingly with FSCM Collections Management
• Responsible for any kind of error handing for any banking IDOC failures
• Responsible for any IDOC issues for the banking interfaces, whenever there was a need edited the IDOC and reprocessed it in XI
• Make list of new products and send to the engineers to implement the same in POS (Point of Sale) application menu.
• Maintain and update reports of stock and provide requirements to the warehousing department
• Configured and Customized the Fixed Assets Accounting.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA Jan 2010 to Dec 2010
SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 E, ECC 6.0
Scope: Full Life Cycle Implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project implementation from 'Blueprinting'.
• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Engaged in Customization and Configuration of FICA including: Define Chart of Accounts, Documents postings, Automatic G/L Account Determination, Interest Calculations, Invoicing, Dunning, Inbound Correspondence, Payment Plans, Payment Lots, Payment Programs, Returns, Automatic Clearing, open item reporting etc.,
• Used Solution Manager for the Central Data Repository for the Business Blueprint, Configuration.
• Experience in writing/developing reports in Report Painter. Experience in IS-Retail (POSDM integration to BI/BW, credit/debit/gift card processing etc.,), experience in tax configuration and testing (US, TAXWARE, VERTEX, VAT)
• Created a POC for contract management system using Webdynpro ABAP and EP to showcase feasibility of the concept.
• Created application using ABAP Webdynpro and deployed it to EP
• Configured account receivables which included dunning, incoming payments setting, down payments procedure and credit management.
• Conducted interviews with users to gather requirements and to understand the workflow of the As-Is system.
• SIR (System Information Report) process involved throughout the Unit testing, Acceptance testing, Assemble testing, Integration testing and system testing.
• Worked on multiple external legacy systems (interface) and designed appropriate mapping documents for successful integration with SAP.
• Co-ordinate with Process Integration (PI) team to configure designed mapping documents as per the requirement of SAP and Legacy systems Interface.
• Utilized Net weaver Process Monitor (NWPM) to capture the entire interface process flow.
• Configuration of Treasury and Risk Management and Financials with Regards to New G/L Accounts Postings.
• Filled GAPS in Contract Accounting Receivables and Payables (FICA, FSCD)
• Performed all activities at the POS(Point of Sale) cash counter and prepared reports of daily transactions
• Configured derivation strategy and valuation strategy in Costing Based Profitability Analysis COPA.
• Designed and formulated a customized workflow for Cardinal to handle and close disputes effectively.
• Configured settings for COPA Planning like planning framework, planning methods and maintaining versions.
• Mapped SD condition types to value fields for transferring SD Billing Data to COPA.
• Maintained Assessment Cycles and the relationship to Profitability segments for transferring overhead costs to COPA.
• Configured settings for COPA planning like planning framework, planning methods and maintaining versions.
• Developed, performed and supervised integration and unit testing execution through HPQC for VIM invoice workflow, OFAC validation, Generic Payment Extract Program, Bank Determination, Data Medium Exchange, Payment Program and various other standard and custom A/P functionality related to an end-to-end invoice processing interfaced from legacy systems, processed in ECC and interfaced to downstream systems.
• Conducted Unit Testing and Integration Testing in HPQC.
• Did Unit testing and Regression Testing in HPQC
• Suggested new features for the POS (Point of Sale) application which allow starting or stopping value added services at POS counter itself.
• Presented reports of POS (Point of Sale) activities to the Store Manager.
• Assisted in other operational duties during my tenure
• Configured complete Bank Accounting sub module including House Banks, Bank chains, Electronic bank statements (EBS), and Bank keys.
• Configured the inter-company transactions for finance and revenue processes
• Preparation of Test Design, Test conditions, Test cases to complete the successful test execution cycle with (Interfaces) Legacy systems.
• Delivered FICO design documentations, configuration documentations, user manuals and training material.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN Aug 2008 to Dec 2009
SAP FI/COCONSULTANT
Environment: SAP 4.7, ECC 6.0
Scope: Full Life Cycle Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of the Implementation Life Cycle which include System Design, Analysis, Configuration, System Testing, Data Conversion, and Post Go Live support.
• Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, Fiscal Year Variant, posting period variant, opening and closing of posting periods, field status variants, document types, posting keys, automatic clearing accounts.
• Successfully demonstrated in helping SAP FI-AR, FI-AP, SD, MM, PP end-users on various areas like payment terms, Customer Contracts, process payment runs, manually processing, Reconciliation accounts in the GL.
• Analyzing of the existing system for, as is study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Familiar with Treasury work Flow.
• Configured SD Condition records in COPA by creating access sequence, tables, condition types and mapping of these value fields to SD condition types and assigned pricing procedure in COPA.
• Made changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P & L accounts; also includes modification of COPA user exits and creation of new field status groups.
• Prepared annual Forecast and Budget by use of CO-PA Profitability Analysis, CO-PC
• Evaluated test scripts and test cases and performed Unit, Integration, UAT testing, validations & conversion.
• Configured cost based COPA, created characteristic and value fields, and configured valuation using product costing sheet.
• Configured operating concern attributes and COPA settlement structure with the settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
• Customized asset accounting structure/valuation fixed assets, designed asset management to carryout business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs, post capitalization, and Asset under construction process.
• Created New Depreciation Keys/Asset Scrapping, Transfer of Asset Etc. Cleanup/mapping and conversion of fixed asset master data with recalculation of APC and conducted integration.
• In Cost Center Accounting created the Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities, Statistical Key Figures. Developed assessment, distribution periodic reposting cycles and segment.
• Worked with HPQC & Sol. Manager to document business processes, create data/test cases and perform/manage testing. (FUT, UAT, Regression)
• Defect management using HPQC. Resolved issue with new GL document splitting rules.
• Configured and Customized Treasury module including Cash Management including Electronic Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, cash budgeting.
• Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration. Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Statistical key figures and cost element planning.
• Worked with senior management in calculating project cost, auditing timesheets, labor hours and labor rates.
• Provided user training and prepared user documentation for all important business processes.

Confidential, New Castle, DE Jan2007 to Jul2008
SAPFI/COCONSULTANT
Environment: SAP4.7E
Scope: Full Life Cycle Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Global implementation and Participated 3 phases of the Project Realization, Testing, Go Live and Post Production support.
• Configured GL Master Data and Cost Center Master Data.
• Assigned Primary Cost elements, Secondary Cost elements and Maintained Statistical Key figures.
• Defined Master Data of Vendors and Created House Banks and Bank GL Accounts.
• Defined Cost Center Groups under Standard Cost Center hierarchy.
• Defined Alternative Hierarchies for Assessment and Distribution cycles.
• Defined Order types, Internal Orders, planning profiles and Settlement profile.
• Maintained Asset Accounting and Chart of depreciation, Specified account determination.
• Worked extensively on Down Payment Request, Reconciliation accounts for Vendors and Customers.
• Configured payment terms and Customer and Vendor Groups, Master Data, Clearing of Vendor/Customer Open Items, AR-customer transactions, Credit management.
• Monitored Month end Batch Jobs, Supported the client in GL, AR, AP.
• Worked on customization of Treasury Module - Lockbox configuration using BAI2 format with IDOC.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment and configured settings for Electronic bank statements (EBS).
• Worked on Treasury to create checks, electronic bank statements, liquidity forecast.
• Recurring Documents, Account Assignment Models, Reversing of FI Documents. Customer and Vendor Master Record Entry.
• Year end Closing Procedures, G/L Account and Cost Element Entry, Input of Annual budget by Cost Center and Profit Center.

Confidential, Springfield, VA March3005 to Dec2006
SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT
Environment: SAP 4.7 E FI/CO
Scope: Implementation Support

Responsibilities:

• Major distributor of laundered uniforms nationally with 25 locations.
• 4.7E version of SAP with FI, MM, SD, PP and AP fully implemented.
• Responsibilities and project scope include the conversation of Customer and Accounts
• Receivable Master Data and develop daily interfaces from Legacy system to SAP to implement FI-AR. Order processing and Billing will remain in Legacy environment on separate Databases.
• Cleaned legacy customer master data. Reviewed customer address data, credit limits, dunning, line item displays, and carry forward balances.
• Trained and advised team members on SAP functionality.
• Mapped and specified with programmers all conversions and interfaces from Legacy system to SAP.
• Followed ASAP Implementation methodology and designed the business processes, wrote blueprint phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.
• Full configuration of the project covering the following modules: FI-AR, CO-CCA, CO-PC CO-PCA, FI-GL.
• Defined GeneralLedgeraccounts, Accountdetermination, FieldStatusGroups.
• Enterprise Structure - Credit Control Area and Business Areas , Account Groups, Document types, Customer and Document number ranges, Terms of payment, Clearing functions - Posting Keys, Reason Codes, Automatic clearing, Account assignment, and Tolerance groups , Bank master data, Closing & reporting, Interest calculation, Statemen3ts, Dunning, Credit Management functionality and Lockbox processing.
• Tested Sales/Use tax functionality using Vertex.

Confidential, Hyderabad, India Jun2003 to Jan2005
Jr.FICO CONSULTANTEnvironment SAP R/3 4.6 and 4.7 Scope: Implementation Support
Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and Design meetings for the Requirements.
• Maintained Company Codes & Company Code Global Parameters.
• Configured Posting Keys, Number Ranges & Document Types.
• Created Master Records including General Ledger, Vendor Master Record, and Customer Master Record etc.
• CO PA configuration (CO-PA Cost Based & Account Based, Real and Planning, CO-PA reports developed, XI Interfaces).
• Used LSMW to Transfer data once from legacy system into an R/3 System.
• Configured additional House Banks, Bank Accounts, and Check Lots.
• Developed the ABAP queries for the report painter.
• Defined Reason codes for the payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to GL accounts.
• Customized the Financial Statement Versions (FSV) and assigned it to the Chart of Accounts.
• Configured Vendor Groups & Assigned number ranges to vendor groups.
• Configured the additional Depreciation areas and defined depreciation keys.
• Worked on the Derived depreciation area, screen layouts of fixed assets.
• Created tax invoices for the customers and recorded the invoices sent by the vendors.
• Created Cost centers, Profit centers and completed the account assignment for the cost objects.