Summary

Have 9 plus years of experience in managing business processes and implementing the financial systems specialized in SAP FICO and PS modules for various clients under different industry domains- Business consulting, Business Development-SAP, IT Consulting services, Pharmaceutical, Oil and Gas and retail industries. Understands the Scope of the projects- drive projects, and meet deadlines, motivated to develop successful solutions. Participated in 3 full Lifecycle Implementation of SAP R/3 and major Production Support, and enhancements project experiences.
Have inherent people skills and a very quick Lerner. Possess excellent presentation skills and a very good team player.
Understands the financial processes of the organizations- Sales and Marketing Finance, Operational Finance, Record to report, Tax, Capital and Asset management, Purchase to pay, Order to cash, Management Reporting.

Education and Honors

Bachelor of Science

SAP FI/CO Skills

Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year, Posting period, Company code, Business areas, Field status groups, functional areas, sales and purchase tax, Group Currency and Hard Currency Account.

FI-GL

Account groups, GL Master Records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/purchase tax assignment, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Business Area accounting. New GL, Parallel Ledger, Document Splitting.

FI-AR

Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, Lockbox Process and Closing operations.

FI-AP

Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, cr
t memos, closing procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts.

FI-Asset Accounting

Asset Class, Asset Master Record, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys, Multilevel methods, Acquisition, Work in Progress, Retirement, Multiple Depreciation area, Parallel Currencies.

Financial Statements

Financial Closing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, GR/IR accounts, financial statement creation

Bank Accounting

House Banks, bank accounts, Manual Bank statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Free form of payment, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program.

Treasury

Cash Concentration; Cash forecasting, planning level and planning groups. Data flow from logistics modules.

CO

Configuring controlling areas, cost centre hierarchy, currency and valuation profile.

Cost Centre Accounting

Creating Cost centre and cost centre groups. Activity types and statistical keys, Reposting, Distribution, Assessment and Overheads.

Profit Centre Accounting

Profit Centre, Revenue elements.

Product Costing

Defining origin groups, costing sheet with calculation bases, percentage overhead, and quantity based overhead and credits, cost component structure.

Profitability Analysis

Characteristics, Value Fields, Characteristics deviation, settlement of variances, flow of billing documents, Legal and Profit Centre valuation and COPA Planning.

Report Painter

Report Painter report for Profit Centre, Cost Centre and Profitability Analysis.

Professional Experience

Confidential, Bridgeview, IL Nov 2011 May 2012
SAP FI Lead
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, is one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Latin America based in Sao Paolo, Brazil. It operates in various sectors such as finance, energy, steel, pulp, paper, cement, construction and many other varied businesses.
Votorantim recently acquired a cement company in Chicago area called prairie Materials. The main scope of the project is merging Prairie’s SAP system into Votorantim’s global template.

Responsibilities

• Performed AS IS study and prepared TO BE Process documents for FI Module.
• In PS, planned the project, monitored the project progress and controlled project progress.
• Created flowcharts and got it approved from Key users, and created Business Blue Print for the TO BE processes.
• Created Functional Specification Documents for creation of the SAP Vertex interface for Brazillian Taxation.
• Customized and Configured the FI Global Settings like Company Code, Company Code Currency, Tax Procedures, Fiscal Year settings & posting periods, Document Types and Number Ranges.
• Customized and Configured General Ledger Account Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance Groups & retained earnings account in New GL as per IFRS Standard
• Migrated Data between two systems using EDI Idocs.
• In Accounts payable and receivables (SAP-AP and SAP-AR), Designed Procure to Payprocess, Order to cashcycles and involved in the integration areas of SAP FI MM, and SAP FI SD.
• Customized and Configured Vendor Account Groups and Vendor Master Records (with combined effort of MM consultant).
• Made settings for automatic procedures in Payment Programs and for interest calculation on account balances/line items and foreign exchange calculation.
• Configured House s, and other settings for bank transactions.
• In Treasury, designed and mapped the Positive Payee Interface with Bank of America, did all the required configuration in the Build stage and did all the related testing.
• Trouble shoot issues relating to the overall payment process including the F110 Payment, the In house cash, the F110 Payment and transfer to Bank
• Customized and Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records (with combined effort of SD consultant).
• Configured OBYC and VKOA as part of MM & SD integration with FI.
• Credit Management Configuration with credit control areas and maintained Credit Limits for customers and cash receipts.
• Tested the document flow from MM to FI and SD to FI.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program and Dunning Program.
• Created IXOS interface with SAP for vendor invoice scanning.
• Through POS DM, evaluated the effectiveness of promotions.
• Configured Cash Journal.
• In Asset Accounting, created TAX and AMT Depreciation Keys and in Inflation Accounting adjusted Asset Values.
• COPA configuration with Characteristics and Value Fields creation
• Mapping cost components to COPA value fields
• Setting up of Annual Plan and creating several valuation strategies and versions for adjustments
• Enhancements with CO PA user exits
• Created BPP’s and trained End Users.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing.

Confidential, Holtsville, NY Dec 2010 Nov 2011
SAP FICO Team Lead
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, is a data communications and telecommunications equipment provider that succeeded Motorola Inc. following the spin-off of the mobile phones division into Motorola Mobility in 2011. The company houses the Enterprise Mobility Solutions division and Networks division of the former Motorola. It was the second largest division (based on revenue) in the former Motorola.
Motorola acquired Symbol Technologies in 2007, which is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of mobile data capture and delivery equipment. Symbol Technologies originally used to do their business in Oracle where as Motorola is a SAP business, as a result of the merge, the scope of this project is the transformation from Oracle to SAP.

Responsibilities

• Mapped Oracle fields into SAP fields for all the Conversions (AR Receipts and Invoices and AP Invoices) as well as assisted in Customer Master, Vendor Master and Bank
• Conversion.
• Helped in implementing all the existing Oracle Interfaces into SAP as per IFRS standard
• Created the Functional Specification Documents.
• In New GL, defined ledgers and currencies maintained fiscal year variant and defined Posting Period Variant.
• Activated Document Splitting.
• In Treasury Risk Management, defined calculation indicators, portfolio and Traders, field selection, leading currency, number ranges for payment requests, payment blocking indicators for accounting, and reason for reversal and valuation areas.
• Was the main Point of Contact for anything related to banking interface and was a liaison between Motorola and Bank of America.
• Designed, Build and Tested the In House Cash Application, Banking Inbound and Outbound Interfaces with all the flows being done by EDI Idocs. (EFT, Positive Payee and Lockboxes)
• Responsible for any kind of error handing for any banking IDOC failures.
• Assisted in creating Vertex interface for Sales and Use Tax.
• In Asset Accounting, defined Depreciation areas.
• In PS, activated Project Management in Controlling Areas.
• Configured POS DM to reduce inventory carrying cost and ,gains critical insight into customer buying patterns.
• Configured derivation strategy and valuation strategy in Costing Based Profitability Analysis COPA.
• 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.
• Worked extensively on product cost planning by configuring material cost estimate with quantity structure, cost component split; cost component structure, BOM and route settings.
• Defined costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control transfer control, and reference variants for defining costing variants in product costing CO-PC.
• Analyzed Production orders, CO Production orders and Product cost collectors as Cost Objects in Cost Object controlling.
• Configured settings for preliminary and simultaneous costing of a Production order, and performed various period-end closing activities like process cost allocation, revaluation of activities at actual prices, overhead calculation, WIP, Variance calculation and settlement.
• Maintained settings for calculating work in process (WIP) results analysis keys, line id’s, results analysis versions, cost elements for WIP calculation, valuation method, assignment, update and also defined posting rules for settling work in process.
• Defined variance keys, valuation variants, order type dependent parameters, target cost versions for calculating variance.
• Maintained settings for settlement of variances in production order settlement profile and PA transfer structure for transferring to COPA.
• Maintained settings for requirement classes, requirement types for analyzing product cost by sales order.
• Maintained settings for actual costing like activated valuation areas for material ledger, assigned currency variants to material ledger types, assigned material ledger types to valuation area and configured dynamic price changes.
• Created cost centers, cost elements, standard hierarchies, activity types and statistical key figures and defined Assessment, Distribution cycles in Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA.
• Defined activity types, plan prices for activity types and worked on direct activity allocations and indirect activity allocations.
• Maintained settings for actual postings in Profit center accounting PCA by setting control parameters, document types, assignment of revenue elements to profit centers, choosing additional balance sheet and P/L accounts for assigning to profit centers.
• Maintained profit center master data, statistical key figures and assignment of account objects to profit centers in Profit Center Accounting CO- PCA.
• Maintained allocation structures, settlement cost elements, source structure, PA settlement bstructure, settlement profiles and settings for automatic generation of settlement rules for settlement of Internal order
• Configured Internal Order by maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, status management, settlement rules, settlement profile and planning profile.
• Generated reports using Report painter and performed integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Provided end user training using infopak for new configuration.
• Lead the whole cutover activities for the FICO Team.

Confidential, Chesterbrook, PA Jan 2010 Oct 2010
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
SAP ECC 6.0

Confidential, is a Chesterbrook, PA based Drug Wholesale Company that was formed by the merger of Bergen Bruswig and Amerisource in 2001. They provide drug distribution and related services designed to reduce cost and improve patient outcomes, distribute a line of brand name and generic pharmaceuticals, over the counter (OTC) healthcare products and supplies and equipments to a wide variety of healthcare providers located throughout the US.
The main scope of the project is to design the Functional Design Documents, configurations, and all phases of Testing.

Responsibilities

• Created blueprints and Designed cross team WRICEFS
• Migrated data into SAP from Legacy systems like Metastorm, Star System with the help of EDI IDOC and LSMW.
• Worked on Asset Conversion from Legacy System.
• In Risk Management, defined Amortization procedure, one step price valuation procedure, security valuation procedure, price valuation procedure for forward exchange transaction, position management procedure.
• Did the entire mapping for all of the Banking interface during the designing stage, and mainly responsible for the EFT (Electronic Fund Transfer) interface during the build stage and testing phase
• Designed Key Price Indexes from SAP ECC to Hyperion
• Mapped Tax Codes from Legacy System to SAP according to each countries requirement using Vertex
• Responsible for maintaining of master data like cost center, cost element groups, statistical key figures and statistical key figure groups in Cost Center Accounting.
• Created actual and plan allocation cycles before the month end as needed by the business users. Allocation cycles were documented based on sender cost center and cost element.
• Created validation rules.
• Configured Actual Costing in CO
• Configured New GL
• Configured Treasury Workstation for Risk and Liquidity Analysis.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting as a part of New GL.
• In Product Costing, material cost estimate done by quantity structure by defining costing types, valuation variants.
• In Internal Orders, responsible for maintaining internal orders, internal order groups, model orders and order types.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created cost center and standard hierarchies
• In COPA, configured costing based Profitability Analysis, created operating concern, characteristics and value fields.
• Configured PA transfer structure for transferring values from FI and CO.
• Customized settlement profile, allocation structure and PA transfer structures to facilitate order settlement to CO-PA.
• Configured Product Cost by Order in Product Costing.
• In Product Costing, followed Activity Based Costing (ABC) to estimate the standard cost and calculate the actual cost using actual values
• Configured Costing Variant, Costing Sheet, Valuation variant, Order Type, and overhead cost elements in Product Costing.
• In Asset Accounting, performed requirement analysis and functional matching for asset accounting, purchase cycle and plant maintenance.
• Configured the Fixed Assets, Chart of Depreciation, asset class, depreciation area, fiscal year variant, number range, and substitution rule in the fixed asset master records.
• In Treasury, configured the whole In House Cash Application
• Scheduled all Batch Jobs after the system went Live for FPM (Financial Process Management) Team.
• Created and Executed Test Cases for Unit Testing, Integration Testing, BSVT, Performance Testing in HP Quality Center
• Used ARIS to manage Business Processes
• Managed Defects for FPM Team in HPQC.
• Created Configuration Specification Documents (CSD)
• Created user defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter.
• Involved in testing, cutover planning, and production support.
• Trained End Users and created training documents in Sharepoint.

Confidential,Houston, TX Apr 2009 Nov 2009
SAP FI Consultant
Upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0

Hewlett PackardConfidential,world. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, includes electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid-state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis.
The main scope of the assignment is the HP EDS integration. I was involved in multiple projects in this assignment. The legal merge of both the corporation from the GL, IC, AP, and AR perspective for each of the countries were HP and EDS operates. Also the joint invoicing that will take place in the future for any HP EDS services to their clients as a result of the integration and the upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0.

Responsibilities

• Reviewed Mapping
• Migrated documents of EDS SAP boxes into HP SAP boxes using EDI IDOC’S.
• Upgraded Classic GL to New GL.
• Created and Maintained G/L Accounts in New GL.
• In New GL maintained a parallel ledger.
• Worked on existing EDS Company Code
• Currency converted into HP Company code’s Currency. (Mostly worked on European and Asian currency converted to USD.)
• Maintained Currency Conversion Tables.
• In Point of Sale Data Management, audited point of sale transactions and gauged price sensitivity in different markets
• In Asset Accounting, created Asset Classes and intercompany Asset Transfer.
• In Asset Accounting, set up depreciation areas for all the EDS European company codes.
• In AP, created Vendors and Trading Partners and broadcasted Vendors in different SAP boxes.
• In AR, created Customers.
• In AR, worked on the Customer Tolerances, payment advices and the rationalization of the reason codes for the payment differences.
• Integrated FICO with MM and SD.
• In Treasury, configured Lockbox did Liquidity forecast, and Cash Management position.
• In Checks Management, maintained check lots and defined void reason codes.
• In Bank Accounting, created House Banks.
• Responsible for any IDOC issues for the banking interfaces, whenever there was a need edited the IDOC and reprocessed it in XI
• In AP, defined Vendor Master Date and account groups.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for Company Codes in AP.
• Implemented complete COPA costing based PA for 9 company codes
• Configured all characteristics and derivation strategy including user exits
• Configured FI-SD, FI, and standard cost break ups along with variance calculation
• Integrated COPA with CS (Customer Service) module, and MM, SD, and FI modules
• Created Validations.
• Created Tolerance Groups.
• Created Intercompany Workflows.
• Assigned Users to Workflow and created Partner Profiles.
• Created Payment Terms.
• Created Number Ranges and Document Types.
• Mapped EDS Tax Codes to HP Tax Codes using Sebrix for countries like Brazil, Argentina, Venezuala.
• Validated Documents in Production.
• Maintained Documentation for all configurations in SharePoint
• Created Cost Centers.
• Reviewed and Fixed Idoc errors in XI.
• Migrated Legacy System to SAP using LSMW.
• All phases of testing has been done and tracked in HPQC.
• Created and Executed Test Cases in HPQC, tracked all Change Requests.
• Did System Integration Testing for all the Phases of the Merge
• Did User Acceptance Testing for all the Phases of Merge
• Did Regression Testing.
• Configured all the reports as per IFRS standards.
• Created Reports using Report Painter, Report Writer and Adhoc Reports.
• Post Go Live Support.
• Creates End User Training Documents in Sharepoint.

Confidential,Orlando, FL May 08 Feb 09
Senior SAP FICO Consultant - Team Lead (Full Lifecycle Implementation)
SAP ECC R/3 6.0

Confidential, is a major global developer, manufacturer and marketer of advanced, pioneering consumer and professional medical diagnostic products
The position was of a Senior FI Consultant with major responsibility of implementing the Asset Accounting module, \\and COPC module with daily production support activity mainly in GL, AP, AR and Bank Accounting.

Responsibilities

• Did the requirement-gathering meeting with the business for the creation of Asset Accounting blueprint as per IFRS standards.
• Created the blueprint for Asset Accounting Implementation.
• Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc.
• Integrated Asset Accounting, structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset master Involved in the designing of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, inter-company asset Transfers and balance-carry forward jobs. Calculations/reporting and Year-end closing in fixed assets. Designed and configured Asset Accounting to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements and Transfers.
• Conducted Unit, Regression, User and System Testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch
• Session and also involved in providing training to end-users.
• In Risk Management, configured and tested Money Market, Foreign exchange and Securities.
• Upgraded classic GL into New GL by adding a parallel ledger and the automatic reconciliation with CO
• In Profitability Analysis, defined operating concern, characteristics, value fields, characteristics derivation, and valuation strategy.
• Created settlement profile and PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM and variance settlement.
• Defined forms and variables, created profitability report using those forms.
• Using EDI IDOC migrated documents.
• In Product Costing configured the basic setting for Material Costing (like defining calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, costing sheets, overhead groups.)
• Configured Material Cost estimate with quantity structure by defining costing types, valuation variants, transfer strategy, costing variants.
• In AP, created House banks, payment configurations and maintained vendor master.
• In AR, configured Interest calculations, default account assignments and Credit Management.
• In Bank Accounting, created check lots and void reason codes.
• In Cash Management, activated cash management for company codes.
• In Checks Management, archived checks, renumbered checks and void checks.
• Filled GAPS in Contract Accounting Receivables and Payables (FICA, FSCD)
• Recognized revenues by FI and SD Integration.
• Configured Tax using Vertex for South American Countries like Brazil and Argentina.
• Configured the system for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming Payments with difference and defined reason codes for payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to G/L accounts. Tolerance groups, credit management
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, and Posting Rules for automatic assignments.
• Did Lockbox Remittance Processing.
• Define multiple clearing accounts for the cash reporting.
• In GL, converted different currency into USD.
• Maintained Currency Conversion Tables.
• In Treasury configured Electronic Bank Statement.
• In Internal Orders, created overhead Orders and Accrual Orders.
• Implemented EC-CS (Consolidation), developed blueprint for business consolidation implementation, conducted process analysis to discover issues and requirement in the stage and mapped to features and functions to optimize solution design.
• Determined the best design to feed ECCS via the Special Purpose Ledger.
• Reviewed currency conversion requirement from US Dollars to Euros.
• Integrated with PP and PM.
• Did all the balance uploads as part of the Cutover.
• Created End User documents using On Demand/ UPK.

Confidential, Houston, TX Apr 08 May 08
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
SAP R/3 4.6

Confidential,is one of the Big Four auditing firms and the 7th largest private company in the United States.
The main scope of the project is to let the end client (CITGO) know of all the changes that need to be done in their SAP practice during transformation from US GAAP to IFRS. The project was a Blueprint demonstration to the end client in Sandbox.

Responsibilities

• Creating Asset Numbers as per IFRS standards
• Used Material Ledger to carry material prices in different currencies.
• Transfer Pricing from Profit Center to get the real cost of production.
• Used standard costing in Product Costing
• Created Dummy Profit Center.
• Configured Contractual allocations in PRA.

Confidential, Houston, TX Jan 08 Apr 08
SAP CO/PS Consultant (SAP Support Team Lead)
Upgrade from 4.7 to ECC6.0

Confidential,is a machinery and oil service technology company. It is based in Houston, Texas (Energy systems and Oilfield Equipment) and Chicago, Illinois (Machinery, Automation and Food Processing.)
The position was a Production Support role where major responsibilities include taking care of Controlling and Project Systems tickets.

Responsibilities

• In PS, worked with project sponsors to define business requirements, analyze alternative, and develop high-level conceptual design.
• Collaborated with internal customers to identify user requirements, assess available technologies and recommend suitable solutions.
• Integrated with SD, MM, PP and PM module.
• Found GAPS in Joint Venture Accounting and did the required configurations to close the GAPS.
• Reviewed Documentation.
• Made Enhancement in the system
• Created Validations
• Configured Special G/L.
• Consolidated Financial Data (EC-CS) in the matrix management environment (based on region and corporation) with different set of chart fields.
• Configured a new design into the Special Purpose Ledger and EC-CS.
• Modify reporting in ECCS to maintain US GAAP and IFRS reporting.
• In Internal Orders, created Overhead Orders and Investment Orders
• Migrated Legacy System into SAP using LSMW.
• Integrated with PM module.
• Configured Regulatory Reporting and Tax and Royalty Reporting PRA.
• Responsible for all CO/PS tickets.
• In Material Ledger, did basic configuration and production Startup.
• Created Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, and assigned Cost Centers to Cost Elements.
• Created cost centers and cost center groups.
• Configured Standard Profit Center Hierarchy, assignments, CO objects to Profit Center
• Distribution and Assessment of Cost in PCA
• In Profitability Analysis, defined operating concern, characteristics, value fields, characteristics derivations and valuation strategies.
• Defined Forms and Variable, created Profitability Reports using those forms.
• Used Activity Based Costing using the Standard Cost in Product Costing.
• Configured Costing Variant, Costing Sheet, valuation variant, order type, overhead cot elements in COPC.
• Posted Invoices with or without invoice verification.
• Created user defined reports through Report Painter, Report Writer and Ad Hoc Reports.
• Integrated with PP and PM.

Confidential,Camden, NJ Aug 07 Dec 07
SAP CO Consultant
SAP R/3 4.7

Confidential, is a producer of canned soups. Campbell’s products are sold in 120 countries. Campbell’s reportedly produces more than 2.5 billion cans of soup per year. The assignment was a temporary Implementation Role mostly in Cost Centre Accounting, Profitability Analysis, and Product Costing.

Responsibilities

• Provided Functional Specification Document to ABAP Team.
• Configured the standard hierarchy of cost centers.
• Created cost centers and cost center groups.
• Created cost element and cost element groups.
• Created activity types and activity type groups.
• Created Dummy Profit Center and Profit Center Standard Hierarchy
• Defined account determination for internal goods movement, maintained automatic account assignment of revenue elements.
• Migrated documents using BAPI
• 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.
• Configured Profit Center master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center groups, distribution and assessment in Profit Center Accounting.
• In Product Costing, activated cross company costing, defined costing versions and source structure in Joint Production.
• Configured Cost Sheets by defining calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, quantity based overhead rates and credit keys in Product Costing. Also defined cost component structure.
• Gathered and prioritized relevant SAP business requirements and designed appropriate SAP FICA solutions. (FSCD)
• Configured the Tax module, which includes the Sales and Use Tax as well as VAT tax-using Vertex.
• Conducted Unit Testing and Integration Testing in HPQC.
• Used On Demand/ UPK to create end user documentation and trained users.

Confidential, Houston, TX Jan 07 Aug 07
SAP FI Consultant
SAP ECC R/3 6.0

Confidential, is an oil and gas corporation based in Houston, TX. They also operate in Canada, Scotland, Egypt, Argentina and Australia. Their main activity is drilling. The position was a Production Support role, basically handling of heat tickets and also helping the implementation team in implementing Material Ledger for the Canadian operation and implementing the Grants Management module.

Responsibilities

• Configured Material Ledger/ Actual Costing for offshore location
• Took care of daily heat tickets. (Solving problems arising in the system)
• Migrated Legacy system into SAP
• Made enhancement in the system.
• Reviewed documentation.
• Communicated with offshore managers and gathered requirements.
• Created validations.
• Took care of tickets pertaining to Contract Accounting (Collections and Disbursements)
• In AP, configured Bank Accounting, check lots and void reason codes.
• Designed, configured, tested and was the main Production Support resource for all the Lockbox interface with the Bank.
• In AR, configured default account assignments, cash discounts.
• Created AP and AR Workflows and Partner Profiles and did the connection in between.
• In Treasury, configured Bank Statement Processing, transaction types, keys for posting rules.
• In Internal Orders, created Accrual Orders and Orders with Revenue.
• In New GL, configured document splitting and reconciliation with FA.
• Configured Special G/L.
• Did all the regulatory reporting in PRA.
• In Bank Accounting, maintained Bank Master Data.
• Configured JVA (Joint Venture Accounting)
• Configured Electronic Bank Statements
• In Cash Management, configured default value date, planning groups and planning levels.
• Setup Consolidation units, group hierarchies, and financial statement items, configured the data monitor, verified data collection, set up the rules for validations, apportionments, created standardized and balance carried forward entries.
• Configured ECCS to perform currency conversion from US Dollars to GB Pounds.
• Configured FI CA (Contract Accounting) module.
• In Asset Accounting, configured organizational structure, asset class, group assets.
• Configured Depreciation areas, depreciation key, master data acquisition, retirement, transfer, and integration with GL.
• Did Stress Testing to see the capacity of the system
• Created customized reports through Report Painter and Report Writer and Ad Hoc Reports.
• Did Unit testing and Regression Testing in HPQC.
• Did end user training.

Confidential,Phoenix, AZ May 06 Dec 06
SAP FI/CO Consultant, Team Lead (Full Lifecycle Implementation)
SAP ECC 5.0

Advanced Technology Services is the leader in factory maintenance and associated spare-parts repairs and has improved performance of the world’s most sophisticated manufacturing companies.
Global rollout carried out in a phased manner in order to implement the SAP system. Rollout carried out in Australia, China, India, Singapore and European countries. Along with the global template the local requirements were addressed.

Responsibilities

• In PS, Communicated client needs and desires including functional specifications to SAP support and development.
• Provided Functional Specification Document to ABAP Team.
• Designed the implementation.
• Did the implementation in consistent with RR (Revenue Recognition) functionality.
• As a team member I was responsible for configuration and testing of General Ledger.
• Migrated Legacy System into SAP using IDOC.
• Integrated with PM module with FICO.
• Configured Company Codes, Posting Period variants, opened posting period and fiscal year variants, field status groups, document ranges, and tolerance groups.
• Assigned variants to the company codes.
• Defined chart of accounts, account groups and general ledger accounts for company code.
• Configured global settings for New G/L such as creating G/L, master data, bank account, interest calculation, closing and integration.
• In Product Costing, did costing by period, defined cost accounting default values for order types and plants, defined result analysis keys and cost element for WIP calculation.
• Activated Cost Component Split in Controlling Area Currency in Product Costing.
• In Accounts Receivable, configured customer master data and master groups.
• In A/R created cross company invoice posting and dunning.
• Implemented Contract Accounting (Collections and Disbursements.)
• Defined Cash Discount according to payment terms, Lockbox processing for incoming payments.
• In Accounts Payable, configured and maintained house banks, payment programs and Automatic Payment Method Configuration, alternate bank selection for payments.
• Checks management through assigning number ranges for check lots and defining void reason codes.
• In Bank Accounting, configured Electronic Check Deposits and Manuel Check Deposits.
• In Bank Accounting configured BPP.
• Configured Electronic Bank Statements.
• Posting Invoices with or without Invoice verification.
• In Treasury, configured exchange rates, Cash Management.
• In Asset Management, did the Blueprint for Singapore and India.
• Configurations in Asset Management includes, creating asset classes, asset numbers, and creating depreciation areas.
• Did Integration with PP and PM.
• Did User training.

Confidential, NY Feb 06 Apr 06
SAP FI/CO Consultant
SAP R/3 4.7

Confidential,Corporation is a Japanese business conglomerate, which includes automobile, atomic industry, chemical, steel, real estate, electricity and banking services.
It was a Production Support project where my main responsibility was to take care of the CO tickets and also find GAPS and do the suitable configuration to fix those.

Responsibilities

• Documented business requirement for controlling module implementation.
• Provided production support and system enhancement to CO users.
• As an initial step for CO implementation, configured general controlling by maintaining controlling areas, creating CO document number ranges and version maintenance.
• Migrated Legacy System to SAP using IDOC and BAPI
• Configured Actual Costing.
• Integrated with PM Module
• In PRA, configured balancing, contractual allocations, journal entries and revenue distribution.
• In Cost Element Account Configuration, involved in identification and creation of primary cost element through batch input session and created secondary cost elements for the purpose of internal orders.
• Configured cost centre related planning, budget management and actual postings and assigned relevant cost centers to profit centers.
• Configured internal orders by identifying and creating required order types.
• Involved in operating concern developments.
• Identified and configured enterprise controlling profit center, created required profit center based on geographical location.
• Involved in configuration and planning of Actual Posting of Profit Center
• In Profit Center Accounting, created profit centers, standard hierarchy, configured profit center master data, maintained default account assignments, and automatic account assignments, validation andsubstitution, distribution and assessment.
• In COPA, maintained characteristics, characteristics values, defined characteristics hierarchies, maintained characteristics derivation, derivation rules.
• In Product Costing, configured product cost by order, defined goods received valuation for order delivery
• Defined Variance Keys, default variance keys for plants, target cost versions and number ranges for variance documents.
• Involved in Manual Testing using Test Director, regression testing, functional testing

Confidential, San Antonio, TX July 04 Nov 05
SAP FI/CO Consultant (Full Lifecycle Implementation)
SAP R/3 5.0

Confidential, Corporation is Fortune 500 Company headquartered in San Antonio. Tesoro is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products operating six refineries in the United States.
I was Responsible for analysis of business processes and design of FI/CO Business blueprint. Defined Function, Process, Mapping, Implementation and extensive Configuration in SAP General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable entries

Responsibilities

• Worked through the Full Lifecycle Implementation of the project, including blue print preparation, configuration, testing, end user training, and go live phases.
• Followed ASAP Methodology in implementing the project.
• Worked closely with business user for gathering business requirements and creating detailed blue print in accordance with IFRS.
• Designed the FI part of the Implementation.
• Configured Company Codes, Account groups, posting periods, fiscal year variant, document number ranges, field status groups.
• In GL, created chart of accounts, field status groups, and automatic account determination.
• In JVA, configured class, number range and venture company.
• Defined Customer/Vendor Account groups, created vendor/ customer master data.
• Defined Payment Methods and payment methods for vendor/customer.
• Configured Automatic Account Payment Program for outgoing payment for company codes.
• Created Configuration for inter company code transaction
• Maintained number ranges for settlement document, defined number ranges for variance document, defined posting rules for settlement to financial accounting.
• Did Balancing allocations in Production and Revenue Accounting.
• Configured Contractual allocations in PRA.
• Configured and Customized Asset accounting, copied reference chart of depreciation, assigned chart of depreciation to company codes.
• Defined Asset classes, depreciation areas and how the depreciation areas post to general ledger.
• Facilitated Accounts Payable, cost allocation, intercompany sub ledger accounting functionality.
• Revenue and Cost of Sales recognition for Returns
• Configured Funds/Grants Management.
• Developed and Implemented Management Reports which include monthly and yearly Balance Sheet and Income Statement.
• Provided end-user training and created documents for end user.

Confidential,VA Sep 03 June 04
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
SAP R/3 4.7

Confidential, is an American Global Internet services and media services operated by Time Warner and headquartered in New York. It has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world.
The project involved As-Is analysis finding issues and opportunities of improvement, envisioning new business processes, additional functionality, scrapping redundant and enhancing ineffective process.

Responsibilities

• In GL, Created and Maintained Chart of Accounts, Customized Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document types, Posting Periods and created G/L Accounts Mater records.
• In the Accounts Payable module, worked on vendor master records, reason codes, open item management in vendor accounts. Defined different vendor account groups, maintained terms of payments, tax account for outgoing invoices.
• Interacted with clients to upgrade and group customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control areas and Dunning areas.
• Designed and configured the vendor Master Data, Vendor groups, Vendor Field status, vendor and customer master data and Risk Categories.
• Structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset master Involved in the designing of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, inter-company asset Transfers and balance-carry forward jobs. Calculations/reporting and Year-end closing in fixed assets. Designed and configured Asset Accounting to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements and Transfers.
• Defined Tolerance groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, G/L Structures and Posting rules for automatic assignments.
• In Bank Accounting configured AM and DM.
• Configured Payment Program such as Company Code data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Method, and Wire Transfer Settings.
• Configured and Customized Credit Control Area.
• Treasury: Lockbox Configuration.
• Performed unit testing, and integration testing of MM with Account Payable and SD Accounts Receivable.
• Responsible for maintaining Project Documentation including writing Position Papers, Scenarios, Testing Scripts and Configuration Details.
• Worked with the Project Management.
• Trained the End Users.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO Jun 02 Aug 03
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Upgrade from SAP R/3 3.1H to SAP R/3 4.7

Confidential, is a pharmaceutical company based in New York City. It is ranked among the Top 100 global companies in R& D spending. Forest Pharmaceuticals is also known for licensing European pharmaceuticals for sale in the United States.
The project was an upgrade from SAP R/3 3.1H to SAP R/3 4.7.The project involved hands on testing of all Financial SAP transaction codes and reconciliation with Funds Management, Special Ledger, Project Systems and CO Cost Centers.

Responsibilities

• Project was an upgrade from 3.1H to 4.7
• Studied and Incorporated the new functionality of 4.7 Version
• Configuration of new functionality like cash journal, extended withholding, taxes and replacing with existing functionality using Sebrix.
• Did the GAP analysis and figured out the best possible match to resolve the GAP.
• In GL, created number ranges and document types.
• In GL, created Line Items and Sort Variants.
• In Accounts Receivable, configures customer groups, assigned number ranges for vendor master data, created payment terms, reason codes, accounts for exchange rate differences and rounding differences.
• Mapped the Positive Payee and Lockbox interface, also did all the required configurations and testings.
• Complete Bank configuration for incoming payment with bank transactions for multi house Bank scenarios.
• In Accounts Payable, configured vendor groups, assigned number ranges for vendor master data, configured automatic payment programs, and maintained additional payment methods, used special G/L transaction including down payments for AR and AP.
• Set up Fixed Asset Structure asset class, depreciation areas, chart of depreciation and asset master data.
• Maintained depreciation keys, defined declining balance method, multi level methods of depreciation calculation.
• Transfer of legacy data to R/3 system using batch input program.
• Integrated AA with GL by defining G/L accounts for acquisition and retirement account assignment.
• In FICA, configured Collections and Disbursements.
• Balance Processing and Disclosure reporting as per IFRS.
• Responsible for the configuration of Asset Acquisition, Asset Retirement, Asset Transfer, Revaluation of Assets, Depreciation run, yearend closing in Asset Accounting.
• Trained end users and made them aware about the changes in the system as a result of the upgrade.
• Documentation of Configuration unit, Integration Tests, change request. Posts go live support.