Summary

• Certified SAP FI/CO Consultant with around 7years of strong functional experience in Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Testing, Document Preparation, User Training, and Production Support in SAP R/3 Versions 3.0 to 4.7 and SAP ECC 5.0/6.0
• Worked on five full life cycle implementation and two production support.
• Worked on various SAP projects as FI/CO Senior Consultant/Team Lead/Production support lead
• Experience in project planning/execution and resource allocation.
• Extensive experience on Integration with other modules MM, SD, PP, PM & CRM
• Extensive experience in configuring the SAP taxes integrating with Vertex or Taxware.
• Implementedall the modules in SAP FI/CO from version 3.0 to ECC 6.0 which include General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting, Fixed Assets Accounting, Investment Management, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing & Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Experience in ECC 6.0 functional upgrade for New GL data conversion
• Comprehensive object analysis of the system using SPAD and SPAU transactions in upgrades.
• Sound knowledge on SAP tables and worked on various functional specification for reports/enhancements/interfaces.
• Experience in using tools like Report painter/writer, SAP Query, LSMW and CAT scripts.
• Proficient in Data Transition from legacy system to SAP system (Master Data as well as Transactional Data)
• Extensive experience on requirements gathering, business blueprint, process designing and prototyping, configuration, testing, end user training & defining support procedures using ASAP methodology.
• Industry experience includes manufacturing, chemicals, services and Retail.
• A strong team player and self-motivated individual with ability to work under pressure to meet project deadlines.

• SAP Certified FI/CO Solution Consultant (Financial Accounting with mySAP ERP 2005)

• Masters in Business Application (MBA).
• Bachelors of Commerce (B.com).
• PG. Diploma in Computer Science.

Configuration Skills

• FI-General Ledger, New GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Asset Accounting. Investment Management.
• CO - Cost Center accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders.

Integration

• FI- SD Integration: Account determination for revenue postings, Revenue Recognition, Sales taxes.
• FI-MM Integration - Inventory postings, LIV processing and Purchase taxes.
• BW/BI Integration

Technical Skills

• LSMW, Lockbox, Substitutions & Validations.

Others

• SAP Solution Manager, MS Office Suite(Visio, Excel, Word & Project Plan), HP Quality Center & SAP TAO

SAP

SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0

Professional Experience:

Client: Confidential, Phoenix, AZ Duration:January 11 to till date.
Role: Sr SAP FICO Analyst.

Description: PetSmart retail offers the best pet supplies, services, and expertise to help you care for your pets. It's having more than 2000 stores in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico, I have taken various challenging roles at PetSmart during many projects implementations, other than regular production support to the power users.

Responsibilities:

• At PetSmart, I worked as an production support and project lead for Finance and Controlling
• Supporting day to day production support needs and delegating production issues based on business prioritization.
• Coordinated status meetings for finance groups to discuss project/issues for status reporting and prioritization.
• Assessed all business process and implemented needed alerts and train business user with troubleshooting procedures for alerts.
• Provided/maintain troubleshooting documentation for various jobs due to 24/7 live support.
• Introduced and activated Split material valuation for variable costing base reporting.
• Configured the tax procedures and tax codes for the tax calculation and integrating with SD and MM for invoice postings.
• Configured Investment Management linked with Internal orders and settlement profile for the AUC.
• Financial and controlling key transaction codes and training provided to CFO, Financial controller and A/R and A/P account executives
• Worked on mapping R/3 reporting fields for BI implementation.
• Worked with development teams for day- to-day batch jobs tuning which impacts financial posting.
• Extensive experience in configuring the SAP taxes integrating with Vertex.
• Supporting production system with the day to day issues.
• Responsible for upgrading of ECC 6.0 and analyzing new reporting requirements due to the business operational changes into digital products.
• Responsible for creating new organizational structure and multi-currency reporting for the new Puerto Rico company establishment.
• Assess and communication any production issues which impacts P & L's so business will do needed accruals during month end for accurate margin reports.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC, Solution Manager, POS system, HP Quality Control, Remedy.

Client: Confidential June 10 to Dec 10

Role: SAP FICO Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
• Created Gap analysis document for Country specific (Mexico & South Africa) requirement with the US Implementation.
• Activated New G/L and assigned to company code and defined according to US GAAP.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AR.
• Participated in configuring electronic bank statement (transaction types, posting key rules).
• Involvedin AccountsReceivable (AR)Customization and Configuration of Customer master Records and Customer groups.Terms of Payment, Interest calculation, Billing and Incoming Payments, Cash discounts and Credit management, Tolerance groups, Over/Under paymentsand determined the automatic account assignment.
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings.
• Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification) , linking of Vendor documents with EDI.
• Extensive experience in configuring the SAP taxes integrating with Vertex or Taxware.
• Configured required settings for automatic postings to FI-Payroll area, (FI-HR Integration).
• Defined and customized vendor master data - Cash management group, Interest calculations, Payment terms, Credit memo terms and set up payment banks.
• Configured the automatic posting for Inter-Company Code posting.
• Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).
• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.
• Used Report painter to generate reports of PCA needed by the Business Owner.
• Defined financial statements version for internal and external user groups.
• Meet regularly with Business Owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
• Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC, Solution Manager, SAP portal, SQL Server, HP Quality Control, Remedy.

Client: Confidential, FL.December 07 to April 10.

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

• Responsibilities:
• Responsible for gathering the Requirements, preparing the Business process procedures,Configurationand creating test scripts.
• Full Life CycleImplementation ofthe fixed assets,AccountsPayableand Accounts Receivablemodules.
• Created & Maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, AR Aging.
• Configured the Tax procedure, Access Sequence, Condition Types and account keys for billing.
• Configured Tax procedure, tax codes, tax J/codes, account determination for posting, Non-taxable transaction posting and tax reporting.
• Allocated Accounts for post revenues, revenues, Sur changes and Discounts automatically with SD account determination.
• IntegratedFA,MMto capitalize assets through Purchase orders and definedaccount assignment category for asset purchase orders.
• Automated theinter companyAsset Transferprocesswithcrosssystemdepreciation areas.
• Maintained theParallel currenciesin Assets.
• Helped in creating Client specific Custom fields throughCoding Block.
• Accounts Payable: Configuredvendor groups, vendor master data,down payments, open item clearing, invoice verification through MIRO,recurring entries,Accrual Postings,invoices andcredit memos
• Configured Internal order master data, defined Order types and created number ranges for different order types, Maintained default account assignment for costcenter and internal orders.
• Create training materials for local business anddesigned test scenariosfor processesand provided global support in Integration tests.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC, SAP Solution Manager, MS Vision, ClearCase, ClearQuest.

Client: Confidential, NJ.Feb 07 to November 07

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for support and maintenance of FI/CO module
• Designed functional specification documents.
• Fixed Assets: Configuredchart of depreciation by country,depreciation areas, Assetclasses, assigning company codes to dep. Areas, creation of screen layouts and no. ranges,Asset document types,posting keys,Asset fiscalyear,creationof dep. Keys like ordinary depreciation. Creation of G/L accounts and determinedautomatic accountassignment,posting depreciationand interests to G/L account.
• Configuration of transactions likeacquisitions, retirements, transfers, intra-company transfers, write-offs, Subsequent revenue, Subsequent Costand capitalization of assets under constructions.
• Prepared merger related roadmap (procedural) document for asset accounting
• Documented business impact and change management requirements through the communication and support of the configuration team leads and business process owners
• Performed unit and integration testing
• Specifying testing requirements, planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects withMercuryQualityCenter
• Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents and training documents.
• Resolved issues/problems arising out of the end user testing

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Project.

Client: Confidential, Jacksonville, FL April 04 to January 07.

Role: SAP FI Associative

Responsibilities:

• My role as FICO consultant involves supporting super users, end users, business program managers with respect to SAP - FICO functionality.
• Solve the users problems and guide them by providing/preparing manuals as necessary
• Solve the day-to-day issues relating to SAP FICO function
• Ensure the month end and year-end process to run smoothly
• Co-ordination with Finance managers, controller and other SAP tech team to solve the issues.
• Advising business programmer and managers about new functionalities with respect to SAP

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, Mercury Quality Center, Microsoft Project.