SUMMARY:

• SAP FICO Functional consultant with over 5 years of implementation and configuration experience in Finance and Controlling modules.
• Involved in 3 global Full Life Cycle Implementations from Realization and Blueprinting to Go Live.
• Expertise in implementing ASAP methodology on all stages of project management including Business Process Analysis, As - Is and To-Be designing, Business Blueprint Mapping, BPP (Business Process Procedure), GAP analysis to customization, Cut-Over, ­­­­Deliver, Go-live, post live production support, and User training documentation.
• Expertise in General Ledger (GL), Special Purpose Ledger (SPL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), and New G/L.
• Vast controlling experience in Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Product Costing (PC).
• Hand on experience in data migration from Legacy system to SAP using LSMW.
• Expertise in working with BAPI, BADI, User Exits, SQVI, and ALE tables.
• Proficient in configuration of Automatic Payment Program, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, EDI and IDOCS.
• Excellent expertise in Report writer/painter, ABAP query.
• Experience and knowledge of key Integration points of FI/CO with MM and SD, LE (Logistic Execution), LIV (Logistic Invoice Verification), Internal Orders and Month End closing.
• Proficient in integration testing/UAT, developing Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Execution.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - CA

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for successful ASAP implementation of SAP starting from business process definition to project preparation, gathering business requirements, blue print, realization and providing post Go-live support.
• Designed and configured core FI modules; New-GL, AP, AR, AA.
• Activated New GL, defined ledgers for General Ledger accounting, activated non-leading ledgers for individual company codes, Defined currencies of leading ledger, assigned scenarios to ledgers, activated cost of sales accounting to create profit and loss statements, segment reporting and document splitting.
• Designed and configured core CO modules (CCA, PCC, PCA) and tested PCA within New GL.
• In CO-PA, maintained Characteristics, Value fields, Building Operating Concern, and defined profitability segment characteristics.
• Created actual costing configuration and activation for the material ledger. Completed manufacturing cost roll-out; responsible for design, configuration and support of Product Costing to all subsequent plants.
• Set up Cost Center assessments to segments, Co-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.
• Set up costing and settlement of production order, configured costing and cost settlement to plant maintenance order/WBS element from production order/maintenance order.
• Implemented direct activity allocations for manufacturing costs; collecting overhead costs and allocating to Cost Centers.
• Configuring production orders posting to WIP, and subsequent tracking of WIP through Result Analysis cost elements to manage cost variances.
• Determined WIP revaluation from price differences,
• Responsible for the configuration and build of the PS elements of the solution specifically: Project templates, advanced ECP estimation, WBS & cost collection, profitability reporting.
• Created functional specifications for new RICEFW objects and through completion of Reports and Interface, working closely with the technical team in developing the functional objects.
• Defined new Vendor Account Groups and screen layouts & company code; defined number ranges for vendor accounts and assigned these number ranges to vendor account groups.
• Setup House banks for the newly added banks to the company and configured Automatic Payment Program (F110) for Outgoing Payments for new Company Codes in Accounts Payable. Created new forms and print programs for new payment methods. Worked on ALE/IDOCs.
• Bank Interfacing. Customized Electronic Bank Statement Reconciliation Accounts. Configuration of processing Lockbox and execution of month end closing procedure
• In Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, asset class configuration with associated asset classes, number ranges, and revaluation settings. Also defined depreciation areas and depreciation keys.
• Asset capitalization, Asset posting, asset retirements and write offs, asset settlement processing, asset depreciation process.
• Defined Field Status Variants and Field Status Groups for convenience of company code document entries.
• Created Report painter reports for 10K reporting to extract P&L statement from Profit Centers.
• Prepared scenarios for unit, functional, integrations testing and user acceptance tests. Developed Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Execution in Quality Center.
• Extended production support for critical business issues and trained end users, prepared user documentation and necessary training material.
• Worked on incident management of procure to pay, order to cash, make to order and other month end closing activities.

Confidential - San Ramon,CA

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Analysts, Business Process Owners and End Users for requirements gathering and analysis.
• Performed configuration of FI enterprise structure that included creating few company codes.
• Defined and finalized various GL accounts in Chart of Accounts.
• Defined the fiscal year variant, employee tolerance limits, posting keys, document number ranges and document types, involved in the integration meetings and participated in Automatic Account Determination in FI with SD and MM modules,
• Worked on configuration of A/P and A/R module: credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, terms of payment, Automatic Payment Program, open item clearing, and reason codes for over and under payments.
• Defined risk categories for customers and configured Credit Management.
• Configured Payment Methods, Payments Terms, House Banks, Clearing Accounts for AP, Dunning process, Interest calculation, Customer and vendor discounts, Customer and vendor tolerances, under and over payments, Customer down payments etc.
• Clearing of Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals,
• Create functional specifications for Interfaces, reports, forms and enhancements.
• Setup of Cost Center hierarchies, defined activity types, activity planning, assisted with Cost center master data setup, Planning and set up of Cost allocations cycles in Cost Center Accounting.
• Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts.
• Customized Lockbox, Payment Requests and Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line Items.
• Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups, discount overviews.

Confidential - CA

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation using SAP ECC 6.0.
• Responsible for gathering requirements, participating in system design.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL - Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number range.
• Maintained required settings in Accounts payable i.e. Configuration for payment program, payment terms, Vendor Master
• Created and maintained Customer master data along with customer groups, payment terms, Dunning, Reporting.
• Used report painter tool to generate user required reports.
• Configuration of Tax Procedure, Complete configuration of Withholding Tax.
• Cash and Bank accounting - House Bank Masters, Cash Journal Configuration and lock box.
• FI-MM - SD Integration.
• Configured controlling - Cost Centre Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Allocation of cost to various cost centers, versions, number range, standard hierarchy, cost center groups, Assessment and distribution cycle, Profit Centre Accounting and BPC.
• Asset Accounting Module set up and configuration.
• New GL Configuration.
• Maintenance of Financial Statement Version.
• Accomplishments: Complete full cycle end to end implementation.