Professional Summary
A SAP FICO consultant with around 7 years of Functional experience in configuring, customizing, testing, implementing, end user training and support of SAP FICO module. Experience in different phases of implementation from gathering client requirements, conducting GAP Analysis, preparing Business Blue Printing, Configuration, Unit Testing, User Training and Production Support. Strong knowledge in Product Costing (repetitive and discrete manufacturing), Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting Configured & Tested Financial Accounting & Controlling FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-BA, FI- SPL, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-IO in various Business Environments. Experience in in Business Analysis, GAP Analysis, Requirement Gathering, and Solution Delivery. Identify various integration processes. Identify GAPS in in early stages for an ahead of the schedule project delivery strong knowledge in integration of processes like Procure to Pay (MM), Order to Cash (SD) with FICO, BI, Project Systems. Strong understanding of FI-SD integration including account ments, sales assignments, areas, partner functions, , orders, delivery, billing and revenue recognition SAP project experience experience includes development of of Business process procedures, Business process flows, "As- Is" documentation, System blueprint, Syste System test, User acceptance testing (UAT). Strong Communication Analytical and Client Services skills with a High Learning Acumen to adopt new Tools and Technologies with ease seamlessly Integrate skills set into the Project Implementation Lifecycle. Acute knowledge of business infrastructure and Financial Information Systems combined with a commitment to excellence and attention to detail ensures innovative, effective business solutions in system design according to GAAP and SOX Compliance, integrated implementation and thorough follow-up, testing and training. Strong leadership qualities with excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to work in a multi-tasking, changing environment and customer service oriented.
Experience
Position
SAP FICO consultant CA
- Full life cycle implementation Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Mondelez international is one of the largest snack companies in the world which makes some of the best-known snacks brands around the globe Responsibilities: Analyzed the client's business requirements, gathered requirements through user meetings, identified the gap and produced the functional documents as per the client's requirement.
- Responsible for testing the custom programs related to COGS planning/product costing before moving to live production sites.
- Creation of User Scenarios for UAT, which defined what actions users can take, what is the expected result and to test whether the desired results are achieved. Involved the design & configuration- Integration of GL- Product costing, AP, and AR, Asset Accounting, COP covering intercompany and currency revaluations complying with the US GAAP and IFRS. IFRS.
- Involved in uploading the planned price and future price in material master as a part of testing the custom programs, Involved in the MM validations- Costing and Accounting views as part of conversions.
- Performed the product costing runs to validate the accuracy of the master data from domains- Purchasing, PP, SD, MM and released the standard cost estimates.
Position
Involved in the Cost center Planning.
- Configured new Activity types, Cost centers, Cost center group and assigned default cost centers to cost elements.
- Involved in loading of the planned activity rates for the cost centers.
- Involved in Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.
- In-depth knowledge of the workflow from the creation of sales order to delivery and billing in the SD module that involves the Order-to-Cash and Procure to pay process as well as expertise in configuration of account determinations in FI from MM and SD transactions.
- Involved in the configuration of payment terms for vendors, maintained the vendor master records, Run automatic payment programs and create payment orders for vendors as per the client's requirements.
- Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments, Posting Invoices with and without Invoice Verification maintained ranking order for House Banks for different company codes in Accounts Payable.
Worked
- Worked closely with Procurement team in the conversion of the vendor masters, Purchase Orders (Single definite PO's), Scheduling agreements (Open ended PO's) covering interplant, intercompany vendors and external vendors- subcontracting for the product costing runs.
- Involved in extending the view for FBL1N- vendor line item report as per the requirement. Involved in maintaining the field controls, expense types for travel and expense Module. Worked closely with ABAP/Technical team for developing the custom programs as per client's.
SAP FICO Functional Consultant / Bear River City, UT- 01/1 - 01/1
Apex Systems
- Full life cycle implementation Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 PepsiCo is the second largest food and beverage business in the world.
- Responsibilities: Configured FI - NGL, AP, AR, BA, FSV and CO- CCA, PCA, IO, PO. Defined Chart of Accounts, Account Group & GL accounts, Fiscal Year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Field Status Variants and Groups, Screen Variants for Document entry. Configured Automatic clearing, GR/IR clearing and Adjustment Accounts.
- Defined Financial Statement Versions (FSV) for Balances Sheet and P & L Account. Involved in Vendor and Customer set-up and also for special business transactions. Worked on I on lockbox processing, bank accounts, manual and electronic bank reconciliation statements and cash journals.
- Testing the Configuration of different special purpose ledger.
- Uploaded Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Center hierarchy, CC Groups and Cost
Centers.
- Responsible for assessments, distributions, Statistical Key Figures and Activity Types. Configured Automatic Account Assignments (OKB9) for CO objects.
- Configured Internal Order Types, Maintained IO settlement profiles, IO Planning and Budgetary Profiles, Administered 10 Status management.
- Extensively involved in PCA basic settings, uploaded master data, profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center Pront centers, proj r hierarchy. knowledge
- Configured extensively on Product Costing, Helped client in designing their costing methodology In- depth f the workflow from the creation of sales order to delivery and billing in the SD module that involves the Order-to-Cash and Procure to pay process as well as expertise in configuration of account determinations in FI from MM and SD transactions. Involved in the configuration of payment terms for vendors, maintained the vendor master records, Run automatic payment programs and create payment orders for vendors as per the client's requirements.
- Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments, Posting Invoices with and without Invoice Verification maintained ranking order for House Banks for different company codes in Accounts Payable.
Position
Apex Systems SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant MA 01/1-01/1
- Full life cycle implementation Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Paramount Pictures Corporation is a film studio, television production company, motion picture distributer, consistently rank as one of the "Big Six" film studios in Hollywood.
- Responsibilities: Handling - General Ledger, Account Receivable, Cash Management, Accounts Payable, T Asset Accounting modules, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profit Center accounting modules Configured and Customized G/L, A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variant, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments, automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, credit risk management Automatic account determination.
- Configured Asset Management module, defined different Asset Classes, Account determination, Screen layout Rules, Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys Asset Data Carried out settings for old data takeover Designed and configured Project systems and integrated with Fixed Assets.
- Project systems configuration, defined WBS, WBS elements, networks.
- Treasury implementation including Cash forecast, money market, EFT Transfer implementations. Cost Center Accounting: Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments Cost Element Accounting: Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups.
- Profit Center Accounting: Created Profit centers, Standard Hierarchy, Configured Profit center Master Data, maintained Default Account Assignments and Automatic Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions, Distribution and Assessment.
- Worked with billing team on issues related to debit memo, credit memo and invoice. Involved in different testing phases, unit testing, integration testing and Regression testing.
SAP FICO Consultant / Bedford, NH - 01/1 - 01/1
Apex Systems
- Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 GE lighting invents to develop energy-efficient solutions that change the way people light their world in commercial, industrial, municipal and residential settings. Responsibilities: Analyzed the As-Is system, did a profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped the To-Be system.
- Involved in the AP and AR configuration changes as a part of GAP.
- Involved in the configuration of AR and AP modules- Master Data and integration with New GL, SD- FI, MM-FI, and Intercompany and Interplant scenarios.
Configured fixed Assets relating
- Configured fixed Assets relating to Asset Classes, Acquisitions, AuC postings and settlements, Posting Indicators for Depreciation Area Worked with ABAP team to provide the functional inputs to determine the required specifications for RICEFWenhancements and new requirements that related to Fixed Assets, AR and AP objects.
- Mapped Asset Master Data and transaction data transfer from legacy to AP Configured Account determinations for different material movements and valuation classes.
- Worked closely with the corporate teams regarding price control for different mater types-Standard and Moving Average Price, Split valuation.
- Worked closely with PP-PI team process orders and integration with CO.
- Configured costing based CO-PA for the flow of actual values -transfer during billing and PA
- structures, Settlement of production variances, key figures, derivation rules and settlement to CO
PA. / PA to Report profitability by Customer, Product and Market. / Created P&L statements CO-PA reporting tools. / Generated reports using tools like Report Writer, Report Painter. / Performed Unit Testing, Integration testing and UAT testing. / Apex Systems Office of Treasurer & Tax Collector
Used CO
- Role: SAP FICO Financial Support Environment: ECC 6.0 AP, A/R & Treasure Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector is to facilitate voluntary compliance with the tax laws of the City and County of San Francisco, by simplifying all processes and procedures and by providing efficient customer service Responsibilities Support the integration, Implementation and transition from the City FAMIS general ledger system, to SAP FICO.
- Handled all I all property tax issues, for Secured, Supplemental, Escape and Redemption property tax bill, for current and previous fiscal years. Processed Tax refunds for all the above parcels of property.
- Prepared and processed claims of refund statements or transfers of overpayments and duplicate payments of property taxes for current and prior fiscal years, including interests, using SAP FICO. Maintains accurate records of all refunds and transfers of taxes, and provides history of property tax payments upon taxpayers' requests; Use of AS400 system, SAP FICO and Advanced Excel workbook details, to determine the Tax refund.
Use SAP FICO to process Tax refund.
- Respond to all taxpayers queries, through emails, phone & over the counter.
- Utilized Ms Access & Ms Excel to access tax information; generates statements for delinquent revenue, license, and other tax payments; prepares written correspondence to taxpayers in relation to tax payment discrepancies.
- Tasked with Reconciling payments for accounts receivable; receives and logs batches of Real Estate current, RE Supplemental and Unsecured property tax.
SAP FICO Consultant
Apex Systems City, STATE. 01/1-01/1
- Project: Implementation and support (SAP 6.0) King pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now part of Pfizer- October 2010)manufactures, markets and/or distribute more than 66 drugs in the USA As a member of the functional team, worked with user groups to create business and process flows and to document "AS IS" processes.
- Documented the business processes in AS-IS mapping.
- Participated in JTMs (Joint Team Meetings) to arrive at "TO BE" design, acceptable to the team, user groups and Management.
- Generated business blueprint after conducting thorough study on business processes and template questions using ASAP tools. layout etc.
- GL: Configuration including GL master record, GL account groups, define GL account group screen
- FI-MM and FI-SD integration (automatic account assignment) set up. Worked extensively on Customization.
- AP: Configuration including configuring payment programs, payment blocks using reason codes etc. AR: Configuration including automatic clearing of receivable, Automatics dunning program, customer master record, customer groups, define customer account group screen layout etc. Fixed Asset Management: Configuring the chart of depreciation, depreciation areas for book depreciation, Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEFW(Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Forms and Workflow) Developed functional specifications for interfaces from Legacy to SAP.
- Assisted Change Management team to capture the major organizational impacts due to SAP Design.
- Performed Unit Test for GL, AP, AR functionality and integration testing with SD; User Acceptance Testing for All Modules.
- Prepared configuration documentation and end user documentation for GL, AR, AP. Provided end user training.
SAP FICO Consultant
King Pharmaceuticals City, STATE 01/1 - 01/1
- Environment: upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 Chiron's business and research was in three main areas: biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and blood Involved in up gradation from ECC 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
- Involved in Migration of data from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of migration cockpit.
- Configured the settings in G/L area, such as creating G/L master data, cross-company code transactions, with multiple currencies and multiple company codes, and open item clearing. Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP