Project Accounting

Mona Gajjar

*** ********* *** ***** *** **** Minneapolis, Minnesota – 55401

Contact No. 612-***-**** Email Address: **************@*****.***

SUMMARY

6.5+ Years of strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing,

document preparation, production support in SAP FI/CO. Functional experience in SAP as functional

consultant in FI/CO module. Extensive experience in configuration of FI/CO modules- General Ledger,

Account Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting. Working with New GL migration where by

defining the leading ledger and non-leading ledger by assigning the respected scenario as per client

requirement.

SAP R/3 FI CO CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

Global Settings: Configuration of organizational structures, Chart of Accounts, Credit Control area, Fiscal

year Variant, Field Status Variant, and Posting period Variant.

General Ledger: Configuration of GL Master data and Grouping General Ledger Accounts into various

account groups, such as Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Income, and Expenses. Created number ranges and

assigned to each Account Group. Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts

payables. Define and assigned document number ranges.

New General Ledger: Involved during migration process of new general ledger to make sure the all the

necessary checks are performed. Helped to assigned scenario to non-leading ledger, which can meet the client

requirement. Ensure that the corresponding account assignment objects are projected to the cash and tax line

items and Inheritance flag to make a zero balance position for selected splitting without requiring any other

system settings.

Account Receivables and Payables: configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number

ranges, posting keys and document types for posting and validation of business transactions. Creation of

dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels, Automatic payment configuration.

Integration with SD and MM modules

Asset Accounting: Creation of Chart of Depreciation, Defining Assets class, Account determination, Creation

of Assets, Retirement of assets, Depreciation run.

Closing: Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system.

Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating

standard hierarchy. Creating cost center and Profit center accounting with defining Primary and Secondary

cost elements.

Product Costing: Taken care of important terminologies like result analysis key, cost components, costing

sheet and cost variant to come up with standard price.

Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis: Created dummy profit center, Creation of operating

concern.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Version SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

Methodologies ASAP Methodology

Technical Cristal Reporting

Databases Knowledge Microsoft Access, MS SQL

Platforms DOS, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/NT/XP, VISTA

Windows 7.0, Windows 8.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Midwest Inc. is small company based in Minneapolis, MN. It is health care company. The company has three

different organizations unit working under name of Midwest Inc.

Project Name: Health Care Division

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Date: August 2009 to September 2013

Responsibilities

Conducted As-Is study interacting with the core team members and developed a To-Be process to suit the

company’s objective using ASAP methodology. Involved in Business Blueprint Phase and worked on

field mapping to study the GAP Analysis.

Configuration and Maintained A/R and A/P module : Credit Management, Tolerance groups, Open

item clearing, Dunning Procedure, Account group creation, Line layout configuration for sort key, terms

of payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item clearing,

configured Reason codes, Automatic Payment Program, interest calculations on open items, Foreign

Currency valuation and regrouping of line items.

Created the Statement (Invoice), Credit Memo, Debit Memo for different product category of

Electronics and Imaging.

Communication with the End Users finding out their requirement for the Credit Memo, Debit Memo and

Statement.

Resolved Configuration Issues arising from testing of the scenarios.

Worked with the ABAP team of Electronics and Imaging to give specification of the development

needed in some scenarios.

Maintained and modified Controlling Area Settings of Electronics and Imaging: Created the

Standard hierarchy, Defined Profit Center and Cost Center hierarchies, assigned cost centers to cost

elements, configured Activities, Statistical Key figures, Defined Distribution and Assessment cycles in

CCA.

Configured Internal Orders for different types of costs and revenue of Electronics and Imaging.

Solved issues related to product costing of the Electronics and Imaging.

Configured different G/L Accounts and Movement types for the integration of FI-MM-SD and CO

module within the organizational settings.

Supported users to carry out mass processing transactions.

Performed unit testing and transport requests

Created functional specifications for enhancements and modifications.

Project Name: Health Care Division

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Date: April 2012 to September 2013

Midwest Inc. engages in blending, manufacturing and distributing different flavored juices in the United

States, European Countries and Asian Countries.

Responsibilities

Performed as AS-IS study and came up with a TO-BE analysis, to have a complete GAP analysis.

Involved in the production support issues with interest calculation on open items, regrouping on line

items and reason codes

Created a Detailed Description of the configuration that needs to be done in the SAP system.

Worked on Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank Statements, bills of Exchange and Cash journal.

Configured various components in the SAP FICO like Account Receivable (AR), Account Payable (AP)

and General Ledger Accounts, mainly differentiated between onetime vendors and regular vendors in

manufacturing sector.

Created Vendor master and Customer master and specified Screen layouts.

Assigned unique number ranges to various document types.

Configured New G/L for document splitting and provide Document simulation facility rather than waiting

for period end process.

Bank & Customer Interfaces: Integrated SAP payment interface with various Banks and adapted SAP

functionality to process AR payments for automatic cash application against customer invoices

Integrated AP and AR modules in FI with MM and SD respectively.

Coordinated with various departments like engineering, accounts payable, purchasing, asset management

etc to analyzed various issues related to taxes calculated fro Vertex and helped in documenting the

process flow.

Completed Unit testing and integration testing. Create authorization profiles and tested the system before

go live.

Monitoring day to day activities and fixing incorrect posting as they occur

Providing production support in FICO modules.

Woolworth Ltd. Is Australia’s largest retail company. It is not only dealing with retail but also for production,

retail and medical equipment. In my whole work experience I worked with all three division.

Responsibilities

Considerable Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International

Accounting Standards (IAS).

Being a professional accountant has ability to quickly and thoroughly understand client’s business processes

and make determination to provide innovative solutions to meet clients’ unique business requirements with

least customization.

Increased cash flow by 60 percent by reducing outstanding receivables from 60 days to 30 days,

which helped to reduce loan interest cost and risk of bad debt from marginal customers through

reconciliation with customer statements and bank reconciliations.

Project: Retail

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Project Description: New General Ledger Project (General Ledger, Accounts Receivable,

Accounts Payable, Controlling, Sales and distribution): Migration to New General Ledger from

Classic General Ledger.

Responsibilities in G/L:

• Involve with SAP general ledger migration process from Classic General Ledger to New

General Ledger.

• Accountable for Account Balance display.

• Develop Analysis Design Documents for the customer for New General Ledger.

• Verify and Configure parallel currency type and exchange rate type according to requirements.

• Participated in functional and unit testing in order to make sure that it is functioning the way it

was before.

• Run report for customized programs where New General Ledger account number used.

• Involved in Cutover plan and weekend support for Go-Live support.

Responsibilities in Accounts Receivable: Correspondence and Dunning Configuration

• Create dunning variant and dunning procedure.

• Create different dunning level for a dunning procedure.

• Configure dunning activities for different dunning level.

• Run dunning proposal and dunning activities.

• Put dunning block according to requirements.

• Collect requirements from customer according to their business needs in dunning area.

• Prepare detail design documents according to the requirements.

• Check and get final approval from the customer regarding design documents.

• Manage dunning process when there is unpaid receivables with due date that have been

reached and exceeded.

Collection requirements for Incoming payments processing:

• Process open items for all business partners’ accounts which customers have selected.

• Executed the automatic payment program once a day to initiate payment from customers who

pay using the debit memo.

• Set and execute the automatic process in the collections/disbursements system.

• Work with different payment lot (Cash, Check).

• Define bank-clearing accounts according to business needs.

• Customize G/L account centrally.

Project: Manufacturing and Production

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox,

Dunning and Payment Methods.

• Worked on foreign currency exchange rate and valuation, GR/IR clearing account and

automatic clearing.

• Configured terms of payment, incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment.

• Worked on Customer Cash Discount Overview and Credit Limit Display

• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained

Initial settings for Recurring Entries.

• Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.

Created account assignment models for recurring entries.

• Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management.

• Used Dunning to send letters, ranging from gentle remainders to legal notices, to customers

from whom the receivables are due in Accounts Receivables ( FI-AR).

• Set up the Integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.

• Responsibilities in CO module:

• Extensively worked in controlling modules including, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center

Accounting.

• Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.

• Created Training Scripts for the MM, FI and CO modules. Script development included MM

Procurement processes; FI-GL Account Maintenance, Journal Processing, General Ledger

processing and Financial Statements; and CO-CE creation, assignments and reporting; CO

CCA object creation, assignments and Reporting; CO-IO and reporting.

• Detected and resolve configuration errors in FI-AM for asset transfers.

• Provided project organization and work planning inputs to local level project managers for flow

of Training Script development and progress reporting to Management.

• Responsible for identifying and documenting all CCA and PCA test cases.

• Tracked and resolved business process and configuration issues resulting from unit and

integration testing.

Project: Manufacturing and Production

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities in FICO module:

• Extensively worked on vendor master records.

• Client Specific Payment Terms and Payment Methods.

• Configured cross company code transactions, line item display, and open item processing

for G/L.

• Clearing open items, automatic payment and dunning program for the client.

• Responsibilities in CO module:

• Configured settings for Controlling Area and maintained Versions.

• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, worked on

Automatic, Manual cost element creation and reconciliation ledger.

• Configuration in Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) included creation of cost center

hierarchy and cost center groups, distribution cycle set up; planned as well as actual.

• Configuration of activity types and planning them on different cost centers, configuration of

the system for planned and actual activity price calculations.

• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost

Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default

account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions,

distribution and assessment.

• In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.

• Created Internal Order, Order Groups, Budgeting, Corrected Entry Errors and Reposted

Transactions.

• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the master data, planning, actual postings and period

end closing.

EDUCATONAL QUALIFICATION

Doctorate of Business Administration, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Master of Business Administration, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Diploma in Management, Melbourne, Australia

Post Graduate in Computer Science, India

Bachelors of Commerce, India.

Reference:

MR. HARI SHEEKANTH

PHONE NO. 425-***-****

MR. DHAVAL CHEDDA

PHONE NO.619-***-****

EMAIL ADDRESS AVAILABLE AS PER REQUEST.

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