Accounting Sap

Swati R

SAP FICO Consultant

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

8+Plus years of strong experience as a SAP FICO Consultant with expertise in the area of implementing, document preparation, Integration testing, information gathering, developing business blue print, customizing, Integration of FI/CO with Material Management, Sales & Distribution. Including End - to- End implementation and production support projects.

Strengths include strong Leadership skills, understanding of the business processes and conversion of business requirements into SAP solutions.

Experience in Integration of FI/CO with Material Management, Sales & Distribution.

Strong knowledge of Business Processes and ASAP methodology, with strong foundation in Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting.

Experience in pre and post implementation activities including Business Blueprinting, Design, Development, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, UAT, Training Documentation and end user training.

Involved in all phases of SAP project implementation starting from gathering business requirements, Blueprint, Development & Configuration, Integration testing, Go lives, end user training documentation & production support.

Possess fair knowledge in the following area Error Clearing system (ECS), Multiple currency accounting and Average daily balance (ADB).

SAP Revenue Recognition: Customized the following accounts e.g. revenue, receivables (customers), deferred revenue and Unbilled receivables account which are needed for the representation of the revenue recognition process.

Configured data for setting up of revenue recognition process - FI accounts; SD Item Categories; Revenue Recognition category on item category level and Account determination.

S/4 Simple Finance: Customizing GL accounting, Asset accounting (new) and Controlling (Account based CO-PA).

Experience in cutover activities, data conversion and validation of master data.

Strong Implementation and configuration experience in SAP Financials; General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA).

Expertise in SAP Controlling module include; Configuring of Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders.

Experience in preparing various Financial and Management reports using report painter.

Mapping of multiple interfaces like WinShuttle, Vertex and Concur.

Experience in Creation and Maintenance of Environment, Dimensions and Models in BPC 10.0

Expertise in Creation and Maintenance of Input and report Template in BPC 10.0

Worked on Security Setup and Business Process Flows in BPC 10.0

Developed and Maintained Member access profile & task profile for new user in BPC 10.0

Excellent communication and inter personnel skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.

Experience in the following tool SAP Workforce Performance Builder 9.2, 9.3 and 9.4 Ver.

LSMW: Checking of Legacy data accuracy, data cleaning and preparation of Legacy data into SAP format and uploading of Legacy data into SAP system.

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP

SAP ERP ECC Ver-6.0, SAP R/3 4.7

FI Module

GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets

CO Module

Cost Centre, Profit Centre

TM Module

Cash Management and Bank Accounting

Integration

FICO integration with MM. SD HR

Tools

ASAP with Ascendant, Solution Manager

Others

MS-Office, Lotus Notes 7.0, Lotus Sametime 7.5.1

FI Module

(G/L), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Accounts Payable (A/P), Asset Management (A), Automatic Payment Program (APP), Foreign Currency Translation and New General ledger (G/L).

CO Module

Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO PCA) and Internal orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (COPA).

SAP Tools

Read soft, Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, LSMW and IDOCs

Project 1 SAP FICO Consultant

Wise design: Vienna, VA Aug 2018 - Till Date

Description: Our team of senior practitioners brings over 150 years of IT experience across the health sciences, financial services, defense, and regulatory agencies. We serve large, complex organizations in government, as well as those industries where market or regulatory forces are driving transformation initiatives and magnifying the importance of comprehensive business requirements.

Responsibilities:

Gathered process requirements from respective process heads and team leads.

Prepared AS IS and TO BE documents and provided solutions based on gap analysis. Prepared Business Blueprint document based on the solution provided.

Performed FI cutover over activities for GL, Vendor, Customer and Asset data by uploading from legacy to SAP system by using LSMW and BDC wherever required with the help of ABAP Consultants.

Configured the Dunning procedures and completely involved in accounts payable and receivable activities.

Configured EBS (MT940 format) process for US banks.

Experience in Creation and Maintenance of Environment, Dimensions and Models in BPC 10.0

Expertise in Creation and Maintenance of Input and report Templates in BPC 10.0

Configuring Contract accounting processes e.g. Contract accounts, Business partners, Security deposits, payments, dunning, revenue distribution, correspondences, foreign currency valuation, check management, Billing and invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, Processing outgoing and incoming payments, Credit Card payment and taxes on Sales and Purchases.

Activated New GL/Asset accounting and configured data related to GL/asset accounting in S4 Simple finance.

Configuration of the business processes for CO area and documenting it, Module - CO-CCA; CO-PCA; CO-IO; CO- PA

Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, sales order and integration with SD.

Configured House Banks, Ranking order, Bank accounts, Payment Proposal, Payment run, Check management number ranges and void reasons.

Customized and configured the accounts for SD based revenue recognition process e.g. Deferred revenue and Unbilled receivables account

Setup account determination for SD based revenue recognition process.

Involved in FI-SD/MM integration. Determined revenue and expense accounts mapped required GL accounts to the transaction keys and pricing conditions.

Developed End User training documents through content development tool.

Provided training to End Users on FI/CO.

Environment: SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7 FI, CO and BPC 10.0, SAP S4 Hana On-premise edition 1511, SAP tools such as Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW& IDOC. SAP WPB 9.4 as Content Development Tools.

Project 2 SAP FICO Consultant

Brunswick: Champaign, IL. May 2017 - Jul 2018

Description: Brunswick is a market leader in the marine, fitness and billiards industries. We have made a commitment to focus our efforts on our core businesses and, as a result, have drawn upon decades of experience to design, build and market world-class recreational products. No company has Brunswick’s breadth and scope in the marine industry. No company rivals Brunswick’s quality and innovation in fitness equipment. And no company possesses Brunswick’s knowledge and heritage in billiards.

Responsibilities:

As a CO-PC Consultant played a Key role for Implementing Product Costing and held responsibility for smooth Go-Live.

Gathered business Requirements from Key users, involved with team in Performing GAP Analysis to validate the existing system and documenting necessary Blue Print documents.

After getting sign off from the Business developed a pro type in the development system for a high level Demo about the functionality to the business.

Followed responsibilities from the team lead and constantly monitored the progress meeting the deadlines.

End to End Implementation of Asset Management module in integration with Internal Orders.

Configuration of organization structure, chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, sub assets and special depreciation.

Assisted the users with the issues regarding the Period End Close Settlement of production orders and sales orders, COPA- FI reconciliation, Intercompany Trading Partner Reconciliation.

Implemented Product Cost Planning with multiple costing Variants, valuation variants, and costing types for a sub-contracting business model.

Created a complex Cost Component structure to break down the costs from the standard cost estimate.

Developed enhancements in Costing Sheets for Calculation of percentages or amounts per unit of measure of an overhead rate.

Maintained and configured Activity types, Result analysis, Allocation structures, Settlement profiles, WIP, Variance keys, Target cost version, variance keys, posting rule, WIP, valuation methods, Result analysis version.

Discrete manufacturing process with production orders with make to stock/make to order.

Master data preparation in Test cycles: material master, activity types, cost centers, activity type planning, template loads, over heads loading, PIRs, BOM, Routings.

Create costing run, execute costing run, review errors, analyze proposed standard prices, repeat annual operating plan scenarios, edit cost run and execute, Annual Operating Planning AOP - revenue cost of sales transfer, create frozen costing run, execute costing run, mark as future planned price, release standard cost estimate and revalue stock at start of new fiscal year.

Run Assessment Cycle for Quality Costs, Record Purchase-Order Related AP Transactions, Release Blocked Invoices

Closing Operations in Sales and Distribution are Complete for Inventory Movements., IT Support to ensure Goods Movements are Complete.

Production Transactions Are Complete, Open New MM Period, Actual Overheads Calculation Production Order

Period-End Closing With Partially Delivered Production Orders, Calculation of Work In Progress WIP, Review WIP Calculations, Production and Process Order Variance Calculation

Settle Variances, Analyze Variances, Close Completed Production Orders, Production Order Information System

Designed Cross Company costing model for transferring standard cost estimated from one plant to another.

Designed BOMrollupProcess for BOMS with Alternate Priorities and Usage Probabilities.

Worked closely with the off shore technical Team and explained the functionality for developing the reports.

Participated in Workshops and training sessions to the End users and involved in training related to the new available functionalities in the system.

Environment:SAP ECC 6.0Implementation Phase and GO-Live

Project 3 SAP FICO Consultant

CoBank :Denver, CO Jan 2016 - Apr 2017

Description: CoBank, part of the US Farm Credit System, provides loans and financial services to cooperatives, agribusinesses, rural public utilities and other farm credit associations, who collectively own CoBank. It is also an agricultural export credit agency, exclusive among banks of the Farm Credit System.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed Prepared the questionnaire and drafted the Change Summary Documents and Business Process Documents based on the questionnaire. Prepared AS-IS and Business Blue Print document

Prepared the strategy for mapping of legacy accounts to SAPGL accounts and coordinated on all charts of accounts mapping activities.

Complete configuration for New GL, AR, AP, and AA.

Developed the Electronic bank statement functionality for JPM bank (MT940 format). Configuration of Lock box configuration (BAI2format) for JPM bank

Creation of Operational Chart of Accounts, setting of parallel currencies for different company codes and configuration for Foreign Currency Valuation for USGAAP/IAS standards.

FI/COIntegration with MM and SD for material movements and pricing with automatic account assignments.

Complete understanding of SD pricing procedures & copy controls / billing types and setup account key settings for automatic postings.

Configuration and setup of dunning procedure setup for customer overdue items.

Implementation of credit management functionality ; creation of new credit control areas/ risk categories/ credit group, assignment of credit control area to company codes/ sales area, setup new credit check determination settings (Automatic check).

Configuration of Account determination settings for Revenue Resignation (RR) postings (Deferred Revenue/ Unbilled Revenue)

Developed the DMEE file format for JPM bank functionality which is allowing for bank transfer functionality directly to vendor bank accounts.

Configuration for General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting.

Configuration of Controlling area(CO), Maintaining CO version, Maintaining number ranges for planning and actual transactions in CO, set-up cross company code Cost Accounting and Defined primary and secondary Cost Elements

Creation of Cost Centre Groups and cost centres (CO-CCA), Defining different Activity types and Statistical key figures, Settings for Allocation of costs among cost objects with different methods like Assessments, distributions and reposting.

Creation of allocation structures and settlement profiles, Creation of Different Internal Order Types, maintain planning and budgeting of Internal orders(CO-IO)

Settings for COPA; Creation of new operating concern and assignment of Operate concern to controlling area, activating data structure in COPA, creation of new derivation rules (Move/table/exit) setup, settings for valuation strategies and creation of new PA structure for FI/MM postings into COPA, mapping of valuation fields with SD conditions for automatic values from SD to FI/AR.

Environment: SAPECC 6.0

Project 4 SAP FICO Consultant

Exxonmobil, Houstin,TX Mar 2014 - Dec 2015

Description: Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, and was formed on November 30, 1999 by the merger of Exxon and Mobil

Responsibilities:

Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business processes for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions

Performed FI cutover over activities for GL, Vendor, Customer and Asset data by uploading from legacy to SAP system by using LSMW and BDC wherever required with the help of ABAP Consultants.

Defined Credit Control area, Assigned Company Code to Credit Control Area, Assigned default credit control area for each company code.

Configured Automatic Payment Program, determination of payment methods and bank determination for payment transactions.

Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, sales order and integration with SD.

Configuring cost components to suit business needs

Settlement of orders to COPA

Created and Maintained Environment, Dimensions and Models in BPC 7.5 MS

Created and Maintained Reports Template in BPC 7.5 MS

Designing costing strategy for process based industry with repetitive/discrete scenarios (using MTS)

Designing the revenue recognition process with time and service based scenarios

Preparation and Delivery of Training Material to clients in SAP FI/CO

Responsible for Configuration of FI global settings /OBY6, Creation of GL master data - Chart of Accounts and foreign currency transactions and defining field status groups for GL accounts/OBC4.

Responsible for configuring the A/P module- including creation of vendor account groups, tolerance groups and payment programs, configuration of settings for payment release and interest calculation.

Defined asset class, asset numbers, and grouped them into asset groups, defined chart of depreciation and depreciation areas and Configured asset master records, and asset sub ledger.

Customized screens for asset acquisition, asset under construction, asset retirement (scrapping), and capitalization of assets and integrated asset management with General Ledger.

Worked with SD and MM functional team to ensure that account determination met all requirements to (VKOA/OBYC) Configure Dunning/Correspondence for customer/vendor groups with client specific customized levels.

Environment: SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5 FI, CO and BPC 7.5, SAP tools such as Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW& IDOC. SAP WPB 9.0 as Content Development Tools.

Project 5 SAP FICO Consultant

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Dec 2012 - Feb 2014

Description: Glenmark is a leading player in the discovery of new molecules, both NCEs (new chemical entity) and NBEs (new biological entity), with a significant presence in branded generics markets across emerging economies including India.

Responsibilities:

Resolved various critical and non-critical issues while providing support for integration with SD&MM and user acceptance testing within the SLA time limit.

Vendor master data maintenance, vendor invoice, credit memo posting, parking and posting parked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification, and Accounts Payable (FI-AP) reports.

Conducted user testing after implementation. Supported the client in post launch session.

Developed End User documentation to help power users of Company.

Generated Work Instructions, Exercises and Test simulations for Users.

Resolved high level Priority One Defects within quick ETAs (Estimated Time of arrivals)

Resolved the incident requests in the order of the priorities.

Provided On-site End User Training.

Created transport requests for all configuration tasks and moved transports into different clients and released assigned transport requests in SAP once all configuration was completed.

Generating GL, Vendor, Customer and Fixed Asset reports related to financial statement version and month end support related issues.

Worked on month end, quarter/year end activities.

Environment: SAP ERP 6.0 EHP3 FI, CO and SAP tools such as Report Painter, Report Writer, and LSMW & IDOC. SAP WPB 9.0 content development tool and Remedy as a ticket logging tool.

Project 6 Associate Consultant

Delphi Computech : Pune, India. Jan 2011 - Nov 2012

Description: Delphi Computech has established itself as a leading brand in India in IT & Business Education and Consulting. It is one of the first organizations in Pune offering SAP Consulting & SAP Education services.

Responsibilities:

Managed all production related support issues.

Mentoring the enrolled corporate clients in resolving functional issues in FI (GL/AP/AR / Asset Accounting & Controlling).

Worked in SAP Support for P2P (Procure to Pay) and OTC ( Order to Cash) processes/

Participating in FI and CO team meetings related to priority issues.

Handled various issues relating to Cost Center and Profit Center accounting and Internal Order.

Provided support in the period end closing activities (GR/IR) clearing, foreign currency valuation and opening FI periods.

Environment: SAP ERP 6.0 EHP2 FI,CO, P2P and OTC

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