SAP FICO

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October 31, 2015

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Functional Consultant, SAP FI/CO/ SD/ MM

Over * years of experience working as Financial Analyst out of which 6 years in SAP FICO as Functional Consultant. Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, A/P, A/R, AA).Strong working knowledge in Controlling (CCA, OM, IO, PCA, PC).

Certified (NLCI) Solution Consultant having about 6 years of experience in SAP (FI/CO/ SD/MM) Designing, Business Process Mapping, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Module Testing, Integration Testing, Data Cleansing & Migration, End-user Training & Preparing Operation Manual and Go-Live & Supporting with 1 Full Life Cycle Implementation and 1 Roll out project Implementation experience.

Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting FI-GL, Accounts Payable FI-AP, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Bank Accounting FI-BA and Asset Accounting FI-AA.

Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting CO-CEL, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA, Profit Center Accounting EC-PCA and Product Cost Controlling CO-PC.

Sales Configuration including Sales document types, Item Categories, Schedule Line Categories, Availability Check, ATP, Material Inclusion/Exclusion, Rebates and Reporting Basics, Sales analysis, Bills of Materials (BOM), Purchase order creation.

Part of a Team skilled in Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD and MM Modules.

Rich Experience in Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) Modules in SAP.

Experience in ASAP Project Implementation Methodology involving different phases like Project Preparation, Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live & Support.

Strong Communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with a High Learning Acumen to adopt new Tools and Technologies with ease and seamlessly Integrate skills set into the Project Implementation Lifecycle

User Training on the processes and assistance in Developing End User Operating Instructions Manual.

Strong Problem Solving and Analytical skills and abilities to make Balanced & Independent Decisions.

Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication skills combined with Sincerity, Self-Motivation and Initiative Attributes.

Used BDC, LSMW (Batch Input Session) in various projects for data upload.

A team player, strong interpersonal and communication skills, Professional demeanor and analytical skills with a high learning acumen to adopt new tools and technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate skill sets into the project implementation lifecycle.

Worked on Report Painter.

Worked on Cost Center Planning & G.L. Planning.

SAP FICO Configuration Skills:

Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: Configuration and customizing Company code, Creating GL account codes and Chart of Accounts, Configuration of Global settings, Configuration of GL automatic clearing, Configuration of Foreign currency valuation, Sales Tax/Purchase Taxes

New General Ledger / Classical GL: Activation of New GL Accounting, Define ledger for GL Accounting, Integrating the GL with subcomponents, Document splitting, Segmentation and Parallel Accounting, Controlling Component Transfer postings, Integration with Asset accounting.

Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Oder to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms),Dunning, Reporting

Accounts Payable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, Define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing,Document parking, Outgoing payment,Reporting.

Cost Element/Center Accounting: creation of Primary and secondary cost elements, creation of cost center standard Hierarchy, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, plan price calculation, periodic allocations in plan.

Internal Orders: Creation of settlement cost element, configuration of the Settlement structure, settlement profile, real and statistical postings, Configuration of order planning, Budgeting, Defining status profile, Defining order types.

CO-Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing Costing based CO-PA and Account based CO-PA including setting up of the operating concern, characteristics, and value fields.

Closing and Reporting: Run and reconcile all incoming interface, start control and clearing reconciliation, run customer billing and vendor payments, approval of all parked documents, Run final sales figure and dunning reports, Open new period,close old sales and material periods, Run all settlements in CO, Creating management accounting reports with Report painter.

Integration with MM and SD: Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination, Interfaces design and testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Package

SAP (,ECC6.0)

Integration

FI & CO, FI-MM, FI-SD

Operating System

Windows (XP, 2000, NT), Unix, Linux

Office Tools

MS Office Package (Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)

Professional Experience

Client : Thompson Creek Window (TCW)

Location : Philadelphia Way Lanham, MD

Duration : April 2014 to till date

Role : SAP FICO Consultant

Technology : ECC 6.0

Scope of the Shared Services team are to resolved the ticket base issues, change request, roll out projects i.e. plant roll out and company code roll out, user training, prepare documents of the test cases, prepare user documents for issues.

Job Responsibilities:

Involved in business meetings to understand the A-IS

Identified the GAPs in Asset accounting.

Prepared Functional spec for mapping table for asset class, cost center, plant, company code etc.

Prepared functional spec to transform asset master data

Prepared functional spec (BDC For T-Code:- AB01) to asset master upload program.

Prepared functional spec to transform asset balances.

Prepared and Involved in unit testing, integration testing, UAT and resolving issues raised during testing.

Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions.

Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-1.

Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.

Creation of BPP and other user manuals Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions.

If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change detail to Level 3.

Ensuring that offshore team resources are properly loaded, help them in solving tickets where required and ascertain that the tickets are resolved well within the stipulated SLA timelines set.

Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLAs.

Able to understand both the standard application features (i.e. out of the box functionality) as well as the detailed components of the customized features.

Responsible for making changes, migrating them, completing the ticket and communicating the change to the level 2 support person, who can then resolve and close the call.

Determine problems found by the proactive application monitoring being done on a regular basis by the level 2 support person. Therefore, the level 3 person may also have to apply patches, complete performance tuning, re-create tables or indices, etc.

Business Signoff for the development changes

Nov’12- Oct’14 Associate FICO Consultant NTT DATA Corporation Ltd.

1)Project name : “Oerlikon Textile India Ltd (Dec 2013 to March’ 2014)

Innovative industrial solutions for the efficient and clean production of Food, Clothing, Transportation Systems, Infrastructure, Energy and Electronics. Present in 34 countries worldwide with 160 sites and nearly 13 000 employees.

Roles & Responsibilities in Implementation:

SAP FICO Configuration & handling issues in G/ L, AR & AP, AA, CCA, PCA, PS Budgeting to WBS Element, internal Order (real & Statistical) PS year Ending Settlement process etc.

Create Business Blueprint documents as per SAP implementation methodology.

Creation of Functional Specification documents and assisting ABAP developers in creation of test data.

Created General Ledger basic settings-Chart of account-Account Groups-Document types- posting keys, Retained Earnings account, General Ledger Master Records.

Worked on depreciation areas and depreciation keys .

Configured Basic Settings in Asset Management like Asset Class, Account Determination and Screen layouts, Depreciation Key. Creating Account group in Chart of Account & Account group for Customer/ Vendor.

Creating LSMW for Revenue GL /, Bank GL Initial Data migration, Asset master and transaction Data Migration.

Special GL indicator for Customer Revenue GL / Down Payment

Exchange Rate difference at time of Customer Clearing A/c & Receipt Entries

Functional Specific for Customer Ageing Report, Balance Confirmation.

Integration With SD, MM & PS

Carrying out User Acceptance Testing in Quality environment and Training end users.

Design of BI MIS reports in areas in FICO and liaison with ABAP team for validation of the same

2)Project name : “WRL., (June 2013 to Dec 2013)

Responsibilities:

Management of day-to-day production support issues in areas of FI and CO.

Maintaining the response and resolution time within the SLA based on the severity of the tickets.

Preparing and reporting the status of the tickets to the management committee.

Regression testing for the Quarterly releases.

Working closely with PI team on interface and mapping issues.

Coordinating with customer for submitting the change requests.

Effort estimation for developing the Enhancements, Interfaces, IDOCs, Reports and forms.

Prepared functional specification for developing the Enhancements, Interfaces, IDOCs, Reports and forms.

Assigning the objects to functional and technical resource.

Updating the development tracking sheet on weekly basis.

Preparation of error handling documentation for the interfaces.

Support for Period End & Year End activities.

3)Project name : “Gokul Refoils and solvent Ltd., (Jan 2013 to June 2013)

Gokul Refoils and Solvent Limited (GRSL) is one of the leading FMCG Companies of India with international presence, dealing in edible oils such as Soya bean oil, Cottonseed oil, Palm oil (Palmolein), Sunflower oil, Mustard oil, Groundnut oil, Vanaspati and Industrial oils such as Castor Oil. It is an ISO 22000:2005 certified company with a wide customer base spread globally.

Roles & Responsibilities in Controlling Implementation:

Product Costing Activity

Maintain the Versions for actual and planned postings,

Creation of Cost Centres and Definition of Cost Centre Hierarchy

Creation of Activity types Allocation, Distribution and assessment of costs, Activity pricing

Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements with appropriate Cost Element Category,

Definition of Internal Orders Types, Settlement of internal order with AUC asset with main asset

Production Order Masters and Settlement Profiles,

Product Costing – Estimation of product costs in integration with PP and MM modules,

WIP calculation and variance settlement

Involved in AS-IS process flow charts and designed blueprint workshops for finalising Organisation

elements and for many integrated processes, preparing process note’s etc.,

Developed test cases and involved in unit testing and Integrating testing

Developed user manual and involved in Realisation phase.

CO-PA Activity

Maintaining the Structure for operating Concern (Maintaining characteristics,

Value Field and maintaining Operating Concern data structure).

Master data & Actual Data FI data Flow from SD and MM.

Define Characteristic for Derivation Rules.

Number ranges for Actual posting,

Maintained PA Transfer Structure for direct posting (FI/MM) .

Define PA Structure for Variance settlement and Assign PA structure to the

Settlement Profile.

Information System preparing Report through KE34 and KE30 with the help of

Report printer.

4) Project name : “JTA Marmot ( Dec 2012 to May 2013) Controlling project

Roles & Responsibilities in Implementation:

Cost Center, Profit Center, Internal Orders.

Integrated Excel Planning.

Plan/Actual Assessments and Distributions

NEW GL and Document splitting

Writing test Scenarios and Unit testing.

Currency revaluation.

Project Details:-

Scope of the AMS team are to resolved the ticket base issues, change request, roll out projects i.e. plant roll out and company code roll out, user training, prepare documents of the test cases, prepare user documents for issues.