Management Accounting

SAP End User (HR)and Financial Accounting Consultant

Professional Summary

SAP FICO with good understanding of all aspects of the Financial Accounting and Controlling business process and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions in the cost effective and client-servicing manner.

Three years of experience in designing, documenting, configuring and implementing Finance and Controlling Functions using SAP R/3 version 4.7 – ECC 6.0

Two successful full life cycle implementation and various production support, up gradation and configuration project experience

Expertise in configuring and customizing General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL), Accounts Payables/Receivables (AP–AR), Asset Accounting (AA) and Cost Center Accounting (CCA).

Strong interpersonal skills, excellent oral and written communication skills, remarkable organizational skills, very efficient in multi-tasking, detail oriented, trouble shooter, ability to work as a team member or as an independent consultant

SAP Functional Skills

General Ledger : Configuring and Customizing G/L account master records, chart of accounts, field status groups, automatic account determination, financial statement versions, G/L display configuration, validations and substitutions.

Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables: Configuring and Customizing vendor/ customer master data, account groups, tolerance groups, invoice, payment configuration, dunning, interest calculation, credit management and check management

Controlling: Configuring controlling area, activate components/control indicators, assign number ranges to controlling area, assign company code to controlling area, maintained cost center standard hierarchy.

Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting: Configuring and customizing the cost elements/cost centers, costing sheets, standard hierarchy, assessments and distribution distributions.

SAP HR ECC6 End User Skills

Personnel Administration: Organizational Management, Time Management, Payroll, Benefits, Manager Self-Service (MSS), Employee Self-Service (ESS),Absence Management,

Organizational Management: maintaining master data and payroll data (pay scale and wage type structures)

Position Management: Create and maintain position attributes

Time Management: Work schedules, absences, overtimes, time evaluations, (Family Medical Leave Act), CATS

Payroll: Wage types, processing time data, payments and deductions, schemas, functions, calculation rules, internal tables, default values/features, factoring, taxes, benefits/payroll integration, garnishments, bank transfers/direct deposits, general ledger, third party remittance, off-cycle processing

deposits, general ledger, third party remittance, off-cycle processing

Absence Management: SAP Subject Matter Expert (SME) Liaison for client and vendor, leave of absence, FMLA, SAP Reports, benefits updates

Benefits: Benefit concepts, benefit areas, benefit plan attributes, enrollment, employee grouping for plans (including criteria grouping), eligibility, termination, health plans, insurance plans, savings plans (cost variants, coverage variants and related rules)

SAP Resourcing : Overseeing the entering new hire data, separations, updating various infotypes and wage types

Professional Experience

AonHewitt June 2012– June 2013

Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Formerly Hewitt Associates/Exult

Aon Hewitt, based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, is a global Human Resources (HR) Outsourcing and Consulting firm delivering a complete range of integrated services to help companies manage their total HR and employee costs, enhance HR services and improve their workforce.

Responsibilities:

Worked on requirements gathering and gap analysis

Analyzed and mapped business requirements to SAP processes

Configured financial accounting global settings like company code, company, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, document number ranges, field status variant, field status groups, tolerance limits for employees.

Configured chart of accounts, GL account groups, and retained earnings account.

Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, account determinations, number ranges and screen layouts.

Defined intervals and posting rules for depreciation posting.

Created end user procedures to document the business transactions like acquisition, retirement, sale and transfer of assets, depreciation run, period closing, post capitalization and reporting.

Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions. In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attribute etc.

In Cost center Accounting created the Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions.

Involved in Data Uploading & Data Migration of Masters Data.

Morton Salt June 2010– May 2012

Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Morton Salt is an American company producing salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural, and road/highway use. Based in Chicago,[1] the business is North America's leading producer and marketer of salt. It is a subsidiary of the German company K+S.

Responsibilities:

Worked on requirements gathering and gap analysis

Analyzed and mapped business requirements to SAP processes

Configured financial accounting global settings like company code, company, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, document number ranges, field status variant, field status groups, tolerance limits for employees.

Configured chart of accounts, GL account groups, and retained earnings account.

Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, account determinations, number ranges and screen layouts.

Defined intervals and posting rules for depreciation posting.

Created end user procedures to document the business transactions like acquisition, retirement, sale and transfer of assets, depreciation run, period closing, post capitalization and reporting.

Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions. In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attribute etc.

In Cost center Accounting created the Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions.

Involved in Data Uploading & Data Migration of Masters Data.

PepsiCo July 2009– May 2010

Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational food, snack and beverage corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products.

Responsibilities:

Worked on requirements gathering and gap analysis

Analyzed and mapped business requirements to SAP processes

Configured financial accounting global settings like company code, company, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, document number ranges, field status variant, field status groups, tolerance limits for employees.

Configured chart of accounts, GL account groups, and retained earnings account.

Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, account determinations, number ranges and screen layouts.

Defined intervals and posting rules for depreciation posting.

Created end user procedures to document the business transactions like acquisition, retirement, sale and transfer of assets, depreciation run, period closing, post capitalization and reporting.

Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions. In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attribute etc.

In Cost center Accounting created the Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions.

Involved in Data Uploading & Data Migration of Masters Data.

British Petroleum Dec 2009– June 2015

Role: SAP Resourcing End User/SAP FICO Consultant

British Petroleum, is one of the world's seven "super major" oil and gas companies.[7] It is a British multinational company, headquartered in London, England, whose performance in 2012 made it the world's sixth-largest oil and gas company, the sixth-largest energy company by market capitalization and the company with the world's fifth-largest revenue.

Responsibilities:

Audit system input and data to generate correct offer documents for new hires

Provide support and guidance for both offshore and onshore teams

Provide training on resourcing processes to the offshore teams

Review resourcing processes to suggest process enhancements and improvements

Ensure accuracy of new hire data entered into SAP

Work with client in resolving New Hire issues in SAP

Run SAP adhoc reports for audit purposes

International Papaer August 2007– Nov 2008

Role: SAP Payroll End User

International Paper is an American Pulp and Paper Company, the largest such company in the world. It has approximately 61,500 employees and it is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

Responsibilities:

Processed Payroll for both oncycle and offcycle payroll periods for both hourly and salaried employees

Processed garnishments and Third Party remittances Supported all activities for weekly and bi-weekly payroll run

Processed manual payroll checks as requested and required

Act as customer service agent to resolve payroll problems in a timely and effective manner

Assisted with SAP testing for system upgrades and enhancements

Maintained personnel files and administered payroll changes for new hires, transfers, promotions, separations, etc. Prepared and uploaded high volume of employee data, including hourly and salaried data and tax data

Created 2 CATS profiles and modified their characteristics to suit the client needs

Corrected any errors in CATS system

Rohm and Haas July 2005– August 2007

Role: SAP Workforce Administration End User

Rohm and Haas Company is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for end use markets such as building and construction, electronic devices, packaging, household and personal care products. Headquartered in Philadelphia .

Responsibilities:

Processed updates in SAP System from new hire to separations

Created SAP positions attributes, and performed org management actions and position management actions Created Standard Operating Procedures for various processes performed in Workforce Administration Processed GTOLA (Global Tax and Other Living Adjustments)

Created absence quotas & set up the rules to accrue the quotas for time evaluation & non time evaluation, created work schedule rules

Provided support and training for offshore teams

Xpedx May 2003- July 2005

Role: SAP Employee Data Management End User

Xpedx is a leading business to business distributor of packaging, facility and printing supplies in North America.

Responsibilities:

Absence Management Subject Matter Expert for Fortune 500 Client

Manage the leave of absence request by analyzing and researching any Issues

Updated SAP HR with any necessary changes in infotypes

Managed the overpayment process for leave of absence Payments

Worked closely with Third party vendors with problem solving of escalated Issue

International Paper Dec 2001- Apr 2003

Role: SAP Accounts Receivable Team Lead

International Paper is an American Pulp and Paper Company, the largest such company in the world. It has approximately 61,500 employees and it is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

Responsibilities:

Apply daily receivables to customer's accounts into SAP system

Setup any discrepancies and scan backup into system

Research any inquiries concerning accounts receivables

Research bi-monthly bases go to customer account and clear up discrepancies

Systems to capture the attendances and absences

Troubleshooting existing reports to eliminate data discrepancies and respond to end-user inquires

Key Skills & Attributes

•ERP: SAP R/3, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

•Operating Systems: WINDOWS and MAC

•Utilities/Tools: Report Writer, Report Painter, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, power Point), MS-Visio

Education & Qualifications

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University of Phoenix

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