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Certified SAP Consultant

Location:
Chicago, IL
Posted:
November 16, 2015

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Sakshi Jain

Certified SAP FI Consultant

acsg9p@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

• Certified SAP FICO functional consultant (Consultant ID: S0012131776), 8 years of SAP FICO functional consultant experience with two full life cycle Implementations.

• Worked on ASAP methodology in all project phases - Business blue print, Realization, Testing, Final preparation and post live production support, with documentation.

• Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring General Material Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), New G/L, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA).

• Worked on different aspects of FI Transactions such as P2P, Inter Company Transactions, Reconciliation Accounts, partial and Residual Payments, Credit Memos/ Dunning and Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items.

• Controlling experience includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA).

• Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Run, Banks Accounting, Foreign Currency Valuation and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing

• Worked on handling conversion from GL to New GL right from preparing of blue print for new GL to the customization of document splitting, allocation and planning.

• Configured Automatic payment program for outgoing/incoming invoices, dunning, validation & substitution, lockbox file format, lockbox processing, manual bank statement, EBS processing including bank accounting, Cash concentration and Liquidity forecast.

• Strong communication (both written and verbal) skills, inter-personal, mentoring, as well as strong attention to detail, ability to conduct one-on-one training to teammates and business users.

SKILL SET

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 Versions – 4.6, 4.6C, 4.7 and ECC 6.0

Tools: MS Office, Excel & PowerPoint presentation

Integration: FI & CO integration with MM, SD

Operating Systems: Windows (2003/XP/Vista/win7/Unix/Linux).

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, LSMW and IDOCs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HCL (February 2015 – April 2015)

SAP FI Consultant

Supported in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable)

SERCO (May 2012 – November 2014)

SAP FICO Consultant

Reviewed Business Process Procedures and Blue Print and did requirement analysis and Developed Test Plan, Test Scope and Test Strategy, designed

Involved in all stages of testing process functional testing, regression testing and integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Execution of Test case manually to verify actual results against expected results.

Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.

Helped in Preparation of training material and gave end user training to the process owners in GL AP, and also maintained detailed documentation.

Provided post Go Live support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users

Configured General Ledger – Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files

Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels. Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variant, customized field status variant, customized line layout, sort variant, and total variant

FI-AP Process is customized to create the vendors and maintain master data, Account Groups, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Reason Codes, Account Determination, and Default Account Assignments, Configured Vendor Invoice Parking process to facilitate Invoice approval by WBS owner in Business

FI-AP Also configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments

Configured settings for Check Printing and assigned forms to payment methods.

Worked on the Functional Specifications of checks, invoices and check design.

Defined check lots and void reason codes.

Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)

TR House Bank accounts, Ranking Order of Bank Accounts

Worked with the MM team for the FI-MM Integration.

Configured and customized Asset Accounting Module – Copied country specific chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account determinations, screen layout key, allocate number ranges to assets classes, Down Payment configuration for Assets

Defining the classes of assets, capitalization procedures and depreciation calculations. The actual procurement of assets, inter / intra-company transfer of assets, asset retirements, asset shutdowns and asset capitalizations are also designed to include all the possible business scenarios. The accounting and legal aspect of the asset management is also in-built while designing the system

Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using the report writer and report painter

Helped in month end and year closing activities

Handling of Data takeover for new company code

Walgreens, Chicago, US (January 2009 – July 2009) (March 2010 – August 2010)

Payment Specialist (contract position)

Takes necessary action to ensure timely resolution of all vendor discrepancies, which may include some familiarity of other departments within the company as well as associated vendor internal processes.

Prepare data and reports for management and vendor review and analysis; Serve as an escalation point to resolve invoice discrepancies from the processing team for major vendor partners.

Baxter Health care, Chicago, US (September 2008 – November 2008)

Assistant Payment Specialist (contract position)

Managing invoices and check requests

Set invoices up for payment

Reconciliation of payments

Maintain vendor / invoice files

Resolve invoice discrepancies

Starcast Wireless LLC, Dallas, US (January 2005 – September 2007)

Office Manager

Accounts Receivable including reconciliation related aspects of receivables tracked in the Billing System from recognition through cash collection and evaluated reconciliation processes continuously to identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to stream-line existing processes and improves automation through better utilization of system (i.e. QuickBooks). Reviewed aged receivables, prepared and submitted recommendations on write-off of bad debts to Financial Director

Accounts Payable including Vendor payment (by monitoring discount opportunities, cash flow, and payment terms) and Reconciliations

Bank Reconciliation including bank reconciliations of three company bank accounts

Cash Control including monitoring, recording and controlling company expenses

Inventory Management & Maintenance included using of analytical tools to establish inventory targets that allowed units to meet sales and monitoring inventory count under Periodic Inventory System.

Payroll Management included coordinated payroll function for 20 employees

Administration included general office duties and administrative tasks

Mathematical Sciences Foundation, Delhi, India (Renowned Foundation in India running by group of renowned Mathematician of Delhi University. Website: http://www.mathscifound.org) (January 2002 – October 2004)

Mathematician

Developed Lectures, methodologies and Workshops designed to simplify mathematics concepts. This methodology was successfully implemented to help the teachers as well the students of grade 10th and 12th.

Created a math online help program used by math teachers as well as students. Successfully implemented the online help program.

ACADEMICS

Masters in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India (http://www.iitd.ac.in/)

CERTIFICATE

SAP FI Certificate in Aug 2014

Financial Accounting Certification from Dallas County College, US in 2004

DOEACC O Level Certificate in 1998



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