SAP FICO Consultant

MUHAMMAD BHATTI

Elmwood Park, NJ 347-***-**** ***********@*****.***

SUMMARY

-Results oriented professional offering over Six years of Experience related to Design and Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 FICO modules. Experience in Implementing SAP FIGL AR AP Asset Accounting Controlling and Extensive Experience in Business Process and SAP Implementation Methodology including ASAP Methodology

-Completed three full life cycle implementations, covering all critical and important phases.

-Detailed hands-on experience with all phases of project life cycle including requirements gathering, blueprinting, realization, user acceptance testing, go live training and post-go live support.

-Involved in creating RICEF Objects, performing Gap Analysis, Scripts Creation, and Test Models.

-Hands on experience in various FI areas, for example Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, General Ledger Accounting, NEW General Ledger Accounting, Setting up House Bank, Electronic Data Interchange processing, Setting up Enterprise and Global Variables for different Operations, Electronic Bank Statement and Lockbox etc.

-Worked on different parts of New GL including Document Splitting, Report multiple accounting methods by establishing Leading and Non Leading Ledgers etc.

-Working knowledge of different sections in Controlling, for example Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting etc.

-Practical experience handling different Integration assignments through best SAP Guidelines for FI to SD, SD to MM, MM to FI.

-Solid understanding of Purchase-2-Pay and Order-2-Cash Business Process.

-Involve in Master data migration as per business requirement through different migration tools including but not limited to Legacy System Migration Workbench, EDI/ALE, Direct input, BAPI etc. Use BDC for uploading data in SAP projects.

-Work with reporting tools like HP Software (Mercury) - Quality Center, Test Director, Report Painter and Report Writer.

-Successfully led teams in various assignments in all sap development life cycle ensuring on time delivery.

-Efficient self-starter, responsible, and quick-learner with effective interpersonal, technical, team building skills and analytical skills.

-Willing to relocate, travel, and able to work independently or in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Versions

SAP R/3 FI, CO, 4.6,4.7,ECC 6.0, BW 3.1

SAP Tools

Solution Manager, SAP FICO Sales & Distribution, Materials Management, ABAP/4, Report Painter and Report Writer

Operating Systems

Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows Operating System

Software and Programming Languages

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, SQL, Java, C++, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

Testing Tools

Microsoft Suites, HP QC, IBM-RQM

Integration

FI & CO integration with MM, SD

EXPERIENCE

Sept. 2013 - Present

FICO – Lead Consultant, CONAIR East Windsor, NJ

Responsibilities/Tasks

-Complete one full life cycle implementation for Accounts Receivable processes.

-Involve in all Blue Printing workshops, perform GAP Analysis, make SAP best practice recommendation on different tasks, and successfully involve in functional, technical and configuration designing.

-Involve in write up for Customers and Vendors Master Data Conversion and Interfaces Integration.

-Configure Automatic Payment Programs for local and global Vendors according to company strategic policies including approval process with BCM and workflow.

-Configure the creation of Account Receivable Invoices and Posting of Manual Incoming Payments with Differences, Clearing and Reversals, Interest Calculation and generated AR Custom Reports.

-Work on Parallel Ledgers through New General Ledger functionality. Use New Document Splitting function to create Financial Statements at company code level.

-Involve in migration of data from the Classic GL to the New GL through different phases of migration.

-Configure Outgoing and Incoming Payments Term Settings, down Payments Procedure and House Banks and different Payment method including ACH.

-Involve in data migration process to FI-GL tables. Customization of the main bank account with multiple zero balancing bank accounts, alternate bank selections for check payments for AP and Lockbox for AR.

-Configuration of G/L transactions for document posting, parking, reversals; preparation of end-user documents for month-end closings. Configuration of Customer down payment, APP and Payment terms

-Creation of profit center groups, standard hierarchies, document number ranges for Profit Center Accounting.

-Perform and Lead the Unit, Regression and User Acceptance Testing. Create different Use Cases and Test Scripts for different scenarios for different teams.

-Work with Business and Functional teams to resolve Bugs arising from testing in early life cycle.

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

Jan 2012 – Aug. 2013

FICO Consultant, LEXMARK Lexington, KY

Responsibilities/Tasks

-Worked on different “AS IS” business requirements and delivered “TO BE” finished products based on best Sap guideline and recommendation.

-Performed stake holder’s coordination and made Gap analysis to implement the SAP FI/CO for all their business requirements.

-Customized down payment functionally and configured payment medium workbench.

-Defined customer account groups and created customer master data for accounts receivable.

- Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).

-Creation of Vendor and Customer master records and loading of legacy data into the system.

-Complete Customization of Cash Journal and House.

-Setting of Financial statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement.

-Configuration for intercompany transactions.

-Cost Center Accounting Configuration, setting of controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, valuation profiles, field status groups, internal orders, WBS elements.

-Profit center accounting configuration, setup, Profit center hierarchies, Product Costing, Profitability analysis, Profit center based Balance sheets & P&L statements.

-Maintained Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.

-Configured lockbox for customers for optimal performance through BAI2 Interface.

-Customized and maintained house banks with several multiple bank accounts, Payment mediums, and payment methods.

-Implemented In-House Cash, and Electronic Bank Statement.

-Enabled data interfaces with banks, trading houses and business partners.

-Worked on General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting.

-Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements in Cost Element Accounting, prepared Cost Element Groups, and maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.

-Defined Internal Orders Types, Order Masters and different Settlement Profiles.

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

Oct.2010 – Dec. 2011

FICO Consultant, BOSE Corp Framingham, MA

Responsibilities/Tasks

-Participated in all client meetings for Account Receivable and Payable processes, conducted interviews and workshops focused on collecting business requirements for SAP FICO functionality.

-Involved in SAP 4.7 up gradation to SAP ECC 6.0 system through SAP recommended procedure.

-Customized company code various local and global Variables, GL accounts, account groups, field status groups, number ranges and document types.

-Setup all incoming payments including Lockbox using EDI823, Electronic bank statement (EDI820) and work with respective Banks for optimal performances.

-Supported enhancement effort for post processing programs including RFEBLB30.

-Created origin-destination, house bank, partner profile, port definition, message types and logical message types.

-Defined and assigned different currencies to bank accounts and also defined and assigned variants and suspense accounts to bank configuration.

-Configured Automatic Payment for Vendors for Check payment and ACH.

-Customized vendor down payment, Automatic Payment Program, recurring entries, and installment payment

-Created Expense and Revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, and exchange rate losses and then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations.

-Worked significantly on detailed bank payment files to automate electronic and check that would meet expectations of business users.

-Worked on Dunning program, Dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items.

-Created and defined credit control areas to company code including pre-defined credit limits for customers.

-Worked on different Controlling Principles including Cost Center Accounting - Cost centers, cost center groups, hierarchy, cost center categories, cost elements, activity types, statistical key figures, planning, assessment and distribution, allocations and splitting structure and rule.

-In Profit Center Accounting, worked on Profit centers, profit center groups, hierarchy, account determination, planning layout, planning profile, assessment and distribution.

-Configured Collections module and Integration with Accounts Receivable Accounting.

-Involved in post-production support & resolution of issues, documented all the processes involved.

-Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FI.

-Designed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis to ensure successful execution of the plan.

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

May 2009 – Sept. 2010

SAP FI Analyst, OTTENS FLAVORS Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities/Tasks

-Worked extensively with business users for requirement gathering and analysis of existing business processes. Prepared business Blueprint document and functional design document.

-Configured Configuration tasks for the Organizational structure of AR, AP, House Bank, and Controlling.

-Assisted the project planning, closure of issues of the projects on time.

-Worked with end users to help the issues related the postings in FI, MM and SD.

-Arranged team meetings on a monthly basis to review budget versus actual performance and update cost center forecasts.

-Identified the Fit/gaps in different assignments and wrote the Functional specs.

-Lead and conducted workshops to gather requirements and developed business processes.

-Configured Automatic payment process in AP and bank Account G/L Structures.

-Research and analyzed data that has been gathered as a result of workshops and meetings for the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable teams.

-Set up standard hierarchy for cost centers and profit centers

-Developed detailed work plan for the execution of the performance and acceptance test.

-Created blue print documentation for Collection, Dispute Management, Credit Management and Biller Direct.

-Supported execution of all "cutover" activities in preparation for Go-Live.

-Implemented Terms of Payment, Interest Calculation, Automatic Account Determination for Overpayments/Underpayments & Cash Discounts, Customer Tolerance Groups.

-Verified accuracy of data processing for accounting information.

-Had complete responsibility for accounts payable systems and prepaid orders, requesting checks and processing interdepartmental transfers and invoice cancellation.

-Had complete responsibility for items billed and accounts receivable, including invoice mailing, handling cash receipts and statements, and processing interdepartmental transfers.

-Supervised other regular clerical and accounting staff during minor portion of the employee's work time; duties include assigning, reviewing and evaluating work.

-Assisted with special accounting projects.

-Reconciled budget and expense statements with departmental accounts.

-Evaluated the training needs and prepare the end user training documentation.

EDUCATION

Bachelors Computer Science, Punjab University

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