SUMMARY:

Over ** years of total experience including 8 plus years in SAP FI/CO understanding client needs, designing blueprints, configuring IMG with user community, supporting, documenting the project processes.

Strong FI/CO configuration skills in addition to functional knowledge in MM, SD, PS, and knowledge in HANA

SAP FI/CO/PS expertise includes configuring General Ledger (New and classical), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Inter-Company transactions, Cock-pit, Bank Accounting, Special purpose ledger (SPL), Cost Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Profit center accounting, Internal orders.

Expert knowledge of Integration points between FICO and MM, SD, PP, PS, Period-end / Year-end closing, best practices, solution architecture and reporting.

Expertise in documenting the project processes for Business requirements, business process mapping, configuration documents, Test plans & scripts, training documents and performing Unit testing, Integration testing, User acceptance testing and training super/end users.

Extensive experience in RICEF, interacting with business users, analyzing the client business requirements, needs, objectives and mapping them to the SAP processes, solutions and products that are being implemented.

Strong problem solving and analytical skills with ability to make balanced, independent decisions.

Versatile team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills combined with self-motivation, initiative and the ability to think outside the box. Team oriented and goal-driven, accustomed to aggressive schedules and working under pressure.

SAP technical experience in building custom programs, LSMW, data migration, function modules, Transport Management System and SAP integration methodologies including IDOC's and EDI.

Expertise in SAP reporting tools like ABAP and SQVI reports, Report Writer / Painter, Financial Statement versions and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) reports.

SAP Skills:

SAP- FI

General Ledger: Record to Report (RTR) processes, Chart of Accounts, Account groups, GL master records, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company transactions and reconciliations, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups, parallel ledgers in new GL, Document Splitting, Segment reporting, New GL Assessments and Distributions, real time FI - CO integration.

Accounts Payable: Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes, Vendor groups, master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, Goods Receipt, recurring entries, parking, invoices, credit memos, automatic payments, Withholding tax functionality, Integration with MM, Logistics Invoice Verification, work flow processes, foreign currency valuations, closing procedures.

Accounts Receivable: Order-to-Cash (O2C) processes, Customer groups, customer master data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, credit management, closing operations, Revenue recognition and integration with SD.

Asset Accounting: Depreciation Areas, chart of depreciation, screen layouts, account determination, Asset classes, configuration for setting up of Master Data, depreciation, Asset under Construction, retirement/sale of assets, period and year end closing.

Treasury: Lockbox configuration, electronic bank statement (EBS) processing.

SAP – CO (Controlling):

Cost Center Accounting: Cost Center standard Hierarchy, Configuration and Customization for Cost elements/Cost Centers and groups, Periodic re-posting, Distribution, Assessment and Planning.

Profit Center Accounting: Profit Center standard Hierarchy, Dummy Profit Center, Configuration and Customization for Profit Center and groups, Distribution, Assessment, Planning, Reports, Period-end activities, and Integration with FI and MM.

Internal Order: Order Types, Master data, Settlement, Planning, Budgeting and Order Status Management and Reports.

Product Costing: Settings for Material Costing, Bill of materials, Activity types, maintaining activity price, work center, routing, cost component structure, Standard Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure and without Quantity Structure, Costing run, Overhead, Costing sheet.

Profitability Analysis: Costing-based and Account-based CO-PA, characteristics, value fields, planning, clear understanding of value flows, Revenue recognition, valuation, and KE30 Reporting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

CLIENT: Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, MA

ROLE: Sr. SAP Consultant (Fi/Co)

DURATION: November 2016 to Till Date

Background

Charles River Laboratories, Inc., is an American corporation specializing in a variety of pre-clinical and clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries. It also supplies assorted biomedical products and research and development outsourcing services for use in the pharmaceutical industry.

Responsibilities

Support Production Issues

Work on new enhancements

Prepare User documentation and RICEF

Regression testing and Change Management

Deliverables

Support of SAP FI/CO in a multi-currency activated global environment.

Electronic payment and banking implementation for North American legal entities using Data medium exchange engine (DMEE).

Development of new Costing Sheet to calculate Overheads for a new product.

Resolved issues around periodic processing of payments for both Accounts Payable and Receivable (AP and AR). Worked on SAP Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) functionality to process AR payments for automatic cash application against customer invoices

Manage end user calls/tickets for issue resolution and new development (enhancements) for the global business community.

Enhance functionalities related to Intercompany material procurements.

Configure Revenue recognition, billing / invoicing in SD O2C processes.

Prepared templates, Schedules for Month-end, Quarter-end and Year-end closing and provided on-site support.

Worked on end-to-end processes of Account-to-Report (A2R / R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and Order-to-Cash (O2C) which required configuration, testing and Day-to-day maintenance of business process.

Creation of new COPA characteristic, Value field and related updates in the COPA reports.

Working on the setting up of new payment method and creation of idoc and DMEE Tree interface.

Working on the 1099 reports and form related changes to comply with US Government requirements.

ENVIRONTMENT: ECC 6.0, SAP FICO, SD, MM. HCM, PS, PP

CLIENT: Radial Inc, King of Prussia, PA

ROLE: Sr. SAP Consultant (Fi/Co)

DURATION: February 2016 to November 2016

Background

Worked as a core team member in end to end implementation project for Radial Inc., Formerly eBay Enterprises. Radial Inc. is an e commerce company based in King of Prussia PA, USA. Accenture is implementing SAP system for Radial which involves GL, AR, AP, Banking, SD, MM, HR, CCA, PCA and Internal Order. Currently working as a core team member responsible for AR, CCA, PCA and Internal Orders.

Responsibilities

Requirement gathering

Designing Blueprint and preparation of BPD

Configuration

Testing and End User Training

Deliverables:

Design and Implementation of SAP FI/CO aligning the business processes according to the corporate templates.

FI- AP Expertise in configuration and usage of automatic payment program, configuration of House Banks & Payment methods at country level, ranking order and account amounts, levels, creation of check lots, defined check lots and void reason codes, payment terms, clearing vendor or customer open items.

Created Cost Centers, Primary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Centre Groups and linked the Cost Centers to the appropriate Profit Center. Created Cost Center and Profit Center Standard and Alternate Hierarchies.

Configured Internal Orders by defining order types, internal orders, screen layout, allocation structure and settlement profile.

Worked on end-to-end processes of Record-to-Report (R2R) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) which required configuration and integration with FI-SD and FI-MM including the scenario for cash sales.

Involved in Planning and executing unit, functional, system, integration, user acceptance, and performance testing during various phases of testing cycles.

Documented the project processes for Business requirements, business process mapping, configuration documents, Test plans & scripts, training documents.

Assisted End users in data conversions during the cutover plan to upload from Legacy to SAP.

Involved in Planning and executing unit, functional, system, integration, user acceptance, and performance testing during various phases of testing cycles.

GL uploads, Vendor invoice uploads, recurring entries and setting up periodic background jobs with spool communicated to appropriate user groups.

Worked on configuration of New GL accounting, Foreign exchange revaluation and currency translation.

Developed inbound and outbound interfaces to transfer data from/to SAP to other legacy systems like workday, Longview.

ENVIRONTMENT: ECC 6.0, SAP FICO, SD, MM, HR

CLIENT: Carrier Corporation, Farmington, CT

ROLE: Sr. SAP Consultant (Fi/Co)

DURATION: March 2011 to February 2016

Background

Worked for a Client Carrier Corporation, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation. Carrier Corporation based in Farmington, USA is a manufacturer and distributor of heating, ventilating and Air Conditioning Systems. Carrier has implemented SAP in the areas of Quote to Order, Planning and Fulfillment, Variant Configuration, Finance and Controlling which has both MTS, MTO and ETO process. Worked in the Client location as FICO Team Lead and Onsite Coordinator supporting day to day issues and enhancements.

Responsibilities

Support production Issues

Requirement gathering

Configuration and Customization

Writing RICEF/Functional Specification

Deliverables:

Acted as a go-to person to help fix complex and long standing Incidents/Change requests on existing implementations

Understand configuration dependencies and interrelationships between separate functional modules of SAP and provide financial expertise into the definition and resolution of issues and resolve day to day issues.

Identifying and addressing client needs, actively participating in client discussions and meetings.

Resolve day to day issues in the areas of New GL, AR, AP, intercompany process, validation and substitutions, lockbox issues.

Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), 3-way / 2-way matching, Invoice only, Evaluation Receipt Settlements.

Restructured the Costing sheets in SAP Product costing, depending on the business requirement for making the overhead calculation logic based on calculating overhead at each level of material and involving both Quantity-based and Percentage-based overhead.

Supported Month-end activities like period end closing, allocations, distributions, foreign exchange revaluation, Asset accounting, daily and weekly settlement jobs and COPA reporting.

Developed and enhanced the various SAP standard reports, Report Painter / Report Writer customized reports, created customized drill down reports for AP and AR Ageing reports, ABAP query reports, and SQVI reports.

Resolved issues around periodic processing of payments for both Accounts Payable and Receivable

Worked extensively on creating the Cost estimates for Product cost with Quantity structure / without Quantity structure in MTS, MTO and ETO process involving Costing user exits.

Worked on user exits for Valuation Strategy, Actual data,, material cost estimates, COPA costing sheets.

Worked on Credit management for the customers, configuring customer records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination for over/under payments, cash discounts, overall A/R employee tolerances.

Created and Assigned characteristics and value fields in CO-PA.

Worked on issues related to idocs and interfaces, FTP and MFTP set up and job maintenance through Tidal application.

Supported profit center reorganization through the new Profit Center Reorganization tool.

Worked on GL roll ups to facilitate Financial Reporting in HFM system.

ENVIRONTMENT: ECC 6.0, SAP FICO, SD, MM, WM, VC, PP.

CLIENT: IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India

ROLE: SAP FI Consultant

DURATION: October 2008 to March 2011

Background

Worked as FICO team member in a roll out project for Shell Corporation. Shell Petroleum is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with around 101,000 employees in more than 90 countries and territories. GSAP is implementing SAP for Shell in all countries across the globe providing the best possible business scenarios and practice mapping it to SAP.

Responsibilities

Design and Development

Writing Functional Specifications

Configuration and customization

Testing

Support

Deliverables:

Defined chart of depreciation and depreciation areas, asset classes, assets, integrated general ledger with Asset Accounting.

Worked extensively on the EBS and settings for automatic clearing of customer receipts with use of standard algorithms.

Work closely with the third party systems and middleware for the development of various interfaces.

Coordinated and supported the team from other modules in the integration issues.

Configured Internal orders which involved in maintaining order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc.

Configured the dunning requirements as per the global template.

Worked on Internal orders which involved in maintaining order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc.

Configured Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable modules including creation of Vendor Master Records, default account assignments, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, check management, special G/L transactions defining tolerance groups, check management.

ENVIRONTMENT: R/3 4.6, SAP FICO, SD, MM, PP

Functional Experience:

Company:

Deutsche Bank

Duration:

Sept 2006 to Sept 2008

Position:

Process Executive

Roles and Responsibilities

Worked as a Process Executive looking after Derivative settlements

Rate discrepancy with ledgers and statements

Investigation of various fees like upfront fee, termination fee, assignment fee, etc.

Follow up of receipts and payments with the clients.

Investigation of unapplied funds.

Raising the amendment requests with the Middle office.

Confirming the cash flows and settlement instructions with the counterparty before value date.

Making payments to the counterparty on value date

Company:

Thomson Corporation (International) Pvt. Ltd

Duration:

Feb 2005 to Sept 2006

Position:

Research Executive

Roles and Responsibilities

Worked as a Research Analyst in Earning & Estimates DataBase (EEDB) which deals with the maintenance of Estimates database.

Maintenance of the database with creation of various companies giving all details like address, business description, stock exchange it is trading, ticker and other attributes.

Complete knowledge of corporate actions performed by companies & their filings.

Integration of data received by various sources based on the general corporate principles.

Providing the pricing and estimate information of companies to the clients.

Attending client queries involving complex research

Company:

Nisiki Technilogies Pvt Ltd.,

Duration:

Nov 2003 to Feb 2005

Position:

Finance and Accounts Executive

Roles and Responsibilities

Worked as an Executive-Finance/Accounts

Preparing and maintaining the Journal Vouchers, Bank Vouchers and Cash Vouchers.

Following up of receivables and making payments on time.

Preparing sales tax reconciliation statement.

Preparing Bank statement reconciliation statement.

Preparing salary statement and pay slips, debit and credit notes.

Analyzing Monthly and quarterly financial reports based on previous years reports.

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration (Finance) from Visveshwariah Technological University, India

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