PERSONAL SUMMARY

Ashmita is an SAP Certified FICO consultant with 4 years of hands-on experience in SAP FICO in customizing, configuring, developing and integrating of SAP ECC 6.0 FI/CO module for multiple clients and industry. Involved in 2 implementations using SDLC model through ASAP methodology, Upgrades & production support.

Expertise in SAP ECC/R/3, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), New GL Accounting (document splitting, parallel accounting, segment reporting), Product Costing (PC), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Project Systems, COPA, Integration with MM to FI, Integration with SD to FI, Credit Management, & Business Planning and consolidation (BPC).

WORK EXPERIENCE

July’ 2018 – June, 2019: DANA Incorporated

●Worked with the finance and accounting team to provide key analytical and data mining/reporting support related to leasing using the PROLEASE finance software.

●Creating capitalization for Machine and Equipment and real estate leases.

●Evaluating the training needs and prepare the end user training documentation.

●Assisting on financial data analysis to generate accurate results for auditors.

May 2013- Dec’ 2015: SAP FICO Analyst - Project Client: Suzlon Energy Private Limited

●Understanding business requirements, gathering functional requirements through user workshops, identifying and analyzing Gaps, developing minutes of the meeting, recommending solution/ business processes to address the Gaps, documenting AS-IS model and TO-BE model.

●Configuring partial payment and residual payment

●Configuring house banks, different payment methods, automatic payment program, payment terms, auto-clearing rules and lockbox processing.

●Configuring credit management functionality, such as defining credit control areas, credit risk categories and credit representative groups according to client requirement.

●Configuring Electronic bank statements and check deposits.

●Configuring document splitting for vendor invoice by classifying G/L accounts, document types, defining document splitting rules, characteristics, and zero balance clearing account

●Configuring Asset Accounting to facilitate business transactions, including asset acquisitions, retirements, transfers, depreciation calculation, and write offs and post capitalization.

●Configuring Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, multi-level methods for depreciation, depreciation run

●Creating standard drilldown reports, dummy profit center, and account groups in PCA

●Involved in FI integration with SD and MM

●Performing unit testing and coordinating with various technical and functional people from other modules in integration testing.

Feb’ 2011 - May 2013: SAP FICO Analyst –Project Client: Indian Tobacco Company (ITC)

●Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation for the tobacco division.

●Configuring automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).

●Configuring inter-company transactions

●Automatic determination of G/L accounts, mapping valuation classes to G/L & mapping G/L accounts to Material groups.

●CCA Configuration, setting up of controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, valuation profiles, field status groups, internal orders, WBS elements

●PCA configuration, setup, Profit center hierarchies, Profitability analysis, Profit center-based Balance sheets & P&L statements

●Maintaining Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Fixed Asset modules.

●Executing the test Performance scripts using Load Runner and analyzing the results.

Jan’ 2010- Feb’ 2011: Business Analyst - Project Client: IBM

●Responsible for database management of IBM document repository of SAP projects.

●Created SQL queries and web-based interface for easy and seamless access and reporting

●Created industry-based templates and contents for SAP Materials Management and SAP FICO implementations. These documents were harvested and successfully implemented by many projects to reduce implementation time and cost of SAP MM

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Aug’ 2017- May’ 2018: University of Toledo: Equity Analyst and Student Portfolio Manager

●Managing student managed portfolio worth $2.4 million.

●Conducting financial research and gathering financial data on specific companies on Bloomberg research terminal.

●Creating valuation models, using FCFF, FCFE, DDM, DCF, Relative Valuation, RI, NAV, LBO etc.

●Analyzing financial statements

●Reporting my analysis and recommendations on buying, selling or holding the stocks to the board

●Planning to diversify the portfolio to reduce risks to the minimum

Jan’ 2017- May’ 2018: Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Finance Department: University of Toledo

●Creating Finance study materials, presentation slides and supplementary notes for basic and advanced Finance courses.

●Doing field research for the development of financial journals

Jul’ 2016 – Aug’2016: Center for Family and Privately Held Businesses (CFPHB) (Part-Time)

●Used SQL based query design to improve the reporting and data mining for CFPHB.

●Used HTML to enhance the CFPHB website.

●Used different web analytics tools such as google analytics and SEO to better track traffic and improve visibility.

May’ 2005 - Nov’ 2009: Adarsha Balika Shikshayatan, Kolkata, India

●Used HTML and Web Development knowledge to teach high school students the web-based technologies

Was responsible for teaching English Literature.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

MBA, Finance (GPA 3.9/4.0)

University of Toledo, Ohio, USA

CPA Qualifying Certificate (continuing)

(2019-2020) Owens, Ohio, USA

Master Certificate in HR

Cornell University, New York, USA

Master of Arts

University of Calcutta, India

Certification

SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5

SAP Certified Application Associate - Management Accounting (CO) with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Volunteer at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)

Advanced Leadership Academy (ALA) Award certificate

Member of International Student Association (ISA) at the University of Toledo

Owner of a Cooking vlog: Ashcookbook/Facebook (1 Million page views and over 27,000 followers on Facebook.)

Ashmita Barua, SAP Certified FICO Consultant and Financial Business Analyst

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