FICO consultant

Objective

Expert SAP CO-PC and CO-PA consultant seeking senior position in manufacturing industry for implementation in Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.

Professional Summary

• Almost 6 years of experience of FI/CO module in SAP R/3 environment with proven expertise in SAP analysis, design, implementation, upgrade, support, configuration, documentation, and testing of applications.

• Experience includes three full life cycle implementations projects using ASAP Methodology.

• Extensive functional experience in FI-General Ledger (GL), FI-Accounts Payable (AP), FI-Accounts Receivable (AR), FI-Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Project Systems (PS).

• Strong configuration experience in Product Costing Module in both discrete manufacturing environment and process industry. Experience includes setting up costing variant for legal valuation, actual flows, WIP and Variance settlement profile, RA key and other period-end closing procedures.

• Strong configuration experience in Profitability Analysis including configuring/setting up Operating Concern, Characteristics, Value Fields, Derivation Rules and Report Painter for analyzing performance.

• Strong experience in period-end FI COPA Reconciliation and support for local users in analyzing and resolving problems regarding variance between FI and COPA.

• Strong integration with PP including Recipe and BOM costing view setup, setting up Activity Types prices and quantities and settlement profiles for Process/Production Orders for end of month closing.

• Integration with other modules including MM and SD including accessing of Product costs through costing keys for Billing Documents (SD) and update of moving average price of raw materials through purchasing (MM).

• Experience in other Controlling sub-modules including Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center accounting and Cost Element Accounting.

• Expertise in ECATT (Extended Computer Aided Testing Tool), LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench).

• Extensive experience and specifying Tables and Fields for ABAP reports and BW Reports.

• Experience in transactions for other modules including FI (Finance), PP (Production Planning), SD (Sales and Delivery), MM (Material Management), PS (Project Systems) and QM (Quality Management).

• Excellent Communication, Presentation, Problem-solving and Analytical skills.

• Compliance to GAAP, IAS accounting practices and experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

SAP Skill Set

Configuration : CO-PC, CO-PA, CO-CCA, CO-CEA

Financial Accounting : G/L, A/P, A/R

Controlling : CCA, CEA, I/O, PA, PCA

Technical : SAP Queries, Report Writer, Report Painter, CATT, LSMW

Implementation: ASAP Methodology

Experience

May 2008 to Present (ECC 6.0/All in one Solution)

Milestone (Chief Manufacturers)

Minneapolis, MN

Sr. SAP CO Expert

• Configured settings for Controlling Area activating Order management, Profitability analysis, Operating Concern, attributes of Operating Concern, Cost Center accounting and deactivating Profit Center Accounting for New GL functionality.

• Defining and adding Optional and Fixed characteristics into operating concern for the specific reporting and planning requirements.

• Define Value fields and assigning to the GL accounts range for Integration to FI and the data flow into the COPA from FI side for Profitability.

• Configured system for calculating the Product Costing by Activities in the routings and valuate on the basis of moving average price of the material.

• Configured WIP calculations, variance calculations and maintained settlement structures.

• Defined Costing type, Costing Variants and Valuation variants for production Orders for Target cost to be valuated according to the Valuation sequence for V price indictor.

• Defined Costing sheets for calculating the overheads on the production orders with Overhead rates.

• Define parameters for Costing Run, running Cost Estimates, marking and releasing it for updating the cost in material master.

• Variance Analysis from Total Credit and Debit Costs, Analysis of material, labor and overhead costs in the Process Order for Settlement of production orders.

• Defined Allocation and Source structure for integration of COPA to other SAP modules automatic account assignment.

• Defined Cost Center Hierarchy and Profit center Hierarchy for the Segment reporting and splitting in New GL functionality.

• Defined substitution rules for assignment of Profit centers on the sales documents by Account assignment Category and Sales orgs for integration and segment reporting to New GL.

• Defined Allocation cycles for shared expenses incurred in the cost center hierarchy and the Dummy profit center by using the standard distribution and integrated New GL profit center distribution cycle.

• Assigned Value and Quantity fields to the condition types for the integration of SD module with COPA.

• Defined Activity types and assigned fixed or variable cost for costing materials on the basis of Routings and BOMs defined in Production Planning PP.

• Creation of production order for the Cost Analysis for the Target cost and Variance incurred in the process for Product Costing.

• Defined the profitability Segments and create exceptions for improving the system performance.

• Defined V Variable price indicator in the material master for updating the material price with every movement type.

• Configure Cost centers with GL accounts for automatic account assignment for FI documents posting resulting from the material movement.

• Define Planning level, package, method, parameters sets and planning layouts for Planning in COPA module for OLTP.

• Maintained Planning Version for COPA planning and defined Planning Framework, Setting for Manual entry of Planning Data, Integrated Planning, Planning Aids and Reorganization.

• Defined Planning Variable in the COPA Planning framework for entering range of data.

• Defined Planning layout in Report Painter and Planning profiles for defining the End User roles.

• Integrated MM with FI by configuring the movement types for valuated stocks.

• Define PA Transfer structure and assign to settlement profile for settlement to the Cost Centers for all the rework for Production.

• Defined basic and line based COPA reports and assigned multiple characteristics to COPA reports to utilize the Hot Spot function

• nality on the reports in Report Painter.

• Budgeting of the cost centers on the TOP Bottom approach with and without activity.

• Cost Center Planning with CO currency and as well as Multi currency for all the company codes.

• New GL Planning for the revenue elements for all the profit center planning with in New GL functionality.

• Integrate New GL and Cost Center Accounting for Planning values to flow from CO to FI.

Finance :

• Designed Financial Statement versions for US and Global partners according to the US GAAP and IAS reporting standards.

• Designed GL account structure with Functional Area requirement for reporting in EUROPE, China and Hong Kong compliance to the international Financial reporting standards (IFRS).

• Defined asset depreciation Methods for Global partners in Europe and China.

• Define Cash Application, Reason codes, Payment methods, Customer Credit limits and Management for FSCM.

• Define payment methods for Vendors thru Wire, checks and Paymetric in accounts payable.

• Define the Credit memo and debit memo on the customer and Vendor FI and SD side.

• Designed the NEW GL structure, splitting and the profit centers Structure.

Project System :

• Developed PS master data including project definition, WBS, Network and Project profile using project builder/ project planning board and IMG modules.

• Integration with controlling (activity types) and financials.

• Worked on budgeting in investment management by integrating PS with IM using Position IDs.

• Created AUC (asset under construction) and asset for settlement for the cost of the project.

• Deeply involved in data conversion process from legacy system to SAP.

• Worked with finance department to show standard SAP reports and modified functional specifications written for BI reports.

• Experience with maintaining CATS ( cross Application Time Sheets) for the projects.

• Use the Project Builder and Project Planning Board to edit project structures in project system.

• Defined Project types, project profile, planning profile and budget profile.

• Worked on the codes mask and project ID’s.

Other Tasks:

• Configured Global company codes for ALE transport of GL accounts in ECC 6.0 environment.

• Configured Segments in New GL, Spl Ledger indicators and GL item category and assigned range of GL accounts for automatic account assignment and Active and Passive Splitting of the document.

• Defined Tax Jurisdiction code structure and defined the automatic account assignment by input or output indicator.

• Unit testing and Business owner training for knowledge transfer.

• LSMW loads for creating Cost Center in the Cost Center Hierarchy.

• Demoed assessment and distribution cycles to the business.

• Defined payment program runs, check lots and payment methods in the company code for Automatic payment run.

Jan 2007 to April 2008 (SAP R/3 4.7 & ECC 6.0)

HP (Hewlett Packard)

Houston, Tx

Sr. SAP CO Consultant

• 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 attributes, costing sheet etc.

• Profitability Analysis (COPA): Configured the system for Costing-Based Profitability Analysis, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.

• Cost based COPA, Account based COPA, planning, operating concern, creating data structures, characteristics, value fields and attributes, transfer structures, reports on profitability analysis.

• Product Costing (COPC): Product cost planning with and with out quantity structures, costing run, Cost object controlling product cost by period, product cost by order, product cost collector, Actual costing/Material ledger

• Cost Center Accounting (CCA): Planning cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, variances, activity types, statistical key figures, assessment, and distribution and reposting.

• Assessment and distribution cycles, attachment of cycles to segments, different analysis period selection and allocation through distribution and assessment to cost centers.

• Actual and statistical manual posting and reposting, period end closing, primary and secondary cost element creation and cost element groups.

• Center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.

• Maintained Secondary Resources, assignment to Cost Centers and Activities in Recipes for integration with PP & new GL.

• Configured costing sheet, overhead costing sheet, defined field values, and assignment of costs to costing sheet.

• Profit Center Accounting (PCA): In Profit Center Accounting maintained the master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions, and assignments. Configured profit center accounting planning, defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations.

• In KEPC configured Costing Keys link with Billing Document by defining access to standard cost based on Item Category in the Billing Document for integration with SD.

• Integrate new GL with PC by creating cost elements for consumption and Production G/L Accounts for Testing Variance Calculation based on actual and planned consumption in Process Orders.

• Planning, profit center, revenue elements, sales order, internal order, fixed assets and material master assignment, control parameters.

• Configured profit centers and profit center groups, maintained alternative profit center hierarchy and allocation form default profit center to different profit centers.

• Configured WIP calculations, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures, configured costing variants and valuation variants and made assignments

• Maintained Production Version in Material Master to be used for Standard Cost Calculation for integration with PP.

Other Tasks:

• Supported Testing for integration project of new company mergers to HP.

• Design ABAP reports for filling the GAP from legacy system to SAP HP and work closely with developer for creating the ABAP routines.

• FI reporting by the GAAP and International Finance Reporting structure (IFRS) for Global reporting.

• Single handedly add the new REVENUE fields for creating a database for HP financial reporting requirement from functional designing to MTP (move to Production)

• Design changes for reporting after implementation of SAP standard VSOS feature.

• PL addition for new acquired company in HP GLOBAL SAP systems for Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific and Africa.

• MTP documentations for MM SD integration for HP SMI to automatically trigger the invoice for cost savings.

• Configured basic organization settings ( Company Code, Charts of Accounts, Business areas).

• Setup Year dependant Fiscal Year Variant, G/L Accounts Group, Field Status variant and Document number ranges.

• Defined Reason Codes for payment differences and worked on writing of these differences to G/L accounts.

• Configured House Banks, Automated payment program run, payment terms, clearing intercompany vender /customer open items, lockbox processing.

• Configured Vender Automatic Payment program, Direct deposits, and interest calculations on an open item.

• Configured credit management functionality. Created credit control areas, credit risk categories and defined credit representatives groups as per the client requirements.

• Configured Special G/L Accounts for down payment with down payments indicator, configured down payment request.

• Credit management of the customers by defining credit limits, dispute G/L accounts and payment terms.

• End User Training for applying cash, Credit Memo and Debit Memo to Customers and Vendors.

Aug 2005 to Nov 2006 (SAP R/3 4.6)

LA JOLLA PHARMACEUTICAL

San Diego, CA

SAP FICO Expert

FIT-Analysis:

• Full Life Cycle Implementation.

• Visited Plants to study the ASIS structure and proposed TOBE structure based on user requirements.

• Identified GAPS to be studied in existing Business Practice and standard SAP functionality for reporting on IFRS.

• Created extensive documentation for review of other streams and reviewed documentation of other streams specially PP, SD and MM.

• Presented documentation at session for plant end users to gain approval.

• Created documentation for test procedures with end user input to be used later.

CO Configuration :

• Configured General Controlling Organization by defining Controlling Area, maintaining Document number ranges for Controlling Area and maintaining Versions for controlling areas.

• Configured Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting by maintaining Control Area settings, Activating Direct postings, Plan versions, analyzing and updating the basic settings.

• Configured Cost Element Accounting by creating primary and secondary cost elements, cost elements groups, maintained cost element attributes.

• Maintain Activity Planned Prices in KP26 for Standard cost calculation for integration in PP.

• Configured Standard Hierarchy for Profit Centers, created Profit Center Groups and Profit Centers.

• Configured model settlement Profile, Settlement, Settlement Structure in Internal Orders.

• Customized Settings for Controlling areas, Activating the components / indicators and assigning the company codes and number ranges to controlling area.

• In KEPC configured Costing Keys link with Billing Document by defining access to standard cost based on Item Category in the Billing Document for integration with SD

• Integrate new GL b y US GAAP, with PC by creating cost elements for consumption and Production G/L Accounts for Testing Variance Calculation based on actual and planned consumption in Process Orders.

• Configured different order types, their screen layout and status management according to the business requirement.

• Configured system to define default Cost Center assignment in Settlement Rule for internal orders to get true posting and secondary posting to Cost Centers.

• Customized Results Analysis, Variance Calculation and Settlement Profiles for Process Orders for integration in PP.

• Configured Variance Keys, Settlement Profile and PA Transfer Structure.

• Characteristic, Value Field and Derivation Strategy setup for COPA. Also created reports for end user analysis in Report Painter.

• Maintained Secondary Resources, assignment to Cost Centers and Activities in Recipes for integration with PP & new GL

Training & Testing:

• Provided Training for key users in functional steps of CO PC and CO PA including:

1. Mater Data – Cost Center, Activity Type, Cost Element Creation

2. Setting up Accounting and Costing Views in Material Master including valuation class, price unit, costing lot size, Pricing Strategy etc.

3. Costing Run for Budgeting including individual costing and collective processing. Also trained on marking and releasing standard cost.

4. End of Month Procedures including Cost Analysis of Process Orders, Variance Settlement, WIP analysis and Process Order Settlement.

5. Analyzing Profitability reports in KE30 and studying actual line items in KE24

6. End of month FI COPA Reconciliation

• Provided Support for Training by Key Users of End Users.

• Performed Unit and Integration testing and analyzed problems related to configuration which involved complete simulation of SAP based on existing Legacy System day to day activities.

• End User Training for maintaining the Credit Limits for Customers, Debit and Credit Memo.

• GL posting in response to material movements and SD conditions from the GL accounts structure designed.

Post GO-LIVE:

• Provided post-go live support including resolving issues on a daily basis

• Checked for FI COPA Variances daily to ensure no over-burdening at month end

• Provided support integrated support for other modules related to COPC and COPA

Jan 2005 to July 2005 (SAP R/3 4.6)

BEMIS MANUFACTURING

Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Business Process Analysis And Re-Engineering :

• Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design by US GAAP and IFRS, development, testing and deployment of solution, as well as documentation and End User training.

• Defining the business requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications, configuration and testing.

• Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted business blueprint documentation.

Controlling (CO) :

• Customize setting for controlling areas, activating the components/indicator, assigning the company codes to the controlling areas, assigning number ranges.

• Product cost planning with and with out quantity structures, costing run, Cost object controlling product cost by period, product cost by order, product cost collector, Actual costing/Material ledger.

• Defining the Operating Concern and maintaining the controlling versions.

• Configured Controlling Area settings. Created the Standard hierarchy, cost centers, assigned cost centers to cost elements.

• Dealt with Cost Element Analysis involving both primary and secondary cost elements, activating the reconciliation ledger, and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.

• Enterprise Controlling (EC-CO) using profit center accounting to create the profit and loss statements.

• Supported CO-PA configuration with special cost variants and costing runs with future activity cost, material cost and labor cost.

• In KEPC configured Costing Keys link with Billing Document by defining access to standard cost based on Item Category in the Billing Document for integration with SD

• Customized Results Analysis, Variance Calculation and Settlement Profiles for Process Orders for integration in PP.

• Developed assessment, distribution periodic reposting cycles and segment.

• Integrate new GL with PC by creating cost elements for consumption and Production G/L Accounts for Testing Variance Calculation based on actual and planned consumption in Process Orders.

• Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles.

• Designed specs for development of FI/CO reports and layouts. Generated reports using tools like Report Writer and Report Painter.

• Maintained Secondary Resources, assignment to Cost Centers and Activities in Recipes for integration with PP & GL

• In Product Costing, configuring material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, maintained settlement structures, configuring variance calculations and WIP calculation, integrating CO-PC (Product Costing) with SD, MM and COPA, cost variants, valuation variants.

• Configured Internal Order by maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, status management, maintained settlement rules, settlement profiles, planning profile.

• Unit Testing. Developed and executed data conversion and integration test plans.

• Trained End Users on the systems.

Jan 2004 to Dec 2004 (SAP R/3 4.6)

THE UTILITY COMPANY LLC

Dumfries, Virginia

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

ASAP Methodology :

• Worked as a SAP FI/CO consultant in project team involved in implementing the SAP module.

• Involved in gathering Customer Business requirements, preparing Blue prints by reengineering the system to fill the GAP between the Legacy (AS-IS) system and the TO-BE system.

• Worked in all phases from Blue print development to End User training and post implementation support.

• Conducted GAP Analysis in compliance with US GAAP and mapped all the business processes.

FI/CO :

• Participated in workshops involving detailed analysis of existing Systems and business processes related to GL, SL, AP & AR and CO.

• Configured the system for Costing-Based Profitability Analysis, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.

• Worked closely with process teams in understanding the As-Is system and finalizing design of the To-Be system

• Configured FI-GL, AP, (Accounts payable) and AR (Accounts Receivables).

• Configured account groups, posting period, fiscal year variants, document number ranges and field status groups.

• Configured the material cost estimate with quantity structure, configured cost object controlling, configured WIP calculations, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures, configured costing variants and valuation variants and made assignments.

• Configured Customer Master Data and master groups. Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments

• Configuration of terms of payment and interest calculation on open items/ balance outstanding.

• Created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups. Configuration of payment program for posting invoices with and without invoice verification. Customized accounting transactions for postings and reoccurring entries

• Tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and customer invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry program.

• Integrate GL with PC by creating cost elements for consumption and Production G/L Accounts for Testing Variance Calculation based on actual and planned consumption in Process Orders.

• Created Controlling area, Operating concern, maintained versions, primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups and assigned number ranges to groups

• Customized Results Analysis, Variance Calculation and Settlement Profiles for Process Orders for integration in PP.

• Defined Cost Center Hierarchies, activity types, statistical key figures and reconciliation ledgers.

• Worked in coordination with SD teams regarding "Pricing" in defining condition types, Condition tables, Procedures and access sequence

• In KEPC configured Costing Keys link with Billing Document by defining access to standard cost based on Item Category in the Billing Document for integration with SD.

• Credit Management for the Customers, Cash application, Automatic payments and Credit and Debit memo for the Customers and Vendors.

• Created Profit Center groups, Dummy profit centers, Profit center standard Hierarchies, assigned objects to the profit centers.

Jun 2003 to Jan 2004 (SAP R/3 4.6)

BIMBA MANUFACTURING

Monee, Illinois

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

• Configured Global settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, posting period variant, field status variant and field status groups.

• Configured Account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master in compliance with US GAAP.

• Designed and configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.

• Involved in configuring the integration of logistics modules such as MM, SD and PP.

• Configuration of house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment.

Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, and Country payment methods, Dunning Notices.

• Maintained Secondary Resources, assignment to Cost Centers and Activities in Recipes for integration with PP & GL

• Configuring and Customizing the operating concern, characteristics, value fields, maintaining the derivation rules and valuation, creating Drilldown Reports and Planning.

• Worked in credit management and Credit control areas.

• Designed and configured Foreign Currency Transactions, translation, Valuation, maintaining Exchange rates.

• Configured the system for profitability analysis and developed Operating concern.

• Created cost element Groups and maintained cost element attributes.

• Involved in complete documentation of A/P, G/L and CO-PA areas.

• IMG settings for using Internal Orders as Cost Objects.

Sept 2002 to May 2003 (SAP R/3 4.6)

ZEP MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Atlanta, GA

SAP FI/CO Process Support

• Highly exposed to client process analysis, Fit and Gap study in compliance with US GAAP, ASAP methodology, Business Blueprint and IMG Documentation and Trained Super Users and End Users.

• Finance expertise in General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Cash Management (CM).

• Controlling configuration includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Internal Orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (PA) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).

• Integration of FI-CO module with other modules like Material Management, Sales & Distribution and Production Planning.

• Prepared functional specifications for modification to the existing standard reports to client specific requirements.

• Configured and used LSMW for uploading master data of General Ledger, Customers and Vendors.

• CATT’s for creation and modification of master data of G/L accounts, Customers, Vendors, Cost Centers and Internal Ord

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