SAP Finance

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Rupa. A 720-***-****

Senior FICO Consultant ****.*@*******.***

Profile

 SAP Senior FI – CO Consultant with 6 Years in Accounting, Finance areas in both SAP and Non SAP environments.

 Exhaustive experience in SAP R/3 System Implementation as SAP Consultant specialized in FICO Module, With 3 Full life cycle Implementations, extensively worked on 4.6C, 4.7, 5.0 and 6.0(ECC) versions.

 Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules-GL (New GL), AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

 Sound Cross functional knowledge in PP, MM and SD

 Special emphasis on Data Conversion & Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects.

 Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports

 Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools

 Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance with FASB, Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) & US GAAP.

 Extensive experience in Blueprints, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, end-user Training, Documentation and Production support.

 Proficient in managing a wide range of Big 5 groomed Methodology and ASAP Methodology.

 Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical, troubleshooting, negotiation and team building skills and abilities in planning and managing resources.

Technical Expertise

 Expertise in New GL – Document splitting, Segment reporting, Parallel ledger and Foreign currency valuation.

 Expertise in Accounts Payable (FI-AP)- EDI Invoice processing, paper Invoice processing including Logistics Invoice verification(LIV),Automatic payment program(APP) with Payment Medium workbench(PMW) and Withholding Tax (1099 vendors)

 Expertise in Accounts Receivables (FI-AR)- Incoming payment processing (Manual and lockboxes), Down payments, Credit card processing (authorization, settlement & funding) and Dunning.

 Expertise in Asset Accounting (FI- AA) - Configuring Chart of Depreciation, Asset classes, Depreciation Area (Book and taxes i.e. MACRS), Mid- month and weighted period conventions.

 Expertise in Bank Accounting (FI-BL) - Configuration of Manual and automatic Bank statements in BAI2 format.

 Expertise in Cost center Accounting (CO- CCA) - Cost Allocations (Assessments and Distribution), Activity types & rates and Linking Statistical Key figures(SKF) with LIS.

 Expertise in Classic Profit center accounting (CO-PCA) – Substitutions for PC determination during Sales order processing and Report Painter.

 Expertise in Internal Orders (CO-OM) – Order Types, Settlement Profiles and Rules.

 Expertise in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) – Configuration of Characteristics and Values, data flow from FI, MM and SD in Cost Based CO-PA.

 Expertise in FI-MM and FI-SD Integration processes.

 Expertise in Inter- company processes.

Experience/Project Work

CDC- Global Services

Role: Sr. FICO Consultant

Duration: Oct ’09 to Present

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 Setting up Enterprise Structures

 Defined the Field status groups, Fiscal year & Posting periods variants

 Configuration of Controlling Area

 New GL with document splitting.

 Segment derivation, Leading Ledger and assigning Scenarios

 Profit and Cost Center Hierarchy

 Planning versions for forecast

 Internal Order types with settlement profiles, allocation structures and source assignments

 Enhancements to use Profit Centers based on Base merchandise Hierarchy

 Cost component Structures, Estimates and Settlements for the Production Orders in the Make to Stock scenarios

 Chart of depreciation, Asset class, screen layout, Account determination, Depreciations for Book and tax purposes conversion of assets both for prior year and current year.

 Configured Automatic payment program for check, transfer & ACH payment methods

 Configured Print program for payments with Payment Medium workbench(PMW)

 LSMW programs for data conversion, Migrated the Open AR, AP, GL balances & Assets and master data for Activity types, Activity rates, Cost centers, Profit centers, internal orders, groups/ hierarchies,

 Calculation of Depreciation including the Mid Year to Mid Quarter convention on the tax rules by IRS

 Intercompany setting in AP/AR, worked on the process from a Logistics standpoint to the end result in Finance.

 Configuration of Electronic Bank Statement with BAI2 code format.

 Foreign valuation for Month end process.

 Support for Business Integration testing with end to end scenarios

 Designed the training modules and conducted training for Business super users

 Defined Month end & year end closing procedures.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA,CO-OM, CO-PC, SD and MM integration

Hewlett Packard – SAFARI

Role: SAP Process Engineer

Duration: April ’06 to Aug ’08

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 Conducted workshops with business process owners, identified and documented the business process requirements. Prepared business requirement and Application design documents

 Involved in the Business Blueprint

 GAP analysis of the Global template process to the Country Specific requirements

 Created chart of accounts and GL account groups as per client’s specification.

 Configured field status groups, tolerance limits, document types, document number ranges and open item clearing.

 Lock box setup for US for automatic upload and clearing AR open items

 LSMW programs for data conversion, Migrated the Open AR, AP, GL balances & Assets and master data for Activity types, Activity rates.

 Country specific Tax configuration

 Configured Vendor Account Groups, to ensure the data input.

 Configured and maintained House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods configuration, Alternate Bank Selections for Payments.

 Checks Management through assigning number ranges for check lots, checks printing and defining void reason codes.

 Configured Customer Account Group

 Configured Dunning to send notices through Email

 Customer Incoming Payment

 Configured Chart of Depreciation

 Update to the Respective Depreciation Areas

 Creating of Asset Classes and respective configuration

 Depreciation Configuration for Asset classes

 Customer specific reports specs

 Responsible for Planning in Cost center Accounting using cost element.

 Configured overhead cost control in CCA

 Generating test scenarios.

 Unit testing and Integration testing of the configured processes.

 Developed user documentation

 Updated MEC procedures

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 5.0, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA,CO-OM

Hewlett Packard – CARPE DIEM

Role: SAP Process Engineer

Duration: October’05 to April ‘06

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 Involved in the Business Blue Print of the project

 Studied and analyzed the enterprise structure of existing systems and business processes related to General Ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, & Costing areas.

 Worked with business to identify the FIT Gap’s & Document the Key Decisions

 Identified & analyzed decision support business requirements for CO-PA structures, values flows, P&L, Segment reports in various dimensions

 Worked with characteristics, Value fields, SKF, Distributions, Assessments & Derivation rules

 Configured controlling area, operating concern, versions and number ranges for controlling area.

 Created primary and secondary cost elements.

 Configured cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, distribution and assessment

 Defined planning area, planning layout and planner profile in Cost Center Planning.

 Created master data for standard hierarchy, substitutions and assignments in Profit Center Accounting.

 Defined versions, planning layout, planning profile and plan allocations in Profit Center Planning.

 Worked with BW team for COPA data extraction & Reporting requirements

 Worked extensively with the SD team to ensure all values coming into CO-PA.

 Defined MEC Settlements to update CO-PA

 Defined the MEC Process for many of the scenarios from an Order to Cash Process

 Created Reports in CO-PA without impacting performance

 Archival Strategy for CO-PA and coordinating with Basis on re building the index

 Fine tuned CO-PA after go live which enabled the business to get more reports, to extract more information and to improve performance.

 Ensuring that there was no delta reporting between Profit Center and CO-PA reports.

 Ensured GL and CO-PA balances reconciled

 Prepared functional specifications for various custom reports.

 Generating test scenarios.

 Unit testing and Integration testing of the configured processes.

 Developing user documentation

 Go Live Support

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 4.7, FI-GL, FI-AP, CO-CCA,CO-OM& CO-PA

Hewlett Packard – TSG-HPS>IGSO & COMPASS (Bangalore, India)

Role: Master Data lead

Duration: October’04 to Oct ’05

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 Creation and maintenance of Master data elements like:

 GL Account groups

 GL Accounts

 Profit centers & their hierarchies

 Cost centers & their hierarchies

 Internal Orders and Real internal orders

 Primary and secondary cost elements and groups

 Statistical key figures (SKF) and groups

 Activity rates, types and groups

 Allocation Setup

 Creating Assessment Cycle and Segments

 Creating Distribution Cycle and Segments

 Settlements of Internal Orders to AUC and Cost Centers

 Ensuring all the Allocation are settled to CO-PA

 Reporting

 Created Profit Center Reports

 Created Multiple Contribution Margins Reports in CO-PA

 Month End Tasks

 WW tables – These were custom tables HP had to feed BW.

 Finance table updates – Exchange Rates

 Approval of Month end close critical MD changes.

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 4.7, FI-GL, CO-CCA, CO-OM, CO-PA

Non SAP- Functional Experience

Srim Securities (Bangalore, India)

Role: Financial Analyst

Duration: July’03 to Sept‘04

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 Prepare profit and loss statements and monthly closing and cost accounting reports.

 Compile and analyze financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, and document business transactions.

 Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.

 Analyze and review budgets and expenditures for local, state, and private funding.

 Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.

 Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.

 Analyze revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels, and ensure expenditure control.

 Explain billing invoices and accounting policies to staff, vendors and clients.

 Resolve accounting discrepancies.

 Recommend, develop and maintain financial data bases, computer software systems and manual filing systems.

 Supervise the input and handling of financial data and reports for the company's automated financial systems.

 Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits.

Education & Training

 MBA in Finance from Indian Institute of Commerce and Trade (IICT)

 Bachelor of Commerce(Advanced Financial Accounting and Management Accounting) from Bangalore University

 Trained in SAP FICO ECC 6.0 from SAP Partner Academy

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