PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

                                                                                                                                        

SUMMARY:

                       

10+ years domain experience including 7 years SAP  Experience in Finance, Accounting and Controlling, having worked with industry verticals such as Pharmaceuticals, Steel, Food, Chemicals and Engg.

 

SAP EXPERTISE AREAS:

 

Ø       Excellent configuration expertise on Financial Accounting with AR (Accounts Receivables, AP (Accounts Payables), GL (General Ledger), AA (Asset Accounting

Ø       Experience in configuration of CEA (Cost Element Accounting), CCA(Cost Center Accounting), PCA (Profit Center Accounting), IO (Internal Order), PA (Profitability Analysis) in Controlling

Ø       Real-time Experience in Company Code Configuration, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant including 4+4+5, Posting Period Variant, Functional  Areas, Financial Statement Version (FSV).

Ø       Hands on Experience with setting up Automatic Account Determination for Intercompany Postings, Inventory Posting & Valuation, Sales/Use Tax and Foreign Exchange Transactions

Ø       Extensive knowledge of New GL with Document Splitting, Multiple Currencies and Ledger.  

Ø       Hands on configuration experience on Output Tax, Forex, Account Assignment Model and Recurring Entries

Ø       Extensive Knowledge of configuring Manual Bank Statement and Electronic Bank Statement and Bank Reconciliation.

Ø       Configuration of Vendor Master, House Bank, Automatic Payment Program, Down Payments and Configuration of Customer Master with setting Terms of Payment including for installment payments, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Reserve for Bad Debts

Ø       Specific Experience Includes designing the complete Asset Management including Chart of depreciation, Asset class, Depreciation Area determination

Ø       Expertise in setting Controlling Area, Creating Cost elements by Batch input sessions for Primary Cost elements and also creation of Secondary Cost Elements for CO Allocations and assign appropriate Cost Element Category

Ø       Defining Standard Hierarchy for Cost Center and Profit Center maintenance.

Ø       Excellent expertise in configuration of both Costing based and Account based Profitability Analysis (COPA).  Define and activate Operating Concern Environment by creating a data structure required as per analysis criteria(Characteristics) and the values to be evaluated (Value Fields)

Ø       Worked extensively on Integration between FI/CO & Logistics Module (SD, MM).

Ø       Electronic Banking Interfaces (Lock Box, ACH Payments, e-Bank Statements, AP positive Pay Interface).

Ø       Sales/Use Tax System Design & implementation with Taxware & Vertex.

Ø       Report Development -Report Painter, ABAP Query & Drill down Reporting.

Ø       Data Migration Using LSMW and other interface.

Ø       Excellent configuration experience on EDI Program setting, IDocs structures and mapping for varied external portals.           

Ø       Configured the Validation & Substitution rules.

Ø       ABAP/4 –Report Development, User Exit Programming, Debugging & applying OSS Notes.

Ø       RICEFW Objects with expertise in writing Functional specs

Ø       Strong SAP Experience in Gap-analysis, Blue Printing, Prototyping, Detailed Configuration, training Documentation, testing, Data Uploading, Preparing the Cutover Strategy, Go live Implementation, troubleshooting Cross Module Customizations Issues.

Ø       Extensive Experience with designing , configuring , testing & documenting of  FI/CO  Subcomponents in SAP versions 4.6B, 4.6C ,4.7C , ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0.

Ø       Experiences covers all aspects of Implementation Process including Business process analysis, requirement gathering, and design, Complete System Configuration, testing, end User Training & Production Support.

Ø       Used ASAP Methodology of Implementation.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS SETS :

 

Operating Systems	Windows Vista/XP/NT/2003,UNIX
Hardware	IBM PCs/Compatibles, Mainframe, Servers
Applications	SAP FI/CO
Interface	ALE,EDI,IDOCS
ERP	SAP ECC (6.0, 5.0), SAP R/3 (4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B)
Tools	MS Visio , MS Office Suite

                                   

 

DETAILED PROJECT SUMMARY

 

<confidential>                                                                                                2008 till date

Project: ECC 6.0 Implementation and

Integration with existing SAP 4.7

(AP, AA, PCA)

 

Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant                                                               

 

• Designed and Developed specifications for:
• Loading the Asset Master Data and Opening Balances as on the go live date to be migrated from    legacy system to ECC 6.0
• Loading the General Ledger Opening Balances for the Fixed Assets Accounts determined based on the Asset Classes as linked to the Account Determination.
• Loading the Profit Center Master Data
• Loading the Vendor Master Data on the go live date describing the conversion standards as available in SAP.
• Loading vendor open items from legacy system to ECC 6.0 system.
• With pre-existing electronic EDI communication in place, created and modified different interfaces like create/modify purchase order, Goods receipt, PO/Non PO invoice and invoice status, Payment advice etc for inbound and outbound communications with XIGN Vendor portal and have appropriate update into ECC 6.0.
• Designed and developed an IDOC interface to process inbound telecom invoices initiated from HURON Vendor Portal. 
• Defined Logical System and created partner profile.  Assigned GL Account for each EDI partner and invoiced company code.
• Assigned tax code for EDI procedures. Entered Program Parameters for EDI Incoming invoices
• Designed and developed an IDOC interface for transmitting DME file to disbursing bank and Payment advice to XIGN/HURON disburser application.  
• Created Vendor groups, Defined Number Ranges for Vendor Groups, Created Vendors and Assigned Number Ranges.
• Assigned process key for Cash discount taken, Configured Vendor master data where some of them were existing Customers.
• Maintain Payment Terms, set up of Automatic Payment Program includes Payment Company codes, payment methods, bank determination and payment forms for payment transactions per company code.
• Developed vendor classification by creating characteristic group, characteristics and vendor class for HURON utility vendors. 
• Modified SAP standard functionality using User exit to sent payment advice to Logical system “XIGN” or “HURON”, with appropriate logic, instead-of to the vendor.
• Designed and developed specification for Inbound ADP Canada Payroll Process.  Developed logic to create a transaction producing journal entry for corporate HED intercompany posting.
• Structure an IDOC for corporate HED intercompany posting in ECC 6.0.
• Configured Fixed Asset Management including Asset classes, Screen Layout, Depreciation Key, Depreciation methods, Depreciation posting rules & Accounts Determination
• Configured chart of depreciation for real and derived depreciation areas.
• Setting for Scraping Asset, selling asset.
• Wrote Functional specification for enhancement of Asset Master
• Was responsible for uploading Asset Master from the legacy system and accumulated depreciation.
• Developed LSMW program to transfer master data from legacy system to SAP system.
• Developed error handling method and remedies to minimize the errors,
• Involved in analyzing the new requirements taking into account the future company requirements, providing solution, making the required post implementation support for Key Users
• Worked on enhancement to automate the process of Fixed Asset Master data creation, assign the Fixed Asset to AUC via Settlement Rule and Settle the Asset under Construction to the Fixed Asset(s).
• Created a validation that is invoked upon material creation & change, to ensure that financial postings are made to the correct profit center and that the profit center on the material master is correct. 
• Maintained the basic settings for PCA, configured master data for profit centers, profit center groups. 
• Configured Profit Center Structure, including creation of Profit Center master records and CO Object assignments to Profit Centers.

 

 

<confidential>                                                                                  Jun 2007 to Apr 2008

Project: Full Life Cycle Implementation ECC 6.0                                

(GL, AR, AA, CO-PA)

Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant                                                               

 

The implementation integrated transparent business processes which eliminated redundant tasks, while streamlined data maintenance and extraction ensured more efficient day to day business operations.

 

• Involved in blue-print preparation, configuration, testing, end-user training and go-live phases
• Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project

·         Analyzed the existing system for, AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams

• In New General Ledger, maintained New GL configuration to create leading and non leading ledger for different reporting purpose, defined currency for leading ledger, defined segment, Document Splitting, Account Assignment types for objects, defined and assigned Accounting principles to ledger group, maintained Chart of Account, created GL accounts, Field Status Group, maintained Financial Statement Version, Manual and Automatic clearing, Recurring Postings, Intercompany reconciliation, Maintained Posting Period Variant
• Configured Accounts Receivable – Configured Customer Group and Customer Master Data, configured Reserve for Bad Debts, created dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels
• Worked on Customer Analysis including days in arrears, payment history, cash discount overview and credit limit display
• Designed and configured Credit Management to better manage and monitor credit risks.  Defined credit segments, credit limits.  Defined risk category and assigned to credit accounts
• Manual and Automatic incoming payments and Lockbox configuration - Defined House Banks, Checked Post Office Bank Branch Numbers, Defined Lockbox Accounts at House Banks, Develop Enhancements for Bank Account Numbers and bank data, defined Field Groups for Bank Master Data, and Grouped Bank Master Record Fields, and used both BIA1 format as well as BIA2 format depending upon the preference of the bank involved to help facilitate the crediting of check and reducing processing workload
• Set up integration of FI with SD through Automatic Account Assignment
• Defined Accounts for clearing entries for Cross (Inter) Company Code Transactions
• Configured Manual and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS)

·         FOREX: Defined Exchange rates, configured for currency valuation, automatic posting for foreign currency valuation and Realization

• Extensively worked on the configuration of Fixed Asset Management
• Defined Screen Layout Rule, Account Determination and number range for each asset class and defined Asset Class as per business requirement.  Made appropriate GL account assignments
• Activated Depreciation Areas with screen Layout Rule. Maintained Depreciation key and checked Period Control.  Defined Posting Rules for the depreciation areas that post depreciation values to financial Accounting.
• Responsible for Asset Data Transfer from Legacy to SAP by using LSMW program, testing, validating the data before and after transfer and reconciling with FI-GL Accounts
• Defined transfer type for Acquisition, Retirement and transfer for Inter-Company Asset Transfer

·         Created Controlling Area, maintained versions and number ranges for controlling documents

·         Configured and activated costing based Profitability Analysis (COPA). Defined Operating concern attributes and generated operating concern environment

·         Created characteristics and value fields from different field sources and copied them into data structure definition

• Analyzed the Valuation method for COPA.
• Analyzed the flow of data to COPA.
• COPA Value Fields were verified by mapping of Cost Element Groups and SD Condition Types to Value Fields and Cost Center to COPA assessments.
• Performed valuation of value fields in COPA through cost estimate and user exit.
• Maintained settlement profile, settlement structure, source structure and COPA transfer structure

·         Created COPA Reports using forms and report line structures

·         Written functional Specs for RICEF objects (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) as per the Business Requirements

• Designed & Executed Data Mapping, cleansing and Cutover Plans for Conversion of Legacy system into SAP
• Involved in all the test phases unit testing, integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Provided informative documentation to help the end users
• Involved in post live support in clearing the tickets
• Tools Used: Testing using Test Directors, Production Support using Remedy Ticketing

 

 

<confidential>                                                                                     Aug 2006 to May 2007

Project: Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0

(AR, GL)

Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant                                                          

 

 

• Worked as Configuration & Upgrade Consultant for ASAP Implementation of AR Module –Project Involved upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0

·         Functional –Business Process Design. Gap Analysis , Modeling , Development and configuration , System reengineering

·         Implemented New GL Accounting in place of Classic GL Accounting adding Parallel Accounting and Segment Reporting.  Defined Leading and Non-leading Ledgers with additional Group level currency definition

·         Defined Migration Plan to migrate data into New GL assigning all company codes and ledger with objects to the Migration Plan

·         Mapping of new Plants Business process of Payment Program through Configuration of business transactions for Account Receivables including the Payment Terms Configuration with and without installments and Interest Calculation

• Defined one-time and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them

·         Defined the Tax on Sales and Purchases, Tax Accounts

·         Designed and configured the EDI Process for invoice postings

• Involved in Lockbox processing for incoming payments and Integration with SD
• Assigned various permitted Credit Control Areas to company code, made necessary settings for credit limit check, risk categories, credit groups, automatic credit control
• Involved actively during End user training & and upgrading of configuration documents
• Modified the existing functional specifications for any field changes, new fields, and enhancing the customer objects to make them compatible with the new version

• End user training provided for the new functionality added along with the version change
• Worked with ABAPers for developing multiple user-exits to meet the business requirement of the client

·         Involved in the making of Cutover Strategy

 

 

 

<confidential>                                                                                     Dec 2005 to Jun 2006

Project: Full Life Cycle Implementation ECC 5.0                    

(AP, AA, COPA)

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant                                                                  

 

 

• Involved in the full life-cycle implementation and assisted the team lead in Business process review, design, configuration, testing, documentation and training in the areas of Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AA) and Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Conducted meetings with the users to understand the AS IS business processes and documented business process flow charts
• Identified the requirements and modeled TO-BE process
• Created Vendor account groups, vendor number ranges, Document types, Document number ranges, Terms of payment
• Worked with the client in preparing and loading Vendor Master Data. Developed LSMW object to upload these Master Data from legacy system to SAP
• Maintain Payment Terms, set up of Automatic Payment Program includes Payment Company codes, payment methods, bank determination and payment forms for payment   transactions per company code. Defined ranking order, number ranges for checks and also the void reasons

·         Configured FI-MM Integration with appropriate Account Assignments

·         In Asset Accounting (AA), configured asset master data, asset classes and chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation posting, acquisition and retirement of assets, assets under construction, capitalization of assets, inter-company asset transfers

• Changed depreciation keys according to new depreciation rates. Updated valuation methods and updated Asset Master with new depreciation keys
• Involved in handling Tangible Assets with direct capitalization which included creating, planning  & budgeting of internal order, acquiring asset and analyzing the internal order
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured operating concern for costing based Profitability analysis, maintained CO version, defined characteristics, value fields and attributes, Assignment of relevant value fields to SD condition types for online transfer of billing documents data to CO-PA, configured the derivation structure and rule for characteristics and created reports as per client requirements
• Involved actively during post implementation training
• Prepared a document of all the changes made, revised the Business Process Procedures (BPPs) to facilitate the changes during the upgrade
• Involved with the team of members to perform integration testing for all the processes and regression testing for the key business practices
• Provided Pre go-live and Post go-live production support

 

 

<confidential>                                                                                     Jan 2005 to Nov 2005

Project: Global Rollout, SAP R/3 4.7               

(GL, AR, CCA, PCA)

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

 

 

·         Rolling out Existing SAP System with creation of new Company code and plants & creating /Extending all configuration, customization and Program Enhancements

·         Configured and Customized General Ledger – Created Master Records, configured Number Ranges and G/L Accounts for Company Code and added new Accounts, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, defining Field Status Variant, Fiscal Year Variant (4+4+5)

·         For Accounts Receivables (AR), grouped customers to defined Credit Control Area.  Configured tolerance limits for customers and managed AR reconciliation account for sub-legers for customers.  Configured down payment settlement and customized payment terms for customers

·         Involved with the developers for designing interfaces and maintained EDI file format to receive EDI orders from customers

·         Created Controlling Area, maintained versions and number ranges for controlling documents

·         Created primary cost elements by creating and executing batch input sessions

·         Defined secondary cost elements for assessment and internal activity allocation

·         Also created standard hierarchy in CO-CCA and created cost center groups and cost centers. Also created activity types and assigned to cost center to calculate activity cost per cost center.

·         Turned on validations for G/L account and cost center combinations. Defined Specs for tables which will be used to enter the valid combinations

·         Configured Assessment and Distribution cycles to settle both the actual and plan costs among different cost objects

·         Coordinated with BW Consultants to create different types of reports like Year-to-date reports, monthly reports, quarterly reports and annual reports for Group and individual Cost center analysis

·         Involved in using Tax Reporting and related month end financial reports

·         Designed Functional Specifications and tested various Accounts Receivable reports; coordinated with ABAP developers and Business Users to fix various bugs

·         Ensure smooth Rollout  by doing 2 rounds of Unit testing followed by equal Number of Integration Testing rounds , regression Testing & Full Documentation of entire Rollout Project

 

 

<confidential>                                                                                     Jun 2004 to Dec 2004

Project: Production Support SAP R/3 4.7                   

(GL, AP, AA)

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

 

 

·         As a production support member involved in solving the production issues, provided user training, Reviewed/Updated the Functional Design Documents for FI/CO developments

·         Involved in solving the Production issues in Automatic Payment Program (AP), Account Assignment, interest calculations on open items, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of line items, check management and void reason codes

·         Setup the Gain/Loss accounts for exchange rate differences in vendor and customer payments and testing different production scenarios

·         Set up the balance sheet adjustment accounts and exchange rate Gain/Loss accounts for Goods Receipt (GR), Invoice Receipt (IR) and Goods Issued (GI)

·         System configuration in the areas of GL transactions, balance sheet reports,  profit and loss, inter-company transactions, consolidation, automatic posting GL master records

·         In Asset Management (AM), performed requirements analysis and functional matching for asset accounting, purchase cycle and plant maintenance.

·         Configured the Fixed Assets, chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation area, fiscal year variant, number range, substitution rule in the fixed asset master records

·         Configured depreciation keys/areas, integration with purchasing, assets under construction, mid-year legacy asset take-over

·         Designed processes for Asset Management, Including leased assets

·         Maintained asset master data acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation

·         Heavily involved in writing functional and technical specifications and worked closely with the technical personnel

·         Trained super users and answered day to day inquiries from client

 

 

<confidential>                                                                                     Jan 2003 to Mar2004

Project: FLC Implementation SAP R/3 4.6C                            

(AR, GL) 

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant                                                                  

 

·         Assisted the project lead in the design, configuration, testing, and support of SAP in FI and SD modules depending on job assignment. Gathering requirements and designing solutions for accounts receivables sub ledger

·         Involved in creation of Blueprints and customization of accounts receivable functions

·         Assisted in configuring House Banks for Lockbox Processing set up for check allotments, processing payment advices

·         Configured customer account groups for Customer Master , reconciliation accounts, no. ranges, customer master records and created account assignments for recurring entries

·         Configured Credit Management and Defined Credit Control Area, Preliminary Settings, Groups, Risk Categories, Days in Arrears, Line Layout, and Reconciliation Accounts

·         Defined client specific payment terms, performed unit testing for customer invoices, created scenarios to test the clearing of partial or residual open items

·         Configured for setting up customer Down Payments, Bad debts accounting

·         Integration settings along with testing with SD module. Processing of billing documents in SD and interfacing them in FI Accounting

 

 

 

 

 

<confidential>                                                                                   Aug 2001 to Oct 2002

Project: Production Support SAP R/3 4.6B                  

(GL, AR, AP, CCA, PCA)

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

 

 

·         Providing Post Go-Live Support & involving in configuration changes for process improvements

·         Supported critical issues. Suggested and implemented process improvements

·         Regular interaction with the Super users, understanding their requirements and developing Specifications per Customer Requests

·         Supported and resolved post-implementation issues with AR and AP

·         Supported and resolved post-implementation issues with Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting

·         Daily Support of functional and customizing issues and training to new end users of various functions and prototyped and documented business scenarios

 

 

 

FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE                                                                                                     

 

<confidential>                                                                                  Jan 1997 to Mar 2001

Role: Chief Accounts Officer

 

·         Budgeting: drive and manage budget vs. expense ratio to ensure the functional management team is staying within corporate budget guidelines.

·         Reporting: develop a corporate financial dashboard to be delivered weekly to the management team

·         Revenue and expense forecasting: accurate monthly forecast.

·         Perform detail revenue analysis; prepare and report on key revenue.

·         Development internal and external financial statements up and including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow to be presented to executive management and board of directors.

·         Manage venture-financing process. Identify venture partners, coordinate with outside counsel. Maintain capitalization table and stock registry.

·         Established and maintained an internal financial control system to ensure accurate record keeping

·         Completed accurate and timely annual audit of company’s financial statements

·         Appraised and developed project reports - including profitability statements, cash flow statements, break even analysis, determining return on investment -  for company’s upcoming turnkey projects

 

ACADEMIC CAREER:

      Master of Business Management, Finance

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