KAMYAR TARA

SAP CONSULTANT

HAMILTON, NEW JERSEY

Email: arvind@itbmsglobal.com

Contact: 732-655-8900 Extn 1032

Objective

To obtain a challenging and rewarding position as a SAP FI/CO Consultant that will benefit from my experience, professional qualification and skills to help my organization achieve its objectives and bring in continues growth and complement my professional growth.

Experience Summary

· 5+ years of strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, developing, configuring, integrating, testing and production support in SAP financial accounting and controlling (FI/CO) modules.

· 7 years as an Executive Accountant experience.

· Two full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodology.

· General Ledger: Chart of accounts, account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, intercompany automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups.

· Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, AP information system, integration with MM, logistics invoice verification, Prepared and posted monthly journal entries.

· Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, account systems, credit management, closing operations, sales order, lockbox, and integration with SD.

· Asset Accounting: Chart of depreciation, Depreciation areas, asset classes, setting up of master data, asset transactions, periodic processing, Information System.

· FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business areas, functional areas, sales and use tax.

· Internal Orders: Internal order configuration, order settlement configuration, PA settlement structure, order planning and budgeting.

· Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting: Configuring the basic settings, Cost planning, cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, statistical keys, activity type, assessment, distribution, reposting and integration with MM.

· Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, assignment of SD/MM/and CO-objects to profit centers, distribution and assessment, budgeting, planning and development of reports.

· LSMW: Legacy System Data Migration experience.

Education

• Bachelor in Accounting. June 1994
• Master in Management, concentration in Accounting. SEP 2015
• Certification in Quickbooks and Payroll Accounting
• Application Skills: MS Office Suite (Word, power point, Access, Excel).
• pursuing to sit for CPA exam

SAP Professional Experience

Client: AbbVie Inc. North Chicago, IL

Duration: APR 2015- Present

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Pharmaceuticals

Responsibilities:

Core module: General Ledger Accounting

· Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, and financial statement version.

· Activated New General Ledger, Created Leading and Non Leading Ledgers for the different Company Codes.

· Activated Parallel Accounting for the Different Accounting Principles like US GAAP and other countries.

· Maintained fiscal year variant, posting period variant and assigned it to company code.

· Defined valuation methods for open items in foreign currency and assigned GL accounts for them.

· Defined automatic open item clearing criteria for GR/IR, Bank, Customer and Vendor account.

· Defined document splitting characteristics for GL accounting and controlling and activated it.

· Configured recurring entries, hold and park and sample document, and training end users.

· Worked and trained the end users with month- end and year-end closing activities and company processes.

· Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.

· Configured customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, account assignments, defined various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables. 

Client: Abbott Laboratories North Chicago, IL

Duration: SEP 2013 – FEB 2015

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Pharmaceutical

Responsibilities:

Core module: Asset Accounting

· Configured and supported fixed asset accounting module by creating chart of depreciation and assign it to company code, define depreciation areas, asset master data

· Configuration of asset classes, number ranges, account determinations, screen layout, Group Assets, Asset Under Construction, Asset acquisitions, transfers and retirement (scrapping) and capitalization of assets, Cross company code transfer of assets.

· Configured Integration of asset accounting with general ledger after configuring asset master data, depreciation area posting to general ledger, assign general ledger accounts for balance sheet and depreciation accounts, specify intervals and posting rules for depreciation.

· Defined depreciation keys and depreciation calculation methods, and base methods for calculation of depreciation.

· Specified transfer date for asset data transfer and migration, converted legacy asset by enter the asset values from the legacy system to SAP, and finally transfer the asset classes’ balances to general ledger accounts.

· Converted, tested and validated the data before and after the transfer and reconciled with General Ledger accounts.

· Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time to the corresponding asset.

· Configured number ranges in production and loaded asset master in production, asset capitalization and depreciations.

Client : Fenwal Inc. Chicago IL

Duration: JUL 2012 – AUG 2013

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Medical Device

Responsibilities:

Core module: Cost Center Accounting

• Configured the settings for controlling areas, assigned company codes to controlling areas, assigned number ranges.
• Configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained cost center standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost element creation, manual cost element creation, actual postings, Distribution, Assessment, information system.
• Configured Profit Center Accounting (PCA), maintained profit center standard hierarchy, created profit centers, dummy profit center, defined document types, number range assignment, PCA planning parameters, Distribution, Assessment, and transfer prices.
• Maintain currency and valuation profile and activate it in controlling area.
• Maintain automatic account assignment of revenue elements to profit centers, choose additional balance sheet and profit and loss accounts.
• Involved in configuration of Profitability Analysis: Created the Operating Concern, maintain characteristics and value fields, configured the costing-based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field and profitability segments used in profitability analysis, define forms for profitability reports through report painter.
• Monitoring and helping end users involving support issues and initiating the implementation of solutions with SAP best practices of issues relating to GL/AR/AP/AA/CCA/PCA.

Client: Medco Inc. Franklin Lakes, NJ

Duration: JUL 2011-JUN 2012

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Pharmacy Benefit Management

Responsibilities:

Core module: Accounts Receivable/ Accounts Payable

· Configured and Customized FI sub-modules Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.

· Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status.

· Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories. Interacted with Client business users for requirements gathering and analysis.

· Interacted with the business analysts and end users to get the user requirements and Business process using ASAP methodology.

· Interacted with Client to Update and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas.

· Redefined and Configured Payment Methods, Payments Terms, House Bank, Bank Accounts for AP, AR - Dunning process, Lockbox, Interest calculation, and Credit Management.

· Defined accounts for cash discount taken from vendors and cash discount grant to customers.

· Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces.

· Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting.

· Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing.

· Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts. Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups, discount overviews.

· Defined the house banks, configured electronic bank statement, check deposit, and cash journal.

· Defined the user roles and authorizations. Unit, Integration and User Acceptance testing.

Company: Peugeot-Ikco, Tehran

Duration: MAR 2004- MAY 2011

Role: Senior Accountant

Automotive Industry

Responsibilities:

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• Prepared Daily Treasury file to AP invoices and balancing the daily wires to prepare daily and weekly cash reports and reconciliations w bank and SAP Journal entries.
• Handled Bank Reconciliations, Credit card Reconciliations including travel and expense reports

· Worked on the month end, Quarter end and year-end closing procedures. GL parking and posting entries of Bank, Credit card, and Payroll Liabilities using excel V Lookup and Pivot table.

• Prepared and transferred AUC to asset and provided Property tax file with daily AP invoicing and preparing check request for property tax payments
• Prepared financial statements, this included P&L, trial balance and balance sheet

• Supporting the finance team in handling day to day production issues/bugs in all FI and CO module, Reviewed closing and reclassifying the entries for period end, Year End and closing with financial statements consolidation reporting and special project in timely manner.