Summary:

 Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, A/P, A/R, AA,SPL)

 Worked in Full life cycle implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects.
 Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules -GL, AR, AP, Fixed
Assets, Treasury ,
 Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles
 Reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer
 Through understanding of a customized SAP system
 Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and
integration view points
 In-depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system
design and development and gathering user requirements
 Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User
Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
 Special emphasis on Data 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
 Good knowledge in ABAP debugging techniques to work with user-exits and cross
applications
 Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE &
EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools
 Active member in conducting the team meetings, Customer feedback meetings & self-
assimilation programs.
 Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in
compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).
 Technical Skills
 SAP R/3 FI/CO, 3.0F, 4.6,4.7,ECC 6.0, BW 3.1
 Operating systems Unix, Sun Solaris, Window 95/98/XP, Server 2000/2003
 RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.2.3 / 9.2.0.7/ 10.0.2.1, MS-SQL Server 2000 / 2005, MS Access 200
 SAP R/3 Tools SAP-FICO, Report Painter and Report Writer
 Software Languages SQL, PL/SQL JAVA, Visual Basic 6.0
 Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions
 Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-1.
 Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure
by stepping through the ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
 If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary
change detail to Level 3.
 To have the deepest level of application or product understanding.
 Able to understand both the standard application features (i.e. out of the box
functionality) as well as the detailed components of the customized features.
 Responsible for making changes, migrating them, completing the ticket and
communicating the change to the level 2 support person, who can then resolve and
close the call. Determine problems found by the proactive application monitoring being
 done on a regular basis by the level 2 support person. Therefore, the level 3 person may
also have to apply patches, complete performance tuning, re-create tables or indices,
 Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as
technical) to ensure that the tickets are resolved within the stipulated SLEnsuring that
offshore team resources are properly loaded, help them in solving tickets where
required and ascertain that the tickets are resolved well within the stipulated SLA
timelines set.
 Month end closing activities
 End user training
 Business Signoff for the development changes
 Resolved issues relating to Payment program
 Substitutions for Profit center derivations
 Changes to the POS configuration with respect to financial transactions happening at
stores
 Intercompany reconciliation
 GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues
 Issues related Invoice verification (MIRO)
 Issues related to ERS (MRRL), for the intercompany invoices
 Failed idocs Processing
 Issues related to taxes with respect to VERTEX
 Physical Inventory postings
 Solving Integration issues
 Changes to conditions type and pricing procedure for the additional posting for the
intercompany transactions
 Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal
year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and
Tolerance Groups.
 Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger , Performed document splitting , Parallel
Accounting and periodic processing
 Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
 Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI with MM and SD
 Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts.
 Configuration of Asset Accounting Module Integrating with PS Module
 In Project Systems defined the Project coding mask, created the project file and status
profile
 Maintained the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability control
 Defining Settlement Rules and creating Selection Variants
 Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
 Configured and Customized CO – General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element
Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
 In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules,
internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost.
Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution
 Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element
groups, cost centers.
 Solved the Post Production issues related to SD,MM ,FI,CO,and PP
 General Ledger
 Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user
meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the
functional requirements document
 Designing business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple
functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP –
Finance (FI)) and controlling (CO) modules
 Optimized integration of business process within FI, TR, CO, MM, SD, and PS modules.
 Developed complex business design for all FI/TR/CO process incorporating gaps,
interfaces, reports, enhancements and data conversions from the legacy system
 Configured General Ledger – Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges
and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to
master files
 Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels. Defined
fiscal year variant, posting period variant, customized field status variant, customized
line layout, sort variant, and total variant
 Configured and customized validations and substitution rules for documents, recurring
entries, correspondence, taxes, and currencies
 Configured interest calculation on account balances and line items
 Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts
in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)
 Configured Lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format
 Configured and Customized Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment
Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges
 Configured and Customized Cash Budget Management including commitment
management
 Configured and customized Asset Accounting Module – Copied country specific chart of
Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account
determinations, screen layout key, allocate number ranges to assets classes , Down
Payment configuration for Assets, and uploading of assets from Oracle Financials
(Legacy) to SAP
 Defining the classes of assets, capitalization procedures and depreciation calculations.
The actual procurement of assets, inter / intra-company transfer of assets, asset
retirements, asset shutdowns and asset capitalizations are also designed to include all
the possible business scenarios. The accounting and legal aspect of the asset
management is also in-built while designing the system
 Created work list for different user groups
 Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using the report writer and
report painter in CO-PA
 Helped in month end and year closing activities
 Accounts Payable / Receivable
 Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \
balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account
balance calculation on account balances / line items
 Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference,
differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, exchange rate losses and
then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency
valuations
 Created and defined credit control areas to company code including pre-defined credit
limits for customers
 Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each
company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due
interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items. Report
specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report,
technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing
 Involved in the basic implementation and development of Blue Prints for the entire
project lifecycle related to MM module covering the full “Procure to Pay” business
process.
 Transaction Data Configuration & Processing Invoice Verification (MIRO – LIV):
Maintained Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits, Reductions in invoice, credit memos and
Evaluated receipt settlements (ERS).
 Configured and customized integration links between FI/CO/SD/MM/PP to optimize
transaction processing
 Developed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis to
ensure successful execution of the plan
 Controlling Module:
 Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element
Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders,
Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules
 Maintained Controlling area settings and made hierarchy and other assignments
 In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and secondary Cost elements, created Cost
Element Groups, Configured the reconciliation ledgers
 In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) created the cost centers and maintained the
Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities,
Statistical Key Figures
 Developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment to
allocate manufacturing overhead cost to cost objects. Configured settlements, cost
splits for Activity Price calculations. Setup internal orders and cost collector
configuration
 Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements
and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost center, activities,
statistical key figures and cost element planning
 In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order
type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also
 set up tolerances for budget cost. defined the settlement rules , and used internal order
with AUC /Capital investment projects ,
 In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy
profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc and
extracted reports using PCA
 Customized General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting
and Special Purpose Ledger Sub Modules in FI Module.
 Maintained Automatic Account Determination for MM & SD Modules & Revenue
Recognition
 Maintained Controlling areas and made assignments
 Configuring and Customizing Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal
Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules in CO
 In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) configured and customized the Standard Hierarchy
for cost centers, maintained Activities, Statistical Key Figures, developed cost sheet,
cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment of overhead costs.
Configured and customized the settlement structures, cost splits for activity price
calculations
 Used LSMW tool for data conversion, field mapping and uploading data
 In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating concern, configured costing
based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value
field, profitability segments used in profitability analysis
 Configured the derivative structures and rule for characteristics. Defined both basic
reports and form reports for the business units by profit centers to analyze the profit at
customer and product levels. Developed multiple reports for the reporting of
profitability. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-PC/CO-IO/FI and
MM, and carried out extraction of data from copa to SAP BW system
 Mapped the processes onto the SAP system and also prepared the “To-be processes”
document.
 Configured the FI and CO settings on the development server and transported onto the
testing and ultimately to the production server after successful testing by users.
 Configured Financial Accounting Global settings: Key settings being Company Code,
Business Areas, Fiscal Year Variant, Document Types, and Document No. Ranges,
Validations, Tax on Sales and Purchases.
 Configured Extended Withholding Tax Settings.
 G/L: Masters, and in business transactions-open item clearing, integration, Validations,
 FI-AR, FI-AP: Masters, Open Item processing settings.
 Transactions – Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos (terms of payment), Outgoing Payment,
Incoming Payment, Dunning, Open item Clearing,
 Down-payment received, Down-payment made, Bill of Exchange
 Special G/L accounts (other reconciliation accounts).
 Configuration of Interest Calculation
 Credit Management settings - Key areas being Credit Control Areas, Risk Categories.
 Bank Accounting: House Banks. Transactions- Check Deposit, Payment Transactions
(manual bank statement)
 Controlling:
 General Controlling – Controlling Area.
 Configured Cost Element Accounting
 Cost Center Accounting – Enterprise organization, Master data – Cost Centers, Activity
types, etc.
 Internal Orders – Order master data – Order types, Settlement, Settlement profile, etc.
 Product Costing: Performed material costing with cost estimate using quantity structure.
Costing runs with bifurcation into variable and fixed cost. Analyzed costing runs.
Analyzed BOM and materials type. Inventory valuation.
 Tested the settings on the development server and transported the settings onto the
testing server for user testing and confirmation, and transported into the production
server after user confirmation.
 Creating custom Reports on AR and AP by giving functional specifications to the ABAP
team for development.
 Data-up load, by using ABAP designed BDC programs, Account assignment modules &
LSMW.
 Documented the processes using standard templates.
 Imparted User-training on AR and AP processes.
 Reporting to Managers of Accounts and Distributions Departments.
 Preparing and maintaining books of accounts and statutory requirements.
 Preparations of age wise reports of Debtors and creditors preparations of MIS Reports.
 Reconciliation’s of stock and inventory
 Preparation of costing reports and meeting the requirements of external an internal
auditors