Training Accounting

PROFILE:

. SAP FICO Consultant and a Cost Accountant-ICWAI with around 9 years of

industry experience which include 7 years of designing, developing and

supporting SAP FI, CO, IHC, Treasury, CFM, and integration of FICO

with SD and MM modules, have extensive experience in configuration and

testing of FI/CO modules-GL, AR, AP, AA, New GL, Revenue Recognition,

Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA). Has been part of Implementations, up

gradations, Development & Production support projects and exposure

includes preparation of Project Blueprint, Configuration, Unit

&Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.

. Throughout my career, had been working in challenging environments and

always delivered the best & high quality solutions. Always achieved

great customer satisfaction.

. Hands on Configuration experience in New GL of ECC 5.0.

. Working knowledge on LSMW, eCATT tools and ABAP workbenches and can

understand ABAP queries.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

. Configuration and testing FI/CO modules - GL, NEW GL, AR, AP, AA,

Treasury, CO-CCA. CO-PCA and CO-PC

. Extensive knowledge in Document splitting and multi currency

valuations

. Strong FICO integration skills with MM, SD, PP and PS modules

. Excellent configuration skills in the areas of Electronic bank

statements, Automatic payment program configurations (APP), Cash

Positioning, Transaction Manager, Lock Box configuration and

Electronic Check deposits.

. Having Knowledge in IFRS and US box and Asia box consolidations.

. Worked extensively on IHC & Corporate Finance Management (CFM)

. Strong knowledge on IDOC's configuration, Report painter, LSMW and

ABAP code review.

. Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and

customer reports.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: APPLE Computers, CA

Oct'07 to till Date

SAP Functional Analyst

Environment: ECC 6.0

It's a Global up gradation from 4.7 to 6.0, Presently working on Upgrade

issues and implemented Revenue Recognition (including contract accounting)

and rollout for Europe, Mexico, Japan, UK, Australia, Singapore and

Hongkong with their respective currencies.

Role includes, identifying the business requirements, Functional analysis,

and creation of prototype for clients, Data mapping and functional

specifications for new functionalities. Preparing the test scenarios,

integration test documents and training documents etc., areas of work

includes:

. Introduced the concept of Contract Accounting for Revenue Recognition.

. Created New GL account so that the flow designed is from Deferred

revenue clearing account to deferred revenue and from they're to

Amortized Revenue.

. Created Customized Utilities to create Contracts based on the

Cumulative billings from the Previous days.

. Created Customized programs by using all the SD tables.

. Worked on BW extraction report for Deferred and Amortized Revenue.

. Done the COPA Configurations for the new Revenue and cost elements.

. Created Customized reports by taking all the tables say VBAK, VBRP

etc.,

. Created Economic life utility and Contract start date and end date

utilities based on the Client requirements.

. Configured Item Category and its settings for periodic and Periodic

Billing along with SD team.

. Customized Revenue Recognition types on Item Category level (OVEP) by

specifying Revenue Recognition type as A (Time based RR to carry out

recognition over a period of time) and D (Time based and Billed

related (length of service after invoice is created) with Accrual

period start recognizing revenue.

. Configured GL accounts for Revenue (P&L account) and Deferred Revenue

(B/S item) in Account determination for SD in VKOA.

. Created GL account for unbilled receivables (if Revenue recognition is

done before Invoicing) and configured in OVUR

. Created end-user training document on Revenue Recognition and provided

end user training.

. Create New Company code in place of the Existing one for the Company

code currency change from USD to MXN

. Configured all the steps as Chart of depreciation, Depreciation areas,

Asset Classes, Periodic Asset postings (RAPERB00 run weekly, early),

Depreciation run (RAPOST2000 run at month ends), Depreciation keys and

tested all the transactions for Acquisitions (including CIP AUC),

Retirements and Transfers)

. Worked on the AUC set up using the Work break down structures and Like

the integration with PS

. Used three types of Assets AOU, Low Cost and Capital Assets.

. Some of the Assets expensed in US GAAP and Capitalized for US Tax, for

this purpose used the SPL and used S accounts to capture the Local

Values.

. For Low valued assets used the AB01 for Capitalization, but for

Capital Assets takes place at GR+IR level.

. Using T code ASKB & SM35 for posting local GAAP Values in S-accounts.

. Performed the year end closing by with these steps: ) Verify previous

FY is closed (OAAQ), B) Perform asset year change (AJRW), C) Close

asset fiscal year (AJAB) and D) generate reports

. Configured Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation are ( for all the

categories) and Asset Classes.

. Performed Legacy Asset Data transfer using AS91 manually.

. Created the utility for FA to accommodate the Japan tax law changes

using all tables ANLA, ANLB and ANLV etc.,

. Worked on Customized reports and User Exits and BTE (Business

Transaction Events)

. Configured Alternative Payee in Vendor Master.

. Configured payment methods FBZP to run the automatic Payment Run to

facilitate the user in using more the one Housing Bank with different

amount Limits.

. Worked on Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) and Workflows.

. Configured Split age of Invoices (OBB9) for assigning more than one

payment terms.

. Conducted Training Sessions for end-users and demonstrated the changes

between the old Legacy system and the functionalities of SAP. Provided

training Material on SAP workflow of GL, AR, AP and PCA to customers.

. Performed unit testing, process testing (FI-MM and FI-SD), integration

testing and created user training manuals for providing end-user

training.

. Worked on Cross Company Code transactions and Audit Trails.

. Configured Two-Eye principle for Vendor, Customer, Co. Code, Cost

element, Cost Center Etc.

. Uploaded the Details and Open items of Vendors and Customers by using

LSMW.

. Integration of FI with SD, MM and PS:

. Configured the necessary settings for PS with AM.

. Created New FSV to make WBS as required entry, Defined Account

Determination for the Project types, Created Screen Layout rules for

Capital investments and Configured Asset class with above settings

. Assigned the GL accounts and activated the account assignment objects

etc.,

. Configured account assignment category for MM by Valuation Class. Used

various processing keys such as GBB and BSX for account determination.

. Configured Account Assignments for MM (OBYC) and SD (VKOA) for

integration purposes.

Accenture Technologies Ltd., Mar'06

- Apr'07

Client: Autokumpu, NL

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

It's a functional upgrade project from 4.7 to 5.0

Completely responsible for all the FI areas and functional specs

preparation and end user trainings etc.,

. Worked on Actual/ Plan Distribution and Assessments using NEW G/L.

. Worked on New G/L, using Two Scenarios, Segment Reporting, and Profit

Center Accounting.

. Activated the New G/L and configured the ledgers for general ledger

accounting according to the business requirement.

. Defined Accounting Principles in New G/L and assigned them to Ledger

groups and valuation area of general ledger accounting

. Configured Automatic Payment Program.

. Configured G/L( Master records, document number ranges, posting period

variants, tolerance groups, and reversal of documents, opening and

closing of Posting Periods, Field Status Variants, Document Types, and

Posting Keys.

. Worked on GR/IR Clearing. Creation of financial statement version and

drill down reports for GL accounts. Configured Accounts Receivables

(AR).

. Configured FAGL3KEH for deriving profit centers in New GL that

replaces 3KEH and 3KEI in classic GL.

. G/L Accounts: Defined Chart of accounts, Assigned company code to

Chart of accounts, Transported chart of accounts, Defined Account

Group, Defined retained earnings account, Assigned number range to

document type, Defined Field status variant, Defined variants for open

posting periods, Open and close posting periods, Assigned variants to

company code, Assigned company code to field status variant, Defined

tolerance groups for employees, Maintained fast entry screens for G/L

account items.

. Tax on Sales / Purchases: Defined Tax Codes for Sales and Purchases,

Automatic Tax Postings - Account Determination.

. Worked on the Reporting using new Financial Accounting segment

reporting.

. Provided training classes on new GL account balance display.

. Provided training to end users on New GL and SAP Business Process.

. Configured Item Category and its settings along with SD team.

. Customized Revenue Recognition type as B (Service based RR to carry

out recognition on basis of specific event) and Accrual period start

for recognizing revenue.

. Configured GL accounts for Revenue (P&L account) and Deferred Revenue

(B/S item) in Account determination for SD in VKOA and G/L for

unbilled receivables (if Revenue recognition is done before Invoicing)

in OVUR.

. Extensively worked on Product Costing, configured the Standard cost

estimates (CK11N) for finished products, Costing run for Materials at

Plant level (CK40N) with the price update (CK24) parameters for

updating the price in Material Master Records.

. Configured the Material Master for Procurement, special procurement

and production versions etc.,

. Worked extensively on Product cost Planning and Cost Object

Controlling for Manufacturing Process.

. Configured the Variance Keys, Valuation Variance for WIP and Scrap and

Target cost versions for updating the values in Profitability

analysis.

. Configured Costing Variant for controlling parameters and Valuation

Variant for defining Parameters for Valuation for Cost estimates using

the standard ones.

. Responsible for configuration of product cost planning and cost object

controlling

. Extensively worked on COPC period ending activities such as WIP

calculations, Variance calculations and settlements of process orders

etc.,

. Configured Result Analysis Keys, Lind ID's, Assignments and Updates

for WIP calculations.

. Trained and assisted users to clean up material master, BOM and

routing master data, in order to reduce the number costing run

messages and improve the accuracy of product standard costs.

. Responsible for Product costing application including Production

orders for actual cost calculation.

. Responsible for training material for Product Costing.

Infosys Technologies Ltd., India

Oct'05 - Mar'06

ABB, NL

SAP Consultant

Environment: Up gradation from 4.0 to 4.7 - Implemented the Profit center

accounting from the scratch.

Responsible for creating the specs for financial statements from profit

center accounting.

. Studied and understood the changes in the standard SAP system for the

new version and prepare change configuration scripts.

. Worked on creation and settlement of AUC from Project Systems.

. Worked on the SOX - Sarbanes Oxley issues.

. Uploaded all the data for Cost centers and Profit centers by using

LSMW.

. Configured the settings for Integration in OBYC, KEI1, KE4I, 3KEH

etc.,

. Worked on Special GL transactions like Bills of Exchange and Down

Payments.

. Created Validations and substitutions for Some Sox Specifications.

. Giving Logics to Technical teams for creating reports to meet the SOX

requirements.

. Involved in writing Functional Specifications for developing an

Interface for mass reversal of required Goods Receipt and for SOX

requirements

. Configuration for automatic clearing & regrouping of GR/IR clearing.

. Implemented Asset Accounting.

. Worked on user exits for PCA with the Technical team.

. Reconfigured all the Tax codes and Tax keys for the purpose of

Taxation and created Validations for blocking old tax codes etc.,

. Verified all the Transaction codes after up gradation in the new

version to test whether they are functioning properly or not.

. Verified all the CO-PC activities by creating Production Order and WIP

calculation, Variances etc.,

. Worked with Conversion team for functional clarifications.

. Created Assessment cycles for creating Data from Old Profit centers to

New Profit Centers.

. Created TWO EYE Principle for capturing the changes in Master data of

Customers and Vendors by using Sensitive fields.

. Separate reports are created to view the Customer, Vendor and GL

balances separately for the Normal and special period postings

depending on document entry date.

. Worked on Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) and Workflows.

. Created User exits to pick the Group key in Purchase Order from Vendor

Master.

. Configured CO-PA module to determine the profitability for based on

products and customer groups.

. Involved in creating ABAP/4 report for Accounts Receivable and

Accounts Payables for providing information on IG Customers / Vendors

and the Business Areas, which will be used for group reporting

purposes.

. Performed all the tests like Unit, Process and integration testing and

provided End user training.

Infor Technologies Ltd., India

Sept'04 to Sept'05

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Completely implementation of SAP R/3 4.7 in Finance and controlling.

Job Description:

. Working closely with the Finance and Accounting department in

designing and configuring the SAP FI/CO module.

. Conducted Interviews with users to gather Requirements and to

understand the Flow of the AS-IS system.

. Interacted with the business analysts and end users to get the user

requirements and business process using ASAP methodology.

. Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed To-Be solution,

Continued to Develop and Update Documentation after Go-Live.

. Resolved Integration Issues with MM and SD while dealing with FI/CO.

. Involved in SD and MM integration in Account Receivable and Accounts

Payable modules.

. Demonstrated the business flow to AP/AR users in various areas like

Maintained cost center categories and configured additional cost

centers.

. Configured Bank Accounts, House Banks, defined Posting Keys for check

deposit.

. Handled Inbound /Outbound Messages using IDOCS.

. Defined Internal Orders, order types, Budget Profile and settlement

profile.

. Configured FI Integration with MM/SD

. Defined Profit Center Hierarchy and Cost Center Hierarchy and also

defined Distribution and Assessment cycles in CO-CCA.

. Configured basic settings and master data of Profit Center Accounting

(CO-PCA).

. Defined Allocation Profile and Settlement profile for Internal Orders.

. Configured Activity Types, Cost Center Categories, Document Numbers,

and Allocations using Cycle-Segment method for Reposting and

Reversing.

. Configured and settled Internal Orders.

. Configured Screen layout rules, automatic account assignments,

financial statement version, validations and substitutions.

. System configuration in the areas of FI-GL, FI-AR and FI AP.

. With the current System and to address them based on the priority.

. Provided Post-Go-Live Support to users, prepared a support document

and helped users in solving their problems in live environment.

. Configured Costing run for the Materials at Plant level in CK40N.

. Configured all the necessary steps like RA key, Lind ID's,

Assignments, Updates for WIP and Variance Keys and all for Variance

Calculations.

. Configured House banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and Electronic

bank Statements.

. Worked on the Configuration of Sample, Recurring, Reversal, and

Parking documents.

. Involved in creation of some new Vendors and Customers as per the

Client's requirement.

. Configured Controlling area and assigned it to the Company Code.

. Created Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Center groups, Cost Centers and

few cost elements as per the Clients request.

. Configured for Treasury and worked on Business Consolidations.

. Worked on AP-MM integration and LIV.

. Conducted Training Sessions for end-users and demonstrated the changes

between the old Legacy system and the functionalities of SAP. Provided

training Material on SAP workflow of GL, AR, AP and PCA to customers.

. Performed unit testing, process testing (FI-MM and FI-SD), integration

testing and created user training manuals for providing end-user

training.

. Worked on Cross Company Code transactions and Audit Trails

Usha Internationals (Pvt.) Ltd., India

Mar'02 - Aug'04

Functional Consultant

Job Description:

. Involved in analyzing the existing system, gathering functional

requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and close the gaps

by providing appropriate solutions.

. Involved in the Configuration of Enterprise Structure, Retained

Earnings Accounts, and General ledger accounts, Vendor accounts and

customer accounts.

. Creating posting period variant, defining retained earnings account,

creating document types. Define tolerance groups for employees

. Integration of Asset Accounting with General Ledger, Defining Posting

Rules to Cost Center, Specify Financial Statement Versions for Asset

Accounting

. Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period

variants, tolerance groups, Financial Statement Versions (FSTV),

reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field

status groups, document types, posting keys, etc

. Configured vendor groups, vendor master records, tolerance limits for

over and under payments, payment terms, and payment methods.

. Maintained accounting for various types of Special G/L accounts, like

down payment request, down payment for vendors as well as customers.

. Involved in the Configuration of European VAT Tax Calculation

Procedures, Structure For Tax Jurisdiction Codes and Tax Codes For Non

-Taxable Transactions.

. Involved in the configuration of Bank Master Data, House Banks and G/L

Accounts in Different Currencies for Each Bank Account, and Created

Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.

. Configured the settings of Enterprise Structure, Account Groups,

Retained Earnings and open item processing for G/L, AR and AP.

. Configured Check Lots, Void Reasons, and Payment Process Using Checks.

. Involved in setting up Validations and Substitutes for FI

applications.

. Involved in the creation of primary and secondary Cost Elements, Cost

Element Groups, and Maintained Cost Element Attributes.

. Worked on Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) and Workflows.

. Worked on the configuration of Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes,

Depreciation Areas, Sub Assets, and Depreciation Methods.

. Created various financial statement versions to support the diverse

reporting requirements

. Worked with client and handled issues with the onsite manager for

clarifications, confirmations and approvals. Configured areas of AP -

house banks, Automatic Payment Program (APP) etc. and areas of AR -

Dunning, Interest Calculation and Credit Management. Integrated

Treasury with A/R, A/P, MM and SD.

. Defined the master records like Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups,

Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups and Standard Hierarchy

. Created Cost Center groups and Cost Centers, Primary and Secondary

Cost Elements.

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