SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Pooja Chaudhari
[email protected]
614-467-0931

SUMMARY

Over 7 years of strong functional experience in SAP R/3 FI/CO including two full life cycle
implementations.
Full life cycle implementation using ASAP Methodology, good understanding of AS IS business
processes, blue print, realization configuration, final preparation unit and integration testing,
user acceptance testing, pre and post Go Live support.
Extensive experience in financial accounting (FI) customization, configuration and testing in
classic general ledger accounting FI/GL and new GL, account payable FI/AP, account receivable
FI/AR, Asset accounting FI/AA in highly complex business environment.
Configured new GL account and performed document splitting.
Extensive implementation experience in controlling (CCA, PCA, COPA, and internal orders)
areas.
Worked on project system implementation focusing mainly on planning, Work in Progressing WIP
allocations, planning, budgeting.
Good grasp of manufacturing and banking business process.
Experienced in configuring Withholding Tax, Withholding Tax Code and Withholding tax formulas.
Sound knowledge of General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS required during
the implementation of FI/CO module. Very good understanding and configuration experience of
New General Ledger and its features including Document Splitting.
Worked extensively with MM and SD team for FI/MM and FI/SD integration in most of the
implementation.
Configuration of House bank .Manual bank statement, bill of exchange, lock box processing and
cash journal.
Experience of data migration tools using LSMW.
Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines. Highly
energetic personality with structured work habits and good personal time management
Able to work within an aggressive and demanding project schedule and environment.
Strengths include excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills, good analytical skills
and logical approach to problem solving.

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunication).

TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP Package: SAP R/3 4.7, SAP (ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0).
Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access,

SAP FICO Configuration Skills:

Enterprise Structure: Company, Company code, business Areas, Functional Areas.

Financial accounting global settings:-Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variant.
General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting key Configurations, Automatic
Account Determination, G/L Display configuration, Tolerance Groups, number ranges and
Document types.
Account Payables: House banks and bank accounts, check lots, Payment program
configuration and vendor master data and vendor group.
Accounts receivable: customer Master records, terms of payment and interest calculation,
Reason codes, Default account assignment, treasury groupings and exchange rates.
Asset accounting: legacy asset uploaded through LSMW
Controlling: Configuration of controlling area, activate components/control indicators, assign
number range to controlling area and maintaining cost center standard hierarchy.
Cost center accounting: Cost center accounting configuration, activity types and statistical key
figures, Assessments, Distributions, reposting and automatic account assignment in CO.
Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern Development, Characteristic Derivation, and
Assigning Values to Value Fields, CO-PA planning, Activation of CO-PA, CO-PA Reporting and
Creating Drilldown Reports.
Profit Center Accounting: Configuration and Customization of Basic Settings, Maintaining Profit
Center Hierarchy, Assignment of CO Objects to Profit Centers, Actual Posting Maintenance,
Assessment of Costs, Planning and Development of Reports
Product Costing: Configuration of Product Costing and SD functionality to support Make to
Order and Make to Stock scenarios.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fiserv, Troy, MI

July 2012 - Present

SAP FI/CO consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 version
Fiserv Inc. is a leading global provider of information management and electronic commerce systems for
the financial services industry, providing integrated technology and services that create value and results
for our clients including banks, credit unions and thrifts, billers, mortgage lenders and leasing companies,
brokerage and investment firms and other business clients
Responsibilities:

Involved in solving configuration issues in General ledger, Accounts receivables and Accounts
Payables.
The bill of exchange configuration and processing in FI-AR by configuring the reconciliation accounts
in the special GL.
Activated New GL and Document splitting functionality; Configured the NEW GL, AR, AP and the
current ledgers being set as leading ledgers and update rules for the other ledgers based on the
report requirements

Creation of House Banks, Check Lots, Check Register, Correspondence and void of Checks in
Accounts Payable (AP).
Accounts Payable (AP) - Worked on foreign currencies for the payment program.
AR-Configured Cash discount lost account and set tolerance limits for customers for posting AR
documents.
Illustrated the flow of data through the lockbox procedure.
Intercompany setting in AP/AR, worked on the process from a Logistics standpoint to the end result
In Finance.
Transfer of master and transactional data through LSMW
Configured Foreign Currency Valuation for G/L, AP and AR
Configured Lock box and lock box processing for incoming checks.
Resolved issues related to FI and MM, SD Integration
Created new value fields and characteristics in profitability analysis. Configured PA Settlement
Structures. Reconciliation of FI and PA by direct transfer of FI Postings.

Recreational Equipment Inc. WA

SAP FI/CO consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 version

Aug 2011 June 2012

Recreational Equipment, Inc. designs, develops, and retails outdoor gear and apparel for camping, hiking,
cycling, urban lifestyle, travel, and general outdoor recreation.
Responsibilities:

Solved many configuration issues in New General Ledger GL, Accounts receivables AR and
Accounts Payables AP.
Defined chart of accounts, performed basic configuration of system in areas of global settings,
organizational structure, company code definition
Configured the special G/L transactions like down payment request (noted item) and down
payment received.
Worked on month-end and year-end processes (Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements).
Activated new Ledger, performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing
Created reason codes for payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to
New G/L accounts.
In Accounts Payable FI-AP, define interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item
interest calculations.
Defined accounts for purchase cash discounts, exchange rate differences, and tolerances for
vendors.
Define posting keys and posting rules for check deposit and Configuration of Automatic Payment
program APP with Check printing
Configured logistics invoice verification price variance and small differences tolerances,
maintained message types and configured vendor specific tolerance group with zero tolerance for
a business unit different from a company code specific tolerance.
Configured automatic payment program for check run, including bank determination, check lot
creation, house bank set up and payment methods.
Transferred the FI-AR and FI-AP to PCA in the Period-End Closing.
Integrated the financial accounting and PCA in relation of Balance sheet items.

Defined vendor account groups and configured vendor data settings, defined payment
methods for vendor and configured automatic payment program APP for outgoing payments in FI-AP

Configured specific settings, asset classes, account determination, depreciation areas, and
settlements for assets under construction in Asset Accounting.


Involved in Accounts Receivable implementation addressing needs for Training,
Configuration & testing of core FI-AR, Customer Master Data conversion.
Provided functional resource on troubleshooting, day-to-day and month-end closing production
support in controlling worked module.

Cooper Standard Automotive, Auburn, IN

SAP FI/CO consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 version

Sep 2009 - July 2011

Cooper Standard is a leading global automotive supplier, offering solutions in the body sealing, fuel, brake
and emissions, thermal management and ant-vibration segment of the industry.
Responsibilities:

FI- GL Configuration of Chart of Accounts, Account Groups creation, Creation of GL Master

records, Opening and closing posting periods, Tolerance groups, Financial Statement version.

FI- AP Configuration of Accounts Payables, Configuration of Automatic payment program,

Down Payment to vendors, bills of exchange payables

FI- AR Configuration of Accounts Receivables, Payment terms, Down payment from

customers, Bill of Exchange Receivables, and Configuration of Dunning procedure.

FI-Bank accounting configuration of house bank, check lots, configuration for manual check
deposit and manual bank statement.
Provided support in unit testing and system testing of GL, AP, AR Modules

Configured Customer and Vendor Account Groups and created respective master Data.

Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.

Maintained bank GL structure with various bank clearing accounts and reason codes for
voided checks

Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups and Assign
Number to groups, configured Automatic and Manual cost element creation.

Interacted with Client to Update Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas.
American Pharmaceutical Partners, Melrose Park, IL
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 4.7

Sep 2008 - Aug 2009

American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. (APP) is a strategically integrated pharmaceutical company that
manufactures market and develops injectable products with a focus on anti-infective.
Responsibilities:

Studied the changes in the standard SAP system for the new version and prepared change
configuration scripts.
Worked on Tax accounting: creation of input and output tax general ledger accounts,
setting up different tax codes in various countries and assigning them to GL accounts.
Resolving user queries in Tax posting journal entries
Worked on configured the ledgers, set up integration with Controlling, and made the general
setting for the fiscal year, the posting periods and the currencies.
Performed table comparisons for major General Ledger (G/L), Accounts Payable (A/P),
Accounts Receivable (A/R), customizing tables to list the differences between 4.7 R/3 and

ECC 6.0 systems.

Configured Lockbox for customer payment processing in A/R.
Worked on the configuration changes for the business processes related to Finance and
Controlling required as per the upgrade to ECC 6.0.
Conducted meetings with Users to gather requirements and to understand the Workflow

Worked through complex SAP process problems, documented the Business Process as
Configured in SAP & Ensured proper Integration with other Modules

Created fiscal year variants and assigned fiscal year variants to various company codes. Defined
posting period variants, field status, number ranges and screen layout rules.

Configured Customer and Vendor Account Groups and created respective master Data.

Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout for them.

Configured and customized Accounts receivable (AR) and Accounts payable (AP) modules
including Terms of payment, Dunning, Interest calculations, country specific and company code
specific payment methods, grouping payments as per due day.

Maintained house banks, bank GL structure with various bank clearing accounts, check lots for
the bank accounts and reason codes for voided checks

Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specify Number

Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination.

In Product Costing, Configured standard Cost estimates in Cost object controlling for production
orders, Configured WIP calculations and variance calculations and maintained settlement
structures.

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Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, OH
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Sep 2007 Aug 2008

The Procter & Gamble Company, also known as P&G, is American multinational consumer goods.
Responsibilities
Creation of Field Status groups and assigned to G/L Masters according to the user requirements.

AP & AR-Configured account groups for Customers and Vendors, defined screen layout per
activity for customers and vendors, configured payment terms, created number ranges for
Vendors/Customers-assign no. ranges to Vendor/Customer account group, tolerance for
Vendors/Customers.
Integration of asset accounting with G/L accounting.
Creation and Maintain the Document types and Document Number Ranges.
Creation of Dunning Programme and Assignment to Customers and Vendors.
Maintain configuration of ECC 5.0 for implementation, enhancement, and production support
purposes.
Delivered value-add enhancements to support business transformation and process
improvement.
Configured system settings for Chart of Accounts, New GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets including
the payment run program, automatic check payment.
Reconciliation of Bank Accounts for Weekly & Monthly wise.
Designed dunning procedures, running/ editing dunning proposal and printing dunning notices
based on customer segmentation.

Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments which included payment
methods, House Bank accounts, Ranking Order of Bank Accounts
Configuration of house banks, electronic bank statement, manual bank statement, and cash
journal in the bank accounting.
Configured specific settings, asset classes, account determination, depreciation areas, and
settlements for assets under construction in Asset Accounting.
Provided functional resource on troubleshooting, day-to-day and month-end closing production
support in controlling worked module.
Configured Vendor Down payment, Instalment payment, Automatic payment program, Check
management, and recurring entries.