Overview

• 13 years of Total Experience with 6 years of experience in Finance and Accounting (as SAP user for 2 Years) and 7 years of experience in SAP FICO, working with user community understanding their business needs and developing strategies to implement them and involved in SAP - FICO Implementation, support and maintenance projects.
• Experience in three full life cycle implementations of SAP FICO
• Experience in Five support, maintenance and up gradation projects of SAP FICO
• Experience in development of project documentation, testing materials and execution, training materials, requirements gathering including downstream and upstream interface requirements and adhering to a project management methodology.
• Sound knowledge of ECCS functionality in creating consolidation structures, consolidation units, Rollouts, creation of elimination tasks.
• Sound knowledge of creating Special purpose Ledgers based on Business requirements.
• Sound knowledge of Cost Center Accounting/Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis Secondary cost elements, Distribution & assessment cycles, Variances, and other CO elements, Profitability Analysis
• Develop necessary specifications and modifications to meet and exceed customer requirements, needs and objectives.
• Involved in client training, preparation of Configuration documents, blue prints, end user documents in the area of Finance module.
• Sound knowledge of monitoring Control-M Jobs, Idocs, Exchange Rates
• Good team player, strong interpersonal and communication skills combined with self-motivation, initiative and the ability to think outside the box.

Skills

• Financial Accounting: General Ledger, Special Purpose Ledger, New GL, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Cash Management and Liquidity Forecast, Bank Accounting, Lock Box Processing, foreign currency Transactions, Tax Configuration, Credit Management, Investment Management, Project Systems, LIV, ECCS and integration of FI with MM, SD, monitoring period end jobs, IDOCS, developing customized reports, applying OSS notes for functional configuration.
• Controlling: Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting, Internal order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting Product Costing and Profitability Analysis

SUMMARY

SAP EXPERIENCE

• Confidential, from
• Confidential, from 28. .12.2007
• Confidential, from 29. .05.2007.
• Confidential, from 01. .08.2005

NON SAP EXPERIENCE

• Midwest Granite Private Limited, Hyderabad - As Deputy Manager Finance & Accounts from 07. .09.2002.
• Navateja Marketing Private Limited, Hyderabad - As Group Accounts Manager (Fin & Accts) from 20. .2001

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Support Partner: IBM

Role: Team Lead- SAP FICO Consultant

I was contracted by IBM to provide ongoing support as support lead for FI/CO including CO-PA, PCA, IM, AM, ECCS and for multi-currency issues, period and fiscal year closing.

• Created New Consolidation Structure, new Consolidation units, Deconsolidation Structure, elimination Tasks for Intercompany Eliminations in ECCS.
• Created Special Purpose Ledger based on Fiscal Year Calendar.
• Supporting and configuring for Logistics invoice verification.
• Supporting issues for Fixed Assets and configured End to End solution for Depreciation Impairment project across all company codes (30000 Assets), Depreciation forecast reports, Automatic Intercompany transfer of assets configuration period and year end closing for multiple company codes and multiple depreciation areas.
• Data Conversion of Fixed Assets -Intercompany Asset Transfer
• Created Asset Transfer Variant, Asset field group rules.
• In charge of Hudson project from FICO Area for creation of New Company codes.
• Provided support for Credit Management, Control-M Jobs, Idocs. Interacting with Bank of America and Bloomberg for sending missing Bank files and Exchange Rates. Worked on Interfaces with Atex and Ariaba ( Employee expenses)s
• Provide support for Automatic Payment programs and resolving the issues by analyzing error logs
• Interaction with Client Business Users to analyze and solve issues relating to Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, COPA problems, intercompany billing issues, EBS, Lock box processing, Project Systems, Investment Management.
• Created planning versions, plan layouts, Plan and actual allocation cycles.
• Performance tuning of FICO Customized reports. Interaction with Client Business users and created ABAP Queries for Extracting Journal Entries Data for Statutory Requirements.
• Support lead for period end and Year End closing process for all modules.
• Resolved issues while implementing support packs
• Workflow issues for payment request, project systems and fixed assets.
• Inter- company transactions configuration set up and support issues.
• Configured Electronic bank statements for new company codes. Configured new payment terms for Vendors and customers based on business requirement.
• Developed functional specifications for Forms, Creating and Modifying Report painter reports for Consolidation, Interfaces, Conversion and Enhancements and coordinate with technical team to ensure proper implementation of such components
• Meet internal auditors for issues relating to SOX compliance and explain those controls in SAP.
• Meet regularly with Business Owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.

Version: 4.6C

Confidential, Newport Beach, CA

SAP FICO - Business System Analyst

• During this short term assignment to fill the gap of permanent employee recruitment I am responsible for Support issues relating to Project Systems, Fixed Asset, Credit Management, and Lockbox Processing. Monitoring Automatic Payment programs and resolving the issues by analyzing error logs
• Supporting issues relating to Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, COPA problems
• Responsible for revising of Blue Prints and Configuration documents for FICO
• Monitoring month end closing Process and scheduling and execution of jobs.
• Performance tuning of FICO Customized reports and given functional specifications to ABAP team for Payroll JV uploads, Automatic Credit Control Letters for Customers, Inventory Reports and coordinate with technical team to ensure proper implementation of such components

Version: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Frisco, TX Support Partner: Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant-Team Lead for Application support

As part of setting up internal SAP Team with the support of Xavient information Systems Inc, I have been assigned to work as team lead for the FICO module support, revising of Configuration documents for Project Systems and Investment Management, Performance tuning of FICO Customized reports in reducing the report running durations and Monitoring month end closing Process. Due to budget and constraints and change of plan to move the support to off-shore my job ended in short period.

Version: 4.7

Implementation Partner: IBM

Role: SAP FICO Consultant-Team Lead for Application support

The project covered the entire cycle of understanding the existing structure and business processes of the organization relating the same with the standard processes of SAP, reorganizing the existing structure and processes and implementing and upgrading the same in the ECC 6.0 System by way of configuration and customization and developing a plan for support.

• The scope of work included gap analysis, configuration, and modifications to suit the client\'s requirements, user documentation, and user training.
• Analyzing the ongoing implementation and giving shadow support to implementation team members. Defining unit and integrating testing plans, testing scripts, enhancements, custom modifications and interfaces to be developed. Troubleshooting functional issues during implementation, testing, and post-Go live support.
• Collaborating with technical team to design solutions, define technical design, testing plans, etc.
• Analyzing the existing program documentation and Developed functional specifications for Forms, Reports, Interfaces, and Enhancements and coordinate with ABAP team to ensure proper implementation of such components
• Functional specifications, Customization documents and making necessary improvements
• Preparing training plan and preparing Business process documents and Application Information documents
• New GL Configuration Testing

Version: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Canada, Indonesia & US

Implementation Partner: IBM

Role: SAP FICO Consultant-Team Lead for Application support

The Project covers, Rollouts, Implementations, Changes, Support and Functionality extensions for US, Canada, Belgium and Indonesia.

• I am assigned to Crompton Greaves Project and responsible for analyzing the ongoing implementation in New GL and support to team members in defining ledgers for GL, define currencies for leading ledger, define and activate non-leading ledger, assign scenarios and customer fields to ledgers, define ledger group, activate new GL accounting, define accounting principles and assign to ledger groups, define variants for real-time integration and assign to company code, define document number ranges for GL view (posting only to specific ledger), define document types for posting only to non leading ledgers,configuring document splitting, assigning default profit center to accounts, define work list for exchange rate entry, assign exchange rate to work list, configuring assessment and distribution in new GL, deactivate update of classic GL.
• Defining unit and integrating testing plans, testing scripts, enhancements, custom modifications and interfaces to be developed.
• Analyzing the documentation, giving functional specifications to ABAP team for developing new reports, Customization documents and making necessary improvements.
• Post-go live and initial production support for all accounting areas (FI and CO), preparation and reporting issues (including creation of new reports and training on report painter), foreign currency valuation, trouble shooting and "fire-fighting". Due to budget restrictions and due to the fact there were no more outstanding issues - my job ended successfully after having closed the second period after go-life.

Version: ECC 6.0

Confidential, Nederland's, US, Latin America & Asia

Implementation Partner: Confidential

SAP implementation covering projects, Rollouts, Implementations, Changes, Support and Functionality extensions for over 100 sites across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas across Business Functions and Services for Philips Consumer Electronics

SAP FICO Consultant-Team Lead for Application Support.

• Team Lead for SAP Application Support for entire global operations of Philips and responsible for transition.
• Preparing training plan and providing SAP application training for team members and on the Application support Procedures and meeting SLAs of the client
• Monitoring of Tickets and allocating application support calls to entire team
• Training team members on Land Scape, Peregrine support Tool, Demand and supply Module tool the Client
• Provide support for Credit Management, Lockbox Processing, Deduction Management, and Dispute Management related issues.
• Monitoring Automatic Payment programs and resolving the issues by analyzing error logs
• Provide support and solve Invoice and Billing problem in AR, GL, AP, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting, COPA, and Fixed Asset problems.
• Monitoring and Scheduling Batch jobs, IDOCS, month end closing Process.

Role: Team member for Change Requests

• Worked in enhancements, Change Requests and Application support for Philips Consumer Electronics. Scope Study relating to CRS.
• Giving functional specifications to ABAP team for developing new reports and BDC Programmes, Developed and modifying the functional specifications for Jet Forms, Reports, Interfaces, and Enhancements and coordinate with technical team to ensure proper implementation of such components
• Unit testing, Integration testing and Profile testing.
• After go live support for all Application Change Management and OSS Notes related support issues.
• Involved in customization of IBAN for new countries by applying OSS notes.
• Prepared new reports for Master Data validation of Customer Account assignments, Hedging reports for financial purposes.
• Configuring New Company codes for US Companies.
• Configuring New Depreciation Keys, House Banks, Withholding Tax Codes,
• Modifying Jet Forms and SAP scripts based on Business requirements and giving functional specifications to ABAP team members to make necessary changes.
• Developed new reports making use of BAPIs and Functional modules.
• Sound debugging and dump analysis knowledge

Version: SAP 4.6C

Confidential, India

Implementation Partner: Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

New Implementation project: Migration from Sun Accounting system to SAP

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

• Analyzing of the existing system for, as-is study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Responsible for Blue Print design of FICO Area
• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures.
• Identifying and configuring currencies in which accounts are to be managed at Company code level.
• Defining and Assignment of Posting Period Variant, Fiscal year and Field status Variant.
• Defining Taxation Procedure and Tax Codes
• Configuration of GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting

Configuration of Cash Management and Liquidity Forecast

• Defining Value Date, Source Symbols, Master Data, Planning Level and Planning Group
• Maintain Groupings, Define Cash Management Account Name, Maintain Structure and Define Distribution Function
• Define Manual Planning, Number Ranges, Planning Types and specify Blocked Levels
• Define Cash Concentration, Intermediate Account, Clearing Accounts, and Amounts and define Payment Methods for Payment Requests reasons.
• Specify steps for reorganizing Cash Management and to prepare for Production Start up and Data setup

Responsibilities in CO Module:

• Cost Element Accounting created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element Groups.
• Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, distribution and assessment,. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• Internal Orders for Assets. Maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc
• Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, profit center groups, dummy profit centers; profit center hierarchy. Assigned profit center to the respective cost centers, material master in profit center hierarchy and transferred revenue accounts and balance sheet accounts to profit centers in profit center hierarchy.

Version: ECC 5.0

Midwest SAP implementation Project - India

Implementation Partner: Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

SAP R/3 Implementation and upgrade at Midwest

The project covers the entire reorganizing the existing structure and processes and implementing the same in the R/3 System by way of configuration and customization. Midwest implemented SAP many years ago. Recent purchases and subsequent integration of new businesses and an upgrade from release 3.1 to 4.6c increased the workload of the support groups. I am responsible to manage, coordinate, and/or implement a set of new company codes in the group in the areas of

SAP FICO Consultant

• Analyzing of the existing system for, as-is study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.
• Responsible for Blue Print design of FICO Area
• Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures.
• Identifying and configuring currencies in which accounts are to be managed at Company code level.
• Defining and Assignment of Posting Period Variant, Fiscal year and Field status Variant.
• Defining Taxation Procedure and Tax Codes
• Configuration of GL, Asset Accounting
• Configuration of A/R and A/P module: Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, line layout configuration fort sort key, terms of payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item clearing, reason codes configuration, Payment Terms and Automatic Payment Program.
• Defined house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots.
• Configured extended withholding tax setup.

Responsibilities in CO Module:

• Cost Element Accounting and Cost Center Accounting: Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element Groups. Created cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, distribution and assessment,. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile. Allocation Cycles creation.
• Internal Orders for Assets. Maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc

Version: SAP 4.6C

Implementation Partner: Confidential

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

The project covers the Mohan Breweries & Distilleries Ltd Companies Implementation of business processes of the organization relating the same with the standard processes of SAP, reorganizing the existing structure and processes and implementing the same in the R/3 System by way of configuration, customization and Application Support.

• Configuration of GL and Asset Accounting
• Configuration of A/R and A/P module: Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, line layout configuration fort sort key, terms of payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item clearing, reason codes configuration, Payment Terms and Automatic Payment Program.
• Defined house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots.
• Configured extended withholding tax setup
• Post go-live support

Version: SAP R/3 4.6B

Confidential

Deputy Manager Finance & Accounts and SAP Business user

• Overall in charge of Accounts, Finance, Balance sheet preparation, Tax Planning, Central Excise matters.
• Extracting Financial Statements for Management Reporting and Designing Financial Statement Versions
• Updating Planning Data and Analysis of Variances Planned and Budget Data with Actual
• Solving the problems of users as first Level Support Manager
• Interacting with Senior Management and gathering the information.
• Closing of Financial Accounts and responsible for Period end and Year end closing procedures

Confidential

Manager Accounts

• Overall in charge of Accounts, Finance, Balance sheet preparation, Tax Planning, Central Excise matters. Was responsible for developing Internal Control Systems and MIS reports, Preparation of branch accounts for our principal companies in MFG Package, submission of budgets and variance analysis reports for expenses and sales.
• Established branches for the principal companies to meet their requirements. During tenure as Manager Accounts our branch received Speed of light award for executing Sales orders with in lead-time from GE Lighting India Limited.
• Managed Tata Chemicals Limited Branch in Andhra Pradesh and was responsible for generating of Sales Invoices in SAP Package, authorized to attend all excise, Sales tax matters on behalf of Tata Chemicals Ltd for their branch in Andhra Pradesh.