Profile

Jagan is a seasoned SAP FI/CO functional consultant with an excellent blend of business and technical skills. High caliber presentation and interpersonal skills providing solutions in all Finance and controlling sub modules.
9 years of IT experience which includes 5+ years of SAP configuration, implementation and testing experience with an emphasis on Finance and Controlling Modules
Multiple full cycle SAP implementation experience including Business Process Re-engineering, feasibility analysis, configuration, testing and integration of FI/CO with SD,MM,PP and PS.
Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business processes for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions.
Involved in several SAP implementations including analysis, design, configuration, training and Support involving offshore teams.
And effectively communicating with the end users to understand process flow and suggest improvements.

Functional
Specializes in configuration of fixed assets, Cost Center accounting, Profit center accounting, Product costing and Profitability analysis modules along with new general ledger functionality and accounts receivables / payables
In depth technical knowledge for writing functional specifications required to develop custom enhancements whenever native SAP solutions doesn't satisfy the customer business requirements
Expert in EDI, ALE, Idocs and cross functional applications
Specializes in GAP analysis

Career Experience

Confidential, Feb'10 to till date
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP ECC FI CO Functional Lead

Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Provide requirement information to segregate the configuration , transactional data and master data for a company spinoff and create documentation for RFP
• Prepare documentation of entire FICO functionality used in current SAP System and gather the information about the current interfaces used and document the flow of data
• Analyze the current master data and transactional data and provide information on how to split the data to meet the organizational needs
• Provide the list of all tables with master data and transactional data in SAP

Confidential Jan'09 to Jan'10
Client: Confidential, Duration: 12 Months
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP ECC FI CO Functional Lead

Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Responsible for overall design and delivery of FICO module and integration with other modules implemented in the project.
• Facilitating the creation and completion of the FICO Blueprint and Functional Specifications with the integration points with other SAP Modules and GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations
• Assist in configuring and developing the overall architecture for the financial processes Transform that architecture into discrete information technology deliverables including process scripts, I/T requirement definitions, test script definition, and user education.
• Responsible for configuration of settlement profiles for project systems , customer service orders and production orders
• Worked extensively on configuration of fixed assets, product cost controlling and profitability analysis functionality
• Worked on Project systems integration with controlling
• Configured the change requests as per requirement and created Functional Specifications for the new Reports.
• Define and load plan allocation rules, assist in excel upload of Cost center expenses/budget, activity rates, load overhead application rates, Create and maintain Profit centers, monitor dummy and unassigned Profit centers, process profit center realignments, Assist in Month end closing
• Trained and delegated work to the offshore team on various tasks

Confidential, Oct'08 to Dec'08
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP ECC FI CO Functional Consultant

• Created all financial statements required for the business executives
• Supported legacy asset data migration including analysis of legacy data and configuration of SAP
• Configure profitability analysis flow of values from sales and create reports
• Support the junior level team in offshore site in creating documentation and also in configuration

Confidential, Apr'08 to Oct'08
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP ECC FI CO Functional Consultant

• Worked on requirements gathering and GAP analysis with super users
• Understand the legacy system and process and create new user guides accordingly in SAP
• Responsible for design and configuration of fixed assets, cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting and profitability analysis modules
• Support the migration of 7 years data in to SAP including creating of new internal orders and data mapping and conversions
• Help in closing the all the months in SAP prior to go live and make the system ready for day to day activities from day one.
• Reported tasks & authorization profiles to fit new requirements and SOX compliance
• Developed Functional Specifications for positive pay file and helped in create the program which is reused in all other implementations
• Involved in all the test phases unit testing, integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) .Provided informative documentation to help the end users.
• Involved in go-live phase and provided post live support in clearing the tickets. Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and system requirements

Confidential, Dec'07 to Mar'08
Client: Confidential, 4 Months
Industry: Wholesale
Job Title: SAP R/3 FI CO Functional Consultant
Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Support the users on existing SAP ECC 6.0 platform and understand the configuration done and help resolve the issues and tickets raised during day to day operations
• Understand and correct the CO-PA configuration already implemented in the system and modify it to the business requirements
• Create New COPA reports using report painter
• Configure new value fields to support product costing functionality
• Resolve the tickets raised by the user including VISTEX integration functionality and chargeback functionality
• Create functional specifications to support the new reports requested by business team

Confidential, Raleigh NCJun'07 to Nov'07
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP R/3 FI CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Worked closely with business users in gathering business requirements and creating detailed blue print.
• Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed the To-be solution.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Worked on the solution for new JVR Marketing Branch indicator to support two different sets of users to use the same system without the conflict of roles and data visibility
• Created New master data updates (i.e. new customer master numbers, new AWF, reconciliation accounts, extend vendor to new plant, new country numbers)
• Worked on S & A profile changes and tested them
• Extended materials and updated new standard costs in the new plant
• Worked on creation of new returns process for JVR
• Defined Layouts and Variants for new reports needed to support the business.

Confidential, Raleigh NC Nov'06 to May'07
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP R/3 FI CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Worked closely with the business users in gathering business requirements and creating detailed blue print.
• Create a global template for the procurement building blocks using Lenovo's China business model and SAP (native) Best Practices as the base.
• Localization changes to the template driven by regulatory or statutory requirements. Worked on designing a global Direct Procurement and Manufacturing Site Procurement for Lenovo which maximize reuse of procurement building blocks while leveraging the design points of S & D, Business Warehouse and Global Logistics..
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.
• Created PDD (Process design Document) for electronic invoicing using the IMS functionality in SRM
• Created Functional Specifications Document for various reports and programs including EDI invoice reject in IMS and in ECC, ERS invoice report by vendor,
• Worked extensively for defining a returns procedure for Lenovo
• Reviewed the PDD's with Super Users and client managers and got the approval for the solution designed

Achievements

• Created a prototype for demonstrating the functionality for IMS

Confidential, Raleigh NC Jun'06 to Oct'06
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP R/3 FI CO Functional Consultant
Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Assist the existing SAP functional team in documentation and test execution to facilitate the timely delivery of the project
• Worked extensively on automation of electronic, web based and paper invoice processing
• Worked on SRM integration with ECC 5.0
• Resolved issues with payment program and EDI invoicing
• Post go-live support, error resolution, customer support

Confidential, Raleigh NC Nov'04 to May'06
Client: Confidential
Industry: Confidential
Job Title: SAP R/3 FI CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Worked on Segmentation of SAP system into 2 separate instances
• Coordinated with SAP for cloning the existing environments for FI/CO activities.
• Worked on general ledger master data migration and transactional data migration and standard cost updates in the newly cloned environments
• Provided on-site support in china for inventory conversion
• Provide day to day support and functionality updates for company code in Mexico ,Singapore and Scotland
• Supported outbound and inbound interfaces
• Assisted the Site Super Users in preparation of test scenarios and testing including Authorization management.
• Worked with super users at site during the Implementation & supported in solving day-to-day problems in Finance and Cost accounting, Inventory departments Recurring entry posting, GR/IR Clearing account etc.,
• Define and load plan allocation rules, Calculate and load Cost center expenses/budget, Inter-company pricing, load overhead application rates, Freight calculations, Create and maintain Profit centers, monitor dummy and unassigned Profit centers, process profit center realignments, Assist in Month end closing

Confidential, Jul'01-Oct'04
Job Title: Junior Auditor

• Supported inventory and audit process using oracle DB applications
• Provide onsite support and troubleshoot the applications.

Confidential, Oct'00-Jun'01
Job Title: Junior Programmer 9 Months

Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Worked as a IT trainee
• Designed, developed and implemented manufacturing application for the designing of electrical components using Visual C++, C++, and Object Oriented Programming

Education: Bachelor in technology

Languages: English