Experience Summary:

. Total * plus years of experience in Financial Services and

Management including over five years of experience in SAP design,

development & implementation, Testing for Finance, Insurance,

Banking, Energy and Utilities, Airways and other IT Industries

. Worked in Full life cycle implementations in FS-CD/FS-CM module

with direct client Interaction at onsite

. Have very strong Functional Skills & Specialist in Collections

and Disbursement (FS-CD) module

. Good expertise of FSCD Master Data, Billing, Posting & Documents,

Dunning and Correspondence, Clearing & Payment Lots, Payment

Program, Returns, Refunds process Installment Plans, Pay plans

and Broker Collections.

. Worked on Solution Design Document, Functional Specification

Document, Development, Unit testing, Enhancements, and Support &

Maintenance

. Designed Custom development/Reports based on Business

requirement.

. Expertise in customization and Testing of FS-CD, FI-GL, A/P A/R

and Bank Accounting

. Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO

modules -GL, AR, AP, FICA(Contract Accounting),Fixed Assets,

Treasury, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) Product costing and Special

purpose Ledger

. Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross

functional and integration view points

. In-depth knowledge in ASAP methodology, system design and

development and gathering user requirements

. Experience in Blueprint, Configuration documents, Unit test

plans, Unit test scripts, Regression testing, User Acceptance and

Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production

support.

. Excellent exposure on working Onsite-Offshore Model, Excellent

Communication & Resource and Project Management skills

SAP EXPERTISE

. Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities of FS-

CD module and FSCM module including organization structure,

Master data set up, Batch job Processing, Clearing, Payment

Plans, Returns, Dunning, Correspondence, Payment Program, Write

off, BRF, Incident types and Benefits types.

. Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities of FI

module including organization structure, Global Settings, General

Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR),

Bank Accounting. Cost Element Accounting & Cost Center

Accounting.

. Strong functional skills in Accounting, Finance, Insurance,

Taxation & Travel Management.

. FS-CD related ABAP enhancements in the areas of Recoveries in

Claims management system.

. Have worked on FQEVENTS, user exist to meet the Business

requirements

. Very good understanding of the full lifecycle of the

implementation (ASAP implementation methodology), right from the

conception stage to go-live and support activity

. Experience on Technical aspect of SAP-ABAP Programming, Reporting

(Report/Dialog/ALV), SAP Script, LSMW, BDC, BAPI, BADI, User

Exit, Workflow, IDOC and ABAP queries.

Professional & Educational Qualifications:

. Federal Income Taxation from Devry University, USA with 4.00

GPA

. C A PE-II from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

. Bachelor of Commerce from Mangalore University.

Certification and Training:

. Trained on FS-CD (Collections and Disbursement) from SAP

India, Bangalore

. Trained on FI-CA (Contract accounts Receivable and payable)

. Trained on FI-CO (Wipro Internal)

. Qualified Six Sigma 'Green Belt'

. Diploma in Computer Application from Manipal Institute of

Computer Education, Udupi.

Skills and Exposure:

. Financial Services -Collections and Disbursement System

. Financial Services -Claims Management System and BW system

. Financial Services - Supply Chain Management)(Biller Direct,

Dispute Management)

. Configuration & Testing of SAP FICO system.

. End User Experience in FI, HR-Payroll and Time Management

System.

. Testing tool: Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Test Director,

Peregrine Service system.

. Working knowledge and Exposure to Main Frame system, E-agent

Application

IT EXPERIENCE

. Accenture, San Francisco, USA (Nov 15th 2010 till date

. WIPRO Technologies, Bangalore, India (July-12th 2004 till Nov

12th 2010)

Professional Experience and Project Details

. Project I

Company Accenture, USA

Client Fireman Fund Insurance Company, Novato, CA

Project Billing Implementation Project

Duration Nov 15th 2010 till date

Designation Process Lead and Senior FS-CD Consultant

Domain Insurance, Finance (BFSI)

Technologies SAP ECC 6.0, Mercury Quality Center

Contribution Involved in Functional Verification Testing,

responsible for writing test plans, scripts,

pre-requisites, test data etc

Supporting Business user in User acceptance

testing

Resolving the defects raised during functional

verification testing.

Creation of Business partner master data, Contract

account Master data and Insurance object master

data and updating payment plan items

Worked on configuration of Clearing process,

creation of clearing variants, clearing

characteristic and testing of entire clearing

logic.

Working with the on-site technical folks and

off-shore team for new project change requirements

Effort estimation for design, build and testing

Test plan preparation, Review of test plans, unit

& integration testing.

Instrumental in end of end business process

testing

. Project II

Company Wipro Technologies

Client Farmers Insurance Group, Los Angeles USA

Project Billing Simplification and Rationalization

project, Farmers all Line Business Releases

Duration March 2009 till date

Designation FS-CD Consultant and Process Lead

Domain Insurance, Finance (BFSI)

Technologies SAP ECC 6.0, Mercury Quality Center, Main Frame

system, Output Management System

Contribution Understanding the Current Business Process and

preparing study design document.

Conducted a study of the existing business

practices of FIG (Farmers Insurance Group) and

prepared a business blueprint mapping the AS-IS

processes to TO-BE processes in FS-CD.

Report any functional gaps in the Business

Requirement Index and suggest the ways and means

to bridge these gaps to improve business

processes.

Worked on configuration of Account creation

variants, Insurance object and Contract Account

Category, Account determination to suit the

business processes of FIG.

Configuration for statistical posting business

process

Configuration of Payments,Returns, Dunning

Procedure, Dunning activities and Correspondence

types.

Customized Return lot business process to suit

customer business process with third party

Interfaces.

Interaction with SAP to resolve complex issues and

get SAP notes for SAP standard issues.

Test plan preparation, Review of test plans, unit

& integration testing.

Instrumental in end of end business process

testing including scenarios like Receivables,

payments, cancellation of policies, Reinstatement,

Renewal, Moves scenarios, Transfer posting,

refunds, returns lot process

Worked on development of Paid in full business

process to build a interface with upstream systems

Working with the on-site technical folks and

off-shore team for functional enhancements &

application interface development and delivery

Development of functional specifications &

extraction logic for new interface & ABAP Custom

reports

Prepared Configuration document, End User Training

documents

Provide thought leadership for development of

testing approach and execution of unit and

functional testing

. Project III

Company Wipro Technologies

Client Lloyds TSB General Insurance, UK

Project Support and Maintenance, Recoveries Implementation

Projects, Enhancements

Duration Oct 2007 till March 2009

Designation FS-CD, FI Consultant

Domain Banking and Insurance, Finance (BFSI)

Technologies SAP 4.72, Mercury Quality Center, Peregrine

System, MS Access Database,

Contribution Key Accountabilities in Support and Maintenance

Project

Independently handled entire FS-CD KAP Transition,

Secondary and Primary Support and Play back

session with the client

Prepared System Maintenance Technical Document

(SMTD)

Supported various FS-CD, FI-GL related issues

during Steady state in Production environment.

Monitoring daily Overnight SAP Batch jobs and

fixing batch job related issues

Have handled many Change request proposal and was

instrumental in delivering the change request

solution in Internal Manufacturing Project.

Co-ordination with Customer and Offshore team to

ensure smooth transition of Business transactions.

Key Accountabilities in Recoveries Implementation

Project and other Manufacturing internal Release

projects

Understanding the Current Business Process and

preparing study design document.

Involved in Requirement gathering and preparation

of Business Blue Print document.

Involved in effort estimation for Study, Design,

Build and Unit testing Phase.

Created GAP Analysis document and proposed

functional and technical solution to bridge the

Gaps

Development of functional specifications &

extraction logic for new interface & ABAP Custom

reports.

Designed new custom application for check lot

processing.

Involved in identifying the events to map the

cross company GL posting determination

Extraction of Logic for New custom GL

Reconciliation reports

Interaction with SAP to resolve complex issues and

get SAP notes for SAP standard issues.

Expertise knowledge in FQevents, BADI methods in

the development of project.

Prepared Configuration document, End User Training

documents

Prepared unit test plans, Test script and Test

cases for Unit & Regression testing.

Follow up with Client to get the sign off for all

documents

Supported system testing team and UAT system

during testing phase.

. Project IV

Company Wipro Technologies

Client All Nippon Airways Account

Duration May 2007 till Sept 2007 ( 5 months)

Designation FI-CO Consultant

Domain Financial Accounting, Controlling

Technologies SAP 4.62C

Contribution Handled Service Requests which are mainly from

GL, AR and AP and Bank Accounting

Report Project status documents to Onsite team

every day

Creation and maintenance of GL account thru Z

programs and Unit Testing

Configuration of House Bank, Bank determination,

Ranking Order, Bank accounts for various payment

methods.

Setting up of Reference parameters for payment

method

Creation of Cheque lots number and creation of

Cheque parameter variant

Testing Run of Automatic payment program thru z

program and testing of payment medium.

Involved in Transport activities like releasing

the transport request and transporting the

request to development client as well as quality

client.

Creation of user group, user ID with role thru Z

programs as per guideline documents

Configuration of new tax code and tax accounts.

Maintenance of Profitability Analysis segments.

Testing and maintenance of reconciliation

accounts and creation of accounts for Special GL

transactions.

Testing of Asset postings, Asset acquisition,

retirement, transfer and sale.

. Project V

Company Wipro Technologies

Client Shell CFERP Project

Duration Jan 07- Apr 07 (4 months)

Designation FICO Consultant

Domain Financial Accounting, Controlling

Technologies SAP ECC.6.0

Contribution Instrumental in preparing Configuring Design

documents, Build/and Unit testing.

Involved in Master data creation, GL clearing,

foreign currency valuation

Worked on Customer Invoice creation, Payment run,

clearing, partial clearing, Reporting

Configuring Bank accounts, Payment program

Involved in documentation of Unit Test plans

Actively involved in documentation of the Unit

test scripts Document.

Involved in functional testing after Build.

. Project VI

Company/Client Wipro Technologies, Internal Project

Duration Sept 2003 till Dec 2006 ( 3 years, 4 months)

Designation Executive

Domain Finance, Payroll, Allowance, Insurance, Travel

Management

Technologies SAP 4.72

Contribution Handled automation module, aiming to reduce the

manual process in the system.

Working with the Information Services team for

Automation of Visa Processing

Working with Internal team to automate the

payment processing

Interaction with HR, Payroll and Forex

departments to ensure the onsite payments

Responsible for changing the data like; payroll

area, personal area, business area, and salary

details in the systems for the employee's who

have traveled onsite.

Advising onsite payroll department for processing

the payroll for the employees traveled to the

respective countries.

Advising the offshore payroll department to

process the offshore salary for the employees

traveled onsite depending on the eligibility &

the type of trip.

Generating and consolidating various reports from

the system according to the user requirements.

Handling the payroll & onsite insurance related

queries.

Ensuring audit compliance by constantly

coordinating with SOX team/internal and External

audit team

Responsible for fixing up of the onsite allowance

for the employees traveling to US and Non-US

countries depending on the various parameters.

Interacting with the Onsite managers, HR managers

and Vertical Heads in fixing the onsite salary.

Functional Experience

Company ADFC Pvt Ltd (Subsidiary Company of HDFC Bank

Ltd)

Duration Jan 2002 till Aug 2003 ( 1 Year, 8 months)

Designation Executive

Domain Banking

Technologies Oracle

Contribution Preparation of documents for Upcoming ATMs

(Preparation of Business Proposal, IT form, RBI

license)

Daily Payouts / Client CMS Dummy Account

monitoring /GL accounts monitoring

Effective monitoring of process of Collection,

Dispatch, Liquidation, Returns and maintenance

of appropriate documents / records for the above

processes

Ensure all funding sheets received from the

co-operative bank are captured in the system

Processing of receipts (Cash/Cheque) received

through Offsite ATMs

Preparation of MIS

Resolving ATM GL, ATM Base 24 differences

Checking of EOD Reports of Offsite ATMs

Coordinate with Admin and other vendors for

payment of Utility Bills with respect to ATMs

Company Pai and Nayak Co. (Chartered Accountant Firm)

Duration Jun 1998 till Dec 2001

Domain Finance, Taxation, Auditing

Technologies MS-Office (Excel, word, Paint, Access tools and

Power Point

Contribution Audit strategy and planning

Analytical review of financial statements

Involved in the internal, statutory Bank audit.

Audit of Scheduled Bank (Concurrent, Income and

Statutory)

Internal Audit of Non-Banking Financial Co's with

specific focus of internal control and cost

reduction.

Management of Outstation Audit

Handling of Income Tax and Company Law matters

Independent finalization and consolidation of

Accounts

Preparation of Profit and Loss Account and

Balance Sheet

Liasoning with the clients

Finalization of the Accounts

Preparation of Income Tax Returns, Advance Tax

Estimates, etc.

Reference

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