VENU CHAGANTI abkoyn@r.postjobfree.com 385-***-****

*** * ******** *** *** Glendale CA 91207

SAP FICO Consultant with 10+ years of experience in implementing, supporting and upgrading SAP various

clients globally in different roles as Lead consultant, Business Analyst and Project manager.

In depth knowledge of working with US GAAP, Indian accounting standards and IFRS. Very strong

accounting and costing background.

Extensive experience in implementing with ASAP methodology from Business Blueprint, Realization,

Testing, Go live preparation, Go live, & Post live support. Prepared detailed functional specifications for

development activities including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms (WRICEF).

Highly proficient in analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, writing Business Process

Procedures (BPPs), use cases, and test scripts as per requirements.

Expertise in configuring & implementing New GL (document splitting and parallel ledger), FI GL, AP, AR,

AM; CO CCA, CEA, PCA, IO, CO PC, CO PA.

Expertise in FICO integration with MM, PP, SD, PM, PS and HCM.

Worked on costing based (with value fields) Profitability Analysis (CO PA). Generated the operating concern

with additional customized characteristics and value fields per reporting requirements. Created profitability

segments, valuation, planning, planning Framework, planning aids, and report components using user

defined forms.

In depth configuration and customization of Asset Management FI AM integration through acquisitions,

retirements, transfers, capitalization of Assets Under Construction (AUC), & migration of legacy assets into

Asset Accounting.

Experienced with Idocs and other electronic modes of communication.

Hands on with SAP Project System (PS).

Conceptual knowledge of SAP RE (Real Estate).

Knowledge of Actual costing and Material Ledger.

Well versed with US and Indian taxation.

Well versed with rapid implementations and SAP system audits. Made sure that the system was ready for

testing in 9 days from the date, client bought SAP licenses.

Ability to perform as a techno functional consultant by utilizing LSMW, CATT, Mass Change, & ABAP

debugging skills. Optimized business processes using Drilldown Reporting. Flawless migration of Data from

Legacy systems into SAP for upgrades/new implementations/ integration, & importing data using LSMW.

Performed Unit Testing and Integrated System Testing (IST) while providing support during User Acceptance

Testing (UAT). Resolved defects and provided super user & end user training & documentation.

Well versed with BI reporting and extraction of queries.

Trained in SAP BPC 10.0.

Well versed with SAP systems Audit (Member of SAP audit team for a major project) and found considerable

amounts of missing revenues and other documents.

Academic: Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, IFRS, Indian accounting standards.

OFFICE: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Lotus Notes, etc..

SAP Versions: R/3 Release 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP Modules: SAP FI/CO, PS, BI, BPC 10.0

Ticketing tools: SAP SOLMAN, HP LanDesk, HP ALM, REMEDY, BMC footprints, etc..

Bachelor of Commerce from Osmania University (1996 1999)

Chartered Accountant – Intermediate level from ICAI (1999 2002)

Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications from SiCE (2005)

Completed Project Management training from Franklin Covey institute (2013)

Currenty pursuing CPA from AICPA

Client: Deluxe entertainment services group Location: LA, CA

Duration: Feb 2014 to Till date Environment: ECC 6.0

Role: Principal functional analyst – SAP FICO Industry Media and

entertainment

Client is in the business of traditional and digital cinema post production services. Clients include major motion

picture groups such as 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios. The company was founded in 1915 by William Fox,

when he created the Fox Film Corporation in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1919, Fox Film Corporation opened its studio

in Hollywood at Sunset and Western.

Responsible for the production support along with enhancement and country rollout projects.

Coordinating with offshore team in resolving issues and project related tasks.

Responsible for providing day to day support by understanding the issues and responsible to determine

whether it needs Configuration change or can be handled by providing training to users.

Handheld configuration changes to ensure the smooth functioning of the business and configured new

functionalities to improve the system usability.

Handled Bonus depreciation configuration to ensure the legal requirements related Asset Management.

Actively handled all reporting requirements including custom reports.

Configured substitution rules to derive the correct objects while posting transactions through interfaces.

Handled issues related to Asset accounting and revaluation Foreign exchange transactions.

Hands on with GL accounting, AP, AR and asset management.

Also handled Project systems and related production issues.

Worked on controlling extensively and its integration with PS.

Did system study to analyze the inconsistencies in SAP and addressed them.

Audited different processes by virtue of prior audit experience and suggested the best practices.

Client: CF industries One of Fortune 500 companies Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: Dec 2012 to Feb 2014 Environment: ECC 6.0

Role: Business Analyst Industry Chemicals

Client is a global leader in fertilizer manufacturing and distribution, the second largest nitrogen fertilizer producer in

the world and the third largest phosphate fertilizer producer among public companies. Client owns and operates world

scale nitrogen and phosphate plants and serves agricultural and industrial customers through its best in class

distribution system.

Responsible for planning, managing, and execution of a detailed cutover plan encompassing all of the

business and technical activities required to enable the final Production go live.

Planned both the actual go live cutover as well as the mock cutovers leading up to each go live.

Assigned to the project throughout all phases of life cycle from Preparation, Blueprint Design, Realization,

Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support.

Responsible for analyzing daily production issues related to FICO module

Tracking tickets and resolving the issues within the stipulated time period

Clarified the issues with business team for better understanding of the problem

If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provided the necessary change detail to the

team

Provided support in Procure to Pay process

Configured and mapped GL accounts per business requirements to meet daily transaction needs

Analyzed issues related to third party tax interfaces

Provided support in inventory valuation and issues related to costing variant and cost estimate, marking and

releasing

Handled issues in Costing Variant, Cost Component structure, production order, WIP, result analysis key and

Costing Run. Good understanding of how CO PC helps in valuation of Inventory – Raw material, WIP and

FG.

Actively participated in redesigning the EC CS when there are changes on Organizational Structure.

Provided support in PA – defined characteristics and value field, mapped SD condition type to COPA,

created PA transfer structure for direct posting from FI and generated report for PA as per management

requirements.

Analyzed and resolved issues related to APP, OIM and Account determination in FI/MM and FI/SD

integration.

Communicated with BASIS and ABAP team for role changes and enhancements/batch inputs etc. to resolve

the tickets

Involved in data migration using LSMW using Batch Input, GL Master data

Worked on issues related to material ledger.

Client: Pregis Corporation Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: Nov 2010 to Dec 2012 Environment: ECC 6.0

Role: Project Manager and FICO Consultant Industry Packaging material

manufacturing

Client is a Leading provider of innovative protective packaging material and system with 26 facilities in 10 countries

across North America and Europe. Client’s continued investment in to new product innovation, commitment to

customer service, supported by strong well known brands, enables the client to provide extraordinary packaging

solutions for everyday packing needs.

Client offers packaging and product solutions for a wide variety of consumer and industrial market segments. Their

products and systems can be found in virtually every industry and are supported by a comprehensive sales, customer

service, technical service and distribution network.

Implemented Credit Management, Dispute management, Collections management and Biller direct.

Responsible for the business development activities of project planning, budget estimation and statement of

work creation.

Also responsible for the production support of the SAP along with treasury implementation.

Coordinating resources and developed project schedule, methodology, project templates and final report.

Managed the Team and ensured optimum utilization of resources and completed delivery within budget.

Internal and external review of support services with client and with the team on regular basis.

Implemented electronic bank statement to automate the reconciliation of bank accounts.

Developed a critical interface to bring in the revenue from the 20 years legacy system to SAP meticulously.

This is the major achievement and received client appreciation.

Successfully implemented Lockbox and Electronic bank statements and handled related issues on daily

basis.

Handled 1099 reporting at year end by getting SAP notes applied and closely worked with end users to make

sure that files are accepted by IRS.

Responsible for providing day to day support by understanding the issues and responsible to determine

whether it needs Configuration change or can be handled by providing training to users.

Handheld configuration changes to ensure the smooth functioning of the business and configured new

functionalities to improve the system usability.

Handled Bonus depreciation configuration to ensure the legal requirements related Asset Management.

Actively handled all reporting requirements including custom reports.

Configured substitution rules to derive the correct objects while posting transactions through interfaces.

Handled issues related to Asset accounting and revaluation Foreign exchange transactions.

Client: Vimta labs ltd. Location: USA and India

Duration: Feb 2009 to Nov 2010 Environment: ECC 6.0

Role: Project Manager and FICO Consultant Industry Pharma & Lifesciences

Client is leading contract research and testing organization. Established in 1984 it has an envious track record of

serving several market leaders across the globe. It has a team of 6100 professionals comprising 461 scientists in

various disciplines such as Chemistry, Pharma, Medicine, Microbiology, Molecular biology and Informatics. The

team is slated to double in next three years. The technologies deployed at client are current and leading edge, duly

validated.

As a Project Manager:

Provided specialist direction, control and guidance to the Solution project team in order to meet project

deliverables

To develop and maintain effective relationships with client.

Assist in the monitoring, reviewing and reporting of costs to cost center owner to ensure adherence to the

project budget.

To define Project Standards, Development of Architecture, Review of Design, Analysis, Project Schedule

Team Management, ensuring optimum utilization of resources and complete delivery within budget.

Also responsible for the design, costing and delivery of solutions.

As a FICO Consultant:

Gathered business requirements & prepared blueprints for as is & to be process systems as a subject matter

expert (SME).

Handled the project throughout all phases of life cycle from Preparation, Blueprint Design, Realization, Final

Preparation, and Go Live & Support.

Studied the company’s processes to map to SAP processes & made recommendations for suitable validation

procedures for document header, line item & whole document levels. Performed Fit Gap Analysis to design

the to be system.

Prepared the Business process procedures (BPP), provided documentation of changes for team members &

end users. Created training manuals for super users & end users.

Implemented Asset Management and Project Systems to handle inbuilt assets. Complete configuration of

Asset Accounting from copying Chart of Depreciation to defining depreciation areas in the asset class and

assigning settlement profile to company code. Configured asset classes, account determination, and assigned

accounts for depreciation, accumulated depreciation and fixed asset control account.

Integrating asset accounting with Project Systems, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders to

AUCs, configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.

Also closely integrated all research activities and clinical trials with Project Systems.

Generating Asset reports using asset history sheets and Asset Explorer, used report painter, & performed unit

testing and negative testing. Tested different asset transactions like posting depreciations, manual

capitalization of fixed assets, post capitalization, reverse asset transaction, disposition.

Created Standard hierarchy for CO CCA (Cost Center Accounting) to align with plants. Also configured

settings for distribution and assessment of costs.

Mapped and Created the SBU structure to align with CO PCA (Profit Center Accounting) Master data, and

standard hierarchy. Created distribution cycles for Month end Allocation Process in Profit Center

Accounting.

Configured Internal Orders (IO) by maintaining Order types, screen layouts, order groups, status

management, maintained settlement rules, settlement profiles & planning profile. Activated availability

control and set up budgeting.

Performed integration testing, created unit test scripts, arranged & coordinated the testing activities, & in

depth troubleshooting. Provided Training & Documentation of all relevant processes of UAT (User

Acceptance Testing).

Client: B way corporation Location: USA

Duration: Sep 2008 to Jan 2009 Environment: R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0

Role: Lead Consultant FICO Industry Industrial container

manufacturer

Client is one of the largest manufacturers of rigid metal, plastic and hybrid containers in North America. It’s diverse

products and broad geographic reach have made us a market leader in the general line packaging industry. Client

makes the innovative products that customers require to succeed today and beyond.

Worked on a project for Upgrade from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 from testing phase, go live, & production support.

Revised the Business process procedures (BPP) & provided documentation of upgrade changes for team

members & end users. Created training manuals for Super users & end users. Prepared & modified existing

documentation as required by the upgrade to ECC 6.0. Reviewed all configuration & customization of 4.7

system & modified the existing objects.

Provided users the training on Delta functionalities.

Extensively Tested staging server and unicoded servers to confirm that all processes are working as it was

expected to function.

Handling of changed configurational and training Issues.

Helped Users in UAT and resolved issues.

Worked on customized reports.

Provided Training & Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration

Testing, Unit Test Scripts, arranging & coordinating the testing activities, & troubleshooting

Client: Ananth Technologies ltd. Location: India

Duration: Feb 2008 to Aug 2008 Environment: ECC 6.0

Role: Lead Consultant FICO Industry Defence and Hitech

component

manufaturer

Client is servicing Fortune 1000 clientele since, is a global broad based Software and Hardware, Services and

Solutions provider. On the IT services front we support enterprises business processes and systems, with innovative

services, solutions and products. On the hardware front it specialized in the design and development of highly

sophisticated aerospace subsystems and other embedded systems. Client’s seasoned engineering professionals,

working from R&D centers and design centers across the globe. It's varied clientele include leaders in the areas of

Aerospace, Mining, Pharma, Higher Education, Public Sector, Manufacturing and Health care.

Prepared Business Blueprint and performed Gap Analysis. Designed the to be system & performed the

necessary configuration steps. Compiled training manuals for users. Documented critical changes, performed

system tests & trained super users and end users on new systems.

Configuration of FI through creation of Company code, Chart of accounts, Field status groups, Fiscal year

variants, Posting periods, Document number ranges. Setting up Document types & Posting keys for business

transactions

Maintained Parallel Currencies, Configured different exchange rate types, defined factors to convert

currencies, maintained global settings for exchange rates to enable foreign currency transactions. Configured

Exchange rate types, translation ratios, rounding rules & set decimal places for currencies.

Configured settings for Controlling Area & Operating Concern, maintained versions. In Cost Element

Accounting (CO CEA) created primary & secondary cost elements, cost element groups with actual &

statistical manual postings & re postings, maintained cost element attributes, costing sheet. Created

Hierarchy for Cost Center Accounting (CO CCA), assignment to cost elements, created variances, activity

types, statistical key figures, & assessment & distribution cycles per segments. Actual & statistical manual

posting & reposting, period end closing. In Profit Center Accounting (CO PCA), maintained master data,

created a standard profit center hierarchy, groups, & profit centers.

Implemented Internal Orders to tract temporary costs. Created Internal Order type, Allocation Structure and

settlement profile. Defined the process for the settlement of Internal Orders to various other receivers.

Configured Product Costing (COPC): responsible for defining costing type, valuation variant, date control,

quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant.

Configured costing based & accounting based COPA, generated the operating concern, created

characteristics & value fields, maintained derivation rules & configured valuation using product costing

sheet. Performed PA settlement, realignments, & identified integration issues of Sales & Distribution with

FI.

Integrated FICO with PS to handle customer orders.

Client: Data domain inc (EMC Corporation) – Fortune 500 company Location: SanJose, USA

Duration: Apr 2007 to Jan 2008 Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Role: Sr. Analyst FICO Industry Hi tech

Client is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver

information technology as a service (ITaaS). Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through

innovative products and services, it accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store,

manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset information in a more agile, trusted and cost efficient

way. Client ranks 139 in the Fortune 500 and had reported revenues of $21.7 billion.

Preparation of business process requirements, analysis and user requirement specifications.

Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements.

Participate in user meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivery of presentations as required.

Configured Document splitting and Parallel ledgers to handle segment reporting and to address multiple

GAAP requirements.

Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance

groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.

Configured, tested and implemented automatic payment program, provided end user support in payment

processing

Configured AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program,

Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings, Configured AP integrations to MM for

various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice

verification), and linking of Vendor documents with EDI.

Configured settings for 1099 reporting.

Configured bank accounts, house banks, bank related accounting, planning levels, and cash management

account names and groupings structure.

Configured Electronic Bank Statement, Cashed Checks and Check deposit functions.

Configured the Controlling Area, Cost Elements, Cost Centers (CO CCA), Number Ranges, and Cost Center

Hierarchy.

Created Profit center hierarchy and uploaded master and set standards for allocation of Profit Centers.

Met with mid level and senior management to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance

the use of SAP and to align the existing processes with Best Practices.

Client: Tesla motors Location: CA, USA

Duration: Dec 2006 to Mar 2007 Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Role: Sr. Analyst FICO Industry Automobile

Client is a California based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain

components. Client is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Client gained widespread

attention by producing the first fully electric sports car. It also markets electric powertrain components,

including lithium ion battery packs, to other automakers, including Daimler and Toyota.

Responsible for analyzing daily production issues related to FICO module

Tracking tickets and resolving the issues within the stipulated time period.

Clarified the issues with business team for better understanding of the problem

If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provided the necessary change detail to the team

Provided support in Procure to Pay, Order to cash, Project Systems and Production planning areas with

reference to FICO.

Provided support in inventory valuation and issues related to costing variant and cost estimate, marking and

releasing.

Handled issues in Costing Variant, Cost Component structure, production order, WIP, result analysis key and

Costing Run. Good understanding of how CO PC helps in valuation of Inventory – Raw material, WIP and

FG.

Provided support in PA – defined characteristics and value field, mapped SD condition type to COPA, created

PA transfer structure for direct posting from FI and generated report for PA as per management requirements.

Worked closely with BASIS and ABAP team for role changes and enhancements/batch inputs etc. to resolve

the tickets

Involved in data migration using LSMW using Batch Input, GL Master data whenever needed.

Client: Essar steels Ltd. Location: Mumbai, India

Duration: May 2006 to Dec 2006 Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Role: SAP FICO Consultant Industry Iron and Steel

Client is a multinational corporation with annual revenues of c.US$39 billion and investments in Steel, Energy,

Infrastructure and Services. With operations in more than 25 countries, it employs over 73,000 people. Client began as

a construction company in 1969 and has diversified into manufacturing, services and retail over the years since then.

Over the last decade, it has grown through strategic global acquisitions and partnerships, or through greenfield and

brownfield development projects, capturing new markets and discovering new raw material sources.

Worked in requirements gathering, scope finalization and creating proto type.

Set up the Integration of FI with MM, SD through Automatic Account Assignment.

Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with FI,

Settings for Revenue Recognition & Revenue Item Category.

Involved in unit testing phase and Integration testing of FI with MM, SD.

Created test scripts and test documents.

Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Creating proposal to Check

Printing, Wire Transfer settings and ACH payments.

GL and AR configurations such as accounts, Account groups, field status groups, Account determination

procedures, setting up worklist (Alternative Payer), tolerances, selection and clearing process.

Worked in creation of Account group creation, Screen layout Configuration for company code view for

Vendor, customer and field status groups for GL.

Created Business Areas and Divisional Financial Statements.

Configured for One time Vendors/Customers with a Separate Screen Layouts and Customers/Vendors who

were Vendors/Customers respectively and Trading Partners.

Defined and Configured Controlling Area; Assigned Company Codes and Number Ranges; Operating

Concern

Created functional spec for custom reports like ageing report, Payment Discrepancy report.

This testing involved unit testing, business scenario testing, Integration testing, Post live support of Asset,

GL, AP, AR.

Configured settings for CO–PC : cost center planning, planning for activity hours, costing sheets, costing

variant, standard cost estimate, marking and releasing

Configured settings for WIP calculation: defined result analysis key, result analysis version, validation

method, line IDs and posting rules for settling WIP

Client: L&T Johndeere ltd. Location: Pune, India

Duration: May 2004 to May 2006 Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 EE

Role: SAP FICO Consultant Industry Automobile

Client is a, public limited company with the shares listed on NYSE, world leader in providing advanced products and

services for agriculture, forestry, construction, lawn and turf care, landscaping and irrigation. To expand its global

presence in Agriculture equipment, client established a green field project in 1999 under a 50:50 joint venture with

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) an engineering company of repute from India. A state of the art tractor

manufacturing plant for 5000 series client’s tractors was set up at Sanaswadi, near Pune, in the state of Maharashtra.

These tractors were introduced in India in early 2000.

Full life cycle implementation using Accelerated SAP (ASAP) methodology.

Conducted workshops to analyzing the business processes, and documenting “As Is” & “To Be” processes.

Documented the Finance and Controlling requirements in Business Process Activity Profiles and Sub Process

Profiles.

Configuration and customization of GL. Account groups and master records. Creation of Chart of Accounts

and assignment of Company Codes to Chart of Accounts. Preparation of the Financial Statement version,

Inter company account assignment, Fiscal Year Variant, Field Status Group, Document types, Document

number ranges, Validations and Substitutions, Tolerance Group for Company Employees and Users, Usage of

Posting keys.

Configuration of Posting Period Variant, Sort variants, and line item display variants. Configuration of

reconciliation accounts and alternative reconciliation accounts for sub ledgers. Configuration of settings for

Inter company Transactions, Recurring Transactions and Account assignment models.

Defined Payment Terms for outgoing Invoices. Configured the system for the creation of AR invoices and

posting of manual incoming payments with difference and defined Reason Codes for payment differences and

worked on writing off these differences to G/L accounts.

Defined dunning procedures and dunning levels and defined Correspondence Types and further settings

related to the period end correspondence in AR.

Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments).

Configured AR integrations to SD for various condition types (Automatic Account Assignments)

Configured ASSET and Plant maintenance integration to automatically create equipment master upon saving

an asset master and vice versa.

Configured FI/CO and Plant maintenance integration to allow Activity based costing for Operations

performed through Maintenance Order and Settlement of accrued costs in Maintenance Order to G/L

Account, Cost Center and Assets

Configured Automatic Payment Program in Account Payable along with the Check Management settings,

Vendor Account Groups, Outgoing Payment settings, Account Code configurations for Cash Discounts,

Exchange Loss or Gain.

Configured Asset Accounting Chart of depreciation, asset classes, Depreciation areas, assigning tax indicator

for non taxable acquisitions, define number range intervals and specifying account determination, Creating

screen layout for the asset master records, maintaining multi level methods and performing depreciation run.

Maintaining maximum amount limits for low value assets and asset classes

Configured Cost Center Accounting Master Data Creation, Deletion, Changes, Assignments, Groups,

Hierarchies, Reporting, Closing Activities, Reporting,

Configured Profit Center Accounting Master Data Creation, Changes, Deletion, Assignment, Profit Center

Groups and Hierarchies, Reporting, Closing Activities, Reporting.

Configuration of CO PC, the costing sheet, Calculation bases, Planned and actual overhead percentages,

Costing and Valuation variants for cost estimates, Planned and actual manufacturing orders(MTS scenario),

Sales order(MTO scenario), Cost component structure. Configured for product costing month end closing

overhead calculation, WIP calculation, variance calculation and settlement. CO PC integration with Project

system for costing with revenue

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