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Herndon, VA
Posted:
June 19, 2014

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Indira Swetha Email Id: acem2m@r.postjobfree.com

(Permanent Resident) Mobile No: 571-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. Overall 10+ years of experience, in which 7+ years in implementing

SAP system FI/CO and MM modules and providing effective solutions

. Successfully implemented 3 Full life cycle projects - worked

through the phases of requirement gathering, scope management,

process analysis, GAP analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization,

Testing, Go-live, post live support and training

. Implementation experience with various industries including

manufacturing and service

. SAP R/3 system implementations using ASAP methodology including

Business Process Reengineering, System Design, Feasibility

Analysis, Configuration and Testing

. Expertise in implementation of FI modules - General Ledger,

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cash

Management and Controlling modules -Cost Center Accounting, Profit

Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Order

. Hands on experience with integration of FI-CO modules with other

modules like Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution

(SD), Project System integration with Asset Management

. Expertise in using data migration tools - Legacy System Migration

Workbench (LSMW)

. Experience with month end and year end closing process

. Experience delivering workshops with business users during

blueprint and training phases

. Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills

. Interact effectively with clients in order to understand business

processes, derive GAP analysis and provide effective solutions

. Solid academic background in Finance and Accounting with

professional experience

. Demonstrate ability to resolve issues and meet deadlines: possess

strong work ethics and an assertive team player

. Implemented various stages of the Software Development such as

configuration, writing functional specifications, testing, roll

out, and data conversion

. Performed cutover tasks and document management for processes

. Developed Business Process & Functional Design Documents

. Mapped Documents for business users

. Performed and maintained month end processes, Payment Cycles, Cash

Management, Banking, Transfers, Depreciation

. Maintained various masters like GL, Asset, Vendor, Service, and

Customers

. Designed authorization process for Procurement of Assets

. Worked independently and as well as in team environment

. Achieved critical deadlines under pressure

. Developed test scripts in various conditions

SAP SKILLS:

. FI : New & Classic General Ledger, Accounts Payable,

Accounts Receivable

. CO: Cost Center Accounting, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting,

Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting

. MM: Procurement, Master data, Release procedures, Inventory

management, Account determination

. FSCM: Cash and Liquidity management, Dispute management and Collect

management

. Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Tech Mahindra, Jersey City, NJ Apr'2013 to May'2014

Project description:

Interstate Brands Corporation is a Group of Companies which represent

nation's one of the biggest whole sale bakery products manufacturer.

Role: Senior SAP FI/CO and MM Consultant

Responsibilities:

Involved in preparing functional and technical specifications as per the

user requirements

. Customized MM functionalities: Master Data Material Master, Service

Master, info records, source lists, Consumption Based Planning, purchasing,

and Inventory Management

. Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups and pricing & other

Purchase functions.

. Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and

issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third

party, and sub-contracting

. Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences,

inventory sampling and cycle counting

. Configured vendor master partner functions

. Worked on quality contracts, value contract for purchase requisition,

contracts and purchase orders.

. Configured Batch Management creating class and characteristics master

data, condition table, access sequence, strategy type and define batch

search procedure

. Customization of Batch Management by defining batch strategy for

inventory management

. Configured tolerances and limits in purchase orders and created

scheduling agreement and contracts

. Configuration of terms of payment and interest calculation on open items/

balance outstanding

. Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) in FI-MM (Procure to Pay)

integration and configured account determination for FI-SD (Order to Cash)

cycles.

Customized forms for Dunning balance list, correspondence and confirmation

of balances or period closing

. Configured Depreciation keys, Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master

Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas and Classified Fixed Asset using

Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition

Consumers Energy, Jackson, MI Oct'11- Jan'13

The project covered the entire full life cycle of understanding the

existing structure and business processes of the organization relating the

same with the standard processes of SAP ECC 6.0, and implementing the same

in the R/3 System by way of configuration and customization.

Role: Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

. In the Business blueprinting phase, gathered and documented business

requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted business

blueprint documentation.

. Performed GAP Analysis, documented and prototyped between current

business practices and standard SAP functionality. Lead the realization,

testing phase. Supported client after Go-Live

. Analyzed business requirements, determined organizational structure and

classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas, cost

centers and profit centers

. Reviewed existing reports and determined changes to be made

in light of changes to organizational hierarchy

. Configured AP/AR, document postings, GL recurring entries, accrual

deferral documents, month-end closings.

. Configured payment terms for Dunning, Over-Due Interest calculations for

Down Payments and Automatic Clearing of line items and for posting net

payment amounts for Cash Discounts after calculation of Cash Discounts,

Under / Over Payments, write-offs and Reason Codes

. Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L

accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank

Statement(EBS)

. Configured Lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format and customized

Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment

Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges

. Configured and Customized Cash Budget Management (cash flow) including

commitment management

. Configured Allocation Cycles (Assessments & Distributions), IO

Settlements using Solution Manager

. Extensively worked on PCA restructuring & enhancements to enable

management reporting - Worked with the business users to collect

requirements to maintain Profit centers, profit center Hierarchies, . . .

.Transfer of historic balances from MM/FI to PCA, reconciliation with GL

accounts and created custom reports for producing financial statements

profit center wise through Report painter and month end closing operations

. Designed and reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications with

complex development work with WRICEFW objects -Reports,

Interfaces(Inbound/Outbound), Conversions (BDC), ALE, EDI / IDOC, LSMW,

Enhancements - USER-EXITS/dynamic actions, SAP Test Scripts, Smart forms

FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, PA Mar'11-Sep'11

FMC Corporation is one of the world's foremost, diversified chemical

companies with leading position in agricultural, industrial and consumer

markets. This is an ECC 6.0 Environment.

Role: Senior SAP FICO Production Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

. As a team lead worked in all the phases of implementation including

Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, and End user-

training, Go-Live & Production Support. Extensively worked with

Chinese team from Tianjin and Beijing.

. Worked with CFO, Controllers and Application Analysts to analyze the

existing system and functional requirements gathering. Finalized the

functional and technical specifications for the proposed system.

Worked closely with SD, MM, WM, PP, ABAP and BASIS teams.

. Documented and Developed RICEF objects.

. Leading indirect reports and team members in configuration and testing

phases.

. Defined and improved the business processes for intercompany

transactions between Tianjin and Beijing plants.

. Configured the Automatic payment Program FBZP, setting up house banks.

Lockbox configuration.

. Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the end-

to-end project solution, including creation of the detailed project

design, functional specifications, and test plans.

. Master data upload using LSMW.

. FI Design and Configuration for AP, AR and GL sub-modules, including

financial statement version for individual company codes of Tianjin

and Beijing and the consolidated one. Configuring the FI-SD, FI-MM, FI-

CO, FI-PC (Product Costing), and SD-CO integration. FI-Assets

Management design configuration including Intercompany asset transfer.

Worked extensively on New GL, document splitting and parallel ledgers,

Taxes including VAT.

. Trouble shooting with cross functional issues, supported Individual

Test (Unit Test, Integration Test, Stress Test & System Performance

Test) including creation, scheduling and execution of test plans

during different cycles, resolving test issues while transferring

knowledge to the client, the technical team and the production support

group. Defining and working with end user to perform the month-end

closing activities

Solae, St. Louis, MI Apr'10 - Jan'11

Solae is the world leader in developing soy based technologies and

ingredients enjoyed by consumers around the world in products such as baked

goods, beverages, nutrition bars, meats, vegetarian meals and much more.

Since Solae's inception more than 50 years ago, Solae has dedicated itself

to soy research and product development, providing innovative solutions to

enhance the nutritional, functional and economical benefits of soy food

products. This is a ECC 6.0 environment.

Role: Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities

. Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate

difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains,

and exchange rate losses and then posted to separate accounts for the

individual currencies and foreign currency valuations

. Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning

forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for

dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and

automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers

regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e.

tables fields and then testing

. Implemented New GL Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting,

Parallel Accounting and periodic processing. Configured Lockbox Application

conforming to BAI2 format

. Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts. Maintained

the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability

control

. Created documentation for the Fixed Assets module for the client from

scratch. Worked on testing the new Fiscal Year Variant and its impact on

Fixed Assets. Fixed Production support issues related to Fixed Assets

. Configuring all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account

Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration to generate the

Payment Advice notes and to print the checks to make the payment for all

Account Payable that are due, clearing of vendor and customer accounts that

are due Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for payment Program, and

Credit Management

. Creation of Tolerance groups for GR/IR clearing. Revise and delete Terms

of Payment

. Created Chart of Accounts, Asset Classes, Master Data, Valuation, Asset

types, Allocations of number ranges and transfers of legacy data in Asset

Management Module

. Defined Depreciation areas, Depreciation terms, and periodic processing.

. Configuring Account Determinations, Depreciation Keys and Number Ranges

for Asset Classes. Configuring Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions,

Retirements and Inter-company transfers

ZAISCO, IBM, Norfolk, VA Oct'09 - Mar'10

ZIMS American Integrated Shipping Corporation project was a Treasury and

Accounts Receivable implementation project. This was an ECC 6.0 environment

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed Business requirements and configured Treasury module based on

client requirements to implement Treasury functionalities

. Configured and cross-trained Cash Flow Management in electronic bank

statement, US lockbox, cash position, cash postings, liquidity forecast,

order to cash (OTC), foreign exchange deals, AP F110 payment program, TR

F111 payment program, and cash concentration

. Grouped the Company's customers, defined Credit Control Areas, and

predefined Credit Limits for customers

. Designed Functional and Technical Specs for automated Lockbox processing

and Electronic Bank Statement functionality

. Analyzed, configured new Credit Management Areas, Credit representative

groups, Lockbox system for new business requirements

. Designed and configured Dunning, Interest calculation on Open items,

Correspondences and Account Statement process

. Designed and reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications with

complex development work with RICEFW objects -Reports,

Interfaces(Inbound/Outbound), Conversions (BDC), ALE, EDI / IDOC, LSMW,

Enhancements - USER-EXITS/dynamic actions, SAP Test Scripts, Smart forms

Delphi, Troy, MI Mar'09-Sep'09

The Delphi (Automobile Industry) Fresh Start Project is related to Delphi

emergence from bankruptcy. All assets must be documented and appropriately

revalued as of the emergence date. This project plans to retire &

reload/reacquire the assets from the existing SAP systems including the

migrated assets in earlier phase.

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities

. Configured Asset Master data, Asset Classes, Account Determination

. Configured Chart of Depreciations, additional Depreciation areas and

updated depreciation areas with new values using the reload program

. Worked on Recalculate depreciation Program RAAFAR00, to ensure accurate

asset depreciation expense and accumulated depreciation values before

updating the asset with revalued amount

. Customized Asset download program, Asset Reload program and Assets

Current Year Transactions program

. Worked on User Exit AINT0002 to retire old assets and ensured

depreciation key, retirement date and account determination adopted the

planned strategies

. Involved and played a major role in Unit Testing, Integration Testing,

UAT and Mock Cutover (build test cases, perform tests, and make changes to

configuration or processes using HP quality center testing tools)

. Participate in and help drive functional and technical design

specifications

. Effectively involved in troubleshooting issues in Mock Cutover and worked

closely with business members of Finance team and off-shore team to

facilitate effective development

Harland Clarke, Atlanta, GA Mar'08 - Dec'08

Harland Clarke offers an expanded suite of direct marketing services,

delivery and anti-fraud products, contact center services and checks and

check-related products to the financial institution market, including

banks, credit unions, thrifts, and securities firms. This is an ECC 6.0

environment

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Configured and handled the entire AR processes for Harland Clarke company

codes

. Configured and executed the Automatic Payment Program (AP) and worked

exclusively on payment methods like ACH processing and check runs

. In Treasury, configured and cross-trained Cash Management in electronic

bank statement (EBS), US lockbox, cash position, cash application, cash

collections

. Worked on Billing Interfaces and ensured that Invoices and Customer

Master Data is loaded correctly every cycle

. Configured and designed various methods of payments, adjustments,

collections, reports, processes, refunds in AR

. Designed and configured Workflow to park GL documents over $50,000 and

trigger approval workflow to release the parked documents

. Involved in configuration of Asset classes, account determination, Number

ranges, assign G/L accounts, Depreciation areas, testing Asset Master

Records, depreciation, business transactions, postings, reposts

. Worked on functional specs to incorporate Customer Conversations into SAP

. Worked on ECCS and added new inter unit elimination and reclassification

tasks to be used instead of Consolidation of Investment module within ECCS

. Advised client of steps to be performed in order to begin using already-

configured ECCS module

. Collaborated with MM, FI-GL and CO teams to ensure the direct posting of

invoice receipt or goods receipt to assets in the asset accounting

component and passing of assets depreciation and interest directly to the

financial accounting (FI) and controlling (CO) components, ensured that GL

accounts are reconciled with asset balance sheet values and accumulated

depreciation

. Trained the Super-Users in Accounts Receivable and worked extensively on

the Training Manual documentation for Super-Users and End-Users

Endo Pharmaceuticals, Chad Ford, PA Sep'07 - Feb'08

Endo is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the research,

development, sale and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals used

primarily to treat and manage pain. This was an upgrade project from 4.6C

to ECC 6.0

Role: SAP FI/CO Production support Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Created Cost Centers, Profit Centers and tested the Balance Sheet and P&L

reports for the inclusion of New Legal entities in the reporting structure

. Coordinated with A/R manager and key Pharmaceuticals wholesalers for

lockbox implementation

. Mapped and configured Cashed checks and coordinated in changing the

process from manual to automatic

. Configured and executed the Automatic Payment Program

. Worked on Internal Orders for month-end settlements and reporting,

distributions and assessments

. Worked on Product Costing/Inventory Valuation, Sales and Distribution

Materials Management

. Worked on integration between FI-SD (OTC) and FI-MM (P2P)

. Worked on Special Purpose Ledger for functional area reconciliation as

part of month-end close

. Configured new GL and EC-CS; trained client in the configuration; wrote

Report Painter reports and trained client in how to write reports

. Worked on Integration, Unit testing and cutover activities using the

testing tool HP Quality Center

Grainger Inc., Lake Forest, IL Feb'07- Aug'07

Grainger is a $6 billion global distributor of power and hand tools, pumps,

janitorial supplies, and other products. This was an upgrade project from

4.7C to ECC 6.0

Role: SAP FI/CO Production Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed Business requirements and configured Asset accounting module

based on client requirements

. Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of

Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset

classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets

in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset

acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs,

Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment (FI-AA

Integration)

. Worked on Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation

simulations, Asset Classes, and Balance Carry Forward and reorganized

accounts for various Cost and Profit centers and programmed schedules and

Jobs

. Configured Input Tax Indicator, Screen Layout Rules and transactions like

write-offs, Capitalization of assets under constructions and Post

Capitalization (Write-Up to APC) of APC

. Developed and Configured entire Consolidations & Consolidations-Reporting

for multiple currencies & companies (EC-CS) and developed User exits for

specific Reporting requirements using Report Painter and Report Writer

. Responsible for Integration of Asset Accounting with General Ledger (FI-

AM), Defined Posting Rules to Cost Center and Specified Financial Statement

Versions for Asset Accounting

. Integrated Asset Accounting, Structured and Valuated Fixed Assets,

created Asset Values, Acquisitions Entry and Alterations during Use, and

Asset Retirement and Asset Scrapping

. Developed and continuously improved fixed asset (FI-AM) policies and

procedures to ensure proper controls over the asset base. Extensive

experience in Data Conversion

. Created Asset master records using LSMW and Batch Input Session, which

loads the master record data from the Excel Sheet to the Asset master

record structure in SAP

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

. Operating Systems : WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 98, 2000 & XP, MS DOS

. ERP : ECC 6.0{SAP FI (GL, AR, AP, AA), CO (PCA, CA, PA, IO, PC)}

EDUCATION:

. Pursuing Masters of Business Administration

. Bachelors of Finance

DOMAIN EXPERIENCE:

Organization : Mahavir Skoda Auto Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd.

India

Designation : Accounts Officer

Duration : June 2003 to Dec 2006

Mahavir Auto is total dealers & selling of Skoda Auto cars and

Mercedes Benz automobiles in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Responsibilities:

. Preparation and Presentation of financial statements

. Maintenance of total Purchases and sales ledgers

. Transactions of Banking Accounts - (A/c Payables and A/c Receivables)

. Preparation for Vendor Payments & Customers Receivables

. Preparation MIS Reports

. Dealing with Taxation matters includes sales tax and service tax

calculations

. Advances and payments to employees and settlements



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