Sriram Chitturu

acfyqj@r.postjobfree.com

615-***-**** (Cell)

Summary:

. Twelve Plus years of SAP FICO experience in GL, AP, AR, Banking, Asset

Accounting, Special Purpose Ledger, CCA, PC, COPA and PCA and 4 Years

of functional and Banking Sectors.

. Four full life cycle implementations and 4 support projects in various

industries like Retail, manufacturing and Banking Industries.

. Specialized in FICO-General Ledger, Accounts Receivable,Accounts

Payable, Asset Accounting and CO-Cost Center Accounting, Internal

Orders, Travel Expenses Management and Profitability Analysis

. Worked on New General Ledger parallel ledgers with different

currencies and fiscal year variants, document splitting, and new GL

distributions

. Well versed in integration aspects of Materials Management, Sales and

Distribution and Project Systems with FI

. Excellent experience in business requirement gathering, blue printing

using ASAP methodology.

. Four years of strong functional experience in the areas of finance and

accounts in Manufacturing industries

. Successfully resolved issues relating to Sox Compliance by

implementing Best Practices of SAP.

. Reduced month end closing cycle time for Intercompany Reconciliations

by implementing Special purpose ledger.

. Streamlined the month end Close process by automating the Period

Close.

. Experience in interfaces with banks, third party software, Hyperion.

. Reduced the number of outstanding support tickets by 20% by improving

the processes and streamlining the knowledge warehouse. Consistently

achieved SLA levels.

. Capable of understanding and acquire the new technologies and

processes, and successfully applying them to current projects.

. Possess strong analytical thinking, troubleshooting capabilities and

excellent inter-personal and cross communication skills.

. Working Knowledge on HP Quality Center for Testing and recording the

test cases.

. Self-starter and excellent team player with good at communication

skills.

. Received Associate of the Month award two times from Mahindra Satyam.,

for excellent support to the client and for mentoring and enhancing

the productivity the offshore team.

. Received Extra Mile Award for Best Project of the quarter award from

Nissan for 2011 First Quarter for a resolving $1.8 BN Sox Compliance

issue.

1. Copart Inc, Dallas TX

Project Type Implementation Project

Role Manager SAP FICO

Duration 09/2012 - Till Date

Responsible for SAP FICO deliverable. At Copart we are implementing SAP

FICO for 14 countries. In addition to the FI implementation, responsible

to identify the new opportunities and present the solution to business for

stakeholders approval.

. Establish the project timelines, deliver projects within the timeline

. Responsible to prioritize, plan, and schedule implementation activities

. Responsible for people management, hiring the team and educate with

client specific requirements.

. Help organize and lead workshops to gather and validate business

requirements

. Configuration and documentation of new design

. Build and execute unit testing (build test cases, perform tests, and make

changes to configuration or processes based on results)

. Participate in and help drive functional design specifications

. Work closely with business members of Finance team to facilitate

effective development

. Work with users to coordinate information exchange for support of systems

changes.

. Develop and administer user support documentation and provide training

and coaching to end-users

. Document and control all changes made to productions systems via change

control process

. Provide SAP demonstrations to end users to validate design

. Work with the BI team to develop reports in support of the business needs

. Conduct job duties and responsibilities according to the organization's

business systems development methodology and/or its Systems Development

Life Cycle

. Design and deliver end-user training and training materials; provide

functional support as necessary

. Troubleshoot SAP applications as necessary

. Act as evangelist for FI benefits across the organization; promote BI

usage to relevant departments

. Mentor other IT team members in SAP configuration

2. Cooper Standard, Auburn IN

Project Type Implementation Project

Role FICO - Systems Analyst

Duration 12/2011 - 09/2012

. Responsible for New GL and Banking module for North America

implementation. Implementation includes US, Canada and Mexico

. Configure and document new design

. Build and execute unit testing (build test cases, perform tests, and

make changes to configuration or processes based on results)

. Participate in and help drive functional design specifications

. Work closely with business members of Finance team to facilitate

effective development

. Lockbox configuration for US and Canada

. Conducted user acceptance training workshops trained the business

users in adapting to the new SAP environment

. Post Go Live Support for Banking, GL, AP and AR areas.

. Provide SAP demonstrations to end users to validate design

2. Nissan North America, Nashville TN

Project Type Support and Implementation Projects

Role Project Lead - SAP FICO

Duration 08/2007 - 12/2011

As part of the onsite Lead, lead and manage the daily activities and

business requirements for FI/CO (AP, AR, AA and GL and CO areas). We

partner with Nissan IS Business Analysts and Managers, interacting directly

with end user and Nissan managements on Run The Business Activities and

enhancements.

Responsible for timely deliverable for Small to Major Projects, as part of

deliverable closely work with Business and offshore to deliver the end

product. Delivery includes training and support the UAT.

Responsible to work with Business and convert the requirements into

Projects. These include proto typing the solutions and present it to

business.

Production Support

. Primary production support for the SAP FICO and leading the offshore

functional team of four.

. Prioritizing and addressing help desk tickets.

. Communicating status of open items with business as well Nissan BA's.

. FI configuration at Global and client level.

. CO configuration at Global and client level.

. Working with offshore functional and technical team to explore the new

opportunities to implement at client level.

. Planning and coordinating for month-end and year-end activities with

operational team and schedulers.

. Data Migration using Win shuttle, LSMW.

. Assisting business (clients) with the creation new jobs, including

payment proposals and coordinating with schedulers for scheduling the

same.

. Closely working with Nissan IS team about new enhancements and removal

of dependencies with host systems.

. Convert the Accounts into Open Item Managed and OIM to non-OIM etc.

. Supporting Day to Day activities of AP, Treasury, GL and Controlling.

Major and Minor Enhancements

. Communicate with team members to reach an understanding of business

requirements and feasibility.

. Coordinate with offshore team to document and communicate

requirements, ensuring completion of enhancement within the agreed

timeframe.

. Co-ordinate Major Enhancement and projects from onsite.

. Configuration for new company codes in SAP based on the requirements

from the business.

. Maintenance of Master data, creation of GL account, Cost Center,

profit centers and extend the same to various company codes.

. Creation of number ranges as part of year end activities.

. Creation of check lots, house banks, new payment methods and payment

terms.

. Configuration of GL Journal Workflow.

. VITRIA integration with SAP and supporting the VITRIA interfaces.

. Analyze business processes and existing data flow across and among

systems. Make recommendation to business for process improvements

using SAP instead of legacy systems.

. Provided the demo to business users to implement the Cost Accounting

System and Production costing.

. Coordinate User Acceptance Testing with business and end users (direct

interaction and communication with clients).

. Demo Given to client for VIM (Open Text)

Projects:

Worked on Implementation projects

. Worked as coordinator for SAP Upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0 between

technical team and business.

. Shift Inventory: Moving Inventory Management to SAP from mainframe.

Customized VMS in SAP.

. Implemented of Asset Accounting module, financial interfaces and SD,

MM integration to FI.

. Implemented GRIR project for Parts Accounting in SAP, brought the

entire Parts Accounting system not SAP through GRIR process.

. Implemented Smart forms for Check printing (conversion from Jet forms)

. EBS to Nissan Canada.

. Conducted workshops for ECC 6.0 upgrade and provided Blue Print.

3. British Petroleum, Tulsa, OK

Project Type Support

Role FI/CO Team Lead (Asst. Manager)

Duration 10/2006 - 4/2007

Project Description

British Petroleum is a leading manufacturer of Petroleum products. IBM

provides accounting and information systems to upstream business for

British Petroleum. My role as Assistant Manger for FICO Support team was

to analyze requests from clients and End Users, then to assign these

requests to my team members. The FICO Support team consisted of eight

members.

. Supporting End Users for UAT and other testing involved in SAP

. Responsible for proper closure of month-end activities (Co-

ordinating between business, Nissan IS and TWS)

. Responsible for proper uploading of Balance sheet allocation

entries.

. Execute the monthly accruals

. Provide solution to automate open and close posting period as per

the schedule and as per requirement.

. Migrate data from legacy system to SAP

. Maintenance of Master data, creation of GL account, Cost Center,

profit centers and extend the same to various company codes.

. Convert the Accounts into Open Item Managed and OIM to non-OIM etc.

. Populate G/L accounts using BDC's, according to specifications

given for transfer from legacy into SAP using flat files and

translation tables, for accounts receivables and accounts payable.

. Configure company code, posting period variants, opening of posting

periods, fiscal year variants, field status groups, document

ranges, tolerance groups, and assigning the variants to company

code etc.

. Configure and customize General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts,

screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial

statement version, validation and substitutions.

4. Celestica International, Toronto, Canada

Project Type Support

Role FI/CO Team Lead

Duration 02/2005 - 10/2006

Project Description

Celestica is a leading manufacturer of electronics manufacturing services

(EMS) company and Celestica's primary output is complex printed circuit

assemblies, including PC motherboards and communication and networking

cards. My role was FICO Team Lead for supporting to SAP End Users,

processing requests from the Client for smooth month end closing. My team

consisted of two members.

. Responsible for smooth closure of month end activities

. Execute jobs for carry forward balances at year end.

. Open and close Posting periods during month ends and year end.

. Responsible for proper uploading of the balance sheet allocation

entries

. Execute monthly Accrual jobs

. Responsible for creating and posting recurring entries based on

business requirements.

. End User Training based on the business needs.

. Create document number ranges as part of year end activity.

5. British Petroleum, Houston, TX

Project Type Support

Role Team Member

Duration 02/2004 - 02/2005

Project Description

British Petroleum is manufacturer of biggest oil and natural gas company in

the world with turnover of over $233 billion. The business is divided into

various business units with an average turnover of $6-$7billion. I worked

as a team member for supporting to SAP End Users as well as processing

requests from the client and Accenture, Houston.

0. Responsibilities includes handling issues and enhancements and

interaction with Offshore support team to resolve their day to day issues

1. Functional Consultant for the Production Support of SAP R/3 4.6C

2. Data conversion and uploading allocation entries through Excel Database

3. Data Mapping for Conversion of Legacy system into SAP using LSMW

4. Populating G/L accounts using BDC's, specifications were given for

transfer from legacy into SAP using flat files, Accounts receivables and

payables.

5. Responsible for the first line user support for India and USA

6. Creation and maintenance of GL accounts.

7. Creation of Cost centers, Profit Centers and Nodes

8. Creation of Recurring Entries based on business requirements

9. Reconciliations for GL and Spl GL

6. Rockman Cycle Industries Ltd. India

Project Type Full Cycle Implementation Project

Role FI Team Member

Duration 11/2002 - 01/2004

Project Description:

Rockman Cycles Ltd., is a leading manufacturer of international quality

hubs chains, crank case cover and allied accessories both for motor cycles

and bicycles using state of the art technology comparable with the best

international standards with a turnover of 1070 million rupees and it has

network of 2500 dealers.

Responsibilities & Contribution

My role here is a team member from the start to the end of the

implementation of the project in all the five stages. The scope of this

implementation involved and the sub modules and functionalities being

implemented were:

. Functional consultant for implementation of accounts receivable,

accounts payable, G/L and fixed asset management in SAP-FI.

. The scope of work included as-is study, to be analysis, gap analysis,

business process re-engineering, configuration, modifications to suit

the client's requirements, user documentation, and user training.

. Created flowcharts and received approval from Key users, and created

Business blue print for the existing processes.

. Based on consistent analysis and functional requirements, SAP

reference business processes are modeled to suit client's

requirements, using SAP Reference Model. To be processes were designed

in terms of Process view, component view, functional view, information

view and organizational view. Demonstrated one way of working for the

approval of the client.

. Gap analysis carried between SAP reference process and to-be concept

and additional functional requirements were documented.

. Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status

groups, posting keys, document types, Open and close posting periods

and created G/L account master records.

. Configuration of master data, business transactions, dunning

/payment processes in AR/AP

. Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various

depreciation areas and depreciation keys required, fixed asset

classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Responsibilities

also involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user

requirement.

. Cost Center /Profit Center Accounting - Defined standard hierarchy for

cost center accounting, designed automatic account assignments,

assigned profit centers to cost center, created primary &

secondary cost elements

. Integration - Assigned G/L accounts for the predefined processes for

integration with AM (AA), SD and MM modules.

. Closing of accounts - Created GR/IR clearing accounts, individual

value adjustments, posting of periodic accrual and deferral expenses

and revenues and carry forward of balances.

7. Medison, Korea

Project Type Full Cycle Implementation Project

Role FI Team Member

Duration 07/2002 - 11/2002

Project Description:

The project was done taking live data of Medison India Pvt Limited a

simulated In-House Mode and was given as a prototype for pre sales

presentation. The client was primarily a trading organization, which dealt

in Medical equipments software and is in to sales of equipment sales &

service and sales of spares. It is also into direct Sales with branches

spread across the country. This End-to-End Implementation Project was

covering the following components - FI, CO, MM and SD.

. Enterprise Structure - chart of accounts, company code configuration,

business areas/functional area. general ledger - creation of

chart of accounts, configuring gl master records, field status

groups, posting key configuration, financial statement

versions, gl display configuration

. Accounts Payable/Receivable - Defining FI - AP/AR group, Credit

control Area, creation of tolerance groups, automatic payment system,

vendor/customer down payment, payment request, clearing request

. House Banks & Accounts - payment program configuration, cash journal

. Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various

depreciation areas and depreciation keys required, fixed asset

classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Responsibilities

also involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user

requirement.

PROFESSIONAL NON SAP EXPERIENCE:

8. GER Vasavi Group, Hyderabad India

Role Accounts Officer

Duration 07/1998- 06/2002

Sarita Software & Industries Limited (formerly Sarita Synthetics and

Industries Ltd) is a 100% Export Oriented Unit, Manufacturers of Textile

Products Viz., Synthetic Yarn, Cotton and Polyester Grey Fabric. My role

was coordinate with banks and financial institutions, day to day accounting

operations and coordinate with auditors.

. Handled finance activities of the company

. Preparation of management information system(MIS)

. Preparation and presentation of financial statements, Cash flow

statements etc.,

. Preparation of stock statements, financial reports etc.,

. Preparation of application/projections of financial statements for

banks/ Financial Institutions.

. Reconciliation's of debtors & group companies on quarterly basis

. Liaison with banks for companies financial activities and loans

. Monitoring subordinates and day to day accounting activities

. Monitoring of factory and branch activities

Education:

. Masters Degree: Master of Financial Management from Pondicherry

University, India

. Professional Degree: CA Final Group 1 from Chartered Accountant from

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

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