Krishna Avadhanula

903-***-****

acgt14@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

> Over Nine years of experience in SAP configuration, design and

implementation

> Primary module experience includes: FI & CO with extensive work in

Product costing and COPA

> Cross functional experience working with P2P, O2C, PLM,OM teams.

> Solid conceptual knowledge in accounting principles and financial

analysis, experienced in requirements gathering, and sound

understanding of business processes

> Experienced in postproduction support and training

> Expertise in developing custom reports using report painter and ABAP

> Proven ability to comprehend business requirements, cross

functional module impact.

> Recognized by both management and peers for integrity, dependability

and flexibility in meeting objectives

> Team spirit, quick adaptability, business acumen, analytical mindset &

commercial instinct

> Excellent Communication skills and the knowledge attained through

the involvement in different projects make me suitable for

adapting to any work environment.

Educational Qualifications

Master of Science Dec 2005

Major: Computer Science

Texas A & M University, Commerce, TX

GPA 3.6/4.00

Bachelor of Technology

April 2003

Major: Computer Science

Nagarjuna Institute of Technology & Sciences

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Kraft Foods

Dec 2012 - Current

Northfield, IL

Business Process Manager RTR-FICO

> Developed end to end process for tax team to retain tax relevant

data by implementing DaRT (Data Retention Tool).

> Designed end to end process for Kraft restructuring program called

Cost Savings Initiative using Project Systems module. Worked with

several teams to integrate this process with STP, payroll and Concur

systems that allowed posting expenses directly to projects. Several BI

& BOBJ reports were built to support the business users.

> Designed a process for I/C team to perform intercompany

reconciliations between affiliates in one central system by

implementing standard out of box ICR tool. This greatly simplified

their reconciliation process during month end.

> Built a process for Fixed Assets team to accelerate depreciation of

fixed assets.

> Developed a process for R&D team to track their project expenses

using internal orders thus by retiring their legacy system which

resulted in savings of 4MM dollars.

> Designed new interfaces for APRIMO marketing tool to post

advertising and marketing expenses in ECC.

> Involved in the design, testing, training and go-live of MRO

process.

Client: Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co. LLC

July 2012 - Nov 2012

Chicago, IL

Sr. SAP Analyst

> Configured Dunning procedures to send timely reminder to European

customers on outstanding dues. Similarly US Customers were

directly emailed customer statements using BTEs.

> Exclusively worked on COPA and trained users on using COPA

reports.

> Setup new allocation cycles to allocate overhead costs to COPA.

> Configured new substitution and validation rules.

> Worked on Long Term Planning and its integration to Cost Center

Accounting. Configured new cost split structure to assign activity

independent costs to activity types.

> Worked exclusively in helping business understand internal order

settlement for their CAPEX orders and settlement of AUC's to fixed

assets.

> Trained users in fixed assets transactions and helped them in

forecasting depreciation for the next fiscal year.

> Optimized Lockbox postings to ensure minor differences are

directly posted to accounts.

Client: British Petroleum

Apr 2012 - June 2012

Hyderabad, India (IBM India)

> Made changes to asset classes and depreciation areas that allowed

the business to manually maintain certain fields like asset

depreciation start date.

> Modified user exit to post excise duty taxes.

> Worked on MOT taxes for Italy.

Full time employee at American Unit Inc. Sep 2005 - April 2012

SAP FICO Consultant

Client: Rockwell Automation

May 2008 - Feb 2012

Milwaukee, WI

> Configured product costing module (Product Cost Planning & Cost Object

Controlling) to carry out scenario testing for pilot release and for

global roll out

> Design and configured Cost Component Structure and Costing Variant.

> Configured WIP Calculation, variance calculation and Settlement

Structure for settlement of Production Orders

> Designed overhead costing sheet for markup price for international

STO's which includes Mexico and Europe

> Created order types for Assemble to order, Make to stock, and

Configure to order processes along with settlement profiles and PA

transfer structure

> Configured COPA module to be able to support flow of production

variances to CO-PA

> Designed Costing run processes for go-live and annual costing

> Designed month end process for product costing (includes WIP, Variance

and settlement processes)

> Configured Sales Order costing for Configure to order (CTO) and

Assemble to Order (ATO) processes

> Created complete set of business process procedures for product cost

controlling and worked with end users to provide adequate training

> Designed data validation techniques for go-lives between legacy system

and SAP to verify cost estimates

> Worked with users in production to carry out the costing run and

manage month end processes and miscellaneous production support

> Month end job scheduling was automated using Control-M.

> A new report was built to split Purchase price variance into

Material, Freight, Duty and Exchange rate variances.

> Worked extensively with cross streams in designing the collective

order process.

> Designed a report to get actual cost component split for the ETO

and CTO related orders.

> Worked extensively in designing the Intercompany drop ship process

for standard parts and CTO/ETO orders.

> Configured Material Ledger/Actual Costing in Sandbox for the

client to understand the advantages of it.

> Built a Intellectual Property model that allowed markups to be

posted accurately.

> Created a report to forecast revenue for CTO/ETO products and

contracts.

> Developed a cost plus plus model which allows business to add

multiple markups on costed materials.

> Created SOLMAN configuration documents.

Client: BOSE

Jan 2007 - April 2008

Framingham, MA

> Created new reports in COPA

> Worked extensively on Cost center, Internal Order and COPA

planning

> Worked on the order settlements.

> Configured Result Analysis that excluded Freight costs from COGS.

> Built new Product costing report to display standard cost of

production costs Worked with the offshore team to assist in the

development of reports.

> Configured new payment methods for the payment advice notes to be

sent directly to the vendor.

> Worked with the Logistics Consultants to map Sales Offices, Sales

Groups and Plant Codes as COPA Characteristics.

> Created user defined reports like profitability by customer, product,

and market using Report Painter and Report Writer.

> Configured settings for WIP, settlement rules for order settlement and

variance settlement.

> Trained the users on Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, COPA,

Profit Center Accounting and Internal Orders with special focus on

month end closing.

> Helped the users during the UAT testing.

> Traveled to various plants in DR and Mexico to train the users.

> Was involved in unit and integration testing of the system.

> Involved in the validation of data in the legacy system.

> Tested various custom transactions and also worked on Remittance

advice notes that were sent to vendors and Positive Pay report.

Implementer: Accenture

Client: Phelps Dodge

Feb 2006- Dec 2006

Tempe, AZ

> Created and maintained the configuration settings required for company

code & controlling area.

> Configured and maintained the exchange rates.

> Configured the settings required for calculating taxes including VAT.

> Created the financial statement version.

> Configured Controlling area, activated controlling indicators,

assigned controlling area to company code, maintained number ranges

and versions, created primary and secondary cost elements.

> Defined standard hierarchy, created cost centers and activated CCA and

PCA.

> Configured costing based Profitability analysis.

> Created Operating Concern, Profitability segments, configured new

characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques

like table lookups and derivation rules.

> Maintained multiple valuation strategies to facilitate flow of

standard costs & actual costs to CO-PA.

> Reconciliation of COPA to PCA for P&L accounts. .

> Assigned values fields to condition types to transfer values from

billing documents.

> Created contribution margin report for the managers to assess the

company's profits and expenses.

> Made sure that prerequisites were met for calculating costs for

byproducts - co product indicator selected in both the material master

and BOM.

> Configured costing variants, valuation variants, costing sheets, cost

component structures, used marking and releasing for price updating,

running standard cost cycles, actual costing, variance analysis and

settlement, integrated CO-PC with material masters, BOMs, routings.

> Assisted in end user documentation.

Client: Smith & Nephew Inc.

Sep 2005 - Jan 2006

Andover, MA

> Conducted Boot camp sessions for the Finance Team and trained the

users with the SAP

> screens.

> Conducted the workshops for explaining the integration between

FI/CO & MM & SD modules.

> Helped the accountants in the mapping of G/L accounts from their

legacy system to SAP.

> Conducted blueprint workshops and finalized the blueprint for the

FI/CO module.

> In CO-CCA defined the master records like cost elements (primary

and secondary), cost

> element groups, reconciliation ledger, cost centers, cost center

groups and standard

> hierarchy.

> In Profit center accounting maintained the basic settings, created

master data for profit

> centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, activity

types, assigned Profit center to the

> respective cost centers & created Profit center hierarchy.

> Defined activity types and statistical key figures for calculation

of overheads.

> Defined distribution and assessment cycles for business unit

allocations and defined planning

> profiles.

> In Internal Orders created and defined the new order type

including statistical orders and

> maintained the settlement profile, defined the planning,

settlement and budget profile and

> finally settled it to respective cost centers, configured the

assignments, maintained the actual

> postings, plan version maintenance.

> Helped business with month end closing activities.

> Provided configuration support in MM integration for account

determination, material

> movement setup.

> Developed reports using report painter, provided functional and

technical specifications for ABAP

developments.

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