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SAP FICO Consultant

Location:
Jacksonville, FL
Posted:
November 25, 2014

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Career Highlights

. Completed my SAP FI Certification (C_TFIN52_65 SAP Certified

Application Associate - Financial Accounting with ERP 6.0 EHP5)

. Received appreciation from Deloitte Project Principal & Partner for

excellent project delivery in 2013.

. Have been instrumental in designing Pre-sales artifacts (Presentations

and Questionnaire) for IFRS initiative at TCS

. Was handpicked for a Consulting engagement at TCS, aimed at global ERP

Harmonization for a client offering audio and video solutions

. Amongst the top 5% performers at Citibank Mumbai in the year 2009-2010

. Was selected for a trip to Malaysia along with other top performers

all over Citibank branches in India for overachieving my targets for

the quarter (2010).

Work Experience

Consultant, SAP Package Technologies, Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 2013 - April 2014

Client: AMG

Industry: Private Equity, Hedge Funds & Mutual Funds

Technical Environment: ECC 6.0

Project: Implementation

. Completed Configuration for Asset Accounting including:

1) Charts of Depreciation pertaining to five different regions

2) Defined depreciation areas pertaining to Ledger specific

requirement

3) Defined Screen layouts and Account Determination keys

4) Assets classes, asset number ranges & Account determination

5) Activation of account assignment objects

6) Defined Valuation methods & depreciation keys

7) Defined Transaction types for ledger specific acquisition &

retirement

8) Defined Transfer Variant for Intercompany transfers

9) Configuration to support AUC creation through Internal Orders

10) Defined default parameters for asset classes like useful life,

depreciation keys etc.

11) Defined parameters for data transfer

12) Financial statement version specification for Asset reports

. Completed configuration for EBS and Bank Keys.

. Created Configuration document and test scripts for all testing

phases.

. Completed Functional Unit Testing, Security Testing & Integration

testing for the Asset Configuration.

. Created Functional Specifications pertaining to EBS and Asset

Accounting

. Completed FUT (Functional Unit Testing) for Functional Specifications

. Helped in creating user training documents and presentation.

. Post Go-Live handholding and support.

Client: KCOM

Industry: Electronics & Telecommunications

Technical Environment: ECC 6.0

Project: Implementation

Responsibilities pertaining to Enterprise Structure & General Ledger:

. Defined Company Codes, Account groups (Group & Operating), & Field

Status Variant

. Group and Operating Chart of Accounts, Account for real time FI-CO

integration

. Document Types, Document Number Ranges, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting

Period Variant

. Assigned Scenarios for New GL and also maintained G/L accounts for the

entire group

Responsibilities pertaining to Asset Accounting:

. Common Chart of Depreciation

. Defined depreciation area (IFRS)

. Defined Screen layouts and Account Determination keys

. Assets classes, number range & Account determination

. Activation of account assignment objects

. Defined Valuation methods & depreciation keys

. Configuration to support AUC creation through Project Systems.

. Defined default parameters for asset classes like useful life,

depreciation keys etc.

. Defined parameters for data transfer

. Financial statement version specification

. Evaluation groups for user specific fields

. Completed Functional Unit Testing for Asset Configuration.

. Created Functional Specifications pertaining to Asset data conversion

. Completed FUT (Functional Unit Testing) for Functional Specifications

. Created Configuration document and test scripts for all testing

phases.

System Analyst, Enterprise Solutions Team, Tata Consultancy Services

Oct 2010 - June 2013

Consulting Assignments:

. Have been involved in a consulting engagement for a client operating

in premium commercial & professional audio and video segments, wherein

we were required to analyze data gathered at client workshops for ERP

Harmonization. These workshops were conducted at various global

locations to conduct feasibility study for ERP Instance consolidation

. For the engagement, I worked on SAP R/3 fitment assessment for the

Finance module (FICO). A comprehensive business analysis consisting of

risks and benefits pertaining to all the potential options was

conducted. The final deliverable comprised of As-Is scenarios and To-

Be recommendation along with the alternatives to be considered for ERP

Harmonization.

. As a part of the Pre-sales team, I have given several demos and also

worked on presentations pitches for a TCS proprietary testing

automation tool named FastForward.

. I also worked on IFRS initiative, for which I designed a web based

Questionnaire encompassing pre-assessment analysis and a Template of

best-fit solution for the companies participating in the questionnaire

based on the expected response set.

Client: Spotless Australia and New Zealand

Industry: Service, Service Area: Cleaning, Laundry, Managed services

Technical Environment: ECC 6.0

. I have been a part of the Implementation team for SAP Finance Module

for a top Australian service industry client

. Implemented basic settings like FI Enterprise structure, Global

Settings. The details are given below:

1) Chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Posting period variant,

Company code, Account groups, Configuring G/L account master

records, Tolerance group, Document types & Number ranges setup.

2) A/P Configuration - House banks and accounts, Vendor master data,

Automatic Payment Program-only testing.

3) A/R Configuration - Reason Codes for (Residual Payments), Employee

tolerance group and Customer master records.

4) Currency Settings, Cash Journal Setup and, Bank reconciliation

statement configuration, Provision for doubtful Debt.

5) Worked on Electronic Bank Statement including Search string

functionality.

6) Have written Validation & Substitution rules as per requirements.

. For the R2 (Second Release) phase of Implementation the major focus

areas was Asset accounting for which I had maintained the following

Elements- Chart of depreciation, Various assets classes, Types,

Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys, Accounts assignment etc.

. I have also got an opportunity to work on few challenging PCRs. For

e.g. a process was required to post non WBS revenues to the SAP

Profitability Analysis module (CO-PA), i.e. for non-standard operation

revenues posted directly to the General ledger.

. I have also worked on Enhancements and Change Requests as per the

functional specifications

. Have also uploaded data from Legacy System to SAP using LSMW in Final

Preparation Phase of the project.

. Experience in Configuration, Unit, Integration and User Acceptance

Testing.

Client: General Electric (M&C)

Industry: Service; Service Area: Technology

Technical Environment: ECC 6.0

. I have been a part of the Roll-out team for SAP Finance module for a

manufacturing client i.e. GE M&C business.

. I was involved in the Cut-over/Go-live & testing activities for

Interfaces for one cluster, which went live on 4th Feb 2013 & have

been able to effectively contribute towards closing the same to

customer's satisfaction.

. As an Integration lead I had to ensure successful Go-Live for all the

interfaces for our Cluster. I was handling 8 FI Interfaces and 4

generic interfaces pertaining to other modules.

. Have been involved in preparing Go-Live plans & time lines for each of

the Interfaces considering various phases of the project, like

Engagement with the Interface ESGAP team, data collection,

Configuration, TDD/FDD, Cut-over activities etc.

. Have ran E2E Business Scenarios test scripts to get a holistic

understanding of all the manufacturing processes & have also helped in

Interface testing during previous cluster Go-Live to get hands-on

experience.

. Have contributed effectively towards streamlining the process steps

involved in interfaces by creating a Cookbook and Master data

collection template for each Interface. Also prepared a Cut-over

activities checklist for better tracking & monitoring.

. Have been interacting with the Business process leads, site users,

super users, to understand the requirements & for data collection to

proceed with the configuration. Also been interacting with the ESGAP

Interface team which was developing the Interfaces.

Relationship Manager, Branch Banking, Citibank N.A

May 2008 - Aug 2010

As a Relationship Manager with the Wealth Management team at Citibank,

Mumbai/India branch, I was handling portfolios of Citigold customers. My

role at Citibank comprised:

. Advising existing and prospective clients on insurance, investment &

structured products to maximize their portfolio returns

. Advising organizations on managing their forex risk and also provide

trade services like BG, LC, SBLC etc.

. And helping organizations with debt financing by analyzing their

balance sheets.

Trainee Testing Engineer, Bansala Electricals

July 2004 - Sep 2005

As a Trainee Testing Engineer at Bansala Electricals, I was involved in

setting up a lab for testing of current transformers (CT) & potential

transformers (PT)

Certifications

. SAP Financial Accounting (FICO) module training for two weeks

. SAP LT 100 (Landscape Transformation) training

Education

1 MBA (Finance), Institute of Management, Nirma University (GPA: 2.44/4.4)

2006 - 2008

Summer Training: Development Credit Bank (DCB): "Designing SME strategy for

DCB after thoroughly analyzing the products offered by other competing

banks to the SME sector"

B. E(Electrical), Oriental Institute of Science & Technology (Percentage:

67.8%) 2000 - 2004

Co-curricular Achievements

. 1st Prize in Debate competition organized by Rotary Club of Jabalpur

. 1st Prize in Xpress Reloaded, a media promotional event organized by

XLRI Jamshedpur

. Won State level swimming competition for years 1998 & 1999

. 1st runners up at the Painting Contest organized by All India camel

color association

. Won Prizes at Sneh Chitrakala (Renowned painting competition)

consecutively for 5 yrs

. Won Best guide award during the Scouts & Guide camp in 1995

. Coordinator of students activity committee (SAC) at Nirma (MBA

College)

. Member - Students' Council OIST, Bhopal and handled all the student

activities in the college and acted as a liaison between the

administration and the students

VISA STATUS: L2 with approved EAD (Valid till Nov 2016)



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