SUMMARY

Having total more than ** years of experience in which 9.4 years of experience in SAP R/3 as FICO Consultant. Have worked on a variety of projects, like implementation, rollouts/ Geo Expansions, enhancements, post-production support and SAP data archiving. Have worked on SAP 3.1i to 6.0 version of SAP R/3.

Have carried out complete SAP R/3 end-to-end project implementations.

Have good understanding of business processes

Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities of FICO modules

Worked on O2C, P2P and R2R business processes

Extensive experience in integration across Sales& Distribution and Materials Management modules

Knowledge on Revenue Recognition and Intercompany transactions

Technical skills include SAP Business Intelligence, ABAP Reports, RFC, ALE, EDI, IDOCs, BDC, LSMW, Interfaces and Smart forms

Good team player, Strong team orientation & leadership qualities, hard working and enthusiastic.

Very good logical skills suitable for process design, development & implementation.

Excellent communication and presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.

IT EXPERIENCE

Working for WIPRO Technologies as Project Leader from 16th Jul 2010 to till date

Worked with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC India) as Project Leader from 01st Jul 2008 to 13th Jul 2010

Worked with Catalytic Software as Sr. SAP FICO Consultant from 09th Mar 2006 to 30th Jun 2008

PROJECT DETAILS

Project I Apr 2012 – Till date

Client

Apple Inc, USA

Duration

39 months (Onsite since Feb’14 to until present)

Project

Apple Projects

Position

Lead FICO Consultant

Contribution

Presently working on Retail expansion projects

Worked on Enhancements for Country Brazil

Worked on Onyx project (Rollout) P2P and O2C processes for country US

Worked on VPP credit sales project phase3

Calculating the Bounty percentage of VPP sales through Apple Retails stores

Involved in iTunes Gift Card Project for GL re-classification

Involved in Buy/ Sell project for country Russia

Involved Finished Goods (FG), Apple Care (AC) DC’s setup (Phase II) and Apple Online Stores (AOS) (Phase III) processes rollout for the Country Russia

Business requirements/ process study

Requirements gathering

Involved in the business discussion for requirements

Understood the AS-IS process, designed TO-BE process and developed the design document

Configured the SAP system according to the design document for country Russia

Prepared configuration design documents

Involved in the GAP Analysis

Done the cut-over activities

Prepared test plans for unit testing, integration testing

Performed Unit and Integration testing, supported for UAT

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

Project II Jul 2011 – Feb 2012

Client

Domtar (Weyerheauser), Canada

Duration

8 months (Offshore)

Project

SAP Production Support and Development

Position

Lead FICO Consultant

Contribution

Responsible for configuration and post implementation production support of finance, asset management and controlling modules

Worked on incidents and Change Requests

Testing

Coordination with onsite and business

Supported to multiple systems/ landscapes

Environment

SAP 4.7

Project III Aug 2010 – Jul 2011

Client

TNT, UK

Duration

12 months (2 months Onsite)

Project

SAP Rollouts/ Small Projects/ Euro Conversion

Position

Lead FICO Consultant

Contribution

China/ Kenya country Rollouts

Template Rollout: We have used the TNT standard rollout template for countries China and Kenya

Accounts Payable: Global settings of multiple currencies and Exchange rate differences and round off methods. House banks and accounts, company and paying company code data, country and company code payment methods, bank selection, vendor groups and master records. Invoice validation, setup detailed specs for electronic settlements (banking, wire transfers, ACH, billing, etc). Worked with the multiple currencies translations and revaluations. Created proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc Integration with SD and MM modules

In Accounts Payable, created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups.

Account Receivables: Configured customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys and document types for posting and validation of business transactions. Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels Automatic payment configurations.

Configured dunning procedure to remind the customers. Configured the system to display account balance, line item balance, open item clearing, customer/vendor clearing and intercompany transaction postings

Asset Accounting: Defined Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Asset classes, Trasnfer of APC and Depreciation terms, Parallel currencies, Dep areas for foreign currencies, Special valuation, Screen layouts, Transactions, Depreciation, Ledger reporting and integration FI-AA with General Ledger

Gathered business requirements, held meetings with Super users as well as internal IT resources for the processes

Provided presentations to the SAP process flows to the core business users

Done the unit and integration testing for all processess

Done the data migration for all SAP systems

Euro Conversion

Done the pre requisites of euro conversion for the country Estonia

Cleared the errors after ran the conversion programs by SAP AG team

Prepared the reconciliation reports before converting the data for all SAP systems

Prepared the reconciliation reports for GL, Vendors, Customers, Assets balances, Cost centers, Profit centers and Internal Orders

Compared the recon reports before and after SAP system conversion with EURO conversion value

Small Projects

Third Party billing (Intercompany configuration)

Poland country extension for Reporting

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

Project IV Jul 2010 – Aug 2010

Client

VF Asia, Hong Kong

Duration

1 month Onsite

Project

SAP Implementation

Position

SAP FICO Consultant

Contribution

Requirements gathering

Involved in the business requiements discussions

Presentations provided to the core business process owners

Prepared blueprint documents

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

Project V May 2010 – Jul 2010

Client

Momentive, USA

Duration

2 months (Offshore)

Project

SAP implementation

Position

Lead FICO Consultant

Contribution

Supported to ABAP technical team for preparation of functional specifications and involved in configuration and testing activities

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

Project VI Sep 2009 – Apr 2010

Client

THP, Vietnam

Duration

8 months (Offshore)

Project

SAP implementation

Position

FICO Consultant

Contribution

Configured company code which includes creating chart of accounts, defined posting period variant, retained earnings account, document types, and tolerance groups for employees, created financial statement version.

Followed ASAP Implementation methodology and designed the business processes, wrote blueprint phase documentation and completed Configuration during realization phase.

Configured various components in the SAP FI/CO like Accounts Receivable (A/R), Accounts Payable (A/P) and General Ledger Accounts

Creation of FI-AR number ranges, incoming payment, and reconciliation accounts, overall receivables management and terms of payment.

Responsible for Configuring the Dunning Program, Interest calculation on Open items, Correspondences and Account Statement process and defined the layout and the functional specifications for creating dunning letters which will have the ability to be both mailed and emailed.

Documented all changes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes from the clients legacy system.

Created characteristics and value fields in COPA. Configured the derivative rules for user-defined characteristics, created costing keys for transferring current cost estimate in COPA.

Environment

SAP ECC 6.0

Project VII Mar 2006 - Sep 2009

Client

Sonneborn, USA and Netherlands

Duration

42 months

Project

SAP Development, Production support and Data Archiving

Position

SAP FICO Consultant

Contribution

As a functional consultant responsible for configuration and post implementation production support of finance, asset management and controlling modules

Defined new summarization levels for improving the report performance in CO-PA and set how the system determines the most suitable summarization level for reports. It primary purpose of CO-PA report is to display information in summarized form

Configured Revaluation of assets – Defined depreciation areas for revaluation, specify area type, transfer of APC values, transfer of depreciation terms, activating the depreciation areas for asset classes, determine depreciation areas, revaluation measures, assignment of accounts for revaluation of APC and revaluation of accumulated depreciation and transfer types for revaluation

Contributed for preparing Functional design specifications for ABAP reports as per business requirement and functionality testing for customized reports

Interacting with end users to understand the issue when required. Documentation of all changes, enhancements made in SAP system and placed in shared point

Inaddition to the above, responsible is to archive old SAP data in this project. Done archiving prerequisites such as table analysis, technical customization and object specific configuration. Defined logical file path/ file names and assignment of physical path to logical path. Configured logical file name, size of archiving file and settings for archive/delete program for each archiviing object. Object specific configuration such as residence time/ retention periods, document/ account life etc. Successfully completed the archiving for purchasing, sales, finance, controllong and production related archiving objects in development system. Prepared user documentation for all archiving objects which are successfully archived

Environment

SAP 3.1i

FUNCTIONAL (NON SAP) EXPERIENCE

Worked for Apex Logical Data Conversion Ltd from Feb 99 to Apr 04

Worked for Apex Advanced Technologies from Jan 98 to Feb 99

ALD/ AAT has been the world's premier provider of data conversion services and ePublishing services to Academic institutions, Research libraries, Archival Institutions, Electronic Publishers, Financial Institutions and Public Utilities.

Group Leader – Production

Responsible for the monitoring the employees (entry/scanning operators, data analysts) and interaction with employees. Utilizing the manpower effectively based on flexibility of those and coordinating between departments and staff.

Involved the production planning in monthly and daily basis and allocation of employees based on flexibility and requirement (right people at right place). Approach to the problems promptly and provide the resolution.

Assisting data analysts/processors to develop macros to capture and rectify data problems

Giving the feedbacks to the employees (production staff) whose performance is below the standards on daily basis to improve the efficiency. Responsible for writing the technical queries and sending it to the technical project leaders situated at Apex ePublishing data services LLC.

Group Leader – Process Quality

Responsible for monitoring task wise quality of production staff (entry/scanning operators, data analysts) and review each stage and task wise quality on hourly basis, giving suggestions, proposed work around solutions for the related task.

Work allocation for the quality department staff (proof readers and quality analysts) for checking the samples of production staff and issuing the quality problem report (QPR) at production level when there was unsystematic, widespread of errors observed.

Assisting quality analysts to develop macros to identify data errors of production staff

Also responsible for prepare daily reports of total production and samples covered at different stages and train the quality staff on new projects, Monitoring the work norms, preparing the reports for controlling and monitoring the quality of production process, also facilitating decision making. Prepare the weekly and monthly performance reports of all production staff and send to top management.

Accounts Executive – Accounts

Responsible for verification of daily bank positions and cash flow statement, day to day purchase bills, expense voucher approvals. Maintenance of day-to-day bank transactions and compiling monthly bank reconciliation statements.

Preparation of payroll statements for more than 300 employees and profit and loss statement account and balance sheet finalization work on monthly basis and also provisional balance sheet. Preparing budget formulation and monitoring, preparation of management information systems like monthly profitable statement, cost expenses statement for various departments.

Attending of income tax and sales tax assessments, liasioning with auditor for statutory and tax audit. Liaison works with banks and government offices.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (Electronics) from Nagarjuna University

Master of Business Administration (Finance) from Nagarjuna University

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified SAP Financials in ECC 6.0 from SAP AG in January 2010

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