Consultant’s Profile

REGUNATHAN KRISHNAN Senior SAP FICO Consultant

MR. Krishnan has Over twenty five years of experience of Accounting experience including fifteen plus years in SAP FI/CO(AP/AR)& TR & SAP FI/CO as Project Manager. He has R/3 implementation experience in FI (GL/AR/AP/AA/Treasury,& CO (CCA/IO/PCA/PC/COPA), He has experience in Integration with SD, MM Modules. He is a Subject Matter Expertise for SAP FICO. He was a Project Management Team member involved in up gradation from 4.6c to ECC 6 of SAP FICO application. He has Developed business process documentation. Experienced in analysis, design specifications, development, performance tuning, testing, documentation, maintenance and trouble-shooting. He has Experience with 5 full life cycle FICO project Management END – END implementations with some at Global Deployment. Developed blueprints by interacting with the functional experts, business analysts, management and end users. Having exposure in SDLC. He has User training and Knowledge transfer on the process and assistance in developing end user document. He has Ability to create informative project management documentation for all configuration completed and end user documentation on how to perform daily and periodic routine functions and required maintenance items. He has Identified Role Owners in Project Management (including system owners for support team roles) from within or outside of Business Owner listing

Financial Accounting expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI – G/L),Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Asset Accounting (FI-AA),Bank Accounting (FI-BA) and Treasury.

Expertise in Controlling includes Cost Element Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA),Product Costing (CO-PC), Material Ledger (CO-ML), Internal Order Accounting.

Experience in configuring Investment Management module and Grants Management module.

Thorough understanding of integration with SD, MM, PP, QM, WM, PM.

Experience in Configuring Lockbox Program with EDI and IDOC setup.

Expertise in using LSMW for conversion and transfer of master and transactional data from legacy to SAP system.

Excellent working knowledge in development of reports using Report Painter, Report Writer & ABAP Query.

Experience in Production Support for 4.6 C, 4.7 C, ECC 6.0 and upgrade experience for 4.7C

Proven experience in functionality testing, unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.

Excellent Analytical skills to effectively define processes and system configuration that meet business requirement.

Experience in interacting with clients, analyzing business processes, performing GAP analysis, mapping the requirement to SAP specific business processes.

Excellent working knowledge of Unit Testing ( Complete Unit testing of FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA)

High Learning Curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the project implementation cycle.

Education and Honors

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Madurai Kama-raj University

Madurai Kama-raj University

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Institute of Chartered Accountant of India

Siemens India

B Com(First class with Distinction)

MCA (First class with Distinction)

Project Leadership Training

Financial Accounting Concepts

(one year training)

SAP FI/CO training(Authorized by SAP Labs-Bangalore)

FI Configuration Skills

FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year, Posting period, Company code, Business areas, Field status groups, functional areas, sales and purchase tax, Group Currency and Hard Currency Account.

FI-GL: Account groups, GL Master Records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/purchase tax assignment, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Business Area accounting.

FI-AR: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, Lockbox Process and Closing operations.

FI-AP: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts.

FI-Asset Accounting: Asset Class, Asset Master Record, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys, Multilevel methods, Acquisition, Work in Progress, Retirement, Multiple Depreciation area, Parallel Currencies.

Financial Statements: Financial Closing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, GR/IR accounts, financial statement creation.

Bank Accounting: House Banks, bank accounts, Manual Bank statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Free form of payment, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program.

Treasury: Cash Concentration, Cash forecasting, planning level and planning groups. Data flow from logistics modules.

CO Configuration Skills

CO: Configuring controlling areas, cost centre hierarchy, currency and valuation profile.

Cost Centre Accounting (CCA): Creating Cost centre and cost centre groups. Activity types and statistical keys, Reposting, Distribution, Assessment and Overheads.

Defined settlement rules and settlement parameters for settlement of orders to cost objects.

Profit Centre Accounting (PCA): Profit Centre, Revenue elements.

Product Costing (CO-PC): basic setting required for Product Cost estimates with quantity structure for different products, Product Cost Controlling in MTS and MTO scenarios.

Defining origin groups, costing sheet with calculation bases, percentage overhead, and quantity based overhead and credits, cost component structure.

Configured cost components and costing variants.

Material Ledger: Profit Centre valuation with multiple currencies.

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Characteristics, Value Fields, Characteristics deviation, settlement of variances, flow of billing documents, Legal and Profit Centre valuation and COPA Planning.

Report Painter: Report Painter report for Profit Centre, Cost Centre and Profitability Analysis.

Yell Group, Houston

August 2013 to 22/1/2016

Did the requirement gathering meeting with the business for the creation of Asset Accounting blueprint as per IFRS standards.

Created the blueprint for Asset Accounting Implementation.

Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc.

Integrated Asset Accounting, structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset master Involved in the designing of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, inter-company asset Transfers and balance-carry forward jobs. Calculations/reporting and Year-end closing in fixed assets. Designed and configured Asset Accounting to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements and Transfers.

Conducted Unit, Regression, User and System Testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch

Session and also involved in providing training to end-users.

Upgraded classic GL into New GL by adding a parallel ledger and the automatic reconciliation with CO

In Profitability Analysis, defined operating concern, characteristics, value fields, characteristics derivation, and valuation strategy.

Created settlement profile and PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM and variance settlement.

ABB, Auburn Hills, Michigan

September 2011 to July 2013

Responsibilities

CONTRIBUITION:

Coordinating with client for giving acceptable solutions to problems, queries raised by client within predefined stringent time limit and giving solution to users.

Resolving issues On Priority Basis.

Providing support to end users

Corrections made in the configuration settings for different company codes as per the client’s requirement

Customizing and configuration of various areas of IMG activities including

General Ledger master records, Account receivable/ Accounts Payable, Withholding Tax, House banks, Cash Journals

Taxes on sales and purchases, Asset Accounting, Basic setting of Controlling and Cost Center, Profit Center Accounting, internal orders, Profitability Analysis and integration with SD and MM.

Developed custom Reports as per Customer requirements in the area of FI according to user requirements.

Checking and Application of OSS Notes to problem areas.

Proficient in preparation and executions of presentations and user manuals.

Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to meet the needs of the client.

Systematic Approach and quick adaptability to new technologies.

Fast learning, committed and able to work under pressure.

Co-ordination with team members, front office and client for giving acceptable solutions to problems, queries raised by client within predefined stringent time limit.

Strong expertise in problem solving, decision making, and translating business requirements into business solutions utilizing process improvements as well as ERP solutions.

Professional Experience

IBM, CA

March 2010 to September 2011

Senior FICO Consultant

New GL Functionality Activating the PCA Scenario & Document Splitting

Defined Project Management Line Layouts for GL, Customer and vendor balance display.

Configured settings required making postings of processed data in asset master records into the G\L accounts of FI and vice versa.

Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master records, account groups, account determinations, tolerance groups, country/company code specific payment methods, automatic

payment programs for outgoing payments, dunning, bank settings, Spooling, reason codes, interest calculations, Special GL Transactions and Credit Control Areas. Integration with MM

Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting. Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.

Worked with New GL Functionalities like Document splitting, Leading & Non Leading Ledgers.

Conducted meetings with Users to Gather requirements and to Understand the Workflow of the As-Is System.

Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master records, account groups, account determinations, tolerance groups, country/company code specific payment methods, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, dunning, bank settings, Spooling, reason codes, interest calculations, Special GL Transactions and Credit Control Areas. Integration with MM & SD.

Configured the system for Inter company postings

Responsibilities

Worked on Asset Conversion from Legacy System.

Responsible for maintaining of master data like cost center, cost element groups, statistical key figures and statistical key figure groups in Cost Center Accounting.

Created actual and plan allocation cycles before the month end as needed by the business users. Allocation cycles were Documented based on sender cost center and cost element.

Created validation rules.

Configured Actual Costing in CO

Configured New GL

Configured Profit Center Accounting as a part of New GL.

In Product Costing, material cost estimate done by quantity structure by defining costing types, valuation variants.

In Internal Orders, responsible for maintaining internal orders, internal order groups, model orders and order types.

Developed enhancement functional specification for global internal orders.

In Cost element accounting, created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost elements groups.

In Cost Center Accounting, created cost center and standard hierarchies

In Profitability Analysis, configured costing based Profitability Analysis, created operating concern, characteristics and value fields.

Configured PA transfer structure for transferring values from FI and CO.

Customized settlement profile, allocation structure and PA transfer structures to facilitate order settlement to CO-PA.

Hitachi Global Storage, CA

January 2010 to February 2010

Responsibilities

Reviewed Mapping

Migrated documents of EDS SAP boxes into HP SAP boxes using EDI IDOC’S.

Created and Maintained G/L Accounts in New GL.

In New GL maintained a parallel ledger.

Maintained Currency Conversion Tables.

In Asset Accounting, created Asset Classes and intercompany Asset Transfer.

In Asset Accounting, set up depreciation areas for all the EDS European company codes.

In A/P, created Vendors and Trading Partners and broadcasted Vendors in different SAP boxes.

In A/R, created Customers.

Integrated FICO with MM and SD.

In Treasury, configured Lockbox did Liquidity forecast, and Cash Managementposition.

In Checks Management, maintained check lots and defined void reason codes.

In Bank Accounting, created House Banks.

Created Validations.

Created Tolerance Groups.

Created Intercompany Workflows.

Assigned Users to Workflow and created Partner Profiles.

Created Payment Terms.

Created Number Ranges and Document Types.

Validated Documents in Production.

Maintained Documentation for all configurations in SharePoint

Created Cost Centers.

Reviewed and Fixed Idoc errors in XI.

Migrated Legacy System to SAP using LSMW.

Did System Integration Testing for all the Phases of the Merge

Did User Acceptance Testing for all the Phases of Merge

Did Regression Testing.

Configured all the reports as per IFRS standards.

Created Reports using Report Painter, Report Writer and Adhoc Reports.

Client: ITSD San Antonio Texas (Public Sector)

July 2009 to December 2009

Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities

Did the requirement gathering meeting with the business for the creation of Asset Accounting blueprint as per IFRS standards.

Created the blueprint for Asset Accounting Implementation.

Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys required asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc.

Integrated Asset Accounting, structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset master Involved in the designing of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, inter-company asset Transfers and balance-carry forward jobs. Calculations/reporting and Year-end closing in fixed assets. Designed and configured Asset Accounting to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements and Transfers.

Conducted Unit, Regression, User and System Testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch

Session and also involved in providing training to end-users.

Upgraded classic GL into New GL by adding a parallel ledger and the automatic reconciliation with CO

In Profitability Analysis, defined operating concern, characteristics, value fields, characteristics derivation, and valuation strategy.

Created settlement profile and PA transfer structure for direct postings from FI/MM and variance settlement.

Defined forms and variables, created profitability report using those forms.

In Product Costing configured the basic setting for Material Costing (like defining calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, costing sheets, overhead groups.)

Configured Material Cost estimate with quantity structure by defining costing types, valuation variants, transfer strategy, costing variants.

In AP, created House banks, payment configurations and maintained vendor master.

In AR, configured Interest calculations, default account assignments and Credit Management.

In Bank Accounting, created check lots and void reason codes.

In Cash Management, activated cash management for company codes.

In Checks Management, archived checks, renumbered checks and void checks.

Filled GAPS in Contract Accounting Receivables and Payables (FICA, FSCD)

Recognized revenues by FI and SD Integration.

Configured the system for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming Payments with difference and defined reason codes for payment differences and worked on writing off these differences to G/L accounts.

Tolerance groups, credit management

Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL Structure, and Posting Rules for automatic assignments.

Did Lockbox Remittance Processing.

Define multiple clearing accounts for the cash reporting.

In GL, converted different currency into USD.

Maintained Currency Conversion Tables.

In Treasury configured Electronic Bank Statement.

In Internal Orders, created overhead Orders and Accrual Orders.

Implemented EC-CS (Consolidation), developed blueprint for business consolidation implementation, conducted process analysis to discover issues and requirement in the stage and mapped to features and functions to optimize solution design.

Determined the best design to feed ECCS via the Special Purpose Ledger.

Reviewed currency conversion requirement from US Dollars to Euros.

Provided Functional Specification Document to ABAP Team.

Integrated with PP and PM.

Configured the standard hierarchy of cost centers.

Created cost centers and cost center groups.

Created cost element and cost element groups.

Created activity types and activity type groups.

Migrated documents using BAPI

Created characteristics, value fields, and generated operating concern for costing based COPA by selecting required characteristics and value fields from field catalogue.

Configured valuation strategy for COPA using various valuation techniques with reference to Product Costing information, Costing sheet, condition types and user exits.

Configured setting for transfer of billing data from SD by mapping condition types to value fields in costing based COPA.

Configured Profit Center master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center groups, distribution and assessment in Profit Center Accounting.

In Product Costing, activated cross company costing, defined costing versions and source structure in Joint reduction.

Configured Cost Sheets by defining calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, quantity based overhead rates and credit keys in Product Costing. Also defined cost component structure.

Gathered and prioritized relevant SAP business requirements and designed appropriate SAP FICA solutions. (FSCD)

Configured the Tax module which includes the Sales and Use Tax as well as VAT tax using Vertex.

Client: World Bank, Washington DC

October 2008 to June 2009

Role: SAP FICO Functional Lead Consultant

SAP R/3 Version Enterprise 4.7

Responsibilities

Migrated Legacy system into SAP

Made enhancement in the system.

Reviewed documentation.

Communicated with offshore managers and gathered requirements.

Created validations.

Took care of tickets pertaining to Contract Accounting ( Collections and Disbursements)

In AP, configured Bank Accounting, check lots and void reason codes.

Defined Lockbox account for House Banks.

In AR, configured default account assignments, cash discounts.

Created AP and AR Workflows and Partner Profiles and did the connection in between.

In Treasury, configured Bank Statement Processing, transaction types, keys for posting rules.

In Internal Orders, created Accrual Orders and Orders with Revenue.

In New GL, configured document splitting and reconciliation with FA.

Configured Special G/L.

In Bank Accounting, maintained Bank Master Data.

Configured Electronic Bank Statements

In Cash Management, configured default value date, planning groups and planning levels.

Setup Consolidation units, groups hierarchies, financial statement items, configured the data monitor, verified data collection, set up the rules for validations, apportionments, created standardized and balance carried forward entries.

Configured ECCS to perform currency conversion from US Dollars to GB Pounds.

Configured FI – CA (Contract Accounting) module.

Did Stress Testing to see the capacity of the system

Created customized reports through Report Painter and Report Writer and Ad Hoc Reports.

Did Unit testing and Regression Testing

Did end user training.

Did the GAP analysis and figured out the best possible match to resolve the GAP.

In GL, created number ranges and document types.

In GL, created Line Items and Sort Variants.

In Accounts Receivable, configures customer groups, assigned number ranges for vendor master data, created payment terms, reason codes, accounts for exchange rate differences and rounding differences.

Complete Bank configuration for incoming payment with bank transactions for multi house Bank scenarios.

In Accounts Payable, configured vendor groups, assigned number ranges for vendor master data, configured automatic payment programs, and maintained additional payment methods, used special G/L transaction including down payments for AR and AP.

Set up Fixed Asset Structure – asset class, depreciation areas, chart of depreciation and asset master data.

Maintained depreciation keys, defined declining balance method, multi level methods of depreciation calculation.

Transfer of legacy data to R/3 system using batch input program.

Integrated AA with GL by defining G/L accounts for acquisition and retirement account assignment.

Responsible for the configuration of Asset Acquisition, Asset Retirement, Asset Transfer, Revaluation of Assets, Depreciation run, yearend closing in Asset Accounting.

Trained end users and made them aware about the changes in the system as a result of the upgrade.

Documentation of Configuration unit, Integration Tests, change request. Post go live support.

Client: Divighn Integration Chicago IL

February 2008 to September 2008

Role: Sr. SAP FICO Functional Lead Consultant

SAP R/3 Version ECC 6.0

Responsibilities

Provided Functional Specification Document to ABAP Team.

Designed the implementation.

Did the implementation in consistent with RR (Revenue Recognition) functionality.

As a team member I was responsible for configuration and testing of General Ledger.

Migrated Legacy System into SAP using IDOC.

Integrated with PM module with FICO.

Configured Company Codes, Posting Period variants, opened posting period and fiscal year variants, field status groups, document ranges, and tolerance groups.

Assigned variants to the company codes.

Defined chart of accounts, account groups and general ledger accounts for company code.

Configured global settings for New G/L such as creating G/L, master data, bank account, interest calculation, closing and integration.

In Product Costing, did costing by period, defined cost accounting default values for order types and plants, defined result analysis keys and cost element for WIP calculation.

Activated Cost Component Split in Controlling Area Currency in Product Costing.

In Accounts Receivable, configured customer master data and master groups.

In A/R created cross company invoice posting and dunning.

Implemented Contract Accounting (Collections and Disbursements.)

Defined Cash Discount according to payment terms, Lockbox processing for incoming payments.

In Accounts Payable, configured and maintained house banks, payment programs and Automatic Payment Method Configuration, alternate bank selection for payments.

Checks management through assigning number ranges for check lots and defining void reason codes.

In Bank Accounting, configured Electronic Check Deposits and Manuel Check Deposits.

In Bank Accounting configured BPP.

Configured Electronic Bank Statements.

Posting Invoices with or without Invoice verification.

In Treasury, configured exchange rates, Cash Management.

In Asset Management, did the Blueprint for Singapore and India.

Configurations in Asset Management includes, creating asset classes, asset numbers, and creating depreciation areas.

Did User training.

Client: Bhoruka Group, Bangalore, India (Bhoruka Power, Gas, Steel, Aluminum and Textiles)

April 1994 to January 2008

Role: Worked as SAP FICO Lead Analyst

SAP R/3 4.6C, 4..7-ECC6 FI, GL, AP, Windows XP

Responsibilities

Worked through the Full Lifecycle Implementation of the project, including blue print preparation, configuration, testing, end user training, and go live phases.

Followed ASAP Methodology in implementing the project.

Worked closely with business user for gathering business requirements and creating detailed blue print in accordance with IFRS.

Designed the FI part of the Implementation.

Configured Company Codes, Account groups, posting periods, fiscal year variant, document number ranges, field status groups.

In GL, created chart of accounts, field status groups, and automatic account determination.

Defined Customer/Vendor Account groups, created vendor/ customer master data.

Defined Payment Methods and payment methods for vendor/customer.

Configured Automatic Account Payment Program for outgoing payment for company codes.

Created Configuration for inter company code transaction

Maintained number ranges for settlement document, defined number ranges for variance document, defined posting rules for settlement to financial accounting.

Configured and Customized Asset accounting, copied reference chart of depreciation, assigned chart of depreciation to company codes.

Defined Asset classes, depreciation areas and how the depreciation areas post to general ledger.

Facilitated Accounts Payable, cost allocation, intercompany sub ledger accounting functionality.

Revenue and Cost of Sales recognition for Returns

Configured Funds/Grants Management.

Developed and Implemented Management Reports which includes monthly and yearly Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

Provided end user training and created documents for end user.

In GL, Created and Maintained Chart of Accounts, Customized Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, document types, Posting Periods and created G/L Accounts Mater records.

In the Accounts Payable module, worked on vendor master records, reason codes, open item management in vendor accounts. Defined different vendor account groups, maintained terms of payments, tax account for outgoing invoices.

Interacted with clients to upgrade and group customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control areas and dunning areas.

Designed and configured the vendor Master Data, Vendor groups, Vendor Field status, vendor and customer master data and Risk Categories.

Structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset master Involved in the designing of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, inter-company asset Transfers and balance-carry forward jobs. Calculations/reporting and Year-end closing in fixed assets. Designed and configured Asset Accounting to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements and Transfers.

Defined Tolerance groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors.

Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, G/L Structures and Posting rules for automatic assignments.

In Bank Accounting configured AM and DM.

Configured Payment Program such as Company Code data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Method, and Wire Transfer Settings.

Configured and Customized Credit Control Area.

Treasury: Lockbox Configuration.

Performed unit testing, and integration testing of MM with Account Payable and SD Accounts Receivable.

Responsible for maintaining Project Documentation including writing Position Papers, Scenarios, Testing Scripts and configuration Details.

Worked with the Project Management.

Trained the End Users.

Configured G/L Master Records, document number ranges, posting period variants.

Created Employee and vendor/customer tolerance groups, reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status variants, document types and posting keys.

Created customers/vendors account groups and screen layout.

Created number ranges and assigned number ranges to account groups.

Identified one time customers and vendors and defined separate screen layout for them.

Configured Automatic Payment for Accounts Payable and dunning for Accounts Receivable and settings for outgoing/incoming payments including automatic payment program, exchange rate differences, and payment advises, payment proposals, payment schedules, payment run, payment media, interest calculation,credit management, running/editing dunning proposals, and printing dunning notices.

In FICA, configured Collections and Disbursements. (FSCD)

In Treasury, configured Intercompany Loan/Deposits, Commercial Paper, Long Term Scheduling, Money Market Facilities, Foreign Exchange and In House Cash.

Configured planning profiles, planning layouts, plan versions and defined various reports, using tools like report writer and report painter.

Balance Processing and Disclosure, Reporting as per IFRS.

In Asset Management, created Asset Classes, and configured depreciation areas.

Conduct user testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch.

Trained end users.

PROFESSIONAL NON SAP EXPERIENCE (Functional):Client: Bhoruka Group, Bangalore, India,August 1989 – March 1994

Accounts Executive

Maintenance of accounts and finalization of accounting statements; Documentation of policies and

procedures; Management information reports & executive info reports; Having experience in obtaining loans to our clients from both public and private sector banks; Preparation of bank reconciliation statements; Maintenance of stores records

References: Available upon request.

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