Profile Summary

Total * years of SAP FI/CO experience with good exposure in functional modules - Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) with 3 Implementation, 3 Production Supporting Projects.

Good understanding of business processes and workflow in the areas of Finance and Accounts.

Studying the current processes through detailed discussions with the client’s core team.

Mapping the processes on to SAP and documenting the to-be processes.

Designing the organization structure and setting it up in SAP in association with other members from different streams of the implementation team.

Participated in conceptual design phase in Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables.

Decent exposure to all popular implementation methodologies like ASAP.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both non-technical business users and technical IT developers.

Detail oriented, quick learner, good listener with strong problem-solving skills.

Proven ability to work under pressure, prioritize and meet deadlines.

Open to dynamic work environment and ability to work collaboratively with business analysts, testers, developers and other team members.

Good communication, management and presentation skills.

FI/CO Skills

Proficient in SAP’s ASAP Methodology and well versed with business process, mapping & configuration in SAP.

Proficient in design and configuration of FI sub-modules New General Ledger (FI-New GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), Bank accounting (FI-BL) its configuration, CFIN (Central Finance) and Asset Accounting (FI –AA).

Proficient in CO sub-modules cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (IO) and Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA).

Working experience in foreign currency valuation (FCR).

Working experience in Bank Reconciliation (E-BRS).

Working experience in FI-MM, FI-SD and Production Module Integration mechanism.

Working experience in on New GL and Document splitting.

Having good working experience on Testing like Unit testing, Integration testing.

Worked with Legacy System Migration workbench tool (LSMW) for importing data from legacy system to SAP R/3.

Created many Validations and Substitution rules as per the needs of the client and involved in creating SAP queries and user exits.

Knowledge on Withholding Taxes.

Involved in Year-end closing support activities.

Working experience in Active Control, JIRA and Fiori.

Educational Qualification

Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering,

Gujarat University, June 2014

Master’s in Business and Administration with concentration Finance

DeVry University, February 2018

Technical Skill

Operating System : MS-Dos, Windows (XP, 7, 8, and server2000/2003).

Packages : MS-Office 2016, Tally

ERP : SAP-FICO and S4 HANA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project 6 – Support

Client : HD Supply, Atlanta, GA

Role : SAP S4 HANA FICO Consultant (Team Leader)

Duration : March 2022 to Present

HD Supply (formerly Maintenance Warehouse) is an industrial distributor in North America. The company provides a broad range of products and value-added services to approximately 500,000 professional customers in maintenance, repair and operations, infrastructure and power and specialty construction sectors. The company was re-acquired by The Home Depot in December 2020.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Analyze issues and provide resolution

Solving of maintenance Issues in the area of G/L, A/P, A/R.

Having good hand work experience with Active control, Fiori and JIRA.

Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes.

Training the users and troubleshooting day-to-day issues for FI module transactions.

Reports customization for Customers and vendors.

Supporting for Month end closing activities.

Having good hands on experience of CFIN and Workflow assignment.

Resolved User issues on timely basis.

Making configuration changes as required by the business.

Defined Document splitting and parallel currencies.

Understanding the requirements of client, study and analysis thereof and giving advice/ solution therefore.

Coordination with technical consultants for new developments.

Configured House banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment.

Provided guidance to the user to solve user generated errors as well as against incidents.

Coordinating with the customers and Business Integrators in resolving the Trouble Tickets and Change Requests within SLA's.

Adding the Configuration Changes and transporting to the Production Server as per the Client New Requirements.

Involved in unit level testing and integration testing.

Contribution for the Clients month end and year end activities.

Production support after the product goes Live.

Project 5– Full Life Cycle Implementation

Client : Jabil Circuit, St. Petersburg, FL

Role : SAP FICO Consultant

Duration : January 2018 to March 2022

Jabil Inc. is a United State based global manufacturing services company. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, it is one of the largest companies in the Tampa Bay area. Jabil has 90 facilities in 23 countries, and 175,000 employees worldwide.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Conducted “As-Is” study interacting with the core team members and developed a “To-Be” process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology.

Configured the New G/L – Activated the General ledger, Configured the ledgers - assigned Chart of accounts, fiscal year, activated document splitting, defined non-leading ledgers for Parallel Accounting

Used the document splitting procedure to split up payables lines by profit center to affect a zero balance

Configured exchange rate types, translation ratios, rounding rules & set decimal places for currencies, configured new fiscal year variant and assigned it to company code.

Configured general sales and use tax codes, assigned tax codes for nontaxable transactions, new input and output tax codes, Tax rates, and Tax accounts.

Designed & developed automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, accepted forms of payment, defined automatic account assignments for exchange rate differences, over & under payments, bank charges, cash discounts, configured dunning areas, keys & procedures in Accounts Payable.

Configured new valuation method to reset foreign currency revaluation for AR/AP open items

Configured automatic account assignments for various transaction keys and assigned accounts for revenue account determination.

Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category.

Conducted automatic payment processing including checks printing for accounts payable and dunning in accounts receivables, foreign currency valuations

Configured Electronic Bank Statement, manual bank statement, Cashed Checks and Check deposit functions.

Configured asset classes, depreciation areas, account determination, screen layout key and allocating number ranges to asset classes.

Defined Cash Management Account Name, distributed Cash Management and reorganized Cash Management.

Assigned planning levels and updated types for cash management.

Activated Project Cash Management in company code and Checked CO Number Ranges for Project Cash Management.

Configured cash management in treasury master data and did cash management budgeting and financial budgeting.

Configured Bank to Bank transfers (payroll transfers).

Configured chart of depreciations and valuation of assets in various depreciation areas.

Involved in the creation of assets, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers, and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).

Executed the asset fiscal year change, year-end asset closing and stimulating depreciation for future fiscal years.

Configured settings for Controlling Area, maintained Versions.

Created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.

Defined cost center hierarchy, cost center groups, activity types, and statistical key figures.

Defined distribution and assessment cycles in Cost center accounting.

Configured Operating Concern, Maintained Operating Concern Attributes.

Created the characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques like table lookups and derivation rules to determine values for characteristics.

Created user defined reports like profitability by customer, product, and market using Report Painter and Report Writer.

Configured the settings for new plants that used process manufacturing and enabled calculation of standard cost for valuation of manufactured products. Facilitated the cost center planning and budgeting process to calculate activity prices of various operations.

Documented system configuration and consolidation process.

Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW.

Participated as member of go-live team to ensure successful cutover from legacy system.

Project 4 – Implementation & Support

Client : Steelcase Inc, Grand Rapids, MI

Role : FICO Consultant

Duration : April 2017 – Dec 2017

Steelcase is a United States-based furniture company founded in 1912 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The company produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. It is the largest office furniture manufacturer in the world. It has facilities, offices, and factories in the Americas, Europe, Asia the Middle East, Australia, and Africa.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Understanding the business processes organization structure to match the client’s requirement in SAP system. Involved in the live implementation project to configure FI and CO business components, document and customize the processes of the GL, customers, suppliers, assets And Controlling.

The scope of work included AS-IS study, TO-BE analysis, configuration, modifications to suit the client's requirements, user documentation, and user training.

Implemented FI-AP Automatic Payment Program and defined alternative reconciliation accounts for down payments.

FI-AR Configuration of Customer Account groups, Customer Dunning notices and Treatment if a customer is vendor or vice versa.

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

Customized settings for clearing, posting in foreign currencies, exchange rate differences and gains and losses on valuation, realization and translation.

Activated new GL accounting, parallel ledgers.

Defined document splitting and parallel currencies.

Setting up of Document Types for business transactions.

Configuration of Terms of Payment.

Involved in Asset accounting basic settings like Chart of depreciation, Define Depreciation Areas & Depreciation Keys, Define Depreciation Valuation Methods.

Configuration of House Banks and assigning bank sub accounts to house banks.

Involved in controlling like Cost element accounting to define the cost elements.

Worked with CO-CCA to define the cost centers based on the business requirement.

Worked with CO-Product costing- Make to stock (Production order and PCC).

Worked with CO-COPA.

Creation of Order Type, Order Group, Settlement profiles and allocation structure.

Participated in Unit testing to test the developed functionality in the SAP system and also involved in Integration and Regression testing.

Prepared User training documents to train the users.

Providing production support to the users.

Monitoring the End Users to run the Operations smoothly and the daily operations.

Project 3 – Implementation

Client : Logistics Plus Inc., Erie, PA

Role : FICO Consultant

Duration : July 2016 – Mar 2017

Logistics Plus Inc. was formed in 1996 and offers a full range of logistics services tailored to meet the individual needs of more than 200 customers. It has an annual turnover of over $250 million in global freight operations for small, medium & large sized companies.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Understanding the business processes organization structure to match the client’s requirement in SAP system. Involved in the live implementation project to configure FI and CO business components, document and customize the processes of the GL, customers, suppliers, assets And Controlling.

The scope of work included AS-IS study, TO-BE analysis, configuration, modifications to suit the client's requirements, user documentation, and user training.

Creation of FI-AP vendor groups, creating no. ranges and assigning, creation of tolerance groups, creation of vendor master and document types. Configuring payment program which includes creation of bank account G/L structure, company code payment methods, and payment.

Creation of FI-AR customer groups, overall Receivables and employee tolerances, terms of payment and interest calculation configuration, reason code creation, credit management, dunning, creation of master records and no. ranges.

Configuration of FI-AA Asset classes, depreciation areas, assigning company codes to dep. Areas, creation of screen layouts and no. Ranges, creation of dep. Keys like ordinary depreciation, special depreciation and imputed depreciation.

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

Customized settings for clearing, posting in foreign currencies, exchange rate differences and gains and losses on valuation, realization and translation.

Activated new GL accounting, parallel ledgers.

Defined document splitting and parallel currencies.

Setting up of Document Types for business transactions.

Configuration of Terms of Payment.

Integration FI with MM and SD.

Trained employees at various levels for document entry with concepts like Reverse, hold documents, parking, reference documents, editing and document Entry screen.

Involved in Asset accounting basic settings like Chart of depreciation, Define Depreciation Areas & Depreciation Keys, Define Depreciation Valuation Methods.

Configuration of House Banks and assigning bank sub accounts to house banks.

Involved in controlling like Cost element accounting to define the cost elements.

Worked with CO-CCA to define the cost centers based on the business requirement.

Participated in Unit testing to test the developed functionality in the SAP system and also involved in Integration and Regression testing.

Provided end user training for the new configuration and reporting to management and business groups.

Project 2 – Support

Client : BASF Corp, Florham Park, NJ

Role : SAP FICO Consultant

Duration : June 2015– June 2016

BASF SE is a German chemical company and the largest producer in the world. The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Resolving issues in the areas of Finance and Controlling

Keep all documentation up to date by team on share point of time.

Providing day to day operational and process support to users.

Preparation of User manual Documentation.

Worked on fixing bugs in customized programs.

Had discussions with process owner system developers and end users.

Resolved User issues on timely basis.

Migration to New GL – Customizing of New Ledger Accounting, creation of Migration Plan, Test Migration, Validation and Actual Migration

Attended KT sessions & updated knowledge with new issues.

Responsible for Month end closing activities.

Receiving of tickets Tool and analyzing them to know ticket involves configuration changes or requires new enhancements or can be solved at this level.

Providing production support to the users.

Maintaining documentation for Change Requests.

Analyzing and providing solutions on the issues raised by the client.

Coordinating with the customers and Business Integrators in resolving the Trouble Tickets and Change Requests within SLA's.

Worked closely with functional consultants of other modules to resolve the incidents

Provided day to day operational and process support to end-users

Project 1 – Support

Client : Texport Syndicate, Mumbai, India

Role : FICO Consultant

Duration : June 2014– December 2014

Texport Syndicate India Ltd (TSIL) is a three-decade old organization manufacturing & exporting

World class quality apparel to US & Europe. TSIL is among the top five Apparel Manufacturer from India.

Role and Responsibilities:

Interviewed end users to understand the as-Is system and identified GAP’s in the requirements.

Configured General Ledger Accounts (GL) master records

Involved in configuring Field Status groups, Posting Keys, Inter Company Automatic account assignment, and financial statement versions in GL.

Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups.

Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest calculation, Write-Offs, and Tax in AR.

Designed and configured Vendor Master Data - Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.

Configured house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment.

Payment Program configuration - Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices.

Configured Electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, conversion programs, post processing of bank statements.

Importing of data from cashed checks using RFEBCK00 program

Configured Electronic check deposit.

Payment advice comparisons with account and bank statements, interest calculation.

Configured Profitability Analysis CO-PA included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.

Helped in Configuring necessary changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts including modification of COPA user exits, and creation of new field status groups.

Successfully tested cross-company, multi-currency postings and reporting in local, group, and transaction currency.

Created reports using Report Painter, Report writer, Drill down Reports for Finance, Marketing, Accounting, and Plant Level Management.

Involved in End user training for new configuration and reporting to management and business groups.

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