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Naresh Gogikar Email:kq6uy7@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Having 3.5 years of experience as a SAP FICO Consultant.

Have experience in configuration in General Ledger(G/L), Accounts receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Reconciliation, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting,Profit Center, Special Purpose Ledger.

2 full life cycle implementation & Support for global clients.

Highly efficient in understanding client’s requirements and converting them into system developments.

Worked extensively on Integation of FI/CO with Material Management (MM), Sales & Distribution(SD).

Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing .

Worked on data migration tools like LSMW, CATT and BDCs.

Knowledge on P2P AND O2C end to end Business Cycle.

Ability to handle in ambiguous situations.

Strong people leadership and people management skills.

Experienced working in a multicultural environment.

Good communication,presentation and Interpersonal skills.

Strong decision making and judgment skills.

Easy adaptability to new concepts and ideas.

Consistent Performer in achieving targets.

Education:

Master of Business Administration from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Bachelor of Commerce from Kakatiya University, Warangal.

Experience:

Working as a SAP FICO Consultant for IGATE, Pune from March’2011 to till date..

Worked as a SAP FICO Consultant for Wipro InfoTech, Bangalore from Feb’2009 to Feb ’2011.

Software Skill Set:

ERP : SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0.

Operating systems : Windows 2000/2003/XP.

Career Highlights:

Project 3:

Client : NOL.

Role : FI Consultant.

Organization : IGATE.

Environment : ECC 6.0

Period : April 2011 – Till Date.

Client Profile:

The NOL Group is a global company with core businesses in container shipping and supply chain management. Delivering through two key brands, APL and APL Logistics.

APL has been facilitating world trade since 1848 and is one of the shipping industry’s leading global brands. APL offers premium container shipping and land transportation across Asia, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Australia.

APL Logistics solves supply chain challenges by offering a comprehensive suite of logistics services worldwide that are tailored to suit each customer’s needs. It also offers one of the world’s largest and most modern networks of storage and distribution facilities.

Roles/Contributions:

Understanding Business process of the Client’s Business and actively involved in SAP-FI/CO Implementation in NOL Group.

Configuring General Enterprise structure including the Company & Global settings for the Company, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Group Variant.

General ledger: Creation of account groups, assigning number ranges, maintaining the field status variant for the account groups, and creating the G/L master records.

Accounts Payables: Creation of Account group and number ranges for vendor Master Records, Creation of House Banks and configuring the Automatic Payment Program.

Accounts Receivables: Creation of Account group and number ranges for Customer Master Records and configuring the Automatic Payment Program.

Defining Dunning areas, Dunning keys, Dunning block reasons, Dunning procedure.

Configuring account groups and screen layouts for customers and vendors, layouts for activity.

Configured and Customized Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges.

Defining the classes of assets, capitalization procedures and depreciation calculations. The actual procurement of assets, inter / intra-company transfer of assets, asset retirements, asset shutdowns .The accounting and legal aspect of the asset management is also in-built while designing the system.

Configuring Asset accounting, creating / copying depreciation areas,account determination rules,asset classes,specifying FSV’s for asset accounting,setting up depreciation areas,depreciation keys,base methods, declining balance methods and multilevel methods.

Configuration of maximum exchange rate differences, parallel currencies, automatic clearing, foreign currency valuation, regrouping of GR/IR clearing, financial statement versions.

Configuring Automatic payment program,payment terms,installment payments,bank reconciliation statement,variants for manual bank statement

Preparation of Functional specification for the new developments as per the requirement.

Integration with SAP Material Management and Sales & Distribution modules.

Provided Post Release Support & Enhancements.

Configuring Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax

Configuration of foreign currency valuation.

Closing activities like foreign currency valuation, Regrouping of GR/IR clearing, Documenting of FSV’S.

Advanced GL configuration like company code global parameters,Field status variants, Parallel accounting,Customer defined fields,fast closing with closing cockpit,Multidimensional analysis.

Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules.

Internal Orders – Order master data – Order types, Settlement, Settlement profile, etc.

In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc and extracted reports using PCA

Specifying Account determination, reclassifying in CO through assessments and distributions, movement types, transaction keys,valuation group code, valuation classes, Condition types, account assignments for receipts and payments, rounding off differences,exchange rate differences.

Knowledge on posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits, and reporting tools.

Configuring Financial Statement version as per the Client requirements.

Tested the settings on the development server and transported the settings onto the testing server for user testing and confirmation, and transported into the production server after user confirmation.

Solved the Post Production issues related to SD,MM,FI,CO,and PP .

Imparting Training to the End Users.

Project 2:

Client : KAUST.

Role : FI Consultant.

Organization : WIPRO INFOTECH,Bangalore.

Environment : ECC 6.0

Period :May 2010 –Mar 2011.

Client Profile:

KAUST is the new university build in Jeddah Saudi Arabia, the biggest, modern and most prestigious not only in Saudi Arabia but in the Middle East region . The aim of the University is to promote research and science achievement in Saudi Arabia and around the globe. KAUST is scheduled to open with a $10 billion endowment. Wipro configured end to end SAP solutions for KAUST in Almost all of SAP modules in a 1 year huge project.

Roles/Contributions:

Involved in Requirement gathering, Understanding and preparation of business blueprint for Finance and controlling.

Configuring General Enterprise structure including the Company & Global settings for the Company, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Group Variant.

General ledger: Creation of account groups, assigning number ranges, maintaining the field status variant for the account groups, and creating the G/L master records, Sample document, Parked documents Month end provisions.

Accounts Payables: Creation of Account group and number ranges for vendor Master Records, Creation of House Banks and configuring the Automatic Payment Program.

Account Receivable creation of customer master, customer account groups, interest calculation configuration, Dunning program for customer account and Defining Terms of payments.

Bank accounting configuration of House Bank, checks management, and bank statements.

Asset Accounting: Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Asset Master Records & Depreciation area.

Involved in integration with MM and SD.

Configuration of CO module – Organizational structure settings. Maintenance of cost center standard hierarchy, Creation of cost centers, Cost elements, statistical key figures, Internal Orders, Profit center accounting, Profitability Analysis.

Project 3:

Client : OWENS CORNING CORPORATION .

Role : Associate Consultant.

Organization : Wipro InfoTech.

Environment : ECC 6.0

Period : Feb 2009 -Apr 2010

Client Profile:

Owens Corning Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of fiber glass and related products. The company achieved major successes after the Second World War, with eventual annual sales of $6 billion(USD). Owens Corning received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the report.

Roles/Contributions.

Identification and crystallization of business requirements.

Dealing with client fresh requirements and Coordinating with technical consultants.

Providing the first level support on SAP FICO issues raised by end users.

Supported in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Accounting)

Training for the power user and end-users.

Solve Bank Reconciliation Issues

Responsible for Month end closing activities.

Year end closing / opening activities.

Involved in giving authorizations to the users.

Prepared Business process procedure documents.

Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.

External Audit support like KPMG, PWC for System audit and Business process audit.

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