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SAP Analyst

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North Bergen, NJ
Posted:
January 25, 2012

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NIRUT ZAVERI

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY:

• Over ** Years of general IT experience and 8 Years of SAP experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training, support in SAP R/3 FI/CO, accounts, finance and costing

• Extensive experience with SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC5 & ECC6.0 versions

• Significantly contributed in three full life cycle implementations in FI and CO modules with ASAP methodology

• Profound exposure in SAP support environment for three international projects which emphasis on FI-GL,FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, CO-PC

• Conducted AS-IS, TO-BE and GAP Analysis for project customization.

• Controlling expertise includes Product Costing (CO-PC) in the scenarios of Product cost by period, product cost by order and product cost by sales order

• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), & Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

• Performed Unit testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing for FI,CO,SD & MM

• As a team member developed proficiency in project evaluation, business blue print documentation, customization, configuration and in-depth understanding of business processes related to SAP financials, along with controlling and integration to MM, SD and PS modules

• Conducting the end user training and preparation of end user manuals

• Working experience in Manufacturing, Aero Space, Consumer Products, medical device and diagnostic industry

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving abilities, effective in working independently and an exceptional team player

• SAP FI/CO & SEM SKILLS:

Good Implementation skills in new General Ledger (New G/L), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA) and also having knowledge of Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis (PA) & Product Costing (PC)

• Knowledge of using SEM techniques like Business Planning & Simulation (BPS) and Business Consolidation (BCS)

• Excellent skill in Integration with other modules like CO, SD and MM

Technical Skills:

Programming Language : HTML, C, C++

Methodologies : ASAP, Rational Unified Process (RUP), SDLC

Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/2000/2007/NT, Windows XP, Windows Vista.

ERP : SAP R/3 (4.5, 4.6b, 4.6c, 4.7, 5.0 & ECC 6.0), PeopleSoft Financial

7.6/VAX – QVT System

Accounting Programs : Tally 6.8, Quick books, Peach tree, Great Plains

Others : MS – Office, Adobe, Corel

Experience:

Title : SAP FICO Consultant

From : Jan 09, 2010 – Jan 08, 2012

Client: Alcatel-Lucent, Naperville, IL

Description: Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services. The company focuses on fixed, mobile, and converged networking hardware, IP technologies, software, and services. Alcatel-Lucent has operations in more than 130 countries.

Responsibilities:

• Support for SAP FICO implementation initiatives and support activities from the Requirements Gathering – facilitation of client core team workshops, Business Process Mapping (Analysis of AS-IS, TO-BE and GAP Analysis), Blueprint, Testing, Go Live and Support Post Go Live.

• Setting up of Company Code, Business Area, Credit Control Area, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variant, Document Number Ranges, Account Groups, Retained Earnings, and Tolerance Groups the respective Company Code.

• Customizing the line layouts for Document Posting and Change Document for the G/L Accounts. Reviewing the mapping of Document Types to verify the Document Number Ranges and check the Reversal Document assignments.

• Worked on the Exchange Rates, Currency Translation, realized gain loss postings, exchange rate difference key, validation group, open item/line item indicators, gain/loss GL account setup, and Financial Statement Version.

• Creation of the G/L Master, Defining line layout for Document Posting & Document Changing, Park Document, Hold Document, Reversal of Document, Reset and Reversal of Cleared Documents.

• Preparation of Account Assignment Model, Sample Document and Preparation and Execution of Recurring Documents. Troubleshooting for locked documents.

• Define Customer/Vendor Account Groups for one time and long term Customers/Vendors, Defining and Assignment of the Customer/Vendor Number Ranges. Create the Customer/Vendor Master Data based on the Account Groups and define their payment terms, mode of incoming/outgoing payment, Down Payments. Clearing between Customer/Vendor Accounts.

• Define Vendor details such as payment terms; enter Vendor Invoices, recurring document for accruals, process outgoing payments against open balances by partial and residual payments, cash discounts, credit management and reason codes.

• Defined the Cash Discount Granted/Recd for AR/AP, Underpayment & Overpayment Accounts etc.

• Define the Dunning Program for Accounts Receivable, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Printing Dunning Notices, creating own correspondence and correspondence type to meet business requirements, interest calculation program configuration/running interest calculation program.

• Configure the New GL, Define the additional ledger (Leading and non-leading ledger), define currency, define segment, activate document splitting, define and assign accounting principle, transfer balance carry forward, define and assign the migration plan, activate and execute the migration plan.

• Configure the Automatic Payment Program for A/P including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management, Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open Items, Manually Processing Incoming and Outgoing Payments.

• Configure House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment. Configure settings for check printing and assigned forms to payment methods and assigned ACH payment methods.

• Involved in month end closing (closing posting period and opening new posting period, adjustment entries), year-end closing for SAP FICO.

• Worked on Data Migration including the mapping, conversion and loading of data through LSMW projects.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Title: Sr. FICO Consultant (ECC 6.0)

From: Nov 16, 2007 To: Dec 21, 2009

Client: Philips Medical Systems, MA

Description: Philips Medical System, a Global leader in the growing medical device and diagnostic industry, is committed to providing innovative technology and services that enable health care providers to achieve clinical excellence. SAP ECC 6.0 systems are implemented to leverage their business and day-to-day operations.

Responsibilities:

• Study of the existing business processes

• Design of the new processes to bring in new functionality to the client Design & vetting of

functional specifications for various development/enhancement activities

• Developing & documenting test scripts for testing the functionality in various FI/CO modules

Configured Company Code, New general ledger, Vendor and Customer Master Data, Tax on Sales and Purchases, Tax Accounts

• Configured all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including

the Payment Program Configuration and Automatic

• Check Payment Advice and Payment Analysis Printing, Clearing of Vendor and Customer Open

Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for Payment Program, Credit Management, Periodic Processing

• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation

program

• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost

Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet

• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet

• Product Cost for make to order controlling scenario - Maintained Material Cost estimate with quantity structure, Defined Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Costing Variants and its components such as Valuation Variant, Costing Type,

• Transfer Control and Result Analysis for Product Costing in Repetitive and Discrete Manufacturing Scenario.

• Defined Costing sheet and its components for calculating overheads.

• Defined Variance Keys, Variance Categories for Variance Calculation

Carrying out integration & regression testing before moving any code change/new configuration into production

• Worked as an onsite team leader, lead a team of 5 consultants coordinating with the offshore team for resolution of support issues & providing for development of enhancements

• Problem resolution as part of level 1 support - analyze ticket which includes identification of the issue, coordination to get the relevant inputs, determining root cause of the issue and issue resolution

• Managing clients/users and addressing their concerns effectively

• Providing assistance to other SAP modules as a part of support process ensuring that the client issues are addressed effectively

Environment: FI, CO, Dunning, New GL, SAP ECC 6.0

Title: SAP FI Consultant

From: Mar 11, 2006 To: Oct 16, 2007

Client: Imperium Renewables, WA

Description: Imperium Renewables Inc. (IRI) is a national leader in next generation biodiesel refining and manufacturing technology. We did configured FI in R/3 4.7 system for the purpose of new element of enterprise structure and Integration with MM & SD.

Responsibilities:

• Configured the new elements of Enterprise Structure for Finance and Controlling (Co.Code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Controlling Area )

• Configured financial accounting global settings including company code global parameters, fiscal year variants, posting period, variants, field status variants, document types, tolerance limits, withholding tax settings, taxes on sales and purchases

• Configured General Ledger Completely - Major settings done include changes in defining chart of accounts, account groups, financial statement version

• Configured Customized and Automatic Payment program in Account Payable along with the check management settings, vendor account groups, and outgoing payment settings

• Configured Customer Account Groups, Credit Management, Incoming Payment settings, Clearing Procedures

• Configured and tested Integration of MM with FI - configuration of the Automatic Account Assignments Configured and tested Integrations of SD with FI - Revenue Account Determination settings

• Preparations of various documents like the detailed training document, Setup documents

• Training to the end users Involved in preparing Test scenarios and helped power users and end users for testing and also ensured the successful transportation of ABAP customization changes

Environment: Enterprise Structure, Global Parameters, Integration with MM & SD, SAP R/3 4.7

Title: SAP FI-CO Consultant

From: Mar 02, 2005 To: Feb 10, 2006

Client: Honeywell Aero Space, AZ

Description: Honeywell Aerospace is a leading global provider of integrated avionics, engines, systems and service solutions. Project involved SAP R/3 4.6C configuration and implementation in FI GL, Chart of Accounts, Company code, Reconcile banking data, Controlling area, Operating concern, Cost element, SKF and different variants.

Responsibilities:

• SAP R/3 4.6C Enterprise configuration and implementation.

• Defined chart of accounts and basic configuration of system in areas of global settings, organizational structure, company code definition, and taxes with jurisdiction code levels, pricing procedures, account groups, field status groups, line layouts, open item clearing and generating reports

• Customized document types, posting keys, posting periods and document number ranges

Defined Automatic payment program, check management, defined settings for invoices and credit memos

• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and reconciliation program

• In Fixed Asset Accounting, defined chart of depreciation, depreciation areas and different asset classes

• Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions

• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, Cost Element Groups, maintain Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet

• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for Periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations

• Configured CO-PA and created master data in PCA and defined the derivation rules to effect the flow of values into PCA

Environment: Chart of accounts, jurisdiction code, Operating concern, SAP R/3 4.6C

Title: Sr.FI/CO Consultant (r/3 4.7)

From: Sep 08, 2003 To: Feb 14, 2005

Client: Tyco Thermal Controls, CA.

Description: Tyco Thermal Controls is a global company providing optimal solutions for various applications involving heat tracing, floor heating, snow melting & de-icing temperature measurement, wiring, and leak detection systems. We did the study of existing business and used BCS to process the configuration for facilitate resolution of system.

Responsibilities:

• Studying existing business processes in the context of FI/CO,EC-BCS and deciding to be process and to be mapped to the SAP system

• Involved in functional requirement gatherings and design of master data project deliverable monitoring with respect to project scope

• Progress monitoring and project reporting to the steering committee as well as to program manager

• Periodic analysis of Issue Logs and methodology of Issue Closure. Facilitate resolution of system issues between business and projects.

• Help create project briefs to build specific business solutions Worked extensively in configuration, customization of FI General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting

• Provided configuration support in Billing and A/R Functionality in SD and MM integration for valuation and account determination, materials movements type setup

• Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations

• Created Material Cost estimate with quantity structure, Defined Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Costing Variants and its components such as Valuation Variant, Costing Type and more for Product Costing in Repetitive and Discrete Manufacturing Scenario.

• Defined Costing sheet and its components for calculating overheads. Defined Variance Keys, Variance Categories for Variance Calculation

• Defined the control parameters and default values that influence sales-order-related production like account assignment categories, requirement class

• Configured both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet

• Extensively worked on multiple interfaces to support the data flow from one system to other system.

• Provided the end-user training, prepared the documentation for the end-users. Provided the post go-live support Part of FI/CO support team in restricting new Z-functionalities

Environment: Use of BCS, Gathering of Data, Integration with MM & SD, SAP R/3 4.7

Title: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (4.7 Version)

From: Mar 01, 2003 To: Aug 31, 2003

Client: Wim Plast Limited, Lucknow Branch, India

Description: Involved in the implementation of SAP R/3 4.7 as a functional implementation expert (responsible for GL & AP modules) at Wimplast Ltd, Mumbai, a subsidiary of "Cello" group of companies. Project involved implementation of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, General Ledger & Costing modules.

Responsibilities:

• Collecting and analyzing the financial/business process requirements for the solutions needed.

• Translating business requirements to detailed functional specifications. Identifying functional requirements for prototypes.

• Configuring fiscal year variants with year - dependent periods for year end closing and posting period variants.

• In AR, created customer account groups, posted manual and automatic payments.

• Used AR information system to analyze customers based on payment history, overdue items, due date breakdown.

• Configured Account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master.

• Configured Accounts Payable/ Accounts Receivable by importing existing vendor and customer master records from the legacy system using LSMW.

• Configured for automatic payment program for vendor with checks printing, direct deposits, inter-company transactions billing

• Maintaining Credit Control Areas, arrear days for Credit Management

• Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for company codes

• Created Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers

• Maintained Overhead cost elements, Defined Calculation Bases, Costing Sheets, Overhead Group and Overhead Keys

• Maintained Material Cost estimate with quantity structure, Defined Costing Type, Valuation Variant, Costing Variants

• Checked Costing variant for manufacturing orders and Order types

• Maintained settings for WIP - Defined Result analysis keys, Cost element for WIP, Result analysis versions, Defined Valuation Method (Actual Cost), Defined Line IDs and Update

• Defined posting rules for settling WIP

• Defined Variance Keys, Variance variants and Valuation variant for WIP

• Maintained settlement profile and number ranges for the settlement documents

Environment: Configured Variants, Account group, Maintain WIP,SAP R/3 4.7

Title: CO Consultant (Version 4.7)

From: Mar 19, 2002 To: Feb 11, 2003

Client: Wimplast Limited, Mumbai

Modules: Product Costing & CO-PA

Description: Involved in the implementation of SAP R/3 4.7 as a functional implementation expert (responsible for CO-PA and CP-PC modules) at Wimplast Ltd, Mumbai, a subsidiary of "Cello" group of companies. Project involved implementation of CO- profitability analysis and CO- product costing.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for finalizing the blueprint requirements in Product costing, familiarizing the customer with the best practices in SAP and guiding them to choose the right option matching their business need.

• Responsible for prototyping and demonstrating the features of CO-PA and CO-PC individually and in conjunction with FI module.

• Responsible for setting the configuration requirements in the realization phase of the project.

• Responsible for developing the scenarios for Unit testing and developing the end to end testing requirements of the business.

Environment: Blue print requirements, CO-PA, CO-PC, SAP R/3 4.7

Title: Manager, Accounts & Finance

From: Apr 01, 2000 To: Feb 24, 2002

Client: Nilkamal Plastics Ltd, Mumbai, India

Description: The NILKAMAL GROUP, India's leading manufacturer of Moulded Furniture and Material Handling Crates stands to be the world's largest manufacturer of moulded furniture. As a account manager, task was involved for approval of vouchers, reconcile data, and also preparation of weekly and monthly MIS reports for accounts.

Responsibilities:

• Approval of vouchers & vendor bill processing

• Reconciliation of Branch Accounts with Head Office

• Reconciliation of creditors accounts

• Scrutiny of Debtors Ledger & Bank Reconciliation

• Conducting physical stock taking on a monthly basis

• Analyzing the debtors & creditors payment cycles to assess the flow of funds & preparation of monthly MIS reports

• Involved in the preparation of monthly P&L & Balance Sheet

• Dealing with Working capital management

Environment: P & L Accounts, Balance sheet, Accounting Software

EDUCATION HISTORY:

B.S. in Business administration – Accounting & Finance

S.P.University, V.V.Nagar, Gujarat, India

Visa Status – US. Citizen



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