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CHIDANANDA MURTHY HR

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SUMMARY:

* Tweleve years of IT experience including over 10 years experience in

SAP R/3 Financial Accounting and Controlling module.

* Involved in 4 Full Life Cycle SAP FICO implementations, 9 Upgrade,

Production Support and Maintenance & Data Migration projects.

* Have worked on end to end SAP ECC 6.0 Upgrade in EMEA, NORTH AMERICA,

LATIN AMERICA, UK & ASIA regions.

* Extensively worked on gathering Functional Business Requirements,

Analyzing business requirements, Mapping Business Process Requirements

in SAP System, Implementation/ Customization/ Configuration,

Integrating with other sub modules within SAP, Testing, Documentation

and End User Training.

* Extensively used Mercury Quality Center for SIT/BAT/FUT/UAT.

* Created Functional Specification Templates for implementing new

process/enhancement of existing functionality/modification of existing

process.

* Strong knowledge in handling Issue Resolution Process, Tools viz.,

SD4, COPS.

* Strong Knowledge on AR Accounts Receivable Process with SD Sales

Distribution Module.

* Strong knowledge with all aspects of Configuration and Customization

of SAP FI-GL, FI-AP, with additional working knowledge in FI-AR, FI-

AA, FI-GL (New GL) CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, CRM

* Strong knowledge on FI-MM configuration viz., GR/IR account

determination setup, Small Differences posting configuration, Logistic

Invoice Verification Quantity and Price Block configuration, Defining

of Vend per Purchase Organization etc.,

* Strong ABAP technical skills, Interface, EDI, IDOC, XML Knowledge.

SAP CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

Finance General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable,

Cash Management, Asset Management. SAP Notifications (Issue

Management Tool).

Controlling Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Cost Center

Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting and

Profitability Analysis

SKILLS:

ERP Package : SAP R/3 3.1h, 3.1i, 4.0B -ECC 6.0 releases.

SAP Related Tools : LSMW, Report Painter, CATT, Area Menu, IM3

Operating Systems : Windows 9x/2000/XP, UNIX, MS DOS

Others : MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint

EDUCATION:

ICWAI (Inter) - Bangalore, India.

Bachelors of Commerce, Bangalore University, India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Organization From To Role

InfoVision Technologies Inc., Jul-08 Till SAP FICO Consultant

Date

Hewlett Packard Nov-00 Jun-08 SAP FICO Consultant

Digital India May-00 Oct-00 SAP FICO Consultant

Advanced Synergic Microsystems Oct-98 Oct-99 SAP FI Consultant

Ltd.,

Proclient Software Solutions Oct-97 Sep-98 System Analyst

Star Shoes (I) Pvt Ltd., May-93 Jun-97 Jr Accts Officer

PROJECT DETAILS:

Project Name: HARMAN One SAP Pro - Implementation Project

Client Name & Location: HARMAN Professional Group (HMG), Salt Lake City,

UT

Employer: InfoVision Technologies Inc.,

Position: Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Project Jan-2011 Project Finish Till Date

Start:

This is a new implementation project to consolidate three company codes

into one for US region. HARMAN had existing business running on SAP 4.7

version and the entire configuration was redone for all seven Co Codes

across the globe.

Responsibilities:

. Blue Printing, used SOLUTION MANAGER

. Gathering requirements, preparing GAP Analysis, GAP sheets.

. Configuration of FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-GL, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA

. FI-New GL, Document Splitting, Segment Reporting, Parallel Currency

Valuation

. Country Specific Reporting US GAAP, IFRS using New GL Reporting

Capabilities.

. Writing Functional Design Specification for configuration

. Created Validation and Substitution.

. Analysis of RICEF Objects, writing functional specification for

enhancement.

. Master Data, Transactional Data Migration

. LSMW Development

. Area Menu Restructure and development

. Delta Workshop to business on version changes

. Prepare Test Scenarios, Test Cases details, plan on Mercury Quality

Center Worked on retirement and decommissioning of legacy applications

. Planning on UAT, SIT & BAT

. Interaction with management, business users.

. Integration with other applications, modules viz., MM, SD, PP, SM.

. Working with ABAP development team on ongoing developments.

. Used Mercury Quality Center for Testing phase of the project.

. Created User Guides, Training Workshops.

Project Name: TOMMOD-US

Client Name & Location: Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH

Employer: InfoVision Technologies Inc.,

Position: Functional SAP AR Consultant (FSCM)

Project Dec-2009 Project Finish Dec 2010

Start:

This is a enhancement project on custom solution specific to P&G processes

in US region.

I was responsible for doing detailed analysis, gather requirements, map

requirement, write functional specification for development of

configuration, do configuration on Accounts Receivable Area.

Responsibilities:

. Gathering requirements, preparing GAP Analysis, GAP sheets.

. Writing Functional Design Specification for configuration

. Preparing strategy to deploy newly enhance processes viz., EDI 820

from Lockbox etc.,

. Configuration relating to (FSCM-CR) Credit Risk Management

. Configuration relating to Business Partners

. Cash Management (Lockbox)

. Dispute Management

. Collection Management

. Workflow

. Prepare Test Scenarios, Test Cases details, plan on Mercury Quality

Center Worked on retirement and decommissioning of legacy applications

. Planning on UAT, SIT & BAT

. Interaction with business users.

. Extensively worked on CRM module viz., Customer Material Information

Records, Business Partners, Condition Records, Service Contracts,

Sales Orders Processing, extensive use of COMM_IL_PRDCPN. Sound

knowledge of integration with ECC, BW and understanding of TCODES.

. Mainly focused on n Order to Cash process

. Working on FSCM-Credit Risk Management

. Extensive use of Solution Manager

. Worked on Credit Management

. Worked on EDI/EAI/XI Knowledge

. Strong knowledge on OM (Order Management), PD (Post Delivery)

Processes, Billing.

. Integration with other applications, modules

. Working with ABAP development team on ongoing developments.

. Worked on Wave wise Release of Change Request as part of Change

Management Process. Handled transports.

. Used Mercury Quality Center for Testing phase of the project.

. Created User Guides, Training materials for users.

Project Name: HP/EDS Integration Project

Client Name & Location: Hewlett Packard, Houston, TX, USA

Employer: InfoVision Technologies Inc.,

Position: Functional SAP AR Consultant (O2C)

Project Jun-2009 Project Finish Oct 2009

Start:

The scope of this project is to integrate EDS Applications into HP SAP

System. There were over 60 applications that needed to be moved into HP

Compass System.

I was responsible for doing detailed analysis, advise technology to be used

to integrate the legacy applications into HP Compass System, perform gap

analysis, provide functional consultancy on efficiently integrating the EDS

applications to HP Systems. Perform Retirement and Decommission of

unwanted applications.

This involved configuration on SAP system relating O2C(Order to Cash)

process, Accounts Receivable, SD, Workflow modules, defining test scripts,

conducting UAT, BAT and sign off,

Involve in Release Activities, Data Migration, Account Migration, provide

user guides, support, perform production support to stabilize the process.

Responsibilities:

. Extensive analysis and design to migrate EDS Legacy Applications into

HP Compass System.

. Perform GAP Analysis, advise technologies to be used in new system,

process mapping to SAP modules.

. Worked on retirement and decommissioning of legacy applications

. Extensively worked on Order to Cash process in migrating applications

to SAP Compass System in HP landscape.

. Setting up of lock box, bank routings, interfaces,

. Knowledge of BAI & BAI2

. Worked on configuring Company Codes, assigning of Org Structure,

Creation of Automatic Payment Process, Setting up of Partner

Functions, Assigning of GL Accounts for cost of goods sold, small

differences, price and quantity variances etc.,

. Involved in migration of Master Data, Transactional Data.

. Integration with other applications, modules within SAP viz., MM, PS,

BW, MM.

. Created Functional Design Specifications for new developments,

modifications.

. Involved in Wave wise Release of Change Request as part of Change

Management Process. Handled transports.

. Defined Test Scripts, conducted UAT, SIT & BAT and obtained sign off

from business. Used Mercury Quality Center as part of Quality

Assurance Process.

. Created User Guides, Training materials for users.

Project Name: ECC 6.0 New Implementation -

Enhancement/Production Support

Client Name & Location: Southern California Edison, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Employer: InfoVision Technologies Inc.,

Position: Functional SAP AP Consultant

Project Oct-2008 Project Finish May 2009

Start:

The Southern California Edison (Utilities Company) had gone live on ECC 6.0

in July 2008.

I was involved in Release 2 of it's implementation phase that began in Oct.

The scope of my job was to help Edison leverage usage of new features,

functionalities to enhance business performance, this included

configuration, changes to existing process, providing advise on issue

resolution process, specs for new development, Unit Testing, System

Integration Testing, Issue resolution which were out of control after go

live. The main focus areas were in Accounts Payable, Materials Management,

workflow process.

Responsibilities:

. Exclusively worked on SAP Notifications in issue resolution. Service

Management Resolution.

. Configuration: The Accounts Payable module was of my primary

importance: Involved in configuration fixes, enhancements of existing

functionalities, advising on best practices on some of the

configurations already done, some of the configurations done by me

include enabling Parked FI Documents to post in previous period or

current period, setting up of Regions for refund checks, setting up of

Tax Jurisdiction Codes, Setting up of Number Ranges by year rather

than generic year 9999, modification to Field Status Variant, did a

modification for FBL1N to bring in Change Date correctly on report.

. Workflow: I was responsible for writing functional design specs for

development of FI Workflow Invoice Status Reports. There were three

requirements which business wanted to have a control on FI invoices

coming through Workflow. Involved in closely working with development

team to get the development done, perform Unit Test, System

Integration Test, Acceptance Tests, move to production, perform

production validation. I was also involved in analysis of workflow

issues that were having huge impact on payments to vendors, involved

in trouble shooting workflow issues, viz., different status on

workflow process and SAP, work lists and work item discrepancy.

. Specs for New ABAP Developments: Wrote functional design specs for

developing new ABAP Report for PO/GR/IR Report, PO/GR/Service Entry

Sheet Report, Payment Details.

. Mercury Test Tool: As part of Release 2 of ECC 6.0 I was involved in

Unit Test, Integration Test, and update status in Mercury Quality

Center.

. Finance Analysis: Performed detailed analysis and suggested

alternative solution for the huge overpayment that has occurred due to

user mistakes after go live on SAP. Also involved in analysis for

Purchase Order/GR/IR analysis, Payments to Vendors. helped business

close down FI and MM documents that were open and needed action before

year end, done analysis on down payment requests.

. Extensively worked on Legacy Systems, Interfaces, Materials Management

Purchase to Pay Process.

. Worked on BPC, Reporting

. Treasury Liquidity Planning

. Year End Closing: Involved in detailed analysis and prepared report

manually for generating deficit tax billing, Goods Receipt Non Tax

Charge, Cross Company Tax Accruals, addressed queries on FI and MM

Posting Period Open and Close, carry forward Vendor balances to new

year, copy the number ranges for next near.

. Security: Role analysis, determination of role mapping requirements,

handling restricted reports and designing strategy.

. User Training/Documentation: Conducted user training in batches,

helped user understand concepts easily, prepared Process Documents,

User Guides.

Project Name: MM-LIV Invoice Simplification Project

Client Name & Location: Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OHIO, USA

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FICO Consultant

Project Feb-2008 Project Finish Jun-2008

Start:

This is an enhancement of existing workflow solution to efficiently handle

LIV (Logistic Invoice Verification) through workflow. The main scope of

this project is to minimize the LIV Failure and do auto post based on

credit terms. The modification was aimed at providing smooth and flawless

localized FICO workflow approval system to Latin America, North America and

EMEA regions.

Responsibilities:

. Worked on gathering enhancement requirements, Analysis of

requirements, suggesting the SAP capabilities/dependencies to augment

the need of new enhancement and suggesting business. This also

involved cross row module functional analysis within SAP viz., with

MM, CO & TR Modules.

. Setup Automatic Posting from FI-MM Integration point of view, viz.,

defining of GL Accounts for Small Differences, Quantity variance,

Price Variance, Exchange Rate Variance.

. Setup Master Data Setup relating to Vendor, Material, LIV in

Development server for Developer test, Acceptance server for

Acceptance Test, Quality server for Quality, Business Acceptance test.

. Extensively worked with Latin American's contacts in analyzing,

designing, configuring, conducting tests, obtaining sign off before

moving to production.

. Setup broken configuration related to MM Module viz., setting up of

Number range for Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Internal

Order, Service Orders,

Setting up Cost Center Element for Internal Orders that interact with

Controlling Module.

. Defining of Vend Mast per Purchasing Group, GL account setup for

variances, Cost Centers, Cost Elements setup.

. Worked on Sales & Purchase Tax Codes, country specific Tax Codes and

WHT.

. MM Posting Periods per Company Code, FI Posting Period Per Company

Code, Setting assigning of fiscal period variant for Company Code.

. Worked on VERTEX Tax System

. Performed FI-AP Configuration Experience in setting up of Vendor

Accounts, Incoming Invoice Credit Memos, Maintain Terms of Payment,

Define Cash Discount Base, Outgoing Payments, Cash Discount, Exchange

Rate Difference, Account for Bank Charges.

. ISSUE MANAGEMENT: Preparation of Test Script, Issue Resolution Plan,

Issue Template design, Fixing of issues.

. Conducted various Tests: System Integration Test (SIT),

Business Acceptance Test(BAT), No Negative Impact Test (NNI)

Obtain Sign Off.

. Provided Post Go Live Support, Issue Resolution, Issue Management,

reporting of issues, Usage of SD/4 Ticketing Tool etc.,

. Prepared detailed Documentation of all pre and post go live

activities, processes, user guides.

Project Name: mySAP ERP ECC 6.0 Upgrade Project

Client Name & Location: Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OHIO, USA

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FICO Consultant (P2P)

Project Jan-2006 Project Finish Jan-2008

Start:

SAP Version ECC 6.0

Upgradation of SAP Version 4.5b to ECC 6.0 (mySAP) for all of P&G's regions

viz., NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, UK, EUROPE & ASIA.

The project kicked off from Discovery & Engineering phase in Jan 2006 and

concluded in Jan '08. As part of Discovery & Engineering phase of mySAP

ERP Project, the task was to identify the AP solution set, migrate, unit

test, conduct SIT, conduct BAT in Ver 5.0 - mySAP ERP 2004. Since the

decision was made by client to go for ECC 6.0 the same was migrated to

mySAP ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0).

This role involved extensive travel to P&G regional locations viz.,

Philippines, UK, Latin America, France.

Responsibilities:

. Travelled to various regions to provide Delta Training, Warm up

Regional Teams for Implementations, providing presentations, taking

feed back and applying best practices.

. Localization of application depending on regions including Latin

America, North America, EMEA, ASIA.

. Acted as a SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for Cross Row dependencies,

driving clarity with business leaders of other rows.

. FI-AP (Accounts Payable) Configurations viz., Enterprise Structure,

Enterprise Objects

. MM Master Data setup for Purchase Orders, Scheduling Agreement,

Service Orders etc.,

. FI-GL: Enterprise Structure creation, Master Data Readiness for

UAT/SIT/BAT.

. Extensively worked on workflow related to Accounts Payable and it's

testing customized of enhanced solution by linking it to MM module,

viz Purchase Order type GR/IR and GR Based Invoice Verification.

. Strong knowledge on logistics procurement, material master, delivery

schedule, costing run etc.,

. Function Specs, Technical Feasibility Evaluation, Transport

Management.

. VAT/TAX configuration related to EU region.

. Trouble shooting process and resolution process. Also participated in

issue resolution.

. Working knowledge in Treasury Module: Internal and external Bank

Statements, Inhouse Cash, Lock Box settings, Payment runs, Foreign

Currency Valuation, BA2 etc.,

. Handled Issue Management Process, viz., designing of Issue Sheet

Templates, issue Resolution Matrix, Responsibility Chart, Usage of

Tools etc.,

. Travelled to regional P&G Locations to kick start project, do

knowledge transfer, warm up team to meet deadline.

. Conducted Delta Training session (differences between 4.5b & ECC 6.0)

to regional project team

. Documented the process before change, after change with sign off.

Project Name: Wave 3-N6P Standardization Project

Client Name & Location: Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OHIO, USA & San

Jose, Costa Rica

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FICO Consultant

Project Mar-2005 Project Finish Dec-2005

Start:

Upgrade Project from SAP Version 4.0b to 4.5b

This is related to P&G's W3 of N61 Standardization project. The overall aim

of the project is to consolidate two SAP servers N5P & N61 and migrate to

N6P. The main functionalities that need to be migrated in W1 was migration

of all AP Interfaces to new system.

Wave 3 - Migration of EDI/XML Functionality from SAP version 4.0b to 4.5b.

Responsibilities:

. The main task here was to understand the legacy systems that sends

data to SAP and how SAP process within SAP FICO module and suggesting

appropriate method to migrate.

. This involved extensive study and analyze the SAP system and P&G's

customized process and suggesting the suitable process design in newer

version.

. There were several legacy systems that had interactions with P&G's SAP

systems, understanding them is a key task to suggest required strategy

to migrate EDI/IDOC Processes to newer version. The legacy systems

which I analyzed are KLIENSCHMIDT/CYCLONE/ES/AI/CIB/I3 etc

. Issued RFD (Request for Development) to transfer file from one

location to another within SAP environment viz., when the IDOCs land

they need to be pushed to particular directory to get them processed

and further processing of Invoices through background jobs.

. FI-CO-MM Integration to assign GL Accounts for Cost of Goods Sold,

Setting of GL Master for Quantity Variances, Price Variances,

Differences.

. Worked on Setting up of Cost Center, Cost Center Element for LIV

Posting, extending of Validity Period in Cost Center Master to Post

Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt.

. Conduct System Integration Test, obtained sign off.

. Business Connector mapping as IDOC were created at BC and sent to SAP

system.

. Defined cutover strategy, Prepared Cutover Plan

. Executed migration plan, owned implementation communications,

schedules to internal and external team members.

. Super/User training

. Preparation of Process and User Guides.

Project Name: Wave 1-N6P Standardization Project

Client Name & Location: Procter & Gamble, San Jose, Costa Rica

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FICO Consultant

Project Dec-2004 Project Finish Feb-2005

Start:

Upgrade Project from SAP Version 4.0b to 4.5b

Wave 1 - Migration of complex Accounts Payable Interfaces from SAP Ver 4.0b

to 4.5b

This was for Procter & Gamble, Costa Rica. The first phase of the project

was to migrate all Accounts Payable related complex interfaces to new SAP

system.

As part of W1 my role was to analyze, suggest, develop and do necessary

configuration for moving interfaces to new system.

Responsibilities:

. Prepared road map for migrating complex interfaces. There were nine

interfaces running on Siebel, Unix, Oracle platforms. There were

third party tools that were involved in several stages to transmit

vendor's invoices from legacy system to SAP systems. Understood all

of them and proposed a detailed strategy to migrate.

. Strong knowledge on Mapping of Invoice Receipt against Purchase Order

through EDI/IDOC from Business Connector (BC)

. Wrote a RFD (Request for Development) specification to develop an ABAP

program to route the inbound Flat file to appropriate server.

. Prepared Cutover strategy for migration

. Conduct SIT (System Integration Test)

. Used Report Painter.

. Perform configuration checks b/w old system and new system when the

server to server copy is done and set right any broken or missing

configurations.

. Handled migration activities efficiently to new system.

. Prepared as is where is process documentation and modified process

documentation with user/super user guides.

. Conducted end user training on usage of new modified process.

Project Name: SAP FI/TR Management Project

Client Name & Location: Procter & Gamble, Newcastle, UK

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FICO Consultant

Project May-2004 Project Finish Nov-2004

Start:

Version: SAP 4.0b

This was for Procter & Gamble, UK through HP GTS, Newcastle, UK. As part

of Global Tech Solution, I was required to provide solution/support to

Procter & Gamble Global operations covering regions ASIA, EMEA & AMERICA.

Main area of focus: SAP-AP, TR.

Responsibilities:

. Worked on production support to Treasury Module on Cash Management,

Electronic Bank Statement, EDI/IDOCs, In house Bank.

. Identify issues that were not addressed by Service Management while

closing, Reopen them, assign to self, analyze what was the issue

reported, what was the fix applied and whether it was carried out

efficiently and effectively. If not perform detailed issue trouble

shooting by simulating it in Acceptance/Quality Server and then

suggest the best method that could be used to address in future. By

doing this the issue shouldn't be re occurring. This should reduce

the number of issues gradually from month to month. Technical issue

trouble shooting

. Prepare detailed report on issues that were reopened in all areas

viz., External Bank Statement, Internal Bank Statement, IDOCs, Bank

Reconciliation, In house Cash Management, Lock Box facility etc.,

. Verify External Bank/Internal Bank Statement/In house cash issues are

resolved correctly, if not escalate and report to Management with

appropriate measure to mitigate such non complying issues.

. Worked on VAT related issue resolution and tax setup.

. Worked on MM configuration necessary to carry out testing for Invoice

posting against Goods Receipt.

. Extensively worked on Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Order, Delivery

Notes, Scheduling Agreements etc.,

. Worked on GL: Create General Ledger Accounts in Chart of Accounts and

Co Codes,

Configuration for GL Automatic Clearing, Configuration of Foreign

Currency Valuation, Configuration of Regrouping of Postings (Define

Adjustment account for GR/IR clearing.

. Make sure MM/FI Posting periods are only open for current and minus

one month and shouldn't be open for any time in future.

. Handle quarterly/emergency wave Release to move changes through

transports.

. Debug programs, suggest mal functioning technical objects for fix.

. Provide estimation for new development,

. Provide Month end support while closing books of accounts by business.

. Documentation of process that changed.

. User training

Project Name: IPG EMEA FICO Production Support Project

Client Name & Location: HP Image & Printing Group, Booblingen, Germany &

Bangalore, India

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FICO Consultant

Project Sep-2003 Project Finish Apr-2004

Start:

Version: SAP 4.6c

This was a new EMEA project that HP India has won with Image & Printing

Division of HP in Germany. The main scopes was on OTC Process

Responsibilities:

. Efficiently handled FICO related SD issues viz., Sales Order, Billing

document, Price Block in Logistic Invoice Verification etc.,

. Worked on IM3 interface programs, Billing documents, credit

Control Area, Handling legacy & downstream systems.

. Strong working experience on Material Ledger, Product Costing Runs,

Material Prices, Actual Costing for internally procured products.

. Handled Accounting rates maintenance, Costing job set up and release

. Worked on UNIX scripts, file and directory handling in Background Jobs

that used IM3 tool.

. FI-AR(Accounts Receivables): Define Account Group with Screen Layouts

per Company Code, Create and Assign Number Ranges for Customers,

Define Accounts for Cash Discount Taken, Define Account for Rounding

Off differences, Setup Paying Company Code for Payment Transactions,

Setup Bank Determination for Payment Transactions, Outgoing

Invoices/Credit Memos.

. Archiving for Costing, FI and MM related documents through SARA/SARI.

. Tax Codes/VAT/Conditions/Procedures setup.

. Worked on Month End / Year End Closing to open & close posting

periods, block and unblock MM invoices, verify and monitor background

jobs, costing runs, depreciation runs etc relating to Product Costing,

Material Ledger updates, Fiscal Year Closing, Vendor Master Updates,

Exchange Rate Settings etc.,

. Provided End user/Super User training

. Prepared Documentation for the changed process.

. Extensively used Issue Tracking Tool BLT to resolve issues.

Project Name: FI-BIW Project

Client Name & Location: Hewlett Packard, Glasgow, UK. Executed from

Bangalore, India (Offshore)

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FI Consultant

Project May-2003 Project Finish Aug-2003

Start:

Version: SAP 4.6c

This is an offshore project. FI Support role, area of work includes FI with

BIW, DATA ARCHIVING.The job involves working on configuration, production

support, month end support,

technical debugging, reports, BAT etc.

Responsibilities:

. Extensively worked on FI, MM, SD report solutions, Specs for new

developments for its operations.

. Worked on Star Schema, Extended Star Schema, developing of Cube,

mapping of fields, ABAP Query etc.,

. Background job management, invoking external commands in job steps to

copy, delete and archive files from one directory to another.

. Report planning and system designing with parallel applications viz.,

Automate, VB, Macro etc.

. Technical issues resolutions - ABAP programs trouble shooting

. Handling functional FI IM consultant role, doing configuration related

to GL Accounts set up for cost of goods sold, Account Determination

for Price Variance, Account set up for Quantity Variance. Exchange

rate difference GL Account setup, Number Range, Allocation of user to

Tolerance Group, Setup Tolerance Group, MM Posting period etc.,

. Prepared Documentation

. Month end Closing process support for FI module, End user/Super User

training

Project Name: HK-GCD Project - Implementation & Production

Support

Client Name & Location: Hewlett Packard, Glassgow, UK. (Executed from

Bangalore, India - Offshore)

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FICO Consultant

Project Jun-2001 Project Finish Apr-2003

Start:

Version: SAP Ver 3.1i

The new implementation was required for Greater China Division of Compaq

Computer

for creation of new Co Code and also for SAP Chinese version which included

data

Migration. The second part of the project was to do support and

maintenance.

Responsibilities:

. New company was created and the necessary configuration was done in

the system, this include: Define Enterprise Structure, Create Co Code,

Assign Chart of Accounts,

Define Credit Control Area, Assign Credit Control Area,

Assign Business Area, Assign Control Area,

Assign enterprise objects.

Define and assign document types, number ranges to new company code.

. Customization of FI-GL (General Leader): Creating of Co Code, Assign

Chart of Account, Define Retained Earnings A/c, Assign Co Code to

Field Status Variant, Assign User/tolerance Groups, Exchange Rate

Difference, Define Additional Local Currency, Configuration for GL

Automatic Clearing, Foreign Currency Valuation, Balance Sheet and

Profit & Loss A/c, define Financial Statement Version.

. Customization of FI-AR (Accounts Receivable): Define Account for Bank

Charges, Define Payment Block Reasons, Payment and Bank Determination.

. Customization of FI-AP (Accounts Payable): Define Terms of Payment,

Vend Master, Create and Assign Number Ranges for Customers, Define

accounts for Exchange Rate Differences, Rounding Differences, Default

Value for Payment Block.

. Customization of AA (Asset Accounting): Copy Chart of Depreciation,

Depreciation Area, Assign Input tax Indicator, Specify Number

Assignment Across Co Codes, Create screen Layout Rules, Define Asset

Class, Integration with GL, Valuation.

. Technical issues resolution- ABAP programs trouble shooting, debugging

and suggesting best way to fix and provide estimate to fix.

. Worked on SAP Scripts designing, modification to already existing

scripts, designing of forms to attach for payment run, correspondence

viz., Statement of Accounts etc.,

. Month end process support for FI module, efficiently handled month end

support by providing on call service after office hours, week end and

holidays. Any issue reported during week off/holidays were required

to fix within half an hour from the time of reporting for the

countries Hong Kong, Taiwan and Greater China.

. Prepared documentation, End user training documents etc.

. Handled Data Migration. Mapping of data in flat file and uploading

into SAP system.

. Transfer of Master data by doing ALE method to other SAP systems.

. Hyperion Account System support.

. Used third part tool AUTOMATE to migrate data.

Project Name: EATD-Compaq - Data Extraction Project

Client Name & Location: Hewlett Packard, Bangalore, India

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP ABAP & FI Consultant

Project Aug-2000 Project Finish May-2001

Start:

Version: SAP Ver 3.1i

This is an offshore project that was executed from India. Involved in

ABAP/4 development work of Compaq Computer Corporation's Enterprise

Application Technical Analysis Team (EATD), Houston,USA.

Responsibilities:

. Managing Projects and Consulting (MPC) group, based at Boston, US is a

part of Professional Services organization of Compaq. This team needed

Project reporting capabilities different from what is currently

available in SAP reports. Mainly involved in creating functional

specifications Custom Software Specification (CSS) document for

extracting project related data.

. Development of extraction programs for project related sales data,

billing, pricing, purchasing, controlling and project systems and

further uploading the extracted data to World Wide Compaq Information

Warehouse(WWCIW), & Voyager Data mart Compaq's data warehouse, using

AshWin scheduling tool .

. Developed reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.

. This involved development of ABAP Program, Function Group, Function

Module,

SAP Scripts, Interactive Drill Down Reports, Area menu, Dialog

Programming, Batch Data Conversion Programs.

. Modification of extract programs for Compaq Explorer project. SAP

Background job management.

. Documentation of all core modification and SAP enhancements done to

the standard SAP code. This was the requirement for COMPAQ EATD

(Enterprise Application Technical Analysis Team).

. Designed and developed a core modification catalogue using dialog

programming for the above core modification.

. Created a Master Schedule for check tables extraction program and MPC

extract programs using AshWin Schedule. (Third Party Scheduling tool).

. Extensive use of third party scheduling tool, automating tools, SAP

Background feature.

Project Name: AIKYA- FI Implementation

Client Name & Location: Hewlett Packard, Bangalore, India

Employer: Hewlett Packard

Position: Functional SAP FI Consultant

Project May-2000 Project Finish Jul-2000

Start:

Version: SAP Ver 3.1i

This is an offshore project that involved production support and initial

customization for inhouse project for Digital Globalsoft Ltd., The project

was executed by PWC and my role was to work with the PWC consultants in

carrying out the required configuration and providing support.

Responsibilities:

. Defining and assigning of Enterprise Structure, components, enterprise

objects for company code.

. Setting up of number range, document types, GL Accounts, Vendor

Accounts,

Customer Accounts, setting up of Cost Center Group, Cost Center

Accounts, Cost Elements.

. Provided Month end support, maintenance, troubleshooting.

Depreciation runs, Month end closing, Clear GR/IR Accts,

Foreign currency valuation, financial statement versions

Valuations, Month end billing run, Balance confirmations, Month end

BDCs etc.

. Supported issues for Hyperion Account Mapping

. Provided issue resolution support, Issue debugging, modification and

transporting of the same to test/quality/production systems.

. Helped team in custom development by providing suitable suggestion to

design reports/enhancements.

. Provided help in running Project Systems related production support

during month end.

. Wrote Functional Specifications to build custom solution.

. Documentation

Project Name: FI Support Project

Client Name & Location: Sony India, Bangalore, India

Employer: Advanced Micro Systems Ltd., Bangalore

Position: Functional SAP FI Consultant

Project Oct-1998 Project Finish Oct-1999

Start:

Version: SAP Ver 3.1i

This is an offshore project that Involved in month end support and

maintenance.

Responsibilities:

. Month end payment runs, Depreciation runs, balance confirmations,

Currency valuations, Automatic posting runs, trouble shooting

. Periodic uploads, downloads,

. Worked on MM & FI Period end closing support

. MM and FI Posting periods, Job Schedulling,

. Worked extensively on Exchange Rate upload, rate correction etc.,

. Provided Dunning reporting support.

. Scheduling of jobs, verification of run status, error/abort reporting

in log entries.

. Testing of developed solutions, providing unit test results and

status.

. Preparation of documentation

Project Name: Payroll and Employee Management System (Oracle

with D2K)

Client Name & Location: Penguin Security Systems, Bangalore, India

Employer: Proclient Software Solutions, Bangalore, India

Position: System Analyst (NON SAP)

Project Dec-1997 Project Finish Sep-1998

Start:

Ocacle with Developer 2000

The development was done to take care of Payroll, employee leave and other

statutory reporting that was necessary each month as per government

requirements.

This software was developed as advancement of existing project.

This is suitable for maintaining and administering the annual sales tax

reports of customers for various tax forms both centrally and locally viz.,

'C' Form, Form-1 Form 1-B etc.,Roles and

Responsibilities:

Was responsible for database designing, studying system and transforming

business needs to technical team for further development

Responsibilities:

. Performed study on existing System .

. Understanding of Security operations to arrive at design.

. Designed screen layouts, forms and template to log entries of Employee

relating to attendance, leaves.

. Designed screens and forms to log entries related to employee

allocation per clients.

. Designed forms to report Sales Tax, professional Tax as per government

reporting needs

. Handled provident fund reporting, contribution report, tax liability

reporting etc.,

. Involved in Installation, post sales support

. Troubleshooting etc.,

. Documentation

Project Name: Sales Tax Liability Monitoring Reporting System

(Oracle 8.0/FoxPro)

Client Name & Location: Bharat Bijlee ltd., Bangalore, India

Employer: Proclient Software Solutions, Bangalore, India

Position: System Analyst (NON SAP)

Project Oct-1997 Project Finish Nov-1997

Start:

Ocacle 8.0/FoxPro

The aim of this project is to create sales tax liability monitoring system

to Bharaj Bijlee to calculate accurate outstanding liability to Government.

This software was developed as advancement of existing project.

This is suitable for maintaining and administering the annual sales tax

reports of customers for various tax forms both centrally and locally viz.,

'C' Form, Form-1 Form 1-B etc.,Roles and

Responsibilities:

Was responsible for database designing, studying system and transforming

business needs to technical team for further development

Responsibilities:

. Performed System Analysis on Cobol system on which client was running

existing software.

. Understanding business process to design and suggest required

development on FoxPro.

. Designed Screens and layouts.

. Database design and normalization, finalizing number of DBFs.

. Writing Pseudo Codes for development.

. Process Documentations

Project Name: None

Client Name & Location: None

Employer: Star Shoes (I) Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India

Position: Jr Accounts Officer (Non SAP)

Project May-1993 Project Finish Jun-1997

Start:

Worked as Junior Accounts officer for a Shoe Manufacturing Company in

Bangalore. The requirements was to write books of accounts, maintain

statutory registers and file Income Tax and TDS Tax returns each month as

needed. Reporting to Government, Excise departments as needed

Responsibilities:

. Maintaining Cash Book, Bank Book, customer Accounts, Vendor Accounts,

. Preparing reports viz., Cash flow, Fund flow for Management.

. Maintaining and filing of Factory Calendar with Labor Department.

. Preparing Outstanding reports from customers daily.

. Preparing Outstanding report to Vendors, Bank Reconciliation statement

. Preparing pay roll

. Maintaining leave registers of employee.

. Maintaining Employee State Insurance Records,

. Maintaining Production Log Register.

. Handling inventory registers related to office.

. Handling stationery, medicine and controlling

. Coordinating with Custom Department, Income Tax Department etc.,

. Filing lay off reports with labor Department.

. Periodic statutory returns and finalization of ESIC, PF,

Professional Tax, Commercial Tax etc.,

. Participation in Finalization of Accounts with Auditors, Income

Tax/Commercial Tax Department.



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