Experience Summary:
. Total * plus years of experience in Financial Services and
Management including over five years of experience in SAP design,
development & implementation, Testing for Finance, Insurance,
Banking, Energy and Utilities, Airways and other IT Industries
. Worked in Full life cycle implementations in FS-CD/FS-CM module
with direct client Interaction at onsite
. Have very strong Functional Skills & Specialist in Collections
and Disbursement (FS-CD) module
. Good expertise of FSCD Master Data, Billing, Posting & Documents,
Dunning and Correspondence, Clearing & Payment Lots, Payment
Program, Returns, Refunds process Installment Plans, Pay plans
and Broker Collections.
. Worked on Solution Design Document, Functional Specification
Document, Development, Unit testing, Enhancements, and Support &
Maintenance
. Designed Custom development/Reports based on Business
requirement.
. Expertise in customization and Testing of FS-CD, FI-GL, A/P A/R
and Bank Accounting
. Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO
modules -GL, AR, AP, FICA(Contract Accounting),Fixed Assets,
Treasury, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) Product costing and Special
purpose Ledger
. Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross
functional and integration view points
. In-depth knowledge in ASAP methodology, system design and
development and gathering user requirements
. Experience in Blueprint, Configuration documents, Unit test
plans, Unit test scripts, Regression testing, User Acceptance and
Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production
support.
. Excellent exposure on working Onsite-Offshore Model, Excellent
Communication & Resource and Project Management skills
SAP EXPERTISE
. Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities of FS-
CD module and FSCM module including organization structure,
Master data set up, Batch job Processing, Clearing, Payment
Plans, Returns, Dunning, Correspondence, Payment Program, Write
off, BRF, Incident types and Benefits types.
. Customization experience in various areas of IMG activities of FI
module including organization structure, Global Settings, General
Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR),
Bank Accounting. Cost Element Accounting & Cost Center
Accounting.
. Strong functional skills in Accounting, Finance, Insurance,
Taxation & Travel Management.
. FS-CD related ABAP enhancements in the areas of Recoveries in
Claims management system.
. Have worked on FQEVENTS, user exist to meet the Business
requirements
. Very good understanding of the full lifecycle of the
implementation (ASAP implementation methodology), right from the
conception stage to go-live and support activity
. Experience on Technical aspect of SAP-ABAP Programming, Reporting
(Report/Dialog/ALV), SAP Script, LSMW, BDC, BAPI, BADI, User
Exit, Workflow, IDOC and ABAP queries.
Professional & Educational Qualifications:
. Federal Income Taxation from Devry University, USA with 4.00
GPA
. C A PE-II from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
. Bachelor of Commerce from Mangalore University.
Certification and Training:
. Trained on FS-CD (Collections and Disbursement) from SAP
India, Bangalore
. Trained on FI-CA (Contract accounts Receivable and payable)
. Trained on FI-CO (Wipro Internal)
. Qualified Six Sigma 'Green Belt'
. Diploma in Computer Application from Manipal Institute of
Computer Education, Udupi.
Skills and Exposure:
. Financial Services -Collections and Disbursement System
. Financial Services -Claims Management System and BW system
. Financial Services - Supply Chain Management)(Biller Direct,
Dispute Management)
. Configuration & Testing of SAP FICO system.
. End User Experience in FI, HR-Payroll and Time Management
System.
. Testing tool: Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Test Director,
Peregrine Service system.
. Working knowledge and Exposure to Main Frame system, E-agent
Application
IT EXPERIENCE
. Accenture, San Francisco, USA (Nov 15th 2010 till date
. WIPRO Technologies, Bangalore, India (July-12th 2004 till Nov
12th 2010)
Professional Experience and Project Details
. Project I
Company Accenture, USA
Client Fireman Fund Insurance Company, Novato, CA
Project Billing Implementation Project
Duration Nov 15th 2010 till date
Designation Process Lead and Senior FS-CD Consultant
Domain Insurance, Finance (BFSI)
Technologies SAP ECC 6.0, Mercury Quality Center
Contribution Involved in Functional Verification Testing,
responsible for writing test plans, scripts,
pre-requisites, test data etc
Supporting Business user in User acceptance
testing
Resolving the defects raised during functional
verification testing.
Creation of Business partner master data, Contract
account Master data and Insurance object master
data and updating payment plan items
Worked on configuration of Clearing process,
creation of clearing variants, clearing
characteristic and testing of entire clearing
logic.
Working with the on-site technical folks and
off-shore team for new project change requirements
Effort estimation for design, build and testing
Test plan preparation, Review of test plans, unit
& integration testing.
Instrumental in end of end business process
testing
. Project II
Company Wipro Technologies
Client Farmers Insurance Group, Los Angeles USA
Project Billing Simplification and Rationalization
project, Farmers all Line Business Releases
Duration March 2009 till date
Designation FS-CD Consultant and Process Lead
Domain Insurance, Finance (BFSI)
Technologies SAP ECC 6.0, Mercury Quality Center, Main Frame
system, Output Management System
Contribution Understanding the Current Business Process and
preparing study design document.
Conducted a study of the existing business
practices of FIG (Farmers Insurance Group) and
prepared a business blueprint mapping the AS-IS
processes to TO-BE processes in FS-CD.
Report any functional gaps in the Business
Requirement Index and suggest the ways and means
to bridge these gaps to improve business
processes.
Worked on configuration of Account creation
variants, Insurance object and Contract Account
Category, Account determination to suit the
business processes of FIG.
Configuration for statistical posting business
process
Configuration of Payments,Returns, Dunning
Procedure, Dunning activities and Correspondence
types.
Customized Return lot business process to suit
customer business process with third party
Interfaces.
Interaction with SAP to resolve complex issues and
get SAP notes for SAP standard issues.
Test plan preparation, Review of test plans, unit
& integration testing.
Instrumental in end of end business process
testing including scenarios like Receivables,
payments, cancellation of policies, Reinstatement,
Renewal, Moves scenarios, Transfer posting,
refunds, returns lot process
Worked on development of Paid in full business
process to build a interface with upstream systems
Working with the on-site technical folks and
off-shore team for functional enhancements &
application interface development and delivery
Development of functional specifications &
extraction logic for new interface & ABAP Custom
reports
Prepared Configuration document, End User Training
documents
Provide thought leadership for development of
testing approach and execution of unit and
functional testing
. Project III
Company Wipro Technologies
Client Lloyds TSB General Insurance, UK
Project Support and Maintenance, Recoveries Implementation
Projects, Enhancements
Duration Oct 2007 till March 2009
Designation FS-CD, FI Consultant
Domain Banking and Insurance, Finance (BFSI)
Technologies SAP 4.72, Mercury Quality Center, Peregrine
System, MS Access Database,
Contribution Key Accountabilities in Support and Maintenance
Project
Independently handled entire FS-CD KAP Transition,
Secondary and Primary Support and Play back
session with the client
Prepared System Maintenance Technical Document
(SMTD)
Supported various FS-CD, FI-GL related issues
during Steady state in Production environment.
Monitoring daily Overnight SAP Batch jobs and
fixing batch job related issues
Have handled many Change request proposal and was
instrumental in delivering the change request
solution in Internal Manufacturing Project.
Co-ordination with Customer and Offshore team to
ensure smooth transition of Business transactions.
Key Accountabilities in Recoveries Implementation
Project and other Manufacturing internal Release
projects
Understanding the Current Business Process and
preparing study design document.
Involved in Requirement gathering and preparation
of Business Blue Print document.
Involved in effort estimation for Study, Design,
Build and Unit testing Phase.
Created GAP Analysis document and proposed
functional and technical solution to bridge the
Gaps
Development of functional specifications &
extraction logic for new interface & ABAP Custom
reports.
Designed new custom application for check lot
processing.
Involved in identifying the events to map the
cross company GL posting determination
Extraction of Logic for New custom GL
Reconciliation reports
Interaction with SAP to resolve complex issues and
get SAP notes for SAP standard issues.
Expertise knowledge in FQevents, BADI methods in
the development of project.
Prepared Configuration document, End User Training
documents
Prepared unit test plans, Test script and Test
cases for Unit & Regression testing.
Follow up with Client to get the sign off for all
documents
Supported system testing team and UAT system
during testing phase.
. Project IV
Company Wipro Technologies
Client All Nippon Airways Account
Duration May 2007 till Sept 2007 ( 5 months)
Designation FI-CO Consultant
Domain Financial Accounting, Controlling
Technologies SAP 4.62C
Contribution Handled Service Requests which are mainly from
GL, AR and AP and Bank Accounting
Report Project status documents to Onsite team
every day
Creation and maintenance of GL account thru Z
programs and Unit Testing
Configuration of House Bank, Bank determination,
Ranking Order, Bank accounts for various payment
methods.
Setting up of Reference parameters for payment
method
Creation of Cheque lots number and creation of
Cheque parameter variant
Testing Run of Automatic payment program thru z
program and testing of payment medium.
Involved in Transport activities like releasing
the transport request and transporting the
request to development client as well as quality
client.
Creation of user group, user ID with role thru Z
programs as per guideline documents
Configuration of new tax code and tax accounts.
Maintenance of Profitability Analysis segments.
Testing and maintenance of reconciliation
accounts and creation of accounts for Special GL
transactions.
Testing of Asset postings, Asset acquisition,
retirement, transfer and sale.
. Project V
Company Wipro Technologies
Client Shell CFERP Project
Duration Jan 07- Apr 07 (4 months)
Designation FICO Consultant
Domain Financial Accounting, Controlling
Technologies SAP ECC.6.0
Contribution Instrumental in preparing Configuring Design
documents, Build/and Unit testing.
Involved in Master data creation, GL clearing,
foreign currency valuation
Worked on Customer Invoice creation, Payment run,
clearing, partial clearing, Reporting
Configuring Bank accounts, Payment program
Involved in documentation of Unit Test plans
Actively involved in documentation of the Unit
test scripts Document.
Involved in functional testing after Build.
. Project VI
Company/Client Wipro Technologies, Internal Project
Duration Sept 2003 till Dec 2006 ( 3 years, 4 months)
Designation Executive
Domain Finance, Payroll, Allowance, Insurance, Travel
Management
Technologies SAP 4.72
Contribution Handled automation module, aiming to reduce the
manual process in the system.
Working with the Information Services team for
Automation of Visa Processing
Working with Internal team to automate the
payment processing
Interaction with HR, Payroll and Forex
departments to ensure the onsite payments
Responsible for changing the data like; payroll
area, personal area, business area, and salary
details in the systems for the employee's who
have traveled onsite.
Advising onsite payroll department for processing
the payroll for the employees traveled to the
respective countries.
Advising the offshore payroll department to
process the offshore salary for the employees
traveled onsite depending on the eligibility &
the type of trip.
Generating and consolidating various reports from
the system according to the user requirements.
Handling the payroll & onsite insurance related
queries.
Ensuring audit compliance by constantly
coordinating with SOX team/internal and External
audit team
Responsible for fixing up of the onsite allowance
for the employees traveling to US and Non-US
countries depending on the various parameters.
Interacting with the Onsite managers, HR managers
and Vertical Heads in fixing the onsite salary.
Functional Experience
Company ADFC Pvt Ltd (Subsidiary Company of HDFC Bank
Ltd)
Duration Jan 2002 till Aug 2003 ( 1 Year, 8 months)
Designation Executive
Domain Banking
Technologies Oracle
Contribution Preparation of documents for Upcoming ATMs
(Preparation of Business Proposal, IT form, RBI
license)
Daily Payouts / Client CMS Dummy Account
monitoring /GL accounts monitoring
Effective monitoring of process of Collection,
Dispatch, Liquidation, Returns and maintenance
of appropriate documents / records for the above
processes
Ensure all funding sheets received from the
co-operative bank are captured in the system
Processing of receipts (Cash/Cheque) received
through Offsite ATMs
Preparation of MIS
Resolving ATM GL, ATM Base 24 differences
Checking of EOD Reports of Offsite ATMs
Coordinate with Admin and other vendors for
payment of Utility Bills with respect to ATMs
Company Pai and Nayak Co. (Chartered Accountant Firm)
Duration Jun 1998 till Dec 2001
Domain Finance, Taxation, Auditing
Technologies MS-Office (Excel, word, Paint, Access tools and
Power Point
Contribution Audit strategy and planning
Analytical review of financial statements
Involved in the internal, statutory Bank audit.
Audit of Scheduled Bank (Concurrent, Income and
Statutory)
Internal Audit of Non-Banking Financial Co's with
specific focus of internal control and cost
reduction.
Management of Outstation Audit
Handling of Income Tax and Company Law matters
Independent finalization and consolidation of
Accounts
Preparation of Profit and Loss Account and
Balance Sheet
Liasoning with the clients
Finalization of the Accounts
Preparation of Income Tax Returns, Advance Tax
Estimates, etc.
Reference
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