Management Accounting
Resume:
RaVINDER singh
abi9gk@r.postjobfree.com
SENIOR SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
. 7 years of SAP FI/CO Implementation Experience with extensive working
knowledge in Healthcare, Food and Semiconductors industry.
. 2 Full Life Cycle SAP FI/CO implementation experience with strong
experience and working knowledge in ECC 5.0 and 6.0
. Proficient in Implementation, Design and Configuration of major
functionalities in FI - General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts
Payable and Asset Accounting.
. Extensive experience in configuring major sub-modules of CO - Cost
Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting.
. Extensive knowledge holder of integration points with SD and MM
Modules.
. Sound functional background with excellent analytical and
communication skills.
. Provided Functional specifications to custom reports and custom layout
sets to technical team.
. Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to understand the
shortcomings of SAPs business processes, capture justified user
requirements, and manage through to completion within a structured
development cycle.
. Known for excellent attention to detail and the ability to communicate
effectively with all levels of the organization
. Provided functional support by being the liaison between users and
technical support teams.
. Provided production support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO
users.
SAP FI/CO Skills
Financial Accounting : General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable
(AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset
Accounting
(AA)
Controlling : Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost & Revenue
Element Accounting (CEA),
Internal
Orders (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability Analysis
Integration : Integration of FI/CO module with SD, MM and PP
modules.
Consolidation : Company Code (CC) Consolidation and
Business Area (BA) Consolidation.
Reporting : Report Writer and Report Painter.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP Packages : SAP R/3 FI, CO -5.0 and ECC 6.0
Programming Languages : ABAP/4 Programming, C, C++, Perl, MSDOS, HTML
Databases : MS SQL Server 7/2000, Oracle 7 / 8 / 8i / 9i
Operating Systems : Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT & XP,
UNIX, Red Hat, Linux and Solaris 6.0
EDUCATION
M.S., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
. B.E., Thapar University, India
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GDA Technologies Inc., San Jose, California
Apr. 2009 - Sept. 2010
SAP R/3 FI/CO Senior Functional Consultant / Team Lead
Environment: ECC 6.0
Modules Used: FI, CO, MM and SD
Company Description:
GDA Technologies is an Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon
Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the Embedded, Networking,
and Consumer Electronics Market. GDA provides end-to-end product design
capability to its customers in semiconductor field in addition to specific
technology services in hardware design.
Responsibilities
. Performed requirement collection by holding meetings with Users and
understanding the Workflow of the As-Is System (JDE).
. Worked on Analysis of existing Workflow to design solutions and
designed the To-Be Solution by reviewing all Processes, User
procedures, and System requirements.
. Configured and Customized FI-CO modules: GL, AR, AP, AA, CEA, CCA.
. Defined the Operating Chart of Accounts and mapped the legacy system
accounts to Operating Chart of Accounts by customizing the needful
according to the client requirements.
. Responsible for Customization of the Account Groups, Field Status
Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of
G/L Account Master Records.
. Defined G/L accounts for Materials Management Module and worked on
setting up the Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account
Assignment.
. Defined Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms,
Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
. Configured Open Item Clearing and Automatic Payment Program for
Outgoing Payments.
. Worked with members of SD Team to Design and Configure the Sales
Billing and Invoicing Processes in order to integrate with FI.
. In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation,
Assigned Chart of Depreciation, Specified Account Determination,
Created Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed
Asset Classes.
. Maintained Depreciation keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset
Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
. Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L
Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable
Acquisitions.
. Specified Document Type for Posting of Depreciation, Specified Account
Assignment types for Account Assignment Object, Specified Transfer of
APC Values, and Determined Depreciation Areas in the Fixed Asset
Class.
. In Controlling, configured General Controlling by maintaining
Controlling Area and creating CO document number ranges and version
maintenance.
. In Cost Element Accounting, created Primary Cost elements as per the
Client's requirements through Batch Input Session.
. Configured Cost Center related Planning, Budget Management, and Actual
Postings and assigned relevant Profit Centers to Cost Centers.
. Master Data Maintenance in PCA ( Profit center accounting), which
included set up of new, Profit centers
. Configured the new Characteristics, Value Fields and evaluated Key
Figure Scheme in CO-PA to create new reports for the client. Worked on
COPA reporting.
. Created Functional Specification Documents(FSDs) wherever required and
provided to the developers to create required Custom Programs.
. Documented End User Manuals and Training Material.
ConAgra Foods, Omaha, NE
Feb. 2008 - Mar. 2009
SAP R/3 FI/CO Senior Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7
Modules Used: FI, CO
Company Description:
ConAgra Foods, Inc. is a packaged foods companies. It operates in two
segments, Consumer Foods and Commercial Foods. The Consumer Foods segment
includes branded and private label food products that are sold in various
retail and foodservice channels. The Commercial Foods segment provides
commercially branded foods and ingredients, which are sold principally to
foodservice, food manufacturing, and industrial customers.
Responsibilities
. Interacted with Client business users for requirements gathering and
analysis.
. Interacted with the business Analysts and end users to get the user
requirements and Business process using ASAP methodology.
. Preparing required documents user training providing the design
alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the
business process in SAP.
. Configured and Customized FI sub-modules Accounts Receivable and
Accounts Payable.
. Interacted with Client to Update and Group Customer and Vendor Master
Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas.
. Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor
Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.
. Redefined and Configured Payment Methods, Payments Terms, House Bank,
Bank Accounts for AP, AR - Dunning process, Interest calculation, and
Credit Management.
. Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing
Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation
Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom
Interfaces.
. Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable,
and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations
in Cost Center Accounting.
. Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including Partial
Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing.
. Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts.
. Customized Lockbox, Payment Requests and Interest Calculation on
Account Balances and Line Items.
. Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for
customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups,
discount overviews.
. Configured general Controlling Organization by defining Controlling
Area.
. Maintaining document number ranges for controlling Area and
maintaining Versions for Controlling areas. Configured Basic Settings
for Profit Center Accounting by maintaining control Area settings,
Activating Direct postings, Plan versions, analyzing and updating the
basic settings
. In Internal orders, Configured different internal Orders Types and
their screen layouts and status management. Configured Allocation
structures, settlement rules and settlement profile for internal
orders.
. Documented End User Manuals and Training Material.
Medtronics, MN
Nov. 2006 - Dec. 2007
SAP R/3 FI/CO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 5.0
Modules Used: FI, CO, SD, MM
Company Description:
Medtronic is a medical technology company. Medtronic develops,
manufactures, and sells device-based medical therapies worldwide in
following business segments: Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management segment,
Spinal segment, Surgical Technologies segment and Physio-Control Segment.
Responsibilities
. Configured and Customized FICO modules including GL, AR, AP, AA, CEA,
and CCA.
. Worked extensively on General Ledger, Vendor/Customer Master Records,
Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
. Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client
requirements.
. Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys,
Document Types, Posting Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master
Records.
. Defined G/L accounts for Materials Management and Set up the
Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.
. Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables
payments in BAI2 Format.
. Worked on configuration of House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure,
Posting Rules for Automatic Assignment
. Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and
Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring Entries.
. Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor
Master Data.
. Performed configuration of Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing
Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable. Payment Program
Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment
Methods, Creating proposal for Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings,
ACH payments etc.
. Worked extensively on Configuring and Customizing the Credit
Management.
. Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of
Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account
Determination in Fixed Asset Management.
. Designed Screen Layout Rules, Defined Number Range Intervals & Fixed
Asset Classes.
. Defined Depreciation Area posting to General Ledger, Assigned G/L
Accounts, and Assigned Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable
Acquisitions.
. Specified Document Type for Posting of Depreciation, Specified Account
Assignment types for Account Assignment Object, Defined Depreciation
Areas, Specified Transfer of APC Values, and Determined Depreciation
Areas in the Fixed Asset Class.
. Maintained Depreciation keys, Defined Screen Layout for Fixed Asset
Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas.
. Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined
Transfer type for Acquisition, Retirement, and Transfers & for
Intercompany Asset Transfers.
. Configuration of Capitalization of Assets Under Construction with
different Settlement Rules. AUC class was created with line item
settlement option.
. Created Different settlement profiles settling to different assets by
line item. Depreciation Areas created to take care of Book
Depreciation, Tax Depreciation, and Management Depreciation.
. Extensively worked in Controlling modules including, Cost Element
Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
. Transferred the CO-PA Planning Values to Profit Centers
. Configured the Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Controlling area and
Operating Concern as per Business Scenario and Processes.
. Coordinated with ABAP team for Customization of FI/CO Tables and User
Exits.
. Trained Business Process Owners and End Users.
. Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing
Activities.
Novellus Systems, San Jose, CA
May 2005 - Sept. 2006
SAP R/3 FI/CO Functional Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7C
Modules Used: FI, SD, MM
Company Description:
Novellus Systems Inc. is a leading supplier of chemical vapor deposition
(CVD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), electrochemical deposition (ECD),
chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), ultraviolet thermal processing
(UVTP), and surface preparation equipment used in the manufacturing of
semiconductors.
Responsibilities
Basic Settings and Organizational Structure:
. Configured financial accounting global settings set up company codes,
chart of account, positing variants and fiscal year variants.
. Assigned document ranges, defined tolerance groups for employees and
assigning the variants to company code etc.
AR and AP:
. Configured and Customized General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), created
G/L accounts, screen layout rules, automatic account assignments,
financial statement version.
. Configured and Customized Account Receivable (FI-AR) and Accounts
Payable (FI-AP) modules including creation of vendor master records,
customer master records, account groups, tolerance groups, account
determination.
. Defined new Account Groups, Number Ranges (External), Posting Keys,
document Types (for External No. Range Specific), and Field Status
groups (for External No. Range Specific).
. Defined reason codes for payment differences and worked on writing off
these differences to G/L accounts.
. Configured special G/L accounts for down payment with down payment
indicator, configured down payment requests.
. Configured necessary settings for Foreign Currency valuation, Payment
Differences and Exchange Rate Differences with reason codes.
. Worked in AR to set up Automatic Interest calculation procedure for
balances.
. Forms for customer invoices and mass external distribution to the
customers for those invoices
. Configured Check management with pre-numbered checks and printing
thereof.
Controlling:
. As an initial step for CO implementation, configured General
Controlling by maintaining Controlling Areas and assigned different
Company Codes accordingly, creating CO document number ranges and
version maintenance.
. Created Different Plan Versions for Planning for Cost Centers and
Internal Orders.
. Cost Element Accounting configuration involved in identification and
creation of Primary Cost elements through Batch Input Session and
created Secondary Cost Elements for the purpose of Settlement of
Internal Orders and Project Systems
. Configured Cost Center Accounting by creating Standard Hierarchy, Cost
Centers, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures based on client
requirements
. Created Costing Sheets and assigned to relevant cost centers for
calculating Bonus to eligible employees based on the salary paid.
. Configured Cost Center related Planning, Budget Management, and Actual
Postings and assigned relevant Profit Centers to Cost Centers.
. Configured Internal Orders by identifying and creating required Order
Types.
. Configured Settlement profile and Structures (for Internal Orders,
Plant Maintenance Orders and Project Systems) Settlement Cost
Elements, Order Planning, Budgeting, Status Management etc.,
. Involved in creation of user-defined reports through Report Writer and
Report Painter.
. Involved in configuration of Planning and Actual Postings of Profit
Center Accounting.
. Documented End User Manuals and Training Material.
AES, Arlington, VA
Jan. 2004 - Apr. 2005
FI/CO Junior Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 5.0
Modules Used: FI, CO, SD, MM
Company Description:
As one of the world's largest power companies, AES owns and operates a
diverse and growing portfolio of generation and distribution businesses.
AES power plants encompass a broad range of technologies and fuel types,
from coal to gas to renewables such as wind, hydro and biomass.
Responsibilities
. Performed configuration of FI enterprise structure that included
creating few company codes.
. Involved in undertaking configuration of Chart of Accounts.
. Defined the fiscal year variant and the employee tolerance limits,
posting keys, document number ranges and document types, successful
integration of FI and MM modules,
. Worked on configuration of A/P and A/R module: credit management,
Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, terms of
payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments
and open item clearing, reason codes configuration.
. Worked on definition of risk categories for customers and configured
credit management for the customer data, Configured accounts payable
(AP), Defined vendor account groups and created master data.
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