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Tampa, FL, 33614
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August 10, 2010

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Gopala Krishna Mukka

SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst

Phone: 909-***-****

E-mail: abl2kn@r.postjobfree.com

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SUMMARY

* 9 years of Resourceful and Proactive in SAP FI/CO Functional

Consultant experience in SAP R/3 environment and 3 full cycle

implementations & functional experience in Accounting, Auditing, and

Taxation Software Customization for Global Organization GTI (Corporate

and Personnel).

* Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing

General Ledger Accounting GL, Accounts Payable AP, Accounts Receivable

AR, Asset Accounting AA & Internal Orders IO and Investment measures

IM, especially in highly Complex Business Environment.

* Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profit

Center Accounting EC-PCA, Product Cost Controlling CO-PCC,

Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Internal Order Accounting CO-IOA, Report

Painter.

* Very good understanding of all phases of SDLC. Involved in all phases

of implementation like Business blueprint, Realization, Final

Preparation, Go Live and post go live support.

* Excellent Accounting and Finance knowledge with demonstrated

Competencies in Financial and Business Analysis while working in

different industries.

* Sound functional experience of Financial, Management and Cost

Accounting practices prevailing in diverse segments of Industry like

Construction, Manufacturing, Trading, Travel and Service industries.

* Part of a Team skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering,

Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration

with an in depth understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP

Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD and MM Modules.

* Sound knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

required during the implementation of FI/CO module.

* User Training on the processes and assistance in Developing End User

Document.

* Strong Analytical skills with a High Learning Acumen to adopt new

Tools and Technologies with ease and seamlessly Integrate skills set

into the common goal of Project blueprint preparation.

* Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal and Communication skills

combined with Self-Motivation, Initiative and Project Management

Attributes.

* Capable of converting business requirements into functional

specifications for developing ABAP programs.

SAP FI/CO SKILLS

FI : New & Classic General Ledger, Accounts Payable,

Accounts

Receivable

CO : Cost Center Accounting, Cost & Revenue Element

Accounting, Internal Order Accounting,

Profit Center Accounting & Profitability Analysis,

Product Cost Controlling.

Integration : FI/CO integration with SD, PP & MM.

BPM Tools : ARIS SAP Net weaver 7.02, Solution Manager

4.0

Production Support Tool: Remedy Ticketing System, HP Service Manager 7.1

Technical Skills/Tool

Operating Systems : WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 98, 2000 & XP, MS DOS

ERP : SAP R/3 4.7 E- ECC 6.0{SAP FI (New

GL & Classic GL, AR, AP,

AA), CO (PCA, CA, PA, IO, PC)}

Methodologies Used : Accelerated SAP (ASAP).

Tools : MSOffice, uPerform, HP Quality Center

Academic Qualification

Masters in Accountancy from Osmania University

Bachelor of Commerce specialized in Accountancy

Professional Experience

Deloitte & Touche, Hermitage, Nashville, TN Dec09-

To Date

SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Project: Deloitte Federal Services (DFS)

Deloitte" is the brand under which approximately 169,000 dedicated

professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to

provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax

services to selected clients. These firms are members of Deloitte Touche

Tohmatsu ("DTT").

. Developed functional specifications on SDLC methodology for creating

an automated ABAP upload program for posting the unbilled receivables

adjustment requests.

. Created Functional Specs for Unbilled Balance Report by WBS elements

level and stored in ZFTP application server location for download and

retrieval purposes.

. Created New GL Accounts in FS00 for the Unbilled Adjustment accounts.

. Performed Unit testing for the Unbilled Adjustment upload program.

. Created test data for unbilled adjustment upload in a spreadsheet.

. Created Reason Codes for Unbilled Adjustment Requests of Accounts

Receivables

. Modified and Updated Custom tables built for storing the customized

ABAP Program's Data using SM30.

. Performed Testing on CAT2-Time Entry, CAT4-Time Approval & CAT7-for

Postings transfer to Controlling and running KKAJ for FI Postings.

. Managed own Tasks for the configuration activity in SE01

. Worked on Enhancement activity for existing processes in ECC 6.0

environment.

. Defined New Document Types for DFS Project Document FI Postings

. Regression testing on KKAJ RA Process, identified and reported the

issues in capturing the WBS Element level length in RA Unbilled

Adjustment FI Document Postings

. Created Reporter Writer Sets for various Reports of the Federal

Projects in GS01

. Created Table Entries in SM30 for the project related Custom defined

modifiable Z tables

. Created Functional Specifications for Federal Projects Pending

Adjustment Reports & Historical Adjustment Reports.

. Worked on Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA for Cost Center creation,

defining cost center groups

Environment: ECC 6.0, FI-New GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PCC, CO-

PA, SD and MM integration.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tampa, Fl Jun09-Nov-

09

SAP FICO Support Specialist

Project: Global Finance Systems (GFS)

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is one of the world's largest professional

services firms. It was formed in 1998 from a merger between Price

Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, both formed in London.

PricewaterhouseCoopers earned aggregated worldwide revenues of $28

billion for fiscal 2008, and employed over 146,000 people in 150

countries. In the United States, where it is the fifth largest

privately owned organization, it operates as PricewaterhouseCoopers

LLP.

. Creating New Lockbox configuration, Electronic Bank Statements

(EBS) for the production environment in North America Banks

. Creating Cash Designation Accounts in the Chart of Accounts and

activating the ALE to the GL Accounts

. Monitoring the Lockbox, EBS & other Financial daily files through

FTP site into R/3 by a Middleware program

. Opening the CO Posting Periods in OKP1 by running Customized ABAP

programs on period end.

. Unblocking the GL Accounts through FS00 for postings based on the

end user requests through HP Service Manager tickets

. Resolving issues on Different methods of Payment run via F110 for

AP team

. Perform regular FICO Validation based on the production server

patch implementations and communicating to the End Users

. EDI E Invoice Setup in FTP for Processing the Invoices for

Purchase Orders

. Creating New GL Accounts for Bank Accounts to process the Lockbox

activities for new House Bank setups

. Creating New Payment Methods in FBZP for making payments to

vendors for various company codes

. Running the MRBR transaction customized program to release the

price & quantity blocks of the vendor EDI invoices

. Open and Close Posting Periods in OB52 by customized ABAP program

with variants in each segment of FI areas.

. Worked on RFEBKA96 standard functionality program to delete

wrongly posted EBS & Lockboxes in Production System, then Uploaded

the correct EBS & Lockboxes in Production.

. Monitoring the movement of AL11 directory daily basis to review

the files uploaded properly from Data Directory to Processed for

Bank and Vendor EDI Files.

. Production Support issues on Bug fixes, Maintenance and

enhancements.

. Check Printing Program for F110 Payment Run on Payment Method B &

C

. Check layout design with ABAP team on SAP Script for ABAP

customized check printing program

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6C, FI- GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, SD

integration.

Applied Materials, Austin, TX

May08-May09

Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst

Project: AMAT SSG- Applied Materials Singapore Phase IIC

Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in nano manufacturing

technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment,

service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips,

flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and

energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials, we apply nano manufacturing

technology to improve the way people live.

Full Life cycle implementation phases, including defining the business

requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications,

configuration and testing. Participated in new and existing client

development

Responsibilities:

* Examined the company's document flow vis- -vis SAP process flow and

recommended suitable validation procedures for documents at header,

line item and whole document level.

* Involved & supervised in Conducting Interviews with users to gather

requirements and understanding the workflow of the As-Is system.

Analyzing workflow to design solutions and designing the To-Be

solution.

* Copy Reference Chart of Depreciation/Depreciation areas in Fixed

Assets

* Defined profitability segment in an operating concern by a combination

of characteristic values in CO-PA

* Assigning the SD Condition Types to CO-PA Value Fields in order

maintain the flow of values in the system to CO-PA

* Defined the characteristics for operating concerns in CO-PA. Defined

characteristics in the Customizing activity Maintain characteristics

* Extensively worked on Product Costing, configured the Standard cost

estimates (CK11N) for finished products, Costing run for Materials at

Plant level (CK40N) with the price update (CK24) parameters for

updating the price in Material Master Records.

* Configured Result Analysis Keys, Lind ID'S, Assignments and Updates

for WIP calculations.

* In Profit Center Accounting configured the basic settings, maintained

profit center standard hierarchy, exchange rate types, statistical key

figures, distribution and assessment of costs

* Specified characteristics for which document splitting in New G/L

Accounting and activated document splitting.

* Created Customer and Vendor Master Records in AP and AR and specified

number ranges and screen layouts

* AR invoicing. Booking of customer invoice. Flow of SD invoice to FI

document. Populating SD invoice details in FI document. Generating

reporting based on invoicing details. Generating of FI invoice. (FB70)

and Credit note (FB75).

* AP invoicing. Booking of vendor invoice. Configuring the clearing

process for AP invoices. Determining criteria for invoice clearing.

Configuring clearing process. Addressing GR/IR clearing accounts.

Configuring Automatic payment program.

* Extensively worked on COPC period ending activities such as WIP

calculations, Variance calculations and settlements of process orders

etc.

* Extensively worked on Product Costing, configured Local and Group

costing variants to create Standard cost estimates for finished

products, Raw Materials and Semi finished products

* Uploading and Executing Functional Unit Testing, Integration Testing &

User Acceptance Testing in HP Quality Center.

* Processing Evaluated Receipt Settlements (ERS)

Environment: ECC 6.0, FI-New GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PCC, CO-

PA, SD and MM integration.

Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA

May07-Apr08

Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst

Project: AMJ CES-Applied Materials, North America & Japan Phase I

Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in nano manufacturing

technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment,

service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips,

flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and

energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials, we apply nano manufacturing

technology to improve the way people live.

Full Life cycle implementation phases, including defining the business

requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications,

configuration and testing. Participated in new and existing client

development

Responsibilities:

* Involved & supervised in Conducting Interviews with users to gather

requirements and understanding the workflow of the As-Is system.

Analyzing workflow to design solutions and designing the To-Be

solution.

* Lead the project on BPM in ARIS Business Architect for SAP Netweaver

and Designed End to End Processes in ARIS Data Modeling tool for AMJ

CES to get synchronized with Solution Manager with the BPR Content

which brings in the configuration Objects into Solution Manger from

ARIS FAD'S (Functional Allocation Diagrams).

* Involved in preparing and presenting User Training records in uPerform

in SAP Netweaver Portal in all sub modules of SAP FI- GL, AP, AR, COPA

& PCC also delivered training to Business users.

* Performed Functional Unit Test & three levels of Integration testing

on SAP Netweaver Portal

* Uploading and Executing Functional Unit Testing, Integration Testing &

User Acceptance Testing in HP Quality Center.

* Created all Functional Configuration Documentation as a lead for the

project in Solution Manger

* In New G/L Define Document Types for Entry View in a Ledger & for G/L

View

* Configured predefined criteria for automatic clearing in New G/L

* Classified G/L Accounts, Document types for Document Splitting,

Defined Document Splitting Characteristics for New G/L Accounts

* Migration of Classic General Ledger to New G/L using table GLT0

* Create new account groups and maintain GL accounts in the account

groups.

* Product Cost Planning- Detailed configuration of overhead keys,

Special Procurement Keys, costing sheets, overhead groups and Complete

Cost Component Structure.

* Assign Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions in Fixed

Assets

* Assign Chart of Depreciation of Fixed Assets to company code

* Specify Number Assignment Across Company codes (Optional), Specify

Account Determination

* Assigning the SD Condition Types to CO-PA Value Fields in order

maintain the flow of values in the system to CO-PA

* Extensively worked on Product Costing, configured the Standard cost

estimates (CK11N) for finished products, Costing run for Materials at

Plant level (CK40N) with the price update (CK24) parameters for

updating the price in Material Master Records.

* Configured Result Analysis Keys, Line ID'S, Assignments and Updates

for WIP calculations.

* Extensively worked on Product Costing, configured Local and Group

costing variants to create Standard cost estimates for finished

products, Raw Materials and Semi finished products

* Identify which account groups are impacted due to new FSV and new GL

accounts. Do the necessary restructuring of the account groups.

Identify the Reports, assessment, and distribution cycles and CO-PA

reports which require modification and make the necessary changes in

the assessment, distribution cycles, reports and CO-PA settlement

rules.

Environment: ECC 6.0, FI-New GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PCC, CO-

PA, SD and MM integration.

Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA

Oct06-Apr07

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Project: CFI-Warner Music

Warner Bros. Entertainment, a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment

company, is a global leader in the creation, production, distribution,

licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related

businesses. Warner Bros. Entertainment, a Time Warner Company, stands at

the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry.

Responsibilities:

* Designed structure for Cost center Accounting, Profit center

Accounting and internal orders, CO-PCA-Assessments and Distribution,

PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, and integration

with project systems.

* Specify Description of Chart of Depreciation in Fixed Assets

* Copy/Delete Depreciation Areas for Fixed Assets

* Assign Input Tax Indicator for Non-Taxable Acquisitions in Fixed

Assets

* Assign Chart of Depreciation of Fixed Assets to company code

* Configured direct account assignment of activity types on actual cost

splitting. Splitting After Account Assignment to an Activity Type.

* Configuration of Payment Program for Payment Request in Treasury

* Defined Selection of Sequence banks in Treasury for Planning Available

Amounts.

* Creation of cost elements categories, automatic cost element creation,

imputed costs calculation methods, creation of cost sheet and assign

to a controlling area.

* Configuring Field status variant, posting period variant and fiscal

year variants with year dependent periods.

* Configured Chart of Accounts for multi-company code scenario with

company chart of accounts apart from operating Chart of accounts.

* Grouping the company vendors and customers and define credit control

and dunning areas Configured Dunning program processing which

included from creation of dunning proposals to printing the dunning

notices.

* Period end closing operations for foreign exchange valuations on

payables / receivables and G/L account balances.

* Involved actively with the Cross-Functional team members to solve

production issues.

Environment: SAP R/3. 4.7E FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PCC, CO-

PA,CO-IOA, SD and MM integration.

TAMKO, JOPLIN, MO

Dec04-May06

SAP Functional FI/CO Consultant

TAMKO is the nation's largest independent manufacturer of residential and

commercial roofing products. TAMKO is an acronym, which stands for Texas,

Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma - the company's original trade area

when founded in 1944. TAMKO's trade area is now all 50 states and a number

of foreign countries.

Part of the SAP FI/CO team responsible for Full Life Cycle Implementation.

Worked extensively on configuration, integration & implementation of

Finance and controlling modules.

Responsibilities:

* Gathered high-level financial information requirements and translated

these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy

(enterprise model). Supported all phases of a project life cycle

including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of

solutions, as well as documentation, and end-user training.

* In Accounts Payable (AP) configured manual and automatic outgoing

payments, house banks, ranking order, bank accounts, check management,

automatic payment program and integration with MM to meet the client

specific requirements.

* Involved in the configuration of company code, standard chart of

accounts, country chart of accounts, fiscal year variants, posting

periods, GL accounts, and business areas for eight divisions with

different currencies for regulatory reporting purposes.

* Worked on reconciliation accounts for outgoing payments, sort methods

and adjustment accounts for regrouping, month and year end closing

activities including accruals /deferrals, processing recurring

entries, closing sub-ledgers and preliminary closing of GL.

* Provided configuration support in FI-MM integration for account

determination, material movements' setup, and inter-company billing

and involved in resolving the post production issues.

* Configuring of Activity type, Activity hours, price calculation,

costing sheets in Product Costing.

* Configured Standard cost Accounting system, in which the end result is

calculating Variance between Planned & Actual & analyzing those for

further corrective actions.

* Instrumental in CO-PA configuration, which included building, the

operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics,

configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost

center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, PA settlement, and

integration issues with Sales & Distribution.

* For Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA set the controlling area for PCA,

created profit center, set control parameters for actual data.

* Configured and created custom PCA reports in CO module

* Configured and set the master data required for cost controlling

pertaining to cost centers, Activity types, internal orders and

product costing and segment level creation.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7E FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PCC, CO-

PA, SD and MM integration.

HP LABS, Palo Alto, CA

Jan03-Jul04

SAP FICO Consultant

HP Labs, a division of Hewlett-Packard, is a research and advanced

development organization and currently consists of seven locations

throughout the world and hundreds of projects. HP Lab's function is to

deliver breakthrough technologies and to create business opportunities that

go beyond HP current strategies. HP is a technology company, fueled by

progress and innovation. As HP central research organization, HP Lab's job

is to invent for the company's future.

Responsibilities:

* Created new GL accounts for accounting to permit timely reporting,

modified financial statement version to more accurately reflect

business and allow accurate analysis of company.

* In AP, defined client specific payment terms, created tolerance

groups for employees, vendors, configured manual outgoing payment

configuration - payment methods per country and company code for

payment transactions.

* Implemented Purchase to pay and procurement to pay processes.

* Worked on account determination configuration and interface points

between FI, MM, and SD.

* Worked on the configuration of master data groups, terms of payment,

incoming payments, dunning, interest calculation, open item clearing

and credit management in Accounts Receivable

* In AR, defined client specific payment terms, defined tolerances for

customers, configured manual incoming payment configuration -

payment methods per country and company code for payment

transactions, house banks, ranking order and bank details, defined

dunning procedures.

* Configuration of accounts groups, terms of payment, outgoing

payments including ACH and EDI, open item clearing and Special GL

transactions

* Configured Lockbox processing, liquidity forecast, cash management

position, cash concentration, bank statement processing and exchange

rates. Helped end users with Spot Exchange Transactions.

* Configuring Plant, Assigning plant to company code, maintaining

company code for Material management.

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7E FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PCC, CO-

PA,CO-IOA, SD and MM integration.

Mair Grant Thornton, Kingston, Jamaica

May01- May02

Functional Analyst

Mair Russell Grant Thornton is the member firm of Grant Thornton

International (www.gti.org) operates in 112 countries in 519 offices

worldwide. All GTI member firms share a commitment to providing the

same high quality service to their clients wherever they choose to do

business.

* Configuring the systems for statutory and financial audits on

GTExplorer (Version 6.0) for company's various clients such as

construction, finance, manufacturing, banking and service.

* Customizing the Audit Care (Version 2.6) software for the statutory

and financial audits of the company based on the nature of the audit

assignment and audit type. Software that is designed to assist audit

teams in reviewing and testing the important internal controls that

should be operating.

* Data Migration from different accounting systems such as QuickBooks,

MYOB, ACCPAC, Platinum to company's CBEAM (Version 2003) Accounting

software.

* Customizing the Pentana Checklist Audit tool for risk assessment of

the audits that company involves in every financial year audit

financial reports.

* Verifying the client's trial balance to assist the audit teams in

software called IDEA.

* Customizing the report generating tools for CBEAM, Audit Care, GT

Explorer, Pentana, and ACL. Sound knowledge in IAS (International

Accounting Standards)



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