SARMA KOMPELLA

abm6s0@r.postjobfree.com

309-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

. 7 years of Functional experience as SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

(Releases, 4.6C through ECC 6.0) in corporate environment.

. Participated in Two Full Life cycle implementations, which included

involvement in all phases of ASAP methodology, Solution Manager, i.e.

Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Integration Test

Runs, and Go-Live & Support. Feasibility Analysis, Documentation.

. Experienced in New Implementations, Enhancements, Upgradation, Testing &

Production Support/User issues, Super-User & End-User Training

& Documentation.

. Experienced in gathering and analyzing business requirements, identifying

process gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes, re-engineering business

processes, creating business blueprints, mapping processes to SAP R/3

functionality, and collecting master data.

. Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI)

include General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable

(AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cash Management and Special Ledger.

. Expertise in Controlling (CO) includes Cost Centre Accounting (CO-

CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-

PCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing(CO-PC),

and Internal Orders

. Proficient in Configuration and Integration of SD and MM with FI

. Experienced in creating reports using Report Painter and Report Writer

. Extensively worked on LSMW for Master Data Migration using both Direct

object Method.

. Worked on Process and FICO Configuration documentation, Unit and

Integration Test Scripts, Testing, and end user training

. Provided functional support by being the liaison between users and

technical support teams

. Provided production support and system enhancements

. Attention to detail, with excellent written and verbal communication

skills, and good presentation and interpersonal skills

. Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to transform

business requirements into test strategies, test plans, test scenarios

and test scripts

. Ability to learn and adapt quickly to the emerging new technologies.

. Worked in Tandem with Accounting Teams, Core SAP teams and other Internal

Groups

. To prioritize and Implement system solutions and improve overall

business.

. High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and

technologies with ease and to seamlessly integrate skill set into the

project implementation lifecycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP : SAP R/3 FI, CO - 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0

Languages : C, SQL, HTML

Databases : Oracle 9i

O/S : Windows NT, Windows 2003

Web Tools : MS FrontPage

Office Tools : MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Testing Tools : Quality Centre

SAP R/3 SKILLS:

. Financial Accounting (FI): General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts

Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Asset Management (FI-

AM) and EC-CS (Consolidation).

. Controlling (CO): Cost Center accounting, Cost Element accounting,

Internal orders, Product Costing (CO-PCP), Profitability Analysis (CO-

PA)

. Gap analysis Configuring - FI/CO, testing and integration, Training,

Documentation and Creation of reports.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

. Masters in Commerce and Business Administration

. Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

WORK EXPERIENCE

Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA

Oct 08 - Till date

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

. As a team member I was involved in all phases of Project

Implementation.

. Participated in workshops involving detailed analysis of existing

Systems and business processes related to New GL, AA, AP, AR and CO.

. Business Blueprint Design, Conducted interviews Q&A database,

interacted with Managers of various departments to gather the Business

system requirements and prepared a Business Blueprint/Business Process

Master List (BPML).

. Worked closely with process teams in understanding the As-Is system

and finalizing design of the To-Be system (GAP analysis)

. Configured GL, AP (Accounts payable), AR (Accounts Receivables), and

AA (Asset Accounting)

. In SAP-FI-GL, Configured account groups, posting period, fiscal year

variants, document number ranges and field status groups.

. Completed System Configuration to set up all new required Chart of

accounts, Global Companies, Company Codes, modification of FI document

types, the inter-company relationships for cross company code postings

for payables/receivables, sales/cost of sales and revenue/expense and

FI trading partner validations.

. In Accounts Receivables (SAP-AR), Created Customer Master Data and

master groups, Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue

customers by setting up dunning. In Treasury Cash Management, Defined

cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for

incoming payments and Bank Reconciliation.

. Configured LSMW for uploading customer vendor master data.

. In Accounts Payable (SAP-AP), Created Vendor Master Data, Configured

vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for

vendor account groups. Configuration of payment program for posting

invoices with and without invoice verification. Customized accounting

transactions for postings and recurring entries.

. In Asset accounting (SAP-AA), Created and configured Fixed Assets

chart of depreciation keys, Asset classes and Account determination.

Worked with asset classes and integration areas with other modules.

. Tested critical business transactions in the finance module including

vendor and customer invoices, payments, document fast entry, G/L

posting and recurring entry programs.

. Configured Controlling areas SAP-CO-OM (Overhead Cost Accounting) SAP-

CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting) Internal Orders Settlements SAP-EC-PCA

(Profit Center Accounting) SAP-CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) SAP-CO-

PC (Product Costing)

. In SAP-CO Created Controlling area Operating concern maintained

versions primary

and secondary cost elements cost element groups and assigned number

ranges to groups

Defined Cost Center Hierarchies activity types statistical key figures

and reconciliation ledgers

. In SAP-CO-PC worked in coordination with Production planning team

Master data structure in CO-PC Standard cost estimate from BOM Work

center Product Cost Planning areas Cost Roll-up and Costing run.

. Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and Set up the

Integration between FI, SD and MM through Automatic Account

Assignment.

. In SAP-CO-PA worked in coordination with SD MM and PP teams regarding

pricing in defining condition types Condition tables Procedures and

access sequence.

. In SAP-EC-PCA created Profit Center groups Dummy profit centers Profit

center standard Hierarchies assigned objects to the profit centers.

. Tested the generation of reports using report writer and report

painter.

. Developed Test cases and solve issues using Unit Testing and System

testing.

. Assisted the team in designing the documentation and provided Go-Live

Post implementation support.

Intel, Phoenix AZ

Dec 07 - Sep 08

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

. Participated in Configuration/Customization of FI modules including

GL, AR, AP and AA.

. Prepared functional specifications for modification to the existing

standard reports to client specific requirements.

. Outlined potential solutions and business impacts and addressed change

requests for upgraded and new/additional functionality.

. Developed and deployed new processes and configuration to meet

business needs.

. Mapped and 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

. Collected and compiled the data from old legacy system and transferred

it to SAP using BDCs and BAPI programs.

. Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment

Terms, Interest Calculation, Lockbox and Dunning.

. Worked on Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Cash and

Payment History.

. Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit

Management.

. Configured Credit Control Area and Defined Risk Categories, Credit

Representatives and Intervals for Days in Arrears.

. Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to Design a global Vendor

/ Customer Master Record Structure.

. Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and Set up the

Integration between FI and MM through Automatic Account Assignment.

. In Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting implemented planning in

Overhead Cost Controlling

. Provided production support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO

users.

. Provided functional support by being the liaison between users and

technical support teams.

. Providing guidance and understanding of day-to-day financial

functions, improvements, changes, issues and translation into system

configuration requirements, custom development solutions or business

process changes.

PolyOne, Avon Lake, OH

Sep 06 - Nov 07

Role: SAP FICO Business Analyst

. Participated in defining and analyzing the project objective, followed

by gap analysis.

. Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in

system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing

post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.

. Defined Leading ledgers and non-Leading Ledgers and extracted reports

out of both for management reporting using the table structures

FAGLFLEXA and FAGLFLEXT.

. Completed System Configuration to set up all new required Chart of

accounts, Global Companies, Company Codes, modification of FI document

types, the inter-company relationships for cross company code postings

for payables/receivables, sales/cost of sales and revenue/expense and

FI trading partner validations.

. Participated in configuration of financial module including

organization structures, business processes and configuring and

maintenance of master data's.

. Responsible for configuration of General Ledger master records,

defining GL automatic clearing rules, assigning GL accounts for

foreign currency valuation, setting up of number ranges, account

groups, tolerance groups and field status groups.

. Participated in Configuration of Accounts Payable/ Accounts

Receivable. Configured and maintained the vendor and customer master

records.

. Defined new customer/ vendor account groups, defined client specific

payment terms, vendor/ customer invoices, manual incoming/ outgoing

payments, automatic payment program configuration, partial payments,

payment proposal/ schedule, payment run, maintained terms of payment

for cash discounts.

. Customized credit control area for Credit Management by defining the

credit control area, credit risk categories and credit profile.

. Configuring Asset Classes, Depreciation areas, Creation of Account

determination for assigning GL Accounts - Acquisition, depreciation

and Accumulated Depreciation accounts for Asset Classes and also

Loss/Gain Accounts for Retirements, Transfers and Write-offs.

. Participated in the testing cycles and testing mocks.

. Created GL, AR & AP Master data to conduct unit testing and integrated

testing.

. Participated in Unit and Integration testing phases, provided training

to end users and follow-up documentation.

. Provided support to the users on Period/Year closing procedures.

. Assisted end users in running/generating and understanding the

standard reports.

. Fixing of end user related errors/issues.

. Resolving tickets and remedies.

MDC, Hartford, CT

Dec 05 - Aug 06

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

. Monitor and ensure all global periodic jobs ran properly and completed

on daily basis

. Initiate corrective action if jobs fail and review the reasons for its

failure and fix the program errors with help of ABAPers.

. Ensure lockboxes and AR reports uploaded successfully on daily basis.

. Investigate, trouble shoot and help enhance system processes in

coordination with other team members and initiate discussions with

user team and explore options to make the process concurrent and

successful.

. Maintain and support issues (both for wholesale and retail categories)

that relate to FI/CO/MM related and help identify the problem and re-

direct to resources if necessary amongst team members.

. Participate and resolve issues that time-critical and help users to

get their data without interruption.

. Write functional specs for any enhancements or if there are any

changes in programs due to changing business needs; document the

processes and train users in running the reports or processes

properly.

. Merger and migration of company code data from one affiliate to

another.

. Worked on Chart of Depreciation, Master Data in Fixed Assets, Lean and

Main Implementation in Fixed Asset Accounting.

. Provided support to the users in generating FI-GL Standard Reports for

Month/Year-end Reporting purposes and Generated Customized Reports for

Managerial requirements by using Report Painter.

Bayer, Pittsburg, PA

Oct 04 - Nov 05

Role: SAP FICO Business Analyst

. Involved in all phases of Implementation from development of Business

Blueprint to end user training and go live.

. Involved in understanding the Business Requirement, understanding Legacy

system functionalities and customizations, gathered functional

requirements through user workshops, Gaps identification, Analysis and

documented As-Is model and To-Be model.

. Used ASAP Methodology for implementation.

. Involved in Configuring and demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities to client

team by prototyping business scenarios based on the business requirements

of the client.

. Configured the GL, AP, AR, Bank modules in the SAP system

. Implementation phase: In this phase, customizations were done for

organizational structures and defined assignment between organizational

structures. Configured chart of accounts with the necessary automatic

account assignment configuration. Configured basic organization settings

(Company Code, Charts of Accounts, Business areas).

. Set up Fiscal Year Variant, G/L Accounts Group, Field Status variant and

Document number ranges.

. Changing the posting periods to allow transactions posted in the

particular period by using Posting Period Variant.

. Configured customer and Vendor account groups. Master records as well as

one-time vendor and customer master records, account groups, number

ranges, field status, tolerance groups and tolerances for each group.

. Configured Automatic payment program - sending Co code, payment co. code,

and payment methods at country level, house banks, ranking order, and

account amounts levels. Created check lots for APP.

. Defined Reason Codes for payment differences and worked on writing of

these differences to G/L accounts.

. Configured House Banks, Automated payment program run, payment terms,

clearing intercompany vendor /customer open items, lockbox processing.

. Configured credit management functionality. Created credit control areas,

credit risk categories and defined credit representatives groups as per

the client requirements.

. Created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts for each bank

account and created reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers.

. Electronic bank statement, check deposits.

. Provided configuration support in MM integration for account

determination using OBYC.

. Provided production support, knowledge transfer and end user training

Participated in integration testing for the all the processes.

. Provided support for go-live and production support.

Natural Textiles, Bangalore, India

Aug 03 - Sep 04

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

. Designed the Chart of accounts of the Company.

. Designed the FI organization structure and other configuration

parameters like posting period variant, Field status groups, Fiscal

year variant, Document types etc.

. Basic Configuration of General Ledger, Vendors, Customers and Banks.

. Compilation of the basic data for total FI and CIN configuration like

Account assignment structure - MM & SD; Chart of accounts; special GL

indicators, GL account groups; Vendor account groups; Reconciliation

accounts, Foreign Exchange rate types, Tax codes etc.

. Master data updating: Collected and compiled the data from old legacy

system and transferred it to SAP.

Website : http://www.sunsoftusa.com

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