Sap Accounts Payable

PAVAN CHALLA

SAP FI/CO Consultant

*********@*****.***

Phone: 573-***-****

SUMMARY:

. Over 5+ years of SAP FI/CO functional module experience and business

information systems, analysis & development

. Participated in 3 Full life cycle implementations, 1 upgrade and 5

production support projects

. Worked in SAP FICO projects for various types of industries such as

Manufacturing, Automobile, Food, Chemicals, and Others.

. Involved in Scoping, and estimation, Blueprint design, Configuration

and Integration areas of FI with other modules such as Sales and

Distribution, Materials Management

. Strong foundation in Financial accounting, Managerial accounting

(Controlling) and knowledge of "compliance with SARBANES OXLEY (SOX)",

and GAAP.

. Expertise in different phases in FULL life cycle implementation

(Global Implementation) of SAP using SDLC, ASAP methodologies

including business process re-engineering, System Design, Feasibility

Analysis, Configuration, Documentation and Testing.

. Certified in Accounts Payable functional module from Brainbench.

. Involved in

. SAP version Upgrade to ECC 6.0 (Lead Experience)

. Production support (Lead experience)

. Business requirement gathering, Process design & analysis, blue

print, GAP analysis, design, upgrade, Reports, conversions,

Interfaces, enhancements, Go-Live & Support, and train user

staff.

. Highly organized, and productive team player

. Excellent Interpersonal relations, Communication, Management,

Mentoring and Team building Skills.

SAP SKILLS:

. FI: General Ledger SAP-FI-GL, Accounts Payable SAP-FI-AP, Automatic

payment program, Treasury, House Bank, Bank reconciliation (electronic

and manual), Procure-to-pay-cycle, Substitutions, Validations,

Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Order-to-cash, SAP-Treasury, Lock Box

processes, EDI, Credit Management SAP-FI-CM, Special Purpose Ledger

SAP-FI-SL and Asset Accounting SAP-FI-AA (Fixed assets, Asset classes,

and special asset classes), and Interfaces and data loads (LSMW)

. CO: Profitability Analysis SAP-CO-PA, Profit Center Accounting SAP-EC-

PCA, and Overhead Cost Controlling SAP-CO-OM, Cost Center Accounting

SAP-CO-OM-CCA, Internal orders (SAP-OM-OPA), WBS elements, Activity-

Based costing, Standard hierarchies, Product Costing SAP-CO-PC, Cost

Object Controlling SAP-CO-OBJ, Product cost planning.

. Expert in preparation of reports using BEX (Business Explorer), SAP

Queries, Report writer and Report Painter

. Knowledge of ASAP implementation and capability of communicating with

ABAP programmers for technical specifications. Application of OSS

notes wherever applicable

. Conducted Feasibility Studies, Project planning, Planning for

Development, Enhancements and conversions

. Expertise in Functional designs, Analysis, Enhancements,

Configuration, testing and Support

. Experience in Globe template Implementation (Full life cycle

Implementations)

. Coordination of interfaces with SAP-ECC 5.0/ECC 6.0 and other legacy

systems using SAP Net weaver and SAP XI

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: FI/CO SAP R/3 Version 3.1i, 4.0B, 4.5B, 4.6C, 4.7E, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0,

SAP Solution Manager

DBMS: MS ACCESS, SQL Server

Languages: ABAP, C, C++, Fortran.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Employer: Patni Americas Inc.

Aug 2009 - Till date.

Title: Project Manager

Client: The Timken Company, Canton, OH

Aug 2009 - Till date.

Sr. SAP Functional Consultant (Project ONE)

The Timken Company is a leading Global manufacturer of highly engineered

bearings, alloy steels, and related components and assemblies.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for SAP Implementation (Wave 5), Design, Analysis,

Enhancement and Support Projects in Timken Globally

Configured Company codes, Fiscal year variants, Account groups, Field

status variants and other assignments related to company code

configuration

Designed FIT-GAPs, Functional specification and knowledge transfer

documents as a part of the blueprint and realization phases in many

areas of FI and CO.

Coordinated with MDM team (Master data Management team) in the Master

data loads for Vendors / Customers / Cost centers / internal orders in

SAP system.

Performed the functional unit testing, regression testing and User

acceptance testing (UAT) with the Power users on the configured

systems. Coordinated the maintenance of the transports for Finance

team.

Worked in the integration areas of FI-MM and FI-SD and completed the

configuration

Designed some of the Enhancements in several areas such as Credit

management, Scheduling agreements areas and others. Coordinated with

ABAP Team to develop these enhancements.

Designed reports using Report painter, Report writer tools for global

company codes such as China, Italy, Germany, India and others.

In accounts payable (AP), set up different Payment methods, Payment

terms. Configuration also includes FI-MM integration and Procure to

pay (PTP) processes

In Accounts receivables (AR), set up the complete configuration like

setting up billing, Dunning procedures and other areas including the

integration of Credit Management (CM), Order to Cash (OTC) & Sales &

Distribution (SD).

Worked on some of the production support issues related to the Flash

sales, intercompany transactions, IDocs and Logistics (MM and SD).

Involved in the master data loads of Asset accounting, Asset classes,

Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys, and other Assets under

construction, as part of implementation.

Created SAP info sets, queries from standard tables & table joins in

Global and standard areas for data extraction process.

Configured Cost center master data (CO-CCA), Cost center hierarchy,

Period end closing activities, Actual &Planned Assessment,

Distribution cycles and Automatic account assignment.

Defined financial statement versions for all the Company codes in all

American, European and Asian regions

Configured Profit center Master data (CO-PCA), Profit center

hierarchy, P&L statements and balance sheets for Profit centers

Defined Internal orders (CO-OM-OPA), settlement rules, individual and

collective settlements of internal orders, Statistical key figures

(SKF).

Configuration of CO-PA, Operating concern, Characteristics, value

fields, Derivation rules (table lookups, clear, move and others), SD

integration areas with CO-PA, condition types, access sequence and

flow of actual values. COPA reporting and Settlements to the COPA

segments.

. Presented Project documentation to end users and conducted knowledge

transfer sessions to Power users.

. Involved in Cutover, Monitoring of transports, Data loads, Go-Live

preparation and data conversion activities in Global Environment.

Employer: Globalpoint consulting Inc., NJ

Feb 2009-June 2009

Title: Sr. SAP Analyst

Client: HAAS TCM, West Chester, PA

Feb 2009-June 2009

SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Haas TCM is a chemical management services company based in West chester.

Haas supplies chemicals to various industries such as Automobile, Aerospace

and other manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for Blueprint and Realization in the Implementation and

interfaces of SAP with Oracle interfaces.

. Worked with the process owners to translate business requirements into

technical solutions, recommend solutions and system improvements, and

conduct unit testing and validation of process.

. Reviewed the Business processes and compatibility of the SAP system

with the present business as a part of SAP Implementation Scoping.

. Conducted Knowledge transfer workshops (SAP-FICO), interviews with

Super users, realization and Go-Live.

. Worked closely with process streams in raising FITGAPs and suggested

best business practices.

. Provided Business process procedures, Functional Specifications for

some Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, and other FITGAP s in the

present business system.

. Responsible for working with Business Systems Analysts to define,

construct, test, document, and deploy common processes across multiple

business units.

. Involved in configuration of Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts

receivables (FI-AR), Cost Center accounting (SAP-CCA), Profit center

accounting (SAP-PCA), Assessment and distribution cycles and

Settlements.

. Supported the FI team in setting up the SAP-GL accounts, and in other

SAP-FI modules like SAP- AP (Accounts Payable), SAP-AR (Accounts

receivable), and Asset accounting

. Worked with interfaces like SAP-Business Warehousing and integration

planning (SAP-BW) and other Legacy systems.

. Involved in US-Localization, Unit testing (Functional unit testing,

Cycle testing I and II) and provided test scripts.

. In SAP-AP (Accounts payable), Configured the vendor master data,

payment methods and limits of payments

. Tested to end to end business processes in Accounts payable including

bank file transfer testing.

. Documented all the changes (including OSS notes applied) in the

business and their corresponding changes in SAP along with best

solutions. Used Solution Manager

Employer: V soft Consulting group Inc., Louisville, KY

Nov 2005 - Jan 2009

SAP Systems Analyst

Client: ROHM and HAAS COMPANY, Philadelphia, PA

July 2008 - Jan 2009

SAP FICO lead Analyst (COE lead, Global info services GSIS )

ROHM and HAAS Company, a Philadelphia based company manufactures and

develops specialty and performance materials for customers in more than 100

facilities with operations in 27 countries.

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for the upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 and provide Post

GOLIVE support for the upgraded Production SAP system.

. Coordinated IS projects recognition and assessment of business Goals

Assigning the Jobs to respective team members and tracking the

progress of the project.

. Driving the IS projects to run smoothly in the Global environment with

the use of best practices, good decision making.

. Involved in change management activities, Knowledge Transfer

workshops, Risk management and assessments, and communication to the

business user communities.

. Lead the SAP Scoping, Configuration, Upgrade and Implementation

support in Finance areas including SAP-GL (General Ledger), SAP-AP

(Accounts Payable), Vendor master setup, SAP-AR (Accounts Receivable),

and SAP-AA (Asset Accounting), depreciation runs Setting up of the

CTRL-M jobs.

. Reviewed the GLOBAL template, SAP Business Process mapping, FIT-GAP

Analysis documents, business processes, and Process documentation.

. Involved and coordinated in preparing and signing off the functional

specification (FS) documents, FUT and UAT testing cycles (functional

unit testing, and User Acceptance Testing) in all regions (NAR, LAR,

APR, European Region) before Go Live.

. Responsible for configuration, documentation, testing, training

(Knowledge transfer) to appropriate end users and other activities

within supported functional area to ensure successful implementation,

enhancements, maintenance and support of ECC upgrade

. Responsible for Configuration of Finance and controlling modules

including Cost center accounting (SAP-CCA), Profit center accounting

(SAP-PCA), Profitability Analysis (SAP-COPA), Internal Orders.

. Involved in Data Conversions, Enhancements, EDI, Cutover activities,

GO-LIVE, rollouts in several regions like Latin America (Brazil,

Mexico, etc), Asia pacific and European regions

. Responsible for Unicode conversion as a part of Upgrade from 4.6C to

ECC 6.0.

. Worked with interfaces like Banks and Integration tools (web methods)

interfaces.

. Collaborated with other teams in SAP-FICO Integration areas with other

modules such as Procure-to-Pay (SAP-MM-PTP)

. Lead the integration of Legacy systems with SAP and Supported the IDoc

related issues (EDI).

. Coordinated with SAP-ABAP development team in order to modify some of

the Z-programs to be compatible with upgraded SAP version (SAP-ECC

6.0).

. Worked in Cost center accounting(SAP-CCA),Profit center accounting(SAP-

PCA), Profitability analysis (SAP-COPA),Period end closing activities,

Allocations (Distribution and assessment cycles), Depreciation,

Assets, Internal Orders, Statistical key figures and Accounts Payable

Payments to Bank interfaces.

. Provided Knowledge transfer and Documentation for ECC Upgrade to the

client as part of training for the users.

. Lead some of the Support issues and resolved by applying OSS notes and

best practices.

. Research and implementation on OSS notes and documented in Solution

Manager.

Client: HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE COMPANY, Milwaukee, WI

Apr 2007- June 2008

SAP-FICO Lead-Business Systems, GIS (Global Info services)-Corporate

Portfolio

Harley-Davidson is one of the leaders in manufacturing the motorcycles and

accessories. The company emphasizes heavyweight bikes designed for cruising

on the highway and known for their distinctive exhaust note.

Responsibilities:

. Responsible in leading the Implementation, Production support (SAP)

and Enhancement Team and provide the client with optimum, qualitative

and reliable resolutions.

. Involved in SAP XI Upgrade by coordinating the financial applications

team.

. Reviewed the Global template, business processes, documentation of the

SAP implementation and other legacy systems such as People-Soft,

Avantis, AS400.

. Involved in Go-live, Configuration, Production Support, Knowledge

transfer to users, and rollouts of company codes (Subsidiary)

including Mexico.

. Collaborated closely with the process streams in raising FITGAPs and

provided business & SAP solutions at various stages of the

implementation. Coordinated in Global Chart of accounts maintenance,

SOX compliance and process design.

. Provided Functional Specifications (including configuration, test

plans) and related work requests such as Reporting, Data Conversion,

Integration, Enhancements, issue resolution and Process design needs

in order to get the production (SAP) issues resolved.

. Configured integration areas (automatic account determination) for

Finance with MM and SD.

. Worked with SAP-FI-GL in setting up the New GL accounts, Document

split posting, integration with SAP HR, multiple currencies and

designed the customized reports.

. In Accounts payable and receivables (SAP-AP and SAP-AR), Designed

Procure-to-Pay process, Order-to-cash cycles and involved in the

integration areas of SAP FI-MM, and SAP FI-SD.

. Configured FI-SD interface in the areas of Enterprise Structure,

Credit Management, and Customer Master Reconciliation Account.

. Configured Credit Control Areas and pre-defined Credit Limits for

customers, maintained Risk Categories and Credit Monitoring groups,

Discount Overview.

. Designed and Structured the Cost Center master data, Statistical Key

figures, and Internal Orders

. Maintained cost center allocation, Distribution and Assessments for

shared services and Internal Orders

. Accomplished customized settings in COPA - Define Operating Concern,

Master Data settings, User defined Characteristics and Value fields,

setting the valuation strategies, Flow of actual values.

. Customizing the Derivation rules and using User exits to derive the

characteristics values.

. Worked with the development team of SAP XI in connecting the SAP ECC

to Gateway systems in Harley-Davidson museum project

. Involved in maintaining the jobs, scheduling and monitoring the

progress of the SAP jobs

. Coordinated with the ABAP-development team in order to create/modify

user exits or user-defined reports.

. Supported the interfaces and coordinated with SAP XI team to resolve

IDOCs related issues that were prevailing.

. Supported the critical integration areas of SAP-FI with other modules

like SD, MM, EC-PCA, CO-PA and PP.

. Documented all the changes (including OSS notes applied) in the

business and their corresponding changes in SAP along with best

solutions. Worked in SAP-Solution Manager

Client: NESTLE-PURINA PETCARE COMPANY, St. Louis, MO

March 2006 - April 2007

SAP FI/CO -Business Analyst, Decision support

Nestle-Purina Petcare Company is the world's largest manufacturer of Pet

food. Nestle implemented SAP GLOBE project, which stood as the world's

largest-ever deployment of mySAP.com.

Responsibilities:

. Played a vital role as a team member in this world's largest

implementation SAP-GLOBE Project.

. Reviewed the Business process and compatibility of the SAP system with

the present business as a part of SAP Implementation Scoping.

. Conducted Knowledge transfer (SAP- FICO), interviews with Super users,

Business Blueprint design, realization and Go-Live.

. Studied the existing SAP system with split architecture and Nestle-

GLOBE Implementation.

. Worked closely with process streams in raising FITGAPs, writing

Functional specifications and suggested best business practices

. Worked closely with process streams in raising FITGAPs and suggested

best business practices

. Provided Functional Specifications for the RICEF (Reports, Interfaces,

Conversion, Enhancements and Forms), and other FITGAPs in the present

business system.

. Involved in configuration of Cost Center accounting (SAP-CCA), Profit

center accounting (SAP-PCA), Profitability analysis (SAP-CO-PA),

Internal Orders, WBS elements in Project systems (SAP-PS), Assessment

and distribution cycles and Settlements.

. Responsible for the configuration of asset master records, subclasses,

various depreciation area calculations, capitalizations and

acquisitions, upload of legacy assets to SAP, calculations of

depreciation and corresponding postings in finance and controlling

modules.

. Supported the FI team in setting up the SAP-GL accounts, and in other

SAP-FI modules like SAP-AP (Accounts Payable), SAP-AR (Accounts

receivable), and Asset accounting (SAP-AA), Asset classes,

capitalization and acquisitions, Depreciation runs, calculation of

depreciation and configuration of Depreciation areas.

. Worked with interfaces like SAP-Business Warehousing and integration

planning (SAP-BW) and other Legacy systems.

. Involved in US-Localization, Unit testing (Functional unit testing,

Cycle testing I and II) and provided test scripts.

. Worked in Integration areas with SAP-FICO (SD-AR and MM-AP), and Order-

to-cash cycle.

. In SAP-CO-PA, worked in co-ordination with SD (Sales and

Distribution), MM (Material Management) and PP (Production planning)

team members in the areas of Condition types, condition tables,

Procedures and access sequence. Set up of PA transfer structure.

Created Characteristics, value fields, Top-down distribution

. In SAP-EC-PCA (profit center accounting), Configured Profit centers,

dummy profit centers and Profit center hierarchies and profit center

groups and their integration with SD.

. Involved in configuration of Accounts Payable module, setting of

Vendor Master, payment methods, checking the bank interfaces and

successful testing of the payment files. Worked in PO based and Non PO

based vendor invoices and corresponding payment runs.

. Supported the FI team in setting up the SAP-GL accounts, and in other

SAP- FI modules like SAP-AP (Accounts Payable), SAP-AR (Accounts

receivable), and Asset accounting (SAP-AA).

. Generation of reports using Report painter, Report writer and other

SAP standard reports

Client: ABM Bearings US, LLC, Mc Connelsville, OH

Jan 2006-March2006

SAP FICO Lead-Support Team

ABM Bearings, a German based company, is a joint venture of MIBA bearings

US LLC & KS bearings US LLC. MIBA and KS Bearings are some of the leaders

among bearing industries in the world.

Responsibilities:

. Reviewed the Business process, documentation and compatibility of the

SAP system (ECC 5.0) with the present business.

. Provided recommendations and solutions in various Financial and

controlling areas like SAP- GL accounts, SAP-AP (Accounts Payable),

SAP-AR (Accounts receivable), Asset accounting (SAP-AA), Cost center

accounting (SAP-CO-CCA), Profit center accounting (SAP- EC-PCA)

. Verified the master data that is configured in GL accounts, AP and AR.

. Verified transactional data in SAP-AP, SAP-AR, rebate processing and

integration areas of CO-PA, SD (Order-to-cash cycle) and MM (procure-

to-pay cycle)

. Reviewed the documentation and interacted with end users in AP, AR,

Purchasing, production and finance departments.

. In Asset accounting, configured the master data of assets, sub-assets,

depreciation areas, Acquisitions, capitalizations and depreciation

keys. Verified the depreciation runs.

. Supported some of the major production issues that were prevailing in

the system.

. Provided training to end users in financial, controlling and

integration areas with other modules.

. Provided Documentation to end-users of different departments like AP,

AR, AA, CCA and CO-PA.

Client: SunSweet Growers Inc., Yuba City, CA

Nov 2005-Jan

2006

SAP FI/CO Business Lead Analyst

Yuba City Based Sunsweet Growers, Inc. is the world's largest handler of

dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and prunes. A grower-

owned marketing cooperative representing more than two-thirds of the prune

market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes/ year

Responsibilities:

. Reviewed and executed Proof-off concept for the existing Business

process and recommended improvements (GAP analysis).

. Conducted interviews, with Managers and end users from various

departments like General Ledger accounts, SAP-AP (Accounts Payable),

SAP-AR (Accounts Receivable), SAP-CO-PA (Profitability Analysis), and

SAP-CO-CCA (Cost center accounting) regarding the present working of

the system as part of GAP analysis.

. Responsible for uploading legacy assets to SAP, calculations of

depreciation and corresponding postings in finance and controlling

modules.

. Reviewed the documentation of the business system as part of GAP

analysis

. Provided training for users in the areas like General Ledger accounts,

AP, terms of payment, payment advice, rebate management, House Banks,

AR, discounts, rebates and Controlling areas.

. Configured configuration of asset master records, subclasses, various

depreciation area calculations, capitalizations and acquisitions.

. Verified the configuration changes and effects of the results in GL

accounts, AP, AR, Internal orders, CO-PA, EC-PCA and CO-CCA.

. Suggested changes in the master data, settings in transactional data

in Financial areas and improvements in reporting areas.

. Tested the critical integration areas of FI with other modules like

SD, MM, EC-PCA, CO-PA and PP, by following flow of the data.

. Supported some of the major issues in the configuration areas of AP,

AR, CCA, CO-PA and internal orders.

. Provided Validations and Substitutions as per the requirement of the

business and financial system.

. Worked in Special purpose ledger, defined sets, FS items sets and

currency translation methods.

. Worked in other modules like Sales and Distribution (Order-to-cash

cycle) and Materials management (Procure-to-Pay cycle), configuration

of release strategy.

. Worked in CO-PA integration areas with SD using condition types and

condition techniques.

. Testing, designing and documentation of the system configuration.

Global Point Inc., NJ May

2005-Sept 2005

Title: SAP Systems Analyst

AtlasTube, Plymouth, MI

May 2005 -Sept 2005

SAP FI/CO Business Analyst

Atlas Tube is a leading manufacturer of Hollow Structural Section - HSS -

in North America. Atlas Tube has State of the Art manufacturing Facilities

throughout Canada and the United States producing in excess of 1.2 million

tons of HSS annually.

Responsibilities:

. Participated in workshops involving detailed analysis of existing

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

. Business Blueprint Design (SAP Global template), 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 SAP-FI-GL, SAP-AP (Accounts payable), SAP-AR (Accounts

Receivables), SAP-AA (Asset Accounting).

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

variants, and document number ranges, field status groups.

. Configured Special G/L transaction, such as down payment program to

meet the customer requirement .

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

master groups. Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue

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

cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for

incoming payments, Bank Reconciliation.

. In Accounts Payable (SAP-AP), created Vendor Master Data, configured

vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges.

Customized accounting transactions for postings and recurring entries.

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

chart of depreciation, depreciation keys, Asset classes and

configuration with G/L. Worked with special asset classes and

integration areas with other modules.

. Tested critical business transactions in the finance module including

vendor and customer invoices and 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.

. 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

training, Go-Live, Post implementation support.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

. Bachelor of Engineering, Bangalore University. INDIA.

. Masters (M.S) from University of Missouri-Rolla, USA.

. Training on "Process Engineering Economics & Accounting"

. University of Missouri-Rolla "ERP Systems (SAP-FICO) configuration and

integration"

. "Brainbench" Certification in Accounts Payable Module

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