Sales Sap
Resume:
Ramya Reddy
abnno9@r.postjobfree.com
Synopsis:
• In 7 years of SAP R/3 (Version 4.6C, 4.7), ECC (5.0, 6.0) FI/CO experience, exposed to three
full Life-cycle environments.
• Good knowledge in FI/CO for the SAP R/3 system which also includes integration of FI with
other SAP modules (SD & MM).
• Strong Knowledge in customizing and configuring of both FI and CO modules.
• Rich experience in configuration and customization of interest calculation, special GL
transactions, inter-company transactions and New GL.
• Strong supporting experience for Foreign Currency Valuation, Month-end, Year-end closing
operations and planning in controlling.
• Experience in creating House Banks for Lock Box Processing.
• Expertise in implementation, production support, enhancement and training end users for
Fixed Assets.
• Implemented transfer of master data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via LSMW and Batch
Input Session.
• Involved in all phases of customizing and configuring of CATS which include data entry
profile, Data release, approvals based on workflow elements, transfers of data to CO, MM and
PM modules.
• Implemented several SAP enhancements (User Exits and BADIs).
• Expertise in developing SAP Scripts, SMARTFORMS.
• Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines,
motivated to develop successful solutions.
• Good understanding of business process in Industry, Systematic approach, quick adaptability
to new technologies.
• Strong Communication, Presentation, and Interpersonal Skills.
• Involved in documentation of configuration settings & manual for end users.
Technical Skills:
Technical: ABAP Query, Report Painter, LSMW.
Implementation: ASAP Methodology
Database: MS-Access and MySQL, Oracle8i/9i/10g
Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, HTML, XML.
Platforms: Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/NT/XP
Applications MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Projects
SAP Skills:
• Financial Accounting: General Ledger, New GL, Accounts Receivable, Account Payable,
Asset Accounting, Dunning, Substitution and Validation, Credit Management, Automatic
Payment Program, Special Purpose Ledger and Workflow.
• Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting,
Internal Orders, Activity Types, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Variances, and Other
CO Elements, Product Costing, and Material Ledger.
• Consolidation: Knowledge of FASB52 and US GAAP
• Bank Accounting: House Banks, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement, check
log management, Lockbox Processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios.
• Other SAP implementation skills include Business Analysis, GAP Analysis, Requirement
Gathering, and Solution Delivery.
• Integration of various SAP applications like SD and MM with FI/CO.
• In SD MM, inventory management, LIV, Orders, Credit memos and Payments.
• Expert in development of reports using Report Painter and Report Writer.
Professional Experience:
Praxair, Danbury, CT Feb 09- Till date
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FI/CO, SD, MM
Praxair Electronics is dedicated to the development of innovative process materials solutions, helping
semiconductor manufacturers lower the cost of ownership, reduce environmental impact and improve
productivity. Offering the semiconductor industry a strong, integrated source for process gases,
materials supply and related equipment and services, Praxair's Electronics business has designed, built
and managed advanced gas systems in Asia, Europe and North America.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in understanding the Business Requirement, understanding Legacy system
functionalities and customisations.
• Involved in writing test plans and developing test cases from Business Requirements.
• Designed and delivered a unique ASAP methodology to client to ensure a very scalable and
automated integration of FI with MM and SD.
• Verified and customized Chart of Accounts, depreciation areas based on tax and legal
requirements
• Configured the credit control areas, customer credit management, GL accounts for revenues &
account determination for revenue determination. Configured SD baseline configurations
(Customer Master, Sales Area, Sales Org., Payment terms, etc).
• Spearheaded the deployment of Document Splitting. Designed logic for zero balanced - active
splitting rules. Defined splitting rules for Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, FI-AR and FI-AP
business transactions.
• Involved in system configuration and testing in areas of FI-GL (transactions), AP (paying
vendor invoices), AR (customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, and
Master data, CO-CCA (assessments/distribution) and PCA (settings, hierarchy, and account
assignment objects).
• Executed individual (resource related billing sales order) and collective results analysis run.
• Executed settlement of results analysis to FI, Profit Center Accounting, and Profitability
Analysis.
• Configured CO FI Real-time integration where in cost that was assigned to a wrong cost
center was correctly reposted to the respective cost center.
• Generated material cost estimate, configured costing run and made sure explosion and
analysis were carried out efficiently in Product cost accounting.
• Also configured Material costing with quantity structure, Costing Variants, Standard
Inventory, Modified cost estimate and involved in Price update.
• Created internal order to provide the means of tracking costs of a specific job, service, or task.
• Worked with SD team to configure multiple sales order types for various different sales
processes including Standard Order, Free of Charge order, etc
• Involved in discussions with Accounting and Engineering departments regarding usage of
Configurable BOM with Material Variant and design of Work Centres.
• Performed Configuration changes of GL account mapping to MM movement types.
• Configured the business process document to identify the appropriate ALE interface in SAP.
• Configured mini master, infotypes and activity type for Cross Applications Time Sheet.
• Maintained CATS document number ranges so as to ensure tracing of data is possible in CO.
• Involved in developing work schedule rule for planned working info type also determined
sender cost centers, plant and activity types for time Sheet default infotypes.
• Configured foreign currency revaluation. Defined valuation area and assigned valuation
methods. Maintained account determination for FC-Valuation
• Worked closely with ABAP team in designing and developing an ESS internet application
component of CATS in a web browser.
• Retrieved RCATSTCO reports, creating CO documents for provided statistical key figures.
• Generated RCATSTAL reports for time data transfers to HR, CO and PM.
• Follow on Documents were maintained to perform a check on transferred data
• Determined the activity price using customer Exit, CATS002.
• RCATSCMP report is generated to perform a check for inconsistencies.
• Performed configuration to allow entry of Future timings in Data entry profile.
• Prepared data for unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Worked extensively with end users to ensure scalable integration of modules in the New G/L
environment.
• Held workshops for business super users for Document entry view, G/L view, Expert Mode
view, inheritance in document splitting and item categories.
Yazaki, Canton, MI April 08 – Jan 09
SAP FI/CO Consultant.
Full Lifecycle Implementation
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FI/CO, SD, MM, PP.
With facilities in more than 39 countries, Yazaki is one of the world's largest privately-owned auto
suppliers. A customer-centric focus guides the development of global manufacturing facilities as well.
Yazaki’s managed logistics allows delivering the right products in the right quantities at the right time,
anywhere in the world. As a result of long-term collaboration with clients, YNA is a leader in the
research, development and delivery of vehicle power and data solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in all phases of Implementation from development of Business Blueprint to end user
training and go live.
• Involved in gathering functional requirements through user workshops, Gaps identification,
Analysis and documented As-Is model and To-Be model.
• Wrote functional specifications for the configuration and implementation of FI and CO
modules
• Defined ledgers for company code as per GAAP and IAS requirements.
• Configured basic settings Company Code, Charts of Accounts, Business areas.
• Configured chart of accounts with the necessary automatic account assignment configuration.
• 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.
• Interacted with Procurement team on different TAX and Held invoices.
• Configuration of Automatic Payments Program (F110) for outgoing payments in AP.
• Worked on IDOC related issues. Worked on New GL to perform Parallel Accounting,
document splitting, Allocation, Distribution and planning and also used enhanced reporting
functionality of New GL.
• Designed functional specifications for COPA/FI reconciliation report which depicts the
differences between COPA and FI.
• Educate Financial Analysts on using CO-PA to Report profitability by Customer, Product and
Market.
• Configuration of Planning in COPA for forecasting Gross Profit and Cost of Sales.
• Creation of Overhead group and keys and assigning it to the costing sheet.
• Allocated planned costs using Assessment, Distribution and indirect activity
allocations in Cost Center Accounting.
• Worked on SAP Script forms for Check Printing, Customer Account Statement and Payment
Detail Document to Vendors for Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) in FI.
• Extended the extract structures by adding new fields and populating them with the
user/function exits.
• Enhanced Data Sources using ABAP code for functional enhancement (User-exits) for Master
and Transactional Data.
• Configured integration of MM and SD modules. Responsible for order to cash and procure to
pay cycles.
• Gathered information relevant to product cost allocation from the PP, SD and MM.
• Configured INBOUND and OUTBOUND IDOC Documents.
• Setting up Basic ALE Configuration. Setting up message condition, port, and partner profile.
Extension of Basic IDOC and development.
• Worked on SMARTFORMS such as Order confirmations, Invoice, and Proforma Invoice,
Return Goods Authorisation, Purchase orders and Scheduling Agreements in Order to Cash
and Purchase to pay areas.
• Resolved configuration problems in Unit and Integration Testing Scripts of Product Costing.
• Configuration of WIP and Variance Analysis for month end settlement process.
• Redesign of cost component structure to include additional overhead costs.
• Map Product Cost process flows to depict actual flow of costs into the different GL Accounts.
• Provided training to Controller and Cost Accountant on Product Costing functionality and
month end close process
• Configuration of LSMW for uploading customer, vendor master data.
• Provided support for go-live and production support
Cigna Health Care, Philadelphia, PA Feb 07 – Mar 08
FICO Analyst
Full Life Cycle Implementation
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, FI/CO.
Cigna, a global health service company, provides health care and related benefits offered through the
workplace. Key product lines include health care products and services (medical, pharmacy, behavioral
health, clinical information management, dental and vision benefits, and case and disease
management); and group disability, life and accident insurance. In addition, CIGNA also provides life,
accident, health and expatriate employee benefits insurance coverage in selected international markets,
primarily in Asia and Europe.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in full life cycle implementation for SAP FICO module. Set up company codes,
chart of account, posting variants, fiscal year variants, intercompany transactions, foreign
currencies and translation rates.
• Involved in the configuration of asset classes, cost element accounting, cost centers
accounting and profitability analysis.
• Made initial settings for: customer/vendor master records, display and processing of line items
of documents, correspondence, displaying account balances, interest calculation and posting,
credit management and closing operations, dunning and payment program.
• Configured Cost Center and Profit center accounting, profit center standard hierarchy,
planning included defining versions, planning layout, planning profiles and plan allocations.
• Designed and configured controlling area settings, assigned number ranges and activated
components.
• Created profit centers as per the company requirements. Configured for profitability analysis
operating concern, characteristics and value fields and also created drilldown reports.
• Defined distribution and assessment cycles for departmental allocations and defined planning
profiles.
• Defined organizational structures required for fixed assets. Defined asset classes, depreciation
areas and depreciation keys.
• Defined required period control methods and special valuations and also defined the method
of depreciation on the assets.
• Done with Reconciliation of net value of assets with legacy data. Performed period end
operations including depreciation run, posting to general ledger and Tax reports.
• Provided functional and technical specifications for ABAP developments and also involved in
transporting of the development class to a different client.
• Involved with project systems, which supports planning, controlling and monitoring business
projects with user-defined goals.
• Worked on the integration of Vertex for configuration of Sales and Use tax to fully utilize the
vertex system.
NACCO Materials Handling Group (NMHG), Portland, OR Oct 05 - Jan 07
Production Support Lead
Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.7, AP, AA
NACCO Materials Handling Group (NMHG), a world leader in the lift truck industry which designs,
engineers, manufactures and sells a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed
globally under the Hyster and Yale brand names.
Responsibilities:
• Understanding business requirements and design.
• Studied the existing process and prepared the necessary documents for implementing the SAP
system
• Customization of Asset Accounting such as Chart of depreciation, account determination,
Depreciation areas, Number ranges, Asset classes, GL accounts etc.
• Defining processes for asset acquisitions such as through PO and GRN or direct purchases.
• Depreciation related settings-Such as configuring Depreciation keys for books as well as tax
depreciation, Depreciation run, Retirement as well as scrapping of assets. Year-end closing
procedure and activities.
• Customized settings for parallel legers in FI-AA, Populating assets value in non-book
depreciation areas. Updating asset replacement values for the current year.
• Worked on integration of Asset Accounting with General Ledger.
• Issues relating to backdating of assets, unplanned depreciation. Handled Intercompany Asset
transfers in the middle of fiscal year. Worked with AUC and LVAs
• For Automatic Payment Program, configured Company code data, Paying company code,
Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices
• Designed and configured Automatic Write off, Clearing, Late Fee for Accounts Payable
including Manual Clearing and Refund Process.
• Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest
calculation and Credit management with 3 levels.
• Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable check printing, periodic Sales and
Use tax reporting, and related month end financial reports
• Configured SAP Payment Program, EDI Partner/Port, payment methods and idocs.
Worked on the tax configurations and configured based on the client requirements
• Configured house bank, bank details and Automatic Payment Program. Made necessary
changes for the manipulation of the check management. Configured Lock box and dunning
procedure for the accounts receivable
• Uploaded Asset master data with LSMW
• Tested the configured settings before going live Unit testing
• Involved in the end user training and end user manual preparation
LG Polymers Pvt. Ltd., India Jan 04- Aug 05
Full Life Cycle Implementation
SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.6C, FICO, AR, AP.
LG Polymers India Pvt. Ltd. (LGPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Chemical, Korea. LG
Chemical is a leader in Korea and is establishing an equally strong presence in the Indian market by
adding ABS and SAN to its current product range of polystyrene and Expandable polystyrene.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in SAP Life Cycle Implementation with ASAP Methodology.
• Involved in requirement analysis and analyzing the existing system for AS-IS study, gathered
functional requirements through user workshops.
• Setting up company codes, chart of account, fiscal year variants, tolerance limits, and
Financial Statement variant.
• Creation of Vendor Account Groups, Vendor Master Records, House Banks, Bank accounts,
Check lots, Reason codes, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices
• Supported (LIV) Logistics Invoice Verification and Accounts Payable, including Purchase
Order Account Assignment, Invoice Processing Automatic Payment Processing and AP
reporting required for the retail business.
• Integration between FI-SD, FI-MM and over all business process such as Order to Cash, and
Procure to Pay (A/P and A/R)
• Payment terms, split payment for employee expenses, developed a process for employee
advances in A/P. Addition of new fields to vendor line items display in FBL1N.
• Clearing Inter-company Open Items of Accounts payables (A/P)
• Configured the settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic Payment Program.
• Configured the settings for Incoming Payments. Worked on Cash Discount configuration.
Worked Extensively on GR / IR.
• Creation of House Banks, Check Lots, Check Register, Correspondence and void of Checks in
A/P .
• Support responsibilities include resolving issues and maintaining relevant documentation on
an ongoing process and providing training sessions to end users for reporting needs.
Crompton Greaves Ltd, India Jun 02 – Dec 03
Jr SAP FI Consultant
Environment: SAP 4.6C, FI
Crompton Greaves (CG) is part of the US$ 3 billion Avantha Group, a conglomerate with an
impressive global footprint. Since its inception, CG has been synonymous with electricity. In 1875, a
Crompton 'dynamo' powered the world's very first electricity-lit house in Colchester, Essex, U.K. CG's
India operations were established in 1937, and since then the company has retained its leadership
position in the management and application of electrical energy.
Responsibilities:
• Interacted effectively to configured settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of
accounts, posting period variant, field status variant and field status groups.
• Created and assigned document number ranges, defined Tolerance groups for employees.
• Configured Account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master.
• Configured auto GL Account for GR/IR account at the time goods receipt.
• Created House Banks, Bank Accounts and assigned the accounts to a check lot.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for out going payments in Accounts payable.
• Worked with a developer on modifying a SAP Script for checks and the print program.
• Configured Screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial statement version,
validations and substitutions.
• Configured Asset classes, Account determination, and assigned accounts for Depreciation,
Accumulated Depreciation and Fixed Asset Control account.
• Configured Depreciation Key and period Controls.
Education:
Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai.
References:
Provided upon request.
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