Project Management

SHALINI BHANDARI

Phone: 248-***-****, Mobile: 248-***-****, email: abnuoj@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified SAP FICO Consultant with 9 years of strong functional experience, of which, 5 years of experience in

SAP across different industries like Pharmaceutical, Chemical, FMCG and Manufacturing.

Strong client management skills and ability to understand the complex Business problems through proper

communications and recommending solutions based on the requirements to meet their expectations.

Involved in studying, analyzing the business processes, and documenting “As-Is” & “To-Be” processes.

Strong Experience in Design, FIT/Gap analysis, Implementation, Testing, Documentation, Troubleshooting and

Support. Responsible for configuration/customization, integration with other modules, test script preparation,

functional & Integration testing, user training, and support in SAP FI/CO modules, specially Product Costing

Resourceful problem solver with an excellent ability to map the business processes into SAP by capturing the

user requirements, and manage the same till successful completion thus adding value to the business with the

knowledge and expertise.

Excellent financial accounting expertise in FI-G/L, A/P, A/R, AA and SL in various business environments.

Controlling expertise includes CO-CEL, CCA, CO-PA, CO-PC, EC-PCA. Extensive experience on Product

Costing and integrations between FI, PP and MM as well as year-end and month end closing.

Thorough understanding of SAP R/3 FI/CO module configuration, integration with other modules, and support &

maintenance functions.

Experienced in documenting functional specifications, configurations, and training materials.

Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills, and highly motivated team player with ability to work

independently.

SAP SKILLS

FI - FINANCIAL

Enterprise Structure: Define Company & Company Code, Controlling area, Credit Control area, Functional area,

Financial Management area

General Ledger: Configuring Account groups, GL master records, Posting Period Variants, field status variants,

sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, Financial Statement Versions, Automatic account

determination, sales/use tax assignment, and document number ranges, document types, tolerance groups,

recurring entries, Account assignment model and closing procedure.

Accounts Payable: Configuring and customizing vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, Bank

accounts, check lots, reason codes, Automatic payment Program, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos,

integration with MM.

Accounts Receivable: Configuring and customizing customer groups, customer master data, payment terms and

interest calculation program, dunning, credit management and integration with SD.

Treasury: Lockbox configuration setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox

Posting data, testing the lockbox functionality, treasury groupings, bank statement processing.

Fixed Assets including chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, account

assignment in cost accounting, number ranges, creating reconciliation accounts for assets.

CO - CONTROLLING

Cost Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the Primary cost elements, Secondary Cost elements,

Cost centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Cost Center Groups, alternative groups, reconciliation ledger,

assessments, distributions, and allocation cycles.

Profit Center Accounting: Maintaining the basic settings, creating master data for profit centers, profit center

groups, dummy profit centers, profit center Standard hierarchy. Assigning cost centers to the respective profit

centers, Assigning profit centers in the material master, transferring revenue accounts and balance sheet

accounts to profit centers in profit center hierarchy.

Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing the operating concern, characteristics, value fields,

maintaining the derivation rules and valuation, creating Drilldown Reports.

Product Costing: Configuration of Costing Variants, Material Cost Estimates, Period end closing Processes,

Planning, Material Ledger Configuration, Cost object Controlling, Transfer Pricing, COGS calculation, Cost Object

Controlling for Production Orders, Overhead Cost Accounting

BW:

Experienced in designing the Bex queries as per the business requirements

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Packages : SAP R/3 versions 3.1H, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0

SAP R/3 Tools : ASAP, Report Painter, Report Writer, Load Runner, CATT, BDC and LSMW

Accounting Package : Geneva 5.1.3

Financial Package : Tally 5.4, QuickBooks

Other Applications : MS Office 2000, HTML

EDUCATION

Awarded degree of Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Accounting & Auditing

Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting Honors

Gold Medalist in High School Examinations at state level.

CERTIFICATIONS

SAP R/3 Certification in SAP FICO Module in 2004.

TRAININGS

Received training & certificate from SAP in Advance CO - Product Costing, Cost Object Controlling and

Profitability Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Adaequare Inc. Oct. 2006 – Present

Rhodia Inc., NJ Jun 2008 – Nov 2008

Rhodia Inc. is North American unit of the Rhodia Group, one of world’s leading specialty chemical companies. Rhodia’s

North American operations rank among the top ten specialty chemical companies. This SAP implementation includes the

following enterprises: Rhodia Novecare, Rhodia Silcea, Rhodia Acetow, Rhodia Organics and Rhodia Eco Services

Responsibilities

Post Go-live support to all the sites.

Coordination with Change Management team to resolve any issue related to change in FI/CO processes.

Designed new process for accounts payable to facilitate quick payment to vendors after 3-way invoice match.

Regression testing after implementation of change requests for already live sites.

Supporting the users to carry out Month end-closing activities like overhead calculations, WIP and Variance

calculations, Settlements etc.

Documentation of month end and year-end procedures.

Becton Dickinson & Co., NJ Feb 2007 – Feb 2008

Project management: SAP America

Multiple Projects

BDRD project

Inventory Turns Project

PAS Project

Annual Budgeting

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is a Fortune 500 Global medical technology company that is focused on improving

drug therapy, enhancing the diagnosis of infectious diseases and advancing drug discovery. BD manufactures and sells

medical supplies, devices, laboratory instruments, antibodies, reagents and diagnostic products through its three

segments: BD Medical, BD Diagnostics and BD Biosciences. It serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers,

clinical laboratories, industry and the general public.

BDRD Project– Project for Implementation of SAP at a new site in Suzhou – China for BD Rapid Diagnostics. Acted as

the Key point of contact for SAP Finance implementation. Involved in Design, Requirements gathering, Configuration

activities, Testing etc. Results were successful implementation within the specified time frame with minimum production

support issues.

Responsibilities

Co. Code Configuration – Posting Period Configuration, Global Data for the Company Code, Automatic account

Assignments

Asset Configuration – Configuration of the Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Asset Conversion Dates,

Validation and Substitutions

Product Costing – Configuration of the Costing Sheet, Costing Variant, Hierarchies for Order Summarization,

Maintenance of Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost component structure including BOM and Routings, Work in Process

calculation, Variance calculation, Settlement and Reporting of variance, Price Updates in Material Master,

Updating the Standard Price, Costing in case of Special Procurement, Actual Cost Flows (Confirmations),

Material Ledger Configuration

Planning for CCA, Activity Price Calculation (Plan/Actual), Configuration of the Cost sheet for calculating

overhead, Cost component structure including BOM and Routings, Setting up of Costing variant, Work in Process

calculation,

Security Profiles - Extension of the Finance Security Profiles

Master data management

Transfer of the Legacy Data to SAP.

Testing - Integration testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance Testing, Developing Test Scenarios/Test

Cases as in the testing of end to end business cycles across various modules like MM, SD and PP, in

conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives from the client side.

User Training for the Finance Module.

Inventory Turns Metrics Project– Project for the Digital Dashboard presentation of the BW reports in synchronization

with Hyperion Reporting based on worldwide businesses and geographical areas.

Responsibilities

Worked with the Top-level management for the development of these reports considering the confidentiality and

critical implications.

Responsible for the Requirements gathering and Fit-Gap Analysis, with the BW team and the Business users, to

come up with the solutions as required for the BW queries and the Digital cockpit – BW reports on the web.

Responsible for the Unit Testing, Integration testing and getting the User Acceptance Testing completed within

the deadlines specified.

Covered Inventory turns Calculations, Performance and Parity Calculations and Inventory turns trend under the

project.

PAS Project – Project for the Consolidation of Profitability Analysis and Special Ledger Reports in BW with Financial

Reports in other systems for Pharmaceutical business in BD.

Responsibilities

Involved in Requirements Gathering, Integration and User Acceptance Testing

BW Validation Routines – Co-ordination with the BW team for setting up validation routines, to confirm that the

data flowing from SAP R/3 to SAP BW tied up.

Excess, LCM and Obsolete Reporting – Co-coordinating between the Audit and BW team to make changes to the

above queries in BW, based on the Audit Recommendations. Testing those changes and getting them validated

with the Audit Group from E&Y.

Annual Budgeting – For FY08, headed the Global Budgeting process for the release of the Standard Price for all the BD

locations, which included 40 Manufacturing sites, and 25 DCs, across US, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. This

involved co-ordination with the PP team for LTP runs and the end users worldwide for the smooth completion of the

process.

Production support – Day to Day support in the area of Product costing with reference to Production orders, Variance

calculations and Settlements, WIPs, Costing BOMs and Routings, Actual Cost Flows (Confirmations), Price Updates in

Material Master, Costing in case of Special Procurement, Month end issues relevant to Assessment, Distributions,

Allocations etc., Year end closing. Closing Activities like Posting of Actual Quantities, Actual Price Calculations, CCA

Variance Allocation, Internal Order Settlement.

Responsible for the Quarterly Regression testing in the Quality client.

Henkel Technologies, MI Oct 2006 – Jan 2007

Team Lead – CO

Henkel is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany and has subsidiaries in more than 75 different countries throughout the

world. It is involved in manufacturing Adhesives, Sealants and Surface Treatments.

Responsibilities

Leading the CO team for the successful implementation at various locations in North America under global

template for Finance and Controlling Modules.

Controlling area settings based on global templates.

Maintenance of Cost Center Structure, Internal Order Structure, Statistical Internal Order for Reporting.

Planning for CCA, Internal Orders, Activity Price Calculation (Plan/Actual), CCA Plan Allocations, Actual Cost

Flows (FI, MM, SD)

Closing Activities like Posting of Actual Quantities, Actual Price Calculations, CCA Variance Allocation, Internal

Order Settlement.

Reporting related to Cost Center, Internal Order and Statistical Key Figures.

Profit Center Master data maintenance and Profit Center assignment to other master data like Sales Order (PC

Derivation), Materials, Assets, Cost Centers and Internal Orders.

Configuration of the Cost sheet for calculating overhead, Cost component structure including BOM and Routings,

Setting up of Costing variant, Work in Process calculation, Variance calculation, Settlement and Reporting of

variance. Price Updates in Material Master, Updating the Standard Price, Mixed Costing and Mixing Ratios,

Costing in case of Special Procurement, Actual Cost Flows (Confirmations)

Configuration of Actual Costing/Material Ledger for Plants, Defining and assigning the material ledger update

structure to plants, Activation of Actual Cost Component split.

CO-PA Master Data related activities for characteristics and value fields along with Characteristic Derivations.

Maintenance of SD Conditions (On-Invoice) and PA conditions (Off-Invoice), Adjustment for Transport and

Warehousing Costs. Closing activities for PA transfer to FI and Variance transfer from CCA to CO-PA

Manual posting of Accrual postings for royalty income from third parties through FI with PC assignment; Transfer

of amounts to CO/PA to ensure reconciliation between CO/PA, PCA and FI

Developing Test Scenarios/Test Cases, Executing and Error Correction by manual and automated testing.

Integration Testing – Testing of Complete business cycles across various modules, in conjunction with the users

and Core Team representatives from the client side. Listing of Detailed processes, outlining the sequence of

steps in a cycle across modules. Providing of proper integration with the other related modules like MM and S&D.

IBM Global Services India Ltd Dec 2004 – Jan 2006

Multiple projects

Nestle GLOBE

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Nestle with headquarters in Vevey; Switzerland is the world’s biggest food and Beverage Company. Nestle implemented

SAP through its Nestle Globe project with implementation in 55 countries across the world. The project was the biggest

SAP project ever implemented as on date.

Responsibilities

Product Costing (CO-PC) – Creation of Material Cost Estimates, Materials Price calculations, Material Ledger

Management, Material Ledger-COPA Interfacing, Transfer Pricing, Month end Closing Activities, Allocation of

costs through Templates, COGS calculation, Base planning object, Controlling for the production orders with

Quantity Structure, Configuration of the costing sheet, Calculation bases, Planned and actual overhead

percentages, Costing and Valuation variants for cost estimates, Planned and actual manufacturing orders, Cost

component structure. Involved in CO-PC period ending activities such as WIP calculations, Variance

calculations, Settlements of process orders, Cost estimate updates, Costing run, mark and, release for updating

the price in material master record, Defined Cost Component layout. Defined Accounting and Costing views in

Material Master, Ensured linkages of Plant/ Work center / Cost center/BOM/Routings, Tested the system for

interfaces with PP, MM, SD and ALE integration

Profitability Analysis – Derivations, Table Maintenance in various operating concerns, Integration with SD and

MM, specially in a Split environment, Distribution and assessment cycles, transferring the CO-PA Planning Values

to Profit Centers and Creation and Display of the Profitability Reports from the management perspective using

Drill down Reporting, Maintaining Default Account Assignments, Validations and Substitutions, Overhead

Structure for Accrual Costs, Planning Layout and Profile.

CO Configuration – Managing all Configuration activities related to -

CCA (Cost Center Accounting) – Master Data Creation, Deletion, Changes, Assignments, Groups,

Hierarchies, Reporting, Closing Activities, Reporting,

PCA (Profit Center Accounting) – Master Data Creation, Changes, Deletion, Assignment, Profit Center

Groups and Hierarchies, Reporting, Closing Activities, Reporting

CO-CEL (Cost Element Accounting) - Customizing for Primary and Secondary Cost elements.

Internal Orders – Master data, Postings, Settlement, Reporting

SKF (Statistical Key figures)-Creation, Deletion

Miscellaneous - Template designing and allocations, Internal Activity Allocation Cycles, Process Order

Management, Preparation for Revisions, Project System Integration. Budgeting, WBS element master data,

Defining and alteration of Planning Layouts, Analysis of Various Reports

Support Services – Worked in the role of Shift Manager for 3 global zones and provided dedicated support

services for Asia, Australia and Africa region. As a team member resolved various user problems in the area of

Decision Support, Product Costing and Synchronization.

Training Activities – Preparation of Data and Scripts in the area of Decision Support and Product Costing for

training of End Users in Nestlé’s European market. Maintained the whole Configuration settings and Master Data

Preparation related to FICO in the Training System.

Synchronization Monitoring Activities – Management of Document Flow in the Split Architecture Environment,

Management of ALE services.

Sterlite Optical Technologies Ltd Feb 2003 – Nov 2004

Assistant Finance Manager

Responsibilities

Flow Management

Product Costing and Analytical Studies.

Preparation of unaudited Financial Statements.

MIS Reporting

Management of Excise related formalities

SAP Projects: Sterlite Optical Technologies, Sterlite Telelink, Sterlite Telecable

Sterlite Optical Technologies is the Optical Fiber and Telecom Cable manufacturing entity of the US $ 2.1 billion Sterlite

Group that has interests in Copper, Aluminum, Mining and Telecom around the world. Sterlite is India's sole integrated

Optical Fiber manufacturer, and is among the select few in South East Asia

Responsibilities

Conducted the 'As Is' study, 'To Be' Processes, and also carried out 'FIT/Gap Analysis'.

Presented Prototype Conceptual Design for the detailed SAP implementation with Building Blocks.

Gathered information and mapped SAP business processes to the client business requirements. Identified gaps

between company business model and SAP processes.

Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with CO.

Setting up Integration points with MM - Invoice verification, Documentation of Reporting requirements and

business process for GL, AR, AP, MM-invoice verification.

Configuration and customization of the GL account groups and master records. Creation of Chart of Accounts and

assignment of Company Codes to Chart of Accounts. Preparation of the Financial Statement version, Inter-

company account assignment, Fiscal Year Variant, Field Status Group, Document types, Document number

ranges, Validations and Substitutions, Tolerance Group for Company Employees and Users, Usage of Posting

keys.

Testing of G/L transactions for fast-entry screens, posting, parking and reversals.

Analysis of workflow for individual transactions in GL, A/P with MM-Invoice Verification and A/R. Configured and

customized according to the SAP system requirements

Configuration of Posting Period Variant, Sort variants, and line item display variants

Configuration of reconciliation accounts and alternative reconciliation accounts for sub ledgers.

Configuration of settings for Inter-company Transactions, Recurring Transactions and Account assignment

models.

Configurations of House Banks, bank accounts, check lots and void reason codes.

Configuration of settings for automatic payment program and for interest calculation on account balances and line

items.

Configuration of the Liquidity Forecast, Cash management position and Cash concentration functionality of the

Treasury module.

Configuration settings with relation to FI for Customer and Vendor master data.

Configuration of automatic payment program, check management, open item clearing and down payments.

Configuration of settings for payment notices, account statements, individual correspondence, credit memo, open

item list, dunning procedures.

Configuration settings for the automatic interest calculations on the account balances/line items, payment terms

for dunning, for over-due interest calculations for down payments and automatic clearing of line items.

Definition of Account Groups and Tolerance Groups.

Involved in designing and configuring of Fixed Assets (FI-AA) module. This includes assignment of chart of

depreciation to the company codes, configuration of asset master data, depreciation areas, asset classes,

account assignments.

Customized settings for reporting as per the Client’s requirements Setting up of Profiles and layouts.

Jain, Sanchety & Associates, India Jul 1999 – Feb 2003

Senior Auditor and Taxation Specialist

Responsibilities

Statutory audit & Concurrent Audit of Large Companies upto finalization and reporting.

Experience of statutory Audit, Internal Audit, Tax Audit & Special Audits of following Industries: -

Banking

Manufacturing

Insurance

Taxation

Conducting of Tax audits and preparation of Tax Audit Reports, Computation of Taxable Income, and

Representation before Income Tax Authorities for various Taxation Matters and Appeals.

Consultancy Work

Development of M.I.S with reporting formats for Management Support and Efficient operations.

Monitoring the implementation of M.I.S. and implementation of controls.

Preparation of salary structure of various companies.

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