Certified SAP FI Functional Consultant

RAKESH R. PATADE

Tel.: (Mobile) +1-437-***-**** ~ E-Mail: ac26pd@r.postjobfree.com SYNOPSIS

SAP ECC 6.0 Certified FI Consultant with 6 years of total experience in manufacturing & banking industry with expertise in SAP functional modules of Financial Accounting (FI) & Controlling (CO).

Completed two end to end implementations and two support projects in SAP FICO domain.

Detail oriented & organized with excellent planning, analytical & interpersonal skills.

Effective communicator with excellent skills & abilities in cementing healthy business relations with clients & internal departments.

PROFICIENCY FORTE

SAP Knowledge

Enterprise Structure: Defining Company Code, Business Area, Fiscal Year, Chart of Accounts, Posting Periods, Defining Document Type and Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups.

General Ledger Accounts: Creation of Chart of accounts, Master Records, Posting of Transactions and Displaying Document, Creation of Holding, Parking, Recurring Documents.

Accounts Payable: Creation of Vendor Accounts Groups, Purchase Invoice Posting, Advance Payments, Creation of House Banks, Automatic Payment Program, Extended Withholding Tax.

Accounts Receivable: Creation of Customer Account Groups, Customer Master, Sales Invoice Postings, Defining Dunning Areas, Sales Tax & Bill of Exchange.

Integration: Integration of FI with MM & SD

Asset Accounting: Chart of Depreciation, Specify Account Determination, Screen Layout Rules, Define Asset Class, Creation of GL Accounts and its integration, Maintain Depreciation Key available, Creation of Asset Master, Acquisition of Asset and Depreciation Run.

Controlling: Cost center & profit center accounting, Internal orders, Profitability Analysis. Finance & Accounts

Presenting a true & fair view of the financial position of the company by preparing financial statements viz, P&L Account, Balance Sheet and annual reports.

Implementing GL and financial reporting processes and on time compliance of accounting standards; preparation & maintenance of statutory books of accounts, AR/AP records, reconciliation and financial statements, ensuring compliance with time and accuracy norms. CAREER CONTOUR

CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS

Acklands Grainger, Toronto, Canada.

Duration: Jan’17 – Present as Business System Analyst- SAP FICO (Contract) Responsibilities:

Understanding business processes of Acklands Grainger (service industry) and resolve issues related to general ledger (GL), accounts receivable (AR), product costing, profit center accounting, cost centre accounting and CO-PA.

Analyzed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions between Grainger US and Grainger, Mexico. Creation of initial specifications for configuring and implementing Intercompany functionality.

Gathering requirements from internal finance and accounting team to map the changes in configuration of SAP.

Supporting in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Accounting). Certified SAP FI Functional Consultant

Configured ERP structure and Financial Accounting global settings: key settings being company code, Business area, fiscal year variants, field status variant, open and close posting periods, document types and document number ranges and validations.

Preparation of functional specification documentation as per company's standards.

Preparation of LSMW data upload templates, testing and performing data upload. GL balances both cumulative and line item balances including vendor, customer and asset master data were loaded via LSMW technique.

OTE Group of Companies (On the rolls of Infoline LLC), Muscat, Oman. Duration: Oct’15 - Mar’16 as Senior SAP Consultant- FI Project # 1: Client: Al Asriyah Marble Company, Muscat, Oman. (Implementation) Responsibilities:

Plan and conduct the successful development of business blueprinting and data collection phase for all the modules in Finance & Controlling resulting in the implementation of SAP FICO functionality.

Global Settings: Configuration of organizational structures, chart of accounts, G/L master data, field status groups, field status variants, posting periods, document number ranges, document types and posting keys for business transactions.

Account Receivables and Payables: Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys and document types for posting of business transactions. Integration with SD and MM module.

Bank Accounting: Creating house bank and cash journal according to client requirement.

Asset Accounting: Define chart of depreciation, asset class, screen layout rules and configuration of depreciation areas and depreciation keys.

Worked on issues related to COPA and CO-PC, especially in editing few Valuation strategies and also Cost estimate structures.

Worked on cost Center/Profit Center/Segmental issues, also on Cost Center Allocation complex requirement. Issues regarding the Depreciation Postings and Depreciation Reversals. Dunning Procedures.

Preparing product costing related configuration.

Upload cutover data, data migration and upload using LSMW.

Training, integration testing, UAT and preparing required document. Project # 2: Client: OTE Group of Companies, Muscat, Oman. (Support) Responsibilities:

Providing complete solutions to the issues raised by users through support messages in automobile industry.

Analysis for the tickets depending upon the severity of the issue.

Work closely with ABAP team in the development of customized z reports and programs.

Creating LSMW for different type of master data upload.

Daily interaction with finance and accounts team to understand details about the requirement.

Worked on the change requests by making necessary changes in the solution manager.

Maintenance of functional specification and other required documentation.

Period end activities.

VSR Electrical & Instruments (I) Pvt. Ltd., Dombivli, India. Duration: Sep’13 – Sep’15 as Finance Consultant

Project # 1: Client:VSR Electrical & Instruments (I) Pvt Ltd, Dombivli, India. (Implementation) Responsibilities:

Created the Business Blueprints by understanding the business process and mapping of them into SAP, mentioning the AS-IS and TO-BE and also Gaps and Solutions. Mentioned the Project Objectives, Project Goals and the Proposed Organization Structure.

Define account groups for G/L accounts, vendors, customers and assigned number ranges to the groups.

Define/assign fiscal year, posting periods, document types, number ranges and field status variant.

Certified SAP FI Functional Consultant

Define/assign chart of accounts, account groups, retained earnings account, G/L tolerance and employee tolerance.

Define tolerance groups for vendors, created vendor master and customer master.

Implemented Product Costing for Process Manufacturing. Configured Product Cost Planning

(CO-PC-PCP) and Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ). Releasing Process Orders, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants, Costing Sheet, Costing Run, Simultaneous Costing, Final Costing, Price Transfer/Update, Confirmation/Settlement and Period-End closing. Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost and special procurements.

Configuration of bank accounting, automatic payment program and dunning procedure.

Creation of controlling area basic settings and cost centre hierarchy.

Creation of cost centers, cost elements and profit centre master data.

Data migration and upload using LSMW.

Training, integration testing, UAT and preparing required document. Project # 2:Client:VSR Electrical & Instruments (I) Pvt Ltd, Dombivli, India. (Support) Responsibilities:

Solving maintenance issues and tickets related to account payables (AP), account receivables (AR), general ledger (GL), bank accounting, cost centre accounting (CCA) and profit center accounting (PCA).

Providing day to day operational and process support to end users.

Master data upload using LSMW.

Day to day interaction with finance and accounts team to understand the details about the requirement.

Maintenance of functional specification and other required documentation.

Period end activities.

Deutsche Bank Operations International Global Services Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, India. Duration: Mar’12 - Aug’13 as Analyst

Significant Highlights

Regular interaction with SAP functional team to provide actual process requirement and expected outcome.

Collecting the report requirement from team members.

Resolution of issues occurring in day to day activities.

Responsibility of requirement gathering, gap analysis, testing, user training, application documentation.

Checking the requirement in standard SAP or else creating functional specification for customized report and handing it over to development team.

Utilizing the built-in incident management tool to report any issues.

Perform end user training during new processes after going live.

Performing month-end close activities – SAP journals and reconciliations.

Preparing consolidated monthly income file of the business of a Spain region.

Providing client level revenue report (GCIX) to the business along with proper breakup of the revenues.

Providing business area variations report to business by showing monthly trends of the revenue.

NON SAP EXPERIENCE

VSR Electrical & Instruments (I) Pvt. Ltd., Dombivli, India. Duration: Jun’11 – Feb’12 as Assistant Manager- Finance Significant Highlights

Handling auditor (QMS) & Management Representative Responsibility for ISO 9001-2008 across the organization.

Involved in banking related transactions with the help of ERP which includes bank reconciliation statement, bill settlement, etc.

Certified SAP FI Functional Consultant

Maintaining petty cash and performed daily cash reconciliation with the help of ERP to know the position of cash balance at the end of the day.

Controlling accounts payable & accounts receivables cycle with the help of ERP package.

Preparing comparative analysis of budgeted & actual revenues & expenditure of projects to determine profitability of the project.

Honeywell Automation India Ltd., Pune, India.

Duration: Jul’07 - Jul’08 as Project Engineer

Significant Highlights

Mapping contract requirements; preparing functional specification for Safety Manager and designed hardware according to customized specifications in accordance with client’s needs.

Comprehended the cause & effect diagrams and designed software, incorporating linking graphics with logics and Testing for efficiency in operations.

Worked in close coordination with consultants for logic finalization; examined quality procedures & conducted Pre FAT & FAT for the entire integrated system. SCHOLASTICS

SAP FI ECC 6.0 2014

MMS (Finance) from Mumbai University 2011

B.E. from Mumbai University 2007

EXTRAMURAL ENGAGEMENTS & ACCOLADES

Stood first in MBA in Bharti Vidyapeeth Institute of Management Studies & Research in 2011.

Accredited with Merit Award in Diploma engineering in 2003.

Received Best Employee Award at VSR Electrical & Instruments (I) Pvt Ltd. PERSONAL DOSSIER

Address : 126, Painted Post Drive, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada- M1H 1T5.

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