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Project Accounting

Location:
Bengaluru, KA, India
Salary:
2100000 per annum
Posted:
November 25, 2017

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Professional Summary

Having work experience of around 18 years, out of which 8 plus years into Accounting domain and 10 years in SAP (FICO) as a functional consultant. The work journey includes the experience with various roles played as a Business Analyst, Team Lead, Core Team player, Senior Functional consultant with involvement with the Senior Management on project activities, Client facing experience/ Client interaction – setting up the business expectations and Team motivation to drive the delegated responsibilities, in meeting the ultimate goal.

Competencies

SAP Functional

SAP FI

•General Ledger

•Accounts Payable

•Accounts Receivable

•Asset Accounting

•Project Systems

•Integration with FI-MM

•Integration with FI-SD

SAP CO

•Cost Element Accounting

•Cost Center Accounting

•Internal Orders

•Profit Center Accounting.

•COPA

SAP Project Systems

Simple Finance S4 HANA

SAP Environments

•SAP R/3 - 4.7

•SAP ECC 5.0

•SAP ECC 6.0

Accounting Software

•Quick Books (US Accounting)

•Tally 5.4 & 6.3

Testing Tool

•HP Quality Center

MS Office

Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Education

•Bachelor of Commerce from Bangalore University – 1996-97

•PGDBA Finance Management from Symbiosis, Pune – 2003-05

Personal Info

Date of Birth : 15-Aug-1976

Passport : K2775390 (Valid till 2022)

Experience in FICO stream as Functional Consultant

Current Role as FICO Offshore Lead for a Enhancement/Support Project - Retail Client:

•Handling a team of 8 members, collaborating with the day-to-day activities, make them understand the business processes and helping them in resolution of the tickets.

•Also working on the Change Request activity where, upon the requirement of Change Request, having the initial workshop meet with Client Leads, understand their new requirement and designing Functional Specification docs as per new requirement

•Interaction with the DEV team with respect to CR Enhancement activity and implementing the changes from creating Custom programs

•Interaction with the other support team whenever they need Finance requirement in helping them for fixing the issues

•Effective interaction with the Internal Support team and liaison with them a faster resolution of tickets

•Client facing / Client interaction experience – being part of Year End Support activity. Being with the Client at the very crucial time, and made sure that all the objectives are met as per their expectations

•Timely meeting with the Senior Management of Capgemini – updating them on the ongoing project activities and deliverables projections

•Setting up the Client expectation road map, and delegating that among the team – to inline with the set-expectation to our work methodology and make sure there are zero slippage when it comes to delivery and minimal escalations

•Weekly meetings with the client on the ongoing project activities, improvements and suggestion meet on fort-nightly meetings and Month end activity updates & deliverables that are met as part of month end and make sure the business activities are flown smoothly without causing any major issues

•Half yearly and Annual major meet with All the stake holders (larger audience) for the objectives carried out, any challenges encountered and how that was handled without impacting the business. Updating the next plan of action and accountability

Previous Role as a Sr. Functional Consultant for Implementation Project :

•Involved in reviewing the Business Blue print docs for the SAAVIS Integration.

•Preparation of Functional Design docs as per the business process & getting sign off from business

•Interaction with the Technical team and the business users during the initial phase

•Involved in the Configuration part for FI & CO during the SAVVIS integration

•FI-MM integration setting up and checking for the data flows to and fro

•Performing the Unit Testing for the configuration set up made and updating the results

•Preparation of Unit Test cases & executing the same during the Realization phase

•Interaction with the higher management during the Rollout phase and review meetings

•Interaction with the team & Business manager and timely update on the tasks

•Onsite and Offshore co-ordination and building up the relation to execute smooth workflow

•Providing a Knowledge Transfer sessions for the End Users at Offshore

•Providing the Test cases for the Users to avail it as their future references

Role as Consultant for Thomson Rollout Activity:

•Thomson – Reuters was an in-house implementation project that was performed along with the IBM as the Implementation partner

• SAP journey started with Thomson Reuters, being my first SAP Assignment and was part of Offshore team involved in some of the configuration activity

•Involved during the Functional testing, System Integration and Regression testing while the project was going at various Rollout phases, and being with the Onsite and offshore team collaboration

•Worked mainly on the GL, AP, AR and Project systems modules during each Rollout phases

•Involved in writing the Functional specs, System Integration Testing docs, UAT user manuals

•Assisting the IBM team during the configuration phase and involved in the unit testing for the configuration activities that were performed during the Rollout phase

Previous Role as Consultant and Lead on Testing Projects :

•Worked as a Team Lead and was leading a 6 member team for a Retail US client Ann Taylor

•Requirement Analysis, reviewing the Business Blue print docs for the project.

•Involved in preparation of Test Cases on FI module – mainly on General Ledger, Asset accounting and Accounts payable areas

•Involved in preparation of Test cases on Co module – only on some of the master data areas

•Review all Test cases created by team members

•Update the Test cases in Quality Center under Test Lab & Execute the process in Test plan

•Updating the Test results in Quality Center and raising the Test defects

•Manual execution of Test cases in SAP ECC 6.0 version

•Updating the status tracker for the test cases executed

•Defect triage calls during the testing phases and interaction with the respective Onshore team for Issue solving and retesting

•Regular interaction with the Onsite lead for the progress and updates during Testing phases

•Maintaining the Execution planner, Execution tracker and sending timely updated Reports to Onsite and Offshore Managers

•Close interaction with the Offshore manager during Execution phases

•Timely Execution of test cases as per the Execution planner and updating the Tested Results

•Trained the team in using the Quality Center (testing application) for updating the test results and defect tracking in the application

SAP Sub Modules Professional Experiences

Experience in General Ledger:-

•Involved in activation of New General Ledger Accounting

•Defining the Ledgers for New GL accounting viz 0L (leading ledger), & Non Leading ledgers for local GAAP & IFRS accounting and assigning the Ledgers to comp codes.

•Assignment of Scenarios on preparation for consolidations (TP, CT type), Profit center update (PC, Partner PC), Cost of Sales accounting (Functional Area).

•Classifying the GL accounts for Document splitting activities.

•Classifying the Document types for document splitting.

•Defining the Zero Balancing clearing account and document splitting characteristics for GL Accounting.

•Define the Document splitting Method (specific to comp) and splitting rules for all material, assets, expenses, revenue transactions.

•Activate the cross co code, cross profit center and cross functional area transaction for Real time integration postings.

•Setting up the Inter-Company codes for all I/C transactions (OBYA settings) by defining the company codes and I/C Customers and Vendors.

•Intercompany Document Reconciling between two company codes with AR and AP docs and checking for the IDoc Postings

•Testing on month-end activities viz., Foreign Currency valuation, Open & Close period control and Roll-forward / Carry-forward activities.

•Setting up the Exchange rates M, A, Season rates and running the program RFALEX00 so that the rates are moved from Retail to AFS systems

•Month end Foreign currency valuation performed to identify the value of gain / loss for all foreign currency postings.

Experience in Accounts Payable:-

•Creation of Vendor Group & Vendor Master data and classifying as Regular Vendor, Employee Vendor, Intercompany Vendor, etc.

•Creation of House Banks – Bank key, Bank Id, Bank name, Bank Address, SWIFT, IBAN etc. for various payment methods that are required for payment program run

•Configuring for automatic payment run (FBZP):- specifying the Paying/ Receiving Co Codes, applying various payment methods, Bank determination, setting up the ranking orders.

•Configuring the necessary settings for various payment methods like ACH, Wire, and DMEE configuration along with the help of DEV team

•Creation of Check register, making necessary form setting in the payment configuration step and checking for check lots and numbering as per the business requirement

•Unit testing and SIT performed for various payments methods (payment run) like ACH, Wires and Checks are generated without errors. Setting up the necessary variants and actions so that the payment files generated are interfaced to (via ZUFI1) to AL11 Directory. The files are ready for the Bank to pick up through FTP folder for various pay

•Configuring the With Holding tax for various countries and defining the Tax Calculation procedures.

•Setting up the tax rates for WHT on payment of Contractors, Professionals, Rent, Salaries, etc.

•Setting up the tax codes official keys viz Section 192 (salaries) 194C (contractors), 194J (professionals), etc. & defining the tax type viz A1, C1, J1, etc and Tax codes as TA (output tax 12%) TB (output tax 0%) TV (input tax 4%) etc.

•Inter company reconciliation activities between Accounts payable and Receivables are done, and any differences are accounted and rectified

Experience in Asset Accounting:-

•Defining the Chart of Depreciation & assigning it to the Company code.

•Specifying the Account Determination, Screen layout & number range intervals for Assets class.

•Creating the Asset Class & determine the depreciation areas in Asset class.

•Defining the GL accounts for Asset transactions.

•Assignments of GL accounts for Automatic postings for asset (AO90).

•Display of Assets / sub assets values through Asset Explorer (AW01N)

Experience in FI – SD Integration plus OTC activities:-

•Worked on configuring the FI-SD Integration by defining the transaction process keys settings.

•Defining the GL accounts under OBYC for the auto-posting from MM-SD

•SD flow on Inquiry > Quotation > Purchase Order (ME21N) > Sales Order (VA01) > Delivery (VL01N) > Shipping (VT01) and Billing (VF01) and generating the Accounting Document

•Checking for the Intercompany transactions for AR and AP postings and Reconciling the accounts

•Defining the Credit limit (FD32) / Credit management in SAP for checking the Parent – child nodes at the time of invoicing

Experience in FI-MM Integration:-

•Worked on configuring the FI-MM integration by defining the transaction process keys settings.

•Defining the material movement types – posting keys.

•Defining the GL accounts under OBYC for the auto-posting from MM-FI for BSX, WRX, GBB, etc.

•MM flow on Purchase Requisition (ME51N) > Purchase Order (ME21N) > Release Purchase Order > Goods Receipt (MIGO) > Invoice Receipt (MIRO) and Accounting Doc generation

•Intercompany Docs matching between Payable Accounting to Receivable Accounting Docs

•Checking the Interface for the flow of docs from Retail to AFS systems in Burberry project

Experience in Controlling:-

•Defining the Controlling area, Cost centers & Cost center group.

•Defining the Operating concern by copying from standard & assigning it to Controlling area.

•Defining the Segments and setting up the structures through `Characteristics’ & `Value fields’.

•Defining the Profit Centers and Profit Center group.

•Creating the Cost element by manual creation through FI using FS00 (Primary) & automatic creation (Secondary) by creating a batch input session.

•Defining the Cost Element category and Cost element group

Experience in Project Systems:-

•Creation of Project Definition, WBS element and Activity (based on the Internal, External, Cost or services based Project) in CJ20N

•Cost Planning for WBS element in CJ40 and Budget Allocation in CJ32 and Release of Budget

•Execution of Project – Change Project status and Project Release

•Execution of Project also through – Creation of PR > PO > Good Receipt (MIGO) > Goods Issue (MB1A) > Service Entry Sheet

•Updating the Project Progress and Reporting Activities (S_ALR_87013432 for Planned/ Actual / Variance repot

Company Summary details

Current Employer : Capgemini (India)

Designation : Lead Consultant FICO – P5

Duration : Sept 2013 – Till Date

Client : Burberry

Project : Burberry Atlas – Support Project

Previous Employer : Century Link Technology India Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Senior Consultant FICO

Duration : July 2012 – Sept 2013

Project : CTL – SAAVIS Integration

Previous Employer : Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : ERP Consultant

Duration : Feb’ 2010 – July 2012

Clients worked : DFS, Singapore (Retail Industry), Ann Taylor, USA (Retail Industry)

Elcoteq, Finland (Electronic Manufacturing / Service Provider)

T-Systems, Germany (Telecom Industry)

Previous Employer : Optimal Solutions Integration (Software) Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Sr. FICO Consultant

Duration : Nov’ 2009 – Feb’ 2010

Client : Accenture India

Previous Employer : Dell International Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Sr. Software Test Engineer

Duration : Oct’ 2008 – Aug’ 2009

Project : Order to Cash

Previous Employer : Thomson Corporation International Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Associate Consultant

Duration : Jan’ 2007 – Oct’ 2008

Project : Finance Plus

Experience in Accounting stream as Accounts Officer/ Executive

Previous Employer : Ionidea Interacitve Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Accounts Officer

Duration : July’ 2004 – Jan’ 2007 (Permanent)

Duration : Feb’ 2003 – July’ 2004 (Contract)

Previous Employer : Xcelon Information Systems.

Designation : Accounts Executive

Duration : Apr’ 1999 – Dec’ 2002

Previous Employer : Banjara Developers & Constructions Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Accounts-In-Charge

Duration : May’ 1997 – Mar’ 1999

Role:

•Preparation of Payroll on monthly activity through Payroll package Folklore, also involves handling of Income tax & Profession tax.

•eTDS on salaries for all the three companies, and filing of Form 24Q every quarter. Preparation of Form 16 for employees & Form 16A for Contractors/ Professionals.

•Filing of Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Reports to Software Technology Parks of India for the foreign remittances received from US. Getting the approval from the STPI and submission of the reports to the Company’s Corporate Banking.

•Preparation of Salary Budget, Expenses Budget on monthly basis. Handling the day-to-day accounting activities like Bank transaction entries, vendor payments, etc.

•Interaction with the Auditors during the Internal Audit and the Statutory Audit. Making the Provisions for the expenses pertaining to the previous financial year. Depreciation of Fixed Assets in excel/ accounting software. Interaction with the Auditors during Final Accounts preparation.

•Monthly and Annual PF returns filing, apart from submission of the withdrawal of PF (form 19 & 10C) and transfer of PF (form 13) from former employees.

•Preparation of Managerial Information System

•Preparation of Vouchers & posting the same into Quick Books and Tally software

•Handled Cash & Bank routine activities

HEMANTH V.



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