NAGESWARA RAO.ADDANKI

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Phone: 443-***-**** Email:ac5c76@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

13+ Years of experience where in 8 years of experience in implementing SAP with an emphasis on FI/CO modules this includes 3 full life cycle implementations with hands on experience in support and upgradation.

5+ years of strong Finance domain experience in Financial Accounting, Inventory, MIS, Budgeting and Taxation, Group reporting & Worked as SAP Core member

Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA), New General Ledger especially in highly complex business environment.

Expertise in different aspects of a business relating to FI-GL Transactions, Inter Company Transactions, House Banks, Payment Terms, Cash Discounts, Automatic Payment Programs, Incoming payments, Partial and Residual payments, Defined check Lots and Void reason codes, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI2), Dunning, and Assessment & Distribution Cycles.

Possess extensive knowledge in configuring sample document, Recurring entries, Automatic Account Determinations, Customer and Vendor down payment, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, Interest calculation, Automatic clearing (Customer, vendor,GL), Company code global parameters.

Controlling expertise includes Cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost center accounting (CO-CCA), Statistical key figures (SKF), Profit center accounting (CO-PCA), Internal orders (I/O), Standard Cost Estimate and Budgeting.

Good knowledge and experience in integration of FI with CO, MM and SD modules. Sound knowledge of Order to Cash and Procure to pay process flow.

Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for new implementation / Upgrade using LSMW, eCATT (Computer Aided Testing Tool) Programming.

Month end closing, Year-end closing.

Sound knowledge of Data migration from the legacy systems to SAP using Intermediate Documents (iDocs).

Able to develop innovative and appropriate solutions to business and technical problems across a wide spectrum of environments and manage them to completion.

Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.

Ability to take on challenges and strong determination towards meeting deadlines.

Education:

Master degree in Accounting & Finance from Nagarjuna University, India

Diploma in Computerized Accountancy

Technical & Software skills

ERP

SAP R/3 Version 4.7; ECC 6.0, S4 HANA Exposure

SAP

Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Automatic payment program, Customer and vendor down payment, Dunning, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, and Month End Close & Year End Close

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal order. Product Costing, COPA, Material Ledger

Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM module

Technical: LSMW, ECATTS, Report Writer, Implementation: ASAP Methodology.

Application

MS Word, MS Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Tally, Focus, Wings

Platforms

Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0, Oracle

Testing

HPQC, Load Runner

Professional Experience:

E INK Corporation Aug’16 – March -2018

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Support Project

Environment : ECC 6.0

Location : Boston - MA

E Ink Corporation is the world – Leading Developer and Provider of electronic paper displays (EPD) into the market. Products made with E Ink electronic paper displays possess attributes that enable new advancements in signage, architectural, industrial, consumer, mobile and retail markets.

Responsibilities:

Participating actively in analyzing error, researching the cause of the error and solving the issues relating to financial accounting module (FI module) and controlling modules (CO)

Interacting with users for gathering more information on issues/ new developments.

Maintained the Operating Chart of Accounts by creating GL master data as per the client's requirements.

Handling issues regarding GL master, vendor master and customer master records, Automatic payment program, dunning process.

Maintained Field Status group for vendor for General Data, Company Code Data & Purchasing Data which reflected on the Vendor Master Records.

Maintained Field Status group for customers for General Data, Company Code Data & Sales area which reflected on the Customer Master Records.

Configured fiscal year variants with year dependent periods for yearend closing and posting period variants.

Created customer/vendor account groups to assign external number ranges to the master records as per the client requirements.

Configured the automatic interest calculations on the account balances/line items, payment terms, Dunning procedure.

Configured additional House Banks, Bank Accounts, and Check Lots and void reason codes for A/P accounts.

Performed the end user training on the check management in Automatic Payment Program (APP) and the solved issues on priority basis.

Handling tickets regarding month end activities and year end activities.

Configured the additional Depreciation areas and defined depreciation keys, screen layouts of Fixed assets, account determination for asset class, depreciation run and year-end closing in Asset Accounting.

Responsible for Integration of FI- MM module and FI-SD module and Coordinating with other module team members for resolving integration issues.

Created Cost centers, Profit centers for existing as well as for new plants and completed the account assignment for the cost objects.

Run Distribution or Assessment Cycles as closing activities in CO.

Providing end -users the routine advices /suggestions in case of any problem the user come across and also providing them remote information through Meetings/mails in the areas of FI-GL AR & AP based on severity levels.

Philips Feb-2014 to July -2016

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Project: Implementation & Support Project

Location : Boston -MA

Client Profile : Phillips company was founded n 1891 by Gerard Philips,the North American Headquarter is in Andover, It is Product based Industry, It is manufacturing Electrical and Electronics Products, it is multinational Company, The Philips Electronic, Philips Lighting, Philips Healthcare, Philips Educational institutions etc.,

Responsibilities :

Configured company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.

Configured settings in the AP/AR, such as house bank, bank accounts, ranking order, interest calculation, manual outgoing/incoming payments, automatic payment program, payment media, terms of payment, running/editing-dunning proposal.

Was responsible for Data conversion and upload from legacy systems to AP & AR using LSMW

Designed Lock Box procedure for Accounts Receivables payments. In Treasury worked on Lockbox configuration, Lockbox Processing setting up house banks, defining lockbox accounts at House banks, Lockbox Posting data, testing the lockbox functionality, treasury groupings, bank statement processing and worked with BW team for getting reporting out of BW

Was actively involved in the AP automation process, analyzed the AS-IS condition of the existing business process, did the Gap - analysis, and came up with a business process re-engineering (TO-BE) analysis.

In Profitability Analysis (CO–PA) and Profit Center Accounting configured operating concern and maintained CO versions, defined characteristics, value fields and attributes. Configured both cost based and account based Profitability Analysis.

Maintained profit center standard hierarchy, exchange rate types, statistical key figures, distribution and assessment of costs. Configured planning profile, planning layouts, plan versions and defined various reports using tools like report writer and report painter.

Designed and Implemented Special Purpose Ledger according to the management requirements, organizing data in special ledger, Transferring data into FI-SPL from various application areas, creating validation and substitution rules for FI-SL

Documented the vital changes, performed the system tests and trained the members in the client team on new system functionality. Worked on post-production issues after go-live.

Client : Halliburton, Houston, TX Feb 2013 to Jan-2014

Role : FICO Consultant

Project : Implementation Support

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Location : Houston,TX

Client Profile : Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). ESG provides

technical products and services for petroleum and natural gas exploration and production.

Modules scope : FI, CO, MM & SD

Responsibilities:

Involved in all phases of Implementation from development of Business Blueprint to end user training and go live. Involved in understanding the Business Requirement, gathered functional requirements through user workshops and documented As-Is model and To-Be model.

FI Global settings such as Fiscal year, Posting Periods, Posting Keys, Document types, Number ranges, Tolerance Groups, Setting Field Statuses, etc.

Configuring number ranges for documents postings and training the end user in running sample, parked, recurring documents.

General Ledger master data taking care of the pre-requisites which includes Creation of chart of Accounts, Account groups, Retained earnings accounts, Line layouts

Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting

Defined tolerance groups for Customers.

Configured Accounts Receivable settings, maintained customer account groups, number ranges for groups, field statuses, tolerance groups for customers, maintained payments terms, installment payment terms for retain age.

Defined dunning procedures, dunning areas, dunning levels & running dunning weekly.

Defined Special G/L transactions for Down payments and Setting and Customizing of Automatic Payment Program, Processing Open Items.

Involved in Unit testing.

Configured all business transactions for AP like creating vendor master data, including the payment program configuration and automatic check payment advice and payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data.

Involved in integration in FI-MM and FI-SD

Assigned primary cost elements to their respective cost centers.

Setup profit centers, assignments in profit center accounting.

Used distribution cycles to allocate primary costs and used assessments cycle to allocate primary and secondary costs. Configured cost center planning, overhead cost controlling and activity planning. Statistical Key Figures, Assessment, Distribution, Periodic Reposting Cycles.

Post production support in client place for four months

Resolve and clarify the tickets that are raised by users as per client SLA time lines

Educated the users on new functionality after enhancements and process related issues

Client : JohnDeere, Moline, IL

Projects : Support Project Type : Support

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Role : FICO Consultant

Location : Moline,IL

Period : May-2012 to Jan 2013

Client Profile : JohnDeere & Company, manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery,

diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment,

and lawn care equipment.

Responsibilities:

Resolving tickets in the areas such as AP, AR, GL, AA, Product costing, Profit center & Cost center accounting and Batch Jobs of varying complexities. Solved by closely working with Business users & Subject Matter experts.

Worked actively on SL1, SL3 cases taking ownership of the tickets, giving resolution /updates on timely basis to Business users on one side and coordinating with the SMEs’ on the other, until its closure.

Delivered Knowledge transition to new team members joining the project on client business process, repetitive issues, ticket handling procedure, and have been supporting them in times of need.

Closely worked with MM, SD and Integration teams in solving cross functional issues (in case of integration issues).

Client : National Aluminum Company Ltd. (NALCO)

Company : Rajdeep Energies Pvt Ltd

Location : Bhuvaneswar – Orissa, INDIA

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Client Profile : Nalco was incorporated in 1981 as a Public Sector and is Asia's largest integrated aluminum complex, encompassing bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminum smelting and casting, power generation, rail and port operations. The products of the company are registered with the London Metal Exchange. Nalco’s product range includes Primary Aluminum Metal (Ingots, sows), Billets, Wire Rods, Cast Strips, Rolled Products, Alumina, Special Alumina, Hydrate, Special Hydrates and Zeolite.

Client Industry: Product Based

Project: SAP Implementation and Support

Duration: Jan 2011 to May 2012

Project Responsibilities:

Hand a chance to be part of Release R2.2 Go Live activities.

Played a Key role as Environment Team Lead and encourage team to complete deliveries with on time lines.

Raising and auctioning on Jira’s, discussed the status with the project team and Client on a Daily Basis.

Successfully configured, tested FI modules (Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting) and Co modules (CE, CCA, SKF, IO) in NON- Functional Environment.

Configured EBRS and upload the statement received from banking people.

Involved in Dry run Activities for release R2.2 in Pre-Production (STG client)

Prepared configuration document with screen shots Controlling settings done in Development Environment.

Closely worked with MM, SD, ABAP and Integration teams in solving cross functional issues.

Involved in data migration activities and uploaded GL, Vendor and Customer Master Data.

Worked actively on Medium Priority tickets areas such as AP, AR, GL, AA and Controlling taking ownership of the tickets, giving resolution /updates on timely basis to Business users on one side and coordinating with the SMEs’ on the other, until its closure.

Provide KT to new team members on Environment strategy which includes land scape, Team members,

List of approval managers.

As part of team member involved in month end and year end activities.

Provide SAP Business support including, training, troubleshooting tickets within the FICO for routine cases, month-end, quarter-end and Year end issues, configuration change request cases. Tracking the issue by logging into development server or Sandbox, the solution is then sent to user, maybe with snapshot if required.

Delivered Knowledge transition to new team members joining the project on client business process, repetitive issues, ticket handling procedure, and have been supporting them in times of need.

Apart from the normal production support activities, also been a major contributor during the Streamline testing, System Integration testing, Dry run and Cutover activities during Pearson upgrades for around 2 consecutive years.

Client: HONDA

Company: Rajdeep Energies Pvt Ltd

Designation: SAP FICO Consultant

Duration Jan 2010 to Dec 2010

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Project: Support .

Location : Haryana

Client Profile:

Honda is the world’s largest manufacturer of two Wheelers, Recognized the world over as the symbol of Honda two wheelers, the ‘Wings’ arrived in India as Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. (HMSI ), a 100% subsidiary of Honda Motor Company Ltd., Japan,in 1999. Since its establishment in 1999 at Manesar, District Gurgaon, Haryana, Honda has lived up to its...

Responsibilities:

Involved in release R1.1, R1.2, R2.1 Go live Activities.

Raising and auctioning on Jira’s, discussed the status with the project team and Client on a Daily Basis.

Configured settings related to FI (GL,AP,AR,AA) in Golden Client, DEV1,DEV2.

Involved in Dry run Activities for release R1.1, R1.2, R2.1 in STG Client.

Prepared configuration document with screen shots for FI and Controlling settings by using project templates.

Interaction and Coordination with Core Team Members

Creation of Asset master records, GL Master Data, Vendor master data and testing the business process procedure.

Performed assigned tasks well in time, considering the timelines and quality project delivery

Providing support to end users and prepared End User Manuals.

Resolving tickets in the areas such as AP, AR, GL, FI-MM & Cost center accounting,

Finance Domain Experience: 2004-2009

5.8 years of experience in MIS & consolidation.

Company : R ‘n’ A Energies

Project : MIS & Consolidation

Project Type : Finance & Accounts

Role : Sr. Executive & SAP Core Member

Period : Apr-2004 to Nov-2009

Responsibilities & Proficiency Forte:

Evaluating of the existing end to end process, and prepare the business document.

a)P2P : Procure to Pay

b)O2C : Order to Cash

c)R2R : Record to Report

d)Consolidation Process

Responsible for making the team work effectively.

Responsible for implementing work around.

Coordinating with SAP team for process enhancements through SAP

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