SAP FICO Functional Consultant with 3.5+ Years of Experience

Vishesh Parekh

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PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

SAP FICO professional with 3 years of consulting experience. Proficient in root cause analysis and designing SAP based ERP solutions in finance and controlling area

Capable of independent takeover of SAP Finance and Controlling projects which includes updating SAP configurations, troubleshooting and customizing SAP solutions

Proficient in application support and operations of domains like AR, AP, GL, Cost & Profit Center management and LSMW

Support project initiatives to expand the usage of the SAP solution to improve FI/CO processes across the enterprise

CANADIAN EXPERIENCE

VoiSAP, Brampton

SAP Functional Consultant Sept 2017 to Present

Conduct Instructor lead training sessions including PowerPoint presentations with exercises utilising SAP training environment

Train Consultants for certification and users in the utilization and navigation of SAP Portal

Coordinate with users to understand existing Business Procedures and documented “As-Is Processes”, prepared “To-Be Processes” documents and incorporated in Business Blueprints as per ASAP methodology

Gather and analyze requirements, review and updating of functional design documents for FICO developments

Involve with consultant & end-users for ensuring the quality of deliverable on a priority basis

Communicate status of errors and delays to impacted stakeholder group

Create Organizational Units and Integrate FI with MM, HR and SD modules

Configure & integrate GL, AP, AR, AA submodules and customize screen layouts as and when required

Configuration and testing of Cost Centre and SKF planning

Involved in the Configuration of Controlling areas, Company code assignment to Controlling Areas, creation and assigning of number ranges for Controlling Areas, Version maintenance for controlling areas and statistical key figure (SKF)

Controlling expertise includes Cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost centre accounting (CO-CCA), Statistical key figures (SKF) and Profit centre accounting (CO-PCA)Prepare end user training manuals and provide support in Training and Deployment

Participate in Unit & Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing on development server and transported on testing server for user testing, transported into the production server after user confirmation

SAP FICO Support Consultant Nov 2015 – Apr 2017

HiTech Engineering, India

Analyzed and developed solutions through smart forms

Provide Help desk support to the SAP users

Solved the tickets assigned, managed GUI Installations & checking of error logs as a part of support

Communicated status of errors and delays to impacted stakeholders clearly

Took care of uploading master data and configuring the pre-requisites including Creation of Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Retained earnings accounts, etc for General Ledger (FI-GL)

AR and AP master data uploading and maintaining the prerequisites like account groups, number ranges and payment configurations etc

Configured Controlling area(CO), Maintaining CO version, Maintaining number ranges for planning and actual transactions in CO and Defining primary and secondary Cost Elements

Created Cost Centre Groups and cost centres (CO-CCA), Defining different Activity types and Statistical key figures, Settings for Allocation of costs among cost objects with different methods like Assessments, distributions and reposting

Documented End user manual & trained users – worked closely with them during Post- Go live period

Account Payable Specialist May 2015 – Oct 2015

HiTech Engineering, India

Keep track of Full Cycle Accounts Payable & processed up to 100 invoices/day

Monitored accounts with 200+ vendors, responded to vendor payment inquiries & Investigate discrepancies

Worked on Vendor Help support system

Processed invoices into SAP AP module, make sure approvals are in place

Provided accruals and proposed journal entries for month end reporting

Project Coordinator May 2011 – Mar 2015

Sales Customer Service Manager Dec 2007 – May 2011

HiTech Engineering, India

EDUCATION

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Saurashtra University, India (Assessed by WES)

MBA in Finance from Saurashtra University, India (Assessed by WES)

Certification in Lean Six Sigma Foundations

Certification in Six Sigma Yellow Belt

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