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Resume:
Suresh Kumar
ERP: SAP FI-CO Solution Architect
Summary
. Total 12 years of Professional experience. 3 Years Industry
Experience. 9 Years of SAP FICO Experience.
. Experience with various types of assignments such implementation, Up-
gradation, Roll-outs, Support, and Enhancement.
. Conducting Blueprinting Workshops, Gathering Requirement and designing
solution as per business requirement, Gap analysis, writing functional
specifications
. 3 End-to- End Implementations
. Worked as Solution Architect for Order to Cash (OTC), Purchase to Pay
(PTP) business processes
. Worked as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Planning to Report (PTR)
business processes.
. Extensive Exposure to Cutover Activities, Data Preparation, Data
Upload.
. Extensive Exposure to Business Process re-engineering and advising
solution to align them to best practices.
. Extensive Exposure to Month End & Year End Closing Activities design &
Execution.
. New GL Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, COPA, Product Costing,
Fixed Assets Accounting
Education and Certifications
V Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi.
V Member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountant, Colorado,
USA.
V SAP Certified Solution Consultant Financial and Management Accounting
with SAP ERP 2003 (SAP AG)
V SAP Certified Solution Consultant SAP Net Weaver 2004s- Business
Intelligence (SAP AG)
V Certified Finance Transformation with IFRS
International Game Technology, Reno, NV August
2013 - Present
Senior Analyst Business Process Improvement
. Gather Requirement & Design Business Processes related to all FICO
sub modules
. Banking - Design and configured electronic bank statements for BAI
& BAI2 Formats.
. Accounts Payable - Automatic Payment program design and
configuration using ISO 200022
. Fixed Assets - Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, AUC,
Internal Order types and settlement profile to AUC, transaction
types, depreciation key
. Product Costing - Costing Variant, Valuation Variant, Cost
Component Structures, RA Key, Variance Variant, Requirement type
and requirement class for sales order costing (configurable
material)
. COPA - Condition type mapping, PA Transfer structure, Variance
settlement to COPA
Environment: ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing, Unit
Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification
writing, Mock Go-live & Go-Live
Cytec Industries, Rutherford, NJ
February 2013 - August 2013
COPC & COPA Lead
. Gather Requirement & Design Business Processes related to COPC &
COPA.
. Solution architecture for different process - Make to Order, Make
to Stock, Configurable material with sales order costing.
. Material Ledger Implementation with multiple valuations, sAVR,
deferment of production variances, Distribution of PPV to various
production stages.
. Integration with Sales and Distribution, Production Planning,
Material Management.
. Design solution for intercompany stock transfer along with
elimination of intercompany mark-up.
. Conducted Blueprinting workshops on above areas and designed
solution.
. Design structure for Costing based COPA and reporting requirement.
Environment: ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing, Unit
Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification writing,
Mock Go-live & Go-Live
BBI, Tampa, FL
December 2012 - January 2013
Sap GL/CO Lead
. Gather Requirement & Design- Organization Structure, Chart of
Accounts, Account Groups
. Design for Cost Center and Profit centers, Hierarchies, Cost Center
Profit Center Group
. Design for Internal Order, Groups, Hierarchy - Overhead, Revenue,
Investment
. Design Interfaces with various systems
. Allocations, Distributions, Assessment - controlling and new GL PCA
. Conducted Blueprinting workshops on above areas
Environment: ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing, Unit
Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification writing,
Mock Go-live & Go-Live.
Aryzta, Bangalore, India
August 2012 - November 2012
Sap CO-PA Solution Architect
. Gather Requirement for COPA
. Configuration COPA as per Business Requirement
. Define and assign new characteristics and value fields
. Condition Types mapping with value fields
. Define PA Transfer structure for manual posting and define automatic
account assignment OKB9
. Define derivation rule and strategy
. Define valuation strategy, define costing key, assign costing key to
material type
. Assignment of cost component structure to value fields.
. Define and assign characteristics Groups
Environment: ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing, Unit
Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification writing,
Mock Go-live & Go-Live
Hitachi, Bangalore, India
April 2012 - July 2012
Sap CO- PC Solution Architect
. Running Costing for Semi-finished and Finished product using
different costing variant
. Worked on different costing versions.
. Price update of Raw materials.
. Revaluation of semi and finished product.
. Report development - writing functional specifications and testing
. Documentation of all output and development.
Environment: ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing, Unit
Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification writing,
Mock Go-live & Go-Live
H.J.Heinz, Pittsburgh PA
Sept 2011 - March 2012
Sap Integrated Planning Lead
. Conducting Workshops to determine Local Requirements, Requirement
of delta Configuration in the below areas - Cost Center Accounting,
Profit Center Accounting, Internal Order, COPA.
. Working on design of Planning in following areas - CCA, PCA, COPA,
NEW GL
. Preparing following documents - BCD, PDD, ODD
. Working on designing the scripts for Unit test and Integration
testing.
. Integration with SD, MM, PP.
Environment: ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing, Unit
Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification writing,
Mock Go-live & Go-Live
Suncor Energy & Petro Canada (Merger), Bangalore, India July
2010 - August 2011
Sap FICO Solution Architect
. Owner of Business Process Procedures for FICO Business Processes.
. Solution designer for Finance and Sales & Distribution integrated
processes.
. Functional Lead for all RICFE Objects.
. Leading Discussions with Client for data flow and business
processes and finalization of process.
. Financial Transformation with IFRS
. UAT, Integration Testing
. Business Process Procedure writing as per best industry practices
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7 & ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration
Testing, Unit Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional
Specification writing, Mock Go-live & Go-Live
AC Nielsen (APAC), Hong Kong August 2009 -
January 2010
Sap Solution Architect
. Business Process Study to identify the areas for localization.
. Preparation of Blueprint and discussion with business for to-be
study. Designing of the system for USGAAP & Local GAAP.
. IMG Configuration - Organization structure, taxing procedure,
withholding tax, automatic payment program, electronic bank
reconciliation (Commonwealth Bank Australia), local depreciation
area & depreciation key, low value asset.
. Online document splitting with ECC 6.0 & offline document splitting
with version earlier to ECC6.0
. Integration of MM & SD Module for contract accounting including
revenue recognition, unbilled revenue.
. User training for FICO Module - Global processes as well as local
processes.
. Unit testing, integration testing including testing through
Solution Manager.
. Data migration - preparation of template, conducted walkthrough for
business for understanding of the template.
. Enhancement to the system (Functional Specifications) - payroll
data upload to SAP System, DME File, check printing form, dunning
letter & customer aging report.
Environment: ECC 6.03, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing,
Unit Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification
writing, Mock Go-live & Go-Live
Bayer Material Science, Hong Kong August 2007 -
July 2009
Sap FICO Lead
. Ensure timely response and resolution of problem tickets within the
stipulated time period by the customer satisfaction as top priority
for following areas - FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-
PCA, CO-PA.
. Operating change Management Tool & Change Request Tracking Tool, to
facilitate the system audit & maintenance of complete audit trial
for changes in the system.
. Functional Specification Designs for change management - Script,
Case, Protocol, Information Technology System Design (ITSDD),
Detailed Business Blueprint (DBB).
. Creating Change Request with details - Object Affected, Impact on
Organization & System of the changes, Quality Testing Plan,
Documentation Plan etc.
. Subject Matter Expert Analysis of proposed changes in the system.
. Co-ordination with Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) Team, for
changes in the business process to meet the standard requirements.
. Co-ordination with Operation & Investigation (O&I) Department for
detailed analysis of impact of changes in the system, on the
existing business process, Master Data & Transaction Data.
. Member of review committee & approval cockpit for review and
approval of proposed changes.
. Creation of Detail Business Blueprint, Test Script, Test Case.
. Quality Assurance Testing.
. Liaison with Users for Unit and Integration Testing.
. Providing Training to the users for changed business processes.
. For Support Related worked on IBM Lotus Notes Data base as well as
well handling issues through Solution Manager.
. IMG configuration support - FICO.
. Master Data Support to maintain accuracy and consistency of master
data.
Environment: SAP 4.7, ECC 6.0, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration
Testing, Unit Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional
Specification writing, Mock Go-live & Go-Live
Cable & Wireless, London, UK August 2006 -
August 2007
Providing Support for following areas in BW 3.5
Finance FI-GL, FI- AR, FI-AP, FI-AA.
Controlling CO-CCA, CO-IOA, CO-PCA, CO-PA (COST & ACCOUNT
Based)
EC-CS Extraction of Consolidated Financial Statements
BW-BPS Planning Area, Planning Level, Planning Package,
Parameters, and Layout.
IS-TELCOM Receivable Management Contract Accounting
Support Daily Data Load, Monthly Load, Testing for Support
Pack Upgrade, Time Stamp Error Handling, Support for Process Chain -
Simple & Meta Chain.
Summary for BW Consulting
. Source System - SAP System, Non-SAP System, DB Connect, XML, Data
Mart Interface.
. Info Provider - Basic Cube, Remote Cube, Multi-Provider, ODS (Basic
& Transactional), Info-set.
. Data Staging - Direct Staging, Flexible Staging, PSA, IDOC.
. Data Source, Info-Source (transfer structure, transfer rule,
Communication Structure, Update Rule)
. Full Update, Initialization with/without data, Delta Update
. Aggregates, Compression, Index dropping/creation, Delete request,
Reconstruct, Selective Deletion
. Process Chain - Simple chain, Meta Chain
. Reporting - Generating Queries, Structure, Calculated Key Figure,
Restricted Key Figure, Conditions, Exceptions, Generating View,
Value Set, Precalculated Template.
. Web-Designing - Web template, Web Items, Data Provider
. Portal Integration - Sending offline report/views to Portal,
Sending report as link to portal, saving report as iveiw, iView
file, saving report in roles.
AKZO Nobel Polymer Chemical Duration, Bangalore, India May 2005 -
August 2006
FICO & BW Lead
. Post implementation support includes solving the service requests
raised by the end-user.
. IMG configuration support in different area i.e. GL, AR, AP, AA,
CCA, IO, PCA, and COPA.
. Ensure timely response and resolution of problem tickets within the
stipulated time period by the customer satisfaction as top
priority.
. Creation of change request, doing business and system impact
analysis, risk analysis.
. Creation of functional specification and coordinating with
technical team for technical specification.
. Implementation of change, unit and integration testing, user
training including preparing user manual document.
. Weekly and bi-weekly meetings with business and discussion on the
problem tickets.
. Incident management, root cause analysis, service request handling.
. Contributing to SAP Competency and Organization as a whole.
. Personal Ownership in delivering in terms of quality, time line and
estimation.
. Preparation of history of service requests generated by the
customer.
. Maintain the accuracy of all master data's like organizational
structure, Customer Master, Vendor Master and General ledger Master
etc.
. Integration testing for SAP configured business process.
. Ensure consistency of SAP configuration across all business units.
Environment: SAP 4.6C, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing,
Unit Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification
writing, Mock Go-live & Go-Live
Implementation of Make-To-Order Production Scenario [Sales Order Costing &
Mixed Production Order Strategy]
. Business Process Study
. Detailed Business Blue Print Prepared
. IMG Customization
. Defining Requirement Class
. Defining Item Categories
. Defining Costing Variant
. Defining scenarios
. Sales Order Costing
. Settlement Profile - Settlement of Variance to CO-PA, Settlement to
Material
. Test Case, Test Script, Test Protocol Preparation for Detailed
Testing.
. Go Live and Support
Implementation of Taxes - sales tax, value added tax, excise and custom
duty
. Business Process Study, Detailed Business Blue Print Preparation,
Test Case, Test Script Prepared.
. Changes in Taxing Procedure - define condition type, Account Key,
Define steps, Condition counter
. Changes in Sales and Distribution Pricing Procedure - Define
Condition type, Access Sequence, Account Key.
. Change in Material Management Calculation Schema - Define Condition
type, Access Sequence, Account Key, Alternative condition type.
. Automatic Account Determination for Tax Accounts.
. Created Tax Codes and account determination for the same.
. Unit Testing, Integration Testing.
. Functional Specification for creating the tax registers for input
and output tax.
. Created User Manual for all processes related to tax including
calculation and posting of Input tax through material management
price calculation schema, output tax calculation through sales and
distribution pricing procedure.
. Cut off activities with reference to existing Purchase order, sales
order, freezing the system for new changes.
. Hyper care support after go-live
Implementation of Costing Profitability Analysis including Planning
. Study of Existing enterprise structure, study of business processes
related to sales reporting, study of cost of sales calculation
structure and study of profile of settlement of overhead, WIP.
Study of requirement related to the reporting at strategic business
unit level.
. Structure - Maintain and set operating Concern, Maintain
Characteristics, Maintain value fields, Define segment level
characteristics.
. Master Data - Maintain characteristics value, define
characteristics hierarchy, Define Characteristics derivation,
Assign Value Fields
. Planning - Maintain Version, Assign Quantity fields, set up
planning framework, Assign Receiver Plan Version, Assign
Characteristics Group to plan version.
. Flow of Actual Values- Maintain number range, Maintain value fields
group, transfer of billing documents; maintain PA transfer
structure for direct posting in FI-MM.
. Define PA transfer structure for variance settlement; assign PA
transfer structure to Settlement Profile
Liberty Shoes Limited, Haryana, India November 2003
- May 2005
SAP FICO Consultant & Business Process Owner for FICO
Roles and Responsibilities:
. Involved in project implementation from 'Team building' to
'Blueprint' through to 'Go Live'.
. Understanding and analyzing the client's business process
requirements and arriving at consensus of how the company to be
represented within R/3 system.
. Enterprise Structure for FI and CO - Working with CFO for
finalizing on different views of an organization structure and
Specific Reporting requirement.
. Configured Organizational Structure - Company, Company Code,
Controlling Area, Operating Concern, Business Area.
. Creation of Organization objects and related assignments, financial
year variants, Posting periods, Document numbering intelligence,
tolerances, Currency settings.
. Defined Business Area Clearing, Tax Clearing.
. Configuration of GL which included Chart of accounts, Account
groups, Field status groups, GL numbering intelligence, Upload of
existing chart of accounts, financial statement versions creation,
Specific report requirements, Cross company code transactions.
. Configuration of AR which included Tolerances, Customer groups
replicating the customer base for the client, Interest calculation
procedures, Cross company code transactions, Integration with SD.
. Configuration of Accounts Payable - Payment runs, Automatic
payments, Manual payments, Check management, GR/IR clearing account
maintenance, Account maintenance documents, and Account movements.
. Maintain House Bank, Bank Account ID, Bank Determination.
. In Cost Center Accounting created Cost centers, Activity types,
Cost Center Standard hierarchy, Cost center categories, Document
numbers, maintained Default account Assignments and Automatic
account assignments, Overhead structure for accrual costs,
Allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting,
Distribution and Assessment, indirect activity allocations. Define
allocation structure, define source structure.
. Configuration of Profit Centers which included Creation of Profit
center hierarchy, Dummy profit center, Profit center groups in
accordance to CO view of the organization and reporting, Upload of
Profit Center master data and Plan data with numbering
intelligence.
. Product Costing - Defined item categories, requirement class,
costing variant, settlement profile, costing sheet, Overhead Key,
PA transfer structure, Source Structure.
. Integration testing and User acceptance testing. Tested the FICO
full life cycle in Client authorization.
. Prepared UAT Scripts through to-be business process flow.
. Cut-Off Procedure and initial data upload.
. Integrated with MM, SD & PP
. Prepared the Functional spec and execute the program
. Prepared end user documents with Info pack.
. Involved in GO-LIVE.
Environment: SAP 4.7, Configuration, FIT Testing, Integration Testing, Unit
Testing, Custom Enhancement, User Exits, Functional Specification writing,
Mock Go-live & Go-Live
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