Suresh Kumar

ERP: SAP FI-CO Solution Architect

713-***-****

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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