Indira Swetha Email Id: acem2m@r.postjobfree.com
(Permanent Resident) Mobile No: 571-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
. Overall 10+ years of experience, in which 7+ years in implementing
SAP system FI/CO and MM modules and providing effective solutions
. Successfully implemented 3 Full life cycle projects - worked
through the phases of requirement gathering, scope management,
process analysis, GAP analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization,
Testing, Go-live, post live support and training
. Implementation experience with various industries including
manufacturing and service
. SAP R/3 system implementations using ASAP methodology including
Business Process Reengineering, System Design, Feasibility
Analysis, Configuration and Testing
. Expertise in implementation of FI modules - General Ledger,
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cash
Management and Controlling modules -Cost Center Accounting, Profit
Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Order
. Hands on experience with integration of FI-CO modules with other
modules like Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution
(SD), Project System integration with Asset Management
. Expertise in using data migration tools - Legacy System Migration
Workbench (LSMW)
. Experience with month end and year end closing process
. Experience delivering workshops with business users during
blueprint and training phases
. Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills
. Interact effectively with clients in order to understand business
processes, derive GAP analysis and provide effective solutions
. Solid academic background in Finance and Accounting with
professional experience
. Demonstrate ability to resolve issues and meet deadlines: possess
strong work ethics and an assertive team player
. Implemented various stages of the Software Development such as
configuration, writing functional specifications, testing, roll
out, and data conversion
. Performed cutover tasks and document management for processes
. Developed Business Process & Functional Design Documents
. Mapped Documents for business users
. Performed and maintained month end processes, Payment Cycles, Cash
Management, Banking, Transfers, Depreciation
. Maintained various masters like GL, Asset, Vendor, Service, and
Customers
. Designed authorization process for Procurement of Assets
. Worked independently and as well as in team environment
. Achieved critical deadlines under pressure
. Developed test scripts in various conditions
SAP SKILLS:
. FI : New & Classic General Ledger, Accounts Payable,
Accounts Receivable
. CO: Cost Center Accounting, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting,
Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting
. MM: Procurement, Master data, Release procedures, Inventory
management, Account determination
. FSCM: Cash and Liquidity management, Dispute management and Collect
management
. Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Tech Mahindra, Jersey City, NJ Apr'2013 to May'2014
Project description:
Interstate Brands Corporation is a Group of Companies which represent
nation's one of the biggest whole sale bakery products manufacturer.
Role: Senior SAP FI/CO and MM Consultant
Responsibilities:
Involved in preparing functional and technical specifications as per the
user requirements
. Customized MM functionalities: Master Data Material Master, Service
Master, info records, source lists, Consumption Based Planning, purchasing,
and Inventory Management
. Configured purchasing organization, purchasing groups and pricing & other
Purchase functions.
. Configured the Inventory management of goods at the points of receipt and
issue for all stock categories and special stocks viz. consignment, third
party, and sub-contracting
. Created physical inventory settings, documents, posting differences,
inventory sampling and cycle counting
. Configured vendor master partner functions
. Worked on quality contracts, value contract for purchase requisition,
contracts and purchase orders.
. Configured Batch Management creating class and characteristics master
data, condition table, access sequence, strategy type and define batch
search procedure
. Customization of Batch Management by defining batch strategy for
inventory management
. Configured tolerances and limits in purchase orders and created
scheduling agreement and contracts
. Configuration of terms of payment and interest calculation on open items/
balance outstanding
. Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) in FI-MM (Procure to Pay)
integration and configured account determination for FI-SD (Order to Cash)
cycles.
Customized forms for Dunning balance list, correspondence and confirmation
of balances or period closing
. Configured Depreciation keys, Define Screen Layout for Fixed Asset Master
Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas and Classified Fixed Asset using
Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transfer type for Acquisition
Consumers Energy, Jackson, MI Oct'11- Jan'13
The project covered the entire full life cycle of understanding the
existing structure and business processes of the organization relating the
same with the standard processes of SAP ECC 6.0, and implementing the same
in the R/3 System by way of configuration and customization.
Role: Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
Responsibilities:
. In the Business blueprinting phase, gathered and documented business
requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted business
blueprint documentation.
. Performed GAP Analysis, documented and prototyped between current
business practices and standard SAP functionality. Lead the realization,
testing phase. Supported client after Go-Live
. Analyzed business requirements, determined organizational structure and
classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas, cost
centers and profit centers
. Reviewed existing reports and determined changes to be made
in light of changes to organizational hierarchy
. Configured AP/AR, document postings, GL recurring entries, accrual
deferral documents, month-end closings.
. Configured payment terms for Dunning, Over-Due Interest calculations for
Down Payments and Automatic Clearing of line items and for posting net
payment amounts for Cash Discounts after calculation of Cash Discounts,
Under / Over Payments, write-offs and Reason Codes
. Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L
accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank
Statement(EBS)
. Configured Lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format and customized
Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment
Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges
. Configured and Customized Cash Budget Management (cash flow) including
commitment management
. Configured Allocation Cycles (Assessments & Distributions), IO
Settlements using Solution Manager
. Extensively worked on PCA restructuring & enhancements to enable
management reporting - Worked with the business users to collect
requirements to maintain Profit centers, profit center Hierarchies, . . .
.Transfer of historic balances from MM/FI to PCA, reconciliation with GL
accounts and created custom reports for producing financial statements
profit center wise through Report painter and month end closing operations
. Designed and reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications with
complex development work with WRICEFW objects -Reports,
Interfaces(Inbound/Outbound), Conversions (BDC), ALE, EDI / IDOC, LSMW,
Enhancements - USER-EXITS/dynamic actions, SAP Test Scripts, Smart forms
FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, PA Mar'11-Sep'11
FMC Corporation is one of the world's foremost, diversified chemical
companies with leading position in agricultural, industrial and consumer
markets. This is an ECC 6.0 Environment.
Role: Senior SAP FICO Production Support Consultant
Responsibilities:
. As a team lead worked in all the phases of implementation including
Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, and End user-
training, Go-Live & Production Support. Extensively worked with
Chinese team from Tianjin and Beijing.
. Worked with CFO, Controllers and Application Analysts to analyze the
existing system and functional requirements gathering. Finalized the
functional and technical specifications for the proposed system.
Worked closely with SD, MM, WM, PP, ABAP and BASIS teams.
. Documented and Developed RICEF objects.
. Leading indirect reports and team members in configuration and testing
phases.
. Defined and improved the business processes for intercompany
transactions between Tianjin and Beijing plants.
. Configured the Automatic payment Program FBZP, setting up house banks.
Lockbox configuration.
. Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the end-
to-end project solution, including creation of the detailed project
design, functional specifications, and test plans.
. Master data upload using LSMW.
. FI Design and Configuration for AP, AR and GL sub-modules, including
financial statement version for individual company codes of Tianjin
and Beijing and the consolidated one. Configuring the FI-SD, FI-MM, FI-
CO, FI-PC (Product Costing), and SD-CO integration. FI-Assets
Management design configuration including Intercompany asset transfer.
Worked extensively on New GL, document splitting and parallel ledgers,
Taxes including VAT.
. Trouble shooting with cross functional issues, supported Individual
Test (Unit Test, Integration Test, Stress Test & System Performance
Test) including creation, scheduling and execution of test plans
during different cycles, resolving test issues while transferring
knowledge to the client, the technical team and the production support
group. Defining and working with end user to perform the month-end
closing activities
Solae, St. Louis, MI Apr'10 - Jan'11
Solae is the world leader in developing soy based technologies and
ingredients enjoyed by consumers around the world in products such as baked
goods, beverages, nutrition bars, meats, vegetarian meals and much more.
Since Solae's inception more than 50 years ago, Solae has dedicated itself
to soy research and product development, providing innovative solutions to
enhance the nutritional, functional and economical benefits of soy food
products. This is a ECC 6.0 environment.
Role: Senior SAP FICO Consultant
Responsibilities
. Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate
difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains,
and exchange rate losses and then posted to separate accounts for the
individual currencies and foreign currency valuations
. Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning
forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for
dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and
automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers
regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e.
tables fields and then testing
. Implemented New GL Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting,
Parallel Accounting and periodic processing. Configured Lockbox Application
conforming to BAI2 format
. Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts. Maintained
the Budget Profiles and set the tolerance limit for the availability
control
. Created documentation for the Fixed Assets module for the client from
scratch. Worked on testing the new Fiscal Year Variant and its impact on
Fixed Assets. Fixed Production support issues related to Fixed Assets
. Configuring all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account
Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration to generate the
Payment Advice notes and to print the checks to make the payment for all
Account Payable that are due, clearing of vendor and customer accounts that
are due Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for payment Program, and
Credit Management
. Creation of Tolerance groups for GR/IR clearing. Revise and delete Terms
of Payment
. Created Chart of Accounts, Asset Classes, Master Data, Valuation, Asset
types, Allocations of number ranges and transfers of legacy data in Asset
Management Module
. Defined Depreciation areas, Depreciation terms, and periodic processing.
. Configuring Account Determinations, Depreciation Keys and Number Ranges
for Asset Classes. Configuring Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions,
Retirements and Inter-company transfers
ZAISCO, IBM, Norfolk, VA Oct'09 - Mar'10
ZIMS American Integrated Shipping Corporation project was a Treasury and
Accounts Receivable implementation project. This was an ECC 6.0 environment
Role: SAP FICO Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Analyzed Business requirements and configured Treasury module based on
client requirements to implement Treasury functionalities
. Configured and cross-trained Cash Flow Management in electronic bank
statement, US lockbox, cash position, cash postings, liquidity forecast,
order to cash (OTC), foreign exchange deals, AP F110 payment program, TR
F111 payment program, and cash concentration
. Grouped the Company's customers, defined Credit Control Areas, and
predefined Credit Limits for customers
. Designed Functional and Technical Specs for automated Lockbox processing
and Electronic Bank Statement functionality
. Analyzed, configured new Credit Management Areas, Credit representative
groups, Lockbox system for new business requirements
. Designed and configured Dunning, Interest calculation on Open items,
Correspondences and Account Statement process
. Designed and reviewed Functional and Technical Specifications with
complex development work with RICEFW objects -Reports,
Interfaces(Inbound/Outbound), Conversions (BDC), ALE, EDI / IDOC, LSMW,
Enhancements - USER-EXITS/dynamic actions, SAP Test Scripts, Smart forms
Delphi, Troy, MI Mar'09-Sep'09
The Delphi (Automobile Industry) Fresh Start Project is related to Delphi
emergence from bankruptcy. All assets must be documented and appropriately
revalued as of the emergence date. This project plans to retire &
reload/reacquire the assets from the existing SAP systems including the
migrated assets in earlier phase.
Role: SAP FICO Consultant
Responsibilities
. Configured Asset Master data, Asset Classes, Account Determination
. Configured Chart of Depreciations, additional Depreciation areas and
updated depreciation areas with new values using the reload program
. Worked on Recalculate depreciation Program RAAFAR00, to ensure accurate
asset depreciation expense and accumulated depreciation values before
updating the asset with revalued amount
. Customized Asset download program, Asset Reload program and Assets
Current Year Transactions program
. Worked on User Exit AINT0002 to retire old assets and ensured
depreciation key, retirement date and account determination adopted the
planned strategies
. Involved and played a major role in Unit Testing, Integration Testing,
UAT and Mock Cutover (build test cases, perform tests, and make changes to
configuration or processes using HP quality center testing tools)
. Participate in and help drive functional and technical design
specifications
. Effectively involved in troubleshooting issues in Mock Cutover and worked
closely with business members of Finance team and off-shore team to
facilitate effective development
Harland Clarke, Atlanta, GA Mar'08 - Dec'08
Harland Clarke offers an expanded suite of direct marketing services,
delivery and anti-fraud products, contact center services and checks and
check-related products to the financial institution market, including
banks, credit unions, thrifts, and securities firms. This is an ECC 6.0
environment
Role: SAP FICO Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Configured and handled the entire AR processes for Harland Clarke company
codes
. Configured and executed the Automatic Payment Program (AP) and worked
exclusively on payment methods like ACH processing and check runs
. In Treasury, configured and cross-trained Cash Management in electronic
bank statement (EBS), US lockbox, cash position, cash application, cash
collections
. Worked on Billing Interfaces and ensured that Invoices and Customer
Master Data is loaded correctly every cycle
. Configured and designed various methods of payments, adjustments,
collections, reports, processes, refunds in AR
. Designed and configured Workflow to park GL documents over $50,000 and
trigger approval workflow to release the parked documents
. Involved in configuration of Asset classes, account determination, Number
ranges, assign G/L accounts, Depreciation areas, testing Asset Master
Records, depreciation, business transactions, postings, reposts
. Worked on functional specs to incorporate Customer Conversations into SAP
. Worked on ECCS and added new inter unit elimination and reclassification
tasks to be used instead of Consolidation of Investment module within ECCS
. Advised client of steps to be performed in order to begin using already-
configured ECCS module
. Collaborated with MM, FI-GL and CO teams to ensure the direct posting of
invoice receipt or goods receipt to assets in the asset accounting
component and passing of assets depreciation and interest directly to the
financial accounting (FI) and controlling (CO) components, ensured that GL
accounts are reconciled with asset balance sheet values and accumulated
depreciation
. Trained the Super-Users in Accounts Receivable and worked extensively on
the Training Manual documentation for Super-Users and End-Users
Endo Pharmaceuticals, Chad Ford, PA Sep'07 - Feb'08
Endo is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the research,
development, sale and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals used
primarily to treat and manage pain. This was an upgrade project from 4.6C
to ECC 6.0
Role: SAP FI/CO Production support Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Created Cost Centers, Profit Centers and tested the Balance Sheet and P&L
reports for the inclusion of New Legal entities in the reporting structure
. Coordinated with A/R manager and key Pharmaceuticals wholesalers for
lockbox implementation
. Mapped and configured Cashed checks and coordinated in changing the
process from manual to automatic
. Configured and executed the Automatic Payment Program
. Worked on Internal Orders for month-end settlements and reporting,
distributions and assessments
. Worked on Product Costing/Inventory Valuation, Sales and Distribution
Materials Management
. Worked on integration between FI-SD (OTC) and FI-MM (P2P)
. Worked on Special Purpose Ledger for functional area reconciliation as
part of month-end close
. Configured new GL and EC-CS; trained client in the configuration; wrote
Report Painter reports and trained client in how to write reports
. Worked on Integration, Unit testing and cutover activities using the
testing tool HP Quality Center
Grainger Inc., Lake Forest, IL Feb'07- Aug'07
Grainger is a $6 billion global distributor of power and hand tools, pumps,
janitorial supplies, and other products. This was an upgrade project from
4.7C to ECC 6.0
Role: SAP FI/CO Production Support Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Analyzed Business requirements and configured Asset accounting module
based on client requirements
. Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of
Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset
classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets
in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset
acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs,
Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment (FI-AA
Integration)
. Worked on Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation
simulations, Asset Classes, and Balance Carry Forward and reorganized
accounts for various Cost and Profit centers and programmed schedules and
Jobs
. Configured Input Tax Indicator, Screen Layout Rules and transactions like
write-offs, Capitalization of assets under constructions and Post
Capitalization (Write-Up to APC) of APC
. Developed and Configured entire Consolidations & Consolidations-Reporting
for multiple currencies & companies (EC-CS) and developed User exits for
specific Reporting requirements using Report Painter and Report Writer
. Responsible for Integration of Asset Accounting with General Ledger (FI-
AM), Defined Posting Rules to Cost Center and Specified Financial Statement
Versions for Asset Accounting
. Integrated Asset Accounting, Structured and Valuated Fixed Assets,
created Asset Values, Acquisitions Entry and Alterations during Use, and
Asset Retirement and Asset Scrapping
. Developed and continuously improved fixed asset (FI-AM) policies and
procedures to ensure proper controls over the asset base. Extensive
experience in Data Conversion
. Created Asset master records using LSMW and Batch Input Session, which
loads the master record data from the Excel Sheet to the Asset master
record structure in SAP
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
. Operating Systems : WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 98, 2000 & XP, MS DOS
. ERP : ECC 6.0{SAP FI (GL, AR, AP, AA), CO (PCA, CA, PA, IO, PC)}
EDUCATION:
. Pursuing Masters of Business Administration
. Bachelors of Finance
DOMAIN EXPERIENCE:
Organization : Mahavir Skoda Auto Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd.
India
Designation : Accounts Officer
Duration : June 2003 to Dec 2006
Mahavir Auto is total dealers & selling of Skoda Auto cars and
Mercedes Benz automobiles in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Responsibilities:
. Preparation and Presentation of financial statements
. Maintenance of total Purchases and sales ledgers
. Transactions of Banking Accounts - (A/c Payables and A/c Receivables)
. Preparation for Vendor Payments & Customers Receivables
. Preparation MIS Reports
. Dealing with Taxation matters includes sales tax and service tax
calculations
. Advances and payments to employees and settlements