SAP FICO
Resume:
Sriram Chitturu
**************@*******.***
615-***-**** (Cell)
Summary:
. Twelve Plus years of SAP FICO experience in GL, AP, AR, Banking, Asset
Accounting, Special Purpose Ledger, CCA, PC, COPA and PCA and 4 Years
of functional and Banking Sectors.
. Four full life cycle implementations and 4 support projects in various
industries like Retail, manufacturing and Banking Industries.
. Specialized in FICO-General Ledger, Accounts Receivable,Accounts
Payable, Asset Accounting and CO-Cost Center Accounting, Internal
Orders, Travel Expenses Management and Profitability Analysis
. Worked on New General Ledger parallel ledgers with different
currencies and fiscal year variants, document splitting, and new GL
distributions
. Well versed in integration aspects of Materials Management, Sales and
Distribution and Project Systems with FI
. Excellent experience in business requirement gathering, blue printing
using ASAP methodology.
. Four years of strong functional experience in the areas of finance and
accounts in Manufacturing industries
. Successfully resolved issues relating to Sox Compliance by
implementing Best Practices of SAP.
. Reduced month end closing cycle time for Intercompany Reconciliations
by implementing Special purpose ledger.
. Streamlined the month end Close process by automating the Period
Close.
. Experience in interfaces with banks, third party software, Hyperion.
. Reduced the number of outstanding support tickets by 20% by improving
the processes and streamlining the knowledge warehouse. Consistently
achieved SLA levels.
. Capable of understanding and acquire the new technologies and
processes, and successfully applying them to current projects.
. Possess strong analytical thinking, troubleshooting capabilities and
excellent inter-personal and cross communication skills.
. Working Knowledge on HP Quality Center for Testing and recording the
test cases.
. Self-starter and excellent team player with good at communication
skills.
. Received Associate of the Month award two times from Mahindra Satyam.,
for excellent support to the client and for mentoring and enhancing
the productivity the offshore team.
. Received Extra Mile Award for Best Project of the quarter award from
Nissan for 2011 First Quarter for a resolving $1.8 BN Sox Compliance
issue.
1. Copart Inc, Dallas TX
Project Type Implementation Project
Role Manager SAP FICO
Duration 09/2012 - Till Date
Responsible for SAP FICO deliverable. At Copart we are implementing SAP
FICO for 14 countries. In addition to the FI implementation, responsible
to identify the new opportunities and present the solution to business for
stakeholders approval.
. Establish the project timelines, deliver projects within the timeline
. Responsible to prioritize, plan, and schedule implementation activities
. Responsible for people management, hiring the team and educate with
client specific requirements.
. Help organize and lead workshops to gather and validate business
requirements
. Configuration and documentation of new design
. Build and execute unit testing (build test cases, perform tests, and make
changes to configuration or processes based on results)
. Participate in and help drive functional design specifications
. Work closely with business members of Finance team to facilitate
effective development
. Work with users to coordinate information exchange for support of systems
changes.
. Develop and administer user support documentation and provide training
and coaching to end-users
. Document and control all changes made to productions systems via change
control process
. Provide SAP demonstrations to end users to validate design
. Work with the BI team to develop reports in support of the business needs
. Conduct job duties and responsibilities according to the organization's
business systems development methodology and/or its Systems Development
Life Cycle
. Design and deliver end-user training and training materials; provide
functional support as necessary
. Troubleshoot SAP applications as necessary
. Act as evangelist for FI benefits across the organization; promote BI
usage to relevant departments
. Mentor other IT team members in SAP configuration
2. Cooper Standard, Auburn IN
Project Type Implementation Project
Role FICO - Systems Analyst
Duration 12/2011 - 09/2012
. Responsible for New GL and Banking module for North America
implementation. Implementation includes US, Canada and Mexico
. Configure and document new design
. Build and execute unit testing (build test cases, perform tests, and
make changes to configuration or processes based on results)
. Participate in and help drive functional design specifications
. Work closely with business members of Finance team to facilitate
effective development
. Lockbox configuration for US and Canada
. Conducted user acceptance training workshops trained the business
users in adapting to the new SAP environment
. Post Go Live Support for Banking, GL, AP and AR areas.
. Provide SAP demonstrations to end users to validate design
2. Nissan North America, Nashville TN
Project Type Support and Implementation Projects
Role Project Lead - SAP FICO
Duration 08/2007 - 12/2011
As part of the onsite Lead, lead and manage the daily activities and
business requirements for FI/CO (AP, AR, AA and GL and CO areas). We
partner with Nissan IS Business Analysts and Managers, interacting directly
with end user and Nissan managements on Run The Business Activities and
enhancements.
Responsible for timely deliverable for Small to Major Projects, as part of
deliverable closely work with Business and offshore to deliver the end
product. Delivery includes training and support the UAT.
Responsible to work with Business and convert the requirements into
Projects. These include proto typing the solutions and present it to
business.
Production Support
. Primary production support for the SAP FICO and leading the offshore
functional team of four.
. Prioritizing and addressing help desk tickets.
. Communicating status of open items with business as well Nissan BA's.
. FI configuration at Global and client level.
. CO configuration at Global and client level.
. Working with offshore functional and technical team to explore the new
opportunities to implement at client level.
. Planning and coordinating for month-end and year-end activities with
operational team and schedulers.
. Data Migration using Win shuttle, LSMW.
. Assisting business (clients) with the creation new jobs, including
payment proposals and coordinating with schedulers for scheduling the
same.
. Closely working with Nissan IS team about new enhancements and removal
of dependencies with host systems.
. Convert the Accounts into Open Item Managed and OIM to non-OIM etc.
. Supporting Day to Day activities of AP, Treasury, GL and Controlling.
Major and Minor Enhancements
. Communicate with team members to reach an understanding of business
requirements and feasibility.
. Coordinate with offshore team to document and communicate
requirements, ensuring completion of enhancement within the agreed
timeframe.
. Co-ordinate Major Enhancement and projects from onsite.
. Configuration for new company codes in SAP based on the requirements
from the business.
. Maintenance of Master data, creation of GL account, Cost Center,
profit centers and extend the same to various company codes.
. Creation of number ranges as part of year end activities.
. Creation of check lots, house banks, new payment methods and payment
terms.
. Configuration of GL Journal Workflow.
. VITRIA integration with SAP and supporting the VITRIA interfaces.
. Analyze business processes and existing data flow across and among
systems. Make recommendation to business for process improvements
using SAP instead of legacy systems.
. Provided the demo to business users to implement the Cost Accounting
System and Production costing.
. Coordinate User Acceptance Testing with business and end users (direct
interaction and communication with clients).
. Demo Given to client for VIM (Open Text)
Projects:
Worked on Implementation projects
. Worked as coordinator for SAP Upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0 between
technical team and business.
. Shift Inventory: Moving Inventory Management to SAP from mainframe.
Customized VMS in SAP.
. Implemented of Asset Accounting module, financial interfaces and SD,
MM integration to FI.
. Implemented GRIR project for Parts Accounting in SAP, brought the
entire Parts Accounting system not SAP through GRIR process.
. Implemented Smart forms for Check printing (conversion from Jet forms)
. EBS to Nissan Canada.
. Conducted workshops for ECC 6.0 upgrade and provided Blue Print.
3. British Petroleum, Tulsa, OK
Project Type Support
Role FI/CO Team Lead (Asst. Manager)
Duration 10/2006 - 4/2007
Project Description
British Petroleum is a leading manufacturer of Petroleum products. IBM
provides accounting and information systems to upstream business for
British Petroleum. My role as Assistant Manger for FICO Support team was
to analyze requests from clients and End Users, then to assign these
requests to my team members. The FICO Support team consisted of eight
members.
. Supporting End Users for UAT and other testing involved in SAP
. Responsible for proper closure of month-end activities (Co-
ordinating between business, Nissan IS and TWS)
. Responsible for proper uploading of Balance sheet allocation
entries.
. Execute the monthly accruals
. Provide solution to automate open and close posting period as per
the schedule and as per requirement.
. Migrate data from legacy system to SAP
. Maintenance of Master data, creation of GL account, Cost Center,
profit centers and extend the same to various company codes.
. Convert the Accounts into Open Item Managed and OIM to non-OIM etc.
. Populate G/L accounts using BDC's, according to specifications
given for transfer from legacy into SAP using flat files and
translation tables, for accounts receivables and accounts payable.
. Configure company code, posting period variants, opening of posting
periods, fiscal year variants, field status groups, document
ranges, tolerance groups, and assigning the variants to company
code etc.
. Configure and customize General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts,
screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, financial
statement version, validation and substitutions.
4. Celestica International, Toronto, Canada
Project Type Support
Role FI/CO Team Lead
Duration 02/2005 - 10/2006
Project Description
Celestica is a leading manufacturer of electronics manufacturing services
(EMS) company and Celestica's primary output is complex printed circuit
assemblies, including PC motherboards and communication and networking
cards. My role was FICO Team Lead for supporting to SAP End Users,
processing requests from the Client for smooth month end closing. My team
consisted of two members.
. Responsible for smooth closure of month end activities
. Execute jobs for carry forward balances at year end.
. Open and close Posting periods during month ends and year end.
. Responsible for proper uploading of the balance sheet allocation
entries
. Execute monthly Accrual jobs
. Responsible for creating and posting recurring entries based on
business requirements.
. End User Training based on the business needs.
. Create document number ranges as part of year end activity.
5. British Petroleum, Houston, TX
Project Type Support
Role Team Member
Duration 02/2004 - 02/2005
Project Description
British Petroleum is manufacturer of biggest oil and natural gas company in
the world with turnover of over $233 billion. The business is divided into
various business units with an average turnover of $6-$7billion. I worked
as a team member for supporting to SAP End Users as well as processing
requests from the client and Accenture, Houston.
0. Responsibilities includes handling issues and enhancements and
interaction with Offshore support team to resolve their day to day issues
1. Functional Consultant for the Production Support of SAP R/3 4.6C
2. Data conversion and uploading allocation entries through Excel Database
3. Data Mapping for Conversion of Legacy system into SAP using LSMW
4. Populating G/L accounts using BDC's, specifications were given for
transfer from legacy into SAP using flat files, Accounts receivables and
payables.
5. Responsible for the first line user support for India and USA
6. Creation and maintenance of GL accounts.
7. Creation of Cost centers, Profit Centers and Nodes
8. Creation of Recurring Entries based on business requirements
9. Reconciliations for GL and Spl GL
6. Rockman Cycle Industries Ltd. India
Project Type Full Cycle Implementation Project
Role FI Team Member
Duration 11/2002 - 01/2004
Project Description:
Rockman Cycles Ltd., is a leading manufacturer of international quality
hubs chains, crank case cover and allied accessories both for motor cycles
and bicycles using state of the art technology comparable with the best
international standards with a turnover of 1070 million rupees and it has
network of 2500 dealers.
Responsibilities & Contribution
My role here is a team member from the start to the end of the
implementation of the project in all the five stages. The scope of this
implementation involved and the sub modules and functionalities being
implemented were:
. Functional consultant for implementation of accounts receivable,
accounts payable, G/L and fixed asset management in SAP-FI.
. The scope of work included as-is study, to be analysis, gap analysis,
business process re-engineering, configuration, modifications to suit
the client's requirements, user documentation, and user training.
. Created flowcharts and received approval from Key users, and created
Business blue print for the existing processes.
. Based on consistent analysis and functional requirements, SAP
reference business processes are modeled to suit client's
requirements, using SAP Reference Model. To be processes were designed
in terms of Process view, component view, functional view, information
view and organizational view. Demonstrated one way of working for the
approval of the client.
. Gap analysis carried between SAP reference process and to-be concept
and additional functional requirements were documented.
. Created and Maintained COA, customized account groups, field status
groups, posting keys, document types, Open and close posting periods
and created G/L account master records.
. Configuration of master data, business transactions, dunning
/payment processes in AR/AP
. Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various
depreciation areas and depreciation keys required, fixed asset
classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Responsibilities
also involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user
requirement.
. Cost Center /Profit Center Accounting - Defined standard hierarchy for
cost center accounting, designed automatic account assignments,
assigned profit centers to cost center, created primary &
secondary cost elements
. Integration - Assigned G/L accounts for the predefined processes for
integration with AM (AA), SD and MM modules.
. Closing of accounts - Created GR/IR clearing accounts, individual
value adjustments, posting of periodic accrual and deferral expenses
and revenues and carry forward of balances.
7. Medison, Korea
Project Type Full Cycle Implementation Project
Role FI Team Member
Duration 07/2002 - 11/2002
Project Description:
The project was done taking live data of Medison India Pvt Limited a
simulated In-House Mode and was given as a prototype for pre sales
presentation. The client was primarily a trading organization, which dealt
in Medical equipments software and is in to sales of equipment sales &
service and sales of spares. It is also into direct Sales with branches
spread across the country. This End-to-End Implementation Project was
covering the following components - FI, CO, MM and SD.
. Enterprise Structure - chart of accounts, company code configuration,
business areas/functional area. general ledger - creation of
chart of accounts, configuring gl master records, field status
groups, posting key configuration, financial statement
versions, gl display configuration
. Accounts Payable/Receivable - Defining FI - AP/AR group, Credit
control Area, creation of tolerance groups, automatic payment system,
vendor/customer down payment, payment request, clearing request
. House Banks & Accounts - payment program configuration, cash journal
. Fixed Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various
depreciation areas and depreciation keys required, fixed asset
classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc. Responsibilities
also involved identifying and customizing daily reports per user
requirement.
PROFESSIONAL NON SAP EXPERIENCE:
8. GER Vasavi Group, Hyderabad India
Role Accounts Officer
Duration 07/1998- 06/2002
Sarita Software & Industries Limited (formerly Sarita Synthetics and
Industries Ltd) is a 100% Export Oriented Unit, Manufacturers of Textile
Products Viz., Synthetic Yarn, Cotton and Polyester Grey Fabric. My role
was coordinate with banks and financial institutions, day to day accounting
operations and coordinate with auditors.
. Handled finance activities of the company
. Preparation of management information system(MIS)
. Preparation and presentation of financial statements, Cash flow
statements etc.,
. Preparation of stock statements, financial reports etc.,
. Preparation of application/projections of financial statements for
banks/ Financial Institutions.
. Reconciliation's of debtors & group companies on quarterly basis
. Liaison with banks for companies financial activities and loans
. Monitoring subordinates and day to day accounting activities
. Monitoring of factory and branch activities
Education:
. Masters Degree: Master of Financial Management from Pondicherry
University, India
. Professional Degree: CA Final Group 1 from Chartered Accountant from
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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