SAP FICO
Resume:
Krishna Avadhanula
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
> Over Nine years of experience in SAP configuration, design and
implementation
> Primary module experience includes: FI & CO with extensive work in
Product costing and COPA
> Cross functional experience working with P2P, O2C, PLM,OM teams.
> Solid conceptual knowledge in accounting principles and financial
analysis, experienced in requirements gathering, and sound
understanding of business processes
> Experienced in postproduction support and training
> Expertise in developing custom reports using report painter and ABAP
> Proven ability to comprehend business requirements, cross
functional module impact.
> Recognized by both management and peers for integrity, dependability
and flexibility in meeting objectives
> Team spirit, quick adaptability, business acumen, analytical mindset &
commercial instinct
> Excellent Communication skills and the knowledge attained through
the involvement in different projects make me suitable for
adapting to any work environment.
Educational Qualifications
Master of Science Dec 2005
Major: Computer Science
Texas A & M University, Commerce, TX
GPA 3.6/4.00
Bachelor of Technology
April 2003
Major: Computer Science
Nagarjuna Institute of Technology & Sciences
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Client: Kraft Foods
Dec 2012 - Current
Northfield, IL
Business Process Manager RTR-FICO
> Developed end to end process for tax team to retain tax relevant
data by implementing DaRT (Data Retention Tool).
> Designed end to end process for Kraft restructuring program called
Cost Savings Initiative using Project Systems module. Worked with
several teams to integrate this process with STP, payroll and Concur
systems that allowed posting expenses directly to projects. Several BI
& BOBJ reports were built to support the business users.
> Designed a process for I/C team to perform intercompany
reconciliations between affiliates in one central system by
implementing standard out of box ICR tool. This greatly simplified
their reconciliation process during month end.
> Built a process for Fixed Assets team to accelerate depreciation of
fixed assets.
> Developed a process for R&D team to track their project expenses
using internal orders thus by retiring their legacy system which
resulted in savings of 4MM dollars.
> Designed new interfaces for APRIMO marketing tool to post
advertising and marketing expenses in ECC.
> Involved in the design, testing, training and go-live of MRO
process.
Client: Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co. LLC
July 2012 - Nov 2012
Chicago, IL
Sr. SAP Analyst
> Configured Dunning procedures to send timely reminder to European
customers on outstanding dues. Similarly US Customers were
directly emailed customer statements using BTEs.
> Exclusively worked on COPA and trained users on using COPA
reports.
> Setup new allocation cycles to allocate overhead costs to COPA.
> Configured new substitution and validation rules.
> Worked on Long Term Planning and its integration to Cost Center
Accounting. Configured new cost split structure to assign activity
independent costs to activity types.
> Worked exclusively in helping business understand internal order
settlement for their CAPEX orders and settlement of AUC's to fixed
assets.
> Trained users in fixed assets transactions and helped them in
forecasting depreciation for the next fiscal year.
> Optimized Lockbox postings to ensure minor differences are
directly posted to accounts.
Client: British Petroleum
Apr 2012 - June 2012
Hyderabad, India (IBM India)
> Made changes to asset classes and depreciation areas that allowed
the business to manually maintain certain fields like asset
depreciation start date.
> Modified user exit to post excise duty taxes.
> Worked on MOT taxes for Italy.
Full time employee at American Unit Inc. Sep 2005 - April 2012
SAP FICO Consultant
Client: Rockwell Automation
May 2008 - Feb 2012
Milwaukee, WI
> Configured product costing module (Product Cost Planning & Cost Object
Controlling) to carry out scenario testing for pilot release and for
global roll out
> Design and configured Cost Component Structure and Costing Variant.
> Configured WIP Calculation, variance calculation and Settlement
Structure for settlement of Production Orders
> Designed overhead costing sheet for markup price for international
STO's which includes Mexico and Europe
> Created order types for Assemble to order, Make to stock, and
Configure to order processes along with settlement profiles and PA
transfer structure
> Configured COPA module to be able to support flow of production
variances to CO-PA
> Designed Costing run processes for go-live and annual costing
> Designed month end process for product costing (includes WIP, Variance
and settlement processes)
> Configured Sales Order costing for Configure to order (CTO) and
Assemble to Order (ATO) processes
> Created complete set of business process procedures for product cost
controlling and worked with end users to provide adequate training
> Designed data validation techniques for go-lives between legacy system
and SAP to verify cost estimates
> Worked with users in production to carry out the costing run and
manage month end processes and miscellaneous production support
> Month end job scheduling was automated using Control-M.
> A new report was built to split Purchase price variance into
Material, Freight, Duty and Exchange rate variances.
> Worked extensively with cross streams in designing the collective
order process.
> Designed a report to get actual cost component split for the ETO
and CTO related orders.
> Worked extensively in designing the Intercompany drop ship process
for standard parts and CTO/ETO orders.
> Configured Material Ledger/Actual Costing in Sandbox for the
client to understand the advantages of it.
> Built a Intellectual Property model that allowed markups to be
posted accurately.
> Created a report to forecast revenue for CTO/ETO products and
contracts.
> Developed a cost plus plus model which allows business to add
multiple markups on costed materials.
> Created SOLMAN configuration documents.
Client: BOSE
Jan 2007 - April 2008
Framingham, MA
> Created new reports in COPA
> Worked extensively on Cost center, Internal Order and COPA
planning
> Worked on the order settlements.
> Configured Result Analysis that excluded Freight costs from COGS.
> Built new Product costing report to display standard cost of
production costs Worked with the offshore team to assist in the
development of reports.
> Configured new payment methods for the payment advice notes to be
sent directly to the vendor.
> Worked with the Logistics Consultants to map Sales Offices, Sales
Groups and Plant Codes as COPA Characteristics.
> Created user defined reports like profitability by customer, product,
and market using Report Painter and Report Writer.
> Configured settings for WIP, settlement rules for order settlement and
variance settlement.
> Trained the users on Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, COPA,
Profit Center Accounting and Internal Orders with special focus on
month end closing.
> Helped the users during the UAT testing.
> Traveled to various plants in DR and Mexico to train the users.
> Was involved in unit and integration testing of the system.
> Involved in the validation of data in the legacy system.
> Tested various custom transactions and also worked on Remittance
advice notes that were sent to vendors and Positive Pay report.
Implementer: Accenture
Client: Phelps Dodge
Feb 2006- Dec 2006
Tempe, AZ
> Created and maintained the configuration settings required for company
code & controlling area.
> Configured and maintained the exchange rates.
> Configured the settings required for calculating taxes including VAT.
> Created the financial statement version.
> Configured Controlling area, activated controlling indicators,
assigned controlling area to company code, maintained number ranges
and versions, created primary and secondary cost elements.
> Defined standard hierarchy, created cost centers and activated CCA and
PCA.
> Configured costing based Profitability analysis.
> Created Operating Concern, Profitability segments, configured new
characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques
like table lookups and derivation rules.
> Maintained multiple valuation strategies to facilitate flow of
standard costs & actual costs to CO-PA.
> Reconciliation of COPA to PCA for P&L accounts. .
> Assigned values fields to condition types to transfer values from
billing documents.
> Created contribution margin report for the managers to assess the
company's profits and expenses.
> Made sure that prerequisites were met for calculating costs for
byproducts - co product indicator selected in both the material master
and BOM.
> Configured costing variants, valuation variants, costing sheets, cost
component structures, used marking and releasing for price updating,
running standard cost cycles, actual costing, variance analysis and
settlement, integrated CO-PC with material masters, BOMs, routings.
> Assisted in end user documentation.
Client: Smith & Nephew Inc.
Sep 2005 - Jan 2006
Andover, MA
> Conducted Boot camp sessions for the Finance Team and trained the
users with the SAP
> screens.
> Conducted the workshops for explaining the integration between
FI/CO & MM & SD modules.
> Helped the accountants in the mapping of G/L accounts from their
legacy system to SAP.
> Conducted blueprint workshops and finalized the blueprint for the
FI/CO module.
> In CO-CCA defined the master records like cost elements (primary
and secondary), cost
> element groups, reconciliation ledger, cost centers, cost center
groups and standard
> hierarchy.
> In Profit center accounting maintained the basic settings, created
master data for profit
> centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, activity
types, assigned Profit center to the
> respective cost centers & created Profit center hierarchy.
> Defined activity types and statistical key figures for calculation
of overheads.
> Defined distribution and assessment cycles for business unit
allocations and defined planning
> profiles.
> In Internal Orders created and defined the new order type
including statistical orders and
> maintained the settlement profile, defined the planning,
settlement and budget profile and
> finally settled it to respective cost centers, configured the
assignments, maintained the actual
> postings, plan version maintenance.
> Helped business with month end closing activities.
> Provided configuration support in MM integration for account
determination, material
> movement setup.
> Developed reports using report painter, provided functional and
technical specifications for ABAP
developments.
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