Resume of Gughanathan Iyer ( SAP Functional )

Location: Seattle, WA. Ph.: 646-***-**** Email: acp922@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

14+ years of experience as an SAP R\3 Functional Consultant covering Simple Finance, business analysis to system design, realization and support under various Mgt. levels, roles and function.

Additional 5+ years of experience in the field of Finance, Accounts, Audit & Cost accounting positions.

Have been successful in managing and leading various SAP projects – implementation, upgrades or support.

Simple Finance and SAP-Fiori(UX) configuration, build and deployment on SAP HANA XS server (SAP HANA Server Platform).

Working knowledge of SAP R/3 ABAP Workbench and SAP Development tools.

Quite comfortable with Project management concepts, process, knowledge areas, SAP – ASAP methodology, change management aspects – managing and leading user support and training matters.

Working experience in the following SAP modules:

Financial Accounting

Funds Management

Controlling

Grants Management

SAP IS – Utilities (FICA)

SAP CRM

SAP Simple Finance

SAP Fiori

Education and Training Certification

SAP-Fiori(UX) and SAP UX’s strategy – Record of Achievement with Open SAP.

Bachelor in Commerce from Gujarat University with specialization in Advance Accounts and Auditing, in 1994.

Certified Management Accountant(CMA) from The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, in 1997.

M/s Harrowgate Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad.

SAP R\3 - Finance Module

ABAP\4 Language

Technical Skills

ERP

oSAP R\3 Simple Finance 2.0, FI/CO, FI-CA, Funds and Grants Management modules.

SAP Versions

o4.0b, 46c, ERP 2004 and ERP 2005(EhP4/5/6.07)

SAP UX(User Experience)

oSAP Fiori

Customer Relationship Management

oSAP CRM 7.0.

SAP Industry Standards

oSAP IS - Utilities.

Lanuguage / Tools

oLSMW, ABAP/4 and ABAP/4 tools : Menu Painter and Screen Painter, BDC & Dialog Programming, etc

Operating Systems

oWindows 7, Vista series, XP, 2000, ME, WINNT, 98, 95 and MS DOS

Work Experience

I.Karma Consulting Inc, WA. - 1/3/2014 - Current

Implementing SAP@SFIN with or without Smart Financials.

Configuration of SFIN after considering prerequisites for a successful installation.

Help Basis team with SFIN system components – Extensions activation, support packs, SAP notes, etc.

Implement and configure SAP Fiori UX. Build New, Renew, Enable and Design Services. Ability to build Transactional, Analytical or fact sheet Apps which will work across devices – laptop, tablet and/or phone.

Migration steps from Classic GL to New GL to SFIN powered by SAP HANA.

Customizing and migration of Asset accounting(posting in real time in all valuations, parallel valuation using ledger and accounts approach, etc.) from classic asset accounting.

Customization for account based CO-PA. Adjustment to assessment and settlement rules were made.

Cash management configuration and migration – bank account mgt., cash position and forecast, liquidity planning etc.

Implementation Projects:

1.Client : Clark County, Las Vegas, Nevada

Duration : 07/30/12 – 10/31/12 and 01/07/13 – 11/22/13

Environment : mySAP ERP ECC 6.0 EhP6 and SAP CRM 7.0 EhP1, db AIX/Oracle

Position : Asst. Project Manager – SAP ECC/CRM project.

Lead and managed County’s Customer Consolidation initiative, as part of CRM roll-out.

Gatekeeper for SAP ECC in ensuring the CRM became book of records for county customers from a MDM(Master Data Maintenance) perspective. Also ensuring that the AR Downstream process in SAP weren’t affected. The Grants customers(sponsors) were excluded from this exercise. Provided vision and guidance, to the County management, for future service order roll-out in CRM.

Managed Project scope, time and quality. Ofcourse the cost and HR were county personnel’s responsibility. Prepared and maintained Project plan with timelines to that affect.

Continuous interaction and follow-up with the team on project activity preparedness without compromising on the quality. Provided guidance and held hands in the areas where needed – either technically in SAP or from project guidelines/processes perspective.

Conducted workshops, monitored and participated in training sessions, managed course curriculum additions/modifications, assisted change management team for a smoother transition.

Was instrumental in delivering the project.

2.Client : Municipality of Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska

Duration : 09/19/2011 – 12/21/2012

Environment : mySAP ERP ECC 6.0-EhP5, WinNT /MSSql

Position : SAP-CM\AR\AP Lead.

Leading the Treasury – Cash Management and Accounts Receivable, Accounts payable efforts. Had an AP consultant reporting to me.

Lead blueprint workshops, capturing requirements, created associated Blueprint documents on Solution Manager. Blueprinted SD process

Hands on configuration of Accounts Receivable and Cash Management modules. SD Enterprise Structure, Implemented Federal Government solution, FMFEE for late fee solution, as part of Classic AR solution. New Interest Allocation – FMADB (Average Daily Balance) functionality with PSGLFLEXT, Cash flow forecasting – cash position/liquidity forecast reporting and Electronic Bank Statement(EBS) were some major highlights of configuration.

Part of SDLC process for various RICEFW objects, part of which were many isolated standalone power(ML&P – Municipal light and power) and utilities(AWWU – Anchorage Water and Waste Utility, SWS – Solid Waste Services) financial systems.

Replaced an Aircraft Management systems(AMS) and integrated their processes into SAP-AR/SD.

Hands on Solution Manager Configuration and Maintenance expertise.

3.Client : Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York

Duration : 03/01/2011 – 09/15/2011

Environment : mySAP ERP ECC 6.0-EhP4, Linux / Oracle

Position : FM/GM Lead Consultant.

Managing Fund to fund center change project. Due to custom enhancement the fund master record incorrectly houses fund center (which represents departments/divisions in FI, at college). As a result the funds consumption/balance tracking is skewed. Hence this clean-up project to close the incorrectly fund center assigned fund and create new fund and assign the correct fund center.

There are close to 94 fund centers involving 8000+ funds across the college.

Implemented Fund balance carry forward functionality (FMVT).

Worked on process chain document re-assignment issue for eg. PO GR invoice (FMCB and FMCT). FMCB creates work list with re-assigned values and FMCT converts them.

4.Client : Clark County, Las Vegas, Nevada

Duration : 03/16/2009 – 11/06/2009, 06/01/10 - 12/17/10

Environment : mySAP ERP ECC 6.0, AIX/Oracle

Position : Upgrade Lead/Asst. Project Manager.

Managed 2 Successful upgrades without any major issues post go-live.

The first one was a technical upgrade project – ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0. The second was from ECC 6.0 to ECC 6.0 EhP4(Enhancement Package 4). Modules included were FI – GL, AR and AP, CO / FM / GM / PS / FA / PM & MM.

Setup and maintenance of Project, Test Plan and Test Packages in Solution Manager.

Overview, managing and testing of FI-GL and GM modules in Solution Manager.

Overview, managing and successful execution of Unit testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and Support Pack testing.

Simultaneous production support in FI-GL, GM, PS, FI-MM Integration, FA and FM modules. Successful handling, Resolution and closing of Service Requests(SR’s) in Aplix and Incidents in and Service now.

Guiding and advising SAP support staff on various aspects of technical upgrade, SOLMAN testing, upgrades glitches and production support.

Participation in various workshops/meetings/war-room sessions during upgrade roadmap.

Getting the team to meet the deadlines and sometimes pull the weight in the process

Co-ordinating with various teams to make the upgrade a successful one.

5.Client : Methodex Technologies Ltd

Duration : 26th Nov., 09 – 2nd Feb., 10

Environment : mySAP ERP ECC 6.0 EHP4, Oracle

Position : FI-CA Consultant

Revenue account determination (main/sub determination)

Incoming payment processing (payment lots)

Clarification cases/processing for unclarified payments

Returns (credit) processing

Clearing controls (clearing proposals based on pre-defined rules)

Dunning & collections (dunning procedure currently utilized to send important notice reminder with interest charge amounts for non-energy billing)

Interest calculations

Down payment processing

Transfer of reconciliation keys to GL

Contract Account categories & defaulting/hiding of fields & values.

Assist SD resource with invoice printing requirements (working with print workbench resource for RDI generation and print vendor for layout)

Identify the detailed AR requirements for Sundry billing

Assist the business resources with level 3 process design

Creation of specifications for custom reports in the FI-CA area, including an aging report.

Identification and testing of security/authorization roles

Adept in unit testing, string testing, and integration tests.

Work with data conversion for contract account creation and transfer balances.

II. Compu – Solve Inc. New York, USA. - 18th December 2003 - 10th March 2009

Implementation Projects:

1 Client : Carl Zeiss Vision Inc, San Diego California

Duration : 14th April 08- 12th Nov. 2008 and 10th Sept. 07 – 25th Jan. 08,

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.6C), OS/400, DB400, V5R2

Position : Sr. (Lead) FI–CO Functional Consultant

Integration of SAP-SM(Service Management) with FICO. Modifying CO area for Sales order costing, creating Allocation structure for service order and repair order settlements, Designing reports for service contract profitability, etc.

Designed an interface(ZHFM) to load flat file (Financial reporting values) from SAP to Hyperion for business unit reporting to the corporate. Includes writing functional specs, mapping doc, unit testing and change management.

Configured ACH (payment medium workbench) for vendor payments. Carried out modifications to FBZP – automatic payment process. Configured SAP to generate ACH flat file under DME (Data Medium Exchange). Thorough testing of flat file as per bank’s file specs and end-to-end testing with the bank.

Used LSMW tool to mass-update VMR bank details and payment methods.

Configured EBS with BAI2 format for ZBA transactions. Also designed a program to calculate sweeping accounts interest calculation based on the above ZBA transactions.

Implemented 1099 reporting – paper based.

Implementing Lockbox BAI2 file format system for processing customer payments.

Report Painter reports : Profit center layout for manual posting, consolidated cost center report, consolidate company code P&L and Balance sheet statements.

Modified special purpose ledger for one of the sister companies. Added revised fiscal year variant for one company code and deleted 2 company codes from a ledger.

Facilitating Cross-company postings, modifying the automatic GL clearing rules to facilitate GR/IR clearing program run on a periodic basis.

Introduced LIV, enjoy transactions for vendor and customer invoices.

Set up expense expert system interface. Design, mapping and build of concur expense file to post to SAP. Also set up the Staples expenses file upload.

Set up AMEX CAR(Corporate Account Reconciliation) system interface with SAP – Design, mapping and build of AMEX payment posting of inventory related PO’s and expenses.

Built queries suiting to AP team’s requirements – open invoices list, due date analysis (BSIK, LFA1) etc.

Participated in changing Fiscal month-end process wherein the company changed from 4-4-5 to month end closing.

Interfacing with technical team for various custom objects, conducting various workshops, liaisoning with business partners – banks, third party implementation vendors, etc. Providing training to the users.

2 Client : City of Portland, Portland, Oregon.

Duration : 28th January 2008 – 9th May 2008

Environment : mySAP ERP ECC 6.0, AIX, Oracle

Position : Cash Management Functional Consultant

Configuration of Electronic Bank Statement

Configuration of Manual Deposit (FF68)

Functional development of Periodic interest Calculation on investments, bank balance(total cash) for the city to be apportioned amongst various bureaus. FTS creation, co-ordinating with the technical developer, testing of the object.

Participating in the cutover and conversion activities, for AR and CM. LSMW was used.

Handling of trustee accounts management. Designed all trustee accounts into sub-funds for easy tracking and/or management. Design to eliminate the sub-funds when respective bureaus convert the trustee accounts to their operating funds was recommended.

Working on Solution manager to handle the change management/issues management in SAP.

3 Client : Sanofi Aventis, Swiftwater, PA

Duration : 6th February 2006 – 7th September 2007

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.6C), HP-UX, Oracle

Position : FI–CO Functional Consultant

Working with OH % changes, creation of OH keys & OH groups etc. within product costing – KZZ2, OKZ2, OKOG etc. Have worked on CK11N, CK13N (Create and Display material cost estimates)

Resolved the Material ledger activation issues, worked on CKM3 (material price analysis), MR21(change material prices), CKMLCP(edit costing run), CKMH(single level material price determination).

Worked on Internal Orders, Process Orders, Order Settlement, and Commitment update. Have worked on KO88, CO88, MEB0(Reversal settlement runs) et al.

Worked on Profitability Analysis structure (COPA – structure), wherein a cost element has been added to facilitate value flow to a new value field. Worked on KEI2(PA Transfer Structure FI), KEP9(Value field assignment), KEP0(Assign value field directly to FI), KE28 and KE23.

Working with BW for resolving extractors issues including BW initialization on R3 side.

Worked with archiving report painter reports.

Adept handling of Credit Management issues, worked on objects involving orders going on credit hold, credit release, worked on interface ZRTE(Z-Route), doing run time analysis of RVKRED06,07,08 and 09 programs.

Lockbox pre and post processing.

Resolving Asset depreciation, depreciation recalculation and other year end issues, changing default life of assets, scrapping of assets without value and handling of planned vs. unplanned depreciation issues under Fixed Assets Management.

Integration Aspects with MM, SD

Generating EOM – End of Month and weekly status reports

Conducting workshops / meetings at every level of project execution.

4 Client : Weyerhaeuser Company, Uruguay

Duration : April 2005 – 3rd February 2006

Implementation HQ : Weyerhaeuser Company, Federal Way, Washington.

Environment : SAP ERP Central Component, HP-UX, Oracle

Position : FI–CO Functional Consultant (integration with SD, PP, MM)

This was configured for one of the companies of Weyerhaeuser based in Uruguay, Monte Video. They wanted to understand the feasibility of SAP replacing their existing systems, especially when the Corporate was making SAP as the uniform and single source system.

Configuring the Org Structure – company, company code, tax, controlling area, COA, etc.

Setup of masters – GL accounts, VMR, CMR, Cost centers, Profit centers, cost center hierarchy, profit center hierarchy, SAP business partner, and contract accounts in FS-CD.

Working domain includes general ledger, accounts receivable / payables, cost center / profit center accounting, cost elements and internal orders.

Open item management, postings and document process, co-ordinating with technical consultant for smartform based correspondences for collections and disbursements.

Payments handling alongwith interest calculation and dunning for the business partners.

Working on SAP Credit management and integration & data exchange – legacy data inter-change, transferring postings to GL accounts etc.

Integration with SD, PP, MM.

5 Client : Weyerhaeuser Company, Federal Way, Washington.

Duration : 2nd February 2004 – 31st March 2005

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.6C), HP-UX, Oracle

Position : SAP FI - AP EDI / RICE Functional Consultant

Part of the Design, Build and Test of Release 1A and 1B team in the Accounts Payable function. Responsible for Accounts Payable R.I.C.E. (Reports, Interfaces, Conversion and Extension) Objects.

Work includes creation of System Investigation Request (SIR) for initial build of any object. Maintaining the deadline of the SIR, creation of change / extension SIR for that object.

Sending the object for build to offshore to India, where Weyerhaeuser has a development center.

Co-ordinating with the offshore and onsite technical contact and fulfilling the techno-functional queries and test data requirements.

Unit, String, Integration and Business Acceptance Testing, of the Objects.

Well versed with ALE IDOC configuration. I have handled EDI 820(Payment order), 831 (Application control Totals), 824(Application Advice), 828(Debit Authorization), 821 (Financial Information Reporting) messages. Have thorough working knowledge of Transaction sets, Data Elements, reading and deciphering of ANSI files, troubleshooting IDOC -> EDI -> IDOC process, configuration settings of IDOCs, requesting mapping logic etc. Working around TC : WEDI.

Complete configuration of Payment medium workbench to facilitate the payment order EDI’s.

Weyerhaeuser has many legacy systems. For smooth transition / data flow from the legacy systems to SAP and vice-versa an entity by the name of IS (Integration Services) has been setup, which will act as a Common Message Interface point. Wherein all the data will come in and flow out in a Common Message Format.

Integration Testing involves testing of networks between various networks viz SAP -> IS -> Forest Express -> Bank. And Return acknowledgement.

Project System Landscape involves various servers per Releases. Hence Creation and release of change Requests, of RICE Objects and configuration, into the Quality Server and then into Production Server is also taken care of by me via Lotus Notes process.

Preparation of FS and approving the built objects during TS walkthrough.

Proper Documentation of the objects. To get the requirements from the client and do necessary configurations / build changes, etc.

Close interactions with Client at Upper level management as well at user level so as to troubleshoot the issues.

Timely submission of Objects progress report to the management.

Worked in Production Support team, creation of Trouble Documents (TD’s), working towards modification of objects to comply with TD requirements, updating TD with modification work and test details and finally closing the TD.

Being On-Call for the production tickets, assignment of tickets to the appropriate personnel, tracking and closing of tickets, resolvement of tickets etc. The tickets were created, maintained and resolved in Action Request System – Remedy User.

Worked in Test Automation team where the scripts were built in Quick Test Professional (QTP), a product of Mercury, and these scripts ran the transactions in SAP. At Weyerhaeuser Test Automation was primarily required for Regression Testing purpose.

My role in Test Automation was to get requirements from the functional leads, simulate the transactions – analyze the input, output, validations / substitutions (standard or customized), positive testing, negative testing, etc and hand over to the test automation technical specialist. To troubleshoot any queries coming out during scripting. Once script is done, I run the script to check its behavior. Once that is done, I facilitate the Business acceptance.

Conducting workshops / meetings at every level of project execution.

III. M/s AG Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - 1st Oct 2003 till 17th Dec 2003

Implementation Projects:

1 Client : Texport Syndicate, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Duration : 1st October 2003 till 17th December 2003

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.0B), Windows NT 4.0, Oracle

Position : Associate Consultant SAP - FICO

Module support by way of maintaining and extending the configuration in FI and CO module.

Configuration of FI and CO objects.

To get the requirements from the client and do necessary configurations. Like Creating Business Areas, creating cost elements, revenue elements, cost centers, profit centers, maintaining standard hierarchy, payment medium workbench, order-to-cash scenarios, etc.

Close interactions with Client at Upper level management as well at user level so as to troubleshoot the matters.

Preparing FS, TS and timely submission of implementation progress report to the management.

Taking care of Account Determination aspects within the module and as well integration aspects with other modules.

Working knowledge on Profitability Analysis and Product Costing sub-modules in Controlling.

Integration with MM, PP and SD modules.

IV. Sai TechSolutions, Baroda, Gujarat, India. - October 2000 to September 2003

Implementation services to the clients in Finance module.

Giving Training to M/s Unisys Technologies Pvt. Ltd.’s SAP team and to their clients in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in SAP (FI/CO) module.

Created and developed market of SAP R/3 in Ahmedabad and Baroda.

Making cold-calls on customers, giving presentation about ERP implementation, call up on client for SAP R\3 demonstration (based on some of their requirement), & ERP Consultancy.

M/s Munjal Auto Industries, M/s Goel Scientific Glass, M/s Elysium Pharmaceuticals, etc are some cases from Baroda. M/s Adani Group Wilmar Oil, M/s Cadila Pharmaceuticals, M/s Ramdev Masala etc are some cases from Ahmedabad.

Prepared training materials as well as exercises for training.

Implementation Projects:

1. Client : GIPCL, Baroda, Gujarat, India.

Duration : May 2003 to July 2003

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.6C), Windows NT 4.0, Oracle

Position : SAP FI - Consultant.

Studying the business process of the company and preparing As-Is with Business Flow.

Adopted the ASAP methodology in implementation project preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation and Go Live & Support.

Created Organizational Structures like Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Asset Class etc.

Created Group Asset Master Data AS21 and Asset Master Data AS01.

Configured Asset Master Data for special Valuations viz Insurance, Investment Support (Reserve), Leasing etc.

Running a test transaction cycle from External Asset Acquisition F-90, capitalize asset under construction AIAB, AIBU, Retirement with revenue F-92 without revenue (scrapping) ABAVN

Running test Depreciation Run AFAB with depreciation values posting.

Co-ordinated with Basis and ABAP programmers for transport requests and making customized Fixed Assets reports.

Documented Fixed Assets Module.

Giving User training to the company employees with regards to Fixed Assets Module running.

V. M/s Harrowgate Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India - April 1999 to October 2000

Gave presentations, mapped the organizations business processes into SAP system.

Developed Prototype Payroll software covering all aspects of Employees Payroll and Information system with the help of ABAP/4 Development tools. Also done Data Transfer from the Legacy System into the SAP R/3 system with the help of BDC.

Mapped a real time organization into SAP R/3 system. Studied the whole business process of the organization and done customization. The Total IMG settings and Transaction cycles were done during the mapping of the business processes.

Covered entire Gujarat for marketing our expertise in SAP implementation

Integration with other modules like MM, S&D, CO, TR, etc.

Implementation Projects:

1 Client : Essar Power, Hazira, Surat, Gujarat, India

Duration : February 2000 March 2000

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.5B), Windows NT 4.0, Oracle

Position : SAP TR Consultant

Prepared the As-is after studying their business process of their Finance Department with regards to their Funds and Cash Budget Management.

Mapping their Financial Year 2000-01 Funds budget into SAP R/3 Financial Management Module.

Creation of commitment items in master data through account assignment mode TC (FM31) and GL account assignment.

Creation of Fund centers and hierarchies.

Defining GL accounts for banks and cash transactions.

Processing Manual Bank statements (TC-FF67) and importing cashed checks (TC-FCKR) from the Bank statement.

Documentation and imparting user training.

2 Client : M/s Dinesh Mills, Baroda, Gujarat, India

Duration : November 1999 to January 2000

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.0B), Windows NT 4.0, MS SQL Server

Position : Jr. SAP FI Consultant

Carried out the Scope study of the mill along with SRS System Requirement Study.

Creation of enterprise structure like Company, Cocd, CCA, Business Areas, and their assignment.

Creating and defining Fiscal Year Variant, posting periods etc in the FA Global Settings.

Copy of Chart of Accounts and GL accounts (with reference) from the Standard client.

Creating master data for Vendors, configuring account groups, FSG (TC OBD3).

Creating master data for Customers, configuring account groups, FSG (TC OBD3).

Creation of FSG Field Status Group for Customer and Vendor accounts in AR\AP with inputs from the Management and users of the company.

Configuring Payment Method of outgoing payment TC-FBZP, under payment medium workbench. Making account assignment for automatic postings into GL accounts.

Maintaining Terms of Payment for the Customer and Vendor in AR/AP (TC OBB8).

Defining Dunning Procedures, Dunning level, Dunning Keys, etc. (TC FBMP).

Creation of House Banks, bank accounts, in Bank Accounting.

Documentation with user training on Enterprise structure, AR/AP and Bank Accounting.

3 M/s Symphony, Bakeri Group of Companies, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Duration : August, 1999 to October, 1999

Environment : SAP R/3 (4.5B) Windows NT 4.0b, MS SQL Server

Position : SAP FI Consultant

Made presentations to the Management about SAP R/3 Finance module.

Involved in Scoping, System Study of their two factories located in Ahmedabad and preparing report on it.

Creation of Organizational structures and configuring FA Global settings.

Creating master data in GL and posting entries to the GL accounts, Field Status Variants, FSG (TC-OBC4) AND line item management, open item processing (TC-OB55) objects BUKRS, KUNNR, LIFNR, SAKNR for GL entries and AR/AP entries.

Configured Account Balance Interest Calculation and assigning bank interest GL account.

Created Organization Structures in Asset Accounting, created Asset Class, assigning GL accounts for depreciation, acquisition, retirement, disposal, sale with profit or loss, capitalization of assets in WIP, etc.

Documentation of Finance Module was prepared and conducted user training in this module.

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