Project Accounting

Professional Summary

Having work experience of around 16 years, out of which 8 plus years into Accounting domain and 8 years in SAP (FICO) as a functional consultant. The experience as an FICO consultant includes Implementation, Support maintenance and Testing areas. Adequate working knowledge on New GL Accounting, Accounts payable, & Accounts receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling and Project Systems. Hands on experience in the Integration part of FI and MM, FI and SD with complete MM and SD flow to Accounting.

Competencies

SAP Functional

SAP FI

•General Ledger

•Accounts Payable

•Accounts Receivable

•Asset Accounting

•Knowledge on CIN

•Integration with FI-MM

•Integration with FI-SD

SAP CO

•Cost Element Accounting

•Cost Center Accounting

•Internal Orders

•Profit Center Accounting.

•COPA

SAP Project Systems

SAP Environments

•SAP R/3 - 4.7

•SAP ECC 5.0

•SAP ECC 6.0

Accounting Software

•Quick Books (US Accounting)

•Tally 5.4 & 6.3

Testing Tool

•HP Quality Center

MS Office

Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Education

•Bachelor of Commerce from Bangalore University – 1996-97

•PGDBA Finance Management from Symbiosis, Pune – 2003-05

Personal Info

Date of Birth : 15-Aug-1976

Passport : K2775390 (Valid till 2022)

Experience in FICO stream as Functional Consultant

Current Role as FICO Offshore Lead for a Support Project - Retail Client:

•Handling the Tickets in the Remedy tool, Prioritization of tickets and allocating among the team

•Upon the requirement of Change Request, coordinating with the SME and designing Functional Specification docs as per new requirement

•Interaction with the DEV team with respect to CRs and implementing the changes in the SAP system

•Interaction with the other support team whenever they need Finance requirement in helping them for fixing the issues

•Effective interaction with the Internal Support team and liaison with them a faster resolution of tickets

•Having track on the tickets and maintain the SLAs and updating the Senior management on weekly calls

•Weekly calls with the onsite Stake holders on the tickets and updates on the daily progress towards the incidents

•Team meeting and planning approach for the call resolution along with the Manager

•Effective team interaction and extending my support to the other streams for any assistance whenever it is required

•Providing the KT to the team and business users

•Third Party liasioning like interaction with the Customers (onsite users’), with Banks for getting the appropriate files for uploads of Bank files, Concur (Employee Expense files), etc.

Previous Role as a Sr. Functional Consultant for Implementation Project :

•Involved in reviewing the Business Blue print docs for the SAAVIS Integration.

•Preparation Functional Design docs as per the business process & getting sign off from business

•Interaction with the Technical team and the business users during the initial phase

•Involved in the Configuration part for FI & CO during the SAVVIS integration

•FI-MM integration setting up and checking for the data flows to and fro

•Performing the Unit Testing for the configuration set up made and updating the results

•Preparation of Unit Test cases & executing the same during the Realization phase

•Interaction with the higher management during the Rollout phase and review meetings

•Interaction with the team & Business manager and timely update on the tasks

•Onsite and Offshore co-ordination and building up the relation to execute smooth workflow

•Providing a Knowledge Transfer sessions for the End Users at Offshore

•Providing the Test cases for the Users to avail it as their future references

Role as Consultant for Thomson Rollout Activity:

•Career for SAP started with Thomson Reuters - was part of Offshore team involved in some of the configuration activity

•Was also part of performing the Functional testing, System Integration and Regression testing

•Worked mainly on the GL, AP, AR and Project systems modules during each Rollout phases

•IBM were channel partners for Thomson SAP implementation and we were coordinating with IBM for initial two rollouts

•Assisting the IBM team during the configuration phase and involved in the unit testing for the configuration activities that were performed during the Rollout phase

Previous Role as Consultant and Lead on Testing Projects :

•Worked as a Team Lead and was leading a 6 member team for a Retail US client Ann Taylor

•Requirement Analysis, reviewing the Business Blue print docs for the project.

•Involved in preparation of Test Cases on FI module – mainly on General Ledger, Asset accounting and Accounts payable areas

•Involved in preparation of Test cases on Co module – only on some of the master data areas

•Review all Test cases created by team members

•Update the Test cases in Quality Center under Test Lab & Execute the process in Test plan

•Updating the Test results in Quality Center and raising the Test defects

•Manual execution of Test cases in SAP ECC 6.0 version

•Updating the status tracker for the test cases executed

•Defect triage calls during the testing phases and interaction with the respective Onshore team for Issue solving and retesting

•Regular interaction with the Onsite lead for the progress and updates during Testing phases

•Maintaining the Execution planner, Execution tracker and sending timely updated Reports to Onsite and Offshore Managers

•Close interaction with the Offshore manager during Execution phases

•Timely Execution of test cases as per the Execution planner and updating the Tested Results

•Trained the team in using the Quality Center (testing application) for updating the test results and defect tracking in the application

SAP Sub Modules Professional Experiences

Experience in General Ledger:-

•Involved in activation of New General Ledger Accounting

•Defining the Ledgers for New GL accounting viz 0L (leading ledger), & Non Leading ledgers for local GAAP & IFRS accounting and assigning the Ledgers to comp codes.

•Assignment of Scenarios on preparation for consolidations (TP, CT type), Profit center update (PC, Partner PC), Cost of Sales accounting (Functional Area).

•Classifying the GL accounts for Document splitting activities.

•Classifying the Document types for document splitting.

•Defining the Zero Balancing clearing account and document splitting characteristics for GL Accounting.

•Define the Document splitting Method (specific to comp) and splitting rules for all material, assets, expenses, revenue transactions.

•Activate the cross co code, cross profit center and cross functional area transaction for Real time integration postings.

•Setting up the Inter-Company codes for all I/C transactions (OBYA settings) by defining the company codes and I/C Customers and Vendors.

•Intercompany Document Reconciling between two company codes with AR and AP docs and checking for the IDoc Postings

•Testing on month-end activities viz., Foreign Currency valuation, Open & Close period control and Roll-forward / Carry-forward activities.

Experience in Accounts Payable:-

•Creation of Vendor Group & Vendor Master data and classifying as Regular Vendor, Employee Vendor, Intercompany Vendor, etc.

•Creation of House Banks – Bank key, Bank Id, Bank name, Check Lot numbers, etc.

•Configuring for automatic payment run (FBZP):- specifying the Paying/ Receiving Co Codes, applying various payment methods, Bank determination, setting up the ranking orders.

•Performing the smoke testing on running the Automatic payment program (F110) and validating the payment schedules.

•Configuring the With Holding tax for various countries and defining the Tax Calculation procedures.

•Setting up the tax rates for WHT on payment of Contractors, Professionals, Rent, Salaries, etc.

•Setting up the tax codes official keys viz Section 192 (salaries) 194C (contractors), 194J (professionals), etc. & defining the tax type viz A1, C1, J1, etc and Tax codes as TA (output tax 12%) TB (output tax 0%) TV (input tax 4%) etc.

Experience in Asset Accounting:-

•Defining the Chart of Depreciation & assigning it to the Company code.

•Specifying the Account Determination, Screen layout & number range intervals for Assets class.

•Creating the Asset Class & determine the depreciation areas in Asset class.

•Defining the GL accounts for Asset transactions.

•Assignments of GL accounts for Automatic postings for asset (AO90).

•Display of Assets / sub assets values through Asset Explorer (AW01N)

Experience in FI – SD Integration plus OTC activities:-

•Worked on configuring the FI-SD Integration by defining the transaction process keys settings.

•Defining the GL accounts under OBYC for the auto-posting from MM-SD

•SD flow on Inquiry > Quotation > Purchase Order (ME21N) > Sales Order (VA01) > Delivery (VL01N) > Shipping (VT01) and Billing (VF01) and generating the Accounting Document

•Checking for the Intercompany transactions for AR and AP postings and Reconciling the accounts

•Defining the Credit limit (FD32) / Credit management in SAP for checking the Parent – child nodes at the time of invoicing

Experience in FI-MM Integration:-

•Worked on configuring the FI-MM integration by defining the transaction process keys settings.

•Defining the material movement types – posting keys.

•Defining the GL accounts under OBYC for the auto-posting from MM-FI for BSX, WRX, GBB, etc.

•MM flow on Purchase Requisition (ME51N) > Purchase Order (ME21N) > Release Purchase Order > Goods Receipt (MIGO) > Invoice Receipt (MIRO) and Accounting Doc generation

•Intercompany Docs matching between Payable Accounting to Receivable Accounting Docs

•Checking the Interface for the flow of docs from Retail to AFS systems in Burberry project

Experience in Controlling:-

•Defining the Controlling area, Cost centers & Cost center group.

•Defining the Operating concern by copying from standard & assigning it to Controlling area.

•Defining the Segments and setting up the structures through `Characteristics’ & `Value fields’.

•Defining the Profit Centers and Profit Center group.

•Creating the Cost element by manual creation through FI using FS00 (Primary) & automatic creation (Secondary) by creating a batch input session.

•Defining the Cost Element category and Cost element group

Experience in Project Systems:-

•Creation of Project Definition, WBS element and Activity (based on the Internal, External, Cost or services based Project) in CJ20N

•Cost Planning for WBS element in CJ40 and Budget Allocation in CJ32 and Release of Budget

•Execution of Project – Change Project status and Project Release

•Execution of Project also through – Creation of PR > PO > Good Receipt (MIGO) > Goods Issue (MB1A) > Service Entry Sheet

•Updating the Project Progress and Reporting Activities (S_ALR_87013432 for Planned/ Actual / Variance repot

Company Summary details

Current Employer : Capgemini (India)

Designation : Lead Consultant FICO – P5

Duration : Sept 2013 – Till Date

Client : Burberry

Project : Burberry Atlas – Support Project

Previous Employer : Century Link Technology India Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Senior Consultant FICO

Duration : July 2012 – Sept 2013

Project : CTL – SAAVIS Integration

Previous Employer : Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : ERP Consultant

Duration : Feb’ 2010 – July 2012

Clients worked : DFS, Singapore (Retail Industry), Ann Taylor, USA (Retail Industry)

Elcoteq, Finland (Electronic Manufacturing / Service Provider)

T-Systems, Germany (Telecom Industry)

Previous Employer : Optimal Solutions Integration (Software) Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Sr. FICO Consultant

Duration : Nov’ 2009 – Feb’ 2010

Client : Accenture India

Previous Employer : Dell International Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Sr. Software Test Engineer

Duration : Oct’ 2008 – Aug’ 2009

Project : Order to Cash

Previous Employer : Thomson Corporation International Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Associate Consultant

Duration : Jan’ 2007 – Oct’ 2008

Project : Finance Plus

Experience in Accounting stream as Accounts Officer/ Executive

Previous Employer : Ionidea Interacitve Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Accounts Officer

Duration : July’ 2004 – Jan’ 2007 (Permanent)

Duration : Feb’ 2003 – July’ 2004 (Contract)

Previous Employer : Xcelon Information Systems.

Designation : Accounts Executive

Duration : Apr’ 1999 – Dec’ 2002

Previous Employer : Banjara Developers & Constructions Pvt. Ltd.

Designation : Accounts-In-Charge

Duration : May’ 1997 – Mar’ 1999

Role:

•Preparation of Payroll on monthly activity through Payroll package Folklore, also involves handling of Income tax & Profession tax.

•eTDS on salaries for all the three companies, and filing of Form 24Q every quarter. Preparation of Form 16 for employees & Form 16A for Contractors/ Professionals.

•Filing of Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Reports to Software Technology Parks of India for the foreign remittances received from US. Getting the approval from the STPI and submission of the reports to the Company’s Corporate Banking.

•Preparation of Salary Budget, Expenses Budget on monthly basis. Handling the day-to-day accounting activities like Bank transaction entries, vendor payments, etc.

•Interaction with the Auditors during the Internal Audit and the Statutory Audit. Making the Provisions for the expenses pertaining to the previous financial year. Depreciation of Fixed Assets in excel/ accounting software. Interaction with the Auditors during Final Accounts preparation.

•Monthly and Annual PF returns filing, apart from submission of the withdrawal of PF (form 19 & 10C) and transfer of PF (form 13) from former employees.

•Preparation of Managerial Information System

•Preparation of Vouchers & posting the same into Quick Books and Tally software

•Handled Cash & Bank routine activities

HEMANTH V.

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