SAP FICO

Executive Summary:

**+ years (in total) of strong domain experience and SAP Configuration

Experience of working on SAP R/3 (4.6C, 4.7) and ECC 5.0,6.0, BI 7.3, BPC 7.5 NW and BPC 10.0, 10.1

Ability to work in high-powered, fast-moving, multi-disciplinary working teams and a committed team player with a willingness to travel and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and technologies.

Effective translation of the business needs into technical requirements. Skilled in eliciting user demands and translating them to data, functional, quality and usable requirements.

8+ Years experience in Onsite-Offshore Coordination.

Experience in using Mercury QTP, Mercury Quality Center, Remedy, Documentum, MS Visio, MS Project, and other MS Office tools.

Strong analytical/problem-solving abilities coupled with team facilitation skills.

FICO

Certified in Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP4

Two full life cycle implementation- knowledge and experience includes ASAP Implementation methodology, Gap Analysis, Blueprinting, Development, Testing and training, Cutover and post Go-live Production support.

Supported six + years to various multinational enterprises as a team lead and team member.

Master Data Management as well as experience in RICEFW.

Data conversions, cleansing and migrations from legacy system using LSMW and Mercury tools.

Experience in Designing, Configuring and Customizing the FICO, FSCM modules and Interfacing with other supporting modules like MM and SD.

Experience with SABRIX an add-on tool with SAP for sales tax and use tax.

Experience in Project Planning, Project scoping, Project Charter, WBS, Project milestones and deliverables tracking.

FSCM

Good knowledge of Dispute management, collection management and business partner of SAP Financial Supply Chain Management.

Experience on integration between SAP FI AR and dispute management & Collection Management.

SAP BPC 10.0 NW

Certified in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 NW.

Know System setup: Environment, Models, Dimensions.

Know Security Setup, Business Process Flows, Building of hierarchies

Creating input forms and report templates.

Know currency translation, allocation, validation rules, elimination rules

Know development script logic and business rules, dimension logic.

Know various planning areas like CAPEX/COPEX/HR/REVENUE and planning approaches top down, bottom-up, rolling plains

Know external and internal data load into BPC.

SAP BI 7.3

Key SAP Skills

SAP-Versions 4.6C, 4.6B, 4.7 Enterprise, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0. BPC 10.0 NW, EPM Addin.

Working knowledge on Project planning, Blueprinting, Configuration, Testing, Production Support

SAP Reporting Tools Report Writer, Report Painter, SAP Query

Working knowledge of SAP MM, SD modules.

SAP FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management) and in-house cash.

Functional/ Industry Experience

Manufacturing,

Medical systems/Biotechnology

Financial Services.

Utility Industry.

Hi-Tech/Software

Consumer Life Systle

Education:

Master in Business Administration in IT Management.

Western Governors University (www.wgu.edu)

Chartered Accountancy (CA), 2002

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, India (www.icai.org)

Bachelor in Commerce (B.Com), 1990

Berhampur University, India. (www.bamu.nic.in)

Certification:

SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP4.

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 NW.

Professional Experience

Organization

Location

From

To

Designation

Role

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Teaneck, NJ

April ‘11

Present

Principal Consultant

Consulting, Leading/Coordinating the Project/Design/Development, Definition, Design, Implementation, Upgrade, Project Management, Documentation

Wipro Technologies

East Brunswick, NJ

Aug ’07

April’ 11

Consultant

Consulting, Leading/Coordinating the Project/Design/Development, Definition, Design, Implementation, Upgrade, Project Management, Documentation

Teckforce Inc

San Ramon, CA

Nov ‘06

Aug.‘07

Consultant

Consulting, Leading/Coordinating the Project/Design/Development, Definition, Design, Implementation, Upgrade, Project Management, Documentation

SAP Project Experience

Client 2: Philips Health Care, Murrysville, PA

Duration: Jun ’13 – Till Date

SAP Version: ECC 6.0, BPC 10.1 NW, BI 7.3.

Industry: Health Care, Consumer Lifestyle.

Role: FICO, BPC Lead

Philips Healthcare provides unique clinical expertise with human insights to develop solutions that deliver value throughout the care cycle: from disease prevention to screening and diagnosis, through to treatment, monitoring and health management – wherever care is given: in the hospital or at home.

Responsibilities

Supporting CL (Consumer lifestyle) sector’s planning activities. In Philips AOP ( Annual Operational Plan) and QFC (Rolling forecast plays a important for sales forecast, revenue forecast. To facilitate the planning process, Philips uses various planning tool in addition to BPC. Planning tools interface planning data to BPC 10.0 NW and in BPC business make corrections and input data through various input schedules. Excel based EPM reports plays an important role in planning simulation and correction.

Supporting North America, South America, Europe users ( involve 5 Kernel) of General Ledger Accounting ( SAP FI-GL), Account Payable (SAP FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (SAP FI-AR), Assets Management(SAP FI-AM), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Order ( CO-IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA)

Created baseline year end run book for smooth year end process.

Worked on various complex cross module integrated areas, for example FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-HR.

Worked on various areas in FICO and provided various improvement steps to smoothen business process.

Worked with an onshore & offshore module to resolve client specific reports, queries and enhancement.

Worked in process improvement step with business process owners.

Managed a team of 5 FICO consultants (Including on Shore and off shore consultants).

Worked on 120 company codes and multiple currencies.

Client 2: Deere & Co., Moline, IL

Duration: Apr ’11 – May’12

SAP Version: ECC 6.0

Industry: Manufacturing.

Role: FICO Consultant

In North America, Deere & Co (www.Deere.com) is a leading manufacturer of heavy equipment ranging tractors and engines to construction, forestry and turf care equipment. Behind this success is a culture of continuous improvement and a pride in excellence. It comes from 175 years of experience on manufacturing of various heavy equipment in a diversified environment. Deere & Co found in 1837 by John Deere and there after grew all across the continents. .

Responsibilities

Supported North America South America, Europe users of General Ledger Accounting ( SAP FI-GL), Account Payable (SAP FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (SAP FI-AR), Assets Management(SAP FI-AM), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Order ( CO-IO), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA)

Worked on various complex cross module integrated areas, for example FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-HR.

Worked on various areas in FICO and provided various improvement steps to smoothen business process.

Worked with on shore & off shore module to resolve client specific reports, queries and enhancement.

Worked in process improvement step with business process owners.

Managed a team of 5 FICO consultants (Including on Shore and off shore consultants).

Worked on 120 company codes and multiple currencies.

Client 3: National Grid, NY

Duration: July ’10 – Apr’11

SAP Version: ECC 6.0

Industry: Utility

Role: R2R -Consultant

National Grid (LSE: NG, NYSE:NGG) is an international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. National Grid is committed to serving customers well, delivering energy safely and reliably, and keeping costs low. Important outlines of this project are

Project Budget USD 150 Millions,

141 Company Codes

Implementation of IFRS and US GAAP accounting principles with account solution approach.

Modules, SAP HCM, MM, SD, PM, PS, FERC, BW, BPC.

Other application : Power Plant ( Assets Accounting), Sabrix ( Sales and Use Tax),

Responsibilities

Requirement gathering of Code block, Manage GL, perform GL transaction processing, Perform closing, perform FERC closing, Service Company accounting and overhead allocation, manage sales and use tax, manage income tax.

Provide suitable standard solution to meet business requirement,

Conducting interactive solution sessions

Preparation and review of level 3, 4, 5 business process document.

Writing functional specification.

Liaising with off-shore team to meet deliverable dates...

Client 4: Zurich Financial Services, IL

Duration: Aug ’07 – Jul’10

SAP Version: 4.7 EE

Industry: Financial Services

Role: FICO Consultant

In North America, Zurich (www.zurichna.com) is a leading commercial property-casualty insurance provider serving the global corporate, large corporate, middle market, small business (not offered in Canada), specialties and programs sectors. Behind this success is a culture of continuous improvement and a pride in excellence. It comes from 130 years of experience, taking care of the risk protection and wealth creation needs of individuals, businesses and corporations all over the world. With our global spread and cross-business connections, we can draw on the expertise of a worldwide network of Zurich professionals and business partners.

Responsibilities

Supported North America users of account payable, accounts receivable, Asset management, Cost Center Accounting, COPA, COPCA

Worked in various areas in FICO and provided various improvement steps to smoothen the business process.

Worked with onshore & offshore module to resolve client specific reports, queries and enhancement.

Worked in process improvement step with business process owners.

Managed a team of 5 FICO consultants (Including on Shore and off shore consultants).

Worked on 250 company codes and multiple currencies.

Client 5: CADENCE Design Systems, CA

Duration: May ’07 – Jul ’07

SAP Version: ECC 5.0

Industry: Semiconductor

Role: Senior FICO Functional Consultant

CADECE Design System is a unique design technology software company. It has various offices in 37 countries all over the world and providing employment 8000 professional in various fields all over the world. In the year ended 2006 it generated $ 143 million net profit. It implemented SAP in the year 1993 and subsequently upgraded to SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities

Supported global users of account payable, accounts receivable & asset management.

Implemented Asset management for China & India company codes.

Worked in various areas in FICO i.e. accounts payable, accounts receivable & asset management to streamline business process of various company codes.

Worked with onshore & offshore module to resolve client specific reports, queries and enhancement.

Managed a team of 5 FICO consultants (Including on Shore and off shore consultants).

Worked on multi company codes and multiple currencies.

Involved to train new user and worked as on site coordinator.

Client 6: Intuitive Surgical Inc. CA

Duration: Dec ’06 – Apr ‘07

SAP Version: ECC 5.0

Industry: Surgical Appliances Industry

Role: Senior FICO Functional Consultant

Since its first da Vinci System shipment, Intuitive Surgical has expanded its installed base to more than 300 academic and community hospital sites, while sustaining growth in excess of 25% annually.

This project was phase2 of SAP 5.0 implementation at Intuitive Surgical. In this phase, a new company branch in Switzerland was set up in SAP system.

Responsibilities

Study of present business process of Intuitive Surgical Inc., USA and Intuitive Surgical Switzerland.

Configuration of Special and General Ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable & asset management module of FI. Configuration of controlling area, i.e. cost element accounting, cost center accounting & COPA and its assignment to operating concern of Intuitive Surgical Inc., Sunnyvale.

Configuration of inter-company billing and revenue recognition

Documentation BPP’s (Business Process Procedures), Testing script, Unit Testing & Regression testing on QA server, End user training

Alignment & enhancement of new functionality in Intuitive Surgical Inc., USA

Worked Extensively on configuration of new company code i.e. Intuitive Surgical Switzerland FI & CO module (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Special & General Ledger Accounting & Assets Account) on parallel currency environment

Worked extensively on lease Accounting, Assets Management with integration with Plant Maintenance.

Client 7: Andhra Cement Limited, India

Duration: Jul ’05 – Nov ‘06

SAP Version: ECC 5.0

Industry: Manufacturing

Role: FICO Team Lead

Andhra Cements Limited is engaged in the manufacturing and selling of cement. The Company operates, through a network of dealers for sale of its products. The Company has two operative plants at Dachepalli, Guntur district (Andhra Pradesh) and Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) with installed capacity of 0.80 metric tons per annum and 0.60 metric tons per annum. The products manufactured by the Company include ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and Pretoria Portland cement (PPC). During fiscal 2010, the Company had production of 99093.8 million metric tons of cement. The Company's markets include Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Orissa and Karnataka.

Responsibilities

Requirement gathering in consultation with user.

Represented management and played a FICO Lead load for implementation of FICO module

Configuration of company code with all the relevant setting to make it fully functional with SD, MM and PP modules.

Conducted unit testing and integrated testing at various stages of SAP implementation.

Responsible for evaluation of strategic requirements and configuration settings from creation of company code to go live in FICO Areas.

Responsible for evaluation of strategic requirements and configuration settings from chart of depreciation to valuation of assets in various depreciation areas.

Completed asset accounting with five depreciation areas including Book, Tax depreciation, group and company currency as parallel currencies. It included complex depreciation keys and period controls for each depreciation area, periodic posting to more than one depreciation area, depreciation posting for more than one depreciation area.

Responsible for posting the lease payments, acquisition of leased assets under capital & operating leases, processing the expiration and scrapping leased assets. Carried out year-end closing, cost planning functions and simulating depreciation for future fiscal years.

Responsible user training, user documentation, security role, problem resolution

Client 8: INDORAMA CEMENT LIMITED, India

Duration: Jan’03 – Jul’07

SAP Version: 4.6C, 4.7 EE

Industry: Manufacturing

Role: FICO Functional Consultant with ISPAT Industries Ltd.

JSW Ispat Steel Ltd (JISL) (BSE: 500305), set up as a Nippon Denro Ispat Limited in May 1984 by founding chairman Mr M L Mittal,today.steel makers. It has steadily grown into a INR 9,400-crore company having operations in iron, steel, mining, energy and infrastructure. It has two integrated steel plants, located at Dolvi and Kalmeshwar in the state of Maharashtra. The 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) Dolvi complex houses the 3 million tons per annum hot rolled coils plant, that combines the latest technologies - the Conarc process for steel making and the compact strip process (CSP) - introduced for the first time in Asia. The company is listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India. It is headquartered at Mumbai and employs about 3000 people. Ispat Industries was ranked 5th among major next to Tata steel and JSW steel companies in India for the year 2008 by Business World

Responsibilities

Involved in facilitation of solution design discussions and participate in providing solutions and proto-typing for FI/CO.

Involved in Requirements Collection and Functional Fit/Gap Analysis

Configuring Chart of Depreciation and its Assignment to Company Code.

Configuring Purchases of Assets: Master records; Purchase order and postings, further issues of goods for fixed assets.

Leasing Assets. Defining chart of accounts, account group, Special and general ledger accounts for each company code. Creating Bank Master data, House banks, and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors and assets.

Creation of Vendor Master Records, Customer Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination, default account.

Configured assignments, automatic payment program for outgoing payments, which included payment methods, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, credit risk management.

Involved in testing and completed design, configuration and testing of FI Module.

Interacted and trained users and made them understand the functionality of the FI module.

INDORAMA CEMENT LIMITED, India

Duration: Jan’01 – Jan’03

Role: Senior Accounts Officer

Responsible for:

Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable Management

Daily monitoring of cash and banks balances & fund management

Month and Year end closing activities

Audit Co-ordination

Process Payroll and payroll tax related issues. Coordinate closely with HR department to properly prepare and process payroll checks.

Purchasing / Vendor Relations coordinates with facilities and purchasing mgr.

Establish and maintain a corporate purchasing process

General ledger updating / bank statement reconciliation

Utilize online banking systems and QuickBooks

Assist with selection and implementation of accounting and human resources systems to support continued productivity gains as the company grows

Maintain financial records and vendor files for the company.

MALVIKA STEEL LIMITED, India

Duration: Jan’95 – Dec’00

Role: Senior Accounts Officer

Responsible for:

Day to Day accounts, Processing of various bill relating to projects

Direct Taxation

Account Finalization & Audit Coordination

Monthly Accounts and Various MIS

Work with operational & financial assumptions and model potential outcomes

Use financial reporting tools and general ledgers to track, report and analyze information

Interpret corporate guidelines for specific accounting treatment for project cost and make recommendations for same (and maintain appropriate documentation)

Manage detail at a low level while being able to quickly, consistently and accurately consolidating the information to assist in management decision making

Solid end user computer skills including MS Office products, General Ledgers, Fixed Asset Registers and Financial/Management Reporting Tools

Book closings, GL analysis and heavy journal entries

Computer Proficiency

Software Packages: Remedy, Citrix

Testing Tool: Mercury QTP Test Director, Quality Center.

Office Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS VISIO, Lotus SmartSuite

Mailing S/W: MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Mac mail

Operating Systems: WIN 9X/NT/2000/XP/Vista

Publishing:

Author: SAP ERP Financials and FICO Handbook

Author: SAP ERP FINANCIALS, Quick Reference Guide, SAP ECC 6.0

Contributor- Financial Experts (http://www.financialsexpertonline.com)

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