Management Accounts Payable

Summary:

Over * years of experience in SAP FICO modules and FSCM modules.

Experience in Full life cycle implementations and upgrades which includes Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Go-Live, Maintenance and Production Support.

Successfully implemented 3 Full life cycle projects – worked through the phases of requirement gathering, scope management, process analysis, GAP analysis, Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Go-live, post live support and training.

Hands on experience in effective use of ASAP implementation methodology.

Strong Experience in FI General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting.

Experience in CO Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Cost Controlling, Internal Order and Profitability Analysis. Expertise in LSMW.

Experienced in testing scenarios such as Integration, Functional, User Acceptance Testing, Performance and End-To-End Testing.

Strong Communication, Analytical and Client Service skills with a High Learning Acumen adopt new Tools and Technologies.

Individual as well team oriented ability to work in a collaborative environment. Worked Onsite and Offshore environment.

Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.

Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor's management, including credit control.

Work on HPQC tool for testing in multiple projects.

SAP Functional Competency Matrix (On a scale of 1 to 5)

FI – GL/AR/AP

5

CO – Cost Element Accounting

5

FI – New GL

4

CO – Cost Centre Accounting & IO

5

FI – Asset Accounting

3

CO – Product Costing

2

FI – MM & SD Integration

5

CO – Profitability Analysis

4

FSCM- Credit, Collection, Dispute Management

4

CO– Profit Centre Accounting

5

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Master’s Degree In Foreign Trade M.F.T from Pondicherry University

Master’s Degree In Commerce M.Com from Andhra University

Master’s Bachelor’s Degree In Commerce B.Com from Andhra University

C.A.(Inter) from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

SAP FICO Certification from SAP Global certification

Technical Skills

Certified Professional - SAP 5.0 FI/CO from SAP, March 2008.

Trained on SEM BCS from IBM internally.

Ms Office- Excel, Word & Power point.

Accounting Packages –Tally, Good Will packages.

Other Achievements:

Received The best of IBM for “Demonstrating Excellence in Service Delivery” by contributing in bringing down the overall open Support Requests.

sap fico skills:

General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, GL Master Records, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Sales/Use Tax, VAT, Account Display, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Document Splitting and Segment Reporting.

New GL: Document Splitting, Parallel Accounting, Parallel ledgers, Segment reporting.

Accounts Payable: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Automatic Payments, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, AP Information System, Integration with MM.

Accounts Receivable: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, Billing, Payment Terms, Interest Calculation, Incoming Payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Account Systems, Credit Management, Dunning, Closing Operations, Sales Order and Integration with SD.

Cash Management and Bank Accounting: inbound/outbound process House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual & Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, electronic funds transfer and Bank statement processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios, Bank reconciliation and Cash journal.

Asset Accounting: Configuring Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Chart of Depreciation, Unplanned Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Posting, Acquisition and Retirement of Assets, Assets under Construction and Capitalization of Assets.

Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the Cost Elements, Costing Sheets, Reconciliation Ledgers, Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Master Data Groups, Validations and Substitutions, Assessments, Distributions and Reposting, Allocation Cycle and Segment.

Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the Basic Settings, Maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, Distribution and Assessment of Costs, Planning and Development of Reports.

Internal Order: Create Internal Order, Order Type, Settlement and Disbursement of Cost through Assessment Cycle, maintain Settlement Rule, calculation of Accruals.

Profitability Analysis: PA assessment, reports, forms, derivation rules, characteristics, value field’s maintenance and PA transfer structure. Experience in COPA planning including sales and cost Planning (SOP and AOP).

Integration of FI/CO, SD (VKOA) and MM (OBYC) functional Modules of a Business Module.

Accomplished SAP Global Tax Consultant with a strong affinity for technology and acute business

Professional Experience

Lenovo June’ 15 – Till today.

SAP WW Tax Consultant Location: Raleigh, NC

Environment: ECC 6,

Lenovo is a US$34 billion personal technology company and the world's largest PC vendor and has been the fastest growing major PC Company and expands globally, establishing even deeper roots in each major market, investing not only in sales and distribution, but also in local domestic manufacturing, R&D and other high-value functions, a "global-local" company

Interacted with client for requirements gathering and analysis. Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for and SD developments, Full lifecycle implementation.

Involved in creation of functional specifications for new WRICEF objects and through completion of Reports and Interface, working closely with the technical team in developing the functional objects and subsequent testing.

Outbound Delivery Document Structure including Delivery Structure, Delivery Types, Delivery Item Categories.

Collaborated with the design team for configuration and testing of FI and SD sub-modules; New-GL, Account Payable-AP, Account Receivable-AR, Asset Accounting and Banking, Sales, Billing, Shipping etc.

Perform extensive Analysis on the collected requirements and compare with the existing functionalities.

Responsible in creating the Various Test Scenarios for Unit Testing, Integration Testing support involvement for testing preparation & test execution.

Respective execution flow for all the test cases planned has been performed

Prepared Test scripts and scenarios for Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integration testing and UAT and Test executed in HPQC 10.0.

Microsoft Oct’ 14 – June 15

SAP FI/CO Lead Consultant Location: Redmond, WA

Environment: ECC 6

Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. The Company’s products include operating systems for computing devices, servers, phones.

Responsibilities: .

Involved in Unit testing regression and integration testing and user accepting testing.

Worked with IPG team to work on SAP Localization requirements for Kazakhstan DMEE file, Russia Legal reporting customization to send Chart of accounts list, New GL account, Trail Balance and Balance to sheet to Russia Government and other custom reports.

Make configuration setup and functional design document for technical development in SAP for multiple custom reports and interfaces.

Account Receivable: involved in customization of additional billing functionality like down payment, billing plans, configuration for the dunning, incoming payments, incoming payments like residuals, partial payments, payment differences like underpayment/overpayment.

Conducting workshops with business representatives for changes in critical business processes.

Contributing towards user acceptance testing with business users for test of business scenario before go live and handle queries from business for business process to be carried out in SAP.

Supporting data migration and cutover tasks for go live.

Providing support after go live for in the stabilization phase of project and -Knowledge transition to production support team.

Panasonic Sep’ 12 – Oct 14

SAP FI/CO Consultant Location: Secaucus, NJ

Environment: ECC 6.0

Panasonic is one of the largest product manufacturers in the world, comprised of 473 companies and

Employing over 260,000 people. They also own one of the world’s largest patent portfolios. While some

May still think of us merely as a consumer electronics company, a global Provider of comprehensive

Solutions for businesses as well as consumers.

Responsibilities:

Making payments to vendor on time through process of Payment Run on daily basis

Cross training with other accounting staff and provide backup/support for other accounting functions (Accounts Receivable and Fixed Assets) as needed.

Prepare month end Accounts Payable accrual and other reporting as needed.

Interact with vendors for necessary documents and payment related queries.

Gathering the information based on the identified Custom Processes & Interfaces based on the Customer Requirement Document relating to FI functionalities.

Unit testing and Integration Testing for Enhancements and Developments using the Test Directory tool.

Involved in the Configuration in relation to Finance sub modules, includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Management and PS module integration with FI.

Involved in the modification of various Custom Reports which are available in the existing client in relation to FI Functionalities.

Involved in the Validation and Substitution in relation to validating and substituting the relevant data in different functionalities.

Preparation of Functional Specification for ABAP program development and modification in the form of business logic.

Involved in the Cut-Over Activities and handled Go-Live Issues.

Custom Program developed to facilitate the Purchase department to view their material group wise payment status.

Developing a Custom report for statutory purposes. This was necessary for reporting “Use tax” to Govt. Authorities on demand.

Blue Harmony (IBM internal) May10 – Sep’ 12

SAP FI/CO Consultant Location: Raleigh, NC

Environment: ECC 6.0

IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 400,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services.

Responsibilities:

New GL, Inter Company processes and Transactions, Foreign Currency Translation, IFRS, Order to Cash processes.

FI/CO configuration lead for SAP implementation using SAP's discrete and repetitive process models

Worked on the NEW GL Configuration, Inter Company, Migration to NEW GL, Billing Interfaces, And Foreign Currency Translation.

Lead Consolidation efforts according to IFRS standards and training end users on the FICO Intercompany Transactions, IDOCS and Consolidation modules.

Involved in Full life cycle implementation of NEW GL, Vertex integration, Foreign Currency Order to Cash processes, SD, IFRS,Parallel and leading ledgers..

Respond to end-user questions on a timely basis in Co-PA, Intercompany Transactions, Revenue Recognition, Product costing and Support the Team Leads on any ongoing knowledge transfer to end-users

FSCM Modules:

Integration of the Account receivable with Financial supply chain management: Responsible for configuration of Credit Management organization structure, credit exposure check, credit scoring and comparison of functionality,

Dispute Management: Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with account receivable.

Collection Management setup for collection strategies, collection work lists, collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Management & account receivable.

Integration with Bank Communication Management for features like Merge Payments, Approve payments, bank Statement Monitor and Reservation for cross -Payment Run Payment Media

Responsible for the Basic setting, Payment grouping, Payment status Management and release Strategy for Bank Communication Management.

Responsible for solving the issue during the Unit and Integration testing

Integration with procure to pay, order-to-cash and other financial process.

Involved In regression and integration testing and using test tools like HP Mercury centre.

Testing using test tools like HP Mercury centre, data migration, go-live, conducting user training, preparation user manual and warranty.

Merck Pharmaceuticals Sep’09 – May’ 10

SAP FICO Consultant Kenilworth, New Jersey

Merck & Co. is an American pharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Merck headquarters is located in Kenilworth, New Jersey. The company was established in 1891 as the United States subsidiary of the German company Merck It is the world's seventh largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalization and revenue.

Responsibilities:

Worked as Lead consultant to solve production support issues in AP/AR and controlling

Involved in the production support issues with interest calculation on open items, regrouping on line items and reason codes.

Worked in resolving tickets with respect to interfaces like Vertex, LPA, Documentation

Coordinated with various departments like engineering, accounts payable, purchasing, asset management etc. to analyse various issues related to taxes calculated from Vertex and helped in documenting the process flow.

Writing functional specifications for standard procurement program

Designing end-to-end business process for Order-to-Cash, Accounts Receivable, Credit Management, and Payment Program

Worked on inventory valuation issues for transfer posting relating to movement type

Develop Functional Specification, Co-ordinate Technical resource for developing the object, Unit Test, Integration testing, facilitate User acceptance test, Production cut over activities and go live support for developing following objects.

DSW to SAP interface to post Non SAP billing document in SAP and send SAP billing document number back to DSW for confirmation.

Intra Company billing by developing custom tables in SAP to calculate taxes.

HUL (Fusion II) June’08 – Sep’ 09

Accounts Payable Analyst Bangaluru, India

Unilever is the Leading FMCG with an annual turnover of approximately $3 Billion. The company deals in the Personal Products and Foods in India. It has its own Manufacturing facilities and outsourced facilities supported by a wide-ranging Marketing network across India.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, end-user training and go-live phases.

Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project, Involved in test phases i.e. unit testing, integration testing. Provided user training in the modules of FI and CO.

Involved in go-live phase and provided post live support, Coordinating and solving issues with QA and production.

interface in the area of Enterprise Structure, and Revenue accounts determination through VKOA, mapping required GL accounts to the account keys.

Testing:

Unit Testing – Complete Unit testing of FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PC.

Integration Testing - Complete business cycles across sub-modules were tested, in conjunction with the users and Core Team representatives General Ledger (FI-GL):

Configuration of FI global settings, Configured company code, Created GL accounts, Defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios..

Configured the settings in GL area, such as creating G/L master data, open item clearing.

Accounts Receivable (FI – AR):

Customer account groups, terms of payment, tolerance limits for customer payments, special GL indicators, dunning, and down payments.

Configured revenue integration with SD and credit management with dynamic check of the credit limit at the time of sales order.

Configuration for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences.

Process Payment advices to clear customer open items through automatic processing of batch input sessions.

Project: Radha Krishna Food Land Pvt Ltd Nov 2006 -Dec 2007

Role: FI/CO Analyst. Mumbai, India

Radha Krishna Foodland Private Limited (RFPL), the pan-India Supply Chain Management Specialist, is the industry leader in the Supply Chain Management of Food, Near Food, Agri-Services and Pharmaceuticals. With over 35 years of rich and varied experience in the Foodservice, Retail, and Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Distribution and Logistics businesses

Responsibilities

Functional Consultant for the installation of Version 5.0d of SAP R/2. Implemented the 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.

Studied and analyzed the existing business processes and Recorded Process Flow,

Gap analysis was carried out between SAP Reference Process and To-be concept and additional functional requirements were documented.

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