Sap Accounting

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Atlanta, GA

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March 15, 2016

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Sowmya Mathur Lakshmi

SAP Finance Consultant

Ph: 864-***-****, 864-***-**** Email: actx8l@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

SAP FI/CO Certified ECC 6.0 Functional Consultant with 7+ years of strong Functional experience in Transportation, Financial and Manufacturing Industry

Involved in Two ( 2 ) Full Life Cycle implementations using ASAP methodology with experience in Project Preparation, Blue print, Realization, Testing, Cut-Over & GO-LIVE

Hands on Experience in Gathering requirements from business, Fit-Gap analysis, Configuration & Customization, Integration, Migration, Testing & Production Support in FI/CO

Possess good Experience in Key Logistics Processes: Procure To Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Report

Experience in creation of Functional Specification Documentations

Extensive Configuration Experience in – SAP FI - G/L, New G/L, AP / AR, Asset Accounting, In CO - CEL, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders & Profit Center Accounting, In MM - Purchasing, Inventory Management, Logistics Invoice Verification

Extensive experience in FI / CO Integration with MM, SD & HR

Expert in Electronic Bank Statement Configuration, DME Engine Configuration, APP, Lockbox Configuration in AP & AR

Expert in Asset Accounting, US Tax Configuration in SAP.

Expert in Global Multiple Foreign Currency Revaluation, Type 10 (Transactional to Local Currency) Type 30 (Local to Group Currency), Reval. with one Valuation area ( Incremental & Cumulative Postings )

Extensive Experience in IDOC's - EDI, Inbound / Outbound Processing, Interface Setup with SAP & Third Party Tools, SM59 RFC Connections, Partner Profiles, Ports & User Exits in FICO

SAP Workflow: FI - AP - Workflow Approval Process for AP Invoices, Workflow Approval Process for Cost Center Manager Approval for Asset Procurement via Purchase Order

HP - QC & ECATT Testing: Deep Testing Experience with HP – Quality Center, Creation of Test Cases, Test Scripts, Defects Creation, Closing Defects. performing AUTOMATED TESTING using ECATT for both Unit Testing & Integration Testing in FI & CO Modules

Report Painter Experience: Developed Custom Reports Using Report Painter tool for Actual VS Cost Variance Report, Inventory Analysis Report for P&L Expenses, Cost Accumulation Report for Internal Order for Settlement of AUCs

SAP Data Migration: Extensive experience in Migration of Master & Transaction Data Conversion in FI/CO Using LSMW & ECATT Tools

SAP - Production Support upon GO-LIVE: Extensive experience in Debugging, Troubleshooting & resolving Customization Errors upon Go-Live for FI/CO & MM

SAP Tables and Transport System: Extensive knowledge and experience of SAP Tables, Data Dictionary, Message Classes for Message Control & Programs ( SE38 ), SAP Query & SAP Transport Requests, ( CTS )

SAP Data Archiving: Possess experience in Data Archiving in FI-GL, AR, AP, AA, CO-CEL,CCA, I/O & PCA

Possess excellent verbal & written communication and management skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP Functional: FI - GL, New G/L, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, CO - CCL, CCA, I/O & PCA, FI- SD - MM – HR Integration

SAP Technical: SAP Tables, SM59 RFC Connections, External Tax Interfaces, SAP Workflow, IDOC & EDI - Inbound / Outbound Processing & Third Party Tools, SAP Query

Application Software & Testing Tools: MS Office & HP- Quality Center, QTP & E-CATT, Solution Manager, BMC Remedy, Test Data Migration Server & Test Acceleration & Optimization Tool ( TAO )

EDUCATION:

Masters of Business Administration ( MBA ) Specialization: Finance & Marketing, from Bharathiar University, India: 2005 - 2007

Bachelors in Commerce Degree (B’Comm) Specialization: Finance, Accounting and Business Administration from Calicut University, India: 2002-2005

SAP FI/CO Certification - Financials Consultant Certification - ECC 6.0 ( New G/ L ) – 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Coca Cola, Atlanta, Georgia May 2015 - Feb 2016

The Coca-Cola Company is an American historical multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, which is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.[2] The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia.

As a Consultant, I was involved in business requirement analysis, documentation, implementing FI configuration, support and maintenance.

Role: SAP Finance Consultant

Job Role & Responsibilities:

Interacted with Client for requirements gathering and analysis

Configured Account Payables Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendors credit memo and Check clearing sub-processes, Advance paid or down payment made to vendors

Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables including the payment program configuration, check payment advice, payment analysis printing, clearing of vendor and customer open items, bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, Lockbox processing, Periodic processing and correspondence

Configured settings for Account Assignment models and Recurring entries

Streamlined client’s terms of payment and payment block reasons.

Configuration of Automatic payment program, steps include; set up of payment company codes, payment methods, bank determination and payment forms for payment transactions per company code. Defined number ranges for checks as well as void reasons. Defined accounts for exchange rate differences and for bank charges.

Interacted with the accounting department to identify the scenarios for assessments and distributions,Configured the assessment and distribution cycle as per requirements

Involved in Configuration of business requirements gathered, Identifying GAPs and providing solution using User Exits.

In Asset Accounting, Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation

Configured screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements

Provided SAP FI/CO tuning and troubleshooting including the identification and resolution of performance related issues

Provided End User Support to SAP User Community

Suggested and implemented process improvement in quality of deliverables, existing FI workflows, new functional process to replace existing process especially identifying recurring defects and its resolution to never occur again

Client: Panalpina, Morristown, New Jersey May 2014 - April 2015

Panalpina is a Swiss company, provider of forwarding and logistics services. As part of the ongoing modernization of its IT environment, Panalpina took a huge leap forward and replaced its freight forwarding applications for its ocean and air freight businesses.

As a Consultant, I was involved in business requirement analysis, documentation, implementing FI configuration, security, and testing.

Role: SAP Lead Finance Consultant

Job Role & Responsibilities:

Involved in all phases of Project implementation – Business blueprint, Realization, Integration Test Runs, Go-live & Post go-live support, for their company, Implementing ECC 6.0.

Participated in AS-IS study, TO-BE documentation, Business Blueprint, Configuration and customizing settings, as per the business needs.

Defined chart of accounts, performed basic configuration of system in areas of global settings, organizational structure, company code definition, and taxes with jurisdiction code levels, validation and substitution, account groups, field status groups, line layouts, documents, open items clearing.

Configured settings for Account Assignment models and Recurring entries

Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) in FI - MM (Procure to Pay) integration and configured for automatic posting to G/L for Invoice Verification and account determination for FI - SD (Order to Cash) cycles

Worked on creating customer master records, customer account groups, EDI vendor invoice, outgoing payment, outgoing invoice, incoming payments, document types, document number range, aging, customer statement form, workflow for vendor invoice and payment, integration testing of workflow

Streamlined client’s terms of payment and payment block reasons.

Integrated AP and AR modules with MM and SD respectively with respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings

Maintained settings for Controlling Area and maintained Versions.

Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes.

Configured various aspect of Controlling includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Internal Orders (IO) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).

Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Cost Center Groups, document numbers.

Interacted with the accounting department to identify the scenarios for assessments and distributions,Configured the assessment and distribution cycle as per requirements

Defined Internal Order types to create orders, assigned each order types to a number range and configured Settlement Profiles.

Maintained Profit center structure, Standard Hierarchy, Profit center Master Data, Profit Centre Groups, assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit Center Accounting.

Involved in Configuration of business requirements gathered, Identifying GAPs and providing solution using User Exits.

Provided functional specifications for ABAPer’s on various RICEF’s, tested them and got sign-offs from SME’s.

Prioritized tickets according to the priority & complexity of the issue and provided resolution within the stipulated time.

Integration and Testing: Involved in FI-CO Integration, FI-MM Integration, and FI-SD Integration. Created test scripts, tested new releases, provided user support, trained users, and analyzed bugs to facilitate remediation.

Worked with Basis/Security teams in User Creation, SAP Authorizations, User Role Creations for meeting the audit requirements using SAP GRC as first level approver .

Worked on Reports, Interfaces, Bank Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms (RICEF).

Worked on data archiving of I/O using SARA

Client: Arvato Systems Technologies, Duncan, SC June 2012 – Feb 2014

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Arvato Systems provides Supply Chain and Logistics Services in combination with a comprehensive After Sales and E-Commerce expertise, round up by Channel Marketing solutions. For Clients Company leverage a worldwide warehouse & depot network, a globally integrated SAP-based warehouse and transportation management platform to deliver proven and cost-efficient service solutions.

As a Consultant, I was involved in business requirement analysis, documentation, implementing FI configuration, integration, testing and designing legacy system migration process.

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant: ( Full Life – Cycle Implementation )

Job Role & Responsibilities:

Interacted with Client for requirements gathering and analysis

Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FI/CO developments

Responsible for creation of Functional Specification documents

Configuration for the creation of Account Receivables invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences, clearing and reversals, interest calculation

Designed new custom reports per user requirement. Developed Configuration of SAP-FI Module for the identified processes.

Developed AR custom report for month end closing to capture the every detail of Closed and Open Customer Invoices

Configured screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements

Involved in integration of Fixed Asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements

Configured FI – MM Integration in OBYC Transaction, assigned Accounts to individual Transaction Keys for Automatic Postings to FI from MM

Configured Tax on sales and Purchases in FI-AR and AP(Input and output Tax)

Involved in Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD

Responsible for data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW

Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Pre-Cutover & Cut-Over Activities:

Performed Extensive Unit Testing & Integration Testing for all above Listed Key Business Processes in SAP Finance, SD(OTC) and MM(P2P)

Identified the defects and re-configured the system according and resolved the defects, hence successfully completed Unit & Integration Testing

Involved in AUTOMATED TESTING using ECATT for both Unit Testing & Integration Testing in FI & CO Modules, SD and MM. Also have used HP quality centre

Re – executed the High Priority Test Scripts to ensure that most critical business processes were successfully tested

Worked with Project management, ABAP & Basis Team to schedule a background job for file Processing and tested it successfully and code moved to PROD System

Finalized the list of all Transports and worked with Basis team to ensure that all transports were successfully moved to PROD System.

Performed Conversion from Legacy system to SAP System for SAP FI – AP & AR Master Data, Fixed Assets Using LSMW

Responsible for Creation of End - User Training Documentation and provided End - User Training for individual functions within FI/CO Module

Involved in Pre-Cutover activities such as verifying FI configuration setups, master data load, test cases, integration with MM, defect fixing and gathered signoff for functional specifications.

Provided Extensive Production Support Upon Go-Live for SAP FI – New G/L, AP, AR & Internal Orders, Fixed Assets

Client: ThyssenKrupp India Limited, India December 2010 - May 2012

SAP Finance Analyst

ThyssenKrupp Industries India Limited is a group company of ThyssenKrupp Foder technique, Germany with an annual turnover of 100 Million Dollar involved in executing projects on Turnkey basis for major clients like Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla, ACC cement, GMR Industries etc.

As a Consultant, I was involved in business requirement analysis, documentation, integration, testing, support and maintenance.

Role: SAP Finance Analyst

Job Role & Responsibilities:

Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO

Configured down payment functionally and payment medium workbench and also worked extensively on bank specific payment files to automate check and electronic payments to meet client's specific requirements

Created various new (fixed asset) asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production

Performed unit testing and regression testing for different accounts payable and accounts receivable functionalities

Involved in month end and year end closure activities such as open and close period, GR/IR clearing, foreign currency revaluation, balance sheet adjustment and carry forward, asset fiscal year open and close, depreciation posting, post accruals and deferrals and bank reconciliation.

Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions

Provided SAP FI/CO tuning and troubleshooting including the identification and resolution of performance related issues

Provided End User Support to SAP User Community

Liaised between departmental end-users and programming staff in the analysis, design, functional configuration, testing, and maintenance to ensure optimal system integration and performance.

Documented resolution of defects identified and resolved as part of Knowledge management.

Client: Wimco Limited, India May 2009 – April 2010

Role: SAP Financial Analyst

Wimco Limited is a group company of ITC Limited with a turnover of around 50 million dollar. Its core business of is manufacturing of Safety Matches and diversified into Manufacturing of Engineering Machines.

As a Consultant, I involved in business process flow study and prepared Business Process Re-engineering document which helped in streamlining the existing business process to suit SAP business process model.

Role: SAP Financial Analyst: (Full Life – Cycle Implementation)

Job Role & Responsibilities:

Analyzed and reviewed existing business processes, system requirements and interacted with business to gather new business requirements

Reviewed existing business blueprint and worked with business user groups to document AS – IS Processes, analyzed new business requirements and designed TO – BE Solution

Performed Business Processes Re-Engineering, updated Custom Design Documents and adapted new business requirements as identified in Change Requests ( CR ) and streamlined the Financial Business Processes flow as per business needs

Responsible for preparation of Functional Specification Documentation in SAP Finance

Performed Configuration of FI – Organizational Settings, Fiscal Year Variants, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Document Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Custom Document Types and Settings for FCV such as Valuation Method and Valuation Area ( type 10, 30 ) and Account Determination for FCV postings

Configured Validation & Substitutions rules, Terms of Payments, Cash Discounts, Interest Calculation, Automatic Payment Program, Open Item Clearing, Account Determination in AR & AP, Configured Electronic Bank Reconciliation and Manual Bank Reconciliation.

In Asset Accounting, Configured Chart of Depreciation, Screen layout rules, Asset Classes, Integration with G/L – Account Determination for automatic postings from Asset Accounting, Activation of Account Assignment Objects with Asset Accounting, Configured Valuation Methods and Depreciation Keys, Configured Transaction Types, Acquisitions, Retirement, Transfer & Tax Depreciation Reporting & Settings for Periodic Background job Scheduling for Depreciation Postings in SM37

Integrated AP and AR with Materials Management & Sales and Distribution respectively. Configured OBYC – Account Determination – Automatic Postings to FI based on Movement Types in MM

Unit Testing, Integration Testing & Cut-Over Activities:

Performed Extensive Unit Testing & Integration Testing for all above Listed Key Business Processes in SAP Finance

Identified the defects and re-configured the system according and resolved the defects, hence successfully completed Unit & Integration Testing

Re – executed the High Priority Test Scripts to ensure that most critical business processes were successfully tested

Worked with ABAP & Basis Team to schedule a background job for file Processing and tested it successfully and code moved to PROD System

Finalized the list of all Transports and worked with Basis team to ensure that all transports were successfully moved to PROD System.

Performed Conversion from Legacy system to SAP System for SAP FI – AP & AR Master Data Using LSMW

Responsible for Creation of End - User Training Documentation and provided End - User Training for individual functions within FI/CO Module

Provided Extensive Production Support Upon Go-Live for SAP FI – New G/L, AP, AR & Internal Orders

Client: Lloyds Steels India Ltd, Mumbai, India October 2007 – April 2009

Role: SAP Finance Analyst

Lloyds groups started with the modest beginning with fabrication unit in the year 1974 and thereafter expanded rapidly and diversified into Steel and heavy engineering fabrication. Their two main divisions are steel and engineering divisions

Role: SAP Financial Analyst

Job Role & Responsibilities:

Involved in the study of the existing business process of the legacy system & Assisted Senior Consultants in preparation of Business Blueprint Document

Interacted with Client and documented changed business requirements, involved in Business Process re-engineering and created design specification documents

Participated in team meetings to arrive at TO – BE design, acceptable to the team, user groups and management, concluded Business Blueprint documentation

Configured the organizational structure from accounting view - Company Code, Chart of Accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business Specifications

Configured Customer Master Data & Vendor Master Data, Automatic Payment Program for Bank Transfer & Check, Terms of Payment, Minority Indicators for Vendor Reporting, Industries, Account Determination for Bank Charges, Clearing Differences, Exchange Rates, Down payment made / received, Automatic Clearing as part of P2P cycle

Configuration in FI - AA: COD, Depreciation Areas, Asset Classes, Leased Asset – Asset classes, Account Determination, G/L Accounts for Integration with General Ledger, Configured Valuation Methods: Base Method, Declining Balance Method, Multi - Level Method, Period Control Method & Depreciation Key, Determination of Dep. Areas in Asset Classes

Configured Transaction Types for Acquisitions, Retirements and Transfers. Gross, Net Method for Intercompany Asset Transfer, Master Data Screen layout Configuration for Time Dependant Data compulsion, Changed standard Transaction Types for Capitalization of AUC and post capitalization, also configured the Settlement rule with Valid Receivers for Settlement of AUC

Unit, Integration, Regression & UAT Testing: Performed all 4 testing processes for above listed Key business processes, and while testing, Trouble shooted various customizing changes, to attain successful Testing

Carried out End - User Training and prepared Training Manuals and Documentations in SAP FI – New G/L, & AA

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