SAP FICO

Srikanth Reddy.K Mobile: +1-469-***-**** SAP FI/CO Consultant Email: **************@*****.***

Experience Summary:

SAP FI Professional Certified Consultant with Total 9 years of experience and SAP Functional Consultant with 8+ years of experience in SAP FI/CO in-depth knowledge and skills in Full Life Cycle Implementations (2), Rollouts (1), and Production Support (3) on SAP projects for Technology companies, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Service sector companies and 1 years worked as an Accounts Executive in a mining industry.

Strong customer facing experience in US and Europe and Asia and Middle East.

Experience in business case preparation, planning and scope assessment, various phases of implementation projects including business requirement gathering (BBP – Workshops), requests for proposal, business process analysis, gap analysis, blueprinting, configuration, interface designs and providing direction to the development/ and other project team members, unit and integration testing and end-user training, go-live and AMS production support.

Hands on experience with testing & ticketing tools like Servicenow, Remedy and Magic Service Desk.

Expert in develop and execute test plans, validate the test results, and manage UAT for the successful implementation of projects, major and minor enhancements.

Expert knowledge in Customizing and defining the master objects such as Materials, Vendors, customers and Assets.

Excellent Technical exposure in identifying the bugs in BADI, BAPI, and LSMW data uploads, ABAP queries, EDI/ IDOC’s. ABAP dictionaries, user exits and enhancement, functional modules, debugging, batch jobs, report program and SAP Scripts & Smart Forms.

Well versed with transfer of legacy systems data, set up test data for End user training and testing, User training and user training manual and training documentation, hyper care & post implementation support.

Worked in Cross-functional Integration of FI & MM, FI & SD, LSMW and Query generations based on user community needs and job scheduling.

Extensive hands-on experience & in-depth knowledge of configuration skills in implementation of FI sub modules like General Ledger (FI-GL), New General Ledger (FI-New GL) Foreign Currency Revaluation, Accounts Payable (FI-AP), House Banks, APP (FBZP), ACH and NACHA file format creation using Payment Medium Workbench (PMW), Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Data Medium Exchange (DMEE), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Dunning, Asset Accounting (FI-AA), AUC Down Payment, AUC Settlement, Withholding Taxes and Cash Journals, Cash Management.

Extensive hands-on experience & in-depth knowledge of configuration skills in implementation of CO sub module processes like Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders (IO) and Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability analysis (COPA).

Good conceptual knowledge – FSCM Areas – Treasury, Cash Management, Dispute Management, Collection Management, Credit Management.

Excellent communication and inter personnel skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.

Good Knowledge in SAP Financials functionality for US GAAP & IFRS.

Academic Qualifications:

Master of Business Administration (MBA) with specialization in Finance & IT from Acharya Nagarjuna University in the year 2007.

Bachelor of Commerce (B.COM) from Acharya Nagarjuna University in the year 2005.

SAP FI Certified Professional from SAP AG.

SAP Work Experience:

Client

Saint-Gobain Innovative Materials

Duration

Apr 2014 – Mar 2016

Location

Worcester, MA

Role/Position

Senior FICO Consultant

Project Description

Production Support, Continuous Improvement & Change Management (AMS)

Technical Environment

ECC 6.0

Client Profile: The Saint-Gobain Innovative Materials (IM) Global Development Centre (GDC) is-in charge to provide an information system that allows the daily task management in different businesses such as Finance/Controlling, Purchasing, Production, Logistics and Sales (SAP R/3, Flexnet, Reflex, Gentran, Hermes) as well as Operational and Decisional Tools for reporting in (SAP R/3, Flexnet & Reflex ). We are supporting the below mentioned Business Units in Saint-Gobain Innovative Materials (Glass / Sekurit / Glass Solutions / Abrasives /Ceramics, Adfors& PPL.)

Responsibilities:

Part of offshore team handling FI related issues independently.

Resolution of trouble shooting issues in SAP pertaining to FI Module & Integration Issues related to MM &SD.

Changes in Configurations /New configurations related to FI Module in respect of New Developments in SAP as per the requirements of the client. GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting and Bank accounting.

Proactively discuss critical issues with other functional consultants for timely resolution

Requirements gathering from system controllers & super Users in the nature of Incidents/Change request etc.

Worked on enhancements and testing owing to changing business requirements

Handling all priority issues and resolving timely. Providing quality support and prompt solutions

Participation in Knowledge Sharing Sessions

Handling issues related to GR55 reports.

Working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, user-exits, and reporting tools.

Handling issues related to Yearend and Month end.

Creation of New DMEE structures for XML and ACH, NACHA file formats creation for various payment methods and involved in DMEE files testing and User manual preparation.

Client

ModusLink AMS

Duration

Dec 2012 – Apr 2014

Location

Waltham, MA

Role/Position

Consultant

Project Description

Production Support, Continuous Improvement & Change Management (AMS)

Technical Environment

mySAP ERP Central Component 5.0

Responsibilities:

Providing the support on SAP FICO issues raised by end users.

Resolved User issues on timely basis.

Understanding the clients business requirements and participate in KT Sessions, Providing the support for issues raised by end users.

Creating Validations and substitutions as per the client requirement.

Supporting users in period end & yearend closing activities.

Creating Customized Reports as per the Business Requirement.

Preparing Functional Specification for Newly Customized Requirements.

Configuration of New House Banks as per Client Requirement.

Configured Payment terms & terms of Payment for Installment Payment as per the Client Requirement.

Configured Non Leading Ledger and FC Revaluation for Non Leading Ledger as per Client Requirement.

Prepared KEDB Documents for Repeated issues in FICO.

Expertise in GSM (Gap Solution Memo) and CCB (Change Control Board) Preparation.

Prepared user Manuals as per the Business Requirement.

Involved in Credit Card processing for Customer Incoming payment.

Client

ModusLink AMS

Duration

Apr 2012 – Nov 2012

Location

Waltham, MA

Role/Position

Consultant

Project Description

Rollout

Technical Environment

mySAP ERP Central Component 5.0

Responsibilities:

Participated in kick off Meeting, AS IS Study - TO BE Business Process Document Preparation.

Gathering Client Business Requirements and Providing Standard as well Customized developed processes Solutions in SAP.

Prepared GAP Solution Memo Document to identify the Gaps and provided solutions to the Gap's.

Involved in Configuration for automatic payment program for IDoc payment processing, i.e. Paying Company Codes, Payment method in country, Payment methods in company code.

Involved Configuration for IDoc Payment processing i.e. Define EDI-Compatible Payment Methods for House Bank, Assign EDI Payment Method to External Payment Method.

Involved in bank master data management i.e. Define House Banks, Assign EDI Partner Number in House Bank

Configured / review theIDoc Processing: i.e. ClientLogical System, Assignment of logical System to Client, Creation of RFC Destinations, Checking the RFC Destinations, Creation of T RFC Port, and Creation of Partner Profiles, Creation of Distribution Model.

Developed Approval Mechanism for F110 Program - To control the Payment process.

Prepared Documentation for Configuration As well User Manuals.

Client

Pacific Biosciences

Duration

July 2011 – Mar 2012

Location

Menlo Park, CA

Role/Position

Consultant

Project Description

Implementation

Technical Environment

mySAP ERP Central Component 5.0

Client Profile: Pacific Biosciences is a biotechnology company founded in 2004 that develops and manufactures systems for gene sequencing and some novel real time biological observation.[2] They describe their platform as single molecule real time sequencing (SMRT), based on the properties of zero-mode waveguides.

Responsibilities:

As FI Consultant involved in Implementation from blue print to end-user training and go-live support.

Involved in defining requirements, configuration, integration testing and training.

Involved in development of functional process design and configured client organizational structure as specified by the client based on blue print.

The responsibility included implementing FI configuration includes AR and AP

Involved in integration of FI with MM and SD modules

Configured Vendor groups, vendor master data upload, house banks, bank accounts, automatic payment program, AP information system, and integration of FI-AP with MM module.

Configured Customer groups, customer master data upload, payment terms, AR information system, and integration of FI-AR with SD module.

Provided full-fledged Post Implementation Support for General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and Asset Accounting, Cost Center, Internal Order, Profit Center.

Prepared training material and provided end-user training to the end-users in G/L, A/R, A/P, and also maintained detailed documentation.

Client

Saudi Arabian Airlines Ground services

Duration

Dec 2009 – Jun 2011

Location

Jeddah (Country – Saudi Arabia)

Role/Position

Consultant

Project Description

Implementation, Hyper care Support

Technical Environment

ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Determination of Organization Structure in SAP based on Business Blue Print Document.

Defining Company global settings and accounting structure.

Configured settings for foreign currency valuation.

Responsible for configuration of General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables, Accounts payable, Asset Accounting.

Configured Tolerance for Employees, General Ledger, and Vendors/Customers.

Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts.

Configured settings for Automatic payment program & payment terms.

Configured for vendors subject to Withholding Tax at source.

Dunning basic configuration.

Involved in configuration of basic settings in Asset Management like Asset classes, screen layout, Depreciation areas, Depreciation Key, Depreciation posting rules and Account Determinations.

Involved in customizing settings for Lease Accounting.

Involved in post implementation support.

Client

Saudi Arabian Airlines Catering

Duration

May 2008 – Dec 2009

Location

Jeddah (Country – Saudi Arabia)

Role/Position

Consultant

Project Description

Support

Technical Environment

ECC 6.0

Client Profile: Saudi Arabian Airlines Catering Ltd is part of Saudi Airlines and mainly involved in services like In-flight catering, Business Lounges, Sky sales, Etc. It has units located at Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam, Medina, and Cairo.

Responsibilities:

Providing the second level support on SAP FI issues raised by end users.

Assisting the end users in posting day to day transaction into SAP.

Supporting users in period end & yearend activities.

Involved in streamlining of Vendor and customer master data in order to eliminate the duplication.

Create new customer master and Vendor master and Asset master as per the client Requirement.

Configured Payment terms & terms of Payment for Installment Payment According to Client Requirement.

Participated in old legacy system data cleansing activities. Analyzed and resolved the data migration issues.

Validations and substitutions as per the client requirement.

Involved in preparing business specific report requirements.

Co-ordination with technical team to develop like customer specific & statutory Reporting.

Interaction with users for Obtaining Clarifications. Resolved user issues on Timely basis.

Functional Experience:

Company : Sadhana Minerals Pvt Ltd.

Designation : Account Executive.

Duration : May 2007 to Apr 2008.

Responsibilities:

Preparation of vouchers (Cash, Bank, journal).

Maintenances of day-to-day operations.

Maintenance of daily vehicle list.

Preparation of Bank Reconciliation statement.

Preparation of cash inflow and outflow statements.

Preparation of monthly salary statements.

Process of customer receipts.

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