Srabani Mahapatra SAP FICO Consultant acv3l9@r.postjobfree.com 979-***-****

PROFILE SUMMARY:

SAP FICO consultant with Over 5 years of consulting experience in SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) modules.

Performed multiple consulting roles handling various responsibilities of Application design, development and implementation, Production support, Training, Integration, Data mapping and upgrade.

Successfully implemented 2 Full life cycle projects, one upgrade and one production support project with various clients for various industries Manufacturing, Information Technology and Telecommunication industries.

Well versed with ASAP methodology and involved in “AS-IS” and “TO-BE” study, requirements gathering, re-engineering processes, fit/gap analysis, workshops, Blue print preparation, configuration, testing and training

Expertise and experienced in General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Banking with automatic payment

Expertise and experienced in controlling area settings, Cost Element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Profitability Analysis (COPA)

Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules-GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA) Product Costing (CO-PC).

Configuration, testing and support experience with different SAP Versions 4.6C, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0

Strong understanding and experience in Integration of FICO with MM, SD and PP modules

Closely worked with ABAP team members for ABAP routine enhancements

Outstanding interpersonal skills, Good written and oral skills, ability to learn fast and apply the knowledge to meet the business requirements and have the functional experience to understand and propose changes.

Experienced in Requirements and Gap Analysis, configuration, system design, testing, training script development, and System Re-engineering

Strong analytical, problem solving, budgeting, and time management skills

Strong teamwork and client management skills

Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with particular emphasis on the production of clear and detailed written Business Requirements and Functional Specifications

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

ERP:

ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.6b

Finance/ Accounting:

Strong GAAP Knowledge, G/L, A/R, A/P, AA, Treasury Management, Variance Analysis, Trend Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting, NPV Analysis, DCF Analysis, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance (SOX Compliance), Credit Analysis

Controlling:

CCA, PCA, IO, COPA

Languages:

C, C++, SQL

DBMS:

MS-SQL Server, Oracle 9i, MS Access 2000

Platforms:

Windows 2000/NT, XP and UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Aithent Technologies Pvt Ltd.,India April 09 - Jun 11

Role: SAP FICO Functional consultant

Environment: Implementation Project SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Prepared functional specifications for New General ledger, Accounts payable modules

Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables: Configuring and Customizing vendor/customer master data. Creating tax related customer accounts, account groups, payment program configuration, interest calculation, tolerances groups, check management, integration with MM and SD

Asset Management: Chart of depreciation configuration, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, screen layout and depreciation keys.

Configured SPL for alternative scenarios like subsidiary reporting like alternative GAAP (various countries)

Examined the company’s document flow Vis-à-Vis SAP process flow and recommending suitable validation procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.

Customization and configuration for Creation of master data - GL postings and reversal of documents, made settings for recurring entries, Accruals documents, inter-company transactions, Special GL transactions – Down Payments

Configuration expertise in organization elements in finance, master data, document entry and change, FI-General Ledger period end processing, General Ledger reporting.

Customized and Configured Accounts payable module. Created various Account groups, Screen layout rules and number ranges, Creation of vendor master data - Accounting view, completed Purchasing View of Vendor master data by interacting with MM team

Configuration of Automatic Payment Program (APP), Configuration of settings for Down payment and special GL transactions. Settings for Automatic Outgoing payment including payment terms, payment methods

Creation of House banks, settings for reconciliation of bank accounts and Check management, created 50+ bank GL accounts

Vendor/Customer Accounts re-grouping through the adjustment accounts and Open Item clearing as period end activities and created accounts for clearing differences, cash discounts and defined reason codes

Documented the configurations and prepared functional/technical specifications along with end-user training manuals and knowledge transfer to business people.

Transferred data to/from Legacy system includes Bank master data, Vendor master data and transaction data.

I was also responsible for SAP Payment program processing; invoice processing, GR/IR and EDI, along with bank reconciliation and positive pay.

Involved in all the phases of Procure to Pay process from Generation of Purchase Requisition, RFQ, Vendor evaluation, Goods Receipt against PO, Logistics Invoice Verification and APP run F110 for vendor payment

Involved in SAP AP module integration points with other SAP modules (GL, AR, MM) configuration and testing

Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting: Configuring and customizing the cost elements/cost centers, costing sheet, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy, activity types, statistical key figures, assessments, and distributions.

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.

Product Costing: Product cost planning with and without quantity structures, costing run, and price update Cost object controlling – product cost by period, product cost by order, product cost collector, Actual costing/Material ledger.

Profitability Analysis (COPA): Configuration and Customizing the operating concern, characteristics, value fields, maintaining the derivation rules and structures, maintaining derivation tables, planning versions, planning layouts, planning profiles.

Client: Xpitax Solution Pvt Ltd,India Jan 08 - March 09

Role: SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 5.0

Responsibilities:

Developed Event driven Process chains as part of Business blue print document incorporating features such as organizational structures, functions, data and information flow.

Assisted in conducting end user training and support.

Configured General Ledger Accounting

Configured company codes and FI Global Settings

Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, Posting period variants, Employee and Vendor/Customer master records, Document number ranges, Opening and Closing of Posting periods, field status variants, document types and posting keys

Configured Accounts groups and Retained Earnings account for creation of G/L master data.

Created G/L Account Master Records, Account Balances and Line item layout.

Successfully tested critical business transactions in the FI module including G/L postings,

Recurring entries Vendor invoices and Payments.

Created Asset classes and configured screen layouts for Asset master records.

Configured necessary settings for Assets under construction and settling the same to Fixed Assets.

Configured Accounts Payable Configured Vendor Master Data, Defined Account Groups with screen layout and Number Ranges, created Vendor Master Records.

Configured House banks, Bank Accounts, Check lots, Configured Automatic Payment Program for vendor open item processing with respect to AP module

Worked on various types of special G/L accounts like down payment requests, and down payments for vendors as well as customers.

Configured accounts for clearing differences, Cash discounts and defined Reason codes for clearing documents

Cost Elements Analysis, involving both primary and secondary cost elements, activating the reconciliation ledger, and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting

Configured Profit center Accounting, maintained profit center standard hierarchy, Created various profit centers

Configured Basic Controlling settings, Defined and maintained standard hierarchy for controlling area, created number ranges, created Cost center groups and Cost centers, Created Alternative hierarchy for reporting purposes

Mapping Internal Order types, allocations structures and creating Internal Orders

Posting Costs to the Internal Orders from FI, setting up the settlement rule to settle the costs to appropriate receiver Cost Centers

Client: Hero Honda Ltd, India Oct 06 - Dec 07

Role: SAP FI/CO Associate Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.6

Responsibilities:

As an Associate consultant worked in various disciplines in SAP FI/CO configuration

Involved in configuration of GL, AR, AR, CO-CCA and Internal orders

Created G/L accounts in the company code, defined global parameters, account groups, and reconciliation accounts

Configured the settings for creation of G/L master records, retained earnings, line layouts, sample accounts, field status groups and posting keys. Configured the basing settings for creation of vendor and customer master records

Created house banks, bank accounts, check lots and Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments.

Created Terms of Payment for Customers and dunning program, Created Financial Statement versions

Created Chart of depreciation, Chart of accounts and assigned to the organizational unit.

Created the assets classes and also GL accounts corresponding to those assets classes.

Created and Configured Cost Elements both Primary and Secondary

In cost center Accounting involved in creating Cost center hierarchy, maintained Cost Center categories, Created Cost center master records and created Statistical key Figures for allocation.

Setting up Periodic allocations such as Distribution, Assessments to settle to the costs incurred to the appropriate receiver Cost Centers as per Statistical Key Figures.

Supported GL, AR, AP, CCA, IO, PCA CO-PC issues. Suggested and implemented process improvements.

Client: ONGC, India Aug 05 - Sept 06

Role: SAP FICO Associate Consultant

Environment: SAP Version: R/3 4.6

Responsibilities:

Designed chart of accounts, account groups in G/L and master data, incoming payments, reason codes in accounts receivable and master data, outgoing payments, open item clearing in AP

Creation and maintenance of field status groups, posting keys, document type, open and close posting periods and created G/L account master records

Configuration of Vendor and Customer master data, business transactions, tolerance parameters, payment terms, Credit Management and Dunning processes

Configuration of house banks for bank accounts, G/L structure, posting rules for automatic assignment. Created automatic payment program with clearance of open items. Configured incoming payments, including full payment, partial payment and residual payment

Configuration of payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations for down payments and automatic clearing of line items

Involved in extensive end user training and preparation of user materials and documenting

Configured Cost center Accounting, including creation of cost center hierarchy and cost center groups, attaching work centers to cots centers, Distribution and Assessment cycle set up for planned as well as actual

Created Statistical key figures and activity types and planed them on different cost centers, configured the system for planned and actual activity price calculations, set up planning profile for cost center, activities, cost element planning.

Configured Profit center Accounting (CO-PCA) included creating PCA standard hierarchy and dummy profit center. Analyzing and updating PCA settings and Master data settings, setting up and activating transfer prices, multiple valuation approaches

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Masters In Finance, Punjab Technical University

Bachelor of Technology (Electronics & Communication Engineering) B.P.U.T India.

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