Sr. SAP FICO consultant

PARAS BHUJU

Houston, TX

713-***-**** ******@*****.***

Work Authorization: Green Card

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. More than 9 years of experience in implementing SAP Finance and

Controlling in various industries like Manufacturing, Electronics, Oil

and Pharmaceuticals.

0. Worked as a Lead Role and successfully completed 2 SAP full life cycle

implementations and 3 Rollout projects in SAP FI/CO module.

0. Worked on different phases of ASAP methodology implementation from

Gathering Business Requirement, Gap Analysis, Blue Print Design,

Configuration, Unit Testing, User Training and Production Support.

. In depth understanding of Business Process relating to SAP Finance,

Controlling and integration with SD, MM and PP.

. Strong configuration experience in General Ledger (GL), New GL,

Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets (FA),

Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal

Order (IO), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

. Data Migration from Legacy system to SAP for upgradation/new

implementation/ integration, import of data from any other external

system to SAP using LSMW.

. Developed RICEF inventory document, and worked on inbound/outbound

interfaces and it's functionalities

. Worked on developing test scripts for various business scenarios for

Unit testing, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.

. Conducted extensive training session for business users. Prepared

training documentation and user manuals.

. Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills and

total team player. Self-starter with drive, initiative and a positive

attitude. Able to meet very stringent deadlines and always deliver

results, even under pressure.

. Ability to communicate clearly with staff and high level management and

executives, including ability to re-state key points of meetings to

ensure that communications were correctly understood by all parties.

SAP Expertise

. SAP Financials: Proficient in General Ledger FI-GL, Accounts Receivable

FI-AR, Account Payable FI-AP, Asset Management FI-AA,

. SAP Controlling: CO expertise in Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Profit

Center Accounting PCA, Internal Orders CO-IO, Product Costing and

Profitability Analysis CO-PA.

. Cash Management- House Banks, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank

Statement, Lockbox Processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios.

. SAP Technical: Integration of various SAP applications like SD and MM

with FI/CO

. Computer Skills: Microsoft Office, Excel, Power Point, Visio, MS Project

Education:

Masters in Engineering Management

St Cloud State University

Undergraduate in Computer Engineering

Tribhuvan University

WORK PROFILE

Capgemini US LLC Period: Dec 14 -

Houston, Texas Current

ROLE: Senior FICO Consultant SAP Version: 6.0

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Worked on Solution Design Center which caters to various clients for

RICEFW objects development and delivery.

. Worked on designing and writing the Functional Specification Document

(FSD) as per the requirement of the client in S4/HANA Finance and

Controlling.

. Give walkthrough to the offshore technical team of the FSD and get the

objects developed by them within given timeline.

. Worked on different conversion objects - GL account Master upload, Cost

Center Upload, Profit Center upload.

. Worked on numerous Inbound interfaces - BAI and S WIFT MT940 files for

Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), BAI2 format for Lockbox, upload foreign

currency exchange rate using Oanda and XE system, Payroll GL posting

from ADP to SAP ECC, etc.

. Worked on numerous Outbound Interface - Positive Pay file to Bank of

America, ACH, Wire

. Worked on Enhancement object - Duplicate Invoice Check coming from 13

different interfaces, Characteristic Derivation in COPA, Profit Center

Derivation,

. Worked on Financial document park and post Workflow.

. Perform Functional unit testing for all the RICEFW objects developed.

Developed Test Plans and Test Scenarios using HPQC.

CLIENT: Shell Oil Company for IBM Period: Dec 13 - Aug

Houston, Texas 14

ROLE: Senior FICO Consultant SAP Version: 6.0

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Worked in OTC team in the global rollout of the GSAP project. Primary

responsibility is to deploy the global template of GSAP project into US

Fuels products.

. Worked on mapping the open AR items from legacy Magellan system to the

GSAP project.

. Configured and tested Lockbox account for the payment methods check and

wire. Tested to ensure that Idoc flows into SAP from the Bank interface.

. Setup jobs for Lockbox and Direct Debit in TIDAL, an enterprise scheduler

for SAP jobs, for job scheduling, monitoring the daily jobs and testing.

. Worked on FI-SD account determination rule to accurately capture the

accounting requirement during Billing and PGI.

. Configured the system for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of

manual incoming payments and defined reason codes for payment differences

and worked on to writing off these differences to G/L accounts.

. Worked on the daily credit card processing in SM09 to GSAP.

. Developed test scripts and test scenarios for all the various forms of

testing; Unit testing, Integration testing and UAT using the HPQC

(Quality Center).

. Worked on designing the forms - Statement of Account (SOA), Daily

Settlement Advice (DSA), Prepayment Output - as per the requirement of

the business.

. Trained SAP end Users (FI/CO) and prepared training materials during

Confirmation Acceptance Testing (CAT) and Live Environment Simulation

(LES)

. Regular interaction with the business and super users, understanding

their requirements and developing specifications per customer requests.

. Provided post production support and training after go-live.

CLIENT: Caterpillar, Inc. for IBM Period: Aug 2011 - Aug

Peoria, Illinois 2013

ROLE: FICO Consultant SAP Version: 6.0

Roles and Responsibilities:

Phase 1:

. Worked as the finance resources in the rollout project in 3 different

plants.

. Worked on loading the Master data with custom Z program and in-built

program.

. Developed test scripts and test scenario according to the requirement of

the Business scenario using HP Quality Center.

. Worked on Business Integration Testing (BIT) for the complete business

scenario of Procure To Pay and Order To Cycle using HP Quality Center.

. Worked on solving the issues of Logistic Invoice Verification (3-way

match) and displayed various different functionalities like Background

Invoice Verification and Invoice Reduction.

. Supported GL, AR, AP, CCA, IO, PCA and Idoc issues. Suggested and

implemented process improvements.

. Supported lockbox processing which involved issues related to customer

payments, formatting issues, clearing of appropriate accounts, manual

entry of incomplete or unprocessed documents and month end closing.

. Worked on defect resolution created by the cross functional module as

Sales & Distribution, Material Master Team and Product Costing team.

. Worked on FI-SD automatic account determination to accurately capture the

accounting requirement during Billing and PGI.

. Involved in month end closing activities for business units.

. Participated in Go-Live and initial support after go live.

. Conducted in class and online training for SMEs and users

Phase 2:

. Worked as a FICO lead for the CAT Mach1 Support Team. Primary

responsibility is to interact with the super user regarding an

incident/issue and solve the ticket according to the assigned priority of

the ticket.

. Manage and coordinate the offshore team members as well as onsite team

members to solve the tickets.

. Prepare a weekly report to the Production Support Manager providing the

status and SLA (Service level agreement) of all the FICO related

production tickets.

. Regular interaction with super users, understanding their requirements &

resolving their issue.

. Solved the issues on Account Receivable, Account Payables, Fixed Assets,

Intercompany scenarios, Bank configuration, Product Costing and Automatic

Account Determination of GL account with MM and SD modules.

. Daily support of functional and customizing issues and training to new

end users of various functions and prototyped and documented business

scenarios.

. Prepared training materials and provided users' training and involved in

knowledge transfer to the offshore team.

. Worked on the SAP Solution Manager to get the business process

documentation.

. Provide detail weekly report to the CAB (Change Activity Board) related

to FICO transports for their approval. Worked on SAP ChaRM from the

creation to closure.

CLIENT: Micron Technology for IBM Period: Jun 2010 - Jul

Boise, Idaho 2011

ROLE: FICO Consultant SAP Version: 6.0

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Maintained Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, write substitution rules to

assign cost centers automatically to G/L accounts according to

requirements, defined distribution and assessment cycles for monthly

allocations.

. Worked on FI-SD account determination rule to accurately capture the

accounting requirement during Billing and PGI.

. Involved in the customization of dunning program including creation of

the dunning proposals and also editing the dunning proposals.

. Configured Lockbox Processing program, House Banks with SWIFT code,

defining lockbox accounts at House banks, defined lockbox parameters and

posted data and tested the lockbox functionality.

. Configured and Tested the Lockbox program for Accounts Receivables

payments in BAI2 Format.

. In Profit Center Accounting, maintained the basic settings, created

Master Data for Profit Centers, Profit Center groups, Dummy Profit

Center, Profit Center Hierarchy, Activity Types and assigned different

Controlling Objects to Profit Center Accounting.

. Created report painter and report writer for Profit Center Accounting

reporting.

. Worked extensively on developing data models for COPA reporting utilizing

both Costing based and Account based data source.

. Worked extensively on the COPA design in integration with SD. Mapping of

Value fields to Condition types. Develop COPA derived Characteristics

using Derivation rule, Enhancements (User exits), Table move.

. Configured Summarization Level to incorporate new COPA characteristics

for COPA reporting.

. Developed various COPA report based on the business requirement.

. In Product Costing, created Costing Variant, Cost Component structure,

Configured Material Cost Estimate with quantity structure, maintained

settlement structures, configured WIP and Price variance calculations and

settlement of Variance to Profitability Analysis; Create, mark and

release of cost estimate.

. Maintained settings for Costing Sheet like calculation bases, percentage

overhead rates, and quantity based overhead rate in Product Costing (CO-

PC)

. Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure and costing

variant for cost component structures like BOM and Routing for the

products provided by PP. Worked on integration of PP with SAP-FICO

module.

. Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement.

Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost,

special procurements and releasing of the new cost estimate

. Participated in integration testing and supported User Acceptance Testing

(UAT)

. Provided Post Go-Live Support and involving in configuration changes for

better process improvements.

CLIENT: MEDA Pharmaceuticals Inc Period: July 2009 - Jun

Somerset, New Jersey 2010

ROLE: FICO Consultant SAP Version: 6.0

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Performed initial analysis of various legacy system fields and developed

mapping rule related to the current production SAP system.

. Developed LSMW to upload financial transactions and Master data (Vendor

Master, Customer Master, and Asset Master Data) for conversion.

. In Accounts Payable, configured Automatic Outgoing Payment program for

Check, ACH and Wire payment and DMEE setup.

. Developed RICEF inventory document, identified inbound/outbound

interfaces and it's functionalities

. In New General Ledger, developed parallel ledgers to maintained New GL

configuration to create Leading and Non Leading Ledger for legal and

corporate reporting, Reconciliation between Financial Accounting and Cost

Center Accounting.

. Worked on and configured Document Splitting on profit center level.

. Worked on design and configuration of US sales/use tax solutions using

Sabrix.

. Configured the Tax Calculation Procedure, specified structure for Tax

Jurisdiction Code, defined codes for taxes on sales and purchases,

defined tax codes for nontaxable transactions.

. Defined Financial Statement Version for the Balance Sheet report run.

. Defined Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, & account

determination for asset class.

. Mapped the business process to SAP transaction related to Asset

acquisition, Planned and Unplanned Depreciation Run, Asset Retirement

(scrapping), and asset capitalization.

. Implemented Automatic Intercompany and Intra-company Asset transfer.

. Configuration of the Internal Order module to support capital procurement

process involving planning, budgeting, approvals, settlements, status

management, reporting, in integration with investment management.

. Involved in defining month end closing and year end closing activities

for business units.

. Developed Testing Scenario to Validate GL Account and Open Item Balances.

. Assisted the business user to perform the cut-over task and help in

validating the data.

. Provided post production support and training after go-live.

CLIENT: Nepal Lever Limited Period: Jan 2006 - Dec

Kathmandu, Nepal 2007

ROLE: FICO Consultant SAP Version: 4.6C

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Involved from the very beginning of the project from Project Scope

Analysis, Business Requirement Gathering, Gap Analysis, Realization,

Testing, Training and Support. Conducted interviews with users and

analyzed the workflow of the As-Is system.

. Involved with business users to understand the business requirements and

prepared the Business Blueprints.

. Created flowcharts and Business Blue Print for the existing processes.

. Joined company at start-up, designing the Chart of Accounts and writing

customized General Ledger and Financial Reporting systems.

. Configured and customized General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts,

screen layout rules, Automatic Account Assignments, Financial Statement

Version.

. Defined templates for configuring recurring entries in general ledger

postings.

. Configured the accounts for Foreign Currency Valuation and worked on

month end foreign currency valuation.

. Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules

including creation of Vendor/Customer Master Records, account groups,

tolerance groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, fiscal

year variants, and field status groups.

. Configured House Banks, Automatic Payment Programs, Automatic Payment

Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments. Checks Management

through assigning number ranges for check lots, checks printing and

defining void reason codes. Posting Invoices with and without Invoice

Verification.

. Coordinated the integration efforts of FICO with SD and MM, based on

functional requirements and automatic account assignment.

. In Controlling, maintained Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Distribution

and Assessment Cycle.

. Configured costing based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields,

used various derivation techniques and rules

. Developed test scripts and test scenarios using HP quality center.

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