SAP FICO Consultant

R Chandra Sekhar Reddy E-mail: ********@*****.***

SAP FICO Senior Consultant Mobile: +1-510-***-****.

Chartered Accountant

Professional Experience

Total 9 Years of work experience including more than 5.5 years of SAP FICO experience and 3.5 Years of Domain experience in the area of Accounting, Auditing, Taxation and Financial Management.

Currently working at Houston, Texas for client Bristow Group Inc.

Worked in Multiple projects including End to End Implementations, Rollouts and Support Projects.

Experience of working in SAP Global Implementation involving Multiple Countries like Australia, UK, Nigeria, USA, Norway and Trinidad

Worked on functional specifications for various RICEFW Objects.

Worked with cross module integrations like FI-MM, FI-SD and FI-MRO.

Experience of working in all facets of SDLC Life Cycle.

Proficient in ASAP (Accelerated SAP) Implementation methodology.

Experience of working in New GL, Document Splitting, Parallel Ledgers and Parallel Currency Configuration.

Implemented the inbound (EBS) and outbound (F110) payment file generation for various banks Wells Fargo, RBS, CITI, WESTPAC and DNB

Worked on Lockbox processing, Positive pay and Bank Signatory

Worked on all phases of Testing i.e Unit, Integration, Regression and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Extensive Knowledge on Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C) and Record to Report (R2R) process.

Involved in developing and delivering of the end user training.

Working Experience of SABRIX tax application and VIM (Open Text) application.

Good Knowledge on S/4 HANA and Simple Finance

Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

Sound Functional Knowledge in the areas of Accounting, Costing, Financial Management and Taxation

Tools and Applications:

Open Text (VIM application tool)

SAP FI, CO, MM, SD and MRO

SOLV (ticketing tool)

Smart Bear (Scripting, Testing and Defect tracking tool).

JIRA Incident Tracking tool

SABRIX Tax Application

SharePoint

MS Office

Windows and LINUX Operating Systems

Rewards and Recognitions:

Got Bravo Award for Q4 2013-2014 at Infosys Ltd (Bristow SAP Implementation Project).

Got Most Valuable Player Award for successful implementation of SAP Program for client Bristow Helicopters.

Got Best Team Award for Q4 2012-2013 at Infosys Ltd (Baker Hughes SAP FICO Support Project).

Got Dream Award for Year 2014-2015 for successful Implementation of SAP.

Completed 3 modules of NSEs Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM): AMFI Mutual Funds Basic module, Capital Markets Dealers Module and NSDL Depository Operations Module.

Secured 2nd Rank in state level commerce talent test conducted by Sri Medha Educational Institutions.

Secured 5th Rank in state level commerce talent test conducted by Superwhizz CA Academy.

Projects:

Project # 1

Client :

Role : Functional Consultant (SAP FICO)

Duration : January 2015 to till date.

Client Profile:

Bristow Group provides the helicopter transportation services to the energy companies throughout the world. In addition to providing helicopter transport services for energy companies and others, Bristow is a leader in search and rescue (SAR) services. Bristow have the major operations in multiple countries like USA, UK, Australia, Nigeria, Norway and Trinidad.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Handling the Day to Day issues raised by the end users in Service Desk Ticketing Tool.

Month end activities support. Monitoring of batch jobs for GR/IR clearing, Reversal of Accrual Postings, opening of FI and MM periods.

Year-end planning and financial book closure support.

Providing continuous support on incidents raised by end users in the area of SAP FI.

Working on Change Requests (CRs) in the area of AP, AR, GL and Treasury.

Responsible for Steady State Support Documentation for Change Requests like Preparation of Configuration Documents, Testing Documents from Development and Quality and Update Functional Specifications.

Handling day to day issues in the areas of Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Banking interfaces (Both outgoing and incoming), Electronic Bank Statements and Fixed Assets.

Assisting the users in Depreciation Runs, Asset Transfers, Retirement, Acquisition, Capitalization and Fiscal Year Change

Assisting in Settlement of AuC (Asset under Construction), WBS elements and Work Orders.

Worked on FGI0 and Report Painter reports in COPA.

Maintenance of Characteristics, Value Fields, PA Transfer Structure, Cost Elements and Allocation Structures.

Worked on creation of Activity Types and Maintenance of Activity rates for Cost Center

Worked on Autogeneration of Settlement rules for Work Orders.

Worked on multiple Substitutions and Validations

Root cause analysis is performed for critical incidents in production to identify the root cause of the issue and learning’s to prevent recurrence in the future

Periodic analysis for recurring and high impact issues.

Working on Open Text (VIM application) and handling the issues raised by the end users.

Worked on Exceptions, workflow routing issues, COA table maintenance in VIM

Post Go-Live Hyper Care Support at Australia (Oct 2014 to Dec 2014):

Providing End User Training on day to day transactions to be used in SAP.

Responsible to Avoid and/or minimize disruption to business operations after the SAP go-live.

Day to Day interaction with the end users and providing KT sessions.

Providing boots on support to "All how-to, process related questions, clarifications."

Responsible for resolution of issues raised by the end users.

Handling the new enhancement requests by prioritizing them and delivering through releases using a standard release management processes.

Coordinating with offshore team for timely resolution of incidents.

Monitor transition to Post Go-Live support.

Project #2

Client : (Implementation Project).

Role : Functional Consultant (SAP FI)

Duration : July 2013 to October 2014.

Client Profile:

Bristow Group provides the helicopter transportation services to the energy companies throughout the world. In addition to providing helicopter transport services for energy companies and others, Bristow is a leader in search and rescue (SAR) services. Bristow owns and operates Bristow Academy, which is the world’s largest commercial helicopter training service provider. Infosys successfully completed the SAP implementation for Bristow Group.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Understanding business process, study and analyze flow of transactions.

Review of Business Requirement Documents.

Mapping the different business scenarios under ERP (SAP) environment.

Requirements gathering, as-Is and To-Be processes study, preparation of Business Blueprint.

Review of RICEFW requirements.

Preparation of Functional Specifications Documents.

Involved in Configuration Activity and Preparation of Configuration Documents for 75 company codes.

Configuration of Company Codes, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal year variants, Posting Periods, Definition and Activation of Leading and Non Leading Ledgers, Cross Company code Settings, FBZP configuration, House Banks and Number Ranges.

Experience in New GL, Document Splitting, Parallel Ledgers and Parallel Currency Configuration.

Configuration of Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Account Determination, Screen layouts, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Settlement Profile

Understanding of the end to end AP business process and mapping of the processes in VIM with integration to Enterprise Scan & ICC Validation.

Configured PA transfer structure based on the business requirements and Developed reports using Report Painter.

Worked on Revenue Planning

Involved in Transport Requests (TR) creation, TR movement from Development to Quality systems.

Responsible for testing the entire configuration in Development and Quality Environments.

Identification and Execution of Test Scenarios for GL, AP, AR and Treasury for Unit testing.

Resolution of defects during the Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.

Involved in preparation of RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and getting sign off.

Worked on developing Bank Inbound Interfaces (EBS) and Outbound (Payment Files through DMEE) for USA (Wells Fargo), UK (RBS), Australia (Westpac), Nigeria (CITI), Norway (DNB).

Worked on multiple enhancements, reports, interfaces, forms and workflow.

Worked on Check Forms, Customer Invoice Forms.

Worked on defect resolution at the time of User Acceptance Testing UAT.

Project # 3

Client : Baker Hughes.

Role : Functional Consultant (SAP FICO)

Duration : March 2012- June 2013.

Client Profile:

Baker Hughes is one of the world's largest oil and gas industry. Operates in over 90 countries, Baker Hughes provides services in drilling, production and technology services, integrated operations and reservoir consulting.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsible to understand the business process.

Handled many High Priority tickets End user queries through Ticketing tool SOLV

Giving day-to-day support for FI/CO issues like Service, Support, Analysis and Error tickets.

Worked on Enhancements, Workflows and Custom reports.

Handled issues in the area of AP, AR, GL, Fixed Assets and Bank Accounting Areas.

Handling the issues raised during payment runs i.e. Payment failures, Errors in generation of payment files, Check printing issues and Outbound payment file rejections by the bank

Assistance on Electronic bank statement uploads (Through Inbound Interfaces) and Sub ledger Postings through FEBAN screen.

Assisting the business users to perform period end activities such as depreciation run, asset value transfers, fiscal year change.

Maintenance and updating the Customer Master records, Vendor Master Records, Bank Accounts, Cost Centers and Profit Centers.

Issues relating to vendor master data, customer master data, GL master data and Bank master data.

Worked on ChaRM and Service Desk Requests.

Implemented the Dunning Process Customers.

Worked on creation of Validations and Substitutions in the area of FI and CO.

Working Experience of both PO and NON PO VIM invoice processing.

Handled VIM workflow issues, Obsolete DP document, Substitute Maintenance, Workflow Reassigning, Maintenance of VIM Roles and VIM Exception Handling.

Maintenance of VIM Chart of Authority (COA) table.

Domain/Functional Experience:

Worked with Ramanand&Co (Audit firm) as an Article Assistant from August 2007 to February 2011.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Understanding the business and underlying processes of the client entity.

Audit Preparations and Execution of auditing at various client locations.

Involved in Internal Audits, Special Audits, Tax Audits, Stock Audits and Bank Audits.

Conducting Surprise visits to the client locations and checking for Internal Controls and conducting audits.

Planning an audit which included tailoring of audit program and assignment of work to various team members etc.

Evaluation of internal controls and reporting weaknesses to the organization.

Review of accounting and financial information.

Preparation of Audit Reports and Special MIS reports for internal management decisions.

Filing of ITR forms for Individuals, Partnership Firms and Companies.

Have meeting with the team members to share the knowledge & audit planning.

Preparation of form 3CD and 3CE for companies having tax audit requirement.

Assisting the Audit manager in preparation of LFAR (Long Form Audit Report).

Educational Qualifications:

Chartered Accountant from Institute of Charted Accountants of India (ICAI).

Bachelor of Commerce (BCOM) from Acharya Nagarjuna University.

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