Srikanth Samudrala acy3aj@r.postjobfree.com

Sr. SAP Functional Consultant (FICO) 201-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

SAP FICO consultant with over 9 years of IT experience and hands on SAP experience encompassing eight projects.

Three full life-cycle implementations using ASAP methodology and knowledge on SAP best business practices.

Hands on experience in Product Costing (make to order and make to stock), planning, cost object controlling, material ledger configuration.

Hands on experience on MIS reports for profitability analysis

Strong implementation experience of general ledger (GL), accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR) and asset accounting (AA).

Strong implementation experience of cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting, product costing and profitability analysis

Developing custom reports using report painter for setting up Month End Activities such as Assessments, Distribution and Activity Allocations for Cost Center in manufacturing environment.

Hands on experience for supporting month end activities in end user training.

Responsible for configuration and data migration for Master Data and Transaction data.

Exposure to US GAAP, Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, LSMW.

Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Oder to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning.

Reporting Good exposure on RICEF Interfaces, and functional specifications and worked closely with the technical team in developing the functional requirements.

In Realization Phase, pursued the baseline and the final configuration, handled unit testing, integration testing for MM-FI, PP-CO, SD-FI, PS-FI drawing up end user documentation.

Credit Management (setting up Credit Control Area, Risk Categories, Credit Limits for customers)

Worked on CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.

Good understanding and knowledge on Inter Company Customer and Vendor Creation and maintaining the Intercompany table Master Data.

Hands on experience in Profit Center Substitution. Created PCA rules and updating the custom tables as per the client requirement.

Good understanding of Testing Scenarios and Test Strategies. Good Knowledge on Agile and Waterfall methods.

Hands on experience on the Bank Accounting configuration. Creation of House Banks and assigning out sourcing payments to Banks.

Extended support for maintaining the post Live activities in setting up the master data and validating all the requirements to fulfill the business requirements.

Vendor Master Data Creation, setting up employee payments and assigning tolerance limits for employees in order to fulfill the maintenance of vendor master.

Strong technical, analytical skills combined with outstanding leadership ability, creative problem solving skills in both strategic, tactical areas.

Ability to work in teams and hand over the deliverable on time in order to achieve the Go Live.

Highly experienced in interacting with the client and end user to discuss the requirements and update the team as per the client needs.

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

SAP Finance : General Ledger, New GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset

Accounting, Bank Accounting

SAP Controlling : Cost Element/ Cost Center Accounting, Profit-Center Accounting, Internal

Orders, Profitable Analysis and Product Costing

Reporting : Report Writer, Report Painter

ABAP : RICEF, LSMW, Tables, Debugging

Tools : MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Hewlett Packard, Pontiac, MI Mar’16 – Till Date

Sr. SAP FICO CONSULTANT/ Sr. SAP FI Lead

Responsibilities:

As part of Rollout Team configured couple of Company Codes based on the requirements from the business and involved in setting up Master Data.

Configuration Document prepared for all business scenarios/sub modules for new Company Codes and Run Book to handover to the Run Team

Performed Unit Testing and Integration Testing with Test Cases for all new Company Codes.

Hands on experience in working with the team for preparing the Test plan, preparing the test scripts and performing the testing activities.

Presented UAT Test case to respective key user to get UAT approvals.

Prepared Dash Board Reports for Project status meetings regularly and circulate them to the team.

Configured new company codes based on Global Rollout Template as per the client requirement.

Involved in Defining ‘House Bank’ and Bank Accounts set up as per the client needs in the project and involved in manual and automatic payment program.

Good Knowledge on posting cross company code transactions.

Customized customer master data, customer groups, customer field status, terms of payment Performing Lockbox configuration.

Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format.

Provided specification, and configuration of posting rules for processing customer payments via Lockbox.

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

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

As part of master data set up created profit centers and cost centers, maintain Intercompany customer and vendor masters. Creating and reversing general ledger transfer postings.

Hands on experience on creating and maintaining chart of depreciation and depreciation areas, Good Knowledge in maintaining asset classes and asset master data.

Perform month end and year end closing and validating the closing operations.

Good Knowledge in creating the master data maintenance, acquisitions and depreciation calculations and activating fixed asset functionality.

Good experience in creating documentation for fixed assets for the client. Hands on performing testing the impact of fixed assets. Supported the post production issues related to fixed assets.

As part of support team tasks worked closely with the Technical and Functional team to resolve the issues based on priority.

Involved in handling the Tickets in Finance and Controlling Modules.

Directly involved in Ticket resolution and answering How to Questions. Supported the offshore team on all the issues related to Fi and CO.

Supported High level tickets, root cause analysis for high level tickets and prepared RCA document.

Experience on change request and Incident processes for generating Tickets and Assignments as well.

Good exposure on Initial change request analysis, work estimation analysis, Impact analysis

Prepared Dash Board reports for Ticket Status Meetings.

Good exposure on preparation of functional specification document

Provided support for month end closing and year end closing activities.

Highly competitive to work under pressure and deliver the requirements on time and work with team to meet the deadlines.

Dannon Co Inc., White Plains, NY Feb’15– Feb’16

Sr. SAP FICO CONSULTANT/FULL LIFE CYCLE IMPLEMENTATION

Responsibilities:

Involved in implementation of all phases of ASAP Methodology to do a study on Activity flow.

Involved in joint design sessions during Blueprint Phase of project for specific area of responsibility.

Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas.

In Account Receivable, worked on various support issues like investigating blocked billing document from SD and identifying the root cause of it.

Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement and rebate document which enabled business to communicate efficiently with Customers.

Configured Account Receivables which included Dunning, Incoming payments settings, Down payments procedure and Credit management

Drafted functional requirement specifications (FRSs) for customer master, quotation processing, sales order processing, consignment processing, billing, returns processing, contract processing, rebates processing, and backorder processing

Customized general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivables modules in FI module.

Configured General Ledger Accounts both at Chart of Accounts and at Company Codes level

Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO module.

Responsible for the configuration of Line Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults.

Configured asset accounting (AA) -chart of depreciation, depreciation keys and asset classes

Configured the organization structure for Finance and Controlling.

Worked in various projects and extended support with ABAP debugging

Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings.

Configured cost element, cost center and profit center, internal orders, profitability analysis in CO.

Extensively worked in CO area with CCA, PCA, COPA, Product Costing, configured Product cost by order with production order scenario.

Experience in SAP BPC planning: Created Basic and Multi Planning Areas, Planning Levels, Planning Functions, Global Planning Sequences, Planning Profiles.

Configured material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure using BOM and routing for costing the product

Involved in the customization, production support in Product Costing (PC), CO-PA, CCA, and PCA.

Created new costing sheet, Customized existing costing sheet, created overhead cost elements, calculation base, percentage overhead, credits, Cost component structure for different cost components, material cost estimate with quantity structure.

Customized the SD-FI interface by preparing the Revenue account determination process.

Creation of Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, sales order and Integration with SD and thereby improving the business process flow

Involved in all phases of end-to-end testing which includes User Acceptance testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, negative testing, system testing and unit testing of interfaces and Client-Server Utilities.

U.S Department of Agriculture, Kansas City, MO May’14 – Feb’15

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

Performed GAAP Analysis and provided work around solutions..

Maintained Configuration for Cost Element / Cost Center Accounting, maintained cost element attributes, cost centers, standard hierarchy, Cost Center Categories, Assessment and Distribution Settings in CCA.

Created Internal Orders (I/O) for research and development projects. Maintained Order Types, allocation and settlement profiles, planning profiles, Overhead costing sheets, Screen layouts.

Worked on Cost center planning, manual and automatic planning of Statistical Key figures, activity types, accrual calculations, setting planner profiles, planning areas, and creation of planning layout using report writer/painter.

Configured the Planning versions in COPA for deriving the COPA planning reporting in KEPM i.e., in Planning framework.

Defined profitability analysis transfer structure for settlement of production variances, material price variances to COPA and created assessment cycles to allocate the overhead costs among various characteristics.

Defined tolerance groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, fiscal year variants, field status groups. Configured tolerance groups for employees.

Worked in customer master conversion. Analysed legacy customer records to map properly to the SAP systems and successfully migrated the customer master records using LSMW.

Credit management: Created credit control area, assigned it to sales area, created credit control and risk category, credit group for customers, automatic and dynamic checking.

Handled and configured reverse logistics (handling customer returns) including Debit/Credit notes.

Implementation of the customer order management processes, pricing procedures, and billing with integration to the FICO, WM, SM IM, PM and MM modules.

Migration of Master data - customer masters, material masters, pricing masters from the legacy system into SAP

Responsible for all AR and AP implementation

Conduct requirement gathering workshops related to AP and AR

C&H Sugar Company, Crockett CA Nov’ 12 – May’14

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment – SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Defined the company code global parameters and assigned tolerance to employees, defined Account Groups and Created G/L Account Master Data.

Configured the vendor groups / number ranges, automatic payment program and link lock box from bank to company

Worked on tax on sales & purchase, tax exempt sales, jurisdiction codes, tax return to authorities

Created Vendors, customers and Cost Centers using CATTs by uploading data from Excel sheet, Created user defined reports by using Report painter

Configured material Cost Estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by Production Planning. Setting info-records for product costing.

Configured for Payment terms, Vendor Groups, Number Ranges, and Automatic Payment Program.

Configured Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) for both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet.

Created P&L statements using CO-PA reporting tools.

Worked on FI-Accounts Receivable (AR), FI-Accounts payable (AP): Masters, Open Item processing settings. Transactions of Incoming Invoices/Credit Memos (terms of payment), Outgoing Payment, Incoming Payment, Dunning, Open item Clearing, and configuration of Interest Calculation.

Created assets and performed intra & inter-company asset transfers, new acquisitions, alteration, retirement of assets, depreciation postings, year-end closing, carry forward asset balances and fiscal year change,

Carried out FI-MM integration: configured automatic account determination; ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (procure-to-pay P2P).

Cooper Industries, Houston, TX Mar’12 – Nov’12

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

Analysis of all open items, foreign currency revaluation, reclassification of payable and receivable, clearing of goods receipt/invoice receipt GI/IR accounts, performing reconciliation s, profitability allocations by business area.

Configured vendor account groups, Vendor Master Records, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check lots, Reason codes, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices and credit memos.

Involved in modeling of invoice processing, Disbursement run, check printing and bank reconciliation processes for A/P.

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

Worked on customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, customizing payment advice notes on Accounts Receivable (A/R).

Responsible for A/R customer transactions, credit management, check printing, payment terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, Cash receipts, clearing and month end and Year-end activities.

Configured Automatic Payment Program for Check, Wire and ACH payments.

Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV or GR-IR verification) in FI-MM (Procure to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD (Order to Cash) cycles.

Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.

Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).

Configured Cost component structure and roll ups, BOM. Set up material cost estimate with quantity structure.

Worked in PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process.

SSM Health Care, St. Louis Mo Oct’11 - Feb’12

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

General Ledger: Defined Chart of Accounts, GL Master Records, Field status groups, Automatic account determination and Sales tax automatic account assignments.

Defined Adjustment Account for GR/IR clearing by configured regrouping postings.

Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP through LSMW. Extracting Master data & transactions data to Non – R3 format, clean up data, mapping interfaces, loading data into SAP format (IDOC) and testing loaded data.

Accounts Payable: Creation of vendor master records, groups, vendor documents, number ranges, payment terms, discounts, Configured Automatic Payment Program.

Defined customer master records, customer groups, House bank.

Defined and assigned Reconciliation ledgers and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.

Worked with SAP (SD) functional team to ensure that account determination met all requirements.

Asset Management (AM) implementation configuring Asset classes, Master Depreciation and other business transactions. Fixed asset accounting, reconcile asset management to GL.

Configured the chart of Depreciation and settings up the various depreciation areas like Book depreciation. For documentation purpose implemented FDA 21 CFR part 11 enhancement Electronic tools according to US Food Drug Administration (FDA)

Hands on working experience in GMA and GxP.

Health Care/Pharma experience and experience working in GxP(FDA) and GMA(Grocery Manufacturers Association) regulated environments in SAP

Configured the Chart of Depreciation, Created procedural documentation for End users in Asset management (AM) module.

Treasury: worked on Lockbox process configuration, bank statement processing, Cash management (CM) to monitor payment flows and liquidity and also worked on client’s lockbox banks to validate the inbound files.

Lineage Power, Mesquite, TX Dec’09 - Sep’11

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

Configured AP/AR, document postings, GL recurring entries, accrual deferral documents, month-end closings.

General Ledger (FI-GL) taking care for uploading master data and configuring the pre-requisites which includes Creation of Chart of Accounts, Account groups, and Retained earnings accounts.

Understand and apply appropriate project and system development methodologies to ensure a timely and cost effective solution.

Proficient with the AS-Is business processes and designed the To-Be SAP Financial processes, by designing the FICO processes. Experience using SAP Solution manager and ARIS.

Contribute in a diverse team environment to ensure solutions are implemented in a consistent manner and proper collaboration is in place across IT and the business.

Responsible for Design, Configuration, User acceptance Testing, QA and Regression Testing.

Coordinates new system enhancements with appropriate testing, change management and communication with minimal rework.

Developed test plans, support documentation and training material for supported systems.

Identified researches and resolves system issues proactively and provides recommendations to management, customers and peers.

Symphony Software Ltd, India Oct’08 – Dec’09

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

Worked on AS-IS study, TO-BE analysis, Gap Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering, Configuration, Modifications.

Hands on experience in defining of AP, AR and GL Master Data, customizing Chart of Accounts and Account Groups in General Ledger

Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts receivables for Dispute Management.

Develop Interface for daily Cash Disbursement and configuring Credit Management including Credit Control Areas

Created and Maintained Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting.

Configured Asset acquisition for purchasing with vendor and created asset classes and subclasses.

Configured automatic account determination for all kinds of asset classes and assigned GL accounts for asset classes to differentiate the profit &loss and depreciation for assets.

Configured Asset Accounting structure/valuating fixed assets, Treasury cash management, and foreign exchange and payment program for payments

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