Data Customer

Name: Prakash

Sr. SAP FICO ABAP

Employee: Premsai

Contact: 704-***-*****203

Email: ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary:

Around 8 years of professional experience in customizing, configuring and implementing SAP FICO and ABAP.

Excellent experience in customizing, configuring and implementing various SAP FI and CO Modules like FI- GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA and CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PC and CO-IO.

SAP Experience consists of End-to-End Life cycle (Full life cycle) Implementations, Mega Roll Outs, Post Go Live Support, support & enhancements.

SAP Full life cycle Implementation experience consists - FICO & Integrated business process study, Preparation of Business Blueprint Document consists of AS-IS & TO-BE document, Configuration as per design document, Conducting & Supporting business users in FICO & Integration testing (following integration test-scripts and unit testing), cutover activities (legacy data loading & data reconciliation control activities).

General Ledger - GL Master, New GL, Special Purpose Ledgers, Document Splitting, Financial Statement Versions, Chart of Accounts, Period End Closing, Account Groups, Automatic Clearing Program, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting Periods, Fiscal Year Variants, Accruals and Deferrals, Recurring Entries, Variant Principles, Field Status Groups, Account Groups.

Accounts Payable & AR - Vendor Master, Payment Run, Vendor Account Groups, Payment Terms, Payment Methods, Vendor Tolerance Groups and Number Ranges. Accounts Receivable - Customer Master, Dunning, Customer Account Groups, Customer Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges.

Worked on banking configurations like house banks, bank accounts, etc., electronic bank statements(EBS) and bank interfaces

Reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer.

Experienced in providing troubleshooting production problems and post implementation issues.

Strong experience in working with SD and MM teams for Integration of FI with SD and MM Modules.

Expertise in using ABAP/4 Workbench Tools, reporting, customization, conversion and data extraction.

Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW), BDC for data uploads for various SAP Projects.

Strong experience in intercompany relationship configurations.

Experienced in programming, Implementing, and Conversions using LSMW, BDCs (Call Transaction & Session Methods), BAPIs, User Exits, BADIs, BTE and ABAP/4 Reporting (with Interactive, Classical, ALV list/grid).

Experience with SAP integrations with SAP and non-SAP systems.

Worked with IBM tools like Lotus Notes, Same time, Microsoft outlook, Lync, Citrix Client, Remedy Incident tool etc.

Expertise in MS office like MS word, Excel, Power point, Visio.

Good functional knowledge in BPC, SD, MM, PS, FSCM, WM, PP and HCM.

Understanding the business requirements Functional specification (FD), Technical Specifications (TD), Unit test plans (UTP), provide estimation details, Review check list, and development, review the code, testing and Document the Results.

Developed new CATT Scripts for Mass uploads like Master Data Changes.

Handled FICO & ABAP incidents.

Handled Accounting period end (APE), month end and year end activities.

Running manual jobs and monitoring the overnight scheduled jobs.

Handling Issues raised by the client & mentoring new resources.

Regular Monitoring of transports and approving the transports to move to production.

Regular direct interaction with the users on the issues and solving the issues.

Involved in Onshore & Offshore weekly status calls and client calls.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Have worked efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

Project Summary:

Project #1: Coca Cola Bottling (CCBCC) - Charlotte, NC Jul 2016 to Till Date

Type: Roll out, Support & Enhancement Domain: Manufacturing

Role: Consultant –Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyzing and understanding the business requirement and enhanced into SAP.

Customized Vendor Master Data, Customer Master Data and Specified Number Ranges. Created G/L Master Records and Reconciliation Accounts for Sub Ledgers.

Configured SAP bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Positive pay and ACH payments.

Build key organizational and reporting relationship with internal users in areas of corporate accounting, Fixed assets, AP, AR and external third party application suppliers, banks and consultants related to SAP.

Involved in production support for New GL, AP, AR, Fixed assets CCA, Cost elements etc.

Monitored day-to-day activities and fixed incorrect postings as they occur based on user request.

Performed Functional Unit testing and cutover activities using the testing tool HP ALM.

Coordinating with CONA team for localization and UAT testing.

Defined House banks, bank accounts and configured Automatic Payment Program for vendors.

Handled month end support activities without any escalations.

Worked on SD, MM integration issues.

Responsible for validations and substitutions at central level.

Project #2: Bank of America - Charlotte, NC Feb 2015 to Jun 2016

Type: Support & Enhancement Domain: Banking & Financial Services

Role: Consultant –Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Helped troubleshoot and resolve trouble tickets from users for SAP Applications, in the module areas of Finance (GL, AP and AR), CO Controlling and integration points with FICO.

Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated from Level-2.

Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure.

Customization of FI-GL (General Ledger): Defined Retained Earnings, Assigned Company Code to Field Status Variant, Assigned User/tolerance Groups, defined Financial Statement Version.

Worked Creation of G/L Master Data, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year and Posting Period, Assigning of GL accounts to Financial Statement Versions. Setting up of user-defined Special G/L for reporting purposes.

Worked on FICO config changes and master data like G/L accounts, cost centers, Internal orders, sets etc.

Expertise in setting Controlling Area, Creating Cost elements by Batch input sessions for Primary Cost elements and also creation of Secondary Cost Elements for CO Allocations and assign appropriate Cost Element Category.

Developed TVARVC automation program.

Configuration of Clearing and Reversal Accounts, Manual Accruals, Internal Correspondence, Balance Interest Calculation and Information System.

Reports configuration in Day-End Closing, Month-End Closing, Year-End Closing, and Notes on Programs, Starting Programs and Printing Lists.

Configuring Posting Document, Posting Key, Processing Posted Data, Updating Entered Data, And Automatic Postings.

Worked on change request based on user requirement and Asset accounting issues.

Implemented SAP notes as suggested by SAP for our OSS messages to fix standard SAP issues.

Preparation of LSMW data upload templates, testing and performing data upload. GL balances both cumulative and line item balances including vendor, customer and asset master data were loaded via LSMW technique.

Worked on ALV reports of fixed assets/ Asset accounting module. Developed new reports in fixed asset module on asset balances, master data and depreciation.

Conducted analysis and provided solutions to IDoc’s related tickets.

Month end process support for FI module, efficiently handled month end & year end support.

Project #3: Farmers Insurance Group – Los Angeles CA, USA Feb 2014 to Jan 2015

Type: Implementation & Support Domain: Insurance

Role: Consultant –Senior SAP FICO Techno – Functional Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in development of functional process design and configured client organizational structure as specified.

Configured and customized SAP functionalities in the area of FI-GL, AP, AR and AA.

Configuration of Global settings and enterprise structure settings

Creating posting periods, Field status variants and field status groups

Assigning of documenting number ranges for various document types

Configuring of fiscal year Variants

Worked on integration issues with FSCM system.

Directly responsible for resolution of day to day issues reported for SAP FSCM Receivables Management, as in: Credit and Collections Management, and Dispute.

Defining Chart of accounts, Account groups, retained earnings account for G/L master creation

Configuration of regular business partner account groups and onetime account groups for creation of Master records

Worked on FI various configurations like Company code setup, foreign currency revaluations, valuation classes and open item management activation for GL accounts as and when required by business.

Creation of G/L Master, House Banks, Bank accounts, G/L Accounts and vendor master, customer master.

Configuration of cost & profit center hierarchies, secondary cost elements, activity types, statistical key figures, assessment/distribution cycles, validations and substitution as required.

Maintaining subsidiary ledgers and reconciliation accounts for customers and vendors

Configuring asset management aspects like asset classes, screen layout, Depreciation areas, Depreciation key, depreciation-posting rules and account determinations.

Identification of one time vendors and customers and defining a separate screen layout for them.

Customizing controlling area and number ranges assignment of company codes to controlling area

Creation of cost centers, cost center groups, cost elements and cost element groups.

Uploading asset masters and Cost center master data using LSMW

Foreign currency settings, calculation of exchange rate difference and valuation of gain or loss

Worked as level 1 and level 2 support in resolving day to day issues, month-end closing and year-end closing issues related to ABAP, FI and CO.

Involved in data transfer from legacy system to SAP R/3 system using BDC tool with coordinated effort from onshore team.

Project #4: Starbucks - Seattle WA, USA Sep 2012 to Dec 2013

Type: Implementation/ Go-Live support Domain: Retail

Role: Consultant –SAP Techno – Functional Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.

Worked on quite a few enhancements analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and based on system requirements.

Configured Organizational Structure by creating Company Code, Chart of Accounts, Posting Period Variants, and Field Status Variants.

Configured New GL, additional ledger (Leading and non-leading ledger), parallel accounting, foreign currency valuation, segment, document splitting, accounting principle, transfer balance carry forward.

Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).

Defined Cost Center Hierarchies, created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.

Integration expert for integrating the entire Purchase-2-Pay business process: Creation and maintenance of vendor master records. Vendor transaction processing (including invoices and payments) Integrated nature within the MM component, Invoice verification & Outgoing payment process.

Integration expert for integrating the entire Order-2-Cash business process covering: Creation and maintenance of customer master records, Customer transaction processing (including invoices, credits, and payments) integrated nature with SD module, Debtor's management, including credit control.

Implemented Asset accounting with account determination, asset classes.

Creation of basic sets, assigning reports to report group and executing the report groups using Report writer.

Developed Test cases and solve issues using Unit Testing and assisted the Team in complete System testing.

Hands on working knowledge in Unit, Integration, Functional, Validation, system, stress, Regression and User acceptance testing (UAT), Experience in and executed the automated test scripts and worked on HP Quality Centre (HPQC) & Quick Test Professional.

Documented the critical changes, trained the team members in the client team about the new system functionality, and tested the integration of FI/CO with various modules such as SD and MM.

Project #5: Kiewit Corporation - Hyderabad, India Nov 2010 to Aug 2012

Type: Implementation Domain: Construction and Engineering services

Role: Consultant –SAP FICO Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the existing system, performed TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, developed localization blueprints, and conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, and modifications to suit the client's requirements

Defined global parameters for different company codes, maintained Chart of accounts, configured account groups, tolerance groups, field status groups, maintained document types and posting keys, configured posting period variants, fiscal year variants.

Created GL master records and reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers.

Configured Chart of Accounts including automatic account assignments

In Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Creation of Vendor Master Records, Customer Master Records, Customer/Vendor account groups, tolerance groups etc.

Configured and maintained House Banks with multiple Bank Accounts, Electronic bank statement, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes.

Configured and conducted Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments and carried out execution.

In Accounts Receivable, conducted incoming payments of customers and resolved issues regarding deductions by partial payments, residual payments, creation of reason codes and assigning those to partial payments for clearing and posting open items.

Developed AR credit memo, and customer statement reports.

Provided user training of new configuration and reporting to management and business groups.

Worked with MM & SD team as a part of FI-MM and FI-SD integration.

Developed documentation for end-user training.

Provided production support after Go-Live.

Project #6: Zurich Financial Services - Hyderabad, India Jun 2008 to Oct 2010

Type: Roll Out project/Support Domain: Insurance

Role: Consultant –SAP FICO & ABAP Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities:

Creation of new company codes for Core and delta companies as per the company code structure in FI.

Configuration of GL, AP, AR, AA, CO and SL where the changes required.

Configuration of global parameters with respective PPV, FSV.

Creation of new House Banks and the configuration for automatic bank statement uploads.

Defining additional local currency for company code

Maintaining Company Code structure in PA hierarchy.

Copying chart of accounts to the company code and creating new bank accounts if required.

Creation of new Profit center and assigning default Profit Centre.

Creation of new cost centers and update the default cost center to the respective cost elements.

Creation of AR Intercompany relationships

Creating the rollup sets for new company codes and updating them in respective ledger sets.

Defining GL and SL number ranges

Creation of Dummy Internal Orders and updated them in respective IO sets.

Configuration of Automatic Payment Program (APPO).

Creation of new CATT Scripts for Mass uploads like Master Data Changes.

Configuration of foreign currency revaluation and their variants.

Maintaining company code in close schedules for month end jobs.

Worked on dunning issues.

Testing of new company code by using the test scripts provided by Zurich.

Developed a BDC program that create and modify the cost centers master data by using the flat file to reduce the manual task.

Developed an automation tool for GL account block and deletion in both company code and chart of account level.

Developed Check Printing Forms layout using smart forms and worked on script related issues.

Working on UAT issues and additional configure changes.

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