Certified Consultant

BHASKAR R

SAP – FI/CO Consultant

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Professional Summary:

** **** ***** ** *** Implementation experience in areas of FI, FA & CO in all phases of Global and local End-To-End SAP implementation Projects and simple finance migration.

Strong background in the implementation of SAP FI, FA & CO demonstrated knowledge experience in understanding and providing solutions with respect to Financial and management requirements.

Industry Experience in Oil and gas industry, Shipping, Banking, Chemicals, heating & cooling refrigerator, commercial refrigerator and Iron ore.

Strong knowledge of Financial Accounting processes and best practices

Expertise in the configuration and implementation of Financial Accounting [FI] and Management Accounting [CO]

Extensive experience in Business Analysis, process in OTC, RT, PTP, GAP Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Business Blue Printing, Workshop Demonstration and Solution Delivery. Identify various integration processes. Identify GAPS in early stages for an ahead of the schedule project delivery

Understanding and documentation of business requirements, Analyzing functionality gaps and developing alternatives

Finalize Business blueprinting and Developing Project Plans, Configuration, Unit and Integration testing, prepare test scripts, perform test in e-cat.

Resolution of cross functional issues with different user groups and SAP teams, Preparation of functional specifications.

Coordination with development team and monitor the progress of developing activities and updating the status with respective teams.

Provide user training where appropriate, Co-ordination with Power users in resolving the issues that arises during user training.

Complete Production Support issues, Provide effective scope and issue management, Search and apply OSS notes where appropriate.

Ability to communicate complex issues and solution alternatives to users, Ability to articulate solution options and using SAP configuration creatively versus developing modifications to SAP code.

Performing development tasks utilizing the SAP Project Life Cycle methodology and managing projects utilizing SAP Project Life Cycle methodology when appropriate.

Exceptional Communication skills, written and verbal all the team with SAP teams and Business users.

5 E2E Implementations experience with Deployment, go live Deployment and cut over activities for Finance, controlling and PS modules.

Experienced with ASAP methodology including Business Process Reengineering, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Testing perform in e-cat and HPQC tool, and Training.

Strong decision making and problem solving skills. Highly motivated and ambitious individual with ability to give timely advice, guidance, support and training to team members and individuals. Posses excellent management skills, communication skills and having the ability to work with minimum of supervision whilst leading a team.

Have worked with Arcelor Mittal, Cameron, Polaris, HCL and IBM as Consultant.

Key Skill Summary:

SAP FICO

Played SAP FICO Lead role in 5+ years SAP implementation projects for big and strategic SAP customer accounts, extensive experience and knowledge of setting up the core Organization Structure design in SAP ECC for e.g. Controlling Area, Company Codes, Leading Ledger, Chart of Accounts, Parallel Set of books and multiple currencies.

Expertise of integration of SAP FI module with other core modules like Controlling, Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Project Systems.

Process exposure in OTC, RTR, PTP and cross company code postings.

Expertise in interface with third party tools and creating Z reports with writing functional spec logic and flow /process diagram

Extensive experience of all SAP FICO & S/4 Hana Simple finance components – GL, AR, AP, New GL, APP, Dunning, House Bank, Asset Accounting, Document splitting, Profit Center Accounting and reporting, Taxation, CCA, Internal order, COPA, budgeting and Month end closing Processes – Forex revaluation, GR/IR clearing, reclassification and Overhead allocation cycles.

New GL – Migrated from classic GL to new GL, configuration new GL steps, segments, document splitting, parallel ledgers, transfer documents to new GL.

Tax- Withholding tax, input and output tax codes for invoices and payments, tax reports.

Dunning- Payment due reminders letters send to customer via email, interest calculation for late payments, letters derived various languages as per customers local language.

Intercompany postings and inter company stock transfers with full cycle.

Assessment and Distribution for cost centers and profit centers

Extensive knowledge of Product Costing – Creation of production orders, components, routing, work center, BOM, settlement, variance and month end activities.

Extensive knowledge of changes required in SAP ECC configuration and transaction recording with respect to the information required for Consolidation of financial statements for e.g. use of consolidation transaction types, use of trading partner, group chart of accounts and reclassification/regrouping of receivables, payables and general ledgers.

Expert in implementation of Asset Accounting with extensive experience in multiple depreciation areas, asset class, GL determination, handling complex requirements of depreciation calculation based on remaining useful life, changes in depreciation method, AUC with internal orders and AUC with WBS element, settlement rule creation, etc.

Demonstrated experience managing the development, testing and quality reviews within a SAP program of high complexity.

Functional spec preparations for new development out of SAP standard depend on client requirement

Customer Value adds and awards

Fill the gap with Z programs to continue the process same as in legacy system, so it reduced man power

In my implementations I worked in fast track to achieve go-live before the planned dates because of understand the business process and design the structure.

Identified manual process and converted to batch jobs and automated.

Got best trainer award received from HCL

HCL 2014 best Performance award winner

Professional Experience:

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Lennox-Richardson, TX [KA-SAP Solutions]

Duration

May 2016 to Mar 2017

Industry / Customer

Heating & Cooling and Refrigerator

Project Description

SAP Implementation

Role

SAP FICO SME Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Attend workshop to understand business process and prepared as is and to be documentation

Prepared- Business Blueprint, Functional Specifications, Configuration document, data migration and cut over templates etc. and get sign off from Business.

Defined and Configured Company code, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.

Customized screens for Document entry, Document reversals, Invoices, and Payments.

Created Account Assignment Models for Recurring Entries.

Configured Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts payable, House Banks, Bank Accounts, Reason Codes, Check Lots.

To ensure the successful activation of New GL, and document splitting functionality with the introduction of Profit Center and segment characteristic in SAP ECC.

Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.

Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable.

Bill of exchange for payments and receivables designed to post in APP and derived forms, special GL configured with indicator.

Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing and DME files.

Configured payment terms and payment methods including bill of exchange

Dunning – Configured 4 levels, various languages as per customer master language, send dunning letters through email and mail

Maintained Master data as per the design includes cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, 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, indirect activity allocations

To configure EWT Tax codes, percentages, account determination.

Distribution for cost centers and profit centers – Cycle creation, set and execute

Z reports – Prepare functional specification with tables ad fields fletch logic

Interface between SAP and third party tool [IRIS, Produflex, Mapics, Notilus and Decidium]

DTO and cutover activities- Master data and balances uploaded and get sign off from Business

Post Go Live Support.

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Maersk Line – Norfolk, VA [IBM]

Duration

Jan 2015 to April 2016

Industry / Customer

Logistics

Project Description

SAP Rollout & Support

Role

SAP FICO SME Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Configured FI-AR: Accounts Receivables accounts determination, Milestone billing, Recurring billing & Mile stone billing, Revenue related Billing, Manual checks, Lock Box collection from customers (banks to ECC), Intercompany STO Business process implementation.

Configured FI-AP: Accounts payables Accounts Determination-PO and Non Po Invoices Business process Design, LIV, Payroll Interface with HCM, Travel expenses Interface from Amex( Credit card related Payments), ACH, Check, Positive pay files & Cashed checks (EDI), Concur interfaces with SAP for Travel expense, Interface with Concur to bank account, statements.

Configured IHB [In House Bank] and Banking: Positive pay file, Cashed check file, Electronic bank statement and Manual bank statement configuration, Cash concentration, ACH files transfer with XML file format, check forms, Payment advices and lockbox.

Fixed Assets – Gathering requirements on fixed Asset based on I did Business Process Design, FI-AA Configuration, Project system for Investment Measures configuration, Process Design for AUC/CIP and Fixed assets business process Training for the assets acquisition/Retirement/Transfer/period end closing and Legacy Assets data conversion.

Configured and work to gather with MM consultant on Procure to pay – MRP, Request for quotation, purchase request, purchase order, goods receipt, Invoice and payments

Configured and work to gather with SD consultant on Order to cash cycles – Enquiry, Quotation, sales order, goods issue, delivery, billing/invoice and payments

Integration FI to MM and SD - Setup the account key, account determination type, GL accounts, valuation class assign to GL accounts

Trained and performed Unit testing and Integration testing with 4 cycles- create Test scripts for UAT and Integration and sign off from business for UAT.

Cut over activities for Go- live and DTO upload data and get signoff from Business

Post Go- live support- Fix the issues on day to day and minor changes in Z reports.

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Danfoss – Baltimore, MD [HCL]

Duration

April 2014 to Jan2015

Industry / Customer

Heating and Cooling

Project Description

SAP Implementation

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables

Prepare Business Blue Print: Conducted Business workshops, Blue print preparation and Business team sign off the Blue print.

ASAP Methodologies used for project and divided into 5 cycles for the Developments, unit testing and Integration testing and Business coordination for Integration testing and UAT sign off.

Configured Company code, chart of accounts [Country, group and operational], account groups, tolerance group, field status, fiscal year variant, number ranges, etc.

Accounts Receivable and payables- Configured account groups, internal and external number ranges and field status

Foreign Currency – Configured foreign currency setup, standard quotation for exchange rate, exchange rate type, ratio for currencies translation, exchange rate and Parallel valuation method

APP- Configured manual and automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, checks print and XML files derived in DME.

Dunning – Configured 3 levels dunning notices, interest calculation for payments after due dates, dunning charges calculation, letters send via email setup.

Designed Down payments request, payments and adjust/clearing invoice.

Tax- Configured withholding tax on Invoices and payments, reports generated, sales and purchase tax codes, this tax codes assign in pricing procedure for the future dates based on that it will picks the tax changes automatic from that date onwards.

Fixed Assets- Configured chart of depreciation, assign depreciation to CC, account determination, screen layout, number range internal and external for AUC, assets class for AUC and finished assets, assign GL for postings deprecation and other transactions, deprecation methods, deprecation keys and upload master and transaction data.

AUC Asset under constriction - Configured Asset class, external number ranges this will create the same in internal order investment, created and trained to end user on AUC master data, assign the settlement rule, run settlement and transfer from AUC to finished assets.

Worked with other modules consultant for the process related OTC, RTR and PTP.

COPA – Accounting and costing based, report painter, setup the characteristics.

Profit center and Cost center- Create hierarchy for cost center and profit center, master data created, distribution cycle created for cost center and activity type.

Cost elements – Created cost elements for all the P&L GL in configuration and moved the same to Production box

DTO – Data take over activities, share template to Business and get the same template with all master and transaction data and upload, validate all data matches in SAP and legacy and get sign off from Business

Worked Go- live support and fix the issues.

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Chemtura – Middlebury, CT [HCL]

Duration

April 2013 to March 2014

Industry / Customer

Chemicals and Pesticides

Project Description

SAP Rollout & Support

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables

Business Blue Print: Conducted Business Blue Print workshops, preparation As-is and To- be with business process and get sign off from Business team.

Configured Accounts Receivable and Payable: Billing, Delivery, Pricing, Revenue accounts Determination, Accounts Groups, Sales tax customer billing and purchase tax, reports for tax, Revenue Recognition Account determination and Invoice processing for the multiple scenarios including Intercompany postings, inter company stock transfer and Revenue recognition, Milestone billing and STO processes.

MM Account determination PO and Non PO process with Data serve interfaces Error Handling.

Concur – Configured Interface with SAP, Upload balances in card, interface concur to bank account, derive statements.

FI-Fixed Assets: Fixed asset configuration, Business process Design, Appropriate Request with Investment management and Investment Measures using Project systems for AUC with budgeting and AUC Fixed Assets month end process.

New GL – Migrated from classic GL to new GL, configuration new GL steps, segments, document splitting, parallel ledgers, transfer documents to new GL.

Product Costing – Creation of production orders, components, routing, work center, BOM, Result analysis, settlement, variance and month end activities.

SR- Develop new request as per business requirement

Configured APP and House Banks for new payment methods in XML files with DME tree, SEPA and ACH

Box shifted from one location to another location - Data center migration testing for development, quality, sand and production boxes before shifted and after shifted.

Handling to fix the day to day issues on Procure to pay and order to cash cycles.

Debugging the Z program and find the error in Z transactions and reports.

Received frequently issues in tax, payment files, interface and changing the batch jobs

Worked on month end and year end activities and fix the issues within the SLA

I conducted training to end users who are new joiners.

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Modus Link – Waltham, MA [HCL]

Duration

Aug 2012 to March 2013

Industry / Customer

Logistics

Project Description

Support

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables

Issues fixed on day to day in Taxation US, CA & EMEA Regions: Vertex engine Taxation application configuration for US & Canada Taxes in ECC (Sales tax, Purchase Tax & Use Tax-Vertex Integration) and Interface with 3rd Party Tax ware system for US and Canada and VAT for UK & Germany Regions (Input and Output taxes).

Work with other modules for the process related issues OTC, RTR and PTP.

Cost Center Accounting: Configuration for OKB9 defaulting values, Data conversion for cost center master data, Assements and Distributions.

COPA- Report painter changes for the management reporting for Group and legal valuations and FI-COPA Reconciliation for the month end and year end.

Issues fixed in electronic bank statements and cash flow business process.

Issues in fixed assets, deprecation, AUC, settlement run, transfer of assets with foreign exchanges.

Designed and developed Investment Internal Orders to hold the construction costs and later being able to settle to Fixed Assets.

Month end and year end activities transfer data, open period and close periods in FI and CO

Monitoring the batch jobs for super critical morning and evening jobs and communicate with business if there is issues when batch jobs get failed and its root cause analysis.

Issues fixed in distribution cycle and create new cycles

Trained and performed Unit testing and Integration testing - Create Test scripts for UAT and Integration and sign off from business for UAT.

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Citi Group – Wilmington, DE [Polaris]

Duration

Jan 2012 to July 2012

Industry / Customer

Banking

Project Description

SAP Rollout and Support

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables

Getting requirements from Citi bank clients based on that configured DME tree as per the client requirement and their country legal entity and

Using ISO XML format for payments through Automatic payment program and the files received through interface and the same to send to client to update bank reconciliation statement

Payments files derived from XML format with all the mandatory nodes

Preparation of implementation and user manuals for DME with XML file format.

Payment methods updated through table for PIUIDs

Supporting to Citi bank clients for the payments in XML file in day to day issues.

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Cadence design systems – San Jose, CA [Polaris]

Duration

June 2011 to Dec 2011

Industry / Customer

Chip manufacturing

Project Description

SAP Implementation

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables

Requirements gathering, prepared As-IS and TO- BE document, prepared blue print and Business team sign off for Blue prints.

Created GL account groups, chart of accounts- operational, group and country

Configured Accounts Receivables- Account groups, number ranges, field status and setup sensitive fields change confirmation, processes EDI, EDI Invoice errors for account determination.

Configured Accounts Payables- Account groups, number ranges, field status, documents posted with IDOC.

Configured House banks, payment methods, payment terms, automatic payment program for checks and transfers, payment advice.

Configured Bank reconciliation statement for electronic ad manual, data received from bank through interface.

Profit center and Cost center- Create hierarchy for cost center and profit center, master data created, distribution cycle created for cost center and activity type.

Cost elements – Created cost elements for all the P&L GL in configuration and moved the same to Production box

Product Costing – Production Variant, Costing sheet, creation of production orders, components, routing, work center, BOM, settlement, variance and month end activities.

Design functional specification with tables and fields fletch logic and flow/ process chart for Z reports, interface and customize transaction

Configured Tax- Sales and purchase, reports, tax certificates derived

Getting testing sign off from business in each phase testing and fix the error.

Trained to key users, prepared user manuals and configuration documents

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Cameron – Houston, TX

Duration

July 2009 to April 2011

Industry / Customer

Oil and Gas Drilling equipment’s Manufacturing

Project Description

SAP Implementation, Roll Out and Support

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

I have been worked in different countries with various responsibilities and deliverables

3 Rollout projects in India, south Africa and Romania

1 Implementation project in Singapore

Supported globally - 82 company codes and 1 controlling area

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Business Blue Print: Conducted Business Blue Printing workshops, Blue print preparation and Business team sign off for Blue prints.

Defined and Configured Company code, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges, Posting Keys, Document Types, Fiscal Year Variants, and Field Status Groups.

Creation Primary and secondary cost elements.

Fixed Assets- Configured chart of depreciation, assign depreciation to CC, account determination, screen layout, number range internal and external for AUC, assets class for AUC and finished assets, assign GL for postings deprecation and other transactions, deprecation methods, deprecation keys and upload master and transaction data.

Foreign Currency – Configured foreign currency setup, standard quotation for exchange rate, exchange rate type, ratio for currencies translation, exchange rate and Parallel valuation method

APP- Configured automatic payment program, payment methods, house banks, checks print, check lots and void reason.

Designed and developed Investment Internal Orders to hold the construction costs and later being able to settle to Fixed Assets.

Work with other modules for the process related OTC, RTR and PTP.

Product Costing – Creation of production orders, components, routing, work center, BOM, settlement, variance and month end activities.

Maintained Master data as per the design includes cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, 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, indirect activity allocations

Trained to key users, prepared user manuals and configuration documents

Month end and year end activities transfer data, open period and close periods in FI and CO

Monitoring the batch jobs for super critical morning and evening jobs and communicate with business if there is issues when batch jobs get failed and its root cause analysis.

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Arcelor Mittal – Monrovia, Liberia [West Africa]

Duration

Nov 2008 to April 2009

Industry / Customer

Mining and Steel

Project Description

SAP Implementation

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Basic settings in FI and CO - Configured Company code, chart of accounts [Country, group and operational], account groups, tolerance group, field status, fiscal year variant, number ranges, etc.

Configured foreign currency, withholding tax, sales and purchase tax, financial statement creation, cash journals.

Configured APP with house bank and checks printing, Dunning notices and Interest calculation.

Fixed Assets- Configured chart of depreciation, assign depreciation to CC, account determination, screen layout, number range internal and external for AUC, assets class for AUC and finished assets, assign GL for postings deprecation and other transactions, deprecation methods, deprecation keys and upload master and transaction data.

AUC Asset under constriction - Configured Asset class, external number ranges this will create the same in WBS elements, created and trained to end user on AUC master data, assign the settlement rule, run settlement and transfer from AUC to finished assets.

Created Cost centers, cost center budget, hierarchy, Internal orders for statically report, cost elements primary and secondary creation.

Prepared the functional specification of various business specific reports and get developed by the ABAP programmers.

DTO and cutover activities- Master data and balances uploaded and get sign off from Business

Integration from FI to SD and MM

Trained to key users and Preparation of user manuals

Post Go-Live support -Analyzing the issues and provide solution

SAP Project Experience – Details

Client

Emami – Kolkata, India

Duration

Dec 2005 to Oct 2008

Industry / Customer

Cosmetics Manufacturing

Project Description

SAP Implementation and Support

Role

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Business Blue Printing: Conducted Business Blue Printing workshops, Blue print preparation and Business team sign off for Blue prints.

ASAP methodologies used for project and divided into 5 cycles for the Developments, unit testing and Integration testing and Business coordination for Integration testing and UAT sign off.

Setup all steps in FI as per the blue print document, setup withholding tax, Forex, house bank, Automatic payments program, EBS, Dunning letters with legal final letter.

Work with other modules for the process related OTC, RTR and PTP.

Fixed assets with all basic setups, deprecation calculation, AUC, settlement rule.

Data upload through LSMW in cut over activities.

Fix the issue on day to day activities.

Support on month end activities in FI and CO to support GRIR clearing, Forex run, Deprecation run, accrual and deferrals, assessments and distributions cycle.

Month end and year end activities transfer data, open period and close periods in FI and CO

Monitoring the batch jobs for super critical morning and evening jobs and communicate with business if there is issues when batch jobs get failed and its root cause analysis.

Trained to key and super users.

Non – SAP Experience Summary:

Raju Sumathy and Co [June 2003 to Nov 2005] – Chennai, India

Designation: Finance Assistant Manager

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

External audit

Verify payments and receipts

Budget preparation as per the clients requirement

Prepare balance sheet and profit and loss account

Maintain customers And vendors records, reconciliation statements

Filing the Tax for clients

Adjust the entries

Audit the files in clients location

Education:

M.B.A [Finance] in University of Madras.

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