Sawan Singh

Mobile No : 614-***-**** Email ID : aczy96@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Over Eight years of experience in SAP FICO with three full cycle implementations, support and upgrade projects

Implemented three Full Life Cycles using ASAP methodology, from understanding “AsIs” business processes, blueprint to realization, configuration, customization, Data migration, final preparation, testing, authorization designing for roles with security team & developing BPP’s, end user training, pre & post go-live support.

Strong expertise in Functional Configuration and implementation of the following SAP R/3 modules: New GL, FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, Banking, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PCA, CO-PC, COPA and Taxes.

Strong knowledge in Integration of various SAP applications like SD, MM, PP,HR, with FI/CO &FSCM; Good knowledge of Vertex, BGCS, Phoebus.

Experienced in working with SOX and SOD compliance Teams. Strong knowledge of US GAAP, ACH, Positive Pay, OTC, P2P, APP, Lockbox configuration and dunning process.

Good working knowledge in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows).

Have Good Knowledge in areas of ABAP like BDC, Reports-BAPIs, BADI, User exits, IDOCs, Index Screens

Strong working experience in various kinds of Testing such as, Manual Testing, GUI Automation Testing, System testing, User Acceptance Testing, Unit & Integration Testing, Performance, Stress and Regression Testing of client/server and web based applications.

Ability to understand the projects business requirements and timelines and have the ability to drive closure of design issues to meet the projects go-live.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Modules: Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivable, Banking, Taxes, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger/New General Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders along with BA, Stake Holder Management and Reporting

Industry Expertise : Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Utiliity & Entertainment.

ERP : SAP R/3 version,ECC 6.0

TAX : Vertex O Series

Reporting Tools : SAP Queries and Report Painter

SAP Tools : Report Painter, Solution Manager, CATTS, eCATTS, LSMW

Methodologies Used: Accelerated SAP (ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Medtronic Plc, Minneapolis-MN

June2015- Till Date

Role: SAP FICO Analyst (GL, AP, AR,CO-COPA,COPC ) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Solving Tickets on various aspects on AA/AR/AP/GL/CO- PA, PCA including Invoice, Cash Application, Lockbox, Electronic Payments, Automatic Customer/Vendor Payment Clearing programs, settlement, Adjustments, ERS, Credit Management, Banking integration.

Provided Functional specs for reports in AP, AR.

Customization settings for Asset Accounting such as Chart of depreciation, account determination, Depreciation areas, Number ranges, Asset classes, GL accounts etc.

Act as the primary liaison between IT and Business units (Vendor Finance, Procurement, Sales) on reporting requirements, enhancements, and troubleshooting data related issues.

Supporting client with configuration on basis of the business requirements

Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.

Providing support daily trouble shooting problems.

Worked closely with the Engineering department in order to develop effective EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions monitoring tools for the Customer Support Representatives.

Tested Universe and reports, which includes database connectivity and aggregate awareness to ensure the query is pulling the correct level of aggregation.

In FI -Treasury, responsible for configuring House Banks with multiple Bank Accounts, alternate bank selections for Payments, assigned check lots and defined void reason codes, check lots and configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments and IDOCs

Dispute Management: Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with accounts receivable.

Collection Management setup for collection strategies, collection work lists, collection Management activities and integration of the collection management with dispute Optimized Cash Application process for bank statements, remittance advices and lockbox using Auto Bank.

Experience working with ABAP team to design, build and develop data migration/ conversion programs, GL balances extract, convert and load into SAP using LSMWs by providing functional and Technical specifications.

Configured taxes for US and Canada using Vertex.

Configured tax settings, maintained Input and Output tax codes for different jurisdiction codes, and maintained jurisdiction code settings, automatic account assignments for tax postings.

Internal orders : processing and closure of orders and CO Master Data

Maintained Operating Concern, and assigned controlling area to operating concern and activated Profitability Analysis. Imported characteristics and Value Fields to Operating Concern.

Mapped SD condition types to value fields to have the system automatically transfer the sales revenues and deductions to CO-PA.

Responsible for designing and implementing Product costing, overhead cost management and COPA areas for Juniper Networks.

Conducted workshops for Business community for SAP functionality and reviewing the fit gap analysis.

Responsible for blueprinting Product costing and analyzing the functionalities as per Juniper business needs.

Determined BOM structure for Configurable materials and Bundles for cost roll up

Designed Sub Contracting process for cost roll up and defined user exits for customization.

Designed COPA value flow from SD and MM and also responsible for delivering FSD documents for building BW cube for extracting COPA documents.

Designed Top down distribution process for allocating plant expenses to SKU level..

Documented end user manuals and training material and conducting end user training on GL, AR, AP, AA and CO modules.

Actively Involved in Month End Activities.

Vale, Nj

May 2014-March 2015

Vale SA is a Brazilian multinational corporation engaged in metals and mining and one of the largest logistics operators in Brazil. Vale is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel in the world. Wave1 (Indonesia, Malaysia), Wave2 (Brazil, USA) and Wave3 (Canada)

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (GL, AP, AR, CCA,FI-TV,Integrations,CCA,PCA COPA,COPC) - ECC 6.0(Implementation W3)

Responsibilities:

Collected and analyzed users business requirements, identified and defined areas for improvements, prepared specifications for development, configured, troubleshot and supported the system users.

Followed ASAP implementation methodology, designed the business processes, wrote blue print phase documentation and completed configuration during realization phase.

AP Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying Company code, Country payment methods, Wire transfer settings, ACH payments

Configure the AP modules. Key configuration includes House banks and Accounts, Payment Program Configuration, and the vendor master data

In Accounts Receivables, involved in the configuration of Customer Account Groups, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Customer Master Data, Payment terms, Incoming Payment Processing, Open Item Clearing and Dunning Procedures.

Involved in monitoring of actual data flow from SD Billing Documents and FI direct Postings to CO.

Worked on Customer Statement and configured Lockbox

Design and configuration of Automatic Account Assignment, over/underpayments, Interest calculation and Credit Management with 3 levels.

Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions.

Created primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups, maintained cost element attributes, and costing sheet.

Configured Cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution, assessment and indirect activity allocations. Gathered country specific requirements for all the European entities and documented PDD and DPD documents.

Responsible for blueprinting Material Ledger and analyzing the functionalities as per CAT business needs.

Implemented parallel valuation using ML for valuating inventory leading and non leading ledgers based for Europe and US GAAP.

Designed process for updating standard cost based on local standards and US GAAP standards using standard SAP functionality.

Identified needs for new costing sheet as per Europe local GAAP valuation and designed costing sheets for fulfill business requirements

Conducted workshops to gather requirements for implementing material ledger.

Responsible for building a prototype for Material Ledger based on the business requirements.

Conducted Demo sessions for material ledger proto type with the client BPO’s

Working on SAP FI-TV(travel management ).

Solving the issues of SAP FI and Travel Management (Settlement, Advances, TRIP).

Tested payroll and benefits in HR and identified necessary jobs to execute plans also Travel Management

Worked with ABAPERs in providing functional assistance in the development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms and Workflows).

Helped in Month end and Year end closing activities.

IDoc extensions were created and implemented in order to handle the exchange of customer-required data that was not available in the SAP delivered IDocs.

Performed Regression Testing, Unit testing, coordinated with technical & functional people from other modules in integration testing.

Involved in creating Test Cases & Test Scripts and also verified the executed Test Scripts.

Provided Pre go-live and Post go-live production support.

British Gas, UK

December 2012 – April 2014

British Gas commonly called as Centrica. Centrica is a major business operating in UK and is a major gas and electricity suppliers in Norway and other parts of UK

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO,COPA,COPC) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Primary contact and responsible for solving all priority tickets like critical, high, medium and low priority within the SLA time limit.

Analyzed the current business processes, GL structure, financial and controlling objects to provide solutions in line with global design.

Interacted with end users of the company to understand requirements

Supported in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Accounting)

Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules with FI and CO modules. Configured automatic account determination, ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).

Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.

Configured in-house cash center management payment process and cash forecasting.

Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.

Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.

Worked on New GL, configured the ledgers, set up integration with Controlling, and made the general setting for the fiscal year, the posting periods and the currencies.

Dispute Management: Responsible for setup for dispute cases and role assignment, processing the dispute case and integration with accounts receivable.

Created LSMW to upload Debit memos.

Created new House banks and configured Automatic Payment Program.

Configured payment program using IDOCs and EDI.

Expertise in SAP cross applications such as BAPI-ALE interfaces.

Created functional spec to read Cash Checks file and upload it in SAP.

Have worked on the vendor master records and set up – verifying the vendor p2p documents, Bank Details, LTO (Letter heads ) and RTQ, RTV

Have worked on the issues of Po based invoices, Non-Po based invoices, Batch based invoices and provided satisfactory resolutions.

Documented the defects in BGCS and also involved in submitting daily status reports of testing to end client.

Intercompany trading scenarios (STO, direct shipment, 3rd party)

Involved in COPA, Maintained the operating concern, assigned the value fields, OBYC settings, maintained changes in the FI-SD integration changes, defined the key figure schemes.

Business Users interaction on daily basis for daily production activities and assigning work schedules to the team to meet deadlines if any.

Maintained new Profit Center, Cost Center and Activity types Master Data for newly added entities.

Defined new Splitting Rules to split both Plan and Actual for different activity types.

Designed new Assessment Cycles for Cost Centers and WBS Elements as per the business changes.

Constant monitoring of the month end process and as a part of the month end procedure executed both Assessment and Distribution Cycles.

Responsible for developing an interface for loading Plan data from Hyperion and ESSBASE to SAP using custom transaction codes.

Transferred all the WBS and Cost Center Plan Data to EC- PCA.

Defined Planning Profiles for both Primary and Secondary Cost Elements.

Designed Functional specifications for Customized ABAP Reports for actual and plan in CCA.

Developed new reports using report painter for CCA planning.

Performed testing in different test environments and documented all the test scenarios.

Defined Internal orders for different order types, Planning profile, settlement profile, settlement rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers, Distribution and Assesment cycles

All Relevant CO Master Data

Worked with BW team on reports.

Viswakirti Projects (Pvt) Ltd, India

June 2012-November 2012

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO) - ECC 6.0(Implementation)

Responsibilities:

Participated in Gathering Information on current company’s legacy systems, business processes and activities. Analyzed business requirements, determining organizational structure, classifying business units/locations, determining company codes and profitability centers (AS-IS – TO-BE).

Performed GAP analysis, actively participated in blueprint phase using ASAP methodology.

Configured AP, uploaded master data setup and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for AP for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.

Integrated MM (Logistics), SD and HR modules with FI and CO modules. Configured automatic account determination, ensured smooth operation of MIGO-MIRO transactions (Procure to Pay).

Configured AR including creation of customer account groups, number ranges for AR, tolerance groups, credit control area, customer credit limits and credit limit groups.

Configured in-house cash center management payment process and cash forecasting.

Made global settings for electronic bank statements, created and assigned business transactions for manual bank statements. Defined variants for manual bank statements.

Defined posting keys and created business transactions for Check deposits and worked on Cash Journal configuration.

Tested and performed web-demos of GL transactions for fast-entry screens, splitting, posting, parking and reversals.

Created primary and secondary cost elements in CO and worked on Month end and year end closing procedures.

Configured CO-IO (Internal Orders) by maintaining Order Types, Screen Layouts, Order Groups, Settlement Rules and Settlement Profile.

Configured Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting by creating Standard Cost Center Hierarchy using CATTS, Alternative Hierarchy, primary and secondary cost elements.

Configured and managed all Period-End closing activities with Schedule Manager, Capitalized Assets with Budget monitoring using statistical internal orders.

Created customized reports using report painter/report writer.

Generated Investment Program Hierarchy tree diagram with direct definition of the corresponding program positions and their assignment to the desired positions in the hierarchy using fast entry.

Participated in testing using Solution Manager. Thoroughly involved in creation of Test Scenarios. Performed Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

On a regular basis performed knowledge transfer to Super users and management using web demos; citrated BPP documentation.

Involved in post Go-live support.

National Broadcasting Company Universal (NBCU),USA

November 2011- May 2012

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Production support in the areas of GL, AP, AR, Banking,CO

Ensured that SAP Applications are delivered to meet customers’ needs and expectations.

Ensured that district application system and new business standards were reliable.

Assisted and supported SAP Applications Management Team Lead.

Participated in Regional and Global Specific application projects.

Identified and managed gaps in the Regional design.

Involved in the Development of test scenarios/test cases and resolved issues at Unit Testing and Integration Testing provided Courseware and Documentation in FI/CO Modules.

Documented the defects in HP Quality Center and also involved in submitting daily status reports of testing to end client.

Analyzed monthly Financial Reports for management to assist them in financial decisions and assist the accounting firm to make yearly financial statements.

Mocking up the data considering security and confidential data. Thorough Documentation of all the Reports with Report definition, field definitions and layouts.

Nagarjuna Agri Chem Ltd

October2008 – October2011.

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (G/L, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, IO) - ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

Worked on USA Application –Phoebus.

Calculating the interest and finance charges.

Working on debt sold accounts and removed the late fees of customers.

Preparation of User Manual Procedures.

Analyzing the documented information and converting it into assertive forms

Identified and proposed business process and system enhancements.

Identified, interpreted, validated and documented customer requirements.

RISE PROGRAM

Joined RISE program as a member of Record to Report (R2R)/ Finance team.

Understanding the existing business Processes in various discussions with the client & studying the available documents & preparation of Business Blue Print.

Involved in the customization of Organizational elements for Financial Accounting like Creation of Company, Company Code etc.

Mapped business processes into SAP Financial Accounting.

Creation and maintenance of master records.

Involved in Configuration of GL, AA, AR & AP.

Worked on Roles and Authorization Matrix by coordinating with Basis Team

Working on the SAP Master Data Management (AP,AR,GL,CO)

Also worked on PO based, Non Po based invoices and their maintenance

Identified and documented the strategic orientations and project scope .

Identified the needs of stakeholders and the impact on the company -Analyzed user requirements

Following standard analysis procedures to understand the primary format and scope of the system requirements

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