Savithri Kolli

Senior SAP Certified FICO FSCM Functional Consultant

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Summary

Senior SAP Certified Functional Consultant having a total of 20 years of overall experience specialized in Corporate Accounting, Auditing, Financial Functions in SAP FICO – General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting, SAP FSCM – Dispute Management, Collection Management, Credit Management and has SAP CO – Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting & Internal Order Accounting. Involved in various end to end implementations (3), Roll-outs (4) Ugrade (2), GO-LIVE, Hypercare and Production support projects. Has well versed with various versions SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 & S4 Hana Finance (1609, 1709 &1909) for the clients in various industries includes FMCG, Oil & Gas, IT, Telecommunication & Infra…

Very familiar with ASAP & Activate methodologies and practiced in all project phases right from Design Discussions, Conducting Workshops, Business Blueprint preparation, identifying gaps, Configuration, Testing, UAT sign off, Cutover activities and Hyper Care Support.

Solid experience in SAP FSCM - Credit Management, Collections and Dispute Management & Credit Card Payment Process

Extensive knowledge in Configuration of Enterprise Structure, New GL Accounting, Parallel Ledger, Currencies, Accounting Principles & Document Splitting.

Strong exposure on Configuration of Business Partner, House Bank Configuration, Automatic Payment Program, DMEE, EBRS, Lockbox & Dunning.

Experience in New Asset Accounting – Creation of Chart of Accounts, Asset Class, Depreciation areas & Depreciation Keys.

Experience in Controlling includes Cost Centers Accounting CO-CCA, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, and Product Costing & Hands on experience in designing CO reporting in various dimensions with report painter.

Very good understanding of other modules in SAP and integrations with SD, MM, PP & CO.

Familiar with LSMW & LTMC tools in terms of migrating data from Legacy systems and master data mainainence.

Exposure to various third-party tools Concur, Ariba, Foriba, VIM and Banking Interfaces & IDOC’s.

Worked extensively on E-Invoicing, WHT, Input & Output Taxes.

Strong knowledge in converting Business requirements into Functional Specifications and coordinating with technical team to deliver – RICEFW objects & Strong knowledge in writing Validations & Substitutions.

Trained users in exploring & usage of Firori and helped business by providing support during year end

Experience in Financial Accounting on SAP platform right from posting an entry to preparation of Financial Statements & Auditing.

S. No

Name of the Organization

Designation

Duration

1

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd

National Manager-IT Projects

Oct 2021 to Aug 2023

2

Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd

Senior Manager

Sep 2019 to Oct 2021

3

Shell India Markets Private Limited

Business Analyst

Jun 2018 to Aug 2019

4

NTT Data (formerly Dell Services)

ERP Advisor

Feb 2011 to May 2018

5

Sistema Shyam Tele Services Ltd (MTS)

Senior Specialist

May 2010 to Oct 2010

6

Wireless TT Info Services Ltd (Intercompany transfer from TTSL)

Assistant Manager

Apr 2009 to May 2010

7

Tata Tele Services Ltd

Executive Finance

Feb 2008 to Mar 2009

8

Thomson Reuters

Process Associate

Sep 2007 to Jan 2008

9

Nipuna Services Pvt Ltd

Senior Process Associate

Mar 2006 to Sep 2007

10

Pulivarthi&AssociateChartered Accountants

Audit Assistant

Jun 2002 to Mar 2006

Certifications:

SAP Certified Professional Associate - SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting Professional (1709)

SAP Certified Associate – SAP FI Certified Associate (ECC 6)

Educational Qualifications:

PE-II from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

BCom from one of the Nagarjuna University in INDIA.

Professional Summary:

Client: Coca-Cola Oct 2021 – Till Date

Role: SAP FICO Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

●Responsible from Inhouse IT Team for SAP FICO CR’s, Incidents & Project Management,

●Worked closely with Finance & BSS leadership teams in the design and rollout of strategic Digital initiatives and expanding the existing Digital foot prints in Finance, FSS and Coke One (SAP).

●Collaborating with Finance, FSS teams, BSS & Logistics by driving the Digital capabilities, Digital solution adoptions and Digital value realization programs and managing third party service vendors of SAP & Interfaces.

●Successfully delivered SAP related Demands & Projects pertaining to Finance, Taxation & Banking.

●Gathering Requirements from the Business.

●Preparation of BRD Document and provide walk through to Support Team and getting efforts.

●Evaluating Efforts and Business Benefits and getting budget approval from Business

●Working with Functional, Technical & Third-Party Teams to get the BRD delivered with in stipulated agreed timeliness.

●Preparation of Project plan to ensure smooth go live along with cutover activities & hypercare.

●Helped business with multiple automations & Process improvements by evaluating Vendor products (Max ITC Tools, Vendor discounting)

●Good understanding of cross functional SAP ECC capabilities and supporting the procure to pay workstream, ARIBA Functionalities, Master Data Maintenance and Reporting capabilities.

Tata Consumer Products, Global Sept 2019 – Oct 2021

Senior SAP FICO Lead & CoE ( S/4 Hana Implementation Project)

Responsibilities:

Senior SAP FICO Requirements gathering and analysis: Documentation including High-Level Business Requirements, Functional Design Requirements, and List of SAP and Legacy systems impacted and HANA Finance Experience.

Coordinating global implementations from Scope study to Go-Live and Post-Go-Live support including kick-off, design, testing, and end-user training.

Business Units are Beverages, Tata Coffee, Vietnam, Food & Nourishco.

Attended Workshops conducted by SAP & TCS Team (Implementation partner of Tata Consumer Products) on S4 Hana to see the best practices of Consumer Product Industry & harmonize across divisions.

Global Template Preparation for all the Divisions from FICO (Company Code, Currencies, Operating Concern, Controlling area, Chart of Accounts, Automatic determination of GL Accounts, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys, Asset Class, Vendor Account groups, Customer Account groups & Financial Statement Versions)

Review the Business Process overview documents and make sure none of the existing functionalities are lost and ensure manual work is avoided and followed the S4 Hana Best Practices of Model Company.

Completed the Carve out of Food Business from Tata Chemicals.

Successfully completed the Company name change project from Tata Global Beverages Ltd to Tata Consumer Products Ltd for all the applications including SAP, TCS & E Invoice Projects as a Project Manager

Worked on BPC Automation Project for Tata Coffee.

Worked on Product Costing for Beverages.

Integration of Concur to SAP was successfully completed for Employee claims.

In addition to Projects responsible for approving all the support changes & exceptional CR’s

Gather Requirement from Business, check the impact analysis and convert it into CRD document and share with support team, validate the solution & efforts shared by support team and approve the same if they align with client business process.

Providing Impact analysis to the management for all new projects.

Align with Functional & Technical Teams on all enhancements.

Successfully able to streamline the support model by introducing POAP and adhering the timelines.

Able to deliver lot of automations within short span of time & reduced manual efforts on couple of CR’s. Lot of Business improvements has been initiated like Auto Batch job scheduling for EBRS, Open & Close Posting periods & end to end automation on payables process (HDFC & HSBC Banks) and DMS.

Helped the business to get all the Asset Transfer from Legacy (ECC 6.0) to S4 Hana.

Good Understanding on Taxes ( Input & Output) and With holding tax functionalities

Keywords: SAP (S4 HANA, Fiori Application), SAP Fiori Application, SAP Financial Accounting, Enterprise Structure, New GL Accounting, Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting.

Clark Constructions, VA Sept 2019 – Oct 2021

SAP FICO Lead CONSULTANT (Upgrade Project)

Responsibilities:

●Worked as a S/4 Hana FICO Lead on Upgrade Project from 1709 to 1909

●Prepared detailed list of Test Scenario’s applicable on FICO area.

●Analyzed the system, provided replacement t-codes in S/4 for obsolete t-codes.

●Created Test Scripts and updated in respective folders

●Performed Testing before and after upgrade

●Trained end users on Fiori apps.

●Coordinated with Basis & ABAP Team in getting all the components in place.

●Addressed all the defects raised by Business Teams.

●Executed Performance Testing along with Basis Team

●Worked with Securities Team to ensure all the roles are in place after upgrade.

●Conducted recurring meetings to ensure smooth UAT signoff

●Worked with Business Users and cross functional teams and SAP to address all the issues.

●Provided detailed documentation and trained super users and Support Team.

●Helped Business in Audits.

Keywords: SAP (S4 HANA, Fiori Application), SAP Fiori Application, SAP Financial Accounting, Upgrade, Testing

Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd June 2018 – Aug 2019

SAP Business Analyst & Functional Analyst

Handled end to end Accounts Payable implementation in S4 Hana (1709) on premise as a Solution Design Lead.

Worked on Impact Analysis on all RICEF’s applicable in Accounts Payable sub module for S4 Hana transformation.

Attended the workshops conducted by SAP on S4 Hana model company.

Global template prepared for Accounts Payable (Vendor Account Groups, number ranges decisions, Business Partner, Reconciliation accounts, Special GL Indicators, Payment Terms, Payment blocks)

Worked on Vendor Integration with Business Partner

Worked with all the countries to harmonize different payment methods, House Banks, Payment blocks, DMEE structures)

Co ordinating with Interface teams for moving the data from SAP to Banking portal.

Automation of EBRS

Successfully completed the E-invoice project for Italy on 1st Jan 2019.

Worked on SAP Integration with Ariba on dynamic discounting.

Worked on New market entities in Aviation space.

Successfully completed Sales Service Tax for MY country on 1st Sept 2019.

Tree House Foods, IL Oct 2012 - June 2018

SAP FICO Incident Manager

Responsibilities:

●Design, Configuration, and testing of General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payables (AP), Account Receivables (AR) and Fixed Assets, Asset Accounting (AA), Special Purpose Ledger, Controlling Areas, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), COPA and Profit Center Accounting (PCA).

●Monitoring and testing clearing accounts, reconciliation accounts, etc.

●Master data Maintenance of Vendors & customers, Invoice Processing, and Aging analysis.

●Worked as an Auditor to test the SAP financial report and related internal control compliance.

●Configuration of Tax codes & update the rates.

●Configuration of Payment Terms.

●Configuring of Tolerance groups.

●Monitoring Batch Jobs

●Resolved the issues in Unit testing and Integration testing.

●Preparation of End-user manuals for user training.

●Preparation of Documentation and Text scripts for testing and Configuration Documentation

●Handling Areas related to Integration Between various other modules, including account Determination for all MM Processes.

●Has extensive experience in all phases of the implementation of FSCM

●Worked on FSCM (Dispute Management, Collection Management & Credit Management)

●Worked on HPQC – Development and Execution of various the test cases, for the enhancements and regular developments.

●Configuration of check rules in FSCM – Credit Management.

●Monitoring of web services.

●Configuration of Credit Segments & Risk Class

●Integration with FI-AR with SAP FSCM-Credit Management.

●Configuration of attribute profile, function profile in Dispute Management.

●Configuration of Collection profile and scheduling jobs for worklist creation.

●Configuration of Credit Management (Credit Segments, risk class)

Keywords: SAP Finance, SAP Controlling Module, SAP General Ledger (GL), SAP Accounts Payables (AP), SAP Account Receivables (AR), SAP Fixed Assets, SAP Asset Accounting (AA), SAP Special Purpose Ledger, SAP Cost Center Accounting (CCA), SAP COPA, SAP Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Dispute Management, Collection Management & Credit management

Vantage Energy, TX Oct 2013 - June 2018

SAP FICO Solution Design Lead

Responsibilities:

●This is a company code rollout project. Prepared detailed project plan and executed successfully with targeted go-live date.

●Managed onshore and offshore models to complete the rollout. Directed the team with delivery timelines and supported them when they needed clarification on business issues.

●Identified project risks and mitigation plans at the early stages.

● I was involved in Period end and Year-end closing activities. Assist in the month-end closing process. Work with various departments to identify assets to be capitalized, retired, or have their lives accelerated or decelerated. Perform depreciation function on a monthly basis. Responsible for maintaining the SAP project system for Capital Projects. Prepares the Roll forward for Asset retirement obligations.

●Coordinate with various departments to determine monthly Capital and Depreciation accruals. Perform General Ledger Expense analysis. Provide support for various departments as necessary (i.e. Running queries, reports, research, etc.).

●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 the LSMW technique.

●Involved in end-to-end rollout with project management responsibilities and with FICO responsibilities.

●Configured/Extended the configuration to the new company code

●Did complete end-to-end testing from a FICO perspective.

●Conducted project status and critical areas discussion along with the customer. Achieved the project milestone as per the project plan.

●Worked on GST, E-Invoice & Taxation (India)

●Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support of the US region. This includes interfacing with the Accounts Payable and Purchasing departments to implement temporary business processes to manage the transfer of unconverted legacy data into SAP.

●Designed Rig Move process templates & new company codes creation.

●Developed Interface for auto bank payments after execution of automatic pay run and EBRS

●Worked with ABAP & Basis team to schedule auto jobs for open & close posting periods.

●Worked on Incident Management.

Keywords: SAP Project System, SAP General Ledger (GL), SAP Accounts Payables (AP), SAP Asset Accounting (AA), LSMW.

Verso Paper, OH April 2016 - Dec 2016

Senior SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

●Worked as a FICO Consultant on upgrade project from 4.7 e to 6.0

●Executed all the test cases shared by the FICO Team Lead in quality system

●Worked on New GL Accounting Configuration

●Worked on Document Splitting functionality

●Coordinated with Business users and helped in getting UAT sign off for FI related testing.

●Worked on Asset Revaluation.

Keywords: Upgrade, New GL Accounting, Testing, Document Splitting, Asset Revaluation.

Movianto, UK Jan 2017 – June 2018

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

●Worked as SAP FICO Consultant. Involved in requirement gathering session to get AS-IS signed off. Worked on Blueprint and presented for customer sign-off during BBP sessions.

●Configured FICO organization structure, New GL, APP, Dunning Process, Foreign Currency Valuation, Depreciation areas, Depreciation Keys, Asset Classes, Doubtful receivable process, Document Splitting scenarios, ledgers, and FSV creation.

●Created report painter reports for financial statements. Created cost center standard hierarchy, cost elements, profit centers, and profit center standard hierarchy.

●Involved in Cost element accounting configuration, Internal Order config, and profit center accounting. Having very good experiences in WBS and PS areas.

●Conducted all levels of training for the BPO and super users. Worked on authorization matrix

●Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas, and dunning forms for each company at the company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, over-due interest calculations, down payments, and automatic clearing of line items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of the report, technical information i.e., tables fields, and then testing.

●Involved in UT & IT testing along with the team members and Raised SAP tickets when required during implementation

Keywords: SAP, SAP FI/CO, Report Painter (within SAP), SAP Controlling (CO), Internal Order, Profit Center Accounting, WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), PS (Project Systems), New GL (General Ledger), APP (Automatic Payment Program), Dunning Process, Foreign Currency Valuation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, Asset Classes, Doubtful Receivable Process, Document Splitting.

J.J. Keller & Associates, UK April 2016 – June 2018

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

Worked on FSCM (Dispute Management, Collection Management & Credit Management)

Involved in interaction with Business team members for gathering the requirements.

Prepared various functional specs for the new developments along with the ABAP team.

Check the postings according to the Business process while at system Responsible for defects arising during the configuration and at the testing& making the test result documents.

Worked on the Report developments by using the Validations & Substitutions.

Worked on HPQC – Development and Execution of various test cases, for the enhancements and regular developments.

Configuration of check rules in FSCM – Credit Management.

Monitoring of web services.

Configuration of Credit Segments & Risk Class

Integration with FI-AR with SAP FSCM-Credit Management.

Client: DBS Bank, Singapore JUN 2011 - MAY 2013

SAP FICO Functional Lead & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

●Preparation of SOW

●Gathering Requirements from the Business

●Providing the Estimate for the development by checking the complexity of business process.

●Preparation of Functional Specification Document

●Configuration of Accounts Payable Module.

●Test the scenario’s once the development is deployed into the system

●Execute the Program and generate the text files.

●Share the files with Bank to test in bank quality system to ensure all the fields are mapped properly.

●Go-Live

●Provide post go-live functional support (hyper care)

●Taking the approval from client for the Time entries and Co-coordinating with finance team for Invoice preparation and sending the invoice copies to Business

●Actively participated in various Internal Quality Audit.

Keywords: Accounts Payable, Vendor account group creation, no ranges, assign no ranges to vendor account groups, setting of auto payments, execution of payment run.

Domain Experience (Nipuna, Thomson Reuters, TTSL, WTTIL & MTS) 5 Years

Worked under ERP Environment (SAP), responsible for:

•Worked under ERP Environment (SAP), responsible for, Vendor Management & Payables:

•Managing a Team of 12 members & Interacting with the Vendors on open invoices.

•Managing team of Accountants for smooth & timely execution of various accounting processes.

•Auditing the Invoices process by the Team

•Preparation of Schedules pertaining to P&L

•Finalization and review of Monthly Accounts.

•Monitoring the Actual performance, profitability and variance analysis.

•Handling financial concurrence of various contractual & procurement proposals.

•Coordinating and resolving queries with Circle Finance and other departments throughout Pan India.

•Preparation of Daily, Monthly MIS and Financial statements to the management.

•Timely payments to Contractors, Suppliers etc.

•Compliance of Direct, Indirect tax and VAT requirements.

•Checking and establishing suitable internal controls in the system.

•Reconciliation of Creditors & Debtors ledgers.

•Handling of Employee Claims and ensuring the same are processed as per the Company Norms.

•Ensure timely payment of Vendors & Employee claims according to TAT

•Miscellaneous activities like Liaison with Auditors, Bank Reconciliations etc.

•Online processing of invoices, Purchase and Non-PO Invoices

•Setting up Vendors, Setting up of Employees.

•Preparation of SOP.

•Auditing the invoices processed by the core team members

•Making Automatic Pay run

•Validating & Posting parked documents.

•Handling Vendors & Employee Queries through calls & mails

•Attending weekly calls on status update.

Audit Experience: June 2002 to March 2006

Worked under Pulivarthi & Associates as an Internal Auditor

Filing Tax returns.

Auditing the vouchers, checking cash balance & reconciling the physical stock with Stock register and reconciling Employer Information:

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