Lakshmi V Tripura Dantu +1-847-***-****/+1-331-***-****

SAP S/4 Hana FICO ad2ft9@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

Overall 15+ years of professional experience in SAP implementation experience ECC 6.0 & S/4 HANA (Greenfield and Brownfiled implementation) in FICO, SD, MM modules. Very good exposure on implementation, rollouts, upgrade projects and data migration (cutover activities). Strong knowledge in Costing and large integrations.

Technical skills:

Strong implementation experience in S/4H projects

Extensive experience in Business Analysis, GAP analysis, requirement gathering and solution delivery.

Experienced with ASAP & AGILE methodologies including Business process, Feasibility configuration, Testing and Training.

Good understanding with to write FSD and work with developers for drafting functional and technical specification .

Involved in SAP to S/4 and non-SAP to S/4 implementations.

Strong Experience in FI-GL, New GL, AR, Asset accounting, EBS, Automatic Payment Run, Involved in Global Template design for Accounts payable – Master data migration, Open item migration, Banking process, Inter company Reconciliation, Leading & Non-Leading Ledgers, Asset Accounting.

SAP CO Functional Expert in Designing, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Integrating, Testing, Document preparing, User training, Go-Live and Support in SAP R/3 & FI/CO with Full Life Cycle Implementations experience.

Expertise in Configuring CO Modules – Cost center acconting, Profit Center Accounting, CO-PC Product Cost by order & by period (Discrete and Repetitive), Sales Order Costing, Material Ledger activation, and costing-based profitability analysis(COPA)àstructure-Defining Operating Concern, Characteristics values & derivations, Report Painter for Special Ledgers & COPA reports & PA Transfer Structure.

Strong knowledge on integration modules - MM, SD, PP, PM, and PS and P2P (Procure to Pay), O2C (Order to Cash) Processes, R2R ( Record to Process)

Data Migration including Data Discovery, Extraction, Consolidation, Data cleansing, Transformation, Enrichment, De-duplication, Mapping, Loading and Reconciliation activities from SAP and Non-SAP sources, Inlcuding LTMC

According to Polish legal regulations, worked on SAFT report to build of dealer and own retailers for quarterly VAT returns.

Country specific Tax procedures defined to excute Input and Output tax, Witholding Tax

Integration setup generated for trasnferring Accounting data from ECC to PI system via Proxy (AXWAY). IDOCs setup maintained for Incoming & outgoing interfaces.

Management Training Skills & Certificates

Professional Scrum Master

Project Management Professional

Managing Project Risks and Changes

SAFE Agile software Development

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

Organization Administration

Proactive & Accurate

SLA Adherence

Administrative Support

Client Handling

Organizing meetings

Customer Support

Liaison & Coordination

ERP & S/4 Implementation Upgrade and Rollouts

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor of Commerce 1993, Nagarjuna University, India

Master of Commerce 1999, Nagarjuna University, India

Master of Business Administration 2019, Indira Gandhi University, India

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Application Software: SAP ECC, S/4H 1511, 1709,1809,2020 -FI & CO, SD, MM & PS

MS Office Applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Operating System: Win7 & Win10

Testing Tools : HP Quality Centre

Project Management Tools : JIRA, Sharepoint

Reporting Tools : Report Painter, Report Writer, LSMW

Methodologies: Accelerated SAP(ASAP), AGILE, SDLC, Business Process Restructuring

Experience:

Worked with Rivian Automotives from Oct 2022 to Dec 2023 as FICO Lead

Worked with Accenture à Sasol Chemicals from June 2022 to Sept 2022 as SAP Lead

Worked with Mercedes Benz from April 2021 to April 2022 as Principal Consultant

Worked with Capgemini à Mercedes Benz from June 2019 to April 2021 as C2 Manager.

Worked with NTTDATA Global Services à Mercedes Benz from Dec 2017 to June 2019 as S/4 Business Consulting Principal Consultant, Architect & ERP Specialist

Worked with Biztech Solutions àSigma Aldrich (MERCK) from Jan 2016 to Dec 2017 as SAP S/4 Lead Consultant

Worked with Genpact à GE from Feb 2011 to Jan 2016 as SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Worked with S&P Global à from June 2009 to Jan 2001 as SAP FICO consultant

Worked with Capital IQ à From May 2006 to May 2009 as Financial Analyst

SAP Consulting Experience:

Project : Rivian Automotives, Duration : Oct, 2022 to Nov 2023

Solution Architect\FICO Lead

Responsibilities

Costing related Topics including Custom Transaction creation and automation

Data Migration from Non-Sap to S/4.

Setup for Product Costing, Sales Order Costing, Product cost by period (Product Cost Collector), Material Ledger Activation.

Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable with BP and GL accounting

Leading & Non leading ledger setup with currency settings

Material Ledger Activation and Multi currency valuation setup.

Intercompany Process setup and I/C reconciliation

Data migration during cutover activities

Custom development, Review complex business requirement with Business SME that include working on SAP Enhancements/developments.

Working with cross-functional teams to ensure master data is set up appropriately in procurement, production modules to ensure accurate cost estimates

Developed proof of concepts in sandbox system to demonstrate the proposed solutions to the users while communicating impact on the existing business processes. Creating and Leading product cost planning to support manufacturing process

Month End Product Cost Activities such as WIP & Variance Calculation

Supporting Plant accounting team for the development of product business case

Integration with One Source Tax for EMEA rollout.

Client: Sasol Chemicals, Houston, Texas June 2022 - Sept 2022

Role: SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

Lead in Custom development, Review complex business requirement with Business SME that include working on SAP Enhancements/ABAP developments.

Worked with cross-functional teams to ensure master data is set up appropriately in procurement and production modules to ensure accurate cost estimates and cost capturing

Developed proof of concepts in sandbox system to demonstrate the proposed solutions to the users while communicating impact on the existing business processes.

Project: Mercedes Benz Research & Development April 2021 to April 2022 Solution Architect\Sr.Principal Consultant

Responsibilities

Lead consultant for the implementation of Migration fro ECC -à S4 Hana, Enterprise Structure,C&V intergration, AR & AP setup with BP creation .Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, GL Master Data, Asset Accounting.

Conducted design workshops with business users while communicating the benefits, risks, and constraints to the business and Information Technology Stakeholders.

Worked in migration objects with large/big data

Lead in Custom development, Review complex business requirement with Business SME that include working on SAP Enhancements/ABAP developments.

Worked with cross-functional teams to ensure master data is set up appropriately in procurement and production modules to ensure accurate cost estimates and cost capturing

Developed proof of concepts in sandbox system to demonstrate the proposed solutions to the users while communicating impact on the existing business processes.

Worked closely with BPC team for data extraction from S/4 hana source systems for legal and management reporting.

Project: Mercedes Benz – Project Focus Duration: June 2019 to April 2021

Delivery Manager\ Solution Architect

SAP FICO functional designing, configuration services which include design analysis & development of SAP Process .

Worked for Big/Large data integrations with EWM & COFICO(Common Fincontrol sys)

Analyze enhancement requirements and resolve the needs to reconfigure/updating SAP process. Functional, Configuration and implementation : New GL,FI-GL, FI-AP,FI-AR,P2P, O2C processes, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PCA, CO-PC

For CO-PC, worked in coordination with Production planning team, Master data structure in CO-PC, Standard cost estimate from BOM, Work center rate routing, Product Cost Planning areas, Cost Roll-up and Costing run.

Conducted to Coordinate Business Blue print workshops for understanding client requirements. Collaborative work with the key users in the documentation of “As-is process”.

Performed data validation and account determination for mapping of the processes on to the SAP R/3 system.Gap analysis with realization of open issues and design of best fit functionalities.

Educating the client on FI and CO Master and transaction data information with Intercompany processing details.

Testing of full order to cash and procure to pay process. Have good experience in writing functional specification for generating new reports to ABAP programmers.

Project: Daimler –Project Future Duration: Dec 2017 to June 2019

ERP Specialist\Product owner\Principal Consultant

Involved in setting up the source and S/4 configurations and business approached to to ahead with Brown field implementation, due to shorter project run time and to avoid existing business of Truck parts.

Involved in Source system basic requirement for Data load/Migration replicating FI&CO data and other master data

Involved in business requirement gatherings and worked on GAP fit analysis

Closely worked with Basis team to manage huge loads of data extraction process

CO - PC (Product Costing) - Product Cost Planning & Cost Object Controlling.

Integrations with 3rd party systems with large data.

Project: Sigma Aldrich (MERCK GROUP) Duration: Jan 2016 to Dec 2017

Role: S/4 Lead Consultant

Closely involved on OTC, P2P business process enhancement from ECC to S/4

Product costing, COPA, Cost Center Accounting, PCA, Internal order New GL.

End-to-end implementation of CO modules including Z- development, Worked in Product Costing and COPA with Accounting Based, Creation of Allocation Cycles and creation of GR55 Reports. Configuration settings for WIP calculation, variance calculation & settlement of production orders and sales order .

Leveraging on costing sheet to capture inbound freight, storage and container charges.

Involved in Implementation of User-exits,Participated in Development, Inter-company process. Configured changes to the Rollover projects in FI & CO

Participated in implementing Interfaces to connect to third party websites. Gathered requirments, Field mapping, Testing between the Interface.

Responsible for creating FIORI and preparation of Persona for User Interface personalized user experience with S4/Hana.Worked in integrations with source system with large data migration.

Project: Genpact Hyderabad, India Feb 2011 – Jan 2016

Role: SAP FICO Lead Consultant ECC 6.0

Implementation of entire suite of SAP FICO i.e, GL, AR, AP, CCA in SAP ECC 6.0 functionality covering configuration and post go-live support.

Defining Country settings, Currency & Forex settings, Validations & Substitutions, Input & Output Taxes and other FI global settings

Customization of General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables & Credit Management, Company Code set up, Defining Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups and creation of Financial Statement Version (FSV).Configuration of House Banks, Manual and Electronic bank statements (EBS).

Participated in cut-over activities, successfully went live and supported in post Go-live activities. Supported the users at transaction level with Service Requests.Involved in 19 company codes Rollout for webcash configuration. Creation of SIT and UAT configuration documents

Project: S&P Global, India June 2009 – Jan 2011

Role: SAP Consultant

Customization of General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables

Company Code set up, Defining Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups and creation of Financial Statement Version (FSV).

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