Professional Summary:

Having **+ years of Functional Experience as a FI/CO /BCS (Business Consolidations) /FSCM- Dispute Management /Simple Finance Senior Consultant. Overall, 18 years of experience.

S4Hana Certified FI /CO Senior Consultant.

Worked on 6 SAP Projects which includes 3 End to End Implementation (Including one prototype), 2 Roll out, Support Projects and critical Enhancements related to Payments and currently working on S4 HANA implementation for Disney.

For Implementations - Identified the development list objects (RICEF) and worked with Technical Team for the development of Z Reports. Prepared Functional Spec documents for the same.

Expertise in Configuring Organization Structure, General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable & Asset Accounting especially in highly Complex Business Environment.

Implementation Project: CVI – Business Partner setup, New House Bank configuration, worked as a FI/MM for Unit Testing and Integration test and coordinated with other core modules for integration of SD, MM, and PP Modules, Prepared Unit test script, Integration test script, Configuration document and End user Manual. Post GO-LIVE support.

Knowledge on CO for Account Based COPA, CO Organization structure, Product Costing, Overheads and Allocation and KE30 Report Painter reports.

Worked on Dispute management (FSCM) and Credit Management. Configuration of Dispute Management as per the client requirement and worked in Enhancements for auto write offs and workflow.

Capable of understanding various business processes to analyze and map on to SAP by implementing through ASAP/Agile methodology.

Involved in support pack upgrade testing and well versed with PANAYA tool for testing.

Extensively worked on tools like SOLMAN, SNOW, ALM, qTEST, CHARM, Jira, Panaya etc..

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Technologies: S4 /HANA Version 1809, 2020 Simple Finance, SAP (ECC 6)

Functional Expertise: Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), FSCM -Dispute Management.

Industry Expertise: Manufacturing Industry, Entertainment Industry, IS Retail Industry, Refinery Industry, Logistics Industry

Tools: JIRA, Solman, Snow, ALM, qTEST, Charm, Panaya.

Education/Certifications:

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 1809)

SAP Certified Application Professional - Financials in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP Finance Experts (SAP S/4HANA 2020)

MBA (Finance) 2004 and B.com 2002 from Gulbarga University.

International Visits

Visited USA multiple times as part of Global Roll out for various Clients/Project as FICO Consultant from requirement gathering to User Training and Go live, Post go live support.

Visited Sri Lanka as part of ongoing Disney project for continuous business meetings and planning for expansion.

Visited London as part of up-gradation and Global Roll out for NBC Universal Pictures Project as FICO Consultant.

Professional Experience:

Working as Specialist FICO/BCS/Simple Fin Consultant for HCL Tech from Jan 2015 to till date.

Worked as SAP FICO Package Solution Consultant for IBM from Dec 2010 to Jan 2015.

Worked as SAP FICO Consultant for Intelligroup from Jan 2010 to Dec 2010.

Worked as Software Engineer for iGATE Global Solutions from Mar 2006 to Jan to 2010.

Worked as Associate in HP Accounts Reconciliation Process from Nov 2004 to Feb 2006.

IT Projects:

HCL America Inc : Jan 2015 – Till Date

Client Name: Walt Disney

Industry: Media and Entertainment

Duration: 01/2015 –Till Date

SAP Env : ECC 6.0 AMS and Currently working on S/4 HANA 2020 Implementation since April 2023 to till date

Responsibilities: (S4 HANA Implementation)

Understanding the Business Process of the Client.

Member of S4 HANA Implementation project.

Ownership of Complete CVI implementation from ECC 6.0 to S4 HANA.

OSS Notes implementation

Business partner configuration – BP Roles, BP Role categories, BP View, BP Field status

Customer/Vendor -> BP field status mapping

Custom field development in BP Master

MDS load cockpit – Customer/Vendor -> Business Partners (MDS_LOAD_COCKPIT)

Master data cleanup – Data Validation, Clean up, Archiving – Customers/Vendors/Assets

Preparation of testing – FUT, SIT and helping end users in UAT execution

Responsibilities: (ECC – AMS)

Monitoring payment related batch jobs related to FI-AP and critical month end CLOCO jobs.

Monitoring payment idoc’s, so as to avoid P2 incidents as a precautionary measure.

Participation in Customer Review Meetings for discussing the status.

Involved in support pack upgrade testing to identify program level/tran level changes and update business/users according.

Ensure to provide the resolutions for the incidents without missing SLA.

Worked on new enhancement developed for Non-PO invoices upload (web dynpro).

Worked with workflow and technical team for resolving the issues found in testing phase

Created new Batch jobs for payments for new company codes related to country Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore via Deutsche Bank.

Worked on Mass Change Requests (XK99, LSMW and BDC Program)

Handled High Priority payment related Incidents in Accounts Payable.

Co-ordination with technical team for changes in Z reports & standard layout sets to suit the client business process.

Involved in configuration of New WHT-Holding Tax Codes for Taiwan Country.

Co-ordination with technical consultants in Enhancements.

Worked on Business Consolidations (BCS) on quarterly builds and also worked on critical enhancements for new versions as per business requirements.

Company: IBM (From Jan 2010 to Dec 2015)

Client Name: The Walt Disney

Industry: Media and Entertainment

Duration: 01/2013 – Jan 2015

SAP Env : ECC 6.0 AMS

Responsibilities:

Monitoring payment related batch jobs related to FI-AP area

Monitoring payment idoc’s, so as to avoid P2 incidents as a precautionary measure.

Participation in Customer Review Meetings for discussing the status.

Involved in support pack upgrade testing to identify program level/tran level changes update business/users according.

Provided the On-Call support for FI team on rotation basis.

Ensure to provide the resolutions for the incidents without missing SLA.

Worked on new enhancement developed for Non-PO invoices upload (web dynpro).

Worked with workflow and technical team for resolving the issues found in testing phase

Created new Batch jobs for payments for new company codes related to country Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore via Deutsche Bank.

Worked on Mass Change Requests (XK99, LSMW and BDC Program)

Handled High Priority payment related Incidents in Accounts Payable.

Co-ordination with technical team for changes in Z reports & standard layout sets to suit the client business process.

Involved in configuration of New WHT-Holding Tax Codes for Taiwan Country.

Co-ordination with technical consultants in Enhancements.

Client Name: KLA Tencor

Industry: Semiconductor Equipment Industry

Duration: 01/2012 – Dec 2012

SAP Env : ECC 6.0 FI

Responsibilities:

Providing production support in the areas of GL, AR, AP, AA, T&E and other sub-modules in FI

Worked on issues as per client priority using ServiceNow tool, monitored day-to-day activities and participated in client meetings

Hands on experience on creation of tax codes, maintaining condition records and condition types

Experienced working on SD and MM for integration aspects.

Creation of GL, cost center, profit center master data and moving the same through transports

Client Name: British Petroleum (BP)

Industry: Petroleum Industry

Duration: 06/2011 – 01/2012

SAP Env : ECC 6.0 FI - AMS Production Support

Responsibilities:

Providing production support in all the sub-modules in FICO

Worked on issues as per client priority using Remedy tool, monitored day-to-day activities and participated in client meetings

Hands on experience on creation of tax codes, maintaining condition records and condition types.

Experienced working on SD and MM for integration aspects.

Creation of GL, cost center, profit center master data and moving the same through transports.

SPOC from FI team for moving all the transports of FI team after discussing with CAB authority.

Involved in regression testing and DR testing activities.

Client Name: NBC Universal

Industry: Media and Entertainment

Duration: 12/2010 – 06/2011

SAP Env : ECC 6.0 FI Implementation

Responsibilities:

Involved in unit testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, cutover & UAT phases of the Intl Upgrade Project.

Participated in the kickoff meeting

Configuration in areas like creation and maintenance of fiscal year variant, posting period, field status variant and Chart of accounts.

Creation of asset master, acquisition, retirements for testing purpose

Preparation of test scripts

Executed all the OTC test scenarios and updated the same in HPQC tool

Raise the defects in HPQC tool and resolve the defects

Preparing the user test manuals

Participating in the daily con call to update the day to day activities.

Hands-on experience working on inter-company reconciliations.

Company: Intelligroup (From Jan 2010 to Dec 2010)

Client Name: Sony India Software Center

Industry: Media and Entertainment

Duration: 08/2010 – 12/2010

SAP Env : ECC 6.0, Enhancement – APP (Proxy Payment to 3rd Party)

Responsibilities:

Gathering business requirements.

Mapping it with To Be and presenting it in the design meetings for approval.

Timely communication and coordination between deploy central and offshore team in India.

Preparing Functional specifications and work with ABAPER for the development of the report as per the given spec.(New payment medium program for IDOC generation & new script)

Responsible for overall coordination of the offshore activities (Configuration and Testing).

Preparation of test scripts.

Responsible to ensure all configuration and testing activities are delivered on time and with quality.

Developed quality check list of configuration and testing activities

Go-live and Hypercare

Client Name: Sony India Software Center

Industry: Media and Entertainment

Duration: 01/2010 – 07/2010

SAP Env : ECC 6.0, Implementation & Testing (AA)

Responsibilities:

Involved in realization and testing phases of the Global Concerto project at SONY.

Business process and requirement understanding during the blue print phase.

Worked with clients to understand the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes, Gap Analysis to identify the enhancements/ localizations required

Configuration in areas like creation and maintenance of fiscal year variant, posting period, field status variant and Chart of accounts.

Creation of Depreciation areas, depreciation keys, asset classes and assigning G/L accounts

Creation of asset master, acquisition, retirements for testing purpose

Configuration of FI-SD& MM integration

Uploading Master data Using LSMW

Involved in the testing phase of the project in Assets Accounting area

Involved in preparation of test scripts to utilize at the time of execution of transactions

Involved in Interface related DD&ER files which includes understanding the functional specifications of particular interface.

Handled difficult test scripts and DD&ER preparations which have the more impact on customers.

Extracting on AR documents based on DD&ER and Test scripts.

Involved in taking end users training and preparation of end user documents

Testing the end to end business process (Unit and System Integration

Testing) to identify the bugs and to ensure proper system performance and data flow.

Preparation of test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and providing support during the UAT phase.

Company: iGATE Global Solutions (From 03/2006 to Jan 2010)

Client Name: Owens Corning US

Industry: Manufacturing Industry

Duration: 01/2009 – 01/2010

SAP Env : 3.1i, 4.7, 6.0 – Offshore Support Project

Responsibilities:

Involved in a proto type implementation project of a manufacturing industry for client purpose.

Creation and maintenance of master records (Customer / Vendor).

Provided production support in the areas of GL, AR, AP and AA modules

Successfully handled the issues for NA and APAC Support Issues as a single point of contact.

Worked on issues as per client priority using Remedy tool, monitored dad-to-day activities and participated in client meetings

Involved in preparation of functional specification for ‘Z’ related transactions

Uploading Master data (Customer, Vendor, GL, Asset) Using LSMW

Configured Automatic Payment Program for out-going payments, creation of new house banks as per client requirement

Hands on experience on creation of tax codes, maintaining condition records and condition types

Preparing the Weekly status review reports and sharing with client to address the critical open items resolution.

Using the batch jobs for scheduling the programs at specific timings, monitoring the batch jobs, identifying the reason for failure of batch jobs.

Experienced in coordinating with SD and MM for integration aspects.

Client Name: Option One Mortgage Corporation

Industry: Banking Industry

Duration: 03/2006 – 01/2009

Role: Senior Process Associate

Client Overview:

Option One Lending offers a wide variety of products and services and works diligently to ensure that each client gets the loan that matches their needs.

Company: HP (From Nov 2004 to Mar 2006)

Client Name: AOL (American Online)

Industry: Backend work of SAP. (Extraction of reports from BW pertaining to FI)

Duration: 11/2004 – 03/2006

Role: Process Associate

Client Overview:

AOL was one of the early pioneers of the Internet in the early-1990s, and the most recognized brand on the web in the United States. It originally provided a dial-up service to millions of Americans, pioneered instant messaging, and in 1993 began adding internet access.

Date : 20-01-2024

Place : California, USA

Email : ad3imz@r.postjobfree.com (Raghavendra Busetty)

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