Ravi Kumar J Email: ad3q38@r.postjobfree.com
SAP S/4 HANA for Financial Accounting Associates & Project Manager
(P2001766607) Mobile: +91-967*******
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:-
Having around 15 years of prolific experience in SAP FICO and in Finance & Accounts, which includes 6 years of professional experience in SAP FICO Module (Basic Setting Configurations, General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Bank Accounting (FI-BA) including project management.
Onshore client facing experience.
Involved in project plans, work plans, schedules, resource plans and status reports
Collaboration with clients to understand the Business requirements and implement them in project by phase wise
Part of Business and S4 Hana Transformation
Preparing and presenting Executive summary to senior management to provide recommendations and status update
Involved in 1 Implementation, 2 Rollouts and 2 Support projects
Excellent Client and Team management skills
SAP Experience:
Good knowledge on ASAP and Activate methodology for implementation projects and well versed with business process and configuration.
Requirement gathering from Business. Preparation of AS IS and TO BE process flows
Proficient in configuration of FI Sub modules: GL Accounting (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), Bank Accounting (FI-BA) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA), withholding tax, tax procedures
Configuration of the organizational structure for FI- Company Code, Business Area, Fiscal Year, Posting period, field status variant with group and posting keys and document types.
Customizing Chart of Accounts and Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, Creation of Account Groups, GL Master Records, Automatic account number ranges and tolerance groups.
Define Vendor & Customer Account groups, tolerance and number ranges, Generating Master records, Configured payment methods for customer and vendor maintenance and automatic payment program and dunning configuration.
House Bank configuration.
Configuration of AA. Creating assets and maintaining the pre-requisites such as Chart of Depreciation, account determination, screen layouts, asset classes, defining depreciation key separately for book depreciation.
Knowledge and worked on data migration from legacy system to SAP
Development of business process documentation and functional specifications, SOP’s
Preparation of BPP (Business process procedures – training materials)
Knowledge in integration of FI-MM, FI-SD & FI-CO
Preparing Test Scripts, executing and defect management
Expertise in data migration through LSMW & LTMC
Knowledge in Controlling Area, Primary cost element & secondary cost elements, Cost center, Profit Center, internal order.
Knowledge on Unit Testing, SIT, UAT
Training the end user before go live
Hypercare support during Go Live.
Experience Summary:
Working for ‘Genpact India Pvt Ltd.’, as a Principal/Lead Consultant from Jul’2017 to till date
Working for ‘Genpact India Pvt Ltd.’, as a Manager (SAP End user) from Aug’2012 to Jun’2017
Worked for ‘Wipro Ltd.’ in Chennai, as an ‘Senior Officer (SAP End user)’ from Dec’ 2008 to April’ 2011.
Worked for ‘Zenta Pvt Ltd.’ in Chennai, as a ‘Financial Analyst’ from Feb’ 2007 to Feb’2008.
Worked for ‘M/s. Silla Associates.’ in Berhampur, as an ‘Audit Assistant’ from Jul’2004 to Jun’2005.
Jul,2017 to till date – Genpact India Ltd., Hyderabad as SAP FI Consultant (FI-AP, FI-GL, FI-AA, FI-AR)
PROJECT #5
Client Business: Manufacturing and services of Wind, Hydro, Solar Equipment’s
Client Name: GE Renewables Project: Rollout
Role: SAP FI Consultant Duration: Aug’23 to Jan’24
Responsibilities:
Requirement gathering from Business. Preparation of AS IS and TO BE process flows
Configuration of the organizational structure for FI- Company Code, Business Area, Fiscal Year, Posting period, field status variant with group and posting keys and document types.
Customizing Chart of Accounts and Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, Creation of Account Groups, GL Master Records, Automatic account number ranges and tolerance groups.
Define Vendor & Customer Account groups, tolerance and number ranges, Generating Master records, Configured payment methods for customer and vendor maintenance and automatic payment program and dunning configuration.
House Bank configuration.
Configuration of AA. Creating assets and maintaining the pre-requisites such as Chart of Depreciation, account determination, screen layouts, asset classes, defining depreciation key separately for book depreciation.
Part of SIT & UAT phase
Data Migration includes both Master Data and Transaction Data
PROJECT #4
Client Business: Retail Business Project: Implementation (FI Development, Training, UAT & Documentation) Client Name: Ahold Delhaize
Role: SAP FI Consultant & Project Manager Duration: Jan’22 to Mar’23
Responsibilities:
Manage S/4 HANA Implementation Project – focus on Business and System Integration
Involved in phases of a project life cycle are including design, development, configuration, unit and integration testing, documentation, end user training and production support.
Configured Organizational Structure and its settings.
Configured and customized the company code, business areas, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document types, and document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants.
Analyzing the Client Business Process and Prepared Business Blue Print.
General Ledger Accounting (New): Process for Defining an Accounting structure of a company. Chart of accounts, Account groups, General Ledger Master Record. Document Splitting, Maintain Parallel Currencies. Creation of recurring Documents, Sample Documents.
Account Payable: Configuration of the vendor master records, default account assignments, payment advice. Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, Sales and Purchase Tax.
Account Receivable: Customization and configuration of customer master records, Advance from Customer, Dunning.
Asset Accounting : Configuration of Chart of depreciation and Depreciation Areas, Assign Chart of depreciation to Company code, Specify Account Determination, Creation of Screen Layout rules and Define Number Range Interval, Define Asset Class, Creation of GL Accounts, Assign GL Accounts. Specify Document type for posting of Depreciation, Specify number range for Asset document type, Determine Depreciation Areas in Asset class. Specifying Rounding of Net book value or Depreciation, Define Screen layout for Asset Master Data,
Depreciation Key: Define Base Method, Define Declining Balance Method, Define Multi-level method, Maintain Period control method, Maintain Depreciation Key, Determine Depreciation Area in Asset Class.
Integration: Involved in integration with FI-MM, FI-SD.
Creation of Controlling Area as Company Code Controlling.
Creation of Cost center Standard Hierarchy, Cost Element Group, Cost Center Groups, Primary Cost Elements and Secondary Cost Elements.
Creation of Distribution and Assessment Cycle for Cost allocation.
Creation of Internal orders types and settlement profile for internal order settlement.
Configuration of Profit Center Accounting Module:
Creation of Profit Center Hierarchy Profit Center Groups and Profit Centers.
Preparation of End user training manuals and Provide training for core team members of business.
Preparation of Test Plan and Test Scripts for various scenarios.
Involved in Cut-over activities.
Executed test scripts to ensure all the necessary configuration has been transported to the training environment.
Interacting with the users for their report requirements and developed reports.
Involved in unit testing, Functional testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Performance testing & User acceptance testing.
Involved in Month end and year end activities.
PROJECT #3
Client Business: Retail Business Project: FI Development, Training, UAT & Documentation
Client Name: Coka Cola Duration: Jan’21 to Nov’21
Role: SAP FI Consultant & Project Manager
Responsibilities:
Configuration of the organizational structure for FI- Company Code, Business Area, Fiscal Year, Posting period, field status variant with group and posting keys and document types.
Customizing Chart of Accounts and Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, Creation of Account Groups, GL Master Records, Automatic account number ranges and tolerance groups.
Define Vendor & Customer Account groups, tolerance and number ranges, Generating Master records, Configured payment methods for customer and vendor maintenance and automatic payment program and dunning configuration.
House Bank configuration.
Configuration of AA. Creating assets and maintaining the pre-requisites such as Chart of Depreciation, account determination, screen layouts, asset classes, defining depreciation key separately for book depreciation.
Knowledge in integration of FI-MM & FI-SD.
PROJECT #2
Client Business: Retail Business Project: Support & Training
Client Name: Nike Duration: Dec’18 to Nov’20
Role: SAP FI Consultant (Support Team)
Responsibilities:
Requirement gathering from the business and supporting the implementation team on Business requirement. Role mapping.
Involved in implementation in Asset Accounting
Support to Accounts Payable
Preparing the User Training Materials. Responsible for providing KT to Users.
PROJECT # 1
Client Business : Energy Project: Rollout
Client Name : GE Power Duration: Jul’17 to Nov’18
Role: FI Consultant
Responsibilities:
Defining & setting up of FI organizational structure, Configuring Fiscal Year, Posting Period, field status variant with group and posting keys and document types.
Customizing Chart of Accounts and Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, Creation of Account Groups, GL Master Records, Automatic account number ranges and tolerance groups.
Master Data and Transactional Data Migration
Aug,2012 till Jun’17 – Genpact India Ltd., Hyderabad as Manager, R2R (GL & Fixed Assets),
SOX Compliance, Vendor Management, Procurement, AP & Transitions
Key Deliverables:
Handled R2R process of 20 FTE. Performing appraisals for all the DR’s.
Performing 1-0-1 with all the DR’s on monthly basis and providing feedback on their performances and setting goals by month on month and yearly.
Month end close status calls with Client
Responsible for maintaining the Landscape relating to FA & GA process
Responsible for transitions of FA Team
Supervising activities related to Fixed Assets Reconciliations, addition, depreciations, impairment, retirement etc
Reporting on Depreciation Variance Analysis, Depreciation projection report, customized FAR.
Monitoring AUC balances and movement on fortnightly basis.
Responsible for closure of fiscal year of Asset module
Filing SOX documents.
Participating in Monthly Audit and Annually Statutory Audit.
Successfully completed 4 Onsite and 1 Offsite transition of Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Procurement and Vendor Master Process.
Successfully prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the all the activities.
Responsible for AM GL Reconciliations on month-on-month basis.
Analysis of Depreciation expenses of month on month and Quarter on Quarter basis.
Monthly Review with the Process owner of Client side to discuss the process performance and help required.
SOX Compliance lead for 250+ resource process for one of the leading pharmaceutical industries
Finalizing SOX controls with country heads for all processes.
Responsible for Quality checks for all the processes.
Verifying all the SOX Controls for all the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, General Ledger, Procurement processes and T&L Process for all the Countries which all are being operated from India.
If any SOX controls are failed, then assisting the management in preparing the FMEA (Failure Mode Effective Analysis).
Preparing weekly and monthly SOX dashboard and presenting to the Management.
Dec.,2008 to April 2011 – Wipro Ltd, Chennai as Senior Officer, GL and MIS
Key Deliverables:
Successfully completed 1 Onsite transition of Licensed Business of Retail store and General Ledger of Automotive process.
Successfully prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the all the activities.
To Perform GL Accounting & Management Reporting daily, monthly, quarterly and Year end activities which would include preparation of journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations.
Verification and validation of various Capex - Opex charges.
Preparation of Journal Entries and passing through Ms-Access and People Soft.
Downloading Trial Balance Reports from Ms-Access
Effective Liaising with Off Premise Licensees as well as On Premises Licensees
Follow up with the Units for Safe Fund balances and Over/ short balances.
Expense, Profit and Loss & Balance Sheet Review during the month ends, making variance analysis and proper follow up with the respective units for variances.
Clearing the unit's cash shortage/overage by investigating and rectifying the entries and informing the Sears Units.
Collating details on issues resolved and action taken for the Retail Stores of Sears in U.S, and updating in our new software called BASE.
Incorporate changes in SOPs with new procedures.
Cross train as back-ups for other staff in the case of emergencies.
Feb’ 2007 – Feb’ 2008 with Zenta Pvt. Ltd., Chennai as Financial Analyst, Asset Management
Key Deliverables:
Preparation of Cash Flow Statement
Analysis and verification of credit worthiness of the borrowers with the help of various income and expenditure statements. Preparation of Billing of Tenants. Reviewing of Files
Jul’ 04 – Jun’ 05 with M/s. Silla Associates, Berhampur, Orissa as Audit Assistant
Academic profile:
B. Com (Hons) Completed in 2004
CMA (Inter) formerly known as ICWAI completed in 2008
SAP S/4 HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4 HANA 1809)