S4 Hana Data Migration

Kalyani Karanam

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Professional summary

SAP Certified Professional Consultant with overall 18+ years of experience and 10+ years of relevant experience in FICO/SFIN.

Successfully delivered 6 full life cycle implementations (2 ECC & 4 S4 HANA), 2 AMS and 1 S4 HANA upgrade project.

Working experience in S4 HANA adaption approaches i.e., Greenfield, Brownfield, Bluefield and Data migration projects.

Working knowledge and performed POC’s for CFIN projects.

Study client business process and suggests the S4 HANA approach with business process impact.

Working knowledge in Classic & New GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Bank Accounting and Asset Accounting.

Working knowledge in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, Profit Center and Profitability Analysis.

Strong integration experience of FI/CO with SD, MM& HR.

Worked on various data migration tools i.e., Migration cockpit, IDOC, BAPI’s and LSMW.

Analyse client system and suggest the new functionalities to improve system performance and usage.

Automated period-end and year-end closing process.

Worked on ticketing tools i.e., Remedy, HPQC, HP-ALM, Service-now, JIRA and SharePoint.

Sound knowledge on ASAP & AGILE methodologies.

Academic Qualifications:

Master of Philosophy in Finance (MPHIL) from Madurai Kamaraj University

Master of Commerce (Finance) (MCOM) from Osmania University

SAP S/4 HANA Certification:

SAP Certified Application Professional – SAP S/4 HANA (2021) (P_S4FIN_2021)

SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 2020)

SAP Certified on Central Finance-(C_S4FCF_2020)

SAP Certified Application Associate - Treasury Risk Management_ (C_S4FTR_2020)

Agile Software development

SAP Experience Details:

Client

Chevron Phillips Chemical

Duration

May 2023 – Till Date

Role/Position

Functional Lead

Project Description

Bluefield Implementation (On Premise 2021)

Contribution:

Implemented delta configurations in S4 HANA environment.

Designed data cleansing, profiling, and harmonization rules and obtained sign-off from the business.

Developed automated solutions for data analysis, helping clients to decide to finalize data.

Master and Transaction data loaded via Migration cockpit, LSMW and BAPI’s.

Resolved configuration and program errors related to data migration.

Designing an appropriate data migration solution, Creating a data migration strategy and Technical Specification documents

Perform data migration dress rehearsals (mock loads), migration cutover tasks, and post-go-live support.

Sound experience in data reconciliation with mock loads and cutover planning and preparation of data migration tasks.

Experienced in following, tracking, and managing a plan provided to them, working with data migration practice and offshore team

Migrated configuration nodes from ECC to S/4 HANA with transformation.

Resolved all the issues raised in S/4 HANA related to third-party integrations.

Client

Amgen Inc

Duration

November 2022 to May 2023

Role/Position

Functional Lead

Project Description

Brownfield Implementation (On Premise 2022) & Hypercare

Contribution:

The Scope of the project is to migrate/System Conversion from ECC system to S/4 HANA (Brownfield implementation).

Responsible to configure SAP system with the functionality defined in the business requirements and participate in integration and user acceptance testing of RICEF’s.

Lead the assessment of the technical feasibility of proposed solutions and provides appropriate recommendations based on industry trends and existing design.

Performs assessments of customer demand and partners with order analysis to deliver estimates and quotes for SAP FI CO design and delivery services to customer.

Applies compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, provides documentation as necessary, and participates in compliance activities as required.

Resolution of all priority tickets within SLA, Bank files Inbound and outbound or concur.

Handling escalations, weekly and monthly calls with clients effectively.

Hands on experience on Internal Order Accounting with CAPEX and OPEX Budget process and billing and revenue

Working with offshore and onsite teams for daily and weekly status on going issues and enhancements

Handled configuration of modules: GL, AP, AR, OBYC, VKOA, Forex revaluation, Exchange rates setup etc.

Implemented Fixed Assets Accounting. Defined Asset Classes, Account determinations and postings.

Client

Lifenet Health

Duration

April 2022 to November 2022

Role/Position

Functional Lead

Project Description

Brownfield Implementation (On Premise 2021)

Acted as Functional lead, resolved issues raised in Delta/New configurations and SI checklist.

Resolved the issues related to data migration for master and transaction objects for GL, AP, AR, BA and AA.

Performed CVI cockpit, Synchronization of existing customers and vendors to BP in source and BP to Customer/Vendor in S4 HANA for normal and overlapping number ranges.

Resolved the issues encountered in testing and UAT phases for GUI and Fiori transactions.

Played key role in production data migration, validation and hyper care support.

Enhanced existing custom programs with revised logic and helped team in converting tables to CD views.

Client

Vivint Inc

Duration

November 2021 to April 2022

Role/Position

Senior Consultant

Project Description

Upgrade Project (On Premise from 1511 To 2020) & Hypercare

Contribution:

Performed SI checklist and resolved the issues.

Resolved the issues raised in SUM, SPAU and SPDD.

Validation of pre and post migrated data i.e., configurations, master and transaction data.

Activation FIORI apps introduced in S4HANA 2020.

Client

Cooper Standard

Duration

December 2020 to November 2021

Role/Position

Senior Consultant

Project Description

Greenfield Implementation (On Premise 1909) & Hypercare

Contribution:

Involved in phases like Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run.

Study AS IS process, prepare TO BE process and demonstrate process to client in Test system.

Configure General Ledger, Business Partner, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting and Bank Accounting.

Prepare unit and integration test scripts, shared with client for approval.

Integration of FI with modules MM & SD.

Prepare strategy for data migration via BODS.

Prepare mapping and conversion rules for master and transaction data.

Trained super users on SAP configurations and users on daily activities, month and year end activities in GUI and Fiori apps.

Client

Sun TV Network Pvt Ltd

Duration

March 2019 to November 2020

Role/Position

FICO Consultant

Project Description

ECC- AMS Projects

Contribution:

Resolved low, medium and high priority issues as per SLA.

Interact and create Functional Solutions and liaise with technical team to resolve Bug fixes, Incidents and Service Requests.

Involved in end-to-end Change management life cycle (Requirement gathering to delivery).

Interacting with User Community/ SME / Change Managers and internal teams to provide Solutions for Complex issues within L2 Frame work.

Solving of maintenance Issues and tickets in the area of G/L, A/P and A/R.

Preparation of User Manual Documentation.

Solving problems on priority day to day transactions.

Solved different types of asset accounting related issues.

Worked on Controlling issues in CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-IO, CO-COPA.

Simulating the scenarios and prepared documentation for the end users.

Handling Month-end closing activities in FI-CO.

Client

Smith & Nephew

Duration

December 2017 to February 2019

Role/Position

FICO Consultant

Project Description

ECC 6.0-Implementation and Post Go Live Support

Contribution:

As FI Consultant involved in Implementation from blue print to end-user training and go-live support.

Involved in defining requirements, configuration, integration testing and training.

Involved in development of functional process design and configured client organizational structure as specified by the client based on blue print.

The responsibility included implementing FI configuration includes AR and AP

Involved in integration of FI with MM and SD modules

Configured Vendor groups, vendor master data upload, house banks, bank accounts, AP information system and integration of FI-AP with MM module.

Configured APP – paying company codes, payment methods per company code, house banks, lockbox processing, bank determination and payment method supplements.

Configured Customer groups, customer master data upload, payment terms, AR information system, and integration of FI-AR with SD module.

Provided full-fledged Post Implementation Support for General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and Asset Accounting, Cost Center, Internal Order, Profit Center.

Configuration of Controlling Area, Activation of components/control indicators, Number ranges assignment to controlling area. Maintained cost center standard hierarchy.

Prepared training material and provided end-user training to the end-users in G/L, A/R, A/P, and also maintained detailed documentation.

Client

Olam International

Duration

January 2016 to November 2017

Role/Position

FICO consultant

Project Description

ECC-Global Support, Enhancements.

Contribution:

Worked on incidental tickets and critical support.

Assisting the end users in posting day to day transactions in SAP.

Supporting users in period end & year-end activities.

Involved in streamlining of Vendor and customer master data in order to eliminate the duplication.

Create new customer master and Vendor master and Asset master as per the client Requirement.

Configured Payment terms & terms of Payment for Instalment Payment According to Client Requirement.

Participated in old legacy system data cleansing activities. Analysed and resolved the data migration issues.

Validations and substitutions as per the client requirement.

Involved in preparing business specific report requirements.

Co-ordination with technical team to develop like customer specific & statutory Reporting.

Client

S&P Global

Duration

January 2014 to December 2015

Role/Position

Functional Consultant

Project Description

ECC Implementation

Responsibilities:

Understand the business requirement through workshops and studying AS IS process.

Preparation of TO BE process and identify the Gaps with alternative solutions as per industry standards.

Configure Enterprise structure, FI, CO, AP, AR, BA and AA areas.

Migrate master and transaction data using LSMW and ABAP BDC programs.

Resolved issue faced in UAT and trained super users and users on day to day and period end activities.

Configured FI integration with MM & SD modules.

Company

Capital IQ

Duration

April 2006 to December 2013

Role/Position

Business Analyst

Project Description

Research & Development

Responsibilities:

Making analytical research on various data policies of Company financial data. Analysis of Financial Statement of companies or Firms. Analysis of Debt profile, Credit Ratios of companies

Review balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial position/budget variance analysis of various companies. Research according to Industry Parameters

Statutory Compliance Check (GST, VAT, Excise, Service Tax). ROC Check, Public Domain Research for Industry and companies.

Solving of documenting issues. Understanding the requirements of the existing/new data sets. Carrying out different R&D projects

Preparation of new data collection policies which help in building and training a team

Good Presentation Skills to give clear picture of reports to the clients for specific financial reporting purposes. Prepare financial reports, charts, tables and other exhibits as requested.

Identifying system problems and determine necessary solutions ·Execute quality assurance from test definition through assessment sign off. Ability to develop and deliver end user training

Maintain and develop various financial models and standard templates distributed for use by all of Finance during the planning processes, ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review.

Liaising with key users and decision makers to give reports and get feedback. Analyse data to ensure proper accounting procedures have been followed.

Providing a comprehensive understanding of the industry through financial reporting standards, and enable the clients to learn facets of the required industry.

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