SAP FICO Consultant

Ravi Kiran

SAP FICO & FSCM CONSULTENT 908-***-**** *****.*****@*****.***

Professional Summary

Over 13 years of experience inclusive 12+ years of SAP implementation, Rollout, Enhancement and Support in SAP FICO.

SAP Solution Consultant in Financials apart from holding Masters of Computer Applications as major.

Proven Project Lead experience gained by managing full-fledged development activities involving project planning and design, blue print, configuration, data migration, functional testing, integration testing, end user training, cut-over, go-live and post go-live support.

Extensive FI expertise in implementation and Customization of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting

Good working knowledge of integration and Interfaces for FI with AR/SD (O2C), AP/MM (P2P) and coordinating between different module teams to meet the project schedules/goals

Incorporated New General Ledger ( GL) configuration in (FI), while upgrading the Classical General Ledger of SAP R/3 to enhance Segmental Reporting in Real Time across International Accounting Standards (IAS), United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP), and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); mapping of Parallel Ledgers for entity's legal reporting requirements.

Expertise in SAP FSCM Components like Dispute Management & Collection Management and worked in Data Archiving Process.

Design and configure core FSCM Processes e.g. Customer Credit Segment, Credit Profile, Business Partners, Interfaces to bring external credit Data, Collection Segment and profiles, Dispute management

Coordination with 3rd Parties like Vertex, Lockbox, Electronic Bank Statement import and posting (multiple countries/formats), global AP, AR files

Extensive experience preparing functional and technical specifications for new enhancements and to ensure effective unit test plans, end user training, integration, functional, regression, UAT, performance and end-to-end testing.

CO experience includes Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profit Center Accounting

Perform and confirm the baseline design for Product costing implementation

Hands on experience in the intercompany setup, foreign currency revaluations, and balance sheet accounts.

Expertise in handling Month End, Year End Closing with regard to GL, AR, AP and Asset Accounting, Material Ledger etc.

Worked on Various Enhancements in the area of AP & AR Correspondence Statements like Ageing analysis Report, Account Balances report, External Printing Agency to print forms

Good Experience in understanding ABAP and DB tables, Electronic Data Interchange EDI, User Exits, BAPIs, BADIs and write queries.

High learning curve with the ability to embrace new tools and technologies with demonstrated leadership, ability to resolve issues, drive projects and meet deadlines

Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with high analytical & problem solving ability.

SAP Skills

ERP Package: SAP ECC 6.0, S/4 Hana

SAP FICO Sub Components: G/L, AP, AR, AA, BA; CO - CCA, CEA, PCA; FICA

Methodology: ASAP, Agile, SAP Solution Manager

Applications/Tools: VIM OpenText, HP Quality Center 9.2, 11.0, IBM JAZZ, Remedy, Spira, Jira, Radar, Espresso, Solution Manager, MS Office, Service Now (Snow)

Professional SAP Experience

Client: Messer, Bridgewater, NJ

Duration: Jan 2020 – Till now

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Area of Work: FI - G/L, AP, AR, BA; CO - CCA, CEA, PCA; EDI, IDOC, RICEFW.

Responsibilities

Handling day to day queries/ issues related to FICO and other logistic modules integrated with FI-GL, AR, AP, FA, PCA and Internal orders.

Providing Production Support as per SLA’s.

Interacting with client for new business requirements and mapping the process in SAP

Responsible for handling integration issues with other modules like MM, SD, PM and PS

Investigate, troubleshoot, and identify appropriate solution for assigned Incident and Enhancement requests as per agreed SLA.

Proactively identify process improvements and communicate those to the client to demonstrate value addition

Worked on Customer and Vendor Aging report

Worked extensively on recurring entries

Good experience in Interest calculation on customer line items

Having good experience on Internal Order Accounting with CAPEX and OPEX Budget

Good experience on Lockbox process for customer receivables for US, Puerto Rico and Canada the following banks JPM, TD Commercial Bank, and TD Canada Trust.

Responsible for implementing of various enhancements, Projects

Closely working with technical team for enhancements.

Attending for weekly status calls on ticket/issues.

Client: Solenis, Wilmington, DE

Duration: March 2018 – Dec 2019

Role: SAP FICO Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC, Hana, Vertex

Area of Work: FI - G/L, AP, AR, BA; CO - CCA, CEA, PCA; VIM OpenText, EDI, IDOC, RICEFW.

Responsibilities

Responsible for business process analysis to facilitate to understand requirements, define analyze business process and mapping.

Configuration of house banks for reconciliation as per business process for customers and vendors.

Configuration of automatic payment program for vendors and customers and enable customization as per business process.

Successfully developed and implemented APP process for vendors and customers periodically

Write and review the Functional Design related to AP/AR/ FSCM/Treasury

Complete and validate the configuration of AR/AP/ FSCM/Treasury

Configuration and rollout of Lockbox process for customer receivables for US and Canada the following banks Suntrust, Scotia and CITI Bank

Change purchased materials from "standard" to "moving average" price control in productive system

Developed a new process as per Italian statutory for goods and services rendered both customers/vendors through E-Invoicing (Sovos tool)

Configured the chart of depreciation and input vat, output tax as per client requirements

New Company code configuration relevant to acquisition and transfer of balances

Enhancements in ECC 6.0, including the New GL concepts and Document splitting functions.

Designing, developing and testing VIM extensions and improved the OpenText baseline (custom classes, function

Hands on experience in Enhancing the Concur Travel Management process.

Proven experience to translate 3rd Party logistics legacy data to SAP

Hands on experience in 3 PL Interface like Vendor Invoice Management OpenText, Concur travel and expense & CASS

Closely working with technical team for enhancements.

Monitoring the key business processes in SAP pertaining to posting periods, GL, Invoice postings and Bank Statements etc., via Jobs

Resolving issues in the areas of Finance as well as Controlling Module

Preparing Functional specs and user acceptance test cases (UAT)

Prepare the UT scripts and explain the process to business owners as well as core users

Attend the status meetings with business owners as well as core users.

Client: Nissan, Franklin, TN

Duration: Nov 2014 – Feb 2018

Role: SAP FICO Consultant / Business System Analyst

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Vertex, HP QC, Remedy, Snow

Area of Work: FI -GL, AP, AR, AA, CO- CCA, CEA, PCA. P2P, O2C, Taxes, User Exits, EDI, IDOC, EBS, RICEFW

Responsibilities

Analyzed the client's business requirements, gathered requirements through user meetings, identified the gap and produced the functional documents as per the client's requirement.

Problem resolution as part of support- analyzing the tickets which included identification of issue, determining the root cause of issue and suggesting the solution to users based on root cause analysis done.

Worked on AP Integration with Procure to Pay, With Holding Tax Configuration and Documentation.

Responsible for supporting the existing SAP design and implementing new business required functionality for FICO module - FI-GL/New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Bank accounts and CCA, Profit Center, and Internal order in CO area

Responsible for preparing test scripts and performing and monitoring testing for support pack implementation.

Participated in the preparation of Business Blueprint of FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-Banking and FSCM (AS-IS Analysis, TO-BE Analysis, Fit-Gap Analysis)

Responsible for implementing of various enhancements, Projects

Involved in the configuration of payment terms for vendors, maintained the vendor master records and create payment orders for vendors as per the client's requirements.

Checking Validation and Substitution rules in analyzing an issue related to automatic account determination.

Working with SD and MM team when needed to solve the issues related to condition type and movement types.

Involved in the Cost center Planning. Configured new Activity types, Cost centers, Cost center group and assigned default cost centers to cost elements. Involved in loading of the planned activity rates for the cost centers.

Working with Technical team to analyze the root cause of the issues on job failures, analyze the functionality of the programs and propose customization as per the business process.

Client: Multichoice, Randburg, SA

Duration: Feb 2011 – Sep 2014

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, 6.0 SAP BI, SAP SRM, HP QC, Remedy

Area of Work: FI - GL, AP, AR, AA. CO- CCA, PCA. P2P, O2C, Taxes, User Exits, EDI, IDOC, RICEFW

Responsibilities

Handling day to day queries/ issues related to FICO and other logistic modules integrated with FI-GL, AR, AP, FIXED ASSETS, COPA, PCA and Internal orders

Interacting with client for new business requirements and mapping the process in SAP

Responsible for Handling FI integration with SD and MM modules.

Acknowledge receipt of incident and enhancement requests in a timely manner.

Investigate, troubleshoot, and identify appropriate solution for assigned Incident and Enhancement requests as per agreed SLA.

Proactively identify process improvements and communicate those to the client to demonstrate value addition

Resolving requests in order of priority and update all associated documentation on the per project instructions.

Maintain current transport status visibility in the Transport DB in the project e-Room or other approved mechanism.

Build and maintain close working relationships with business owners.

Proactively communicate potential issues in a timely manner.

Preparing the user documents for new enhancements and new process implementations.

Client: Department of Water Affairs, Pretoria, SA

Duration: Apr 2008 – Jan 2011

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP 4.6C, 4.7E

Area of Work: FI - GL, AP, AR, AA. CO- CCA, CEA, PCA. P2P, O2C, Taxes, User Exits, EDI, IDOC, RICEFW

Responsibilities

Involved multiple deployments model enhancements in the areas of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cost Centre Accounting, Internal orders and Profit Centre accounting.

Supporting the issues within the SLA in all the areas in FICO.

Resolution of routine support queries in FICO involving issuance of clarifications, analysis of ABAP dumps and Job cancellations in Production environment and user training.

Providing assistance to team members in resolving configurations issues.

Identify the functional errors and recommend design change/maintenance for functional improvements.

Worked on day to day support issues which comprise General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Account Receivable, Asset Accounting and Cost center accounting.

Hands on experience to setup new company codes as per the client’s requirements.

Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement.

Extensively involved in modification of customer statements, dunning statements and payment advices.

Configured house banks and maintained accounts in house banks. Defining Check Lots, Payment Terms, Set Up bank determination for all payment transactions, defined posting keys and posting rules for check deposit.

Supported in solving the issues related to the automatic payment program, EBS, Check management, open item clearing and down payments.

Configured Asset classes, depreciation keys and areas, ordinary and unplanned depreciation runs, depreciation accounting, Low value asset, cutoff Value Key for Asset Accounting.

In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) created Cost elements, cost centers, cost center standard hierarchy, statistical key figures, master data groups, validations and substitutions, reconciliation ledgers, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, activity types and planning them on different cost centers, planned and actual activity price calculations.

Work with other functional support team to ensure that all integration issues of changes are covered.

Knowledge in EDI/IDOC configuration, processing and handling the issues.

Responsible for Unit testing and assisted in User Acceptance testing of reports and documents.

Provided Post Go-Live support to users and helped them resolving their problems.

As part of team member actively worked with internal ABAP in developing custom programs, basis team and support team to resolve issues, requests, tickets, enhancements.

Worked on interfaces flowing from NON-SAP system to SAP.

Client: Career Path Consulting Services, Randburg, SA

Duration: Feb 2007 to Dec 2007

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: SAP Version 4.7C, Oracle

Area of Work: FI - New GL, AP, AR, AA, BA. CO- CCA, PCA. P2P, O2C, Taxes, RICEFW

Responsibilities

Providing production support and solved end users issues/tickets in line with SLAs

Requirement collection & analysis of additional/changed business process in Finance and Controlling modules

Designed and developed custom reports such as duplicated invoice identification while posting the invoices

Resolving configuration issues and customization request.

Designed and configured Automatic Payment Program, payment terms and Electronic Bank Reconciliation

Involved in regression testing and integration testing FI with PS, MM & SD

Involved in integration with FI-MM, FI-SD, FI – HR and F I – PS

Supervised month end activities and supported issues as per SLA

Designed and configured House banks, Bank Accounts and GL Accounts for Bank Accounts as per business requirement

Co-ordinated with users for UAT / Integration testing & issue resolution. Provided training to the functional heads and core users from procurement to pay and order to Cash

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