Narinder Pal Verma

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Certified SAP S/4 Hana 1809

Cell: 954-***-****

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SUMMARY

More than 13 years of corporate accounting and finance experience including over 11 + years of SAP R/3 expertise with a strong focus on Financial Accounting and Controlling (FI/CO) modules with 3 Full Life Cycle Implementations, 3 Support and one migration from R3 to S4Hana (1503) and one Greenfield implementation (1909) including Business Process Re-engineering, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration and Testing. Specialized in SAP Implementation, roll outs & handling team of 20 FICO Consultants. Well versed with the delivery model of Onsite-Off Shore with a large team of multinationals.

Prolific experience in customizing and configuring FI- General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, New Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, CO- Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Treasury & Risk Management (FSCM), Collection Management (FSCM) & Cash Management (FSCM)

Strong understanding and experience in Integration of FI with SD, MM, Project System.

Implemented master data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via LSMW and Batch Input Session.

Hands on experience on configuring Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments including Pain.01 & Pain.02 file processing, EDI (ACH, Wire & Positive Pay for checks), Lockbox & EBS configuration

Rich experience in developing Functional Specifications for the technical team.

Experience in conducting Unit test, Integration test and User Acceptance test.

Assessed the business and application requirements, designed robust business processes, considering accepted industry best practices.

Prepared User Training Material on the processes and assisted in Developing End User Documentation for Training. Fluent in communication with colleagues, management and business unit(s) on requirements, problems, project status, risks, and adaptation issues, to integrate new tools into the Project Implementation Lifecycle.

Education

Master of Business Administration in Finance (2007)

Bachelor in Commerce (2005)

EXPERIENCE

Client: The Walt Disney Company (Burbank, CA) Jan 2018 – till date

Role: Sr. SAP FICO Lead Consultant

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. In Disney, I used to support Finance application and integration with third party applications.

Responsibilities: -

System Support: -

i)Providing Continuous Support to Account Payable, Treasury, Expense & Asset controllers by supporting SAP A/P, Asset & Project Systems.

ii)Configuration Setup for New Co Code’s, House Bank & Account ID, Automatic Payment Setup, Master Data Management -A/P, A/R, G/L.

iii)Project Management for Minor & Major Enhancements.

iv)Initiate Problem Management for recurring issues and implement permanent fix

v)Process Improvement.

vi)Handling Integration issues with MM, SD & Project System, Asset.

vii)Supporting business during Financial Close.

viii)Payment interfaces- Pain.001 (Sepa XML outbound) & Pain002 (xml inbound) & IDOC flat file covering ACH & Wire, Postive Pay

ix)Supporting Inbound EBS files along with wire tracking updating against ACH & Wire payments.

x)Handling Asset Accounting Issues, Creation of New Dep Area & Dep Key (Ordinary & Special), Period end activities.

xi)Supporting Quarter & Year end closing activity.

xii)Setup Asset Accounting- Chart of Dep, Dep Area, Dep Key, Asset Class etc.

xiii)Configuration of Money market Instrument, Securities in treasury & risk management.

xiv)Supporting Project System

PSOW (Project Implementation): -

i)Develop new business processes through developments and setting up new interfaces with third Party Applications.

ii)Business requirement gathering, blue printing and preparation of Functional Specification document.

iii)Prepare and execute regression and integration testing plans to ensure quality deliverables before they are released to client.

iv)Make sure all committed enhancements are delivered on agreed release dates

v)Guide and motivate team members to accomplish the technical and schedule goals of the team.

vi)Effective change management on projects by analyzing the impact of any new requirements on the project scope & timelines.

vii)Implementation of XML Payment files (Pain.001 & Pain.002)

Client: Dr Pepper, Plano, TX Jan 2017 – Dec 2018

Role: Sr. SAP FICO / FSCM Lead Consultant

Dr Pepper Snapple Group is the No.1 flavoured carbonated soft drink (CSD) company in the Americas and a leading innovator and marketer of functional/noncarbonated beverages worldwide. DPS serves consumers throughout North America via a broad and flexible route to market. This includes a combination of direct store delivery and warehouse delivery capabilities supported by our 23 manufacturing Centre, more than 111 distribution centres and approximately 20,000 employees across North America, in addition to the operations of hundreds of third-party bottlers and distributors.

Responsibilities:

Develop new business processes through developments and setting up new interfaces with third Party Applications.

Handling and resolving bug in the running programs, support issues & taking care of adding new functionalities in the area of SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling) covering Assets, FI-GL, AR/AP, Integration with Esker & High Radius, SAP FSCM – Dispute & collection Management.

Business requirement gathering, blue printing and preparation of Functional Specification document.

Prepare and execute regression and integration testing plans to ensure quality deliverables before they are released to client.

To follow up on escalations and issues with clients and onsite managers

Initiate Problem Management for recurring issues and implement permanent fix

Make sure all committed enhancements are delivered on agreed release dates

Guide and motivate team members to accomplish the technical and schedule goals of the team.

Effective change management on projects by analyzing the impact of any new requirements on the project scope & timelines

Client: Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Mar 2016 – Nov 2016

Industry: Railways

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Version: SAP ECC 5.0

Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) is a Special Purpose Vehicle set up under the administrative control of Ministry of Railways to undertake planning & development, mobilization of financial resources and construction, maintenance and operation of the Dedicated Freight Corridors. DFCCIL was incorporated in October 2006 under Indian Companies Act 1956.

FI Module:

Configured and customized the business areas, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document types, document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants

Configured New GL Account.

Configured for Vendor/Customer data in (FI-AR/AP) which included payment terms, dunning, and Special GL Account transaction.

Prepared the Documents for the processes like Month end, Payment Proposal run etc.

Configuration of Travel related Expenses reimbursed to Employees and paid through A/P.

Copying the Employee Master data as a Vendor Master Data.

Performed unit testing and integration testing. Provided user training on processes and assistance in developing user documents.

Analyzed the as-is system, did the Gap Analysis and designed the to-be system.

Cash Management, Manual and Automatic Bank Statement, Posting Rules, Mapping Bank Accounts to GL Accounts, Processing Incoming Checks, Money Market Instrument, Securities & Derivatives configuration

Client: NBC Universal Inc. Englewood Cliffs (NJ) Sep 2014 – Feb 2016

Role: SAP FI/CO-FSCM Functional Consultant (GL, AP, AR,)

NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBC Universal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation

Responsibilities:

Configured the settings of Enterprise Structure. Defined Company Code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Plants for logistics, Sales Organization, Purchase organization, assignment of company code to company, assignment of plant, sales organization and purchase organization to company code.

Configured Financial Global Settings such as Company code, Business Areas. Fiscal Year Variant, posting periods, document types, document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants. Tolerance group for employees, Tax on sales and purchases.

In General Ledger involved in Defining and Configuring Chart of Accounts, Account Groups. Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes. Configuring Functional Areas and Business Areas based on Organizational Structure. Defining Retained earning a/c, Defining Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings.

Customized settings for Customer and Vendor master records, Line item processing of documents, displaying of Account Balances, Credit Management and Closing Operations.

Involved in Automatic account assignment for various AR & AP transactions like Bank charges, Overpayments, Underpayments, and Cash discount, Exchange Rate Difference.

Configuration of Credit Card settlement process in the integration with SD module.

Independently implemented Collection Management module (FSCM) in financial supply chain management which includes: Defined co. code, Collection Strategies, Profiles, Organization Structure, Collection Segment, Collection Groups, Collection Specialist, Assignment all concepts with each other, Defined and assigned number range to Business partner, Synchronization with customer master in AR module, Distribution of data from AR module, Creation of Work lists, Creation of Promise to pay, Integration with accounts receivable module and Creation of Variant for Background processing for automatic data transfer.

Configured and tested working of TAXWARE software for calculation of tax on sales and purchases.

Configured and Involved in Automatic procedures for Payment program and Check deposition.

Configured and created Correspondence Types related to communication with customers and vendors.

Configured accounting transactions for GL posting, AR/AP posting and Recurring entries.

Created Financial Statement Version by defining Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account.

Involved in the integration of FI/CO module with SD and MM modules.

Involved in the testing of different transactions in the Finance module in G/L posting, Payment processing, recurring entries, posting and deletion of Parked and Hold documents, Customer and Vendor transactions with MM and SD module.

Preparation of Functional Specifications for various reports developing by the technical team.

Explained and prepared To-Be documents on the basis of As Is analysis for all financial business processes.

Prepared user manual for all business processes in finance for user testing and final approval.

Client:Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India June 2012 – Aug 2014

Industry: Railways

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Version: SAP ECC 5.0

Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) is a Special Purpose Vehicle set up under the administrative control of Ministry of Railways to undertake planning & development, mobilization of financial resources and construction, maintenance and operation of the Dedicated Freight Corridors. DFCCIL was incorporated in October 2006 under Indian Companies Act 1956.

FI Module:

Configured and customized the business areas, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document types, document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants

Configured New GL Account.

Configured for Vendor/Customer data in (FI-AR/AP) which included payment terms, dunning, and Special GL Account transaction.

Prepared the Documents for the processes like Month end, Payment Proposal run etc.

Configuration of Travel related Expenses reimbursed to Employees and paid through A/P.

Copying the Employee Master data as a Vendor Master Data.

Performed unit testing and integration testing. Provided user training on processes and assistance in developing user documents.

Analyzed the as-is system, did the Gap Analysis and designed the to-be system.

Client: Bajaj Energy Pvt Ltd (India) Dec 2011 – June 2012

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (Full life cycle implementation)

Version: SAP 4.6C

Bajaj Hindusthan through its SPV, Bajaj Energy Pvt Ltd has setup new coal based power generation plants of 90 MW each in the vicinity of 5 of its existing sugar units. The five new coal based plants under Bajaj Energy were commissioned early 2012 at Barkhera (Pilibhit), Maqsoodapur (Shahjahanpur), Khambarkhera (Lakhimpur), Kundarkhi (Gonda), Utraula (Balrampur) in the state of Uttar Prade

Responsibilities:

Gathering Requirement from Business

Conducting Workshops

Designing Business Processes.

Preparation of Business Blue Print Documentation.

Configuration of Cash Management, Money Market, Securities and Hedge Management.

Making Testing Scripts for Unit, User Acceptance and Integration Testing.

FS for Treasury Report and complete Logic for Insurance Module

and Business Areas based on Organizational Structure. Defining Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings.

In AR/AP involved in Configuring Accounts Receivable (AR) and Sample Ledger Accounts. Defining House Banks, Bank Accounts and Reason Codes, Check Lots. Defining Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Creating Customer /Vendor Master Data. Configuring Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts Payable (AP). Configuring Incoming Payments, Billing, Credit Management and Dunning Programs.

In Asset Accounting, involved in Configuring Asset Master Records, Chart of Depreciation and Customizing Screens for Asset Creation. Involved in defining Depreciation Keys, Calculation Methods and Depreciation Areas to the Assets Masters.

In CCA & COPA involved in Defining and Configuring Controlling Area. Assign the Company Code and Chart of Accounts to Controlling Area. Configuring Operating Concern with Characteristics and Value Fields. Configuring Cost Elements, Revenue Elements, Cost Center, Profit Center and Hierarchies. Designing and developing Analysis Reports of Products Profitability by Configuring Profitability Analysis. In CO-PA Report Profitability by Customer, Product, and Market. Creating P&L statements using CO-PA reporting tools.

Assigning Profit Center to the respective Cost Centers, Material Master, Production orders, fixed assets, and Sales Orders through Sales Order Substitutions in Profit Center Hierarchy and Transferred Revenue Accounts and Balance Sheet Accounts to Profit Centers in Profit Center Hierarchy.

Involved in preparing Functional Specifications for the technical team.

Involved in uploading and migrating the Master records to SAP from Legacy using LSMW.

Involved in Project Management and Training in Generating Metrics for Senior Management for Progress Tracking Purposes. Documenting End User Manuals and Training Material. Conducting End User Training on GL, AA and TM modules.

Client: HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd

Duration: April 2010 – Sep 2011

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (GL, AP, AR, AA,)

Version: 4.6C

HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) is a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, Singapore, a Lakshmi N Mittal Company. Both the JV partners hold a stake of 49% each in the company and the remaining 2% is held by financial institutions. HMEL operates the Guru Gobind Singh Refinery of 9 MMTPA at Bathinda in Punjab. The joint venture partners bring more than four decades of experience in the oil refining industry and expertise in the global industry.

Responsibilities:

Designing BPML, BPD’s for Implementation of FICO, Treasury & Risk Management and BW reporting.

Conducting Workshop & Design solution.

System Configuration for GL, Profit Center, Cost Center, AP/AR & Bank along Money Market Instrument, Securities, Credit & Risk Analyser of Treasury Module and Configuring Cash Management & Liquidity planning

iMapping Syndicate facility, Working Capital, Buyer/Supplier Credit instruments in system.

Designing FS for Business Critical Report such as waterfall Mechanism cash flow, liquidity report Involved in the Configuration of screens for Period end operations including Depreciation run, posting to General Ledger, and transfer of AR / AP balances.

Domain Experience:

Musashi Auto Parts India Pvt ltd (Japenese MNC), (Oct 2008- April,2010)

a)Fund Management

b)Banking Relationship Management (Fulfilling Statutory requirement)

c)Deferred Finance Management.

d)Co-ordinating with Export Deptt (Providing G.R. Waiver and Other exim document)

e)Management Reporting.

f)Forex Management (Forward, Interest rate Swap and Foreign remittance)

g)Accounting (Export Receivables, Import payables and Bank charges only)

h)Foreign receivable and payables Management.

i)Export and Import financing(Pre & Post-Shipment Finance and Buyer credit)

j)Insurance (Issuance, Enhancement, Renewal and claim).

k)Logic for report development from Microsoft Navision.

Karnal Agricultural Industries Ltd, Karnal, India (June 2007 to Sep, 2008)

a)General Ledger Accounting

b)Bank Relationship Management

c)Loan Management

d)Cash Flow & Bank Position Monitoring.

e)Forex & Forward Contract Management

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