Manager Sap

SAP FICO FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

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Name: Ramakrishna Bhat

Email: ****************@*****.***

Contact: +91-973*-***-***

Looking for an exciting career as a consultant in IT Organization to serve and achieve ERP transformational goals.

PROFILE HIGHLIGHTS

• Over 19 Years of industry experience in Finance with majors in Advanced financial Accounting, Costing and Taxation.

• Exposure to world class environment and worked with popular MNCs.

• Strategic planner with ability in resolving financial operational challenges.

• With 2plus years of hands on functional expertise in SAP FICO module in AMS project in Industry-Standard maturity delivery model. SAP SKILLS:

• Hands on experience in configuration of SAP FI/CO functional module as per Business process requirements.

• Knowledgeable in SAP FI - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Cost and Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and Internal Orders

• Solution expertise is Procure to pay, Order to cash and Record to report Process.

• Experience in configuring FI integration with MM & SD modules.

• Commendable business process knowledge and ability to transform requirements to process automation with technology in SAP products and tools and preparing Functional specification documents.

• Hands on application-experience in SAP FI and its sub-modules and preparing test scripts for Product, Unit and Integration testing for automation.

• Capable of resource planning, sizing for Application Development and AMS support, Data conversion LSMW configuration.

• Ability to think out of the box and work creatively, and a good team player. SAP FICO FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

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PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES: Trained systems analyst, possess cognitive skills in problem solving, team management, proficient with client requirement handling and good communication etiquettes.

PROFESSIONAL CHRONICLE

UL India Pvt Ltd – 04.2017 – 01.2019

• Got opportunity in upgrading my skills in the IT Team Functional area, Involved in SAP R/3 customisation, configured global and organisational structure

• Participated in business blueprint, realisation and final preparation phase.

• Creation of cost elements, cost centre accounting and Profit centre accounting.

• Creation of various house banks and bank keys

• Using LSMW upload master data and transaction data.

• Development of new reports as per user requirement.

• Providing support on general fico related automatic payment procedure and down payment procedure.

• Configured fiscal year, posting periods, field status variants, tolerance groups, document types, number ranges, creation of account groups, retained earning accounts.

• Configured of vendor, customer account groups and number ranges to respective screen layouts.

• Configured Asset account classes, account determinations, number ranges and screen layouts.

• Configuration changes in the system for specific requirements.

• Maintain the leading ledgers and non leading ledgers.

• Configuration of extended withholding taxes.

UL India Pvt Ltd – 07.2007 – 01.2019

• Started career as a finance analyst in UL India Pvt Ltd handling various customers Invoice submission, cash application post process, capture payment advice note document

• Periodic cheque deposits, tracking wire payment for daily cash applications.

• Reduce of unapplied cash, TDS adjustments, write offs

• Generate performance reports, cash projection reports to corporate

• Provide regular statement of accounts to client and help Collector officers to smooth flow of follow-ups with various clients

• Periodic filing of service tax returns as per statutory requirements.

• An opportunity provided to me to take charge of enhanced territory of handling asia pacific affiliates cash applications process for asia pacific including Japan, Singapore and Middle east customers.

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• Coordinated with corporate and IT teams in building Automated the cash application process with customer direct access to remit the payment with their payment advice.

• Generate standardised and customised reports related to the volume of documents processed, payment received and automatically matched and applied.

• Enabling increased efficiency and productivity level and identify trouble shooting with various process and customer record issues.

• Took in charge as AR Supervisor - entire AR team for various affiliates within Asia pacific, mentoring juniors in cash application, invoice submission, monitor collection follow-up and collection agent activities on a daily updates.

• Took group initiative with customer service team to get the online feed backs with all the customers.

• Periodically visited various key clients across India and Middle east to indentify the bottleneck to fix the pain points inorder to build relationships for smooth flow of AR activities.

• Trained and Certified Yellow belt for Lean sigma and Six sigma

• Lean sigma and Six sigma project implemented in our AR functional module

• Provided an opportunity to access various business units merged into AR team when the company took over various competitors.

• Supported in consolidating the various business units into the flow of monthly aging and Collection follow-ups since 2015.

• Design the AR team members to handle various collection activities like cash application analyst, AR receivable analyst, key account handler, customer credit profile analyst, monitoring credit hold release to book the order.

• Designed order to cash process for various business units and frame the team to handle the clients efficiently.

• Coordination with IT team and Sales team successfully implemented the GST implementation in AR system.

Datacraft India Ltd – 02.2003 – 06.2007

• Got exciting opportunity to associate with Multinational company Datacraft India Ltd south regional branch, a CISCO networking Partners, to work as senior Commercial executive

• Got independent opportunity to handle order to cash and user access to SAP R/3 for the complete South Branch.

• Handling order booking, fulfilment and order login to CISCO and coordination and expedite request for deliverables and tracking.

• Single point of contact for multi currencies order bookings for Local currency INR orders and order booking directly to Head office in USD/SGD

• Liasioning for deliveries, goods receipts and invoicing of product and services to various multinational customers.

• Responsible for credit management, invoice submission tracking, aging and collection follow-ups.

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• Took additional responsibilities from my manager to support his career enhancement. Took care of financial assignments.

• Responsible for monthly, yearly sales tax returns, Professional Tax, TDS returns statutory compliances and refund workings.

• Worked as a gate keeper for Employee claims submission and vendor invoice process.

• Submission of Purchase orders to local vendors for local procurement and follow-up and deliveries.

• Initiated the Project for automation of claim process, updating master records of all the employees and vendor Bank details to make online payments and go cash less transactions.

• Enhance the system process to setup a batch wise payment process and fixed the payment terms to all the vendors and employees.

• Assisted manager for Provisioning, month end closing, MIS reports, cash reporting, expense projections, Bank reconciliations and reports submissions to Head office.

• Coordinated for opening additional Branch office in Cochin Kerala for Business expansion, liasioning with statutory departments for branch opening compliances.

• Setup business operating unit and started Cochin branch operations.

HCL Comnet Ltd – 08.2000 – 01.2003

• Began my career in HCL Comnet Ltd as a Trainee and took incharge and single point of contact for Customer orders.

• Regional coordinator for Order fulfilment with of CISCO networking products with our Head office situated in NOIDA UP

• Working with multinational clients for logging of orders

• Liasion and coordination for deliveries, Goods receipt and Invoicing.

• Submission of installation reports and service invoices, periodic AMC invoice submissions.

• Responsible for Credit management and credit collection with Customers

• Got additional responsibility for enhancement as Finance and Commercial Executive

• Responsible for Sales tax returns and Statutory compliances and refunds.

• Single point of contact for all finance and commercial for Branch operations.

• Single point of contact for Banking activities.

• Sphere headed Bank transactions, Preperation of Bank reconciliation statements for various payable and receivable Bank accounts for the regional accounts office.

• Assisted Finance manager in preparation of MIS reports, Funds flow cash flow projections, Aging and forecasting fund flow from regional office, Trial balance, Balance sheet and month closing activities.

• Independently handled regional Procure to pay (P2) Cycles. SAP FICO FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

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• Coordination with the Internal Auditing preparation and External Auditors finalisations.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Trained and Certified Yellow belt for Lean sigma and Six sigma

• Inhouse Trained professional for SAP R/3; ECC6.O EHP7 EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

• Executive Master of Business Administration : 12.2015 National Institute of Business Management/ Chennai

• Bachelor Degree BCOM: 06.2000

VV Puram College of Arts and Commerce/ Bangalore University SOFTWARE APPLICATION SKILLS:

ERP Application : SAP R/3; ECC6.O EHP7, Oracle R12, Salesforce user Remedy tools.

Microsoft Product : Excel, Word, Outlook, Power point… Operating system : Windows XP/7

Reference: provided on request.

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