Sobharani .C

682-***-****

adjms9@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

Having total experience of 11+ years in Financial Accounting & Controlling in India and UK .

Proficiency in Implementation, Support, Technical Upgradation and Configuration of major functionalities.

Involved in 3 Full life Cycle Implementations with active participation in Blue printing, realization, Cut-Over tasks and Post Implementation support using ASAP Methodologies.

Having in depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration with SD, MM, PP involving automatic account determination.

Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents.

Good interaction with the IT& Business team in analyzing the business requirements and documenting them into functional specifications and explaining them to the ABAP consultants.

Key Strengths:

G/L (Classic and New), AP, AR, PS, AM, CO, Cost and Profit Center Accounting, multi-currency processing and consolidation.

Expertise in Organization Structure Setup, Taxes.

FI-GL -- GL Master, posting, account balances, reporting, closing activities.

FI-AR -- Customer Master, Credit Management, Dunning, FI-SD Integration.

FI-AP -- Vendor Master, Automatic Payment Program, Check Management.

FI-BL -- Bank Master, House Banks.

FI-AA -- Asset Master, Chart of Depreciation, Integration with GL, Valuation of assets, postings and reporting.

Cash Management -- Electronic Bank Statement and Manual bank statement.

Cost Element Accounting -- Master Data, Cost Element Group, Cost element category, Reconciliation Ledger.

Cost Center Accounting -- Cost Center Master, Standard Hierarchy, Activity Types, Planning, Postings, Allocations, Reporting, closing activities.

Internal Orders- Master Data, Order Types, Postings, Settlements, closing activities.

CO-PC –Activity type master, planning values with cost centre, Integration with Routing masters.

EC-PCA -- Master Data, Planning, Postings, closing activities.

Worked on BDC/LSMW for legacy data upload.

Upgrade issues in Investment Management and Project Systems.

Strong experience in costing-based COPA.

Checking and Application of OSS Notes to problem areas

Developed custom Reports as per the Customer requirements in the area of FI according to business requirements.

Academic Profile:

Master of Business Administration from Deemed University, Chennai, TN (2002 – 2004).

Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from S.V. University (1998 – 2001).

Professional Experience:

Worked as SAP FI/CO Consultant for Infosys Ltd, India March 2017 – Jan 2018.

Worked as SAP FI/CO Assistant Consultant for Tata Consultancy Services, India

Nov 2007 – Jun 2016.

Worked as SAP FI/CO Assistant Consultant for Cadbury PLC, UK Jan 2009 – Apr 2010.

Worked as SAP FI/CO Associate Consultant for Coconut Softwares Pvt. Limited, India

Mar 2006 – Oct 2007.

Client: AMD Inc, Chennai, TN Mar 2017 – Jan 2018

Employer: Infosys Ltd

Role: Consultant

Project Description: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), incorporated on May 1, 1969, is a global semiconductor company. The Company is engaged in offering x86 microprocessors, as standalone devices or as incorporated into an accelerated processing unit (APU), chipsets, discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) and professional graphics, and, server and embedded processors and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products and technology for game consoles The Company's segments include the Computing and Graphics segment, and the Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segment. The Company is engaged in designing and developing high performing, and low power APUs for notebook PC platforms for the consumer market. The Company competes with Intel Corporation, ARM Holdings and Nvidia Corporation.

Responsibilities:

S/4 Hana Green field implementation project with version 1610.

Involved in Project preparation, Business blue print (BBP), Realization, Final preparation, Go-Live & support.

General Ledger Accounting (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) & Taxes.

Maintained Business Partner, Cost center, Profit carter, Cost center groups, Profit center groups, SKFs, Internal order, custom tables.

Implementation of New Asset Accounting by activating the module.

ACDOCA table mapping for to Z-reports.

Configure and execute the assessment and distribution cycles

Client: A.C Nielsen Inc., Chennai, TN Oct 2015 – Jun 2016

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Role: Assistant Consultant

Project Description: The Nielsen Corporation is a global provider of market research and analysis of media and viewer interaction. It attempts to provide its clients with valuable insights into consumer behavior and marketing information. TCS has made global SAP implementation for AC Nielsen.

Responsibilities:

Worked on Travel & expense tickets based on priority and try to resolve them on time.

Manual loading of missing transactions using Zprogram based employee missing transactional data

worked on PCRs and CRs relates to travel management, more interaction with the client to move the new changes to Production.

Background jobs monitoring on daily basis for Citi bank transactional data.

Client: Target Corporation, Chennai, TN Jun 2013 – Jun 2014

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Role: Assistant Consultant

Project Description:

Target Integration is a key player in the market since 2008 and comes with loads of experience by catering many renowned organizations. Being SAP Partner, Our development team has been integrating SAP ERP with many ERP systems, accounting software, inventory management software and other third-party applications according to the business requirements of our clients.

Responsibilities:

Coordinating with client and off shore / onsite support team giving acceptable solutions to problems, queries raised by the client within predefined stringent time limit and giving solution to users

Monitor the background jobs for Payments through Control -M

Prepared the DSR periodic reports on weekly basis.

Resolving issues On Priority Basis and Providing support to end users.

Handle Support issues with various interfaces to / from SAP with various systems.

House Bank creations and other issues/requirements in Banking.

Changes Payment Methods & Creation of new Payment Methods.

worked on PCRs and CRs relates to travel management, more interaction with the client to move the new changes to Production.

Client: Woolworths Limited, Chennai, TN Jan 2011 – May 2013

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Role: Assistant Consultant

Project Description: Woolworths Limited is a major Australian company with extensive retail interest throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is the largest Retail Company in Australia and New Zealand. Woolworths is one of the largest employers in Australia with over 190,000 team members.

Responsibilities:

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Coordinating with client and off shore / onsite support team giving acceptable solutions to critical problems, queries raised by client within predefined stringent time limit and giving solution to users.

Resolving issues On Priority Basis and Providing support to end users.

Customizing and configuration of various areas of IMG activities in finance and controlling.

Provided Consultation to improve SAP Functionalities according to changes in business process and to meet business needs.

Discussions with business team towards enhancing new functionality as required by Business teams for various processes.

Handle Support issues with various interfaces to / from SAP with various systems.

Data base Archiving for different finance objects and design plan for regular archival.

Changes Payment Methods & Creation of new Payment Methods.

Create and monitor background job for Payments.

Handle issues at EBS (Electronic Bank Statement) load for different Banks – Westpac, Commonwealth, HSBC, BNZ, etc.

Worked on proactively on monitoring the AP Payment run regarding the IDOC Batch run on daily basis & if any error try to fix the problem and intimate to Business team.

House Bank creations and other issues/requirements in Banking.

Handle issues relates to COPA and Banking interfaces.

Creation of New Accounts groups as required by business.

Changes to Customer Invoices, statements etc.

worked on PCRs and CRs relates to travel management, more interaction with the client to move the new changes to Production.

Primarily responsible automation of interface of Accounts Payable and Receivables to multiple external banks.

Worked on FICO Archived process.

Client: Home Depot Inc, Chennai, TN May 2010 – Dec 2010

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Role: Assistant Consultant

Project Description: Home Depot has signed a major contract with SAP AG, the German software developer, to upgrade and refine its software system. According to several published reports, the Atlanta-based Home Depot wants to improve its inventory management, supply chain and merchandising capabilities with the new software.

Responsibilities:

Functional point of view tested multiple scenarios for customer collection summary report, Ztable updation &Analysed the same by using multiple tables BSEG, BKPF,BSAD,BSID,BSE_CLR to resolve publication wise reports.

Changed from internal number range to external number range for some FD Vendor groups

Mass updation for industry key and Payment term fields in the customer masters (totally 8143 customers) and reconciliation accounts in the vendor masters.

Withholding tax data updated in Vendor masters in SAP quality.

Accountable for handling related sub modules supporting General Ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivables, along with integrated with other modules like MM & SD.

Worked on proactively on monitoring the AP Payment run regarding the IDOC Batch run on daily basis & if any error try to fix the problem and intimate to Business team.

Monitoring GL accounts and master data on daily basis since It is related with the Legacy system EFI(GL related transactions).

Cross scenarios testing to fetch correct payment &invoice data while clearing open items in

F-32 with invoice reference field 'V'.

Client: Cadbury PLC, Birmingham, UK May 2009 – Apr 2010

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Role: Assistant Consultant

Solution Environment: Technical Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0

Project Description:

Cadbury is a leading global confectionery company with an outstanding portfolio of chocolate, gum and candy brands. Cadbury makes and sell three kinds of confectionery, chocolate: gum and candy, operate in over 60 countries and work with around 35,000 direct and indirect suppliers.

Responsibilities:

Recommended New functionalities which are available in ECC 6.0 relevant to Cadbury Business process.

Responsible for knowledge Transfer, documentation and training to offshore resources on formal test scripts.

Issue resolution and error tracking – Functional.

Implemented Sap Notes to regain the existing functionality.

Identify and correction of a Bespoke programs e.g. obsolete function module and objects.

Applied majority of the OSS notes and key manual cut-over steps before GO-Live.

Testing of all business processes related to FICO,Key Responsible person from TCS team for all Upgrade related issues in FI (GL, AP, AR, AA) and CO (OM, PCA, PC,IM-PS and COPA).

Client: Apeejay Oxford book store Pvt Ltd, Chennai, TN Nov 2007 – Apr 2009

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Role: Assistant Consultant

Project Description: Oxford Bookstore measures its success by the smiles on millions of happy customers that the brand has served over the last 9 decades. Apeejay is a retail business buying and selling of books, FMCG and having of 31 sites all over India.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Full life-cycle implementation through Blueprint, design and customizing, testing & training and po Go-Live support.

Prepared Business blue print and Completed Configuration through Solution manager as per client requirements by activating Document splitting by the way of New G/L functionality.

Completed unit testing and integrated testing based on which prepared test cases to make easy understand end user.

Participated in training sessions of FI module, which covered basic IMG settings, customizing and master data creation in FI module. Configured CEA, CCA, PCA and costing based COPA, understanding the interfaces with SIM and POS Applications.

Uploaded legacy master data for GL, Withholding taxes, Cost centers, Profit centres, Asset master data.

Involved in Post-Go live support.

Client: Jesavi (Elegant) Group, Bombay, MH Jun 2007 – Oct 2007

Employer: Coconut Softwares Pvt, Ltd

Role: Associate Consultant

Project Description: Jesavi is a one of the most Prestigious organization having Four Company Codes (Exports) reorganizing the existing structure and processes and implementing the same in the SAP System by way of Configuration.

Responsibilities:

As a consultant preparation of BBP doc., review.

Finalized the organization structure and Sign off.

Prepared master data templates, collection of legacy data, uploading and testing

Completed unit testing and integrated testing based on which prepared test cases to make easy understand the end user.

Participated in training sessions of FI module, which covered basic IMG settings, customizing and master data creation in FI module, understanding the integration with SD and MM, PP modules.

Client: Bombay Dyeing Mfg Co Ltd, Bombay, MH Mar 2007 – May 2007

Employer: Coconut Softwares Pvt, Ltd

Role: Associate Consultant

Project Description: Worked on Product Costing Implementation by the same time involved in Year Ending Activities and given Supporting for FI/CO by resolving the all Critical issues which was related to integration between MM-FI, SD-FI (CIN version).

Responsibilities:

Prepared the BBP document and finalized the Organization structure.

Did the Configuration for Product costing based on client requirement.

Completed training on Product Costing including BOM, Routing, Work Centre with Formula maintenance and Activity Master data and Run the complete Cost Cycle without any errors.

Cost estimate for material by plant wise.

Worked on the year end Closing Activities by creating New Number Ranges and Closing the Fiscal-Year (provide the User Manual Doc.).

Resolving the issues like Releasing of Billing docs to FI by resolving the errors assigning the account assignment group for Master data of Customer, Material with particular G/L account

Cancellation of Billing docs due to the wrong account assignment groups by assigning the wrong G/L accounts.

Creation of Financial Statement Versions.

Configuration of Excise Groups and assigning the G/L accounts.

Studying the Existing System and Business Process and Configure the Product Costing and Credit Management in the R/3 System.

Configuration of Cost Component Structure and assigning G/L accounts to Cost Component Structure and Activation of component structure

Creation of Costing Variants and Components for the same.

Configure the Credit Control Area and assigning to Company Code, billing types.

Training provided on Cost Estimate with the different Costing lot size for Multilevel Costing. Cost Estimate with different alternative BOM, Routing Group counter by changing the Sub Material master.

Error occurs during the releasing Billing document to Accounting and resolve by Marking and Release the Standard Price to the Material and Cost Estimation with Quantity Structure.

Client: Godrej Agrovet Ltd, Bombay, MH Mar 2006 – Feb 2007

Employer: Coconut Softwares Pvt, Ltd

Role: Associate Consultant

Project Description: GAVL is a one of the most Prestigious organization in Buying and Selling. The Project covered the entire cycle of understanding the existing structure and Business Processes of the organization relating it with the Standard Processes of SAP, reorganizing the existing structure and processes and implementing the same in the SAP System by way of Configuration.

Responsibilities:

Prepared Business blue print and Completed Configuration as per client requirements by activating Document splitting.

Completed unit testing and integrated testing based on which prepared test cases to make easy understand end user.

Participated in training sessions of FI module, which covered basic IMG settings, customizing and master data creation in FI module, understanding the interfaces with SIM and POS Applications.

Uploaded legacy master data for GL, Withholding taxes, Cost centers, Profit centers, Asset master data.

Solving the Issues like r creation of TDS Remittance Challans and Number ranges, generating TDS Certificates.

Creation of Number Ranges for Internal Orders.

With holding Tax Codes and Types while posting Down Payments, Invoice and the way of calculation of TDS on both of Methods.

Creation of House Bank and Bank keys and assigning them to the Payment methods.

Creation of Vendor and Customer groups

Creation of Primary and Secondary Cost Elements and Controlling Areas and how to Activate the Components in Controlling Area.

Creation of Depreciation Keys.

Involved in Post Go-Live support.

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