PAVAN KUMAR

SAP FICO Project Lead

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Career Objective: To work in a competitive environment on challenging assignments that shall fosters creativity, continual learning and yield the twin benefits of the job satisfaction and a steady paced professional growth. With a sound SAP FICO functional knowledge, together with good analytical, problem solving and leadership skills, I can deliver credible performance and efficiently contribute towards achieving team and organizations objectives.

Summary:

F15 years of diverse experience in SAP FICO consulting, including managing End to End SAP implementation Projects & Leading Finance Transformation projects to ensure seamless system operation, which deliver strategic business advantage.

FDelivered multiple SAP FICO End to End implementations in the capacity of Project Lead. Projects delivered across various sectors including FMCG, Telecom, ENU, Auto parts, Manufacturing.

FCurrently working with TCS as Project Lead.

FLed and delivered multiple complex finance projects.

FMBA from Sikkim Manipal University with specialization in FINANCE and Post Graduate of Commerce from Nagarjuna University with a specialization of Accountancy.

FWork experience of 8 years with various banks in various roles, having rich banking domain.

FTeam leader with strong analytical & organizational abilities; exposed to client and customer interface and handled high pressure and tight deadlines situations.

FProactive in taking ownership in project related activities with focus on business strategy, quality improvement and innovation.

FSpecific focus is on S/4 HANA as applied to Finance (FI) and Controlling(CO), Simple Finance S/4 HANA Finance and Process Integration areas of SAP.

Certifications:

FCertified in SAP Financial Accounting (FI) from SEIMENS

FS4 HANA certification simple finance 1709.

FProject Management Professional Training

FJAIIB from Indian Institute of Banking & Finance

FPursuing ICWA.

SAP FICO Projects Worked at TCS

Projects

Industry

Location

Nature of project

APTIV

Automotive Manufacturing

USA

Implementations, Rollouts, Solutions & Development.

SAP FICO Projects Worked at Wipro

Projects

Industry

Location

Nature of project

Hibuinc

Print

USA

Support

Village Road Show Ltd

Film & Entertainment

Australia

Support & Development

Maxis SdnBhd

Telecom

Malaysia

Support, Development & Enhancements & IFRS15 Implementation

Celcom SdnBhd

Telecom

Malaysia

Implementation & Support

Sadara Chemical Co

ENU

USA

Upgrade & Support

Maxis SdnBhd (current Project)

Telecom

USA

Support, Development & Enhancements

SAP FICO Projects handled at Tech Mahindra & Cap Gemini

Projects

Industry

Location

Nature of project

Vodafone India Services Pvt Ltd / UK

Telecom

Pune / India

Testing & support

Nestle

FMCG

Bangalore / India

Support

HP Inc

IT

Bangalore / India

Support & Development

Project Details:

Company : Tata Consultancy Services

Client : APTIV, USA

Duration : From July 2022 to till date

Role : SAP FICO project Solutions - Project Lead.

Responsibilities:

Managing Finance – SAP FICO settings, Co Code and Plant rollout for Vietnam, Indonesia.

Led End to End testing of FI transactions for an SPS upgrade project.

Providing FI/CO solutions after integrations with other SAP modules (MM, SD, PP etc.)

Responsible of FI/CO module implementation of global template design & development for FI and CO module considering global as well as diverse business process requirements of client, responsible for quality delivery of solution implementation & deployment.

Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement and rebate document, which enabled business to communicate efficiently with Customers.

Configured record to report in SAP and design reports for the legal requirement.

Provided Tax process re-engineering across tax functions, Tax process improvement, Tax Risk and SOX controls.

Participated in business blueprint process gathering requirement, design documenting, setting up workshops and following up with the business for FICO module.

Participated in AS-IS study, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, TO-BE solution, business process review, and business process re-engineering.

Created the workflow for invoice processing and assigned various authorizations to the business user and defined the flow of the document.

Maintained and generated reports for month-end closings.

Configured House banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment and Automatic Payment Program (APP) configuration.

Maintained relations with Banks by resolving the issues in receiving flat files for processing customer remittances.

Extensively worked to design/configure business processes in SAP FI to support the planning, control, and monitoring of programs/projects.

Worked on Credit Management and Credit control areas, interest calculation and developed assessment, distribution, periodic reposting cycles and segment.

Configured and used LSMW for uploading master data of General Ledger, Customers, and Vendors.

Spearheaded end to end implementation of Finance process in SAP for multinational brewery client.

Company : Wipro Ltd

Client : Maxis Mobile SdnBhd

Duration : From Feb 2020 to June 2022

Project : SAP ECC Support, Development & Enhancement

Role : Project Lead

SAP FICO modules and sub ledgers: New GL & Splitting document, Taxes, Withholding Tax, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets Management (AM).

Part of the Development & Support team for FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, Profitability Analysis, Cost center Accounting and Profit Center, Material ledger and other areas of controlling module & Project systems.

Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its settlements.

Configured valuation areas, multiple currency types, movement type groups and material update structure in product costing.

Revenue Accounting Reporting and other finance related reporting.

Worked on Customization for Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).

Customized for New asset classes from requirement gathering to PRD deployment.

Customized for In-House Cash Bank and business partner role and profile.

Customized for new payment methods and payment terms from requirement gathering to PRD deployment.

Customized for Treasury Groupings, Planning levels and Risk Analyzer.

Worked on issues related to cost center, profit center, IO, COPA and product costing related issues along with GR / IR related issues.

Responsible for customization for new currency codes, new document type creation, FI / CO roles changes and FX revaluation.

Company : Wipro Ltd,

Client : Sadara Chemical Company

Duration : September 2019 to Jan’2020

Role : SAP FICO – Project Lead

Product : SAP FICO, RTR

Project : EHP8 Upgrade Project.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Coordinate with Client Business/Functional Team to identify critical business processes, understand the functionality of the custom developments

Overall Test Planning, Preparation of Test Plans, test scripts and executing Unit and Integration testing.

Providing clarifications for functional related issues during UAT

It is functional & Technical upgrade analyze which custom functionalities can be retired and which can be brought back to standard.

Prepare a POC on the recommended new functionalities on how these would be useful for the Client.

Handling the defects related to FI & CO & VIM related and resolving with suitable solutions.

Preparing user documents.

Analyzing the obsolete transactions and modifying the documents with the new transactions.

After upgrade, check all the BAU activities which are running in old version and new version.

Created a template for configuration of Country specific and configured the system for Co Codes, Fixed assets and payment program, vendor and customer master data.

Mapped Legacy G/L with Existing SAP G/L accounts

Payment methods including 'SEPA' via IDOC

Created multiple payment methods as per country requirement, including 'SEPA, BACS. Interfaced the payment run for IDOC, for Bank of America

Functional technical specification for custom tables, Material movement, material G/L postings (RICEFW).

Functional and technical specification for tables and AR postings and interface.

Systems Specifications for cash tender, and postings (RICEFW)

Created new asset classes, depreciation areas

Documented of configuration, custom reports and programs. Unit test scripts and testing.

Created user acceptance tests and test scripts.

Performed Integration testing Go-live support.

Upload program and extract program for material movements from non-Sap system.

JE/AP postings program for material movements.

Configured lockbox and outgoing payment by using payment Medium Workbench.

Upload and extract program for sales at the retails stores from non-SAP POS system.

USER Exit for creating IDOC file for the bank

JE/AR postings program for sales at the retail stores.

Cash and credit card tender extract and upload program, AR postings program

Multiple custom tables to facilitate the above programs.

Company : Wipro Ltd

Client : Celcom Mobile SdnBhd – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Duration : November 2017 to August 2019

Product : SAP FICO, IFRS 15, RTR

Project : IFRS15 Implementation & Support - Project Lead.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Deployment Experience application SAP IFRS15

New software solution in order to comply with new revenue accounting standard (MFRS 15).

Engage our current auditor (PWC) to do the assessment of our compliance to MFRS 15 and system vouch to software configuration.

Compliance with statutory reporting requirement with the new complex and tedious accounting standard;

Improved operational efficiency leading to increased productivity

Compliance with IFRS 15 – Revenue from Customer contract

Case Management & Dashboard Reporting

Supervisory & KPI Management.

All BAU issues support and enhancement.

S/4 Finance and support ASAP Methodology in all following lifecycles phases - Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run - Prototype

Record To Report Accounting (RTR) Lead is responsible for RTR process for dedicated Affiliate/s and coordination and oversight of accounting activities for this affiliate as a first point of contact (FPOC).

As a Lead, driven and coordinated the financial close process, prepared and reviewed journal entries and reconciliations, prepared and reviewed financial and accounting analysis.

Prepared and reviewed financial and accounting analysis with complex transactions including but not limited to general accounting, fixed assets, intercompany and financial reporting activities/transactions.

Prepared and provided to Finance Director/s variance analysis between actual and planned financial data.

Produced and reviewed management and statutory reports with affiliates

Configured operating Company Code setup reporting companies to anticipate business expansion

Customized New General Ledger (G/L in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA)

Performed as Project Manager for process improvements, which included estimating projects, designing project plans, held update meetings with stakeholder and supported cross module teams

Master Data governance (GL Accounts, Cost Centers, Accounting View of Vendors and Customers, etc.)

Work with off shore team; train, mentor and provide guidance in SAP FICO modules to troubleshoot maintenance issues

Configured the settings for House Bank, outgoing and incoming payments including Automatic payment program (APP), down payments, inter-company transaction in Accounts Payables (AP).

Provided ongoing business support for the finance team and demonstrated a deep knowledge of the FICO and S/4 HANA Finance modules by resolving issues and providing solutions via enhancements, process design improvements and configuration changes

Configuration of Integration between FI/CO with MM and SD.

Configuration of S/4 New Asset Accounting with ledger approach and accounts approach

Worked with IT to harmonize master data from source systems to the Central Finance system using SLT replicator and MDG to implement Simple Finance on (S/4 HANA)

Assessment/cleansing and migration of FI master data using Rapid Data Migration with Data Services Migration / Validation / Testing from Existing FI tables to ACDOCA table.

Migrating G/L settings and Defining Settings for Journal entry Ledger.

Defining document types for posting in CO and ledger for Controlling Version.

Defining offsetting Account determination.

Redesign of Customer Master and Vendor Master as Business Partners.

Configured New Asset Accounting.

Created CDS views (Master data and Transactional) for S4/HANA Embedded Operational Analytics.

Company : Wipro Ltd

Client : Maxis Mobile Sdn Bhd – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Duration : June 2017 to November 2017

Project : SAP ECC support & IFRS15Implementation

Project Overview:

In May 2014, the FASB and IASB issued their converged standard on revenue recognition (IFRS 15) which replaces the current accounting standards FRS 118. The scope of IFRS 15 applies to all contracts with customer (explicitly or implied), it cover from product and service bundling, free minute, time value of money, treatment of acquisition costs and ETC. The equivalent for this standard which applied locally will be MFRS15. Malaysia will follow the same footstep and the relevant new Accounting standard will be MFRS 15 – Revenue from contract with customer. It will take effect from 1/1/2018 with restatement of comparative figure for year 2017.

The new accounting standard will impact the telecommunication industry greatly in term of revenue recognition, timing of revenue recognition, treatment of subscriber acquisition costs, treatment of freebies and etc.

Additional revenue may need to be allocated to discounted or ‘free’ products provided at the beginning of a service period.

The revenue standard could affect the accounting treatment of activation fees, customer acquisition costs, and certain contract fulfilment costs.

The revenue standard guidance on assessment basis on portfolio of contracts or performance obligations in some circumstances

Configured Electronic Bank Statement in the Treasury with the following: account symbols, keys for posting rule and transaction type, assigned account to account symbols, defined the posting rule, assigned external transaction to the posting rule.

Created document type ZA and ZB for the bank statement and assigned transaction and variant for the document splitting.

Set up the job to process the incoming lockbox file and to send out the outgoing ACH file to the bank.

Created profile for the production order TECO but not closed to enable the user to perform the analysis for the production order.

Defined material field in for GL line item display, so the user can view material in GL report.

Created work center, bill of material, routing, production order, and conducted the settlement of the production order to fix some issue in product costing report.

Created process documents and trained the users for the month end process and year end process.

Created the job to process the recurring entry automatically every month and close the MM, FI, and CO period automatically every month.

Extensive Knowledge in S4 HANA Simple Logistics ( LE ) 1510. Especially Business Partner Creation, Number range extension for BP, Revenue Recognition in SAP RAR.

Fixed configuration issue in two new company codes and tested it successfully.

Classified GL accounts and document type for the document splitting. Defined zero balance account, defined document split characteristics for GL accounting and Controlling.

Created document type and number for the bill back credit memo.

Created job for VFX3 in the billing and sent the result to user inbox every day automatically.

Created query for GL report with material number.

Advised and assisted with Concur Expense implementation and integration with SAP FICO. Provided insight and guidance on Concur configuration, processes and roles. Enhanced test plans with several integration scenarios. Designed and wrote reconciliation and other reports in SAP and Concur for travel and spend visibility.

Configured Travel Management, setup Payroll area and control records, Enterprise structure, Travel expenses and Privileges, Employee Group, Travel Expenses Type, Trip reimbursement, dialogue and travel expenses control, wage type for interfaces, Transaction to accounting and transactions, Trip Provision variants and assigned them

Fixed the missing information in FAGLFLAXA table for some accounting documents and released the accounting document for the cancelled billing documents successfully.

Helped users to enter the budget data into SAP. Helped the accounting department to do the year end closing. Fixed the issue that the voided checks were printed before the real check was printed for two new company codes.

Created the customer statement. Configured check printing sorted by payee's name. Created several jobs and sent the result to user's inbox.

Provided the production support to solve all kind of issues in FI and CO and created training material.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Deployment Experience application SAP IFRS15

New software solution in order to comply with new revenue accounting standard (MFRS 15).

Engage our current auditor (PWC) to do the assessment of our compliance to MFRS 15 and system vouch to software configuration.

Compliance with statutory reporting requirement with the new complex and tedious accounting standard;

Improved operational efficiency leading to increased productivity

Compliance with IFRS 15 – Revenue from Customer contract

Case Management & Dashboard Reporting

Supervisory & KPI Management.

All BAU issues support and enhancement.

Company : Wipro Ltd

Client : Village Roadshow Limited, AUSTRALIA

Duration : Nov 2015 to May 2017

Role : SAP FICO – Project Lead

Product : SAP Finance & Controlling

Project : Development & Support project

SAP FICO modules and sub ledgers: New GL & Splitting document, Taxes, Extended Withholding Taxes, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets Management (AM).

Part of the Development & Support team for FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AA, Profitability Analysis, Cost center Accounting and Profit Center accounting, Material ledger and other areas of controlling module.

Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its settlements.

Configured valuation areas, multiple currency types, movement type groups and material update structure in product costing.

Reviewed existing SAP ERP implementation (multiple instances) and design SAP data outbound interfaces and data extractions.

Lead the enhancement of the finance area with SAP FICO Business Process Owner & power/key users (Accounting center key users, regional business controllers/plant controllers)

Experience in modules like Logistics Execution ( LE ) and IS Retail.

Re-Defining the existing Enterprise Structure so as to suit the organizations needs more accurately.

SAP FI (Enterprise Structure and GL Re-configuration) and activating SAP Reference IMG structure for FI.

Drive and co-ordinate the financial close process for the affiliate or cluster of affiliates

Work closely with personnel in all departments to ensure compliance with company accounting and operational guidelines in accordance with local GAAP.

Assist in audit preparation and all other projects assigned.

SAP finance experience with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Open Text, Treasury, General Ledger, and FSCM Biller Direct, Dispute, Collections, and Credit Management.

SAP Modules: Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management / Purchasing, Retail and Inventory Management

Configured the OpenText VIM for managing invoices with an AP master data.

OpenText VIM used for the workflow of the invoices, pay correct amount to vendors, create various types of invoices, get the aging report, keep check and various validations.

Company : Cap Gemini

Client : HP Global Solutions India Ltd

Duration : Mar 2014 to Nov 2015

Designation : Senior Software Engineer

Role : SAP FICO consultant

Project : Separation office management

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyze, Design, Test and Deliver the solution with in SAP FICO functional process.

Business Process Requirement analysis & Preparation of Effort Estimates

Preparation of Business Process documentation & Test Cases, Test scripts as per the requirement.

Functional configuration and Perform Unit testing & Integration testing

Provide L2 & L3 support for SAP FICO modules.

Plan and execute all required process steps as defined in methodologies

Proactively provide work/deliverables status

Meet service commitments for assigned deliverables

Work with ABAP team for the providing the functional inputs, code logic and functional testing etc.

Co-ordinate and communicate with the onsite team members

Provide inputs to assist in determining level of effort for the new requirements.

Interact with Key users and the Business users for the problem identification and resolution

Assignment: 1

Working on Development & Enhancement of New reports – which is mostly for Revenue Recognition and forecast billing Revenue related as per the Business requirement. During the times closely associating with Business team and working together with Business teams according to timelines and also prepared E2E testing scenarios for various reports of Revenue Recognition.

Assignment: 2

Worked for Italy e-invoice project for some time initially. Creating a new Number Range and separate tax ledger for e-invoice and paper invoice as the Italy legal requirement.

According to the Tax Authorities best practice and official documentation the electronic invoices must have a separate VAT ledger or a specific and dedicate sectional in the VAT ledger.

The separate VAT ledger follows the same fiscal/VAT/legal rules provided for the VAT ledger for paper invoices.

Developed a report that displays Vendor information in basic list, their bank details in next list.

Developed a report that displays FI – RR Reconciliation report (Actual Vs Forecast Revenues).

Developed a report that displays un-billed aging report.

Developed an Interactive ALV Report which displays all the Purchase order for a particular Vendor and Item details for a particular order.

Company : Tech Mahindra Ltd

Client : Nestle

Duration : June 2012 to Mar 2014

Role : SAP FICO Senior Consultant

Product : FMCG

Responsibilities:

Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving incident raised (Priority 0 to 3) related to FICO and adhering to guidelines and timelines and also Request Management tickets for route cause analysis.

Sub-Leading a team of 15 consultants and managing critical as well as day to day activities.

Impact analysis on issues and Root Cause Analysis of critical and repetitive issues

Automation of requirements which are repetitive in nature through Batch Job process

Handling various configurations in FICO modules.

Single handed managed induction and training of new joiners.

Managing team backlogs and devising strategies to reduce them in order to meet SLA and SLO.

Participating in practice level initiatives (functional/technical analysis, documentation development)

Managing Process compliance and SLA compliance for FICO team

Derived, Tracked and Analysed trends in data (incident inflow, resolution level, resource management, etc) representing for FICO team required for monthly client manager meeting.

Company : Tech Mahindra Ltd

Client : Vodafone

Duration : Jan 2011 to June 2012

Designation : SAP FICO Consultant

Testing cum Support project

Functional Skills:

SAP FICO Financials knowledge with expertise of SAP R/3 FICO version ECC 6.0.

FI sub-modules: Basic settings, General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), Accounts Payables (FI-AP), Asset Accounting (FI-AA).

Knowledge related to issues in integration of FI modules with SD and MM modules

Basic knowledge of Controlling module (Internal Orders, CCA)

Responsibilities:

Preparing Test Scripts for E2E scenarios, Upload in Test Lab and moved Test Plan.

Execution and Validation of Test Scripts in HP application Lifecycle Management tool.

Resolving Change Reqeusts on time and process.

Involved in support process for all R/3 Applications related to SAP Financial Accounting & Controlling module.

Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving incident raised (Priority 0 to 3) related to FICO and adhering to guidelines and timelines and also Request Management tickets for route cause analysis.

Sub-Leading a team of 15 consultants and managing critical as well as day to day activities.

Impact analysis on issues and Root Cause Analysis of critical and repetitive issues

Automation of requirements which are repetitive in nature through Batch Job process

Handling various configurations in SAP FICO modules.

Single handedly managed induction and training of new joiners.

Managing team backlogs and devising strategies to reduce them in order to meet SLA and SLO.

Participating in practice level initiatives (functional/technical analysis, documentation development)

Managing Process compliance and SLA compliance for FICO team

Derived, Tracked and Analyzed trends in data (incident inflow, resolution level, resource management, etc) representing for FICO teamrequired for monthly client manager meeting.

Domine Work Experience:

Having Rich experience in Banking and Finance for 8+ years.

Worked in City Union Bank as Officer from 2002 – 2005

Worked in ICICI and HDFC Bank as Credit Manager from 2005 – 2007

Worked in Fullerton India Credit as Branch Head from 2007 – 2009

Worked in ING Vysya Bank as SME Manager from 2009 – 2010

Personal Details:

Languages Known : English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada.

Gender : Male

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