Production Support Master Data
Resume:
KANNAN V
SAP FICO consultant
E-mail: ***********@*****.***
•Overall, 18 years of proven and hands on experience in the field of SAP Consultant in Finance and Controlling, Auditing and Core user
•Over +12 years of functional experience in handling SAP ERP Implementation, Rollout, Master Data Management/Governance, Testing and Support projects with key involvement in Functional consulting business and Functional Analysis, GAP Analysis and Resolution, Configuration, Integration testing, user training roll-out and Production support.
•Over +6 years of prolific experience in performing various roles in the field of Accounting in Insurance, Retail and Internal Audit and Six Sigma Projects
•3 End to End Implementation Projects, 4 Roll Out Projects and 4 Production Support Projects
•An accomplished professional who applies strong analytical skills to understand client needs and complex business process requirements, examines the existing legacy systems, performs gap analysis, documents functional requirements and provides development and post-live production support.
•Hands on experience in FI General Ledger and New G/L, Accounts Receivables, Account Payables, Banking, Taxation Assets, Cost element, Cost centers, Profit centers, Internal Orders
•Detailed understanding on experience on MM and SD Integration
•Experience on Vendor master, Automatic payment, Electronic Bank Statement
•Experienced in different domains such as Insurance, Retail, In-house, Telecom, Global Animal health, Agri Science
•Requirement gathering on various objects customers, vendors, General Ledger, WBS, and cost center.
•Experience in handling Master Data Governance, Testing and SAP Implementations
•Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with Migrate your Data- Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various, Mappings, SAP Implementation Projects & Functional Experience in LTMC on Data migration in S4 HANA
•Closely worked with developers, IT teams to develop on SAP inbound and outbound interfaces for Account Receivable, Asset Accounting, Accounts Payable and Invoice processing
•Experienced working on data validation of customers, vendors, materials, WBS, and cost center.
•Good Exposure to Test Management tool HP Quality Center and ALM
•Experience in working in Agile, Kanban and Scrum methodologies.
Component
Version/Release ID
ERP Tools
SAP S4HANA Finance 2022, 1809, ECC 6.0, PeopleSoft, Mainframe, EPIC
Microsoft
Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Defect Management Tool
HP ALM,JIRA, Confluence, Service now
Post Graduate Diploma in International Business from Symbiosis, Pune, India (2009)
•Bachelor of Commerce from Bangalore University, India (2000)
SAP Authorization and Auditing for Net Weaver 7.31 July 2020
Management Accounting Associate Certification S/4 HANA 1809 Nov 2019
SAP S/4 HANA 1809 Certified Professional- Financials Sep 2019
SAP Certification in FI: Version 6.0 Feb 2015
•Six Sigma Black Belt certified Sep 2017
Honours and Awards
On-site recognition for On-Account clearing Project-Ernst and Young
Recognized as Stellar Performer - Tesco HSC pursuit of Excellence
Recognized as Best Performer - ACS India private limited for significant contribution towards meeting customer expectations and demonstrating a high degree of team spirit
Project#1: Verton Solutions Inc Jul 2024– Till date
Role: SAP Consultant
Responsibilities:
●Conducting business workshops on finance objects and identifying GAPS
●Conduct Fit GAP analysis
●Configuring GL -COA, Account Groups, Field Status Variants, GL Master Data
●Defining GL posting rules: Document Types, Number Range, Posting Keys, Parallel Accounting
●Configuring of Variants principles: Fiscal year, Posting Period and Field status variants
●Master data: GL, customer, vendor, WBS, cost centre issue resolve
●Preparing functional and technical documents for new enhancements
●Closely working with business users and educating users on Test Scripts
●Configured FI – R2R, AP, AR, Banking, BCM, and asset accounting modules.
●Fixed issues on Record to Report flow of transaction on Jason template upload
●Involved and implemented in Depreciation Mass upload template
●Configured CO – Cost center, Profit center, and IO and tested in different environments
●Involved and implemented in WBS Mass upload template Provided training to Key users on the same
●Closely worked with MM and SD integration processes.
●Involved and configured FI, SD, and MM account determination integration and testing
●Planning Unit, Integration, and UAT test scripts and preparing sign-off documents.
●Involved in master data and transactional data migration planning and reconciliation.
Support Responsibilities:
●Fixing up the issues on various Finance related Queries.
●Reviewing functional specs and provide functional/technical inputs for development
●Strong integration exposure on SD and MM modules
●Automatic payment processes an EBS configuration experience.
●Monitoring release activities (CPGRC) to make sure production is not impacted by new changes.
Project#2: IT profound Inc. Feb 2023– Jun 2024
Role: SAP Consultant
Responsibilities:
Involved in conducting RTR business workshops and identifying the out of box solutions and reduce customization
Preparing functional and technical documents for new enhancements
Closing working with business users and educating users with new technology tools
Configured FI – GL, AP, AR, Banking, BCM, and asset accounting modules
Configured new XML bank statement format for upload bank statements and automatic clearing process for vendor and customer invoices.
Configured CO – Cost center, Profit center, and IO
Complete process design on Coupa vendor invoice integration to SAP through IDoc solution with various business solutions (Non-PO Invoices)
Involved and configured FI, SD, and MM account determination integration and testing
Planning Unit, Integration, and UAT test scripts and preparing sign-off documents.
Reviewing existing Customer master data management and governance through periodic quality check and KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
Rechecking the objects after data cleansing by client and providing APPROVAL of final consolidated data for upload to concerned teams
•Checking for duplicates records or data
•Reviewing existing Customer master data management and governance through periodic quality check and
KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
•Master Data Management on Data Cleansing, Data profiling, Data Validation and Data upload
•Rechecking the objects after data cleansing by client and providing APPROVAL of final consolidated data for upload to concerned teams
•Checking for duplicates records or data
•Perform Spell check and Fuzzy Searches
•Data migration by Extracting Transforming and Loading
•Data Masking and Data Dictionary compliance as per client requirement
•Gathered functional requirements through user meetings, prepared test scripts
•Documentation of Test case
•Training the SME or key users on Test scripts in different test scenarios
•Engage in Product issues with End client and user prioritize the bugs that needs to be fixed
• Review and provide feedback on the deliverables done by the development team to ensure the final product meets the business need.
•Assist in development of and directing strategies, approach and procedures for the ITprofound’s IT
solutions and Product development strategies
• Work in an agile development environment
EY Global Delivery Services India LLP.- Nov 2006 – Jan 2022, Senior Consultant
E&Y GDS India LLP Provides consulting, assurance, tax, and transaction services that help solve our client's toughest challenges and build a better working world for all.
Project# 3: Covetrus- Health Company, Portland, ME Feb 2020– Jan 2022
Role: SAP Consultant-Finance
Responsibilities:
•Green field implementation, worked on system configuration and solution designing for SAP FICO modules on cloud platform – R2R, Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting
•SWOT analysis on ETL financial object analysis and transformation using data dictionary of the business
•Root Cause Analysis on Business Data objects and providing appropriate solutions
•Tailoring the Financial/Controlling data according to the need of the business for decision making
•Understanding the business and providing continuous improvement and Best Practices
•Documentation of Business Process Management Systems
•Involved in harmonizing the existing ECC business integration process with S/4 Hana capabilities on FI, SD, and MM modules
•Master Data Governance on Customer, Vendor, Cost centre, Profit centre, GL and Bank
•Master Data Management activities including Data Cleansing, Data Profiling and Data validation
•MDG integration - MDG Data Objects including Business Partner i.e. Customer, Vendor etc and CVI Synchronization Process
•Prepared test scripts and executed test scenarios in HP ALM tool (SAP IT Infrastructure)
•Acted as business analyst in assessing business needs via business process analysis, and collaborating with IT teams to provide technical solutions and resolve issues
•Connect with business users and gather e2e business requirement and convert them using SAP functionalities (Std., and custom)
•Preparing SAP solution documents and provide SAP end-user training and support
•Worked on Positive pay solution implementation
•Co-ordinate and helped Testing team on the test scripts execution (SIT)
•Maintenance of defect tracker for the team and representation in leads meetings.
•Involved in BST (Business simulation testing prior to go – live).
•Worked with MDG on Data migration approaches and harmonizing the master data integrations
•Directly involved with Client in Onsite for requirement gathering and UAT
•SAP S4 HANA Financial Closing Cockpit basic and related configuration, Fiori apps training to users and monitoring/support closing cockpit tasks execution
•Worked on end-to-end ChaRM cycles management for change management using SolMan (SAP Infrastructure)
•Experience in S/4 HANA,FIORI& experience in AGILE Methodology, S/4 HANA 1909
Technology:
●SAP S4HANA, SAP MDG, HP ALM.
Project# 4: Coverta Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN OCT 2019 to Jan 2020
Project : Test Scripts Execution
Role : FICO Tester/ Lead
Responsibilities:
•Involved in the Preparation & execution of SAP FI (R2R) & Co 1909 Test scripts also checking for purpose of test script, if any Pre-requisite scenario (i.e. other test scripts)
•Handling systems including LST-Backend, LSF-Frontend-FIORI, accessing to tile (role)
•Coordinating with basis team for any technical errors in issue logs and following-up the same
•Working with multiple applications and teams (ABAP, FIORI, Security, Basis, COMMS, OPS, Cross teams, MDG…)
•Effectively managing client interactions, coordinating with onshore and offshore teams
•Capturing test results and completion status
•Responsible to perform integration testing with other SAP modules like MM, SD, PP and PS
•Also involved in reviewing of manual test cases prepared by teammates.
•Simultaneously played a role of offshore Team Lead and responsible to present Stats Report on testing daily, weekly and monthly basis.
•Completed Unit Testing, UAT and Integration Testing for both Dev Client and QAS Client
•Gave Training to End Users and prepare Training Manuals
Technology:
SAP S/4HANA, LTMC, HP-ALM
Project# 5: Life Sciences (FIORI Apps), Minneapolis, MN Feb 2019– Sep 2019
Role: Senior Consultant-Testing
Responsibilities:
•Create Test plan and test scripts for FI-General Ledger and controlling area
•Train the Business users on how to execute the test scripts
•Prepare Keystroke documents for Business users for easy execution of the test scripts
•Involved in harmonizing the existing ECC business integration process with S/4 Hana capabilities on FI, SD, and MM modules
•Experienced with MS Dynamics work flow model
•Monitor the business processes and ensure there are no errors in reporting in accordance with Sox
Compliance of internal controls.
•Master Data Testing on Customer, Vendor, Cost centre, Profit centre, GL and Bank
•Master Data Management activities including Data Cleansing, Data Profiling and Data validation
•MDG integration - MDG Data Objects including Business Partner i.e Customer, Vendor etc and MDG Financial Objects
•Prepared test scripts and executed test scenarios in HP ALM tool (SAP IT Infrastructure) using FIORI apps
•Performed Manual cutover activities in modules in Dev, Quality and Pre-prod systems
•Acted as business analyst in assessing business needs via business process analysis, and collaborating with IT teams to provide technical solutions and resolve issues
•Connect with business users and gather e2e business requirement and convert them using SAP functionalities (Std., and custom)
•Preparing SAP solution documents and provide SAP end-user training and support
Project#6
Nokia Sibelius- Telecom, (5 OHADA countries BF, CM, Mali, Togo, IC)-FINLAND Aug 2017 to Jan 2019
Role: Analyst
Responsibilities:
•Involved in S4 HANA FICO transformation project implementation on Cloud platform
•Conducting business workshops on the SAP solution and identifying the GAPs
•Prepared functional specification document on the Z developments and ensuring its validated and approved by the business.
•Responsible for system configuration and solution designing for SAP FICO modules - General Ledger, Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting
•Been a part of blueprint preparation and client specific process implementation
•Worked with ABAP team and delivered complex RICEFW objects
•Prepared detailed functional specification and worked with tech team
•Worked on data migration activities - MAC1, MAC2 and acted as POC for data migration in GL, AP and AR.
•Worked and lead SIT team in SIT1, SIT2 test cases execution and supported P2P and O2C teams on test case execution
•Creation and documentation of Test Scenario and Test Case
•Execution of test scripts for Treasury, Controlling, Finance and Project systems
•Training the SME or key users on Fiori apps
•Coordinated with other teams - O2C, P2P,RTR, MDG, ABAP, Fiori
•Involved in interface set up with Ariba network
•Worked and resolved defects raised related to FI during test cases execution
•Actively involved in SIT, UAT, TCO activities
•Created configuration rationale documents (CRD), test documents, and uploaded in solman.
Technology:
●SAP, SAP MDM, HPQC
Project#7
Program Mercury- (In-house Project-EY) Jan 2012 to Jul 2017
Role: Lead Analyst
Responsibilities:
•Worked system configuration and solution designing for SAP FICO modules on cloud platform - General Ledger, Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting
•Performing detailed analysis of existing legacy system, gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document.
•Validation of BPMS documentation (Billing & Reporting) as per standards after implementation
•Preparing Keystroke documentation
•Understood process quickly and taken the responsibility to handle 5-4-4 Calendar Harmonization, MONET projects and SOWs in days’ time
•Worked on multiple custom programs analysis along with tech team.
•Worked on functional specifications for RICEFW objects
•Analysis to the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document
•Prepare Proof of Concept- POC for Trade Finance issuing Letter of Credit and bank guarantee- integrated with Block chain Technology (FSCM Treasury module)
•Master Data Governance of Customers of different regions in Americas, Europe and APAC regions
•Master Data Management activities including: Data Extraction, Data Cleansing, Data Profiling and Data Validation
•Worked on substitution and validations
•Analysis of Master Data templates (Customers, Billing)
•Testing e2e scenarios in Order to Cash (O2C) and Procure to Pay (P2P) processes.
•Coordinated month-end and year-end activities of different business units
•Handled Enhancement Requests end-to-end from Impact Analysis, addl. requirement gathering, estimations, solution designing, design sign-off from business, build, Unit, SIT with proper documentation and UAT support.
•Solution handover to business and provides post go-live support
•End user training and production support for projects
•Involved in proper Service Introduction (SI) to the AMS teams after technical Go-Live
•Continued with AMS team after PGLS to support production issues and extensively worked on system stabilization.
Project # 8
Project Name: Global Engagement Setup and Maintenance Nov 2006 to Jan 2012
Role: Senior Associate
•Worked in Global Engagement Maintenance team and responsible for creation/modification of Clients accounts in legacy systems
•Worked on the process of Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting of Billing
•Involved in creation of customer invoices in accounts receivable area
•Performing detailed review of all Invoices
•Involved in month-end and year-ending activities
•Involved in regular jobs monitoring, and setting up new jobs with valid variants in the system
•Worked on On-Account application for processing customer invoices
•Worked with support teams to resolve production issues
•Scheduling the invoices as per the statement of work..
TESCO HSC- Hindustan Service Centre Private Limited. is one of the world’s largest retailers of consumer goods from food to fashion. Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day in our stores and online is at the heart of everything we do
TESCO HSC- Hindustan Service Centre Private Limited Jul 2005 to Oct 2006
Project Name: Internal Project/Commercial Invoice Passing.
Role : Officer-Financial Services
•Hands-on accounts payable activities, which includes matching of invoice with delivery notes through force codes
•Planning, prioritizing, and allocating of work on invoice inflow
•Implemented few Lean ideas to eliminate Non-Value Add (NVA) from the process
•Handling Queries from the client
•Training New Joiners on commercial invoice passing
ACS-Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Ltd., is a global leader in business process and information technology services
ACS-Affiliated Computer Services of India (P) Ltd Mar 2004 to Jun 2005
Project: General Motors Insurance Claim process
Role : Associate
•Working in voice calling process, where the activity involved call up the provider, validate and making the payment as per Actuarial valuation and scheduling of Cheque prints
•Peer Quality check review
•Reconciliation of Accounts Payable
•Preparing and publishing process accuracy dashboards on a monthly basis
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