Accounts Payable Management Consultant

Mahesh Reddy Dudhipala

SAP FI & OpenText VIM Consultant

Professional Summary:

● Around 5 years of experience as an SAP OpenText Vendor Invoice Management Consultant in the IT industry. Having good insights in Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Testing of Enterprise Applications using SAP VIM.

● Expertise in configuring, integrating, testing, document preparation, user training, and Production support in FI and VIM module.

● Experienced on S4HANA 1909. Worked on processes such as Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash

(OTC) as well.

● Extensive experience in the configuration of Financial Accounting (SAP-FI) including FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR.

● Experience supporting Open Text VIM and 'Accounts Payable for SAP' by Open Text solution.

● Experience in Invoice (PO/N-PO) Approval Process, Blocked Invoice Resolution, Parked invoice Resolution, and provided effective solutions in a highly customized client environment.

● Worked on configuring VIM DP document types, Process types, Process options, and Document Processing.

● Worked on service enhancement requests in the company’s SAP current business processes as per custom business requirements.

● Exposure to other basic functionalities of AP related to FI and MM and multiple OpenText products like Archive server.

● Extensive experience in working under agile methodologies environment. Fluent understanding of project management – Agile & SDLC Models.

● Complete understanding of the end-to-end configuration of Invoice Capture Center (ICC)/(BCC).

● Good experience in performing integration and unit testing activities for change requests as per business requirements.

● Experience in using the Service-Now tool that processes and catalogs customer service requests. Technical Skills:

● Programming Languages: C, Core Java

● OpenText-SAP Technologies: OpenText VIM, SAP FICO

● Methodologies: Agile/Scrum

● ERP Packages: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, SAP S/4 HANA 2109, OpenText VIM 7.5

● Operating systems: Window XP, Windows 10

● Computer Proficiency: MS-Office

● Ticketing tool: SNOW, JIRA

Education:

● Masters of Computer Science, University of Central Missouri - 2023

● Bachelor of Electronics and Communication, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology - 2019

● TCS Java internal certification.

● Received Best Team member award.

● Appreciation from client’s (AkzoNobel) end.

Professional Experience:

Adobe, San Jose July 2023 - Present

SAP FICO and OpenText VIM Consultant

Responsibilities:

● Customized SAP S/4HANA 1909 FICO modules General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Accounting, Fixed Assets Management (AM), Document Splitting, Internal orders. Customized New General Ledger (G/L in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA).

● Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline the procure-to-pay cycle, ensuring seamless integration between Materials Management (MM) and Financial Accounting (FI) processes.

● Orchestrated the end-to-end process, from purchase requisition creation (ME51N) to purchase order generation (ME21N), release (ME28), and goods receipt (MIGO) and Configured OBYC Settings.

● Monitored accounts payable transactions, reconciling invoices with purchase orders and ensuring accurate financial postings and handled tickets from FI especially for General Ledger and Accounts Payable.

● Worked on change request and configured & documented the new add-on changes to the existing system as on when required and provided support to the user in day-to-day issues and month end activities.

● Experience supporting Open Text VIM and 'Accounts Payable for SAP' by Open Text solution.

● Worked on Fiori task apps, VIM Confirm Quantity and Price Fiori app, VIM Resolve Invoice Exceptions Fiori app, VIM Enter Cost Assignment Fiori app and VIM Approve Invoices Fiori app. TATA Consultancy Services Jan 2019 – July 2022

System Engineer

Open Text VIM Implementation Project:

Tools: SAP OpenText VIM

Duration: Jan 2019 – Dec 2021

Region: Global

Responsibilities:

● Played a pivotal role in the successful end-to-end implementation of Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) in a version 7.5 SP8.

● Contributed to the entire project lifecycle, from requirements gathering and detailed design to configuration, testing support, and go-live support in a version S/4 Hana 1909.

● Done post installation in S/4 Hana 1909, activation of BC sets, Inbound, BC and baseline settings.

● Worked as an OpenText VIM for processing an incoming vendor invoice which involves (PO&N-PO based), Checks/validations and posting the invoices either with approval process or directly for a client who is a leading manufacturer of paints and performance coatings.

● Worked closely with the development team for ABAP code development.

● Experienced in handling procure to pay process including PR, PO, MIGO and MIRO/FB60.

● Involved in RPA Automation project.

● Enhanced the system to reach business requirements. Custom coding and modification of OpenText VIM.

● Involved in Shape upgrade and SESA vim roll out Project.

● Company code rollouts and integration with SAP VIM and BCC.

● Conducted training sessions for business users and prepared SAD's, technical and functional design documents.

OpenText VIM Production Support Project:

Tools: SAP OpenText VIM

Duration: Jan 2022 - July 2022

Region: APAC/EMEA

Responsibilities:

● Worked as an OpenText VIM consultant for a client which is manufacturer of optics and reprography initially specializing in microscopes and thermometers.

● Handling Tickets and responsible for closing the same within defined SLA. Handled Failsafe documents.

● Maintaining Chart of authority, Roles in document processing (Role maintenance).

Contact this candidate