Accounts Payable Receivable

PAVAN K

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

8+ years of functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, document preparation, user training, and support in SAP Finance HANA Finance & SAP R/3 FI/CO.

Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle implementations using ASAP methodology, Upgrades & production support projects including ticket resolving. Strong ERP Skills in FI (Org Structure, New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting) CO, LSMW, Integration with MM, SD.

Proficient in implementing strategic plans for SAP implementation & technology solutions for products, extending service support in incident, problem, change, release, and configuration management.

Expertise in working on end-to-end delivery (analysis, design, development, and testing) of SAP solutions in a customized environment with proper understanding.

Skilled in the configuration and testing of FICO modules including, FI –General ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA) and Controlling Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC).

Interfaced with technical and functional consultants of other modules to resolve the tickets within the time limit specified in SLAs.

Expertise working experience to configure customization forms like Dunning Letters, Account Statements, Payment advice, Balance confirmation, Interest invoice.

Extensively working knowledge with SAP Activate methodology all phases like Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize and Deploy.

Able to work independently and efficiently, managing timelines, and user expectations, and producing high quality deliverables.

Hands on experience in Activate Methodology and well versed with business process.

Ability to Migrate legacy system data into SAP system through LSMW (LEGASY SYSTEM MIGRATION WORK BENCH) and LTMC

Integration experience with other modules like SD, MM.

Knowledge of EDI / IDOC concepts.

Good Knowledge of Validation & Substitutions.

Working experience with various ticketing tools like SAP Solution manager, Remedy force and Service now.

Working knowledge on Enhancements which is related to User exits and master data changes are restricted as per client requirement.

Expertise working experience with SAP Solution manager 7.2 with incident management and RFC’s (Request for change) and change request.

Hands on experience of account-based COPA.

Experience in Planning, Budgeting, and forecasting, variance tracking, internal order budgeting.

Assisted users for business closures like month end and year end closing activities.

Responsible for the documentation of the Functional specifications, Configuration, and preparation of Training material.

Providing support & training to the SAP users, to resolve the application problems efficiently and to minimize business disruption.

Hands-on experience with testing tools like SharePoint and Solution Manager.

Handled supporting responsibilities that include consistent support across multiple applications vis-a-vis FI,SSO, Audit, and SOX compliance.& SD and meeting business user expectations and SLA's.

Good Knowledge of DME processes, Automatic payment process with DME and IDOC – design and Configuration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PROJECT #4

Client : Northern Trust

Duration : November 2022 - Present

Role : SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

Strong configuration Knowledge on Product Costing (material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, cost object, Overhead Rates, WIP, Variance, Order Settlements, Assessments, Costing Sheet, Valuation variant, Coating Variant, Origin Groups, Cost Component Structure, Automatic account assignments).

Supervised, developed designs and created Dev objects and test scripts for costing team to meet business goals and provided strategic consultation to the business to design STD costing and LIFO/FIFO costing processes. Costing is a complex process in Dart because Dart keeps inventory in 4 different prices (LIFO consolidated, FIFO Consolidate, LIFO separate and FIFO Separate) and with intercompany transfer the process becomes more complex.

Guided and created functional specification document, test scripts for the process flow in CO and Product Costing modules.

Developed interfaces and led the conversion activities for converting Dart Container and Solo legacy master data into SAP.

Led and supervised blue printing, configuration and test of Dart Allocations. Including creation of master data like Cost Center Groups and cost centers (CO-CCA), defining different Activity types and Statistical key figures, configuration settings for Allocation with different methods like Assessments and building Dev objects for reporting purposes.

Built extensive reports during project implementation, go-live and production support to ensure the business needs are met and designed preventive processes to meet business satisfaction.

Excellent knowledge in Report Painter/Report Writer, Info Sets and SQVI’s.

Created numerous reports on reports to satisfy CO and product costing reporting requirements.

Analyzed requirements and developed high-level and detailed business process designs.

As a batch Coordinator for the Finance team, I created and monitored the batch jobs for Finance team and provided support for the issues found. Collaborate with business teams to understand business requirements and then develop and map solutions in the SAP system.

Analyze and provide functional support for reports, interfaces, and enhancements. Prepare design documents and detailed specifications for Advanced Business Application Programming ABAP .

Coordinate with cross-functional team members to resolve issues and provide solutions in SAP.

SAP FI/CO Consultant for trouble shooting of the day-to-day problems.

Responsible for solving tickets in GL AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Banking in FI area and cost center accounting, Profit Center accounting, Product Costing in CO area.

Master data migration (Vendor / Customer / Chart of Accounts / PO / Bank / Cost Center / Profit Center).

Involved in configuring CO-PCA settings.

Impact analysis and conflict management documents prepared for the change request.

Configured and customized FI – AP – APP and Dunning Programs.

Building confidence in clients on integration between MM-FI and SD-FI by tallying data belongs to material management, Sales and distribution, and financial accounting modules.

PROJECT #3

Client : Google USA

Duration : August 2020 – October 2022

Role : SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas and profit centers

Design and configuration for Distributed FICO model for Accounts payable with logistics and finance in two different landscapes for country India version involving Withholding Tax, Excise duty.

Data Migration – validation for functional logic for extract vendor Alternate payee, Vendor Master data, EDI 810 vendors and upload to new environment, Data mapping, data extraction logic, load sequencing.

Coordination with MM team on the Vendor Master Data load for the accounting views.

Coordinating with Data Migration team on Data validation and Error logs on the Data load cycle testing.

Designed and configured logistics transactions for finance related activities in Distributed environment involving replication of finance related transactions in Finance and Reporting landscapes.

Invoice verification and processing – stock /non-stock, duplicate invoice check, payment block reason.

Configured Automatic payment program, set up all company codes for payment transactions.

Business process requirement gathering for down payment process in the distributed environment.

Developed program based on BTE’s to give visibility to Down payment in logistics system on booking of invoices through MIRO and MIRA including the withholding tax deducted on vendor down payment.

Developed program for duplicate invoice check for logistics and Finance invoices in distributed FICO environment with BTE00001110 validating on vendor, external vendor invoice number, and invoice date.

Developed custom program for Credit Management check in Distributed FICO environment.

EDI and IDoc setup for distributed FICO for replication of the finance documents in the reporting landscape, maintained partner profile for the middleware Gentran and PI system

Involved in Implementation of SAP FI module using Activate Methodology.

PROJECT #2

Client : Jeevan Technologies

Duration : April 2019 – July 2020

Role : SAP FI CO Analyst

Responsibilities:

Applying SAP FICO functionality to support business needs.

Changes to configuration settings as required by the client, analyzing the impact of changes taking place.

Coordinating with the client, advising the client on process related issues.

Tracking tickets that arise from the clients and solving severity basis.

Worked closely with technical and functional consultants of other modules to resolve the cross-functional issues.

Providing support for the End Users by clearing the issues raised by them at Production Level.

Enlightening the End Users regarding the issues, implementing the changes at Configuration Level as and when required.

Carrying out Customization/Configuration changes for new requirements /new processes as and when required

Responsible for Level 1 support. As a Level 1 support team member I was responsible for receiving the calls from the end users, logging the problems in to call logging system & responding to the end users on the status of the problem

Preparation and Documentation of Workflow notes for those issues which involve changes in Configuration. Lesioning on such issues with the business process owners regarding their closure

Resolving SAP FICO (GL, AR, AP, Assets, Profit Center, Cost Center, Internal order, month end issues).

Supporting users with SAP FIORI App training.

Helping in the areas of AP, House Banks, and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.

Adding the change duration changes as per the client requirement and transporting to production server as per the client change procedure.

Engaged in month end activities like GR/IR Clearing and generating the reports in the report painter for the client as per the top management requirement.

Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.

PROJECT #1

Client : Virtuoso Technologies

Duration : December 2016 – March 2019

Role : Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

Involved in E2E implementation of SAP ERP (All 5 phases).

Had been part of Kick off meeting at the client location and participated in internal team meetings.

Actively involved in BBP & Realization phases.

Analyzed AS-IS business processes to design solutions and design the TO-BE processes.

Prepared business blueprint document and got the business approval for the same (BBP Sign off).

Involved in customization of SAP FI module implementation.

Worked with configuring SAP CO-PC (Product Costing).

Involved in defining fiscal year, posting periods & field status variants, tolerance groups, document types & number ranges creation of account groups and retained earnings accounts.

Configured Automatic payment program.

Worked on purchase orders (Procure to pay) -Configured FI- MM integration (OBYC).

Worked on Sales orders (Order to cash) - configured FI-SD integration (VKOA) and had closely worked with MM and SD consultants.

Involved in Settings for GL transactions. Ensure the bank correspondence data and other master data are created for each vendor and customers.

Configured Asset Accounting Asset classes, Account determination, screen layouts and number ranges for asset master records and configured chart of depreciation.

Requirement Gathering, Leading Client Workshops.

Preparation of documents in blueprint phase like AS-IS, TO-BE, GAAP, FS etc.

Experience in Collections and Dispute management.

Worked on the latest SAP components like New GL (including document splitting, Configuring parallel ledgers, Migration from classical to New GL accounting).

Collaborative work with the key users in the documentation of “As-is process”.

Design, configure, and implement SAP VIM solutions based on client requirements.

Integrate VIM with SAP ERP modules like FI, MM, and SD.

Develop and maintain custom workflows, approval processes, and exceptions handling.

Perform end-to-end testing, troubleshooting issues, and ensure system stability.

Train end-users on VIM functionality and best practices.

Support upgrades, maintenance, and optimization of VIM configurations.

Core Competencies:

Business Process Mapping

SAP Implementation

Requirement Gathering

Testing Management

End-User Training

Change Requests (CRs)

Legacy System Migration Workbench

Post-Implementation Support

Technical Skills:

ERP System: SAP S/4 Hana 1809/1909/2021, SAP R/3 ECC6.0-EHP9

SAP Fi: General Ledger/New General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Banking, Special Purpose Ledger.

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC).

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Academic Qualification:

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India - Bachelor of Commerce (Accounts) 2016

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