SAP FICO Consultant

PURNA CHANDRA RAO LELLA

SAP S/*HANA FICO Consultant

Email: ************@****.*** Phone: +1-469-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

? SAP FICO Consultant with 8+ years of progressive experience implementing, configuring, and supporting SAP Finance and

Controlling solutions on SAP S/4HANA (2020, 2022, 2023) and SAP ECC 6.0 landscapes.

? Hands-on configuration in FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, Bank Accounting, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing,

and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

? Strong working knowledge of Universal Journal (ACDOCA), Document Splitting, New GL, Business Partner (BP) with

Customer-Vendor Integration (CVI), and parallel ledger accounting.

? Experience with Vertex tax integration, Withholding Tax, VAT, GST; familiar with US GAAP, IFRS, IFRS 15, and SOX controls.

? Configured Automatic Payment Program (F110), Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Bank Communication Management

(BCM), Lockbox, and multi-currency payment formats.

? Cross-module integration across FI-MM (OBYC), FI-SD (VKOA), and Asset Accounting (AO90) for P2P and O2C cycles; data

migration through LTMC, LSMW, BDC, and IDoc.

? Working exposure to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Central Finance (CFIN), Group Reporting, Advanced Financial Closing (AFC), SAP

Fiori, CDS Views, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP / Versions SAP S/4HANA (2020, 2022, 2023), SAP S/4HANA 1909, SAP ECC 6.0, S/4HANA Cloud

(Public & Private)

FI Modules GL, AP, AR, AA, Bank Accounting, New GL, Document Splitting, Universal Journal

(ACDOCA), Business Partner (BP) with CVI

CO Modules Cost Element & Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders,

Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Material Ledger

Banking & Treasury F110, EBS, BCM, Lockbox, MT940 / CAMT.053 / BAI, House Banks, Cash Management,

FSCM Credit Management

Tax & Compliance Vertex Tax Integration, Withholding Tax (WHT), VAT, GST, US GAAP, IFRS, IFRS 15, SOX

Integration & Migration FI-MM (OBYC), FI-SD (VKOA), AO90, P2P, O2C, IDoc, ALE, BAPI; LTMC, LSMW, LTMS, BDC,

CATT

Reporting & Fiori SAP Fiori apps, Launchpad, CDS Views, Report Painter / Writer, SAP Analytics Cloud

(SAC)

Advanced Finance Advanced Financial Closing (AFC), Group Reporting, Central Finance (CFIN), Revenue

Accounting & Reporting (RAR)

Dev Support & Testing Functional Specs, RICEFW, User Exits, BADIs, Validations / Substitutions, Unit / SIT / UAT

/ Regression

Tools & ITSM SAP Solution Manager, JIRA, HP ALM, ServiceNow, STMS; SAP Activate, ASAP, Agile /

Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Fidelity, USA Jan 2026 ? Present

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Project: S/4HANA Finance 2023 Implementation

? Engaged in end-to-end implementation of SAP S/4HANA Finance 2023 covering FI and CO modules for investment

accounting and treasury operations across multiple business units.

? Configured enterprise structure: company codes, business areas, controlling area, operating concern, segments, and

functional area assignments for management reporting.

? Set up General Ledger master data, Chart of Accounts, Field Status Variants, Document Types, posting period variants,

fiscal year variants, and Financial Statement Versions for US and international entities.

? Activated Document Splitting by profit center and segment; defined Business Partner roles, grouping, and CVI

synchronization between BP and classic vendor/customer master.

? Customized Accounts Payable include vendor master, payment terms, tolerance groups, withholding tax codes, and F110

Automatic Payment Program with ACH, Wire, and Check methods.

? Built Accounts Receivable functionality covering customer master, dunning procedures, FSCM credit management, interest

calculation, and Lockbox processing using BAI2 format.

? Designed Asset Accounting with chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation areas for parallel ledgers (US GAAP, IFRS),

and depreciation keys.

? Integrated Vertex O Series tax engine for automated indirect tax determination on AP, AR, and sub-ledger postings; mapped

tax jurisdictions and codes.

? Configured BCM and EBS with MT940, CAMT.053, and BAI formats for daily bank reconciliation.

? Set up Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, and account-based CO-PA with derivation rules

and value flow from FI and SD.

? Worked on Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) to orchestrate month-end and quarter-end close across global ledgers;

configured SAP Group Reporting for consolidation, currency translation, and inter-unit eliminations.

? Delivered Fiori apps and CDS view dashboards for AR aging, AP open items, GL balance, and intercompany reconciliation.

? Drafted functional specifications for RICEFW objects; partnered with ABAP team on user exits, BADIs, and

validation/substitution rules.

Environment:

SAP S/4HANA 2023, FI, CO, GL, AP, AR, AA, CO-PA, AFC, Group Reporting, Fiori, LTMC, IDoc, Vertex

Client: Warner Brothers, USA Jan 2025 - Dec 2025

SAP FICO Consultant

Project: S/4HANA Finance Implementation ? Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR)

? Implemented RAR for IFRS 15 and ASC 606 compliance on content licensing revenue. Set up Performance Obligations

(POBs) for different content rights theatrical, streaming, broadcast, home entertainment and built BRFplus rules to

allocate transaction price across POBs based on standalone selling prices.

? Integrated FI and CO with Project Systems (PS) for capturing film and TV production costs through WBS elements.

? Set up actual cost collection, WIP settlement, and the amortization model for capitalized film costs (individual film forecast

method). Configured Investment Management (IM) for production budget tracking investment programs, approval

workflows, and links between IM positions and PS projects.

? Royalties, Participations, and Intercompany: Configured automated postings for talent participation and royalty

calculations through periodic settlement runs to the GL.

? Set up currency types in the Universal Journal for transaction, company code, group, and consolidation currencies. Built

intercompany billing for cross-border content distribution between US, EMEA, and APAC studios.

? Cutover, Contract Migration: Co-led the financial cutover opening balance loads, open document migration, and migration

of existing content contracts into RAR. Ran parallel processing with the legacy system through two close cycles to validate

revenue numbers, then stayed on hyper-care for the first three close cycles after go-live to stabilize revenue postings.

? CO-PA for Content Line Profitability: Set up the Operating Concern in account-based CO-PA for profitability reporting by

franchise, content type, distribution channel, and territory.

? Mapped value fields from SD billing (for content licensing revenue) and FI postings (for talent, marketing, and distribution

costs) so the studio finance team gets margin visibility by content title.

? Configured the enterprise structure (company codes, fiscal year variants, posting period variants, document types) and

built out the General Ledger including Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Document Splitting, and Financial

Statement Versions.

? Set up Accounts Payable with vendor master, account groups, House Banks for F110 automatic payments, and

withholding tax; Accounts Receivable with customer master, credit management, dunning, and interest calculation.

? Built Asset Accounting (Chart of Depreciation, asset classes, account determination, depreciation keys, AFAB/AJAB

yearend runs) and Controlling master data (Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Orders, assessment/distribution cycles,

Product Costing, CO-PA value field flow from FI and SD).

? Executed FI integration tasks: set up OBYC for MM and VKOA for SD; addressed GR/IR reconciliation issues, AUC

capitalization, and intercompany posting adjustments.

? Directed data migration (LTMC for S/4HANA and LSMW/BDC for ECC), authored RICEF specs, executed unit and

integration tests, and produced configuration and training documentation.

Environment:

SAP S/4HANA, RAR, CO-PA, PS, IM, GL, AP, AR, AA, LTMC, LSMW, FI-SD, FI-MM

Client: Green Byte Technologies, India Mar 2020 ? Jul 2024

SAP FICO Consultant

Project: S/4HANA 1909 Implementation, Rollout & Indian GST Localization

? Contributed to multiple SAP FICO implementation and support assignments across consulting client engagements running

on SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP S/4HANA 1909/2020.

? Assisted in rolling out FI sub-modules (GL, AP, AR, AA) and CO sub-modules (CCA, PCA, IO, PA) for manufacturing and

distribution clients.

? Indian GST Configuration: Implemented GST on the TAXINN procedure CGST, SGST, IGST, and Cess condition types; tax

codes for inter-state and intra-state transactions; HSN/SAC code master setup; and integration with the GST Suvidha

Provider for return filing (GSTR-1, GSTR-3B) and e-invoicing through the IRP portal.

? Created chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, posting keys, tolerance groups, and document number

ranges as per client?s business needs.

? Maintained vendor and customer master records, payment terms, dunning areas, dunning levels, and credit control areas

across multiple company codes.

? Set up F110 runs, check management (check lots, void reasons), and bank chain scenarios for international payments.

? Configured Asset Accounting through chart of depreciation copying (EA-FIN), asset class creation, depreciation key

definition, and screen layout assignment.

? Product Costing and Profitability Analysis: Configured Standard Cost Estimates with costing variants tied to BOM and

routing, Costing Sheets for overhead allocation, and period-end activities (WIP, Variance, Settlement). Ran cost runs (CK40N)

monthly with the cost accounting team.

? Owned Cost Center planning, allocation cycles, distribution and assessment rules, statistical key figures, and activity type

rate calculations.

? Built the cutover playbook for two rollouts sequence of master data loads, opening balance entries, transactional data

migration, and validation checkpoints

? Coordinated the financial sign-off across AR, AP, GL, and AA tracks at end of cutover.

? Worked on Internal Orders for tracking capex and event-based costs with settlement profiles and rules; supported dummy

profit center maintenance.

? Loaded legacy master data and open items through LSMW, BDC recordings, and CATT scripts during data conversion.

? Resolved L2 and L3 production incidents related to GL journal postings, payment program failures, asset retirements,

depreciation runs, and period-end close.

? Set up core FI organizational structure, including company codes, fiscal year and posting period variants, and credit

management, dunning, and interest calculation settings.

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0, SAP S/4HANA 1909, GST, CO-PA, Product Costing, LTMC, LSMW, F110

Client: Coupon Up, India Jan 2018 ? Feb 2020

SAP FICO Associate Consultant

Project: SAP ECC 6.0 AMS Support & GST Implementation

? AMS Support for ECC 6.0 Retail Operations: Provided L1/L2 production support for FI/CO on a high-volume

retail/eCommerce setup.

? Daily AR transactions ran into the tens of thousands coupon redemption postings, cashback settlements, and customer

refund processing. Handled tickets through ServiceNow under strict SLA windows.

? GST Go-Live Support and Custom Reports: Joined the support team during the post-GST go-live phase. Resolved tax code

mismatches on legacy purchase orders, fixed condition records that weren't pulling the correct GST rate and helped the

tax team reconcile GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B with the SAP output.

? Wrote a custom Z-report to flag invoices missing HSN codes and wrote functional specs for Report Painter reports on AR

aging and CO-PA promo campaign profitability.

? Bank Reconciliation Automation: Configured Electronic Bank Statement for the payment gateway partners NEFT, RTGS,

UPI files in formats provided by HDFC, ICICI, and Yes Bank. Reduced manual bank reconciliation from a 2-day month-end

activity to a daily 1-hour exercise.

? Month-End Close and Authorization Setup: Supported month-end close every cycle F.13 GR/IR clearing, AFAB

depreciation runs, FAGL_FC_VAL for foreign currency revaluation on USD-denominated revenue, and intercompany

reconciliation between the parent and three subsidiary company codes.

? Worked with the BASIS team on FI/CO role design segregation of duties between AP, AR, and GL accountants, and

restricted posting periods for non-finance users.

? TDS, Reverse Charge, and Vendor Compliance: Configured TDS (withholding tax) for vendor payments under Indian tax

provisions section codes, tax types, rates, and quarterly TDS return data extracts (Form 26Q, 27Q). Handled reverse charge

mechanism on import services and unregistered vendor transactions. Helped the AP team with quarterly TDS certificate

generation.

? Configured the enterprise setup, including company codes, fiscal year and posting period variants, and document types,

and supported core FI processes such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable with chart of

accounts, field status groups, document splitting, financial statement versions, vendor/customer master data, house

banks, credit management, dunning, interest calculation, and withholding tax.

? Implemented Asset Accounting by defining the chart of depreciation, asset classes, account determination, and

depreciation keys, and executed year-end activities such as AFAB and AJAB.

? Established Controlling master data, including cost centers, profit centers, and internal orders, and enabled

assessment/distribution cycles, product costing, and CO-PA value flows from FI and SD.

? Coordinated integration between FI and other SAP modules by configuring OBYC for MM account determination, VKOA

for SD revenue postings, and settlement processes for PP and PS.

? Investigated and resolved reconciliation issues involving GR/IR balances, asset-under-construction capitalization, and

intercompany accounting transactions.

Environment:

SAP ECC 6.0, FI, CO, GST, EBS, TDS, OBYC, VKOA, ServiceNow

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