JD Edwards Consultant

PAVAN CHALLA

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SAP FI/CO Analyst

Phone: 573-***-****

SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of SAP with FI/CO functional module experience, Implementation, analysis and development

• Worked in various types of industries such as Manufacturing, Automobile, food, pharmaceutical, Chemicals, Insurance and consumer products.

• Participated in 4 Full life cycle implementations, 2 upgrades and 4 production support projects.

• Specially skilled in Scoping and estimation, Blueprint design, Configuration and Integration areas of FI with other modules such as Sales and Distribution, Materials Management

• Strong foundation in Financial accounting, Managerial accounting (Controlling) and Understanding of "compliance with SARBANES OXLEY (SOX)", GRC, IFRS, US GAAP and IAS

• Expertise in different phases in FULL life cycle implementation (Global Implementation), Global upgrade of SAP using SDLC, ASAP methodologies including business process re-engineering, System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration, Documentation and Testing.

• Certified in Accounts Payable functional module

• Involved in

• SAP version Upgrade to ECC 6.0 (Lead / Upgrade specialist Experience)

• Production support (Lead experience)

• Business requirement collection, ERP process design & Analysis, blue print, GAP analysis, Best Practice application, Reports, conversions, Interfaces, enhancements, Go-Live and Support, and train user staff.

• Highly organized and productive team player.

• Excellent Interpersonal relations, Communication, Management, Mentoring & Team building Skills.

SAP SKILLS:

• FI: General Ledger SAP-FI-GL, Accounts Payable SAP-FI-AP, Automatic payment program, Treasury, House Bank, Bank reconciliation (electronic and manual), Procure-to-pay-cycle, Substitutions, Validations, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Order-to-cash, SAP-Treasury, Lock Box processes, EDI, Credit Management SAP-FI-CM, Special Purpose Ledger SAP-FI-SL and Asset Accounting SAP-FI-AM (Fixed assets, Asset classes, and special asset classes), Taxes, and Interfaces and data loads (LSMW)

• CO: Profitability Analysis SAP-CO-PA, Profit Center Accounting SAP-EC-PCA, and Overhead Cost Controlling SAP-CO-OM, Cost Center Accounting SAP-CO-OM-CCA, Internal orders (SAP-OM-OPA), WBS elements, Activity-Based costing, Standard hierarchies, Product Costing SAP-CO-PC, Cost Object Controlling SAP-CO-OBJ, Product cost planning.

• Expert in preparation of reports using SAP Queries, BEX (Business Explorer), Report writer and Report Painter

• Knowledge of ASAP implementation and capability of communicating with ABAP programmers for technical specifications. Application of OSS notes wherever applicable

• Conducted Feasibility Studies, Prototypes, Project planning, Change Management controls, Enhancements.

• Expertise in Functional designs, Analysis, Enhancements, Configuration, Testing, Support, Month end Books close, Time Sensitive & Continuous improvement (CI) projects.

• Experience in Globe template Implementation (Full life cycle Implementations), Global SAP Upgrade and Support

• Coordination of interfaces with SAP-ECC 5.0/ECC 6.0 and other legacy systems using SAP Netweaver and SAP XI

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 Version 3.1i, 4.0B, 4.5B, 4.6C, 4.7E, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, Business intelligence(BI/BW), SAP Solution Manager

DBMS: MS ACCESS, SQL Server

Languages: ABAP, C, C++, Fortran.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Employer: Patni Americas Inc. Aug 2009 – Till date.

Title: Project Manager

Client: The Timken Company, Canton, OH Aug 2009 – Till date.

Sr. SAP Functional Consultant (Project ONE)

The Timken Company is a leading Global manufacturer of Automotive, Aerospace, and highly engineered industrial bearings, alloy steels, & related components & assemblies.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP Implementation, Design, Analysis, Enhancement and Support Projects in Timken Globally.

• Configured Company codes, Fiscal year variants, Account groups, Field status variants and other assignments related to company code configuration

• Designed FIT-GAPs, Functional specification, and knowledge transfer documents as a part of the blueprint and realization phases in many areas of FI and CO.

• Coordinated with MDM team (Master data Management team) in the Master data loads, data validations for Vendors / Customers / Cost centers / internal orders in SAP system.

• Performed the system Validations, functional unit testing, regression testing and User acceptance testing (UAT) with the Power users on the configured systems. Coordinated the maintenance of the transports for Finance team.

• Worked in the integration areas of FI-MM and FI-SD and completed the configuration

• Designed some of the Enhancements and coordinated with ABAP team in development of in several areas such as Credit management, Scheduling agreements areas and others.

• Designed reports as per business requirements by using Report painter, Report writer tools for global company codes such as China, UK, Italy, Australia, Germany, India and others.

• In FI-GL, Involved in Configuration of GL accounts, chart of accounts, assignment of account groups, Field status variants and Fiscal year variant. Involved in New GL conversion activities, document splitting, parallel ledgers, Leading and non-leading ledgers creation.

• In accounts payables (AP), set up different Payment methods, Payment terms. Configuration also includes FI-MM integration and Procure to pay (PTP) processes

• In Accounts receivables (AR), set up the complete configuration like setting up billing, Dunning procedures and other areas including the integration of Credit Management (CM), TAXWARE, Sales and Distribution (SD/OTC).

• Worked on some of the production support issues related to the Flash sales, intercompany transactions, IDocs and Logistics (MM and SD).

• In Asset Management (FI-AM), involved in the master data loads of Asset accounting, Asset classes, Depreciation areas, Depreciation keys, and other Assets under construction, as part of implementation.

• Created SAP info sets, queries from standard tables & table joins in Global and standard areas for data extraction.

• Configured Cost center master data (CO-CCA), Cost center hierarchy, Period end closing activities, Actual &Planned Assessment, Distribution cycles and Automatic account assignment.

• Defined financial statement versions for all the Company codes in all American, European and Asian regions

• Configured Profit center Master data (CO-PCA), Profit center hierarchy, P&L statements and balance sheets for Profit centers

• Defined Internal orders (CO-OM-OPA), settlement rules, individual and collective settlements of internal orders, Statistical key figures (SKF).

• Worked with BW team to develop some of the reports related to various areas in SAP FICO such as specific Product costing, COPA reports

• Configuration of CO-PA, Operating concern, Characteristics, value fields, Derivation rules (table lookups, clear, move and others), SD integration areas with CO-PA, condition types, access sequence and flow of actual values. COPA reporting and Settlements to the COPA segments.

• In SAP-CO-PC (Product costing), worked in coordination with Production planning team, Master data structure in CO-PC, Standard cost estimate from BOM, Work center, Product Cost Planning areas, integration areas of Product costing with cost center accounting and Costing run.

• Presented Project documentation to end users and conducted knowledge transfer sessions to Power users.

• Involved in Cutover, Monitoring of transports, Data loads, Go–Live preparation & data conversion activities in Global Implementation Environment.

• Involved in Maintenance of GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) controls for FI team. Proposal of Role Assignments, Role Conflict Management, and Mitigation control applications for sensitive transactions.

Global Point Inc., NJ Feb 2009–Aug 2009

Title: Sr. SAP Systems Analyst

HAAS TCM, West Chester, PA Feb 2009–Jul 2009

SAP FICO Functional Analyst

Haas TCM is a chemical management services company based in West chester. Haas supplies chemicals to various industries such as Automobile, Aerospace and other manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all phases in the Implementation and interfaces with Oracle interfaces.

• Worked with the process owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend solutions and improvements, and conduct unit testing and validation of process.

• Reviewed the Business processes and compatibility of the SAP system with the present business as a part of SAP Implementation Scoping.

• Conducted Knowledge transfer workshops (SAP-FICO), interviews with Super users, Business Blueprint design, realization and Go-Live.

• Worked closely with process streams in raising FITGAPs and suggested best business practices.

• Provided Business process procedures (BPP), Business process descriptions (BPD), Functional Specifications for the RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, Enhancements and Forms), and other FITGAP s in the present business system.

• Responsible for working with Business Systems Analysts to define, construct, test, document, and deploy common processes across multiple business units.

• Involved in configuration of Cost Center accounting (SAP-CCA), Profit center accounting (SAP-PCA), Profitability analysis (SAP-CO-PA), Internal Orders, WBS elements in Project systems (SAP-PS), Assessment and distribution cycles and Settlements.

• Supported the FI team in setting up the SAP-GL accounts, and in other SAP-FI modules like SAP- AP (Accounts Payable), positive pay methods, Preprocessed payables, SAP-AR (Accounts receivable), and Asset accounting (SAP-AM), Asset classes, capitalization and acquisitions, Depreciation runs, calculation of depreciation and configuration of Depreciation areas.

• Worked with interfaces like SAP-Business Warehousing and integration planning (SAP-BW/IP) and other Legacy systems.

• Involved in US-Localization, Unit testing (Functional unit testing, Cycle testing I and II) and provided test scripts.

• Involved in configuration of Cost center accounting (SAP-CCA), Distribution, Assessment cycles, settlements, Profitability analysis (SAP-CO-PA), COPA structures, characteristics, value fields, and derivations

• In SAP-CO-PA, worked in co-ordination with SD (Sales and Distribution), MM (Material Management) and PP (Production planning) team members in the areas of Condition types, condition tables, Procedures and access sequence. Set up of PA transfer structure. Created Characteristics, value fields, Top-down distribution

• In SAP-EC-PCA (profit center accounting), Configured Profit centers, dummy profit centers and Profit center hierarchies and profit center groups and their integration with SD.

• Generation of reports using Report painter, Report writer and SAP Queries (including the role assignment as per GRC regulations)

• Documented all the changes (including OSS notes applied) in SAP along with best solutions. Used Solution Manager

V Soft Consulting Group Inc, Louisville, KY Oct 2005 – Jan 2009

Title: Senior Systems Analyst

ROHM and HAAS COMPANY, Philadelphia, PA July 2008 – Jan 2009

ERP-SAP FICO lead Analyst (COE lead, Global info services GSIS)

ROHM and HAAS Company, a Philadelphia based company manufactures and develops specialty and performance materials for customers in more than 100 facilities with operations in 27 countries.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0 and provide Post GOLIVE support for the upgraded Production SAP system.

• Coordinated IT projects recognition and assessment of business Goals Assigning the Jobs to respective team members and tracking the progress of the project.

• Driving the IT projects to run smoothly in Global environment with the use of best practices, good decision making.

• Involved in Service Management (SM) team, change management activities, Knowledge Transfer workshops, Risk management and assessments, and communication to the business user communities.

• Lead the SAP Scoping, Configuration, Upgrade and Implementation support in Finance areas including SAP–GL (General Ledger), SAP–AP (Accounts Payable), Vendor master setup, SAP–AR (Accounts Receivable), and SAP–AA (Asset Accounting), Depreciation settings , Setting up of the CTRL-M jobs.

• Reviewed the GLOBAL template, SAP Business Process mapping, FIT–GAP Analysis documents, application of best practices and business processes, and Process documentation.

• Involved in preparing and signing off the Business process procedures (BPP), Business process Description (BPD) functional specification (FS) documents, FUT and UAT testing cycles (functional unit testing, and User Acceptance Testing) before Go Live.

• Responsible for configuration, documentation, testing, training (Knowledge transfer) to appropriate end users to ensure successful implementation, enhancements, maintenance & support of ECC upgrade.

• Responsible for Configuration of Finance and controlling modules including Cost center accounting (SAP–CCA), Profit center accounting (SAP–PCA), Profitability Analysis (SAP–COPA), Internal Orders.

• Involved in Data Conversions, Enhancements, EDI, Cutover activities, GO–LIVE, rollouts in several regions like Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, etc), Asia pacific and European regions

• Worked with interfaces like Taxware, Banks and Integration tools (web methods) interfaces.

• Collaborated with other teams in SAP-FICO Integration areas with other modules such as Order–to–cash(SAP-SD-OTC) and Procure-to-Pay (SAP-MM-PTP)

• Lead the integration of Legacy systems with SAP and Supported the IDoc related issues (EDI).

• Coordinated with SAP-ABAP development team in order to modify some of the Z-programs to be compatible with upgraded SAP version (SAP–ECC 6.0).

• Lead some of the Support issues and resolved by applying OSS notes and best practices.

• Worked in Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA), Statistical key figures, Cost center accounting(SAP-CCA),Profit center accounting(SAP-PCA) , Profitability analysis (SAP-COPA), Period end closing activities, Allocations (Distribution and assessment cycles), Depreciation, Assets, Accounts Payable Payments and Bank interfaces

• Research and implementation on OSS notes involving solution manager.

HARLEY–DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE COMPANY, Milwaukee, WI May 2007– June 2008

SAP-FICO Lead-Business Systems Analyst, GIS (Global Info services)-Corporate Portfolio

Harley-Davidson is one of the leaders in manufacturing the motorcycles and accessories. The company emphasizes heavyweight bikes designed for cruising on the highway and known for their distinctive exhaust note.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in leading the Production support (SAP) Team and provide the client with optimum, qualitative and reliable resolutions.

• Involved in SAP XI Upgrade by coordinating the financial applications team.

• Reviewed the Global template, business processes, documentation of the SAP implementation and other legacy systems such as People-Soft, Avantis, AS400.

• Involved in Go–live, Configuration, Production Support, Knowledge transfer to users, and rollouts of company codes (Subsidiary) including Mexico.

• Collaborated closely with the process streams in raising FITGAPs & provided SAP solutions at various stages of the implementation. Coordinated in Global Chart of accounts maintenance, SOX compliance & process design.

• Provided Functional Specifications (including configuration, test plans) & related Work/Change requests such as Reporting, Data Conversion, Integration, Enhancements, issue resolution and Process design needs in order to get the production (SAP) issues resolved.

• Worked with the development team & SAP XI in connecting the SAP ECC to Gateway systems in Harley-Davidson museum project

• Involved in SAP Service Management (SM), maintenance of the job scheduling and monitoring the progress of the SAP jobs.

• Coordinated with the ABAP–development team in order to create/modify user exits or user–defined reports.

• Worked with SAP-FI-GL in setting up the New GL accounts, Document split posting, integration with SAP HR, multiple currencies and designed the customized reports.

• In Accounts payable and receivables (SAP-AP & SAP-AR), Designed Procure–to–Pay process, Order–to–cash cycles and involved in the integration areas of SAP FI–MM, & SAP FI–SD.

• In Asset Management (FI-AM), Supported fixed assets team. Changes in the configuration of depreciation areas and loading of additional assets into SAP system.

• Involved in configuration of Cost center accounting (SAP-CCA), Distribution, Assessment cycles, settlements, Profitability analysis (SAP-CO-PA), COPA structures, characteristics, derivations.

• Supported the interfaces and coordinated with SAP XI team to resolve IDOCs related issues that were prevailing. Worked exclusively in IDOCs and lead the IDOCs support team.

• Supported the critical integration areas of SAP-FI with other modules like SD, MM, EC-PCA, CO-PA and PP.

• Performed Functional unit testing for some of the new developments, upgrades, work requests in other modules including SAP–HR (Human resources), Travel & expense (Travel Management) and SAP–PS (project systems).

• Worked in Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA), Statistical Key figures (SKF), Profit center accounting (PCA), WBS elements and Settlements.

• In SAP-COPA , Collaborated with teams in defining the characteristics, value fields, derivation rules, CO-PA structures, top–down distribution, condition types, access sequence, currency settings and other procedures.

• Designed CO-PC (Product costing) reports for shipped volumes, cribs and other costing reports.

• Documented all the changes (including OSS notes applied) in the business and their corresponding changes in SAP along with best solutions.

NESTLE-PURINA PETCARE COMPANY, St. Louis, MO March 2006 – April 2007

SAP FI/CO -Business Analyst, Decision support, Global Implementation

Nestle-Purina Petcare Company is the world’s largest manufacturer of Pet food. Nestle implemented SAP GLOBE project, which stood as the world’s largest-ever deployment of mySAP.com.

Responsibilities:

• Played a vital role as a team member in this world’s largest implementation SAP-GLOBE Project.

• Responsible for the configuration of asset master records, subclasses, various depreciation area calculations, capitalizations & acquisitions, upload of legacy assets to SAP, calculations of depreciation & corresponding postings in finance & controlling modules.

• Reviewed the Business process & compatibility of the SAP system with the present business as a part of SAP Implementation Scoping.

• Conducted Knowledge transfer (SAP- FICO), Business Blueprint design, realization and Go-Live.

• Studied the existing SAP system with split architecture that Nestle-GLOBE Implemented.

• Worked closely with process streams in raising FITGAPs and suggested best business practices

• Provided Functional Specifications for the RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, Enhancements and Forms), and other FITGAPs in the present business system.

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