SAP Project Manager

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over * years of experience in implementing, customizing and configuring SAP R/3 4.7 – ECC 5 and ECC6.0 in both FI and CO modules, experienced in configuration, integrating, testing, documenting, user training and support.

• Completed three full life cycle implementations and two big global rollouts - worked through all phases of initiation, design, development, integration, testing, deployment and support

• Expert in configuration of FI/CO - GL, AR, AP, Asset accounting, Travel management, CCA, Internal order, Product costing, Project systems, CRM and integration with SD, MM,PP & HR

• Expert in configuration of Revenue recognition methods for Project system, contracts and Customer relationship (CRM).

• Good working experience on localization for countries US, UK, and Europe.

• Expert in Data migration process by using various customized tools

• Conceptual study of existing business processes, detailed analysis and mapping of business processes into SAP

• Expert in Intercompany scenarios process. Configured EDI setup (POSO) process for Intercompany scenarios and cross company labor/timesheet postings.

• Conducted User training and prepared user documentations

• Good working exposure on solution Manager tool.

• Proven track record in providing effective team leadership in SAP implementations and post live support

• Strong communication skills for effective client support and interfacing with end-users, programmers, team leaders, project managers, business managers, controllers

• Team oriented and self-motivated individual with superior analytical and problem solving skills

• Self motivated and dedicated professional willing to go the extra mile to provide a quality product and services and to act proactively

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS Windows 98/2000/XP

ERP Systems & Tools: SAP GUI (SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC 5.0 & ECC 6.0)

Microsoft Tools: MS Office(Word, Excel, Outlook), MS Visio,

Testing Mercury testing

Certification Certified SAP CO application associate from SAP Germany

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client Location Industry Type

Honeywell Inc Golden Valley, MN Manufacturing &services Global rollouts

ABB Australia Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia Manufacturing and services Global rollouts

TTK Prestige Ltd Bangalore, India Manufacturing Implementation

Bristlecone Bangalore, India IT Support and implementation

Mohan Breweries and Distilleries Limited

Hyderabad, India Manufacturing Support

SRI BHAVANI DISTILLERIES (INDIA) LIMITED Hyderabad, India Manufacturing Accountant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Honeywell Inc, Goldenvalley, MN Oct 2008 - Present

SAP FICO Consultant Global Rollouts (US,UK and Europe)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macro trends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 122,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.

Responsibilities:

• Played Key role in customer enhancements for all US, UK and Europe deployments.

• In product costing: Designed new costing sheet, customized solution on Material acquisition cost, data migration process validation, cost roll up and issues resolution.

• Configured Revenue recognition methods and related FICO setup for CRM service

• Lead the 10 members team effectively

• Played key role in Data Migration activities for each site go live in terms of Data validation, query creation, templates validation and upload process.

• Worked Finance and controlling Configuration for all new deployments.

• Worked on Mercury testing tool for all configuration and enhancement test cases.

• Worked on third party interfaces developments like GE payable process, concur interface for expenses posting

• Worked on Project system configuration, data migration and various business scenarios on projects like Fixed price, T&M billing process, Engineering –to order process.

• Projects & services: Configured Result analysis keys for new scenarios in Project system and continuous support providing on standard revenue recognition process for Contracts.

• Worked on variant creation for all new deployments to process month end activities.

• Provided customized solutions for GAP requirements.

• Worked on Z developments for data validation to minimize time and provide accuracy in data migration activities.

• Co-ordinated with Support team to resolve any RICEF, enhancements or Project and contract related issues.

• Monitoring the SAP Finance month end close process and improvements to batch jobs processing

• Played key role in EDI configuration and master data setup for all new deployments

• Worked on localization for respective country deployment

• Worked in Travel management module part of global rollouts

• Worked for deployments & Go-live activities in UK, Spain Germany and USA

ABB Australia Pty Ltd November 2007 - August 2008

SAP FICO Consultant Rollout

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group is a global company without boundaries, acting locally in every one of the more than 100 countries in which we do business. Each of our customers benefits from the sharing of ABB's research, supply, manufacturing, distribution, information technology and benchmarking capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Played key roll in understanding Business blue print and Global policies at SAS1 level and also identified the local requirements as per AU specific.

• Develop impact and preliminary analyses, and participate actively in their Roll out

• Sound experience on CO configuration including CO-CCA, IO, COPA and Product costing.

• Played key roll in Result analysis methods to recognize revenue in different methods like CCM and POC

• Handled all business scenarios in Product costing.

• Good working experience with other modules

• Conducted Power user training and prepared all required documentation.

• Played key roll to identify the scope for 10 different business types in CO module

• Played Key roll in CO data migration in to SAP and month end Activities.

• Resolved all critical issues as per the priority basis

• Done CO assessment & Distribution cycles as well as COPA assessment cycles as per the client requirement

• Given functional specs for all reporting requirements.

• Good process experience with other modules like CRM, PS, PP,SD and MM

TTK Prestige Ltd September 2006 – November 2007

SAP FICO Consultant Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

TTK Prestige Limited is part of TTK Group. Over the past five decades TTK Prestige Limited, has emerged as India’s largest kitchen appliances company catering to the needs of home makers in the country. Every Prestige brand product is built on the pillars of safety, innovation, durability.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in AS-IS process and studied the client business process with the help of QA&DB

• Designed the business blue print after detail analysis of AS-IS process.

• Prepared Blue Print Documentation and conducting the minutes of meeting with the client.

• Designed the Enterprise structure based on the blue print analysis

• Implemented New GL process

• Actively participated in finalization of Chart of Accounts and Financial Statement version

• Drawn the Business flow charts like Cost centre & Profit centre hierarchy, internal orders and Budget planning

• Configured all required settings for each sub module as per the client requirement like Customer and vendor group creation for material and Finance prospective, Automatic payment program for vendors payments, dunning procedure, interest calculation setting for different kind of instruments, Different payment terms creation for vendors and customers and Electronic & Manual Bank statement settings.

• Configured all the relevant scenarios for Asset accounting like Chart of depreciation, Asset class designing, and Different types of Depreciation Ares for SLM and WDV and also Group assets classification for Income tax depreciation purpose.

• Configured the automatic account assignment and Revenue account determination including Cash sales after details analysis of Business scenarios with client as well as SD and MM consultants.

• Configured all the CIN related settings as per the country specific like excise, VAT configuration and also applied related notes to implement new features in CIN module.

• Actively interacted with team members for Integration issues

• Prepared separate Blue print and configuration documents for Travel management after detail analysis of client business process.

• Configured all the relevant settings for travel Management and assigned relevant GL accounts to symbolic accounts with proper combination wage types.

• Defined Controlling area structure and activated the relevant components for TTKP requirement.

• Designed Profit centre and cost centre hierarchy based on the blue print analysis and legal requirements.

• Created Primary cost elements automatically and secondary cost elements on manual basis

• Copying the Plan and actual versions for each fiscal year and profit centre wise

• Created Assessment and distribution cycles

• Created internal order types for Capex, Schemes discounts, Promotion and Advertisement expenses

• Created internal order master data and order wise budget planning

• Configured settlement rules for WIP settlements.

• Defined Activity type structure based on the production activities and cost analysis requirements.

• Defined cost sheet structure

• Prepared all function specification for Reports development like MIS and customer & vendor aging analysis.

• Conducted L2 trainings and Integration testing workshops.

• Prepared all the end user manuals for each sub module wise based on the users understanding.

• Solving the tickets based on the priority given by the users through Solution manager tool.

• Conducted the trainings to end-users based on the type of issues like Master data and transactional issues to minimize errors.

Grupo Antolin Pune Pvt Ltd January 2006 - August 2006

SAP FICO Consultant Support

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Pune Products –Manufacturer, Export/Import since 1996

WE ARE MANUFACTURER AND EXPORTERS OF CAR INTERIORS.

Responsibilities:

• Creation of AP, AR, AM and CO master data

• Defined special GL transactions as per client requirement

• Defined terms of payments for vendors and customers

• Configured automatic payment and dunning settings for vendor outgoing payments and customer incoming payments

• Configured TDS settings for various income-tax sections

• Configured Asset management settings for book depreciation and tax depreciation purpose.

• Configured Automatic account assignment for MM postings and Revenue Account Determination for SD postings

• Defined Controlling area master data settings, Standard Hierarchy and activated various components and plan and actual version settings.

• Defined order master data for settlement of capital expenditure to objects

Sundaram Fasterners Ltd (autolec division) November 2004 – Dec 2006

SAP FICO Consultant Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

The Autolec Division has been in existence from 1965 and is today one of the leading manufacturers of Pump Assemblies and Engine Components

Responsibilities:

• Global Settings: Configuration of General settings for country, organizational structures, chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups, Fiscal year Variants, posting periods, document number ranges. Setting up document types and posting keys for business transactions.

• General Ledger: Grouping G/L accounts into various account groups, Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts payable

• Accounts Receivable and Payables: Defined various account groups for vendors and customers, Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI

• Configured various Special G/L indicators for Vendors and Customers

• Configuration of Sales/Purchase tax

• Asset Accounting: Creation of Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation areas, Defining Asset class, Account determination, creation of various Depreciation Keys as per client requirement like

• Conducted unit testing for functional transactions and reports

Controlling

• Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy, creating CO version and defining control indicators.

• Created cost centres master data as per client requirement.

• Define Controlling area settings for Profit centre accounting, Standard hierarchy of profit centre accounting, Created dummy profit centre, Creation of profit centre and document number ranges of profit centre accounting and set the actual parameters for Profit centres.

Mohan Breweries and Distilleries Limited August 2004 - October 2005

SAP FICO Jr. Business Analyst / Support Production Support & Training

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Mohan Breweries and Distilleries Ltd focuses on brewery and beet sugar business.

Responsibilities:

• Month end support, maintenance and troubleshooting

• Handling customization and configuration related issues

• Handling tickets Day to Day basis

• Monitoring FI and CO reports on weekly basis required by clients.

• Supporting involved in GL, AP, AR, AM and Cost centers, cost centres accounting and internal orders

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Since January September 2001 – November 2003

Functional Experience:

Previously worked with “SRI BHAVANI DISTILLERIES (INDIA) LIMITED, Hyderabad” as “Accountant” since September 2001 to Nov 2003. SBDIL is manufacturing Rectified Spirit and Ethanol, which is used in preparation of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), Pharmaceuticals and Petroleum Products.

• Designing and implementation of Reports Such as Inflow and Outflow, Weekly Debtors and Creditors positions, Forecast Statement projecting the overheads for the each of the divisions per month and report to the manager level.

• Developed a system of Imp-rest generation for all the employees in the NITHI.

• Generation of Weekly Financial Information Status reports.

• Periodic Stock Auditing for effective Accounting Process Implementation.

• Prepared and implemented Payroll structure.

• Generation of Bank Reconciliation Statements on weekly Basis.

• Expertise in preparation of Company’s Final Accounts.

• Reports prepared on weekly/monthly basis

• Responsible for deducting Tax at source, issuing TDS certificate and filing of TDS returns

Education details

Degree / PG Name of University Specialization Place of University Year of passing

Bachelor of Commerce Srikrishnadevaraya University

Accountancy and taxation Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India May 2001

CA Professional Education -II Chartered Accountancy of India Accountancy and Auditing Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India May 2005

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