FICO Consultant

Master in Business Administration (Finance) SAP FICO

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PROFILE

• Over Six Years of IT industry experience in SAP R/3, full life cycle implementation including, Business requirement analysis, configuring, integration, customizing, testing, Implementation, user training and support.

• Financials & Controlling module, covering multiple domain/industries such as Automotive, Finance and FMCG (Tobacco) and Manufacturing.

• Technical and functional expertise well augmented by excellent analytical, problem solving, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to deliver innovative and profitable solutions well within timeframe and budgets.

• Strong knowledge of delivering as per ASAP methodology

• Communicate with users from management hierarchy to Business process users in defining the scope and understanding the business processes.

• Experience in preparing Blue print, Work flow and Other Design documents.

• Expertise in New General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Budgeting, forecasting, Assets and controlling.

• Hands on experience and technical proficiency in implementation, Design and Configuration of major functionalities in PS.

• Worked on the Integration of FI CO with MM, SD and PS.

• Experience of CRM and its integration with FI.

• Worked on the foreign currency setup and handled the day to day issue and maintenance of currency.

• Proficient in End user training, with experience in creating implementation manuals.

• Experienced in implementation support, with up to 6 markets supported at given time.

• Awarded as “Best employee” for providing Profitable customer solutions and functional consulting.

EDUCATION Year

Masters in Business Administration (Finance) 2005

Masters in Commerce 2003

SKILLS

SAP R/3

• Financial Accounting: New General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting.

• Controlling: Product costing, Cost Center Accounting, and Profitability Analysis.

• Other modules design knowledge are Project Systems, MM, Sales and Distribution

• Integration of FICO with other modules – MM, SD, PS.

• Requirement Analysis, Requirement Blue Prints, Data Mapping, Implementation Plan and support.

• Authorization and ABAP functional specifications.

DOMAIN/INDUSTRY

• Hydro and Pulp & Paper

• Automotive

• Finance (Lease)

• Manufacturing

• Food, Beverage and Tobacco

ENVIRONMENT & TOOLS

• SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0, SAP LAM

• Windows XP, Windows 2000

• Microsoft Visio 2007, Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Company Web Address Location Duration

Independent Contractor Nil Vancouver ,Canada Oct 2010 – Till date

Cognizant Technology Solutions www.cognizant.com

India, Switzerland & Hungary Nov 2007 – Apr 2009

Incat (TATA Technologies) www.incat.com

India Jul 2005 – Oct 2007

Accenture – Dec 2010 – September 2011

Client - BC Hydro

Dec 2010 - June 2011 & Feb 2012 Till Date

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Role: PS and FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the SAP PS support for the Generation team.

• Responsible for guiding the team in creation of new project in the SAP system and running of various transactions like IDC calculation, report comparison, Report generation in BEX (BI system).

• Design and Developed training manuals including creation of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Activity, and Use of reports in BI and trained the users.

• Analyzed their legacy reports with the BI reports of SAP and working on making the reports more useable for the business which involves regression testing.

• Providing them business solutions for the new requirements and the modifications/Enhancement to the existing one.

Howe Sound Pulp & Paper Ltd.

Oct 2010 – Nov 2010

Location: Vancouver, Canada.

Role: FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Closely working with Finance and Sales team to guide them with day to day implementation issues related to ECC 6.0.

• Training the Core users regarding various SAP processes, namely:

Manual and Auto payment to Vendors and customers,

Cheque process,

Posting of GL, AR and AP process,

Depreciation run,

Month End closing.

• Master Data management and data upload through BDC.

• Ensuring that recommended Performance enhancement measures is implemented to increase productivity and work flow efficiency.

British American Tobacco (BAT)

Nov 2007 - April 2010

Location: Switzerland and Hungary for European Market.

Role: FICO and PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Team lead for Hungary and Switzerland End markets

• Requirement gathering and designing Business blue prints. Participating in system design, new changes and improvement on existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.

• Work with stake holders and management, key users regarding defining the scope ,work plan and identifying the major GAPs to be filled .

• Worked closely with Core users in defining the test cases and training manuals.

• Conducted business workshops and SAP workshops.

• PS work experience includes – Solving day to day issue of budgeting, planning and cost allocation. Creation of milestones and assigning them to WBS.

• Configuration of End to End Finance module including G/ L Accounts, the Vendor Groups , Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements.

• Maintenance and governance of settings in Accounts Payable viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.

• Experience in providing functional impact assessment of proposed changes to SAP including patches, support and enhancement packages, configuration and code updates

• Responsible for change control manger, which includes tracking the new changes in the system across modules and Release Management.

• Master Data Creation for Customer, Customer Groups, Payment Terms and Reporting.

• Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy.

• Controlling developments including, creation of Settlement Profiles for Internal Orders, Designed the process of cost collection and settlement through internal orders to Asset Under Construction and then to Assets

• Coordinated Offshore Teams to handled FICO Implementation issues, change management and release processes. Role also included, providing consultation for Integration ,month end and other issues of FI, CO, Asset & Banking related day to day issues.

• Working with Business Users in drafting Service Level Agreements for new developments and issue resolution.

• Input provisioning to development Team (COPA and other Z reports) Decision Support Reports.

• Meeting End Users for Development Review, issue status and implementation strategies.

• Provided End User Training on procedures, assistance in developing user Training manuals and conducted training sessions for hands on understanding of SAP.

Gange Pressings (Subsidiary of TATA Motors)

June 2007 – Oct 2007

ECC 6.0 India

Role FICO and CIN Consultant

SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SAP FI module and Worked as an Associate consultant for CO implementation

• Interacted with Stake holders ,Super users and core users in defining the business processes.

• Work profile included Studying the existing business and Conducted AS-IS study, Prepared the business process documents and Blue-print documents in SAP Solution Manager for FI (GL, AP and AR), CO (Cost Center, Profit Center, Profitability Analysis) ,Assets and Banking modules, which had been signed off by the client. The blue print documents covered the business process flow in SAP FI and CO, design and analysis.

• Configured Chart of Accounts, company codes, Automatic payment program, Asset configuration, GL accounts, Customer Master data, Vendor Master data, Bank accounting, Logistics Invoice Verification . Profit Centers and hierarchy, Cost Centers and hierarchy.

• Configured New GL functionality and document spilitng.

• Configured the Tax structure and Withholding tax.

• Worked with MM and SD consultant for the integration setup of FI CO with other modules.

• Designed the Functional Specifications for the FICO Reports.

• Data migration (LSMW) from legacy system to SAP for GL, AP, AR and Assets.

• Unit Testing and Integration Testing with the users.

OTHER PROJECTS

Name

Duration

Role

ERP

Location

TATA Toyo Feb 2007 – July 2007 FICO Consultant R/3 4.7 Pune, India

TATA ASAL Feb 2007 – July 2007 FICO Consultant R/3 4.7 Pune, India

TATA International Feb 2007 – July 2007 FICO Consultant R/3 4.7

TATA Motor Finance (TMF) July 2005 – Jan 2007 FICO Consultant R/3 4.7 Pune, India

Bayer Crop Science India March 2005 June 2005 Analyst Cash Management Mumbai, India

CONTACT DETAILS

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Phone +1-778-***-****

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