SAP Analyst

Nikhil Mathur

SAP FI/CO Analyst Mobile: 312-***-****

******.********@*****.*** Chicago, IL US

Summary

• 5 years of SAP Experience in FI/CO encompassing two Full Life Cycle implementations from Blue Printing to Realization and Go Live.

• Financial accounting expertise in General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP),Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) Taxation ,and Controlling (CO).

• Expertise in all implementation phases that includes Business Process Procedures (BPP), Business Process Analysis, GAP Analysis, Blue print, Design, Data Migration, Unit testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Cut-off strategy, End User training, Go-live and Post go-live.

• In depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration with SD and MM

Core Accomplishments:

• Proficiency in analysis and custom design development as per the Customer requirements.

• Expertise in Testing (functional, unit and consolidation), writing functional specification and blueprint.

• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions.

• Excellent team player with strong leadership skills, interpersonal skills, and continuous learning skills.

Technical Skills:

• ERP System: SAP R/3, ECC 6.00

• Operating Systems: UNIX, MS DOS, MS Win NT 4.0, Windows 95/98/2000 & XP

• Application Skills: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Visio and Project)

• Project management: Solution manager, Microsoft Project

• Languages: Pearl, XML, Python, SQL

• Business Tools: InfoPack, Mercury Quality Center, ReadSoft

Professional Experience

Intel Corporation, Chandler Arizona.

SAP Functional Consultant / System analyst

Nov 07- Jan 09

Project Specification: Upgrade to ECC6.0 from SAP 4.6

My Role as a Tax expert/Analyst was to come up with a design and implementation for all the countries, including North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia. The design, which I developed, covered all the GAP developed in 4.6 with respect to the Business process.

Business Process Analysis And Re-Engineering :

• Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of solution, as well as documentation and End User training.

• Defining the business requirements, analyzing the gap, writing functional specifications, configuration and testing.

• Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted business blueprint documentation.

Accomplishments

Team lead Withholding tax.

• Withholding tax custom development- Analysis of the design for withholding tax, for all the countries and development of the custom table and code for some specific one.

• Implemented the Commodity driven withholding tax determination.

• Different countries custom development, and commodity valuation.

• Gathered the requirements from stakeholders for each region.

• Functional specification and Technical Design included gathering of business requirements.

• Sale/Use Tax – Tax rate was determined by Tax-ware.

• Optimized the calculation procedure and determination criteria for sales tax and VAT( Value added Tax).

• Setting the preference of rules for tax determination.

• Implemented the sales and jurisdiction tax codes, planning, closing and reporting.

• Generated the test scenarios for unit testing and integration testing of the configured processes.

• Worked with SD team to develop enhancement specifications and implementation covering a range of functionalities (master data, pricing, taxes, shipping, billing, returns, BOM, consignment, etc).

• Created Vendor and Customer master records and the setting required for automatic payment programs, clearing open items and closing valuations, withholding tax for customer as well as vendor

• Developed user exits for particular scenarios (ABAP code modification/development)

• Worked on Idocs for specific Brazil and Israel Bank problem, and resolved the issue.

Cesar Castillo Inc. San Juan, Purto Rico

SAP FI Functional Consultant

Feb 07-Oct 07

César Castillo, Inc. (CC, Inc.), Castillo Logistics Services, Inc. (CLS, Inc.) and Droguería Castillo (División of César Castillo Inc.), privately owned, has been doing business in Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, and part of the Caribbean for several Pharmaceutical, OTC and Consumer Products Companies. The company offers a variety of services such as exclusive distribution, wholesale division and contract (warehousing and logistics) services.

Accomplishments

Finance / Controlling:

• Configured basic organization settings (Company Code, Charts of Accounts, Business areas), Setup Year independent Fiscal Year Variant, G/L Accounts Group, Field Status variant and Document number ranges.

• Implemented Vender Automatic Payment program, Direct deposits, and interest calculations on an open item

• Developed payment process in ACH, wire transfer and checks

• Optimized House Banks, Automated payment program run, payment terms, clearing inter company vender /customer open items, lockbox processing for A/P and A/R

• Configured interest calculation for arrears, maintained Employee tolerances, credit control area, customer groups, Dunning, Interest rate calculation and Sales tax Configuration

• Created Credit master data for the payer of the relevant document.

• Grouped vendors and customers to define credit control areas and dunning areas for A/R.

• Configured the Withholding tax for Vendors (accumulated withholding tax)

• Configured General Controlling Organization by defining Controlling Area, maintaining Document number ranges for Controlling Area and maintaining Versions for Controlling areas.

• Configured Basic Settings for Profit Center Accounting by maintaining Control Area settings, Activating Direct postings, Plan versions, analyzing and updating the basic settings.

• Configured Cost Element Accounting by creating primary and secondary cost elements, cost elements groups, maintained cost element attributes.

• Configured Standard Hierarchy for Profit Centers, created Profit Center Groups and Profit Centers.

• Configured model settlement Profile, Settlement, Settlement Structure in Internal Orders.

• Customized Settings for Controlling areas, Activating the components / indicators and assigning the company codes and number ranges to controlling area.

• Configured different order types, their screen layout and status management according to the business requirement.

Assets:

• Configured asset accounting module. Copied country specific chart of depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined asset classes, account determinations and allocated number ranges to asset classes.

• Fixed asset accounting implementation. Configured classes, depreciation keys, account determinations and allocated number ranges to asset classes

• End User training- Fixed Assets Master Data Administrator, Fixed Assets Period End Closing Executor, Capital leases.

Trouble Shooting:

• Dealt with Positive pay, issuing lost checks and void them using the Reversal documents in A/P.

• Changing the posting periods to allow transactions posted in the particular period by using Posting Period Variant for GL, A/P and A/R.

• Defined and changed Credit Limits in response to the unwanted cautions for the Customer by using Credit Management in A/R.

• Provided configuration support in SD and MM integration for account determination, material movement setup.

Brother International, Bridgewater, New Jersey

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Apr 06- Feb 07

Accomplishments

Finance / Controlling:

• Configured basic organization settings (Company Code, Charts of Accounts, Business areas, AP/ AR)

• Configured accounts in SPL (Special Ledger), planned data and master data.

• Created new G/L accounts updated the financial statement version and maintained the Chart of Accounts.

• Participated in workshops involving detailed analysis of existing Systems and business processes related to GL, SL, AP & AR and CO.

• Worked closely with process teams in understanding the As-Is system and finalizing design of the To-Be system

• Configured Customer Master Data and master groups. Configured Automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning. Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Lockbox Processing for incoming payments

• Created Vendor Master Data, configured vendor groups, vendor field status and assigned number ranges for vendor account groups. Configuration of payment program for posting invoices with and without invoice verification. Customized accounting transactions for postings and reoccurring entries

• Created Controlling area, Operating concern, maintained versions, primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups and assigned number ranges to groups

• Worked in coordination with SD teams regarding "Pricing" in defining condition types, Condition tables, Procedures and access sequence

• Created Profit Center groups, Dummy profit centers, Profit center standard Hierarchies, assigned objects to the profit centers.

Testing :

• Performed unit and integration testing using different test scenarios and test cases.

• Executed mass tests using Computer Aided Test Tool (CATT) for G/L, Vendor and customer posting for testing stage.

• Followed the test scripts for test scenarios in the test plans.

• Verified G/L, vendor and customer accounts for the display of the posting and on the controlling side.

• Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module, including vendor and customer’s invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry programs

• Checked assignment of the posting to the relative Cost Centers and Profit Centers.

• Check system for tolerance limits, plan budgets and activities for supplement and return postings.

• Checked Clearing and posting of the line items in the reconciliation accounts.

• Checked automatic and manual payments made to vendors and lock box processing.

• Check posting invoices and payments for the customers.

• Automated testing tools of Mercury load runner was used in the testing process.

• Created reports on the findings of the testing results and analysis.

Cbiz India

New Delhi India.

Role: SAP System analyst.(Full life cycle implementation)

Duration: 1.7 year (Jun 2004-Aug 2005)

ERP System: SAP 4.0

• Participated in the preparation of business Blue Print (As-is, To-be, and Fit-Gap analysis)

• As a team member involved in all phases of implementation from development of business blue print to end-user training and go-live.

• The scope of work included Analyzing the business process and mapping the existing system to the respective functions in SAP. The project involved detailed study of the entire accounting operations, studying the current business process, organization structure finalizing and mapping & configuring of to-be Business process and providing necessary support.

• Worked extensively on GL, AP, AR and CCA.

• Set up company codes, chart of account, fiscal year variants, tolerance limits, and Financial Statement variant. Defined lockbox, house banks, and bank accounts for Lockbox processing. Dunning, tolerance groups, accounts determination, interest calculation, check management and credit controlling areas.

• Involved in ‘cut over planning’ for moving configuration into production environment.

• Created end user documents and trained users.

Sterling Telecom and Net systems (Dishnet)

Madras (Chennai), India.

Role: SAP System analyst.

Duration: 10months (July 2003- April 2004)

ERP System: SAP 4.0

• Participated in the preparation of business Blue Print (As-is, To-be, and Fit-Gap analysis)

• Participated in workshops involving detailed analysis of existing Systems and business processes related to GL, SL, AP & AR and CO Analysis & modification of the existing chart of accounts as per CO requirements.

• As a team member involved in all phases of implementation from development of business blue print to end-user training and go-live.

• Involved in defining requirements, process reengineering, configuration, integration, testing and training.

• Involved in the development functional process design and configured client organizational structure as specified.

• Configured company codes, created and maintained Chart of Accounts, financial accounting global settings, document types, posting period variants, fiscal period variants and financial statement versions, vendor master data, customer master data and specified number ranges employee and vendor tolerance groups

• Customized account groups, field status groups and posting keys

• Configured House Banks, bank accounts, check lots and void reason codes.

• Configured settings for automatic payment program and for interest calculation on account

balances and line items.

Education:

Master’s Information Technology and Management May 2007

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Course Work: Project Management-Implementation of Risk, Cost Benefit & Earned Value Analysis of real time software simulation project, Management of Advance Database Application using Oracle 10g PL/SQL, Data Warehousing, Multimedia Systems, Object Oriented System Development (UML), Web Development, Dynamic Web Development, Distributed Work Station Distribution (Windows Server 2003).

Languages

• English

• Spanish

• Hindi

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