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S. V.
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Summary
·	Over 6 Years of extensive experience in SAP Functional Design and  focus on Configuring SAP application software in accordance with system design requirements. SAP Global FICO included financial planning, and decision-support information. 
·	Have significant experience in analyzing business requirements, configuring FICO and designing a data warehousing solutions in an SAP environment.
·	SAP R/3 functional consultant with configuration experience that includes FI-General Ledger, FI-AP Accounts Payable, FI-AR Accounts Receivable, FI-SL Special purpose Ledger.
·	Controlling-CO- Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), CO-Profit Center Accounting (PCA), CO-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), CO-Internal Orders (I/O) and CO-Cost Allocations, Planning-Budgeting, Report Painter/Writer.
·	Treasury - Cash Management Electronic Banking Interfaces (lockbox {BAI & BAI2format}), ACH-payments, EBS-E-bank statements and Check Processing).
·	In depth knowledge of In-House Cash component which is a solution for processing internal and external payment transactions within a group or company. It reduces the amount of external bank accounts required and also cross-border payments.
·	In Depth Knowledge of SAP FI/CO MM and SD and financial integration into FI/CO from other modules. 
·	Tracked and resolved business process and configuration issues resulting from unit and integration testing. 
·	Extensive experience in Report Painter/Writer and ABAP/4 query reporting tools for internal and external reporting.
·	3 Full life cycle projects in SAP FI/CO configuration (4 AP, 4 AR, 5 GL, 3 TR (cash management and cash budget management, 4 PCA, 3 CCA, in CO-PA).
·	Proficient knowledge of multiple methodologies such as ASAP, and FastTrack for SAP.
·	Master and Transaction data import/export from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via LSMW or SAP CATT scripts. 
·	Carried out end user training and support, in addition to the SAP development work.
·	Worked in a dynamic, high pressured environment with highly professional team members where we all share joint accountability for the overall success of the project.


Certifications
None

Experience
SAP FI/CO, Sr. Consultant – Contract
Evenflo Company Inc. Vandalia, OH, USA,(OCT 2004 – JUNE 2005)                                                                       


Evenflo is a worldwide leader in the development of innovative infant equipment and is now one of the nation's leading manufacturers of high quality baby care and juvenile products.

Contributions: 

·	Responsible for blueprint, configuration, testing, support, and enhancements of Accounts Payable, Tax, Accounts Receivable, Credit Management. 
·	Involved in Electronic Bank Statements, Lockbox. Designed and carried out data migration from 4.6c to 4.7enterprise for Accounts Receivables, Corporate Purchasing, and Credit Management.

Responsibilities as an SAP Sr. Consultant,


·	Customized and implemented SAP R/3 4.7E FI/CO module.
·	Requirement gathering for business process.
·	Mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation       plans, cutover, end user training and post go-live production support.
·	System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, inter-company.
·	SAP taxes, calculation procedure, creating condition types, process keys, tax codes and Account determination.
·	AP-vendor transactions, Master data, Master data for house banks, Automatic payment program, payment methods includes ACH, outsource checks, wire and manual checks. Payment terms, split payment for employee expenses, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items.
·	T030 maintenance (integration with MM transactions).
·	Documented specifications for ABAP programmers.
·	Configured and defined multiple currency valuation in controlling, to support Material Ledger in view of Group and company specific currency reporting.
·	AR-customer transactions, Master data, credit management, payment terms, Cash Management, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format, Customizing payment advice notes. 
·	Post-processing Lockbox data, Classifying deductions with reason codes and reason codes conversion program processing unidentified, on-account and partial payments and Clearing customer accounts through various transactions.
·	Configured the system so that there is no need for separate accounts for posting group-internal business transactions. Instead, such entries are identified by the assignment of trading partners per transaction. The primary goal here is to automate the posting assignments for group-internal transactions as much as possible and to keep the additional assignments to a minimum.
·	Transferring data to/from Legacy system includes Bank master data, Vendor master data, customer mater data and transaction data. I was using MS Excel, SAP LSMW, and SAP CATT for Import/ Export functionality to accomplish this task.
·	Defined Bank chains for House Banks, Vendors, Customers and Cash Management and
Customized Cash journals by currency wise.
·	Configured workflow variant for payment release and developed a process to make direct payment, through Automatic payment program to major credit card companies for employee expenses and site purchases spent on various project locations through Visa, Master and Amex cards.
·	Designed structure for Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting and internal orders, CO-CCA-Assessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, and integration with project systems.
·	Documented critical changes performed system tests and trained client team members on new system functionality.
·	Developed Reporting for FI/CO environment (FI/CO/PCA).Creation of the test plans based on the test scenarios, prepared functional specs, Unit Test Scripts, Integration Test Script, analysis, design, testing, implementation, and production support and defined Security roles for users.
·	Developed test plans, test cases for GL, AR, AP, AR, CO, acceptance criteria and trained users,
Validated and documented existing AR business process procedures and recommended/ implemented Lockbox process improvements where applicable.

         
      SAP FI/CO Consultant – Contract
          ITT canon, LA, USA.,(Mar 2004 – Sep 2004)    

Review of SAP R/3 Configuration and Customization in CCA/PCA/IO

·	In CO reviewed Master data relating to Cost elements, cost Centers, Statistical key figures, Activity types and profit Centers. Reviewed Assessments, Distributions, reposting, data transfer settings and Internal Orders settlement profile.
·	Configuration of master data controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, valuation profiles, field status groups, internal orders, WBS elements.
·	Profit center accounting configuration, setup, Profit center hierarchies, Profitability analysis, and Profit center based Balance sheets & P&L statements.
·	Analyzed and updated profit center accounting settings.
·	Configured and defined multiple currency valuation in controlling, to support Material Ledger in view of Group and company specific currency reporting.
·	Configuration of Operating Concern and PA settlement rules, regeneration and defining characteristics derivation rules, CO-PA Actual and Plan Assessments, Product cost controlling, production variances, WIP, Results analysis.
·	Responsible for identifying and documenting all CCA and PCA test cases.
·	Tracked and resolved business process and configuration issues resulting from unit and integration testing.
·	Configured CO-PA-and PCA to provide Product Line P&L and Balance Sheet reporting. Implemented CO / Overhead model, using Overhead key, Activity types, and Cost Centers.
·	Reviewed the Material management configuration – Purchase orders, Conventional Invoice verification, Logistic Invoice verification, Inventory management, Goods movements, Stock transfer between Company codes and Plants, Purchase Order swap between company codes. GR/IR clearing.
·	Facilitated integration design and configuration with SD and MM account determination, condition type mapping to CO-PA, and production variance settlement to FI and CO.
·	Prepared the required documentation.
·	Coordinated in overall testing and QA activities required to meet system validation requirements.

SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst
Home Depot, Austin, TX,  (Jan 2003 – Feb 2004)

·	Was responsible for FI General Ledger configuration and financial reporting and users training, Accounts Receivable configuration, reporting and users training, Accounts Payable configuration, reporting and end-users training.
·	Cost Center configuration and cost allocations and reporting, Profit Center Configuration and Profit Center Reporting. Internal Orders configuration and reporting. Custom Report Painter/Writer Reporting for the Finance and Manufacturing Departments.
·	Maintained special ledgers, finance validation & substitution rules, account determination and roll-up reporting requirements for local country and global corporate analysis. Integrated planning in COPA, versions, layouts, and assignments to company codes for both local and global ledgers to tie cost center (CCA), profitability analysis (COPA), internal orders (I/O) and special Purpose ledger (FI-SL) reporting.
·	The objects used within the controlling module included: cost elements, activities, and assessments, order settlement, planning activities, postings, and reporting. As functional team member I identified the business requirements through the Blueprint, detailed planned tasks, and unit cycle tested the written scripts, developed the integration tests, and documented the configuration and business process procedures.
·	In addition to the above requirements I was involved in the configuration and users training for the Materials Management module. This included purchase order to cash process with logistics invoiceverification. Starting with Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Vendor Payment and Check clearing sub-processes. 
·	Involved in transaction data import/export from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via ABAP programs or SAP CATT scripts. 
·	Configured and linked companies to company codes consolidation and group chart of accounts. Uploaded to the SAP system client chart of accounts, account groups, retained earnings accounts, field status groups, document number ranges, fiscal years, posting periods, controlling area etc.
·	Created end user training courses in preparation for go live.
·	ASAP implementation
·	Go live was on time and within budget
·	Involved in the complete implementation lifecycle.

SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst
Bank One, Phoenix, AZ , (Jan 2002 – Dec 2002)

·	Redesigned Cost Center standard hierarchy, Cost Center Groups, Cost Elements Groups, Activity types and groups, CO planning and budgeting, cost distribution and assessment, periodic reposting.
·	Developed reports for internal and external reporting Using Report Painter/Writer and ABAP/4 query. On an ongoing basis conducted formal training for end users. 
·	Supported A/R and A/P and integration points with SD and MM modules, post implementation problems resolutions and additional IMG configuration.
·	Set up all of the FI and CO enterprise structure components, such as company codes, fiscal year variant, posting periods, controlling area, document number ranges, tolerance levels, etc., required for detailed implementation of the FI and CO modules.
·	Demonstrated expert knowledge of SAP hierarchy concepts and their application in the enterprise structure. 
·	Uploaded master chart of accounts and conducted detailed modeling of chart of accounts at the company code level and chart of accounts level. This included configuration of account groups, reconciliation accounts, company code field status groups and posting keys to the corporation data entry requirements. 
·	Configured vendor, customer and asset master data, and tested the integration of A/R, A/P and Asset Accounting sub-ledgers into the FI system. Assisted in sandbox configuration of SAP Assets Accounting module. This included assignment of copy of US chart of depreciation to the company codes, configuration of asset master data, depreciation areas, asset classes, account assignments, etc. 
·	Designed and tested company financial statements. Using IMG automatic creation features of primary and secondary costs elements, configured cost and revenue element accounting. Set up cost and revenue element groups. 
·	Configured profit and cost center accounting within the IMG structure. Set up standard hierarchy for cost centers and profit centers. Set up cost centers and profit centers groups.
·	Through accounting journal entries populated cost center with data. Generated and analyzed cost accounting reports. 
·	Within a cycle, using periodic re-posting, distribution, or assessment, allocated various costs (percentage, fixed, portion, or variable tracing factors) among different cost centers. Generated cost allocation reports.


SAP FI/CO Functional Analyst
Nova Chemicals, PA , (Oct 2000 – Dec 2001)

Requirements gathering for Re-engineering SAP R/3 modules business process procedures and recommendations/ implemented process improvements i.e. in the areas of Finance – Account payable, Accounts receivable and general ledger and Upgrading.

GENERAL LEDGER 

·	Set up company codes, chart of accounts, positing variants, fiscal year variants.
·	Creating and maintaining Functional areas in Master data.
·	Working with multiple currencies, Posting cross-company code transactions and clearing.
·	Creating master data for all types of G/L accounts.
·	Defining line layouts for document posting and document changing.
·	Reset cleared items, reversing and clearing documents, valuating foreign currencies.
·	Maintain sales and jurisdiction tax codes, planning, closing and reporting.

ACCOUNT PAYABLE.

·	Implemented Down payment request, Authorization for down payment, clearing down payments, transferring down payments between company codes when PO SWAP happened, duplicate down payment check against purchase orders and Payment program. 
·	SAP sales taxes, usage tax, and calculation procedure, creating condition types, process keys, tax codes and Account determination.
·	Developed a process to pay directly to the credit card companies, for the portion of the amount spent on credit cards, towards company expenses.    
·	GR/IR clearing, Duplicate Invoice verification for PO and Non-PO.

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

·	Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format
·	Customizing payment advice notes.
·	Post-processing Lockbox data
·	Classifying deductions with reason codes and reason codes conversion program.
·	Processing unidentified, on-account and partial payments
·	Clearing customer accounts through various transactions.

CONTROLLING

·	Cost center accounting, Profit Center accounting and Internal Orders.
·	Cost Center Accounting Settings for Periodical Processing
·	Assisted client in re design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA.
·	Redesign of Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost Component Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost, special procurements.
·	Defining costing variant, cost component and costing sheet for product cost estimate
·	Created Functional specifications, Unit test script, test scenarios and Functional test scripts for Unit testing and during functional testing phase.
·	Overall project management in the areas of SAP FI, CO, and integration with SD and MM modules.


Trainee & Associate functional consultant
     CybertechSystems&SoftwareLimited,India. ,(Aug 1999- Mar 2000)

Company Profile: Cybertech Systems & Software Ltd., Mumbai is ISO 9001-2000and EOU Company, listed on Indian Stock Market. Cybertech rewarded as Fortune 500 (Fastest Growing IT Company). Cybertech is a global firm providing professional consulting services, SAP post implementation services, GIS Services and enterprise application support services.
Responsibilities:

·	Created general ledger master records. 
·	Created Customer & Vendor account groups. 
·	Defined number range for Customers & Vendors. 
·	Created Reconciliation accounts for Customers, vendors and Assets
·	Setup recurring entries and sample documents.
·	Defined Tax codes for Input tax & output tax.
·	Configured interest procedure.
·	Created Dunning procedure.


Education
MBA with specialization in Accounting.  Osmania University, India... 1999
B.Tech in IPE (Industrial Production Engineering), Nanded University, India... 1997 


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