Krishnaiah Reddy
Sr. SAP FI/CO/CO-PC/PCA CONSULTANTSAP FI/CO Functional and Technical Analyst. · Over 8 years of SAP Experience in Leading and implementing Finance (FI) & Controlling (CO) modules. Thorough understanding of integration points with other modules such as SD, MM, PP, HR, PM, AM, IM, PS, Treasury, Revenue Recognition modules & Others. · Solution Architect and Team lead experience. · 3 Full life cycle projects experience which include Global Implementations. · Over 11 years of Business experience encompassing analysis, development & design of systems for Multi-Facet environments viz. Management, Financial & Cost Accounting, Finance & Management Audits, Material management, Production and Sales & Distribution of large and medium scale corporations in different industries. · Industry experience covers CPG, Manufacturing, Trading, Financial Institutions, Pharmaceuticals, Banking, Non-Trading, Public Utility Companies and Government offices.. · Strong Foreign exchange experience, defining currencies, translation ratios, exchange rate types, automating exchange rate updates, capturing foreign exchange gain/loss. .. · Experience of working along with SAP America · Excellent communication & interpersonal skills. A team player who can perform under pressure with consistent attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to Lead projects & deliver on schedule and manage customer expectations. |
Technical and Business Skills
SAP: Financial Accounting · General Ledger (Including New GL) · Accounts Payable · Accounts Receivable · Credit Management · Lockbox & Bank Accounting · Treasury(Cash Management) · Revenue Recognition · Asset Accounting( incl. Latin American Countries) · Special Purpose Ledger · Foreign Exchange Configuration Others Skills · ASAP/ASAP Focus methodology. · Business Process Analysis and re-engineering · Report writer, Report Painter, List viewer & SAP Queries · Testing tools(Test director, HP Quality Center.) · Info PaK, Microsoft Visio and ARIS. | Controlling ·Cost Element Accounting · Cost Center Accounting · Internal Orders · Profit Center Accounting · Profitability Analysis · Product Costing Taxation · US- Taxation, GAAP . · VAT ·End user training and documentation |
SAP: § My SAP.com, my SAP Workplace, § Business All in One. § Version: ECC 6.0/5.0/ 4.7/ 4.6/ . § BW BEx Analyzer | Business / Academic Skills: - Cost Accountant ( C.W.A.I) 1991
- (Equivalent of C.M.A)
· Bachelors of Commerce(B.COM) 1979 · Certified in SAP BAI) Solution Consultant. |
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Professional Experience:
Client: Clorox International. CA. June 2010 to till this date
Sr. SAP CO-PC/PCA Consultant
This a CPG SAP Best practice global implementation and rollout Project. It is a SAP ECC 6.0 project involving various business scenarios such as Order-to-cash, S2P, F2S, ME, R2R and BI.. In this project I was involved as the Senior R2R(Record-to-Report) Process Consult, my responsibilities includes:
Responsibilities:
· I was involved in preparation of Clorox international global Template business blueprint and RICEF document, designing, developing, configuring, testing the R2R business process for various modules in R2R process such as New GL, Cost and admin spending(CCA,IO), Cost and inventory Valuation(Product Costing), PCA and COPA modules. Documenting the Configuration documents for all modules.
· In New GL, I was involved in As-is-study, conducted Business blueprint workshops, documented the business blueprint document Configuring leading and Non leading ledgers, document splitting, Inter-company transactions, Freign currency valuations, profit centers and allocations, profit Center Profit and Loss statements and Balance sheet reporting according to product category level internationally. I have done traceability matrix for various functions and designed process flows and PDDs using ARIS tool.
· In CEL, CCA, and IO , I was involved in As-is-study, conducted Business blueprint workshops, documented the business blueprint document, Configuring cost elements, cost elements groups, cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost center groups, activity types, statistical key figures, Marketing overhead Internal, statistical orders and R&D internal orders, capital investment Orders and budgeting, internal order settlements, cost center planning, activity type calculations, assessments ,distributions, reporting, internal order actual/planned reports and so on..I have done traceability matrix for various functions and designed process flows and PDDs using ARIS tool,
· In Product Costing (CO-PC), I was involved in as is study, conducting business blueprint workshops, documented the blueprint document, configured and customized the Standard Cost estimates with Quantity Structure, Valuation variants, Costing variants period ending activities such as overhead calculations, WIP calculations, Variance calculations, settlements of production orders and process orders, cost estimate updates, costing run, mark and, release for updating the price in material master record, display reports and so on.I have done traceability matrix for various functions and designed process flows and PDDs using ARIS tool.
· In Profitability analysis (CO-PA), I was involved in as is study, conducting business blueprint workshops, documented the blueprint document created the operating concern, configured the costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the characteristics, value fields Profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Configured the derivative structures and rule for user defined characteristics. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-PC/FI/MM. Defined valuation strategy assigned to point of valuations. Set up Valuation using Material Cost estimate,, Created the actual and Planned assessments, Revenue planning, created the Country product category/ brand. SKU level/ customer profitability Form reports and so on.
Client: SAP America/ NGTECH IL May 2009 to April 2010
SAP (PIK-PAC/CO-PC) FICO Solution Developer
NGTECH Inc is a certified SAP Channel Partner. According to the qualification process guidelines provided by the SAP AMERICA, this project, SAP (PIK-PAC) BAIO Solution, has been Designed and Developed for Packaging industries. This Package, PIK-PAC, is monitored and controlled from start to end point and Certified by the SAP America. This SAP ECC 6.0 Package Contains FI/CO, PS, MM, SD and PP modules. In this project I was involved in designing, configuration and testing SAP FICO Modules.
Responsibilities:
· Studied and Analyzed the existing Packaging industry( i.e. Folding Cartons Packaging and Corrugated Packaging) Business Processes and functionalities and challenges , performed gap analysis and closed the gaps by providing appropriate solutions, prepared the Scope and business blue print document and RICEF document for SAP FI/CO Modules, configured and customized the SAP FI/CO functionality, unit test and integration testing.
· In GL (New), configured the activities such as defined Co-Cd, Chart of accounts, account groups, Fiscal year variant, field status variant, field status groups, document number range, posting period variants, open and closing posting periods, Real-time integration of controlling with Financial Accounting, assign variants for real-time integration to Co-Cd, Document Splitting, Gl postings, Sales tax/use tax, integration of GL with MM and SD modules and so on. I was involved in GL period ending and year ending operations such as Recurring entries, Interest calculations, Closing and Opening Posting periods, enter accrual/deferral docs, GR/IR clearing Accounts, Financial statement versions, Balance sheet and P&L reports, Balances carry forward, GL Postings, Tax reports and so on.
· In AP(Procure-to-Pay), AR(Order-to-Cash), Credit Management and Cash Management configured the activities such as Vendor master record, customer master record, recurring entries, automatic payment program, Down payments, house banks, credit management, manual Bank Statement and so on. I was involved in AP, AR, CM Postings, reports such as Cash position and Liquidity forecasting, period ending year ending closing operations such as recurring entries, , balances carry forwards, balances confirmations, regrouping Receivables/ payables and so on.
· In Asset Management, configured and Customized by Created and maintained fixed assets, defined the depreciation areas for all Asset classes, maintained control parameters for all asset classes such as Account determination, number range, screen layout rules, defined period control, depreciation key and calculation keys. Created Asset master records. Down payment to Assets under construction, settlement of an asset under construction, posting Asst postings, posting Post-Capitalization, Posting transfer of assets, posting of asset retirement with/ without revenue, Periodic posting of depreciation, end user training, reports and so on.
· In CEL and CCA, IO configured the primary and secondary cost elements, CE groups, Standard Cost center Hierarchy, CC groups, activity types, SKFs, Activity type price planning rates, Planning and budgeting, allocation of activities to WBS elements and so on. I was involved in CCA period ending operations such as periodic reposting, distributions, assessments, settlement of WBS cost to Cost center and so on. I was involved in IO for creating capital orders, overhead orders and settlement to AUC and Cost centers respectively.
· In product Costing, (CO-PC) MTO, configured and customized the Standard Sales Order Cost estimates ( with Material Variant Configuration) with Quantity Structure and Configured the costing sheets, Costing variants, costing type, Valuation variants requirement Class for standard sales order cost estimates with valuated Stock and planned and actual manufacturing orders, cost component structure, and executing CO-PC period ending activities such as overhead calculations, WIP calculations, Variance calculations, settlements of orders, display reports and so on.
· In Profit center accounting Configured and customized the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, segments, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, assessments, distributions etc. Assigned Profit center to the respective cost centers, material master records, sales orders, and fixed assets. Transfer the revenue elements, balance sheet items to Profit center accounting in profit center hierarchy. Created and displayed profit center reports from the management perspective in FI module..
· In Profitability analysis (CO-PA), created the operating concern, configured the costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the characteristics, value fields Profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Configured the derivative structures and rule for user defined characteristics. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-PC/FI/MM. Defined valuation strategy assigned to point of valuations. Set up Valuation using Material Cost estimate,, Created the actual and Planned assessments, Revenue planning, created the customer wise, Segment wise and product wise profitability Form reports and so on...
Client: New Era Caps., NY November 2007 to March 2009
SAP FI/CO-PC Configuration Consultant.
This project involved in implementing SAP ECC 6.0 FI/CO, MM, SD, PP and BI modules.. In this project I was involved in SAP GL, AR, AP, AM, CCA, IO, CO-PC, CO-PA, EC-PCA Modules.
Responsibilities:
· Analyzed the existing system for an ‘as is – to be’ study; gathered functional requirements through user workshops, performed gap analysis and closed the gaps by providing appropriate solutions, prepared the business blue print document and RICEF document for SAP FI/CO Modules, configured and customized the SAP FI/CO functionality, unit test and integration testing and Data Conversions using LSMW tool.
· In GL(New), configured the activities such as defined CO-Cd, Chart of accounts, account groups, Fiscal year variant, field status variant, field status groups, document number range, posting period variants, open and closing posting periods, Document splitting, Real-time integration of CO with FI, Gl postings, Sales tax/use tax, integration of GL with MM and SD modules and so on. I was involved in GL period ending and year ending operations Financial statement versions, Balance sheet and P&L reports, Balances carry forward, GL Postings, Tax reports and so on.
· In AP(Procure-to-pay), AR(Order-to-cash), Credit Management and Cash Management configured the activities such as Vendor master record, customer master record, recurring entries, automatic payment program, Down payments, cross cocd transactions such as central company purchases, Central company Payments and intercompant sales and billing, house banks, credit management Configuration and reporting, manual Bank Statement and so on. I was involved in AP, AR, CM Postings, period ending year ending closing operations such as recurring entries, , balances carry forwards, balances confirmations, regrouping Receivables/ payables and so on.
· In Asset Management, configured and Customized by Created and maintained fixed assets, defined the depreciation areas for all Asset classes, Created Asset master records. Down payment to Assets under construction, settlement of an asset under construction, posting Asst postings, posting Post-Capitalization, Posting transfer of assets, posting of asset retirement with/ without revenue, Periodic posting of depreciation, end user training, reports and so on..
· In CEL and CCA, IO configured the primary and secondary cost elements, CE groups, Standard Cost center Hierarchy, CC groups, activity types, SKFs, Activity type price planning rates, Planning and budgeting, allocation of activities to WBS elements and so on. I was involved in CCA period ending operations such as periodic reposting, distributions, assessments, settlement of WBS elements to Cost center and so on. I was involved in IO for creating capital orders, overhead orders and settlement to AUC and Cost centers respectively.
· In product Costing, (MTO), configured and customized the Standard Sales Order Cost estimates(Valuated stock) with Quantity Structure(with Material Variant Configuration) and Configured the costing sheet, calculation bases, planned and actual overhead percentages, Costing variants, costing type, Valuation variants for standard Sales order cost estimates, planned and actual manufacturing orders, cost component structure, and was involved in CO-PC period ending activities such as overhead calculations, WIP calculations, Variance calculations, settlements of orders.
· In Profitability analysis (CO-PA), created the operating concern, configured the costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the characteristics, value fields Profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Configured the derivative structures and rule for user defined characteristics. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-PC/FI/MM. Defined valuation strategy assigned to point of valuations. Set up Valuation using Material Cost estimate,, Created the actual and Planned assessments, Revenue planning and forecasting, created the customer wise, Profit center wise and product wise profitability Form reports and so on
· In Profit center accounting (EC-PCA) Configured and customized the basic settings, created master data for profit centers, Profit center groups, dummy profit centers, profit center hierarchy, assessments, distributions etc. Assigned Profit center to the respective cost centers, material master records, sales orders, and fixed assets. Transfer the revenue elements, balance sheet items to Profit center accounting in profit center hierarchy. Created and displayed profit center reports from the management perspective.
· Involved in unit testing and integration testing scenarios,user accepting testing and prepared configuration documents, unit and integration testing documenting for various scenarios Quality Center tool, end user training to power users and end users and research and resolve post production support issues on all FICO modules.
Client: Lannett Pharmaceuticals PA. April 2006 to October2007
SAP FI/CO-PC Configuration
This is a Pharmaceutical Company implemented SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7 FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, PS QM and BW modules. I was involved in Configuration, production support, testing and documenting for GL, AR, AP, AM, CO-CEL, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PC, PS and CO-PA Modules.
Responsibilities:
· I was Involved in configuration, Unit testing, integration testing, documenting BPPs(using info pak), transportation, providing specifications to ABAP Programmers for reports and production support issues relating to GL, AR, AP, AM, CE, CCA, IO, COPA, CO-PC and so on
· In GL, involved in Configuration, testing, transporting and resolving production support issues relating to GL master records, document postings, integration with MM and SD transactions and GL balances reporting. Preparing Specifications to the ABAP programmers to create new reports or modify the existing reports.
· In AP/AR and CM, involved in Configuration, testing, transporting and resolving production support issues relating to Customer Master Records, Vendor Master Records, automatic payment program, posting documents, multicurrency configuration and valuation, Special GL transactions, MM-Invoice verification, SD-Billing, Cash Journal, Lockbox, EBS, Cash position and so on.
· In Fixed assets management, involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving Production support issues relating to Asset Master records, depreciation, business transactions, postings, repots and so on.
· In CE, CCA and IO, involved in configuration, testing, transporting and resolving production support issues relating to creation of Cost elements, Cost centers, Internal orders, Creation of budget versions, Activity allocations to WBS elements, assessments, distributions, repostings, Settlement from WBS elements from PS, reports and so on.
· In CO-PA, involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving production support issues relating to creation of characteristics, value fields, assigning value fields, flows of actual values, profitability segments, Planning , reports and so on.
· In CO-PC, involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving production support issues relating to Standard Cost estimate, Cost object controlling, period ending activities, reports and so on.
Client: Pacific Gas & Electric Company, CA. July 2005 to February 2006
SAP FI/CO Consultant
The client, Pacific Gas and Electric is one of the largest utility companies in the nation. I was involved in configuration, data cleansing/migration and production Support in SAP 4.6c FI/CO modules.
Responsibilities:
· I was Involved in system configuration, Unit/integration testing, transports and production support issues relating GL, AP, AR, AM, PCA and CCA sub modules.
· In GL, engaged in resolving production support issues relating to GL master records, document postings, integration with MM and GL balances reporting. Preparing specifications to the ABAP programmers to modify the existing reports.
· In AP/AR, involved in configuration, testing, and production support issues relating to purchase order, goods receipt, invoice verification, vendor master records, terms of payment,, automatic payment program, posting documents, Cross CoCd transactions, Special GL transactions, Billing, incoming payments, Credit Management, lockbox, EBS Statement and so on
· In Fixed assets management involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving Production support issues relating to Asset Master records, depreciation, business transactions, postings, repots and so on.
· In CE and CCA involved in configuration, testing, and support issues relating to creation of Cost elements, Cost centers, Internal orders, Creation of budget versions, assessments, distributions, repostings, reports and so on.
· I was involved in identifying and cleaning up the duplicate SAP FI/CO Customized Reports.
Client: Zellweger Analytics, IL. September2004 to June 2005
SAP FI/CO/CO-PC Team lead
This project involved in implementing SAP R/3 4.7 FI/CO, MM, SD, PP and QM modules.. In this project I was involved in all phases through business blue print, to go live for GL, AP. AR, CM, AM, CO-CEL, CO-CCA, CO-PC, CO-PA modules.
Responsibilities:
· Analyzed the existing system for an ‘as is – to be’ study; gathered functional requirements through user workshops, performed gap analysis and closed the gaps by providing appropriate solutions, prepared the business blued print document, Data Conversions using LSMW tool. and Documenting BPPs using Info Pak tool..
· Configured and demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios based on the business requirements of the client.
· In GL, configured the activities such as defined CO-Cd, Chart of accounts, account groups, Fiscal year variant, field status variant, field status groups, document number range, posting period variants, open and closing posting periods, Gl postings, Sales tax/use tax with vertex tax software, integration of GL with MM and SD modules and so on. Executed the GL period ending and year ending operations.
· In AP and AR, configured the activities such as Vendor master record, customer master record, Credit master, recurring entries, Multicurrency currency config and Valuation, automatic payment program, Down payments, house banks, Automatic credit control, Credit Reporting, lockbox, manual bank statement and so on. Performed the AP, AR period ending and year ending closing operations.
· In Asset Management, configured and Customized by Created and maintained fixed assets, Created Asset master records. Down payment to Assets under construction, settlement of an asset under construction, posting Asst postings, posting Post-Capitalization, Posting transfer of assets, posting of asset retirement with/ without revenue, Periodic posting of depreciation, end user training, after go-live supports, reports and so on.,
· In CEL and CCA, configured the primary and secondary cost elements, CE groups, Standard Cost center Hierarchy, CC groups, activity types, SKFs, Activity type price planning rates and so on.I involved in CCA period ending operations such as periodic repostings, distributions, assessments and so on.
· In Profitability analysis (CO-PA), created the operating concern, configured the costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the characteristics, value fields, Product hierarchy, Profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Configured the derivative structures and rule for user defined characteristics. Configured the flow of information from SD/CO-CCA/CO-PC/FI/MM.. Defined valuation strategy assigned to point of valuations. Set up Valuation using Material Cost estimate,, defined planning Layout, maintained the forecast profile,, planned allocations CCA to CO-PA, Created the Plan assessments, created the customer wise and product wise profitability reports and so on.
· In product Costing (CO-PC), configured and customized the Standard Cost estimates with Quantity Structure, costing sheet, Valuation variants, Costing variants period ending activities such as overhead calculations, WIP calculations, Variance calculations, settlements of process orders, cost estimate updates, costing run, mark and, release for updating the price in material master record, display reports and so on
· Involved in test script preparation for FI/CO modules, unit testing and integration testing scenarios and prepared configuration documents.
Client: Pioneer Electronics, CA. June2003 to August 2004
SAP FI/CO Consultant.
This project involved implemented SAPR/3 4.6c, BW, APO, SEM and CRM. I was involved in Configuration, Customization and production support on SAP R/3 FI/CO modules.
Responsibilities:
· Involved in configuration, Unit testing, integration testing, transportation, providing specifications to ABAP Programmers for reports and production support issues relating GL, AR, AP, AM, CE, CCA, IO, COPA, EC-PCA, Credit management and so on
· In GL, involved in Configuration, testing, transporting and resolving production support issues relating to GL master records, document postings, tax settings with Taxware, integration with MM and SD transactions and GL balances reporting. Preparing Specifications to the ABAP programmers to create new reports or modify the existing reports.
· In AR/AP and Cash management involved in Configuration, testing, transporting and resolving production support issues relating to Customer Master Records, Vendor Master Records, posting documents, multicurrency configuration and valuation, Special GL transactions, Cross company code business transactions, Credit management, Lockbox, EBS, Cash position and Liquidity forecasting, MM-Invoice verification, SD-Billing, Cash management and so on.
· In Fixed assets management, involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving Production support issues relating to Asset Master records, depreciation, business transactions, postings, repots and so on.
· In CE, CCA and IO, involved in configuration, testing, transporting and resolving production support issues relating to creation of Cost elements, Cost centers, Internal orders, Creation of budget versions, assessments, distributions, repostings, reports and so on.
· In CO-PA involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving production support issues relating to creation of characteristics, value fields, assigning value fields from SD condition types, profitability segments, Value flows from SD, MM, CCA, CO-PC, reports and so on.
· In CO-PC involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving production support issues relating to Standard Cost estimate, period ending activities, reports and so on.
· In EC-PCA involved in configuration, testing, transportation and resolving production support issues relating to production centers, assignments, repostings, reports and so on.
Srikari Management Consultants Pvt.Ltd., India April 1991 to December 2002
Senior Finance, Cost and management Accounting consultant
SMCPL is the one of the outstanding professional Management consulting Company in India. Its clients include various manufacturing and service industries. I was involved various activities such as
· Conducted Cost and management audits, stock valuations and designed MIS reports and providing business solutions to the management.
· Prepared Income Statements, Balance Sheet and statements showing cash flow and financial condition for the group of companies.