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V. S.
Location	Chicago, IL
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Skills: Accounts-Accounts Payable/Receivable, Accounts-General Ledger, Banking-Credit Management, Finance-Cash Management, IT-Asset Management, IT-Business Analyst, IT-EDI, IT-Marketing, IT-Purchasing, IT-Research, IT-SAP CO, IT-SAP R/3, IT-Training, Business Analyst, SAP
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Summary
v Extensive knowledge of SAP R/3 FI/CO module with over 5 years of SAP experience. 
 v Strong understanding of the business processes (P2P and OTC), project planning, technology, and translation of business requirements into SAP solutions.
 v Expertise in business process improvement, SAP ASAP methodology systems design development and full SAP R/3 Life Cycle implementation. 
 v Experience in data migration from legacy to SAP and scripts, ABAP Queries, Report Painter and Report Writer.
 v Competent in presentation, documentation, training and support with excellent knowledge transfer skills. 
 v An active team player with strong communication skills and positive attitude. Highly motivated and hard working.
 v Extensive experience with Documentation , Testing and Training.
 

Certifications
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Experience
IMG
 Cleveland
 SAP Financial Consultant                                                                                July05-Sept 2005
 
 IMG is the world’s premier sports and lifestyle management and a marketing firm with more than 70 offices in 30 countries.
 
 Responsibilities in FI module: AR
 
 · Configured lockbox settings for US and AUS and implemented Electronic Bank Statement.
 · Worked closely with the ABAP team, provided necessary functional specs and used user exits to configure for the one lockbox multiple company receivables scenario for the US lockbox.
 · Provided functional Specs to the ABAP team for converting the HSBC CSV collection report file to the BAI-II format for the Australian lockbox setup.
 · Configured the Electronic Bank Statement settings for all the HSBC accounts and used SWIFT MT940 file format.
 · Created transaction types and posting rules, assigned bank accounts to transaction types and mapped external transaction types to posting rules.
 · Used substitution rules to populate the text field for the lockbox and Electronic bank statements.
 · Developed test scenarios/test cases, created test files and performed unit and integration testing, resolving the issues.
 · Developed documentation for business process procedure, relevant configuration and SAP processes and provided knowledge transfer to super users.
 
 FRESHdirect
 New York
 SAP FICO Business analyst                                                                                  Aug 04- July05
 
 FRESHdirect is hired New York*s food experts. It provides food directly from farms, dairies and fisheries. Worked as a member of a team of 2 developers researching, implementing, integrating FI, SD and MM modules and provided production support.
 
 Responsibilities in FI module: GL, AP, AR   AA
 
 · Created sample accounts, configured field status groups, document types, posting keys, reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods and cross-company code transactions.
 · Configured tax procedures (TAXUSJ) at the county level, created test scripts and worked with ABAP programmers to customize client’s tax reporting needs.  
 · Defined customer and vendor groups and created reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers.
 · Worked with MM   SD teams to configure automatic account assignments.  
 · Configured EDI process for automating PO, G/R and IV via LIV (MM) module using MIRO screen and prepared demo for end-users to show how an invoice verification process would be automated via EDI. 
 · In accounts payable, created house banks and related bank accounts and configured settings for bank operations. Configured automatic payment program that included: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, variants for printing, creating proposal to check printing, wire transfer settings, ACH payments, Dunning Notices.
 · In Treasury, worked on Lockbox process configuration, maintaining the exchange rates, bank statement processing, Cash management to monitor payment flows and liquidity and also worked on client’s lockbox banks to validate the inbound files.
 · In accounts receivable configured payment terms, cash discounts, settings for interest calculation and automatic clearing of line item. Configured credit management, created credit control areas, configured risk categories, credit rep groups and pre-defined credit limits for customers. Made settings and defined reason codes for Special G/L transactions like Down Payments, Over/Under Payments.
 · Integrated Asset Accounting, Created Asset Master and customized asset creation screens.
 · Involved in the design of Asset Class, Charts of depreciation, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, depreciation run, and Asset settlement.
 · Configured Asset Depreciation, settings for low value assets, assets under construction, Inter company asset transfer. Configured controls for different FA transactions like Acquisition, Transfer, and Retirement etc.
 · Configured Asset management for tax purposes.
 · Developed test scenarios/test cases, resolved issues in unit testing, integration, system testing and provided support during the roll-out phase.
 
 Responsibilities in CO module: CCA, IO, PCA   COPA
 
 · In CO implemented Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit centers, Overhead Cost Controlling and costing based profitability analysis.
 · Integrated and tested different CO modules and provided end user training.
 · In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes.
 · Configured Cost center and Profit Center Hierarchies, cost center groups and attached work centers to cost centers.
 · Defined substitution rules at sales order level to derive right profit center based on agency, location and division.
 · Defined and configured planned and actual activity types, statistical key figures on different cost centers, configuration of the system for planned and actual activity price calculations. Configured direct and indirect activity allocations.
 · Internal Order Implementation for research and development projects. Created Internal Orders, Order types, Order Groups.
 · Defined the Planning Profile and Settlement profile for Internal orders. Maintained the budget profile for the orders and created settlement profile to settle them finally to respective cost centers.
 · Created Periodic reposting cycle for allocation of costs, implemented assessment, distribution and reposting cycles using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting and configured accounts for automatic reconciliation postings.
 · Set up costing based profitability analysis, characteristics, value fields, derivation using table look ups and derivation rules, valuation using condition types and costing sheets, and field catalog, integration of FI, CO and SD interfaces to profitability analysis.
 · Created the characteristics and value fields based on the report requirements, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis. Maintained the derivative structures and rule for characteristics derivation.  
 · Defined basic reports to see the operating profit for the specific division and form reports to display the profit contributions of specific products and customers.
 · Created user defined reports using Report Painter and Report Writer in PCA and CCA.
 
 
 
 
 Fonda Group
 Valhalla, NY
 SAP FICO Business Analyst                                                                              April 03 – July 04
 
 Fonda Group is a world class manufacturer in plastic and paper packaging. They are one of the world’s largest producers of thermoformed plastic containers, a major manufacturer of injection-molded products, and a leading paper container supplier.  Worked as a team member for implementation, analysis, testing   production support in FICO.
 
 Responsibilities in FI module: GL, AP, AR   SL
 
 · Maintained condition types, access sequences, access codes and calculation procedures for different tax types.
 · Configured and tested Vertex interface software (for sales/use tax) and configured sales/use tax accounts for automatic account assignments.
 · Created Vendor and Customer Groups and worked with SD and MM functional team to ensure that account determination met all requirements.
 · Configuration in Accounts Payable for Incoming invoices, Automatic payments, Payment Run. Responsible for defining House banks and creating bank accounts. Defined separate house banks for check transactions and electronic transactions (Lockbox).
 · Configured G/L accounts for Electronics Bank Statement (EBS).
 · Worked on Inbound and Outbound IDOC*s for EDI transactions, Purchase orders, Purchase order acknowledgment, Purchase order change, Airfreight Details   Invoice.
 · In accounts receivable configured customer master data: Customer Group, Customer Field Status, and Creating Customer with reference. Configured credit control area, assigned credit control area to company code. Customized Terms of payment, Interest Calculation, Cash discount, baseline date, Reason codes. Configured and customized the Special GL transaction for Vendor and customer down payments and postings through reconciliation accounts.
 · Configured Special Purpose ledger (FI-SL) in realization phase for Global GAAP, Local GAAP and STAT Reporting and defined ‘Accounting Basis’ as an additional field in ledger determination, also Implemented validations and substitution rules in FI-SL according to the business requirements and worked with ABAP team in writing User exits. 
 · Configured Roll-up ledgers to get the summarized data and defined Roll-up field movements to extract data from sender tables.
 · Extensively used Report Painter, Report writer, Drilldown reporting. Tested the generation of reports in respect of account statements, special reports to reflect due-date-forecast analysis, purchasing/sales lists, open item analysis, balance Sheet and Profit and Loss account statements.
 
 Responsibilities in CO Module: CCA, IO, PC   PCA
 
 · Customized CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-Internal Orders   EC-PCA
 · Extensively worked on Creating, Configuring and Customizing Cost Elements, Cost Centers   Profit Centers
 · Defined primary cost elements, secondary cost elements and assigned them to cost centers.
 · Defined profit center hierarchy, cost center hierarchy and alternate hierarchies.
 · Defined statistical key figures, activity types, activity groups and customized direct and indirect activity allocations.
 · Creation of user defined planning layouts and planner profiles in PCA.
 · Configured Internal Orders (real and statistical) as controlling objects and customized Overhead Management using Internal Orders.
 · Configured Distribution and Assessment allocation cycles to carry out periodic allocations.
 · In Product Costing configured Standard cost estimate with quantity structure. Configured costing variant, valuation variant and costing sheets. Configured the cost component structures using the information from BOM and Route routing. Configured Origin of groups and overhead cost elements.
 · Configured planning and cost object controlling to calculate the variances and configured product cost using the product cost controllers.
 
 Oklahoma Gas   Electric
 Oklahoma City, OK
 SAP Controlling Consultant                                                                              Sept 02 – April 03
 
 OGE Energy Corp. with headquarters in Oklahoma City delivers electricity across an interconnected transmission and distribution system spanning 30,000 square miles. Areas of main concern were end user support including questions, reports, month-end closing, functional, and technical side of CCA, PCA, COPA and Product Costing.  
  
 Responsibilities in CO Module: CCA, PCA, PC   CO-PA
 
 · Customized Enterprise Cost center accounting, Profit center accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product costing and Drill down Reporting.
 · Customized Primary cost elements, secondary cost elements, cost centers, profit centers, cost center and profit center hierarchies.
 · Customized activity types, statistical key figures and implemented periodic allocations using the distribution and assessment cycles.
 · In Profitability Analysis configured both Costing based and Accounting based profitability Analysis, Reporting operating concern, characteristics, and value fields.
 · Defined derivation structures and rules. Maintained the derivation table and profitability segments.
 · Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA.
 · In Product Costing configured Planning and cost object controlling for calculation of Variances, Work in Process and Settlement of orders. 
 · In Product Cost Controlling configured material cost estimate with Quantity Structure costing variant, valuation variant, cost component split, costing sheets, cost component structure, BOM and routing settings, origin groups, overhead keys, and overhead groups.
 · In Cost Object controlling configured product cost by order which involved product cost collectors and cost object hierarchies.
 · Enhancing features such as inter company pricing and inter company stock transfer, complex freight situations and group conditions.
 · Update of inter-company processing and ECCS elimination entries related to the inter-company transactions with validation of entries in consolidated financial reports.
 · Implemented Multiple Reporting Ledgers for different currencies, valuation methods, and fiscal years; data from assessments and distributions in CO modules; planning data from CO modules; legal reporting; profit center reporting.
 
 Visioneer, Inc.
 Pleasanton, CA
 SAP Financial Consultant                                                                                   June 01 - Aug 02
 
 Visioneer is a world-class developer of intelligent imaging solutions. They provide hardware solutions for the distributed and desktop scanner markets, mobile and remote business scanning and storage segments. Responsibilities included both technical and functional coverage including responsibility for scope, design, configuration, testing and training for GL, Special Ledger, AR, AP, AM, CCA, and PCA.  
 
 Responsibilities in FI module: GL, AP, AR, AA   SL
 
 · Detailed hands-on configuration of financial module including organization structures, business processes and configuration of master data.
 · Created G/L master records and reconciliation accounts for sub ledgers.
 Configured cross-company code transactions and other processes in GL.
 · Configured Fiscal year Variants, Field status groups, Number ranges, Account groups, posting periods and configured Fiscal Year Variant with special periods for year-end closing.
 · Responsible for uploading vendor master data from the legacy system for over forty company codes using LSMW.
 · Configured and maintained tax accounts for VAT (Value Added Tax) Reconciliation.
 · Configured settings for Excise duty and VAT calculations on purchase and sales invoice.
 · Configured for automatic interest calculations on account balances/line items. 
 · Configured payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts, line item display and automatic clearing of line items.
 · Configured cross company code transactions and open item processing for G/L.
 · Configured and Customized Account Receivables and Account Payables modules.
 · Creation of vendor master records, customer master records, account groups, tolerance groups, default account assignments.
 · Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, terms of payment, house banks, bank accounts and invoice verification, down payments etc.
 · Configured and customized Special Purpose Ledgers by designing the structure, defining the tables, created the Master data of ledgers, activities and Field Movements. 
 · Worked with Standard Ledger and Special-Purpose Ledgers. In SL master records defined Field Transfer, Procedures, Posting Periods and Versions.
 · Implemented complete new Reporting Special Purpose Ledger for all FI/CO Fields with sequences and field exits. 
 · Used sets and functions in special-purpose ledgers and developed the reports required by using the report painter. Maintained the validations, substitutions and rules for special purpose ledgers.
 · Defined asset master records, asset classes, chart of depreciation using reference chart of depreciation and depreciation areas.
 · Defined custom depreciation keys with own control requirements. Configured screen layouts for asset master records.
 · Asset Accounting - Legacy asset data transfer, maintained asset master data acquisitions, retirements, transfers, revaluation of assets and depreciation run-planned, special and unplanned depreciation.
 
 Hetero Drugs 
 Hyderabad, India                                                                                                May 00 – June 01 
 
 Hetero is a leading manufacturer of commercializing products of variety of therapeutic categories. 
 
 Responsibilities in FI Module GL, AR   AP 
 
 · Configured settings for company code, business area, fiscal year variants and posting period variants. 
 · Created new financial statement versions, recurring items, house banks and bank accounts.
 · Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, posting period variants, Employee and vendor/customer tolerance groups, reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting periods, field status variants, document types and posting keys.
 · Configured Vendor and Customer master records, reconciliation account for sub ledger accounts.
 · Configured terms of payment, incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment, clearing open items, automatic payment, dunning program for the client, interest calculation and reason codes.
 · Configured automatic payment program – Country specific payment methods, Company code specific data, defined house banks, bank sub-accounts.
 · Configuration in Accounts Receivable for Customer invoices, Cross Company invoice posting, Credit/Debit memo, Incoming payments, Payment advice, Credit limits and credit management.
 · Configured credit control area, assigned credit control area to company code. Customized Terms of payment, Interest Calculation, Cash discount, baseline date, Reason codes. 
 · Configured and Customized the Credit Management (Credit Control Area) to manage the receivables in association with SD team including creation of Risk Categories, Credit rep groups.
 · Integrating/Configuring MM and SD Modules with FI.
 · Configured the system to handle various receivables scenarios (over, shorts, down payments, reversals and resets, credit memos and adjustments etc.). Verified and Tested GL transactions for business process (fast-entry screens, posting, parking, reversals, etc).
 

Education
Bachelors in Computer Science, JNTU, INDIA - 1999

Additional Informtation
SAP EXPERTISE
 v CO expertise includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting (CO-CEL), CO-Internal Orders (CO-IO). CO-Product costing (CO-PC), CO-Profitability analysis (CO-PA) and Profit center Accounting (EC-PCA). 
 
 v FI expertise includes General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Assets Accounting (FI-AA) and Special Purpose Ledger (SL). In-depth knowledge in configuring of Treasury including Funds Management (TR, FM), Cash Management (CM), Taxation Procedures - TAXUSJ, VAT configuration, interface configuration of third party software Vertex, Accounts payable and Accounts receivables, payment program, Lockbox, credit management, dunning, GR/IR account, logistics invoice verification and FI integration with other SAP modules particularly Materials Management (MM), Sales   Distribution (SD) and Project Systems (PS).
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