Sr.SAP FICO
Consultant
Kiran Veera
Orlando, FL
E-mail: kiran.sap.2375@gmail.com
214-377-0789
SUMMARY
7+ years of strong functional
experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing,
document preparation, user training and production support in SAP FI/CO.
Ø Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring New
General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-AP, Accounts Receivable
FI-AR, Asset Accounting FI-AA & Special Purpose Ledger FI-SPL.
Ø Controlling module knowledge includes Cost Center Accounting
CO-CCA and Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA.
Ø Involved in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering,
developing Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration.
Worked on 2 full life cycle implementation and two production support projects.
Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling. Good
working knowledge in MM-FI and SD-FI integration.
Ø Comprehensive object analysis of the system using SPAD and
SPAU transactions in SAP System upgrades. Solid knowledge of Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles (GAAP), International Financial Reporting concepts (IFRS)
and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act.
Ø Performed Documentation for end users and provided end user
training
Ø Excellent Finance and Accounting knowledge with demonstrated
competence in Financial and Business Analysis knowledge developed while working
with different Clients.
Ø Worked extensively on unit testing, integration testing,
functional testing and user acceptance testing. Writing Test scenarios, Test
cases for all FI related transactions.
Ø Good Team Player, Strong Interpersonal, Organizational and
Communication skills.
SAP Expertise:
Ø Financial Accounting: General Ledger FI-GL, Accounts Payable
FI-AP, Bank Accounting FI-BA, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Credit Management,
Asset Accounting FI-AA, FI Treasury.
Ø Controlling: Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Overhead cost
Controlling CO-OM, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting, Cost Object
Controlling CO-OBA, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting,
Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Product Costing CO-PC.
Ø Legacy System Migration Workbench LSMW and conversion/load
methods like IDOCs, BAPIs, RFCs, Direct and Batch Programs.
Ø ASAP implementation methodology.
Technical Skills
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ERP Package: SAP (4.7, 5.0 & 6.0) FI/CO, SD
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Languages: JAVA, C, SQL
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Databases: Oracle, Excel, Access
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Others: SAP
Solution Manager, Rev-Trac, MS Office Suite & HP QC
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CHEP USA, FL
Jan11-present
SAP FICO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC
6.0
CHEP is Global Pallet Leader in pallet
and container business. It servers almost all types of the business across the
globe. CHEP handles pallet and container supply chain logistics for customers
in the consumer goods, produce, meat, home improvement, beverage, raw
materials, petro-chemical and automotive industries. CHEP is an Australia based
company with operations in more than 45 countries.
Responsibilities:
- Used the migration tool set LSMW and back office
conversion/load methods IDOCs, Direct and Batch Programs.
- In General Ledger(GL), configured/setup operative and
country specific chart of accounts and mapped to the Special ledgers
- In New GL worked on the activation of New GL
accounting, definition of ledger for GL Accounting, integrating the GL
with subcomponents, document splitting, segmentation and parallel
Accounting,
- In AR, worked on the Electronic Bank Statement (EBS),
payments from multiple customers and A/R aging
- Worked on Order to Cash business process -
creating Sales Order, Post Goods Issue (PGI), Billing and incoming
payment. Worked closely with SD team to integrate SD and FI modules.
- Created new reason codes for absorbing over and under
payments using partial and residual payments.
- In Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Made configurations for
entire Procure to Pay business process including – creating Purchase
Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification and Outgoing Payment.
- Worked closely with the MM team to configure Logistics
Invoice Verification (LIV) process in Accounts Payable (AP) to facilitate
3 way invoice matching.
- Configured automatic account determination for inventory
postings and goods movement in Accounts Payable (FI-AP).
- Created Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments
and invoice processing in FI-AP using checks. Configured House banks,
Payment Methods and tested the Payment Run.
- For month-end closing, assisted users in running the
Depreciation runs and in rectifying the errors during the depreciation
run.
- During month-end closing, executed asset balances
report, asset history report and the cost center report. Reconciled the
sub-ledger with general ledger.
- Helped the costing users with the month-end activities
like – assessments, WIP calculation, and result analysis.
- In Cost Center Accounting(CCA) and Internal Order
Accounting, worked on the master data, automatic account assignments,
validation and substitutions and budgeting and forecasting functionalities
JT Packard, WI
Jun10-Jan11
SAP FICO Functional Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0
JT Packard is an electrical company,
which manufactures battery and UPS for commercial use. It also provides support
and maintenance with field engineers spread across the country.
Responsibilities:
- Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the
project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, testing,
end-user training and go-live phases.
- Followed ASAP methodology in implementing the project
- In General Ledger (GL), created validation and substitution
rule in General Ledger to have better control over the postings.
- Accounts Receivable (AR) which includes Dunning,
Incoming payments settings, down payments procedure, credit management,
etc.
- In Accounts Payable (AP), worked on the down payments,
invoices and credit memos for regular, one-time, out of state and 1099
Vendors, Automatic Payment Program (APP), checks clearing and withholding
tax.
- In asset accounting, setup fixed asset structure -
Asset class, Depreciation areas, Chart of Depreciation & Asset master
data.
- Maintained depreciation key, defined declining balance
method, multi-level methods of depreciation calculation.
- Worked closely with SD and MM teams for integrating
them with FI.
- In PCA, created Profit Centers with hierarchy including
dummy profit centre. Defined Number Ranges for documents.
- Configured the basic settings for distribution,
assessment of actual and plan costs.
- Also worked on expense accounts, revenue accounts for
realized exchange rate difference differentiated the accounts by currency,
exchange rate gains and exchange rate losses and then posted to separate
accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations.
- Uploaded legacy assets into SAP in the middle of the
fiscal year using LSMW and CATT Made GL journal entries for the uploaded
assets and reconciled the GL and Sub Ledger.
- In Project Systems (PS) defined the Project coding
mask, created the project file and status profile. Maintained the budget
profiles and tolerance limit for the availability control.
Tenneco Inc, IL
May08-Jun10
SAP FI CO Consultant
Environment: ECC 5.0
Tenneco is one of the world’s leading
suppliers of automotive emission control and ride control products and systems
for the automotive original equipment market and after the market.
Responsibilities:
- Extensively worked on Customer Master Records, Client
Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox, Dunning and Payment Methods.
- Worked on foreign currency exchange rate and valuation,
GR/IR clearing account and automatic clearing.
- Configured terms of payment, incoming and outgoing
invoice, incoming and outgoing payment.
- Worked on Customer Cash Discount Overview and Credit
Limit Display
- Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees,
Customers and Vendors and Maintained Initial settings for Recurring
Entries.
- Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a
separate screen layout for them. Created account assignment models for
recurring entries.
- Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the
Credit Management.
- Used Dunning to send letters, ranging from gentle
remainders to legal notices, to customers from whom the receivables are
due in Accounts Receivables (FI-AR).
- Set up the Integration of FI with MM and SD through
Automatic Account Assignment.
- Responsibilities in CO module:
- Extensively worked in controlling modules including,
Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting.
- Internal Order Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
- Created Training Scripts for the MM, FI and CO modules.
Script development included MM Procurement processes; FI-GL Account
Maintenance, Journal Processing, General Ledger processing and Financial
Statements; and CO-CE creation, assignments and reporting; CO CCA object
creation, assignments and Reporting; CO-IO and reporting.
- Detected and resolve configuration errors in FI-AM for
asset transfers.
- Provided project organization and work planning inputs
to local level project managers for flow of Training Script development
and progress reporting to Management.
- 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.
Tarrant County, TX
Apr07-Mar08
FICO Consultant
Environment: FI, CO, MM, Version R/3 4.6C
Tarrant County is one of the fastest
growing counties in the State of Texas. The county has an estimated population
of 730,000 with about 93 people moving in every day.
Responsibilities:
- Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the
project; including blue-print preparation, configuration, testing,
end-user training and go-live phases.
- Deigned, configured and tested the Procure-to-Pay
process in SAP R/3 to replace non-integrated, incongruent legacy systems,
and eliminate redundancy, and to allow the county government to take
advantage of vendor discounts.
- Set up Vendor Account Groups including One-Time
Vendors, discussed options on the Vendor Master Data, and reviewed legacy
master data, provided data cleansing logic, set up LSMW, and verified
loaded master data.
- Created Tolerance Groups for AP and Tolerances for
Purchasing, Goods Receipt and Invoice Receipt.
- Configured new Payment Terms including Installment
Payment Terms for retentions in the case of contracts.
- Defined special GL accounts for Vendor Down Payments.
- Set Valuation Control, assigned Valuation Area
Grouping, defined Valuation Classes, configured Automatic Postings for
Goods Movements and Taxes, and set up parameters and default values for
Invoice Verification.
- Configured the Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing
Payments, defined accounts for Cash Discounts, Rounding Differences, Bank
Charges, defined Payment Block Reasons and default values. Defined
Tolerances, Reason Codes, and accounts for Payment Differences for Manual
Outgoing Payments.
- Configured F.13 and MR11 for automatic GR/IR clearing.
- Set up the Extended Withholding Tax functionality in
SAP.
- Provided a list of standard SAP reports and developed
custom reports using Report Painter.
- Unit tested the configuration, tested the
Procure-to-Pay scenario and conducted a walk-through session for
end-users, and verified integration with GL, AR, AA, MM, and CO.
- Trained end-users on FI, CO.
Syscom Technologies, India
Oct05-Aug06
Business Analyst
Client: Century Aluminum produces
various aluminum products. It produces molten, ingot, extrusion bullet and
rolled aluminum products. The company has a total capacity of 615,000 of
primary aluminum and has direct interest in three plants in America.
Responsibilities in FICO module:
- Extensively worked on vendor master records.
- Client Specific Payment Terms and Payment Methods.
- Configured cross company code transactions, line item
display, and open item processing for G/L.
- Clearing open items, automatic payment and dunning
program for the client.
- Responsibilities in CO module:
- Configured settings for Controlling Area and maintained
Versions.
- In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and
Secondary Cost Elements, worked on Automatic, Manual cost element creation
and reconciliation ledger.
- Configuration in Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA)
included creation of cost center hierarchy and cost center groups,
distribution cycle set up; planned as well as actual.
- Configuration of activity types and planning them on
different cost centers, configuration of the system for planned and actual
activity price calculations.
- In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers,
activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy,
cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account
assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and
substitutions, distribution and assessment.
- In cost center planning developed planning area,
planning layout and planner profile.
- Created Internal Order, Order Groups, Budgeting,
Corrected Entry Errors and Reposted
Transactions.
- In Profit Center Accounting maintained the master data,
planning, actual postings and period end closing.
