SAP FICO

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

ERP Package:     SAP (4.7, 5.0 & 6.0) FI/CO, SD

Languages:         JAVA, C, SQL

Databases:          Oracle, Excel, Access

Others:                 SAP Solution Manager, Rev-Trac, MS Office Suite & HP QC

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.