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Nrupen Pati

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Last update: 06.09.2022

Senior Consultant

Company: Tech Mahindra
Graduation: B.Tech
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Full Professional)

Attachments

nrupen-profile_fico.doc

Skills

SAP-FI  FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-BL, FI-TAX,
SAP CO - Product Costing (MFG & Process), COPA, CCA, PCA IO 
Integration: SAP CO with  PP and PS,
SAP FI with SD and  MM

Project history

06/2016 - 08/2021
Senior consultant SAP FI
Cooper Standard

Team Size : 04
Area of work : SAP-FI
Environment : Config, Quality and PRD
Tools : SAP ECC 6.0, Consol, HP-ALM
Role : Senior consultant SAP FI

Client Profile: Cooper Standard is a leading global supplier of systems and components for the
automotive industry. Products include rubber and plastic sealing, fuel and brake lines, fluid
transfer hoses and anti-vibration systems.
Purpose of This Project: This is a roll out project carried out for Mexico, Canada, and one company
code for USA.

Responsibilities:
* Taken primary responsibility for core extension of company codes with respect to new business
processes.
* Analyzing the gaps and mapping the business requirement for different functionalities w.r.t
different regions like EU, China and North America.
* Worked in plant abroad functionality, China Golden Tax system, FX valuations, Taxation and VAT
ledger report for Czech Republic, China banking, CZ banking etc.

11/2019 - 09/2020
SAP FICO Solution Architect
Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd (BFW)

Team Size : 03
Area of work : SAP-FICO
Environment : Dev, Quality and PRD
Tools : SAP S4 HANA FICO (Green Field Implémentation)
Role : SAP FICO Solution Architect

Client Profile:
We exist to enable progress. We build machine tools that help build other machines. Every machine
tool created helps create machines that manufacture products that improve the quality of life, and
progress of mankind.

Responsibilities:
* Worked as a solution architect in this project
* Documented as-is and to-be processes in finance and controlling
* Customized product costing and COPA
* Worked the integration with PP and PS
* Defined functional business requirements
* Identified RICEFWs to meet the requirements.
* GL identification and restructuring. Identified GAPs in different areas like AP, AR, tax etc..
* Prepared KDS for FI and CO.
* Prepared user training documents in CO.
* Prepared cut-over strategy and migration activities.

07/2018 - 11/2019
SAP FICO Lead Consultant
USL (Diageo)

Team Size : 04
Area of work : SAP-FICO
Environment : Dev, Quality and PRD
Tools : SAP ECC 6.0
Role : SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Client Profile: Diageo India is the country's leading beverage alcohol company with an outstanding
collection of premium brands across spirits and wines - a built on the principles and foundations
laid by the giants of the industry.
Responsibilities:
* Leading the FICO team.
* Working in all development works/CRs.
* Handling new company code roll-out as well as plant roll-out (to complete config settings,
support SIT, cut-over activities, hypercare support)
* MEC activities (Related to product costing as per MEC, creating costing run, determining
material price, consumption revaluation, costing run, MAP update) etc.

09/2017 - 11/2019
Technical Advisory Consultant
IBM India Pvt. Ltd


01/2018 - 06/2018
SAP FICO Consultant
Gabriel India Pvt. Ltd.

Team Size : 01
Area of work : SAP-FICO
Environment : Config, Quality and PRD
Tools : SAP ECC 6.0
Role : SAP FICO Consultant

Client Profile: Gabriel India Limited is the flagship company of ANAND and a leading name in the
Indian Auto Component Industry. Established in 1961, the company provides the widest range of ride
control products in India, including Shock Absorbers, Struts and Front Forks, across every
automotive segment with over 300 product models on offer.

Responsibilities:
* Gathering the business requirement from core team and provide solutions
* Analyzing the issues with user and provide best solution
* Prepare the FS for new developments and creating CRs whenever required

09/2017 - 01/2018
SAP Technical Advisory
SAP-FSCM-BD

#4 Client : Maersk Line (built project) (IBM)
Duration : Sept 2017 to Jan 2018
Team Size : 07
Area of work : SAP-FSCM-BD
Environment : Config, Quality and PRD
Tools : SAP ECC 6.0, HP-ALM
Role : SAP Technical Advisory

Client Profile: Maersk Line is the global container division and the largest operating unit of the
Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. It is the world's largest container shipping company
having customers through 374 offices in 116 countries.

Responsibilities:
* Gathering the business requirement from BA and solution architect
* Analyzing the GAPs and fit the requirement in SAP-FSCM-BD (MyFinance)
* Design the blue print and FS
* Reviewing the solution and test cases etc.
* Hypercare support

06/2016 - 08/2017
Senior Consultant
Capgemini


01/2016 - 06/2016
Senior Associates consultant SAP FI
Mondelez

Team Size : 08
Area of work : SAP-FI-AP and COPA
Environment : Configuration, Development and Quality Server
Tools : SAP ECC 6.0
Role : Senior Associates consultant SAP FI
Client Profile: It is a multinational confectionery, food, and beverage conglomerate based in the
United States. Mondelez International manages snack brands worldwide, including cookies and
crackers, chocolate and gum and candy.

Purpose of This Project: Mondelez international is doing global roll out for its business. This time
the roll out has taken place for Uruguay, Chille and Argentina to support their business in SAP.

Contributions: I am working in FI-AP module and COPA module. I have designed and built the payment
and tax process for Argentina and Chille country. Also designed the COPA in the system to support
the business and integrated with SD module. MEC activities.

08/2014 - 12/2015
Senior Associates consultant SAP FI
CostCo

Team Size : 06
Area of work : SAP-FI- AA, GL
Environment : Configuration, Development and Quality Server
Tools : SAP ECC 6.0, HP-ALM
Role : Senior Associates consultant SAP FI

Client Profile: Costco Wholesale Corporation operates an international chain of membership
warehouses, mainly under the "Costco Wholesale" name, that carry quality, brand name merchandise at
substantially lower prices than are typically found at conventional wholesale or retail sources. The
warehouses are designed to help small-to-medium-sized businesses reduce costs in purchasing for
resale and for everyday business use. Individuals may also purchase for their personal needs.

Purpose of This Project:
The main aim of the project is to modernize the Finance, Human Resource, and Payroll applications
with components of SAP's ERP solution to support Costco's overall system modernization efforts and
strategic growth target of doubling in size over the next ten years.

Contributions:

Mainly I was part of FI-AA & GL team, being in this team my responsibilities were to understand the
business requirement for Asset accounting and General Ledger and to map or configure these
requirements into SAP ECC 6.0
In asset accounting the main configuration was FA Org. structure, FA Master Data, FA depreciation,
FA valuation, FA special valuation, FA production Startup, FA transactions, FA GL Integration, FA
Information systems.
Configured the ECC system for asset accounting w.r.t business scenarios.

FUT: FUT preparation-scripts and datasheets. Validated the asset accounting scenarios and ensured
the design is w.r.t FDs.
SIT: Involved in preparation of test scenarios for SIT1 and SIT2 and provided support to TDM team to
gather test data for quality checking in QA server execution. Fixed the defects raised by testing
team.

04/2014 - 07/2014
Coach

Team Size : 2
Area of work : SAP-FI-GL, AP, AA
Environment : Développent and Quality Server
Tools : BMC Service Desk
Role : Associate consultant SAP FI L3.1

Client Profile: Coach is an American leather goods company known for designer and maker of luxury
lifestyle handbags. It is a leading fashion goods company targeting the luxury market segment.
Coach's product offerings include: women's and men's bags, accessories, footwear, travel bags,
watches and fragrance, etc. Coach markets and sells its products under two brands-Coach and Reed
Krakoff ( RK ).
Coach has numerous vendors, known as Service Providers, who are responsible for manufacturing all
kinds of goods. Coach does not manufacture its products directly but is responsible for the
following activities: Designing the product, Raw Material supply management for Service Providers
from suppliers, tracking goods production, Inspection and Quality management, Cost estimation and
other business negotiation, Marketing/distribution, Warehouse management.

Responsibilities:
1-Understanding the business process, Configured APP for Korea CC, preparing of SMTD.
2- Supporting CCCA regions as well as Japan.
3- Preparing test master data of GL, AP and AA.
4- Reviewing test scenarios and incorporating the gaps and sending to SME's for client review.
5- Supporting testing team.

04/2011 - 07/2014
Associate Consultant
Wipro Technologies


04/2013 - 03/2014
Associate consultant SAP FI L2.2
PWC

Team Size : 04
Area of work : FI-GL, AP, AR, BA, CC config of 3 companies and P2P
Environment : Development and Quality, PRD
Tools : Progman
Role : Associate consultant SAP FI L2.2
Client Profile: Price Waterhouse Coopers or PWC is a service organization having network of firms
all over the World. In order to record its processes and operations, PWC has designed a system known
as GFS (Global Finance System) introduced in 2002.GFS is followed by Germany, UK, Netherlands,
France, Switzerland and USA. PWC Operations have been categorized by Lines of Service (LOS) as:
Advisory (F), Tax (T), Assurance (A) and Operations/ Firm Wide (Z). LOS is further broken in Sub
LOS, Sub LOS2, Sub LOS3 and Sub LOS4. LOS and Sub LOS are globally defined whereas rests are used
locally for internal analysis. Wipro supports GFS UK.

Responsibilities:

* Providing support for batch job monitoring
* Analyzing the impact of any job failure simultaneously validating of exchange rate
maintenance on daily basis.

* PEA [Period End Activities]

* Monthly reconciliation on various aspects (Finder Table Download, Accrual reversal, Fixed
Asset, Tax Uplift, Account Receivable, Bad Debt, WIP, Time hours)
* Investigating the root cause in case of variances between FI and BW data and proposing
solutions thereafter
* Synchronizing the job variants and posting periods as per the business scenario,
requirements.
* Primarily responsible for tickets from Account Receivables, Account Payables and General
Ledger area.
* Generally, all priority PR's in FI were handled except the showstoppers [Critical PR's] which
were handled by the onsite counterpart.
* Configuration of the master data for the company codes.
* Unit testing in the development server.
* Cutover activities after post to production
* Prepare functional specification for the object after initial interaction with the client.
* Unit testing of positive and negative scenarios related to the object.
* Functional testing involving more complex scenarios
* Sending for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and getting subsequent feedback from the client to
improve the functionality.

05/2012 - 03/2013
Team Member
National Grid

Environment : ECC 6.0, HP QC 10.0
Area of Works : SAP-FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, CCA, CEA,
Role : Associate consultant SAP FI L2.1

Client Description: National Grid's job is to connect people to the energy they use, safely. The
utility operates over 9,000 miles of electricity transmission and delivers electricity and natural
gas to areas of the Northeast states of US, serving over 3.3 million customers with electrical power
and 3.4 million customers with natural gas.

Contribution:
The project involved business study, configuration and implementation of SAP R/3 5.0 EE. The modules
implemented were SD, FI, CO, and MM, PP, PM. The implementation included generation of scope
documentation, freezing of ASAP business process and generation of business blue print.

Critical activities are:
* Configuration of FI settings which includes defining company, company codes, posting period
variant, fiscal year variant, document types, number ranges, field status, tolerance groups, etc
* Have configured GL, AP, AR, functionality. I utilized my expertise in defining GL accounts,
maintained the chart of accounts and account groups.
* Have configured Automatic Payment Program, House banks, Cross Company code transactions.
Configured and tested all the relevant business processes for the above application areas of FI in
integration with other modules.
Master data maintenance relating GL, A/P and A/R accounts

07/2011 - 04/2012
Team Member
Electrolux

Environment : ECC 6.0
Role : Associate consultant SAP FI L2.1

Project Description: Electrolux is a global leader in household appliances. The company focuses on
innovations that are thoughtfully designed, based on extensive consumer insight, to meet all needs
of
consumers. The program name is COMPASS which is an industrialized approach to roll-out the global
solution. This time it was designed for Italy. In every roll-out it focuses to build a new
requirement or gap. Focus on validating solution as opposed to designing or building new solution.

Responsibilities: As a part of Integration testing in FICO module, designed the test cases for
SAP-FI
sub-modules AR & GL. Executed business test E2E scenarios.
Given presentations to the entire testing team for SAP FICO overview and basics of GL.

Local Availability

Only available in these countries: India
Can travel for long term full time with pay change.

Other

If you want me to travel to out of India. Then I can travel for long term with pay scale change. And you have to take care of visa and all.
For Indian clients I am open to travel for short term.
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