SAP FICO Consultant

FI/CO SKILLS

• FI-GL -- GL Master, posting, account balances, reporting, closing activities
• FI-AP -- Vendor Master, Automatic Payment Program, Check Management.
• FI-BL -- Bank Master, House Banks, Automatic payment program
• FI-AA -- Asset Master, Chart of Depreciation, Integration with GL, Valuation of assets, postings and reporting.
• Internal Orders- Master Data, Order Types, Postings, Settlements, closing activities.
• Cost Centre Accounting -- Cost Centre Master, Standard Hierarchy, Reporting, closing activities
• Proficient in FI-MM and FI-SD Integration mechanism
• Good understanding of all end-to-end Business processes (OTC, PTP)
• Knowledge of Withholding Taxes and Taxes on sales/Purchases.
• Ability to migrate legacy system data into SAP systems
• Knowledge in NEW GL and its concepts
• In-depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and development and gathering user requirements
• Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
• Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with  Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects
• Extensive experience in developing specifications for Custom Reports
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, Active member in conducting the team meetings, Customer feedback .
• Knowledge of the Business Process and ASAP Implementation Method.
• Knowledge on ABAP -Debugging, Tables, Structures, BDC, Reports, LSMW

Work Experience   : Dec’2013 – Till date
Project/Customer  : SAP FICO Application production Support – Telstra
Role                       : SAP Lead FICO Consultant – Application support
Employer               : HP Technology Pvt Ltd.
Environment          : SAP ERP R/3 ECC 6
 Client Information:
Telstra Corporation Limited is Australia's largest telecommunications and media company which builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other entertainment products and services.
Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business process of the client.
• Worked on Application Interface Framework (AIF) for monitoring different inbound & outbound interfaces.
• Worked on FI-PM-PS-AA integration for development of customized intercompany Asset transfer.
• Worked on Defects with various RICEFs
• Closely worked on integration of Asset Accounting with projects system module for resolution of issues.
• Involved in defining non leading ledger & testing of new depreciation area as per the IFRS compliance.
• Successfully uploaded Asset master data changes in QAS and Production system using LSMW’s & BDC’s.
• Co-ordinating the scheduled BATCH jobs and finding the spools and error logs, which are related to FICO & PS and updating accordingly in the enhancement.
• Critical flow monitoring of jobs on daily basis from Control M.
• Direct interaction with client team for daily reporting, status update, to understand enhancement requirement, feasibility and gap analysis.
• Resolved issues relating to processing of WBS & Fixed Asset settlement jobs as a part of regular monitoring.
• Developed a new utility program to update the incorrect dates of the Asset master.
• Solved issues relating to post capitalization of Assets in customized program.
• Preparation of documents for User Acceptance testing and sending it for business approval.
• Execution of FI year end activities & supported for fiscal year closure in Asset Accounting.
• Updating the (BRF+) rules Business Rule Framework.
• Monitoring of payment process on daily basis & Resolution of errors in payment to different banks.
• Successfully implemented outbound interface for updating commitment data in Marketing studio interface.
• For End user authorization creating and assigning the roles for PS module.
• Unit Testing and UAT.
• Preparing the end user manual
• Prepared Functional specification documents based
• Maintenance activities for different cost versions and cost planning functionalities
• Supporting production issues, and in providing solutions, Satisfied Customer Interaction. Issues have been solved with in SLA.
• Monthly meetings and discussed on requests which are met/not met SLAs.

Work Experience  : July’2013 – Nov’2013
Project/Customer : SAP FICO Application production Support – COCA-COLA
Role:                     :Technology Consultant – Development
Employer              : HP Technology Pvt Ltd.
Environment:        :SAP ERP R/3 ECC 6  .
        As part of the Interim project, I have been asked to work on a erport for which we have developed a AP query portal to create an extract for Vendor Invoice & Payment Data on daily basis to be sent to Supplier IQ Application.
This is existing functionality in COCA-COLA and is enabled for two regions I.e.NA and EU which pulls the sap . Currently we have extended this functionality to new 3 more regions (AFRICA, CPS-LA, CPS-EU)  as well as developed a new extract that pull the data which are not posted Vendor Invoice & Payment Data in sap.
Work Experience  : July. 2012 – June 2013
Project/Customer : SAP FICO Application production Support – MillerCoors
Role                      : Technology Consultant – Support
Employer              : HP Technology Pvt Ltd.
Environment: MillerCoors is a global company having significant  markets in     Caribbean and Asia. Major operations in the U.S. (CBC - Coors Brewing Company), Canada (Molson) and the UK (CBL - Coors Brewing Limited). Combined beer sales of more than 48 million hectoliters, or 41 million barrels (U.S.), Broad portfolio of over 40 brands with leading positions in key markets, Annual sales of approximately U.S. $5.6 billion, Over 10,000 employees worldwide.
Activities:

• Interaction with off-shore/onsite cross functional module consultants for resolution of the issues.

• Analyze the business requirements and propose solutions.
• Co-ordinate and ensure with ABAP team the developments are completed as per the ABAP standards within timelines
• Interact with the Key users and Business Experts to understand the scope of the requirements better and to provide a right solution.
• Trouble shooting the IDOC errors and fixing them accordingly
• Responsible for all upgrade activities (oracle upagrade regression testing) related to Finance and controlling area which includes cross functional (ABAP, MM, SD and FI).
• ABAP debugging and testing online application web applications.
• period end closing activities
• Preparing the Z reports according to client requirements.

• Preparing Scenarios for Integration Testing with other Modules

• Providing production support on 24/7 basis when there is a need, mainly on sev 2 issues.
• Online support for core users on day-to-day basis as per SLA

Jun. 2010
June 2012Project/Customer : SAP FICO Application Support – HP COMPASS
Role                      :SAP FICO Consultant (Technology Consultant)
Employer              : HP Technology Pvt Ltd.
Environment         : SAP R/3, COntrolling & Managing Projects And Services System (COMPASS), an SAP-based, world-wide integrated profitability management system.
Responsibilities:

• Provide global support (24x7) to various COMPASS users particularly for EMEA users across 45+ company codes.
• Handling support in the area of Finance – revenue recognition, fianance master data, project structure and maintenance.
• Have handled Tax ,foriegn exchange related issus as part of fall outs.
• Have handled other moduled issues related to HR, SD, MM & Security.
• I have handled issues with regards to COMPASS BW repoting
• Preparing reports for leadership teams on daily basis & Handling issue handover calles and also Participated in escalation calls when the issue’s are eacalted with respect to eQuate fall outs & Batch job fails.

Jan, 2009 – June,2010 Project/Customer: Implementation - Wimco Ltd, Mumbai
Role: SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0
Activity:  Prepared design specification for Bank related transactions such as House bank creation and Bank reconciliation, Automatic payment program, and AR related transactions
Responsibilities:

• Played as a FICO functional consultant in the full end to end implementation of the project. .
• Prepared the Functional Specific Documents (FSDs)  for the gaps identified and the interfaces with legacy systems and coordinating with the technical team during development.
• Played a key role in implementation of AP, AR, AA, Cost center accounting and Internal Orders, Investment management Involved in preparation of BPPs , UTs and Configuration documents.
• Solving the tickets raised by end users on severity basis.
• Knowledge sharing among team and cross module consultants
•  Configured exchange rate types.
• Involved in House bank configuration etc.
• Worked on Change requests and Maintenance tickets and updating the same
• Coordinated with Users during User acceptance testing and resolved various issues during UAT for obtaining sign off.
• Update all necessary documentation for any changes made to the application.
• Knowledge of the Business Process and ASAP Implementation Method.
• Knowledge on ABAP -Debugging, Tables, Structures, BDC, Reports, LSMW
• Data migration process.

NON SAP EXPERIENCE-FINANCE/ACCOUNTS
Jan, 2005 to Dec, 2006    
Worked as “Accountant” in Victory Financials, Bangalore.
Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Monthly Stock Statement for submitting Bank, Maintenance of Cash Book for Customers.
• Preparation of monthly Bank Reconciliation Statements.
• Preparing Creditors Details for MIS Data
• Preparing Debit and Credit Notes.
• Involved in finalization of Accounts.
• Involved in Year-End Closing Accounts and Statutory Audits.

Professional IT Experience:
             
        Organization            :  DXC Technology (HP Global Software, India)
         Duration                 :  July.2010 – till date
       Organization :  Bhilwara Infotech Ltd, India
       Duration                   :  June. 2010 – July.2010
       Organization :  Calypso Technologies, Bangalore, India
       Duration                   :  Jan. 2009 – June. 2010
       Organization :  Victory financials Bangalore, India
       Duration                 :   Jan. 2005 to Dec. 2007