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Basu Reddy

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Last update: 16.04.2024

SAP FICO S4 Hana Consultant/Berater

Graduation: Post graduate in Finance and business management
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Elementary) | English (Native or Bilingual)

Attachments

BASU-CV-DE_160424.docx
Project-History_160424.xlsx

Skills

*12+ years experience in SAP FICO (5 years in S4 Hana + Fiori app)
* Done SAP projects in 21 countries. 
*Total 45 projects completed -
16 Greenfield full end to end,
8 Upgrade,
12 Rollout
9 support

*Total of 30 projects finished in German cities like Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Walldorf, Wiesbadan, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg etc....  + Swiss & Austia and other non-EU.
*I am an EU Citizen, Available now fulltime + ready for travel 100%.
*Please see list of 45 project history (Excel sheet attached with CV)


Functional Task: Requirement gathering, collection of process documents, converting business needs into sap solutions, preparing AS-IS TO- BE (Blueprint document), preparing Business Process Master List- BPML, Cut-over stage activity, FI Transformation, Training end/key users, Preparing training materials, conducting UAT workshops onsite, RICEF and GAP Analyses. Leading a team of 5-6 FICO consultants. 


CONFIGURATIONS TASK:  

Finance: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts recievables, Fixed assets, Banking, Credit management, VAT Compliance reporting, FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-FA, FI-Bank (DMEE/MT940/EBS), E-invoice, DRC - Document reporting and compliance, SAF-T, Financial closing cockpit, FI intergration with other modules, FI Forms set up, FI reporting for month/year end closing, Audit.... etc. Revenue accounting configuration, contract management, BRF+ master data upload/correction, RAI item set up, Revenue posting reconciliation, RAR interface with other SAP/Non-SAP tools like CRM/Salesforce, RAR integration with COPA and SD data flow, Define Fulfillment types and POB’s, Design system as per ASC 606 and IFRS 15, Strong understanding of SD processes into RAR, month end/year closing reporting, preparing functional specifications, Technical design document and coordinating with ABAP team with testing and presenting solution to the client.
Controlling: Cost Element CO-CE, Cost center, CO-CCA, profit center CO-PCA, Internal Order IO with Budget control, CO-COPA (profitability or marginal analysis), Material Ledger CO-ML, Product Costing CO-COPC , Work in progress WIP calculation, Variance calculation, Inventory valuation, settlement of production/manufacturing/project/Service orders, solution design for MTO/STO/ETO scenarios and account determination set up OKB9 etc.
Project System: TECO/DLV, project order release, Revenue analysis, cost settlement, project FI report.
Services: GL, profit & Cost center assignment, Revenue recognition, cost settlement and reporting.
FSCM: financial supply chain management - creating BP, configuration of credit management, cash collection and Dispute management.  

SAP integration: FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-PP, FI-HR, FI-FSCM, FI-AA, Payroll, concur, banks like Deutchbank, JP morgan, HSBC etc. SD-FI-MM Integration: Full configurations, testing scenarios and work closely together with SD-MM team. 3rd Party application: integration of SAP with Concur, Payroll, HR, People's soft, Dolphin, Compass, Gov Tax portal, SAF-T, Bank systems etc.    

INTERFACE: Worked with PI team in building SAP interface and connecting sap to non-sap system via EDI/XML/IDOCS. Gov TAX portals like SDI & Banca Intesa - Italy, Banking - Deutsche, Danske, HSBC, Barclays Bank. Golden Tax - China, Diadoc - Russia, Medoc - Ukraine, Deutch bank etc.

Taxation/VAT : Document and Reporting Compliance, Einvoicing, electronic invoicing ( Zugferd, XML, Xrechnung, peppol interface), SAF-T, Golden tax, Debitex, Vertex etc.

IDOCS: Automation for E-invoice, inter-company transactions and third party applications.

ABAP: Strong knowlege on SAP backend tables, FI Substitutions and Validations, Debugging Program (/h), Query and Tables. Preparing functional specs : Creating function design and convert them into system design document (SDD) and work closely with Developers +Basis team.

Data Migration: 
Supporting data migration plan, preparing Dashboard to show data object roadmap. Gathering legacy data and moving into SAP system per stream in systematic manner. Assessing data error list/challenges and remove them on priority. Archiving data migration milestones and report them to the higher management. 

Test management: HPQC ALM/Jira - solving L1/L2/L3 tickets based on SLA, unit, functional testing etc. Supporting client with unit testing, integration testing, Training them on how to manage scenario testing in HP or Jira, data load activity, preparing training videos/materials. Being the local bridge between client FI team and IT team. Preparing lessons learned as tool which can be used for next projects

CHARM : Change request management in ESM 7.2. Creating Transports or re-defect fix, transferring it from BRD ( Development), BRV (Quality) and BRP ( Production).

SAP Training/Workshops: Attended 3 months Boot camp directly from SAP on migration of ECC to S4 Hana 2020.

GERMAN LANGUAGE: I am going to school 2 times/week to learn german language, I am at A0 level. Most my past projects are from DACH - Germany/Austria/Swiss market so have extensive knowledge and experience on such client's atmosphere.... Total 30 projects completed in DACH region. 


Hobbies/Other activities: I like chess, Badminton, football, cooking, watching films, Salsa music, going out to theatr, walking at seaside and travelling (already been to 59 countries).

Charity : I was working as Volunteer, helping in kitchen, cooking, serving food, washing dishes in ST ALBAN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH - Vancouver, BC Canada once a week for 3 months. The food was for Homeless people who need help and support.... Giving back to society is a wonderful thing and I recommend everyone should try at least once :)

 

Project history

03/2023 - 01/2024
S4 Hana FICO consultant
FREELANCE (Consumer goods and retail)

Leading the R2R team of 5 FICO consultants, Managing Solution design and technical configuration.
-Configuration ofFinance - GL, AR, AP, FA, Bank. Controlling - CO-CE, CO-CC, CO-PCA, Inventory valuation, settlement of production/MTO/STO/ETO/project/Service orders, OKB9 set up, COPA (Margin analysis) and Product Costing.
-Training key users, cutover planning, Go live and Hyper care/support.

06/2022 - 02/2023
S4 Hana FICO Consultant
Hitachi (Consumer goods and retail, 5000-10.000 employees)

BUSINESS/INDUSRY: FOOD/RETAIL
LOCATION : HAMBURG
ROLE : FICO consultant

TASK: Supporting client with unit, integration and UAT testing, Training them on how to use Fiori APP, data load activity, preparing training videos/materials, Master data set up validation via LTMC/LTMOM.

04/2019 - 05/2022
Senior S4 Hana/ FI consultant
(5000-10.000 employees)

LOCATION : GERMANY/SWITZERLAND
ROLE: Senior S4 Hana/ FI consultant
TASK: Gathering requirement, Configuration of system on all FICO/S4 submodules likes GL, AR, AP, FA, BANK, CC, PCA, product cost, COPA et. Data conversion, Integration Quality tests, Interface with third party, Gov portal SAF-T, Electonic invoice XML and Banks DMEE etc Leading the team of 3 Junior consultant.

11/2012 - 01/2019
Senior FICO Consultant
(5000-10.000 employees)

ROLE: Senior FICO Consultant
LOCATION : EUROPE
INDUSTRY: Repetative Manufacturing, Trading, Pharma, Buy to sell, Electicity thermal, SAAS - software as service
TASK : 
Configuration of FICO submodules, Requirement gathering, collection of process documents, Preparing AS-IS, Blueprint (TO-BE) document, converting business needs into sap solutions, Functional specs- RICEF, GAP Analyses, preparing Training manuals and end user training, Test script/cases, Conducting UAT workshop with clients, BOAT, fixing bugs, cut over activity and month end closing.  Working with CHARMS, Edit, update etc.

Local Availability

Open to travel worldwide
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