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Bala prthviraj Guttumukkala - SAP FICO

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Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Relocation: yes

Visa: H1b

Over 10+yrs of functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training and supporting of SAP S/4 HANA, ECC 6.0 FICO module, including Two (2) full life cycle system implementations. SAP FI/CO with experience in FI (Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Asset accounting, General ledger accounting), CO (Cost center accounting, Product costing and COPA). Experience in SAP S/4 HANA, ECC 6.0 - Realization Phase to Go Live and Support Phase. MBA from University of Cumberland s. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Fresenius Kabi SAP FICO (Roll-Out/Prod. Support) Chicago, IL Sep-2022 to till date Responsibilities: Participated in developing Functional requirement specification (FRS) documents, Software design specification (SDS) documents and help the technical team to develop Technical design specification documents. Actively participated and integrated part of S4HANA Core team for transformation of ECC and Conversion of Master Data from ECC to S4Hana. Discussing on hand the functionality, features, benefits and impact of Management Accounting CO and Product Costing PC with clients, business and technical counterparts and project management. Configured Vendor Down Payment Functionality. Supported Costing Year End Activities. Environment: S/4, ECC, Vertex CF Industries S/4 Hana FICO/TEST LEAD (S/4 HANA Implementation) Chicago, IL April-2021 to Aug 2022 Responsibilities: Participated in developing Functional requirement specification (FRS) documents, Software design specification (SDS) documents and help the technical team to develop technical design specification documents. Actively participated and integrated part of S4HANA Core team for transformation of ECC and Conversion of Master Data from ECC to S4Hana. Discussing on hand the functionality, features, benefits and impact of Management Accounting CO and Product Costing PC with clients, business and technical counterparts and project management. Provided system blueprints, configuration documentation and functional specifications for utilizing objects and developing enhanced RICEFW solutions in CO PC. Configured workflow for Collections, Dispute and Credit Management in FSCM. Developed integration test strategy for SAP interfaces, System Implementation Plan, Design, Analyze, Build phases. Provide test execution plan to quality manager, Coordinate UAT and get the UAT signoff and Conduct defect triage calls with project team. Environment: S/4 Hana, HP ALM, E-Hana, Sales Force, Tableau. Panasonic SAP FICO (S/4 HANA Implementation) Dublin, OH Mar-2019 to April-2021 Responsibilities: Worked on product costing concepts explaining the client full SAP capacity with respect to product costing instruments. Implemented Raw material costing capturing Overhead cost through Purchase info records. Implemented Master data copy capabilities from production Bill of material and recipes to Costing versions for costing. Worked custom programs to automate JE for subcontracting relevant Purchase price variances, Source variances, manufacturing operations variances into appropriate buckets. Responsibilities included the design, configuration, and implementation of the Controlling module. Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing. Sidecar project : COUPA, TUNGSTEN, and GETPAID Integration Participated in developing Functional requirement specification (FRS) documents, Software design specification (SDS) documents and help the technical team to develop Technical design specification documents. Worked on interfaces such as Coupa, Tungsten Invoice for Global roll-out. Sap Ariba integration with Coupa. Created Chart of Accounts, content group from Coupa point of view. Coupa Non-PO Lease Contract, Created Master data templates for Coupa and uploaded manually. Verify indirect PO sample Ariba and loaded into Coupa. Debugging Coupa issues after Go-live. Designed and configured revenue recognition rules within RAR to align with industry-specific guidelines. Worked with middleware team to establish an interface between SAP to Non-SAP through Concur, MuleSoft, Cast Iron. Developed test scenarios and Performed unit and integration testing. Involved in Unit Testing, cross-functional Testing, System Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing. Performed Regression Testing and Integration Testing for different modules like MM, SD, and FI and documented the defects using HP Quality Centre. Environment : S/4 HANA 1809, COUPA, TUNGSTEN, GETPAID DELL-EMC SAP FICO (Roll-Out/Prod.Support) Austin, TX Feb-2018 to Feb-2019 Responsibilities: Engaged in Product costing project to sell products from Dell to EMC to external customer currently in design phase. Current enhancement involved configuring Sales order BOM based product costing with only two levels of parent and child production orders. Engaged in discussions with business to understand the requirement, translate into effort and explain them SAP enablement and customizations into RICEF objects. Working on upload program to establish connection with DELL master data system to EMC ECC system and to use MR21 for real time standard price update to material master in SAP system. Proficient in data migration strategies for transitioning historical financial data into SAP FICO and RAR environments. Involved in month end closing activities and costing run jobs to streamline the new materials, BOM, Routings, Work centers, Cost centers, Activity prices, Overhead costs, Purchase info records for raw materials of DELL materials to SAP materials. As part of Record to Report (RTR) involved in complete financial cycle end to end process. Record to report involved in closing for daily interface monitoring, Month end subledger close, Foreign Currency Revaluation and Month End GL close. Worked on SABRIX for tax configuration. Create third party drop ship scenario to sell Dell materials in conjunction to EMC solutions to boost complimentary sell of support/maintaining and software products and licenses. Product costing is still in design phase. Conducted end-user training sessions to ensure proficiency in using SAP FICO and RAR systems. Involved in enhancement of VIM for OpenText with SAP. Created text scripts for end-to-end application and Validation of extracted data is happened in exception handling like is there any mismatching of data or no data for particular field. Weyerhaeuser LLC SAP FICO Consultant (Enhancement/Prod.Support) Springfield, OR Jan-2017 to Jan-2018 Responsibilities: Worked with current team to understand business process and for Knowledge transfer. Engaged in production support work for AP, AR, GL, and product costing. Involved in supporting product-costing issues related to Bill of materials, Routing, Costing sheet, Cost analysis, Mark, and release of cost etc. prior to month end close. Worked on boarding new acquisitions to SAP ECC and Ariba environments. Engaged in documentation of production support issues, investigative analysis, and drafting solutions through a serialized number system to store documents in Share point drive for further support. Accepted business requests to tweak reports, batch jobs, custom programs running on daily bases to improve the system performance. Configured exchange rate types, translation ratios, rounding rules & set decimal places for currencies, configured new fiscal year variant, and assigned it to company code. Worked closely with Sales team, pricing team and billing team and provided inputs in different areas both FI and SD related. Worked on testing various scenarios belonging to VAT (Value added tax). Integration of SAP with VERTEX involving creation of Tax Codes. Activated External Tax Calculation - Defined the ID for VERTEX, defined the RFC destination. VERTEX Configuration- defined logical system, maintained pricing procedures, allocated company code to Non taxable transactions, created number ranges for External tax Documents, created Tax Codes. Configured general sales and use tax codes, assigned tax codes for nontaxable transactions, new input and output tax codes, Tax rates, and Tax accounts. Integration of Concur to Sap, creating Master Data for Cost Center, Internal Orders and WBS Elements. S/4 HANA POC project Involved in testing phase for data migration, preparation of meta data and table structures of HANA data migration project. Conducted data migration meetings and followed up on data preparation. Worked on data migration through SLC from SAP ECC COPA Plan/Actual tables to HANA Star schemas, extracted master data to from star schemas and support analytical views and attribute and calculation views. Engaged in meetings with business user, HANA consultants and SQL team to analyses the data flow from SAP ECC box to SAP HANA box and supported table level data understanding for performance enhancement. Environment: ECC 6.0 Ehp7 Suit on HANA Shire Pharmaceuticals SAP FICO Consultant Lexington, MA June-2016 to Dec-2016 Responsibilities: Involved in Unit Testing, cross-functional Testing, System Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing. Involved in System Integration Testing especially in B2B and EDI interface testing, worked on all the Bank interfaces pertaining to flat file exchange. Tested and Maintained Bolt-on such as Vertex, IXOS document system, DaRT reporting, Get Paid applications. Planned, conducted meetings on User Acceptance Testing for Asia Pacific, EMEA and North America region, worked with users regarding concerns during UAT and worked in Agile UAT environment. Worked with Control M team to schedule all the batch jobs related to finances, controlling, Material ledger and BW upload. Analyzed and reverse engineered all the treasury modules and generated documentation on different process and Z transaction and T codes. Worked closely on Collection, Credit and Dispute management. Worked with SAP HR team on payroll run, GL account mapping, the flat file generated that needs to feed into SAP Vendor payments and sent out to banks to cut checks etc. Configuring, establishing connect with banks and testing flat files such as lockbox and payments etc. Production support role involved fixing Bank interfaces especially Lockbox process end to end process. Bank master data maintenance and EBS configuration for new bank partners covering Treasury modules. Worked as Team Lead in an Onsite offshore model coordinating with offshore team, delegating work, and conducting meetings on regular interval for updates and feedbacks. Maintain defect log, System Integration testing status log, and project finance progress log to update higher management. Created documentation for all the finance models. Tested ECC 6.0 system mimicking the 4.7 system configuration. Gathered information on third party tools such as Get Paid, E5, Acuity, Banking structure. Conducted and involved in meetings on middleware Control M to restructure the scheduling of batch jobs and impact on the overall business. Responsible for benefit analysis of SAP Collections, Dispute and Credit management with Get-paid tool. Worked on banking configuration, Payment methods such as wire, ACH, Payment order file, Check printing and EBS files processing with Citi bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, and Bank of America. Worked with ABAP team to analyze and understand all the complex Bank Transactions, concatenation of files and file transfer trigger programs to web methods and from web methods to Bank server and the other way around. Worked with eight different banks gathering all the requirements such as PGP keys etc. Worked closely with business application team to test different applications such as Vendor Inquiry, CASS Logistics, and other small tools generated by the client-side IT team. Environment: ECC 6.0 Ehp5 The Himalaya Drug Company SAP FICO Consultant(Implementation/Prod.Support) INDIA Dec-2012 to Dec-2015 Responsibilities: Involved in Unit testing, Functional testing, Cross functional testing, System integration testing, and User acceptance testing. Worked with business to develop cost center hierarchy and guided business user to understand and take a decision on required cost centers. Developed and maintained OKB9 settings in each client as the testing moved into subsequent sub-phases and working with Product costing team, Master data team and business. Conducted and facilitated master data Migration/Cleansing and Go-live preparation meeting with business and capturing the progress, tracked and reported the same to the higher management using MS-Excel. Used tools such as LSMW and Win-shuttle from data migration and load into various SAP environments for testing and during post Go-live phase into Production systems. Participated in developing functional description (FDD) documents, User Requirement specification (URS) documents, Functional requirement specification (FRS) documents, Software design specification (SDS) documents and help the technical team to develop Technical design specification documents. Unit testing involved testing request for changes (rfC) in configurations, communicating and observing the progress of the request and coordinating with NA Hub team and Central team in Germany. Configured, tested, and implemented Investment management elements to support scenarios pertaining to Asset accounting in which Procurement and manufacturing of assets using Internal Orders as investment measures involving WBS elements from project systems was also a major part. Worked on Project systems PS to establish Work Break Down WBS Elements for Assets under construction AUC. Configured, Tested, Transported, Valuated Project system elements such as WBS element etc. Involved in processes such as Internal Order as investment measures and cost control objects through Project systems. Scope of functional testing includes Asset accounting, Cost center accounting, Overhead cost accounting, Product costing, Profitability analysis, Internal order accounting, Project systems, Dispute management, Credit management, Tax accounting, Resource related billing and Project systems. Involved in cross-functional testing and System integration testing. Led multiple scenarios, identified the stakeholders, lead the team members from other teams to coordinate and complete test cases. Identified and noted down the dependencies and added the same to the pre-go live preparation list and cutover list. Coordinated with ABAP team and worked with business to created MS-Excel upload files for Mass upload of master data such as Asset under Construction, Asset master data, Internal order master data, Cost center planning data, Activity type and Statistical key figure data. Worked on Fringes and Fringe rates, studied the To-Be documents and explained the requirements from business such as fringe rates and Overhead calculation rates, to maintain the custom tables in SAP. Developed all the allocation cycles and maintained them in all the clients as required. Worked on both plan and actual cycles of Assessments, Distribution, Periodic reposting, Costing run, Material ledger and PA-assessments. Engaged in discussions on Bill of materials (BOM), Routing, Cost rollup, Material master setup, data migration of master data, Cleaning master data, Production order user status setup, cost analysis on production order. Worked on various processes such as Work in progress, Variance calculation, Settlement, and transfer to COPA through PA transfer elements. Worked on integrated planning with business on Activity input planning, Activity output planning, Statistical key figure planning, internal order planning, and cost center planning, Depreciation simulating planning, Product costing with Material ledger for transfer pricing and MR22. Maintained plan versions, helped business user understand and evaluate reports for actual, plan line items in COPA. Environment : ECC 6.0 Aeries Technology Group SAP FICO Tester(Prod. Support) INDIA Mar-2011 to Dec 2012 Responsibilities: Created Master Test Plan and test scenarios based on the specifications business requirement and functional spec, reviewing the same with stake holders. Actively Involved in Agile/ Scrum process that involves Grooming, Story Analysis and Planning for understanding new changes and coordinate with Dev and Business teams for stories approval. Created User manual and training documents for various process. Conducted daily bug triage meetings and following with bugs. Conducted Workshops and meetings regarding Project status, with PM, functional and technical teams on weekly basis. Functional responsibilities included performing Smoke Testing, Unit Testing, Load and Stress Testing, System testing, Usability testing, Security testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, cutover testing, and Regression Testing. Involved in testing various Inbound and Outbound IDOC (EDI) and BAPI. Tested and documented Order management business processes such as Sales document types, Contracts, Delivery, Shipping, Transportation, billing, stock transfers, Transfer posting, rebate management, Output types and printing, web services, credit card processing and Retails returns, exchanges. Tested and documented on Material Management such as Purchase to Pay (PTP), Master Data, Direct and Indirect procurement, Release strategies, Subcontracting, third party order processing, Material and Service Contracts, Consignment Purchases, Inter and Intra Stock Transfer orders, Scheduling Agreements, Valuation and Account determination. Tested and documented Inventory Management, Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, Invoice verification, Stock Transfers, Transfer Postings, Material to Material Transfers, Physical inventory, Stock determination, Cycle Counting. Manually performed integration end-to-end testing of AR module consisting of Customer Master Records, Customer Groups, Terms of Payment, Interest Calculation, Cash Discounts and Credit management, Over/Under Payments, Dunning Procedures as per business requirement. 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