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Durga - Sr SAP FICO CONSULTANT

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Durga Jammula Sr SAP FICO CONSULTANT PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: A multi skilled result-oriented SENIOR SAP FICO Professional with 12+ years of Functional and Consulting experience in SAP S4 HANA and ECC with exposure to various industries like Manufacturing, Metal, Utilities, Enterprise Hardware Electronics by providing E2E consulting and technical solutions upon analyzing the requirements, implementation, support, roll outs and data migrations, system integrations to various business processes. Expert Level experience in General Ledger Accounting (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Fixed Assets (AA), Bank Accounting, Central Finance, and Integration with SD, MM and PP modules End to End Implementations, Rollouts, and support experiences in SAP S/4 HANA, ECC Finance modules. Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture. Functional experience in Requirement gathering, Implementing, Customizing, Configuring, Testing, User training and supporting of both SAP S/4 HANA, ECC 6.0 FICO modules. Strong IT consulting expertise in mapping business processes in SAP S4 HANA/ ECC by gathering the requirements from business process owners as well as end-users. Extensive experience in analysis, design, and implementation of SAP Finance and Controlling. Worked with onshore/offshore Teams: Gather all the relevant information for the given business requirement both business and Systems, Document and Design a preliminary solution idea and align the solution with IT teams and work with IT teams for timely delivery. Worked in FI Areas: Enterprise Structure configuration, Global Settings, Variants, New GL (Parallel Ledgers), Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable, Banking includes (check, manual & Electronic Bank Statements, DME), Lockbox, Asset Accounting, and Integrations with other modules of MM, SD, PP and PS modules. Worked in CO Areas: Cost Elements, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Orders, Product Costing including Product Cost Planning & Cost Object Controlling (Product Cost by Period, Product Cost by Order) and Material Ledger/Actual Costing and Profitability Analysis Integration Expertise in aspects of other logistic modules of entire Procure to Pay (SAP FICO MM Integration) and Order-to-Cash (SAP FICO- SD Integration) with excellent Business Process understanding. SAP experience including Consulting, Business Analysis and Data Analytics is further enhanced by a thorough Functional experience of over 3 years in Banking Asset Management & Operations, which makes a strong combination of exposure in areas of ERP application as well as the functional domain. SAP FUNCTIONAL SKILLS: SAP FI General Ledger (GL), New GL, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting, S/4 Hana Finance SAP CO Cost Element/ Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit-Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Profitable Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing Cross-Module Integration Sales & Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning, Project Systems Reporting Report Writer, Report Painter, BI/BW, Power BI, Tableau, Group Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud ABAP RICEF, LSMW, Tables, Debugging, LTMC Certifications Chartered Accountant (Level II) 2011 [The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India] Like CPA USA Cost Management Accountant (Level II) 2013 [The Institute of Cost Accountants of India] Like CMA USA S/4 HANA Finance New Asset Accounting, Material Ledgers, Parallel Ledgers, Extension Ledgers, Data Migration etc Experience of Configuring the process, activities related to FI with Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, Project Systems, Fiori apps, Experience in Tax configurations Vertex/ Sabrix, withholding Tax (WHT), Period End Closing, GR/IR Clearing, FI- SD/MM integration, Record to Report, AUC Process, Foreign Exchange Valuation/Translation, Automatic clearing, Banking, Product Costing, Actual Costing, Transfer Pricing, Inter Company process, Card Settlements, SAP Revenue Accounting Reporting and knowledge on Business Rules Frameworks (BRF) Experience in New GL: Activation of New GL Accounting, Document Splitting, Segmentation, Parallel Accounting etc Activate Methodology, ASAP methodology & Best Practices, Business Process Mapping, Business Modeling, Data Migrations etc. Experience in handling IDocs, Function Modules, BAPIs, BADIs, User Exits, Validations and Substitutions and basic ABAP debugging . ERPs: SAP S4 HANA Finance, ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 Project Management Tools: HPQC/ HPALM, Jira, Confluence, Service Now, Solution Manager PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Client: Altria Corporate Services Inc. Richmond VA Duration: Nov 2022 - Present Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Description: Altria Corporate Services Inc. is a subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc., a large American corporation with its headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. Altria Group is primarily known for its involvement in the tobacco and related industries. Altria Group holds diversified positions across tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries and strategic investments in other companies, they seek to provide category-leading choices to adult consumers, while returning maximum value to shareholders through dividends and growth. Responsibilities: As part of this S4 HANA Implementation project, responsible for Preparing Functional Specifications, Design/Configure Solution in the system. Responsible for performing Unit Testing, SIT and Key User Trainings Developed test plans, support documentation and training materials. Preparing and executing manual test cases 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. Engaged in documentation of production support issues, investigative analysis, and drafting solutions to store documents in Share point drive for further support. Environment: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC 6.0 Client: CEDAR PHARMACEUTICALS, Shreveport LA Duration: July 2021 Oct 2022 Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Description: Cedar is a global strategy consulting, research, and analytics firm with a 35-year track record and clients across multiple industry sectors. Since 1985, our teams have assisted clients in areas of strategy, process innovation, strategic human capital, and business technology, among others, with a strong focus on the Financial Services sector. As a full-suite management consulting firm, Cedar assists clients across these areas in an integrated fashion - from strategy formulation, to execution, and implementation. The world s leading strategy deployment and performance management tool used by organizations globally. Responsibilities: Good experience in maintaining configuration related to Open Text VIM, configuration and workflow and day to day business needs from invoicing and workflow trigger perspective. Able to handle projects and production support with my experience working with project team and handling production support tickets at high priority. Involved in end-to-end configuration in design and development of banking interface for Citi bank and good experience in completing Bank accounting, house banks, payments, interfaces and PMW configuration. Responsible for design of all test scenarios for UAT, work with user to complete testing, execution of test scripts and validation of results. As part of Treasury production support and day to day operations, involved in Asset accounting, Invoicing, Vendor invoice management, EBS bank statement, O2C complete process support. Involved in complete set up and monitoring of EBS BAI2 configuration, working with local affiliate to set up the interface between ECC and bank using SAP PI as middle ware. Good knowledge and experience in working with costing team, creation of new costing variant, and implemented in parallel with additional costing variant run as part of month end jobs. Hands on experience in Product Costing (make to order and make to stock), cost object controlling, material ledger configuration. Product costing, cost component structures, costing sheet, costing variant, valuation variant, costing types. Involved in the customization, production support in Product Costing (PC), CO-PA, CCA, and PCA. Extensive experience in costing and controlling modules of SAP S/4HANA, including Product Costing (Make to Order and Make to Stock), Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ), Material Ledger Configuration, Cost Component Structures, and Costing Sheets. Able to design and implement costing solutions that align with the organization's costing methods. Created new costing sheet, Customized existing costing sheet, created overhead cost elements, calculation base, percentage overhead, credits, Cost component structure for different cost components, material cost estimate with quantity structure. Involved in global rollout project and conversion project from legacy system to ECC in Treasury and tax module. Worked with business users closely to monitor day to day support activities and contribute for all the phases of project from blueprint to deployment. Extensive experience in configuring and optimizing SAP S/4HANA's Treasury and Risk Management module. Analyzed and improved financial processes from both FI and CO perspectives, enhancing risk management capabilities. Worked extensively in treasury and risk management configuration from scratch to analyze and optimize business process from FI and CO perspective. Played a crucial role in building interfaces between SAP S/4HANA and regional banks, such as Scotia in Canada and Citibank in Colorado, ensuring successful implementation and deployment. Responsible for building interface between ECC and regional bank from Scotia in CA and Citibank in CO for successful implementation and deployment by testing in all the phases of the project Identified the business need and process to work with bank and built BAI2 statement format, set up posting rules for electronic bank statement. Environment: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC 5.0. Upgrade (R/3 4.6C ECC 5.0) Client: Flycore Distribution, Dover NJ Duration: Feb 2020 June 2021 Sr. SAP FICO Analyst Description: Flycore Distribution was founded in 2017 as a leading wholesale distributor of the hottest brand name beauty products. As a business-to-business (B2B) supplier, they cater to a diverse range of industries, including Salons, Spas, Barber Shops, Big Box Retailers, and International markets of Asia, Europe, and South America. Responsibilities: Responsible for SLA reporting in MS Power BI by extracting data from SAP ECC Requirement Gathering and translating into System requirements. Involved in building ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process from SAP ECC Tables into Data services based on legacy process and Clients reporting requirements. Global Support for SAP FICO Asset, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Banking modules. Worked on multiple projects in all the phases from design discussions to deployment, post go live activities, cutover activities, and postproduction support. As an IT FICO SME, I lead the S4 Hana project working with implementation partner team, addressing the key business needs and functionalities. Experience working under high pressure from production support perspective, working with business on multiple areas of FI and CO. Good experience working EDI, IDOC design, deployment, and day to day production support, monitoring IDOC failures and resolving the issues. Good experience working on interfaces related to Banking, Open text VIM and customized business level interfaces for internal needs. Good experience in maintaining configuration related to Open Text VIM, configuration and workflow and day to day business needs from invoicing and workflow trigger perspective. Able to handle projects and production support with my experience working with project team and handling production support tickets at high priority. Involved in end-to-end configuration in design and development of banking interface for Citi bank and good experience in completing Bank accounting, house banks, payments, interfaces and PMW configuration. Responsible for design of all test scenarios for UAT, work with user to complete testing, execution of test scripts and validation of results. Good experience integration of GL and production costing, AP, AR, and Asset accounting and controlling from business perspective and technical configuration. Involved in cost center assessments segments, COPA reports, forms, derivation rules and structures. Responsible for Assessments, distributions, Statistical key figures, and activity types Good knowledge and experience working on PCA profit center accounting, CCA Cost center Accounting, maintaining relevant configuration from controlling perspective. Worked on customization of COPA reports, worked on testing, validation, and deployment of reports. Responsible for monitoring business specific customized reports. Able to handle projects with configuration for completion of project in all the phases and taking the project to next phase with successful completion of current phase. As part of Treasury production support and day to day operations, involved in Asset accounting, Invoicing, Vendor invoice management, EBS bank statement, O2C complete process support. Involved in complete set up and monitoring of EBS BAI2 configuration, working with local affiliate to set up the interface between ECC and bank using SAP PI as middle ware. Good knowledge and experience in working with costing team, creation of new costing variant, and implemented in parallel with additional costing variant run as part of month end jobs. Hands on experience in Product Costing (make to order and make to stock), cost object controlling, material ledger configuration. Product costing, cost component structures, costing sheet, costing variant, valuation variant, costing types. Involved in the customization, production support in Product Costing (PC), CO-PA, CCA, and PCA. Created new costing sheet, Customized existing costing sheet, created overhead cost elements, calculation base, percentage overhead, credits, Cost component structure for different cost components, material cost estimate with quantity structure. Environment: SAP S/4HANA Client: Lease Point Funding Group, Austin TX Duration: Oct 2018 Jan 2020 SAP FICO Consultant Description: LeasePoint is a single point solution for funding capital equipment - a one-stop-shop for equipment finance. With a diverse group of funding sources, LeasePoint has the flexibility to work with a wide-range of credits including unique clients that fall outside the rigorous standards of conventional financing. Responsibilities: As part of this implementation project, responsible for configuring Accounts Receivables module. Conducting Meetings with business process owners to study and understand the client existing business process (GE Core Account Receivables system) Analysis of business requirements, determining organizational structures and classifying business units/locations as company codes, business areas. In Account Receivable, worked on various support issues like investigating blocked billing documents from SD and identifying the root cause of it. Created new correspondence types for Payment advice, customer account statement and rebate document which enabled business to communicate efficiently with Customers. Drafted functional requirement specifications (FRSs) for customer master, quotation processing, sales order processing, consignment processing, billing, returns processing, contract processing, rebates processing, and backorder processing. Customized general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivables modules in FI module. Configured General Ledger Accounts both at Chart of Accounts and at Company Codes level. Responsible for baseline configuration in FICO module. Design, configuration, testing of FI modules AR, in areas such as Dunning, Correspondence, Auto-Payment, Deduction Management Component, Invoice Processing and Credit Card processing) as the implementation methodology. As part of project systems team good understanding of Work Breakdown Structure and its hierarchical model. Allocation of budget, working on AUC, Projects, Testing. Provide revenue solutions to the accountants as and when required as part of revenue recognition. Responsible for the configuration of Line-Item Layouts, G/L Account Master Records, Tolerance Groups and posting amount defaults. Involved in individual and mass processing of Bill-of-Exchange and posting the foreign currency without exchange rate differences. Set up Automatic Account Assignments for MM, SD & Inter-Company postings. Configured cost element, cost center and profit center, internal orders, profitability analysis in CO. Extensively worked in CO area with CCA, PCA, COPA, Product Costing, configured Product cost by order with production order scenario. Worked on various processes such as Work in progress, Variance calculation, Settlement, and transfer to COPA through PA transfer elements. Hands on experience in VAT related Tax codes and its implementations as per requirement from the business and knowledge on VERTEX. Configured material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure using BOM and routing for costing the product. Customized the SD-FI interface by preparing the Revenue account determination process. Creation of Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, sales order and Integration with SD and thereby improving the business process flow. Involved in all phases of end-to-end testing which includes User Acceptance testing, Functionality testing, Regression Testing, GUI testing, negative testing, system testing and unit testing of interfaces and Client-Server Utilities. Worked in completing the tax related configuration, worked with vertex team to complete the integration between ECC and vertex system and also Withholding Tax WHT. Function Modules and IDOC configuration and extensive testing for inbounds and outbounds. Working EDI, IDOC design, deployment, and day to day production support, monitoring IDOC failures and resolving the issues. Responsible for RICEF items especially Custom reports development in this entire ETL process. Environment: Version ECC6.0 Client: Caylent, Irvine CA Duration: July 2016 - Sep 2018 FICO consultant Description: Caylent operates an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services company. The company offers services such as migration and modernization, cloud data engineering, security and compliance, application modernization, and application development. Responsibilities: Responsible for post implementation support Post implementation support includes solving tickets raised by end users. Identify the critical issues and maintain the document on root causes analysis. Conduct problem analysis and communicate the solution to the end users. Interacting with end users for solving tickets based on severity level. Training the end users and trouble shooting day-to-day tickets for FI/CO module transactions. Creation of various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables. Making necessary changes to the Automatic payment program, defined payment terms and methods. Accepted business requests to tweak reports, batch jobs, custom programs running on daily basis 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. Environment: SAP ERP ECC 6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Client: Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt. Ltd, IND Duration: Apr 2013 - Jun 2016 Role: FI Consultant Description: Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was an American multinational corporation that provided information technology (IT) services and professional services. Responsibilities: Involved in global rollout project and conversion project from legacy system to ECC in Treasury and tax module. Worked with business users closely to monitor day to day support activities and contribute for all the phases of project from blueprint to deployment. Worked extensively in treasury and rick management configuration from scratch to analyze and optimize business process from FI and CO perspective. Responsible for building interface between ECC and regional bank from Scotia in CA and Citi bank in CO for successful implementation and deployment by testing in all the phases of the project Identified the business need and process to work with bank and built BAI2 statement format, set up posting rules for electronic bank statement. Good experience working with Treasury team on Transaction manager to conclude financial transactions, understand and develop investment management plan from finance perspective, and long-term strategic investments. Good experience working on cash management and liquidity management with business user to understand the need and requirement of the set up those fits into business process. Worked on market risk management to understand market to market risk, sensitivities, and financial management from business reporting perspective. Good knowledge in setting up credit risk limits by customer and flexible management tool is enabled to monitor risk capabilities. Good experience working in Inhouse cash, cash management and liquidity planner from liquidity management and financial supply chain perspective. Good knowledge and extensively worked on end to end set up of lock box configuration, testing, development and worked with the bank regional team to complete the set up. Good experience in building end to end set up for electronic bank statement, worked closely with bank affiliates in building the interface. As part of treasury team involved in resolving the issues related to LOCKBOX, EBS failures, configuration change, new change deployment to production environment upon testing. Extensively worked on bank statement EBS process and configuration. Working experience in complete end to end bank file transmitting process. Electronic bank statement (EBS) configuration and support as part of day-to-day activities attending the tickets as high priority. Supported SAP BAI2, MT940 format, Lockbox Configuration and complete process support and implementation knowledge. Worked with the business to understand the requirement and customizing the bank file transfer process accordingly. As part of on-site tax team worked in completing the tax related configuration, worked with vertex team to complete the integration between ECC and vertex system. Involved in support and post cutover activities during hyper care period as part of treasury and tax configuration set up and post go live support. Worked as a team builder and involved in discussions to contribute my experience towards the success of the project and post go live activities. Environment: SAP BAI2 and MT940. Client: Advanced Techpro Services Pvt. Ltd, India Duration: May 2011 - March 2013 Role: FI Consultant Description: Advanced Techpro Services Pvt. Ltd. Offers Projectors & Screens, Theater Projectors, Multimedia Projectors etc. Responsibilities: General Ledger: Defined Chart of Accounts, GL Master Records, Field status groups, Automatic account determination and Sales tax automatic account assignments. Defined Adjustment Account for GR/IR clearing by configured regrouping postings. Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP through LSMW. Extracting Master data & transactions data to Non R3 format, clean up data, mapping interfaces, loading data into SAP format (IDOC) and testing loaded data. As part of Record to Report (RTR) involved in complete financial cycle end to end process Involved in General Ledger for Manual/Automated JE, Accruals/Deferrals, Bank Statement processing and reconciliations. Good experience in Intercompany postings and transfers and intercompany clearing As part of RTR involved in Asset Accounting for Capital Project set up, Invoice recording and expense Adjustments and Depreciation. Record to Report involved in Closing for Daily interface monitoring, Month end Sub ledger Close, Foreign Currency Revaluation and Month End General Ledger Close Good Experience in Record to report in the divisions of Invoice to Payment, Collect to Cash and fixed assets and Internal Financial controls as well. Accounts Payable: Creation of vendor master records, groups, vendor documents, number ranges, payment terms, discounts, Configured Automatic Payment Program. Defined customer master records, customer groups, House bank. Defined and assigned Reconciliation ledgers and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting. Worked with SAP (SD) functional team to ensure that account determination met all requirements. Asset Management (AM) implementation configuring Asset classes, Master Depreciation, and other business transactions. Fixed Asset accounting, reconcile Asset management to GL. Configured the Chart of Depreciation, Created procedural documentation for End users in Asset management (AM) module. Environment: Legacy System Migration Workbench, IDOC, SAP FI, Version ECC6.0 EDUCATION: Bachelor of Commerce (FCA) Keywords: access management materials management business intelligence sfour sfour rlang information technology golang business works microsoft Arkansas California Colorado Idaho Louisiana New Jersey Pennsylvania South Dakota Texas Virginia