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NARAYANA - SAP FICO

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Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Having 12+ years of experience in SAP Configuration (versions ECC 6.0, S/4 Hana 1909/1610) support and roll out experience with 8+ years experience in finance and accounts domain. Successfully led multiple full cycle SAP implementations for delivering clients and enhancing financial reporting and analysis capabilities. Five implementation- knowledge and experience includes ASAP Implementation methodology, Gap Analysis, Blueprinting, Development, Testing and Training, Cutover and post Go-live Production support. Expertise in configuring and customizing modules, including New GL, AR, AP, Asset accounting, Bank Accounting, CCA, PCA Internal Orders, Product costing(mts), Real estate (REFX). Experience in Cross-functional integration across modules of SAP FI/CO, SD, MM,PP and QM. Implemented New GL, performed document splitting and parallel accounting. Good understanding and working experience Order toCash (OTC), Procure to Pay (P2P), Record to Report (R2R) process and Project Systems Expertise in configuration of electronic bank statement (EBS), Lock box, BCM (Bank Communication Management), and DMEE Structure Worked on Non-Sap to Sap interface file mapping, testing while integration with Vertex Coupa and CFIN Experience in implementation of Sap finance components- APP, VIM, Dunning, Forex revaluation, GR/IR clearing, Taxation Vertex, VAT, GST, withholding tax. Having good cross functional skills with FI integration with modules CO, SD, MM, PP and HR. Strong knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP,IFRS) required during the implementation. Involved in Data Mapping, Data Migration from Legacy systems to SAP for new implementation using LSMW, BDC programs and LTMC, Abab Query and Reportwriter. Experience on different tools like solution manager, HP ALM, HPQC, Charm, service now,Citrix, and Jira. Good understanding of ABAP code to work on reports and routings. Experience in creating functional specification documents, testing and RICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms) TECHNICAL SKILLS ERP Applications SAP R/3Versions (4.6c ,4.7) & ECC 5, 6.0 and S/4 HanaFinance Tools MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, JIRA, HPALM, Solmon Database MS Access,SQL Operating Systems Windows/XP/Vista Languages SQL, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Avient Corporation, Ohio Oct 2021 Till date Sap S/4 Hana implementation and Support. Role: Lead FICO Consultant Responsibilities: Responsible includes configuring FI - GL, Asset acct., FI-AP(P2P), FI-AR(O2C), Intercompany postings, Bank, Cost center, PCA, Internal Order, Project systems and Productcosting (MTS) Providing solutions for production support issues of Finance and controlling module in the areas of FI-New GL, AP, AR, Credit management Banking, Asset accounting, CCA, internal order, and product costing. Experience in setting up business partner master data and conversion and uploading with migration cockpit. Worked on New GL in the areas of parallel accounting and document splitting. Leading ledger and non-leading ledgers were maintained for parallel accounting. Workedon Tax procedure, tax codes,tax jurisdiction codes, account determination and integration for posting. Worked on Automatic payment program, electronic bank statement and lock box with BAI2 formats. Worked on integration between FI-CO, FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-PP Automatic Payment Program/Bank determination (APP) for outgoing payments with ACH, Check and Wire transfer payment methods using Idoc, and/DMEE formats, integration with bank for the sending payment files. Worked on third party applications- mapping the files for interfaces like Vertex, Coupa to SAP application and testing the files. Extensively worked on HPQCfor incidents tracking, fixing, and updating withtest documents. Expertise in configuring Fixed Asset Management. Created asset classes based on depreciation blocks, chart of depreciations for book depreciation, set up the three non-leading ledgers as per local GAAP requirements. Worked on REFX valuation functionality with IFRS 16 compliance for leasing contracts. Performed asset month end activities like depreciation postings and year end closing activities. Supported month/period/year end activities, allocation of costs to production cost centers, assessment of costs to profitability analysis, analyze costs and revenues for the products. Cost element planning, internal activity planning, overhead allocation, wip calculation, variance calculation,cost estimating. Wolters & Kluwer s, Riverwoods, IL Feb 2019-Sept 2021 Sap S/4 Hana implementation and Support. Role: SAP FICO Consultant Responsibilities: Interacted with client business users for requirement gathering and analysis of existing business processes and prepared business Blueprint document, get sign off, configuration in golden client, unit testing. Worked on New GL in the areas of parallel accounting and document splitting. Leading ledger and non-leading ledgers were maintained for parallel accounting. Experience in setting up business partner master data and conversion and uploading with migration cockpit. Worked on coupa, vendor management and concur interfaces and its files mapping and testing. Implemented Automatic payment program, electronic bank statement and lock box with BAI2 formats, and DMEE structures. Automatic Payment Program/Bank determination (APP) for outgoing payments with ACH and Wire transfer and positive pay payment methods using Idoc and/DMEE formats. Identified and applied several OSS notes to rectify the errors encountered. Worked on third party applications Vertex, Coupa and CIF in file mapping from non sap to sapthe and testing the files.Worked on integration between FI-CO,FI-MM, and FI-SD Performed month and year end activities and gave training to the core users and end users. Configureddepreciation areas, defined, account determinations, screen layout rules, number range intervals, assets classes, account assignments, posting rules, depreciation methods, depreciation keys, creation of asset masters. Hands-on experience writing functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Forms, Conversion, & enhancements. Configuring Fixed Asset Management. Created asset classes based on depreciation blocks, chart of depreciations for book depreciation, set up the three non-leading ledgers in accordance with tax, group reporting and local GAAP requirements. Configuration of depreciation keys, acquisitions, retirements, transfers, revaluation of assets, capitalization of AUC assets through project systems wbs elements of project systems. Accounts determination for posting depreciation, PG&E, San Ramon, CAJuly 2018 Jan 2019 SAP Support/Enhancement SAP FICO consultant Responsibilities: Expertise in configuring FixedAsset Module. Created asset classes based on depreciation blocks, chart of depreciations for book depreciation, set up the three non-leading ledgers in accordance with tax, group reporting and local GAAP requirements. Configuration of depreciation keys, acquisitions, retirements, transfers, revaluation of assets, capitalization of AUC assets through wbs elements of project systems. Accounts determination for posting depreciation, Asset, sub assets are uploaded using legacy data migration tool LTMC. Performed asset month end activities like depreciation postings and year end closing activities. Createdthe order types, settlement profiles, allocation structures, budget profiles for plant maintenance orders. Provided functional specifications for building custom reports for PM cost tracking and reconciliation of Plant maintenance costs with finance. Worked on REFX valuation functionality with IFRS 16 compliance for all types of leasing contracts. JPW Industries, La vargene, TN Oct 2016 June,2018 Sap Implementation project. Role: SAP FI/CO consultant Responsibilities: Involved in gathering system requirements, designed Blueprint (analyzed the AS-IS processes, converted in to TO-BE analysis), GAP analysis, conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, testing and modifications to suit the clients. Designed General Ledger includes chart of Accounts, Account groups, posting periods, Parallel Ledger for reporting purpose, segment reporting, and activated document splitting, and configuration settings made for FI entries, Recurring, Parking docs. Configuration made for intercompany postings, foreign currency revaluations for open items. Configured Vendor account groups, number ranges for vendor accounts, tolerance groups, down payments (special GL transactions), created GL accounts, vendor masters, and configured down payments. Configured tax procedure, tax codes, jurisdiction code, account determination for use tax and sales tax with vertex. Experience in integrating and testing FI with SD, MM and PP modules. Defined Country specific Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, defined, account determinations, screen layout rules, number range intervals, assets classes, account assignments, posting rules, depreciation methods, depreciation keys, Configured Cost center accounting (CO-CCA) cost center hierarchy, cost centers, categories, cost center groups, cost elements for activity allocation, activity types and statistical key figures. Created planning layouts. Configured allocation methods-Assessment, Distribution, Periodic posting and Activity allocation with splitting structure and allocation structures. Involved in configuring cost-based COPA, Operating Concern Attributes, created characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in Profitability Analysis, created custom reports like Sales report with Customer, Product and Market segment-wise. Configuring cost-based COPA, Operating Concern Attributes, created characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in Profitability Analysis, created custom reports like Sales report with Customer, Product and Market segment-wise. PreparedUnit test, and integration test scripts according to requirements and tools used JIRA and HPALM etc. Americold Logistics LLC, Atlanta July 2015-Sep5 2016 Sap S/4 Hana implementationProject. Role: SAP RTR Consultant Responsibilities: Involved in S/4 Hana green field implementation gathering system requirements, designed Blueprint (analyzed the AS-IS processes, converted in to TO-BE analysis), GAP analysis, conducted workshop for collection of functional requirement specification, configuration, testing and modifications to suit the clients. Customized New General Ledger (new G/L), Adopted Fiscal Year Variants, Defined Settings for the Journal Entry Ledger, Assigned Ledger to Company Code, Assigned Accounting Principle to Ledger and Company Code, Activated Necessary Business Functions. Created FI/AR number ranges, incoming payments, Reconciliation accounts for A/P and A/R, overall Receivables Management. Analyzed requirements for processing Intercompany AR & AP transactions and reconciliation. Customized Line Layouts for G/L, A/P, and A/R data entry, New G/L for segment reporting, document splitting and FI-CO reconciliation. Defined Ledger for CO Version, Defined Document Types for Posting in CO, Defined Document type Mapping Variants for CO Transactions to Document Types, Checked the Default Values for Postings in CO, Defined Ledger Group. Configured the Migration of Cost Elements, Checked the Consistency of General Ledger Accounts and Cost Elements, Migrated Secondary Elements to the Chart of Accounts, Conducted Technical Check and migrated Transaction Data, and Checked the Migration of Balances. Expertise in configuring S/4 Hana Fixed Asset Management. Created asset classes based on depreciation blocks, chart of depreciations for book depreciation, set up the three non-leading ledgers in accordance with tax, group reporting and local GAAP requirements. Configuration of depreciation keys, acquisitions, retirements, transfers, revaluation of assets, capitalization of AUC assets through wbs elements of project systems. Accounts determination for posting depreciation, Performed asset month end activities like depreciation postings and year end closing activities. Page Industries Limited (Jockey), Bangalore, India Dec 20013 Mar 2015 Project: AFS Implementation and Support Role: SAP FICO Consultant Responsibilities: Responsible for the full life cycle (E2E) implementation and post go-live support in FI/CO module. Analyzed the AS-IS condition of the existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineeringand developed Blueprint document. Configured Extended Withholding tax, and Tax procedure and different types of payment terms Configured Cash journal, House banks, payment methods, created check lots , Automatic Payment Program (APP) for outgoing payments, Manual and Electronic Bank reconciliation statements Configured customer account groups, number ranges for customer accounts, tolerance groups, Dunning and created customer masters. Maintained exchange rates, created accounts for exchange difference and foreign ex. Valuations. Configured validations. Also configured financial statement of versions (Balance sheet and Profit and Loss account) Worked on assets inter / intra-company transfer, asset acquisitions, capitalization AUC assets capitalization using project systems, retirements. Maintained Cost center accounting (CO-CCA) cost center hierarchy, cost centers, categories, cost center groups, cost elements for activity allocation, activity types and statistical key figures. Created planning layouts. Configured allocation methods -Assessment, Distribution, Periodic posting. Designed Costingsheet, costing variant, cost component structure, variance key, settlement profile, and valuation variant. Involved in creation of BOM, Routing and Work center. Cost estimate with quantity structure, created settlement profile for variance calculations and WIP calculation. Involved in configuring cost-based COPA, Operating Concern Attributes, created characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in Profitability Analysis, created custom reports like Sales report with Customer, Product and Market segment-wise. Avenue Super Marts Pvt. Ltd (Dmart), Mumbai, India Aug 2011 Nov 2013 Project: Retail Implementation, Rollouts Role: SAP FI/CO consultant Responsibilities: As a part of full life cycle implementation participated in the design process, assisted in defining project scope for the company and planned implementation of GL, AP, AR, Bank, CEA and CCA sub modules using ASAP methodology. Configure General Ledger: which includes chart of Accounts, Account groups, posting periods, activated document splitting for segment report,configured special purpose ledger for reporting purpose, Recurring, and Parking docs. Vendor Master, Vendor groups, number ranges, parking and recurring entries, Special GL transactions like down payments received/made, payment terms, extended withholding tax, service tax, automatic payment program and tax procedure. Customer master records, customer account groups, payment terms and interest calculations, dunning and incoming payments. Defined House banks, bank keys, check lots and check void reasons, manual and electronic bank reconciliation statements. Creation of financial statement version (defining Profit and Loss account, Balance sheet) and integration with FI-SD, FI-MM (Material Management integration). Asset master records, asset classes, account determination, configuration for Asset under construction for work in progress assets and creation of depreciation keys. Configured general controlling settings by defining controlling area, number ranges and versions for controlling area. Customized and Configured General Ledger Account Groups, G/L Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Tolerance Groups & retained earnings account in New GL Premier Tubes Limited, Hyderabad, India Jan,2000 Mar 2011 Role: Accounts Executive Responsible for keeping Books of Accounts, Preparation of Balance Sheet, and Profit and Loss Account on Monthly, Quarterly, Half yearly and Yearly basis. Verification of Bank Reconciliation, Intercompany transactions, handling all other day-to-day activities in the Finance Department. Handled Bank routine works like opening Letters of Credits, Bank Guarantees, submission of bills for collection, submission of stock statements, Operational data monthly and quarterly for Loans taken from the Banks. Preparation of MIS Reports like Debtors & Creditors outstanding statements Budget Reports, monthly operational data etc. Preparation of Income Tax, Sales Tax Returns and attending theAssessments. Maintenance Share Transfer Register, Members Register, Directors Register, Fixed Assets Register, Fixed Deposit Register. Preparing necessary papers for Board meetings. Co-ordination with Internal, Statutory Auditors for finalization Accounts and Tax audits Educational Details Master of Business Admn. (Finance &Accounts), Dr. B R Ambedkar University, India 2002 Keywords: materials management sfour rlang golang hewlett packard trade national microsoft Arkansas Colorado Illinois Louisiana South Dakota Tennessee