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Chandrakanth - SAP FICO

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Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

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Visa: H1B

CHANDRAKANTH Sr. SAP FICO Functional Consultant Email: (678) 707-2060 Fifteenplus years of overall experience including 15 plus yearsof capacious experience in SAP R/3 Financial Accounting and controlling modules. SAP Certified Application Professional - Financials in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP Finance Experts 1709. Involved in 6 Full Life Cycle implementations using ASAP methodology, Upgrades &3production support projects including ticket resolving.4 Full Life Cycle Implementation experience in Product Costing, COPA and Material Ledger/Actual Costing. Experience in Analyzing business requirements, Implementation, Customization, Configuration, Process mapping, Integrating, Testing, Documentation and End User Training. Extensive knowledge with all aspects of Configuration and Customization of SAP FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AM, CO-CEA, CO-CCA, CO-PC, CO-PCA, CO-PA. Worked on ASAP methods of project preparation to identify business objectives to integrate industries, blueprint of the company requirements, realization of the configuration or proof of concept, final preparation of testing, interfaces, conversions, reporting, training, and the go live and support. Significant knowledge in FI/MM and FI/SD, FI/PP integration. Used Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) for data Upload for Various SAP Projects. Interfaced with Migration of data and integration with modules like FI-MM, FI-SD and BI. Conceptually good at configuring Procure to Pay (PTP) and Order to Cash (OTC) in SAP. Expertise in all implementation phases that include business process analysis, GAP Analysis/Blue Print Phase, Implementation, Unit, Integration and End-User Testing, Cut-Over strategy, Data Migration, Go-live and Post Go-Live. Extensively worked with ABAP and BW teams in support of developing functional specifications for (FRICE) Forms, Reports, Interfaces, Conversion programs and Enhancements. Expertise in providing Super User Training and preparation of BPP s, work instructions, quick reference guides, transaction aids, job aids and cheat sheets. Strong technical, analytical skills combined with outstanding leadership ability, creative problem solving skills in both strategic and tactical areas. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Univar Solutions Sept 22 to Present SAP CO Functional Consultant Responsibilities: Responsibilities included the functional support for SAP S4 HANA Controlling module. Support day to day issues related to Product Costing, Material Ledger, Actual Costing Valuation and Transfer pricing functionality for North and South Americas company codes. Responsibilities include but not limited to Period End Closing Activities WIP, variance and Settlements conversions activities Material Master, Activity types etc. Feasibility study of CPA (Combined Profitability Analysis) Transport Management issues. Post Go-live support to Brazil company code. Supporting the FI-TM integration. Resolving day to day issues in FI-CO, AA, FI-SD,CFIN and FI-MM. Work with business management to gather requirements and prepare As-Is and To-Be Configuration changes Resolving issues related to subcontracting and subcontracting external operations. Configured Incoming and outgoing payments, Dunning letters and correspondences. FXI Holdings/PWC Feb 22 to Aug 2022 SAP CO/ML Functional LEAD Responsibilities: SAP S4HANA FICO Functional Lead SAP in providing application,P&L and Allocations Assessment Solution and functional implementation and support of SAP FICO Module including Product Costing, Material Ledger Cost Center Accounting, COPA Assessment and realignment of Value fields and Characteristic derivations. and Inventory Management, with Integration of logistics modules MM - Material management and PP in Repetitive/Discreet Manufacturing. P&L and Allocations Assessment Solution Proposals for PPV allocation, MUV and Labor Variance and Freight IN-OUT allocation, Realignment of COPA Value fields. Resolving issues related to subcontracting and subcontracting external operations. Realignment of Cost Component structure and ML Closing process. Mohawk Industries Oct 17 to Feb 2022. SAP FICO Functional LEAD Responsibilities: SAP FICO Functional Lead in providing application and functional implementationand support of SAP FICO Module including FI-AP, FI-AR, GL, AA and Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, and Inventory Management, with Integration of logistics modules MM - Material management and PP in Repetitive/Discreet Manufacturing. BIO-RAD laboratories Jun 16 to Sept 2017. SAP CO Consultant Responsibilities: Responsibilities included the Implementation of Product Costing, Material Ledger, Actual Costing Valuation and Transfer pricing functionality for Europe company codes Responsibilities include but not limited to Product Costing, Material Ledger/Actual Costing and Period End Closing Activities WIP, variance and Settlements conversions activities Material Master, Activity types etc. Resolving issues related to subcontracting and subcontracting external operations. Rockwell Automation Milwaukee, WI (Wipro) Mar 16 to June 16 Principle SAP FICO Lead Consultant Responsibilities: I was contracted to analyze existing design the Business process for Engineering to Order Product Costing Material Ledger/ Actual Costing and Costing based COPA and as a Lead for FICO Team.Involved in meetings arranged with process team to obtain a snap shot of the company existing business processes and provide them with the new functionality to their current system using SAP best practices.Material ledger/Actual costing, Transfer pricing. AP/AR, Inventory Management.Service orders, repairs, settlement of repair orders, results analysis, WIP and Variances. Created and validated all the Customer and vendor master data as part of cutover activities. Mizkan, Chicago, IL (SAP Americas) Nov 15 to Mar 16 Principle SAP CO Consultant Responsibilities: I was contracted to analyze and design the Business process for Product Costing Material Ledger/ Actual Costing and Costing based COPA. Build a prototype, implement the functionality, test the functionality in several cycles, create functional specifications, build the documentation, train users, prepare for go-live, lead the execution of going live, and to support the first period end close and other post-go-live activities. Material ledger/Actual costing, revaluation, revaluation of consumption Service orders, repairs, settlement of repair orders, results analysis, WIP and Variances. Month end closing and Settlement of order to Costing based COPA. Kwik Trip, La Crosse, WI (Cap Gemini) Mar 15 to Nov 15 Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Version: SAP ECC 6.0 Responsibilities: Sr. SAP CO Functional Specialist in providing application and functional implementation of SAP Controlling Module including Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, and Inventory Management, MM - Material management and PP in Process Manufacturing. Configured and Full Life Cycle Implemented SAP ECC 6 Product costing. Responsible for SAP controlling (CO) sub-modules: product cost planning, cost object controlling, Cost center accounting, and feasibility Analysis of Profitability analysis. Designed the Material and Production overhead costing sheet process. Configured costing sheets to calculate overhead expenses. Over Head posting to separate Cost center per each plant Defined variance keys to determine the value of scrap for variance determination. Defined RA keys for period end WIP determination. And settlement of process orders. Westlake chemical Houston, TX Mar 14 to Feb 15 Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Version: SAP ECC 6.0 Responsibilities: Served as a Sr. SAP FICO Functional Specialist in providing application and functional implementation of SAP Controlling Module including Product Costing, ML/Actual costing, Cost Center Accounting, AP/AR, Inventory Management and functionality for NASP and NAPCO plants. Actual costing, revaluation, revaluation of consumption Independent execution of small projects and enhancements in the SAP Product Costing, Inventory Management & Valuation, Integration of SAP FI/CO & SAP Logistics Mohawk Industries (Dal-Tile) Dallas, TX Dec 12 to Feb 2014 Sr. SAP CO Consultant Version: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6 Responsibilities: Served as a Sr. SAP CO Functional Specialist in providing application and functional implementation of SAP Controlling Module including Product Costing, Material Ledger/Actual Costing Cost Center Accounting, Inventory Management, functionality in ECC 5.0 and also was involved in the Upgrade project from EHP 5 to EHP 6. Material Ledger Expert Developed solution using ML group valuation, legal valuation with parallel ledger in SAP ECC6 EHP5. Conduct business workshops to determine strategy, resource timing and budgeting of planned deliverable, developed project plan for Material Ledger implementation and integration. Designed and developed solution Product Costing with quantity structure, this involves strategy design, business process prototyping and configuration. Developed prototype solution to for Brazilian localization which includes actual costing, revaluation of inventory and COGS to the extent of goods sold, WIP revaluation, Parallel ledger, Inter and Intra company transfer with and without markups between plants and legal entities with currency translation. Intuitive Surgical Inc, Sunnyvale, CA May 12 to Dec 2012 Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Version: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 5 Responsibilities: Involved in the full life cycle implementation of SAP CO for ECC 6.0 Version. Responsibilities included the Implementation of Material Ledger, Split Valuation and Transfer pricing functionality to the ECC 6.0 with 5 Unilever Englewood Cliffs, NJ July 11 to April 2012 Sr. SAP CO Consultant Version: SAP 6.0 Responsibilities: Served as aSr. SAP CO Functional Specialist in providing application and functional implementation of Product Costing and Material Ledger/Actual Costing functionality in ECC 6.0 handed the project individually for the above modules and Co-ordinate the offshore team for the ABAP development. Easton Bell Sports. Irving, TX Feb 2011 to June 2011 Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Version ECC 6.0 Responsibilities: Responsible for Product Costing, Profitability Analysis and All Other Modules of FICO. Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, GL, AR, AP and Credit Management Modules. Supported Account based and Costing Based COPA.Created the AS-IS Model of the system and performed a complete GAP analysis to identify problems and inconsistencies with the business requirements specification and the existing system. Compressor Works. Dallas, TX Oct 10 to Feb2011 Sr. SAP CO Consultant (Bokanyi Consulting Implementation) Version: SAP 6.0 Responsibilities: Implemented product costing across all plants globally, with standard cost set up using a global standard across all company codes. Involved in design, implementation, Integrated testing go-live and hyper care phases of the project. Led the CO module blue printing of the Standard cost roll process for quarterly and daily cost roll of materials. Designed involved having one standard cost for all materials. Configured the Cost component structure and all MM-FI integration as it relates to cost accounting. Tate &Lyle. Decatur, IL July 10 to Oct 2010 Sr SAP FICO Consultant Version: SAP 6.0 Responsibilities: I was involved in the implementation of Australian and New Zealand and also provided support, enhancements, custom reports for the North America.Customized General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables and Accounts payable.Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, G/L accounts for each bank account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets. Whirlpool Corporation. St Joseph/Benton Harbor, MI April 10 to July 10 Sr. SAP CO Consultant Version: SAP 6.0 Responsibilities: I was involved in full life cycle implementation Planning, Design phase of the project. Gathered requirements, designed the solutions and configured the system in Product Costing, Material Ledger/Actual Costing, Profitability analysis and Integration with project systems(PS) (New product Development/Sample production) cost and revenue elements, allocations and distributions. Brown Shoe, (CIBER Implementation) St. Louis, MO Jan 10 to April 10 Sr. SAP CO Consultant Version: SAP AFS 6.3 Responsibilities: Responsible for Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders. Is Involved in full life cycle; gathered requirements, designed the solutions and configured the system in Product Costing, Internal order s (Sample production) and Profitability analysis for both Account based and Costing Based COPA. Executed product cost planning for materials with quantity structure and also without quantity structure.Build Processes around Variance calculation, WIP calculation, Settlement of Production orders as well as Product Cost Collectors. Whirlpool Corporation. St Joseph/Benton Harbor, MI Sep 09 to Jan 5 10 Sr. SAP FICO Product Costing Consultant (Accenture) Version: Production Support SAP R/3 4.7 Responsibilities: My role was to support the Client for CCA, PCA, CO-PC in providing solutions for the issues pertaining to configuration changes needed Version 4.7, and also Yearend closing activities for SAP Product Costing.In Product costing Handled Issues with Regular Cost Fail Analysis, new cost estimates (Monthly Costing), Issues with Valuation variant strategies. Intel Corporation Folsom, CA Feb 09 to Sep 09 Sr. SAP CO Product Costing Consultant Version: Implementation &Up gradation from 4.6 to ECC 6.0 Responsibilities: I have been contracted as Product Costing for a management reporting project and to support (functionally) a release upgrade from release 4.6 to ECC 6.0.Responsible for SAP controlling (CO) sub-modules: product cost planning, cost object controlling. Analyzed the AS-IS system, did a profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped the TO-BE system on SAP at client s site.Configuration of overhead accounting, product cost by period and product cost by Order.Implementation of material Ledger/Actual Costing. SanDisk, Inc. Milpitas CA July 08 to Jan 09 Sr. SAP COTrack forProduct Costing & PA in Discrete manufacturing. Version ECC 6.0 Full Life Cycle Implementation Responsibilities: Product Specialist in product costing in discrete manufacturing. Configured and Full Life Cycle Implemented SAP ECC 6 Product costing.Responsible for SAP controlling (CO) sub-modules: product cost planning, cost object controlling, Cost center accounting, Profitability analysis. NIKE Inc, Beaverton, OR Dec 07 to June 08 Sr. SAP FICO Consultant CO-PC, CO-CCA, CO-PA, SAP MM Version: SAP 4.6 C Responsibilities: Configured and implemented SAP R/3 4.6C product costing and MM. Responsible for SAP controlling (CO) sub-modules: product cost planning, cost object controlling, cost center accounting, profitability analysis and project systems (PS). Configuration included make-to-sales order related production, make-to-stock (MTS), multi level make-to-order (MTO) and variant configuration (VC).Existing production orders were linked to product cost collectors to allow recognition of variances on WIP.Period end activities included analysis of WIP and production variances.Twelve monthly activities included mark and release of standard cost estimates. Integration of CO-PC with material masters, production orders, BOMs, routings. Creation of costing variants, valuation variants, costing sheets and costing types. Sun Chemical, Cincinnati, OH Aug 06 to Nov 07 SAP FICO Consultant for Full Life Cycle Implementation (AP, CO-CCA, PCA,PA) Version: SAP ECC 6.0 Responsibilities: Responsibilities involve configuring and customizing Accounts Payable sub module. Worked as a team with a couple of FI/CO in support of financial business requirements in the general ledger FI-GL, account receivable FI-AR and accounts payable FI-AP, cost and profit center CO-CCA/PCA, internal orders CO-IO, product costing CO-PC, and profitability analysis CO-PA.Gathered high-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy (enterprise model). Supported all phases of a Full Project Life Cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of solutions, and end-user training by using ASAP methodology. Maytag Corporation, Schaumburg, IL Jun 05 Jul 06 SAP FICO Consultant for Full Life Cycle (Asset Management) Version: SAP R/34.7 Responsibilities: Designed the complete Fixed Asset / Asset Accounting / Asset Management processes that include identification of business needs, configuration, Prototyping, Country specific treatment of Depreciation, Fixed Asset classes, tax laws, special valuation, Lease accounting, Reporting, month/year end closing processes and Data conversion. Scotts Company, Marysville, OH Feb 04 May 05 SAP FICO Consultant for FI-AR and Cash Management Version: SAP R/3 4.6C Responsibilities: The project covered the Full Life Cycle of understanding the existing structure and business processes of the organization, relating it with the standard processes of SAP, reorganizing the existing structure and processes and implementing the same in the SAP R/3 System by means of configuration and customization FI-AR. Kimberly Clark Corp, Knoxville, Tennessee Aug 03 Jan 04 SAP FICO Functional Consultant (CO-CCA, EC-PCA, CO-PA) Responsibilities: Configured Cost Center Accounting cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, cost center standard hierarchy, cost center categories, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions.Configured Cost allocations respective cost elements, cost center distribution and assessment.Configured Cost Center Planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile. Deco Light Ceramics Pvt Ltd: July 2003 to Aug 2004 Junior Accountant Assisted the senior management in the day-to-day accounts related work. Assisted in finalizing the accounts. Prepared vouchers, petty cash book, daybook, cash book, recording bills, BRS statements, ledgers, P&L account and Balance sheet were also part of the job responsibilities. EDUCATION: Masters in Business Administration in Finance, Osmania University, India Bachelor sDegree in (Finance & Commerce), India. Certifications: SAP Certified Application Professional - Financials in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP Finance Experts 1709 https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/3fdfe91a-06ad-4d8d-9bcd-74f2ced495fb/public_url References furnished on request. Keywords: cprogramm machine learning access management materials management business intelligence sfour rlang information technology golang business works Arkansas California Colorado Illinois Louisiana Michigan Missouri New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania South Dakota Texas Wisconsin