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SAP FICO consultant - SFFICO

 
Title SAP FICO consultant - SFFICO
Category Cars & Trucks, Etc. : Auto Parts : Engines
Created 03/15/06
Description Only CORP-TO-CORP Contract assignements only.

SUMMARY
• Over 7 years of IT experience including 4+ years of strong functional experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training and support in SAP R/3 FI/CO.
• A proven track record of configuring skills in General Ledger(GL), Accounts Receivable(AR), Accounts Payable(AP), Asset Accounting (Asset Management) and Treasury parts of FI and Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting(CCA), Product Costing(CO-PC), Profitability Analysis(CO-PA) and Profit Center Accounting(CO-PCA) Parts of CO.
• 2 full life cycle implementations experience with ASAP methodology including configuration.
• Strong Integration experience of FI/CO with SD and MM, and through understanding of FI/CO, SD and MM function modules.
• Expertise in Creating Reports using Report Painter and in reconciliation.
• Expertise in Automatic Payment Program, Dunning Program, Validations and Substitutions, Lockbox Processing Program.
• Experience in ABAP/4 Programming with Interfaces, Reports, SAP Scripts, Dialog Programming, and Smart forms.
• Experience in giving End User Training Using INFOPAK Training Tool.
• Good experience in handling the Functional aspects like Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis and Financial Management.
• Experience in Gathering/analyzing the business requirements, business processes, which included analyzing the legacy systems and converting them into functional specifications with data element details in a view to fill the gaps between the exact and the Legacy Systems and also to full fill the user requirements and workflows.


SKILLS SETS

SAP R/3 SKILLS
FI/CO Skills:
• FI Enterprise Structure: Company code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Fiscal year Variant.
• General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Key Configuration, Automatic Account Determination, G/L Display configurations, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges and Document Types.
• Accounts Payable: Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts, Payment Program Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master Data and Vendor Groups.
• Accounts Receivable: Creation of Terms of Payment and Interest Calculation, Reason Codes, Default Account Assignment, Credit management and Creation of Customer Master Records.
• Treasury: Lockbox Processing, Bank Account G/L Structure, Liquidity Forecast Cash Management Position, Cash Concentration, Bank Statement Processing, and Exchange Rates.
• Asset Management: Creation of Assets Master records, Handling Depreciation for these Assets, Calculation of Scrap value for these Assets at the time of Sale of Fixed Assets and posting the profit/loss in the respective G/L accounts.
• Integration of FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules of a Business Module.
• Cost Element Accounting: Cost Element Types, Automatic Cost Element Creation, Reconciliation Ledger, and Explanation of CO Updates.
• Cost Center Accounting: Cost Center Accounting Configuration, Controlling Area/Profit Center Accounting Maintenance, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, Reposting, Cost Center Accounting, and Automatic Account Assignment in CO.
• Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern Development, Characteristic Derivation, Assigning Values to Value Fields, CO-PA planning, Activation of CO-PA, and CO-PA Reporting.
• Profit Center Accounting: Introduction to PCA Configuration Basic Settings and Master Data Review, Assignments in Profit Center Accounting, Actual Posting Maintenance and Profit Center Accounting Planning.
ABAP/4 Skills:
• Reports (classical, Interactive and ALV).
• Data Dictionary (Tables, Structures, Data Elements, Domains, Search Helps, Lock Objects).
• Module Pool Programming.
• Batch Data Communication (Call Transaction, Session Method, BAPI and LSMW).
• Sap Scripts (Layout set designing and modification of layouts).
• Exposure to ALE, RFC, IDOC, EDI, WORKFLOW, USER EXITS.
Management Skills:
• Experience in handling all types of back office management functions, including employee relations and accounting.
• Experience in Analyzing, Interpreting, and implementing the given data.
• Oversaw client relations, order processing and routine upkeep of the business.
• Coordinated efforts between customers’ needs and group personnel.
• Delegated suggestions and duties to other team members. Team Leading Skills.
• Highly Adapted individual with Motivation to Develop Successful solutions.

COMPUTER SKILLS

ERP Modules : SAP R/3–ABAP, FICO 3.1H, 4.0 to 4.6C and 4.7
Database : MS-Access, SQL Server 2000
Operating System : Windows 98/2000/NT, UNIX, Red Hat Linux
Programming
Languages : ABAP/4, C, C++, JAVA, Mat lab, PL/SQL
Modeling Tools : Microprocessor simulators, Mat lab environment
Others : Adobe, AutoCAD, Microsoft office suite.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration with Finance as major
from Osmania University, India.
BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
from University college of Engineering, Osmania University, India.
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from NIIT, India

SAP EXPERIENCE
Electro Scientific Industry Inc. (ESI), Portland, OR. April 05 – Present
SAP FI/CO consultant
Description: ESI supplies high value, high-technology manufacturing equipment to the global electronics market, built upon a history and tradition of innovation that extends more than 50 years. ESI manufactures advanced laser system to be used by semiconductor manufacturers in the repair of dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
Involved in:
• Configuring the G/L Accounts, Vendor and Customer Master Data, Defining the Tax on Sales and Purchases.
• Configuring all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration to generate the Payment Advice notes and to print the checks to make the payment for all Account Payable that are due, clearing of vendor and customer accounts that are due Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for Payment Program, and Credit Management.
• Configuring the House Banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Integration of MM and SD with FI account assignment.
• Configuring Controlling Area, Assigned the Company Code and Chart of Accounts to Controlling Area.
• Creating Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Assigning the Cost Elements to various Cost Centers, Activating the Reconciliation Ledger and maintaining Accounts for Automatic Reconciliation Posting in Cost Element Accounting
• Creating and Customizing Cost Centers, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, Reconciliation Ledgers, Assessment, Distribution, Allocation using Cycle-Segment Method for Periodic Reposting in Cost Center Accounting.
• Designing and configuring the Hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of Profit Center Accounting. Creating Profit Centers and Assigning Cost Centers. Assigning Balance Sheet items to respective Profit Centers.
• Analyzing the existing system for as is study; gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis for filling the gaps between exact and legacy systems, and closed the gaps by providing appropriate solutions.

Neutrogena Corporation, NJ Oct 04 – April 05
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Description: Neutrogena subsidiary provides a variety of dermatological potions, such as moisturizing lotions and creams used to treat acne, fungal infections, and damage caused by chronic sun exposure and old age. Neutrogena also offers a line of Neutrogena cosmetics with therapeutic benefits, as well as other personal care products such as shampoos and conditioners.
Responsibilities:
• Configured the G/L Accounts, Vendor and Customer Master Data, Defined the Tax on Sales and Purchases, Tax Accounts.
• Configured all business transactions for Accounts Payable and Account Receivables including the Payment Program Configuration and Automatic Check Payment Advice and Payment Analysis Printing, Clearing of Vendor and Customer Open Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for Payment Program, Credit Management, Periodic Processing, Correspondence.
• Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account reconciliation program. Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category. Integration of MM and SD with FI account assignment.
• Configured settings for Controlling Area and Operating Concern, maintained Versions.
• Configuring the Asset Management Module: Creating Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes,
• Assigning G/L account to asset classes, Screen layout for master data, depreciation Areas, Group
• Fixed Assets Configuration, Accounts for Posting Depreciation, Depreciation Key configuration, Acquisitions,
• Retirements, Transfers, Revaluation of Assets, Capitalization of Assets, assets data transfer
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, Costing Sheet etc.
• In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, distribution and assessment, indirect activity allocations. In cost center planning developed planning area, planning layout and planner profile.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured both costing based CO-PA and account based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured valuation using product costing and costing sheet. Defined various reports. Configured CO-PA planning, including creating planning levels plan package and planning methods.
• In Product Costing Creation of Material Master, Define Cost Centers, Creating Secondary Cost Elements, Creating Activity type, and Executing Planning Price Calculation.
• Define the G/L accounts for Asset Accounting as reconciliation accounts management, month-end closing and financial reports.
• Worked with Year End Closing and Month End Closing procedure

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX May 04 – Oct 04
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Description: Texas Instruments Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age.
Responsibilities.
• Involved in analyzing the existing system for as is study; gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and; closed the gaps by providing appropriate solutions.
• Involved in Configuring and Demonstrating SAP R/3 capabilities to Client Team by prototyping business scenarios based on the business requirements of the client.
• Configured and Customized General Ledger – Created Master Records, configured Number Ranges and G/L Accounts for Company Code and added new Accounts, assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Code, defining Field Status Variant, Fiscal Year Variant.
• Worked on Customer/Vendor Master Records, created Tolerance Limits as per business requirement for Over Payments and Under Payments, Reason Codes in Customer Accounts, Configured Credit Management Area, Interest Calculation and Payment Terms as per Customers Needs, Check Void Reasons, and Payment Advices.
• Configured Controlling Area, assigned Company Code to Controlling Area, and assigned Number Ranges to Controlling Area.
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Cost Element Groups, Cost Element Attributes.
• In Cost Center Accounting, created Cost Centers, Cost Center Groups, maintained Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, assigned Cost Centers to respective Profit Centers. Configured Activity Types, Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• In Profit Center Accounting, maintained Profit Center Standard Hierarchy, Assessment and Distribution of Costs.
• Created Internal Orders for various project implementations, assigned the costs incurred by Internal Orders from different Cost Centers, distributed the costs incurred by Internal Orders to the respective Cost Centers.
• In Product Costing, maintained over head groups, Defined Costing Sheet, Assigned Costing Sheet to the Controlling Area, Defined Cost Component Structure.
• Involved in resolving Production Support issues relating to creation of Characteristic Fields, Value Fields, assigning value to Value Fields .

Nortel Inc., Dallas, TX Oct 03 – May 04
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant
Description: Nortel is a multinational telecommunication company involved in the production and marketing of telecommunication gear around the world. Satyam along with CSCs Nortel support team provides SAP development, rollouts and production support across various modules in a number of locations across the world.
Responsibilities:
• Involved in Configuring and Customizing FI/CO modules.
• Defined different parameters for Company, Company Code, Business Area, Functional Area, and Credit Control Area.
• Defined Fiscal Year Variants and assigned Fiscal Year Variants to various Company Codes.
• Made initial settings for: Customer/Vendor Master Records, display and processing of Line Items of Documents, Correspondence, displaying Account Balances, Interest Calculation and Posting, Credit Management and Closing Operations.
• Defined Automatic Procedures such as Payment Program and Dunning Program.
• Customized Accounting Transactions for GL Posting, AR/AP Posting and Recurring Entries.
• Provided configuration support in MM Integration for Account Determination, Material Movement Setup.
• Defined Organizational Structures required for Fixed Assets. Defined Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas and Depreciation Keys. Defined required Period Control Methods and Special Valuations. Configured for Low Value Fixed Assets. Uploading of Legacy Data, Reconciliation of Net Value of Assets with Legacy Data.
• Defined Net Worth Reports for Property Tax Calculations.
• Created Reports as per the requirements of the Customer.
• Performed Period End Operations including Depreciation Run, Posting to General Ledger, and Tax Reports.
• Configured Lock Box Processing, Defined Lock Box Processing Program, worked on Liquidity Forecast, and Cash management in Treasury.
• In Controlling Defined the Master Records like Cost Elements (Primary and Secondary), Cost Element Groups, Reconciliation Ledger, Cost Centers, Time-Based Fields, Cost Center Groups and Standard Hierarchy.
• Creating Profit Centers including Dummy Profit Center.
• Defined Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures for Calculation of Overheads.
• Defined Distribution and Assessment Cycles for Departmental Allocations and Defined Planning Profiles.
• In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the Operating Concern, configured Costing Based and Account Based Profitability Analysis. Created the Characteristics and Value Fields, and Profitability Segments used in Profitability Analysis. Maintained the Derivative Structures and Rule and assigned Values to Value Fields. Defined Basic Reports and form Reports. Configured Planning Profile and Layouts.
• Worked with Year End Closing and Month End Closing procedure.
• Provided Functional and Technical Specifications for ABAP developments.

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, India Feb 02 – Oct 03
SAP FI/CO Techno Functional Consultant.
ABAP R/3: Report Painter, SAP Scripts.
Description: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is an emerging, global pharmaceutical company with proven research capabilities that exports branded formulations and generic formulations to over 60 countries and a few of their products such as Norfloxacin, Ciprofloxacin and Enrofloxacin enjoy a large customer base.
Responsibilities:
• Configured the G/L Accounts, Vendor and Customer Master Data, defined the Tax on Sales and Purchases, Tax Accounts.
• Configured all Business Transactions for Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable, including the Payment Program Configuration and Automatic Check Payment Advice and Payment Analysis Printing, clearing of Vendor and Customer Open Items, Bank Master Data, House Banks for Payment Program, Credit Management, Periodic Processing, and Correspondence.
• Configured the House Banks, G/L Accounts for Bank Accounts and Bank Account Reconciliation Program, Integration of MM and SD with FI Account Assignment.
• Designed and Created Cost Center Hierarchy. Created Cost Centers, Designed and Created Assessment Cycles to Allocate Overhead Costs.
• Designed and configured the Hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of Profit Center Accounting. Created Profit Centers and Assignment Cost Centers. Assignment of Balance Sheet items to respective Profit Centers. Created Distribution and Assessment Cycles.
• Worked with Year End Closing and Month End Closing procedure
• Developed the various Reports using Report Painter, Report Writer ALV List, ALV grid, ALV Tree in SD, MM, FI and PP.
• Developed a Report Open Purchase Orders for getting the immediate information on Purchase Orders. Extract data from EKKO, EKPO, MARA, and MARC. Selection criteria are Plant, Material Number, and Procurement Type, Purchase Order Document Type. It will display Purchase Order Number, Purchase Order Quantity, Quantity of Goods Received, and Purchasing Document Item Change Date.
• Creation of Interactive Report to Output Vendor details like Vendor Name and Address etc., in the Basic list and Bank details like Account No., Banker's Name and Address in the Secondary Lists.

Reliance Global Technologies, India Sep 01 – Feb 02
SAP FI/CO Techno Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
• Configured settings in the GL, House Bank, Interest Calculation, Foreign Currency Exchange Rate and Valuation, GR/IR Clearing Account and Automatic Clearing to Suit Client Organization Parameters.
• Prepared configuration setting for Cross Company Code Transactions, Line Item Display, and Open Item Processing for G/L, AR and AP.
• Created Terms Of Payment and Tax Code on Purchase and Sales.
• Configured Master Data of Vendors and Customers.
• Configured Incoming and Outgoing Invoice, Incoming and Outgoing Payment to meet the need of the Organization.
• Created Cost Elements, Cost Elements Group, Cost Center, Cost Center Group, Profit Center, and Profit Center Hierarchy.
• Successfully tested Critical Business Transactions in the Finance Module including Vendor and Customer Invoices and Payments, Document Fast Entry, G/L Posting, and Recurring Entry Programs.
• Tested the Generation of Reports in respect of Account Statements, Special Reports to Reflect Due-Date-Forecast Analysis, Purchasing/Sales lists, Open Item Analysis, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account Statements.

NON-SAP EXPERIENCE

Indian Satellite Research& Development Organization (ISRO), Hyderabad
Technical Programmer Feb ’00 -Sep ’01
Description: Worked with Information and management systems team, developing software applications for electronics and information systems research. Work involved technical analysis of test data and interpretation of the results. The huge test data is obtained from real-time experiments, and is channeled into a huge mainframe computer. The routines written in the application programs provide the technical analysis. Provided support to the team with modification of the routines and data management.
Environment: C++, Mat lab, Auto CAD, Windows 98/NT
Responsibilities:
• Customizing application programs as per the suggested variations
• Technical analysis of the huge data and interpretation of results
• Documentation of the programs and the results

Indus Research& Development Organization, Hyderabad
Technical Programmer Aug’98-Feb’ 00
Description: This project involved the development of an API for the transfer protocol on Internet using socket programming in ‘C’. This API is for communicating with the WebTP application, in order to transfer file over the Internet. The API is created to perform the appropriate functions like socket creation & closing, IP checking, read, write etc. The main code calls for the functions of this API to initiate the file transfer. Further, the time-related functions have been used to perform routine checks for an orderly socket functioning.
Environment: C, TCP/IP Protocol, Ethernet LAN, Windows 98/NT
Responsibilities:
• System Analysis, High-level design
• Detail Design of TCP/IP stack
• Software Architecture implementation for entire project and Integration of protocols


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