SAP Application Analyst
SGB SMIT Group
Total years of experience :16 years, 9 Months
• Managing SAP implementation for FICO and PP.
• Managing change request projects.
• Analyse business procedure and design solutions.
• Working with external consultants to analyse recommended solution and ensuring business needs are met.
As a part of SAP team, working as internal consultant of a manufacturing company HQ in Germany. Looking after FICO change requirements in Malaysia and implementation in other group companies. Extensively working on Product costing, group reporting requirements and COPA. As a part of management team looks after Stakeholders reporting, standardization and variance analysis. Also a key member in group strategy development procedure, implementation and its execution.
Project 1: Implementation
Worked on-site as Senior SAP FICO consultant to implement SAP GST for an IS-Retail client in Malaysia.
• Performed Gap Analysis (AS IS- TO BE) through requirement gathering workshops.
• Prepared detailed blueprint, functional specs, training manuals, test cases and UAT scripts.
• Worked with ABAPers to implement and test enhancements.
• Worked on procure to pay cycle (MM-FI) including consignment procurement for automatic determinations of tax code automatically while preparing Purchase order.
• Worked on IDOCS for POS (SD-MM-FI) integration with SAP.
• Configure tax condition type, tax procedure, tax code and account determination settings in SAP.
• Configured GST-03 related settings.
• Created Validation rules in Financial Accounting
• Developed reports using Abap Query and report painter.
• Performed pre-production data validation, unit and integration testing in test environment.
• Conducted end user training sessions.
• Create data migration template using LSMW.
• Designed cutover strategy for Go-Live.
• Provided Go-Live support.
Project 2: SAP CO Support
Working on-site as SAP FICO consultant involved in design and develop SAP Controlling reports for a client in manufacturing industry.
• Working with stakeholders (C- Level Management) to understand internal management reporting requirements.
• Conduct business and system study and suggest process improvements where ever possible to leverage system performance and features.
• Re-designing cost center and profit center structure as per the requirement.
• Development of costing sheet as per the new requirement.
• Working on Cost center accounting (CCA), Profit center accounting (PCA), Product costing (PC) and CO-PA modules of SAP controlling.
• Prepared blueprint on proposed solutions defining the scope of the project.
• Using report painter to develop reports as per users’ requirements.
• Providing support to internal controlling team on day to day issues.
Worked on-site for providing support to business users for issues related to SAP system. Co-ordinate with 2nd/3rd line support for complex issues. Provide out of hours support for system related change requests.
• Monitor issues as part of the support team and develop reports as per business requirements.
• Prepared detailed user training manuals and conducted training sessions.
• Gather new business requirement and worked with 2nd/3rd line support team to provide resolutions within SLA.
• Configured G/L accounts, bank accounts and automatic account determination.
• Maintained G/L Account, Vendor, Customer and Material master data.
• Tested the solution in Quality system before deploying to Production server.
• Managing Transport requests.
• Resolved tickets within SLA.
SAP Finance junior consultant involved in the design, development, testing and implementation of SAP Financials. Reporting to SAP Project Team Manager, to ensure effective integration of supply chain processes (SD and MM) and Business Intelligence (BI/BW) with Finance. Working within the team and with process owners to develop business cases and scope new projects and enhancements.
Responsibilities:
- Configuring base line package using SAP Best Practice for Financial Accounting (New General Ledger).
- Involved in configuring required settings for VAT with respect to Vendors (AP-MM) & Customers (AR-SD).
- Creation of House Banks, Assigning Bank Accounts to House Banks, creation of check lots.
- Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups/Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments, worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), linking of vendor documents with EDI
- Configuration of Automatic Dunning Program.
- Configured required settings for Travel Management within FI (FI-TM)
- Configured required settings for automatic postings to FI-Payroll area, (FI-HR Integration).
- Configured required settings for automatic integration of FI with Asset Accounting (FI-AA). This included creation of Chart of Depreciation, Asset class, Depreciation areas, depreciation keys and checking integration of asset register with FI ledgers and document postings.
- Configured required settings for automatic integration of FI with Controlling (CO). This included creation of controlling areas, business areas, cost centres, primary and secondary cost elements and checking integration of Controlling with FI ledgers and document posting.
- As a part of the testing team did unit testing of settings configured for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank accounts, APP, Dunning, Asset Accounting, Integration of FI with Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Controlling (FI-CO), Payroll (FI-HR) and SD/MM with main focus on Purchase to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C).
- Set up of data migration files for master data translation.
- CO-OM (Overhead cost controlling)
- Analysis of FI automatic postings, and configuration of CO automatic account assignments.
- Configuration of order types, budget profiles and availability control for internal orders.
- CO-PCA (Profit Center Accounting) Integration with CO-CCA, CO-OM and MM.
- CO-PCA (Profitability Analysis)
- Testing of profitability reports and extra customising for integration of SD billing documents
- CO-Customising/Master Record Translations
Sr. Technical Support
Dell International Services Ltd. | India | www.dell.co.in
12/2009- 01/2011
- Analysed business demand in order to identify functions that can be utilized maximum.
- Planned and designed a new process that resulted in an increase in customer satisfaction rate by 20%, a project that was highly commended by the management.
- Achieved 100% customer satisfaction and 95% resolution rate.
- Resolved critical incidents within SLA for which received recommendations from customer.
- Trained new starters to make them aware of systems and procedure and adapt to the environment quickly.
Process Associate
Wipro Ltd. | India | www.wipro.com
11/2008 - 09/2009
- Achieved 100% customer satisfaction and 95% resolution rate.
- Resolved critical incidents within SLA for which received recommendations from customer.
- Trained new starters to make them aware of systems and procedure and adapt to the environment quickly.
Finance Assistant
Usha Enclave Pvt. Ltd. | India |
06/2005 - 11/2008
- Assisted finance manager in analysing financial data.
- Analysed business demand to identify functions that can be utilized maximum.
- Helped in introducing automized AR/AP system into the organization, increasing profits by 10%.
- Co-ordinated with IT team for design and implementation of automatic AR/AP procedure.
- Analysed blueprint design proposed by different process owners to ensure they align with the intended project.
- Prepared detailed training documentation which helped in staff training.
- Masters of Business Administration (Marketing and Finance) National Institute of Management, India