Raju Kumarasamy, SAP FI Consultant

Raju Kumarasamy

SAP FI Consultant

Zero Five Zero Telecom

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Finance and Systems
Experience
24 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 0 Months

SAP FI Consultant at Zero Five Zero Telecom
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2015

Exposure in SAP methodology, understanding of Business process.
 Translating business requirements into proper FICO configuration and provide “best practices” advice when these requirements were developed.
 Configured settings for Company Code, Chart of Accounts, Account Groups and
Retained Earning Accounts to create GL Master, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting
Period Variant, Field Status Variant and Field Status Groups, leading and non
leading ledgers, and document splitting.
 Accounts Receivable & Accounts payable: Master data, payment configurations,
special G/L transactions, payment terms and dunning.
 Defining house banks, banks master data, G/L accounts for each bank account,
Configured Automatic Payment Program.
 Asset management - Chart of depreciation, Account determination, Screen
Layout Rules, Integration with GL accounting, Depreciation area, Asset class,
Depreciation key.
 Proficient in Setting up of integration between FI-MM, FI-SD.
 Design, Configured settings of Controlling Area, maintained Versions, cost center
Hierarchy Creation of Cost elements, Cost Center accounts, Activity Types.
 Participated in data migration technologies for transferring legacy data through
LSMW.
 Documented end user manuals and training material and conducting end user
training on GL, AP, AR and AA modules.
 Involved in unit testing and integration testing.
 Configuration of Substitution and Validation at FI level.

Sap FICO Consultant at Gulf Steel Strands FZE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2013 to September 2015

General Ledger Configuration (FI-GL):
• Configured settings for Company code.
• Define Account Group Document Type, Document Number Range.
• Posting Period, Field Status Variant.
• Assign Posting Key for G/L, Default Value Configuration.

Account Receivables / Account Payable (FI-AP & FI-AR):
• Created & Maintained Vendor/Customer Master data.
• Maintained required settings in Accounts Payable viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.
• Configuration and creation of house banks, bank accounts and assignment of these accounts to a check lot.
• Configured automatic payment program for out-going payments in A/P.
• Configured payment terms, over-due interest calculations, cash discounts and automatic clearing of line items.
• Have worked on Partial, Residual Payment types.
• Creating Tax codes and defining tax accounts in configuration, Tax on sales and purchases, Withholding taxes, Defining tax calculation procedure for tax types.
• Configuring dunning procedure, dunning area and dunning levels
• Providing production support in FICO modules.
• Involved in FI-SD and FI-MM Integration

Controlling (CO):
• Knowledge of making Cost Centers and Profit Centers.

SAP FICO Consultant at MARG Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • March 2012 to September 2013

Understanding Business process of the Client’s Business and actively involved in
SAP- FI/CO work environment.
 Identifying Business requirement and functionality.
 Testing of General Ledger, Bank Accounts, Accounts Payable, and Accounts
Receivable.
 Testing up of Integration with MM and SD Modules.
 Preparing the test scenarios for Unit testing. Documentation of the UT and UAT.
 Creating User Guides, Training materials for users.
 Performing the SIT after changes and get UAT sign off documents from user
 Scheduling, releasing and monitoring the jobs in the production system.
 Involved in configuration changes and interfaces between SAP and other source
systems.
 Preparing Application Design document (ADD) and preparing test scenarios for
testing to upload in Application Lifecycle management(ALM)

Sap FICO Consultant at Brooklyn Technology Services Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2010 to March 2012

G/L, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Co,

Accounts Officer at Madras Cements Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • May 2003 to July 2010

MIS, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, BRS,
Month end Closing, Year End Closing .

Accountant at Ganapathi General Trading Co
  • India
  • January 2000 to April 2003

• Basic accounting entries like payment vouchers, journal vouchers, cash vouchers, recording sales, bank reconciliation.
• Monthly financial closing, prepare monthly consolidation, management reporting of variances.
• Preparation of various statements using MS Excel and drafting of various letter with the help of MS Word, also worked on MS PowerPoint.
• Prepare Monthly management reporting. Provide analytic and ad Various reports to senior management.
• Issue of monthly customer account statements and follow up of receivables and payables every month.
• Prepare monthly invoices along with delivery orders to customers and follow up for collection of invoices, Issue of receipts and handle of inquiries.
• Data entry, day to day financial transactions such as stock entries and book keeping up to finalization of accounts (i.e. accruals, allocations, balance sheet review).
• Preparing monthly income statement and post it to the trial balance and balance sheet.
• Handling & Reconciling 20 Van Sales Reps statements on monthly basis.
• Checking of Reconciliation of all Banks & necessary entries.
• Checking and coding of all the Local vendor Invoices & Warehouse expenses.
• Analysing the Vehicle expenses and Fuel.
• Surprise visit and checking of cash in all the warehouses once in a month.
• Clearing accounts of other suppliers, .
• Preparation of Balance sheet schedules with proper backup and providing required explanation on monthly basis.
• Monitoring and maintain the credit days as per the management approval.

Education

Master's degree, Finance and Systems
  • at Thiyagarajar School of Management
  • April 2008

MBA First Class, SAP S4 HANA FI Certified Consultant

Specialties & Skills

MIS Reporting
Microsoft Excel
MBA Finance
sap fico
SAP FICO , Accounting & Finance

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Telugu
Beginner

Training and Certifications

SAP S4 HANA Financial Accounting Associates 1709 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2018
Valid Until:
January 9999