Praveen - Sr. SAP FICO Consultant / CO solution Architect, SAP Manager - Corp-Corp

Praveen                                                                                                     

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant / CO solution Architect                                                         

Ph: 630-449-7840 / Ajay@neoprisminc.com

 

SUMMARY

·         SAPFICO Consultant with core qualifications in areas of Financials (FI) and Controlling (CO)

·         Seasoned Professional with 13 years of SAP functional consulting experience with excellent record for achieving business objectives in project leadership, business process implementation, solution implementations and delivery.

·         Accomplished five Full life Cycle Implementations and six rollouts, enhancements, support, upgrade Projects with active participation in Blue printing, Cut-Over tasks and Post Implementation support using ASAP Methodologies

·         Worked as FICO solution architect with more emphasis on COPA and product costing

·         Excellent knowledge on the business flows in multiple sectors such as Manufacturing, Public Sector, Financial, Retail, Service, e-commerce, Automobile, Utility and Pharmaceutical industries.

·         Extensively worked on costing based COPA.

·         Worked on new GL and document splitting and designing of custom report using report painter.

·         Project manager experience and effective communicator with all levels of an organization.

·         Experience in implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training and support in SAP ERP Financials, Financial Accounting and Management Accounting.

·         Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules - GL, AR, AP, RM-CA, CI/CC, APP, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product costing (CO-PC).

·         Extensive experience in configuration , testing and implementation in FI/CO modules such as  New General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Dunning, Special Purpose Ledger and Banking, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Product Costing (CO-PC) ,Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

·         In depth understanding of integration of SAP FICO modules with OTC, MM, PP, HR involving automatic account determination

·         Outstanding functional experience in Make to Stock, Make to Order, Production Planning, Process Industries, Repetitive Manufacturing,

·         Experience in sales order costing, mix costing, multi - level BOM costing, internal order costing booking, planning, settlement, PS driven costing with revenue recognition.

·         Proficient in COPA - Costing based COPA, account based COPA, production order settlement to COPA, report summarization, COPA realignment report painter and report forms.

·         Conducted Gap Analysis and interviewed Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.

·         In depth understanding of the As-Is and To-Be business processes and experience in analyzing and converting these requirements into Functional Specifications.

·         Excellent understanding of the business processes, technology, project planning and various stages of project execution life cycle.

·         Expertise in  Tracking, Documenting, Capturing, Managing and Communicating  the Requirements which helped in controlling numerous artifacts produced by the teams across the deliverables for a project

·         Hands on experience in IDocs, flat files and data upload to SAP table, sending and receiving of data form external system.

·         Extensively worked on BI report mapping of Infocubes coordinating with regular data upload and solve issues on miss match figures in BI and COPA reports 

·         Providing post production support and ongoing support for critical issues.

·         Have technical knowledge on ABAP queries, programing, debugging, BDC, and LSMW.

·         Handled multiple projects in various PM tools such as Microsoft Project, Planview, etc., and heavy experience in Microsoft Office and Google Office tools.

·         Strong influence management skills, reporting and analytical/problem solving skills with attention to detail. 

·         Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, proven track of Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP                                         :  Financial accounting: General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables,

                                                   Asset Management, Investment   Management

           Controlling: Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, Profit center -          

           accounting, Internal order, Product cost controlling (PC), Profitability analysis

           (COPA)

           BI, ABAP Springdale, AR Planning (PP), Material Management (MM) Plant   

            Maintenance, Project systems,

                   Human Resource, Quality management, SRM, EC-CS Consolidation

ERP                                        :  SAP R/3 (4.6, 4.7 and ECC 5.0, 6.0)          

Programming Languages  :  C, ABAP/4

Education                              : MBA Finance in 2003 from Osmania University

Microsoft Tools                    : MS Project, VISIO, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook)                                                                        Operating Systems              : Windows 2000 / 2003 / XP / Vista, UNIX

UI Tools                                  : Report Painter, Report Writer, Mass Change, Win shuttle, Resite, Infopak,  

           Mercury Quality Center, LSMW