Vivek P Amara

  • SAP and Oracle BA / FA Consultant
  • North Chesterfield, VA
  • Member Since May 13, 2023

Candidates About

 

Vivek P Amara

Professional Experience

More than 11 years of ERP experience in Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting  Budget, Economics in SAP, Oracle R12 Apps Tech/Functional, JD Edwards, and basic skills People Soft and, Great Planes  environment.

 

SAP Functional Consultant (remote to India)

Ilogix IT Services Pvt Ltd                                                                                      Oct 12 – Jul 2017

Chester, VA

Areas of Practice/Industry Lines:                                                                                               

  • Working as a Consultant part of SAP ECC 6.0 Global FI/CO Implementation Team as SAP PS/IM Consultant. Involved in various Accounting/Finance/Controlling project for different clients Industries such as Koch Fertilizer LLC, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) FSCM Global Implementation.
  • CO projects, PP Projects, MM Projects, IT Projects, and Research and Development.

Work Experience:

  • Involvement in the areas PP of development and implementation in specific material master, production master, cost centers, bill of materials, routing in specific and in integrate with other main module
  • Worked very closely with the Fixed Assets Team in design the Fixed Assets based solution to the different types of projects. Associate in the consolidated concepts like AP, AR, Journal Ledger, P&L, and Balance Sheet.

§  Creation of various Functional Specifications based on interface & enhancement as per business requirement.

§  Creation of various Functional Specifications based on interface & enhancement as per business requirement.

  • Developed debugged and implemented code as needed.
  • Developed and implemented new ERP systems and upgraded existing ones depending on project needs.
  • Communicated often with business clients throughout the process and gave updates of work.
  • Carefully tracked time and utilized good time management skills to ensure project deadlines met.
  • Presented training to staff as needed.
  • Reported to Project Manager and communicated frequently.
  • Upgraded existing ERP systems in place.
  • Performed troubleshooting and debugging as needed.
  • Communicated frequently with business client and wrote technical training manuals.

§  Hands on CO in specific Product Costing, Project Costing internally financed projects like overhead cost projects and capital investment projects. 

§  PS integration CO by WBS elements relates to CC, Plant, business, and profit center.

§  Working in PS configurations like Project Profile, Network Profile, Planning Profile & Budget Profile..

 

SAP and Oracle BA/FA Consultant (remote to India)

Ifuturistics                                                                                                                Aug 11 - Aug 2012

Hamden, CT

Areas of Practice/Industry Lines:   

Various assignments with Ifuturistics, as a Business Analyst/ Financial Analyst extensive experience using Oracle R12 Apps Financial/Tech, and SAP FI/CO, PS, PP, MM, BI/BW Assignments with Reddy Labs, Koch Fertilizers, Yash Techs, etc consisted of

Work Experience:

§  Involved and performed as a Business Analyst and Financial Analyst as on requirements gathering workshops with key business users to understand existing challenges.

§  Reviewing the functional specifications and generating the technical specification and design with gap analysis.

§  Involved in end to end design and development of Sales and Operations development starting from extraction to front end reporting.

§  Created Start, End and Expert routines according to the requirement.

§  Created Multi providers and enhanced queries for optimal performance.

§  Created Exception and Customer Sales Operations Report

§  Developed Static and Dynamic cubes for GL reporting.

§  Modeled Mail AR and Premium Billing aging and details cubes.

§  Ensure that all periodic schedules like daily/weekly and monthly are successful.

§  Analyze the errors occurred while uploading the data if the request fails and make the latest data available in data target.

 

SAP Consultant            (remote to India)                                                                             

BFW (Bharat Fritz Werner)                                                                                          Feb 10’ – Feb 2011

Herndon, VA

Areas of Practice/Industry Lines:

Worked with Vibrant consulting as FICO, BW, Consultant in the environment ECC 6.0, Oracle R12 Assignments with Reddy Labs and Bharat Fritz Werner consisted of

 

Work Experience:

 

  • Setting up general ledger accounts (chart of accounts) and defining special general ledger transactions.Prepare monthly journal entries, including all supporting documentation..
  • Assist with preparation of monthly financial statements. - Prepare and analyze income statement and balance sheet fluctuation schedules for annual audit.
  • Record all monthly and year-end accruals. Analyze and review monthly bad debt reserves

§  Configuring Vendor & Customer Master Records’ general data, company code data, and, reconciliation account.

§  Configuring ‘Outgoing Payments’, Automatic payment program for Vendor payment.

§  Setting up dunning program including dunning areas, dunning levels and dunning charges.

§  For Asset accounting configured and customized organizational structure, country specific settings, asset   classes, account determinations, screen layout rules and depreciation areas. Configuration of vendor masters, customer master, asset master, and sub asset master.

§  Automatic creation of Primary Cost Element by running the Batch Input Session Manually creating the Secondary Cost Element from various places within the CO module for potential uses in Cost Center Assessment.

 

Project Accountant                                                                                                   Aug 04’ – Sep 2009

Dewberry & Davis LLC

Fairfax, VA   

Areas of Practice/Industry Lines:                                                         

Working in the environment JD Edwards One World involving in Accounting/Finance with Cost Code and   Structure. Various projects and challenging tasks dealing with Accounting and Cost principles in extent expertise in analyzing, prioritizing and solving accounting and montiring budgeting issues Assignments with Dewberry consisted of

Work Experience:

 

§  Provide accounting support to Project Manager and serve as accounting liaison to various remote offices.

§  Work with Project leaders to Setup jobs based on contractual terms and periodically update project budgets. Monitor AP, AR, along financial concepts like Journal Entries, P&L A/C, and Balance Sheet

§  Analyze job cost and prepare summary sheet to send to client.

§  Research cost data in preparation for time transfers. Process time transfers.

§  Assist with billings and prepare CPFF, T &M, NTE, and LS invoices

§  Carefully tracked time and utilized good time management skills to ensure project deadlines met.

§  Presented training to staff as needed.

§  Reported to Project Manager and communicated frequently.

§  Upgraded existing ERP systems in place.

§  Performed troubleshooting and debugging as needed. Communicated frequently with business client and wrote technical training manuals.

§  Hands on CO in specific Product Costing, Project Costing internally financed projects like overhead cost projects and capital investment projects. 

§  Review cash receipt to determine if payment can be released on Sub Contractor invoices.

§  Prepare cost to complete, cost variance, cost analysis, production cost, primary costs forms quarterly, and send to Project Manager for analysis update.

§  Assist other Project Accountants with various accounting responsibilities.    

 

Consultant                                                                                                             Aug 02’ - Jul 2004

Areas of Practice/Industry Lines:

 

Various assignments with Nextel Communications Inc, VA,  Adco Industries, TX Assignments consisted of:

  • Assisted in the conversion from Oracle 10.7 Financial Software to PeopleSoft, JDE, Cost Point

Work Experience:

 

  • Performed year -end reconciliation of payable accounts.
  • Audited the check production process and instituted control procedures.
  • Responsible for audit tasks, provided technical accounting assistance using Great Planes on management and consulting engagements as part of audit staff. Clients included 7-Eleven stores and other franchises.
  • Assisted in special projects like internal audit, coded administrative invoices, filed sales-tax returns, Accounts Receivable, Assisted in annual budget preparation, sales commission report, the closing of the month etc.
  • System Reconciliation- Reconciled security deposit variance, management fee variance, A/P variance and bank reconciliation.
  • Analysis of monthly Financial Reports.
  • Managed financial information dealing with Assets, liabilities, capital. And prepared B/S, P&L statements and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for department managers.
  • Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts G/L, A/P, A/R and assigning different process keys as required.
  • Configured Automatic Payment Program for Vendors and worked on daily accounting transactions in A/R.

                     

Purchasing Coordinator                                                                                          Apr 00’ – Jan 2001

Hewlett Packard,

Atlanta, GA

Areas of Practice/Industry Lines:

 Working as FI/CO Procurement Consultant in the environment SAP R/3 ECC 4.6

Work Experience:

 

  • Accounts Payable-Reviewed and processed purchase orders, utility bills, employee disbursements etc., set cash for weekly check runs, distributed selected A/P checks, requested stop payments and reissued checks as needed, responded to status inquiries from on-site, managers, vendors.
  • Evaluated financial statements and generated adjusting journal entries.
  • System Reconciliation- Reconciled security deposit variance, management fee variance, A/P variance and bank reconciliation.
  • Assisted in special projects like internal audit, coded administrative invoices, filed sales-tax returns, Accounts Receivable, Assisted in annual budget preparation, sales commission report, the closing of the month etc.

 

Educational Qualifications:

Master in Commerce: Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, Business Management, Business Math

Bachelor in Science: Mathematics’, Physics, Chemistry

Bachelor in Law: Law of Torts, Contract Laws, Business Laws, Admin Law, Constitution Law (India), Criminal Law, Civil Law, Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics.

 

Certification Courses: ERP Functional Modules such as - SAP FI/CO, Oracle R12 Apps, and also SAS (corp)

Soft ware used: JDEdwards E1 (one world), SAP functional, Oracle R12 functional, basic PeopleSoft