Candidates About

 

Rakesh Yadav

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

§ Over 14 years of SAP experience as SAP FICO functional resource & involved in 4 full lifecycle implementations in US, EMEA & APAC

§ Extensive hands-on experience in new implementations, configuration, upgrades, migration, conversions, interfaces, production support and bolt-on integration

§ Experience in SAP Systems/Modules/Solutions: SAP FICO (GL, EC-CS, Fixed Assets, AP, AR, Lockbox, EBS, Treasury, CCA, COPA, FSCM Credit management, Internal orders, Product costing), Fiori apps, EDI/IDOC, US Tax, VAT, SRM, BW/BI, EPM, BPC, HR (including ESS/ MSS, employee central), PI & Solution Manager

§ Experience in non- SAP tools such as Vertex (tax calculation), Paymetric (Credit Card processing), JIRA (Bug tracking), Vistex (Pricing), KNOA (performance measurement), Hayes (Data upload tool), Tricentis & HP Quality Center (test automation), Convey (1099 reporting), ARM (SAP security setup) & Service-now/TrackIT/Remedy (ticket management)

§ Experience in both waterfall and Agile/SCRUM project management methodology

§ Well versed and hands on experience with ITIL best practices to support & lead internal business requirement and solutions

§ Experience in leading a dedicated AMS offshore & onsite professionals to support US, EMEA & APAC

§ Experience in integrating cloud applications (Entomo, BNA Bloomberg, and Concur) with SAP

§ Extensive experience in Purchase to Pay (PTP) and Order to Cash (OTC) cycle

§ Trained and well versed with in Simple Finance and enhancements offered by S/4 HANA

§ Analytical, functional, configuration, development, leadership and interpersonal skills

§ Green card holder and do not need any sponsorship to work

 

 

EDUCATION

§  M.B.A - Finance, 2003

§  B.S. - Production Engineering, 1999

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco (Mar 2011-Till Date)

Role: Principal Business Systems Analyst (Full Time)

Responsibilities:

§ Collaborate with business partners, project managers, business systems analysts, developers, technical resources, and AMS Support team on daily basis to implement SAP best practices

§ Wrote clear, complete functional specifications for reports, forms, workflows, interfaces & conversions

§ Collaborate with Business Intelligence team to help facilitate analytics development to support functional requirements

§ Provide cross-functional leadership to identify, prioritize and solve problems quickly and efficiently

§ Engage and contribute to implementation activities, including functional design, prototyping, build, test and documentation

 

 

Project work at Dolby:

§  Project Manager for India Rollout for implementing Consolidation(EC-CS), GL & AR

§  Project Manager for SEPA Rollout: SEPA rollout to 5 European countries (Poland, Germany, Sweden, England, Netherland, Spain). Developed outbound interface between SAP/PI and Bank

§  Project Manager EMEA Lockbox Implementation (Cremul File Automation). Developed inbound interface between Bank and SAP/PI

§  Team lead for Auto Bank reconciliation (EBS) for US, Europe and APAC region. Developed inbound interface between Bank and SAP/PI

§  Team Lead for Spain rollout: Consolidation, GL, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets & VAT

§  Team lead for France FEC compliance project to make sure Dolby adhere to France rules and regulations. Configured and developed Sweden GIRO vendor payment process

§  Team member for Poland Rollout: Consolidation, GL, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets & VAT

§  Team lead for implementing product costing for contract  & in-house parts (MTS & MTO)

§  Team lead for migrating on premise SAGE application to cloud BNA Bloomberg application (subscription based)  for tax

§  Team member in Data center move project from on premise to offsite data center.

§  Team member in Concur roll out for T&E in US and regions

§  Team member for ADP Payroll project: Designed interface from ADP to SAP for financial transactions

§  Served as a team member in COPA implementation

§  Worked on developing interface with cloud application Entomo (subscription based)   with SAP for finance and IP compliance

§  Developed interface between SAP & Vertex for calculating tax in US and configured SAP for VAT

§  Worked on project to enhance user experience using SAP personas

§  Designed process for printing employee termination checks in SAP which can’t be handled in ADP

§  Served as a team member in Fiori roll out project for purchasing, AP invoice & JE approvals

§  Support Pack and Enhancement Pack (from 4 to 6) Implementation

§  Implemented Credit management functionality in US, EMEA and APAC. Dunning letters (EMEA & APAC), customer statements (US, EMEA, APAC) for accounts receivable. Served as member in third party testing tool selection (Tricentis)

§  Designed processes and system capabilities to print bar codes out of SAP and rolled out to regions- EMEA and APAC

§  Worked on KNOA tool to enhance the response time of slow reports and interfaces

Production support at Dolby:

§  Lead a small team of dedicated offshore & onsite professionals to support US, EMEA & APAC regions

§  Managed incidents/problems/enhancements queue &  assign too offshore managed service partner for resolution & monitor progress of issue resolution

§  Worked with change management team for monthly/weekly releases

§  Support quarterly/yearly SOX internal and external audits. Partner with SAP security team to make sure proper controls are in place

 

 

OfficeMax, Naperville, IL (Nov 2010-Feb 2011)

Role: SAP FICO Business Consultant (Contract)

Responsibilities:

§ Understand and interpret end user requirements at OfficeMax highly customized environment and designed credit card encryption and settlement process

§ Credit card settlement and bank reconciliation for credit card transactions

§ Created additional Asset classes, depreciation areas, and Asset master data. Setting up conversion rules, making the necessary master data and customizing changes to enable to take over data from legacy systems. LSMW was used for data migrating. Conducted consistency check through several Asset reports and tables

 

 

Life Technologies (Now Thermo Fischer), Foster City, CA (May 2010-Oct 2010)

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (Contract)

Responsibilities:

§ End user support and resolving production issues in G/L, A/P, A/R, AM, CCA, PCA, Resolving production support tickets and documenting in Remedy.

§ Served as a team member for the vitiation project where sensitive SAP data is vitiated across modules prior to handing system over to “divested” entity. Developed requirements, designed processes, functional and technical specifications to enable a system infrastructure to separate 2 corporations transacting in a single company

§ Wrote functional specs for interfaces, financial reporting and enhancement in existing reports. Make configuration changes as and when required. Wrote functional specs for reports such as customer aging report, Work in process, Capital spending report, etc.

§ Resolve issues related to credit card order authorization at sales order and billing level. Assist business with issues related to fund settlements.

 

 

Palm Inc. (Now HP Inc.), Sunnyvale, CA (March 2008-April 2010)

Role: SAP FICO consultant (Contract)

Responsibilities:

§ Coordinate and monitor EC-CS accounting close for worldwide general ledgers, including ensuring the monthly accounting close is completed within the established schedule monitor opening & closing of the fiscal period. Coordinate and manage the consolidations process. Support financial analysts for SAP inquiries/issues such as failed journal entry upload files, reconciliation, etc

§ Delivered training on accounts receivable, accounts payable, and fixed assets

§ Responsible for conversion of fixed asset master records and fixed asset balances from Legacy to SAP

§ Gather requirements from business and production support issues and delegate to off shore team

§ Coordinate with offshore for timely completion of production support issues

§ Coordinate with users during month end and quarter end close consolidation activities such as foreign currency revaluation of GL and AP & AR, Product costing and COPA

§ Design interface for credit card settlement from Cyber source and bank deposits

§ Cross modular integration of FI/CO with Sales & Distribution and Materials Management

§ EC-CS System configuration and documentation to setup the dimension, consolidation chart of accounts, ledgers, versions, financial statement items, financial statement item hierarchy and selected items for posting

§ Load quarter end cost center and revenue budgets for Palm worldwide (Asia, Europe &Latin America)

§ Configure and create internal order for projects, construction in progress (CIP). Define settlement profile to capitalize the CIPS at month end

 

 

 

 

 

Levi Strauss & Co., San Francisco, CA (Aug 2007-Feb 2009)

Role: FICO & Indirect Procurement Consultant (Contract)

 Responsibilities:

§ Gathered requirement from business users, blueprinting business processes and gap analysis.

§ Configured electronic bank statement for cash management, retail store deposits, credit card settlement, payroll, vendor disbursements, etc

§ Configured new GL document splitting, accounts payable payment program, vendor partner functions, down payment, bank settings for vendor checks, withholding tax, ACH, wire payment, IDOC file to bank for vendor payments), inter-company and created substitution & validations rules

§ Configuration Accounts Receivable and Billing. Configured and tested revenue recognition at the time of billing. Account determination for revenue recognition and material movement

§ Functional Specs for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements & forms (RICEF) and report for purchasing, A/P, A/R, cost center and internal orders for retail stores. Configured IDOC types PEXR2002, ACC_DOCUMENT01, AFS/INVOIC2, ORDERS. Created RFC ports and partner profiles for IDOC. Coordinated with Gentran (GIS) in IDOC mapping and sending file to bank for vendor payments for retail stores. Data conversion from legacy to SAP such as Vendor master, customer master, receivables, payables and general ledger balances using ECATT/LSMW. Wrote detailed test scripts for unit & integration testing

§ Worked with BI team in designing cube for reporting on accounts payable, accounts receivables, profit centers and cost centers. Deigned profit center hierarchy Levis stores

§ Configured Internal Orders and trained users in creating internal order for new store setup, asset under construction & periods end settlements to cost centers. Trained users on month end order settlement.

 

 

SKYY Spirits, San Francisco, CA (Mar 2006 – Jun 2007)

Role: SAP FI/CO Business Analyst (Contract)

Responsibilities:

§ Provided support to users on issues logged in SKYY tracking system related to new GL, AP, AR, CCA, PCA, IO, CO-PA, COPC order to cash and purchase to pay. Worked with ABAP developers in resolving issues SAP scripts and forms with purchase orders, sales orders, pro-forma invoices, billing, etc. Trained user in creating purchase requisitions, purchase orders, releasing purchase orders, good receipts, etc. Wrote ABAP query for adhoc reporting

§ Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC

§ Defined summarization levels to call up data stored in Profitability analysis and generated Reports on different profitability segments using the data from CO-PA tables

§ Trained super users on month end close and setting up cost centers, internal order profit centers master data. Defined for Allocations (Assessments and Distribution) for SG&A

§ Configured tax codes and jurisdictions for sales and use tax. Logistic invoice verification and check printing, ACH, billing and customer over/under payment processing. A/P & A/R in multiple currencies.

§ Configured for electronic bank statement, cash management, check encashment, lockbox, and revenue recognition/cash applications. Monitor day-to-day jobs

§ Configuration Accounts Receivable and Billing. Configured and tested revenue recognition at the time of billing. Account determination for revenue recognition and material movement. Configured Lockbox functionality for revenue recognition. Set up customer master data for lockbox. Train users in executing bank statement and lockbox files. Configured foreign exchange functionality

§ Loaded master data using LSMW in following areas: Cost centers, Profit centers, internal order, general ledger accounts, cost elements, material master, customer master, vendor master, info records, product hierarchies, etc. Configured DART (Data Retention Tool) for IRS reporting. Configured vendor partner function schema, vendor groups and support on vendor info records

§ Logistic invoice verification and check printing, ACH, A/R billing and customer over/under payment processing. A/P and A/R in multiple currencies

 

Swiss Army Brands Inc, Shelton, CT (Jun 2005– Feb 2006)

Role: Sr FICO Business Analyst (Full Life Cycle) (Contract)

Responsibilities:

§ Configured CO enterprise structure. Profit center configuration. Profit center assignments to material master, internal order, cost centers and production orders. Profit center budgeting. Created cost center and cost elements hierarchy. Cost allocation & distribution for cost centers

§ Designed interface to send the billing documents from SAP AFS to SAP IS Retail via EDI using IDOC INVOIC02 and executing Invoice Verification in IS Retail. Worked on Purchase order sent from SAP IS-Retail to SAP AFS using the IDOC-ORDERS03

§ Configured account assignment for credit card transaction. Worked with Pay metric for credit card approval via XiPay Server. Trained users in Pay metric/SAP reporting for credit card transactions approvals and settlements. Wrote functional specs for credit card interfaces and enhancement for invoice cancellation before and after settlement. Closely worked with sales for creating credit card sales order and approval

§ Defined costing sheets for calculating over heads. Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on reference and simulation costing and adhoc cost estimate. Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times. Trained users in setting info records, costing run, marking and releasing materials

§ Configured material Cost Estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, cost component structure with structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by Production Planning. Setting info-records for product costing. Configure travel management

§ Profit center allocations and rollup for month end consolidations process. Setup PCA allocations cycle, Balance sheet adjustments and transfer of payable and receivables to profit center accounting.

§ Defined summarization levels to call up data stored in Profitability analysis and generated Reports on different profitability segments using the data from CO-PA tables

§ Design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA. Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA & to CCA

§ Trained super users on month end close and setting up cost centers, internal orders, and profit centers master data. Defined for Allocations (Assessments and Distribution) for SG&A

§ Data migrations for cost centers, internal order, profit centers, using LSMW

 

 

Metric Roofing, Mesa, AZ (Sep 2004 – May 2005)

Role: SAP FICO Consultant/Configuration (Full Life Cycle) (Contract)

Responsibilities:

§ Gathered business requirements and created business blueprint for the processes and configured all the FICO module functionalities in project scope, created user manuals and trained users in purchasing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, cost center accounting (CCA), profit center accounting (PCA). Load Vendor master, customer master, general ledger, internal order, cost centers using LSMW.

§ Configured FI and CO global settings with multiple company codes (8 company codes), chart of accounts, recon.  Accounts, fiscal year variant, controlling area and operating concern

§ Defined price update for standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and worked on reference and simulation costing and adhoc cost estimate. Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times. Trained users in setting info records, costing run, marking and releasing materials. Configured costing sheets for calculating Overheads

§ Cross modular integration of FI/CO with logistics (SD, MM, and PP) and Human Resource (HR) and Payroll. Assigned G/L accounts to wage types (&symbolic accounts) and cost centers to various positions in HR. Trained HR users to create garnishment vendors, garnishment vendor payments

§ Configured and trained users in creating purchase orders, good receipts and logistic invoice verification (LIV). Trained users in preparing physical inventory count sheets and loading inventory. Created functional specs for mapping IDOCs messages

 

 

O’Hair Shutters Ltd, Lubbock, TX (Jul 2003 – Aug 2004)

Role: SAP FICO Analyst (Full Life Cycle) (Contract)

Responsibilities:

§ Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted business blueprint documentation. Performed gap analysis, documented and prototyped between current business practices and standard SAP functionality

§ Configuring the basic settings, maintaining profit center hierarchy, dummy profit center, assignments, CO-objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, planning and development of reports. Created profit center hierarchy and profit centers

§ Configured automatic payment program for vendors and trained accounts payable users in automatic payment program, vendor check printing and creating master data. Configured FI-AP parameters for the paying and sending company, house banks and payment methods. Configured vendor down payment process and trained users in creating, posting down payment and posting vendor invoice with the down payment request

§ Configured credit management functionality. Created credit control areas, credit risk categories and defined credit representative groups as per the client requirements. Prepared credit master and assisted ABAP team in uploading credit master through LSMW

 

 

IST Ltd, India (Aug 1999 – Dec 2000)

Role: Production Engineer (Full Time)

Responsibilities:

§ Planed production schedules and budgets for specific components used in automobiles

§ Develop process improvements to effectively utilize equipment and materials to maximize production

§ Involved in reconciling and loading inventory into legacy system

§ Act as liaison between business & SAP implementation team in understanding & designing the SAP environment

§ Configure and setup master data for product costing. Defined distribution and assessment cycles for departmental allocations and defined planning profiles