Candidates About

 

Ravi Nimmagadda

SAP FICO Functional consultant

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SUMMARY

·         10 Plus years of experience in functional configuration using SAP R/3 and my SAP ERP FI-CO modules. Strong development experience in GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting, Project systems Treasury modules, Cash management in the FI and PCA modules, Product Costing and CO-PA in the CO module and HP ALM (application life cycle management) and Travel Management.

·         Involved in Three full life cycle implementations in SAP FI/CO ECC 6.0 including ASAP, Business process re-engineering, reports and Testing including service industry and various manufacturing industry

·         SAP S/4 Simple Finance implementation experience version 1511 and 1602 

·         Experience with Order to cash, Procure to pay Processes

·         Experienced in integration of FI with CO, Banking Treasury, cash management, MM, SD, WM and PM modules

Involved in designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and implementing the S4Hana 1503 (S Fin 2.0) on premises edition.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Current Employer: Web Yoga Inc.

 

Client details:

C&J Energy Services Houston, TX                                                                            Mar18-Current

Lead SAP FICO Consultant.

 

·         Handled SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of problems.

·         Prepared Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.

·         Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.

·         Fixed issues with Company Code, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Hierarchy, Inventory Process from procurement to production.

·         Supported and fixed the Design and corrected the Configuration set up for SAP FI- GL, AP (Procurement-to-pay), AR (Order-to-Cash Process), Banking, Integration for SAP FI/CO with MM/IM, SD, PP as per business process.

·         Integrated A/P and A/R modules in FI with MM and SD respectively, provided configuration support in MM, SD integration for account determination of MM (Procure-to-Pay), and SD (Order-to-Cash).

 

 

 

Atwood Oceanic/Ensco Houston, TX                                                                 Aug 2017-Feb 2018

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Project: Production Support and Enhancements (Finance and Supply chain processes)

 

·         As a lead SAP FICO Consultant for the Production Support Team worked closely with Technical and Functional consultants of other modules to resolve the issues as per priorities.

·         Analyzed FICO related trouble tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.

·         FI Modules supported: : Customization and configuration of General Ledger, Account Receivable, Account Payable; Defined account groups, customer and document number ranges, Terms of payment, posting keys, reason codes, automatic clearing, account assignment, and tolerance groups.

·         Supported the Supply chain process(P2P) and interfaces to and from Rig max to SAP (Inbound and outbound) along with Vendor Master data  

·         Identifying and defining new House banks’ and Bank Accounts along with the BAI codes for the Electronic Bank Statement for Wells Fargo

·         Provided Audit Support for the internal Auditors

·         Assisted with month/quarter/year-end close functions

·         Worked on timing and detailing the specifics on all the finance and Supply chain interfaces during the Datacenter move(DC) from Phoenix to Dallas and also involved in successfully testing the interfaces after the move.

·         Provided detailed data mapping on the vendor and Bank Master data for the migration project from SAP to Peoplesoft.

 

 

Ann Taylor Inc Milford, CT                                                                         Mar2017-Aug 2017

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Project : ANN Taylor Endeavor

 

·         Automated the process of transferring intercompany data (Inbound and Outbound) between Ann and Ascena and reduce the risk of Manual error

·         Designed and implemented the new expense type for the associate and external clients which facilitated their tax reporting needs

·         Designed the payment advice script for the EFT payments for Canada

·         Designed the custom logic for updating the useful life on Assets

 

 

 

Hanes Brands Inc. Winston Salem, NC

SAP FICO Consultant                                                                                   Sep2016-Feb 2017

 

Project :Iberia

Scope: Fixed assets configuration for Register, Book and Depreciation Reporting for Spain and Portugal

• Analyzed the country specific business requirements, reporting requirements and tax complications in asset accounting and Implement end to end asset life cycle for Spain and Portugal taking in to consideration all the country specific statutory requirements.

·         Configuration of organization structure, Chart of depreciation, Asset classes, Account determination, Asset authorization, Depreciation areas, Depreciation key, Group asset, Sub asset, Special depreciation, Production startup and Load test to upload the asset master data thru LSMW

·         Configured the internal order set up (Investment measure) for AUC and its settlement

·         Preparation of user documentation and support for Asset accounting

·         Integrated end-to-end testing covering the entire functional testing spectrum including Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression and UAT using Panaya

 

Seventy-Seven Energy, Oklahoma City, OK                                                            Apr 2015-July 2016

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Project: Enhancements and production support

·         Scope of the project is to support the newly implemented SAP ECC Financial system with users across United States.

·         Implemented end to end Banking Interface with Wells including business requirement gathering configuration testing and successful Go live

·         Designed implemented end to end Treasury Cash Concentration and liquidity forecasting for the all the company codes in scope

·         Configured fully functional company codes for the divestitures of one of the subsidiary company code

·         Implemented fully functional leasing company code to meet the tax benefits for their rig move to LA and TX which would benefit them $19 mil over a period of time in terms of deferred Use tax.

·         Optimized the AR processes Master data, Invoice processing, Cash receipt bank reconciliation and reporting

·         Configured the system for accounting the Doubtful receivables via Provision methods and created the spl gl reconciliation accounts.

·         Configured Lockbox for Frost Bank and made sure the bank and customer accounts are reconciled.

• Configured Tolerance limits for customers and managed A/R reconciliation account for sub-ledgers for customers.

·         Defining Alternative reconciliation account for special GL transaction like Down payments and Automatic payment program

·         Configured the withholding configuration set up for the 1099 Misc. reporting

·         Successfully Supported the Year end closing activity.

 

Rowan Companies, Houston, TX                                                                 Jun 2014-Mar 2015

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

 

Project: Enhancements and production Support

Scope of the Project Includes Supporting the SAP System and users across the globe covering the regions of North America, Europe, Asia pacific and also accommodating the RIG move successfully with the configuration changes.

• Working in tandem with Supply chain team in resolving the issue on FI and MM and procurement side.
• Support the RIG move end to end which include default cost center upload configuring the sales org, sales area and output types for the billing documents and maintaining the variants for program for Automatic clearing once the RIG move is done.
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of the issue raised by the users
• Supports end to end configuration set up on RIG move (Rowan is an Oils and gas contract drilling company and the RIG(Plant) moves from one location to another on a periodic basis
• Extensively used the LSMW to upload mass data during the RIG move.

 

Hewlett-Packard, Houston, TX                                                                    Oct 2011-May 2014

SAP FI Analyst

 

Project: NGOM New Quote to Cash Platform for SW (Revenue Recognition for SW license, support

SAAS Partners and Royalties)

The New Quote to Cash (Q2C) platform enables HP to move from the old Order management tools to fully automated process to support quote, pricing order in, Invoicing and integrating finance for SW

• End to end design Implementation and support for the Revenue recognition process for Licenses, Support, Credit and rebill, renewals, partners, SAAS.
• Implemented HP specific customizations for revenue recognition to align with the HP product structure and flow.
• Worked on revenue reports like reclass, long term and short term reports
• Setting up the Master Data as per the AFM standards for the new NGOM SW SAP instance
• Configured the account determination for the revenue posting
• Worked on Trade, Renewals, credit and rebill, debit and credit memo account determinations based on the item categories and condition types and Account keys.
• Corrections and error handling of the Idocs and reprocess them
• Coordinate transport of Change Requests, Enhancements, Patches and Upgrades into SAP Landscapes
• Involvement in Solution Manager System Installation to test user scenario.
• Test Planning, Estimation and Execution via Solution Manager

Project: MADO (Mergers, Acquisitions)-Autonomy, AP Banking

• Designed and implemented all the end to end requirement in scope HP baseline bank interface strategy for CITI BANK for Autonomy (UK Based company) after acquisition done by HP and also used the baseline template for Citibank France as well. 
• Implemented and worked along with   B2B and HPSB team to design the Payment transmission to the Bank to generate the sap invoice and idocs are sent to B2B via HPSB to the bank via AS2 Connectivity as a EDIFACT file.
• Implemented Inbound MT940 bank statement to LH via B2b AND hpsb

Project: LH Migration (FI1 ->LH1)

• Analyzed the business Process and was involved in design, testing implement the OI migration programs
• Extraction - Vendor Payables Open Items extracted from FI1 into a flat file and extracted open items from previous step converted to an IDOC format including mapping from source to target data standards.
• Working with the Tax team to get the WHT configuration functionality to be addressed as a part of the scope of the project.

FI1/US1 Support/enhancements

·         Supported and resolved the tickets raised via HPSB for the SAP4.5 B application with x solutions

• Worked on the configuration to fix the enhancements.
• Testing the interface flow from the source system to SAP and fixed the errors in Idocs

 

eBay Inc, San Jose, CA                                                                                  Jan 2011-Sep 2011

Sr FICO Consultant

 

This project is an effort to organize the business processes in PayPal SE for European countries using SAP Financials PayPal SE for Europe (PPSE) will set up six new entities in two phases (3 new entities in each phase).

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for Configurations in Assets for the European countries and making the appropriate set up for synchronizing the new company codes with the New GL set up. like, copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment (FI-AA Integration).

 

Warner Music Group, Los Angeles, CA                                                       Aug09-Nov 2010

SAP FICO Analyst

 

Role: Support and Enhancements

• Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, and assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups, FSVetc for, G/L accounts and supported the End Users on the Month end and quarterly close process.
• Configured Purchase to pay, Procure to pay and Supply chain management process.
• Supported the User with the Down Payment Processing (customer and Vendor)

 

Varian Inc. Santa Clara, CA.                                                                                    Jun 08 –Jul 09

SAP FICO Consultant

 

Role: Production Support

Involved in resolving various G/L, A/P, A/R, CCA, PCA, CO-PA and AA related production support issues.

Handled Tickets and Problem Solving issues relating to FI and CO in co-ordination with the Users, Development, and Test and Production teams within DMS.

•    Created Standard Change Documents and Test Scripts for users.

 

LGS GLOBAL Limited, Hyderabad, India                                                               Sep 06 – May 08

SAP FI Consultant

 

Design, implemented End to end Banking implementation with Citibank and Production support via incident management system.

 

EDUCATION

Master in Business Administration (Finance) from Osmania University.