Candidates About

 

Nirav Vallabh

Principal Application Consultant

Profile

Over 17 years of experience in IT (SAP) Consulting. Skilled in strategic planning and technical implementation. A Team Lead player that can work under pressure. Excellent communication and problem solving skills. Experienced in e-business and e-commerce supply chain market. SAP Implementation in both Public and Private Sector. Provide a wide range of expertise in associated functional areas and the full SAP Product line. Consistently protect the customer’s software investment and facilitate the implementation of new developments.  

 

Industry Specific Implementation: High Tech/Semi-Conductor, Pharma, Telecommunication, Utilities, Retail, Entertainment, Automotive, Banking, and Public Sector.

 

Full BI Government/Federal Clearance.

 

Technical & Professional Experience Summary

·                     Seven full life cycle SAP implementations and several years post production support.

·                     Experienced in Simple Finance and Analysis of the Architecture of SAP Fiori.

·                     Implemented SAP HANA and S4/HANA (OLAP and OLTP).

·                     Expert in Testing tools like HP Mercury Quality Center, SAP Solution Manager, Test Director.

·                     Complete understanding of US GAAP, FASB and IAS accounting standards.

·                     Experience in Vistex, Worked on VAT Tax and Intrastat reports.

·                     Working Knowledge of using BAPI's/IDOC's/BADI's for FICO interfaces with SAP PI middleware and custom developments.

 

 

·         Configure Contract Accounting Lease in and Lease out for Townpump casinos, hotels, houses, billboards, parcel. Configure the integration with FI and Lease Accounting via condition type, flow types, reference flow types on Commercial, Residential Lease in and Lease out.

·         Design the architectural view for CAD Integration on all levels of AO for space and vacancy management.

·         Develop functional specification on customer fields and CPI Index calculation.

·         Configure the sFinance with HANA universal journal approach with real time integration with FI and CO.

·         Expert understanding on Planning and Consolidation functions experience with BPC and BCS and Simple Finance new table mapping.

·         Configured the Co and cost planning CO-PA Account base. Design and configured the operating concern and Characteristic field and value field in CO-PA.

·         Knowledgeable in table structure knowledge of SAP landscape transformation (SLT), different SLT replications scenarios/techniques, advance replication settings.

·         Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized 

·         Architecture the integration with Treasury Cash Management and Forecasting via Flow types in order to derive Town-pump day-to-day cash balance on Lease-in and Lease-out. 

·         Design reports base SAP Fiori Apps on Cash Report, Machine Report, Summery by Location, Quarterly Tax report, Occupancy room revenue report, Lease Unit Cut, Expired Insurance Report.

·         Design reports via HANA Studio experience in building table and schema mapping.

·         LSMW and Win shuttle script creating for Asset master data change and upload 

·         Worked on the configuration settings for the integration of SAP with Paymetric (XIPAY- credit card) third party system.

 

 

·         Responsible for full assessment on SAP REFX implementation and business process improvement.

·         Develop workshop and lead workshop on all levels of SAP REFX usage objects and contract accounting.

·         New proposal on implementing Contract Accounting, Arch. View and integration with PM and PS.

·         Design the organization structure on usage view PM, and PS. Developed and configured the integration with WBS Elements and Network for Investment and Capital Projects.

·         Configured Records management and Case management in SAP as a cross-application product of SAP.

·         Build the integration with AutoCAD via pooled space into Arch. View for space management.

·         Experienced with Cad/Document Control, Solid Works, and AutoCAD manufacturing systems.

·         Developed/configured SAP Records Management for Public Sector and DMS on all levels of Master data in REFX.

·         Implement customized fields in SAP for DoD for RIPM reporting compliance.

·         Developed functional specification on automatic creation on Functional Location and Assets to SAP REFX integration.

·         Design functional specification on Convert Maintenance Plan integration to SAP REFX.

·         Redesign the pooled space and arch. View master data to fit the existing gaps for CAD integration.

·         Completed blueprint and configuration on install and dismantle of equipment. 

·         Configured resource related billing for all labor hours on equipment and sub-equipment and all larger construction projects funded by DLA.

·         Designed customized fields in SAP REFX master data to track land value details and land acquisitions date.

·         Re-engineered the HVAC process at DLA with integration with appointment calendar and added new BADI’s.

 

                                                             

 

·         Prepare high level planning of Migration form SAP ERP to SAP Simple Finance Add-on for GL, AA and Controlling.

·         Configured Simple Finance Check and Adopt Fiscal Year Variants, Migrate GL customizing, defining entries for journal entry ledger, define ledger for CO Version, Define Doc. Type posting in Controlling, Define Offset accounting determination types, Define Source ledger for Migration of Balances.

·         Design consistence check process for General Ledger settings.

·         Design Migration to sFinance Maintain operating concern for Banking Add-On. Activate Account Base PA.  

·         Responsible for all PS & COPA configuration/Support including project structures, costs settlement, revenue & earnings (results analysis), COPA structures (characteristics & value fields), resource related billing (RRB). 

·         FI Enterprise Structure: Company, Company code, Business Areas, Functional Areas, Fiscal Year Variant and Posting Period Variant

·         General Ledger R2R Process: New GL, Chart of Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Key Configuration, Automatic Account Determination, G/L Display configurations, Tolerance Groups, Number Ranges and Document Types.

·         Configure Doc. Splitting rule on investment accounts, customer invoice, vendor invoice, and good receipt for PO. (Configured doc. Splitting rule, splitting method, Item category, Business transaction variant. Implemented Segment reporting for US GAAP and IFRS.

·         Accounts Payable: Creation of House Banks and Bank Accounts, Check lots, Payment Program Configuration and Creation of Vendor Master Data and Vendor Groups. Configured Account determination between MM and FI. 

·         Worked on the configuration settings for the integration of SAP with Paymetric (XIPAY- credit card) third party system.

·         SAP Simple finance (Data Migration) powered by Hana training.

·         Worked on the authorization and settlement of credit card transactions between SAP & XIPAY systems and also reconciled the differences between the two systems.

·         Accounts Receivable: Creation of Customer Master Records, Creation of Terms of Payment and Interest Calculation, Reason Codes, Default Account Assignment and Dunning.

·         Treasury: Bank Account G/L Structure, Lockbox Configuration, Treasury groupings and Exchange Rates.

·         Asset Accounting: Creation of Assets Master records, Handling Depreciation for the Assets, Calculation of Scrap value for the Assets at the time of Sale of Fixed Assets and posting the profit/loss in the respective G/L accounts.

·         Integration of FI/CO, SD and MM functional Modules. Worked on the different process of Procure to Pay from Purchase order to automatic payment run and Order to Cash from sales order to incoming payment.

·         Controlling: Configuration of Controlling Area, activate Components/Control indicators, Assign number ranges to Controlling area and Maintaining Cost Center Standard Hierarchy.

·         Cost Element Accounting: Cost Element Types, Automatic Cost Element Creation, Costing Sheet, Reconciliation Ledger, and Explanation of CO Updates.

·         Cost Center Accounting: Cost Center Accounting Configuration, Controlling Area/Profit Center Accounting Maintenance, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, Reposting, and Automatic Account Assignment in CO.

·         Internal Orders: Creation of Order type Real and Statistical, Creation of IO group, Planning order-wise, Maintain Allocation Structure and Settlement Profile.

·         Profitability Analysis: Operating Concern Development, Characteristic Derivation, and Assigning Values to Value Fields, CO-PA planning, Activation of CO-PA, CO-PA Reporting and Creating Drilldown Reports.

·         Profit Center Accounting: Configuration and Customization of Basic Settings, Maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Assignment of CO Objects to Profit Centers, Actual Posting Maintenance, Assessment of Costs, Planning and Development of Reports.

·         Product Costing: Configuration of Product Costing and SD functionality to support Make to Order and Make to Stock scenarios.

·         Develop functional specification and reporting in the areas of compatible units work management.

·         Installation /configuration of OpenText archive servers for SAP Documents storage. 

·         Installation/configuration of OpenText Transactional Content Processing. 

·         Support Open Text clients with issues in the areas of system configuration, setup, product functionality, and enhancements 

·         Customizations of Open Text Products such as Graphic User Interfaces

 

 

·         Configured the VAT TAX for several European countries.

·         Configured the required settings for VAT with respect to Vendors (AP-MM) & Customers (AR-SD).

·         Setup VAT Tax codes for European countries and created intrastate reports.

·         Worked on the Foreign Exchange rate conversion.

·         Created LSMW Program and uploaded data into SAP from Legacy systems using LSMW (Legacy system Migration Workbench).

·         Uploaded Vendor Master Data, Customer Master Data and Chart of Accounts from Legacy system to SAP using LSMW.

·         Configured the organizational structure of FI/CO which includes company code, chart of accounts, assigned COA to company code, fiscal year variant, open/close posting period, valuate foreign currency, account determination.

·         Configured End to End Accounts Payable module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), linking of Vendor documents with EDI.

·         Configured the Account Determination set up between the integration of FICO with SD.

·         Setting up of Account determination procedure for passing pricing elements in General Ledger account.

·         Configured FICO master data, intercompany processing, cross-functional business process definition and testing of the full Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay processes.

·         Design and configured the Global Chart of Accounts and Country specific Chart of Accounts based on country specific GAAP compliance.

·         Configured the Document Splitting in NewGL created new splitting rules and item category on vendor, customers, tax and company code clearing.

• Configured the item category, business transaction, business transaction variant, splitting method.
  Designed the active and passive splitting method in NewGL.
• Implemented segment reporting functionality in NewGL for complete financial statement.

 

 

 

Experience/Project Work

 

·         Solution designing and post production support in REFX.

·         Develop functional specification on TRIRIGA and REFX Integration and table mapping.

·         Proposed integration with REFX and Treasury with Cash and Forecast management.

·         Configured cash management for flow types, source symbols and assign planning groups. 

·         Design and develop Security Deposit Contract Agreements Management in REFX.

·         Provide day to day post production support in FI Treasury and RE-FX.. 

·         Implemented Bank Statement Monitoring to monitor status of bank statement.

• Configure the TR (Bank Accounting) Electronic Payment Program, Automatic Bank Transfer, Lockbox, And Electronic Check Deposit.  
• Configured the house banks in bank accounting. Completed an upload program for all worldwide SWIFT and BAI format banks.
• Introduced a new future in Bank accounting called Bank Chains which allows for payment via multiple banks improved clients new business process and more refined Treasury’s process.

·         Involved in AP Payments processing implementation. Created/maintained/tested incoming/outgoing payments, Configured Bank Interfaces for Wires, ACH, Positive Pay, Check Printing and Bank Chain configuration.

·         Involved in prototyping and testing; developing functional specs, documented configuration, workflow, end-user procedures and conducted end-user training.

·         Applied OSS Notes for Posting Log errors in Lockbox, BAI/BAI2 Format Filed Extension, and Payment Medium DMEE Tree.

·         Responsible for configuration and implementation of SAP In-House Cash module for central cash payments process, Central incoming receipts which include customer collection from different lockboxes Mapping the service Companies Bills using the Posting rules in order to reflect the In-House Cash Current accounts Configure the TR (Bank Accounting) Electronic Payment Program, Automatic Bank Transfer, Lockbox, And Electronic Check Deposit.  

·         Cash Management- Grouping and Structure definition for daily Cash Position, wire transfers, ZBA and cash concentration.

 

 

Experience/Project Work

 

 

• SAP SD/ OTC: (Principal and Commissioner) Complete Order to Cash cycle, Sales Orders Processing & Delivery till Invoicing, IMG configuration of Organization Structure, Billing, Copy control, Consignment process, Intercompany Process, Rebate Management, Credit Management, Available to Promise (ATP) scenario, Account Determination, Text Determination, Partner determination & Output Determination.
• SD Pricing: Complete SD pricing including condition technique, pricing procedure maintenance/determination, configuration of pricing condition types, condition tables, access sequences, pricing routines, pricing requirements, Plants Abroad and condition exclusions, rebates & Sales Promotions.
• MM: P2P (Procurement to Pay) configuration for complete business process. Purchase document types, MIGO, MIRO, PO Determination, transfer of Shipment costs, Third party scenario, Service Sheet generation, Service management & G/L Account Determination.
• Moved from currency revaluation 10 & revaluation 30 to a process that utilized valuation areas to process revaluation 10 (document to Local then Local to Group currency) and 30 with translation.
• Conduced Rev. Rec. workshop and configure the accrual engine, accrual type cost accrual and revenue accrual and accrual methods like straight line accrual and Declining balance accrual.
• Design the end to end process for FASB 52 and FASB  13 process.
• Configured the revenue rec. for license sales along with accrual calculation and accrual method.
• Worked on implementation of External Tax Calculation Interface which included making RFC call to the Tax Interface, configuring Tax interface call Condition types, assigning Access sequences, Tax code maintenance till getting the tax values/rates in the pricing procedure. Worked on VAT configuration.
• Provided Support for the configuration, implementation and testing of Customer Master Records and Incoming Payments. Validated and documented AP, AR Business Process Procedures and recommended/ implemented process improvements where applicable.
• Analyzed the as-is manual pull back of revenue from Commissionaire to Principal and consulted with project stakeholders to understand the issue/ drawback with the as-is process. Worked with the team and the business users to come up with the to-be process and translate the same into functional requirements. Made significant contribution in the process of solutioning.
• Created flow diagrams and worked on creating prototype of the to-be process. Design functional specifications for development of RICEF objects like creation of SAP Sales order in Principal company code from Invoice in Commissionaire Company Code.
• SD + FI AR: configuration in SD /AR for project tracking, billing, revenue recognition, cost of sales, functional design methodology for Legacy to SAP interfaces, functionalities of the SAP General Billing Interface.
• Set up the Revenue Account Determination between the Integration of FICO with SD Module.
• Configured Sales Orders, Item categories, Schedule Line Category, Billing document, Output Type, copy control. Worked on setting up intercompany sales process including the creation of IDOC from billing document and invoice receipt in the other company code.
• Worked on setting up VAT determination for intercompany billing. Also, worked on creation of Standard SAP Intrastat Reports for EU Sales Orgs.
• Configured VAT tax and VAT rate on Triangular business model.
• Design the commissioner and principal logistic model for IV billing type.
• Configured company code, posting period variants, opening of posting periods, fiscal year variants, field status groups, document ranges, tolerance groups, assign the variants to company code,  assigned company code to company and maintained the company code global data.
• Configured and customized General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts, automatic account assignments and financial statement versions.
• IMG Migration Activities include: Close posting periods, crate worklist/activate migration plan, create worklist, Create GL line items and balance carry forward for all GL accounts.

 

Experience/Project Work

 

• SAP TR / Invest to Cash full end-to-end business process.
• Configured the foreign currency evaluation for worldwide roll out. Multiple global currency configurations.
• Responsible for carrying out the design and implementation of the New General Ledger and Assisted in AP and AR areas
• Configure the TR (Bank Accounting) Electronic Payment Program, Automatic Bank Transfer, Lockbox, Electronic Check Deposit,  
• Configure Jurisdiction code on a county lever and VAT and GTS tax.
• Configured the foreign currency evaluation for worldwide roll out. Multiple global currency configurations.
• Configure the Transaction types, Posting Rules, Electronic Account Statement, and integration with BI for a global rollout.
• Configured the house banks in bank accounting. Completed an upload program for all worldwide SWIFT and BAI format banks.
• Introduced a new future in Bank accounting called Bank Chains which allows for payment via multiple banks improved clients new business process and more refined Treasury’s process.
• Configured new Treasury’s Business Partners for bank accounting.
• Design Idoc for Receiving account statement using EDI.
• Configure the Cash Manager Process in BI-TR in order to analyze the long/short term liquidity of the company.
• Completed functional enhancement and technical specification on Electronic Account Statement.
• Develop and design the requirement gathering and realization for the GTS implementation.
• Configured GTS Compliance - Sanctioned Party Screening, Embargo and License Determination and GTS Customs Management Implementation for export requirements in US, Europe and Asia

 

 

• Provided and executed project plan, including work breakdown, resource estimates, activity planning, resource scheduling, and negotiation of project deliverables, project administration, and status reporting.
• Prepare documentation on Unit Testing and Integration Testing during implementation and BPP.
• Prepared functional and technical specification on Oracle to SAP interface.
• Provided expertise/guidance in gathering global requirements in CO CCA, PCA and SD organizational structure.
• Key player on the solution design and integration teams. Creat global templet using SOLMAN.
• Developed and executed test scripts, test scenarios, unit test plans, functional test plans, integration test plans and regression test plans.
• Debugging ABAP programs and provided functional/testing support for interfaces, user exits and reports.
• Gathered business requirements, valuated options, and recommended a competitive solution to process e-invoices generated.
• Configuration of Book and Tax depreciation related Depreciation Keys in accordance with US Tax Regulations.
• Data Mapping for Conversion of Legacy system into SAP.
• Configured new company codes as part of company's globalization.

 

 

 

 

• Configure the Bank Master Data, Bank Directories, and Created House Banks.
• Configured the SWIFT and IBAI format bank statements.
• Defined and Configured Business Process on Bank Chains and Payment via multiple Banks.
• Lot Check configuration completed bases on Business Process for international banks.
• Electronic Check Deposit configured in TR along with importing data.
• Designed the automatic posting clearing and posting process in Bank Accounting.
• Configured the Electronic bank statement process via all foreign and local bank in USA.
• Designed the foreign currency evaluation process in the new ECC 6.0 with new functionality in SAP.

 

• Tracked, monitored and communicated project progress in FI/CO against the project plan, requirements, quality measures, standard processes, milestones and budget to steering committee.
• Successfully completed an assessment on a full upgrade and the resource estimated along with the proof of concept.  
• Planned and directed the installation of SAP Global upgrade projects which typically impacted multiple businesses.
• Lead consultant responsible for all Financial master data (GL accounts, cost elements, cost centers, cost center hierarchy, profit centers, profit center hierarchy, activity types and SKFs), including standards, setup and data migration.
• Prepared business proposal to support clients SAP requirements on Post Production Support in FI/CO modules.
• Responsible for the FI CO and AM modules in 4.7.
• FI (AP, AR, and GL testing configuration during upgrade and training one-on-one with super users
• CO (IO, SKF, PCA, CCA and Activity Types along with CO Planning).

 

 

• Performed testing for various programs in SD and FI Module.
• Member of global Cross-Instance team, designing end state to integrate North America instance with Europe instance.
• Lead consultant responsible for all Financial master data (GL accounts, cost elements, cost centers, cost center hierarchy, profit centers, profit center hierarchy, activity types and SKFs), including standards, setup and data migration.
• Prepared business proposal to support clients SAP requirements on Post Production Support in FI/CO modules.
• FI-AR/SD integration – Revenue Recognition: Revenue Recognition, Deferred Revenue Amortization in a highly retail-oriented environment: configuration in FI-SD integration area for revenue recognition of service contracts with extended warranty, annual subscriptions, etc.; created wrapper program to trigger month-end revenue recognition parent jobs and spawn child jobs for all global company codes
• Report development: Provided functional specs to development team regarding various reports (including Revenue Recognition reconciliation repo