Rajesh (N) Aluru
SAP FICO Manager (Principal Lead Business Integration Analyst)
Experience
SAP FICO Manager (Principal Lead Business Integration Analyst)
Collins Aerospace
- Working as an SAP FICO independent contributor in this transition project from EOU to SEZ by conducting workshops with business, designed the blueprint and completed the configuration in CO related sub areas.
- Completed all the pre-cutover activities that are required for testing.
- Involved in the unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing phases thereby resolving the defects in a timely manner.
- Involved in carve-in project for one of the SBUs that has been sold off in the solution design phase.
- Simultaneously working on the regular incident management and change management related activities such as resolving the issues and enhancements.
SAP Senior Manager
Capgemini
- Led end-to-end implementation of SAP S/4HANA FICO module, including requirements gathering, blueprinting, configuration, testing, and go-live support.
- Conducted detailed fit-gap analysis between legacy systems and S/4HANA FICO functionalities to ensure optimal process alignment.
- Configured key FICO components such as General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), and Controlling (CO).
- Integrated FICO with other SAP modules (MM, SD, PP) to ensure seamless financial data flow and reconciliation.
- Participated in data migration activities using SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit and LSMW, ensuring accurate transfer of master and transactional data.
- Designed and executed unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for FICO processes.
- Supported the creation of custom reports and enhancements using SAP Fiori apps and CDS views for real-time financial insights.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders to define KPIs and reporting requirements for financial performance tracking.
- Provided post-go-live support and training to end-users, ensuring smooth transition and adoption of S/4HANA FICO functionalities.
- Ensured compliance with IFRS and local GAAP standards during configuration and reporting setup.
- Utilized SAP Activate methodology for project planning, execution, and delivery.
- Worked on tools like JIRA, HPALM, SOLMAN.
- Groomed junior people on SAP/business and brought them up to speed on the project.
- Helped the competency/CoE by working closely with the respective leads on internal assessment.
SAP Senior Consultant/Assistant Manager
Infosys Limited
- Involved in the transition of the project from the project services to the AMS by coordinating with the client, onshore team, and offshore team to ensure it happens in a smooth manner.
- Working as a solution architect for the new business processes of the client by designing a properly structured framework for the same.
- Provided regular updates to the management about the progress on the transition and the risk areas that are identified, to see a proper mitigation plan is in place.
- Handling the team to ensure proper FTEs count is there and addressing the issues to see they can liaise with their counterparts in the discussions and sessions that are happening as per the transition plan.
- Creating solution road maps and reviewing others with a view of seamlessly integrating various business processes and systems and responsible for keeping up the documentation.
- Interacting with the client on a day-to-day basis with a focus on new opportunities and addressing concerns about the application maintenance and new deployments.
SAP Consultant
DXC Technology
- Involved in the design, testing of the project requirements, and resolving the defects that were occurring in the unit testing phase.
- Involved in the new requirements gathering and changes related to the existing enhancements and make sure those changes have been correctly deployed.
- Participated in the client meetings and involved in handling the defects at the client location.
- Participated in monitoring the incidents and change requests that arrive on a regular basis and ensure that they are resolved in a timely manner.
- Providing status updates to the senior management by collecting the recent updates from the team.
- Involved in regular meetings with the client and in the knowledge transition sessions and cascading the same to the support team members.
- Helping the team with the necessary trainings that are required from the projects team and ensuring that they are skilled on the new tools and processes that have been implemented in SAP.
SAP Consultant
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
Client: Walmart (AM) Feb 2016 to Aug 2016
Involved in resolving the incidents and handling problem management incidents by understanding the business processes and ensuring that they close in a timely manner in adherence with the SLAs.
Participated in the regular internal and external meetings to provide the status update.
Involved in studying the existing business processes which are linked up with third-party system interfaces to provide a VAOs.
Client: Textron Aviation (AD and AM) Sep 2014 to Feb 2016
Monitoring daily incidents, service requests and assigning them to the team members.
Preparing SLA reports related to team KPIs and presenting them to the client and internal management.
Maintaining the team utilization as per the organization standards along with a buffer to cover contingencies.
Involved in developing internal metrics for a pyramid refresh of the team with optimal utilization of resources.
Responsible for the team budgets and managing work in line with the projected T&E plan and proper CCI.
Involved in attending client meetings on a regular basis and provide them the status updates on the issues.
Liaising with the client counterparts to help them resolve the issues in a timely manner.
Involved in preparing the functional specifications based on the business requirements of the client.
Worked on the areas like MRO process, customizing tax reports and testing that are related to the customizing the transaction codes based on the transaction variants.
Worked on the enhancements related to service master records postings when used in external operation of a work orders. Also resolved the issues pertained to Results Analysis key and the status on the work order.
Worked on the issues related to translation and valuation of the currencies. Also involved in development of custom reports such as Trial balance for Mexico, Intracompany and Intercompany Out of balance report.
Client: Cameron International (AD and AM) Sep 2013 to Aug 2014
Participated in handling the change requests and incidents in SOLMAN as and when they arrive and provide the proper support on the same.
Possess good knowledge on various business processes such as Idocs, CCSTO; Third-Party Drop-ship Scenarios by solving the incidents pertained to them.
Possess good business acumen by resolving the issues pertaining to Procure-to-Pay cycle, Order-to-Cash and on Trading partner and Partner Profit center.
Worked on the scenarios related to Product costing, Service order/Aftermarket process as well.
Update the issue tracker on a regular basis to keep track of the flow of the issues.
Liaised with the users and the onsite counterparts to seek more information when required to ensure that the issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Client: Glazers Inc. (AD and AM) Jun 2013 to Feb 2014
Involved in processing of the change requests and incidents as and when occurred.
Participated in the daily and weekly meetings to get the required approvals from the concerned BPLs and PMO to move the transports between the systems thereby attaching the relevant support files to the incident or CR in the service helpdesk.
Providing the status reports to the onshore counterparts in the internal meetings about the CRs and incidents.
Engaged in moving the emergency TRs in case of any using the Fire call process.
Worked on resolving any issues pertaining to the data flow into SAP from the third-party systems through interfaces.
Client: Fairfax Media Pty Ltd (Open Text Upgrade) Jul 2013 to Oct 2013
Involved in the preparation of the functional specifications for the new functionalities like email stripping and NZ invoice recognition in the ICC.
Participated in the configuring of the system to fill up the gaps that might exist from the functional standpoint.
Performed unit testing on the various scenarios and ensured that no pitfalls exist in the system.
Provided the cutover and post upgrade support for any issues that may creep up.
SAP Consultant (FICO)
NTT Data India EAS Pvt Ltd
Client: Amyris Inc. (AD and AM) Apr 2012 to May 2013
Involved in handling the support issues and resolving them accordingly.
Prepared the weekly status reports and submitted them to the management.
Participated in the replication of the scenarios in the SAP to test the feasibility of its integration with the point purchasing.
Involved in the preparation of the functional specifications to the existing Z programs or add into the standard programs in SAP.
Possess expertise in the areas like cost element accounting, cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting.
Configuration of controlling area, activation of components/control indicators, number ranges assignment to controlling area. Maintained cost center standard hierarchy.
Created primary and secondary cost elements using automatic cost element creation, cost element groups, cost centers, cost center groups, cost element attributes, statistical key figures and activity types in cost center accounting.
Defined assessment, distribution, and periodic reposting of costs using cycle segment method in cost center accounting.
Configuration of internal orders using order types, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, tolerances for budget cost.
Created profit center standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit centers and profit center groups.
Involved in the checking controls in SAP system to ensure that they are in compliant with SOX Act.
Client: NTT Data Group (Implementation) Sep 2011 to Mar 2012
Involved in the realization phase of the project by understanding the business processes of the clients and incorporating the same into SAP.
System configuration and testing: Once blueprint document is signed start the configurations in the system. Configured the whole system for FICO module which included defining the enterprise structure and sub modules of FICO like general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank accounting, cost center, and profit center accounting.
Configured withholding tax codes based on the statutory requirement. Ensuring that these are properly defined and tested whether the taxes are calculated correctly during posting of the documents.
Configured service tax as well based on the statutory requirement and tested whether the newly created tax codes are properly calculated and posted without any flaw.
Created house banks & new check series and configured the automatic payment program.
Participated in the preparation of the questionnaire and thereby gathering the inputs from the respective user companies.
Engaged in designing the SAP system based on the inputs provided and also advising the user companies to understand the system.
Incorporated the change management as and when required.
Client: Orion Carbons (Implementation) Mar 2011 to Aug 2011
Analyzed the existing legacy system and gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams and the transition to SAP system.
Involved in the configuration of enterprise structure, global structures, and customization of FI sub modules such as general ledger, accounts payables, accounts receivables, asset accounting.
Integration of FI with MM and SD with procure to pay and order to cash cycles.
Implemented AP automatic payment functions.
Successfully designed and configured automated lockbox functionality.
Involved in configuration of electronic bank statement for banks using multi-cash & BAI formats and for posting rules automatic account assignment.
Engaged in the customization of terms of payment and interest rate calculation for customers and vendors.
Worked in the configuration of check management for easy payments to vendors and other end users.
Reviewed training documentation and suggested inputs that are deemed to be necessary.
Client: Heba Fire Equipment, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (AD and AM) Oct 2010 to Feb 2011
Involved in discussions with the client to understand the issues and provide the needful solutions.
Engaged in making the necessary enhancements to the existing SAP system based on the requirements.
Liaised with the offshore team of the other modules for any information that may deemed to be necessary for the client.
Providing the status on the deliverables to the senior management by participating in the meetings and conference calls.
Prepared end user manuals and provided required training to all the end users.
Business Analyst (Senior Process Associate)
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
- Engaged in discussions with the clients to understand the workflows of the different processes and thereby preparing the business process documents and project plan accordingly.
- Involved in implementation of the processes across various development centers by the way of forming teams and ensuring their stabilization.
- Identifying the gaps and addressing the same by the way of doing amendments that are deemed to be necessary for the processes and launching wherever required.
- Assisted in the development of new business processes and systems by analyzing various business requirements.
- Liaised with relevant stakeholders to review possible improvements to processes and procedures.
- Assisted and provided advice to other analysts and end users to resolve specific functional issues.
- Provided mentoring to other team members and end users to enhance skills, business and functional knowledge.
- Promoted in building of good relationships and rapport between business process owners and technology staff.
- Assisted in providing conceptual skills and intimating the business requirements for further course of action.
- Involved in the billing of the FTEs who are inducted into the processes and providing the reports to the management.
- Assisted in creating project plan for expanding application usage beyond commercial lending to investment banking and manufacturing industries.
- Initiated project plan by governing a team of eight for meeting the development milestones through data collection and analysis.
- Developed and executed real-world lending scenarios based on the client's business requirements to ensure functional/non-functional integrity and define feature boundaries.
- Involved and executed associated project plans and test scripts for UAT and subsequent user training.
- Conducted end-user-training sessions for exercising full use of applications.
Summary
- Having over 14 Years of SAP FICO experience with both implementation and support projects, mostly with USA Clients.
- Worked on 3 full-life cycle implementations, 3 rollouts, 6 AD and AM projects.
- Working as a solution architect with various clientele.
- As a Consultant FI/CO in configuring and customizing the project based on the business requirements of the client in the sub areas of the following SAP R/3 modules: New GL, FI - GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-IO, CO-PCA, CO-PC and COPA. Bank processes such as the creation of DMEE, EBS.
- Possess good experience in Project systems in the areas of Project definition, WBS, Networks and Activity types. Maintenance orders creation and creation of settlement rules for Capitalized orders.
- Very good integration experience with other modules such as PP, MM, CO and PS.
- Controlling experience includes Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Element Accounting (CEA), Profitability Analysis (COPA), and Product Costing (PC).
- Worked on Use Taxes and 1099 Forms for Vendors. Good exposure in Solution Manager ticketing tools
- Possess interface building experience on Ariba/Concur and Tax ware systems.
- Possess good support experience on FP&A projects with financial planning tools like Alteryx and TM1.
- Led a team of ten consultants supporting SAP solution for about three years.
- Developing the business procedures and practices as per the needs of the end users and customers.
- Good knowledge and migration exposure on S/4 HANA.
- Possess good client interaction skills and communication skills.
- Having more than three years of domain experience as a business analyst in preparing various financial statements and business process documents.
Skills
- Erp Packages: Sap R/3 4.7c, Ecc 6.0, Open Text, S/4 Hana, Cfin, Jva
- Operating Systems: Windows 98, 2000 And Xp.
Languages
Education
JNT University
MBA, Finance · Finance · Hyderabad, India
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