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Niti Chopra

Houston

Summary

Ms. niti chopra is an experienced ERP consultant and Senior Systems Analyst with expertise in SAP R/3's Financial Accounting applications. With close to Twenty years FICO SAP experience, Ms.Niti chopra has contributed to numerous successful implementations. She is responsible for defining, developing, configuring, testing, training and implementing SAP Enterprise and e-Commerce solutions by applying the ASAP methodology. As a Financial Team Lead she played a critical role in coordinating efforts between the functional and technical teams. Ms niti chopra has applied this business experience in his role as a Senior IT Systems & Business Analyst and SAP Functional Lead Consultant.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. FICO Team Lead

Chevron Phillips Chemical
07.2010 - Current
  • Company Overview: Industry: Oil and Gas
  • Implemented sending customer correspondence by email or fax by using standard BTE .This was rolled out to the US as well Saudi locations.
  • Implemented travel management in Belgium, was responsible for Cutover, Go live and training. Travel management is a complex module which involves portal in the front end and sap in the back end. Worked with the basis as well as non-sap teams to implement scanning so that expense reports could be sent to sap. In addition had to create technical specs for enhancements that were required to accommodate business process.
  • Lead the cash management as well as foreign wire Project in US. Cash management module also involved getting intraday statements as well as liquidity reports for treasury. For implementing foreign wires had to work with EDI format paytext as well as remadv in addition had to work with the EDI team to do mapping in seeburger.
  • Was the key member in the VIM Project. VIM is the AP solution that allows to process AP invoices from scanning to posting. Was responsible for automating PO and SES invoicing. Was responsible for creating the VIM email process where in the invoices will be sent via Email. As part of the project had to work with basis, technical and business teams. Worked extensively with OpenText as well technical team to automate acorn invoices. In addition, was responsible for requirement gathering designing and training.
  • Lead the bank transition project in Singapore. This was 4 months project which involved coordinating changes on SD output formats, setting up new payment methods, Creating new file formats. This project involved working with the EDI team , technical team as well as Network team
  • Lead the Vertex upgrade project. This involved coordinating with the MM, SD and the business teams. This project also involved coordinating with the Database and Non-SAP teams.
  • Worked on Concur was responsible for the leading the efforts on all the Technical changes for Concur. Build the Employee extract which included expense and travel side. As part of the Employee extract had to work with diff regions to accommodate all the requirements on the expense as well travel side.. Created the technical cutover plan, worked on creating functional requirements as well as testing the system.
  • Currently working on Ariba implementation. Leading the efforts for all the regions on business requirement on the Finance side as well as assisting KPMG in understanding the current processes. Have been working extensively with the Ariba technical team on Business Partner as well as SLP.
  • Scope: 80% Full-scope Implementations; 20% Post-Production Support, User Training, and Business Process Improvements.

Sr. FICO Systems Analyst

Pilgrim's Pride, Inc.
03.2006 - 06.2010
  • Company Overview: Industry: Poultry
  • Currently Team leader for design and conversion from the client's legacy system to SAP. Participated in workshops with users to gather requirements and to understand the flow of the AS-IS legacy system and the TO-BE SAP system. Responsible for refining the legacy system and data cleansing the accounts for SAP. Responsible for data cleansing the Vendor master and upload into SAP through LSMW.
  • Have been the team lead on a past go live where we acquired a new company and was involved in implementing Accounts payable From end to end. Was involved in legacy data conversion and used tools like LSMW to load all vendors with different account groups. Was involved in writing a program, which was used to convert open AP balances from the Legacy system.
  • Was involved in a grain discount workbench project where when the GR was done it needed to take into consideration the quality of corn we purchased and if the quality of corn was not perfect a workbench was created which would reduce the price of the grain with the amount of water content in the grain. The issue was sap has a three-way match between GR, IR and PO and with this modification we had to match the IR price to the GR price. Also there was a piece in which the vendor had to be charged a assesment tax and this was achieved by creating Z tables and triggering it when the payment program was run.
  • Was involved in designing the check verification workflow. This is a AP workflow and was implemented to avoid paying the wrong amount to the vendor.
  • Was involved in implementing the ERS (Evaluated receipt settlement process).
  • Testing: Contributed as SAP FI/CO subject matter expert in providing assistance to the business testers and verified that the solution delivered meets client expectation and business requirements. Developed and aligned test scenarios, test conditions, test scripts and incorporate them in Requirements Traceability Matrix. Created and managed Test Cycle Control Sheet for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Also assisted team members in test execution, defect escalation and resolution.
  • Was involving a new company code, which was a joint venture. Had to do the base configuration for the FI and CO modules. Was involved in setting up a new controlling area so that we can also limit users access to the transaction of this new company code.
  • Worked on the 13 week forecast on a new application called BPC – Business planning and consolidation. This application was designed to get all our cash receipts and disbursements from sap to show the company the short-term liquidity. My job was to design a program to get all the Data from sap and upload into BPC module. Also was involved in how the planning was going to work in BPC module since we also had to plan what are cash receipts and disbursements going to be and compare it with the actual coming from sap.
  • Scope: 40% Full-scope Implementations; 60% Post-Production Support, User Training, and Business Process Improvements.

FICO Consultant

Lord Corporation, Inc.
01.2005 - 02.2006
  • Company Overview: Industry Manufacturing
  • The project covered the entire cycle of understanding the existing structure and business processes of the organization relating the same with the standard processes of SAP, reorganizing the existing structure and processes and implementing the same in the R/3 System by way of configuration and customization.
  • Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for company code.
  • Configured fiscal year variants with year dependent periods for year-end closing and posting per
  • Created bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts for each bank account.
  • Made settings for automatic procedures in payment programs and for interest calculation .
  • Created account assignment models for recurring entries.
  • Created vendor master, customer master and specified number range and screens layout.
  • Identified one-time vendors and customers and defined a separate screen layout.
  • Ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and Customer.
  • Created credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers.
  • In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups, maintained Cost Element Attributes, etc.
  • In Cost Center Accounting created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, overhead structure for accrual costs, distribution and assessment.
  • In Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control etc.
  • In Profit Center Accounting maintained the master data, standard hierarchy, substitutions, and assignments. Configured Profit Center Accounting planning included defining versions, planning layout, planning profile, plan allocations
  • Scope: 20% Full-scope Implementations; 80% Post Production Support, User Training, and Business Process Improvements.

FICO Consultant

Carlson Companies, Inc.
04.2003 - 12.2004
  • Company Overview: Industry: Marketing, Travel, and Hospitality
  • Carlson Companies is a global leader in the marketing, travel, and hospitality industries.
  • Assisted the team lead in the preparation of blue print document.
  • Interviewed the end users to understand the as-Is system and to model the To-Be system.
  • Conducted GAP analysis and mapped all the business processes of company to R/3 processes.
  • Involved in Gap analysis and business process re-design, blueprinting, configuration, testing.
  • Integration of A/R with MM & SD.
  • Taxes: structured taxes, created tax codes and tax accounts.
  • Configured organizational structure for FI/CO modules.
  • Maintained Chart of Accounts, Account groups and Field Status.
  • Configured Cross-company code transactions.
  • Configured the automatic payment program in its entirety.
  • Implemented Terms of Payment, Interest Calculation, Automatic Account Determination for Overpayments/Underpayments & Cash Discounts, Customer Tolerance Groups.
  • Master data configurations like defining screen layout rules for asset master data and depreciation areas.
  • Defined transaction types for various business transactions like acquisition, retirement, transfer and account determination.
  • Definition of asset classes and account allocation key, GL accounts to take care of acquisition, retirements and transfers.
  • Master data configurations include defining screen layout for asset master data and also for depreciation areas.
  • Defined transaction types for various business transactions like acquisition, retirement
  • Modification of asset classes for customization.
  • Configuration for various depreciation-ordinary and special
  • Creation of new depreciation areas other than SAP standards including new depreciation keys and calculation keys.
  • Setting fiscal year for asset management and period control.
  • Setting up GL accounts for calculating Asset depreciation, gain or loss from retirement.
  • Implemented the unit and integration testing for Controlling Modules-Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Overhead Cost Management, Internal orders system and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
  • Created multiple versions of financial statement.
  • Performed user acceptance testing and conducted training for users.
  • Reviewed the Business Process Procedures (BPPs) for the end user training.
  • Scope: 100% Full-scope Implementations.

SAP FI/CO Consultant

DHL World Wide
03.2002 - 03.2003
  • Configured Global settings.
  • Configured GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets modules in all their functionality.
  • Created Chart of Accounts, Account Groups and Field Status Variants.
  • Created of Chart of depreciation and Depreciation Areas.
  • Configured Automatic Account Assignments.
  • Configured payment program for vendors and customers.
  • Created Financial Statement Versions.
  • Configured settings for correspondence procedure.
  • Configured Interest Calculation, documented Closing Function
  • Created House banks, related bank accounts and master data for banks

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Globaltraco
02.2001 - 02.2002
  • Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels, settings for clearing, for posting in foreign currencies, for exchange rate differences and gains & losses on valuation, realization and translation.
  • Worked on designing, mapping implementing, testing & training the different business processes in the FI & CO modules.
  • Defined Account Groups and Field status variant.
  • Prepared master data for GL, AR, AP.
  • Created custom Line Layout variants for GL line item display

Asst. Accountant

Bernstein & Pauk
06.2000 - 01.2001
  • Provided total accounting services for various clients
  • Prepared cash flow, cost reports, and financial statements in accordance with the GAAP.
  • Set up accounting system, general ledger accounts, and subsidiary accounts.
  • Prepared annual tax returns and assisting in year-end tax audits.

Education

MBA - Accounting & Finance

U.M.S.L
St Louis, MO

Skills

  • General Ledger: Chart of Accounts, Account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges, document types and tolerance groups, foreign currency valuation
  • FI Enterprise structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business areas, functional areas, and sales and use tax
  • Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, integration with MM
  • Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, credit management, cash discounts, sales order, integration with SD
  • Asset Accounting: Asset class, asset master records, chart of depreciation, acquisition, scrapping, retirement and integrating asset management with GL
  • Cost center accounting: Knowledge of planning cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, statistical keys, activity type, assessment, distribution, reposting
  • Profit center accounting: Basic settings and master data review, controlling area maintainance, plan version maintainance, set control parameters
  • Internal order Accounting: internal order configuration, controlling area maintainance, orders settlement configuration, internal order planning and budget, settlement structure
  • COPA: Operating concern Development, characteristic derivation, COPA planning, assigning values to value fields
  • Project system: Exposure to project systems: project definition, project coding mask, WBS, Network, activities
  • Treasury: Lockbox processing, cash journal, cash management, EDI with the banks
  • Tools used: LSMW, Vertex (sales and use tax software) and have extensive knowledge about workflow
  • Reporting; Sap query, Report painter and report writer
  • Advanced user in all MS Office, Visio, and Lotus Smart Suite applications
  • Proficient in LSMW, Solution Manager, query tool

Section name

  • Phone: 214-529-2910
  • CHOPRN@CPCHEM.COM
  • Work status: United States citizen

Timeline

Sr. FICO Team Lead

Chevron Phillips Chemical
07.2010 - Current

Sr. FICO Systems Analyst

Pilgrim's Pride, Inc.
03.2006 - 06.2010

FICO Consultant

Lord Corporation, Inc.
01.2005 - 02.2006

FICO Consultant

Carlson Companies, Inc.
04.2003 - 12.2004

SAP FI/CO Consultant

DHL World Wide
03.2002 - 03.2003

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Globaltraco
02.2001 - 02.2002

Asst. Accountant

Bernstein & Pauk
06.2000 - 01.2001

MBA - Accounting & Finance

U.M.S.L

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