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Pranay Chamakuri

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Professional Experience of 10 years in ERP/SAP, Experience in Implementing, Customizing and Configuring FICO Module and also worked in various phases of Project Life Cycle. Experience in New Implementations, Enhancements, Upgrades, and Testing & Production Support/User issues, Super-User & End-User Training & Documentation. Experienced in gathering and analyzing business requirements, identifying process gaps between AS-IS and TO-BE processes, re-engineering business processes, creating business blueprints, mapping processes and collecting master data. Involved in 3 full life cycle implementations using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology with experience in all project phases – Project Preparation, Business Blue Print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and post live Production Support, with documentation. Extensive hands on experience in Financial Accounting (FI) including General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Special Ledger. Strong expertise in Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) IFRS/ and GAAP reporting. Proficient in Configuration and Integration of SD, MM and PP with FI. Good understanding of SD (OTC) and MM (PTP) business processes.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

FI Solution Architect

The Clorox Company, SAP
12.2020 - 02.2022
  • Responsible for the design, build and implementation of complex SAP solutions from application and business process standpoint
  • Responsible for building a multi-year roadmap while respecting architecture standards
  • Worked with all team leads to design, build, and implement complex solutions for any business requirement or dependency integrations
  • Perform detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions
  • Identify, interpret, validate, and document customer requirements including the facilitation of workshops to collect business requirements
  • Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables and projects concurrently
  • Ability to work in a team environment, effectively interacting with others
  • Must be result-oriented and demonstrate a good attitude – adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness
  • Ability to provide recommendations with regards to future business and solution opportunities
  • Responsible for Gap requirements gathering, prototyping, and configuration of GL, AR, AP modules
  • Worked on AP payments Responsible for customizing of payment methods, payment terms, cash discount automatic postings, bills of exchange and doubtful receivables postings
  • Designed and configured Payment program, electronic bank statements for payments such as direct debits, check and bank transfers
  • Period end closing operations for foreign exchange valuations on payables/receivables and G/L account balances
  • Responsible for Lockbox design, configuration and testing the complete lockbox process and incoming payments settings
  • Working on the BAI2 file formats w.r.t to business requirements and new business process
  • Designed and configured credit management settings and credit card settings from Accounts receivable perspective
  • Maintained settings for Controlling Area, Operating Concern and maintained Versions
  • Configured cost center accounting, profit center accounting, and internal orders
  • Configured costing-based CO-PA, created characteristics and value fields, used various derivation techniques and rules, configured CO-PA planning including planning levels, plan package and planning methods
  • 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
  • Assisted client in 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
  • Defined additional account determination to default cost centers, profit centers and profitability analysis (CO-PA) for postings to cost element
  • Designed functional specs and coordinated with ABAP team and Business users to fix the P1/ P2 tickets
  • Designed, created and executed Unit test scripts and integration test scripts at every stage of the project
  • Coordinated with Users during User acceptance testing and resolved issues during UAT.

Senior Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Nestle
07.2020 - 12.2020
  • Project Scope: Implementation Project and Production Support, Adhering to SLA in resolution of tickets based on its priority, criticality with that of the prescribed limits in the SLA
  • Based on the priority of the issue diagnose for the cause, analyze for various alternatives to resolve and solving tickets with the best alternative
  • Solving day-to-day production problems of End-users and responsible for smooth functioning of the application to the extent responsible
  • Handled various types of issues by receiving and acknowledging the client by giving an Initial response and gather needed information
  • Onsite lead for PEC, YEC, QEC activities and coordinating with business for priority issues
  • Conducted As-Is study interacting with the core team members and developed a To-Be process to suit the company’s objectives using ASAP methodology
  • Involved in Business Blueprint Phase and worked on field mapping to study the GAP Analysis
  • Set up company code, chart of account, fiscal year variants, tolerance limits, posting periods and financial statement variant
  • Created Segments and assigned Scenarios and Customer Fields in the Ledgers
  • Created separate country-specific financial statement versions
  • Defined reconciliation accounts for A/P and A/R
  • Configured Accounts payable (A/P) including vendor account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups
  • Created vendor/customer groups, assigned Number ranges, Tolerance groups and Document types
  • Evaluated cost planning on project forecast, and performed Project Summarization
  • Configured Lockbox with BAI2 format, house banks and bank accounts for Lockbox processing
  • Configured and customized Account groups, posting keys, Document number ranges and document types, Open and closed posting periods and maintained Field status groups
  • Configured Controlling area, Cost elements, Cost centers, Profit centers for CCA and PCA with Integration of FI with SD and MM modules
  • Configured Cost objects, Account assignments, Allocations and Settlements in CO
  • Maintained Overhead Cost Elements defined Costing sheets, Credits, Overhead Keys
  • Created Settlement Profile, Allocation structure for period end closing and maintained number ranges for settlement documents
  • Trained end users about the new system functionality and explained the integration between the various modules SD, MM, FI & CO
  • Resolved critical business issues related to finance and controlling.

Sr. SAP FICA/FICO Consultant

Apple, Consumer Electronics
08.2019 - 07.2020
  • Project scope : Implementation project, Worked as FICA consultant where I had to Gather business requirements, participated in the system design, configured and tested the existing system
  • Involved in different phases of the project cycle starting from business blueprints, open items
  • Understanding and working on the client specific financial process/ Accounting in SAP including AP, AR, GL
  • Worked on the Gap requirements and doing analysis for the different interfaces and integrations
  • Part of configurations and migration of countries from existing company code to new company code
  • Worked on Creating the org structure for new Company code in SAP system
  • Configured the GL functionality for new company code (standard company hierarchy, account groups, accounts for company codes, fiscal year variant, field status variant and posting period variant)
  • Configured AR/AP (Business partner) for customers/ vendors on account balances, validation of substitution rules for documents, recurring entries, taxes, currencies and correspondence
  • Worked on Sabrix with integration SAP ECC through RFC
  • Mapping inbound and outbound interfaces w.r.t mapping fields Tax amount, tax code etc
  • Involved with Sabrix Integration for SAP connects to the SAP Standard Tax Interface and passes Specific transaction data from SAP to Sabrix
  • Outbound interface from Sabrix which determines and calculates all applicable transaction taxes, stores detailed tax and transaction information in the Sabrix Solution Audit and ComplianceDatabase and returns the tax results back to SAP for placement in the appropriate SAP application
  • Was part of Blueprint, Design, Realization, Testing, Go-live on phases of the project
  • Documenting all the open items at gap analysis, Test cases/ scenarios, integration testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing
  • Working with BASIS team during TR move and handling the coordination during TR’s move to PROD
  • Worked on Apple specific Interfaces and tools for integration and reconciliation (Irecon etc)
  • Conducted training to Key business users on SAP functionalities in general ledger, account payables, account receivables,
  • Responsible for Functional Troubleshooting of Go-Live issues and Post Production issues.

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Nalco Champion, Ecolab
06.2018 - 08.2019
  • Involved in all phases of implementation from configuration and testing to cutover tasks and go-live support for one of their global rollouts
  • Lead Business requirement workshops to understand the existing system and requirements
  • Develop business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities in FI/CO
  • Worked on SAP Activate Methodology and Agile/Scrum principles in four phases Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy
  • Configured company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios
  • Experienced in Inter-company vendor/customer open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit management, and payment terms configurations
  • Configured Automatic Payment Program and Down payment and Interest Calculation in Accounts Payable
  • Worked on EBS configuration starting with Account symbol creation, Assign accounts to account symbol, Create keys for posting rule, Define posting rules, Create transaction type, Assign bank account to transaction types and worked on interfaces as well
  • Worked on LOCKBOX Payment Configuration starting with to Define house banks, Lockbox Accounts for house bank,control parameters, posting data,Preparing the lockbox file for the test purpose,Lockbox process testing
  • Worked on P2P modules, Purchase requisition, Request for Quotation, Open Contract, Contract Release Order, purchase order, Payment, Invoice handling, service Entry, Goods Receipt
  • Defined House Banks, Bank Accounts, Check Lots and Reason Codes
  • Performed requirements analysis and functional matching for asset accounting
  • Configured asset classes, AA - GL integration, chart of depreciation, group assets, depreciation areas, depreciation key, calculation key, valuation, acquisitions and retirements
  • Configuration of Assets under Construction
  • Worked on UAT Testing starting from Analysis of Business Requirements,Creation of UAT test plan,Identify Test Scenarios,Create UAT Test Cases,Preparation of Test Data(Production like Data),Run the Test cases,Record the Results,Confirm business objectives
  • Experienced in development and deployment of multiple RICEFW custom objects
  • Configured settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, manual and unplanned depreciation
  • Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centers (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost center hierarchy
  • Experienced in PCA configurations, hierarchy, account assignment objects, product costing – PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting
  • Instrumental in CO-PA Profitability Analysis configuration, which included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, PA settlement, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Dressler Consulting
04.2016 - 05.2018
  • Clients: Confidential (Media and Entertainment)
  • Project Scope: Rollouts and Production support, Proficient in preparation of Business Blue Print (As-Is, To-Be, and Fit-Gap Analysis)
  • Configured Enterprise Structure and Company codes including Chart of Accounts
  • Configured account groups, field status groups, fiscal year and posting period variant, document types, posting keys, open item management and line item management, balance interest indicators, reference rate interest and assignment for interest values to G/L
  • Configured A/R & A/P account groups, interest calculation types, interest indicators, accounts for item interest calculations, check lots, payment terms, and bank determination for all payment transactions, tolerance groups and credit limits for customers
  • Defined credit control areas and dunning Areas, configured country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, open item clearing, credit memos, partial payments, installment payments, residual payments, claims and disputed payments, reason codes and discounts, account assignment model for recurring entries
  • Defined Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis
  • Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys
  • Worked on integration between MM and FI
  • Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts
  • Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification, Cash Management System, House Banks, Bank statement processing and exchange rates in Treasury module
  • Customized the cash position, liquidity forecast, cash concentration functions and check deposit functions, Lock box program with EDI and IDOC setup
  • Configured Asset Accounting module, including Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements
  • Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement
  • Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction
  • Performed the configurations required for Inter-Company transactions of the Assets and customized interfaces, transactions involving the deprecation area, retirement of assets, scrapping of assets using ALE
  • Configured special G/L transactions including maintaining direct posting special purpose ledger, account assignments, maintaining field movements for rollups, creation of sets, substitutions, reports etc
  • Configuration of Alternative reconciliation accounts for special G/L transactions
  • Configured document splitting for special purpose ledger, and developed reports using report painter
  • Configuration of Controlling Area, Activation of components/control indicators, Number ranges assignment to controlling area
  • Maintained cost center standard hierarchy
  • Imputed costs calculation methods, 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, budget profile and also tolerances for budget cost
  • Set default values for order type, template allocations, defining control parameters for work in process, variance calculations, and settlements (Settlement Profile, Allocation Structure, Source Structure and PA Structure)
  • Created Profit Center standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit centers and profit center groups
  • Analysis using account assignment monitor
  • Configured settings for multiple variation, transfer pricing, planning, integration, profit center determination and balance sheet items
  • Configuration of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling , Material Cost estimate with Quantity Structure which included costing variant, valuation variant, cost component split, costing sheets, cost component structure, BOM and routing settings, origin groups, overhead keys, and overhead groups
  • Configured Actual Costing/Material ledger
  • Created data structure (value fields and characteristics) in CO-PA
  • Configured derivation rules and PA settlement structures for population of characteristics and value fields respectively
  • Configured direct transfer postings from SD, MM and FI to CO-PA and Customized drill down reports
  • Worked with the Logistics Consultants to develop a mapping of all Logistic objects such as Sales Offices, Service groups and Plant Codes into CO-PA Characteristics and value fields
  • Worked in uploading of plan data from External data system into CO-PA

SAP, Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Rumpke Waste & Recycling
12.2014 - 03.2016
  • Project Scope:, Roll-out and Production support, Gathered business requirements, participated in the system design, configured and tested the existing system
  • Performed functional gap analysis, interface requirements definition, and specifications
  • Coordinated meetings with the users to understand existing business processes and documented business process flow charts, identified the requirements and modeled the ‘To-Be’ process
  • Worked on Product Costing implementation and support in a discrete manufacturing scenario
  • Worked on functional specifications of RICEF objects
  • Prepared the Functional Specifications for various reports as per client requirements
  • Worked on Product Cost Planning which includes basic settings for material costing, overhead cost elements, origin groups, costing sheets, overhead keys, overhead rates and credit keys as part of material cost estimate and also configured cost component structure
  • During the implementation of the project, worked on cost components, assignment of cost elements to the cost components, cost component views and cost component split
  • Configured material cost estimate with Quantity structure, costing variant, BOM and Routing settings required for costing the product
  • Also worked on costing estimate, marking and release of material price and costing run
  • Analyzed and validated product costing configuration, procedures and reports
  • Also worked on cross company costing and costing versions
  • Worked on the configuration for Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for costing variant in Product Costing (CO-PC)
  • Worked on EBS configuration starting with Account symbol creation, Assign accounts to account symbol, Create keys for posting rule, Define posting rules, Create transaction type, Assign bank account to transaction types and worked on interfaces as well
  • Worked on LOCKBOX Payment Configuration starting with to Define house banks, Lockbox Accounts for house bank,control parameters, posting Data,Preparing the lockbox file for the test purpose,Lockbox process testing
  • Worked on P2P modules, Purchase requisition, Request for Quotation, Open Contract, Contract Release Order, purchase order, Payment, Invoice handling, service Entry, Goods Receipt
  • Worked on both purchase orders and production orders for back end manufacturing process which involves Subcontracting
  • For Cost Object Controlling part, worked on Product Cost by Order
  • Also worked on master data such as BOMs, Routings, Work centers, Info records, activity types
  • Implemented the month-end functionalities for product costing i.e
  • Overhead calculation, WIP calculation, and variance calculation and manufacturing order settlement processes
  • Worked on Inventory Reconciliation and Stock adjustments during month end closing process
  • Set-up planning profile for cost centers, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning.

SAP, FICO Consultant

Peoples Natural Gas, SAP
01.2013 - 11.2014
  • Configured credit management, dunning procedures, and Bank accounting and customer statements
  • Generated Operating Concern with relevant characteristics and value fields
  • Developed profitability segments such as customer groups, product groups, customer zip codes and product hierarchies for analyzing profitability results
  • Configured material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, maintained settlement structures, configuring variance calculations and WIP calculation, integrating CO-PC (Product Costing) with SD, MM and COPA, cost variants, valuation variants
  • Worked on PCA Standard Hierarchy, Master Data Settings, Assignment of Material Master, Actual Posting Maintenance, PCA Planning, Periodic processing, PCA Reporting
  • Configured and customized the Asset accounting
  • Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement
  • Define settings for revaluation of assets, normal depreciation run, and manual upgraded value asset in depreciation areas
  • Creation of Project Definition and Work Break Down structure
  • Worked with Project System team in creating appropriate project profile using WBS elements
  • Carried out critical changes in profit center accounting related controls that affect the SAP order flows and COGS flow into profit center
  • Mapped SD pricing procedure and direct postings from FI/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA
  • Created CCA standard hierarchy, cost element groups, cost element categories like primary cost element group and secondary cost element groups, activity type groups and statistical key figures
  • Maintained settlement structures, configuration of assessment, distribution and reposting and also segments and cycles.

Skills

  • Skill Set:
  • SAP Modules
  • Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders
  • ERP
  • SAP R/3 versions 47, ECC 50, ECC 60, S4HANA
  • SAP Tools
  • LSMW and IDOCs, readsoft, Sabrix, Vertex

Additional Information

  • Worked on FI-GL period end processing, G/L reporting, vendor master records, configured payment transactions, processed payment runs, customer master data, Automatic Account Determination, Bank Master Data, Lockbox, Dunning and Automatic Payment Program. Configured Asset Accounting: Maintained Chart of Depreciation, Defined Assets class, Account determination, Created Asset Master, Asset Retirement, In-house creation of Assets and Depreciation Run. Competent in client relation management, presentation, documentation, training and support. Prepared Functional Specifications as per client needs including the analysis of SAP Scripts. Extensive experience in Data Mapping and Conversions with migration tools like IDOCs, LSMW Batch Data Communication (BDC) using Call Transaction and Batch input methods. Worked on UAT Testing (Beta Testing) from requirements to record results. Worked on creating in EBS, Lockbox interfaces on ECC System. In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table and profitability segments. Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC. Configuring and Customizing the basic settings, maintained profit center hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers, distribution and assessment of costs, Planning and development of Reports. Phases for Migrating SAP ECC System to S/4 HANA 1709 which includes Preparatory Phase, Technical Migration (SUM), Delta Customization, Data (Functional) Migration (Migration Cockpit),Testing, Go-Live. Worked on integration with Readsoft for purchase to pay automation and Record to report processes. Sending the invoices, information on vendors, orders, goods received. Invoice is automatically interpreted, verified, validated, and posted to Accounts Payable for Readsoft to SAP. Worked on SAbrix with integration SAP ECC through RFC. Mapping inbound and outbound interfaces w.r.t mapping fields Tax amount, tax code etc.

Timeline

FI Solution Architect

The Clorox Company, SAP
12.2020 - 02.2022

Senior Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Nestle
07.2020 - 12.2020

Sr. SAP FICA/FICO Consultant

Apple, Consumer Electronics
08.2019 - 07.2020

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Nalco Champion, Ecolab
06.2018 - 08.2019

Lead SAP FICO Consultant

Dressler Consulting
04.2016 - 05.2018

SAP, Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Rumpke Waste & Recycling
12.2014 - 03.2016

SAP, FICO Consultant

Peoples Natural Gas, SAP
01.2013 - 11.2014

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