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ASHWITHA NALLA

North Chicago,IL

Summary

7+ years of experience as SAP FICO, OTC Functional consultant in implementing SAP Finance Solutions in various industries like Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications and Retail. Involved in migration from ECC6.0 to S4 HANA and participated in various testing activities related to migration. Successfully completed 2 SAP full life cycle implementations in SAP FICO module. I have also worked on upgrades, global rollout, and support projects. Functional expertise in design and configuration of SAP FI-CO - FI-GL (General Ledger), FI-AR (Accounts Receivable), FI-AP (Accounts Payable), FI-AA (Asset Accounting). Working Experience with AP & AR in creating Master Data, Automatic Payment Program (APP), Lockbox configuration, manual bank statement, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Bank Reconciliation, Automatic Payment Run (APP) and Dunning. Expertise in OTC, Availability checking, pricing, Revenue mapping with GL accounts, promotions and sales deals, Purchase orders. Purchase requisitions, Stock transport orders (STO), Outbound and Inbound deliveries, picking, packing, transfer order, Goods Issue, Goods receipts, Billing, Batch management, Variant configuration, and Trade-in Orders. Good understanding of multi-currency accounts and impact of document currency, local currency and group currency on FI-AR postings and conversion postings. Experience in gathering requirements and designing functional specifications for enhancements and customized report developments and continual improvement. Involved in Business processes such as Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay. Solid understanding on SD& FI-AR integration and have extensively worked on SD and FI integration setting up Account determination procedure to support in monitoring and handling payments into various Cash accounts and Accounts receivable. Experience in Functional and Regression Testing. Experience in Test Scenario identification, Test case design, Test execution, defect tracking and status reporting. Successfully demonstrated in helping SAP FI, P2P, OTC, CO, SD, MM, PP, PI, end-users with various Expertise and ability to lead and work with cross-functional teams. Incident and Problem identification, resolution, and Co-ordination with offshore team for providing solutions. Understanding multiple modules and capability to do configuration, gap analysis and proof of concepts of various requirements. Conducted extensive training session for business users. Prepared training documentation and user manuals. Good understanding of EDI / IDocs, process codes, partner profiles, etc. Managed timelines and meeting milestones within the process. Excellent Team Player and has good ability to work under stringent deadlines. Strong analytical, problem solving, budgeting, and time management skills. Strong teamwork and client management skills. Ability to quickly understand, learn and implement new requirements. Collaborated with global teams to ensure accuracy and quality within financial accounting and controlling areas.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP OTC Project Manager 3

Abbvie
09.2022 - Current
  • Part of Global process leaders team performing OTC (order-to-cash) duties in S4 HANA Implementation for an Integration
  • Involved in Go-live and various Hypercare activities for various countries
  • Involved in various business meetings to analyze and document the business requirements related to Order to Cash processes
  • Extensively worked on Open orders, trouble shoot the issues and resolve them
  • Extensively worked on different order blocks like delivery block, credit block, GTS block, credit card issues, etc
  • Worked with technical team in configuration of various sales document types like Inquiry, Quotation, order, shipping, and related configuration changes
  • Participated in Configuring the links with item category groups and item categories
  • Designed Test scripts for URT testing and lead URT for various countries across the globe
  • Working closely with the country leads to gathering the requirements and bringing in data together
  • Conducted User readiness testing sessions and supported users with Z custom t
  • Codes and programs in S4 HANA
  • Worked on different types of orders including Consignment orders, Consignment issue, Consignment fill-up, Returns, Warranties, and Exchange orders etc., worked on High volume returns for different countries
  • Worked with technical teams on configuration of Batch class, Route determination, Pricing conditions
  • Worked with customer master team and made necessary changes as required in S4 BP
  • Performed regression testing, volume test and documented the procedures
  • Customized client specific reports and specifications for SAP scripts
  • Coordinated user training and knowledge transfer to users as well as to super-users
  • Involved in various business meetings to analyze and document the business requirements related to Order Management, Credit Management and Supply Chain Management Provided user training and support for various teams in OTC processes-Customer Service team and Billing Team
  • Prepared Business documentation and supported Go Live for multiple countries in different waves
  • Extensively worked on Credit card blocks and reauthorizations in multiple real time scenarios
  • Worked on third party discount mechanism tool for early payments
  • Worked extensively on Continuous Improvement Requests
  • Meet with users and gather the requirements required for enhancements and changes in existing design
  • Handle Improvement Requests beginning from requirements gathering till the deployment and provide Hypercare post go-live
  • Deeply involved in understanding and documenting standard operating procedures and custom programs.
  • Worked on Prometrics to build monthly/quarterly reports for Order to Cash Process.

SAP FICO Consultant/ Test Lead

T-Mobile
06.2021 - 08.2022
  • Performed Test lead duties as required
  • Sole responsibility and Ownership beginning from Code drop until Signoff of the project
  • Conducted Functional Specification Design walkthrough sessions with Business and identified Test case Scenarios, prepared Test case design, performed Test execution, Defect tracking, Status reporting and successful Signoff of the projects
  • Involved in designing and forming strings in OTC test string environment and prepared test plans, which specify testing overview, testing approach, testing strategy, roles & responsibilities, developed the traceability matrix between test requirements and test cases and scope of testing
  • Conducted Workshops and meetings regarding Project status with PM, Business, and functional teams on weekly basis
  • Managed completion of all project deliverables specific to FI team during testing
  • Created and executed FUT and E2E scripts to ensure the implemented solution properly addressed client requirements
  • Worked on Stock transport orders (STO), Outbound and Inbound deliveries, picking, packing, transfer order, Goods Issue, Goods receipts, Billing, Batch management, Variant configuration and Trade-in Orders
  • Extensively worked on FI-SD integration setting up Account determination procedure, special condition types, statistical condition types, Taxes, Customer texts and condition records
  • Worked with other teams and integration like SAP PDM, PI, SD, MM, APO, and Retail, Digital and Ecommerce teams, and coordinate for successful signoff after test completion
  • Extensively worked on testing of SAP SD Sales, Shipping, transportation, Billing and Settlement
  • Worked on different Order Types like Standard order, Return Order, Exchange Order, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, settlement, and mass settlement
  • Responsible for creation of Test Case Scenarios for all FI, OTC, & Procurement Testing
  • Manually performed UAT Functional Testing of FI-SD Module consisting of IC Sales Order (VA01), creating SO from existing Sales Order, Delivery (VL01) and Billing (VF01)
  • Extracted Sales Orders information and document flows from tables VBAK, VBAP, VBFA for testing
  • Created Payloads and Integrated ECC with PI system in T
  • Code SXMBMONI for creation of Sales orders
  • Worked on extracting transactions from non-SAP systems into SAP PI and SAP PDM, and extract IDOCS WPUBON and WPUTAB into ECC
  • Worked on testing tools like qtest, and JIRA for defect tracking and documenting test results
  • Worked on automation tool TOSCA for Test execution
  • Captured Testing progress and Test results in qtest on daily basis and a send Daily Status Report to Business to present the timely completion of testing, analyze and report testing results
  • Worked on CTD tool to create test case scenarios
  • Conducted training and developed documentation for end-users for UAT testing
  • Worked on reconciliation of various other tools and front-end systems like TIBCO, UDMF, Retail, Digital, Web with SAP.

SAP FICO Consultant

Apple Inc
05.2020 - 06.2021
  • Lead requirement gathering sessions with key business stake holders and product owners in Apple and business parts
  • Worked on ASAP Methodology starting with Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, final preparation and Go Live and Support Involved in Analyzing (GAPs) and evaluating existing 'AS IS' and proposed 'TO BE' system with the business and IT team
  • Worked on implementing, customizing, configuring, testing, and documenting SAP FICA Modules
  • Configured and setup FICO and FICA organization structure for the Integration Project for UK localization
  • Worked on the creation of FI-CA master data, Organization Structure and FI-GL master data –Business Partners, Contract Accounts, and integration with Payments
  • Made configuration settings in the A/P & A/R and configured House bank, Bank Accounts, Ranking order, interest calculation, non-PO related Vendor invoicing, manual outgoing/incoming payments
  • Configured automatic payment program, payment media, and terms of payment
  • Coordinate with ABAP (Development) team in getting the developments
  • Prepared Functional specifications for development of ABAP as per the business requirements Configured Inter-Company payments/ transactions and defined clearing accounts between company codes which result from central purchasing
  • Delivered according to the project timelines and aligned with other functional areas in the same project
  • Worked closely with IT/Business leads to deliver, maintain, and troubleshoot and enhance SAP functionality
  • Worked on custom programs for development
  • Worked on IDocs, Validation and maintained Jobs regularly
  • Managing the configuration process relating to SAP FICO/FICA to provide better management of finance and reporting
  • Gathered High-level financial information requirements and translated these requirements into an appropriate SAP financial hierarchy
  • Developed field mappings between SAP and Legacy systems for both inbound and outbound interfaces
  • Inbound interfaces include bringing both Customer (AR) & Vendor (AP) invoices from legacy systems to SAP
  • Outbound interface updates the master data from SAP to Legacy Systems
  • Created the characteristics and value fields, defined derivation structures and rules, maintained derivation table, and profitability segments used in profitability analysis (COPA)

SAP FICO Consultant

Zimmer Biomet
03.2020 - 04.2020
  • Part of development team and working on critical development using function modules and complex logics
  • Worked on developing the Z program which will update the material standard/moving average price automatically as and when user upload the file with appropriate price list
  • Provided functional logic from FICO, coordinated with developer, performed FUT and coordinated UAT with end user and made sure the development changes deployed to production successfully
  • Worked on developing a Z report for asset master data creation and asset retirement as a part of asset reengineering project which is suggested by audit team
  • Worked on business AS-IS and TO-BE documents and identifying the required steps to execute the complete asset reengineering smoothly
  • Coordinating with offshore team and actively communicating with them to get the expected delivery on time.

SAP FICO Consultant

Acco Brands
11.2018 - 02.2020
  • Responsible for supporting Finance migration with respect to business requirements gathering, data mapping, fixed assets migration, open items migration, master data set up
  • Involved in migration from ECC6.0 to S4 HANA and participated in various testing and discussions related to migration to S4 HANA
  • Set up parallel currencies, valuation area for forex revaluation
  • Upload forex rate via spreadsheet to TCURR table
  • Set up Lockbox partner profile, lockbox ID and batch job
  • Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate Bank Selections for Payments
  • Checks Management through assigning number ranges for Check Lots, Checks Printing and defining void Reason Codes
  • Set up payment medium exchange/format for several payment methods, mapping external transaction types to internal transactions, posting rules, mapping accounts, AL11 directories, batch jobs
  • Worked with VIM for Invoice scanning, OCR search and post MIRO for POs in SAP
  • Configured Assessment and distribution cycles to allocate indirect costs to various cost centers
  • Creation of LSMW and Data migration of Master Records like Vendors, Customers, Cost Centre, Profit Centre, and Internal Orders
  • Mass Assignments of Profit centers to Company Code
  • Default account assignments for Cost Elements
  • Define dunning procedures, dunning forms, dunning levels
  • Maintain derivation strategies for different reporting requirements and update the COPA transfer structure for proper reporting of P/L lines
  • Supported the SLAN Nakisa implementation, interface and FI flow and validation in SAP for IFRS15 Supported the implementation of Customer pick up allowance moving to revenues as part of IFRS16 revenue recognition
  • Researched unsettled costs and fixed the settlement rules, sender and receiver definitions.

SAP FICO Consultant

Hasbro Inc
09.2016 - 10.2018
  • Configured company codes, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document number ranges, document types, posting keys, field status variants and financial statement versions
  • Set up New GL functionality to split FI Document by different dimensions
  • Configured account groups, field status, number ranges and terms of payment in AP &AR
  • Designed and configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor and Customer Master Data
  • Configuration of house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic assignment Payment Program configuration: Company code data, Paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, GIRO Payments
  • Designed, configured, and implemented accounts payable check printing, periodic Sales and Use tax reporting, and related month end financial reports
  • Set up of Dunning Procedures, Dunning Levels and successfully tested and trained Users on Dunning Run and printing of dunning notices
  • Set up Deductions Management to track the entire chain of Inter-related documents in AR Part Payments
  • Responsible for covering Logistics Invoice Verification, GR/IR Account Clearing, issuing invoices and credit memo, Billing processing and purchase order issues, reporting on vendor, payment proposal
  • Created Change Requests / Resolved the Defects and tracking them until they are closed
  • Set up Forex rate transfer from Spreadsheet
  • Creating Data Migration Templates, Structuring and cleansing and Migration of Master Data and Transaction Data

SAP FICO Consultant

Hexion Chemicals Inc
04.2016 - 08.2016
  • Worked with business to outline conversion strategy from legacy system to SAP for a newly acquired business unit
  • Performed initial analysis of various legacy system fields and developed mapping rules related to the current production SAP system
  • Reached out to the cost center owners during the month end for addressing the settlement issues and clearing the balances to next month
  • Performed GAP analysis to identify new business processes related to the newly acquired business unit and mapped to the existing business processes
  • Developed LSMW tools for Migration of Vendor Master, Customer Master, and Asset Master Data
  • Implemented major functionalities like Electronic/Manual Bank Statements, Payments, and Electronic/Manual Check deposit
  • Configuration of the Internal Order module to support capital procurement process involving planning, budgeting, approvals, settlements, status management, reporting, in integration with investment management
  • Worked on design and development of custom objects for GL Balance Migration and Open Item Conversion
  • Involved in the customization of dunning program including creation of the dunning proposals and editing the dunning proposals
  • Worked on design and configuration of US sales/use tax solutions using Vertex
  • Defined Financial Statement Version for the Balance Sheet report run
  • Developed various Report Writer and Report Painter Report
  • Involved in transfer of Fixed Assets in Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
  • Configured the system for No depreciation for a period in Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
  • Worked on Month end and Year-end closing for all FI and CO postings.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

William Jessup University
California, USA

Bachelor’s in engineering -

Kakatiya Institute of Technology (JNTUH)

Skills

  • Windows/XP/Vista
  • Qtest, Tosca, JIRA
  • SAP R/3 version ECC 60 & S4 HANA for Finance

Fico Configuration Skills

(General Ledger) Chart of Accounts, Accounts Group, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status, Tolerance Groups, Account Assignment Model, Recurring Entries, Reversal Document, Automatic Clearing., New General Ledger Document Splitting, Segment Reporting, Parallel Ledgers., (Accounts Payable) Vendor Master Maintenance with Business Partner, Manual Payment (Partial & residual), Automatic Payment Program, Payment run clearing, Down Payment. Closing Procedures and Vendor Statement, FI – MM Integration., (Accounts Receivables) Customer Master Maintenance with Business Partner, Dunning Procedures, Payment Terms, Incoming Payment (Manual and Automatic Clearing), Credit Management, Down Payment, AR Debit/Credit Memo, Closing Procedures and Customer Statement, FI – SD Integration., (Asset Accounting): Asset Master Maintenance, Depreciation calculation of asset, supporting of month end and year end activities and AUC settlement with internal order.

Timeline

SAP OTC Project Manager 3

Abbvie
09.2022 - Current

SAP FICO Consultant/ Test Lead

T-Mobile
06.2021 - 08.2022

SAP FICO Consultant

Apple Inc
05.2020 - 06.2021

SAP FICO Consultant

Zimmer Biomet
03.2020 - 04.2020

SAP FICO Consultant

Acco Brands
11.2018 - 02.2020

SAP FICO Consultant

Hasbro Inc
09.2016 - 10.2018

SAP FICO Consultant

Hexion Chemicals Inc
04.2016 - 08.2016

Master of Business Administration -

William Jessup University

Bachelor’s in engineering -

Kakatiya Institute of Technology (JNTUH)
ASHWITHA NALLA