Jagadeesh Kumar | SAP FICO Lead Consultant - Configuration | Roll-Out | Support
HCL Technologies, Chennai
jaa.sapficoconsultant@gmail.com
+91-9003177900
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Job Description:
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Support clients in the selection, implementation, and customization of SAP FICO module. This
role uses consulting skills, business knowledge, and SAP solution expertise to effectively
integrate SAP technology into the client’s business environment in order to achieve client
expected business results.
Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, A/P, A/R, AA,SPL)
Strong working knowledge in Controlling (CCA, OM, IO, PCA, PC) and B/W modules.
Extensive experience Two Full life cycle large implementations in SAP Configuration.
Strong Post Implementation support 24/7
Excellent communication and inter personnel skills. Proven ability to work independently and
team environments.
2 global complete implementation lifecycles and 1 small scale implementation lifecycles.
Worked in different verticals of Banking, Health Care, Automobile and keen to take up new
verticals.
Job Summary & SAP Expertise:
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Over 8.2 years of experience in Finance & Accounting domain with rich and cross-cultural
experience in the areas of Strategic Financial Planning, Accounts, Auditing, Taxation, Costing,
Fund Management and System Implementation, configuration and Support.
5 years of experience in SAP Financials & Controlling with Business Users Interaction,
Requirement Gatherings, Configurations, Customization, Data Migration / Conversions, Testing,
Training material creation and End User Training with SAP FI/CO Module in SAP Project as per
ASAP methodology.
Worked in Full life cycle implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects.
Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules -GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets,
Treasury , Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and Profitability Analysis (COPA/PC).
Worked on Country India Version (CIN) including Excise, VAT, and TDS.
Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and Order to cash Cycles.
Reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer
Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integrations.
In-depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and
development and gathering user requirements
Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and
Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.
Active member in conducting the team meetings, Customer feedback meetings.
Active Member In SAP Forums & have Conducted Corporate Trainings & White Paper
Presentations.
Work Experience:
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SAP FI-CO Lead Consultant with HCL Technologies.
Nov 2010 – Present
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Financial Audit Assistant with Nagaraju & Co Financial Services.
April 07 – May 2010
Education:
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Bachelor of Information & Technology Engineering.
March 02–May 2006
Jagadeesh Kumar- HCL Technologies | SAP FI CO Consultant
Jagadeesh Kumar | SAP FICO Lead Consultant - Configuration | Roll-Out | Support
HCL Technologies, Chennai
jaa.sapficoconsultant@gmail.com
+91-9003177900
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My Experience – Client - Standard Chartered Bank Organization
Current Role
Project Name
Project Type
Environment
April 13th to present... Chennai
: HCL Technologies.
: SAP FI CO Lead Consultant.
: Global Research Configuration.
: Implementation & Maintenance
: SAP R/3, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager.
Project Description:
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Wholesale Banking Channels are vertical domain for Standard chartered Bank which contains
5 products (Global Research, Economics, Rates, Forex, Commodities, and Credits) across
the globe by Various Channels accessed in 21 countries. These operations are critical to
Business Users in context of time and information.
E2E Implementation Responsibilities Included:
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Examining company’s document flow, SAP process flow and recommending suitable validation
procedures for documents at header, line item and whole document level.
As-Is and To-Be Business Process design, Blue Print, BPP Documentation and Gap Analysis.
Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions,
Enhancements and Forms).
Discussed with Bank business users on output format file for ACH and Wire transfer.
Designed functional and technical specification document for ACH & wire transfer configuration
and output format file.
Configured bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank
account, ACH and wire transfer automated payment process in SAP with selection variant.
Involved in the configuration of all automatic account determination to handle Exchange rate
differences, foreign currency valuations, cash discounts. APP (F110) and manual payments for the
vendor accounts for Accounts Payable (AP) department for cash inflow..
Configured Credit Card process in SAP by defining various payment card types, Merchant IDs,
Assign merchant ID to receivables, account determination with card type by integrating with third
party pay metrics.
Involved in working with House Banks, Check Lots, Check Register, Correspondence and void of
Checks in Accounts Payable (AP) and configuration of new void and reversal reason codes for
check reversal.
CIN – Implemented Country India Version.
Accounts Payable-Automate payments to multiple vendor accounts &Automate Email
Communication of Payment Advices
Worked in configuring Cash management, In-house Cash, Banking and Bank communication
Management.
Roll-out and Maintenance Support
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End user training and User manual preparation.
Configuration details Document preparation.
Involved in the process testing, UAT sign off from the end users.
Business Sign off for the development changes.
Customer Issue resolve maintenance and tickets closer in the area of Finance.
Working closely with Technical team in trouble shooting the problem.
Carrying the necessary configuration changes as per the business requirement.
Month & Yearend closing activities.
Head discussions with process owner system developers and users.
Resolved User Remedy issues / Tickets on timely basis.
Preparation of Functional specification for new requirements & enhancements.
Jagadeesh Kumar- HCL Technologies | SAP FI CO Consultant
Jagadeesh Kumar | SAP FICO Lead Consultant - Configuration | Roll-Out | Support
HCL Technologies, Chennai
jaa.sapficoconsultant@gmail.com
+91-9003177900
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My Experience – Client - Standard Chartered Bank Organization
Current Role
Project Name
Project Type
Environment
Nov 11th to Mar 13th... Chennai
: HCL Technologies.
: SAP FI CO Consultant.
: Securities Markets.
: Implementation & Maintenance
: SAP R/3, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager.
Project Description:
As one of the world's leading international banks, we bring to you a wealth of diverse experience and
standards combined with our local market expertise and banking infrastructure.
Securities services aims to provide securities industry participants with tailored solutions to meet your
unique needs in the securities services domain in Greater Asia. Our securities services network
extends across 17 markets.
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Responsible for gathering business requirements, blueprint, participating in system design,
configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for
enhancements to the current system.
Involved in gathering Business requirements, preparation of Blue Print by Re-engineering the
system to fill the GAP between the TO BE systems.
Activated New G/L and configured the steps on Parallel ledgers and Document splitting.
Involved in Migration of data from Classic GL to New GL through different phases of migration
cockpit.
Involved in Accounts Receivable (AR) Customization and Configuration of Customer master
Records and Customer groups. Terms of Payment, Billing and Incoming Payments, Cash
discounts, cash management, Over/Under payments and determined the automatic account
assignment.
Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic
Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings.
Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account
Assignments)
Responsible for Configurations in Fixed Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation,
made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining
number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas (like Book depreciation, tax
depreciation, MACRS, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code
transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account
assignment (FI-AA Integration).
Configured the controlling area, cost elements, Cost centres (CO-CCA), Number ranges, Cost
centre hierarchy, Product Costing : Estimation of Standard Cost and Calculation of WIP (Actual
Costing)
Used Report painter to generate reports of PCA (GRR3) needed by the Business Owner.
Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications.
Roll-out and Maintenance Support
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SAP FI CO Consultant for Pre and Post Go live and stabilization phase
Documented business impact and change management requirements through the communication
and support of the configuration team leads and business process owners.
Prepared test scenarios, integration test documents and training documents.
Resolved issues/problems arising out of the end user testing.
Resolved issues relating to Assessments, Distributions, Actual periodic reposting
Involved in Period-end closing activities
Jagadeesh Kumar- HCL Technologies | SAP FI CO Consultant
Jagadeesh Kumar | SAP FICO Lead Consultant - Configuration | Roll-Out | Support
HCL Technologies, Chennai
jaa.sapficoconsultant@gmail.com
+91-9003177900
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My Experience – Client - Standard Chartered Bank Organization
Current Role
Project Name
Environment
Dec 10th to Nov 11th... Chennai
: HCL Technologies.
: SAP FI CO Consultant.
: Ontrack Implementation Enhancement & Conversion.
: SAP R/3, ECC 6.0, Solution Manager.
Project Description:
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On-Track is a performance management tool used by the entire Solution Delivery network to
track the progress of implementations, Sales and Materials. Solution Delivery logs their
implementations and activities in this tool and also updates information related to project
governance and customer satisfaction.
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The Business reports and data that are extracted from On-Track are being used for
computing the scorecard and Business Intelligence across the globe in SCB network.
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Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements. Worked with
business to understand Solomon ERP system, mapping it with SAP system and found the GAPs
and made necessary changes with the help of business.
Worked on business requirement documents and business process documents and mapping it
with SAP system.
As-Is and To-Be Business Process design, Blue Print, BPP Documentation and Gap Analysis.
Responsible for FI-GL, AA, CO-CCA, IO, and PS.
Lead the Team in Business Blue Print Phase
Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year
Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
Implemented New GL, Activated new Ledger , Performed document splitting , Parallel Accounting
and periodic processing
Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI with MM and SD
Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts.
Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
Configured and Customized CO – General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting,
Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Centre Hierarchies, cost element groups,
cost centres.
Solved the Post Production issues related to SD,MM ,FI,CO,and PP.
Past Experience
April 2007 to May 2010 ... Hyderabad
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Organization
: Nagaraju & Co Financial Services.
Role
: Financial Audit Assistant.
 Responsibilities : Complete core accounting functionalities of experience in Finance &
Accounting domain with rich and cross-cultural experience in the areas of Strategic Financial
Planning, Accounts, Auditing, Taxation, Costing, Fund Management, Accounts Payable &
Account Receivables.
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Jagadeesh Kumar
Jagadeesh Kumar- HCL Technologies | SAP FI CO Consultant