SOFF Corporation
5100 CANYONGATE DRIVE, PLANO, TX 75093
Tel: (469) 467-9700 * Fax: (972) 612-7913
Surendhra Valluru (US Citizen)_______
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_SAP Consultant-FI/CO
SUMMARY
13 years IT experience with Six+ years in SAP R/3 configuration, functional, customizing, project
management, and Business Intelligence experience. Worked on FI/CO, SD, MM, Full Life cycle
implementation, upgraded projects and OLAP/DSS reporting tools. Involved with Business Process
re-engineering/process improvement, Multitask oriented and the ability to prioritize to meet
deadlines. Seven years of strong technical, analytical skills combined with outstanding leadership
ability, creative problem solving skills in both strategic, tactical areas. Extensive knowledge using
business process technology to help organization increase productivity and reducing cost.
EDUCATION / TRAINING
SAP BW Configuration 2.0/OLAP Extraction - Certificate (SAP, Foster City, CA)
UNIX - Usage and System Administration Certificate Course (UC Berkeley, CA)
SAP FI/CO Functional / Configuration. (SAP, Foster City, CA)
Information Systems Programming & Applications Certificate Course (Edison, NJ)
Bachelors Degree
EXPERIENCE
SAP R/3/FI/CO/BW Sr. Consultant
Warner Bros / SAP America – Glendale, CA
2002 – 2003 (Present)
As a SAP Sr. Consultant, I was responsible for the following:
 Participated in setting up Warner Bros (WB) Common Financials Initiative (CFI) project in the
areas of SAP-FI/CO using 4.6C.
 Mapped current state to future state, developed test scenarios, conversion/validation plans,
cutover, end user training and post go-live production support using Remedy help desk cases.
 System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and
Loss, inter-company, AP-customer transactions, house banks, payment program, Clearing Intercompany Vendor/Customer Open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment
terms, Cash application, Lockbox processing, dunning procedures, CO-CCAAssessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, Product Costing
- PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting.
 Developed business process flows, closing schedule and desktop procedures for all the activities
in FI/CO.
 Documented critical changes performed system tests, trained client team members on new system
functionality and SAP-FI/CO Production support (Remedy help desk support).
SAP R/3 FI/CO Sr. Consultant
PITNEY BOWES INC, Stamford, CT
2001 - 2002
SAP R/3 FI/CO - 4.6C Upgrade Project:
 Prepared functional Unit Test Scripts, analysis, design, testing, implementation with in two
Company Codes for FI Journal Voucher postings, GL recurring entries, Accrual deferral
documents, FI BDC report, error corrections, Profitability Analysis, AP/AR common users, CO
master data, Batch monitoring, Common Display for all users, Asset postings, transfers,
depreciations, Purchase change and display security roles.
 Development of test plans, test cases and acceptance criteria and trained users.
 Tracked, monitored, & communicated project progress against the project plan, requirements,
quality measures, standard processes, milestones & budget to steering committee.
 Successfully completed in rolling out SAP 4.6C Upgrade Project.
SAP R/3 FI/CO Team Lead
ADOBE / EDS SF BAY AREA Solution Center, San Jose, CA
2000 – 2001
SAP R/3 v 4.5B - 4.6C Upgrade Project:
 Tested the FI/CO transactions for field errors, missing data, syntax errors in SAP standard
programs. Tested all the custom programs and modified the field changes. Enhanced the
customer programs.
 System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, AP-paying vendor invoices,
AR-customer credit, credit controls, applying cash, credit memo, dunning, Master data, COCCA-assessments/distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, Product
Costing with Cost Splitting Valuation - PA- structure, value fields, planning and reporting.
 Configured IMG settings for incompletion procedures document types for sales transactions.
 Provide System configuration, testing to the global Finance user base in the areas of GL, A/R,
A/R, Fixed Assets, Special ledger and Consolidation (EC-CS).
 Multiple consolidation charts of accounts within a single dimension to generate multiple
financial statements at the same time in order to meet various requirements.
 Scheduled batch jobs for all FI and CO programs on the 4.6c environment.
 Worked with Authorizations and security for user groups.
SAP R/3- Pre & Post Implementation Support:
 Provided technical resource on day-to-day and month-end closing production support in SAP
R/3 FI-CO. Demonstrated effectively in resolving manifest errors, EDI errors (EDI processes
850, 855, 810), FI bank, external orders (Order to Cash cycle), web orders, automation errors,
credit card reconciliation process daily, and 7/24 P1 SAP batch jobs.
 Used report program RFBILA00 to create a budgeted financial statement to compare plan data
with actual data and restricted the report to a period on a quarterly basis. Created Balance Sheet
and Profit & Loss Statements. Created Planning function in the Special Purpose Ledger and
distribute plan data to create budgets, forecasts, and other reports.
 Successfully demonstrated in helping SAP FI-AR, FI-AP, SD, MM end-users on various areas
like payment terms, Customer Contracts, process payment runs, manually processing incoming
payments, running/editing Dunning proposals, reconciliation accounts in the GL.
 Cost Center Accounting Settings for Periodical Processing, Activity Based Costing (ABC),
Order processing, maintain/ control Billing documents, Inventory management, Purchasing,
Variant Configuration and complete design /configuration of general CO functionality (CCA).
 The scope of CO included Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.
 Design and configuration of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
 Assisted client in design and configuration of PA structures including decisions on
characteristics, and settlement to CO-PA.
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Integrated Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) component in the R/3 System, for planned
budget using various costing methods, Cost Split, Cost and Valuation Variants in Product Cost
Planning (CO-PC-PCP).
Releasing Production Orders, Confirming Operations, Simultaneous Costing, final Costing, Price
Transfer / Update, Confirmation/ Settlement and Period-End closing.
Calculated Overheads, Work in Process (WIP), variances and settlement. Cost Component
Layout with multiple cost component views, additive cost and special procurements.
Integrated Asset Accounting (FI-AA), structured and valuated Fixed Assets, created Asset values,
Acquisitions entry and alterations during use, Asset retirement.
Strong working knowledge on Depreciation postings, calculations/reporting and Year-end
closing and Change-of year.
Integrated the SAP Data Archiving based on the Archive Development Kit (ADK), Created /
Stored archive files.
Crystal 7.0 & Essbase 5.0 Worldwide Administrator:
 Created/managed Direct and Backlog sales reports using Info Designer and scheduling,
administered info Administrator created User groups, Users and Authorizations. Documented
support procedures for all batch jobs scheduled and ad-hoc reports.
SAP R/3 FI/CO Business Analyst
Maxtor / EDS High Technology, Milpitas, CA
1998 – 2000
SAP R/3 FI/CO v3.1H implementation & Production support:
 Analyzed and documented As-Is model and To-Be model.
 Configured the organizational structure from accounting view - 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. Integration between different modules - GL, AP, AR, Bank Ledger,
Treasury, CO (CCA, Internal Orders), SD and MM.
 ABC - Designed an Activity Based Costing solution for the client, who could be implemented
using CO-CCA (operational view), or using CO-ABC (parallel view).
 Customized credit control area for credit management in the application components AR and SD.
 Implemented Sales (SD-SLS) customer contracts (Master, Quantity, Value, Service Contracts)
and Contract release orders.
 Defined credit limit checks for SD processing, Risk management for receivables, assign
Company Code to Credit Control Area.
 Customized for the material ledger, reconciling accounts for the material ledger in different
currencies, settings for material costing, maintained costing sheets, Costing & Valuation
variants, product cost by period and valuation categories with balance sheet values by account.
 Integrated FI, FI-AA and CO-CCA. Involved in the design of Asset Class and Charts of
depreciation in Fixed Assets
 Designed and configured Asset management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions,
retirements, transfers, write-offs and post capitalization.
 Configured Asset Accounting structure/valuating fixed assets, Treasury cash management,
foreign exchange and payment program for payments.
 Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate settlement to CO-PA and to CCA.
 Payment processing in AR and Automatic Account Determination.
 Worked on payment transactions in EURO, conversion scenarios, critical success factors, and
defined accounts for realized exchange rate differences.
 Developed AR aging report, created Invoice Layout and processed invoices.
 Worked on month-end and year-end processes (Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements).
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Prepared technical specifications for ABAP reports. Experience with ALE and interfaces for data
transfer between SAP and Non SAP systems.
Business Objects / WebIntelligence administrator:
 Installed/setup enterprise server products and desktop BO products.
 Managed system tuning, troubleshooting, connectivity, access and security.
 Designed/maintained BO Universes. Created BO documents using custom Universes/reports,
report templates and distribute via Repository/BroadCast Agent Server for scheduling. Trained
end users on report generation techniques.
Upgrade Project: 3.1H – 4.5B:
 Worked on Master data field changes. Configured IMG settings for incompletion procedures
document types for sales transactions.
 Generated functional and technical specifications and subsequently tested programs for
Enhancements, ABAP programs used for validating in SAP.
 Implemented / integrated Treasury Management (TR-TM) the components Basic Functions,
Lockbox, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and linked to Cash Management and
Financial Accounting.
 Prepared technical specifications for end user specific reporting requirements.
SAP R/3 FI/CO Corporate Consultant
Business Objects Americas, San Jose, CA
1996 –1998
SAP R/3 v 3.1H FI/CO functional and configuration, addressing technical issues on DSS tool with
ad-hoc query, reporting and OLAP analysis.
 Involved in data access by providing Rapid Deployment Templates (RDTs) using Star Schema
for SAP R/3 RDT’s – A/R, A/P, G/L, CCA.
 EIS in OIW, SAP BAPI access, Inventory, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Billing, Personal
Administration.
Programmer Analyst
Popular Club Plan Inc., Edison, NJ
1994 –1996
On-line processing, read / write detailed programming specifications, adherence to top-down modular
programming methodology, systems performance issues, usage of SQL, Query/400, Sort/Merge and
logical file.
 Application: COBOL/RPG - Wrote report programs to perform multiple-level control break
processing on keyed sales files, employed single and multi-error analysis in data validation
applications.
 Project Environment: IBM AS/400-9402 Model 200 OS/400-V3R1M
Production Engineer
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Proctor & Gamble (India) Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, A.P., India
1987 –1994
Oversaw compounding, processing formulating and new product scale-up activities of new
consumer products.
Managed process operation, facility development and other technical issues. Performed inprocess testing, gained hands on skills in using pH meters, chromatography (thin layer, liquid &
gas), Spectrophotometry and gravimetric analysis.
To prevent accidents, assisted in preparing and updating safety procedures, GMP regulations and
manuals.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
SAP FI/CO, ABAP/4:
 SAP implementation application Functionality, Configuration, ABAP/4 programming.
 Organized structure in finance, master data and maintenance, document entry and change, FI-GL
period end processing, G/L reporting, vendor mater records, configured payment transactions,
process payment runs, customer master data, Automatic Account determination, Bank Master
data, Lockbox, Funds Management (FI-FM), AR Reporting, Cost Center Accounting, Overhead
Management using Internal Orders, Product Cost Planning, Costing Run, Cost Component
Split Valuation, and Price transfer (Final costing).
 Verified the balance of the retained earnings account.
 Report Writer/Report Painter (on-line v Batch), ABAP/4 development Workbench, Remote
Function Call (RFC) and OLE automation, reporting using ABAP/4, ABAP/4 query function,
editor, and debugger, modularization techniques.
 Data Archiving (CA-ARC) and also using the Content Management Service (CMS).
 ASAP project management implementation methodology, Blueprinting and Configuration of the
FI/CO Modules (use of Q&Adb).
 Developed cutover plans, disaster recovery, setup technical and development environment,
systems landscape along with SAP Basis Team.
 Make recommendations for the System Development Life Cycle including 3rd party vendor
selection and technology choices