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Configuration testing and support experience with different SAP Versions 4.6,
4.7, 4.7E and ECC 6.0.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Understanding of Business Process Cycles: Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-toCash (O2C), and Record-to-Report (R2R) from Functional perspective.
Worked and maintained Cost center standard hierarchy with cost center
groups representing organizational structure of the company, representative
cost centers for summarization.
Involved in giving directions for data migration system from legacy to SAP R/3
using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) tool
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Involved in SAP overview training, end user navigation training, and end user
FICO training
Controlling:
Integration:
Consolidation:
Reporting Tools:
SAP FSCM/Treasury:
Lockbox
Processing,
Electronic
Accounting, Cash Management
Bank
Statement,
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Tools:
Testing:
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
ERP Packages:
Databases:
Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT & XP, UNIX, Red Hat, Linux and
Solaris 6.0
SAP Applications:
Painter.
Networking:
SQL*Net, TCP/IP
Work Experience:
3M St Paul, MN
Till Date
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (ECC 6.0)
Feb 2012
Responsibilities:
Configured in SAP FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP and configured master data for CO-CCA (cost
center, cost center group, standard hierarchy), cost element accounting including
setting up distribution & assessment cycles.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Configuring Order to Cash Process (OTC) involving Sales order, Delivery, Billing
documents
Defined the setup for new company codes, sales organizations and plants.
Setup House banks for the newly added banks to the company.
Defined master data for General ledger accounts, Materials, Assets, Cost centers,
Internal Orders, Profit centers, Vendors and Customers.
Defined AP, AR Reconciliation Accounts for Vendors and Customers.
Defined new account keys, document types and number ranges.
Worked on the Automatic payment program and Lock Box setup for the Accounts
Payables and accounts Receivables.
Implemented I-Supplier to facilitate the Procure to Pay Process.
Created blueprints and Designed cross team WRICEFS
Migrated data into SAP from Legacy systems like Metastorm, Star System with the
help of EDI IDOC and LSMW.
Check lot maintenance, check printing and testing. Assisted with settlement of
Internal Orders to Fixed assets and Cost centers.
Worked on Asset Conversion from Legacy System.
Did the requirement-gathering meeting with the business for the creation of Asset
Accounting blueprint as per IFRS standards.
Did the entire mapping for all of the Banking interface during the designing stage,
and mainly responsible for the EFT (Electronic Fund Transfer) interface during the
build stage and testing phase
Mapped Tax Codes from Legacy System to SAP according to each countries
requirement using Vertex
Responsible for maintaining of master data like cost center, cost element groups,
statistical key figures and statistical key figure groups in Cost Center Accounting.
Created actual and plan allocation cycles before the month end as needed by the
business users. Allocation cycles were documented based on sender cost center and
cost element.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Configured New GL
Trouble shoot issues relating to the overall payment process including the F110
Payment, the In house cash, the F110 Payment and transfer to Bank.
Experience in BI/BW integration with SAP and non-SAP systems, system landscape.
In Internal Orders, responsible for maintaining internal orders, internal order groups,
model orders and order types.
In Product Costing, followed Activity Based Costing (ABC) to estimate the standard
cost and calculate the actual cost using actual values
Implemented a new Procure to Pay business process for the purchase of data and
expense items.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Configured Costing Variant, Costing Sheet, Valuation variant, Order Type, and
overhead cost elements in Product Costing.
Configured the Fixed Assets, Chart of Depreciation, asset class, depreciation area,
fiscal year variant, number range, and substitution rule in the fixed asset master
records.
Worked on both Order to Cash process in association with SD team and Procure to
Pay process with MM and Manufacturing team.
Used LSMW to create master data, to delete master data and fix few production
issues on the Product cost collectors.
Defined the integration steps for Account determination and Revenue account
Determination for inter-company transactions.
Scheduled all Batch Jobs after the system went Live for FPM (Financial Process
Management) Team.
Created and Executed Test Cases for Unit Testing, Integration Testing, BSVT,
Performance Testing in HP Quality Center
Created user defined reports through Report Writer and Report Painter.
Long
Beach,
CA
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (ECC 6.0)
Responsibilities:
Used Solution Manager for the Central Data Repository for the Business Blueprint,
Configuration.
SIR (System Information Report) process involved throughout the Unit testing,
Acceptance testing, Assemble testing, Integration testing and system testing.
Participated in implementation of SAP R/3 using ASAP Methodology in the post golive support
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Worked on Electronic Bank Statement with Lockbox method BAI2 Format and
automatic Payment Advice Notes.
Built on CCA and PCA hierarchy and assigned PC to CC. Customized CO-CEA, COCCA & CE-PCA.
Maintained Manual Planning and Periodic Allocations under Cost Center Planning.
Worked on Primary Cost Planning for Manual and Automatic planning and Secondary
Cost Planning for Manual Planning and Periodic Allocations and Inter-company
Transport Orders
Configured, maintained and trouble shoot business processes in support of the SAP
utility ERP-FI module include Accounts Payable, Banks, General Ledger, etc.
Responsible for issue identification and gap definition in regards to SAP functionality
for all Finance related processes as well as cross-functional points in the areas of
Sales and Distribution and materials Management.
Created various Payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts
Receivables.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Involved in the Development of test scenarios/ test cases and resolved issues at
Unit Testing and Integration Testing. Provided End User Training, Courseware and
Documentation in FI/CO Modules.
Configured Costs of Goods Manufactured and Cost of Goods Sold in Product Costing
(CO-PC).
Treasury: Lock box processing, Cash management, bank account G/L structure, bank
statement processing, maintaining exchange rate types, rates and currency
relationship.
Integrated Asset Accounting, Structured and Valuated Fixed Assets, created asset
values, Acquisitions Entry and Alterations during Use and Asset Retirement.
Maintained Account Assignments for Asset Acquisitions, Retirements and Intercompany transfers.
Integrated Asset Accounting with General Ledger and worked on year-end closing.
Worked on unit and FI integration with MM, SD & AA.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Data Conversion from Legacy using SAP LSMW functionality. Developed applications
(upload tool) to support and ensure smooth data gathering and data transfer.
Chrysler,
MI
Feb 2010 July 2011
Sr. SAP FICO Consultant
Responsibilities:
Involved in all phases of the Implementation Life Cycle which include System
Design, Analysis, Configuration, System Testing, Data Conversion, and Post Go Live
support.
Involved in the configuration of the SAP R/3 modules: FI (GL, AR, AP), CO-PC.
Configured G/L Master records, document number ranges, Fiscal Year Variant,
posting period variant, opening and closing of posting periods, field status variants,
document types, posting keys, automatic clearing accounts.
Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including partial payment and
configured days in arrears for the payments terms.
Primary resource for Account Payable, Asset accounting, and real estate.
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), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification) ,
linking of Vendor documents with EDI.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Worked on the integration with the following modules MM, SD, AP, AR, TAX, AA, GL,
and CO
Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
Nov 2008
Responsible for interacting with the Business Users, SAP Technical Team members,
IT Associates, Customers, and other external partners to implement the solution
involving gather requirements, Blueprinting, Configuration, testing, training,
stabilization and post go live support.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Configured Global Settings for Company code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts,
posting periods variant, field status variants and field status groups.
Configured the house banks, G/L accounts for Bank accounts and bank account
reconciliation program and Defined forms of payment guarantee, defined and
assigned payment guarantee, activated documentary payments per item category.
Worked closely with business user for gathering business requirements and creating
detailed blue print in accordance with IFRS.
Maintained number ranges for settlement and controlling documents, and for
variance documents, used report painter and report writer.
Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank
account and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.
Configured master data, standard hierarchy, dummy profit center, Distribution and
Assessment cycles in CO-PCA.
Created planning layouts for cost element planning and statistical key figure
planning, accrual calculation, distribution and assessments.
Successfully defined distribution and assessment cycles with activity types for
indirect activity allocation and splitting structure as a part of Cost Center Planning
activity.
Configured costing based COPA, created characteristic and value fields, and
configured valuation using product costing sheet.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Configured operating concern attributes and COPA settlement structure with the
settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
Carried out all the baseline configurations in CO area involving configuring Cost
Component Structure, Costing Variants and Overhead Costing sheets
Defined result analysis keys, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation
methods to calculate Work in Process (WIP) and its settlements.
Wood
word
Idaho
Falls,
May 2006-Oct 2008
SAP FICO Consultant - ECC6.0
Responsibilities:
ID
Configured Financial Accounting Global settings: Key settings being Company Code,
Business Areas, Fiscal Year Variant, Document Types, and Document No. Ranges.
Helped troubleshoot and resolve trouble tickets from users for SAP Applications, in
the module areas of CO Controlling, Finance (GL, AP, AR), and integration points
between FI and MM/SD.
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Internal Orders Order master data Order types, Settlement, Settlement profile
Jan
2005
to
March
Responsibilities:
Interaction with User and Client to understand their Requirements and concern over
existing System and tested existing Functionality for further improvements
Changes in the Customization of Cash Journal, House Bank and changes in Treasury
Module
Setting of New Financial Statement version i.e. Balance Sheet & Income Statement
for new Group Account.
Changes in the Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Elements,
Cost Centers for Enhancements in Functionality and Reporting
Carried out additional Report Development & Enhancement in existing System using
various tools like Report Painter.
Involved in production support for CCA, PCA, CO-PC, GL, FI-CO, AP, AR modules.
EDUCATION
PRAVIN KOTADIA
SAP FICO CONSULTANT
pravinkotadia@gmail.com
Bachelors of Commerce