Siva Sembur

713-443-4404 (Cell)
svshiva@hotmail.com
SENIOR SAP R/3 FI-CO CONSULTANT
Business Process Design / SAP R/3 Financial Accounting (FI) General Ledger (GL), Accounts
Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Special Ledger (SL) / SAP R/3 Controlling - Cost
Center
Accounting (CCA) / Profit Center Accounting (PCA) / Profitability Analysis (PA) / Internal Orders
(IO) /
Report Writer, Report Painter / ABAP Query / ABAP/4 / SAPscript / Business Warehouse (BW) /
Vertex
SYNOPSIS:

Eight years of professional expertise in mapping FI/CO business process to SAP and
independently configuring and customizing modules of SAP R/3, in particular FI-GL, AR, AP, SL
and
CO-CCA, PCA, IO, PA and their integration with other R/3 modules

Experienced in Report Writer, Report Painter, ABAP/4 Query, ABAP/4, SAPscript

Experienced team lead. Led multiple teams and projects in various projects.

Worked on compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley Act and knowledge of its impact on mySAP
financials.

Excellent understanding of the functionalities of Materials Management (MM) and

Sales and
Distribution (SD) and a good understanding Project System (PS) and Product Costing (CO-PC)

A thorough understanding of Business process integration and other R/3 modules Production Planning (PP), Materials management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Project
System
(PS)

Excellent understanding of BW concepts and its dataflow from SAP R/3.

Twelve years of functional experience in the areas of Audit, Accounting, Finance,

Taxation,
MIS, Systems analysis and design, Software implementation, Project analysis, Corporate
Planning and
Controlling. In-depth understanding of business processes in multinational corporations and their
crossfunctional dependencies

Excellent conceptual and analytical skills, good communication, and interpersonal skills

Trained in SAP Business Warehouse 2.1 and 3.0

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Member of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India

Master of Commerce
Advanced Diploma in Systems Management

PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Client Name: Shell Oil Products (SOPUS), Houston, TX
SAP R/3 FICO Consultant / Team lead - November 2002 to February 2004

Led a team of four for foreign currency revaluations and translations (FASB 52) as part
of the
Trident (Shell Lubricants Pennzoil-Quaker State (PQS) integration) project.

Provided guidance to the Trident project on the adding the second local currency
(group
currency) based on my experience from my previous project.

Led a team of two to analyze and implement with the help of security team to conceal
the
credit card numbers in SD related transactions and master data in FI, to limited users.

Created new entities in both FI and CO (Company code and Controlling area) and all
related
configuration.

Worked with the project manager to check on the compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Executed table compare (configuration tables) within environments and correct the
inconsistencies between instances.

Assisted data archiving team to test and verify the results of FI and CO documents.

Performed testing of the development and QA systems when hot-packs were applied.

Recommend applying of OSS notes and co-coordinated with SAP in resolving more
than 30
issues. Some of them were currency related as the group currency/local currency value was not
taking
the correct exchange rate, entries flowing from SD/MM were having similar exchange rate issues,
database inconsistencies (like no document number value in the record for FI tables), double
posting of
invoice documents, etc.

Performed testing and executed the conversion of open items to non-open items and
vice
versa to help with archiving old data.

Analyzed, configured, tested, recommended and implemented the authorization group

in
posting periods that will enable only certain users to post to the prior period.

Analyzed, configured and implemented the auto-clear program to clear GL accounts

(GR/IR,
freight clearing account) based on certain criteria.

Helped the BW team to analyze and provide a standard solution to two dataflow issues
from
SAP R/3 to BW.

Configured and implemented the FI-CO reconciliation as the distributions and

allocations in
CO was being implemented.

Created sales order substitutions in PCA, asset master data substitutions.

Resolve issues with DART and complete the extracts needed for storage.

Worked on Vertex to resolve issues with tax data between SAP and Vertex.

Guide MIS members on FICO configuration.

Created more than 500 profiles (using PFCG) as part of a security project.


Resolve production issues relating in legacy system on PQS and after go-live (with
Trident)
for lockbox (including images from bank), automatic payment program, calendar, credit
management,
house banks, asset management, product costing, document types, line layouts, additional
parameters for company code (for SAP HR team), mass change of master data (GL
accounts/customers/credit management data credit representative group, credit limits),
commitment
of WBS element (from AM).

Created ABAP/4 queries to extract certain master data reports (and avoid custom
programs
for one time reports) like customer/vendor/bank records, credit management reports for analysis
and
decision making, statistic reports to count the number of open items per GL account per company
code to assist in deciding the big accounts to be cleared first for foreign currency
revaluations/translations,

Analyzed and provided functional specifications for custom programs. For example,
Tax
audit extract, Asset report etc.

Worked with OpCon job scheduler to schedule SAP jobs for both standard and custom
programs.

Provided better solutions for existing custom programs and report painter reports.
Client Name: MeadWestvaco, Dayton, OH
SAP R/3 FICO Consultant - June 2002 to November 2002

Analyzed, designed and implemented a project that enabled the Plant field in FI,
using
Field Status Groups to be required and force the documents to flow to GLPCT in PCA (using
3KEH).
Created a number of report painter reports (by plant) from this table.

Implemented Foreign Currency Revaluation/FASB 52 for non-US based company

codes.

Solved issues relating to BA balancing, Profit and Loss Adjustment, and Balance Sheet
Adjustment.

Created validation and user exits relating to confirm only the statistical internal orders
are
getting posted in FI.

Researched and recommended applying of many OSS notes and co-coordinated with
SAP
in resolving issues. Issues like time-out errors when displaying GL balances (FS10), SQL errors
when
executing - Transfer Assets to PCA (1KEI), Transfer Receivables/Payables to PCA (1KEK), Batch
input
session errors when executing Profit and Loss Adjustment (F.50), Adding plant to Field Movement
for
Field grouping code - 8A02 (GCF2) and SQL Query (SQ01).

Analyzed and configured (in CO-PA) new characteristics into an existing operating
concern
(KEA5), added a new value field and newly added value custom field (KEA6 and KE4I) in the
operating
concern, changed the form to output the value field added above (KE35), changed the
contribution
margin report to include the newly included characteristic (KE32).


Analyzed and provided recommendation for Open Item GL accounts that has a poor
percentage of automatic clearing.

Analyzed and provided functional specifications for certain custom programs.

Created SQL query for certain Audit requirements.

Provided recommendation on execution of various month-end programs using a

schedule
instead of manually executing the same for each company code(s).

Performed testing and executed the conversion of non-open items to open items so
that the
users can match and clear for certain accounts and create a batch program for auto clear the
documents for certain accounts.

Created line layouts, added special fields for displaying line items and open items.

Provided training to the clients team (MIS and business users)

Analyzed the adding of second local currency (group currency) to company codes that
would help the client in consolidation and consistency across the company for group currency
reports.
Client Name: PwC Consulting, Houston, TX
SAP R/3 FICO Principal Consultant / Team lead - January 2002 to April 2002

Team lead for FI-AP configuration team for an Energy Template Pre-configured
Solution

The main scope of this project is to create a template and configure a generic energy
industry client for all modules of SAP R/3

Successfully analyzed, guided, configured, and performed a demo for all the energy
industry
partners

Configuration for FI-AP included creation of generic master data, account groups,
number
ranges, automatic payments, field status groups, down payments, recurring entries

Involved in unit testing and integration testing

Client Name: Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX
SAP R/3 FICO Principal Consultant / Team lead - August 2000 to December 2001
Consultant for Inter-company Finance team to lead, design, and configure inter-company finance
business processes using SAP functionality in versions 4.6 and 3.1

Responsible for implementing projects specific to Finance Inter-company business

processes

Analyzed, guided, configured, and implemented SAP R/3 FI business process on

version
4.6 (Project ESB Enterprise Structure Baseline)

Major tasks performed during this assignment were to avoid any custom code (unlike
3.1
implementation) and implemented vanilla SAP, configured inter-company related transactions,
general
ledger master data, trading partner and line layouts

Created functional specifications for ABAP/4 interfaces between 3.1 and 4.6,
management
reports, SAPScript for printing inter-company invoices


Successfully led and implemented a four-member team as part MITE (Manual Intercompany
Tool for Expenses) Phase I and Phase II projects and CASH project on version 3.1

MITE Phase I project - Finance Inter-company business team required a simplified

process
where data can be entered on one screen for the Accounts Receivable posting in one company
code
and offsetting Accounts Payable transaction in another company code. This was configured using
transaction code OBYA. This tool used account assignment model for recurring monthly entries
and
standardized account usage. This tool made sure that the entry posted in one production box is
correctly ALE'ed (sent) to the box where the other company code resided. Invoice printing for
these
MITE invoices was implemented as part of this project

MITE Phase II project - The enhancements that were performed as part of this project
were
to create a excel spreadsheet upload tool to post mass MITE transactions, create line layouts to
suit
the requirements of Inter-company business users, print the MITE invoices in the country specific
format and handle multiple currencies (document, local, group and hard currencies)

CASH (Automated Cash Settlement process) project - The main scope of CASH
project
was to automate the cash settlement process from one Compaq entity to another. The sales
subsidiaries send cash to the headquarters on a periodic basis. Standard SAP transaction (F-53)
was
used for this. Then a customized transaction (YF10) was coded to create a file containing the
cleared
items. This file was then sent (using Ashwin schedules) to the box where the headquarters'
company
code resided. The receiving box would then execute a customized program to clear the same
invoices
cleared by the sending company code. Both cleared documents list and exception documents list
after
execution of this program was provided for reconciliation

OMAR Shutdown Project - Played a vital role in the OMAR (legacy system) shutdown
project to identify the scenarios posted on OMAR that can be used on SAP either using standard
SAP
transactions or using MITE

Member of five member team (with SAP America) to analyze Material Ledger
functionality
and its use to Compaq

Worked on Special Ledger to resolve issues on user exits, validations and

substitutions.

Provided support and resolved issues during Integration and Acceptance testing

Resolved various critical and non-critical issues in production environment, for both
Compaq
and Digital environments

Recommended applying of OSS notes and co-coordinated with SAP in resolving

issues.

Developed Ashwin schedules to support the above two MITE and CASH projects

Knowledge transfer and documentation of the above projects were performed as part
of the
transitioning this to employees
Client Name: Shell Chemicals, Houston, TX

SAP R/3 FICO consultant and Project administrator - February 2000 to July 2000

Created a lot of reports (using ABAP/4 Query) and functional specifications for the
associates to meet their deadlines

Guided, facilitated, taught the associates in understanding SAP and how they work and
coordinate with them in querying and reporting on various FI and CO modules

Project administrator for about 50 consultants on board

Co-ordination of foreign office reports, maintenance of project records, relevant papers,

preparation and monitoring/updating a project timetable for all aspects of the work, project status
reporting and co-ordination, maintenance of time and expense reporting, foreign office time and
billing
analysis, progress billing, team communications, managing open items register
Client name: Ericsson Inc, Richardson, TX
SAP R/3 - FICO consultant - June 1999 to November 1999

Refine the Planning/Budgeting process in SAP R/3 Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and
Profit Center Accounting (PCA) modules

Performed a quality check on the configuration of the system for the above mentioned
submodules with respect to the Planning process

Researched and resolved defects and applied OSS notes

Assisted the team lead in conducting a work-shop to the top management group who
perform this Planning process

Transferred knowledge to the designated team and job aids were created to make their
job
simpler

Suggested a long-term solution which would simplify their existing process with respect
to
both time and space

Provided functional specifications to the ABAP/4 programs

**** ADDITIONAL NOTES ****
Excellent team player and have worked for PwC Consulting for three years and have Big 5
experience. References can be provided on request for each and every project in the US.