Gopi B
Bangalore
Summary
A result-oriented professional with 13+ Years of qualitative experience in the field of SAP FI, Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Banking, foreign currency translation & Special Purpose Ledger FI-SPL, SAP reporting in AFO, SAC & integration with MM & SD. Proficient in assisting teams for running successful SAP FICO implementations and support operations regarding roll-ins to achieve business excellence. ‘Full life cycle’ project implementations and leading experience, using ASAP methodology, accelerated systems design and development, business process re-engineering, strategic analysis and planning, and user trainings. Proficient in Project Evaluation, AS-IS study, TO-BE process, Fit-GAP analysis, trouble shooting, performance tuning, Production Support and End-user training
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Business Analyst
Swiss Re
06.2018 - Current
- Associated with Swiss Re as an SAP professional in end-to-end implementation of SAP FICO
- Also involved in user acceptance testing and performance testing during various phases of testing cycles
- Design of Business Blueprint and mapping As-Is processes with To-Be
- Project involved unit and integration testing, end user training, Master data creation (LSMW/BDCs), Migration of transactional data, Balances, cut over activities, post Go-live support, Knowledge Transfer, Configuration documents
- Solving Issues in FIORI & SAP GUI
- Creating/handling SAP Reports (FSVs, TBs, Regulatory Statements)
- Creation of Functional Specifications
- Taking care of escalated issues by the business
- Working on RCAs and providing deep dive analysis as 5 why
- Configured payment program to process transaction from banking database
- Configured automatic payment program, which included creation of house banks, company code payment methods, employee tolerances, terms of payment, and reason codes
- Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users
- Configured payment proposal/payment schedule, payment run, and payment media
- Prepared extensive documentation for End-User Training with respect to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
- Involved in Multiple Interface Design and testing through CPI
Senior Lead Analyst
Cargill Business services PVT LTD.
09.2015 - 04.2018
- Configured Vendor and Customer Master Record, tolerance limits for over Payments and under payments, payment terms, and payment methods
- Ensured that bank and correspondence data is created for each vendor and customer
- In Asset Accounting, defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys, Asset Classes, asset master records, number ranges
- Manage General Ledger, Cash Management and Intercompany transactions
- Worked on manual and automatic account clearing, Electronic Bank statements and payment runs
- Taking care of escalated issues by the business
- Working on problems tickets and high incidents
- Working on RCAs and providing deep dive analysis as 5 why
- Involved in MEC and YEC activities
- Involved in daily calls with business to understand the recurring incidents and working on RCAs to reduce the inflow of incidents
- Gather data, perform analysis, draw conclusions, and present findings on the ongoing transition projects
- Handling invoice processing team and allocating the daily invoice inflow to co-workers & get it done in given stipulated time frame (SLA)
- Preparing training Documentation {Standard Operating Procedures}
- Handle payment process for all Indonesia Entities
- Foreign currency payment & Fund transfers
- Handle TDS/Tax/WHT payments for all Indonesia Entities
- Trained resources on Invoicing, Expenses and Payment processes
- Streamlined and standardized the process
- Bandwidth planning
- New joiner’s orientation for PTP tower
- Organized Finance Shared Service monthly meeting
- Managed risk throughout and made contingency plans to manage issues that pose risk to budget, daily operation, time delivery and functionality
- Investigating circumstances of non-payment; negotiating and resolving conflicts to expedite payment
- Handling all vendor queries along with escalation and providing a resolution within agreed SLA
- Preparing monthly Governance call deck
Advance Finance Associate
Ernst & Young
06.2011 - 09.2015
- To audit the invoice received for payment is appropriate to pay or not
- Conducted research on payment errors due to error in data entry
- Keep records of engagement codes (Open, closed, budget & actual expenditure)
- Reviewed the approved invoices and to ensure booked under right charge codes & General Ledger codes
- Resolved invoice discrepancies in order to reduce the financial risk associated with the transaction
- Worked with various departments in order to find the seriousness of risk and worked for process improvement
- Present ideas via reports and presentations, outlining findings and making recommendations for improvements
- Monitored accounts to ensure payments were up to date
- Vendor files maintenance & keep a track for audit purpose
- Update & reconcile same day payment tracker on daily basis
- Training to new team members on process operations
- Review legal documents
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Vijaya College
Bangalore06-2011
Skills
- SAP FICO module Knowledge
- Configuration & Customization
- SAP Reporting & analytics
- Agile methodology
- Stakeholder management
- Requirements gathering
- Business process mapping
- Data migration & Conversion
- Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting
- Project Management Skills
- Understanding of Compliance & Regulatory Standards
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst
Swiss Re
06.2018 - Current
Senior Lead Analyst
Cargill Business services PVT LTD.
09.2015 - 04.2018
Advance Finance Associate
Ernst & Young
06.2011 - 09.2015
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Vijaya College
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