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Shrikant Kate

Shrikant Kate

Certified SAP S4 Hana FICO Consultant And Scrum Master
Kalyan

Summary

· SAP Certified Application Associate SAP S4 HANA for Financial Accounting Associates SAP S4 HANA 1709 and SAP FI C_TFIC52_66

· Certified Professional Scrum Master – 1

· 10+ years of opulent experience as SAP FICO consultant across various industries in SAP ECC & SAP S4 HANA.

· Currently working with Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai as SAP FICO Consultant and Scrum Master. Apart from team handling, I am involved in delivery of multiple enhancement projects on SAP S/4 Hana platform.

· Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, A/P, A/R, AA, SGL). Knowledge over Project Systems components and its integration with Finance.

· Good understanding of Enterprise structure and other organization units in integration modules.

· Good understanding of Agile Scrum Methodology

· Excellent communication and inter personnel skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.

· 2 global complete implementation lifecycles and 2 small scale implementation lifecycles.

· Experience working in CPG industries.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

SAP FICO Consultant and Scrum Master

Client: American Audio Equipment Manufacturing Company. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai
04.2015 - Current
  • Responsible to deliver SAP S4 Hana enhancements by practicing Agile Scrum Methodology.
  • Planning EPIC’s and stories using JIRA and JIRA align tool.
  • Actively involved in quarterly PI planning sessions and work closely with PO’s and BPA for creating stories and slicing down the EPIC’s. Involved in upcoming project planning’s.
  • Handling tickets using Cherwell Tool.
  • Consulted the client to carve out a specific product business globally in multiple phases as per regions and implemented the same in new landscape of SAP S/4 Hana system. This involved creation of business blue print document. global template consisting of new company codes on new landscape, seamless transition of business partners, implementation of new banking and payment process, setting up new intercompany EDI process, credit management, SD account determination, substitution and validations, manual EBS, Asset management etc..
  • Developed new forms and Scripts to print customer statements, debit and credit memos and other outputs as per the requirement of new company.
  • Single handily implemented the global payment card integration project for B2C and B2B business partners.
  • Implemented credit card, direct debit and Online Banking settlement process which has helped the business to capture the funds quickly and improved the payment card authorization up to 99%. This involved FI-SD account determination, card setup, process setup for authorization & reauthorization of payments, EBS for payment reconciliation, setting up interface with third party Payment Service Provider (PSP) for merchant payments.
  • Actively participated in testing, cutover, go live and hyper care activities for all the projects.
  • Actively participated in Sales Force implementation and integration with SAP S/4 Hana system which replaced legacy CRM system to manage B2B and B2C Sales and Service orders. Also implemented cash posting process which automates settlement of payments. This has eliminated manual reconciliation of payment card settlements. This project has helped improving the complete ecommerce business of the client. This has helped in professional growth, broadening and changing the customer experience with help of new technologies which is highly adapted in business world.
  • Implemented multiple process improvements with regards to EBS globally. This has greatly improved the reconciliation and cash application processing. It has helped eliminating huge manual work.
  • Implemented global drop ship process to effectively manage Taxes globally. This involved huge interaction with client directly. Involved in setting up FI-SD-MM integration. Setting up new intercompany process.
  • Developed complicated compliance related GST Audit File for Malaysia
  • Responsible for setting up e-invoicing for Mexico using AIF.
  • Knowledge on Data migration tools on S4 Hana and learned experience on data fallouts.
  • Realization of Custom object – or automation for a functionality. Preparation of RFS and tech specification documentation.
  • Manage the WRICEF, change request and deliver the object to client on time.
  • Carried out all the testing and worked on developing all the customized reports required.
  • Understanding of system upgrade projects and carried your regression testing.
  • Setting up Validation and substitution setup as per business requirements.
  • Month end and year end closing support activities.
  • Documented functional designs and test cases

SAP FICO Consultant

Client: An American Toy Manufacturing Conglomerate. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Mumbai
04.2014 - 03.2015
  • Responsible of rolling out global template for different geographical markets and implementing GAP’s which are identified during BBP Phase. Preparing the configuration rationales for FI and CO and validating the configuration.
  • Involved in requirement gathering of existing business practices and documenting AS-IS business process accordingly.
  • Preparation of GAP documents as per localization requirement.
  • Configured settings for Company codes, fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, Posting period variant, field status variant, tolerance groups and account groups.
  • Configured Electronic Bank Statement, Bank Master Data, House Bank and G/L Accounts, bank charges, payment difference, APP.
  • Implemented Letter of Credit (Financial document) and entire invoice list functionality
  • Worked closely with technical and functional consultants of other modules to resolve cross- functional issues.
  • Documenting the customization, preparing the training material and training the key/core users.
  • Worked in cutover activities like Vendor Master, Customer Master, General Ledger and Asset Master Data and transactional data upload from the legacy system. To upload the data used tools like LSMW and BDC.
  • Post implementation support includes solving the tickets raised by the end-user.
  • Implemented Inbound and Outbound Interfaces.
  • Traveled to Hong Kong for UAT, Go Live and End User Training.

SAP FICO Consultant

Client: An American multinational Confectionery Company. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Mumbai
09.2013 - 03.2014
  • Rolling out global template for different geographical markets and implementing SAP FI-HR Concur interface project.
  • Implemented interface between Concur and SAP to post financial documents.
  • Designed and developed a program with the help of technical consultant to post AP documents.
  • Performing unit testing.
  • Creating batch jobs for timely processing of flat file received from Concur.
  • Rolled out the solution to other company codes.
  • Documented and maintained technical specifications for SAP applications

Accounts Executive

Client: Fiberglass Manufacturing American company. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Mumbai
04.2011 - 08.2013
  • Member of the Accounts to Report team handling inter-company transactions.
  • Processing various types of invoices (Inventory and services related) over different SAP Platforms (3.1i, ECC 6) and initiating the payment procedure.
  • Preparation of monthly database for reconciliation of accounts between various entities. Sorting out variances and following up with clients to get them re-solved.
  • Mainly focused on European and North American and South Asia region, handling the entire cycle from invoice receipt to shipment delivered and its subsequent payment.
  • Performing reconciliations and investigating the open items for AR and AP posting between intercompany.
  • Ensures purchase orders, receiving and invoices are matched. Provide reports as required by Finance management team. Process invoices for various company-wide activities run globally.

Payroll Executive

Client: Alpha Staff. Employer: Caliber Point Business Solutions
Navi Mumbai
10.2010 - 03.2011
  • Processing payroll for different clients of Alpha Staff (leading P.E.O. in USA).
  • Payroll Processing include timesheet entries, Checking whether all deductions are processed, credit given to an employee or client is processed, take corrective action as per client notes, sending proper reports to client and posting the payroll.
  • Communicating with the client for any issues related to payroll.
  • Preparation of MOM as and when required.
  • Preparing report like dashboard, Error analysis report, Payroll Slips count report etc.
  • Recipient of Best Performer Award for being a good team player and quick processor of Payrolls with highest level of accuracy.
  • Generated reports to track employee time and attendance

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Account And Finance

Mumbai University, Mumbai, India
06.2006 - 06.2009

Skills

Scrum and Agile proficiency

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Software

SAP

Cherwell

Jira

MS Office

Certification

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (1709)

Timeline

SAP FICO Consultant and Scrum Master - Client: American Audio Equipment Manufacturing Company. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services
04.2015 - Current
SAP FICO Consultant - Client: An American Toy Manufacturing Conglomerate. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
04.2014 - 03.2015
SAP FICO Consultant - Client: An American multinational Confectionery Company. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
09.2013 - 03.2014
Accounts Executive - Client: Fiberglass Manufacturing American company. Employer: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
04.2011 - 08.2013
Payroll Executive - Client: Alpha Staff. Employer: Caliber Point Business Solutions
10.2010 - 03.2011
Mumbai University - Bachelor of Commerce, Account And Finance
06.2006 - 06.2009

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (1709)

SAP FI C_TFIN52_66

Professional Scrum Master - I from Scrum.org

Received Star Performer and Star Team award multiple times

Received Star performer of the quarter award for training around 250+ associates on SAP FICO module

Shrikant KateCertified SAP S4 Hana FICO Consultant And Scrum Master