Valmiki Natesh Kumar

Possessing over 20 years of diverse professional experience, including 18 years of in-depth SAP FI consulting, showcasing expertise in financial accounting system configuration and business process optimization.

• SAP Certification Process Data Analyst (SAP Signavio) - 2026
• SAP Certified Associate - S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Financial Accounting
• SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Simple Finance on Premise Edition 1503
• SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting - SAP ERP 6.0 EHP5

• Implementation (S/4 HANA - On premise) - Client: Hydro One - January 2025 to July 2026
• Rollouts (S/4 HANA - Public Cloud) - Client: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - January 2023 to December 2024
• Rollouts - Client: Ernst & Young (EY) - October 2016 to December 2022
• Support - Client: Philip Morris International - July 2015 to September 2016
• Enhancement – Client: Smiths Detection and John crane - July 2013 to June 2015
• Implementation – Client: Aids Health Care Foundation (AHF) - May 2012 to June 2013
• Enhancement and Support - Client: Future Group In house projects - July 2008 to April 2012
• Domain - Audit Assistant - A. Prasad Setty & Co - Jan 2006 to Jun 2008

• Participated in end-to-end SAP S/4HANA On-Premise implementation for SAP FI Banking and Treasury solutions.
• Conducted business requirement gathering, fit-gap analysis, and solution design workshops with business stakeholders.
• Implemented Cash Management solutions including Cash Position, Liquidity Forecasting, Planning Levels, and Liquidity Items.
• Configured and supported Data Medium Exchange (DME), Automatic Payment Program, Electronic Bank Statement processing using BA12 formats, Bank Account Management (BAM), and Bank Communication Management (BCM).
• Collaborated with banks and technical teams to validate payment files, bank statements, and bank connectivity requirements.
• Prepared Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), Configuration Documents, Process Flow Diagrams, and Test Scripts.
• Supported SIT, UAT, defect resolution, cutover activities, and post-go-live hyper care support.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions and prepared end-user training documentation.

• Participated in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud global rollout projects for banking and payment process implementation across multiple countries and business units.
• Configured Data Medium Exchange (DME), Automatic Payment Program, Electronic Bank Statement for MT940, and BA12 formats.
• Supported Bank Account Management (BAM) activities, including bank account creation, maintenance, governance, and bank account lifecycle management.
• Configured and maintained bank account hierarchies, account groups, signatory information, and approval workflows within SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud.
• Collaborated with banking partners and integration teams to validate payment files and electronic bank statement interfaces.
• Supported testing activities including Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, and regression testing for banking processes.
• Prepared Functional Design Specifications (FDS), Configuration Documents, Test Scripts, and Business Process Documentation.
• Cutover planning, production deployment, and hyper care support activities.

• Collaborated with country stakeholders to drive timely Local configuration template (LCT Review) completion, for deployment, Communicated technical design to deployment teams.
• Configuration of Roll out of LCT treasury configuration based on LCT to new countries.
• Create / review / update functional specifications, and Review and estimation of change request.
• Assisting global template team with test scripts, Assisting during SIT and UAT. Resolving defects and updates to configurations.
• Cutover task including variant creation, setting up BCM payment approvers, and NAS folders creations along with access granted to users in production.
• Hypercare support Incidents resolutions, Supporting peer groups – solution team, and AMS.
• Configuration of manual retrofits, testing retrofits, and documenting the test results.

• Provided Level1, Level 2 and Level 3 production support for SAP FI module.
• Analyzed, investigated, and resolved SAP FI incidents, service requests, and defect tickets within agreed SLA timelines. Supported month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities to ensure smooth business operations.
• Collaborated with business users to gather requirements and provide functional solutions for change requests and enhancements.
• Performed root cause analysis for recurring production issues and implemented preventive solutions.
• Supported cross-functional integration issues involving MM, SD, and CO modules.

• Participated in SAP ECC 6.0 implementation projects, including Business Blueprint, Realization, Testing, Go-Live, and Hypercare phases.
• Coordinated with onshore team for requirement gathering workshops and analyzed business processes related to Financial Accounting and Configured and customized SAP FI modules.
• Prepared Functional Specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms, and workflows (RICEF objects).
• Assisted in data migration activities including master data and transaction data validation.
• Provided post-go-live support and resolved production issues during Hypercare.

• Analyzed existing SAP FI business processes and proposed optimized solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Prepared Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows (RICEF Objects).
• Configured enhancements in FI area.
• Worked on DME, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), and automatic clearing processes.
• Performed detailed functional testing and supported System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Developed and executed test scenarios, test cases, and business process validation activities.
• Prepared configuration documents, process flow documents, user manuals, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Provided post-implementation support and monitored system performance after enhancement deployment.
• Assisted business users with issue resolution, training, and adoption of newly implemented functionalities.

• Provided Level1, Level 2 and Level 3 production support for SAP FI module.
• Analyzed, investigated, and resolved SAP FI incidents, service requests, and defect tickets within agreed SLA timelines. Supported month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities to ensure smooth business operations.
• Prepared Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows (RICEF Objects).
• Developed and executed test scenarios, test cases, and business process validation activities.
• Prepared configuration documents, process flow documents, user manuals, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Assisted business users with issue resolution, training, and adoption of newly implemented functionalities.
• Leveraged LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench) to automate the posting of recurring accounting transactions, reducing manual effort and improving process efficiency in SAP ECC enhancement projects.
• Developed and utilized SAP Queries and Info Sets to automate business reporting and extract financial data for end users.
• Designed custom SAP Queries to generate ad hoc reports, reducing manual effort and improving reporting efficiency.

• Vouching documents and auditing of accounts.
• Finalization of books of accounts & procedural advice to clients.
• Maintaining the daybook, ledgers, petty cash book & bank books.
• Verification of yearly sales tax assessment returns.
• Verification of purchases and sales invoices.