Veeresh Hiremath
Certified SAP S4HANA Finance consultant
Bengaluru
Summary
- Certified SAP S4HANA Finance Consultant with 11+ Years of experience. Having around 11+ years of experience out of which more than 9 years as an SAP FICO Consultant and around 2 years in domain experience of Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables - Involved in 1 full life cycle implementation, 2 support projects & 1 roll-out project including configuration, testing, integration of FICO with MM & SD, Data Migration and post go-live support
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2013
2013
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Advisory Consultant - Data Migration Lead
IBM
02.2020 - Current
- Vendor Master Data analysis
- Vendor Master Data changes in ECC systems (payment method, vendor bank data), master data change reconciliation and documentation
- Customer Master Data analysis
- Customer Master Data changes in ECC systems (payment method, customer bank data), master data change reconciliation and documentation
- Bank Master Data analysis
- Bank Master Data validation (gap, currently not performed by C&BT Data Workstream)
- Bank Master Data changes, master data change reconciliation and documentation
- Documentation and update of C&BT Program Data Change Approach
- Management of all data analysis and data change activities for master data in scope
- Coordination and planning of data change activities with GBS DAS Team
- Working together with Data Champions
- Reporting of status and issues to C&BT Release Managers
- Planning and execution of pre-flight tests (incl
- Data change reconciliation)
- Resolution of data issues from pre-flight tests
- Planning and execution of production data changes (incl
- Data change reconciliation)
- Resolution of data issues and incidents during ELS
- Planning and execution of data changes for SIT and UAT (new to C&BT Data Workstream)
- Creation of test data for SIT and UAT (new to C&BT Data Workstream)
Senior Application Associate
Cargill Business Services India Pvt Limited
05.2017 - 02.2020
- Understanding the business requirement of the organization
- Involved in workshops to gather inputs
- Preparation of blueprint for implementing the project
- Setting up of the FI enterprise structure
- Configuration of global settings such as field status variant, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, tolerance group for GL accounts, customer/ vendor accounts & employees, chart of accounts, account groups, retained earnings account and number ranges for different document types
- Configuration of the areas of GL, AP, AR, and AA in SAP
- Creation of house banks and customizing automatic payment program for processing of Outgoing payments
- Customization and configuration of vendor accounts, advance to vendor, discount received and foreign currency transactions
- Customization and configuration of customer accounts, advance from customer, discount allowed, foreign currency transactions and dunning
- Configuration of asset accounting for maintaining the fixed asset transactions
- Configuration of foreign currency valuation for month end activity
- Implemented new GL, performed document splitting and parallel accounting
- Involved in integration of FICO with SD and MM
- Conducted KT sessions to the technical team on written functional specs
- Configured the settings required based on base line configuration document
- Involved in all kinds of testing phases and resolved the defects during the unit testing
- Involved in preparation of end user manuals
- Conducted end user training
- Involved in performing cut over activities
- Involved in data upload through LSMW and BDC
- Involved in post implementation support activities
- Receiving tickets from the users and analyzing them to know if the tickets involve configuration changes or require new enhancements
- Proactively participated in discussing critical issues with other functional consultants for timely resolution
- Configuring new add on requirements to the existing system as per the requirement
- Maintaining documentation for the new changes
- Coordinating with client for giving acceptable solution to problems, queries raised by client within predefined stringent time limit and giving solution to users
- Maintaining daily status report on issues and informing the same to the management
- Developing customized reports as per the business requirements
- Interacting with business process team and other team members regarding the process related queries
- Involved actively with the cross functional team members to solve production issues
- Involved in month end and year end closing activities
Senior Associate
EXL Services India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 05.2017
- Solving of maintenance issues and tickets in the areas of FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP and FI-AA
- Providing day to day operational and process support to users
- Handling new FI & CO change requests comprising customization changes, handling new requirements, new configuration, enhancements and development of reports
- Analysing the impact of changes across modules/functional areas
- Designing modifications necessary to solve issues and submitting options with estimates for approval
- Interacting with the client/onsite team for clarity of requirements as and when necessary
- Review and build the assigned configuration documents
- In design document review, raise concerns and identify resolution of associated issue to assist in quality design document
- Coordinating in moving the transport request from development server to other servers and verifying the transport requests once they are moved to different servers
- Preparing functional specifications and assisting technical team with the FICO functionalities
- Involved in preparing test cases and executing the tests
- Attended KT sessions and updated knowledge with new issues
- Assisted users in carrying out month end and year end activities
Assistant Accountant
Infosys
09.2013 - 07.2015
- Invoice Processing
- Payment execution through automatic payment program
- Auditing the critical supplier accounts
- Contacting the vendors and clients regarding invoice related queries
- Preparing the reports and statements
- Cash applications
- Collections management
- Dispute management
- Dunning
- Preparing reports and statements
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Finance
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Accounting
R S Shetty College of Business Administration
Skills
Business analysis
Certifications
- SAP Certified Application Associate- Treasury with SAP S/4HANA, 2021
- SAP Product Support Knowledge, 2022
- SAP Certified Application Professional - Financials in SAP S/HANA for SAP ERP Finance Experts, 2020
- SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7
Timeline
Senior Advisory Consultant - Data Migration Lead
IBM
02.2020 - Current
Senior Application Associate
Cargill Business Services India Pvt Limited
05.2017 - 02.2020
Senior Associate
EXL Services India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 05.2017
Assistant Accountant
Infosys
09.2013 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Accounting
R S Shetty College of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Finance
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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