1. Ashok
Kumar.G
E- Mail:
ashok.grandhi@gmail.co
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Mobile: +352 691 818 170
SAP Certified Associate for SAP FI – ECC 6.0 with 5+ years SAP consulting experience and 5 years of strong
functional experience in core Financial Accounting
SAP Expertise
 Worked in upgrade, Rollout and Support projects.
 Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, PS, VIM (Vendor
invoice Management) and T&E, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and Profitability Analysis (CO-
PA). Having good understanding on the Material Ledger concept
 Integration of FI with MM and SD and T&E
 Through understanding of a customized SAP system. Developed custom reports as per the customer requirements in
the area of FI & and other modules
 Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integration view points
 Good knowledge in configuration, implementation, system design and development and gathering user requirements
 Experience in Configuration, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and
Production support
 Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for
data uploads for various SAP Projects
 Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports
 Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules
 Proficient in preparation and executions of presentations and user manuals
 Strong expertise in problem solving, decision making, and translating business requirements into business solutions
utilizing process improvements as well as ERP solutions
 Performed Post Go-Live Support
 Excellent Accounting and Finance background with demonstrated competencies in Financial Analysis and Business
Analysis.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Working with “Wipro Technologies” as SAP Sr Consultant since Aug’11 – Till date
On-site Assignments:
Customer : ArcelorMittal
Role : SAP Senior Consultant
Country : Luxembourg
About the client, ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel and mining company. Guided by a philosophy to produce safe,
sustainable steel, it is the leading supplier of quality steel products in all major markets including automotive, construction,
household appliances and packaging. ArcelorMittal is present in 60 countries and has an industrial footprint in 19 countries.
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2. Scope of this project - Rollout
The purpose of the project is to have logistics execution process fully implemented and integrated on SAP for GAS and
energy business of ArcelorMittal.
Responsibility and Contribution
• Involved in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training,
Documentation and Production support
• Extensively exposed to integration of FI with MM and SD (Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down
Payments. preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts)
• Making effective documentations and comprehensive analysis of the E2E Business processes.
• Preparation of test scenarios, Test plan and Test Cases.
• Involved in Outbound, Inbound and IDOC Interface Testing
• Creation of general ledger accounts through LSMW.
• Defining account groups and number ranges
• Creation of Customer & Vendor Account groups, Number Ranges
• Configured Alternate Reconciliation accounts for Down Payments
• Configuration of Automatic Payment Program
• Configuration of Basic settings in Asset Accounting
• Defining of Bank Master Data, House Banks, and Account IDs
• Creation of Primary & Secondary Cost elements, Cost centers and Profit centers
• Solved the Post Production issues
On-site Assignments:
Customer : British American Tobacco
Role : FICO Consultant
Country : United Kingdom, Malaysia & Australia
Duration : 18 Months
About the client, British American Tobacco (informally BAT) is a British multinational tobacco company headquartered in
London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest tobacco company by sales (after Philip Morris International). BAT
has a market-leading position in over 50 countries and operations in around 180 countries. Its four largest-selling brands are
Dunhill, Lucky Strike, Kent and Pall Mall, with others including Kool, Benson & Hedges and Rothmans. BAT has a primary
listing on the London Stock Exchange. As of 6 July 2012 it had a market capitalization of £65.6 billion, the sixth-largest of
any company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Scope of this project includes support In SAP system & users across the globe covering the regions of AsPac, Middle East,
Africa, South America & Europe. This support involves the different application areas like FI, CO, PM, T&E, SIM, SD,
MM, QM and WM. Modules in SAP.
Responsibility and Contribution:
• Customer has upgraded the SAP system from SAP version 4.7 to ECC 6.0, as part of roll in for Asia Specific and
Western Europe, attended the Knowledge Transfer session by the project team
• Handled go-live and normal business as usual support issues from various client locations
• Requirement gathering for the Change request by interacting with the end user
• Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources (functional as well as technical) to ensure that the tickets
are resolved within the stipulated SLAs
• Ensuring that offshore team resources are properly loaded, help them in solving tickets where required and
ascertain that the tickets are resolved well within the stipulated SLA timelines set.
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3. Off-shore Assignments:
Customer : British American Tobacco
Role : FICO Consultant
Organisation : Wipro Technologies
• Responsible for detailed problem determination of issues escalated
• Problem determination includes re-creating the issues, determining the point of failure by stepping through the
ABAP Code and identifying the problem resolution.
• If the resolution is a major development or configuration fix, provide the necessary change detail and follow CR
process
• To have the deepest level of application or product understanding.
• Solved the issues which are interrelated to Production system in areas like FI, CO, PS, T&E and VIM
• Providing Knowledge Transfer on various new projects/process that are being implemented within SAP to other
team members
• Attended KT sessions, prepared documents and SMTD, play back to Customer and provided Internal KT to the team
• Prepared FS and test case for while Development of Z tcode for customer statement
• The house bank creation to electronic bank configuration along with the search strings
• Worked as functional consultant while developing workflow, done configuration required from functional side and
performed testing
• Attended the weekly status call on tickets and change requests. Also ensuing to deliver the management reports on
time without any further delay
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Worked with “HP Global Soft Pvt Ltd” as SAP Associated Consultant since May’10 – Aug’11
Project Details – Rollout (Onsite Project)
Client – Haier India Pvt Ltd
Duration: May’10 – Aug’11
Role – FI Consultant
About the Client, Haier is the world’s 4th largest white goods manufacturer and one of China’s Top 100 IT Companies.
Haier has 240 subsidiary companies and 30 design centers, plants and trade companies and more than 50,000 employees
throughout the world. Haier specializes in technology research, manufacture industry, trading and financial services.
This was rollout for HO Operations in India. The SAP system first developed for China Region and it is rolled out
globally.
Roles and Responsibilities: -
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4. • Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design activities and providing post
implementation support for enhancements.
• Collecting Inputs from Users for Customization Reports, preparing FS (Functional Spec).
• Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to pay and Order to cash cycles
• Configured the Manual Bank Statement according to the Business requirement
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program,
Withholding Taxes, Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account
Assignments)
• Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, defining Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account
determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, Transferring the Legacy Data.
• Master Data upload for Cost Center as well Profit Center via LSMW
• Customization of STO as well RSTO program according to the requirement of the Business
• Providing Post Go-Live support. As a Team member for FI Report development activities to fulfill the
requirements.
• Analyzing the Problems faced by the users and provides the solution, Document the solutions provided and then
update knowledge Database with the problem faced and the solution provided.
• Prepared Change requests, which included functional specs and documentation of the change and testing
documents and also ensured that the transport was moved across other environments.
• Trained employees at various levels for document entry with concepts like Reverse, hold documents, parking,
reference documents, editing and document Entry screen.
• Involved in Month End Closing Process & Providing training to the End-User’s.
PREVIOUS & FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jan’08 – Feb’10 Accounts Executive Nuance Group India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore
A J.V of “Shoppers Stop Ltd. & the Nuance Group”. Global leader in Airport retailing with presence in 20 countries with
the share of Major International Airport’s in the World and a pioneer in the Duty Free Concept business across the globe.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITES
 Payables Management (Duty Free & Domestic)
 Heading a team of accountants and was responsible for Domestic & Overseas Payments, Forex Gain & loss
 Controlling the indirect expense booking & payments on day to day basis
 Receivables Management
 Management cash, credit card movements, receipts & realization
 Analysing receivables with operation to ensure its collectables
 Reconciliation of Vendor’s as well as the Debtors & Preparation of ageing reports
 Maintenance of Fixed asset registers and accounting depreciation on monthly basis
 Cash & Banking – Reconciliations & Co-ordination with the bankers on day to day activities
 Preparation of MIS Reports as well ad-hoc reports - Payables, Receivables & Statutory
 Preparation of Monthly Provisions – Direct & Indirect Expenses and indirect income
 Reporting + Analysis – Sales & Purchase Accounting
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5.  GL’s Scrutiny on monthly basis
 Stock Reconciliations on quarterly basis
 Audits – Preparation of Audit Schedules & assisting the Auditors in Audits (Internal & Statutory Audit)
 Back end support at operational level for all financial reporting from SAP – MIS & BW
 Translating the functional requirements of financial department to the technical team for developing various
financial statements in respect of SAP FI & BW
Taxation
 TDS – Handling deduction, deposit, posting of payment, reconciliation with vendor account. Pivotal in ensuring
filing returns on time. Preparing and Issuance of TDS Certificate.
 Service Tax – Preparing & maintenance on monthly basis Credit Input and Output details and timely depositing
of service tax within due date.
 Sales Tax – Preparing and filling for VAT returns of monthly basis and filling within due date, issuances of Sales
tax Forms (C, F & H) on monthly & quarterly basis.
Supporting Topics during Implementation of SAP in Nuance Group (India)
 Acted as Spoc for providing complete information on P2P business scenarios also involved in Configuring
automatic payment programmed for outgoing payments
 Creation of Parking, Holding, Sample, Recurring & Accrual Documents according to business requirement
 Support for Configuration of Tax on Sales and purchases, Service tax, Output & Input tax with Tax procedure
TAXINN, Extended withholding tax (TDS)
 Support for Creation of G.L, Customer & Vendor Master records
 Reconciling the Migration data with legacy systems and provided sign off to the project team
 Liaison with implementation team regarding authorization issues/Z reporting and for necessary configurable
changes
 Also involved in set up Work flow master data after as a part of data migration
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Jul’05-Jan’08 Jr. Accounts Executive Home Solutions Retail (I) Limited, Bangalore
Subsidiary company of Pantaloon Retail India Ltd. Chain of Indian Retails dealing with Consumer Durable & Electronic,
Furniture & Home Improvements.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITES
 QC & Accounting bills - Purchase, Service contract, Direct & Indirect Expenses
 Preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statement
 Processing & checking of Travel claims in compliance with the corporate travel policies
 Creditor’s reconciliation, ageing reports and confirmation of balances on monthly basis
 Preparation of MIS Reports – Payables & Receivables
 Physical Stock Verification on Quarterly bases for entire south region.
 Responsible for collection of daily sales reports from all the retail outlets & consolidation of the same
 Reconciliation of Cash & Credit Card on daily basis
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6.  Monthly reviewing of all expense ledgers for preparation of provisions
 Filing of VAT & TDS on monthly basis
 Issuance of Form C, Form F and 515 for the inter branch transfer of goods and interstate purchases.
ACADEMIA
• SAP FI - Certified Solution Consultant, Certified by SAP AG, Germany in Mar’2010
• Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) from Nagarjuna University in the year 2002-2005
• Perusing PGDBA from Symbiosis University
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP : SAP FI (Financial), Oracle - 11i
Accounting Package : Tally 6.3 & 7.2
Operating System : Windows 98 & XP, M.S Office 2007
PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME : Ashok Kumar G
DATE OF BIRTH : 11.05.1985
Marital Status : Single
Hobbies : Playing cricket and Traveling.
Languages Known : English, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada
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7.  Monthly reviewing of all expense ledgers for preparation of provisions
 Filing of VAT & TDS on monthly basis
 Issuance of Form C, Form F and 515 for the inter branch transfer of goods and interstate purchases.
ACADEMIA
• SAP FI - Certified Solution Consultant, Certified by SAP AG, Germany in Mar’2010
• Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) from Nagarjuna University in the year 2002-2005
• Perusing PGDBA from Symbiosis University
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP : SAP FI (Financial), Oracle - 11i
Accounting Package : Tally 6.3 & 7.2
Operating System : Windows 98 & XP, M.S Office 2007
PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME : Ashok Kumar G
DATE OF BIRTH : 11.05.1985
Marital Status : Single
Hobbies : Playing cricket and Traveling.
Languages Known : English, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada
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