Karthiek

469-310-3342
[email protected]
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
An accomplished SAP BPC Solutions Architect with 9+ years of Total IT experience,
including 4 years in SAP BPC NW/Microsoft 10.0, 7.5 and 7.0 in Planning, Budget,
forecasting. 2 years in BW/BI involving data modeling, data extractions, installation,
configuration, report development, administration and performance tuning. Over 3 years
in SAP FI-CO involving AA, FX, GL, COPA, CCA, PC

SKILLS INVENTORY

Business Areas FI/CO, MM, SD, CO-PA, AR, AA, AP, GL, BPC, PM, PS, APO, CRM
BPC Configuration of application, dimensions and custom reports, loading
historical data from legacy systems, Input schedules, build report templates using
EPM, configuring work status, development of business logic such as Dimension
formula, Script Logic, and Business Rules, Worked on Consolidation Business Rules
& logic such as Copy Opening, Currency Conversion, Intercompany
Matching/Elimination and Account Transformation, sound working knowledge of
BADI.
BW/BI - Administrator Workbench, Info Cubes design, Info Sources, Info Objects,
DSO Objects, Process Chains, Multi Providers, DTPs, Transformations, Routines
(Start, End and Expert) Info Package groups, process chains, Data marts etc.
Expertise in performance tuning using Aggregates, Rollup, collapse, Partition and
Compression, used the BW Statistics cube to analyze query performance and
aggregates performance. Scheduling the data loads using Process chains.
BI Reporting - BEx Analyzer, Info set Query, Calculated and Restricted Key figures,
structures, variables, conditions, exceptions, Web Reporting.
Customizations - Data source enhancements, generic extractors, Logistics Cockpit
set up & customization, user exits, update/transfer rules creation, transformations,
routines.
BI Operations - Data load management, reporting optimizations, transport
management.
FI - Creation of organizational structures in FI, MM, SD modules, key role in
configuration of Enterprise Structure, Credit Control Area, Business Areas, GL
accounts Creation, Account determination, Field Status Groups, Account Groups,
Document types, Customer and Document number ranges, Terms of payment,
Clearing functions - Posting Keys, Reason Codes, Automatic clearing, Account
assignment, and Tolerance groups, Bank master data, Closing & reporting, Interest
calculation, Statements, Dunning & Credit Management functionality, Foreign
currency evaluation and foreign currency translation.
CO - Configuration of Internal order and Profit center accounting, CO-PA
configuration included building the operating concern, developing value fields &
characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments,
cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation
rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement,
realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution.
Support Activities - Involved in daily production support activities, maintaining
Process Chains. Experience in process chain management, monitoring and
scheduling batch jobs. Experience in finding and implementing the SAP OSS Notes.
Testing Unit/Integration/stress.
Training - Conducting training sessions for power-users and end-users.
Experience with Dimensional Modeling and designing OLAP cubes

Involved in all the phases of project using ASAP Methodology which includes AS-IS,

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TO-BE, BBP, Configuration, Testing and Go-Live activities

TOOLS/METHODS

CLIENTS

BPC NW 7.0,7.5,10, BPC Microsoft 7.5, BPC Admin, EPM

10.0, Worksheet function, Worksheet logic using MDX
and SQL, Data Manager, Process Chains, SAP SSO
2.0,Write back BADI, BPF, AP/AR, GL, Profit Center, Cost
Center, COPA, AA, MIS Reports, FI Integration - MM and
SD, Informatica, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP
BI 7.3/7.0, SAP BW 3.5, 3.0, BWA 7.2, SAP ECC 6.0/5.0,
R/3, 4.7/4.6c,Crystal Reports, Mini-Tab, Oracle Crystal
Ball, SAS
Data Services/Data Integrator XI 3.1/3.2, Informatica
UNIX, LINUX, Windows, Mac OS, Oracle 10g/9i/8i/8.0,
Sybase, SQL Server 2005, MS Access, ABAP/4, C, C++,
Java, ASP.Net, VB.Net, HTML, XML, PL/SQL MS Office
2010/2007/2003 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook,
Project),VB Scripting, Macros using VBA,Visual Studio,
HP Quality Center, Remedy, SharePoint, Illustrator,
Ramesys

Applied Materials
Bank of America
Inter Public Group
Dealertrack Technologies
AmeriCold Logistics
Mass Mutual Financial group
Rio Tinto
Logicamms Ltd.
Griffin Coal
Aban Power Company Ltd.
Lanco Infra tech Ltd.,

EDUCATION
MBA Queensland University of
Technology (Australia)
Masters in Applied finance
Queensland University of
Technology (Australia)
Bachelor of Engineering
(Electronics & Communications)
Anna University (India)

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

SAP BPC Senior Consultant
Applied Materials, Sunnyvale, CA
2014 Present

Was Instrumental in gathering functional requirements from various end-users and

developed various functional spec. Documents.
Played a pivotal role as a main point of contact in getting the functional requirements
to the various technical teams such as BW and ABAB.
Worked closely with the technical teams in getting the BADI code modification and
data load corrections.
Completed the FUT for the two CIPs for which I was responsible. This also involved
creation of new dimensions and properties in the model and modifying the
transformation and mapping files according to the BW tech. naming convention.
Provided complete support to the end users during the UAT and got the UAT sign of
promptly.
Provided training manuals and end user training about the new modification that
moved to production.
Provided end user support post go-live to enable a smooth transition for the users to
settle in the new environment.

SAP BPC Consultant

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC
November 2014

December

June 2013

Implemented Cost center Planning/ Capital and Treasury Planning

Implemented Tax Planning and integration to Corp TAX
Implemented Headcount planning based on HCM Module
Implemented Consolidation Solution
Real Time ECC integration
Successfully meet all project objectives of Strategic planning.
Participated in Blue printing, design, developing, testing and supporting the Business,
planning, and consolidation requirements.
Designed and Developed Dimensions, Applications, Script Logic and Business Rules
required Budgeting and Consolidation solution.

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Created Script Logics to meet custom business requirements in multiple applications.

Worked on Data Model for Designing and Configuring flat and Hierarchical
Dimensions for Entity and Account dimension.
Developed the data architecture environment to extract data from BI into BPC.
Created and modified Applications by adding new members and updated dimension
properties in applications.
Configured Work Status at AppSet and Application level to enable monitor task status
of BPC functionalities like task sequencing, work status level, lock settings and
controls for Data Manager, Manual entries.
Configured Business Process Flows (BPF) for several applications to automate the
planning steps.
Worked extensively on Worksheet Logic, Script Logic, Dimension Formulae and
Dynamic Scripting.
Extensively used the EvDRE functions for building reports and input schedules,
Created script logic and embedded them to the input schedules as push buttons to
enable calculation.
Extensively used functions like EvDRE, EvGTS, EvSND, EvCOM, EvDPS, etc., for the
reporting of data to meet the Customer Requirements.
Designed and developed Transformation Files, Conversion Files and Packages
required for loading data from Flat files, External systems and BW system.
Created logics using Workbook functions, Script logic, BADI and Multidimensional
Expression logic.
Worked on security setup creating various task profiles and member access profiles
to allow several users to perform various tasks and access certain data sets.
Worked on Interface for Excel and created reports.
Extensively worked on data load using data manager and DTP and Info package.
Optimized the system using LITE optimization and Full optimization options.

SAP BPC Senior Consultant

Inter Public Group, N.Y
May 2013

August 2012 -

Requirement gathering by conducting BBP workshops with diferent JTC clusters.

Understand the setup and configuration of master data in SAP-R/3
Preparation of templates for various planning areas like CAPEX/COPEX/HR/REVENUE
Preparation of the BBP document
Realization
Setting up extractors (CCA/PCA/HR) for pulling data from SAP R/3 to BI
Enhancement of extractors
Data modeling in BI and BPC
COPEX schedules and reports
Manpower cost schedules and reports
BADI for Manpower cost calculation
Setting up SAP 2.0 Architecture
Addition of Support package 3 to SAP 2.0
Movement of data between applications using custom BADI
Customized process menu for various applications using VB script
Data manager packages for loading Master and Transaction data from BI to BPC
cubes
Setting up security profiles and work status in BPC
Preparation of SIT script
Preparation of User Guide and BPC Administration Manual
End user training

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SAP BPC Consultant

Dealertrack Technologies, N.Y
- July 2012

Requirement gathering, Preparation of BBP and detailed Design Document

Creation of AppSet, Dimensions and Management Consolidation Applications
Security setting: Creation of users/teams/member access profiles
Setting up work status and concurrent locks with diferent levels
Setting up Custom Menu for MIS & BRM Appl. with separate menu for Origins &
Product Teams.
Currency Translation logic and Budget allocation logic
Data transfer logic to send data from one application to another
Data Manager packages
Setting up SSO 2.0 security package.
SSIS package for loading Budget Comments from CSV file
Data Manager packages for loading data from text files and Excel files
VB scripts for generating CSV files by reading the Budget excel template.
VB scripts for generating CSV files by reading the Working Capital and BRM excel
templates
Complex Input schedules with multiple EVDREs and Reports for MIS & BRM
Applications
Generation of various analysis reports with drill down capabilities, pick and choose
options.

SAP BPC Consultant

AmeriCold Logistics, GA
October 2011

November 2011

February 2010 -

Gather business requirements to decide on Data Model and required dimensions and
applications, custom properties.
Draft Business Requirement Document and Technical Design Document.
Create Dimensions, Custom Properties, applications.
Designing of Accounts, Planning of master data, Budget and forecast processes
Set up the Security access for the applications
Develop Input Schedule for the Rolling Forecast which involves locking the actual
posting periods and enable future forecast months for input
Designing user security architecture using SAP SSO 2.0
Develop, Distribute and Collect Input Schedules bringing latest 12 months data and
annualized data from Business user teams.
Develop Reports and Schedules for various statistical accounts and Payroll
accounting, Benefits calculation and Pension schemes using advance Script Logic.
Distribute Budget and planning reports with advance formatting and sorting.
Used data manager, process chains for extraction from BW Data sources and Flat file
Loaded the Master data from the BW data source such as 0CostCenter, 0Employee
Loaded the three year historical data from Hyperion
Loaded the accruals from BW data source such as GL Accounts and CATS
Involved in Data Manager Package Debugging and Write Back BADI.
Configuring BPF with SAP BPC for Monthly Forecast projection cycle and Yearly budget
Approval

SAP BI/BW Consultant

Mass Mutual Financial group, MA
December 2009
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March 2009

Writing all project documentation including project specifications, project planning

and regular status reporting to project manager
Preparation of the Blue print, developing the unit test cases
Installing business content for E-Recruiting Module.
Configuring the dataflow (Info Object, ODS, Info sets and Multi Provider)
Extracting data from R/3 using Standard Extractors in E-Recruiting and Building
Generic Extractor
Setup of batch jobs through Process Chain for both Master Data and Transaction data.
Basis activities like Transportation of all objects
Developing BEX Queries using Query designer
Working with Conditions, Exceptions, Reporting Agent Setup
Developing web templates using Web Application Designer
As a Team Member, involved in Enhancement of BPS Queries (Row Structure
modification) as per the Technical specification.
Prepared Technical Specification for all the Enhancements related to HCM and CRM
modules.
Enhanced CRM data sources and build custom build reports as per the user
requirement.
Configuring the dataflow (InfoObject, ODS, Infocube and MultiProvider).
Prepared Technical Specification for all Break fix Enhancements for Production
Support Issues.
Prepared Test sets for User Acceptance testing of all the Enhancements and Break fix
Enhancements for production support.
Extensively worked on the production support issues in Personnel Administration and
Organization Management Modules of HR.
Resolved Production support issues related to Purchasing Data Cube and Purchasing
Group Cube.
Resolved Production support (severity-2&3) issues related to Head Count cube and
Payroll Cube.
Resolved BW job failures in HR and FI Cubes.
Scheduling & Monitoring of Process chains (Master Data & Transactional Data).
On Call support and updating the Severity's of requests in Service Center.
Allotting the Production Issues to the Cube Owners.
Attended Weekly status meetings and documented each stage of the Enhancement.
Configured, Developed and scheduled Business Content data extraction from SAP R/3
Source System and data load procedures.
Performance Tuning using Performance improvement techniques (Such as
Partitioning, Compression, MultiProvider design, Secondary Index etc.)

SAP BI/BW Consultant

Rio Tinto, Australia
February 2009

January 2008 -

Involved in the getting the business requirements from the global users and
developed the prototype for diferent solutions. Developed the Technical specification
based on functional specifications
Developed the complete solution for sales and promotion evaluations report by
extracting data from the staging layer using Customer-Defined Data Sources in CO-PA
Written start routines, rule level routines and end routines in consolidating the data
from all the COPA, FI, SD data sources into respective DSOs and then loaded data to
second level evaluation DSOs and then to the cubes.
Developed the Bex queries to build BO reports on top of these queries used, Formula
variables, Customer exit variables, Replacement path, Restricted Key figures,
calculated key figures, and structures.
Developed the process chains for all the new development and also integrated with
the existing the process chain for scheduling.
Created the BIA indexes for Material ledger cubes for all regions and included in
process chains.

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Developed the Process chains to load the data and designed the jobs and batch flow
for AL.
Developed the generic extractors on the tables, views and domains for master data
extractions.
Designed the Process chains for CRM, LO, FI master data and transactional data.
Developed the start routines to include deal and licensee information in dispute
management and collections management.
Created Xcelsius Dashboards for Net Revenue: Top N Products dashboard using WebI
and QaaWS
Created Net Revenue and Billing WebI report using dynamic measures, report filters
and applied formatting dynamically using Conditional formatting
Designed, created and implemented Universes, WebI reports, and Xcelsius
Dashboards
Created OLAP Universes on BEx queries using Universe Designer
Created multi-layered Xcelsius dashboards to display various components and
included Filters, List View, table, Line, Column and Pie charts
Broadcasted WebI reports to individual recipients using BI LaunchPad scheduling
functionality
Created WebI reports with multiple data providers and synchronized the data using
merged dimensions
Involved in End User-Training documentation, conducted User Acceptance events
Used Life Cycle Management (LCM) and transported objects dimensions, measures,
details, universes, connections, from Development to Testing to Production Systems
Created roles/iViews in SAP portal for the users to access WebI reports and
Dashboards using Single Sign On (SSO)

SAP FI-CO Lead

Logicamms Ltd., Australia
November 2007

March 2006 -

Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user
meetings, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced
the functional requirements document.
Designing business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple
functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP
Finance (FI)) and controlling (CO) modules
Optimized integration of business process within FI, TR, CO, MM, SD, and PS modules.
Developed complex business design for all FI/TR/CO process incorporating gaps,
interfaces, reports, enhancements and data conversions from the legacy system
Configured General Ledger Created Master records, accounts groups, number
ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and
preparation to master files
Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels. Defined
fiscal year variant, posting period variant, customized field status variant, customized
line layout, sort variant, and total variant
Configured and customized validations and substitution rules for documents,
recurring entries, correspondence, taxes, and currencies
Configured interest calculation on account balances and line items
Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L
accounts in diferent currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement
(EBS)
Configured Lockbox Application conforming to BAI2 format
Configured and Customized Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment
Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges
Configured and Customized Cash Budget Management including commitment
management

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Configured and customized Asset Accounting Module Copied country specific chart
of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account
determinations, screen layout key, allocate number ranges to assets classes, Down
Payment configuration for Assets, and uploading of assets from Microsoft Dynamics
AX (Legacy) to SAP
Defining the classes of assets, capitalization procedures and depreciation
calculations. The actual procurement of assets, inter / intra-company transfer of
assets, asset retirements, asset shutdowns and asset capitalizations are also
designed to include all the possible business scenarios. The accounting and legal
aspect of the asset management is also in-built while designing the system
Created work list for diferent user groups
Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using the report writer and
report painter in CO-PA
Helped in month end and year closing activities

SAP FI-CO Senior Consultant

Griffin Coal, Australia
2005 - February 2006

Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element
Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders,
Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules
Maintained Controlling area settings and made hierarchy and other assignments
In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and secondary Cost elements, created
Cost Element Groups, Configured the reconciliation ledgers
In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) created the cost centers and maintained the
Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities,
Statistical Key Figures
Developed cost sheet, cycles, segments for cost center distributions and assessment
to allocate manufacturing overhead cost-to-cost objects. Configured settlements, cost
splits for Activity Price calculations. Setup internal orders and cost collector
configuration.
Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order
settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost
center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning
In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy
profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc and
extracted reports using PCA
In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for
order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile
and also set up tolerances for budget cost, defined the settlement rules, and used
internal order with AUC /Capital investment projects

SAP CO Consultant
Aban Power Company Ltd., India
March 2005

April

November 2004 -

Conducting Presentations on the AS-IS and the To-be process

Preparing Blue Print Documents
Changes to the Organizational Design was carefully considered and convinced, that it
is not required and not feasible
SAP Configuration
Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Profit
Center Accounting, Product Costing Repetitive Manufacturing & Profitability Analysis
Identifying and preparing Functional Specification Document

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Creating Mapping Templates for Data Migration

Performing Data Migration Workshops
Loading and Testing Data on all the System Landscape
Leading Unit Testing, Integration Testing & Business Acceptance Test and Cut over.

SAP FI-CO AP/AR Consultant

Lanco Infra tech Ltd., India
October 2004

March 2004 -

Configured for vendors subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item /

balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account
balance calculation on account balances / line items
Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate diference,
diferentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, exchange rate losses
and then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign
currency valuations
Created and defined credit control areas to company code including pre-defined
credit limits for customers
Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for
each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for
over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line
items. Report specifications to ABAP programmers regarding report format objects of
the report, technical information i.e. tables fields and then testing
Involved in
the basic implementation and development of Blue Prints for the entire project
lifecycle related to MM module covering the full Procure to Pay business process.
Transaction Data Configuration & Processing Invoice Verification (MIRO LIV):
Maintained Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits, Reductions in invoice, credit memos and
Evaluated receipt settlements (ERS).
Configured and customized integration links between FI/CO/SD/MM/PP to optimize
transaction processing
Developed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis
to ensure successful execution of the plan

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