Manish LaxmanBalwani

SAP FICO Consultant /Open Text VIM Consultant

Mobile : +91 9028421736
Email: manish.balwani88@gmail.com

Educational Background

Master of Business Administration from Department of Management

Sciences(DMS), University of Pune.

Bachelor of Engineering in (Electronics) from Ramdeobaba Kamla

College of Engineering Nagpur

Intermediate from Sindhi Hindi Jr. College (Maharashtra State Board) with an
aggregate of 65% in March 2006.

Matriculation from St John High School(Maharashtra State Board) with an

aggregate of 62% in March 2004.

Nehru

Professional Summary

Over 2.5 years of extensive SAP experience in configuration, implementation and

customization of Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules along
with their integration with logistics modules (SD & MM).
OpenText VIM experience includes end-to-end configuration of Document types,
Document processes, ICC(OCR) system and Enterprise Scan.
Experience in integration of SD & MM in Order to Cash (OTC) and Procure to
Pay (PTP) respectively.
Extensive participation in studying and analyzing business processes, modeling
the TO-BE process based on the knowledge of AS-IS process.
Experience in debugging and understanding the program logic.
Thorough understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules
(FI/CO, SD, MM, PP) and of overall business processes such as order-to-cash and
purchase-to-pay and Make to Order.
Experience in Financial Accounting (FI) includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts
Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Treasury, Funds Management (FM)
and Bank Accounting - Lockbox and Electronic Bank Statement processing.
Experience in Controlling consists of Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center
Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Project Systems (PS) and
Internal Order (IO).

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Analysis of Open Items, Foreign Currency Revaluation, clearing of Goods

Receipt & Invoice Receipt.
Proficient with SAP database and landscape design.
Sound knowledge in migration of data from Legacy system to SAP for upgrade /
new implementation / integration using LSMW.
Extensive interactions with ABAP programmers during generation of AR, AP and
G/L customized reports and functional specifications.
Experienced in configuring Dunning program, Interest Calculation on Open
Items, Correspondence and Account Statement processes.
Proficient in Documentation, Business Presentations, writing and developing
Business Reports and Technical Specifications.
In SAP Testing. Experienced with knowledge in development, manual and
automated testing. Extensively used automated tools like HP-QCand Solution
Manager.
Experienced in End User Training along with User Acceptance Testing.
Excellent analytical and programming skills combined with outstanding
interpersonal skills.

Project Details

Client: The Coca-ColaCompany, Atlanta, GA

Jun 13 July 15
Role: SAP FICO/SAP Vendor Invoice Management Senior Associate Consultant
Project Scope: Enhancement/Production Support.
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, Open Text-VIM 5.2/7.0, ICC, IDocs, AP,AR, GL, APP,
EBS,,Travel Managements BTM, Travel Smart Application,
Responsibilities:
Support role involved break fixes for Production issues on FI modules and also
new Enhancements to facilitate additional functionality requests for the business.
Implemented SAP notes as suggested by SAP OSS messages to fix standard SAP
issues.
Worked on enhancements like customizing business rules, in user exits, adding
custom fields in the index screen based on business requirements.
Gathered business requirements and Coordinated with ABAPers for development
of new Reports required by user and for modification of programs.
Expertise in Sap Workflow and workflow related issues.

Worked in various FI aspects relating to AR, AP, SPL, Recurring entries, carry
forward balances, residual/partial payment settings for vendors & customers,

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automatic payment program, down payments, reversal of documents and

exchange rates
Worked Closely with SD team in their sales process and transferring billing
documents to A/R
Worked on Travel Managements (BTM, Travel Smart application for US and
Canada)
Worked on New GL, Activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting,
Parallel Accounting and periodic processing and resolved related issues.
Helped business users for master data uploading using LSMW and mass reversals
of documents.
Preparation of LSMW data upload templates, testing and performing data upload.
GL balances both cumulative and line item balances including vendor, customer
and asset master data were loaded via LSMWtechnique.
Worked on Lock box issues, check printer issues.
Successfully transitioned all EDI requirements from legacy system to SAP and
scheduled batch jobs to transfer data from FTP server to SAP. Strong Knowledge
and worked with middleware tools like Tibco, Axway, Webmethods etc.
Worked on Idocs issues related to bank files like payment files, Remit files etc.
Failed idocs processing.
Customizing screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset
depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset
acquisitions and retirements.
Configuration of Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Addition, retirement. ,
Transfer and other business transactions, Property tax, Lease accounting,
Configuration of Book and Tax depreciation related Dep. /calculation Keys in
accordance with Tax Regulations.
Opening new periods, MMPV, Foreign currency revaluations, update exchange
rates, recurring entries, Batch input sessions, automatic clearing, manual clearing,
post adjustment entries, etc.
Performed Year end operations: AP, AR, AA, GL, Balance confirmations,
receivables, and payables Creating Financial Statement Versions, Grouping G/L
accounts into Balance Sheet and Income Statement accounts.
Received several appreciations from business users and client managers.
Closing the old posting periods and opening the new fiscal year and posting
periods, carrying forward the balances
Business Signoff for the development changes.
Interacting with Business users, gathering the system and user requirements,
documenting the change requests, operational requests and preparing test scripts.
Involved in preparing and signing off the functional specification (FS) documents,
FUT and UAT testing cycles (functional unit testing, and User Acceptance
Testing) before Go Live.

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In-depth analysis of business critical issues encountered in the day-to-day

functioning.
Experienced in preparation of end user documentation.
Prepared Business Blueprint for the changes in the business process while
upgrading from VIM 5.2 to VIM 7.0. Prepared of Functional design documents
(FDD) with Swim lanes.
Customizing VIM 7.0 as per clients requirement in order to take advantage of
new functionality of VIM 7.0.
Configured Several VIM document types and enhanced indexing screen
as per
the requirement. Implementation of LIV workflows
Custom enhancement specific to Coke like Automation of OAWD with Enterprise
scan using Document Pipeline with Enterprise scan.
Configuring the Archive link for VIM i.e Archive document type, content
repository and business objects that needs to be used.
VIM workflow trigger implementation both VIM Non Parking and Parking
scenarios.
Invoice approval process design and implementation using the new level based
Chart of Authority.
Configuration of EDI/IDOC document type for invoices coming from 3rd party
/Legacy application in Open Text.
Customization of Role Template and simple mode role maintenance.
Worked on BOR objects, work center. Workflow triggering via event and standard
FM, workflow customizing, SAP business workplace usage, creating tasks, agent
assignment, deadline monitoring.
Setting up Test Scripts for the various testing cycles by understanding the various
Business Processes. Testing the scenarios during each phase of the testing cycles
such as Integration testing (PIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression
testing and Live environment simulation (LES).
In Cost Centre Accounting created cost center standard hierarchy, cost center,
statistical key figures, validations and substitutions, reconciliation ledgers,
assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic
reposting, activity types and planning them on different cost centers, planned and
actual activity price calculations.
Configuration of Travel management for Different region which involves creation
of different expense type and their mapping with symbolic account and G/L
account.
Provide 24 Hrs.support for client in case of Priority 2 and Priority 1 issues.
Regression and Integration testing of VIM Upgrade from 5.2 to 7.0 Version.
Problem Ticket management for repeating issues did the root cause analysis.

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Client: Hershey's (Retail Industry) Feb 2014 March 14, June 15-August 15
Role: Associate Consultant
Project Scope: Enhancement-Payment Run Automation /Codes Memo (Master
Data Organization Changes)
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, New GL, AP, , APP, EBS, Foreign Currency, IDocs.
Description of Project : Automation of payment runs means scheduling
the execution of the payment proposal, payment run (item clearing)
and the payment media generation (payment file creation, Cheque
printing, etc.).

Responsibilities
Scheduling Payment Run Jobs and creation of Variants for the Payment
Program based on the naming convention as agreed with the business
Creation of variants based on multiple company codes domiciled in the same
country.
Customization of Bank Calendar (Holiday Calendar) and maintaining them in
payment program configuration.
Customization in the Organization structure of the company as directed by
company's controllership based on the recent acquisition and discontinued
business .
Changes in the SETs used for validation and substitution.
Client: Fossil (Retail Industry) August 2014 October 2014
Role: Associate Consultant
Project Scope: Enhancement-DART Queries for Audit and treasuries
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, Data Retention Tool (DaRT)
Responsibilities
Dart Configuration and implementation.
Data Retention Tool (DART) support performed monthly DART extracts and
validation, ran DART reports to support IRS IDR, ran historical DART files check
to comply with the data retention requirements.
Designed and tested SAP reports for federal and state income tax reporting.
Designed custom reports for state income tax apportionment. Evaluated DaRT
potential to meet IRS data retention requirements.

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Client: Sysco Food May 2015 Present

Role: Associate Consultant
Project Scope: VIM upgrade from 6.0 to 7.0
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, VIM and ICC upgrade in the system.
Responsibilities
Prepared Business Blueprint for the changes in the business process while
upgrading from VIM 6 to VIM 7.0. Prepared of Functional design documents
(FDD) with Swim lanes.
Configured Several VIM document types and enhanced indexing screen
as per
the requirement. Implementation of LIV workflows
VIM workflow trigger implementation both VIM Non Parking and Parking
scenarios.
Setting up Test Scripts for the various testing cycles by understanding the various
Business Processes. Testing the scenarios during each phase of the testing cycles
such as Integration testing (PIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression
testing and Live environment simulation (LES).
Regression and Integration testing of VIM Upgrade from 6.0 to 7.0 Version.
Implemented Email Input Channel for creation of DP document and archiving in
VIM 7.0, created test scripts and provided user training.

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