Pavan Tapadia
SAP FICO Consultant at H. D. Smith- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Chartered Accountant
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Experience
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H. D. Smith
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United States
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Wholesale
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100 - 200 Employee
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SAP FICO Consultant
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Aug 2013 - Present
o Involved in full-cycle implementation of New GL, Fixed Asset, AP and AR modules. o Customized the requirements in SAP as per the Business blue print o Created GL, Vendor and Customer Master Data in the specified Screen layouts o Configured and customized chart of accounts, company code global parameters, fiscal year variants, posting period variants, account groups, field status groups and tolerance groups o Assigned number ranges to document types o Configured house banks, bank accounts, reason codes, check lots and lockbox for automatic payments o Created primary and secondary cost elements, cost center hierarchies and cost element groups o Solved the post production issues related to the modules implemented o Configured automatic interest calculation procedure, payment terms, correspondence and dunning Procedures o Configured of asset classes, depreciation areas and chart of depreciation o Resolved issues during the configuration of asset classes, depreciation areas and depreciation keys o Monitored monthly depreciation run for fixed assets in multiple currencies o Designed and implemented comprehensive reporting solution in profit center accounting and profitability analysis (CO-PA) o Created different reports utilizing the versatile features of asset explorer and history sheet o Developed and executed test scripts for GL, AP, AR, Cash Reconciliation, Dunning, Lockbox processing, Cost center and Profit center accounting
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Schlumberger
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United States
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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SAP FICO Consultant
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2012 - 2013
o Provided support to AP & AR end-users on various areas like payment terms, processing payment runs, vendor & customer master creation and bank management o Created vendor balances report using FBL1N transaction o Involved in custom process to define Inter Company transactions o Imported and processed Electronic bank statements (EBS) worked with BAI2 file formats. o Supported day to day issues like creating new payment terms, creating new house banks and bank account G/L structure. o Worked on the configuration changes in consolidation module for currency translation keys related to P&L accounts. o Resolved help desk tickets with respect to various areas of FI and CO. o Designed and configured the SD/MM organizational elements purchasing organization, plant, work centers, storage locations. Worked on MIGO transactions for Goods receipt (GR)/Goods issue (GI) for purchase orders, sales order, stock transfer and transfer posting. o Defined Material types and setting of number ranges for material types, and various purchasing documents. o Interacting with business users and process owners to gather requirements and converting them into functional specs for various custom reports, extracts, and BDC programs. o Configuring tolerances and keys for Logistics Invoice Verification.
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Seattle Public Schools
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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SAP FICO Business
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2011 - 2012
o Conducted workshops with business users to gather requirements and understand the “as-is” system o Participated in JTMs (Joint Team Meetings) to arrive at "to be" design, acceptable to the team, user groups and Management o Documented blue-prints for new company code and configured the system for implementation of GL, AP, AR, CO-PCA and CO-PA o Took part in GL, AR and AP master data customization and global data configuration o Acted as a liaison between the business and basis team for smooth running of third party interfaces o Implemented new Taxware solution for US and Canada o Set up external tax interface configuration for Taxware with SAP ECC 6.0 to calculate Sales/Use tax o Created external condition types, external tax procedure and input and output codes for external tax system o Defined structure of tax jurisdiction field in customer master and set up of automatic GL account determination o Participated in review of configuration, fixing gaps and maintaining list of activities for final deployment o Prepared unit test & integration test plan o Involved in unit and integration test of customization changes and provided assistance to users during UAT
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W.W. Grainger, China
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Retail Office Equipment
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1 - 100 Employee
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Auditor/SAP FICO Consultant
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2009 - 2011
o Worked on day to day support issues and implementation related issues which comprise Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Cost center accounting, internal orders and Profitability analysis. o Supported day to day issues like creating new payment terms, creating new banks, Investigating payment program issues on weekly basis, Also worked on interfaces for printing checks from third party application and developed functional specs to create interface to provide check status to external legacy system. o In Account Receivable, worked on various support issues like investigating blocked billing document from SD and identifying the root cause of it. o Created new correspondence types for Payment advices, customer account statement and rebate document which enabled business to communicate efficiently with Customers o Supported in the area of Internal Order Settlement to Asset under Construction and respective asset (settlement profile, etc.) Configured Internal Order. o Modifications of functional specifications and user exits to make them compatible with the new version. o Documented the workshop meeting minutes and stored these reviewed documents in the Solution Manager 4.0.
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Audit Senior
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2007 - 2009
o Reviewed audit working papers and ensured that adequate and relevant audit evidences are obtained and documented o Reviewed audit findings, evaluated the impact on financial statements & discussed with clients o Involved in planning, conducting and reporting of less complex financial and operational audits o Undertook substantive tests, analytical review and other relevant audit procedures o Reviewed that financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP and local legislation o Prepared draft audit reports and discuss with the audit manager o Reviewed and documented internal control systems in respect to sales, disbursement and bank o Undertook test of controls to ensure compliance with internal control policies and procedures o Carried out sufficient testing, including detailed analysis/evaluation where appropriate
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Education
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountant -
University of Pune
Bachelor's Degree, Accounting and Finance
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