Vinay Kumar Gajula
Memphis,TN
Summary
- Experienced SAP Consultant with 6 years of expertise in Sales & Distribution and Supply Chain Management, handling billing and invoicing operations on SAP BRIM–integrated S/4HANA platforms.
- SAP FI-CA Consultant with hands-on experience supporting Tier-1 telecom billing operations using SAP BRIM, specializing in contract accounts, incoming payments, and high-volume receivables processing.
- Strong expertise in FI-CA payment postings, clearing, and unapplied cash management, handling partial payments, overpayments, reversals, and adjustments through SAP Fiori FI-CA applications.
- Proven ability to perform payment investigations and billing clarifications by analyzing FI-CA open and cleared items, document flows, and reconciliation data to resolve discrepancies within strict telecom SLAs.
- Experienced in CI–FI-CA integration and production support, collaborating with customer care, collections, and finance teams to ensure accurate end-to-end billing and financial compliance in large-scale telecom landscapes.
- SAP expertise will be on SAP SD (Focusing on Order management, Pricing and Contracts, Logistics Execution).
- Excellent hands-on experience Master Data configurations, Business Partner creation in SAP SD S4 HANA.
- Worked on various facets of SD module Sales Document Processing, Delivery Types, Item Categories, Copy Control, Text Determination, Shipment Types, Shipment Processing, Shipment Costs with settlement, Picking and Packing, Outputs, Pricing, and Billing Processes.
- Sound knowledge in Credit Management in S/4 HANA (FSCM), MTO, Billing Plan, Revenue Account Determination, Intra and Inter Company STO, Inter Company Billing, Inter Company Drop Shipments, Delivery Scheduling, ATP and Transfer of Requirements, Third Party Sales Order processing, Advance Shipping Notifications, IDOC Processing.
- Expertise in Order to Cash (OTC) process, Third Party Sales, Intercompany Process, Consignment Sales, Stock Transfer Orders (STO), Variant Configuration, Sales Contracts, Return Processes, Credit Memo, and Debit Memo.
- Administering Outbound delivery processing, Picking-packing, Proof of delivery (POD), Route determination, TRATY codes, and Shipment Cost Configuration.
- Working Experience in EDI-IDOCS and Interfaces, Batch jobs in setting up standard EDI functionality and resolved issues with EDI IDOC Processing.
- Strong experience in integration for various inbound and outbound EDI transactions such as 101 (Customer Master Data), 888 / 832 (Item Master Data, 850(Purchase Order), 855(Order Acknowledgement), 810(Invoice), 940(Sales Order), 945 (Shipment Confirmation).
- Flexible and versatile to adapt to any new environment and work on any project.
- Good experience in using test management tools like ALM, JIRA, SPIRA and Zephyr scale.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP BRIM Consultant
Brightspeed
05.2025 - Current
- SAP BRIM FI-CA Consultant supporting telecom billing, invoicing, and receivables on SAP BRIM using Fiori tiles.
- Extensive experience in FI-CA payment postings and clearing for diverse telecom account types, including carrier access billing systems, mobile broadband services, residential customers, and enterprise accounts.
- Handled incoming payments, electronic payments, manual postings, partial payments, overpayments, and unapplied cash, ensuring accurate allocation to business partners and contract accounts.
- Performed billing clarifications and payment investigations by reviewing open and cleared FI-CA items, invoice references, document flow, and account balances,resolving discrepancies within defined service levels.
- Executed refunds, credits, and payment adjustments after detailed account validation, ensuring compliance with telecom policies, financial controls, and audit requirements.
- Supported exception handling activities, including reversals, reposting, reallocation of payments, and correction of misapplied transactions,maintaining data accuracy and financial integrity.
- Collaborated with Convergent Invoicing (CI), Customer Care, Collections, and Finance teams to ensure seamless end-to-end order-to-cash and billing-to-cash processes.
- Utilized SAP Fiori FI-CA applications and dashboards to monitor payment status, clearing queues, reconciliation issues, and receivables KPIs in high-volume telecom environments.
- Participated in UAT, production support, defect analysis, and issue resolution, ensuring stable FI-CA operations during releases and post-deployment support.
- Contributed to process improvements and operational efficiency initiatives, reducing payment discrepancies, improving turnaround times, and supporting revenue assurance objectives.
Senior SAP Consultant
John Deere
02.2024 - 05.2025
- Worked as a Senior SAP Consultant HW Projects.
- Managed the flow of products through the supply chain network including sourcing, procurement, production planning, warehousing, distribution, customer service, returns management and disposal, recycling.
- Collaborated with the UAT Teams and planned, strategized, managed, and reported all aspects of User Acceptance Testing in line with testing standards.
- End to end order creation through various modes, Order types and systems as part of order to Cash flow.
- Order tracking at different stages of order lifecycle Open status to Invoice.
- Implemented and customized SAP modules, including Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO), to optimize financial processes for clients, resulting in a 20% reduction in operational costs.
- Responsible for creating invoices for internal and external vendors for supply chain process.
- Identified UAT stakeholders and resources.
- Experience in creating Quotation, Sales Order, Supply Chain Management, Delivery, Billing document, Stocking order, return order, Fill-up order, Issue order, Demo order, Pick up order, Credit and Debit Memo orders, Invoice verification.
- Worked on various facets of the SD module: Sales Document Processing, Delivery Types, Item Categories, Copy Control, Text Determination, Shipment Types, Shipment Processing, Shipment Costs with settlement, Picking and Packing, Outputs, Pricing, and Billing Processes.
- Managing the lifecycle of the project to ensure the delivery of the project within the time scope.
- Created reports to track performance metrics such as lead times, order fulfillment rates, and supplier quality ratings.
- Working experience in EDI-IDOCS and interfaces, batch jobs setup.
- Responsible for creating and assigning the incidents in service now and track changes of the System.
SAP Consultant
HPS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
08.2023 - 02.2024
- Reviewed and monitored monthly purchase orders to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of delivery.
- Gathered and analyzed information regarding warehousing, distribution, and customs in relation to supply chain management.
- Created reports on stock levels, deliveries, and invoices to provide visibility into supply chain operations.
- Responsible for testing the S4 order flow from ORDER TO CASH functionality.
- Developed and implemented SAP solutions to meet business requirements.
- Worked on High radius tool for return order flow for CTO Servers.
- Order tracking at different stages of order lifecycle Open status to Invoice.
- Monitored supplier performance using key metrics such as delivery accuracy, lead time, cost savings.
- Responsible for removing hard holds from delivery sales orders, like Creb/Global Trade holds.
- Analyzed user needs and developed technical specifications for customized solutions.
- Conducting hands on functional, system integration testing, Regression Testing, Smoke testing, Report tracking and Defect Tracking on the issue in a timely manner.
- Gathered business requirements for SAP reporting and functionality enhancements.
- Developed and implemented supply chain strategies to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
- Analyzed data from multiple sources to identify cost reduction opportunities within the supply chain.
- Coordinated with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of goods.
- Responsible for creating and writing test cases in ALM and creating test data and test execution for UAT team.
- Executing and logging the defects in Jira, preparing the defect reports, and assigning the defects to the developer.
SAP Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
11.2019 - 12.2021
- SAP Consultant for CTO Server implementation projects.
- Handled coordination and reporting for validation processes consistent with established protocols.
- Coordinated comprehensive deployment of multiple CTO servers in S4 orders.
- Manage end-to-end order processing operations, including order entry, verification, PO validation, issue of credit and debit memo, order conversion, SWAP order, and inquiries.
- Worked on status reports and published them to the team to ensure the order interface, bill block, and order invoice.
- Responsible for validating sale order pricing with SD condition modules.
- Converted data into graphs and charts, providing insight into business operations and results.
- Task Management: Assigning tasks and responsibilities to team members to manage the work.
- Provided end-user training and support, ensuring successful adoption of SAP systems and seamless transition to new processes, resulting in a 30% reduction in user errors.
- Expertise in Preparing Test scenarios, Test cases for testing based on the user Requirement documents and system Requirement.
- Sound knowledge in Credit Management in S/4 HANA (FSCM), MTO, Billing Plan, Revenue Account Determination, Intra and Inter Company STO, Inter Company Billing, Inter Company Drop Shipments, Delivery Scheduling, AaTP and Transfer of Requirements, Third Party Sales, Order processing, Advance Shipping Notifications, IDOC Processing.
- Established and maintained strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure alignment of supply chain objectives.
- Communicate with the client or on site/ offshore team members, as required.
- Responsible for IDOC Mocking and Re triggering the IDOCs in S4 Systems.
- Executing and logging the defect in Jira, preparing the defect reports, and assigning the defects to the developer.
- Developed and implemented strategies to improve supply chain operations efficiency.
- Analyzed data from multiple sources, identified trends and provided recommendations for improvement.
- Responsibilities:
QA Test Engineer
IBM
01.2018 - 10.2019
- Performed manual testing of web-based applications to validate functional and non-functional requirements.
- Designed and executed test cases and test scenarios based on requirement documents and user stories.
- Conducted smoke testing and regression testing during application updates and maintenance releases.
- Identified, logged, and tracked defects using JIRA following the defect life cycle.
- Documented defects with clear reproduction steps, expected results, and actual results.
- Collaborated with development teams to verify bug fixes and perform retesting.
- Participated in requirement analysis and review meetings to understand application behavior and test scope.
- Validated form inputs, data integrity, and boundary conditions.
- Assisted in maintaining test documentation, including test cases, execution results, and defect reports.
- Supported User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities under guidance of senior QA members.
- Followed Agile methodology, participating in daily stand-ups and sprint review meetings.
- Gained working knowledge of SDLC processes.
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN12-2023
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering
Mylavaram, Andhra Pradesh04-2018
Skills
- Effective Reporting Capabilities
- Problem Resolution and Organizational Skills
- Critical thinking
- Test Automation Tools: QTP, TestComplete, Selenium
- Test Management Tools: QC/ALM 1201, QTest, Zephyr Scale
- Configuration Management: MS Visual SourceSafe, SharePoint
- Tool Operating Systems: Windows Family
- Database: SAP S/4HANA and Cloud Database (Private Cloud), SQL
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Team collaboration
- Quality assurance
- Business Tools: NGQ, NGQC, EMDM, Partner Ready Portal, EDI, SEEBURGER, BRIM ASQ, SAP FIORI, SAP S4 HANA, Salesforce, SharePoint
- Reporting Tool: Power BI, HPE ALM, Jira, Service Now
- Python, Python programming
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Certification
- Data Analytics Management
- Business Project Management
Timeline
SAP BRIM Consultant
Brightspeed
05.2025 - Current
Senior SAP Consultant
John Deere
02.2024 - 05.2025
SAP Consultant
HPS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
08.2023 - 02.2024
SAP Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
11.2019 - 12.2021
QA Test Engineer
IBM
01.2018 - 10.2019
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Memphis
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering