SUMMARY:

• Srini brings 14+ Years of strong hands - on implementation and SAP Project management experience and specializing in architecting and managing delivery of SAP projects. I have specialized in SAP FI-CO/BW/ECC/S/4HANA and BPC solutions for financial transformation and Business process improvement and automation expert.
• Business-oriented information technology professional with proven track record of providing innovative technical solutions to meet business and client’s needs.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP S/4HANA (1610/1799), Central Finance, ECC 6.0, Configuration New General Ledger (Define ledger groups, defining splitting method and Rules), implementation experience in FI (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets), CO (Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Cost elements, CO-PA, Product Costing, BPC Planning and Consolidation 10.1 NW and BPC Embedded /Optimized ), Testing, Process Documentation, End-User Training, Client Business Requirements and Gap Analysis, Trouble Shooting.
• Ability to guide a team to meet critical deadlines, SLAs, and KPIs with good exposure to various industrial sectors: Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Retail, Hi-Tech, Chemical, banking and Utilities, Retail and Life Sciences.
• Expert EPM reporting and building Input forms with macros.
• Emebedded BPC reporting with Analysis for Excel and Bex query development along woth user exit variables.
• Design Fiori Apps for FICO and worked on complete transactional fact sheets and analytical apps. Worked with basis to activate required apps on Fiori launchpad. Architected Analysis, Design, Data modeling, Integration (SAP ECC/BW/BPC/Non- SAP) with interfaces, retraction and development, Implementation and Upgrade of ECC/BW BPC integration. Involved in native HANA 1.4 build with HANA studio.
• Provide technical leadership by staying abreast of new technologies and recommending methods of applying them to business opportunities.
• Convert Process driven and concept driven requirement of company into a GAP specific requirement doc.
• Conduct workshops and analyzes develop the blueprint and technical SAP ECC, S/4HANA (SAP BPC Optimized), FI-CO, ECC-BW, APO-BW and BW- BPC interface specs.
• Worked as a BOX architect and adopted and implemented 3 SAP ECC / BW and JAVA / HFM project on SAP EAF methodology with effective adoption of SOA based on The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF ) .
• Adopt and Implement HYBRID AGILE with Scrum methodology, HYBRID Agile(With JIRA -Tracking), SAP ASAP and Lean SIGMA (Green belt) Business improvement techniques.
• Project Lead and Senior Consultant Writing User Stories, Test Script, Manage /Assign and work on a day to day basis offshore and onsite resource/ Developers and Business analyst team.
• Proficient in SAP BW Modeling, SAP BW BEx Query, Extensive experience working with Allocations, Currency translations, Hierarchies.
• Develop ECC-BW-BPC project implementation strategy with project plan, Blueprinting and resource Planning, estimates and creation of project delivery schedule.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP S/4HANA (1610/1709), ECC6.0, MDG, BPC, Solution Manager, HP Quality Center, Hyperion Financial Management, JD Edwards.

Software: SAP AR, AP, New General Ledger, Fixed Assets), CO (Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Cost elements, CO-PA, Product Costing, BW- BPC/ EPM NW 10.0/7.5/70/5.1 (MS), SAP BW 7.0/7.3, SAP R/3/ECC 6.0, SAP CRM, SAP BW BCS- BPS and SAP BW 7.0 with IP, SAP HANA 1.4. SAP Solution Manager.

Programming: SAP FOX Code (Embedded), BPC Script Logic, Visio, ABAP (Routines), MDX (Custom Measures), VB Macros (Input Templates), SSIS, FOX and SQL

PROJECT WORK:

Transformation /Migration of ECC 6.0 / to S/4HANA FICO (1709 on-Premise) / Consolidation Lead

Responsibilities:

S/4HANA - FI-CO Activities:

• FI Lead, client handling and responsible for requirement gathering. Configuration of New General Ledger Accounting and customization of Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups and Tolerance Groups.
• Adopt and Implement HYBRID AGILE with Scrum methodology.
• Project Lead and Senior Consultant Writing User Stories, Test Script, Manage /Assign and work on a day to day basis offshore and onsite resource/ Developers and Business analyst team.
• Configured/ Migration of New GL then to S/4HANA with Universal Journal.
• Deep understanding of intercompany elimination and currency translation ownership distribution
• Design Fiori Apps for FICO and worked on complete transactional fact sheets and analytical apps. Worked with basis to activate required apps on Fiori launchpad. Deep understanding on backend and frontend Fiori roles and data services
• Created CDS views (Master data and Transactional) for S/4HANA Embedded Operational Analytics.
• Parallel Implementation of Classic GL (ECC) to New GL (ECC) and then to S/4HANA Universal Journal.
• Re-Defining Business Partners. Assessment/cleansing and migration of FI master data using Rapid Data Migration with Data Services.
• Greenfield implementation on SAP S/4 HANA Finance: Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and drafted Business Blueprint, Performed GAP Analysis between current business practices and standard SAP functionality, Lead the realization, testing phase, supported client after Go-Live.
• Configured settings for the SAP New General Ledger Accounting, Assign the Accounting Principle to the Ledger Group, Define the Ledger for the Controlling Version.
• Configured SAP S/4HANA Finance with New Asset Accounting, Define Charts of Depreciation, Define the Depreciation Area for a Quantity Update, Customization Prior to activation.
• Define Asset Balance Sheet Accounts of Parallel Valuation Define the Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset Acquisition, Specify an Alternative Document Type for Accounting Principle, Specific Documents, Specify Revenue Distribution for Asset Retirement, Check Transaction Types.
• Check Prerequisites for Activating New Asset Accounting, Determine Active Charts of Depreciation, Change Definitions of Depreciation Areas, Specify Transfer of Acquisition and Production Cost Values, Specify Transfer of Depreciation Terms, Activate New Asset Accounting, Adjust Parameters in Charts of Depreciation.
• Cost Center: Controlling Areas settings, Cost Center Hierarchy, Cost Center Structure regarding the Organization structure, configuration for period end postings like, Cost Center distributions and Assessments.
• Internal Order: Defined Settlement Structure and Settlement Profiles for settlement of the costs collected in the Internal Orders.
• Profit Center: Profit Center Hierarchy and Profit Centers, Dummy Profit Center, Maintain Automatic Assignment, Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Migration / Validation / Testing from Existing FI tables to ACDOCA table. Migrating G/L settings and Defining Settings for Journal Entry Ledger.

S/4HANA - BPC/ Enterprise Analytics Platform Activities

• Identify all the Consolidation rules from classic including Consolidation of investments, mapping/transformation all the real time / custom master/Hierarchies with Flexible upload set up.
• Migrate Consolidation Classic from BPC 10.1 NW to Embedded S/4HANA (1709) with Realtime CONSOL model set up and configuration of CONSOL monitor, Customization of A.O to execute Business rules.
• Design/Develop Embedded 10.1 NW, BPC for S/4HANA (1709) using Analysis for Office.
• HANA modeling, HANA views and Assignment of views for Realtime master data from S/4HANA in BPC dimension.
• Used Realtime virtual infoprovider (ACDOCA) on S/4HANA as source to get all the GL balances for Consolidation.
• Setting up Fiscal year variant/currency translation, Consol release monitor set up
• Setting of Business rule for Consolidation with CONSOL monitor and set up of Fiori Dashboard reports/ custom Menu, Flex Upload for BPC.
• Develop Bridge Calculations for FPA model to calculate various variance and produce Bex/ A.O report.
• Develop models, transformation, Input forms/Reports in Analysis for Office for P &L, Costcenter, Salary and FPA (LE/AOP) planning with complex Macro’s - Input forms with Bex Query definitions and Variables (with user Exit).
• Customized Ribbons using standard Onlick* and OnExecute Macros. Customized Variables and Prompts in the Planning Work Books.
• Created aggregation levels, filters, new planning function types, and created new planning classes, Fox code and AMDP based planning functions.
• Creating Input queries and workbooks with the Button to execute the different Planning functions with the lock server, with special emphasis on lock characteristics.
• Worked in setting up security for the IP planning and HANA studio Security matrix design.
• Complete automation of all the Planning sequence via process chain in BW -> A.O office interface.
• Configured and Implemented Legal Consolidation and Management Finance Embedded models with SAP BPC 10.1 on HANA with aggregation levels, filters, new planning function types, and created new planning classes.
• Introduced a new security matrix design document for aligning S4 HANA/BW and BPC security.
• Set up and Developed A.O (2.4) Workbooks and Input forms standards with Bex Query definitions for the company wide implementations in BW and BPC.
• Complete atomization of all the Planning sequence via process chain in BW -> A.O office interface. Coordinated and Lead Onshore and Offshore teams in development and 24/7 support environment.

SWIFT Financial Transformation Architect / Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed project plans, timelines, roadmaps, AGILE schedules keeping Business and project team informed.
• Tracked Project RISKS and managed all the KDD communication for the SWIFT project. Established and balanced priorities and activities between many simultaneously progressing projects
• Reported status and outcome of project deliverables to project team and managers weekly

  Managed cross-functional projects and programs in support of the project phases and gate reviews with tight deadlines to achieve the established objectives.

• Maintains SAP & Non-SAP GL Accounts Mapping Table.
• Facilitated monthly executive steering committee meeting with monthly status updates. Identifies implementation risks & issues.
• Evaluates cut-over steps; coordinate with business units, Supports system and transition of the lease software to business owners.
• Review of requests for new/change SAP master data elements in the following areas: Company Code, General Ledger, Cost Center, Profit Center and Cost Center Hierarchies.
• Ensures consistency of data/hierarchies between general ledger and other company systems.
• Configuration/ Set up of Company Code, SAP GL Configuration, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Elements (Primary & Secondary)
• SAP Production support, researching inquiries/questions on SAP master data elements, Apply master data changes in the system
• Responsible to Configure the account based consolidation of Net Assets Change, equity changes, Balancing Figure, Reversals & Re-classes and Current Year Net Income to (RE) Balance Sheet and Equity Roll-Forward.
• Configure business rules and script Currency Conversion, FX Variance and business rules Cumulative Translation Adjustment.
• Configure consolidation application intercompany elimination, Balance Carry-Forward and consolidation of investment.
• Build Validation reports to facilitate month end close in BPC. Design, develop and implement complex Input template and reports with Custom logic for Standard Consolidation model. Designed and configured ( review code) BAdi for driver and currency conversion calculation.

SAP Financial Transformation Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on GL, AP, AR, Banking, Asset accounting, Creation of Tax Procedure, Creation of FI condition types, access sequences and account keys and assign condition types and account keys under Tax Procedure.
• Creation of GL accounts and assign GL accounts to the tax codes under FTXP and OB40. Update Part I and Part II tables J 2IRG1BAL, J 2IACCBAL.Integration FI with CO module.
• GO-Live support with Transport management and fix issues on daily basis at client place.
• Write functional specifications for change requests, creating test plans, process documentation and conducting user training.
• Strong experience on FI data migration, Third Party Interfaces (such as banks and vendors), along with Integration with other modules like SD/MM, CRM and HR along with Hyperion Financial management Oracle database (Essbase).
• Provide end users support for SAP Fiori T&E module (Travel & Expense Management) include support for Master Data, Profit Center, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element accounting, Internal Orders in Production environments.
• Provide support to existing Production systems as per business requested changes for FICO, MM (i.e. created new PC/CC, PC/CC Hierarchy, create/update Material, mapping etc.) and /KGA/ -&- /KGO/ table as per HANA team requested in ECC environments.
• Strong experience on ChaRM and Rev-Trac Transport Management - Tools.