OBJECTIVE:

Pursue a long term, challenging Senior IT ERP / SAP Management opportunity to implement and manage Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, using a variety of technologies and tools, including E - Commerce, CRM, SCM, etc., that would leverage my ERP (SAP) skills and Industry expertise.

SUMMARY:

• Finance & IT/ERP Professional, with 10 years of Finance and 20 years of IT / Consulting experience in SAP, spanning across highly diversified industry segments - Oil, Automotive, Manufacturing / Engineering, High-tech, Construction, Service, Consulting, Biotech/HealthCare.
• Managed and led several large scale Full Life Cycle SAP Implementations from conceptualization and requirements determination to design, configuration, development, unit / user acceptance / integration testing, training, conversions, cut over, go live and post production support.
• SAP modules / systems: Financial Accounting (FI ), Controlling (CO) and Human Resources (HR) modules, including Business Process Re-engineering, Systems Integration etc., with extensive configuration / integration to Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Management, (QM), Customer Service (CS), Portfolio & Project Management (PPM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM/APO), Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM), Human Capital Management (HCM), etc.
• Key Competencies: Project Management, Process Improvement, Vendor Management, Strategic Planning, SDLC, FDA, Manage Technical, Business and Consulting teams (Onshore/Offshore), On Time and Under Budget Implementations, Cost Savings, Outstanding Presentation, Communication & Leadership Skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst - SAP

Responsibilities:

• SAP R/3 (3.1H, 4.6c, ECC 6.0), CRM 7.0, HCM 6.0, SCM 7.0
• Managed and led multiple Full Life Cycle Implementations (all core ERP Modules) for country rollouts, mergers and aqcuisitions (M&A)
• Euro Conversion including converting a USD company to EUR company
• SAP Upgrades - ERP 3.1H to 4.6c, 4.6c to ECC 6.0, CRM 2.0 to 5.0 to 7.0, HCM 5.0 to 6.0
• Country Version Implementations - Brazil, India, Israel and Turkey
• Hard Core / Hands on Configuration of all FICO Modules including integration to SD/MM/PP/CS/PM/HR and other SAP applications - CRM, SCM, HCM and PPM
• FDA Validated Environment - proficient with all validation processes and documentation
• IT System / SOX / GxP Audits
• SAP ChaRM (Change Management Control) - Design and Implementation
• Global, Single Instance/Client, Multiple Countries/Languages/Currencies
• Country specific design for taxes, integration with external tax systems, statutory reporting, e-filing.
• PMO and Steering Committee member on critical ERP Projects
• SAP and other Vendor relations / negotiations on New Product releases, RFP’s, Product Evaluations with IT and Business teams to Project Approval and Launch
• Recruited management and staff, developed and implemented all policies and procedures to support technology functions for corporate and regional sites/entities
• Worked closely with Business and IT teams to identify best methods for promoting/implementing new products and services, formulate/implement best business practices and detail usage strategies.
• Middleware Integration / Support - Credit Card, CRM, etc.
• ERP Customer Service / CRM Customer Service - Service Orders, Service Contracts integration with ERP/ECC including Service Contract Revenue Recognition, Service Orders / Contracts Costs reporting, profitability etc..
• Production Orders / Process Orders Integration including product / process costing, calculation of variances & settlement
• Responsible for all countries / sites automated daily/weekly/monthly jobs in SAP and also Financial Month End / Quarter End activities including reporting to Corporate
• SAP BI Cubes/Models, Extracts, Reporting, MORs & KPIs
• SAP BPC, HFM Planning & Consolidation
• Successfully planned, designed or re-engineered and implemented projects on-time and under budget:
• Successive / concurrent SAP country roll outs - cost savings close to $ 1 Million.
• Total custom conversion of US Dollar to Euro company in SAP - cost savings of $ 1 Million.
• Total custom conversion of Swiss to Singapore Principal in SAP - cost savings of US $ 0.5 Million
• Total custom project accounting and reporting for government contracts in SAP - cost savings of $ 0.3 Million.
• Critical Logistics and Finance processes - cost savings of US $ 0.5 Million
• New interfaces between applications thereby eliminating the need to implement new applications/ modules - cost savings of at least $ 1 Million.
• Handled all configuration and development for integration between CRM and Finance (ECC 6.0) - cost savings of around $ 0.5 Million. One of the pilot customers to implement CRM 7.0
• Credit Card B2B/B2C with Level 3 & PCI Compliant – implementation handled in-house with thousands of transactions a day, valued at around US $ 175 Million per annum - cost savings of around $ 0.30 Million.
• Leveraged financial accounting, tax and reporting skills/expertise - cost savings over $ 0.75 Million
• Always utilized in-house / China Development teams - cost savings of around $ 0.5 Million

Confidential, NY

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT – SAP

Responsibilities:

• Presented the concept of integration in SAP between Service Management, Production Planning, Materials Management and Finance / Co and won the confidence of Client Corporate Executive Committee to consider and implement all the referred modules as against the original scope to implement only the Service Management module in SAP.
• Designed, developed and demonstrated FI/CO business process scenarios in SAP, within a very short time frame and given that this was my first project in service industry.
• Successfully planned, tested and validated the industry solution well ahead of schedule, even after being brought quite late onto the project.
• Presented a white paper on valid inputs / suggestions / improvements to CATT Procedures, Master Data etc. in the Pre-configured system for Pharma, which was well appreciated by the Program Manager.
• With cross module and systems integration knowledge was able to resolve critical issues with SAP relating to Materials Management & Production Planning modules, which were considered as obstacles in our path forward to complete the test and validation phase.

Confidential, TX

SENIOR CONSULTANT - SAP

Responsibilities:

• Designed, supervised, and implemented a detailed / fully integrated Cost Center planning process in SAP right from the stage of loading the annual product forecast through executing MRP run for detailed raw material / component requirements, loading of plan/budget dollars, cost splitting using splitting layouts, calculation of activity prices on the basis of fully absorbed costs, calculation of product cost using activity prices and release of product / standard cost estimate.
• Designed, supervised and implemented Cost Allocation procedures for common producing cost centers, including use of automatically calculated statistical key figures for cost allocation purposes through Logistics Information Structures (LIS) and flexible analysis, with customized characteristics and key figures field catalogs.
• Developed & implemented Validations and Substitutions for customer specific transaction requirements.
• Supervised / Designed functional specifications for interfaces, migration/conversions, and reports.

Confidential

APPLICATION CONSULTANT – SAP

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental and main force from the consulting team to ensure that the project went live within eight months from the start date, which was one month ahead of the original project schedule.
• Extensive Configuration in FI including automatic account determination for MM & SD
• Designed and developed customized reports using ABAP Queries, Report Painter
• Supervised and designed functional specifications for interfaces, migration/conversions.
• Supervised the training of Power Users, training schedule, training materials etc., and ensured that the users had enough hands-on experience to be fully comfortable with the final Go-Live.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• One of the few SAP consultants to successfully envision, design and implement the country version of Human Resources / Payroll, within a very short time frame of around six months and without much formal training / documentation, when the country specific version was released.
• Extensive configuration of Personal Administration, Time Management & Payroll modules
• Designed and developed Company specific pay-slip.
• Supervised and designed functional specifications for interfaces with third party time clocking system / Microsoft Mail, EDI interfaces with Banks / Statutory Organizations, Data migration etc..

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing business processes, user requirements, etc., and arrived at an AS-IS and TO-BE model, Detailed Design for FI, CO Modules
• Mapped the business processes to SAP functionalities, and arrive at SAP fit - gap analysis.

Confidential

SENIOR MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Total Integrated Solution on Foxpro for Windows
• Finance & Accounting: Finance & Accounts, Audit, Management Information Reports, Project Costing, Budgeting, Funds / Working Capital Management, Creditors Control, Administration, Computerization & Systems Development.