SUMMARY:

• Overall 15+years’ experience with 14+years’ experience in SAP FICO and Confidential
• SAP Certified at Professional Level in FI with ECC 6.0 EHP4
• PMI certified Project Management professional (PMP)
• Managing Consultant with advanced. analytical, leadership and consulting Skills
• Knowledge of Business Processes in various industries and SAP best practices
• Experience with ECC 6.0,50, 4.7, 4.6 (FLCs)
• New GL and Migration from Classic GL to New GL
• SAP Best Business Practices in RTR,P2P and O2C business processes
• Covered 8+ FLC Implementations from Blueprint to GO Live
• Hands on Configuration Experience in SAP FICO & Confidential
• IFRS reporting and Migration & functional Knowledge in Simple Finance S4 with HANA with POC experience ( Migration of GL, Assets to Simple Finance, Cash Management with Simple Finance,Flori)
• US & European Taxation
• SOX compliance and Reporting
• Confidential - Cash Management, In-house Cash, Confidential, Biller Direct
• Foreign exchange, Currency Valuation and Translation
• Experienced in Pre-Sales activities, M&A and deployment.
• Experience in designing and building preconfigured solutions
• Knowledge of integrated areas like SD, MM and PP
• Lead experience in SAP BPC with focus on Consolidation. Experience with version 7.5 and 10.0
• More than 8.5Years’ experience in working full time in Big 4 Consulting(Deloitte Consulting(5.5 Years), IBM (3 Years))
• Good International exposure in multiple countries like Sweden,France,Germany,Australia,UAE,HongKong-Kong and Malaysia

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP-FI/FSCM
• SAP-CO
• BPC
• New GL and Classic GL
• Product Costing (PC)
• Consolidation
• New GL Migration
• Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Planning
• FERC Accounting(Utilities)
• Cost Center Accounting (CCA)
• Currencies and Parallel Ledger
• Profit Center Accounting (PCA)
• Management Consulting
• Project Management
• Finance-IFRS/US GAAP migrations
• M&A
• Accounts Payable ( Confidential )
• Material Ledger
• Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Internal Order Accounting (IOA)
• Audit
• Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM)-CM, Treasury and Risk Management, Money Market, Credit Management, Securities Loans Management, Forex and Derivatives, Biller Direct and Cash Management
• Projects System
• Taxation
• Joint Venture Accounting (JVA)
• Funds Management
• Revenue Recognition
• SAP Fixed Assets (FA)
• Capital Leases
• Integration with MM,PM, SD and CRM
• Sox Compliance/Reporting/Audit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MA

Sr. Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manage and led the requirements gathering and design to automate the outgoing payments processes for European requirements to meet Confidential guidelines, bank migration and automate incoming interfaces from bank and automatic reconciliation
• Other responsibilities includes Project management, Change management & Risk Management

Confidential, CA

Sr.Solution Architect/Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage and led the revenue recognition implementation (contracts/service) for SAP FICO and its integration with SAP-SD & CRM & Simple Finance S4 Assessment/POC & support SAP FICO area .
• The key responsibilities are Interaction with Key stake holders for project planning, Project Management (scope of work, Design workshops /one to one meetings (Blueprint), Configuration/Development, Testing(Unit, Integration, Regression, Quality),Go Live & Support, risk management, Change Management for SAP FICO-New GL, Confidential, AR,FA, CO, integration with MM,SD,CRM, Banking (BCM- Interface, testing with Bank) & Reporting (BW)

Confidential, Toledo, OH

SAP FICO Sr. Manager/Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall delivery of SAP FICO, BPC, BW and New GL Migration
• Accounts Receivable & Electronic Bank Statement
• Accounts Payable and its Integration with MM, Travel Management(Expense Reporting) Automatic Payment configuration( Wire,ACH& Check), Electronic Data Interface(EDI) and Swift Configurations
• FERC Accounting Implementation
• Integration with Confidential -FICA, Billing, Master data, Clearing
• Conducted workshops, interviews, business requirement gathering sessions, gap analysis for FICO and BPC
• Closing Cockpit- Design and configuration ( Templates, Tasks list creation/release & Dependencies)
• Mapping of Legacy data to SAP (data conversion)
• Banking interfaces-inbound/outbound, bank reconciliation
• Cash Management- Confidential & in-house cash- BCM,Swift
• Profitability Analysis (COPA) which includes costing based COPA, characteristics derivation, mapping value fields, derivation rule through settlement (Orders & projects) to COPA and direct postings from FI, Integration with SD and MM
• Identified end to end process of FICO, Consolidation and New GL migration
• Identified Intercompany elimination requirements and designed applications and dimension sets in BPC
• Understanding client consolidation requirements and GAP FIT analysis with BPC 10 and laid down detailed architecture for BPC implementation along with FICO/New GL
• BPC 10 system requirements, software installation guidance, system readiness check
• Integration with BW for real time data inflow in BPC
• Automatic Interco reconciliation tool implementation in ECC
• New GL info cubes activation for BPC
• In-house Cash & Cash Management ( Confidential )
• US Taxation
• Integration with Ariba which includes project management activities:
• Making project plans, discussions with stakeholders, tracking approved project plan with management reporting, risk management, vendor management and development testing and related resource management
• Integration with external tax software and expense payment system
• New GL migration from Classic to New GL using scenrio3
• Migration Cockpit Customizing
• Overall project reporting for milestones, status and change management in area of Finance
• Resource Management
• Project Status Reporting
• Risk Management

Confidential, Bay area, CA

SAP FICO Implementation Support Lead /Sr.Manager

Responsibilities:

• Cash Management and In house cash setup
• Confidential - Automatic Payments/EDI/SWIFT/BCM/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting. Integration with Logistics module( SCM/FILO)
• Confidential - Vendor Invoice Management integration with Open Text, Invoice scanning, invoice matching/blocking (VIM/OCR/Invoice Management Integration with SAP- Confidential )
• Confidential - Payer Direct Configuration involving web application configuration, invoices and payment information for vendors with Open text OCR scanning
• Closing Cockpit- Design and configuration ( Templates, Tasks list creation/release & Dependencies
• Inbound and outbound interfaces with SAPEDI
• Bank Reconciliation, Confidential, BCM,SWIFT
• Unit, Integration and Regression Testing
• Internal Orders Budget uploads configuration and testing
• Integration with MM and SD (Order to cash and Procure to Pay Business Process)
• US Taxation
• Data Conversions and migration
• Consolidation in BPC
• Led and managed resources in onsite/offshore model
• Reporting and cutover activities
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management

Confidential, Bay area, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Solution Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Revenue Recognition for CRM service Contracts (Time based and Service based revenue recognition)
• Profit Center Determination for CRM service processes
• Results Analysis and Settlement in ECC
• Costing (Product Costing- Setting up of Costing Variant& Valuation Variant, Overhead Calculation, Costing sheet runs, WIP, variance and settlements) and Integration with Logistics
• Inter co scenarios in CRM service
• CRM ECC Integration configurations
• RTR-FI-GL, Confidential, AR AA & CO
• Data migration
• Revenue Recognition Configurations
• Settlement Set up in ECC Controlling
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management
• Resource Management

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SAP FICO Manager / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• New GL Configuration and Document Splitting
• Currencies-Local and Group, currency translation, Forex valuation, exchange rates
• Parallel Ledger Configuration
• Closing Cockpit configuration
• Asset Accounting Chart of Depreciation configuration
• Interco/Intra Asset Transfers
• Depreciation Areas Configuration (Book and Tax)
• Depreciation Keys Configuration
• Asset classes
• Fiscal year configuration in FI-FA
• Profitability Analysis (COPA) which includes costing based COPA, characteristics derivation, mapping value fields, derivation rule through settlement (Orders & projects) to COPA and direct postings from FI, Integration with SD and MM
• Taxes
• Capital and Operating Leases Configuration and its integration with Confidential, AR(Customer Master, Interest Calculation, Dunning, payment Integration with SD) and GL
• Configuration of Lease types and Leased Asset Classes
• Special G/l configuration for Capital leases
• Leased asset Interest Settings
• Integration of SAP Fixed Assets with New GL
• Integration of Fixed assets with PM and PS
• Leading the conversion strategy for FI-AA balances and setting of legacy data transfer dates and periods
• Reconciliation of AA balances with GL
• Integration with SD and MM with advance knowledge in Procure to Pay and Order to Cash Business process
• In-house Cash,BCM/Swift set up
• IS retail integration
• Bank interfaces
• Intercompany Accounting
• Integration with Ariba which includes project management. Activities include making project plans, discussions with stakeholders, tracking approved project plan with management reporting, risk management, vendor management and development testing and related resource management
• Integration of FI-FA with Plant Maintenance(PM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and BI
• Confidential - In house Cash Configurations, Setting up of Centralized house bank and clearing configuration between company codes. Confidential integration with MM(Finance& Logistics for procure to pay processes (SCMFILO)
• Confidential - Automatic Payments/EDI/SWIFT/BCM/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting
• Confidential - Vendor Invoice Management integration with Open Text, Invoice scanning, invoice matching/blocking (VIM/OCR/Invoice Management Integration with SAP- Confidential )
• Confidential - Payer Direct Configuration involving web application configuration, invoices and payment information for vendors with Open text OCR scanning
• Cost Center, Product Costing (Product Costing- Setting up of Costing Variant& Valuation Variant, Overhead Calculation, Costing sheet runs, WIP, variance and settlements), material ledger, and Internal Order
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management
• Project Management

Confidential, Southern California, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Manager / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements for budget allocations in ECC &with BI team on field mapping rules in BW
• Setting up of planning assessment and distribution cycles in ECC
• Setting up of Internal Order settlements for budgets
• Cost Center Accounting-FERC accounting/actual assessment cycles
• Product Costing- Setting up of Costing Variant& Valuation Variant, Overhead Calculation, Costing sheet runs, WIP, variance and settlements
• Revenue Recognition with SD setup
• Currency, currency translation and Forex Valuation
• Grants management- Requirements gathering, configuration/development, testing and maintenance
• SAP Fixed Assets( Assets Management) & its integration with PM, Power Plant & Projects System
• Product costing
• BCS Integration with BW/ECC
• Retraction of GL data to ECC
• Setting up of testing plans, scripts and security role requirements
• New GL/Parallel ledger configurations/New Gl Migration
• Confidential - Automatic Payments/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting and Treasury and Risk Management
• AR(Customer Master, Interest Calculation, Dunning, payment
• Integration with SD and MM with advance knowledge in Procure to Pay &Order to Cash Business process
• Integration with CRM IS-U-FICA, Billing, Clearing and Master Data
• M& A with data extraction/suppression/Split data
• Cash Management and Credit Management
• Bank Communication Management with Confidential
• Market Risk Analyzer and Portfolio Analyzer
• Treasury and Risk Management-In House cash configuration-Bank Area/ALE setup/Products/ Confidential
• In house Cash-Automatic payment configuration/Transaction Types
• Worked with the banks for testing of interfaces for inbound and outbound files
• Planning data integration with Projects System
• Integration with Confidential -FICA, Billing, Master data, Clearing
• Integration with SD (Billing Integration and Revenue Recognition)
• Data Conversions and migration
• Reporting in ECC and BW
• Project stabilization and after GO live support
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management
• Resource Management
• Revenue Recognition
• Confidential - Automatic Payments/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting
• Document Splitting and New GL configuration
• Currencies-Local and Group, currency translation, Forex valuation, exchange rates
• New GL Migration with Migration Cockpit
• Real Time integration of CO with FI
• Product Costing & Material Ledger (Product Costing- Setting up of Costing Variant& Valuation Variant, Overhead Calculation, Costing sheet runs, WIP, variance and settlements)
• Parallel Ledgers and IFRS Reporting
• Treasury-Cash Management/Money Market
• Bank Communication Management
• In House cash configuration-Bank Area/ALE setup/Products/ Confidential
• In house Cash-Automatic payment configuration/Transaction Types
• Funds Management
• SEM-BCS integration with BW/ECC
• Project Systems and its integration with Fixed Assets
• Profitability Analysis (COPA) which includes costing based COPA, characteristics derivation, mapping value fields, derivation rule through settlement (Orders & projects) to COPA and direct postings from FI, Integration with SD and MM
• Credit Management and Credit Collections ( Confidential )
• Confidential and its integration with CO/FI
• Leading and Managing Conversion and Cutover tasks
• Led and managed Project Stabilization
• Integration with BI and reporting in BI
• Project Management- Project plan, scope discussion with stakeholders, execution management, quality management, risk management, change management, cutover management, and resource management in onsite offshore delivery model.
• Master data setup in Confidential module- Contract management, Business Partner, Rental Unit
• Controlling Area settings for Confidential
• Settlement in Confidential module and its integration with Controlling module e.g. Service charge settlement, Assessment & distribution, SKF planning
• Conditions of settlement to Accounting-Payables & CO
• Incoming Payments
• Joint Venture Accounting (JVA)-Setting up Joint operating Agreements, Equity Groups, Joint ventures, Cutback etc.
• Reversals
• Accruals/Deferral
• One- Time postings
• Master data setup, Integration with SD

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Lead Consultant / project management

Responsibilities:

• Cash Calls-Issuing and receiving
• Material and expense transfer between ventures
• Set of European taxation(VAT)
• Allocations-Assessment, distribution & settlements
• Billing-EDI
• Intercompany accounting
• Processing non operated invoices
• Integration with FI
• Netting