PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Solution Architect on Implementation and support projects for US and Indian clients on ECC 6.0
• Business Process & Management Consultant: defining ERP ready “To be” business process for R2R and Material management processes and design solutions during SAP implementation
• Participate in several due diligence exercise & proposal preparation incl. one for IFRS implementation
• S4HANA 1610 Professional Certified and part of Confidential S4HANA COE
• Worked on a POC for S4HANA greenfield implementation
• Prerequisite for upgrading to S4HANA from SAP ECC Confidential .g. CVI, Business partner, Asset accounting readiness, GL & Cost element merge
• Central finance use case
• Trained in SAP BPC consolidation & planning and also on its earlier version BW based SEM - BCS
• 4 SAP Implementation (Honda, JCI, Rubamin, Confidential ) on New GL with Document splitting, AP, AR, Asset accounting, COPA, Product Costing, Integration with PP, MM, SD, PS and interface using EDI & IDOCS
• 1 project to redesign ERP ready Business process for Industrial equipment manufacturer -IDMC
• 2 Upgrade projects to ECC (ABB, Ginger Hotels), 3 Roll out to additional companies and Plants (Mosaic, ABB, JCI) and 3 support projects ( Confidential, Star TV & REI)
• 4 years of functional experience in the areas of Costing, Accounting, and Taxation
• Worked in - Engineering and Projects, Telecom, Hospitality, Primary Metal processor, Retail and Media verticals

SAP SKILLS:

• 25 days full time residential training of SAP FI-CO module from CDAC, NOIDA May 2005
• Online training on BPC 10.0 Web and Excel with Server access - Nov -2015
• SAP tools used- Extensively worked on SAP solution manager in several projects, SAP solution composer, SAP tutor, SAP service market place
• Other tools used- RWD Uperform (for Training documentation), HPQC, Remedy, RevTrack, Eroom
• Business process design for the following modules - P2P process, Projects system(PS), Asset accounting, Account receivables and Materials Management (MM)
• Configuration of New GL, AP, Bank interfaces, IDOCS / BAPI for Interface, FI-Logistics integration, CCA, PCA, Internal order and Product costing

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Lead Consultant FICO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Dynamic discounting SaaS solution from Confidential and its integration with SAP, coordinating project from business side including vendor selection requirement gathering, payment term extension, Building interface with test scenario definition and supplier communication planning
• Design Invoice posting interface from Ariba P2P to SAP and build few validation for combination of cost center & IO and cost center & Profit center combination.
• Worked on implementing SAP integration with Confidential & E using BAPI approach.
• Implemented Asset accounting, Worked on several development projects including Confidential .g. Development of Excel based Journal Entry upload tool, design interface with Discover/ Chase for credit card settlement and Ariba integration with Taxware for use tax and other ongoing process improvements, Designed Bank interface using DME / Payment medium workbench (PMW)
• Implemented Costing based COPA to get detailed profitability reporting including vendor profitability, this involved using enhancements for characteristics and Value field, updated one year history to COPA after completing reconciliation. Also worked with BW to enable COPA reporting with Analysis for office.
• Using Agile methodology for new enhancement and planning release for Finance functionalities
• Supporting SD - FI integration for invoice processing

Confidential

SAP Finance SME

Responsibilities:

• Provide solution approach for Finance process area based on discussion with Client team
• During final proposal submission work out estimates and staffing plan
• Develop presentation for client management team highlighting change impact and expected process improvements based on scope of project

Sr. Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 4 include offshore team members during project
• Managed Cutover activities including validation of configuration of new company codes and related master data requirement Confidential .g. GL, Vendor customer, Materials, Add Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Orders, Bank Accounts for new Company Codes; Load GL balance, open item transaction details during cutover thru Confidential ’s; Extend current programs and Validation, substitution to new company codes, Change program and Batch job variants to include new company codes
• Supported FI-SD integration including pricing procedure & Condition type setup in addition automatic account assignment
• Change COPA characteristics description without downtime using technical transports after lengthy discussion with SAP

Sr. Advisory consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked since Blueprint till Go-live stage of the Project as Account payable lead; Conducted blueprint and solution design workshops; in addition to design enhancements and EDI & IDOC based Account payable interfaces with Bank and other Legacy systems einvoicing and dynamic discounting, design several Bank interfaces using EDI & IDOCs and Intercompany accounting, Confidential & New GL, Confidential -In-house bank and FI-MM integration related configuration; US withholding tax setup for 1099 & 1042 reporting, FI integration with Vertex for sales and use tax and define integration testing scenario design & Project Cutover plan.
• SAP Implementation for US based Automotive component manufacturer
• Lead SAP Finance and Coordinated solution design, Costing - COPA configuration, product costing solution design & custom developments.
• Designed COPA assessment cycle settle under/ over absorbed cost and defined COPA derivations for product hierarchy and for other custom characteristics
• Migration & Cutover activities: In both above mentioned projects Coordinating configuration validation; manual configuration activities for new clients created for data load testing; mock cutover and successfully completed cutover to production system, and resolved post go live issues & supported SOX compliance

Assistant consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical upgrade from SAP 4.7 to ECC 6.0 for hospitality client - Conducted requirement gathering sessions to update Business Blueprints and designed test cases for FICO module
• Managed team providing Level 3 support for International media house - Team was providing support on Asset accounting, Service tax, configured EBS setup, COPA, MM-FI & PS-FI integration in addition to development projects
• IFRS due diligence & blueprinting for large fertilizer manufacturing client: Provided solutions for IFRS implementation with classic GL in ECC 6.0 leading to project win, Later on gathered detailed requirements and worked on business blue printing

Deputy Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Executing SAP engagements as per the ASAP methodology to manage project scope
• Conducted requirement gathering workshops with client personnel and senior management, review proposed solutions with Process owners
• Worked on solution design for SAP FI, CO, Project System (PS) and Integration with MM module
• Engagement management with 3 team members - Worked on SAP Process costing process using Product cost collector executing engagements as per the work plan and approach & methodology; managed project scope; cost; schedule, Gather core business requirements from process owners and Define ERP ready “To be” business process for FICO, and PS processes and reviewed PP, MM & SD processes proposed by team members
• During Post Implementation review project recommendations for use BTE to meet SOD requirement during posting of FI entries, and use of source list for select materials; use of standard physical inventory process in SAP; use of internal order for effective MIS reporting and better cost control were well received by client
• Project management- Define work plan, communicate work plan to client team, highlight issues that my affect project schedule, set client expectation right to execute agreed scope of project with minimal deviation from work plan

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Client site management - In addition to FICO rollout and support responsibilities; manage relationship with local IT team and submit periodic SLA compliance reports; ensure timely resolution of issues and follow up for change request implementation ; provided offshore support using solution manager and firefighter login
• Configuration & Development - New GL with Multiple GAAP setup, SD-FI; MM-FI automatic account assignment, Product costing, COPA derivations, Profit center & cost center planning, PP-CO integration; Project system - FI integration for Engineering projects and related Revenue recognition using percentage of Completion (POC) method, Defined several validations and substitutions, conversions of Asset master, CO master data conversions, and configured solution for direct asset procurement using investment order, develop functional specification and reviewed existing Custom Reports and suggested modification to improve performance of reports
• Testing - Performed unit & integration testing; regression testing; and obtained user acceptance
• Authorization controls - Worked in collaboration with basis team to resolve user authorization related issues through “Virsa access enforcer”
• Training - Develop training material, Provided SAP ECC 6.0 overview and FI-CO user training

Junior Accounts Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As core team member participated in business blueprint discussions with process owners and implementation partner (IP); develop “As Is” process documentation; Review deliverables and solution consultation with process owners; provide suggestions to improve the solutions
• During SAP system audit provide support for Application System Control and point out issues relating to authorizations & interface. Provided functional validation of SAP FI customized reports
• Provided support for FICO module to around 200 users on withholding tax accounting and its compliance; bank reconciliation; fund management; Account receivable / payable and asset accounting; and COPA
• Configured- Bank reconciliation, GL groups and Confidential, Alternative reconciliation account for AP/ AR
• Customized solution for streamlining cash collection centers from multiple locations and lead the initiative to develop solution in SAP with required controls
• Created LSMW and used Confidential for data migration from legacy to SAP.