SUMMARY:

• More than 12 yrs of Industry experience in functional consulting & business analysis including 10+ yrs as SAP FICO Consultant.
• Experience of working as an SAP FICO Consultant in End to End implementation projects starting with Blueprinting, Realization (Configuration, Unit Testing, SIT), Cutover, Go - Live & post Go-Live Support phase.
• Experience of all kinds of projects from End to End Implementation, Global Rollouts, Enhancement and Support projects - 5 full cycle implementations, 3 Global Roll outs & 2 support projects.
• Undergone internal SAP S4 Hana training for Finance.
• Hands on Experience in all the modules of SAP FICO - Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Withholding Tax, Bank & Cash Accounting.
• Strong in People Management, Client & Stakeholder Management and coordination skills with different departments & agencies to ensure proper and timely completion of projects.
• Lead team sizes ranging from 5 to 10 people on different projects.
• MBA (Finance) from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune (Batch of 2008).
• Experience of working on the Client sites in US, Europe, India and Canada.
• Have worked in Manufacturing, Pharma, Automotive, CPG, Hi-Tech domains.

SAP EXPERTISE:

• Company code, Chart of Accounts, Document control, Fiscal year maintenance, Field status Group, Posting Period Variants, foreign currency, Tolerance groups for GL, New GL, Document Splitting, Parallel ledgers.
• Vendor master data configuration, Tolerance group, Automatic Payment Program, DME file, Invoice, Credit memo, Down payment, Integration with MM module.
• Customer master data configuration, Terms of payment, Open item management, Dunning, Invoice, Credit memo, Down payment, Integration with SD module.
• Asset master data, Organization structure, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation area and key, GL Account Integration, Depreciation Run, asset acquisition, write-off, Information system.
• House banks, Bank Accounts, Manual & Electronic Bank Statements, Cash Journal.
• Withholding Taxes, Taxes on Sales & Purchases.
• Cost elements, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, COPA Reports
• Data migration for Master Data: GLs, Vendors, Customers, Assets. Data Migration for transaction Data - Open items for Vendor, Customers, GLs, Asset legacy data transfer using BDCs & LSMWs.
• Thorough understanding of integration between FI-SD (Sales & Distribution), FI-MM (Material Management) and overall business processes such as Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (P2P) and Record to Report (R2R).
• Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

RMCA & FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementing/enhancing SAP FICA (BRIM) & SAP FICO modules for Apple iTunes business.
• Responsible to work on End to End project life cycle including Requirements gathering, Design discussions & playback, development, Integration testing, Cutover & Go-Live.
• Responsible for new project implementations, performing POCs, global roll outs & creating prototypes for future projects
• Setting up Content types, Business Case & Subcase, main transactions & sub transactions, posting area configurations, setting up new Interfaces, Contracts creation, Customer Invoicing setup, RICEF objects

Confidential

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP Global Template Roll outs (VISA - Vehicle Invoicing & Sales Accounting template) to companies in US, Canada, UK, and Denmark. VISA 2 solution is a customized solution for all the sale processes of the client. It includes sales of all types of cars like new cars, company cars, rental cars etc.
• Responsible for Design, configuration/development, testing, defect resolution, UAT support, dat migration and hyper care support.
• Implementation of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable including Credit Management, Controlling (Cost Elements, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, COPA reports) modules in the project.
• Creation of custom solutions like the Buyback solution for Rental Cars & Used car dashboard with the help of ABAP team.
• Training sessions for business users on all the FICO modules

Confidential

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global template design in Finance & Controlling defining processes and conducting workshops with business key users and subject matter experts to gather requirements. Creation of BPML (Business Process Master List) for FI, CO & PS modules.
• Implementation of General Ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, Integration of Asset Accounting with Project Systems and Bank Accounting. In Project Systems, defined the project profile, budget profiles, settlement profiles, WBS Elements, AUC, settlement of the costs, final assets.
• Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing as part of the project.
• Involved in Project Management activities like resource planning, rollout planning, status reviews, coordination with offshore teams & conducting weekly review meetings.
• Responsible for SAP Global template rollouts to companies/plants in Canada, Germany and India.
• Conduct workshop for explaining Process Design Documents and the Data Templates.

Confidential

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead for the Finance domain with added responsibilities of managing the L2 support team. It included the allocation of work, performance measure activities & enhancing the value addition by the team.
• Responsible for Configuration changes including the ABAP developments for all the sub modules of FICO for global affiliates (regions including Europe, Asia, Pacific, North America).
• Resolved issues relating to Payment program, invoice verification, foreign currency revaluation.
• Developing the Business Cases with respect to any enhancement in any of the affiliates of Firmenich.
• Conduct workshop for explaining Process Design Documents and the Data Templates.

Confidential

FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirement and mapping the process as per the global PIRT template of the company.
• Conduct workshop for explaining Process Design Documents and the Data Templates.
• Design & Delivery of following
• General Ledger Accounting
• Account Payables
• Bank & Cash Accounting
• Asset Accounting
• Unit Testing & System Integration Testing for all the modules of FICO with other modules of Material Masters & Project Systems.
• Conduct workshop for explaining Process Design Documents and the Data Templates.
• Managing the Cutover & Data Migration Activities.
• Post Go-Live support for the FICO module including the month - end closing.

Confidential

FI Lead

Responsibilities:

• Discussions with the Business Finance counterparts & analyzing the requirements of the company.
• Business Blueprint Preparation for various modules of finance like Account Payables, Account Receivables, Bank & Cash Accounting, Asset Accounting, Withholding Taxes.
• Analyzing the AS-IS condition of the existing system & preparing the TO-BE documents based on the mapping of the business processes in SAP
• Implementation of all the modules like General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank & Cash accounting and Withholding taxes.
• Implemented New GL, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
• Unit Testing & System Integration Testing for all the modules of Finance with other modules of Material Masters, Sales & Distribution, Quality Management.
• Solely responsible for the Data Migration & Cutover activities for all the company codes. Created LSMWs & Used BDC Programs to load the master data and transactional data during cutover phase.
• Responsible for transfers of legacy data in Asset Management Module.
• End User Training to the core users.

Confidential

FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the discussions with Loan Management Team for the processes involved & its impact on the overall Financial Accounting in SAP.
• Involved in the discussions with the Banks for interfacing required in case of payments to dealers.
• Preparation of Organization Structure & Key Data Structures
• Business Blueprint Preparation for various modules of finance like Payables, Bank & Cash Accounting, Asset Accounting.
• Implementation of above modules in FI.
• Unit Testing & System Integration Testing for all the modules of Finance with the third-party application of Loan Management System.

Confidential

FI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the AS-IS condition of the existing system, TO-BE analysis, GAP analysis, business process re-engineering, configuration, and modifications.
• Business Blueprint Preparation for various modules of finance like Account Payables, Account Receivables, Bank & Cash Accounting, Asset Accounting, Withholding Taxes.
• Implementation of all the modules like General Ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank & Cash accounting and Withholding taxes.
• Implemented New GL, Performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
• Unit Testing & System Integration Testing for all the modules of Finance with other modules of Material Masters, Sales & Distribution, Quality Management.
• Weekly dashboard review with the project management team, highlighting major issues and concerns over the past week.
• Tracking all issues and risks raised by various project stakeholders through HP Quality Center.
• Solely responsible for the Data Migration & Cutover activities for all the company codes. Created LSMWs & Used BDC Programs to load the master data and transactional data during cutover phase.
• Responsible for transfers of legacy data in Asset Management Module.
• End User Training to the core users.