SUMMARY:

• Extensive 12+ years’ hands - on experience with SAP Finance and Controlling and inter-relationships with modules. Chartered Accountant (CPA equivalent) with success running multiple end-to-end implementations.
• Adeptly handles complex month-end and year-end closing procedures in Finance and Audit. Excellent debugging skills.
• Absolutely believes in constant skills upgradation and acquiring knowledge.
• Saved $10+k for Confidential Enterprises by suggesting and implementing Readsoft Process Director to process invoices and vendor payments quicker; allowed negotiation of better payment terms.
• Awarded Excellence Certificate and multiple Certificates of Achievement.
• Co-managed SAP implementations, support projects, and cross-functional teams from inception to completion, delivering projects on-time and under budget.

TECHNICAL & MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE:

• Rich experience in Implementation, Roll outs, Upgrades and Support.
• Setting up company codes both in Classic and New GL scenarios
• Automatic account assignments.
• Working with functional areas and Cost of sales accounting
• Working with the taxes on sales and purchases and Withholding taxes
• Various correspondences for customers and vendors and setting up intercompany transactions and reconciliations.
• Setting up Automatic Payment program and interfaces with Banks
• Setting up Bank Communication Management and Electronic Bank Statements
• Integration of FI with MM and SD
• Setting up Asset accounting and integration with Investment Management,
• Depreciation, Acquisitions and Retirements
• Setting up ALE for master data distribution of GL, Cost and Profit Centers
• Setting up Disputes and Collection Management
• New GL Migration including Document Splitting and setting up Leading ledger
• Setting up Foreign currency valuation; Parallel Valuations
• Setting up Special Purpose Ledgers and Consolidation in Confidential
• Working on Report Painters and Report writers and Project Systems Module
• Expert in Confidential - Consolidations module in SAP.
• Configuring Investment Management, Capital Appropriation Requests, Budgeting and Planning
• Cost Center Planning, postings, assessments and distribution
• Internal orders/Production/Process/Maintenance orders creation, settlement and closing
• Profit Center Planning, postings, derivations and re-postings
• Segment reporting and New GL accounting
• Product costing set up including Cost Components, Costing and Valuation variants,
• Material ledger and postings
• Setting up COPA and value flows in COPA
• Preparing FRICE, Functional spec documents, Working with ABAPers, Professional debugging skills
• Excellent Knowledge of MM and SD.
• Working on IDOCs, SAP Queries and ALE
• Readsoft Vendor Invoice Management
• Good knowledge of Security and role development in finance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Senior solutions consultant - FICO

Responsibilities:

• Setting up Concur for expenses and travel and its integration with ADP payroll and SAP.
• Setting up COPA
• Working with the bank to set up lockbox processing for AR payments in SAP.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working on setting up interfaces and also enabling emails for various financial correspondence such as invoices, account statements, dunning letters, direct debit letters and Bills of exchange.
• Working on major SAP FICO finance development changes for Confidential European Partners ( Confidential ) during this transition phase.
• Migration to New GL Scenario 3 for another client.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Solution Architect, Finance

Responsibilities:

• Worked on complex SAP Finance integration projects resulting from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of Confidential bottling companies. Set up company codes and currencies; migrated AR, AP and Assets;
• Handling Multiple company codes in different geographies and working closely with business to gather and validate requirements, configuring solution in SAP and helping with Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Setup foreign currency valuation and intercompany transactions; and consolidated financial statements in Confidential .
• Implemented Collections Management and Disputes Management across all Confidential locations in Europe and North America.
• Led effort of designing and producing custom financial reports after M&A consolidations, created in Report Writer for balance sheet, profit and loss (P&L) statement, and intercompany transactions.
• Setting up Special Purpose Ledgers and Consolidation in Confidential
• Provide expert SAP systems guidance to external support organization handling complex month-end and year-end financial procedures including in-house built SAP custom programs, Product Costing & Material Ledger.

Confidential

Senior Applications Development Professional, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed offshore team of 5 SAP Finance professionals (based in India) from Atlanta.
• Supported entire gamut of SAP financial applications of Confidential clients especially on the Confidential account.
• Promoted to Confidential ’s Atlanta / Confidential office, Feb 2009 based on expertise and performance.
• Managed complex SAP Finance changes, providing direction and input, to technical ABAP team, including supplying logic for lockbox transactions, clearing AR transactions, setting up custom program for sending reminders, and escalations emails for overdue invoices.
• Setting up Automatic Payment program and interfaces with Banks
• Setting up Bank Communication Management and Electronic Bank Statements
• Integration of FI with MM and SD
• Setting up Asset accounting and integration with Investment Management for new company codes,
• Depreciation, Acquisitions and Retirements
• Setting up ALE for master data distribution of GL, Cost and Profit Centers
• Assisting the business with month-end and year-end procedures in Finance and Controlling.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Headed SAP Finance Support teams for Confidential clients including BHP Billiton (Australia) and Zurich (Switzerland).
• Addressed SAP Support issues and ensured timely resolution.
• Coordinated with SAP and helped resolve complex technical SAP issues in the fields of Finance and Controlling.
• Monitored performance of SAP Finance Support team against Service Level Agreement (SLA) standards, resulting in meeting and exceeding standards.

Confidential

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented end-to-end SAP projects in SAP Finance and Controls for 2 clients in the heavy equipment manufacturing industry.
• Data Migration from Non-SAP to SAP environment. Migration of AP, AR and Asset Accounting.
• Created end-user documentation and provided training on using custom financial reports.
• Configuring Investment Management, Capital Appropriation Requests, Budgeting and Planning
• Cost Center Planning, postings, assessments and distribution
• Internal orders/Production/Process/Maintenance orders creation, settlement and closing
• Profit Center Planning, postings, derivations and re-postings
• Segment reporting
• Product costing set up including Cost Components, Costing and Valuation variants