SUMMARY:

• Confidential comes with over 12 years of US, Canada, Europe and Latin America consulting experience in 11 full life cycle implementations that had a successful Go - Live on time and on budget. Important solution areas of these Go-Live implementations: SAP Financials (FI), Controlling (CO), Treasury (TR),Financial Supply Chain management (FSCM), Consolidations (BPC) Financial Reporting and Customer Relations management (CRM for Media Industry) - solutions to GAAP and IAS/IFRS standards . Confidential has hands-on experience in configuration of FICO modules of SAP, Inter Company Processes and reconciliation, Product Cost Controlling, Financial Supply Chain Management, and in the processes of blue printing, business and regression testing, training and cut-over. In Addition, he has also done three upgrades from SAP 4.0 to ECC 6.0 and one upgrade to SAP Simple Finance 2.0
• He has worked as an Applications Programmer, Systems and Business
• Analyst, Test and Cut-Over Manager, Sr. Project Manager, Associate Partner and Sr. Application and Solution Architect. He has managed team sizes of 4-23 on shore and off shore experts. His specialties include turning around troubled under performing implementations.
• His industry experience include the industries of Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals, Media and Entertainment, Oil and Gas, Defense and Aerospace, and Electronics
• Manufacturing. His focus include inventory turnarounds, reducing daily sales outstanding (DSO), reducing time taken for period end financials close and driving costs down with management reporting.
• He has SAP ERP financial integration experience with SAP Business Warehouse (BI/BW), Plants abroad Functionality, Simple Finance 2.0 Solution on S4/HANA, VAT taxes in Europe, Business Consolidation System (BCS), Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM), Business Objects (BOBJ), Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC). His experience in working with external systems include E5 Solutions, TR One Source Tax engine, Vertex, Sabrix and Paymetric credit card tokanization.
• He has organized knowledge transfer to client personnel and process owners besides excellent status communication to his managers in the form of presentations and dash boards to Steering Committees. He is experienced in documentation processes of Blue-Print, Realization, Quality Assurance, Management of Change, Maintenance, Business Cutover and Production Support Stages. Methodologies used include ASAP and ASAP Focus for SAP All In One (SAP One).
• He has a proven track record and has demonstrated many successes/go-lives within the areas of planning, designing, and implementing end to end SAP ERP solutions.
• His International experience include countries of Canada, Mexico, Singapore, India, Oman, Kuwait, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Nether Lands, Italy, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and El Salvador.

STRENGTHS:

• Design and build for Simple Finance 2.0 on S4/HANA (1610 enterprise edition),
• Turning around troubled underperforming SAP implementations,
• Business Analysis, FI CO TR FSCM CRM IPM configuration,
• Inventory turnarounds increase, reducing daily sales outstanding (DSO), reducing time taken for period end financials close and driving costs down with management reporting.
• International Roll-Out in Asia, Europe and Latin America
• Knowledge Transfer support and Training,
• Resolves accounting challenges in financials and ensures implementations are GAAP and IFRS complainant,
• Application Cutover Design and Development, Upgrades; Experienced in ABAP;
• Developed customized solutions to increase throughput and drive down operating costs of processes
• Identified growth opportunities in the existing implementations for change requests, additional custom developments that added value to the client in terms of reduction in operating costs or increasing efficiencies or reducing time for financial statements,
• Regression, Integration Testing with business and bank users, User Acceptance Testing
• SAP Best Practice Implementation, gap-analysis
• Solution architecture and RICEFW identification
• Reporting: BI, BW and BO
• Media, Electronics industry focus
• New modules: Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR)
• Simple Finance 2.0 on S4/HANA,
• Controlling: Product costing, actual costing with material ledger, transfer pricing
• Intellectual Property Management (IPM): CRM to ECC billing, revenue and business partner; CRM/ECC to BW for reporting
• Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR)
• Integrated Planning for Finance (IBPF) using embedded BW and BPC on S4/HANA
• FSCM: CRM to ECC to FSCM for collections and disputes data as well as business partner
• International Roll-Out: Asia, Europe and Latin America
• Supply chain: Interfaces to legacy systems, Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR)
• SAP System Upgrade: ECC 6.0, BI, CRM, SCM, x-RPM
• Project Management Plan, Cost, Schedule, Resource plans,
• Resource and risk management
• Reporting, dash boards for the steering committee
• Cutover (MS Project) and Testing plans (HPQC)
• Application and business cut over design and implementation
• FICO (Simple Finance 2.0 on S4/HANA), FSCM implementations
• Discovery process, Create demos, response to RFP
• Prepare bids, client presentations and demos
• Pursuits targets in the range of $15-20M

SKILLS:

• Hands on with migration activities for S/4 HANA - Simple Finance sFIN Add-On. Preparation, Pre-migration, configurations, and post migration activities.
• Architecting S/4 HANA-Simple Finance application with respect to client’s specific reporting requirements.
• Architecting S/4 HANA Finance for CO-PA and Product Costing modules.
• S/4 HANA-Simple Finance Add-On - Preparation and migration of customizing for General Ledger, Fixed Asset, and Controlling from SAP ERP to SAP Simple Finance Add-On.
• S/4 HANA-Simple Finance Add-On - Pre & post-migration steps for Simple Finance along with data management. Documentation for Dataset before Installation and Migration.
• S/4 HANA-Simple Finance Add-On - Consistency Checks before Installation and Migration to S/4 HANA-Simple Finance.
• S/4 HANA-Simple Finance Add-On - New Universal Journal enablement & conversion of data in to ACDOCA view.
• S/4 HANA-Simple Finance Add-On - Migration of Cost Elements and Customizing, technical check of transaction data.
• S/4 HANA-Simple Finance Add-On - Migration of Line Items into new data structure, migration of balances, and activities after migration
• S/4 HANA-Central Finance Add-On
• SAP- Controlling including CO-PA, Cost center, EC-PCA (Profit Center Accounting), FI integration with product costing (CO-PC) and Material Ledger (CO-ML)
• Special Ledger (EC-SL) Reporting for currency and EC-CS and BCS (Consolidations), Business Objects BPC planning and consolidations
• SAP- Financial Accounting includes New GL and AP AR processes, Business Partner configurations, Interface SAP to HYPERION, Month End and Year End closing for FI, and US and Euro taxes, Withholding and extended with holding taxes-1099 and 1042 NRA
• Intellectual Property Management (IPM) solution of the SAP for the media industry
• ALE and EDI (ANSI XII), DME for WIRE payments, Automated Clearing House ( Confidential ) Payment, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) processing,
• SAP-FSCM including treasury, risk management, liquidity and cash flow, foreign exchange configurations, banking instruments, position management, Dispute and Collections management
• Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR)
• Solution architecture and proto-types for marketing and practice building efforts,
• SAP- Fixed Assets Accounting, Internal Orders, Assets Under Constructions, including IM ( investment management ) and Project System settlements
• Experienced in integration, regression and user acceptance testing
• International conversion of Fixed Assets, Inventory, Taxes, Accounts payable/Receivables for India, Oman, Kuwait, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Brazil (nota Fiscal process), Uruguay, El Salvador
• Archiving of master and transactional data to adhere to Information Life Cycle Management using archiving tools
• SAP server upgrades for ECC 6.0, BI, CRM, SCM, x-RPM and net weaver Portals
• SAP Batch Jobs and design of variants with interface to schedulers- ORZIP, TIDEL, MASTERO, SAP REDWOOD schedulers
• Experienced in Technical and Business Cutover planning and implementation
• Record to Report work experience include Business Objects (BOBJ) reporting and design, SAP integration with BI/BW, use of other data sources like MS Access/Oracle/Manual Data Load for reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose

Director Delivery Operations (S4/HANA)

Responsibilities:

• Controlling: product costing, Actual costing with material ledger, Transfer pricing
• Integrated Business Planning for Finance (IBPF)
• Financial Accounting: General Ledger, New Fixed Assets Accounting, AP and AR
• Banking: Bank master data set up, Lock Box set up for US and Canada
• Unit, Integration and User Acceptance testing
• Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) implementation

Confidential, Costa Mesa, CA

Sr. Managing Consultant/AP

Responsibilities:

• Accounts receivables design, set up and configure credit card payment receipt functions
• Setup and configure FSCM functionality
• Unit, Integration and User Acceptance testing
• Open AR and Disputes case conversion and data validation
• Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) implementation
• Legal and Group Costing analyze and remediation; Load additive Costs for legal and group; Process orders for the Pharma industry
• Material Master Validation for pre and post loads
• Material Ledger: Configuration and handle Production Issues relating to Month End run for the ML
• Allocations - create/update and execute cycles
• Analyze and match cost center reports to the budget as a part of demand planning load
• Execute planning scenarios and carry out plan reconciliations
• Analyze and match activity quantities by Material & Plants
• Planning Cost Split and carryout plan costs
• Configuration and testing to add additional value fields and characteristics

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Product Costing and Material Ledger Expert

Responsibilities:

• International Design for EU: Pants Abroad functionality and VAT taxes
• Design and develop RICEFW Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) proto typing
• Product Costing: Configure and test Discrete Manufacturing and Product Cost Collectors for Repetitive Manufacturing; month ens operations
• Create and update Requirement matrix and OQ (operational Qualification) and PQ
• (Performance Qualification scripts as required for Pharma industry, FDA required documentation
• Guide creation and development of training materials
• Lead testing efforts across multi - functional and system land scape Feasibility to upgrade the processes to Simple Finance on S4/HANA
• Use of Fiori apps for the finance processes
• Provide direct and indirect conversion and data migration effort, Coordinate cross team efforts Manage SAP, FI/CO, BW and BPC on-shore and off-shore teams, cutover plan development and business development efforts And finally ensure successful Go-Live.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creation of LSMW as needed and ensure all test master data is available for loading SAP tool.
• Generate master data needed for the regression and user acceptance testing.
• Assist development of cut-over plans, Update cut over plans to meet business time linescreate and update risk and defect trackers and provide other assistance as needed
• New GL activities like segment splitting and other related areas of additional fields like region and segment reporting, prepare presentation materials for the knowledge transfer (KT)undertook 2 KT sessions to the production support staff

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Sr. Manager, Financials and Controlling

Responsibilities:

• Configure the leading as well as non leading ledgers for 8 countries
• Intercompany transactions, Trading partner and consolidation reporting for Boeing
• Conversions: GL, Profit Center, Cost Center; LSMW
• To Complete the enhancement for the consolidation elimination entries
• Material management; configure account determinations and movement types
• Configure Disputes and Collections Management (FSCM)
• Foreign Currency Set-Up and FC evaluations and translations
• SAP HR general ledger account determinations
• Reporting: Financial statement version, Balance sheet, PL and cash flow statements, audit reports (SART)
• Allocations of costs
• Successful Go love

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Conversion Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• International rollout of SAP global design for middle east and Latin American and Middle East countries
• Countries handled: Oman, UAE, Qatar, United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Brazil, El Salvador, Uruguay
• Conversion for
• Fixed Assets,
• Internal Orders,
• Accounts payable,
• With Holding Tax,
• Accounts Receivables,
• Inventory, and Standard Price,
• Material Ledger
• Serialized Material
• Conversion objects used are LSMW and eCAT
• For Brazil: Nota Fiscal process was used; Successful go live

Confidential, Houston, TX

Manager and Senior SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP ECC and SRM Procure to Pay (Accounts payable) solution involving purchase order and non purchase order based scenarios, evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) Vendors and conversion of legacy data
• Handled Procure to Pay payment transactions using Payment Medium Workbench for US and Canada company codes, Banks for 3rd party Check, EFT, Confidential and WIRE payments for AP and Treasury
• Configured and tested treasury transactions like long/short term loan instruments, forex hedging instruments, electronics bank statements, Acuity data loads
• Designed and implemented accounting and material management procure to pay invoice based work flows
• Configured and tested US (IRS) and Canada (Canada revenue Commission) complaint extended withholding tax functionality including smart form development
• Provided solution architecture for SAP BI based reporting where data was extracted out of US and Canada ECC and SRM instances

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Senior SAP CRM/FICO/IPM Lead Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP ECC Financials and CRM/ECC - IPM solutions for television distribution business
• Areas handled in SAP ECC/CRM at the Order/Contract/Deal entry stage include Cash Applications for Royalty License Fees receipts, Handled Participations reporting by Title based on the Cash Receipts for each period
• By title payment split, partial payment split, split relevant account assignment, distribute partial payment between split items (pro-rata/manual), line layouts
• Financial accounts receivables postings and collections strategy
• Collections specialists
• Accrual Engine - Actual and forecast revenue ;
• Billing engine actual and forecast billing;
• Transaction Tax Engine,
• Deal Continuance determination and confirmation
• Reporting: Billing and Revenue Forecast to Actual; Open AR and Cash application: For conversion of legacy data to SAP for the GO LIVE and sign off
• Configured Special Ledger (EC-SL) Reporting for foreign currency, fiscal year, IFRS reporting and By-Title Cash receipts reporting for Participations
• Conversion of Cash receipts data since inception and reconciliation by Title:
• Conversions of collection specialists data
• Successful go live

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Sr. Manager and lead FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Controlling (FICO) and Project Systems (PS) components of the Results Analysis Process
• Study the RA process of project systems (PS) and sales order based product costing
• Work out strategies for driving efficiency in the RA process in functional, batch and technical tracks
• Analyze these processes and prioritize them
• Interact with off-shore ABAP and Batch team for developing technical specifications and code modifications
• Unit test these processes and design tests in the mass system
• Develop test strategies in the Mass R3 SAP system
• Create LSMW for the upload of at least 60K each of time, expense AP and AR invoice test data with a mix of WBS elements with few and large Work In Process (WIP) line items
• Schedule batch jobs and custom variants for the delta RA and settlement processes
• Verify FI postings to secondary/primary cost elements and settlement to general ledger including data involving foreign exchange
• Carried full load RA batch process with 200K WBS test data
• Ensure correct data flow of RA process to SAP BW system for reporting purposes
• Interact with business users for identifying reports and info-cubes that the RA process updates
• Ensure the updated process enables extraction of correct data elements from R3 to BW system

Confidential, Aliso Viejo, CA

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business areas, functional areas, and sales and use tax.
• Software Best Practice Implementation: ASAP Focus Methodology, eCat activation of blocks and required configuration
• Profitability analysis (CO-PA): Characteristics, Value fields, report write and painter drill down reports and planning; Product Costing (CO-PC) and Material Ledger (CO-ML)
• Costing variants and costing sheets configuration
• Integrated (SNOP and COPA based) planning and product cost planning
• Unit and standard cost estimates
• Overhead costing, WIP and variance calculations
• Cost settlement, sales order and sub-contracting costing
• Currency valuations (EURO, PESO and USD) using Material Ledger
• Material Ledger based actual costing
• Period end processing like costing runs, WIP computations
• Extensive experience in process design with New General Ledger
• Experience in Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, transfer pricing, closing procedures, AP information system, and integration with MM. 1099 and 1042 vendor process and reporting for IRS.
• Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, account systems, credit management, cash discounts, transfer pricing, closing operations, sales order and integration with SD, contract accounting with billing plan revenue recognition.
• Profit Center Accounting (PCA) and consolidations (CS): Planning, profit center, revenue elements, sales order, material master assignment, control parameters and integration with SD, Special Ledger (EC-SL) reporting for currency. GL based consolidation for 8 subsidiaries with report painter reporting.
• Controlling: Cost Center Accounting and Planning, Material Requirement Planning, Production Order Planning and Order Confirmations, Statistical Internal orders
• Financial Supply Chain Management configuration performed include cash concentration and liquidity forecast reporting in treasury:
• Creating Source symbol, planning levels, planning groups
• Treasury Groupings
• Data from Open MM and SD transactions
• Posting rules and automatic account assignment
• Forecasting reports with customer evaluations
• Experienced in other TR modules: electronic bank statement, lockbox configuration and positive pay
• Port and partner profile configuration
• DME, Bank transfer, Check, Confidential and wire payments
• Integration with middleware like XI for bank transfer table mapping risk analyzer, foreign exchange and money markets instruments