EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of experience of which 15 years is in analysis, design, development, support, maintenance of ERP applications using SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 and 4.6C. Over 8 years of experience in integrating ECC with external tax bolt on OneSource both RFC and Global Next versions.
• Capturing business requirements and formulating them into design and solution documents, worked with the project team in implementing the Sabrix (OneSource indirect tax) products.
• Worked closely with customer's finance/tax/core technology team in implementing (installations & Configurations) Sabrix (OneSource indirect tax) products and provided support during various testing cycles. Managed production cut over activities and hyper care during the production go - live.
• 7 years of industrial experience in project implementation and marketing.

SAP EXPERIENCE:

• SAP ECC 6.0 Upgrade, Experience in 4.X versions
• OneSource - Global Next ECC Integration for EMEA, Confidential
• SAP Tax - SABRIX/Vertex Integration
• SAP BRF+
• SAP Solution Manager
• Triple Point Trading solution
• ABAP/4, OOPS
• ALE, EDI, IDOC
• Workflow
• Archiving/DaRT
• BADI/Enhancement Framework, Exits
• BAPI
• Remedy for Incident and Change management
• HP Quality Center
• SOLMAN
• Requisite Pro
• Service Management Suite
• Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Tax Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Global next on Vodafone SAP system
• Configure SAP by creating new driver tax and resultant tax codes.
• Tax configuration for FI, AR and AP
• Implement custom address derivation for integrating GTM based AP transactions
• Enable custom Finance posting processes to seamlessly integrate with Global Next solution
• Integrate Global Next with external vendor invoice toll Readsoft by implementing custom journey.

Confidential, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Global next on Confidential S4 system
• Configure SAP by creating new driver tax and resultant tax codes.
• Tax configuration for FI, AR and AP
• Implement custom address for Intercompany transactions both on AR and AP. Implement custom address sources for re-determining Ship-from an Ship-to based on the transactions being processed
• Tax configuration update to process Reverse Charge with Non-recoverable portion to post to correct account
• Integrate Global Next with external vendor invoice toll Readsoft by implementing custom journey.

Confidential, Utah

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Global next on Confidential S4 system
• Configure SAP by creating new driver tax and resultant tax codes.
• Tax configuration for FI, AR and AP
• Implement custom logic for onetime address scenarios on Sales Order and following up to billing
• Enable vendor invoice management invoices for MIRO and FB60 posting by implementing new response journey
• Configure tax call for Service Entry Sheet

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 on Windows and Oracle

RICEF FI Lead & OneSource tax Integration expert

Responsibilities:

• Production support / Incident management lead for Order2Cash-FI module.
• Manage ECC Tax interface upgrade from 5.x to 6.x Brazil and Chile
• Implementation of tax solution in ECC for Brazil Tax that include Outbound Freight, Services, Cash Discount, VIM(Open text)-Tax interfacing
• Implement BRF+ for Global with-holding tax to determine correct withholding tax codes based on transaction parameters
• Design and deploy generic WHT BRF+ function interface to pass data from ECC to BRF+ to retrieve back WHT Type, Code and Base
• Development to interface Brazil local requirements for Nota-Fiscal. Implementation of resolution 13, IB and OB STO Tax processing. Mapping of tax values to Nota Fiscal in 6.x interface version
• New Access sequence, Tax procedure and Condition maintenance for the tax condition types for Brazil
• Exemption certificate management via three way interface between ECC, CertCapture and Sabrix
• ECC Tax design and implementation for Service management module in Brazil
• Design of custom address sources for complicated business scenarios e.g Freight, I/C transactions and third party FI interface (Allegro)
• Implementation of Royalties and Commissions tool to identify and post accounting entries for Inter-company transactions
• Argentina perceptions design and implementation on ECC
• Work with OTC and PTP in understanding business requirements from tax perspective
• Several Confidential business requirements implemented in the tax interface (Service billing, I/C STO, Nota Fiscal, Etc …)
• Participate on various testing phases CT, PT, UAT and cutover
• Constantly working towards improving maintenance of the tax interface

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 on UNIX and Oracle

RICEF FI Sub-Team Lead, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Leading SAP ABAP RTR(FI) for end to end implementation of SAP replacing multiple legacy systems
• Mentored and trained resources in area of SAP Tax and Customs using SABRIX and GTS
• Led end to end design, implement and test of SAP ECC - SABRIX interface
• Deferred tax for Europe
• 3 way interface between ECC-GTS-Sabrix for VAT determination on export duties
• Accurate determination of Ship to for PTP
• Tax determination of Intra company logical GM for US
• Co-ordinate Onshore-Offshore transition, delivery, hand back of Functional Designs
• Successfully delivered 150 complex objects in 14 month period
• Leading 30 member strong offshore team from delivery perspective
• SME role for providing solutions to business critical GAPs.
• Developed client relations by bridging the gap between onshore-offshore
• Initiated programs for Development standards, naming standards, Reuse tools/programs
• Developed and trained client workforce in SAP ABAP
• Covered areas of Workflow, FI Reporting, Interface development, Data Archiving
• Provided estimation, Staff planning and Recruiting

Confidential

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 on UNIX and Oracle

ABAP Lead, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated activities of SAP ECC 6.0 Upgrade from 4.6C
• Analysis of SPDD/SPAU
• Modifications to ABAP Programs, FM, BDC replacing with ECC functionality
• Three iterations of upgrade testing
• Production support for SAP Archiving and DART,
• Provided day to day support to SAP-Workflow, ABAP issues
• Co-ordinated design, development and testing efforts for capital projects
• Learned the current business process for better support. Provided new solutions in areas of archiving.
• Responsible for performance evaluation of team members
• Procurement card project interfacing with Confidential .
• Expense Statement Smart Form 2. Interface for uploading credit card transactions into SAP via IDOC and then posting the accounting document
• Custom tables for maintaining approver details and statement details
• Maintenance screens for approvers and statement tables
• Reprint facility for expense statements
• Reconciliation
• Custom material master workflow design and development.
• Conversion of old reports to ALV reports using OOPS Control framework via tree and grid controls
• Implementing custom based application for Renewable Identification Energy as per the Confidential guidelines

Confidential

Environment: SAP 4.6c on AIX and DB2

Responsibilities:

• Delivery as per SLA
• Work allocation to team.
• Co-ordinate with onsite team on status of ticket/enhancement
• Provide effort estimation for enhancements
• Conduct reviews and report defects
• Performance appraisal of team members
• Identifying training opportunities to upgrade technical skills of team members
• Generating and providing metrics to higher management which include effort variance, schedule variance, productivity and utilization
• Providing value additions to client. An example was to clean up the ABAP code which was related to parent company in programs which would result in enhanced system performance
• Suggesting process improvements like providing root cause analysis, user manuals for problem requests and new enhancements. Also interacted with Helpdesk for creation of knowledge bank based on the resolution notes provided by resources which can be utilized as search option and thereby reduce number of tickets.
• Providing support to recruitment team by conducting interviews.
• Ensuring all deliveries are done with in SLA defined time based on ticket priority
• Providing a quality delivery with a target of zero rejections and minimal defects/errors.
• Attending weekly onsite-offshore meetings
• Successfully implementing purchasing outsource project for store room materials. With this all purchases towards store room materials will be procured by a 3rd party vendor. This project involved creation of custom IDocs for sending reservation and purchase requisitions to 3rd Party vendor along with material master interface, inventory adjustment interface and receiving the goods via WMMBXY. Created new batch jobs for all the interfaces.