EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• 19+ years of IT experience inclusive of around 18 years of US experience.
• SAP FI/CO implementation experience in US for 9 Clients during the current decade.
• Besides IT Experience of 19+ years, Finance and Banking Domain experience of 22 years.
• Expertise of New GL features - Leading Ledger, Non-Leading Ledgers, Parallel Accounting and Document Splitting by implementing to clients.
• Assisted clients wherever external Taxwares were used such as ‘ Confidential ’, ‘Taxware’ and ‘ Confidential ’ and integrating with SAP.by defining Physical Destination and Logical Destination etc.,
• Hands on experience of SAP S/4 HANA Finance.
• Guiding the current client on migration to SAP S/4 HANA focusing SAP S/4 HANA Finance, Universal Ledger and Central Finance etc.,
• Explained the benefits of Universal Ledger such as live time re-conciliation of FI, CO, AA and ML components, one line items table ACDOCA instead of multiple tables - BSEG, ANEP, FAGLFLEXA, COEP and MLIT etc.,
• Explained the benefits of Central Finance for reporting such as Financial Statements, GL Balances, Cash Flow and Profitability etc., and unlimited capabilities of reporting since data centralized.
• Vast exposure to various sectors both as a SAP FI/CO functional consultant as well as Senior Credit Manager in one of the very big Nationalized Banks.
• Highly experienced and educated both functionally and technically.
• Solid knowledge in Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Cost Accounting and Taxation.
• Hands-on and Lead Experience in configuring FI - General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting (Fixed Assets), SPL, BCS, FERC, Treasury and EC-CS.
• Hands-on and Lead Experience in configuring CO - Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing and CO-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Hands-on and Lead Experience in configuring PS - WBS (Work Breakdown Structures), Net Work and Milestones and settlement from PS to other Cost Objects.
• Hands-on and Lead Experience in configuring SD - Revenue Recognition with excellent concepts of Deferred Revenue, Accrual Expenses etc.,
• Extensively worked on Product Costing (Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling) and COPA.
• Six (6) E2E Implementations Experience of which five (4) E2E Implementations Experience as Team Lead / Architect / Senior ERP Manager
• Well versed with SOX and FDA Requirements since worked for Pharma and Bioscience clients.
• Industry Experience in AFS, Automotive, Pharma, Bioscience, Retail, Manufacturing, Processing, Communications, Insurance, Utilities - Electricity and Banking Industry.
• Hands on configuration experience on Project Systems.
• Rich experience in resolving Solution Manager Tickets pertain to all main and sub-modules of FI and CO including Product Costing Tickets.
• Solid experience as a Business Process Analyst, Team Lead, Architect and Project Manager Experience in SAP FI/CO.
• Core Manage Financials Team Member involved in up gradation from SAP version 4.6C, SAP version 4.7 to ECC 6.0 to derive the benefit of New GL concept.
• Solid experience in configuration to meet the requirements of International Accounting Standards such as IAS, US GAAP and IFRS.
• Solid Experience in Budgeting and Planning in Controlling Module.
• Provided functional support by being the liaison between users and technical support teams including SAP Security team.
• Provided production support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO users.
• Strong understanding and experience in integration of FI with SD, MM modules and CO with PP, SD and MM modules.
• Strong understanding and experience in integration of PM-EAM, HCM, PS modules with FI and CO.
• Strong understanding and experience in comparing the results of R/3 and BW.

SAP FI/CO SKILLS:

Financial Accounting: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Special Purpose Ledger and Asset Accounting

Treasury: Liquidity Forecast, Cash Management and Concentration.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting, Cost & Revenue Element Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing & Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

Consolidation: BCS - Company Code Consolidation and Business Area Consolidation.

FERC: FERC Module

Reporting Skills: Report Writer and Report Painter.

Integration: FI/CO integration with SD, MM. PP, PS, HCM and EAM

FUNCTIONAL/ INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

• AFS
• Automative
• Pharmaceuticals
• Bioscience
• Retail
• Manufacturing
• Processing
• Communications
• Insurance
• Utility
• Banking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irwindale, CA

SAP R/3 FI/CO Lead / Functional Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in getting Knowledge Transfer from SCE on behalf of TCS - Managed Service Providers for SAP FI (General Ledger, New General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets), CO (Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Internal Orders), WBS Elements, Work Orders, Plant Maintenance Orders, BCS - Businsess Consolidation System, FERC - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Module, MDG - Master Data Governance, Travel Management, Treasury, P2P and O2C
• Played back sessions very succesful as Managed Service Providers.
• As Primary Support, October and November 2014 Month-end Activities (System Tasks aroud 300+) have been successfully performed by me as SAP FICO Lead / Architect using Financial Closing Cockpit.
• Successfully Lead the team by making SAP - Finance (FI, CO, BCS, Treasury, FERC, Project Systems, Plant Maintenance Orders, Work Orders, Service Orders, MDG Travel Management etc.,) as No.1 domain for Managed Service Providers - TCS.
• Guiding the client on migration to SAP S/4 HANA focussing on SAP S/4 HANA Finance, Universal Ledger and Central Finance etc.,

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

SAP R/3 FI/CO Full Hands-on Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in entire configuration of legal entities within a rapid time for Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Norway and Sweden
• Involved in configuration of FI - GL, AR, AP, Banking, Special Purpose Ledger and Asset Accounting for all the legal entities.
• Involved in implementation of COPA besides Product Costing, Internal Orders, Cost Centers for the client.
• Involved in around 300 projects of small, medium, high and very high projects during the past 32 months.
• Provided production support to all legal entities of US, Canada, Asia Pac and European Entities comprising FI - GL, AR, AP, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting, Taxation, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting and cross-functional modules Material Management and Sales & Distribution.
• Involved in creating Regional codes which are not part of Great Britain for Channel Islands.
• Involved in moving from Taxware external taxware to Confidential to provide correct taxes to Battery operated cars for US.
• Involved in creating Tax Procedure, Tax Conditions, Tax Codes for Canada to meet GST, PST and HST for all 13 Canadian Provinces.
• Involved in creating Tax Procedure for most of the Eurpean Entities based in European Counties - GB, AT, DE, SE, FR, DK, CH, IT, NO and NL.
• Created various Functional Development Definition documents to meet client specific requirements for more than 100 Custom Programs.
• Provided demo to calculate depreciation on assets based on the units of production and also based on useful life.
• Bank Automation Prime Project to make payments to Vendors in ACH and Wires Domestic and International.
• Bank Automation of Check Printing at Wells Fargo on behalf of client.
• Bank Automation Project for BACS Payment for UK Entities.
• Bank automation of ACH Payments for GB in GBP and EUR and also ACH Payments in EURO for DE, FR, IT and NL.
• Involved in Settlement of Variances from Product Cost by Order and Product Cost by Sales Order into COPA.
• Extensive involvment in all cross-functional modules.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP R/3 FI/CO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Besides Leading SAP FI/CO on-site and off-shore teams, involved in extensive configuration (SAP ECC 5.0 and simultaneoulsy SAP ECC 6.0) for multiple Legal Entities covering US.
• Involved in resolving most of the critical issues pertaining FI - GL, AR, AP, Banking, Treasury and Asset Accounting and CO - CEA, CCA, PCA and CO-PA.

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

SAP R/3 FI/CO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Besides Leading SAP FI/CO on-site and off-shore teams, involved in extensive configuration (SAP R/3 4.6C and simultaneoulsy SAP ECC) for 16 Legal Entities covering globally such as US, UK, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea, Italy, Turkey, China, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.(SAP R/3 4.6C and SAP ECC- GL, AR, AP, Banking, Treasury and Asset Accounting and CO - CEA, CCA, PCA and CO-PA)
• Provided Production Support to client which has around 200 legal entities throughout the world for FI (SAP R/3 4.6C - GL, AR, AP, Banking, Treasury and Asset Accounting) and CO (CEA, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing and CO-PA)
• Involved extensively in configuration of Product Cost Planning, Cost Object Controlling and Actual Costing / Material Ledger.
• Configured Product Costing for ‘Product Cost by Order’.
• Worked on costing variants, costing scope, cost components, valuation variants, order types, and costing sheet configuration based on the requirement for Planned and Actuals for ‘Product Cost by Order’.
• Configured Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and setup user defined characteristics and value fields required for reporting purposes.
• Extensively involved in Tax Configuration for all the countires figured in first bullet point of this section
• Provided Month-End / Quater-End and Year-End support involving all areas of SAP FI (GL, AR, AP, Banking, Treasury, Asset Accounting and EC-CS) and SAP CO (CEA, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing and COPA
• Mentored Team Members of on-site and off-shore in resolving day-to-day issues covering SAP FI and CO.
• Successfully met all deadlines in making live all 16 Legal Entities in a record time where thousands of Fixed Assets of one Global Company have been transferred to 12 New Legal Entities to derive tax advantages.
• Instrumental in making Technical Upgrade (SAP ECC 6.0) environment live on Jan 3, 2011.
• Additionally configured 17 Legal Entities involving entire FI and CO subsequent to Jan 3, 2011.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

SAP R/3 FI/CO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided Production Support to client which has 140 legal entities throughout the world for FI (SAP R/3 4.6C - GL, AR, AP, Banking, Treasury, Asset Accounting and SPL) and CO (CEA, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing and CO-PA)
• Configured VAT Tax Codes for Finland and other EU States.
• Special settings have been made to populate SPL Report in Polish Language.
• BAI Codes of PNC have been mapped due to merger of National City Bank and PNC.
• Resolved printer issues for Automatic Payment Program in production environment.
• Worked on Upgrade Project from SAP R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0 for FI (SAP R/3 4.6C - GL, AR, AP, Banking, Treasury, Asset Accounting and SPL) and CO (CEA, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing and CO-PA).
• Mapped COPA Characteristic Groups of SAP R/3 4.6C to COPA Characteristics of ECC 6.0.
• Involved extensively in configuration of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling.
• Configured Product Costing for ‘Product Cost by Order’ .
• Configured costing variants, costing scope, cost components, valuation variants, order types, and costing sheet configuration based on the requirement for Planned and Actuals for ‘Product Cost by Order’.
• Configured on Period End Closing of Cost Object Controlling - WIP (Work-in-process), Varaince and Settlement.
• Identified all RICEFW Objects - Reports, Interfaces, Configuration changes, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows necessary for upgrade to ECC 6.0

Confidential, Irwindale, CA

SAP R/3 FI/CO Team Lead / Regression Test Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identified all end-to-end business processes to be included in Regression Test covering FI (SAP ECC 6.0 - New General Ledger, AR, AP, Banking, Treasury, Asset Accounting, Travel Management), CO (CEA, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing and CO-PA), Project Systems, PM-EAM and HCM.
• Conducted workshops to derive the full advantages of Integration and Regression Tests.
• Involved in Sales tax, Use Tax and Purchase Tax Testing as part of Regression Test.
• Guided the team members to in corporate all necesary steps in all BPSs(Business Process Scenarios).
• Identified all the configuration changes, enhancements, interfaces, workflows, Reports necessary for Regression Testing.
• Guiding the business wherever additional changes are needed for their Business Processes and for RICEWF (Reports, Interfaces, Configuration, Enhancement, Work Flows and Forms).

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

SAP R/3 FI/CO Architect / Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided all end-to-end business process design for various areas within Financial and Controlling modules and also in the area of integration of Logistics modules with FI and CO.
• Guided project team on requirements gathering and Blueprinting for SAP FI - General Ledger (ECC 6.0 New General Ledger), Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, and CO - Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.
• Configured general SAP FI functionality (GL, AR, AP, AA/AM, Banking Accounting) and SAP CO (CEA, CCA, PCA, IO, CO-PC and CO-PA).
• Involved in Integration of SAP with VISTEX for this client since they were handling rebates extensively.
• Involved extensively in configuration of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling.
• Configured Product Costing for ‘Product Cost by Order’ .
• Configured costing variants, costing scope, cost components, valuation variants, order types, and costing sheet configuration based on the requirement for Planned and Actuals for ‘Product Cost by Order’.
• Configured Period End Closing of Cost Object Controlling - WIP (Work-in-process), Varaince and Settlement.
• Instrumental in completing the Realization Phase in a record time for General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting (Fixed Assets), and CO - Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Senior SAP FICO Functional Consultant / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• As senior member of FICO team, worked on multiple migration projects due to customer being in the process of acquiring multiple companies.
• Analyzed the existing Blueprint of all newly acquired companies and performed GAP ananysis related to FICO.
• Extensively involved in configuration of various FICO areas for multiple acquired entities, covering all modules of SAP FI and CO.
• Responsible for various design and configuration functions in upgrade to ECC 6.0, identification of test case procedures for FICO for initial and subsequent phase of Technical and Functionall upgrade with implications of New GL concept.
• Created Functional Specification Documents(FSDs) for various custom programs and worked closely with technical FICO team.
• Responsible for resolution of large number of production tickets. Resolution to tickets have been done either through configuration or through custom development.
• Provided Production Support for SAP and was actively invloved in enhancements related to General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting (Fixed Assets), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.
• Participated in creation of Test Case Procedures (TCPs) for all enhancements and for migration, and in validation before moving to production.

Confidential, Houston,TX

SAP R/3 FI/CO Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led configuration work related to entire Controlling - Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal order processing and created new order types and setup settlement profiles for various order types.
• Involved in configuration of Product Cost Controlling and Cost Object Controlling.
• Configured Product Costing for ‘Product Cost by Order’ and ‘Product Cost by Sales Order.
• Worked on costing variants, costing scope, cost components, valuation variants, order types, and costing sheet configuration based on the requirement for Planned and Actuals for ‘Product Cost by Order’.
• Worked on configuration for Product Cost by Sales Order and overhead costing sheet.
• Configured Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and setup user defined characteristics and value fields required for reporting purposes.
• Documented End User Manuals and Material.