SUMMARY:

• Business transformation specialist with 17 years’ experience implementing SAP FI, CO, AR, AP, S/4 HANA 1511 & 1610, Simple Finance migration, FSCM. Treasury modules, SAP Fashion Management 1.0, SP08, SAP Fiori and BPC Financial planning, Budgeting and consolidation, BW - IP (Integrated Planning), IFRS Reporting, Confidential, BOBJ/BW reporting, New GL Migration and SLO solutions, SAP BPC/BOBJ Business Analytics & Mobility Applications leader for Aerospace, Chemicals, Electronics, Petroleum, and Industrial sector, leading global teams, and deploying solutions worldwide for multi-billion dollar corporations on engagements valued at $500M.
• Contributed to $20M Sales Signings, sustained 20 client wins, Project revenue of over $30M and consistently exceeded utilization goals for SAP Record to Report (R2R) group at IBM Global Business Services (GBS) - Industrial Sector.
• Steered Finance Business Process assessments at AP Moller Maersk, Honeywell, Air Products, ABB, Whirlpool and International Paper that led to SAP FSCM, BPC, FI/CO redesign and implementation wins of revenue over $500M.
• Driving force behind software selection, implementation and roll out of SAP Travel & Expense Management- Mobility solution at AP Moller Maersk, the cross-enterprise SAP Mobile Enabled solution that allows Travel Booking, Expense Claim, Approval and Reimbursement access risk management for all Employees using SAP apps on smart-phones
• Led Design and Implementation of SAP Finance Transformation Project at AP Moller Maersk Group, Denmark (a $75B Container Ship and Supply Vessel Operator Leader). As FIN Domain Executive delivered following work streams on schedule with budget. New GL Migration using Migration cockpit (Scenario 5), FSCM In-house Cash (IHC) and Bank Communication Management (BCM), Master Data Governance MDG, GRC - Access Control and GRC Process controls for Finance, Travel and Expense management process and Mobility Solution, BPC - Legal Consolidation, BW-IP Financial Planning and Budgeting, IFRS Reporting, Development of complex interfaces in AR/AP and bank interfaces.
• Re-engineered project team for Maersk and Honeywell engagement to achieve aggressive timelines and manage risk on SAP FI/Co, FSCM, TR and CRM process integration initiative that spans six global regions with a user base of over 20,000.
• Integration Expertise includes SAP FI/CO Integration to MM, SD, HR Module (Payroll, Time & Expense Management and Success Factors (HCM Cloud Solutions), CRM, C4C, SRM, Ariba, GRC, MDM/MDG, BPC and Middle ware systems like Dell Boomi for sales force integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on defining the BPC Architecture & Data Modeling, Business process work flows.
• Responsible for Successful global template rollout for Financial Planning, Budgeting and Legal & Managerial consolidation
• Design and development of Expense, Revenue Planning, Forecast and budgeting of very complex dynamic and flexible expense allocations and currency translation
• Responsible for technical architecture design and road map for implementation and cloud solutions
• Worked on BW-IP 7.4 (Integrated Planning). Responsible for defining Info-cubes, characteristic relationships, set data slices, planning filters
• Build Excel-based and web-based BW-IP applications. Worked on BPC / BW-IP / PAK in SAP BW 7.4 on HANA
• Design and interpretation of reporting architecture for SAP BI and mapping to SAP ECC/ Non-SAP data structures and data loads to BPC. Implementation of BPC Financial Consolidation, Cash Flow statement and Head Count reports
• Responsible for conducting workshops to business users and sharing the knowledge of leading practices for accounting functions, month end closing, Consolidation process and provided insights to SAP General Ledger, Asset accounting, controlling and profitability process areas and maintain internal controls, Insights into other consolidation tools like Cognos, Hyperion and SEM-BCS and process integration between financial and planning scenarios
• Configure BPC for planning functionality, key planning utilities, Input Schedules, Allocations and Forecast Models
• Report and Input schedules design and development Knowledge of Script Logic
• Involved in Period and Year closing activities and generated reports required by the business owners.
• Conduct problem analysis, performance tuning of FI reports and provided solutions to the Stake holders.
• Worked on Hyper care support and providing daily cadence to PMO
• Defined Testing Strategy and ensure user acceptance testing and Business sign off
• Responsible for review and sign-off functional and technical specifications, change requests with Development team and PMO
• Defined Testing Strategy and ensure user acceptance testing and Business sign off

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall business transformation, ERP systems implementation and optimization, financial systems integration and project management.
• Leads a team of multi-disciplined professionals focused on enabling business transformation in Confidential aligned to enterprise strategic priorities for major digital and operations transformation initiatives. Responsible for delivering technology enablement, process re-design, capacity planning, operations optimization, execution excellence and organizational change management services.
• Responsible for preparation of Road-map for migration of ERP global systems to EHP7 and S/4 Hana installation and migration.
• Solution Design and Configuration of S/4 HANA Migration On-Premise 1511 and 1610 Cash management, G/L central customizing and Central Journal Entry Ledger.
• Involved in consistency checks before installation and migration of historical data into ACDOCA view, SAP Fiori activation.
• Post migration of S/4 Hana and delivering Fiori Controller. Worked on BPC / BW-IP / PAK in SAP BW 7.4 on HANA.
• Responsible for Enterprise Platform Renewal & Transformation Program that will standardize Invoice to cash processes and Finance and Treasury process across the globe through development of a single SAP platform. Instrumental in design of Innovative Credit card payment process, PCI authorization, tokenization and payment settlement process, configuration of FSCM Dispute, Collections, Cash Management, Bank Communication Management and Credit management modules and integration to SAP SD order management and billing process in ECC/CRM/C4C, Ariba, Success Factors and Middle ware systems like Dell Boomi for Salesforce Integration.

S/4 HANA Migration SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparation of Road-map for migration of ERP global systems to EHP7 and S/4 Hana installation and migration. Involved in consistency checks before installation and migration of historical data into ACDOCA view, SAP Fiori activation. Migration of Sales orders and contracts, G/L customizing, Defined settings for Central Journal Entry ledger
• Responsible for defining systems strategy, developing systems landscape requirements, design, prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing business solutions under multiple deadlines
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, System design, Configuring, testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements and various functionalities in FI and CO modules
• Converting the Confidential Mobile ERP Global system in to EHP7 as a prerequisite to
• Start Simple Finance Migration under S/4 HANA on premises edition 1511
• Preparation of Road map for simple finance & building the team for the project
• Pre-migration steps for simple finance along with data management
• Migration to SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA & Prior installation steps
• Consistency Checks before Installation and Migration
• Handling Customer-Defined Fields and Interfaces & Period-End Closing Activities
• Documentation for Dataset before Installation and Migration
• Activation of Business functions & also BI content with ABAP & BI team
• Preparing the ERP system for Migration & hand over to technical team for upgrade
• Preparations and Customizing Migration in the General Ledger & GL planning with IBP
• New Universal Journal activities & Converting historical data in to ACDOCA view
• Migration of House Bank for cash management & Account based COPA activation.
• Post migration steps & Historical data management in new HANA views
• Migration to New Asset Accounting FI-AA (New) & Configuration of changes in Accounting principles and Depreciation Area
• Configuration of Central Finance with Central Landscape Retrieving server with PI team
• System preparation for Fiori as user interface & helping KPI Modular creation for Fiori applications

BPC Lead & SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for review of BPC design, configuration and performance tuning of SAP BPC business planning applications, BPC Architecture & Data Modeling, Business process work flows.
• Successful global template rollout for Financial Planning, Budgeting and Legal & Managerial consolidation.
• Responsible for design and development of Expense, Revenue Planning and Forecasting, P&L Budgeting and very complex dynamic and flexible expense allocations and Confidential and IFRS reporting.
• Worked on BPC / BW-IP / PAK in SAP BW 7.4 on HANA.

SAP FICO Integration SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Capture and augment Confidential standardization opportunity analysis and/or common process design activities that have been completed
• Deploy governance processes to drive design, build and monitor, manage and minimize Wave 1 delivery risk using GRC - Access Control and Process Control functionality using Confidential inbuilt GRC Enablers.
• Set the Program for transitions from design into build, test and deployment modes - preparing for go-live and hyper care support
• Implement change networks to lead Confidential to be ready for the change and new ways of working with the SAP-enabled processes
• Deploy a Confidential benefits management capability to measure savings and synergies from pilot and Wave 1 deployment
• Identify and deliver enhancements to Confidential to reflect additional synergies/savings identified at the completion of wave 1 deployment

SAP Cut-over lead/Integration Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager on "ATR- Switch Finance Transformation Project" for AP Moller Maersk Group. With 11 interdependent projects/Work Streams under client’s enterprise “SWITCH” effort, aimed at producing better data to drive faster decision making and cost leadership for the largest container ship/supply vessel operator in the world - 160 countries worldwide, 117,000 employees, and over $75B revenue.
• Responsible for design and delivery of New GL Migration using Migration cockpit (Scenario 5), FSCM In-House Cash ( IHC ) and Bank Communication Management (BCM) for 160 countries, Master Data Governance ( MDG), GRC Access Control, GRC - Process Control for FI Process, Travel & Expense management - Mobility Solution, BPC - legal Consolidation, Financial Planning and Budgeting IFRS reporting, Tax Solution for 160 Countries VAT, Sales and Indirect tax, Financial Closing cockpit.
• Replaced project manager to lead a team of 60 resources on an already troubled cross-geography implementation that involved large scope, complex business Processes, aggressive schedule, and interdependencies between projects. Introduced schedule changes contingency planning, and resource management strategies to resolve human resource issues and align with changing Business requirements in a difficult project environment.
• Design of New GL features of Document splitting and Parallel Ledgers. Parallel Ledgers were implemented to take care of the requirement of dual reporting ( Confidential for North America & UK GAAP and IFRS for EMEA), Local GAAP and Statutory reporting.
• SAP Cross- Domain Integration/ MTP lead and FI Configuration Lead on IBM’s most ambitious major SAP transformation program in the past decade with the goal of harmonizing global business processes for implementation on a single SAP platform running $100B of business.
• Spearheaded global strategy for ECC FI, CO, OTC, CRM, IPC, MW Integration and Process Design, SAP Configuration and user provisioning across a complex landscape involving SAP, bolt-ons, and middleware applications. 180K internal users, 2 million external users, 500K business partners, and was responsible for SAP Client build, SIT, QA, Training and Production (around 50 clients) and reviewed the configuration and Transport requests of 150 plus Consultants and migrate them to SAP clients in right sequence and ensure that the system configuration and post build activity are complete, and resolved all the system errors and transport code bundle errors, CRM, MW configuration and IPC integration.
• Management of all Functional Component of SAP Financials (New GL, Revenue Recognition, AR, AP, COPA, Fixed Assets, Consolidation, Auto-bank, Biller Direct and Controlling Modules including Profit Centers, Cost centers, Internal orders, Project Systems). Configured Accrual engine (ACE) and Intercompany (ICR) tool and In-house cash module in SAP
• Worked with BI team in Data Modeling, Extraction, Data Sources, Info Sources, Info Packages, Transfer Structures, Update Rules, Info Objects, PSA Cubes, Multi Cubes, and Reporting for Financial Reports of Cost Centers, Internal Orders and WBS.
• Installation and Configuration of Sabrix-SAP Tax solution for VAT, Sales and Indirect tax for China and Germany.
• Worked with MDM/ Information Governance team in building process and development of Data Architecture which includes Logical and Physical Structural definitions addressing Storage, Usage and movement of data from ECC, CRM and other IBM
• Legacy systems/applications. This architecture includes a cohesive and consistent data infrastructure where data definitions are common and data is shared, leveraged and efficiently utilized through ECC, CRM, IPC, Middleware and other legacy systems.