SUMMARY:

• Over 23 years of IT experience in SAP FI/CO, Accounting & Logistics
• Over 17 Years Experience in SAP FI/CO, with 12 Implementation Projects, 7 Support Projects and 1 Testing Project
• Experience in handling Multi National Clients with exposure in working with various industries such as Chemical Industry, Banking, Information Technology, Semi - Conductor, Appliances, Air Craft Engines, Glass, Terry Towel, Paper, Tire, Food & Beverage/Air Conditioning, Automotive, Telecommunication, Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Large Heavy Industries, Fast Food Industry.
• Extensively Travelled on International Implementation Projects in India, United States, Canada, Europe (Netherlands, France, Belgium, Poland, Germany and Great Britain), Asia Pacific (Australia and Singapore) & Russia
• Special knowledge in SAP S/4HANA, Treasury, New GL, Document Splitting, FSCM, Material Ledger, Product Costing(Product Cost by Period, Make to Stock & Make to Order), Profitability Analysis, Solutions Manager, Business Consolidation, SAP FS-CD(Collections and Disburse Management), Integration: MM, SD, PP,PS & PM

SAP Experience

• Providing key consulting inputs to the Business on Leveraging the Existing Design or going for New Design. To name a few:
• Conducted Detailed Blue Printing Work Shops on ASIS and TOBE Solutions
• Giving Valuable inputs relating Controlling Area
• Giving Valuable Inputs on Activating Material Ledger
• Implemented Overhead Material Cost
• Designed and Implemented Cross Company Sales Order Processing
• Designed and Implemented Stock Transport Order
• Converting GL Balances and Asset Master for Fresh Start Accounting
• Designed and Implemented Special Purpose Ledger
• Designed and Implemented Foreign Currency Translation
• Designed and Implemented Currency Triangulation
• Implemented Non-Leading Ledger through SAP Migration Services
• Designed and Implemented Asset Impairment
• Integrated Oracle with SAP
• Designed and Implemented complex Foreign Currency Valuation
• Designed and Implemented complex Foreign Currency Translation
• Configured Material Ledger
• Worked on all the Product Costing Strategies(Make to Stock, Make to Order and Make to Production Order)
• Worked extensively on Variant Configured Material on Make to Stock, Make to Order & Project Systems
• Configured Internal Order Accounting
• Configured Profit Center Accounting
• CO-PA configuration included building the operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments, cost center assessments to segments, CO-PA reporting, forms, planning, derivation rules and structures, product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments, and integration issues with Sales & Distribution
• Creation of Organization Structure for FI, MM, SD modules
• Configuration in FI: Organization Structure Configurations
• Configured New GL
• Configured Document Splitting
• Designed and Implemented Automatic Payment Run
• Configured Automatic Postings - FI-MM Integration
• Designed and Implemented FI/CO integration
• Designed and Implemented FI integration with VIM(Vendor Invoice Management) and HR
• Designed and Implemented FI integration with Dolphin
• Implemented Asset Accounting for 100 company codes across 15 countries for Confidential
• Implemented Asset Accounting for 69 company codes across 38 countries for Confidential Bank
• Interfaced with bank for Lock Box testing
• Harmonization of VAT Codes (Europe)
• Implemented Tax Configuration for 100 company codes across 14 countries for Confidential
• Implemented Tax Configuration for 69 company codes across 38 countries for Wells Fargo
• Extenstively worked on Sabrix (Tax Software)
• Extenstively worked on Vertex (Tax Software)
• Good Understanding of Canadian Tax Structure
• Extenstively worked on India Taxes
• Extenstively worked on China Taxes
• Good Understanding on Brazil Taxes
• Worked on GST for Australia
• Conducted an ASIS and TOBE study of Treasury Processes. Processes include
• Electronic Bank Statements, Cash Management, Investments(Money Markets, CD’s, Commercial Paper and Commodities)
• Identified the possible configuration objects and possible development objects on Treasury Sub-Modules
• Blue Printing, Configuration and Tested Treasury Modules(EBS, Money Markets, CD’s, Commercial Paper and Commodities)
• Involved in integration of the logistics and other modules like SD, MM, PP,PM,PS and HR with accounting & costing modules.
• Worked on Complex Third Party system involving P&G Purchasing from Third Party and selling goods to the Client
• Developed Ageing Report in BW
• Designed and implemented Functional & Technical Specs on various programs
• Involved in Version Upgrades & Pre as well as Post Testing of the Systems
• Involved in designing User Authorizations & post implementation monitoring and support
• Successfully completed Cut Over Activities for large Multi National Companies
• Ability to Successfully Work on Onsite/Offshore Model
• Successfully completed Data Migration Projects
• Worked on Companies which returned from Bankruptcy
• Worked on Companies which got Merged with other Companies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows 2000, Windows NT, Power Point, Word, Excel
• Personal Development Initiative
• Pursuing CPA from Delaware University
• Undertook training on S/4HANA for Financial Accounting

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation Project

Responsibilities:

• Created Blueprint documents for GL and Fixed Assets
• Identified the complex Blank Business Areas and reclassed with the appropriate Business Areas
• Unit and Integration tested Inventory and Sales and Distribution scenarios
• Supported and reconciled the inventory upload process
• Supported Project Systems
• Supported the complex Drop-ship and STO scenario

Confidential, SFO,CA

FI/CO Lead Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation Project

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detailed Blue Printing workshops on ASIS and TOBE system
• Created Blueprint documents for GL and Fixed Assets
• Designed and Implemented complex Foreign Currency Valuation
• Designed and Implemented complex Foreign Currency Translation
• Designed and created the organization structure for all the 69 Confidential companies
• Designed and created Fixed Asset configuration for 38 countries
• Designed and developed the extract program from ECC to Oracle to ECC
• Extracted and uploaded Assets from source system to target system for 14 countries.
• Co-ordinated with SAP - SLO(System Landscape Optimization)Team in designing the New System for Wells Fargo
• Designed AP workflow.
• Project went live on Dec-03-2016.

Confidential, Miami, FL

FICO Lead and S/4 HANA Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation Project & S4 HANA (POC)

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detailed Blue Printing workshops on ASIS and TOBE system
• Created Blueprint documents for GL and Fixed Assets
• Designed and created the organization structure for all the 99 Confidential companies
• Designed and created Fixed Asset configuration for 14 countries
• Designed and Implemented FI integration with VIM(Vendor Invoice Management) and HR
• Designed and developed the Hyperion extract program from ECC to Hyperion
• Extracted and uploaded Assets from source system to target system for 14 countries.
• Co-ordinated with SAP - SLO(System Landscape Optimization)Team in designing the New System for ITG
• Needed specific System Date Change, Changing Fiscal Year Variant to a Shortened Fiscal Year Variant, Changing the Asset Year for the Transfer Date, Changing the Asset Configuration for the Shortened Fiscal Year.
• Designed GL workflow integrated with SAP-HR.
• Good working knowledge of SAP Simple Finance On premise Business Edition (SFIN 2.0) involving SAP FICO, Cash Management
• Created organization structure with two ledgers
• Created GL, AR, AP and Fixed Asset configurations
• Good knowledge to configure and execute the migration to Simple Finance in SAP with/without New GL
• Good working knowledge of the Central Finance scenario in Simple Finance in a distributed system landscape
• Ability to design and recommend Finance transformation roadmap with Simple Finance to clients, based on various deployment scenarios
• Good knowledge on SAP Fiori
• Excellent in SAP FI/CO Configurations

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

FI/CO Lead Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation Project

Responsibilities:

• Designed a Program for the Extraction of Assets from Confidential Code
• Deleted the Assets in ITG Company Code
• Upload the Program in ITG Company Code with New Values
• Co-ordinated with SAP - SLO(System Landscape Optimization)Team in designing the New System for ITG
• Needed specific System Date Change, Changing Fiscal Year Variant to a Shortened Fiscal Year Variant, Changing the Asset Year for the Transfer Date, Changing the Asset Configuration for the Shortened Fiscal Year.
• Helping on Project Systems Functional Testing
• Helping on Testing of CO Reports
• Worked on trouble shooting Plant Maintenance Work Orders assigned with WBS Elements Project Systems.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

CO Lead Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling Production Support Incidents and Enhancement Projects
• Conducted detailed Workshops for ASIS and TOBE Processes with all the stakeholders
• Created Controlling Area Version, Costing Sheet, Costing Variant for the Current Costs
• Uploaded Master Data for some of the Costing 2 Material Master
• Created an LSMW for uploading Routings
• Presentation with all the relevant stake holders with the solution
• Created a Variant for Plant Maintenance Work Orders, executing and settling the Work Orders
• Uploading Plant Maintenance Materials
• Worked on Substitution Rule on reassigning the Cost Center to a Different Cost Center.
• Responsible for implementing the Costing Jobs
• Worked from the Costing Portion on the Intercompany Return issues
• Responsible in helping the Users for the Month End and the Year End issues.
• Responsible for providing solutions within the SLA.
• My knowledge is not limited to CO, I used to pitch in and even help on FI issues too.
• Also helped with Resolution of Vertex Incidents
• Helped with the NPI Process in Project Systems
• Other PS Work breakdown structures, activities, networks, scheduling, cost planning, budget management, assemblies for projects, integration to SD/MM/PP reporting
• Worked on Material Variant and related costing issues
• Completed the Product Costing Pre-Cutover activities
• Creation of Templates for Material Master Upload
• Supported Creation of Costing Views in Work Center
• Supported in Updating the Activity Rates
• Configuring Cost Element, Activity Types, Rates, Costing Sheet, Costing Variants & Valuation Variant
• Running the Costing Run
• Correcting the BOMS, Routings and rerunning the Costing Run after deleting the original Run

Confidential

FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation Project

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detailed Blueprint for ASIS and TOBE processes
• Implemented a Non-Leading Ledger for China through SAP Migration Services(Cockpit)
• Compared the Balance Sheet Balances and gave the users data to Analyse the Results
• Conducted multiple detailed Blueprint workshops for ASIS and TOBE Solutions
• Implemented SAP for Czech, Dubai, Russia, Austria, Singapore and Latin America as part of the GEO Expansion Project
• Implemented Cross Company Sales Order Processing for Singapore
• Conducted an ASIS and TOBE study of Treasury Processes
• Configuration and Tested Treasury Sub-Modules
• Regression Testing - Completed the Regression Testing for Finance for the GME Project
• Worked on FSCM Issues
• Managed Vertex Tax software (O series 6.0) and its integration with SAP
• Worked on VAT and India Taxes
• Conducted an ASIS and TOBE study of Treasury Processes. Processes include
• Electronic Bank Statements, Cash Management, Investments(Money Markets, CD’s, Commercial Paper and Commodities)
• Identified the possible configuration objects and possible development objects on Treasury Sub-Modules
• Blue Printing, Configuration and Tested Treasury Modules(EBS, Money Markets, CD’s, Commercial Paper and Commodities)

Confidential

Lead FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation Project

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Asset Impairment
• Implemented New Asset Classes due to French Legal Requirement
• Supported Year End Closing for the French Project
• Prepared and Implemented key FI technical objects
• Conducted a Detailed Blueprint workshops for ASIS and TOBE processes
• Designed and Implemented Foreign Currency Translation: Poland’s Currency is in PLN. Cooper is an American Company and the Group Currency is USD. Poland reports to Europe as a region. Since Poland is not on Euro Zone, Cooper needed a solution to translate the PLN - EUR - USD. Foreign Currency Translation provided the appropriate solution. The project was getting delayed as there was no solution available at that time.
• Overseeing the FI Configurations
• Treasury Configuration includes - Electronic Bank Statement Processing
• CO Configuration includes Product Costing(Costing Sheet, Make to Stock & Make to Order), Project Systems & Profitability Analysis
• Activated Material Ledger Configurations for Poland
• Creation of Templates for Material Master Upload
• Supported Creation of Costing Views in Work Center
• Supported in Updating the Activity Rates
• Configuring Cost Element, Activity Types, Rates, Costing Sheet, Costing Variants & Valuation Variant
• Running the Costing Run for Test and Go Live
• Performing Closing for the Production Orders
• Performing Closing for the Sales Orders
• Cleansing the BOMS, Routings and rerunning the Costing Run after deleting the original Run
• Leading a team of 5 people on FI/CO
• Identifying Functional Specification Document
• Performing Data Migration Workshops
• Leading Loading Data and Testing on all the System Landscape
• Leading Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Business Acceptance Test.
• Leading the Data Upload in Production
• Leading the Cut Over activities
• Project Went Live on Aug’ 2010

Confidential, MO

CO Lead

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Presentations on the AS-IS and the To-be process
• Changes to the Organizational Design was carefully considered and convinced, that it is not required and not feasible
• SAP Configuration
• Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing Repetitive Manufacturing & Profitability Analysis
• Preparing the Blueprint and Detailed Design Documents for CO.
• Identifying and preparing Functional Specification Document
• Creating Mapping Templates for Data Migration
• Loading and Testing Data on all the System Landscape
• Leading Unit Testing, Integration Testing & Business Acceptance Test
• Leading the CO Cut Over
• Worked on Plant Maintenance work orders and specifically on updating the Work Orders.
• Plant went Live on Aug-03-2009

Confidential, PA

FI/CO Global Lead

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation Project

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Legacy Finance in Main Frames
• Organizing Workshops on both FI & CO Modules in helping the business understand the difference between FI & CO
• Preparing Blue Print Documents for Organization Structure/GL/AP/AR/Product Costing & Profitability Analysis
• Preparing Detailed Design Documents on Organization Structure/GL/AP/AR/Product Costing & Profitability Analysis
• Other PS Work breakdown structures, activities, networks, scheduling, cost planning, budget management, assemblies for projects, integration to SD/MM/PP reporting
• Identifying and preparing Functional Specification Document
• Creating Mapping Templates for Data Migration
• Performing FI/CO Data Migration Workshops
• Loading and Testing Data on all the System Landscape
• Configuration:FI Organization Structure Configuration
• Designed and Implemented FICO integration with Kronos
• Creation of Templates for Material Master Upload
• Supported Creation of Costing Views in Work Center
• Supported in Updating the Activity Rates
• Configuring Cost Element, Activity Types, Rates, Costing Sheet, Costing Variants & Valuation Variant
• Running the Costing Run
• Correcting the BOMS, Routings and rerunning the Costing Run after deleting the original Run
• Scheduling Costing Batch Jobs
• Co-ordinated with SAP in providing solutions on Fiscal Year Variant, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis
• Leading Data Uploads and Validating the same in the system
• Interfaced with bank for Lock Box testing
• Interfaced SAP with Collections Data Base
• Developed Ageing Report in BW
• Interfaced with other systems through ALE for GL account transfer
• Leading Unit Testing, Integration Testing & Business Acceptance Test
• Leading the Cut Over
• Project went live on November

Confidential, NC

FI/CO Lead

Environment: ECC-6.0,Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Functional Specification Document
• Giving valuable design inputs on certain Key Design issues
• GL Account Splitting between Base and Upgrade Warranty
• Creation of Plant
• Define Valuation Classes
• Assigning Material Type and Account Category Reference
• Configure Automatic Postings
• Creation of Account Assignment Categories
• Activating Material Ledger Configurations
• Assigning Cost Element with Cost Center with OKB9
• Configured Substitution Rules
• Tax Calculations based on Provinces in Canada
• Worked on Connecting SAP to SABRIX
• Configured SAP Tax Procedure
• Configured Tax Codes in SAP to supplement SABRIX settings
• Uploading Material Master
• Configuring Cost Centers
• Configuring Profit Centers

Confidential, CA

Senior FI Consultant

Environment: ECC-6.0, Implementation Project

Responsibilities:

• Created Activity Design Documents
• Config Document of 4.7
• GL Conversion Balances Specs
• Worked Extensively on special purpose ledge
• Currency Translation in R/3
• Flexible Upload to import reported Financial Data and Master Data from a Data File
• Translate Data into the Currency of the Consolidation Group
• Interunit Elimination to eliminate group internal receivables and payables
• Validation of Consolidation Data
• Undertook Training on Solution Manager
• Undertook Training on ARIS
• Created Company Code, Configured New GL
• Configured Document Splitting
• Configuration includes: Creation of Company GL accounts, Account determination, Field Status Groups, Business Areas, Account Groups, Document types, Document number ranges, Posting Keys, Account assignment & Tolerance groups
• Synchronisation of Field Status Groups

Confidential, CA

Team Lead - FI/CO

Environment: ECC-6.0, Technical Upgrade Project

Responsibilities:

• Preparing proposal for a technical upgrade
• Co-ordinated in running the upgrade tool to identify the number of Z Programs
• Checking & Modifying specs for the Z programs which are required
• Preparing Documentation for Manual Config and Load Tests
• Product Costing - Production Order
• Monitoring resolving any production support issues on daily basis in line with the SLAs
• COPA Planning - Planning Cycles
• Understood and made slight adjustments for a report on COPA to make it work for Spain.
• Information to COPA will get transferred to COGNOS
• Harmonization of VAT Tax Codes & GL Accounts prior to Upgrade
• Bank Statement Processing Dunning

Environment: SAP Version ECC-6.0, Windows NT