SUMMARY:

• An experienced SAP FICO (Finance and Controlling) Lead Analyst and Solutions Architect with many years of hands - on experience in configuration of the FICO module, and its integration with other SAP modules, combined with excellent cross-functional knowledge of SAP Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Service Management and Production Planning.
• Possess hands-on implementation experience in SAP Ariba integration (procurement solution), SAP Cloud Platform Integration (SCPI), together with exposure to SAP S4 HANA Finance product and implementation training.Possess very strong industry experience and business knowledge of Finance, accounting and costing, with many years of experience in designing FICO business processes along with designing and harmonization of SAP master data components, Period-end closing processes, financial audits, compliance and segregation of duties.
• Extensive experience working on several full-cycle SAP projects globally across North America, Europe and Australia-New Zealand, involving all of the sub-modules of SAP FICO, along with many special projects such as North American and European process optimizations, SAP Plants Abroad, North America Banking integration, European SEPA payments and Direct Debit solutions, UK BACS payments, Spanish SII Tax reporting, Portuguese and Polish SAF-T tax reporting, integration with third party Period-close tools.
• Highly experienced in actively managing systems architecture for SAP FICO design, configuration, functional specifications for enhancements, custom reports, new ABAP developments with experience in using BAPIs, BAdis, and customer user-exits, global business process optimization with design and creation of global solution templates.
• Successfully lead SAP support teams across multiple sites in the US, Europe and Asia under SAP CoE, along with extensive hands-on experience in providing SAP Governance and Architecture review across all areas of Information Technology in aiding Digital Transformation.
• Complete configuration of SAP R3 ECC FICO modules including Organization structure, Chart of Accounts, Parallel currencies, General Ledger Accounting including Document Splitting, Accounts Receivables, Financial Supply chain Management (FSCM), Credit Management, Accounts Payable (Procure to Pay) including Payment configuration using classic and Payment medium workbench, Banking and third party integrations, Asset Accounting, all aspects of integration of the FICO module with other components such as Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, VAT-Vertex Tax configuration, Withholding and Deferred Tax configuration, Controlling-CO Org structure, Cost Center accounting, Profit Center Accounting, CO-PA (Profitability Analysis), Internal Orders, Production Orders, Service Management including Activity Types and Work Centers, Planning and Budgeting, Product Costing including Cost Roll-up, Project Systems, Investment Management (Assets under Construction), SAP HR TE, SAP HR Org Structure and Info Types, SAP BI-Business Objects, Master data design and process development for all areas of FICO, building Adhoc Queries using SAP Tables, Report Painter Reports for Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reporting, SEPA implementation for Europe (Single Euro Payments Area), EDI-Bank interface for US, Canada and Australia, designing of globally optimized templates, implementation of Finance Shared Services, Custom Reports with detailed Functional Specifications and basic ABAP debugging with break-points.
• SAP Ariba P2P Cloud integration (Ci9 and Ci3 versions) using ITK-Integration Toolkit with familiarity on CIG-Cloud Integration Gateway, Spanish SII (Supply of Immediate Information for VAT Tax reporting) using SAP Cloud Platform Integration (SCPI), Working level knowledge of SAP S4 HANA (Training as well as implementation planning sessions).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Global SAP Lead FICO and SAP Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided enterprise-wide SAP R3 FICO solutions.
• Ariba P2P (Procure to Pay) Integration Lead for SAP (Cloud Procurement solution).
• SAP Finance & Controlling Module Lead & Integration Lead for many full-cycle, multi-national SAP implementations with hands-on delivery of SAP FICO setup and all of its integration with other modules as well as other systems such as 3PL (third-party Logistics), Bolt-On components such as MyMediset, SAP EDI-IDOC interfaces for automation of inter-company transactions, Plants Abroad setup and configuration of taxes across many countries, SAP Cloud Platform integration - SCPI, European SEPA Banking integration, Banking and Treasury products integration, Business Intelligence and Business Objects reporting, integration with other systems such as Vertex, Paymetric, SAP HR TE and more.
• Created solution architecture, and maintained architectural consistency as well as sanctity of the system setup across multiple SAP landscapes (five in total). Reviewed and approved work performed by other SAP FICO analysts from the in-house “Build Team” as well as the third party based outsourced (Support and Sustain) Team.
• Worked with Finance Leadership teams globally across the company on strategic IT initiatives.
• Played a key role in working with finance stakeholders in understanding, prioritizing, scheduling, designing and implementing new finance business solutions, SAP projects and Enhancements.
• Also played a significant role in delivering an outsourced SAP Global Support Center-GBS.
• Provided active review and approval of various IT Technology initiatives at the IT Leadership level as part of the functioning of the Board.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Mobics is a privately-owned SAP Consulting firm.
• Large Clients and projects worked on implementation and integration of SAP FICO
• Created solution architecture, and maintained architectural consistency as well as sanctity of the system setup across multiple SAP landscapes (five in total). Reviewed and approved work performed by other SAP FICO analysts from the in-house “Build Team” as well as the third party based outsourced (Support and Sustain) Team.
• Worked with Finance Leadership teams globally across the company on strategic IT initiatives. Played a key role in working with finance stakeholders in understanding, prioritizing, scheduling, designing and implementing new finance business solutions, SAP projects and Enhancements. Also played a significant role in delivering an outsourced SAP Global Support Center-GBS.
• Provided active review and approval of various IT Technology initiatives at the IT Leadership level as part of the functioning of the Board.