OBJECTIVE:

• Aspire to work and get associated with an organization where I can synergistically combine newer skills with my existing professional ones to effectively contribute to the growth and success of the organization.

SUMMARY

• Having 9+ years of experience in industry, including 2+ years of experience in Accounting, Taxation & Audit and 7 years of experience in SAP as FI/CO Consultant.
• Delivered 5+ roll - outs for FI/CO module.
• Done one End to End FI/CO implementation.
• Experienced in managing onshore as well as offshore team for delivering multiple projects.
• Experienced working in industries like manufacturing, bio technology, bio pharma and financial services.
• Extensive experience in cross-functional integration across various modules of SAP viz.; FI/CO, AM, PS, SD, MM modules.
• Strong domain knowledge of Finance, taxation and Costing.
• Expertise in Business Process Modelling and process re-engineering.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to learn quickly and take up new tasks and responsibilities. Can work effectively in cross functional team environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Accounting (FI): General Ledger, New GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Asset Management, Integration with Project Systems, Materials Management & Sales and Distribution.

Controlling (CO): Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Order Management and Profit Centre Accounting (New), Product Costing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed finance team - setting expectation within team, tracking the progress of the deliverables by having regular review and by providing inputs to the team.
• Work/coordinate with business process owners in identifying gaps and suggesting new functionalities to overcome it, performing impact assessment for its implementation.
• Act as a custodian for the complete finance configuration.
• Work / coordinate with other workstream to identify the potential integration issues. Organize and host weekly meetings with other workstreams to discuss the key integration issues and probable solutions for them.
• Managed interest of the client stake holder - Manage weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting - Build workstream progress report and submit it to leadership team.
• Identify potential issues relates to process, design and change management and build possible solutions with cost/benefit analysis and submit it to the steering committee for review and approval.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Built and designed the project plan for migration of Novozymes assets.
• Coordinated with various stake holders (key business users, tax team, reporting team) for finalizing the requirement.
• Built the solution to meet the complex country specific tax reporting and for group reporting.
• Defined approach for proper Data Cleansing & data collection.
• Defined data migration approach, created LSMW tool and migrated data.
• Built training material and conducted end user testing.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Study of local business requirement and preparation of GAP report.
• Coordinated with the business process owners and outsourcing partner SPRO for finalizing country specific and legal requirements.
• Designed and built finance solution (GL, AP-Automatic payment Program, tax, AR, AM, Bank, CCA, PCA & PS) for US & Argentina.
• Designed and built customer credit management solution - built dunning functionality & credit management functionality.
• Coordinated with banks and designing and building the treasury functions such as payments, electronic bank reconciliation, built custom form for the check printing, built interface for uploading daily exchange rates from Bank.
• Set up of Electronic vendor invoice processing (E-VIP) and Travel expense management (TEM) interface.
• Manage integration with other modules - MM, SD, PS& BCS.
• Conducted Unit & Integration testing and managed go-live support.
• Conducted end user training.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a team lead for Finance and Controlling.
• Designed and built Financial Accounting & Controlling (Sub modules: New GL, AP-Payment program, Bank-automatic bank reconciliation, AR-dunning & credit management, AM, PS-Define Project Hierarchy, PS-AM integration, CCA, internal orders& PCA).
• Coordinated with other module leads for integration perspective - handled integration with MM, PS, SD & BCS.
• Prepared User requirement specification (URS); Functional Specification(FS); Design specification(DS); Traceability matrix (TM).
• Prepared and conducted test Plans for the 3 testing phases: Installation Qualification (IQ); Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ).
• Conducted user training for FI and PS.
• Designed and built finance cutover plan.
• Designed data cleansing and migration approach and built tools (LSMW) for loading for Initial stock load, Open items for GL, Vendor and Customer, trial balance.
• Provided Post Go Live support.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Discussion with the line of business and gathering requirement.
• Designed and built assets management function for 4 company codes - configured various country specific depreciation areas & keys - Implemented BADI for depreciation calculation for Japan.
• Managed integration of AM with PS & BCS.
• Developed training material and conducted training for line of business.
• Prepared data migration tool and migrated data through LSMW.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Discussion with the business for understanding the local requirement and preparation of GAP report.
• Prepared AS-IS to be business process.
• Designed and built finance functions (New GL, AP, AR, Bank, AM, CCA & PCA) for 3 company codes for 3 countries.
• Setup of Automatic Payment Program for Denmark -configured payment method GIRO (General Interbank Recurring Order), using DME.
• Set-up of Dunning program& built custom report for dunning letter.
• Built custom Validation & Substitutions for various business scenarios.
• Managed integration with SD and MM.
• Conducted Unit & Integration testing.
• Conducted end user training.
• Provided post go-live support.