PROFILE:

• Led three S/4 HANA implementation or conversion projects in last 3 years with release ranging from 1909 to 1709
• Represented FICO in Change advisory board and Architecture Review Board as SAP FICO solution architect
• Instrumental in architecting actionable insights based on SAP HANA Predictive analytics library and dash boarding solutions such as Qlik sense.
• Extensive experience in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger accounting, New GL, New Asset Accounting, Product Costing, Cost Center accounting, CO - PA etc.
• Worked in Agile environment, participated sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups and in Sprint retrospective meetings
• Industries SAP implemented: Project Based Manufacturing, REM, Discrete - Air-Conditioning, Discrete-tyre industry, Retail, Cement, Publication and Real estate
• Successfully completed five end-to-end SAP ECC implementations and multiple functional and technical upgrade projects.
• Strategized Robotic Process Automation (RPA) competency with UiPath and Automation Anywhere.
• Conceptualized and conceived BOM based quantity tracking, currently the best practice in air-conditioning industry, for variable items in projects through SAP-project system and SAP-production planning integration
• Conceived 'automatic invoice verification' for project site deliveries to reduce client's employee cost by 20%

WORK PROFILE:

Confidential

SAP Principal consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshop with customer core team to understand 'what wise' customer wants to analyze profitability and also to "what level'
• Based on the requirements, designed a business blueprint explaining business need and how account based COPA needs to configured to meet the business needs
• Configured complex actual data flow from sales and distribution to COPA and derivation of items without PA.

Confidential

SAP Principal consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshop with customer core team to explain technological and functional changes in S/4 HANA
• Spearheaded team to conduct business blueprinting requirements in New Asset Accounting and FSCM credit management.
• Successfully converted 200K vendor and customers to BP by leading a techno-functional team of consultants during "CVI" activity
• Successfully remediated 'pre-migration' issues such as company code and controlling area mismatch parameters, different fiscal year period variant etc
• Implemented SAP new assets accounting with leader approach in 1 week timeframe.
• Activated mandatory material ledger for all the valuation areas with company code and group currency
• Analyzed and remediated financial cockpit migration issues in R21, R22, and R24 steps.
• Strategized S/4 HANA migration based on complexity of processes and data size
• Developed a detail plan for Mock1, Mock2 and final production conversion with pre-migration activities, post migration activities and financial migration activities
• Supported customer during UT, SIT and UAT.

Confidential

Principal consultant S/4 FICO

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 10 consultants to implement the S/4 HANA using SAP Activate methodology.
• Instrumental in “Prepare” and "Explore" phase of project, guided customer team with SAP Best practices and identified the Gap's in business process and model company code resulting into saving on implementation time from
• Configured various objects during "Realize" in FI-MM integration, FI-SD integration, FI-PP integration to meet specific business needs of customer
• Configured Product costing, overhead cost controlling, and product cost by order to correctly calculate cost of production and absorption of overheads.
• Configured account Payable automatic payment program to process payment directly from system with bank through interface.
• Led Bespoke developments as per business requirements by relapsing functional specifications and testing the developed objects
• Championed system integration testing with completing more than 70 test cases in record two week time
• Build cutover strategy for migrating legacy data to SAP S/4 HANA from non SAP system
• Migrated finance cutover data using data migration cockpit (LTMC)

Confidential

Principal consultant SAP S/4 - FICO

Responsibilities:

• Defined Business blueprint for new additional functionalities such as credit management, condition contract management, embedded analytics, mentioning clear mapping steps and deliverables
• Successfully led the conversion of 700K vendor and customers to BP by leading a techno-functional team of consultants during "CVI" activity
• Successfully remediated 'pre-migration' issues such as discontinuing of asset transaction times
• Implemented SAP new assets accounting with leader approach for IFRS and local gap reporting.
• Migrated classical credit management configuration, master data and transaction data to FSCM credit management.
• Analyzed and remediated financial cockpit migration issues in R21, R22, and R24 steps.
• Strategized S/4 HANA migration based on complexity of processes and data size
• Developed a detail plan for Mock1, Mock2 and final production conversion with pre-migration activities, post migration activities and financial migration activities
• Supported customer during UT, SIT and UAT.
• Spearheaded in developments of new operational reports using embedded analytics functionality of SAP S/4 HANA
• Led a team of SD consultant and ABAPers to implement condition contract management process for dealer rebates

Confidential

Solution Architect - FICO

Responsibilities:

• Conducted stakeholder workshop with customer's business executives, cross functional business process owners, technical architects, ABAP leads, and reporting analyst to crystallize business needs and current pain areas.
• Developed a 3 year roadmap to address gaps and move company towards a future state SAP Finance and Controlling architecture to support future business growth and innovation
• Designed future state architecture based on SAP's product roadmap of S/4 HANA, SAP cloud platform, and SAP Leonardo - computer vision and machine learning.
• Recommended SaaS based SAP's solution for collection management and designed high level integration with S/4 HANA.
• Architected an actionable insight roadmap for financial reporting needs and for availability of data in near real time for analytics
• Documented business specific use cases for HANA Based Predictive analytics library for fraud detection and working capital management
• Designed and blueprinted SAP Fiori lighthouse scenario's for Finance and controlling roles to improve user experience
• Architected S/4 HANA embedded analytics using Fiori and CDS views to track operational KPI's
• Worked closely with cross application teams, functional and technical teams to built consensus on proposed future state solution and approach

Confidential

Solution Architect FICO

Responsibilities:

• Took a leadership role in engaging with internal customers; acted in as a trusted advisory and consultant for business requirements and represent systems and processes
• Worked, as a member of Architecture review board, closely with Enterprise architect and Technical architect in resolving complex SAP/non SAP integration issues, identifying and mitigating potential risks.
• Represented SAP portfolio in Change Advisory Board (CAB) and worked closely with other team members to monitor and approve change request and production changes
• Developed a 2 year roadmap for SAP FICO to support future need of Treasury, collection management and automation of invoice postings
• Worked with cross-functional and technical teams to develop consensus on proposed solution by leading meetings and mediating compromises when necessary

Confidential

Solution lead consultant - FICO

Responsibilities:

• Completed As-is analysis for various processes in Cost center accounting, Product cost controlling, and profitability analysis. This involves the detail study of the Costing and finance activities carried out across the business units.
• Finalized 'To-Be' processes based on the recommendations and the best practices of SAP R/3 system. This involved detailed discussions and workshops to give final shape to the Process definition document (Blueprint).
• Configured various organization structure elements like controlling area, operating concern, company code, segment, profit centers and cost centers.
• Mapped product cost planning for determination of cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold
• Mapped product cost by sale order, mapped product cost by period, Product cost by order to analyze cost in complex make to order, Repetitive manufacturing, make to stock production.
• Configured costing based profitability analysis and delivered reports like customer wise profitability, product group wise profitability etc.
• Configured Expert result analysis based on ‘cost based POC method’ for WBS to meet clients' requirement of revenue recognition as per IFRS 15 requirements.
• Configured result analysis based on ‘Quantity based POC method’ for internal orders for pro rating of revenue and cost for CRM contacts.

Confidential

Solution lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed overall vision for Project system implementation, considering current requirements of client and future needs.
• Provided detail implementation plan to the team and identified critical milestones of the implementation
• Completed Business blue print documents with flow of transactions from booking the project into SAP to final closing of project.
• Use Bill of Material with enhancements to capture the required quantity, quantity as per customer scope, design quantity as per engineering design.
• Use Bill of Material transfer functionality to transfer the required quantities to project
• Revamped the existing project structure and finalize standard work break down structure to cater various business segments such as electrical, mechanical and plumbing.
• Implemented various business controls using work break down structure element validations and network validations
• Developed various analytical reports for project progress tracking such as material monitor and cost monitor.

Confidential

Project system team lead

Responsibilities:

• Completed AS-IS analysis of various business processes in project management such as structures, budgeting, and resource planning, scheduling, and costing.
• Finalized 'To-Be' processes based on the recommendations and the best practices of SAP R/3 system. This involved detailed discussions and workshops to give final shape to the Process definition document (Blueprint).
• After detail brainstorming, finalized standard work break down structure and standard network to cater most business scenarios of Confidential .
• Configured network type, network profile and network scheduling parameters to map network scheduling
• Mapped capacity planning to understand capacity bottle necks of resources for project
• Configured costing variant and valuation variant for unit costing and used unit costing for WBS element wise costing
• Configured checking rule, checking scope, and checking control to identify missing parts on required dates.
• Configured confirmation parameter to finalize dates of confirmation and back flushing of material components
• Used WBS milestones for identification of major achievements in projects

Confidential

Project Lead and Project System Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Finalized W ork B reakdown S tructure based on the task to be completed for building a factory, also configured the project profile, coding mask and project type to meet the clients requirement.
• Finalized network structure and configured network profile, network type to default values for plant, company code etc.
• Mapped Project planning board to meet the client’s requirement of analysis of dates and cost of the investment activity.
• Mapped network scheduling for to calculate the earliest and latest start and finish date of the network.
• Configured network activity planning with automatic costing for calculating the plan cost for the investment activity.
• Configured budget management for checking of actual cost and commitments against the approved fund released.
• Configured ProMan for consolidation of information of procurement activity for the component assigned to network activity
• Configured automatic settlement rule for network to settle it on the assigned WBS.
• Configured settlement profile for settlement of WBS to Asset under Construction.
• Configured project versions for the capturing snap shot of the project depending on the status profile.
• Mapped simulation versions by copping the operative project which is used for what if analysis.

Confidential

Team member

Responsibilities:

• Ascertained strategic objective in the area of external customer, internal process, resource & technology, financial and & business.
• Completed ‘3C’ analysis to identify current and desired level of maturity in the above-mentioned strategic objectives.
• Identified issues with current performance measurement matrix at Confidential .
• Proposed new business performance measures in the 4 quadrant of ‘balance scorecard’
• Laid down the road map to achieve the desired level of maturity
• Identified technology enablers to get the Business KPI’s at CEO level.

Confidential

FICO Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team for Confidential project from blue printing to Go live and support phases. At any given point in time, I managed a team size of six consultants in various modules of SAP like Materials management, Sales and distribution, Customer relationship management, Finance and Controlling etc.
• Developed the scope of work document for Confidential project, which includes checkpoints, project deliverables, inclusion and exclusion of activities, escalation mechanism etc.
• Developed a project plan by breaking down the project deliverables in to task and assign the FTE’s to the respective task. I regularly produced status reports to communicate progress.
• Supervised the team through all the phases of the project that ensured that the project is completed in timely manner.

Confidential

FICO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed functionality for G/L account determination based on result analysis key and RA cost element for settlement of RA in Finance and Accounting.
• Developed functionality for segment determination based on MM-storage location and SD-division in all logistic transaction to meet clients requirement of division wise reporting.
• Completed As-is analysis for various processes in Cost center accounting, Project Accounting and Product cost controlling, accounts payable/receivable, general ledger accounting and asset accounting. This involves the detail study of the Costing and finance activities carried out across the companies.
• Finalized 'To-Be' processes based on the recommendations and the best practices of SAP R/3 system. This involved detailed discussions and workshops to give final shape to the Process definition document (Blueprint).
• Configured various organization structure elements like controlling area, operating concern, company code, segment, 26 profit centers and 260 cost centers.
• Mapped product cost planning for determination of cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold
• Mapped product cost by sale order, mapped product cost by period, Product cost by order to analyze cost in complex make to order, Repetitive manufacturing, make to stock production.
• Configured costing based profitability analysis and delivered reports like customer wise profitability, product group wise profitability etc.
• Configured Expert result analysis based on ‘cost based POC method’ for WBS to meet clients requirement of revenue recognition as per IFRS 15requirement.
• Configured result analysis based on ‘Quantity based POC method’ for internal orders for pro rating of revenue and cost for CRM contacts.
• Configure various objects in accounts payable for automatic account determination for goods movement.
• Configure various objects in account receivable for automatic determination of revenue accounts.
• Configured Automatic account determination per excise transaction.
• Configured extended withholding tax functionality in account receivable to meet the requirement of accounting of TDS receivable and tracking of TDS certificate receivable.