SUMMARY

• Expert SAP Solution Architect specializing in Finance and Accounting with over 20 years of Project implementation experience.
• Implemented Global and Local projects including Template rollouts, Interface projects with third - party financial systems (Ariba/JDE) and Small/Medium Enterprises (SME) implementations. Headed the co-innovation phase for S4 HANA cloud project partnering with SAP AG. Implemented Reporting projects and Functional/Technical upgrade projects.
• Extensive knowledge in implementing the entire range of Finance functionalities like General Ledger - Chart of Accounts, Accounting Principles & Parallel ledgers, Segment reporting and document splitting, Accounts Receivable (Customer and Credit Masters, SD integration, Collections & Disputes, lockbox), Accounts Payable (MM integration, invoice interfaces, payment program) Asset Accounting, Controlling (CCA, IO), Product Costing (standard costing, PP integration) and both Costing and Account based Profitability Analysis (COPA).
• Experienced in leading and facilitating Solution Design workshops and Business Requirement gathering sessions with multi-function and multi-disciplinary participants. Conducted and steered Business Process modeling initiatives. Collaborated with Finance stakeholders and technology to translate business requirements into concrete, specific, measurable deliverables while aligning with the overall Finance technology strategy.
• Proven project management skills and experienced in handling diverse teams with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities besides excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Successfully managed and enhanced relationships with Solution Providers and other External Partners.
• Exhaustive knowledge of new S4 HANA Finance features like Parallel and Extension Ledgers, Universal document (ACDOCA), Account based COPA (multi-dimensional analysis), consolidated Finance master data, new Asset Accounting features and COGS posting to COPA during goods delivery.
• Techno-Functional competencies include Designing of Finance user exits (BTE, BADI’s), writing detailed functional and high-level technical specifications for custom ABAP programs, designing entire finance business process flows, setting up interfaces with third-party products using custom programs and IDOC’s, mapping Master and Transaction data fields with third party financial systems and converting data using batch programs and LSMW.
• Helped establish and manage Finance data management policies and practices and ensured appropriate data management governance. Proficient in use of technologies like SAP SLT, data modelling with SAP BIW and other data warehouse products like Teradata. Well versed with Data Analytics tools like Alteryx and Tableau.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Systems Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Successfully integrated financials of US medical companies (JDE, PRMS & SAP) into Back-to-Basics SAP platform. Involved in setting up of complex business processes like Kitting & Flash Sales. Determined Accruals/Discount postings using condition techniques. Worked on transfer of revenue postings, cost of goods sold, product costing, COPA setup/reconciliations for multiple business units and other general ledger data using IDOC’s and custom ABAP programs. Reconciliation between source and target system using Alteryx workflows and integrating DVW extractors to automatically extract data from SAP systems.
• Delivered a financial ERP solution for J&J Canada consumer division by incorporating local financial business process flow into a global template. Configured the entire Financial Organization structure and processes for General Ledger accounting, Accounts receivable and Payables, Asset Management and Cost Center accounting.
• As a project lead for Ap2ollo project, successfully built and integrated multiple local SAP interfaces with the Corporate AP system for centralizing Payables (annual purchases of 3 BN dollars), resulting in substantial vendor discounts, improved cash flow management and significant foreign currency savings.
• BI/HANA Lead for Global reporting project encompassing countries like Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Australia, US and Canada. Responsible for designing HANA Models/Views for FI data extraction from various SAP and Legacy systems into Teradata for Financial Data Warehouse (FDW). FDW is now the consolidated platform for legal and managerial reporting and P&L forecasting across multiple J&J entities.
• Product Owner of finance stream for ESP project, with the objective of building a new operating model and platform used for reporting of operational KPIs in Executive Dashboards. Responsibilities included wireframing dashboards and reports, requirement gathering, data modelling and system integration.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• FICO Team Lead for project implementation using SAP Activate methodology. Responsible for collaborating with SAP to develop SAP S4 HANA Cloud chemical industry cloud solution for the Finance workstream.
• Solution architect for the Co-Innovation phase combining Best Business Practices, Guided and Expert configuration models to design an optimal solution for the finance stream. Co-Innovation phase involved explaining entire finance best practices to Business Process Owners (BPO) and identifying requirements (gaps) in existing processes.
• Presented final solution and requirements to SAP Germany Product Owners to determine additional cloud API development. Determined high level functionality differences between existing interfaces and SAP products. Evaluated entire planning solutions against Cloud Analytics solution.
• Identified analytics requirement for differences between existing costing-based COPA and cloud’s account-based COPA approach. Execute SAP test cases on the SAP S4 HANA Cloud Starter System using SAP Fiori to establish procedures and identify errors in all finance transactions.

Confidential

Global Finance Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Delivered the entire SAP finance solution to the end customer. Execute the full software development cycle: gathering of business requirements, participating in multi-functional solution design workshops, presenting baseline playback for solution verification, unit and integration testing, documenting go live procedures, training end users and supporting during the hypercare period. Confidential CRP methodology was used to globally implement countries like the US, Canada, China and Sweden.
• Designing Finance organization structure for the entire group and setting up of New GL accounting including parallel ledgers and depreciation areas for IFRS/GAAP principles.
• Setting up entire AR module including lockbox, integrating with third party software for collections management, integration with SD, creating custom application for applying cash received. Setting up AP module including integrating Bank Payment Manager using EDI, setting up sub-contracting processes
• Configuring Asset Management module including Bonus depreciation calculation, conversion using LSMW and integrating with investment orders for CIP/Asset creation.
• Creating Cost Center and Profit Center hierarchies, setting up of periodic cost allocation cycles and setting up Cost center planning profiles to upload plans through Excel file integration.
• Product Costing activities like creation of Costing variants for calculating standard costs using various user exits for overhead calculations. Defining yearly standard cost activities, month end closing procedures and integration with purchasing and production data for material and activity costing.
• Profitability Analysis including setting up of COPA structures, integrating with SD mapping condition types with value fields, designing custom rules for deriving characteristic values, integrating with product costing for deriving material estimates, setting up summarization levels for reporting, maintaining allocation structures to post cost center costs, setting up rules for posting PPV, building COPA planning structures and writing queries for COPA reporting.

Confidential

Finance Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully executed multiple projects and managed all GCG finance implementations for two years.
• Team lead for FICO module involved in implementing KPG Japan (Global rollout). Managed Sub Project as a Finance team lead for implementing SOX controls in KPG using VRAT tool. Sub-Project - Finance Team lead for upgrade project (ECC 6.0) handling testing of all modules.
• Involved in configuring the FICO modules for integrating Japan Localization with the Global design. Setting up multiple retained earnings accounts, configuring product costing for multiple plants in the US and Japan along with integration to PP and MM modules, implementing AR module using Lockbox (BAI2 format), setting up AP module including payment program for all payment methods for Japan and configuring profit center accounting for reporting Product Line Profitability.
• Integration with various third-party software including setting up of lockboxes, ACH, rebate system interface, interface with Ceridian for payroll processing and Necho for expense processing, interfaces for EDI documents and Vertex for tax processing.
• Delivered the entire solution to change fiscal year settings for all Company Codes. Lead for the entire Project involved in activities like project planning, configuration, testing and go live activities.