SUMMARY

• Master of Science in Information Technology candidate with about 19+ years of IT experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets and roles.
• Having 16+ years of extensive experience in analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of SAP ERP applications. Predominantly worked in FI, SD, MM, PS, IS - OIL and PP Modules in SAP Versions SAP R/3 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7 and SAP ECC 6.0 EHP8.
• Proven Technical lead in managing SAP Implementation, Upgradation and support projects for Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and FMCG industries.
• Thorough RTR (settlement) process knowledge in Oil and Gas Downstream and Trading business and strong working knowledge in financial accounting process in SAP.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• More than 13+ years of experience in SAP Consulting with TOP 5 IT Consulting firms
• Proven self-motivated team player with excellent presentation, problem solving, analytical and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP FI-CO: FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, Controlling, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting (Treasury), FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management) .

SAP ABAP/4: Reports (Classical, Interactive and ALV), Dialogue Programming, Batch Data Communications(BDC), LSMW, SAP Script, Smart Forms, BAPI, RFC, Data Dictionary, User Exits & BADI Enhancements, EDI, ALE, IDOC, SAP Workflow, Adobe Forms, ABAP Objects(oops), e-CATT, Report Painter and Report Writer.

Software Tools: ClearQuest, HP QC, Revtrack, CHARM tool, SAP Solution manger. BI Tools MS-SQL Analysis Services, SAP Hana, QlikView.

SAP Integrated Apps: SAP CRM 4.0, Enterprise Portal, Web dynpro, MDM and SAP XI.

Web Technologies: ASP 3.0, MTS, IIS 5.0, VB Script, JavaScript, XML, HTML, COM.

RDBMS: Hana-DB, Oracle 7.1, SQL server 6.5/7.0/2000.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FI Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business leads to identify GAPs and break-down GAPs into RICEF Objects (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) and co-ordinate with the Process work stream for preparing functional Specification.
• Involving in Analysis, Design, Technical Specification Preparation, Coding, Testing, Implementation, documentation activities.
• Gathering and determining technical requirements and translating those into project Designs.
• Identifying risks and dependencies as well as estimating scope and deliverables.
• Coordinating the handling of technical projects from end to end, including the Communication with other technical support teams, customers, internal management and service providers.
• Good knowledge on Vertex, Readsoft Integration with SAP, Charm tool and Redwood jobs.
• Extract & present HP-ALM defect reports, facilitate the defect triage meetings.
• SAP Hana remediation
• Automation of Depreciation Posting.
• Reclassification of Account determination in Asset Accounting.
• Vertex Accelerator 3.1 (US & Canada Tax Calculation Engine) upgrade.
• Setup deferred tax functionality to record VAT values for Mexico.
• Enhancement on product cost component report.
• Defining costing variant, cost component and costing sheet for product cost estimate.
• Company code and house bank setup for A. Schulman Integration.
• Simple legal financial posting interface and interface reconciliation.
• FSCM Collection Management- Udm specialist Enhancements in process receivable and customer correspondence
• Worked on various Configurations of business processes in SAP FI-CO and FSCM.

Confidential, Houston Tx USA

Senior Techno-Functional Consultant - SAP FI-CO

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business leads to identify business reporting requirements and co-ordinate with the Process work stream for preparing functional and Technical Specification.
• Understand the existing system landscape and the data requirements, aid the architect team to come up with the right interface architecture design.
• Implemented SAP OSS notes and developed custom extractors in TSAP for data provisioning to SAP BODS.
• Created oracle tables/synonyms/views in Product data warehouse for settlement data.
• Developed ‘Mark-to-Market’ Report in QlikView.
• Decommission TSAP to SAP LT server interface and related Hana DB Views & Reports.

Confidential

Senior Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business leads to identify GAPs and break-down GAPs into RICEF Objects (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) and co-ordinate with the Process work stream for preparing functional Specification.
• Involving in Analysis, Design, Technical Specification Preparation, Coding, Testing, Implementation, documentation activities.
• Gathering and determining technical requirements and translating those into project Designs.
• Identifying risks and dependencies as well as estimating scope and deliverables.
• Coordinating the handling of technical projects from end to end, including the Communication with other technical support teams, customers, internal management and service providers.
• Good knowledge on Clearquest, HP-QC to extract & present defect reports, facilitate the defect triage meetings.
• Endur-V14 to TSAP Products FI Posting Interface.
• TSAP to GSAP BW and TSAP to SAP HANA (BI/BW) Finance data extraction.
• PTMS to TSAP Tax Posting Interface.
• RADAR to TSAP STUSCO Fright Settlement FI Posting Interface
• ECAP to TSAP Non-Oil Cost Settlement FI Posting Interface
• TSAP to GSAP Intercompany settlements and interface Reconciliation.
• Worked on Configurations of business processes in SAP FI-CO.
• Configuring the system for manual & automatic payment post, print & run.

Confidential

Sr.SAP Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business leads to identify GAPs and break-down GAPs into RICEF Objects (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) and co-ordinate with the Process work stream for preparing functional Specification.
• Providing leadership to team members in Analysis, Design, Technical Specification Preparation, Coding, Testing, Implementation, Support and documentation activities.
• Gathering and determining technical requirements and translating those into project Designs.
• Co-ordinated with the offshore Technical Team to meet targeted metrics and ensure the deliverables meet quality standards.
• Identifying risks and dependencies as well as estimating scope and deliverables.
• Coordinating the handling of technical projects from end to end, including the communication with other technical support teams, customers, internal management and service providers.

Confidential

Senior Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I was the single point of contact for Shell Trading US and Canada production issues.
• Interact with the business users on day to day production issues and fix all the technical, Functional and all interface related issues within SLA Limits.
• Providing leadership to team members in Analysis, Design, Technical Specification Preparation, Coding, Testing, Implementation, Support and documentation activities.
• Interact with the business leads to identify GAPs and break-down GAPs into RICEF Objects (Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) and co-ordinate with the Process work stream for preparing functional Specification.
• Gathering and determining technical requirements and translating those into project Designs.
• Co-ordinate with the offshore Technical Team to meet targeted metrics and ensure the deliverables meet quality standards.
• Identifying risks and dependencies as well as estimating scope and deliverables.
• Coordinating the handling of technical projects from end to end, including the communication with other technical support teams, customers, internal management and service providers.
• Citibank Interface for ACH and Check Cremul Posting. SAP “EDI &IDOC” tools were used to build the interfaces.
• Designed and developed - Reconciliation Engine to reconcile posting documents across Interfaces. Custom “RFC” function modules were created using SAP “ABAP” Programming to connect two different systems. SAP “ALV” reporting features were used to display the output as a report.
• Designed and developed Procurement Workflow. Configured SAP Workflow objects for procurement. Custom function modules were developed using SAP “ABAP” programming and attached to the workflow configuration menu to navigate the procurement workflow.
• Worked in FI posting interfaces with Vertex and Sabrix external tax procedure calls.
• Developed on Nucleus GAS and Power Settlement interface. TIBCO Adapter is used as a middle ware. Also, worked on Dodd-Frank related enhancements.
• Provided support on period end and year end closing activities.
• Configured and implemented enhancements for bank statement (FINSTA) and lockbox for auto clearing.
• Implemented Configurations in General Ledger Accounting, Account Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Worked on Bank Account and Automatic payment program configuration and enhancement in payment advise script.

Confidential

SAP Technical Lead - ABAP

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Design and Technical Spec Preparation, Coding, Testing, Implementation & Support.
• Co-ordinate with the onsite Functional Team and offshore team to deliver the objects on time.
• Co-ordinate with the Client's Team Lead and the offshore team for work assignment and status update.
• Ensure that the Team deliverables meet Quality Standards.
• Involved in SPAU/SPDD activities. It is a “SAP BASIS” activity.
• OSS note research and problem resolution using SAP “ABAP” Programming.
• Developed module pool program for handling stock norms for RDC plants using SAP “ABAP” Programming.
• Developed the following custom reports in SAP “ALV” tools.
• Safety Stock Report, Stock on Hand Report (with Drill down Feature), Vendor Credit Period details and Plant wise Closing Stock statement.
• Enhancement in Custom “BDC” Programs & “Userexits” using SAP “ABAP” Programming.
• “LSMW workbench” was configured and used to bulk upload master data into SAP.

Confidential

Sr. Analyst - Developing, testing, implementation & Support

Responsibilities:

• Developed RFC Programme which will extract Master and transaction data from SAP R/3, generates a text file and save the file in a remote SAP - Web intermediate server. Custom function modules were developed using SAP “ABAP” Programming.
• Developed Programme in Visual Basic to process the data (Webserver to SAP - Web intermediate server) and generate a SalesOrder in SAP R/3 using BAPI. Developed Dialog Programmes in SAP to handle Error and invalid Data. Visual Basic programming and BAPI using SAP “ABAP” programming were developed to build this functionality.
• Developed Customised Reports Viz. Stock Transfer Note Details, Outstanding - Ret.Stockist Details (FI), Vendor Advances Report, Despatch Advise Report and Damage Analysis Report using SAP “ABAP” programming and “ALV” tools.
• “SapScript” was used to develop formatted output letters Viz. Outstanding Amount to.
• Database Backup (on-line or Offline), Unix Dump backup using Scripts. These were “SAP DB Administration” activities.
• Spool Administration for Printing. This was “SAP Basis” activity.
• Production Support on Ad-hoc need basis and these were master data creation activity:
• Material Master Maintenance Viz. Material Creation, Extention to other Plants, Batch Creation, Mark for Deletion.
• Customer Master Maintenance: Sales Hierarchy Changes, Mark for deletion.
• Handling Corrections and Transport Requests

Confidential

Analyst - Configured OLAP Cubes

Responsibilities:

• Developed Dimension tables,
• Cube Creation & Cube Processing
• Ensure Performance and Accuracy
• Scheduling Cube Process.