SUMMARY

• Twenty+ years of experience in SAP FI/CO/HR design, configuration, and implementation including several years of consulting experience with big five consulting firms
• SAP S/4 HANA Central Finance implementation experience for major oil and gas industry. Worked extensively on creating position papers, solution design documents, detailed design documents, as - is and to-be processes mapping, data mappings from current ECC 6.0 Central Finance system, configuration in Central Finance, Initial master data loads etc.
• Specific experience in Finance and Controlling modules (FI/CO) of SAP in the areas of Business Process Re-engineering, configuration/ build-up of a new system from scratch, customization, Integration testing and post-live support.
• Responsible for enterprise systems analysis across several business units which includes requirements gathering, designing, implementing and testing the solutions. Have been involved in all project phases starting from Requirement Gathering, FIT GAP analysis, Writing Functional Specifications, Configuring SAP system, Performing Unit Test, System Integration Test, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Documentation, User Trainings, and Month end close support etc.
• Skilled and highly experienced in Agile processes including Scrum, Kanban for projects and support work. Heavily participated in PI planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up, and Sprint Retrospective and backlog meetings
• Worked closely with all business users and projects to understand the requirements and translate them into EPICS, Features, PBIs and tasks and updating them with user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Deep knowledge in program management, functional design, data conversion, testing and deployment of ERP systems. extensive experience integrating SAP with external transactional and reporting systems in the Energy sector.
• Strong experience in the master data management and integration with other modules. Exposure to FIORI apps for master data governance
• Extensive experience in reviewing controls catalogue and updating the controls catalogue with the new processes and reports to keep it up to date and audit compliant
• Experience with Business Divestiture in regards to configuration cloning, Balance Sheet Reconciliation and Re-casting the balance sheet.
• Strong experience in cross-system integration with other ERP systems such as Peoplesoft and JD Edwards etc.
• Configuration and integration experience in SD, MM & PS modules with FI/CO and HR.
• Experience in Financial Accounting Reporting.
• Experience in FI/CO Sarbanes-Oxley audit.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP HANA Central Finance implementation as part of Finance Transformation project for all upstream, downstream, chemicals and corporate SAP systems
• Worked on FI/CO Central Finance S/4 implementation using agile methodology and framework. Responsible for design and build for phase 1 implementation for all FI/CO processes. This is a co-innovation project with SAP to transform end to end financial processes and to establish single source of data hub consolidating the data from several SAP instances.

Confidential

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CO data conversions, CCA, PCA andCOPA process enhancements in the new ECC 6.0 instance
• Responsible for designing and testing custom interfaces and SIS implementation for real time daily sales and margins information to manage business. Stripes was a global implementation implemented across EU, AP and NA. Worked on the US/ CA implementation to fit the processes into global design
• Worked on merging Latin America and US MEC schedules
• Worked on divestiture of several company codes
• Worked on new non-discretionary audit reports generated out of SAP
• Helped business in enhancing energy pooling processes across chemical plants and refineries
• Supported MEC processes across all regions (even though a primary support for US & CA)
• Implemented new Revenue Recognition standards across UA and CA
• Worked on several reporting enhancements
• Worked on establishing several custom interfaces with many interface partners
• Developed several report painter reports
• Developed several SAP query reports

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a support analyst in Confidential ’s SAP HR US COE team as a payroll accounting subject matter expert for FI/CO installation on HR instance
• Worked on several system enhancements both for payroll accounting
• Other duties also include providing the functional specifications for the system enhancements, production-support, working on new projects in payroll team in regards to financial month end close, reconciliation, audit assistance and preparing estimates for new projects etc. Some of the projects include implementing sub-ledger for HR due to distributed FI systems, consolidating the financial ledgers etc.
• Assisted the Data Archiving team with archiving the financial data from the payroll/ FI tables. Also responsible for knowledge transition for production support to other team members in Brazil.
• Traveled to the customer’s site in Buenos Aires, Argentina in order to support and assist the client during the business transition process from Houston to BA.
• Assisted the security and controls team to implement the authority checks for several payroll programs and for remediation of payroll related roles etc.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Labor Distribution process from Payroll to FI/CO via PS for all business units.
• Responsible for configuration and support of PS and FI/CO modules for the Estate companies and other business units.
• Worked closely with auditors for divestiture project and closing of the company codes . Responsible for all FI/CO maintenance (including closing of the company codes due to business divestiture and also other closing procedures), month end support and reconciliation etc. Also worked on consolidations, SPL (Special Purpose Ledger), JV configuration etc.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Verified all FI/CO system controls global instance to make sure system is sync with the controls catalog
• Identified process gaps and recommended the appropriate remediation action to the business.
• Verified several financial reconciliation reports to make sure they audit compliant