SUMMARY

• 12+ Years of experience in Information technology with primary focus on SAP R/3 Finance and FSCM.
• Leadership experience in planning of sub projects, execution of projects and often leading various teams. Certified as PMP professional and in SAP NetWeaver.
• Accountable for efficient and quality execution to meet goals and objectives in the most cost effective and client servicing manner, according to established organization standards, procedures, and processes.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects, work under tight deadlines, and handle changing priorities
• Strategic thinking and leadership abilities enabling me to exceed expectations under less than ideal conditions. At Confidential, I managed to deliver a complex data transformation project in 6 months with a matrix team wherein all the resources doesn’t report to me and still have to influence other teams to deliver on right time and within budget.
• Experience includes involvement in all aspects of the implementation process, from proof of concept through configuration, business process analysis, complete system configuration, testing, end - user and project-team training, and production support.
• Thorough understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules (FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, and HR Payroll) and of overall business processes.
• Knowledge and experience in Internal/External/IRS audit activities and Sarbanes Oxley compliance; including use of tools such as Virsa Compliance Calibrator, Fire Fighter and DART.
• Experience with Sap BI/BW data warehouse and Business Objects
• Strong customer management skills and ability to understand translate and define complex business requirements and recommend solutions based on those requirements
• Extensive knowledge in SAP Finance, Controlling, Profitability Analysis and Project Systems
• Handled SDLC process using Solution manager
• At Confidential, I partnered with Integration Team and other IT teams to cut costs of manual invoice processing from high volume suppliers.
• I love to fill gaps of challenging business gaps and enhancing overall business value.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated ability to handle high sensitive issues and communications.
• Delegating work to and supervising the activities of IT staff and monitoring and reporting status in steering committee meetings to review progress, address risks and setting up of right expectations.
• Working with project managers, IT leadership and executive internal business customers reviewing budgets, invoices, schedules and risks.
• Recommending and implementing technological improvements and efficiencies.
• Developed and managed all project plans, organizing all resources required for project completion, ensuring achievement of all cost & time for a project,
• Vendor management: Developed and maintained good relations with Confidential, Confidential, Confidential contractors and potential vendor partners like Corptax, Chatham Financials
• Established standardized process for development, documentation and quality assurance.
• Coordinated pricing condition setup for reimbursable projects
• Functional
• Corptax project implementation
• Project systems: Results analysis, project revenue and margin determination, planning and budgeting on projects, CATS, planning of costs at NWA level and revenue at Sales order MS level, Revenue accruals for reimbursable work, revenue recognition for services etc
• Controlling: PCA (allocations and distributions), CO-PA (margin reporting), CO-PC (Product cost planning, period end costing, WIP calculation with RA keys), variant configuration,
• Taxware
• Treasury: SAP TRM, In House cash, EBS integrated with IHC.

Confidential

Solution Lead & Tax

Responsibilities:

• Leading the effort to implementation of project with revenue of 0.7 Billion Dollars
• Managing the team in successful delivery of the project
• Responsible for the initiation, planning, execution, control and completion of the project
• Handled the tasks of leading project teams and update on development activities as appropriate to the domain team lead
• Identified cross-project issues and worked with management to identify and implement solutions
• Handled sales & use tax among 80 countries and with a complex tax integration. Conversant with most of the tax issues and experience in establishing the best design and guiding principles for taxation in Confidential . Experience involves standard configuration, tax function modules, tax codes, procedures, significance of account keys, condition types in relation to country, affect of discount on taxation by country, tax reporting and tax jurisdictions.
• Extended withholding tax functionality for other countries newly implemented. Conducted brain storming sessions in and around WH tax reporting.

Confidential

Design Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designing, developing, and implementing efficient and cost effective solutions for the financial and treasury aspects of this global organization. I delivered Exchange rate loading tool for maintaining daily and monthly exchange rates that saved several man hours and increased data quality.
• Charting out the Implementation Plans and working closely with Release Manager to remove all road blocks. Initiating and getting the Root Cause Analysis done for major issues along with the Release Manager. Analyzing Risks and preparing the proper Mitigation plan around all the Features/Projects.
• Gathering requirements from business and implementing industry best solutions in record time and cost.
• Managing onsite and offshore team to implement business solutions involving technical RICEF objects.
• Responsible for WH tax in all countries where WH Tax is required and helped business in organizing data at the year end.
• Resolved issues in and around WH tax reporting and postings.
• Developed interfaces with lot of consideration on tax. Experience with flat files, EDI IDOCs and have experience of influencing both business and IT leadership in implementing the best solutions.
• Discussed and implemented best approaches in treasury while dealing with House Banks in 60 countries, payment methods across in 55 countries and different divisions with tax implications.
• Worked extensively on 3rd party billing in SD, Vendor Consignment orders and Intercompany billing.
• Delivered IC tool to business which delivered par more value than standard SAP IC tool.

Confidential

FI CO lead

Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Managed a team of 9 consultants scheduling, prioratizing, monitoring and controlling various activities. Responsible for the SAP configuration, change management, integration/regression testing of all new or modified functionality as it affects the World Headquarters and OTC functionality within the Enterprise instance of SAP. Managed the client team of SME’s as a Lead in Finance, FA, MM, SD TR and Tax in resolving the critical business issues
• Offshore co-ordination: Managed break fixes, enhancements, and business requests with a team of two consultants from offshore in record time even under highly audited and managed environment by handling production suppor logs, co-ordinating meetings with business leads and other stakeholders,
• Rig Move Solution: Plants frequently move to different company codes in Confidential drilling industry. Hence there exists a major complexity in dealing with open PO’s, receipts, invoices, projects and work orders, assets and last but not the least Intercompany reconciliations that get affected by this rig moves. Proposed various solutions for automatically handling rig moves using custom programs.
• Re-billables: Offered innovative solutions for industry specific scenario with this Confidential drilling client where in certain invoices from purchasing are re-billed to the customer even after 90 days after ending the contract.
• Taxes: Controlled and configured various tax solutions. Provided best support to the business by enhacing the tax solution to industry and business requirement.
• Offered innovative and sometimes SAP standard solutions in the areas of GL, AP, AR, TR, and Assets and controlling. For example, add on depreciation as asset gets added with value. In SAP, depreciation with asset value addition by depreciating from initial capitalization date instead of value addition date.
• BI: Identified the Finance extractors mapping the business requirements, activated and transferred the relevant data sources.
• Creating custom queries and defining Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, Text Variables etc. For customized reporting using BEx Analyzer, designed and developed several workbooks.
• Product Cost Planning, Cost Object Controlling and Actual Costing/Material Ledger configuration
• Defined the Valuation Variants, Costing Types and Costing Variants for Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC).
• Executed and managed the enhancements to split purchase price variances into real variances and exchange rate variances.
• Month-end executions for splitting cost of goods sold into material, labor, burden and overhead accounts

Confidential

FI Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted series of meeting with the client gathering complete information about the existsing systems and process around Freight Revenue management.
• Prepared flow charts describing the complete process for FI process like revenue accruals, receivables, Intercompany railway transactions, disuptes and collections.
• Developed Functionality/priority matrix for analyzing the overall FIT of Confidential Revenue processes with SAP.
• Prepared FI business process summary by anlyzing the business process funcionality, business process gaps, business process Fit, and overall SAP fit which faciliated in preparing the final business case for AS-IS project.
• Prepared business process reference model for documenting overall SAP modules that are relevant for Confidential freight revenue management.
• Dealt heavily with project systems integration with Assets. Highlights: 3mil Assets, All assets created from projects, configured Project structure with WBS elements, Network elements, activities and material components, settlement rules, asset depreciation, asset retirement, asset capitalization, testing and Go-Live
• Configured Business Partners with authorization control, Traders, Currencies, Bloomberg file feeds, Transaction manager for Money Market, Foreign Exchange and Derivatives, Basic Analyzer for reporting requirements

Confidential

FI CO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared, presented and validated the AP, AR, and Treasury detailed conceptual design. This included presenting SAP functionality through presentations and demos to various departments and receiving confirmation and approval of design decision.
• Developed current and future business processes and procedures. This included documenting the current work environment, developing a design of system specifications to match business processes and redesigning the work processes to enhance work environment based on system functionality.
• Developed and configured a prototype model within SAP using the TR/TM and TR/CM SAP modules. This included cash position, liquidity forecast, and loans.
• Defined a number of business processes utilizing ASAP for SAP FI-AR, FI-AP, TR and MM modules.
• Involved in Feasibility study for COPA and Material Ledger Implementation.
• Major Configuration points including configuration of Fixed Asset Classes, Master data, Asset Additions, retirement, transfer and other business transactions
• Configuration of Capitalization process to capture costs spanning multiple years and/or multiple capital projects to plan and track costs
• Capital Budgeting and Settlements