SUMMARY

• Senior SAP professional with 15 years of world - wide experience and 13 years of experience primarily as SAP Solution Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, Sr. Analyst, Configurator and Developer.
• SAP Solution Architect responsible for utilizing business and systems expertise to identify new or improved technology opportunities leveraging the company’s investment in its SAP platform.
• Suggest technical improvements and optimization on SAP General ledger accounting, Project Systems, Accounts payables, Asset accounting, Bank accounting, and Purchasing.
• Help define and align strategy that can be applied to significant SAP initiatives which follow the future company vision and technology roadmap.
• Work to resolve technical issues through coordination between the business divisions and IT resources supporting SAP ECC Lead research for procure-to-pay solutions to meet business needs and partner with the financial systems manager to complete new capabilities and enhancements to existing systems.
• Documented process flows, system diagrams, logical data models, road maps, gap analysis, and other artifacts as required.
• Drive the design and development of technology solutions which meet security, network, infrastructure / operations, and support requirements to provide the highest level of stakeholder satisfaction with a forward-thinking vision.
• Partner with other application architects across the department to support the overall approved technology strategy and execution schedule.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, technical, research, technical writer, general business and functional skills. I have demonstrated leadership abilities through his various engagements and have been very effective and efficient in C-level communication.
• Involved in 7 full Life-cycle implementations of SAP R/3 using ASAP methodology involving Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go Live and Prod Support.
• Helped and supported the client to implement Simple finance 1709 and provided hyper care. Completed the blueprinting and design sessions for 1809 S4Hana implementation for entertainment client.
• Analyzed client’s business requirements, needs and objectives and mapped them to the processes, solutions and products that are being implemented.
• Full Life Cycle Implementation of IBP- Financial Planning on 1511 Simple Finance On Premises edition. It included OPEX, CAPEX and HR planning application.
• Hands on experience in Record to Report, Procure to Pay (Accounts Payable), Order to Cash (Accounts Receivable) and asset acquisition to retirement with internal order and project system integration.
• Excellent knowledge of various SAP modules - SD, MM, PP and PS (WBS Element, Network and Activity) etc including integration of these modules with FI & CO module.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, provided inputs during the analysis of the "As-Is" and "To-Be" processes, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Environment: SAP R/3 Version 4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0 Ehp7, Simple Finance 1503.

EPM: BPC 5.1 and 7.0 MS and Net Weaver version.

Tools: LSMW, Report Painter & BDC.

Testing: Manual testing, Functional, System Integration, User acceptance testingRegression, Testing, Performance testing, HP Quality Center 9.2

Languages: ABAP/4, SQL, PL/SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Environment: S4 Hana 1709 / ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Configured the new company code for the newly acquired stone business.
• Business requirement gathering, ERP project analysis, process design, blueprint, Expertise in requirement gathering, GAP analysis, upgrade, Reports, conversions, Interfaces, enhancements, Go-Live and Support and train user staff.
• Configured Automatic Account Determinations, Customer and Vendor down payment, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax, Company code global parameters. creation of Input and output tax General Ledger accounts assignments, setting up different tax codes in various countries and assigning them to GL accounts.
• Experienced in business relating to APP, House Banks, Payment Terms, PMW, DME, Document Split, Dunning and Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Worked with SAP procurement team to implement source to pay process.
• The process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the supplier of goods, and culminates in final payment for those goods.
• SAP Procurement - Ariba was implemented and I worked on the integration to SAP procurement and FI-Payables.
• Configured fixed assets (FI-AA): Chart of depreciation (defined depreciation areas - book, tax, insurance, etc), Asset master records (screen variant), asset classes, account determination, configuration for Asset under construction for work in progress assets and creation of depreciation keys.
• Implemented the Asset acquisition process with integration of WBS element / IO integration.
• Worked on asset migration to convert around 50,000 assets using AS91 LSMW template.
• Prototype and presented the functioning of “units of depreciation” method.
• Configured the Mexico company code for the manufacturing plant in Tijuana, MX.
• Setup the organization structure and the processes to segregate the US vs MX procurement / inventory in compliance with the Maquiladora.
• Gathered requirements, designed and developed full business process flow for E-Invoicing to integrate with SAP of MX using “Compaq” application.
• Worked on the manufacturing process to implement the product costing for the molds and stones.
• Worked with plant controller to implement the cost accounting in the US and MX plants.
• Manage testing resources, test case sequencing, gathering of required test data files and other test coordination activities.

Sr SAP S4 FI Hana Consultant

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Environment: Simple Finance 1809, (s4HANA)

Responsibilities:

• I worked as the SAP Simple Finance Architect and helped the client team with the S4Hana1809 requirement gathering and blueprinting.
• Client is already of ECC 6.0 but the client decided to go with S4 Hana greenfield implementation as their current ECC system was heavily customized and un-manageable.
• I used the SAP Rapid Deployment Solution, Best practices & the model company to prepare the SAP S4 Hana 1809 system for the client Demo.
• I prepared the data and tested the Fiori apps for the demo. All demos were strictly based upon Fioris only and no SAP classic GUI was used.
• Guided customer through the standard functionality in show-and-tell sessions; identify and validate delta requirements and gaps; design solution that minimizes modifications to standard and enables faster innovation.
• The scope of the demo and blueprint included: Enterprise Structure, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Bank Accounting, Accounts receivable, Collection and Dispute Management, Asset Accounting & account based CO-PA.

SAP Solution Architect / S4 Hana Consultant

Confidential, Tustin, CA

Environment: Simple Finance 1709, (s4HANA)

Responsibilities:

• Drive the design and development of technology solutions which meet security, network, infrastructure / operations, and support requirements to provide the highest level of stakeholder satisfaction with a forward-thinking vision.
• I worked as the Simple Finance Architect and helped the client team with the S4Hana1709 implementation.
• I worked with 3rd party systems to develop and test the interfaces with the S4 Hana system.
• Defined the Data Migration and Cutover strategy.
• Developed the US check (PMW) and the credit card process
• I did the Data Migration of all the master data and its validation.
• Implemented new asset accounting in the S4Hana.
• I did the New Asset Accounting migration using AS91 and ABLDT & ABLDT OI.
• Transfer Date issue while uploading the new assets. The last date of the year was used instead of new year 1st.
• HyperCare: Tested, validated the reports and trained the users with the new transactions and screen.
• Helped the business in the 1st month end close.
• Troubleshoot the wrong calculation of depreciations.
• Implemented multiple notes to get to the correct depreciation values.
• Worked with SAP to find the solutions of errors in settlement of AuC to fixed assets.
• Converted all the vendors and customers in to BP roles.
• I did the GL balance upload using FIORI and sit with the business team to validate the numbers.
• Leading the Hypercare period with managing the defects and the team work assignment.

Sr SAP FICO TR Consultant

Confidential

Environment: Simple Finance 1610, (s4HANA) (IS-Media)

Responsibilities:

• I have designed the IHC process to handle the intercompany payments with the Confidential Corporation.
• I have implemented the Cash Concentration (Sweeping process), Interest calculation and the Payment on behalf of (POBO) processes.
• I have created the business partners with various roles, IHC bank Accounts and IHC Bank Hierarchies to handle the various processes.
• Configured the IDocs PAYEXT and FINSTA to handle the complete IHC process.
• Created custom Fiori based reports to reconcile the various bank account balances
• In Cash Management, configured BAM (Bank Account Management), setup BPs (Business Partners).
• As part of the project we retired the web based bank account management system and migrated around 800 bank accounts to the S4 Bank Account Management.
• Enhanced the Fiori screens to handle additional fields and to add the non-sap users as payment signatories.

SAP FICO Architect / Lead Consultant

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Environment: Simple Finance 1503 SP 7, (s4HANA) (IS-Automotive with VMS)

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible as lead for designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and implementing the S4Hana 1503 (SFin 2.0) on premises edition.
• I completed HANA Business Value Assessment, execution of pre-check technical assessments S/4HANA.
• Prepared the presentation for user community to educate about simple finance and impact on the current functionalities.
• Successfully configured and tested GL, AP, AR, Controlling/Planning as part of SAP Accounting powered by HANA Add-on, Cash Management S/4 HANA Add-on, and Fixed Assets modules in SFIN2.0 - S/4HANA Finance and SAP HANA specific Fiori apps.
• Hyper Care: Worked with SAP support team to resolve the product issues like Balance Carry forward, Asset GL Reconciliation error, etc.
• Implemented the profit center to get the income statement by the Line of Business and Platform.
• Implemented new asset accounting in the S4Hana.
• Configure d and validated the ledger approach that was implemented.
• Tested, validated the reports and trained the users with the new transactions and screen.
• Troubleshoot the wrong calculation of depreciations.
• Implemented multiple notes to get to the correct depreciation values.
• Worked with SAP to find the solutions of errors in settlement of AuC to fixed assets.
• I did analysis of HANA based Fiori applications, worked with Basis team to install the Fiori Finance Applications catalogue.
• Tested the important Fiori applications and rolled out these applications to the users. i.e. cost center budget reports, PR approval, Supplier approval etc.
• Rolled out the SAP Fiori apps