SUMMARY

• Solution oriented architect R2R who excels at leading and collaborating with project teams, with deep understanding of SAP products, technologies and competencies across multiple E2E SAP solution landscapes including, several full life - cycle rollouts. Engaging with Clients in understanding their requirements, scoping, discovering and defining solutions, explaining business benefits and use cases and a roadmap to meet their goals.
• Leverage industry and SAP reference architectures 
• Develop detailed scope, effort estimates and plan of implementation.
• Leading the development of the overall scoping process as well as individual work plans.
• Providing guideline and best practice on sharing the SAP S4HANA model results to the business audience.
• Experienced project team lead that has successfully led project teams of medium sizes in several industries.
• Competent SME with extensive hands-on configuration experience within FI/CO modules including FSCM, Cash Management and ML.
• Strong experience with SLO including box consolidation & customizing harmonization ECC to S/4HANA.
• Strong broad SAP functional and technical expertise, with a good understanding of integration touch-points between modules and applications.
• Strong communication and team-building skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Domain: CRM, SCM, FSCM, and Financial Management solutions

Applications: MS Office, Visio, MS Project, Panaya, WorkSoft, INT 4 IFTT, NeoLoad, HPQC, Solution Manager, Test Director, Documentum, eRoom

Development: ABAP tools, LSMW, BADI/BAPI, IDoc’s, EDI 820

Languages: ABAP, Progress, C++, RPG 400, COBOL, Visual Basic

RDBMS: SAP HANA, Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM Db2, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide guideline and best practice on sharing S4HANA model results to the business audience
• Provide best practice in FI and CO areas on S4HANA implementation on architectural and conceptual level
• Work with functional and technical teams to understand business requirements and priorities
• Collaborate with other architects to ensure continuity of solutions at a later stage
• Support definition, estimation, and propose solutions for business opportunities

SAP S/4HANA FICO Lead

Confidential - St. Petersburg, FL

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business workshops to validate organizational structure, global settings, Ledger structure and chart of accounts.
• Conducted business workshops to review /validate country regulation requirements for Electronic Invoice and Electronic Accounting in Mexico
• Developed functional specifications and testing scripts to interface Electronic Invoice application with SAP S/4HANA
• Configuration in S/4HANA to setup Electronic Accounting Mexico Localization (including Chart of Accounts, Trial Balance, Journal Entries, and JE Auxiliary)
• Configured Organizational Elements and Global Settings to in corporate new business units into existing SAP S/4HANA instance
• Configured VAT and Withholding Taxes (Country specific for Mexico)
• Checked the prerequisites and activated New Asset Accounting (new FI-AA), activated business functions such as Parallel Valuation, Enterprise Extension (EA-FIN), activated New Depreciation Calculation, executed Year-End Closing, and changed Asset Fiscal Year.
• Migrated Charts of Depreciation, Defined Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset Acquisition, assigned Charts of Depreciation to Company Code, Configured Depreciation Posting.

Solution Architect R2R/S2P

Confidential - Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Performed end to end SAP S/4HANA Finance implementation
• Involved in complete SDLC project management activities
• Conducted GAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Managed multiple ledgers within the general ledger according to the client requirements, worked on parallel accounting model following the rules of New GL.
• Configured New Asset Accounting, Chart of Depreciation, Asset Capitalization, and Post Capitalization.
• Created Asset Master Data, Accounting Principles, Depreciation Run, Asset Scrapping, Asset Retirement, Lease Asset with/without Down Payment
• Assisted the technical team in configuring Fiori Application and Trained key/end users on the usage on Fiori Application.
• Developed configuration scripts, test scenarios and performed unit and integration testing.
• Configured SAP Cash and Liquidity Management (Cash operations, Liquidity Management, Bank Account Management).
• Configured Finance sub-modules GL/AP to support integration with Ariba Procure to Pay.
• Deployed reporting using a single source of truth via unique table ADOCA
• Deployed Financial Closing Cockpit including configuration, unit/integration testing and training.

SAP S/4HANA FICO Lead

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Performed SAP S/4HANA SDLC implementation
• Assisted with functional architecture design, completing fit/gap analysis for S/4 HANA migration scope
• Preparation and Migration of New GL, Controlling, and Asset Accounting from ECC to S/4HANA Finance
• Configured the House Bank Accounts, Defined number ranges for Bank Accounts. Defined Settings for Bank Account Master Data, Bank Account Types, Defined Import Methods for Bank Statements, Defined Signatory Groups for Payment Approvals, Defined Payment Approval process, and Assigned Approval Patterns.
• Enabled Business Workflow for Bank Account Management, Defined Responsibilities and Assigned Users, Defined Clearing Accounts for Bank Accounts.
• Checked the prerequisites and activated New Asset Accounting (new FI-AA), activated business functions such as Parallel Valuation, Enterprise Extension (EA-FIN), activated New Depreciation Calculation, executed Year-End Closing, and changed Asset Fiscal Year.
• Migrated Charts of Depreciation, Defined Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset Acquisition, assigned Charts of Depreciation to Company Code, Configured Depreciation Posting.
• Customized CO-PA, adapted the settings for profitability segment characteristics, maintained the operating concern, activated account-based CO-PA, and transported operating concern.
• Conducted workshops to review taxation of indirect & direct procurement, wholesale, and inter-company STO processes
• Conducted business workshops to gather country regulation requirements for Tax return filing and reporting for countries in NA, Europe, and Asia
• Prototyped End to End Tax calculation for Indirect Procurement process including interface with Ariba P2P to SAP and Real-time call to Vertex for tax determination.
• Performed hands-on configuration and develop test suites/cases to test taxation within processes such as indirect & direct procurement and wholesale

SAP FICO Lead

Confidential - Augusta/Kennesaw, GA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops to gather business requirements and facilitate approval of solution design (org. structure: chart of accounts, controlling area, company codes, cost/profit center hierarchy and costing variants
• Configuration of FICO sub-modules and external tax interface (Vertex)
• Setup costing variants to support MTO & MTS production orders
• Setup payment program
• Determined master data and transactional data rules for data conversion: customer, vendor, material, fixed assets, cost/profit centers, AP/AR open items, and GL account balances
• Setup Sales order substitution rules to determine profit center for Airport Shops based on sales organization, distribution channel and sales group
• Developed Balance Sheet and Income Statement customized reporting

SAP FICO SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated business owner signoff for financial migration strategy
• Coordinated Hyperion/SAP interface for consolidation purpose (including GL account/cost center mapping, unit/integration testing, and data conversion).
• Coordinated material master data valuation (including material price change and costing roll-up)
• Coordinated and facilitate testing and preparation of FICO data conversion.
• Coordinated FI/CO cutover activities
• Coordinated the review and testing of all topics related to China localization
• Provided production support (Hyper care)

SAP FICO Lead

Confidential - Lake Forest, CA

Responsibilities:

• Liaison providing assistance to the manufacturing accounting and business technology team members during phases such as Blueprint, Business Process Procedure, Training and Testing
• Provided oversight to the business technology team, providing guidance and suggestions on how to design solutions that perform efficiently and effectively within the business’s environment
• Prototyped Product costing E2E and cost center allocation between plants
• Conducted workshops to review FICO requirements for Maquiladora scenarios for plants located in Mexico (borderline)
• Delivered business blueprints, business process procedures and test scripts (HPQC)
• Facilitated report mapping from MFG/Pro to SAP

SAP FICO Lead

Confidential - Bridgewater, NJ

Responsibilities:

• E2E deployment of intercompany interfaces from Retail & WMS systems into SAP General Ledger, A/P, and A/R for the Asia Pacific region and Mexico
• Conducted workshops to build the Global Chart of Accounts and profit/cost center hierarchy
• Prototyped functionality in SAP to support Confidential OID (Other Income Distribution) corporate allocations
• Interpreted business requirements - impact for Retail system interfaces into G/L, A/P, and A/R in SAP
• Setup company codes and trading partners