SUMMARY:

• Over 17 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Accomplished SAP Leader and Techno - Functional Lead consultant with a strong affinity for technology and keen business sense for the application of emerging technologies to add value and expand markets.
• Sr. SAP FICO Principal: - AR, AP, GL, FA, CO, COPA, ML, PS, TR, Cash Management, FSCM, BPC
• SAP S4Hana Specialist: - Integration and migration strategy, Data Modeling and Provisioning.
• SAP Simple Finance 2.0 Migration
• Project initiation, workshops to gather business requirements, business process design confirmations.
• BPD sign offs, Blue print document(BBR) confirmations and signs off.
• Business process gaps identifications, workshops and demos to resolve the gaps and present systems solution either standard or custom to close the gap.
• Configuration and documentations to maintain version control on config and performing unit testing.
• Functional design documents written to present to development team to handle gaps either by custom enhancement code or in cases of forms interfaces workflows or custom reports.
• Master Data Validation de duplication and Cleansing, SAP MDM for SAP AR, AP and Assets.
• Controlling, Material Ledger, Actual costing, Product cost controlling, Consolidation.
• Unit, Developer testing, ISRT testing, regression testing and UAT testing to successfully close the config and FD objects .
• GO live simulation and cut over activities including manual and auto config objects.
• Hyper care and go live support post implementation support for certain duration.
• Managing relationship with the client throughout the project duration and acting as the main point of contact between client and vendor organization;
• Ensuring services delivered by the vendor conform to what has been contractually agreed between client and vendor and monitoring the delivery of said services against agreed schedule, quality, scope and budget;
• Managing the financial aspects of the contract (billing for services, following - up on payments etc.);
• Acting as the escalation point when issues arise with vendor's resources / services and managing any dispute or conflict;
• Reporting internally within vendor organization on project performance (services delivery, progress, economics, etc.).
• Proposed Business process design solutions, Presented them and delivered them successfully.
• Understood the Business stake holders priorities and aligned them with project strategies to successfully implement the needed solution.
• Worked as a liaison with C level or director level staff to understand and business need and translated that to system capabilities and solutions. lead the team form blue print to delivery stage.
• Managed onshore and off shore team.
• Managed more than 20 members team(Resources from india, France, Italy, Germany and china).
• Proposed Business process design solutions and presented them.
• SAP S4 Hana Migration expertise, Data Modeling, On Premises or Cloud Migration of SAP Hana and Simple Finance Conversion for LOB.
• COA design using best fit model across the Globe for very large clients, keeping in account the group, global and operational chart of account.
• Use SAP FI solutions to drive Process Simplification & Standardization to combat increasing business & regulatory complexity.
• Create design solutions for single instance SAP solution in case of Mergers and Acquisition, bringing legacy systems on SAP solution or include older SAP instances on a central template based solution for parent organization.
• Financial design for mergers and acquisition on SAP systems to centralize receivables, payables and banking communication solutions.
• Effectively design and use SAP Closing cockpit to enhance business performance & financial reporting
• Created broad organizational value (through reliable information and business directed focus) provided by efficient and effective consolidation SAP BCS and close process SAP Closing cockpit.
• Has been a leader in RTR in business areas like Chart of accounts for clients like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential chemical and Sadara inc(ARAMCO), He helped business stream line the chart of accounts by reducing redundancies and increased reporting flexibility by designing operational chart of accounts, group chart of accounts and country chart of accounts for different reporting capabilities.
• Had designed Profit center accounting structures and new GL Segment reporting capabilities utilizing the latest SAP system capabilities to create multi-dimensional profit center reporting/segment (Cross Company code) reporting capabilities for the clients mentioned above. Multi ledger design were implemented to cover complex recording of GL transactions for different countries using NEW GL and hence effective reports with clear views of transactions could be created and used in creation of single or multiple P&L generation.
• Has also worked in creation of robust cost design structure utilizing the new capabilities with SAP ECC 6.0 (CO) to give clear reporting capabilities to Controllers cost managers and plant managers. Cost distribution, allocation and contribution margin were designed to record the cost correctly to give correct marginality reporting from earning perspective and for correct budgeting and planning in future years.
• Integrated Systems & Single version-of-the-truth are critical to success for R2R process; enterprise-wide data standards & associated governance using SAP FI, CO, GRC, BCS.
• Bank integration, Lock box configuration, EBS file formats BAI1/2 and SEPA messaging format and ISO 2022 message formats, worked with US, Europe, Middle East and South American Banking sectors and integrations with them.
• Cost center design keeping in mind the business needs around cost distribution and view models using multiple organizational views for reporting purposes, Cost allocations and shared cost distribution design based on complex business needs and requirements.
• Complex Profit center accounting models with profit sharing or elimination models.
• Complex inter company scenarios with inter and intra company sales involving mark ups, cost distributions and profit eliminations.
• Highly skilled in Actual Costing run for Material Ledger period closing. Also executed alternative valuation run for cumulative valuation of inventories.
• Worked on concepts like costing in multiple versions, Mixed costing, additive costing, Summarization hierarchies, CO-products and by product costing etc.
• Segment reporting using new GL and various reporting views with different BU’s and operational views.
• Budgeting and Planning using non BPC components of SAP (enhanced solution proposed with a mix of Cost center planning, Investment Management Planning and excel based planning)
• COPA Planning scenarios with SAP consolidations.
• Tax ware integration and Tax solution across globe (one source by Thompson Reuters) Brazil (Nota fiscal), Argentina(Provincial Reporting), Mexico and India.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domains and Processes: Record to Report (RTR), Purchase To Pay ( PTP), Order To Cash (OTC) MTS, MTO.

Industries: SAP Oil & Gas, SAP Chemicals, SAP Manufacturing, SAP Retail, SAP Hi Tech.

SAP FI: GL, NEW GL, AP, AR, Special Ledger, Fixed Asset, Investment Management, SAP Simple Finance 2.0

SAP CO: CCA,PCA, COPA, Product Costing, Project Systems. Actual costing using Material ledger

SAP TR: Transaction Manager (TRM),Cash Management, Bank Communication Management, In House Cash Management.

SAP FSCM: Dispute Management, Collections Management, Biller Direct, Credit Management, In House Cash

SAP Reporting: GAAP Reporting, IFRS Reporting, FI Information Systems, CO Information Systems, Hyperion, HFM.

SAP Tools: SAP S4 HANA, SAP SOLMAN, CHARMS, LSMW, RPM( Resource Portfolio Management), HPQC, RQM( Rational Quality Manager), Vertex(TAX), Sabrix (TAX), SAGE ( Payment Platform), Swift Net, OCR(Stellant invoicing tools)

SAP ERP Version: 4.5b, 4.6c, 4.7 ENT, ECC 5.0, ECC6.0 EHP 5,6,7

Debug Knowledge: Able to Debug ABAP/4 (Reports, Sap Script, Smart forms & function modules).

WORKEXPERIENCE :

Confidential

Principle SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business design and support in multiple business process areas including service on architecture and various merger and acquision related activates
• SAP FICO lead consultant for SAP implementation, post-merger integration of Confidential business units by rolling out SAP.
• Electronic bank statement imports, configuration and development for SEPA ISO 2022 Messaging format using XML file format.
• Electronic Bank statement file import configuration and deployment for Austria, France and UK based business units. Lock box configuration for inter and intra day file from bank.
• SAP S4 Hana On premises solution outline, Project plan and initiation of data staging activities and finance data migration and cut over activities.
• Overall lead for SAP roll out for four different entities in France with OTC, PTP and RTR related design and configuration to deployment of solution.
• Product Costing roll out with Material Ledger design, configuration and testing.

Confidential

Principle Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential worked on multiple projects for the above mentioned client. His s for this client were as follows
• RTR lead consultant for Poland implementation, this involved design, configuration and testing for all the SAP CO implemented modules including Product costing using actual costing..
• PS Cash forecast report development: - This was an extensive project systems cash in and cash out report for the client in a specific format that they needed, Complete design by translating the business logic to functional logic and then application programming logic.
• Extensive functional design document outlining all the aspects of the application logic.
• TAX configuration and set up integration with Confidential, there was distribution center move from US to Canada, this required extensive configuration tax set up for Canada. This needed to be integrated with Confidential .
• SAP Simple Finance 2.0 Migration Project initiation and set up for move over of FICO to S4 HANA cloud based solution.

Confidential

Sr SAP FI/CO Advisor/ Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP S4 Hana RFP expertise, S4Hana Integration upgrade and Migration strategy experience.
• Migration experience for Simple finance from new GL and classic GL.
• Liaison between key business stake holders and Technical team members.
• Translate and guide the needs of Finance leaders and controllers in terms of Business process transformation.
• Global Finance Process transformation and improvements for better business operations and re engineering of the systems to support the transformation if needed.
• SAP FICO solution architect by reviewing the design from functional and technical perspective.
• Reviewing design, process, technical and documentation to ensure it meets business requirements
• Smooth deployment of the project hitting all the critical KPI’s and major miles tone success for the project to help decided on project movement in terms of key decision points
• Keeping the process area in alignment of all the need project quality guidelines to ensure successful testing of the modules.
• Have won 2 yrs in a row the of Peoples Developer in North America, Mentor, guide and develop skills of junior team members in order for them to be future leaders in the organization.

Confidential

Application Technical Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Confidential lead the FICO team as a leader, was a direct liaison to the business to help them with the best practice solution in terms of SAP and guide them in their requirements.
• Not only did Confidential propose business with complex and details oriented solution, he also helped in business in redefining their business processes based on current need for the business and come up with an acceptable and workable solution in terms of business process designs.
• Confidential as a leader lead the whole FICO team with more than 7 members, on shore and off shore.
• Confidential managed the team and deliverables in terms of project milestones and made sure each project mile stone was achieved with absolute quality and KPI's in mind.
• Confidential made sure the testing strategy and data upload quality was maintained by doing cross team integrations, and also drove the cross team integration sessions involving configuration and testing of the FICO solution in whole.
• Designed and configured Material ledger and also group valuation, legal valuation with parallel ledger in SAP ECC6 EHP5.
• As a solution architect and Configuration Analyst designed the controlling modules with Material Ledger activation, involved to provide a systematic strategy for redesigning and transitioning to material ledger with group valuation as a global solution by SAP EHP5.
• Reconfigured, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing with quantity structure, this involves strategy design , business process prototyping and configuration
• SAP S4 Hana configuration on core instance for Confidential to create a global template solution initial stages to develop a world template for simple finance, best strategy approach trials involved in created from scratch the simple finance template versus the upgrade strategy, using data staging and manipulating methodology.

Confidential

Lead Implementation Specialist FICO

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Was the Team Lead for SAP Controlling. his main area of responsibility was the design and deployment SAP CO solutions including Planning and Forecasting Solution.
• CRP on SAP S4Hana capabilities, Simple Finance CRP on use cases scenarios.
• Below are the brief description of activities performed by Confidential at SLB ITT Transformation Project
• Lead the Global Design workshop for General Ledger, Controlling and Planning and Forecasting using SAP ECC 6.0 CO - CCA, PCA, COPA
• Provide expertise and share experience how other big companies use and design CO - CCA, PCA, COPA
• Lead the client team to design the right solution using CO - CCA, PCA, COPA.
• Lead the client team to design the solution for deployment and delivery of SAP CO solution.
• Integrate with other process teams and provide point of view how SAP CO - CCA, PCA, COPA should be used
• Complete deliverables: BPD, RTM, fit/gap analysis
• Familiar/used AAES

Confidential

Lead Application Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Had the Role of a lead FI with focus in Controlling and over all Lead to Deploy and Deliver the CRP Design solution.
• This was a CRP project with the aim to deliver SAP finance Capability with respect to Controlling, Product Costing and COPA.
• I successfully delivered this CRP by giving a detailed workshop of SAP Controlling with deep integration points with different modules of SAP.
• Successfully demonstrated in the system SAP Product costing Capability and also Activity based costing.
• Material ledger and Material pricing analysis was demonstrated and the pricing capability of the SAP system was demonstrated
• Lead the CRP team with other resources who reported to me to guide them on the CRP Design Solution.
• Was over all responsible for the CRP solution delivery.

Confidential

Lead Application Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Help in conducting Requirements Workshops.
• Assist in designing end-to-end business processes.
• Conduct fit-gap analysis.
• Work in conjunction with Finance team to assist in design of business and system processes and solutions.
• Finance resource in Controlling module.
• SAP- Finance and Controlling
• AA, Project Systems, Internal Orders, Treasury

Confidential

SAP Leader FICO RTR,PTP and OTC

Responsibilities:

• Actively lead the change for a functional area at the Asset in coordination with the Business Process
• Leads giving to the project initiatives the required visibility and supporting them providing leadership and assigning resources as required.
• Understand and lead the functional area through the 1SAP processes standards (according to the Core team's specifications).
• Adopt the 1SAP processes, evaluating the risks, resistances, focus of change and lead the closing
• Gap's plans to reach de 1SAP standards proactively.
• Continuously align day to day initiatives of the area to make sure they are aligned with the project
• 1SAP objectives.
• Provide feedback to SME, analyze possible issues found and raise with the SIC's and the CSG Functional lead those issues that might impact on the continuity of the business.
• Provide support to the HR representatives for all project activities.

Principle Consultant SAP/ Team Leader FI/CO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Roll out of central template SAP Solution on different location ( FI, AR/AP/GL).
• Heavy CO with product Costing and integration with Production Planning.
• COPA Design with Product variances and Marginality Analysis.

Confidential

Lead Senior Advisor/ Team Lead FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• My team consists of 5 Multi Cultural BA’s located across the world (Germany, France, Italy and US)
• Drive the SAP Implementations from Build to Run stages with more than one roll out at one time.
• Work as a part of Change control board in ONE SAP Team to review evaluate, present and approve changes.
• Work on All of SAP FICO sub modules with HCM roll outs independent of each other.
• Work as business alignment manager (Finance and controlling) and propose business with their pet projects to be handled in accordance with IT governance policy and methodology.
• Worked on Process creating initiatives and items to be presented to steering committee to have them included in portfolios.
• SAP RPM Project design and integration with FICO and HCM module.
• Worked on processes like Payments using SAGE for domestic and international payments, invoice imaging solutions, Procure to pay, order to cash, credit control, and Production processes including over head calculations.
• Was responsible for designing a new Special ledger for new segment reporting to comply with the company policy for financial reporting to SEC due to legal changes in Structure. The reports were created in HFM/ Hyperion reporting tool.
• Used HP Quality center for testing and created auto test scripts for rollout specific testing.
• Created Sox risk validation report and GMP compliance report at the end of every project.
• Design control report to validate the system confers to PWC Audit controls in place for annual review by internal Audit.
• World wide support of legacy and current ONE SAP Instance for FICO and HCM module
• Work on HP Service Manger for interactions, change requests and enhancement recording and approvals
• Develop and train my team technically mature to handle daily support tickets and technical issues that arise during realization phase of the project.
• Worked with Process designer tool to create FICO and HCM Process using ARIS which integrates with Solman.
• Worked SAP DMX for URS FS and DEV Specs documents creation, validations and approvals.

Confidential

Lead FI/CO Consultant (Project FI IM Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Integration Manager for Freightliner for seamless integration and assimilation of SAP for Freightliner and its other legal entities.
• Business Process Confirmation and Blue Print Completion Expert.
• TO BE owner with respect to Techno Functional expertise and Completion to delivery of the Document.
• Configured the IM Module with Appropriation Request keeping in mind the ROI Calculation.
• Appropriation Request with limit approvals and Work flow Authorization process in line with respect to Amount requested. Complete Design and configuration of the said module with Client specific Requirements.
• IM Structure Design with Multiple countries and legal entities. The lowest level of IM Level being attached to the WBS Element.
• Project Systems Master Data Designed based on Central concept and Templates for different types of Projects.
• Configured ROI in PS on projects based on the types of projects as a part of ongoing effort to utilize EAS System..( ROI to be calculated manually)
• Complete Budgeting Solution with Planning and Approved/Current and remaining Budget Designed configured and documented in TO BE Process.
• Budgeting to be planned on WBS element with tracking on WBS to be rolled up in IM all the real time data for budgeting to be viewed in IM using standard IM Reports.
• UAT Test Scripts and Documents creation keeping different business scenarios.
• Deep Explanation and of IM and PS Module to Business user suggesting business enhancement and reengineering procedures to best suit the business.
• Configuration of cost planning, cost object controlling by period (repetitive manufacturing), cost object controlling by order, cost object controlling.
• Value flow configuration of Accounts Based COPA module.
• Configured PS for capital, expense, and resource related billing projects, Product Costing, variance calculation & Settlement into CO Module were considered in blue print documents.
• Configured PS for capital, expense, and resource related billing projects, Product Costing, variance calculation & Settlement into CO Module were considered in blue print documents.
• Design Standards and Consistent Project Estimates using the Asset life cycle (EAM).
• In corporate the concept of CU’s Consistent Accounting and Audit ability.
• Team player in the configuration of FA using the new concept of EAM though the PM part was not simultaneous implemented we were keeping in mind the concept for future EAM-PM implementation.
• Worked with other team members in Configuration of Vendor Dispute Management.
• Configuration of Collection management and Credit management with Customer Accounts.
• Data Migration using LSMW for Logistic and Financial Modules for Down- and Uploading from one SAP-System into another.
• Loading Business Objects like Master and Transactional (FI) data with LSMW.
• Using LSMW, eCATT, Batch Input to migrate legacy data into SAP 4.6 in Finance (IM, PS, AR, AP, Inventory) and Other Logistics modules.

Confidential

Lead FI/CO Consultant (Project FI Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible in gathering the business requirements and fazing them as achievable goals, was responsible for the design to the delivery stage as a lead in FI/CO area.
• Advised business on their requests and suggested them valuable work abounds.
• Created the design document based on the finalized business requirements with achievable target dates and goals to be presented to the PMO office for review and approval.
• Configured the Credit card upload program and settings for the upload of the credit card file.
• Once the trip is created approved and settled created the system setting for the values to be posted to assigned or default GL or Cost centers based on the business rules.
• Created the posting procedures and posting rules from SAP Travel to SAP FICO module this included the credit card transactions as well as the out of pocket expenses.
• Used an SAP standard invoice upload file program to upload and invoice file created specifically for Confidential .
• Allocated Cost center based on Employees Default cost centers for SAP HR during the Invoice upload.
• Reconciled the uploaded invoice with the settled and posted trips on clearing account.
• Created specific recon reports based on business requirements.
• Created real time GL and cost Center postings to give business real time day by day info on their budget situations incase if they were over using he budget in a given time frame.
• Changing ABAP migration programs for employee’s information to be loaded to TV module and used LSMW.

Confidential

Lead FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Management Accounting, Cost center accounting and COPA (Accounts based) issues resolutions.
• Advised a business plan to implement the Breakdown of Capital expense. Expense not incurred by Confidential but was booked against the internal order.
• Configuring and Customizing Internal Order Types with different receivers to split the expense incurred by Confidential and the vendors.
• Actual Costing/Material Ledger includes Periodic Material valuation, Actual Costing, and Price Changes.
• Material costing issues were resolved, such as the Costing Sheet and the Cost Component Structure issues.
• Cash Management/ Treasury configuration included Lockbox, CM position, and liquidity forecast
• Designed the business process in such a way that the only one internal order types were to settle and the other were to be accumulated in GL Account.
• Product costing, WIP, project systems, settlement, variance, milestone down payments.
• At the month end the one tope line entry would adjust the GL account to a Balance sheet account.
• Once the vendor settles the expense the invoice could be created and the respective account could be deducted for the expense incurred by the vendor.
• High level review to implement project Systems for the client based on the particular needs.
• Configured and worked with multiple charts of depreciation for Canada, China and US to implement the assets management module and key parts of FI and CO and conducted the data conversion of FI, CO master data. Conducted in-house for end-users and project core team members.
• In FI-AM organizational structure, he checked country specific settings, defined assets classes, account. determination, screen layout key and allocate number ranges to assets classes.
• Defined depreciation area and specify transfer of APC value (acquisition and production cost value), specified maximum amount for low value assets, specified depreciation area for foreign currency and specified the use of “parallel currencies.
• In master data maintained screen layout for asset master data defined evaluation groups, valuation keys, period control as well as defined calculations key.
• Determined depreciation area in all assets classes like; useful life, minimum/maximum useful life,attached screen layout etc., integrated AA to integrate with G/L ledger, defined acquisition accounts, assigned and allocated G/L accounts.
• Defined depreciation areas for ordinary depreciation accounts, special depreciation and unplanned depreciation.
• Upload assets with LSMW via BAPI.
• Coaching company members in data dictionary, eCATT, ABAP
• Chart of Accounts: Changes to G/L Account Master Records to meet the reporting and other requirements. Configuration changes in FI-GL to meet the business requirements and to represent as a
• SAP FI/CO support member in the enhancement projects to assess the impact of the projects on FI/CO.
• Data migration using LSMW. Vendor master, Customer Master, Open Purchase order, Material Master.
• Period ending and year ending closing activities for opening up and closing the posting periods and maintaining the posting periods.
• Monitoring the periodic processing activities and changes in configurations to support any changes required to meet the business requirements.
• Configuration changes to meet the requirements for Interest Calculations and Currency translations.
• Maintain the Bank Accounts and configuration changes for the assignments as may be required to support the Auto Payment programs.
• Validations and substitutions in General ledger postings.
• Tax configuration - VAT for European country - Task involved creation Account keys, Condition types for various taxes, Defining Tax calculation procedure, Tax clearing accounts, maintaining various tax codes as per requirements & various reports needed for monthly tax returns.
• Post Implementation Support with third party Tax solution software VERTEX..
• Configuring for Recurring entries, down payments and scheduling the jobs using the Financial Calendar.
• Monitoring and supporting the closing process and reporting requirements.
• In FI-AR, AP and TV:
• Invoice imaging solutions (Project) Was Responsible from Business requirement Gathering to Delivery of the finished module.
• Extensive integration with external imaging solution with SAP using workflow.
• Created Functions for late archiving.
• Setting and customizations done for SAP AP and Stellent software.
• Report generation for anarchized and unlinked document.
• Enhancement for Linking the documents based on the report for Image not linked.