SUMMARY:

• Experienced professional managing wide range of consulting and client facing assignments.
• Over 18 years of implementation and support experience in S/4 HANA Finance and SAP FICO.
• Industry and SAP Consulting experience spans across Automobile, Apparel, Oil & Gas, Energy & Resources, Utility, Public Sector, Public Accounting, Consumer Goods Products, Retail, Manufacturing and Insurance.
• Managed high performing teams with tight timelines to deliver complex SAP programs in global organizations. Excellent ability to identify strategic opportunities and solutions.
• Technical expertise in SAP Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Fixed Assets, FSCM modules of SAP.
• Design, testing and configuration experience includes SAP Finance - General Ledger Accounting, New GL, Intercompany Transactions, Sale and Purchase Tax, Withholding Tax, Bank and Cash Mgt, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, New Asset Management, FI-MM & FI-SD Integration, Travel Management, FSCM - Treasury and Cash Management, Liquidity Forecasting, Electronic Bank Account Management, Bank Communication Management, In-house cash, Controlling - Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, COPA, Product Costing, Project Systems - Appropriation Requests, WBS Elements, AFE, Settlements, Project Planning and Budgeting.
• Has the ability to interact as a peer at executive levels in client companies and comfortable working within complex organizations, and an ability to build empathy, credibility and trust with key customers. Has solid service delivery acumen and ability to report to client executives on program performance.
• Has an Enhanced Reliability Status security clearance issued by the Government of Canada.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• End to End delivery responsibility to support 21 SAP instances across GM in the areas of SAP Finance, Controlling, Project Systems, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution.
• Managed team size of 10
• Managed the integration testing and UAT for S/4 HANA Finance and Logistics modules and various enhancements, including maintenance of Central Finance Mapping tables and corresponding replication logic.
• Effectively co-ordinated with the Off Shore team to provide time delivery to the client. Provided timely reports to the client on the program performance.

SAP Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Greenfield Implementation of Hana Enterprise Cloud Finance in MTE using Activate Methodology..
• Coordinated workshops and client meetings to define scope of the project and prepare the GAP analysis documents.
• Coordinated, Testing and Cutover Activities and worked with the client to achieve 100% acceptance for Go-Live.
• Lead various projects for rolling out SAP ECC in Europe and other newly acquired entities in USA.

Senior SAP Finance Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Advised the client on SAP best practices and business process improvement.
• Conducted Workshops with the client to underatand new requirements and resources required to fulfill the requirement.
• Lead a team of 4 consultants for fulfilling various adhoc requirements for the client such as
• Migrating some entities to S/4 HANA Finance
• Implementing Payment Program and EBS for various entities
• Implementing Fixed Assets Accounting
• Providing application support.

Senior SAP S/4 HANA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of S/4 HANA Finance 1610 based on Activate Methodology.
• Managed On Shore and Off Shore team of 6 consultants and Coordinated requirement gathering workshops with the business and prepared Gap analysis document in the areas of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, New Asset Management, Treasury, Cash Management, Liquidity Forecasting, Credit Management, In-House Cash, Bank Account Management, Electronic Bank Statement ( EBS), Bank Communication Management, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, COPA and Product Costing.
• Conducted demo in FIORI of the preconfigured solution and performed additional configuration based on business process and clients requirement.
• Created new FIORI apps as required by the client.
• Co-ordinated unit and integration and UAT, Cuto Over and Post Go Live Support.

SAP S/4 HANA Finance Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops for implementation S/4 HANA Finance 1511 in the areas of New GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, New Asset Management, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Project Systems.

SAP S/4 HANA Finance Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed migration from SAP ECC 6.0 with classic GL and classic Asset Accounting to New GL with New Asset Accounting with Accounts approach.
• Involved in all phases of migration including pre-checks, preparation for migration, run and monitor migration and post migration activities for all areas of SAP Finance and Controlling.
• Identified and addressed Gaps between the current SAP system and S/4 HANA Finance system such as in Accounts Based COPA, Product Costing (Repetitive Manufacturing) Cost Objects and Cost Object Hierarchies, Depreciation area set up in New Asset accounting.
• Involved in preparation of Business Blueprint (Gap analysis document) and Configuration design document. Prepared end user documents and trained the key users.
• Involved in unit and integration testing activities and in data validation after migration.

SAP S/4 HANA Finance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented S/4 HANA Finance 1511 using Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) according to Activate Methodology.
• The areas of implementation included New General Ledger, Business Partner, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, New Asset Management, FSCM, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Order and Project Systems
• Configured Bank account master data, payment approval process, cash pools for cash concentration, planning levels, planning groups, Liquidity management- planning units, planning hierarchy, EBS, Cash management, Commodity Risk Management.
• Conducted Validation workshops with the business using the RDS system in FIORI and prepared lean blueprint.
• Configure the S/4 HANA Finance modules in various sprints and performed Unit and Integration testing using Fiori tiles.
• Prepared end user document and provided to the key users.

SAP S/4 HANA Finance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review of S/4 HANA Finance Design and Documentation in order to determine whether the solution is being implemented according to SAP best practices.
• Conducted workshops with business to understand any gaps and concern in their understanding of the future state.
• Review the SAP Configuration in order to ensure that the setup is according to the design proposed and validated.
• Provided a detailed report on the findings, gaps and proposed solution to resolve issues identified.

SAP FICO Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a solution architect, was involved in conducting workshops with the business to understand the current business process and gather requirements, Gap Analysis and TO-BE process design, Gap Analysis, Preparation of Business Design Document (BPDD) and Functional Design Documents for Confidential 's.
• Involved in implementing General Ledger, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting.
• Enterprise Structure - Defining New Companies and Company Codes as per the Organization Structure,
• General Ledger Accounting - Company Code Global Parameters, Chart of Accounts, Number Ranges, Foreign Currency Revaluation, Inter Company Postings, Sales and Purchase Taxes, Document Types.
• New GL - Maintaining Parallel Ledgers and Configuring Real Time FI-CO Integration
• Defined Financial Statement Versions for Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Accounts according to GAP and IFRS requirements.
• Configured Bank account master data, payment approval process, cash pools for cash concentration, planning levels, planning groups, Liquidity management- planning units, planning hierarchy, EBS, Cash management.
• General Controlling - Maintaining and Activating Controlling Area components, Maintaining Versions and Number Ranges.
• Cost Center Accounting - Defining Planning Layouts and Profiles, Creating Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Profit Center - Defining Standard Hierarchy, Dummy Profit Center, Versions, Planning Layouts and Profiles, Creating Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Prepared CO planning Reports using Report Painter as per business requirement.
• Involved in designing the Data Conversion and End User methodology.

SAP FICO-FSCD Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops to understand the business process and existing SAP functionalities at Confidential .
• Performed analysis to understand gaps and proposed solution for enhancement to the business.
• Configured Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) functionality in FI and FSCD.
• Developed and Configure Payment Lots for performing Broker deposit reconciliation.
• Configured creation of Return Lots manually and through upload of Bank Returns file along with Bank Charges.
• Configured Check Lots and Check Encashment Updates in FSCD as part of the EBS process.
• Designed and develop the Broker Closing process for payment made by policy holders into the policy center.
• Developed, tested and validated interfaces for automatic upload of Electronic Bank Statement as per the requirement of the business.
• Set up Open Text Vendor Invoice Management.
• Configured the Payment Run, Cheque Lot and Number Ranges in FSCD.
• Configured new payment methods for payment program in FI and CD.
• Created Assessment and Distribution Cycles and Configured Activity Types of Cost Allocation.
• Created new internal Order types. Created Cost Center Groups as required by business.
• Support testing and defect fixing activities.

SAP FICO Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Structure - Defining New Companies and Company Codes as per the Organization Structure,
• General Ledger Accounting - Company Code Global Parameters, Chart of Accounts, Number Ranges, Foreign Currency Revaluation, Inter Company Postings, Sales and Purchase Taxes, Document Types.
• New GL - Maintaining Parallel Ledgers and Configuring Real Time FI-CO Integration
• Defined Financial Statement Versions for Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Accounts according to GAP and IFRS requirements.
• Accounts Payable - Maintained Vendor Account Groups and Number Ranges, Configured Automatic Payment Program, House Banks, Vendor Down Payment, Account Determination for Procure to Pay Process (P2P).
• Accounts Receivable - Maintained Customer Account Groups and Number Ranges, Configured Dunning, Customer Down Payment, Account Determination for Order to Cash (O2C).
• Cost Center Accounting - Defining Planning Layouts and Profiles, Creating Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Prepared Accounts Receivable ageing reports and CO Planning Reports using Report Painter and Report Writer
• Involved in Data Conversion and Validation of GL, AR and AP Master Data and Balances.
• Trained the Super Users in SAP Asset Management and Project Systems.
• Supported testing and defect fixing activities and provided Post Go-Live Support.

Confidential

SAP FICO Team Lead/Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed application support using ServiceNow support tool in the areas of
• Finance - General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Asset Management & Joint Venture Accounting.
• Controlling - Cost Center accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders and Profitability Analysis.
• Project Systems - Project Definition and Structure, WBS Elements, Settlement Profile, Project Profile, Budget Profile and Availability Control, Settlement to AuC and Fixed Asset.
• Setup new Company Codes for Husky, which involved copying Chart of Accounts, creating parallel ledgers, payment program set up, cross company code postings setup, foreign currency revaluation, creation of new Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas and Depreciation Keys etc.
• Configured Canadian and US Sales and Purchase taxes - Condition Types, Tax Jurisdiction, Tax Codes and Account Determination. Configured Withholding taxes.
• Banking Automation:
• Configure Electronic Bank Statement (BAI2 format) for all the bank accounts. Configured search strings for specific requirements of bank reconciliation. Developed customized Bank Reconciliation report for treasury department.
• Creation of New Tax Codes and procedures.
• Involved in creation of new payment methods viz wire transfer, EFT for automatic payment programs.
• Involved setting up cheque lots and creation of cheque forms.
• Involved in EHP5 support pack upgrade project - Performing Regression testing.
• Co - ordinate SAP FICO and PS month end processing activities.
• Involved in FI-MM integration set up as part of the purchase to pay cycle.

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided support in the areas of SAP General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cost
• Center Accounting, Project Systems and Internal Orders using the ITSM-Remedy tool.
• Set up Account Determinations for Foreign Currency Revaluation for open items (KDF) and non-open items (KDB).
• Created addition Financial Statement Version for Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account as required.
• As part of CoE, Configured House Banks and Electronic bank statement:
• Create Account Symbols and assign masked GL accounts to Account symbols.
• Defined Posting rules and assigned external transaction types to posting rules.
• Liaised with banks to obtain the transaction types for mapping various transactions to the transaction types in the electronic bank statement as per BAI format.
• Set up Account Determination for Intercompany transitions.
• Assigned the bank accounts to transaction types.
• Supported month end and year end closing activities, vis-a-vis performing foreign currency revaluation, posting adjustment, clearing and accrual entries, running fixed asset depreciation, running assessment, distribution and activity allocations, closing FI and CO periods, carrying over GL and Fixed Asset balances to the next period.
• Involved in Implementing General Ledger Accounting, Fixed Assets (New Asset Management), Cost Center accounting and Profit Center Accounting in Joint Venture Accounting environment.
• Created FI General Ledger Master Data and Finance Organization Structure design.
• Involved in preparation of business blueprint, conference room pilot, and functional designs for Confidential 's and configuration rationale in the areas of General ledger accounting, Asset management and Cost center accounting.
• Coordinated the configuration, custom development, testing, defect fixing and conversion activities in the areas of
• Enterprise Structure - Defining New Companies and Company Codes as per the Organization Structure,
• General Ledger Accounting - Company Code Global Parameters, Chart of Accounts, Number Ranges, Foreign Currency Revaluation, Sale and Purchase Tax, Withholding Taxes, Inter Company Postings, Document Types.
• New GL - Maintaining Parallel Ledgers and Configuring Real Time FI-CO Integration.
• Fixed Assets Management (New Asset Management) - Maintaining Chart of Depreciation and Depreciation Areas for various Accounting principles and currencies, Asset Classes, Account Determination and Screen Layouts. Configuring Depreciation Calculation Methods and Depreciation Keys.
• General Controlling - Maintaining and Activating Controlling Area components, Maintaining Versions and Number Ranges.
• Cost Center Accounting - Defining Planning Layouts and Profiles, Creating Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Profit Center - Defining Standard Hierarchy, Dummy Profit Center, Versions, Planning Layouts and Profiles, Creating Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
• Investment Management - Creating Program Types, Appropriation Request Types, User Defined Fields, Status Profile, Planning and Budgeting Profiles, Configure Projects as Investment Measures, Define Tolerance for Availability Control.
• Project Systems - Creating Project Profiles, Investment profiles and Settlement Profiles. Creating Allocation and Source Structures, Defining Coding Mask and Project Structures for Opex and Capex Projects.
• Creating Validation and Substitution rules for PS master data based on Project Profile.
• Performing and Validating PS Master Data and Balances data conversion.
• Prepared Accounts Receivable ageing reports, CO Planning Reports and Fixed Asset Reports using Report Painter and Report Writer
• Worked on General Ledger and Fixed Asset integration with Joint Venture Accounting areas.
• Used Solution Manager to Store Project documents and for creation of transport requests for customization.
• Tested the various BW Finance reports using BEX and BOBJ.
• Trained the End Users and Super Users.
• Performed Cut-Over and provided Post Go-live warranty support.

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, AS-IS and TO-BE process study, Gap Analysis and preparation of Business Process Design Document (BPDD) and Functional Design Documents for Confidential 's.
• Aravind created new company codes as required by the business and made related configuration to assign the company codes in various modules as required.
• Enterprise Structure - Defining New Companies and Company Codes as per the Organization Structure,
• General Ledger Accounting - Company Code Global Parameters, Chart of Accounts, Number Ranges, Foreign Currency Revaluation, Inter Company Postings, Tax Codes, Document Types.
• Accounts Payable - Maintained Vendor Account Groups and Number Ranges, Configured Automatic Payment Program, House Banks, Vendor Down Payment, Account Determination for Procure to Pay Process (P2P) and other Inventory movement and accounting processes.
• Accounts Receivable - Maintained Customer Account Groups and Number Ranges, Configured Dunning, Customer Down Payment, Account Determination for Order to Cash (O2C).
• Cash Management, Liquidity Forecasting, In-house cash, EBS, Lockbox
• New GL - Maintaining Parallel Ledgers and Configuring Real Time FI-CO Integration
• Defined Financial Statement Versions for Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Accounts according to GAP and IFRS requirements.
• Set up user exists for validations and substitutions in general ledger accounting at header and line item level as required by the business using sets and assigned them to the required company codes.
• Involved in designing and creating custom transaction for conversion of General Ledger, Profit Center, Cost Center, Internal Orders, Projects master data and balances conversion.
• Designed the inbound interface for transfer of Sales and Distribution data from external application into SAP.
• Co- ordinated with the testing team and involved in defecting fixing activities.

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Organization Structures vis-à-vis Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Asset Classes, Account Determination, Screen Layout Rules and Number Ranges for Asset Classes,
• Maintained Depreciation Areas for different Accounting principles and legal requirements vis-à-vis Book Depreciation, Statutory Depreciation, Tax depreciation and assigned respective ledgers (New GL Accounting) for Book and Statutory Depreciation Areas.
• Configured Account Determination for postings in various Asset Classes and Depreciation Areas.
• Configured the Depreciation Calculation Methods and maintained various Depreciation Keys Vis-à-vis Straight Line, Declining Balance.
• Involved in preparing functional specs for various validation and substitution user exists in fixed asset accounting and co-coordinated with the programmer for developing the user exists.
• Performed manual configuration activities in various environments such as Defined number ranges, creating sets for the purpose of validations and substitutions in fixed assets.
• Performed Fixed Asset Master and Balance data conversion and validation in various environments (Testing, Dry Run and Production) using custom program and LSMW.
• Prepared test scripts based on test conditions in the areas of Investment Management and Project Systems and uploaded into HP Quality Center.
• Executed the test scripts for PS and FA as part of functional integration testing and updated HP Quality center.
• Provide post go-live support in the areas of Fixed Asset Management.
• Designed and tested workflow for IM Appropriation request approval process.