SUMMARY

• Having more than 16 years of experience in IT and having 12+ plus year of experience in SAP and Finance.
• Extensive functional experience in Configuration, Implementation and Testing in FI - GL, AR, AP, Revenue Recognition, Bank Accounting, Cash Management, Inter-Company process, Taxation (European, Vertex and Taxware) and Interfacing FI with MM (Procure-to-Pay Cycle) and SD (Order to Cash Cycle) on ECC 6.0 EHP4, EHP6 and EHP8.
• Having Knowledge of S4 Hana (SAP Simple Finance).
• Exposure to various consulting aspects pertaining to project environment like requirement analysis, scope, study, project proposal preparation, system study, process mapping, Configuration, Interface testing, extension developments, go live and post implementation support.
• Monitors changes in business priorities and resolves conflicting demands of users. Works with business users on project priorities. Manage resource allocations to projects. Forecast and schedule project pipeline based on business requirements and resources availability. Lead business and technical resources through the system development life cycle
• Proactive troubleshooter with understanding of the gaps between Business Processes and provide solutions within the Software Development Life Cycle and actively involved in the Planning, development, and execution process for SAP Finance Module.
• Produced comprehensive documents outlining user specifications, business processes, functional specifications, test cases and system recommendations and variety of training resources, trained End Users in SAP Finance and resolved user error issues with critically evaluated information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Ability to lead small/medium projects with good understanding of software development life cycle process and documentation. Be part and contribute to major project implementations. Work on production support to resolve day to day business issues.
• Comprehending and performing challenging configuration tasks and testing. Complete documentation of software solutions and SAP configuration according to departmental standards.
• Worked on LSMWs - LSMW programming for uploading data (Data Migration) from Legacy system into SAP R/3 and worked on ABAP Query and Report Painter for reporting.
• Having around 4 years of experience in the development of Internet, Intranet Applications using, SAP MI 7.0, and SAP Net weaver Server, HP Quality Center, MS - EXCEL, MS - Visio, CORE JAVA, SERVLETS, JSP, and JDBC with MySql 4.1, Oracle 9i and Tomcat 5.0.27, WebSphere Application Server 5.x, 6.x (WAS), WSAD, Eclipse, Struts, Hibernate 3.0.
• Excellent problem solving skills, committed, result oriented, hard working and zeal to learn new technologies.
• Has the motivation to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member and coordinated with the Offshore Testing Teams and monitored timeliness and quality of their deliverables

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Finance Lead (Taxation)

Responsibilities:

• Working on project enhancement of SAP FICO Tax (US region) solutions according to specifications and schedules, understanding advanced, integrated business processes; identifying and recognizing integration consequences in Tax area as per Confidential ’s Policies.
• Working with stakeholders and business users to analyze, design, develop, modify, test, and implement software solutions and applications to satisfy global business requirements in line with SAP’s Best Practice in Finance Tax modules.
• Managing the tactical execution of short- and long-term objectives through the coordination of activities with a direct responsibility for results and providing leadership, coaching and development plans for all direct reports to maintain an engaged and productive workforce.
• We worked on Agile Methodology and making sure the deliverables of planned and unplanned PBI’s during each sprint.
• We worked on the Withholding tax code migration from classic WHT to extended WHT for SAP Central Finance system.
• Worked for Order to Cash (Output tax), purchase to payment cycle (Input tax), Intercompany Process (Input tax) with distributed systems environment with interfaces into & out of SAP system related to taxation process.
• Worked for direct tax with interfacing with CORPTAX with S4 Hana Finance system.
• Worked on TBBS (Tax basis balance sheet) report with AO reporting with help of Non-leading ledger solution.
• Involved in the taxation process for standard Global Tax configuration of VAT (EU VAT) and US Taxation which was getting used via the tax engine (Taxware) system.
• Taxware Queue monitor via SMQ1 (qRFC) if sometime data got block and we also support any kind of breaking in the system related to taxation.
• Involved in planning, design, construction and execution phase and testing phase in SAP FICO Tax Module.

Confidential, Chicago IL

SAP Finance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading project enhancement of SAP FICO US region solutions according to specifications and schedules, understanding advanced, integrated business processes; identifying and recognizing integration consequences in Finance area as per Confidential ’s Policies.
• Working with stakeholders and business users to analyze, design, develop, modify, test, and implement software solutions and applications to satisfy global business requirements in line with SAP’s Best Practice in Finance modules.
• Managing the tactical execution of short- and long-term objectives through the coordination of activities with a direct responsibility for results, including costs, methods, and staffing and providing leadership, coaching and development plans for all direct reports to maintain an engaged and productive workforce.
• Leveraging standard processes and innovative solutions, with consideration of FICO solutions impact on SAP functional components (and vice versa) and delivering superior and timely production results and clarifying the business question related to solution we provide and capturing gap for development.
• Worked for Order to Cash, purchase to payment cycle, Intercompany Process with distributed systems environment with interfaces into & out of SAP system.
• Involved in the taxation process for standard Global Tax configuration of VAT (EU VAT) and US Taxation which was getting used via the tax engine (Taxware) system.
• Taxware Queue monitor via SMQ1 (qRFC) if sometime data got block.
• Handling the across the all module of finance for e.g. AP, AR, GL, Investment mgmt., Asset mgmt., COPA, CCA etc.
• Involved in planning, design, construction and execution phase and testing phase in SAP FICO Module.
• Preparation of daily and weekly team report for the finance team across the entire region.

Confidential

SAP Finance Lead Onshore

Responsibilities:

• Leading project enhancement of SAP FICO solutions according to specifications and schedules, understanding advanced, integrated business processes; identifying and recognizing integration consequences in Finance area as per Confidential ’s Policies.
• Working with stakeholders and business users to analyze, design, develop, modify, test, and implement software solutions and applications to satisfy global business requirements in line with SAP’s Best Practice in Finance modules.
• Managing the tactical execution of short- and long-term objectives through the coordination of activities with a direct responsibility for results, including costs, methods, and staffing and providing leadership, coaching and development plans for all direct reports to maintain an engaged and productive workforce.
• Leveraging standard processes and innovative solutions, with consideration of FICO solutions impact on SAP functional components (and vice versa) and delivering superior and timely production results and clarifying the business question related to solution we provide and capturing gap for development.
• Worked for Order to Cash, purchase to payment cycle, Intercompany Process and rolling out to existing revenue recognitions solutions with distributed systems environment with interfaces into & out of SAP system.
• Involved in the taxation process for standard Global Tax configuration of VAT (EU VAT) and US Taxation which was getting used via the tax engine (Vertex) system.
• Issues related to taxes with respect to VERTEX O series.
• Handling the Treasury Module support of Investment, Commodities, Internal Loans and deposit and Money Market.
• Involved in planning, design, construction and execution phase and testing phase in SAP FICO Module.
• Preparing the functional specification for new development requirement and assisting in identifying, isolating and documenting system deficiencies in a clear, concise manner