SUMMARY

• Proven track record of 18 plus years of extensive functional experience in SAP including five full life cycle implementation and an upgrade.
• Combination of Engineering plus Management education and experience.
• Industry experience and Proficient Domain knowledge in Finance, Processing industry, Manufacturing, Construction and Engineering Business Process.
• Expertise in ASAP methodologies, project management, planning and successfully completed full life cycle implementations.
• FI expertise includes General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Vendor Invoice Management (VIM - Open Text) and Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting, Dispute and Collections Management.
• Expertise in Configuring New GL, performing Document split, Zero balancing of documents and parallelism in the New GL.
• CO expertise includes - Cost Center accounting (CCA), Profit Center accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), Project Systems, Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Material Ledger.
• Techno functional experience in CATTS, LSMWS.
• Part of Teams skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in depth Understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and Integration with SD, PP, MM Modules, Project Systems, HR payrolls etc
• Reporting tools such as: ABAP queries, Report Painter and Report Writer.
• Conducted Sessions and Workshops for Knowledge transfer to the end users.
• Good Knowledge of Solution Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Formatted business requirements to data model, met with key members of business community to ensure that business requirements were met in design of SAP system.
• Redesigned business processes where necessary to function within SAP properly. Analysis included requirements identification, conversion and interface identifications, SAP fit/gap analysis, high level integrated process flows, scope determination.
• As a FI/CO Consultant responsible for implementing New G/L, Product Costing, Cost center Accounting and Profitability Analysis modules.
• Assigned scenarios as per business reporting requirements.
• Maintained Variant for Real Time Integration of CO and FI in the New GL.
• Configured the NEW GL and the current ledgers being set as leading ledgers and update rules for the other ledgers based on the report requirements, customized Document Splitting Rules.
• Defined Business Transaction Variants as per requirements for Document Splitting.
• Settings for Zero-balancing indicators for segments and profit centers to accommodate Segment &Profit center reporting.
• Generated Reports across various profit centers using Documents Splitting.
• Carried out all the baseline configurations in CO area after obtaining a sign off from the business.
• Defined Costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer control and reference variant for defining costing variant in product costing CO-PC
• Defined variance keys, valuation variants for WIP and scrap, target cost versions for variance calculation and result analysis keys, result analysis version, valuation methods, line ids and assignment for work in process (WIP).
• Activated Material Ledger and carried inventory valuations in multiple currencies and maintained data for different types of valuations.
• Performed Single level and multi level price determination.
• Involved extensively in Unit testing (UT) and User acceptance testing (UAT) right from processing to solving of issues during the post implementation support.
• Providing business application support (Postproduction support) in the areas of Product Costing and Profitability analysis.

Confidential, SAN ANTONIO, TX

Sr.SAP FI/CO Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Business re-engineering process as per the new functionality in simple finance for release 1605.
• Implemented Activate Methodology for SAP Simple Finance Implementation
• Identified the GAPS in the old system and accommodated business requirements as per new functionalities using standard functionalities delivered by SAP
• Worked in areas of Finance, Cash management, Controlling, Material ledger and PRA.
• Designed Chart of accounts for the new systems as changes to cost elements in SFIN
• Redesigned
• Redesigned the PO approval process for non-inventory POs in VIM to optimize the process of getting proper approvals based on business requirements and in compliance with SOX as per the new system
• Configured VIM for IDOC invoice processing including data mapping, Business Rules and workflows.
• Assigned roles and used FLORI apps for transactional role maintenance.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP FI/CO Integration & Cut over Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and leaded Development, and Testing phases of project.
• Conference room Pilot for Business workshops and blue print sessions
• Responsible for documenting Business and system Gaps as part of GAP analysis
• Developed New Org Structure design and Global template design for Integrating Baker Hughes into Confidential system
• Responsible for Integrating Finance, Controlling, Vendor Invoice management(VIM), PRA, project systems areas with all the logistics areas, Hyperion consolidation.
• Designed new business rules in VIM to prevent invoice posting as per the legal requirements per merger.
• Designed a custom “Auto Line Item Matching Functionality” in VIM to match the invoice line with PO based on Price, quantity, UOM considering the tolerances.
• Designed the cut over plan for areas for both Divestiture and Integration phases of the project