S/4 Hana 1809 Fixed Assets - Business Process Re-engineering Architect Resume
SUMMARY:
- Extensive experience in S/4 Hana Central Finance & S/4 Hana Finance, worked in couple of end to end implementations
- SAP Certified Consultant in S/4 Hana Simple Finance & FICO with MBA Finance
- SAP Certified in SAP Activate Project Manager
- Official trainer for Confidential for FICO related courses in Investment Management, Project systems & fixed assets.
- Platinum level consultant in Central finance, S4 Hana finance, Fixed Asset Module.
- Worked as a solution architect in fortune 500 companies
- Extensive experience of more than 15 years on full life cycle implementations, global roll - outs, upgrade & support for NA & EAME, APAC, LATAM countries and 10 years in banking sector.
- Experience with 6 full lifecycle implementation of SAP FICO from requirement gathering to post-production support
- Extensive functional and configuration experience in Financial Accounting (SAP-FI) including FI-General Ledger, FI-Account Payable, FI-Account Receivable, and FI-Asset Management
- Expertise in Controlling (SAP-CO) that included CO - Cost Center Accounting, CO - Profit Center Accounting, CO - Profitability Analysis, CO - Product Costing and Internal Orders
- Experience in integrating FICO with other SAP modules including SD, PP, MM and Real Estate flexible module (REFX) with Contract and Lease management
- Experience working on all RICEFW for SAP FICO objects & coordinated with development team to complete as per the functional designs.
- Experience & Knowledge with SAP BW and ABAP debugging.
- Extensively worked on DATA migration & validation of SAP FICO objects.
- Expertise in Report painter, Report writers and CO-PA drilldown reports
- Expertise in functional & configuration experience in SAP Real estate flexible module and experience in integrating with FICO. Also, worked in JVA & PRA module for Oil & Gas industry
- Experience in System, Assembly, Acceptance, Unit testing, Integration, Regression and UAT testing.
- Trained business users using Info Pak material and prepared job aids and manuals.
- Extensive experience on Cut-over activities
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
S/4 Hana 1809 Fixed Assets - Business Process Re-engineering Architect
Responsibilities:
- Currently handling entire global design for fixed assets across 76 countries
- Working on various key design decisions for make, build and buy scenarios related to future state design and presenting the KDD to various key stake holders
- Designed chart of depreciations for 76 countries using ledger approach. Also, designed various interfaces for asset capitalization, retirement from boundary systems to S/4 for building data centers(Inventory to Asset)
- Worked closely with business in coming up with revaluations, impairments across APAC, EMEA and LATAM countries
- Worked on Business process hierarchies for each scenario and walked with Confidential Fixed assets teams.
- Working closely with business, International and tax team to gather requirements across the global and performed fit/gap analysis
- Extensive working experience on India tax depreciation as per income tax using asset block keys and WDV method.
- Working on end to end each process flows for acquisitions, retirements, transfers, impairments, revaluations, capitalized interest, period end closing activities
- Extensive working experience on asset creation using PO from ARIBA.
- Started reviewing all the functional specs for RICEF objects.
- Prototyped some of the complex scenarios for PO trace back of assets which are coming from inventory.
- Creating complete Business process design document and presenting to business for sign off
- Designed complete conversion strategy for legacy assets conversion which are almost 30 million sitting in Oracle and other systems.
Confidential
S/4 Hana 1709 Fixed Assets and Central Finance Architect
Responsibilities:
- Currently working on the explore phase of Release 15 for implementing End to end solution for Confidential Fixed assets, Leased assets, supply chain and finance
- Handled workshops and gathered pain points, key design decisions and Business requirements for Capital Planning, Acquire to retire process
- Currently working on solution designing of Asset capitalizations, Asset Movements, Master data
- Handled complex scenarios for leasing, capital interest calculations, VPP/Burden process for all assets procured.
- Independently handled all design workshops of ATR(Asset to retire)
- Prototyped the scenarios for Network asset tracking using Procurement, Plant Maintenance, Project systems and Assets
- Handled complex design and protottypes for captive leases using RE-FX contract and lease management module
- BC Set activation, activation of REFX business functions and sub functions for contract and lease Managament
- Configured various contract types for lease in and lease out
- Configured valuation rules to address ASC 842, IFRS 16 and local GAAP
- Configured Condition types, flow types, account symbols for contract and lease management account determination.
- Various Fixed account determinations settings, OSS note implementation.
- Month end activities to post periodic contract postings and valuation postings.
- Helped in detailed design roadmaps for various releases moving forward
- Error handling thru using AIF (Application Interface framework) for all replication postings in CFIN
- Define Actions for Mapping Entities Enhanced configuration for Mapping Entities, Define Scenarios for Cost Objects Mapping and Define Mapping Rules for Cost Object Mapping Scenarios
- All kinds of testing’s for central finance to replicate all types of transactions
- Initial Load Settings for extraction, monitor extraction, simulation posting & post Initial Load and monitor Posting) in central finance
- IMG Configuration for Central Finance: RFC Destination setup, Logical System Client Setup, error correction and suspense Accounting.
- Created and mapped all master data objects from source to target which includes both SAP & non-sap systems using MDG.
- Handled finance design workshops for foundational elements (company code, controlling are, trading partner, profit centers, cost centers), chart of accounts, primary organizational elements & secondary organizational elements.
- Installed 1709 and worked closely with Basis for SLT & AIF set up.
- IMG Configuration for Universal Journal setup & IMG Configuration
- Migration of millions of GL records to the new S/4 Hana system.
- Configured and customized the logic for New GL - document splitting to accommodate the postings to new system
Confidential
Sr. Mgr - S/4 Hana 1610 RTR IT Lead
Responsibilities:
- RTR lead handling 30 resources including client, offshore and onsite. Leading with passion, communicating, team building, and commitment & with utmost decisiveness.
- Used SAP best practice company code & scenarios to leverage the solution and presented to client.
- Handled workshops and gathered requirements for S/4 Hana finance for FICO. Created blueprint as per the business requirement and delivered the solution design.
- Presented the new changes in S4 1610 for the business & IT and the performed the impact analysis.
- Prototyped the solution using the best practice solution in S/4 and communicated the benefits of S/4
- Analyze and map the fit gap analysis of client business requirement, process by conducting workshops and work in sessions. Performed process design, prototyping and feasibility studies for TO-BE solution. Acted as principal consultant & led team of people for people development tasks. Configured FICO(GL, AP, AR, EBS, New Asset accounting, Tax, Integration with SD, MM & EWM, product costing, Project systems & CO-PA)F
- Coordinated all the testing cycles and participated in defect resolution.
- Worked with business users to complete the UAT testing
- Involved in production cutover activities
- Completely configured the Fiori application including creation of catalogs, groups of various Fiori apps. Also, prepared the document & trained end user about the Fiori navigation. Worked closely with security to assign the roles to various groups.
- Created functional specs for various RICEF objects using new S/4 tables. Worked closely with developer to complete technical design and unit testing of RICEF objects
- Handled Data conversion activities using new functionality for loading all master data objects & transactional data. Prepared financial dashboard for comparison of legacy data to S/4 data after conversion.
- Prepared end user documents & trained all new S/4 functionalities of FICO including FIORI.
- Coordinated all types testing (Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance). Worked closely with all the teams for all necessary cutover activities.
Confidential
Sr.Mgr - S/4 Hana 1709 Central Finance Architect
Responsibilities:
- Handled workshops to gathered requirements for S/4 Hana central finance. Created blueprint as per the business requirement and delivered the key design document.
- Designed new architecture for central finance.
- Handled finance design workshops for foundational elements (company code, controlling are, trading partner, profit centers, cost centers), chart of accounts, primary organizational elements & secondary organizational elements.
- Installed 1709 and worked closely with Basis for SLT & AIF set up.
- IMG Configuration for Universal Journal setup & IMG Configuration
- Migration of millions of GL records to the new S/4 Hana system.
- Configured and customized the logic for New GL - document splitting to accommodate the postings to new system
- RFC Destination setup, Logical System Client Setup, error correction and suspense Accounting.
- Created and mapped all master data objects from source to target which includes both SAP & non-sap systems using MDG.
- Initial Load Settings for extraction, monitor extraction, simulation posting & post Initial Load and monitor Posting) in central finance
Confidential
S/4 Hana 1610 FICO lead consultant
Responsibilities:
- Used SAP best practice company code & scenarios to leverage the solution and presented to client.
- Handled workshops and gathered requirements for S/4 Hana finance for FICO. Created blueprint as per the business requirement and delivered the solution design.
- Presented the new changes in S4 1610 for the business & IT and the performed the impact analysis.
- Prototyped the solution using the best practice solution in S/4 and communicated the benefits of S/4
- Analyze and map the fit gap analysis of client business requirement, process by conducting workshops and work in sessions. Performed process design, prototyping and feasibility studies for TO-BE solution. Acted as principal consultant & led team of people for people development tasks. Configured FICO(GL, AP, AR, EBS, New Asset accounting, Tax, Integration with SD, MM & EWM, product costing, Project systems & CO-PA)
- Completely configured the Fiori application including creation of catalogs, groups of various Fiori apps. Also, prepared the document & trained end user about the Fiori navigation. Worked closely with security to assign the roles to various groups.
- Created functional specs for various RICEF objects using new S/4 tables. Worked closely with developer to complete technical design and unit testing of RICEF objects
- Handled Data conversion activities using new functionality LTMC for loading all master data objects & transactional data
- Prepared end user documents & trained all new S/4 functionalities of FICO including FIORI.
- Coordinated all types testing (Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance). Worked closely with all the teams for all necessary cutover activities.
Confidential
S/4 Hana Central Finance lead consultant
Responsibilities:
- Handled workshops to gathered requirements for S/4 hana finance & central finance. Created blueprint as per the business requirement and delivered the solution design. Designed new architecture for both simple finance & central finance
- Installed 1511 and worked closely with SAP Germany to resolve huge number of issues during implementation Also, closely worked with development & Basis team to apply different SAP notes for program corrections.
- Worked on activate methodology(Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy & run)
- Preparation: Helped in planning the project schedule, structure & preparation of sandbox & development environment. Explore: Performed the fit/gap analysis to validate the solution including project scope & business requirement. Realize: Build, demo and tested the solution in a iterative/agile approach identified in previous approach. Deploy: Conducted final preparation and cutover activity and deploy solution. Run: Applied SAP operations standard to operate, monitor and support solution after Go-Live.
- IMG Configuration for Universal Journal setup & IMG Configuration
- Migration of millions of GL records to the new S/4 Hana system.
- Configured and customized the logic for New GL - document splitting to accommodate the postings to new system
- IMG Configuration for Central Finance: RFC Destination setup, Logical System Client Setup, error correction and suspense Accounting.
- Created and mapped all master data objects from source to target which includes both SAP & non-sap systems using MDG.
- Installed & worked on SLT (SAP landscape transformation) server set up to collect the data written to database in source system in order to feed into corresponding central finance accounting interface.
- Defined & configured the clearing and substitution accounts for all open item accounts.
- Initial Load Settings for extraction, monitor extraction, simulation posting & post Initial Load and monitor Posting) in central finance
- BAdIs implementation of Central Finance to exclude certain fields (Segment, tax codes, material, partner profit centers
- Worked with technical team to build technical settings which include RFC’s, Logical Systems, applying various SAP notes
- Configuring Cost Object Master Data Mapping( defining scenarios & assigning mapping rules for scenarios)
- Determine Mapping Actions (keep data, map if possible, map obligatory & clear data) for all fields
- BAdI for Preparation of Management Accounting Secondary Posting
- Define MDG key and value mapping for GL accounts, profit centers, IO’s, Cost centers from source to target systems for all missing master data objects
- Installed & worked on setting up AIF for FICO replication postings and error handing via AIF
- Reset of company codes both in source & target as per SAP note 2182309 during initial load in lower clients and repeat the process to reload the initial data
- Preparation & Migration of Customizing for GL, AA & CO. Defined message types for posting migration
- Configured new Functionalities of GL Accounting: created multiple ledgers & currencies and assigning them to each accounting principle. Created Extension ledgers for adjustment postings on top of base ledger. Created CO doc types & plan versions and assigned them to company code thru doc type variant
- IMG Configuration for Central Finance setup RFC Destination setup, Logical System & Logical System Client Setup error correction and suspense Accounting,
- Initial Load Setting (created clearing & substitution accounts, monitor extraction, simulation &post Initial Load and monitor Posting) for central finance
- BAdIs implementation of Central Finance to exclude certain fields (Segment, tax codes, material, partner profit centers. Also, worked on behavior of open item accounts in CFIN
- BAdi implementation for initial load to accommodate the document splitting activities to balance by profit center.
- Configuring Cost Object Master Data Mapping( defining scenarios & assigning mapping rules for scenarios)
- Determine Mapping Actions (keep data, map if possible, map obligatory & clear data) for all fields
- BAdI for Preparation of Management Accounting Secondary Posting
- Define & Load MDG key and value mapping for GL accounts, profit centers, IO’s, Cost centers from source to target systems
- Define Actions for Mapping Entities Enhanced configuration for Mapping Entities, Define Scenarios for Cost Objects Mapping and Define Mapping Rules for Cost Object Mapping Scenarios
- Error handling thru using AIF (Application Interface framework) for all replication postings
- All kinds of testings for central finance to replicate all types of transactions.
Confidential
SAP Record to Report Architect & SME Fixed assets
Responsibilities:
- Worked on upgradation of classic GL to S/4 Hana finance by migrating to Hana database & EHP7 in separate server.
- Completed Preparation phase performed all reconciliations & period end activities and captured all report snapshots
- Completed installations for 1503 version with help of basis (all the index tables & total tables are backed automatically and Hana compatibility view for RICEF objects.
- Worked on customizing on GL from account approach to ledger approach and assigning them to each accounting principle. Created appendix ledgers for adjustment postings on top of base ledger.
- Created CO doc types & plan versions and assigned them to company code thru doc type variant.
- Configured the ledger approach by assigning the accounting principles to respective new ledgers & posted real times in all valuations
- Completely configured asset accounting by creating new depreciation areas for real time postings and parallel currencies reporting & removed delta areas
- Configured technical clearing account for postings from various modules & activated new asset accounting. Also configured delta changes for account determinations using A090
- Performed all types postings (acquisitions, retirements, transfers & new depreciation logic)
- Worked on CO-PA account based using COGS & Variance split
- Created GL accounts for COGS and detailed COGS(Material COGS & Labor COGS). Set up account determination for material movements by specifying the transaction keys BSX (inventory accounts) & GBB(change in inventory/COGS)
- Set up customizing & refinement of COGS. Assignment of refinement GL account to cost component structure and assign splitting schema to company code. Executed costing run to update the prices are up to date.
- Set up derivation rules in CO-PA
- Performed all kinds of testing after post migration.
- Worked on Accounting policies, procedures and standardized chart of accounts for newly acquired company
- Handled workshops for General ledger functions, journal entry processing, inter company accounting, foreingn exchange revaluations and translations
- Leading a team of consultants, client people for extraction, transformation and loading the data from Legacy to SAP systems.
- Working closely with Data Conversion leadership for updating the day to day activities about the progress and make any necessary changes for the delta loads
- Worked on US tax depreciation keys for USGAAP, Federal tax, Alt minimum tax, ACE, E&P, Fed Tax- No bonus, St.tax depreciation books. & successfully migrated to new system with Internal order functionalities
- Worked on month/year end activities and financial statements versions
- Worked closely with change management for compliance & controls
- Presented the solution of simple finance functions & benefits
- Data conversion integration lead in the Record to Report (FICO) area. Led team on all data integration points (business, process, and conversion)
- Working closely with business to gather all information pertaining to the legacy GL balances, Fixed Assets registers, AUC/CIP balances, AP, AR & GRIR open item conversions. Responsible for participating and reviewing all functional design documents of FICO data conversion objects.
- Working closely with business to clean up their Business/SAP readiness reports to make error free data while transforming
- Worked on cut over activities during go-live
- Working on the remedy incidents based on the complexity for all FICO objects.
- Performed in depth validations for both pre and post loads and reconciled with Legacy to SAP GL and Legacy Sub ledgers to SAP sub ledgers.
Confidential
SAP R2R Lead, New GL, Fixed assets, PS, JVA Support
Responsibilities:
- Works closely with business subject matter experts and leaders to define and improve business processes.
- Maintains awareness of SAP process strengths, supported best practices and development release schedule to assist in defining future direction.
- Work closely with the technical development team to ensure accurate and timely code that matches the designs
- Created new reports for all ARO initial liability, ARO activity
- Created Impairments and DD&A calculations. Revisited all UOP dep keys and recommended best practices solutions
- Setting up the salvage values by assigning a scrap value key to the dep key used in dep are for grouped assets to calculate depreciation on the remainder of the value.
- Setting of all config related to intercompany asset transfers(creating new transaction types, transfer variant, account determination, intercompany billing)
- Trouble shooting of all issues related to General Ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable & Fixed assets
- Configured interest calculations, SAP volumes, changes to financial statements, new asset history sheet reports
- Worked on 1099 reports for vendor payments
- Created new report painter reports for the Trail balance which includes the amounts & quantity for Total Oil, Gas & NGL revenues.
- Configured JVA company configuration, Ledgers(4A & 4B), number range maintenance (JV cutback, JV Doc, JV - JOA, JV-Master & JV-plan), JOA class, venture class, equity types, CI penalty categories & recovery indicators.
- Trouble shootings on all JVA related incidents (Cash calls, Partner billing, convenience netting & JIB)
- Configured sales & use tax settings(FTXP) & created reporting for 1099.
- Created new allocation cycles for JVA’s to post the costs & overheads
- Assisted in PRA configuration.
Confidential
Solution Architect - Fixed Assets, PS, IM, New GL
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Actively involved in the preparation, design, realization and Go live of clients implementation projects
- Defined detailed business plan & blueprint for process implementation & development requirements.
- Analyze and map the fit gap analysis of client business requirement, process by conducting workshops and work in sessions.
- Assisted in the development of overall scope as well as individual work plans.
- Worked closely with client business partners in each phase and adhered the industry best practices using standard SAP process.
- Handled the workshops with business users about the AS-IS process about Asset acquisitions, Asset depreciation along with different calculation methods, Asset transfer between different locations and plants, Assets scrapping or disposals, conversions and various asset reports according to each country legal requirements
- Performed process design, prototyping and feasibility studies for TO-BE solution
- Acted as principal consultant & led team of people for people development tasks
- Created a end - end customizing process for all the asset movements with one single tcode where it performs all types asset accounting process with integration of plant maintenance.
- Automated end to end intercompany asset process for complete/partial transfers - system performs an intercompany asset transfer, reclass entries to Intercompany clearing account and thereby creating a Sales order, once billing is done intercompany accounts will be offset and this completely automated.
- Designed various asset equipment joint reports both ECC & BW
- Prepare business blueprint document for all types of functional & configuration designs
- Created complex functional design for asset movements along with equipment data which process all the asset related activities with approvals by creating a notification.
- Configured the end to end solution for Fixed assets India which includes depreciation methods, keys for book & tax.
- Working closely with development team by transitioning the functional designs and providing the test data for all kinds of custom reports(equipment joint report, transaction report), BNA tax interfaces, asset movement process
- Working closely with change management team and SOX team for better controls and audit checks for all designs
- Successfully configured all New GL functionalities(Parallel reporting, segment reporting, document splitting)
- Working closely with leadership team to arrive at fit-gap analysis
- Configured Tax books along with depreciation keys based on tax requirements.
- Presenting the TO-BE solutions to business with prototyping the solution with different scenarios
- Completing writing the test script for system and user acceptance
- Completing all types of testing including unit, integration and UAT.
- Assisting in legacy data conversions for asset master and transactional data for mid-year & year end conversion by creating functional designs for conversions and assisting data team to load the Sub ledger
- Loading all GL balances by profit center for asset sub ledger and reconciling with legacy data
- Worked extensively on month end close scripts to close the UAT activities.
- Assisting in preparing the cut over activities for Go-Live
- Prepared training manual & training the end users.
Confidential
RTR Solution Architect - Fixed Assets (EMEA)
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Actively involved in the preparation, design, realization and Go live of clients implementation projects
- Defined detailed business plan & blueprint for process implementation & development requirements.
- Analyze and map the fit gap analysis of client business requirement, process by conducting workshops and work in sessions.
- Assisted in the development of overall scope as well as individual work plans.
- Worked closely with client business partners in each phase and adhered the industry best practices using standard SAP process.
- Created master data: Investment program, projects & orders
- Define the steps create for creation of appropriation request and design a workflow for approvals.
- Laid down detailed cost planning & specified budget for investment programs.
- Completed analyze phase and gathered requirements in fixed assets module for Europe which includes Italy, France, Hungary, Spain & Poland
- Handled the workshops with business users about the AS-IS process about Asset acquisitions, Asset depreciation along with different calculation methods, Asset transfer between different locations and plants, Assets scrapping or disposals, conversions and various asset reports according to each country legal requirements
- Designed chart of depreciations based on client requirements based on new GL for Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, Poland & UK for both statutory & tax purposes.
- Created special & deferred depreciation for France to book some portion of the depreciation which exceeds straight line depreciation.
- Designed & prototyped the various scenarios (Capitalized interest posting to US GAAP and not to Local GAAP, Asset capitalization (Total value minus Scrap value), Revaluations, Impairments, Low value assets, Capitalization based on Forex gain/Loss, Interest calculations, Capital leases), LC1, LC3 issues for Europe for FX invoices and presented to client.
- Designed & prototyped the solution for capital projects for assembly to order (A2O)
- Created depreciation keys for USGAAP & Local GAAP for both tangibles & Intangibles based on legal requirements.
- Prepared conversion program for legacy data & handled workshops with data team for successful loading of legacy data.
- Prepared business blueprint document for Process, detailed, functional, business process flow and configuration designs documents for end to end solution on fixed assets for North America & Europe
- Created & tested the RICEF for LC3 adjustment postings to foreign currency invoices for European countries as per local laws.
- Created a fixed assets global template for leveraging the solution to new deployments.
- Worked closely with regional, local & replication teams for successful deployments to various plants.
- Working closely with SAP team to implement the new Fiscal year variant to Non leading ledger which allows to post the values in calendar year for USGAAP & non calendar year postings in Local Gaap.
- Completed the detailed design & COE documents for asset mirror tool.
- Configured the system and making sure the solution addressing the business requirement for asset mirror tool.
- Completed end user training on asset mirror tool and making them understand the account postings during mirroring of asset master, transactions & balance transfer from mirror company code to original company code.
- Working closely with change management team, SOX and release management teams for better controls, audit checks for all the designs and transports to various clients.
- Define the testing approach, testing plans & scripts including unit, system integration and regression testing.
- Completed system integration test cycles & solving all the defects entered in HPQC for 3 major releases.
- Worked with training team to complete Job aids and helped in conducting the training to end users.
- Worked closely with cut over team to have all manual config & custom table entries during cut over.
- Worked as level 4 deep support for all fixed asset incidents.
- Worked on special purpose ledger for reporting, parallel accounting, validations/substitutions during data entry.
Confidential
Solution Architect
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Completed analyze phase and gathered requirements in fixed assets module for US, Canada & Mexico
- Prepared business blueprint document for activity designs, functional designs and configuration designs.
- Handled the workshops with business users about the AS-IS process about Asset acquisitions, Asset depreciation along with different calculation methods, Asset transfer between different locations and plants, Assets scrapping or disposals and various asset reports.
- Presentation to leadership teams the options along with pros & cons for various designs.
- Identified fit-gap Analysis and noted all the RICEF objects and completed writing the functional designs for asset bar code forms, new asset master data fields, capitalization date etc extensions, interfaces with legacy systems for property tax, Income tax and asset management systems & various reports.
- Working closely with change management team, SOX and release management teams for better controls, audit checks for all the designs and transports to various clients.
- Worked closely with development teams by transitioning the functional designs and providing the test data for testing of all RICEF objects.
- Define the testing approach, testing plans & scripts for the system
- Executed unit, system, assembly, acceptance, integration, regression and UAT testing.
- Presented the TO-BE solution to steering committee with prototyping the solution with different scenarios (Acquisitions, AUC’s, capitalizations, depreciations/amortizations, transfers, disposals, reports and integration points between different modules with respect to Fixed Asset module within the SAP.
- Preparing the detailed design documents along with base line configuration in the SAP ECC environment.
- Configured the system according to the requirements documents.
- Completed the functional design documents for conversions for asset master and transactional data.
- Started designing the Job aids and training materials for end users
- Cutover plan preparation & mock conversions
- Creation of variants for month end activities for each company codes
- Successfully handedly the asset revaluations for Mexico tax requirements.
- Extensively worked on supplier tooling process involving assembly to order process A2O.
Confidential
Lead SAP FICO (Data Integration)
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Data conversion integration lead in the Record to Report (FICO) area. Led team on all data integration points (business, process, and conversion)
- Leading a team of consultants, client people for extraction, transformation and loading the data from Legacy to SAP systems.
- Working closely with Data Conversion leadership for updating the day to day activities about the progress and make any necessary changes for the delta loads
- Working closely with business to gather all information pertaining to the legacy GL balances, Fixed Assets registers, AUC/CIP balances, Cost center plans, Allocations other FICO related objects. Responsible for participating and reviewing all functional design documents of FICO data conversion objects.
- Working closely with business to clean up their Business/SAP readiness reports to make error free data while transforming
- Assigning the remedy incidents to different team members and prioritizing based on the complexity for all FICO objects.
- Performed in depth validations for both pre and post loads and reconciled with Legacy to SAP GL and Legacy Sub ledgers to SAP sub ledgers.
- Worked closely with configuration teams to make loads smooth and make any configuration changes
- Extensive Experience working with HP Quality Center
Confidential
Lead SAP FICO Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Consumer goods Industry)
Responsibilities:
- Gathering detailed requirements from business users for level 3 support work, approved projects and medium to complex enhancements to existing SAP FICO configuration or development objects.
- Performing design and writing functional specifications as needed for workflow, forms, reports, interfaces, conversions, and enhancements (WRICEF) for all the SAP FICO modules plus Project systems and Investment management.
- Performs unit tests and other tests as needed and works with endusers on User Acceptance testing (UAT).
- Working with Business Stakeholders, IT Infrastructure teams, and development teams to ensure that business requirements are properly configured within SAP FICO and that all development objects perform as designed.
- Emphasizing and supporting the need for continuous improvement through the use of proven methods such as Root Cause Analysis
- Works with senior management and business to perform quality reviews at the requirements, design and development phases and to pass stage gates
- Actively supporting the deployment phases through knowledge transfer, global template configuration extension, new design configuration and appropriate documentation
- Provides consistent progress/status reports to senior leadership.
Confidential
SAP Controlling Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Public transportation)
Responsibilities:
- Studying the Controlling/Costing area AS-IS system for requirement gatherings to prepare To-BE processes along with recommendations on business transformations.
- Developed Business process design and process flow for each master data element(cost centers, profit centers, secondary cost elements, internal orders, activity types, statistical key figures and work orders) and cost allocations and settlements in controlling area
- Conducted various work session and workshops with business people to understand their business and map into SAP with regard to assessments, distributions, settlements of cost objects, profit centers.
- Defined solution definition for all process flows including sub activities, process gateways, external processes, risks & controls, business process benefits, RICEF inventory and roles for all controlling master data elements, allocations and settlements.Involved in designing the high level organizational structures (Cost centers and profit centers along with hierarchies) along with business rules.
- Completed the position paper on controlling master data elements including definition, recommendation and rationale.
- Prototyped & configured all controlling related functionalities(Cost element, Cost center, Internal order, profit center accounting, product costing & CO PA.
Confidential
Lead (Fixed Assets)
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0
Responsibilities:
- Worked on fit-gap Analysis and noted all the RICEF objects and completed writing the functional designs for mass asset transfers, asset master extract reports, Intra & intercompany asset transfer reports and tax interface.
- Worked closely with development teams by transitioning the functional designs and providing the test data for testing of all above objects
- Working closely with security teams to define roles for each asset transactions.
- Define the testing approach, testing plans & scripts for the system
- Executed unit, system, assembly, acceptance, integration, regression and UAT testing.
- Reviewing the detailed design documents along with base line configuration in the SAP ECC environment.
- Configured additional configurations based on the requirements documents.
Confidential, Milwaukee, WI
SAP Controlling Consultant
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 (Consumer Industry: Enterprise Applications)
Responsibilities:
- Assisted to define business case and obtain approval
- Defined Requirements and create Functional Design documents
- Developed CCA, IO reports using Report Painters/Report writers and CO-PA drilldown reports for new P&L, Unit and System Test planning and execution, break-fixing and defect management and participated in UAT
- Provide financial reporting in the new Joint Venture consolidated P&L format.
- Created common GL, Cost center and IO structure for JV and created security profiles for all CC and IO’s.
- For Version Copies, did all necessary validations and checks including Settlements, Reversals of Settlements, manual update in KPF6 as per ‘Actuals’ Report by Period breakdown
- CCA and IO Planning Report Painter Reports maintenance and remodeling based on Fiscal Year change requirements; creating Variables and Sets
- CO-PA Reports for P&L Reporting, based on Domestic and International applications, drilled down by Net Contribution and Income Statement requirements
- Assisted to define overall strategy and approach
- Project leadership and delivery execution
- Assisted in high level requirement gatherings, design documents & WRICEF List
- Created functional design documents for inbound and outbound interfaces for cost objects, employee data and accounting data based on WRICEF list