SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of extensive SAP R/3 experience in Functional and technical areas.
• Over 5 years of project management experience with customer facing projects.
• Over 5 years of OneSource Indirect Tax (SABRIX) implementation experience for North America and global regions.
• Managed multiple SAP OneSource Indirect Tax implementation projects for fortune 500 companies and took them live as per the schedule with great success.
• Worked closely with business process owners and project sponsors in designing the project road, deliverables and time lines.
• Hired and managed a team of technical/Business system analysts both in US and offshore.
• Delivered several presentations on the best practices for the SAP Sabrix implementations.
• Highly motivated and possess excellent problem solving skills and worked under extremely time sensitive projects.
• Worked with product management team to address the product bugs and additional features that have been identified during the implementation.
• Worked on SAP FI Functional and technical areas of Design/BPR, Implementation, Realization Configuration, Customization, Integration, Testing, and Go - Live & Support with Full Life Cycle Implementations.
• Comprehensive experience in configuring OneSource Indirect Tax solution and SAP OneSource Indirect Tax Connection for global implementations for sales and use tax and VAT.
• Implemented OneSource Indirect Tax for SAP CRM and SRM modules.
• Configuration of the project covering the following modules: FI-AR, FI-GL, FI-AP, Asset accounting.
• General Ledger: Comprehensive knowledge of Chart of Accounts, Company code Configuration, G/L account Master records including Field Status groups, Number range, Document types and Posting keys, Tolerance groups, and Financial Statement versions etc. Good knowledge of New GL functionality in ECC 6.0 including Document splitting, Parallel Accounting etc.
• Accounts Payable: Extensive knowledge of Account groups, and Partner Functions, Checks Management, Payment program and Payment methods, Account Assignment Model, Invoice creation, Duplicate Invoice check. Logistics Invoice verification including Invoice Blocking, Invoice Reduction, Reversals and GR/IR Account maintenance etc.
• Accounts Receivables: Extensive knowledge of AR related configuration, Customer Master data, Payment method and Payment terms, Screen Layouts, Auto Cash Application using Lockboxes and Cash Preprocessor, Manual cash application, Customer Tolerances, Remittance and Payment Advices, Deductions and Residuals, Document Reversals, Credit Management, Credit Management, Customer Account statements, and Dunning etc.
• Banking: House banks and Bank accounts, bill of exchange.
• Fixed Assets: Asset class, Asset master data, Depreciation, depreciation keys, account assignment in cost accounting, number ranges, creating reconciliation accounts for assets, integration with GL, acquisitions, retirements, transfer of Assets and Asset data transfer.
• Implemented OneSource Indirect Tax External Tax interface with SAP for US, CA, EMEA, LATAM and APAC regions for Multinational customers.
• Configured SAP FI, SD and MM modules for external SAP tax interface system.
• Comprehensive experience with Tax Procedure, Pricing procedure, Access sequence, condition types and tax codes.
• Designed and developed functional specifications documents for various customer specific custom business process solutions.
• Worked in a professional services group in a customer facing environment and provided solutions instantly over the phone.
• Worked extensively on the RFC interfaces using SAP JCo.
• Designed and developed several custom solutions related to the SAP external tax interface.
• Proficient in Interface development using ALE, RFC, EDI, and IDOC.
• Developed several custom classical, interactive and ALV reports.
• Expertise in Developing Data Conversion and Data transfer program by using BAPI, LSMW and BDC Call Transaction and Session method.
• Proficient in Dialog Programming using Screen Painter and Menu painter.
• Experienced in Designing and Development of Data Dictionary Object, Table, Domain, Data Element, Structure, Views and Lock Object.
• Comprehensive experience in drawing technical specifications from functional specifications.
• Extensively worked to modify the existing layout and develop new layout in SAP script, Smart forms and developed print programs.
• Worked on SAP enhancement of SAP R/3 by using User-Exits, BADI, Customer-Exits, Enhancement points and BADI
• Extensive experience in debugging, performance tuning and SQL tracing.
• Worked on the SAP BASIS activities like transport management, user creation, Role definition, Job scheduling, authorization, gateway monitoring and load balancing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. SAP Sabrix techno functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 EHP Versions, One Source Indirect Tax (Sabrix) products, SAP Sabrix integration and SAP Next integration.

Responsibilities:

• Working with the Global and regional SAP tax leaders in gathering business requirements for US, CA, EU and China, implementations.
• Implemented the new SAP Global NEXT integration product for Confidential lighting business.
• Provided solution designs for to meet the Confidential specific tax requirements.
• Designed custom SAP Solutions to avoid the conflict with the current non-Sabrix company codes in SAP.
• Designed custom SAP solution to address the French vendor exemptions based on the threshold amount.
• Designed and implemented the complex solutions like High sea sales and EU triangulation.
• Optimized the tax user exit implementation and provided solutions in sourcing the additional Master and transactional data from SAP to pass it to Sabrix.
• Configured SAP External tax interface for SD, MM and FI processes to meet the US, CA and EU implementation requirements.
• Configured Sabrix application for US, CA to meet the sales and use taxes.
• Configured Sabrix application to meet the EU VAT requirements.
• Provided UAT and cutover support to resolve the testing issues on expedited basis.
• Provided hyper care post-production support for the countries that went live.

Confidential

SAP Sabrix Principal Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC6.0 EHP Versions, One Source Indirect Tax products.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Global and regional business team in gathering business requirements for US, EU, APAC and Brazil SAP Sabrix implementation.
• Analyzed the business requirements and designed the optimized solutions to meet the requirement both in SAP and Sabrix.
• Worked with the Global and regional SAP functional team to review the WRICEF requirements.
• Designed WRICEF’s with optimized custom solutions to meet the tax business requirements.
• Worked with the development team to review the WRICEFs design and provided the guidance throughout the development and testing process.
• Configured SAP External tax interface for SD, MM and FI processes to meet the US, EU and APAC implementation requirements.
• Configured Sabrix application for US to meet the sales and use taxes.
• Configured Sabrix application to meet the EU VAT requirements.
• Provided hyper care post-production support for the countries that went live.

Confidential

Project Manager/Sr. Implementation consultant

Environment: SAP 4.7, ECC5.0 and ECC6.0 EHP versions, OneSource Indirect Tax products.

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP OneSource Indirect Tax implementation projects from the project kickoff stage thru production go-live.
• Worked closely with the Finance and tax teams to capture the business requirements and turn them into business requirement document and solution documents.
• Managed the offshore SAP team and assigned them to the projects as needed.
• Managed the project budgets effectively to complete the projects within the budget and time frame.
• Prepared functional and technical design documents out of the business requirements documents.
• Configured SAP pricing procedure, tax procedure, condition types, access sequences and other required configurations from SAP to support the external tax interface system for US, CA and Global tax implementations.
• Configured SAP tax codes and GL accounts to post taxes retuned by OneSource Indirect Tax.
• Configured OneSource Indirect Tax solution for major Multinational customers for their global implementations to support their complex and unique tax requirements.
• Designed and developed SAP custom enhancements for Brazil to support taxes Nota Fiscal and eNota Fiscal.
• Designed and developed several custom SAP tools to support the customer specific tax and financial requirements.
• Designed and developed Tax user exit to populate additional information to pass to OneSource Indirect Tax for tax determination and audit.
• Designed and developed TransEditors in OneSource Indirect Tax solution to modify the source information.
• Configured custom rules in OneSource Indirect Tax solution to handle the customer specific requirements for specific scenarios.
• Designed and developed custom pricing routines in SAP to enhance the standard pricing features.
• Enhanced the SAP OneSource Indirect Tax goods movement program to support the new requirements from customers.
• Developed customized condition formulas based the customer’s tax requirements.
• Customized user exit to pass the legally required tax data to print on the invoices.
• As a key technical resource, I directly interact with the customer’s business users in gathering tax requirements and design of custom solutions.
• Installed OneSource Indirect Tax solution, SAP OneSource Indirect Tax integration and OneSource Indirect Tax reports for the customers in complex landscape and architecture.
• Upgraded OneSource Indirect Tax solution and OneSource Indirect Tax reports from 4.3.XX to 5.x.x.x versions for several customers.
• Involved in developing the SAP OneSource Indirect Tax Architecture for several OneSource Indirect Tax customers.
• Developed BADIs to enhance the data from the standard transactions.
• Developed data conversion programs to update the vendor, customer master data using BAPIs.
• Developed several knowledge base articles which helps in providing custom solutions in short time.
• Implemented several OSS notes from SAP in the process of implementation to overcome the issues encountered in SAP.
• Worked closely with customer for their go live preparation and go live cutover process.
• Identified several bugs or limitations in SAP OneSource Indirect Tax integration.
• Designed and developed several custom SAP solutions to integrate with OneSource Indirect Tax solution for tax determination and posting FI documents in SAP and OneSource Indirect Tax.
• Worked closely with product management team in extending the business functionality of the product as we discover the limitations during the implementations.

Confidential

Sr. SAP lead Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC5.0, SD, MM, PP & FICO and Solution manager.

Responsibilities:

• Managed SAP development team and worked closely with them to provide guidance and direction for development efforts.
• Worked closely with the senior management to coordinate the project progress and project timelines.
• Organized daily and weekly calls with the project team to analyze the progress and issues.
• Developed a customized Purchase order script for all document type based on the standard Purchase order. Designed screen layouts and developed corresponding print programs.
• Worked extensively on SAP Solution Manager.
• Worked extensively on various RICEF objects.
• Developed an interface program to determine the Sales forecast for past 2 years.
• Designed a bulk loading record form screen layout and developed the corresponding print program.
• Developed customized program to generate PDF documents and generate emails.
• Translated sales, quotation and all purchasing documents into Portuguese, Spanish and French languages.
• Translated customized reports to Portuguese, Spanish and French languages.