SUMMARY

• Business transformation specialist with 17 years’ experience implementing SAPFI, CO, AR, AP, S/4 HANA 1511 & 1610, Simple Financemigration,FSCM.
• Steered Finance Business Process assessments atAP Moller Maersk, Honeywell, Air Products, ABB, Whirlpool and International Paper that led to SAP FSCM, BPC, FI/CO redesign and implementation winsof revenueover $500M.
• Driving force behind software selection, implementation and roll out of SAP Travel & Expense Management - Mobility solution at AP Moller Maersk, the cross-enterprise SAP Mobile Enabled solution that allows Travel Booking, Expense Claim, Approval and Reimbursement access risk management for all Employees using SAP apps on smart-phones
• Led Design and Implementation of SAP Finance Transformation Project at AP Moller Maersk Group, Denmark (a $75B Container Ship and Supply Vessel Operator Leader). As FIN Domain Executive delivered following work streams on schedule with budget. New GL Migration using Migration cockpit (Scenario 5), FSCM In-house Cash(IHC) and Bank Communication Management (BCM), Master Data Governance MDG, GRC - Access Control and GRC Process controls for Finance, Travel and Expense management process and Mobility Solution, BPC - Legal Consolidation, BW-IP Financial Planning and Budgeting, IFRS Reporting, Development of complex interfaces in AR/AP and bank interfaces.
• Re-engineered project team for Maersk and Honeywellengagement to achieve aggressive timelines and manage riskon SAP FI/Co, FSCM, TR and CRM process integration initiativethat spans six global regions witha user base of over 20,000.
• Integration Expertise includes SAP FI/CO Integration to MM, SD, HR Module (Payroll, Time & Expense Management and Success Factors (HCM Cloud Solutions), CRM, C4C, SRM, Ariba, GRC, MDM/MDG, BPC and Middle ware systems like Dell Boomi for sales force integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Solution Architect / SAP Finance & BPC

Responsibilities:

• Worked on defining the BPC Architecture & Data Modeling, Business process work flows.
• Responsible for Successful global template rollout for Financial Planning, Budgeting and Legal & Managerial consolidation
• Design and Development of Trail balance, Balance Sheet and Cash flow statement for Grainger WW and responsible for Global Financial Consolidation and IFRS, Country Legal Requirements (US and Local GAAP reporting) using BPC 10.1 NW
• Design and development of Expense, Revenue Planning, Forecast and budgeting of very complex dynamic and flexible expense allocations and currency translation
• Responsible for technical architecture design and road map for implementation and cloud solutions
• Worked on BW-IP 7.4 (Integrated Planning). Responsible for defining Info-cubes, characteristic relationships, set data slices, planning filters
• Build Excel-based and web-based BW-IP applications. Worked on BPC / BW-IP / PAK in SAP BW 7.4 on HANA
• Design and interpretation of reporting architecture for SAP BI and mapping to SAP ECC/ Non-SAP data structures and data loads to BPC. Implementation of BPC Financial Consolidation, Cash Flow statement and Head Count reports
• Responsible for conducting workshops to business users and sharing the knowledge of leading practices for accounting functions, month end closing, Consolidation process and provided insights to SAP General Ledger, Asset accounting, controlling and profitability process areas and maintain internal controls, Insights into other consolidation tools like Cognos,Hyperion and SEM-BCS and process integration between financial and planning scenarios
• Configure BPC for planning functionality, key planning utilities, Input Schedules, Allocations and Forecast Models
• Report and Input schedules design and development Knowledge of Script Logic
• Involved in Period and Year closing activities and generated reports required by the business owners.
• Conduct problem analysis, performance tuning of FI reports and provided solutions to the Stake holders.
• Worked on Hyper care support and providing daily cadence to PMO
• Defined Testing Strategy and ensure user acceptance testing and Business sign off Responsible for Integration of, FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-CO, HR Module (payroll processing, Time & Expense management and Success factors (HCM cloud solutions).
• SAP FICO Integration with SAP HCM and HRMS modules and responsible for technical architecture design and road map for implementation and cloud solutions
• Responsible for review and sign-off functional and technical specifications, change requests with Development team and PMO
• Defined Testing Strategy and ensure user acceptance testing and Business sign off

Confidential, NJ

Senior Manager/ SAP Finance & BPC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparation of Road-map for migration of ERP global systems to EHP7 and S/4 Hana installation and migration. Involved in consistency checks before installation and migration of historical data into ACDOCA view, SAP Fiori activation. Migration of Sales orders and contracts, G/L customizing, Defined settings for Central Journal Entry ledger
• Responsible for defining systems strategy, developing systems landscape requirements, design, prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing business solutions under multiple deadlines
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, System design, Configuring, testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements and various functionalities in FI and CO modules
• Converting the Microsoft Mobile ERP Global system in to EHP7 as a prerequisite to
• Start Simple Finance Migration underS/4HANAon premises edition 1511
• Preparation of Road map forsimplefinance& building the team for the project
• Pre-migration steps forsimplefinancealong with data management
• Migration to SAP Accounting powered by SAPHANA& Prior installation steps
• Consistency Checks before Installation and Migration
• Handling Customer-Defined Fields and Interfaces & Period-End Closing Activities
• Documentation for Dataset before Installation and Migration
• Activation of Business functions & also BI content with ABAP & BI team
• Preparing the ERP system for Migration & hand over to technical team for upgrade
• Preparations and Customizing Migration in the General Ledger & GL planning with IBP
• New Universal Journal activities & Converting historical data in to ACDOCA view
• Migration of House Bank for cash management & Account based COPA activation.
• Post migration steps & Historical data management in newHANAviews
• Migration to New Asset Accounting FI-AA (New) & Configuration of changes in Accounting principles and Depreciation Area
• Configuration of CentralFinancewith Central Landscape Retrieving server with PI team
• System preparation for Fiori as user interface & helping KPI Modular creation for Fiori applications