SUMMARY:

• An enthusiastic professional with more than 8.5 years of total experience
• Currently working with Deloitte Consulting LLP for more than 5 years as SAP FICO Senior Consultant on S4 HANA Finance 2.0 platform.
• 3 years of experience with Gujarat Gas Company ltd (British Gas subsidiary) as Senior Executive Engineer
• Currently leading New Asset Accounting and Project Systems implementation on SAP Simple Finance 1503 for a wholesale distribution client for Oil and Gas industry with presence across the globe.
• Expert on S4HANA Finance Migration from ECC and New Asset Accounting migration activities and tasks, having worked on two migration projects.
• Have led and managed different phases of SAP implementation project like conducting blueprinting sessions, configuring system, preparing for go live, managing cutover activities and supporting post go live support.
• Expert in setting up the client financial enterprise structure, reporting hierarchy and workflows for business processes.
• Proficient in all aspects of Project Systems including Planning, Budgeting and Cost allocations. Has setup WBS elements, Network and their Activities, Cost Planning and Budgeting.
• Domain expert of business processes STO, CCSTO, Drop shipment, Asset Accounting, Investment Management, Product costing and FI closing process.
• Have worked on SAP Finance integration with different external reporting and data systems like TM1, Hyperion, Reuters, Paymetric etc.
• Extensive experience of managing Go live cutover activities, data migration and conversion process for Asset Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and GL balances for implementation projects.
• Expertise on SAP FI & CO configuration involving New GL, AP, AR, AA & CO Product Costing and COPA, requirement mapping, business process definition, Unit & Integration testing, UAT Support and post go - live support.
• Also having experience on designing business models for SAP implementation pursuits including estimation of time and effort analysis.
• A trained resource of SAP Joint Venture Accounting and having working knowledge of JVA configuration, Master Data, Equity Types & groups, Recovery and Billing indicators and Cutbacks for Oil and Gas Industry.
• Three years of domain experience in natural gas distribution upstream industry with world renowned natural gas company. Worked as a project lead on plant automation & wireless communication projects
• A quick learner with high adaptability, strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Holds a valid US work visa and has customer engagement exposure across client locations in US and Europe.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead- Fixed Asset and Project Systems

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducting and facilitating the global and local design workshops to capture the requirements
• Global Implementation of SAP Simple Finance solution for FI and CO modules across the organization.
• Conducting Blueprinting sessions and business scenario demos for the client.
• Carrying out integration meetings with other business holders to understand the cross team requirements.
• Preparation of business flows using Industry Print capturing As-Is and To-Be processes. Utilizing the EVD methodology and other SAP tools like SolMan and HPQC
• Preparation of documentation like Control documents, Fit-gap documents and the sign-off documents.
• Leading the RICEF identification and development of functional specifications and assisting the team members in resolving any technical or open design issues.

Lead- FICO Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in global Implementation of modules like FI-GL AP, AR, FA and CO for new roll out countries. Involved in configuration, Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Understand the financial processes and its mapping in modelling tool for the countries which are going live and map them in SAP.
• Worked on SAP FI & CO configuration involving GL, AP, AR, AA & CO Product Costing, requirement mapping, business process definition, Unit & Integration testing, UAT Support and post go-live support.
• Have worked on Product costing scenarios like make to order, make to stock and sales order costing.
• Have worked on month end and year end business processes related to FI and CO.
• Handling conversion of master data like Customer master, Vendor Master, Asset master and of transactional balances like GL balances, AR, AP, GR/IR balances, Inventory, WIP and Assets balances.
• Validating the extraction, transformation and Load of the open items to ensure its correctness and entirety.
• Preparation of functional specification documents after analysing the gaps, of areas related to Gl upload, Gl and AP reconciliation reports for Load Validation.
• Developed critical functional specifications for carrying out necessary enhancements, conversions, forms, interfaces to meet the design gaps.
• Working on processes like STO, CCSTO, Drop shipment, Rentals, After Sales Service.
• Working on Asset Management processes like Asset Acquisition, Asset Transfer and Asset Retirements.
• Working on developing Depreciation Areas and specific Depreciation Keys for Asset Accounting to meet the local reporting requirements.
• Has helped client in setting up their various payment and disbursement methods for their vendors.
• Has worked on developing and implementing FI and CO closing process from finance point of view.
• Developing the cutover strategies and cutover plan related to financial objects, like GL, AP, AR and Asset for the go live.
• Developed the test cases for unit testing, integrating testing and regression testing to ensure that desired functionalities are working as per the expectation.
• Have worked on post go live support of the projects, helping the support team in incident managements and timely resolving of the defects.
• Have carried out knowledge sharing and development and imparting sessions with client and support team to make them ensure they understand the business processes and its mapping in SAP.

Lead Functional Consultant for FICO Module

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducting and facilitating the global and local design workshops to capture the requirements
• Global Implementation of Travel and expense management module across the organization.
• It involved handling of both credit card and out of pocket expenses and the reimbursements to employee through both payroll and accounts payable.
• Conducting and facilitating the global and local design workshops to capture the requirements
• Have integrated the SAP Travel Management with SAP Payroll and SAP Finance for payment of reimbursements.
• Have developed Tax related solution for client to meet the local government requirements.
• Preparation of business flows using Industry Print capturing As-Is and To-Be processes. Utilize the EVD methodology and other SAP tools like Industry Print extensively during implementation
• Preparation of documentation like Control documents, Fit-gap documents and the sign-off documents.
• Lead the RICEF preparation for developing all functional specifications and assist the team members in resolving any technical or open design issues to deliver quality documents
• Develop unit test cases, integration test scenarios, configuration documents and other deliverables.
• Preparation of and change management documents.

SAP FICO and SAP Travel Management Expert

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all the RICEF effort for developing functional specifications
• Captured key business rules, pain points, gaps and issues.
• Prepared of functional specifications for workflow for General Ledger uploads and report
• Participating in designing of the web based GL upload tool
• Preparation of Test Scripts for testing of workflow and reports

SAP FICO Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintained business process and configurable system functionality of Billing/Charging (Transactional, Arrears, Future Billing capabilities); Locks (Holds) Clearing and Disbursement processing)
• Testing of Payment Processing Financial Disbursement Team - Draft and Execute Functional Unit Testing and Integration Testing scripts; specifically for the Billing/Charging and Locks (Holds) processing
• Draft Integration test scripts as per the guidelines provided from the Functional Unit Scripts