SUMMARY

• He is a SAP Solution Architect and a team lead in Financials Advisory. He assists multinational clients in the Media, Industrials (Manufacturing), Consumer Products, Chemicals and Life Sciences industries to solve complex financial and operational business process transformation issues.
• He is trained in SAP Simple Finance with the architecture of backend database S/4 HANA. He is a process champion for Universal, simple and harmonized finance operations using leading practice business processes.
• He has over 17 years of experience in Management consulting, General Ledger and Management accounting and auditing experience working with companies in the United States, Europe and Asia. He is a proven trusted advisor to Business owners a.k.a BU managers and has led several, large - scale ERP projects to transform financial and operational processes focused on: New General ledger using One leading and Parallel Local ledgers, Product Costing for Discrete and Process industries, Cost and Profitability Management & optimization, operational efficiency improvement, adherence of US GAAP standards, Sarbanes Oxley compliance and overall project management.
• He has helped global clients formulate, control and analyze their processes in areas of GL, AP, Fixed Assets, Inventory Control and management, Human Capital management components like Personnel Organization/Administration, Payroll and Labor time collection on projects
• Global Finance Organization set up of global legal entities with different currencies
• Global Controlling Area, Management Accounting organization set up
• Multiple Valuation, Transfer pricing at Profit centers
• New General ledger - Parallel ledgers, Currency Translations, Document Splitting. Knowledge of new SAP Simple Finance Architecture for Finance Transformation
• Integration of GL with Inventory management transactions, Sales & Distribution
• Project Systems for Capital and Operating projects-including work-in-process and settlements
• Product Costing completely integrated to Production Planning, BOM, Recipes, Activities
• Profitability Analysis-Enterprise Performance - Both Account and Cost based to reconcile with GL, Leveraging S/4 Hana for real-time reporting
• Analytical Data Extraction and Reporting for Financial Statements using BW Info providers and Business Intelligence
• Financial and Analytical Reporting using BW-BEX Analyzer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP Controlling Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and deployed Product Costing by Phases of Production and also Material Ledger functionality for a global Bakery group having operations in Iberia, EMEA/Europe and USA.
• Implemented Periodic Revaluation of Inventory Consumption at ‘Actual Cost’ at multilevel and single level
• Ensured in configuration that the purchasing price variances & exchange differences from lower level are rolled over to the inventories for finished products (Periodic Valuation at period end)
• Added Distribution of Usage variances functionality to supplement ‘back-flushed’ posting of components consumption to the process orders
• Designed a new cost component breakdown for ‘Actual costs’ and mapped costs to flow correctly into costing based CO-PA
• Helped Business process owners to analyze all the process orders for Direct and Indirect/Overheads costs, Allocations/Distributions of Indirect cost to Product Families and customer groups. Implemented Period end allocation cycles for Variances, Shared service/SG&A costs to families of products.

Transformation Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and build of New General Ledger (one leading ledger, one statutory) by Profit Center(SEC segments) catering to multiple legal entities with different currencies
• Blueprint Design and build/deploy of Controlling - Project system to operate, track and analyze Capital investment costs and maintenance (OPEX) costs. The system was built with interfaces to Procurement, HCM Employee Master in alignment with Personnel Organization, Payroll Wage type configuration and settlement to FI General ledger, Supply chain Integration design for Components, Field Services and Plant Maintenance. The cost tracking and analysis was achieved with Project Systems Information system and WIP valuated in General ledger for open projects
• System used WBS elements and Networks as the “cost objects”. At each node (WBS element) the values for Plan, Budget and Actual cost were captured. Network Activities designed to represent the tasks within a project. They are the basis for scheduling, detailed planning and requisitioning of materials and services. All Network Activities roll up to a WBS element based on the project template.
• Integrated the Employees with HCM home cost centers to the company for Labor costs collection and ensured that the time reported via CATS transaction is posted to correct cost object of WBS element and/or Internal order
• Design Project definition templates, project budgeting and updates, project cost collection including interface with HCM for employee capture, project inventory valuation and analysis and reporting of project performance reports
• Facilitate budgeting for dimensions such as cost centers, fund centers, funds, funded programs, grants by cost elements
• Interface with Vertex tax software package for sales and use taxes
• Integrate project budgeting and project costs into General Ledger for US GAAP compliance and management reporting
• Developed Requirements gathering documentation and processes for Costing and Account-based Profitability management including analysis of Direct and Indirect/Overheads costs, Allocations/Distributions of cost to Product Families and customers. Implemented Period end allocation cycles for Variances, Shared service/SG&A costs.
• Integrate Finance with Manufacturing, Sales cycle, Profitability Analysis, Operations Planning, Supply Chain Management and General accounting

SAP COPA Platinum Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• After implementing SAP SD processes along with integrated Controlling Profitability Analysis, client had slippage in Contribution Margin which needed to be analyzed with recommendation for leading practices
• Analyzed and documented business processes of sales and returns, credit issuance, rebates and incentives, inventory write down and slippages
• Documented the business case for achievement of close collaboration between operations, sales and accounting
• Set up process for review of analytics data reports from BW reporting on performance of operations, sales and finance departments