SUMMARY

• SAP Lead Consultant with core qualifications in areas of Financials(FI), Controlling(CO), Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM), Project Systems (PS), ISU (Utilities), FICA (FI Contract Accounting) and PSCD (Public Sector Collections and Disbursements)
• Seasoned Professional with over 11 years of SAP functional consulting experience with excellent record for achieving business objectives in project leadership, business process implementation, solution implementations and delivery
• Accomplished Seven Full life Cycle Implementations and multiple rollouts, enhancements, support, upgrade Projects with active participation in Blue printing, Cut - Over tasks and Post Implementation support using ASAP Methodologies
• Excellent knowledge on the business flows in various industries such as Manufacturing, Public Sector, Financial, Retail, Service, Automobile, Utility and Service, Pharmaceutical, Bio technology and life sciences etc.
• Experience in handling CxO level executives in multiple projects
• Lead the localization workshop to gather the local European and Singapore legal and Statutory requirements (Including IFRS) and convince the business areas to adhere to global templates
• Developed Agile and RDS methodology to develop a product “FINANCIALS ONE” in 12-16 week implementation for small/medium enterprises which is later approved by SAP and available for sale in SAP Products since 2010
• Managed Budgets Annually and handled Onsite and Offshore Teams
• Worked with cross segment functional managers and directors to help align enterprise architecture strategies with key business initiatives and development project roadmaps
• Worked and negotiated with other development teams to drive implementation of the SAP Project in Waves model while having tremendous pressure from business owners of the legacy systems and business teams that had to be carefully navigated to keep the project moving.
• Strong Implementation experience in New General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Collections and Dispute Management, Funds and Grants Management, Dunning, Special Purpose Ledger and Banking
• Strong Implementation experience in CO includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEL), Product Costing (CO-PC) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
• In depth understanding of Business Processes in SAP Finance and Controlling modules and their integration with Revenue Accounting and Reporting, Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), SD, MM, PP, PM (Plant Maintenance), HR, SCM, SRM, CRM involving automatic account determination
• Conversant with US GAAP, IFRS, FERC, RAR and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance
• Extensive cross module Interfaces (A2A & B2B) from SAP to downstream and vice versa using PI/XI, Web Methods, EDI, Idocs etc.
• Conducted training sessions, provided end user training and prepared training documents using Gotomeeting, Webex, Infopak, Visio and tools
• Good interaction with the users in analyzing the business requirements and documenting them into functional specifications and explaining them to the ABAP consultants
• Hands on Experience on creating FICO reports using Report Painter, ABAP Query and BI/BW and data upload using LSMW & SCAT, Winshuttle
• Worked in Pre-sales and sales for SAP Projects and Fiori Apps with exposure to different options such as HANA, UI5, Webdynpro ABAP, Java ABAP etc.
• Handled multiple projects in various PM tools such as Microsoft Project, Planview etc and heavy experience in Microsoft Office and Google Office tools
• Proven experience in ability to adapt quickly, work in teams and excellent Strong Analytical Reporting, Communication skills, and Interpersonal Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Improved the AP Invoice Processing automation through Dolphin tool (similar to Opentext)
• Enhanced and supported the workflow processes for various business scenarios in Invoice processing
• Data Mapping of the fields through Captiva system for Invoice scanning and XML processing
• Developed the first Fiori Applications in Confidential from scratch with basis and security teams
• Worked extensively on Fiori tiles, working with security on services, basis on gateway server.
• Implemented the SOD (Segregation of Duties) project for auditors to implement high priority conflicts for the SOX compliance policies
• Evaluated various vendor tools such as Security Weaver, GRC to understand the functionality of both tools in implementing SOD
• Worked on the Security Weaver tool to implement the system, participating in workshops with business user groups
• Worked on various tools in Security Weaver to integrate various ABAP and Non ABAP systems
• Interfaced the ICL (Check Imaging) data transfer process from Confidential to Confidential
• Upgraded the Remittance Payment System (RPS) system to improve the payment receivables for the Utility Payments
• Worked in various master data such as contracts etc. in FI-CA to improve the RPS Processes
• Improved the PCARD processing to generate appropriate workflows to the card holds and their managers for timely completion of the steps and successful monthly reconciliation for accounting
• Worked with BW team to create multiple reports for various business groups
• Developed various enhancements for improvements in AP, GL and Audit processes for Accounting team
• Supported the tickets on day to day basis for various stakeholders such as Accounting, Supply Chain, and Treasury etc.
• Worked closely with business and Technical team to identify the conflicts, mitigation of risks and implementing the solutions
• Quality Check on Upgrade of SAP systems for year-end patch application
• Extensive testing of all FI and CO processes to validate the patch testing and fix them
• Testing and training of various FICO processes with multiple users

Confidential

SAP FICO/AP/AR/MM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the LEAP Finance and Controlling Processes for Juniper Repairs and Service Industry
• Customized the Product Costing programs to bring in the inventory for Spares Capitalization
• Managed the entire inventory loads along with custom inventory reports (MB52, MB5B and MB5L)
• Worked end to end process for Repairs (ECO, FCO, S4S) etc. and maintained the account determination for each of these processes
• Implemented the Split Valuation for Customer Service (CS) related Plants
• Worked on integrating SAP with third party tax software SABRIX
• Implemented the end to end New Buy process integrating FI, MM/AP and SD/AR.
• Implemented the Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) for Vendor Invoice, GR and PO reconciliation
• Developed the Vendor Statement for month end correspondence along with an internal report to analyze the vendor aging report
• Developed SAP Dunning forms to create three level dunning strategy for customers
• Involved in the POC for RAR (Revenue Accounting and Reporting)
• Strong knowledge on the RAR setup
• Implemented the Revenue Recognition processes such as Milestone billing, Resource related billing and Periodic billing
• Worked on the valuation method for Results Analysis
• Developed the various user fields, project structure etc.
• Implemented the various SD/FI functionalities such as Posting rules, Item categories, RA keys, RA version, Account determination etc. for Revenue Recognition process.
• Developed AR reporting for AR Aging and Customer Statements as part of Month end activities strategy
• Customized the New Buy processes to implement the account determination and various other process to achieve the unique functionality of this Repairs and Service industry business
• Closely worked on RICEF objects with developers to get them implemented
• Implemented the process for US, Canada, APAC, EMEA, and Singapore etc.
• Integrated the various business processes for tax (jurisdiction code, tax code, GL Accounts), customs and various other localization forms for Canada & EMEA
• Worked on various Inventory integration processes with FICO to integrate various inventory movements to FI and CO areas
• Developed Custom Programs to upload various master data such as Vendors, Assets and Customers
• Worked extensively on customizing Inventory transactions (MB5B, MB52 and MB5L) to meet the requirements for Split Valuation
• Implemented Subcontracting, Intercompany, Intracompany, STO, Repairs, New Buy, Scrap, Initial Inventory load and Inventory Costing etc.
• Tested the end to end processes

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Grants Management to improve the functionalities of both Grantee and Grantor Management
• Enhanced the resource related billing for Grantee Management and its reporting structure according to the sponsor
• Implemented the billing plan by integrating grants modules with sales module to create the Debit Memo Request automatically as part of the billing lifecycle.
• Worked on the projects system projects for CAPEX related projects and assessments for various Projects.
• Worked on Vehicle Management System for Assets between agencies for various purposes such as disposal, sale, auction etc. in SAP Assets Management system
• Implemented the whole Procure to Pay process including the Account determination, Vendor data conversion, Automatic payment program, electronic bank statement and bank reconciliation
• Worked on AP Vendor and Bank Reconciliation process along with positive pay and bank statement processing
• Worked on DME Structure to transfer the files for Vendor ACH Payments file to bank and reconcile the payments with bank statement processing
• Implemented the resource related billing process to bill the federal government for the pending funds and interest rate calculation process
• Implemented the Main and Pass through grants process to track the funds from one agency to another including the billing process
• Optimized the public sector budgeting process and fixed multiple issues as part of budgeting process to maintain the consistency
• Scoped the Public Budget Formulation (PBF) for the State to make better decision making during the POC
• Setup the assessment cycle to settle the costs every period by WBS nodes for various projects in project Systems
• Created and setup master data and accounting determination for WBS Elements
• Worked on the various asset process as part of restructuring for governor’s mansion property
• Implemented the CMIA Interest report process to receive the interest from Federal government for the delayed payment for the grants.
• Implemented the Sales Billing and Accounts Receivable process by implementing the various payment processes such as Cash, Check and ACH payments.
• Improved the existing fixed assets process to comply with CAFR reporting
• Developed LSMW to upload the legacy system assets into SAP and reconcile with GL Accounts.
• Implemented the interface for disposal of assets from different agencies
• Extensive implementation and use of worklist in various business processes
• Have good understanding of the state and federal government lifecycle processes