PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Over 17+ years of IT experience including ERP Implementation, and project management, mainly on enterprise business applications for various industries such as Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Automotive, High Power Transmission line, Pharmaceutical, Aerospace, Defense, Export and Utility.
• As a SAP solution architect, I have experience in multiple full cycle SAP implementations/Production support for S/4 HANA (SoH) and ECC (FICO, SD, MM, WM) including project management, design, SDLC, requirements gathering (BRD), GAP analysis, configuration, Integration, development, data conversion/migration, quality / testing, cutover plan, and user training and support (with all phases of ASAP & AGILE).
• Architecture and design business process with cross - functional skills for SAP implementation/Support.
• Managing Off Shore / on site team, Due Diligence & Knowledge Transition management
• Project planning, Cost Estimation, Change management, Activity planning & sequencing.
• Experience in managing large project teams working in a matrix environment, resource sharing.
• Experience in Project Preparation, Business blue print, workshop, gap analysis, customizations, integration, data mapping, Final Testing, user training and Production Support
• Good knowledge business process design and configuration in Finance and Controlling processes including, GL, universal Journal, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, New Asset Accounting, Controlling and Integration with Other Modules.
• Strong understanding of SAP s4 HANA Finance Data and Table Structures. Creation of Legal Entities, Chart of Accounts, Alternative Chart of Accounts and Activation New GL, automatic FI/CO recon, Posting periods, Validation and Substitution, Currency valuationsdaily exchange rates upload, Financial statement version creation, Data migration through LSMW
• Knowledge of technical changes in SAP simple finance, universal journal with customer fields (G/L asset accounting and material ledger. Integration with Cash Management, Cash Operations, Bank Account Management, and Liquidity Management.
• New period closing, CO period lock, Real time AC base profitability, default AC assignment for cost element, asset accounting and Asset scrapping, depreciation, Ledger management, Secondary cost element, financial statement in compliance with legal requirements, manual reposting of cost, simple finance migration road map, Post and reversal of documents, requirements of the country.

KEY COMPETENCY IN SAP:

SAP R/3 versions: 3.1h, 4.0b, 4.6b, 4.6c, 4.7d, ECC5.0, ECC 6.0, SoH and S/4 HANASAP Functional FI - GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, Bank Accounting, CO - CCA, PCA, CO-ML, Product Costing and CO-PA, ECCS ConsolidationSpecial Ledger, S4 HANA simple Finance

Cross Functional: SD, MM, MRO, SM, PP, PS, WM, CRM, SRM.

SAP Technical Skills: ABAP, BADI, SAPSCRIPT/SMARTFORM, IDoc, FIORI, OData, CDS views, SAP Security & Authorizations. SAP BW/BI data modeling, Multidimensional reports, analytics. Project Management MS-Project, MS-Visio, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Excel, APSE, PM Online, HPQC

Product owner: Financial accounting S/W (GL, Costing, ledgers, Audi trail, P&L, closing, Balance sheet)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Sr. Solution architect

Responsibilities:

• finished HANA conversion project for 2 Confidential SAP products (SAP HANA certified now).
• Production support and fixes on SAP products (labor cost, Billings and Project systems)
• Configured controlling (CO) and costing sheet for actual labor cost, government contracts (with ACRN contract accounting) and projects system ( Confidential Products).
• Did adjustment Confidential product for Finance and Controlling, Simple Finance AKA S/4 HANA Finance. Extended G/L coding block (new fields in ACDOCA table structure to meet business and reporting requirements)
• Managing project for FIORI app designing, customization and enhancement for accounting, billing and project systems. ( Confidential Products)

Confidential

SAP solution architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented CRM solution to send notification for unshipped parts interfacing WM. Customize CRM billing engine.
• Formulated implementation and enhancement plan (ECC) for GMIT India project.
• Prepared functional specs as per the business requirement, review current business practices and determine “to-be” processes to enhance and interface for Non-Vehicle project and Accounts payable (FI-AP) and FI-AR. Configured tax and prepared FDD to adjustment all AP custom programs for taxes in Mexico and Canada.
• Design MGO interface (using IDOC) quotation to sales order, Check remittance, payments to legacy system, billing export import to TMS, Argentina invoice interface etc.
• Master data for PO vendor conversion, including gap analysis, mapping, data cleansing, unit test and final upload.
• Managed migration/upgrade project for S4 HANA (SoH) including data modeling, CDS Views, mapping, FU test after adjustment in code, S4 HANA finance migration (POC). Did set up for FIORI enhancement/customization for invoice verification, financial statement.
• Worked on enhancement- Customer remit to logic, ERS invoice, global invoice, COPA Distribution channel account assignment
• Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program. In MM module configure various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), Material ledger and internal order,
• Performed system study/Issues for materials movement and provided solutions as per SAP best practice.
• Managed custom development team FUT for performance and enhancement. Managed UAT, Cutover, training and documentation

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Implementation manager (west coast), Managed large project teams (managers, developers, full-time employees, contractors. & various stakeholders) from Discovery to Go-Live & Support phases and helped implemented various SAP services/products but not limited to SAP ECC (OTC, P2P, R2R, PD), SAP BI, SAP HANA, SRM, PLM and SAP EPM etc.
• Delivered & re-engineered Corporate SAP Roadmaps, Cross Functionality Integration, and Metrics
• Prepare the plan to implement the Propel ( Confidential HQ) SAP implementation at Confidential .
• Resolved open issues blueprint and realization phase. Conducted cross module meetings to find out related business processes & integration with other departments like Material, Finance, Production and Costing. Highlighted open issues relevance, solutions to PMO and client.
• Managed Confidential and Confidential team (Functional /test /data /cutover) for issue resolution, Change management and report the progress to steering committee.
• Implemented successfully Propel project at West coast (five units), including planning and execution of cutover plan, Data validation/migration, end user training and UAT.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an architect/manager at this client site and responsible for tech planning, designing the custom solutions (Configuration, interfaces, custom development, Data migration), monitoring development, deliver the end product to client after QA.
• Worked on strategy/methodology/Functional specs for integration (SD, FICO, MM) and data migration for their legacy system.
• Coordinated with client and offshore tech team, Functional team for issue resolution and report the progress to steering committee
• Gathered requirement, provided design and development of RICEFW objects
• Managed consultancy partners to ensure the team adheres to established standards, schedule, Change management, quality, and delivery for software object.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Manager/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Set up of development environment and development process and procedure.
• Planned of the actual work to be done off shore or onsite and scheduled the timelines
• Configured the middleware for CRM platform. Did code for DM upload and billing.
• Did configure/setup eMeter interfaces (PI) for demo to client
• Provided periodic assessments to PMO on project health check, status reports, performance reviews (cost/schedule), industry best practices, scope management and stakeholder’s management, etc.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

SAP Enhancement/Production support

Responsibilities:

• Involved in mentoring project teams on project management, risk areas, Change management, quality planning, effort estimations, budgeting, scope management, resource estimations, designing blueprint workshops, escalation strategy, managing build activities, stakeholder’s management, managing cutover activities, tests plan, data validations etc.
• Design and lead the FAQS project for SD enhancement to calculate compensation for Agilent’s sales rep.
• Monitored Custom development in ECC SD module and interfaced with quota assignment system (inbound) and providing data to OIC (outbound) system.
• Understood client’s business process implemented, capture requirement, proposed solution and prepared functional specs for custom development, facilitated PMO/Stakeholder project plan activities & documentation.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Solution architect/ Project lead

Responsibilities:

• Set up of development environment and development process and procedure. Involved in Project preparation, Blueprint phase and decision-making process.
• Resolved open issues blueprint and realization phase. Conducted cross module workshop to find out related business processes & integration with other modules like Material, Finance, Production, Costing and HR. Highlighted open issues relevance, solutions to PMO and client.
• Designed the automation of sale order creation from their websites interfacing using PI. Worked on interfaces from DR’s legacy system as well as bank (lock box), MDM using PI (file and IDOC adapter)
• Designed and implemented the legacy data migration process for the Critical business master data (customer, material and vendor data). Configure AR invoices and credit memos, import of Lockbox data from files and clearing invoices, import of cashed checks filed, cashed check analysis.
• Coordinating meetings with the client and offshore teams/Functional team for issue resolution, Change management and report the progress to client stakeholders.
• Transport management, track the status of progress on the master plan and functional work plans using APSE and MS project.