SUMMARY

• Certified SAP finance professional and certified management accountant (CMA) with over 24 yrs of Industry experience, out of which 14 yrs into SAP ERP Financials and 10 yrs into managing corporate finance.
• Lead and managed teams of different sizes in various SAP global assignments, involving resource and project stakeholder management.
• Worked for Top notch clients like AMD (Advance Micro device), NBCU (NBC Universal), Confidential America, Confidential, Etc in consulting assignments in association with big5 consulting firms like IBM, Cap Gemini, Accenture, Confidential - Axon, etc.
• Worked on Pre sales activities for client demonstration and customer engagement activities like preparation of RFF &RFQ
• Designed and built finance, budget, procurement and sales processes for different SAP Industry BAiO (Business all in one) solutions and certified by SAP.
• Worked in Multiple Full life cycles SAP implementations using ASAP and other Implementation methodologies, business process analysis, gap analysis, design, re-engineering, Blue Printing, Configuration, unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, user acceptance testing, legacy data migration and post go live support.
• Worked in multiple SAP Upgrade for designing upgrade strategy of client management, Finalizing test cycles, preparing test cases, defect resolution, dry run, cut over, go live and post go live support.
• Executed multiple Roll out projects for multiple Company Codes and geographical set up across the globe.
• Worked on SAP Industry specific solution like IS-OIL, IS-Media, IS-Chemical and IS-Public Sector
• Worked in all aspects of SAP Financial for designing, architecting, Providing solutions for financial process of Procure to payment, order to cash, Procurement to capitalization, Posting to reporting, Budgeting to reporting etc.
• Proficient in SAP modules of, General Ledger ( Including new G/L), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Taxation, Investment Management, Special purpose Ledger, Treasury, Funds Management, Grants management, Enterprise consolidation,Controlling, Internal Order, Cost center accounting( CCA), Profit center accounting, COPC, etc. Also excellent knowledge in cross functional module of Project System, BPC, Material management, sales and distribution, HCM, SRM, CRM and its integration with Finance and controlling.
• Extensively worked on Enhancement to SAP standard functionalities, customized developments by gathering business requirement, preparation of function specification and deployment of solutions.
• Worked on Merger and Divestiture projects to meet country specific legal and GAAP requirements, corporate reporting need, Inter Company relationship, Company Consolidation, Capital Management, data migration and other associated requirements.
• Proficient knowledge in IDOC, ALE, BAPI, BADI, LSM, workflow, WRICEF, Report painter, report writer, Closing cockpit, SAP query, Solution manager, etc.
• Also exposed to tolls like, Versa, HP Quality center, worksoft, TX-Shuttle etc.
• Trainined and Certified from SAP in “ Implementation of SAP S/4 HANA”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solution Architect/ Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business requirement study, Blue Print document Preparation with Gap Analysis,
• Design Chart of accounts, Vendor Master, Design Master Data of Fund, Fund center, Funded Program, Project hierarchy, Fund center, Commitment Item and setting up derivation rules to integrate FI account assignment objects with FM objects.
• Integration of Budgeting Module with Finance and Procurement modules
• Setting of posting address, Budgeting address, AVC, applying user exit for AVC, Functional spec preparation for different custom reports, Testing and UAT.
• Cut over planning and activities, data Migration Go live and post go live support.

Confidential, NY

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business requirement study, Blue Print document Preparation with Gap Analysis,
• Configuration, testing and deployment of solution.
• Report design, Legacy data transfer etc.

Confidential

Solution Architect/ Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business requirement study, Blue Print document Preparation with Gap Analysis,
• Design Chart of accounts, Vendor Master, Design Master Data of Fund, Fund center, Funded Program, Project hierarchy, Fund center, Commitment Item and setting up derivation rules to integrate FI account assignment objects with FM objects.
• Integration of Budgeting Module with Finance and Procurement modules
• Setting of posting address, Budgeting address, AVC, applying user exit for AVC, Functional spec preparation for different custom reports, Testing and UAT.
• Cut over planning and activities, data Migration Go live and post go live support.

Confidential, NY

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• As is Study and Business Blue print preparation in SAP footprint to fit the entire business financial requirements and integration with Inventory, procurement and budgeting module.
• Design chart of accounts, cost center hierarchy, Fund center hierarchy, Project hierarchy with integration with planning/budgeting module of SAP FM and Grants Management modules and Integration with BPC
• Cut over planning and activities, data Migration Go live and post go live support.

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project planning, defining project scope, planning, resourcing, leading weekly update meetings, communication with business counterpart and timely escalating issues to client’s top management.
• Preparation of As-is document, Gap analysis and proposed functional change, Design of unit and Integration test scripts business Go Live and Post Go Live support.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement study, blue printing and solution map preparation for finance functions, Configuration of New G/L, Splitting rule, GL Account mapping, scenarios, document types, posting key, filed status group, Assigning of document splitting, Configuration of Parallel accounting and configuration setting of valuation and Translation
• Configured AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Electronics Bank statement, LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), Positive pay configuration, and ACH configuration, Configuration of Fixed Asset Module
• Worked with the BPC team for the implementation of legal and managerial consolidation

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Merger of 30 global ATI company codes into the AMD SAP instance for implementation of SAP Fixed asset system in new company codes and merging with existing AMD Fixes asset system, PS and IM modules.
• Gathering Local GAAP requirement and setting of additional chart of depreciation, depreciation key, asset classes and effectively merging with US GAAP requirements.
• Leading team for gathering Local Sales Tax (Czech Republic and Canada) requirement for Merging company codes, Configuration of New Tax Jurisdiction code, Tax condition, user exit, Planning and designing data migration strategy, Unit and integration testing, cutover, Go live and post Go live support
• Project planning, building Test strategy, Managing Transport Requests in dual landscape system, Building test strategy in different clients, Preparation and Finalizing TCP (Test case procedures),testing activities using HP quality center, cut over plan and Go-Life support.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project plans preparation for implementation of Fixed Asset Module and Budgeting functionalities.
• As is study, Blue print (BDD) preparation for all fixed asset processes, Configuration of the system (Creation of chart of depreciation, Screen layout, asset class, account determination, depreciation keys, transaction keys, Cut off key etc.), LSMW preparation for data upload, monitoring of data upload, post load validation and reconciliation with legacy data.
• Delta configuration and operation of CO module, Provided training to key users in CO module