SUMMARY

• Consulting professional with 11+ years of experience in working for various SAP ERP implementations in multiple roles across multiple geographies including Australia, France, India and USA with strong interpersonal, technical and business knowledge and with specific expertise in SAP Finance and controlling FICO Solutions.
• Experience of working in various functional areas of SAP like Finance/Controlling, Sales and Distribution, Plant Maintenance, Enterprise Asset Management, Human Capital Management, Supply Chain Management and Records Management, with an SME level expertise in Finance and Controlling process area including the demonstrated process and technical architecture expertise in the area of General Ledger (GL), Accounts receivables (AR), Asset Management (AM), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Service Order Settlements (CO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), and profitability Analysis (CP - PA).
• Expertise at working in various roles and responsibilities across the implementation life cycle including Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Lead Developer, Programmer Analyst, Software Engineer, on various functional areas and technologies across ERP implementations.
• Working experience in client engagement role building partnerships and providing consultations on the direction for the strategy as well as gathering the business requirements, driving the solutions to meet the business outcomes.
• Very broad and deep knowledge of the SAP Architecture and Framework of the various components of classic ECC, Service Oriented Architecture, SAP Netweaver Process Integration (PI), Supplier Portal, Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), SAP HANA, Business Objects(BObj), Business Warehouse(BI/BW), SAP Asset Life Cycle Accounting(ALA), SAP ARIBA, SAP ABAP and Adobe FLEX technologies.
• Major Utilities and Consumer industry working experience including Confidential (USA), Rio Tinto (Australia), Air Liquide (France) & STMicro Electronics (India) in multiple operating models including Onsite-Offshore.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solution Architect & Lead

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Undertook the solution analysis for the Balance sheet account reconciliation process issues and directed the client towards the industry best practice solution RUNBOOK, which can increase the operational efficiency of the Corporate Accounting organization.
• Participating in the major Procure to Pay (P2P) implementation of SAP ARIBA product as an SME and Architect on the Finance processes, enabling multiple process efficiencies and business outcomes utilizing the Dynamic Discounting for AP and the whole P2P process on the ARIBA Network.
• Executed the Fixed Assets Fit/Gap analysis for the SAP Asset Life Cycle Accounting (ALA) along with Plant Maintenance Work Orders, that can potentially replace some of the Powerplant application footprint leading to a more seamless and efficient process, following the long-term business and architectural road-map for Fixed Assets as a capability.
• Hands on experience in the implementation of the Business Planning and consolidation (BPC) module for Revenue, Expense planning and Intercompany consolidations.
• Analyzed and collectively developing a potential solution for the Balancing Account process optimization, a critical Regulatory reporting component, aligning the process focused on business outcomes and process efficiencies.
• Executed the design and cost flow architecture for the Integrated Financial Reporting project that is set to streamline and consolidate the managerial reporting capabilities to bring in the operational efficiencies for the Planning and Performance Reporting team of OU Controllers organization.
• Performed the Process SME and Consultant role for the Master Data Governance (MDG) implementation of the Finance Master data, enabling a governed, consistent and centralized master data.
• Exhibited cross-team collaboration and team work on the EMG Migration project, working with Edison Mission Group (EMG) functional team, EMG technical team, SCE Open text team, SCE technical/functional teams and management teams, providing the architectural support for the migration plan.
• Assisted the Enterprise Architecture team in fine-tuning the business capabilities for the Finance portfolio and participated in multiple strategic roadmap discussions.
• Architected the solutions for various projects like Non PO Invoice automation, PO Invoice process optimization for Accounts Payable, Work Order enhancements, Non- Energy Billing for Customer Advances, Contract Billing system (CBS), Investment Management (IM), Polar SPIDA, Design Manager (DM) Secure Payments, Meters and Services Automation, Vehicle Ordering System (VOS) etc.

Technical Lead

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Undertook the responsibility for all deliverables and maintenance for Finance, Controlling, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Sales & Distribution and Plant Maintenance process areas in the new SAP ERP ECC 6.0 implementation.
• Demonstrated expertise as an SAP Workflow administrator and implemented many key initiatives such as Workflow Archiving using the SAP Archive Development Kit and event linkage issue resolution framework.
• Designed and developed complex workflow for Non PO processes of Accounts Payable in FI including the reporting and tracking of the process flow for the entire Non PO cycle.
• Undertook AP Imaging solution development and support to store the vendor invoice images in SAP Record Management System (RMS) using KOFAX scanner and link them to the SAP created invoices.
• Designed and developed several Rich UI applications using Adobe Flex as the front end and SAP ECC as the backend.
• Took a key part in the implementation of the SAP Closing Cockpit module to optimize the financial month end closing processes.
• Achieved EDI Vendor Invoicing process improvement by designing an automated error reporting tool to directly send the error reports to the vendors instead of the manual intervention.
• Played a key role in designing and implementing the banking interfaces during the ERP implementation to transmit treasury information.
• Expertise in design and implementation of the new generation SAP interfaces using Application Interface Framework (SAP AIF).
• Participated in design and implementation of the Investment management module in SAP that is set to tremendously optimize the budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Performed duties across the Software Development Life Cycle including gathering business requirements, preparing Technical specifications, Coding and Testing for various Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows.
• Demonstrated Team work and end-to-end testing capabilities by working with various teams including Process teams, Legacy teams, Interface teams, QA/QM teams.
• Led the development team transition, mentoring, defect and issue resolution, and technology process management and documentation efforts for a team of 4.

Technology Lead

Confidential CA

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role of a Senior ABAP Developer and On-site Coordinator for a new SAP ECC 6.0 implementation project, responsible for the FI/CO process area developments at Confidential, California.
• Developed Complex Inbound and Outbound Interfaces using SAP PI proxies for Master data, Orders, Charges, Journal Accounting Entries, for various legacy systems.
• Configured ALE, EDI and IDOC setup for GL Master Data and Cost Center data.
• Expertise at developing rich reporting and charting in SAP ECC using Adobe Flex technology apart from ALV, Classical and Interactive reports.
• Designed custom Forms for Accounts Payable and Payroll Check Printing using SAP scripts and Smart forms.
• Designed and developed several enhancements using the new SAP enhancement framework.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role of a Senior ABAP Developer and On-site Coordinator for SAP ECC 5.0 implementation project at Rio Tinto, Brisbane, responsible for all onsite development activities.
• Worked with all the technical aspects of ABAP including RICEF objects, BI extractors and SAP XI / ALE interfaces.
• Performed SAP vendor master conversion and upload using LSMW.
• Developed ALV and Classical reports for Customer invoicing process.
• Configured the EDI setup and IDOC partner profile setup for Vendor Invoices.
• Worked in Sales Order Process including Pricing, Condition technique, Output type configuration, conversions upload, EDI Sales Order transmission.
• Played a key role during the SAP upgrade from R/3 4.7 to ECC 5.0.
• Responsible for implementation of the new SAP Enhancement Framework including BADI, Implicit and Explicit Enhancements.
• Conducted knowledge transfer and mentored the Rio Tinto Employees to undertake maintenance after the implementation.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role of a developer, handling all the maintenance activities of the Air Liquide project.
• Responsible for reviewing and accepting the Functional Specification and development of Technical specification documents for all RICEFW objects.
• Worked with Offshore team to convert design details to technical specifications.
• Reviewed the Detail design documents for enhancements, interfaces and reports.
• Participated in offshore - onsite review meetings to discuss requirements and gaps.
• Performed the coding and code review activities including Unit and Integration tests along with documenting test cases and test results in Mercury Quality Center.
• Supported the Customer Production system as part of the technology maintenance team.

Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trained in Cadence Skill Language programming as a Developer.
• Built some automation programs for the Test Chip module.
• Participated in Development and production support workshops.
• Supported the maintenance team with ad-hoc reporting requirements and documentation.