SUMMARY

• Overall 15+years experience with 14+years experience in SAP FICO
• SAP Certified at Professional Level in FI with ECC 6.0 EHP4
• PMI certified Project Management professional (PMP)
• Advanced Leadership and Consulting Skills
• Knowledge of Business Processes in various industries and SAP best practices
• Advanced knowledge of Accounting Principles(US - GAAP, IFRS)as Well as US taxation process in SAP
• Experience with ECC 6.0,50, 4.7, 4.6 (FLCs)
• New GL and Migration from Classic GL to New GL
• Covered 8+ FLC Implementations from Blueprint to GO Live
• IFRS reporting and Migration & functional Knowledge in Simple Finance with HANA
• US & European Taxation
• SOX compliance and Reporting
• FSCM-Cash Management, In-house Cash, EBS, Biller Direct
• Foreign exchange, Currency Valuation and Translation
• Experienced in Pre-Sales activities, M&A and deployment.
• Experience in designing and building preconfigured solutions
• Knowledge of integrated areas like SD, MM and PP
• Lead experience in SAP BPC with focus on Consolidation. Experience with version 7.5 and 10
• More than 8.5Years’ experience in working full time in Big 4 Consulting(Deloitte Consulting(5.5 Years), IBM (3 Years))
• Good International exposure in multiple countries like Sweden,France,Germany, Australia,UAE,Hong-Kong and Malaysia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Bay area, CA

Sr.Solution Architect/Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead the revenue recognition implementation (contracts/service) for SAP FICO and its integration with SAP-SD.
• The key responsibilities are risk management, change management and project management which includes managing all aspects of requirements gathering sessions, design & implementing solution for SAP FICO-GL,AP,AR,FA,FSCM,BPC-Consolidation and planning & BW Integration.

Confidential, Toledo, OH

SAP FICO Sr. Manager/Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manage production support and new development activities in the area of SAP FI-New GL,AP, AR,AA,FSCM CO-CCA,PCA, IOA,PS& COPA. The scope includes requirements gathering, design, development, testing (integration/quality/regression).
• Support provided for New GL- Document Splitting, Integration of CO with FI, Leading & Non Leading Ledger, Accounts Receivable-Customer master data, Billing integration, Accounts Payable-P2P support, Automatic Payment configuration, IDOCS, Payment methods and CO-Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order Accounting & Product Costing. AP - Automatic Payments/EDI/SWIFT/BCM/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting
• AP- In house Cash Configurations, Setting up of Centralized house bank and clearing configuration between company codes.
• AP- Vendor Invoice Management integration with Open Text, Invoice scanning, invoice matching/blocking (VIM/OCR/Invoice Management Integration with SAP-AP)
• AP- Payer Direct Configuration involving web application configuration, invoices and payment information for vendors with Open text OCR scanning

Confidential, New Jersey

SAP FICO Solution Architect and PM

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the assessment activities for SAP FICO development projects which include gathering requirements for M& A activities and designing carve out solution.
• Analyzed upstream (JVA/PRA), midstream (transportation & distribution & PP) and downstream processes in SAP.
• During this period worked for new developments in RTR-FI-GL,AP,AR, CO-CCa,PCA,COPA,PS,P2P-,MM, JVA and its integration with other external systems like Nirvana soft, Endur, Apollo,Ariba& Broker system.

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall delivery of SAP FICO, BPC, BW and New GL Migration
• Accounts Receivable & Electronic Bank Statement
• Accounts Payable and its Integration with MM, Automatic Payment configuration( Wire,ACH& Check), Electronic Data Interface(EDI) and Swift Configurations
• FERC Accounting Implementation
• Integration with ISU-FICA, Billing, Master data, Clearing
• Conducted workshops, interviews, business requirement gathering sessions, gap analysis for FICO and BPC
• Mapping of Legacy data to SAP (data conversion)
• Banking interfaces-inbound/outbound, bank reconciliation
• Cash Management-EBS & in-house cash- BCM,Swift
• COPA(Costing base) which includes characteristics derivation, derivation rule through settlement (Orders & projects) to COPA and direct postings from FI.
• Identified end to end process of FICO, Consolidation and New GL migration
• Identified Intercompany elimination requirements and designed applications and dimension sets in BPC
• Understanding client consolidation requirements and GAP FIT analysis with BPC 10 and laid down detailed architecture for BPC implementation along with FICO/New GL
• BPC 10 system requirements, software installation guidance, system readiness check
• Integration with BW for real time data inflow in BPC
• Automatic Interco reconciliation tool implementation in ECC
• New GL info cubes activation for BPC
• In-house Cash & Cash Management (FSCM)
• Making project plans, discussions with stakeholders, tracking approved project plan with management reporting, risk management, vendor management and development testing and related resource management

Confidential - Bay area, CA

SAP FICO Implementation Support Lead /Sr.Manager

Responsibilities:

• Cash Management and In house cash setup
• AP - Automatic Payments/EDI/SWIFT/BCM/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting
• AP- Vendor Invoice Management integration with Open Text, Invoice scanning, invoice matching/blocking (VIM/OCR/Invoice Management Integration with SAP-AP)
• AP- Payer Direct Configuration involving web application configuration, invoices and payment information for vendors with Open text OCR scanning
• Inbound and outbound interfaces with SAPEDI
• Bank Reconciliation, EBS, BCM,SWIFT
• Unit, Integration and Regression Testing
• Internal Orders Budget uploads configuration and testing
• Integration with MM and SD (Order to cash and Procure to Pay Business Process)
• US Taxation
• Data Conversions and migration
• Consolidation in BPC
• Led and managed resources in onsite/offshore model
• Reporting and cutover activities
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management

Confidential - Bay area, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Solution Architect/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Revenue Recognition for CRM service Contracts (Time based and Service based revenue recognition)
• Profit Center Determination for CRM service processes
• Results Analysis and Settlement in ECC
• Costing and Integration with Logistics
• Inter co scenarios in CRM service
• CRM ECC Integration configurations
• RTR-FI-GL,AP,AR AA & CO
• Data migration
• Revenue Recognition Configurations
• Settlement Set up in ECC Controlling
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management
• Resource Management

Confidential - Houston, TX

Sr. SAP FICO Manager / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• New GL Configuration and Document Splitting
• Currencies-Local and Group, currency translation, Forex valuation, exchange rates
• Parallel Ledger Configuration
• Closing Cockpit configuration
• Asset Accounting Chart of Depreciation configuration
• Interco/Intra Asset Transfers
• Depreciation Areas Configuration (Book and Tax)
• Depreciation Keys Configuration
• Fiscal year configuration in FI-FA
• Profitability Analysis (COPA) which includes characteristics derivation, derivation rule through settlement (Orders & projects) to COPA and direct postings from FI
• Capital and Operating Leases Configuration and its integration with AP,AR(Customer Master, Interest Calculation, Dunning, payment Integration with SD) and GL
• Configuration of Lease types and Leased Asset Classes
• Special G/l configuration for Capital leases
• Leased asset Interest Settings
• Integration of SAP Fixed Assets with New GL
• Integration of Fixed assets with PM and PS
• Leading the conversion strategy for FI-AA balances and setting of legacy data transfer dates and periods
• Reconciliation of AA balances with GL
• Integration with SD and MM with advance knowledge in Procure to Pay and Order to Cash Business process
• In-house Cash,BCM/Swift set up
• IS retail integration
• Bank interfaces
• Intercompany Accounting
• Integration with Ariba which includes project management. Activities include making project plans, discussions with stakeholders, tracking approved project plan with management reporting, risk management, vendor management and development testing and related resource management
• Integration of FI-FA with Plant Maintenance(PM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and BI
• AP- In house Cash Configurations, Setting up of Centralized house bank and clearing configuration between company codes.
• AP - Automatic Payments/EDI/SWIFT/BCM/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting
• AP- Vendor Invoice Management integration with Open Text, Invoice scanning, invoice matching/blocking (VIM/OCR/Invoice Management Integration with SAP-AP)
• AP- Payer Direct Configuration involving web application configuration, invoices and payment information for vendors with Open text OCR scanning
• Cost Center, Product Costing material ledger, and Internal Order
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management
• Project Management

Confidential -Southern California, CA

Sr. SAP FICO Manager / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements for budget allocations in ECC &with BI team on field mappingrules in BW
• Setting up of planning assessment and distribution cycles in ECC
• Setting up of Internal Order settlements for budgets
• Cost Center Accounting-FERC accounting/actual assessment cycles and costing sheets
• Revenue Recognition with SD setup
• Currency, currency translation and Forex Valuation
• Grants management- Requirements gathering, configuration/development, testing and maintenance
• SAP Fixed Assets( Assets Management) & its integration with PM, Power Plant & Projects System
• Product costing
• BCS Integration with BW/ECC
• Retraction of GL data to ECC
• Setting up of testing plans, scripts and security role requirements
• New GL/Parallel ledger configurations/New Gl Migration
• AP - Automatic Payments/Vendor Master Data/1099 reporting and Treasury and Risk Management
• AR(Customer Master, Interest Calculation, Dunning, payment
• Integration with SD and MM with advance knowledge in Procure to Pay &Order to Cash Business process
• Integration with CRM IS-U-FICA, Billing, Clearing and Master Data
• M& A with data extraction/suppression/Split data
• Cash Management and Credit Management
• Bank Communication Management with EBS
• Market Risk Analyzer and Portfolio Analyzer
• Treasury and Risk Management-In House cash configuration-Bank Area/ALE setup/Products/EBS
• In house Cash-Automatic payment configuration/Transaction Types
• Worked with the banks for testing of interfaces for inbound and outbound files
• Planning data integration with Projects System
• Integration with ISU-FICA, Billing, Master data, Clearing
• Integration with SD (Billing Integration and Revenue Recognition)
• Data Conversions and migration
• Reporting in ECC and BW
• Project stabilization and after GO live support
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Milestone Reporting
• Quality Management
• Resource Management

Confidential

Sr. SAP FICO Lead Consultant / project management

Responsibilities:

• Master data setup- Creating and Changing Joint Venture Accounting Agreements, equity groups, CO master data
• Cash Calls-Issuing and receiving
• Material and expense transfer between ventures
• Set of European taxation(VAT)
• Allocations-Assessment, distribution & settlements
• Billing-EDI
• Intercompany accounting
• Processing non operated invoices
• Integration with FI

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Finalization of Balance Sheet
• Preparation of Notes to Accounts and Cash Flow in compliance with the provisions of Schedule VI of Companies Act, 1956 and relevant Accounting Standards
• Valuation of closing Stock as per applicable accounting standards
• Taxation (direct and Indirect) and dealing with Govt. authorities for central and state subsidies like excise related matters
• Finalization of accounts. Reconciliation of excise records with financial records
• Direct reporting to financial controller through management reporting
• Coordinated on AS-IS to TO-BE Study for Implementation of SAP R/3

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, build, test and after go live support in area of SAP FI-Gl,AP,AR,AA,Funds/Grant/Loans Management, CCA,PCA,IOA, PC and COPA
• Designed functional specification & coordinated with technical team on developing new program, Interfaces and enhancements
• Developed end user deliverables and worked on end user training
• Data Conversions and migrations for FI Objects

Confidential

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• During this period attained the knowledge of business processes of different industries working in ERP mainly SAP FICO & verified the financial statements as per the prevailing accounting & taxation laws.