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SAP S/4 HANA Finance Techno Functional Consultant with 12+ years of multinational SAP consulting into Finance & Controlling space with the latest S/4 HANA Finance capability. Business transformation experiences spanning across diverse industry verticals such as Utilities, Oil & Gas, Paper & Steel industries, Products - Industrial Equipment and Life Sciences. Extensive SAP SI (Systems Integration) experience, implementations, upgrades, support and training for top consulting firms Ramp-ups & SAP Premium Support.

TECHNO-FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY:

• Hands-on SAP SI (System implementation) experience on New G/L, FI-BL (Bank Ledger), FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA and Controlling. Specialized in implementing standard SAP Workflows as well as custom Workflows and analysis with Workflow diagnostic tools. My core expertise in implementing third party Tax bolt-ons like OneSource (formerly Sabrix), Vertex & Taxware. SAP to SABRIX integrations end to end and configured Tax solution for Sales Tax, Use Tax, VAT & GST Automation. Extensive hands-on with Sabrix RFCs and address validations servlets - ZIP + 4 validations etc.
• Hands on S/4 HANA experience on a functional upgrade Pilot Project - Functional upgrade from ERP New G/L to S/4 HANA in-memory platform.
• Core expertise in FI-BL implementing EBS (Electronic Bank Statements), manual bank statements and Lockbox functionalities for SAP Global Clients.
• Proven expertise in Functional design documents (RICEFWs - Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms & Workflows) and their hand-offs, providing analysis / estimates, handling client communications and integrating them into specific SAP technical requirements that development teams can understand and build ABAP code accordingly.
• Proven expertise in debugging the ABAP code, implementing the BADIs and troubleshooting the Idocs. Implementing the Business Functions in the FICO area.
• Successfully led many small to medium teams specifically in a global delivery model with typical onshore/offshore framework which has primed my ability to deliver results across all phases of software development life cycle - Project preparation & Blueprinting (with detailed AS-IS and TO-BE states), Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Go-Live, Hyper care and post Go-Live SAP Run Support.
• Gained extensive onsite/Client facing/SAP solutions delivery expertise comprising six years in USA, one year in France and Germany respectively.
• Both in the capacity of senior functional resource on the team and SAP FI/CO lead consultant, worked with senior managers in preparing project proposals, timelines and metrics, risk and scope determinations from both SAP application development and support standpoints.

PROFESSIONAL BIO:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAP Parallel Ledgers - External Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of the SAP implementation team @ Confidential IT team, worked with the Client team in blueprinting, design and implement Parallel Ledgers for two regions (Japan and Israel) initially. Implementation for rest of the regions to start next year.
• Prepared detailed business blueprint documents after requirement gathering sessions with regions
• Created Project deliverable documents - Design and configuration manuals. Detailed test plan which include test cases and individual test scripts as well as rigorous regression testing scenarios for Parallel Ledger.
• Thoroughly worked on G/L Migration Cockpit - multiple test cycles and dry runs. Completely reconciled open item worklist with database tables.
• Resolved all associated errors connected to migration cockpit.
• Identified rounding issue during reconciliations.
• Also, identified and explained to Client Business team that current asset depreciations are being calculated using the new depreciation calculation delivered in ECC 6.0
• Worked with SAP in fixing the rounding issue and highlighted differences after detailed reconciliations.
• Worked with regions in building Open Item accounts that need to be cleared in Parallel Ledger scenario after incorporating “Clearing Specific to Ledger Group” functionality
• Worked thoroughly on G/L migration cockpit for Parallel Ledger migrations.

Confidential, Mt. Prospect, IL

SAP Product Costing / COPA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of AMS team, resolved day to day business critical issues logged by Business users in the areas of Finance, Planning, Product Costing and COPA.
• Design and development of functional specifications for Business report requirements in HANA.
• Supporting Vinegar and Pepper business on AX platform on few designs in simulating Sause Business model, thus enabling its migration to SAP.
• Resolved day to day Interface issues in R&B (RAGU & BERTOLLI) - Sause Business on SAP in the areas of Check management, deductions, lockbox, ACH - Direct debit process and so on.
• Enabled new forecast planning functionality in SAP for Risk/Opps team to exclusively forecast different Planning models for Supply Chain team.
• Enabled new Product Costing version for forecasting quarterly Product Cost Estimates which will not impact standard Cost Estimates. This enabled forecasting based on simulations for a variety of Packaging and FERT materials.
• Configured Valuation Variant, Costing Type, Costing Variant, Material Costing with & without quantity structure, Costing Sheet and Costing Run (Mark & Release).
• Revenue differences between COPA & Trial Balances analyzed and explained to Business. Configured Cost Center Assessments to COPA and created COPA drilldown reports
• Developed functional design documents (RICEF) for COPA reports that integrate successfully with BW. End to end collaborated with ABAP and BW teams in successfully generating the reports in BW.
• Configured Material Ledger, Material Price determination, Material Price Analysis and multi-level settlement. Month end process, carry out actual costing run - CKMLCP with Business team to see that differences are allocated to the issues (Single Level) and then the differences are passed on to the next level (Multi Level). Recalculated prices then used for future valuation.

Confidential

Team Lead - SAP S/4 HANA Finance Functional

Responsibilities:

• System conversion approach adopted which is recommended for existing SAP customers - First to move to SAP Business Suite on HANA and then to S/4 HANA.
• SAP New G/L to SAP Business Suite on HANA to S/4 HANA, on premise edition 1511.
• Rapid Database Migration of SAP Business Suite to SAP S/4 HANA (all one Step migration, including SAP S/4 HANA Finance & SAP S/4 HANA Logistics Conversion) using SUM (Software Update Manager) with DMO (Database Migration Option).
• Migration Steps involved Pre-checks/Consistency Checks, preparation for all Simple finance configuration changes and functional migration strategy. These Pre-checks ensured to verify if SFIN can be installed on current system set up.
• Functional/technical changes in SFIN reviewed w/ reference to new Financials back-bone Universal Journal entry architecture. Universal Journal - Single repository of journal entries & single source of truth across all sub-ledgers eliminating redundancy and reducing the memory footprint.
• Migration checks and Data migration
• Migrate all new General Ledger to new customizing, define source ledger for Migration of balances
• Activate Business functions for migrating to SFIN add-on for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA.
• Migration of data to New Data Structure (ACDOCA) & finally set Migration to completed & Post migration activities.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Team Lead - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• My work mainly involved blueprint, design, development, and build of all functional deliverables, coordinate with ABAP team in successful testing of all Budgeting & Forecasting RICEFW objects.
• Worked in close coordination with third party interface applications like IBM ESB in getting the Budgeting file into SAP application server.
• Built ad-hoc planning reports through report painter as needed in ECC. Created custom planning reports for budgeting and forecasting purposes. These reports are built for Cost Centers and Internal Orders yearly comparisons five years in a row.
• Mapped Company ID/Trading Partners in ECC to Consolidation Units SEM-BCS. Worked extensively with BPC in extracting info-object 0ACCOUNT which include G/L accounts and secondary cost elements and mapping of group accounts to FS Items in SEM-BCS.
• Created multiple Financial Statement Versions in ECC and mapped them with alternate hierarchies in SEM-BCS. Generated FS Versions in ECC and ensured accurate data flow to SEM-BCS and successful reporting out of BCS.
• Mapped all Fixed Asset Transaction types to SEM-BCS transaction types, Fixed Asset depreciation areas in ECC to FS items in SEM-BCS and ensured consolidation reports are successfully created.
• As per requirements, configured and assigned default Internal Orders to WBS elements from PS module.
• Budget initiative aligns with the Level 2 WBS element in G/L release in order for budgeting to be performed at an initiative level in FMS and interfaced to SAP I/Os.
• Worked with Project Systems team extensively in building the overall solution for Planning and Budgeting.
• Managed security roles, testing security controls and coordinated FICO UAT, integration testing from GRC standpoint.
• Coordinated on-shore and offshore teams in developing GRC workflows.
• Firefighter experience in updating critical configuration tasks as well as managing end user security roles from SAP FICO standpoint.
• Developed cost sheets, Assessment cycles & segments for cost center assessments to allocate utilities overhead cost to cost objects. Configured settlements, cost splits for Activity Price calculations. Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration
• Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles. Set-up planning profile for cost center, activities, statistical key figures and cost element planning.
• Worked with Client team and recorded uPerform sessions while explaining the complete process flow.
• In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning and managing their settlements to Cost Centers/WBS.
• In Profit Center Accounting maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types, etc. and extracted reports using PCA

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

SAP FICO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed SAP travel management - Confidential ’s incidents and change requests in SAP Run Support. Maintained Confidential interfaces with SAP.
• My work involved blueprint, design, development, build, Go-Live and support.
• Handled all conversion objects in SAP Finance and Controlling conversions - G/L Accounts, Fixed Assets, Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Cost Collectors, Activity Prices load etc.
• Built all conversion objects within record time under aggressive timelines of the project. Build complete, functional and unit testing completed with readiness tests cleared for Mock0.
• Proposed changes in onshore/offshore working model, convincing Client and Confidential internal teams on the real-time zone benefits. Adapted quickly to multiple changes in the operating model - was instrumental in bringing more work to onshore and making the technical resources available for support during US working hours for mock conversions and actual cutover.
• Cost Element/Center Accounting: the creation of Primary and secondary cost elements, creation of cost center standard Hierarchy, Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures, Assessments, Distributions, plan price calculation, periodic allocations in planning.
• Internal Orders: Creation of settlement cost element, configuration of the Settlement structure, settlement profile, real and statistical postings, Configuration of order planning, Budgeting, defining status profile, Defining order types.

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Product Costing/CO-PA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for coordinating all RTR testing.
• Support RTR Product Costing/ COPA Lead. Help coordinate all RTR testing efforts in all the sub-processes of RTR.
• Worked through Product Integration Testing Cycles 2 & 3 and User Readiness Testing/UAT Support in R2.
• Product Costing: Performed material costing with cost estimate using quantity structure.
• Costing runs with bifurcation into variable and fixed cost. Analyzed costing runs.
• Analyzed BOM and materials type. Inventory valuation.
• A new costing variant ZCL1 has created to calculate standard cost for a specific group of materials only.
• The costing variant will use a new costing type which will be defined with ‘No Update’ and group valuation.
• This will allow the cost estimates to be store in ECC and then passed to BW for reporting requirements.
• Supported Product Costing/COPA scripts executions, material costing requests coming from various PIT Crews.
• Provided RTR Validation support for all the PIT (Product Integration Test) Crews.
• Configuration and support Sabrix to SAP interface. UAT support for all Sabrix issues through resolutions.
• Received support champion award for supporting RTR PIT crews during the significant Product Integration testing phase of the project.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Team Lead - SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with end user community to in corporate their SAP FI system change requests.
• Participate in requirements definition, analysis and design of system solutions
• Primary responsibility for the successful implementation of SAP solutions.
• Make configuration changes and write functional designs
• Carry out unit and integration testing. Coordinate UAT testing.
• Revenue Recognition - Standard Revenue Recognition at the time of billing and time related revenue recognitions where revenues are realized between specific set dates. Credit and debit memo requests with reference to preceding document.
• All the revenue recognition scenarios with respect to when the VF44 is executed, for instance time based and service based which will post to deferred and unbilled revenue accounts as per configuration.
• Vertex configuration and all tax interface integrations with SAP. SAP to Vertex integrations end to end and configured Tax solution for Sales Tax, Use Tax, VAT & GST Automation. Extensive hands-on with Vertex RFCs and address validations.
• Configured FI-SD VKOA account determinations. Worked extensively on mapping condition types in SD and incoming payments & lockbox areas of FI to support the monitoring and handling of payments into various Cash Accounts and Accounts Receivables and ACH - Direct debit process.
• Coordinate with business users, other IT team members for any kind of assistance.
• Created Custom ad-hoc Report Painter reports for Trial Balance and Cost Center allocations.

Confidential, Voorhees/Cherry Hill, NJ

Functional Lead FI - RTR

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements through Blueprint Workshops.
• Developed design phase deliverables after complete analysis of requirements.
• Engagement of Client teams through overall design of the end product.
• Implemented parallel ledger and Scenarios as part of New G/L.
• Implemented SAP Custom workflow.
• Configured SAP to Sabrix (Tax bolt-on) for external tax calculations.
• Extensive hands-on with SABRIX address validation servlets.
• Created Functional Specs for the RICEFWs and functional verification of the built objects.
• SAP to SABRIX integrations end to end and configured Tax solution for Sales Tax, Use Tax, VAT & GST Automation.
• Extensive hands-on with Sabrix RFCs and address validations servlets - ZIP + 4 validations etc.
• Design and development of SAP to Hyperion interface, Cost Center planning, Revenue planning using quarterly and long-term planning with integrated Excel plan data upload functionalities.
• Worked extensively on OTC cycle, configurations performed end to end VKOA (Rev. Acct determination) & OBYC (for COGS), complete all FI-SD integration points. Complete hands-on with SD Pricing Procedures, Access Sequences, Condition TypesandPricing Procedure determination.
• Integration with FI-CA for Utilities specific implementation, i.e. CR&B (Customer Relations & Billing). Automatic Account determinations in FI-CA thus enabling transfer of FI-CA documents to General Ledger. Define document types for deriving SD billing data.
• Defined the standard integration between CRM & ECC via CRM middleware - an integral part of CRM Server. Worked with Basis in defining the RFC destinations, logical systems for ECC & CRM. Mapped the data that need to be copied to CRM from ECC. Involved in assigning Pricing Condition types and doc types in CRM billing integrations in SAP IMG. Supported Business Partner three way matching configurations from ECC.
• Versatile programming skills and significant expertise in FI-CA, Netweaver, IS-U/CCS, FS-CD (Financial Services Collection & Disbursement), FI-CO, Cash Desk, Cash Journal (FPCJ or FPCD), Account Balance Display (FPL9), Document structures (FPE1, FPE2, FPE3), Configured Dunning, Payment processing, security deposit, Credit Collections & implemented FI-CA BAPIs.
• Configured “Enterprise Services” format for Wires & ACH payments. These Payment outbound files in XML formats have plugged in integrations with SAP PI and monitored all processing in SXMB MONI. Configured all these formats, end to end tested and deployed.
• Created custom ad-hoc Report Painter reports for Cost Center Planning and Revenue planning yearly comparisons. Extensively used Report Group and Report Writer functionalities.
• Experience with testing tools like HPQC to monitor and drive the closure of defects logged.
• Worked extensively with Open text interface (Vendor Invoice management - VIM tool).
• Design and development of all interface scenarios between Ariba and SAP (Transactional and Master data) through SAP PI for real time updates. Configuration of Ariba invoice module which includes invoice entry and reconciliation in Ariba and integrated with SAP for Payment Process. Down payment request process in SAP and successfully integrated it with SAP system for payment.

Confidential

Team Lead - SAP FI

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 at Paper Boards and Specialty papers Division of ITC.
• As part of implementation team, taking care of integration of ongoing development CRs, JFIT, UAT issues logged in Solution Manager, Mock Cutover etc.
• Addressed the configuration issues in payment sensitive areas like cheque printing, House Banks config, F110 Config, ACH - Direct debit process
• Workflow Development and support. BRS Configuration, set-up and support.
• Fine tuning of various ITD developments (like cash book, last book closing, vendor freight payments, Service tax provision etc) & their integration into the current PSPD Set-up.
• After GO-Live, as a Support Lead handled escalations & addressed all the issues within agreed SLAs.
• Hands-on configuration / Integration of Plant Maintenance with FICO. Asset / Sub-Asset numbering in Equipment master data, settlement of accrued costs in Maintenance Order to G/L Account, Cost Center, Asset etc. Set up Asset Equipment Linkage in SPRO.
• Activity based costing for Operations performed through Maintenance Order

Confidential

Team Lead - FICO

Responsibilities:

• Re-implementation of SAP for the Confidential Corporate Consolidation.
• As part of implementation team, worked as local lead for AMF ( Confidential France) location. Implemented the interfaces which were in force at client legacy system (TBO) for payments, SEPA Payments, HR and Training interfaces. Closing activities like Foreign Currency Revaluation, Reclassification and a new process for AuC without investment measure were configured, end to end tested and supported at the site.
• As part of Treasury interface implementation, domestic and foreign payments and DME formats were configured.
• Extensive hands-on with Fixed Assets AuC process - With Investment measure and line item settlement options. Created model order and assigned investment profile and settled the amounts to AuC from IO successfully as per settlement profile. Overhead type orders created for line item settlements.
• As part of HR interface implementation, end to end connectivity between the Web Application (in which flat file is generated) to SAP (Final postings) configured.
• As part of Training interface, capturing of training expenses in an Internal Order and its automatic creation and further status changes automated at interface level.
• Gathered GRC requirements through Blueprint workshops.
• Updated security roles for GRC controls from FICO standpoint.
• Coordinated FICO security roles testing for France location.