PROFILE:

• Agile managerial oriented SAP and IT Consultant with 20+ years with a recognized record of accomplishment in hands - on experienceinSAPFICOimplementation and Finance domain. Successfully implement end-to-end SAP international projects throughout 17 countries on-site and 44 countries remotely, which include the phase from RFP to design, engineering, delivery, and steady-state support.
• Expertise in both business processes and IT project life cycles leading to successful projects. Ensure project stakeholder relationships remain intact with sound and truthful communication throughout the project phases.
• 20+ years of experience in SAP FI-CO Consultancy in 13+ different industries
• Extraordinary proficiency in Controlling, Product Costing, COPA, and Material Ledger
• Remarkable Proficiency of all Record-to-Report Modules (RTR) and Integrations with P2P, OTC and Make
• Distinguished skills for E2E process & data flow expertise from upstream to FI, Product Costing, CO-PA and Reporting tools (BI/BW and BPC)
• Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order, Engineering-to-Order
• Mixed-costing, split valuation, Co-products, Catch Weight Management, Active Ingredient Management
• Material Ledger/Actual Costing/Alternative Valuation Run, Group Valuation, Transfer Prices / Internal Profits, Intercompany profit elimination
• Extensive experience in Foods (food & meat processing, packaging, dairy and food service), Pharma (generics & brand) and regulated Manufacturing Environments
• Project Systems, CAPEX Asset capitalization, budget management
• Project structureWBS, Network, Milestone and Activities
• Engineer-to-Order, Result Analysis, Revenue Recognition, Project Costing, Network Costing, Unit costing, and CATS integration
• Extensive experience in planning, reporting and budget scenarios and integrations (FI regulatory and Management Reporting CO-PA and PCA from BW, BW on HANA and BPC)
• General Ledger (New and old one), Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Application (Bank Integration & Lockbox), Asset management, FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management)
• Implementation Experience on S4HANA 1503, 1610, 1809 & 1909
• S4HANA Settlement Management, Predictive Accounting & Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR) 1.2
• Central Finance Proof of Concept and Training Experience
• 4+ years HANA experience as a sidecar and S4HANA implementation
• 14 SAP Implementation; 17 SAP Roll-Out; 12 SAP Retrofit/Support/Restructuring (more than 6 months); 3 Sap Upgrade; 3 SAP Advisory Projects
• 10+ years of experience Resource Management and Team Lead
• 4+ years IT Business Partner in very complex Enterprise
• 5+ years SAP Project Manager
• Extensive Cutover and Go-Live support Management Experience
• Month-End /Year-End Closing Activities in complex environments (Multi locations and Time zones)
• 3+ years of domain experience in Finance & Accounting.
• Leadership, partnership, and engagement experience of very diverse teams in different geographies (on-site and off-shore) and experience levels (from junior to C-level) in complex enterprises.
• 16+ years hands-on experience in solution designs, configuration, development of functional specifications, testing, and following up Tier 3 level support for Finance and Controlling (FICO) business processes including interfaces to Project Systems (PS), Plant Maintenance (PM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Human Resources and Payroll (HR), and Funds Management (FM) modules

SAP COMPETENCIES:

SAP Controlling (SAP-CO)

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

Product Costing (CO-PC)

Material Ledger/Actual Costing (CO-PC-ACT)

Alternative Valuation Run (AVR)

Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA)

Transfer Price (CO-PC-ACT-TP)

SAP Finance Accounting (SAP FI)

Finance Accounting General Ledger (FI-GL)

Finance Accounting Accounts Receivable (FI-AR)

Finance Accounting Accounts Payable (FI-AP)

Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR)

S/4 HANA Simple Finance

SAP HANA Finance Accelerator

SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)

Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA)

Internal Order (CO-OM-IO)

SAP Project Systems (PS)

SAP Performance Management (FICO)

SAP Archiving(SAP-ARCH)

SAP Workflow (SAP-WFM)

Document Management System (SAP-DMS)

LSMW

Agile/Activate/ASAP Methodology

EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL:

Confidential

S4/HANA Principal Finance Architect/PROGRAM MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Encompassed the full lifecycle of projects, including process analysis, writing design documents and flow charts, developing functional specifications, executing test scripts, and writing training documents.
• Coordinated and Executed medium to large projects through the software development lifecycle, including designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting.
• Provided the most appropriate recommendations and best-fit out of box solutions
• Designed detailed end-to-end customer industry-specific / corporate customer to-be processes ensuring the success of implementation and support.
• Anticipated stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realizes they are required
• Built trust with teams and stakeholders through open and honest conversation
• Managedlarge - medium-sized on-site/off-shore organizationsand work efforts(if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within the company
• Supported the recruitment process to expand the Finance Team in line with the pipeline by interviewing new candidates.

Confidential

Sap PRINCIPAL FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Encompassed the full lifecycle of projects, including process analysis, writing design documents and flow charts, developing functional specifications, executing test scripts, and writing training documents.
• Coordinated and Executed medium to large projects through the software development lifecycle, including designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting.
• Identified the appropriate end-to-end solution portfolio options and recommendations for client needs.
• Designed detailed end-to-end customer industry-specific / corporate customer to-be processes ensuring the success of implementation and support.

Confidential

Finance Lead SME MANAGER/ Sap PRINCIPAL FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Ensured compliance to key regulatory, security and organizational policies and procedures
• Engaged, collaborated, and communicated effectively with stakeholders from 55 countries and global teams to deliver the business value
• Defined and established right size processes to enable productive use of resources
• Designed and delivered high quality, low cost solutions to meet business needs
• Build, maintain and deliver Enterprise Financial Systems roadmap to lead the Finance areas to reach business goals
• Enable solutions capability in Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable (APAR), Financial Controlling, Product Costing, General Ledger/Cost Center Accounting, Asset Accounting, and Material Ledger, Profitability Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance Budgeting, Finance Analytics & Reporting, Treasury functional areas to ensure business needs are met
• Configured and maintained SAP S4 HANA 1610 release as a Proof of Concept with other modules and related third parties.
• Assessed the resource assignment and Effort estimation for the configuration and developments of RICEF’s
• Prepared functional specifications for developing the Enhancements, Interfaces, IDOCs, Reports, and forms.
• Built and led team of Solution Analysts in Global IT and Corporate Finance end to end processes. Worked closely with upstream and cross functional team to ensure end to end solution design
• Delivered IT solutions in Record-to-Report processes from Global IT in collaboration with respective functional teams
• Established and managed partnership with key stakeholders, including suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Drive for delivery and accountability with key supplier partners
• Manage the team of 10+ on-site and 30+ offshore

Confidential

Director, Head of F nanc al Appl cat ons/ Sap PRINCIPAL FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementation and support of SAP Financials and Controlling to enhance the clients' business functionality and overall performance, while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction
• Ensured successful Project Delivery along with engagement activities as SAP Lead and Solution Architect for an end to end Sap FICO solutions

Confidential

SAP FICO Lead consultant/ ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Designed, configured, and helped to the testing of core FI/CO modules (GL, AP, AR). Asset Accounting, CO-PA, Product Costing throughout the 44 countries Roll-Out Program
• Wrote functional specifications for SAP Technical Analysts to resolve issues and provide enhancements.
• Monitored and supported the FICO month-end closing activities across 44 countries, reviewed adjustments, and provided solutions to ad-hoc incidents.
• Coordinated and planned all FICO activities, provided production support, implemented business process solutions to meet requirements of the business owners.
• Ensured all developments are following the solution and global business processes.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Principal FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible E2E All Financial Solution
• Responsible Financial Cubes on BW on HANA
• Organized the Cut-over Activities from RTR area
• Planned Mock Month-End Closing
• Integration with all up & downstream modules

Confidential

QA & Advisory Principal FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the quality of the design
• Reviewing integrity of the batch wise (VIN) costing solution and effect to the other entities (Manufacturing & Supply Chain)
• Transferring the knowledge of Actual Costing, Stock-in-Transit Valuation, Transfer Pricing and Profit Elimination in Group Valuation

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Principal FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understand the E2E Online Travel Agency Business and map it to S/4 HANA processes
• Central Finance POC and Demo
• Responsible for Finance Integration with Booking System
• Provide standard and out of box solutions for company requirements

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Principal FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Budgeting Process and Map it to Budgeting Tool
• Responsible for Financial Concepts

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Principal FICO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Finance side Assessment
• Building & Presenting Use Case Scenarios
• Configuring Demo system from Finance side

Confidential, North Charleston, SC

Program Manager & Principal FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and delivery
• Design, implementation, test and go-live support of the program

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

FICO Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Finance Integration of the product
• Design, implementation, test and go-live support of the program

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

FICO Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Finance Integration of the product
• Design, implementation, test and go-live support of the report library

Confidential

IT Finance SME Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CO-PA and Material Ledger module on SAP version ECC 6.0.
• Design the Global CO-PC Solution to harmonize all countries across the globe. The alignment of all supply chain figures
• Implement and retrofit Reporting Inventory on top of BW on HANA
• Plan and Implement in a phased approach to all countries and continue with five countries South Africa, Turkey, Russia, Israel and Arabia

Confidential

IT Finance SME Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CO-PA and Material Ledger module on SAP version ECC 6.0.
• Design the Global CO-PC Solution to harmonize all countries across the globe. The alignment of all supply chain figures
• Implement and retrofit Reporting Inventory on top of BW on HANA
• Plan and Implement in a phased approach to all countries and continue with three countries, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines

Confidential

IT Finance SME Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the CO-PA module on SAP version ECC 6.0.
• Design the Global CO-PA Solution Template to harmonize all countries across the globe. The alignment of 218 financial KPI’s, allocation methodologies and reporting techniques
• Design Reporting Inventory on top of BW on HANA
• Plan and Implement in a phased approach to all countries and starting from 13 countries, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Australia-New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines

Confidential

IT Finance SME Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CO- module on SAP version ECC 6.0.EP6 .to ECC 6.0 EP7

Confidential

IT Finance SME Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the CO-PC module on SAP version ECC 6.0.
• Design the Global CO-PC Solution to harmonize all countries across the globe. The alignment of all supply chain figures
• Design Reporting Inventory on top of BW on HANA
• Plan and Implement in a phased approach to all countries and starting from eight ones, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Australia-New Zealand, and Singapore.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the project from E2E.
• Activate SLT replication in 44 controlling areas (countries) with no disruption and downtime.

Confidential

Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all RTR (Record-to-Report): General ledger, Accounting Close, Cash Management, A/P, A/R, Asset Management)and all Controlling Modules CO, CO-OM-CCA; CO-OM-IO; CO-PA on SAP S4/HANA 1503
• Integration with PS and FI-CA

Confidential

Senior FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all RTR (Record-to-Report): General ledger, Accounting Close, Cash Management, A/P, A/R, Asset Management)and all Controlling Modules, CO-OM-CCA; CO-OM-IO; CO-PC-PCP, CO-PC-OBJ, CO-PC-ACT, CO-PA on SAP version ECC 6.06

Confidential

Principal FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design all corporate organizational structure and Financial Reporting Inventory
• Build Reporting Inventory with BI team on BW
• Responsible for all RTR (Record-to-Report): General ledger, Accounting Close, Cash Management, A/P, A/R, Asset Management)and all Controlling Modules, CO-OM-CCA; CO-OM-IO; CO-PC-PCP, CO-PC-OBJ, CO-PC-ACT, CO-PA on SAP version ECC 6.06
• Responsible for all RTR (Record-to-Report): General ledger, Accounting Close, Cash Management, A/P, A/R, Asset Management)and all Controlling Modules, CO-OM-CCA; CO-OM-IO; CO-PC-PCP, CO-PC-OBJ, CO-PC-ACT, CO-PA on SAP version ECC 6.06

Confidential

CO Team Lead and Principal CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Make to Order and Engineer to Order Production
• Responsible for the CO-PA module on SAP version ECC 6.0.
• Design and implementation of a Global CO-PA Solution Template. Alignment of 218 financial measures, 122 countries, 51,000 ERP users.

Confidential, Englewood, NJ

Controlling SME/Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CO-OM, CO-PC-ACT/Material Ledger/ CO-PA module on SAP version ECC 6.0...
• Supporting the critical Month End Closing process-improvement for America's business as part of the Americas ERP SAP Template Roll-out (Cordillera). Ensuring that the ERP template is ready for the Brazil implementation - August 2013.

Confidential

FI-CO Team Lead/Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CO- module on SAP version ECC 6.0..to ECC 6.0 EP 6
• Responsible for HANA CO-PA RDS
• Implementing the HANA CO-PA RDS to have process improvement for Month End Closing business operation and reporting as part of the Asia/Africa ERP SAP Template Roll-out (U2K2). Ensuring that the ERP template is ready for a fast closing project.