SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of IT experience as an SAP Functional Consultant in various functional areas like FICO, PTP, OTC, MDG, MDM modules in various phases of the project - Implementation, Realization /Configuration, Customization, Integration, Testing, Go-Live & Support with 4 Full Life Cycle Implementations.
• Experience working on various project methodologies like Waterfall model, Agile model.
• Experience in the ETL process (Extract, Transform, Load) and Data Profiling experience from source systems including Flat Files, Legacy systems and SAP R/3 (MM PTP, SD OTC, FICO, JVA, PRA).
• Preparation of Functional Design and Technical Design documents for Data Migration to SAP ECC and S4 HANA.
• Specific focus is onS/4 HANAas applied to Finance(FI) and Controlling(CO), Simple Finance AKAS/4 HANA Finance (Versions1503, 1511, 1610, 1709 and 1909), and Process Integration areas of SAP along with experience working in SAP Oil and Gas industry in upstream area which consists of PRA and JVA modules..
• Provide innovation and generate business value for customers on the latest SAP HANA platform. Participated in multiple end - to-end implementation and roll-out projects using ASAP methodology, and in various support roles.
• Used Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) for data Upload for Various SAP Projects.
• Interfaced with Migration of data and integration with modules like FI-MM, FI-SD.
• Experience in Open Text Vendor Invoice Management(VIM)5.2, 6.0 & 7.0
• Worked on implementing the Financial Closing Cockpit implementation.
• Coordinate and manage the consolidations process using SAP ECCS (Enterprise Controlling Consolidation System)
• Experience in importing master data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 by using LSMW & Batch Input Session techniques.
• Knowledge of Nakisa Lease Management
• Extensive experience in Business Analysis, GAP Analysis, Requirement Gathering, and Solution Delivery
• Experience in ABAP/4 Programming with BAPI, BADI, User Exits, LSMW, BDC, SAP Scripts, Smart Forms, ABAP Queries, ALE, IDOCs, ALV Reports, Report Painter, ABAP debugging and possess an ability to propose and justify technical solutions.
• Experience in performance analysis and tuning using various debugging tools like runtime analysis and SQL trace.
• Trained end users in configuration and post implementation production support and documentation.
• Conversant with US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and SOX (Sarbanes - Oxley) compliance procedure.
• A strong team leader and team player, able to work well within a team as well as an individual.
• A self-motivated individual with ability to work under pressure and meet important deadlines.
• Skilled in all aspects of reporting, data migration, data quality analysis, and data cleansing. Excellent customer facing and consulting skills.
• Proficient in Data Conversions, Data Transfers and Data Extracts to and from SAP systems.
• Experienced working in Pharmaceutical, Retail, Banking, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Utilities, IT Services.
• Data Dictionary (Tables, Structures, Data Elements, Domains, Search Helps, Lock Objects).
• Reports (classical, Interactive and ALV) and Module Pool Programming.
• Batch Data Communication (Call Transaction, Session Method, BAPI and LSMW).
• Sap Scripts and Smart forms.
• Exposure to ALE, RFC, IDOC, EDI, BADI, USER EXITS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP (ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B and 4.0B) FI/CO, FSCM, S/4 HANA: Finance (SFin 2.0, 1503, 1511, 1610, 1709 and 1909), ECCS, MM, SD, PP, HR, JVA, PRA

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, Information Steward, Data Services, CATS, SLT

Languages: PL/SQL, C/C++, SQL Report Writer, Java, J2EE, HTML, JavaScript.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/XP, Windows NT, MAC OS X Tiger/Leopard, UNIX.

Database: SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access and MS Excel.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Adobe Photoshop, JSP, Flash, and Microsoft Front Page

Applications: Oracle Applications 11.x (GL, AP, PSB), Forms 4.5/ 6i, Reports 2.5/ 6i, Workflow MS Office Suite, ICR tool, UPerform, HP ALM, Caliber, ZOPTION, Azure Devops, ONESOURCE

Tools: Visual Source Safe, SQL Navigator, Toad, Oracle SQL Loader, AIM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston

Senior SAP Functional Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP S/4 HANA (Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• ConductedGAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Involved in the KT session for the Production Support for the Confidential Finance and PRA modules.
• Involved in supporting various Support packs build by Crawford.
• Modified various Smart forms for the legal requirement.
• Worked on the analysis of the SAP FIORI Appconfiguration 1909 version.
• Manages Group consolidation process for both monthly internal management and statutory purposes
• Manage the interim and year end consolidation workings and worked with BW team to generate Group reporting.
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, define and translate requirements into technical solutions as dictated by own area of expertise.
• Handed SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of problems.
• Prepared Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.
• Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.
• Involved in Period-end-closing activities.
• Assisted in the preparation of Integration test scripts for testing the data for outbound and inbound data.
• Assisted the team in preparing the documentation and Post -implementation support.
• Coordinate with internal teams the follow-up and update of the escalated calls.
• Imparted User-training for the organization for the development and organization of all the matters related to FI (G/L, A/P, A/R, AM), CO, JVA and PRA business end users including creation, editing and maintenance of documentation.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior SAP Functional Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP S/4 HANA (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business requirements by conducting meetings with key users and draftedbusiness blueprintdocumentation. Performed gap analysis, documented and prototyped between current business practices and standard SAP functionality
• ConductedGAP analysis, document findings, evaluated scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customization.
• Was mainly responsible for building the Conversion Development Status tracker and Conversion Strategy Document to track the Development trend and metrics through various phases.
• Was mainly responsible for building the Detailed Technical Cutover Plan and coordinating with Project Team, Client Business, Basis and Security to sequence the activities, dependencies, duration in hours, track activities owned by org wide teams. The main focus was on SAP Cutover Transition and Data migration comprising SAP/ERP and other integrated legacy systems.
• Was mainly responsible for building the Transport Retrofit Strategy based on import Sequencing and Dependency (Import/Export Master Data, Transaction Data, Deferred Transports, Track Config Sync Tables between MDG and ECC) based on PCR and Wave assignment.
• Responsible for implementing Central Finance to harmonize Master Data and replicate posting.
• Responsible for mapping master data from several source systems (SAP & Non-SAP) to harmonize master data in central finance system either manually.
• Worked on the Data Migration Design/Development Loads of multiple Master Data migration objects (Vendor Master, Customer Master, Material Master).
• Involved in end-to-end VIM implementation across all the landscapes of XOM including Upstream, Downstream & Chemicals.
• Designed an effective Invoice solution to the client in a highly customized and country specific environment using VIM.
• Worked on training OCR for various complex invoice images, multiple vendor invoice templates and troubleshooting OCR adaptive recognition issues.
• Was Responsible for Design/Development of Data Migration Transaction Data (GL Balances, AR Balances, AP Balances, Asset Balances, WBS Master Data, WBS Balances, I/O Balances using BODS, LSMW, and BDC Programs.
• Responsible to Create, Design and Manage the Customer Data Cleansing Automation Process and Data Migration (Pre-validation, Cleansing, Transformation, Load Automation and Migration). The Automation Process improved the Customer Data Cleansing Process from Multiple Weeks of Manual Effort to couple of Hours of Automation Work with 99% Success rate for Data Cleansing, 99% identifying Pre-validation Errors, 100% Migration Load Rate)
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes,created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges,invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants)and financial statement version to support S4 HANA.
• Worked and hosted multiple workshops to build the solution involving CHE, SLT to support multiple systems on legacy, older versions of SAP, MDM, MDG and S4 HANA(CFIN)
• Worked on the analysis of the SAP FIORI Appconfiguration between 1709, 1809 and 1909 S4 versions.
• Manages Group consolidation process for both monthly internal management and statutory purposes
• Manage the interim and year end consolidation workings and worked with BW team to generate Group reporting.
• Profiled, analyzed and loaded master data Vendor, Customer, Partner functions, Partner Associate etc.. along with configuration in AP, AR and House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP).
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, define and translate requirements into technical solutions as dictated by own area of expertise.
• Handed SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of problems.
• Prepared Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.
• Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.
• Was leading the Cutover data loads to MDG, Cutover data replication from MDG to ECC system, Master Data Loads into SAP, Transaction Loads into SAP and downstream systems.
• Assisted in developing job aids, transaction aids and quick reference guidesand developed configuration scripts.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Senior SAP Functional Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
• Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.
• Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.
• Worked with MM processes like Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV), credit debit memos, maintaining Material master data, material groups, purchasing groups, purchasing info records, MM Pricing procedures, etc.
• Involved in designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and implementing the S4Hana 1503 (SFin 2.0) on premises edition.
• Successfully configured and tested GL, AP, AR, Controlling/Planning as part of SAP Accounting powered by HANA Add-on, Cash Management S/4 HANA Add-on, and Fixed Assets modules in SFIN2.0 - S/4HANA Finance and SAP HANA specific Fiori apps.
• Experience working on different types of Taxation with different 3rd party tax engines - taxware, vertex and Sabrix.
• Sales & Use Tax: Worked closely with the Tax department to capture US Sales & Use Tax requirements for Goods & Services - Addresses (Service Performed At Address, Point of Order Origin & Acceptance), Product/Service Classification (Tangibility and Onsite/Remote Services), Customer Tax Exemption (Resale, Internal Use, Government, Charity, etc.), Tax Point Date, Invoicing, Credits & Re-bills, Buyer Self-Assessment (Direct Pay States and Imports), Archiving, Reconciliations, Tax Accounting & Reporting.
• VAT/GST: Worked with regional/local Tax teams in the EMEA, APJ & AMS(Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina,..) to capture VAT/GST requirements for domestic & cross-border transactions, place of service supply, reverse charge, PST, HST, GST and various multilevel taxes(county, city, district, state), Russia WH VAT, invoicing (Paper & Electronic), VAT grouping, local currency VAT accounting & reporting.
• Worked on taxes in more than 170 countries around the world by usingSabrixand Taxware for their transactional tax automation needs, with Sabrix handling the global tax Calculation barring the United States and Canada.
• Worked on Czech Republic and the Netherlands VAT (value added taxes) calculated in both local and foreign currency to satisfy local regulations. Being on multiple non - SAP systems as well, these parameters had to be passed toSabrixfor the tax calculation as well
• Configured the system to deduct a cash discount for payment of fixed asset invoice automatically and in real time, to the corresponding asset.
• Configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset acquisition.
• Handed SAP finance related tickets to find the possible solution of problems.
• Prepared Month End activities for managerial reporting purposes.
• Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written functional specifications.
• Define, analyze and interpret Group Financial Management information in order to provide insightful analysis to senior management.
• Preparation of the monthly Group management accounts and supporting documents.
• Design and configured Company Code for USA/Mexico, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Hierarchy, Inventory Process from procurement to production and dispatch from Mexico Plant.
• Design and Configure SAP FI- GL, AP (Procurement-to-pay), AR (Order-to-Cash Process), Banking, Integration for SAP FI/CO with MM/IM, SD, PP as per business process.
• Configured and changes Fiscal Year Variant for client as per business requirement and checked for integration with SAP MM/SD/PP Module for Fiscal Year Variant change.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Senior SAP Delivery Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Production Support and Projects)

Responsibilities:

• Working with stakeholders and business users to analyze, design, develop, modify, test, and implement software solutions and applications to satisfy global business requirements in line with SAP’s Best Practice in Finance modules.
• Responsible for taking over Production support role for various SAP sub modules, non-SAP 3rd party applications along with various projects related to enhancements.
• Responsible for the planning and scheduling KT sessions with KTRs and SMEs.
• Involved in KT sessions and supported tickets related to various SAP submodules like GL, AP, AR, AA, Treasury, CCA, PCA, COPC, COPA, PS and preparing AODs.
• Responsible for managing the monthly close process which included SAP FI and ECCS modules and the budgeting and forecasting system(BPC).
• Worked to support migration to S4 HANA.
• Hosted multiple workshops to make End users understand S4 HANA concepts like Universal Journals, ACDOCA, Prime Nota, etc..
• Involved in KT sessions related to various SAP and non-SAP applications like ONESOURCE, CONCUR, DB Connect, Freight Audit and Pay and preparing AODs.
• Working knowledge of Credit and Asset Management, Special Ledger FI-SL, New GL- Document splitting, Project Systems, Bank Accounting, Foreign Currency, Treasury.
• Worked on TRM especially Money Marker, Derivatives, Forex Hedge management.
• Intercompany Loan Manage Cash Application Auto Bank Maintain Bank Master Data.
• Manage Cash Disbursements Electronic Funds Transfer Process.
• Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
• Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI with MM and SD.
• Preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts.
• Configured and Customized CO - General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
• In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost.
• Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Wrote various Functional specs and was the liaison between the logistics/finance/purchasing business teams and the development team.
• Created Functional design specifications for programs and coordinate on the development with offshore technical teams.
• Implemented ChaRM, established workflow with Email notifications and alerts.
• Worked closely to set up CHaRM including technical configuration of all necessary SolMan and Remote System components.
• Working with the other IT Business Process Functional Teams, Application Development Teams, and Technology Services Teams on complex integration requirements.
• Managing the tactical execution of short- and long-term objectives through the coordination of activities with a direct responsibility for results, including costs, methods, and staffing and providing leadership, coaching and development plans for all direct reports to maintain an engaged and productive workforce.
• Leveraging standard processes and innovative solutions, with consideration of FICO solutions impact on SAP functional components (and vice versa) and delivering superior and timely production results and clarifying the business question related to solution we provide and capturing gap for development.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Senior SAP Techno Functional Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering the requirement that relate to master data from the business team and integrate with different SAP and non-SAP systems
• Responsible for Data Migration from legacy to SAP (Master Data and Transaction Data) using LSMW and BDC programs after preparing the files from Data Services along with for customized fields.
• Wrote various Functional and Technical specs and was the liaison between the logistics/finance/purchasing business teams and the development team to build the conversion programs and the upload programs for various data objects.
• Responsible for all the cutover activities and preparing the project schedules and sequences of loads along with coordinating with the tasks with offshore teams
• Involved in building ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) process in Data Services for various Objects based on legacy process and requirements.
• Responsible for data profiling and providing Data Health Assessment documents which helps the business in the blueprint phase using Information Steward and Data Services.
• Design, develop and maintain BRF+ application
• Develop business rules, business partner extension functions in business rule framework
• Prepare technical specification and deployment document
• Responsible for data migration of various Master Data, FI, MM, SD objects (Vendor Master, Customer Master, FI Invoices, MM Invoices, Goods Receipt, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, SD Invoices, SD Invoices History, Customer Licenses).
• Developed LSMWs to load data from BODS generated load files to SAP ECC and S4 HANA.
• Provided various Custom Reports to Business during multiple phases of the project to help Business validate loads.
• Worked closely to setup and configure Solution manager Early Watch Alerts, System Monitoring, Central system administration, Job scheduling management, Business process management, Charm and Maintenance optimizer
• Responsible for maintaining the Partner profiles, ALE distribution model configuration.
• Involved in cleansing the data related activities by using BODS tool to get the correct Tax jurisdiction codes from the vertex and tax ware tax engine.
• Involved in load integration activities and defining the sequence of loading of data, cutover activities and assigning the jobs and getting status and working on the issue that occurred during development.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior SAP Techno Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Performed AS-IS Study of the system and TO-BE Analysis. Involved in conducting GAP Analysis. Revision of Business Process Procedures to in corporate necessary changes.
• Interacted with the client in gathering business requirement, creating business requirement document, and functional design document.
• Worked on both waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Participated in global blue printing sessions and created process maps.
• Involved in the full life cycle implementation of ECC 6.0.
• Responsible for Data Migration from Legacy to SAP (Master Data and Transaction Data) using LSMW and BDC programs.
• Wrote functional specification of New GL, Vendor Master Conversion, and Customer Master Conversion.
• Worked extensively in New General Ledger configuration.
• Actively involved in importing data from old legacy system to newly implemented SAP system using LSMW.
• Analyzed and configured the fiscal year, posting periods, document types, number ranges, account groups, field status group, chart of accounts, company codes, & functional areas.
• Configured Validations and Substitutions in Financial accounting and controlling.
• Worked closely with WW Transaction Tax (VAT & SUT), VAT Reporting, and Controllership teams to design a global template that is compliant at the regional/country level.
• Configured and Tested the Lockbox program for Accounts Receivable (AR) payments (BAI2 Format).
• Responsible for overall lookout of AR & AP issues pertaining within the organization.
• Worked on Asset Accounting, Capitalization, Retirements, AUC etc..
• Worked on PS, Internal Orders and WBS to support Overhead projects, Capital projects, Investment projects.
• Involved in End to end design Implementation and support for the Revenue recognition process for Licenses, Support, Credit and rebill, renewals, partners, SAAS and implementing as per IRFS from Contracts with Customers.
• Implemented HP specific customizations for revenue recognition to align with the HP product structure and flow and IRFS guidelines.
• Responsible for managing the monthly close process which included SAP FI and ECCS modules and the budgeting and forecasting system(BPC).
• Worked with the ECCS consultant on identifying, defining and implementing the business requirements.
• Worked with the SD team to understand the Pricing procedures and item categories and the custom logic on the SD side and align the account determination to determine the correct G/L’s and provisional G/L’s.
• Worked on revenue reports like reclass, long term and short term reports.
• Worked on Trade, Renewals, credit and rebill, debit and credit memo account determinations based on the item categories and condition types and Account keys.
• Worked on the revenue reports (Long term and short term, Reclass reports) and worked on custom logic to populate the data elements on the reports.
• Developed and executed BPML, test scripts, test scenarios, unit test plans, functional test plans, integration test plans and regression test plans.
• Generated special reports for customer requirement with BI
• Developed contribution margin and user defined profitability reports using report painter capabilities.
• Worked with Solution Manager (PM Tools) for Testing, Reporting and Automation.
• Worked with HP Quality Center for Testing, Reporting and Automation and caliber for Requirements gathering.
• Was involved in defining the User Role Authorization matrix with the security team and the process team.
• Documented the critical changes, trained the team members in the client team about the new system functionality, and tested theintegrationof FI/CO with various modules such asSD and MM.

Confidential, New York

Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the client in gathering business requirement, creating business requirement document, and functional design document.
• Worked on the Financial Closing Cockpit configuration.
• Created tasks, templates, dependencies related to the Cockpit configuration.
• Worked on the entering the transactions required for the closing process in table SCMATRANSACT for Cockpit.
• Worked on identifying and entered all the programs that are used in the Financial Closing cockpit in table SCMAPROGRAMS for Cockpit.
• Completed transport cutover cookbook and documented cutover requirements.
• Created business process procedures and knowledge transferred to designated super users

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Senior SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Full Life Cycle Implementation)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full life cycle implementation of ECC 6.0.
• Participated in global blue printing sessions and created process maps
• Wrote functional specification of New GL, Vendor Master Conversion, and Customer Master Conversion.
• Worked extensively in New General Ledger configuration.
• Configured for Document splitting, Classify G/L Accounts for Document Splitting and Define Splitting Rule
• Classify Document Types for Document Splitting and Document Splitting Characteristics for General Ledger
• Actively involved in importing data from old legacy system to newly implemented SAP system using LSMW.
• Imported and processed Electronic bank statements (EBS) worked with BAI2 file formats.
• Configured tax, used tax calculation procedure to handle the US sales and use tax calculations.
• Worked on various types of taxation like multi-level taxes, HST, PST and GST.
• Analyzed and configured the fiscal year, posting periods, document types, number ranges, account groups, field status group, chart of accounts, company codes, & functional areas.
• Configured terms of payment for cash discount and special transactions like down payment.
• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, and interacted with clients to configure Vendor/Customer Account Groups.
• Configured for the creation of A/R invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with differences. Process Payment advises to clear customer open items through automatic processing of BDC sessions.
• Configured the Cash position, Liquidity forecast and Cash concentration functions, Electronic Bank Statement, Lock Box process, Cashed Checks and Check deposit functions.
• Setup Bank Master Data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and creating reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets. Configured Lockbox statements with BAI2 formats.
• Configured and Tested the Lockbox program for Accounts Receivable (AR) payments (BAI2 Format).
• Involved in FI-SD integration: Worked with SD team to configure condition type, pricing procedure. Automatic account assignment of revenues through VKOA using t-key ERL similarly COGS through OBYC using t-key GBB.
• Involved in FI-MM integration: Worked with MM team to configure movement type, material type, and valuation group. Automatic Account Determination of GR/IR through OBYC using t-key WRX.
• Involved in FI-HR integration: Worked with HR team to configure the employee details to reflect in the Cost center master data. Automatic employee Determination from PA20.
• Month-end FI closing, Period closing and opening in FI. Adding/Deleting/Modifying Financial Statement versions in GL, Running Clearing procedures for GR/IR, Handling Issues related to Parallel Currencies, Foreign currency translation, maintaining new exchange rate types.
• Generated reports using Report Painter, Documentation for end users, end user training and User acceptance testing.