SUMMARY

• SAP (FICO) Functional Lead / Sr. Consultant /Project Manager (PMP certified by PMI) with over 15 years of experience with SAP R/3 FI & CO modules.
• Certified C TFIN52 05 SC MYSAP FINANCIALS - ERP ). Also Certified in Oracle Financials R11i.
• PMP certification since 2005. Delegate to PMI workshops for various initiatives.
• Project lead for Five SAP projects out of which three were end to end implementations.
• Team lead since 2002. More than 10 years of experience in various lead positions as Project/program manager & FICO team lead (Record to report/Procure to pay/Order to cash teams/ Fixed Assets).
• Have experience of end to end implementations, Upgrades, Roll Outs, Data Migration, Enhancements, Consulting, Production support projects for Global organizations and Proof of Sales & responding to RFPs.
• Experience in AFS, Utility, Automotive, High Tech, IMC, CPG and Insurance SAP solutions. Have worked in several countries and also on various SAP country versions.
• As a practicing CPA, I have functional experience in practice as an Auditor, Tax and Financial Consultant, covering all areas of Taxation, Accounts and Costing functions Complete familiarity and ability to interpret GAAP and International Accounting Standards. Familiarity with logic behind corporate income tax, sales tax and excise acts world over.
• Thorough understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules (FI/CO with new GL SD, MM, PP, PS, PM and of overall business processes such as order-to-cash (OTC) and purchase-to-pay (P2P) etc. Have conceptual knowledge of organization structures and working of other modules like PS, CS, and QM. Working knowledge of configuration and transactions in MM, SD, PS, HR, & PP modules. Knowledge of IFRS requirements and its set up in New and Classic GL.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements and specifications for custom development of IDOCS, BAPI, BADI, Interfaces, Enhancements, Reports and other customized ABAP developments.
• Quality assurance Testing experience and understanding of software testing methodology and thorough knowledge of using testing tools such as HP Test director and Quick Test Professional.
• Experience with ASAP methodology, Project Management, Risk Management & Change management issues .Trained in process modeling techniques of ARIS and Visio.
• Leading and managing team to ensure quality and adherence to time lines. Familiarity in setting up of onsite and offshore model. Experience in vendor management and Release Management.
• Have experience in setting up Centre of excellence & artifacts library. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 versions 4.0B, 4.5B, 4.6 C, 4.7, 5.0, ECC 6.0 (6.1-6.7) & Oracle Financials11i

Languages: ABAP, P/L SQL

Operating Systems: Windows NT 5.0 & Windows 95/98

Testing Tools: HP Test director, Mercury Quick Test Professional

Migration Tools: Ascential, BDC, LSMW & Winshuttle

Other Tools: Remedy, SharePoint, Thread Manager, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, SAP Solution Manager (TAO, UPERFORM etc.) and MS office suite.

Third party integration: BCM, Essbase, Hyperion, Concur, Tranman, Serengeti, Power Plant, Humming Bird, Kronos and others.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Solution Architect & BW team lead

Responsibilities:

• Solution Architect for project to shift global procurement for multiple companies from US to Ireland.
• Main requirements a) To keep business processes unchanged b) Methodology to identify inventory ownership from comingled inventory. c) Process automation.
• Conducting requirement workshops and interacting with stakeholders (CEO & CFO) on proposed project.
• Preparation of project plan and scoping documents.
• Blueprint document preparation
• Suggested strategies for automation of processes and design solution for identification of inventory.
• Set up of project organization and team staffing.
• Identification and development of functional specification documents and handoff to team of consultants.
• Identification of relevant data tables/reports in SAP ECC which will be needed for the extraction of data for BW reports
• Provide an overview of reporting features in SAP ECC and disposition of legacy reports to decide whether reports will be needed from legacy BW system or from SAP going forward.
• Help business understand SAP data flows so that future reports can be created by in-house BW team.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Solution Architect GL (GL Migration and Upgrade project)

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of project plan/cutover plan for the upgrade and GL migration projects.
• Based on inputs from technical team (SPDD/SPAU results) Test plans and test scripts were created that thoroughly cover critical business processes, and completion of the upgrade in test /production environments.
• Drawing up list of manual/cutover task list and transport sequence. Addressing of code changes for custom programs impacted by the upgrade and getting business approvals.
• Discussion with business team on new Chart of accounts /cost center and profit center/segments
• Development of functional documents for conversion programs.
• Addressing various business issues (GR/IR clean up, Intercompany postings, Forex Valuation)

Confidential, Fairfield, CA

Solution Architect and team lead FICO (R2R/OTC/P2P)

Responsibilities:

• Leading the finance team and interacting with client on change management issues
• Overseeing and conducting configuration and development of complex issues specific to line of business
• Designed, configured and oversaw development in New GL/AP/AR/FA/COPA/ Treasury (EBS/ EDI 820/824) Credit card /Paymetric processes in SAP.
• Designed and addressed integration from SAP CRM, HR and MM to SAP FICO.
• Obtained requirements and implemented BW & Hyperion reports design.
• Aiding in establishing timelines, potential risk management and mitigation.
• Assisting technical team in complex issues.
• Handling change management and training issues.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

FICO Manager and lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation of ledgers for local GAAP and local tax and maintenance of fiscal year variants.
• Set up of document splitting functionality and multicurrency reporting
• Foreign exchange valuation including countries with hard currency requirements.(Venzuela)
• Testing of Sabrix interface with Sabrix team. Testing of various conditions and entry in GL.
• Other responsibilities: Exchange rate maintenance, Tax maintenance.
• Interfaces for master data/consolidation /bank and EBS.
• Requirement gathering and configuration for Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia.
• Set up of depreciation reporting for US and Local GAAP and tax and for Venezuelan hard currency areas.
• Set up of inflation accounting for Mexico per inflation indices for tax reporting for depreciation and sale of assets.
• Meeting Venezuelan GAAP requirements for the Down payment configuration of assets.
• Setting up of transaction types for isolating posting to local and US GAAP.
• Development of LSMW for uploads, ensuring data integrity for upload of legacy assets for US and local reporting.
• Coordination of cutover activities. Ensuring master & transaction data templates were understood and were correctly populated.
• Test data upload templates, load statistic monitoring and error resolution.
• Monitoring of cutover plan and exception handling.
• Interacting and mentoring with the offshore support team on topics mentioned above.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Project Manager and solution architect

Responsibilities:

• Issue resolution in the areas of Asset Accounting, Controlling (internal orders) Accounts Payable, New GL
• Project Systems: Set up of Projects/network /WBS
• Implementation of Authorizations, Roles, SOD and Security for users in conjunction with Security team.
• Implementation of purchase functionality through MM & Release management.
• Customized solutions for financial reporting- Consolidation & FERC reporting.
• Resolution of process issues related to tax.

Confidential, New York NY

GL Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation & support for SAP FI-CA & New GL (Brazilian reporting requirements)
• Understanding and implementing the Brazil chart of accounts as per Brazilian requirements.
• US GAAP requirements and chart of accounts.
• Foreign exchange valuation settings and testing.
• Coding block and sub screen configuration for including new account assignments when posting. Configuration of transaction and screen variants.
• Development of LSMW for upload of chart of accounts.
• Provided functional specifications for the development of customized reports.
• Development of training artifacts and set up of test scripts.

Confidential, Brisbane, CA

Project Manager (US Cons. Project) & Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• As this was the first implementation of the platform, it involved an analysis of the common financial reporting package in alignment with the US and Canadian accounting standards.
• This included blueprinting and gap identification of the business processes and reporting of the gaps and study of the proposed resolutions.
• This involved travel to Singapore to understand the technical and functional aspects of the project and the implementation thereof at project locations in USA (SC) and Canada (BC).
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of global Functional SAP standards.
• Study of client companies, reporting requirements for companies and the global center.
• Change management for users of group companies for education on global financial reporting.
• Work collaboratively with super users based in US, Canada and Singapore to achieve common reporting platforms and bring the financial reporting to conform to the new global reporting standards.
• Configure and build the company financial structure on the new global platform and resolution of any inconsistencies between company and global requirements.
• Develop interfaces for the data migration between local financial packages and SAP (initial data upload and ongoing).
• Data migration and cutover for upload of legacy master and transaction data.
• Enabling interfaces for bringing planning and budgeted information.

Confidential, Toledo, OH

Senior FICO Consultant (R2R, P2P, Controlling & HR integration)

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, configure, test and roll-out application enhancements and projects, according to agreed deliverables and deadlines.
• Provide business focus by ensuring that SAP Record to report /Source to pay / Controlling Applications Management services are delivered to meet customers' business needs and expectations.
• Review project deliverables and ensure quality.
• Worked to establish client requirements in SAP BW and SAP Business Objects by validating requirements, tracing the fields and demonstrating the standard Infoproviders and cubes available.
• Worked with ABAP and BW consultants to enhance and build custom cubes where required.
• SAP cutover, data migration and conversion tasks: Technical & functional validation of the upload file and migrated data.
• Collection and reporting of load statistics, analysis of the fallouts, and reprocessing thereof. Monitoring of cutover task list and exception reporting.
• Configure and demonstrate SAP R/3 capabilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios and Proof of concepts based on the business requirements of the client.
• Translate complex business requirements for PRICEFW development in SAP Business Objects and ECC in AP, AR, (New) GL, Product costing, Fixed Assets, Project Systems, COPA, EBS, and Travel Management.
• Handled interfaces for Essbase, Hyperion, Concur and credit cards. Worked with the HR team for ensuring integration.
• Support the Transition Manager in ensuring that all functional and technical knowledge is captured.
• Identify and manage gaps in the Regional design of customized developments for Germany and Malaysia

Confidential, San Francisco

Lead SAP FICO Consultant, Support team

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of global Functional SAP standards and monitoring of adherence to these by any regional SAP support hubs as well as by 3rd parties engaged to perform SAP related activities.
• Work collaboratively with IT staff, especially via the Regional SAP Support Hubs, across the 3 Regions.
• Plan and monitor the FICO teams' workload and provide day-to-day direction to support team members.
• Drew up sunset strategy for Legacy applications and documented the business requirements for absorbing the functionality in SAP. Created and demonstrated proof of concepts for business.
• The monitoring and error resolution of I/O interfaces and set up of batch jobs/error notification were part of the initiative. Worked on Lockbox and Electronic Bank statement.
• Hands on working on key issues facing support team and monitoring and testing of related ABAP development.
• Worked closely with business to understand pain points and address change management issues.

Confidential, Irwindale, CA

Technical Integration Lead & Sr. SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Drew up documentation standards and review of Functional specifications so that offshore (India based) ABAP team could develop objects on the First Time Right basis.
• Collaborated with technical architects to develop solutions for adapting FERC solution supplied by SAP for SCE. Translated business requirements in budgeting and planning for large projects to budgeting and planning on WBS elements.
• Ensured technical integration between SAP and non SAP legacy solutions. Worked with business teams to determine sunset strategy for legacy applications and ensured integration strategies (IDOCs) for those applications which had to be retained. Drew up test cases to ensure that all requirements were met by the proposed solution. Arranged for business users training and handled change management issues.
• Wrote and audited test scripts for testing the business solutions for unit, string and integration testing.
• Participated as an integral part of the business process team to deliver technical information, evaluate functional specifications, perform fit/gap analysis and prepare technical specifications.
• Ensured SOX compliance and internal control procedures are embedded in the To Be design.
• Collaborated on technical development designs and requirements with the Technical development teams to build objects and with the software testing team to solution test the objects.
• Defect resolution and tracking .Testing solutions and closure of defects using Mercury.
• Exception reporting and risk monitoring with respect to business solution issues and timelines.
• Coordination of expected delivery dates, testing by developing tracking and performance tools.
• Coordination and program evaluation for training of super users.
• Super user education and development of proof of concepts.

Project Manager & SAP Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw assessment of production processes, Shop floor activities and pain points at Confidential .
• Prepared proof of concept for XMII implementation for increasing Shop floor visibility.

Confidential, Troy MI

Project Manager & Lead SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support & enhancement extended to 10,000 users across 6 locations worldwide.
• Enhancement to project standards and release management.
• Stakeholder management and relationship building.
• Team management (Team size varied from 17 to 60) and workload balancing.

Confidentia

SAP FI/CO Project Lead & Functional / Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Blueprint for country India.
• Set up of offshore center and staffing of key resources

Confidential

Project Lead and Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• All activities under ASAP methodology from Project preparation to Go Live
• Leading team for GL/AP/AR/FA/CCA/COPA/IO/&PC implementation

Confidential

FI Consultant (SAP GL & AP)

Responsibilities:

• Data Migration for 22 European countries from Server in Germany to Server in US.

Confidential

SAP FI Consultant (SAP GL & AP)

Responsibilities:

• Creation of consignor consignee relationship and handling change management issues.
• Based on performance at this project Confidential was able to obtain the project at Confidential, Germany.

Confidential

Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Implementation in a complex made to order, Engineered to Order, Made to Stock environment with additional complexity of Indian VAT requirements.
• Set up of Center of Excellence for Confidential at Bangalore.
• Recruitment of suitable resources for SAP team.
• Appraisal of team members and performance grading.
• Building up artifact and process library.
• Setting up training workshops for new and experienced resources.
• Cross project lessons learned and best practices.
• Responding to RFP and helping Confidential sales teams in POC and presentations.
• ERP Project audit handbook and knowledge document for India VAT.

Confidential

Partner & Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading the team for carrying out audits of all clients.
• Dealing with Appellate authorities on taxation and company law matters.
• Management consulting assignments.