SUMMARY:

• 20+ years of sole SAP Financials & related Reporting Experience
• Focused on establishing new frontiers in SAP Financials, Controlling & Treasury using HANA / Cloud
• Hands - on SAP BI/BPC (Embedded and Classic)
• Expert in ABAP / HANA Programming & Debugging
• 3+ years of SAP Oil and Gas experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP FI (Hands-on): New GL AP, AR, Asset Management, RaR

SAP CO (Hands-on): Cost Center Accounting Profit Center Accounting Product Costing & Material Ledger CO - PA

SAP CFM / Treasury (Hands-on): Debt Management & Investment Management (Fixed Income Assets - Bonds) Derivative Instruments (Swaps, Options) Money Market Instruments Miscellaneous Securities Hedge Management Portfolio

SAP Cash Management (Liquidity Planner & Bank Accounting) (Hands-on): Liquidity Planner In - house Cash Lock-Box Configuration ACH (DME) Electronic Bank Statements

SAP Integrations (Hands-on): MDM, SD, Materials Management, Project Systems, SRM, HCM, Production Planning

SAP Reporting (Hands-on): BW/BI Report Painter/Writer

SAP Planning and Consolidations: (Hands-on) SEM-BCS, SEM-BPS, BPC (embedded & classic)

SAP Funds / Grants Management (Hands-on): Former Budgeting to BCS Migrations in FM Budget Management FMDERIVER/GMDERIVER configurations/ integrations Sponsor Billing, IDC PSCD (TRM) Federal Financials

3 rd party / Cloud based Integrations: Salesforce, Concur, ARIBA, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Hybris

Industry Verticals: Manufacturing Oil & Gas Banking Retail Public Sector Distribution Pharmaceuticals

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP S4 / Central Finance Architect

• Implementation planning for Confidential - 1610 Greenfield Implementation
• Carving out US Company Code from Netherlands Implementation and install US Company codes
• 1709 Simplification list Analysis
• Responsible for complete SAP Landscape, assisted with S4 Logistics integrations
• 1610 Central Finance implementation - Central Ledger, MDG, SLT configurations
• S4 FI, SAP Reporting, Embedded Analytics, SAP BPC (Planning & Consolidations)
• SAP HANA Cloud platform & Fiori development / integration

Confidential, PA

SAP S4 Finance Migration Consultant

• Implementation planning for Confidential Migration - 1709 Brownfield Implementation
• Existing Business Processes v/s Future functionality
• Impact Areas = GL, AP, AR, AA, Bank Accounting, BW and BPC
• Simplification List for 1709 Analysis
• Old ECC Based transactions v/s FIORI Analysis
• Analysis porting BW Reports to S4 Embedded Solutions
• BPC Planning Solutions to S4 Embedded BPC Solutions

Confidential, NY

SAP S4 Public Sector FI & Treasury Consultant

• First Global Implementation of S4-HANA in Public Sector - 1610 Greenfield Implementation
• SAP Funds Management
• EBAM, New/Classic Cash Management + Liquidity Planning Functionality on S4 HANA
• Investment Management - Corporate Bonds, Govt Treasury Securities, Repos, CDs,
• Debt Management - Bonds
• Loans Management - CML / Mortgage Loans given
• Integration with CO, Asset Accounting, Profitability Analysis
• FIORI apps integration and testing

Confidential, CA

SAP Simple Finance, EPM, Treasury Lead

• New GL to to S4 Finance Migration (On-Premise Edition Brownfield - 1511)
• Pre-check, Preparation, Actual Migration & Post-Install Steps
• Functional testing of new functionality for GL, CO, Asset Accounting, Cash Management (eBAM, Cash Operations, SCF and Liquidity Management), Account Based CO-PA

Confidential, MS

SAP Funds/Grants, Treasury and Reporting Architect

• Re-implementations and enhancements to SAP GL, SAP FM / Grants & Bank Accounting
• Scope Determination / Blueprinting for Debt Management (Bonds and related Accounting)
• NPV, Mark-to-Market Valuations for Bonds
• Inter-Agency & Cash Ledger postings process re-design / corrections
• Integration of SAP FM/GM with SAP Treasury
• Daily Average Cash Balance Report Design/Implementation for TR department in SAP BW
• Unique Inter-Ledger BW based tool reconciling across various Ledgers (GL, AR, AP, AA, CO, TR, FM, GM & Cash Ledger)

Confidential, CA

SAP FI/CO & BPC Consultant

• Setup of new GL along with downstream integrations
• Controlling related configurations - CCA, PCA & Internal Orders
• IO and CC Budgeting
• Assessment / Rationalization of existing Controlling and Profitability related Analytics Infrastructure
• Design, Development and configuration of Costing Based CO-PA for “Contribution Margin Analysis” for their business segments - “Automotive” & “Accessories”
• Set-up of Costing based CO-PA Ledger, Master Data setups
• COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration with SD, PS, MM & PS
• AP and BCM Integrations:
• Payment Groupings & Bank Statement Monitor
• Payment Approval Workflow
• Migration from Excel based Legal Consolidation to BPC 10.0 NW

Confidential, KY

SAP Treasury / IHC Manager

• Assessment of existing SAP-TR implementation
• Design, Development and configuration of Intercompany Loans & Facilities
• Creation, Settlements, Variable rate adjustments, Accruals, Revaluations, Accounting postings, Reporting
• Interfacing with Bloomberg for importing master data (reference interest rates, price)
• Complete roadmap of establishment of Corporate Payment Factory using In-house Cash (IHC)
• Cash Management and Liquidity Planning re-design and related integrations

Confidential, TX

SAP Treasury / IHC Manager

• Assessment of on-going SAP-TR implementation
• Foreign Exchange Instruments configurations
• Hedging, Exposure Management 2.0 based custom solutions
• Custom solution to support Hedge Accounting (complex FAS133/IAS39 postings)
• Early Settlements, Hedge Effectiveness, cross-currency risk management, Valuations (NPV, VAR etc)
• Interfacing with Bloomberg/MISYS for importing master data (reference interest rates, price), trade data etc
• Configuration of other instruments like Securities, Money Market Instruments, Derivatives, Forwards, Intercompany loans etc.
• Complete assessment of In-house Cash configuration including EBS, Lockboxes, Sweep/ZBA/Concentration Accounts etc
• Complete Corporate Payment Factory - newer Business Entities, Current Accounts, I/C loans, on-behalf of payments and Receivables, Netting etc
• Cash Management and Liquidity Planning Reporting
• SAP Bank Communication
• SEPA and SWIFT Integrations
• Payment Medium Workbench - Configure Payment Medium Formats
• Payment Grouping
• Payment Status Management
• Bank Statement Monitor

Confidential, CA

SAP FI, Treasury & BPC Managing Consultant

• Financial Instruments configured - Commodity Futures, Commodity Swaps, Commodity options for Energy and Grain Commodities
• Hedge Management & its integration with Exposure Management
• Position Management & Report
• Mark-to-Market & Valuations
• Integration with Accounting and Month-end postings
• Hedge Accounting
• Risk/ Exposure Management and Hedging in the areas of Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Risk Management
• Complete implementation of in-house Cash (minor), I/c nettings etc, Bank reconciliations etc
• Revenue and Expense Planning Applications
• Legal and Managerial Consolidations Configurations
• BCF and Retained Earnings Calculations
• Account Reclassifications
• IC-Eliminations
• IC-Matching
• IC-Booking
• Goodwill & Minority Interest
• Month-End Closing and Reporting Per GAAP and IFRS
• Planning Applications - HR, Capex, Opex, and Revenue
• Development of Input forms and Reports
• Data Integrations with SAP ECC and SAP BW
• S4 Hana migration from SAP ECC

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Finance (Treasury) Lead/Manager

• Project Planning, Resource Handling, Monitoring & Controlling
• Responsible for Global treasury roll-out in the following areas..
• Electronic Bank Statements / Lock box configuration
• Bank Communication management
• Commodity Futures implementation
• SAP In-house Cash - Netting Scenario only for US
• SAP BPC 10.0 NW based implementations:
• Planning Scenarios: HCM, CapEx, OpEx, Revenue, P&L and BS Planning
• Legal Consolidation: BCF & RE, Account Re-class, CTA, Eliminations, CoI / Minority Interest calc

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

SAP Finance (FI / CO/ FM / GM / Treasury) Lead

• Led a team of 3-4 consultants for supporting complete SAP FI spectrum (FI/CO/FM/GM/Treasury) & it’s integrations with other SAP modules as well as non-SAP applications.
• Responsible for Resource/Team handling activities, change management activities, work delegation etc
• Represented IT department to Business in Finance space
• Interfaced with other functional teams on behalf of SAP Finance team
• Oversaw the complete EHP4 testing in SAP Finance area (FI/CO/FM/GM/Treasury)
• Participated in the Debt/Investment Management implementation and provided support as needed
• Provided solutions/re-defined processed to arrest many chronic problems inherent to the Accounting/Treasury Departments

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SAP Finance (FM / GM / Treasury) Lead

• Client handling responsibilities & developing new opportunities
• An assessment project to re-assess an existing implementation of the complete SAP here at the District.
• Organized many workshops with the end-users to help them understand the existing Funds and Grants functionality
• Provide them with the mini-blueprints as to how they could achieve the missing functionality and better use the Funds & Grants module - for example: implementation of Multi-Year budgeting, better implementation of Availability Controls, Month level budgeting in FM area to name a few.
• Design/configuration of Electronic Bank statements, new payment methods and general troubleshooting in Bank Accounting areas.
• Integration of FM/GM with SRM, HR, CO and other SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Re-configuration of PBC and it’s integration with HCM and Funds Management.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Finance (FI / CO /Treasury) Manager

• Led a team of 7-10 consultants for both new TR implementation and production support.
• Feasibility Analysis for in-house TR solution, project scoping, Project risk assessment etc
• Time and status reporting, resource handling, work plan management and task delegation
• Implemented and configured the following functionalities in FSCM-TRM-TM: Investments (Money Market, Fixed Term Deposit, Long Term Bonds, Commercial Paper), Foreign Exchange (Spot, Forward and Swap transactions), Intercompany Loans (including those requiring complementary FX transactions), Long Term Bonds, Securities, Credit Facilities and Interest Rate Swaps, Hedge Management (including FAS 133/IAS 39 requirements), Portfolio Analyzer.
• Designed, configured, and tested Transaction Mg/Debt Management (FX, money market), Cash Position/ Liquidity Forecast, AP and Treasury payments, Electronic/Manual Bank Statement, Lockbox, and Exchange Rates. Cash, Transaction Mgr (derivatives)
• Credit, Market & Portfolio Risk Analyzers

Confidential, FL

SAP Finance (FM / GM / Treasury / PBF)

• Resource Handling, Status & Time Management responsibilities for the project team
• Responsible for complete PBF design, development & architecture.
• Complete configuration of the FM and GM modules as ASAP methodology. Integrating the same with Finance, Controlling and Treasury modules
• Migration of Former Budgeting to BCS.
• Been involved in full life-cycle activities for the Funds Management functional areas including requirements definition (blueprinting), system configuration, integration testing, documentation, end user training, and on-going support
• Formulated account structures to meet business needs, budget control, fm derivation strategies, fund accounting, fund centers, functional area, commitment item, funded programs, grants, cost center accounting, encumbrance, cost allocations, general and/or special purpose ledger, due to/due from, split processor for fund balancing, month-end and year-end closing processes
• Assisted in developing Financial reporting for modified (governmental) and full accrual (government-wide) GASB 34-35

Confidential, Madison

SAP Finance (FI / CO / Treasury) Manager

• SAP FI manager for the onsite team for SAP TR implementation and offshore team for production support (total team size 15-20)
• Supported IT departments across the globe and responsible for ticket/issue resolution as per the SLAs
• Led the configuration of -
• Money market instruments - (Facilities, Letters of Credit, Revolver, Commercial paper issue and purchase, Long term and short term debt for Debt Management
• Foreign exchange and derivatives module for the spot, deliverable forward and non deliverable forward contracts along with currency options, currency swaps and interest rates swaps.
• Securities module for the senior notes issues and redemptions.
• Electronic Bank Statement for all 5 concentration accounts with Wachovia.
• Cash position and Liquidity forecast to best fit to this client needs.
• Treasury payments (Free Form and bank to bank transfers) and developed work flow structure for create, approve and release these treasury payments.
• Developed work plans for the Unit testing, Integration test and User Acceptance test
• Responsible for the configuration of Financial Reports using BW sourcing data from external sources

Confidential, Danvers

SAP Finance (FI / Treasury / BI) Manager

• Responsible for the business development activities of project planning, budget estimation and statement of work creation.
• Designed the workflow for all treasury payments for create, approve and release treasury payments.
• Configured Cash Position and Liquidity Forecast with different cash management groups by Bank, Currency and Region and entity structure.
• Configured manual memo records for cash position and liquidity forecast.
• Implemented CFM (Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Securities and Derivatives for Investment and Debt Management)
• Configured Money Market, Financial Instruments such as Fixed-term deposit, Investment certificate, Fund facilities.
• Configured Foreign exchange, Derivatives module which includes spot and forward contract options, currency slots and interest slots.
• Configured loans given and loans taken
• Fixed term deposits, Rollover fixed term deposits, Reverse fixed term deposit.
• Create debit and investment facilities, create facility charges calculation of interest on fixed term deposit
• Configured Lockbox program, customized customer invoice search criteria for both Lockbox and Electronic Bank statement files.
• Configured many Financial Reports using BW.

Confidential, Palo Alto (CA)

Role: SAP Finance (Treasury) Manager

• Project lead for feasibility and prototyping of Hedge Management solution for currency exchange risks.
• Liaison with the corporate level Project Management Office (PMO) for issue resolution, scope definition and deployment activities.
• Integration of Electronic Bank statements
• Resource handling activities.

Confidential, Madison

SAP (CO/ BW Reporting) Manager

• SAP FI manager for the onsite team for SAP CO implementation and offshore team for production support
• Supported IT departments across the globe and responsible for ticket/issue resolution as per the SLAs
• Defined and configured controlling area; assigned company codes and number ranges; operating concern.
• Analyzed and configured cost element categories and imputed costs.
• Product costing (direct and indirect cost assignment, activities, routings, work center schema)
• Cost center accounting-CCA (hierarchy nodes cc categories, time-based fields and analysis period, statistical key figures and activity types, allocation types, assessments, planning setups, auto account assignments),
• Internal order accounting: settlement configuration, planning/budgeting profiles, order types.
• Profitability analysis (costing based, operating concern, characteristics and value fields, structures and rules, SD interface, PA settlement structure, cc assessments, CO-PA planning and reporting).
• Profit center accounting:- controlling area settings, MM assignment, control parameters, document types, number ranges, assign revenue elements and planning parameters.
• Integration of Project System structures with the FI & CO.
• Converted many ABAP reports into BW reports.

Confidential, Chicago

Role: SAP Finance (Treasury) Lead

• Configured SAP R/3 Cash management CM, Treasury Management TR-CM and Market Risk Management applications TR-MRM.
• Set up the structures required for managing short-medium-and long-term liquidity for the company.
• Defined the system settings needed to control internal processing.
• Wrote AS-IS & TO-BE Business process for Treasury department.

Confidential, Phoenix

SAP Finance (FI / CO /BW Reporting) Manager

• Lead a team of 9 consultants for complete new FI/CO implementation followed by basic BW reporting.
• Analysis of Financial accounting global settings: fiscal year variant, document number ranges, document types, posting periods, posting keys, field status groups and tolerance groups for employees, Charts of accounts, account groups, account master records, and recurring entries.
• Worked on A/P & A/R: Account groups, number ranges for account groups, tolerance groups, vendor master records, customer master records, and payment terms.
• Re-Configuration of additional Country/company code specific payment methods, manual incoming/outgoing payments, automatic payment programs for outgoing payments, and dunning.
• Re-configuration of discounts, house bank configuration, bank determination, bank reconciliation statements, and bank settings.
• Configurations and Modifications of FI with SD & FI with MM.
• Various Configurations and Modifications in CCA, CO-PC, CO-OM & PCA modules.
• Re-configured Cost Center Accounting (CCA), maintained standard hierarchy, created cost centers, primary cost element categories, secondary cost element categories, automatic cost.
• Configuration & design of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), created the operating concern, configured the costing based profitability analysis. Defined and configured the reporting characteristics, value field and profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
• Used CO-PA to report profitability by Customer, Product and Market.
• Configured CO-PA to enable actual value flows from SD and CO-PC.
• For Product Costing (CO-PC), configurations and made modifications to existing material cost estimates with and without quantity structure, maintained settlement structures & maintained valuation variants.
• Created new BOMs, routings, production versions & estimated costs for some new products.
• Installed and configured SPL & ECCS. Fully configured data flows, reports, master data, and monitors for consolidation processing, including currency translations and interunit eliminations.
• Developed many BW reports in CO area.

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

SAP Finance (FI /CO / BCS / BW Reporting) Lead

• Production support Lead for a team of 6 members for complete SAP FI/CO implementation
• Interfacing with other teams for new implementations in their areas.
• Integration & configuration of Project Systems Structures with FI & CO.
• Supported the upgrading team in migration from SAP R/3 4.6C to ECC 5.0
• Designed complete Consolidation solution using SEM-BCS and it’s integration with BW and General Ledger

Confidential, Holtsville, NY

SAP Finance (FI/ CO / BW Reporting) Manager

• Lead a team of 8 people for complete new FI/CO implementation followed by basic BW reporting.
• Analyzed and configured the fiscal year, posting periods, business and functional areas, validations and substitutions, sales and use taxes. Setting up account groups, chart of accounts, field status groups and posting keys.
• Worked with team members for automatic account determination of sales / use tax, inter-company, MM and SD account assignments
• Led the implementation of
• Payment terms and interest calculation, reason codes, default assignments for over- and under payments and cash discounts; tolerances, credit management, credit control areas, dunning, customer groups and master records.
• Treasury: lockbox configuration, setup for liquidity forecast, cash position and cash concentration; bank statement processing and exchange rates.
• House banks and accounts, company and paying company code data, country and company code payment methods, bank selection, vendor groups and master records.
• Controlling area; assigned company codes and number ranges; operating concern.
• Analyzed and configured cost element categories and imputed costs; cost center accounting, internal order accounting, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, investment management, product costing and fixed asset accounting. Report Painter variants
• Responsible for supporting BW team for Financial reports

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

SAP Finance (CO /BW Reporting) Lead

• SAP ECCS, SEM-BCS related Consolidations
• SAP BW Reporting developments
• Reconfigured CO-PC and Material ledgers (multiple currencies)
• Re-designed & developed complete CO-PA solution
• Designed and got developed data-models and web based reports in BW based upon CO-PA in the underlying systems