SUMMARY:

• He is a Senior Consultant with over 25 years of IT Consulting, Project Management, Research and SAP experience. He has completed 5 full life cycle SAP projects and several other SAP Upgrade and support projects in the area of FICO.
• His roles on SAP implementations have included SAP Project Manager, Application Specialist, Team Lead, and Offshore on site coordination. He has broad industry experience in Manufacturing, High Tech, Engineering and Construction, Aerospace, Courier, Brewery, Hospitality, IT consulting and Oil and Natural Gas industries.
• His SAP experience is focused on integration of the other modules with FICO and Configuration in FICO with emphasis on FI - GL, AR, AP, AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA and CO-PA. He has Green Implementation; Template based Implementation and support experience in SAP. He has proficiency in the use of ASAP methodology, Solution Manger and has working knowledge of BW.
• He is an MBA (Finance) and a Ph.D. in Business Management in the field of outsourcing. He was a Former Chair of a Business School and University Professor of Finance and Accounting, has Published several books and articles. Initially worked as an accountant and later worked on ERP applications consulting, user training and corporate training.
• His education combined with SAP experience in various industries enables him to effectively use result-oriented approach in delivering business objectives and successful project management. Augustine possesses excellent communication, and interpersonal skills. He is a good team player and is committed to doing the job right.
• Extensive financial business process knowledge acquired by working with highly skilled finance and controlling personnel from a variety of multinational clients over the past theirteen years of FICO - Solution Consultant (Implementation and Support)
• As an Associate Director, successfully delivered 20 SAP projects in 10 different countries in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Russia Division within the budget and time constraints. Responsible for Vendor Management RFP evaluations,
• Over 15 years of IT and 13 years of SAP Experience in Green and Template based implementations.
• 5 full-cycle implementations - project planning through post go-live support and worked for more than 10 SAP Clients
• Coordinated, controlled and worked in offshore development/support activities
• Working knowledge and experience in BW and Hyperion
• Functional knowledge of FICO, ECC 6.0 New functionalities
• Implemented NEW GL functionalities in 3 different projects.
• Expert knowledge of integration topics, best practices and procedures, solution architecture, reporting and ASAP methodology.
• Knowledge & experience on business process re-engineering.
• Experience in HPQC, ARIS flows, Solution Manger, SQL, MS Word, Power Point, Access, Excel and Visio
• Auditor performing statutory, tax and internal audits of manufacturing trading, retail and manufacturing businesses
• Accountant for a manufacturing company controlling all the areas of Accounting, Sales Accounting, Taxation, General Ledger Accounting, Trial Balance and Financial Statements.
• An accomplished accountant, educator, researcher and educational administrator.
• Associated in designing, streamlining and restructuring Accounting and Information Technology curriculum, syllabus for Graduate Degree and Diploma Programs and a Joint Degree MSIS program with Eastern Michigan University, MI.
• Director of various academic and administrative projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager SAP and Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for review and approve solution design on all Global SAP projects
• Responsible for maintain configuration, enhancements, user acceptance testing and engaging the business for over 100 company codes in for Europe, Africa, Middle East and Russia (EAME) division
• Successfully delivered over 20 hotel deployments 10 different countries in EAME division.
• Lead a team of 3 direct reports operating from Europe and 10 -20 offshore resources
• Successfully deployed 70 company codes in 13 different European countries SEPA compliance in time sensitive environment.
• Responsible for maintaining liaison with business, divisional lead IT team and offshore vendors.
• Responsible for creation of deployment schedule along with capacity plans to ensure optimum utilization of Vendor and Starwood resources for EAME division.
• Responsible for review of the requirement gathering documents of the projects to see that the projects are delivered per requirements.
• Facilitated process improvements in project lifecycle phases so that the projects run more smoothly and delays from the IT delivery teams are minimized.
• Evaluated the country specific statutory requirements when project starts in new country.
• Responsible for reviewing the defects in HPQC to maintain quality of work delivered by the outsourced partners
• Escalated the issues in accordance with escalation procedures defined on the project.
• Worked with the business for developing quality business requirements, understanding business roles in IT global delivery process and forming strategy in alignment with Starwood Global Financial system roadmap.

Confidential

Senior Consultant and Manager

• Responsible for requirements gathering blueprinting, build and test the FICO modules
• Conducted workshops on New GL, Parallel Ledgers, Document Splitting, Direct and indirect Tax, Treasury, Banking, AP and AR
• Prepared the process flows and benefit realization documents
• Educated the cilent on the best practices relating to banking, Treasury and AP processes
• Identified the development objects to achieve the gaps in the business processes
• Prepared functional specs for several development objects in the areas of banking, treasury and AP
• Coordinated with offshore developers on build and testing the objects

Confidential

Senior Consultant and Manager

• Responsible for requirements gathering, blueprinting, build and test the FICO module.
• Configuration of New GL, Parallel Ledgers, Document Splitting, AR, AP, Banking and Treasury modules.
• Conducted SDL workshops, Functional Unit Test, Integration testing for all the areas of FICO.
• Wrote the functional specs for the interfaces and development objects and worked with the developers and tested the interfaces and development objects.
• Responsible for offshore and onsite coordination with functional and technical resources
• Configured and tested Cross company lockbox functionality after working with developers.
• Designed the bank master and Electronic Bank Statement configuration for over 220 account IDs spread over 280 company codes. Developed posting rules for almost all the BAI codes for 7 different banks.
• Designed the banking setup for over 250 different account IDs for various banking related purposes.
• Worked heavily on bank interfaces and coordinating activities with banks for testing various interfaces like Lockbox, Positive Pay, Cashed Check, Pre note, EBS.
• Responsible for integration with AR for the revenue account determination
• Responsible for developing matrix for the intercompany settings for over 280 company codes
• Responsible for data migration for GL, AR, AP and worked with the data team
• Responsible for writing functional specs for the BW reports and worked with the BW team for AR reports.
• Designed and conducted integration testing I & II and user acceptance testing and training workshops
• Helped in building cutover plan for go live
• Lead the hyper care teams for the initial post go live support.
• Helped the support team in the stabilization process.

Confidential

Senior FICO Consultant

• Team Member of the Global Implementation
• Successfully rolled out FICO deployment in Japan, Singapore and Thailand.
• Responsible for requirement gathering conducting workshops on various modules of FICO in Japan, Singapore and Thailand.
• Worked on AS-IS study and documented the current process
• Conducted workshops on FICO Design for the project
• Configuration of AR, AP, Bank and Treasury testing and user acceptance testing based on Global template.
• Worked with users for the user training across the countries.
• Configuration and testing of revenue account determination
• Developed user training documents and worked with user after the post go live.
• Responsible designing and conducting cutover activities

Confidential, TX

Team Lead

• Responsible for implementing Finance and Controlling Modules with New GL functionalities
• Worked on AS-IS study and documented the current processes
• Conducted workshops on initial FICO design for the project
• Written Blue print document for the Finance and Controlling Modules for the New GL
• Analyzed the GAPs for the existing business processes
• Conducted the Build Phase by coordinating the configuration activities as the team lead.
• Conducted workshops on Data Migration and helped in the areas of AR and AP
• Helped in cutover activities for the Go Live.

Confidential, AZ

Consultant

• Responsible for configuration in all the FICO areas (GL, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, PC and COPA) regression testing and moving the transports across the clients.
• As transition resource involved in integration testing of the new functionalities specific to the sites and later knowledge transfer to peers.
• Costing Sheet configuration, Define Credits, Overhead Rates, Costing sheet components. Updating standard prices in Product Costing. Product Cost Planning.
• Configured new functionalities like Warrantee Claims
• Responsible for FICO configuration part of the Warrantee Claims Module, testing and documenttion of the processes and post go live support.
• Tax ware configuration and uploads
• Involved in coordination of auto job setups and monitoring.
• Conducted weekly review meetings with the FICO team
• Completed the knowledge transfer on the new sites to the other team members.
• IDOC fixes and processing, Lockbox configuration
• Responsible for break fix issues in all the FICO areas coordinating with user and super users and User training

Confidential, PA

Team Lead

• Responsibilities included collection and analysis of financial process requirements
• Worked with the project team and business users, documented business processes, procedures
• Created test scripts and testing scenarios and performed unit and integration testing for GL/AP/AR
• Verified the 4.6 C scenarios in the ECC 6 environment.
• Responsible for prioritization of the issues, user training by coordinating with users and the SAP Competency Center.
• Resolving post upgrade issues and support in the areas of GL, AR, AP, Credit Management, Fixed Assets, PCA, CCA and other areas.
• Coordinated the IT verification and Business Verification activities for the UNICODE Conversion in ECC 6.0
• Documented the identified new business processes in ECC 6
• Educated the client on the use of new functionalities of ECC 6.0 New GL, Profit center and FSCM by doing prototype.
• Dealt with authorization and profile issues
• Supported Lockbox
• Responsible for developing training material for various processes.
• Responsible for Data transfer from SAP to JDE after an affiliate company was transferred to another entity

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Solution Consultant

• Gathered the business requirements for ECC 6.0, documented, prepare prototype and presented the proof of concept of the new functionalities of the ECC 6.0 (New GL, Document splitting, Ledgers etc)
• Worked on New General Ledger functionality of ECC 6.0 like Document splitting and segment reporting.
• Worked on Parallel ledgers for all group and local postings to meet different accounting standards.
• Analyzed the impact of the process changes in FI/CO and their impact on other SAP modules.
• Resolving issues in the areas of AR and AP.
• Configured the correspondence functionality in AR and developed forms.
• Streamlined several process in AR, AP and LIV based on the SAP best practices.
• Developed PCA reports through Report Painter.
• Reviewed and streamlined the AP workflow process
• Configured asset classes, Depreciation keys, Time-dependent depreciation parameters, Defined new depreciation areas.
• Configured settlement of WBS to Assets
• Integration between Project Systems and Fixed Assets

Confidential, NC

Solution Consultant

• Conducted AS IS study of the client business process relating to AR and AP
• Analyzed various business scenarios, and performed the gap analysis between the SAP system and existing business processes.
• Analyzed the business process flows in an attempt to build a global template for SAP implementation.
• Presented the SAP Process Flows relating to AR and AP based on Best Practices.

Confidential, CO

Solution Consultant and Team Lead

• Blue print preparation and defining the scope for FICO module.
• FICO module configuration and testing.
• Scope of Solutions: GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA, IO, and PCA.
• Responsible for system configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, and Profit Center Accounting
• Developed functional specs for the development objects and coordinated with technical team at offshore for the development and identified user exits, function modules, BTEs etc.
• Designed the organization structure, PCA Hierarchy and CCA Hierarchy based on PS driven reporting.
• Worked with Solution Manger for configuration and documentation.
• Configured Internal order, settlement process and budget check.
• Project System - Results Analysis and settlement
• Configured Lockbox setup
• Worked with PS, SD, HR, Payroll team for the integration issues
• Set up PCA and CCA Planning and developed excel budget upload programs and plan data transfers into PCA.
• Worked with CCA assessment and distribution
• Set up withholding tax and reporting and 1099 reporting
• Wrote functional specs for various development objects
• Configured the additional currencies for group currency reporting.
• Configured DME for US and Canada countries. (Automatic Payment progrm and ACH payment)
• Reviewed the legacy reports and mapped to the SAP standard and/or custom reports in the areas of AR, AP, AA, CCA, PCA and PS.
• Wrote the specs for custom BW reports and worked with BW team for development, extraction and reporting.
• Created the integration test plan for all areas of the implementation and ensured MM/SD/PS/HR integration for the requirements of Client

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Team Lead FICO

• Responsibilities included designing, developing, testing, and conducting user acceptance testing and training for financial and cost accounting related interfaces for Canada, North and Latin American Countries.
• The interfaces include:
• Financial Statements (Balance Sheet & Profit & Loss statements) by multiple dimensions (FI-GL, AR & AP), Costs by Functions (CO-OM), Revenue by Products (CO-PA), Statistical Key Figures (CO-OM), Revenue Key Figures (CO-PA), International Accounting Standard dimension Notes (FI & CO various dimensions)
• Wrote functional and technical specifications for the interfaces.
• Closely worked with the offshore developers fixing the bugs in the interfaces.
• Developed detailed test scripts for testing of the interfaces by the users.
• Conducted user-training workshops for the UAT.
• Coordinated all the testing activities with users of Latin American countries, Canada and US.
• Extensively used the ETL tools for the upload into the BW/Hyperion
• Conducted user training and knowledge transfer on the interfaces and maintenance of master data
• Fixed assets FI-AA required configuration of asset classes, account determination, screen layout, asset under construction, capitalization, acquisition, depreciation, disposition, and reporting for the US entity

Confidential

Application Engineer

• Acted as the liaison between the Solution Delivery team and the affiliate implementation team of Global Business Integration Project.
• Documented all current state processes based on the requirements gathered.
• Identified all reports used by the legacy and classified them into Legal, Operational Necessity, Business Critical and Nice to Have.
• Wrote functional specs and identified gap list.
• Worked with test coordinator to ensure test scripts are in Test Director appropriately.
• Participated in data mapping and coordinated the scrubbing effort required in the legacy system.
• Worked with the power users at the site, serve as a first line-support in resolving issues relating to Master Data, GL, Asset Accounting, Profitability Analysis, SPL, and Cost Centers.
• Assisted in Data loads of Master Data, Profit and Loss Accounts, Sales History and Fixed Assets in to various environments (LSMW)
• Created reports using report painter, ABAP Query.
• Perform knowledge transfer of the new business processes to the users and power users.
• Helped testing the Cost Center planning test scripts and suggested modifications to the configuration based on the defects

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Team Lead FICO

• Developed and presented key project deliverables throughout all phases of project implementation including planning leading and facilitating unit/integration testing sessions.
• Responsibilities included collection and analysis of financial process requirements, development of business process models, final system demonstration and presentation to the management.
• Wrote the scope definition document and process description document for describing the scenarios, business process groups and business processes.
• Responsible for system configuration of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Special Purpose Ledger and CO assignments.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, inter-company, house banks, automatic payment program, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items.
• Instrumental in CO-PA Profitability Analysis configuration, building, operating concern, developing value fields & characteristics, configuring summarization levels for reporting and assessments and CO-PA reporting.
• Testing for full purchase cycle starting from creation of material till the end payment to the vendor. Sales process from orders till receiving incoming payment and clearing
• Customized settings for clearing, for posting in foreign currencies, for exchange rate differences and gains and losses on revaluation
• Set up the automatic payment program for handling vendor payments and modifications to payment methods
• Data Mapping for Conversion of Legacy system into SAP.
• Configured Account Assignment and integration with FI and MM. Resolved integration issues.
• Supporting period end closings and reconciliation.
• Resolved issues arising out of the user acceptance testing.
• Mentored and trained client staffs in knowledge transfer.

Confidential

Team Lead FICO

• Involved in configuration and analyzing Nestle business processes and redesign & orient the process by gap identification & analysis after carrying out re-engineering, preparation of prototype and unit testing.
• Supported development and modification of functional design specification and configuration for FI/CO Modules, unit testing, User and Super User Training
• Responsible for system configuration General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and COPA.
• Customized settings for clearing, for posting in foreign currencies, for exchange rate differences and gains and losses on valuation, realization and translation Configured Cost Center Accounting and Internal Orders and settlements.
• Set up the Cost Allocation functionality using Assessment cycles.
• Configured Special G/L transactions like Down Payments, Bills of Exchange.
• Prepared configuration and training documents

Confidential

Team Lead

• Gathered business process information and compiled gap analysis document.
• Involved in documenting the existing business processing and also re-engineering of new business processes.
• Conducted seminars on requirement gathering.
• Works with business users and management to improve or adapt business processes
• Participated in GAP analysis and coordinated business requirements from the client.
• Designed organizational structure, defined company code, created master data of G/L and A/P, and maintained chart of accounts. Grouping vendors and customers based on nature and volume of business transactions.
• Assisting ABAP/4 Team for modifying Sap Scripts and other Reports
• Provided Post-Go-Live Support to users, prepared a support document and helped users in solving their problems in live environment

Confidential, AP

Chair & Professor of Finance and Accounting

• Monitored the academic standards of the courses offered by the department.
• Associated in designing, streamlining and restructuring curriculum, syllabus for Graduate Degree and Diploma Programs.
• Designed programs in Electronic Commerce, Data Base Management Systems, and Fundamentals of Computers and Electronic Commerce
• University Annual Report Project: 2001 and 2002
• As Chairman, responsible for automation of University Academic Annual Report. Report summarized academic activities of about 400 colleges and about 70 other academic services. (Team size 25)
• Offered programs in the areas of Finance and Accountings viz., Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Cost Accounting and elective courses such as Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, student admission for MS students. Processing about 20,000 applications for admission in to 20 Colleges (Team size 20)
• As Director of student counseling was responsible for designing and executing the automation process of