SUMMARY:

• Senior level experienced and Qualified (MBA, BSEE and PMP certified) and hands - on SAP functional consultant and Solutions Architect with experience in several areas of SAP (ECC 6.0) with over 20 years’ experience in Technology industry, and about 11 years in SAP.
• Have worked in most of the sub-modules of FI, CO and also PS (Project Systems) with expertise in Taxes, Banking, Fixed Assets and some aspects of HCM, SD and MM and worked on integration with other modules and strong knowledge in SD, MM, PP and HCM and several 3rd party applications interfacing with SAP.
• Worked in the areas of Planning, Blueprinting, Configuration, Testing, writing Functional specs, Cutover & post-go-live support and end-user training for both US and international.
• Implemented four full-life-cycle SAP projects and worked as team lead. Also worked on Data analysis and data accuracy.
• Additionally, have well-rounded functional business experience where I worked as Project/Program manager and did the costing of the projects, and lead an initiative to define requirements, procure and implement a Professional Services Automation system, Changepoint. Outside of these, worked in management role of a customer service department.
• Has excellent customer and interpersonal communication skills and a good team player.

Details of SAP skills:

• Implemented Project Systems for Projects end-to-end, from blue printing through design, configuration, testing, training material development and training delivery. Integrated with Fixed Assets, Procurement, SD, CATS time
• Strong configuration experience working as Senior consultant in FI and Controlling and Product Costing, including Costing variants, Costing sheets, Cost component structures, and Period End closing configuration
• Supported businesses starting out as an Analyst in the areas of FI-GL, AP, AR, AA; CO-CEA, CCA, PC, IO, PCA, PA, FSCM and PS
• Extensive and in-depth working experience with Vertex for US and Canada Sales Tax, Configuring Tax rules & SIC log analysis worked as Vertex administrator. Worked on Withholding tax configuration
• Led the AP automation project for a 3rd party Vendor Invoice Management system implementation end to end
• Asset Accounting Implementation - All areas of FI-AA, configuring Depreciation Areas, Planning and defining Asset classes, integrating with GL, Depreciation Keys & Methods including Multi-level ones, Transferring Assets data from Legacy systems and dealing with the resulting issues.
• A significant contributor in FICO team that engaged in the design, realization, testing, cutover and post go-live support phases resulting in implementation
• Imported different Master data items from legacy systems to SAP R/3 system using LSMW
• Configured Validations and Substitutions
• Developed unit and integration Test Plans, Test Cases for all FI & CO transactions and drafted acceptance criteria for trained users
• Constantly provided on-call production / project support during off-hours in order to ensure smooth running of the project and avoid production stoppages.
• Other Technical Skills: Proficient in using MS Project, Advanced Excel, MS Visio, MS Access and other MS office applications, worked as Oracle DBA, have some experience in Visual Basic, SQL scripts and C++ coding
• Excellent Communication and presentation skills, exceptional ability to perform individually or in a group, good interpersonal skills, mentoring, and training skills.
• Strong in end user training - conducted many end user on-going training sessions in controlling, Product Costing and Project Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE:

SAP FICO Architect & Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Setup Automatic Accounts payment process with payment methods including ACH, Wires and Checks
• Configured payment files using payment medium workbench (DMEE)
• Banking - Setting up House banks and accounts, generating and automatic transmission of Payment files to the bank, Configure Electronic bank statement processing to clear the items - complete configuration and testing
• Prepared functional specs and worked with ABAP consultant for the development
• Financial statements based on Profit centers and define substitution rules for intercompany Sales and accounts receivables.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead workshops with various stake holders including PM’s, financial analysts, Accountants, Finance and IT management etc. to determine their requirements
• Mapped the business requirements and prepared blue prints, Business Requirement Documents. Presented the plans and got the sign-off
• Designed and configured the PS modules with all the structures including WBS, Networks with scheduling, Milestones, budget controls, Results Analysis/WIP, Settlements etc.
• Prepared functional spec and worked with offshore development team. Interfaces configured for CATS Timesheet & Labor cost, MM for Purchases and a 3rd party tool for Travel expenses (WebExpenses, similar to Concur) and integration with Fixed Assets module.
• Configured and tested costs flowing to projects from other modules such as HCM - Time and Labor (Time sheets) & payroll, MM- Purchases, T&E Expenses from WebExpenses and through FI and CO modules.
• Worked with MM consultant and a 3rd party vendor for the workflow of PO and Non-PO based procurements for projects
• Planned and executed the legacy project migration and got the ABAP development work done.
• Migrated both the Project structures and to-date AUC/CIP data from internal orders and GL accounts.
• Prepared Test scripts and coordinated with offshore testing teams.
• Prepared Training material and trained business users in over 30 countries consisting of more than 85 Project Managers, 15 Financial Analysts and Master data team members.

SAP FICO Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for all the tasks to identify, define, configure and test SAP FICO related projects and solutions, besides supporting the existing functionality. Conducted Gap analysis of different functionalities in FI and CO modules and possible process efficiency improvement opportunities.
• Got the Vendor Invoice Management solution implemented from Esker – Lead the whole process - User requirement gathering, preparation of detailed specification, integration/BAPI’s with SAP, testing and post-deployment support, and end user support
• Supported Payroll integration with FICO.
• Implemented Collections Management in FSCM.
• Diagnosed and identified various errors in Configuration and Master Data in both SAP FI & SD and Vertex for the errors in Sales Tax and took corrective action. Analyzed messages at XML level and helped business with the right application of Tax law applicability for freight etc.in different States.
• Finalized the requirements and customizations needed for AP automation project and performed testing.
• Supported the Billing function and Paymetric Payment card/Credit Card related issues and adding new Merchant numbers and on-boarding process.
• In Asset Accounting, configured the functionality for capitalizing the subsequent acquisitions to the main asset and also to be able create subassets.
• Account Assignment for SD & MM transactions/integration.
• Defined and mapped necessary Value fields in COPA with SD Condition Types
• Reviewed and improved the Dunning process to make it more efficient and meet the needs of Business owners.
• Created and maintained General GL, Cost Centers
• Mapped Condition Types to Value fields in COPA.
• Automated the clearing of large number of Customer open documents with a single remittance using Winshuttle.

SAP FI CO Sr Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I worked on this project as lead FICO Consultant to work on a part of this initiative where only the Payroll for the entire company goes Live all at once at the beginning, while the rest of the SAP implementation is spread over several phases.
• The solution involved creating several fictitious Company codes with Cost centers and a very elaborate data transfer mechanism with several checks and balances to facilitate the HR transaction postings to the Company codes that went live in the new implementation while pushing all the other transactions to the legacy system.
• This system is developed such that as each phase of implementation is completed, the mechanism has the capability to read the new status and still function as designed without needing any further modifications.
• This involved establishing strategy, extensive functional specs and several iterations of testing.
• Migrated the Project systems projects, WBS elements and the actual spend, budget, plan amounts from Legacy during go live. Projects systems are used for both Marketing projects and capital investment projects.
• Fixed assets postings to multiple ledgers - Fixed an issue with depreciation not being posted to non-leading ledger after the go-live during the hyper care phase team.
• Involved in the design of BI reports for Marketing projects and capital investment projects using Project systems. Written the functional specifications for the BI reports, worked with BI technical team to provide functional knowledge, create, test these reports.
• Also involved with the business to blueprint the requirements, track for the US implementation.

Caridian, Denver

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked creating a new Fiscal year variant and making necessary changes for impact on other areas. The new fiscal year variant was designed to have a shortened fiscal year first and then match with April to March reporting to match with the parent company reporting.
• Worked on controlling, production planning and asset accounting issues that are impacted because of the fiscal year change. Co-Ordinated all the testing done by offshore teams. Assisted in resolving the issues raised by offshore teams on a daily basis for testing to progress smoothly.
• Caridian wanted to upgrade their SAP ECC 6.0 for Enhancement pack 4. Associated with the upgrade activity is to understand the impact of the Upgrade on the company’s processes. Identified the processes that will have an impact and tested the processes. Worked on Asset Accounting, GL, AuC settlements and Controlling.

Dallas, TX

Major Accomplishments

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• When RSR started a huge project of $21 million, it was realized Internal Orders will not meet its requirements. Presented the Project systems and WBS elements and implemented the functionality
• Created Project Definition, WBS structures, Networks, Miles stones, Investment profile and Settlement profile.
• Configured Results Analysis, WIP, Variances and supported period-end activities.
• Wrote Validations and Substitutions for Requesting Cost center.
• Discussed the implications of using Line Item settlement and Summary settlement on WBS elements Trained the End users for a different account assignment category on PO/PR for WBS elements. Also for settlements on Projects, WBS elements
• Wrote a report for business to show the actual costs, planned costs and committed costs on Projects

Product Costing Implementation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Costing variants to calculate standard cost estimates covering both semi-finished and finished products.
• Created cost component structure to map the cost itemization and to use it for generating various reports. Roll up of costs is done, since the production uses multi-level BOMs.
• Created the OH costing sheets to apply overhead on the manufacturing process and to apply only on finished goods. Used OH groups and OH Keys to achieve this with a dependency per OH Key. OH is applied based on Quantity.
• Created a different costing variant to update Planned price field for all finished goods with “Material Costs only” per business requirement as their pricing decisions are based only on Material Prices.
• Created a Transfer control to transfer the standard cost estimate from one plant to another, since they manufactures at a plant in one company code but sell it out of two more plants in other company codes.
• Created a custom report for the business to show the sale value by product and the cost of that sale, with breakup of Material cost, Labor cost and OH cost. Created several reports using KEKO, KEPH tables.
• Created WIP, Variance and Settlement configuration for Period End Closing. Scheduled background jobs for Actual Overhead, WIP, Variance and Settlement postings for all process orders that are DLV and CNF. Since this plant completes the production process in a day and there will be about 30 orders a day, a background job is scheduled for the Period End Closing.
• Helped the business for months in analyzing the variances and its break up into Output variances and input variances.
• Provided multiple SAP Queries to business to monitor the Moving Average Prices of Raw Materials Found several instances of incorrect prices on PO’s affecting the MAP of raw materials.
• Trained the Cost Accounting teams to do cost roll using CK40N, CK11N, CK24.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Major addition during this implementation is using Repetitive manufacturing for one product at NY plant. Due to the environmental rules NY has, this plant has an additional system to treat the Acid Water Waste resulting in the production of Sodium Sulphate. Since the input materials to the system is not costed, the only cost contributors to this material are Labor and Overhead.
• OH costing sheets changed to include the Labor secondary cost elements into the OH base and to ensure the backward compatibility does not break.
• Configured the WIP and Variance calculation for Repetitive manufacturing.
• Created the costing variants for Product cost collectors, for Preliminary cost estimate of product cost collector.
• Trained the End users to process the period end closing of the Product cost collectors.

Other Major Accomplishments

• Basic CO-PA implementation, derivation rules, SD condition types to CO-PA mapping, costing keys
• New GL implementation for Document splitting, Segment reporting, multiple ledgers for IFRS, and US-GAAP. Also implemented Fixed assets postings to non-leading ledger based on IFRS depreciation area.
• Worked on all the Asset issues. There was a case of missing configuration of transferring Assets' expired useful life and capitalization date. Due to this, many times during the intercompany asset transfer the transferred asset is created as a new asset in the receiving company. Had to fix this manually once.
• Major issue with wrong account determination on an asset class.
• Worked on Internal Order settlement issues. Wrote some validations and substitutions.
• Worked on Assessments and Distributions support.

Orlando, Florida

• Analyzed the FICO related Trouble Tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes and resolved them in timely manner.
• Provided support in most areas of FI including GL/AP/AR/FA/Banking) and some CO sub-modules like CCA and PCA
• Worked with MM consultant in maintaining the Account determinations.
• Maintained Customer Tolerance Groups to specify the maximum payment difference that can be charged off to a G/L account, the maximum Cash Discount Percentage amount and the maximum allowable difference in percentage terms.
• Defined Reason Codes to segregate different reasons for over/under payment on A/R Line Items and maintained account determination for difference in payment to make residual posting.
• Prepared Reports to provide the list of open items in AR (Accounts Receivable) based on due-date and download it to excel file.
• Developed a report for monthly Outgoing Payments in Accounts Receivables.
• Assisted Regression and UAT Testing team in Preparing Test Cases
• Provided the Support to the key users on an As-Needed Basis.
• Collaborated and worked with other associates as needed and finding solutions as a team.
• Preparation of User Training Material for end user training.

Director 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and negotiated service agreements for services provided by the company. Evaluated and tracked their performance.
• Hired engineers to meet the staffing needs and organized training programs in the company’s products and also arranged technology trainings.
• Confidential (was with Marconi wireless which is now part of confidential) - Feb 99 till Mar 04, in different roles:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully executed a large turnkey project ($10M+) for a Broadband data and fixed wireless network.
• Managed budgets, cost control – keeping a close watch on the cost and schedule variances and delivery schedules and scope revisions.
• Interfaced with clients and partners and lead teams and worked at clients’ facilities.
• Also managed a Network Optimization project for a network in Cleveland, OH and met the contracted KPIs.