SUMMARY:

• Senior consultant with over 12 years of business experience including 9 years in SAP FICO space
• Extensive noledge and experience in end to end business processes and SAP configuration for discrete and process manufacturing industries
• Total 9 projects, 4 of which are full life - cycle implementations from blue printing to post production support
• Experience as a lead consultant for full life cycle implementations, global rollouts, and production support
• Experience working with business, senior level executives, management and conducting workshops for requirement gatherings, gap analysis, and new design
• Extensive experience working on enterprise management reporting and implementing solutions that serve teh strategic needs of large organizations
• Extensive experience working with full BI suite and BI teams in defining, developing, and testing various operational and strategic reports
• Extensive experience in teh full life cycle of a project including: current state analysis, requirements gathering, conducting workshops, future design, system configuration, end user training and post implementation support
• Designed Test Plan scenarios for Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, process documentation and end-user training
• Excellent team player, strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills combined with self-motivation and initiative

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• FI (GL, AP, AR)
• FI-MM-SD,PP Integration,Inventory Management
• Complete integration with MM, SD, PP, and Project Systems
• Trained end-users in SAP - FI, CO and Integration aspects of FI and CO
• Skill Set in SAP CO:
• Product Costing (Make to Stock Environment, Make to Order, Variant Configuration)
• Profitability Analysis
• CO -CCA
• Internal Orders
• Report Painter& Report Writer
• Profit Center Accounting
• Worked with BEX, BOBJ, Cognos, and Hyperion in testing various reports in R2R space

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

FICO Lead

Responsibilites:

• Worked as FICO Lead
• Project involved migration of clients enterprise systems from Epicor ERP to SAP ECC
• Conducted blueprint workshops in all areas of FICO including GL, AR, AP, FA, CCA, PCA, Product Costing and COPA
• Responsible for getting business sign offs on TO-BE processes
• Designed and prototyped TO-BE processes based on McKesson global template and SAP best practices
• Designed and implemented a complex overhead costing model using user exits and custom tables
• Wrote functional specifications for several interfaces to legacy systems, minor enhancements, and several custom reports in finance area
• Proposed PCA and COPA design based on clients reporting requirements. Major challenge was aligning teh unique reporting dimensions with teh global COPA template
• Worked with BI team to define and develop BI cubes based on ECC data structures in support of reporting requirements in R2R area
• Wrote functional specifications for migrating existing COGNOS reports to BOBJ
• Closely worked with training team to design and develop training material for end users in finance area

Confidential

Lead SAP FICO/COPA Consultant

Responsibilites:

• Work with business to gather requirements for word wide rollout of Cost based COPA reporting capability to a global user group
• Document detailed business requirements for desired reporting capability out of Cost based COPA and identify design gaps in upstream modules of SAP such as Sales and Distribution
• Teh project deliverable is to deliver a proof of concept for word wide rollout of cost based COPA reporting capability riding on SAP BI suite, standardize and streamline key business processes in SAP upstream applications, provide greater visibility and granularity in management reporting for strategic decision making
• Propose global re-alignment of chart of accounts and account determination to align with new financial and management reporting requirements
• Change/Add existing COPA structures, condition mapping, transfer structures, and other configuration based on new requirement
• Work with SD-Pricing team to evaluate, change and propose standardization options to align with new reporting requirements
• Worked extensively with BI team to deliver corporate reporting requirements over HANA and BW environment
• Worked with BI team in defining teh BI cubes in HANA by identifying teh underlying source tables in ECC for financial management reporting data
• Conduct unit, integration, and regression testing of various financial management and margin analysis reports and gain user acceptance sign offs from business users

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Lead SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• Client’s SAP instance was carved out of a global SAP instance of parent company
• Corporate financial processes from parent company were transitioned to newly independent entity with minimal noledge transfer
• Conducted workshops to understand and document clients existing financial processes followed by extensive training sessions to train teh end users
• Documented gaps in existing design based on user feedback and system utilization in FI and CO domain
• Configured and Customized FI sub-modules Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
• Extensively worked in teh area of GL, AR, AP, and AA
• Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts. Worked on P2P process including Logistics Invoice Verification
• Proposed changes and configured material master based on clients procurement, production, valuation, and costing requirements
• Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with teh GL, Defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods
• Develop transition documents for end to end financial processes

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Senior SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Client was in teh process of rolling out its global template to its various divisions and subsidiaries spread across teh world
• Teh rollout process involved early engagement with site business team, conducting blueprint/localization workshops, evangelizing teh global template, documenting local legal, regulatory, and management reporting requirements
• Conducted Blueprint workshops in General Ledger, Cost Center Account, Product Costing and Profitability Analysis modules for new deployments
• Conduct gap analysis for new deployments
• Product Costing scope includes costing in make to order, make to stock, and engineer to order scenarios utilizing CATS and Project Systems
• Work with global teams to document, develop, and implement new requirements
• Devised and implemented strategy for migrating master data for Customers, Vendors, Materials, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and transaction data pertaining to Customer Open Items, Vendor Open Items using LSMW
• Work on all conversion activities for master data relevant to GL, AR, AP, Product Costing and inventory valuation
• Work with cross functional teams from MM, PP, SD, LE, and Project Systems to define master data conversion strategies and conduct unit and integration tests
• Develop, test, and maintain conversion documents, conversion programs, LSMW’s etc
• Provide first level support to new sites going live on SAP
• Troubleshoot and address post go-live issues

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Lead SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Client was in teh process of rolling out to South American countries
• Product Costing in make-to-stock scenario with Production Orders as Cost Object
• Overhead costing using costing sheets
• Establish CO month end processing such as WIP, Variance, and Settlement
• Month end settlement to Costing based and Account based COPA
• Internal Orders for tracking capital, marketing, and R&D spend
• CATS integration to capture cost of labor
• Worked with BW/BI team in defining reporting cubes for COPA
• Wrote functional specifications for reports out of BW
• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of teh project including ASAP methodology, BBP preparation, Data migration, configuration, end-user training, and go-live phases, involved in test phases i.e. unit testing, integration testing
• Configuration of FI global settings, configured company code, created GL accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested teh configuration in various scenarios
• Configured and Customized G/L, A/R and A/P modules including creation of Account groups, GL Accounts, Field Status Variants, Vendor master records, Customer Master records, account groups, number ranges, tolerance groups, reason codes, account determination, default account assignments, automatic payment program for outgoing payments which included payment methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts, credit risk management
• Uploaded accounts payable master data through LSMW, Configured Automatic payment program for Accounts payable for checks, ACH and write transfer. Also created check lots
• Configured chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys and transaction types for Asset Accounting
• Assisted in maintaining Cost center category (CO-CCA) and defined cost center hierarchy
• Setup Assessment cycles to push below teh line expenses to COPA
• Setup COPA-BI extracts and cubes
• Developed various profitability reports out of BI

Confidential

Lead CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement CO-PC and CO-PA module end to end
• Implement CO-PC in discrete manufacturing environment using MTS and MTO manufacturing scenarios
• Scope of costing includes costing runs, WIP calculation, Results Analysis and Settlement of Production Orders and Sales Orders
• Design and implement Gross Margin reports in COPA (R/3)
• Establish and standardize logistics processes in SD and PP in compliance with accounting and reporting requirements
• Provide end user training before go-live
• Worked with CFO in gathering requirements relating to WIP, Inventory valuation, P&L structure, and gross margin reporting requirements
• Lead a team of 3 power users/financial analyst in defining teh scope, gather requirements, and deliver solution based on KPI’s defined by KPMG
• Did an assessment of existing SAP implementation and provided a gap document to teh client
• Prepare business blueprint that completely meets teh clients unique requirements
• Implementation scope includes -
• Product cost planning/cost object controlling in a repetitive manufacturing environment using Product Cost Collector as Cost Object
• Profitability analysis, profit center accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders plus
• Deliverables include requirements gathering, developing business blueprint, configuration/customizing, testing, and post production support, and training

Confidential

Senior CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed a comprehensive implementation strategy including project planning, configuration, and potential change management issues
• Configured Costing Variants, Valuation Variants, Costing Sheets, COPA transfer structures, Results Analysis, WIP, Settlement etc. to achieve teh desired results
• Redesigned and reconfigured costing structures like BOM and Routings
• Modified existing user exits and COPA valuation strategies to fix errors caused by migration from standard price to moving average price
• Rewrote some of teh ABAP reports which were broken due to migration
• Worked on developing a comprehensive archiving strategy for COPA
• Implemented complex business requirements for overhead costing using user exits and custom ABAP programming
• Scope of implementation included analysis, design, writing functional specifications, technical specifications, writing test cases, and pre and post go live testing
• Worked extensively in writing ABAP reports, developing technical specifications for complex user exits, and fixing existing ABAP reports
• Worked on period end closing issues
• Designed and implemented Profitability Analysis according to clients requirements
• Used available user exits to accommodate clients complex requirements for reporting purposes
• Implemented Product Costing for Make to Order and Make to Stock Scenarios
• Setup teh valuation strategy in COPA according to teh clients unique requirements
• Carried out all configuration and customization related to implementation of CO - PA
• Designed and implemented various custom profitability reports to satisfy clients reporting requirements
• Custom report creation included interaction with teh end users, analysis of SAP standard reports, writing functional and technical specifications for use by ABAP programmer including identification of specific SAP data structures and tables to be used during ABAP programming