SUMMARY:

• Outcomes focused ERP - Financials lead consultant with 17 yrs. of Financials ERP & Analytics delivery experience.
• Hands-on in configuration, requirements, design, architecture, development and operations of large and complex Financials solutions.
• Experienced in full suite of SAP solutions, including ECC6, BI-BW, Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), BOBJ-Budgeting, Planning & Consolidation (BPC) and SAP-HANA S4 Finance.
• Led General Ledger and Financial projects involving Legacy to SAP migrations, On-premise to SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud migration, Classic GL to NewGL migration, NewGL to HANA S/4 Finance Migration, Treasury implementations.
• Worked on multiple SAP-IS projects for Energy, Utilities, Oil and Public Services clients using FI-CA & JVA.
• Conducted Systems Design & Architecture reviews, worked with Business Process Re-engineering teams for realizing process optimization opportunities, reviewed As-Is To-Be processes, Solution Blueprints, Fit-Gap analysis, Functional Specs, and Testing plans for solution quality assurance & control.
• Hands-on in configuration since R/3 3.0B to ECC 6 & S4/Finance in FI-CO; New GL, AP, AR, New Asset Accounting, Material Ledger, Account-based COPA, Banking, Treasury, Contract Ledger Accounting (FICA), CCA, PCA, OM, Cash Flow, Joint Venture Accounting (JVA ledger), Consolidations, Planning & Budgeting, FI-SD-MM integration. Functional scope covered all back-office functions namely RTR (Record-to-report), PTP (Procure-to-pay) & OTC (Order-to-Cash).
• Deep expertise in SAP-ECC6 & S4/Finance on niche areas incl. NewGL migration, Costing based & Account based CO-PA, Cash Management & Reporting, Investment Management & Project Systems.
• Familiar with US GAAP, IFRS, Public Sector Accounting, and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
• Expert in Accounting (FI-CO) business processes with 8 full-cycle implementations.
• Assisting business with day-to-day as well as period end Financial closing processes.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Plan and lead configuration, development & delivery of simultaneous complex projects participating in requirements definition and requirements gathering, blueprinting & solution architecture for SAP Finance projects, in multi-country, multi-currency, cross-functional initiatives cutting across Accounting, Logistics & HR functions, with global stakeholders, including implementation partners & vendors.
• Managing ERP Financial systems roadmap and the SAP program, performing Upgrades and new feature rollouts.
• Led SAP Simple Finance prototyping of existing NewGL to S/4 HANA Finance solution, followed by full migration to S/4 Finance using Universal Ledger & Fiori front-end.
• Manage the scope and work of all projects & services, and their overall performance as per KPIs and agreed SLAs; Manage delivery of Continuous Improvements and continued Cost-effectiveness of the COE.
• Manage and promote a high compliance and performing environment for a GMP validated system of record.
• Pilot Agile development methodologies on high time-to-market value projects

SAP Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As the chief Solutions Architect, responsible for business process & application architecture for the full functional landscape spread over FI/CO/SD/MM/HCM, BI & Portals, plus portfolio of active 40+ projects.
• Led Solutions/ Enterprise architecture team responsible for solution design, quality and documentation using SAP Solution Manager covering business functions spanning Hire-to-Retire, Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, & Procure-to-Pay. Additional niche functions included Commitments management, custom Change-of-funding, PA-PM-Position Budgeting & Control, Budget Control System BCS-AVC, and RRB.
• Financials process & systems design during blueprinting, configuration & functional specification; review testing plans to ensure compliance with design principles and IT controls.
• IT lead for implementation of corporate card program with JPMC as the financial service provider.
• Led solution design & implementation for Cash Flow reporting for the college.
• Designed a very high visibility and complex expats-benefits-administration related FICO-HCM solution for WCMC’s Qatar campus.
• Hands-on, Review and approval of SPRO configuration for all FI-CO-FM-GM-SD-MM-SRM-HCM modules.
• Led architecture for big-bang migration of Business Suite on HANA on SAP’s HEC (HANA Enterprise Cloud) for all systems/components including ECC, SRM, BW & MDM.

Manager, Enterprise Applications

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Overall functional lead/Architect; Hands-on in NewGL/Banking/AP/AR/AA/PS/CCA/PCA/CO-PA/T&E, FI-SD-MM integration.
• Handheld business sponsor through business case development for turnkey projects; supplied business with non/SAP application alternatives, implementation & lifecycle TCO, future fit-gap analysis.
• Led requirements definition sessions with Finance & Logistics business teams; reviewed requirements, specifications, business process definitions, and made recommendations related to proposed solution.
• Led upgrade & migration from Classic GL to New GL with document splitting functionality, using SAP Migration cockpit. The solution involved multiple ledgers for US GAAP, and IFRS reporting and supported reporting in legal and group currencies. The migration included clean-up for 1 million open items to the tune of ~600 million USD. Hands-on through all three phases of Planning/Migration/Go-live under Package 3 performing all six phased Migration Cockpit steps.
• Led SAP team effort for Upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 6.0; BW 3.1 to NW BI 7.0; Networks & Resource Assignment functionality; New ESS/MSS Portals implementation to expose Timesheets.
• IT lead configurator on SAP Travel & Expense management implementation.
• Implemented Enterprise Planning & Forecasting processes for Office P&L & Client Profitability within ECC, combining planned resources’ salary data with planned billings to arrive at net profitability per client.
• Led System Landscape Optimization with SAP America for fixing Controlling Area currency.
• Led SAP BPC (OutlookSoft) implementation for planning & forecasting staff & revenue.
• Led BPC Upgrade & Re-implementation on NetWeaver-BI; Supplemented design input for App set, Apps & Dimensions, ETL mechanism, Input schedules & reporting structures.
• Regularly assisted business with Month-end & Year-end Financial closing activities, as well as day-to-day transactional postings & troubleshooting.
• Hands on configuration of all SAP FI-CO functions; Integration with SD & MM - partner functions, revenue account determination, account keys, pricing procedures, condition technique, movement types.
• Writing ad-hoc SQL-type queries for quick analytical reporting on SAP-Finance database.
• Established and managed execution of governance policies and procedures for system changes, security and access control, and management/infrastructure administration of critical business solutions.
• Led the Enterprise Business Solutions Team; Managed work schedules and priorities for employees and external consultants in multiple work locations, including offshore sites.
• Managed BI initiatives of the company including Internal & External Reporting, New reporting areas, Confidentiality; Business Planning & Consolidation; C-level management reporting dashboards.
• Oversaw SAP system landscape Migration to new Cloud-based Productive & DR sites. Line function responsibility for systems upgrades, disaster recovery & business continuity.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• FI-CO Project Manager covering Financial & Management Reporting team.
• Business Blueprint & Design - Led process design workshops. Performed Fit/Gap analysis. Provided detailed inputs for SAP system/modules architecture & Integration aspects with SD/MM/PP modules to develop alternatives.
• Build & Test - Performed Configuration, Coordinated Interfaces design effort. Led RICEF Functional Specifications design effort. Responsible for onsite-offshore coordination of ABAP development objects.
• Oversaw Unit Testing, Integration Testing & UAT efforts for solution quality.
• Provided detailed inputs to Security team for meeting SOX requirements.
• Responsible for team's work estimation, resource assignment, leveling, task monitoring, progress reporting.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led AS-IS process workshops and TO-BE process design workshops. Performed Fit/Gap analysis, prioritized gaps with client leads. Developed solution alternatives, Assessed New GL vs. Classic GL.
• Developed Global Template for multi country, currency, language & time zone rollouts. Finalized major SAP Org units. Developed global & local RICEF inventory & Scope scenarios. Developed GL/PCA, COPA, AA Conversion strategy.
• During Blueprint & Design, ensured integration with the Purchase-to-Pay (MM/AP) & Order-to-Cash (SD/AR) process teams & Vertex tax bolt-on. Designed SAP interface with Hyperion Financial Mgmt. application for legal & mgmt. reporting (profitability by region, customer, product & brand).
• Coordinated Blueprint & Design activities with co-consulting partner to merge their SAP 4.5B Global Implementation Template with ECC 6.0 New GL.
• Facilitated development of CRP scenarios & User scripts. Conducted CRP. Designed configuration for New GL, AA & PCA with dual ledgers for IFRS & GAAP. Configured Document splitting, Forex valuation, CO-CCA, PS & MM integration. Coordinated entire Interfaces & Conversions design effort. Developed RICEF Functional Designs & provided inputs for detailed Technical design. Provided input to Test Planning. Responsible for onsite-offshore coordination of ABAP objects development & testing.
• Responsible for work estimation, resource assignment, leveling, task monitoring, progress reporting.
• Ensured quality conformance of deliverables with prescribed ADM Project methodology.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Configured SAP-Financials; Integrated HR/GL for Payroll postings using Symbolics & Wage types.
• Implementation of EC-CS for Profit Center Consolidation of Confidential entities.
• Designed & tested interfaces & Validation tools e.g. from EC-CS to Hyperion interface for Consolidated statements reporting.
• Configured & customized FI-GL/AP/AR & LIV Invoicing manual & IDoc processes. Designed Visual Basic/FileNET/ABAP based Imaging archiving solution using Docustream, integrated using RFCs.
• Designed/configured & tested Purchase Taxes (using Taxware), Withholding Taxes, FI & CO Validations & Substitutions.
• Designed custom BW/BI multi-cube for AP/AR Payments & Cash Flow analysis. Developed reports using Business Explorer Query designer.
• Designed user security matrix & configured user profiles to comply with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
• Led an onsite/offshore Production support team for the implementation for one year after Go-Live.
• Core team member responsible for design & implementation of Sarbanes Oxley compliant Change

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As R/3 FI-CO & IS-U FI-CA specialist, analyzed BP's Global Template for identifying gaps w.r.t. BP Spain processes covering R/3 General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Banking, Budgeting & Cost Center planning, Internal Orders, & IS-U Contract Accounts Receivable.
• Advised client on possible process alignment opportunities, recommended how to bridge the gaps, and mapped SAP solution to R/3 Financials, Controlling & IS-U Contract Accounting process requirements.

Confidential

Project manager /Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Simulated an Offshore Application support model at Onsite to service Change requests for ABAP enhancements for R/3 FI-CO, Workflow, IS-Oil & FI-JVA.
• Exceeded planned project objectives of demonstrating organizational strengths in ABAP Analysis, Development approach and Quality, as affirmed by client's feedback ratings.
• Resolved client technical queries & provided inputs to my team on SAP Accounting issues including GL, AP, CCA, PCA & Joint Venture Accounting.