OBJECTIVE:

To acquire a position this offers best utilization of my technical & business skills and in turn, apply that knowledge base to become a valuable asset of organization

PROFILE:

• Chartered Accountant and Certified MySAP Financials - Managerial and Financial Solution Consultant
• Successfully completed 6 full life cycle implementations, 2 rollouts, 2 upgrade projects and 4 Support projects.
• Multiple industry knowledge (Hi-tech, Chemical, Retail, Oil and Gas and Manufacturing)
• Techno functional consultant with strong experience in R2R, O2C, P2P and modules include S4 HANA, FI-CO, PS, PP, PM, SD, MM, PS, BW and BPC (MS and NW)
• Over 15 years of SAP application experience including 3 full life cycle implementations in FICO and BPC. Areas of expertise includes business process analysis, design, configuration, testing, training and facilitating end user workshops
• FICO skills include GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, CCA, Planning, Product Costing, Material Ledger, PCA, CO-PA and Consolidation
• Strong experience in Product costing and Material ledger implementation
• Implemented BPC for Financial Consolidations (Legal and Managerial Consolidations) and Financial Planning (Annual Budget and rolling forward Forecast) for Income Statement and Balance Sheet and Transfer Pricing.
• Expertise in creating BPC Architecture, Reports, Script logic, Input schedules, Data Manager Packages Security setup, Advanced Script Logic, Currency conversions, Intercompany Eliminations using Logic and Business rules.
• Hands on experience in SAP BW/BI. Experience SAP BW/BI includes knowledge in BI Architecture, Data Modeling, BW tool set including creating Infocubes, DSOs, Multi providers, DTP, Transformations, Data sources, BW Reporting (Bex Analyzer, InfoSet Query)
• 5 years of financial accounting experience in financial Planning, reporting, general accounting, budgeting, costing, forecasting, audit and internal controls
• Strong management skills with the ability to lead and motivate staff to achieve desired objectives
• Worked with Outsourced partner from SOW to Go live and support including KPI’s and SLA
• Sharp, innovative, quick learner, good listener, ability to adapt quickly to a challenge
• Enthusiastic and committed to professional excellence

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• SAP FICO SAP BPC Business Intelligence
• Project Management Process Re - engineering Finance, FP&A
• IFRS, GAAP Treasury MIS, Reporting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6B/4.6C/4.7/3.1H/ECC 6.0/BPC MS 5.0 and NW 7.0,10.0, BI/BW-7.0 and 7.3, Power BI

Languages: ABAP, SQL

IT Methodology: ASAP, Agile

Tools: ABAP/4 Query, Report painter

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Product owner for BPC Transfer Price Tax Project automation which resulted in to incremental saving of $2M in 2017
• Take a lead in BPC project and advise on architecture, strategic direction and best practice implementation
• Involved in Resourcing, Budget Planning($10M) and Project Execution
• Managed offshore team during project implementation
• Closely working with Business Partners and IT/ERP support groups to understand business processes, coaching them on BPC, timely and efficient support on BPC
• Engineering Program Leadership: Built an in-house application for the applications portfolio management program which encompassed being actively engaged with the engineering and business teams for defining the new functional and non-functional requirements, creating product roadmap and delivery schedules, writing detailed business scenarios and features, refining and prioritizing the product backlog, providing regular status reports to stakeholders and monitoring the release timelines.
• Scrum Management: Shipped multiple successive iterations of the program from ideation till deployment. Organizing and leading daily standups, sprint planning and reviews, retrospectives and other scrum ceremonies.
• Working with release management for system upgrade, Testing and go live
• Responsible for aligning SESIT investments to support business partner’s strategy and objectives
• Responsible for creating and maintaining living ERP Capability Roadmaps
• Provide suggestion and influence capabilities of future ERP (SAP) product releases
• Part of S4 HANA prototype implementation group
• Provide SESIT leadership with insight into business objectives & strategies, and overall health of relationship with business
• Managed DevOps engineering and support teams
• Created program and working with Principal Manager, resulting in increased ITIL proficiency globally. Increased automation of manual processes by 40%
• Working on reducing TechDebt

Confidential

SAP/Program Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided day to day production support in SAP BPC and FICO-PCA, Material ledger, Treasury, CCA, IO, AP, AA, AR, EC-CS and GL
• Major achievement include implementation of BPC-Consolidation and Planning, Electronic Bank Statement, Configuring Material ledger and Product Costing, Develop and Configured planning model, Led IFRS project, Configured EC-CS functionality to meet IFRS, Integration of Sales and Billing functionalities between SAP and Non-SAP system
• Provided day to day production support in SAP BPC and FICO-PCA, Material ledger, Treasury, CCA, IO, AP, AA, AR, EC-CS and GL
• Major achievement include implementation of BPC-Consolidation and Planning, Electronic Bank Statement, Configuring Material ledger and Product Costing, Develop and Configured planning model, Led IFRS project, Configured EC-CS functionality to meet IFRS requirement
• Subject matter expert in Production Planning, Sales and Distribution, Project System and Material Management
• Major Projects highlight,
• Leading Project for BPC planning implementation. It is in business blueprint stage
• Led BPC Project
• Managed team of 5 developers
• Involved in BPC presentation and project preparation
• Implemented BPC-Consolidation
• Conducted Blueprint workshops
• Define requirements
• Define Environment, Dimension, Properties, Ownership manager
• Implemented BADI
• Align IFRS requirement with BPC design
• Created EPM report for management and legal requirement
• Define and created process chain for BW data loading
• Implemented Work status
• Currently working on implementing Audit Log functionality
• Provided ongoing support and enhancement of BPC functionalities
• Creation of Info providers, Info Objects, Data Source and Transformations
• Created queries using Bex Analyser
• Created costing variants, Cost Component structure, Overhead, Define Costing Sheet
• Configured Result Analysis for WIP Calculation on Production order and Refurbishment orders
• Started automatic release of standard cost estimate every month through eCATT
• Use BAPI to upload and update standard price of material every month in material master
• Drive project Integration between SAP and Non-SAP Sales and Billing functionalities and reporting in BW
• Led workshops in SAP-FICO and assisted in workshops for PS,PM and MM
• Architect for ADP Payroll implementation
• Part of Corporate CONCUR implementation which book corporate expense
• Planning/Budgeting/Forecast:
• Implemented integrated planning functionality in SAP for annual planning and also streamlined planning process across the company
• Develop customized program in SAP which help automated Sales planning and Freight planning
• Develop excel layouts which help easy cost planning
• Advised and coaching business user on new functionality with in SAP FICO
• Working with the Senior Finance team for finalizing business requirements, developing a new Finance Data model and reporting solutions
• Working closely with SD team to streamline Intercompany process
• Extensively worked with BW team to streamline reporting requirement. Assisted in developing new reports for finance like Income Statement, Cost center reports, Order Analysis reports etc
• Functional responsibility in FICO
• Review all custom developments before upgrade
• Test existing process after upgrade
• Training of end users
• Implemented Repetitive manufacturing functionality in SAP
• Developed budget copy program for easier copy of budget from one planning version with another
• Assisted in development of Intercompany solution, transfer price and mark up build up in cost estimate
• Configured COPA functionality for Gross margin analysis
• Integration on new functionality in PM,PS and SD
• Led training, testing and blueprint workshops
• Implemented Electronic Bank Statement(EBS) functionality
• Finalisation of BPML and testing strategy
• Conducting all unit and regression testing and supporting business during UAT
• Replace third party bank interface with In house developed Interface contributing substantial saving to company
• Implemented ACH IAT interface to comply USA regulation to make payment in USA
• Currently evaluating SAP-Treasury Cash Management functionality and FSCM-Collection Management
• Assisted in revamping OTC process
• Replace all customized process with standard OTC processes
• Help in account determination
• Worked with tax dept. to define requirement for US tax reporting and configuration for legal entity in US
• Developed customized budget copy program for easier copy of budget
• Involved in IFRS project and worked in EC-CS (Consolidation), Fixed Asset and product costing to meet IFRS requirement
• In asset accounting created duplicate set of assets and configured new account determination procedure to allow posting to new IFRS GL account
• Implemented automatic creation of fixed asset from equipment master record
• Configured Impairment of Asset functionality
• Reviewed customers contract to analyse revenue recognition compliance with IFRS with Director Finance and Accounting manager and legal team
• Configured SAP functionality along with SD and MM Consultant to meet IFRS requirement of Revenue Recognition including custom build functionality
• Implemented Result Analysis and Cost based Percentage of Completion for Revenue Recognition in Project
• Worked with Finance Manager to develop new reports in EC-CS and BW for legal and management need
• Configured new Functionality within EC-CS for currency translation of subsidiary that is not self-sustaining. Previously all subsidiaries were translated at Current rate method but with IFRS we need to create temporal method. Configured and tested successfully this method
• Troubleshoot month end issues like Balance on Intercompany elimination, reconcile PCA and Consolidation balance etc.
• Assisted in Consolidation of Planning data
• Conduct business workshops to determine strategy, resource timing and budgeting of planned deliverable, developed project plan for Material Ledger implementation and integration
• Designed and developed solution for Canexus
• Developed prototype solution to for Brazilian localization which includes actual costing, revaluation of inventory and COGS to the extent of goods sold, WIP revaluation, Parallel ledger, Inter and Intra company transfer with and without markups between plants and legal entities with currency translation
• Developed Month end process incorporating ML closing
• Completed user testing and training documents
• Advised and coaching business user on new functionality with in SAP FICO
• Working with the Senior Finance team for finalizing business requirements, developing a new Finance Data model and reporting solutions
• Working closely with SD team to streamline Intercompany process
• Extensively worked with BW team to streamline reporting requirement. Assisted in developing new reports for finance like Income Statement, Cost center reports, Order Analysis reports etc

Confidential

Senior Business Process Manager

Responsibilities:

• Completed Global roll out implementation of SAP in US, UK and Canada
• Enhancement and roll out of improved solutions in COPC
• Responsibility for development and support in all New General ledger, Fixed Assets, Cost Centre & Profit Centre Accounting, Special Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (PA), SAP query, work flow & Report Painter
• Implemented New GL and EC-CS:
• Configuration and testing of new GL and EC-CS. Tasks included configuration and unit testing, documentation of configuration and user training materials, reviewing and updating functional specifications for conversion programs, and guiding the work of a junior consultant
• Reviewed the functionality of ECCS with senior project management for their signoff of the functionality. Configured EC-CS,
• Create Consolidation units and Cons group
• Create Cons Chart of account
• Configured Currency translation method
• Create Intercompany elimination methods
• Also develop Inter unit elimination method on Transferred Inventory
• CO-PC(Product Costing): Created outsourcing model in SAP for COPC and implemented new processes in Product Costing:
• Rework Orders value flow redesigned to support new business requirements and improved costs control
• Restarted Production Order WIP settlement
• Costing sheet and summarization reporting in product costing
• Developed several custom reports for variances analysis and standard costing. Working with users and developers for new report development or enhancement of existing reports
• Introduced split valuation for outsourced product costing and customization of costing program to cost product with different valuation types
• Because we didn’t have Material ledger developed report to analyse PPV and Production Variance and application to Consumption and Inventory
• GL/AR/AP:
• Automatic posting of Intercompany entries thru IDOC this reduce manual posting of other side of entries and also efficient reconciliation of Intercompany AR and AP
• Assisted in implementation of VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) solution in SAP which helps optimisation of working capital
• Implemented ERS and Scheduling agreement for sub-contracting supplier
• Troubleshoot issues in vendor payment
• Successfully handled year end and monthly closing of accounting
• Implemented Electronic Bank Statement(EBS) functionality
• Import bank statement thru EDI-IDOC
• Configured search string functionality
• Also done high customization in EBS to support BAI format change
• CO-PA: Implemented Gross margin analysis model. Previously we were transferring only Sales and Freight to COPA
• Updating Standard Business process documents of SAP with changes in existing processes and preparing test script for users
• Used Solution manager for ticket creation and tracking
• Reporting,
• Assisted in developing and testing of various FICO reports during implementation of BW
• Develop various customized reports with developer for tax audits like QST Audit, Yearend audit for statutory audit
• Develop FICO reports per user requirement in SAP standard query
• Created and maintained various reports in Report writer and painter. Used functionality of report writer like Variables, Sets and formulas
• SAP IS-Retail
• Implemented IS-Retail for Blackberry stores
• Set up the enterprise structures for the stores
• Implemented automatic payment interfaces with for vendor payments
• AP, AR & FI-MM & FI-SD: Created vendor account groups, customer account groups and tolerance groups. Assigned revenue accounts, deferred revenue accounts, freight accounts, tax accounts and discount accounts in SD account determination (Revenue recognition)
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Activated costing based COPA and configured CO-PA
• SAP PS
• Work as Associate analyst for Project System
• Implemented Easy Cost planning
• Configured Internal order and work order settlement to Projects
• Trouble CATA related issues for time booking on Projects and passing values to CO
• Configured manual planning in Project system
• Allow settlement to AUC from Project for capital project
• Configured automatic costing for Network activity

Confidential

SAP Consultant-FICO

Responsibilities:

• Used ASAP methodology for implementation, development of blueprint, gap analysis, business process reengineering
• Assisted in legacy data migration thru LSMW
• Conducted workshops during Blueprint Phase
• Configured the organizational structure from accounting view - company code, Chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios
• Configuration changes in all modules with substantial post-implementation development ;
• CO-PA: Modifying Operating concern, creating new characteristics & value fields, Settlement structures, Valuation strategy.
• CO-CCA and PCA: Cost and Profit centre categories, Standard Hierarchy, cost elements, activity types, actual allocation cycles, automatic account assignments, activity type price calculations etc.
• CO-PC: Product costing configuration changes to Costing Sheet components, troubleshooting cost estimates errors and problems with production order settlements, assisting users with preparation of cost estimates and costing runs, cost estimates reorganisations etc.
• Implemented Material Ledger
• FI-GL, AR, AP: Company code and chart of accounts, field status variants, substitutions, validations, payment program configurations, terms of payments, evaluations, Financial Statement versions, Tax configurations, FI master data etc.
• Asset Accounting:
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, customized depreciation keys for depreciation run - planned, special, unplanned depreciation.
• Implemented financial Planning in CO, in Profitability Analysis and Overhead Accounting. Responsible for configuration (plan versions, valuation strategies, planning levels etc in COPA & CCA), testing, End User training and all aspects of roll out including production support.
• Overhead Accounting including Internal Orders - Configuration, Master data set-up, developed month end closing processes and custom reports for reporting & analysis.
• Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integration / Regression testing, User Acceptance testing,
• End User training / documentation and Post production support.

Confidential

Finance Controller and Sr.SAP FICO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended various financial review meetings by Directors and Vice presidents
• Number of initiatives were taken to bring betterment in profitability of units like,
• Cash flow improvement: Through supplier bill discounting
• Made plan and action packaged for receivable collection
• Material Cost Reduction: Negotiated material price with key supplier and work on reduction of scrap
• SAP Implementation
• Involved in defining Business Requirement, Testing and Data Conversion during SAP Implementation Project.

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accounting
• Finance
• Budgeting
• Costing
• MIS Reporting

Confidential

Senior Officer-Audit

Responsibilities:

• Working capital management
• Monthly bank Reconciliation
• Prepared standard costing reports for several lines of products
• Yearly standard costing and budgeting