SUMMARY

• Provide functional and organizational leadership in managing IT projects across the globe, designing architecture and successfully implementing end - to-end solutions to ensure seamless transition to SAP solutions.
• Lead teams in effectively implementing all phases of project life-cycle in multiple modules of SAP FICO and external tool interfaces.
• Provide expertise in SAP modeling/design, contribution to global versus local implementation decisions, prepare and present project plans to management & budget committees for allocation and prioritization of resources.
• Train team, conduct blueprint sessions and perform hands on configuration and testing as required, provide expertise in Business analysis, GAP analysis, Requirement gathering, and Solution delivery.
• Extensive experience working in life-cycle implementations using ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology with experience in all project phases, designing and developing of customized solutions harnessing and improving existing practices.
• Experience across various industries including consumer products, chemical, gas & energy.
• Strong expertise in General Ledger (New General Ledger), Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Taxware(3rd party tool to manage taxes, similar to Vertex), Treasury (Banking and Cash management) & risk management, FSCM, Cost center Accounting, COPA and Product Costing.
• Played Techno-Functional roles in various implementations. Ability to work directly with client or Functional team for Gap-analysis, requirement gathering and Spec writing.
• Excellent facilitator with high level of integrity. Ability to negotiate, establishing alliances and collaborate with business partners & stakeholders to ensure delivery on complex projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

IT Manager (Project Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects across the Globe, assess business requirements and coordinate resources and ensure smooth transition to business. Leadership role involved SAP implementation management, customer requirements gathering, project management, customer relationships, and managing the implementation team.
• Responsible for entire SAP FICO landscape and leading cross-functional acquisition and mergers, Supply Chain Finance integration, New Product launches, FI and logistics coordination, Global FSCM Implementation, and manage a host of major functional enhancements, financial support and integration activities including Business Process Excellence initiatives at our US and Zone locations.
• Conducted scoping meetings and blueprinting sessions for gathering requirements to identify all GAP's/RICEFW's needed by the business and IT.
• Lead teams in implementing the below projects and work closely with the stakeholders in providing solutions based on best-practices and achieving the end-result:
• FSCM - Dispute and Collections Management with High Radius add-ons in Canada
• E-Invoicing (automating Invoice validation and MIRO) partnering with France teams
• Taxware(3rd party tax solution) and integration to SAP
• Banking automation and integration to SAP using EDI and Global scape - Electronic Bank statements and Lockbox
• Coordinate with Accenture CAS and OTC processes to post manage deductions and trade promotions. Integrate to SAP using PI.
• SAP Roll-out to New acquisitions
• Cost-to-Serve allocations - Activity Based Costing
• COPA - Top-down allocations
• Closely partner with Record to Report (R2R), P2P (Procure to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash), and Quality leads to ensure seamless integration with Finance and Controlling, and to ensure best in class business process
• Interact regularly with all levels of the Finance organization to provide leadership, advice and direction as required on a variety of strategic business and IT topics.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Business Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Electronic Bank Statements for Confidential ’s Concentration Bank accounts. Handled Multi-lateral netting and Zero-balance accounting in Forwards and Swaps transactions.
• Configured Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.
• Work with business stakeholders and implement the Travel and Expense Management in SAP
• Worked on all the phases of implementation, from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be Analysis (Workshops), GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training and GO LIVE.
• Designed the document for the new Rollouts and implemented them in the system which includes creation of new company codes and the configuration in the system. Also mapped the GL accounts for the MM and SD postings.
• SAP FICO roll-out to Europe - Performed the product costing runs to validate the accuracy of the master data from domains-Purchasing, PP, SD, MM and released the standard cost estimates
• Configured the valuations and Account assignment-Account determination, Split Valuation, Price control, and Account grouping for the movement types, Balance sheet valuation procedures- LIFO, FIFO.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, conduct workshops with the business users.
• Preparing the AS-IS documents and recommending suitable TO-BE processes in SAP.
• Enhance programs to accommodate the change in transportation systems from Manhattan freight systems to GPC.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Work Package Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a lead, oversaw the change request process along with facilitating weekly meeting with business and technology team to assist in timely and quality project completion.
• Work with the Treasury team to implement Treasury module - Money Market, Forex, Bonds and Loans Management. The following were configured in the system
• Money Market - Fixed Term Deposit, Deposit at Notice, Commercial Paper
• Forex
• Debt Management - Bonds Issue
• Cash and liquidity Management
• Uploaded AP master data and configured Automatic Payment Program (APP) for AP for checks, ACH, wire transfer and created check lots.
• Configured Manual and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) and worked on EDI/IDOC for processing invoice.
• Set up parallel accounting by creating additional accounts in New GL, one joint account area for posting that are the same for both accounting principles and one area with specific accounts for each accounting principle.
• Successfully designed and developed new custom reports, query and Z developments, and modified and tested existing programs in AP and AR.
• Built and designed the P-card interface by working closely with business teams.
• Prepared Test Conditions, test cases and scripted in Quality Center for Project systems, COPA, AP, AR.
• Trained the users of new functionality being added with version change during the upgrade.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Post rollout production support
• Support included all the modules in FI/CO including New GL concepts, Travel Management, Asset Accounting, COPA, Product Costing, Workflow, IDocs and Treasury and Risk Management modules.
• Use LSMWs to upload Cost centers, Internal orders, Asset masters.
• Close liaison with RTR and OTC on integration aspects
• UAT and Regression testing at each stage of roll-out
• Prepared Test Conditions, test cases and scripted in Quality Center for Project systems, COPA, AP, AR.
• Configured Fixed Asset Master Data - acquisitions, retirements, revaluation of fixed assets, screen layouts for asset master data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas, transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements covering intercompany scenarios. Created various Payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables
• Production support to users involving Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, General Ledger, Project Systems, Special Purpose Ledger and Asset Accounting.

Confidential

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting finance & controlling modules
• Developing process flow diagram, design documents and user manual
• Support, maintenance & troubleshooting in year & month end closing.
• Involved as a team member in supporting and solving issues in General ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable.
• Tested AP Scenarios: Vendor master data maintenance, vendor invoice, and credit memo posting, parking and posting parked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification, price variance, and Accounts Payable (FI-AP) reports.
• Tested AR Scenarios: Customer master maintenance, tolerances, over-under payments, cash discounts, Incoming payment (full payment/partial payment/residual payment), dunning procedures, and Age-Wise Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) reports.

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised a team Responsible for preparing, analyzing accurate product-line quarterly, annual P&L and Management reporting.
• Extended the Global account reconciliation tool to pull budgets and reporting on the product lines
• Use Cognos and Business object tools to extract data for management reporting and variance analysis.
• Plan and budget forecasts for the quarter and for the year based on estimates and projected values.
• Work with key business stakeholders across the Globe to get projected estimates for consolidation.
• Extrapolation, Variance analysis and reconciliation of key statistics.

Confidential

Finance Executive

Responsibilities:

• Management and supervision of A/P, General Ledger, Payroll Fixed Assets.
• Initiated and currently managing the Month End Close process.
• Assisted in Quarterly and Annual including responding to requests from auditors.
• Business Analysis and Strategizing
• Costing
• Budgeting and Management Reporting
• Activity Based Costing