SUMMARY

• A pragmatic, visionary and focused Project Manager Cum Configurator, who has extensive experience of successfully managing and delivering SAP projects across a variety of business sectors.
• I come from a consultancy background, traveled extensively and working on various client sites.
• I have got a proven track record in the delivery of multiple, full - life-cycle projects, and is a charismatic leader who can successfully deliver to tight timescales and within demanding environments.
• Apart from possessing a strong desire to expand my SAP knowledge, I am also keen to share what I know with fellow colleagues.
• Right now, I am looking to work for a company that wants to hire the best SAP professionals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of Project life Cycle to facilitate successful delivery to executive team.
• Oversee SAP project to provide metrics for reporting to executive team on business case ROI.
• Provide Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) on selected business processes to assemble input into business case.
• Develop and oversee detailed project plans.
• Identify, analyze and recommend business systems solutions to management having broad business impact.
• Establish detailed project plans and metrics, work plans, schedules, resource plans and status reports.
• Identity project risks and develop risk mitigation plans.
• Provide project leadership, work direction and feedback.
• Motivate work of others outside of direct authority to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met.
• Convey and report status to executives, global business partners and all other key stakeholders.
• Present formal presentations and executive summaries to senior management to provide recommendations and status updates.
• Handle contractual and administrative aspects of a SAP project.
• Advising clients on project governance.
• Setting up an appropriate project organization.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to Steering Committee
• Supporting Functional Project Manage during the Project life cycle.
• Providing analysis like ROI and Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA).
• Develop and oversee detailed project plans.
• Establish detailed project plans and metrics, work plans, schedules, resource plans and status reports.
• Identity project risks and develop risk mitigation plans.
• Convey and report status to executives, global business partners and all other key stakeholders.
• Present formal presentations and executive summaries to senior management to provide recommendations and status updates.
• System application and design architect
• Risk Analysis, Resource planning and reporting.
• Managing Day to day production support.
• Manage and support period end closing process.
• Propose and support continuous improvement projects.
• Review and recommend business processes.
• Documentation and user manual preparation
• Implementation, testing and deployment of business processes from time to time.
• Support business extension and growth.
• Develop plan and communicate to executive team to reduce recurring issues.
• Preparing business process as is and to be as a part of continues process improvement.
• Coordinate among different modules and processes.
• Gather requirement and requirement deployment,
• Communicating with IT team and Business team for day to day activities and progress.

Confidential

Design Architect

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and GAP Analysis
• Mapping the existing business with SFIN methodology.
• Blueprinting the As Is and To Be scenarios.
• Realization of design in SAP system.
• Delegating and support work to other module Team members.
• Taking stock of work in progress and updating to Project committee and Stakeholders.
• Prototype preparation for design check and approval of business process change.
• Testing the configured SAP SFIN Mapping.
• NWBC reporting requirement design and updates.
• Fiori App selection and work deck.
• Integrated Business planning, uploading, and working.
• Preparation of PDD’s, CDD’s Test Documents and Conducting workshops.
• Design map to Central Finance (CFIN).

Confidential

Lead Plant Manufacturing SAP

Responsibilities:

• Design Architect and Tester with OCR - Optical Card Reader integration with SAP.
• Design Architect and Tester with Right First Time Interface - Vendor Portal Interface.
• Design Architect for Supplier Network Collaboration - Third Party Manufacturing.
• Re-Aligning the countries based on Business Units.
• Design and customization for Supply Point Company Rationalization (SPCR) Product Costing implementation.
• Architecture, Design and Testing of WRICEF objects.
• Analyzing complex SAP business problems and then developing solutions within SAP using available tools and technologies.
• Guiding businesses in utilizing SAP functionality to the best extent possible.
• Providing expertise in Plant Finance related activities (CO-PC, CO-ML, CO-PCA, CO-PA)
• Coding, testing, debugging, implementing, and documenting programs.
• Providing leadership to junior systems analysts.
• Assisting with SAP data conversions and migrations.
• Working as part of a SAP/FICO Global team.
• Supporting teams, Business Process Managers and end users in all SAP related matters.
• Performing SAP master data configuration.
• Conducting quality assurance activities.
• Organizing key user training sessions.
• Developing test scenarios in HPQC.

Confidential

Lead Product Costing SAP

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and GAP Analysis
• Realization of design in SAP system.
• Proposing design for WRICEF and other business process change.
• Delegating work to Team members.
• Taking stock of work progress and updating to Steering committee.
• Prototype preparation for design check and approval of business process change.
• Testing the configured SAP mapping,
• Cuttover process sequencing and processing.
• Managing resources from Onsite and Offshore/Offsite
• Advising business for the right process of Product Costing and Material Ledger,
• Keeping track of object release and validating them,
• Proposing design for WRICEF and other business process change.
• Taking stock of situation for the two countries and updating to Steering committee.
• Prototype preparation for design check and approval of business process change.
• Testing the configured stuff.
• Designing Integration Process Intercompany and Group costing with ML activation.

Confidential

Team Lead FICO

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 8 members working on-site, Offsite and offshore (India).
• Reporting to PMO for the day to day activities and projections for the week ahead
• Working as Integration Manager for the issues assigned to Finance Team for resolution where in analysing and giving valuable inputs to the work done by team member.
• Direct face to face interaction with Client and catering their requirements.
• Providing first hand support to crucial requirements from day to day operations.
• Performed support role for client’s business users to solve their day to day system problems.
• Master Data Management.
• Changed Company code data and transferred in new company code.
• Solved problems related to WBS Elements reports.
• Created Internal Orders by LSMW.
• Worked in MM to solve the problem related to 3-way match of invoice verification and reversal of consignment document.
• Defined new payment program in payment media workbench.
• Developed functional specification to create GL account balance report and Cash/Check Voucher report to meet government regulation
• Lean Implementation for high performance and waste reduction.

Confidential

Project Coordinator/ Pre-sales

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Pre-sales team, writing proposals and doing demo.
• Inititated the process of requirement gathering from client, Design and realization for SAP CO and mentoring the team member on FI requirement and integration issues.
• Planning for conducting Test and user education.
• Provided Cutover activity initital plan and project management documentation.
• Provided guidelines for Data Cleansing and Data Migration.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering & Blueprint: As this project relates to Harmonization for SAP FICO which includes Three conuntries i.e. Ghana, CDI and Nigeria. It was most important to consider the local aspects before implementing the Global Template. My role is more towards business Consulting and providing understanding to Implementation team in Turkey.
• Realization & Testing: As a part of Local legal designing every aspect which affects the business and vary from Global Corporate standard should be analysed and properly dicsussed before any modification to SAP system either on Client Level or Company Code level. Desinging and Data cleansing: During the project majorly apart from providing Design architecture for SAP another important task was Data cleansing. Realization and Testing: customizing the major changes from FICO, FICO-SD FICO-MM and FICO-PP perspective. Also UT / IT and UAT sign off for pregolive preparation,
• Final Preparation: Support to Cutover and Pre Golive Preparation
• .Golive and Post Golive support: are also the parts which are yet to be executed in the project.
• Worked on CO-CCA Master data design and upload, Planning and budgeting, month end and year end closing. CO-IO-OM worked on Real and statistical Internal orders. CO-PC worked on Product cost Estimates (PCE) and Material Ledger/Actual Costing and ML closure. Includes month end closing process and Year end closing process. Stock adjustments during legacy stock upload and there after during normal course of business operations. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) calculation. Material ledger config.
• CO-PA: Characteristics and Value Field creation and mapping, Calculation of variance and setteling of variance to CO-PA. Production order settlement to CO-PA to check the actual profitability at sales order level. Worked on CO-PA Top Down distribution to get the reporting at lower level of customer, and product hierarchy. CO-PA report creation and execution. Worked on Costing based CO-PA and integration with SD and MM. CO-PA reconciliation with COGS, FI-GL, Material Ledger/Actual Costing. Statistical key figures.

Confidential

Team Lead SAP

Responsibilities:

• Worked in SCM environment on Non - SAP Environment i.e. Microsoft Navision in Interface designing.
• The client is a premier client of Confidential Singapore and working with SAP and Non-SAP Environment. Confidential with AVANADE (Sister concern of Confidential for MS projects) worked for this client.
• Worked in capacity of Design lead for project and also worked on Testing for Microsoft Navision booking system. My role was for Design phase only for SAP DATA extraction for MS Navision. Project was successfully deployed and completed.

Confidential

Pre- Sales/Business Development member and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on One of the premier client of Confidential i.e. Linde Gas as Business Development team member in Oil and Gas industry implementing Financial Closing Cockpit.
• About project the project is aimed to be implemented for 5 countries which include 25 compnay codes in two phases. The Platform for implentation is SAP ECC 6 EhP4. This is standard implmentation of SAP Closing Cockpit tool and does not involve Central Process Schedule from REDWOOD.
• Worked in capacity of Business Development team member and later had to take assignement as Team Lead for two SAP FICO consultants and one Key consultant from Client and 14 core team members from client.
• Designing and architecture,
• Realization, System development.
• Testing: Unit Testing and Integration testing. Mega test (Scheduleing some major requirements)
• Managing team and managing client engagements including liaisioning with all the core team members are among the key tasks.
• Change management and imparting training to the affected stakeholder.
• Final Preparations.Preapproval and signoff and there after,
• Golive and Post Golive support: A support for six week.

Confidential

Project Manager/ FICO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Project Manager and FICO TEAM LEAD for Harmonization project from Confidential to be executed from Onsite and offshore. The countries include 8 nations and is the Phase 1 of consolidation.
• The Project got successfully Golive on 1st June 2010.
• Preparation Project Proposal (RFP),
• Preparation of Cost estimation of work,
• Preparation of Menday calculation to implement,
• Resourcingnd Procurement for the project,
• Project Release and closure.
• Requirement Gathering: As this project relates to Harmonization for SAP FICO which includes 8 countries and 12 company codes, it was most important part for the designing such a framework which should not leave any important aspect of any Company or Country.
• Blueprint: After analysing the As-Is from all the entities the To-Be design and blueprinting were among the important tasks.
• Realization and Testing: customizing the major changes from FICO, FICO-SD FICO-MM and FICO-PP perspective. Also UT and IT and sign off for pregolive preparation,
• Desinging and Data cleansing: During the project majorly apart from providing Design architecture for SAP another important task was Data cleansing. Cutover and Pre Golive Preparation.
• Golive and Post Golive support.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Since joining has implemented 4 re-org projects which includes restructuring of Org Structure at client level and company code level.
• Active participation in Regression testing.
• Consultant testing +ve and - ve
• UAT (User Acceptance testing) and support.
• Documentation.
• Data migration for Carve out and carve in projects.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served on the ECC 5.0 upgrade team. Responsible for the FICO module upgrade from 4.6C to ECC 5.0 Preparing project plan, Unit Test scripts, Integration Test scripts, and training end users.
• Responsible for maintaining relationship between the business community and the IS FICO community, resolving problems within programs, configuration, and training for SAP 4.6C AR, AP, GL, CO-PA, CCA, PCA
• Financial statements, Cost of Sales using Report Painter/Writer Cash flow reports using drilldown reports setting up authorization for user defined fields, profit center, cost center using user exit.
• Setting up security at cost center and profit center in CCA, PCA reporting
• Configuration of A/R and A/P module: Credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, line layout configuration for sort key, terms of payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item clearing, reason codes configuration, Configuring Automatic Payment Program, interest calculations on open items, Foreign Currency valuation, regrouping of line items.
• System configuration in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, inter-company, CO-CCA-Assessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, value fields, planning and reporting.
• Handled Product Costing and related issues.
• The Client has implemented major modules of SAP including FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, and QM
• Helped in various FI/CO configurations and support related query
• Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Cash Management, House Bank, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Order, and Profitability Analysis
• Configured new house bank and cash journal.
• Utilized data migration tools such as SCAT, BDC and BDC
• Resolved Credit Management issue.
• Provided specifications to technical team for various customized reports.
• Resolved the TDS issue.
• Handled LIVE Issues.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served on the 6.0C upgrade team. Responsible for the FICO module upgrade from ECC5.0. Preparing project plan, Unit Test scripts, Integration Test scripts, and training end users.
• Responsible for maintaining relationship between the business community and the IS FICO community, resolving problems within programs, configuration, and training for SAP 4.6C AR, AP, GL, CO-PA, CCA, PCA
• Setting up security at cost center and profit center in CCA, PCA reporting
• Creation of CO-PA reports, Summarization for high performance, Creation of derivation rule for CO-PA. CO-PA Reconciliation. Sales planning Optimized CO-PA.
• Configuration of A/R and A/P module. Foreign currency valuation.
• Used various upload tools for master data and open item uploading
• Upgraded, rolled-out, and supported continuous improvement
• Uploaded master data using LSMW
• Provided end user training and manual
• Participated in integration testing