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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Strategic leader with experience in finance, management accounting and technology - SAP implementation & integration, financial analysis, corporate accounting & business process reengineering.
Extensive experience in Configuration, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Troubleshooting and Reporting.
Solid knowledge of IFRS, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act.
MBA and CPA
Extensive experience working with Management users & IT stakeholders across functional areas and geographical locations, including IT departments & functional teams.
Strong experience in Finance & Accounting, Management Accounting, procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - effective in motivating & staff and interacting with various management levels. Hands-on leader, reliable, takes ownership and reports clearly. Maintains business-focus and has big picture thinking.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Confidential & Confidential, PA

SAP SFIN (Simple Finance) S4HANA Consultant-Solution Architect

Working on Simple Finance S4HANA Migration Project. There are two instances - one system is Classical GL and second is New GL.
67 company codes in USA, Canada, UK and Kuwait; four currencies.
Manufacturing (Ammunition) and Service (engineering) operations.
The project is completed in two phases. First phase consists of converting the Classical Ledger to New GL, implementing Coding Block, Project Systems and COPA. Phase II consists of converting from New GL to SFIN S4HANA, including changing the database to Hana.
Developed plan and steps to implement the entire migration project. Also worked closely with Basis team to determine SAP notes and patches required to be applied.
Prepared roadmap for going live with SFIN S4HANA, including infrastructure cutover and implementation cutover plan.
Performed necessary configuration for migration, such as Ledgers, Currencies and Depreciation Areas.
Executed steps for Enrichment of Data for migration.
Reviewed all custom objects (692 objects) to identify where changes are needed and formulated strategy for remediation. Prepared functional / technical specs and worked with development team to update required objects - 27 objects were updated.
Determined coding block fields and derivation strategy. Worked with technical team to get fields created and configured logic for updating those fields. Custom program was written to update these fields in FI and COPA.
Held user workshops to determine and document functionality required for Project Systems and COPA. Configured Project Systems and COPA modules in legacy environment with special attention how it would work in SFIN environment.
Configured Allocation Structure and settlement rules in Project Systems to flow data from Projects into COPA.
Configured Bank Accounting and Cash Management modules. Cash and Liquidity module in SFIN is by itself. Configured Cash & Liquidity Management, Credit Management and Dispute Management.
Configured Liquidity forecasting and variance analysis. Bottoms-up approach was followed. Forecast is taken from 7 locations and consolidated at Corporate level.

Confidential

Confidential, NJ

AP SFIN (Simple Finance) S4HANA Consultant

Working with Simple Finance 2.0 on S4Hana architecture
Documented changes and new functionality for Simple Finance 2.0 (S4HANA) and presented to business users and management. Key areas included Enterprise Structure, Revenue Recognition and Consolidation.
Designed & architected solution for USA and India entities. Configured template for common processes - Enterprise Structure, FSCM, Automatic Payment Program, GL and Cash Management.
Designed & configured new coding block
Configured functionality applicable for bank interfaces in USA - Lockbox file and EBS
Configured dashboard for cash management module. This is new functionality in SFIN S4HANA.
Configured Credit Management and in-house Cash functionality. The Bank Communication module was used to make centralized payments using POBO model.
Configured Bank Reconciliation program (USA) for Electronic Bank Statement and defined rules and mapped Bank Statement Keys & external transactions codes to Posting Rules.
Architected, designed and Configured Cost / Profit center Hierarchy & Cost / Profit Center Accounting.
Created operating concern and configured COPA functionality. Defined and configured reporting characteristics, value fields and profitability segments used in profitability analysis
Created Cost elements, including new functionality for secondary cost elements in Simple Finance 2.0
Created assessment & distribution cycles
Configured Fixed Assets (New) module in Simple Finance 2.0 S4HANA, including depreciation keys, screen layout for Fixed Asset Master Data, Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas and Classified Fixed Asset
Defined Transaction types for acquisition, transfer and retirement of assets
Developed Conversion objects for Fixed Assets transactional data and GL master and transactional data
Configured taxes for USA

Confidential

Confidential, GA

SAP FICO Consultant-Solution Architect

Designed & architected solution for USA and UK entities, interacted with Business Users, SAP Technical Team members, IT Associates and other external partners to implement the solution.
Involved in gathering requirements, blueprinting, configuring,, and providing post go-live support.
Designed & documented WRICEF objects. Architected solution for harmonizing format of inbound vendor invoices, workflow for approval/rejection, and interface with Concur. Worked with on-and-offshore developers to customize solution per business requirements.
Analyzed, documented and configured Revenue Recognition (RAR 1.x) rules. Configured Revenue Posting rules including Accounting Principles, Tax Codes and Account Determination. Assisted SD Team with configuring Pricing Conditions, Tax Conditions, and with Configuring Returns. Conducted extensive integration testing. Laid out rules for revenue recognition and mapped SD conditions for pricing procedures & direct postings in FI to conform to revenue recognition rules.
Configured functionality applicable for bank interfaces in UK - SEPA file, Direct Debit file, bank statements file (EBS) and automatic payment program.
Configured VAT taxes for UK company codes.
Configured the FSCM module including Dispute Management, Biller Direct and Collections Management.
Configured and Tested Lock Box program (USA) for Accounts Receivables (AR) payments in BAI2 Format and EDI setup for IDocs.
Configured Bank Reconciliation program (USA) for Electronic Bank Statement and defined rules and mapped Bank Statement Keys & external transactions codes to Posting Rules.
Architected, designed and Configured Cost / Profit center Hierarchy & Cost / Profit Center Accounting, Created Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Assessment & Distribution cycles.
Configured Product Costing and Costing of Inventory.
Created operating concern and configured COPA functionality. Defined and configured reporting characteristics, value fields and profitability segments used in profitability analysis.
Mapped SD/MM modules to value fields in CO-PA.Designed SG&A Expense allocation strategy for Cost Center & COPA.
Configured Fixed Asset management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs and post capitalization.
Configured depreciation keys, defined screen layout for Fixed Asset Master Data & Fixed Asset Depreciation Areas and Classified Fixed Asset using Character Evaluation Group, Defined Transaction types for acquisition, transfer and retirement of assets.
Developed Conversion objects for Fixed Assets transactional data and GL master and transactional data.
Prepared, implemented and reported on the cutover plan.

Confidential -Heusen, NJ

SAP FI/CO Consultant-Solution Architect

Assisted in Designing and architecting Global Template for North & South Americas and Asia (China, Hong Kong and south Korea). Main features for solution included entity/enterprise structure with 167 company codes, Ledger Groups with IFRS and local ledgers, intercompany transactions, transfer pricing, interface with two POS systems and dual fiscal year variant for depreciation areas.
Configured functionality applicable to all countries - enterprise structure, ledgers & ledger groups, Controlling area, Standard Hierarchy for Cost/Profit Centers, document splitting, dual fiscal year variant for depreciation areas, and transfer pricing.
Created and maintained Company codes Global Settings and Country Specific settings, Customized Field Status Groups & Document Types according to the Business specific requirement and created GL accounts.Maintained field status variants and assigned to company code, screen variants for document entry per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.
Configured Vendor & Customer account groups, terms of payment, tolerance limits, Special GL indicators, down & partial payments, statements and dunning.
Designed & architected solution for polling data from POS systems and bringing into the SAP system at transaction level and various reports level.
Configured Lockbox process with IDocs, House Banks, Electronic Bank Statements (EBS), reason codes & payment differences.
Configured and tested FSCM module - credit management, dispute and collection management module. Also configured Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment for Asian Countries.
Configured in-house cash for NA. The Client had centralized payment process. Payment-on-behalf of or POBO model was used.
Configured automatic payment program, ACH File and Positive Pay File. Worked with development team for Concur interface.
Maintained and executed the cutover plan.
Configured depreciation areas, GL account assignment, acquisition & retirement of assets per business rules.
Configured Internal Order, activity types, statistical key figures and assessment & distribution cycles.
Created Profit-and-Cost Center Hierarchy and Primary & Secondary Cost Elements.
Developed Conversion objects for GL master & transactional data, AR master data and AP master data.

Confidential, NJ

SAP FI/CO Team Lead

Facilitated workshops to gather business requirements, arranged demo of the system, and prepared blueprint document.
Created templates for functionality that can be used by other member firms. Prepared run book, work plan and technical landscape for configuration and testing. Implemented SAP FICO 6.0 with New GL in two countries - USA and Canada.
Identified WRICEF objects and led the technical team for implementing 57 interfaces and 3 major enhancements.
Configured Bank Accounting, complex revenue recognition processes, Canada input taxes, leading and non-leading ledgers with IFRS, GAAP and cash accounting. Acted as SME for other FICO configuration objects.
Configured Travel Management module for USA, Canada and France. Worked with development team for Web-Dynpro based customization for use by travelling consultants. It also included interface with Confidential for credit card transactions.

Confidential, MN