Professional Profile:
SAP Specialist with expertise in building / managing SAP solutions.

• Total of 12.5 years of experience with over 6.5 years of SAP consulting experience on medium and large size SAP projects.
• Strong SAP architect as well as project delivery / project management experience – working in global, cross-functional, multi-cultural environments.
• Involved in 4 implementations and 2 application support project across varied industry verticals – Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, Cement, FMCG, Hi –Tech, Hospitality and Services.
• Sound hands on experience on FICO, SD, MM, PP, BW, BI with understanding of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Business Intelligence, Supply Chain Management concepts and practice.
• Experienced on building and deploying Global Templates, resolution of Global/Local conflicts and designing technical architecture for projects.
• Problem solver with keen ability to resolve technology issues, provide for enhancements, analyze / define business processes for improvement, define, design, develop and implement effective and efficient solutions.
• Subject Matter Expert for FICO in Accenture India SAP CoE. Strong exposure to BI and trained on BPC and BO.

Technical Skills

• SAP FI - AP,AR,GL,AM,PS
• RICEF Development
• SAP BI
• SAP CO – CCA,PCA,PC,COPA
• SAP SD, PP, MMWM,HUM
• Business Process Analysis & Design

Professional Experience

Associate Manager, Confidential, June 2009 to Present

Project Experience

Confidential July 2010 – till date
Project Name : Confidential
Role : Lead Analyst
Environment : SAP ECC 6.0, and BI 7.0

Roles & Responsibilities:
Confidential. is a hospitality ownership and management organization, headquartered in White Plains, New York. One of the world\'s largest hotel companies, it owns, operates, franchises and manages hotels, resorts, spas, residences, and vacation ownership properties under its nine owned brands.

Confidential is deploying a Global Hotel Reporting information system on SAP BI platform. The project seeks to standardize Financial and Operating Performance reporting of their properties worldwide and aims at implementing 150+ reports I lead a team of 7 SAP FICO consultants for providing requirement analysis, design and testing support to the technical team:

• Project planning, resource planning and monitoring of project progress.
• Understand R/3 landscape, global organization structure, cost, revenue and productivity drivers, budgeting process and financial metrics.
• Establish systems specifications and objectives, based on business requirements.
• Spearhead requirement gathering by interfacing with client business relationship managers and analysis of reporting requirements.
• Review technical design in terms of addressing business requirements, flexibility and scalability.
• Articulate the testing approach, formulate test plans and coordinate user acceptance testing.

Confidential June 2009 – June 2010
Project Name : Application Support
Role : Lead FICO/PS and BI Teams
Environment : SAP ECC 6.0, 4.7 and BI 3.5 and 7.0
Roles & Responsibilities:
Headquartered in Belgium, Confidential is a global pharmaceutical company focusing on severe diseases in two therapeutic areas - CNS and Immunology. Confidential also has a selective presence in primary care. 
Lead the FICO/PS and BI teams a total of 8 consultants for providing offshore support for 3 SAP environments spread across 7 countries.

• Understand client business processes and IT landscape.
• Design of operational processes, SLA compliance and client satisfaction metrics.
• Managing the complete application management framework in the areas of Finance & Controlling, Project Systems and Business Intelligence and client interface.
• Manage offshore deliverables in the areas of FI, CO, PS, BI through a pool of consultants.
• Manage new BI developments- Gather requirements, drive functional and technical design, review build and validate output.
• Support new roll-outs and system landscape optimization, knowledge transition and post go live support for the SAP program.
• Responsible for managing Accenture’s preconfigured solution offering in the area of Life Sciences – Pharma in a Box. Lead a team of subject matter experts for gathering best practices in Life Sciences industry and incorporating the same into the solution.

SAP Specialist, Confidential, May 2003 to June 2009

Project Experience

Confidential. –Gastonia,NC August 2008 – June 2009 Project Name : Template Rollout
Role : Project Manager and FICO consultant
Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Roles & Responsibilities:
Headquartered in Germany, Confidential is a key supplier of insulation material to world’s leading carmakers. This project envisioned rolling out the German parent template to US plant in Gastonia, North Carolina and phasing out the erstwhile MAPICS application. The German template is based on Best Practices for IS-Automotive and included Financials, Controlling, Production Planning and Sales & Distribution modules. Lead a team of 3 consultants onsite and 1 offshore for the template deployment.

• Understand business and IT landscape. Architect the SAP solution to bring about a uniformity in business processes as well as incorporation of local practices.
• Mapping of existing business process with German template and identification of gaps.
• Managing the complete lifecycle of the project and client interface.
• Analysis and development of interface requirements for external third party systems.
• Localization of German template for US environment.

Confidential,SC April 2007 – June 2009
Project Name : Implementation & Application Management and Support
Role : Project Manager 
Environment : SAP 4.7
Roles & Responsibilities:
Confidential. manufactures syntheticgraphite for a variety of industrial applications including electric arc furnace steelmaking andautomotive friction materials.

Responsible for project management and all project deliverables. Leading a team of 4 consultants to deliver application management support. Key accomplishments include:

• Understand different business functionalities to be implemented in the area of Controlling.
• Defining the solution scope and articulating the solution design for Controlling.
• Configuration Cost Center accounting, Product Costing and Profitability Analysis as per functional requirements.
• Functional specifications of user Exits required in the area of CO-PA required for customizations.
• Manage offshore deliverables in the areas of SD, MM, ABAP, PP through a pool of consultants.
• Delivered SAP Document Management System completely from offshore.
• Designed and implemented SAP workflow functionality in the area of Procurement and Materials Management.
• Process Automation using Fax / Email of Purchasing and Sales documents.

Confidential, USA,Syracuse,NYJune 2007 – July 2007
Project Name : Functional Enhancement 
Role : SAP FI PS Consultant 
Environment : SAP 4.6C
Roles & Responsibilities:
Confidential is the largest and most diverse filtration, separations and purifications company in the world.

• Understanding different business functionalities required to be enhanced in the area of Project Systems and Project Accounting.
• Defining the solution scope and articulating the solution design.
• Configuration of required changes for PS Financials as per functional requirements.
• Functional specifications for ABAP developments for required customizations.
• Documentation of the enhanced functionalities.
• Performing Unit & Integration Testing and for the new scenarios.

Confidential,Atlanta,GA Oct 2006 – April 2007
Project Name : Quickstart Upgradation (from version 2.0 to version 3.0)
Role : SAP FI CO Consultant 
Environment : SAP ECC 6.0 Quickstart 3.0 (R2R)
Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understanding different business functionalities required for high-tech industry (SME) in the area of FI/CO.
• Defining the solution scope and artriculating the solution design.
• Configuration of FI-General Ledger (GL), FI-Accounts Payable (AP), FI-Accounts Receivable (AR), FI-Fixed Asset Management (AM), CO-Cost Center Accounting (CCA), CO-Profit Center Accounting (PCA), CO-Profitability Analysis (COPA), CO-Internal Orders (COOM), CO-Product Cost Controlling (COPC).
• Configuration to support Make to Order, Make to Stock and Make to Sales Order scenarios.
• Configured New General Ledger functionality with Profit Center dimension.
• Documentation of the enhanced functionalities.
• Conducting demo of the solution for validation and certification from SAP.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination of Quickstart version upgrade activities among team members for an effective and on time delivery.
• Performing Unit & Integration Testing and creating business process documents & flow diagrams.

Confidential Sept 2005 – Sept 2006
Project Name : Connect India
Role : SAP FI CO Consultant 
Environment : SAP 4.6c
Roles & Responsibilities:
Confidential is India\'s foremost manufacturer of cement and concrete. Connect India Project is the roll-out of Confidential SAP template to ACC. The project aims at integrating the functions of Finance, Materials Managements, Sales & Distribution and Transportation in Confidential’s cement and concrete business segments.

• Systems study and FICO Blueprinting for the rollout in India
• Responsible for evaluation of strategic requirements and configuration settings for Asset Accounting Module. The task entails a thorough understanding of Holcim Accounting principles that comply with IFRS and the requirements of Indian Accounting Standards.
• Involved in the design of CO module in compliance with Holcim Accounting principles and Indian reporting requirements.
• Complete asset accounting configuration setting with three depreciation areas for managing valuations are per Holcim as well as Indian books.
• Engineered the business process flow for managing the difference in valuation of assets in the various books by creation new transaction types.
• Involved in design of custom programs for managing parallel accounting standards according to Holcim accounting principles and Indian accounting standards and posting of general ledger transactions to reflect the same.
• Worked on Fixed Asset reports, sort variants, queries to meet reporting requirements.
• Responsible for Asset Data Transfer from Legacy to SAP, testing and validating the data before and after transfer and reconciling with FI-GL Accounts.
• Preparation of end user Training documents and Manuals.

Confidential Jan 2004 – Aug 2005
Project Name : Quickstart 
Role : SAP FI CO Consultant 
Environment : SAP 4.7
Roles & Responsibilities:
Confidential are out-of-the-box SAP solutions that are designed to address business issues while speeding up the time to go-live and reducing the risk of deployment.
Confidential Solutions use a proven methodology and are bundled with these key components to ensure success: project management, business application consultants, technical consultants, training and support. This time tested and proven approach to solutions significantly reduces risk and minimizes investment. Osprey’s Confidential for Microelectronics is one of the vertical solutions featured on SAP’s web site.

• Configure the R/3 System (FI, CO, AM) based on Best Practices Baseline Package US 4.7.
• Document the configuration in the project IMG.
• Perform Integration Testing.
• Using CAP2DOC a proprietary tool of NTL for creating and recording end user and help documentation.
• Update / Create Quickstart process flows.

SAP Support & Maintenance Sept 2003 to Dec 2003
Confidential
Role: FI/CO Consultant

• Providing offshore SAP FI/CO support and maintenance for existing clients.
• Responsible for guiding organizations through the full project life cycle from defining and documenting the finance related business requirements to supporting them after the go-live,
• Gathering the financial and cost controlling related new business requirements and then configuring SAP to work according to these new business requirements.
• Providing mature dual shore execution processes and methodologies.
• Creating technical proposals for prospective SAP implementation / Support & Maintenance Customers.

Confidential May 2003 to Aug 2003
Role: Finance Consultant
Role: Team Member
As a part of the Confidential team in Confidential, was involved in stabilization and support and maintenance projects for Carrier Refrigeration AB in Europe. Responsible for understanding the JDE setup and resolving the issues faced by the client. 
Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand client issues and resolution of the same. Carry out changes in configuration to comply with client business requirements.
• Periodic reporting on the project progress for review.
• Documentation of Configuration for the Finance modules.

Education
M.B.A 
B.Com 
Matriculation (I.C.S.E)