PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over one plus years of experience in working on SAP’s Oil and Gas industry solution in the upstream area which consists of PRA and JVA modules.
• A senior SAP FICO consultant that has over eight years of SAP functional experience in FI-GL, AP & AR, , Asset Management (AM), CO-CCA, PCA, Internal orders, Cost elements and COPA,Fund Management, Project System (PS), Investment management (IM) and Special Purpose Ledger (SPL)
• Over 3 years of functional experience in Systems Development, MIS, Financial Accounting, Costing, Budgeting, Auditing and Working Capital Management
• Experience in 3 full life cycle SAP-FICO implementation projects and 4 roll out projects and support projects.
• Experience in 1 full life cycle implementation on PRA module.
• Worked extensively in the asset accounting/internal order/investment management/project system
• Trained on new GL functionalities and implemented new GL (ECC 6.0) at FortisAlberta client
• Exposed to end-to-end implementation life cycle right from analysis, design specification, development, performance tuning, testing, documentation, maintenance, trouble-shooting, etc., in SAP Financial Modules
• Worked on support projects, issue management, resolved the critical issues within time limit and documented all the solutions
• Worked on interfaces and co-coordinated development from offshore
• Good understanding of JVA process in Oil & Gas industry
• Involved in preparation of ABAP Specs and SAP Scripts for various developments
• Worked on SOX compliance and SAP development documentation (Requirement, BPP, Unit test, SQA testing, Integration testing etc.)
• Worked on project management activities using PM online, Microsoft project and SAP solution manager
• FI expertise is in General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP) and Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Assets Accounting (FI-AA), Special Purpose Ledger (SPl), Cash Management (CM) and integration of project system (PS) with Asset management
• CO expertise includes Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting (CO-CEL), CO-Internal Orders (CO-IO). CO-Profitability analysis (CO-PA) and Profit center Accounting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Skills in various reporting, performance testing and data uploading tools like Abap/4 query, Report painter, LSMW, CATT, Quick test professional, WinRunner and WinShuttle etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,The League City,TX
Jan 2010 to Present
Sr. SAP FICO/PRA Consultant

Confidential,is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. INEOS’ annual turnover is around $33bn making it the 3rd largest chemical company in the world.

Responsibilities:

I am currently working for the PRA module. PRA involves in the production of oil and gas, values the production and sales, distribute the revenue generated among the operator and other owners and finally submits the monthly Tax and Royalty and Volumetric Reports to the State and Federal Oil and Gas Agencies.

• PRA
• Experience in configuring PRA module business processes of Production Allocation, Regulatory Reporting, Ownership, Tax and Royalty Reporting.
• Knowledge of Finance, Contractual Allocation and Sales and Balancing modules of SAP PRA.
• Solving OSS messages related to IS-OIL-PRA module
• Experience in Setup and maintenance of Production Allocation networks pertaining to operated facilities in North America upstream Oil & Gas PRA Customer.
• Created and upgraded the old Regulatory Reporting Frameworks
• Played role of test coordinator for Acceptance testing.
• Played the team member role in the PRA team.
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, define and translate requirements into technical solutions as dictated by own area of expertise.
• Worked on JVA module as a part of PRA implementation
• Fixed Assets(FXA)
• Configuration of organization structure, Chart of depreciation, Asset classes, Account determination, Asset authorization, Depreciation areas, Depreciation key, Group asset, Sub asset, Special depreciation, Production start up and Load test to upload the asset master data thru AS100 and LSMW
• Preparation of user documentation and support for Asset accounting
• Participating in training and configuration of flexible real estate module
• Project Systems and Investment Management
• Configuration of project structure, project definition, WBS element hierarchy, Project manager hierarchy and integration with real estate, investment management and asset accounting
• Working on project management workflow, network, activities, project builder and project planning board
• General Ledger
• Responsible for key financial statements design, Consolidation, MM and SD integration, Chart of accounts and tax reporting
• Working on US Sales tax and USE tax configuration
• Responsible for month end close

Confidential,Houston, TX
June 2008 – Dec’2009
Sr.FICO Analyst

Confidential, was ranked on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations. KBR delivers a wide range of services through its Downstream, Gas Monetization, Infrastructure and Minerals, International Government and Defense, North American Government and Defense, Oil and Gas, Power and Industrial Services & Construction.

Responsibilities:

• Configured KBR’s FXA system and involved in migrating Fixed Assets from legacy systems to SAP
• Worked extensively on AuC settlements and Project Systems and FXA integration
• Involved in KBR’s new company acquisitions and migrating new company business process into SAP
• Responsibility includes supporting Month End close, New GL, Profit center accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit Management, Product Costing and Asset Management modules in 6.0 versions.
• Analyze user problems, recommend, and configure resolutions. The resolution could consist of training/mentoring users on new processes, which may include personal one on one support versus over the telephone, or making determination that a change to SAP would be required to fully support the questioned process in support of the FI/CO environment.
• Involved in Month end close process and significantly improved the KBR Business Month End Close process.
• Coordinating with Offshore support team and helping them in resolving the issues.
• Reviewed all materials to be delivered to the end users ensuring all business processes were covered completely and accurately reflecting how they would be performed in the system post go-live.
• Communicating with end users in multiple countries regularly on their tickets and helping they understand the solutions.
• Responsibility includes supporting Month End close, New GL, Profit center accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit Management and Asset Management modules in 6.0 versions

Confidential,Calgary, Canada
September 2007 – May 2008
Track Lead for SAP R/3 4.7/ECC 6.0 Upgrade

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops to gather requirements and assisted in blueprinting documentation
• Created functional specs for user exits and interfaces
• Configured new GL and trained client in the configuration
• Was responsible for EC-CS integration testing
• Asset Accounting/Internal Order
• Was responsible for global asset accounting configuration
• Analyzed the country specific business requirements, reporting requirements and tax complications in asset accounting
• Extensively worked on configuring Latin American, Asia Pacific and European countries depreciation keys
• Prepared business blueprint and recommended solutions for complex asset accounting inter company transfer Configured complex period control and depreciation keys in line with 4-4-5 FI fiscal year
• Configured the internal order set up (Investment measure) for AUC and its settlement

Confidential,San Antonio, TX
June 2006 – August 2007
Fixed Assets Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• It was a high responsibility project specially merging and transferring the fixed assets for one company to another and configuring the same
• Served as Team Lead for FI-AM Functional on SAP R/3 4.7 Merger & Acquisition implementation
• Configuration of organization structure, chart of depreciation, asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, Group Asset, Sub asset, and Special depreciation
• Provided solutions for complex depreciation calculations for FERC requirement.
• Worked on composite depreciation calculation.
• Energy transfer acquired Transwestern Gas Pipeline Company and was completely involved in converting and configuring Transwestern Fixed Assets and Capital Projects from Oracle system to SAP
• Involved in Energy Transfer Fiscal Year change project
• General Ledger
• Global setting, Enterprise structure, Document setting, fiscal year and posting period setting, Creation of chart of accounts, Company codes and financial statement version, Currency and country setting and Setting for enjoy transaction
• Defined tax procedure and tax codes including VAT configuration
• Integration of company code to all other sub module, multiple currency and EURO conversion and led roll to add the 10 countries in EU
• Worked on interfaces and development for FI reporting to corporate office

Confidential,Kings Port, TN
November 2005 – May 2006
Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Team member (Support) for FI-GL,AR,AP, Treasury (Cash Management) and Asset Management for USA, Canada and U.K. business of Penn Virginia
• Support and defects solutions for various application areas of FI- AP AR and AM
• Resolved the critical issues within the time limit
• Worked on Financial statement versions and consolidation reporting
• Worked as contact person for any A/P and A/R issues
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable (AR and AP)
• Worked on Electronic bank statement, Automatic payment, interfaces with EDI, Interest calculation, Credit management, integration with MM and SD, Dunning, Internet services, Direct and indirect material procurement cycle, Logistic invoice verification and electronically incoming payments and banking
• Worked on defining the strategy for field mapping in interfaces for AP and AR
• Asset Accounting
• Worked as subject matter expert for FXA conversions, configuration, settlements, Depreciation keys configuration and day to day asset transactions.
• Involved in preparation of proposal and pre-sales activities
• Support for Treasury – Cash management
• Support for Dunning, Currency revaluation, automatic interest calculation, Automatic Credit Management, Automatic Payment etc.
• Prepared ABAP specs for developing and testing various reports for AP, AR and GL
• Worked for various issued related to Asset management
• Applied user exit, country solution and OSS notes
• Preparation of end user training documents using third party tool and creation of reports using Report painter and ABAP Query
• Documented all solutions for support issues, IMG activities, Test scripts Business processes and training documents in Heat database

Confidential,Princeton, NJ
January 2005 – October 2005
Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant (Worked as team lead for implementation of FI-AM module)

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of AM Module for BMS
• Global implementation which included L.A (Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico), EMEA (Spain, U.K, France, Italy, Nether Lands, Ireland and Denmark), Asia Pacific (Japan, Australia, Philippines, and Singapore) and North America (US and Canada) of Asset Management and Capital Projects for International and US roll out countries, which included 4.6c to 5.0 upgrade
• Asset Management
• End to end implementation of asset management module in integration with investment management and Project Systems
• Configuration of organization structure, chart of depreciation and asset conversion from legacy system to SAP
• Documented all business requirements, test scripts, business process and training documents
• Provided post go-live support for Asset Management Integration with other modules
  

Confidential,Chicago, IL
May 2003 – December 2004
Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Structure, General setting, Global setting and account assignments to the logistics organization structure
• Chart of Accounts preparation and customization of organization structure of FICO
• Was responsible for General ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts receivables, Special purpose ledger, Cost center accounting, internal orders, Cash Management and Asset management
• General Ledger
• Global setting, Enterprise structure, Document setting, fiscal year variant, Field status variant, Creation of chart of accounts, Company codes and financial statement version and integration with other module
• Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables
• Configuration for Vendor and Customer master data, Reconciliation account and special G/L, Bank accounting, Automatic payment, bank reconciliation and interest calculation
• Integration with MM and SD
• Special Purpose Ledger
• Defined global company, Ledgers, Field movement, Activities, Tables, Validation and Substitutions, user exits and transfer data from other modules
• Cost Centers , Cost Elements and Internal Orders
• Assessment, Distribution, Cost center hierarchy, Activity allocation, Internal order types, Status management, Cost element types, planning and grouping
• Cash Management
• Defined planning level and planning groups, Cash management account, Customer and vendor account group, Cash concentration, memo records and liquidity forecast
• Asset Management
• End to end implementation of asset management module in integration with investment management and Project Systems
• Support and Defects Solutions for various application areas of FICO-G/L, AP, AR, Asset Management, Cost center, Internal order, Cost element Automatic Accounts Assignments for SD PP, MM, PM and CO
• Worked on various Business scenarios and support for Product costing, CO-PA and Fund management
• Implementation of Credit Management, Electronic bank statement and dunning
• Provided Post Go-Live support and was responsible for defects solutions after Go-Live
• Worked on integration with MM, PP, SD, CO, PM and PS
• Worked on defining the purchasing cycle, indirect and direct material procurement, Evaluation receipt, Logistic invoice verification, Interfaces for vendor invoices, defined the strategy for freight invoices and import material
• Worked on various Business scenarios, support and defects solutions for FI-GL, AP, AR, Cost center, Internal order, Cost element, Fund management and CO-PA for Hospira, Mexico operation
• Prepared ABAP specs for developing and testing various reports for FICO
• Worked on ASAP methodology of implementation
• Preparation of end user training documents using Info-Pak tool
• Documented all Business requirements, IMG activities, Test scripts Business processes and training documents in Lotus notes database

Confidential,Toronto, Canada
February 2001 – April 2003
FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility was to study the FI/CO closing processes, SPL reporting and CO-PA restructuring after change in enterprise structure in SD
• FI Closing Improvement
• Studied the existing FI/CO closing processes
• Reduced the closing cycle from 8 days to 2 days
• Implemented the Electronic bank statement, Foreign exchange valuation according to US GAAP, Automatic Open items clearing, Lock box, Recurring entries, Cost center allocation, Interest calculation, Balance confirmation printing, Cross company code posting and centralized all closing function from existing decentralize closing
• Revenue Recognition
• Worked on design and configuration of revenue recognition and development of revenue recognition custom program integrated with SD
• Coordinated all development, testing and configuration work and extensively worked to analyze the legal requirement and reporting requirement for revenue recognition
• Special Purpose Ledger (SPL)
• Studied the existing mapping of SPL and improve the closing process in SPL, Currency valuation and possibility of deactivate some of ledgers
• Studied the reports developed in report writer
• Converted the report writers reports into report painters reports
• Asset Accounting
• Worked on improvements in the asset accounting closing cycle
• Worked on improvement in the reconciliation process and global consolidation report for asset accounting
• CO-PA
• Re-implemented the CO-PA after significant changes in enterprise structure of SD and Product hierarchy
• Support FI/CO
• Worked on various support issues related to report painters, Foreign currency valuation, Internal orders and Cost center accounting

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

Masters in Business Administration (MBA) specialized in Finance
Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce