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Copa Lead Consultant And Offshore Lead Resume

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Summary:

  • Experienced overall 12+ years in Aero, Petro, Energy, Engineering and construction, Mining, FMCG and Audit industries with strong team management and subject matter expert and analytical skills.
  • Possess 7+ years of SAP implementation and support in the functional components of SAP General Ledger, AR and AP, Banking & Cash Management, Fixed assets, Product costing, Material ledger and COPA.
  • Experienced in all the phases of implementation, roll out, Application development and production support and worked on 2 E2E implementations, 6 retrofit projects, 1 development project and 3 support projects.
  • Worked with different client locations across the globe with clients like ISB, Honeywell, Schwan\'s consumer brands, JPMC, Lanco, Total and Cargill.
  • Having experience in production and quality management tools Certido, OMEGA, Remedy and Quality center.
  • Having experience in solution manager, CHARM and Retrofit process.
  • Currently working with Cargill though Accenture LLP from Jan 2011 in Minnesota as Controlling/COPA expert.

Professional Qualifications:

  • CA – Chartered Accountant
  • ICWA – Cost and Management Accountant

Technical Qualifications:

  • Certified SAP Controlling Consultant (ECC6 Version)
  • Certified SAP Finance Consultant (ECC6 Version)

Awards and Recognition:

  • SAP EX award
  • SAP Diamond in the rough award

SAP Experience:

1

Confidential,

Confidential,

E2E implementation,

ECC6,

Oct-2012

till date

2

Confidential,

Confidential,

Retrofit and support,,

4.7 and 4.6C,

Nov-2009

Oct-2010

3

Confidential,

Confidential,

E2E implementation

ECC6,

Oct-2008

Nov-2009

4

Confidential,

Confidential,

Projects and Enhancements,

Dec-2007

Oct-2008

5

Confidential,

Confidential,

Implementation,

ECC6,

May-2007

Dec-2007

6

Confidential,

Confidential,

Support,

4.7,

Sep-2006

May-2007

7

Confidential,

Confidential,

Support,

4.7,

May-2006

Aug-2006

8

Confidential,

Confidential,

Core team member,

ECC6,

Sep-2005

May-2006

Project 1 - Tartan
  • Client - Confidential,
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Role - COPA Lead Consultant and offshore lead
  • Duration - From October 2010 to till date
  • SAP Modules - COPA, Product costing and Material ledger

Responsibilities:

  • Primary responsible for COPA involving GTM, Vertex, TM and SD integrations.
  • Worked on the complex functional design in COPA for SAP CD (commodity) solutions.
  • Worked on KE30 reports and Finance and COPA reconciliation reports in BI.
  • Represented plant modeling from RTR FICO side and done the configuration for all the plants including activating material ledger also.
  • Created costing keys and revenue segmentation when a condition type needs to be transferred to multiple value fields in COPA.
  • Prototyped the solution of template allocation in the product costing.
  • Completed the currency 30 and 32 differences resolution testing which is unique to the client business and corrected the material ledger balances in production.
  • Worked as an expert from solution and build to resolve the support issues and period end assistance.
  • Supported business for the annual planning. This is actually an integrated planning approach consist of COPA, PCA and CCA.
  • Assigning the work to India delivery center and monitoring their work.
  • Giving performance feed back to the consultants working from India and getting the weekly status updates from them.
  • Working as a MLSS lead for FICO, Sabrix and GTS. This involves assigning the tasks to them in the Remedy and ensuring that new developments clients are always in synch with production.
  • Working as a defect coordinator in RTR and ensuring that the defects from RTR are addressed in timely manner.
  • Training the client team on the configuration to enable them to complete their work.
Project 2 - Total TL
  • Client - Confidential,
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Role - Project lead
  • Duration - From November 2009 to October 2010
  • SAP Modules - PCA, CCA, SD (pricing procedure), SD FI Integration Cash Management (SAP 4.7), COPA and Fixed Assets

Responsibilities:

  • Implemented PCA and Cash and liquidity management for Singapore, Indonesia, Fiji, Polynesia and New Caledonia.
  • The phases of the project includes the requirement gathering, gaps addressing, testing and training end users.
  • Effectively trained the support team to handle the tickets and worked with them as a SME.
  • The responsibilities include estimations, managing the team, preparing the status and flash reports and MIS.

Accomplishments:

  • Got a project award from the Total TL for smooth go live. This was critical because it is Accenture first project with the client.
  • Got SAP EX award from Accenture SAP capability team.
Project 3 - LEAP
  • Client - Confidential,Hyderabad
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Role - FICO lead Consultant
  • Duration - From October 2008 to November 2009.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the FICO team and ensured the smooth go live at a critical stage.
  • Handled FA, Manual Bank statement and Cash Journal
  • Handled New GL and revaluation and impairment process.
  • Handled the go live of ABAN Power Corporation in Chennai alone.
  • Worked on upload and reconciliation of Master data and transaction data in production server.
  • Given End user training to the Corporate and subsidiary users.
  • Prepared authorization matrix.
Project 4 - JP Morgan Chase Finapps
  • Client - Confidential,
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Role - FICO Consultant
  • SAP Modules - Asset accounting, Accounts payables and legal merger (process developed by JPMC instead of SLO service)
  • Duration - From December 2007 to October 2008

Responsibilities:

  • Actively worked on SAP and Xign interface functional specification (xign is a vendor payment tool which has better discount terms with the clients). These include sending the master data and traction data to Xign and the discount received from Xign to SAP.
  • Analysis, Development and Testing of new Customized programs for the clients in AP and Fixed assets space.
  • Coordinating in the legal merger activities while the companies are merged into one company.
  • Prepared the Test scripts in QC for the User acceptance test.
  • Worked on JPMC – Bear Stearns merger activities.
Project 5 - Schwan’s Product Costing Implementation
  • Client - Confidential,UK and Germany
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Role - Controlling Consultant
  • SAP Modules - Cost center planning, Product costing, Cost object controlling (production orders) and COPA.
  • Duration - May 2007 to November 2007

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the client requirement and mapping it in SAP.
  • Interacting with clients on new business process development and mapping it in SAP.
  • Analyzing, Developing and Testing of new Customized programs for the clients.
  • Writing Functional Specifications for new Developments and Enhancements.
  • Co-coordinating rollouts going across the globe at different sites in terms of implementation demands, go-live activities and regression testing.
  • Preparing the Test scripts for the User acceptance test.
  • Extending post-go-live SAP onsite and offshore support to end-users during warranty support phase.
  • Supervision of the Month end Support Functions.
  • Prepared COPA - KE30 reports.
  • Go live in Germany handled alone by completing pre production activities at client place and the project is a big success.
  • While preparing segmentizer Program (COPA customization for client), interacted with client and Client IS people and ensured smooth go live.
Project 6 - Honeywell (Aero) – Maintenance & Support
  • Client - Confidential,
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Modules supported - Finance and Controlling
  • Role - FICO Lead
  • Duration - September 2006 to April 2007.

Responsibilities:

  • Ticket handling and issue resolution in FI/CO area.
  • Interaction with clients on development of new business process and mapping it in SAP.
  • Analysis, Development and Testing of new Interfaces in line with customer requirements.
  • Writing Functional Specifications for new Developments and Enhancements.
  • Co-coordinating rollouts going across the globe at different sites in terms of implementation demands, go-live activities and regression testing.
  • Daily Status Reporting of Service Requests & Requirements of Functional & Technical Resources for the timely resolution of Service requests i.e. within SLA.
  • Extending post-go-live SAP offshore support to end-users on the daily basis. Includes resolution of functional issues and work on enhancements.
  • Supervision of the Month End and the Year End Support Functions
Project 7 - ISB
  • Client - Confidential,
  • Modules Supported - FI, CO and HER
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Role - FICO Consultant
  • Duration - May 2006 to August 2006

Responsibilities:

  • Problem Resolution (Break/Fix).
  • Enhancements to the present system (design, configure, program, test, implement and support).
  • Preparation of user Training Documents
  • Change request management and implementing the same.
  • Worked with abapers in resolving the GAPs.
  • Provided assistance in period end closing activities.
Project 8 - GHIAL Company - Confidential,
  • Industry - Confidential,
  • Role - Core team member as Accounts Executive
  • Duration - Sept 2005 to May 2006

Responsibilities:

      • Actively involved in business process design and SAP implementation strategy.
      • Primarily responsible for SAP GL and Bank accounting and fixed assets areas.
      • Participated in the design decisions about mapping the legacy functionality (oracle apps) to SAP FICO

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