Copa Lead Consultant And Offshore Lead Resume
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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