SUMMARY:

• Certified in SAP S/4 HANA for Management and Financial Accounting Associates (1709), he has 18+ years of Industry experience, that includes 11 years of experience in S/4 HANA Simple Finance, SAP - FICO, SAP-PS Implementation, Support and Global rollout projects in South Africa, South Korea, Ecuador, India and USA.
• Comprehensive understanding of the SAP Roadmap, Implementation and Migration of SAP Simple Finance Fiori powered by S4 HANA and completed Simple Finance projects for Confidential and client.
• Completed 5 full life cycle SAP implementations and worked on multiple SAP projects that include Support, Global roll outs and Migrations.
• Extensive Industry experience in the field of Biopharma, Utility, Breweries, Electronics, Manufacturing, Printing, Food manufacturing, Oil & Gas and Chemical.
• Proven and extensive functional experience in Implementation, Configuration, Customization, Integration, Data Validation, Data Migration, Cut Over activities, Integrated Testing, User and Business Support.
• Expert level experience in Product Costing (CO-PC), Material Ledger (ML) Financial Accounting (FI) Customization of General Ledger, NEW G / L, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets and Project Systems, Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Order Accounting (CO-IOA) and Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), and COPA.
• Strong Integration knowledge of FI-CO-MM-SD-PS-PP-AA.
• Experience in OTC and P2P scenarios.
• Utility client experience in Interface of SAP to third party tools FMS (Financial Management Services), Maximo, Passport, Power plan.
• Experience in SAP Security role designing and conducting Quality Risk Management.
• Experience in Control validation for SAP processes.
• Good knowledge in Make to stock and Discrete & Repetitive Manufacturing scenario.
• Proficient in GAP Analysis and Designing and Developing custom solutions.
• Extensive experience in business process across modules.
• Skilled in understanding existing business processes and translating them into SAP solution.
• Good knowledge in developing PS workflow
• Experience in investigating and resolving production issues.
• Extensively worked on various release of ERP: ECC 6.0, SAPR/3 4.7, and S/4 HANA.
• Execution experience in presales activities including proposal submissions for implementation, upgrade and Support assignments
• Trusted and experienced leader with expertise in managing and coordinating multiple teams at onsite and offshore - includes managing project and program level activities.
• Strong communication, organizational, problem solving, and analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments.

KEY SKILLS:

IT Heading: S/4 HANA Simple Finance, SAP FI - GL (New GL), Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, SAP FI - Asset Accounting, Integration of AA with IM, I / O, PS (Capex Project process), SAP FI-CO-MM-SD--PS-PP Integration, Internal Orders (CO-OPA),Cost Allocation / ECC CO CCA, PCA, Management Accounting / ECC CO CCA, PCA, Product Costing / ECC CO PC, Profitability Analysis / ECC CO PA, Financial Reporting / ECC FI, Project System / ECC CO PS, Material Ledger, Investment Management, SAP Simple Finance, FIORI, SAP Security role designing, Report Painter, IDOC s, Solution Manager (SOLMAN)Fair knowledge on ABAP debugging, Script, Web services, FTP, BDC and BAPI s, Project Management.

Other Tools: QC Vera /HP Quality Centre / HP ALM, Remedy, Aris Business Builder

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Design costing changes for Global roll out location in Latum and Asia-Pacific Plants.
• Conduct design workshop with clients.
• Develop of functional specification for FICO custom BI reports.
• Support Data loads and validations
• Help users with UAT and providing resolution to defects.

Global Finance and SAP Integration Lead

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Implemented controlling module involving product costing and copa
• Manage Global Finance Team working in development and support.
• Prioritize and manage Kronos SAP integration development activities, ensuring that projects are completed on time / budget, and with superior quality. Provide functional expertise, support, and guidance in planning and implementing.
• Assess, re-design or replace legacy systems, for optimal operation during the migration process.
• Conduct workshops with the legacy system owners for the mapping and Interface requirement with SAP.
• Conduct proof of concept sessions and DRY run for the business.
• Build strong relationships with business partners (OTC, FTM, PTP, MTS streams) and ensure that requirements are identified and well defined.
• Lead the design activity of custom development.
• Monitor the support activities.
• Co-ordinate the daily status report with the client.
• Manage resource allocation and planning for Finance.

Senior Consultant / Team Lead

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Build a best practice configuration document for S/4 Greenfield Implementation 1511.
• Configure the Oil and gas solution in the new S/4 system.
• Develop, Build and Configure S4HANA / Simple Finance Architecture.
• Configured and tested Order to cash and Procure to pay.
• Test end to end Oil and Gas Scenarios with FI-CO-MM-SD-PS-PP-AA integration.
• Fiori app testing.
• Resolving the issues incurred during implementation and testing.
• Coordinating with SAP for some critical issues and working with them for resolution.

Confidential, TX

SAP FICO / PS Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Quality Risk Management for Confidential which is on Simple Finance S/4 HANA system.
• Validate all the system controls in place.
• Develop Control Procedures.
• Participate in quality management reviews.
• Conduct risk analysis and provide recommendations to client.
• Develop Test Plan and Test Scripts for security role testing.
• FIORI app testing.
• Lead the CO & PS side of testing.
• Facilitate communication with the business.
• Conduct proof of concept sessions and DRY run for the business.
• Accurately report and monitor status of deliverables and work tasks to project leads.
• Participate in quality management reviews.

Confidential, ID

SAP CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conduct workshops in business blue print phase for Product Costing.
• Work with client counterparts to develop business process designs, requirements, and configuration / RICEFW designs.
• Facilitate communication with the business.
• Conduct proof of concept sessions and DRY run for the business.
• Validate the business process design with the stakeholders.
• Accurately report and monitor status of deliverables and work tasks to project leads.
• Participate in quality management reviews.
• Maintain Business Process Designs and update, as appropriate.

Confidential, TX

S4 HANA / Simple Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Build a Best practice document on Migration from SAP ECC to S4 HANA 1503.
• Leading the FI team and working on the SAP defined steps for migration (FI-AA-AP-AR-GL).
• Resolving the issues incurred during migration.
• Coordinating the SAP for some critical issues and working with them for resolution.
• Created a blue print to document with all changes and added customization and performed reconciliation, period end activities like periodic asset accounting postings RAPERB2000 and depreciation run RAPOST2000 and gathered important financial reports for before and after comparisons in the preparation phase.
• Performed Pre-checks according to SAP notes 2129306(General accounting Customization)/1939592(Special Check report RASFIN MIGR PRECHECK for FI-AA which checks New GL is active, Joint Venture accounting, Lease Accounting Engine and Classic Real estate is not active and each currency in FI has a Depreciation area)/965032(To check new asset depreciation engine is active).
• In the installation phase, the system admin installed 1503 Simple Finance add on and took the backups for the index and total tables (BSIS, BSAS, BSID, BSAD, BSIK, FAGLBSIS, FAGLBSAS (Index), GLTO, GLT3, FAGLFLEXT, LFC1, KNC1, KNC3, LFC3, COSS, COSP (Totals). Validated that new views are created for all old tables and new programs / Universal Journal document table ACDOCA are created in the new S4 HANA System after the installation.
• Updated Ledger Configuration, Verified Accounting Principles, Checked valuation areas, Updated Chart of Depreciation and assignment of company codes. Verified Operating Concern settings in preparation for migration for Simple finance add on in customizing phase.
• Executed the conversion cockpit for actual migration of financial data which includes GL / AP / AR / CO / FI-AA with updating universal journal (ACDOCA).
• Migrated all the Cost elements (Primary and Secondary) to the GL accounts, enriched the data with the added information to the universal journal and migrated all line items and balances.
• Performed reconciliation after the migration and compared the data before and after migration using the reports that were taken before migration.
• Performed process tests and filled offsetting account in FI documents to ensure successful migration specifically for custom transaction codes.
• Migrated all house bank accounts during post processing phase.
• Activated Fiori apps.

Confidential

Senior Consultant / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead development of the Controlling configuration rationale as part of the configuration design.
• Work with client counterparts to develop business process designs, requirements, and configuration / RICEFW designs.
• Conduct workshops with the legacy system owners for the mapping and Interface requirement with SAP.
• Conduct transition session with the offshore development team to build new RICEWFs.
• Facilitate communication with the business.
• Conduct proof of concept sessions and DRY run for the business.
• Validate the business process design with the stakeholders.
• Document SAP specific system configuration settings.
• Build integrated design of FI in areas of New GL - (Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, and Ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, Periodic Processing and Segment Reporting).
• Build integrated design of FI in areas of Accounts Payable - (Vendor Master Data, Vendor Account Group, Automatic Payment Program Configuration, House Bank, EBS, Check Lots, Reason Codes, Payment Terms, Payment Methods, Payment Medium Workbench (PMW), Invoices, Credit Memos, and Down Payments).
• Build integrated design of CO and PS with third party tools like FMS (Financial Management Services), Maximo, Passport, Power plan, Time.
• Accurately report and monitor status of deliverables and work tasks to project leads.
• Participate in quality management reviews.
• Maintain Business Process Designs and update, as appropriate.
• Prepare Resource Plan and Work Plan.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP FICO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Was a part of Implementation team and Leading the onsite finance team along with offshore finance team, to support (Product Costing, ML, COPA, CCA, AP, AR GL, AA, PP) and Project Systems modules.
• Managing onsite and offshore team.
• Provide top management from business and Confidential with accurate reports every month with details of all the incidents occurred in Finance.
• Conduct regular meetings with the offshore and onsite team to keep in check on the number of finance incidents.
• Resolving all PS, AA, AP, and AR GL, SD, Product Costing, Material Ledger, COPA and Revenue Recognition issues.
• Resolved OTC, PTP and integration issues with PP.
• Perform cut over activities for go lives for new Confidential plants (Fontana, Kashi, and Pringles).
• Perform month end closing activities (Plant closing) for Confidential ’s.
• Redesigned of costing to accommodate new overheads.
• Performed cost center, activity planning for the new fiscal year 2014.
• Part of different workshops conducted by business for new requirements.
• Drive the continuous process improvement to help the Business tackle the frequent issues (Month end issues).
• Job involves frequent travel to different Confidential plants across US to help business with their issues they face in costing and month end closing process.
• Job involves estimation of new requirement which comes as enhancement.

Confidential

SAP FICO Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Part of Confidential CO Implementation team.
• Responsible for build and testing of Product costing, Material ledger, COPA, MM, SD scenarios
• Resolving incidents, Change Request, RICEWF raised by the user.
• Coordinating with the offshore team, conducting meeting and giving knowledge transfer to them about the client-side issues.
• Supported post go live support and production support to Release 1and release 2.
• Defect management using Remedy tool.
• Functionality enhancement trough ABAP development for Project system. imparted to the business users and super users.
• Leading the PS team in developing the Configuration Rationale for Ecuador.
• Developing new FD’s for the new requirement (RICEWFs).
• Perform Cut over activities.
• Conduct data validation.
• Leading the PS team in FCT, IPT and defect management.
• Conducted in Ecuador to the business user / super user.
• Part of the translation team for translation of SAP screens in Spanish.
• Contributed ARIS flow rectification for E2E’s.
• Part of the Ecuador Go-Live and Post Go Live Support.
• Leading the PS team in developing the Manual.
• Leading the Project System / Investment Management team in developing the configuration Rationale for Poland and the Global Template.
• Responsible for implementation of the overall plan and management of work tasks for Project System and Investment Management.
• Driving the workshops with business users and other functional consultants from Poland as well as key stake holders, to get all the requirement covered in release -3.
• Responsible for End-to-End scenarios on Aris builder based on which testing team would carry out testing.
• Worked with the BI Team to translate the Poland reporting requirements as well as some existing ABAP reports technical documents suitable for SAP BI reporting.
• Created Functional Designs and Technical Designs on the gathered requirements.
• Conducted data validation with the data migration team on the mock clients.
• Coordinating and managing the cutover activities for PS Team on all the RICEWF for monthly drops (BAU) for South Africa and Ecuador.
• Worked in developing and designing PS workflow.

Confidential, Tulsa, Ok

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Production support for Confidential corporation for all modules in FICO primarily Controlling.
• Re-configuration as per business processes in MM and SD, documenting the whole business process.
• Coordinating with the offshore team, conducting meeting and giving knowledge transfer to them about the client-side issues.
• Resolved in COPA issues.
• Worked with ticket management tools like Track IT and Confidential edge.
• Mostly worked on priority one and priority two tickets and solved them in assigned time.
• Creation of a new Z program Idocs and Web methods for Business process involving Automatic payment to vendors and automatic bank transfers.
• Solved issues related to intercompany posting, taxation, controlling, internal order, document splitting, cost centers, Profit centers, PS, AP, AR, AA.
• Worked with Validations and Substitution rules to meet some of the client requirements
• Created customized variants for many transactions to cater the Clients need.
• Carried out testing for all new configuration done by manual testing, documented the procedure in Quality Center QC documenting it and giving an appropriate solution and on approval implementing the solution provided
• Changed the Lockbox configurations for the Incoming Payments.
• Parted user and documenting the materials for the end user.
• Coordinating with client on new requirement or changes required with the old configuration.