SUMMARY

• A results driven and dynamic financial consultant with overall 15 plus years of experience in finance including 6 plus years of experience providing SAP functional configuration, key financial data, and management support.
• Adept and decisive manager and a proactive team player with a unique blend of skill sets in financial management, SAP ERP deployment and business process support.

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

• SAP FI - CO functional consulting
• Business process re-engineering
• Process Improvement
• SAP Functional Testing
• Project/Program Management
• Change Management
• Financial Accounting, Management and Controllership
• US GAAP/IFRS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP Functional: FI - Organization structure, G/L, A/R, A/P, Bank, Asset accounting, Treasury, Travel management, Integration of FI with MM and SD, CO-CCA, CO-PA

SAP Technical: ABAP query, Report Writer, Report Painter, LSMW

Accounting packages: SAGE Business cloud, EPICOR, Oracle NetSuite, Adaptive Insights, Quick books

Applications: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Power point)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led and coordinated all SAP FI and CO related activities according to the overall SAP business plan. This includes ongoing improvements, new projects and major efforts like SAP upgrades.
• Gathered business requirements, prepared specifications, business blue-prints, performed functional configuration and documented corrections, test new functionality, and provided on-going support and improvements in the SAP FI and CO area.
• Configured FI-GL Master records, naming convention for G/L accounts, field status and number ranges for G/L records, retained earnings account set up and define layout of financial statement versions.
• Created Vendor and Customer Master Records, field status groups, tolerance limits, Payment terms and Payment methods.
• Special G/L transactions configuration including Bank Guarantee and Down-payments.
• Configured FI-GL transactions for business processes such as G/L posting, parking, document hold, document reversal and negative posting
• Set up Month end closings including accrual/deferral, recurring entries, clearing of customer, vendor and G/L open items, GR/IR account clearing and run asset depreciation
• Maintained house banks, bank FI-GL structure with various bank clearing accounts, Lockbox set up and Cash journal set up with various business transactions
• Configured settings in the FI-AP/FI-AR, such as house bank, bank accounts, APP automatic payment program, manual outgoing/incoming payments, terms of payment, dunning, interest calculation, grouping payments as per due date.
• Configured CO Cost Accounting - Operating Concern, Controlling Area, Number ranges and Versions.
• Configured Cost center Accounting - Cost Elements (Primary, Secondary), Cost Element Groups. Cost Centre Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centre’s Design and Finalization, Cost Centre’s Group, Activity Type and Activity Type group, Statistical Key Figures and groups, Allocations (Distribution, Assessment), Cost Centre Split, Cost Centre Categories.
• Configured Profit center accounting, Profit center with New G/L concept, Segment, Standard Hierarchy, Finalization and Creation of Profit Centers, Assigning the Profit Centers to Cost Centers. Complete ticket handling as per priority ranking
• Created training documentation and executed trainings for key-users
• Provided end-users with on-going support and training

Confidential

Financial Controller

Responsibilities:

• Directly reported to Group CFO with a dotted line to Finance Director based at London HO and the Board across Americas and Europe, overseeing a team of 6 people
• Super headed the Finance Administration - Including Treasury, AR/AP, Credit & Collections, Payments processing, month end reporting and controls, FP&A, Audit and Financial reporting, ADP Payroll, Human Resources and tax filing
• Ensured timely preparation of annual financial statements in accordance with IFRS and US GAAP and liaise with auditors ensuring smooth audit for regional and Group reporting.
• Structured and implemented the month end close process, revenue recognition, preparation of monthly management accounts for board review
• Managed financial planning and analysis by introducing drill down budgets and variance analysis, trigger alerts and highlight significant variances with causes. Advised staff on best practices and financial benchmarks making appropriate recommendations to mitigate risks and reduce negative variances.
• Provided accurate rolling forecasts to ensure the integrity of financial information and partner with FP&A to ensure consistency with budget/forecast treatment
• Assisted the Finance Director, CEO and the Board at London HO with ad hoc projects providing strategic and operational support by furnishing financial information to support strategic initiatives

Confidential

SAP Finance Control functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documenting business user requirements for business processes and delivering tools and methodologies for client by developing customized specifications
• Coordinating with the Development Team for development / customisation of software
• Configuration of Organization structure, G/L AR/AP, Bank and Asset master records
• Setting up main and sub ledger transaction processing, Vendor and customer invoicing, payments, clearing, month and year-end closing and transactions integrating with MM and SD,
• Setting up Automatic payment processing, Dunning, Cash journals, clearing controls, Payment terms, credit and collections process and instalment plan
• Configuration of GL Accounts along with creation of cost elements, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting, integration of FI and CO elements
• Running month-end closing and Information system reports for all Master records and business transactions, business-area and segment reporting, balance sheet and P&L statements
• Execute test for configurations and deliver solution support