SUMMARY

• 20 years of ongoing total IT experience in development, implementation, pre - sales and support of financial and banking systems
• 15 years of ongoing experience in SAP FICO and FSCM; Worked on 8 implementations (4 end to end), 5 support, 1 upgrade, 1 rollout, 1 acquisition, 1 post implementation support, 1 enhancement and 1 end user training project as Solution Architect/ SME/ Managing Consultant/Team Lead/Consultant; Worked on SAP S/4HANA 1809,1709, 1511 including Fiori Apps
• 4.5 years of domain experience in the areas of Financial Services and Banking as financial business analyst; Hired by SAP for finance knowledge and trained for 2 months in SAP HQ in Walldorf, Germany
• Leadership experience of 6 years; Performed activities such as stakeholder identification and management, engagement management, project planning (scoping, requirement management, phasing, defining deliverables, risk identification), delivery management, team coordination, competency building, financial tracking and reporting, process governance and change management and HR activities like performance appraisal, salary increments, hiring and promotions.
• Worked for global clients including North American clients in Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Automotive, Travel and Transportation, Public Sector, Retail and Service industry; Client list includes Celestica, CN Rail, Loblaw, Shoppers Drug Mart, CAA, British Petroleum, TOTAL, Cadbury Schweppes, RSA, IEE, Armstrong World Industries
• Worked as Solution architect in SAP finance domain for pre-sales and project teams; Worked on RFPs, conducted discussions with clients to identify scope in finance, created detailed requirement list, developed templates and frameworks for effort estimation, created high level design and project plan, presented proposed solution to client by presentations and demos.
• Extensive experience in all project phases -Project Preparation, Design/Blueprint, Build/Realization, Final Preparation, Testing (UT, IT, RT, UAT), Cutover, Data Management (conversion, migration and modeling), Go-live and Support, End user training and Sustainment
• Experience includes business process analysis and mapping, conducting workshops, gap analysis, designing, configuration, establishing process SLAs, effort estimations, developing workarounds, customer facing and documentations at all levels
• Worked in top notch companies like SAP, Deloitte, IBM, Confidential, HCL-Axon, Oracle Financial Services and NIIT
• Extensive client facing skills; Worked with top hierarchy in companies including VP on client locations in Canada, USA, UK, Australia, Germany and Luxembourg
• Strong communication, interpersonal and client management skills; Ability to manage multiple tasks in a pressured environment; Proficient in evaluating end-user requirements and custom designing solutions
• Received Excellence Award in Consulting by HCL-Axon in year 2009 and Client Excellence Award by IBM for work done for British Petroleum in 2014
• Attended training for S/4 HANA 1709 organized by SAP

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP Finance and Controlling (S/4HANA 1809, 1709, 1511, ECC6.0, 4.7, 4.6), FIORI, SAP Financial Supply Chain Management(Collections and Dispute Management);Proficiency in Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Asset Accounting, BANK, New GL,IO,PCA,CCA,COPA, Product costing; Integration of FICO with MM, SD, PS, PP, HR modules and third party applications

Project Management Methodologies: ASAP, Agile, Ascendant, SDLC

Tools: S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, SAP Solution Manager, BAPIs, BADIs, IDOCs, LSMW, CATT, HPQC, Remedy, JIRA, Clear Quest, SharePoint, SofTools, MS Project, Concur

Interfaces: Taxware, Maxflow/eFlow, Client-specific financial interfaces

Financial applications: Flexcube Corporate, I-cube, Flexcube@Broker

Languages: Understanding of ABAP/4 Workbench

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Finance Specialist

Environment: S/4HANA 1809 on-premise

Responsibilities:

• Role involves handling SAP S/4HANA Finance 1809 for the Canadian business in multi-country SAP implementation using Activate methodology.
• Highlights include understanding business requirements, performing fit/gap analysis, business process reengineering and mapping, configuration, testing and cut-over preparation.
• Worked with US counterparts on implementation strategy and performed feasibility study to refine global blueprint to cover the localization requirements.
• Worked on all areas of FICO including GL, AA, APP, EBS, Dunning, Internal Order, Cost Center and Profit Accounting.

Confidential

SAP Finance Specialist

Environment: S/4HANA 1809 on-premise

Responsibilities:

• Role involved being part of the implementation team working on multiple IT solutions including Greenfield implementation of SAP S/4HANA 1809.
• Plan was to revitalize the digital core of the company through SAP S/4HANA.
• A common suite of SAP solutions was to be deployed in Asia, South America, Europe, Canada, several US sites and Mexico site of the client.
• Highlights include assessing and consolidating recommendations from Enterprise Architecture team to match client requirements, strategic application sequencing including data and integration, Automation and preparing SAP S/4 HANA implementation roadmap.

Confidential

SAP Finance Specialist

Environment: S/4HANA 1709 on-premise, ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Project involves implementing SAP S/4HANA 1709 FICO, FICA, FSCM, Convergent Invoicing, Hybris Billing, Transport Management, and BI including FIORI apps using Agile methodology in phase-by approach.
• First phase of work involved analysis of requirements, scoping, identification of components and RICEFs, planning, estimation, designing, definition and assignation of resources.
• Responsibilities included full ownership of the finance area, definition of UI strategy and ownership of FIORI across modules, definition of master data and dual maintenance strategy across modules, adherence to project goals, contract and schedules, delivery coordination with client and Confidential management, assessing risks, driving efforts to address problem areas and implement contingency plans, working with team of finance consultants to ensure build in two-week sprints.
• Project involved integrating systems of 2 biggest retail giants in Canada following an acquisition.
• Work involved mapping business process of a retail to another and implementing SAP IS-Retail and FICO with minimal changes to systems of acquiring company using ASAP methodology.
• Responsibilities included interacting with key counterparts of both businesses, designing the finance solution, managing a team of onsite/offshore FICO consultants, being hands on in SAP FICO 6.0 whenever required, tracking and reporting activities of the project to the Project Manager.

Confidential

Project Manager, People Manager

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements project as FICO solution architect: Performed changes to SAP system as per quarterly release calendar using SAP Solution Manager; Responsibilities included carrying out high level effort estimation of list of FICO deliverables received from BP in Clear Quest tool; categorizing the deliverables as enhancement or project(>400 hours); finalizing list of enhancements to be delivered in a quarter based on urgency and costing; carry out requirement gathering and analysis of FICO enhancements; perform configuration/coding, testing, UAT; create documents like Functional Specifications/Configuration document, test scripts and assist in release activities. Worked on all areas of FICO including AA, APP, EBS, Dunning, Product Costing, IO, COPA, Cost and Profit Center Accounting
• Implementation of FSCM module(Collections Management and Dispute Management) as FSCM consultant: Performed feasibility study, analysis, design, configuration and testing of SAP system following ASAP methodology. Prepared documents such as fit to input report, BRD, blue print/system design document, configuration, test scenarios and test scripts. Liaised with IBM and BP stakeholders and third party Reconciliation team and Collections team.
• ‘Tax code project’ as Project Manager: Responsibilities included project scope identification and process set up; delivery management, stakeholder management, resourcing, liaising with multiple vendors, financial tracking and reporting activities. Landscape included various production and project stacks. Phases of the project included impact analysis, configuration and testing of 7 SAP systems and affected inbound and outbound interfaces of SAP. Team size included 20 consultants.
• Enhancements project as Delivery Manager: Project involved handling of quarterly delivery of local and global local enhancements in 3 SAP systems of BP. Managed team of 23 consultants in RTR, P2P, O2C, SCM, VIM, BW, ABAP, SRM, IS Oil area. Responsibilities included delivery management, resourcing, financial tracking and reporting activities.

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Environment: Version 4.6, 4.6B, 4.6C,4.7,4.7C

Responsibilities:

• Provide high-level functional consultancy for SAP FICO(AP/AR/GL/Bank/AA/ Product Costing/CCA/PCA/IO/COPA) to customers across the globe using different SAP versions((Version 4.6,4.6B,4.6C,4.7,4.7C) by delivering customer-specific or SAP standard corrections
• Owner of the FI-GL-GL-X component in SAP Labs and primary responsible to solve issues in this component
• Classify the issues reported by customer as ‘Remote Consulting’ and thereby provide billable services
• Create Notes (standard and pilot) and corrective measures for solving issues
• Manage and contain secondary level customer escalations for the FI module