OVERVIEW:

SAP Certified Senior Application Consultant Specializing in the SAP Finance, Controlling, Project System, Treasury, Investment and Funds Management, Asset Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting and FSCM Components. Most recent work includes Consulting, Testing, Training, and Project Management, with 10+ years of SAP End to End, Roll - Out, Acquisition and Merger Project Implementations, 4+ years of Application Support, Upgrade and Migration Projects Management. Worked extensively with Customers in Engineering, Energy, Construction, Services, Steel and Power, Oil and Gas, Telecom and Utility Industries.

SUMMARY:

• FI CO Integrations with MM, SD, PS, PA, PCA, PM, PP, FM and Intra Component, External Systems Integration for mapping and optimizing various Business Processes.
• Below are a few example Business that were successfully executed.
• Engineer to Order Product Life Cycle Management.
• Make to Order, make to Stock Production, Sales Order Related Production scenarios.
• Project Related Maintenance Scenarios.
• Sales related Projects with Cost, Revenue matching and managing rebill scenarios.
• Managing product warranties with Projects.
• Revenue Recognition for Sales Scenarios.
• Dual Client Solutions for Offshore Drilling Industry.
• Collection of Business Requirements, Design and Develop Proof of Concept with Business drivers, Conduct Requirements Workshops, Signoff POC with stakeholders.
• Develop detailed Functional Specifications, work with Technical Teams, Test and deploy the Object through Change Control Process.
• Develop Support Strategies, Training Plans, and User Training Documents/BPPs. Support Ticket Management. Review user support metrics periodically.

SAP KNOWLEDGE AREAS:

S/4HANA

Architecture

Migration

Financial Accounting Configuration

Management Accounting Configuration

Cash Management

Pre and Post Migration Activities

Revenue Recognition with IFRS 15 Accounting Standards

Lease Accounting with IFRS 16 Accounting Standards

Collaborate with Audit Teams for SOX Compliance

Solution Manager, ABAP, SRM and CRM processes and its interface with ECC

SAP PROJECT EXPERIENCE;

Confidential, Reno, NV

SAP Functional Architect

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements gathering for efficient standard SAP solutions.
• Conduct requirements workshops with business users and the leadership to appraise the SAP functionalities with business process scenarios.
• Develop sensible business use cases and validate with the process owners and signoff.
• Develop business process maps and map the process steps with relevant SAP transaction flow.
• Architect the solution options, and conduct the solution workshop with the business process owners and the business leadership for validation and signoff.
• Develop ASAP project plan with integrated synergies from relevant project management methodologies/techniques like Agile, Lean Six Sigma for the solutions implementation.
• Assemble the Business Blueprint with fit gap analysis for all the defined use cases and business process.
• Analyze the process gaps and develop an inventory of technical development objects.
• Develop RICEF objects inventory in collaboration with the technical and BI teams.
• Conduct Business Blueprint workshops, develop executive summaries, and complete the sign off from the leadership.
• Configure the approved SAP solutions and complete the unit and integration test activities.
• Develop the authorization strategy with business required roles in collaboration with the security team.
• Develop user acceptance and regression test scripts in consonance with configured SAP solution processes and transaction flow.
• Develop the data migration programs, data templates and validate the migration strategy.
• Develop cutover plan, conduct and complete the mock cutover.
• Conduct user acceptance tests with the process owners, key users, and obtain the leadership signoff.
• Complete the cutover activities for the planned go-live and get the opening data validated with the key users and the leadership for signoff.
• Develop and implement the post go-live support and complete the support activities.
• Integrations with BI, Clarity PPM and Concur T&E tools.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Setting up of new Company Codes with all required master data and configuration with respect to GL, AP, AR, AA, TR, CO, IM and PS
• Unit and Regression Tests for system integrity, User Acceptance Tests for Process and Stat compliances.
• Integration with Plant Maintenance and Materials Management.
• Support the interfaces between Finance and Operational Clients for seamless business functionality with required Variants and batch Jobs.
• Modification and Bug fix of Interfaces with new business process requirements
• Maintenance of mapping tables for the Dual Client Functionality.
• Support the Business for their Period end activities - Depreciation, Foreign Currency Valuation, Assessments, Distributions, IO and WBS element settlements.
• Ticket resolution and answering how-to questions. Responsible for detailed problem determination and undertaking configuration fixes, ABAP developments/ enhancements though user-exits.
• Co-ordination of problem tickets with offshore resources to ensure that the tickets are resolved within stipulated time frame.
• Ensuring that offshore team resources are properly loaded, help them in solving
• Support Finance Business through the maintenances of Master Data to support difference business processes - creation, change and blocking of GL Accounts, Cost Centers, and Profit Centers.
• Used third party tool - Confidential - to provide scripts for end users to undertake mass postings/ modifications/ reversals.
• Designed the Customer Re-Bill Process with AP and PS for greater visibility of Costs and related Revenues.
• Designed and developed an urgent controlled AP Invoice and Payment process through Screen Variants, Validation and Substitution steps and through scheduling of suitable background jobs.
• Conducted various business workshops for greater FI integration with other process to derive efficiencies across the company.
• Participated in TARS initiative by SAP for their maiden implementation at Paragon and contributed on integration points.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project Business Process Considerations
• Record to Report
• Procure to Pay
• Acquire to Retire
• Project to Decommission
• Hire to Retire with Workday Integration
• Business Process Analysis of Offshore and Onshore Operations
• Controlling Processes with respect to Cost Element Accounting, Profit Centers, Cost Centers and Profitability Analysis
• AR, AP and Asset Management of Group Companies across Divisions.
• Maintenance of SAP Financial Systems
• Month End, Quarterly and Year End Accounting Close Support.
• Support to System Upgrades, program Enhancements

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Project SAP Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project Business Process Considerations
• Record to Report
• Procure to Pay
• Project to Decommission
• Hire to Retire
• Business Process Analysis of Shipyards’
• Repair and Maintenance Service of vessels and equipment.
• Conduct workshops on validation of Business Process and SAP Solution Options.
• Collect and Document all Requirements of Shipyard’s Project Life Cycle.
• Demonstration of ‘Proof of Concept’ of various Business Processes with SAP Transactions.
• Business Blueprint development, and conduct Blueprint workshops with key stake users for approval with necessary integration inputs.
• Configuration of Project System Module for
• Planned Labor and Material Costs.
• Conduct Unit, Integration and Regression Testing.
• Conduct Super User Training.
• Final Adaption of the Project System and subsequent Go-Live Support.

Confidential

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business Process Mapping for Corporate, Service and Manufacture Divisions
• Workshops for SAP Solutions with Project System and Business Approval
• Develop Business Blueprint for Project System Designs related to Capital Projects, Engineer to Order Projects (ETO), Warranty Projects, Repair/Service Projects, other Order Related Manufacturing and Miscellaneous Projects.
• Write Functional Specifications for non-SAP Standard process mappings and management reporting.
• Prototyping and Configuration of SAP Solutions in the areas of SAP Project System, Controlling.
• Finalizing and Configuration of Integration Points with SD, FI, AA, IM, PP, CS, PM and other SAP Components.
• Develop Test Scripts based on the Configured SAP Solutions, Business User Roles and the Business Processes.
• Develop various Results Analysis Techniques and Methods suitable for the GE’s Parts and Services Business.
• Quality, Integration and Regression Testing of approved SAP Solutions for subsequent Production environment.
• Develop legacy data migration strategies and write programs for various master and transactional data.
• Training the Super Users for various Roles based Business Scenarios in SAP System.

Confidential

Project FICO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Business Blueprint for the merged New Company.
• Functional Specifications for the Interfaces.
• Process mapping the incoming company ( Confidential ) business processes.
• Requirements gathering and optimizing them for the merged New Company.
• Business cases for ‘Sunset’ various systems that interface the legacy ERP ‘PeopleSoft’.
• The following Financial and Controlling areas dealt while developing the Business Blueprint.
• Accounts Receivable management in SAP with interfacing multiple third party Telecommunication Industry specific billing systems.
• Accounts Payable management in SAP with interfacing multiple third party purchase systems.
• Tax management for the Purchases, Sales, Property and Corporate Income.
• International Accounting for the New Company overseas subsidiaries.
• Regulatory accounting that pertaining to the Telecommunications Industry.
• Treasury and Cash Accounting.
• Management of Inter-Company transactions.
• Period End and Reporting Process.
• Enterprise Controlling with Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting and Internal Reporting with Profitability Analysis.
• Functional Specifications for various Billing and Purchase Systems in the AR and AP areas.

Confidential

FI CO PS Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of Business Blueprint.
• Confidential Services Business Analysis.
• Business site visits and process understanding.
• Discussions with Business SMEs and Requirements Collection.
• Smart SAP Solution Design exploration.
• Conducting Requirements and Solution related workshops.
• Configure the system for Conference Room Pilot demos.
• Use of ASAP Methodology.
• Demo of Multiple Options of SAP Solutions.
• Integration with FI, AA, SD, MM, QM, CS.
• Master data, Project Templates design finalization.
• Documenting the business processes, Configuring Repair and Service Projects.
• Identifying the Gaps, and providing solutions for them.
• Project accounting and logistics execution method identification and taking the SMEs approval.
• Completing the phased Business Blue Printing.
• Proposing the Roles and Authorization Matrix.
• Configuration, Data Migration, SIT, UAT and Go-Live.

Confidential

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Processes and Business Blueprint documents and Relevant Configuration with respect to the division’s Business, Conducted Workshops/Meetings at various levels of the organization and Validated the Business Process.
• Worked on ETO, R&D, Investment/Capital and other internal settlement Projects with relevant Result Analysis and Settlements Profiles.
• Developed Business specific Project Templates.
• Project Accounting and Period End processes of various business units mapped to SAP Project Financials with multiple business specific Result Analysis Keys and settlement strategies.
• Supported the user team in understanding SAP PS processes in Logistics and Finance areas of the Business
• Coordinated the further Business requirements gathering
• Helped in preparation and smooth Conduct of User Acceptance tests.
• Conducted user training extensively.
• Finalized and Validated the PS Master Data.
• Associated with the business in system and business Cut-Over for Go-Live.
• Post ‘go-live’ support of PS Module.

Confidential

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Studied and Absorbed Client’s Business Processes specific to various divisions across the company’s operations.
• Configured SAP TR, PS with FM, IM, AA and PM modules for CRP Project to Final for the Departments of Confidential Petroleum.
• Developed Standard and Operative Project Templates Commensurate with the Business Requirement.
• Designed Transaction Manager, Project Budgeting Processes and Integrated with IM and AA modules.
• Designed Investment Program Structure, Appropriation Requests, integrate Project Codes and AR Codes, Approval Process workflow configuration.
• Managed all PM Maintenance Orders with PS with relevant Notifications.
• Setup FM area, Org FBS with Fund Center and Commitment Hierarchies as per Department Structure.
• Configured Asset under and Construction and integrate it with Project System module, Settle Projects to final assets through AuC.
• Conducted AS-IS and TO-BE Business process study and prepared GAP Analysis Document.
• Prepared Business Blue Print, Process Work Flow Documents, Configuration Rationale Documents, Test Scripts etc., and upload them in Solution Manager.
• Conducted the user acceptance tests, coordinated the data for upload from BP owners.
• Executed the Production System Cut-Over and associated with Production Business Cut-Over.
• Worked on Content development for various division specific modules, Conducted workshops and training sessions for Client’s Project Life Cycle in SAP.
• Solution the issues as per the approved Business blueprint and Support and Improve the SAP system.
• Integrated PS with MS-Project with Open PS.
• Worked closely with BSP developer for Project Stage gate approval application development, Integrating with Lotus Notes and testing
• Set up Budgeting Process, designed Cost Budget Profile as per the customer Budget and Costing Procedures.

Confidential

FICO Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed country specific requirements collection and architected the SAP solutions to the business processes that were to be mapped into SAP.
• Confirmed the solutions to the GE Global Roll-Out Templates.
• Configured the Auto-Generation of Projects from Sales Orders (Assembly Processing) for Country specific product lines and Developing the relevant ETO, other Order Related Projects and Service Projects.
• Configured Resource Related Billing (RRB) for the GE Service Contracts and worked with PM/CS Modules.
• Designed and configured company code specific Revenue Recognition, Result Analysis and Profitability Analysis.
• Defined and Set up of various Activity Types with respect to multiple Business Areas and Work Centers.
• Maintained Work Centers, Capacity Planning, Resource Planning and Leveling Strategies.
• Configured CATTs, to capture filed service engineer’s time and costs across the Company Codes.
• Set up Milestone Billing control from Projects, Revenue Planning and Sales Pricing for Customer Projects.
• Worked closely with MM, PP, PM/CS and SD Consultants for Various PS advanced functionalities and close Application Integration including BOM transfer, RRB and Rev Rec.
• Developed Standard and Operative Project templates, as most of the Sales managed as individual Projects.
• Performed cost planning at Network Level, developed various operative Networks specific to country.
• Set Up of Settlement Strategies and Configuration of Settlement Profiles.
• Worked closely with ABAP developers for e-mail Notifications, approval workflows and Reports development.
• Configured Project Procurement aspects and Management of Project Materials and intercompany issues.
• Configured ‘Project Delivery’ to SD for subsequent delivery to the customer.
• Worked closely with BW Team for the BW Project Implementation.
• Worked with cProjects and cFolders. CProjects Suite 3.1 used.
• Extensively worked on creating and editing the project structures, project resource planning, project versions and Multi-Project Management.
• Apt in Projects Accounting Integration, control planning, status management and status reporting, Project Result Analysis and Settlements.
• Familiar with project status management and Design Collaboration with cFolders.
• Proficient with cFolder Material and Bill of Material management, Data Sheets and Document Management.
• Also worked with cFolder Back end integration and Interfacing with Application Programming.
• Configured the Commitment Management.
• Developed onsite and Offshore user training, and content development
• Conducted Final pre-go-live Regression, Integration testing.
• Coordinated System and Business Cut-Over and Migrating the Projects from legacy systems.