SUMMARY

• He has 21 years of professional experience, with 11 years in the SAP space as a consultant. His main focus is in the area of financial & managerial accounting as a functional and technical SME in Global Template Design.
• He has strong functional experience in project planning, design, blueprint, configuration, testing, cutover and go - live support, knowledge transfer, user training and providing production support. He has proven himself as technical problem solver and defect fixer of the last resort.
• Deep functional working knowledge in all key FICO modules like New and Classic GL, COPA, Cost Center accounting, Internal Order, Project systems, Asset Accounting, AP and AR, Banking including all key integration points with Production Planning, Material Management, Procurement and Sales & Distribution
• Modeling and developing BW reports in Bex Analyzer, outbound interface using open hub
• Vendor Invoice processing, three way match, Ariba- My Supply Cabinet integration, ERS process and Invoice processing through EDI 810 and 824
• Configuration of Lock box clearing and bank statement through EDI 820 and 823
• Configuration of Banking, Electronic Bank statement incoming and outgoing payments including positive pay, through EDI and Idocs
• Industry experience in Diversified Machinery, FMCG, Electronics
• Process experience in complex intercompany billing chains, revenue recognition with title Transfer, LIFO, R&D tax credit, Transfer Pricing
• Global currency design supporting consolidation and FASB52 foreign currency revaluation and FC translation for US GAAP
• Phased SAP roll-outs that require integration of SAP and legacy systems in transaction processing
• Extensive experience with Global SAP rollouts, coordinating teams located in various geographical areas
• Implementation experience in countries with high Legal & Regulatory complexity like Italy, Poland and Hungary
• Deep knowledge of multiple industry-specific business processes and good understanding of business unit’s specific function processes and challenges
• Set-up of Financial Shared Services Organizations as well as organizational change with ERP deployment to Shared Services
• SAP System landscape design, Solution manager design and strategy, Test strategy, process and technology.
• HP ALM (formerly Mercury Quality Center) for creating test sets, test lab and test scripts
• Experience as Financial liaison with offshore team in initial client AMS project
• Migration to ECC on HANA
• SAP S4HANA simple finance migration (Trained by SAP) detailed knowledge about Simple finance architecture
• Worked on proof of concept on SAP S4HANA Central Finance (configuration of General Ledger, Fixed Assets)
• Profit Center Reorganization tool
• Trained in SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA in Open SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Peoria, IL

SAP Finance- SME

Responsibilities:

• Presenting blue print in workshops and gap analysis for European deployments and prepare and for Major releases
• Configuration of company code, New GL, Validation and Substitution and enhancements
• Configuration of multiple currencies for leading and non-leading ledger
• Configuration of Bank accounts, Electronic bank statements
• Designed foreign currency revaluation for multiple currencies with multiple exchange rate types in leading and non-leading ledger
• Led special project for currency setting, currency revaluation and translation for local GAAP and US GAAP
• Configuration of Account based COPA, characteristics and derivation
• Developed BI reports for leading and non-leading ledger for building reports in BI for GL reports
• Built Profit center distribution and assessment for complex business unit reporting
• Successfully led profit center re-organization project
• Preparing functional specifications, Knowledge transfer documents and change impact documents
• Presenting, training for all new changes in major releases and deployments to large audiences from European and Asian countries
• Successfully led cutover for several deployments and major releases
• Configuration of new requirements, Unit testing, Integration testing, and defect resolution
• GL Integration with AR, AP sub modules with tax
• Responsible for Enhancement pack 6 and 7 and other upgrades
• Led OSS security and Hot notes proactive implementation project to complete back logs, defined project plan, time lines, testing and audit process for ongoing monthly maintenance
• TDMS refresh and setting up for clients for integration testing
• Successfully led from finance on- HANA Data base proof of concept and actual upgrade project, worked closely with SAP to identify errors, and fixing with OSS notes and went live without critical incidents
• Monitoring Issue / tickets related to GL, AP, AR Fixed assets and Banking
• Guiding support personal on resolution of the tickets in line with business process
• Monitoring incoming payments for Lockbox using EDI823, Electronic bank statement through EDI820 and Idoc processing, error handling
• Trained new off shore team on business process and SAP finance
• Mentoring finance support team
• Ensure tickets are resolved on time with right solution, root cause analysis
• Process improvement on ticket resolution and documentation
• SAP OSS security notes monthly maintenance

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP FICO consultant

Responsibilities:

• CO-Profitability Analysis: Configuring and Customizing Costing based CO-PA setting up of the operating concern, characteristics, and value fields, reset of billing type
• Mapped SD pricing condition to COPA value fields in details discussion with cross functional modules like FI, SD, MM and Product costing
• Integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Inventory movement related account, Billing and Revenue account determination
• Extensively worked on BI architecture for COPA CCA, reports, testing, training
• Responsible for period closing functions and post go-live support.
• Responsible for preparing test tree and updating test labs with results for scripts with multiple test scenarios and validating for Unit Testing, Integration Testing, UAT and volume testing through MQC ( Mercury Quality Center)
• Interfaces to external system to HFM, OFA and EPM: Responsible to build interfaces for consolidation system HFM and planning system EPM, built reconciliation reports between SAP, HFM and EPM
• Worked extensively with middle ware system(data stage- IBM Web Sphere) for building interface between SAP and legacy systems HFM, OFA and EPM
• Supported for Cadbury integration with Kraft business COPA, cost center, profit centers, and other CO master data
• Responsible for supporting Kraft Brazil rollout for controlling module

Confidential

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuring New General Ledger, Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments and preparation of Revenue Accounts and Assignment of GL accounts.
• Configuring project system including Investment management with project profile, budget profile, of Projects, WBS element, Validation and substitution for WBS Elements, Budget and Commitment management for capital projects
• Configuration of Chart of Depreciation, account determination, asset classes, Asset classes, screen layouts, Validation and substitution Account determination for multiple depreciation areas for global head office for global reporting,
• Configuration of depreciation keys including depreciation key for multiple
• Responsible for design and building asset accounting and project system reports in BW.
• Configuring House banks, Bank Reconciliation, Developing Velocity Pay(interface with bank) Statement Flow to transfer payment details file from payment program & DMEE to external system through XI interface
• Responsible for solution manager configuration team, setting up documentation process, software change management with SOX compliance
• Performing Unit-, Integration- and UAT testing during all phases of the project
• I was involved in post-production support to resolve day to day issues to make the whole system run effectively and also responsible for enhancement as and when needed.
• Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO
• Created various new (fixed asset) asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production
• Worked on configuring the necessary settings to transfer plan data from controlling components to Special Purpose Ledger and resolved issues
• Performed unit testing and regression testing for different accounts payable and accounts receivable functionalities
• Master Data Maintenance in PCA, which included set up of new, Profit centers
• Provided SAP FI/CO tuning and troubleshooting including the identification and resolution of performance related issues

Confidential

Accounting/ Finance

Responsibilities:

• Accounting of payroll, and monthly payroll activities, employee reimbursement & Vendor invoices, vendor accounts, generating weekly and on demand check payments
• Prepared and posted general ledger entries and other financial transactions
• Generated monthly close of financial statements
• Managed the internal and external mail functions

Confidential

Accounts executive

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and maintaining statutory books of accounts viz, journal, ledger, cash book and subsidiaries in compliance with time & accuracy norms
• Presenting a true and fair view of the financial position of the company by preparing financial statements viz, P&L Account, Balance Sheet and annual reports
• Maintaining reconciliation statement