CAREER SUMMARY

• Extensive experience with preparing, presenting discussing and implementing Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 projects proposal with ELG (Executive Leadership Group)
• Platinum level consultant with multiple performance award
• Experience with managing SAP project through all stages including business development, project estimating, requirements determination and documentation, gap analysis, business process reengineering, issue resolution, configuration, custom code specifications, training, go-live assistance and post implementation support.
• Monitoring project progress, plan and budget as per the project plan using SharePoint, status meetings and briefing the executives with project progress
• Extensive experience with preparing project proposals, timeline and budget estimation and staffing plans.
• Motivating the team to achieve project goals and partnering with business to achieve business goals
• Received "Best employee of the company award"
• Over 14 years of experience including 10 years in SAP FICO and 4 years of Functional experience
• Recent work position held is SAP Finance Lead Architect Consultant
• Worked with senior management such as CFO, CIO, Group Controller, International VPs
• Worked in multiple industries such as manufacturing, logistic, service etc.
• Strong foundation in Financial and Management Accounting and various pronouncements such as IFRS, US GAAP
• Serving as SAP Financial Applications Architect for last 3 years for a fortune 500 company
• Experience of end-to-end implementation, ECC 6.0 Upgrade, SAP roll-out in Europe, Asia Pacific countries
• Implementation and customization of the Product Costing (MTO and MTS), CO-PA, Spl Ledger and PCA modules including architect, design and implementation of MIS reports using Report Writer and Painter.
• Implementing CO-PA Planning framework as per the client' s requirements (Product, Customer and Sale office).
• Configured the assessment cycle for ensuring the marketing cost transfer to CO-PA.
• Setting up Profitability analysis structure and CO-PA Actual value flow as per the requirement to get profitability at various segment levels and also facilitate to get various Contribution/profitability reports.
• Implementing SAP enhancement solution for Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) - an intelligent way to save duty and reduce working capital
• Country specific experience including Australia, USA, China, Singapore, Europe and India.

SAP FI/CO STRENTHS

Finance: General Ledger (FI-GL), New General Ledger, (FI-NGL) Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Automatic payment program, Electronic and Manual Bank Statements, Fixed Asset (FI-FA), Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SPL), Consolidation (ECC EC-CS),
Controlling: Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders (CO-IO), Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC), Cost Object Controlling (CO-OBC) Profitability analysis (CO-COPA),
Others: Report Painter, Validation/Substitutions, SAP Queries, SAP BIW, Knowledge of SAP BPC, SAP FS-CM

EDUCATION

Chartered Accountant
Masters in Commerce
Bachelors in commerce

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Confidential, (Nov 2011- Till date)
Role- SAP Finance Lead Architect
Module worked on- AM, GL, AR, AP, PC, PA, CC, PC, COPA

• Full cycle Implementation of SAP for Asian country (Korea and Malaysia)
• Designing and Implementation of automated customer rebate process
• Articulating and implementing new current margin reporting model with objective to avoid currency fluctuation
• Designing ' Dual-dual billing' solutions with a great cost saving potential using EDI/IDoc
• Fixed assets HFM migration
• Implementing Collective order process to simplify production order process
• Designing and implementing interface with Concur system
• Designing and Implementing Deferred transfer price mark up process
• Implementing Excise tax solution and reporting
• Articulating Simplified solutions for Intercompany invoicing process using BAPIs.

Confidential, (Jan 2011-Oct 2011)
Role-SAP Team Lead Consultant

• Reviewing and discussing Business Requirement Document with Core business team
• Preparing various gap analysis and address various business concerns
• Articulating solutions for various business requirements
• Preparing Solution Design document and functional specification.
• Work closely with programming team to review and implement complex programming change
• Configure, Implement and monitor the solutions delivery
• Closely working with Supply chain, Finance team to discuss various business issues, requirements and address them
• Delivering the challenging assignment within the project timeline
• Implementing Business critical Interface between Legal system and SAP application
• Solution delivery for various ReadSoft Invoice cockpit enhancement project
• Business reengineering for global PR to PO conversion process and enhancement for critical data interface

Confidential, (Dec2007- Dec 2010)
Role- SAP Finance Lead Architect
Module worked on- AM, GL, AR, AP, PC, PA, CC, PC, COPA

Critical solution delivered

• Global Integration of 3 companies
• Global free goods accounting process
• Articulating and implementing projects following aggressive timelines
• Free trade Zone solution
• PPV FX and Hedging strategies
• Revenue recognition process
• Drop shipment
• Mergers and subsequent revaluation of global assets
• Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0
• Business reengineering for Product costing and Cost center accounting
• Business reengineering for free goods and supplemental sales process
• Building consolidation through EC-CS and interfaces with Hyperion for group consolidation
• Preparation of Global business template of company and responsible for all implementing this Global template
• Executing Integration project as per Hive-up agreement
• Analysis, configuration and testing of various sub module of Finance and Controlling for new Entity Integrated on SAP, develop interfaces with non ERP systems
• Heavily interacting with Global top management such as CFO' s, CIO' s, VPs for project briefing, solution designing and approvals
• Manage onsite-offshore support team to make sure support issues are addressed in most efficient manner
• Process reengineering in the areas of Product Costing to bring in more visibility in Scrap and variance reporting
• Create special report painter reports to give snap-shot of production order variances, scraps, work in progress, implementing Inbound I-doc for drop shipment
• Implementing solution for "Goods Issued/ Un-invoiced (GI/UI)" Material for drop shipment and Stock Transfer Order (STO)
• Implementing Free goods Accounting to reflect better visibility on margin and bringing accountability to salesman using various user exits
• Intercompany Transfer Price mark up rectification and accounting from tax, audit and business perspective
• Implementing solution for Asset Revaluation and Business Purchase Accounting due to business take-over
• Implementing process changes for Supplemental Sales and supporting changes on business critical "Current margin report"
• Architecting a solution to consolidate and prepare profitability statement with various business units by bringing Trading Partner visibility in drop shipment processes
• Identification of data conversions, testing and preparing LSMW for data transfer
• Preparation of Functional area wise profitability statement and implementing functional area changes so as to support Hyperion consolidation requirement
• Training to end users on all implemented modules, support day to day operations

Confidential, (Aug 2007- Dec 2007)
Role- FICO Team Lead

• Impact analysis to re-enable business package with ECC 6.0
• Finding suitability of new reports as a substitute for various Z reports
• Details upgrade assessment of various areas of FI-CO module using Optimizer, Project scoping, Blue printing and project plan preparation
• Listing core business processes, programs, user exits which are affected by upgrade, listing their complexity and developing strategy to overcome various upgrade issues affecting existing business processes
• Working on low hanging fruits as a benefit of upgrade and developing a strategy for functional upgrade.
• Risk assessment for various business processes to upgrade
• Preparing upgrade testing plan based on criticality of business processes
• Testing various business scenarios in upgrade environment
• Coordinating with ABAP development team in order to modify some of the Z-programs to be compatible with ECC 6.0
• Maintaining additional configuration setting to support existing functionality in ECC 6.0 especially in the area on Asset Accounting.

Confidential, China and Singapore (Oct 2006- Aug 2007)
Role- FICO Project Manager

• Compliance to Legal requirement for material valuation by configuring FIFO valuation process
• Parallel depreciation process and accounting for US GAAP and Local STAT
• Global roll out of China and Singapore business as per Global model and ensuring regional legal and business requirement are met.
• Participating in Business process discussion workshop, preparing Business blue prints, gap analysis and strategies to address gaps
• Setting up data conversion rules, migration strategies, data upload LSMW programs, cut over and uploading opening balances and open items for General Ledger, customer and vendors Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Fixed Assets, COPA
• Providing functional specification and coordination with ABAP team for business critical objects, data conversion, Interfaces with various third party tool/ software
• Implementing FIFO valuation processes and reporting for balance sheet valuation as per Singapore STAT
• Implementing Fixed assets solution to take care of US GAAP and Local STAT depreciation, configuring special depreciation key as per Local GAAP
• Creating Financial Statement Version as per Local STAT
• Setting up non leading New GL ledger so as to support Local statutory requirements
• Supporting FI team in understanding Global template and setting up General Ledger, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Assessment distribution cycles, Product costing and COPA reports

Confidential, (Oct 2005- Sep 2006)
Role- FICO Lead Consultant

• Creating a ABAP program for Finding actual cost without activating Material Ledger and corresponding stock adjustment reports
• Preparing statutory compliances for depreciation, difference in fiscal year, VAT and Excise reporting
• Responsible for AS-IS and TO-BE process mapping, Blueprinting and GAP analysis
• Lead SAP scoping, configuration, testing in of General Ledger, Account Receivable, Account Payable, Special Purpose Ledger, Asset Accounting, Cost center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing- Make to stock, Make to order, rework, Subcontracting, Profitability Analysis, Internal orders, Cost Object Controlling.
• Collaborated with other team mates for Integration with other modules such as order-to-cash (SD-OTC), Procure-to-Pay (MM-PTP), Make-to-order production (PP-MTO), Make-to-stock (PP-MTS)
• Compliances to reporting requirement of US GAP and Indian STAT which has different fiscal year requirement
• Implementing Manual bank statement so as to facilitate bank reconciliation
• Lead cut-over activities, opening balance uploads, set up assessment, distribution cycles
• Developed Material valuation report to give actual cost of material and revaluated stock based on actual cost, special financial statements
• Configuring, testing and developing various VAT and Excise tax report to comply statutory and legal requirements
• Involved in implementation and customization of the CO module including Product costing (MTO and MTS) and preparing the MIS Reports.
• Total integration of Controlling with Finance, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, and Human Resource modules.
• Calculation of Activity Prices for various Activities used in Production Processing for the both Companies AFIL and SADIP.

Confidential, South Africa (Dec 2004- Sep 2005)
Role- FICO Principal Consultant

• Implementation cum roll out of a SAP 4.6C project in just 4 months
• Development of Contract Margin Report (CMR) using PS Module
• Reviewed the Global template, business processes and implementing them along with local legal and business requirements
• Responsible for data migration, cut over, Configuration, post Go-live support and knowledge- transfer
• Providing Functional specifications (including configuration and test plan) and related work requests such as Reporting, Data conversion, Integration, Enhancements, Issue resolution and process design
• Involved in maintaining the jobs, scheduling and monitoring the progress
• Configuring cost center Accounting, Distribution, Assessment cycle, settlement to COPA
• Cost center planning template creation and plan and actual template allocations.
• Working on reporting system to reconcile numbers between COPA and Financial Accounts
• Worked with Internal orders, Statistical Key Figure (SKF), WBS elements and settlements
• Involved in the various phases of functional testing of master data and business processes

Confidential, Australia (Sep 2004- Dec 2004)
Role- FICO Senior Consultant

• Attaining Business Process discussion workshop and documenting Business Process and Procedure (BPP) and GAP analysis
• Configuring a new enterprise structure as per Global template and Local business and legal requirements for all Finance modules.
• Configuring Consolidation of New-Zealand Ledger in Australian company code
• Configuring Automatic payment program and House bank settings
• Documenting functional requirement and working closely with ABAP team for business critical objects such as EFT remittance program
• Configuration of GST as per the requirement of Australia and New-Zealand taxation laws.
• Configuration of Asset pool as per the Income Tax regulation of Australia and New-Zealand
• Responsible for uploading legacy assets to SAP, depreciation settings and Key and corresponding postings in Finance and controlling
• Documenting functional requirement for Purchase and sales register to address various VAT requirements
• Testing critical Integration area of FI with other modules such as SD, MM, EC-PCA, CO-PA, and PP

Controlling

• Worked in co-ordination with Production planning team for structuring product costing process and master data such as material master, Bill of Material, Work Center and working closely for costing run, cost roll-up
• Working on calculation of Overheads, Variances and Settlement process for the production orders.
• Working on integration of Controlling with Finance, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, modules.
• Developing some of COPA report along with creation of value field and characteristic.
• Reconciliation between Profit shown by COPA and Financial Account.
• User training on using COPA reports.

Confidential, (November 2001- July 2004)
Role- FICO Consultant

• Enterprise structure configuration with parallel currencies,
• Payment processing and bank interface
• Assets configuration with US GAAP as well as India GAAP requirements
• Bills of Exchange set up and down payment
• Developing report painter report for MIS reporting
• Cost centers, profit centers, Internal orders, WBS

Confidential, (July 1999- October 2001)
Role- FICO Consultant

• Preparing Business Blue Print, Conducted work shops, studies, inquiries to understand the existing business process by interacting with employees at all levels and documented the business process, process flows and GAP analysis.
• Matching the existing business process of Hi-tech with SAP' s Best Business Practices and identifying gaps and deviations
• Held discussions to overcome the gaps to fit the existing system into SAP business process.
• System configuration and testing specifically in the areas of
• FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, inter-company,
  AP-customer transactions, Clearing Inter-Branch Vendor/Customer Open Items,
  AR-customer transactions, credit management, payment terms, Cash application,

FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE in Finance and Accounting

May 1998-June 1999: Manager- Finance and Accounts with Confidential

• Managed accounting process for Sales function along with Excise and Sales Tax
• Monitored compliance of Quality Standards and documentation required as per QS-9000 systems in accordance with ISO-9001.
• Worked on Commission and Incentives for the eligible sales force.
• Preparation of Flash Report - a concise summary of monthly Sales, Purchases, Outstanding Debtors & Creditors, and Closing Stock for the month, Ageing summary of the debtors outstanding, discounts to be given to dealers as per eligibility, etc.
• Preparation of Monthly Contribution Analysis Statement - a detailed summary of monthly transactions, structured to give an in-depth knowledge of the entire functioning of the company, thru' various schedules and to frame out the Branch Profitability.
• Preparation of Budget - Monthly and Yearly following Zero-base budgeting phenomenon.
• Monitoring of compliance of Budgeted Vs Actual, Analysis of Deviations, if any, and the causes for deviation

July 1994 - April 1998: Accounts and Audit Specialist with Confidential,

• Handling various internal, management and operational audits of various big companies and financial institution
• Managing various project finance work
• Maintenance of computerized books of accounts for private limited companies, firms and preparing various MIS statements
• Monitoring various Income tax and sales tax assignment