SUMMARY

• Dynamic, self - driven and result oriented professional with overall 11.5 years of SAP experience primarily into SAP FI/CO Implementation and BAU projects across Retail and Manufacturing customers globally.
• Led 3 full cycle Transformation Projects across Finance, Travel Expense, Payroll and Supply Chain for a Discrete Manufacturing client at onsite across scoping and planning, requirement gathering, process design, configuration & build, testing, Cutover/Go-live and Post Go-live Support.
• Extensive experience in High Level & Detail Design process and creating Design documents, Functional specifications, Business process flow and Business user training documents.
• Over 7 years of SAP BAU support experience for one of the Fortune 100 Global Apparel company with one of the most complex and evolving IT landscapes providing L2/L3 business support for SAP & Non-SAP Finance applications with a good understanding of working on service requests, IT incidents, problem tickets as well as working and coordinating with cross functional SD, MM, Basis, Technical and BI Teams.
• Delivered internal training to a batch of 15 aspiring SAP FICO functional consultants on SAP FICO basics and Introduction to New GL concepts.
• Project management experience as Onsite Project manager cum Scrum Master for build & deploy for a multi-country Supply chain Transformation leveraging SAP APO Solution.
• Proven experience in working as an onsite lead managing team member’s across different time zones, leading SIT and UAT as test manager, making cutover plans and liaising with various teams as a cut-over manager.
• Extensive experience in change management and release management process with hands on experience with SOLMAN applications
• Techno-functional consultant and a trained ABAP-er with good technical understanding.
• Strong team orientation & leadership qualities, hardworking and enthusiastic.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.
• SAP Certified in integrated business processes (financials and management accounting, HCM, Purchase to Pay, warehouse management, plan to produce, order to cash, project system, enterprise asset management) in S/4 HANA (1809)
• SAP Certified in SAP Activate Project Manager
• Extensive expertise into SAP ECC solution for various Financial and controlling processes - GL, AR, AP, Banking & treasury, EBS, Profitability Analysis (COPA), Profit center accounting, cost center accounting, Asset Accounting, Period End closing etc.
• Trained in ABAP and have hands on knowledge on debugging custom codes.
• Demonstrated experience in using SOLMAN system for deploying codes and configurations.
• Worked across waterfall as well as Agile mode of project delivery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead SAP FICO Consultant and Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with clients to understand their business requirements and design solutions that meet their unique needs.
• Develop and maintain SAP architecture design principles, guidelines, and standards.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop project plans and ensure timely delivery of project deliverables.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
• Ensure that all solutions are thoroughly tested and meet the highest level of quality.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and engaged throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide post-implementation support to ensure the smooth transition of solutions to the operations team.

Confidential

Lead SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage and implement any system upgrades or regular product updates within the SAP FICO environment. This includes identifying new functionality, ensuring no impact to existing solutions and appropriate communications.
• Implemented and Co-ordinated Dunning Letters and Correspondence letters implementation.
• Implemented FSCM Credit management enhancements.
• Participate in project activity across the Finance function. Shape discussions with project members to define best practice approaches to new applications, master data and system design to get the most out of new and existing capabilities.
• Work with the Architecture function and Senior Technical Analysts when opportunities for system changes will result in less user issues. Specify and scope detailed changes that are necessary to support these outcomes.
• Address issues raised by users in a timely manner based on priority. Propose and implement system enhancements that provide benefits in enabling current and future business processes. Ensures all functional and technical changes comply with quality standards, documentation requirements and knowledge transfer.
• Ensure that the function’s short and long-term activities comply with the company policy and do not endanger or harm employees, customers, the environment or the community through personal leadership on safety issues within the IT team.
• Administration of the Support Function. This includes, but is not restricted to, activities such as change control, system calendar updates, documentation of system enhancements, monitoring of system health, managing inbound tickets, etc.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating project plans in Microsoft project software and monitoring the activities throughout the project.
• Participated into knowledge transition from the incumbent design vendor for the build and deploy.
• Lead Fit-gap sessions from onsite and solutioning for incomplete/open designs for Safety Stock, transportation lanes, CONA process, TLB process, CVC builder etc.
• Preparing weekly status reports and presenting to internal and client stakeholders highlighting the project status, key risks/issues.
• Effective client stakeholder management and facilitating solution workshops and replays, key user training plans & Kick-off and support for the Change Management communications.
• Coordinate system unit testing, training, user acceptance testing of solutions and Post Go-Live support.
• Conducting users training and train-the-trainer training with SMEs of respective solutions.
• As a cutover manager, managed detailed cutover planning with multiple vendors along with leading release management activity and attending TAB/CAB calls.
• Kick started the change requests within the project and supported knowledge transition to the BAU team and kick off the project handovers with all the deliverables.
• Have been a strong team player in bridging and coordinating client expectations, escalations to the offshore team of 20 and vice versa.

Confidential

Lead SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead 2 end to end Integration implementation projects with third party systems.
• Gathering business requirements and translating them into SAP configurational requirements for the Mobile Expense System and ADP Payroll Integration with SAP ECC system for Financial Master Data Sync and expense/payroll processing.
• Detailed design for the GL, Cost Center, and Journal Postings Interface including business rules for transformation and SAP PI led integration
• Building inbound and outbound Interface with SAP FI/CO ECC and third-party system (Mobile & Expense system).
• Building inbound and outbound payroll Interface with SAP FI/CO ECC and third-party system (Automatic Data processing system).
• Detailed System testing and End to End System integration testing for both the projects coordinating with business, upstream IT teams and Technical Team (ABAP/SAP PI)
• Supporting Business with Users Acceptance Testing and defect resolution to ensure on time completion of UAT.
• Cutover planning, go-Live, cutover activities and post go-live support for both the interfaces.

Confidential

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements and translating them into SAP FICO solution as a part of global template roll out of parent company.
• Lead the end-to-end implementation of realigning the Intercompany process to adhere to the Parent company process and reporting.
• Configuring Transfer Pricing Scenarios for Intercompany Orders and Interfaces for imports including master data set-up and financial postings
• Supported fiscal Year Change to align with the Parent company along with mock runs and necessary cutover
• Supported re-alignment of company codes and supported Chart of Account consolidation and valuation-class change for the raw materials to align to the new CoA.
• Detailed System testing and End to End System integration testing for all the scenarios.
• Supporting Business with Users Acceptance Testing in HPQC system and stitching UAT scripts
• Ensuring all the codes and configuration are deployment ready and are through change management process and release management process.
• Extensive Cutover planning with 200+ steps and preparing for go-Live, cutover activities and post go-live support.

Confidential - Beaverton, Oregon

SAP FICO L2 Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Co-work with Client solution Delivery team for issues involving complex business scenarios.
• Advise on best practices in SAP solutions.
• Actively contributing to innovations initiatives like automation which resulted in quick resolutions of issues and reductions in man hours and costs.
• Doing the Bug fixes, Configurations and minor/major enhancements escalated by L3 team by following the complete test cycle and Change management process via SOLMAN (CHARM).
• Working on cross module (SD, MM, IM, PP etc) integration change requests.
• Writing functional specifications for the enhancements and assisting the technical team in writing technical specifications and testing the programs built by them.
• Provide application crisis management support to restore key business applications when required, working with key stakeholders as required.
• Work with developers and external vendors to provide effective and efficient solutions to meet the business needs.
• Ensure development lifecycle and controls processes are followed and make improvements to increase efficiencies.
• Detailed System testing and End to End System integration testing for all the scenarios.
• Supporting Business with Users Acceptance Testing.
• Inputs for Cutover planning and preparing for go-Live, cutover activities and post go-live support.

Confidential - Beaverton, Oregon

SAP FICO L1 Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysing complex and high impact SAP Issues - Service requests, Problem Tickets, Incidents, Change Requests
• Trouble shoot and analyze issues escalated to L2 team and resolve them within the stringent SLAs
• Working on recurring issues via problem management tickets, for a permanent resolution.
• Critical period end support activity.
• Work with Technical teams (ABAP/Integration) for deeper analysis and test cases for quick issue resolution.
• Regular Business communications for updates on critical issues and weekly/monthly meetings on the progress and roadblocks.