SUMMARY:

• A multi - skilled SAP FICO & TR professional with 12+ years of SAP Functional expertise in end to end implementation, rollout, enhancement, support and upgrade projects. Very capable with an ability to identify and then deal with a business needs by translating them into appropriate configuration and design solutions. Experienced in providing motivation, guidance and up to date SAP consultancy service to colleagues, client & business users. Skilled in leading, coordinating, negotiating and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables. Strong SAP consulting experienced in Media & Entertainment, Oil & Gas, Power, Manufacturing, Retail and Pharmaceutical industries.
• SAP functional experience with the following modules: FI, CO, TM, IHC, TR, PS, IM, EC-CS, BPC
• Strong implementation, configuration, functional and technical experience.
• Experience in working with ABAP, BW and other technical teams
• Experience of interfacing with external systems & performance optimization.
• Able to manage escalations, issues and risks
• Experience in managing project using of ASAP, Scrum & Agile project methodologies
• Experience in managing project scopes, budget schedule and risk on the projects.
• Ability to multi-task effectively in a fast paced environments

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

PRINCIPAL SAP FI/CO & FSCM CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Presented SAP FSCM (IHC & BCM Module), demonstrated its concepts and use in helping the business understand functional requirements and achieving a solution of centralized and efficient treasury operation
• Led design and solution meetings with Treasury & AP dept. as SAP subject matter expert to define technical and business requirements/scope in ensuring schedules are met.
• Served as expert and best-practices consultant to review current regional payments and invoicing solution to help resolve critical issues with SAP and its bank interface and designing a solution for payments.
• Designed and configured OpBo (Payment on Behalf) solution that complies with best practices to centralized payments and inter-company settlements between OpCos and head office by connecting multiple SAP instances using SAP IHC and ALE configuration.
• Configured SAP BCM batching solution along with multiple steps WF approval to TR for sending payments to bank to reduce the operation risk.
• Designed and configured EBS dashboard in BCM to monitor all incoming bank statements & errors
• Designed and wrote detailed specs for customized ABAP program to automate SAP - F110 transactions (payment) with flexibility to allow business to control the schedule, time & day of the execution without IT involvement

Confidential

PRINCIPAL SAP FI/CO & BPC CONSULTANT.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collecting business requirements, design, customization & configuration of various areas of IMG activities including: Master data, NEW G/L (Multiple ledger, document splitting), AP, AR, Banking, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Cost Center, Profit Center and Internal Orders.
• Implemented banking (APP, LX & EBS) with partner bank Confidential using EDI-IDOCs & BAI2
• Extensively worked on custom RICEFW objects.
• Prepared detailed functional design documents for RICEFW objects and provided necessary assistance to technical team during BUILD phase.
• Designed custom solution to manage interface errors by introducing error suspense line functionality and 950 line split on interface JV’s. Built customer reports and transactions to allow users to correct the errors hazel free without compromising compliance & audit requirements
• Responsible for managing and coordinating ABAP development works with offshore team for the entire project.
• Developed Actual, Forecast and Rollover comparison reports in BPC 10.0 using EPM formulas.

Confidential

SAP SOLUTION ARCHITECT & SR. PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Replaced old SUNGARD Payment system with SAP by implementing PMW and APP with partner bank JP Morgan.
• Reduced the transaction cost by optimize the EU payment process using payment grouping function.
• Improved the % of overall EBS clearing success rate by reconfiguring and adding more search stings
• Implemented custom user exit to handle cross company code lockbox clrg by adding multiple search rule to find an invoice.
• Enhanced existing park & post Inter Co Journal by incorporating additional workflow notification for journal approval.
• Activated inter co transactions for fixed assets by adding transfer variant, new TType etc..
• Implemented additional custom code blocks to support corporate reporting requirements and also activated new attributes for media hierarchy (MPM)
• Designed RF Report (Roll forward Reports) to meet Confidential corporate requirements using consolidation and Assets TType and rolling over the balance in FAGLFLEXT (SUMMARY TABLE)
• Extensively worked on custom RICEFW objects
• Responsible for entire enhancement bundle delivery, managed cost, scope and all other deliverables for the project.
• Responsible for managing P2P, R2R, OTC and ABAP team members.
• Responsible for managing growth opportunities and new initiatives with client and other media houses.
• Worked with sales team to provide solution, budget and timelines on RFP’s.
• Lead technical discuss with new clients and provide necessary technical assistances to sales team to win the deals.
• Lookout for new opportunities to increase TOP line of the company.

Confidential

SAP SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Participated in fitment study of current SAP landscape, business process improvements to SAP S/4 Hana - Simplified Financials.
• Worked on consulting assignment to provide alternative and standard solutions on high maintenance custom objects
• Provided solution to optimize EBS process by eliminating custom development by using standard SAP search string & substitution function to hit the minimum 60% success rate in clearing transactions automatically.
• Provided insight on business benefits of SAP eBAM (Electronic Bank Account Management) to meet FBAR reporting
• Provided suggestions to improve visibility of cash flow position by helping them to track the transaction using cash management and liquidity forecast tool under S/4 HANA.

Confidential

SAP SOLUTION ARCHITECT & SR. PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling IMG configuration in areas of SAP FI/CO, providing solution on complex business scenarios, ensuring completing all the deliverables within time and quality
• Designed and developed complex interfaces between two different SAP systems using EDI and flat file to book Purchase, Sales and Collection entries
• Designed an automatic reconciliation process to tie the balance between NBCU monthly statements at title level.
• Strategically led and balanced workload, monitor and control implementation timelines, UAT test and ensure quality deliverables
• Handled client communication, escalation & issue management through periodic project and steering committee meetings
• Established project and milestone success criteria. Accountable for completing projects within budget and achieve targeted profitability

Confidential

LEAD SAP FINANCE CONSULATNT & SR. PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collecting and analyzing the business requirements for the solutions design and translated them to detailed functional specifications for configuration and development of RICEFW objects
• Handled customizing and configuration of various areas of IMG activities includes, FI, CO, Banking, PS, IM, Integration with MM
• Implemented Vertex and Sabrix add-on for tax calculation
• Designed and developed very complex interfaces between multiple distributors and heritage systems
• Responsible for ensuring completing all the deliverables within time and quality
• Handled client communications, escalation & Issues through periodic project and steering committee meetings
• Establish project and milestone success criteria
• Accountable for completing projects within budget and achieve targeted profitability
• Strategically led and balanced workload, monitor and control implementation timelines, UAT test and ensure quality deliverables.
• Tracked project timeline, verified project compliance and quality assurance with project design, and provided closeout of all project work & action items
• Responsible for providing updates and status to client for the project and resources deployed on the project.

Confidential

LEAD SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Backbone Implementation was carried out in two refineries (Paulsboro and Delaware Refinery) for supporting acquisition deal between TESORO to PBF.
• Responsible for collecting and analyzing the business requirements for the solutions design and translated them to detailed functional specifications for configuration and development of RICEFW objects
• Handled customizing and configuration of various areas of IMG activities including: Master records, G/L AR/AP, House bank, Cash Journals, Extended Withholding Tax, Taxes on sales and purchases,, Basic setting of Controlling, Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting, business area, Internal Orders and integration with MM, IS/U (Billing), PM, PS, IM and SD.
• Provided innovate solution to handle automatic netting for crude oil purchase and sale of gas for client Morgan Stanly
• Played lead role in deploy end to end banking solution with partner bank WELLS FRAGO. Implemented automatic payment processing (APP), Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Lockbox processing, and cash management reporting in SAP.

Confidential

SR. SAP CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Involved in providing complete solution on setting up SAP organization structure for FI & CO
• Involved with design of profitability analysis-profitability accounting & accounting methods, actual posting, valuation using conditions and cost sheets & product cost estimates by defining forecast profiles
• Handled organization of standard planning layouts & procedure for defining planning layouts and product cost estimates
• Integrated planning in CO-PA, versions, layouts, and assignments to company codes for both local and global ledgers to tie cost center (CCA), profitability analysis (CO-PA),
• Management reporting requires CO-PA characteristic derivation of special fields to be added to current SAP structures. These new structures were used to upload or transfer historical & plan data, sales order, billing, and project settlement to generate report based on different pharmacy products

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO CONSULATNT & PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring system and analyzing problem tickets related to FI, AA, PS, IM CO, TM, TR, ECCS, SPL modules and providing satisfactory resolution to customer within time frame.
• Partner with business users for smooth month end close activities
• Responsible for creation and management of the work plan and resources for change request and problem tickets.
• Allocate all tasks; provide open communications and project status and progress for each project to stakeholders.
• Track project timeline, verify project compliance and quality assurance initiatives with project design, and provide closeout of all project work.
• Responsible for first level client escalation and SLA verification, ensuring risk, issues and actions are captured and reported to internal stakeholders and clients
• Other responsibility includes analyze customer's needs to propose solutions on critical change requests.
• Participating external audit such as IS0 9001 & 27001
• Resource management and resource planning for the upcoming work orders.
• Advice customers for process improvement and cost saving measures

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Provided solution for the complex business process like mixed costing, raw material cost estimate, scrap, Joint product costing
• Configured master data (BOM, Routing), costing variant, mix ratio, procurement alternatives to generate standard price based on material cost estimate w & w/o quantity structure including overhead cost sheets. Deployed unique solution to forecast 18 months standard price based on future demand, current price structure and projected cost saving % values on external material purchase and subcontracting discount using custom development.
• Designed complete cost allocation cycles to allocated secondary cost based on activity price and utilization percentage. Also setup multiple planning versions, material ledger and actual costing to calculate WIP and variance
• Worked on all custom RICEFW objects with technical team and designed all the Teradata reports

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client SME’s and business users to implement global template to Czech Republic across all departments, handled end to end project requirements including business requirements, Identifying gap configuration, customization and testing of PS, IM and AA module.
• Designed functional specification for transforming BW report to real time SAP R/3 reports using ABAP ALE Reports
• Created documents, provided end user, built KED (Known Error Database) documents for production support team

Confidential

SR. SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business leads and SME’s to collect the business requirements, Handled complete customizing and configuration of various areas of SAP TM module including, setting up of multiple travel schemas by country, multiple expense categories, deductions, localization, SAP TM and HR integration, SAP NetWaver configuration and ESS setup
• Integrated corporate credit card providers AMEX and BOC with travel expense
• Key functionality implemented includes multiple expense report (travel & non travel) submission, Automatic mileage and per dim calculation as per country specific rules and corporate policy. 25+ expense categories, breakdown of expense to more detail expense categories, automatic VAT calculation, integration with XI to load CC transactions, payment to employee expense using APP.
• Designed complete workflow solution for expense report approval along with proxy and substitute function.
• Designed complete custom solution to identify trips for audit based on key word and other rules.

Confidential

SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked on EUROPE and Latin America Rollout using GLOBAL template,
• Worked with Confidential SME’s to collect various business requirements to rollout SAP to EUROPE and Latin America.
• Handled customizing and configuration of various areas of IMG activities including: Master data, G/L AR, AP, Banking (APP & EBS), Extended Withholding Tax, VAT, Asset Accounting, Basic setting of Controlling, Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders and integration with MM
• Provided tailored solution on the local requirements without much compromising GLOBAL PROCESS and standardization
• Configured EC-CS and SPL for the new EUROPE and Latin America entity and also deployed country specific solutions to meet local statutory requirements for countries like ITALY, SPAIN, ISRAEL, BRAZIL etc.
• Configured DaRT (Data Retention Tool) to meet audit and statutory compliance

Confidential

SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Greenfield Implementation project using ASAP methodology involving all lifecycle phases business requirement gathering, build & development, testing (FAT, SIT & UAT), Cutover, GO LIVE, Post GO LIVE Support,, documentation, handover and KT
• Handled customizing and configuration of various areas of IMG activities including: master records, G/L AR/AP, House bank, Cash Journals, Extended Withholding Tax, Taxes on sales and purchases, Asset Accounting, Basic setting of Controlling, Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting, business area, Internal Orders and integration with MM, IS/U (Billing) and SD.
• Prepared detailed functional documents for custom RICEW objects and provided necessary assistance to technical team during BUILD phase.

Confidential

Associate Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed general accounting functions focused on reconciling account balances and preparing monthly, quarterly and annual reports summarizing and forecasting company business activities and financial position in areas of income, expenses & earnings.
• Handle bank relationship to monitor daily cash activities on various bank accounts of the company
• Prepared daily cash flow statement and forecast cash position on various accounts of the organization to determine overdraft requirements
• Handled taxation, yearend closing activities including balance confirmation and journal entry adjustments for close.
• Assisted in preparing necessary filling forms on monthly and quarterly basis with various government authorities
• Provided necessary support to auditors in audit work,