PROFILE

• International Business Management - Diplom Finance post grad, experience over 14+ Yrs. withIT Business Systems and FINANCE/ACCTOUNTINGbusinesses, 10+ Yrs. (6+ full life cycle implementations, Tech Upgrades, Migrations and Production Support) in SAP.
• More than 10yrs. of Functional experiences in Finance Accounting,Managerial Accounting, and Financial Supply Chain Management. Hands on experience with multiple SAP implementations, multiple country deployment roll-outs as Lead SAP FICO Solutions Architect - Functional and IT Consultant with over 10 years of experience. Expertise as Subject Matter Expert in SAP re-engineering, Scoping,As-Is/To-be business processing, Blue printing, Technical Solution Design, Construction build,Baseline and Final Configurations, Systems Integration and User Acceptance Testing's, cut-over and go-live activities.
• Has the ability of independently configuring and customizing SAP FI & CO, together with a good working knowledge and experiences in other modules like Material Management, Sales and Distribution, Project Systems and knowledge of Workflow. Also possesses expertise in Business Process Analysis & Re-engineering, GAP Analysis, Business Management, Strategy formation and Configuration.
• Full Life Cycle implementation projects - Computer Associates Inc, Long Island NY,SES Americom, Princeton NJ and Hewlett-Packard Co, Houston TX. Technical Upgrade and Migration projects - Computer Associates and HP.
• Prolific experience in implementing, integrating, customizing and configuring SAP R/3,ECC : Classic and New General Ledger,Accts Payables, Accts Receivables, Investment Management, Asset Accounting, Banking, Treasury,Special Purpose Ledger, SD/MM/PS/IMIntegrations, Project Systems, Cost Center/Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing, Internal Orders, Governance Risks Compliance and SOX Internal Controls - Audit Compliance (Financial Risks and Securities)
• Performed FI and CO integrations with Sales & Distribution, Material Management and Project Systems.
• Involved with other streams: Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Lead to Quote,
  Professional Services/cProjects, Compliance, Security and Business Information Warehouse.Subject Matter Expert in To-be processing and Blue print documentation. Has the ability of independently configuring and customizing SAP FI & CO, together with good working knowledge and experience in other modules like MM, SD, PP, Project Systems & Plant Maintenance and knowledge of Workflow.
• Leadership role to plan, execute and lead day-to-day activities of clients ERP advisory engagements including process designs and implement.Identify and communicate findings to senior management and client personnel.Assess, develop functional design, technology controls and understand organizational impact throughout business cycle. Help identify performance improvements opportunities for clients. Supervise and provide performance management of business analysts and developers on assigned engagement projects.
• Excellent client interaction, strong ability and good communications skills to coordinate with on-shore/off-shore global business services (EMEA region), functional analysts (Americas) and technical (Asia-Pacific regions) teams.Responsibility for creating business requirements, translatingthem into IT designing solutions that improve efficiency and productivity. Effectively communicated business requirements, documented business/functional requirements, performed business process mapping, transformed functional specification to technical requirements, implementing, configurations, customizing the code, system integration testing's, user acceptance testing's, cut-over activities, go-live. Developed technical solution design and configuration documentations, business process procedures documentations and finally conducted trainings user trainings.As a part of highly talented team adapted designing and implementing technology-enabled business solutions for clients. Assist with scoping prospective engagements and developing proposals. Estimate and manage schedules, mitigate risks and resolve all the project issues.
• Resolved configuration and technical issues; Designed process definitions, Performed analysis/ design, and implementation. Provided gap analysis for business requirements and other issues that might affect the business units. Ensured a strong, team-oriented working relationship. Understand business strategies and our customer needs to insure innovative use of systems functionality and services. Responsible for tracking projects, services, related tasks and resources, and meeting required deadline, scope, quality and other measures of success.
• Defined SAP and interfacing systems architectures and their strategy, designed, prototyped and code developed with SAP and non-SAP systems interfaces.
• Lead SAP projects involving strategy, implementation support, ERP optimization related to IT operations and business processes. Lead SAP business process mappings.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Disciplined Agile, ASAP, Solution Manager methodologies of project management and preparations to identify business objectives to integrate industries, Training, FSD/BPP Documentations, SOX Compliance, Financial Risks and Security the go- live and Post Production support.
• Excellent Project Management, Program Management (PMO)/ Portfolio Management, SAP Technical Project Management, Technical Delivery Management, SQA/Process Management, Change Management, Risk/Compliance Management, Resource Management, Vendors Management, On-site/Off-shore Delivery Management, Client Relationship Management. Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes. Involved in developing RICEF - Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, and Forms. Develop Workflows.

EDUCATION and SKILLS

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

FI Module CO Module
FI-GL,FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-BL, FI-IM, \\FI-CA CO-CCA, CO-CEL, CO-IOM, \\
FI-AA\\FI-CA-JVA\\FS-CD and FS-RI\\Intrastat EC-PCA, CO-PC and CO-PA\\

SD & MM ModuleBanking
Pricing, Billing, Sales, LIV and Purchasing\\GTS BCA, CFM, FI-TR and FS-AM\\

ReportingSoftware Development Methodologies
BI/BW - FI/CO Reports, SEM-BCS, IP, \\ SDLC\\Agile\\ RUP\\ASAP and Solution Manager
BPS,Report Writer/Painter\\

ERPTax
SAP R/3, SAP ECC,People Soft, \\ SAP\\Vertex\\Sabrix\\Taxware
Outlook Soft, Axapta\\

SoftwareQualityRDBMS
Mercury Test Director \\ eCATT \\Unicenter \\ Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, IBM-DB2\\
Service Desk and Clarity Doc Management. \\
Erwin, Visio, SQL Enterprise Designer\\QC\\ALM

ProgrammingSAP Integration
ABAP/4\\BDCs, SAP Scripts, ALE, EDI, BAdi IDoc FICO integration MM, SD, PP, WM, PS
LSMW, User Exits, and BAPI\\XI\\PI CRM, SRM Portals

Tools
Ariba \\ GLSU \\SDLC \\ASAP \\ SAP GRC SOX - Audit \\GRC Suite 5.2 (Access Controls\\
Compliance (VIRSA Compliance Calibrator).\\ Virsa Compliance calibrator\\ Role Expert\\
Mercury Test Director, Unicenter Service Desk, \\Process Controls and Risk Management\\)
IBM Lotus Notes, Sametime and Quickr and \\ Management of Internal Controls and AIS.
Clarity Doc Management\\HP Quality Center \\ ALM \\ StarTeam \\ Together \\ RM Caliber.

Industries
Information Technology, Software, Telecommunication, Satellite, Aviation, Aerospace, Service, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Equipment's, Automotive, Logistics, Banking and Financial Services.

• MBA(Finance)- International Business and Management at FH University, Nuertingen, Germany.
• Bachelor of Engineering - Major in Computer Sciences and Electronics, OU, Hyderabad India
• Fluent in English and Intermediate level in Deutsch (German).

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Certified SAP FICO Solution Consultant - SAP AG,Walldorf, Germany
• Project Management - SDLC, Disciplined Agile, CAS and ATS
• PostGraduateProgram - InternationalSAP Consulting Certificate (FI/CO/SD/MM/ABAP)
  (Prof K. Fischer - Fachhochschule Nürtingen, Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg Germany)
• SDLC Phased Lifecycle - Introduction - Course 1 of 6
• SDLC Phased Lifecycle - Project Scoping Phase - Course 2 of 6
• SDLC Phased Lifecycle - Analysis Phase - Course 3 of 6
• SDLC Phased Lifecycle - Design Phase - Course 4 of 6
• SDLC Phased Lifecycle - Construct and Test Phase - Course 5 of 6
• SDLC Phased Lifecycle - Acceptance Test Phase - Course 6 of 6
• IT Application Transformation Overview 
• SDLC - Project Structure, Artifacts, and Deliverables Repository Manager
• SDLC Compliance Metrics Overview
• Disciplined Agile Introduction
• Introduction to Agile Using Scrum
• Disciplined Agile Summary
• HP IT Automated Testing Services Overview
• Input Validation and Output Encoding for Application Developers
• Session Management for Application Developers
• CAS Overview and Processing Patterns, CAS Batch, CAS Data

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE -

Confidential, Houston, TX Jan' 2010 - Till Date
Sr. SAP Lead Solutions Architect

Project 1: LUMENS EMEA FY10 PCC on gERP - Supply Chain IT (SCIT)/ Finance & Admin IT (FAIT)
Project 2: FY10 PSG - Tax Advantage Model on globalERP Velocity (SCIT) / LightHouse (FAIT)
Project 3: FY11 LH Migration Wave 1(gERPàLH1), Wave 2a (FI1àLH1) and Wave 2b (US1àLH1)
Project 4/5: FY11 GMO - Emerging Growth Markets - EMEA / Middle East, African Countries implementation
Project 6/7/8: FY12 GMO - Colombia / Vietnam / Indonesia Deployment

• Business Objectives, Implementation Planning - Automated capabilities on Velocity, SCIT/FAIT teams- planning and design. Consolidation Planning LaserJet PCC and WWMF into single gCM (Jabil). GL Master Data (Polaris), Vendor Master Data (SRS).GL10 Process.
• Lead the architectural design for the system (SAP and Non-SAP) to be in scope for country deployments. Designed global template for leveraging the processes, systems and integration. LH Migrations of 58+ company codes across 28 countries in AMS/EMEA/APJ regions.
• IMG Configuration of SAP Software 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 in the FI and CO modules which includes GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center Review all MDM, Enterprise structures. As FA-IT Architects/Leads conducted meetings with SC-IT Architects/Leads, GBS Architects/Leads related to the design issues of new company codes and retiring/migrated. Their impacts on LH1/FI1/US1 and LH systems. Associated with both Finance and Admin IT and Supply Chain IT integrations, configurations and testing's.
• Developed custom programs AP - Open Invoice, Open Purchase Orders, GR and migrate.
• SMART BUY (Ariba - External Procurement system), SWAN (External Non-PO and PO based Invoicing) are beings retired on velocity systems and move to LH1. Developed custom reports for Accounts payables as per the country requirements.VAT in LC project and tax advantage model projects.
• Banking- Bank Keys, Vendor Auto and Manual Payments. EBS and Lockbox (HPSB/B2B).Technical mappings Velocity (D7C) --> XIP -> LH1/FI1/US1, interfaces. PAYEXT/PAYMUL/EDI821 BAI/BAI2 - FINSTA files. Lockbox EDI820 format.
• ALE configurations ACC_DOCUMENT/FIDCC1/FIDCC2/INVOIC/CREMAS/PEXR2002/FINSTA).
• RFC configurations, Partner Profiles. Ports, Distribution model, Conversion rules.
• Mitigation of the issues and resolve the remediation's. Tax impacts with local currency and foreign currency. Conducted meetings to review, analyze and design Foreign Currency Revaluation in Velocity, FI1 and LH. Review again with SC-IT/GBS Architects.
• Sales and Purchase Tax Configurations, WHT configuration for all the NA/EMEA/APJ Countries.
• T-Square Architecture (External Tax Configurations - Sabrix/Vertex/Taxware).
• Design FAIT - Architectural review and review with SCIT. SCIT/FAIT Architectural review over the currency options. Business Areas. Inventory/Costing - Mat. Types, valuations classes and BOMs.
• Scope and Analyze GBS - EMEA VAT team discussions. EMEA VAT, Tax Advantage Flow (FGI), LIVA DC (No-Tax Advantage). Velocity / SAIL / FI1 flows. Velocity-FI1 Tax Code Mapping List. Accounts Payables- Recon Accts, Tolerance, GR/IR, Invoicing, payments. Intercompany - Company Code Setup, IC Customers, IC vendors, Purchasing/Acct Vendors. As-IS processes scoping and design To-Be processes. Review Tax procedures and tax codes in Velocity and FI1. GTS Intrastat reporting.
• Product Costing: SCIT- Material Ledger, Valuation Areas, Price Changes, Movement Types, OBYC settings. Define Material Cost Estimates (Costing Types, Val Variants, TS and CV), Define PC by Period/Order, valuation and costing type/variants,PC Collectors,WIP, RA versions, Actual Costs Valuation Methods. Define Posting rules for settling WIP, Variance Keys/Variants, Target Cost versions, Val Method, Line IDs Settlement Profile and PA transfer structures. Customization settings in OBYC.
• Intercompany system EIFFEL and eQuate flow to LH system. EDS and FUSION-EMEA/AMS - external accounting documents to LH system.
• Project Accounting - Project Builder, Networks and WBS. Result Analysis and Settlements.
• ES-IT and EB-IT Order Mgmt Systems with Sales, Pricing, Billing. SC-IT Ext and IC procurement systems cross-company purchasing, MM-Valuation and Acct Determinations..Supply Chain and Order Mgmt systems integration to LH acct system (SD/MM Integrations)
• Workflow: Setup Org hierarchy. Configure positions, users and assignment in partner profiles.
• Profitability Analysis: Characteristic derivation, configuring valuation strategies, Costing Sheets and Condition tables, deriving value flows from SD, MM and FI to COPA, assessment cycles for value flow from CO to COPA and customized various profitability reports.Transfer of Sales Order/Billing Docs, Maintain Versions. Define Structure of Cost Center Assessment/Process Cost Assessment. Maintain PA Transfer Structure for postings. Auto Acct Assignments. PA transfer structures, Settlement profiles.
• Fit Gap Analysis after blueprinting workshops which analyzed work processes, identified issues, assess risks and benefits and made recommendations for customization of software to create work flow efficiency.Troubleshooting FI and CO Module issues and utilized SAP Service Marketplace to resolve issues.Interface configurations from SMARTBUY/SWAN/EIFFEL/EQUATE à XI/PI à LH1.Interface from SAP and non-SAP systems to LH via XI/PI. Interfaces not via XI system but using direct ALE to LH system. Complex systems architectures with more than 150+ SAP and Non-SAP systems.

Environment:SAP 4.5b/SAP 4.7/SAP ECC 5.0/ SAPECC6.0 - FI-GL, FI-AM, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA and CO-PCA,CO-PA, CO-PC, SD-Billing, SD-Sales, SD-Pricing, MM-Purchasing, MM-LIV, ABAP, ALE, and SAP-XI/PI

Confidential, Princeton, NJ June' 08 - Aug'09
Sr. SAP Solutions Architect (FI/CO/SD/MM)
Confidential, is a leading provider of satellite communications solutions, with an extensive portfolio of satellite, broadcast, broadband and IP solutions.Responsibilities include analysis, design, build, configuration, evaluation, review, and test; deploy implementation of new functionality, reporting and interfaces to support business requirements.Team Management initiatives to energize and motivate offshore business teams and ensure right level of communication between business, employees (project leads & developers) and contractors working on application support and projects.Requirement definition, impact analysis, planning and executing technology implementation of business requests.

• Lead the meetings with the SES Americom US, SESE-Luxemburg, SES-Satellite Leasing IOM and New Skies Satellites, NL business users to gather the business requirements and specifications. Created all the related test scripts for the UAT in all FI/CO/SD/MM/IM/AM areas. Conducted trainings programs for the business users migrating from PeopleSoft (LU), Outlook soft (IOM) and AXAPTA (NL). Assisted extensively in all the testing's by the business users.
• Enterprise Structure: Operating Concern with one controlling area both for North American and European entities. More than 15 legal entities in North America 1 for Luxemburg(1084), 1 entity for IOM, 26 operating and holding company codes and 5 NSS Consolidation entities. Business areas configured only for SESSLIOM entity.
• Configured special purpose ledgers:A1(AmericomSpL) and R1 (Americom Rollup Ledger).
• Configured Asset Classes, three Chart of Depreciations (ZGEA, CDIM and CDLU), Depreciation Areas, Assign Input Tax Indicator for non-taxable acquisitions.Creating/Copying Depreciation Areas- Assignment to company Code, Specify Account Determination Rules - Define Asset Classes, Number Ranges, Configured Integration of Asset Accounting with General Ledger, Defining Posting Rules to Cost Center, Specify Financial Statement Versions for Asset Accounting, Depreciation Calculation Procedures- Setting up of Depreciation Areas and depreciation key.
• Involved with Billing to IC customers. Maintain and create condition types. Configured the Services as materials and Pricing procedure, condition records for ZCRT/MWST condition types.Sales tax determination - Tax Pricing Procedures, Tax Access Sequences, Assign Tax Country to calculation procedure, Define Tax determination rules, Maintain Tax condition rate by tax country.
• Configured the Investment Program Structure (definition and positions)Project Systems.

Environment:SAP v4.7 - FI-GL, FI-AM, FI-PS, FI-AR, FI-AP FI-IM, CO-OM, CO-CCA and CO-PA, SD-Billing, SD-Sales, SD-Pricing, MM-Purchasing, and MM-LIV.

Confidential, Long Island, NY July' 05 - Nov' 07
Sr. SAP Financials Consultant
Confidential, is one of the world\'s largest IT management software providers. Their software and expertise unify and simplify complex IT environments - in a secure way - across the enterprise for greater business results. Team Management initiatives to energize and motivate offshore team and ensure right level of communication between business, employees (project leads & developers) and contractors working on application support and projects. Coordination with the Offshore Project Manager to manage project teams (3-4 Teams with 4-5 team members per team) with developers (employees and consultants) on offshore development projects across various technology platforms. IFRS standard, SOX compliant with Internal Controls. Banking and Treasury

• Assigned and assisted the preparation work to Business Analysts (both from business end key users as well as implementation team members) unit test scripts, end-to-end test scripts and cases across streams associated with RTR, LTQ, PTP, OTC, BIW, HTR.
• Multiple currencies and Exchange Rates. Involved with Sales, VAT and WHT configurations, test and support. Vertex tax software. Responsible for configuration involving European VAT tax codes, procedures and condition types.Configured GST (Jurisdiction codes) for Canada, Sales and Use Tax for US. Configured Plants abroad functionality for some European countries.
• Profitability Analysis: Configuring, maintaining user defined characteristics and characteristic hierarchy and Characteristic derivation, configuring valuation strategies, Costing Sheets and Condition tables, deriving value flows from SD, MM and FI to COPA, assessment cycles for value flow from CO to COPA and customized various profitability reports. Maintain Versions. Define Structure of Cost Center Assessment/Process Cost Assessment. Maintain PA Transfer Structure for postings. Auto Acct Assignments. PA transfer structures for Settlement. PA reports.
• Involves with Project Billing plans, Cost/Revenue for projects, Process Time and Expenses for cost collection, create billing request and invoices, CATS through HR ESS Portals, create/Modify c-Project pre sales processes in CRM and replicate into ECC Project systems-WBS and Network elements.
• OrderToCash/SD integrations - Direct/Indirect Contracts, Revenue Recognition. Involved in development with few custom Z reports for Revenue Recognition and their inconsistencies.
• Product Costing: Material Ledger, Valuation Areas, Price Changes, Movement Types, OBYC settings. Define Material Cost Estimates (Costing Types, Val Variants, TS and CV), Define PC by Order, Valuation and costing variants, RA versions, Actual Costs Valuation Methods. Define Posting rules for settling WIP, Variance Keys/Variants, Target Cost versions, Settlement Profile and PA transfer structures.
• Involved with development of MTB- BI reports and validations. Involved with closing and its reporting. Involved with ECC data extractions, mappings. Creation of Financial Info cubes.

Environment:SAP ECC v6.0 - FI-GL, FI-TR, FI-BL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-CCA, CO-PC, CO-PA, PS (cProjects) SAP GRC, SOX, Compliance, Securities, ABAP/4, (OTC/CRM) SD and (PTP/SRM) MM.

Confidential, Ramsey, Isle of Mann, British Islands , United Kingdom Oct' 04 - Dec' 04
Client: Confidential
SAP FICO Lead Consultant
Confidential, is the Europeanmarket leader and the largest Logistics Services Providers.Their international operations are focused on the key areas of world trade in Europe, Asia, North America and South America. Global Implementation of SAP R/3 Ver.4.7 FI/CO module. Financial and Controlling modules configuring for TNT worldwide total of 61 countries with major 14 countries in Europe - GB/FR/DE/ES/IT/NO/FI/SE/CH/AT/PT/BE/NL/LU(Country Specific Templates)

Confidential, Koln, Germany Apr' 2002 - Nov' 2003
SAP FICO Consultant
Provided leadership to large-scale projects and team size up to 26+ (onsite/offshore), managed technical operations in cross-domain business environment, Technical strategic planning, hiring/ motivation/ development of technical resources, Expertise in Configuration and Change management and SAP-ERP Analysis/Upgrade & Management.
Experienced in business solution architecture, strategic alignment of information resources with business priorities, comprehensive assessment, scope, risks and analysis of the enterprise portfolio. Focus on effective business and technical leadership, facilitating consensus and understanding the business needs, and working with executive leadership and business lines managers.

Confidential, Hamburg Jan' 2000 - Apr' 2001
Transaction Management Consultant
Client: Commerzbank AG Frankfurt, Germany.
Configure Current account master data. Create and assign standard conditions. Assign limits to the account. Configure and manage products. Payment Management of checks - Issue, request, display, and delete, print checks and stacks. Account management - Creation, handling, processing payment items. Create, display, post, reverse and Business Workflow. Configuring Information system - Display Balance List, Overdraft list, Account blocks, check blocks, Interest scale, limit overview, individual conditions, tolerated overdrafts and currency changeover list.

Confidential, Munich, Germany. Sep' 1999 - Feb' 2000
SAP Business Analyst - Operations Controller (SAP R/3 4.0B)
Responsible for Receipt of Goods, Sorting the Goods, Inventory of Goods, Pre Packaging and Main Packaging of Goods.Customized and Issue of Sales Order, Classification of Materials and Vendors. Implemented Vendor Evaluation, Source lists. Vendor Purchase information records.Created BOM and BOM explosion, Setup of Configurable Materials.Configured Invoice Receipt and Goods Receipts inter-company arms-length process via IDOC processes. Maintained Inventory Mgt., Stock Transport, Shipment to the Plants located at USA and South Africa.

Confidential, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Feb 1995 - Jan' 1998
Bio-Medical Service Engineer
Responsible for Sales and Service of the Medical Equipment's. Responsible for sales of the equipment's, performed complete installations(certified service engineer) and trained the hospital staff. Responsible for conducting Ministry of Health - COBE installations across all the major cities of Saudi.