Kulbir Kapoor

FICO Senior Managing Consultant

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Profile:

Certified SAP FI/CO senior consultant that has worked for various large consulting and Consumer Product companies in US.

Participated in numerous SAP implementations, supporting Consumer Products, Chemicals and Polymers, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Telecommunications, Software, Engineering and High Technology organizations.

25+ years of global experience in integrated systems implementations, financial accounting, marketing management and business process re-engineering in manufacturing, process and service industries.

Solid understanding of financial systems development and support in the areas of profit planning, budgeting, product costing, profitability analysis, material ledger, cost center Accounting, overhead accounting, general ledger, accounts receivable and more than 19 years of experience in SAP R/3/ECC 6.0 implementations.

Earned MS and MBA in Finance and Financial Accounting and has B.Tech from prestigious school of technology IIT Bombay.

Expertize in designing large value SAP Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC), Material Ledger (CO-ML) and integrated them for BI reporting

SAP BPC – Planning and Consolidation (including nitrated planning)

Skills Summary:

SAP Expertise: SAP R/3/ECC 6.0 implementation experience within the Controlling (CO), Financial Accounting (FI), Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM) and Production Planning (PP) modules. Specific expertise in Product Costing and Material Ledger (CO-PC), CO-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Project Systems (PS), CO-Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Internal Order Management, EC-Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA), FI-Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, FI-New General Ledger, Accounts Payables (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Treasury and Risk Management, Business Warehouse (BI), Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (BPC).

Industry Expertise: Professional Services, Consumer Product, Pharmaceuticals and Health Care, Chemicals, Polymers, Software, High Technology, Telecommunication

Other Expertise: Financial Integration Management, Business Process Analysis and Improvement and Executive Support Systems, Business Analytics and Optimization, Performance Management, Business Finance Transformation, Business Strategy, Business Planning and Consolidation and Profitability Reporting.

Positions Held: FI/CO Team Lead, Business Controlling Lead (CO), Financial Solution Manager, Integration Manager, Cost Accounting, Software Engineer and Financial Manager.

Subject Matter Expert: IBM GBS SME for Product Costing, Actual Costing (Material Ledger) and Profitability Analysis. Led IBM CPG and Pharmaceuticals implementations in Product Costing and Material Ledger, Profitability Analysis, New GL and Overhead Accounting.

Certifications and Key Courses and Training

SAP FI/CO Certification, SAP Academy Waltham, MA.

BW Certification, SAP Academy Toronto, CA.

IBM Certified Consultant and SME

PMP Exam Preparation Course PMI Academy

Product Cost Planning and Product Cost Controlling SAP America.

Actual Costing / Material Ledger SAP America.

Cash Management SAP America.

Profitability Analysis SAP America.

Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (BPCL) SAP America.

Treasury and Risk Management SAP America.

SAP New GL SAP America,

SAP ASAP Methodology SAP America

Taxware

Employment History

Kraft Foods Inc. Northfield, IL 07/2013 – 04/2015 IBM SAP FI/CO Lead and Solution Archtect

Solution Architect and Lead Consultant for Material Ledger implementation and integration with Product Costing (CO-PC), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), New GL, Overhead Accounting and SAP BI.

This is one of the biggest Material Ledger implementations in North America, with end to end integration and activation 200 manufacturing plants and 190 commercial (DC’s, Mixing Centers and Corporate Inventory) to pass all the production variances (Price and Usage) and other variances with cost component break up. These variances are then 100% reconciled and are passed to Profitability Analysis at billing document level with all the sales characteristics to determine true Customer, Product and Brand profitability.

This information finally integrated with SAP BI and Kraft Sales Reporting system for Sales, Product Costing and Production variance reporting. (This is an extension of my work with Kraft for CO-PC and CO-PA implementation from 10/2006 – 07/2009 – please see below for detail of this implementation)

Projects: TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Petah Tikwa, Israel, 03/2013 – 06/2013

IBM SAP FI/CO lead and Strategy Consultant

Project Description:

FI/CO lead for this strategy consulting project using IBM methodology Component Business Model (CBM). Performed High Level Road map and SAP ECC blue printing.

Business Units optimization, Process Optimization and Enterprise optimization, business strategy road map, mapping the enterprise as a network of business models and building competencies through IBM CBM model methodology.

Building heat map to identify “hot” areas to exploit business value and building competitive advantage through selection of strategic ERP system implementation.

Developed high level road map for SAP ERP system and high level blue print of this implementation.

Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Piscataway, New Jersey, 11/2011 – 02-2013

IBM SAP FI/CO Lead/Solution Architec

Project Description:

Provided management consulting services requiring the analysis of client's business needs in the areas of Product Costing - planning and budgeting and controlling, General Ledger, and Overhead Accounting, Profit Center accounting and BI integration and Reporting for SAP ECC 6.0.

Went through complete FDA compliance training and completed all the compliance requirements. All the documentation, developments and change management were followed as per FDA compliance management.

Blue Printing and Process and Key Decisions Documentation for four company codes and 10 manufacturing plants and 12 distribution centers (DCs)

FDA compliance training, reporting and change management

Configuration of Product Cost Planning, Controlling including standard costing, what if analysis, current costing, variance and WIP reporting and period end closing for manufacturing plants.

Worked along with manufacturing master data team as well manufacturing team to analyze and validate the data (BOMs and Recipe)

Integration of General Ledger and Product Costing with rest of supply chain management

Annual Budget Planning and Overhead Planning

Manufacturing Variance Analysis and Variance Analysis

Integration of BI and helping BI in FI/CO reporting design

Configured New General Ledger fields status groups, account assignments (OBYC) and CO assignments (OKB9), document splitting and Profit Center assignments

Overhead Accounting and Cost Center design, allocations, assignments and validations

Profit Center, Business Area design and validations substitutions

Month End processes design as well as design of month end closing reporting Lead the team of consultants and several client team members for successful testing; create test scripts, functional specs, documenting the configuration and project planning, resource planning and preparing cut over plan

Abbott Laboratories, Waukegan, Illinois, 02/2011 – 10/2011

IBM SAP Treasury Lead

Project Description:

Treasury and Cash Management lead providing management consulting for Global Treasury and Cash Management analysis for SAP ECC 6.0.

Blue Printing and Process and Key decision documentation

Bank Analysis and Master Data

Electronic Bank Statements

Global Cash Management and Cash Position

Cash Concentration and Cash Position, Liquidity Forecast Reporting

Business Partners master data

Hedge Management

Transaction Management for Debt and Investments

Straight through Processing (STP)

SOX Compliance

FDA compliance and reporting

FDA compliance training and change management

Sara Lee Corporation, Downers Grove, Illinois, 08/2009 – 01/2011

IBM SAP FI/CO Team Lead and Solution Architect

Project Description:

Provided management consulting services requiring the analysis of client's business needs in the areas of Product Costing - planning and budgeting and controlling, Profitability Analysis, General Ledger, and Overhead Accounting, Material Ledger and BI integration and Reporting for SAP ECC 6.0.

Blue Printing and Process and Key Decisions Documentation

Configuration of Product Cost Planning, Controlling including standard costing, what if analysis, current costing, variance and WIP reporting and period end closing for manufacturing plants.

Design of Cost Blending system using SAP mixed costing functionality for National Inventory Costs for BU plants

Annual Budget Planning and Overhead Planning

Manufacturing and Cost Center Variance Analysis

Configuration of Profitability Analysis structures (Value Fields and Characteristics), PA transfer structures and CO-PA reporting

Integration of BI CO-PA integration and helping BI in FI/CO reporting design

Configured General Ledger fields status groups, account assignments (OBYC) and CO assignments (OKB9)

Overhead Accounting and Cost Center design, allocations, assignments and validations

Profit Center, Business Area design and validations substitutions

Preparation and blue printing for Material Ledger implementation

Designed and delivered disassembly process for Turkey plants using super BOMs and Recipes - first of its kind in meat industry.

Lead the team of consultants and several client team members for successful testing, create test scripts, functional specs, documenting the configuration and project planning, resource planning and preparing cut over plan

Kraft Foods Inc., Chicago, IL, Illinois, 08/2006 – 07/2009

(Presently Kraft Foods Inc; and Mondelez International Inc;)

Catalyst Globe Project as IBM SAP CO Lead/Solution Architect (Product Costing, Material Ledger, Profitability Analysis and OH accounting)

Project Description:

Provided management consulting services for blue printing, analysis of client's business needs in the areas of Product Costing (SAP ECC 6.0) of 60 manufacturing and 15 subcontracting plants (one of the largest product costing system in North America for food product). Products included in this design were Cheese, Coffee, meat, bakery and beverages.

Designed, configured Product Costing - planning and budgeting and controlling and material ledger actual costing along with production variance reporting and profitability analysis.

Helped BI team to build product costing and material ledger actual costing reporting.

Worked with SAP for custom development on enhancement of material ledger to separate price and usage variances.

Developed future state design of overhead planning, annual operational planning and overhead cost application to product costing.

Designed and configured subcontracting system for 15 tolling and co-man plants.

Worked with CS&L team to build costing and recovery system distribution and mixing centers

Led the team of consultants and client team members for Project Planning, testing, training, cutover planning, deployment planning as well as go live activities.

Nestle Foods, Greenwich, CT, Connecticut, 04/2006 – 07/2006

Globe Project as IBM SAP CO-PA and CO-PC consultant

Project Description:

Profitability Analysis consultant for Nestle Globe NA project. This was short term project to help existing Nestle Globe team in implementing profitability analysis, integrating it with BI and as well developing planning and forecasting application.

Profitability Analysis structures (Value Fields and Characteristics).

Profitability Analysis derivation rules and Characteristic Values and Hierarchies

Profit Planning and Budgeting

Overhead Accounting and CO-PA allocations and Top-Down Distributions.

CO-PA and SD/FI/MM integration through Condition Type mapping to value fields and PA transfer structures.

CO-PA training Documentation

Bayer Chemicals LLC, Pittsburgh PA (Bayer Corporation), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 11/2004 - 03/2006

SAP CO Lead (Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, OH accounting and PCA accounting)

Project Description:

SAP R/3 4.6B implementation including FI, AR, AP, GL, SPL, CO, CO-PA, EC-PCA, -PC, MM, PP, PM and BW Reporting and Consolidations utilizing Accelerated SAP Methodology (ASAP).

As CO Lead; supported all activities relating to Design, Process Mapping, Customizing and testing, Key user training and Post Go-Live activities (SDLC) for Product Costing CO-PC, Material Ledger, Profitability Analysis CO-PA and EC-PCA modules.

Customizing of Integrated planning and integration of CO modules with BW.

Responsible for the coordination of all product costing implementation activities for the manufacturing facilities located in US and Canada.

Business Blueprinting and Documenting Process and Key Decisions

Designed, configured and delivered a product costing solution in Process Order manufacturing scenario and documenting Configuration Objects

Developed and implemented custom solutions that allowed a smooth transition of the client's manual costing activities to an integrated standard costing system.

Designed cost center and profit center hierarchies and related master data for all US and Canadian operations.

Integrated Planning and Budgeting

Cost Center allocations, assignments, validations and CO-PA assessments

Overhead Accounting and General Cost Center to Production Line Cost Center allocations

Production Variances Analysis and Reporting

Streamlined product costing run and developed configuration scripts, transaction scripts, and end-user procedures.

Designed manufacturing reports and developed quick queries utilizing Report Painter and Report Writer.

Provided post implementation support in the areas of product costing run, error log review, WIP and variance analysis.

Created simulation costing and ad hoc costing variants for "what if" analysis and supported all post go-live activities for month-end closing and coordination with all manufacturing plants in US and Canada.

Business Consolidations and eliminations of intercompany profit eliminations

Profit Center validations, assignments and substitutions

Revenue Recognition methodology, design and program

Bayer Material Sciences LLC and Bayer Corporate & Business Services LL, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 04/2003 – 10/2004

SAP CO Lead/Solution Architect

Project Description:

SAP R/3 4.6B implementation including FI, AR, AP, GL, SPL, CO, CO-PA, EC-PCA, CO-PC, MM, PP, PM and BW Reporting and Consolidations using Accelerated SAP Methodology (ASAP)

As Sr FI/CO Consultant; led all activities relating to Design, Process Mapping, Customizing and testing, Key user training and Post Go-Live activities (SDLC) for Product Costing CO-PC, Profitability Analysis CO-PA modules.

Preparation of the Business Blue Print.

Interacting with the process owners, gathering process inputs and providing the desired solutions.

Conducting End user Trainings

Customizing of Integrated planning Budgeting and integration of CO-PC modules with BW

Responsible for the coordination of all product costing implementation activities for the manufacturing facilities for North America.

Designed, configured and delivered a product cost planning and controlling solution in Process Order manufacturing scenario.

Production Variance Analysis, Period End closing and Managerial Reporting

Developed and implemented custom solutions that allowed a smooth transition of the client's manual costing activities to an integrated standard costing system.

Activity Costing and General Cost Centers and Production Line Cost Centers allocation and CO-PA assessments

Consolidations and Profit Eliminations

Preparation and Co-ordination of Integration Testing and Conducting End user Trainings

Revenue Recognition methodology.

Bayer Health Care LLC, Tarrytown, NY (Subsidiary of Bayer Corporation), Pittsburgh and 16 European Countries, Pennsylvania, 04/2001 - 03/2003

SAP CO Lead/Solution Architect

Project Description:

Project Scope: SAP R/3 European Roll outs for 16 European countries (Germany, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, France, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, Hungry) as well as North America implementation including FI, AR, AP, GL, SPL, CO, EC-PCA, CO-PA, CO-PC, MM, PP, PM, SM, APO, ML, BW

Reporting and Consolidations for Bayer Diagnostics and Bayer Pharma Business Solution design for Bayer Diagnostics and health Care services. Complete design of Services Financials using SAP PS and Service Orders. Revenue recognition with resource related billing. Specific Role: CO Lead; Support all activities relating to Design, Customizing and Testing, Key user training and Post

Go-Live activities for CO-PA, CO-PC, ML, CCA, OH accounting and EC-PCA modules and integration of CO modules with BW. Development of Business Process Procedures for CO-PA, mapping of business processes with SAP transactions. Responsible for the coordination of all CO implementation activities for European Roll outs.

Managed, a pool of CO Consultants. Developed and conducted "to be” Business Process workshops and their related design "walk through" demos". Responsible for the development of all test scripting and FDA required documentations. Created intellectual capital and provided post implementation support

GE Spacenet Inc, (GE Capital Company), Mclean, Virginia, 04/1998 - 03/2001

SAP FI/CO Team Lead/Solution Architect

Project Description:

Reviewed configuration and customization of Controlling Area, Operating Concern for USA and Germany Entities.

Service Management using Siebel CRM, SAP PS, Service Sales and Marketing, Customer Services Support,

Service-Contract management and Field Services.

Revenue Recognition methodology, design and program using resource related billing

Customizing of CCA, OH accounting, CO-PA (Cost Based), EC-PCA and Cash Management module

Profit Center Accounting: Configured Controlling Area, Standard Hierarchy, Parameters for Actual and Plan data/versions, Profit Centers and Groups, Statistical Key figures, Configured Assignments of Materials, Sales Orders, Assets, Cost Objects/Centers, Projects, PP/CO/Maintenance/Process/Internal Orders etc., Configured Assessments and Distributions for actual/plan data, cycles, segments, default profit center derivation for additional P&L and balance sheet accounts

Cost Center Accounting: Configured CO areas, hierarchy, Primary, Secondary cost elements, Cost Center groups, Activity types, Statistical key figures, Actual and Plan versions, Assessments, Distributions, Cycles and segments, plan layouts for cost elements and statistical key figures, posting of cost elements to cost centers

Profitability Analysis: Cost Based CO-PA, Operating concern attributes, creating characteristics, Key Figures, characteristic derivation, derivation structure and rules, user exits, PA transfer structure, Assign PA transfer Structure to settlement profile, Assign Value fields and Quantity fields to SD conditions, activating CO-PA, Characteristic values, Maintain Characteristic Groups, Define Characteristic Hierarchy, CO-PA reporting, forms, creation of Report Painter Reports and CO-PA assessments.

Cash Management: This module linked all the banking transaction from various house banks by BAI/BAI2 files. These files recorded correctly all the payments made by Checks or by wires to vendors. Checks and wires received from various customers were also processed by BAI2 files through Lock box functionality of SAP. The banking transactions were posted to SAP system by Posting rules and Lock box configuration. Set of Cash main accounts As well as clearing accounts were created keeping in mind SAP cash management Standard rules for auto processing of cash and wire transactions through posting Rules. Planning levels and vendor as well customer Groupings were created to analyze and forecast cash as well as long-term liquidity.

Cost Center Budgeting: Planning Versions, Planning Layouts, Planning Activity types and other CO assignments.

Training Users for Unit, Integration and User Acceptance testing. Test case creation and Test Results documentation.

Training Course materials, Key User training and helping Key user to train the other users.

Report painter reports, Key figures, characteristic groups’ creation.

Help developer to create FI/PCA/CO-PA month end reconciliation reports.

Integration of Service Management module (Sales of Services) with CO-PA, EC-PCA.

Overview Critical Customizing of GL/AP/AR

IBM Lotus Development Corporation (Now IBM Software Group), North Reading, Massachusetts, 10/1996 - 03/1998

IBM SAP FI/CO Consultant

Project Description:

SAP R/3 World Wide implementation including: FI, CO, CO-PC, CO-PA, SM, PS, TR, SD, MM, PP. Integration of Lotus systems with IBM systems utilizing IBM diamond methodology.

Preparation of the Business Blue Print and Process Mapping

Interacting with the process owners, gathering process inputs and providing the desired solutions. Revenue Recognition design and program for software contracts and services

Financials for software contracts using SAP Service Contracts, Service Orders and Month Closing activities.

Internal Order Management, Cost Center Accounting and EC-PCA

Cost Center allocations and CO-PA assessments

Cost Center Planning and Budgeting

Period End closing Activities

Validation and Substitution Rules

Mapping of FI/CO data to Hyperion Interface

Creation of Operating Concern and Profitability Analysis Structures (Value Fields and Characteristics)

Profitability Analysis characteristic derivations and Characteristic Values

Profitability Analysis Reports

End User Training and Knowledge Management

Texas Instruments Inc., Richardson, Texas

SAP FI/CO Consultant 01/1996 - 09/1996

Project Description:

Responsible for preparation of the Business Blue Print and process Mapping. AR Configuration as per the Business Requirements. Creating Report Painter Reports. Testing FI/CO functionality. Conducting End user Trainings.

Preparation and Co-ordination of Integration Testing, Data Migration etc.

Merck & Co, White House Station, New Jersey 04/1995 - 12/1995

IEF / SAP Consultant

Project Description:

Decision Support system and Data Warehouse using Texas Instruments software IEF. Business Blue Printing and Requirements gathering. Creating Data Models and Process Models for Data warehouse. Creation Data Dependency Models.

Creation of Action Diagrams. Creating Data Repository and mapping of data objects from various legacy systems. Creating set of reports with SAP report painter. Testing and End User Training. Integrating Data Warehouse with various decision support systems, Legacy systems and SAP R/3. Documentations following FDA compliance and Change Management.

MBA Student at University Of Texas and Teaching Assistant: 04/1993 – 04/1995

Larson and Toubro Limited, Mumbai, India 04/1980 - 10/1992

Senior Manager Finance

Project Description:

Managed the Finance department. In this role, he was responsible for the group investments, large value projects for budgeting and profitability reporting.

Preparation of Long Term Financial Plans, Budgets and Forecasting Funds and Working capital requirements.

Calculating Return on Investments on Large Value investments

Working with Banks for the Working Capital Requirements and Short Term Funds Management for large value customer projects

Monitoring, analysis and reporting of the actual operations, comparison with the Budgets and analyzing variances and taking action for correcting the forecasts.

Cash Management and determination of Cost of Financing Large Value projects.

Revenue Management, revenue recognition and Forecasting the Profitability.

Executive Reporting and Financial Statement Analysis and advising CFO for corrective actions.

Providing justification for Long Term vs. Short Term Borrowings

Analyzing the Financial Statements and Senior Executives and CFO on Foreign Collaborations, Mergers and Acquisitions

Return on Investments analysis for large value company's investments and projects.

Profitability and management reporting

Education

MBA in Finance and MIS

University of Texas, United States of America, 1995

MFM in Finance Sydenham College Of Commerce and Economics, India, 1980

B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 1978

Status: US Citizen

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