Management Project Manager

Aditya Bhattacharya

Phone: +* -203-***-****

abg3nw@r.postjobfree.com

Location : White Plains, NY

SUMMARY

. Over 9 years of SAP experience -5 full life-cycle implementations

and 4 partial implementations. 7 years experience in leading and

managing team of consultants.

. Extensive background establishing systems roadmaps, managing a

concurrent portfolio of strategic projects and building relationships

with executive stakeholders as well as external partners and vendors

. Wide Ranging process knowledge and technical expertise in Financial

and Managerial Accounting, Budgeting and Forecasting, SOX compliance

and Risk Functions, Shared Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Order

Management, Credit and Collections

. Experience in managing small to large teams, managing budget and

deliverables and implementing quality control and CMMI processes.

. Extensive technical expertise in ERP systems and in establishing

integration between diverse systems in a complex landscape

. In-Depth experience across a number of industries - including Consumer

Goods, Financial services, Software and Technology, Apparel,

Automotive, Healthcare and Manufacturing.

. Work experience in India, U.S, Canada, U.K. and Nordic countries.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

. Experience in configuring

o FI (G/L - including new G/L, Accounts Payable, Accounts

Receivable), Banking/Electronic Banking, Functional Areas,

Credit management

o Experience with FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management)

-Credit Management, Dispute management and Collection Management

and integration with AR.

o Experience in Lockbox, Treasury, Cash Management, Liquidity

forecasting and Positive Pay.

o CO (Controlling area, Cost Center Accounting, Profit

Center Accounting; Internal Orders, CO-PA Analysis and Reporting

). Experience in product cost controlling in MTS and MTO

environments. Conversant with Profit Center and Cost center

planning.

o Experience in Profit center as well as Legal Consolidation (EC-

CS).

o Additional experience in Accounts Payable integration with

Materials Management, Accounts Receivable integration with

Sales & Distribution, Treasury and Profitability Analysis

o Expertise in LSMW, SCAT and pre go-live data conversion

techniques. Experience in Master data conversion as well as

loading open financials and historical data.

o Experience in configuring Intercompany transactions -

intercompany stock transfers, intercompany billing and automatic

EDI invoice verification.

o Hands-on experience in Variant Configuration (VC) and VC -based

product design. Configuration experience in integrating SD with

VC.

. Familiarity with ABAP Programming, Dialog programming, Report and Menu

painters, SAPScript, ALE and interfacing.

. Experience in integration with SAP-BW FOR Financial Reporting.

Experience working with the new G/L.

. SAP Skills : ABAP Query,Reporting, LSMW, SCAT, SAP Debugger, SAP

ECC 6.0 / 5.0, SAP R/3 4.X

. Functional : Vast expertise in configuring FI, CO and integration

with MM, SD and PP modules of SAP R/3. Familiarity with SAP IS-SW and

SAP BW.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Aug 2007 - Present Enterprise Project Manager, Pitney Bowes

Stamford, U.S.A.

Leading medium enhancements, large projects and upgrades in the FI/CO

domain.

May 2006 - Aug 2007 Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting

New York, U.S.A.

Led process teams in 2 full lifecycle and one partial implementation

projects in FI/CO and treasury domains.

Feb 2004 - May 2006 System Engineer, HCL Enterprise Solutions

Minneapolis, U.S.A.

Onsite-offshore project coordinator and FI/CO lead for HCL SAP

operations group handling implementations as well as system support.

May 1999 - Apr 2001 Systems Engineer, TATA Infotech Ltd

India

Worked as techno - functional consultant on 1 SAP full life-cycle

implementation and 2 partial implementations for Indian and onsite

clients.

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

Sep 2002- Aug 2003 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at

Austin U.S.A.

Taught university level intermediate calculus courses to students in

Faculty of Engineering

PROJECT DETAILS:

Aug 07 -July 11 Pitney Bowes Inc.

. Lead of the finance team for ERP Upgrade from version 4.7 to ECC 6.0.

Managed all planning, testing and co-ordination with Finance

stakeholders.

. Led an enterprise implementation for Collection Management and Dispute

Management using SAP FSCM. Managed global order-to-cash requirement

gathering workshops in the areas of:

o Lockbox, cash application

o Revenue recognition and CO-PA

o FSCM - Dispute and Collections Management

o Managed the workstreams above starting from platform selection,

planning through blueprint, design and testing

. Currently managing all aspects of a $3.5 million global Credit

Management implementation project to overhaul the risk and credit

functions of the organization. This transformation project will result

in a net savings of overall $15 million for the company in the next 5

years. Managing a team of over 30. Responsible for project budget and

deliverable management as well as establishing a shared vision with

executive stakeholders. Responsible for quality control and CMMI

compliance of project deliverables

. Worked with senior management to establish short-term and long-term

systems roadmap in the areas of Finance and Accounting, Credit and

Collections and Order Management. Responsible for advising business

about leading industry practices in these areas.

. Led the order-to cash and Finance streams for launch of web-based

product that involved integrating SAP with Websphere

. Leading teams for medium enhancements, large projects and upgrades.

Working in the area of:

. A/R and Lockbox applications

. A/P and payment processing applications

. Building functional specifications for enhancements and ongoing

maintenance.

. Supporting SAP configuration for new acquisitions in the areas

of A/R, A/P, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Center Accounting,

Fixed Assets and CO-PA.

. Requirement gathering from business stakeholders. Development

and configuration of the SAP ECC system.

June 07 - Aug 07 Levis Inc.

. Lead consultant in the area of accounts payable and electronic

banking (EBS)

. Configured house banks, invoice processing for direct and

indirect procurement, payment processing using checks, wires and

ACH.

. Also configured Electronic bank statement uploads for Chase Bank

and Bank of America. Configured cash forecasting, liquidity

forecasting and cash concentration.

. Configured 1099 processing (withholding tax), procurement card

uploads and expense reporting.

. Worked with SAP new G/L and designed new G/L set-up based on

Financial Reporting requirements

Dec 06 - May 07 Solo Cup

Lead consultant for all major processes for Order-to cash, including

Lockbox and cash application, invoicing and output control, FCSM and

SD account determination.

Configured, tested and trained clients in the areas of:

. Lockbox processing with BAI2, deduction management, bank

accounting and manual cash application

. Invoicing, month end processes and output control

. Collection Management and Dispute Management using FSCM

. Account determination and intercompany invoicing

. Customer master and Credit Management

May 06 - Dec 06

FI/CO Team Lead Cardinal Health

Inc.

Led the design, business process mapping, configuration and testing

for entire Cash application, Credit Management and Customer Master.

This was a Financials-only implementation and involved significant

amount of data mapping and interfacing activities.

Responsible for business modeling that involved bringing about 30

different companies to a common cash application platform, optimizing

processes and mapping individual business process to SAP. Also modeled

credit management and dispute management processes across different

divisions of the organization in line with SAP leading practices.

Led teams in the areas of :

. Cash application using BAI2 using legacy feed to SAP ECC 6.0

. Customer master and master data upload

. Credit Management with data update interface from legacy

systems.

May 05 - Dec 05

Lead FI/CO Consultant Wolters Kluwer

Financial Services

. Configured and maintained profit-center based consolidation (EC-CS)

for eight subsidiary companies under WK Financial Services. Used

both flexible upload for non-SAP companies and rollup for companies

already in SAP. Designed interfaces for data load for Hyperion

reporting.

. Set up BAI Lockbox, automated bank data upload and designed cash

application process based on customized bank statement format of

ABN-AMRO.

Responsible for Onsite-offshore team coordination, resource and

project planning, managing deliverables and timelines for SAP

production support.

. Acted as single point of contact between client management and

offshore HCL team. Helped create project management plans and

methodologies.

. Responsible for resolution of all FI/CO related production issues

and enhancements.

. Responsible for preparing technical specifications for the offshore

ABAP team for development of reports, forms and small enhancements.

Preparing SAP templates for offshore team in FI/CO modules for

A/R, A/P, Cash Management, Credit Management and CO-PA reports.

. Performing Master Data maintenance in Materials Management,

Business Partners (Customer and Vendor Master) and Variant

Configuration for product updates, introduction of new products and

sales promotions.

. Responsible for setting up configuration audit trail in SAP IMG and

creating landscape plans for streamlined transport strategies.

. Responsible for VC configuration set-up, creating and maintaining

dependencies, classes, characteristics and configuration profiles

in SAP. Gather business requirements and test deliverables for

rolling out new products into SAP with the help of Variant

Configuration.

Sep 04 - June 05

Lead FI/CO Consultant Bankers Systems and VMP Mortgage

Solutions

. Lead Process Design member of FICO Team responsible for

production support and implementation.

. Established procedures for and lead management of both

gap/issues resolution database and unit/integration testing

across financial processes.

. Developed and presented key project deliverables throughout all

phases of project including development of scoping and planning

documents, leading and presenting project team hierarchy and

planning and facilitating unit/integration testing sessions.

. Responsibilities included collection and analysis of financial

process requirements, development of business process models,

and assisting with final system demonstration and presentation

to management

. Primarily responsible for system configuration of General

Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center

Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Internal Orders and

Planning, Costing based PA and reporting. Also configured

external tax interface with Vertex. Configured classic

withholding tax functionality. Other responsibilities included

AS-IS study, TO-BE system design, proto type data preparation.

. FI/CO Integration setup with MM, SD and PP.

. Configured down payments, dunning, recurring entries, payment

methods, and automatic check printing program.

. Configuring check management, Accounts for auto-posting and

balance GRIR.

. Defining cost centers and hierarchy. Maintaining cost elements.

Defining Cost center planning profiles, Distribution keys,

creating layouts for cost center planning.

. Created Profit center assignments for Cost centers and Internal

Orders. Maintaining revenue and cost elements.

. Configuring profit center planning - maintaining plan versions,

defining document types, number ranges. Maintaining planning

layouts for Costs/revenues and for balance sheet accounts.

Maintaining planner profiles.

. Maintaining Internal order master data like Order types, number

ranges for orders, status management and screen layouts.

. Settings for internal orders planning like versions, number

ranges for planning transactions, default integrated planning.

. Experience in configuring Intercompany transactions -

intercompany stock transfers, intercompany billing and automatic

EDI invoice verification.

. Developed reports and layouts to meet specific business and

reporting requirements of the client using report painter

. Conducted Unit Testing and Integration testing including

preparing Scripts for these tests, analyzed the results and re-

configured the settings wherever necessary.

. Defined profit centers. Profit center hierarchy. Profit center

assignments. Maintaining revenue and cost elements.

. Prepared documentation and user training manuals, Provided Post

implementation support.

. .

Feb 00 - Apr 01 Goodyear Tire and Rubber

Co

. Responsible for financial and controlling modules for Goodyear's

Engineered-to-Product (EPD) Division.

. Analyzed and documented As-Is model and To-Be model.

. Configured the organizational structure from accounting point of

view - Company Code, Chart of Accounts, defined posting keys,

maintained field status variants and assignments of company

code, screen variants for document entry as per business

specifications and tested the configuration in various

scenarios. Integration between different modules - GL, AP, AR,

Bank Ledger, Treasury, CO (CCA, Internal Orders), SD and MM.

. Customized credit control area for credit management in the

application components AR and SD. .

. Defined credit limit checks for SD processing, Risk management

for receivables, assigned Company Code to Credit Control Area.

. Integrated FI, FI-AA and CO-CCA. Involved in the design of Asset

Class and Charts of depreciation in Fixed Assets

. Designed and configured Asset management to carry out business

transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-

offs and post capitalization.

. Customized appropriate settlement profiles to facilitate

settlement to CO-PA and to CCA.

. Payment processing in AR and Automatic Account Determination.

. Worked on month-end and year-end processes (Balance Sheet and

Profit & Loss Statements).

. Assumed full production support role in post Go-Live period.

Responsible for liaison with business user community and

technical community personnel to ensure that the system is

functioning as designed and the financial closing activities are

completed in line with the fiscal calendar.

Jun 99 - Feb 00 : Various Clients

India

. As a system Analyst, worked on a number of SAP Implementation

projects, focusing on the FI-CO area with hands-on configuration

roles.

EDUCATION

Dec 2003 M.S. (University of Texas at Austin)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Overall G.P.A : 3.6 / 4.0

May 1999 B.S. (Jadavpur University, India)

Electrical Engineering

Overall G.P.A. : 3.72 / 4.0

Aug 2005 SAP EC-CS Training, Atlanta, GA

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