Profile

Certified SAP FICO Solutions Consultant with over 10 years of technology experience relating to Retail, banking & finance, Manufacturing, Administration and Sales and Distribution industries.

Functional experience covers 3 full development life cycle of complete project implementations using SAP methodology ASAP. Face-to-face Consulting with management, SMEs and other stakeholders, within the environments of ERP SAP 4.7, ECC 5 & 6 (EHP 7).

Implementation experience in General Ledger, AP, AR, Assets Accounting, Master Data configuration as well as RICEFW development. VIM – Brainware, Tax interface – Vertex and Puchasing interface - Ariba

Experienced in various Controlling features and functionalities including profitability Analysis (COPA) reports and working with Report Painter. Cost Centers and Cost Elements, Product Costing and working with Material ledger and costing sheets. Also worked with PoC (percentage of Completion) on long term projects as well as Profit Center Accounting (PCA).

User support – supporting business users to resolve problems and other production issues

Have good and effective communication, organization and planning skills that have been developed over a long period of working with different business owners, stakeholders and client teams.

Certifications

SAP Certified Solutions Consultant (FICO)

Oracle 9i DBA Professional

Education & Training

IIBS, Mississauga, Canada – SAP Training

Devry Institute, Diploma – Information Technology

University of Bergen, Masters Degree – Administration

Diploma in Business Studies - Accounting

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Experience/Project Work

Infosys Ltd.

Client: Harley-Davidson Inc.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin (April 2017 – Current)

SAP FICO Consultant

Application Enhancements and Change Requests: Analyze and study Change Requests and Enhancements from SME’s regarding third party applications interfacing with SAP for Tax – Vertex, Vendor Invoice Management - Brainware, also SAP P2P – Ariba and, Transport and Expense. Further, I am working on Fixed Asset change enhancements and doing configurations and settings for internal orders for projects done internally as well as Assets under Construction settlements.

Also work with Testing, Defect and Breakfix management - release and transport from development system through all test and quality systems to production system using Solution Manager CHaRM and HPQC for managing the processes

Business Analysis: Involved in capability assessment of systems and business processes both technical and functional areas to determine ‘the gaps’ and advice on the right solutions.

Participate in meetings, with SMEs and organize JAD meetings and other such meetings with stakeholders to elicit requirements for designing the TO BE process.

My schedule includes to analyze existing AS IS business processes and relate that to the proposed TO BE business processes and map it out to SAP functionalities and capabilities to determine the most effective and efficient solutions.

Atlas Copco Inc. New York

SAP FICO Consultant (Nov. 2014 – Dec.2016)

Responsibilities

Responsibilities/Deliverables:.

Business Process Configuration for General Ledger, AP, AR and Asset Management objects.

Setting up cost allocations and assignments for system to do periodic settlement of costs for Month-end and Year-end processes.

Configuration for the Integration of FI with MM & SD as well as the treatment of foreign currency relating to Assets revaluations and period-end postings.

Configuration of Profit Centers (PCA) to capture profitability of specific business segments

Work to modify existing COPA reports to include new segments and business lines.

Work with PS team mates to set up projects and map them to relevant cost objects as WBS elements to track manufacturing costs.

Do unit, integration and regression testing as well as UAT.

Business Analysis Engage, frequently, business process owners and other stakeholders to review new or on-going projects and planned ones to elicit requirements and deliverables. Analyze Business Functional Processes and do assessment of business needs. Create Business Process Documentation and then also Functional Specification that is then used for the Build, Enhancements or Change Requests.

Application Enhancements and Change Requests: Analyze and study Change Requests and Enhancements from SME’s and develop acceptable and efficient solutions, implement as well as release and transport them from development system through test and quality systems to production system.

Troubleshoot tickets raised by business users and analyze the issues to determine their cause and their resolution.

Explain to business users the causes of problems that they encounter in the use of SAP Finance system and how

to avoid them and help them with resolution

ERP Global Inc. Toronto

SAP FICO Consultant (Dec. 2013 – Oct. 2014)

Responsibilities

Collaborated with SMEs and other team members on critical change requests and enhancement projects.

Resolved tickets from SAP Finance business users, regarding GL, AP, AR, AA and CO issues according to SLA and also prepared a manual with the steps to use to resolve certain common problems

Elicit information from users in order to determine user problems or requirements in order to investigate and develop the right solutions. Study Business Functional Processes and propose Functional Design for required Enhancements and Change Requests in order to improve business output and efficiency.

WIPRO Ltd.

1. Client: Pitney Bowes – NextGen Project – Stamford, CT.

Project Description/Scope: Business User/ Functional Support

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (Nov. 2012 – Nov. 2013)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

User/Production Support: Work with tickets/issues raised (in REMEDY) by business users and other related areas and analyze them to resolve them and also sometimes guide the users to resolve them, as a teaching process.

Worked with designing payments and costing, COPA reports as well as improving existing reports and set up costing sheets and also worked with cost center and other CO object master data.

Dealt with issues that arise out of reconciliation of different third party Bank Payment Solutions like Paymetric (Xipay), TSYS and SAP Finance – analyzed the issues involved and recommend resolutions to business users.

Investigated causes of differences between postings in SAP Finance and other integrated systems - both internal and third party solutions that are integrated with SAP and resolve them.

Business Application Enhancements and Change Requests: Analyzed and studied Enhancement and Change Requests from SME’s in order to develop acceptable and efficient solutions and implement them after sign off.

Did unit testing and Participate in various tests, like integration and regression testing and help with UATs.

2. Client: GE Lighting – Circuit Project – Cleveland, OH

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (Mar. 2012 – Nov.. 2012)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Reviewed, Developed and created Business Process Documents (BPDs) and functional specifications, from business and system requirements for Fixed Asset, AR, AP working with business stakeholders. Made recommendations to ensure that they met the business requirements and provided all the essential details for developing the right Functional Specifications to guide implementation.

Configured fixed Assets relating to Asset Classes, Acquisitions, AuC postings and settlements, Posting Indicators for Depreciation Areas.

Participated and worked with the technical team, as functional resource, in design and creation of RICEFW requirements for workflows to set the path and processes for approvals for payment of indirect material purchases as well as approvals for intra company/cross company code funds transfer

Accenture:

1. Client: ATB – CORE Project

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (Sept. 2010 – Nov. 2011)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Created and configured various core banking objects including various deposit and loan products, night deposit and safe deposit boxes, credit and debit cards, investment, loan and mortgage products

Created and set up of different BPs, their roles and relationships and also worked with BPAs for branch locations

Configured payment and settlement systems for various products

Set up both Root Master Contract and Master Contracts for multiple investment accounts.

Further I worked with creating test data for testers as well as doing data mining using SQL queries for converted data for testers

Designed and built SQL queries and SAP queries to retrieve converted data for testing

Assisted client test team leads/testers to understand and define their test data requirements

2. Client: Loblaw Inc.

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: SAP FICO Consultant (Mar. 2010 – Sept. 2010)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Made Master Data configuration for Articles, Customers and Vendors and also worked with Assortments. Worked with Requirement and Replenishment planning to delivery to stores.

Configured Purchase Organization and Purchase groups as well as Sites.

Member of team responsible for Pre/Post conversion data analysis, Data mapping, mapping rules, conversion mapping documents for data objects such as fixed Assets, Vendor Master, Customer Master, and Product Master.

Reviewed and updated Functional Design documentations with required enhancements and new requirements.

Used HPQC tool to manage build defects and ensured that they are fixed in a timely manner.

Worked with configuring credit management systems with setting up dunning, customer and vendor account maintenance configuration as well as payments systems.

Global Int’l Inc.:

1. Client: Pharmascience Inc.

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: FICO Consultant (Mar. 2009 – Feb. 2010)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Configured Product Costing - configured Costing Sheets and material ledger, Material costing, and Overhead Cost allocations to cost centers, Internal Orders with settlements and assessment configuration.

Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration and for distributing the costs incurred by Internal Orders to the respective Cost Centers.

Configured various internal order types and order models and setup status profile for order types.

Created allocation structures and settlement profiles, and worked with planning and budgeting of Internal orders

2. Client: Vansco Electronics

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: FICO Consultant/Business Analyst (Mar. 2008 – Dec. 2008)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Member of technical team that worked with clients to develop high level requirements for a Business Warehouse Information System and a Sales and invoicing system and subsequently worked with SMEs in order to elicit and gather requirements to understand and document client expectations that was used to design the TO BE system.

Took part in deliverable assessment meetings with client to review project status for feedback and modifications.

Provided high level process redesign and technical advice on complex implementation issues to senior management and prepared reports and briefs for project governance committees

Participated in the conversion project and worked with data objects like Assets, Vendors and Customer accounts. Mapping of Master Data, Balances and transaction data.

3. Client: Progistix Solutions Inc.

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: FICO Consultant (Feb. 2007 - Mar. 2008)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Mapped data fields in legacy to SAP fields, identified and logged data gaps and other issues that relate to conversion

Created SQL queries for generating reports and for data mining projects

Worked with MM team members to develop suitable FI to capture the business processes for Procurement to payment (PTP) in SAP

Worked on setting up of Account Groups and configuring various Variants for Field status groups, Fiscal Year, and Posting Periods as well as document number ranges set up.

User support and training: resolving of tickets and training of end users.

4. Client: Sobeys Inc.

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: FICO Consultant (Jun. 2006 – Feb. 2007)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Worked on the settings for Sites, Assortments and Purchasing Organizations and also worked on settings for Automatic Payments, invoices and dunning.

Performed settings for Articles, Merchandise categories and also worked on Assortment Management and listing.

Worked on functional design for Vendor Invoice Process flow and payments process.

Participated in configuring the procurement processes and other related business activities up to the automatic payments process flow.

5. Client: Aluminiere Alouette

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: FICO Consultant (Jan. 2006 – Jun. 2006) Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Configured Costing Sheet for overhead cost allocations, segments for cost center distributions and assessment to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to cost objects.

Configured settlement profiles and maintained settlement rules, cost splits for Activity Price calculations, and developed order types and model orders for Internal Orders with settlements and also worked with Standard price and Moving average price.

Worked with definition of CO-PA reports - Operating Concern, defined Characteristics and Value Fields

Completed process design gaps and resolved related issues

6. Client: Dare Foods

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: FICO Consultant (Feb. 2005 – Dec. 2005)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Participated in conversion of legacy data to SAP and worked with LSMW processes to re-create various data objects like Assets, Vendors and Customer accounts from legacy systems to SAP system. Mapped Master Data and transaction data to SAP tables.

Identified and logged data gaps and other issues that were inconsistent with the conversion Blueprint and also created Load file for LSMW data loads

Defined end-to-end Business Process Scenarios based on the business processes

Documented integrated To-Be business process design based on business requirement.

Configured the Vendor Master data, Customer Master Data, Asset and Bank Master Data and also worked on the Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables objects.

Employer: Linnet Geometrics Inc.

Project Description/Scope: SAP Implementation

Role: Lead Business Analyst (Nov. 2000 - Jan. 2005)

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Involved in capability assessment of client systems and business processes both technical and functional areas to determine ‘the gaps’ in order to properly advice the client with right solutions.

Participated in meetings, with SMEs and at JAD meetings and other such meetings with stakeholders to elicit requirements for designing the TO BE process.

Lead in a team that mapped out AS IS business process flow and proposed TO BE business process flows for

Analyzed conflicting data requirements from different users, prioritized them, and developed business oriented software requirements.

Identified Data Conversion requirements based on signed-off application solution.

Initiated field mapping for SAP FI and legacy masters

Created detailed Use-Case Models, Data Flow Diagrams, Use Cases, and Sequence Diagrams using Visio.

Provided functional support to give business user groups prompt resolution of tickets.

Resolved various issues related to payments, invoices, Vendor and Customer related issues, Data entry issues and month end closing transactions issues

Participated in the development of user training manual and also the actual training sessions.

Participated in technical team that worked with clients to develop the high level requirements for a Business Warehouse Information System and a Sales and invoicing system.

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