Kalpesh Patel

217-***-****

ac0yd0@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

13+ years of overall experience having a background of professional accountant, with strong functional knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS and is proficient in mapping business requirements with proven ability in designing & implementing systems to achieve cost control and enhance the overall efficiency of the organization.

10+ years of overall SAP experience with all project stages including blueprinting, gap analysis, configuration, custom code specifications, business process reengineering, testing, training, cutover, go-live assistance and post implementation support.

Performed extensive work with SAP FICO project proposals, oral presentations.

Expertise in SAP-GL including New GL, Cutover, S4 HANA (Simple Finance), FIORI.

Project experience in Central finance, S4 HANA implementation and SAP Migration.

CLIENT’S EXPERIENCE BY EMPOLYER

Employer

Clients

PwC

LIDL, IMG Media, Weber Metal, WE, Hilmar Cheese, Aviall, Walmart, QVC

Cognizant

TBC Corp, Cunningham Lindsey, Microsoft, Pearson

TCS

Target

Wipro

J&J, Apple, Harman, Seimens

Soft Hq

Alpine Electronics, Invista, Ericsson

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP FICO Lead

FICO I Oct, 2016 – Current

Defined the Tax Jurisdiction Codes and Configured the Sales and Use Tax. Completed set up the Credit Management Configuration. Redefined and Configured Payment Methods, Payments Terms, House Bank, Bank Accounts for AP, AR - Dunning process, Interest calculation, and Credit Management. Cleared Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open Items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL, Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces.

Worked with the SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales Process and Integration with FI. Provided Production Support for periodic Sales and Use Tax Reporting, and related Month-end and Year-end Financial Reports.

Data Mapping, Data Validation, Balance Conversion and Cutover activities. Lead small enhancement FSCM where work with treasury team to re-design cash flow, cash management, dispute management. Commitment to meeting the expectations of internal and external customers. Managing project communications to all stakeholders (project teams, functional managers, internal and external customers, and senior management), including meeting minutes, monthly updates, communications meetings, and phase reviews

FICO Manager/Lead

PricewaterhouseCoopers I April, 2014 – Aug, 2016

Responsible for planning, scheduling, tracking, coordinating, and monitoring complex projects. This involves facilitating communications between multi-functional/multi-site team members and senior management to ensure timelines and goals are met. Implemented New Asset Accounting. Part of Financial transformation team for Simple Finance and work as manager to building thought leadership and collateral around this topic globally. Working with Financial Director to ensure New G/L is implemented and CFO objectives are met. Working on advisory role to the customer on financial solutions on SAP implementation. Ensuring G/L Accounts migrated from standard G/L to new G/L. Ensure Document Splitting and Segment Reporting in New GL for Profit Center Group. Working with a team of SAP Financial consultants and help them configure profit center accounting and cost center accounting. Configuration for Parallel Accounting and Parallel Ledgers in New GL. Working with SAP consultants to meet the CFO objective for profit center group configuration for Inter-company scenarios. Responsible to configure and set up procurement cycle with FI including automatically PR, PO, IR/GR process. Ensure qualitative aspects of the program are implemented. Ensure PMO Governance and SOX compliance.

FICO Sub team Lead for SAP ECC 6.0 EHP6 IS Retail Implementation using ASAP Methodology involving phases of Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live Support.

Lead FI-Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable design workshops and validation sessions, capturing business requirements, performing fit/gap analysis, designing and documenting Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes, creating functional specifications, coordinating team tasks/deliverables.

Lead FSCM enhancement and worked with treasury team to re-design cash flow, cash management, dispute management.

Configured Bank accounting. Responsible for creation of house banks and configuring the Payment Program with the related Bank Accounting Sub module Transactions in order to outsource payment execution to Bank of America for said counties, including configuration and training of team members to facilitate configuration for 34 sites worldwide. This included an analysis of the current banking structure and interfacing with the bank responsible for the ‘single source’ data transfer approach.

SAP Sr. Analyst

Cognizant Tech Solution I Sept, 2011 – April 2014

Managing teams across multiple geographies (US, Europe, and India). Working with customer for transition activities. Contract Management and Stakeholder Management. Ensuring legal compliance and Vendor Management. Ensure Work Orders and Invoices are up to date for various work streams. Manage hiring and firing of resources. Participate in Metric scoring of the services provided to the customer and thereafter perform any changes to team as required to improve delivery and customer satisfaction. Work with Alliance Manager from SAP to ensure quick resolutions for business issues. Handled SAP roll out and support. Handled accounting determination configurations for FI-MM and FI-SD integration. Was responsible for cut over data related asset balances and GL balances. Supported Year end, Quarter end and Month end activities. Carried Z reports reconciliations and analysis

SAP Release Lead

TCS Sept, 2011 – Sept, 2012

Managed Minor Release for GTO II Company Code Conversion, as a Project Manager for Target Finance. The project had multi-million dollar implementation budget. Project team consisted of fifteen plus on and offshore team. Ensured project SLAs were met for development, testing, and support. Provided value by providing program improvements and efficiency across testing phases. Implemented qualitative process steps to programs in order to meet PMO Governance and required finance components were SOX compliant. Facilitated testing meetings, developed statuses, drafted daily testing communications. Published senior leadership communication PowerPoint presentations. Managing and co-coordinating on-site and offshore finance resources, Responsible for planning, scheduling, tracking, coordinating, and monitoring complex projects. Worked with Financial Director to ensure New G/L is implemented and CFO objectives are met. Worked on treasury module in Lock box processing, Bank accounts, Manual and Electronic Bank statements, Bills of Exchange and Cash journal.

SAP FICO Analyst

Wipro July 2008 - September 2011

Created Functional Design Specifications for RICEF Objects. Responsible for creating the Functional documents for configuration as part of system validation. Determined the scenarios for testing by understanding the business requirements and developed the test scripts. Created test scenarios and test scripts for GL, AP, AR, AA, and RICEF Objects. Participated in developing traceability matrix mapping user requirements to business process maps to configuration and customization documents.

Conducted Requirement gathering sessions with various newspaper units to gather their AS-IS financial process. Working with Order Management and Pricing group to design key master data components (Booking Unit (individual and Combined), Content Components, Rate Cards, Billing data sets. Managed all preparation of Blueprint design documents for General Ledger, Business Partner, Credit, Management and Receivables IS Media GL String account determination. Prepared functional spec for Ceridian payroll feed to GL. Conducted FIT Gap Sessions to gather North America (US and Canada) AS-IS business requirements. Prepared GL, AR, AP, Banking Costing design documents and presented to Finance Mangers.

SAP FICO Consultant

Adventsoft I August 2003 – Jun 2008

Designed new custom reports per user requirement. Developed Configuration of SAP-FI Module for the identified processes. New GL implementation with document splitting and parallel ledger features. Completed Integration Testing and User Training. Supported users in UAT (User Acceptance Testing). Processed Mass data upload using LSMW. Developing the End-user Manuals, Test Cases & Test Scripts.

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science in Finance, Graduated in 2003

Bowling Green State University, OH

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