PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Excellent strategist for Finance and Controlling along with Project Systems solution architecture providing for best practice SAP implementations.

Architectural level in cross-collaboration of FI, CO, PS, SD, MM, and PP and in various industries

Expertize level of Sales support on SAP Estimation and Manage full sales cycle

Lean process development for offshore project management

Skilled to plan SAP implementations for accelerated closings, LEAN (optimal) configurations and tactical business process flow.

Strong project management skills; experienced in organizing, planning, and executing projects from vision through implementation, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors; ability to analyze project needs and determine resources needed to meet objectives.

9 full life cycle SAP implementations: Multiple experiences with NEW GL and It’s configuration and Strategy.

Strategic IT leader with a broad background in strategic visioning, tactical & operational planning and management, global rollout and effective & relevant system/process design.

Excellent experience in PTP and QTC Cycles and Legacy Data Conversion (LSMW).

15 years of SAP hands-on configuration experience in various SAP Core Modules.

8 of those 14 years in solution architecture and project management along with hands-on guidance and practical solution.

SAP project experience with all project stages including business development, project scoping, requirements definition, gap analysis, business process reengineering, issue resolution, configuration, custom code specifications, training, go-live assistance and post implementation support.

10 years of business functional finance experience prior to SAP in the Finance and Controlling functions, Investment Management, Project System and FSCM.

Strong SAP experience with training development and delivery on SAP FICO/FSCM/PS; as well planning enterprise level training strategy and programs.

Worked with multiple Tax requirements and third party tax software: Vertex, Sabrix, Taxware: in various countries including the US, Australia, Brazil, Mexico Japan, France, UK and UAE.

Business process re-engineering, strategic project management standards, ASAP method and steps, and IMG practices.

A proven track record on configuring best business strategy in General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Asset Accounting (Asset Management), Project Systems and Treasury parts of FI and Cost Element Account (CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Product Costing, Profitability Analysis & Profit Center Accounting parts of CO, JVA (Joint Venture Accounting) in IS Oil & Gas.

SKILLS/TOOLS:

FI Module: GL, AR, AP, Special purpose Ledger, Fixed Assets, Investment Mgmt & Travel Management, New GL Migration

CO Module: Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing & COPA, Profit Center Management

ECCS: Configuration, Data Consolidation, Currency Configuration with multiple currencies, reporting

Project Systems: Customized configuration for PS system, including Net Work Activity – WBS Elements

FSCM: Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank statement processing, risk management, cash management posting rules, exchange rates, planning, integration with MM and SD

BI/BW: Basic Configuration /Customization, Production Planning Module

Reporting Skills: Report Writer & Report Painter

ABAP/4: Exposure to BDCs, SAP Scripts, ALE, EDI, & BAPIs

Integration: FICO integration with PP, PM, PS, MM, SD, AM and HR

Basis/Security: Developments SOX FICO Roles, User Access and User Management

Tools: LSMW, Vertex, Taxware, GLSU, Back Office Tools, Informatica, ViewDirect, RSS CATT, Mercury Testing Tools, RWD UPerform, recite, InfoPak, SnagIt, STT

Methodology: ASAP Methodology, Solution Manager, To Be Documentation, AS IS Documentation

Training: Key User Training & End user Training Development, Course Curriculum development with the help of SnagIt, UPerform and MS Offices

Industry Experience:

Oil and Gas

Chemical

Nuclear / Utilities

Financial Services

Public Sector Services

Manufacturing

Clients in SAP

Period: January – 1998 onwards

My previous clients are as follows:

Accenture / Devon Energy

Accenture / HESS Energy

Accenture / DOW Chemical

Deloitte / Cadence Design System

Deloitte/ Caterpillar Mining Group

Noble Energy (US)

STP Nuclear Operating Company (US)

AmiriSource Bergen (US)

AUSBATAR (Australia)

Australia Post (Australia)

Australian Wheat Board (Australia)

Baker Oil Tools (US; Australia & Dubai)

BCI Training Institute (US)

BN Infotec Training Institute (US)

City of Houston (US)

Enron Energy Corporation (US)

First Line Security (US)

Grass Valley Group (US)

IES Inc (US)

Johnson Taylor (US)

Lamson (A Mitsubishi Company) (US)

Lexmark (US, Brazil)

Maynickless Pty Ltd. (Australia)

NOVOLYTE (US & China)

Scorpion (US)

Shell International E & P (US)

Sixth Gear (US)

Trend Inc (Philippines)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Deloitte Consulting, Houston, TX

August 2013 Onward

SAP SPECIALIST MASTER – SAP FICO/PS/BPC/Simple Finance

Client Management and Project Management Activities

Led SAP PS/CO Realignment project for Global Mining Company

Led New GL Migration project for Global High Tech Client.

Led the approach and managed the consistent execution of the following across the Finance team and Shared service center for Design and Blueprinting phase, Gathering requirements; developing standardized business processes, sub-processes, activities and work steps; planning and executing business workshops

Led and conducted multiple working sessions and workshops with business users to define new process for end to end business process

Leading Simple Finance Activities including Central Journals and helping development of various applications.

Support and provide an accurate estimation on project in the terms of resources, solutions and total architecture

Provide and Introduce new technology and future path to the various stages of client introduction and management

Developing a functional specification, lead the New GL FI configuration, conducted comprehensive unit testing, integration test script development and testing and master data and transactional data conversion and go live production support.

Successfully migrated from the classic GL to New GL ECC 6.0

Reporting on weekly status, tracking overall progress against plan; Identifying potential Issues and Risks and taking required action.

Technical Environment: SAP ECC 6.0; HPQC; uPerform; SnagIT;

Accenture, Houston, TX

November, 2010 to August 2013.

SR FICO/PS/CPM Manager

Lead SAP CPM - PS/IM Domain

Managing Team and providing value added business process and technical design for Project Management with PS and IM.

Lead and Manage Capital Project Management team, including internal (Onside and Off-site) and external employees of Accenture along with managing resources for clients.

Developed strategic solution to meet client's needs

Helped configured PS and IM, including to provide unique solutions on Settlements

Managed their 80000 project conversion, Lead in design, data conversion tactics, test program and load along with train almost 20 plus resources on Project conversion.

Integration with JVA and support effective cut back process..

Manage a project within budget

Develop the internal resources to the next level

Lead multiple workshops - in person/ online and offline

Develop strong relationships with various external parties SAP / Third Party

Support peers, and became manatee to many consultants and analyst.

Develop various RFP and Sales work for future at current client places.

Develop outside of the current client, help various clients as SME.

Support Sales and manage Solution

Houston Community College System, Houston, TX (Part Time and Partial Voluntary)

October, 2006 to Onward

SR FICO/PS/MM/SD/Business Process Training Courses

Train and Develop various training courses / Classes

Lead HCCS SAP Training Educational Curriculum

Recruit highly talented SAP Consultant and motivates them to train the next generation.

Noble Drilling, Houston, TX

October, 2010 to November, 2010

SR FICO/PS Consultant

SAP FICO/PS Support and Advisory on System/Process

STP Nuclear Operating Company (Bay City), Houston, TX

March 2009 to October 2010

SR FICO/PS Team Lead

SAP FICO/Travel Management Project Work

Develop Demo System for Testing various business scenarios

Develop Project Strategy for implementation

Configuration of Travel management – Travel Planning – Expense – Integration with AMEX and other banking systems

AS IS Discovery Development – Through Various Workshops with the help of the Brown Paper method along with ASAP

TO BE Documentation Development – Through Various Workshops with the help of the Brown Paper method along with ASAP

Pre-project study, Business blueprint revision for FI, CO, PS, Gap implementation for ECC module, realization for CO-PS, FI modules, including multiple company's codes, unit tests, integration test, cut over (data preparation and data migration). SAP version ECC 6.0. (Project still in progress)

Development of training material using to uPerform for end to end scenarios.

Configuration of FERC Reporting and Analysis

Baker Hughes (US, Australia & Dubai)

2006 to 2009

SAP FI/CO

Worked closely with management to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs.

Translated these needs in systems requirements and design specifications.

Refined conceptual system design requirements in resulting technical design

Identified gaps between business process requirements and SAP application functionality

Worked very closely with Product Costing and Profitability Analysis.

Configured Lock Box and Bank Interfaces in Australia and UK

Conducted a workshop on NEW GL and their functionality.

Migrated data from traditional GL to new GL

Completed a FI CO SAP Divisional Implementation in Australia and UK.

Developed Blueprinting Documentation

Redesigned Processes for more effective results

Developed and configured Controlling – CCA – PCA – OCM – Product Costing

Integrated SAP CO within the areas of Production, Production Planning and Materials Management.

Provided SAP Roll output – met SOX requirements.

Developed Training Documentation for End Users

Payment Methods – met Europe Terms as UK Bank was primary Bank.

Completed a FI CO SAP Divisional Implementation for Dubai (Manufacturing environment)

Configured Process order improvements

Made Process improvement in Controlling (Manufacturing environment)

Coordinated Manufacturing Finance and supported the Manufacturing Finance Team.

Introduced new functionality in SAP

Lead team horizontally as well as vertically

Provided project management

Cleaned Fixed Assets.

Completed Bar Coding and Tagging

Worked on JV Scan Project

Utilized Data Dump and Reporting System

Used Fixed Assets and Rental Equipment

Worked on VAM Royalty Project developing processes, which helped the company save 50% of payments.

Developed Manufacturing Leadership Team Reporting

Grass Valley Group (US)

2005 to 2006

Senior Consultant – FICO

Served as team lead of the global implementation of five countries.

Developed specification of mapping strategy between Legacy System – SAP

Development and configured payment program for wire transfers, local checks, centralized check printing and direct deposits

Configured electronic banking and automatic bank reconciliation

Developed and trained on periodic and annual closing procedures for FICO and cross stream modules.

Worked on Credit Management and Correspondence

Worked on budgeting, commitment management and automatic upload of CCA and PCA budgets

Worked on COPA, Cost Run and Production Costing

Experienced with Lock boxes for International Requirements, including UK, France and Germany

Developed various bank interfaces in US, UK, France, Japan, Australia and Hong Kong

Configured payment methods, i.e. Bill of Exchange

Worked on vertex configurations on the SAP side and worked on exception designing.

Developed functional specifications for various custom reports

Configured necessary settings for various transactions like revaluation, transfer, retirement of assets, acquisition of assets, post-capitalization, etc.

Determined the sequence for scheduling the various background jobs and created variants to be used while creating jobs on Maestro.

Configured and tested the lockbox for accounts receivable payments.

Developed integration test scripts and tested them in coordination with SD, PP and MM modules.

Prepared training material and trained key users and end users.

Supported multiple sites spread across North America and provided light support to EU sites.

Worked on automatic and manual clearing and foreign-currency revaluations

IT Staffing Company

2000 to 2002

SAP Consultant

Involved in requirement analysis and analyzing the existing system for As Is the study

Gathered functional requirements through user workshops

Configured company code, posted period variants, opened posting periods, fiscal year variants, field status groups, document ranges, and tolerance groups and assigned the variants to company code, etc.

Configured and customized G/L, created G/L accounts, customized screen layouts for document entry, automatic account assignments, financial statement version, validation and substitutions.

Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules, including a creation of vendor and customer master records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination and default account assignments.

Configured house banks, payment programs, automatic payment methods and alternate bank selections for payments, check management through assigning number of ranges for check lots and check printing.

Customized settings for clearing and posting in foreign currencies and for exchange rate differences, gains and losses on valuation, realization and translation

Identified one-time vendors and defined a separate screen layout for them

Configured different payment terms, with day limits were required and specification of baseline date.

Created Reconciliation accounts for vendors and customers

Configured automatic interest calculations on account balances and line items

Configured posting documents in different currencies for down payment, posting net of cash discounts, cash discounts, under/over payment, reason codes and clearing across currencies.

Shell International E & P (US)

Provided Reporting Analysis – Health, Safety and Environment.

Analyzed reports for HSE with the use of Access, Excel and VB

Developed Contract Database for analysis and gathering information (Access and Excel)

Designed and implemented a multi-user resource Contract Management application using Access 2000 (the application helped senior management and other staff members)

Enron Energy Corporation (US)

Completed Gas and Electric Contract Analysis

Involved in Forecasting and Budget (Annual and Monthly) Preparation for Management

Helped the Finance and Accounting Team with Month Ending Processes.

Reconciled G/L, prepared Trial Balance for Director of Accounting.

Maintained GL Account

Analyzed Process and Data Analysis – Mapping (IT Business)

Completed Report Analysis – P&L, Balance sheet and Flow Statements

Completed Product Costing under Variant Configuration under Various Scenarios namely Make to Order, Make to Stock and Trading Goods

Configured the Cost Estimates and Cost Collection Model.

Configured Assets Management – Calculation of Depreciation and Accumulated Deprecations

Completed a Profitability Analysis: Drew up the Characteristics and Value Fields Table and Mapping it on SAP

Ensured that all the Revenues and Cost Postings flow in correctly.

Mapped Business Processes (Understood the current As Is processed and identified the gaps)

Developed a Forecasting and Variance Reporting tool for Senior Management (Excel, Access and VBA)

Involved in Cost Center Accounting and Cost Element Accounting, including Assessment and Distribution

Internal Order Setup and Settlement Configuration

Prepared Variance Reporting with the help of the SAP FICO Module

Maintained 18 Projects in SAP PS

Bridged SAP and Business – IT Team

Supported staff members in Month End Processes

IT Staffing Company

1999 to 2001

SAP Consulting

Johnson Taylor (Australia)

Completed Report Analysis, Outsourcing - Finance Modeling and Data Analysis for their clients

Developed a Reporting System.

Documented technical information as well as a Help Menu

Helped HR department in payroll with their HR software

Provided training to the HR Staff

Provided support to HR for SAP FICO

Developed training materials for FICO and HR

Delivered training to employees

Australia Post (Australia)

Maintained the existing Key Performance Indicator System (KPI)

Formulated a subsystem was automated, faster and more accurate than the existing KPI that helped to reduce the timings.

Completed Base Configuration of FI (GL, AP, AR) and FI-MM-SD Interface

Mapped Processed including Process Costing (Activity Based Process Mapping and Analysis)

Documented SAP FICO technical information as well as a Help menu.

Developed a report and helped Electronic Data Transfer from the Monarch System to the Text System

Implemented the “General Ledger Reconciliation System” (GLR) that helped to generate all the required information for the Management.

Developed the GLR System for Finance and Accounting.

Designed independently using ERD and other tools.

Generated Management Reports on a weekly, monthly and ad-hoc basis with the help a designed and developed system as part of an Executive Information System with the help of Access and Visual Basic.

Designed, developed and implemented a commission system that reports state and all clients.

Designed, developed and implemented a system for banking to solve the client’s query.

Developed and implemented "AP Productivity System" to monitor team performance of the Accounts Payable Team.

Worked on SAP Fixed Assets providing easy access to the Fixed Assets Management and Team

Australian Wheat Board (Australia)

Was responsible for the implementation of the SAP CO module.

Provided blueprints and configured for the CO module.

Coordinated integration walk through, integration tests and user acceptance tests

Deployed a cut over plan.

Completed Cost Analysis for Inventories

Provided Forecasting and Expenses Analysis.

Reconciled Accounts

Helped with the Contingency Plan

Maynickless Pty Ltd. (Australia)

Restructured Accounting System (Excel, Access and SAP)

Prepared all Month Ending Accounting Procedures for groups of hospitals.

Provided Report Development with SAP FI (Access and Excel)

Forecasted Revenue Analysis and Reconciliation

NON-SAP POSITIONS:

American Insurance Group (AIG), Houston, TX, 2004 to 2005, Budget Project Manager/Senior Analyst IT Charge Back – Finance

The Salvation Army, Dallas & Houston, TX, 2003 to 2004, Regional Accountant

OTHER SAP RELATED TRAINING:

Project Management – Project Management Institute, Houston

Training in SAP R/3 – SAP FICO - A Private Institute in Melbourne, Australia. (March, 1999)

Training in SAP R/3 – SAP PP – SAP Education in Toronto - and Montreal, Canada. (December, 2006)

Training in SAP R/3 – SAP PS – On Job Training @ Enron Energy

Training in ECC.60 – SAP Travel Management – SAP America (November, 2009)

Training New GL with ECC

Train The Trainer SAP Training (Jun – 08 with SAP)

Training in BI 7.0

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Information Technology (MBIT) – RMIT – Australia – March, 2000

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - La Trobe – Australia – April, 1998

Master of Commerce (MCom) – Gujarat – India – June, 1996

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) – Gujarat – India – June, 1994

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