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Ellicott City, MD
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130000 USD
Posted:
December 25, 2016

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Professional Summary

Company

Role

From

To

Stanley Black and Decker (SBD)

Sr. Software Development Analyst-FICO-SAP (IT Dev Grp)

**-***-**

Till Date

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

Managing Consultant(SAP)/Project Manager

22-Sep-08

12-Feb-16

IBM

Project Lead (SAP)

2-Mar-05

19-Sep-08

Tata Motors

Deputy Manager(SAP & Business )

2-Nov-95

28-Feb-05

Sahara India (Airlines)

Asst. Manager

10-May-1993

25-Oct-1995

17+years of SAP experience (Total 23 years of experience) with all project stages including requirements determination, gap analysis, business process reengineering, issue resolution, configuration, custom code specifications, training, go-live assistance and post implementation support.

5 years and 8 Months domain experience in Finance and Accounting in Automobiles and Airlines industry.

SAP has awarded “Certificate of Appreciation” for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to HAGL Project, Vietnam in the year 2012.

Got Client appreciation certificate in HAGL SAP implementation project

Have carried out five complete SAP R/3 end-to-end project implementation, one migration project, one roll out project, one upgrade project and Support Projects.

Detail-oriented, delivery-focused and able to motivate teams. Strong team orientation & leadership qualities, hardworking and enthusiastic.

Experienced with global delivery model including offshore development.

Hands-on industry and consulting experience with knowledge of SAP best practices in different industries e.g. repetitive manufacturing and ETO environments. Knowledge of automotive, engineering, telecommunication, FMCG industries and IT SAP implementation.

Excellent communication and presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.

Strong knowledge in all areas controlling module, including COPA, Project systems integration, Product costing including material ledger, Cost Centre accounting, Internal Orders, Profit center accounting.

Good understanding of New GL accounting, Accounts Payable and Accounts receivable.

Strong understanding of Business processes. Strong Process understating of Financial Management, Accounting, Auditing, Taxation, and Capital Management areas

Experience with integration of modules FICO with SD MM PP PS PM

Experience with IDOC processing and solving related issues

Basic ABAP debugging for custom and Standard SAP program

Expertise in reporting tools such as reporting Report painter, Query builder

Experience with RICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms

Data upload through LSMW and Testing through QTP.

Knowledge of ASAP methodology

Experience in Global template Implementation

Worked as a Subject Mater Expert (SME) for FICO

Core Skill

SAP –FICO

General Ledger (New GL) – Creation of chart of account, account groups,

Define Currencies for Leading Ledger, Define Ledger for General Ledger Accounting, Assigning Scenarios to Ledger, Activate Document Splitting,

Accounts Payable (AP) – Creation of Vendor account Groups, create and assign number ranges for vendors, Define tolerance groups, Vendor master, creation of reconciliation GL account, Document types and no. ranges, Vendor payment terms, Automatic payment program, Alternate reconciliation account for down payments.

Account Receivable (AR) – Creation of customer account groups, create and assign number ranges for customers, Define tolerance groups, payment terms, customer master, Dunning

Bank Accounting – Creation of bank Key, House bank, Global setting for electronic bank statement,

Treasury Management – Define Lockbox, define lockbox posting data, define source symbol

General controlling: Maintain Controlling area, number ranges and version

Cost Element Accounting (CEA): Configuration for auto creation of primary CEs, Secondary cost elements creation for various purposes,

Cost center accounting (CCA): Cost center Planning, Creation of Standard and Alternate hierarchy, Creating Statistical keys Figures, Activity type, Indirect Assessment and direct assessment cycles.

Internal Orders (IO): Order types, Budgeting and availability control, Settlement

Product costing (PCA) :, Costing Variant, Origin groups, Overhead calculation, costing sheet, Cost component structure, Material cost estimate, Product cost by period/order, Cost splitting, actual and plan price calculation, variance Analysis. Sound understanding of BOM, production order, activity planning and material master. Material ledger – Periodic Unit price, Material Price determination, actual costing, Single/multilevel price determination.

Profitability Analysis (COPA): COPA Structure: Define operating concern, Profitability segment Master data –COPA Characteristics, value fields, maintaining the derivation rules and valuation, Planning – Planning framework, planning aids. Flow of actual values– Sales order, billing, Settlement, Direct posting from FI/MM, COPA Assessment. Copa Reporting

Real-Time Integration of Controlling with Financial Accounting

CO Integration with: PS including result analysis, PP, SD and plant maintenance.

Parallel Currency valuation - Define currencies for leading ledger, Maintain exchange rate, Foreign Currency Valuation

Multiple language translation – Ttranslate the names of the G/L accounts for the desired languages, Define Report Writer languages with SAP transaction OKT4,GCRS.

Technical Skills

ERP Tools :Report Painter and LSMW

Support Tools :Remedy, SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN)

Testing tool :HPQC, QTP

Methodology : ASAP

General Tools: Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Project

Professional Experience

Stanley Black and Decker (SBD): From Feb-2016 to Till Date

Joined SBD in Feb 2016 as a Sr. Software Development Analyst SAP and currently working for IT development team who is responsible for Global roll out. Global roll out projects for manufacturing plants at different locations is intended to leverage business processes and technology proven best practices throughout all SBD transactional processes.

Stanley Black & Decker is a world-leading provider of tools and storage, commercial electronic security and engineered fastening systems, with unique growth platforms and a track record of sustained profitable growth.

1 Project Name

Stanley Black and Decker (Global Roll Out)

Start Date

15 Feb 2016

Client

SBD Internal

End Date

Till date

Project Location

Towson MD

Team Size handled (If applicable)

4

Project Responsibilities

Working as a FICO Solution lead for different Project. Global roll out cover GL, AP, AR, Treasury, taxation, product costing, Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Internal Orders, etc,

Interacting with users and gathering business requirements.

Responsible for delivery which includes development, Testing, configuration and project documentation

Coordination with Offshore team, IT Vendors on regular basis

Proper resourcing for offshore team

Project Contribution -

Worked with business for gathering business requirement and understanding of current business practices.

Worked for prototype for multiple currency valuation approach with Material ledger activation.

Costing Variant, Origin groups, Overhead calculation, costing sheet, Cost component structure, Material cost estimate, Product cost by period/order, Cost splitting, actual and plan price calculation, variance Analysis.

Direct activity Assessment and Indirect activity assessment.

COPA – Define operating concern, characteristics and value fields, Derivation rules, Reporting, COPA assessment

Internal Orders types, availability check and settlement

Allocation Structure for WBS, Orders and cost center settlements

Creation of Functional specification for complex developments

Worked with BW team for reports development

Worked for different project stages i.e. blueprint (design), configuration, WRICEF, testing (Unit, integration, regression, and month end test), Cutover and pre go live testing.

Support Change Request (CR) and Defect resolution through HPQC.

Worked for Creation of training assets in form of scripts using uPerform

Cut over activities, including data files preparation, loading, cleansing etc.

CSC-Computer Sciences Corporation (From Sep-08 to 15 Feb 2016)

Joined CSC in Sep-2008.CSC is a leading global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company. CSC has 80,000 employees in 80 countries worldwide. Presently working as a Managing Consultant.

1 Project Name

Financial Transformation Project (SAP Implementation)

Start Date

Jul 2013

Client

CSC Internal

End Date

Feb 2016

Project Location

Falls Church, Virginia, USA

Team Size handled (If applicable)

10

Finance Transformation Program is intended to leverage business processes and technology proven best practices throughout all F&A transactional processes.

Project Responsibilities

Working as a FICO Solution lead. The present implementation covers New GL, AP, AR, Treasury, taxation, Labor costing, Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Internal Orders, Service Orders etc,

Interacting with users and gathering business requirements.

Responsible for delivery which includes development, Testing, configuration and project documentation

Coordination with Offshore team on regular basis

Proper resourcing for offshore team

Risk and issue identification and resolution of the same

Coordinate with support team i.e Finance, Administration, resourcing etc

Project Contribution -

Worked with business for gathering business requirement and understanding of current business practices.

Developed a labor costing model for the use of big size service industry with emphasis on project accountability. Labor costing-Flow of employee/subcontractor cost from CATs to Controlling Objects, Plan activity price calculation, splitting, actual activity price calculation and Revaluation.

Flow of non-salary based cost to projects, Subcon, Travel etc. in RRICB and RRB scenario.

Direct activity Assessment and Indirect activity assessment.

COPA – Define operating concern, characteristics and value fields, Derivation rules, Reporting, COPA assessment

Internal Orders types, availability check and settlement

Settlement of WBS after result analysis to COPA,

Allocation Structure for WBS, Orders and cost center settlements

Functional area reporting

New GL, Creation of chart of account, account groups,

Define Currencies for Leading Ledger, Define Ledger for General Ledger Accounting, Assigning Scenarios to Ledger, Activate Document Splitting

Real time CO- FI reconciliation

Creation of Functional specification for complex developments

Worked with BW team for reports development

Worked for different project stages i.e. blueprint (design), configuration, WRICEF, testing (Unit, integration, regression, month end test), Cutover and pre go live testing.

Support Change Request (CR) and Defect resolution through HPQC.

Worked for Creation of training assets in form of scripts using uPerform

Interface with Ariba

Cut over activities, including data files preparation, loading, cleansing etc.

Period end activity

Integration with Project accounting

Collaborates and integration with other modules for providing best solution approach.

Interfaces -

CO – CATS – Time booking

FICO – SD – Resource related billing

FICO – SAP Travel management and Concur interface

FICO – Source to Supply - Subcon service entry sheet

CO- PS – Overhead calculation, Project settlement, reporting

2 Project Name

CSC Solutioning Team (Pre-Sales)

Start Date

Aug 2012

Client

CSC Internal

End Date

Jun 2013

Project Location

India

Team Size handled (If applicable)

4

Worked as a Solution Manger with pre-sales team and involved in solutioning for new bids. Specialization includes submitting cost effective model for Onshore and Offshore involvement at different phases of projects.

Understanding the scope of work

Efforts estimation

Resource planning

Risk identification and mitigation

Develop presentation material and demonstration scenarios for sales presentations which show how existing business processes can be mapped against R/3 or will need to be enhanced

3.Project Name

HAGL Veitnam SAP Implementaion

Start Date

Aug 2011

Client

HAGL Group, Vietnam

End Date

Jul ‘ 2012

Project Location

Vietnam

Team Size handled (If applicable)

8

Role / Responsibilities

FICO Lead

HAGL Group is a diversified group with capital of VND 2704 Billion and operation in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand. They have different industry like Power Generation, Mining, Real Estate, Furniture Hotel etc.

Contribution –

COPA reporting

Product Costing

Allocations

Internal Orders

WBS Settlement

New GL

Bank Accounting

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

4.Project Name

SAP Pre Configured solution for IM&C

Start Date

Apr 2011

Client

IM&C Solution

End Date

Jul 2011

Project Location

Noida Corporate Office

Team Size handled (If applicable)

10

Role / Responsibilities

FICO Lead

Contribution –

CSC developed Industrial Machinery and Components (IM&C) industry specific solution.

Installation of IM&C, Building block activation

Study of SAP recommended best practices for IM&C and modified wherever possible

Testing of E2E scenario for IM&C virtual implementation with the team as per modified best practices.

5.Project Name

SAP Implementation

Start Date

Aug 10

Client

INOX Wind Ltd

End Date

Mar 2011

Project Location

Noida Corporate Office

Team Size handled (If applicable)

15

Role / Responsibilities

FICO Lead

Inox Wind is a fully integrated player in the wind energy market with state-of-the-art manufacturing for blades& hubs.

Contribution –

Use of Unit costing in budgetary quotation

use of product costing in firm quotation and production process

Costing variant to use plan price as updated in material master

Use of origin groups to identify shop made, domestic, foreign procurement

Period end activities e.g. WIP calculation, variance and settlement of production orders

Creation of operating concern

Create desired characteristics and value fields

COPA Derivation of characteristics

WBS Settlement to COPA

Cost center residual settlement to COPA

Cost Center Standard Hierarchy creation

Cost center planning including activity planning

Use of Statistical Key figures for assessment

Internal order budgeting and settlement

6.Project Name

SAP Implementation

Start Date

Nov 09

Client

Petronash FZE Dubai

End Date

Aug 10

Project Location

Dubai

Team Size handled (If applicable)

3

Project Description:

Implementation of SAP ECC6.0 comprising of FI, CO, SD, MM and PS,PP,DMS,QM, modules.

Petronash FZE Dubai is a manufacturer of Chemical Injection Skids, Wellhead Control Panels, Process Equipment, Instrumentation Packages and Engineering Solutions to the Oil & Gas Industry. Certified to ISO 9001:2000 for Quality and OHSAS 18001 for Health Safety and Environment. Presently Petronash has presence in many countries in Middle east, Asia and Europe,

Role / Responsibilities

FICO Lead

Contribution:

General Ledger (New GL) – Creation of chart of account, account groups,

Define Currencies for Leading Ledger, Define Ledger for General Ledger Accounting, Assigning Scenarios to Ledger, Activate Document Splitting,

Accounts Payable (AP) – Creation of Vendor account Groups, create and assign number ranges for vendors, Define tolerance groups, Vendor master, creation of reconciliation GL account, Document types and no. ranges, Vendor payment terms, Automatic payment program, Alternate reconciliation account for down payments.

Account Receivable (AR) – Creation of customer account groups, create and assign number ranges for customers, Define tolerance groups, payment terms, customer master, Dunning

CO- Petronash comes under ETO industry. Controlling module is very effectively used here with integration to the project systems in the following area

Cost Centre accounting

Profit Centre accounting

Product costing - Costing Variant, Origin groups, Overhead calculation, Cost component structure, Material cost estimate, Product cost by period/order, Cost splitting, actual price calculation, WIP calculation, variance Analysis,

Profitability Analysis (COPA): Creating Operating Concern, Maintaining Characteristics, Maintaining User-Defined Characteristic. Maintaining Value Fields, Define Characteristic Derivation, Valuation, Assign Value Fields, Valuation Strategies, Set Up Valuation Using Material Cost Estimate, Assign Costing Keys to Material Type. Maintain Versions,Plan Settlement: Receiving Version in CO-PA,Maintain Revaluation Keys. Define Planning Levels,Define Planning Packages,Define Planning Methods (Parameter Set).Create Plan Assessment,Flows of Actual Values,Direct Posting from FI/MM,Define PA Transfer Structure for Settlement. Maintain PA Transfer Structure for Direct Posting,Transfer of Overhead,Contribution Margin Planning, Define Variables for Reports,Define Forms for Profitability Reports,Create Profitability Report Variables for report, forms for report, create reports, Planning Verisons, Layouts, Planning Methods, COPA master data, Transfer structures, COPA flows Project Systems including result analysis (RA)

Internal Order

Service order costing

7 Project Name

SAP Implementation

Start Date

Feb 2009

Client

Johnson Matheys India a automotive component manufacturer and is a specialty chemicals company focused on its core skills in catalysis, precious metals, fine chemicals and process technology. Johnson Matthey has operations in over 30 countries.

End Date

Oct 2009

Project Location

Manesar, Haryana, India

Team Size handled (If applicable)

2

Project Description:

Implementation of SAP ECC5.0 comprising of FI, CO, SD, MM and PP,QM, modules.

Johnson Matheys India is a specialty chemicals company focused on its core skills in catalysis, precious metals, fine chemicals and process technology. Johnson Matthey has operations in over 30 countries

Role / Responsibilities

FICO Lead consultant

Contribution:

Qty Planning in COPA and then transfer to Sales and operational planning

Product Cost Planning to derive Standard cost of the finished and semi-finished products.

Configured costing variant including valuation variant,

Costing sheet for overhead calculation

WIP Calculation

Variance Calculation

Production Order settlement

COPA performance reports

Cost Center Planning, Activity price planning (KP06 and KP26)

Plan assessment

Internal order for budget control and settlement

IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.( From Mar-05 to 19 Sep 08)

Worked as a “Project Lead and FICO team lead” in IBM. Also worked as a “Track Lead” for FICO for Vodafone client for different markets (presently there are 10 different countries for IBM to support).

8. Project Name

Project Migration (Develpoment and Support)

Start Date

Nov 2007

Client

Vodafone

End Date

Sep 2008

Project Location

Onsite - Spain and offshore- India

Team Size handled (If applicable)

10

Project Description:

Development and support of SAP ECC 4.6 comprising of FI, CO, SD, MM and PP,QM, modules.

Vodafone is a very big project for IBM in communication sector. It involves application development and application maintenance work for more than 20 countries in phases.

Worked as Project Lead, Track lead and FICO team lead - Done the migration of SAP application for Vodafone Spain client to IBM. Worked in all phases of migration e.g. guided perform, assisted perform, parallel perform and cutover. Also responsible for all migration deliverables and quality audit.

Role / Responsibilities

Project Lead

Contribution:

a)Prepared Application specific migration plan

Prepared Application Support Control Plan

Knowledge Transfer plan

Training Evaluation form

Weekly status reports e.g. Issue log, Status report, Risk analysis

Resource planning

Responsible for quality audit

b) After cut over –

Working in application development and application maintenance areas.

Interacting with the client and negotiating for targets and volume of work.

Resourcing and utilization

9 Project Name

SAP Implementation

Start Date

Feb 2007

Client

PepsiCo International, Egypt

End Date

Oct 2007

Project Location

Egypt and India

Team Size handled (If applicable)

Project Description:

PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient foods and beverages, with 2005 revenues of more than $32 billion and more than 157,000 employees. It consists of 4 major companies which includes PepsiCo International (PI) which is the company responsible for all its food and beverage business outside North America. In 2006, PI embarked upon a global initiative to implement SAP using a template approach over a period of 3 years. Initially three countries were selected for the preparation of Global Template 1.Egypt 2. China and 3 Netherlands.

Role / Responsibilities

CO – Sr. Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities

Cost Centre accounting

Profit centre accounting

Product costing

Profitability analysis

Internal Order

10 Project Name

Rollout and Support

Start Date

Mar 2005

Client

Nestle

End Date

Feb 2007

Project Location

Gurgaon India

Team Size handled (If applicable)

Project Description:

Nestle GLOBE project stands for “Global Business Excellence”. This is one of the largest SAP implementation projects ever undertaken, and contains apart from SAP R/3 various other technology platforms. The objective of the project is to unlock Nestlé’s business potential by creating and adapting common best business processes globally. The program approach is to build successive versions of a globe template that will be rolled out with increased functionalities and localize the globe template at a regional/market level and deploy it rapidly within individual markets

Role / Responsibilities

CO-Consultant

Contribution:

Started and established 24*7 “Support services” in Gurgaon. Worked as an Sustain Lead and FICO analyst in the sustain services for Nestle Markets from Nov-06- Jan 07

Worked for Learning &Training and Data Loading for Nestle for Sep-Oct-06.

Global roll out by doing Offshore CO configuration settings and documentation from Aug-05 to Aug 06 and also from 1st April to 8th May 2005 in the following areas-

Worked on support tool remedy and Peregrine

Worked as specialist for high priority tickets

Conducting RCA for defects and maintain defect data base

Interacting with business core team on regular basis

Roles & Responsibilities

Cost Centre accounting

Profit centre accounting

Product costing including material ledger

Profitability analysis

Internal Order

11. Project Name

Testing - QTP

Start Date

May 2005

Client

Philip Morris International

End Date

Jun 2005

Project Location

Australia and India

Team Size handled (If applicable)

Project Description:

Philip Morris International is one of the largest tobacco companies in the world with World headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The parent company of Philip Morris International is Altria Group. The Altria Group of company comprises of - Philip Morris International, Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris Capital Corporation & Kraft Foods.

Role / Responsibilities

Consultant

Contribution:

Worked on QTP Testing Tool 9(Mercury). Developed automated test scripts for testing.

Environment:

QTP

12 Project Name

Upgrade and support

Start Date

Jan 1999

Client

Tata Motors Ltd.

End Date

Feb 2005

Project Location

India

Team Size handled (If applicable)

1)AP – Vendor Payments

2)AR – Customer receivabales

3)Product costing, cost center accounting, Internal Orders,Cost Element accounting, Profit center accounting

4)Worked as a Business process owner and later switched over to upgration team.

Role / Responsibilities

Core Team Member /FICO Consultant

Educational Qualification –

Degree

Qualification

College / University / Institution

Year of Passing

Bachelors

Bachelor of Commerce

Lucknow University

1992

Professional Activities, Certifications & Training attended

Course / Certification Name

Institution

Year

Duration

Cost Accountancy

Institute of Cost and works Accountants of India

1992

3 years

SAP Profitability Analysis AC605

SAP India Training Academy

2005

SAP EC-CS AC660

SAP India Training Academy India

2006

SAP SEM 200 BW for SEM

Siemens India New Delhi

2006

Solution Manager (Solman)

IBM

2007

SAP Product Costing

IBM

2007

ITIL Process

CSC India P ltd.

2009

Global project management framework

CSC India P ltd.

2010

Training programs Conducted:

Course Name

Organization

Type

SAP Profitability Analysis

IBM Global Services

In-House (For FICO resources)

Employment History

Company Name

Designation

Start date

End Date

CSC

Managing Consultant

Sep 2008

Till Date

IBM India Pvt Ltd.

Project Lead

Mar 2005

Sep 2008

Tata Motors Ltd

Dy Manager

Nov 1995

Feb 2005

Sahara India (Airlines)

Asst. Manager

May-1993

Nov-1995

Achievements-

1.Got certificate of appreciation in CSC for C1 Project in 2015.

2.SAP has awarded “Certificate of Appreciation” for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to HAGL Project, Vietnam in the year 2012.

3.Got Client appreciation certificate in HAGL SAP implementation project

4.Got “Bravo Awards” in IBM in 2005 and 2006 and 2008.

5.Thank you award of IBM in 2007.

6.IBM Sustain Star Award-2006

7.IBM - Client Appreciation Letter 2006 and 2007

8.Recognized as One of the best SAP consultant in IBM in 2008.

Visa Information –

Country

Visa Valid

Canada PR

Received Jul 2015

USA,H1B

Dec-2018

USA, L1A

Dec-2016

Vietnam

Aug-2012

Australia

12-Feb-14

UK

July 2011

Dubai

12-Feb-10

Spain

01-Apr-08

Egypt

20-Aug-07

Australia

11-Aug-05

Personal Details:

Contact phone : 703-***-****

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