Rakesh K Sharma

SAP FI/CO Consultant – Chicago IL

Email: acy3gn@r.postjobfree.com

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Profile Summary

Eighteen years of experience working with Management Information Systems. Twelve years of SAP FI/CO ERP systems experience. Extensive background in analyzing client’s business requirements and designing solutions to support them. Strong knowledge of financial business processes and configuration approaches to implement SAP FI/CO. Manage onshore and offshore team members and deliver high quality deliverables under compressed and aggressive timelines, within budget and project timeline. Closely work with client team members’ right from requirement gathering process to delivering the objects as per the defined scope.

Functional Experience

•SAP-Financials: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting.

•Master Data Maintenance

•Data Validation & Cleansing

•Requirements Analysis

•RICEFW Definition

•Enterprise Application Integration

Education

Master of Commerce (Part 1) University of Mumbai – Accounting & Finance

Bachelors of Commerce University of Mumbai – Accounting & Finance

Project Experience

Client/Company : MAT Holdings Inc

Duration : January 2015 - Present

Assigned Role : IT Analyst

Present job involves support business users from Americas, Asia and Europe on SAP FICO application, resolving the issues encountered during their day to day use of finance and other related modules within SAP application. Work on project roll outs of SAP application to new sites. Serve as the FICO SME, design, build, customize and implement SAP FICO to new sites. Work on uploading legacy finance data into present SAP system. Lead testing efforts with the users and fix issues raised during User Acceptance Test. Work with Key users to establish new and improve existing processes and procedures.

Client/Company : TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LTD – (Employed with Accenture)

Project : MPI ERP Implementation

Project Duration : July 2014 - November 2014

Assigned Role : Business Analyst

Worked as FICO Consultant supporting the Finance team from Build thru Go-Live. Leading the testing efforts with the client and offshore team. Coordinated and worked on Assembly Test (AT), System Integrations Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Test (UAT), with Takeda IT, Accenture offshore team and Takeda Business Users. Worked on defect management, raising issues reported by the business in the incident tracker tool in SharePoint during testing phases, and later in the ITSM tool for Post Production hyper care activities. Work with the offshore team in fixing issues raised and guide them in providing solutions to close the defects. Followed up with other teams on issues raised/encountered by Finance users and worked with them till a resolution was provided for the same.

Client/Company : PFGC Inc. (Employed with Accenture)

Project : Plan/Mobilize for Dual ERP Implementation

Project Duration : February 2014 - March 2014

Assigned Role : FI CO Lead

Created detailed work plan for SAP FICO ECC implementation project.

Client is installing new SAP systems for ECC, Solution Manager, GRC, and SAP Portal. Worked on creating a detailed work plan for plan, design, built and deployment of SAP FICO for the new technical built of SAP.

Client/Company : TARGET (Employed with Accenture)

Project : Target Canada Expansion

Project Duration : October 2013 - January 2014

Assigned Role : Business Function Design Architect

Responsible for solution across associated processes. Involved in estimation reviews of new change requests, enhancements and incidents. Responsible for supporting delivery teams with cross application coordination of process & technical issues. Work with deployment teams (i.e. Stores/DC) to support/triage deployment issues tied to individual capabilities.

Client/Company : 3M CORPORATION (Employed with Accenture)

Project : 3M EMEA CoE Project

Project Duration : December 2011 - August 2013

Assigned Role : Business Process Architect

Design SAP Finance business processes, including characteristics and key performance indicators (KPI), to meet process and functional requirements. Work closely with the Application Architect to create the process blueprint and establish business process requirements to drive out application requirements and metrics. Assist in quality management reviews ensure all business and design requirements are met. Educate stakeholders to ensure a complete understanding of the design.

Responsible for GL Master Data conversion and GL Balance conversion loads from Legacy system to SAP ECC.

Working with the business user and the Master Data Management team for conversion of GL Master Data and GL Balances. Involved in specifying the process to convert/map the legacy data to SAP. Documenting the tasks and activities involved during the conversion process, and helping in validation and verification of data that is uploaded into SAP ECC system.

Client/Company : UNILEVER (Employed with Accenture)

Project : Cordillera - US

Project Duration : August 2011 - November 2011

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

Provide functional and technical expertise to plan, analyze, define and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities for SAP Finance application. Involved with Application Management (AM) team, in preparing them for Post-Go Live support activities by coordinating with configuration team to give Knowledge Transfer sessions to the offshore team. Responsible for creating variants for General Accounting batch jobs and customized transactions batch jobs related to interface with external system. Worked with Business users to confirm that the jobs are running as per the requirements. Involved in writing of functional specification on customized transactions and work along with the developer to get the program work as per the business requirements.

Client/Company : EMC (Employed with Accenture)

Project : Propel

Project Duration : March 2011 - May 2011

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

Worked in the Finance team till end of design phase, leading two offshore resources in writing of functional specifications for BI reports. Reviewed and provided feedback to offshore resources on the functional specifications document written by them. Also involved in writing of functional specification on interface programs between SAP and legacy system. Worked along with EMC Process Leads during the review and final approval process of functional specification documents. During the writing of functional specifications, interacted with finance team as well as cross team functional consultants in understanding logistics side of business process and functionalities configured in SAP ECC implementation.

Client/Company : US Department of Agriculture (Employed with Accenture)

Project : FMMI (Financial Management Modernization Initiative)

Project Duration : July 2010 - November 2010

Assigned Role : Business Process Development Specialist

Worked on FMMI As Built Documentation Review project. The main objective of the project was to perform a review of the FMMI Deployment 1 system documentation in order to update the documentation to match the 'as built' FMMI solution. Later the updated Deployment 1 FMMI documentation shall be uploaded to the SAP Solution Manager Business Process repository (as applicable) in order to facilitate the use of SAP Configuration control features in Solution Manager.

The FMMI implementation underwent a rapid series of government directed changes as operations began on 10/10/2009, and the documentation needed to be first verified against the "as built" solution, and updated as any discrepancies are found, then later shall be loaded into Solution Manager.

The configuration documents were updated by cross checking latest configurations in the SAP system. The functional specification and technical specification documents were updated by going through all the change requests that were created and moved into production system. This activity involved verifying all transports created under the change requests and accordingly updating the interface programs Technical specs with help of the developers.

Client/Company : McKesson Corporation (Employed with Capgemini)

Project : BPR Foundation Project

Project Duration : September 2008 - January 2009

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

Worked on BPR Foundation Project at McKesson Providers Technology for their Phase I Blueprint. Part of the finance team who were responsible for drawing the initial blue print for the project. Helped in creating Functional Design Documents (FDD) for Finance modules - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP).

- Conducted interviews with users to gather requirements and to understand the workflow of the As-Is system.

- Analyzed workflow to design solutions and designed the To-be solution

- Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.

- Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and system requirements.

- Refined business requirements, developed a list of interfaces, reports and data conversions.

Client/Company : Alliance One International Inc (Employed with Capgemini)

Project : Onelink Project

Project Duration : March 2008 - July 2008

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

Worked on Onelink Project at Alliance One for their Phase I realization & implementation. Configuration of Accounts Payable module was done as per the requirements specified in Business Design Document. Helped the Training team by creating transactional data for training classes.

- Created payment methods and assigned House Banks for Automatic Payment Process

- Worked on Bank Interfaces for ACH, Wires and Positive Pay file process.

- Worked on financial inventory report as per their legacy reporting requirements.

- Helped in loading Bank Master Data for all country codes.

- Helped the Training team by preparing the training client by loading required master data and following up with other consultants to carry out required manual configurations.

- Created and prepared transactional data for all modules (PTP, OTC, FTM) for the training classes.

Client/Company : Philips Lighting N.A. (Independent contractor)

Project : CLIA project

Project Duration : January 2006 - October 2007

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

Worked on CLIA (Common Layer Information Architecture) project, for SAP R/3 related customizing actions.

- Objective of implementing CLIA was to assure that the required data becomes available in the various BW's in a consistent way.

- This involved changing the naming concept of Profit Centers, Functional Areas, adding Trading Partner functionality and configuration of Special Purpose Ledger with creation of Consolidated Transaction Types (CTT).

- CLIA After-Care support fixing issues faced during Business Consolidation (BCS) uploads.

- Coordinate and work with European consultants working from Netherlands and make the R/3 system CLIA Compliant.

- Worked on Philips Payment Factory (PPF) project related to centralized wire transfer payments to vendors carried out by Philips Corporate Treasury as per the payment advice sent through secured and digitally signed/encrypted outbound IDocs.

- This involved implementing E2E (end to end) secure payment flow in SAP within Philips.

- Secure Store and Forward (SSF) mechanism was followed using digital signatures to protect the integrity of the data.

- Validating the new configuration changes, by carrying out unit testing.

- Executing interface programs to ensure that FI postings are as per the expected results and take necessary corrective actions to fix errors encountered due to above changes.

- Carry out configuration changes required because of CLIA requirements.

- Preparation of Test Scripts for Integration testing covering all business process that would be impacted because of CLIA implementations.

- Creating test scripts required for FI testing with new expected results. Coordinating with other functional module experts to provide test scripts.

- Work along with ABAP programmer for writing conversion programs to carry out direct table updates.

- Redefining PCA distribution cycles taking into consideration new changes required due to above configurations, so that uploads at BCS side do not fail.

Client/Company : Delphi Automotive (Independent contractor)

Project : OLIMPIC

Project Duration : January 2005 - January 2006

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

- Work on the migration project from legacy system OLIMPIC to SAP on Indirect Purchasing

- Carried out configuration of Automatic Payment Process (APP) extending the payment methods and banks to new company codes.

- Maintained the interface between Accounts Payable & DACOR legacy system through which payments to the vendors are carried out.

- Created batch jobs for APP as well as for the DACOR interface process.

- Updating and maintaining the cross reference tables used during the upload process carried out during the Dry runs in quality system as well as during the dynamic data loads in production system.

- Loaded the Payment Vendor Master in the production system through execution of customized program after validating the data in quality system.

- Created new customized reports in SAP, which were used in the earlier legacy system

- Created new map files and templates used in the JV upload process in Excel with add-on components installed.

Documentation & Training

- Documented and trained the users in APP process of carrying out invoice receipts and selection of invoices for payment process up to creation of IDocs sent to their legacy system DACOR.

- Trained end-users in fixing "day to day" errors that could occur during the invoicing process.

- Documented and trained the user in the JV upload process. Right from entering valid data in the excel spreadsheet to uploading the same in SAP from a customized program.

- Executing SAP standard program to automatically create purchase invoice document through a JV.

- Documented and trained the users on new reports created and showed them the process flow of running the reports.

Client/Company : Medtronic Inc. (Independent contractor)

Project : Medtronic

Project Duration : January 2004 - November 2004

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

Business Process Analysis and Re-engineering

- Refined business requirements, developed a list of interfaces, reports and data conversions.

- Managed functional specifications to provide version control and traceability-Document Management

General Ledger

- Defined templates for configuring recurring entries in GL postings.

- Defined tolerance groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, fiscal year variants, field status groups.

- Customized the screens for document entry, document reversals, invoices, and payments.

Accounts Payable

- Configured Accounts Payables (AP)

- Defined house banks, bank accounts, reason codes and check lots

- Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments for company

- Integrated AP with MM module

Project Management, training and end-user support:

- Documented and delivered end-user manuals and training material(s)

- Supported all "post go-live" questions and training needs

Client/Company : Baan ERP Relevant Experience

Project : Baan

Project Duration : February 1996 - June 2003

Assigned Role : Functional Design Specialist

Six (6) plus experience on Baan ERP systems, specializing in Finance & Logistics package.

- Job responsibilities on Baan applications specialized in Finance included education, implementation, project management, customization, business process improvement, business process re-engineering and post implementation support.

- Extensively worked with the end users and key users of the client in studying and analyzing their functional requirements, which were not available in standard Baan applications. Most of the times provided them with most cost effective solutions.

- Worked extensively with the development team within the client organization as well as the external consultants used by the client. Assisted the development team by advising them of the best possible options to help them code better and complete their customizations on time as per the requirements and satisfaction on the end user.

- Support Asia Pacific customers on Baan finance application while working for Baan India Info Systems. Job involved supporting Baan customers in resolving the problems that are encountered during their day to day use of finance and other related modules within Baan application. All genuine bugs were discovered during this activity were reported to Product Maintenance Group (PMG) after reproducing them in standard application.

-Provide first line support and implementation assistance at the client sites in Asia Pacific region. This was accomplished by studying the client's current process and requirements. Mapping clients business process to the Baan application or advise them to change their current business process to get the desired results using Baan application. The responsibilities included assessing the areas where customizations are required.

While working in US for SCB Enterprise Solutions (now name OneNeck) supported their clients Targus & Russell Stover Candies. Worked on post implementation activities, writing functional specifications as per the requirement

Education

University/College

Degree

Year

University of Bombay

Masters of Commerce Part 1 - Financial Accounting

5/1995

University of Bombay

Bachelor of Commerce - Financial Accounting

4/1991

Skills

Skill

Proficiency

Yrs of Exp

Last Year Used

ERP for IT

Advanced

16+ Years

2016

Requirements Analysis

Advanced

10 Years

2016

Requirements Development

Advanced

10 Years

2016

RICEFW Definition

Advanced

10 Years

2016

SAP-FI-Accounts Payable (AP)

Advanced

10 Years

2016

SAP-FI-Bank Accounting

Advanced

10 Years

2016

SAP-FI-General Ledger (GL)

Advanced

10 Years

2016

SAP-Financials

Advanced

10 Years

2016

SAP-FI-Accounts Receivable (AR)

Proficient

10 Years

2016

SAP-Asset Accounting

Proficient

1 Years

2016

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Proficient

6 Years

2016

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