SUMMARY:

Over ** years of IT experience starting as a functional expert and growing into a project lead, Drive design, development, implementation, documentation, and following the agile development process.

●Build, test, and deploy cutting-edge solutions at scale worldwide.

●Involved in the successful implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.

●Work closely with the Tech Leads/Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.

●Learn new and changing technologies and adapt to ensure the best software practices and standards.

●Participate in hiring and support building teams

●Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams in India and globally.

●You will help and participate with the teams that leverage and contribute to open-source technologies to Make an impact on a global scale

●Experience in SAP Finance areas like General Ledger, Accounts payable, Controlling, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivables, Bank Accounting, etc.,

●SAP configuration in Finance or manufacturing areas.

●Experience with SAP support or green field implementation.

●High level of functional competency regarding standard SAP configuration and functionality with an understanding of best practices, new trends, technical advancements & future enhancements

●Solid understanding of Accounts Receivable processes and SAP configuration of AR sub-ledger, business partner, contract accounts, collections management, dispute management, returns/credit memo management/workflow, payment plans, funds management, banking & business rule framework (BRF+), payment hierarchy, clearing rules, dunning, security deposits, payment clearings, open item management, tax calculations, installment plans, refund process, and write-offs.

●Lead end-to-end initiatives in the Finance area ensuring robust, scalable design and quality deliverables-

●Drive requirements definition, prioritization, and solution design in alignment with business value expectations and objectives.

●Ensure the technical solution adequately addresses the business requirements

●Work with the Project Manager to ensure adequate project planning and status reporting.

●Support business stakeholders with initial assessment/evaluation of solution alternatives

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

●Excellent communication skills.

●Ability to work in an agile environment using scrum tools like JIRA.

●Experience with 1 SAP FICO Implementation/Rollout Experience.

●Good Problem-Solving Skills and ability to handle issues independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Modules

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Controlling, Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting, General Ledger, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders

ERP System

SAP R/3 versions 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

Report

Report Writer, Report Painter, Solution Manager, LSMW

SAP Tools

Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, CATTs, LSMW and IDOCs.

Database

MS Access, Oracle

Other Exposure

MS Office(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Sound knowledge of Excel MS Office, Vision, MS Projects

Role: Sr SAP FICO Consultant July 2022 – Till Date

Client: Omnova Beachwood, OH

Description: OMNOVA A Division of SURTECO is a global innovator of aesthetic and performance-enhancing surfaces for a variety of applications. OMNOVA’s functional and decorative surfaces deliver critical performance attributes to top brand-name, end-use products sold around the world.

Responsibilities:

●Configure Responsible for Implementing New General Ledger Accounting with Parallel Ledger, Account Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Cash and bank Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center modules, and Product Costing.

●Provide subject matter expertise on SAP S4 FICO modules, specifically Group Reporting.

●Configure the country localization settings.

●Participated in setting up projects in the areas of SAP-FI/CO, mapped current state to future state, and developed test scenarios, conversion/Interfaces/validation plans, cutover, end-user training, and post-go-live production support.

●Configuring and customizing company code, chart of accounts, GL & New GL Master records, Account Groups, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination, Document Number ranges, Document Types, Document Splitting, Tolerance Groups and FSV.

●Experience with ASAP methodology and experienced in migration to S4 HANA 1709 from ECC 6.0 using Active methodology.

●Customizing New General Ledger

●Worked on Integration with procurement and sales, Order to Cash Process(OTC) on

SAP S/4 HANA,Procure to pay process (P2P) on SAP S/4 HANA.

●Customizing for G/L, currencies, and integration of CO postings

●Configure Accounts payable – Vendor Account Groups, Outgoing payment, payment terms, clearing inter-company Vendor/Customer Open items.

●Configure House bank, Bank Accounts, Electronic Bank Statements, Lock Box Processing, and Automatic payment programs.

●Make Functional Specifications from FICO developments.

●Perform Unit testing and Integration Testing by using Fiori apps.

●Using Jira for load testing, Raising defects, monitoring defects, and executing tests into the target system.

●Prepare documentation for training and training to end users.

●Upload initial balances for the Go Live phase.

●Support End financial closing, post-Go Live

●Experience supporting Open Text VIM, and 'Accounts Payable for SAP' by Open Text solution.

●Worked on LSMW for Data Uploads of Master Data.

●Experience in SAP BPC planning: Created Basic and Multi Planning Areas, Planning Levels, Planning Functions, Global Planning Sequences, and Planning Profiles.

●Prepared functional specifications for conversions and interfaces, performed post-go-live troubleshooting in FI and CO documented various business process flows, and produced end-user procedures.

Role: Sr SAP FICO Consultant Aug 2021 – July 2022

Client: Corteva Agriscience, Johnston, IA

Description: Corteva Agriscience is a major American agricultural chemical and seed company that was the agricultural unit of DowDuPont prior to being spun off as an independent Public company.

Responsibilities:

●Implementation for Poland - The Project will implement the various finance modules of SAP including Accounts Payable, Controlling, Finance, Fixed Assets, Tax (Poland SAF-T), and Treasury/Electronic Banking Statements using the standard DuPont Pioneer Enterprise SAP model.

●Worked under SAP IT core finance project team / RTR team for implementing SAP Finance and controlling modules.

●Conducted meetings with the users to understand the AS-IS business processes and documented them. Business process flow charts using Microsoft Visio. Identified the requirements and modeled the TO-BE Process.

●Involved with all phases of implementation from conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, business blueprinting, and configuring the system for implementation of Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting, Bank Reconciliation, Taxations, and Asset Management.

●Facilitates the definition and gathering of business requirements in the areas of Accounts Payable, Controlling, Finance, Fixed Assets, Tax (Poland SAF-T), and Treasury/Electronic Banking Statements.

●Configured and tested Manual and Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) defining the account symbols, assigning the account symbols to the GL accounts, defining the posting key, assigning the posting key to external transactions and worked on EDI/IDOC for processing invoices

●Development of blueprint documents, configuration logs, test cases, and training material in conjunction with the product owner and internal Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to meet the business need

●Customized Bank Accounting, Accounts Receivables, Accounts payable, and Asset Accounting.

●Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account, and Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers, and assets.

●Interacted with the client to understand Open Text and FICO requirements, functional design, and finalize solutions and approaches going into the realization phase. Worked on integration between MM and FI. Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts.

●Extensively worked on Customer/Vendor Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, and Interest calculation, Dunning, Payment Methods Lock Boxes etc.

●Created Master Data for Material, Customer, and Vendor in SAP ECC6.0 system as well as Vistex Data Maintenance module.

●Tested FI - MM, FI - SD, and FI- PP integrations - Changes were made in the FI - MM Setups for better reporting purposes. Executing the migration cockpit, and migration of existing data using the cockpit.

●Expertise in working with Vendor Data management (VDM) tools.

Role: SAP Fico consultant Dec 2018 – July 2021

Client- AGI (Germany)

Description: The German big asset management is migrating legacy systems of asset management into SAP technologies FICO. All the business formulas, rules, and ratings written in legacy systems are now being written and developed in SAP data service, and data is passed to SAP Insurance Analyzer.

Responsibilities:

●Involved in the successful implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.

●High level of functional competency regarding standard SAP configuration and functionality with an understanding of best practices, new trends, technical advancements & future enhancements

●Solid understanding of Accounts Receivable processes and SAP configuration of AR sub-ledger, business partner, contract accounts, collections management, dispute management, returns/credit memo management/workflow, payment plans, funds management, banking & business rule framework (BRF+), payment hierarchy, clearing rules, dunning, security deposits, payment clearings, open item management, tax calculations, installment plans, refund process, and write offs.

●Lead end-to-end initiatives in the Finance area ensuring robust, scalable design and quality deliverables-

●Drive requirements definition, prioritization and solution design in alignment with business value expectations and objectives.

●Ensure the technical solution adequately addresses the business requirements

●Work with the Project Manager to ensure adequate project planning and status reporting

●Support business stakeholders with initial assessment/evaluation of solution alternatives

●Providing support for FI-GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Controlling, and project systems.

●Customizing various areas of IMG activity as and when required.

●Preparing end-user manuals and required documents as per client requirements.

●Monitoring incidents and providing support on a daily basis.

●Maintain test cases and test scenarios as per client requirements.

Role: SAP Consultant Jan 2017 – Nov 2018

Client- Vienna Hospital Association

Description: The Vienna Hospital Association is a government-run hospital in Austria. In this project, SAP Data services play a very important role in data migration activities for table-to-table and IDoc push in new systems.

Responsibilities:

●High level of functional competency regarding standard SAP configuration and functionality with an understanding of best practices, new trends, technical advancements & future enhancements

●Solid understanding of Accounts Receivable processes and SAP configuration of AR sub-ledger, business partner, contract accounts, collections management, dispute management, returns/credit memo management/workflow, payment plans, funds management, banking & business rule framework (BRF+), payment hierarchy, clearing rules, dunning, security deposits, payment clearings, open item management, tax calculations, installment plans, refund process, and write-offs.

●Lead end-to-end initiatives in the Finance area ensuring robust, scalable design and quality deliverables-

●Drive requirements definition, prioritization, and solution design in alignment with business value.

●Co-ordinating with a basic consultant on New SAP notes implementation.

●Monitoring the background jobs scheduled for billing interfaces and reprocessing the job if any failure.

●Co-ordinating with clients to give acceptable solutions to problems, and queries raised by clients within the predefined stringent time limit and giving solutions to users.

●Facilitate meetings -Identify, analyze, capture, and report issues, and assist in issue resolution with system and related business processes to ensure timely closure as per escalation criteria.

●Providing resolution related to Master data issues to the End users.

●Coordination with production support leads for client escalations, business issues, system issues, and weekly-monthly project review meetings.

●Responsible for solving all tickets on a priority basis within the SLA time limit.

●Active Team member in Product development integration Supporting Testing functionalities.

Role: Sr. Process Associate Mar 2014 – Dec 2016

Client- Unilever Plc Netherlands

Description: Unilever Plc is the leader in post-trade securities and corporate actions processing, delivering comprehensive automation and risk management to tier-1 financial institutions. Mainly worked on 2 products:

IM Actions: The product that supports end-to-end corporate actions management, from announcement capture and validation to downstream processing.

IM Securities: The product that supports an organization’s post-trade securities processing requirements across a range of client types and business lines. Its multi-entity architecture supports the mutualization of costs across the different business lines of universal banks.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for daily invoice processing with accuracy

●Working on voice & nonvoice queries from vendors.

●Responsible for daily invoice processing with accuracy

●Reporting the blocked vendor invoices every day from the SAP tool.

●Solving queries/escalations received from onshore team/vendors

●Vendor advances and invoices PO-based vendor invoice processing.

●Generating invoices and account statement

●Performing account reconciliations

●Maintaining accounts receivable files and records

●Producing monthly financial and management reports

●Investigating and resolving any irregularities or inquiries

●Assisting in general financial management and analysis

●Balancing GR/IR Disputes as per the requirement with appropriate approval(MR11)

EDUCATION

Academic/Professional Credentials

Degree

Year

University/Institute

Percentage

Post Graduate Diploma in Management

2014

ICBM-SBE

72%

Bachelor of Business Management

2012

CDCW

82%

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