Skills Summary

**+ years of experience in SAP products implementation, business process design, and support

Completed three end to end greenfield SAP implementation Projects, one Up-gradation/Migrations, one Training and four support projects

Proficient in Project Evaluation, AS-IS study, Fit-GAP analysis, TO-BE process studies, troubleshooting, performance tuning, Production Support and End-users training

Strong working knowledge in Finance New General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting Management, Tax reporting, and in Controlling Cost Center Management, Cost elements, Internal Order, Profit center Accounting, Profitability Analysis(COPA),Product Costing(COPC) and ASAP methodology

Expertise in integrating SAP FI with other modules such as CO, SD, MM, PS, IM, and PP

Ability to write RICEFW (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflow), Functional specifications

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Proven ability to work independently and in team environments

Part of First big size project implementation of S/4 HANA at Deloitte Canada

Worked in Australia, Canada, and India for Manufacturing, Agriculture, Retail, Healthcare, and Service industries

Good understanding of business processes, policies, and workflows. Working knowledge of financial and accounting principles

Professional Experience:

Opentext Canada July 2018 to Nov 2019

SAP Functional Consultant S/4 HANA Finance

Configured and designed SAP S/4 HANA system for Delta posting for Foreign Currency valuation

Designed and configured authorization group in posting periods and tested end to end flows in all the other FI,CO, SD, MM, PS and modules

Designed and tested official receipt and Acknowledgement receipts to meet Philippines business requirements

Provided post-implementation support and system configurations for all change requests

Supported sponsored projects such as, Requirement Identification and documentation, data migration, cutover activities, testing, & training for the deployment.

Assisted generating Business Requirements for projects and change requests assigned.

Assisted with the preparation of test plans for the projects and change requests assigned.

Solved all the business user’s issues related to SAP RTR, escalated to Manager, Coe or an IT development/technical team as appropriate

Prepared user training documentation for new functionality offered as a result of projects or change requests assigned and support existing documentation when required.

Provided hands-on period end support to finance users as required.

Prepared Communications out to the business for OTR’s & change impacts conducting

Deloitte Canada Dec 2015 to Mar 2018

SAP Sr. Functional Consultant S/4 HANA Finance

Team member in full lifecycle Greenfield implementation in SAP S/4 HANA and data migration from legacy to S/4 HANA

Designed business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP – S/4 Hana Finance and controlling module.

Supported finance work stream leads working with the Canadian Controllership, Management Reporting & Analytics, to provide SAP functional integration expertise.

Analyzed the existing legacy system designed and assisted with documenting to-be end to end finance processes within an SAP ERP environment, participated actively in Business Blue Print Phase

Provided SAP industry and operational expertise to the Canada Record to Report (RTR) team

Supported work stream leads to developing to-be Canada enterprise structure using SAP FI/CO concepts (e.g. Company code, Work break down Structure (WBS), Profit and Cost centers, hierarchies, COPA, etc.)

Configured and designed SAP S/4 HANA system for General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables, Assets Management and CO with data migration and cutover activates for all master data and transactional data from legacy to SAP S/4 HANA system and provided post go live expert level of hyper support of SAP S/4 HANA to meet business requirements

Designed and implemented Profit centers, and Cost centers along with their groups for reporting

Researched and resolved process integration solutions. Ensured that the appropriate people are engaged to resolve the issues, took an active leadership role in finance processes and involved in designing security roles

Supported the identification and integration of any new technology like SAP, Backline, Service now and Coupa. (including the enhancement of platforms for collections, Finance & Accounting and Billing functions), provided a documented solution to the users in HPQC.

Involved in developing detailed RICEFW functional specifications documents from third-party software to SAP and Change Request Management.

Monitored integration testing cycles and User Acceptance Tests and Go live training

Evolved in creating training documents in SAP workforce performance builder 9.5. Also, all the integration test cycles, data migration and cutover activistes, deployment activités and post Go live hyper care support

Aclands-Grainger August 2015 to Nov 2015

Trainer, SAP Process FI/CO/SD/MM/WM to all users

Worked with all departments and Business Units to designed course content and learning objectives

Provided SAP Business process training to all end users in different provinces of Canada

Monitored and evaluated training activities and continuously improving training modules

Ensured appropriate learning for all staff involved and meeting the objectives of the department and the company. Training of nationwide internal clients documented maintenance of training records and maintained sessions to support employee technique and education

Provided instruction using a variety of tools to improve employee knowledge to maximize productivity and employee performance.

Toronto District School Board January 2015 to July 2015

Support and Testing SAP FI/CO/SD/MM/FM/WM Business Process in HP QTP (Quality Center)

Provided in production support and testing of the business processes.

Designed and developed “SAP Automated Testing Solution” for TDSB in cross-modular business processes and integrated it with Solution Manager and Quality test center, so TDSB employees can launch it from Solution Manager and complete business processes can be tested automatically. Below are the key business processes were automated:

Procure to Pay: Creation of Financial Master Data, Material master data, Funds Master Data, Allotted Budget to multiple cost centers, commitments checks, work orders, Fund centers, reset cleared documents, reversed Material Management documents with all reports.

Order to cash: Tested the complete process of order to cash with the creation of Financial Master Data, Sales and Distribution Master Data, Budget checks, Funds Transfers, stock updates, cancellation of orders and sales returns.

The tested process of Asset accounting with the creation of asset master data, acquisition of assets, asset transfers, depreciation run, Scrapping of assets, asset explorer, checking the cost objects and reversal of asset transactions.

Troubleshoot FICO; MM, SD, and FM related issues based on user problem descriptions.

Solved SAP issues reported in FI- GL, AR, AP, and AA and maintained issue logs

Recommended Budget tools, Payment workbench, and Workflow with Park documents purchase order creation and released for process efficiency

MSN Labs November 2013 to April 2014

SAP FICO Functional Consultant and Support

Provided extensive support to the business users regarding business issues arising out of SAP FICO

Trained business users on various business processes like applying lockbox, running payment run and recurring entries for periodic transactions and provided End user support and training provided for SD, MM, and FICO to the SAP user community

Performed unit testing and regression testing for different accounts payable and Accounts receivable functionalities

Maintained Master Data in PCA, which included setting up of new Profit centers, Enhanced COPA reports

Provided SAP FI/CO tuning and troubleshooting including the identification and resolution of performance related issues

John Deere November 2011 to October 2013

SAP FICO Functional Consultant

Analyzed and mapped clients’ business requirements, processes and objectives; developed necessary SAP modifications to satisfy clients’ needs, and led and conducted business workshops, blueprinting, configuration, user acceptance testing

Designed business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP – Finance (FI)) and controlling (CO) modules.

Expertise in implementation methodologies including running business workshops for fit-gap analysis

Involved in data migration from legacy systems to SAP system using LSMW, BDC and BAPI interfaces.

Integrated Fixed Asset accounting with internal orders, maintaining settlement profiles for internal orders, Configuring capitalization of assets under construction, assigning cost elements.

Integrated of the New general ledger with Controlling for reconciliation activity through real-time integration variant.

Performed Cost center assessments to segments, COPA reporting, forms, Planning, Derivation rules and structures, Product and customer hierarchy, PA settlement, realignments and integration issues with SD.

Defined and Designed user exits for Derivation rules, Valuation Strategy, Actual data, consolidated costs, COGS, material cost estimates, COPC costing sheets and result analysis.

Configured the company consolidation Group companies, Inter-unit eliminations including profit, payables and receivables, investments on purchase and equity methods, tasks of currency translations, balance carryforwards, validations, data monitor, consolidation monitor, Established integration with General Ledger and Asset Accounting, documents types to map the business transactions and Created the Chart of Accounts, FS version FS items hierarchies

Worked on Product Costing/Inventory Valuation, Sales, and Distribution, Materials Management.

Configured CO-PC (Cost Object Controlling), period ending activities such as Work in Progress Calculations, Variance Calculations, and Settlements.

CO-PC Month-end closing IT support as per the Month activities related to Product costing, Created Costing Run, Determining Material Prices, Consumption Revaluation, Closing Postings, Confirming Costing Result, CO-PA Periodic Revaluation, Marking Material Price, Releasing Material Price.

Prepaid and execute test plans/cases, coordinated with user testing, identified and solved problems, interacted with SAP and solved the issues, and documented all processes and procedures

Provided training on new functionality and assistance in the use of SAP and integrated supporting systems to users and end-users, trained end User for SD, MM, and FICO

Diplomat Heavy Industries June 2010 to October 2011

Member of SAP FI-CO Implementation Team

Part of the Implementation team for AA, AP, AR, GL, COPA, COPC and PS modules in full end to end implementation

Prepared and reviewed Business Process Procedures (BPPs) for GL, AP, and AR and Lead the Team in Business Blue Print Phase.

Resolution of FI GAPs in functionality, Business Signoff for the development changes

GL Master Data uploads, program design, and interface specifications.

Designed of Enterprise Structure, design, and configuration of Master Data and configured and customizing G/L, A/R, A/P, B/R, A/A, COPA and COPC.

Configured of setting for Down payment made & Down payment Request, Manual Bank Statement & Electronic Bank Statement, Define Chart of Depreciation, Asset Classes, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Keys, account assignments, and Tax on Sales & purchase & Withholding Tax

Designed and tested data conversions from legacy / third-party systems to SAP

Project Management (project plan, budget, scope, steering committee meetings).

Created custom Reports on AR and AP by giving functional specifications to the ABAP team for development.

Data-up load, by using ABAP designed BDC programs, Account assignment modules & LSMW.

IPEG Private Ltd. December 2006 to November 2009

Networks Managers

Administered the implementation of new and revised systems

Prepared department’s budget for the Financial year

Discussed with off-shore and on-shore clients and prepared the reports for developing the projects pertaining to systems specification provided, and led the department (IT & Networks) and monitored all the processes

Delegated tasks and monitored IT infrastructure Team of the department.

Supervised and provide basic and fundamental training to the employees joining in the department.

Alankritha Pharmaceuticals Distributors January 02 to June 04

Accountant

Performed Financial Analyst functions

Prepared daily cash and bank positions and posted entries, regular, and monthly Journal Vouchers.

Prepared of Bank Reconciliation, tabulated Sales Invoices and Purchase Invoices, created delivery of challan and purchase orders. Reconciled list of Sundry Debtors and Creditors on a Monthly basis, Prepared and submitted Statutory Payment like VAT, TDS, Professional Tax and Service Tax., documented Letter of Credit, Bank Guarantees, and Bill Discounting.

Education:

Certified in SAP S/4HANA FI (May 2019) & SAP FI, ECC 6.0 (April 2015) (SAP SE Training Canada)

Certified in Trained the Trainers course(August 2015) IBM Toronto, Acklands-Grainger

Bridge to Canadian Culture Course (Aug 2014 to Dec 2014) The City Adult Learning Centre, Canada (TDSB)

Masters in Information System (2004 - 2007) Central Queensland University (Melbourne, Australia)

Bachelor of Commerce (1999 - 2002) Osmania University (Hyderabad, India)

Computer Skills:

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, 10

Microsoft Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Share Point and AO

Accounting packages: Tally ERP 9, Wings, Focus and MYOB

Tools and software: SAP R/3, ECC 4.6, 4.7, 5.0/6.0/6.4 and S/4 HANA Finance, Remedy

ticketing tools, Service Now ticketing tool, HP Quality Center (HPQC),

Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM), SAP workforce

performance builder 9.5, Backline, Z- option and Analyses Office (AO)

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