SUMMARY
Sunil is a Senior SAP Consultant with experience in implementations, configuration, and support; providing technical and functional expertise, among different landscapes and SAP modules. He has an ability to take on a responsibility and to deliver results. Sunil is a qualified CPA, MBA, SAP Certified BW and BPC Consultant for over 10 years. Sunil is a team player, with expertise in several tools and a quick learner, willing to share knowledge across teams and help improve processes.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Molex LLC (Koch Industries subsidiary) Remote Jan 2019 – July 2022
Systems analyst – S4HANA Central Finance - Joined as a Consultant from 2017 through Robert Half Technology Services. The task was to share expertise in SAP and BPC, train users, do projects, manage work of additional resources; participate in S4H Central Finance, BPC and SAP Planning, Consolidation and Reporting activities for over 100 entities and users.
Tasks performed include SAP Master-data creation, from GL Accounts, Profit Centers, Inter-company Customers and Vendors, specific Custom table contents, review and reconciliation of FI / COPA data to BW and BPC, statistical accounts, Headcount, Project Management, review and changes for Custom ABAP programs.
Participate with other software used in organization, BW and global centers of excellence, initiatives for data quality improvements, transports and interfaces.
Primary responsibility for technical support of planning and consolidation process, managing FX rates, Ownership, Dimensions and member properties, Work-Status, Reports and Input templates, script logic, business rules, acquisitions and divestments, restatements, end user training and support.
TRC Consulting Inc (self-employed – own corporation) WI March 2006 – Current
Senior SAP Consultant (Recent work – Koch Industries, Zimmer Biomet, International Paper, Cintas, Sysco Foods, Tory Burch, Hershey)
Lead and participate in SAP / BPC implementations including consolidation for large corporations (S&P 500). Provide support to existing clients as needed.
SAP / BPC Projects (NW, HANA), implementation from blueprint design to configuration / development / cut-over / go-live and then support mode, transfer of knowledge to key employees.
Lifelong learner, with exposure to many implementation methodologies – Waterfall / Agile / Scrum / DevOps; and technologies from In-memory computing, Cloud, Microservices, Visualization, runtime behavior and more.
Good grasp of S4HANA implementation, HANA architecture, integration with BPC embedded version (IBPF) and challenges with installation and customization. Attended SAP TechEd and participate in OpenSAP related offerings in SAP HANA Studio, AMDP, CDS, SAC, SCP, Simple Finance, PAK, IBPF, UI5, Eclipse, Fiori, and Design Studio.
Work on FI-CO SPRO settings; related to COA, Company Codes, GL Accounts, CO-PA, AP / AR, Fixed Assets, WBS Elements, Fixed Assets, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Orders, Customer and Vendor. Manage and hire / place other consultants at client locations, responsible for projects, report progress, performance in onshore and offshore work processes.
Performed GAP Analysis, gathered requirements, developed reports using EPM 10, configure additions for SEC / Wall Street reporting like restricted Cash, disclosures in Notes. Work with tax, legal team and auditors to meet different needs. Prepare the documentation / workflows (support and train users – timely submissions and closing processes) on the input template / data upload files and data extraction of consolidation and planning requirements from different source systems.
Work in pre-sales as a collaborative resource for RFP, POC and client discussions, with a goal to get new business, successfully assisting in new work orders from existing and new clients.
Work with FP&A and Corporate accounting as a BPC tool expert, perform administrator tasks, create new applications, dimensions, hierarchies, properties, BPF, Security, Script Logic, Business Rules, and Data Manager Packages, develop and upload flat files, Input Schedules, Reports.
Onboard new employees for different aspects of ECC / BW / BPC processes. Intercompany elimination logic, maintain entities and related hierarchy, and Intercompany related properties for eliminations. Update Business Rules and related properties / set up requirements; Consolidation of Investments (COI), computation of minority interest; Balance Carry Forward activities, Journal entries, Business Process Flows, e-mail notifications, validations, and elimination activities.
BPC Standard and embedded configuration tasks, from requirement gathering to development and support / enhancements using BADI, Planning functions, CDS views, script logic, business rules, SPRO configuration settings, debug efforts with fiddler, trace issues in SAP, ABAP codes.
Configure the currency translation logic, maintain rate application(s), different Dimensions, business rules, Models / Applications, Rounding functions for the reports, logic scripting experience in both MS *.dtsx SSIS packages and NW BADI RUNLOGIC ABAP processes.
Use BO Data Services, Solution Manager, Crystal Reports, WEBI, BW InfoCube, DSO, transformations, BEx Analyzer, ECC Reports, FI-CO, SD, MM, APO and more tools like Tableau, HPC ALM, JIRA, Ancile RWD, Winshuttle, GL Wand.
Harley-Davidson, Milwaukee, WI - US August 2007 – February 2009
Senior Financial Systems Analyst, part of a team of business analysts supporting the SAP ERP implementation and further expansion projects of the company. Specific job duties involve the following:
Production support of BW and SEM (BCS for Consolidations and BPS for Planning) for users around the world. This involved support across ECC 6.0, FI-CO, BW several other modules, and backup role among a team of six employees.
Use BPS / BCS / ECCS transactions as needed.
Modify or create new layouts, variables, user exits, fox formula; as business needs changed or to get desired results. This involved meeting users, conducting workshops, gathering requirements, facilitation and designing of a solution.
Participate in new projects in the organization, geographical roll-out to Europe, additional modules like SD, reconciliation of FI and CO-PA data outputs, change to company code currency.
Evaluate and recommend options for resolving bottlenecks in the current system, including BPC. Create and execute Test scripts in HP Quality Center, map business processes and model the workflow on IBM WebSphere tool.
Dial Corporation / Henkel of America Scottsdale, AZ Oct 2004 – July 2007
Senior Financial Systems Analyst, assisting the finance process manager in different tasks. Different tasks performed included the following:
Work on maintenance of SAP master data, improvements in BW Query design, using Business Explorer (BEx) reports for Planning and Consolidations system performance improvements.
Worked on a different Financial Statement and Product Hierarchy to meet another completely different financial statement (US-GAAP vs. IFRS); also, based on a different Product Hierarchy. This involved converting data from one SAP system based to another.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:
SAP BPC NW 7.5 Certified Associate
SAP
2011
SAP BW 3.0B Certified Solution Consultant
SAP
2004
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
AICPA, Illinois State Board
2002
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA)
IRMA, Gujarat, India
1988
Bachelor in Commerce (Accounting)
Delhi University, SRCC, India
SUNIL AGHI SAP certified consultant
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