Accounts Payable High Level

Overall **+ Years of experience with **+ Years in SAP as a Procure to Pay / Solution Architect with over 30+ Implementations

Experience in below industries

oPharma

oChemical

oSteel

oLogistics

oHVAC, and security equipment

oElectrical

oMailing solutions

SAP Functional Modules

oSAP Materials Management

Purchasing

Inventory Management

Accounts Payable

Worked on EDI

oPlant Maintenance

oProduction Planning

oExtended Warehouse Management (High level)

oAriba (High Level)

oSales and Distribution (High level)

Project Management

oProject planning experience and used to provide leadership the updates and the financial reporting of the project.

oScheduled and chaired many workshops / meetings for project / issues with business as well as with management.

oUsed tools such as Jira, Service Now etc

oWorked with On-site / Offshore models

People Management: Handled performance goals, rating, mentoring as well as timesheet / expense approvals.

Handling Audits including SOX, FDA ect

Hands on Configuration and data migration experience

Worked with Power BI team on report development, Worked with the team on Celonis process mining, APEXANALYTIX Vendor Management tool, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power point etc), Visio, Leadership Skills etc

On Greencard EAD – No sponsorship required

Lead MDG and Senior PTP Business Analyst (April 2024 till date)

Leading the MDG team and part of the S/4 HANA implementation team. Primary responsibility on the MDG activities and part of the SAP MM project activities. Part of the Phase 1.0 HANA release.

Currently leading the Phase 1.1A PTP Mexico S/4 Implementation project PTP side along with MDG. Responsible for the design and ensuring the config is done correctly and all activities are on track.

Technical Lead (Technical Manager)

Infosys Limited - (Nov 2022 – April 2024)

Client: Johnson Controls (JCI)

Fire Detection Project

Role: Part of the S/4 HANA Greenfield implementation for Fire Detection

Client: Johnson Controls (JCI)

Controls Project

Overall Procure to Pay lead – leading the entire Infosys PTP team.

Successfully implemented SAP with minimal issues in the Procure to Pay side.

Global lead & Architect

Cameuse Lime and Stone Inc – Pittsburgh, PA, US (May 2011 till Nov 2022)

Global Lead for the Source to Pay Area (Backup for Plant Maintenance and Production planning)

Worked as a project manager for many of the projects.

Experience in project planning and reporting

Management for project budget

People management experience

Overall Procure to Pay Architect, including local requirements.

Over 30 Implementation Projects with Language translation to respective languages and local Tax interfaces wherever applicable

SAP implementation: Completed 11 European countries which are Romania, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Bosnia, Serbia, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Turkey and Brazil. Responsible for the PTP part including the architecture of the process, Language translation, training, testing and ensuring User Acceptance Testing, Master data migration and cutover activities. Was onsite for many of the implementations. As part of the North America company acquisitions added 20+ companies to the current

Configuration: Hands on configuration for all the Materials Management module and sometimes handle other module configuration as well.

Providing support to 13 countries and approximately 2000+ users along with adding new enhancements, new projects, new technologies, best business process, improving efficiency by automating process, proposing new technology tools and for Procure to Pay Architecture

Project management / technical lead experience on SAP Projects for newly acquired business as well as integrating Non SAP related technologies (invoicing Scanning, Vendor Management, integrating third party logistics, Purchasing cards).

Module Lead, Manager, Project Lead, Data Conversion Lead

Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India and Piscataway, NJ (April 2007 – May 2011)

Client: Johnson and Johnson Medical Devices Division Role: Data conversion Lead

From February 2009 to May 2011

oGreenfield Implementation, Responsible for Master data conversion using tool Informatica.

oLead for all the data conversions and working with Business, work with the ETL (Extract, transform and load) team and SAP functional teams to load the data.

oWorked integrating the existing Master data system into the new SAP landscape.

oWorked with the other functional teams for interfacing the material master to other applications.

oHad few contractors reporting to me and had to work on updating utilization reports, timesheet approvals, initial screening of expenses before billing back the client etc.

Client: Schneider Electric Role: Module lead for Materials Management, Project Lead for Russia, Ukraine rollout

From Oct 2008 to February 2009

oAs part of the team lead had to ramp up the resources including external hire and adding contractors, had to do some filtration and handled appraisals. Had to provide resource utilization to delivery manager, approve timesheets, expenses etc.

oAs part of the 77 countries, roll out responsible for the Materials Management for Russia, Ukraine.

oResponsible for Blueprint, Configuration and testing

Client: Pitney Bowes, USA Role: Module Lead and later became the Manager for SAP support for North America

From April 2007 to Sep 2008

oResponsible for Materials Management, Quality Management, Supplier Relationship management modules supporting North America (US & Canada)

oResponsible for improving efficiency by changing the process, creating Enhancements

oResponsible for hiring members and handling their appraisals.

Materials Management lead, Project Lead

TATA Technologies Limited, India, — Consultant Enterprise Structure (December 2005 – March 2007)

Client: Tata Metaliks Limited Role: Materials Management lead, Project Lead role. India Team Size: 11 (From April 2006 to Mar 2007)

oWorked for the technical upgrade of SAP and rolling out SAP to the newly acquired unit.

oAlong with working on the project management side, single-handed worked on the materials management part of testing, creating new enhancements, improving country related legal requirements and data migration.

Client: TM International Logistics Limited Role: Consultant Materials management, India (From December 2005 to April 2006)

oGreenfield Implementation, single-handed worked on the materials management part of testing, creating new enhancements, improving country related legal requirements and data migration

oPrepared Training documents and trained the users.

Sourcing, Procurement, Planning and SAP level 1 support

GE Betz India Private Limited, Bangalore India (From January 2001 – April 2005)

Role: Working on Sourcing, Procurement and Planning

oResponsible for Sourcing, procuring, planning and maintaining inventory of chemical reagents for trial purposes.

oResponsible for the IT section of the plant.

oResponsible for the Raw materials inventory.

oProviding the first level of support for SAP on materials Management and production planning

Sourcing and Procurement

IRS Computers, Kerala India From November 1999 – December 2000

Role: Working on Sourcing and Procurement

oResponsible for getting orders for computers and sourcing, procurement of the parts

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in computer applications, Kerala, India — Institute of Human Resource Development (A Kerala Government undertaking) June 1998 – August 1999

Bachelor of Science, major in Electronics, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India — Bharathiyar University May 1995 – Jun 1998

MBA – Madurai Kamaraj University (Course completed) 2001

Industries worked : Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Steel, Chemical, Logistics.

Trainings: Certified on Wipro Leadership Training (6 Months course), Warehouse Management, Supply chain Management

Awards

Received Feather in the Cap award in Wipro in 2010 and 2009.

Reward for European Rollout projects in Carmeuse Lime and Stone.

Numerous appreciations from the leadership team members

Languages

English, Malayalam, Hindi

Reference

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