SAP Financials Certified Solution Consultant in ECC 6.0

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Professional Summary

• Ten plus years of I.T. work experience in the USA; 8 Years in SAP Global Implementation Projects in manufacturing industry. 30 Months in Banking and Financial Services.

• Core competencies include SAP FI Business Process Review, Configuration, Customization, Change Control and Project Management in SAP Implementations across North America, EMEA and Asia-pacific in an Outsourcing model.

• Experience in coordinating functional requirements workshops, RICEF development review and realization of tasks at multiple levels, in a matrix Organization

• Involved in multiple SAP implementation Projects, leading various roles including Business Process Review, Development, QA, Change Control and Release Management, responsibilities

• Good understanding of SAP Landscape and the vital role of CMMI, PMI and Six Sigma Methodologies for successful execution of SAP Projects.

• Self-starter, good team player, comfortable in working with multiple Teams/Projects.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Certifications & Trainings

• Certified ‘SAP FI Solution Consultant in ECC 6.0’

• Certified PMP

• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Professional

• Trained in SAP FI ECC 6.0 in SAP Academy (Siemens)

• Trained in ABAP and SAP BI by Delphi SAP Global Competency Team

• Certified in HP/Mercury’s Test Management Tools viz. Quality Center and WinRunner

• Trained in HP/Mercury’s LoadRunner, Lotus Notes

• Proficient in MS Office Suite, SharePoint Portal

Academics:

• M.B.A.,

• M.Sc., in Statistics with distinction

Detailed Work Experience:

• Client: ICW Group, San Diego USA

Role: SAP FI Process Test & QA Lead

Duration: Nov 2008 to till date

ICW Group is an Insurance Company implementing SAP FI and Insurance Modules of ECC 6.0

Responsibilities:

As one of the leads in SAP Implementation team, responsible for leading Change Control and QA Process for SAP FI implementation. The other tasks entrusted with are leading Integration Test and User Acceptance Test efforts; mentoring the QA team in identifying the key FI processes, Security Roles for Test Automation.

• Client: Delphi, Michigan USA

Employer: Computer Sciences Corporation, USA (CSC)

Role: SAP Change Control and Release Management Lead

Duration: Jan 2008 to June 2008

Delphi is a General Motors spin-off Organization and is one of the leaders in the world, in auto-parts industry. CSC took over the responsibility of implementing and supporting SAP R/3, BI, HR and SEM functionality across the Globe.

Responsibilities:

As part of the SAP team transitioned from Delphi to CSC, played key role in knowledge and skills transfer from Delphi to CSC onshore and offshore teams. The role comprised dual responsibility of supporting on-going Projects as well as reviewing and improving the current Delphi and CSC individual Software Development Processes. Majority of the initiatives led relates to the Processes relating to SAP Production Support, Incidents Resolution, meeting the conflicting target dates at each stage of SDLC of numerous SAP Projects.

Actively supported Program Managers in designing right metrics for reviewing the productivity of Project Teams and Production Support Teams; and in making sure that the Production Support team resolves the Incident Tickets per deliverables stipulated in Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the Client.

• Client: Delphi, Michigan USA

Employer: Delphi, Michigan USA

Role: Senior SAP Analyst/Lead

Duration: June 2001 to Dec 2007

SAP FI Development Tasks

Worked closely with the Business Users and Finance Subject Matter Experts in conducting workshops for defining requirements and process flows for developing GL, AP/AR and AA functionality for Delphi Divisions viz., Delphi Energy & Chassis, Delphi Thermal & Interior, Delphi Delco, Delphi Aftermarket.

Worked with the team in configuring SAP FICO MM, and BW Organizational Units including Account Groups, Document Types, Document Number Ranges, and Variants in General Ledger, Customer/Vendor Accounts, Document Structure specific to various Business Units in Delphi. Set up Posting Periods, Payment Terms, Authorizations and default values for typical business transactions including Cross-Company Code transactions. Set up parameters for Clearing Open Items, Processing Incoming/Outgoing Payments, Currency Exchange differences and Document Reversals. Set up Output types specific to GM, Ford and Toyota.

Involved in testing of Automatic Payment Program and related Bank and Payment Medium configuration. Set up and tested the functionality covering Month-End and Year-End closing Processes, AP/AR Balance Confirmation, Trial Balance and other Financial Statements, Asset Accounting Organization Structure, setting up of Master Data; functional and integration testing of Acquistion, Retirmenet, Periodic Processing of Depreciation.

Involved in testing inbound/outbound interfaces between legacy and third-party systems and testing of data flow. Coordinated with Master Data Management team in loading legacy data and in fixing data transfer related issues with GM Systems such as DACOR, GMTKS, OLIMPIC, HPS and SPS.

Played active role in identifying critical SAP FI Business Processes and other modules for developing Integration Test, Regression Test and System Test Cases involving Direct/Indirect Shipment, Stock Transfers, cross-border transactions among NAFTA countries, Customer Returns, Scrapping Stock, Partial G/R, Over/under invoicing. Played key role in training the end-user group and involving the power users in User Acceptance Testing. Actively involved in cutover, Deployment, and Post Go-Live Support. Part of the key contacts in support team coordinated the day-to-day operations, maintenance and optimization/enhancement of functionality in SAP Production Systems.

Six Sigma Project on SAP FICO QA and Testing Process

Contributed as a key member in the team worked on the Six Sigma Project sponsored for addressing the issues related to current QA Process for SAP FICO Implementation using Six Sigma DMAIC roadmap and SIPOC Concepts; Instrumental in successfully introducing the new and common QA Process across the three SAP Competency Centers each at NACC, Europe and Middle East; and Asia-pacific.

SAP FICO, PTP and OTC Test Automation Project

The Scope of the Project is to define the Process and design Tools enabling regular conduct of Automated Regression Test. Initiated and successfully completed the Project using PMI methodology.

Organized meetings with Dev Leads, Power Users and Business Leads for Identifying the (a) critical and (b) unique Business Processes in SAP FI, CO, PTP, OTC functional areas for each Business Unit of Delphi. Constituted the Test Automation Offshore Team; provided leadership and expertise and successfully

delivered 65 automated scripts that can be used for conducting Regression Test during Integration Test Phase for all SAP Projects

Key and lead member in the team worked on Six Sigma Project initiated for identifying gaps in current SAP Development and Change Control Process

SAP Performance Test Projects

Initiated, Planned, and successfully led the execution of more than 10 Performance / Load Testing Projects covering SAP FI, BW, SAP HR, Delphi Global Sourcing Systems, SAP Portals specific to Delphi Employees and Delphi Vendors. These tests resulted in discovering numerous performance related issues in the software and the databases/servers being tested, prior to the Deployment of those systems.

Six Sigma Project on SAP Change Control Process

Key and lead member in the team worked on Six Sigma Project initiated for identifying gaps in current SAP Development and Change Control Process and enforcing an improved and common global Development process across all three SAP Competency Centers located in North America, Europe and Middle East and Asia-pacific. Successfully completed the Project using DMAIC and SIPOC concepts of Six Sigma and introduced the improved Process.

FI Center of Excellence for Financially Troubled Suppliers

This is a Project initiated by the FI team at Delphi World Headquarters for understanding more about the financial stability of its global vendors and possible risks involved in dealing with them. Worked towards a Process involving D&B System, SAP and other Tools for data input, analysis and triggering Alerts when a Supplier is in potential financial risk zone, per pre-defined parameters.

CMMI Certification Project for SAP FI, BI, SEM Dev Team:

As a Lead member in the team constituted for initiating CMMI methodology to the key processes surrounding software development, implementation and support roles in SAP FI, BI and SEM Development Teams. Successful in completing the Project execution and closure on-time and in passing the rigorous Audit requirements leading to CMMI Certification for SAP BI and SEM Development Team in Delphi I.T. Department.

Client: Wells Fargo Financial Information Services Group, Iowa USA

Role: Senior FI Process Analyst

Duration: July 1999 to May 2001

Project-1: Automation of OnLineTransactionProcessing (OLTP) of

Consumer Financing.

Wells Fargo–Norwest Bank is one of the largest consumer financing & banking Institution in the USA. A new client-server system SAPPHIRE is in the process of

development and is expected to replace the existing mainframe system by the end of 2000 year in Aruba, Canada, Portorieco, and USA. Involved in automation of business transactions covering Applicant’s Profile; Accounts; Auto, Credit Card, Home-Equity loans processing; Funding and monitoring different loan accounts.

Project-2: Wells Fargo Executive Information System (Release 1.3)

Duration: Nov 1998 to June 1999

EIS is a System developed for the exclusive use of client’s Branch, Division and Regional level executives. Release 1.0 was already in use and Release 1.3 has four modules and was being designed as one of the sub-systems of SAPPHIRE.

Analyzed Business Requirements; conducted Design walkthrough of Executive Information System (EIS). Developed Test Cases, coordinated functional testing and User Acceptance Testing for the business scenarios in Profile, Quality and Revenue modules of the system. Developed and run Batch Tests and Data-driven Tests using TSL.

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