SUMMARY

• SAP FI/CO CONSULTANT with Business and Information Technology experience

• 9+ years of Techno functional experience in IT and Finance industry with development and
testing expertise in ERP
• Extensive experience in SAP R/3 and ECC 5.0, 6.0 with focus on the FI/CO Module
• Involved in Two Full life cycle implementations in SAP, SAP Upgrade, Configuration and
Post Implementation support
• Experience in Analyzing business requirements, Configuration, Process mapping, Business
Process re-engineering/process improvement, Testing, Documentation and End User Training
• Excellent understanding of Software development Life Cycle(SDLC) and Test
methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation
• Expertise in developing strategic Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts for both
Manual and Automated testing
• Knowledge using business process technology to help organization increase productivity
& reducing cost
• Multitask oriented and the ability to prioritize to meet deadlines
• Experienced in New GL functionality of ECC 5.0/6.0 & integration with 3rd party tool for
consolidations
• Extensively worked on Accounting Modules like Finance (GL, AP, AR, and AA), Controlling
(CCA, COPA, and PCA), SEM-BCS
• Experience in MEC & year end closing cycles, Integration knowledge of MM and SD
modules with FI/CO
• ASAP Project management implementation methodology, blue printing and configuration of
FI/CO
• Extensively worked in Cost Center Accounting and CO-PA
• Strong technical, analytical skills combined with outstanding leadership ability, creative
problem solving skills in both strategic, tactical areas
• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical users through
outstanding oral and written communication skills

SAP Expertise
 Configuring ECC 6.0 New GL functionality
 Configuring expertise in General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL), Company code, Global
settings, Financial statement version, Posting periods, Field status groups, Tolerance groups,
Customizing G/L account master records, Sample accounts, GL extract & upload
 Expertise in GL master data, month end close and Year end close process design
 Service center based General Ledger Process Design
 Consolidated Transaction types, Set maintenance, validation and substitutions
 Journal Entry Functionality, Park & Post documents, Journal entry upload process, Account
assignment model, creation of fast entry template
 Intercompany processing
 Close processes, Foreign currency Revaluation, Carryforward & Rollforward,
 Configuring and Customizing Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Vendor and
Customer account groups with screen layouts, Tolerance groups for vendors and customers
Master data, Reconciliation accounts, Automatic account determination
 Expertise in Asset Accounting specializing in master data, depreciation postings, year-end
closing, asset fiscal year change, Assets under Construction and retirements.

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  Configuration of Controlling area, Cost Center Accounting (Primary and Secondary cost
elements), Cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, statistical keys, activity type,
assessment, distribution
 Planning, Profit Center accounting-Assigning cost centers to profit centers
 Worked on Cost based COPA, Account based COPA, Planning, operating concern,
characteristic derivation, reports on profitability analysis, statistical key figures, record types
 Worked on Report Painter, Report Writer and CATTS

Technical Expertise
ERP: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 FI/CO, BW 3.5/BI 7.0
Languages: C, C++
DBMS: MS-SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2000.
Platforms: Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and UNIX.
Server Technologies: Windows NT 4.0. 98/ME/2000, XP
Reporting: Crystal Reports 9.0, Report Writer, Report Painter, and ABAP Query, MS
Visio, SAS

Professional Experience:
Client: Thomson Reuters, Eagan, Minnesota Jun, 07 – Nov,
08
FI/CO Functional/ Process Consultant
Thomson Reuters is leading provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and
professional customers. Thomson Reuters provides value-added information, with software tools
and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. Thomson serves
professionals in the field of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and
healthcare. The Finance + project involved transferring all legacy systems including oracle
based solutions to SAP ECC 6.0. Currently part of RTR global solution team for Finance+ project
at Thomson.

Responsibilities:
 Develop and Implement Global processes for General Leger Solutions as part of
Record to Report team
 Provide guidance to functional process owners in the implementation and
acceptance of SAP industry best practices
 Process analysis for identification of process requirements, process mapping (as-is
and to-be), and the design of activities, tasks and sub processes.
 Translate process requirements into software configuration or development
specifications, write and execute testing scenarios and scripts.
 Leverage prior SAP experience into the design, implementation and support of new
Finance business processes.
 Excellent understanding of Software development Life Cycle(SDLC) and Test
methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation
 Expertise in developing strategic Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts for both
Manual and Automated testing.
 Lead the Testing for interfaces between SAP and SAS FM for all the mock close
pre-go live
 GL Processes Training & Documentation
 Month and Year End Close Process Definition
 Establish Global Mapping between SAP and Consolidation Reporting Tool SAS
FM data

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  Assist information technology in developing SAP competencies through knowledge
transfer, and informal and formal coaching
 Conversion of Master data and Chart of Accounts
 Configure functional areas and business areas based on organizational structure
 Configuration of Profit center hierarchy for reporting purposes
 Creation of test cases for systems integration, regression, and user
acceptance testing
 Worked on UAT Integration Matrix
 Coordination of user acceptance testing including planning, defect tracking and
reporting, and receipt of business owner sign-offs
 Designed Business Warehouse(BW) queries and customized workbooks for
various management reporting requirements
 Production support for past two rollouts for business units already on SAP from
February 2007

Client: Hewlett Packard, Houston, TX Jan, 07 – Jun,

07
HP is present day IT powerhouse. It ships more than 50 million printers, 30 millions PCs and 2
million servers around the world. Consumer saved and shared 140 billion images using HP
technologies. More than 200 million cell phone subscribers worldwide depend on HP software
and more than 18 million people rely on mobile and LAN-based carrier communication running
on HP technology. HP acquired Mercury Solutions as part of integration strategy. Second project
was to retire HP old asset MPE application servers. It has been retiring all the legacy systems
application under MPE retirement project and is trying to transfer all the functionality to SAP
platforms with HPME technology.

Responsibilities:
 Involved in SAP SD and MM integration with FI
 Involved in Unit, Integration, Regression testing during SDLC
 Create, review and update test plans and test cases
 Configured functional areas and business areas based on organizational structure
 Configured account determination for inter company(IC) and trade procurement
 Complete design of intercompany settlement
 Configured intercompany account groups
 Leading correction of intercompany customer and vendor master records
 Configured payment terms, open item line layouts
 Configured tolerance groups, payment block settings
 Configured line item layouts
 Defined tolerance groups, number ranges, posting keys, document types, fiscal
year variants, credit memos, field status groups.
 Reported and monitored defects.
 Worked in depth on components of SD including Revenue Account Determination,
Revenue Recognition, Partner Functions and Procedures, Credit Management Processing, Log
of Incomplete Items, Sales Documents, Billing Documents, Billing Plan, Payment Cards.
 Customized reports for displaying account balances.
 Product line additions; Define business area, division, assignment of division to sales
organizations
 Determine pricing procedures, maintained condition table
 Define Cost center groups and Profit center groups in Standard Hierarchy
created.

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  Created Cost center hierarchy. Created Cost Centers. Designed and created
Assessment Cycles to allocate overhead costs
 Created Profit center hierarchy
 Unit test and integration testing
 Post go-live support

Client: Smart Solutions Inc, Golden valley, Minnesota Jan, 05 –

Dec, 06
FI/CO Consultant
Provided Off-site support for implementation at various clients; Provided support to on-site
consultants during various implementation of SAP 4.7 FI/CO, MM, WM, and SD modules using
ASAP methodology.
Responsibilities:
• The scope of work included AS-IS study, TO-BE analysis, gap analysis, business process re-
engineering, configuration, and modifications to suit the client's requirements, user
documentation, and user training.
• Studied and analyzed the existing business processes. Recorded Process Flow.
• Created flowcharts and got it approved from Key users, and created Business blue print for
the existing processes
• Documentation based on As-Is analysis and functional requirements, SAP reference business
processes are modeled to suit client's requirements, using SAP Reference Model. To-Be
processes were designed in terms of Process view, component view, functional view,
information view and organizational view.
• Experienced in writing Test Strategy, Master Test plans, Test Case Design, Test
scenarios, Test cases/TestScripts and meeting Deliverables. Created Traceability
between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Translated functional requirements spec in to manual Test Cases and developed
manual test cases.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing and assisted users
• Configuring and customizing the cost elements/cost center accounting created primary
& secondary cost elements, cost element groups, cost centers, cost center groups, cost
element attributes,
• Configured costing sheets, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy, activity types,
statistical key figures, assessments, and distributions
• Configuration of transaction type, keys for posting rules, mapping external transaction code
to posting rules and automatic account assignment for electronic bank statement
processing
• Data conversion from Excel Database using SAP LSMW functionality

Inland Revenue, Cardiff, UK Jan, 03 – Oct,

04
Revenue Officer
• Acquired Quality standards requisite for Inland Revenue
• Increased productivity by thirty percent
• Provide technical support to subordinates
• Train & Coach new recruits
• Support Team manager & conduct quality checks
• Respond to customer queries and resolve them
• Capture form (TCS206) for New Tax Credit, and complete the applications and project of
Inland Revenue for applicants

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Virtual Splat Technologies, Mumbai, India Jul, 00 – Aug,
02
Database Analyst
• Replicate, analyze and support production systems
• Implement and integrate databases & client requirements
• Design logical and physical structure and functional capabilities of corporate databases
• Generate programming code, devise sample test data and run tests of programs
• Design data security and backup/recovery programming specifications
• Data conversion/migration services from different legacy database to SQL server using
internally developed conversion utilities

Jayco Safety Products Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, India Jun, 97 –

May, 00
Finance/Cost Analyst (SAP)
• Enhanced decision making and negotiation skills using better forecasting models (Smoothing
methods and Seasonal smoothing methods)
• Analyzed capital projects and allocated capital on profitability basis
• Increased profit margins due to optimal inventory management
• Implemented Management Accounting system utilizing Microsoft Office Tools
• Reduced administrative cost by five percent; Reduced time for price quotations
• Prepare & implement & control cost budgets & perform cost benefit analysis
• Budget Reporting; Forecast sales and inventory turnover; variance analysis
• Measure profitability of different projects; Identify positive and negative cash flows
• Overhead Planning; Financial & Process Analysis using financial models
• Communicate and coordinate with Management and Support Staff
• Project appraisals and balance sheet analysis
• Offer strategic as well as financial solutions to meet customers objectives
• Prepare customized financial statements in compliance with legal and regulatory
requirements on periodic basis
• Draft deeds, articles and memorandum of association

Education:
SAP Certified – ECC 6.0- Financials (May 2010)
MBA in Finance from Cardiff Business School, University of Wales, United Kingdom
Master of Commerce in Strategy and Business Policy from University of Mumbai, India