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Specialist with TCS having 17 years of Professional Experience serving various roles like Project Management, Solution Architect, Subject Matter Expert, consulting and Delivery. Involved 6 end-to- end SAP Project Life cycles and well versed with Software Development and Software Testing Life Cycle from Project planning to post go-live and transitioning into support. A consulting and management professional with multi-domain experience like Finance & Controlling, Project Systems, Sales & Distribution, Materials Management within SAP ECC and other systems like CRM, Taxware and Sales Tax Office. Having being involved in end to end implementations, was successful in managing various implementation and support clients in Australia, APAC, Middle East, Nordics and USA in domains including Automobile, Fleet Management, Oil & Gas, Sugar and Engineering industries and retail Industries SKILLS
Strategy To focus on high level design and work towards the solution as a whole, to achieve customer requirements with improved customer satisfaction Process The extensive experience in the automobile industry at the capacity of Process Auditor, gives the candidate immense understanding of business processes Technology SAP (ECC 6.0, 4.6C and 4.7 versions)
SAP Finance & Controlling
People Soft Skills required for customer management Languages Languages/Dialects (English, written and/or spoken) SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
Working with TCS America as Specialist/Engagement Manager since April 2014 From April 2006 till April 2014, worked with HCL-Axon for 8 years, and was involved in various SAP implementation and support projects. During these 8 years was entrusted with various roles as an independent consultant, to a specialist to an expert at various client interfacing assignments. Worked as Project Manager in projects where was involved in managing and implementing these projects right from scoping and blueprint to Implementation, UAT, go-live and transitioning to support in highly complex environments, managing the customers and their expectations on a day to day basis. 2 P a g e
Project details:
Employer TCS India
Client Siemens USA
Duration March 2016 till date
Position Specialist   Controlling
Client details:
Siemens is a market leader in automation, building technologies, energy and healthcare sectors and I am working on a support project for Siemens USA.
Responsibilities:
1. I am working on a support project for Siemens USA at the capacity of a FICO Specialist: 2. I have the experience in day to day ticket handling and SLA monitoring 3. I have been working in all the following areas pertaining to Finance & Controlling:
A/R, A/P, GL Accounting, Asset Accounting, integration between various modules with FICO like SD, MM, PP, PS, HR
Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting
Overhead Management
Standard Costing
Sales order Costing
Results Analysis
Profitability Analysis
Integration between Project Systems and Controlling Employer TCS America
Client Dupont USA
Duration April 2014 till March 2016
Position Subject Matter Expert   Finance & Controlling Client details:
DuPont, is an American chemical company. For more than 200 years, DuPont has brought world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace through innovative products, materials and services. Their market-driven innovation introduces thousands of new products and patent applications every year, serving markets as diverse as agriculture, nutrition, electronics and communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel. Responsibilities:
1. I worked on a support project for Dupont USA at the capacity of a CO Specialist: 2. I have the experience in day to day ticket handling and SLA monitoring 3 P a g e
3. I have been working in all the following areas pertaining to Controlling:
Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting
Overhead Management
Standard Costing
Sales order Costing
Results Analysis
Profitability Analysis
Integration between Project Systems and Controlling Employer HCL Axon
Client Agilent Technologies, Wilmington, Delaware, USA Duration May 2013   April 2014
Position Subject Matter Expert for Finance & Controlling Client details:
Agilent Technologies, a spin-off of Hewlett-Packard Company, was formed in 1999. As the world's premier measurement company, Agilent offers the broadest range of innovative measurement solutions in the industry. The company's four businesses - Chemical Analysis, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Genomics, and Electronic Measurement provide customers with products and services that make a real difference in the lives of people everywhere.
Responsibilities
As an SAP FICO Subject Matter Expert, I was responsible for developing business procedures and testing scripts for the client s finance department. I was responsible for interfacing with different departments within various levels of managements for approvals and deliverables as well as change requests
Agilent implemented CRM as their main Customer Relationship Management system replacing the legacy systems. The Contract Management, service order management and booking of labor costs through service confirmations happens in CRM. However, all the Finance and controlling data flows into ECC through Internal Orders and Account assignments using Business Transaction Types and Accounting Indicators.
I was involved in entire setup with respect to Finance and Controlling between the two systems (SAP- CRM and SAP-ECC)
Financial Reporting and Management Reporting is handled in Oracle and there are IDOCS that used to flow between the SAP-ECC and the Oracle system. I was responsible for handing all issues related to ALE IDOCS
This project experience gave me hands-on working knowledge in CRM. Being a highly complex landscape, there have been several custom developments where I have been extensively involved in WFRICE s   From design of the technical architecture using custom programming/User Exits to development and testing (Preparation of Functional Specifications, assistance in Technical Specifications created by the Technical Team, Unit Testing in Development Server and Final User Acceptance Testing and approval for production move in Quality Environment). Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
CRMConfiguration Setup for Account Determinations for general ledger account postings and profit center assignment for accounts receivable and accounts payable entries, considering criteria like 4 P a g e
Transaction Type from the service confirmation
Item Category from the service confirmation
Line Item Accounting Indicator from the service confirmation
Pricing Condition Type from the billing document
Configuration settings for SAP ECC Time Sheet integration with SAP CRM service process. This functionality is used for collecting costs of employees  labor charges for services performed. Time sheet integration uses SAP CATS (Cross-Application Time Sheet) to record hours charged for work performed on service orders in CRM.
Configuration settings for internal order for integration with SAP CRM service process for revenue and cost collection
Configuration Setup for Revenue Recognition Process - period-based accrual of revenue for service contracts with periodic billing plans for Results Analysis and settlement
Configuration settings for SAP ECC Credit Card integration with SAP CRM service process
Account Based COPA
External tax package  Taxware  has been implemented at Agilent for Tax percentage Calculations
Report Painter Reports, Designing SAP Queries for reporting, Validations & Substitutions Employer HCL Axon
Client Wolters Kluwer, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Duration May 2012   April 2013
Position Onsite Functional Lead and onsite-offshore Co-ordinator   Finance & Controlling Client details:
Wolters Kluwer is a market-leading global information services and publishing company focused on professionals. Their main business involves enabling legal, tax, finance, and healthcare professionals to be more effective and efficient. They provide information, software, and services that deliver vital insights, intelligent tools, and guidance to subject-matter experts.
Responsibilities
Worked as an Onsite Functional Lead and onsite-offshore co-ordinator at Wolters Kluwer for Finance and Controlling modules under the Information Technology department. My responsibilities included configuration management, Testing and service delivery
Managed the Finance and Controlling modules and integration aspects with other sub-modules of SAP like Sales & Distribution, Materials Management, Project Systems and BI/BW
Business planning and execution for business continuity in post implementation support.
My role emphasized on project management, configuration, testing, and to develop an integrated system that delivers a strategic business advantage to the client.
Used my techno-functional understanding of what is required to achieve business objectives through implementation of business system using enabling technologies like ABAP.
Under the Onsite-offshore model, I was positioned at the client site to work in continuous interaction with the client and at the same time co-ordinating and delegating work to the offshore team.
Constantly working on meeting SLA and delivery quality by regularly arranging status meetings with the client and the offshore team
Batch job monitoring   Was involved in batch job setup for various Finance Processes like Electronic Bank Reconciliation, Lockbox Process, transferring A/R related like new open Invoices and new debtors added to On-guard, (an SAP approved Third Party tool used for Dunning and Credit Management) for Account Statements and Dunning process carried out in On-guard.
IDOC Monitoring: Processing of un-processed incoming/outgoing IDOCS. Correcting IDOCS in error
Daily processing of electronic bank statements: Batch jobs were setup for daily processing of bank statements. The banks provided daily bank statements for processing in SAP. The bank statements were sent to FTP folders by the bank and later imported into SAP ECC using the standard transaction FF_5 as a background job. In case the bank statement was not imported because of PI connectivity failure with Bank FTP or Data Issue in the Bank Statement or wrongly imported, the same was looked into and resolved 5 P a g e
Daily processing of Lockbox Files: Lockbox files were processed from the bank on a daily basis. The files will be deposited by Harris on to a FTP site and then imported into SAP manually. In case there was error in Bank Lockbox file or there was a master data issue, the lockbox file was manually cleared
Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments: DME Engine was implemented at WK TAL for handing ACH and Wire Payments to vendors. Some vendors were paid through manual checks
Independently handled Period End Closing activities with the business as a part of monthly closing process Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
Credit Management
External Tax Calculation interface  Sales Tax Office  was implemented at WK TAL to automate calculation and posting of Sales Tax, Use Tax, Input Tax, Output Tax, Value added Tax etc.
Revenue Recognition Process for invoicing contracts with billing in SAP ECC
IPM (Intellectual Property Management) was implemented at WK for royalty management
Asset investment reporting and Capitalisation using WBS Elements
Project Systems was implemented at WK for external revenue generating projects
Statistical WBS Elements were used for budgeting of investment projects
Account Based COPA and Report Painter Reports
Designing SAP Queries for Reporting, Validations & Substitutions
Handling all reporting issues related to BI
Employer HCL Axon
Client Danfoss Global Group, Denmark
Duration Sept. 2011   April 2012
Application Support & Maintenance
Position Independent Subject Matter Expert   Finance & Controlling 6 P a g e
Client details:
Danfoss Group Global is a 31,550m DK Organization with 23,392 employees worldwide. The group has 79 factories and 110 Sales offices worldwide.
They are one of the market leaders in both heating and cooling solutions. With their core competencies in heating of buildings, refrigeration techniques and energy consumption control in electrical engines, the company is constantly searching for new areas where it can contribute to making the technology of modern life work even more efficiently. Responsibilities
Face- to-face dealings with the client in order to have a clear understanding of what the client is expecting without communication gap
Served as a Subject Matter Expert for SAP-Finance & Controlling and for other integration aspects of the ERP
Provided valuable insights to the customer with respect to the already implemented solution and worked towards, Continuous Improvement initiatives
Finance & Controlling Implementation highlights:
I independently executed projects within the Danfoss Group like:
Re-implementation of Asset Management in Danfoss-France which was earlier wrongly implemented and all the Group Reports were reflecting wrong values. The correction was required to be done over 2 years   2010 and 2011. Though the data clean-up and re-implementation posed many challenges, with good planning and execution, I was able to achieve the desired results.
Closure of One Production Plant in Finland which was moved to Poland
Acquisition and merger of a company with an existing Danfoss Sales Company in Poland
Focused on major production outage and other day-today issues during the support happening in the system and ensuring resolution meeting the SLA requirements
Implementation of Internal Bank through SAP Treasury. The main objectives of this implementation was:
Ensure that all possible intercompany invoices are paid via the Internal bank and not external banks
Turn external drawings on facilities into internal drawings in the Internal bank
Save value dates and bank charges on intercompany payments
Streamline all possible external payments via the new IHB system and thereby decrease the number of external banks and bank accounts needed and cut down on bank charges
Concentrate the total or the largest portions of the cash position in the Internal Bank
Worked on issues related to the BPC Server support
Worked on supporting the SAP HANA System for the client Employer HCL Axon
Client Triveni Engg. Industries Ltd
Duration July 2010   August 2011
Application Support & Maintenance
Position Project Manager and Onsite Lead
Client details:
Sugar Business:
Triveni is amongst the three largest producers of sugar in India, with seven manufacturing units across the country SAP ECC 6 is implemented in all its sugar plants. The modules implemented include Finance, Controlling, Sales
& Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning & Control and BI/BW. Engineering Business:
The company is a market leader in turbines, gears and water & Re-cycling systems. This division of Triveni is project based. Projects are generally part of the internal processes of this division of the company. To be able to control all tasks in project execution, we needed an organizational form that is specific to the project and which is shared by all departments involved.
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Responsibilities:
I worked as a project manager for this client and handled a team of 4 consultants. I also worked as a Finance & Controlling Consultant and integration expert
Determine and negotiate the deliverables and delivery schedule with the stakeholders. Identify requirements, recommend and implement best practices, system and process improvement. Monitored day to day tickets, proactively resolving issues and escalations and reported status to the management Successful in collaborating with executive management team consultant team project team staff sponsors stakeholders and end-users Finance and Controlling implementation highlights: Triveni Engg. has 2 divisions,
one is sugar manufacturing and
The other is setting up of waste water treatment plants
The Sugar Manufacturing business being a repetitive manufacturing setup had the setup for process industry with Bill of Materials, Recipes and Product Cost Collectors used for Product Cost Controlling for deriving the planned product costs and Cost Object Controlling used for actual product costs for production variance calculations.
Funds Management was implemented for the sugar division, since the sugar industry receives budgets from the government based on caps implemented by the government
The purpose was to manage budgets at sugar plants season and off-season wise. Two funds were maintained for the Sugar plant, Season Fund and Off-Season.
Funds Centers, the structural grouping representing departments, areas of responsibility, projects, and so on, were mapped one is to one with Cost Centers (applicable to only those Cost Centers which have budget relevant expenditure).
Commitment items representing the functional grouping of expenditures and revenues within a financial management area (FM area) were introduced for R&M expenditure at all plants.
At the Waste Water Treatment Division, Project Systems (PS) was implemented
Each Water Treatment Solution setup contract from a customer was treated as a project.
The same was defined with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), a hierarchical representation of entire Project scope, organising project tasks into a hierarchy. It was represented in the form of various levels of WBS elements and each WBS element represented specific and detailed scope of project. The work breakdown structure (WBS) is a model of the project that organizes project tasks into a hierarchy.
The WBS element carried the cost of the activities, attached to it. The actual costs of all the activities of a WBS element are compared with the budget allocated to the WBS element & are controlled as per the budget availability.
The Projects are monitored & controlled through proper data flow and reporting within the PS module
Project (PS) is linked in numerous ways to other R/3 components. Costs would be settled to cost accounting. Acquisitions were posted to purchase orders in the logistics components of the R/3 System
Financial Reporting was mainly handled through BI/BW and I was involved in resolving all issues related to data load and reporting
Employer HCL Axon
Client Sahara Petroleum Services Company (Sapesco, Cairo, Egypt) Duration Aug. 2009   June 2010
Full lifecycle implementation
Position Project Manager and Onsite Lead
Client details:
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SAPESCO is a wholly owned Egyptian oilfields services company and has been servicing the Middle East s petroleum industry for the last thirty years.
It provides mine clearance services to oil and gas operators in the deserts of Egypt and the middle-east. SAPESCO has further expansion plans, in Syria and Saudi Arabia and they were in need of an ERP that could bring their business across continents on a single platform, thereby increasing the transparency of operations and correctness of financial reporting.
The company s business is mainly projects based wherein assignments for mine clearance are taken for Oil Field customers. We therefore offered them a solution around Projects System (PS) that acted as the core module for cost collection and revenue calculation. The other modules that integrated with PS were SD, FI, CO, PM, MM and HR, in order to give a complete integrated solution to the client. Responsibilities:
I worked at the capacity of an Onsite Lead & PM managing various sub-modules of FICO and also, integration issues with CO, PM, PS, MM, SD and HR working through the project plan and ensuring meeting the project milestones.
This was a full blown implementation of SAP for 6 SAPESCO sister companies across the middle east and USA. Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
Project Systems
Plant Maintenance with synchronization with Asset Accounting
Payroll Accounting with integration with CATS and PS
Financial and Management Reporting in both Arabic
Profit Center Accounting
Cost Center Accounting
Product Costing
COPA and reporting using report painter
Employer HCL Axon
Client LeasePlan, Austrailia
Duration July 2008   July 2009
Full lifecycle implementation
Position Finance & Controlling Consultant
Client details:
Leaseplan is a Dutch financial services company focused on fleet management established more than 45 years ago. The company has grown to become a world leader of fleet management services and is now active in 30 countries. The company looks after the day-to-day management of vehicles and their services include maintenance, vehicle replacement, insurance and reporting. The company implemented SAP ECC6 as the core ERP system gathering data from surrounding systems like CRM, SRM and a customized Lease Accounting Engine (LAE). All these systems were integrated together to provide a one- stop ERP solution integrating the value chain right from Customers to the suppliers. The LAE determined the values from leases in SAP CRM in order to make the necessary postings in SAP-ERP. Lease Accounting benefited from the strong integration of SAP CRM and Financial Accounting. The Financial Accounting side of this integration comprised of the Lease Accounting Engine, the Accrual Engine, one-time 9 P a g e
postings and Asset Accounting. The Lease Accounting Engine triggered postings in the Accrual Engine, in Asset Accounting, or directly in the general ledger.
Responsibilities:
Serve as the subject matter expert in FICO. Determine and negotiate the deliverables and delivery schedule with the stakeholders. Identify requirements, recommend and implement best practices, system and process improvement. Monitored project progress against schedule, proactively resolving issues and escalations and reported status to the management Successful in collaborating with executive management team consultant team project team staff sponsors stakeholders and end-users. Core responsibilities included, co-ordinating with the end users in a thorough end to end regression test for proper functioning of the LAE and cross-verify the accounting entries being passed to SAP ERP. Based on the feedback from the core users  team, make the necessary corrections in configurations. This was the first such implementation from SAP in the Leasing Business and SAP was also a partner in this implementation. SAP was actually looking at this implementation as a base for developing an IS Solution for the Leasing industry that did not exist till date.
Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
SAP CRM with its integration with FICA in SAP ECC
Lease Accounting Engine with its integration to Asset Accounting in SAP ECC Employer HCL Axon
Client Tide Water Oil Company (India) Ltd., Mumbai (Manufacturers of VEEDOL brand of Lubricants)
Duration Aug 2007   June 2008
Full lifecycle implementation
Position Finance & Controlling Consultant
Client details:
This client is one of the leading manufacturers of lubricants in India. Their leading brand is Veedol. Implemented Finance and Controlling in SAP ERP ECC6 with New GL Functionality They have extremely scattered business operations with depots and plants at various locations across the country. The requirement was again transparency of operations and a consolidated reporting for all the four regional offices.
Responsibilities:
Worked as an FICO Consultant and handled both Finance and Controlling independently right from concept to design to implementation phase, followed by a three months  post implementation support. Role as an FI Consultant:
FI Consultant responsible for the Implementation of Various Components of FI 10 P a g e
Responsibilities included definition of business process requirements (and redesign), documentation of Business Blueprint. Understanding the client specific requirements and mapping them in the SAP system. Responsible for all phases of the project   Baseline testing, Integration testing, and data uploading The project integration responsibilities included FI-MM Integration and FI-SD integration for specific business requirements, apart from the fundamental integration with other modules Role as a CO Consultant:
Product Cost by Order application component in make-to-stock environment was relevant for VEEDOL. Actual Costing was also required, for the reason inventory revaluations during the period end Cost objects like cost centres and activity types in the Product Cost by Order component has been used. For FG and SFG, period end closing activity for revaluation, Variance Calculation and Settlement is being performed. Standard Cost Estimate is used to derive the Standard price for Semi Finished and Finished Goods. Assessment is used to allocate the overheads.
Costing based COPA was used here for Management Reporting. This was a great achievement as the customer was able to arrive at the contribution margins for their products taking into account all direct and indirect costs of manufacturing.
Also, the regional profitability reporting was achieved through Profit Centre Accounting Wherein Each Plant/Depot was defined as a profit Centre. This helped in achieving the Reporting Requirements for the customer.
The client was a lubricant manufacturer hence had repetitive manufacturing setup. Hence Product Costing by Period was implemented with product cost collectors used for actual cost collection and variance/WIP calculation. Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
New General Ledger with functionalities like document splitting, Parallel Ledgers for parallel accounting and Segment Reporting
Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting
Product Costing by Period for Repetitive Manufacturing
Material Ledger for actual costing and period wise re-valuation of inventory
Costing-based COPA
Designing COPA reports using report painter
Employer HCL Axon
Client Finolex Cables, Pune
Duration Sept. 2006   July 2007
Full lifecycle implementation
Position Finance & Controlling Consultant (Single handedly implemented both Finance and Controlling modules)
Client details:
Finolex Cables Ltd, the flagship company of the Finolex Group was established in 1958 in Pune. Today, it is India's largest and leading manufacturer of electrical and telecommunication cables with a turnover in excess of Rs.16 Billion (about US $ 320 million).
Responsibilities:
Implemented the Finance module, Organized User Trainings, Sign-off for User Acceptance Test, 11 P a g e
Project tracking for Finance and other interface issues, Status reporting for Finance Module Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
Classic General Ledger
Special Purpose Ledger
Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting with regional reporting
Product Costing by Order for Discrete Manufacturing in lots and production orders
Material Ledger for actual costing and period wise re-valuation of inventory
Costing-based COPA
Employer HCL Axon
Client HCL Infosystems Ltd  Frontline Division
Duration May 2006   Oct. 2006
Full lifecycle implementation
Position Finance & Controlling Consultant (Single handedly implemented both Finance and Controlling modules)
Client details:
HCL Infosystems Ltd, is India  s premier hardware, services and ICT systems integration company offering a wide spectrum of ICT products that includes Computing, Storage, Networking, Security, Telecom, Imaging and Retail. Responsibilities:
At the capacity of FICOConsultant Implemented the Finance and Controllingmodules, Organized User Trainings, Sign-off for User acceptance Test, Project tracking for Finance and other interface issues, Status reporting for Finance module.
Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
Classic General Ledger
Special Purpose Ledger
Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting with regional reporting
Product Costing by Order for Discrete Manufacturing in lots and production orders Employer Infosys Technologies Ltd., Shanghai, China Client Inhouse Project (Summer Internship Project during MBA) Duration Feb 2005   June 2005
Full lifecycle implementation
Position Finance & Controlling Consultant (Shadowed the Finance and Controlling Lead) Client details:
This was my summer internship project where I was a part of an internal prototype solution that the project team was building to act as the basic skeleton for implementation for the manufacturing industry Responsibilities:
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At the capacity of a shadow FICO Consultant Implemented the Finance and Controlling modules under the guidance and training of the FICO Lead
Finance and Controlling implementation highlights:
Classic General Ledger
Special Purpose Ledger
Profit Center Accounting and Cost Center Accounting with regional reporting
Product Costing
Details of Domain Experience: Feb. 1998 to June 2002 Designation: Assistant Manager - Marketing
Organization: MSSL
MSSL, an Indian collaboration of Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited, Japan. is an 800 crore Auto Component Manufacturer engaged in manufacturing Integrated Wiring Harness Systems for the automobile and White goods industry. Headquartered at Noida, the company holds a market share of around 80% in automobile sector
Clientage in the Domestic Market includes Maruti Udyog Limited, Ford Motors, Honda Siel Cars India Limited, Toyota, Escorts, Eicher, TVS, Bajaj Auto and many others. The clients in Exports Market include Ford, Piaggio - Italy, Endress & Hauser - Switzerland and GE Medical Systems. The company is QS 9000, ISO 9001 and ISO14001 and TS 16949 certified Role Description:
(A) Order Generation & New Project Dev.
Presentation to customers
Participation in e-bids and final techno-commercial offer to customer
Project

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