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SAP FI, FSCM Senior consultant solution architecht

India
Only remote
MBA in Finance
India
Only remote
MBA in Finance

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  • Over 8 years of extensive functional experience in SAP FI & FSCM best practices, spanning Retail, Chicken farming, Dairy products, Logistics and Manufacturing industries.
  • Proficient in configuring and providing training in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, New Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Bank Accounting (including DME), EBS, and Search string.
  • Thorough understanding of Business Processes related to SAP Finance (FI) and SAP FSCM (BCM, Treasury, Cash Management, and Credit Management), with basic knowledge in Dispute and Collection Management, as well as integration with SD and MM modules.
  • Utilized basic debugging knowledge to independently resolve technical issues.
  • Experience collaborating with integrated onshore and offshore teams.
  • Contributed to numerous enhancements in GL, AR, and Treasury, resulting in financial benefits and reduced manual efforts for the business.
  • Automated several activities, resulting in significant time savings, acknowledged with the Outstanding award, the highest-level recognition at Deloitte.
  • Experience working with International clients across EMEA, APAC, LATAM, NA, and CA regions within Retail & Manufacturing sectors.
  • Skilled in training end-users on functionality and creating related documentation.
  • Successfully managed a team of 6 members by assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and providing support as needed.
  • Conducted training sessions on FI and FSCM modules and produced training materials.
  • Engaged in S4 HANA implementation & Migration, handling versions 1909,  2020 and 2021.

Experience

Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2022

Languages

EnglishFluent

Project history

Senior Consultant (SAP)

Ernst & Young LLP

SAP Senior Consultant

Ernst & Young LLP; JKFenner Pvt Ltd
* Proposed and implemented new FI organizational structure to business for meeting there
reporting requirement and to bring their business operational areas in a well-structured way.
* Prepared KDS for the FI sub modules General ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts receivables,
New Asset accounting.
* Worked on post migration activities such as consistency check of all relevant modules.
* Enabling workflow process in Automatic payment program for specific outgoing payments.
* Worked on completing the migration activities after checking the consistency of all relevant
modules and activating new asset accounting.
* Gathering new business requirements from business to address their pain areas.
* Prepared BBP for new SAP standard requirement and also created FS for the customized
requirement.
* Managing team to configure global parameter, Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, New asset
accounting settings.
* Activating document splitting as business was not using the functionality previously.
* Prepared blueprint for new modules such as Treasury and risk management, Credit management and
Bank communication management.
* Implemented basic credit management and Electronic Bank Statement (end-to-end).
* Preparing template for master data load in LTMC and loading house bank master data through
NWBC.
* Allocating tasks to junior resources and providing prop to juniors when it is needed.
* Lead the EBS, Treasury and Basic credit management configurations.
* Interacted with business for gathering the requirements on new development.
* Providing post Go-live support.

SAP Senior Consultant

Ernst & Young LLP; Hatsun Agro Products ltd
* Requirement gathering on FI custom objects to streamline their process and implementing FSCM
processes (Treasury and Risk management, Bank communication management and Cash Management) and
electronic bank statement.
* Prepared blueprint on FSCM modules as they are new modules for business.
* I have worked on FI transactional data and master data migration process.
* Prepared Functional specification for custom program to upload customer, vendor master data,
Profit centers and cost centers, Asset master data and its transactions.
* For few BP master and GL master mass upload, I have designed custom program with standard BAPI
along with technical team.
* For House bank creation I have used standard upload format to from NWBC to upload house bank
and house bank account.
* I have done preparation on General ledger and Asset accounting customizing and have done post
migration activities such as migrated transactional data check and master data check.
* As part of post migration activities, I have set the migration activities to complete status
and cross checked the basic settings pertaining to company code.
* Also, I have assisted team to run one complete P2P and O2C cycle for the migrated company code
to cross check the config.
* In Account receivables I have done correspondence settings to send the customer outstanding
report and account statements.
* Assisted on setting the legacy asset data migration date and created custom program for asset
master data upload.
* Uploaded transactional and master data through LTMC and added customized fields in LTMC through
LTMOM.
* Created several OSS message with business for the issues which we encountered during migration
and post migration process.
* Implemented end-to-end Bank Communication Management, to ease their process and to have better
visibility and control on their outgoing payments, I have recommended business to opt workflow
process and ACH file format to generate and send payment files to banks, instead of using custom
programs for each house banks.
* For few banks business wanted to use custom format as per bank requirement instead of ACH. So
created all together a new DME (Data Medium Exchange) structure through DMEEX as per their house
bank's requirement and same was leveraged to Bank communication management approval process.
* Implemented end to end Treasury and risk management on Interest rate instruments. With
reference to standard product types, created custom product types for short term & long-term
loans, fixed deposits for business convenience.
* For the newly created product type, created separate transaction type, flow types, update types
and new account assignment reference for which account determination is defined.
* Since business is using different interest rates, I have recommended business to use special
interest calculation types for specific deals. Which can be used to calculated interest as per
business convenient.
* Configured end to end Electronic bank statement process for business to automate their bank
reconciliation process with their receivables and payables.
* For Bank reconciliation process I have used MT940 format to get the statements from their house
banks and the BRS implementation is done for 6 of their house banks.
* Implemented Cash Management (Cash position) for cash position reporting, where in I have
configured new structure and planning levels.
* Grouping and Structure definition for daily Cash Position, wire transfers, Cash journals setup
and cash concentration. Configured settings for memo record creations like planning types, number
range assignment.
* Worked on setting up the job for updating the BKPF and BSEG entries in FQM_FLOW table so that
FF7AN report will be pulling up the values.
* Helped business to re-structure the profit center and cost center hierarchy, which will help
business to track their cost and income properly with that they would be able to prepare the
balance sheet in more effective way in less time.
* Prepared PPT on SAP S4 implementation and migration and presented the same to multiple
customers and helped EY to brought in business.
* Also, I helped my colleagues in explaining migration strategies to other clients and suggested
feasible solutions to address their pain areas and to betterment their existing process in more
efficient way.

USI Consultant (SAP)

SAP Functional Lead

Deloitte Consulting India pvt ltd; Walmart
* Managing offshore team such as priorities the tickets, schedule planner, providing feedback as
for year-end performance.
* Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.
* Leading call during weekly status meeting on the Incidents and Enhancements.
* Prepared and presented stabilization deck on incidents resolution and innovation done by our
team to client.
* Regularly interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and
Functional specifications.
* Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, assigned
these variants to company codes, created GL Master records, reconciliation accounts for
sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic
account assignments, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals
variants) and financial statement version.
* Configured new company codes with necessary settings for new business operation.
* Worked on 50+ new Enhancements in GL, AR and Treasury area to reduce the manual effort for
business.
* Automated the tax jurisdiction code update to Profit center and Cost center master data by
fetching the tax information from SABRIX system.
* Worked on PRD GL accounts master data syncing with testing clients, which is completely an
automated process.
* Configured areas of AP, House Banks and Automatic Payment program (APP). Involved in optimizing
bank details for wire payments, check lots, void reason codes and clearing inter-company
vendor/customer open items.
* Configured Treasury setup for company codes (Transaction management), search string setup,
Electronic Bank Statement setup from E5 solution standpoint.
* Automated the cash memo record creation after bank holiday, which will help business to keep
the cash position updated on start of the next working day.
* Configured end to end Bank Communication Management setup with standard approval workflow
settings.
* Experience in report, conversion, interface, enhancement, forms.
* Have done basic debugging in custom program to fix the issue.
* Involved in designing SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP S/4HANA platform and
implementing the S4Hana 1503 (SFin 2.0) on premises edition.
* Interaction with client business users for gathering and analysis of requirements, written
functional specifications.
* Handled critical incident and provided solution within SLA.
* Provided internal training to junior resource on Bank communication management and Dispute
Management. Help solving issue in these modules for other projects when needed.

SAP Functional Lead

Deloitte Consulting India pvt ltd; Allen Harim Farm (USA)
* Designed and configured Enterprise structure with company code, chart of account, reconciliation
accounts, fiscal year variant, created terms of payment. Trained users in creating and printing
sales invoices and Correspondence.
* Configured non-ledgers and accounting principal settings.
* Integrated A/P and A/R modules in FI with MM respectively, provided configuration support in MM,
integration for account determination of MM (Procure-to-Pay).
* Responsible for year-end close and reconciliation of sub-ledger like A/R, A/P and Fixed Asset.
* Configured automatic payment program for vendors and trained accounts payable users in automatic
payment program, vendor check printing and creating master data.
* Configured FI-AP parameters for the paying and sending company, house banks and payment methods.
Configured vendor down payment process and trained users in creating, posting down payment and
posting vendor invoice with the down payment request.
* Configured setting for revaluation of fixed assets, normal depreciation run and posting of asset
acquisition.
* Developed documentation for end users, end user training.
* Worked on UAT testing phase on FI side along with customized objects developed and documented the
same.
* Created Functional specifications for the customized objects.

Assistant Accounts Manager

GAARK Electronic Control

Assistant Accounts Manager

GAARK Electronic control
* Managing the transition from manual to computerized accounting system, also handling State &
Central tax payments.
* Processing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and Cash Receipts, Payments.
* Provided an effective prop for Income tax filing 2013 - 2014.
* Preparing monthly financial reports to provide relevant information to my Senior Manager.

Financial Assistant

Crescent Cements Pvt Ltd
CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

* Bagged 5 spot awards and 2 Applause awards in my tenure so far.
* Achieved the Outstanding performer award for the ability to consistently go above and beyond in
quality contribution to project during Sep 2017 to Aug 2018.
* Awarded as "Most valuable person" for handling the FSCM implementation for Hatsun by EY.
* Awarded as "Most valuable person" twice for handling multiple projects in EY.
* Received the Star Performer Award twice within a year for exceptional contributions to EBS
solution and consistently delivering outstanding results in Maersk.

Financial Assistant

Crescent cements pvt ltd.
* Managed daily cash balances, receipts and payments.
* Provide effective work support in bills payables, receivables, stock maintenance, and tax
preparation for payment.
* Assist with end of year preparation and procedures.

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