SAP ATR Consultant and Product costing Specialist
Organon USA
Keywords
SAP Applications
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
SAP FI/CO
Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA)
Bug Management
Business Process Modeling
Software Documentation
Information Technology Consulting
Data Migration
Issue Tracking Systems
Skills
variance analysis, Business Process Design, custom reports, master data, Data Migration, IT Consulting, Integration testing, Issue Tracking, legacy systems, Release Management, SAP, SAP FI, SAP FICO, HANA, BW, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP SEM, secure messaging, bug fixes, user Documentation, program specifications, test data, test scripts, Shell
Project history
05/2024
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05/2024
PROJECT EXPERIENCES:
SAP ATR Consultant and Product costing Specialist - Organon USA:
Organon required an SAP ATR and Product costing specialist located in the UK/ EU to support their
business users in the UK and European sites. Working as a Lead ATR and Product costing Specialist as
part of the Business Technology Team supporting the client's business going through S4 HANA
Deployments across the globe. The role is to design, support the testing and UAT, go live and post
go live support for S4 HANA deployments. It involves working closely with the 3rd Party IT Partner
responsible for the S4 HANA deployments with design, configuration and providing guidance for
resolution of issues identified during testing and UAT. Currently, S4 HANA has been deployed in the
UK and European markets and the role involves giving hands on support to the business as well as the
Product Costing shared service team with any Planning, Product Costing, Production Accounting and
specifically Material Ledger and Actual costing related topics for the sites where it is a legal
requirement i.e; Belgium, Turkey, Russia. S4 HANA is next due to go live in ASIA PAC and LATAM
geographies. The role involves working closely with the 3rd party IT Supplier with any
Business-as-Usual issues they may need a design and configuration support on. In addition, there is
a list of new requirements being managed on a regular basis to prioritise and take through the
approval process e.g; Design Review Boards and take it through configuration, testing and
deployment.
SAP ATR Consultant and Product costing Specialist - Organon USA:
Organon required an SAP ATR and Product costing specialist located in the UK/ EU to support their
business users in the UK and European sites. Working as a Lead ATR and Product costing Specialist as
part of the Business Technology Team supporting the client's business going through S4 HANA
Deployments across the globe. The role is to design, support the testing and UAT, go live and post
go live support for S4 HANA deployments. It involves working closely with the 3rd Party IT Partner
responsible for the S4 HANA deployments with design, configuration and providing guidance for
resolution of issues identified during testing and UAT. Currently, S4 HANA has been deployed in the
UK and European markets and the role involves giving hands on support to the business as well as the
Product Costing shared service team with any Planning, Product Costing, Production Accounting and
specifically Material Ledger and Actual costing related topics for the sites where it is a legal
requirement i.e; Belgium, Turkey, Russia. S4 HANA is next due to go live in ASIA PAC and LATAM
geographies. The role involves working closely with the 3rd party IT Supplier with any
Business-as-Usual issues they may need a design and configuration support on. In addition, there is
a list of new requirements being managed on a regular basis to prioritise and take through the
approval process e.g; Design Review Boards and take it through configuration, testing and
deployment.
05/2024
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05/2024
Lead SAP Product Manager - Cost Accounting
AstraZeneca
Working as part of the Manufacturing Accounting Project (MAP) Design Team which is a Finance
Transformation project within AstraZeneca, as SAP Lead for the Actual Product Costing (APC) Business
Process for the EMEA region. The APC business process covers the collection of actual cost of
manufacturing for all elements including materials, overheads and other costs and Production
Accounting at month end for detailed variance analysis to enable key inputs for insightful
management reporting and decision making as maybe required. The deployment involves Fit-GAP
analysis, Detailed Solution Design, Documenting the Design Requirements, Exploratory Testing, Train
the Trainer, UAT, Go Live and Post Go Live support.
GSK - SAP Product Director -Corporate Finance, Consolidation and Planning:
Started off as a Senior Consultant within GSK performing a variety of Roles on various projects
within GSK to progress to a Director position. The role covered ownership of a wide Product
portfolio within the Finance stream including the key areas of Financial Planning (SAP BW-IP), Group
Reporting and Corporate Consolidation (SAP FIM, SAP FC), Inter-Company Profit Tracking,
Manufacturing Accounting (SAP Product Costing including Material Ledger), Project system and
Financials (FI-GL, AA/GL) and Trading Partner Functionality. During the tenure of the role got the
opportunity to develop a good overview of SAP's S/4 HANA Enterprise Management.
GSK - SAP FICO LEAD and SAP Senior FICO Consultant - Various Projects:
Domestic M-ERP R2R Lead:
Led the domestic M-ERP deployments covering GMS South Africa (Cape Town), GMS India and Sri Lanka,
GMS Mexico and Panama, GMS Argentina and GMS Algeria sites alongside being the R2R Lead for GMS
South Africa (Cape Town), GMS India and Sri Lanka and GMS Algeria deployments of the Domestic M-ERP
template solution at these sites.
As a Domestic M-ERP R2R lead, my responsibilities included but not limited to leading the teams
typically comprising a mix of strategic service partner colleagues/CWs/permanent employees to
deliver the deployments, guiding the team members, cross team integration with other streams,
representing R2R stream in all Leadership meetings. Also being the R2R deployment lead for many GSK
sites, this involved early engagement with site including senior stakeholders, working closely with
business partners at each phase: Deliver the Solution Adoption Workshops, Business Process Training,
Data Migration Workshops, Day in Life testing workshops, Business Cutover Workshops, Cutover and Go
Live with post go live support including the 1st month end until delivery to the BAU Support team.
MERP R2R Product Costing Consultant:
Successfully designed and implemented the Product Costing functionality within the GSK MERP project
for GMS sites across Europe kicking off with the pilot MERP sites - Aranda and Dungarvan and rolling
out the same to other sites: Evreux, Alcala, Parma, Verona, Poznan, Mayenne, Zebulon.
Being the Product Costing consultant for the pilot sites deployment involved the key Design Phase
for setting up the footprint for the GSK Template for Product Costing. This ranged from Delivering
Workshops to gather the business requirements from the senior stakeholders of GSK, Designing the
template solution based on the requirements collected, Converting the requirements into Business
Process Design Documents, Prototyping and Configuration of the system to reflect the requirements
alongside the typical phases of the projects of Scoping and Planning, Business Blueprint, Detailed
Design, Realisation, Cutover (Ramp up/Ramp Down) , Go Live , Post Go Live including month end
support and Exit to support team.
Additionally, also designed and delivered the Actual costing Material Ledger functionality for
Poznan site.
Addition of the Actual Costing Material Ledger functionality to the M-ERP template due to the legal
requirements in Poznan involved Design of the solution with various options which needed discussion
with consultants from SAP, prototyping the solution, submitting the proposals in front of the SAP
approval board, discussing the solution with all the stakeholders throughout the design phase,
working on issues arising during prototyping and resolving the same, documenting the solution to
make it part of the template and taking this solution from inception through to delivery to support.
Simplify Treasury:
The Simplify Treasury Project is replacing diverse banking partners in Europe with a small number of
preferred banks to achieve simplification and maximize cost savings. Implemented the cash pooling
functionality in Portugal, worked on setting up additional bank account in Switzerland, implemented
the entire change end to end in Norway and Ireland. Additionally, handled warranty items and
additional work items for Finland and Italy.
Other Projects and ad hoc work:
Worked on different small projects ranging from Automated email remittance for Australia and New
Zealand, change of secure messaging service in UK banks from Hexagon to Swift, testing for Global
Reporting changes, review of functional estimates/solutions as and when requested for various
changes.
Transformation project within AstraZeneca, as SAP Lead for the Actual Product Costing (APC) Business
Process for the EMEA region. The APC business process covers the collection of actual cost of
manufacturing for all elements including materials, overheads and other costs and Production
Accounting at month end for detailed variance analysis to enable key inputs for insightful
management reporting and decision making as maybe required. The deployment involves Fit-GAP
analysis, Detailed Solution Design, Documenting the Design Requirements, Exploratory Testing, Train
the Trainer, UAT, Go Live and Post Go Live support.
GSK - SAP Product Director -Corporate Finance, Consolidation and Planning:
Started off as a Senior Consultant within GSK performing a variety of Roles on various projects
within GSK to progress to a Director position. The role covered ownership of a wide Product
portfolio within the Finance stream including the key areas of Financial Planning (SAP BW-IP), Group
Reporting and Corporate Consolidation (SAP FIM, SAP FC), Inter-Company Profit Tracking,
Manufacturing Accounting (SAP Product Costing including Material Ledger), Project system and
Financials (FI-GL, AA/GL) and Trading Partner Functionality. During the tenure of the role got the
opportunity to develop a good overview of SAP's S/4 HANA Enterprise Management.
GSK - SAP FICO LEAD and SAP Senior FICO Consultant - Various Projects:
Domestic M-ERP R2R Lead:
Led the domestic M-ERP deployments covering GMS South Africa (Cape Town), GMS India and Sri Lanka,
GMS Mexico and Panama, GMS Argentina and GMS Algeria sites alongside being the R2R Lead for GMS
South Africa (Cape Town), GMS India and Sri Lanka and GMS Algeria deployments of the Domestic M-ERP
template solution at these sites.
As a Domestic M-ERP R2R lead, my responsibilities included but not limited to leading the teams
typically comprising a mix of strategic service partner colleagues/CWs/permanent employees to
deliver the deployments, guiding the team members, cross team integration with other streams,
representing R2R stream in all Leadership meetings. Also being the R2R deployment lead for many GSK
sites, this involved early engagement with site including senior stakeholders, working closely with
business partners at each phase: Deliver the Solution Adoption Workshops, Business Process Training,
Data Migration Workshops, Day in Life testing workshops, Business Cutover Workshops, Cutover and Go
Live with post go live support including the 1st month end until delivery to the BAU Support team.
MERP R2R Product Costing Consultant:
Successfully designed and implemented the Product Costing functionality within the GSK MERP project
for GMS sites across Europe kicking off with the pilot MERP sites - Aranda and Dungarvan and rolling
out the same to other sites: Evreux, Alcala, Parma, Verona, Poznan, Mayenne, Zebulon.
Being the Product Costing consultant for the pilot sites deployment involved the key Design Phase
for setting up the footprint for the GSK Template for Product Costing. This ranged from Delivering
Workshops to gather the business requirements from the senior stakeholders of GSK, Designing the
template solution based on the requirements collected, Converting the requirements into Business
Process Design Documents, Prototyping and Configuration of the system to reflect the requirements
alongside the typical phases of the projects of Scoping and Planning, Business Blueprint, Detailed
Design, Realisation, Cutover (Ramp up/Ramp Down) , Go Live , Post Go Live including month end
support and Exit to support team.
Additionally, also designed and delivered the Actual costing Material Ledger functionality for
Poznan site.
Addition of the Actual Costing Material Ledger functionality to the M-ERP template due to the legal
requirements in Poznan involved Design of the solution with various options which needed discussion
with consultants from SAP, prototyping the solution, submitting the proposals in front of the SAP
approval board, discussing the solution with all the stakeholders throughout the design phase,
working on issues arising during prototyping and resolving the same, documenting the solution to
make it part of the template and taking this solution from inception through to delivery to support.
Simplify Treasury:
The Simplify Treasury Project is replacing diverse banking partners in Europe with a small number of
preferred banks to achieve simplification and maximize cost savings. Implemented the cash pooling
functionality in Portugal, worked on setting up additional bank account in Switzerland, implemented
the entire change end to end in Norway and Ireland. Additionally, handled warranty items and
additional work items for Finland and Italy.
Other Projects and ad hoc work:
Worked on different small projects ranging from Automated email remittance for Australia and New
Zealand, change of secure messaging service in UK banks from Hexagon to Swift, testing for Global
Reporting changes, review of functional estimates/solutions as and when requested for various
changes.
05/2024
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05/2024
Leasing Consultant
The project was to work on the leasing design and involved consideration of various options
available for leasing including the SAP standard Leasing Solution. It involved presenting the
available options to the business with a view to help them make a decision and implementing the
agreed option.
available for leasing including the SAP standard Leasing Solution. It involved presenting the
available options to the business with a view to help them make a decision and implementing the
agreed option.
05/2024
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05/2024
Lead Consultant
III. Shell Gas and Energy Europe
The Fusion project comprised of country specific rollouts which concluded with Austria and Slovakia
geographies. The modules implemented mainly comprise of FI and CO with major thrust on the country
specific requirements.
The Horizon project refers to the IS Utilities implementations across European geographies covering
the business processes from Offer and Contract Management through the billing cycle down to Finance
postings with transfer happening to R/3 Fusion on summary levels as standard.
Supporting the SEE Support across Shell Europe geographies as the lead consultant/focal point from
onsite for SAP FICO/SAP FICA streams.
Managing Support by allocation of responsibilities, tickets/ enhancements and other deliverables to
Offshore FICO/FICA support team members.
In addition to routine support activities, implementing all enhancements not categorised as
projects, working in close coordination with the stream Process Integration Analyst (Shell) for
Finance for all changes being moved into production as per the Release Schedule, Ensuring all
documentation for the changes are in place so as to maintain an updated information bank for SEE
Finance Stream as far as possible, reporting to Support Project Manager on all incidents with
priority *1 and keeping them up to date on their progress, other MIS reporting on Finance Stream
tickets as and when requested, Managing all SOX/Audit queries for Finance Stream.
Project - Fixed Assets (FA) module Implementation for Shell Netherlands:
Shell Netherlands wanted to implement fixed assets for managing their assets in SAP.
Being the lead and sole consultant for the project implemented the FA module working from Business
Process Analysis through till go live.
Implementation - Ukraine:
The Fusion project comprises of country specific implementation currently being Ukraine and Austria
with Slovakia planned in due course. The modules implemented mainly comprise of FI and CO with major
thrust on the country specific requirements. Handled the implementation as a lead FICO consultant
reporting directly to the project manager. The key challenge was the Ukrainian tax legislations and
fitment of the same to SAP.
geographies. The modules implemented mainly comprise of FI and CO with major thrust on the country
specific requirements.
The Horizon project refers to the IS Utilities implementations across European geographies covering
the business processes from Offer and Contract Management through the billing cycle down to Finance
postings with transfer happening to R/3 Fusion on summary levels as standard.
Supporting the SEE Support across Shell Europe geographies as the lead consultant/focal point from
onsite for SAP FICO/SAP FICA streams.
Managing Support by allocation of responsibilities, tickets/ enhancements and other deliverables to
Offshore FICO/FICA support team members.
In addition to routine support activities, implementing all enhancements not categorised as
projects, working in close coordination with the stream Process Integration Analyst (Shell) for
Finance for all changes being moved into production as per the Release Schedule, Ensuring all
documentation for the changes are in place so as to maintain an updated information bank for SEE
Finance Stream as far as possible, reporting to Support Project Manager on all incidents with
priority *1 and keeping them up to date on their progress, other MIS reporting on Finance Stream
tickets as and when requested, Managing all SOX/Audit queries for Finance Stream.
Project - Fixed Assets (FA) module Implementation for Shell Netherlands:
Shell Netherlands wanted to implement fixed assets for managing their assets in SAP.
Being the lead and sole consultant for the project implemented the FA module working from Business
Process Analysis through till go live.
Implementation - Ukraine:
The Fusion project comprises of country specific implementation currently being Ukraine and Austria
with Slovakia planned in due course. The modules implemented mainly comprise of FI and CO with major
thrust on the country specific requirements. Handled the implementation as a lead FICO consultant
reporting directly to the project manager. The key challenge was the Ukrainian tax legislations and
fitment of the same to SAP.
05/2024
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05/2024
Report Writer
WABCO AUTO
WABCO-AUTO is the innovator in ABS and EBS braking systems and a leading supplier of braking
and control systems for the commercial vehicle industry.
The project involved upgrading the existing SAP 3.1I to SAP Enterprise (4.7) and bringing the
business processes in line with the Central System Business Processes. The project successfully
went live in January 2005.
Business Blueprinting:
The existing business processes were studied and mapped to bring in line with the CENTRAL
SYSTEM business processes. Then the mapped business processes were implemented in the SAP 4.7
system.
Realisation:
Customisation: Customised the 4.7 system based on business blueprint, created IMG notes
for each configuration piece and every modification made to it.
Adhoc requirements:
Report Writer: Developed reports as per client requirements using report writer for Overhead
Management showing internal orders as regards Commitments, Overall plan value against the
orders, the actual and the remaining balance being actually calculated through the report.
Data Migration:
* Preparation of program specifications as per field mapping templates
* Creation of test data which involved Creation of recordings of transactions for
facilitating development and testing
* Testing of programs developed for data migration
Integration testing:
* Preparation of test scripts for integration testing
* Phase wise Integration testing
* Incorporating changes based on out come of integration testing
End user Documentation:
* Update functional specifications with any modifications
* Maintenance of IMG notes
* End user documentation for custom reports or new/enhanced functionality
Go Live and Post Go Live Support:
* Analysis and resolution of issues
* Issue Tracking
* Project Closure with summary and details of all post go live issues with their
resolution
and control systems for the commercial vehicle industry.
The project involved upgrading the existing SAP 3.1I to SAP Enterprise (4.7) and bringing the
business processes in line with the Central System Business Processes. The project successfully
went live in January 2005.
Business Blueprinting:
The existing business processes were studied and mapped to bring in line with the CENTRAL
SYSTEM business processes. Then the mapped business processes were implemented in the SAP 4.7
system.
Realisation:
Customisation: Customised the 4.7 system based on business blueprint, created IMG notes
for each configuration piece and every modification made to it.
Adhoc requirements:
Report Writer: Developed reports as per client requirements using report writer for Overhead
Management showing internal orders as regards Commitments, Overall plan value against the
orders, the actual and the remaining balance being actually calculated through the report.
Data Migration:
* Preparation of program specifications as per field mapping templates
* Creation of test data which involved Creation of recordings of transactions for
facilitating development and testing
* Testing of programs developed for data migration
Integration testing:
* Preparation of test scripts for integration testing
* Phase wise Integration testing
* Incorporating changes based on out come of integration testing
End user Documentation:
* Update functional specifications with any modifications
* Maintenance of IMG notes
* End user documentation for custom reports or new/enhanced functionality
Go Live and Post Go Live Support:
* Analysis and resolution of issues
* Issue Tracking
* Project Closure with summary and details of all post go live issues with their
resolution
05/2024
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05/2024
SAP FICO Consultant
VII. GE INFRASTRUCTURE (GLOBAL SUPPORT)
Codes on a global level.
ROLE and Responsibilities:
1. Wide exposure in handling cross - module issues
2. Upload of Files on regular basis in SAP - live production Environment to generate
entries in SAP
3. Creation of master data - FI (Finance Module) - GL Accounts, Terms of Payment Creation,
CO (Controlling Module) - Cost Elements, Cost Centres, EC-PCA Profit Centres
4. Black Box Mapping - SAP System being used to generate inputs for consolidation outside
SAP
5. Support involved areas of Asset Accounting, Project Systems, Investment Management
6. Change Control in SAP
7. Enhancements in terms of new reports, new organisational units as per expanding business
8. SAP Scripts - forms, standard texts; modifying them as per business needs
9. Automatic Payment Program Configuration and Operational issues
10. Automatic Account Assignments
11. Extensive exposure to Batch Input Processing.
ROLE and Responsibilities:
1. Wide exposure in handling cross - module issues
2. Upload of Files on regular basis in SAP - live production Environment to generate
entries in SAP
3. Creation of master data - FI (Finance Module) - GL Accounts, Terms of Payment Creation,
CO (Controlling Module) - Cost Elements, Cost Centres, EC-PCA Profit Centres
4. Black Box Mapping - SAP System being used to generate inputs for consolidation outside
SAP
5. Support involved areas of Asset Accounting, Project Systems, Investment Management
6. Change Control in SAP
7. Enhancements in terms of new reports, new organisational units as per expanding business
8. SAP Scripts - forms, standard texts; modifying them as per business needs
9. Automatic Payment Program Configuration and Operational issues
10. Automatic Account Assignments
11. Extensive exposure to Batch Input Processing.
05/2024
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05/2024
Accounts Officer
RELIANCE ENERGY LIMITED
Worked as an Accounts Officer in the Accounts Department within Reliance Energy Limited and
moved on to work in the Corporate Finance Department gaining experience in the accounting space
from recording accounts, paying bills, billing clients and customers, tracking assets and
expenditures, managing payroll, keeping track of critical tax documents, generation and
reporting of financial statements.
moved on to work in the Corporate Finance Department gaining experience in the accounting space
from recording accounts, paying bills, billing clients and customers, tracking assets and
expenditures, managing payroll, keeping track of critical tax documents, generation and
reporting of financial statements.
05/2022
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04/2023
Lead SAP Product Manager - Cost Accounting
AstraZeneca
09/2010
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05/2022
SAP Product Director, SAP FICO Lead, SAP Senior FICO Consultant - Solutions Delivery
GSK
projects
September 2010- May 2022
September 2010- May 2022
07/2010
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09/2010
SAP FIAA Leasing Consultant
HCL Axon - Xerox Ltd
12/2008
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02/2009
SAP FICO Lead Consultant
Wipro Technologies
04/2008
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07/2008
Lead Consultant
Wipro Technologies
Local Availability
Open to travel worldwide
Other
Experience Summary:
Senior Finance IT Executive with 21+ years of overall experience segregated into 19 years of experience in SAP consulting space and over 2 years in the Finance domain across Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and other industries.
SAP Consulting experience includes full lifecycle of implementation, Upgrade projects and Various roll outs with post-go live support across Europe and US. Successfully delivered many of the projects as a FICO Lead.
Her experience spans across
SAP Expertise:
Successfully delivered over five global SAP ERP and SAP S/4 HANA transformation programmes including end-to-end implementations and global rollouts for multinational companies in the Pharmaceuitical, Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas,, and Consumer Goods industries, covering more than 20 countries across Europe, Middle East, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Certified SAP FICO Consultant with expertise in analysing business processes & system requirements, discovering and defining solutions.
Extensive knowledge of Record to Report business processes and excellent configuration skills across multiple SAP FI/CO modules: General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Project Systems, Controlling (CO) – Product Costing, Production Accounting, Material Ledger, Actual Costing, Profit Centre Accounting(PAC), Cost Centre Accounting (CCA), Overhead Order Costing (OM), Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, and Profitability Analysis(PA).
Proficient in SAP consolidation modules (ECCS and SEM BCS) with a solid understanding of SAP module interactions and integration touchpoints with FI/CO processes, including Purchase-to-pay,Order-to-cash and Plan-to-Produce.
Leadership and Delivery:
Led teams typically comprising a mix of strategic service partner colleagues,contractors, and permanent employees, ensuring successful delivery of SAP projects to schedule, quality and budget.
Delivery-focussed and highly motivated SAP Functional Lead with proven people management and stakeholder management skills.
Achieved key business goals by standardizing and simplifying business processes, resulting in cost savings and improved efficiency.
Stakeholder Management:
Proven experience in managing stakeholder expectations. Excellent communication skills at the senior manager level within IT teams and across business functions including collaboration with senior business/IT leadership teams, Global Process Owners/Digital IT teams, external vendors and consulting partners in a matrixed organization.
