SAP FICO Solution Architect

• Responsible to understand the business requirement from finance standpoint and other integrated area with finance and how it impacts the business
• Identify the GAPs w.r.t business and country specific requirements and design the best solution
• Designed a payment solution integration in Kyriba along with intermediatory payment functionality which covers payment in US, Canada and Europe
• Currently, working in Poland implementation which covers:
• Payment Order Solution for vendor payment
• Whitelist integration during vendor payment
• Bank Reconciliation for both outgoing and incoming payment
• Asset Management design which covers local and group requirement
• Tax procedure design for both sales and purchase scenarios
• Multiple enhancement to meet the local and business requirements
• Data Upload Master data and Transactional – Mock1 and Mock2
• Logic provided to design multiple BI reports which includes FI and integrated reports

• Responsible to handle incidents, service request and change requests in finance module
• Managed my team
• Extensively I was handling payment related issues, and tax issues including with-holding tax issue
• Migrated cost-based COPA to account based COPA
• Worked on CONCUR and FI integration and concur issues
• Potentially worked on month-end and year end closing

• Responsible to deliver the finance module
• Prepared and reviewed BBP (AS-IS & TO-BE)
• Reviewed functional acceptance document
• Configured FI-MM and FI-SD integration
• Designed and reviewed system configuration
• Designed Cost center and profit center hierarchy

Working as SAP FICO Consultant for HABASIT International AG (October 2020 to September 2021):

• Working as SAP FICO consultant. Requirement gathering and preparing blueprint documents. Fit-gap analysis and designing system
• Working with CTMs to understand business processes in FI and CO and designing systems. Identified RICEFWs to meet the requirements
• GL identification and restructuring. Identified GAPs in different areas like AP, AR, tax, etc
• Prepared KDS for FI and CO
• Overall responsible for Finance and controlling module for the HABASIT India roll out which includes business gap identification, system design, user training, etc
• Worked in dunning, bank payment file, exchange rate, other developments (fi forms), etc
• Cutover strategy preparation and execution
• Also, responsible for wave-2 the business plan is for China, Singapore and Taiwan to go live in wave 2

Working as SAP FICO Solution Architect for Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd (BFW) (November 2019 to September 2020):

• Worked as a solution architect in this project
• Documented as-is and to-be processes in finance and controlling
• Customized product costing and COPA
• Worked the integration with PP and PS
• Defined functional business requirements
• Identified RICEFWs to meet the requirements
• GL identification and restructuring. Identified GAPs in different areas like AP, AR, tax etc
• Prepared KDS for FI and CO
• Prepared user training documents in CO
• Prepared cut-over strategy and migration activities

• Leading the FICO team
• Working in all development works/CRs
• Handling new company code roll-out as well as plant roll-out (to complete config settings, support SIT, cut-over activities, hypercar support)
• Mostly working in SAP-COPC (make to stock, make to order) and SAP COPA
• Prepared certain COPA reports to flow data from all modules (This was handled as a separate project)
• MEC activities (Related to product costing as per MEC, creating costing run, determining material price, consumption revaluation, costing run, MAP update), etc

Working as SAP FICO Lead Consultant for Diageo (July 2018 to November 2019):

• Leading the FICO team
• Working in all development works/CRs
• Handling new company code roll-out as well as plant roll-out (to complete config settings, support SIT, cut-over activities, hypercar support)
• Mostly working in SAP-COPC (make to stock, make to order) and SAP COPA
• Prepared certain COPA reports to flow data from all modules (This was handled as a separate project)
• MEC activities (Related to product costing as per MEC, creating costing run, determining material price, consumption revaluation, costing run, MAP update), etc

Working as SAP FICO Consultant for Gabriel India Pvt. Ltd. (January 2018 to June 2018):

• Gathering the business requirement from the core team and providing solutions
• Analyzing the issues with the user and providing the best solution
• Prepare the FS for new developments and create CRs whenever required

Working as SAP Technical Advisory for Maersk Line (September 2017 to January 2018):

• Gathering the business requirement from BA and solution architect
• Analyzing the GAPs and fit the requirement in SAP-FSCM-BD (MyFinance)
• Design the blueprint and FS
• Reviewing the solution and test cases etc
• Hyper care support

Working as Senior consultant SAP FI for Cooper Standard (June 2016 to August 2017):

• Taken primary responsibility for core extension of company codes to new business processes
• Analyzing the gaps and mapping the business requirement for different functionalities w.r.t different regions like EU, China, and North America
• Worked in plant abroad functionality, China Golden Tax system, FX valuations, Taxation and VAT ledger report for the Czech Republic, China banking, CZ banking, etc

• Working on the FI-AP module and COPA module
• Designed and built the payment and tax process for Argentina and Chile country
• Also designed the COPA in the system to support the business and integrated it with the SD module
• MEC activities

• Part of the FI-AA & GL team
• Understood the business requirement for Asset accounting and General Ledger and mapped or configured these requirements into SAP ECC 6.0
• In asset accounting, the main configuration was FA Org. structure, FA Master Data, FA depreciation, FA valuation, FA special valuation, FA production Startup, FA transactions, FA GL Integration, FA Information systems
• Configured the ECC system for asset accounting w.r.t business scenarios
• FUT preparation scripts and datasheets. Validated the asset accounting scenarios and ensured the design is w.r.t FDs
• Involved in preparation of test scenarios for SIT1 and SIT2 and provided support to TDM team to gather test data for quality checking in QA server execution. Fixed the defects raised by the testing team

• Configuration of FI settings which includes defining company, company codes, posting period variant, fiscal year variant, document types, number ranges, field status, tolerance groups, etc
• Have configured GL, AP, AR, functionality. Utilized expertise in defining GL accounts, maintained the chart of accounts and account groups
• Have configured Automatic Payment Program, House banks, Cross Company code transactions
• Configured and tested all the relevant business processes for the above application areas of FI in integration with other modules
• Master data maintenance relating to GL, A/P, and A/R accounts

Working as Associate consultant SAP FI L3.1 for Coach (April 2014 to July 2014):

• Understanding the business process, Configuring APP for Korea CC, preparing SMTD
• Supporting CCCA regions as well as Japan
• Preparing test master data of GL, AP, and AA
• Reviewing test scenarios and incorporating the gaps and sending them to SME's for client review
• Supporting testing team

Working as Associate consultant SAP FI L2.1 for National Grid (May 2012 to March 2013):

• Configuration of FI settings which includes defining company, company codes, posting period variant, fiscal year variant, document types, number ranges, field status, tolerance groups, etc
• Have configured GL, AP, AR, functionality. Utilized expertise in defining GL accounts, maintained the chart of accounts and account groups
• Have configured Automatic Payment Program, House banks, Cross Company code transactions
• Configured and tested all the relevant business processes for the above application areas of FI in integration with other modules
• Master data maintenance relating to GL, A/P, and A/R accounts

Working as Associate consultant SAP FI L2.1 for Electrolux (July 2011 to April 2012):

• As a part of Integration testing in the FICO module, designed the test cases for SAP-FI sub-modules AR & GL
• Executed business test E2E scenarios
• Given presentations to the entire testing team for SAP FICO overview and basics of GL