Girish Bhatia

Lead SAP Consultant

Evere, Belgium

Experience

May 2023 - Feb 2025
1 year 10 months
Belgium

Lead SAP Consultant

GE Pharmaceutical

  • Prepared business cases, conducted risk assessments, managed stakeholders, and streamlined business processes

  • Managed month-end and year-end closing activities in SAP FI/CO & PS, ensuring timely financial reporting and compliance

  • Resolved closing-related issues and SAP posting errors

  • Implemented Project Systems (PS) to track project budgets, WBS elements, network activities, and cost management

  • Led full-cycle implementation, including configuration, customization, testing, and deployment

  • Configured SAP SD module for order processing, pricing, billing, and invoicing

  • Configured sales document types

  • Optimized O2C cycle including sales order, delivery, shipment, and billing

  • Integrated SAP SD with FI, MM, and other modules

  • Implemented warehouse integration and batch/serial number tracking

  • Developed migration plans, ensured data integrity, and implemented data governance processes

  • Converted JDE data formats to match SAP requirements

  • Defined field-to-field mapping from JD Edwards to SAP

  • Configured OneSource Tax Engine, VAT, and tax scenario mappings with SAP and Dynamics 365 F&O

  • Implemented native and external tax engines for automated tax calculations

  • Configured VAT, GST, Sales & Use Tax, Withholding Tax, and Excise duties

  • Mapped tax determination rules, exemptions, and reporting structures

  • Performed unit, integration, and UAT testing, provided post-go-live support, and developed automated testing solutions

Achievements:

  • Successfully led SAP FICO & PS, MM, SD Implementation
  • Integrated Sabrix with SAP FI, MM, SD, and third-party systems
  • Designed architectural frameworks ensuring security and compliance
  • Managed offshore teams and resolved complex SAP-related issues
  • Addressed custom fields and non-standard JDE processes during migration
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 2 months
United Kingdom

Project Associates – Senior Consultant

Sanofi Pharmaceutical

  • Created and reviewed Functional Specification Documents, BRDs, FRDs, and SRS ensuring compliance with GxP standards

  • Led requirement gathering, blueprinting, and design workshops for FICO, MM, SD, and Cashflow Management modules

  • Developed Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash workflows, reporting, and forecasting

  • Collaborated with stakeholders and cross-functional teams

  • Led SAP Central Finance projects from planning to deployment

  • Migrated SAP Master Data from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA under GxP environment

  • Configured SAP PS for project management

  • Provided post-go-live support, documentation, and end-user training

  • Supported month-end and year-end closing

  • Integrated SAP PS with SAP CO

  • Managed and updated lens master data catalogue in SAP

  • Designed data flow diagrams and mapping for integration across systems

  • Performed data loads using LSMW, investigated UAT defects, and supported SAP cutover activities

  • Configured Sabrix tax engine

  • Integrated SAP Concur, FICA, Ariba, and Convergent Charging/Invoicing with SAP

  • Designed Idocs for FI AP from FICA

  • Developed strategic SAP Data Integration approaches

  • Led and mentored onshore and offshore teams

  • Collaborated with tax, finance, and IT teams

  • Delivered end-user training, knowledge transfer sessions, and best practices documentation

Jan 2015 - Oct 2021
6 years 10 months

Support Analyst – SAP SD, FI & OneSource Tax consultant

Multiple clients: Wilkinson, Samvardhana, Motherson Reydel, NKT Cables & FIAT

SAP SD Support:

  • Troubleshoot sales order, delivery, billing, and pricing issues
  • Resolve customer complaints, order processing errors, and invoicing discrepancies
  • Maintaining pricing conditions, tax codes, and surcharges
  • Fix pricing errors, tax calculation issues, and rebates
  • Manage customer master data, material master, and partner functions
  • Support SAP SD integration with FI, MM, and external tax engine
  • Configured credit management, automatic payment terms, delivery processing
  • Supported intercompany sales, third-party sales, consignment, and returns processes

SAP FICO Support:

  • Resolve posting issues, reconciliation errors, and tax mismatches
  • Support automatic payment program, dunning, and bank reconciliation
  • Maintain asset master data and depreciation rules
  • Assist in cost center accounting, internal orders, and profitability analysis
  • Configure FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, and CO modules
  • Set up cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, and controlling areas
  • Month-end and year-end closing activities

Integration & Support:

  • Supporting integration between SAP FICO and SD, MM, and tax engines
  • Assisted with VAT, GST, sales tax configurations, and indirect tax calculations
  • L1/L2 Support for end-user issues
  • Working on incident management, change requests, and system enhancements
  • Performed debugging, IDoc analysis, and interface monitoring
  • Investigating batch job failures, integration errors, and incorrect postings
  • Conducted UAT, regression testing, and system validations
  • Supported cutover activities and data migration

Achievements:

  • Implemented process leading to 30% increase in customer satisfaction
  • Successfully managed and delivered 4 projects
  • Ensured seamless data flow between retail-specific modules and SAP Finance

Summary

Having 8.6 years of experience as an SAP FI CO, PS, MM, SD consultant & OneSource (Thomson Reuters) Tax automation (Design, Build, Test, Cutover, Post GL support). Involved in Six projects which includes Two Implementation, One Rollout Implementation and Three Supporting and currently staying in Belgium. Successfully migrated SAP Master Data from SAP ECC to SAP S/4Hana under GXP environment. Established API Gateways for robust first-line defense and security compliance, facilitating the exposure of SAP Integration solutions within or outside the enterprise. Experienced in Enterprise Structure, GL Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Accounting and Asset Accounting and Implementation of OneSource Tax Technology. Having better exposure of integration between FICO to MM and SD and multi ledger-based setup in SAP. Advised clients and design S/4HANA Central Finance solutions and drive Central Finance transformation programs. Configured SAP Central Finance modules to meet business requirements, including but not limited to, master data replication, transactional data mapping, and data harmonization. Established API Gateways for robust first-line defense and security compliance, facilitating the exposure of SAP Integration solutions within or outside the enterprise. Proficient in ASAP Methodology and well Versed with business process & Configuration. Supported Data Migration and cutover activities. Good exposure in creating Cost Center, Auto payment run and Profit Center. Experienced in formulating strategic approaches for SAP Data Integrations, aligning with enterprise guidelines. Experience configuring and supporting third-party Tax Engine such as ONESOURCE Experience managing large, multidisciplinary projects that impact tax Knowledge of tax processing standards applied worldwide, in markets such as EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and US Good knowledge on System to provide support and debug issue to resolve within SLA. Certified S/4 Hana in SAP FI and SAP Project Management. Tracking all the key milestones and identify any potential delays/bottlenecks and their mitigation actions. Experience in Enhancement Techniques (BADI’s, Exits) Good knowledge in ALE-IDOC. Worked on BAPIs, SAP Scripts &Smart Forms. Analyzed data which enabled to provide regular reports and insights to stakeholders, facilitating informed decision-making and effective project coordination.

Languages

English
Native
Dutch
Elementary

Education

Oct 2020 - Jun 2022

Jaipur National University

MBA · Finance · Jaipur, India

Oct 2004 - Jun 2007

Bundelkhand University

Bachelor · Computer Applications · Jhansi, India

Certifications & licenses

Certified S/4 Hana in SAP FI

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Certified ScrumMaster

SAP Project Management Certification