Girish (P.) Bhatia
Lead SAP Consultant
Experience
Lead SAP Consultant
PRO Consultancy
- 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 to ensure a smooth closing process.
- Implemented Project Systems (PS) to track project budgets, WBS elements, network activities, and cost management.
- Led full-cycle SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation including configuration, customization, testing, and deployment.
- Configured SAP SD module for order processing, pricing, billing, and invoicing and optimized the order-to-cash cycle.
- Integrated SAP SD with FI, MM, and other modules, and implemented warehouse integration with SAP WM/EWM.
- Developed migration plans, ensured data integrity, and defined field-to-field mapping from JD Edwards to SAP.
- Expertise in SAP CO/FI/MM/SD modules, cost allocations, settlements, and variance analysis.
- Experienced with SAP Business Technology Platform, Process Orchestration, and API gateways.
- Configured OneSource Tax Engine and implemented native and external tax engines for automated tax calculations.
- Proficient in SQL, JD Edwards, ETL tools (LSMW, SAP Data Services), SAP ISU FICA, and Agile methodologies.
- Performed unit, integration, and UAT testing, provided post-go-live support, and developed automated testing solutions.
- Successfully led SAP FICO & PS, MM, SD implementation and integrated Sabrix with SAP FI, MM, SD, and third-party systems.
- Designed architectural frameworks ensuring security and compliance and managed offshore teams.
Project Associates – Senior Consultant
Cognizant
- Created and reviewed functional specification documents, business requirement documents, and system requirement specifications under 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 to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Led SAP Central Finance projects from planning to deployment and migrated master data from SAP ECC to S/4HANA under GxP environment.
- Configured SAP PS for project management and provided post-go-live support, documentation, and end-user training.
- Supported month-end and year-end closing by ensuring correct material valuation, inventory reconciliation, and goods movement postings.
- Managed lens master data catalogue, designed data flow diagrams, and performed data loads using LSMW.
- Configured Sabrix (OneSource) tax engine and integrated SAP Concur, FICA, Ariba, and Convergent Charging/Invoicing with SAP.
- Designed IDocs for FI AP from FICA and managed integration points with SAP FI, SD, and MM.
- Led and mentored onshore and offshore teams, resolved SAP issues, and delivered end-user training and knowledge transfer sessions.
Support Analyst – SAP SD, FI & OneSource Tax Consultant
Gicsol Consulting Pvt Ltd
- Troubleshot sales order, delivery, billing, and pricing issues and resolved customer complaints and invoicing discrepancies.
- Maintained pricing conditions, tax codes, and surcharges, and fixed pricing errors and tax calculation issues.
- Managed customer master data, material master, and partner functions, and supported SAP SD integration with FI, MM, and external tax engine.
- Configured credit management, automatic payment terms, delivery processing, intercompany sales, consignment, and returns processes.
- Resolved GL, AP, and AR posting issues, supported automatic payment program, dunning, and bank reconciliation.
- Maintained asset master data, depreciation rules, cost center accounting, internal orders, and profitability analysis.
- Configured FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, and CO modules, and set up cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, and controlling areas.
- Played a key role in month-end and year-end closing activities, ensuring seamless financial reconciliation and reporting.
- Supported integration between SAP FICO and SD, MM, and tax engines, and assisted with VAT, GST, sales tax configurations, and indirect tax calculations.
- Provided L1/L2 support, analyzed and resolved end-user issues, escalated complex issues, and worked on incident management and change requests.
- Performed debugging (ABAP), IDoc analysis, and interface monitoring, and investigated batch job failures and integration errors.
- Conducted UAT, regression testing, and system validations, and supported cutover activities, data migration, and master data updates.
- Implemented streamlined processes leading to a 30% increase in customer satisfaction.
- Successfully managed and delivered four projects, exceeding client expectations and meeting all deadlines.
- Ensured seamless data flow between retail-specific modules and SAP Finance, reducing manual interventions and errors.
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Experienced in Professional Services (9.5 years) and Information Technology (8 years).
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Experienced in Finance (9.5 years), Information Technology (9.5 years), and Project Management (9.5 years).
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). 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. Good knowledge on System to provide support and debug issue to resolve within SLA. 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.
Skills
- Ms Visio
- Bpmn
- Open Api
- Sap S4 Hana
- Sql & Sas
- System Thinking
- Project Management
- Decision Making
- Csm Certified
- Cspo Certified
- Agile Certified
- Sap S4 Hana Fi, Mm & Sd
- Onesource Integration
- Servicenow
- Jd Edwards
- Microsoft D365
- Business Process Automation
- Business Process Optimization
- Power Bi
- Rest
- Soap
- Sap Fscd
- Sap Fica
- Sap Fico & Ps
- Documentation Review And Compliance
- Business Requirement Documentation
- Project Management Support
- User Acceptance Testing And Post-delivery Support
- Data Migrations And Sap S4 Hana Expertise
- Technical Leadership And Documentation
- Credit Risk Manage
- Process Discovery
- Stakeholder Liaison And Collaboration
- Data Migration Expert
Languages
Education
Jaipur National University
MBA, Finance · Finance · Jaipur, India
Bundelkhand University
Bachelor in Computer Applications · Computer Applications · Jhansi, India
Certifications & licenses
Agile Certified
CSM Certified
CSPO Certified
S/4 Hana In SAP FI
SAP Project Management
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