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SUMMARY

6 years of SAP experience in implementation of global projects covering requirement

analysis; design (configuration of the FI (Finance) and CO (Controlling) application
components of SAP); detailed specifications for data upload programs, custom module
programs and reports; definition and realization of master and transaction data cut-over
strategy, unit testing, cross modular integration testing and user acceptance testing,
created business process procedures (BPP), end-user training.

Successfully completed 3 SAP R/3 Full cycle Implementations of SAP FI-CO modules;
one technical up-grade project, over all 8 SAP project implementations.

Extensive functional experience in Configuration and Customization in FI-GL, AR, AP, Bank
Accounting, Internal Orders, Credit Management and experience in CO-PA, CCA, PCA.

Analyze, design solutions for issues related to Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts
Payable (AP), Sales and billing.

Sound knowledge in integrating FI with SD and MM modules (Procurement, sales, billing,

inventory).

Good knowledge of LSMW and CATT tools for data uploads

Exposure to EDI settings, IDOCS, partner profile and message control.

Extensively worked in the accounting and reporting areas of companies, both domestically
and internationally, where through varied financial implementations, acquired advanced
knowledge of financial software and practices.

Conversant with GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance procedure.

A seasoned professional with extensive designing (end-to end) and configuration

capabilities in SAP.

Experience in managing projects and modules planning, executing, monitoring and

effectively tracking project progress, deliverables and issues; and providing adequate updates
to project stakeholders including senior management. Achievement oriented professional
journey with many accolades and appreciations and increasing levels of responsibility

Strong analytical abilities, good communication skills (oral and written), an effective team
player and a team builder.

Open to travel.

PROFILE

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Functional skills in SAP General Ledger: Configuring and Customizing G/L account
master records, chart of accounts, field status groups,
automatic account determination, financial statement versions,
G/L display configuration, validations and substitutions.

Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables: Configuring

and Customizing vendor/ customer master data, account
groups, tolerance groups, invoice, payment configuration,
dunning, interest calculation, credit management and check
management.
Treasury: Lockbox configuration, treasury groupings, bank
statement processing (EBS), risk management, cash
management posting rules, exchange rates, planning,
integration with MM and SD
Assets Accounting: Defining chart of Depreciation,
Depreciation areas, fixed asset, asset classes and account
determination in AA. Legacy asset data transfer- maintained
asset master data-acquisitions, retirements, transfers,
revaluation of assets and depreciation run-planned, special
and unplanned depreciation.
Controlling: Configuring controlling area, activate
components/control indicators, assign number ranges to
controlling area, assign company code to controlling area,
maintained cost center standard hierarchy.
Cost Center/Cost Element Accounting (CCA/CEA):
Configuring and Customizing the cost elements/cost centers,
costing sheets, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy,
activity types, statistical key figures, assessments,
distributions.
Profit Center Accounting (PCA): Configuring and
Customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit center
hierarchy, assignments, CO-Objects to Profit Centers,
distribution and assessment of costs, planning and
development of Reports.
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Configuring and Customizing
the operating concern, characteristics, value fields,
maintaining the derivation rules and structures, maintaining
derivation tables, planning versions, planning layouts,
planning profiles, creating Drilldown Reports.
Technical skills in SAP Providing functional specifications to ABAP/4 developers for
development of dialog programs, reports, layouts and data
migration programs.
SAP Versions 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6B and 4.0B

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Organization Duration Designation / Role

Nestle USA, Glendale, CA Jan 2006 to Aug 2006 SAP COPA Consultant
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Nucor Corporation, Charlotte, NC
American Pharmaceutical
Partners, Schaumburg, IL
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL
Wyndham International, TX
Malakoff Berhad, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Singapore Airlines, Singapore
Trident India Ltd, India
Sep 2005 to Dec 2005 SAP FI/CO Consultant
July 2003 to Aug 2005 SAP FI/CO Consultant
July 2002 to June 2003 SAP FI/CO Consultant
Jan 2002 to June 2002 FI/CO Consultant
July 2001 to Dec 2001 SAP FI/CO Consultant
Aug 2000 to June 2001 Consulting Analyst
May 2000 to Aug 2000 Consulting Analyst

PROJECTS

Client: Nestle USA, Glendale, CA

Period: Jan 2006 to August 2006
Role: SAP COPA Consultant

Nestl with headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestl and is today
the world's biggest food and beverage company. Sales at the end of 2004 were CHF 87 billion,
with a net profit of CHF 6.7 billion. Nestle is going through Global rollout phase in 41 countries
termed as GLOBE (Global Business Excellence), one of the largest implementations in SAP.

Provided Backoffice Go Live support for COPA. My main responsibilities included (but not limited
to) FI-COPA-PCA reconciliation, configuration support in COPA, data uploads, master data
management, validations, testing etc. Also provided support on day to day basis to other team
members in FI/CO.

Client: Nucor Corporation, Charlotte, NC

Period: Sep 2005 to Dec 2005
Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Nucor Corporation is the largest steel producer in the United States and has over $6.2 billion in
sales annually. Nucor produces carbon and alloy steel in bars, beams, sheet, and plate; steel
joists and joist girders; steel deck; cold finished steel; steel fasteners; metal building systems; and
light gauge steel framing.

Providing Production support for SAP version 4.6C for the FI/CO modules GL, AR, AP, CCA,
PCA, CO-PA
Monitoring day-to-day activities and fixing incorrect postings as they occur.
Checking assignments of relevant to cost objects and in particular materials to profit centers.
Preparing for the month end close and setting up relevant master data for Allocations
(Assessments and Distributions), Internal Orders, etc.
Generated various reports using report painter and report writer tool.

Client: American Pharmaceutical Partners, Schaumburg, IL

Period: July 2003 to Aug 2005
Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

American Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets injectable

pharmaceutical products in three basic forms: liquid, powder and lyophilized or freeze-dried. Their

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product is generally used in hospitals, long-term care facilities, alternate-care sites and clinics
within North America and holds the right to sell ABRAXANE.

Full Life Cycle Global Implementation in US and Canada.

Interacted with client, business users for requirements gathering and GAP analysis.
Prepared Business Blueprint (Process data Collection and Consolidation, As-Is Document
validation, Business Blueprint preparation, Prototyping and validation)
Fully integrated SAP implementation with Current Good Manufacturing Processes (c-GMP)
Compliance.
Project Implementation strictly in compliance with FDA regulations.
SAP FI/CO module support for US and Candian company codes.
Configured all sub module such as GL, AR, AP
Played a key/lead role while configuring the AR and AP structure, processing of AP invoices.
Helping the team in understanding the various complexities involved in it.
Tested transactions for GL, AR, AP on training client for individual transactions. Developed
reports using report painter.
Complex credit management configured for wholesale and non wholesale customers.
Configured and implemented Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and
Profitability Analysis.
COPA configuration, interfaced SAP and non SAP data in to COPA for reporting purpose,
COPA data is further interfaced to CRM for sales force reporting and Profitability Analysis.
Tested the generation of reports in respect of account statements, special reports to reflect
due-date-forecast analysis, purchasing/sales lists, open item analysis, Balance Sheet and
Profit and Loss account statements
Sarbanes Oxley 404 Compliance and Internal controls assessment related checks
incorporated in Sales order and Invoice processing.
Followed good documentation practice in compliance with Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR part 11) and cGMP validation process.

Client: Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL

Period: July 2002 to June 2003
Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Caterpillar Inc. has been building the world's infrastructure in partnership with its worldwide dealer
network, is driving positive and sustainable change on every continent. With 2004 sales and
revenues of $30.25 billion, Caterpillar is a technology leader and the world's leading manufacturer
of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines.

Configuration of chart of accounts, account groups in G/L and master data, incoming
payments, reason codes in accounts receivable and master data, outgoing payments, open
item clearing in AP.
Creation and maintenance of field status groups, posting keys, document type, open and
close posting periods and created G/L account master records.
Configuration of Vendor and Customer master data, business transactions, tolerance
parameters, payment terms, Credit Management and Dunning processes.
Configuration of house banks for bank accounts, G/L structure, posting rules for automatic
assignment. Created automatic payment program with clearing of open items. Configured
incoming payments, including full payment, partial payment and residual payment.
Configuration of payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations for down
payments and automatic clearing of line items.
Configured module such as Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and
Profitability Analysis.
Involved in extensive end user training and preparation of user materials and documenting.

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Client: Wyndham International, TX

Period: Jan 2002 to June 2002
Role: FI/CO Consultant

Wyndham International, Inc. offers upscale and luxury hotel and resort accommodations through
proprietary lodging brands and a management services division. The company owns, leases,
manages and franchises hotels and resorts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean
and Europe with a revenue of $970 millions. My role was to provide implementation support and
development; Process enhanced configuration, user training and documentation.

Configured and redefined the chart of account structure.

Configured Fiscal year variants and assigned them to company codes.
Configured posting period variant, open and close posting period, document number
ranges, document types, tolerance ranges, line item controls.
Customized fast entry screens layouts for G/L account items, park documents, individual or
mass reversal of documents, and valuate foreign currency.
Customized screen layouts for document entry at account level and document levels, made
settings for clearing, modified the financial statement version to more accurately reflect
business and allow accurate analysis of company.
Worked on customer/vendor master records, tolerance limits per business requirement for
over payments and under payments, set up the reason codes and in open item
management in customer accounts.
Integrated FI with SD and MM, provided configuration support in SD, MM integration for
account determination, material movement setup, and inter-company billing.
Created new GL accounts for accounting to permit timely reporting and created new profit
centers and cost centers to enhance financial analysis.
Configured controlling area, defined master records cost elements (primary and secondary
cost elements), activated components, assigned number ranges to controlling area, assigned
Company Code to controlling area, maintained cost center standard hierarchy.
In Cost Center Accounting, created primary and secondary cost elements, cost element
groups, cost centers, cost center groups, cost element attributes and configured the activity
types, assessment and distribution cycles. Configured Internal Orders, Order types and
Settlement types.
Involved in extensive end user training and preparation of user materials and
documentation.

Client: Malakoff Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Period: July 2001 to Dec 2001
Role: FI/CO Consultant

Malakoff Berhad, the largest private sector power producer of Malaysia, undertook the
implementation of SAP of the application modules FI, CO, MM, HR and PM. The project was
carried out at the client site in Kuala Lumpur, and involved a team of 6 Consultants along with 4
core team members from the user side. The site went live on 1st July 2003, with no issues
outstanding.

Performing gap analysis between As Is and To Be for business processes in the Finance
and Controlling functional areas.
Finalization of the business blueprint for the Finance and Controlling application modules
Preparation of data migration strategy, testing of data upload programs, ensuring the
accuracy and consistency of the uploaded data from the legacy system [ AP, AR and GL
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balances, Asset Master Records at the year end conversions , GL Master Data , Cost Centre
and Profit Centre Hierarchy, Actual and Planned Line items at the Cost Centers and Profit
Centers].
Configuration of the system to effect the To Be processes, in the SAP Application Sub-
Modules of FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, and CO-CCA and CO-PA
Maintaining customer tolerance groups to specify the maximum payment difference that can
be charged off to a G/L account, the maximum Cash Discount percentage amount and the
maximum allowable difference in percentage terms.
Configured extensively the procedure of Credit management and efficient reconciliation with
general ledger of FI-AP and FI-AR sub modules.
Configuration testing, preparation of test scripts for Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
Preparation of User Manuals and providing go-live support.

Client: Singapore Airlines, Singapore

Period: Aug 2000 to June 2001
Role: Consultant Analyst

Singapore Airlines, rated as one of the most efficient and fastest growing airline companies,
implemented almost all the major application components of SAP- FI, MM, PP and HR.

Analyzing the organization structure, current business processes and their financial
implications in adequate detail to assist in the implementation of the FI and CO modules (SAP
sub application modules including FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, and CO-CCA and CO-PCA).
Design and configuration of FI-GL, AR, AP and CO-CCA.
Testing and review of programs for the upload of the master and transaction data from the
existing legacy systems using LSMW for AP, AR and GL balances and Master Data.
Preparation of technical specifications for the development of customized programs, reports
Drawing up of the unit test plans for customization work packages; preparation of test data
and carrying out these plans.

Client: Trident India Ltd, Punjab, India

Period: May 2000 to Aug 2000
Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

US $150 MM global enterprise spanning across 34 countries having a formidable presence in the
business of Yarn, Terry Towel, and Paper & Chemicals; Winner of Wal-Mart's best International
Supplier award

Assisted in Financial Accounting configuration included Creation of Enterprise Structure.

Configured company code settings, defined chart of accounts, account groups, assigned
Chart of accounts to company codes.
Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variants assigned document number ranges,
defined tolerance groups for employees etc.
Configured and Customized General Ledger accounting, Creation of G/L Accounts, Screen
layout rules, automatic account assignments, Financial Statement Version, validation and
substitutions.

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Involved in FI, SD and MM integration in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

modules.
Defined, configured and Customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules
including creation of Vendor Master Records, Customer Master Records, account groups,
tolerance groups, account determination, default account assignments.
Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments, which included payment
methods, house banks, bank accounts and ranking order of bank accounts.
Involved in Final Preparation (Final integration test and validation, End User Training, Quality
checks)
Provided Go Live and support (Production support and Project sign off)

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

MBA in Finance and International Business from University of Illinois, Chicago

Four year full time undergraduate degree in Engineering, from Thapar Institute of Engineering
and Technology (Deemed University), Punjab - India

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