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FSCM - BCM, Cash Management, Bank Account Management Global Rollout for a Global Mining company

Working as a FSCM – BCM, BAM (Bank Account Management), Cash & Liquidity Management and Treasury consultant through K2 Partnering for the client on Global Roll out of S/4 on Hana 1809 implementation project for the client.
Release Strategy, Approval workflows, Payment Status and DMEEX Configuration for various countries and banks based on local and regulatory requirements for each country and banks including complex regions of Russia, LATAM and Nordea.
BCM Configuration for all countries and integration with FI for automatic clearing through EBS.
EBS Configuration for automatic clearing through search strings.
Free Form payments, Bank Transfer and intercompany netting configuration for payments and refunds.
Cash Position and Liquidity Forecast configuration through planning levels, planning groups, Liquidity Items and Certainty Levels for all receivables and payables items from MM, FI and SD.
Liaising with various stakeholders from internal Orica Treasury and external Bank technical teams for requirement gathering and analysis for configuration of BCM and EBS.
Configuration of payment messaging formats (ISO20023, MT1XX) in XML for through DME engine (DMEEX for Hana).
Configuration of MT940 and CAMT53 bank statements and working with SWIFT through PI/PO integration for PAIN messages and Bank Statement messages.
Configuration of FX currencies and automatic upload of FX rates through Bloomberg and also regulatory rates for few countries. Configuration of worklists and maintenance
Worked on SwiftRef integration to get global bank data.
End to End testing for Payments and Bank Reconciliation processes, Cash Position and Liquidity Forecasting Reports

BCM - Rollout and Support for a Pharma Life sciences company

Support the users on various FICO and BCM incidents in the areas of GL, AR, AP, AA and Bank accounting
Also supporting in issues related to interfaces with SAP and Concur for T&E claims and expense management
Working on integration between VIM and SAP and helped develop the entire VIM screen as per the validations in SAP and local requirements in APAC and EMEA.
Solutioned and implemented the entire GST requirements for the India business unit of Alexion
Working on the FSCM-BCM payments module and EBS implementation for all regions and company codes for Alexion globally.
Designed and implemented the BCM and EBS payments module for the LATAM, US & Canada, Europe & UK, Nordics, Australia, Russia, Asia and India regions.
Worked closely with third parties which included SWIFT / D&H, Santander, Bogota Bank, BoFA, Westpac, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Citibank, JPMC and other leading local banks to successfully implement payments module and exchange of pain 001 (outgoing messages) and pain 002 (incoming messages) files including Ack/Nacks.
Working on additional areas of Fixed Assets and Bank Accounting for global change and support of users.
Work closely with business users to understand the business process logic and convert to technical specifications and configuration in SAP
Expert in Payment Medium Workbench configuration, DMEE (Debugging and configuration), BCM, Payment Alert notification, BCM Reversal Functionality, SEPA and EBS configuration and implementation.
Good working knowledge of SAP XML / SEPA Formats for payments. Created new PAYM formats as per the local requirements for payments.
End to end implementation of Payments Automation and Bank Reconciliation.
Successful implementation of the most complex regions for payments automation for LATAM (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina)
Good knowledge on global payment formats (SEPA, Direct Debits, CGI_XML) and worked on multiple bank formats of MT940/941, BAI, ETEBAC along with DMEE formats for all regions.
Working on Panaya testing tool for the Colombus upgrade project for Alexion doing various phases of testing namely integration, regression, unit, and delta testing for various finance and treasury objects.
Create BRD (Business Requirement Documents), FSD and TSD as per the business requirements for new enhancements and projects and work with the team and external vendors to get it delivered on time to users

FICO Implementation, Rollout and Support for one of the largest OEM and Electronics company

Worked on various roll-out and implementation projects for Sony worldwide across diversified business (Computer Entertainment, Music, Pictures, and Electronics) and regions for Sony Global to harmonize the IT landscape and get all the systems and processes on a common SAP system ensuring global compliance and integration of all processes within Sony Global.
Configured Incoming Payments, Electronic Bank Statements, Customer Master Data (Account Groups, Number Ranges, Field Mappings, SCB Indicators), Customer Enhancements, Bill of Exchange.
Configured Special GL indicators, Customer Tolerance, Defining Forms for Invoices and Statements and settings for correspondences
SEPA Configuration and Payments, RIBA Configuration, MT940, Multicash, SWIFT, BAI/BAI2 formats, ETEBAC, CSB43 and CFONB 120 (France, Germany & Austria Formats), DMEE engine, Lockbox configuration, Check Deposit Configuration, Payment Medium Workbench (PMW)
EDI Invoicing, Posting Keys and Posting Rules, Customer Master and Open Items migration, LSMW
Working on SLO (System Landscape Optimization) tool to check for any clashes in the master data which will happen if the same has been transferred from legacy to the new GPW (Global Primo West) platform of Sony.

FICO and FSCM - TRM Support and Rollout for a Mining and Trading Company

Managed a SAP Roll-out and Support project of the client wherein the project is a TPM (Third Party Managed) services project and involves the FICO, TRM and BCM modules within SAP along with Non-SAP systems.
Creating and delivering RFQ’s and RFC’s for various change requests of the client.
Worked on SEPA implementation project, CMAX consolidation, OpenText VIM implementation, Concur Integration and WFGen Application Integration with SAP
Managed a very challenging and a diverse client which involves me ensuring my team is achieving SLA on both Incident Management and Change Management.
Handled a diverse and a virtual team which involves team members from various culture and background spread across various locations within and outside India
Managed to get down client escalations and SLA breaches by introducing various track reports and post-error analysis report which helped in tracking work load balance and reducing client escalation.
Streamlined the various processes in the project and introduced communication guidelines and methods of estimating deliverables which considerable helped in reducing client escalations and SLA failures and also appreciation and positive feedback to be received by the client

FI-CD, FICO Implementation for Insurance company

The project involves onsite implementation of the SAP system from their legacy applications for 20 different countries. The project was in Release 2 wherein I was responsible for successfully implementing FI, CO and CD (Collections / Disbursements) modules for the client along with SOX compliance and audit requirements implementation.
Managed a team of SIX Functional Consultants responsible for effectively and efficiently meeting the project deliverables.
Worked along with outsourced partner vendors to ensure efficient and timely delivery of all objects
Worked with Development and QA teams as well as product managers to deliver high quality components, team spread in-house & outsourced to external vendors.
Worked closely and effectively with other IT teams for integration of Non-SAP system objects with SAP for both upstream and downstream data and applications.
Successfully completed the BPP, BPML and configuration for the client in 3 landscapes.
Successfully completed CUT and FUT phases for the client.
Successfully completed IPT (Integrated Process Testing) Phases 1, 2 and 3 for the client which involved testing the SAP landscape for configuration according to BPP's.
Identified, raised and resolved critical defects in the configuration.
The project went go-live in April after our successful final test for data integration and legacy data transfer modules.

FICO Support and Rollout for a Global Investment Bank

Managing both the critical processes in the project – Run the Bank (RTB) activities wherein usual queries and errors were resolved for the users and Change the Bank (CTB) activities wherein code changes and new developments were done for the business.
High Level expertise in CTB activities with hands on experience in delivering complex requirements for the client for various regions and also localized requirements for complex regions.
Responsible for providing Change and Support for FICO to the client in the Level 3 (L3) team which handles only critical issues and tickets which are raised by UBS users.
Resolved many critical FI-AA, FI-GL and FI-AP incidents and also delivered many changes successfully in the same areas of SAP. Integration Testing, Middleware and Non-SAP system testing with the SAP system.
Good application knowledge of MERCURY IT Governance (ITG) for CTB tracking activities and REMEDY for RTB issue tracking.
Created various Functional Specification (FS) documents for the code developments and code changes which occurred during the project.
Effectively and efficiently achieved SLA’s every month since the project went live with us.
Responsible for handling and delivering and key changes that required code changes and developments in the existing process.
Received numerous appreciations from the client due to better solutions provided as against their previous vendors on the existing implementation.

FICO Implementation for a a Wealth Management AMC

The project was ONSITE and successfully implemented SAP ECC 6.0 in FI, CO and Treasury and Risk Management modules using accelerated SAP (ASAP Methodology) for the client as per their business requirements and SOX audit requirements.
EXPERT in Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) and did many data migrations from Tally to SAP using LSMW (Batch Input Recording).
Configured Company Code, Business Areas, Cost Center, Number Range Intervals, Customer Groups
Configured Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Integration with GL
Configured Tax Codes, Tax Types, Condition Types.
Configured and maintained Cost Elements, Cost Centers, Business Areas, Profit Centers, Profitability Analysis Structure in FI, Cost Center Hierarchy, and other Controlling Configurations
Solely responsible for End User Training and documented and resolved all the issues addressed by the users.
Solely responsible for preparing documentation for end user training, post-go live issues, steps and areas used for implementation of SAP at client which was signed off by the client and is currently used by them as a reference in all their daily activities.
Business process analysis of the client organizations and mapping of various business processes into SAP environment, suggesting changes and improvements thereon. Configuring the system to suit the business process needs of the client in FI and CO modules.
Integration of various business processes from other modules viz; Sales and distribution (SD), Material Management (MM) and Fixed Assets Accounting (AA).
Configuration of Data flows from Finance to Controlling such as Cost centers, Profit centers and internal orders and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
Solely responsible for the creations of testing scenario’s and ensure that the process flow is correct as per the customizing.
Was also responsible to handle and transport customizing requests from development server to quality, pre-production and finally production once all the testing was done for the business processes used by the client.
Data migration strategies from Legacy systems and Data testing and support services on “Go live”.
TDS and Service tax requirements and designing of branch level reporting and designing employee profitability reports using COPA.

Employment

BCM, CLM and Treasury Consultant

2019 - Present

- Working as a FSCM – BCM, BAM (Bank Account Management), Cash & Liquidity Management and Treasury consultant through K2 Partnering for the client on Global Roll out of S/4 on Hana 1809 implementation project for the client.
- Release Strategy, Approval workflows, Payment Status and DMEEX Configuration for various countries and banks based on local and regulatory requirements for each country and banks including complex regions of Russia, LATAM and Nordea.
- BCM Configuration for all countries and integration with FI for automatic clearing through EBS.
- EBS Configuration for automatic clearing through search strings.
- Free Form payments, Bank Transfer and intercompany netting configuration for payments and refunds.
- Cash Position and Liquidity Forecast configuration through planning levels, planning groups, Liquidity Items and Certainty Levels for all receivables and payables items from MM, FI and SD.
- Liaising with various stakeholders from internal Orica Treasury and external Bank technical teams for requirement gathering and analysis for configuration of BCM and EBS.
- Configuration of payment messaging formats (ISO20023, MT1XX) in XML for through DME engine (DMEEX for Hana).
- Configuration of MT940 and CAMT53 bank statements and working with SWIFT through PI/PO integration for PAIN messages and Bank Statement messages.
- Configuration of FX currencies and automatic upload of FX rates through Bloomberg and also regulatory rates for few countries. Configuration of worklists and maintenance
- Worked on SwiftRef integration to get global bank data.
- End to End testing for Payments and Bank Reconciliation processes, Cash Position and Liquidity Forecasting Reports

Education

MBA Finance

2010-2012

Certification

SAP FICO

2007-2007

$90

Sachin Raheja

Industry Experience

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Top Project Highlights

FSCM - BCM, Cash Management, Bank Account Management Global Rollout for a Global Mining company

BCM - Rollout and Support for a Pharma Life sciences company

FICO Implementation, Rollout and Support for one of the largest OEM and Electronics company

FICO and FSCM - TRM Support and Rollout for a Mining and Trading Company

FI-CD, FICO Implementation for Insurance company

FICO Support and Rollout for a Global Investment Bank

FICO Implementation for a a Wealth Management AMC

Employment

BCM, CLM and Treasury Consultant

Education

MBA Finance

Certification

SAP FICO

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